Archive for October 16th, 2022

DRIVER WALLACE IS A DISGRACE TO NASCAR!

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William Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr.

Bubba Wallace, driver of the #45 McDonald's Toyota, confronts Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, after an on-track incident during the NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 16, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bubba Wallace, driver of the #45 McDonald's Toyota, pushes Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, after an on-track incident during the NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 16, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bubba Wallace and Kyle Larson, involved in an incident
during the NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 at Las
Vegas Motor Speedway on October 16, 2022.

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U.S. POSTAGE STAMP PRICE GOING UP AGAIN

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(AP) – The United States Postal Service officially announced the
price of Forever stamps and other postage will go up on Jan. 22,
2023. The move has been anticipated for months after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in August that increases would be
necessary to keep up with costs. Inflation was expected to add
$1 billion to the Postal Service’s operating budget. 

The USPS plans to increase prices of affected postage by 4.2%,
which amounts to a few cents per stamp. The cost of a Forever
stamp would go up 3 cents, from 60 cents to 63 cents. The price
of Forever stamps just went up in July from 58 cents to 60 cents.

A year ago, the stamps cost 55 cents.

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Postmaster general Louis DeJoy (65).

US #1 First postage stamp

On July 1, 1847 Congress authorized our
first prepaid postage stamps so that the
sender, rather than the recipient, paid for
the delivery of the letter.

Our first Postmaster, Benjamin Franklin,
was the first person in the  world other
than a head of state to be on a stamp.
US Scott #1 5¢ Franklin (above).

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HAN SOLO IS A HUNK! … A HUNK OF BREAD

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(AP) – “Pan Solo”,that’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay
Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star
Wars" character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in 
“The Empire Strikes Back."
    

Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of
One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding,
baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and
two types
of dough, including a type of yeast less dough with a
higher sugar
content that will last longer.

The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about
a half-hour’s drive north of San Francisco.


Unfortunately, Pan Solo won’t last forever. The dough eventually
will be composted, not eaten.


So, as a wise Jedi might warn: Don’t use the forks, Luke.


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Harrison Ford as Han Solo.


 

     

     

posted by Bob Karm in Bakery,CURRENT EVENTS,FOOD,HISTORY,MOVIES,Sculptor,Sculpture and have No Comments

BABY JESSICA WAS RESCUED ON THIS DAY

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Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986; widely
known as "Baby Jessica" in 1987) fell into a
well in her
aunt’s backyard in
Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987,
at the age of 18 months.

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Rescuers kept Jessica’s spirits up by getting her to sing
about Winnie the Pooh.

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Jessica Morales, now age 36, lives with her husband,
Danny, and two kids, Simon and Sheyenne three miles
from the well that made her famous.

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,HISTORY,MAGAZINES,NEWSPAPER,Rescue and have No Comments