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São Paulo's not a city in The States, and not a city in Japan. There's only one São Paulo, and it's in Brazil. Imagine, a concrete jungle with hints of the rain forest, inhabited by a global melting pot, speaking Portuguese. At a population reaching over 11 million, there's no way to grasp the vastness and hunger of this vibrant hub.
Like a Latin Gotham in a metropolis this booming, obviously there's some places to stay clear of. The favelas for one. But in general, there's no reason to clutch your pockets. Paulistanos (peeps from SP) are happy, warm, and able to just giver at the job all day, and giver at the club all night. Our kind of people.
If you have 24 hours to spend there, with the good Paulistanos, you can't expect to hit a number of neighborhoods. So, the most encompassing way to absorb the essence of São Paulo is to explore in and around Jardins — the city's artsiest and most culture-centric area. And it spans to Paulista Ave, São Paulo's Wall Street, if you will. Whatever you box it in with, to Brazil, its importance is unparalleled.
During your wanderings here you'll find the restaurants you need to try, from traditional to modern, shopping you'll feel naked without, and sights that will make you forget you were ever stressed about the 15 hour flight you took to get there. There's also nice museums, but we skipped those. You've got one day, and one night, and they're going to be damn near flawless.
Here's how to spend a day in São Paulo.
Açaí For Breakfast
Brazilians aren't big on breakfast, especially through the filter of a North American. For those of us who can't function without a satisfying meal to start the day, opt for Açaí. You can find it at nearly every bodega and corner grocer. Long before the "superfood" became a trend in US juiceries, it was a way of life for the BR locals, and said to possesses anti-aging properties. Maybe that's what keeps them all looking so damn young. Either way, it's a large purple berry from the Açaí Palm tree they blend into a light frozen yogurt served with oats, grains, honey, and sliced banana. Açaí > parfait any day.
Tip: If coffee is part of your routine, here's to hoping you like it strong. Coffee in brazil will crack you out. It's served espresso sized, so if you need a grande+, do your best to resist the urge and avoid the nearest Starbucks. They're rare, but they're there. And so are you, so embrace the crack coffee.
View From Edifício Itália
You can't plunge into São Paulo until you understand it, and you can't even begin to fathom it until you see it from the top of Edifício Itália. The 46 story skyscraper is fairly downtown as far as SP goes, and when you're looking at it from here, you'll know why. The city is completely dense in every direction. It's like a Kardashian's closet with towers for textiles–buildings on buildings on buildings, with no end. Getting from one neighborhood to another can take around 4 hours. With a birds-eye-view, you'll feel more at ease with the traffic, more in tune with their timing, and less annoyed with New York. It's the reason they arrive to work late, stay late, and get to the party early, meaning very late. This is their pulse, get on its beat.
Tip: Getting to the top is simple, just take the elevator. Up there you'll find the Terraço Itália Restaurante, a fine dining experience with a 360 view the city. Plan to stay for drinks, or a pricey meal, if you're a romantic.
Edifício Itália
Av. Ipiranga, 334 – República
São Paulo, 01046-010, Brazil
+55 11 3257-5977
Shop At Alexandre Herchcovitch
Even Vice is a fan of Brazil's freshest designer, Alexandre Herchovitch. And here in his hometown of São Paulo, aka the city that inspires him, you'll find his flagship store.
The shop's modern and minimal layout highlights his latest and more high-end collections, which merge an aesthetic of street wear, such as skulls, biblical prints, and printed sleeves, with the eclectic fashion philosophies of the mixed local culture. The result is grimy, chic, urban, luxury.
Tip: This flagship hosts exclusive runway items, we're talking 1/1. So if you really want to pound that #VeryRare hashtag, save up for here.
Herchcovitch; Alexandre
R. Haddock Lobo, 1151
São Paulo, 01414-003, Brazil
+55 11 3063-2866
Walk Rua Augusta
Rua Augusta is where you'll get a sense of #SP's youth culture. This long street is home to hipster-esque retail spaces, bars, and foodie hubs, from music and vintage stores, to tattoo and piercing shops — within blocks you'll pass a colorful array of style to fulfill any curiosity. And if something looks interesting, pop in. Here, they love meeting foreigners, so take advantage of the accessibility and wander as desired. Look no further if you're on the hunt for knick-knacks and souvenirs.
Tip: Keep your eyes on the walls and alleys, not for suspect looking sketchies (though that never hurts) but for sketches, er, graffiti, or as we prefer to call it, street art. SP can boast some of the world's best painted walls.
Lunch At Rodeio
For a Brazilian, lunch is the most important meal. At this time of day, around late afternoon, their plates lean towards the heavier side. And you're joining them. Now can you say, "churrascaria?" Explained to english speakers as "brazilian BBQ," it's essentially cooking meat on a long skewer over charcoal. But you're not going to let some potentially bad street meat ruin your trip. So we're sending you to the most beloved churrascaria in the city, Rodeio, located in the heart of Jardins. Careful, Rodeio may change your view of the New York Strip forever.
Tip: Order sliced picanha. It's brazil's most favorite cut of beef, and it will be yours, too.
R. Haddock Lobo, 1498 – Jardim Paulista
São Paulo, 01414-002, Brazil
+55 11 3474-1333
Visit Ibirapuera Park
Often dubbed by Americans as São Paulo's Central Park, this huge urban garden and lake oasis is anything but as it so aptly reflects a Brazilian lifestyle so separate from our joggers and dog walkers. For example, sure there are skateboarders and rollerbladers, but they're totally unrecognizable by our standards, even if you've considered yourself good at one or the other. The skateboards are closer to longboards, and you'll see lines of boarders going as fast as they can towards hills outlined by cones. Cones enclose the bottom of the hill with a dead end, which the boarder must play chicken with, skidding to a halt inches before by pivoting their body sideways with the board, sometimes slamming arm pads into the concrete as anchors. The rollerbladers are doing something that more closely resembles ballet, carefully balancing on wheels while spinning through courses of ankle-high obstacles.
Do a lap around the lake, but walk, don't run. This isn't a work out, leave that to the dudes in spandex. You're on vacation. Plus the idea is to enjoy your surroundings, and you don't want to miss a moment. We're talking nature and people watching.
Tip: Bring a camera. This is
photo-op central Instagram heaven.
Ibirapuera Park
Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral
São Paulo, Brazil
+55 11 5574-5045
Drink Caipirinha
Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail. Our apologies to the mixologists out there, but this simple (and strong) drink beats out your complex flavor bouncing bull any day. Though traditionally made with lime, the way it's done nowadays is starting by picking your favorite fruit. Pineapple? Strawberries? Grapes? Kiwi? Tangerines? Passion fruit? Whatever it is, it's fresh, and at the bottom of your glass buried under a mountain of sugar cane. The fruits and sugar are then muddled and meshed together, before being topped by ice and a generous pouring of Cachaça, BR's most common alcohol (which is fermented from sugar cane juice). And there you have it. Fruit, sugar, and alcohol. No flavoring here, just natural, refreshing, cold, drunkenness.
Take a break and check out a bar that intrigues you, caipirinha can be found anywhere that liquor is.
