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Sep.08.2011
Our ship the Emerald Princess pulled into to Naples harbor just before sunrise. I could make out the dark shape of Mt. Vesuvius in the distance and I knew we where close to Pompeii. Ever since I was a kid and saw a book in the school library on the story of Pompeii I knew someday I would go...
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Aug.15.2011
This was our 5th voyage on a Princess ship over the past 10 years. We checked into our suite and drank some champagne out on the deck. The George Vancouver Suite was very roomy, it even included a huge bathtub and two rooms and the deck was huge. We knew this was going to a great trip. We normally...
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Feb.05.2011
Attended a literary event at the Beat Museum this past Thursday evening. It was billed a Regent Press Moment at the Beat. Featured were several Regent Press authors namely Joseph Arthur (ANOTHER LEAP INTO BLACK), Robert Balmanno (RUNES OF IONA), Janine Canan (GODDESSES, GODDESSES) and Dona Nieto (...
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Nov.05.2010
The recent victory parade through the streets of San Francisco for the World Series champion Giants was terrific and very emotional. So many great comments made from the platform in front of city hall. It was truely historical since this was the very first World Series Championship for the Giants...
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Oct.26.2010
Took a red-eye out from Oakland to Norfolk, Virginia. Changed planes in Atlanta for Norfolk and noted the huge size of that airport - seemed as large as San Francisco or Munich airports. Rented a 2010 Ford SUV for the drive down to Frisco near the south tip of Hatteras Island - about a 3 hour...
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Oct.08.2010
Soon I will be in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Hatteras Island, Cape Hatteras Light, Buxton and Frisco. There is a museum nearby that I plan to visit. It specializes in the thousands of ship wrecks off the Cape Hatteras coast known as Diamond Shoals - "the Graveyard of the Atlantic." ...
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May.28.2010
President Obama has taken charge of the fight to plug the leak. It is good to see the the US Coast Guard on scene with the presence of 4 Star Admiral Thad Allen. Allen is in charge of the Coast Guard response and became National Incident Commander in the Gulf. Allen just retired as Commandant...
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May.05.2010
I was 17 in 1958 when I joined the Navy Air Reserve at the old Oakland Naval Air Station - North Field Oakland Airport. I had never even been in a plane till I hopped a ride on a twin engine Navy SNB Beechcraft for a flight around the Bay Area. Seeing all the various Navy aircraft and an...
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Apr.17.2010
Mission High school, my alma mater, is featured several times in this film about the Mission District of San Francisco. Benjamin Bratt turns in a top notch performance as Che the 14 Mission Muni Bus Driver. He is raising a son who attends Mission High as a single dad so lots of complex...
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Mar.19.2010
Suddenly 30 million people without health now have it. Where will the extra needed doctors and nurses come from to handle the new increased numbers of humanity coming into the system? What is the current doctor to patient ratio in the USA? - What will it be when the new health care system goes...
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Feb.13.2010
Luge has suddenly become the sport everyone wants to see. The start of the 2010 Winter Olympics was marred by the tragic death of twenty one year old Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. During a practice run he lost control of his sled and he was thrown out of the track going 88 miles per hour....
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Jan.05.2010
Bill Graham is having a birthday party at The Fillmore in San Francisco with Cake - Sat. Jan 9, 2010
Bill Graham is having a birthday party Saturday night . This annual fundraiser is sponsored by the Bill Graham Foundation. The foundation supports music education and the arts with grants. Bill loved athletics and music and he put his talents to work to save school music and sports in...
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Nov.17.2009
I attended a literary event at a bookstore (Clayton Books) nearby me in Clayton, California the other night - Ben Fong-Torres was in conversation with the noted guitarist Greg Kihn about The Grateful Dead Scrapbook. Ben wrote a 25,000 word history of the band that he first began covering in 1968...
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Oct.22.2009
Lenore Kandel died on October 18, 2009 - she was 77. Lenore was originally from New York, but found herself in San Francisco during the 1960's. She is considered one of the last of the Beat poet's and Jack Kerouac portrayed her as the character Romana Swartz in his 1962 novel, 'Big Sur'. She...
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About Ron
Ron Cabral was born in San Francisco in 1941 and raised in the Mission District, Bernal Heights, and Noe Valley. He attended both Catholic and Public schools including: St. Philips, James Lick Junior High, Polytechnic High, ...
Causes Ron Cabral Supports
National Wildlife Federation, California State and National Parks, Arf, Paralyzed Veterans, National Film Preservation Foundation, California Historical...