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Pinkerton Plains, South Australia

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Pinkerton Plains, South Australia

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York krabbelden maandag wat op na de zware koersverliezen op vrijdag. De stemming bleef terughoudend door de aanhoudende oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, die de vijfde week is ingegaan. Beleggers lijken wel enige moed te putten uit opmerkingen van president Donald Trump dat de Verenigde Staten en Iran "direct en indirect" overleg hebben gevoerd en dat Pakistan, als tussenpersoon, heeft aangegeven dat er de komende dagen "betekenisvolle gesprekken" zouden kunnen plaatsvinden.

De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,7 procent hoger op 45.483 punten. De brede S&P 500-index klom 0,6 procent tot 6406 punten en techbeurs Nasdaq steeg 0,5 procent tot 21.050 punten. Beleggers maken zich op voor een verkorte handelsweek. Op Goede Vrijdag is Wall Street gesloten. Het banenrapport van de Amerikaanse overheid wordt op die dag echter wel gepubliceerd. Dat rapport speelt een belangrijke rol in het rentebeleid van de Federal Reserve.

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By far the biggest musician to have joined the membership-based platform, Dylan’s posts have so far been puzzling – and therefore entirely in character

A couple of years back, the august music writer David Hepworth came up with a great line about Bob Dylan. Dylan, he averred, “is like China: we can see what he’s doing, but never quite work out why he’s doing it”. That’s certainly true about the unexpected launch of the 84-year-old singer-songwriter’s Patreon. Everything about it is confusing.

For one, there’s the choice of platform. Plenty of major music stars have flocked to the newsletter provider Substack in recent years to share their thoughts or show their workings and, perhaps, earn a little cash on the side: everyone from Patti Smith and Dolly Parton to Charli xcx and Rosalía. But Patreon, where fans pay monthly subscriptions for exclusive content from all sorts of creators – podcasters, visual artists – has never really taken off with big rock and pop musicians: the biggest name it could boast, until now, was Ben Folds.

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Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects

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JD Vance, the vice-president of the United States, said this weekend that he considers aliens to be “demons”.

As the war in Iran continues, petrol and grocery prices soar and chaos continues at US airports as a partial government shutdown endures, Vance appeared on the conservative Benny Show podcast, released Saturday, to promise that he would spend time looking into what he called his “obsession” with UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors.

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Er waren zorgen of een deel van de Iraakse selectie veilig het Midden-Oosten zou kunnen verlaten om in Mexico het allesbeslissende WK-kwalificatieduel tegen Bolivia te spelen. Na een lange reis is het team in Monterrey, maar de oorlog is nooit ver weg.