Tip: If you prefer the taste of vodka, you can always order yours with vodka instead of cachaça. Even some locals do.
Dinner At Spot
São Paulo is home to models, fashionistas, movie makers, and overall move makers, and they're all eating at Spot. This top notch restaurant is so modish we couldn't believe it opened in 1994, as it could be plucked from the ground, dropped in Manhattan, and no one would be the wiser.
Come here for dinner and drinks to mingle with the cool, something a loner with Lonely Planet would never find.
Tip: Spot truly is the spot, so make reservations. And when you do, request to sit outside. Not only will you be taking in the tropical weather with a 1st class meal, but you'll be exposed to the square's water show, which is like a mini version of the Bellagio fountains.
Restaurante Spot
Alameda Min. Rocha Azevedo, 72 – Cerqueira César
São Paulo, 01410-000, Brazil
+55 11 3283-0946
Party At BallRoom
You can picture this venue from the name, sort of. Like a traditional ballroom, the room decor consists of white pillars, chandeliers, and long black cushioned seats with gold trimmings. Unlike a ballroom, there's a disco ball, and no one is dancing the waltz. Think Cinderella meets House Party. Arrive at midnight, and let your eve of raging begin.
Tip: BallRoom sells Halls and cigarettes. When you see people buying up Halls by the dozen, don't stress the germs because they aren't sick. Though Halls are known as a cough drop here, they're considered candy there. And somewhat sexual. Hmm.
R. Augusta, 3000 – Jardim Paulista
São Paulo, 01412-100, Brazil
+55 11 4328-3001
Keep Partying At D.Edge
Because your phone is dead by now, check your watch. If it reads somewhere between 4 and 5am, that's your cue to head to an after hours club. Sorry, the after hours club — D.Edge.
D.Edge's three floors consist of 2 themed floors with live DJs for dancing, and an open air smoking roof for hanging out, and trading phone numbers. The futuristic discotheque has a window programmed to open and close at random times in the AM, sporadically showering the dance floor in sun, reminding you just what time it is. Or isn't. There's also a wall that acts as a graph of colored lights that beat to the music's sound waves.
Tip: Drink red bull. If you opened it, that is.
Alameda Olga, 170 – Barra Funda
São Paulo, 01155-040, Brazil
+55 11 3665-9500


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Remembering 10-year-old Avrey Walker
Memorial set for Redmond girl who lost battle with leukemia, inspired many
REDMOND, Ore. - "She knew that it only takes a few minutes, it only feels like a few minutes in heaven for your family to join you. And so I hope she's up there having fun, and we'll be there in a few minutes bud, we'll be there in a few minutes," Avrey Walker's dad, Aaron, said Wednesday.
A little girl loved by so many, taken far too soon, after a six-year battle with leukemia.
"Avery Walker was a just, a very high energy, very strong willed, little girl," Aaron said.
It was that personality that generated support from thousands during her battle.
"People have been behind us, fighting by our side the entire time," said Aaron. "Not one time has there been a lapse in coverage of people joining with us and fighting with us."
When we last talked to Avrey back in April, you could tell she knew she was loved.
"All my family at home and all my other friends have been doing a whole bunch of benefits and stuff like that, and I want to tell them thank you," Avrey said at the time.
Throughout her fight, support came not only from friends, family and community members but celebrity crushes as well.
"Hey Avrey, it's Justin here. I just want to say I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Be blessed, and I'm sending you all my love," Justin Bieber said in a video message sent to Avrey last year.
Despite the difficult times, the outgoing animal-lover lived her life to the fullest.
Her family spared no expense making sure whatever time she had left was filled with love and happiness.
"(We) rafted every river in Oregon, we went to a Sixers game, we went to a Trail Blazers game, we went to Disneyland, Disney World, Mexico -- we just did everything single thing we could possibly do," said Aaron.
Now it's those memories that keep Avery alive.
"I remember a story where we were camping on the John Day River, and here she comes in the camp with a big bull snake -- 'Look what I got everybody!' And the ladies in the camp are falling over their chairs trying to get out of camp," Aaron recalled. "So she was just never afraid to pick up a big snake or a big lizard, and she really, really enjoyed animals a lot."
Survived now by Aaron, her mother Christal and sister Maddy.
The family has lost a fighter, but gained an angel.
"Overall, though, she was a very fun, very funny, outgoing little girl who loved life -- she loved life," said Aaron.
A memorial service will be held for Avrey at Redmond High School on Saturday, November 9th at 3:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
The Bend Fire Pipe and Drums will play to honor Avrey.
At the end of the ceremony, everyone is welcome to join Avrey's family in sending healing messages on balloons into the sky.

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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Crime writers
Nothing new is going to be written on my part for at least two or three weeks, with my Christmas vacation coming up - other than having to work on Christmas Day, I'm off work until Jan. 2nd. I have eleven stories in various slushpiles, so there's a nice supply still out there.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Reallocating time
Membership in the con costs hundreds of dollars, so it's not really readily available to the normal working guy and gal. That's going to drive down attendance, and draw the circle of exclusivity tighter.
I also don't have a real good feeling about the con in general. The Texas s-f community is so inbred with a narrow social base that I really wonder whether there are the numbers of volunteers there to run such a large undertaking. I had extreme difficulty communicating with the group. Of course, I may be overthinking the issue. It may simply be blackballing. There are many zines and outfits where I can't even get a rejection or reply to a query anymore, where I have been blackballed because I'm not PC. This widespread blackballing is the genre's dirty little secret. I know another author who doesn't even submit to U.S. mags any more. The PC Nazis have been especially emboldened since their Messiah in the Rose Garden got re-elected. John Salzi, the SFWA President, even has a PC hitman, Jim Hines, whom he sends after people who refuse to toe the party line. So much for tolerance and the so-called Big Tent.
One thing that will be taking more of my time in 2013 is the Texas Nationalist Movement. I joined up after the general election in November. Actually, I've been a big supporter for years, but after the election my wife agreed to let me pay the dues. Texas will be having a Constitutional amendment election in 2013, and I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't something on the ballot regarding Texas independence. By the time Lone Star Con rolls around over the Labor Day Weekend, it will probably be a hot topic. I'd like to spend some time in 2013 helping the TNM.
Here is another example that highlights the elitist hypocrisy of the PC Nazis who have the whip hand in the U.S. now. The America Left supports the right to self-determination and autonomy of all oppressed peoples across the world - unless they are Christian and/or Patriots.
SASS - the Society for the Advancement of Speculative Storytelling - was incorporated this year and is ready to start taking members and becoming an active, public organization. This is also a project where I want to invest a lot more time.
On a personal level. plans are to have my 81-year old mother come and live with me and Patricia after Christmas. That will also be taking up my time, in a nice way.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Off the list
I'm going to ConDFW in February, but that will be my last con - how appropriate. It was my first in 2003. At this point, after trying to beat my way into the genre after ten years, I've decided to scale back. No more cons, that's for sure. Most pros hate me, anyway, for not being PC - that is, while, male, Christian and hetero.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Risen from the dead
I feel like Lazarus in the Bible this morning. At bedtime Saturday I was stricken with flu-like symptoms - chills, feeling feverish - and spent the rest of the weekend in bed. I ate some pizza Sunday, but otherwise I completely lost my appetite.
