Author : Catherine Behan I wonder where the term “golf widow” came from in the first place I spend a lot of time doing my own thing while my man is on the golf course and believe me, I don’t wear black and mourn!! After going through a couple of seasons away from the game because of a health challenge, I am back playing, though not nearly as often as my honey It was my first husband’s passion about golf that got me into the game in the first place I was 22 and quickly surmised that if I

A colleague let me know about some upcoming events taking place at Ashdown Forest in the South East. I’ve never actually been there before, but I had a little snoop around and have to say that the fortnight of activities looks like a lot of fun! From the start of August, a host of events will be taking place at the public park – which spans an enormous 6,500 of open space. Those of you with good memories may know it as the setting of the Winnie the Pooh stories, making it the ideal outdoor spot for families or anyone feeling a little nostalgic for their own youth.

Title: Legacies Pairing: gen Rating: FRC Summary: Uncle Charles’s last will and testament, the rackety old bastard. Word count: 1700 Warnings: none Notes: Hi, I’m Uncle Charles . You might remember me from such stories as “Concealed Weapons”. The cameo appearances of two fictional characters make this a triple crossover, sort of. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I claim no ownership and am making no money. “Mr Giles.

by Betsy Hoppenhager Back to school is just around the corner so where do you actually buy a laptop for your kids? I know they were whine (wine?) and dine you and tell you where to get the best laptop for them but you’ve got to ask, where’s the best deal? One of the best places to get a laptop is actually Best Buy. Why? They have stores all over the country, meaning that your kids can go talk to someone (and/or return merchandise) in any of the stores nationwide.

by David Phillips As a visitor to the island you can be confident of a good choice of Anglesey hotels to make your stay a memorable one. Equally, you can expect a high standard of accommodation if you are staying overnight before catching the Dublin ferry from Holyhead. Your holiday activity and its location may influence where you may want to be based during your stay. Some people like the restfulness of the countryside while others prefer to be close to the coast and beaches for watersports.

There’s a very simple answer to this, and it took sitting with Delfim Costa of Enoforum Wines to have it explained to me. In other places around the world, the cost of labor and goods isn’t anywhere near what it is in the US. As a result, great wines of regionality and careful crafting can be purchased for a fraction of the cost of an American wine. I was reminded of this as I just heard a story on the news about a car manufacturing plant that may soon shut down in California.

As many of you know by now, Dan graduated a couple of weeks ago.  And because it’s been a long road, these 23 years of education, to celebrate, we’re vacating for awhile.  We’ll be travelling in Europe for the next month. Internet connections will be a bit spotty, so I won’t be posting regularly.  I’m hoping to put some pictures up every so often, though.  And I’ll be reading, of course, but I won’t be doing my regular, exhaustive book reports.  (In fact, I’m experimenting with reading books

Red wine supplements are available everywhere. They have started showing up in stores now all over the country and this has many people convinced. You see when the initial studies about this stuff came out, the only place to really find the substance was on the internet. Many people became skeptical immediately and this brought on a lot of controversy about the supplement. Now that more and more people are seeing the stuff in stores, it’s being given a new light and better trust.

With the summer here, why not take advantage of your garden. While your at it, why not add a few new features to your garden? Strawberry Fool has a HUGE range of unusual products to add something different to your garden. Some of the products available include 3 Herb Pots on Tray and the Mooncode Storage Lock . Contents:- Apple Bird Feeder Bird Box Cottages Boot Warmers Watering Can Cruet Set Herb Pots Kew Gardens Gifts Mail Cottages Mooncode Storage Lock Wall Hook – Garden Wasp Catchers Watering Cans Voucher Code Apple Bird Feeder Birds will love this! A unique and stylish way to feed the birds in your garden.

I assume you agree that summer is a terrible bore. The hot weather. The barbecues. The boat trips. The jumps off sun-warmed canyon cliffs into icy waters. The fruity drinks on balmy decks. The velvety boom of fireworks over gently lapping waves. Does all this indolence and relaxation make you yawn? Why, just the other day I heard about a tedious afternoon my hairdresser spent, when she and her gal-pals headed out to a local lake equipped with music and a cooler full of cold drinks and snacks.

