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If you ever drank a glass of clean water, caught a freshwater fish, swam in a lake or even maybe avoided a flood, you have directly benefited from wetlands.But those benefits are drying up, thanks to a Supreme Court decision that has overturned five decades of wetland protections.The 1972 federal Clean Water Act (CWA) protects the physical, chemical and biological health of the nation's surface waters.

I read about Liam in a newspaper report.He had been arrested over the weekend for being an inebriated pedestrian and was sent to court.There he yelled profanities at the judge, including the f-word.He was warned but continued, ever louder, ever more profane.With each outburst the twenty-four-year-old was sentenced an additional two weeks over his originally brief overnight detention.

It's hard to get much more frustrating than losing 1) a winnable game against a subpar opponent, and 2) your MVP right fielder for at least 10 days in the span of one night, but that's what happened for the Yankees on Tuesday.It'll be a little while until Aaron Judge comes back, and as DJ LeMahieu unfortunately demonstrated late last year, the Yankees will have to be very careful with how they handle the toe injury recovery.

Forms are an integral part of web applications.They are the primary means of data input, enabling users to interact and engage with an application.Therefore, having efficient, reusable form components can significantly boost a developer's productivity.In this article, I'll share how I refactored my forms with a simple, reusable input component in React.

Andrew Tate is a despicable character.Most grown-ups understand this without much thought.After all, the proudly misogynistic social media influencer was charged with human trafficking and rape in Romania, a nation the U.S. State Department considers " a primary source country for sex trafficking."

All dads have that moment eventually.Maybe it's while you're doling out some dad-ly wisdom (never underestimate the lifelong utility of "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey"), or when you pull out a dad joke just to get a groan out of your kids, but at one point or another it's bound to happen: the realization that you're turning into your father.

Screens are a fun, addicting relationship killer.This isn't news to anyone: their primary function is to distract and present us windows into different worlds that are more engaging than real life.Let's face it: Scrolling through someone's vacation Instagram stories or playing a round of Wordscapes is a pleasant distraction from talking about soccer schedules or parent-teacher meetings.

The problem isn't that Brad Treliving is the newest GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but instead, it's Brendan Shanahan's explanation of it.As previously mentioned, Brad Treliving is a good executive with a long hockey career, but he never should have been hired as the Toronto Maple Leafs GM.Reports already indicate that the core-four will remain the same next year, which is fine, but why hire someone new if they're going to do the same thing and not at least scare the roster that they could be moved?

Knee and anterior hip pain are amongst the most common injuries and sensitivities for runners, and ultra-trail runners, in particular.The demands of ultramarathon distances and severe vertical gains and losses can put extraordinary strain, not just on the joints of the knee and hip, but also on the surrounding soft tissues - both to power the legs up the mountainous climbs, but also to cushion the landing as we descend back down.

After months of speculation about when Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now.Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, many of them trained at military bases in Europe and outfitted with heavy Western armor, are now launching simultaneous operations at several points along the 600-mile-long front line in the country's east and south.

Welcome to the world of Find a Grave, where millions of death and cemetery records are waiting to be discovered.Whether you're an amateur genealogist or simply curious about your family history, Find a Grave is the ultimate resource for uncovering fascinating stories of those who have passed on.With its vast collection of burial records and online memorials, this platform offers a unique opportunity to connect with the past like never before.

Rishi Sunak has refused to back down in the extraordinary row over Boris Johnson's messages as his government launched legal action against the Covid inquiry in a last-ditch attempt to protect the material.The Cabinet Office will seek a judicial review of inquiry chair Baroness Hallett's demand to release the former PM's WhatsApp messages and notebooks revealing the unprecedented move in a letter to her team.

WWDC23 is scheduled to occur in a month, and during this event, Apple may unveil some highly anticipated hardware.However, it's crucial not to underestimate the significance of the software announcements, as the Cupertino giant is poised to reveal its upcoming software plans.Anticipated announcements include iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 14, and other exciting developments.

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Dave Roberts sat in the dugout, scanned the Cincinnati Reds' lineup and tried to devise a late-game plan.At the start of their recent six-game trip, the Dodgers had a three-run lead with nine outs to get at Great American Ball Park.Roberts knew the three relievers he wanted to use.

In React, managing state and passing data between components can sometimes be challenging, especially when dealing with deeply nested components.This is where the useContext hook comes to the rescue.useContext provides an elegant solution by allowing us to access and update the state across components without the need for prop drilling.

A flat, rounded shell.A tail that's folded under the body.This is what a crab looks like, and apparently what peak performance might look like at least according to evolution.A crab-like body plan has evolved at least five separate times among decapod crustaceans, a group that includes crabs, lobsters and shrimp.

Over time, web development has increasingly become about delivering an excellent and consistent user experience.One common challenge faced by many developers is maintaining state persistence, especially when dealing with reloads or revisits to our apps.React's useState hook offers a straightforward way to handle state within our components, but it doesn't persist state across sessions.

A medic gives the cholera vaccination to a child during a vaccination campaign in the town of Maaret Misrin in the rebel-held northern part of the northwestern Idlib province on March 7, 2023.Omar Haj Kadour, AFP One billion people in 43 countries are at risk of cholera -- a "pandemic killing the poor" -- despite prevention and treatment being relatively straightforward, the United Nations warned on Friday.

(Image credit: Bickerstaff.938)Several things make Bickerstaff.938(and Bickerstaff.555for that matter) a little unusual as an advertising agency.Its name changes from day to the next, and its logo looks like a child's drawing.It's also operating from country that's facing a horrendous military invasion.

Let's face it: today's job market is tougher than ever.We work in a competitive global landscape, and it can be difficult to stand out!That's where a powerful and striking resume design comes in.But hiring managers may see hundreds of resumes.How can you help ensure that yours gets noticed?Resume templates for Figma are a great starting point.

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The best AI art generators have unleashed a controversial new technology on the art and design worlds.Some people love them, and some hate them.Others are curious or are keeping an open mind, interested in seeing how AI image generators might fit into their workflows but with reservations about how they were trained or where they might take us.

Choosing the right plugin for Gatsby can be quite a headache, especially if you don't know their purpose, what they can do, and if they are compatible with your existing codebase.In this first part of a two-part hands-on guide, Juan Rodriguez explains how to use several i18n plugins for Gatsby and reviews some others.

In Part 1 of the series, Kirill covered how to make regular JavaScript objects behave like primitive values.Now, let's look closely at the usefulness of primitive objects, exploring how reducing capabilities could be a benefit for your project.Writing programs in JavaScript is approachable at the beginning.

Gustavo Dudamel began his reign at the New York Philharmonic on Friday with an ending.Greeted with a roar from the audience as he appeared with the orchestra at David Geffen Hall for the first time since being named its next music director, this superstar maestro conducted Mahler's ninth and final completed symphony, one of the repertory's great evocations of farewell.

There was a blissfully summery dinner on the table this week.A salmon pie, the pastry crisp, the filling soft and creamy a mixture of spinach, salmon and creme fraiche.The pie was followed by a dessert of honey-sweetened gooseberries and crisp meringues with centres like marshmallow.It was the first evening meal in the garden this year, and was memorable for both its seasonality and ease.

City's journey to the Champions League final in Istanbul moved closer as they faced Real Madrid in the semi-final.The blues were eager to dispel the ghosts of last season, when they took a 4-3 first leg lead to the Bernabau, and were minutes from reaching the final until they suffered two minutes of madness.

Trans-rights supporters filled a meeting of Florida's medical boards on Feb. 10, 2023 in Tallahassee.The boards voted to approve rules banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth, rules later codified by the state legislature.Melissa Block/NPR If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 9-8-8, or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

As a butcher, the Meat Hook's Brent Young has made, by his own estimate, "many, many, many, many burgers."At his Brooklyn restaurant Cozy Royale, that burger is dry-aged and topped with raclette and bacon jam, or - as part of a recent collaboration series - reinterpreted all sorts of ways by guest chefs (see this recent al pastor burger).

Had Wolves fans been told on the eve of their last encounter with Everton that when the teams met again on the penultimate weekend of the season, one club would still be scrapping to avoid a perilous descent into the Championship, most would have assumed it would be theirs.Going into that game at Goodison Park on 26 December, Wolves were bottom of the table having taken one point from the five matches immediately before the World Cup.