Monday morning I was feeling very weak, but I managed to work a half day at the paper. Still, my stomach was so unsettled I almost ralphed into my waste basket. All I ate were some french fries from a McDonalds meal, and I barely kept those down.
Came home, completely exhausted, and collapsed in bed at 5:30 fully dressed. Woke back up five hours later and undressed. I got up at six this morning. Finally eating. I'm feeling better, but I am monitoring my blood sugar and blood pressure, they are still both high.
On the writing front, I got a rejection Monday, almost 250 words long - which struck me as strange at first. But when I read it, I realized the editor wanted to explain thoroughly why they ultimately didn't take the story after five months of serious consideration.
The detailed explanation was very nice, but the beginning really floored me: "We are honored that you thought to send a story to XXXX. I'm a fan of yours."
Holy smoke, honored? A fan! I've never had an editor say they were a fan. That's a first.
It was a nice bit of an ego boost in the middle of two days of being bed ridden with the flu.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Off into the slush
Sunday, December 09, 2012
|Howard and I at ArmadilloCon in 2010.
One of the few authors who's always been nice to me is Howard Waldrop - Howard is a nice guy in general. After I wrote the story I sent to the anthology, I called Howard last week to get caught up. Howard had a big and arduous move to a new apartment as of Nov. 1st. and I was unhappy to hear that didn't send anything in for the anthology- he said he was too busy with the move.
Afterwards I had an idea. I felt bad that Howard might not be included in an anthology that highlights Texas authors - he's the real deal.
Back in 2007, when I published original fiction on my Sentinel Science Fiction blog, I bought and published a story Howard wrote called "Kindermarchen", which was done for Conestoga in Tulsa in 2006. I remember his reading it, and in 2007 when I was doing Sentinel S-F, I asked Howard it if had ever been published.
It hadn't, and so I did. I called Howard back last Sunday and asked if it had ever been published anywhere else. He said it hadn't.
Sentinel S-F went away in the fall of 2007; I fell behind in my hosting payments because of the expenses related to my move when I took my current job. So it hasn't been available on-line for over five years. Therefore it has a very minor publication history.
I went digging through a pile of manuscripts and at the very bottom I found "Kindermarchen". I scanned it through OCR software, made it into a Word file, and asked Howard if I could submit it. He said sure, and I also asked the anthology editor, and he said to send it along.
So that's my good deed for the week. I think any overview of Texas S-F should include something from Howard. I hope he gets in. Anyway, it was the best shot I had for him. I called him this afternoon and told him I had sent the story off, and he was thankful.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
"Bette Davis Ice"
Spent the day the Ben Wheeler Book Fair in Ben Wheeler, a small town here in East Texas. Like most small town book fairs in these parts, it was well organized but poorly attended, and most authors sold only one or two books, if any.
I didn't sell any, but I expected that. I took my typewriter and banged out the first draft of my latest story, "Bette Davis Ice", between 10 and 2. It was a good use of my time, and a promotional trick I've used before. Here is a photo Patricia took of me at the keyboard.
The book fair was at an old historic school that is now used as the town library. Patricia did school work on her laptop (and also brought me lunch, since I was in my throes of creativity).
One author who DID do well was his-own-self was Joe Lansdale, who was there with Kasey. Some people showed up and bought STACKS of his books. Joe and Kasey were also guest speakers.
The first draft of "Betty Davis Ice" is ten pages, and when I finished Joe was nice enough to read it. He said it was fun, and definitely showed Howard Waldropian influence. Kasey thought it was a hoot, too.
Despite the lack of sales, it was a fun day, and we enjoyed the chance to meet Joe and Kasey again.
Now I need to run "Bette Davis Ice" through OCR software and start editing it. BTW, the Maguffin of the story is that a Brit can't tell the difference between the way a Texan pronounces "eyes" and "ice".
Friday, December 07, 2012
"Hearts Made of Stone"
Just signed my contract for Wakefield Mahon's Song Stories anthology. It is slated to come out via e-book on Feb. 15 and paperback the first of March.
The anthology is composed of stories inspired by songs. My contribution is entitled "Hearts Made of Stone"
Here is the description that was used on the Song Story Press website for the call for submissions:
"Music is one of the fundamental experiences of the human condition. Music has the power to calm or excite, to evoke the full spectrum of emotions as few other tools can. A few simple lyrics backed by an earnest melody can tell an epic tale of tragedy or triumph. That is, in part, where the idea for Song Stories came from. For some of us, music is not just part of life, music IS life. It permeates our waking thoughts and our dreams and often appears in our stories. What songs remind you of your childhood? of high school or college? Your first love and your first broken heart. Now take those memories and wrap them in your imagination. Give us your gripping horror, your mind blowing fantasy and your farsighted science fiction and transform those songs into something new."
Wakefield adds: "With so many excellent submissions, we are accepting submissions to complete a second volume."
* Submission Call Starts: 12/1/2012
* Submission Call Ends: 3/1/2013
Sunday, December 02, 2012
"Unsubstantiated interpretations"
Eric Cline, another author featured in the current issue of Stupefying Stories, flogs the issue on his own blog, and makes this nice comment about my story, too.
"I just got my sample copy (that is, a PDF) this morning, and I'm already smiling over some of my fellow authors' contributions. For instance, "The Relic," by Lou Antonelli, shows the trivial, incidental creation of the title object and the unsubstantiated interpretations heaped on it later. I suspect that famed archaeologist Eric Cline (the other Eric Cline, whom I mentioned in a previous post and who kindly commented on this blog earlier) would nod ruefully at the events that unfold."
The Stupefying Stories line-up
I'm reposting from its web page the rundown of the December issue of Stupefying Stories:
Hard to believe it's December 2012 already. Depending on who you listen to we only have about three weeks left before the world ends, either from magnetic pole reversal, crossing the galactic ecliptic, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, a collision with Planet X, global warming, global cooling, the return of Quetzalcoatl, President Obama and Speaker of the House Boehner joining hands, flooring it, and going full Thelma & Louise off the edge of the fiscal cliff, or the regrettable and wholly inexplicable failure of the Ancient Mayans to invent the perpetual calendar.
In any case, as we were putting together this book, we thought: what better way to go out with a bang that with a bunch of great stories exploring the end of the world—and what might come after? From ecological catastrophes to alien invasions; from tyrannical overreaching central governments to dangerous unfettered cowboy capitalists: It's the End of the World, As We Know It!
And the stories in this book will make you feel just fine.
