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'Rêve, do you know what a rêve is?" Daniela asks as she pours a dark golden trickle of Domaine Pinnacle Signature Reserve from a sleek little bottle. "It's a dream."
It certainly is, I think, although nirvana is the word that jumps to mind as the first drop of a luscious ice cider floods my mouth. There is the rich, homespun taste of baked apples blended with a sweet kick of liquor. And then it finishes with a decadent lingering hint of crème brulée. Served frosty cold, ice cider is a melange of apple varieties, their sugary nectars extracted when they were frozen.
Using Quebec's harsh climate as a blessing rather than a curse, Quebec apple cider makers took the ice wine idea and spun it into an award-winning variation using frozen apples instead of grapes. Since the first ice cider became available in stores in 1996, they've been snatching international gold medals and selling out in 30 countries. These days, ice cider is one of the fastest-growing sectors of Quebec's beverage industry, accounting for about 70 per cent of all sales of Quebec products. Ice cider -- or cidre de glace -- is the leader of an apple revolution sweeping Quebec. But there are also many other variations that are taking the traditional fermented apple brew upmarket and into the 21st century with new equipment and new ideas.
Daniela next pours a sparkling ice cider and then a new product, an apple cider turned Bailey's, a creamy blend of apple eau de vie, cream and cider called Crème de Pommes. During the past couple of days, I have sampled apple liquor, apple brandy, cider ports and apple whiskey as well as a dozen takes on still, sparkling and ice ciders. Whatever happened to the rough and ragged plonk of Quebec -- some barely drinkable -- that were the only offerings on the market when I first moved to Montreal in 1988?
I decide to have a poke around cider country, dropping in on half a dozen cidrerie -- or cider mills. There is a semi-official Cider Route, but at the moment, there is no single comprehensive map that includes all Quebec's cider makers, which are spread across a large region of apple country from Montreal all the way south towards the U.S. border. So I print guides to the main regions and set off for the rural town of Rougemont, the province's long-time apple capital in the Montérégie region which, together with Mont-Saint-Hilaire and the Eastern Townships is home to roughly 50 cider makers.
Vignoble de Lavoie
The 45-minute drive from Montreal quickly flips from urban to fields of corn and then vast swaths of apple orchards, a few offering pick-your-own opportunities. There are traditional steep red-roofed fieldstone houses and charming 19th-century villages clustered around churches with needle-like silver spires. Many cider mills have tables on their decks or amid the trees; grab a chilled bottle of cider and head outside for an impromptu picnics. A number of cafés and bistros also allow you to bring your own.
One such establishment is Vignoble de Lavoie where I meet the owner, Francis Lavoie. He's an amiable and jolly fellow who makes good Quebec red and white wines as well as ciders using only Cortland apples. He also produces a unique, fresh, crisp ice pear cider called Le Poiré that calls out for blue cheese.
"There are two ways to make ice cider," Lavoie explains, pouring a glass of his rich Ace ice cider which he creates using cryo-extraction.
In cryo-extraction, apples are left on the trees into winter, when they macerate naturally, being affected by freezing and thawing and the elements. After harvest -- triggered by a full week of -12-degree temperatures between October and January -- they are crushed frozen, so that only the highly concentrated sugars and not the water are released and fermented.
The second method is called "cryo-concentration." Apples are harvested in late fall and stored until temperatures drop below freezing, when they are crushed. The juice is then left outside until the sugar and water freeze and separate. The "must" is then fermented for up to a year.
"There is a big difference in flavour between the two methods," says Lavoie. "Cryo-extraction produces a denser, more complex flavour." In either case, the alcohol level is about 12 per cent and it takes between 50 and 100 apples to make a 375-mL bottle of ice cider. Hence, the typical $20 to $50 price tag.
Le Cidrerie Michel Jodoin
"We're going to start with the hard stuff," says Emilie Lacaille at nearby Le Cidrerie Michel Jodoin as she pours a Hard Cider of McIntosh and Lobo apples, whose juice has been aged in American oak for one year. "This is our ancestral product, a family recipe that has been made here as far back as 1901." It is golden, crisp and light and makes me think of cheese pairings. "Many people like it with raclette," says Emilie, "and fondue."
The specialty at this cidrerie is rosé cider made from the Geneva apple, a rare variety whose flesh is almost completely blood red and which tastes similar to crab apples. Jodoin produces a pink bubbly made with the champagne method, as well as an unusual still ice rosé -- cidre de glace rosé -- that is like sipping a tart pink candy redolent of rich cranberries and cherries. This one says: "Sip me cold with foie gras."
When the Quebec liquor commission was established in 1921, somebody forgot to write cider into the law and it became unlawful to either produce or sell the apple brew. For half a century, this beverage, which had been the most popular drink in French regions such as Normandy and was brought to Quebec with the first immigrants, disappeared from store shelves. But locals never stopped home brewing and imbibing the stuff or buying illegal cider.
"We were like bootleggers back then, the whole Rougemont-St. Hilaire region," says Michel Jodoin, a fourth-generation apple grower running his grandfather's operation.
Jodoin remembers his family paying the fine for bootlegging with one hand, while with the other, taking money from policemen and judges who arrived to fill their jugs with his father's cider.
Cider production was finally legalized in 1971 and in the rush to produce high volumes, the quality was little better than the covert cider mills. The mass-produced ciders made by large companies like Cidrebec (which is now the wine-industry giant called Vincor) used poor apples to start with and ended up with cider that was highly acidic and artificially sweetened. A glass of cider meant a barely palatable plonk and a massive headache the next morning, a reputation the Association des Cidriculteurs du Quebec struggled for decades to overcome.
Part of the problem was that apple growers were still not allowed to make their own ciders. In 1988, this changed and the first artisanal permits for cidriculture were issued to Michel Jodoin and Robert Demoy.
Cidrerie du Minot
I had visited Demoy's Cidrerie du Minot the previous day, driving due south from Montreal for 45 minutes towards the farming community of Hemmingford, near the New York border. Demoy is a Brittany-born and Bordeaux-educated winemaker who came to Quebec in the late 1970s. A winemaker born in France's cider country, he sampled the quality of Quebec's ripe, flavourful apples and switched his attention to cider-making in 1987.
