Clint Eastwood’s Daughter Gets Death Threats, Articles | THISDAY LIVE

Eastwood name!

Rich items are filthy to the poor and an affront to poverty, like Marie Antoinnette offering cake to starving peasants.

What is the message in destroying a valuable sought after item? It's that the item is not really so valuable and that it is an affront to humanity and other values. On the other hand, the mix of valuable and worthless objects is wrong. Too few objects are really worthwhile and even though valuable objects exist, they should not be used to emphasize the gap between rich and poor. Conspicuous consumption is not such a good idea in a world where democratic values are supported.

Eastwood is making a political as well as economic statement in the destruction of an object of desire. That process may be deemed as artistic, but then so is violence. We abhor violence and we abhor waste!

People question publicity stunt! Good or bad news it does not matter as long as the image and you are associated within millions of minds. Art is memory and association!

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/clint-eastwood-s-daughter-gets-death-threats/116948/

View at breakfast

Thought you might like the horses in the paddock! Presently, close to Lille, which once was an island in a marsh, a bit like Athelney in Somerset. Enjoying good weather on our trek through France and Belgium to Holland!

Arthur
Wooh!

Thioridazine kills cancer stem cells in human while avoiding toxic side-effects of conventional cancer treatments

Good news for once!

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-thioridazine-cancer-stem-cells-human.html#firstCmt

Volcanic super-eruptions may have surprisingly short fuses

Human life is really very tenuous!

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-volcanic-super-eruptions-surprisingly-short-fuses.html

Exotic Higgs Decays: Making the Case | Of Particular Significance

If you are really into the Higgs exploration process read this article which forma part of a series!

http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/05/30/exotic-higgs-decays-making-the-case/

Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our Eyes - Business Insider

This process has to remind one of what occured with new office applications running under Microsoft. Unless Facebook has the core technologies completely licensed up, it exposes itself to future vulnerability and innovation from a newcomer!

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-building-the-facebook-phone-right-in-front-of-our-eyes-2012-5

Gary Shilling On Manufacturing Renaissance - Business Insider

Manufacturing is not going to generate jobs, but services would. The construction industry would generate jobs, but it would be better if quality services were embodied within it and that it grewcat a pace that did not generate house price inflation expectations. More quality housing at a slower growth pace embodying more local resources and people doing high skilled contributions, in other words, we should upscale the quality of local services and design better materials and constructs. Put in more local value added by building better homes to last and last within better design communities!

http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-shilling-on-manufacturing-renaissance-2012-5

LEAKED: Here's What Apple's New 3D Map Feature Will Look Like - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-heres-what-apples-new-3d-map-feature-will-look-like-2012-5?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAI%20Select&utm_campaign=SAI%20Select%202012-05-30

Facebook Phone Is A Bad Idea - Business Insider

Is Facebook such a big deal?

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-phone-is-a-bad-idea-2012-5?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAI%20Select&utm_campaign=SAI%20Select%202012-05-29

Facebook Phone Is A Bad Idea - Business Insider

Go with your competences! Perhaps, there is room for hardware competition and another slot that's American. It would be best to start early and make all those mistakes!

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-phone-is-a-bad-idea-2012-5?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAI%20Select&utm_campaign=SAI%20Select%202012-05-29

McGuinty calls on Ottawa to help him open up the North - The Globe and Mail

Pity Canada can't do a better job itself without exporting all those gems, gold, and precious metals for bracelets worn in India! We do seem to be able to fight wars in way off places and may need better minerals for more efficient weapons? Who is McGuinty trying to fool? We need mental resources to build better methods of saving energy and resources!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mcguinty-calls-on-ottawa-to-help-him-open-up-the-north/article2443684/

Hume: Environmental movement stalling in the political fog

When will Harper's incompetence end?

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1201408--hume-environmental-movement-stalling-in-the-political-fog&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAIOAhA8NiK_gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=b-txYKaEqg4&usg=AFQjCNHAWHGCJFcCJFfDR5gFifEoThAScQ


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Dion: Real reform of the Senate won't be that easy

With Harper's incompetence as a 'Canadian' leader, it would best if he were to step aside on this issue and let a competent leader take over!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/news/story.html?id=6685945


Wooh, RT

Victoria's Hesjedal makes history as first Canadian to win Giro d'Italia

Now to cycle across the country? Short ride!

