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Assad: Risk Of Regional War If West Strikes Syria
PARIS — Syria’s president warned Monday that the Middle East is a “powder keg” and potential Western military strikes against his country risk triggering a regional war.
In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, Bashar Assad also was quoted as saying that Syria has challenged the U.S. and France to provide proof to support their allegations that Damascus has used chemical weapons, but that the leaders of both countries “have been incapable of doing that, including before their own peoples.”
President Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, have accused Assad’s regime of carrying out a deadly chemical attack against rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21. The Syrian government denies the allegations, and blames opposition fighters.
Obama initially seemed poised to launch military action, but abruptly announced on Saturday he would first ask Congress for authorization. Hollande also has called for a forceful response against Assad, but is awaiting a decision from Washington first.
If the U.S. and France decide to strike, Assad said “everyone will lose control of the situation.”
“Chaos and extremism will spread. The risk of a regional war exists,” he added.
Asked whether France, which has been a staunch supporter of the opposition, has become an enemy of Syria, Assad said that whoever contributes “financially and militarily to terrorists is an enemy of the Syrian people.”
“The French people are not our enemy, but the policy of their government is hostile to the Syrian people. Insofar as French government policy is hostile to the Syrian people, this state will be its enemy,” he said.
As the U.S. has been presenting its case to a wary public, the French government on Monday published a nine-page intelligence synopsis that concluded that the Syrian regime launched an attack on Aug. 21 that involved a “massive use of chemical agents.” The report also said that Assad government could carry out similar strikes in the future.
The U.S. said it has proof that the Assad regime is behind attacks that Washington claims killed at least 1,429 people, including more than 400 children.
Russia, which along with Iran has been a staunch supporter of Assad through the conflict, brushed aside Western evidence of an alleged Syrian regime role.
“What our American, British and French partners showed us in the past and have showed just recently is absolutely unconvincing,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday at the country’s top diplomatic school. “And when you ask for more detailed proof they say all of this is classified so we cannot show this to you.”
Lavrov said “there was nothing specific there, no geographic coordinates, no names, no proof that the tests were carried out by the professionals.” He did not describe the tests further.
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed Monday to send a delegation of Russian lawmakers to the U.S. to discuss the situation in Syria with members of Congress. Two top Russian legislators suggested that to Putin, saying polls have shown little support among Americans for armed intervention in Syria to punish its regime for an alleged chemical weapons attack.
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. received new physical evidence in the form of blood and hair samples that show sarin gas was used in the Aug. 21 attack. It was not immediately clear whether that evidence had been shared with Russia.
U.N. chemical inspectors toured the stricken areas last week, collecting biological and soil samples, but it is not clear when they will present their findings.
The Obama administration has failed to bring together a broad international coalition in support of military action, having so far only secured the support of France.
Britain’s parliament narrowly voted against British participation in a military strike last week, despite appeals by Prime Minister David Cameron, and the Arab League has stopped short of endorsing a Western strike against Syria.
In an emergency meeting on Sunday, the 22-state League called on the United Nations and the international community to take “deterrent” measures under international law to stop the Syrian regime’s crimes, but could not agree on whether to back U.S. military strikes.
Russia or China would likely veto any U.N. Security Council resolution sanctioning a Western strike against Syria.
China is “highly concerned” about possible unilateral military action against Syria and believes the international community must “avoid complicating the Syrian issue and dragging the Middle East down into further disaster,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday.
In Washington, the Obama administration was lobbying to secure domestic support.
Obama was to meet Monday with former political rival Sen. John McCain at the White House, hoping the foreign policy hawk will help sell the idea of U.S. military intervention.
On Capitol Hill, senior administration officials briefed lawmakers in private on Sunday to explain why the U.S. was compelled to act against Assad. Further meetings were planned from Monday to Wednesday.
The Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011 as an uprising against Assad that later degenerated into a civil war. More than 100,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict.
In Damascus, the Syria representative of the U.N. refugee agency, Tarik Kurdi, said that five million Syrians have been displaced inside the country by the war.
In addition, nearly 2 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries, according to previous U.N. figures, bringing the total number of uprooted Syrians to about 7 million, or nearly one-third the country’s estimated population of 23 million.
Kurdi said the need for aid is far greater than what the international community has provided so far.
“Whatever efforts we have exerted and whatever the U.N. has provided in humanitarian aid, it is only a drop in the sea of humanitarian needs in Syria,” he told The Associated Press. The funding gap “is very, very wide,” he added.
Associated Press writers Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Ryan Lucas and Karin Laub in Beirut contributed to this report.


