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Martin Amis, the British literary giant whose work was respected by contemporaries across the creative sphere and who died last month, has been knighted.After publishing his first novel at the age of 24, he went on to write 13 more as well as a memoir, two collections of stories and eight collections of non-fiction works.

Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan said there was a great tenderness to late author Martin Amis who was seen as the Mick Jagger of literature.Author and screenwriter Amis, 73, whose novels Money and London Fields made him one of the most renowned literary figures of his generation, died from cancer of the oesophagus at his home in Florida, his agent Andrew Wylie confirmed last week.

Five institutions from across the UK engaged in vital issues of today have been shortlisted for the 120,000 Museum Of The Year prize.The Natural History Museum in London, The Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) in Belfast and Glasgow's The Burrell Collection are among those competing in the 10th year of the world's largest museum prize.

At Salone del Mobile.Milano during Milan Design Week 2023, four new collections by in collaboration with , Foster + Partners, Marialaura Irvine, and Julie Richoz were showcased.Additionally, two existing collections, ZAMPA by Jasper Morrison and CUGINO by Konstantin Grcic, received updates.Helmed by Salone President Maria Porro, this year's fair featured a brand new layout with an immersive feel across all installations, including conferences, vertical workshops, thematic exhibitions, and bookshops, in addition to the site-specific installations.

CULTURE WAR The Louvre in Paris is hosting some of Ukraine's most treasured works of art that were secretly evacuated from Kyiv to shield them from the war.Their exhibition at the world's best-known museum highlights the role played by culture and heritage as Ukraine resists Russian attempts to deny both its past and present.

The African American Garden at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has inspired a program on June 17, during the weekend before Juneteenth, to highlight the plants and foods of the Caribbean.From 10 a.m. until noon, there will be a conversation between the scholar Jessica B. Harris and the writer Jamaica Kincaid about the edible plants of the Caribbean, followed by a panel discussion about sugar moderated by the food historian Scott Alves Barton.

It was the most personal story that Maggie Tokuda-Hall had ever written: the tale of how her grandparents met and fell in love at an incarceration camp in Idaho that held Japanese Americans during World War II.The book, called Love in the Library, is aimed at six- to nine-year-olds.Published last year by a small children's publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest.

A distinctly feminine Archangel Michael brandishes a flaming sword and attempts, as he has for the past 331 years, to trample the living hell out of a forlorn devil.Close by, an enormous riderless white horse, corralled on to canvas by Diego Velazquez sometime in the 1630s, rears up, as Caravaggio's Salome, swathed in a blood-red cloak, proffers passersby the freshly severed head of John the Baptist.

British studios Gibson Thornley Architects and Purcell have completed the V&A Photography Centre in London, which includes a double-height library and a walk-in camera obscura.Located in South Kensington, the centre is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive Future Plan - a project involving the upgrade of its visitor facilities and galleries while also preserving its original historic structure.

International auction house Sotheby's has announced its acquisition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Marcel Breuer-designed building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan.Sotheby's has announced its acquire the building and turn it into a flagship gallery for the brand in order to display collections of art and luxury goods to the public.

Didn't get a ticket to National Gallery Nights this spring?The National Gallery of Art's popular post-work event wraps up this week, but there are still opportunities to visit more DC museums beyond the typical times.Here are five institutions opening their doors for after-hour events this summer.Phillips After 51600 21st St. NW Once a month, head to the Phillips Collection after 5 PM to partake in artsy activities and drink some beverages.

Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang has designed the Gilder Center in Manhattan to prioritize connectivity, creating a massive cavernous atrium meant to provoke a sense of exploration and discovery.The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Innovation, and Education is a new addition to the American Museum of Natural History off Central Park that unites, visually and functionally, the 26 buildings constructed there since its opening in the late 19th century.

A worker holds a shoe that belonged to a child victim of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.Michal Dyjuk/AP OSWIECIM, Poland In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown shoes worn by children before they were murdered in gas chambers.

Welcome to the world of Find a Grave, where millions of death and cemetery records are waiting to be discovered.Whether you're an amateur genealogist or simply curious about your family history, Find a Grave is the ultimate resource for uncovering fascinating stories of those who have passed on.With its vast collection of burial records and online memorials, this platform offers a unique opportunity to connect with the past like never before.

Markdown has become a standard for many modern content management systems, especially among those targeted for developer use.It's a short, convenient, and easy-to-write content format for HTML generation.Despite the many benefits of using Markdown, it also comes with challenges.Managing and maintaining hundreds or thousands of different Markdown and MDX files can be a daunting task.

Keeping up with the latest programming languages and frameworks is critical in the ever-evolving world of web development.JavaScript is a widely used language for this purpose, and ES14 (ECMAScript 2023) is set to introduce exciting new features and improvements.This article explores the expected updates, including language features and proposed standard library changes, and their implications for web development.

Mongoose 7.1.0was released on April 27, 2023 and includes a couple of interesting new features.The most interesting new feature is BigInt support, which In this blog post, I'll also cover the newcreateCollections() function.Working with BigInts in Mongoose
Mongoose 7.1 introduces a new BigInt SchemaType, so you can define paths as BigInts in your schema.

