De vrouw was zaterdag aan het werk in het verblijf van twee mannelijke panters toen ze werd aangevallen. Met ernstige verwondingen werd de medewerker naar het ziekenhuis vervoerd.

Hebron, de grootste Palestijnse stad op de Westelijke Jordaanoever, is grotendeels afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Ruim drieduizend bewoners zijn verdreven, kort voor de parlementsverkiezingen in Israël. Ook het kleurrijke buurtje Al-Maskobiya is niet langer veilig.

Boetes mogen niet worden verhoogd om het begrotingsgat te dichten, vinden CDA en Pro. Het verkeersboetebeleid oogst al langer kritiek. Volgens de partijen moeten allereerst de „disproportionele ophogingen” worden gehalveerd. Ernstige overtredingen moeten juist harder worden bestraft.

In Izumi Kato’s surreal paintings, stones appear to float, bodies disappear in water, and feet become fish tails. In his new eponymous solo exhibition at Perrotin, two- and three-dimensional works converge in a dreamlike grouping where time slips, bodies morph, and space is simultaneously flattened, compartmentalized, and stretched.

The Tokyo- and Hong Kong-based artist’s practice has evolved from painting to include wood forms, soft vinyl sculptures, and cast metal. As Kato explores materiality, his sculptures emerge from the same almost alchemical approach to canvas. He paints the tiny wooden figures with the same approach he does a flat surface, and the stones are actually lightweight cast aluminum, which at times the artist suspends from the ceiling in a play on perception.

Kato has long painted what he refers to as hitogata, which literally means “dolls” in Japanese. These humanoid figures often emerge from totem-like stacks of multiple canvases that evoke the surrealist drawing technique of cadavre exquis, or exquisite corpse. The figures’ eyes swirl like tiny pools, and their noses and mouths uncannily merge, blending into nebulous forms around the forehead or the mind. Sometimes their limbs or torsos transmogrify into amphibious legs or the refractions of light in water. Their enigmatic features and vacant stares transcend time; they may be visiting from the future, or they could be ancients.

A repeating motif of marine creatures nods to Kato’s longtime love of fishing, itself a primordial human activity. An uncanny wooden sculpture perched on a stand consisting of two rods, for instance, has the trophy-like appearance of an aquatic animal or a lure, and its small rider evokes a kind of spiritual or metaphysical connection between humans and the sea. Other compositions incorporate an above-and-below view of pelagic ecosystems replete with coral, jellyfish, and a shark.

Kato’s protagonists seem to alternate between appearing and disappearing into their surroundings, their expressions inscrutable. Do they feel threatened? Hopeful? Concerned? In an exhibition essay, Katonah Museum of Art director and chief curator Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe says, “When considered as a whole, this new body of work affirms the undeniable bond between humanity and nature, and the enduring continuum of the creative impulse across chronologies and geographies to seek the answer of what it means to be human.”

The exhibition opens tomorrow and continues through December 19 in New York City.

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Driedubbele rampspoed voor 2 Oekraïense broers: een oorlog ontvluchten, terechtkomen in Hengelo en er door het COA worden uitgeknikkerd. Dat laatste hebben ze best wel aan zichzelf te danken: "De broers kregen begin oktober een locatieverbod nadat medewerkers op hun gedeelde kamer harddrugs, gevaarlijke grondstoffen en een groot mes hadden aangetroffen." Het locatieverbod bleek een behoorlijke upgrade: "Omdat er geen andere opvangplek beschikbaar was, verbleven ze tijdelijk in een hotel." Het hotel werd betaald door de advocaat (wie de advocaat betaalt, is dan weer een gezellig vraagteken). De broers, bekend om grote messen en principes, willen dat de gemeente opdraait voor deze kosten.

Het wordt nog Nederlandser: "De voorzieningenrechter vindt dat de gemeente onvoldoende heeft aangetoond dat zij alles heeft gedaan om ander onderdak te vinden." De gemeente blijft namelijk verplicht om in hun eerste levensbehoeften, bijvoorbeeld het opslaan van gevaarlijke stoffen bij 80 kinderen, te voorzien.

