Cleaning out the Inbox

 Time to clean out the inbox with a few notes of interest.

My favorite soft drink is going to change its flavor.

7up has announced plans to change its Lemon-Lime flavor to "Lime-Lemon," with a stronger lime flavor.

Since 7up is my favorite drink, this distresses me, and we shall see if the new taste keeps it in the top position in the rankings.

The new version of 7up is expected to debut at any time.

The Athletic writes about the rebuilding of Sheffield Wednesday as one of the biggest clubs in English soccer, attempting to come back from insolvency.

Sheffield Wednesday was dropped from the Championship to League One for the new season after winning only two of forty-six games in a season that saw the team deducted points for their financial woes.

Sheffield Wednesday is now under new ownership in America's David Storch, who is throwing himself into a task that involves personnel and a decaying stadium, in an effort to avoid dropping further down the ladder to League Two at the end of the season.

A recent meteorite that smashed through the roof of a New Jersey home is reported to contain the building blocks of life.

ABC News reports the meteorite is a CM 1/2 Carbonaceous Chondrite, a rare and primitive meteorite, and is one of the most scientifically valuable meteorites ever recovered.

People Magazine writes of a home for sale in Kentucky that looks like a time capsule from the 1970s.

The condition of the home was described as pristine, with walls and floors covered with bright red shag carpet.

The three-bedroom home was on the market for only one week before selling for 360,000 dollars.

Times of India writes that the Wild Boar problem started in the southern United States, and it traces back to 1912, when a handful of scared boars were imported for a private hunting ranch in North Carolina.

The boars jumped the fence and escaped into the wild, eventually interbreeding with domesticated hogs to develop a tough, rugged hog that became the boar we know today, an ecological destroyer.

Cleaning out the Inbox: Non-Sports Edition

    The inbox needs a bit of cleaning up and I'll start the work on that with this version- a non-sports version.

San Francisco Gate reports on the famous Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and the possibility that the beach could be on the verge of disappearing by the end of the century.

The projected rise of the sea level by three feet by that time will likely swallow up Waikiki but erosion is already eating away the beach as damage to coral reefs are not allowing the beach to replenish itself with needed sand.

A temporary solution is "beach nourishment" in which sand is brought in from other places, added to the beach, and should widen the beach, which proponents say should buy Waikiki thirty years but is not going to reverse the problem permanently.

Maclean's writes of a meteorite that literally landed beside a British Columbia woman in her bed and besides nearly killing her (had it hit her in the head),  the meteorite could be almost five hundred million years old.

The article states that space rocks hit the earth an average of forty-one times a month but the chances of one coming through the roof of the house as in this case are one in one hundred billion but more importantly the "catcher" could sell the meteorite (or pieces of it)  and make up to a few hundred thousand dollars.

Vulture.com writes of "The Undoing" of Joss Whedon, who has had his reputation sullied by recent allegations of his behavior going back to his days of running "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and up to some of his more recent projects.

Whedon had once been "an icon of Hollywood Feminism" and now is an outcast among the same demographic that placed him on a pedestal.

As a fan of "Buffy" and a later show "Firefly", I liked Whedon's work on those shows but didn't dig into the "Whedonverse" consisting of people that praised him beyond belief.

I'll let you decide whether you believe Whedon or his accusers...

Gabrielle Drolet writes this opinion piece in the Toronto Globe and Mail on adult care of ADHD in Canada.

While there are a few differences between the American and Canadian official treatments/requirements for adult ADHD, I thought the piece itself was provoking on how adults are treated and how ADHD is diagnosed to be quite interesting.