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Friday, July 29, 2016
Confessions of a Martian rock
ChemCam aboard the Curiosity Rover, NASA/JPL image.
When NASA’s Curiosity rover arrived at the Kimberly region of Gale crater, we went to work, looking at the mineral-filled cracks in sandstones on the floor of what was once a deep lake. We used the ChemCam instrument, which sits atop Curiosity and was developed here at Los Alamos National Laboratory, to “zap” rocks on Mars and analyze their chemical make-up. (In less than four years since landing on Mars, ChemCam has analyzed roughly 1,500 rock and soil samples.) Full Story
Do these strange Martian rocks hint at life on the Red Planet?
Curiosity Rover, NASA/JPL image.
It is widely accepted that Mars was once abundant in surface water. But until recently, few would have guessed that the planet was ever oxygen-rich.
“If we could peer onto Mars millions of years ago, we’d see a very wet world,” wrote Nina Lanza, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was involved in the analysis. “Yet we didn’t think Mars ever had enough oxygen to concentrate manganese – and that’s why we thought the data from Caribou must have been an error.” (Full Story)
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Rover on Mars now picks its own laser targets
Roger Wiens, NASA image.
The instrument is called ChemCam, and it was developed in part by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. According to the lab, Curiosity now picks “multiple targets” on its own weekly.
“This new capability will give us a chance to analyze even more rock and soil samples on Mars,” Roger Wiens, the principal investigator for ChemCam at Los Alamos, said in a statement. “The science team is not always available to pick samples for analysis. Having a smarter rover that can pick its own samples is completely in line with self-driving cars and other smart technologies being implemented on Earth.” (Full Story)
Tide-triggered tremors give clues for earthquake prediction
1906 San Francisco earthquake, USGS image.
The triggering of small, deep earthquakes along California's San Andreas Fault reveals depth-dependent frictional behavior that may provide insight into patterns signaling when a major quake could be on the horizon.
The study, which was led by the U.S. Geological Survey and Los Alamos National Laboratory, reports that the deepest part of California’s 800-mile-long San Andreas Fault is weaker than expected. (Full Story)
Record amount pledged during 2016 scholarship fund drive
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees pledged a record $393,419 during the recently completed 2016 Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF) drive.
The drive encourages Laboratory employees, retirees and subcontract personnel to donate to a fund that awards college scholarships to Northern New Mexico students. Additionally, more employees participated in this year’s campaign than in past years. (Full Story)
Also in the Daily Post this week:
Feynman Center For Innovation honors technical trailblazers
Left to right, Duncan McBranch, Terry Wallace, Gary Grider, and Lee Finewood. LANL image.
HPC expert Gary Grider received the 2015 Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize at a ceremony July 14 for his national leadership in developing cutting-edge HPC strategies and his innovative business partnerships.
“Innovation is a critical part of our mission here at the Laboratory,” said Duncan McBranch, chief technology officer at Los Alamos. “Last year alone, principal investigators here disclosed 71 inventions, and the Lab filed 109 patent applications and 45 new copyright assertions. Innovation means converting these ideas into real-world solutions. (Full Story)
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Charley Varrick (1973), starring Walter Matthau, Andy Robinson, John Vernon and Joe Don Baker, is a thrilling Crime\gangster drama directed by genre veteran Don Siegel. Siegel made this film immediately after his iconic cop thriller, “Dirty Harry,” and in many ways this film is the definitive Don Siegel film.
Director, Don Siegel, is most famous for launching (or relaunching) superstar and Icon, Clint Eastwood’s American career; Eastwood and Siegel made five films together- of which the 1971 film, “Dirty Harry” is the most popular film in Siegel’s career; a film that helped turn Eastwood into a superstar. Siegel is also considered one of the greatest genre filmmakers ever, perhaps even the greatest. He specialized in making masculine action pictures in typical genres like Crime dramas, Noirs, War films, Westerns etc. His films can be noted for their precision, minimalism, superb narrative construction, propulsive energy and well choreographed action scenes. His protagonists are also maverick individualists, who decides to go their own way, no matter the odds, in a world of rigid rules. SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan, who battles both government bureaucrats and criminals and who’s not above bending the rules to uphold the rights of the victims, maybe the prototypical Siegel hero. But more than Harry Callahan, I think “Charley Varrick” from the eponymous 1973 film – a film that Siegel made immediately after “Dirty Harry” – maybe even more of a definitive Siegel protagonist. Varrick is the most interesting character to feature as the lead of a Siegel film. He, as the hero of this crime drama, is actually a middle-aged man who has no passion for crime. He’s also not a physically or temperamentally a remarkable guy- he very easily disappears in a crowd, and he’s neither very ambitious or aggressive by nature; he is weary, but always calm and composed; he likes to keep his head down and lead a very lowkey life. He was a stunt pilot, who, later, started his own crop-dusting business with his wife, Nadine. They are the “Last of the Independents” (the emblem on their company van) – a title that Siegel originally wanted for this film (maybe because all Siegel heroes can lay claim to that title), but it ended up as the film’s tagline. But once the big corporations started encroaching into their business, Varrick realizes that the crop-dusting business alone cannot financially support them. So, despite his aversion for guns and violence, Varrick is forced by circumstances to become a small-time bank robber; but Varrick is very clear that this bandit business is strictly a side affair to support his main business; Like the man, this business is also very lowkey: he is not looking to rob more than two or three thousand at a time; that way there’s never too much heat on him. Unfortunately, Varrick’s well laid plans are disrupted when he accidentally robs a bank that belongs to the Mafia.
The film opens with this all-important robbery sequence that’s going to turn Varrick’s life upside down. The manner in which the lead up to, and the actual robbery is staged is a masterclass in Don Siegel’s cinematic methods. First, we get a very deceptively cheerful title sequence – the visuals are bright and sunny and Lalo Schifrin’s music is joyful – that’s in total contrast to the rest of the film, but from which we get a very good idea about the geography and the economy of the rural town of Tres Cruces, New Mexico (the film was shot in Nevada by the way). Then, Schifrin’s music slowly starts turning ominous, as we see a heavily disguised Charley Varrick ride up to the front of the bank with Nadine. After bantering with a cop, who first refuses and then later grants permission to the couple to park their car in front of the bank, Varrick enters the bank on a ruse of cashing a check, while Nadine waits in the car- behind the wheel and prepared to make a quick getaway. Inside the bank, Varrick has already planted two of his accomplices, Al Dutcher and Harman Sullivan; and they spring into action on seeing Varrick. They hold hostages while Varrick forces the manager to open the safe. Meanwhile, the cop who bantered with the couple realizes that the couples’ car is similar to the one present at an earlier heist. He immediately notifies the Sherriff, who arrives with some police officers. When the officers approach Nadine, she shoots at them, killing one instantly and seriously wounding the other, but the second officer returns fire, wounding her. The melee outside distracts the robbers, enabling the bank guard to kill Dutcher. Sensing that the bank manager is concealing something, Varrick forces him to reveal two large satchels of cash. Varrick, Harman, and Nadine flee with the cash, but Nadine dies soon thereafter. Charley and Harman swap vehicles and prepare to blow up the getaway car, with Nadine’s body inside. They are stopped by another police officer, but before he can search their van, the explosion goes off and the officer races away to inspect the explosion.
All this happens within the first 15 minutes of the film. From this we get a clear idea that Varrick and his gang are not big time robbers. We also understand that Varrick and Nadine had a happy marriage- they wear identical wedding bands and, after Nadine is dead, Varrick takes Nadine’s wedding ring and put it in his finger before he blows up the car. It also shows how composed and brutally unsentimental Varrick is- despite loving his wife very much, he realizes the graveness of their situation and does not spend much time mourning her death, or hesitate in blowing up her corpse. We also realize that Varrick and the much younger Harman are an odd couple. Harman is jittery , trigger-happy and quite rebellious to Varrick’s authority. Varrick, on the other hand, hate guns and hate using them, and he gets rid of his guns and Harman’s guns at the first opportunity. Varrick prefers to use his brains to get around in the world, and we see this in the scene when Varrick quickly deduces that the money that they have stolen – all 765 thousand dollars of it – belongs to the mob. Since the mob will hunt them till they are dead, Varrick wants to lay low for a long time; he wants to hide the money and spend it only after three or four years, while the hotheaded Harman wants to spend it all now. We get a sense that it’s only a matter of time before these two are at each other’s throats. And Varrick, despite his laid-back nonchalance and his aversion for firearms, can be very forceful, unscrupulous and cunning when required. We see this soon enough when he sets up Harman to be killed by Mob’s sadistic hitman, Molly. Siegel conveys all this in his typical economical, stripped-down style. He doesn’t waste much time for exposition or character building- just slight character gestures, a throwaway line of dialogue and perfect shot selection does the job of plot development and character delineation very efficiently.
The main body of the film is concerned with how Varrick succeeds in outfoxing the mob and manages to escape with his life (and, perhaps, the stolen money as well). Siegel displays a ‘police procedural’ like efficiency in building up the suspense in this portion. Except here Varrick is a criminal, not a cop and he is not solving a crime, but is trying to escape after committing a crime. Usually in such scenarios, the audiences should be rooting against such a protagonist, but first, through very clever character delineation, then by pitting the lead antihero up against criminals who are even more immoral, unscrupulous and ruthless than him, and, finally, by imparting a terrific pace to the proceedings, Siegel makes sure that we are rooting for Varrick at all times during the course of the film. This despite the fact that most of Varrick’s actions seems inscrutable at first, and one has to wait a while, or wait till the film’s climax to make full sense of them. We never understand (when it’s happening) why Varrick switches his and Harman’s dental files, why he makes plans to give back the stolen money to the mob, why he purchases TNT and other explosives, despite his aversion for such firepower etc. but all this makes sense in the climax, when we realize that almost every event since the robbery was taking place based on a ‘screenplay’ orchestrated by Varrick. In that regard, Varrick is stand in for Director Siegel, who’s the one pulling all the strings, and I guess that’s why Siegel considers this film personal enough to call it Don Siegel’s “Charley Varrick.” He closely identifies with the characters actions that’s a meta reference to what he himself is doing; he also identifies with the character’s independent, pioneering spirit. That’s how the screenplay positions Varrick- not as an amoral criminal, but as a steely individual fighting against a combine, a criminal corporation. It’s the typical one man against the world scenario that’s a staple of Siegel films. We find out at the end that Varrick is more intelligent and resourceful than the powerful combine that’s chasing him and trying to destroy him. Of course, this require some suspension of disbelief (which I believe all action\suspense films do require to an extend) because we find Varrick dealing with some situations and characters that’s way out of his control; they are so many variables at play here that Varrick could not have had full command over all of them. But since the audience gets swept up in the flow of the proceedings, and the film is so cleverly crafted, with a lot of the solutions coming in the final reel, it does not bother them.
The film’s title character is played by one of the most unlikeliest Siegel actors, Walter Matthau. This role was originally conceived for Clint Eastwood; this was to be their grand reteaming after the triumph of “Dirty Harry”. But Clint rejected the role saying it has no redeeming qualities, which is rather strange, because Clint made his career by playing blissfully amoral heroes. I have a feeling that Clint rejected the film because he wanted to make a sequel to “Dirty Harry” and Siegel did not. So after Clint rejected, the role went to Matthau; which is also very strange because Matthau is the last actor one imagines as a replacement for Clint. I don’t know how much the role was rewritten to suit Matthau, but Matthau is superb as Varrick. He does not have Clint’s virility or star charisma, and he’s basically known as a comic actor- the laid-back, caustic straight man to Jack Lemmon’s neurotic comic in films like “Fortune Cookie” and “The Odd Couple.” Matthau uses exactly these qualities to pull off this character. Appearing weary and thoughtful every moment; and always chewing gum to calm himself down. Even when he’s doing nothing much on screen, we get a sense that he’s planning something. The fact that he’s very likeable is one of the factors that endears him to the audience and make them root for him, even when we see him do some unscrupulous things. His casting also amps up the film’s suspense quotient- the question always keep haunting the audience whether or not he will survive the threat from the mob?. If it was macho Clint playing the role there would not have been any doubt regarding his survival; and the film would have remained just a good star-vehicle, but casting Matthau made it a much better movie, i suppose. This was one of a series of films Matthau made in the early ’70s, like “Taking of Pelham 123,” that were not comedies. Matthau did not like this film or his role (wonder why he took it up in the first place) and made his displeasure public- much to the chagrin of Don Siegel, who felt that Matthau’s behavior hurt the film’s box office prospects. The film did turn out to be a box office flop, and was quickly forgotten by the public, but there has always been a cult who championed this film (including Quentin Tarantino) through the years.
Playing against Matthau is who’s who of the great supporting actors of the ’70s. First, there is Andy Robinson, who, as the restless hotheaded Harman, is pretty much reprising his “Scorpio” act from “Dirty Harry.” Then there is John Vernon (who was also in “Dirty Harry”), this time playing the role of Boyle, the mob’s frontend man in charge of money laundering. He is quite a likeable guy- a man who plays the piano, charms the ladies and even tries to protect one of his employees, the bank manager, Harold Young (played memorably by Woodrow Parfrey), from the wrath of the mafia. An extended scene featuring Vernon and Parfrey is one of the highlights of the movie: where the former advises the latter to leave town and go on the lam, as his Mafia superiors will suspect that the robbery was an inside job, because it occurred during the brief period when the money was there. Boyle suggests that Young will be tortured if the mob gets their hands on him. A terrified Young would commit suicide later. Boyle’s end is also tragic, double-crossed by Varrick and killed by his own hitman, Molly. Of course, the most memorably colorful and imposing character in the film is Molly, played by Joe Don Baker, arguably in his best screen performance. This butch, macho hitman with a feminine name is a cool, lethal, sadistic killer who has his own code (he does not sleep with whores). He takes great pleasure in beating up and killing men, and beating up and fucking women. The unstoppable, unswerving Molly is an amalgamation of the hitmen, Charlie & Lee, from Siegel’s 1964 version of “The Killers.”; physically, we know Varrick does not stand a chance against him and it’s with his brains that Varrick outfoxes this brawny gorilla (as Varrick calls him). I guess, if Clint had starred in this film, then we would have gotten an epic punch out between these two macho stars The female half of the film is made up by three actresses: Jacqueline Scott as Nadine, who dies within first ten minutes of the film; Sheree North as Jewell Everett, the local photographer who betrays Varrick and Harman to Molly, or rather she’s one of the many pawns used by Varrick as part of his grand escape plan; and finally, Felicia Farr as Sybil Fort, Boyle’s assistant, who get seduced by Varrick. Now this whole seduction portion appears to me to have been taken from the script written for Clint Eastwood without any changes. We know the deal between Clint and his ladies in his films- no one can resist Clint, right?; Clint has no problem seducing multiple women in his films; the audience expects him to, but applying the same theory on poor Matthau feels like some sick joke. And it does fell like an inside joke because Farr is the wife of Matthau’s buddy and frequent co-star, Jack Lemmon. I guess, since there is no Lemmon in the film, the makers must have thought that it was a good idea to show Matthau getting on with Lemmon’s wife. Anyway, this section is the most unconvincing part of the film.
As for Don Siegel, well this film finds him at the height of his powers. Thematically and technically, the film is a perfect distillation of the Siegel aesthetic. And like the best of Siegel films, it is structured in a way so that you can read the film in multiple ways. Just like “Dirty Harry” could be read either as a glorification of a trigger-happy fascist cop, or a strong critique of the criminal justice system that hurts the very same people it exists to protect and one heroic cop who finds a way around it to deliver justice to the people, “Charley Varrick” too has more than one interpretation. Was Varrick really a victim of the circumstances that he ended up being hunted by the mob, or did he actually plan to steal from the mob right from the beginning?. From what point did his ‘screenplay’ begin. Is it only after he found out that the stolen money belongs to the mob or stealing money from the mob was part of the screenplay?. When you watch the film the second and third time, the second interpretation starts feeling more and more likely. The speed at which Varrick concocts his plan and goes about executing it makes one feel that he was planning this for a long time. He was tired of the crop-dusting business and wanted to start his life afresh. That’s the feeling one gets from the last scene when we see him drive away. Maybe getting his wife killed was not part of the plan, and maybe this was a plan that he and his wife had concocted together- to take down a big score one last time and go some other place and start life anew. His wife getting killed was an accident, but rest of everything was exactly what they planned. This is really the beauty of Siegel’s Hemingway-esque filmmaking- by withholding a lot of information and having a lead character who plays it close to his chest, he has created a truly wonderful genre piece that also allows the audience to think.
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Great review. It’s an amazing film – an exemplar of the anti-hero/femme fatale neo-noir genre, with lots of big, boxy cars and a grimy Americana backdrop. And Sheree North!
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The one thing Bradly wanted me to make him, above all others, was the Luchadore ski mask from Son of Stitch 'n' Bitch. Although it had intarsia, which I hate, it would also be practical, given his early morning walk to the bus stop. It would keep him nose warm. So when I got more yarn, I sent about making it.
I consider myself a competent knitter. While I haven't designed anything either large or complicated (and mostly my designs are more modifications to existing patterns), if I have a pattern to follow, there will be a finished product at the end of it. But this one... apparently I forgot how to count. Which I didn't notice until I was halfway up the face, ready to start the colorwork. I had to rip.
An aside here: When I first noticed, I was very upset that I had made such a "beginner mistake." Then I thought about it. Miscounting your stitches, I don't think, is not a beginner mistake. When you're a beginning knitter, you're also a paranoid knitter. You use stitch markers, you count everything four times, then knit a bit and count the stitches again. This was an overconfident, compentent knitter mistake. One from a girl convinced that she knows what she's doing.
Anyway, I reknit every thing (using stitch markers to count this time, asking Bradly to make sure I had counted properly), and continued knitting. At the decreases, I realized I had dropped a stitch about ten rows back. I laddered it up, forcing a new stitch into the space between two perfectly happy stitches, and finished. Then there were ends to weave in... so many ends. Which, while irritating, were not a product of the curse, but the intarsia. Nevertheless, the mask was finished, in time for him to wear it to work on Monday. He reported it to be very warm, and cool, then asked if I had seen where he put it.
I had not. He had left it in the cab. It's lost. Normally I'd be mad, but it's just the curse. I'll make him anouther one soon... once the sting has worn off and the universe had rebalanced itself.

