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Chris Wright, Toe Poke writerJun 15, 2023, 08:00 AM ET


Barcelona have revealed that their new home kit for the 2023-24 season will stand as a tribute to their absurdly successful, record-breaking women's team.- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) The jersey is inspired by a team made up of members of the Barca women's supporters' club, which became the first female side ever to play at the Camp Nou in 1971.

A cost-of-living crisis.Pressure on the government to step in to help hard-pressed consumers.Calls for supermarkets to cut prices on staple food items.Substitute Rishi Sunak for Ted Heath, step into a time capsule and journey back to Britain in 1972.Let's be clear: ministers are not considering imposing the sort of statutory price controls on a loaf of bread, a pint of milk or a bar of soap that were put in place half a century ago.

G. Esposito & Sons Jersey Pork Store, a butcher shop in Carroll Gardens, is closing after 100 years in business.A sign posted to the Court Street shop's store states that April 10 is the last day for one of Brooklyn's oldest butchers.G. Esposito & Sons opened in Carroll Gardens a century ago, originally on Columbia Street, after the founder moved to New York by way of Naples, Italy in 1922.

The Boston Globe Salvaged components of a forgotten home have had a second life in Ware, and are reminders of the communities that were destroyed nearly a century ago.When Elena Palladino and her husband, Matt, were house-hunting in 2015, they couldn't help but fall in love with a stately Colonial they found in Ware.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Alice Winn about her debut book In Memoriam, a love story following two boarding school classmates fighting for Britain in the trenches of World War I. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In Alice Winn's new novel, "In Memoriam," there's a line that one of the two main characters keeps saying to the other.

The record-breaking heat in the UK in 2022 was made 160 times more likely by the climate crisis, indicating the dominant influence of human-caused global heating on Britain.Last year has been confirmed as the UK's hottest on record, with the average annual temperature passing the 10C mark for the first time.

A century ago, a man with a double life published one of the most celebrated, anthologised and dissected poems in English literature.TS Eliot spent six days a week at the offices of Lloyds bank and crammed the business of poetry and literary criticism into the evenings and Sundays.This allowed him to write The Waste Land, a densely allusive work that drew on Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Jacobean tragedy, tarot and the Upanishads to create a dazzling portrait of both the ruins of postwar Europe and the inner alienation of modernity.

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President Joe Biden is hosting Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the White House on Friday, resuming the St. Patrick's Day tradition for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic and for the first time the president, who often notes his Irish roots, has been in office.The St. Patrick's Day festivities, complete with a green-dyed White House fountain, come ahead of an anticipated presidential trip to Northern Ireland to mark the upcoming anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement which the United States helped broker a quarter-century ago to bring an end to decades of sectarian violence.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.AI needs humantouch to be effective While artificial intelligence systems have demonstrated impressive abilities to generate human-like language, there are risks.Over-reliance on AI could have consequences, such as reinforcing biases and perpetuating misinformation.

With winter conditions bogging down military troops and leaving both sides looking ahead to spring offensives, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday called on Ukrainians from all regions to remain unified.His comments came in a speech marking Unity Day, a holiday created to commemorate events that took place more than a century ago and one whose meaning has acquired added poignancy in the wake of the Russian invasion.

Generations have grown up on the falafels and fresh banana shakes at Falafel's Drive-In, the popular eatery that has been a San Jose institution for nearly 60 years.Co-owner Joanne Boyle grew up there too, hanging out with her siblings at the casual restaurant their parents, Anton and Zahie Nijmeh, opened in 1966 after moving to the Bay Area from Israel.

In the central Taiwanese city of Changhua, just next door to Taichung, one of the alleged birthplaces of bubble tea, shops and stalls serve another local snack that looks a lot like a giant translucent boba.It's about the size of a fist and fills a small bowl.It's jiggly and soft, yet pulls back from chopsticks with considerable resistance.

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The owners of the Tex-Mex institutions Cactus Cantina and Lauriol Plaza are branching out with an American hangout in Adams Morgan.On brand, the indoor/outdoor place is huge and caters to groups with a crowd-pleasing menu (pizzas, steaks, salads) plus wallet-­friendly drinks like frozen Negronis and, yes, margaritas.