This Cork Christmas Tree — built around a wine bottle — was the inspiration for the Make Mine Wine Cork Christmas Tree Contest. We’re accepting entries between now and August 30th for trees made from wine corks or craft cork. Winning entries will be printed in the Holiday issue of Make Mine Wine. Have fun designing and making your tree! Submit a digital photo, with your name, address and email address to makeminewine@mchsi.com . Include a name for your tree, if you choose.

filed in Travel on Jul.27, 2009By William CashmorePublished: 11:04AM BST 27 Jul 2009Rooms offer free-standing baths and all-enveloping walk-in showersLocation Related ArticlesMercure Brigstow, Bristol: where to stayWhere to stay in BristolMore UK hotel reviewsMore UK holiday ideasBritain at War: It was very dark because of the blackout and suddenly all our bravado deserted usMPs’ expenses: Lynne Jones claimed #1,000 for wallpaperRight in the centre of the city and about five minutes’ walk from Cabot Circus.CharacterThe Sugar House was originally a sugar refinery and warehouses from the 1700s, a heritage that makes for an intriguing restoration.

Earth Meets Ocean – Modern comfort food from the Sonoma Coast My life long journey with food began on the east coast. Charles Mortimer, my grandfather, was a true pioneer in the food manufacturing industry, but my food adventure has always followed a different map. At a young age I learned to love a great meal and the process by which it was attained. While enjoying the dining aspect, service and trying new flavors my thoughts would always wander to where the ingredients came from.

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At the Wasabi Ventures Entrepreneurial Bible we love stories where people take a normal activity and turn that into a business.  Add in the effort of overcoming an economic downturn and you have the story of Carlos Pero and Coloring.com .  In the words of Carlos: My Web site is the original online coloring book, Coloring.com.  It gets a fair amount of traffic now with hardly any effort (300,000 uniques a month), so the challenge is to grow traffic and monetize it more effectively.  I have a plan for subscription revenue to surpass what is possible solely with ads.

Former Met director Philippe de Montebello has given a talk in which he speaks about the issues of restitution affecting museums. Based on previous comments , it is unsurprising that he is against the idea of restitution. What is puzzling is that even after the return of the Euphronios Krater from his own museum he still doesn’t seem to understand the problem – he sees it as something that should only ever be dealt with when legal reasons dictate that an artefacts should be returned & never for a philosophical / ethical reason.

by: Jane Wilkinson The city of Athens takes it name from Athena, the Greek Goddess of wisdom and knowledge. It seems only fitting then that is also the city that created democracy and where the great thinkers Plato and Aristotle were born. Ancient Greece’s best known temple ‘The Acropolis’ is definitely for many people one of the highlights of their holidays in Greece. The Acropolis contains several temples and the most important of these is the Parthenon, which is dedicated to the Goddess Athena.

By Auntie Gwen I couldn’t resist this one, and before anyone who’s googled in gets humpty, I’m not an expert, so this should be read with a light sprinkling of tongue in cheek but you don’t need a full dose of bitter irony for it. I became single for the second time at the age of forty, which I also referred to as “feckin forty” quite a lot. The first period of singledom ended when I was nineteen. I can truly say that being single never bothered me for the first 19 years, they were a doddle, I am just wondering if the second period of singledom will be as long and as carefree.

by Graham McKenzie A trip to Greece can be filled with adventure and exploration. The beautiful beaches are the best offered in the world and some of the most famous wineries are in Greece. You will find the night life and entertainment offered is non-stop and full of culture. The amazing architecture and beautiful country sides are breathtaking to take in and the cuisine will explode with flavor as the culture explodes with love, life, and excitement.

“I… urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace…” Eph 4:1-6 We had a glorious summer day yesterday where we live, the way one likes to remember summer, with a blue sky that proclaimed that July is indeed here, its beauty helping us forget the dangers of global warming. All was as it should have been.

by Graham McKenzie Travelling to Greece is an adventure as the culture you will find there is full of love, life and enthusiasm. The world class cuisine and the famous wines that are available here are only part of the seductive allure the country offers. You will have beautiful beaches, amazing countryside, unique architectural designs, as well as a long list of other sights to see. There is so much to see and do while visiting Greece it can be overwhelming.