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As the lockdown continues we need something to while the hours away with something aviation related if we can’t do so, in the air!
Here are our top 10 favorite aviation movies, or rather, our favorite movies that feature a big emphasis on aviation!
You’ll find some modern releases and some golden oldies, including some of the classics that simply cannot be missed from a top 10 movie list.
Where possible, we have put some information on where these movies can be watched too, if like me, you read a list like this, you will be left wanting to watch at least one of them!
1. Battle of Britain
Released in 1969 and directed by Guy Hamilton, this just has to be one of the greatest aviation-based films ever made.
If you have Amazon Prime, it is available on that platform as part of the MGM package (an add-on) and for free as part of a trial offer. Of course, you can purchase it on Amazon as a DVD for as little as £2.75.
Google Play doesn’t yet have it available for purchase unfortunately.
2. The Tuskegee Airman
A 1995 release from director Robert Markowitz, this movie deserves a shout because it is commonly overshadowed by the 2012 version of the film directed by George Lucas called ‘Red Tails‘.
Telling a true tail of black pilots in World War 2 I feel this version, the original, tells a much stronger story of the pilots.
Whereas the Lucas film of Red Tails is more of a fast paced action version of the story.
3. Fly Boys
Directed by Tony Hill, released in 2006 this film had a budget nearly as big as that for Jurassic Park.
It has some excellent aerial scenes, some reasonable actors including Jean Reno and James Franco.
4. Pearl Harbour
If not for the story line then for the breath-taking scenes and cinematography.
A story of friendship and love veiled by the horrific battle of Pearl Harbour.
A great cast and a good breadth to the storyline with the arc stretching from the English Channel to Hawaii and across to Japan following the tale of two pilots and their love triangle.
Oddly, I couldn’t find it available on NOWTV or Netflix.
A little closer to home in our own General Aviation world is Sully, released in 2016.
A biographical drama of Chesley Sullenberger and his copilot when their A320 experienced a bird strike and they made the decision to ditch in the Hudson River rather than turn back.
Sound familiar to anyone practicing for their skills test?!
Not available on NOWTV or Netflix currently.
6. The Red Baron
Released in 2008 from director Nikolai Müllerschön, a fascinating telling of the famous Red Baron pilot of WW1 fame.
Featuring Lena Headey, of Game of Thrones, as Käte Otersdorf and including Captain Roy Brown, a famous Canadian ace pilot played by Joseph Fiennes.
An entertaining story of the Red Baron with some excellent aerial battle scenes.
Not available on Google Play, NOWTV or Netflix unfortunately.
7. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
By director Kerry Conran, with a stellar cast including Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi and Gwyneth Paltrow I absolutely love this crazy film.
I consistently get a ribbing for being such a fan, but it’s great fun centred around an over the top British pilot, played by Jude Law, flying about in a P40 saving the day.
It is like Superman for aviator fans and something from a 10 year old’s imagination.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t track this bad boy down on Netflix or NOWTV.
8. One Six Right
I have not yet seen this one but I have included it because of what I have read.
More of a documentary than a film, so arguably, it shouldn’t be on here at all.
Other than being about GA, the main reason for placement on here was the film work and cinematography.
The program has a reputation for having some simply magnificent aerial shots and sequences of GA aircraft, so with that in mind, it has to do on the list.
A tricky one to track down for viewing but I did find it available on Amazon as a DVD for £22 which I thought was a bit steep.
If you have it, you may find it on the Apple iTunes store.
9. Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
A 1965 comedy about the London to Paris air race of 1910 with some incredible aerial stunts.
If you happen to be so inclined, it is worth doing some reading about the background to the film too.
There were some rather precarious reconstructions of period aircraft!
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it on Netflix or NOWTV.
10. The Blue Max
A 1965 WW1 story of a somewhat macho and overzealous German pilot in WW1 as he strives to achieve the coveted ‘Blue Max’ medal.
An action packed storyline with lots of great combat scenes and stunning air to air filming.
11. The Great Waldo Pepper
Released in 1975 and directed by George Roy Hill, set in the 1920s after WW1 when an American pilot and German ace hook up to perform some incredible aerial stunts.
It features Robert Redford and Susan Sarandon, with some very impressive aerial photography that is mentioned in many of the rave reviews.
12. Piece of Cake
This is another one that probably shouldn’t be on here.
It’s not a film, but a series.
I know, I know.
But, it’s a really good series, with some great scenes, a reasonable storyline that’s interesting to follow, and some interesting characters.
Released in 1988 and based on a 1983 novel of the same name written by Derek Robinson it follows characters from Hornet squadron in the early days of WW2.
I can only find this on DVD for £9.20, and it does have excellent reviews!
Worth a mention
Okay, so you may be saying to yourself ‘there are a few you missed’. Maybe. You may have noticed Top Gun, Memphis Belle, The Aviator, Flight and several more don’t appear on the list. Don’t get me wrong they are good movies but I thought the above were worth more of a mention for being the underdogs of the aviation movie genre.
I should have made a longer list.


