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Zonder haar baanbrekende werk zou de Nederlandse televisie er anders uitzien. Sonja Barend genoot ervan het nationale gesprek van de dag te leiden, met iedereen uit alle lagen van de bevolking.
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Het bezoek van koning Willem-Alexander en koningin Máxima aan Trump is ingewikkeld, vinden Oranjefans in Buren. „Een ‘nee’ kan heel verkeerd worden opgevat.”
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In Nederland zijn er nog steeds een hoop mensen die hun verstandskiezen preventief laten trekken. Vaak geeft de tandarts aan dat het preventief trekken van je verstandskiezen latere problemen kan voorkomen en mensen volgen dit advies blindelings op. Toch zijn er de laatste jaren steeds meer mensen die ervoor kiezen om de verstandskiezen te laten zitten. Door verschillende onderzoeken de laatste jaren heeft de verstandskies zijn slechte naam een beetje verloren. Zo ook volgens een recent rapport van het Belgische Federaal Kenniscentrum voor Gezondheidszorg (KCE). Deze geeft niet per se aan dat het onverstandig is om je verstandskiezen te laten trekken, maar hierin worden wel een aantal uitspraken ontkracht die worden gebruikt door tandartsen. Zo is het helemaal niet zo dat het laten verwijderen van je verstandskiezen op latere leeftijd een stuk complexer is dan op jonge leeftijd. Ook is het niet zo dat als je één verstandskies laat trekken omdat deze geïnfecteerd is, het verstandig is de andere verstandskies te trekken. Daarnaast tonen diverse studies aan dat het laten verwijderen van je verstandskiezen er niet voor zorgt dat je voortanden minder scheef gaan staan. Of het verstandig is om je verstandskiezen zo snel mogelijk te laten verwijderen is dus een keuze zonder bijzonder grote voor- of nadelen. Je kunt ervoor kiezen om ze meteen te laten trekken, zodat je er na de nodige pijn vanaf bent. Of je kiest ervoor om af te wachten in de hoop dat je geen last krijgt van je verstandskiezen.
Bron(nen): De Standaard Verstandskies.net
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - President Donald Trump claimt op sociale media dat hij bevel heeft gegeven aan de Amerikaanse marine de Straat van Hormuz te blokkeren en de scheepvaart bij de zeestraat te gaan controleren. Hij zegt ook schepen te gaan stoppen en onderzoeken waarvoor mogelijk tolgeld aan Iran is betaald.
Zaterdag maakte het Amerikaanse opperbevel bekend dat er Amerikaanse marineschepen in de straat waren om mijnen te ruimen, maar dat werd door Iran tegengesproken.
Feyenoord kwam in de eerste helft goed voor de dag in Nijmegen. Na een behoudende openingsfase, waarin Feyenoord de controle nam, kopte Ayase Ueda zijn ploeg op voorsprong. In de rest van het eerste bedrijf was NEC gevaarlijker, maar kwam de thuisploeg niet tot een doelpunt. Het bleef 0-1.
Iran and the U.S. failed to strike a deal Sunday to end the war in the Middle East, but there was no immediate return to hostilities.
Forbes estimates he's worth roughly $110 billion, "placing him ahead of Bill Gates."
And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..."
It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance, runs 364 pages, self-published in English and Chinese.... Zhao also recounts Binance's long battle with U.S. regulators, the company's record $4.3 billion settlement for fostering unscrupulous money launderers, his four-month prison sentence in California, where he says he began writing the book, and his recent pardon by President Trump...
In Zhao's telling, the case brought by multiple U.S. agencies was less about what Binance had done than about what it had become... "It didn't make sense to me, or any of my lawyers. Other than the fact that we were the biggest in the industry." The U.S. government alleged something more specific: that Binance failed to implement programs to prevent or report suspicious transactions — including those tied to Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, Al Qaeda, and ISIS — while also processing trades between U.S. users and those in sanctioned jurisdictions like Iran, North Korea, and Syria. In total, regulators alleged the exchange willfully failed to report more than 100,000 suspicious transactions, including those involving terrorist organizations, ransomware attackers, child sexual exploitation material, frauds and scams... The final settlement amount — $4.3 billion, split across the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission — was the largest corporate penalty in the history of nearly each agency involved. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said at the time of the announcement: "Binance became the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in part because of the crimes it committed."
The prison passages are among the most vivid in the book. Zhao says he was worried about extortion because the media had reported he was the richest person in U.S. prison history, but then realized no one read the WSJ or Bloomberg or recognized him. Zhao also writes about the food, the routines and the specific indignity of confinement, including sharing a cell with a man serving 30 years for killing two people... Writes Zhao of his cellmate, "Soon, I discovered that the most lethal thing about him wasn't his murder conviction, it was his snoring. He snored more loudly than thunder strikes, the sound of which rose even above the constant toilet flushings."
Binance at one point held a roughly 20% stake in Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and about $580 million in FTT tokens, the article points out. "As FTX neared collapse in late 2022, Zhao writes, Sam Bankman-Fried called to ask for a couple of billion dollars 'nonchalantly, as if he was asking for a bologna sandwich.'
"Some believe that Binance's brief show of interest in acquiring FTX, followed by its abrupt withdrawal from the deal, hastened FTX's spiral into bankruptcy..."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader destinyland for sharing the article.
And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..."
It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance, runs 364 pages, self-published in English and Chinese.... Zhao also recounts Binance's long battle with U.S. regulators, the company's record $4.3 billion settlement for fostering unscrupulous money launderers, his four-month prison sentence in California, where he says he began writing the book, and his recent pardon by President Trump...
In Zhao's telling, the case brought by multiple U.S. agencies was less about what Binance had done than about what it had become... "It didn't make sense to me, or any of my lawyers. Other than the fact that we were the biggest in the industry." The U.S. government alleged something more specific: that Binance failed to implement programs to prevent or report suspicious transactions — including those tied to Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, Al Qaeda, and ISIS — while also processing trades between U.S. users and those in sanctioned jurisdictions like Iran, North Korea, and Syria. In total, regulators alleged the exchange willfully failed to report more than 100,000 suspicious transactions, including those involving terrorist organizations, ransomware attackers, child sexual exploitation material, frauds and scams... The final settlement amount — $4.3 billion, split across the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission — was the largest corporate penalty in the history of nearly each agency involved. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said at the time of the announcement: "Binance became the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in part because of the crimes it committed."
The prison passages are among the most vivid in the book. Zhao says he was worried about extortion because the media had reported he was the richest person in U.S. prison history, but then realized no one read the WSJ or Bloomberg or recognized him. Zhao also writes about the food, the routines and the specific indignity of confinement, including sharing a cell with a man serving 30 years for killing two people... Writes Zhao of his cellmate, "Soon, I discovered that the most lethal thing about him wasn't his murder conviction, it was his snoring. He snored more loudly than thunder strikes, the sound of which rose even above the constant toilet flushings."
Binance at one point held a roughly 20% stake in Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and about $580 million in FTT tokens, the article points out. "As FTX neared collapse in late 2022, Zhao writes, Sam Bankman-Fried called to ask for a couple of billion dollars 'nonchalantly, as if he was asking for a bologna sandwich.'
"Some believe that Binance's brief show of interest in acquiring FTX, followed by its abrupt withdrawal from the deal, hastened FTX's spiral into bankruptcy..."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader destinyland for sharing the article.
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