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Starbucks has long portrayed itself as a queer-friendly workplace.On its own website, the company touts its benefits for trans employees, its longtime support of marriage equality, and its willingness to fly the rainbow flag at its Seattle headquarters.The Human Rights Campaign calls it one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ equality.

After a tough year for its organizers, rectifying fire damage on the route, the Western States 100 is set for 2023.The iconic point-to-point, net-downhill course takes in 100.2 miles, 18,000 feet of climbing, and 22,000 feet of descending, as it starts at the Palisades Tahoe ski resort in Olympic Valley, California, and finishes at Placer High School in Auburn.

The 2022-23 season saw a lot of bad things happen on the field when it came to Juventus.The goalkeeper position was not one of those bad things.A season that saw a whole lot of wild inconsistencies from pretty much every position group doesn't include the likes of Wojciech Szczesny and Mattia Perin, the guys who very much are two of the best at their position in Serie A. They are, as deemed by our very own Hunter Sharpless, the best goalkeeper room in all the land, with somebody like Carlo Pinsoglio there to be the goofy best friend to everybody no matter how little of the field he knows he will see each season.

This year's graduations, universities claim, will be indistinguishable from those of previous years.Except there's one glaring problem: as a student there isn't much to celebrate.Currently, a marking and assessment boycott is affecting 145 British universities and, like many of the thousands of students graduating this summer, I am set to leave without a formal classification.

The UK has been accused of taking the insulting and shortsighted decision to cut humanitarian aid to east Africa at a time of chronic drought, conflict and rising food prices.At a United Nations pledging conference in New York on Wednesday, which the UK is co-chairing, Andrew Mitchell, the UK's international development minister, announced a humanitarian aid package to the region of 143m.

J. Harrison Ghee accepts the award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for "Some Like It Hot" onstage.They and Alex Newell were the first nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards.Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro NEW YORK This was an unusual year for the 76th Annual Tony Awards.It was almost canceled because of the Writers Guild of America strike.

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We celebrate the best Apple Memorial Day deals here at Creative Bloq when the last Monday of May comes around, as there are always some great Apple deals to be had.This year will be no different, and although the best of the Apple Memorial Day Sale bargains aren't live just yet, there are a few savings to be had, as detailed below.

A view of the MTV Awards signage onstage during the 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.Unlike in previous years, this year's awards show will not be broadcast live.Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images This year's MTV Movie & TV Awards will not be broadcast live on Sunday.

Miriala Gonzalez, a registered nurse in Miami, carries a monkeypox vaccine.A new survey highlights major concerns from nurses nationwide regarding future staffing levels in hospitals.Joe Raedle/Getty Images Close to a third of nurses nationwide say they are likely to leave the profession for another career due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey from AMN Healthcare shows.

The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition has for more than 250 years given amateur artists the chance to have their work displayed at its prestigious London headquarters.How difficult is it to make the grade - and which now famous artists failed to persuade the Academy of their genius?The exhibition, which has run uninterrupted since 1769 and featured the likes of David Hockney, Grayson Perry and Thomas Gainsborough, is described by the Academy as "the world's largest open submission exhibition".

E nvironmental protesters will ride naked through the capital's streets to protest car culture and oil dependency.Previous years have seen naked cyclists ride with slogans like Burn Fat Not Oil', Less Gas More Ass', or Energy Is Renude' painted on their backs.To make it easy to get involved with these body-painted slogans, there are often volunteer body painters at the starting points.

Luis Severino's ability has never been in question.His highs with the Yankees can rival those of any pitcher in the sport.But injuries have derailed a good chunk of his career, with this season being no exception.Severino missed the first several weeks of the season with a lat injury, and now that he's back, he hasn't quite looked himself.

It's been over seven months since Apple released its latest smartphone range, the iPhone 14.That's enough time to gauge customers' initial reactions, with thousands of reviews now available online.And it doesn't look good.According to an aggregation of online reviews, the iPhone 14 has scored the lowest proportion of five-star reviews since 2017's iPhone 8, and it's the first iPhone in a decade to see the percentage of 5-star ratings decline against the previous model (if you're prepared to test it for yourself, make sure you see the best iPhone 14 prices.