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/sports/2010wintergames/story.html?id=6687120


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Justice Needed for Bloodshed in Syria: Houla's horror | The Economist

We cry for those that are horribly caught up in this civil war! Now the international community will act and Russian arms destined for Syria are an embarrassment to humanity! Who is complicit in such atrocities is also guilty of massacre! Supplying arms to a bloody regime is a criminal act perpetrated by governments authorising sales of arms. Members of the Security Council of the UN guilty of supporting massacres should lose their seats until their guilty leaders are brought to justice! Why should the world watch Russia lead the universe into a new holocaust? Time for Eussia to step down because they support a regime killing children openly.... Why on earth??????????

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2012/05/bloodshed-syria?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C5-28-2012%7C1942305%7C38070759%7C


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Another day in Paris in the World of the Impressionists

We have taken another trip from Jossigny into Paris! The purpose was to see some of the beautiful spots that inspired the impressionists! Paris in May is pretty amazing!

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See the full gallery on Posterous

Another day in Paris in the World of the Impressionists

We have taken another trip from Jossigny into Paris! The purpose was to see some of the beautiful spots that inspired the impressionists! Paris in May is pretty amazing!

Wooh, RT

Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada - thestar.com

I guess it's because the Queen sets very high standards that make most of us shudder! Elizabeth is a post war sovereign that has lived through a period of relative peace. We all want peacemaking to succeed anf the better sides of our complex brains to govern!

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1193941--celebrating-the-diamond-jubilee-of-elizabeth-ii-queen-of-canada

Harper is right: Foreign radicals are after the oil sands - The Globe and Mail

Big money means big time corruption? Who is in whose pocket for support?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-is-right-sinister-foreign-radicals-are-after-the-oil-sands/article2444373/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Politics&utm_content=2444373

Canadian Prime Minister is Incompetent .... Let's finally face the truth about his mismanagement of Canadian interests!

We should recognise that not all elected people are good for the country especially when all that talks is spending money telling others they are not good for the country. It's time Harper stepped down to let competetence take over, an end to silliness from Harper's moronic advisers please!

http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3570326

Incompetent Leadership or What? Canada's Harper is sliding away as NDP leadership demonstrates competence in complex world

I have always thought Canada's Harper somewhat incompetent and his lack of abilities in management of Canadian technical, social and economic needs has been glaring to most Canadians who want to be proud of the country and can't stand progress by luck rather than brains! Time to make way to better and improved leadership from Quebec and the NDP slate, perhaps, as Harper fails the many tests needed to govern competently the Canadian scene. I for one won't miss the Yankee doodling approach which reminds me too much of George Bush!

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/25/mike-schouten-harper-is-paying-the-price-for-shutting-down-the-abortion-debate/

To restore probity in public life, Jeremy Hunt must go | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Observer

We have little to lose with his departure and lots to gain, it would seem? Hunt for Hunt's relacement!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/26/jeremy-hunt-must-go-observer-editorial?newsfeed=true

Break for Sunday port in Paris

Paris has it's Sunday treats, le chalet des Iles Daumesnil is one of them! Pretend to be French!

Only idiots won't make their next vehicle electric ... 4 cool tech ideas for green cars and renewable energy | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Only idiots won't make their next vehicle electric. Time will be when using other people's energy source will seem strange!

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/4-cool-tech-ideas-for-green-cars-and-renewable-energy

Sadoway’s MIT Liquid Metal Battery Startup Adds $15M and Khosla Ventures as Investor : Greentech Media

Think what it would be like to escape the grid. Your little windmill would power all the home needs and even charge your car. Those hot windy days would produce money like a currency printing machine. Why is it taking so long? Like saving water from the sky, we can imagine a new reality living quietly on a remote desert island, our own Bermuda, but who can help us realize it?

