THIS WEEK'S DEAR JOHN LETTER!
Dear John,
My wife and I went on vacation for a few weeks. While we were gone, my neighbor's son had been parking his car in our driveway. He didn't ask for permission, and I normally wouldn't care, but he apparently had some sort of leak and left an oil stain in the driveway. I've tried to wash it away, but it's still there. I have a security camera that points to the driveway and you can see his car there and you can see there was no stain before and over the course of the week, it got worse and worse. I want to get him to pay to remove the stain. My wife said it really doesn't matter and it's not worth starting a feud with the neighbor over this. What do you think? Should he be responsible to fix this? Should I leave it alone?
Signed – Upset Neighbor
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produce the online “Wheel of Fortune Casino”, expected later this
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branded Wheel of Fortune slot machines, comes as the TV game show
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Sept. 8. Guests will have the chance to spin a replica of the
legendary “Wheel of Fortune” and solve puzzles to win cash, gifts
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“The Voice” may be making a big change to its schedule. Reportedly, while The Voice moved to one cycle per year for 2022, NBC is considering going back to 2 seasons per year. According to Monsters and Critics, there are a few indicators: The show that served as The Voice’s replacement in the spring, “American Song Contest”, didn’t do very well in the ratings. So, it is rumored that NBC wants to bring back The Voice in its previous spring timeslot. Additionally, The Voice announced an open call for contestants on various June dates. Even though it may appear as though this would be for the upcoming fall season, that’s apparently not the case, as casting for the fall season has already been completed and filming for blind auditions has begun.
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Canadians craving a pop of dough this year reached for Chocolate Glazed the most, Tim Hortons says, as the company’s Timbits mark their 45th anniversary this year. Birthday Cake, Honey Dip, Old Fashioned Plain and Sour Cream Glazed rounded out the top five in Canada overall. A regional breakdown also found Chocolate Glazed at the top — except in Atlantic Canada, where Old Fashioned Plain was the main choice. The country’s other four favourite flavours shuffled order but rounded out the top five lists in Western Canada, Ontario and Atlantic Canada. In Quebec, however, Tim Hortons customers were reaching for Strawberry Filled and Old Fashioned Glaze instead of Sour Cream Glazed and Old Fashioned Plain, according to the province’s top five list. When it comes to Timbiebs — the recently released Timbits flavors developed in collaboration with Stratford singer Justin Bieber — the company says Chocolate White Fudge has emerged as Canada’s top pick.
The role of chef, the amount of mess - and the amount of hot spices added to meals are among the most common dinner disputes, according to a study. Researchers also discovered things can get heated amid bust-ups over someone's attempt to interfere in their other half's culinary creation - and even what is for dinner. A study of men and women in relationships revealed the top 20 disagreements couples have on a daily basis including who should have to wash up and whether the meal is 'unhealthy'. Lack of inspiration and variety when it comes to what to eat for dinner are at the heart of many dinner time disagreements with many couples complaining they eat the same meals time after time, and the dishes are always boring. It also emerged the average couple will talk about what to eat for the evening meal for at least 10 minutes every day – or the equivalent of 61 hours across the average year.
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This started as a really neat, fun story. Then it took a dark turn. Your Amazon Alexa may soon be able to replicate real, human voices. That sounds great. Until you realize that includes the voices of dead people. Amazon announced the new feature at the annual Re:Mars conference, which focuses on innovation in artificial intelligence. The update to Alexa’s system would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of any person, based on less than a minute of recording. In a demonstration, the company played a video showing a young boy asking: “Alexa, can Grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz?” Alexa acknowledges the request, and switches to a voice mimicking the child’s grandmother to read the book. Amazon says it began working on this feature to put more “human attributes of empathy” into the Alexa system, but online reaction wasn’t having it, with one woman tweeting: “one of the creepiest suggestions I’ve heard in a long time. A key part of processing loss is letting go. Having my dead father tell me its time to take a cake out of the oven or that 2m is 6ft 7″ would be incredibly weird.”
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• Right after your Mom yells “Are you up?”
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You’ve probably already heard this story, but if anything qualifies as ‘good news’, it’s this: Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize to help Ukrainian children and families displaced by Russia’s invasion, and an anonymous buyer won the bidding with an unexpectedly generous offer of $103.5 million. UNICEF said it received the funds minutes after the bidding ended. The previous record for a Nobel was $4.76 million.
