Thursday 1/13/22
Celebrate National Healthy Weight, Healthy Look, Korean American, Sticker, Rubber Ducky, Make Your Dream Come True, Peach Melba, Public Radio Broadcasting, and Stephen Foster Memorial Day.
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Ronnie Spector who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes, has died. She was 78.
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Take-Two Interactive, maker of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has acquired Zynga, maker of FarmVille and Words With Friends, in one of the biggest mergers between video game companies ever.
The $12.7 billion deal brings together two different sides of the industry, with Zynga's focus on mobile gaming and Take-Two's specialty in big-budget game development. The combination is expected to create some interesting crossover opportunities.
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The late poet and activist Maya Angelou will be the first Black woman whose likeness will be featured on a U.S. quarter. The U.S. Mint announced that the quarter went into circulation on Monday, joining a sea of coinage stamped with presidents and founding fathers.
But Maya Angelou will be joined by other female icons soon. The Mint's American Women Quarters Program plans to circulate coins featuring astronaut Sally Ride, actress Anna May Wong, Cherokee leader Wilma Mankiller, and suffragette Nina Otero-Warren.
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Are you playing Wordle? Once you start, you will do it every day!
The task is to guess a five-letter word. You have six tries. After each guess, the tiles change colors to show which letters are not in the word (gray), which letters are in the word but in the wrong position (yellow) and which ones are correctly in the word and in the right position (green). I've gotten the word almost every day (missed because I didn't know you could use a letter twice.) The only question is...what word do you start with??
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The Screen Actors Guild Awards have announced their nominees.
"Ted Lasso" and "Succession" led TV nominees with five nods each. The drama "The Power of the Dog" led film nominees with three nods.
The ceremony will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS from The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on at 8 p.m on February 27.
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In other award show news, The Oscars will return with a host, three years after it last had one. But they aren't giving any more details at this time.
According to sources, Packer and the Academy have started to reach out to big Hollywood stars for the gig, with names like Dwayne Johnson believed to be among those on their wish list. Popular former hosts such as Chris Rock also have been approached we hear though securing someone is proving challenging during the pandemic.
There also is a possibility for the ceremony to have multiple hosts — sources said an idea for three celebrities hosting different portions of the telecast has been floated.
The 94th Oscars, which is set for Sunday, March 27, will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and will be televised live coast-to-coast on ABC. Nominations are due February 8.
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Right out of the movie Don't Look Up, An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18.
It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our planet, moving at 47,344 miles per hour, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, which tracks potentially hazardous comets and asteroids that could collide with our planet.
Nobody expects it to hit Earth, but it's the closest the asteroid will come for the next two centuries, according to NASA projections. The flyby is expected to take place on Tuesday, January 18 at 4:51pm.
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Beards do seem to be in now, not just because it's winter, and it's a good thing!
Growing a beard is actually beneficial for your health. It protects the skin from the sun, prevents allergies, asthma attacks, and slows down the aging process.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The name of the trophy is actually the Academy Award of Merit, but it's known as an Oscar. No one really knows why, but there's a theory that a librarian and later executive director for the academy noted that the statuette resembled her uncle named Oscar. The nickname wasn't officially associated with the trophy until 1939.
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