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I am honored that my short story "Celia and the Conservation of Entropy", in Issue 1 of Uncanny, is getting rave reviews. I'm reading the story in the December Uncanny podcast, which also has an interview with me talking about Celia, nostalgia and humor in science fiction, the years I spent as a digital nomad, and other things. The issue is on sale now and will be available for free in the beginning of December at uncannymagazine.com, and the podcast will also be out in December.
From the io9 Story of the Week for Nov 1-8:
…If time loops and paradoxes and relativity make your head ache, this might not be the story for you. I love this stuff. And I love it when authors play around with implications of time travel that have nothing to do with grand, sweeping adventures but instead focus on the little things. Like going back in time to see a grandparent who died before you could remember them. Or rescuing his long lost novel….
From a review by Scotchfrye:
…If you're a fan of time travel fic, you'll love this. Beamer treats the mechanics of time travel with a light hand, giving the reader just enough to make the story's conceit believable without drowning the reader in theoretical physics. At the same time, there is plenty about time travel that young Celia doesn't know or understand herself, and it is a treat to follow along with her as she figures it out (or doesn't). The narrative perspective of a teenage girl is not treated cheaply or patronizingly; the image of Celia as a girl playing with science is never the punchline, and for that I thank Beamer. And if, like me, you enjoy time travel paradox stories, this is a must-read; the cleverest part of the story is not the paradox itself, which is clever nonetheless, but the way in which Celia picks her way through it (or doesn't).
Readers of a certain age–those, I think, of Celia's parents' age, as I am–will especially love this story. Her travels back and forth, from our future to our past, give a fresh and very funny perspective on technology and our relationship to it. It's a smart look at how much today's digital cyborgs have in common with yesterday's analog ones….
The charming Valya Dudycz Lupescu invited me to participate in a blog tour about craft. Valya's the author of Amazon bestselling novel, The Silence of Trees, and founding editor of Conclave: A Journal of Character. Her comic, STICKS & BONES was crowdfunded by Kickstarter and picked up by First Comics. You can read her answers on her website.
Here are my answers.
1. What am I working on?
I am revising a near future science fiction novel about a family on Mars that I wrote at a public library in Australia. It's fun and gentle and it's called The Long Hour. A colony on Mars is funded in part by reality TV shows, people are addicted to music, an alien object shows up and only a kid can get it to work, stuff like that.
I'm also about halfway through writing a contemporary fantasy novel called Bad Guys, which is about elves and artists and magic in rural Iceland. I spent some time in Iceland this past summer and so the details are quite real: 24 hour daylight, volcanoes in the distance, geothermally-heated water, sheep with horns, stories about outlaws.
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?
I like to think that my work is really funny. My first novel The Loving Dead has a lot to do with zombies, and for as hilarious as zombies are, I haven't seen a lot of humorous literature about them. I also try to portray people as realistically and honestly as I can, which means you might not like them.
3. Why do I write what I do?
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror are more real to me than fiction that limits itself to mundane experiences. If my work can make people laugh, inspire nightmares, or keep a reader from being bored on an airplane, I've done my job.
4. How does your writing process work?
The term "writing process" is a bit generous for what I do, as it implies intent and structure. I get into phases where I write every day, and that's the best. In between I have phases where my energy goes towards paying the bills and my other creative endeavors, and I maybe only make notes or write a little bit. There's also the fermentation periods between finishing a book and revising it. I'm finding that some time away is really useful.
Next up look for Ken Scholes to answer these questions on Monday May 26. Ken is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over forty short stories and four novels with work appearing both in the US and abroad.
In 2010 I serialized my first novel The Loving Dead on my website, before giving e-books away on Amazon was a common strategy. The industry belief at the time had been that anyone who read a book for free would have no reason to buy it, and so you'd kill your market.
But my publisher and I were impressed by people like Cory Doctorow giving away their books, so we decided it was a risk worth taking. The novel did well and Barnes & Noble has since called it one of the top zombie novels of the past decade.
What I learned is how the publishing industry has become personal. I also talk about an incident involving free bacon.
Information wants to be free. It also wants to be personal.
As a debut novelist I was bonecrushingly anxious about my book getting attention. I feared it being made fun of or worse, being ignored. I've since accepted that I'll be writing regardless of what happens with the publishing industry, but I want to have a career.
And for me, reading has always been personal. I read author bios. I read the acknowledgements. I want to know who these people are and how they got there.
These days, publishers expect authors to be personally and socially available. Readers expect it too, and there's a massive industry based around looking good and making friends online. So I try to hold up my end, and I love making friends, but I've learned that curating an online personality has to be fun. Stressing over trying to get attention ultimately doesn't serve my goals.
Because it's not just about attention: I want my books to make friends. I know how I feel after reading things I like, and I know how I feel after I've read things because they were slick enough to get my attention. I want readers who are enthusiastic about horny zombies, readers who want smart and honest writing, readers who feel a connection to my work. I want readers like the young man who told me that The Loving Dead was the first novel he'd ever read. It was the first book he'd found that he could relate to.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend
I think people choose what books to read the same way we choose friends. The book has to be interesting, and it has to cross your path in a way that gets your attention. It helps if the book comes recommended by someone you trust. There are so many novels out there, and I can't remember when I last picked up a book based on a book review. I get them all through personal contacts, or chance encounters.
This may go against conventional wisdom, but I don't think books or even authors are competing against one another. We're competing for a potential reader's attention with everything in his or her life. If these potential readers are anything like me, they want the book to be handed to them by a friend. They want reading to be a shared cultural experience, like Harry Potter or Fifty Shades. Most importantly, they want to read stories that speak to their interests.
So my hope is to put my books in front of as many people as possible, so that the books can make friends. Word of mouth is never about promoting a product: it's about the personal relationship between the person giving the recommendation and the person receiving it. Making the book free is just a way to get more people involved.
Human nature and free bacon
I cowork at an office in Chicago where we recently had a bacon incident. A food truck had made some sort of mistake and had offered to come do a "bacon apology" by giving free bacon to the office members.
Free bacon?
But when the gent showed up, the offer became "free with purchase" and I lost interest. It was upsetting not just because I'd been excited about the bacon, but because I saw the potential of what could have happened and how badly the bacon promiser had screwed it up.
I don't think my office mates and I would have taken advantage of the free bacon. The offer was unique and something we'd been looking forward to. We would have responded by buying our lunches from the food truck. We would have told our friends about it, and the company would have cleaned up in sales and good word of mouth. That's why I want to give more novels away. It's not just about a single transaction.
For the past decade, publishing has been evolving from the big box model toward the cult fan base. There will always be big trends because humans are social creatures, but I see the 1,000 True Fans method for making money from creative work becoming mainstream. And why not? We get our breaking news through our social networks now, just as we did thousands of years ago. Information has always been personal, that's why we trust it.
