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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Wales’

All Aboard – Amtrak Is Full Up

By Denis Campbell • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business Issues
Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]



525,600 Minutes – And we’re gonna fill every one of them !!!!

By Denis Campbell • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
(Reprise post from May)
Because you cannot afford to spend every minute with them does not give you the right to pre-plan every minute of every one of their days to assuage your guilt under the guise of helping them.
My daughter Tara turned 5 the other day.
That meant another 525,600 minutes of her life passed. (I [...]



Curious George’s Green Gaffe

By Denis Campbell • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Business Issues
Queen Elizabeth’s horse won a stakes race at Ascot. She arrived, watched the race, presented the trophy and left with little fanfare. To compare and contrast, President Bush’s 747 aircraft, Air Force One, landed under heavy security at Heathrow shutting down one of the world’s busiest airports and disrupting, delaying or cancelling the travels of [...]



Hup Holland! Oranje Boven - Ole, Ole, Ole!

By Denis Campbell • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Features
This weekend begins the quadrennial festival of European football (soccer) as 16-nations battle for the right to hold aloft the European Cup. It all begins at 18:00 on Saturday when hosts Switzerland take on the mighty Czech Republic in what we can only hope will be a close game as this competition will, unfortunately, be [...]



Cardiff and Baltimore, Separated at Birth? (Part 1)

By Denis Campbell • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Features
How can two cities from two different sides of the ocean be so alike in so many ways? Vadimus Post’s Denis Campbell looks at this psychological “Tale of Two Cities.”