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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is hoping to grow the Republican majority in the state Senate as lawmakers redraw election maps. But how? And where?
And, after years of Republicans wanting to rid courts of frivolous lawsuits - doesn't the state's new abortion law threaten to do the opposite?
Those were among the questions Inside Texas Politics had for the lieutenant governor.
Read more from him here.
Eye on Washington
In Congress, the clock is ticking for Democrats there. Can they ever pass changes to voting rights? If they do, it could require Texas to get permission before changing voting districts.
How about that infrastructure bill? And then there's President Biden's $3.5-trillion spending bill. Democratic leaders were hoping to get it all done this month.
Abby Livingston, the D.C. bureau chief for the Texas Tribune, joined Jason Whitely.
Houston property taxes
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo discussed the property tax rate the county just slashed, what COVID might look like this winter in Houston, and what she expects her re-election will cost next year as she faces a Republican challenger.
Read more on her proposal here.
Texas gubernatorial race
Gov. Greg Abbott is facing fierce attack ads right now - and they are coming from former Republicans.
The Lincoln Project took on Donald Trump last year. Now, it's targeting two governors.
Rick Wilson, the co-founder of the Lincoln Project, joined the latest episode of Y'all-itics podcast to explain why he thinks Abbott is more dangerous than Trump.
“Both Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis in Florida have become the poster children for this post-modern Republican Party that believes in trolling instead of governance, that believes in Fox News hits instead of leadership and that is failing utterly on dealing with COVID in both state,” Wilson said on Y’all-itics.
Listen to the full episode here.
Texas election audit
Former President Donald Trump won Texas last November. So why did he ask for - and get - an audit of election results here?
Gov. Greg Abbott said the election ran smoothly last year. What are the politics behind this claim in Texas?
Watch the full episode of Inside Texas Politics below.


The following statement is from the California Catholic Conference:
“We have not had more than a brief opportunity to review the lawsuit filed this morning by Mr. Anderson, but two things stand out. First, it appears that all of the information provided in the news conference this morning came from public sources and has been available for years; and, second, that none of the information provided describes the positive steps taken by California dioceses over the past 15 years to protect children and young people from abuse.
“In 2003, all dioceses in California began implementing the reforms called out in the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People approved by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops the year before.
“Every diocese in California has instituted fingerprinting and background checks for priests, staff and any volunteers working around children and young people. All of them offer Safe Environment programs to train students and staff in identifying and preventing abuse. Every diocese has adopted a “zero tolerance” standard to make sure no one with a credible accusation of abusing children is allowed to function as a priest and all dioceses have an Independent Review Board, primarily consisting of lay persons, to advise bishops on whether or not an accused priest would be allowed to return to ministry.
“Over the course of the last 15 years, millions of students in Catholic Schools and religious education have gone through training, along with hundreds of thousands of staff and volunteers. Tens of thousands more have been fingerprinted and background checked.
“These measures have been effective. Allegations of abuse have been rare since 2003, responded to and uniformly reported, but we know we can never be complacent. The twelve dioceses of California will never waver in their commitment to protect young people.”


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The library will be open tomorrow, Wednesday June 12th for normal business hours! Thank you for your patience while we tore apart, cleaned up, and reassembled the library after having significant water damage from last week’s storm. BEST of all, the summer reading program is still a go tomorrow~! Come and register, take part in activities, find the Golden Book, grab your reading log, and watch Damon Ramaker and his family as they teach us about sled dogs and what it takes to raise them up!
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Our Warehouse Management System
Exceed 4000 version 3.6 - provided by INFOR was awarded the world's best warehouse management system by the renowned Gartner group. RHS Logistics IT department manage the application of the software and identify new opportunities to create additional functionalities to the system by customising for new business requirements.
The WMS Provides
• Multiple business/customer level SKU profile and inventory segregation
• User defined units of measure
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• Rules based storage and retrieval
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Opening track “Lacerated, Strangled, Impaled” more or less speaks for itself in terms of its brutality, setting the tone for the album as a whole. Meaty riffs, a barrage of drums and some intense, visceral vocals, It’s as though CHIMAIRA got even heavier and added some extra heavy for shits and giggles; impressive stuff.
“Run While You Can” continues with the callousness and cold blooded aggression that comes with such fierce, unforgiving metal, pummelling the listener into near submission, while “Release The Lions” is a hard, thrashing, animal of a song. There’s barely a moments respite and it’s clear that this is the Russian’s aim; it’s a hostile takeover of the senses, equally alluring and alarming at the same time.
“Ferocity Unleashed” needs little explanation really; it’s hard hitting, heavy and on the verge of bludgeoning the listener, with its near demonic vocal display and unstable blast-beat drumming, before “War Against All Living” ends things accordingly. It’s actually the most accessible the album has been, in places sounding like an angry AMON AMARTH, including some impressive melodic guitar work at the end of the song. It’s out of the blue but more than welcomed.
Ultimately, if you’re a fan of your ear drums being tortured (in a good way), and like your music to have little or no remorse for its consequences on your ability to hear, odds on you will appreciate Tacit Fury, especially if you’re already a fan of the likes of DEATH and such. If not, it’s still worth noting that Russia isn't particularly famous for its heavy music scene, so on that basis alone, this three piece deserves maybe more respect than most. Give them a listen; don’t be so anti-social…even if it does mean going berserk. [6.5]
You can purchase "A Social Berserker" via this link: http://tacitfury.bandcamp.com/
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by Elizabeth Freeman on 05/21/2015 | 2 Minute Read
Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the #failwhale. This social object, an illustration of a whale held up by a flock of birds, is used not only to indicate Twitter’s downtime but also as a representation of the community's love for the service and their hope for its triumph over their many struggles. This iconic image has been the inspiration behind the logo design for Coffee and tea producer Perkse. One morning, whilst drinking an horrible cup of coffee, the Perkse producer immediately thought of the #failwhale. “The whale icon is a pledge to our consumers that our brand stands for a great experience.” The packaging is a tribute to the school milk man but they are also functional as they are fully resealable, helping the content to stay fresh for longer.
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Carded Sari Silk Sliver - Yellow
Recycled sari silk
Single colour sliver of our recycled Sari silk.
This is a very nice silk fibre, with a very soft handle.It has been well carded to ensure the various colurs are mixed and includes a few finer strands which act as "highlighters" to add detail.
Very enjoyable to spin, but requires a steady hand, and can be incorporated into felt pieces.

