Jaylen Brown made a promise to the city of Boston on the night he was drafted.
He spent the last 10 years living up to it.
Thank you, @FCHWPO – for everything. https://t.co/OvNLyMEcg0
You root for your country.
I think the red card was wrong.
You think the appeal process was wrong.
(I would argue it shouldn’t have needed one)
We disagree.
I am American, so I’m pleased Flo can play.
It will ultimately be decided on the field.
Ball don’t lie.
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(I’ve been on appeal calls with both the NFL and the Premier League many times. Trust me, there are times you know you’re likely fighting a losing battle, but you fight it anyway because that’s what you do for your team. Every now and then it works. But the vast majority you either lose an appeal you thought you should’ve won or you lose one you already knew you were going to lose. So it’s nice to be on the winning side of one that shouldn’t have been red in the first place. Still have to go out and perform now.)
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.
La elección de la bandera rojigualda por parte del rey Carlos III para sus barcos de la Real Armada no pudo estar más acertada.
Ninguna otra bandera se ve con tanta claridad ni destaca tanto en el horizonte.
El navío Juan Sebastián Elcano en Nueva York.
🚨 The Tall Ships and the legendary Amerigo Vespucci in Sandy Hook Bay, waiting for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, caught in a squall at anchor, looked literally like a painting from the 1700s
Simply spectacular 🇺🇸✨