"Over the course of my career, I've never had one. People come for the body of work, not the song." — Joe Bonamassa
Last August I moved to Chicago. After living in rural Iceland (where it was a big event when the produce truck came to the local shop), walking down Michigan Avenue in tourist season was mind boggling.
I spent a month in suburban Detroit, where I read Sonnet 116 at my youngest brother's wedding. I went on a nature walk, found an office I liked, met old and new friends, and got to know my parents again. My two brothers and I got the band back together in Charlottesville VA. Between us we play guitar, mandolin, keyboard, banjo, trumpet, bass, and we sing. We have so much fun.
I love Chicago. This winter may be one of the worst on record, but the city has welcomed me. I have made friends with many artists, entrepreneurs, writers, and other creative, ambitious, amazing people. I talk to new people every day. I found an office where I like to spend my days. I eat bacon. I ride the train. I play my guitar. I write. I edit books. I am an American in America.
I visited the Hallgrímskirkja Church in the heart of Reykjavik, where I heard a jazz version of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" being rehearsed.
My friend Neil said it best: He may have the whole world in His hands, but it sounds a bit like He might be losing His grip.
At work in the studio, we hear a child screaming outside. My friend runs to her son, and I hear her ask why he is screaming.
The horses are running. We hurry down the driveway to look at them, me in my slippers.
"Góðan daginn," the man leading them calls to us. I call back, "Góðan daginn!" He says something in Icelandic, probably, "Don't try to touch them."
"They are beautiful," I call out.
This is a regular sight here, the movement of horses from one pasture to another. They move like a gym class, with the athletes up front and the reluctant joggers at the back. In front of me one horse decides he's had enough and slows to a walk. I think they are doing the tölt, a fast and smooth trot unique to Icelandic horses.
I must ride.
I'll admit it, I came to Iceland on a whim. I found an artists residency that looked cool, and applied.
I thought Iceland would be, well, the name kinda says it. But it's quite green where I am, and the weather's been between 8-18 C, or, um, 46-65 F. The 46 was in between two glaciers, the 65 was hiking up a mountain in the sun. As I grow more comfortable with Celsius I am starting to lose my grip on Fahrenheit. I already think in Celsius for cooking. The ovens here have incomprehensible symbols ("what does the Mercedes Benz one do?").
Food packaging here is labeled in at least three languages, sometimes many more. Today I had ramen made in China, cinnamon rolls from Sweden, tea I got in Ireland, cornflakes from the UK, Icelandic milk and produce. I can either be horrified by this or accept that I am a truly global being.
Landing at Reykjavik you think you are landing on the moon. Lunar rocks everywhere. The airline I flew is named after an active volcano. I had been under the impression that there were no trees in Iceland and I was relieved to be wrong, although they all seem quite young. The locals say, "If you are lost in the forest in Iceland, stand up."
There are two spas in the town where I am living, one for the tourists and one for the locals, a supermarket/gas station, a few restaurants, and very little else. There are sheep in my yard. They stay up all night eating grass and then lie around during the day as if stoned. Both genders have horns.
The sun does not set this time of year. It just goes behind the mountain for a while. This is profoundly disconcerting, and you get used to it. I don't know how well I would cope in near-perpetual darkness, I've been told Icelanders do a lot of arts and crafts during the winter. People here are pretty comfortable speaking English, but they speak Icelandic among themselves. The money has pictures of people with books.
Most of Iceland is run on geothermal energy. A new friend of mine here, aged seven, wrinkled his nose at the smell of the hot water, comparing it to cooked eggs, until I said that the water was heated by volcanoes. "Nobody told me that!" he said, his eyes growing huge.
The worst part about Iceland is the flies. I have accidentally swallowed two now, while hiking. Flicking a scarf around one's face tends to help. Wind is the only real solution.
Everything is expensive here, except wool. Wool is astonishingly cheap.
British Airways lets you take 23 kilos in your hand luggage. Scandinavian Airlines allow only eight. While I can't fit anywhere near 23 kilos in my rolly suitcase, this is making me rethink my entire way of life.
Let me back up. I've been living abroad for most of two years. I've lived with friends, done a bit of housesitting, booked a few rooms with airbnb, hired a cottage, and stayed overnight in a few airport hotels. Because I'm mostly staying put for months at a time, and because I have nice friends, my expenses end up being similar to renting an apartment in Oakland, California.
But in that time and all of those flights, my philosophy of packing has always been to jam as much as I possibly can into the alloted number of bags. My friends in Japan probably thought I was mad for showing up with two huge suitcases, plus my carryon luggage, and I look back and wonder what the hell I was lugging around. Some of it was gifts. But I had a baggage allowance of two checked suitcases, which meant that was how much stuff I needed.
My 8 kilo carryon limit is making me reconsider this philosophy. Packing is a tricky thing when you're basically moving house. It's more than deciding how many pairs of socks and underwear and which T-shirts you bring (and I regularly seem to end a trip with a pile of unworn and yet still somehow mismatched socks). Because I don't know exactly what I'll need, I bring a range of clothes, casual and dressy, warm and cold. A towel. Boots, dress shoes, and several pairs of sneakers. A light jacket and a heavy jacket. A sun hat and a winter hat. Makeup. Business cards, external backup hard drive, several aging laptops, power cords and international power converters.
Then there are the indulgences that feel like necessities: my blanket from Natureweave Wales, which was made by my friend Anna Morgan and has magic in it. My collection of small bills and change in five or six different currencies, all from places I've at least changed planes in, if not lived in for weeks or months. My guitar and homemade songbook. Things you can't get in the next country, like Australian chocolate, Japanese cakes, and Welsh tea.
Twenty three kilos, about 50 pounds, is the average allowance for checked luggage, and my hand luggage is a respectfully trim rolling suitcase, plus a backpack. Some international flights give you two checked pieces, some one.
And as I'm getting ready for Iceland I think it's the books that aren't going to make it. I have half a dozen books with me thanks to BA's hefty cabin allowance. I bought a few more while here in Ireland. I'm keeping my hand-corrected reading copy of The Loving Dead (which is now available for a mere penny on Amazon!), books one and two of the Way of the Wizards series, silly and fun books by my friend J.E. Honey, and the advance reader copy of Hard Times Blues by Elwin Cotman. I am thinking about how quickly I can read the books I will otherwise have to ship or give away. I may have to get used to reading e-books just to save the agony of letting physical books go.
See, I have romantic ideas about culling down to the point where I only have carryon luggage. How smooth and cool I would be then. Possibly the worst part of travel are those times when you're sweaty from wearing several layers, your back and forearms ache from lugging oodles of stuff through airports, and and you're thinking about how to get all of your bags off of the train before it starts moving again. I like my stuff, but I want to carry less of it.
