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Few things divide opinion in the restaurant world like the tasting menu.Over the past 20 years, this extended format has both accumulated cachet as a signifier of culinary ambition and attracted relentless dyspeptic criticism.In 2012, the New York Times's restaurant critic, Pete Wells, was feeling trapped, helpless in the face of marathon meals.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Soon after a baby is born, it's getting more common these days for the father or non-birthing parent to be encouraged to put the newborn directly on their chest.This skin-to-skin contact is often termed kangaroo care, as it mimics the way kangaroos provide warmth and security to babies.

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time.They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game.As social animals, however, those same scientists do much of their work togetherbrainstorming hypotheses, puzzling over problems and fine-tuning experimental designs.

Last November the spring weather in South America jumped from cold to searing.Usually at that time of year people would have been holding backyard barbecues, or asados, in the lingering evening light.But on December 7 the temperature in northern Argentina, near the borders of Bolivia and Paraguay, hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest places on Earth.

Neonatologist Stephen W. Patrick of Vanderbilt University Medical Center recalls one patient in particular.She was seeking care for an opioid use disorder (OUD) at the treatment facility that he runs in Nashville, Tenn.The patient came in frantic after an exchange at her first prenatal visit.The sonographer who conducted her ultrasound, she recounted, told her in a disdainful tone that she should have a home for the child lined up because drug users never leave the hospital with their babies.

When Ella time traveled in my office for the first time, I did not realize what was happening right away.She was sitting comfortably in a chair, her hands folded, her back straight and her feet flat on the floor.There was no dramatic change, no shuddering or twitching.But then I saw it: a slight shift in how she held her body.

We got down from the car and went inside.I made the line to pay for groceries.He made a party to celebrate his son's birthday.These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans In Miami, however, they've become part of the local parlance.According to my recently published research, these expressions along with a host of others form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida.

Domestic abuse survivors are being forced to return to live with perpetrators, or face homelessness, because they are unable to get a place in a refuge amid ever-growing demand.A report seen by the Observer, to be published on Monday, found that more than a quarter of the women supported last year through a government-funded scheme were subjected to further abuse by the perpetrator while waiting for a refuge space.

When I was a boy, my father was my hero.He could do nothing wrong.What he said was always right, and what he did had no fault.At night, when my father would make his nightly rounds, saying good night to each of his children, I, the only boy of three, was the last to be visited by him and received the most time and attention.

At this time of year, as we mark Father's Day and give thanks to all the fathers in our lives - our own fathers, father figures, spiritual fathers - it may be worth taking a moment to reflect on what exactly being a father calls one to do.Pope Francis spoke of this in 2020 when he said: "Fathers are not born, but made.

The new podcast " You Didn't See Nothin " takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in the Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19.

The entrenched polarization of our political landscape, though not unique in history, is nevertheless ominous and unsettling.Everyone seems to have a different read on the causes.Is the biggest problem Christian versus other?Wealth versus poverty?Republican versus Democrat?Pro-abortion rights versus anti-abortion rights?

I love Chicago.The grace and style of its skyscrapers touching the sky; DuSable Lake Shore Drive "slipping on by" the big lake; the museums; and the open-air access to the world's most beautiful music.There is more, but I have already digressed.Chicago's class and style have been mercilessly truncated by summer's benighted souls who have chosen to snarl the city streets with NASCAR shenanigans.

Matt Zinchuk was worried.In three decades, his mom rarely missed a piano lesson.And yet, on that Monday evening in May, with students waiting at the family's Champaign home, Amy Zinchuk and her husband Michael were nowhere to be found.He called his sister, Elizabeth, in suburban St. Louis."Hey, did mom and dad leave yet?"
Elizabeth started to panic.

SEATTLE - Tim Anderson hasn't been much of a spark in his customary leadoff spot, so Pedro Grifol made a change Saturday, dropping him to second in the lineup and moving Andrew Benintendi to leadoff.The experiment lasted all of three and a half innings, as Anderson left the game after the Mariners batted in the top of the fourth.

How should we grade coaches?Unlike players, their impact is a bit more nebulous.They don't actually step on the court and get buckets, as Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd said after a collapse in the fourth against the Lakers this past season."I'm not the savior here.I'm not playing.I'm watching, just like you guys."