Officially, at least, the Yankees will be without Aaron Judge for at least a week after formally placing him on the injured list Wednesday with a sprain of the big toe on his right foot.But Judge who hurt himself on a leaping catch that carried him through the right field fence at Dodger Stadium on Saturday has no actual timeline for returning to the active roster.

With only a few weeks left until the start of free agency, the Washington Wizards are about to face pivotal questions about their roster.With the revamped front office, the expectation from the Wizards is to tear down the roster and start a rebuild.Two major decisions are due at the end of June that will be huge factors for where the Wizards go from here: the player options for Kristaps Porzingis and Kyle Kuzma.

The taquito!It's a tiny dream in a tortilla simplicity incarnate, endlessly amenable.Hardly as ubiquitous as its sibling the taco, and slightly less elaborate than the sauced enchilada, it can come smothered in queso fresco and lettuce, if that's how you'd prefer it, or unadorned in a paper wrap, or spread atop smoking pastel plates.

For most people, wine is a commodity on a shelf, a treat for when the mood strikes.For the mass-market companies, wine might as well be pencils or paper towels merchandise to move.But for serious-minded producers and fans, wine has a far deeper meaning that cuts almost to the core of human existence.

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In Python, it's often important to check whether a string is empty or None before performing operations on it.This can prevent unexpected errors and make your code more robust.But what is the most efficient and Pythonic way to do this?And what potential pitfalls should you watch out for?

Kivy is an open-source Python software library for developing graphical user interfaces.It supports cross-platform development for the desktop as well as the creation of multi-touch apps for mobile devices.Kivy apps can run across several platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and IOS.

Editor's note: Dr.-Ing.Thomas Albin is a speaker for ODSC Europe this June 14th-15th.Be sure to check out his talk, "Space Science with Python - Enabling Citizen Scientists," there!2009, a paper by Postberg et al. was published in Nature.The title: Sodium Salts in E-Ring Ice Grains from an Ocean Below the Surface of Enceladus.

Labour is more trusted than the Conservatives on immigration, a new poll has found as official figures are expected to show a large increase in net migration.After a rise in public confidence in the Tories' immigration, asylum and small boats policies in March, a poll carried out by Ipsos between May 16 and 18 found trust had fallen again, with Labour leading on all three issues.

Rishi Sunak has issued a warning to Vladimir Putin that we're not going away as world leaders at the G7 summit in Japan broadcast they are not wavering in their support for Ukraine.The Prime Minister said on Friday the Russian president needs to understand the Western allies are steadfast in supporting Volodymyr Zelensky's resistance against the invasion.

Councils need to have the final say on whether homes can be built on green belt land, according to Sir Keir Starmer.Ahead of addressing the British Chambers of Commerce, the Labour leader told The Times housebuilding was key to achieving the sort of growth we need in this country.He said a discussion was needed over allowing building on the green belt if it meets local needs.

Just three games for the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates on Tuesday, as Low-A San Jose had a day off after playing on Memorial Day.Let's jump into the action!Link to the 2023 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions are the positions played in that game.

Do voters care about how badly their local councils are doing their job - or do they just follow national trends?We looked at four failing councils in England, to find out whether they were punished at the ballot box in this month's local elections.The four councils - Liverpool, Sandwell in the West Midlands, Slough in Berkshire and Thurrock in Essex - have all seen the government step in to help sort out major problems.

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The five words tucked into a bill listing the rights of homeless people in New York City seem straightforward enough: The right to sleep outside.The bill is sitting on the desk of Mayor Eric Adams.If it becomes law, it would seem to answer a question that has become a point of contention in big cities trying to cope with rising homelessness, including New York, where Mr. Adams's administration takes down dozens of urban campsites each week: Do homeless people really have a right to sleep outside here?

Since recreational marijuana was legalized statewide in March 2021, weed now seems ubiquitous on New York City roadways.At smoke shops, customers drive off after blazing up.In motion or at red lights, smoke wafts from car windows, the smell mingling with exhaust fumes in a pungent miasma.It's coming from all walks of life.

