Historic success for Slovak ice hockey: national team wins bronze Olympic medal ( Read more... )

Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust ( Read more... )

A Mutually Velvet Divorce ( Read more... )

Firday Night, I volunteered to help Cindy H. manage the popcorn and iced tea sales on behalf of Rotary Club. Of course, we overloaded and blew the circuit breaker using two old microwave ovens after the first film. It all got worked out eventually ( Read more... )

I met him at multiple Great American Beer Festivals in Denver, from 1993-1999, and he literally wrote the book on beer. In fact, when he wrote it, he quite properly made the first regional chapter "Czechoslovakia," and the second chapter "Germany" followed by 35 other regional chapters (though Germany was by far the longest chapter. My version of ( Read more... )

There was even humor in the Ambassador's meeting. She related that scientists in Hawaii are now working ona saltwater-tolerant taro plant, a genetically-modified food plant that could survivewhen inundated by seawater, and still be edible and healthy. This could save crops all over the Pacific that would otherwise be killed by storm surge every ( Read more... )

Palau President Tommy Remengesau, Jr., with Danka, Ken, Ivan, Vallyna & Jemina

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As someone who grew up in the most free, individualistic, capitalistic society in the history of the earth, it's difficult from me to grasp other cultures sometimes. I witnessed another example this week of the Islander culture that does not reward individual achievement and success, but rather condemns it. Someone who gets a good job or a ( Read more... )

Jaruzelski sorry for 1968 invasion ( Read more... )

We actually started at home with some New Zealand Spumante (Kiwi Champagne) over a few rounds of Monopoly. And we even moved on to open a bottle of French Rose we had been saving.

Then we went here for dinner. Proprietors Jill and Claus had arranged a few nice surprises with nice music (Pachelbel, Beethoven, etc.) and fresh nunus (flower leis ( Read more... )