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In the News (Wed 30 May 12)

  
  Cape Town Travel : Restaurants
Cape Town's wide choice of restaurants is as cosmopolitan as the 'Mother City' itself.
Cape Town Travel is a subsidiary of African Safari and Travel Inc.:
Cape Town Travel is best viewed with IE4+ or Netscape 6 and screen resolution of 800 x 600.
www.capetowntravel.com /entertainment/restaurants.asp   (615 words)

  
 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket hotel reviews Cape Panwa Phuket at Go Andaman
We stayed in a Jacuzzi Suite room that had a great view over the water and was delighted that it was always clean and fresh and the jacuzzi was health checked every day.
For those not familiar, the monsoon season is inconvenient not for the rain, which happens but usually don t last long and actually cools the place, but for the strong waves which makes it impossible to swim in many beaches on the west coast of Phuket.
The beach at Cape Panwa Hotel is calm, clean and relatively pretty.
www.goandaman.com /phuket-hotels/cape-panwa-hotel-reviews   (487 words)

  
  Cape Verde History and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Until the early l960s, the packets were the vital link between Cape Verdean and the New England communities, carrying passengers back and forth, and most importantly the barrels of food and clothes back to the families in the islands.
Cape Verdeans worked in Cape Cod's cranberry bogs, as well as on the waterfronts and in the textile mills.
The door on Cape Verdean immigration, closed by the Johnson Immigration Laws of 1922 and l924, reopened in l968, beginning the second major wave of Cape Verdean immigration in the 20th century.
www.spiamedia.com /cape_verde.html   (496 words)

  
 Islands.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, may be home to multiple Anguses, Dans, and Neils, but this summer there seems to be only one Ashley, the one here on Le Gabriel’s stage: Ashley MacIsaac.
Furthermore, Cape Breton communities that lie close to one another on a map may be distant in highway miles because of the broken shape and tattered edges of the land.
Long tables are pushed together in bingo hall rows on acres of indoor-outdoor carpeting.
www.islands.com /articles/f02101995.asp   (3139 words)

  
 Cesaria Evora (The Leopard Man's African Music Guide)
Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony for 400 years in all.
The Cape Verde morna is a strong influence but there is in addition an African element that makes it something peculiar.
The lyrics are as usual about melodramatic longing, but with an edge which more than once tears at the heart.
www.leopardmannen.no /e/evora.cesaria.asp?lang=gb   (1918 words)

  
 Cape Verdean Blues (10/15/97)
And though she strikes a dazzling image in performance, draped in flowing colorful African gowns and, yes, without shoes, it is her voice, singing emotional tales of longing and homesickness, that communicates to audiences worldwide.
This went on for decades, until 1988 when Lusafrica Records' Jose Da Silva, a French producer of Cape Verdean descent, saw her in concert, took her to a recording studio in Paris and the rest, as they say, is history.
It tells a tale that has become part of the Cape Verdean collective culture of young, nostalgic islanders who were taken to Sao Tome to work on the cocoa and banana plantations in the 1950s.
www.metrotimes.com /arts/stories/18/03/evora.html   (727 words)

  
 International Programs : Bridgewater State College
Cape Verde is an archipelago nation of 10 islands and 5 islets off the coast of west Africa, at 15 degrees north of the equator.
Cape Verde is in the Sahel zone, a marine extension of the Sahara Desert.
Sodade sometimes expresses the longing of an emigrant looking across the sea to the motherland, or the feelings of mothers on Cape Verde longing for their distant children and other loved ones who have left the islands for a different life.
www.bridgew.edu /International/capeverde.cfm   (709 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pilgrimages
She was long regarded as the most popular of Scottish saints and her tomb was the most revered in all that kingdom.
Hidden for long within a silver statue of the Blessed Virgin, life-size, it was screened from public view, till it was stolen by the Calvinists and has since disappeared from history.
For long it was the centre of a famous pilgrimage to the great archangel, whose power in times of war and distress was earnestly implored.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12085a.htm   (13626 words)

