Aston Martin have confirmed that they will join the Barcelona Shakedown later in the week, with the squad intending to run on Thursday and Friday.
Valtteri Bottas has given an insight into the type of team he has found during his early experiences of working with the new Cadillac outfit, having gained some mileage in their 2026 car at the Barcelona Shakedown.
The independent coffee shops and quirky boutiques that make neighborhoods like Hayes Valley in San Francisco or Williamsburg in Brooklyn desirable are caught in a frustrating economic trap: they create value that ends up in the pockets of nearby homeowners rather than their own cash registers.
An essay in Works in Progress magazine argues that when an interesting new store or restaurant opens, commercial and residential property values rise in the surrounding area, but the retailer itself captures only a fraction of that value through its actual sales. Almost half of stores in one San Francisco shopping district shuttered within four years even as the neighborhood thrived and rents climbed.
The authors propose several fixes drawn from historical and international practice. Shopping malls and mixed-use developments solve this through unified ownership, allowing a single entity to cross-subsidize interesting tenants. Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway buys land around new stations before building begins, making it one of the few profitable transit systems in the world. Business Improvement Districts let businesses tax themselves for shared amenities, though they currently don't capture value that spills over to nearby residents.
The essay suggests creating hybrid institutions -- something between homeowners' associations and business improvement districts -- that could levy hyperlocal taxes to keep valued retail alive.
An essay in Works in Progress magazine argues that when an interesting new store or restaurant opens, commercial and residential property values rise in the surrounding area, but the retailer itself captures only a fraction of that value through its actual sales. Almost half of stores in one San Francisco shopping district shuttered within four years even as the neighborhood thrived and rents climbed.
The authors propose several fixes drawn from historical and international practice. Shopping malls and mixed-use developments solve this through unified ownership, allowing a single entity to cross-subsidize interesting tenants. Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway buys land around new stations before building begins, making it one of the few profitable transit systems in the world. Business Improvement Districts let businesses tax themselves for shared amenities, though they currently don't capture value that spills over to nearby residents.
The essay suggests creating hybrid institutions -- something between homeowners' associations and business improvement districts -- that could levy hyperlocal taxes to keep valued retail alive.
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Saudi Arabia is preparing to significantly scale back Neom, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's flagship development that sprawls across a Belgium-sized stretch of Red Sea coastline and was once billed as the world's largest construction site. Financial Times is reporting that Prince Mohammed, who chairs the project, now envisions something "far smaller" as a year-long review nears completion. The Line, a futuristic 170-kilometer linear city that served as Neom's centerpiece, will be radically reimagined as a result, the report added.
Architects are already working on a more modest design that would repurpose infrastructure built over the past few years. Neom could pivot toward becoming a data center hub, taking advantage of seawater cooling from its coastal location as Saudi Arabia pushes to become a leading AI player. The Trojena ski resort is also being downsized and will no longer host the 2029 Asian Winter Games as originally planned. Construction largely stalled after longtime CEO Nadhmi al-Nasr abruptly departed in November 2024.
Architects are already working on a more modest design that would repurpose infrastructure built over the past few years. Neom could pivot toward becoming a data center hub, taking advantage of seawater cooling from its coastal location as Saudi Arabia pushes to become a leading AI player. The Trojena ski resort is also being downsized and will no longer host the 2029 Asian Winter Games as originally planned. Construction largely stalled after longtime CEO Nadhmi al-Nasr abruptly departed in November 2024.
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Nearly 3.8 billion people could face extreme heat by 2050 and while tropical countries will bear the brunt cooler regions will also need to adapt, scientists said Monday. From a report: Demand for cooling will "drastically" increase in giant countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, where hundreds of millions of people lack air conditioning or other means of beating the heat. But even a moderate increase in hotter days could have a "severe impact" in nations not used to such conditions like Canada, Russia and Finland, said scientists from the University of Oxford.
In a new study, they looked at different global warming scenarios to project how often people in future might experience temperatures considered uncomfortably hot or cold. They found "that the population experiencing extreme heat conditions is projected to nearly double" by 2050 if global average temperatures rise 2C above preindustrial times.
In a new study, they looked at different global warming scenarios to project how often people in future might experience temperatures considered uncomfortably hot or cold. They found "that the population experiencing extreme heat conditions is projected to nearly double" by 2050 if global average temperatures rise 2C above preindustrial times.