1. Understand the basics of typeface design, including how to work with curves, create a consistent style and form, and use proper spacing and kerning.
2. Consider how your font design will look at different sizes and in different contexts.
3. Experiment with different tools and techniques to

1. The ZDI identified three different attack methods for exploiting the Sonos One speaker, including a cross-site scripting vulnerability, an authentication bypass vulnerability, and a command injection vulnerability.
2. The vulnerabilities were exploited during the Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition, showcasing the serious security risks posed by

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Members of City Council's Housing and Planning Committee grappled during a Tuesday briefing with how to best approach moving forward on a set of amendments to the city's Land Development Code.The discussion occurred at the committee's May 23 special called meeting, during which it received a briefing from staff on a plan for prioritizing the amendments.

The United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, issued a public advisory on Tuesday warning of the risks of social media use to young people.In a 19-page report, Dr. Murthy noted that although the effects of social media on adolescent mental health were not fully understood, and that social media can be beneficial to some users, there are ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.

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The Formovie Dice is a portable LED DLP projector, but not necessarily in the form factor one would expect.Usually, portable projectors tend to be much more "pocketable", whereas units with the general dimensions of the Dice tend to suggest stationary operation.The Dice chooses to walk the unbeaten path.

Now more widely available, Bard can not only help with programming and Google Sheets functions but also make it easy to move a response into Gmail or a Google Doc.Bard, an experimental chat system from Google, provides responses to prompts.It conveys content in conventional language, unlike a Google keyword search that delivers a result built around links.

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We speak to GoDaddy CTO Charles Beadnall about how to prove an IT project works as intended
There are many who will argue the case for building and deploying a new IT system to streamline a business process.Some are able to calculate the return on investment, but few can say, with a high degree of accuracy, the level of improvement on the way the business process was run before the new software.

The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) called on the NMLS policy committee to make it a requirement for every state to adopt a broker-specific license option amid the committee seeking feedback on a proposal to adopt a standardized approach for the mortgage industry licensing.The NMLS does not require mortgage brokers to provide audited financials to the agency every year, but there are 18 states that don't have broker-specific licenses.

Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire is the site where the body of Dr David Kelly was discovered in 2003.A public inquiry found that he had died by suicide.From 1991 up until the time of his death, Kelly had been a lead member of the scientific teams tasked by the United Nations with monitoring and removing Iraq's chemical and biological weapons capability.

A conference run by a rightwing US thinktank might be expected to feature robust discourse on culture wars and identity.But the National Conservatism gathering has gone notably further: with speeches using terms linked to antisemitism and the far right.The debate over cultural Marxists and globalists, as used by onstage speakers at the gathering in Westminster, one of them a Conservative MP, is a microcosm of the wider jostling about the populist right and language.

Ah, AI.It's quickly become one of the buzziest words of 2023, akin to the popularity of the phrase "new normal" in 2022.And for good reason.AI is poised to completely revolutionize the ways in which we work, interact, and even play.I've been on the HubSpot Blog team for over five years, and in that time, I've seen plenty of changes.

Reddit represents a significant audience development opportunity for publishers
Clocking up more than 1.6 billion monthly visits from 430 million monthly active users across more than 100,000 communities, Reddit offers a significant audience development opportunity for publishers.And a recent article in What's New In Publishing says that the industry is starting to pay attention.

U.S. weapons sales fly in the face of Biden's claims to be leading "democracies" in a global fight against autocracy.U.S. President Joe Biden being welcomed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Alsalam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022.Royal Court of Saudi Arabia / Handout / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images President Joe Biden claims that the United States is leading "democracies" in a fight against "autocracies" to establish a peaceful international order, but his administration approved weapons sales to nearly three-fifths of the world's authoritarian countries in 2022.

The battle lines in Toronto's upcoming mayoral race may feel familiar to some: A conservative has left office and a wide open race to replace him has taken shape.Candidates lament a city in disrepair and spar over the future of the waterfront.It all resembles 2003, city hall watchers say, when Toronto elected its first and only centre-left mayor since amalgamation in 1998.