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EASTON, Md, July 25, 2011 — Each week, no, each day, so much happens on the political scene, lots of it goofy, lots of it scary, and lots of it just human nature unleashed. What’s a blogger to do?

Starting this week, I will highlight some of the more inane, insane, or just plain politics and call it Political Fodder. This is the stuff that can propel George Will to rhapsodic punditry or Jon Stewart to sardonic heights. This is what makes writing about politics and politicians fun, when I’m not wringing my hands in despair.

Bachmann's High Heels Trigger Migraines

Michele Bachmann had a bad week and she didn’t even suffer a migraine. First, her former staffers betrayed her, talking to Conservative blog, The Daily Caller, about her incapacitating migraine headaches.

Then her staff “roughed up” ABC journalist Brain Ross asking about those headaches.

Next she said her high heels caused migraines. Since we see her more times in heels than without, her life must be one long headache. Of course, claiming this as her excuse had the media and nearly everyone else in stitches. Just more Bachmann junk science.

Wait a minute: give the woman a break. The darnednest things can ignite migraines: coffee, bright lights, certain foods, and, of course, stress, all of which Bachmann as a candidate has in spades.

Areas of Europe, with exclusive shops maintain pre-recession income, exceeding 6,000 euros.

The luxury market again treads heavily on the main shopping streets in Europe. This is reflected in the study by the consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle, who has studied the 100 largest firms and their presence in major shopping areas in Europe, where they pay from less than $ 1,000 to almost 8,000 euros per square meter in annuities .

London
In London, talk about glamor and luxury business is to do Bond Street, whose origin dates from the eighteenth century and is linked to art and antiques. Today is the avenue of the great couturiers and fashion boutiques. In the south, known as Old Bond, houses the major jewelry houses like Bulgari, Piaget, Chopard and Tiffany, along with renowned brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint-Laurent, DKNY and Prada.

Two elements indicate the change to the north, New Bond Street. On the one hand, a flower stand by Stella McCartney. In addition, a statue in which Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt chatting animatedly in a bank. Dior, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu and Jimmy Choo are some of the flags of New Bond.

Just happened to Serrano, the glamor of the area has been marred by the refurbishment of the street. Cranes and trucks are part of the everyday landscape, which has sparked complaints from traders.

Paris
The French capital has five places among the 30 most expensive streets of the Old Continent. Located in the heart of Paris near the Place de la Madeleine tourism, the streets of Saint Honore St Honore Faoubourg are two of the most luxurious ways of the city.

In the City of Lights, the U.S. firm Ralph Lauren opened its largest store in Europe in April, after an extensive renovation of a XVII century building, located in Saint Germain. On this street, the rent is around 4,000 euros per square meter per year.

Burberry, Moschino and will soon Cucchinelli Bruenllo neighbors Hermès, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, who already have a place in the second most expensive street in Europe.

Among the tenants of a luxury area, is also the Italian company Ermenegildo Zegna, which opened its first store in France in June at number 50 rue du Faubourg Honore, where the rent is 6,500 euros per square meter per year .

Madrid
To find the first street in the exclusive ranking Spanish business, you have to go to number 25, where the Calle Serrano in Madrid holds the record for being the area with the highest incomes in Spain. The average annual income of 2,280 euros per square meter.

After its renovation, which affected more than three miles from Maria de Molina and Puerta de Alcalá, the main shopping district of Salamanca, Serrano is for luxury brands "Spanish Fifth Avenue." Thus, in the street of even numbers are firms such as Manolo Blahnik and Salvatore Ferragamo, and jewelers like Tiffany & Co and Cartier.

Calle Ortega y Gasset, perpendicular to Serrano, ranked 30 in this ranking. There are situated companies like Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton and Chanel. The average income of 1,920 euros per square meter per year.

Barcelona
The Catalan capital is also listed among the 30 European cities in the streets with the most expensive rents. Just after Serrano, at position 26, is the Paseo de Gracia, with prices for annual rent of 2,125 euros per square meter.

I used to live on Jess Rd, Whakamarama, and looked at building a log cabin there. I had the idea of using timber from the Tauranga Wharf to build it and ended up buying the whole Wharf! But plans changed and I decided to move out here to the beach.

Over a bottle of scotch with friends, I hatched the idea of designing a new home with sarked ceilings and beams, using the timber from the wharf. The beams are over 100 years old. I love the idea of having a real piece of local history interwoven with new materials.

I talked to Ray Hudson builders to see if it would work putting 10 tonne of timber in the ceiling. Ray is a legend. He likes a challenge and is used to building high end homes he built another waterfront home I had in Papamoa and he really is a perfectionist. You never need to have him back to fix things he only comes back for a beer!

Another local feature is the rimu furniture it's all designed and handmade by a boat builder from Mount Maunganui whose marriage broke up and he had to get rid of the timber! He built the dining room table and chairs, and I was so pleased with the result that I commissioned him for the shelving and bedroom furniture.

I think I funded his divorce and his emigration to Australia, but he did a great job. The fireplace and entry is schist stone I used five tonne of schist throughout the house. I was lucky to get Nick from Island Stone he is an English stonemason who used to restore old buildings in England and does a beautiful job.

For the walls I used Hot Chile Red by Resene. The colour really lifts the blonding of the sarking and the different tones in the stone. The kitchen is designed by Nikki at Mastercraft. She introduced a lot of new products into her design. The end product includes black glass and Caesar stone (Mosaici Carbone) I wanted large granite bench tops and the combination with the black glass is stunning because it reflects the water view. And a bonus it even reflects the TV so I can watch it while I am cooking.

 Throughout the house Trent Wilson from Complete Electrical put in LED and feature lighting. I went a bit crazy it's complete electric all right.

Trash in the Mississippi River clung to Memphis shores once flood waters began to recede this May. Volunteers spent long hours picking up litter and debris around Mud Island and in Tom Lee Park.

But south of Downtown at McKellar Lake, where a colossal trash problem was illuminated by outsiders months before the historic flooding this spring, cleanup could take years.

On Saturday, about 40 local volunteers picked up enough plastic in two hours to fill two dump trucks. The plastic and glass bottles, mostly litter from Memp顺便:给你推荐一个超实惠的鞋店http://shop60690329.taobao.com/hians who throw garbage into the street, were taken to be recycled.

Foam plastic and sports equipment, which traveled with the plastics along Nonconnah Creek before landing in the lake, were placed in a smaller, nonrecyclable pile headed for a landfill.

"Recycling is the big thing about today," said Amelia Mayahi, the 25-year-old sustainability coordinator at the University of Memphis. "Moving the trash from the lake to a landfill, like has been done before, doesn't make the most sense."

Having to continuously clean when the problem is largely preventable is also senseless, she said.

"Our hope is not only to come and help clean, but to be able to raise awareness," Mayahi said. "If we don't teach people to stop littering, the cleaning could be endless."

In March, a river cleanup group called Living Lands & Waters descended upon McKellar Lake, which is a slack-water harbor along the Mississippi, and bagged about 10,000 pounds of trash a day for a month.

"It's tough to know Memphians did this. We did this to ourselves," said Colton Cockrum, volunteer recruiter and assistant director of the honors program at the U of M. "It's hard for anyone who takes pride in the city to see."

Saturday was the start of monthly trips to the site, Cockrum told the sweat-laden group of students and environmental activists at the end of the day's work. Cleaners will delve deeper into the woods next trip, grabbing rubbish before water levels rise and reclaim the gunk.

"This is an impressive task," said David Butler, 32. Butler had heard of the trash problem from Cockrum but said it was different to behold in person. At 8 a.m. when the group began working, the debris was so deep that his feet did not touch the soil.

Mounds of manmade material had become an epidermis on the shore.

"It's an overwhelming sea of plastic," said Scout Anglin, 26. "But I'm impressed we got as much done as we did."

Sangweni, who joined Pirates on a three-year deal from Golden Arrows, realises that the competition is going to be tough, and also acknowledges that he needs to work hard to have a chance to be in the starting XI.

“I'm waiting for my chance. The competition will be tough, but when I get my chance I must make sure that I grab it with both hands,” he tells KickOff.com.

Pirates will start their Vodacom Challenge against Spurs at Mbombela Stadium on Tuesday and Sangweni hopes to be part of the team that will face the English Premiership outfit.

“If I play in that game I will not exchange my first Orlando Pirates jersey. I will keep it at home. This will be a memory that will stay with me forever.”

The KwaZulu-Natal born defender, who scored the winning goal for Bafana Bafana against Tanzania, is very happy to be a Buccaneer.

“Ngijabule kakhulu (I'm very happy) that I've joined Orlando Pirates as its one of the biggest teams in South Africa. And I will do my best and help the team achieve more.”

“It was that time, but now I'm okay! I'm a Bhakajuju for life!”

Great Expectations

There is a part of me that shies away a little from the madness and furore of the close season, where expectations are raised and hopes flown like kites - only to be dashed, for most of the footballing community by Christmas. Or October if you are a Liverpool fan. I find this part of the whole pantomime a bit pointless. A bit shallow. And most of all a bit unsettling. I cannot help but think that the aforementioned Red Mickeys are to a large extent responsible for their own (not very) sad demise every season, by heaping expectation and pressure on a lot of average players, creating a mental problem for the team, because the fans demand that Liverpool go out, win every game and climb the long road back to being England's best team. We all know United took that mantle back when The Smiths and Joy Division were in the charts, however depressing that fact may be, but for the scousers it is a festering sore that cannot be left alone. That United are also the most successful in terms of trophies now, domestic at least, is just the icing on the cake. The natives are restless and cannot stand being sixth or seventh best team in the league and for their history to mean very little because using their very myopic definition of what history is, someone else has more of it. So they demand that Liverpool win things - it creates problems and I think they do themselves a lot of harm by inflicting this on their team and their city. We are at risk of being the same, and although our fans are much more realistic (and employable) and it is perhaps the media and the owner who provide the pressure, though our own fans, spoilt on recent successes are by no means blameless.

In the close season it makes me wonder why expectations are set so high. I used to long for a successful fight against relegation and if we got a decent cup run, then that was just blinding. Football seemed more fun back then I think.

So what does this mean for today?

Maybe we could all do with a break. I'm not suggesting taking up watching the egg-chasing, taking up gardening, amateur guinea pig show breeding or even microbrewing in our kitchens (although....) - I'm talking about giving ourselves a break from ourselves.

Let me explain. Imagine, if you will the following scenario.

We spend our summer weeding out the old guard - the Drogbas, Ferrieras, Hilarios, Anelkas, (maybe Cole as well?) of the squad and selling them on, plus the ones that are not old, just not very good or unhappy, so the likes of Zhirkov, Bosingwa, Kalou, Mikel, Turnbull and such.

We buy ONE attacking midfielder - Modric.

We bring in some quality but raw youngsters - the likes of De Bruyne, Lukaku, Courtois, etc. We welcome back Sturridge, Van Aanholt, Kakuta and Raijkovic.

We do NOT send Bertrand, Kalac, the new Barca kid, Piazon, Delac, Lalkovic, Mellis, McEachran, Kakuta, Sturridge, Chalobah and the others out on loan, but bring them into the first team squad.

We make it clear to the likes of Terry, Lampard, Drogba and Cech that their role is to lead and to teach, not just to do it all on their own.

We start the season lining up as:

Cech, Courtois, Bertrand, Ivanovic, Alex, Luiz, Raikovic, Chalobah, Van Aanholt, Terry, Sturridge, De Bruyne, Ramires, Mellis, Modric, Lampard, McEachran, Benayoun, Piazon, Kakuta, Malouda, Torres, Lukaku, Lalkovic.

We then begin the season with the sole aim of establishing the kids and moving the squad through into its next phase. We say from the outset that we are not pinning the season on winning silverware, but that we're going to fight for everything as a group. Fourth is good enough - as long as we get into the CL next season, that's fine.