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Patriots, Seahawks to Super Bowl, Gold Surges, Honnold Climbs · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Monday, January 26th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 100 years ago, today, in 1926, John
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  Logee Baird publicly demonstrated a working television
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  system in London, projecting moving silhouette
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  images to an audience and proving that televised
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  pictures were possible. This breakthrough established
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  a practical television demonstration that inspired
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  engineers and broadcasters to pursue commercial
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  development and transformed expectations for
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  mass communication. So now you know. And now
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  it's time for the weather report. This morning
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  there's light snow and it feels like 19 degrees
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  with 10 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take
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  place at 450, and it will rise again tomorrow
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  at 659. It looks like we're in for some snowy
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  conditions today, with cloudy skies and a high
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  near 30, falling to around 22 in the afternoon,
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  accompanied by a north wind around 10, gusting
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  up to 23. Tonight, snow is expected before 2
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  a .m., then turning partly cloudy, with a low
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  around 9. and a northwest wind at 7 to 10, gusting
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  as high as 22. For all you beach runners out
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  there, the first low tide Monday will be at 10
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  .45 with a high tide at 4 .45. The nearshore
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  buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 37 degrees for the
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  water temperature. Looking ahead in the weather.
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  Tuesday will be mostly sunny with a high near
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  22 and a west wind near 9 miles per hour, with
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  wind chills as low as minus 3. Wednesday stays
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  sunny with highs near 23 and west winds around
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  6 to 9 miles per hour, then Thursday turns partly
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  sunny with highs near 21 and northwest breezes.
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  Bonjour, food enthusiasts! This podcast is brought
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  to you by Versailles Cafe and Pastries in Encinitas.
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  Nestled on El Camino Real South, just north of
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  Encinitas Boulevard, this cafe is a haven for
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  culinary delights. Indulge in their amazing Eggs
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  Benedict or their gluten -free crepes. You can
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  grab a panini for lunch or just breeze on through
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  to get your morning coffee. They are open every
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  day from 8 to 5. So stop on by and don't forget
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  to tell them. Sunny mornings send you. In local
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  news, renovations to Back Bay Station are now
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  underway, marking the start of a complete revamp
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  of the station's interior. The first phase of
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  the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's
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  project will begin this month, focusing on reconstructing
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  the center and east side of the station's interior,
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  along with the Clarendon Street side of the exterior.
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  This phase is expected to last until late June,
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  when work crews will then move to the west side
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  and the Dartmouth Street exterior. The project
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  aims to enhance the station's cramped layout
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  with new lighting, improved signage, and expanded
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  waiting areas among other upgrades. Now on to
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  sports. Drake May handled the sloppy conditions
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  better than the home team. scoring New England's
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  only touchdown on a 6 -yard keeper, leading the
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  Patriots to a 10 -7 win over the Denver Broncos
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  in the AFC Championship game on Sunday. May threw
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  for just 86 yards, but ran for 65 and sealed
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  the win with a 7 -yard keeper on 3rd and 5. May
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  expressed pride in his team, saying, just thankful
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  for this team. Love each and every one of them.
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  It took everybody. The Patriots have allowed
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  just 26 points across three playoff games, achieving
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  their 40th playoff win, breaking a tie with the
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  San Francisco 49ers for the most in NFL history.
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  And Sam Darnold threw for three touchdowns, the
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  Seahawks' dark side defense made a critical fourth
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  -down stop, and Seattle advanced to the Super
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  Bowl, beating the Los Angeles Rams 31 -27 in
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  an electrifying NFC championship game. Led by
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  second -year coach Mike McDonald and Darnold,
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  the Seahawks reached their fourth Super Bowl
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  in franchise history and first in 11 years. Darnold
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  completed 25 of 36 passes for 346 yards with
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  no turnovers. Jackson Smith and Jibba had 153
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  yards receiving and a touchdown on 10 catches.
