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July 24, 2023
July 24th is the 205th day of the year. There are 160 days remaining until the end of the year.
Temperatures climb into the 30’s this week.
According to Environment Canada the week begins with sun, cloud and the chance of a shower or thunderstorm and a high of 29.
Tuesday though Thursday will see temperatures crack the 30’s with humidity, slight drop to highs of 29 for the weekend.
There’s a blood donor clinic tomorrow at the St. Clair College Healthplex from 1-7pm.
The Canadian Blood Services is asking Canadians to book appointments to donate blood as inventory reaches a level of concern. Book your appointment at Blood.ca, call 1-888-2-DONATE or use the apps.
No walk-in appointments are available. The next clinic locally is August 15th in Wallaceburg.
Huge weekend at the box office.
Barbie grabs the top spot, taking in $155 million, and Oppenheimer opened in second place with $80.5 million.
Barbie surpassed The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the biggest opening of the year. It cost $145 million to produce. The film earned $182 million overseas for a grand total of $337 million. It also had the biggest opening ever for a female-directed motion picture, biggest opening ever for a movie based on a toy and the biggest opening weekend for a movie that isn’t a sequel, a remake, or a superhero movie.
Along with Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, they inspired a double feature craze, driving the best box office weekend in years.
Last weekends #1: Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I, had strong reviews and a great opening weekend fell 64% in weekend two.
Both Barbie and Oppenheimer are screening right now at Chatham Galaxy Cinemas.
On Saturday night Elon Musk announced that he was changing the name of Twitter to X.
Once this happens, a Tweet will be called an X, and followers will be called viewers.
Elon bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.
Musk’s rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is known as SpaceX. And in 1999, Musk founded a startup called X.com, now known as PayPal. He also has a son whose name is just a bunch of nonsensical letters and symbols, but they call him “X”.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
Brian Harman has won the 151st Open — professional golf’s final major of 2023.
Harman, the 26th-ranked player in the world takes home his first major win of his career, at 37 he’s the oldest first time winner since 2017.
He won $3 million with the victory.