Dubbed the Taurus Toaster 3.0, this eccentric kitchen appliance lets you toast anything from sliced bread to bagels to even cheesesteak subs.I've come to realize that toasters haven't really changed much in the past couple of years.Ovens have changed a lot, microwave ovens had their moment, air fryers are a thing now, but the toaster... it's still pretty much the same contraption using the same format and technology from nearly a century ago.

A century ago, before it was called sparkling water or club soda, and before it was sold as LaCroix and Spindrift, it was called seltzer.No plastic bottles or aluminum cans magically appeared on grocery shelves.Instead, factories across New York City pumped fizzy water into heavy siphon bottles that were distributed by deliverymen.

Friday will mark the 100th birthday of the late Marcus Foster, Oakland's superintendent of schools from 1970-73.Few residents today have heard of him unless they have read about his senseless assassination by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army after a board meeting in 1973.I never met him, but I still feel his impact on me as an educator, parent and student.

More than 200 Chanel looks will be seen together for the first time in the Victoria and Albert Museum's (V&A) forthcoming exhibition on the work of French fashion designer Gabrielle Coco Chanel.Gabrielle Chanel.Fashion Manifesto will unfold over 10 sections, charting the evolution of her design style and the establishment of the House of Chanel, from the opening of her first millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 to the showing of her final collection in 1971.

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Snow-bound Siddal feels a long way from the sun-drenched Wembley turf upon which Sheffield Eagles fashioned arguably the greatest of Challenge Cup upsets by sinking unbackable favourites Wigan a quarter of a century ago.

Charles and Willa Bruce with Bruce's Beach (California African American Museum, Getty) Six months after Los Angeles County returned Bruce's Beach to the descendants of Black owners, the family is selling the property in Manhattan Beach back to the county for $20 million.The Bruce family, whose beachfront property was returned in July after it was seized nearly a century ago because they were Black, will sell two parcels back to the county, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported.

Do you have a strict bedtime?A sunrise-mimicking alarm clock?A vial of sleep oil?A white noise machine?A ban on screens past 10pm?We are, as a culture, obsessed with sleep.Not getting enough, not having the right kind; even sleeping too much.Study after study piles up to warn us that any of the above will give us cancer or dementia.

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Pitching most of his career in the dead-ball era, it's no shock that all-time hurling great Walter Johnson allowed just 97 home runs over his 802 career games and 5,914 1⁄3 innings.But you might be startled to know that in a 7-6 loss to the White Sox, Johnson surrendered two home runs - and they were the only homers he allowed all season!

Although it's been more than 10 years since Nik Wallenda made history crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope, the aerialist says he wants to recreate the career highlight before he retires.Wallenda was born into a long lineage of circus performers and acrobats."My mom was six months pregnant with me and still walking the wire, so I've been walking the wire longer than I've been walking on terra forma, if you will," Wallenda told CTV News Toronto in an interview Friday.

"To You Few For Whom These Were Written and You Many Who May Read."This dedication appears at the beginning of On a Grey Thread, the first collection of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America.A wink and a nod to the audiences who would find the book, the introduction is an intimate invitation, encouraging readers to ask whether they belonged to the "few" or to the "many."

When Adam B. Schiff recently brought his U.S. Senate campaign to Northern California, 500 people showed up for his stop at a 55-and-older community nestled in the green, rolling hills of the East Bay Area.Dozens more were turned away.A few weeks earlier, Katie Porter drew a similar overflow crowd when she kicked off her bid to replace the retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein with an appearance before the same Democratic audience.

Writing on the literary representation of women in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf mused that "What one must do to bring her to life was to think poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment, thus keeping in touch with fact [...] but not losing sight of fiction either that she is a vessel in which all sorts of spirits and forces are coursing and flashing perpetually."

The intensity and passion Jens Scheuer will bring to English football began in a village in south-west Germany.Scheuer's earliest full coaching job came in 2010 at Bahlinger SC, an amateur regional league team formed almost a century ago in an agricultural area with a population of little more than 4,000.

Realtor.com "Although it was built half a century ago, it's exactly what people seem to be looking for today," says listing agent Barbie Dan, with Ware Jones Realtors."Most people that looked at it really saw the beauty of the simplicity."The well-maintained home hit the market in early April, with a list price of $575,000 and is pending sale.