When working with Python, we often have to deal with data in the form of numbers or words.Sometimes, words and numbers are stored together, and our needs compel us to separate numbers from words.In this article, we'll explain how to define words and numbers in Python.Then, we'll see how to separate numbers from words, in case they're stored together, using different methods and in various situations.

This week we welcome Daniel Alejandro Mesejo-León (@ searchsort) as our PyDev of the Week!Daniel is the creator of the trex package, which is used for efficient keyword extraction using RegEx.You can see what else Daniel is up to by checking out his GitHub profile.Let's spend some time getting to know Daniel better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education, etc):
My name is Daniel Mesejo.

Story time
When I go on vacation with a fellow Python developer, inevitably I will talk about Python.???? Back in September, Andrea and I drove the Cabot Trail with our friends Dusty and Jen, which led to a discussion about the statement and how Dusty and I both wished more people would use the syntax.

Introduction
TextBlob is a package built on top of two other packages, one of them is called Natural Language Toolkit, known mainly in its abbreviated form as NLTK, and the other is Pattern.NLTK is a traditional package used for text processing or Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Pattern is built mainly for web mining.

Introduction
In data-driven fields like data analysis, machine learning, and web development, you often need to transform data from one format to another to fit particular needs.A common requirement is to convert a Python list to a CSV string, which enables the sharing and storage of data in a universally accepted and highly portable format.

In his groundbreaking poem The Song of the Banana Man, the writer Evan Jones, who has died aged 95, conceived a new form for Caribbean poetry that merged the cadence and language of Jamaican patois with that of standard English.Written in 1952, broadcast on the BBC's Caribbean Voices radio programme in 1953 and published in Barbados in Bim magazine in 1954, the poem captured the pride of a Jamaican farmer who works the land during a time when the huge sugar estates owned by foreign concerns were being replaced by locally owned smallholdings, and records the stirrings of an agitating workforce that was heading towards self-determination.

T he Jewish Museum in Camden is to close indefinitely after years of mounting financial losses.Despite being a leading cultural centre in the capital, trustees of the museum said the institution has faced rising costs which has prevented the production of temporary exhibitions.It hopes to use the money raised from selling the Camden site to fund a move to a new, more suitable location.

22 minutes ago22 minutes ago The "Stone of Scone" was used as a seat during British monarchs' coronation ceremonies for centuries.It will return to its permanent location at the Scottish crown jewels following the coronation.An ancient stone with historic Scottish significance has arrived in London, where it is being prepared for the coronation ceremony of King Charles III.

1. The cause of the 1871 vandalism of the Paleozoic Museum in Central Park has remained a mystery for over 150 years.
2. Recent forensic analysis of the vandalism scene showed evidence of a large, non-human animal—likely a bear—which likely caused the destruction.
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1. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Data Archive (NDA) provides a secure platform for data submission and sharing of mental health research data.
2. NDA offers a comprehensive suite of data management and sharing tools, including an open-source data submission and

Image Le Rhodia, a new cafe-restaurant in Paris's Bourdelle Museum, features family-style tables with ceramic bases by the Brittany-based artist Cyril Dennery and handmade rice paper lighting fixtures by the designer Celine Wright.Credit...Marielle Gaudry This spring, the recently renovated Bourdelle Museum in Paris's Montparnasse district opened a luminous new cafe-restaurant, Le Rhodia, named after the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's daughter.

Two new analyses are backing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's forecast that the nation could default on its debt and unleash economic chaos as soon as early June if Congress doesn't act.The projections, which are roughly in line with those issued last week by Yellen and the Congressional Budget Office, add to the pressure on House Republicans and President Joe Biden, who may have only a few weeks to hammer out their vast differences over addressing the debt ceiling.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden likely have a little more time to work out a deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default, thanks to procrastinating taxpayers.The Treasury Department got a surge of tax revenue earlier this week, which should provide it with the cash it needs to pay the federal government's bills for a longer period of time.

If man caves existed in the early 20th century, then American railroad tycoon Henry Huntington had one of the finest.Built in 1911 on his sprawling San Marino estate, Huntington's social retreat - just a short walk through the rose arbor from his mansion - was built in a classical revival-style outbuilding containing a billiard and card room and a two-lane bowling alley.

Samantha Irby has a painting of a pink porcelain toilet in her Zoom background.My assumption is that the small piece of art, sitting above my view of her face, is a nod to Irby's desire for readers to consume her books while taking a shit, as she tells Esquire.It's also an encapsulation of how I feel on this warm April day: sick with a violent stomach infection.

The Stone of Destiny has been returned to Scotland after playing a key role in the coronation of King Charles.The stone, a 152kg slab of pinkish sandstone on which Scottish kings were crowned for centuries, was taken from its home in Edinburgh Castle to Westminster Abbey under tight security.Once there it was installed in the Coronation Chair for the historic service earlier this month, in which Charles was crowned the nation's monarch.

Introduction
One of the key aspects of Python is its ability to handle and manipulate different data structures efficiently.Among these data structures, tuples and dictionaries stand out as widely used and flexible options.Tuples are immutable, ordered collections of elements, enclosed in parentheses.