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Sadoways-MIT-Liquid-Metal-Battery-Startup-Adds-15M-and-Khosla-Ventures-as/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greentechmedia%2Fnews+%28Greentech+Media%3A+News%29

Russian arms shipment en route to Syria: report | Reuters

Russian military help for dictators in Syria!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/us-syria-arms-russia-idUSBRE84O12F20120525

Analysis: UK bets on biomass in move away from coal | Reuters

UK biomass energy prospects deemed positive!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/us-britain-biomass-power-idUSBRE84O0WR20120525

REG ups IPO target to $124M, biodiesel on the march : Biofuels Digest

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2012/01/10/reg-ups-ipo-target-to-124m-biodiesel-on-the-march/

Ag Professional - Seed discard management programs announced - Newsroom

Energy aspects!

http://www.agprofessional.com/news/Seed-discard-management-programs-announced-154096745.html?ref=745

Hotel Haus Sonneck, Schluchsee, Germany ... Black forest region ....

Check out this beautiful location in Germany's black forest region. May is a good time to visit! We found the Haus Sonneck a great place to stay in comfort away from the maddening croud. Good internet connections! http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/haus-sonneck-schluchsee-blasiwald.en-gb.html?...

The manufacturers’ race to a cost-effective solar source — GigaOM Pro

Don't be cloistered! Let the sun shine as all Benedictines have historically known?

http://pro.gigaom.com/2012/05/the-manufacturers%e2%80%99-race-to-a-cost-effective-solar-source/

Gold is smarter! Smart Grid Apps: Six Trends That Will Shape Grid Evolution — GigaOM Pro

Where to put smart money?

Smart hens can lay golden eggs!

http://pro.gigaom.com/2011/04/smart-grid-apps-six-trends-that-will-shape-grid-evolution/?utm_source=cleantech&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=525088+khosla-joins-bill-gates-total-to-back-liquid-metal-battery&utm_content=katiefehren

Khosla joins Bill Gates & Total to back Liquid Metal Battery — Cleantech News and Analysis

Sounds like the road to a winner! Better than a lake!

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/khosla-joins-bill-gates-total-to-back-liquid-metal-battery/

Hotel Haus Sonneck, Schluchsee, Germany ... Black forest region ....

Check out this beautiful location in Germany's black forest region. May is a good time to visit! We found the Haus Sonneck a great place to stay in comfort away from the maddening croud. Good internet connections!

http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/haus-sonneck-schluchsee-blasiwald.en-gb.html?aid=338724;sid=ebb6eb1c632ecb88b875219f6c05fc84;dcid=1;stid=347399;label=postbooking_directions

Facebook IPO? Flat. Facebook future? Bright. - CSMonitor.com

Facebook launch was a big success despite early signs of a very slightly weakening price. Perhaps, selling the shares at the top end was a good business tactic.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2012/0519/Facebook-IPO-Flat.-Facebook-future-Bright?cmpid=ema:nws:BizTech%2005232012&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2

Why art will not suffer death by digital | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

Bikes are still around though cars are faster. We have yet to create many better printed books which will easily surpass digital. How about a digital book within a paper one, or plastic paper digital books?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/mar/12/art-death-by-digital-ebooks?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

Well!

You will try not to smile on reading this critique of Damien's latest work.

Jones critical writing will, of course, draw more people to the art gallery to view Damien's 'hack'! Now, it would be difficult to pay someone to write this stuff!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/22/damien-hirst-two-weeks-review?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355#

Arthur

`Prince of piffle' or `philosopher prince'? Once ridiculed, some now hail Charles as visionary

I always had respect for the Prince and would question journalists' earlier assessments that were spiteful and misguided! Charles is a good egg and the world is so very lucky to have a royal man on their side, he way Charles is!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Prince+piffle+philosopher+prince+Once+ridiculed+some+hail+Charles/6652459/story.html

Prince Charles flashes hockey skills in N.B.

Cool!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Prince+Charles+flashes+hockey+skills/6655413/story.html

Anatomy of a conflict after 100 days of student protests

Makes big news in France!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Anatomy+conflict+after+days+student+prote...

