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Long Island grandpa peeved after license plate revoked by DMV — now he’s asking governor to step in

I've watched a ton of Heated Rivalry reaction videos on youtube. Andres Botero (broteroTV) got emotional & flashed a lot of armpit whilst watching.

I've watched a ton of reaction videos on youtube. Andres Botero (broteroTV) got emotional & flashed a lot of armpit whilst watching.

I watched Cher speaking at Sonny's funeral tonight on YouTube. The Dow lost over 200 points to 7531 that day. I hope it eventually recovered.

I think you got confused by daylight savings time and adjusted your calendar instead of your clock.

Even if your fuzzy math were true it would still be the youngest case I'd heard of.

So it's not at all weird that I'm playing on my phone whilst playing low volume rain sounds on a dark screen on my TV during a blizzard, right?

like I said... As are spring training, the all-star game, and the world baseball classic. And the older I get, the actual sport itself. I enjoy baseball nowadays by jumping between boxscores and following MLB storylines. The last game I watched was Jasson Dominguez's debut. (I might've watched his next game, too. I don't remember.) Watching a game is boring to me now, though admittedly I've never seen one since the rules were implemented to shorten games. I root for the Yankees to be competitive enough to hold my interest until the fall TV season starts, knowing they will inevitably end their season in a way that would be really annoying if I cared more. If they ever DO exceed my expectations I'll be thrilled, but my life won't be improved in any appreciable way.

Thank you, Mr. Dahmer, for your culinary expertise.

Mamdani announced a state of emergency for the city and a travel ban beginning at 9 p.m. tonight, and ending at 12 p.m. Monday.

youngest case I ever heard of... 6 year old Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton (he'll turn 7 on Feb 29, 2028) has been diagnosed with shingles.

I'll stick with the bomb cyclone, thank you very large. Bomb cyclone to slam Connecticut and East Coast with blizzard conditions, heavy snow and high winds Powerful nor'easter bomb cyclone to slam Northeast cities

in a foreshadowing of the coming season... A sewage leak seeped into the bathroom inside the New York Yankees’ clubhouse and forced fans to walk around dirty, smelly pools of water during a spring training game at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Saturday afternoon.

REJOICE! the snoozefest is over!

What better way to spend a snowy day than listening to Gibb Brother solos! It's been so long since I listened to a CD on my computer that I had to turn on a light to figure out how to do it. Like the Pointer Sisters, only the eldest survives. The Gibbs died in inverse order of birth and I believe the same is true for the Pointers. Sadly, Barry was on bad terms with each brother when they died. Robin never even told Barry he had cancer.

Probably because Canada was without Shane Hollander Sidney Crosby. Thank God the disruption of network TV is finally over. The summer olympics are just a colossal bore, but the winter olympics are a colossal bore that gets in the way of my TV viewing, which is unforgivable.

Blizzard Warnings are in effect for 30 million people from Maryland to Massachusetts, including in New York City, New Haven, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island and Boston. According to the FOX Forecast Center, this is the first Blizzard Warning in New York City since March 2017. Snowfall totals of 1 to more than 2 feet are expected along much of the corridor, with intense snowfall rates and strong winds likely to create dangerous, potentially life-threatening travel conditions and scattered power outages. In several major cities, this storm could rank among the top 10 — and possibly even the top five — snowstorms on record.

'Matlock': Watch it or don't watch it. I leave in May." Colbert has no effs left to give

