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Minister says discussions are ongoing on how to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank after security incidents intensify across Europe, including in Denmark and Poland

Separately, Vilnius airport was forced to temporarily suspend its operations this morning after another “unidentified object” was reported in its vicinity.

The 30-minutes disruption resulted in delays to flights to/from Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Venice, and Warsaw, among others, LRT said.

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Discussion has focused on behavioral outcomes. But Meta’s settlement shines a light on damage to young people’s emerging desires and identities

During the landmark social media addiction trial that led to Meta’s recent $17.1bn settlement, a therapist testified that she had once asked the plaintiff – a young woman named Kaley, who had been using social media since she was six – what her miracle day would look like: what she wished to come true, if anything were possible. Kaley replied that she would be prettier.

As a psychoanalyst, I find that exchange devastating in a particular way. A miracle day is an invitation to engage with the full range of human desire: with what one might accomplish or experience, whom one might encounter or love. Kaley’s answer contracted the world and all its possibility into a single preoccupation with her own image.

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Once the preserve of the ultra-rich, supercars are finding new drivers through rentals, finance deals, influencer culture and the manosphere. But why would anyone want a 200mph vehicle?

‘The £600,000 Lamborghini; that was the first seizure of the operation,” says special chief inspector Geoff Tatman of the Metropolitan police, thinking back to the second weekend of August. “He was stopping at the red lights, revving his engine, waiting for the traffic to clear, then speeding. So on the third time we saw him do it, we stopped him and seized the vehicle.” The car has a top speed of 217mph (350kmh), but the limit on these London streets is 20mph. Over the same weekend, the Metropolitan police seized about 90 more cars with a combined value of more than £8m, an increase on last year’s tally of 72 cars. They were seized for various offences: driving without insurance, driving with incorrect licences or antisocial behaviour. Previously, the Met would have had to let such drivers off with a warning, but the law – section 59 of the Police Reform Act – was strengthened this year to enable the immediate confiscation of vehicles. The seized cars also included a Ferrari Monza worth about £3.4m (the driver only had a provisional UK licence). They were all put on display at Marble Arch, attracting a throng of camera-wielding onlookers (one attender did a seven-hour live blog of the occasion).

Many of the supercars apprehended by the Met in August bore Middle Eastern number plates. It has been a growing trend for car owners from the region to spend summer in London, bringing their cars with them (at a cost of £25,000 upwards). The orange Lamborghini that Tatman seized had Dubai plates. Most of the vehicle owners retrieved their cars the next day after paying fines and presenting the correct paperwork. The Lamborghini driver was subsequently seen driving respectfully and not revving his engine. Lessons were learned, although the question remains: why ship a 200mph car to London to drive in a 20mph zone?

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The hormone-packed pothos plant might encourage healthy root growth in other cuttings – or it might not. But you’ve nothing to lose by trying

The problem
Propagation can provide never-ending plants, but sometimes you have to wait weeks for something to happen. Anything that speeds up those reluctant rooters is worth knowing about, especially if it’s free.

The hack
According to a popular plant hack, placing a pothos in the same water as other cuttings encourages them to root faster. This is often attributed to pothos releasing auxins – the plant hormones involved in root development – into the shared water.

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Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought

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The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonisation was dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests many more of them were killed.

Modelling by a national research group puts the population levels before the 1788 first fleet arrived at 2.2 million, compared with early estimates of 250,000 people.

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​Het treinverkeer in grote delen van Nederland is ontregeld doordat er buizen op de rails zijn gelegd. Het zorgt voor ergernis bij reizigers: "In Zwitserland rijden de treinen gewoon als het spoor wordt gesaboteerd, waarom kan dat hier dan niet?"

Het is een terugkerende frustratie voor veel Nederlanders: er hoeft maar íéts te gebeuren en het treinverkeer ligt plat. Als het geen sneeuw of herfstblaadjes zijn, dan zijn het wel moedwillig vastgemaakte buizen. In zulke gevallen wordt meteen gewezen naar Zwitserland, maar ook naar Scandinavië. Hoe kan het dat de treinen daar wel met tegenslag kunnen omgaan?

