, and refills may or may not have been free. I sat facing a billboard of an Orang-utan, and I had a thoroughly great time there.
There are several places in Venice I hope never to lose, no matter whether they are as good as I currently remember them being: A café run by and dedicated to twins; an osteria seemingly under the ground; a bar from the 1950s, selling intentionally flat Aperol Spritz. All truly unique places.
The underground osteria – Osteria La Portego – I actually started following on Facebook as soon as I was back in range of a good wi-fi signal, so important was it to me that I not lose their place in my mind. I have followed them in the intervening years, wondering if they are as good as we remember.
We had dined on small plates of wondrous goodies, far from the endless croquettes and crostini of most of the cicchetteria we had tried. There were hot and cold dishes, served on to plates, out of big oven dishes. The pricing was obscure, and confused our most English of minds. We ate rather a lot.
It is the fact that we had only chanced upon it as we wandered the labyrinthine streets which gave me most pause. That is precisely the kind of situation where I find myself not being able to find the restaurant subsequently. Social media for the win, on this one and only occasion, it seems.
I have a theory that every holiday I go on I find somewhere cool, or eat something great that I will never find again. It has made me take more notice of where I am going, and what I am doing all the time. I take a lot of business cards, which live for years in my wallet, just in case I find myself back.
 I have walked down streets in Reykjavik, expecting to find something at the bottom: a shop, a restaurant or a hot dog stall. Only the world was different when I got there: the arrangement of buildings had not shifted, but it was not what I had expected.
I can live with realisations like that: at least I know it is my fault and that I can rationalise it. When the situation is that a business has closed, I find myself thinking about the people who had worked there. When I instinctively know that I will never find the place again I feel like I have lost something.
I am always on the lookout for new foods, but the pull of the old and the well-remembered is strong. I will never be one of those people who will only ever eat one of the same eight things which they have always eaten, but some food memories have a massive pull, and that is very seductive indeed.
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New repeater seen today at P4: GB3UD, only ever seen it once before. Distance =165km,
Even though it was P5 at times i could not access on 1249, yet i was opening GB3YT while trying!
GB3YT also seen but conditions not as good as the last opening, PI6ANH and an ON? station seen at P3 through YT (YV input) most of the opening.35 Ladies played in the Team competition with 2 scores to count. It was dry but very cold to start with.
In 1st place with 70 points was Jan Sargeant, Jackie Mallett and Niki Wraight.
In 2nd place with 65 points was Angie Chapman, Karen Furness and Vicky Lee Comyn.
In 3rd place with 64 was Danielle Price, Hilary Pryor and Mandy Wright.BEIJING -Aug. 20, 2008 -Through just 12 days, NBCU's Beijing Olympic coverage has surpassed the 17-day viewership total for the entire Athens Olympics, making it the third most viewed television event in U.S. history. The 203.3 million viewers nearly 12 million more than the first 12 days for Athens (191.5 million) and 4 million more than the Atlanta Games (199.2 million), which was the most-viewed television event in U.S. history. NBCU's coverage has reached more than 84 percent of all U.S. television homes.
� The Beijing Olympic 12-day average primetime viewership is 29.3 million, 12 percent ahead of Athens in 2004 (26.1 million). NBC's average of a 17.1 rating, 29 share in households is the best through the second Tuesday for a Summer Olympics outside the U.S. since Barcelona in 1992 (18.1/34) and is an eight percent jump from Athens in 2004 (15.8/27).
� Tuesday night garnered 71 million total viewers in primetime and 26.6 million average viewers, a six percent gain from the comparable night in Athens (25.0 million). The night earned a 16.3 rating/27 share, which is up four percent from Athens' comparable night (15.7/26).
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Does this man snore?Making the most of the resources at hand, this set of Christmas fabric cones are made from small pieces of left-over textiles. Use the fabric cones filled with treats as decorations on your Christmas tree, door knobs or where ever you please during the season. Each set includes different cornets all made of left-over, organic cotton with an inner lining.What day of the year are the most phone calls made? Mother's Day. The most collect calls, however, are made on Father's Day. Mothers get a lot of acknowledgment and encouragement, and so they should. They more than deserve it. But fathers deserve a little recognition, too.
There was a time when men were more respected in our culture than they are today – especially fathers. It was even reflected on television, with programs like "Father Knows Best." If someone were to come out with a sitcom about fathers today, they probably would call it "Father Is an Idiot," because Dad is usually the brunt of the joke on television. Dad is the one who doesn't know anything about anything. In fact, it is the children who are portrayed as the all-knowing, all-wise ones. But there was a day when fathers were looked up to for their wisdom and their guidance.
It is my opinion that a man who honors the marriage vows he made to his wife and stands by his children and his grandchildren is the unsung hero of America – especially a Christian husband and father who understands that he is to be a spiritual leader in the home. That is becoming more of a rarity.
Why is this a point worth making? Because you can take most of the social ills in our culture today and find a direct link to the absence of a father in the home. In the past 30 years, there has been a 550-percent increase in violent crime, a 400-percent increase in illegitimate births, a 200-percent increase in teen pregnancy and a 300-percent increase in teen suicide. Experts have traced all of these things to the breakdown of the family and, specifically, the absence of a father.
Of the juveniles in state reform institutions, 70 percent come from fatherless homes. Expert Joseph Wible Jr. put it this way: "Throughout history, men have been torn from their families by war, disease and death. But in this millennium in America, men are choosing to disconnect from family life on a massive scale – and at far higher rates than other industrialized countries." I am referring to not only fathers who were never there, but also fathers who, through divorce, have disengaged. At best they see their children every other weekend or maybe for two weeks in the summer. Then there is the father who says he doesn't see his kids that often because he is working so hard to give his children the life that he never had.
We need to remember as fathers that the best thing we can spend on our children is time, and lots of it. Quality time is a myth. Kids