Minot's formidable lineup of ciders has a signature offering of a champagne-like cider called Crémant that is Quebec's best-selling sparkling cider. He also makes golden ciders and sparkling ciders, as well as ice cider and a still rosé cider that even non-rosé lovers would love. The Domaine du Minot sparking semi-dry cider made with four varieties of apples struck me as a brunch wine. It is slightly fruitier than champagne, and perfect with fresh-squeezed orange juice, warm croissants on your balcony or for breakfast in bed on a lazy Sunday morning. I know this to be true; I tried it.
The invention of ice cider is generally attributed to a winemaker named Christian Barthomeuf at the Quebec winery Domaine des Côtes d'Ardoise. Barthomeuf developed a version of iced cider in 1989 that he called Pomelière. For a decade, Barthomeuf refined his technique and worked with a number of people including François Pouliot, who also switched from winemaking to cider making.
La Face Cachée de la Pomme
Pouliot built La Face Cachée de la Pomme, a stylish cidrerie near Hemingford, and became, in 1994, the first producer of Barthomeuf's unique creation. Amid his best-known ice ciders are Neige and the super-luscious caramel-rich cryo-extraction-produced Frimas, both among the most popular of the province's ice ciders. I had ordered up a Pique-Nique Neige ($98; order a week in advance). I grabbed my basket filled with local bread, sausages, cheese, chocolate and Neige ice cider and headed deep into the orchard with a friend.
Pouliot is active in the cider community and says he's concerned that a flood of low-quality ice cider would threaten the producers' hard-earned reputations. He recently presented a bill before a parliamentary committee that proposes a system in which ice ciders would be certified, but only if they meet Quebec's apple ice wine definition and if they meet such standards as having no added sugar or alcohol, if they are made without artificial cooling and if they have an alcohol content of between seven and 13 per cent.
Domaine Pinnacle
Charles Crawford and his wife Susan had long dreamt of living in the country. They knew almost nothing about running a cider mill before they purchased a 430-acre orchard near Frelighsburg, in the Eastern Townships, in 2000. They are now the top-selling brand at Quebec's SAQ and have garnered more than 22 gold medals in Canadian and world-wide competitions. An hour from Montreal near the Vermont border, Domaine Pinnacle has an informative apple and ice cider interpretive centre that includes Great Moments in the History of the Apple. In their boutique, where you can choose among three cheeses and charcuterie plates to nosh with your ice cider, you'll also find dozens of local products from fudge to onion confit that incorporate Domaine Pinnacle's popular ice ciders.
Domaine Pinnacle and La Face Cachée de la Pomme together account for about 80 per cent of Quebec's annual ice cider output of more than half a million bottles.
As my bottles are being wrapped at Domaine Pinnacle, I order a cheese-and-paté plate and head outside onto the terrace, thinking about something François Pouliot once said so poetically about his ice cider: "To me, it's a taste of Quebec in a bottle -- warm apple pie and cold winter all in one."
And just what you want -- freezing cold nectar on a hot, sunny summer day, overlooking an orchard.
Margo Pfeiff is a Montreal based writer and photograher.
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If You Go
Getting there:
From Montreal, head south on Highway 15 (Decarie Boulevard) to the Champlain Bridge (about two hours). The orchards are throughout the area south of the St. Lawrence River. One suggested route would be to continue south on Highway 15 to Hemmingford (Cidrerie du Minot and La Face Cachée de la Pomme), then work your way east towards Frelighsburg (Domaine Pinnacle), then return to Montreal via Rougemont (Vignoble De Lavoie and Cidrerie Michel Jodoin). That number of stops would probably be best be done over two days.
The cideries mentioned in this article:
- Vignoble De Lavoie: 100 de la Montagne, Rougemont, 1-450-469-3894 or www.de-lavoie.com
- Cidrerie Michel Jodoin: 1130 Rang de la Petite-Caroline, Rougemont, 1-888-469-2676 or 1-450-469-2676 or www.cidrerie-michel-jodoin.qc.ca
- Cidrerie du Minot: 376 Chemin Covey-Hill, Hemmingford, 1-450-247-3111 or www.duminot.com
- La Face Cachée de la Pomme: 617 Route 202, Hemmingford, 1-450-247-2899 or www.cidredeglace.com
- Domaine Pinnacle: 150 Chemin Richford, Frelighsburg, 1-450-298-1222 or www.icecider.com
General information on Quebec cideries and "The Cider Route":
- www.tourisme-monteregie.qc.ca
- http://www.tourisme-cantons.qc.ca
- http://www.bonjourquebec.com
- The Cider Route Brochure and map can be found at http://www.tourisme-monteregie.qc.ca/forfaits/RouteDesCidres/Brochure_Cidre_2008.pdf
When to go:
Late summer and autumn, when the apples are on the trees, is a wonderful time to explore the cider route. Spring, when the apple trees are blooming, is also lovely.
Where to stay:
- Manoir Rouville Campbell: This luxurious manor house in Monteregie is at 125 chemin des Patriotes Sud, Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Rates from $150 to $325 a night. Call 1-866-250-6060 or see www.manoirrouvillecampbell.com/index.php?lang=english
- La Bohème: This B&B has a great view over the Richelieu River. A "country table" can be prepared for you with local or regional produce. Bring your own wine or cider. Rates from $90 to $120, which includes breakfast. 617 Bord de l'Eau South, Noyan. Call 1-877-294-2502 or see www.boheme.ca
Where to eat:
- Bistro Saint-Michel: Fine dining with many local specialty food and cider products on the menu. Dinner for two is about $65. 175 rue Josée, Rougemont. 1-450-469-3646
- Café Rouge Pomme: A casual café in an old presbytery. Unlicensed, but you can bring your own cider. Lunch for two is about $25. Located at 965 rue Principale, Rougemont. 1-450-469-3668.
- Restaurant Le Joséphil: This popular restaurant serves a Table champêtre -- a "country table" of local products. Dinner for two is about $60. Located at 969 Richelieu, Beloeil. Call 1-450-446-9751.


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UNIVERSITY PARK – Not only is recycling healthy for the environment, it's good for the bottom line.
At Penn State, more than $800,000 has been raised for scholarship and philanthropy by selling recyclables collected on campus, according to Al Matyasovsky, the supervisor of Central Support Services in Penn State's Office of Physical Plant (OPP).
