Hello allI hope you are doing well and enjoying the snow..........We have spent the last few days in Paraty a colonial town a few hundred kilometres down the coast from Rio de Janeiro took about 5 hours to drive there. We are now with our tour group which consists of Joaquin our guide Alice our friend we met at the airport from near Leicester shes now sharing with Caryl I Ruud from
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Tower Bridge Lift
ich bin heut extra nach der arbeit zur tower bridge gefahren damit ich mir anschauen kann wie sich die beiden teile heben und a schiff durchfhrt. die liftzeiten sind auf der homepage angegeben weils nur ca 1mal die woche oder so passiert.es is eh nur so ein kleines touristenbooterl unten durchgfahren aber es war cool zum anschauen. des ganze spektakel mit auf und wieder zumachen is in ca
Tarragona
Tuesday 19.1.210 day 97TarragonaWe went back to Tarragona again and got a Tarragona pass that got us into a lot of the Roman sites for free it was 10euro each but was not worth it the main site I wanted to see was the Roman Circus it was fantastic and very well preserved it cost 3euro to see that and the other sites we got in was the wall but there was a lot of wall you could see without payin
Cambrils
Monday 18.1.210 day 96CambrilsToday we decided to go to what we had been told by our resort was a little fishing village close to our hotel. We drove though the village but it seemed more like a tourist destination about 10 of the ships in the harbor where fishing boats the others where luxury sports boats and game fishing boats. The place was full of 4 and 3 star hotels and the beach front was
Salou beach
Sunday 17.1.210 day 95Salou beachWe slept in today and then we had to sort out some problems with our unit is had not been cleaned properly before we moved in and there was a few things that where broken that needed fixing like we could not lock the door to our balcony. After we got most of it sorted we then went out for a walk along the beach. The Mediterranean is very blue and Salou has fantasti
Spain Salou Cosra Daurada
Saturday 16.1.210 day 94Spain Salou Cosra DauradaWe had a good sleep in and then headed to the Roman part of Tarragona. There was settlement in the region by the 5th century BC the Romans up a military base in 218 BC and over the next 200 years the entire Iberian Peninsula was conquered from this base. In the 2nd century BC a great wall was built around the city. The wall was original 3500 met
Elections and Vineyards
Well its been quite the busy week here in Santiago hence the fact that I havenrsquot had the chance to write to you all. In addition it seems now I only have one week left in Santiago and this makes me very sad. I have really enjoyed getting to know the city and I am very jealous of the other students who will stay here until June. But back to today.Last week was the final week of our inten
Ashura in Mauritius
The first ten days of the first lunar month of the Muslim calender when the Ashura is celebrated
Zoom zoom zoom
We boarded the plain from Newark and luckily are flying business class. I empathized with all the suckers flying in coach but not enough to give up my seat. The flight was a little over 14 hours and to be honest I was dreading it a little bit. I was armed to the teeth with gadetry to occupy my boredom like magazines books HP movies Star Wars movies cards MP3 player work stuff etc. but wh
Numero Uno
Well the time has finally come A nice half 5 start tomorrow morning and unlikely to sleep very well tonight. Excitement is at 'Rollercoaster' level and worryfear is at 'absolutely cacking my pants' level but we'll get through it Next stop Mexico City
Mount Kilimanjaro in 1997
I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ... in 1997 ... great experience ...
It begins…
Well this is my first blog entry ever I hope that I will be willing and able to update it as much as possible during my upcoming trip through the Middle East to Central Europe. I also hope everyone enjoys living vicariously through my blog.CheersJoe
Week 1 and a half
Sabbatical director for week 1 John Murray had me at work on the Tues after arrival in Bangkok. Joined Serge a Maryknoll volunteer from Haiti teaching an English class to Buddhist monks who have come out of Myanmar. They had some v interesting stories as they are from the Shan hilltribe ethnic minority who have escaped into Thailand. Teaching them English is one of the ways forward for them. One
Madison Hotels
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Annapolis Hotels
Got Travel Everything you need to plan your trip is at Essentravel.com. If you don't know where you'd like to go look at our Destination Guides for countries and cities that catch your eye. Get a general overview of foods cultures and languages. Learn how to get around. Read practical information on entry requirements visas and safety...comments reviews complaints aurora hotels essentrav
Book Excerpt: The Beatitudes For Today
James C. Howell on having a pure heart.
Latest Convictions Reflect Crackdown on Freedom of Expression and Association in Vietnam
Freedom House condemns the conviction and harsh sentencing of four pro-democracy activists in Vietnam and the Communist Party's ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression and association.
Limits on Lobbying? Don’t Tell the Lobbyists
Ellen Miller, co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation, has spent years arguing for rules to force more disclosure of how lobbyists and private interests shape public policy. Until recently, she herself registered as a lobbyist, too, publicly reporting her role in the group’s advocacy of even more reporting. Not anymore.
In light of strict new regulations imposed by Congress over the last two years, Ms. Miller joined a wave of policy advocates who are choosing not to declare themselves as lobbyists.
Read the rest here; it gets better.
Should Congress regulate lobbying? In my view, no. Beyond the enforcement issue, such regulation is not only inconsistent with free speech but counterproductive as well: it lulls voters into thinking the law has constrained special interests, when it has not.
Meteorite hits in Lorton Virginia | Bad Astronomy
A small meteorite, about the size of a tennis ball or so, crashed into a Lorton, Virginia doctor’s office on Monday, according to several reports including one in the Washington Post. No one was hurt, but there was some damage — not surprising, since it must have hit at a couple of hundred kilometers per hour (it’s a Hollywood myth that small rocks hit at huge speeds with flames drawn out behind them; they slow down to highway-like speeds while they are still dozens of kilometers off the ground). The Maryland Weather blog has a picture of the interplanetary interloper — there’s a clear fusion crust (the blackening of the surface from heat), which is a giveaway it’s a meteorite.
There were hundreds of eyewitness reports of the fireball reaching as far north as New Jersey, so the rock must have been traveling southward. There may be other pieces along the path, most likely near where this one hit. I wonder if there were other people who may have seen small debris hit but haven’t put the story together? If you live in that area (it’s actually near where I grew up, which is neither here nor there, but still makes me faintly jealous) then keep your eyes and ears open for any stories. It’s still pretty rare to be able to collect specimens from recent falls, making this a very valuable find– both scientifically and financially!
[Update: Nancy Atkinson has video on Universe Today, too.]
Tip o’ the Whipple Shield to Bill Smith.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Meets Award-Winning Director James Cameron
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and award-winning writer-director James Cameron, meet at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Cameron, who is a former member of the NASA Advisory Council, has had a life-long interest in space and science. The two talked about public outreach and education among other subjects.
View my blog's last three great articles....
- Shuttle Education
- NASA Ames Plays Key Role in Proposed Space Mission...
- NASA Reveals New Batch Of Space Program Artifacts
