Adventure to Sturgis - Part Five
Adventure to Sturgis - Part Five Leaving Mount Rushmore National Monument we start heading south on highway 16A towards our next adventure to ... roads through the pine wooded forests of the Black Hills. This highway is very narrow and you must ... this city for their visit is because of the reason there is a great choice of Hotels in Melbourne [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 01:52:09
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Adventure to Sturgis - Part Five
Adventure to Sturgis - Part Five Leaving Mount Rushmore National Monument we start heading south on highway 16A towards our next adventure to ... roads through the pine wooded forests of the Black Hills. This highway is very narrow and you must ... this city for their visit is because of the reason there is a great choice of Hotels in Melbourne [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 06:54:16
W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking
Ashley Potter, at left, an Exercise Physiologist with the H.E.A.R.T. Champions program at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., uses a tape to measure around the waistline of program participant Noah Retcher, 9, of Milton on Sept. 29, 2008. Those selected to participate in H.E.A.R.T. (Helping Educators Attack Risk Factors Together) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 12:14:50
California Vacation Information
La Jolla California, is a seaside resort community of around 25,000. Spanish for “the jewel”, it’s often times referred to as “jewel by the sea” ... clothiers, hotels, shops, and galleries. The beach is also legendary to body surfers and body boarders ... and atmosphere, La Jolla is like a southern European village with it’s own touch of Beverly Hills al [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 02:07:59
Defending democracy, part II
I intended to write the rest of the story of my work with the election at the end of each day, but there simply was not enough time to both experience it and also reflect on it. So the story will have to be continued retrospectively, from a vantage point where we already know that everything worked out fine. Seemingly inevitably fine [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 06:05:59
Countdown
By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 14:34:12
It's reigning men: The reality kingpin behind 'Deadliest Catch,' 'Ice Road Truckers' and other he-man hits
How often can you say you admire a reality TV star? Not too long ago, reality programming was the shock to the system that the TV industry needed ... , has-beens and pathetic fame-seekers – think “Living Lohan,” “I Love New York,” “The Hills,” anything ... and “Black Gold,” an oil-drilling series premiering 9 p.m. Wednesday on truTV – are successful [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 05:43:54
America makes good on its promissory note
As regular readers know, I don't do politics here, but I will do a little history followed by a little psychology. Our economy may be in the pits but Dr. Martin Luther King's promissory note may have finally been honored with the election of Barak Obama. The bank of justice is not bankrupt. From I have a dream... to this in forty-five years [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 12:15:00
Real-Life Ghost Hunters: In the Footsteps of Legendary Los Angeles Murders Corinne Crockett traces a path through the sites of some of the ... s scariest haunted hotels! On the Today show on Thursday Peter talked to Amy Robach about five historic hotels where guests just might catch a glimpse of something otherworldly during their stay [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 19:05:08
City Tech Professor Weighs in on Wine Consumption Boom as U.S. Marks 75th Anniversary of Prohibition Repeal
Brooklyn, NY — “There will always be ‘wine snobs’ and ‘cork dorks’ who try to acquire wine from elite producers and cult brands, of the right vintage and store them for years. But more and more people have been buying mass produced, economically friendly wines that have a pleasant taste and taste the same each time they drink them [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 17:57:24
Cheap Last Minute La Gomera Holidays
by Mark Ian Nettlemill The now dormant volcano of La Gomera is a great place for spectacular scenery and invigorating walks ... Park. Masses of rain-forest like trees, hills blanketed in heather and mountains covered in clouds ... As for beaches, La Gomera has some hidden treasures! The black sand beach of the islands capital San [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 11:08:24
Cheap Last Minute La Gomera Holidays
by Mark Ian Nettlemill The now dormant volcano of La Gomera is a great place for spectacular scenery and invigorating walks ... Park. Masses of rain-forest like trees, hills blanketed in heather and mountains covered in clouds ... As for beaches, La Gomera has some hidden treasures! The black sand beach of the islands capital San [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 18:52:10
Cheap Last Minute La Gomera Holidays
by Mark Ian Nettlemill The now dormant volcano of La Gomera is a great place for spectacular scenery and invigorating walks ... Park. Masses of rain-forest like trees, hills blanketed in heather and mountains covered in clouds ... As for beaches, La Gomera has some hidden treasures! The black sand beach of the islands capital San [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 14:55:44
Tanzania 2 - Small Islands and Tall Mountains
October 11, 2008 - Narok, Kenya Swahili Style in Zanzibar We kind of got "stuck" on Zanzibar Island for 7 weeks. But then again, it is an easy place to get stuck. The beaches are gorgeous, people friendly, culture intruiging and food tasty. In addition, after being on the road for 5 months, it was nice to stay in one spot for a while [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 09:05:35
ROMANIA - MORE FOR LESS
Romania Quick Facts Population: 22.2 million Languages: Romanian 91% (official), Hungarian 6.7% ... , bordering the Black Sea. Neighbors: Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine and Ukraine ... range of hotels and restaurants to choose from, although its tourism infrastructure is still a step [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 14:30:37
Northern Arizona Road Trip
It’s been so busy and I haven’t had to chance to post about our wonderful get away weekend in Northern Arizona ... . They didn’t look too appealing so I looked for hotels in cities near the Grand Canyon. I then booked ... town. We drove down 89A and Amara is one of the last hotels on 89A before you leave towards Flagstaff [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 04:23:31
Cheap Holidays In La Palma
Cheap Holidays In La Palma Posted By Andy Stevens on @ 6:05 pm by Mark Ian Nettlemill La Isla Bonita is often the pet name given to La Palma ... volcanoes, listen to the song birds in the rain forests and fall completely in love with the black volcanic landscapes marked with lava roads and lonely pines that run close to heather covered hills. Any [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 23:05:54
Shop Guide: Unique Winter GetawaysExotic Cold-Weather Lodgings, from Caves to Helicopters
The colder months are upon us, inspiring more time spent indoors by the fire or huddled in bed under a down comforter ... think of traveling south of the Equator for warmer, tropical weather, some U.S. hotels ... your helicopter cabin. The Winvian Cottages, located in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut, boasts [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 15:57:08
I Voted, I Volunteered, Now I'm Going Stir Crazy
I went to the voting booth today excited, but didn't expect to get quite as emotional as I did ... be a black president in his lifetime. After some thought, he said that no, back ... then, to be able to elect someone who could be an advocate for black rights, for civil rights.I watched [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 23:32:00
West Virginia Shames The Nation Yet Again
I’ve used the above picture probably 10 times on this website. For me, it’s as illustrative as any when I’m going to write about West Virginia, and fortunately for my recent lack of blogging, my home state managed to get itself in the news again. We dodged the national media’s typical trope: West Virginians Racist Rednecks, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 04:12:09
Destiny’s Revelation No. 15
So…I’m going to Montserrat’s Tourist Board to find out information about things to do in Montserrat ... to fluffy clouds. Crowds on the beach? Our black-sand beaches and our popular Rendezuous Beach ... . Elevators? Forget them. We have a selection of apartments, guest houses, hotels, and villas where size [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 21:37:46
Cycling Vietnam
November 27, 2008 at 3:10 am · Filed under Vietnam We had one day free before meeting the next cycling group and spent the day exploring Saigon. We followed the walking tour that was suggested in the guidebook and walked to the Opera House, City Hall and Reunification Palace, NotreDame Cathedral and the General Post Office (for Marc!) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 03:10:11
W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking (AP)
W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking (AP) By admin | HUNTINGTON, W.Va ... hills. It has long been a blue-collar, white-skinned community — overwhelmingly people of English ... , as barges, trucks and trains loaded with the black fuel continually chugged into and past the city [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 14:06:15
California Vacation
