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Back in the 20th century, a lamp was just a lamp.It had a bulb, a switch, and either a battery or a cable that connected to a plug socket.Today, the term Lamp doesn't have those simpler definitions.Meet the rather ironically named Boring Lamp - it comes with a power source as well as a built-in battery.

San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer defended his decision to forgo wearing a Pride-themed jersey and miss warmups completely before a game earlier this month.Reimer cited his religious beliefs, as others have this season, as the reason he would not wear the jersey to show support for the LGBTQ+ community in San Jose.

A local organization is helping minority-owned businesses with a 12 week course, which teaches the ins-and-outs of entrepreneurship.Beginning on March 22, the Mangrove Community Business Academy (CBA) will serve as an incubator and accelerator, offering BIPOC business owners the basic tools and training needed for long-term success.

A series of shelters for doves were embedded in the laminated-cedar facade of Neal Schwartz's self-designed studio, which is an extension of his Sonoma home.Called Mourning Dovecote, the extension is attached to Schwartz's single-storey home in Sonoma, California.Schwartz worked with his studio Schwartz and Architecture to create the addition, which the architect uses as a home studio.

Every day, our eyes and our brains are bombarded with visual stimuli, especially from the smartphones we are glued to most of the time.Even for the younger generations, there is a tipping point when things become too overwhelming, so many of them retreat to music of varying genres for a reprieve.That often involves putting on headphones for a bit of privacy, but such accessories do remove one other thing that these people crave for: social connections.

Although a pretty large vehicle, the REE XBW has immense control, can navigate narrow areas and make sharp turns with ease, and can instantly parallel park without any effort.The secret?Its unique independent-wheel-drive build that allows all four wheels to operate independently, turning and rotating on their own to help the electric bus easily maneuver across a variety of challenging paths.

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In his Arcadia home, Roland Coleman grew increasingly frustrated as the months passed without an answer from Keck Medical Center of USC.Coleman, 73, was seeking a kidney transplant to free him from his listless afternoons undergoing dialysis and lengthen what remains of his life.

After years of bucking the European trend, an organised anti-refugee backlash has finally hit Ireland.Recent protests involved threats to burn down a hotel housing refugees and, in a separate incident, there was a vigilante attack on a homeless migrant camp.These ugly scenes followed months of protests led by the far right and simmering community tensions over the provision of local accommodation to refugees.

Explicitly teaching character in college?It's not a new idea, but it's not widespread.For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University's Program for Leadership and Character has attracted interest from other institutions since its founding in 2017.Building a Network
Now the Lilly Endowment is giving the program $31 million over five years to expand-including by helping build a network of character education programs across academe.

The NFL offseason started a little over two weeks ago, but its first important date has already arrived.It's time for the 2023 Scouting Combine.As has been the case for more than 30 years, the league's "Underwear Olympics" will take place in Indianapolis; the Colts ' Lucas Oil Stadium will once again host the event which will officially begin on Tuesday, February 28, and run through March 6, when the last position group leaves town again.

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 The Bishop who christened the Sussexes' daughter Princess Lilibet is a former newspaper reporter who was chief of staff for former US president Richard Nixon.

Apple has pushed its latest iOS developer beta version 16.4, and it contains some interesting updates, including expanded emoji support, keyboard updates for certain languages, and support for web app notifications.The new emoji come from Unicode version 15.0, introduced in September.Some notable icons include a shaking face emoji, a pushing hand that could totally be used as an "imma stop you right there," and a Khanda emblem representing Sikhism.

Architecture studio Edmonds International has created a hotel near Playa del Carmen in Mexico that comprises a series of interlocking circular forms embedded in a mangrove forest.Made up of a series of pavilions, the hotel is sited near the Sian Ka'an Reserve on the Yucatán coast near the vacation towns of Playa del Carmen and Cancún.

Dagmar Štěpánová of Formafatal recently completed the first rammed earth structures in Costa Rica that can be yours to rent for your next vacation.Achioté is a pair of minimalist villas in Playa Hermosa that look as if they're levitating above an overgrown cliff by the Pacific Ocean.

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With the reveal of the new Xencelabs Pen Display 24 Studio Series artists, designers and creatives finally have a real alternative to Wacom.This new drawing display features some unique real-world design decisions that will give digital artists a real choice when it comes to a new large-screen pen display.

The Suspension House is one of those projects you don't see often - it's like a perfectly executed sculpture suspended in nature that someone gets to live in.The site-specific house is a remodel designed by San Francisco-based Fougeron Architecture that hovers above a creek between two California hills.

The head of the Metropolitan Police has accepted that there is racism, misogyny and homophobia in the force but said he would not use the same terms as Baroness Casey.Sir Mark Rowley said the term institutional racism, first levelled at the Met in the Macpherson report in 1999, is politicised and means different things to different people.

Last week, an 18-year-old was charged with fatally shooting a Chicago police officer following an exchange of gunfire in the city's Gage Park neighborhood.On Thursday, funeral services are scheduled at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for that fallen officer, 32-year-old Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso.

A Christian school in New Zealand will close its doors rather than give up a conversion therapy program.Kaitaia Abundant Life School says a new law passed last year banning the practice means they can no longer operate according to their Christian faith."Experiencing unwanted feelings towards the same sex" is not usual, a spokesperson for the school, Ivy Tan, told 1News in New Zealand.

On Tuesday, while the U.S. House of Representatives was in disarray due to Republican infighting, a lawmaker in Texas introduced his version of a " don't say gay " law.State Rep. Jared Patterson's bill, HB 1155, requires schools to disclose all information related to students' mental health information to parents, which exposes children to being forced out of the closet by school officials and adds language to the state's education code that would restrict the instruction of topics on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Career readiness is a critical part of students' postgraduate success in the workforce.The National Association of Colleges and Employers' 2022 Student Survey found that graduating seniors who used career center services received more job offers on average, compared to their peers who did not.While the advantages of career services are clear, higher education professionals must implement effective modeling and teaching for their students to navigate career readiness.