With NBA free agency just a few weeks away and the 2023 NBA Draft in just six days, rumors about what the Los Angeles Lakers will do in the former period are starting to pick up steam as all the moves made in the latter timeframe are beginning to take shape.Here are some of the latest whispers and scuttlebutt from the NBA's information brokers.

Last summer at the Newport Folk Festival, fans of the singer Brandi Carlile were treated to a shocking surprise: a guest appearance by Joni Mitchell, who had been barely seen in public since recovering from an aneurysm in 2015.The joyful performance went old-school viral a cross-generational feel-good sensation.

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Four years ago, Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price was facing questions about the votes he had cast at City Hall - and whether they could financially benefit his spouse.The Times had found that Price had repeatedly voted on matters that affected firms listed as clients of Del Richardson & Associates, the consulting firm owned by his wife.

At the task force meetings over the last two years, non-Black audience members have been rare, but Brown argues that non-Black Californians should be paying attention.According to the 2020 census, Black residents make up less than 6% of the state's population.If the task force's expansive proposals are to become law after they arrive in the Legislature, they will require broad-based support from California residents across racial groups.

One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024.

Image Trump indictment news at Fox News headquarters in New York.Credit...Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images After a big news event, I almost always get asked about whether the latest polls show an earth-shattering shift in public opinion.They almost never do, and the handful of polls since the Trump indictment appear to be no exception.

Years ago, I received a voicemail from the neighborhood cobbler telling me my shoes were ready to pick up.The message was perfunctory, left by the shop owner, a usually grumpy guy who sounded like his usually grumpy self.But instead of ending with OK, bye or have a good day or some other cliche, he signed off with Enjoy your time.

The 50 percent threshold in a poll can sometimes be distracting.When more than half of people give a certain answer, it often becomes the dominant message to emerge from the poll question.It is the answer that appears to have won.Yet the most important information may nonetheless be lurking elsewhere.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 15, 1:43 p.m. Washington June 15, 6:43 a.m.Members of the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade at a mortar position in the area of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, firing on Russian positions in May.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times BRUSSELS Defense ministers of NATO countries are discussing long-term support for Ukraine and new preparations for the alliance's collective defense at a two-day meeting in Brussels starting on Thursday, as Kyiv's allies closely monitor the opening phase of Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces.

Earlier this spring, I took the bus to the Moscone Center, in downtown San Francisco, where almost thirty thousand people had gathered for the annual Game Developers Conference (G.D.C.), which I was attending as a journalist.I had spent the previous few months out on maternity leave, and I was glad to return to work, to have meetings, to temporarily exit the domestic sphere.

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Dodger Stadium has rarely looked more empty.Dodger Stadium has rarely felt more full.An hour before the Dodgers hosted the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, in the strangest of sights, there were no players in the dugout, no players on the field, and barely a couple of hundred fans in the stands.

Sign up for this free live-streamed event, Thursday, June 22, 1 p.m. Eastern.Christian Cooper and Amy Tan came to birding from very different paths.Cooper had found refuge in birding as a child, long before the Central Park incident that brought him to national attention.For Tan, birding was a more recent discovery, prompted by a need for an outlet away from political events.

Further applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in the NHS are on the horizon in a bid to free up doctors' time and provide better support to patients.Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said patients are already benefiting from advancements in technology.In stroke care, AI is already in use in more than four out of five stroke networks, helping clinicians to reduce the time to deliver effective treatment by an hour, tripling the number of stroke patients recovering with no or only slight disability from one in six, to just under half.

Red Sox COMMENTARYThese sorts of weekends are the ones that get the conversation flowing.When Red Sox manager Alex Cora yanked Kiké Hernández from the starting shortstop slot earlier in the week, he offered the sort of disorganized quote befitting a team still trying to prove itself something more than mediocre.

Every cook has at least one hard-to-get ingredient that they know they can find almost anywhere they are, as long as they're persistent.For me, it's the egusi seed.Even after moving from Nigeria to the United States, I've always been able to find these off-white seeds, dried and peeled, harvested from the gourd-like fruit of a climbing vine native to West Africa.

The Full Monty' is Sheffield, and Sheffield is The Full Monty,' said the actor Robert Carlyle in a recent video interview.When the feel-good feature was released in 1997, the film put the former mining town in the north of England and Carlyle, its lead, in the spotlight.Made on a budget of about $3 million, The Full Monty garnered more than $250 million at the global box office; at the time, The New York Times declared the film by far the biggest success at Fox Searchlight Pictures.

