More Pre-Sochi Russian Federation Political Prisoners

Taisiya Osipova

Amnesty International

Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games

IOC Gives Preliminary Go-Ahead for Ukraine's 2022 Olympics Hosting Bid

"The western Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Slavske, Stryi, Trostian, Truskavets, Tysovets, and Volovets have been identified as possible hosting locations for 2022 Winter Olympics. Other cities that might compete for the right to host the competition include Denver, Geneva, Montreal, and Zurich."

Photo credit: (c) Associated Press.

Public And Private In Partnership

"A principal reason New Orleans is likely less vulnerable to Isaac than Katrina is due to the multi-billion dollar re-engineering of its levee system."

Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated $81.2 billion dollars in damages (the costliest Hurricane on record).


Photo credits:  NOAA and (c) Reuters.

Aide Memoire: Bond Student Chamber Music --- Spring 1973

Gibbons, Dowland, A. Scarlatti, Durante, Sammartini, Couperin, Bach, Handel, Telemann, W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Bartok, Schoenberg, Ives, Britten, Messiaen

Redevelopment Battle Intensifies Over Kyiv Ukraine's Podil Hostynny Dvir

Kyiv Post

Photo credit: © Kostyantyn Chernichkin 2012.  Copyright controlled.

Newest Political Prisoners -- The Iron Bars Of August

 

 

  

Photo credit: © NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/GettyImages 2012.  All rights reserved.
Via Amnesty International.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last year that suicides increased during periods of economic stress, including the Great Depression, the oil crisis of the 1970s and the double-dip recession of the 1980s

‘Economic suicides’ shake Europe as financial crisis takes toll on mental health

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mental Health Europe

"Considerable sunshine late this morning and this afternoon are helping to destabilize the atmosphere, increasing the potential for heavy storms"

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Source:  modernmechanix.com  (May 1956).

Summertime

"In July, U.S. spending at sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores posted the biggest gain, with sales on those items rising 1.6%."

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen On Democracy And The Decisions Of Bankers

The New Republic 

NOAA Knows: July 2012 is hottest month on record for contiguous United States

NOAA

Aide Memoire:  The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China

In Memoriam, Grigoriy S.

Uncle Grigoriy was 5 years old when his mother -- my wife's grandmother -- was killed by the German Nazis in early 1941 in a village near Kharkiv, Ukraine.  She was one of millions of civilians killed in that war.  (Grigoriy was later a general in Afghanistan.)