Anatomy of a conflict after 100 days of student protests

Makes big news in France!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Anatomy+conflict+after+days+student+protests/6655852/story.html

Spy's book illustrates Canada-U.S. tensions post War of 1812

So interesting you forget it was a long time ago!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/book+illustrates+Canada+tensions+post+1812/6659944/story.html

Man survives plunge into Niagara Falls

Not an easy way to end it all!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/survives+plunge+into+Niagara+Falls/6660158/story.html

RCMP spied on philosopher

So did CIA!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/RCMP+spiedon+philosopher/6659033/story.html

Crowds greet Prince Charles and wife Camilla during Toronto visit

Dalton woos Charles?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Crowds+greet+Prince+Charles+wife+Camilla+during+Toronto+visit/6659742/story.html

Elizabeth May: A devastating first year of Conservative majority rule in Canada | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

World wide the shift towards intollerance is gaining ground! In the past few days I have witnessed signs of Europe sliding into a new facism ethic that should remind us that just below the semblance of outward tolerance and stability lurks a monster willing to blast sanity into smithereens and stab at the heart of cooperative diversity. Europe is at a tipping point.

Never, before in mankind's history has there been a more dangerous period with respected muslim religious leaders openly and seriously spouting doctrines of genocide and those being targeted openly stating they are ready to unleash nuclear war on a scale never before contemplated as a serious proposition. Depopulation of planet earth as seriously proposed by some Russian leaders is mistakenly seen as a good policy arising from irrationality that spawns novel forms of individual efforts of sustaining fascism as a credible path of change as witnessed recently in Britain and Norway. We need to be aware that tipping points towards irrational and sickening violence are only too easily reached in a world ever more closely connected.

http://www.straight.com/article-676751/vancouver/elizabeth-may-devastating-fi...

Elizabeth May: A devastating first year of Conservative majority rule in Canada | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

World wide the shift towards intollerance is gaining ground! In the past few days I have witnessed signs of Europe sliding into a new facism ethic that should remind us that just below the semblance of outward tolerance and stability lurks a monster willing to blast sanity into smithereens and stab at the heart of cooperative diversity. Europe is at a tipping point.

Never, before in mankind's history has there been a more dangerous period with respected muslim religious leaders openly and seriously spouting doctrines of genocide and those being targeted openly stating they are ready to unleash nuclear war on a scale never before contemplated as a serious proposition.

Depopulation of planet earth as seriously proposed by some Russian leaders is mistakenly seen as a good policy arising from irrationality that spawns novel forms of individual efforts of sustaining fascism as a credible path of change as witnessed recently in Britain and Norway.

We need to be aware that tipping points towards irrational and sickening violence are only too easily reached in a world ever more closely connected.

http://www.straight.com/article-676751/vancouver/elizabeth-may-devastating-first-year-conservative-majority-rule-canada

Why the Higgs particle is almost invisible, but not quite!

Excellent discussion!

http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/the-higgs-particle/why-is-it-...

The Longest Sunset | Of Particular Significance

Grand Canyon sunset of eclipsing interest!

http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/05/22/the-longest-sunset/

BBC News - France weather: Violent rainstorm wreaks havoc

We arrived today, just hours after the storm, wondering why there were so many clouds assuming the mountains were causing the cloudy weather, not realizing that a monster storm had struck last night and what we witnessing was evaporation. Surprise event that has French TV captivated as there was no river over flowing, just a bucket of water dropped on each square inch of Nancy within an hour!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18158918

BBC News - France weather: Violent rainstorm wreaks havoc

We arrived today, just hours after the storm, wondering why there were so many clouds assuming the mountains were causing the cloudy weather, not realizing that a monster storm had struck last night and what we witnessing was evaporation.

Surprise event that has French TV captivated as there was no river over flowing, just a bucket of water dropped on each square inch of Nancy within an hour!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18158918

Violent storms in Nancy,- FRANCE- streets under two meters of water 22/05/2012 - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/violent-storms-in-nancy-france-stree...