STUPEFYING STORIES 1.11 (a.k.a., "the December edition"), is edited by award-winning writer Bruce Bethke and features:
"We Talk Like Gods," by Jon David
"Tiny, Tiny Hungers," by Mark Wolf
"Moonbubble," by Eric Cline
"The Relic," by Lou Antonelli
"Mr. Non-Existent," by Paul Malone
"Blue Stripped," by Gerry Huntman
"HoPE," by A. A. Leil
"Avocado Rutabaga Aubergine," by M. Bennardo
"In the Shadows of the Empire of Coal," by Shaun Duke
"Measure of Intelligence," by Torah Cottrill
"The Gods of Sand and Stone," by Joel V. Kela
If you want to go to the web page (which has all the Amazon and Barnes & Noble links), the link is here:
Saturday, December 01, 2012
The record set
With the publication of "The Relic" in Stupefying Stories, I have 12 stories published this year:
1. "The Centurion and the Rainman" - Buzzy Mag, March 2012
2. "Encounter in Camelot" - 4 Star Stories, Spring 2012
3. "Great White Ship" - Daily Science Fiction, May 11, 2012
4. "Accidental Witness" - Planetary Stories, Spring 2012
5. "Double Exposure" - Daily Science Fiction, June 11, 2012
6. "The Starship Theodora" - Nova Science Fiction, Summer 2012
7. "Pirates of the Ozarks" - Science Fiction Trails No. 8, Fall 2012
8. "Barsoom Billy" - Science Fiction Trails, No. 9 All Martian Spectacular Fall 2012
9. "Damascus Interrupted" - Phantasmagorium, Sept. 2012
10. "The Way of the Heretic" - 4 Star Stories, Fall 2012
11. "Snow Globe" - Bewildering Stories No. 500 Fall 2012
12. "The Relic" - Stupefying Stories Dec. 2012
That brings me up 73 stories since my first publication in June 2003.
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Latest reviews
"It's possible that you haven't run into the stories of Lou Antonelli. Since 2003, he's been publishing delightful short tales of alternate history all over the nooks and crannies of the SF world. Thanks to Fantastic Books, we now have 28 of these little gems in one place. "Many of Antonelli's stories have an unexpected twist ending. And many of them are what he calls "secret history" stories, which aren't exactly alternate history—they're set in our familiar history, but there's always some element that contemporary observers missed. " -
- Don Sakers, The Reference Library, Analog July-Aug. 2014
A better path develops for a distraught man in "Double Exposure" by Lou Antonelli (debut 6/11 and reviewed by Frank D). Jake is about to end it all. He has been trying to keep his high maintenance wife happy for decades and has needed to embezzle to satisfy her spending habits. Now, on the verge of indictment and abandoned by his spouse, he buys a gun. Before he pulls the trigger, he spies a Kodak one-day photo hut. Curious, he pulls up to the window. They are holding pictures of him and his last girlfriend from 30 years before. The package is a lot thicker than it should be. Double Exposure" is listed as an Alternative History story but I would classify it as a Magical Realism tale. It is set as a second chance tale, a look into a life that should have been. The author is inspired by his memories of the old photo huts (I remember them) and of their disappearance. A cool idea (photos of another life), one that I could imagine would make for a great anthology.
- Frank Dutkiewicz, Diabolical Plots
"Great White Ship": A traveler stuck waiting for a flight strikes up a conversation with an old airline employee. The Old Timer tells him a story of a Great White Airship that arrives from a most unusual destination. The story of a craft from an alternate reality and how it got there is only the precursor to the final act. This is one of my favorite stories from this site. I have a great passion for lighter-than-air craft and their potential as a future means of transport, which opens the story. The author uses this speculation to launch into an engaging tale. As fascinating as the main story line is, the alternate history premise that accompanies it is just as worthwhile. This story was well written and very well thought out. It is well worth the read. Recommended.
- James Hanzelka, Diabolical Plots
Lou Antonelli fiction archived online
- "Ad Valorem" - Omni Reboot
- "Bindlestiff's Daughter" - The Lorelei Signal
- "The Return of Alfred Bester" - International Speculative Fiction
- "Double Exposure" - Daily Science Fiction
- "Great White Ship" - Daily Science Fiction
- "The Centurion and the Rainman" - Buzzy Mag
- "The Goddess of Bleecker Street" - Kalkion
- "Irredenta" - World SF Blog
- "Ghost Writer" - Flashes in the Dark
- "Avatar" - Darker Matter
- "Black Hats and Blackberrys" Bewildering Stories
- "Pen Pal" - Revolution SF
- "I Got You" - Bewildering Stories
- "Big Girl" - Ultraverse
- "S.P.P.A.M." - Bewildering Stories
- "Silence is Golden" - Revolution SF
- "Fermi's Fraternity" - Planetary Stories
- "The Rocket-Powered Cat" - Revolution SF
- "Video Killed the Radio Star" - Apehelion
- "Silvern" - Revolution SF
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Installation of Honeywell Thermostat - cooling function
(Question at bottom of posting) I attempted to install a Honeywell RTH230B thermostat last night. although the heat seems to be working fine, the cooling function does not. The last thermostat was a Bryant (model uncertain) and had the following wires connected (O/W2 = orange wire, Y/Y2 = yellow wire, R = red wire, W/W1 = white wire, G = green wire, and C = black wire). I had capped the orange and black wires when I attempted the following 4 and 3 wire installations for the Honewell thermostat.
4-wire (Heating & Cooling):
Rh = red wire
Rc = jumper to Rh, no wire
W = white wire
Y = yellow wire
G = green wire
Problem: Temp jumped up to 83 when I was trying to cool from 80 to 75. Instructions indicated that there may be a 5-minute period during which the cooling cannot be accessed, I waited an hour - had to open sliding glass door and window.
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Attempted this wiring configuration in an attempt to cool the place down. It was also listed as another option in the instructions.
Rh = jumper to Rc
Rc = red wire
W = white wire
Y = yellow wire
G = green wire
Problem: Cooling function still does not worked. Turned thermostat off altogether for the night & kept window open.
Should I be using the Orange & Black wires that I had capped for the Rh wire? Any other recommendations?
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When a sinkhole opened Feb. 12 at the National Corvette Museum's Skydome area, faculty, staff and students from WKU's Department of Geography & Geology and WKU's Department of Engineering responded to the scene to assess the damage and provide their expertise. Above: The Engineering Department's remote-controlled quadrotor was used to provide video from inside the sinkhole that swallowed eight Corvettes. The WKU Engineering quadrotor is a four-rotor flying machine carrying a camera. The quadrotor is controlled by a pilot using a standard RC (radio-control) handheld unit with two joysticks. The camera is controlled by a different operator who is wearing a headset that displays whatever the camera is seeing. The pan and tilt of the camera follows the operator's head; for example, if the operator looks to the right and up, the camera does that too.
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- Bowling Green Daily News: Museum structurally sound after sinkhole, will re-open Thursday; Local contractor will help remove reported $1 million in Corvettes from sinkhole at museum
- WBKO-TV (Bowling Green): Sinkhole Caused Estimated $1 Million in Damage to Corvettes; Experts Say Sink Holes Aren't Uncommon in South Central Kentucky
- WKYU-FM: Corvette Museum To Re-open Thursday After Sinkhole Swallows Eight Cars
- CNN: Sinkhole swallows pricey Corvettes at hallowed museum
- Los Angeles Times: Sinkhole swallows priceless Corvettes
- USA Today: Sinkhole swallows 8 cars at Corvette museum
- ABC News: Sinkhole Collapses Part of Corvette Museum in Ky.
