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Last week, we lost 5 explorers when the Titan submersible imploded on a dive to view the Titanic. This week, it's 5 teens (ages between 18 and 18) lost their lives when the small sedan they were in crashed and submerged in a pond along the highway. Believed to have happened sometime late Sunday night to early Monday morning.
Four of them were workers at a local Texas Roadhouse restaurant. The restaurant was closed Monday and will have a memorial in the coming days.

The tow truck had a difficult time pulling the submerged car out and all passengers were declared dead at the scene.

One photo posted in the first news article shows a front end collision of the car and air bags deployed. I'm sure more information will come forward after police do a full investigation.


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Russia's President Vladimir Putin briefed his Belarusian counterpart on the situation in southern Russia as the private military company Wagner declared an armed rebellion against the country's leadership. The heads of state agreed on joint actions to prevent what many military experts were already calling a "coup" attempt. President of Belarus, having additionally specified the situation through his own channels, with the agreement with the President of Russia, held talks with the head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin.


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Come on guys ,let me in on your opinions.

2023’s Global Liveability Index: The top 10

1. Vienna, Austria

2. Copenhagen, Denmark

3. Melbourne, Australia

4. Sydney, Australia

5. Vancouver, Canada

6. Zurich, Switzerland

7. Calgary, Canada

7. Geneva, Switzerland

9. Toronto, Canada

10. Osaka, Japan
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All politicians make promises if elected. Some have good intentions, but a lack of understanding how to actually get their promise implemented. For example: Repealing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare that went into law in 2010 and replacing it with something better and cheaper. Not happening. Constructing a wall between Mexico and the US to reduce illegal immigration and having Mexico pay for it. Not happening.
Another?
"I"m going to enforce all lors concerning the protection of classified information. We can't have someone in the oval office who doesn't understand the meaning of confidential or classified"

Anyway... there's a new video about it.




(Some people from New York mispronounce laws as lors, about the same way they pronounce caulking as corking or soffer in place of sofa)

Bret is currently a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean headed West and predicted to cross the Dominican Republic this weekend.
Too soon to batten down the hatches, but it's advised to store water, canned foods, check the batteries on flashlights and get any safety gear ready for the storm that could possibly move into the Gulf of Mexico within a week from now.
Change the setting on your refrigerators to the coldest, fill a few bottles with water and keep in the freezer so you will have enough ice to keep perishables from going bad if you are without power.


Tracking updates from the National Hurricane Center:

Titanic tourist submarine missing with five people on board; Canadian and US Coast Guard join search

David Concannon, an adviser to the company, said Oceangate lost contact with the sub-Sunday morning. It had a 96-hour oxygen supply, he said in an email to The Associated Press.

"Now 32 hours since sub left surface," Concannon said,

Outside the Miami Federal courthouse a crowd of Trump supporters are chanting We Love Trump. Donald J. Trump arrived ahead of his 3pm scheduled arraignment date and CNN is reporting he is now under arrest.
Walt Nauta, Trump's valet and alleged co-conspirator, will appear alongside him.

I'm back and forth from my office to the TV in the living room as the Internet news feed is frozen... apparently so many people are watching live it's overloaded the internet.

It's a dark day... afternoon showers are on us, as usual.

In school we were all taught that Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492. That however is inaccurate. the Norse arrived in Newfoundland around 1000 AD and made a settlement. Many artifacts were discovered and dated to that time. It is believed that the natives in Newfoundland at the time drove the Norse away.

This is in a place called L'Anse aux Meadows where the Norse landed originally.

I haven't followed the news about the wildfires in Canada, but a designer I'm doing a project with who lives in New York City was in town today and said the smoke reminded her of 911.

Today, there are alerts on the front page of Yahoo so I clicked the link to get a better understanding of the severity to this disaster.

From what I see New York, Pennsylvania and the New Jersey areas are most affected.
I'm surprised about New Jersey as I figure because they are on the coast they should be getting off-shore winds.

I went to the National Hurricane Center to call up some satellite imagery and the live loop shows movement in a counter-clockwise covering the entire tip of the United States.

Since the news is related to the US, I can only image the air quality in Canada must be 20 times worse there than a few hundred miles away.

Here is the link to live satellite image loop of the area: