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There were no extravagant preview parties.No public relations reps unfurling a barrage of pitches.But on Friday night, a line flowed out of the door and around the corner at Warlord, producing a two-hour wait - the type of restaurant excitement the city hasn't seen since before the pandemic.Warlord was no secret.

In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump.

Douglas Engelbart was way ahead of his time in many ways, and the computer world has been catching up with his vision ever since.He is the inventor of the foundations of human-computer interaction, which is still at the core of experience design.Here are some of the most important facts that can be drawn from this historic event:
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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 Steve McNamara is much too modest to accept that a tiny part of France's record-breaking rugby union humbling of England last weekend might have been plotted during training drills at the Stade Gilbert Brutus.

England hopefuls Tom Helm and Stephen Eskinazi have both signed new contracts at Middlesex until the end of 2026.Fast-bowler Helm, 28, has appeared in a number of international squads but is yet to make his full debut.Batter Eskinazi, also 28, scored consecutive fifties for England Lions against South Africa last summer.

The head of Britain's armed forces has defended plans to cut the size of the Army.Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the Chief of the Defence Staff, told the London Defence Conference: I think we are slightly stuck in some of the numbers game.The numbers are important, I don't want to deny that, but the numbers aren't quite as totemic and as golden as people say.

A masked man has attacked a statue on the front of the BBC's Broadcasting House in central London with a hammer and chisel.It comes days after repair work was started to the previously-attacked Grade II listed statue, of Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare's The Tempest by Eric Gill, who is said to have sexually abused two of his daughters.

Living in a newly built block of flats deemed not fit for purpose by surveyors, has been a "daily living nightmare" residents have said.Leaseholders at 53 Agar Grove in Camden claim they have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees fighting insurers and developers.One resident, who bought his two-bedroom flat in 2019 for £850,000, said the experience had been "life-ruining".

As part of our Timber Revolution series, we have rounded up the world's 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures, including an engineered-wood shopping-centre extension and a carbon-negative cultural centre.Compiled using data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the roundup also features apartment towers, hotels and a school, demonstrating the potential of mass timber in building tall structures.

Celtics "It's a miss-or-make league.So our defense has to be our calling card."There are no shortage of factors that have led to the Celtics' 0-3 series deficit against the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals.But for guard Malcolm Brogdon, Boston's lack of defensive fortitude has loomed large in a series where the Heat transformed from a stingy scoring unit into an offensive juggernaut.

CEO & Co-Founder of Databricks, Ali Ghodsi took to LinkedIn to introduce to the world, Dolly 2.0 - the world's first open-source LLM that is instruction-following and fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for commercial use.In a blog post, Databricks opened up about Dolly 2.0.

Kelly Simmons will leave the Football Association after 30 years of "seminal contribution" in developing the women's game in England, says FA chief executive Mark Bullingham.Simmons will step down from her role as the director of the women's professional game in the summer before leaving the governing body next year.

Tottenham interim head coach Vicky Jepson says the players "feel responsible" for manager Rehanne Skinner's exit but they are "ready to fight" to turn around their form.Skinner was sacked on Monday following a run of nine successive Women's Super League defeats which leaves Tottenham just two points above relegation.

Ederson Toni Kroos's 20-yard rocket beat him but not his bar.Had close to zero to do until flinging himself low to save near close 8 Kyle Walker His pass to Kevin De Bruyne allowed the latter to create Bernardo Silva's first.Afterburners kept Vinicius Jr at bay 8 John Stones In Franz Beckenbauer mode, his advance position was key to Silva's sweet opener as yet again the No 5 impressed 9 Ruben Dias A spectator like the rest of the City backline who had a prime seat to witness the show before him 8 Manuel Akanji Joined attack at will and coasted along enjoying just how brilliant those in front were from 0-90 minutes 8 Rodri Early shot skimmed across Thibaut Courtois's goal, as the Spaniard for an umpteenth occasion in City livery oozed control and craft 8 Bernardo Silva Outstanding.

Monday VE Day May 8th is a public holiday in France, with ceremonies to mark the end of World War II in Europe.READ ALSO Why is May 8th a holiday in France, and will it remain so?Tuesday Olympics tickets if you have entered the second phase of the draw for Olympics tickets, it's time to keep a close eye on your email.

