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Though he grew up just a few miles away, Jonah Markowitz, a photographer and documentarian based in Brooklyn, knew little about the neighborhood of Kensington before 2021.That's when he noticed, in New York City data from the year before, that an outsize portion of applications for new business licenses came from the area that included Kensington.

Dezeen School Shows: an aquatic research centre designed to raise awareness of freshwater ecosystems is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the School of Visual Arts.Also featured is a healing centre designed to promote wellbeing through exposure to white noise and a multiethnic restaurant that provides space for chefs to share their cultural heritage through food.

Uniqlo is aiming to create "modern classics" that people wear for longer to be more sustainable, says the clothing retailer's UK COO Alessandro Dudech, but questions remain over whether the strategy is working.Speaking at the opening of the Japanese brand's latest UK store in Covent Garden, Dudech explained how Uniqlo aims to differentiate itself from fast-fashion brands by incrementally improving the design of its clothes and focusing on longevity, including by launching repair services in its stores.

Promotion: architects and designers are increasingly finding new ways to use cork outside of cork stoppers as a way to reduce the carbon footprint of their projects, according to Portuguese company Amorim Cork Composites.As the innovation arm of the world's largest cork producer Corticeira Amorim, Amorim Cork Composites, has seen a marked uptick in interest over the last few years, whether producing furniture for designer Tom Dixon and the Campana Brothers, creating door handles for architect Eduardo Souto Moura or supplying wall panels for Counterspace's 2021 Serpentine Pavilion.

Often relegated to drawers for safety, scissors are typically viewed as mundane tools.But one standout pair, offered by YD Select, transforms the ordinary into a pleasing piece of decor.Workspaces usually contain two types of items: practical tools to accomplish tasks and decorative elements meant to please the senses.

Built on the edge of Biscayne Bay about 100 years ago, the lavish Italian renaissance-inspired Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is one of the most picturesque properties in South Florida.It's also one of the most vulnerable to storm surge and sea rise.After Hurricane Irma in 2017, Vizcaya spent months and millions of dollars to clear debris and repair the gardens - which sit about four feet above sea level - that were filled with five feet of saltwater.

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.

Former President Donald J. Trump visited Little Havana in Miami on Tuesday immediately after his arraignment, his latest attempt to cast himself as a man persecuted by his political enemies.It was a not-subtle attempt to seek the sympathies of Latinos, in Florida and beyond.Mr. Trump's visit to Versailles Restaurant, a landmark that is emblematic of the Cuban diaspora, came as Republicans have increasingly likened his indictment to corruption and political oppression in Latin American countries.

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Although California may be enjoying a lull in this year's wildfire season - courtesy of a wet winter and a cool spring - scientists say humanity's relentless burning of fossil fuels has ensured that wildland fires will scorch ever larger portions of the state, perhaps as much as 52% more by midcentury.

Two masks of the Indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia are displayed at the presidential palace in Berlin on June 16, 2023.Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum's collection for more than a century, another step in the country's restitution of cultural artifacts as European nations reappraise their colonial-era past.

Lilia Chanysheva gestures as she stands in a cage during a hearing in a courtroom of the Kirovskiy District Court in Ufa, Russia, June 14."I am a politician, a woman who is being persecuted by men who are her opponents," she said in her final statement to the court earlier this month.AP Photo MOSCOW A Russian court sentenced a leading associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 7 1/2 years in prison on extremism-related charges on Wednesday the latest in a series of lengthy prison terms issued to political opponents of the Kremlin amid the war in Ukraine.

Image Credit...Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times To the Editor: Donald Trump never apologizes, acknowledges a mistake or appears to reflect on his role in the creation of his recurrent difficulties.As a practicing mental health professional for over 40 years, I believe that people can change, but I also know it is often difficult and painful work, sometimes requiring a therapist to help illuminate why one keeps finding oneself in the same kind of quandary.

Tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet/Google have seized a large lead in shaping our potentially A.I.-dominated future.This is not good news.History has shown us that when the distribution of information is left in the hands of a few, the result is political and economic oppression.Without intervention, this history will repeat itself.

Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum's collection for more than a century, another step in the country's restitution of cultural artifacts as European nations reappraise their colonial-era past.The wooden sun masks," which date back to the mid-15th century, were handed over at the presidential palace during a visit to Berlin by Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

American orchestras, which have come under scrutiny in recent years for their lack of diversity, have made some inroads in hiring more Asian and Latino players over the past decade.But according to a new study, they have barely moved the needle in addressing the persistent dearth of Black musicians.

Not many international sporting contests predate the countries that play them, but few contests are as old as the Ashes.The cricket series between England and Australia was first played in 1882, before Australia was even founded as a nation.On Friday, its 73rd edition will begin in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham, England.

Germany has returned two wooden masks of the indigenous Kogi community to Colombia but conceded that wearing the sacred artefacts in ceremonies may come with a health risk because they were treated with toxic pesticides during their time in German museums.The masks, which date back to the mid-15th century and have been held in ethnological collections in Berlin for over a century, were handed over to Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, by his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a ceremony in Berlin on Friday.

Since his early 20s, Curtis Stephenson has dreamed of being a dad.As the youngest of three kids, he watched his siblings raise his nieces and nephews and thought, Oh my God, I want that, said Mr. Stephenson, the manager of a wine bar in Ottawa.Now 43, he and his partner, who is 36, have been trying to conceive a baby for more than a year.

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"With the trust that you placed in me, I'm going to continue to do everything in my power to bring our city together.This is an honor I don't take lightly."Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price, standing in his usual spot behind the horseshoe at City Hall, delivered those words with supreme confidence last October.

Getty Images Today's homebuyers are learning that finding a move-in ready home in a good location that they can comfortably afford is about as rare as a winning Powerball ticket.A dire housing shortage has kept prices strong and competition fierce among buyers despite high mortgage interest rates.That's left less than a quarter of the roughly 1.1 million home listings within financial reach of the typical American household, according to a recent joint report from the National Association of Realtors® and Realtor.com®.

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When West Hollywood incorporated in 1984 and seated the nation's first city council with an openly gay majority, it grabbed the world's attention - and not in an entirely positive way.One year, council members got so many threats that they wore ballistic vests on a float in the L.A. Pride parade, said Councilman John Heilman, who was on the inaugural council.

The business advantages of scale and scope are widely recognized, but large, global enterprises often fail to fully realize them when it comes to innovation.Innovations that are developed in one geographic region or business unit - new products to delight customers, new HR policies to attract and retain talent, new production processes that drive efficiency gains - too often stay within them instead of being disseminated across the enterprise.

Picture this: it's a brisk autumn day in 2023; the leaves on Boston Common are a riot of blazing reds and vibrant oranges.Just a short stroll away, your very own piece of this historic city awaits.We aren't just talking about any old place - we're talking about lavish condos that will make your heart skip a beat.

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.This week's issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne.What does the transition to a zero-emissions future look like for Australia?This is the topic of Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain, a new book by Alan Finkel, the former Australian chief scientist, released this week.

As it expanded internationally, Shein, the rapidly growing fast fashion app, progressively cut ties to its home country, China.It moved its headquarters to Singapore and de-registered its original company in Nanjing.It set up operations in Ireland and Indiana, and hired Washington lobbyists to highlight its U.S. expansion plans as it prepares for a potential initial public offering this year.

Seeking to dominate the strategic waterways of Asia, China has deployed an armada of boats that are equipped with 76-millimeter cannons and anti-ship missiles, and are bigger than U.S. Navy destroyers.But they are not Chinese Navy vessels.Their hulls are painted white, with China Coast Guard in block letters on the sides.

Two summers ago, an insurgent group of ultraconservative Southern Baptists branded themselves as pirates, vowing to take the ship of the nation's largest Protestant denomination and steer it farther to the right on issues like sexuality and race.They were determined to halt what they saw as rising liberalism and drift from biblical truth.

Let me explain.Of course, Liverpool needs to heavily invest this summer; that goes without saying.After a disappointing season and an unacceptable summer transfer window last year, the club needs to take serious steps in the coming weeks to put them in a position to compete on four fronts in the 2023-24 season.

The latest summer link to the Saudi Pro League involves none other than Liverpool legend, Steven Gerrard.According to Mohamed Yossry of Reuters,

"Al-Ettifaq made an offer to Gerrard.He welcomed the idea, but asked for time to study the offer."Gerrard's most recent managerial stint was at Aston Villa where he was sacked in October.

There has been a seismic shift in the mortgage industry, and it has redefined how mortgage originators must approach the new market, as mortgage rates have more than doubled from their 2022 lows.Over the past few years, 90% of new business has come from refinances, but the landscape has flipped, and we are in a purchase product-driven market, forcing the entire industry to be agile and adjust to a new normal.

On June 27, 2010, the FBI arrested 10 Russian spies who lived and worked as American professionals near New York City.The case, which unraveled an intricate system of false identities and clandestine meetings, exposed one of the largest spy networks in the U.S. since the Cold War ended and inspired the show The Americans.

Summer is the season for stone fruit, pool parties, cookouts and, increasingly for Americans, ticks.Ecologist Felicia Keesing had an uncanny sense for ticks for as long as she could remember.If one bit her, she could feel it and would quickly pluck it off with tweezers.But last year this superpower failed her when she didn't feel a tick latch on.

When the patient arrives, it can barely move its body.Sometimes it can't blink.Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot triesand failsto fly.A nurse props up the bird's limp, violet-blue head on a makeshift cushion and slides a bowl of nectar in front of its bright red beak.It is just one of dozens of rainbow lorikeets being treated for a mysterious paralyzing illness at this wildlife hospital in eastern Australia.

Natural Disasters Science, Quickly New York City, looking otherworldly amid wildfire smoke.Credit: Anadolu Agency/Footage/Getty Images; Kelso Harper/Scientific American Where is it coming from?How long will it last?What's in the smoke?Whose health is at risk?How do you clean your own air?SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Andrea Thompson: Welcome to Science Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series!

M obile phone giant EE have unveiled their flagship store in Westfield White City which opens its doors on Friday.The huge shop, dubbed The EE Studio, will be the UKs largest telco retail space at 4,230-square-foot and be home to the country's first Digital Spa' and include a Gaming Zone.The shop will lead way for the roll out of the new EE Experience' stores, the first of which are due to open in Manchester Trafford Centre, Cardiff and Bluewater in the coming months.

Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide.Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered.The suicide rate among doctors appeared to be even higher than the rate among active military members, a notion that startled Dean, who was then working as an administrator at a U.S. Army medical research center in Maryland.

Loopholes in new legislation to protect tenants could see unscrupulous landlords continue to evict renters by the backdoor, Citizens Advice said, as it detailed helping record numbers of people with those issues last month.The charity provided support to almost 2,000 people with issues around so-called no-fault evictions in May, which it said is the most in a single month on record and a 25% increase since the same month last year.

A humpback whale has been spotted off the coast of Cornwall in a rare sighting, with two sailors capturing the "incredible" moment on camera.Linda Cassidy recorded the whale in Falmouth Bay as it slapped the water with its tail, then rose and broke through the surface, known as breaching.Humpbacks are usually seen only sporadically off the south of the UK, and then always in the winter, but are more commonly seen off the Shetland Isles and Hebrides and increasingly in the northern North Sea.

A watchdog has called for legal powers so inspectors can order failing police forces to improve when there are serious concerns for public safety.Chief inspector of constabulary Andy Cooke said public trust in the police was hanging by a thread in the wake of a series of dreadful scandals and systemic failings.

A record 2.4 billion was paid out in motor claims in the first quarter of this year as firms find surging costs increasingly challenging to absorb, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).More expensive vehicle repairs, rising second-hand car costs and longer repair times are among the challenges faced by insurers, although there are some signs that cost pressures from whiplash-related claims are easing.

Jeremy Hunt has said the UK has no alternative but to raise interest rates to bring down inflation , as households brace for the Bank of England to increase borrowing costs further next week.The chancellor said the government would be unstinting in its support for the central bank to do what it takes to squeeze high inflation out of the system amid the cost of living crisis.

Can I just check something before we begin, because it feels as though we're dealing with a weight of irony that defies all known physics?Is Boris Johnson leaving British politics absolutely howling with anger because someone supposedly told him a lie?Is Boris Johnson wetting his pants thrice daily over the injustice of him being supposedly misled?

