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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, exuberant over the end of the 99-day lockout, said that not only will it be great to see the “boys of summer” again, but he also hopes next year to see the “boys and girls of summer” playing Major League Baseball. “I’m so glad that the boys of summer are coming back,” Adams told reporters on Friday. “I hope in the next year we start seeing the boys and the girls of summer. It’s time to allow women to play professional baseball as well.” As the New York Post reports: While baseball has no...

The screens...use a system of motion sensors and cameras to display what's inside the doors — as well as product information, prices, deals and, most appealing to brands, paid advertisements. The tech provides stores with an additional revenue stream and a way to modernize ["modernize"?] the shopping experience. The company wants to engage more people with advertising, but the reaction, so far, is annoyance and confusion. "Who on God's green earth thought this was a good idea?" "The digital cooler screens at Walgreens made me watch an ad before it allowed me to know which door held the frozen pizzas,"...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Germany’s foreign minister has urged Serbia, which has not imposed sanctions on traditional ally Russia over the war in Ukraine, to align policies with the European Union if it wants to join the bloc. Annalena Baerbock said Friday in Serbia’s capital Belgrade that “we all must have a clear position” over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Serbia has criticized the attack on Ukraine and voted in the United Nations for the condemnation of the attack, Belgrade has refrained from joining Western sanctions against Moscow. . Baerbock praised Serbia’s UN vote and the offer to host...

Food company Frito-Lay has cut down the number of chips in each bag of Doritos as record inflation has raised production expenses. A bag of Doritos has five fewer chips than it used to, the company told Quartz. "Inflation is hitting everyone. … We took just a little bit out of the bag so we can give you the same price and you can keep enjoying your chips," a Frito-Lay representative said. Other ubiquitous consumer products have fallen victim to "shrinkflation," Quartz reported. Bounty has cut three sheets from each roll of paper towels, and a box of Wheat Thins...

Where are you most likely to see a UFO? With an incredible 15,072 sightings in the Golden State, more than anywhere else in the U.S., California is the UFO capital of America. This is twice the number of extra-terrestrial encounters recorded in Florida (7,513) which places second overall. Where are you least likely to see a UFO? In contrast to California and Florida, which each recorded thousands of UFO sightings, both North Dakota and South Dakota have registered just 264 and 355 since records began, respectively. So if you’re on the lookout for alien life, steer clear from the Dakotas!...

A senior Russian official warned on March 12 that Moscow could target Western shipments of military equipment to Ukraine. Speaking on state television, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow has warned the United States that it would see the deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine as targets. Ryabkov said Russia “warned the U.S. that pumping weapons from a number of countries it orchestrates isn’t just a dangerous move, it’s an action that makes those convoys legitimate targets.”

The Center for Renewing America released detais on egregious earmarks in the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, which passed the Senate with bipartisan support: $1,600,000 for “equitable” growth of the shellfish industry in Rhode Island $500,000 for a Diversity and Inclusion program at Worcester State University $475,000 for the Race, Inclusion, and Social Equity Institute at Ohio State University $424,000 to replace sidewalks at a country club in Avon, Connecticut $775,000 for an LGBT center in Los Angeles $500,000 for the Nansen Ski Jump club in New Hampshire $605,000 for a greenhouse in NYC $945,000 a kelp forest survey in...

Any chef will tell you that you're only as good as your best kitchen knives despite your culinary skills. On top of that, if you have a top-of-the-line knife set, they'll quickly become useless if you don't maintain them and keep them sharp. It's kind of like a carpenter trying to frame a home with plastic nails or a hunter trying to take down a buck with a slingshot. Even if you don't step foot in a kitchen but use knives for other things like work or outdoor survival, you need to keep them sharp. The bottom line is dull...

