A 2-1/2 cent piece for your thoughts? One of my biggest complaints about U.S. currency policy, apart from ‘Big-Headed’ bills and extraneous nickels, is that no one has any plans whatsoever to get rid of the penny. Nearly worthless, the U.S. Mint produces 13 billion pennies a year at a cost of .72 cent per…
Early Music Guild of Seattle gives lesson in historical flute music, from past to present It was a brief, but deep, history lesson in flute music, from peasant dances to Bach to anti-apartheid jazz, at Seattle’s Town Hall in Jan. of 2004. Musicians Kim Pineda and Shelley Collins demonstrated their flute skills in a program…
Generally speaking, anti-war activists address war in Iraq in human terms, emphasizing the mass destruction of homes and terrible carnage inflicted on the Iraqi civilian population by U.S. military force. Images of mangled bodies are accompanied by ominous estimates of the ultimate costs of rebuilding Iraq. Activists also offer the simple answer that war in…
Interlaken. Cool blue lakes frozen in time, awe-inspiring ice capped mountain tops, soft green pastures…listen…a lone cowbell can heard tinkling in the distance. Interlaken is a fairy tale city located in the center of the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It is located between the lakes Thun and Brienz and is in close proximity to three…