The American writer Washington Irving, who died in 1859, described the Shenandoah Valley as "equal to the promised land in fertility and far superior to it for beauty." Just five years after Irving’s death, a local farmer deemed it a "desert." In the interim, the most beautiful valley in Virginia had become the focus of […]
Santa Monica municipal pier.
Overhead the sky was clear with a strong breeze blowing off the ocean. And the air was cold, too. The view was fantastic and I could clearly see the outlines of islands in the ocean, Anacapa or Catalina? If I correctly guess one I will be aheadof the game and earn 3 princess points. Of course […]
The Park Ave Doorman: An Interview
Single women adore him, D’Agostino supermarket delivery men are indebted to him, and some dogs whimper when walking past the street he works on if their owners don’t let them stop in to greet him. He’s not the neighborhood friendly Spiderman, but he’s not far off. He’s Victor Velez, the neighborhood friendly doorman. Eight years […]
Palestinians Want Help More Than Handouts in Paris
Suleiman Farhan is halfway through his farming year but has already done enough accounting to know he’ll find himself heavily in debt by next summer. Farhan, 40, a Palestinian farmer in the village of Jiftlik, in the north of the occupied West Bank, was up before dawn on Saturday to harvest a crop of sweet, […]
Online Banking: Security Issues for Online Payment Services
Online Banking Online banking allows customers or users to conduct financial transactions on a secure website operated by their banks, credit unions or building societies. Online banking has grown rapidly using today’s computer technology thereby providing the option of online payment bypassing the time-consuming, traditional banking in order to manage the finances more quickly and […]
Portrait of a Hanson Fan
“Funny how life gets in the way of your Hanson web site. When I was 20, it was the other way around. This is why, my friends, you should never write dolorous farewell notes or burn your internet bridges. Years will pass. The dust will gather. And you will wake up one morning with a […]
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