  
 Jupiter A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Missile cut-off occurred later than predicted and caused the missile to impact approximately 6.5 nm long, During descent the warhead turned left, causing impact to be several miles to the left of the aiming azimuth line.
Impact point was 220 meters short and 320 meters to the right, a radial miss distance of 390 meters, primary objective was to test the accuracy of the guidance system when the missile was fired in a short range trajectory at an extreme altitude to range ratio.
The flight was successful, the impact point was 445 metres long and 452 meters to the right of the predicted impact point, giving a radial miss distance of.
www.astronautix.com /lvs/jupitera.htm   (2029 words)

  
 The Sands of Cape Verde
There is some evidence that Cape Verde might have been green a long time ago, but ever since the first inhabitants arrived from Portugal in 1462 the islands have been bone-dry, essentially a maritime extension of the Sahel.
Alienation and a forced abandonment of roots have also played a role, as the bulk of the population is composed of the descendants of African slaves from various ethnic backgrounds who were cut off from their histories and had to develop a creole language and culture under a particularly ruthless colonial regime.
A veteran of several catastrophic droughts, a brutal colonial government, and three husbands, the 55-year-old grandmother has come a long way from the time when she sang barefoot, unable to afford shoes, in the dockside cafes of her hometown Mindelo.
stuff.mit.edu /people/jync/writing/cesaria.html   (709 words)

  
 Jenny Robson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jennifer Marion Robson (née Murray) was born in Cape Town and raised in the Mother City.
She matriculated at Westerford in Cape Town in 1970 and studied primary school teaching at the training college in Mowbray.
Longing for answers while almost certain there aren't any is an influence on her work, as is contempt for political correctness vs. understanding of why it arises, a constant inner struggle between a belief in the brotherhood of
www.childlit.org.za /robson.html   (789 words)

  
 Cape Cod Times: The wisdom of our elders (September 30, 2001)
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Deborah Dougherty of Falmouth had a great longing for her mother, who died four years ago after a stroke.
Here are a few stories from Cape Codders who faced down dragons of disease, economic depression, despots bent on world domination and revolutionary dictators dancing on the edge of nuclear war.
He struggled with his objector's stance as a young preacher after the war, ministering to a congregation of former GIs and their families in Levittown, N.Y. The Cape and ranch houses filling with children were home to men who had liberated concentration camps and turned the tide of war in the Pacific.
www.capecodonline.com /special/terror/terrornews/thewisdom30.htm   (1705 words)

  
 CD Freedom Mini-Store: Artist:
Longing is produced by Russ Long(Sixpence None The Richer, Over The Rhine) and marked by the work of seasoned players such as Chris Donahue (Over The Rhine, Vigilantes of Love, Fleming & John), Ken Lewis (David Wilcox, Phil Keaggy), Chris Grafagnino (Wes Cunningham) and Kenny Meeks (Jan Krist, Phil Madeira, Sixpence, Buddy Miller).
With this latest work under her belt, Katy is heading back out both solo and with band to coffeehouses, clubs, colleges and bars.
Rumors of Longing are stirring attention and possibilities in Nashville circles, but Katy is not waiting for her proverbial break.
www.cdfreedom.com /cdfreedom/artist.asp?prodid=695   (277 words)

  
 various artists, The Rough Guide to the Music of Cape Verde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cape Verde, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Senegal, is inhabited by the descendants of Portuguese colonists and African slaves.
Because the environment of the islands is inhospitable, many Cape Verdeans have settled elsewhere.
The four main styles of Cape Verdean music collected on this CD are are morna, coladeira, batuque and funa'na'.
www.rambles.net /roughguide_cverde.html   (333 words)