Got this email and I don’t know the author, it’s fiction.Dinner with ObamaOnce upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a free country. There’s nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws.

by Graham McKenzie If you are planning a trip to Greece you will be welcomed by tasteful cuisine, unique architecture, some of the best beaches in the world, as well as some of the most famous wines. The view of the country is extraordinary anywhere you go and the culture is full of life, love, and excitement. It will be overwhelming when you are trying to see and do everything offered in Greece. The best idea is to come up with a list of the most important places you would like to see before you arrive.

by Graham McKenzie If you are planning a trip to Greece you will be welcomed by tasteful cuisine, unique architecture, some of the best beaches in the world, as well as some of the most famous wines. The view of the country is extraordinary anywhere you go and the culture is full of life, love, and excitement. It will be overwhelming when you are trying to see and do everything offered in Greece. The best idea is to come up with a list of the most important places you would like to see before you arrive.

by Howie Holben The unique geography of Chile allows visitors to explore volcanoes, ski or snowboard in the Andes, lounge on picturesque beaches and enjoy a night out in the gay district of Santiago all in one day. Rich in varied landscapes and important landmarks, visitors to Chile can experience the statues of Easter Island, arid deserts, exceptional architecture and churches, the Mirador de Chepu Penguin Colony, the world-famous Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia and the Elqui Valley in La Serena, which teems with legends of extraterrestrial activities, all in one trip.

by Howie Holben Chile is a unique gay travel destination that allows visitors to ski the Andes, explore volcanoes, relax on pristine beaches, and hit the clubs in Santiagos gay district all in one day. The vast and varied landscape and landmarks of Chile include arid deserts, the Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, the statues of Easter Island, the Elqui Valley of La Serena (long rumored to be associated with extraterrestrial activity), the Mirador de Chepu Penguin Colony, and old-world churches and architecture throughout the country.

by Angelina Edwards Geneva is an amazingly beautiful city located in Ontario and Seneca counties which are in the New York state, United States of America. Geneva is also known as the “Lake Trout Capital of the World” and is a gorgeous city which has amazing landscapes, spectacular sceneries, The Belhurst Castle and the picturesque Seneca Lake. Many visitors come to this attractive city all around the year. So, now let me tell you about some of the good hotel lodgings located in Geneva. 1.

Originally avoided the issue at SomaCow.com In this hour, we discussed pictures of naked ladies, local politic nutbags, and, even though I tried to avoid it, the horrible story in Arizona. Also would like to wish a Happy Birthday to listener FooFa , who tunes in damned near every week and always contributes on our forums at http://www.somacow.net – Hope you got laid, paid, or at the very least, a high top fade, yo.

Last week while in Cornwall, I discovered the wine that “my friend” Gordon Brown obviously drinks alot of. It is real (as the picture shows), and aptly titled ‘Shite’ (made in St Ives)!!He must have been drinking barrells of it recently with his decision to recruit Sir Alan Sugar, and appoint him a Lord, and make him the Enterprise Czar.

Wine is an alcoholic beverage with the aim of is produced by the fermentation of grape juice in excess of a prolonged interlude of measure. Wine racks are especially designed furniture racks someplace the wine bottles are kept back and stored meant for each day wastage. Mother country wine racks are used meant for storing and keeping wine bottles by the side of mother country. With the aim of is the talented mechanism not far off from cheap wine racks .

Is it possible to fall in love with a character in a book? How about with a goddess? The Odyssey has been playing on my mind of late. i was listening to a friend’s lecture on the poem – he argues that the Homeric gods inhabit a flattened, frivolous world, compared to the mortal Odysseus; the gods fall in love, certainly, but very little is serious for them, because they cannot die. It is otherwise with a mortal. Odysseus makes his entry in Book V, the prisoner of Calypso; and his adventures begin as he rejects the immortality she offers, that ultimately unserious world.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1202353/Britains-largest-lager-brand-calls-minimum-alcohol-price-stop-binge-drinking.html?ITO=1490 By SEAN POULTER Solution: Minimum pricing is seen as a way to tackle binge drinking The brewery which produces the country’s most popular lager has called on the Government to set minimum prices in a bid to tackle dangerous binge drinking. Molson Coors, which makes Carling, has linked up with the British Medical Association and the chief medical officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson.

The appeal to medieval cities stems from the idea that at one time, advances were made and then suddenly time stood still.  Very rarely do you find a small town where buildings are five or six hundred years old and then suddenly buildings from the 70’s or 80’s appear. Thus is the story of Monterchi, Italy.  This completely medieval town probably sprang up because it was the half-way point between two major cities.  What remains of the cobble stone streets shows hundreds of years worth of foot, horse, donkey and cart traffic.  It is an odd sensation, touching stones that have been worn smooth with the passage of time.

For years, it has been fashionable to approach any problem by asking Jeff Jarvis’s question: “What would Google do?” But the most admired technology company in the world isn’t Google. It’s Apple . And when it comes to the most admired technology executive, Steve Jobs far outshines even the great Eric Schmidt. So why isn’t anyone asking “What would Steve do?” Perhaps it’s because the answer to that question flies in the face of everything we’ve held sacred over the last five years.

I’m back from a super quick trip to Chicago for BlogHer 09 last week (I arrived in Chicago Thursday afternoon and left at 3 a.m Saturday morning. Whirlwind doesn’t even do it justice). I came home craving greens and healthy, fresh food. In a lovely coincidence, the August issue of Sunset magazine had arrived in the mail during my travels and included many, many recipes that would satisfy my culinary desires. It made for a pleasant Sunday afternoon until the boys became unruly after an adventure-filled Saturday in the wine country.

Whether we are talking about the evolution of finches  in the Galápagos Islands  or the evolution of the software projects that we work on, my sense is that diversity offers its greatest benefit during  a crisis. The worst thing about monoculture is the powerful reward it offers to those pathogens that are adapted to that culture . Or, as Wikipedia says: The dependence on monoculture crops can lead to large scale failures when the single genetic variant or cultivar becomes susceptible to a pathogen or when a change in weather patterns occur.

Starting August 1, the global spotlight turns to Colorado’s Wine Country as the Western Slope’s wine regions are featured on the collaborative web site and travel guide, Wikitravel . This Internet attention is due in part to the efforts of the Wine Country Inn of Palisade, Colorado, which donated nearly 200 hours to promote the area. (The article is already live and can be read at http://Wikitravel.org/en/Colorado%27s_Wine_Country ).

DEATH OF THE ADULT – THE IMPACT OF POP CULTURE ON MODERN SOCIETY AND THE REPEAL OF S59 KEAH? – HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? WHEN GOOD BECAME BAD! By Stephen Dol NZCBC, Research Analyst . stephen.dol@thinkingezy.co.nz Michael Jackson sung the song “Bad”, which really meant “Good”. That’s confusing and so is the opposition to the referendum. To clarify this it is important to highlight two separate issues in the debate – 1) dysfunctional violent abuse and 2) the purpose of authority within a family to govern and when necessary, enforce.

$949.99 A country-inspired classic. The Wooden Bakers Cabinet with Wine Storage introduces cozy traditional decor just like Grandma used to have. read more

Filed under: Estates , Celebrity Shopping Television producer and executive Douglas S. Cramer is the owner of this 130-acre estate in Roxbury, Connecticut.This classic estate includes a four-bedroom Colonial main house which has four bedrooms, a wine cellar and a gym. Cramer, who was a producer on Dynasty also made a whole host of Television movies based on Danielle Steel novels. The Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties reports that Cramer and his partner, writer Hugh Bush are looking to buy a smaller home and spend more time in Florida.

TEAM WILKERSON RACING LEVI, RAY & SHOUP NHRA Nitro Funny Car POST-EVENT REPORT Fram-Autolite Nationals Infineon Raceway Sonoma, Calif. (July 26, 2009) QUALIFYING Tim Wilkerson – No. 4 (4.129 seconds) ELIMINATIONS Tim Wilkerson Defeated Jeff Arend in round one Defeated Bob Tasca in round two Defeated Gary Densham in semifinal Defeated Tony Pedregon in final round Tim Wilkerson has picked a fine time to hit his stride and get hot.

The Sermon Notes of Father S. Peter Donatelli      (All Biblical quotes from the New King James Version) JOKE: Two cannibals were eating a clown. One said to the other: “Does this taste funny to you?” Two cannibals were sitting beside the fire after a sumptuous meal. One turned to the other and said: “Your wife sure makes a good roast.” “Yeah, I’m really going to miss her.” What is the title of the best-selling cannibal book?  “How to Serve Your Fellow Man.” What did the cannibal get when he was late for dinner? The cold shoulder.

2. A New Search for Jesus At the beginning of this century it was very popular to talk about searching for the historical Jesus. Dr Albert Schweitzer wrote ‘In Quest of the Historical Jesus’ and that started a theological fashion – trying to find out what the real Jesus would have been like. 1 The search continues. Theologians, writers, film-makers and television commentators have all made their way to Palestine, to walk in the steps of the Galilean and try and reconstruct his life, death and resurrection.