"We market recyclables as feedstock for industry or sell them at venues," Matyasovsky said. "We have gotten pretty resourceful at finding partners and markets for these collected, and rather diverse, materials. Other universities look at Penn State for advice and direction."
Recyclables and reusable waste specifically fund two scholarships – the Newspaper Readership Scholarship from recycled newspapers and the Environmental Resource Management Scholarship from recycled scrap metal. Money is also raised for the Centre County United Way and the Four Diamonds Fund.
Best practices for monetizing waste is one of many topics of discussion at the Zero Waste Conference, slated for Sept. 15 -18 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
he conference will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Penn State's waste management programs and an opportunity to hear from more than 50 experts in the waste management industry from Penn State and its collaborators.
Speakers include Congressman Glenn Thompson, Penn State trustee Ryan McCombie and Penn State President Rodney Erickson. On the second day of the conference, Penn State Athletic Director David Joyner will discuss the value of recycling at athletic events and how that waste is used to help charity.
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April 9, 2009
The "Bradbury" memos outline CIA 'enhanced interrogation' techniques and provided legal cover for US torture. Obama needs to stop protecting the Bush administration and release the memos—uncensored and unredacted.
by Jeremy Scahill
As has been pointed out by several diligent journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued—and continued defending—some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies, although Obama prefers to not use that term anymore. On several occasions, Obama has invoked the "state secrets" doctrine, including to argue that a lawsuit filed against the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping should be thrown out. As former constitutional lawyer turned Salon.com columnist Glen Greenwald wrote, the move "demonstrates that the Obama DOJ plans to invoke the exact radical doctrines of executive secrecy which Bush used."
Meanwhile, the White House is continuing to defend its use of the US prison at Bagram in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs was confronted about this by the great Helen Thomas:
Q Why is the President blocking habeas corpus from prisoners at Bagram? I thought he taught constitutional law. And these prisoners have been there —
MR. GIBBS: You're incorrect that he taught on constitutional law.
Q — for many years with no due process.
MR. GIBBS: Well, there are several issues relating to that that have to do differently than in some places than others, particularly because you have detainees in an active theater of war. There's a review that's pending of court cases and decisions, and we want to ensure — we want to ensure protection and security of the American people as well as rights that might be afforded.
Q Are you saying these people in prison are a threat to us?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think that part of that is the determination based on our detainee policy that the President announced on the 21st of January, that that's part of that review, yes.
Chuck then changed the subject. (David Swanson has a humorous take on this back and forth at AfterDowningStreet, while Liliana Segura takes it on at AlterNet.)
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is reporting today that "The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations, despite a push by some top officials to make the information public." The 2005 "Bradbury memos represent an effort by the Bush administration to keep the CIA program of 'enhanced' interrogations of certain detainees on a legal footing after the Bush administration in late 2004 withdrew earlier Justice Department memos on interrogation."
The ACLU, which is suing the Justice Department for the release of the three memos, which were authored by Steven Bradbury, acting head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) from 2005 to 2009, as such:
The memos reportedly provided legal justification for the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation methods that amounted to torture. And they also reportedly provided legal cover for the CIA's interrogation methods in anticipation of Congress's expected effort to outlaw "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment," which it did in the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, passed several months after Bradbury issued the memos.
According to the WSJ:
Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner's head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator, according to people familiar with the memos. Another approved tactic was waterboarding, or simulated drowning.
A decision to keep secret key parts of the three 2005 memos outlining legal guidance on CIA interrogations would anger some Obama supporters who have pushed him to unveil now-abandoned Bush-era tactics. It would also go against the views of Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Counsel Greg Craig, people familiar with the matter said.
Top CIA officials have spoken out strongly against a full release, saying it would undermine the agency's credibility with foreign intelligence services and hurt the agency's work force, people involved in the discussions said. However, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair favors releasing the information, current and former senior administration officials said.
Human-rights groups and many in the administration have called the techniques torture.
On Thursday, the Obama administration faces a deadline in the suit brought by the ACLU, which originally asked for the public release of the 2005 Bradbury memos. The WSJ paints a picture of the Justice Department on one side, arguing for greater disclosure and the CIA on the other, arguing against release of the documents. "In the middle," the paper says, "is deputy national-security adviser John Brennan, a former CIA official, who has generally sided with the CIA."
Remember, this is the John Brennan who was described by Greenwald as as "an ardent supporter of torture and one of the most emphatic advocates of FISA expansions and telecom immunity." It is also the Brennan who described the CIA's extraordinary rendition program as an absolutely vital tool. Here is the CIA's case to Obama in a nutshell:
"Intelligence officials also believe that making the techniques [described in the Bradbury memos] public would give al Qaeda a propaganda tool just as the administration is stepping up its fight against the terrorist group in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some former administration officials have also argued that releasing all the memos could help terrorists train to endure the most extreme interrogation techniques."
On the other side is the Justice Department, which has been at the frontline in Obama's use of state secrets. But, according to the WSJ, in this case it has "argued aggressively for releasing operational details. Justice Department lawyers argue that the agency shouldn't be in a position of defending practices the new administration has disavowed. They say releasing the documents would help fulfill the president's promise of greater transparency." The paper indicates that it is possible the Obama administration will release some skeletal details of the memos without fully disclosing the contents, which seems to be the position of CIA director Leon Panetta.
On April 2, the original deadline to release the memos, the Justice Department asked for a two week delay to decide whether to release the memos. The ACLU "reluctantly consented" in return for the administration agreeing to review releasing "another key memo, authored by Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General for the OLC from November 2001 to March 2003. (Bybee is now a federal appeals court judge for the 9th Circuit, and the subject of an ethics probe by the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility.) The Bybee memo, like the Bradbury memos, is critical to understanding the foundations of President Bush's torture program."
The ACLU notes:
As important as these memos are, they will likely not tell the full story of the treatment of detainees in secret CIA prisons and elsewhere. That is why it's crucial that Congress appoint a select committee with subpoena power and the necessary resources to fully investigate Bush administration abuses. And that is why the Justice Department should appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the abuses and, if the facts warrant, initiate prosecutions. In order for us to begin fixing the damage done to this country by the last administration, Congress must fully investigate what took place and show the American public that nobody is above the law by holding those responsible accountable for their actions.
© 2009 Jeremy Scahill
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
April 9, 2009
The decided to release the memos.