California Vacation See more in Beach Vacations California Vacation, is a seaside resort community of around 25,000 ... community of La Jolla, the Marine Street Beach is a small cluster of high end clothiers, hotels, shops ... European village with it’s own touch of Beverly Hills along the retail shops on Prospect Street. A lot [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 08:06:30
Travel Tips Before Travel in Flights
Travel Tips Before Travel in Flights If you are traveling by flights then you must read this article because in this article I am going to mention ... wooded forests of the Black Hills. This highway is very narrow and you must pay attention to the road ... is because of the reason there is a great choice of Hotels in Melbourne available in wide range [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 18:54:32
election day stunner
Election day was stunning in many ways.I need not comment on our President-Elect: I went down to Castro and Market on election night and felt the buoyancy of the human spirit. What lies ahead—after the initial euphoria of having elected the intellectual, thoughtful, and sentient candidate wears off—remains to be seen [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 03:03:00
My Indian Fantasies…
India is indeed one of the most unique place on earth not for its poverty threshold but for its truly democratic humanitarian value with absolute ... in this life time unless I know every single black priests in the region.) Indians have characteristics [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 08:05:19
IN REMEMBRANCE: 11-2-2008
Jump to Comments HATTIE CLARKE ROBINSON, EDUCATOR WITH 65-YEAR CAREER She was the first Black woman in Galveston certified to be a principal ... Oct 22. She was 98. Robinson was the first black woman to be certified as a principal ... was the school policy of refusing to enroll black students. Robinson took a job as a cook for a white [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 01:48:11
Hotels - Romania, An Introduction
Hotels - Romania, An Introduction Posted in November 28th, 2008 Category:Hotels Accommodations The country of Romania is one of many contrasts. From the sandy white beaches on the cost of the Black Sea right up to the mountains, rolling hills and rural farmlands further inland. Romania hasn’t had an easy time in the past; the country [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 06:00:07
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28Nov08 Summer 2008 seems like such a long, long time ago By ian in hamburg Categories: Travel, holiday, personal, photos, tourism and vacation Tags: Bad Honnef, Bad Krotzingen, Badenweiler, Fessenheim, heitersheim, Zurich After the series on Turkey, it would seem strange to post about a previous holiday, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 20:00:45
Cheap Holidays In La Palma
by Mark Ian Nettlemill La Isla Bonita is often the pet name given to La Palma ... volcanoes, listen to the song birds in the rain forests and fall completely in love with the black volcanic landscapes marked with lava roads and lonely pines that run close to heather covered hills. Any [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 07:56:31
La Jolla California Vacation
la Jolla California Vacation, is a seaside resort community of around 25,000 ... community of La Jolla, the Marine Street Beach is a small cluster of high end clothiers, hotels, shops ... is like a southern European village with it’s own touch of Beverly Hills along the retail shops on Prospect Street [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 10:47:25
La Jolla
la Jolla California Vacation, is a seaside resort community of around 25,000 ... community of La Jolla, the Marine Street Beach is a small cluster of high end clothiers, hotels, shops ... European village with it’s own touch of Beverly Hills along the retail shops on Prospect Street. A lot [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 22:40:37
Arizona's Most Haunted and Scariest Places
  Apache Sitgreaves National Forests - Diamond Rock Camp (Springerville, AZ) Once called home to the Apache Indians; this campground in the White Mountains sits alongside the East Fork of the Black River. The campsite is located in a valley, shaded by tall ponderosa pines [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 12:35:06
Part 4 - Sikkim Goechala Trek
Written by Jayne AwSIKKIM GOECHALA TREK: 11-29 OCTOBER 2008.Note by KC: thanks to Jayne for the detailed, informative and interesting account of your trekking trip. You really paid a lot of attention to details. Together with the photos, I understand much better now the journey that you all went through [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 15:39:00
Cheap Holidays In La Palma
by Mark Ian Nettlemill La Isla Bonita is often the pet name given to La Palma ... volcanoes, listen to the song birds in the rain forests and fall completely in love with the black volcanic landscapes marked with lava roads and lonely pines that run close to heather covered hills. Any [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 07:55:34