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Points to a use-case problem
AI adoption in the workplace stalled in the fourth quarter of 2025, but those who have already started using it are making increased use of it, according to a survey by pollster Gallup. Don't let that fool you into thinking AI is taking over work, though: frequent AI users are still a tiny minority of overall workers.…
Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong
Agents may be the next big thing in AI, but they have limits beyond which they will make mistakes, so exercise extreme caution, a recent research paper says.…
Robuuste infrastructuur voor windenergie is niet alleen van belang voor energievoorziening, maar ook voor defensie. Op een energietop in Hamburg spreken Noordzeelanden af meer samen te werken.
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The ligament that connects your foot bones can cause severe heel pain when inflamed. Here’s how to avoid that
Recently, I decided to go for a jog after not running at all for more than [redacted] years. I did a half-marathon a couple of presidential administrations ago, so surely it would be fine? It was! Until the next morning, when I rolled out of bed, put my feet on the floor and felt a sharp pain in my heel.
Plantar fasciitis, my old nemesis.
Strengthen the muscles of the feet. Silverman suggests doing toe curls (with your feet flat on a towel, grip the towel with your toes and scrunch it towards your body) or marble pickups (using your toes to pick up marbles or similar objects from the floor).
Stretching. Specifically, stretching the calf muscles and the achilles tendon. Regularly stretching and massaging these areas “can help to not only assuage the inflammation, but prevent it from coming back”, says Aiyer.
Increase activity levels gradually. Allow your body to get acclimated to increases in activity levels rather than suddenly ramping up. Basically, don’t do what I did.
Wear the right shoes. Choose a shoe that’s too supportive, and your foot muscles can weaken over time, says Silverman. But choose a shoe that’s not supportive enough, and you may expose your plantar fascia to more direct trauma. Rather than sweating this Goldilocks challenge, Silverman says you should “choose footwear that matches the environment and activity”.
Continue reading...Starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, this gets off to a promising start, but the plot twists are derivative and the tacked-on violence descends into exasperating silliness
Sam Raimi is back with this violent black comedy scripted by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, set on a desert island where two plane-wreck survivors are facing off. It’s a movie whose entertaining initial premise and shrewd satire are finally damaged by Raimi’s need to juice everything up with spurious “horror” flourishes for the fanbase, on-brand gore eruptions that aren’t really scary and undermine the film’s believability, turning everything into silliness. The poster and promotional materials promise a “horror” film, but that isn’t really what this is. But what is it? Well, it’s a desert island parable that owes something to JM Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton and to … how to say it? … other dramas. No spoilers, but Raimi appearing to borrow from a recent Cannes Palme d’Or winner was not, as they say, on my bingo card.
Rachel McAdams plays nerdy Linda Liddle, a single woman living alone with a caged bird. She’s devoted to her job. She is an extremely smart researcher in a corporation, but is passed over for promotion by the charmless misogynists running the firm: useless, untalented males in Patrick Bateman suits who depend on her work. Chief among these odious sexists is new CEO Bradley Preston, played by Dylan O’Brien, a vacuous smoothie and nepo princeling whose late father, the company founder, valued Linda enough to promise her a VP position – a promise on which the hateful Bradley now smugly reneges.
Continue reading...Israel plans to start work next month on a bypass that will close off the heart of the occupied West Bank to Palestinians and cement the de facto annexation of an area critical for the viability of a future Palestinian state. The road is a key part of the blueprint for a vast illegal new settlement in the E1 area east of Jerusalem, which would fragment the occupied West Bank. The far-right Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the plans were intended to ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’
Continue reading...As a war correspondent I’ve seen this strategy used before. Putin is weaponising the savage eastern European winter
In the winter of 1993, during the siege of Sarajevo, people burned books and furniture to keep warm. Water froze in pipes. Electricity vanished for the duration of the war. Children slept in coats and hats, their breath visible in dark rooms. Cold itself became a weapon of war.
I remember, when I was reporting from the Bosnian capital, seeing doctors operating by candlelight or wearing camping headlamps. I remember old people chopping wood in the park in the centre of the city until there were no trees left, then dragging it home on sledges. I remember the ground being too frozen to bury the many dead on the football pitch, which later became a cemetery. I remember a terrible, frozen day when I went to an old people’s home near a frontline and counted dead body after dead body, all frozen in their sleep.
