De gemeente wil overlast op de Wallen verminderen door een centrum voor sekswerkers te bouwen in Amsterdam-Zuid. Door gebrek aan draagvlak worden de plannen uitgesteld.

After 23 Grands Prix and six Sprints, it comes down to one final race – with three drivers in the hunt for the Drivers’ Championship at the death for the first time in 15 years. Lando Norris leads the way, 12 points clear of reigning World Champion Max Verstappen, with Oscar Piastri four further adrift. In Abu Dhabi, the sport’s governing body, the FIA, brought the three of them together on a sofa for the final Thursday press conference of the season...

Lewis Hamilton has suggested that he and Ferrari may need to look at making changes to personnel ahead of 2026, with the seven-time World Champion admitting that they will examine factors that could help to “optimise our teamwork” after a challenging 2025.

The Formula 1 paddock reconvenes this weekend for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with all eyes on who will take this year's Drivers' title.

The 2025 season reaches its crescendo at Yas Marina, with a three-way fight for the World Drivers’ Championship separated by just 16 points. Which title contender will deliver in the decider?

A total of nine rookie drivers will be in action during Friday’s first practice session at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with McLaren, Red Bull, Ferrari, Williams, Racing Bulls, Haas, Aston Martin and Alpine all making line-up changes for FP1.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) in London improved their surgery-to-ICU handoff process by observing how Ferrari’s F1 team handled pit stops.

GOSH doctors visited and observed the pit crew handoff in Italy. While visiting the Formula One pit crew the GOSH doctors became interested in the way they addressed possible failure. The crew sat around a big table analyzing and reanalyzing, asking, “What could go wrong?” and “What are we going to do if it does go wrong?” and “How important is it if it goes wrong?” Everyone’s ideas were given equal weight until the group ranked them using the failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA).

This anticipatory planning made the pit crew more prepared than the medical team whose strategy tended to be waiting until something went wrong to work out what they should have done. Observing the pit crew, the GOSH doctors noted the value of process mapping, process description, and trying to work out what people’s tasks should be. They learned the keys to a successful pit stop:

– The routine in the pit stop is taken seriously
– What happens in the pit stop is predictable so problems can be anticipated and procedures can be standardized
– Crews practice those procedures until they can perform them perfectly
– Everyone knows their job, but one person is always in charge

Among their findings that led to improvement:

While the main theme changes were more sophisticated procedures and better choreographed teamwork, another aspect of the Formula One handover process easily transferred to the hospital setting. The lollipop man is the one who waves the car in and coordinates the pit stop. He maintains overall situation awareness during the pit stop. In the old hospital handover there was no one like the lollipop man so it was unclear who was in charge. Under the new handover process, the anesthetist was given overall responsibility for coordinating the team until it was transferred to the intensivist at the termination of the handover. These same two individuals were charged with the responsibility of periodically stepping back to look at the big picture and to make safety checks of the handover.

According to this video about the hospital’s study, they were able to reduce the number of errors in the handover by 66%.

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Hasta Siempre Comandante is een lied uit 1965 van de Cubaanse componist Carlos Puebla. De tekst van het lied is een antwoord op de afscheidsbrief van revolutionair Che Guevara toen hij Cuba verliet om een ​​revolutie te ontketenen in Congo en later Bolivia, waar hij gevangen werd genomen en gedood.

Guevara was in zijn jonge jaren een racist, daar zijn teksten van, en op latere leeftijd hielp hij mee in de onafhankelijkstrijd in Congo in de hoop een socialistisch regime te verwezenlijken. En misschien dan nog steeds een racist, de mens is dualistisch. Hij was ook homofoob, ik ben homo en kies toch voor het grote geheel. Zijn cultuur was en is nog steeds onder de invloed van machismo, en dat is mijn strijd om de rechten van lhbtq+ te bevorderen, maar ik ben zelf een sexist naar jonge mannen.

Vraag niet om ideale mannen, vrouwen of personen maar benoem hun fouten en erken hun gevecht in idealen.

In dit lied wordt hij bejubeld en gezongen over zijn ferme keuzes. Door een andere landverdeling in Cuba konden meer mensen leven van het land, met beter onderwijs en gezondheidszorg heeft hij inkomens ongelijkheid willen minderen en dat lukte. Dat verklaart ook de liefde voor hem in dit lied. De bannelingen in Miami vanuit Cuba zullen die liefde niet hebben gevoeld.

Het waren geweldadige revoluties en Guevara had een vrij meedogenloze inslag. De machten waartegen hij vocht ook. Er zijn meerdere waarheden in ieder mens.

De titel refereert aan een motto van Guevara:

¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre!

Tot de overwinning altijd!

Photo made by Elliott Erwitt

This project higlights the Lotus Theory 1 launch videos.

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Kodak Portra 160 with Mamiya 645 Pro and Sekor 35 mm