President Joe Biden intends to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House confirmed exclusively to CNN, succeeding Dr. Rochelle Walensky in the critical public health role as the agency grapples with challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Unreal Engine, a real-time 3D creation platform developed by Epic Games, designed for video game development, is now transforming the way films and animations are made.To discover how and why Unreal Engine can impact the film industry I met director Tim Richardson, the filmmaker, whose work includes projects for Billie Eilish, Givenchy and Nike.

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Alan Blinder's plans blew up around 10 a.m. last Tuesday.Mr. Blinder, who covers golf for The New York Times, had just settled in at his home office when he received a heads-up from a source with some gobsmacking news: The PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the insurgent league bankrolled by billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, had agreed to a partnership, suspending a bitter and costly struggle for supremacy of men's professional golf.

When he was a lowly stat guy with the Portland Trail Blazers, former NBA executive (and championship-winning high school coach) Ben Falk had an idea borne from his data analysis.He shared it with the coaching staff, and they liked it enough to make it part of the game plan.Then head coach Terry Stotts, turned to Falk and the conversation went something like this:

Stotts: Are you sure about this?

These days, he still wears sneakers to work as an elected member of the House, believing firmly that the rules of modern fashion allow for a suit to pair with a mix of leather and synthetic textiles around the foot.But his famously staid workplace prohibits such sartorial choices in one very important venue: the ornate speaker's lobby off the House floor, where members and the press often meet.

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The Boston Celtics may have fallen short of their championship expectations, but don't expect a major shakeup.ESPN's Brian Windhorst said the Celtics' priority this offseason is re-signing Jaylen Brown to a contract extension and the team has no plans on trading him-even if it means acquiring Bradley Beal.

Affluent cities in San Mateo County are using accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to meet affordable housing targets set by the state, according to a new report by the county's civil grand jury.Effectively, this allows these cities to avoid constructing multifamily low-income affordable housing units, the report says.

After months of intense debate over how to best spend tens of millions of dollars on the city's homelessness crisis, San Jose has decided to move roughly $12.3 million away from affordable housing to support interim solutions millions less than Mayor Matt Mahan sought.The wrangling came to a head Tuesday evening amid heated budget discussions, with Councilmembers Dev Davis and David Cohen leading the charge to help all sides reach a compromise.

In episode "Demon 79" an employee at a department store (Anjana Vasan) is visited by an apprentice demon (Paapa Essiedu).Netflix The Netflix anthology series Black Mirror hasn't presented any new episodes since 2019.But now it's back, with a new season of five fresh episodes from writer-producer Charlie Brooker and company.

The conversation of sustainability is at the forefront of design but there is "still a long way to go" said designer Caroline Till at the Materials of Tomorrow symposium during 3 Days of Design.Researcher and designer Till began her keynote speech at the Materials of Tomorrow symposium, which was hosted by furniture brand IKEA's research lab Space10, by focusing on how human activity has depleted the Earth's resources.

A circular seat made from deadstock bricks and an s-shaped bench are among the creative seating designs that have been installed throughout the Royal Docks as part of this year's London Festival of Architecture.A collaboration between the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and the Royal Docks Team (RDT), the Pews and Perches competition, now in its fourth year, calls upon emerging architects and designers to create playful seating for public spaces within London's industrial Royal Docks district.

Shohei Ohtani is so good for baseball that he is pretty much carrying the Los Angeles Angels to something better than Heaven: The MLB postseason!I am flapping my got dam arms like I'm Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Shohei Ohtani's Los Angeles Angels to win the pennant, baby!Like the guy that clearly inspired Rick Sanchez from Ricky and Morty, we're always watching.

Good morning.We'll meet the Lorax of Brooklyn, who says trees in New York lessen the effects of climate change.Also, early voting for the June 27 primaries begins on Saturday, with ranked-choice voting.Image Credit...Michael Stewart, via the Brooklyn Botanic Garden The Lorax of Brooklyn Adrian Benepe, the president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden led the way to a Dawn Redwood, a 92-foot-tall sequoia.

Intensity might seem like a fast track to connection, but really, shared distraction might be more powerful.About two years ago, one of my psychiatry patients was giving me particular trouble.He had depression, and despite his usual chattiness, I just couldn't find a way to engage him on our Zoom calls.