No Obama and his admin are traitors to the Constitution and American Law.
He sucks an deserves to be impeached for this.
How Billdo Clintoris' admin steals documents, hides documents, cant find documents etc...., but these documents can be released.
All who think this is a good idea are also traitors.
April 9, 2009
I highly doubt it. Obama is bought and paid for by the same fascists that employed Bush.
Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen... - Zbigniew Brezhinsky
April 9, 2009
"Nesaie" wrote: I highly doubt it. Obama is bought and paid for by the same fascists that employed Bush.
Yeah, I rather go with this response. While the Obama Administration authorized the release of four Bush era torture memos (as the ACLU reported), he was extremely reluctant to release them because as it turns out, Holder and Obama have delcared that no CIA senior officials will face any criminal charges for their deplorable/horrific acts against foreign citizens.
The memos showed that the Justice Department also approved exploiting one detainee's fear of insects by putting caterpillars in the box with him. Others were kept naked and cold for long periods, denied food, shackled for prolonged periods or had their family threatened.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 112947.ece
Here's some details of the CIA torture tactics:
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The first of the seven Nuremberg principles (the prosecutions of nazis following WWII) states: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - No matter who gave the orders.
These are the principles worked out by the USA itself (with USSR and UK). It really doesn't contain any leeway for Obama to choose prosecution or not.
Obama not prosecuting is exactly the kind of inconsistency which has lost the USA the respect of the world.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
April 9, 2009
April 9, 2009
"Jaack" wrote: This is a total disgrace to the Presidency by a total non American such as this swine now in office.
The fact that he is not insisting the prosecution of CIA senior officials? I know!
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
April 9, 2009
"Aquarian" wrote: [quote="Jaack"]This is a total disgrace to the Presidency by a total non American such as this swine now in office.
The fact that he is not insisting the prosecution of CIA senior officials? I know!
No Dil, the fact that he's releasing classified documents.
What the CIA did was authorized and LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!
April 9, 2009
It was Bush authorized and Bush legal, which means it was extralegal and the definition of torture was broadened in certain areas and narrowed in others to try to fit the mold of policy implementation.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
April 9, 2009
"Aquarian" wrote: It was Bush authorized and Bush legal, which means it was extralegal and the definition of torture was broadened in certain areas and narrowed in others to try to fit the mold of policy implementation.
There was and still is nothing illegal about what was done.................................................................................................................
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Hajime Sakamoto dreams of one day building himself a towering 4m tall Gundam-esque mobile robot suit. But since it's such a daunting task, he's approaching the problem one step at a time — literally — starting with a set of self-balancing legs that he's able to pilot around his workshop.
It's an impressive accomplishment, it's just too bad Hajime or his talented engineers haven't quite got the hang of capturing videos on their smartphones. We've commented against using your mobile device to capture videos in portrait mode before, but in this instance, it would actually be a welcome alternative to having to crane your neck to watch this giant bot in action. [YouTube via Gizmag]


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text: This summer, Ethan and Phil are doing a series on the fundamentals of politics in Maine. Each week they will take a subject and discuss its particulars to give you a better understanding of how the system works. This week they discuss the difference between the Maine House and Maine Senate.


text: Goldophin trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni has already been banned eight years after acknowledging giving anabolic steroids to 15 horses [Reuters]Seven further horses trained by banned Mahmood Al Zarooni, including 2012 St Leger winner Encke, have tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol, the British Horseracing Authority said in a statement on Monday. Godolphin trainer Al Zarooni was handed an eight-year ban by the BHA last month for doping horses with anabolic steroids after 11 tested positive at his stable in Newmarket, England. Al Zarooni, who admitted administering prohibited substances to four others, has appealed against the severity of the ban.Further tests Following Al Zarooni's disciplinary hearing, the BHA conducted tests on all Godolphin-owned horses in training in Newmarket. Blood samples were taken from 391 horses at the stables of Al Zarooni and Saeed bin Suroor, who also trains for Godolphin owner and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in the town best known as the headquarters of British flat racing. All of the horses under Bin Suroor's care tested negative, clearing the way for him to take charge of Al Zarooni's Moulton Paddocks stable, subject to BHA clearance. The BHA said in a statement that no separate action would be taken "in respect of these additional positive results whilst Mr Al Zarooni's appeal process is on-going". No date has been set for the appeal. "These test results endorse the swift action and measures taken by the BHA in this matter," said BHA chief executive Paul Bittar. "Whatever the outcome of his appeal before the independent Appeal Board, the gravity and scale of the infringements warranted Mahmood Al Zarooni being removed from control of the yard as quickly as possible." The scandal has caused serious embarrassment to Sheikh Mohammed. The BHA accused Emirati Zarooni of "deliberately flouting" the rules and a "widespread systematic misuse of illegal substances". Al Zarooni, appointed Godolphin's second British-based trainer in 2010, won the Dubai World Cup - the world's richest horse race - in March last year and followed up by landing the prestigious St Leger with Encke at Doncaster in September. The BHA said Encke, who has not raced since the St Leger, had tested negative after the race. SOURCE: Reuters Sport United Kingdom


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Willie Nelson has proven to be one of America's most prolific songwriters. Turns out he's no slouch when it comes to memoirs, either: He has a new one due in November.
Nelson will release "Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die" on Nov. 13. Publisher William Morrow says the American music icon will tell never-before-heard stories about his life, family, music, politics, Texas, religion and favorite recreational activity.
A news release says the book will include contributions from family and friends, artwork by his son Micah and a forward by author, musician and friend Kinky Friedman.
Nelson has published a number of books on several topics since his first autobiography in 1988.


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I am running out of space on my iPhone and since iOS 5 I can see the worst offenders in Settings -> General -> Usage.
Some apps while being very small themselves have accumulated a lot of data. I want to keep the app itself on the phone but would like to get rid of the data.
Is there a way to delete the data/documents directly on the phone without deleting the app itself?
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PARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov. 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE:CW) announced today that its Flow Control segment's Electro-Mechanical Division (EMD) business unit has signed a contract with NuScale Power to design control rod drive mechanisms (CRDMs) for NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR). Curtiss-Wright will design the CRDMs, which control the insertion and removal of control rod assemblies, at its facility in Mt. Pleasant, Pa. The initial contract covers the design phase of the program.