Realtor.comA charming, historic house with a rock 'n' roll pedigree has hit the market for $22.5 million in Santa Monica, CA.Known as the Witbeck House, the delightful domicile dates back to 1917.That's when businessman Charles Witbeck decided to commission a two-story, shingle house that looked more at home on the East Coast than in California.

Bobby Bonilla spent a little more than one full season as a member of the Florida Marlins.Bonilla famously hit the last home run of the 1997 season-a solo blast to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning in Game 7 of the World Series.Bonilla's first home run of the 1998 season served as a game-winner for the Marlins.

Relations between Paris and Ouagadougou have deteriorated sharply since the Burkinabe military seized power in a coup in October.Burkina Faso's military government has suspended France 24 broadcasts after the TV station aired an interview with the head of al-Qaeda's North African wing.The new channel this month aired the interview with Yezid Mebarek, also known as Abu Ubaydah Yusuf al-Anabi, who claimed the title of emir of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in 2020 after a French raid killed his predecessor.

The oldest animal at the Houston Zoo, a radiated tortoise born nearly a century ago, is finally a father.The zoo announced last week that Mr. Pickles and Mrs. Pickles welcomed three tortoise hatchlings: Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeno.(All three comfortably in the family of pickle preserves.)It was an astounding feat, zoo officials said, not only because Mr. Pickles is 90 years old, but also because the critically endangered species rarely produces offspring.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Saturday that the state will cut insulin costs by 90% and that it will start manufacturing naloxone, a nasal spray used to reverse opioid overdoses.The lower insulin cost results from a collaboration between CalRx, a California Department of Health Care Services program, and the non-profit drug manufacturer Civica Rx, according to a news release from the governor's office.

An independent Scotland has not been hindered by Nicola Sturgeon's departure; it could well be advanced by it.Her eight years as first minister have been remarkable, but failed to bring statehood closer to reality.The question is whether her intransigence postponed it.Sturgeon made a strategic error after her predecessor Alex Salmond lost the 2014 independence referendum.

It was a speech rich in emotion, humour and, as you might expect from an actor turned politician, not a small amount of drama.But addressing British parliamentarians in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy had some very specific asks.Here is a potted rundown of his half-hour speech.A nation at war The Ukrainian president's opening gambit was the perhaps inevitable but eloquent statement of what was at stake.

For The Washington Post, John Muyskens, Shannon Osaka, and Naema Ahmed mapped the main ways that Americans heat their homes:

Thanks to a combination of local climates, electricity prices and historical accident, America's home heating system, like the country's politics, is deeply divided.In the South, thanks to government funding from almost a century ago and mild climates, many rely on electricity to stay warm.

For the first time in three decades, the US has a new favorite dog breed, according to the American Kennel Club.Adorable in some eyes, deplorable in others, the sturdy, push-faced, perky-eared, world-weary-looking and distinctively droll French bulldog became the nation's most prevalent purebred dog last year, the club announced on Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS In this storied Louisiana city, where shrimp etouffee, gumbo and po' boys loom large, red beans and rice stand above.I don't think New Orleans would be the city that it is if we didn't have not only rich traditions and history, but also red beans and rice, said Freddie King III, a city councilman.

The branding for Paris 2024 didn't get off to a great start, with the 'flame' logo mercilessly mocked on release in 2019 for resembling, er, a woman with a 'Karen' hairstyle.But we've just had our next glimpse at the games' branding as a whole, and things are looking up.The International Olympic Committee has unveiled a new set of 62 pictograms for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, claiming to have "reinvented the concept" of the symbols.

Installation view of "Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala" when it was on display at the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, N.H. (Robert C. Strong II) Populated by sharks, snakes and kangaroos, but mostly by densely arrayed lines and shapes, the pictures in "Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala" represent the universe.

If love comes with time, then Susie Lewis has surely earned it from Cook County's election authorities.As the county's oldest voter, Lewis, 111, has been voting for more than nine decades.To honor Lewis' long voting history, Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough made Lewis her "valentine" Tuesday by bringing her a heart-shaped box of chocolates, a large card, red and pink flowers and a balloon to the woman's Maywood home.

Six-year-old children should be learning to read, identify new words by matching letters to sounds, count to 100, and do basic addition and subtraction.But now we have a 6-year-old who allegedly shot his teacher in Newport News, Virginia.Unfortunately, school shootings are not uncommon.There have been more than 1,300 school shootings in the U.S. since 1970, according to data from the government-sponsored Homeland Security Digital Library.

