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Two years ago, when a democratic socialist narrowly won a crowded Democratic primary for a City Council seat in Harlem, some saw it as a sign that the historically Black neighborhood was becoming more politically progressive.But roughly a month before this year's primary on June 27, the first-term councilwoman, Kristin Richardson Jordan, unexpectedly dropped out of the race.

In the overheated basement of the Thunder Bay Grille in Davenport, Iowa, on Thursday night, Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur turned Republican presidential candidate, tried out a new opening for his well-practiced stump speech.Although it would be easier for someone like me to win this primary or win this election if certain people like Donald Trump were not in the race, that's not how I want to win, the biotech millionaire told the Scott County Republican faithful who packed the room on the outskirts of this Mississippi River city.

This vegan Thin Mint cookie recipe is easy to make with 8 ingredients, gluten-free and tastes just like the original!Introduction
These vegan Thin Mints are so good it's hard to believe you can make them at home with just a handful of simple ingredients.They feature a crisp chocolate cookie coated in minty chocolate, just like the original.

Vegan aquafaba chocolate mousse that's easy to make with 5 simple ingredients.What is aquafaba?Aquafaba is the liquid that remains after cooking or canning chickpeas or other legumes.It is a viscous, water-like substance that has a texture similar to egg whites.The proteins and starches in aquafaba give it thickening and binding properties, making it a versatile ingredient for egg-free baking and cooking.

Raspberries are a top-drawer summer fruit that are at their best (and cheapest) between June and October.Part of the rose family, they have a fragrant, bittersweet flavour and soft texture, with the crunch of the pips right at the end.(My very clever ice-cream-making friend Kitty Travers even makes a delicious, refreshing summer drink from the pips that she sieves out of her raspberry creations.)

Three years after defund the police became a rallying cry that emerged in the fury over the police killing of George Floyd, efforts to do away with conventional policing have largely fizzled in Minneapolis and beyond.The movement faltered in Minneapolis after activists failed to build broad support for a goal that lacked a clear definition and an alternative that residents could agree on.

When Ember Reichgott Junge, a Democratic state senator from Minnesota, sponsored the country's first charter school law in 1991, she envisioned a new kind of public school.Parents, she said, were clamoring for more school choice, not unlike today.Republicans tended to be for school vouchers, which help families pay for private school, including religious education.

The Republican presidential field is growing almost by the day, but no candidate has yet offered an effective answer to GOP primary voters on the race's most compelling question why they should ditch Donald Trump.Former Vice President Mike Pence became the latest candidate to signal a campaign on Monday by filing papers ahead of an official announcement and a CNN town hall on Wednesday.

"The renewed pattern of Judge Albright retaining cases transferred to Austin may indicate that Judge Albright will be taking a more active role in the Austin Division going forward, in light of newly created need."In what may foreshadow upcoming changes to case allocations in the Western District of Texas, Judge Alan Albright of the Waco Division appears to have revived his former practice of retaining cases transferred from the Waco Division to the Austin Division following granted Section 1404 motions (i.e., convenience transfers).

"The renewed pattern of Judge Albright retaining cases transferred to Austin may indicate that Judge Albright will be taking a more active role in the Austin Division going forward, in light of newly created need."In what may foreshadow upcoming changes to case allocations in the Western District of Texas, Judge Alan Albright of the Waco Division appears to have revived his former practice of retaining cases transferred from the Waco Division to the Austin Division following granted Section 1404 motions (i.e., convenience transfers).

"The refusal under Section 1052(c) to register marks, like respondent's, that criticize a government official or public figure does not 'limit[]' political speech.....After all, a trademark gives its owner the right to 'prevent[] others from using the mark.'And registration serves only to bolster those 'rights of exclusion'." - Vidal petition
The U.S. Supreme Court today granted a petition brought by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Katherine Vidal that asks, "whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism of a government official or public figure."

Patriots "I think he's a tremendous talent."The Patriots' offensive line was porous for extended stretches during the 2022 season, due in large part to lackluster play at the tackle position.If New England plans on righting the ship in a key area of its offense, it needs a rebound season from returning starter Trent Brown.

