[PHOTO] A Rollo Bay home, Prince Edward Island

My uncle's home in Rollo Bay, located just next to Prince Edward Island route 2 as it nears Souris, is a lovely old farmstead embedded in a vast immaculate garden. It's a place of beauty.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Bad Astronomy shares a picture of the astonishingly crowded center of the Milky Way galaxy.


• blogTO recommends things to do in the Junction and Liberty Village.


• Centauri Dreans notes an interesting new binary star discovery, one where a hot Jupiter orbits each star.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on further research done of a close brown dwarf.


• The Frailest Thing notes an interview with spaceflight proponent Elon Musk painting him as a messianic figure, a Moses or Noah.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that western Europe experienced growign longevity from an early age.


• The New APPS Blog notes the intersections of philosophy, religion, and euthanasia.


• Registan notes the arrival of Islamic banking in the former Soviet Union.


• Steve Munro notes the return of streetcar service to Queens Quay.


• Torontoist is skeptical of Olivia Chow's transit plan, not detailed enough.


• Towleorad reports on a Russian exchange student in the United States who has claimed asylum and reports on civil unions' new introduction in Chile.


• Window on Eurasia notes the weaknesses of the Belarusian economy, observes the linguistic links between Crimean Tatars and various north Caucasian peoples, argues that 1600 Russian soldiers have died, observes Russian belief that China is an ally, and notes that older Muslim communities in Moscow separate themselves from the newer immigrant communities.

[NEWS] Some Monday links

• Al Jazeera warns about the militarization of the Ukrainian state, notes the alienation of Turkish Kurds from their goverment and wonders if northern Syria will become a Turkish protectorate, wishes Arab authors could travel to the United States more readily, wonders about the impact of immigrants on Catalonian separatism, and notes Wheaton College's issue with new federal healthcare regulations.


• Bloomberg observes the shrinkage of the American labour force, the success of the coffee crop in Vietnam, the emigration from ethnic Czechs from Ukraine to the Czech Republic, the successful retention of industry in Singapore, observes the debilitating toll of illegal fisheries off of the West African coast, and notes the call for an investigation into the treatment of the United States' first Ebola victim.


• Bloomberg View notes that Uber can succeed only in the context of a struggling labour market, looks at the economic issues of European petrostates, notes how political concerns override fears for the Russian economy, argues British cities also need autonomy, and via Faroese fish exports notes that sanctions may not have that much effort.


• CBC notes Tanya Tagaq's stalking by a sexually aggressive man in Winnipeg, and notes that Windsor is using cayenne peppers to deter squirrels from attacking the city's tulips. (That last should work.)


• The Inter Press Service notes the scale of Samoan emigration, observes the negative consequences of climate change for livestock farmers in the Caribbean, looks at the drought besetting Sao Paulo, looks at an economically questionable train line in Sri Lanka, considers how the Karabakh issue makes Armenian entry into the Eurasian Union problematic, and u>observes anti-Palestinian discrimination in housing in the Jerusalem area.


• IWPR reports on growing Ukraine-related ethnic tensions in Kazakhstan and observes Georgia's clampdown on immigration.


• Open Democracy recommends a consistent policy of European Union opening to the western Balkans, notes the plight of Copts in Egypt, looks at ethnic tensions in North Ossetia between Ossetians and Ingush, examines Basque and Corsican separatisms, fears for the future of secularism in Mali and Senegal, and considers the dire demographics of Ukraine.