For more than 20 years, fans of college sports like softball, baseball, women's basketball and more than two dozen others have known just where to find N.C.A.A. championships on ESPN's spectrum of channels.The arrangement has worked well for both parties: The N.C.A.A. ensured that its top athletes would perform on a national stage, and ESPN added hundreds of hours of live programming to a college sports portfolio that is anchored by college football and men's basketball games.

Standing in the back parking lot of Station 4, a sprawling LGBTQ dance club in Dallas, I realize this is the first time I've been here while the sun is still out, despite countless visits starting in my late teens.At 8:45 p.m., tucked behind the club, the parking lot is full but weirdly quiet, though I can still hear the bustling throng of people on the Strip, a section of Cedar Springs Road in the city's Oak Lawn neighborhood that's served as the heart of Dallas's LGBTQ nightlife scene for more than four decades.

The Palm Springs Post, a hyperlocal digital-first news outlet in California, began as a daily email newsletter Mark Talkington would grind out in the evenings, squeezed in on top of his longtime day job as an editor for Microsoft.Since founding the newsletter in 2021, Talkington has made the Post a full-fledged news organization valued by the community - enough so that he was able to hire two additional reporters.

The 2023 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its winners list.The top honors went to "Cypher" for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, "A Strange Path" for Best International Narrative Feature, and "Between the Rains" for Best Documentary Feature.The competition categories include Feature Film, Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Immersive, Games, Human/Nature, and Tribeca X.
"We take great pride in recognizing this year's collection of diverse, trailblazing works and creators," said Cara Cusumano, fest director and vice president of programming, said in a statement.

Ayo Walker Typically, one hears the term "carceral" used in discussions of prisons and jails.One significant aim of the prison abolition movement is to critique and eliminate carceral forms of state punishment that encage, degrade and dehumanize human beings while stripping them of agency.

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.

A high court in Brazil will move forward with Italy's case against former football star Robinho, who was sentenced in Europe to nine years in prison for rape.In a ruling late Wednesday, Brazil's superior court of justice set a date of Aug. 2 to decide whether the Italian government must translate Robinho's full case into Portuguese and then send it to Brazilian authorities for further analysis, as requested by the former player's lawyer.

Andrew Tate is a despicable character.Most grown-ups understand this without much thought.After all, the proudly misogynistic social media influencer was charged with human trafficking and rape in Romania, a nation the U.S. State Department considers " a primary source country for sex trafficking."

Swedish ultrarunner Ida Nilsson has been a household name in ultra-trail running since her tour de force season of 2016, which saw her win the Transvulcania Ultramarathon, the Mont-Blanc Marathon, the Run the Rut 50k, and The North Face 50 Mile Championships - to name but a few.A lifelong athlete, at that point in her career she had already won two NCAA Division I titles in American collegiate athletics, competed in the European Athletics Championships and the World Athletics Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and competed at ski mountaineering.

Lunsford has had his personal battles but is on a mission for Olympia glory.This coming November in Orlando, FL, Derek Lunsford will chase ultimate greatness in the sport of bodybuilding.After finishing at the 2022 Mr. Olympia runner-up, the superstar athlete will plan to unseat defending champion Hadi Choopan from his throne at the 2023 edition of the bodybuilding mega-contest.

Written on a dry-erase board in Jennifer Siebel Newsom's office overlooking the dome of the California Capitol are two phrases: "gender equity" and "support for survivors."As a feminist and documentary filmmaker, Siebel Newsom has been on a mission to tell women's stories and upend the gender imbalance that permeates life in America.

In an ideal setting in which there were unlimited resources, no external threats, no time constraints and a consistent carrying out of the ideal in a system of laws, the nation could sit back and let the trials of the ex-president play out.The spectacle of the arraignment of Donald Trump on Wednesday, which involved hundreds of city, state and federal law enforcement officials, not to mention the commercial and educational disruption projected over the span of a complete trial that could take weeks, begs the question if such a fiscal and emotional expenditure is really worth the effort.

The nonstop, round-the-world Golden Globe Race has become a banner of retro sailing, or sailing like it's 1968.Entrants for the competition, which begins and ends in Les Sable d'Olonne, France, are required to sail small boats alone, using only pre-1960s-era technology no satellite communication, autopilot, cellphones or radar.

HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR on Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world's top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you.Cynthia Carroll was only a few months into leading the global mining firm when she suspended operations in their South African platinum mine.