The West could have further exploited Ukraine and teased Russia but it simply overplayed its hand. Precisely as described in this fable where a goose laying golden eggs is killed by the greedy owners. The moral? Much wants more and loses all. Now that Moscow is taking retaliatory steps like shutting down media outlets that propagated Western ideas and Western lifestyle the West has lost its ideological bridgehead inside Russia that it has held for thirty years. The West really thought it was ready to make a killing. Western elites really thought Russia would withdraw from its positions further and...

Despite the mildness of the dominant omicron variant and the evidence that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine hasn't stopped infection or transmission of SARS-CoV-2 while posing serious health risks, the company's CEO is asking the FDA to grant emergency use authorization for a second booster, a fourth shot."Clearly there is a need in an environment of omicron to boost the immune response," Albert Bourla said Friday on CNBC's "Squawk Box."Bourla claimed the data indicate the protection against severe disease after three doses is "very good." But the protection wanes after only three or four months, he acknowledged.In January, Bourla acknowledged that...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Friday expressed regret for failing to vote to impeach former President Trump the first time over his dealings with Ukraine in light of the recent Russian invasion. Trump was impeached the first time in December of 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. However, he was later acquitted in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 11. The rebels have evacuated Manassas. We occupied it this morning. Dispatches received at headquarters this forenoon stated positively that the rebels had not evacuated Winchester. If this is so, -- and those best authorized to know report it, -- Gen. JACKSON's rebel army is assuredly cut off and will be captured. This abandonment of a splendid army corps at Winchester could not have been designed, and is further proof of the haste and confusion of the flight from Centreville and Manassas. The officer commanding the Union forces at Manassas sent in a messenger to-night. I had...

talian authorities have seized a superyacht worth $578 million from a Russian billionaire who was sanctioned by the the European Union following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko's 470-foot Sailing Yacht A—believed to be the world's biggest—has been sequestered at the northern port of Trieste, the Italian prime minister's office said. Industrialist Melnichenko, who owns the fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and coal company SUEK, is among several prominent Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the EU since the start of the Ukraine War. He is worth around $11 billion according to Forbes.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr warned that China is the "biggest threat" facing the United States, warning that Beijing has a "highly aggressive plan" to take control of "key" technologies of the future. During an interview with Fox News Digital about his new memoir, "One Damn Thing After Another," in which he details long-term national security challenges facing the U.S., Barr warned the Chinese will continue to be "a huge challenge" for the U.S.

The Disney Co.’s CEO Bob Chapek has taken a knee before his LGBTQ employees, issuing a humiliating apology after some of them mutinied over the company’s refusal to condemn Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which would forbid the teaching of sexuality and transgender ideology to students in kindergarten through third grade. In his groveling mea culpa, Chapek said he needed to be a “stronger ally” to the company’s gay and transgender employees. He also falsely referred to the legislation as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — a smear created by Democrats and dutifully propagated by the news media —...

The COVID theater curtain is closing, and nothing makes it more obvious than a recent interview with Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although couched in giggles and approval-seeking glances, Walensky’s remarks last week to an interviewer at Washington University School of Medicine reveal an astonishing level of ignorance and incompetence at the top levels of pandemic response.The full interview is available to watch here, but a 45-second clip (see below) which went viral on social media this week captures the essence of what the CDC director said.“I can tell you where I was when...

I don’t get it: Progressives bitched for four years (5, counting 2021) about President Trump “lying” about everything but they don’t seem to have a problem with their own flag bearer blatantly lying about a fundamentally and universally accepted rule of economics 101 - which is apparently no longer taught. Biden Complains That The American People Believe Increased Government Spending Causes InflationNot to overestimate the intelligence of the American people, but his accusation only applies to people over 50 or who otherwise managed to escape the current government education indoctrination system of public education and don’t believe Fake News.Still, there...

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The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized people who have attempted to make the Russian invasion of Ukraine about their pet issues and criticized those who have attempted to blame the invasion on former President Donald Trump by asking, “if Putin thought Trump was really that supportive of him, why didn’t he invade when Trump was in office?” And arguing that the question’s worth asking “if you’re not locked into one, intransigent thought.”