So thank you, Scandinavian Airlines. And sorry, little books.
I just had the loveliest experience with two nearly wild horses. They're Irish thoroughbred fillies, or maybe one's nearly a thoroughbred, I'm not sure. Two years old, relatively unhandled (= either frightened of or not interested in people).
So here's the situation. A field in rural Ireland. Knee high grass and buttercups and weeds. The horses are grazing. When I clucked to them from outside the fence to see if they'd come over, they startled, then went back to grazing.
The goal was to get them to take a bit of cut apple. I went into the field slowly, eyes down. I paused regularly. Soon I was near enough to pique their interest, and then they came to me and sniffed at the apple and started eating.
Well, eating may be too generous of a word. They didn't really know what to do with cut apple and so would gnaw it a bit, drop most of it in the tall grass, I'd pick it up and try again and they'd want to know if the other horse's piece was the same and it went on like that. When they got some between their teeth, you could see them having to think about chewing, apple isn't at all like grass.
Then the really beautiful part happened. The apples were eaten and/or lost, so I turned away and walked half a dozen steps. Then I stopped, my back to them, just to see what would happen.
The horses followed me. I would turn, praise them, give one a rub on her neck, then walk on. We did this six or eight times.
They got even more curious as we went, nosing at my hair and clothing, but gently. I'd only look at them when I'd stopped walking, and then only briefly and not directly in their eyes. They stopped exactly when I did. I remember standing between them, petting the huge brown horse right in front of me, with the other right behind me. The vast majority of my small experience is with horses that are used to people. We were all new at this.
I was aware that if they felt threatened, I could get bitten or kicked, but I also knew that they were calm and curious, and so I trusted that they would play with me. We kept this up until we'd all had enough, and they went one way and I went another. The whole experience might have taken ten minutes, but it was as if time had gone soft, stretching like taffy.
Two years ago I couldn't touch horses. I'd get hives. I was scared of them; they're big hairy powerful animals. Even a small horse could kill you if it was frightened or upset enough.
But some friends took the time to teach me how to be with horses. I started to learn to handle them and to ride them. Two years. I'm still very much a novice. I'm aware that I could be killed or hurt if I make the wrong mistake, and that will always be the case no matter what skills I develop.
I write this now trying to convey a feeling of awe. I had expected that learning to handle horses would be rewarding, but I didn't realize how intense it could feel. There's nothing like a nearly wild animal choosing to be with you.
I am proud to announce that the first three titles of Shueisha English Edition are for sale as e-books. This is Call Boy's first appearance in the English Language, The Stationmaster and Summer, Fireworks, My Corpse were originally published in English by VIZ Media. I'm an editor with Shueisha English Edition, and I hope you'll check them out.
Call Boy, by Ira Ishida (US $5.65, including 5% discount)
In contemporary Tokyo, youths are lost. The future doesn' t seem bright, and life is boring. Ryo is an almost dropout college student, who spends most of his time alone or at a small bar tending it nightly. But his life will change drastically when a beautiful middle-aged lady appears at its door. She invites him to the shadow world of male prostitution for women of all ages. When he' s assigned to the demanding task of satisfying every kind of client, he finds the meaning of life for the very first time. His quest begins: to explore and understand the mysterious and strange world of female desires. All he has to do is to give, giving his heart, mind, and body. And his clients have problems, too. Their desires cannot be fulfilled by ordinary means. So he becomes a Call Boy.
The Stationmaster, by Jiro Asada (US $4.70, including 5% discount)
The Stationmaster examines the lives of the downtrodden, finding redemption in the strangest places. Extremely popular in Japan, this short story collection is about marginalized people: the stationmaster of an obsolete train station; petty criminals; a clothing salesman; a dying sex worker. According to Margaret Atwood' s introduction, Jiro Asada' s combination of "daily time in all its humble and often harsh detail with the hidden, haunted psyche- how people see themselves from the outside, contrasted with their knowledge of their own wounded inner selves- is a potent achievement." Often a ghost or other supernatural element comes in to help right previous wrongs, allowing these characters to find some semblance of peace.
Summer, Fireworks, My Corpse, by Otsuichi (US$ 2.95)
Nine year old Satsuki dies after being pushed out of a tree by one of her friends. This is the story she tells of how it happened, and the lengths her friends go to in order to try and cover it up, not wanting to upset anyone. But she is soon missed, and her lost sandal provides a clue. The writing is both lyrical and stark, and the effect veers from horrifying to absurd as the people closest to her simultaneously search for her body, and try to hide it. Days pass and her body starts to decompose, while her ghost calmly narrates, and her panicked friends struggle to keep their secret.That is the very first short story by a young author, Otsuichi, who wrote it when he was just sixteen, and won an award to be published by Shueisha.The collection also includes "Yuko", the story of a young woman who takes a job looking after an elderly couple. Kiyone enjoys her work, but is unnerved because she never meets Yuko, the wife. Yuko's husband pretends that she is still around, while requesting half of their previous portions of food. He never allows Kiyone to clean the bedroom he shares with Yuko. And when she finally trespasses into their room, it is filled with dolls.
Amelia Beamer lives in Marin County, California. Her debut novel The Loving Dead (Night Shade Books) was called one of the top ten zombie novels of the past decade by Barnes and Noble, and is available at Google, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, IndieBound, and Amazon.
Her writing has been featured in venues including Gizmodo, Whatever, BoingBoing, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Locus Magazine, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Women on War: A Zombies vs Robots Anthology, Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Understanding Reiki, and Healing for People. She works as an independent book editor, helping writers establish or grow their careers in popular fiction, at Beaming Enterprises, and is a former editor at Locus Magazine.
If Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore had a zombie love child, it would look like THE LOVING DEAD.
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ESEA Flexibility
Yesterday, in a White House ceremony attended by state education officials, teachers, and business and civil rights leaders, President Obama announced that 10 statesColorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennesseewill receive flexibility from the burdensome mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In exchange for this new flexibility, these states have agreed to raise academic standards, improve accountability, and undertake essential reforms to boost teacher effectiveness. "Today, we're giving 10 states the green light to continue making reforms that are best for them," the President said. "Because, if we're serious about helping our children reach their potential, the best ideas aren't going to come from Washington alone. Our job is to harness those ideas and hold states and schools accountable for making them work."
The Administration is continuing to work closely with New Mexico, the eleventh state that requested flexibility in the first round. Twenty-eight other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have indicated their intent to seek flexibility in the second round. The next deadline to request Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility is later this month. More information.
In the interest of transparency and to help inform other states, the Department has posted here both initial and approved flexibility requests, peer review notes, and a summary of improvements, as well as the agency's letter regarding peer review feedback and the Secretary's approval letter.