Peers are launching an inquiry into private health companies paid millions of pounds to courier NHS medicines in England, after the Guardian exposed how sick children and adults were being harmed by botched, delayed or missed deliveries.The House of Lords public services committee will examine the extent of the problems in homecare medicine services, and the impact on patients, clinicians and the wider health service.

Britain has endured the worst exports record of any member of the G7 besides Japan over the last decade, according to a new analysis that will raise pressure on the government to reconsider its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.As most of the world's other major seven economies have rebounded from the pandemic, export growth has remained sluggish in the UK at a time when businesses trading with the EU faced extra red tape and costs as a result of the country leaving the bloc.

Observability has evolved from a specialized platform and site reliability engineering discipline to a massive market in the "you build it, you run it" era.Ten years into Grafana's open source journey, the project has made observability accessible to a huge audience of developers.Grafana couldn't have come at a better time.

Observability has evolved from a specialized platform and site reliability engineering discipline to a massive market in the "you build it, you run it" era.Ten years into Grafana's open source journey, the project has made observability accessible to a huge audience of developers.Grafana couldn't have come at a better time.

I hate the ice cream truck.As a parent in a family of four, it's one of the things I know for sure in my life.You'd think the ice cream truck is an innocent feature of summer, but you'd be wrong.It's pure evil and the embodiment of everything wrong with the culture of summer.When the ice cream truck approaches, my kids hear it before I do.

Across the street from the 1st District police station, Hildemaro Rafael Peña Gonzalez, 23, from Venezuela, fed cereal out of a plastic takeout container to his pregnant wife Racnia del Carmen León Mendoza, 19, and rubbed her swollen belly.The couple was moved from the station to a shelter in a hotel downtown about 10 days ago, but came back to the small basketball cancha, or court, to sit on a bench in the shade.

Faced with a pandemic-induced labour shortage, businesses in the Rocky Mountain tourist hot spots of Banff and Canmore, Alta., have been given the green light to dramatically boost the number of temporary foreign workers they hire to fill low-wage positions.Last year, businesses in the Bow Valley communities were cleared to fill more positions through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program than at any point since 2015, the earliest year for which data is available.

Ukrainian troops are probing Russian defenses as spring gives way to a second summer of fighting, and Kyiv's forces are facing an enemy that has made mistakes and suffered setbacks in the 15-month-old war.But analysts say Moscow also has learned from those blunders and improved its weapons and skills.

The events of January 6, 2020, have been closely watched for their long-term impact on the far right.Members of two groups in particular, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, were hit with felonies for their participation in the breach of the U.S. Capitol.Now, two years later, the Oath Keepers have largely collapsed, while the Proud Boys have grown.

A Texas National Guard soldier stands vigil at a makeshift migrant camp near the U.S.-Mexico border fence on May 11, 2023, in El Paso, Texas.John Moore / Getty Images Even though President Biden has positioned himself as more tough on immigration than MAGA Republicans - even claiming that "MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security" - several GOP governors have found a new way to escalate their war on migrants.

We know the Washington Capitals are in a tough situation.They've got big problems of various kinds with their top-six forwards: Kuznetsov reportedly wants a trade, Backstrom is trying to recover from hip surgery, Wilson is coming back from a knee surgery, and Mantha hasn't fit in.Given those challenges, plus the team's promise to Alex Ovechkin that they'll be competitive next season, plus their implicit goal to get Ovi the goal-scoring title, they're going to need some reinforcements up front.

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.Today; Manchester City are champions of Europe for the first time.Internazionale made it difficult but Pep Guardiola's side completed a historic treble for the English club.

One of Canada's largest faith-based charities has won a settlement over a set of publications that falsely claimed it was a "front" to fund terror groups abroad.Islamic Relief Canada reached the out-of-court settlement earlier this month in a lawsuit against Thomas Quiggin a former military officer turned self-described researcher who last year emerged as one of the more recognizable names in the truck convoy protests and six others who it argued made "false, malicious and defamatory" statements aimed at harming the charity.

India is number 1 in global population.This clock board outside the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai keeps track of the numbers.The photo is from June 2, 2023.Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images India is now the world's most populous nation with 1.486 billion people, passing China in April according to projections by the United Nations.