Hot stuff!

But today will be a bit cooler – only around 100 or so.

This is National Sun Safety Week.  Did you know that Insect Repellants reduce sunscreen’s SPF by up to 1/3?
When using a combination, use a sunscreen with a higher SPF!

This is National Automotive Service Professional Week

The 101 number one song of the day was written and sung by a self confessed introvert whose songs were almost always based on personal experience. Although he was too modest to admit it, he had tremendous influence on many of rock’s biggest stars.  He was born in Vernon, Texas and grew up in Wink. His father gave him a guitar when he was six years old. By the time he was eight, he was playing on a Sunday morning country show on KVWC in Kermit. He almost gave away his first national hit to Elvis and the Everly Brothers. He arrived at Graceland at 6 in the morning and nobody was out of bed yet. Elvis sent down word that they could meet later in the day in Nashville. There he ran into Phil Everly and played him the song he’d written with his writing partner Joe Melson. Phil played him one of his own songs not realizing that today’s featured artist was playing him a song for the Everly Brothers to record. He was too shy to bring it up and Elvis hadn’t showed so he decided to record it himself. Shortly thereafter, he wrote today’s number one song in slightly more time than it took to record it. It was at number one June 7, 1961 – for Roy Orbison – “Running Scared”

Other stuff…

At the box office, Shrek rules

1. “Shrek Forever After”

$25.3 million

2. “Get Him To The Greek”

$17.4 million

3. “Killers”

$16.1 million

4. “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”

$13.9 million

5. “Sex and the City 2”

$12.7 million

Anamika Veeramani, 14, from North Royalton, Ohio, won the 83rd National Spelling Bee on Friday, becoming the 3rd American-Indian Bee champion.

She successfully spelled “juvia” and “stromuhr” to become the Bee’s 83rd champion and defeat Shantanu Srivatsa of West Fargo, North Dakota, in the final round. Veeramani’s win earned her more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. There were 273 contestants, some from as far away as China and New Zealand. The youngest contestant was 8-year-old Vanya Shivashankar, sister of last year’s winner, Kavya Shivashankar. The competition was not without controversy. The judges put six contestants in the final round – even though they didn’t spell a word in the semi-final round – to guarantee 10 finalists to fill a two-hour televised special on ABC. There were 19 spellers left at the start of the round, too many for primetime. However, nine of the first 13 were knocked out and ABC was on the verge of having too few. Those six had had an extra few hours to study, compared to the kids who had to do their sixth-round question the following morning. “I would rather have five finalists, than five who didn’t deserve it,” said 13-year-old Elizabeth Platz of Shelbina, Missouri, one of the four spellers who spelled a word correctly before the round was stopped. “I think it was unfair.”

and finally,

Scientists now believe dogs can be trained to sniff out prostate cancer. Some dogs have shown the uncanny ability to detect cancer in humans, and now the scientists want to train them to detect early prostate cancer.

Although I’m a huge supporter of the research. Hey – dog’s nose…doctor’s finger?  I’m going with Fido!!

-And it’ll be weird too, because it’ll be a lab report…from an actual Lab.