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I do not experience this as mere automated correction, but as true violence. I swear it doesn't just happen at the initial moment of typing the word. The machine will keep trying to disappear that last letter, like some Perecian evil demon, using every opportunity, even as slight as the chance passage of the cursor over the word, to do its tradition-hating work. If word-processors had been in use 400 years ago, you can be sure they would not have functioned like this.
Clashes between demonstrators and police in La Paz have entered second week, shaking centre-right president
Protests blocking roads across Bolivia and turning the centre of the capital, La Paz, into a battleground between demonstrators and police have entered a second week.
It is the most turbulent moment of the centre-right president Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s mere six months in office since he ended nearly two decades of rule by the leftwing Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).
Continue reading...Keir Starmer described the agreement, worth double original estimates, as a ‘huge win’ for British businesses
Keir Starmer has struck a trade deal with six Gulf states in what he described as a “huge win” for British business, ending four years of talks led by four different prime ministers.
The deal will offer £3.7bn worth of opportunities for exporters – double the original estimates – particularly in the food and luxury car sectors but also defence, aerospace, hospitality and other services, the government said.
Continue reading...Eritrean man was due to be forcibly removed to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme
An Eritrean asylum seeker who was due to be forcibly removed to France today under the “one in, one out” scheme has had his ticket cancelled after making a serious attempt on his life, the Guardian understands.
Other detainees said they believed he had made an attempt on his life because he feared he would be in danger in France due to his specific circumstances had he been forcibly returned there. He was discovered yesterday by his cellmate, who raised the alarm. He is now on round-the-clock suicide watch in detention.
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Continue reading...Manager’s early seasons were far from plain sailing but insiders credit club’s owners for staying the course
It didn’t start well for Mikel Arteta and Arsenal. On a crisp December night in 2019 at about 1am in a Manchester suburb, Vinai Venkatesham stepped out of Arteta’s home. The Arsenal managing director looked around, satisfied with his meeting. Arteta had just outlined a “hugely impressive” five-year plan to rebuild a club reeling from Arsène Wenger’s departure and Unai Emery’s failed succession. Venkatesham stepped into his car and was driven away with his colleague Huss Fahmy.
The club were about to take a huge gamble, but one with which they were increasingly comfortable. For many Arsenal executives, Arteta had won the interview round in 2018 when Wenger left. Yet it seemed too much to ask a 36-year-old rookie to manage a seismic transition and Emery had pedigree and experience; Arteta had charisma and a strong playing record.
Continue reading...Ecuadorean collects stage victory No 3 of this edition
Favourite Vingegaard stays 27 seconds behind leader
Ecuador’s Jhonatan Narváez edged out the Spaniard Enric Mas at the end of Wednesday’s stage 11 to win his third stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia as Afonso Eulálio retained the leader’s pink jersey.
Narváez (UAE Team Emirates XRG) and Mas (Movistar) were left to battle for the win after leaving the breakaway group on the final climb and Mas made the first move, only for the Ecuadorian to overtake him before the line. The Italian Diego Ulissi (XDS Astana) won the race for third place at the end of the entertaining 195km ride from Porcari to Chiavari.
Continue reading...If any teenagers out there are considering their future careers, I’d suggest chiropody. It’s AI proof and you’d never be out of work
They really bloody hurt, I tell you. Corns, that is. Or rather, in my case, corn singular. One is enough, trust me. One is enough to have me wincing, limping, yelping, swearing. One is agony. One is plenty.
My one is on the lateral side of my left fifth metatarsophalangeal joint, which, in English, is the left side of my left foot just below the little toe. It hurts when I’m walking, or standing, sometimes when I’m sitting, and occasionally even when I’m sleeping. Every few months I get it sorted. Thereafter, it’s fine for anything up to 15 minutes before it starts complaining again. While the general pain gradually grows and grows, the complicating factor is that it also comes and goes. I believe that this is the corn entertaining itself by making me forget about it before issuing a terrible reminder that it’s still in business.
Continue reading...Father describes Jane Adetoro, Christina Walter and Rebecca Walter as ‘the beautiful light that filled our family with happiness and love’
Three women whose bodies were recovered from the sea off Brighton beach were sisters described by their father as the “beautiful light that filled our family with happiness and love”.
Emergency services were called after concerns were raised for a person’s welfare at about 5.45am on 13 May, before three bodies were pulled from the water near Madeira Drive.
Continue reading...AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op de aandelenbeurs in Amsterdam is woensdag met een flinke plus gesloten, waarbij een nieuw slotrecord werd bereikt. De chipfondsen ASMI, Besi en ASML stonden bij de sterkste stijgers in de hoofdgraadmeter. De olieprijzen gingen juist flink omlaag.
ASMI en Besi stegen tot 4 procent en ASML werd 6,7 procent duurder. De Zwitserse bank UBS kwam met een positief analistenrapport over ASML, waarin werd gezegd dat de koers van de chipmachinefabrikant de komende twaalf maanden met nog eens 50 procent kan stijgen door de grote vraag naar chips voor kunstmatige intelligentie. Dit jaar is ASML al ongeveer 40 procent meer waard geworden door het optimisme onder beleggers over AI.
De AEX eindigde 1,5 procent hoger op 1033,73 punten. De MidKap won 1,3 procent tot 1047,04 punten. Op de beurzen in Frankfurt en Parijs werden winsten tot 1,7 procent geboekt. De FTSE 100 in Londen steeg 1 procent.
