London’s biggest productions could be hit if industrial action over pay and conditions goes ahead, says union

Some of the biggest West End shows could be forced to temporarily close during a “summer of turbulence” in London after union members voted to move towards strike action over a dispute about pay and conditions.

An indicative ballot held by the performing arts union, Equity, was overwhelmingly backed by its membership: 98% voted yes to potential strikes. The result means the union now has the right to have a statutory ballot on taking industrial action.

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From beans, lentils and tofu to chicken, pork, beef and fish, experts weigh the health benefits and potential drawbacks

Do you think you’re not getting enough protein? Debbie Fetter, an associate professor in nutrition at the University of California, Davis, likes to ask her students this same question. In a lecture hall of more than 500 people, “almost every hand shoots up”, she says.

Protein is top of mind for consumers. A 2024 survey of 3,000 Americans suggests most are trying to eat more of it, and research shows that foods labeled “more protein” are especially appealing to consumers.

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Officials from Baltic states say Moscow behind latest such incident but also tell Kyiv to be more careful with its routing

A Romanian F-16 Nato jet shot down a drone over Estonia on Tuesday in what appears to be the latest case of Russian electronic jamming diverting long-range Ukrainian drones into the alliance’s territory.

A local resident told the Estonian public broadcaster, ERR, that he had seen two fighter jets – part of a Nato force policing the skies over the Baltic states – flying in the area before a loud bang that brought the drone down. He said the drone had crashed about 30 metres from the nearest residential building.

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Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
This fascinating and bold concert featured the works of the ‘word man’ and the ‘note man’, and their absurdist radio play Words and Music

A few months before he died, Morton Feldman told a radio interviewer that he considered Samuel Beckett to be “a word man, a fantastic word man” and that he, Feldman, always thought of himself as a note man. The two worked together twice, first on an opera and then, in 1987, on Words and Music, an absurdist radio play that Beckett repurposed with Feldman’s music. Their mutual sympathy was apparent in Sheffield Chamber Music festival’s affectionate staging of the latter, which occupied this concert’s second half.

Before that, however, the juxtaposition of a minimalist Beckett monologue with one of Feldman’s classic uncoordinated scores laid bare their deep artistic synergy. Rockaby, a desolate exploration of ageing and isolation, was the opener. Directed in the round by Vicky Featherstone, the rigid protagonist – a magnetic Siobhán McSweeney – revolved in her rocking chair, listening and occasionally responding to her own recorded voice. It was hard not to sense the heavy hand of dementia behind the singsong fragments and the fading woman’s desperate final quest for human connection.

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Een steeds groter wordende zandplaat zorgt er al jaren voor dat het strand van Rockanje langzaam verdwijnt. De dorpsraad en ondernemers maken zich grote zorgen over het toerisme. "We zijn afhankelijk van het strand", zo klinkt de noodkreet.

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Bij de meeste mensen staat Humberto Tan bekend als een intellectuele veelvraat die het Nederlandse volk aan het denken heeft gezet, anderen zien in hem een estheet die ons de schoonheid van de fotografie bijbracht, maar, laten we er niet omheen draaien, er kleefde ook altijd een (vet) randje aan de man: hij was natuurlijk veel te dik. Je werd bij het kijken naar Humberto Tan in gesprek met De Groten Der Aarde toch altijd een beetje afgeleid door zijn onderkin(nen), je nam zijn takes over sport toch altijd net een tikkie minder serieus omdat ze afkomstig leken van een soort kale Billie Turf, en om eerlijk te zijn snapten wij op een gegeven moment wel dat Dionne Stax voor een jonger en fitter exemplaar koos. Maar. Nu is daar opeens: de Humberto Tan 2.0. Voor het tijdschrift Men's Health (dat het kennelijk gezond vindt als een jongen van 18 halfnaakt naast zijn eveneens halfnaakte vader staat met de uitspraak "Mijn vader ziet er nog steeds heel goed uit") gooide hij zijn levensstijl om en stopte eindelijk met het drinken van twee glazen cola per dag. Twee glazen cola per dag ook echt. Hoe doodziek is dat. Één glas cola per dag vinden wij al veel, maar twee (2)! Dat is absurd, het is überhaupt een wonder dat Tan nog een beetje normaal functioneerde. Niks geks dat hij op een gegeven moment alleen nog maar op een breedbeeldtelevisie paste. Maar zo ziet u maar. Alles kan veranderen. Je kunt de controle over het stuur van je leven terugpakken en van iemand die twee glazen cola per dag drinkt veranderen in een absolute ripped seksgod zoals Humberto Tan. Hulde man, hulde.

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If you use Drupal, get ready to patch without delay. The org behind the popular open source content management system is warning of a highly critical vulnerability in Drupal core that is serious enough for it to tell users ahead of Wednesday’s patch release to set aside time to install the fix immediately. The Drupal Security Team’s Monday PSA announcing the imminent patch for Drupal core doesn’t include any specifics, with the PSA noting that Drupal isn’t willing to share additional information until the announcement is made alongside the patch release. That, says Drupal, will happen at some point between 1700 and 2100 UTC on Wednesday, May 20. To reiterate, this vulnerability is found in Drupal core, the bare-bones version of Drupal designed for developers, and not Drupal CMS, the preconfigured version for those who want Drupal but don’t have coding skills. Drupal noted that sites using Drupal Steward, its paid web application firewall service, are protected against known attack vectors, though it still recommends Steward customers update their core instances in case additional exploit methods emerge. “The Drupal Security Team urges you to reserve time for core updates at that time because exploits might be developed within hours or days,” the advisory warns. Drupal also recommends users update to the latest supported release prior to Wednesday’s patch “so that you can address any other upgrade issues before the security window." While it won’t get specific on the nature of the vulnerability, Drupal did share its severity score based on NIST’s standard scoring methodology, and it’s not good: The bug scored 20 out of a max of 25 on that scale, as defined by Drupal’s own documentation. More specifically, it’s trivially easy to leverage, doesn’t require any privilege level to exploit, could make all non-public data on an affected site accessible to the attacker, and could allow an attacker to modify or delete whatever they wanted. The only two things preventing it from scoring a perfect 25/25 are the fact that a known exploit doesn’t exist yet and that it doesn’t affect all configurations, only those using “uncommon module configurations.” Drupal noted that security releases will be published on Wednesday for all currently supported core branches (11.3.x, 11.2.x, 10.6.x, and 10.5.x), as well as unsupported Drupal 11.1.x and 10.4.x branches for sites that have not yet upgraded from older 10.x and 11.x releases. Drupal users on 8.9 and 9.5 are also getting patches “given the potential severity of this issue,” though the advisory warns 8.9 and 9.5 users will need to install those updates manually, which “might introduce other bugs or regressions,” leading Drupal to recommend a full upgrade to a supported core branch. “Drupal 8 and 9 include numerous other, previously disclosed, security vulnerabilities that will not be addressed by either Drupal Steward or the best-effort patch files,” the advisory said. Drupal 7 users are safe. Given the fact that not all Drupal core environments will be affected, the advisory recommends all Drupal core users set aside time on Wednesday to determine whether they’re part of the vulnerable class, and take action immediately if so. Drupal’s security team didn’t respond to questions for this story. ®

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