Chloe Kim has suffered mentally ( see later interview ) and physically, a serious shoulder injury only a month ago.  However, she yesterday qualified for the snowboarding halfpipe event.  She thus will today  compete for the gold medal.  But I'll let you watch that event in peace. Was born 26 years ago in Torrance, California.   Her parents emigrated  to the U.S. from South Korea in 1982. Her father started working at minimum-wage jobs to save money for college. He went on to study engineering at El Camino College in Torrance, working nights as a machinery operator. Jon Jin and Boran Yun had two earlier daughters, with Chloe born in 2000.  Father likes to say that she was born in the year of the dragon (I was born in 1940, also a dragon year), one reason for her precocity. Chloe began snowboarding at 4 at the Southern California resort of Mountain High. Her parents bought her first snowboard for $25 on eBay. Initially trained by her father studyin...

This is Part 2 to my Super Bowl 60 experience yesterday,  which you can read.   Nothing much is happening around the world, so after football, I'll move on to Winter Olympics 2026 highlights, and top events of today. I left you after I had two (hot and cold) Chinatown Fortune  Cookie Martinis with fruits/yogurt for my Super Bowl breakfast.  Then came lunch.  As 15 Craigside gave away boiled peanuts and tortilla chips (plus Miller, but no Budweiser beer), I skipped the chinese roast duck and had these snacks with Bloody Mary and Bloody Maria. Then those tortilla chips were converted to nachos. Johnny Walker Blue Label on rocks for the game. One of my 15 Craigside Super Bowl pool numbers was 23, meaning if the total score of the Seahawks and Patriots added up to that number, I would win.  I purposely picked a low number, in fact, the lowest. of those competing.  Thus, if the final total was 23 or lower, I would win all the money.  At halftime, the s...

Just when you thought that this pandemic might soon be over, scientists have found the  BA.2 virus, another subvariant of the Omicron variant , which could well be a little more contagious and, this is the bad part, more virulent, perhaps in the range of the Delta variant.  Plus, vaccinations are not as effective, even though a booster helps to prevent a person from death even if infected.  Current tests seem not to work as well, and it is possible that this is something new and not directly related to Omicron.  It's too early to tell if all that is true, but be aware. Early signs hint that this  B.2, named the Stealth Subvariant, might be behind the sudden jump of new cases in Denmark.    Early this month  Denmark  decided that the risk of dying from COVID-19 had dropped to a safe level so even while new cases remained a concern, they removed all restrictions to return to normality.  No need for indoor masks, ignore vaccine passports an...

From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):            DAY    USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571        7...