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Bonaire is a
and north of
. The island is part of the ABC Islands together with
. It is a mostly flat, riverless coral island renowned for its dive spots.
Bonaire - Mapcarta
Bonaire – Wikipedia
Bonaire – Wikivoyage
Also in the Caribbean
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
About Around Guides
Photos provided by Panoramio under the copyright of their owners.

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EDELBROCK PRO-FLO®2 FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS
FOR ENGINES ORIGINALLY EQUIPPED WITH A CARBURETOR
The new Pro-Flo®2 (second generation) offers a complete fully-sequential EFI system with an all-new, powerful electronics package that includes everything you need to convert a carbureted engine to a modern fuel injection system. Starting with a new "flash-programmable" engine control unit (ECU) powered by EFI Technology, a leader in advanced electronic engine management and monitoring systems, the Pro-Flo® Gen-2 allows for more tuning features, fully sequential injector firing and limitless calibrations in a compact package. The Pro-Flo® Gen-2 includes a new software package with a graphic user interface that is user-friendly with an updated look. Additional software features include choice of Edelbrock exclusive hand-held calibration module (for tuning without a laptop) and new for Pro-Flo® Gen-2 has the option to laptop tune also, giving you the best of both worlds! Two tuning strategies include speed density (engine speed vs. manifold absolute pressure) and alpha-N (engine speed vs. throttle position). Included are base calibrations for common AMC, Chevy, Ford, and Chrysler applications. A narrow band O2 sensor is included and is also wide-band 02 compatible (wide band O2 not included). The complete package includes: intake manifold, throttle body assembly, fuel rails, fuel injectors, all sensors, wiring harness, ecu, hand-held calibration module, software, brackets and attaching hardware.
MANIFOLD AND FUEL RAIL ASSEMBLY
Included with every Edelbrock Pro-Flo 2 EFI system is this complete intake manifold assembly, ready to bolt on out of the box. All these components are installed and ready to go: fuel injectors, fuel rails, air valve and throttle sensor, fuel pressure regulator, idle air control, PCV port and more. Every assembly is pressure tested at the factory, then matched to a specific Calibration Module and ECU with a serial number.
NEW FLASH-PROGRAM ENGINE CONTROL UNIT (ECU)
Featuring flash-programmable memory and full sequential injector firing this ECU was engineered by EFI Technology, a world leader in advanced electronic engine management. The flash memory allows multiple tuning options including Map-N (Speed Density) and Alpha-N (Speed Throttle). Base calibrations for common performance engine applications are included on the supplied CD and a base calibration is preloaded. Additional calibrations are available online at www.edelbrock.com. Custom calibrations can be created by the user and stored and restored when using the Pro-Flo®2 PC based software. The system also supports closed loop fuel targets with narrow band O2 (included) or optional wide band O2 controller.


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Easter Island is an enigmatic place. The mysterious stone statues carved and erected by the Rapa Nui people have enthralled mankind since their discovery. The key to understanding Easter Island and making most of your time there is in gaining an insight into the island even before you go. Here is some recommended background reading before your first visit to Easter Island:
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After C & I booked our tickets to Easter Island, I searched Tripadvisor for the best guide books for Easter Island. The Complete Guide by Shawn McLaughlin was highly recommended by everyone. Unfortunately it’s not easy to find this book at a budget price. I bought a used copy of the first edition and can’t recommend it enough. While the older version is not up-to-date on information about businesses in Hanga Roa; the historical and archeological information about Easter Island is mostly the same. It has wonderful drawings and charts while the big foldable map at the end was priceless in navigating around the island. It also has an English – Rapa Nui dictionary which helped us in communicating with the locals and understanding some of the names on the island.
This guidebook written by James Grant-Peterkin is my choice for a secondary guide book. The author is a native Easter Islander and shares local tips to seeing Easter Island. The practical information about hotels, restaurants, shopping and other tourist activities is really useful. The thing I liked most about this guide book is that it shares optimal times to visit archaeological sites to avoid crowds and reveals photography tips for capturing the best shots. Planning self-guided tour is quite easy with this book.
Click on the image to check out in-depth reviews by travelers who used this guide book to plan their Easter Island trip.
No mention or history of Easter Island can be complete without a reference to Katherine Routledge, the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia. Katherine, along with her husband, conducted the first excavations on Easter Island. This biography is a compelling read of Katherine Routledge’s life and her path breaking explorations on Easter Island. This book provides excellent background reading for your first trip to Easter Island.
Pulitzer-prize winning author Jared Diamond explores how environmental changes, unsustainable population explosion and civil unrest have resulted in the collapse of civilizations. He discusses the vividly striking case of Easter Island as one of the failed societies in the book. The book inevitably links the lessons from the past to today’s world and what can be done to avoid a collapse of modern societies.
The gigantic Moai or the stone statues at Easter Island have fascinated everyone since they were discovered. Every year thousands of tourists travel to the most remote inhabited place on earth to marvel at the Moai. This book by archeologists Hunt & Lipo seeks to answer some of the questions and mysteries that abound the Moai. It offers an interesting alternative to the prevalent theory of eco-suicide and self-destruction by the Rapa Nui civilization.
Enigmas of Easter Island seeks to answer the most baffling questions surrounding the Moai, Rapa Nui and Easter Island by combining a wealth of archeological detail, island lore and accounts of European explorers. The book references and analyzes most scientific theories around Easter Island and is a comprehensive background reading for anyone interested in Easter Island.
Author Steven Fischer examines and pens down the essential history of Easter Island. The book starts with ancient history of the island including population by Polynesians to the civil unrest and eventual decline of the Rapa Nui society and subsequent contact with the Europeans before moving to modern eras covering annexation and colonization by Chile and the Rapa Nui fight for civil rights in recent history.
Some parts of Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island are available to read for free on Google books.
The original account written by Katherine Routledge herself makes a good light reading on Easter Island. Written in 1919, the book lacks strong discussion and inferences present in other books but the first person account from building the yatch ‘Mana’ to living on the island, understanding the customs of tattooing, documenting the Moai and interviewing the Rapa Nui makes for a very enthralling read.
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Dotted Globe has tons of resources on Easter Island and Chile, check them out below!

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- Kidney is an organ which is worst affected by high blood pressure. Our kidney filters out the toxins out of our blood. Our blood pressure plays an important role in this filtration process. Due to high pressure the process of filtration is slowed down as arteries are narrowed and pressure of blood is increased. To overcome this condition our heart exerts even more pressure. The condition becomes worst when kidney stops functioning (Renal Failure). In that case dialysis is necessary an kidney transplant is suggested by doctors.
- High blood Pressure can cause bleeding from arteries inside retina and it can cause blurred vision or complete vision loss. Its known as retinopathy.
- Coronary Artery Disease is also caused due to high blood pressure. One of the main reasons of High Blood Pressure is narrowing of arteries. It reduces the amount of blood and oxygen supply to some important organs. When Coronary Arteries (the arteries supplying blood to heart muscles) suffer from this reduced supply of blood and oxygen then its caused Coronary Artery Disease. In the worst condition it can result into heart attack or heart failure and ultimately death. Know the difference between Heart Attack and Heart Failure.
- Blood pressure damages your arteries. When the narrowing of arteries occur, it stiffens your arteries and some fatty deposits occur inside the walls of arteries, its called arteriosclerosis. It occurs throughout the arteries in body and it can affect functioning of any organ like arms, legs, brain, kidney. There is a second way in which blood pressure hurts the arteries, its called aneurysm. In aneurysm the outer layer of arteries in cracked due to high pressure from inside and the inner lining of artery bulges out. If such bulges rupture then it can cause threat to your life.
- Sometime blood pressure can cause damage to brain functioning. The reduce blood flow and oxygen supply can cause memory problems. Some times when some clot inside the arteries stop the blood supply to brain then ministroke or stroke can occur. Brain disease like dementia can also occur due to high BP resulting in problems with thinking, speaking, reasoning, memory, vision and movement.
- Apart from the above discussed complications due to high blood pressure there are many more. But ultimate and most well known effect of high blood pressure is heart attack and heart failure.
We hope that after knowing about all these ill effects of high BP you will try to lower it down and help yourselves in living a health and long life.

