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This post originally appeared in the May 27, 2023, edition of Eater Travel, a biweekly dispatch from Eater's staff about navigating places where food is the main attraction.Subscribe now.I had an embarrassment of delicious meals on a recent visit to New Orleans.Think crispy salt and pepper shrimp from Tan Dinh, savory curried goat from Compere Lapin, salty yak-a-mein from Ms. Linda's famous roaming stand, fried pork from Haitian standout Fritai, and a schnitzel-esque rabbit from La Petite Grocery.

Microsoft's purchase of Xandr from AT&T in late 2021 might have looked like an embrace of third-party ad tech.But while parts of the Xandr tech are considered valuable by Microsoft, the future of Xandr as an SSP integrated with thousands of outside publishers is in doubt.Since completing the acquisition in June of last year, Microsoft Advertising has shifted its focus to first-party products and integrations to win and secure key accounts, such as Netflix, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of recent changes within the group.

The MTA released the results of a survey Tuesday that indicate that subway and bus riders are becoming more satisfied with service.The authority released the results of its Fall 2022 Bi Annual Customer Satisfactory Survey that found that 54 % of subway riders were satisfied with overall service, up 6 percentage points from the Spring 2022 survey.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Unemployment in the UK has not changed despite a fall in job vacancies and a rise in redundancies, new figures have revealed.The Office for National Statistics said Britain's unemployment rate held at 3.7 per cent in the three months to January, remaining the same as the previous three months.

A woman talks to a doctor at a Planned Parenthood clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022.Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images
This story was originally published by The 19th.New data from Florida shows just how much influence individual judges - almost all White men - wield in determining if minors can access abortions in the state.

This week, EFF asked Utah's Governor Cox to veto a dangerous "social media regulations" bill, (McKell).Utah's bill is part of a wave of age verification laws that would make users less secure, and make internet access less private overall.EFF opposes laws that mandate age verification requirements, and Utah's S.B. 152 would be one of the worst we've seen.

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 Teaching unions have hit out at contemptible comments by Sir Gavin Williamson, after leaked messages showed the then education secretary appearing to accuse staff of looking for an excuse not to work during the Covid pandemic.

The sale and repair of jewelry and watches alone is no longer a lucrative enterprise for many Mission District jewelers, but a new lifeline has emerged for some: Providing financial services like check cashing for those without bank accounts.Check cashing and boosting customer credit have saved two of the neighborhood's jewelers in recent years.

Wilfredo Lee/AP It's been a bumpy ride for mortgage companies lately.Some lenders have gone out of business, merged with other companies or narrowed their focus.And more changes are likely in 2023.What does all this mean for borrowers?Here are answers to common questions, whether you're shopping for a mortgage or paying off a home loan.

As investors look for signs of cooling inflation, there is one discretionary purchase that is firmly in deflation: pets.Prices of our furry friends have slumped over the past year as demand has fallen with people returning to offices and rising costs pinching wallets.The pandemic pet boom is well and truly over.

The NHS waiting list in England for hospital treatment has just broken its own record, rising to 7.3 million.Just before the data dropped, the Tories issued yet another murmured apology for missing an NHS waiting time target.A promise to treat all those who had been waiting 18 months for an operation by April had not been met with about 10,000 in that category still in line, the health secretary, Steve Barclay, admitted.

More people will be able to access health services without needing to see a GP under a plan launched by officials in England.It asks patients to use high street pharmacies for some common drug prescriptions and routine tests to ease the pressure on busy doctors.NHS England says its plan will free up 15m GP appointments over the next two years - around 2% of the total.

Burnout and stress among doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health staff has cost the NHS in England more than 15m lost working days since March 2020, about 50% more than the days lost to Covid infections and self-isolation, analysis of official figures by the Observer reveals.NHS sickness figures show that between March 2020, the month of the first Covid lockdown, and last September, 15.4m working days have been lost in the NHS because of stress-related absences, compared with 9.8m days lost from staff who were required to self-isolate or were ill with Covid.

The pressure on emergency care is greater than ever in England, latest figures show, amid fears of a spike in demand after the ambulance strike.A quarter of ambulances, more than 16,000, were delayed for more than an hour outside A&Es - even before Wednesday's action by ambulance crews.NHS bosses are warning of many more new patients ahead of Christmas.