Holy smokes, the Abstrakt Art Gallery was rockin’ in Saturday night! That’s when the MyMommyManual.com ladies, Ria, Suzanne, and Maggie, coordinated an companion event to BlogHer09 , the Chicago conference for women bloggers. It was simulcast with similar events around the country Saturday night to the BlogHer conference. The St. Louis ladies chose to have the proceeds donated to Parents as Teachers. Pierre from Bevitoré Wine Boutique offered tastes of extraordinary wines, complemented by outstanding delicacies from Kakao Chocolate.

Travelling around the world is one of my dream. I want to visit other country at Asia, then visit and taste the great wine factory Australia, have an adventure at Africa, and also visit Eropa and America. Hm…. it will be very fantastic!For overseas travelling like that, of course you need an international flights with international safety standard that will bring you fly safely and securely from your country to another country. And then you need to book for a hotel or tickets to life during your vacation.

There’s a scene in excellent TV show Californication (season one, episode one) where David Duchovny’s character Hank is in a cinema and some jerk starts chatting on his mobile in the middle of the movie. Hank asks the guy to be quiet and then grabs the phone from the guy and throws it away and it smashes in to pieces. They eventually have a tussle which he wins as the rest of the audience applauds him. Hank is my hero and perhaps he inspired my behaviour in today’s story …… Dingle and I were enjoying a nice steak dinner at KABB the other evening.

When I was thinking of a good business to start with, I planned on having a gift basket delivery services business.  It is very convenient and getting the fad right now. I run a variety of gift basket delivery services in the Pacific Northwest, and have been rapidly expanding out all over the country. It is just simply amazing the variety of stuff that people will want to buy from gift basket services. There are, of course, all of the standard things. One of my gift basket services specializes in fine wines.

Personal beliefs from a spiritual agnostic on a summer Sunday afternoon. 1. Fear is supposed to be scary. Frightening situations are gifts, exactly as valuable as the degree they frighten you. Each is an opportunity to experience liberation, act on faith, release the pretense of control, and find joy. In fact it is that helpless sense of joy that comes after unexpected destruction of something we loved that is often as close as any of us come to nirvana.

Just when I thought we were the reddest state in the country without competition, Alabama, the home to a loony 10 Commandments judge, among other right fringe crazies, has outdone Oklahoma in–I hate to use the term–puritanism. The poor Puritans get an undeserved bad reputation thanks to the misuse of that word; these are folks who liked beer and dancing after all, so they’re worlds ahead of Baptists and Pentecostals. However, the word is now the appropriate way to describe people who are obsessive about human sexuality and the naked human form.

After a day of wine tasting at C.G. Di Arie , Vino Noceto , and Jeff Runquist we headed to Taste on the recommendation of Bobby , our Vino Noceto tasting room pourer extraordinaire. “Taste” opened about a year ago in a refurbished old building in downtown Plymouth. Taste’s Award Winning Beverage program features a wide selection local Zinfandels, Rhone and Italian varietals. In addition to local wines they proudly pour wines from all over California and Europe to highlight the varied styles of grapes and wine making techniques.

                             Sat Jul 25, 4:57 PM ET Kraig Foote, president of Art One Gallery, ponders his business future as he and other art gallery owners have a tough sell, and as a result, gallery owners in art communities are having to close shop or drastically change the way they do business Thursday, July 16, 2009, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D.

Here’s this morning’s meditation: Meditation 182 I’ve never been a gardener so all this talk of vines, fruition, destruction, pruning, fire and the unceasing flow of sap passes me by like an east wind, the flight-filled clouds or the migration path of distant, unknowable birds. Keeping on religious matters, church today was rather strange. We now have a three-line whip from the Powers that Be (who I suspect probably aren’t God) that, because of the swine flu threat, we’re not allowed to take wine at communion or shake hands with non-related people during the Peace.

Vacation is wonderful! I’m loving that feeling of not having to be anyplace if I don’t wish it.  The emotional and psychological relaxation from looking at the calendar are wonderful indeed. A monarch butterfly is sampling the flowers in the back yard.  This I see through my upstairs windows in my office at home. So I’ve enjoyed two rather impromptu evenings.