"This is a significant contract in many ways," said Martin R. Benante, Chairman and CEO, Curtiss-Wright Corporation. "First, we are proud to begin a productive partnership with NuScale. Second, small modular reactor CRDMs are a key driver of growth for Curtiss-Wright and we are pleased to be working on the development of this important technology. Third, it continues our long-standing commitment to the future growth of the worldwide nuclear power market and the creation of clean, affordable energy and thousands of high quality jobs."
Curtiss-Wright is a world-class designer and manufacturer of CRDMs, having supplied over 5,000 units worldwide for nuclear power plants, including the first-ever installation on a reactor head in the U.S. The Company brings its vast experience supporting existing operating reactors globally and new build reactor designs, particularly for the Westinghouse AP1000, to the application of this technology for small modular nuclear reactors.
"With Curtiss-Wright's leadership in the design of CRDMs for use in NuScale's SMR power modules, our customers are assured of high performance technology," said Paul Lorenzini, Chief Executive Officer, NuScale Power LLC. "We are pleased to add Curtiss-Wright to our team of world-class suppliers."
NuScale is pursuing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval for its SMR design, which is an integral pressurized-water reactor (iPWR). The design is a natural circulation light water reactor with the reactor core and helical coil steam generator located in a common reactor vessel in a cylindrical steel containment. The reactor vessel/containment module is submerged in water in the reactor building safety related pool. The reactor building, which is located below grade, is designed to hold 12 SMRs. Each NuScale SMR has a rated thermal output of 160 MWt and electrical output of 45 MWe, yielding a total capacity of 540 MWe for 12 SMRs.
About Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Curtiss-Wright Corporation is an innovative engineering company that provides highly engineered, critical function products, systems and services in the areas of flow control, motion control and metal treatment to the defense, energy and commercial/industrial markets. The legacy company of Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, Curtiss-Wright has a long tradition of design and manufacturing innovation and prides itself on long-standing customer relationships. The company employs approximately 8,300 people worldwide. For more information, visit www.curtisswright.com.
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Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, headquartered in Falls Church, VA, is the Flow Control business segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. This business segment designs and manufactures highly engineered valves, pumps, motors, generators, electronics, systems and related products for complex naval defense, power generation, oil and gas and general industrial applications. For more information, visit www.cwfc.com.
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NuScale Power, LLC is developing an inherently safe, modular, scalable commercial nuclear power technology. NuScale's design offers the benefits of carbon-free nuclear power but removes the issues presented by the cost of installing large capacity. A nuclear power plant using NuScale's technology is comprised of individual nuclear power modules; each produces 45 megawatts of electricity with its own combined containment vessel and reactor system, and its own designated turbine-generator set. A power plant can include as many as 12 NuScale integral pressurized-water reactor modules to produce as much as 540 megawatts. NuScale power plants are scalable; additional modules are added as customer demand for electricity increases. These multi-module plants are highly reliable – one unit can be taken out of service for refueling or maintenance, or a new unit added, without affecting the operation of the others. The reactors are cooled by natural convection of water, requiring no pumps in the event of a shutdown. For more information, visit www.nuscalepower.com.
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More from Anselmo's Owner on Red Hook Pizzeria's Demise
Wow. Just wow.
As you may know, Anselmo's closed at the end of 2009, announcing the news on its website. While the original announcement remains, one of the partners added more detail--probably more detail than he should have, because he ended up deleting much of it.
Luckily, the blog I Dream of Pizza has captured for posterity the full text of the addendum. Here's a snip:
My landlady is telling the people of Red Hook that i have been in prison and jail. She's right. I was in prison for manufacturing explosives. It's public record and I'm not proud of it but i got out and moved on with my life thanks to my best friend and business partner. And I did go to jail this summer over a fight at my restaurant at 3am in the morning when Craig (i refuse to say full name) an ex drug dealer and (suspected child molester) that lived in one of my landlords building across the street was mad that i took his girlfriend from him after he came from a bar went in and pushed and hit one of my employees asking where i was. A friend of mine beat him up by the time i got there (Charges dropped on my friend). But he told cops two months later i beat him up .So after realizing his girl wasn't coming back to his physical abuse they arrested me two months later.
Read the rest, at IDoP.
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Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Professor, Department of Pathology
The antigen receptors of T and B cells recognize not only antigens derived from pathogenic cells and organisms, but also self-antigens expressed on the body's own tissues. In healthy individuals, self-antigens do not elicit a significant immune response. Self-reactive lymphocytes are clonally eliminated during development and cells that survive this process are rendered tolerant in the periphery.
One of the mechanisms responsible for peripheral lymphocyte tolerance is anergy, an intracellular process in which antigen receptors become un-coupled from their downstream signaling pathways. Anergic lymphocytes remain in a state of non-responsiveness that prevents harmful responses to self-tissues. NFAT proteins play a central role in tolerance induction in T cells. Using both ex-vivo and mice models, we have shown that tolerant T cells express a novel set of anergy-associated genes, distinct from those characteristics of a productive immune response. The expression of those genes is NFAT-dependent and does not seem to require AP-1 cooperation but instead depend on transcriptional complexes formed by NFAT dimers. Thus, a single transcription factor, NFAT, regulates two contrasting aspects of T cell function, mediating non-overlapping genetic programs of productive activation or anergy depending on the availability of specific transcriptional partners. This model predicts that blockade of the NFAT–AP1 interaction should prevent T-cell activation and induce a long-lasting state of tolerance. This is a key goal of organ transplantation that current regimes of immunosuppression fail to achieve. Furthermore, the inhibition of NFAT dimer interactions may prevent anergy induction and overcome on of the possible mechanisms responsible for tumor immune evasion. The analysis of the specific genes activated in anergic T cells supports the existence of distinct mechanisms of tolerance induction in lymphocytes, including interference with signaling pathways coupled to antigen receptors, protein degradation and transcriptional modulation. We are currently studying the role of these processes in peripheral T cell tolerance, characterizing the underlying molecular mechanisms and identifying their molecular targets. Furthermore we are also investigating how these mechanisms may be involved in the regulatory T cell-mediated suppression and T cell exahustion
Cell homeostasis requires of a regulated balance between synthesis and degradation of different cellular components. Autophagy, a catabolic pathway for the delivery and degradation in lysosomes of intracellular components, is one of the major systems involved in cellular quality control. Three different types of autophagy have been described in mammalian cells that differ in their regulation, substrate specificity and mechansim of delivery of the cargo into the lysosome. Dysregulation of autophagy with age has been described in many cells and has been proposed to be one of the causes of altered function of different organs and tissues in the elderly and of the development of age-related pathologies. We are currently characterizing the role of different forms of autophagy in T cells and analyzing the consequences of altered autophagic activity in aged T cells as a mechanism to explain the diminished T cell function that characterizes immunosenscence.