When it comes to generative artificial intelligence, should your organization opt for public or proprietary AI? First, you need to consider the main differences between these options.Public AI can have a wide knowledge base and fulfill a lot of tasks.However, public AI may feed that data back into a model's training data, which can cause security vulnerabilities to emerge.

This article is part of a VB special issue.Read the full series here: Building the foundation for customer data quality.From Netflix to Amazon, almost every company today is racing to grow its business through personalization.They are using data; they are pushing out ads, recommendations and messages; and they are expecting customers to interact with those communications for increased sales and long-term relationships.

Microsoft announced the public preview availability of Datamarts in May 2022.When authoring this chapter, Datamarts are still in preview, so using them in production environments is not recommended.The Datamarts capability opens endless possibilities for organizations to achieve their data analytics goals on the Power BI platform.

Toni Dezomits' advanced ovarian cancer responded well to earlier rounds of chemo, but this spring, her doctors told her there was a shortage of a key chemo drug.Toni Dezomits Toni Dezomits is used to facing death.She served in the Gulf War and later as a police officer, becoming a police chief in North Carolina before retiring.

Boris Johnson has lashed out at MPs investigating his claims about the Partygate scandal in a desperate attempt to salvage his reputation after he was accused of repeated contempts of parliament.The long-awaited report arrived on Thursday in explosive fashion, with the privileges committee recommending the ex-PMs behaviour warranted an extraordinary 90-day ban from parliament and the removal of his former member's pass.

Retired hospital consultants are to be drafted in to help the NHS clear the backlog of care, health leaders have announced.Newly retired specialists will be able to offer virtual consultations from anywhere in England to help hospitals across the country clear the record 7.4 million people on the NHS waiting list.

On a recent flight to Chicago, Allison Levy said she was white-knuckling the armrest as the plane rumbled and shook for brief periods of time.Ms. Levy, 47, who lives in Arlington, Va., started to take deep breaths and tried to reassure herself: It's like a bumpy road it's not a big deal.But, she added, if I knew the person next to me, I'd definitely grip their thigh.

Affirmative Action: Help or Hindrance?A New' Beatles Song Image Donald Trump boarding a plane in Miami after making his court appearance.I did everything right and they indicted me, he said in a speech after his arraignment.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times To the Editor: Re Trump Thrives in a Broken System.

Prince Harry arrives at the High Court in London on Tuesday to testify against a tabloid publisher he accuses of phone hacking and other unlawful snooping.Kin Cheung/AP LONDON "How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness?"Those were some of the first words in Prince Harry's witness statement Tuesday at the High Court in London, where he's been giving evidence against the publisher of the British tabloid, The Daily Mirror.

Thailand's Election Commission has announced that it will investigate Pita Limjaroenrat, the front-runner in the May general election, to determine whether he violated election rules that would disqualify him from becoming the country's next prime minister.The investigation, announced last week, is centered on Mr. Pita's shares of iTV, a company that used to be a news broadcaster but is now focused on advertising.

More than 100 people died, including many who were returning from a wedding ceremony, after a river boat transporting them capsized in the early hours of Monday in Nigeria, according to residents and the local police.The boat was sailing on the Niger River in the western state of Kwara, according to a police spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi, who said that more than 100 people had been rescued and that the search was ongoing.

The UK has no alternative but to raise interest rates in an effort to bring down inflation, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned.Households are braced for a further increase in rates which already sit at a 14-year-high of 4.5% from the Bank of England next week.Mr Hunt said the Government will be unstinting in supporting the central bank in its efforts to grapple rampant inflation and attempt to bring it back towards a target of 2%.

Thank you so much to journalist Christy Gutowski for the absolutely wonderful in-depth story she did on Joseph Kromelis ( "Remembering 'The Walking Man,'" June 11).She had me in tears well before I reached the end of her story.What a thorough and beautiful tribute to a quiet and kind man whom many of us tried to watch over for years.

"Ask Anna" is a sex column.Because of the nature of the topic, some columns contain language some readers may find graphic.Dear Anna, I'm a 24-year-old, fit, gym-loving woman who's been dating a caring and generous 26-year-old guy for a few months.He always makes or buys me food and encourages me to eat whatever I want when we go out.

