Payday, and almost the weekend. I’m looking forward to a day where I can sleep in, and just unwind a bit.

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WHAT: 21^st annual Mango Festival
WHEN: Friday 6/16 – Sunday 6/18
WHERE: Deerfield Beach [Broward]
WALLET: see Web site for ticket prices
WEB:
– {City of Deerfield Beach – Mango Festival page}
– {TheMangoFestival.com}

“South Florida’s largest multicultural festival, Mango Festival is a celebration of Black Music Month and mangos! Join us for a weekend fullof exciting entertainment, over 100 vendors of unique arts & crafts and wonderful international foods…. Two stages will feature continuous live entertainment.”
–City of Deerfield Beach

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Phoenix on Wednesday was named the sweatiest city in the United States, but Miami topped the list as the most uncomfortable American city due to its mix of humidity and heat.

The fifth annual sweat survey sponsored by Procter & Gamble Co. handed the dubious distinction to the Arizona capital for the third time. El Paso, Texas, earned the title in 2004 and San Antonio, Texas, in 2002.

The study of 100 cities estimates the amount of sweat a person of average weight and height would produce walking around for an hour in the average high temperatures of a particular city during June, July and August.

The latest survey found that the average Phoenix resident produced 26 ounces (0.77 litre) of sweat per hour during a typical summer day last year when the desert city’s high temperature averaged 93.3 F (34 C).

It means that in under three hours, Phoenix residents collectively produced enough sweat to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, said Jay Gooch, sweat expert at Old Spice, a Procter & Gamble Co. antiperspirant brand.

But Gooch said Phoenix’s humidity was only 22 percent, making it much more comfortable than Miami, with average temperatures last year of 83.9 F (29 C) and humidity of 76 percent, according to government figures.

“In Phoenix you sweat much more than in Miami, but it evaporates quickly as it is such dry air so you don’t notice as much. In Miami the sweat stays on your skin,” said Gooch.

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Nonja is an endangered Sumatran Orangutan that has been living for years at Miami Metrozoo, but that’s not what makes the hairy female unique.

Dozens of school children lined up to see her Wednesday as she celebrated her 54th birthday, making her the oldest living orangutan in the world.

Her name means “girl” in Dutch, as she originally came from the Wassenaar Zoo in Holland in 1983. Nowadays Nonja would be called more of a grandma than a girl, after giving birth to five offspring that have in turn produced two other offspring in captivity. Most orangutans in captivity only make it to be 50-years-of-age.

The old but otherwise healthy primate was given a special cake prepared by her keeper, which zoo officials said was made with a mixture of peanut butter, bananas, mangos and other “primate chow”.

It seems as if despite her age, Nonja has not learned any manners, as she suspiciously looked at the cake before ripping right into it and making a birthday mess.

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Moment of lyric – mp3

There’s a smart young woman on a light blue screen
Who comes into my house every night.
And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green
And she turns them into black and white.
But you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebody’s gonna get it
Better cut off all identifying labels
Before they put you on the torture table
‘Cause somewhere in the Quisling Clinic
There’s a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes
She’s listening in to the Venus line
She’s picking out names
I hope none of them are mine
But you tease, and you flirt…
Never said I was a stool pigeon
I never said I was a diplomat
Everybody is under suspicion
But you don’t wanna hear about that
‘Cause you tease, and you flirt…
Better send a begging letter to the big investigation
Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?
You tease, and you flirt…
You can please yourself but somebody’s gonna get it
You can please yourself but somebody’s gonna get it

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1 year ago – David Sutherland RIP, trunk turtles, Easter walkies, chimp pics, paper toys, gCensus, Mothra Song, superhero TV themes, vet mixup, menstrual superstitions, 250 questions

2 years ago – Queequeg, Lizard (a knight anole) pictures, fixed calamity’s icon,Mycoprotein, Sammy doodle, sites for positive change, yahoo goes fromsix meg to 100meg (now at 1 gig vs gmail’s 2+gig)

3 years ago – Father’s Day, vampire game, wondering about a world free of psychoactive drugs

4 years ago – lovely long talk, South Park Scotto, Tea room, Replacement parts, star trek breast insignia

5 years ago – Predators of man, Apt seeking, Nothing sacred, sql/ado. pet quiz, pizza parlor, writing urge, Big Guy and rusty.

6 years ago – Nothing in particular