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Norway’s Christian Democrats Urge Lower Cap on Oil Spending
Norway’s Christian Democrats, whose support the minority government needs to pass a budget, said it’s time to place more limits on oil-wealth spending and protect the economy from overheating.
Norway, which uses oil money to plug its budget deficits, has placed a 4 percent limit on spending from its $810 billion sovereign wealth fund. Knut Arild Hareide, leader of the Christian Democrats, said that cap is now meaningless as the fund balloons in size.
“It’s not a limit, because no one will use 4 percent,” Hareide, whose party also heads parliament’s finance committee, said in an interview yesterday in Oslo. “It’s not responsible to do that.”
Norges Bank Governor Oeystein Olsen, who helped design the rule last decade, has warned since February 2012 that the cap should be lowered to 3 percent to fulfill the goal of protecting Scandinavia’s richest economy from overheating.
“None of the politicians said anything at that time, but we are ready for that debate now,” Hareide said.
The Christian Democrats were part of the four-party opposition that ousted the former government in September elections. The party, together with the Liberals, stayed out of the government while vowing to support the Conservative and Progress Party minority government in parliament.
“We are satisfied with the agreement but we haven’t started the work yet,” Hareide said. The first test will be Nov. 8 when the new government presents its revisions to the outgoing Labor-led coalition’s budget, he said. Hareide’s Christian Democrats support the new government’s promise to boost infrastructure spending and cut taxes.
The previous government’s budget, which was released earlier this month, called for using 2.9 percent of the wealth fund, staying within the 4 percent cap for a fifth year.
“Even to stick to 3 percent now has the implication of an expansionary impulse to the Norwegian economy,” Olsen said in an interview last week.
While that may seem restrictive, actual spending will increase as the oil fund is predicted to swell to $870 billion by the end next year and reach $1.2 trillion by 2020. Total use of the money will be 135 billion kroner ($23 billion) next year, up from an estimated 124 billion kroner this year, according to the previous government’s budget.
The new government is expected to present a budget with oil spending of about 140 billion kroner, Dagens Naeringsliv reported this week, citing people with knowledge of the budget. Still, spending will decline to 2.8 percent of the wealth fund, as the new budget will revise the estimated size of the fund to 5 trillion kroner from 4.7 trillion kroner, DN reported.
“As long as we politicians spend less than 3 percent, there’s no need to do something about the rule,” said the Liberal Party’s Terje Breivik, a member of the finance committee in parliament.
The Liberal party, who have also agreed to support the minority government in parliament, said today that the revised budget should stick to spending 135 billion kroner of the oil fund, as proposed by the Labor government last month.
Policy makers have sought to calibrate policy to avoid spurring krone gains while at the same time fueling an economy where household debt has swelled to a record and housing prices have soared. As the euro area struggled through its debt crisis, western Europe’s largest oil exporter emerged as a haven. While that helped keep unemployment below 4 percent, it also fueled the risk of overheating.
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Key Lime Pie
Every year as a kid, my mother used to make a dozen key lime pies for the annual Church spaghetti supper.
It’s really easy, and everyone loves it. Creamy, yet tangy.
I’m not aware of the availability of graham cracker crusts in Europe… so for my Belgian friends consider this a ‘lime custard’, which you can put into dishes and serve as a custardy dessert in tiny ramekins.
You can also add whipped cream on top. My pop loves whipped cream, and to be fair it does make a great decoration, together with a little shaving of lime.
- 1 Graham cracker pie shell
- 1 15oz Can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/3/80 ml Cup lime juice
- 1 Tbsp grated lime rind
- 1/4 Tsp salt
- Stir together the condensed milk, lime juice, lime rind, and salt.
- Stir until thickened (which happens as a reaction to the citrus and the milk).
- Turn the filling into the pie shell, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours before serving.
- Garnish with whipped cream and/or lime shavings.

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Colombia's green transport strategy
In the Colombian capital Bogotá, a bus rapid transit system called "TransMilenio" has become a model form of transportation for developing cities around the world. A combination of designated bus lanes and bike paths, free shuttle buses and underground bicycle stations have proven to be just as effective as a subway system, at just a fraction of the cost. Private bus companies that still have old, polluting carbon-belching vehicles in their fleet are given incentives to close down service and send their drivers to work for TransMilenio instead. What’s more, the country is trying to slash CO2 emissions in its booming freight sector as well by introducing a scrappage bonus.
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The Fantasia sponsored by Buckeye Nutrition
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 7:30 PM
4/13/2013 4:30:00 PM4/13/2013 4:30:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesThe Fantasia sponsored by Buckeye Nutrition At Ohio Expo Center717 E. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211Website: https://equineaffaire.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=526769FalseMM/DD/YYYY
Tickets for this event are not on sale.
Equine Affaire's signature musical celebration of the horse, The Fantasia, will take place Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7.30PM in the Coliseum. This special musical revue will feature a star-studded line-up of professional equestrian performers and exceptional horses choreographed to a wide variety of musical styles. The 2014 Fantasia promises to be an evening of entertainment you won't want to miss!


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Raspberry Basil Vinaigrette
This raspberry basil vinaigrette is ready in 3 minutes, contains a full cup of raspberries, and no oil! Creamy, tangy, sweet and refreshing.
- 1 cup raspberries fresh + sweet
- ¼ cup basil fresh; loosely packed
- ¼ cup red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar; see note 1
- ¼ cup water
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup note 2; honey or brown sugar may be also be used in equal amounts
- ¼ teaspoon dijon
1- Balsamic dressing tastes AWESOME in this dressing but won't give the same red color.
2- since raspberries can vary greatly in their sweetness, adjust the sweetener to taste.
Store in an air tight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.
Serving: 1/4 batch | Calories: 48kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Sodium: 5mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 8g


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Posted on Thursday, October 17th, 2013 by Angie Han
Gamers have been hoping for years that Hollywood would finally figure out how to make a good video game movie, but their one of their best hopes of that happening rests on a guy who’s not much of a gamer at all.
Assassin’s Creed star Michael Fassbender has admitted that not only had he never played Assassin’s Creed before he signed on, he doesn’t even own a video game console. So what made him decide to take the job? Find out after the jump.
Fassbender explained the project’s appeal in a conversation with The Daily Beast:
That’s definitely happening. We’’re just developing the script at the moment. I’d heard of it but had never played the game. I don’t have a video game player… that’s not what they’re called. [Laughs] I met up with the guys from Ubisoft and they told me the story behind it, and I thought it was very interesting—the idea of reliving memories.
For those who need a quick catch-up, Assassin’s Creed centers on modern-day bartender Desmond Miles (Fassbender), who’s descended from a long line of assassins. Through a machine called the Animus, he is able to can relive his ancestors’ memories. Michael Lesslie and Scott Frank have worked on the script, and no director has been confirmed at this time.
While it makes for a cute story whenever the star of a movie franchise turns out to be a huge fan of the source material (e.g., Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man), it certainly isn’t necessary or even, in some cases, all that helpful (e.g., Ben Affleck in Daredevil). What’s more important is that the star connects with the movie version of the property.
Fassbender’s comments are more or less what any actor would say in his position (“it’s interesting”), but he’s had a pretty good track record when it comes to picking projects, give or take something like Jonah Hex. No doubt the potentially huge paycheck of an Assassin’s Creed series is part of the appeal, but we’d like to believe he’s genuinely intrigued by the story as well.
And despite Fassbender’s statement, he’s not entirely unfamiliar with the world of video games. He previously voiced the character Logan in Fable III, which hit shelves in 2010.
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Beth Knecht is an 8th grade language arts teacher at River View Junior High School in Warsaw, Ohio. She values the Edcite platform and the readiness that it provides her students for the state tests at the end of the year. Beth was accepted into our Edcite Experts program this year because she is an expert on her campus. Read on to learn more about how Beth uses Edcite!
State testing season causes many emotions for teachers and students alike. For teachers—it can feel like the measure of one’s success comes down to the state assessment. For students—it can feel like the decision regarding promotion or retention hinges on the results of the state assessment.
With over 135 million Office 365 users, a huge number of businesses, nonprofits and other organizations are using Microsoft tools. Schools and districts want to prepare their students for the tools they will use in the workforce, so more and more schools are adopting Office 365 and Teams. In September 2017, it was reported that 125,000 organizations were using Microsoft Teams. By March 2018, that grew to 200,000, and in September 2018, there were close to 330,000 organizations using Teams.
Much like Edcite, Google Classroom is a powerful, free tool for teachers. Teachers nationwide use Google Classroom’s suite of tools to send assignments to students and manage their class stream. We are really excited to be integrating with Google Classroom Gradebook as an additional step in this journey.
In October of 2018, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) announced that they were, as many states have also chosen to do, opting out of the PARCC assessment in lieu of administering their own New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) this spring.
Edcite has over 35,000 assignments in the public assignment library covering grade levels, subjects, and standards! Every day teachers in the Edcite community share new assignments into the library. You can also find state released practice tests digitized by the Edcite Team and other high-quality assessments from organizations such as Eureka Math and Achieve the Core.


