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Fine Vintage

Wine country vacation won’t leave you with sour grapes
To get an idea of how important wine is in the fabric of American society, there are about 350 wineries in Napa Valley.
That doesn’t include Sonoma County and other fertile grounds of California that account for much of the wine consumed in this country. That’s just Napa [...]

June-July 2007 | Marc David | 0 comments | Continued
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Surfside retreat

East Honolulu home offers living ‘like no other place on earth’
Talk about a room with a view. Make that any room with a view.
Now, imagine the surf pounding below. Whales, dolphins, manta rays, turtles and monk seals cavorting in the blue Pacific, putting on a magnificent show daily. This type of setting is sure to [...]

June-July 2007 | Marc David | 0 comments | Continued
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Native Son

Banker Peter Ho finds business, personal success
Peter Ho likes to joke about the circumstances surrounding his coming back to Hawaii. “I had just gotten my MBA from Southern Cal and I was debating about going back to New York City (where he had worked for four years) or returning to Hawaii,” Ho says. “Wall Street [...]

June-July 2007 | Marc David | 0 comments | Continued
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Murphy’s Way

Irish pub owner gives back to the community
It was a typical day at Murphy’s Bar & Grill in the early 1990s. And yet something happened to owner Don Murphy that day that, in essence, changed his life.
He noticed a young boy, perhaps 9 or 10, on the street corner with a man he surmised was [...]

June-July 2007 | Marc David | 0 comments | Continued
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Artistic flow

Maria Steele’s mixed media success stems from yoga
For Maria Steele, artwork and yoga come together as one.
“The purpose of yoga is to activate the energy centers in our bodies, and to raise our life force energy,” she says. “My artwork is definitely a reflection of that.” Steele is a mixed media artist who dabbles [...]

June-July 2007 | Marc David | 0 comments | Continued