Walking like John Cleese's character, Mr. Teabag, in Monty Python's famous " Ministry of Silly Walks" skit requires considerably more energy expenditure than a normal walking gait because the movement is so inefficient, according to a new paper published in the annual Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal.

SAN JOSE - When Darryl Sutter became the San Jose Sharks head coach in 1997, then-owner George Gund III and former general manager Dean Lombardi knew it wasn't going to be easy to turn around the fortunes of a franchise that had sunk to near the bottom of the NHL standings."At that time, Dean Lombardi and Mr. Gund were both adamant about the building part," Sutter told Bay Area News Group on Monday.

SAN JOSE - When Darryl Sutter became the San Jose Sharks head coach in 1997, then-owner George Gund III and former general manager Dean Lombardi knew it wasn't going to be easy to turn around the fortunes of a franchise that had sunk to near the bottom of the NHL standings."At that time, Dean Lombardi and Mr. Gund were both adamant about the building part," Sutter told Bay Area News Group on Monday.

SAN JOSE - When Darryl Sutter became the San Jose Sharks head coach in 1997, then-owner George Gund III and former general manager Dean Lombardi knew it wasn't going to be easy to turn around the fortunes of a franchise that had sunk to near the bottom of the NHL standings."At that time, Dean Lombardi and Mr. Gund were both adamant about the building part," Sutter told Bay Area News Group on Monday.

The U.S. hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion on Thursday, raising economic concerns about what happens if lawmakers can reach a deal to pay the U.S. government's debts.The Treasury Department has begun using a series of extraordinary measures to avoid a government default on its debt, which buys the U.S. about six months to either raise the debt ceiling or come up with a creative way out.

California and the other Colorado River Basin states are at odds over how to halt the precipitous decline of Lake Mead.The impasse reflects a century of failure to take a basic step left undone by the original Colorado River Compact.The seven states in the basin have made dueling proposals for balancing water demand with the available supply.

I saw the Brazilian soccer demigod Pelé play in person a few times and have watched innumerable clips of his greatest hits.Two of my most indelible memories are of goals that he didn't even score.Both occurred at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico City, where Brazil's formidable Seleção was bidding for its third World Cup championship in a dozen years.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors announced Tuesday that the Bruce family had decided to sell back Bruce's Beach to L.A. County for nearly $20 million.The announcement comes six months after the board unanimously voted to return the beachside property to the Bruces, a Black family that had been pushed out of Manhattan Beach nearly a century ago.

Rishi Sunak knows what he must do in Northern Ireland.He cannot cringe any longer before that region's backwoodsmen and their cheerleaders in his own party.Unlike his predecessors, he has nothing to lose, with probably just two years in office.He clearly has a deal on a revised Irish trade protocol with the EU on the table, and he has the parliamentary votes to push it through.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The historic Stone of Destiny should not be used in the King's coronation, former first minister Alex Salmond has said.The throne of Elizabeth II sat atop the stone during her coronation in 1953 but it was returned to Scotland more than a quarter of a century ago.

A police officer of 17 years has described having no choice but to dip into his children's university fund to pay his family's soaring bills, as rising anger over wages sparks an exodus from forces across England and Wales.Officers are resigning in record numbers simply because they cannot afford to stay in the service, the Police Federation warned last week, after a decade in which every element of their pay and conditions has been gradually eroded.

The injustices were all too common.In one part of India, a vendor's stall was broken up, depriving him of his livelihood.In another, members of a poor family were denied government benefits, forcing them to beg for survival.They were all Dalits, once deemed untouchable by India's hierarchical caste system.

As night fell in the tiny Himalayan village of Dhangri, a dozen armed men emerged from their homes one after another, their rifles slung over their shoulders, as if they were bound for war.With stealthy movements, they scanned the moonlit surroundings for signs of danger, their figures silhouetted against the horizon.

A small city in northern France is turning to an unlikely source in an effort to reclaim a painting that it lost more than a century ago: Madonna.In 1872, the Louvre lent the painting, Diana and Endymion by Jerome-Martin Langlois, to the Picardy Museum in Amiens, France, where it remained until disappearing at some point by the end of World War I. On Monday, the mayor of Amiens, Brigitte Foure, said in a video that she recently learned Madonna owned a painting that looked just like the missing one.

