Before a continuation of my etc. topics, where part one was yesterday, did you know that the   American stock market yesterday reached an all-time high ?  Want details?    Watch this . Republicans complain that our economy is terrible, and so do many others.  Turns out the USA is doing well, with inflation and unemployment down, and a lot of good things up.  For example, people complain that  gasoline prices  are too high.  Nope.  A gallon is about 23 cents/gallon cheaper today than a year ago, and 39% lower than it was in June of 2022.  Just compare us with other countries around the world.  Watch  Fareed Zakaria  in a recent program. Next, let's go to France:   le scandale or tres chic?   The newly crowned Miss France, Eve Gilles, has a pixie cut, the only one in the contest with short hair.  The return of Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn? Sticking to France, did you know they have a new prime minister?   Gabriel Attal , at the age of 34, just was named as their youngest PM ever. 

  French Polynesia  is an overseas collectivity of France comprising of 121 islands and atolls stretching across more than 1200 miles, occupying 3.8 million EEZ square miles.  Thus FP has 84% of the French EEZ.  The USA has around 4 million square miles of EEZ.   France  has 4.5 million square miles, where, with 0.45% of the world's land surface, their EEZ covers 9% of all the world EEZ area.   FP has a total population of 278,786, and their land area is divided into five groups of islands:  Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands and Austral Islands.  75 of their islands and atolls are inhabitated.  The Society Islands group has 69% of the population.  The capital is Tahiti.  France took over those islands in 1842, but has called this area French Polynesia only since 1957. About some earlier history. The Great Polynesian Migration commenced around 1500 BC. The Marquesas were settled around 200 BC. The Society Islands around AD 300. European encount

I am adding this quite late for a good reason.   As I predicted in my  blog of March 16 , watch  Caitlin Clark  of Iowa.   Well, she only scored 41 points, with 8 assists and 6 rebounds, in an incredible upset of heavily favored South Carolina.  Maybe the best single performance in the history of the Big Dance, women's or men's.   Iowa faces my team, LSU, which got trounced by South Carolina last month.  That's Angel Reese, for these two might be the best women playing at the college level this year. Why I'm adding this now is that my next blog will be published after that Iowa-LSU game is over, which begins at 7:30AM Fiji time tomorrow, but at 3:30PM EDT on Sunday in the U.S.   How to watch?  Click on this.    We left the Coral Sea and are now in the South Pacific Ocean.  Amazing that I am able to send this with nothing in sight around us for hundreds of miles. I also said that if you wanted a long shot on the men's side, pick San Diego State.   They will play Conn