Ann Murray being Ann Murray? That's NEVER a good thing! Bob Norman asks if Ann Murray is "Targeting Whistleblower for Firing?"; Iceland inspires

Visit Iceland 2011
http://youtu.be/yz6GpX3_CQE

On a very warm and miserable day in South Florida with no breeze to speak of, there's nothing like a story from ace sleuth Bob Norman detailing even more of the sordid and slimey behavior that I (we've) come to expect from Ann Murray of the Broward School Board -who represents my corner of S.E. Broward- to make me feel like it's already the first week of August. Miserable, miserable August.

That time of the year where I have to go somewhere far cooler (in more ways than one) to chill out and recharge my batteries.
To get away from both dysfunctional South Florida and Dolphin head coach Tony Sparano's nonsensical annual training camp prattle about Chad Henne's great potential.

Someplace like Iceland?
Could be!

Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.

In case you missed it earlier, my own comments about the Broward School Board from earlier today are here:
Passing the hat, but ignoring what's in plain sight! Broward School Board's Community Budget Task Force meeting at 5 p.m.; equivocating Bartleman
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/passing-hat-but-ignoring-whats-in-plain.html

BrowardPalmBeach New Times
Daily Pulp
Is School Board Member Ann Murray Targeting Whistleblower for Firing?
By Bob Norman, Wed., Apr. 20 2011 @ 9:03AM

Broward School Board member Ann Murray claims she is trying to tighten the district's purse strings by laying off building inspectors.

Building inspector Michael Marchetti -- a whistleblower who exposed massive corruption by Murray's board -- told Murray during a meeting last week that she's on a "personal vendetta" to fire him. ​

Murray didn't answer Marchetti's charge, but I'm sure he's right.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/04/michael_marchetti_ann_murray.php




Yoko Ono - Inspired by Iceland (2010)
http://youtu.be/ABoAMKOPfBc

For more information:
www.inspiredbyiceland.com

http://www.icelandnaturally.com/

http://goiceland.org/usergallery/

http://www.icelandtouristboard.com/index.php?page=Dateline-April-2011

Volcanoes tonight on Nat'l Geo. Channel: thinking about Thrinukagigur before the ticking timebomb that's Mount Nyiragongo devours Goma's 1M residents

National Geographic Channel: Into Iceland's Volcano
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/expedition-week-main/

Related article at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/5782/Overview#tab-Overview

Feel like probing the volatility of Iceland's Thrinukagigur volcano, located close to our quarrelsome friend from last spring, Eyjafjallajökull?
No takers?

Well, some scientists, perhaps knowing of your sheepishness towards going inside a volcano thought it'd be fun, and tonight they report on what they found.

You might be interested in knowing that according to the very friendly and accommodating folks at www.IcelandTouristBoard.com, whom I hear from once in a while,

"While the world famous Eyjafjallajokull volcano wreaked havoc for millions of travelers, it resulted in a 16 % increase in tourism from N. America to our island nation for the first 11 months of 2010, versus the same period last year."

If you have never been to Iceland -home to HBB favorite Yohanna- and for more than just a weekend, it's AWESOME!
AWESOME TIMES TEN!

National Geographic Channel's Into Iceland's Volcano airs tonight at 9 pm. and repeats at midnight and 8 and 11 p.m. Friday.

After that visit to the far north, the National Geographic Channel sets its sights farther south and goes to Africa's most active volcano, Mount Nyiragongo, which is a ticking time-bomb for Goma's one million residents under the volcano.



National Geographic Channel video: Man vs. Volcano: Descending into the Lava Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJVipcVNpg

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The Daily Mail
Deadly volcano that's one of the most dangerous on Earth... but scientists can't predict when it will erupt as it's in the middle of a war zone

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:38 PM on 31st March 2011

Mount Nyiragongo is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world - and scientists say it is only a matter of time before it makes the city below a modern day Pompeii.

But they don't know when since, located as it is in the war-torn eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the two mile high cauldron of lava is also one of the least well understood.

Read the rest of the article, along with amazing photos featured in the new April 2011 National Geographic magazine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1371412/Central-African-volcano-threatens-turn-city-new-Pompeii.html

National Geographic Channel's Descending into the Lava Lake airs tonight at 10 pm. and repeats at 1 a.m. and Friday at 7 p.m. and 2. a.m. Saturday morning.

National Geographic Channel program schedule - DirecTV Channel 276
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/tv-schedule

National Geographic Channel YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic


JAGUAR XJ IN ICELAND
http://youtu.be/WaV0i8tuUe4
So very, very far away from the daily gridlock in Hallandale Beach -LOVE IT!

Det är huset för mig!: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/greathomesanddestinations/20110316iceland_ss.html

Street cams in Iceland
http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#austurstraeti

http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#blaa-lonid


http://www.icelandnaturally.com/