  
 Carpe Diem - Provincetown (Cape Cod), Massachusetts - BBOnline.com / Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Located at the tip of Cape Cod is this classical guesthouse dedicated to the 'dead poets'.
A longing, which has always drawn people to Provincetown: Poets, writers, artists...people who fall in love with this special place at the edge of the continent.
Provincetown is renowned for its endless miles of Cape Cod beaches, sand dunes, beech forest trails and cycle paths.
www.bbonline.com /ma/carpediem   (442 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Music / Maria full of grace
Listening to the buoyant, often celebratory songs of Los Angeles-based Cape Verdean singer Maria de Barros and the ache-filled music of her famous godmother, Cesaria Evora, it's clear that while they're united by a common culture, America's affluence and West Africa's poverty have set their sounds on divergent paths.
It was Evora who introduced the world to Cape Verdean music in the early 1990s, with her ineffably graceful, minor-key mornas describing lives of hardship, heartbreak, and longing for absent loved ones.
Singing mostly in the Cape Verdean Creole language of Criolu, which blends Portuguese with West African languages, she effortlessly communicates joy and pleasure with her cool, lustrous voice, whether one understands the lyrics or not.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/02/13/maria_full_of_grace?pg=full   (895 words)

  
 Rough Guides Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From this lush perch I have a panoramic view of Cape Town — the natural charms of Lion's Head and Signal Hill to the west; Devil's peak to the east; and to the southeast, the Cape Flats, home to Cape Town's crowded and crumbling shantytowns.
Eight of us convene near Cape Town's main train station, and are ushered into a van by our guide, Neville, a fl man in his late twenties.
Though there are plans to repatriate former residents in the Cape Flats, the South African government has more pressing problems than finding housing for people who already have it — albeit shanties — so it remains up to groups like these to provide what aid they can.
travel.roughguides.com /spotlight_display.html?spotlightid=210   (1267 words)

  
 --[GetawaytoAfrica.com - Getaway magazine]--
I set out from Cape Town with this book as my reading matter for the few hours after each day's driving and before darkness would seep into my tent.
Our journey began at Cape Point in a howling southwester, much like the one travel writer Paul Theroux recorded in Dark Star Safari when he arrived in Cape Town at the end of his epic voyage south from Cairo.
Beyond Cape Town, past Stellenbosch vineyards and the fruit-salad farms which grow a bit of everything in Paarl, we tracked Rhodes's gaze.
www.getawaytoafrica.com /content/magazine/features/feature.asp?id=89   (610 words)

  
 ZA@Play
It brings about a longing for distant lands that can be put to good use (in the kitchen).
One suspects though that Cape food writers suffer from Bill Granger envy and each new publication is hoping to do for the province what he did for his native city with his international hit of 2000, Sydney Food (Murdoch).
Dare one say it: while the Cape tries to reinvent itself as a place of extremely modern eating it is Paarman’s old fashioned collection that is most entertaining.
www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2003/2003nov/101-food.html   (1163 words)

  
 Gypsy Journal - Cape Tribulation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
About 2 hours north of Cairns, Cape Tribulation is a section of the Cape York peninsula, a rainforested, largely uninhabited area on Queensland's northeastern coast.
Cape Trib is not quite on that level, but it is still mostly uninhabited, save for a few hostels and a general store.
The Cape Trib area is touted as being the only spot in the world where two world heritage listed areas meet each other --the Daintree Rainforest and the great Barrier Reef.
www.gypsyjournal.com /Chapter.asp?ChapterID=726   (656 words)

  
 Buddy And The Boys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cape Bretoners Dubinsky, MacDonald, Dillon and Lamey played in a band called "Homebrew".All but Dubinsky moved to Halifax leaving him to his farm and song-writing in Englishtown.
A Cape Breton rock opera of sorts, "Buddy" is the name Cape Bretoners most often use when they meet a new acquaintance.
MacDonald performed in the Cape Breton Summertime Revue from 1985 to 1994, acted at Neptune Theatre in 1985-86, was the chairman of the East Coast Music Awards in 1995 and currently operates Rave Entertainment in Sydney, Cape Breton which he started in 1995.
nsclassicrock.8m.com /buddyandtheboys.html   (674 words)

  
 Luna Kafé - Various Artists: Cape Verde
Much of it is barren and dry and most of the 300,000 or so inhabitants are Creoles or mestiços, descended from a mix of West African slaves and Portuguese colonists.
(Drums are de-emphasized, because for a long time their use was forbidden by the colonists.) This doesn't mean however that the music is depressing - there are plenty of dances here.
This dual form is further reinforced within each of the verses, when Ana Firmino's calls in a higher octave are followed by her own response an octave lower.
www.lunakafe.com /moon44/cv44.php   (596 words)

