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(Last Updated On: May 2, 2023) NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CUSTARD DAY National Chocolate Custard Day on May 3rd each year celebrates a delicious pudding-like dessert enjoyed by many. #ChocolateCustardDay Pastry chefs and home cooks alike make custards by blending eggs with milk or cream and heating the mixture either on the stove or in the oven. Since custards come in a variety of consistencies, you can choose the one that best fits your dessert preference. For example, they range from a thin liquid-like a crème Anglaise to a firm creme brulee. Custard is also a versatile dessert. When paired with pastries...

A project intended to provide an entire apartment building for “women-only” won’t be as free from Y-chromosomes as initially thought, with organisers admitting that biologically male transgender and non-binary individuals will be allowed to rent flats in the building. A feminist scheme to build a 15-storey apartment block for single women, particularly “vulnerable” women from ethnic minority backgrounds or those facing domestic abuse, has been given the go-ahead by the Ealing Council in west London this week, the BBC reported. Under the plans, men would be prohibited from renting apartments in the building, and would only be allowed into the...

Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Wednesday (May 3), the interior ministry said, as police arrested a teenage student suspected of carrying out the attack. The incident rocked the Balkan nation, where there has not been a school shooting of this magnitude in decades. The shooting occurred at 8:40am (06:40 GMT) at an elementary school in Belgrade's downtown Vracar district. "Eight children and a security guard were killed, while six children and one schoolteacher were wounded," the interior ministry said.

The Fed has increased the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points.Tune in to business news for Powell’s asinine presser

The US government slapped three McDonald’s franchises in Kentucky with more than $200,000 in fines after an investigation found they employed minors, including a 10-year-old who was illegally made to work until 2 a.m. and who was allowed to operate a deep fryer — all without getting paid. A franchise in Louisville employed two 10-year-old workers who were among some two dozen minors under the age of 16 to work across 10 McDonald’s locations owned by Louisville-based Bauer Food LLC, it was alleged. The minors were tasked with preparing and distributing food orders, cleaning the store, manning the drive-thru windows,...

Tori Bowie, a 32-year-old former Olympic track-and-field gold medalist, was found dead in Florida on Tuesday, TMZ reported. A cause of death is unclear as of Wednesday. Bowie’s management team confirmed her death in a statement Wednesday morning on Twitter. “We’re devastated to share the very sad news that Tori Bowie has passed away,” Icon Management said in the statement.

This may be even more disturbing than the AI beer commercial that was posted here yesterday. It's like Hieronymus Bosch got hired to make TV ads. Burger Blast 1985 - AI Generated Commercial

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was "unbelievable" that data revealed earlier this year show the number of journalists killed in 2022 was 50% higher than during the previous year. UNESCO's data record the deaths of 86 journalists during 2022, "amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021." But it's also the nature of that threat worrying officials at UNESCO. "When we started this monitoring many years ago, the main cause of journalists killings in the world was journalists covering conflicts, and now this is the minority of the killings," Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, who...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly preparing a contingency plan in the event that Russia sustains more losses in the war against Ukraine, sources have said. Russia's presidential administration sent an instruction manual to the Kremlin's team of propagandists, urging not to 'underestimate' Ukraine's planned counter-offensive and not to spread the idea Kyiv is not ready for it. Ukraine's strategy is thought to focus on the eastern side of the Dnipro River, near Kherson city. Infiltration of the area is an attempt to dislodge Russian forces from positions they are using to shell Ukraine-held Kherson. Independent news outlet Meduza - which obtained...

If you had any doubt that Bernie Sanders (I-USSR) was an actual Communist, doubt no longer. The guy who stands ready in case Old Joe retires and the Democrats opt to pick another octogenarian Leftist sat down Friday for a chat with Chris Wallace on HBO Max, and declared that if someone earns more than $999 million in a given year, the U.S. government should seize all of it. That’s right: all of it. Not 90 percent. Every last penny. And he showed no indication of having any idea why this policy, if it were ever enacted, would kill the...

At least six Russian regions have scrapped 9 May Victory Day parades that mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany amid fears over Ukrainian strikes, with a region 400 miles from the border being the latest to cancel. The governor of Saratov announced the parade there would not go ahead because of “safety concerns”, adding to a string of cancellations that are a glaring admission of the country’s military vulnerability more than 14 months into the war. Earlier, heads of Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Oryol, and Pskov region, as well as the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, similarly cancelled their annual military parades....

