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LONDEN (ANP) - Libië zoekt tientallen miljarden dollars aan kapitaal om zijn olie-industrie te ontwikkelen. Dat zegt de topman van het Libische staatsolieconcern in een interview met zakenkrant Financial Times. Libië heeft de grootste bewezen olievoorraden van Afrika, maar het land gaat gebukt onder politieke instabiliteit waardoor investeringen door grote oliemaatschappijen achterblijven.
Libië wil juist meer olie oppompen. Volgens topman Masoud Suleman van het Libische National Oil Corporation is een bedrag van 30 miljard tot 40 miljard dollar nodig om hier echt vaart achter te zetten. Momenteel produceert het land ongeveer 1,4 miljoen vaten olie per dag en Suleman heeft de ambitie om dit te verhogen naar 2 miljoen vaten per dag in 2030. Dat is volgens hem een "ambitieus maar realistisch" doel.
Suleman stelt dat er meer dan zestig olie- en gasvelden zijn ontdekt die nog niet ontwikkeld worden. In totaal bezit Libië een reserve van ruim 48 miljard vaten olie. Daarmee behoort het tot de tien landen met de grootste olievoorraden ter wereld.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op het Damrak is dinsdag vrijwel vlak begonnen. Beleggers bleven voorzichtig door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Een snelle oplossing van het conflict is verder uit zicht geraakt na het aflopen van het staakt-het-vuren tussen de VS en Iran. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zei dat hij geen interesse heeft in een verlenging van het bestand met Teheran, dat formeel maandag afliep.
De olieprijzen liepen verder op na een nieuwe aanval op een schip in de Straat van Hormuz. Hoewel Iran met Oman onderhandelt over het beheer van de belangrijke waterweg, neemt Washington niet deel aan die gesprekken. Trump heeft gedreigd Oman te bombarderen als het land de Amerikaanse plannen in het conflict met Iran rond de Straat van Hormuz zou dwarsbomen.
De AEX noteerde kort na opening van de markt een fractie lager op 1114,35 punten. Maandag sloot de index 0,3 procent lager, ondanks stevige koerswinsten van ASMI, Besi en ASML. De chipbedrijven verloren nu tot 1,9 procent.
De zon gaat weer schijnen op de NOS-redactie, want het regent. "Eindelijk." Maar de grote vraag is natuurlijk: is het genoeg? Nee het is niet genoeg. U heeft dit jaar weel te veel gevlogen, te veel gekocht, te veel gegeten, verkeerd gegeten, veel te veel kinderen gemaakt (of juist te weinig) en daarom was het de hele tijd lekker weer. Dat mag natuurlijk niet. "Om het tekort terug te brengen tot een 'normaal' jaar zou er tot eind september een enorme hoeveelheid regen moeten vallen." Dus nee. Het is nooit genoeg.
Ministry of Defence rebuffs threats, saying UK ‘committed to providing equipment Ukraine needs to defend itself against Putin’s illegal invasion’
Moscow has threatened the UK with “consequences” after reports that British drones have been used to strike targets on Russia’s mainland for the first time.
Ukraine used drones made by two UK companies as part of a so-called deep-strike campaign, the Sunday Times reported.