Mocholi E, Dowling SD, Botbol Y, Gruber RS, Ray AK, Vastert S, Shafit-Zagardo B, Coffer PJ, Macian f (2018). Autophagy Is a Tolerance-Avoidance Mechanism that Modulates TCR-Mediated Signaling and Cell Metabolism to Prevent Induction of T Cell Anergy. Cell Rep 24, 1136-50. [Link]
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Ames RY, Ting LM, Gendlina I, Kim K, Macian F. (2017) The Transcription Factor NFAT1 Participates in the Induction of CD4+ T Cell Functional Exhaustion during Plasmodium yoelii Infection. Infect Immun. 85: e00364-17. [Link]
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Pacman's maze
is not a maze in the sense of being a place in which we get lost since we can clearly see where we are going. So what should we call the restricted environment in which Pacman operates?
To clarify: I want another word to describe this rather than maze. Answers claiming that this is a maze by some definition or other aren't any use to me.


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Scotland Yard shoots first, asks questions later
by qrswave The Truth Will Set You Free
Entered into the database on Friday, June 02nd, 2006 @ 16:05:26 MST
A statement released by Scotland Yard regarding this morning's "London
Terror" raid "proves" not only that they are clueless, but that
they verify intelligence by conducting armed raids of residences at un-Godly
hours of the morning and shooting at startled inhabitants. This
morning, shortly before 4am, the Metropolitan Police executed a search
warrant at a house in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, East London. The warrant
had been issued for the search of those premises under the authority of the
Terrorism Act 2000.
A statement released by Scotland Yard regarding this morning's "London Terror" raid "proves" not only that they are clueless, but that they verify intelligence by conducting armed raids of residences at un-Godly hours of the morning and shooting at startled inhabitants.
This morning, shortly before 4am, the Metropolitan Police executed a search warrant at a house in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, East London. The warrant had been issued for the search of those premises under the authority of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Like the kind of intelligence that led to the Iraq invasion?
Notice how no one is ever in the position to discuss the "details of intelligence" until of course it's thoroughly discredited by obvious facts.
So, the public is supposed to accept the fact that in order to verify intelligence, police must conduct armed raids of their residences at ridiculous hours in the morning.
He "received" a gunshot wound? They make it sound like it was delivered anonymously by mail.
And he probably "received it" for being shocked and outraged at the invasion of his privacy by a fleet of armed men at 4 in the morning. How would you react?
Adding insult to injury, they arrested him to give the appearance that they shot at him legitimately.
The only other witness must also be isolated from the public.
Good PR takes time. Your patience is appreciated as much as it is mandatory.
Cowboy UK Police Shoot Another Unknown 'Terror Suspect'
De Menezes lessons not learned, again proves shoot first, ask questions later policy still active
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 2 2006
Today's news that British police almost killed another unnamed alleged "terror suspect" in London under the shoot first, ask questions later policy proves that the lessons of the brutal murder of Charles De Menezes have been completely discarded.
Police raided the family home, a family described as "respectable and "nice people" by neighbors, in the middle of the night and shot a 23-year-old man in the shoulder.
If the bullet had been three inches higher this would have been 'De Menezes 2' and another unprovoked targeted assassination by London Metropolitan Police.
As per usual, the identity of the suspects and the nature of their alleged crime is completely unknown at this time.
Maybe their crime was to own a vehicle or a house, two of the benchmarks of terrorism according to the Metropolitan police, who launched a poster campaign to encourage Londoners to report on their neighbors.
We are expected to place our trust in the reasoning of the same people who chased and gunned down Charles De Menezes, a completely innocent man who didn't even show signs of suspicious behavior, shortly after the London bombings last year.
Occasional 'terror raids' in which anonymous people are snatched in the middle of the night and disappeared create a chilling effect that Blair's government needs to stem the tide of dissent.
Police battered down the door at 6am and ripped apart a Reading landlady's home because a Pakistani suspect they were looking for had once rented a room from her.
New glorification of terrorism legislation is so broadly and loosely defined that this writer could be vanished by the thought police for disagreeing with the government's version of events for an event like the 7/7 bombings.
Only seventeen of the 700 plus individuals grabbed from their own homes have ever been charged with a terrorist offence under the 2000 Terrorism Act yet the endless 'terror raids' are inflated and characterized by the media as proof that Britain is under constant threat and that evil terrorists are lurking in people's neighborhoods.
In March, the Association of Chief Police Officers in Britain concluded in its inquiry that the shoot to kill policy which was carried out in the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes was acceptable and should not be altered. Since de Menezes' behavior gave no sign whatsoever that he was a potential suicide bomber, this was a strong statement of intent.
What is the message being sent?
We are the bosses, we are in control. We can carry out targeted assassinations on British soil and there's not a damn thing you can do about it apart from sit down and shut up. Otherwise you just might become the next target of her Majesty's secret death squad.
We will wait to discover what dastardly deed these dangerous terrorists were planning, and if it was similar in nature to the fearsome plan to bomb Manchester United's football ground or the fabled plot to poison the underground with Ricin.
Both these schemes were of course completely dreamed up creations of British intelligence and Tony Blair's government, released at politically opportune times to scare the British public into supporting wars and selling their own freedom down the river.


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Michael Somes as Ivan Tsarevitch, Frederick Ashton as The Immortal Kostchei and Margot Fonteyn as The Firebird in the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of The Firebird © The Roger Wood Photographic Collection/ROH Collections, 1956
The Firebird was the first completely original ballet that Sergei Diaghilev masterminded for Western audiences. It was created in 1910 - the year before Diaghilev's company the Ballets Russes was formed - in response to the popularity of his Saisons Russes in Paris, Berlin and Brussels.
