http://www.youtube.com/v/S4ZIjl8yuuE?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Source article: UKIP’s Political Awakening
Heat wave threatens Canada’s tulip festival
A heat wave is threatening to take the bloom off one of the world’s largest garden festivals, as more than one million colorful tulips in Canada’s capital began wilting Tuesday. More than 100 heat records were broken across the country, according the weather office, while Ottawa posted…
Linsanity revisited
It takes a fairly long time to write a book, for obvious reasons having to do with conceptualizing and writing and editing and the ambient neuroses that come with all that. For less obvious reasons having to do with things I’m not anywhere near as familiar with, it also takes a very long time to publish a book. When Jeremy Lin was off on his giddy and sudden ascent around this time in the 2011-12 NBA season, publishers were clamoring for a book on Jeremy Lin, any book on Jeremy Lin that they could sell immediately to the many people who were suddenly very interested in Jeremy Lin. But, for all the reasons mentioned above, and because Linsanity’s bright bloom was so brief, no proper Jeremy Lin book ever came. There was a glossy Collector’s Edition magazine-y thing with many photos of Lin on sale at the drugstore, next to assorted other Linsanity-related detritus—I remember a lot of pull-out plastic banners—but as it was all marked down and marked down again and finally gone, there was no Jeremy Lin book.Continue Reading… … Read More
Redrawing a Concrete Aeroplane – Godfrey Bloom (Journalists seminar on economic issues)
http://www.youtube.com/v/eLWVPwi65Cs?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Link: Redrawing a Concrete Aeroplane – Godfrey Bloom (Journalists seminar on economic issues)
For hundreds of years, Japan’s cherry blossoms have symbolized life and death
Cherry blossom trees in bloom in Washington, D.C., shot and edited by Cindy Huang. After a chilly start to spring on the East Coast, cherry trees are in full bloom in Washington, D.C. But the trees’ pink and white blossoms are not just beautiful. They’ve been an evolving symbol…
PART 11 UKIP Spring Conference 2013 – Godfrey Bloom MEP – A New Approach to Tax
http://www.youtube.com/v/uqjv7cVmH_w?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Link to original: PART 11 UKIP Spring Conference 2013 – Godfrey Bloom MEP – A New Approach to Tax
Nullifying Food Regulations
Another Maine town adopts a “food
sovereignty” ordinance:
In a referendum
election on March 4, [Brooksville] residents voted 112-64 to
approve the “Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance,”
which states that producers or processors of local foods are
“exempt from licensure and inspection,” so long as the food is sold
directly by the producer to a consumer.
The ordinance also makes it “unlawful for any law or regulation
adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the
rights organized by this ordinance.”
The state contends that such ordinances hold no legal weight, but
that hasn’t stopped residents of Sedgwick, Penobscot, Blue Hill and
Trenton from passing the same local rules. Food sovereignty
ordinances also have been passed in Hope, Plymouth, Livermore and
Appleton….
State Rep. Ralph Chapman, D-Brooksville, has said there are several
bills being crafted in Augusta that would seek to implement the
local food sovereignty rules for direct-to-consumer sales at the
state level. If that happened, there would no longer be a conflict
between state and local rules.
This comes two years after Brooksville citizens ;narrowly
rejected the idea. For those of you who weren’t keeping count,
that’s a total of nine towns in the state that have adopted these
ordinances.
[Via
Jordan Bloom.] … Read More