Ook staalproducent ArcelorMittal deed het goed bij de hoofdfondsen op het Damrak met een koersstijging van 5 procent. Grootste dalers in de AEX waren muziekbedrijf Universal Music Group (UMG) en informatieleverancier Wolters Kluwer met minnen tot 3,8 procent.
Shell zakte 0,9 procent door de daling van de olieprijzen na berichten over de doorvaart van schepen, waaronder olietankers, door de Straat van Hormuz. Daarnaast zei president Donald Trump dat de Verenigde Staten in de laatste fase van de vredesgesprekken met Iran zijn. Een vat Amerikaanse olie kostte 4,8 procent minder op 99,13 dollar per vat en Brentolie werd meer dan 5 procent goedkoper op 105,57 dollar per vat.
In de MidKap nam luchtvaartcombinatie Air France-KLM de leiding met een plus van 3,2 procent, geholpen door de lagere olieprijzen. Luchtvaartmaatschappijen zijn erg gevoelig voor stijgende brandstofkosten. In Londen klom British Airways-moederbedrijf IAG 4,6 procent en het Duitse Lufthansa werd 3,3 procent hoger gezet in Frankfurt. Budgetmaatschappij easyJet won 2,2 procent en Ryanair ging 5,3 procent omhoog.
In Parijs werd computerspellenontwikkelaar Ubisoft Entertainment 6,6 procent lager gezet na tegenvallende prognoses.
Buitenlandminister Tom Berendsen (CDA) heeft de Israëlische ambassadeur ontboden, vanwege de behandeling van opvarenden van de Global Sumud Flotilla. Op beelden is te zien dat activisten van de vloot, die op weg was naar Gaza, ruw behandeld werden.
De radicale Israëlische minister Itamar Ben-Gvir deelde die beelden zelf. Op die beelden is te zien hoe hij de arrestanten, die geboeid op de grond moeten knielen, bespot.
Berendsen zei eerder al de behandeling "ontoelaatbaar te vinden" en heeft dit ook al overgebracht aan zijn Israëlische ambtgenoot. Onder de arrestanten zijn drie Nederlanders. De minister wil de garantie van Israël dat zij "zo snel mogelijk kunnen vertrekken".
Hulpgoederen
De vloot was onderweg naar Gaza om onder meer medicijnen en hulpgoederen af te leveren. De boten werden gestopt in internationale wateren.
Ook de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu en buitenlandminister Gideon Saar keurden de behandeling van de arrestanten af.
Slecht nieuws voor alle beste slechtste reizigers van Nederland die de boel alleen maar een beetje versjteren, snotdoekjes aan stoelen vegen, boterhammen smeren op een bordje van treinvloer, toiletten onderkotsen, zitten waar ze moeten staan, staan waar ze moeten zitten, andere reizigers en spoorpersoneel intimideren, bedreigen en op andere manieren lastigvallen en natuurlijk voor SpoorPallies: vanaf vandaag slaat de NS keihard terug. Eerst om het zwaar getroffen Rotterdam te assisteren bij de wederopbouw, later om alle Nederlandse spoorwegen vredig en tuigvrij te maken. Vanaf hedenmorgen zijn maar liefst - niet schrikken - TWEE HELE NS-BOA'S op pad met de lange lat der spoorrechtvaardigheid. Voelt u dat? Dat is het blauwgele NS-zonnetje dat weer schijnt.
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“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.”
Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a Chicago-based studio focused on ensuring that works of art are conserved and repaired so future generations can continue to enjoy them. With painstaking attention to detail and—just as importantly—the use of reversible, archival materials, this neglected portrait is given what seems like an almost miraculous second chance.
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Staatssecretaris Judith Tielen (OCW, VVD) wil af van de vrijstelling van de leerplicht die ouders kunnen aanvragen voor hun kinderen vanwege hun religie of levensovertuiging. Steeds meer kinderen gaan om deze reden niet naar school.
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Software platform Plex is killing its buy-once-use-forever model with an eye-watering hike of its Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99. The increase will take effect on July 1, but does not apply to existing Lifetime Plex Pass holders. The existing monthly and annual subscription pricing for the service is also unchanged, suggesting Plex really would rather you subscribed. Lifetime Plex Passes used to cost $74.99, before increasing to $149.99 in 2014. It later fell back to $119.99 before jumping to $249.99 in April 2025. Just over a year later, the price is heading to $749.99. Plex is used primarily as a media server. Load it up with content and point clients at it. The project has its origins in the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) from which it was forked. The server software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and several network devices, and the client runs almost everywhere, including iOS and Android devices. Remote access to a Plex media server used to be free, but in 2025 Plex shifted that functionality to its paid tiers. Other paid-tier functionality includes hardware transcoding and media file downloads. "We've considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass," Plex wrote. Considering the hike, it might as well have. An annual subscription costs $69.99, meaning it will take more than a decade before that $749.99 pays off. Unless, of course, Plex increases the subscription cost in the future. The increase is the latest in a long line of price hikes from media companies, though it is among the most extreme. Plex has made no secret of the fact that "recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development" – hence the attempt to make the one-off lifetime payment less attractive. The jump might be eye-watering, but it also reflects a growing realization across the tech and streaming industries. One-off payments don't cut it anymore and ads aren't enough, so a subscription is the way to go to sustain development. Although existing Lifetime Plex Pass customers are not affected, the hike highlights how important subscriptions have become across all sectors (we can't see Microsoft weaning itself off Microsoft 365 any time soon) and what "lifetime" actually means. ®
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