Violent storms in Nancy,- FRANCE- streets under two meters of water 22/05/2012 - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/violent-storms-in-nancy-france-streets-under-two-meters-of-water?xg_source=activity

Roads and cellars flooded as storms hit Nancy and east of France - The Connexion

We are in Nancy and ok!

http://www.connexionfrance.com/Nancy-Meurthe-Moselle-Bas-Rhin-storm-mud-flood...

Roads and cellars flooded as storms hit Nancy and east of France - The Connexion

We are in Nancy and ok!

http://www.connexionfrance.com/Nancy-Meurthe-Moselle-Bas-Rhin-storm-mud-flood-power-autoroute-train-derailed-13743-view-article.html

BBC News - France weather: Violent rainstorm wreaks havoc

Oops! Nancy is where we are presently? Who could credit that?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18158918

Street artist in Freiburg

Great day to do an interesting drawing! What amazing work!

Wooh, RT

Street artist in Freiburg

Great day to do an interesting drawing! What amazing work!

Post-war artists at auction: The price of being female | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/05/post-war-artists-auction?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C5-21-2012%7C1859601%7C38070759%7C

G8 summit: Stephen Harper says free trade an alternative to austerity, cutbacks | News | National Post

Free trade is not a short term policy tactic. If Canada and Europe engage in free trade it brings along economies of scale issues that America would have to address. It might, however, bring employment to low wage regions!

Economies of scale helps large firms by reducing the number of separate plants to produce a given product. Where would these fewer plants be located? Migration of production from China?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/19/g8-summit-stephen-harper-says-free-trade-an-alternative-to-austerity-cutbacks/

The Most-Effective, Quickest Way To Create More U.S. Jobs - International Business Times

I am a Schumpeterian not a Keynesian economist, but what are the rest?

In economic policy, timing and scale is everything, but so is the design of the policy mix and a sound understanding of industrial demand dynamics and employment structure. Building houses, for example may produce growth, but it has just produced debt and inflation when demand -lomg term - was unsustainable and it produced an unsustainable economic dynamic. Income distribution towards building up average incomes without inflation is part of this benign design.

Krugman is absolutely right! But, why should this be a surprise? Too many crap economic policies have dulled the professions's understanding of the basics. Fortunately, Krugman is not among those that do not understand very simple economics. Perhaps, we need to take away a few economics PhD's from the others? Or, do they try to push median incomes into the ground and to create unemployment.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm

Krugman: Speaker Boehner, Paul Ryan ‘completely deluded’ - Video on msnbc.com

Over investment is still an issue and indices need to be developed to distinguish patterns of excessive growth that puts ecnomies off their more natural long term sustainable path. Dangerous maybe, but that is what capitalism is all about ... making obsolescence of junk produced because of low technical producivity.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47480484/

Paul Krugman / Apocalypse fairly soon: If the euro blows up, the extremists will rise - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Spot on, but!

It must never happen! The cost is far too great. Better to have more regulation of activity in the world economy and efforts to understand basic economics that policy makers seem to have forgotten or worse, never learned!

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/paul-krugman-apocalypse-fairly-soon-if-the-euro-blows-up-the-extremists-will-rise-636579/

Text or dictate! It's a matter of using your brains while driving!

Why text using your fingers when there are really good apps that will type what you say? Laws could suggest corrective positive actions becausewhen you tell someone not to do some thing you really do crete the urge in them to do it! Would that poliicians were better psychologists?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0517/Inconvenient-truths-to-a-ban-on-texting-while-driving?cmpid=ema:nws:Commentary%20Weekly%20(05182012)&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2

Trust Your Instincts: BoE's Mervyn King: 'there are major credit losses to be realized'

http://tyillc.blogspot.de/2012/05/boes-mervyn-king-there-are-major-credit.html

Israel Hayom | 'Khamenei told me that Israel must be burned to the ground'

Well! Well! ...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4359

Charcoal Kills 2 Million People & Vast Swaths of Forest Every Year. Can Biofuel Stop the Carnage? : TreeHugger

Makes one think twice!

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/africa-cooking-charcoal-kills-millions.html

‘Fracking’ Titan Chesapeake Energy in Stock Swoon Amid Cash Crunch | Business | TIME.com

So what does this really mean?

http://business.time.com/2012/05/16/fracking-titan-chesapeake-energy-in-stock-plunge-amid-cash-crunch-fears/

Asian energy giants, Shell to move ahead on Canadian LNG project - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/asian-energy-giants-shell-to-move-ahead-on-canadian-lng-project/2012/05/16/gIQAfAfQTU_story.html

U.S. energy independence no longer just a pipe dream | The Ithaca Journal | theithacajournal.com

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120516/NEWS01/205160342/U-S-energy-independence-no-longer-just-pipe-dream?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

You are What Makes America, America: MIT $100K Announces Their Grand Prize Winner [Images] | BostInno

It's great to see such efforts at solving the technological issues!

http://bostinno.com/2012/05/16/you-are-what-makes-america-america-mit-100k-announces-their-grand-prize-winner-images/#ss__151962_1_0__ss

Why should oil companies be subsidized as Greece goes down the tubes?

Act to stop such waste of resources!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/a_new_plan_to_save_the_planet/?cBEuVbb

Apple Moves to Increase iPhone Screen Size - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303360504577407610487811698.html?mod=djemITPE_h

Report Raises Concerns Over Biomass Production - Domestic Fuel

I guess that we all need to help to democratize the forms of activity undertaken for our socalled benefit!

http://domesticfuel.com/2012/05/16/report-raises-concerns-over-biomass-production/comment-page-1/#comment-139336

Acid Reflux and GERD

Some clues as to treatment!

http://s3.gi.org/physicians/guidelines/GERDTreatment.pdf

Iran Promotes Its Candidate for Next Shiite Leader - NYTimes.com

So what else is new?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/world/middleeast/iran-promotes-its-candidate-for-next-shiite-leader.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120512

Habitat for Humanity Bets Big in Oregon - NYTimes.com

What really is the housing crisis? Unaffordable housing.... Dah!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/us/habitat-for-humanity-tries-big-scale-approach-to-housing-in-oregon.html?src=me&ref=general

Easy Useless Economics - NYTimes.com

Very good sense and hardly reckless!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opinion/krugman-easy-useless-economics.html?src=me&ref=general

JPMorgan Chase Fought Rule on Risky Trading - NYTimes.com

Holy crap!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/business/jpmorgan-chase-fought-rule-on-risky-trading.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120512

Prince Charles presents weather forecast on BBC TV Thu 10 May 2012

Thank God it is not a bank holiday! Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SfnxoDXTnI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Prince Charles Delivers The Weather Report

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TACs5kztp3Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

BBC News - Prince Charles weather forecast sweeps the globe

I always knew he had a wonderful sense of humour! It is good to see Charles perform live!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18031493

Gay marriage: Clooney fundraiser a hint of coming Obama money boom (+video) - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0511/Gay-marriage-Clooney-fundraiser-a-hint-of-coming-Obama-money-boom-video/(page)/2

Gay marriage: Clooney fundraiser a hint of coming Obama money boom (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Obama is clearly clued in! This makes a change and break from an overly narrow past in civil rights. If you are not gay, why do you have the right to judge! That would be preposterous as is the position that all life demands a specific formula. The only demand for life is love, and this includes love for most sustainable sexual attitudes.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0511/Gay-marriage-Clooney-fundraiser-a-hint-of-coming-Obama-money-boom-video

Belleville, Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleville,_Paris

Behind the Scenes in Paris: Portes Ouvertes de Belleville | Parisien Salon

Is there a new Picasso in Paris?

http://www.parisiensalon.com/2010/06/behind-the-scenes-in-paris-portes-ouvertes-de-belleville/

HiP Paris Blog » Wandering in Belleville: Living Art on Rue Dénoyez

See the living art scene in Paris!

http://hipparis.com/2010/02/06/wandering-in-belleville-living-art-on-rue-denoyez/

Andy Coulson is likely to have attended sensitive meetings, No 10 admits | Media | The Guardian

Who would he be spying for? Bad precedent!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/09/andy-coulson-sensitive-meetings-no-10?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

This Tiny Fuel Cell Will Juice Your iPhone Up To Fourteen Times Per Charge | Cult of Mac

