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I passed...a fellow on the street yesterday who was wearing shorts, a tee shirt and sandals. It was -3C and overcast.😲



Joseph Kittinger,
World Record-Setting Parachute Jumper,
Dies At 94

The U.S. Air Force pilot who held the record for the highest parachute jump for more than 50 years

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-obit-joseph-kittinger_n_6394a0b1e4b015bb573bbaa9

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@great-big-stees said
I passed...a fellow on the street yesterday who was wearing shorts, a tee shirt and sandals. It was -3C and overcast.😲
Showing how tough he is to our weather. 🙂

-VR

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@Great-Big-Stees
He was ok... he had sandals AND socks on... 😆


@Ponderable
I cried when my favorite cat died recently.


@pawnpaw said
@Great-Big-Stees
He was ok... he had sandals AND socks on... 😆
Yes, knee socks.👍 So you saw him too eh.😁


Dorothy Pitman Hughes Dies At 84
Pioneering Black Feminist
co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-feminist-pioneer-died_n_63953d39e4b0169d76d7b60e


Grant Wahl, 49
American Jounalist collapsed at his post while covering the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

He was an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ and Worker's rights.


@woofwoof said
Grant Wahl, 49
American Jounalist collapsed at his post while covering the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

He was an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ and Worker's rights.
Just to add:

Wahl's brother believes Grant was murdered. (so do I)


@earl-of-trumps said
Just to add:

Wahl's brother believes Grant was murdered. (so do I)
First thing came to my mind too!

-VR


Mike Leach, Mississippi State head football coach, dead at 61, heart attack.


Manuel Göttsching, German musician [guitarist] and composer, leader of Ash Ra Tempel and Ashra in the 1970s, dead at 70 years of age.

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@fmf said
Kirstie Alley, 71 years old.
Thank you for mentioning this. She certainly had some notable charisma/presence when she first appeared in Star Trek II.

Strange to learn recently for the first time that when she was screening for that role, there was an accident that killed her mother and left her father in the hospital, and that the director (Nicholas Meyers) said that he would wait until the situation with her father had improved. That was a kind thing to do and a great gift to all who subsequently got to enjoy her work.

This might seem disrespectful to some, but the day before I heard the news, I was thinking (not for the first time) about the Bible story about the woman with the alabaster jar, and how Kirstie Alley might have played that role.

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