The Death of the Basic American Car. “Today, there are so many wealthy people who can afford luxury cars that it simply isn’t that profitable for companies to produce cars for the bottom 40 percent of Americans by income.”
Ron Prosor says verbal attack on Friedrich Merz referencing Nazi regime ‘erodes the memory of the Holocaust’
Israel’s envoy to Germany has criticised a far-right Israeli cabinet member who made historically charged accusations against the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, saying the attack “[eroded] the memory of the Holocaust”.
In a rare rebuke of a top Israeli official by an active ambassador, Ron Prosor said he wished to “unequivocally condemn” Bezalel Smotrich’s tirade against Merz, in which he made reference to the Nazi regime and said: “You will not force us into ghettos again.”
Continue reading...The abundance of choice on dating apps has led to some people discovering that romance is dead and they are just Mr or Ms Right Now
Name: Placeholder partner.
Age: As a phrase, new. As a concept, less so. It’s probably become more prevalent with the abundance of dating apps.
Continue reading...Byelection wins and defections push Canada’s Liberals into majority government under the prime minister
Mark Carney has said he will govern with “humility, determination and a clear understanding of what this moment demands” after his Liberals swept three byelections Monday evening, forging a parliamentary majority just more than a year after he took power.
Carney has achieved only the third majority government in two decades – and has done so in a highly unusual fashion, cobbling together both ballot box wins and defections from rival parties.
Continue reading...ANTWERPEN (ANP) - Jacques Vandermeiren, topman van de haven Antwerpen-Brugge, stapt vervroegd op. Dat kondigde het bedrijf dinsdag aan. De Nederlander Rob Smeets, die nu operationeel directeur is, neemt de leiding tijdelijk over.
Smeets vervult de functie in afwachting van de benoeming van een nieuwe bestuursvoorzitter. Vandermeiren was topman bij de haven sinds 2017. Zijn termijn liep oorspronkelijk tot 2028. Onder zijn leiding werd de fusie tussen de havens van Antwerpen en Brugge officieel gerealiseerd.
De wissel van het leiderschap was volgens het bedrijf zelf al een tijdje op komst. In de verklaring zegt het bedrijf toe te zijn aan "een nieuwe strategische fase met een sterke focus op kostenefficiëntie en het creëren van meerwaarde". Met de bestuurswissel kan de nieuwe ceo dan, volgens het bedrijf, de nieuwe koers gaan uittekenen.
Het jongetje dat maandagochtend in Ottoland in het water viel en gereanimeerd moest worden, maakt het goed. Dat meldt het gastouderbureau, dat verantwoordelijk is voor de opvang van het kind. Het is nog altijd niet duidelijk hoe het jongetje in het water kon belanden.
The legislation, if signed into law, would effectively roll back part of a government tax reform implemented in January, which raised the standard VAT rate from 20% to 22% and lowered the income threshold for small businesses required to pay it.
"[Adults] want books that feel obviously enriching in ways we can quickly quantify. Meanwhile, the actual child would like the pigeon to have another meltdown. This is, I think, one of the great misunderstandings adults have about picture books. Adults are often looking for something worthy. Children are looking for something alive." Rachel Bachman's Substack essay, What Children Actually Want From Picture Books.
"Children do not come to picture books hoping to admire them from a tasteful distance. They come wanting an experience. They want to laugh. They want to shout the refrain. They want to spot something in the illustration before the grown-up notices it. They want the page turn to land like a joke. They want the story to build enough tension that the whole room leans forward. They want the thrilling little power of knowing what is about to happen and being right. "They want humor, rhythm, weirdness, surprise, tension, and the joy of being in on the joke. "And honestly, they are right." (Yes, I know it's Substack. Nonetheless, this is a piece worth discussing.)
"Children do not come to picture books hoping to admire them from a tasteful distance. They come wanting an experience. They want to laugh. They want to shout the refrain. They want to spot something in the illustration before the grown-up notices it. They want the page turn to land like a joke. They want the story to build enough tension that the whole room leans forward. They want the thrilling little power of knowing what is about to happen and being right. "They want humor, rhythm, weirdness, surprise, tension, and the joy of being in on the joke. "And honestly, they are right." (Yes, I know it's Substack. Nonetheless, this is a piece worth discussing.)