Today; 5/22/12

High 86  Low 65  Chance of Storms

"Empowerment is all about letting go

so that others can get going." - Kenneth Blanchard

Al says - Lexophile:

               Did you hear about the fellow -

               whose left side was cut off? -

               He's all right now. ...

Coast Guard Cutter 'Dallas' - Will be officially transferred to the -

                                               Philippine military today in a ceremony -

                                               in North Charleston at 1:00 p.m. -

                                               on the Cooper River waterfront. ...

PSA Testing - Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screening. -

                       advised a government panel. ...

Looking through the Milkglass - Prevent thread from tangling. -

                                                   Run a threaded needle through -

                                                   a sheet of Bounce. ...

Washington - Catholic leaders are suing -

                      over the Obama administrations -

                      birth control rule. ...

NYSX - closed up with the Doe+ 135.10...

Word for Today - gambit - \GAM-bit\ - n. - 1. A remark made to open or -

                                                                      redirect a conversation. -

                                                                   2. (Chess). An opening in which -

                                                                       a player seeks to obtain some -

                                                                       advantage by sacrificing a  -pawn -

                                                                       or piece. -

                                                                   3. Any maneuver by which one seeks -

                                                                       to gain an advantage. ...

Laugh Your Pain Away - Scientists at the U. of Oxford in England found that -

                                        a good laugh significantly raises pain tolerance by -

                                        flooding the brain with endorphins - natural opioids -

                                        that dull your aches and pains as effectively as a pill. ...  www.prevention.com

Class AAAA State Champs - Ashley Ridge - 4,  Byrnes - 3. ...

Thought for Today - "Pride is an admission of weakness;

                                  it secretly fears all competition and

                                  dreads all rivals."

                                  ~Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Does anything else really matter?