TOP TO BOTTOM

photo by Moyan Brenn

As the local Arizona Public Service rep, Kevin Hartigan is basically in charge of keeping the Grand Canyon open.  There are power lines, for instance, headed from rim to canyon bottom that are 7000 feet long.  "Without power, the water pumps in the park stop working.  If the pumps stop working, water no longer flows into faucets, toilets, showers and drinking fountains . . . . If there is no water, the park must close."   The buck stops with Hartigan.    Interesting read -  story     

Principle in the type: "Let us give full, honest effort to our jobs as though we owned the enterprise. In a very real sense, each of us is in business for ourselves, no matter who pays us."    J. Richard Clarke  

STAR LIGHT STAR BRIGHT

photo by AGÊNCIA Brasil Fotografias

Japanese men's Olympic gymnist Kohei Uchimura, is used to all eyes on him.  Favored this Olympics to win all-around but ultimately coming up with 2nd place, did not dim his elite status.  "Some people make it look hard and some people make the hard stuff look easy. . . . that's one of the beautiful things about Uchimura," said fellow competitor Louis Smith, from Great Britian.      story       

Principle in the type:  "Good timber does not grow with ease, The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.  The further the sky, the greater length.  The more the storm, the more the strength.  By sun and cold, by rain and snow,  In trees and men good timbers grow."      Douglas Malloch   Good Timber

ACA-SCUSE ME??

photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Granada Hills High School, in California, has "won its fifth U.S. Academic Decathlon national championship" in six years!   I don't mean to brag, but Granada Hills is three towns over from where I grew up, two towns away from where I live now, and immediately below me when I fly out on trips.   So you know, fo'getta'bout'it! I'm practically on their team!     news

Principle in the type:  "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."     Unknown

SWEEPING AGENDA

photo by David Goehring

Oh dear, sweet, politics.  How you torture us.
Here's to a simpler day:



                                      

Principle in the type:  "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."     James Lane Allen

 

                                                                                      Happy Weekend all you Peeps!