College Affordability
Earlier, at the University of Michigan a few days after he called for a comprehensive approach to tackling rising college costs during his State of the Union address, the President delivered remarks and released a fact sheet on keeping college affordable and within reach for all Americans. Over the past three years, the Administration has taken historic steps to help students afford college, including reforming the student aid system to become more efficient and reliable and expanding grant aid and college tax credits. This year, the President is calling on Congress to advance new reforms that will promote shared responsibility to address the college affordability challenge.
The President outlined five key strategies:
- Reforming student aid to promote affordability and value. To keep tuition from spiraling too high and drive greater value, the President will propose reforms to federal campus-based aid programs to shift away from colleges that fail to keep net tuition down and toward those colleges that do their fair share to keep tuition affordable, provide good value, and serve needy students well.
- Creating a Race to the Top for college affordability and completion. The President would invest $1 billion to spur systemic, state-level reforms (for example, revamping the structure of financing for higher education) that simultaneously lead to increased affordability, quality, and productivity.
- Creating a First in the World competition to model innovation and quality on campuses. The President would invest $55 million to support colleges and non-profit organizations that are working to establish or scale-up new programs (for example, redesigning courses to make better use of technology) that boost higher education attainment and outcomes.
- Providing better data for students to choose the right colleges. The President has called for a "College Scorecard" for all degree-granting institutions, designed to supply essential information about graduation rates, college costs, and potential earnings, in an easy-to-read format to help students and families select a college that is suited to their needs, priced affordably, and consistent with their career and educational goals. (Note: A sample screenshot is now available for public review and comment.)
- Providing federal support to tackle college costs. The President has called for Congress to keep interest rates low for 7.4 million student loan borrowers (if Congress does not act, the interest rates for subsidized Stafford student loans will increase from 3.4% to 6.8% on July 1), double the number of work-study jobs over the next five years, and make the American Opportunity Tax Credit permanent.
In related news, Secretary Duncan discussed college affordability during two town halls in Florida; the Department hosted a "Evidence-Action-Innovation" college completion symposium and invited the higher education community to share best practices; and Under Secretary Martha Kanter testified at a Senate committee hearing on innovations in college affordability.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Meanwhile, Under Secretary Kanter joined Maryland Congressman John Sarbanes at the University of Maryland Baltimore to announce new efforts from the Department to help public servantsincluding teachers, nurses, and veteranstake advantage of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). PSLF cancels the balance of a borrower's federal student loan debt after he or she has served full-time in a public service role for 10 years, while making on-time qualifying loan payments each month. Among the new materials is an employment certification form that allows borrowers to keep track of eligible employment and payments. Also, the new materials allow borrowers to find out, today, if their job and loan payments will qualify them for loan forgiveness in the future, as well as how many payments they have left to submit.
Science Fair
On February 7, President Obama hosted the second White House Science Fair, featuring inventions and research from over 100 students representing 30 student teams. From robots in the Blue Room to rockets in the Red Room to marshmallow cannons in the State Dining Room, projects showcased the talents of America's next generation. After viewing some of the displays and talking with students about their work, the President addressed students, parents, and teachers.
The President also announced several new initiatives to increase the number of students studying science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and prepare the educators needed to instruct future engineers, inventors, and innovators:
- A $100 million investment in the President's budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve undergraduate STEM education practices, to help meet the Administration's goal of producing one million additional STEM graduates in 10 years.
- A new education initiative jointly administered by the Department of Education and NSF to improve math education.
- Commitments from private sector groups and coalitions to get students excited about STEM.
- New policies to recruit, support, retain, and reward excellent STEM teachers, along with an $80 million investment in the President's budget to help prepare effective STEM teachers.
- A $22 million philanthropic and private sector investment to complement the Administration's goal of training 100,000 more STEM educators in 10 years.
Moreover, the President's Council of Advisors in Science and Technology released a new report, "Engage to Excel," providing a strategy for improving STEM education during the first two years of college.
Digital Learning Day
Thirty-six states and Washington, D.C., 18,000 teachers, and 1.7 million students participated in the first-ever Digital Learning Day on February 1, which aimed to demonstrate how technology is improving teaching and learning across the nation. The day kicked-off with web sessions focused on leadership and innovation, instruction, and professional learning and teacher effectiveness before attendees viewed a national town hall webcast featuring Secretary Duncan, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski, and video conferences with teachers and students from exemplary schools across the nation. "We have to do everything we can to foster education and to help us move from print to digital as fast as we can," the Secretary said, noting that while technology has transformed business and government around the world, it has only slightly changed the way most U.S. schools operate. "We have to move from being a laggard to being a leader." Next month, the Department and the FCC will convene a meeting with policymakers and stakeholders to develop real action plans. (Note: During the town hall, a collaborative of business and education leaders presented the "Digital Textbook Playbook," a guide to help K-12 teachers and administrators leverage broadband technology and develop rich digital learning experiences.)
Odds and Ends
A reminder: applications for the Department's fifth cohort of Teaching Ambassador Fellows are due February 22. Thinking about applying? Current and former fellows talk about their experiences here, while there is a summary of how fellows contribute to the work of the agency here.
Recently, state and local leaders from the 11 states and the District of Columbia receiving funds from Phases 1 and 2 of the Department's Race to the Top program met in Washington, D.C. Reflecting on more than a year's experience with implementing the program, they agreed that their efforts have been challenging but are clearly worth it. They see their reforms as a significant opportunity to better prepare students to succeed in college and careers.
In advance of National School Counseling Week (February 6-10), Secretary Duncan spoke at the American School Counselor Association's annual gala, thanking counselors for their hard work and praising them for the difference they make in the lives of students.
On February 6, the Secretary was in Boston for a series of education events. He discussed the state's Race to the Top grant with local superintendents and union leaders, visited Boston Public Schools' Parents University, met with students and college presidents about keeping college affordable, and delivered a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Forum.
An engaged audience with a broad range of questions joined Secretary Duncan on Twitter and via video to discuss educational issues facing the Latino community.
First Lady Michelle Obama is on a tour to celebrate the second anniversary of Let's Move! campaign.
A new study by the Department's Policy and Program Studies Services describes several aspects of the implementation of the first two cohorts of Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grantees.
According to the College Board's latest "Advanced Placement Report to the Nation," 18.1% of the Class of 2011 achieved mastery (at least a 3 on a 5-point scale) on one or more AP exams.