Cheap Holidays In La Palma
by Mark Ian Nettlemill La Isla Bonita is often the pet name given to La Palma ... volcanoes, listen to the song birds in the rain forests and fall completely in love with the black volcanic landscapes marked with lava roads and lonely pines that run close to heather covered hills. Any [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 13:01:34
Mining Companies Keep Drilling and Exploration for Natural Gas in East
Illuminated drilling rigs glow for miles from atop flattened hills when night falls in this rolling farm and coal country in southwestern ... up mineral rights to the thick, black rock called Marcellus shale, which stretches deep underground [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 01:37:58
The High Life
After this year's Swiss Textiles Award ceremony, I was exhausted ... it out. Tdg Photo: Dolder Grand Set in the hills at the city's edge, with a dramatic view ... of the property with X, the hotels' X. To say that I was impressed would be an understatement. I've [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 23:17:09
JEWISH COUPLES AND ACTIVISTS TURN OUT FOR CALIFORNIA GAY WEDDINGS
BY STACEY PALEVSKY Journal of The Jewish Weekly of Northern California SAN FRANCISCO — Three years ago, Sharon Papo and Amber Weiss stood under a chupah in a Santa Cruz redwood grove and said “I do” in front of 100 relatives and friends [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 17:04:00
GLBT News Headlines (T5T-6)
Election Watchdog Group to California Secretary of State: ... with machine guns and explosives targetted several hotels, a train station, a restaurant and other public ... by MTV's The Hills and celebrity magazines, appear on the Wednesday cover of Us Weekly [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 22:42:00
Know Thine Bigots, Boycott Thine Bigots...Hold Pro Prop 8 Bigots Accountable For Their Sins
As many know, Washington Scandal supported the DEFEAT of Prop 8, supports the right of gay, bi, lesbian and transgendered couples to wed...it is called Equal Rights. I further support holding the Black and Mormon Communities accountable for their BIGOTRY...even though so far the gay community has only targeted the Mormon Church Community [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 03:40:13
Lily Allen is Back to Black
Lily Allen is Back to Black Lily Allen blogged about going back to her natural black hair color: I got bored of the pink , I can’t believe i’m posting a blog about my hair , sooooooo " the hills" kinda sorta finished ... been in for a week and it’s been an OK move , I’ve been sofa surfing and living in hotels for two years [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 18:50:17
... who do not know history, Black Americans were second-class citizens in many states of United States ... heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 20:33:32
Bangalore Mysore Highway
Huh, it was a really really long time, wasn't it? Well, it was the longest stretch of time where I did not get any idea to write. It finally took the Bangalore-Mysore highway to get me to write. And of course, I was getting "lot" of request to resume blogging too. "Lot" does not mean lot of people [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 11:17:00
Cheap Last Minute La Gomera Holidays
Cheap Last Minute La Gomera Holidays by Mark Ian Nettlemill on Dec ... , hills blanketed in heather and mountains covered in clouds - this is Garajonay National Park ... treasures! The black sand beach of the islands capital San Sebastian has a nice view of Mount Teide [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 11:11:44
The “I Have a Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
It seems only fitting after the election of our nation’s first African American President that we look back to what Martin Luther King, Jr ... every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 04:50:46
Happy Halloween!!!
Tips to Keep Your Pet Safe This HalloweenBy: Lisa Chelenza - CapitalNews9Here are some tips to keep your pets safe this Halloween:Don't leave your pets out in the yard on Halloween or the night before. There are plenty of stories of vicious pranksters who have teased, injured, stolen, even killed pets [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 16:34:00
Top 100 Celebrities and Their Hobbies
Forbes list of the top celebrities may be no secret, but their hobbies just might be–and no, we’re not talking about excessive drug use and scandalous sex. We’re talking about the top 100 celebrities and their (mostly innocent) hobbies. 1. Oprah Winfrey - Philanthropy, Acting, Broadway Producer, Reading, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 13:00:29
FEMA Prison Camps Fully Staffed & Ready To Go
Subject: USA - Potential FEMA concentration camps FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA ( [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 21:44:55
