Yesterday was mostly a day off for me. My day ended at noon & I only did 3 items on my schedule. The rest of the day I watched movies on TV while waiting for Pete to make some calls, do whatever he wanted to do on his PC, shower, get dressed, & head out. My original intent at noon was to go to Home Depot because this is a good time to buy building materials. Well, by the time we got out of the house several hours had passed & we made several stops, none of which being Home Depot. So much for THAT idea. By the time we got home there was really no point in attempting to pick up where I left off (Home Depot was now closed), so Pete, Kyle, & I went to the other house & did some mowing, weeding, & maintenance in Branch. Well good afternoon! I'm 46. Another year enjoyed & thank you! I'm always grateful to have lived another year. Special plans for today? Only to enjoy the day & be thankful to be alive & have the opportunity to enjoy another birthday.
Charles Pompuss travels all over the world buying expensive pieces of art, gems, & antiques to add to his collection. Each time Charles negotiates a rice for an item, he insists on wearing dark sunglasses, regardless of the lighting conditions in the room. What is the reasoning behind Charles' peculiar behavior?
Coruscate:
1: To give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes : sparkle. 2: To be brilliant or showy in technique or style.
"When it's well-played, Babbitt's music glistens & coruscates like the composer's own personality ..."
To help you gain a flash of recognition next time you see "coruscate" (or to prompt you when you need a brilliant synonym for "sparkle"), remember this bit of bright imagery by George Bernard Shaw, describing a centuries-old abbey: "O'er this north door a trace still lingers / Of how a Gothic craftsman's fingers / Could make stones creep like ivy stems / And tilings coruscate like gems." The more mundane can just memorize the word's etymology although it's not a shining example of remarkableness. "Coruscate" developed from the Latin coruscare, which means "to flash." That word also gave us the noun "coruscation" ("glitter, sparkle") & the adjective "coruscant" ("shining, glittering"), long before "coruscate" was even a glimmer in English-speakers' eyes (it 1st appeared in English prose in the 18th century).
Cyd Charisse, who shot to Hollywood stardom as the graceful,
long-legged dancing partner of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in classic
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals such as Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954) and Silk Stockings (1957), dies of a heart attack on this day in 2008, in Los Angeles. She was 86.
Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas. According to her obituary in the New York Times,
while some sources give her date of birth as March 8, 1921, her agent
gave the year as 1922. Diagnosed with a mild case of polio as a little
girl, she began taking ballet lessons for health reasons. As a teenager,
she began training professionally in California,
where she joined the famous Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. During her
years with the company, she was known variously as Maria Istomina or
Felia Sidorova.
In 1939, at the age of 18, the young dancer
eloped with Nico Charisse, a well-known dancer and dance instructor; the
couple had a son, Nicky, in 1942.
Spotted by studio scouts in the early 1940s, Charisse made her film debut in Something to Shout About (1943),
in which she was billed as Lily Norwood. Charisse paid her dues over
the next decade with small parts, including a minor role in Ziegfield Follies
in which she danced briefly with the film’s star, Fred Astaire. For
that film, at the producer’s urging, she began using the name Cyd
Charisse. “Sid,” her younger brother’s early mispronunciation of
“sister,” had been her nickname since childhood. Divorced from Nico
Charisse in 1947, the actress married Tony Martin in 1948; they had a
son, Tony Jr.
Charisse’s big break came in 1952, with Singin’ in the Rain (1952),
starring Gene Kelly, who also co-directed the film with Stanley Donen.
Playing a gorgeous gold-digger, she was paired with Kelly in one of the
film’s memorably complex sequences, called the “Broadway Melody Ballet.”
In The Band Wagon (1953), directed by Vincente Minnelli,
Charisse had her first leading role, opposite Astaire. She played a
haughty prima ballerina who falls in love with Astaire’s washed-up
Hollywood song-and-dance man after they are cast in a Broadway show
together.
Charisse reunited with Kelly for Minnelli’s Brigadoon (1954), set in Scotland, and for It’s Always Fair Weather (1955). She and Astaire also co-starred in Silk Stockings (1957), which would be Charisse’s last major musical. She would appear in several more dramas, including Party Girl (1958) and Two Weeks in Another Town (1962). Her final silver-screen appearance was in the Italian film Private Screenings (1989).
Charisse
and Martin, her second husband, had a longtime song-and-dance act,
performing in nightclubs and on television. After a successful run on
the London stage in Charlie Girl during the 1980s, Charisse made a late-in-life debut on Broadway in 1992, playing the leading role of an aging ballerina in Grand Hotel.
Depoe Bay, OR.:
Whales, seals, sea lions - oh my! You can see them all here.
New York detective Mike Santini (Rob Lowe) is on holiday with his family
when he spots Eddie Meyers (Sam Neill), a fugitive who could be the key
witness in a high-profile money-laundering case. Santini helps capture
Meyers, which prompts the wily criminal to request Santini to be the
interrogating officer. It's a fascinating game of cat-and-mouse (with
some unexpected twists) as the adversaries size each other up in the
interrogation room.
EleMints:
EleMints is a revolutionary periodic table for the science geek in all
of us. Boasting phenomenal retina graphics and features such as element
properties, a molar mass calculator, a plot graph and much more,
EleMints will inspire you to bring out your inner mad scientist.