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The next president needs to put the nation back on an economic growth path like Ronald Reagan did, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is the candidate to do it, Rep. Dave Brat of Virginia told CNBC on Tuesday.
"Trump is a pro-growth business guy," said Brat, the economics professor who became a congressman by upsetting then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the commonwealth's Republican primary and winning in the 2014 midterm election. "Some in D.C. are out of touch."
"Reagan's trajectory ... after he won set us up in great shape. And even Bill Clinton did well by following that growth path," Brat told "Squawk Box." "We need to get back to that growth path, and that can pay for a lot of what's wrong with the country."
Both Republicans and Democrats see the need for change, but want to go about it differently, said Brat, a member of the House Freedom Caucus — the powerful conservatives who led a revolt last year that resulted in the resignation of John Boehner as House speaker.
"There's nothing wrong with the Republican principles" that stress the free market and limited government, Brat added.
"The problem is we don't do any of it. And so, we've created a vacuum where there's a huge disconnect out there," he said. "In about 10 years, we're going to have a major government finance problem."
The ideas of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for reviving the economy through more government spending won't work, Brat said, citing the $19.4 trillion federal debt and the need to overall underfunded entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
"Those [safety-net] systems were set up to be actuarially sound because the average death age was 65. It worked back then; 40 years ago when they were set up. Right now, everyone lives until 83," he said.


New York: An Indian-origin man has pleaded guilty to beating to death another Indian homeless man after he made disparaging remarks about his sister and faces 11 years in prison.
52-year-old Nermal Singh of Queens confessed to killing Gaswander Giani Singh, a homeless, in August 2011.
Nermal pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter before Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder, who set the date for sentencing on October 2.
Holder indicated that he would be sentenced to 11 years in prison and five years' post-release supervision, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement.
Nermal admitted to taking a three-foot-long plank of wood and slamming it into the head and face of Gaswander, who was lying in his sleeping bag on the street.
According to the criminal complaint, Nermal got enraged earlier in the day when the homeless man said disrespectful words about his mentally-challenged sister.
The two men fought and the physical altercation was broken up by two passing police officers.
Later that night, still seething with anger, Nermal went to where Gaswander slept, woke him up and beat him to death.


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Boosting milk production major focus of research
AgResearch scientists will detail their innovative research aimed at further lifting production in New Zealand’s key export income earner, the dairy industry.
Lead researcher in the Lactation Biology Team, Animal Biosciences Section, at AgResearch Ruakura in Hamilton, Dr Kuljeet Singh, along with a team of scientists, is at the cutting edge of this internationally recognised research.
“We’re trying to understand the complex cellular and molecular mechanisms in the cow’s mammary gland which result in natural increases and decreases in milk production,” says Dr Singh. “This is a complex and relatively unknown area that will make a huge difference to the dairy industry.”
“Many dairy farms only milk once a day, or would like to do so, but this often results in a fall in production. So we’re researching the protein and cell signaling pathways that control the lactation process to see if we can manipulate it to improve milk production.”
Dr Singh says the aim is to determine the nature of the switch or trigger at a cellular level in the cow’s mammary gland, which stops and starts lactation. She says there is a range of environmental influences, for example nutrition, that may cause a chemical change to DNA of mammary glands’ cells. The research focuses on identifying such changes and understanding if these changes could cause epithelial cells of the mammary gland to turn off.
Once these pathways are determined then this opens up the possibility of altering a cow’s nutrition, providing supplements or other manipulation which will influence and enhance milk production.
Meanwhile, at AgResearch’s Grasslands campus at Palmerston North, Dr Graeme Attwood, Section Manager, Ruminant Nutrition & Microbiology, is enthused by the huge potential of a new environmental microbiology approach called ‘metagenomics’.
He says ‘metagenomics’ promises to be the key technology that will facilitate the understanding of what goes on in a cow’s first stomach or rumen, and the relationship between forage degradation and ruminant nutrition which leads to improved milk production.
“Metagenomics is an amazingly powerful new analytical tool allowing rapid progress in revealing, at a molecular level, what goes on in microbes within a cow’s stomach,” he says.
“It allows us to examine all the different micro-organisms in the rumen at the same time, and to screen their DNA for enzymes involved in the digestion of grass or supplementary feed, like silage. Previously scientists were limited to working on the 10% of microbes that were culturable from the rumen, but this powerful new analytical tool has radically improved this situation.
“We can now isolate the key enzymes in this digestive process and, based on this information, supply enzyme additives to supplementary feeds that enhance feed digestion and improve milk production.”
Dr Attwood and his team are making good progress, having identified a range of rumen bacterial enzymes and are characterising their activities for development as future enhancers of forage digestion in ruminant animals.
Another study aimed at improving milk and meat production at AgResearch’s Palmerston North facility is the innovative use of symbiotic fungi (endophytes) living in plants to enhance the digestion of cows. Fungi are already known to have positive impacts on forage and grass production.
Dr Milan Gagic, Scientist with the Forage Biotechnology Section, is working on modifying endophytes to deliver additional highly active enzymes to cows when they graze. These enzymes may speed up the rate of digestion or degradation of forage in a cow’s stomach.
The advantage of this approach lies in the fact that modified fungal endophytes do not propagate via grass pollen which minimises any impact on other grass varieties.
“The goal is to increase the digestion rate of grass and other forage which in turn may increase milk and meat production,” says Dr Gagic.

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When: The ultimate month is September, but May – October is a fine time to visit to avoid tropical storms.
Happenings: Shark feeding, kayaking
Remember to Bring: Tasty fish to tempt out the sharks.
Of all the Fijian islands Kadavu is the third largest. Located south of Vita Levu, it’s a lush, mountainous paradise surrounded by coral reefs.
The best time to go to Fiji is during the dry season, from May to October. It’s not so scorching at this time of year and you’re less likely to experience tropical storms.
An ideal way to see Fiji is from the water. You can rent a kayak and go with an experienced local guide.
Feed the sharks
It may not be a typical Kadavu pastime, but you can join a dive team feeding the sharks that live along Kadavu’s coast. It’s an awe inspiring experience, if not everyone’s idea of fun in paradise. At least you can swim assured that a shark that’s been fed is a safe shark.
Look no further. Whatever you want to know about Fiji you’ll find it here.
main image:Kadavu and the Great Astrolabe Reef from Matava on the south of the Island by Duncan Wright
By Jess Halliday


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THURSDAY MAY 6
Australian Chamber Orchestra
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is back in Wollongong Town Hall with their third series for 2021, Schubert's Quintet.
Artistic Director Richard Tognetti will lead the Quintet in an intimate but brilliantly grand performance, which will see audiences connect with musicians more than ever before.
Tickets through www.aco.com.au
Another production by the Illawarra's So Popera, with the hit pop musical Jersey Boys running from Thursday until Sunday at the WIN Entertainment Centre - the lead role is a former Cirque du Soleil performer.
The musical is a documentary-style show chronicling '60s rock group The Four Seasons and includes many of their hit songs like "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like A Man", "My Boyfriend's Back" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You".
When Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi met, they were just four New Jersey teens singing together under street lamps, scraping for gigs and money in their working-class neighbourhood.
As the quartet rises to international stardom, they celebrate the highs and endure the lows that come hand-in-hand with fame. Each member of the group takes a turn narrating events, illustrating how a ragtag group of guys from New Jersey -- and their decades-long friendships -- became music history.
Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com.au
Carole King Tribute
Entertainer Esther Hannaford will take on the persona of Carole King for a concert tour celebrating 50 years of King's hit album Tapestry.
Jet bassist Mark Wilson will be leading the accompanying band on tour, which will head to Anita's Theatre in Thirroul on Thursday.
The concert tour will feature all songs from the album as well as a selection of hits King wrote for fellow musicians.
Tickets are on sale now: www.livenation.com.au
FRIDAY MAY 7
Felicity Urqhuart & Josh Cunningham
Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham (os The Waifs) have made an album together The Song Club and touring it nationally.
They'll be performing at The Music Lounge inside the Wollongong Town Hall on Friday.
For details, visit: www.merrigong.com.au
Midsummer Nights Dream
Shakespearean comedy in modern dress, from April 30 until May 9 at the Roo Theatre in Shellharbour.
The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.
For more details and ticket, visit: www.roo-theatre.com.au/
50 Shades the Parody
A tongue-in-cheek musical parody of the best-selling 50 Shades of Grey is coming to the Illawarra stage at Anita's Theatre, Thirroul, this Friday and Saturday.
The stage adaption explores the steamy relationships between the well-known characters Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, as seen through the eyes of three women in a book club.
50 Shades! The Musical Parody is at Anita's Theatre Thirroul, May 7 and 8. www.anitastheatrethirroul.com
SATURDAY MAY 8
Romantic Evocations Concert
Illawarra violinist Matthew Tsalidis teams up with pianist Emelia Noack-Wilkinson for a recital concert at the Church On The Mall in Wollongong, titled 'Romantic Evocations'.
It will feature works by Brahms, Bartok and Beach - with the concert starting at 5pm.
Tickets from www.trybooking.com
Classical Concert Series
Renowned flautist, Ana De La Vega and violinist, Daniel Roehn will be accompanied by Tahlia Pretrosian on the viola and Paul Ghica on the cello at three concert events at the Kiama Anglican Church.
Tahlia Petrosian is an Australian violist. She is the major German Orchestra Gewandhaus Leipzig and very well known!
Paul Ghica is a fantastic Romanian-born cellist. He studied in Chicago and has played a lot internationally but is now based in Australia playing most often in the Opera Orchestra.
The full concert programme includes works by Mozart and Beethoven.
They will olay three concerts over Saturday and Sunday - Tickets are available for purchase from the Kiama Visitor Information Centre located on Blowhole Point Road in Kiama or via tel: 02 4232 3322.
SUNDAY MAY 9
Here are some of the venues around the Illawarra doing Mother's Day brunch / lunches:
- Wests Illawarra
- The Fraternity Club, Fairy Meadow
- High Tea at North Bar, Novotel
- Steamers Bar and Grill
- High Tea at Five Barrels Brewing
- Central Hotel Shellharbour
- Breakfast at the Shellharbour Club
- High Tea at Ravensthorpe
Wunderkammer is an exhibition at Wollongong Art Gallery which embraces the traditional Victorian 'Cabinet of Curiosities', to explore the texture and beauty of discarded objects in their raw form and imbue them with new life and function, connecting disparate components to create contemporary relics.
The works are by Saxon Reynolds - Wollongong High teacher by day, steampunk artist by night.
Mr Reynolds will be creating new works in person at the gallery for the public to watch and chat with on May 8, 9 and 23; and June 5, 6 and 20.
Open day at Grevillea Park
From 10am to 4pm Grevillea Park in Bulli is open to the public, and includes plant sales this Saturday and Sunday.
There is an entry fee of $7 per adult, children are admitted free. Dogs are permitted but must be kept on a lead at all times. The chapel will not be open.
Prices for plants range from $5 for tubestock through to $100 for grafted.
So pack a picnic, bring a blanket and visit the new sundrenched picnic area. And don't forget the vine forest walk out through the back gate, it's dried out nicely after recent rains and there are ferns everywhere, at least a dozen different species to spot.
For more details visit: https://illawarragrevilleapark.com.au
MONDAY MAY 10
Hills and Wings: A Celebration of Guy Warren
UOW is celebrating the life and art of Archibald Prize winning artist Guy Warren, in an exhibition that showcases his work and his immense contribution to Australia's artistic landscape.
Hills and Wings: A Celebration of Guy Warren and his Work is at the UOW Gallery (building 29) and comprises artworks by Mr Warren as well as some of the artworks that he acquired while he was director of the UOW Art Collection, a role he held from 1992 to 2005.
It's on at UOW until July 28. The gallery is open Monday to Wednesday, 10am to 3pm).


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freekyp (2041) - Thomasville, North Carolina, USA - OCT 2, 2011
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nose of pumpkin goop rather than spice. Pours orangy amber. Small head with wispy lacing. Somewhat light bodied, this is a quenching beer. Try this when performing a fall cleanup on the lawn.
VTHopHead (1511) - Seymour, Tennessee, USA - SEP 30, 2011
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle/12oz - Pours a darkish orange amber in color with a small white head. Aroma is of cinnamon and nutmeg... some vegetal hints of the pumpkin. Flavor is fairly lightly spiced with a decent pumpkin flavor. Palate initially seems a bit watery, but there is a thin film that adheres, not unpleasantly, to the tongue. I like this one!
beerguy101 (5360) - Newark, California, USA - SEP 25, 2011
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Sampled on 9/24/2011. This pumpkin beer pours a medium orange gold color from a 12oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head, with decent lacing and nice retention. The aroma is fruity and sweet, hint of pumpkin and spices. A light to medium bodied beer. The malts are fruity and sweet, with some pumpkin. The hops are herbal. Decent carbonation. The man problem with this beer is that is somewhat watery, probably due to the fact that its only 4% ABV. Not sure if this is a brewery decision, or having to do with the weird Utah Alcohol laws Mouthfeel is thin. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.
Hawksfan17 (890) - Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - SEP 25, 2011
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours brown and has a pumpkin aroma with similar flavor. It lacks the spices though. Decent beer but not a good pumpkin.
onceblind (8403) - Denver, Colorado, USA - SEP 24, 2011
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Clear cinnamon burnt orange with a small lasting head. Aroma is very nutmeg centric with tones of pumpkin pie filling. That’s a great, full aroma. Taste is sweet with balancing bitterness, so it’s not a typical ho-hum pumpkin ale. A little too medium bodied, but the flavor has a lot of nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie filling. Ends a little hoppy bitter, just a little. Marvelous pumpkin ale.
Block (2398) - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - SEP 21, 2011
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Faint aroma with hardly any pumpkin or spice. A nice spice flavor upfront which fades to a pale ale finish. It’s alright but could really use a little more pumpkin flavor. A little bland.
dbarnold (1127) - Bethesda, Maryland, USA - SEP 19, 2011
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bleh. Couldn’t taste much pumpkin, a lot of nutmeg but light beer overall without the palate you would want in a pumpkin beer (I’ve had at least a dozen of them). Not a good example of what pumpkin should be. Doesn’t taste bad, just not a good pumpkin.
BrewBoxer (2613) - New York, New York, USA - SEP 18, 2011
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Brown color. Malt, brown color. Tastes of pumpkin, squash and bread. Not my favorite style, but this is ok
jtclockwork (15586) - , New Jersey, USA - SEP 16, 2011
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours orange with off white head. Nose/taste of pumpkin, pie crust, graham cracker and hint of all spice. Medium body. Good balance.
arminjewell (9426) - East Lansing, Michigan, USA - SEP 16, 2011
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours clear orange with white head, aroma has notes of vegetal pumpkin, some spice, toffee, and some sweet molasses notes as well. It’s a bit too much pumpkin to where its almost DMS like. Taste is more of the DMS cooked corn and cabbage, with some slight pumpkin, spice, and some graham crust, finishing fairly sweet with molasses in there as well. Taste picks up the aroma, but the overly vegetal pumpkin detracts.


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Accord has launched Delmosart (methylphenidate) Prolonged-release 18mg, 27mg, 36mg and 54mg Tablets as part its portfolio of branded generics. Delmosart, a Schedule 2 controlled drug, is indicated as part of a treatment programme for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children aged six years of age and over when remedial measures alone prove insufficient.
Jonathan Wilson, managing director of Accord UK comments: “Our portfolio of branded generics is an important part of the Accord business and we are committed to offering a market competitive price to both pharmacists and the NHS. Having listened to our customers’ needs, we are now offering further potential cost savings to the NHS with the addition of Delmosart to our extensive range of products.”
ACCORD freephone 0800 731 0370 or fax 0800 731 0380

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The Honda Insight, America's first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, will be the official pace car for this year's Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) American Tour de Sol road rally. The rally pits the country's cleanest-running,...
The Honda Insight, America's first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, will be the official pace car for this year's Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) American Tour de Sol road rally. The rally pits the country's cleanest-running, most fuel-efficient cars, trucks and buses in a 250-mile event from New York City to Washington, D.C. during Clean Air Week, May 12-18.
"Honda's participation is a true turning point for the Tour de Sol," said American Honda$B!G(Bs Robert Bienenfeld, manager of alternative fuel vehicles sales and marketing. "For the first time in its 12-year history, the Tour will be led by an environmentally-friendly car -- the Insight -- that is now available at any local Honda dealership and that delivers the performance, reliability, quality and value that American consumers expect."
"The Honda Insight represents a superb application of advanced environmental technologies for everyday driving, and we are happy to see it lead the 2000 NESEA American Tour de Sol," said Nancy Hazard, NESEA associate director.
In addition to the Insight pace car, a dozen owner-driven Insights are participating. They will compete against a field of 50 prototype or concept alternative-fuel vehicles built by manufacturers and students.
Along this year's Tour de Sol route, special festivals will be held in Trenton, N.J., Cecil County, Md., Annapolis, Md. and Washington, D.C., where the finish-line ceremony will take place May 18 on the National Mall in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol.
NESEA is the nation's leading regional association involved in promoting awareness, understanding and development of non-polluting, renewable technologies. More information on NESEA and the Tour de Sol can be found on the Internet at www.nesea.org.