  
 IOL: Mandela's letters show a longing for freedom
Mandela was jailed on Robben Island for 18 years before being transferred in 1982 to Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town and later to nearby Paarl, serving a total of 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities.
The two fl-jacketed notebooks, containing drafts of 70 letters written to friends and family, were handed over to Mandela two months ago by retired police officer Donald Card, who was tasked with censoring the mail of prisoners and checking it for coded messages.
It also tells of his personal pain when both his mother and his eldest son died in the space of 12 months between 1968 and 1969, and how he was not allowed to attend their funerals.
www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=&click_id=79&art_id=qw1102251960287B216   (507 words)

  
 Orizzontintorno - di Carlo Paschetto & Emanuela Gris
Telling about a desert is never easy, and justifying the longing for Africa, to those who haven't been there, is even harder.
In our Cape Town hotel parking lot, the Organization Board and the young new-hired girl are gathered in front of their metallic red Rocsta Jeep 4x4, which has just been delivered.
These places are really spectral, and the stories about the hell of a life which was conducted here and that is still lived in other places today by miners and incredible controls on them have the flavour of legend but are something you can really breath in these places.
www.orizzontintorno.com /EN/VOr/Travels/AVNamibia.htm   (2817 words)

  
 Catching some rays (April 21, 2005)
In shorts and sandals, she paused in the middle of her coffee-flavored ice cream to lay out summer's itinerary - an easy enough task on an April day borrowed from June.
As temperatures topped 70 degrees yesterday, Cape Cod headed back outside - to play mini-golf, to jump on that yardwork, or just to bask in the merciful warmth after a record-snapping winter.
Cape Codders are snapping up plants to brighten their yards and grass seed to patch gashes left by errant snowplows.
www.capecodonline.com /oncape/stories/catchingsome21.htm   (471 words)

  
 The Queen Victoria, Cape May, New Jersey, NJ
In the heart of Cape May's historic district, The Queen Victoria's location, just one block from both the ocean beach and the quaint shops and restaurants of Washington Street, add to the convenience of their guests.
Open every day of the year, travelers longing for the total escape of a romantic getaway enjoy tastefully decorated rooms as well as the beautifully appointed baths with whirlpool tubs and glass enclosed showers.
Explore Cape May's quaint streets using the Inn's complimentary Hampton Cruiser bicycles and dine at one of the many restaurants nearby, where candle-lit tables and gourmet fare beckon.
www.queenvictoria.com /reviews.html   (481 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Cape Town beckoned - Durban beckoned back and found him alongside Chris Letcher and Brendan Jury in the days before Urban Creep, playing at the old Aliwal Lighthouse for a change.
Spuy and Didier Noblia to form Landscape Prayers - a rather more serious instrumental musical venture which required hectic bar by bar (no, not drinking) analysis of composition - a period of growth which he is eternally grateful to Nibs for.
They have, with this their second album, brought a bit of the old Formula 1 philosophy into play, in that you the audience are drawn in by the margin of error.
www.benguela.co.za /bio.html   (1541 words)

  
 NEWSARAMA - HORNSCHEMEIER ON MOTHER, COME HOME
There are some comics that you just know will be held up for a long time as examples of what the medium can do and how it can be pushed.
The second image was of a boy wearing a lion mask with a red cape, walking across the snow-covered horizon.
Quite prominent throughout the entire story are a lion’s mask and red cape, both gifts from Thomas’ mother which the young boy wears frequently.
www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6517   (1999 words)

  
 Cape Peninsula Hotels : Cape Town Hotel Accommodation South Africa
Cape Peninsula Hotels : Cape Town Hotel Accommodation South Africa
Cape Peninsula hotels enjoy warmer sea water and have an easy rail link access to central Cape Town making them a popular choice for tourists.
Cape Town - Vic Falls - Johannesburg (Overland)
www.capetowntravel.com /peninsula/peninsula_hotels.asp   (300 words)

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