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Before you read how Dan Poynter explains Tailwinds, please consider a few things that others may not have noticed.

You experience “in the moment” adventures with every flip of the electronic page. If you’re an alpha geeks or your children were born with ipods clutched in their tiny fists, you all will enjoy the fun links and true stories which surround Rusty.  You  don’t have to wonder how something works or sounds – it’s there at the click of a link.

The hero, Rusty Martin, is a polite young man, When was the last time you heard a young hero say, “Yes, Sir” and “No, Ma’am” to his parents and adults around him? He’s smart – confounding some of his  teachers, when he tells them that he lack sufficient information for those dreaded time and distance math problems. It seems that they don’t take into consideration the air temperature or speed of the tailwinds he may encounter.

If you are a history buff or served in the military during World War II or any other time, you may have encounted a  conversational generation gap with today’s youngsters. Be prepared: Tailwinds is so fascinating that they’ll want to know how Rusty did what he did.

And Dan Poynter has a special love for Casselberry because of its World War II history when parachutes were manufactured here. We feel quite honored that Dan selected our hometown as Rusty’s. Dan went to great lengths to make sure each detail is as accurate as possible – right down to researching who might have been Rusty’s teachers at Lyman School, now Milwee Middle.

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MORE ON TAILWINDS: Adventures of a Young Aviator

Rusty Martin is born to an aviation family and grows up in Casselberry, Florida, in the 1930s. He is an entrepreneur and a self-starter who loves to fly. Rusty is 12 at the outbreak of WW-II. Flying takes the young man to many fascinating events of the time.

You will discover:
* Many significant events in 1939 through 1943.
* The stories behind the stories.
* What aviation was like in the 30s & 40s.
* How young people can start and prosper in a business.
* An inspirational story that could have happened.

This is a work of historical fiction and it is a new type of fiction: it is illustrated. Most of the places, events, and people are real. Much of the dialogue is presumed. The main character is fictional—but he could be real.

This book describes an interesting time and celebrates the people who lived it.

Fascinating, inspirational, educational, and a great read. You will love following Rusty’s adventures.

This ebook is a multimedia presentation. Employing maps, photographs, videos, audios, and written references, this enhanced ebook tells a story in a way that a print book cannot.

Read this novel on a device connected to the Internet to take full advantage of this enhanced ebook’s capabilities.

Readers may find some of the incidents described difficult to believe. The references testify to the ebook’s factual accuracy.

Most of the photographs and videos in this book are in black and white. That is because they are circa 1940. I have done my best to be faithful to history—to show and describe events and places as they were.

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Casselberry Farmers Market Open

The Casselberry Farmers Market will be opening Sunday, November 25 from 12 to 4 p.m. at Lake Concord Park, 95 Triplet Lake Drive behind Casselberry City Hall.

More than 20 vendors will trade fresh produce, home and garden supplies, fresh baked goods, health and wellness products, cooking demonstrations, and a variety of other goods and services at the grand opening. Organizers Steve and Bonnie Rich expect the number of vendors to increase as the market’s popularity grows. In addition, there will be Yoga and Tai Chi classes starting after the first of the year.

Steve and Bonnie Rich have been exploring farmers markets for more than two decades. Steve has a Masters in Biology and Botany and Bonnie has a License as a Massage Therapist, and together they share a love of all things natural and healthy.

The Casselberry Farmers Market will be open every Sunday at Lake Concord Park from 12 – 4 p.m. until May 2013. That was a bit surprising, so I wrote to find out why the odd hours. Here’s what Steve and Bonnie said.

“We made the hours from 12-4pm because we are targeting the ‘after church’ crowd. We have been vendors at markets for awhile and we kept hearing from people that attend church that they can’t get to the early morning markets because it conflicts with them attending their services. By the time they would finally get to a market by 11:30-12noon, the produce had been picked through so badly that it wasn’t worth them going to the market. Combine that issue with the fact that the good, organic farmers live in, or around, Melbourne and it takes them awhile to drive to the Orlando area AND the fact that in the morning they have to pick their produce before heading to their markets…….well, it was just a no brainer for us. No one in this area is doing anything like this and we thought it was time to do something a little different. ”

They did say that the months of June, July & August would be difficult due to extreme heat and the afternoon storms, so they will switch the time to 9am-1pm.

The turn out so far has been pleasantly surprising, according to Steve and Bonnie. “On the first weekend we had approximately 500 guests join us; on the 2nd weekend it was a bit lower. We also realize that this is a tough time to start a market with all of the holiday parties, etc, going on but we wanted to get the local area used to everyone being there by the first of the year.”

Sounds like they have a demand and a plan to meet it – so check out. For more information, updates on weekly vendors or to sign-up to be a vendor, visit the Casselberry Farmers Market Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CasselberryFarmersMarket or email Steve and Bonnie Rich at CasselberryMarket@gmail.com.

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Hedy Lamarr & Casselberry

A beautiful actress who fought the Nazis -

How a brilliant starlet created a worldwide technology boom.