Antidepressants commonly used to treat chronic pain lack evidence as to whether or not they work, researchers have said, declaring the situation a global public health concern.Chronic pain, typically defined as pain lasting three months or more, is a widespread problem affecting up to one in three people, with conditions ranging from osteoarthritis to fibromyalgia.

Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Stress, But Less newsletter.Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it.Christmas time is here.Happiness and cheer.Fun for all  well, nearly all.Some introverts might consider these next few weeks their least favorite time of year.

Have you ever felt judged or embarrassed when your dog misbehaved in front of other people?I have, and this research by Brock University researcher Renata Roma made me feel a little bit less alone.As part of her paper, My 'Perfect' Dog: Undesired Dog Behaviours and Owners' Coping Styles, she interviewed dog owners from the ages of 17 to 25 to study how the relationship between dogs and their owners affected the human's behaviour, well-being and quality of life.

Another round of TTC service cuts is in store beginning Sunday that will result in longer wait times for riders on Line 1, at least one streetcar route and some bus routes.Wait times will increase on Line 1 every day of the week.There is no change to scheduled service on Line 2, 3 or 4. "The TTC's strategy is matching service to demand to ensure we are meeting the needs of our customers we remain focused on delivering more frequent service to the areas across the city that need it most," the agency said in an email on Friday.

The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute.When I advise that a webpage - like a service detail page - have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I'm really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds.To put that in perspective, a 1,500 word article - the type of thing we've historically written with SEO in mind - could take ~6-10 minutes to read.

The coronation of King Charles III was billed as a chance to usher in a new kind of monarchy slimmer, more accessible and more inclusive for the 21st century.Though Saturday's ceremony had its share of modern flourishes, it was hard to escape the sense that they were mostly tweaks to an ancient ritual which, like the monarchy itself, can't escape the heavy burdens of the past.

With the banking crisis spurring more talk of a recession, the question now is: What would housing credit look like in a recession?Many people predicted that the U.S. housing market would crash during the pandemic.One of the main reasons for that fear was that housing credit was about to get tight, meaning fewer people could buy homes with mortgages.

The 12 weeks of positive purchase application data are now in the system, and people who applied for a loan are looking and buying.How does the sharp increase in rates directly impact those homebuyers?Some who recently applied for a mortgage were looking to buy as rates fell, but now they may hold off purchasing until rates cool off again.

AUSTIN, Texas  Austin renters could soon see relief in monthly rates, according to a recent study by Apartment List, a research firm that studies rent prices across the U.S. Overall, rent in Austin is still up about 24.7% since the start of the pandemic.But in November, prices went down by about 1.2%, compared to a 1% decrease nationally.

A scheme to help the long-term unemployed back into work after the Covid-19 pandemic overestimated how many claimants might be suitable for assistance by almost half, MPs have found.The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had expected its work coaches to find 82% of system-suggested claimants to be suitable for the tailored Restart scheme.

Let's be clear: A center-running lane for bikes is worse than nothing



A 2017 protest for safety on Valencia between 16th and 17th.SFMTA wants to betray the years of protest and public support with its center running crap.Photo by Brandon Splane
Note: If you've been sold on the center-running-bike-lane plan on Valencia as "better than nothing," be sure to watch this video (also embedded farther down in this post) starting at 5:33 about the worst bike lane in Barcelona.

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Tabnine today announced it extended its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables developers to write code faster to now include the ability to automatically generate tests for that code.Available in beta, this capability promises to make it easier for developers to test code at the time it is being developed.

With the meteoric rise in remote working in the past few years, it may be no surprise that new research has shown that we're having more remote meetings than ever before.The study, from the Harvard Business Review, shows that remote meetings are now more frequent, as well as shorter.They're also, as it  turns out, essential.

62, 65, 67, 70.All these ages are important when it comes to Social Security and Medicare.And these ages are also targets in the contentious debate over how to shore up the shaky finances of the massive entitlement programs.Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently zeroed in on raising the retirement age for Americans in their 20s as a way to reform Social Security, saying it should match their life expectancy.

AUSTIN, Texas On Wednesday, the Austin City Council fired City Manager Spencer Cronk and introduced former city manager Jesus Garza as the interim city manger.Garza and Austin Mayor Kirk Watson have a long-standing relationship.Garza was the city manager from 1994 until 2002 while Watson was the mayor from 1997 to 2001.

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Friday, January 6, 2023 by Nathan Bernier, KUT
Lee esta historia en español.The Texas Department of Transportation has released the most detailed description yet of plans to widen Interstate 35 through the core of Austin, explaining how the agency believes its multibillion-dollar highway expansion could affect everything from parks to pollution.

