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Here’s how Sheldon Levinson’s mind works. When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in San Diego, he thought about birthday candles.
“Using your breath to blow them out that seems like a bad idea in COVID times,” he said.
Levinson is an amateur inventor, a 72-year-old gadget guy who’s been tinkering in the garage off and on for most of his life.
The retired San Carlos RV salesman has come up with devices to capture rainwater from gutter downspouts, pick fruit, close gates, clean bird baths some 40 inventions in all.
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And now the “Birthday Candle Blower Outer.”
Deseret News
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Thursday is the third anniversary of the start of President Russell M. Nelson’s administration as the prophet-leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ordained him as the church president on a January Sunday in 2018. Two days later, he spoke to the world in a broadcast from the Salt Lake Temple and in a subsequent news conference.
“I declare my devotion to God our Eternal Father and to his Son, Jesus Christ,” he said.“I know them, love them and pledge to serve them and you with every remaining breath of my life.”
National news outlets reported that Trump was presenting the performers with the high honor Wednesday afternoon about the same time as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach the commander in chief a historic second time.
On January 13, 2021, President Donald J. Trump awarded the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to the following individuals and organizati
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) responded to Joe Biden’s statement comparing him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels Friday by calling upon Democrat members of Congress to “be asked to disavow” Biden’s “disgusting comments.”
A press statement from Hawley’s office referred to Biden’s comparison as “undignified, immature, and intemperate behavior”:
President-elect Biden has just compared me and another Republican Senator to Nazis. You read that correctly. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. Because I raised questions in the format prescribed by the laws of the United States about the way elections were conducted in the state of Pennsylvania, just as Democrats did about other states in 2001, 2005, and 2017, he is calling me a Nazi. This is undignified, immature, and intemperate behavior from the President-elect. It is utterly shameful. He should act like a dignified adult and retract these sick comments. And every Democrat m