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  The Patriots will play the Seahawks on February
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  8th in Super Bowl 60 in Santa Clara, California,
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  in local sports. The Celtics host the Portland
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  Trailblazers for a cross -conference matchup
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  tonight at 8. The Seas, with a record of 28 -17,
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  are currently second in the Eastern Conference,
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  while the Trailblazers stand ninth in the Western
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  Conference at 23 -23. Boston is performing well
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  at home with a 13 -7 record, but has struggled
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  in close games, going 4 -6 in one possession
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  matchups. In their last meeting, the Trail Blazers
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  won 114 -108, with Jalen Brown scoring 37 points.
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  In top news, American rock climber Alex Honnold
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  ascended the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday
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  without any ropes or protective equipment. Kears
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  erupted from a street -level crowd as he reached
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  the top of the spire of the 508 -meter tower
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  about 90 minutes after he started. Honnold expressed,
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  what a view, it's incredible, what a beautiful
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  day, highlighting the windy conditions. He utilized
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  small, L -shaped outcroppings as footholds and
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  climbed the iconic building known for its challenging
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  bamboo boxes. Unlike his usual remote climbs,
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  the cheering crowd made the experience feel almost
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  more festive. Hanold is the first climber to
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  ascend Taipei 101 without a rope. In business
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  news, Gold has topped $5 ,000 for the first time
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  in a breathtaking and profoundly scary rally.
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  This rise occurred earlier than Wall Street expected,
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  raising questions about the rapid increase in
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  precious metals. Robin Brooks, a senior fellow
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  at the Brookings Institution, remarked that the
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  surge in gold prices is part of something much
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  bigger. He noted that we are at the beginning
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  of a global debt crisis, with markets fearing
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  that governments will inflate away unsustainable
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  debt. Goldman Sachs has raised its year -end
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  price target from $4 ,900 to $5 ,400. In crypto
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  movement, Bitcoin is down another 2 % over the
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  weekend to about $88 ,000. Ethereum is down 3
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  % to just under $3 ,000. And XRP is down 2 %
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  to $1 .88. Moving on to a more local vibe. In
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  our community spotlight on health and wellness,
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  we are working with a national Pilates studio
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  to bring you some free classes, so listen up.
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  Check out Club Pilates with several locations
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  in the Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them Sunny
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  Morning sent you by. And now back to the show.
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  Let's talk tech. This Los Angeles startup, Carmen
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  Industries, is using SpaceX technology to develop
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  a cooling system for data centers. aiming to
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  reduce their environmental impact. The system
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  requires less power and no water, and the startup
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  recently raised $20 million. Chief executive
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  David Teer stated, our high -level thesis is
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  we could build the best compressor. Cooling systems
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  can account for up to 40 % of a data center's
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  power consumption. The market for data center
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  cooling is projected to grow from about $11 billion
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  in 2025 to nearly $25 billion by 2032. Carmen's
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  innovative design could significantly impact
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  the industry. Illumination and Nintendo have
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  moved up the United States' release date for
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  Super Mario Galaxy to Wednesday, April 1. The
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  film will also be released in Japan on April
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  24 and in other markets throughout the month.
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  Fans of Super Mario Bros. will be excited to
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  see Yoshi, the new character who assists Mario
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  and Luigi. Original stars including Chris Pratt,
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  Anya Taylor -Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Hicken
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  Michael Key, and Kevin Michael Richardson will
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  return, alongside newcomers Benny Safdie and
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  Brie Larson. Universal Pictures is co -financing
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  and releasing the film worldwide. Well, all righty,
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  folks, it's time for the quote of the day. And
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  today, our quote comes from the American journalist
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  and author Robert Quillen. And he said, Progress
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  always involves risk. You can't steal second
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  base and keep your foot on first. And that's
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  a wrap for this morning. You can check out our
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  Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok for some captivating
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  aerial videos with local news and the weather
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  reports. Have an amazing day, my good friends.
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  We'll see you tomorrow with another episode of
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston.