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Starting in February 2020, after the spending of $71 million dollars, California voters handily defeated the recall attempt of their duly elected governor.

 

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In this Sept. 14, 2021, file photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed back to where they were over the winter, wiping out months of progress and potentially bolstering President Joe Biden’s case for sweeping new vaccination requirements. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Workers wrap the Arc de Triomphe monument, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021 in Paris. The "L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped" project by late artist Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be on view from, Sept. 18 to Oct. 3. The famed Paris monument will be wrapped in 25,000 square meters of fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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A truck drives past pump jacks operating at the Inglewood Oil Field, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A Former Fox Exec Is Set to Clean Up ABC News. ‘Livid’ Staffers Say He’s Failing.

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Jane Powell, Hollywood golden-age musicals star, dies at 92

Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood’s golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and danced with Fred Astaire in “Royal Wedding,” has died. She was 92.

Powell died Thursday at her Wilton, Connecticut, home, longtime friend Susan Granger said. Granger said Powell died of natural causes.

“Jane was the most wonderful friend,” Granger said. ”She was candid, she was honest. You never asked Jane a question you didn’t want an absolutely honest answer to.”

Granger was a youngster when she met the then-teenaged Powell, who was making her film debut in 1944′s “Song of the Open Road,” directed by Granger’s father, S. Sylvan Simon.

She performed virtually her whole life, starting about age 5 as a singing prodigy on radio in Portland, Oregon. On screen, she quickly graduated from teen roles to the lavish musical productions that were a 20th-century Hollywood staple.

Her 1950 casting in “Royal Wedding” came by default. June Allyson was first announced as Astaire’s co-star but withdrew when she became pregnant. Judy Garland was cast, but was withdrawn because of personal problems. Jane Powell was next in line.

“They had to give it to me,” she quipped at the time. “Everybody else is pregnant.” Also among the expectant MGM stars: Lana Turner, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse and Jean Hagen.

Powell had just turned 21 when she got the role; Astaire was 50. She was nervous because she lacked dancing experience, but she found him “very patient and understanding. We got along fine from the start.”

“Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” proved to be a 1954 “sleeper” hit.

“The studio didn’t think it was going to do anything,” she recalled in 2000. “MGM thought that `Brigadoon’ was going to be the big moneymaker that year. It didn’t turn out that way. We were the ones that went to the Radio City Music Hall, which was always such a coup.”

The famed New York venue was a movie theater then.

Audiences were overwhelmed by the lusty singing of Keel and Powell and especially by the gymnastic choreography of Michael Kidd. “Seven Brides” achieved classic status and resulted in a TV series and a Broadway musical.

“Blonde and small and pretty, Jane Powell had the required amount of grit and spunk that was needed to play the woman who could tame seven backwoodsmen,” John Kobal wrote in his book “Gotta Sing Gotta Dance: A Pictorial History of Film Musicals.”

After 13 years at MGM, though, Powell quit the studio, reasoning that she was going to be fired “because they weren’t going to be doing musicals anymore."

“I thought I’d have a lot of studios to go to,” she said in 2000, “but I didn’t have any, because no one wanted to make musicals. It was very difficult, and quite a shock to me. There’s nothing worse than not being wanted.”

She found one musical at RKO, “The Girl Most Likely,” a 1958 remake of “Tom, Dick and Harry.” Aside from a couple of minor films, her movie career was over.

She was born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon, in 1928. She began singing on local radio as a small child, and as she grew, her voice developed into a clear, high-pitched soprano.

When the Burce family planned a trip to Los Angeles, the radio station asked if Suzanne would appear on a network talent show there. The tiny girl with a 2½-octave voice drew thunderous applause with an aria from “Carmen” and was quickly put under contract to MGM.

Her first movie was a loanout to an independent producer for “Song of the Open Road,” a 1944 mishmash with W.C. Fields (at the end of his career) and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

The character’s name in “Song of the Open Road” was Jane Powell, and MGM decided that that would be her movie name.

She played teens in such films as “Holiday in Mexico,” “Three Daring Daughters” and “A Date With Judy.” But she pleaded with the studio bosses to be given grown-up roles and finally succeeded in “Royal Wedding.”

