Friday, February 11, 2011
Planning and Making Reservations (Blog #2)
I found that making reservations with O.A.R.S. and ORION EXPEDITIONS was a very easy process. Everyone was wonderful as well as knowledgeable and so willing to accommodate. I am not a very patient kind of person- being a Virgo- and I like instant gratification, which I did receive. The first company I called was Orion [...]
Egypt's President Mubarak Steps Down After 30 Years
Steve Inskeep talks with NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson for the latest developments in Cairo.
Military Backs Mubarak As Fury Grows
The military endorsed President Hosni Mubarak's plan for a transfer of power and presidential elections later this year. The move is likely to further enrage protesters who massed outside Parliament, the presidential palace and other key symbols of the regime Friday more determined than ever to force Mubarak out.
Scrambling Mt. Temple
This past week in the Canadian Rockies, enough snow has fallen at high elevations and the daytime temperatures have remained cool enough that scrambling season has clearly ended. Sure, any summit is accessible any time of year, if you’re a black-belt mountaineer. But a patina of snow and/or ice makes a long, steep, rough scramble [...]
Wild and Scenic Film Festival this Weekend
In the madness of the holidays you probably forgot that the annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival is coming� up!� The Nevada City event is the largest environmental film festival in America and plays films meant to both educate and inspire.� One of the films is of particular interest to rafters–Saving a River tells the [...]
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Possible Republican presidential candidates gather (Reuters)
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Government Spending: The Budget Battle Begins
A.B. Stoddard, The HillAfter nearly two years of vowing to slash government spending, all eyes are on Republicans as their first cuts come to the House floor. There, defeated Democrats will be background noise as the budget debate between leadership Republicans and Tea Party-backed freshmen unfolds, a debut of the party’s Rand Paul/Paul Ryan problem. Just as Rep. Ryan (R-Wis.), House Budget Committee chairman, introduced his plan for the largest discretionary cuts in the history of the Congress, Sen. Paul (R-Ky.) — a freshman conservative as pure as the Tea Party could brew — ...
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