Bestselling Australian author Mem Fox has become the latest victim of ultra-conservative Florida governor Ron DeSantis, with the writer's 1988 children's book Guess What? being banned in the Jacksonville county of Duval.The book, about a witch called Daisy O'Grady, appears to have fallen foul of Florida's parental rights in education bill, widely referred to as the don't say gay law, championed by DeSantis, the Republican widely considered to be Donald Trump's closest rival for the 2024 presidential race.

There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen.Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years.I have always loved the work of Ian Cheng who makes computer-generated simulations that evolve using artificial intelligence.

As of April 28, 2023, the number of Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain has exceeded 2 million, according to current statistics.This milestone has been reached within just over four months since the first Ordinal inscription was minted on December 16, 2022, at block height 767,753.In total, inscription minting fees have amounted to 196.22 bitcoin, equivalent to $5.78 million.

Web3 education platform Curious Addys and non-fungible token ( NFT) educator Zeneca are teaming up to roll out HeyMint, a beginner NFT platform meant to help creators build out their first collection.With a goal of easing the minting process for creators and onboarding new entrants to Web3, HeyMint aims to be an accessible, equitable and low-cost creative tool.

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The crowds were sparse and muted, the atmosphere less than festive, the players household names in very few households in the San Francisco Bay Area.The home team was down 5-0 in the first inning on Monday, 8-0 in the third inning on Wednesday.Oakland?Nope.With the Oakland Athletics declaring their intent to move to Las Vegas, this could be a moment for the entire Bay Area to embrace the San Francisco Giants.

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana agency confirmed Tuesday that the state's gasoline tax will go up by one cent this summer under an annual increase that Republican legislators voted recently to extend by three years.The inflation-related increase for the fuel tax the goes toward infrastructure projects currently rings in at 33 cents a gallon.

A Cook County initiative to address the effects of medical debt has so far erased more than $25 million in past-due bills and is expected to wipe out about $55 million more in the coming weeks for 73,000 county residents total, officials told the Tribune.The first round of debt-buying has spent down just $800,000 of the county's allotted $12 million for the federal funded program.

Bentley has collaborated with designer Frederico Peri and Italian company Paper Factor to produce a marble-like table that is actually made from paper and was unveiled during Milan design week.The Thames table is a coffee table with a smooth, veined material forming its tabletop and legs that looks, at first glance, like marble.

Sales of coronation memorabilia have attracted unprecedented demand as consumers seek a lasting memento of the occasion.Luxury ceramics maker Halcyon Days said it expected sales of more than 1 million of its collections created to mark the occasion and had increased its workforce by 20% since January to create an additional 150,000 products.

Boston condo buyers: 10 credit score mistakes
Boston condo buyers: 10 credit score mistakes
Thinking of buying a Boston condo for sale?Here are some tips you should adhere to:
1. Don't Apply for New Credit of Any Kind
"You have been pre-approved" credit card invitations that you receive in the mail.

Away launched in 2015 and has been at the top of the luggage game ever since.Still today, the brand remains one of the most popular options thanks to their modern, minimalist design, supreme functionality, and major durability.They're lightweight and dependable, and this comes from someone (me) who owns two and has carried them around the world.

Recent pins on our packaging design board are some of the most popular on Dezeen's Pinterest.We round up the seven most colourful and playful projects.Advances in technology and the rising popularity of social media have increased the need for brightly coloured and distinctive packaging designs to attract customers.

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps.Subscribe here.Nappy.co hosts free images that have been downloaded a million times.Read why the founders launched it and see the new BlackxTech collection.Black Illustrations has themed collections, e.g startups and digital marketing.

Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature.An exhibition at Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, commemorates the 30th anniversary of her win.Morrison is pictured above in Paris in November 2010.Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images Walking into Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory, a new exhibition curated from the late author's archives at Princeton University, is an emotional experience for anyone who loves literature.

COMEDY
The silliness continues!This edition of Butter, a recurring comedy show that churns out open-minded laughs at Funhouse Lounge, features funny fiends David Kildal, Anthony Robinson, Nate Hart, Bernice Ye, and Drew Grizzly.Brett "Breadstick" Sisun will turn up for some groovy tunes, too.

cc-tapis, Italian producer of contemporary handmade artisan rugs, continues to collaborate with some of the best talents in design.During Milan Design Week 2023, several groundbreaking techniques and design approaches were introduced that further expand possibilities within the industry.New collaborations with Formafantasma and Objects of Common Interest, alongside 2023 collections by Patricia Urquiola and Bethan Laura Wood made their debut.

This summer tens of thousands of wheelie bins will be rolled out across Milton Keynes.The city's rubbish and recycling is currently collected in plastic sacks but a new waste contract will see most homes using four bins.Non-recyclable rubbish will continue to be taken away weekly and it is hoped the area's recycling rate will increase.

The Stone of Destiny is returning to England for the first time in more than a quarter of a century, where it will play a key role in the coronation, amid tight security.At Edinburgh Castle on Thursday a special ceremony was held to mark the legendary stone which has become a symbol of Scottish nationhood but for 700 years was housed in Westminster Abbey starting its journey south.