Daniela Astudillo is used to dealing with rough seasonal allergies, but this year they unlike anything she's encountered before.What used to be just a runny nose and fatigue is now compounded by intense itching and swollen eyes, Astudillo says.To cope, she's been avoiding going outside and takes anti-allergy medicine when she can't stay indoors.

Toronto saw a drop in opioid-related deaths in 2022 compared to the previous year, but one expert says there still needs to be a more robust response to the opioid crisis.There were 702 opioid-related deaths in the city in 2022, which marks 158 fewer than the 860 recorded in 2021, recently released figures from Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner show.

Moments before the Dodgers got set to play the New York Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball, it was announced that they will be playing another American League foe on the national broadcast later this month.The Dodgers will be broadcasted on ESPN on June 25 when the Houston Astros come to Chavez Ravine.

The 2023 MLB All-Star Game ballot was unveiled Wednesday, with voting for Phase 1 open until 9 a.m.PT on June 22.The Los Angeles Dodgers have nine players listed for possible representation in the 93rd Midsummer Classic that is being played at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.During Phase 1 of MLB All-Star Game voting, fans may select one player for each infield position in both leagues, three outfielders and one designated hitter.

The 2023 MLB All-Star Game ballot was unveiled Wednesday, with voting for Phase 1 open until 9 a.m.PT on June 22.The Los Angeles Dodgers have nine players listed for possible representation in the 93rd Midsummer Classic that is being played at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.During Phase 1 of MLB All-Star Game voting, fans may select one player for each infield position in both leagues, three outfielders and one designated hitter.

Noah Syndergaard endured another outing that had rocky moments as the Los Angeles Dodgers were unable to overcome an early deficit and suffered a 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Angels in the second game of the Freeway Series at Angel Stadium.The right-hander gave up five runs on nine hits (two home runs) in five-plus innings of work.

But anyone, regardless of their housing status, may use free Wi-Fi at libraries, even after hours.A common example, McPeak said, is when students without enough bandwidth at home study from cars in library parking lots."Throughout the pandemic, library parking lot Wi-Fi has provided a critical baseline connectivity.

General Motors and Stellantis paid a combined $363.8 million in penalties for failing to meet federal fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks they produced in previous years, according to federal government documents posted on Friday.G.M. paid $128.2 million for failing to meet the targets with the light trucks it sold in 2018 and 2019, according to documents published on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website.

Aitana Bonmati always asks the same question.Every game Barcelona Femeni plays generates a flood of performance data.The team's fitness coaches know how far each player ran, how fast, how long.There is so much information, in fact, that they need two days to download it and tabulate it and parse it.

A primary school Sats paper that reduced some pupils to tears included texts on a giant bat colony, which was adapted from a New York Times article, a camping trip featuring sheep rustlers and a boy on a remote Scottish island who hears a wolf.The 12-page reading test, featuring three substantial texts followed by 38 questions to be answered in an hour, was published on Thursday, once the assessment window had closed.

It is one of the few things apart from Christmas sales to guarantee overnight queues on the high street, and H&M's latest designer collaboration this time with luxury French fashion house Mugler had people lined up around the block.Hundreds of people queued outside H&M's flagship London store on Regent Street on Thursday, while some determined shoppers had waited overnight since Wednesday, in something of a high street renaissance.

Russian cruise missiles exploded in the air over Kyiv as Vladimir Putin marked the anniversary of victory over the Nazis with an overnight attack on Ukraine.Speaking at the 78th annual celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow's Red Square, the Russian president said the survival of the Russian people depended on the war in Ukraine, as he used his Victory Day speech to defend his invasion of the country.

The SNP has signed a contract with a new auditor more than six months after the previous company quit, the party has said.The party has been without auditors for its accounts since October, with the Westminster group left with only weeks to file with the Electoral Commission or risk losing 1.2m in funding from UK parliament authorities to support its work.

