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Live on Kauai: New Island Community

Kauai was ranked #2 in ISLANDS magazine's Best Island to Live On round up in 2010. Now, your dream life there has a brand new option, the first development of its kind in twenty years. Check out the Kukui'ula community opening as we speak in Koloa, Kauai.

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Getting the feel of an Olympus E-P1

I was tired of coming home from trips with disappointing pictures taken with my point-and-shoot camera.

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No April Fool's - 3 Feet of Fresh at Squaw

.....Squaw Valley, Calif. (Ski Press)-No fooling, a strong storm has left up to 3 feet of new snow at Squaw Valley USA in the last 36 hours. A chance of snow showers remain in the forecast in the days ahead, providing continued fresh ski conditions. Squaw will be open through May 9th, with superb springtime skiing and snowboarding, and a host of spring events, including weekly pool parties at the spectacular High Camp Swiming Lagoon and Spa, and fun events like the annual Billy Dutton Uphill Race on April 11th, and the Lake Cushing Classic Pond Crossing. SEASON STATS To date this season, Squaw Valley USA has received over 428? or more than 35 feet of snow on the upper mountain. Current base depths measure 139-151? on the upper mountain.

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Bring the Booze with JetBag

Hooked on Cruzan rum but afraid the bottle will break on your way home from St. Croix? Can't get enough of that little winery in New Zealand? Take it home with the JetBag, which provides a degree of protection for your liquids while traveling. The bag is designed specifically to transport liquids in your checked baggage and to prevent and contain spills. We love the concept and at $4 a bag, we think JetBag is a great insurance policy for not only your libation investment, but also for your luggage.
JetBag is able to absorb 750ml in the event of a spill, so as long as the zip lock barrier doesn't pop open and/or the plastic bag isn't breached, at least some of a bottle's contents would be absorbed in the soft lining of the JetBag, which also doubles as a shock buffer.
With simple, blunt force trauma (the kind that could be applied every time your luggage is carelessly tossed onto the airport conveyor belt) the JetBag performs wonderfully and really can absorb 750ml of liquid, which, in the case of red wine, could mean the difference between all your stuff being ruined and a well-contained spill; all for $4. Think of it as an insurance policy for your booze.

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National Bike Week

The wheels are in motion for National Bike Week, the biggest nationwide cycling event in the UK. It starts June 18th and is a week of activities celebrating cycling and the environment and of course the social health benefits. Team Green Britain, founded by EDF Energy, are sponsoring the event.Bike week was started by the Cyclists Touring Club in 1923 and each year tens of thousands of cyclists take part. The aim is to encourage everyone to use a bike as their preferred form of transport.There are organised bike rides all around the country and organisers are varied.Norwood are staging a Junior Bike Ride on June 19 starting at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Herfordshire and Deaf Connections who have two events for the Deaf Community in Scotland. There?s even a bike fashion show run by Envirolution in Manchester at Platt Fields Park where you can show of your bike on a bike walk and the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride is a 70 mile sponsored charity cycle ride starting at Wetherby (the Racecourse) and ends in Filey.There are hundreds of events everywhere, and whether you are participating or inspired to get on your bike, Bike Week website has a calculator to find out how much money you save, and how many calories you burn.More information about what?s going on in your area: http://bikeweek.org.ukIf you are joing in, we'd love to see your photos.�
15 June 2011
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10 of the best books set in London

Malcolm Burgess, publisher of the City-Lit series, selects his favourite reads for the Smoke? As featured in our London city guideColin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959It evocatively celebrates a time and a place ? 1958, Notting Hill ? where youthful rebellion and multiculturalism are stirring out of London's post-war slumber. "Cool, this is London, not some hick city in the provinces! This is London, man, a capital, a great big city where every kind of race has lived ever since the Romans." ? Notting HillHelen Simpson, Title story from Constitutional, 2005A teacher makes the most of her lunch-hour on Hampstead Heath, enjoying the views and the snippets of conversation. "From that hill up there to my left it's possible to see for miles, and on a clear day I can pinpoint my road in Dalston. A skipper on the Thames looked up here at the northern heights three centuries ago and exclaimed ? the hills were capped with snow. The Heath's low trees and bushes were festooned with clean shirts and smocks hung out to dry."? Hampstead HeathMonica Ali, Brick Lane, 2003 In Monica Ali's novel, Chanu and his family discover a rich and varied London, including the delights of the East End's Brick Lane."Nazneen walked a step behind her husband down Brick Lane. The bright green and red pendants that fluttered from the lamp-posts advertised the Bangla colours and basmati rice. In the restaurant windows were clippings from newspapers and magazines with the name of the restaurant highlighted in yellow or pink." ? Brick LaneSukhdhev Sandhu, Night Haunts, 2006 London from the air at night has its own special beauty, as Sukdhev Sandhu discovers when he accompanies those who patrol the city's skies between nightfall and dawn."The streets of London are made from gold. But only at night time and only from the sky. They lie there glimmering like a Hatton Garden window display. Jewelled necklaces winking at us. At Piccadilly Circus and along Oxford Street the refracted neon gives them a ruby-red and emerald-green lustre." ? Oxford StreetCharles Dickens, Bleak House, 1852-3The famous murky opening of Bleak House amid the law courts of Lincoln's Inn Field suggests a moral fog as well as a meteorological one that will soon overwhelm its characters."Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." ? Chancery Lane/High HolbornXiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, 2007 In the first novel by this Chinese author, her narrator lives in Hackney and experiences culture shock with every step she takes. A traditional greasy spoon caf� has to be part of the authentic city experience ? "The caf� is name greasy spoon, Seven Seas. All windows is foggy from the steam. You order tea as soon as you walk into. Noisy. Babies. Mothers. Couples. Lonely old man. You are opening the newspaper and start drink thick English Breakfast milky tea." ? HackneyKeith Waterhouse, Soho, 2001A wonderful writer on the city's quirks and peccadilloes, here in Soho with a cast of unforgettable characters. His play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell mines similar Soho territory. "Except for the city itself, which after working hours is left to the caretakers and the cats and the odd penthouse millionaire, there is no London neighbourhood more resembling the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho." ? SohoIain Sinclair, Downriver, 1991Along the Thames and within its nearby communities, Iain Sinclair's fascinating novel of psychogeography traces how the river has changed - but also what remains from the past. "The true history of Whitechapel is here, unseen, invisible from the public streets. Lost gardens, courtyards whose entrances have been eliminated, shacks buried in vegetation like Mayan temples ? You could hack a path into the thicket and converse - as a contemporary - with the dead centuries." ? WhitechapelGillian Tindall, The House by the Thames, 2006The southern end of the Millenium Bridge is very close to a small, ancient house, 49 Bankside, whose story is the history of London itself."What were originally the 'mean streets' and 'dirty dark alleys' of waterside Thames are now extremely expensive real-estate, a cosmopolitan ribbon worlds away from the drab hinterlands behind them. In this ribbon, 49 Bankside, with its old-fashioned lamp, stands at night like a forgotten cottage in a children's story."? South Bank beside Millenium BridgeVirginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway lives in Westminster and Virginia Woolf brilliantly describes a day in her London life, stepping out on a glorious summer morning, Big Ben striking in the background."For having lived in Westminster ? how many years now? over twenty, ? one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense ? before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed." ?Westminster? Malcolm Burgess is the publisher of Oxygen Books' City-Lit series featuring some of the best ever writing on favourite world cities, oxygenbooks.co.uk Top 10sCultural tripsLondonUnited Kingdomguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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