The Firebird took elements from several traditional Slavic stories and combined them in an original folk tale created for Western audiences increasingly fascinated by Russian art. Both the Firebird and the malevolent immortal Kastchey (whose name translates as 'boney', hence his skeleton costume) had featured in Russian stage productions before, but never together in one plot.
While conforming to existing dance traditions, The Firebird marked the beginning of new trends in ballet. The role of the eponymous Firebird – a bird of prey 'ferocious and of great power' – draws on strong academic ballet technique. Yet her pas de deux with the hero Ivan starts the ballet rather than occurring at the climax, as was traditional. While most ballets at the time ended with a lively celebratory dance, composer Igor Stravinsky persuaded the creative team to close the work with a stately coronation accompanied by a hymn of thanksgiving.
Mikhail Fokine's choreography uses diverse styles of movement to represent various characters. A magical atmosphere is evoked from the opening, when the Firebird flies across the stage. Pointe-work is only used for the dances of the supernatural bird, to suggest flight and hovering. The thirteen captive princesses perform a circling folk-dance, known as a Khorovod, in soft shoes to folk-inspired music. Kastchey's creatures are given suitably grotesque movements in the Infernal Dance. Fokine insisted that his hero Ivan (a role he performed himself at the ballet's premiere) moved naturally. For example, at the start of the ballet, he really heaves himself over the wall into the garden.
Svetlana Beriosova as The Beautiful Tsarevna and Michael Somes as Ivan Tsarevitch in the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of The Firebird © The Roger Wood Photographic Collection/ROH Collections, 1956
Margot Fonteyn as The Firebird and Michael Somes as Ivan Tsarevitch in the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of The Firebird © Roger Wood Photographic Collection/ROH Collections, 1956
The original designs were created by Alexandre Golovin, an experienced stage designer with the Private Opera in Moscow, who created an impressionistic forest: 'a tapestry woven of green, gold, russet and silver threads'. The first production was not created with touring in mind: the heroine flew on wires and (just briefly) knights appeared on horseback. Needing a more manageable set, Diaghilev had the ballet redesigned by Natalia Goncharova in 1926. He requested scenery cloths that showed an orchard inspired by Andrea Mantegna's frescos, and a Kremlin (walled city) of gilded onion-domed churches for the coronation. This provided a nostalgic reminder of Holy Russia, apparently pushed aside by the rise of the Soviet state.
Tamara Karsavina was not Diaghilev's first choice to play the Firebird (he initially approached Anna Pavlova, but she had committed to a season performing in London). With her creation of the Firebird, however, Karsavina joined Diaghilev's inner circle of friends and advisers. From the first season she shared the role with Lydia Lopokova who interpreted the role in a very different way: she was described as being more like a hummingbird than a bird of prey. In the 1920s Karsavina coached her successors and in 1954, when Serge Grigoriev and Lubov Tchernicheva mounted the ballet for The Royal Ballet (with Natalia Goncharova supervising her designs), Karsavina coached Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes.
The Firebird was the first of Stravinsky's ballets to be performed in London. It was first presented in London at the Royal Opera House by the Ballets Russes on 18 June 1912, having been revised and revived the previous month in Paris for its first performances since its premiere season. The Firebird's originality was praised as a 'riot of rich colour and fantastic movement' and even Stravinsky's 'extraordinary command of the bizarre' was admired. As the Observer recorded: '[Stravinsky] has great imaginative power, a wonderful sense of the picturesque… while under the wealth of captivating and curious harmonies and rhythmical embellishments lies a strong and graceful line of independent and individual melody.'


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Those of you who have been around awhile may remember my Facebook Fan Freebies. I had the Animal Dot Fun & Let's Trace Numbers. Well, the app I used to display the freebies disappeared all of the sudden and I lost all of the data I had created to display those on my Facebook page. Since I am not thrilled with the direction Facebook has taken {mostly due to the lack of followers actually seeing updates}, I decided to go back and convert all of my former Facebook Fan Freebies to Newsletter Subscriber Freebies! I also added in the Baby Animal Calendar Connections set since I never got around to adding it to my Teacher's Notebook Shop and a few people have asked about it. Here's what all of my Newsletter Subscribers will receive {in one email}…
If you are already signed up {for the newsletter}, you should already have the email {I set it to go out to all past and new subscribers}. If you need to search your email the title is "Newsletter Subscriber Freebies from 1+1+1=1."
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Welcome to our new Holiday Inn Express Crestwood hotel! We are conveniently located 9 miles South of Chicago Midway Airport "MDW" and 32 miles from Chicago O'Hare International Airport "ORD". The Holiday Inn Express hotel in Crestwood is located just off I 294 and minutes away from I 57, I 90/I 94 and I 80 3 miles from the Robbins Metra Train Station.
Begin your day with a complimentary cup of coffee and enjoy our hot breakfast featuring our signature cinnamon rolls and pancakes. The Holiday Inn Express Crestwood hotel features 123 guestrooms and suites with free high speed Internet access throughout the hotel. Get energized in our brand new Fitness Center, with state of the art equipment and unwind in our indoor pool. Business Center and flexible meeting space are available to meet your needs.
Whether for business or pleasure the Holiday Inn Express Crestwood hotel is the perfect choice! The hotel is surrounded by restaurants, shopping and nearby attractions such as Off Track Betting, Chicagoland Speedway, Hollywood Park Family Fun Center and Downtown Chicago! Our hotel is a 3 mile drive to the Robbins Metra Station. The Metra is a convenient way to get to downtown Chicago. The Hotel is also nearby Advocate Christ Medical Center, Coca Cola, Honeywell, Alsip Minimill and Griffith Labs.
Experience all that Chicago has to offer while staying with us at Holiday Inn Express Crestwood hotel.