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Back in the 50s, the show Smilin' Ed and his Buster Brown Gang, renamed Andy's Gang after Ed passed away in 1954, featured a rubber dog toy/minor demon named Froggy the Gremlin, unhallowed be his name, who would often puncture a talk given by some pompous lecturer or ethnic stereotype. Froggy could appear by "plucking his magic twanger," and disappear at will, but his chief power was his ability to make people do silly things by completing their sentences. Here's 6½ minutes of Froggy's antics. (CW: 1950s attitudes, annoyed animals)
Buster Brown was a comic strip that ran from 1902 to, variously, 1911 or 1923. (It's complicated.) The Brown Shoe Company adopted foppish Buster and his bug-eyed dog Tige as mascots in 1904, and kept using them into the 90s. The company has dropped them now, and has since taken up the boring name Caleres. The comic strip had ended long before Smilin' Ed's Gang began on the radio. Buster Brown in the show's opening is played by Jerry Maren, one of the Lollipop Guild performers from The Wizard of Oz. "Smilin'" Ed McConnell was a religious singer on the radio, but he became best known as the host of Smilin' Ed and his Buster Brown Gang, a footwear-hawking kids show where he told culturally-insensitive adventure tales out of a huge tome titled "Smilin' Ed's Stories." Every episode of Ed and Andy's shows ended with an exhortation, yes, to buy shoes, but also not to forget "church and Sunday School." Smilin' Ed passed away suddenly in 1954, to the inheritance of a replacement host, Western star Andy Devine, who kept much of the format. Both had a couple of extremely annoyed real animals, Midnight the Cat and Squeaky the Mouse, "play music" and "sing." After that, it was Froggy Time. If this bizarre show interests you then you're a freak after my own heart. And if it doesn't that's okay, just know that, some day, everything you think is as natural as the air you breathe will seem similarly ridiculous and nonsensical. It'll happen to YOU. The two Gangs are still fondly remembered by those old enough to have grown up with them, and there are a number of surviving episodes scattered around Youtube. Try searching for "Smilin' Ed's Gang" or "Andy's Gang." For my part, I'm trying to preserve the legend of the infernal Froggy the Gremlin as best I can. TV today is full of buffoons to puncture; will we ever see Froggy's like again? Some extra links: A full episode when it was Smilin's Ed Gang (30m). The story involves Little Fox, the Sioux "Indian" boy with an unsettling inability to use contractions, together with a friend pursuing mostly separately-filmed footage of a puma (or "pewma"). Then Midnight the Cat plays the accordion very badly while Smilin' Ed expresses his unlikely approval. Along the way shoes are pitched repeatedly. A surviving full episode of Andy's Gang (26m), with 'The Man-Eater of Jog, set in "India" and starring Gunga and Rama, Midnight and Squeaky performing Spanish music as badly as ever, and Froggy messing up Andy's card tricks. BTW: the audience with the kids are said to have been added in editing during Andy Devine's tenure, but the crowd's laughter in Ed's time also seems to be looped. The easily-flustered Mr. Gymnasium gamely tries to explain golf, but a rogue amphibian keeps sabotaging him. Another episode of Andy's Gang (34m), with story "The Leopard Hills" set in pseudo-India, commercials that have nothing to do with shoes, but they do have to do with toy machine guns, puppets (possibly Muppets!) selling candy bars, Colorforms and the horrifying Penny the Poodle "by Marx!" Midnight and Squeaky play OhBeelzebub Suzanna. "Pasta Fazooli" tries to give a singing lesson, I don't know maybe he'll succeed this time but it seems doubtful.
More Andy's Gang (26m), there seems to be a conflict around this time whether it's "The Buster Brown Show" or "Andy's Gang." The song about everybody's gotta have shoes has had its lyrics changed to everybody's gotta have a gang. The story is The Monkey's Temple, again in India-ish. The opening clips seem reused here from a different episode. Midnight the Cat's in a sailor dress, but when she and Squeaky actually play it's even more fake than usual. Froggy's voice is different! We also get some Gremlin lore: Gremlins are all magic, and all look different, and Froggy has a cousin, Harry, who's an Orangutan, a real one (though they seem pretty chill), who appears by plucking his "Orangutwanger." It's a fun segment (thought not as fun as the looped crowd noises suggest), shame about Froggy's voice though.
Midnight and Squeaky play "Three Blind Mice" in 2½ minutes of the most excruciating television I have ever witnessed.
Midnight and Squeaky play "Jesus Loves Me," (2½m) which is the audio/visual equivalent of eating paint.
Another of Froggy's battles with Pasta Fazooli (4m) which has the hapless Italian stereotype desperately trying to explain tubas to the kids at home while derailed at every turn by a mischievous frog-god.
Here's some more random episodes from Youtube, they're all from 24-30 minutes long: Tiger Shark, Village of the Nets, War Bonnet and The Wild Ponies, There aren't many episodes of Smilin' Ed's TV show on Youtube, but here's some radio episodes: one, two, three, four, five. There's more to find out there, but I think my patience with building links is just about gone. Yep, there it goes. Right out the window. See you!
Buster Brown was a comic strip that ran from 1902 to, variously, 1911 or 1923. (It's complicated.) The Brown Shoe Company adopted foppish Buster and his bug-eyed dog Tige as mascots in 1904, and kept using them into the 90s. The company has dropped them now, and has since taken up the boring name Caleres. The comic strip had ended long before Smilin' Ed's Gang began on the radio. Buster Brown in the show's opening is played by Jerry Maren, one of the Lollipop Guild performers from The Wizard of Oz. "Smilin'" Ed McConnell was a religious singer on the radio, but he became best known as the host of Smilin' Ed and his Buster Brown Gang, a footwear-hawking kids show where he told culturally-insensitive adventure tales out of a huge tome titled "Smilin' Ed's Stories." Every episode of Ed and Andy's shows ended with an exhortation, yes, to buy shoes, but also not to forget "church and Sunday School." Smilin' Ed passed away suddenly in 1954, to the inheritance of a replacement host, Western star Andy Devine, who kept much of the format. Both had a couple of extremely annoyed real animals, Midnight the Cat and Squeaky the Mouse, "play music" and "sing." After that, it was Froggy Time. If this bizarre show interests you then you're a freak after my own heart. And if it doesn't that's okay, just know that, some day, everything you think is as natural as the air you breathe will seem similarly ridiculous and nonsensical. It'll happen to YOU. The two Gangs are still fondly remembered by those old enough to have grown up with them, and there are a number of surviving episodes scattered around Youtube. Try searching for "Smilin' Ed's Gang" or "Andy's Gang." For my part, I'm trying to preserve the legend of the infernal Froggy the Gremlin as best I can. TV today is full of buffoons to puncture; will we ever see Froggy's like again? Some extra links: A full episode when it was Smilin's Ed Gang (30m). The story involves Little Fox, the Sioux "Indian" boy with an unsettling inability to use contractions, together with a friend pursuing mostly separately-filmed footage of a puma (or "pewma"). Then Midnight the Cat plays the accordion very badly while Smilin' Ed expresses his unlikely approval. Along the way shoes are pitched repeatedly. A surviving full episode of Andy's Gang (26m), with 'The Man-Eater of Jog, set in "India" and starring Gunga and Rama, Midnight and Squeaky performing Spanish music as badly as ever, and Froggy messing up Andy's card tricks. BTW: the audience with the kids are said to have been added in editing during Andy Devine's tenure, but the crowd's laughter in Ed's time also seems to be looped. The easily-flustered Mr. Gymnasium gamely tries to explain golf, but a rogue amphibian keeps sabotaging him. Another episode of Andy's Gang (34m), with story "The Leopard Hills" set in pseudo-India, commercials that have nothing to do with shoes, but they do have to do with toy machine guns, puppets (possibly Muppets!) selling candy bars, Colorforms and the horrifying Penny the Poodle "by Marx!" Midnight and Squeaky play Oh
Many companies talk a big game about supporting women, but few companies walk the walk like Google is: Google Maps will now give you slightly better directions if you’re menstruating.
Yup, Google has officially earned its feminist bonafides! Your move, Apple Maps!
Earlier today, Google Maps formally rolled out Menstrual Reroutes, a new feature that lets female users disclose when they’re menstruating in exchange for marginally better directions, which the tech giant says will save travellers in menses “around three to four minutes of transit time on average.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained via press release that the period-conscious Maps update, applies to all methods of travel, meaning drivers on their period will be rerouted down somewhat quicker roads just as menstruators on foot will see their walking directions take a subtly-but-technically more direct path towards their destination.
“Maps knows on-the-go is the last place you want to be when you’re on-the-flow, and that’s why we’re helping menstruators get where they’re going kind of sooner with directions unavailable to non-menstruators,” wrote Pichai. “If there are no faster routes than the one you’re on, we will send Maps commuters ahead of you down a wrong turn, because even if it only saves you a minute or two of travel time, Google believes women are worth it.”
Google is now promoting Menstrual Reroutes on billboards across the country, featuring photos of women in transit following Maps directions while sorting through a bag of menstrual hygiene products in the passenger seat, freebleeding through their pants on the bus, and trailing blood down a bike path, accompanied by copy showing decreased travel times like “23 min 20 min: Now shortening your time on the road at that time of the month.”
Wow. If you’re a menstruator en route, Google’s throwing you a nice bone here!
What a powerful gesture Google Maps is making towards women across the world—and we have to give them props for being so upfront about how their directions only get slightly better when you’re menstruating. In our patriarchal society, slightly better is a step forward nonetheless – we’ll take it!