"Dat is een onvergelijkbare situatie", legt een ProRail-woordvoerder nog maar eens uit. "In Zwitserland wordt het spoor om de haverklap gesaboteerd door mensen die niet neutraal zijn. Daar loont het om te investeren in treinen die gewoon dwars door zo'n buis heen rijden. Hier in Nederland komt het bijna nooit voor: vandaag was de eerste keer op deze schaal. Het is hier simpelweg niet rendabel om treinen te kopen die daarmee om kunnen gaan."

NS en ProRail hopen op begrip. "We kunnen moeilijk de treinkaartjes onbetaalbaar maken om een dagje storing bij Veenendaal te voorkomen. Dat snapt hopelijk iedereen."

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PART 2 Xfce's Panel Profiles app can rearrange your desktop, but getting every layout working properly still takes some manual tinkering. In part 1 of this two-part feature, we covered how to install Xfce's Panel Profiles tool and all the extra plugins it needs for its dozen alternative layouts: macOS, Unity, MATE or GNOME 2, several different Windows-like layouts, and half a dozen different generations of both Xfce and Xubuntu. However, as our screenshots showed, the "Cupertino" (Mac-style) and "Unity" layouts are not ideal. For instance, the Unity layout's global menu is immediately followed by the status icons, when they ought to be over on the right. Some of these issues are easy to resolve with the built-in tools, while some need a little more work. Fixing the menu bar In the Unity layout, it's easy to push the status icons and session controls over to the right, where they belong. Customizing Xfce panels is easy. Choose the panel you want to change, find a blank part of the panel, and right-click it. Go into the Panel submenu, then click Panel preferences. In the Panel Preferences dialog box, the first two lines are a backup button, then a listbox to choose which panel you're editing. Under those, there's a line of three tabs: Display, Appearance, and Items. Click on the last tab, Items. This lists all the plugins the panel currently contains, and on the right of the list, there are buttons labeled with up and down arrows to change what order they show in. To fix the Unity panel, we need to add a separator to the top panel, immediately after the appmenu, and set it to Transparent and Expand. So, click the +Add button at the bottom, and choose "Separator". Use the "up" button to move it up the list until it's directly after "AppMenu Plugin (external)". (Use the down arrow if you overshoot.) To adjust the separator's own settings, click the button with a wrench below the list – it's directly after +Add and -Remove. Set its Style to Transparent and tick the Expand checkbox. This pushes all the status icons, the clock and so on over to the right end of the panel, which is where we expect to find them. For the "Cupertino" layout, the fix for the strangely aligned menu is even simpler. Go into the preferences for the top panel, and go to the Items tab. Find the AppMenu plugin. Click the settings button (with the spanner) at the bottom, and uncheck "Expand". That's all it takes. For a more Mac-like look, we also prefer to hide the label on the Whisker menu: right-click the menu button itself, and pick "Properties". Go to the second tab, labelled "Appearance", and under the heading "Panel Button", the first entry should be labelled "Display". This should have a list with three options: "Icon", "Title", and "Icon and title." Change it from "Icon and title" to just "Icon," then click the Close button. Job done. Build a better Dock Both layouts use Xfce's default "Window Buttons" app-switcher in the second, dock-style panel. It doesn't support pinning apps, so you need separate launchers. That can leave you with duplicated app icons: one to open it, and a second one to show you that it's open, which is redundant. The macOS way to do this is more space-efficient: keep pinned app icons always there, but add an indicator next to the icon to show if it has any open windows. The Docklike Taskbar plugin combines pinned launchers and running-app indicators. First, install it: sudo apt install -y xfce4-docklike-plugin Then, add it to the panel: right-click the dock-style panel, the one with the app icons. Navigate to Panel -> Panel Preferences -> Items. Remove the Window Buttons plugin, and add the new "Docklike Taskbar" plugin from the list. Then, use the up-arrow button to the right of the list to move Docklike Taskbar into position. The Docklike Taskbar does what it says on the tin. It combines app launchers and running windows in the same strip of icons. You can pin app icons to the taskbar, and they stay put whether the app is running or not. If an app is running, it tells you with a colored bar next to the icon. We prefer dashes or macOS-style dots next to the icon instead, which is one of the settings in the plugin's preferences. Optionally, it can show preview thumbnails for windows. To add apps to the dock, launch them in whatever way you prefer, then right-click the icon and make sure "Pinned to dock" is checked. To remove an icon, right-click it and uncheck the option. Reordering icons takes a modifier key: hold Ctrl, then left-click and drag an icon to move it. There are alternatives – for example, Debian also includes at least two. On the small side is the simple Plank, which takes about 3.5 MB. If you want something more gee-whizz, there's also the fancy animated Cairo dock, which takes more like 200 MB, but can use OpenGL-accelerated visual effects and more. (If that's what you want, Xfce may not be the desktop for you, but we won't judge.) What we like about the Docklike Taskbar plugin is that it's a native Xfce tool: it's as lightweight as the rest of Xfce, and it's configured in the same way as other parts of the desktop. Making the global menu earn its place on the panel You will quickly discover that most apps don't use the global menu, and even if they do, it's duplicated inside the app's own window, which is a waste of screen space. Getting applications to use the global menu requires some additional configuration. Some of this is described on the Vala panel appmenu project page on GitLab. The instructions are split between two pages, starting with the main README. Look for the Xfce section. Here, it tells us to type into a terminal window: xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/ShellShowsMenubar -n -t bool -s true xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/ShellShowsAppmenu -n -t bool -s true Then there are some more on the AppMenu Gtk Module subpage. Under Xfce, this says to open a terminal window and enter: xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/Modules -n -t string -s "appmenu-gtk-module" Just for completeness, though, we also created the two config files it recommends (and rebooted), but the third xconf-query command was the one that made it all start working for us. After these changes, all the bundled apps we tested that had menu bars used the global menu. Some things don't, such as the Task Manager. In the days when Ubuntu used Unity by default, Mozilla Firefox supported Unity's global menus, but not any more. However, Waterfox still does. ®