Frothy romances and musicals continued to dominate her career, including “Young, Rich and Pretty,” “Small Town Girl” and “Three Sailors and a Girl.”

After her movie career ended, musical theater offered plenty of work for a star of her prominence and talent. She sang in supper clubs, toured in such shows as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and “I Do! I Do!” and replaced Debbie Reynolds in the Broadway run of “Irene.”

She frequently appeared on television, notably in the Judy Garland role in a new version of “Meet Me in St. Louis.”

As she approached her 70s, Powell abandoned her singing career. “I can’t hit the high notes, and I won’t be second-rate,” she explained in 2000. She switched to drama, appearing in New York theater in such plays as “Avow,” portraying mother of an unmarried, pregnant daughter and a son who wanted to marry his male partner.

Powell’s first four marriages ended in divorce: to Geary Steffen (son Geary, daughter Suzanne), Patrick Nerney (daughter Lindsay), James Fitzgerald and David Parlour.

Powell met fifth husband Dick Moore when he interviewed her for his book about child actors. As Dickie Moore, he had been a well-known child actor in the 1930s and ’40s and gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss in “Miss Annie Rooney” (1942). Moore, head of a New York public relations office, and Powell married in 1988. He died in 2015.

Jane Powell’s survivors include her daughter, Lindsey Nerney, Granger said.

-- Lynn Elber

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Two Camden Elementary School students in masks listen as South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster talks about steps the school is taking to fight COVID-19, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Camden, S.C. McMaster has adamantly and repeatedly come out against requiring masks in schools even as the average number of daily COVID-19 cases in the state has risen since early June. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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This photo provided by the Southern Area Blue Incident Management Team on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, shows the giant sequoia known as the General Sherman Tree with its base wrapped in a fire-resistant blanket to protect it from the intense heat of approaching wildfires at Sequoia National Forest in California. (Southern Area Blue Incident Management Team via AP)

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In this Jan. 30, 2020 file photo, a ThyssenKrupp coking plant steams around the clock for the nearby steel mill in Duisburg, Germany. The cuts in greenhouse gas emissions pledged by governments around the world aren't enough to achieve the headline goal of the Paris climate accord, according to a United Nations report published Friday. The U.N. climate office said it reviewed all the national commitments submitted by Paris pact signatories until July 30 and found that they would result in emissions of planet-warming gas rising nearly 16% by 2030, compared with 2010 levels. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

 

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Karyn White-The Way You Love Me

 

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Mac Band Featuring The McCampbell Brothers - Roses Are Red

 

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In this file photo dated Wednesday June 16 2021, Notre-Dame cathedral is pictured two years after the cathedral was ravaged by a fire, in Paris. After more than two-years of work to stabilize and protect it after the shocking fire that tore through its roof and knocked down its spire, France’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it, according to a government statement Saturday Sept. 18, 2021. (Thomas Samson, Pool FILE via AP)

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Health care workers work inside the Regeneron Clinic at a monoclonal antibody treatment site in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on August 19, 2021. - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the opening of the Covid-19 antibody treatment site. DeSantis continues to promote the monoclonal antibody treatments as cases and hospitalizations spike in Florida. Starting Wednesday, C.B. Smith Park will start offering the antibody treatment from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. The site will be able to treat over 300 patients a day/Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Image

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In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a person was injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Thousands of Haitian migrants have been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, as authorities attempt to close the border to stop the flow of migrants. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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                                           I'm writing a book about all

                                     the things I should be doing in my life.

                                          It's called an oughtobiography.

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                                           I'm writing a book about all

                                     the things I should be doing in my life.

                                          It's called an oughtobiography.

                                      I got some boots from a drug dealer

                                     I don't know what he laced them with

                                     But whenever I wear them

                                           I'm tripping all day

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This photo made available by the Library of Congress shows a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Historians think the pandemic started in Kansas in early 1918, and by winter 1919 the virus had infected a third of the global population and killed at least 50 million people, including 675,000 Americans. Some estimates put the toll as high as 100 million. (Library of Congress via AP, File)

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Lava erupts from a volcano near El Paso on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, Monday Sept. 20, 2021. Giant rivers of lava are tumbling slowly but relentlessly toward the sea after a volcano, seen in backround, erupted on a Spanish island off northwest Africa. The lava is destroying everything in its path but prompt evacuations helped avoid casualties after Sunday's eruption. (Kike Rincon, Europa Press via AP)

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"Diego y yo" ("Diego and I") by Frida Kahlo 

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Container ships sit in the ocean waiting to unload their cargo at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on 22 September. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

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This undated image provided by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s office of public affairs shows a 3,500-year-old artifact, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet. The tablet contains a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, considered one of the earliest surviving works of notable literature. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

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This combination of two undated photos released by Guinness World Records on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, show sisters Umeno Sumiyama, left, and Koume Kodama at separate nursing homes in Shodoshima island, left, and Oita prefecture, Japan. The two Japanese twin sisters have been certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living identical twins, aged 107 years and 300 days as of Sept. 1, 2021, the organization said Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (Guinness World Records via AP)

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In this July 2021 photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a Chinese-flagged ship fishes for squid at night on the high seas off the west coast of South America. The number of Chinese-flagged vessels in the south Pacific has surged 10-fold from 54 active vessels in 2009 to 557 in 2020, according to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization, or SPRFMO, an inter-governmental group of 15 members charged with ensuring the conservation and sustainable fishing of the species. Meanwhile, the size of its catch has grown from 70,000 tons in 2009 to 358,000. (Isaac Haslam/Sea Shepherd via AP)

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'We will not boost our way out of this pandemic,' CDC director says as 70 million eligible Americans remain unvaccinated

 

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4 hours ago, jewel21 said:

I finally saw my GP two weeks ago and discussed my headaches and those halos. She put a request in to the hospital for me to get a CT scan and I have one scheduled for Tuesday at 6 PM. I'm nervous. 

Good luck, Jewel21!  Keep us posted.

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Massachusetts troopers to quit over vaccine mandate; New York contingency plan in place ahead of deadline: COVID-19 updates

Within the past 50 years, the global community has solved two huge problems that had the potential to harm every person on Earth. Smallpox once killed 30% of the people who contracted the disease but through the invention of an effective, safe vaccine and an intense effort that began in the 1960s, smallpox was completely eradicated by 1980. In the 1980s, scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer that protects the Earth from UV radiation; further depletion would have caused major problems with the world’s food supply and an epidemic of skin cancer. Forty years later, we’ve virtually eliminated the chemicals causing the depletion and ozone losses have stabilized and have recently shown improvement. So how did we do it? The short video above talks through each of challenges, how they were met (science + politics + a bit of luck), and how we might apply these lessons to the big problems of today (climate emergency, the pandemic).

 

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When Nirvana Came to Britain

 

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Authorities lock down coastal area in La Palma as lava approaches sea

 

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Save Us. The Trend of Wearing Skirts Over Pants Is Back.

 

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On 9/26/2021 at 10:14 AM, jewel21 said:

I finally saw my GP two weeks ago and discussed my headaches and those halos. She put a request in to the hospital for me to get a CT scan and I have one scheduled for Tuesday at 6 PM. I'm nervous. 

O Lord, attend and steady Jewel for her medical examination. Grant to Jewel the shield of faith through Your Holy Spirit to protect her and guide the hands of her doctor's to do Your will. The future we put into Your hands, O Lord, and guide us to Your service and glory. Amen.

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I have gone down the rabbit hole of watching Australian cop series, like Murder Call, City Homicide, and now Water Rats. They are quite entertaining.

I think I am on Season 3 of Water Rats and was completely stunned to see Helene Joy as a young nymphy seductress! She is more well known to us as Dr. Julia Ogden in Murdoch Mysteries.

I also discovered this song on Water Rats that was so haunting that I looked it up and it is by a musician/singer named Cathi Ogden.  Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KmFO867Jj4&list=RD-KmFO867Jj4&index=1

It turns out that she was in a band called The Sheilas (!!).