The French parliament will on Tuesday vote on a motion to make it compulsory to fly the EU flag along with the French flag on town halls - something that is at present commonly done but not actually required.Published: 9 May 2023 09:49 CEST May 9th marks Europe Day the anniversary of the Schuman declaration that laid the foundations of the European Union and also the day when the French Assemblee nationale will vote on a motion by a member of Emmanuel Macron's centrist party to make it compulsory to fly the EU flag on mairie (town hall) buildings.

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lifted his veto on Finland's application to join Nato, a move that will strengthen the west's ability to withstand any future Russian threat across the Baltic Sea but leaves Sweden's parallel bid for Nato membership unresolved.After a choreographed meeting with the Finnish president, Sauli Niinisto, in Ankara, Erdogan said he would recommend to the Turkish parliament that it vote to back Finland's application to join.

Some street names are, of course, pretty generic and geographically meaningful you know what you expect to find on a Rue de l'Eglise, or in a Place de la Mairie, whichever town you're visiting.Some are more fanciful Paris' famous Champs-Elysees literally means heavenly fields' there are no fields and it's only heaven if you really like traffic and expensive chain stores.

The 75-year-old's researcher has helped lay the foundations for the revolution in artificial intelligence, but now Geoffrey Hinton is worried.His work on neural networking building computer systems that can learn from data and experience has been at the heart of recent advancements.Yet now he fears that the pace of improvements in AI could be a real risk to humans.

Sarah Adams, a teacher, started a side business selling her Jamaican grandmother's rum cake in 2015 with $5,000 from her husband's retirement savings.Soon, she was handing out samples at markets and street festivals, building her company, Ms. Macs, one tin at a time.But when the pandemic crippled her growing business in 2020, Ms. Adams, who lives in a public housing complex in northern Manhattan, was forced to pivot.

Which Washington Commanders' news stories are making headlines as preparations gather pace for the upcoming 2023 campaign?It was heartwarming to see the Washington Commanders participate in their first on-field workouts of the offseason period on Monday.There have been plenty of distractions surrounding the franchise in recent weeks, so it was probably a relief for Ron Rivera and his staff to focus their attention on the football side of things.

Should the Washington Commanders seriously consider drafting running back Bijan Robinson at No. 16 overall in the 2023 NFL Draft?With the legal tampering period finally getting underway tomorrow, attention turns to which free agents are coming into the fold.The Washington Commanders have a lot on their plate in terms of re-signing players and bringing new additions into the fold, which could lay the foundations for what will hopefully be a strong campaign for the franchise in 2023.

Police and Crime Commissioners outside of London have pledged to enact reforms and hold their own forces accountable in light of the Casey report.Several PCCs acknowledged in statements on Tuesday that Baroness Louise Casey's review into the institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic Metropolitan Police force will impact public confidence in policing outside of the capital.

The University of Southern California announced Wednesday that as part of a huge expansion of its presence in Washington, D.C., it had opened a USC Capital Campus in the city's Dupont Circle neighborhood.The 60,000-square-foot building, for which USC paid $49.4 million, will play host to "high-level conversations" between opinion leaders and serve as a "hub for researchers and policy experts," officials said in a news release.

We've got Jack Bauer coming and going this week.On Thursday, Netflix premiered The Night Agent, a spy thriller in which a young F.B.I. agent battles a conspiracy of vast dimensions that threatens the foundations of American government.It's the latest series to carry the DNA of 24, the show that firmly welded paranoia to frantic comic-book action; it doesn't feel coincidental that the hero, Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), shares a surname with the actor who played the heroic Bauer on 24, Kiefer Sutherland.

Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, will make a state visit to China next week to meet President Xi Jinping, where he is expected to stress that it will be up to Ukraine to decide on the foundations of any peace agreement with Russia.News of Sanchez's visit emerged on Wednesday evening, as Xi who is trying to position himself as a mediator in the war between Russia and Ukraine wrapped up a symbolic, two-day trip to Moscow.

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The versatility of the vintage Brooklyn row house continues to amaze, even when the presenting circumstances seem less than ideal.Even innovative, seasoned architects like Scott Oliver and Margarita McGrath of Clinton Hill-based Noroof Architects were daunted by the 75-foot-long ground floor space and the unfinished, boulder-strewn cellar in a circa 1870 building they bought for their own use.