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Gran Tierra Energy Announces Costayaco-6 Encounters Deeper Oil Column in Costayaco Field, Colombia
http://www.miningtopnews.com/ gran-tierra-energy-announces-costayaco-6-encounter…Gran Tierra Energy Announces Costayaco-6 Encounters Deeper Oil Column in Costayaco Field, Colombia Gran Tierra Energy Inc., a company focused on oil exploration and production in South America, announced that it had completed drilling Costayaco-6, a new well in the Costayaco Field in the Chaza
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Timesharing - Finally Time To Buy?
http://articles.tourthailand.org/ travel-and-leisure/ travel-leisure/ timesharin…Timesharing - Finally Time To Buy? By: Kevin Co The “hard” sales techniques, unexplainable price drops, and low-quality resorts are generally disappearing. That means many vacationers now view timesharing as a viable and economical option for future vacations. But they need to know much more to make an intelligent purchase.
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Important New Book: Accessible Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities
http://www.tipsfromthetlist.com/ article3805.htmlThe Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) has recently produced a new publication Accessible Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities. This is a FREE resource available here: http://www.crctourism.com.au/BookShop/BookDetail.aspx?d=632 From the book: “American adults with disabilities or reduced mobility currently spend an average of $13.6 billion a year on travel.
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The Buildout Bailout: Liberation Through Infrastructure or Just Another Prison Project?
http://www.tipsfromthetlist.com/ article3803.htmlThe suggestion to repeat the tried-and-true public works infrastructure solution for re-priming the US economy has made it up to center stage with president Obama proposing it to the nation's governors. Unless it is imbued 100% through and through with the principles of Universal Design it will simply be the largest exclusion-by-design project ever seen.
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Air Travel - Philippines
http://www.tipsfromthetlist.com/ article3786.htmlThis review of the Cebu Pacific's discrimination against deaf travelers appeared at Filipino Deaf blog I know that the incident involving Cebu Pacific happened earlier this year. But at least people from outside our community are slowly taking notice of it.
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Columbian Player Gives “Dive” New Meaning.
http://www.theoffside.com/ south-america/ columbian-player-gives-dive-new-meanin…This may be the dive that finally puts the Alberto Gilardino ode to Greg Louganis to shame. This clown, Emerson Acuna, of Atletico National in Columbia, is lassoed by the imaginary cowboy without a defender in spitting distance.
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Tracks into the Sun - Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
http://blog.rtd13.com/ 2008/ 12/ 02/ tracks-into-the-sun-salar-de-uyuni-bolivia/…Click on the tracks for a larger version. The music is here. For some reason, I didn’t discover this image until a few weeks ago. I’m not sure why I hadn’t. I’ve been through every image I made in Bolivia dozens and dozens of times yet this one escaped me. Better late then never, I guess.
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Dancing Through Life ‘Til Hell Freezes Over - Gary Presly on Gimp Life at 50 Years
http://www.tipsfromthetlist.com/ article3795.htmlGary Presley, author of "Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio" (University of Iowa Press) begins his article in the Washington Post this way, "This month I began my 50th year of riding a wheelchair through life.
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Juan Roman Riquelme’s Angry Goal Celebration
http://www.theoffside.com/ south-america/ juan-roman-riquelmes-angry-goal-celebr…Boca Junior’s Juan Roman Riquelme had been arguing with 21 year old Boca fan Augustin Pozzetti earlier in this home game vs Racing, so after volleying a 60th minute winner the playmaker ran 55 yards to point an angry finger at Pozzetti.
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Beany and Cecil
http://daily.chictoday.com/ 2008/ 12/ 02/ beany-cecil/Beany and Cecil December 2nd, 2008 by Ellen Christine No comments When I was in first grade, our school uniforms had a matching beanie, and heaven help the girl who showed up without it. I fear there is a generational adjustment to be made, however, because ‘beanie’ now means a soft, head-hugging shaped hat, much like a sock for the head.
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