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"In my experience, tough-minded collaboration in education is typically more successful than tough-minded confrontation.... Collaborating with people who you disagree with doesn't mean you have to give up on transformational reform. You just have to give up the idea of getting everything you want, under the terms you want. In Chicago and in Washington, I've often been told: 'Don't aim too high,' 'You're going too fast,' and 'It will never happen.' But, I think the skeptics underestimate the commitment to change in the classroom and the capacity and desire of teachers and principals to advance student learning.... Let's stop defending the status quo when it hurts children. Let's wage the right battles. Together, let's work collectively to advance achievement and a love of learning in America."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2/6/12), speaking at Harvard's Askwith Forum
Upcoming Events
On February 14, the Department will hold a briefing for associations and stakeholders on the President's Fiscal Year 2013 budget. The briefing, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, will be in the auditorium at the agency's headquarters (400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202). RSVPs are not required. This briefing will also be broadcast live and archived on the Department's USTREAM channel. (Note: On February 13, budget materials will be posted here.)
On February 28, the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will offer via webcast a testing integrity symposium to identify and discuss critical issues in testing integrity.
Educators are encouraged to sign-up for the National Financial Capability Challenge (March 12-April 13), an effort to help high school students develop the knowledge and skills needed to take real control of their financial futures.
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ST. PAUL — Most Minnesota farmers will meet the first deadline to put buffers between cropland and water.
Executive Director John John Jaschke of the state Board of Water and Soil Resources announced Thursday, Oct. 5, that 94 percent of parcels will have pollution protections in place by the Nov. 1 deadline. The Department of Natural Resources has provided maps showing land that must meet this year's deadline, land adjoining rivers, many creeks and some other water.
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Where buffers are not needed or not practical, Jaschke said that his agency is working with farmers on alternative practices.
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Assistant Commissioner Sarah Strommen of the Department of Natural Resources said her agency received 4,500 comments about the map showing where buffers are needed, often farmers disputing 1980s data used to draw up the map. She said nearly 3,000 changes have been made to the map, although some farmers still may not agree with data used compile it.
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I grew up in Tomahawk and graduated in '68. Moved away in the early '70's, but I still have relatives and friends up in the Tomahawk area. I keep current on happenings with the website and newspaper. Love them both. I get back at least once or twice a year, but never for long enough. Would like to hear from anyone back "HOME". Keep up the good work on this great site.
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White Lake, S.D. USA - Wednesday, February 10, 1999 at 16:20:10 (EST)
Great web site Kerry. It's a fun way to keep up on the northwoods news. All my memories of the time I spent in Tomahawk are fond ones. Though I really enjoy living in Milwaukee (I even have become a sushi addict), I treasure the time I am able to spend in Tomahawk. I usually get up there every 8-10 weeks. I get squirelly if I don't get up there! It generally takes me a few hours to wind down to the more laid back pace, but by Sundays I am refreshed and refocused. I'll be up in a couple weeks for a visit and can't wait.
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Milwaukee, USA - Monday, February 08, 1999 at 16:38:58 (EST)
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Winfield, IL USA - Thursday, February 04, 1999 at 09:47:36 (EST)
Hi.Looking for historical information on the old "Holloway House" on Clear Lake (north of town off Highway Any ifnormation would be appreciated!Thanks
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Winfield, IL USA - Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 13:48:59 (EST)
Great Website. In spring, summer, and fall I feel at home in Tomahawk. I haven't been up there since September and I really miss the North Woods. Unfortunately, I had go back to work. Anyone have an alternate. I just love the nature and adventure. Great to have Tomahawk Leader on the net. Cindy......
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Muskego, WI USA - Thursday, January 28, 1999 at 21:13:38 (EST)
Hi everyone, I Just got a call from my folks (Bob and Eunice Oertli) telling us that my mom's picture is on the internet at your website. So, I had to check it out. Nice job. I'm really glad to see that the newspaper has such a website. Keep up the good work.
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Fayetteville, NY USA - Tuesday, January 26, 1999 at 19:33:43 (EST)
Greetings from sunny Southern California: Great Website. Can't wait to read the Tomahawk Leader every Tuesday to see what is going on. Keep up the good work and I really loved the photos of the fall foliage that you had in October. Thanks. I grew up in Tomahawk and graduated from THS in 1953. My father was Dr. William McCormick..His father and mother settling in Tomahawk in the 1800's. So our family goes back a long way but none are in Tomahawk any more. I returned for the first time in 15 years this last summer for our 45th class reunion. What a blast! Haven't had so much fun since I left it. Hope all is well,I do keep in touch with some of my classmates who have returned there to retire and have vowed that I will comebackfor Yesterfest every year. It is one of the friendliest places in the world and the lakes and woods are the most beautiful. Keep up the good work and thank you for giving all of us the opportunity to reconnect with our roots every Tuesday.
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Greetings from the "Midlands" of South Carolina. This is my new home away from home. Just wanted to say hi to all my family and friends in the "Beautiful NorthWoods!"
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Great Website--nice to see what is happening in "God's Country". Haven't been up since July 4th '97 for the Oelhafen Family Reunion. Mary's Grandfather owned the first grocery store in Tomahawk in the early 1900"s, so we have been coming up for vacations forever, we missed last year, but will try to make it this year. Beautiful little town, friendly people, excellent environment, what more could you ask for. Keep up the good work--nice to get current news right over the internet.
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Port Washington, WI USA - Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 21:16:23 (EST)
Great Web Site, love to come home and see whats up in Tomahawk. Been gone since 1971 but take great pleasure in reading the Leader on line.You're doing a great job, keep the hometown news coming.
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Was raised in Tomahawk, from 1929 till 1941. Dad started following defence work.After I got out of the Army,stayed in Okla.(married Okla.gal)Tomahawk still considered MY HOMETOWN. Dad was Carl Riemer, Uncle was Don Scott (TFD)Would like to hear from anyone that knew the them.
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I enjoy the Questbook. I lived in Tripoli and Tomahawk until 1993. We operated the Wilderness Inn at Tripoli from 1968 until 1988. Would enjoy hearing from anyone from the past. I will be E-mailing Jim Laine very soon. Hello to all. Donna Hebert
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I'm another one of those "spent all my childhood summers... and now I bring my own daughter..." Although our family place is in Irma, Tomahawk is my favorite. It will probably be another 20 years, but I'll be up there to live permanently when I retire. I couldn't live without the peace of mind Wisconsin gives me "North of the Tension Zone" Buy Girl Scout Cookies!!!!!
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This is a great site! Enjoyed reading all the comments. We own a cabin on Mohawksin and spend our Summer vacations there each year. Like several others who wrote, I spent my summers as a child in Tomahawk. It feels like home when we are there, even though we live in North Carolina now. Keep up the good work - Leader.
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Hello Tomahawk fans! I get back often to visit my parents (Harvey & Jan Nelson) who live on Nokomis Lake above Bradley Dam. I am currently living a few minutes north of Green Bay and am employed by Fort James Corp. as a Corporate Converting Engineer. Kerry- the guestbook is a good idea.
