≈Week 21 of 2010: 148 days this year… 217 days remain≈
≈ Something To Think About
Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals over the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
~A. Lou Vickery
≈ Random Sports Facts
§ Los Angeles Clippers - Determined by a contest in 1984, this team name is said to pay tribute to the great sailing ships that passed through San Diego Bay.
§ Utah Jazz — An ideal name for this NBA franchise when it was set in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz music, in 1974. Five years later the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City and the name went with them.
§ Los Angeles Lakers — Originally based in Minneapolis, Minn., the name was based on the state motto "The Land of 10,000 Lakes." Despite the lack of lakes in Los Angeles, the team kept the name when it relocated in 1960.
• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1990 ►Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)
≈ Free Ramblings
The Flagstaff schools are still in session. They are usually out by now, but there were so many snow days, they have to keep on truckin’. Kids are outside until dark now. They have all the energy of summer, but still have to sit in class. I’m sure the teachers and staff are as ready for summer as the kids.
It was a good day here. We made it to 75° and the breeze of about 10mph was nice. I was able to be on the deck and enjoy the spring weather. I think it is safe to start putting some plants in my planters. I’m sure it will get done during this upcoming long weekend. Not that a long weekend means that much to me, but it still ‘feels’ like a long weekend.
≈ A Quick Smile…
My daughter Marina worked in my law office while she attended graduate school. One morning a call came in for her. I said she wasn't in yet and offered to take a message. The caller said she'd phone back later.
At 11:00 a.m., the caller tried again, and I reported that Marina had gone to lunch.
The last call came in at 3:30 p.m. "I'm sorry," I said, "she's left for the day. May I take a message?"
"Yes," the caller replied. "How can I get a job with you?"
≈ Puzzle 1
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Burn – Bead
… HINT: Food
2. Rid – Tripe
…HINT: Journey
3. Grove – Rout
…HINT: Indentation
4. Charm – Rush
…HINT: Damage
5. Cream – Sweep
…HINT: Outcry
≈ Side Show Stories
ALBUQUERQUE - An Albuquerque man said police sent a bomb squad to his house after he discovered an item given to him by a friend years ago was likely an 1800s cannonball.
Kenny Honeycutt said he was describing the object to a friend Friday and was told it sounded like a cannonball from the Civil War era, leading him to call police to ask whether it might be dangerous, KOAT-TV, Albuquerque, reported. "My grandkids come over here and play all the time. I thought, if this thing is dangerous I want to get it out of there," Honeycutt said. "I had used it for a doorstop for a while. I thought I would set it up on the entertainment center." Police said the item was determined to be an explosive device from the 1800s, but there was no gunpowder inside the object so it was not considered dangerous. Honeycutt said he does not know what he will do with the cannonball. "It might be valuable to somebody. Maybe I should put it on the Internet," said Honeycutt.
≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
≈ Calendar Information
• Observance Weeks in May•
22-29
Cover the Uninsured Week
National Safe Boating Week
25-31
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
26-30
International Whistler's Week
May 27–June 6
Largest annual festival of literature takes place: Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales.
• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •
National Hamburger Day
Sierra Club Day
Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
• Today’s Observances—by country •
Azerbaijan and Armenia: Republic Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918.
Ethiopia: Downfall of the Derg Day, a National Day.
Nepal: Republic Day
Philippines: Flag Day
• Today’s Number One Songs in…
For anyone interested, all these songs are available on iTunes.
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1945 ►Sentimental Journey; Les Brown
1955 ►Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White; Perez Prado
1965 ►Help Me Rhonda; The Beach Boys
1975 ►Before the Next Teardrop Falls; Freddy Fender
• Today’s Happenings•
In The Arts
1953 ►Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1974 ►Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation
In Athletics
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In Business or Education
1742 ►1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1961 ►Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
In Politics
1774 ►1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1851 ►Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
1926 ►US Customs Court created by congress
1968 ►Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon
1972 ►White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
In Science/ Religion
1664 ►1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston)
1892 ►Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature
1982 ►Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
1959 ►Able and Baker were two monkeys who survived a trip into space from a launch at Cape Canaveral, FL.
• Today’s Births •
Artists, Writers, and Composers
Ian Fleming author: creator of Bond ... James Bond, born in 1908 London
Thomas Moore poet, lyricist: The Last Rose of Summer, born in 1779 Dublin, Ireland
Athletes
Kirk Harold Gibson, 53, former baseball player (Tigers, Royals, Dodgers), born Pontiac, MI
Jerry West Basketball Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist [1960]; Lakers, born in1938 Cheylan, WVa
Entertainers
Carroll Baker, 79, actress (Baby Doll, Harlow), born Johnstown, PA
Gladys Knight, 66, singer, born Atlanta, GA
John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees) born in 1955, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
T-Bone Walker Linden TX, blues guitarist, born in 1910 Linden, Texas
Business, Education Persons
Dionne Quintuplets (Annette (76) Cécile (76), Émilie, Marie, Yvonne), born in 1934 Ontario Canada
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 33, American television panelist (The View), born in Cranston, Rhode Island
Political Persons
Rudolph Giuliani, 66, former mayor of New York City, born Brooklyn, NY
Mark Sanford, 50, Governor of South Carolina (R), born Fort Lauderdale, FL,
Scientists /Religious Persons
Zahi Hawass, 63, Egyptian Egyptologist, born in Damietta, Egypt
Stanley B. Prusiner, 68 American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology born in Des Moines, Iowa
• Today’s Obits •
Anne Bronté novelist in 1849, influenza @ 29
Sidney Greenbaum grammarian, in 1996 heart failure @ 66
Phil[ip Edward] Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), in 1998 shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife @ 49
≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1
1. Bun - Bread
2. Ride - Trip
3. Groove - Rut
4. Harm - Crush
5. Scream - Weep
≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food
A shadow
≈ Something you might enjoy…
In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…
John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, would be amazed at what it is doing today.
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