And speaking of sweetness... Have you ever tried making a strawberry dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth, only to end up with something disappointingly bland? It's not you; it's the strawberries. According to a 2021 study published in Horticulture Research (via Oxford Academic), participants said most strawberries they tasted weren't sweet enough. This isn't a case of underperforming strawberry farms, either — it's all by design. Back in 2012, Marvin Pritts, a horticulture professor from Cornell University, dropped by NPR's "All Things Considered" podcast to explain why store-bought strawberries were getting blander. Basically, strawberries have been bred over the past few decades to enhance desirable traits, including size, yield, color, and hardiness. Flavor just so happened to be less of a priority when it came to these breeding programs, which is probably why overall sweetness ended up becoming such a huge difference between store-bought strawberries and wild ones. Commerce plays a role, too. Store-bought strawberries often have to travel long distances to make it to local groceries, so some experts recommend helping them last longer by harvesting them while they still have white tips, before they're fully ripe. The problem with this is the idea that strawberries continue to ripen after harvesting is one of the biggest false facts about strawberries out there. While a 1998 study in Acta Horticulturae (via Research Gate) found strawberries can sometimes get redder after picking, they also stop ripening, which means underripe strawberries don't get any sweeter. The main reason growers prioritize sweetness less in strawberries these days It all boils down to capitalism. Strawberry growers earn a living by selling fruit, so they need to prioritize the qualities that get people to buy. A 2017 study published in Agribusiness found that people who bought strawberries could be classified into three groups based on their preferences for the fruit's traits. The largest group, which comprised more than 65% of participants, preferred buying strawberries with brighter colors, larger sizes, firmer textures, and more intense flavors. Another group specifically prioritized size, external color, and texture over flavor and internal color. Why do size, external color, and texture matter so much? Because these are the three qualities we can examine without even opening the package. A 2024 study in the peer-reviewed journal Foods (via MDPI) found that a strawberry's appearance played the biggest role in getting people to buy them. We equate a strawberry's freshness and flavor with how big it is, how red it is, and how firm it appears. Since we usually can't taste the strawberries before buying them, their looks are all we have to go on. During a 2020 online workshop with the Snohomish County Fruit Society, Marvin Pritts explained that strawberry growers in California and Florida decided to prioritize size and yield when it came to their fruits because that's what the market wanted; flavor was secondary to appearance and availability. As of 2021, the USDA reported that 98% of all strawberries grown in the U.S. come from California and Florida, so the odds of you buying these looks-over-taste strawberries are pretty high. Tips for buying sweeter strawberries Since most commercial strawberries were bred for their appearance, you have to rely on other qualities to find the sweetest. One thing you can do is check the packaging to see if they're fungicide- and pesticide-free. Not only did a 2023 study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (via ACS Publications) find that two common fungicides reduce the sugar content of strawberries, but a separate 2019 study in Scientific Reports (via Nature) showed that strawberries grew sweeter after researchers simulated insect damage on their leaves. Turns out, strawberries' defense mechanisms against pests also led to increased sugar production. You can also try to smell the strawberries. According to a 1989 study in Chemical Senses (via Apa PsycNet), scientists found that a stronger strawberry aroma made taste testers perceive a simulated strawberry solution as sweeter. You can essentially trick your brain into thinking your strawberries have more sugar in them by getting the most fragrant ones. Lastly, you can look for strawberries grown outside California and Florida. New Jersey is a good place to start; in 2022, researchers at Rutgers University unveiled the Rutgers D'Light, a special breed of strawberry that took 15 years to develop. It was bred to have the ideal balance of sweetness, acidity, and fragrance that make for a flavorful strawberry. If you're willing to drop $20 on an eight-pack, you can also try Oishii's Omakase strawberries; these luxury strawberries are grown under highly controlled conditions to boost their flavor, and the high-tech farm they're from happens to be in New Jersey, too.

https://www.aol.com/articles/bad-news-youre-probably-wiping-163422916.html The preferred method of wiping “is not wiping,” nationally renowned anal surgeon Dr. Evan Goldstein told Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, co-hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast. “When you’re looking at someone’s [anus], to the left and the right are these wrinkles ― it’s like an accordion. It opens. It closes,” said Goldstein, who is also the CEO and founder of Bespoke Surgical. “The front and the back ― towards the vagina, towards the penis and testicle area, or the tailbone, the skin there is not wrinkled. It’s very thin. When we wipe, where do we wipe? Usually front to back — thin skin! We all wipe so much, so what happens over time? People tear the skin. It gets irritated. It gets angry at us.” Instead of wiping, Goldstein suggested cleaning the area without toilet paper. “I’m a huge bidet [fan],” he told us, because it can thoroughly wash the anus without harming it. He also recommended a quick shower or rinse if you don’t own a bidet. “You always want to make sure you’re drying yourself,” he added, because moisture in that area can cause irritation. This is one of the reasons why he is firmly anti-wet wipes. “They are so terrible — not only for the environment, but for your hole,” he said. “There’s so many companies out there throwing wipes and I think they should all be banned. I see 90 people a week [in my surgical office], and I would say one-third of all the people coming through are coming in from wet wipe-induced issues.” That’s because using them can change the microbiome of that area of the body. “Think about it — we have good bacteria, we have bad bacteria, but they are in homeostasis. They are in equilibrium. Wet wipes **** that in a really bad way,” Goldstein said. “I see ridiculous dermatitis [in my patients] ... bacterial infections. ... Now that you’ve messed up that microbiome, it’s causing so many problems.” If you are going to wipe using toilet paper, he recommended more of a “blot” than a wipe and doing it in a “standing squat,” because there’s less blood flowing to that part of the body when you’re standing. And that means less potentially problem-causing pressure on the delicate area. “The longer you’re sitting on the bowl, the more blood [down there], the more wiping, the more irritation. The body senses that,” Goldstein said. Instead, we want to get vertical again as soon as possible to relieve that pressure. “So, you poop, wipe once or twice [while seated], finish standing up. Why? The blood starts to leave [when you stand up]. The mechanism starts to go back to the normal, daily [position],” Goldstein said. “There are some people that it’s harder [to wipe] when they’re standing,” he noted. “They don’t feel like they’re getting the full hole. ... But we don’t need to go all up in there. If you are going all up in there, we need to go back to diet and fiber and pre- and probiotics, and thinking about better strategies. I always say, ‘It’s not butt health; it’s gut health.’ If you have gut health, you will automatically have butt health.” Goldstein also chatted about why squatting is the best position for pooping, what a perfect poop should look like and much more. For more from Goldstein, visit his website or his Instagram page, and check out Future Method’s Butt & Gut Daily Fiber.

When Shane starts dating Rose and appearing on social media the teammate who shows it to Ilya and makes crude comments then is reading the room service menu when Ilya says he needs to go out and get laid was played by the only female to male transgender pro player. He played three seasons in the women's pro league then transitioned and played minor league hockey. Btw, there is one 'out' minor league player but he is not a prospect.

On tonight's second episode of Family Guy (at 9:30) Peter and the guys have an adventure.