CHILD'S PLAY

photo by Pedro Ribeiro Simoes

“ 'Tag' — perhaps the oldest childhood game around — has been banned at a California elementary school."   Gold Ridge Elementary staffers became concerned some kids were getting too rough.  I hope this is a temporary misunderstanding.  Oy vey.  Please, someone point me in the direction of a normal childhood.   news            

Principle in the type: "Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up an dust ourselves off."   Dieter F. Uchtdorf

FINISH LINES

photo by breakmake

Kenya's Elisha Barno won the men's L.A. Marathon yesterday, with an expert time of 2:11:51.   At less than 3 miles to finish, when lead runner Daniel Limo began to pull ahead Barno told himself 'Let him go.'   However, Barno's heart told him different, and he battled back to win.   " 'There was a lot of pain, but I had to stay patient and I had to keep pushing,' Bruno said."     news  

Principle in the type:  "It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck.  When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within.  And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.”     B.C. Forbes  

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

photo by Rod Ramsey

Between the Oscars, Grammys, and Emmys, I'm reading today that "nearly $500 million--directly and indirectly--rains down on" Los Angeles when it hosts.  Really?     news          

Principle in the type:  "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."      The White Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland

DETAILS, DETAILS...

photo by Eduardo Sciammarella

Sooo, where is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory really located?  Pasadena, you say?  La Cañada, you think?  Well, "technically, La Cañada won JPL from Pasadena in 1976 when it incorporated as a city, but Pasadena has succeeded in annexing the campus in the court of public opinion."   (Think The Big Bang Theory, and The Martian, as two recent JPL 'Pasadena' groupies.)   True the mailing address shows Pasadena, but physically it is in La Cañada.   At least both cities know a good thing when they see it!   story           

Principle in the type:  "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works . . . "    Bible  

BANG UP JOB!

photo by Jdmoar

My homie, California, came up with 3 in a top 10 list of Best Firework Show cities, according to USA Today    news        Don't be sad.   Maybe next year for the other 49.   Happy 4th, America!

Principle in the type:  "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."   Charles Swindoll

    

FLYING HIGH

photo by Mark Turnauckas

Goodyear's latest and greatest blimp'mobile is complete and ready to settle in Carson, California soon.  "The 246-foot-long ship, named Wingfoot Two, is the second in a fleet of three flashy airships the company is slowly phasing in to replace its 1920s-designed iconic branded blimps."   It is faster, longer, and can move dextrously, like a helicopter can.  One thing that remains the same?  --What goes up, must come down.       news            

Principle in the type:  "Whatever your circumstance, having a firm foundation will lesson you load." Donald L. Hallstrom

#SHARKWEEK

photo by Elias Levy

In May, Maria Korcsmaros went for a 2-hour swim at Corona del Mar State Beach, Californa, to train for an upcoming Iron Man and was attacked by a shark.  DNA samples suggest it was a 9-foot teen shark.   The bite broke two ribs, punctured a lung and liver, fractured her pelvis, and took a good part of her tricep.   Says Korcsmaros, "It’s made me stronger.  When you experience something like this and make it through, you have a certain amount of respect.”       story            

Principle in the type:  "It's your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop."    Dieter F. Uchtdorf