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email A fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests in France Thursday tested the government's resolve on a controversial pension reform, the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron's second term.

The French capital is, by quite some way, France's largest and most densely populated city.It's also a symbol of a heavily centralised country as government, media and industries including entertainment are concentrated there, leaving people from the provinces little choice but to move to the capital if they want a career in certain sectors.

For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America's highways.You'd drive by Howard Johnson's with its orange roofs and then pass Pizza Hut's red-topped huts.A few more miles and there was the roadside White Castle with its turrets.Arby's roof was shaped like a wagon and Denny's resembled a boomerang.

An empty baby cart in a maternity hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine.Claire Harbage/NPR KYIV, Ukraine They never wanted children.Yuliia Oleksienko says she and her husband Oleksandr made that decision long before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022."We talked about it many times," says 31-year-old Oleksienko, "and we always saw ourselves as being child-free in our future."

A pop-up foodbank project led by a charity is set to save thousands of kilograms of food from being thrown away in order to feed in need families in London.The charity in question, The Felix Project, estimates up to 120 tonnes of food will be saved and given to families across the capital throughout the festive period and into the New Year.

Fifty-seven percent of the school administrators surveyed by VBE stated that at least one of the available positions at their school was currently vacant.Of the schools affected, a quarter said that six to ten percent of the positions were not filled.At a fifth of the schools, more than 15 percent of all positions were vacant.

People wait in line for COVID-19 tests at the Curative testing site at the Berkeley Adult School on Dec. 21, 2021.Credit: Nico Savidge Credit: Nico Savidge Berkeley is closing its COVID-19 testing sites in February as California's State of Emergency is set to expire by the end of the month.The testing site at Harold Way closed Feb. 1 and the city's second site at San Pablo Park will close Feb.

What's happening?The Swiss Parliament says that from January 1st 2023, the costs of Covid-19 tests will no longer be paid for by the government.It means that anyone who wants a Covid test will have to pay for it themselves.However, Covid-19 tests ordered by a doctor will be met by health insurance costs provided the test is required to determine any further medical action, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) said in a statement.

The number of applicants to university or college courses this year has fallen, with fewer people signing up to study nursing, Ucas figures show.A total of 596,590 people had applied to undergraduate courses at UK institutions by the January deadline down 2.3% on the same point last year, according to data by the university admissions service.

What you need to give up in 2023
This morning I published a long-gestating piece about four things I really needed to get off my chest.Or, more accurately, the four things I think publishers and journalists need to realign their thinking about, but that's not as attractive a headline, is it?The things I think you need to change your approach to are:
Yes, I expect some of those will be controversial.

Last week's edition of Hot Pod contained a statistic so stunning I had to read it twice:

One thing I keep hearing over and over is that it is so much harder to launch a podcast now than it was, say, three or four years ago.And that is usually coming from people at established studios with at least some marketing might.

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee As the dust continues to settle this week over NBC News President Noah Oppenheim stepping down, one trend has become increasingly clear: disruptions in the media business have diminished the role of news president.CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy quoted a former television news executive on the topic, who told him that the incredible shrinking news president now dominates the industry.

Well, hello Leafs fans.Today is a strange day for us at PPP.It's a gameday, the Leafs are playing the Habs, and you know what we'd like to be talking about, but the news yesterday overshadows that for us.If you missed the FTB yesterday, we learned that, after Vox Media laid off many workers, they had taken the decision to stop paying for most of the NHL sites on the SBNation network.

Nearly three in five Britons think the Government is more to blame for the ongoing pay row with nurses lasting so long, a new poll suggests.Some 57% of people said the UK Government is more at fault for the length of the industrial dispute with nurses, compared to just 9% who said nurses are more at fault.

The government's draft Mental Health Bill must be strengthened to address unacceptable racial inequalities, a group of cross-party politicians has said.A joint committee charged with scrutinising the draft legislation will publish a detailed report on Thursday following extensive hearings to determine how effective it will be.

A: Most sellers would prefer to have their home, garden and neighborhood shown on a clear sunny day.However, unless it is a torrential downpour do not cancel the open house.A little rain will not stop determined and well-qualified ready to go buyers from attending.You may have fewer people, but they will be serious.

This year will bring the Seaport condo market back to earth, one without the runaway prices and jaw-dropping bidding wars, yet still difficult for anyone but the region's wealthiest Boston condo buyers to afford.Economists say home prices are likely to fall or flatten in downtown Boston and across the country.