- Louisville Courier-Journal: No repair timetable for National Corvette Museum sink hole
- Tennessean (Nashville, Tenn.): Corvette museum sinkhole causes car enthusiasts to collectively cringe
- The Norman (Okla.) Transcript: Sinkhole swallows Corvettes
- Electrical Engineering Journal: Eight vintage Corvettes swallowed by 40-foot sinkhole inside National Corvette Museum
- Engineering News-Record: Drones Inspect Sinkhole at National Corvette Museum
- WDRB-TV (Louisville): Sinkhole swallows eight cars at Corvette Museum
- WHAS-TV (Louisville): 8 Corvettes swallowed by sinkhole; new dramatic video released
- WAVE-TV (Louisville): Corvette-eating sinkhole being monitored
- WEHT-TV (Evansville, Ind.): Sinkhole Hits National Corvette Museum
- WNCT-TV (Greenville, N.C.): Sinkhole swallows 8 vehicles at National Corvette Museum
- KVVU-TV (Las Vegas): Sinkhole at National Corvette Museum swallows 8 vehicles
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text: Blu-ray Disc Review Nim's Island Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Film Year: 2008 Film Length: 96 minutes Genre: Adventure/Comedy Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Colour/B&W: Colour BD Specifications: Resolution: 1080/24p Video Codec: AVC @ 35MBPS Disc Size: BD-50 Audio: English DTS 5.1 HD Master Audio Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Subtitles: English, Spanish Film Rating: PG / Canadian G Release Date: August 5, 2008. Rating: / Starring: Abigail Breslin (Nim Rusoe), Jodie Foster (Alexandra Rover), Gerard Butler (Jack Rusoe/Alex Rover) Screenplay by: Joseph Kwong, Paula Mazur, and Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett Directed by: Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett Be the hero of your own story. Nim's Island is an adventure about Nim and her Father Jack whom live on their own isolated island in the middle of the ocean. The story's problem begins to unfold as Nim's father leaves on a two day expedition while leaving her behind; at this point things quickly begin to go wrong. Inclement weather strands her father at sea and forces Nim to hold down the fort. Without knowing the fate of her father, Nim must also deal with unexpected and unwelcome visitors while in the process contacting Alexandra (Foster) for help. As an adventure movie it's not all that bad, although definitely geared more towards a younger (early teens) crowd. If you are willing to let your imagination loose it can be alright for adults as well. There is the key to enjoying this film: try not to take it too seriously. VIDEO QUALITY / The overall video quality of this BD is quite good. Only a couple things prevented me from awarding that final star. I did notice a few grainy scenes near the beginning of the movie but probably fewer than 5 overall. This appears to change as the film goes on. I also felt that those few scenes looked flat colour-wise. Without knowing the intention of the filmmakers, it's hard to say if this is intentional from the filmmakers or if this is problematic. I haven't seen the film during its theatrical run so I have no other reference at this time. Otherwise the colors were warm and rich for the remainder of the film as I would expect on a tropical island. Again…it's all expectations…a dirty word in my opinion because it can easily lead to flawed judgement on an otherwise perfectly good transfer. Resolution is quite good throughout. There are several wide angle shots of the island that make you feel like you are there. It is not consistently that good though as some photography appears softer than others. I never saw and evidence of compression artefacts or edge enhancement. AUDIO QUALITY / This is not really a movie that requires a lot of busy audio, and as such makes pretty subtle use of all 5 channels. The dialogue is dominant throughout the movie really working the center channel, a little too hard at points for my tastes. Basically if someone is talking they are centered on the screen so… The surrounds provide ambience but aren't particularly immersive with the exception of the storm scenes. Overall it does the menial task its given well. However, considering the abundance of dialogue I feel a little more attention could have been paid to its relative level at times and perhaps the audio design could have utilized the main channels a bit more when the scene allowed. This would have lessened the focus in the middle and offer a wider soundstage. SPECIAL FEATURES / We have quite the list of special features here. Unfortunately it would seem that there is some long running desire to conserve space (or something?) when it comes to the special features. 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They talk about casting, scene setup and inspiration, as well as working with the animal actors. I want to sum this up by saying that although the content may not be all that interesting to some, they do present it in an inviting manner. Deleted Scenes The majority of the deleted scenes were part of a plot element that was removed from the movie. I felt that calling them deleted was a bit inaccurate. Nim's Spyglass Bonus I tried the "explorer" mode, which is kinda like watching a "Pop-Up Video". Basically interesting tid-bits of information about the cast, scene, etc… pop-up through-out the movie. The "view" mode is a PIP representation of similar information. Nim's Friends Featurette This is a behind the scenes look at Nim's three prominent animal co-stars, Selkie (Sea-lion), Fred (Bearded dragon), and Galileo (Pelican). It's pretty much like a video trip to Sea-World: you don't really get much out of it, but it's neat to see the animals up close. Abigail's Journey Featurette This segment is devoted to Abigail and her role as Nim. There is feedback from Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett again, as well as Jodie describing how they felt about Abigail in the roll. Abigail also talks about her experiences on set as well as talking about her daily routine. Working on water Featurette Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett talking about filming the water scenes. Abigail shares her experiences as well. Mostly behind the scenes footage. Write Your Own Alex Rover Adventure Game Remember those choose your own adventure books you read as a kid? This was a somewhat interesting take on the idea. You fill in the blanks on a more or less established story, pick your theme music, and press play. "Your" story is then presented in book form with illustrations, complete with animated page advance and of course your theme music. I have to give credit for something different. Coconut Soccer Game, Seaside Shuffle Game I grouped these together because I've never gotten the point of trying to put anything resembling a game on a DVD/BD. I just can't picture anyone saying "Hey, I feel like playing the Coconut Soccer Game on the Nim's Island BD disc today" and I "played" this movie on a PS3. I did give Coconut Soccer a quick try and it basically re-enforced my feelings on this topic. Nim's Island Trivia Track More information pop-ups. IN THE END... Nim's Island is a fun adventure film that kids and open minded adults should enjoy. On occasion I did shake my head at the film but overall I enjoyed it. James Ferfolia guest writing for Michael Osadciw August 20, 2008. 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The Southern Independent Booksellers Association has announced the finalists for the 2015 SIBA Book Award, which recognizes "great southern literature from the last year." Included among the finalists are NCWN member and Wilmington resident Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy, which was nominated in the Fiction category. Also nominated in the Fiction […]
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UNC Press Director Kate Douglas Torrey will retire this summer after twenty-three years with the publishing house–the past twenty spent as Director. Here's the full press release from UNC Press. According to the Raleigh News & Observer, Ms. Torrey was the first female director of UNC Press. During her tenure, the institution won four Bancroft Prizes from […]
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Drogemuller, Robin & Frazer, John H. (2008) Digital modelling for sustainability. In Birkeland, Janis (Ed.) Positive Development From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design. Earthscan, London, pp. 307-308.
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The vacation ownership industry, a wonderful euphemism for "timeshare" resorts, got a much needed boost today as Sunterra Corp. (NYSE: OWN) gained $1 13/16 to $11 3/8, Vistana Inc. (Nasdaq: VSTN) shot up $1 1/16 to $13 3/16, Fairfield Communities (NYSE: FFD) rose $1 5/8 to $11 7/16 and Trendwest Resorts (Nasdaq: TWRI) moved up $1 1/8 to $11 3/8. Silverleaf Resorts (NYSE: SVR) was the only "loser" on the day, off slightly $7/16 to $13 9/16, but this came after a nice gain of 17% on Wednesday -- in conjunction with the release of its second quarter numbers. Both Sunterra and Vistana reported their third quarter financial results in the last 24 hours, and apparently investors are liking what they see.