 

 

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3 hours ago, bannana said:

I have gone down the rabbit hole of watching Australian cop series, like Murder Call, City Homicide, and now Water Rats. They are quite entertaining.

I think I am on Season 3 of Water Rats and was completely stunned to see Helene Joy as a young nymphy seductress! She is more well known to us as Dr. Julia Ogden in Murdoch Mysteries.

I also discovered this song on Water Rats that was so haunting that I looked it up and it is by a musician/singer named Cathi Ogden.  Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KmFO867Jj4&list=RD-KmFO867Jj4&index=1

It turns out that she was in a band called The Sheilas (!!).

 

 

Where can I watch these Australian shows?  Netflix?  

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20 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Has anyone heard anything from Jewel? I can't stop thinking about her.

Her CT was at 6 pm last night. Maybe she was just tired from the whole experience and will be here something today. 🤞🏻

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18 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

And sadly, people follow this.  I have my own life/reality.

I just don't get it.  

I'm an old fart......

It's not being old, it's having enough sense not to care about idiot "celebrities". I love that in Europe they're referred to as "spectacles".

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54 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

Quick question.....

Why don't the Kardashians just. go. away?  They've got more money than Croesus.

 

Their job is to show up at parties and venues, bringing media attention along with the Kardashian's and the products they promote/sell under their brand name. Clothing brands they wear sell out. Makeup they wear or develop sell out. Purses they carry sell out. Plastic surgery and "beauty" regimens they use are booked solid. Drugs, games, baby food, cars, streaming of past seasons of their reality show all sell out

It's all about the money, because for this brand of lower case celebrity there will never be enough money.

Youth is fleeting. Multiple divorce's cost lawyer money. Ugly break up's and bad press take their toll. The Kardashian's have no other talent and no other reason for being than to sell themselves and their name.

Gotta' make money while the sun shines.

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26 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

Oh, I get the whole fame whore/make money while the sun shines thing.

I'm just tired of seeing them on my TV, computer, everywhere I look.  I can't escape them, man.....

                                       😥

You and me both, Sister.

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For the first time since June, the number of projected Covid-19 deaths in the US is decreasing

 

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5 minutes ago, OhioSongbird said:

                       

                        Do we even need Halloween anymore?

           I've been wearing a mask and eating candy for 14 months......

                                     

Nice!

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This is a classic.....couldn't get the pic to load.  Ladies of a certain age will relate......

 

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don't have acne. Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.

I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row. I decided to stop calling the bathroom "John" and renamed it the "Jim". I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.

Old age is coming at a really bad time.

When I was a child I thought "nap time" was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation.

The biggest lie I tell myself is... " I don't have to write that down, I'll remember it".

I don't have gray hair... I have "wisdom highlights"! I'm just very wise.

If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees.

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet.

Why do I have to press one for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway?

Of course, I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

At my age "Getting Lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came In there for.

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names.

Now, I'm wondering... did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

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Raise a glass and celebrate yourself! 

 

 

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Box Tops for Education, 25 years later: The pros and cons of snacking for a cause

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1 hour ago, Cupid Stunt said:

Box Tops for Education, 25 years later: The pros and cons of snacking for a cause

Haha, I still have a plastic bag of those hanging on the side of my fridge. I used to have a coworker I gave them to and she always acted so happy to get them. But when I got laid off from that job I lost contact with her. And just the other day I was thinking, well I guess it's time I threw those away. I don't eat foods that had them, but I do use a lot of Kleenex and other paper products that had them. I thought that whole program expired anyway.

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Well, cupid, looks like you listed Bobby Marchan recently...

Major PearliteLite fave--I can't count the times I've listened to "There's Something on Your Mind," while courting liver failure on YouTube night: "You just walk out that door..." Great talk-over.

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46 minutes ago, pearlite said:

Well, cupid, looks like you listed Bobby Marchan recently...

Major PearliteLite fave--I can't count the times I've listened to "There's Something on Your Mind," while courting liver failure on YouTube night: "You just walk out that door..." Great talk-over.

Once in a while I get wood on the ball.

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