Ads for three tax agents have been banned for exaggerating refunds, being unclear about fees and failing to mention that clients were signing over rights to a cut of potential repayments from previous years.All three advertisers trading as The Tax Hero, Fast Track Reclaim and Total Tax Refunds misleadingly implied that their free online tools would confirm whether customers were entitled to a refund from His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

When the Eureka Valley branch of the San Francisco public library closes at night, its staff are required to turn off the free Wi-Fi.The reason?To deter homeless people from gathering outside the building.The library, located at 16th and Pond near Market, has been limiting after-hours internet access since August 2022, following complaints from residents and pressure from District 8 supervisor Rafael Mandelman.

Former Cubs and White Sox pitcher Jeff Samardzija once insisted "you can always get a good nap in during the Sox game."It was meant as a compliment to Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, though Samardzija later had to explain himself to the Sox broadcaster.As baseball turns the first corner in its speeded-up season this Memorial Day weekend, White Sox and Cubs fans turn to their porches and patios to soak in warm summerlike breezes and perhaps sneak in a quick nap with the ballgame as mere backdrop.

Baseball fans are ready to grab their peanuts and crackerjacks because baseball is back.Thursday marks Major League Baseball's opening day, and for the first time since 1968, every team is scheduled to play.With 30 teams and 15 games, the game is undergoing some of the biggest rule changes in its history to keep fans and make the game faster, according to Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais.

Scotland got a monkey off their back by starting a European Championship qualifying campaign with a victory for the first time since 2006.But opening scorer John McGinn stressed that "we're aware we can still improve" as they aim to end an even longer wait to beat Spain.After two late Scott McTominay goals finally killed off the fleeting threat of bottom seeds Cyprus at Hampden Park on Saturday, Steve Clarke's side on Tuesday host Group A favourites who opened their campaign in similar style with of their own over Norway.

Packers quarterback Jordan Love got in his first reps as QB1 this past week, and it looks like he'll have some hurdles to overcome in 2023.The reviews from Jordan Love's first practice as the Green Bay Packers starting quarterback are in, and the media feels... lukewarm about him, at best.A day after the Packers offensive coordinator, Adam Stenavich, intimated that fitting Love into Green Bay's scheme would be like " trial and error ", the 2020 first-rounder got his offseason training underway.

I was 8 when my mother died.She died at 35 of breast cancer, though it would be years before I knew that.Over time, I developed the belief that because she was dead, certain knowledge eluded me.If I had a mother, I'd think, I'd know how to walk in heels and sit like a girl.I'd know what to carry in a purse or how to operate a curling iron.

Jarren Duran really struggled to find his place on the Red Sox last season.The speedy outfielder had a forgettable moment in the center in 2022 when Boston fell 28-5 to the Toronto Blue Jays and was dismissive about giving up the inside-the-park grand slam, getting into it with Kansas City Royals fans and struggling mightily at the plate.

Home Improvement 'It's very hard for us because we are design-minded and possible control freaks.'The season three premiere of the HGTV property-makeover series " Battle on the Beach " is Sunday, June 4, with six new episodes focused on raising the value of three vacation rental properties in Gulf Shores, Ala.

Healthcare premiums eat up a considerable chunk of a household's budget and are a big strain on low, and often also middle-income families and individuals.After this year's increase in premiums, another hike is on the horizon: while it is not yet known exactly how much more expensive health insurance will become in 2024, Health Minister Alain Berset has not ruled out that it will be above average.

May 11, 2023-Ninety current and aspiring humanitarian workers spent a soggy weekend in April learning how to provide aid during a complex disaster and conflict situation.It was the culminating experience in a two-week professional development course offered by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Humanitarian Academy.

Jane Fonda has said the late French director Rene Clement asked to sleep with her during the making of their 1964 thriller Joy House, saying he said he needed to see what my orgasms were like before she filmed a sex scene.Fonda made the allegation on an episode of chat show Watch What Happens Live, when host Andy Cohen asked her to name one man in Hollywood that tried to pick you up once that you turned down.

A journalist takes a picture of a Kh-47 Kinzhal Russian hypersonic missile warhead, shot down by a Ukrainian Air Defence in Kyiv on May 12. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)As wartime Russia experiences a surge in treason cases, the arrests for high treason of three Russian academics who work on hypersonic missile technology on the same faculty in Siberia have drawn a rare, public outcry from Russia's scientific community.

