| Taking a career break to recharge your life
Ever wanted to take a few months off work to climb Mount Kilimanjaro before global warming melts the remaining snow? Or take a one-year sabbatical from your job to travel the globe, teach English in Beijing or learn Spanish in Buenos Aires? A Canadian travel company is making it easier with the introduction of what it calls a Career Break Guide geared to workers who want to either quit their job, take a vacation or leave of absence and put some meaning into their travel, rather than simply lounge on a beach. "My sister quit her job and she's travelling down in South America," B.C.'s Travel Cuts promotion manager Rob Liddell said. "She's also spending two weeks volunteering in Ecuador. .
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Recreation page begins today in Sports (Editor's Notebook)
We cover the North Iowa sports scene relentlessly — from football, volleyball and golf in the fall; basketball, swimming, wrestling and hockey in the winter; track, soccer in the spring; to baseball and softball in the summer.There is tennis, trap shooting and lots more in between.But we haven’t done as much as we’d like with recreational sports and activities.That’s about to change. Beginning today, we will be building a Recreation section in our Sunday Sports pages featuring people and sports you don’t read, see or hear much about.We’re looking for stories on hot-shot pool players, top bowlers, disc golf players, youth sports coaches, bicyclists and more. We plan to have stories — and eventually standings on local recreational sports leagues — and to run reader-submitted action photos in the paper and online.We’d like your suggestions.
Indonesia Citizen Journalism on the Rise
The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) was held at the end of February in Bali. It produced a commitment to make the Internet and ICT (Information Communication Technology) more accessible and affordable to the public. This is an important commitment since we are facing a more global world, a world without borders. With the Internet easily connected, there is no border of time, no border of space. The limitation is only in language and interest. This will make a significant impact to the development of mass media.
According to datafrom the Associations of ISP in Indonesia (APJII), in Indonesia in 2005 there were 16 millions Internet users. Internet World Statistics of January 2007 shows that the number of Internet users in Indonesia were 2 million in the year 2000 and increased to 18 million recently, a 900 percent growth.
Finding the Masculine Genius
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, APRIL 23, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Men must learn to seek the company of other men for the sake of women, the Church and the world, says a Catholic author and English professor.
In this interview with ZENIT, Anthony Esolen discusses the growing trend in rediscovering masculinity, and what it takes to make men and boys flourish.
Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College and senior editor of Touchstone Magazine. He has recently translated and edited Dante's "Divine Comedy," in three volumes, for Modern Library. His book, Ironies of Faith, is forthcoming this summer from ISI Press.
Q: In your recent articles you have discussed masculinity and manhood. How do you see your own understanding of these differ from the way others use these terms?
Esolen: When a virtue falls by the wayside, when it is no longer a lived reality recognized by a community in its manifold forms, we recall only a scrap of it here or there, or we can only imagine a gaudy caricature of it.
Music Review: Cat Empire - Two Shoes
After their fabulous self-titled debut, Australian band Cat Empire has returned with a new album Two Shoes. Of course, after creating a stunning debut, the band has some large shoes (no pun intended) to fill. In an act of great timing, the record comes just at the start of summer (2007 in America, it's been out for a year in Australia) when the type of upbeat Latin-tinged, trumpet laden songs that Cat Empire specializes in are most appropriate and likely to be played. The premier song "Sly" is one of the standouts of the album, and a fitting way to start things off. It's a fast-paced tune with reggae and pop stylings that make it ridiculously catchy. It's only a warm up for over-the-top energy to follow, however. While Cat Empire is a fairly new name stateside, the Australian sextet are huge on their native continent.
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