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POPSThe Frisian Solar Challenge A famous skating competition tour held in Fryslan, one of the northern provinces of The Netherlands. is The Eleven-cities Tour. This is a tour of almost 200 km in length, on frozen canals, rivers and lakes between eleven Frisian cities. That tour is not held each year, mostly because the Dutch winters do not permit skating on natural ice every year. Moreover, a result of the climate change we see more warm winters nowadays and many people already believe we will not experience the Tour again because of global warming. There is, however, an fascinating alternative, which is taking place along the same historical 200 kilometres right now: the world’s largest race of solar vessels, The Frisian Solar Challenge Around 50 teams of mainly universities and specialist companies from Europe participate in the event. There are teams from Brazil, England, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Poland, and - of course - The Netherlands.
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POPSMississippi School Holds First Integrated Prom Is there any question that we have a way to go with race in this country? It is stories like this that remind of the need for affirmative action. When two "equal" candidates apply for a job, who do you think gets hired?
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POPSNew Space Telescope to Explore the Unknown Perhaps most exciting is the possibility that GLAST will find something no one is expecting. This space telescope can peer a range of high-energy gamma rays that is virtually unexplored. "There's such a leap forward in capabilities with GLAST that we have a really good chance of discovering things not even on the list yet," Ritz said. The mission is scheduled for liftoff atop a Delta 2 rocket at 11:45 a.m. EDT on June 7.
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POPSDisappearing Airline Service A number of things have happened recently in the airline industry that will affect travel for the foreseeable future. One of them is the elimination of service to small airports. As this article points out, airlines are responding to steep jet fuel prices by pulling out of small airports and cutting the number of scheduled flights. Have you seen this trend at your nearby airport yet?
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POPSRevelation 17:18 And the woman thou sawest is the great city, which has kingship over the kings of t History is crowded with instances of disasters which have fallen upon individuals and nations who have sought the Pope's favours. Space allows us to name only a few. 1851 - Pope Pius IX sent the Golden Rose to the king of the two Sicilies. In less than a year he lost his crown and kingdom. 1866 - The same Pope sent his blessings to the Austrian Kaiser. In less than a year he lost Venetia and was defeated at Sadowa. 1867 - The Pope blessed Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico. He was dethroned and shot. Then the Pope blessed the Emperor's widow. She became a hopeless maniac, and died in exile. (more)
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POPSNatural Disaster Evolves Into Man-Made Catastrophe "We have small helicopters to drop food, and we have doctors." The USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, and its battle group have been waiting to join in the relief effort as well. U.S. Marine flights from their makeshift headquarters in Utapao, Thailand, continued Saturday — bringing the total to 500,000 pounds of aid delivered. Britain's prime minister accused authorities in Burma of behaving inhumanely by preventing foreign aid from reaching victims. "This is inhuman," Gordon Brown told the British Broadcasting Corp. Brown said a natural disaster "is being made into a man-made catastrophe by the negligence, the neglect and the inhuman treatment of the Burmese people by a regime that is failing to act.
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POPSHow Not to Run a Government People are dying by the thousands in Burma and all the government can think of is protecting itself from a hostile people demanding change. I am praying for that very uprising to take place and this self-serving junta military government gets sent packing. I am sure these rulers are getting three squares a day and then some.
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