EleMints is structured within four sections, easily accessible from the bottom of the screen:
• The Periodic Table can be shaded according to a particular property and zoomed for more information as desired.
• The Graph displays property trends in a simple yet functional fashion, be it across a period or down a group.
• The Listing organizes elements by a property of your choosing.
• The Articles Library contains various topics on chemistry from the nucleus to the physical properties themselves.
The properties inspector gives a comprehensive view of an element’s properties and values including simple definitions and an electron diagram with sub-shells to boot.
EleMints supports many properties and is constantly being updated with more for improved accuracy and efficiency. Some examples include:
• Classification
• Electronegativity
• Melting/Boiling Points
• Physical State
• Oxidation States
• Crystal Structure
• Atomic Weight
• Atomic Radii
• Isotopes
• Ionization/Binding Energies
• and more…
EleMints is structured within four sections, easily accessible from the bottom of the screen:
• The Periodic Table can be shaded according to a particular property and zoomed for more information as desired.
• The Graph displays property trends in a simple yet functional fashion, be it across a period or down a group.
• The Listing organizes elements by a property of your choosing.
• The Articles Library contains various topics on chemistry from the nucleus to the physical properties themselves.
The properties inspector gives a comprehensive view of an element’s properties and values including simple definitions and an electron diagram with sub-shells to boot.
EleMints supports many properties and is constantly being updated with more for improved accuracy and efficiency. Some examples include:
• Classification
• Electronegativity
• Melting/Boiling Points
• Physical State
• Oxidation States
• Crystal Structure
• Atomic Weight
• Atomic Radii
• Isotopes
• Ionization/Binding Energies
• and more…
How did a heavy-duty coil spring from a John Deere cultivator change the game of basketball?
It was used to create the first breakaway rim for basketball backboards,
ensuring that backboards and players would survive slam dunks
reasonably intact. Devised by a retired Illinois grain elevator manager,
it was first used at the 1978 National Collegiate Athletic
Association’s Final Four.
It was a warm, rainy day. At 9:30a, Sit Shady left his idling car
facing the 'Rolling Donut Shop' & walked down the hill to 'Al's
Garage'. Shady complained to Al that his car had been acting strange
lately. At 10:a, Shady's driverless car rolled down the hill, went
through the 'Rolling Donut Shop' window, & killed none other than
Mrs. Shady. The puddle of water on the floor of the driver's side
convinced Shadow to suspect Shady of foul play. Since Shady did not use
any mechanical device, how could he have committed the crime when he
wasn't hear the car?
Shady had left his car idling in drive & kept it stationary by wedging a piece of ice between the brake peddle & the bottom of the dash. Shady had timed the melting of the ice to exactly half an hour, hoping to use Al as his alibi.
Leaves of avocado plants grown indoors can be used for seasoning Mexican dishes. True or False?
Only way I've ever been able to achieve anything is by wanting something that's out there in the future bad enough to give up something in the present. I have to want to live like no one else later so that, today, I'll live like no one else.
Strawberry shortcake is an absolute necessity when you're under stress - like when you break a fingernail.
Traditionally, close friends, cousins, aunts, sisters-in-law, or coworkers of the mother-to-be host baby showers. Hosting by a member of the honoree's (or husband's) immediate family used to be considered self-serving - & thus, taboo - because gifts are central to showers. But times - & logistics - have changed, & today it's appropriate for anyone to host a baby shower as long as there's a legitimate reason for anyone, including immediate family members, to do the honors. For example, some parents-to-be live far from their hometowns, & their mothers & siblings may want to host a shower there so that hometown friends can attend.
Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. military commander in Vietnam,
sends a new troop request to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Westmoreland
stated that he needed 542,588 troops for the war in Vietnam in 1967--an
increase of 111,588 men to the number already serving there. In the
end, President Johnson acceded to Westmoreland's wishes and dispatched
the additional troops to South Vietnam, but the increases were done in
an incremental fashion. The highest number of U.S. troops in South
Vietnam was 543,500, which was reached in 1969.
What do entomophagists do?
What does P stand for in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
Papa.
What is a cachepot?
When you put a pot in a pot, the outer pot is called the cachepot, from the French for "hide pot." It can be made of any material, in any shape. As long as you can put a potted plant in it, it qualifies. Ironically, the one thing it is unwise to use is a valuable antique. The minerals & algae that tend to collect on the inside of cachepots can discolor porcelain, bond to metal, or otherwise cause irreversible damage.
Prop up the inside pot. Water is going to run out of it & collect in the cachepot, & if the plant sits in water constantly, the roots are likely to rot. Any water-resistant elevator will work: a piece of brick, an overturned saucer, or a short stack of plastic deli tubs (open end down). Remember to lift out the plant & empty the cachepot frequently; that water can get nasty.
When labeling boxes or containers put labels on all sides, including the top. That way regardless of how the box is placed on a shelf or put in a storage shed you'll be able find the box you're looking for quickly.
Which is the biggest, 2nd biggest, & 3rd biggest moon?
A. Titan
B. Ganymede
C. Triton
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