Random

• TODAY'S high in our Phoenix backyard was 77° -- which seems warm to the rest of the US right now. But on Guam that's about the typical night-time low, year-round.

• WARNER SALLMAN'S "Head of Christ" will soon be available as a postage stamp from the Åland Islands (autonomous Swedish speaking province of Finland) ~ link

• CONCERN over the sustainability of China's economic boom ~ link

• GOOGLE appears to have had enough of the Chinese government shenanigans and it looks like they may be getting ready to pull out. ~ link

• "ABORTIONS of girl fetuses are expected to leave China with 24 million more men than women over the next decade, according to a study that warns the imbalance will dash many young men's chance at marriage and lead to increased crime." ~ link

• SOLAR breakthrough -- "Researchers have demonstrated a simple, cheap way to create self-assembling electronic devices using a property crucial to salad dressings." ~ link

• CORAL reefs rebound if protected ~ link

• BLESSING of the Blackberrys. Okay. Working hard to appear relevant. ~ link

• YUMA, Arizona's hidden city, continues to grow -- in spite of the slow economy and the fact that it's in the middle of nowhere ~ link

• "IF France became a US state it would rank #48 out of 51 by per capita GDP, just barely ahead of America's two poorest states -- West Virginia and Mississippi... Although Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark are among Europe's wealthiest countries, as US states they would be between 14.5% and 18% below the U.S. average..." ~ link

• "NEW stories coming out of the Japan Media report Japan's Social Democratic Party is pushing not just for the relocation of Marines and their dependents from Okinawa to Guam, but also for the complete closure of the Futenma Air Base and relocation of at Least 2,000 additional military personnel and 3,000 dependents to Guam." ~ link