It all started with a skin flick…

In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director.  She ran through the woods… naked. She swam in a lake naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie also featured a simulated orgasm. To make the scene more ”vivid,” the director reportedly stabbed the actress with a sharp pin just off-screen.

The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong.  But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.

Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable…

Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.

The star of the film, called Ecstasy, was Hedwig Kiesler.  She said the secret of her beauty was “to stand there and look stupid.” In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She’dgrown up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy.  She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her.

Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous
beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life… including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history.

Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made – and spent – $30 million in her life.  But her greatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect… And her invention continues to shape the world we live in today.

You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler’s nose. After fleeing to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star … her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. patent Office.

Today, when you use your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called “long-term evolution” or “LTE” technology), you’ll be using an extension of the technology a 20- year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler.

At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria .  Friedrich Mandl was Austria ‘s leading armsmaker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis. Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners withrepresentatives of the Austrian, Italian, andGerman fascist forces. One of Mandl’s favorite topics at these gatherings – which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini – was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes.

Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that prevailed at the time. Kiesler sat through these dinners “looking stupid,” while absorbing everything she heard… As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis.  She abhorred her husband’s business ambitions. Mandl responded to his willful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid’s clothes, and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to London .

She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed  Austria . The Nazis seized Mandl’s factory.  He was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil . Later, he became an advisor to Argentina ‘s iconic populist president, Juan D. Peron.

In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer.  She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM’s biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a blockbuster.

But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies.  At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn’t be “jammed.” She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis.

By the 1940s, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of single- frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler’s ex-husband had been peddling.  The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the appropriate frequency and “jam” or intercept the signal, thereby interfering with the missile’s intended path.

Kiesler’s key innovation was to “change the channel.” It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message would still get through on one of the other frequencies being used. The problem was,she could not figure out how to synchronize the frequency changes on both the receiver and the transmitter.  To solve the problem, she turned to perhaps the world’s first techno-musician, George Anthiel.

Anthiel was an acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for creating intricate musical compositions.  He synchronized his melodies across twelve player pianos, producing stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard before. Kiesler incorporated Anthiel’s technology for synchronizing his player pianos.  Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon’s receiver and its transmitter.

On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and “Hedy Kiesler Markey,” which was Kiesler’s married name at the time. Most of you won’t recognize the name Kiesler.  And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it’s a fair bet than anyone reading this newsletter of a certain age will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood ‘s golden ageHedy Lamarr.

That’s the name Louis B. Mayer gave to his prize actress. That’s the name his movie company made famous.  Meanwhile, almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler - aka Hedy Lamarr - was one of the great pioneers of wireless communications. Her technology was developed by the U.S. Navy, which has used it ever since.

You’re probably using Lamarr’s technology, too.  Her patent sits at the foundation of “spread spectrum technology,” which you use every day when you log on to a wi-fi network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone.  It lies at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called fourth-generation “LTE” wireless technology. This next generation of cell phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless signals across the entire available spectrum.This kind of encoding is only possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.

Readmore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Hedy+Kiesler+Markey%22

http://www.amazon.com/Spread-Spectrum-Lamarr-mobile-phone/dp/1419621297/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1351631187&sr=8-3&keywords=spread+spectrum

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Casselberry & State Amendments

Find out about Early Voting in Florida

Casselberry Amendment – Giving Tax Abatement for New and Growing Businesses in the City 

The Amendments to the State Constitution:

The Official Explanation from the State of Florida 

The Short Description as written in the Suannee Democrat 

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3 Great Events in Lake Concord Park

Friday November 2Friday Family Fun Movies in the Park starts with Lorax. Shown on a giant screen, there will be plenty of seating areas for those of you who bring blankets to sit on, followed by a section of low-back beach chairs, with camp and higher back chairs in the back. If you can remember going to the drive-in as a kid, and how much fun it was watching movies on a giant screen in the back of the family station wagon with tubs of popcorn and bags of candy, this is for you. For more info.

 

Thursday November 8-  The Casselberry Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Casselberry Food & Wine Festival from 5 to 8 p.m. Come taste a diverse selection of foods and wines while enjoying live entertainmentby the smooth jazz sounds of the Jeff Rupert Quartet.

The festival will be a grand evening of tasting and celebrating that will showcase some of the best restaurants from the Central Florida area. The evening wouldn’t be complete without our silent auction filled with fun and exciting items including fine art, sports memorabilia, restaurant gift certificates, jewelry, and much more!

A portion of the proceeds will go to the Casselberry Art House, Casselberry Elementary Food Pantry,  and the Casselberry Chamber of Commerce Scholarship program for graduating seniors in our area.

Advance tickets can be purchased on line for $20 adults and $10 ages 12 and under.  Tickets will be $25 at the door.

Friday November 9Art and Music in the Park is another chance to cruise through the colorful trucks and get your fill of different types of delicious foods. This time there will be jazz and more art to enhance your outdoor dining experience. Admission is free, so bring your family and friends for a great way to start the weekend.

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