De broeders mogen niet terug naar de opvang. Maar de gemeente wordt wel gedwongen een vorm van opvang aan te bieden: "Als de gemeente niet binnen 24 uur opvang regelt, loopt de dwangsom op tot 2000 euro per dag voor beide broers samen. Dat bedrag kan oplopen tot maximaal 60.000 euro. De gemeente moet daarnaast 1868 euro aan proceskosten en 200 euro aan griffierecht vergoeden. Daar blijft het mogelijk niet bij. Zolang er geen beslissing is genomen over het bezwaar, moet de gemeente de broers opvang bieden. Hoeveel dit gaat kosten, hangt af van de vorm van opvang en hoelang de procedure nog duurt. Als de gemeente opnieuw niet aan de uitspraak voldoet, kan de boete verder oplopen, tot het maximale bedrag van 60.000 euro."

In Hengelo blijf je nog even, aldus de rechter en de citymarketingslogan.

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Sometimes you’ve just got to roll with the punches. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella was knocked down recently: his total compensation for the corporation’s fiscal 2026 is 6 percent lighter than it was in the prior year. The leader of the software and cloud biz pocketed $90.6 million, including a $2.5 million base salary, $77.6 million in stock awards, $10.3 million non-equity incentive plan compensation and $259,203 in all other compensation (chiefly security for personal travel, charitable gifts and pension contributions). As Reg readers are no doubt be aware, stock vests at a different rate annually and in the latest full-year Nadella was awarded a lower figure, despite breezing through all of his financial and operational targets. Revenue for Microsoft's fiscal 2026 ended June 30 was up 18 percent to $331.8 billion and operating profit was 18 percent higher - at $155.237 billion - than SatNad's $130.96 billion target. Together, these areas accounted for 70 percent of the bossman’s remuneration goals. Operational assessment including security, strategic transformation and culture made up the rest. The executive pay scale was outlined in the Notice of Annual Shareholder Meeting and Proxy Statement 2026. Other highlights in that financial year included a 27 percent bounce in revenue generated by the Cloud division to $214.4 billion. Microsoft added 88 datacenters to its portfolio, and had 30 million paid Copilot seats. "The scale of adoption reflects growing customer confidence in Microsoft's ability to deliver enterprise-ready AI capabilities integrated directly into existing workflows. Microsoft also delivered 625 Copilot updates during the year, reflecting its rapid pace of innovation and commitment to customer feedback," Microsoft claimed. "Large-scale enterprise deployments accelerated across industries, with the number of customers deploying Copilot broadly across their organizations continuing to increase as Copilot evolved from an AI assistant into a platform for agentic work." GitHub captured 225 million users - 50 million of these used Copilot, with one in three "pull requests involving an agent." Industry-specific AI services expanded, such as Dragon Copilot for healthcare, now used by "100,000 healthcare providers to help automate administrative and clinical workflows." The rest of the C-suite's compensation went in the opposite direction to Nadella, and saw their packages increase, though they aren't nearly as well off as the CEO, who got the top job in 2014. CFO Amy Hood, was awarded $33.7 million, up from $29.5 million. The beancounting bigwig returned $43.8 billion to shareholders in the 12 months. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s Commercial Business was awarded $33.4 million, and chief marketing officer Takeshi Numoto - the person that also works on product bundles - was awarded $15.7 million. President Brad Smith was compensated to the tune of $33 million. Like we’ve said before, it’s tough at the top. Nadella’s pay was equivalent to the average pay ($215,057) of 420 Microsoft employees. Still, the pressure of running one of the biggest organizations on the planet must be a big load to carry, especially when Microsoft is spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure and looking to find massive cost savings by erasing up to a quarter of the workforce. The annual shareholder meeting is scheduled for December 8 when investors will get a chance to have their say on exec pay. 91 percent voted in favor last year so it seems unlikely any dissenting voices will be heard at the upcoming event. ®