In total 827,300 people acquired citizenship in EU member states in 2021, an increase of around 98,300 (14 per cent) over 2020, when the number was 729,000, according to the latest data published by the EU statistical office Eurostat.Although the figures are likely to see a pandemic effect' compared to 2020 when many countries shut down or severely restricted administrative processes during the lockdowns, the figures also show a rise compared to 2019.

The tip-off came from the pastor of the local church in the small town of Sopiv, western Ukraine: A German medical plane was said to have crashed near the village in the Ivanko-Frankivsk oblast (region) during World War II, he told the German War Graves Commission."The inhabitants would have recovered the bodies scattered all over the field and buried them behind the church," the pastor said, according to a commission statement.

Three Swedish cities top EU ranking for amphetamine use For the third year in a row, the Swedish cities of Gavle, Sandviken and Soderhamn have topped an EU ranking that estimates the use of various drugs by testing concentrations in the wastewater.The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) every year asks 104 cities in 21 EU countries to collect samples of sewage water to help estimate the use of various drugs, with tests taken for this year's study in the spring of 2022.

Choosing a baby name is tough!Parents feel a ton of pressure to choose just the right name based on their personalities, what baby names are popular, how names sound with last names, family tradition, and even what the initials spell in a monogram (avoiding initials like SOB or DIK, for example!).To help narrow their choices, many parents will look to baby name lists for inspiration or to know what names to avoid so they don't have the 12th Madeline in their Kindermusik class.

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave.Yes, we found the seasonal bottom for housing inventory on April 14, but this year's rise in active listings has been tepid at best.Here's a quick rundown of the last week: Total active listings grew 662 weekly, and new listing data is still trending at all-time lows.

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined.Hopefully, this is just a blip, which can occur from time to time with weekly data.We had a lot of drama over the week between Federal Reserve meetings and banking stress, and mortgage rates and purchase applications both fell.

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week.The fear of not having an increase in inventory this spring should be put to rest.The other focus should be where mortgage rates go; only a little happened last week.Here's a quick rundown of the last week:

Active listing rose 8,260 week to week, down a bit from last week's gain, but I'm not complaining - anything on the plus side is positive.

2022 was a roller coaster year, continuing the strong pandemic and post-pandemic fueled housing market through the first half of the year.Then, in the third quarter, we saw an abrupt stop to the record-breaking housing market.Despite market headwinds, the top brokerages continued to show growth in the 2023 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings.

Microsoft is skipping raises for salaried employees this year.In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees that only hourly workers will receive raises and blamed the move on the uncertain state of the economy."We are clear that we are helping drive a major platform shift in this new era of AI, and doing so in a dynamic, competitive environment while also facing global macroeconomic uncertainties," Nadella wrote.

First I want to speak to Corbin.It is true that Corbin's salary is a sunk cost.What that means is that the Nats are paying it regardless and they need to judge whether and how much Corbin should play based solely on what is best for the team.It is NOT a measure of evaluation.You can still look at Corbin's salary and his performance and say it is bad and it hurts the Nats that they have put that many dollars in and gotten that little out of it.

After a blown save Monday that spoiled the best start of Domingo Germán's career, manager Aaron Boone voiced his confidence in beleaguered closer Clay Holmes and did so again following a tough night on Wednesday.Boone noted that the fanbase's displeasure with the reliever comes amidst a larger skid for the Yankees, one that Holmes himself is hardly the sole reason for, but the sinkerballer has certainly had his struggles in the early going.

The perfect hybrid machine that's just as good a tablet as it is a laptop still doesn't exist.But throughout last year, companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google continued to improve their operating systems for machines that do double duty.Windows 11 has features that make it friendlier for multi-screen devices, while Android has been better optimized for larger displays.

1. Man City Players the Bedrock of England England had a successful international break with back-to-back wins against Italy and Ukraine but one thing was clear in the course of the two games; Manchester City players remain the bedrock of the team.Gareth Southgate started four Man City players in his first XI against the Italians and later switched Jack Grealish for Phil Foden towards the end of the game.

Geometric concrete forms and a reflective pool will define the 10th MPavilion in Australia, which is being designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando.MPavilion 10, which is Japanese architect Ando's first project in Australia, will occupy a site in Queen Victoria Gardens in the centre of Melbourne.