STONEA, England  It is the immovable object that keeps meeting up with a resistible force: a bridge in eastern England that trucks, campers and vans smash into with startling regularity.Located in Stonea, about 30 miles from Cambridge, the bridge was struck 33 times in one recent 12-month span by drivers misjudging its height.

Europe has had its second-warmest recorded winter, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, with above-average temperatures over eastern Europe and parts of north-eastern Europe.While the unusually mild winter offered some short-term relief amid high gas prices after Russia slashed fuel deliveries to Europe, the high temperatures attributed to man-made climate change pose a risk to wildlife and agriculture.

MELBOURNE, Australia In the middle of the 1960s, before tennis entered the modern era, Rod Laver and the other top tennis players in the world had to barnstorm the globe hunting for paychecks, playing tennis matches everywhere from La Paz to Nairobi, like jazz musicians bouncing from gig to gig.Envious of the riches that the golf stars Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer were accumulating, Laver wrote to their agent, Mark McCormack, the founder of the sports and entertainment conglomerate IMG, and asked for help.

US research agencies NASA and DARPA are teaming up to create a nuclear thermal rocket engine in hopes the tech will one day carry crewed missions to Mars.The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) is expected to prove nuclear thermal propulsion by 2027.DARPA has been working on an experimental spacecraft design for the project since 2021.

Nasa has unveiled plans to test nuclear-powered rockets that would fly astronauts to Mars in ultra-fast time.The agency has partnered with the US government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space as soon as 2027, it announced on Tuesday.

Themes of perspective are on the minds of many this interim week between several major holidays and the New Year.Maybe NASA's newly-published view of the Moon and a distant Earth is offering someone a perspective about humanity's place in the cosmos.Earth's disk disappears behind the Moon, and then emerges on the other side, in the new video from Day 13 (November 28) of the Artemis I Orion capsule's 26-day uncrewed mission.

In retrospect, we should have seen that Natasha Lyonne had a Lt. Columbo waiting to burst out of her all along.Like Peter Falk, she has one of TV's most distinctive presences, with an old-soul rasp and a hipster-next-door bearing that's simultaneously down-to-earth and cosmic.She put that quality to use in Russian Doll, an existential mystery about a woman who is continually reliving her death, set in a contemporary New York City that felt haunted by its past.

LONDON, UK Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed.CEO Sundar Pichai informed staff Friday at the Silicon Valley giant about the cuts in an email that was also posted on the company's news blog.

Kylee Gray, a ranger with the Queensland Department of Environment and Science, holds a giant cane toad on Jan. 12 near Airlie Beach, Australia.The toad weighed 5.95 pounds.Queensland Department of Environment and Science via AP Park rangers in northern Australia found a cane toad so giant that it provoked gasps and disbelief.

As a girl growing up in the late 1970s, Heather Uhlar spent many happy hours riding her pony along the dirt roads in her hometown, Chatham, N.Y., stopping here and there to swim in a creek or amble through rolling pastures flecked with asters and goldenrods.Even then, she understood that Chatham's dirt roads were something wonderful.

As of January 2023, the entirety of the literary canon of Sherlock Holmes has entered the public domain.While the character of Holmes has been in the public domain for quite some time, the remaining stories published in the 1920s were still protected by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, until now.

396139 04: A rally participant displays her demonstration sign while holding her small alarm clock during a nurse's rally in front of Cook County Hospital October 19, 2001 in Chicago.Rally participants set-off numerous alarm clocks as part of a "wake-up call" to urge the hospital industry to address an understaffing crisis.

Perhaps you missed the big news: In 2023, there will be a record-breaking 12 women serving as governors around the nation.Way over the previous record of  nine.And your reaction is: Hey, that's 24 percent  not bad.That's less than a quarter!Are any of them going to run for president?And does that mean we have to discuss Kamala Harris?

According to my mother, my ancestors once ran Pentonbridge Inn, close to the Scottish border.We're talking a century ago at least, because this historic coaching inn is very, very old, which means everyone who knows whether or not my great, great, great grandmother pulled pints here is long gone, including my mother, who held all the keys to family folklore.