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POPSAug 15: Obon (Japan) / Chung Yuan (Taiwan) / Vu Lan (Vietnam) Festival In Christian cultures, All Saints Day, celebrated on November 1st, the day after Halloween, is the equivalent day. In Mexico, they mark Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos in Spanish) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead Eric "Calendarwallah" Snyder calendarwallah@gmail.com =======================
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POPSHerbal Horse Remedies This page has an article about different herbal supplements and herbal remedies for horses. I am now particularly interested in this, as one of my best friends just gave my daughter and I an older horse. We will still be keeping it at her house for several months, just helping to pay the feed bill. Bunne is a 24 year old, absolutely SWEET, perfectly trained, quarter horse mare. Her only fault is she has some arthritis in one of her rear hooves. Therefore, I am looking into natural herbal remedies for horses. We are currently giving her Bute and MSM.
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POPSEast Coast Luxury Beach Vacation Rentals Available Now and All Year Long The 204 Ocean Blvd. on the Isle of Palms is now booked solid through Summer of 2009. However, The Casa Grande is available weekly and weekends for the entire year. Also, for luxury beach accommodations on the East Coast USA, The Mansion, 622 Ocean BLVD. is available now. Beachside Pool, too. The Mansion is located beachfront on the prestigious Isle of Palms, South Carolina. This expansive beach front home represents luxury living at it's finest! If you are planning a large company meeting or family reunion, you will have plenty of room because this Vacation Holiday Home sleeps up to twenty-nine people. There are eleven bedrooms and eleven and a half bathrooms. Gourmet kitchen, pantry, billiard room, and outdoor fireplace and BBQ area. Front beach swimming pool at ground level.
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POPSFylde RFC helping the injured soldiers
Well done Alan Townsend for your initiative to help the service injured. Hope you do not have a karaoke as you'll never get the mike off Adder and his sibling. For those of you who do not know the Fylde Coast and the Rugby club, there is a brand new club house. Unfortunately it was designed by a midget, that's why Fylde cannot employ a decent sized second row. They would either have to go in haunched over or on their knees, which is about how they ended up at he end of last season. There is a wonderful sauna complex upstairs, which is supposed to be a dining area, All the glass and no ventilation makes eating an al fresco affair, which could account for one of the local estate agents, a notorious character, being caught semi-nude in an alcove of the upper bar. Now was the woman he was with the doctor's girlfriend of his daughters? At some some traditions of rugby clubs do not die easily. There is to be a reunion match for all the legal professionals who have played for Fylde
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POPSShared Hope International Shared Hope International is having a reunion in India. Follow their journey on their travel blog. Or visit their main site to find out how you can help.
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POPSClips from The Shawshank Redemption When this movie was released I was preparing for my first Med cruise in the Navy. Fear ruled my every thought. The idea of journeying to foreign lands by sea didn't agree with my sense of security. While watching Shawshank I learned that everything we do (each experience) has a reason even though we feel it does not fit into our life design. I always come back to this thought: Before I came on this earth to experience my life, I signed a contract agreeing to everything that I would experience, seen or unseen. When I signed up for the Navy, I did just that. Now looking back on the Med cruise I would not have it any other way. The only regret I have concerns my lack of attention to details and not documenting the experience through photographs or journals. Relying on my memories is really not an accurate means of collecting facts.
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POPSClinton Seeks To Go After Obama Superdelegates
to travel with her to South Dakota where she planned to campaign Monday. Rodriguez had initially supported Clinton, switched to Obama, and recently returned to her camp. Clinton, meanwhile, said she was still contemplating whether to challenge the decision by the Democratic Party's rules committee to split the Michigan delegates 69-59 in her favor. Each delegate would have a half vote. The agreement granted Obama 55 uncommitted Michigan delegates and four who would have been assigned to Clinton based on the state's results. McAuliffe Sunday night called the panel's judgment "outrageous." "People are angry," he said. "This does not unify our party, this crazy, cockamamie thing they came up with in Michigan." Here in South Dakota, Clinton pressed on against the odds. In a campaign trail reunion usually reserved for election nights, she was to join former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, at her last Monday event in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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POPSJournalist released from Gitmo in serious condition Held for 6.5 years, tortured, no charges or trial, now seriously ill. Arrested while traveling thru Pakistan to an assignment for Al Jazeera. "I'm very sad because of the condition of our brothers who remain." Flown home in chains, faces no charges there. "True peace," he says, "does not come through military force ... Justice comes from lifting oppression ..." Unbelievable. Outrageous. Who will be called to account for this crime?