Join us tomorrow for the Grand Opening of the NEW @CitiParks Homewood Pool!
The renovation of Homewood Park & Pool, which dates to 2019, is Pittsburgh’s most transformative park rehabilitation project in decades.
#ICYMI Per Head of sports medicine for the #Pirates Todd Tomczyk, Konnor Griffin will be out for 8-10 weeks with a with a ligament tear in his ring finger.
He suffered the injury during the third inning of Sundays game while making a diving catch. Jared Triolo will fill in at shortstop.
NEW: San Diego County residents refuse to take down their American flags after the HOA demanded they do so, threatening $100 fines.
"Nope, flag isn’t coming down. Nope," one resident said.
Some residents have now retained an attorney to defend themselves against the Ambiance Owners Association.
"We do it in support of those who have fought and have died for our country, including my grandfather, who died in WWII," said resident Chris Cooke.
Patriots.
@1movieplug Tony and Bobby talked about it just going black when it happens. It went black for us, the viewers. That’s who got whacked. That’s why we will never know what ultimately happened to Tony. Brilliant final scene
It wasn’t just Newport Beach, there was chaos in Long Beach, California yesterday on the 4th of July too
A group of about 200 teens in Long Beach attacked the police, throwing objects at the police, fights broke out
This happened in Long Beach in the Belmont Shore area. Here is footage of people fleeing from the chaos and fleeing the scene
Notice how there are essentially no white person in these hundreds of people running…..
California is overrun. The state is flooded with people with no heritage here or respect for the country they are in
Demographic change has destroyed our society. People can’t even celebrate 4th of July anymore in peace in California
The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.
The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.
Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.
So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.
Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.
Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.