- Black-out Shades
- Rollaway Bed/Cot Available
- Crib Available
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- In-Room Heating and A/C Controls
- Extra Bedding Available
- Sofa Bed/Sleeper Couch
Bathroom/Personal Care
- Private Bathroom
- Bathroom Amenities Available
- Hair Dryer
- Bathtub
In-Room Features
- Mini Refrigerator
- Microwave
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- Flat-screen TV
- Work Desk with Lamp
- Desk-level Electrical Outlet
- Cable/Satellite
- Premium Channels
- Direct-dial Phone
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- Connecting Rooms Available
- Complimentary Coffee/Tea Supplies
- Full Breakfast Included
- Breakfast Buffet Included
- Continental Breakfast Included
- Complimentary Coffee in Lobby
- Kids Eat Free
- Off-site Restaurant Delivery Available
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- On-Site Business Center
- Printer
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- Wireless Internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
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- Indoor Pool
- Heated Indoor Pool
- Indoor Pool Hours of Operation: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Indoor heated swimming pool with depths ranging from 3-5ft. No lifeguard on duty. usage of pool only by in house guests. Beautiful sitting area around the perimeter of the pool
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State of the Art Fitness Center
Hours of Operation: 5:30 AM to 11:00 PM
Fitness Center Type: LIMITED
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- Stationary Bicycle
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- Hours of Operation: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM
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- Storage Space Available
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13330 Cicero Avenue
Crestwood, Illinois 60418
United States
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 12:00 PM
Check-in Age: 21
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- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
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- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 2
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Museums in St. George, Utah
Museums continue to pop up all around St. George.
Museums in the area abound with history, education, natural wonders and art in St. Goerge. Here is a list with links and descriptions to many in the area. The list below each contains a hyperlink to its respective site, and the approximate distance from BEST WESTERN Coral Hills.
- Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum – 0 blocks, FREE to the public, area artifacts and stories
- St. George Art Museum – 2 blocks, Minimal cost, well operated and very relaxing
- St. George Children's Museum – 3 blocks, the Newest addition to a great collection, well worth a visit especially for young children with a lot of energy. Many hands on exhibits.
- Dixie State University Sears Art Gallery – 7 blocks, A great rotating gallery of art and history exhibits, minimal cost if any
- Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum – 2 miles, full body game animal mounts from across the globe and a vast collection of insects for your young entomologist (study of insects)
- Washington City Museum – 3 miles, Pioneer era artifacts
- Dinosaur Tracks at Johnsons Farm – 3 miles, showcases footprints of a kind raptor only known to exist in this area
- Samuel R. Knight Santa Clara History Museum – 5 miles, in the basement of the city offices.
- Western Sky Aviation Warbird Museum – 6 miles, a great collection of full and operational war planes.
- Hurricane Pioneer Museum – 16 miles, local pioneer artifacts
- Wells Fargo Silver Reef Museum – 10 miles, well operated, artifacts, restored buildings of an old mining ghost towm
- Pilot Peak DUP Museum – Enterprise, Utah, local pioneer artifacts
- Zion Human History Museum – 42 miles, natural history
For a comprehensive list with addresses and phone numbers for area museums in and near Washington County click here.
If we were to add another the next should be a location for a film and movies showcasing the development of the film industry and the many movies made in the Southern Utah area. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a multiple of John Wayne westerns, and SciFi movies such as Galaxy Quest and others. Much of the feature film The Fly Boys was filmed in St. George proper just blocks away from the Best Western Coral Hills property.


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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration overpaid tens of billions of dollars for stocks and other assets in its massive bailout last year of Wall Street banks and financial institutions, a new study by a government watchdog says.
The Congressional Oversight Panel, in a report released Friday, said last year's overpayments amounted to a taxpayer-financed $78 billion subsidy of the firms.
The findings added to the frustrations of lawmakers already wary of the $700 billion rescue plan, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Congress approved the plan last fall, but members of both parties criticized spending decisions by the Bush administration and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Financially ailing insurance giant American International Group, which the Treasury Department deemed to be too big to be allowed to fail, received $40 billion from the Treasury for assets valued at $14.8 billion, the oversight panel found.
In December, in response to questions from the oversight panel, the department wrote that the value of preferred stock purchased by the government was "at or near par," meaning Treasury paid $1 for every $1 dollar of asset.
"The way the Treasury secretary described it does not fit with the numbers that were produced in our much more extensive valuation analysis," panel chairwoman Elizabeth Warren told reporters Friday. "The secretary of the Treasury described it in December that these were par transaction and that is not supported by the numbers."
The continued scrutiny comes as new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner prepares to place the Obama administration's imprint on the program with a sweeping new framework for helping banks, loosening credit and helping reduce foreclosures. Geithner plans to unveil the changes Monday.
And while Paulson is gone and Geithner is in charge, the program itself remains in the hands of Neel Kashkari, a holdover from the Bush administration.
In December, Kashkari defended the Treasury purchasing strategy as bank stock prices dropped.
"We're not day traders, and we're not looking for a return tomorrow," he said. "Over time, we believe the taxpayers will be protected and have a return on their investment."
In a bright spot for the rescue program, the same banks that received capital infusions from Treasury have already paid $271 million in dividends to the federal government and are expected to pay $1.5 billion more in dividends by the end of this month. Wells Fargo, which received a $25 billion infusion, has already announced it would pay Treasury $371 million in dividends this month.
The oversight panel examined 10 transactions, including eight made under a capital purchase program designed to put liquidity into the banks in hopes of easing credit. That money went to banks considered "healthy" financially but in need of capital to make loans.
Two other transactions went to AIG and to Citigroup Inc. under programs designed to help companies that were facing serious financial difficulties.
Overall, the panel and the analysts it retained to conduct the valuation study found that the Treasury used taxpayers' money to pay $62.5 billion more than the value of assets in the 10 transactions it examined. By extrapolating to the more than 300 institutions that received money, the panel concluded that the government in effect paid $78 billion more than the actual value of the assets at the time.
"Treasury chose to offer 'one size fits all' pricing in order to encourage all institutions to participate, and in so doing disregarded apparent differences in their financial condition," the report states. "A consequence is that Treasury effectively offered weaker participants greater subsidies than it offered to stronger participants."
Reacting to the panel's conclusions, Treasury spokesman Isaac Baker said in a statement: "Treasury's efforts since the fall prevented a systemwide collapse, but more needs to be done to stabilize the financial sector, increase lending and protect taxpayer dollars."
He said the plan Geithner will announce Monday aims to free up credit, "while strengthening transparency and accountability measures so that taxpayers know where and how their money is being spent and whether it's achieving real results."
Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said the overpayment was sure to "raise eyebrows."
"I can understand some gap," he said. "No one is expecting perfection between the price you pay and what you think you're getting. But that's a pretty large disparity."


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Whatever your memories of your wedding day will be, it is wonderful to have them captured for posterity in a photograph album that will become a treasured piece of family history. The best photographers can be found here.
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