| Echelon_Magazine National, bi-monthly GLBT business publication. News, events, and subscription rates. |
| Estate_Planning_For_Gay_and_Lesbian_Couples California law firm providing an overview of the estate-planning issues faced by same- couples. |
| Financial_Avengers Advice for minority groups. Articles, services, and fees. |
| Four_Steps Book for lesbians, gays and unmarried couples that help achieve financial security through estate planning, investments, insurance and legal issues. |
| Gay_Financial_Network Free daily news, weekly features, online trading, insurance, banking, and how-to advice. |
| Gay_Money Same- strategies for financial security. About the book and the author, with related news and articles. |
| Gayfinance_info Offers advice from Isis Financial Planners. Explains how to minimize the impact of financial service discrimination. |
| Out_Estate_Planning Retirement and estate planning articles and advice for same couples. |
| Pinkfinance_com Finance magazine providing specialist advice on mortgages, life assurance, pensions, investments, personal finance, and money, without fear of discrimination. |
| Rainbow_Card Rainbow Endowment Visa card. News on donations, questions and answers, savings calculator, and application form. |
| Sovereign_Alternative Gibraltar and London based financial planning specialising in gay men and lesbians. |
| Window_Media Acquires and operates gay and lesbian newspapers in the United States. Management team profiles, publications, and ad rates. |
| The_Experience_Festival A festival dedicated to spiritual wisdom and the teachings of all ancient religious cultures, held in Varadyapalyam, India. |
| Starwood__-_Association_for_Consciousness_Exploration An organization in northeast Ohio providing services in various alternative, holistic, and paranormal subjects, including organizing the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium. |
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| Gay_Male_and_Lesbian_uality_and_Related_Issues An annotated bibliography presenting a cross section of available resources on gay and lesbian uality and related issues. |
| gaydemographics_org Features census and official figures about same- couples. Includes the United States and other nations. |
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| QueerAmerica National database of queer resources with standard and advanced search options. |
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| Bridges_Across_the_Divide Project aiming to bridge the gap between spiritual persons with differing views on homouality. Includes forums, reading material and email lists. |
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| Data_Lounge__Religious_Issues Articles exploring the efforts of gay and lesbian faithful to reconcile their ual orientation with the traditional teachings of churches and synagogues. Includes overview of Western church issues a |
| Gay_Spirit_Visions Create safe spaces for gay men to discover and celebrate their tribal identity, and to encourage each man on his chosen spiritual path. |
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| Gays_for_God Online directory of faith-related resources for ual minorities and their families and friends. |
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Seasons
Solar System
Summer Solstice
In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year (near June 22) when the Sun is farthest north. In thesouthern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged. The summersolstice marks the first day of the season of summer. The declination of the Sun on the(northern) summer solstice is known as the tropic of cancer (23° 27'). The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed betweensunrise and sunset on this day is a maximum for the year. Of course, daylight saving time means that thefirst Sunday in April has 23 hours and the last Sunday in October has 25 hours, but these human meddlings with the calendar anddo not correspond to the actual number of daylight hours. In Chicago, there are 15:02 hours of daylight on the summer solsticeof June 21, 1999.The above plots show how the date of the summer solstice shifts through the Gregorian calendar according to theinsertion of leap years. The table below gives the universal time of the summer solstice. Toconvert to U. S. Eastern daylight saving time, subtract 4 hours, so the summer solstice occurs on June 21, 1998 at10:00 a.m. EDT; June 21, 1999 at 15:47 (3:46 p.m.) EDT; and June 20, 2000 at 21:36 (9:36 p.m.) EDT.Note that the times below were calculated using SummerSolstice[] in the Mathematica application package Scientific Astronomer, which is accurate to within only an hour or so, and in practice gives times that differ by up to 15 minutes from thosecomputed by the U.S. Naval Observatory (which computes June 21, 1999 at 19:49 UT instead of 19:47 UT and June 21, 2000at 01:48 UT instead of 01:36).DateUTDateUTDateUT06-21-198005:3706-21-199015:3606-21-200001:3606-21-198111:2506-21-199121:2406-21-200107:2406-21-198217:1306-21-199203:1306-21-200213:1106-21-198323:0006-21-199309:0006-21-200318:5906-21-198404:4906-21-199414:4806-21-200400:4806-21-198510:3706-21-199520:3506-21-200506:3606-21-198616:2406-21-199602:2406-21-200612:2306-21-198722:1206-21-199708:1206-21-200718:1106-21-198804:0106-21-199814:0006-21-200800:0006-21-198909:4806-21-199919:4706-21-200905:47Here is a QuickTime movie illustrating the tilt of the Earth's equatorialplane relative to the Sun which is responsible for the seasons. The dates of maximum tilt of theEarth's equator correspond to the summer solstice and winter solstice, and the dates of zero tilt to the vernalequinox and autumnal equinox.
Day, Egg, Equinox, Summer, Winter Solstice 
McDermott, M. "The Longest Day." http://family.go.com/Categories/Education/Features/family_1997_06/dony/dony67summsolstice. United States Government Printing Office. The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 1999. Washington, DC: Navy Dept., Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office, p. A1, 1999. United States Government Printing Office. The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2000. Washington, DC: Navy Dept., Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office, p. A1, 2000. U. S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department. "Earth's Seasons, Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion, and Aphelion 1992-2020." http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html. © 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein
