PEREIRA (ANP/RTR) - Bij de zware aardbeving in het westen van Colombia zijn zeker achttien doden gevallen. Dat meldt de burgemeester van de stad Pereira. Ook in veel andere steden zijn gebouwen ingestort en wordt veel schade gemeld.

GORINCHEM (ANP) - Tussen 3 en 7 augustus reden iedere dag 1600 vrachtwagens en touringcars over de Merwedebrug, laat Rijkswaterstaat weten. Dat is minder dan de 2000 tot 2500 zware voertuigen per dag die eerder nog het vrachtwagenverbod op de verzwakte brug negeerden, en veel minder dan de 18.000 van voordat het verbod inging op 18 juli.

Van de 1600 kan meer dan de helft nog niet beboet worden via het camerasysteem van Rijkswaterstaat omdat het voertuigen zijn met buitenlandse kentekens, zegt een RWS-woordvoerder. Die kunnen vanwege internationale regelgeving alleen worden beboet als ze door een boa of agent staande worden gehouden. Tot en met 31 juli zijn er 1118 boetes uitgeschreven.

Ondanks de afname is de belasting op de boogconstructie van de brug nog te groot en moet het aantal zware voertuigen verder naar beneden, zegt de woordvoerder. Op vrijdag kondigde Rijkswaterstaat aan meer borden te installeren bij grensovergangen en bij wegen naar de brug.

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed. “A whole lot of people under the age of 45 no longer believe that indicators such as wages, unemployment, or the number of college degrees that are handed out…have much to do with a healthy economy.”

Niet een basisinkomen, maar een basiskapitaal voor iedereen: volgens denktankoprichter Nathan Gardels is dat dé manier om de opbrengsten van AI eerlijker te verdelen. „De welvaart die AI genereert, die komt uit jouw en mijn data.”

Honderden Harry Potter-fans belden het energiebedrijf dat een elektriciteitskabel aanlegt tussen Ierland en Wales. Die kabel zou ten koste gaan van de laatste rustplaats van Dobby de huiself. „We hebben het dus over een fictief karakter in een fictief verhaal?”

Norman, Oklahoma is a Flockless outpost on the outskirts of the Oklahoma City metro area. As you drive south down I-35 away from the big city and into Norman, coverage from the automated license plate readers (ALPR) dwindles. That’s because Norman has rejected Flock’s pitch multiple times.

“They've given us two presentations in the last three years at the request of our police department who wanted to implement them,” Stephen Tyler Holman, the mayor of Norman, told me. “They haven’t been back since I’ve been mayor.”

Norman is an outlier. When the surveillance company comes to a city or a town, the city often signs up. The city council in my small town of 12,000 people just voted to install 22 new Flock cameras despite overwhelming pushback from residents. A big centerpiece of Flock’s pitch was that it would help solve crimes. My town’s chief of police told a story about how Flock had been instrumental in arresting child predators.

Holman told me that Flock and the cops made the same pitch to Norman. “Crime prevention and helping the police more efficiently solve crime. That was their main point that they wanted to advocate for,” he said. “They really focused on amber alerts and silver alerts and ‘don't you want to find kidnapped kids and elderly people that have wandered off who have Alzheimer's?’”

But Norman’s leaders had questions about privacy and data security and they didn’t like Flock’s answers. “Those were some of the reasons why we ended up not doing it,” Holman said. “Questions about data storage and how long and who has access to it […] you're gathering data on every single car vehicle that goes in and out of the city of Norman, regardless of if they've committed a crime or not, and then that's stored for 30 days on some kind of database? Who has access to it? How secure is it? Those are the questions we have that were kind of deal breakers for us [...] 30 days seemed like a long time to sit on that much data. There were some council members that were like, ‘It should only be an hour. Thirty minutes.’ Why do you need it any longer than that? Why would you need to keep it for 30 days? How is it accessed? How secure is it?”

All of the city council’s nine members said no to Flock. Since then, Holman has watched with some small satisfaction as other cities push back. Cops keep getting into trouble for using the cameras to stalk people, the system makes mistakes, and one of its ex-workers recently told 404 Media that the company lied to him about its business practices. 

More than 80 cities across the country have cancelled Flock contracts. None of them are near Norman, which sits on the border of Oklahoma City — a city covered in Flock cameras. According to Holman, the company played this up in its most recent presentation saying that “people would find that out and they’d come to commit crime in Norman because they know that we don’t have Flock cameras.”

But Norman’s city council doesn’t control every square inch of Norman and its surroundings. Despite their best efforts, Flock cameras have gotten in. The city sits in Cleveland county and county leaders approved the installation of 20 cameras for use by the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office. “There are numerous homeowners associations that use them too,” Holman said. “But the city of Norman government does not. We’re, I guess, the only ones around here that don’t.”

Holman said that Norman’s politics are difficult to explain. “It’s neither liberal nor conservative,” he said. “Our three state reps are Democrats but two of them represent Republican majority voter districts.” He said the tension between the major parties and a healthy swath of independent voters has made citizens engaged with local politics and that constituents have sent a clear anti-Flock message. 

“Pretty much everywhere else around here absolutely would just roll over and approve something like this. Nobody would show up and protest it. And if they did, the councils probably wouldn't care. But in Norman it’s a big deal and people can lose re-election over stuff like this and have,” he said.

Holman served on the city council for 12 years before becoming mayor last year. He said one of the issues that turned people against the previous mayor was the purchase of a Bearcat APC for the local police department. In the 20 years after the start of America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, town and city police departments have purchased a lot of military surplus gear from the Pentagon. “Things like a Bearcat would be rubber stamp approved in most cities. In Norman it took them 10 years and [passed] barely by a five-four vote of our previous mayor who I ran against and beat,” Holman said. The APC is still causing controversy in Norman.

Buying an armored car for the police 10 years after it was fashionable to do so is one thing. Private companies installing police cameras is another. “There’s a lot of folks here who are weary about government surveillance, especially giving that over to a private company,” Holman said.

Holman told me he’d been watching the city council meetings like mine where mayors and representatives fight with the voting public about their concerns. “I would really encourage them to listen to the public, listen to the people they represent in their cities and the very valid concerns that folks have about this technology and the private company itself, Flock, and the issues that have arisen with them and why many cities have started to explore pulling out,” he said.

He said that concerned citizens have a right to be worried about the conduct and ethics of a company like Flock. “I always come back to the freedom versus safety thing, this conversation we’ve been having since our founding,” Holman said. “That conversation may not resonate with a mayor like yours. There seems to be a lot of folks that are completely willing to give up all freedom for perceived safety. Well, I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies. That seems to be the way some folks want to go but what life are we living then?

Weggebruikers moeten ook deze week rekening houden met werkzaamheden. Zo wordt gewerkt aan de A13, de Beneluxtunnel (A4) en de A27. De N3 en de N210 zijn voor langere tijd gestremd. Ook rijdt de metro niet in Rotterdam tussen de stations Oostplein en Voorschoterlaan.

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Local authorities confirmed that a fire broke out after several drones crashed into an industrial facility, though they did not identify the site by name.

"Ja wij van Trouw willen graag een krant worden voor Amsterdamse vrouwen, net zoals de Volkskrant en NRC, want dat is goed voor de pluriformiteit"

"Huh"

"Dus als we een hoogleraar interviewen en het wordt een beetje een saai gesprek, dan zorgen we ervoor dat ze nog even iets over oude witte mannen zegt, dan kan dat in de kop"

"Huh"

"Ja superfijn is dat, er is gewoon een groep in de maatschappij die kun je lekker uitschelden, hoeft niet onderbouwd"

"Huh"

"Morgen weer een heel stuk in Trouw waarom iedereen op de verkeerde partij stemt"

"Huh"

"Overmorgen een stuk in Trouw over dat tuinieren racistisch is"

"Huh"

"Van het weekend een special in Trouw over het patriarchaat en de waarom vrouwen in de damsport al jaren onderdrukt worden, en trans vrouwen nog het meest"

"Huh"

"En dan kunnen we over 2 jaar eindelijk fuseren met De Volkskrant"

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Uit het NIETS over white privilege beginnen

Zin in venijnige grappen nu

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Manildra Group's MAN005, MAN001 & MAN013 absolutely haul ass up the infamous Como Bank through Jannali, with SSR's 1977 Enfield to Bomaderry empty containerised flour late Monday night, 10 August 2026.

The trio of brand-new MAN Class locomotives put on a serious show as they tackled the climb south, powering hard through the Sydney suburbs. An impressive sight - and an even better sound!

Vandaag is er weer een nieuwe aflevering van B&B Vol Liefde te zien, iets waar veel kijkers al sinds donderdag reikhalzend naar uitkijken. Sinds dit weekend is er echter nóg een hype ontstaan: de Fredverduisteringbril. Met die bril kun je naar het programma kijken zonder Fred te zien.

“Ik snap dat dit soort mensen het seizoen ook maken, maar ik vind het wel fijn dat ik nu de optie heb om af en toe even die bril op te zetten als het allemaal weer iets te veel Fred wordt”, zegt B&B Vol Liefde-kijker en fan van het seizoen Bertille (27) uit Hoogeveen. “Als Fred Doete weer ongevraagd van advies gaat voorzien, zet ik gewoon even die bril op. Dan is Fred ineens verdwenen en kan ik rustig kijken hoe Doete kip verkoopt.”

Ook B&B Vol Liefde-kijker Maarten is enthousiast, maar hij heeft nog geen bril weten te bemachtigen. “Ik hoor dat ze op Bonaire nog een paar hebben liggen, maar ja, hoe krijg ik die hier?”

De bril met het verfspattenpatroon is voor 9,99 euro via internet te bestellen.

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

handwritten on negative sleeve, "11-25-2019"

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed planetary nebula NGC 2392 with its MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument) instrument, revealing the presence of dust and its varying structures within this tumultuous environment. Nicknamed the Lion Nebula due to its appearance, this collection of gas and dust is created and sculpted by the remains of a dying star, which is in the center and resembles the button nose of the lion.

While some dust is being destroyed by the bubble of ionized gas that forms the lion’s face, most of the gas is being ejected and migrating away from the star due to its radiation. In this image, cyan highlights the lion’s mane, which is the interior of a dust shell that is being illuminated by the central star. Within the mane, toward its edges, are purple clumps that look like they have cometary tails. These fluffy structures are also dust, which have managed to survive so far and protect the structures behind them.

Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/lion-nebula-roars-to-life-...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI).

Image description: Planetary nebula NGC 2392, also called the Lion Nebula, against the black background of space. The nebula is in the center, circular in shape, and looks like a male lion’s head. In the very center is a small, bluish-white circle with eight-point diffraction spikes, a white dwarf star. Surrounding the star are light purple-red cavernous bubbles and shell-like rings. The bubbles and shells collectively form an oval with two small, wide arcs near the top, reminiscent of a lion’s face and its ears. What appears to be extended outward from the lion’s face is a thick ring of cyan material. The width of the ring is consistent throughout and resembles a mane. The area closest to the lion’s face looks cloudy, while the edges of the mane look like there are purple clumps of dust with comet-like tails and strands. In the background are distant galaxies and stars. Some galaxies appear as small purple points of light and others with visible blue spiral structures. A couple of the stars have diffraction spikes.

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F1.com's feature series will offer fascinating insight into the individuals within an F1 driver's inner circle working to fuel their success.

In this series of features Formula 1.com is delving into the inner circle to gain a greater understanding of those who work closely with the stars of F1. This week, Robbie Anderson of Hintsa Performance explains the role of the sports psychologist.