LET THEM EAT CAKE...AND BAR-B-QUE

HEADING FOR THE BEACH THIS SUMMER? YOU MAY NEED THESE

Thanks to their built-in metal detecting abilities, these special sandals are helping treasure hunters everywhere put their best foot forward. Powered via a battery pack that straps to your calf and vibrates or buzzes when metal is detected, they can seek out items up to two feet below the surface.

SNAPSHOT

REVISITING KATRINA

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A former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar from Mississippi, USA, and local Rotarians revisited the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and Rotary’s response to the disaster during a panel presentation at the second plenary session of the RI Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 23 May.  (click below to read more)

DO YOU REMEMBER?

Replica of the curare-concealing medallion given to all U-2 pilots

A Spy's Ill-Fated Flight From Pakistan


Oak Ridge, Tenn.-Thanks to data transmitted by satellites in space and sent to our home computers via Google Maps, we all can play spy, zooming in on our neighbors' rooftops or on locations halfway around the world with just a few mouse-clicks. It's easy to forget that for most of human existence, the gathering and dissemination of intelligence was a slow, risky enterprise that took place a lot closer to the ground. (click below to read more)

TODAY IN HISTORY

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JUNE 3

1965:Astronaut Ed White becomes the second man and the first American to “walk” in space, spending 23 minutes tethered outside the Gemini 4 capsule. Gemini 4 is also the first American multi-day space flight, as White and command pilot James McDivitt spend four days in orbit.

1888: Ernest Thayer’s baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” is published anonymously in the San Francisco Examiner, earning the author $5 and immortalizing Mighty Casey’s joyless strikeout in Mudville.

1968: Pop artist Andy Warhol is shot and critically injured by radical feminist Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, inside Warhol’s studio, the Factory, in New York.

OUR SPEKAER DREW HIS OWN TICKET. HE HAD NO MORE LUCK THAN "BIRTHDAY BOY" MARK

A GOOD DAY TO WEAR RED

AND I QUOTE

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

RI 2012-13 PRESIDENT ELECTED

Sakuji Tanaka, a member of the Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan, was elected president of Rotary International for 2012-13 by delegates during the fourth plenary session at the 2011 RI Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (click below to read more)