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How did you and the neighbor get to join drives, can't do it here, need to leave 3-4 feet of green
No such regulation here; if you look in the background you can see that houses next to each other have the opposite layout, one has the driveway on the rightmost edge, the next has the driveway on the left, so that as you go around the crescent there will be 2 adjacent driveways separated by a wide expanse of front yard.
Great thread...curious though why is someone in that neighborhood driving a sub $1k beater in winter?
I have to admit that's not my neighbourhood
That's the pic from the kijiji ad. They bought the car for their kids to learn to drive with (and it has the scars to prove it).
. . . if I wanted a house like that, selling my acreage would get me into one. I prefer country(ish) living. Only 10 minutes from the city limits, but it's a whole different world out here. Very few neighbours, very little crime, noise, regulations, you name it.
Why am I driving a cheap old beater? Because I spend all my money on cocaine and hookers, why else?
Seriously though, it's just a question of priorities (and personal quirks). If I really wanted a new car, I could make the payments on quite a nice one. But I haven't had a car payment in 20 years and have no intention of ever having one again. I have friends who make more money than I do but can't afford any toys or a workshop/mad scientist lair like I have . . . the difference is the car payment. Sink a bunch of money into something that loses so much value so quickly, multiply by a few decades, it adds up.
Of course being frugal by nature helps, and so does my MacGuyver-on-crack style. Every time I drive a new vehicle I think "wow, this is really nice" . . . then after an hour or two I get bored because there's no excuse to take an angle grinder to it or spray it with bedliner
So instead of one or 2 nice vehicles, I have much more fun with a whole bunch of project vehicles and a continuously upgraded shop.
And finally, I care very little about cars in the first place because I, sir, am a
Not a biker, bikers are fat hairy guys who ride Harleys. I have 5 bikes right now, and my gf has another 2
Even in Saskatchewan a bike is my daily driver from April to November, rain or shine; if I can trick the gf into doing all the grocery runs I can go weeks at a time without needing 4 wheels. It's been quite a while since I thought of a car as anything but a necessary evil I have to endure until the snow melts once again. Every dollar wasted on a car is a dollar that could be put towards more bikes, more mods, more tools . . . Score one for the E30, it has charmed me into elevating it from disposable transpo-container to perpetual project status
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...my MacGuyver-on-crack style.
I pride myself on this same thing. Very good thing to have a problem solving mind like that. *high five*
Props on riding a bike too. You are a cool dude.
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Problem solving is a big part of my job, unfortunately. Most of the time I have to undo several other peoples' work before I can do my own. I even have my own slogan:
"Doing it right, so you don't have to!"
I don't have any good pics of my favourite bike since I finished putting it together just in time for a few rides before winter, but here it is anyway in all its frankenbike glory. 1998 Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird, with the complete front end from a new zero-mileage Kawasaki ZX-14R, CBR1000RR front brake calipers and master, Danmoto 3d adjustable bars, SS brake lines, Pazzo knockoff levers, Akrapovic Supersport header with Yoshimura TRC-D can, Corbin Smuggler seat, Mavryk Designs lithium-iron battery, Factory Pro adjustable ignition advancer . . . I'm probably forgetting a few things, and the project's hardly begun
It's a pretty good overview of how I go about things -- functional awesomeness first, cosmetics when I get around to it.
Stock: note the giant, heavy, indestructible twin torpedo exhaust, conventional (undersprung, nonadjustable) forks and the old school front brake calipers:
Work in progress:
I got the exhaust bits dirt cheap because of some crash damage (fixable), and scoured ebay for the best deals on most of the rest. The whole exhaust weighs less than one of the stock cans and is much less restrictive; the LiFePo battery weighs 1.6 lbs vs 8+ stock, and the new front end has inverted forks fully adjustable for preload, compression, and rebound plus radial brakes. Fitting the ZX forks required custom fab work on the steering stops and ignition cylinder mount, plus making spacers for the brake calipers and top steering stem bearing.
Of course the bodywork is trashed (not my doing) and with the ZX-14 front fender it now has 3 different colours going . . . I'll get around to it one of these days. I have to admit I love my uber-beaterbike.
But anyway, back to the E30
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When I finally got the intake manifold off, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry:
I'm no certified mechanic, but I'm fairly certain there's an above-average amount of crap in here.
A nicely overexposed pic with the injector out of the way:
And speaking of the injectors:
I rigged up a test harness for the injectors and they all seemed to work, so I just cleaned them out and added new o-rings to the parts list.
All the black goo in the pan came off of, and out of, those 6 little injectors. The carbonite coating in the manifold just laughed at brake cleaner, and wasn't much impressed with carb cleaner either. I finally got its number by putting a nozzle with a tube on my can of Permatex gasket remover and alternating Permatex treatments with reamings courtesy of a Dremel with a stainless wire brush on the end of the flex tube. I cleaned the intake ports on the head with a toothbrush dipped in carb cleaner.
Onward to the exhaust ports:
Just plain nasty, but pretty mild compared to the intake.
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Exhaust manifolds were a nice combination of carbon and rust:
The insides got the Permatex + wire wheel treatment. When they were clean I took a die grinder to the rough casting and smoothed it out especially around the recesses for the studs; they seemed unnecessarily restrictive. Just a little OCD folks, nothing to see here. Really nothing, since I seem to have lost a lot of my pics. But seriously, cast iron headers . . . what are we, cavemen?
I cleaned up the flange surfaces as best I could, they looked like medium-altitude shots of the surface of Mars. I ordered new downpipe gaskets but reused the manifold-->head gaskets after cutting off the disintegrating heat shields. I was going to ceramic coat the headers inside and out but ended up skipping that step. Not normally something that people do with stock cast headers, but it would only cost a few bucks to do it myself (Techline Cil-Gen Satin Black + airbrush). In fact I intended to blast and paint every part I had to remove, but time was becoming a factor, and as always I'd researched just a little too much . . . enough to Start Getting Ideas. There's a reason my gf has standing orders to taser me if she catches me cackling maniacally while reading a project-related forum.
Back to the work in progress:
The entire area behind the valve cover baffle was a solid mass of sludge. If I'd had any idea how much work cleaning it would be I would've just removed the baffle, hosed it out, and riveted it back on.
By this time I'd dealt with (or at least identified) all the factors contributing to the idle problem, and I managed to remember that replacing the timing belt was the whole point of this exercise. The front of the engine was in the same sad shape as the rest:
The cam seal, didn't:
Beauty shot of the thermostat housing mount:
And this little beauty . . . it was packed full of sludge, and not much fun at all to clean out. I had no idea what it was, but figured it must be important since the BMW logo was cast into the bolt head. Let's just say that by the time I figured it out, I knew my way around the realoem diagrams.
