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Red Sox Crush Arizona 11-1, Spider-Man Hits $2B Worldwide · 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 Tuesday, August 18th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 106 years ago, today in 1920, women
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  secured the right to vote when the 19th Amendment
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  was ratified, extending suffrage to millions
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  and honoring decades of organized activism. This
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  constitutional milestone strengthened American
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  democracy, recognizing women's citizenship, and
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  reshaping political life with broader representation
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  and policy influence. 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 patchy fog, and it feels like 73 degrees,
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  with 2 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take
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  place at 7 .38, and it will rise again tomorrow
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  at 5 .55. It looks like we're in for some patchy
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  fog before 11 a .m., then a slight chance of
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  rain showers with mostly cloudy skies and a high
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  near 79, accompanied by a light northeast breeze
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  around six miles per hour. If you're inland,
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  it will hit a high of 82 tonight. Expect a slight
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  chance of rain showers before 8 p .m., then patchy
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  fog with mostly cloudy skies and a low around
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  67, along with light winds around five miles
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  per hour. The nearshore gooey at Cape Cod Bay
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  reads 70 degrees for the water temperature. Looking
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  ahead in the weather. Wednesday starts with patchy
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  fog before 7 a .m., then becomes mostly sunny
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  with a high near 86, and light west winds near
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  6 miles per hour. A slight chance of afternoon
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  showers returns Thursday and Friday, with high
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  slipping to the low 80s and northeast to east
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  breezes. Then a 40 % chance of showers Saturday
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  as highs fall to near 78, with mostly cloudy
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  nights in the mid -60s. Bonjour, food enthusiasts!
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, the Gasoline
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  Alley Foundation has sold its property on Albany
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  Street to Frank Roberts, president of Roberts
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  Energy, a longtime petroleum business. Plans
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  include expanding Roberts Energy into the Gasoline
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  Alley buildings at 250 and 270 Albany Street.
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  while maintaining the area as a hub for small
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  businesses like Nush Restaurant and Cafe, Monsoon
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  Roastery, and Corcello Butcheria. Currently,
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  there are 17 businesses on site, including a
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  towing company. Joe Sibelia, founder of the Gasoline
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  Alley Foundation, noted that his decision to
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  sell was influenced by his satisfaction with
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  tenants and his upcoming 70th birthday. The property
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  sold for $1 .13 million on June 25th. Now on
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  to sports. Executives from several major league
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  baseball teams are reconsidering their trade
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  deadline decisions, believing that more time
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  could help them decide whether to be buyers or
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  sellers. As of August 17th, some teams already
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  appear to wish they had a mulligan. The Pittsburgh
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  Pirates, for example, have struggled, currently
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  sitting at 61 wins and 65 losses, while the Detroit
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  Tigers traded two -time Cy Young Award winner
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  Tarek Schubel, potentially regretting the move.
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  Similarly, the Baltimore Orioles traded Taylor
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  Ward, raising questions about their commitment
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  to competing this season. Lastly, the Kansas
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  City Royals might have benefited from trading
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  veterans Michael Wacha. and Seth Lugo for future
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  gains. In local sports, the Rent Sox took care
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  of business last night hammering Arizona 11 -1
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  at Fenway. Brian Baio picked up the win while
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  Wilson Contreras and Mickey Gasper both went
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  deep. Gasper stepped in after a surprise lineup
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  scratch for Jimmy Jones, now considered day -to
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  -day. Boston is back at Fenway tonight for Game
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  2, 7 -10 first pitch. Rangers swore is on the
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  mound against Arizona's Merrill Kelly, looking
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  to wrap up the series before Wednesday's finale.
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  Meanwhile in Foxborough, Drake May and Ajay Brown
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  connected on a 70 -yard bomb at Camp Monday,
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  the clearest sign yet their chemistry is coming
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  together. Christian Gonzalez remained out. but
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  Christian Barmore returned in limited fashion,
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  and the kicking job stays wide open after Andy
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  Borigel's rough preseason debut. On the ice,
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  Bruins restricted free agent Matthew Poitras
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  still hasn't signed his qualifying offer with
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  Camp under a month away. Where does he want a
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  one -way deal after splitting time with Providence
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  last season? Over at the Celtics, Paul George
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  made his first trip to the Auerbach Center meeting
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  Jason Tatum face -to -face since the Jalen Brown
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  trade, and calling the moment surreal. In top
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  news, at a time when the impact of climate change
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  is undeniable, some researchers suggest we need
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  to start work on far more ambitious approaches
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  for tackling these problems. These proposals
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  are often referred to as geoengineering. Science
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  correspondent Miles O 'Brien looks at one such
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  concept to deal with the melting of glaciers
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  and sea ice. Mathematician and climate researcher
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  David Holland of New York University studies
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  Greenland's Jacobsham Glacier, which moves at
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  about 150 feet a day. Holland hopes to gather
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  synchronous data to better understand glacier
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  retreat and its impact on sea level rise. Critics
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  question the feasibility of geoengineering solutions,
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  but Holland emphasizes the need for data to inform
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  future decisions. In business news, Synchrony
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  Financial, the credit card issuer for brands
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  including Amazon, Walmart, and Lowe's, is working
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  with OpenAI to allow shoppers to buy products
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  directly inside ChatGPT using their store cards.
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  This deal marks one of the first major moves
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  by a United States consumer lender to integrate
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  financing, payments, and rewards into an artificial
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  intelligence chatbot. Marin Nalaswamy, Synchrony's
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  Chief Strategy Officer, stated that ensuring
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  transactions occur smoothly within this ecosystem
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  is a priority. However, integrating private label
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  store cards into chat GPT will take months. as
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  negotiations continue with brand partners. Synchrony
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  is also launching a ChatKeyPT plugin for browsing
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  marketplace deals. In crypto movement, Bitcoin
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  is up 2 % to just over $64 ,000. Ethereum is
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  up 1 % to just under $1 ,900. And XRP is up half
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  a percent to $1. Moving on to a more local vibe.
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  In 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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  in the Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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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 science. Tech talk and social media
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  can sometimes lead to exciting discoveries. In
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  2024, a team of scientists in northern India
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  identified a new colorless subterranean eel named
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  Gangesthes zendone palicus after watching a short
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  TikTok video. This eel, the first Stygobitic
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  fish recorded from the Gangetic Basin, is only
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  1 .5 inches long and adapted to total darkness.
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  Scientists face challenges procuring specimens,
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  manually pumping thousands of gallons of water
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  from local hand pumps. The genus name Genghachdes
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  means fish of the Ganges, reflecting the river's
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  significance in India. The species name in Don
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  Palikis highlights its discovery on the Indian
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  -Nepal border. And in entertainment news. In
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  a remarkable achievement, Sony and Marvel Studios'
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  Spider -Man, Brand New Day has crossed the $2
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  billion mark worldwide, becoming the second fastest
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  film to reach this milestone in just 17 days.
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  This puts it behind Avengers, Endgame, which
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  accomplished the feat in 11 days. Currently,
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  Brand New Day has amassed $786 .5 million, domestically
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  and $1 .238 billion internationally, totaling
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  $2 .024 billion globally. Meanwhile, the Odyssey
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  has also performed well, generating $123 .4 million
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  over the weekend, bringing its total to $1 .294
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  billion. Well, all righty, folks. It's time for
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  the quote of the day. And today, our quote comes
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  from the American suffragist and women's rights
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  activist, Susan D. Anthony. And she said, There
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  never will be complete equality until women themselves
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  help to make laws and elect lawmakers. 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.