A review of monitored events and research notes for the first week of July 2012.
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Today is Monday, July 9, 2012, and we know that many of you have been busy, chomping down jackfruit, playing Squirrel Ninja Red (or Gray) in your air-conditioned rooms all week. (Fair warning: Môri Chee-cheep is not even the quarter-way point of the game.) But, while you've been locked in to round after round of virtual squirrel battling, the world has continued its relentless rotation, and, duty-bound, we will now briefly get you up to date on what was last week In Infictive.
- The Higgs boson confirmation: "By studying how the Higgs behaves, what it interacts with and which particles it decays into, we are opening up a new window on the hidden universe."
- Controversial figure Andrew McFing narrowly avoided death over the weekend after being involved in a tragic vehicular accident that claimed the lives of six others, officially unidentified as yet, but unofficially it is being reported that they are members of the band The Extra Holy Rollers. Mcfing himself received only minor injury. The cause of the sudden cliff jump is unclear at this time, but foul play is not being ruled out by the authorities.
- The first major political forum of the season ran into overtime on Saturday, July 7, as a cast of nine potential candidates for county offices debated in three sessions: incumbent Elnora Reagle and her opponents Lynwood Kostiv and Edmundo Goodpastor, followed by incumbent Darcy Ulery facing Charles Koonce and Stanley Northern, and incumbent Beat Eichhörnchen closing against Luis Faucher and Despina Wassum. Unofficial polls suggest that the current slate of County Commissioners are not likely to lose their seats, though there are still four and a half months until the ballots are cast. A second, smaller forum with incumbents Zita Arrocho and Spector Palacios facing against their opponents, Tyrone Hymer, Dona Neeld, and Marylou Stutsman, will be hosted on the 14th.
- The Crump family has generously donated a recently acquired Tantric Buddhist lintel to Libreville's Clément Museum. The large stone depicits a complex iconography focused on the three-headed, six-armed central figure "Vajrasattva", and will be part of the expanded Asian collection, available for viewing in the North wing at the beginning of August.
- Less than a week remains before the official start of the annual Howlin' Jazz Festival, running from the 15th to the 21st. Most venues and multi-event tickets have long since sold out, but you may still be able to get your mitts on some if you tune in to Libreville Community Radio, which will be running concert contests all week and giving away tickets to a few lucky souls. We've also been reliably informed that a Taco Pop Drink-Off is being held in the Meredith Building on the Fnordham U campus this Friday, the winner of which will take home a packet of five tickets for the whole event.
That's all for this week In Infictive. Until we meet again, may your mind be and remain lucid, virtuous, and auspicious.