Far fewer people have their hearing checked than eyes, teeth and blood pressure, new research has found.Research by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) found only 6% of people in the UK, who have not been diagnosed with hearing loss, took a hearing check in 2022.This is in stark contrast to people having other health updates including 53% who got a dental check-up, 46% who had an eye test or 44% who had their blood pressure checked.

More than 700,000 people in England and Wales lack central heating in their homes this winter, new figures show.This equates to 367,000 households that are not using gas or electricity to warm their homes, data collated by the Office of National Statistics revealed.Each year there are about 10,000 excess deaths on average from cold and damp homes, and charities have warned that it is often elderly people who have to live in these inadequate properties.

Flu and Covid-19 hospital admissions in England fell last week, though levels remain high, figures show.Health experts said the numbers should be treated with caution as they are likely to have been affected by fewer hospitals reporting data over the festive period, along with reduced social contact among the public due to schools and workplaces being closed.

Per California law, all single-stall restrooms on the UC Santa Cruz campus are gender neutral - but they are in short supply, said bautista, who lower-cases their first and last name.And while UC Santa Cruz policy says that athletes can use whatever locker room they identify with, that doesn't mean they always feel safe doing so, bautista said.

What's happening?Germany's population is ageing  fast.This year, there will be more older people requiring some sort of care than people under the age of 30.Overall, the country's ageing population means there are fewer and fewer people working in Germany relative to the number of retirees taking money out of state pension funds.

What's happening?Germany's population is ageing  fast.This year, there will be more older people requiring some sort of care than people under the age of 30.Overall, the country's ageing population means there are fewer and fewer people working in Germany relative to the number of retirees taking money out of state pension funds.

Family and friends can play a key role in spotting signs of dementia when meeting loved ones over the Christmas period, an NHS expert has said.Forgetting names of relatives or putting the oven on for the Christmas turkey, as well as confusion in another environment could all be signs of the disease.

For the past several months, Disneyland Resort fans have had to pay extra to avoid the longest lines for the theme park's most popular attractions.The higher prices to use the Genie+ feature on the Disneyland app to skip the traditional stand-by queues comes as fans inundate Disneyland and California Adventure Park during one of the resort's most popular times of the year: the Christmas holidays.

After a year in which drivers paid some of the highest prices on record at the gas pump, the holidays bring some relief as prices drop ahead of another busy travel season.The average cost of a gallon of gasoline in California is $4.34, according to the American Automobile Assn.That's a drop of around 80 cents from a month ago and about 30 cents from a year ago.

Boy, have we talked a lot about inflation this year.The rising cost of food, pricier oil, supply-chain turmoil, Russia's war in Ukraine, growing wages and a lingering labor shortage all contributed to higher prices that touched almost every part of our lives.Here are some of the ways our lives got pricier and cheaper (it wasn't all bad news!) in 2022.

Comments quickly flood in when an Instagram account announces new features.Unfortunately, it's not generally praise for the latest update, but rather request after request from frustrated users who have been locked out of their own profiles thanks to hackers.We have all heard about someone who is in the same situation, and we know how hard it can be for people to seek help via Instagram.

If you've been wondering why fewer people are seeing your Instagram posts, there's now an official tool that may help you find out.Announced today by Instagram head Adam Mosseri, the new tool is an enhancement to the app's existing 'Account status' functions that will reveal whether any of your posted content could be causing your account to be quietly held back from a wider audience.

23 minutes ago23 minutes ago A surge in winter infections has reached unprecedented levels in Germany, according to one of the country's leading doctors.The country's intensive care units is struggling under the burden.A leading German doctor says the rate of sickness across the general population is on a level previously unseen, with the country's intensive care units (ICU) under tremendous pressure.

As fans find more and more ways to watch pro football live, it's becoming harder and harder to properly calculate the number of fans who are actually watching live pro football.As it relates to the triple header of NFL games from Thanksgiving, the NFL contends that the actual audience for the trio of contests was 31 percent higher than previously reported by Nielsen, the company that for decades has generated the ratings numbers for television.

A partial answer to your question Why are so many people leaving the workforce amid a UK cost of living crisis?(4 December) may be found in your article on the health divide in Britain (Health and wealth divides in UK worsening despite levelling up' drive, report finds, 4 December).I live in the north-east of England  the area with the lowest healthy life expectancy.