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Midnight Blues When word got out that Magic Slim was looking for a few guest Teardrops, the Chicago rhythm & blues community responded with a resounding ‘Yeah!’ Joining him on this incredible set of real Chicago Blues with a dash of Country and a bit of Soul thrown in are James Cotton, Lil’ Ed Williams, Lonnie Brooks, Otis Clay, Gene Barge, Elvin Bishop and the Chicago Rhythm & Bues Kings horn section. Slim is a national treasure, one of the few true bluesmen still around, and at seventy years young he is playing and singing with as much passion and strength as ever.

July 26, 2009 | Reme Ahmad | Assistant Foreign Editor | The Straits Times Singapore   Reme Ahmad remembers the legacy the late Malaysian director left behind. I HAD never met or spoken with Yasmin Ahmad. But her positive messages about life were present in my living room at least three times a year – always in the days leading to Hari Raya, Lunar New Year or Deepavali. Working with national oil company Petronas, she produced these TV commercials that always tugged at my heart with its celebration of family life and multiracial living in Malaysia.

Not long ago, Turkey Hill’s “Einstein of Ice Cream,” Ernie Pinckney, was a guest on the Saucy Sisters radio show. The Saucy Sisters – Barbara and Beverly – mainly focus on wine topics, but stray a bit sometimes to include topics like ice cream. Below is a transcript of their conversation with Ernie. Enjoy! BEVERLY: Many of you have written to ask us, “How in the world did you get so lucky to be a Saucy Sister?” Well, you drink all day and you taste foods from around the world.

John Ch 4 V 43-54 43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there. 46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

Judges 19:  Christ the Levitical Concubine Jdg 19:1-30  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.  (2)  And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.  (3)  Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back.

From memory: Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton followed up her smashing success in India with a visit to ASEAN where she indulged in a little Burma-bashing, with a smidge of NorK name-calling . You know it’s bad when the mainstream press starts to call this the “Blunderpalooza Tour,” a term usually reservered for any foray the Vice President makes outside of his now-disclosed armored locker behind the wine racks in the cellar of the Naval Observatory.

Planning A Gay Vacation to South Africa by Howie HolbenSouth Africa has had a tumultuous human rights history, but even before reversing course with the elimination of apartheid, penning the worlds first constitution to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and being among the first nations to legalize same-sex marriage, South Africa was a popular gay travel destination. Since these history-making events, South Africa has become even more popular with both straight and gay travelers.

by Howie Holben South Africa was a gay travel destination long before it became the first country in the world with a constitution outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation and the fifth country to legalize same-sex marriage. With the fall of apartheid and these two historic gay rights events, the allure of South Africa has increased substantially among both straight and gay travelers. From the glorious beaches of the Western Cape to the fast-paced excitement of Gauteng, South Africa is the gay-friendliest country on the continent and is an ideal location for a gay vacation.

A Gin-u-wine Texan’s Map of the U.S.A. (No Bull) “ Howdy from Texas (Tejas): This ain’t no bull. We ain’t never heard of Alasky. We’ve always been the biggest. Why, Brewster County in Texas is bigger than the whole state of Rhode Island. YA’LL COME (EVER CHANCE YE GIT).” This unused postcard came to me from the collection of a young man called Wart, who travelled the country in 1981, mostly by bus.  He sent a lot of cards back home to his parents in Stone Mountain , Georgia, writing of his travels (mostly location updates), but he also seems to have hand-carried back a lot of unused ones, too.

Economic growth was recorded in Portugal during the period 1990 – 2000. It has become progressively more service based economy. In the year 1986, Portugal was accepted in the European Union. It is a high income country and follows its own capitalist kind of economic structure. In 1998, Portugal qualified for the Economic and the Monetary Union of the European Union. Over the last 20 years, consecutive governments have taken steps in order to privatize many of the state controlled companies and worked more towards liberalizing the economy.

I was a small child. Meaning, I was not the star-athlete, although I did once receive a trophy for being the best second baseman on our little league team. I was intelligent, but not super-intelligent. I thought I was funny, but most of my friends joked that they only laughed at me because I was so hiliariously not funny.  I was not handsome and I was not wealthy. Which left one avenue for success: Music.Music was in mygenes. My uncles have played in bands their whole lives.

EVENTS Pedestrian Sundays: Water! Streams of Consciousness various streets in Kensington Market 12:00 noon to 7:00 PM (10:00 PM on North Augusta) free Amid island music and a barrage of pirates, sailors, and fishermen, we’ll celebrate the magic of water, water conservation, and consciousness—write a message in a bottle, sing sea shanties, take the water challenge.