Any chance of a clone by tomorrow morning?  :)

Paris granted the Dalai Lama honorary citizenship as a fresh wave of anti-Western protests broke out in China. Meanwhile, the Tibetan spiritual leader called on the United States for help with Tibet.

The Paris city council voted on Monday, April 21, to bestow honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama without the blessing of President Nicolas Sarkozy's federal government. Hu Jia, a prominent human rights activist who was jailed in China earlier this month on charges of attempted subversion, was also awarded citizenship in the French capital.

 

Beijing said Tuesday it was "strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed" to the Paris city council's decision, calling it interference in China's internal affairs.

 

A spokesman for Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party said Paris' Mayor Bertrand Delanoe may have been trying to boost his domestic popularity with the initiative.

The German 'Reinheitsgebot,' or beer purity law, started 482 years ago. Germans find reason to celebrate the drink even the mild-mannered Benjamin Franklin once called "proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

 The German Reinheitsgebot, or beer purity law, celebrates its 482nd birthday on April 23. Brewski. Suds. Cold one. Pint. Cerveza. Call it what you will, beer may be the world's most traditional beverage. First brewed in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia over 8,000 years ago, it rates a mention in the epic of Gilgamesh, and its earliest chemical traces -- from 3500 BC -- have been found in the Godin Tepe in the Zagros mountains, in present-day Iran. Beer is a model internationalist.

On Wednesday, Germans mark their own contribution to the history of beer, the Reinheitsgebot, or purity law, which strictly regulated the price and ingredients of beer at the start of the 16th century.

It's an excuse for parties and brewery tours across Germany. The state of Bavaria has declared a whole "Beer Week," to let tourists and residents sample beer from some of the state's 40 breweries and 4,000 brands. Bavarians tend to be the most proud of the Reinheitsgebot. Most of their breweries adhere to it -- and they came up with it the law the first place.

you are the media you consume.

Weather Synopsis...The threat for strong to severe thunderstorms continues across much of the area...especially western Oklahoma. More intense thunderstorms may develop in the very unstable air mass across southern Oklahoma and western north Texas later in the afternoon...with the potential for more significant severe weather. Check this website often for the latest information.

Supercells likely, tornadoes possible.  Springtime in Oklahoma...

The blurker formerly known as ignorant bystander.

I managed to get a cold practically the moment I touched down in Carcasonne and have had a running nose and sneezing attacks the whole time. Yuk. Then flying back got a pressure problem and it's taken me 4 hours before I've started feeling even remotely "right".

So, have I missed anything ? Aside from Clinton trying to out-bomb McCain by promising to obliterate Iran.

keep to the Fen Causeway

 builders on the roof putting back tiles around the new pv panels, the plumber putting back the solar water heater panels into a new place next to the pv, and the tv antenna guy come to move the parabola, as that was shading the silicon.

i had to be really on the ball, seeing all these operations synchronised, and being a 'third hand' when necessary, the weather held, and the late evening was golden.

 when it was done and dusted, i called the engineer to come hook it up, (as he hadn't been able to do that until the tiles had been fixed in place, and it's been too rainy to do that for 10 days), and surprise... there's a festa coming up on mayday, so i was to forget about it till after then.

it's always something, lol.

sorry to hear about your dog, colman. i hope she gets better fast after the operation.

one of my dogs has been poorly these last two days.

off her food, and too weak to get up almost, her nose was warm and dry, and she hurt when i tried to pick her up.

i brushed her all over, checking for ticks, which have become more numerous with global warming, bleh.

between her toes, in her ears, none there. so i popped a cap of golden seal down her throat this morning, and a hit of kidney tincture, and let her sleep on a couch for a treat all day.

tonight i went out for my sunset walk, turned around, and there she was following me and my other dog!

slowly, haltingly, but she made it for a mile and a half there and back, so i am encouraged.

the sunset was pretty special...

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." - Leibniz .

Frozen Wave Phenomenon on Lake Huron.

Michigan has had the coldest winter in decades. Water expands to freeze, and at Macinaw City the water in Lake Huron below the surface ice was supercooled. It expanded to break through the surface ice and froze into this incredible wave.

This wave phenomena is seen in Antarctica, but in Michigan? Yes, it's been quite a winter!

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." - Leibniz .