The Tale of Tampa's Ceramic Rooftop Cat

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Jennning Mack with five good news stories.

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Good news if you find scrabble too
hard. Mattel is launching a new version

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of Scrabble, which is quote unquote
less competitive. I love Scrabble. The

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new version of Scrabble will include helper
cards and see players work towards a series

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of goals. The new double sided
scrabble board features the original game on one

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side the new version on the other. It's called Scrabble Together. In the

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new game, cards provide help,
prompt and clues, which can be selected

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to match the player's chosen challenge level. The winner is the player who completes

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twenty challenges, while a player loses
if they've used up all the helper cards

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and cannot complete a goal. Nice
job in Wisconsin by Wheels for Winners,

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They've given hundreds of free bikes to
Wisconsin youth. Wheels for Winners only ask

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that applicants provide evidence that they've completed
ten hours of communities for any organization in

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Madison, Wisconsin. After that,
you show up, you pick a bike

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and ride off. Neil is the
chairman of Wheels for Winters, and he

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says they rely on donated bikes for
parts. Bikes are completely restored, dismounted

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for parts, or donated to other
partners. Not a single bike goes to

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waste. We turn out about four
hundred bikes a year, but we take

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in probably seven hundred and fifty bikes. What we're trying to do here is

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allow young people that might not be
able to afford a bike to have a

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bike with just a bit of sweat
equity. Super cool. Hey, good

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news if you like geckos but you
wish they were blue. In a remote

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section of India, a gorgeous blue
and yellow gecko species has been named an

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honor of Vincent van go Nimapsis van
Goghe I'm sure I got that wrong.

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Was found during an exploration after the
flash of indigo and mustard yellow caught the

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scientist's eye. It looks similar to
another gecko of the same genus see Galaxia,

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but during lab work was confirmed that
it is a new species. Good

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news. You probably of a couple
years left. Global life expectancy has increased

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by six point two years since nineteen
ninety, thanks largely to declining depths from

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diarrhea and stroke. According to a
new study. Over the past three decades,

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global life expectancy increased. The region
with the largest increase in life expectancy

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ten point seven years was Eastern Sub
Saharan Africa due to control of diarrheal diseases.

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Sharp drops in death from diseases like
diarrhe and typhoid increased life expectancy by

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one point one years and from lower
respiratory infections like tuberculosis by zero point nine

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years. The current life expectancy in
the US in twenty twenty four is seventy

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nine point twenty five years. That's
a point one point eight percent increase from

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twenty twenty three. A sixty five
year old male today in average health has

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a fifty five percent probability of living
the age eighty five. For a sixty

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five year old woman, the probability
of reaching eighty five is sixty five percent.

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And good news. In Tampa,
the ceramic cat can stay. There's

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a ceramic cat on the roof of
the Adam and Jennings Funeral Home in Tampa.

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Michael purchased the property recently and people
were wondering, what do you got

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to do with the cat. The
porcelain cat was first fastened the roof in

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nineteen forty eight by a cat lover
who owned an antique store on the property.

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Edward Jennings, a dog lover,
kept the cat. After buying the

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land in nineteen sixty two to operate
the funeral home, Mike Adams took over

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the business. He kept the cat. Stacy Adams took over from her dad.

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She kept the cat. The funeral
home closed in twenty twenty three.

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The space is being reopened as the
Gwynn Center community space for events and meetings.

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But good news, the cat will
stay on the roof. That's good.

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I like traditions like that. And
those are your five good news stories

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for today. A lot of new
listeners. I appreciate you all. Thank

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you for listening. And if you're
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