The advent of exchange networks and numerous points-based timeshare programs, as well as the entry of many reputable "brands" (like Marriott, Four Seasons, and Hilton) into the business, has really invigorated the vacation-ownership industry -- in addition to helping eliminate some of the more sordid associations that consumers have with timeshare operators. Yeah, the hard sell is still there, but the price/value proposition is becoming increasingly compelling for many buyers (despite some of the nasty fixed rates).
Just how compelling is it to own a timeshare? In 1980, only 155,000 households owned a timeshare week, and there were only about 500 time-share resorts worldwide. At latest count, there are now over 4 million timeshare owners and more than 4,000 resorts in 80 countries -- that translates into a compound annual growth rate in sales for the industry of 16% for the last 27 years. In the last year alone, the business grew its sales by 25%.
In a very similar fashion to the auto industry (build the car, sell the car, and finance the car), vacation ownership companies finance a large amount of their sales (build the resort in saleable chunks, sell the resort, and finance the sale). When these companies sell the vacation intervals, they usually finance 80-90% of the sales in-house after receiving a 10% deposit from the customer. This financing generally bears interest at fixed rates and is collateralized by a first mortgage on the underlying vacation interest.
Timeshare companies derive income from their financing activities because their borrowings for initial resort construction usually bears interest at variable rates, and the firms' loans to vacation intervals purchasers bear interest at fixed rates. This shows up as "interest income" on an itemized revenue account on the income statement. The firms bear the risk of an increase in interest rates with respect to the loans they owe to lenders, so they often engage in interest rate hedging activities to reduce the risk and impact of potential increases. Despite the potentially favorable spread characteristics over the long term, timeshare firms often securitize their mortgage receivables (especially in a "show me the money" environment, and to allay investor fears about debt loads) -- which represents cash flow derived from a financing activity but shows up in part as a recognized "gain on sale of receivables" in yet another itemized revenue account on the income statement.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with this; it's simply a part of doing business. Investors that want insight into the exact nature of these movements should take a closer look at the cash flow statements. Sunterra was up today on news that it came in with Q3 EPS of $0.38, up from $0.27 last year and a penny above estimates. As well, operating margins improved to 27.5% from 22%, and the top line grew 33.7% year over year. Reserves for receivables matched the prior two quarters at 6.3%, and defaults increased to only 2.5%, from 2.4% in the second quarter. In the quarter the company successfully completed its second securitization (of roughly $100 million) in what can only be characterized as "volatile" market conditions -- which says a lot about the quality of their receivables. Looking at Sunterra's cash flows for the first six months of the year, a number of considerations come to the fore, though.
OPERATING ACTIVITIES: 6mos. '98 '97
Net income.............................................. $16,954 $8,103
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash:
Depreciation and amortization......................... 4,810 2,665
Provision for doubtful accounts....................... 6,160 3,735
Equity (gain) loss on investment in joint ventures.... (31) 120
Minority interest in income of consolidated limited
partnership........................................ -- 123
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Cash in escrow........................................ (16,371) (213)
Due from related parties.............................. 360 (1,464)
Prepaid expenses and other assets..................... (4,453) (9,319)
Real estate and development costs..................... (51,933) 4,423
Other receivables, net................................ (12,608) (7,217)
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities.............. (2,173) (15,988)
Income taxes.......................................... 8,886 (529)
Deferred income taxes................................. 4,011 333
Due to related parties................................ (862) (529)
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Net cash used in operating activities................... (47,250) (15,757)
As is evident from the operating items, ongoing changes in operating accounts (like real estate and development costs) can dwarf net income, constituting a significant part of what it takes to do business in vacation ownership. In addition, traditional "capital expenditures" are aligned in investing activities. Sunterra is probably looking to continue to add to its resort portfolio through future acquisitions, which really makes this a part of its inventory-building business model (also to round out the firm's resort offerings).
Cash paid for acquisition of subsidiaries............. (41,068) --
Property and equipment................................ (23,745) (6,342)
Intangible assets..................................... (17,094) (4,476)
Mortgages receivable.................................. (40,384) (49,025)
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Net cash used in investing activities................... (122,291) (59,843)
As previously discussed, the business relies on financing activities to generate cash, especially debt issuance and the occasional securitization.
Proceeds from notes payable.......................... 2,299 22,347
Payments on notes payable............................ (38,032) (103,673)
Proceeds from publicly issued debentures............. 140,000 138,000
Proceeds from mortgage-backed securities, net of cash
reserve........................................... 99,940 --
Proceeds from equity offering........................ -- 52,990
Net proceeds from bank line of credit................ 15,000 0
Other................................................ (1,568) (2,627)
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Far from constituting a complete discussion of the business models of these companies, this brief look at Sunterra's Q2 Statement of Cash Flow should serve as a reminder to investors that in order to understand a business all the financial statements need to be looked at in a holistic fashion. Investors can't just isolate the income statement and expect to understand what's going on.


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I went to see Reverend Billy in Petaluma. At the start of the day, I was going to go to an antiwar march in San Francisco, but then when I saw that Reverend Billy was coming to Petaluma -- fuckin' Petaluma, the "Egg and Butter" capital of California, the town where Pete used to live -- I dropped everything and went. Reverend Billy is a performance artist from New York City -- "The collar is fake, but the calling is real" -- and he's a hoot. Billy has bleached blond hair (with the roots showing) in a sprayed and gelled pompadour, a cheesy polyester leisure suit, and a gospel choir behind him. He preaches the evil of consumerism; the decay of our neighborhoods when Wal-Mart and Starbucks move in and drive out the local businessman; the "big-boxization" of our culture, where the commons, the town square, the lifeblood of the relationships in a community are destroyed, commercialized, and corralled into shopping malls with Muzak and endless advertisements bombarding our subconscious.
It was a beautiful evening, with a warm breeze and the sun coming through the trees in the way that reminded me of days in Grayslake, Illinois, driving around on hot summer nights in convertibles, drinking beer with people who knew exactly who we were.
Coming off nicotine, with a not-yet-full payload of Wellbutrin onboard, I felt weepy, nostalgic, and wistful, but mostly labile, with tears flowing from a chemical soup within my brain uncontrolled and uncontrollable. I moved to the back of the crowd, afraid I was going to be viewed as a complete head case if I was at all visible.
The event was at Walnut Park, the equivalent of the commons in Petaluma, with a gazebo and playground equipment.
The crowd was small, I'm sure much smaller than the one who would pay to see him that evening at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco, where he is better known. But the atmosphere was electric, with a band and the gospel choir from the "Church of Stop Shopping," whom I asked Billy if I could audition for before the performance. He was milling about and shaking hands and told me that they're only in New York, having "failed" to put together a West Coast contingent.
He exorcises the "Devil" of credit cards, asking the crowd to give them up to him, becoming spastic and possessed when he touches one. "CHANGE, hallelujah!" he says when one has bent his or her card in half.
Billy seems to be not quite "on," in the way one would expect after having seen him on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman on Free Speech TV. His performance is off.
But Billy gets an uproarious laugh when he talks about how "Tommy Jefferson" and "Jimmy Madison" had no idea that the Constitution would one day be seen as giving us ONLY the right to consume, to buy, all other rights subsumed into corporate right to profit.
He speaks of the "beatitudes," free speech, free assembly, the Bill of Rights. The Choir sings in a way that would put Billy Graham's to shame.
He leaves with his choir and musicians in a huge school bus, dented in the front, painted with "The Church of Stop Shopping," a pile of shredded plastic in his wake.
The nostalgia of a warm spring evening with a balmy breeze, the sun coming through the trees in a way that reminds me of my youth?
Advertisers hire Stanford and Harvard psychology grads to design ads that appeal to this; the quest to always get back to that dreamy summer night in the backseat with Joey Schmidt or Ray Ritter, a simpler time, one only now attainable if we buy what they are selling.


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After going through a tough breakup, it may be tempting to get completely smashed and go out on the pull and look for a rebound that your mates keep telling you "will help you move on". A rebound fling may not help you get over a failed romance but it might be the bit of fun that you need. A bit of advice, however: lowering your standards is a mistake you'll definitely regret the next morning. You're a catch, and treating yourself as anything less will only make you feel bad. Go for someone you would be interested in even if you weren't recovering from a broken heart.
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A collection of short stories.
In "Two Old Women", a woman summons her long-dead husband and traps his ghost in her home. He lives soundless yet peacefully in her home, eating her carefully prepared meals and doing household chores. But the sea is displeased at being cheated of its rightful prey, and takes its revenge. The sensory details are dense and fantastic here, the language a wonderful mix of otherworldly and earthy.
Can't say I really liked "Portrait, With Flames," in which a teenager tries to reinvent herself but ends up catching the eye of some sort of flaming magical creature. I didn't get what happened in the end--
"Monkey Day" rubbed me the wrong way. It sets a saintly old priest, who has a benevolent yet humble smile for everyone, against a humorless spinster atheist teacher. In the middle is an imaginative little boy fascinated by monkeys. And of course, it ends with the teacher being wrong, narrow minded and a terrible educator.
"Calamari Curls" is one of those Cthulhu stories that every sf/f writer writes at some point, for no reason that I can discern. The tone of the tale is inconsistent--it starts out like the detailed story of the owner of a little bistro being outmaneuvered by a new restaurant, then turns into classic Cthulhu horror, and then is humor for the last few pages? I don't get it.
"Katherine's Story" is the star of the book, to my mind. Katherine is raised on pretentions and hopes, then marries as quickly as possible to escape her mother's overbearing influence. The man, and the marriage, aren't what she'd hoped for, and she finds herself living uncomfortably with her in-laws in a town without books or music. And then her child is born with spastic paralysis, and Katherine is the only one who refuses to institutionalize her. In only 15 pages, Baker draws Katherine into a fully-fledged woman whose mind I felt I knew intimately.
In "Oh, False Young Man!" a spurned woman spends years becoming the foremost automaton expert, in order to trick her erstwhile lover into believing her steampunky robot is their bastard child.
"So This Guy Walks Into a Lighthouse" isn't much of a story. Well written, but the story and characters are a bit too wacky for my taste.
"Silent Leonard" is great fun. What if Leonardo da Vinci had an accident that destroyed his left arm and left him dependent on an ambitious, none too scrupulous assistant? He might have built war machines and changed the fate of kings, that's what might have happened! Good amount of humor, nice twists on history as we know it.
"The Maid on the Shore" is a novella--100 pages--but I don't know why it exists. The tale itself is fine: a young man joins up with privateers and fights under Harry Morgan in the Caribbean. Morgan's daughter fights beside them, sometimes seeming more like a phoenix of vengeance than a girl. It's well told, I just didn't connect with it. I didn't care if they succeeded in taking the fort and getting gold; I just didn't give a damn about the main character. He was well written, but somehow just not...a character I had any feelings about.
Baker was a great writer, but I don't always appreciate the ideas and characters she liked to play with. Still, I'm glad I read this.
eh; she really pissed me off when she kept referring to the trans woman as "he"
Like the title - I find that this collection of stories run along the dark and fantastical of Kage Baker.
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The Congressional Budget Office says federal revenues were lower than expected in the last few months of Fiscal 2013, resulting in a deficit that was $38 billion higher than CBO had projected in May.
The Treasury Department's final number for the 2013 deficit was $680 billion, or 4.1 percent of GDP. Revenues for the year were $2.77 trillion, which was 16.7 percent of GDP and $39 billion less than CBO had projected in May. Spending totaled $3.45 trillion, which was 20.8 percent of GDP and only $1 billion below the May projection.
Last week CBO said all types of revenue were lower than it had projected in the spring. Yet 2013 still had the most revenue since 2007.
Government spending was lower than in any year since 2008. Outlays for Medicare were $4 billion below what CBO had estimated in May and grew more slowly than its 5 percent average growth over the past five years.
Also last week, the General Accounting Office released a short video on the federal debt. Absent policy changes, it warns, the government "faces a rapid and unsustainable growth in debt."


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KAI RYSSDAL: You can go to a local chain restaurant any day of the week and order a lobster tail for maybe $15. We import almost 120 million pounds of lobster every year. A lot of it caught by hand down in the Caribbean, where right now the lobster season is in full swing.
Our series Working takes us into the lives of individual people in a constantly changing global economy. Today, we go to Honduras, where 3,000 men make their living diving for lobster.
Dozen of them are seriously hurt on the job every year. Some of them die. Claudine LoMonaco has the story of one who's not quite ready to quit.
CLAUDINE LOMONACO: On land, Romulo Greham is a crippled man. His knees tremble when he walks, and he looks like he might crumple with every step. But in water, he says he is perfect -- strong and able to work. For the last 30 years, Greham has made his living diving more than 100 feet deep, down to the floor of the Caribbean, stalking lobster.
In places like Maine and Nova Scotia, lobsters are caught in traps. But where Romulo Greham lives, on the Mosquito coast in Honduras, it's cheaper to use divers than it is to use traps. Cheaper, but a lot more dangerous.
20 years ago, Greham was diving at about 120 feet when things went wrong.
ROMULO GREHAM: The day of my accident, I wanted to catch more lobster than anybody else. I used lot of tanks that day -- 16 tanks. In those days, we didn't have any training.
Any trained diver knows that using 16 oxygen tanks that deep in one day is crazy. The way these guys dive, that's more than six hours at depth. U.S. diving experts say about an hour split between three to four dives would be safe. But Greham's story is common here -- and you can see the consequences.
Walk through Greham's village, or any village along the Mosquito Coast, and if you didn't know better, you'd think there'd been a war here. Beneath the towering mango trees and coconut palms, men move along the dirt paths in wheel chairs or on crutches. Family members pull quadriplegic on planks with wheels. All of them were injured diving.
Greham's own problems started as a sharp pain in his ribs when he came up from his 16th dive. Within a half hour, he was completely paralyzed.
GREHAM: I could only move my head and my eyes were looking around. But I couldn't speak and my tongue couldn't move.
He couldn't breathe and passed out. He came to at a clinic not far from his village.
GREHAM: There was a doctor there and he said, "Oh, my son, you can't walk anymore. You are paralyzed." And I began to think: "I'm so young, and now I'm paralyzed. I have three girls to look over. If I die, who's going to take care of these three little girls?"
Greham needed a decompression chamber, but the nearest one was in the Cayman Islands, and the boat captain wasn't going to pay for that. Greham spent months in bed. Several times a day, his wife would exercise his fingers, toes, and legs. After nine months, he got out of bed with crutches. Finally, he threw away the crutches.
GREHAM: I'd fall on the ground all the time, but I wasn't ashamed. I'd get up and walk again. People would say, "You're falling in the streets -- why don't you stay at home?" And I would tell them no... Sure, I fall, but it's not a problem.
Greham tried farming for a couple years, but his kids would often go hungry. His wife begged him not to go back to sea. If you die, she said, then what good will you be?
GREHAM: I said, "My wife, there is no other way I can support you and our family. I have to go out and dive." And I went out. My wife was crying, but I went, and it was OK.
Greham still dives, but he's trying to save others from the injuries that he suffered. Today, he's out on a small boat teaching a handful of Misquito Indians the basics of diver safety.
Greham's one of about a dozen lobster divers certified this spring as teachers by the Honduran Navy. It's the first systematic attempt to train the country's divers. Diving's the only industry on the Mosquito coast. Aggressive divers can earn up to $6,000 in a six-month season.
Greham has the men review their charts to see how long they can dive, and check their equipment to make sure it works -- SCUBA gear here is outdated and often malfunctions. Divers have no depth gauges, and no way of knowing how much air they have left.
During lobster season, these guys will go out for two weeks at a time, on boats crammed with as many as a hundred men. The lobster stocks are so depleted here that every year the divers have to go deeper.
Greham tells his students they need to slow down:
GREHAM: You can't use more than eight tanks a day, because you'll get too much nitrogen in your system.
One by one, the men put on their fins and masks and jump into the water to practice. Greham is trying to limit the time these men scramble for lobster on the sea floor. Typically, divers stay on the bottom until they run out of air, then push off and shoot up to the surface. That's when they get what's known as the bends.
It's like when you open a Coke can and bubbles rush to the top. Only with humans, it's nitrogen bubbles that burst into muscles and the bloodstream, causing joint pain, paralysis or death.
When divers have a nitrogen attack, a decompression chamber can help. Greham takes me to a nearby clinic with three chambers that were installed in the '90s -- trouble is, the chambers don't work.
Inside, walls are crumbling. Bats squeak in the rafters and everything, including the large, tubular chambers, is covered in guano. We have to step over a dead bat to get to the largest chamber.
Orelia Ponce, who heads the clinic, says there hasn't been any money or trained doctors to run the chambers for the last four years.
ORELIA PONCE: Every year, when the season starts, many divers come here, poor guys... and they die because there's no chamber. If we could get them in the chambers, then they would recover.
Before we leave, the doctor tells Greham he shouldn't be diving -- he's still got too much nitrogen in his system. He's risking his life every time he goes under. It's the same with all injured divers.
Of the men on Greham's training boat, half have been seriously injured from nitrogen sickness. One nearly died from a brain embolism. Another, like Grehem, walks with a permanent limp. But as soon as they finish the training, Greham and his fellow divers will all head to the sea floor as soon as they can.


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Nothing But Net - Lobo Summer Reading Shootout
June 3, 2013
Nothing But Net Downloadable Log
Albuquerque, N.M. --- Two of the busiest people in New Mexico are head basketball coach Craig Neal and Governor Susana Martinez, but both took some time this weekend to introduce the "Nothing But Net" Lobo Summer Reading Shootout for elementary school children entering the second, third, and fourth grades.
The program runs through all of June and July, ending on August 1. Students entering second, third, or fourth are encouraged to read over the summer, to prevent what Governor Martinez terms "the summer slide".
There are various levels for kids to aim for. The "Lay-up" level is achieved after reading six books. Students who log in the six books will receive a signed certificate from Governor Martinez and Lobo basketball, along with a poster.
Students who read 12 books and submit a short essay on which book was their favorite reach the "Slam Dunk" level. Along with everything from the "lay-up" level, the students will also receive a "Lobo Basketball is New Mexico True" basketball.
All "Slam Dunk" level students are also eligible for a drawing at the end of the program. Six students will be selected as grand prize winners, and they will be recognized on The Pit floor at a game this season, receive free tickets, and receive an autographed basketball.
Students can pick up the Northing But Net reading logs from the Lobo Ticket Office in The Pit, from any of the Lobo basketball camps, or it can be downloaded at the top of the page. For a coach and a father like Coach Neal, getting to be involved in the reading program with the Governor's office was a no-brainer, as he told the media on Saturday, "She called and asked if I'd be interested in doing something like this and I said `yeah.' Even before I really knew the details of the program, I said of course."
Lobo basketball camps are continuing this week, with the Boys Individual Skills Camp running through Thursday of this week before the team camp, which will take place June 13-16.


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Lo Savio, R and Miritello, M and Piro, AM and Priolo, F and Iacona, F (2008) The influence of stoichiometry on the structural stability and on the optical emission of erbium silicate thin films. Applied Physics Letters, 93. ISSN 0003-6951Full text not available from this repository.
We report the effects of thermal annealing performed in N2 or O2 ambient at 1200 °C on the structural and optical properties of Er silicate films having different compositions (Er2Si O 5,Er2 Si2 O7, and their mixture). We demonstrate that the chemical composition of the stoichiometric films is preserved after the thermal treatments. All different crystalline structures formed after the thermal annealing are identified. Thermal treatments in O 2 lead to a strong enhancement of the photoluminescence intensity, owing to the efficient reduction of defect density. In particular the highest optical efficiency is associated to Er ions in the α phase of Er 2 Si2 O7. © 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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Touring Indiana's Amish Heritage Trail
Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip, clop It's a soothing sound, the rhythmic beat of horse hooves on country roads. Driving the Heritage Trail that zigzags Indiana's Amish communities, you'll pass numerous horse-drawn buggies—a visible reminder that life is different here. Due to the Amish lifestyle, it seems you've stepped back in time a century or more. No


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Memorial Day weekend, in many places, means the opening of pools and water parks. In Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, it (usually) marks the opening of the Trail Ridge Road. The road connects the east and west sides of the park along with the towns of Estes Park and Grand Lake respectively. A long section of the highway, about forty miles, is closed due to deep snow much of the year. Trail Ridge Road is the highest continuously paved highway in the country. Eleven miles of it are above the treeline (over 11,000 ft.). It's highest point reaches 12,183 feet above sea level. The lack of trees allows for sweeping views of mountain peaks and forests below as the Trail Ridge Road winds through alpine tundra and over the Continental Divide.
For the current conditions of Trail Ridge Road, call 970-586-1222 or check the National Park Service Road Status Report online.