Great news!

http://www.cultofmac.com/165696/hello-future-new-fuel-cell-will-charge-iphone-up-to-fourteen-times-per-charge/

BBC News - Syria blast near UN convoy going to Deraa

This shows Syria not taking the UN seriously! Need a show of force....?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18001942

Falkland Islands claimed as 'Argentine soil' in secretly filmed Olympic advert | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Obviously, the cold war with Argentina is getting warmer! One has to wonder what the real impact is around the world as people are influenced this way or that to discriminate against another nationality because of a dispute over sovereignty based on location and opportunism! Flag waving by Argentina is not a solution. A solution is to make mining for oil irrelevant and to negotiate separate fair treaties with Argentna that protect rights of present residents in the Falklands.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/04/falkland-islands-argentine-olympic-advert?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng seeks meeting with Hillary Clinton | World news | The Guardian

If you think, Mitt Romney is helping the situation by being so vocal at a time when quiet diplomacy is necessary, think again! This guy is not fit to be a future president of America!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/04/chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-hillary-clinton?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Putin's Choice | Opinion | The Moscow Times

Top down government is clearly an anachronism that will build in future failure!

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putins-choice/457904.html

Cigar Room of Books: I Am A Strange Loop

Cool!

http://cigarroomofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-am-strange-loop.html

Cigar Room of Books: Douglas Hofstadter

Wonderful blog! Truly wonderful!

http://cigarroomofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/douglas-hofstadter.html

Belfast born engineer at CERN believes God particle will be discovered within months | Irish News | IrishCentral

Chances of discovery pretty good!

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/-Belfast-born-direct-at-CERN-believes-God-particle-will-be-discovered-within-month-149815155.html

Romney camp criticises British PM's Obama 'love-in' ahead of Olympic visit | World news | guardian.co.uk

Oops! Can we be so serious about this guy Romney, who is still just a very very rich person to most people!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/02/romney-british-pm-obama-london?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Murdoch facing new challenge as US senator contacts Leveson over hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk

It would be amazing if he were not guilty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/02/murdoch-phone-hacking-us-senator?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Sir Mervyn King admits: we did too little to warn of economic crisis | Business | The Guardian

No truer words ever spoken! Gordon Brown is partly responsible, but the real changes took place in the 1980s when banks were allowed into the housing market!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/02/mervyn-king-we-did-too-little-warn-economic-crisis?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy have seized the spotlight, but 2012 PGA Tour season is another story | GOLF.com

Top players have their own challenges!

http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/tiger-phil-and-rory-have-seized-spotlight-2012-pga-tour-season-another-story

One hot French presidential debate: genial tortoise vs. mud-slinging hare (+video) - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0502/One-hot-French-presidential-debate-genial-tortoise-vs.-mud-slinging-hare-video

Paul Krugman on How to Fix the Economy - and Why It's Easier Than You Think | Julian Brookes | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Krugman is right with one proviso that the home property market is not stimulated in the process, which is why we have the current problem in the first place!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/paul-krugman-on-how-to-fix-the-economy-and-why-its-easier-than-you-think-20120502

Grand Bend Studio Tour | Arts, Eats & Beats 2012

Don't miss this!

http://grandbendstudiotour.com/arts-eats-beats-2012

Rupert Murdoch's Fox broadcast licences targeted by US ethics group | Media | guardian.co.uk

This has got to sting!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-licences-us?intcmp=239

Rupert Murdoch deemed 'not a fit person' to run international company | Media | The Guardian

So what does this really mean?

Does he not now have permission to control or run BSkyB, or is the Committee just another pressure group suggesting that other actions be taken to ensure he is denied the opportunity?

Perhaps, it's interesting that although the Committee cannot yet pin criminal charges on the man, he is nevertheless somewhat blacklisted!

Lack of unanimity is puzzling! Does it mean that moral standards vary depending on political leaning?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-not-fit-phone-hacking?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

IBM Tapped to Handle Radio Telescope Data | WebProNews

http://www.webpronews.com/ibm-tapped-to-handle-radio-telescope-data-2012-04