For a significant number of students, the first year of higher education serves as a wake-up call about study habits."Most students have not received any guidance on how to learn," says Shaun Vecera, a University of Iowa professor of psychological and brain sciences and the director of the University Honors Program.

A geometric form built from exposed concrete defines the Fieldhouse sports centre, which Italian studio MoDus Architects has created in the South Tyrolean town of Laghetti.Overlooking a national park at the foot of Mount Corno in Italy, the leisure centre was designed to replace an old building on the site and provide the surrounding community with a new social space.

An oak "skin" wraps the interior of living spaces at this apartment in Mexico City, renovated by locally based Esrawe Studio.The two-bedroom Loma Residence in the neighbourhood of Lomas de Chapultepec faces sunset views over the forest, so Esrawe Studio reconfigured the layout to optimise this orientation.

EBBA Architects has completed a house extension in east London that combines brutalist-style materials with details inspired by a classic Roman villa.The project, called Cast House, is a rear extension to a Victorian terraced house, creating an enlarged room incorporating a kitchen, a dining space and a conservatory.

Indian studio Matharoo Associates has created Cut Bend Fold Play, a concrete home in Chennai with internal courtyards and layered spaces that bring a feeling of spaciousness to its compact urban site.Drawing on the courtyard typology typical to the area, the house has an outwardly austere "hollow shell" of board-marked concrete that opens up internally around a bright living area and garden courtyard.

NYC-based firm Garrison Architects has completed an animal shelter in Staten Island, which is wrapped in full-height glass walls that provide even lighting conditions throughout the day.The Staten Island Animal Rescue Center is located in Charleston, a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Promotion: online art and furniture shop Singulart helps art enthusiasts choose work from over 12,000 designers in over 110 countries, while allowing them to search via a "myriad of specifications".
Singulart is a creative platform that enables users to easily search and buy art they're looking for, and includes a range of mediums, including drawings, photography, sculpture, painting or "miscellaneous".
The site also sells furniture, including lighting, tables and seating.

When the NASA DART mission slammed into a small asteroid, we knew with great precision how much the spacecraft weighed and how fast it traveled.If you combine that with our estimates of the motion and mass of its target asteroid, Dimorphos, then you could easily do the math and estimate how much momentum would be lost by the asteroid and what that would mean for its orbit.

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.

Created by onformative, a studio for digital art and design based in Berlin, AI Sculpting is an exploration into a machine-learning process.Imagined as a tool to provide assistance to a conventional approach to sculpting, aka subtractive manufacturing, here an AI model is developed to seek out strategies that provide a constant improvement to how a given form is achieved.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover paused to capture this vista on Nov. 21 as it explores an ancient crater that might contain traces of past life.(NASA/JPL-Caltech)On the floor of a shallow crater on Mars, the NASA rover Perseverance has hit what scientists are hoping is pay dirt.Martian rocks excavated by the rover show signs of a watery past and are loaded with the kind of organic molecules that are the foundation for life as we know it.

Portland's Central Library will close March 11 for the second time in less than a year as Multnomah County begins the second phase of the library's two-part "refresh."Multnomah County Library (MCL) spokesperson Shawn Cunningham told the Mercury the building will remain closed for a projected eight to nine months, "reopening probably in December of 2023."

Vertical, short-form, mobile - these three words describe the video format popularized by TikTok that every social platform is looking to co-opt, and YouTube is no different.Although the platform is known for its longer-form video content, it added a new feature in September 2020: YouTube Shorts.This addition should come as no surprise, as YouTube is all about video, and increasingly, users prefer short videos to any other format when consuming content.

A Los Angeles resident claims that he was harassed by an employee for kissing another man while dining at the Echo Park location of El Compadre this week, and the incident has since spread quickly across social media.Comedian and actor Drew Droege first shared his account of the incident on Tuesday via Instagram, saying that he was out on a date that turned sour unexpectedly, with a rather "sad, hateful moment in the middle."

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.December's full moon, also known as the cold moon, will shine bright in the night sky this Wednesday, peaking at 11:08 p.m. ET.Jupiter, Saturn and Mars will also be visible in the night sky Wednesday, with an extraordinarily rare phenomenon, known as a lunar occultation of Mars, set to happen around the moon's peak fullness, according to EarthSky.

Italian designer Andrea Ponti created a collection of furniture designs called 'Shadows in the Windows.Comprising of eight colorful and clean variations, the collection captures and represents Hong Kong's urban landscape through two symbolic elements - a window, and a seat.The intriguing collection was displayed at Superstudio Più during Milan Design Week 2017.

The global in-game advertising platform, Anzu.io, has been granted a patent for its ad tracking technology which measures viewability in 3D environments.The ground-breaking technology works across multiple gaming platforms, including consoles, of which Anzu is the only ad tracking engine to monitor ad campaigns.

Architecture studio BCW Collective designed an aluminum-clad hikers' cabin overlooking the Italian Alpine Valley.Called Bivacco Brédy, the bivouac shelter is located in the Aosta Valley and was conceptualized by the family of Claudio Brédy, a local politician and Alpinist who died in 2017 during a mountain excursion.

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Illustration by Tommasso D'Angelosante  Chrome developer tools are essential for building websites and apps on the web.These tools help developers troubleshoot all kinds of issues.However, DevTools are jam-packed with useful features for designers as well.

Backgrounds are essential to any webpage, and can make or break your website design.There are thousands of generators online to help you create aesthetically pleasing backgrounds to use in your website design, but some generators can be overly complicated, so it's good to research which generator to use based on your preferred design.