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Zullen we ooit nog het verhaal van de hoofdverdachten van de Rotterdamse goudroof horen? De twee mannen (44 en 45 jaar) zitten vermoedelijk in Dubai en justitie wil graag hun verklaring optekenen. Maar over de voorwaarden worden justitie en de advocaten het niet eens, bleek maandagmiddag in de rechtbank.
Vooropgesteld, Kanye West is zo gek als een krultang, een bedrading waar die jongen natuurlijk ook niet zelf voor gekozen heeft, maar wel mee zal moeten leren omgaan. Dat verliep tot dusver: niet vlekkeloos. De man is bipolair en zo nu en dan een jaar of wat geneigd de medicijntjes links te laten liggen, want die werden hem natuurlijk voorgeschreven door Joodse dokters. Gevolg: gebazel over de goede dingen die de nazi's zoal hebben gedaan en een vervelend aanstekelijk liedje dat Heil Hitler heet. Afijn, aanstaande vrijdag komt zijn langverwachte album Bully uit en dus zit hij weer aan de medicatie/begint hij zakelijk hinder te ondervinden aan al zijn eerdere uitspattingen. Eerder dook al een hallucinant filmpje op waarin Kanye aan een prominente rabbijn zijn excuses aanbood, alsof daarmee de kous af was, alsof je jarenlang troep kunt spuien over Surinamers en het vervolgens afdoet met een excuustelefoontje aan Clarence Seedorf. Goed, nu is er dus een open brief, geplaatst in de Wall Street Journal, want nu ja, Wall Street hè (ja kunnen wij niets aan doen dit is Kanye). Kwam klaarblijkelijk allemaal door het auto-ongeluk dat tevens zijn eerste solohit opleverde, maar nu heeft hij Reddit ontdekt en komt het helemaal goed. Integrale tekst na de breek.
SocialHele brief
To Those I've Hurt:
Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage—the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis.
Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you’re seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you’re losing your grip entirely.
Once people label you as "crazy," you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It’s easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type 1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer - all lethal and fatal if left untreated.
The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, unstoppable.
I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to have someone who was, at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.
In that fractured state, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it. One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments - many of which I still cannot recall - that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body-experience. I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.
To the black community - which held me down through all of the highs and lows and the darkest of times. The black community is, unquestionably, the foundation of who I am. I am so sorry to have let you down. I love us.
In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life. As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn’t want to be here anymore.
Having bipolar disorder is notable state of constant mental illness. When you go into a manic episode, you are ill at that point. When you are not in an episode, you are completely 'normal.' And that’s when the wreckage from the illness hits the hardest. Hitting rock bottom a few months ago, my wife encouraged me to finally get help.
I have found comfort in Reddit forums of all places. Different people speak of being in manic or depressive episodes of a similar nature. I read their stories and realized that I was not alone. It's not just me who ruins their entire life once a year despite taking meds every day and being told by the so-called best doctors in the world that I am not bipolar, but merely experiencing "symptoms of autism."
My words as a leader in my community have global impact and influence. In my mania, I lost complete sight of that.
As I find my new baseline and new center through an effective regime of medication, therapy, exercise, and clean living, I have newfound, much-needed clarity. I am pouring my energy into positive, meaningful art: music, clothing, design, and other new ideas to help the world.
I'm not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness. I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home."
With love,
Ye
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Het Amerikaanse vliegdekschip USS Abraham Lincoln is met andere schepen aangekomen in het Midden-Oosten, meldt het Amerikaanse leger. Met de Lincoln is de Amerikaanse vuurkracht in de regio aanzienlijk versterkt, terwijl de spanningen met Iran weer hoog zijn opgelopen.
De Lincoln en begeleidende schepen zijn in het Midden-Oosten om de "regionale veiligheid en stabiliteit te bevorderen", aldus het Amerikaanse Central Command in een bericht op X.
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump waarschuwde onlangs dat de Verenigde Staten een "armada" richting Iran zouden sturen, die hij hoopt "niet te hoeven gebruiken". Hij herhaalde toen ook zijn waarschuwingen aan Teheran om geen demonstranten te doden of het nucleaire programma te hervatten. Bij protesten tegen het islamitische regime kwamen duizenden mensen om het leven. Vorig jaar juni waren er nog aanvallen van Israël en de VS op belangrijke locaties van de Iraanse nucleaire productie.
RIJSWIJK (ANP) - Wytse van der Goot (43) is maandag door de Nederlandse Sport Pers (NSP) uitgeroepen tot Sportjournalist van het Jaar 2025. De presentator en commentator van Ziggo Sport is volgens de jury "een liefhebber". "Hij houdt zichtbaar en hoorbaar van voetbal. Dat is bijvoorbeeld te merken in het programma 'Tussen de palen', waarin hij met een oud-voetballer diens loopbaan doorneemt. Wytse is veelzijdig. Hij kan presenteren en interviewen en hij leidt de talkshow Rondo, maar vermoedelijk is hij toch het liefst in het stadion. Met pet", aldus de jury.
De NSP heeft Hugo Borst (63) de Han Hollander Oeuvre Award toegekend voor zijn grote verdiensten voor de Nederlandse sportjournalistiek op vele terreinen. Hij ontving de prijs, een kristallen kunstwerk, maandag tijdens de NSP-jaarbijeenkomst bij Nederlandse Loterij in Rijswijk uit handen van zijn voorganger Mart Smeets.
De oeuvreprijs voor sportfotografie, de Piet van der Klooster Oeuvre Award, gaat naar sport- en nieuwsfotograaf Co Rentmeester (89).
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Aandelenhandelaren op het Damrak deden het maandag voorzichtig aan bij het begin van de nieuwe drukke beursweek. Naast de geopolitieke spanningen kijken beleggers vooral uit naar het rentebesluit van de Amerikaanse centrale bank op woensdag. In Amsterdam komen onder meer chipmachinemaker ASML en bank ING met resultaten. Ook openen grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven als Microsoft, Apple, Tesla en Meta Platforms de boeken.
IJsjesbedrijf The Magnum Ice Cream Company eindigde, zonder duidelijke reden, bovenaan bij de hoofdfondsen in Amsterdam met een koerssprong van bijna 8 procent. Daarmee is het aandeel sinds de start van het jaar ruim 15 procent meer waard geworden. De AEX, de belangrijkste beursgraadmeter in Amsterdam, eindigde 0,1 procent lager op 998,74 punten. De MidKap sloot een fractie hoger op 984,26 punten.
In Nederland zijn we groot gebracht met de Schijf van Vijf van het Voedingscentrum: een cirkel met vijf vakjes met elk een voedingsgroep. Samen vormen ze een gezond eetpatroon.
Zo staat er onder meer in dat we 250 gram groente moeten eten en twee stuks fruit, volkoren brood en regelmatig vis. De Schijf van Vijf bestaat al sinds 1953.
In Amerika is onlangs de Voedselpiramide verschenen met de naam My Plate. Het moet de Amerikanen gezonder laten eten, maar zij hebben daar wel een andere definitie van dan wij. Zo mogen ze veel meer vlees en zuivel. Dierlijk vet valt onder de gezonde vetten in de VS. De eiwitinname wordt daarmee een stuk hoger dan waar wij van uitgaan.
Geen oog voor klimaat
"In de Verenigde Staten ligt de nadruk vooral op gezondheid, terwijl wij in Nederland – en in veel Europese landen – ook duurzaamheid en klimaat meenemen in onze voedingsrichtlijnen”, vertelt Anne Lutgerink, woordvoerder en redacteur sociale media bij het Voedingscentrum. Rood vlees is daarvan een goed voorbeeld. "Te veel rood vlees eten hangt samen met gezondheidsrisico’s en heeft een hoge milieubelasting. Rood vlees kun je prima eten, maar liever niet te veel. Dat is beter voor zowel de gezondheid als de planeet.”
Elk land heeft zo zijn eigen voedingsadviezen. "Dat hangt samen met eetcultuur en de beschikbaarheid van producten. De exacte hoeveelheden verschillen, maar de gemene deler is vrijwel overal hetzelfde: veel groenten en fruit, volkorenproducten en weinig zout, verzadigd vet en suiker.”
In de Amerikaanse richtlijnen speelt klimaat geen rol. "Het is een heel dierlijke afbeelding: je ziet veel vlees, eieren, volle zuivel en boter. Visueel ligt de nadruk duidelijk op dierlijke eiwitten.”
Bron: Metro