There is a disease that is raising out-of-pocket health care costs for patients.Medical schools aren't teaching about this disease, and there are no medical specialists trained to treat it.It is a fiscal disease - facility fees - and it is spreading to health care facilities across the nation.Facility fees are charged by hospitals and clinics where you may receive care but that are not owned by the health care provider.

A hotel getaway should be a time to escape the stresses of everyday life but for Nicole Bent, life in a hotel has become her everyday.It's been demoralising, to be honest.That's the word I would use to describe this whole experience, she said of her ongoing three-month stay in a north London Travelodge.

Imagine something that's like a Kindle, with an A5-sized screen.But as well as allowing you to read books, it can do all the things any Android tablet can do, such as letting you surf the web, use apps and play music.And you can even team it with a keyboard (sold separately), to turn it into a hybrid laptop.

Albania is a safe country and people who flee from there to seek sanctuary in the UK should not routinely be granted asylum, according to a report published on Monday from a cross-party group of MPs.The report from the home affairs select committee found little evidence to indicate significant numbers of Albanian nationals were at risk in their own country but accepted that some Albanians making asylum claims, mainly women, had been trafficked.

The map() operator is one of the fundamental operators in RxJS.It allows you to transform the data emitted by an Observable into a new format.With map(), you can perform operations such as modifying values, extracting specific properties, or even returning a completely new object.Here's an example:
2. filter() operator: The filter() operator allows you to selectively filter the values emitted by an Observable based on a given condition.

With just over two weeks to go before election day, the top candidates to become Toronto's next mayor see one obstacle in their way: Olivia Chow.The race front-runner appears to have a significant lead, if the polls are to be believed (more on that here).She has a pile of lawn signs up around the city and her voice is on the radio and TV.

Businesses owners and a councillor in Oshawa are calling on the city to pump the brakes on an electric scooter pilot project, citing concerns over safety and a lack of proper infrastructure.In April, the City of Oshawa chose e-scooter companies Bird Canada and Neuron Mobility to deliver a two year ride-sharing pilot program at no cost to the city, after opting into the Ministry of Transportation's program that permits e-scooters on roads.

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On her new album, 'The Age of Pleasure,' Janelle Monáe concocts a vision of sensuality that is open to complication but goes down easy.(Mason Rose/Courtesy of the artist)



In the already uncomfortably hot summer of 2023, talk of pleasure can hit like a forbidden tonic, providing relief from a steady diet of grief, outrage and anxiety.

A greatest-hits soundtrack produced by self-criticism would sound something like this: You should have done better on that project.Why isn't the house cleaner?You tanked the whole soccer game!You're a bad parent, an even worse colleague, and a sorry excuse for a friend.And you're wasting so much time right now that you'll be lateagain.

As a butcher, the Meat Hook's Brent Young has made, by his own estimate, "many, many, many, many burgers."At his Brooklyn restaurant Cozy Royale, that burger is dry-aged and topped with raclette and bacon jam, or - as part of a recent collaboration series - reinterpreted all sorts of ways by guest chefs (see this recent al pastor burger).

The Canadian government and social enterprise Challenge Works have announced the winners of their Afri-Plastics Challenge - an accelerator for companies across sub-Saharan Africa that are working to end plastic pollution.The competition's £4.1 million prize fund was divided among nine winning projects, including a reusable diaper subscription from Rwanda and a Kenyan company making washing-up brushes from discarded coconut fibres.

The Dezeen team are reporting from the 10th edition of 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen (7-9 June).Read on for all the coverage from the second day (Thursday 8 June).6:00pm A 30-metre dinner table awaits 80 guests in this collaboration between architecture and design studio Spacon & X and 3 Days of Design.

Designers love the term sustainability as it is their go-to when they can't think of another way to sell their designs!! (I'm sure every designer would relate)
On a more serious note, they strive to construct a future along those lines because everyone is now aware of its importance and it is no longer a buzzword.

