Faces of Panama

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What Education is All About

You can find anything on the Internet, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  The Internet represents the human being with its merits and defects.  When I use the Internet, I try to search for the Good and there is plenty.  The Bad and the Ugly I leave for others to find. One of the [...]

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A Fountain With Multiple Touches Of Light

Yesterday was a day with a sullen sunless sky with a slight drizzle all day long.  On this moist morning, I drove to return a couple of rented moves to Blockbuster at El Dorado.  On the way back I stopped at a recently repaired fountain in the neighborhood of Villa de las Fuentes.  Unfortunately, the [...]

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A Fountain at Villa de las Fuentes

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Playing in the Rain

One of the Twisters came over for a brief visit.  He had been absent for about a month.  I was amazed at how big he was and his mature way of thinking and expressing himself.  Baseball is his latest inclination, and is making plans to travel to Miami to play, if his team wins the [...]

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Dark Clouds Over Wall Street

The financial markets in Wall Street have been riding a wild roller coaster ride during this past week.  After the bitter quarrel by both parties in Congress, the investors are getting anxious and nervous about the uncertainty of the U.S. economy and the political handling of the gargantuan U.S. debt. A Wall Street nose dive [...]

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Wall Street Jitters

After Lehman Brothers died on September 15, 2008, credit froze around the world.  With banks clinging to whatever cash they had, companies around the globe could not borrow the money they needed to live on a daily basis.  Stock markets collapsed.  Whole countries threatened to follow.  Iceland, Ireland, Hungary, Ukraine, Greece, Portugal—the crisis even reached [...]

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Breakfast on Steroids

For no special reason, I woke up this morning in a psychological state of hunger.  I told my wife, “Aura, I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”  She smiled softly as she usually does, went to the shower and later to the kitchen to start her morning chores. As customary, I went to my [...]

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Donald Trump Invests in Panama

On July 6, 2011, President Ricardo Mantinelli and real estate magnate Donald Trump, inaugurated the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower in the exclusive residential area of Punta Pacífica in Panama City, Panama.  It was a special occasion which exemplified the attraction of Panama as a land of business opportunities. The tower is 70 [...]

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A Spiritual Moment

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