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When I got the car the radiator was just sort of flying in formation in the general vicinity of the front of the engine, with enough freedom of movement to contact the fan just enough to wear a nice circle into the fins without actually rupturing anything.
Each lower rad mount consists of a rubber bumper on the rad that fits into a plastic cup on the frame; one side had the bumper but no cup, the other had the cup but no bumper. I moved the cup to the driver's side to make a complete set there, then fabbed up a bumper and cup for the passenger side from . . . stuff. I believe some of it began life as abs plastic hose fittings. I can't find pics of it and that whole afternoon is kind of a blur. Snow was in the forecast, I was way behind schedule, and I really didn't want to resort to putting ice racing tires on my Blackbird (or buy another winter beater) so I could get to work
My awesomely functional fan clutch wrench, made from 1/4" 6061 aluminum:
The rad and the fan clutch were a solid mass of compressed greasy dust (again no pics because I was in a hurry). It took many gallons of compressed air to get the rad in acceptable shape, and the dust is now evenly distributed around my garage. In the future I'll remember to do such things outside no matter how cold, dark, and windy it is, but I had no idea how much would come out, and after the first blast it was far too late. I'm having trouble restraining myself from making a Peter North joke here.
And finally (FINALLY!) I get to the timing belt, and find out the whole ordeal was worthwhile:
And then, as the Haynes manuals say, installation was the reverse of removal
The engine work was just about wrapped up, the horror almost over. Here's a pic I forgot to include earlier, but what the hell. I never get tired of showing people how wretched this car was when I got it:
A few other things I just remembered but don't have pics of: the distributor rotor was cracked to the point of disintegrating, the plug end of the #3 spark plug wire fell right off in a show of green dust, and the oil drain plug had been stripped and helicoiled at some point. I think that covers everything in the engine compartment. Oh, and the hood shock is worn out. I discovered that if I remove the arm the shock attaches to, the hood will open far enough to overbalance and stay put. Do not attempt this outdoors on a windy day, with the car parked facing up a slope, or if you consider the kidneys in the grill to be non-loadbearing.
Between the all-inclusive idle troubleshooting and needing access to find oil leaks and clean thoroughly, I ended up removing pretty much everything attached to the engine. So, I spent quite a while putting it all back together. I used a couple cans of contact cleaner on the many and various electrical connectors and more than a full tube of dielectric grease to seal them up. Changing the oil and mixing up 12 litres of coolant good to -50C were the last and least of the jobs. While the car was down the battery in my gf's Matrix needed to be replaced so I donated the Motomaster battery from the E30 and replaced that with a brand new AC Delco 775 CCA, 160 amp-hour battery I got surplus from work for twenty bucks
I hooked up the new battery, and after an unexpectedly short time cranking the reborn M20 fired up with nary a check panel warning or CEL in sight
It idled at 800 rpm at first, then settled down to a rock steady 650-ish when warm. While it was warming up I backed it out of the garage and bled the coolant FOR GOD-DAMN EVER until air stopped coming out. Then it was time to take it for a maiden voyage around the block (by which I mean, 3 miles of grid road to the highway, 2 miles down the highway to the next grid, then back). I shut it off, went into the house for a while, came back out and it absolutely refused to start.
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Nice work. Your thread makes me want to get a semi-rough E30 and get it fully sorted.
I'm holding off on any more cars until I get a proper shop in place. My single car uninsulated garage from the 70's is a tad small but could work if I pull out everything in it, and it's too frigging cold to work in the barn during the winter, not to mention it's dirty and dusty all the time.
Also, country life FTW!
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My single car uninsulated garage from the 70's is a tad small but could work if I pull out everything in it, and it's too frigging cold to work in the barn during the winter
My garage is also unheated, which is a big part of why I get less done in the winter than I'd like. It's very well insulated (built in 2000) and doesn't get below freezing until we've had a solid week of -20, but I'm a big wuss. There's a small heated workshop attached and I can half-assed heat the garage by propping the workshop door open and making its furnace work overtime, but that gets expensive. Also, you can't live on an acreage without cats, and our cats live in a big basket under a heat lamp in the garage. The workshop is the only place exempt from cat sabotage, leaving the door open defeats the purpose.
Even with the short days we tend to get a lot of sunshine in the winter, solar hot water heating is another project on the list. If I could get 5 or 10 degrees free that way, it wouldn't be too expensive to use radiant or gas heating to get it all the way up to a comfortable temp when required.
Also, country life FTW!
Damn straight
The city can't compete with this:
Okay, scenic interlude is over
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And now the plot thickens
Successful reassembly, cold starts fine, runs fine, won't restart unless left sitting for several hours. This sounds like a job for --- a guys who's read ELEVEN BILLION PAGES of E30 related info recently! That, or Batman. Although when you think about, Ironman is probably a much better mechanic.
I admit that Mr. Motronic helped by throwing a 1223 aka coolant temp sensor. I had to pull the electrical connectors from the injectors and move the plastic wiring harness housing, but managed to get the sensor out without pulling the whole fuel rail. Tested it with a multimeter and yep, it was toast. Infinite resistance, which AFAIK meant the system was under the impression it was in a permanent extreme cold-start situation. That would explain the ummmm, slightly rich condition responsible for the extreme carbon buildup I had to clean up earlier. Ironically, it was probably running better before I fixed the multitude of vacuum leaks. All that extra unmetered air would've balanced things out a bit
As it happened, I had an extra coolant temp sensor on hand. Just like I had an extra #3 spark plug wire to replace the corrosion victim I mentioned earlier. Damn those overly informative E30 forums
If you looked at the bike pics above, you know I'm no stranger to hacking up perfectly good motorcycles. So imagine me giggling like a schoolgirl when I found entire sections of forums devoted such things as automatic to 5-speed conversions. I wasn't doomed to endure the slushbox for winters without end! But wait, what's this?
Engine swaps
, you say? How very
This is the point where my gf should have tasered me (just ask her). But she missed her chance and I ended up reading a further few terabytes of forum, followed by a few weeks of intense kijiji and salvage-website watching. Then I just blacked out for a while and when I regained consciousness this was in the yard:
My $400 1989 535i
M30B35, unfortunately an auto but you could hardly expect otherwise. Seemed like a good deal because the car only has 107,000 km and looks like it was a garage queen until its unfortunate demise. I mean, look at this
This is what I meant when I said the car had been upgraded to perma-project status. Also why I decided not to bling up the M20 before putting it back together. That will be much easier to do later when it's out of the car. I think that selling the M20 and tranny, plus the tranny and whatever else from the 535i, will go a long way to paying for the swap. Good used vintage BMW parts are not so easy to find in Saskatchewan, and shipping tends to be lethal. Last time I bought a wrecked bike I ended up tripling my money parting it out, and that was after I removed the whole front end for a swap (which was the reason for buying it). Heck, the basketweaves are probably worth half what I paid for the car (the left front is bent but there's another in the trunk, bless those crazy Germans and their full-size full-bling spares).
So anyway, I replaced the coolant temp sensor and once again I was in business, no check engine light, and this time with warm-start capability
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I could read this thread for hours lol
awesome writting style, and VERY nice rescue on that that little bronzit e30!
like others have said, these cars are VERY addictive, and are somewhat easy to work on...much like Lego if anything.
coolant temp sensors will yield fantastic results when replaced, they are like the e30 antibiotic. They devise excellent outcomes when they are at fault.
M30b35's are the last of BMW's notoriosly awesome "Big 6's" a few guys on here have swapped them, and with only 107K on that one you're barely even close to breaking it in.
All the best, and enjoy the fruits of your labours!....which, evidently come along with Bentley manual studies, Maxbimmer, E30tech, R3vlimited and Bimmerforum discussion in which these cars are disected through and through and inside out again and again.
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Now I'll digress slightly, in order to show you the amazing super power of this M20B25: it carries more oil on its outside than it has inside!
Catastrophe averted.
Awesome posts! thanks for more info.. I have read a few pages on the e30 now and have to get over being in love with the first one I am looking at.
oh and actually laughing out loud at the last post
'she should have tazered me at this point'
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Naturally, the more time I spent on the car, the more problems I found. As the previous owner had mentioned, the rear defroster wasn't working. The tab on the driver's side was broken off; that was easy enough to fix with the Permatex repair kit. I was very annoyed that the kit contained enough of the conductive epoxy to glue a dozen tabs back on, but in packaging deliberately designed to be single-use only. Cheap bastards. While I was back there I took a look at the rear speakers, which had been ominously silent since I got the car. I swapped in a speaker from the 535 with no improvement. Of course not, that would've been far too easy
The driver's side mirror heater and lock heater weren't working either, and the central locking system wasn't fully functional. With the engine pretty much sorted out it was time to tackle the electrical system
First I cleaned up the big multi-pin connector in the driver's doorjamb. And everything started working again, even the rear speakers! Ok, that's a load of crap. It didn't help, so I took off the door panel and kick panel and prepared for some serious electramatitioning.
When I was taking the kick panel off I noticed a little fuse block sticking out from under the dash; I pulled on it and it came right out in a tangle of wires. Encouraged by this, I kept pulling and eventually all this came spilling out:
Which explained this thing I found earlier:
Yay, free remote starter! The perfect addition to any winter beater, if only it came with an actual remote. Not to worry, there's a place in town that has a proverbial bin-o-obsolete remotes. But I'm not going to worry about it until I get the rest of the electrics sorted. At least the Germans used mostly Bosch . . . if I had a British car I'd have to order some of this:
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Haha nice pic.
So an M30 swap is in the works? Then a low ratio LSD, and then, and then, and then....
What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?
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VERY nice rescue on that that little bronzit e30!
Ah, that reminds me . . . at some point in my research I discovered that my car was bronzit, and that I should be deeply ashamed of this
Now back to the driver's door. The lock heater control box didn't look quite right:
I used the Dremel to remove enough of the potting to expose some wire:
Then, for reasons which escape me at the moment, I decided to solder in a spade connector instead of soldering the wire back on directly. Then a bit of repotting and it was good to go:
Re-loomed the wires, and was enraged because the crappy Princess Auto heatshrink I found in the garage when I moved in, didn't shrink much at all:
Reinstalled the box and . . . still nothing. This is as far as I've gone with this; at this point I don't know if the lock heater box is kaput or if the problem lies elsewhere. It could be the heater itself, or something else. I know the mirror heater duty cycle is linked to the outside air temp sensor, not sure about the lock heater. I have the factory electrical troubleshooting manual and a bunch of DIY articles, just haven't gotten around to continuing with this.
The central lock issues are as follows: I can lock, double-lock, and unlock the car from the driver's door. I can lock and unlock the passenger door from the trunk, and vice versa, but the driver's door lock doesn't respond at all. I'm pretty sure this means the actuator isn't, for lack of a better word,
. Next time I feel like molesting the door innards I'll find out.
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Onwards! And by that I mean backwards! To the rear of the car, that is. The last thing that needed attention was the diff:
Not a pretty sight at all, the pass. side output flange seal appears to be toast. However, from the looks of the plugs the diff hadn't been touched in a long time, possibly not since it was installed in 10/88. I was pressed for time so I decided to just top up the fluid. It was only down about 200mL, so unless it started leaking very recently it's not a huge deal, especially since I doubt I'll be keeping a 4.10 open diff after I get the M30 installed. I changed the diff fluid a few weeks later and it was . . . interesting. I drained it into a shallow white pan; normally I can shine a light up through the bottom and see if there's any filings or other crap suspended in the oil. But the old gear oil was impenetrable. It was less than an inch deep in the pan but my 2 million candlepower spotlight was powerless against it. Then I put a strong magnet against the bottom of the pan and watched a halo of bright filings form around it. Moving it around made a silver comet form in the dark brown oil. Too bad I couldn't get a decent video of the effect, it was as cool as it was disturbing.
Speaking of disturbing, here are some more glamour shots of the underside:
And now the narrative has caught up with the present time. I'm not quite sure what I'll be doing with this car; clearly it needs a complete suspension refresh, new shocks, springs, struts, and every conceivable bushing.
However . . . I haven't decided if I'm going to do 5-lug swap or just bring it back to new oem spec. 5-lug would be a fun project in itself, and big brakes would be nice to have along with a big motor. OTOH, there's the reality that I live in Saskatchewan and with the exception of freeway onramps this car will never see curves worth mentioning. New stock suspension bits would be a huge improvement and give me all the handling I'd realistically ever need, but of course replacing stock parts would be much less satisfying than modding the crap out of something. So, still undecided.
Either way, a suspension refresh is not something I'm going to attempt on a car I need as a daily driver . . . let's just say I've learned the hard way that projects like that have a way of taking way more time than I think they will, especially on old neglected vehicles. I had to promise my gf I'd never again do anything more involved than changing fluids unless I had another complete, running, plated vehicle to drive if things went awry. In return, she promised to not kill me in my sleep over this specific issue. She reserves the right to do so for unrelated offenses
And finally, if I were going to the trouble to r&r the entire bloody suspension, it would be convenient to do that at the same time as the engine and tranny swap . . . and if the drivetrain as well as the suspension were removed, well hell you couldn't pick a better time to cut out the rust, weld in patch panels, finish and repaint everything.. And then there's the exhaust . . . of course if I did all that it wouldn't be right to keep it as a winter beater, so I'd have to get another one of those . . .
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