While Bud Light has seemingly seen the brunt of the backlash to its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney coming from conservatives opposed to the brand aligning itself with the transgender community, a growing number of voices from that community are now speaking out against the beer. Since calls for a boycott emerged on social media at the start of April, Bud Light's parent company has, in the words of a marketing strategist, made a series of "knee-jerk" moves to quell the outrage, including releasing an advert for Budweiser infused with patriotic imagery and placing marketing executives involved in the partnership on...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Atlanta police are responding to an “active shooter” at a medical complex in Midtown. According to officials, multiple people were injured and taken to Grady Hospital. No suspect is in custody, police said. “Anyone in the area is asked to secure their building and continue to shelter in place. Anyone not in the area is asked to stay away,” APD said in a statement. This happened at 1100 West Peachtree Street in a building that houses several medical offices and is operated by Northside Hospital. Atlanta News First has a crew on the scene...

A few years ago I came across a photo of an American solder posing with a tiger he shot during a patrol. Tigers were a threat in Vietnam, especially to LRRPs (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol soldiers) who would go behind enemy lines for days at a time and report on enemy activity. Shortly after sharing, a reader named Larry Flanagan said he was the man in the picture. “The soldier in the picture is me,” Flanagan wrote. “I was with K Co. 75th Rangers, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division LRRPs. I was the team leader of a four-man team doing...

Just when I thought I had seen the worst clowns of all time, a new bozo enters the arena and takes the prize. Watch this woke Karen who thought it was her duty to confront a father because his little girl, two years old, wears the color pink. VIDEO AT LINK................... This lady comes in with all her super-liberal, super-woke talking points about gender norms, gender fluidity, and sexuality. Meanwhile, this guy is just doing his best to raise his little girl as a little girl. And she has the AUDACITY to claim the DAD is confusing his baby girl...

Jackson Mahomes, the brother of Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes, was arrested on an aggravated sexual battery charge Wednesday stemming from an incident at a Kansas restaurant in February, jail records show. Mahomes, 22, was booked in the Johnson County Jail at around 7:42 a.m. local time. He was being held on $100,000 bond. He is set to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. local on Wednesday afternoon. In February, the TikTok star was being investigated for allegedly shoving a waiter and forcibly kissing the female owner of an Overland Park. The owner of the restaurant, Aspen Vaughn, told The...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated denial of his country's responsibility for an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Moscow says targeted President Vladimir Putin. Russian officials said Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time of the attack. "We don't attack Putin, or Moscow, we fight on our territory," Zelenskyy told a news conference in Helsinki, where he is attending a meeting with Nordic leaders. The Ukrainian president suggested that Russia staged the attack because "Putin needs to motivate his people" after a shortage of Russian victories in the ongoing war. He said Kyiv will leave it to...

Former President Donald Trump maintains a substantial lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in Morning Consult’s latest Republican presidential primary tracker poll.The poll published on Tuesday shows that 56 percent of potential Republican primary voters back Trump for the nomination. He sits 34 points ahead of DeSantis, who has not announced a White House bid, at 22 percent. DeSantis has gained slightly compared to last week’s poll, which had him and the 45th president at 24 percent and 58 percent, respectively.2024 National Republican Primary• Trump — 56% (+34)• DeSantis — 22%• Pence — 7%• Haley — 4%• Ramaswamy — 3%•...

Princess Leia arrived to the beach with Darth Vader, a scruffy Ewok and one of Jabba the Hutt’s hefty henchman. Although it sounds like the setup for a joke you’d tell Greedo over drinks at the Mos Eisley Cantina, it happened 40 years ago, when Carrie Fisher showed up to Stinson Beach in Marin for a Rolling Stone photo shoot in the summer of 1983. The magazine had reached out to Los Angeles-based photographer Aaron Rapoport to tackle the assignment. Despite windy conditions, a crowded beach and three costumed subjects lumbering through the sand, the shoot resulted in a classic...

The nationwide test known as the “Nation’s Report Card” has revealed a historic low for eighth-grade history scores, and also saw the first-ever drop in civics scores, in the year 2022.As reported by the state-funded NPR, the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show the lowest levels ever for history scores since the NAEP first began in 1994. This comes after several consecutive years of reading and math scores consistently dropping among fourth-graders and eighth-graders, which has been directly attributed to the “remote learning” model of learning that was implemented during the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic.Education Secretary...