There is a well-known photograph by Peter Spurrier, who has died aged 77, that shows a rowing eight passing a half-timbered boathouse on its way to win the Head of the Charles regatta in Boston, Massachusetts.The picture, taken in 2009, perfectly captures the rhythm and grace of a crew at work during a snowstorm, and shows why Pete was regarded as the master of rowing photography.

Members of far-right group "Comite du 9 Mai" (committee of May 9) gather to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the death of Sebastien Deyzieu of the "Oeuvre Francaise" ultranationist group, during a rally in Paris, on May 6, 2023.Emmanuel Dunand, AFP The Paris police force and France's interior minister faced questions and criticism Monday over why a march of around 600 neo-Nazis through the streets of the capital was authorised at the weekend.

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Pride is returning to southern Brooklyn for yet another year.RUSA LGBTQ+, a network of Russian-speaking individuals and immigrants from parts of the former Soviet Union, will march along the Riegelmann Boardwalk on May 21 to mark the seventh annual edition of Brighton Beach Pride.

The city is set to kick off a public engagement process next month for the Bronx Harlem River Greenway project, a new seven-mile bike and pedestrian path slated to be built along the eastern side of the Harlem River, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.Exact details have yet to be hashed out for the project that will stretch from Van Cortlandt Park in the northwest corner of the Bronx down much of the Harlem River's eastern bank to Randall's Island to the borough's south, according to the mayor.

Samsung has announced the next major iteration of its smartwatch software platform - One UI 5 Watch - and teased a number of improvements to sleep monitoring, fitness tracking, and safety features.The new software will be available later this month to those who register for the Samsung beta program, with Samsung indicating in its announcement post that the full update will land later this year.

Buried deep within Jason Meisner and Ray Long's "ComEd Four" testimony wrap-up story - " Could Michael Madigan be bought?" (April 23) - is something so impossible to fathom that it deserves much more attention."(John) Hooker's defense team, led by attorney Michael Monico, kept out any mention that Hooker headed a group that went to court to halt attempts to diminish the power of Madigan and other political leaders over how legislative district boundaries are redrawn once a decade," Meisner and Long write.

What was the impact of COVID on academics?(Image: Scofield Chan, Whitgift School) The Curse of COVID?With exams round the corner, many students around the country are stressed (or not).Like many other GCSE students, I have sought help from senior students who have completed the course in previous years.

Among the decisions facing whoever replaces Tommy Sheppard as head of basketball operations is what to do with Kristaps Porzingis.The 7-3 Unicorn was Washington's best player last season, and the combination of his height and shooting range made him a nightmare matchup - at least in the first quarter.

To call what's happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement.Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown in the dark line in the graph below.Since this record-keeping began in the early 1980s-the other squiggly lines are previous years-the global average for the world's ocean surfaces has oscillated seasonally between 19.7° and 21° Celsius (67.5° and 69.8° Fahrenheit).

LOS ANGELES I'm so glad we're all here.Robin Thede, the creator, showrunner, writer and star of HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show, was talking aloud to no one in particular at a photo shoot earlier this month, beaming as she surveyed a room populated by what could accurately be called a Black lady P.R. team and a Black lady stylist team (not to mention a Black lady journalist).

News Analysis: If the winner of the RSA Innovation Sandbox says anything about the future of innovation and hype in cybersecurity, brace yourselves for a cottage industry of startups promising to protect AI machine learning models behind enterprise products.At the annual RSA Conference shindig in San Francisco this week, a tiny Texas company called HiddenLayer won the 'Most Innovative Startup' prize for its technology that promises to monitor algorithms for adversarial ML attack techniques.

The former New Jersey governor is one of many Republicans who have attempted to distance themselves from Trump.Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a campaign event for Gov. Brian Kemp on May 17, 2022, in Canton, Georgia.Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) recently suggested that he is considering a 2024 presidential run.

Red Sox "I'm ready to go.I'm really locked in on what I want to do."The Red Sox aren't exactly entering the 2023 season with high expectations.Coming off of a last-place finish in 2022, Boston enters a new 162-game campaign with plenty of question marks, both in the lineup and across its pitching corps.

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