Danish furniture company Takt has launched Spoke Sofa, a sofa that can be fully disassembled and have its parts replaced and recycled, in Copenhagen for 3 Days of Design.Spoke Sofa, which is the brand's first sofa, was developed in collaboration with Norwegian studio Anderssen & Voll.Rooted in circular principles, it aims to provide an alternative to conventional sofas, which are "notoriously wasteful," according to the brand.

MIAMI GARDENS - Miami Dolphins minicamp is over and training camp starts in six weeks or so.Players and coaches left a vapor trail as they exited the field Thursday and headed off to their summer vacations.But in the smoke we find some final thoughts from the three days of on-field work:
- Overall, it was a highly productive offseason for the Dolphins, starting with acquiring defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and cornerback Jalen Ramsey, and continuing through minicamp.

Last night, MLB postponed the White Sox- Yankees game because of the horrific air quality due to the Canadian wildfires.However, today improved enough to play and squeeze in a straight doubleheader.The alternative was probably to make up these games in August when the Yankees come to Chicago, but I'll take this Aaron Judge-free option instead.

Since 2008, Mixtape has offered an alternative to the usual LGBTQ dance parties with a night where pop music meets electro, alternative rock, house, '80s hits and '90s remixes.While Mixtape officially went on hiatus in 2018, it still returns to 9:30 Club each year for a raging Pride party.Co-founder Matt Bailer is joined by locals Khelan Bhatia, Diyanna Monet and Pwrpuff.

Man United have eyes on young Atalanta striker, Rasmus Hojlund.It's arguable that a new striker is Manchester United's biggest need going into the transfer window.The Red Devils have been competing without a top tier forward all season long, though still managed to finish third.Harry Kane would be the dream signing.

Introduction
A dictionary in Python is an essential and robust built-in data structure that allows efficient retrieval of data by establishing a relationship between keys and values.It is an unordered collection of key-value pairs, where the values are stored under a specific key rather than in a particular order.

Columbia University announced on Tuesday that its undergraduate schools would no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the first major university to refuse to supply information to the influential undergraduate guide for students and parents.Columbia said it had become concerned about the outsized influence the rankings played in the undergraduate admissions process.

A prominent figure in the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been charged over his alleged use in a 2021 speech of a slogan used by the Nazis' SA stormtroopers, German prosecutors said Monday.Prosecutors in the eastern city of Halle said that Bjorn Hocke was charged with public use of a symbol of an unconstitutional organization.

Prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll that shows support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high.The DeutschlandTrend survey, conducted monthly by infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD, that was released on Thursday puts voter support for Alternative for Germany at 18%, on a par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats.

In Part 1 of the series, Kirill covered how to make regular JavaScript objects behave like primitive values.Now, let's look closely at the usefulness of primitive objects, exploring how reducing capabilities could be a benefit for your project.Writing programs in JavaScript is approachable at the beginning.

The Los Angeles Kings went through a rebuild that essentially started in the 2018-19 season.They accumulated a lot of prospects and draft picks when they did this, which is the goal of any rebuild.They've added some young players to the lineup throughout the rebuilding years.Now the team is back to trying to contend every season, but they still have prospects that fans can get excited about when they reach the NHL level.

The towns of Innsbruck and Stubai in Austria's Tyrol region will hold the combined 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships just eight months after the first-ever combined Trail World Championships and World Mountain Running Championships were held in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Kicking off with opening ceremonies the night of Tuesday, June 6, the Tyrolean Alps will host championships races from June 7 though June 10 under the combined auspices of World Athletics, the World Mountain Running Association, the International Trail Running Association (ITRA), and the International Association of Ultrarunners.

Google Wallet on Android is finally getting ready for your digital driver's license and other US state IDs.Google says the feature is rolling out this month, and it will slowly start bringing states online this year.Of course, your state has to be one of the few that actually supports digital IDs.Google says Maryland residents can use the feature right now and that "in the coming months, residents of Arizona, Colorado and Georgia will join them."

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up No Alternative here.Third-party cookies are not the future of digital advertising in the EU (or anywhere for that matter).But it looks like alternative IDs may not be either.European publishers are pushing back against alternative IDs that use publisher data to build third-party audiences, saying these solutions perpetuate digital advertising's worst practices, Digiday reports.