Het gaat al langere tijd niet goed met Ferry Doedens, dat konden we al tot genants toe aanschouwen in de Videoland-documentaire Ferry Lost. En nu is er weer een nieuwe tegenslag bijgekomen.

Volgens onderzoek van RTL Boulevard heeft de Belastingdienst beslag gelegd op zijn woning in Amsterdam. "Nu echt beslag gelegd op woning", zo kopt Boulevard. Het meest opvallende? De schuld die aan de basis ligt van deze drastische maatregel is nog geen 1.250 euro.

Executoriaal beslag om een VVE-schuld

Het gaat om executoriaal beslag, wat betekent dat zijn woning daadwerkelijk geveild kán worden om de schuld af te lossen. En dan gaat het niet om een torenhoog bedrag bij de fiscus, maar om een schuld van 1.247 euro aan de Vereniging Van Eigenaren die het pand van Ferry beheert.

Omdat hij die rekening tot dusver niet heeft betaald, stapte de VVE naar de rechter en werd er uiteindelijk een deurwaarder ingeschakeld.

BN'er in vrije val

Doedens was ooit een van de bekendste gezichten van Nederland: een rol in Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden, presentatieklussen op tv en gastrollen in diverse programma's en toneelproducties. Maar de afgelopen jaren ging het hard bergafwaarts.

Hij worstelt al langer met middelengebruik — van GHB en crystal meth tot coke en speed — en werd meerdere keren aangehouden voor rijden onder invloed van drugs. Zijn rol in GTST raakte hij kwijt. In plaats daarvan raakte hij steeds verder verstrikt in een obsessie met cryptomunten.

In de documentaire Ferry Lost was te zien hoe overtuigd hij is dat één grote crypto-klapper hem uit zijn problemen gaat helpen.

Een sprankje hoop

Zijn voormalig manager Christian Looman liet eind augustus weten dat Ferry zelf contact heeft gezocht met het Leger des Heils. Na het afkicken zou hij daar een programma kunnen volgen om zijn leven weer op te bouwen.

Bron: RTL Boulevard

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst ondersteunt de politie bij het onderzoek naar de sabotage op het spoor. De AIVD richt zich op de vraag "uit welke hoek dit komt", zegt een woordvoerder.

Een woordvoerder van de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV) wil geen mededelingen doen over een mogelijk terroristisch karakter van de sabotage. Hij zegt eerst het onderzoek van ProRail, politie en het Openbaar Ministerie af te wachten.

KOPENHAGEN (ANP) - De Deense premier Mette Frederiksen heeft het afschieten van lichtkogels door een Russisch fregat veroordeeld als een "roekeloze actie". De lichtkogels raakten volgens de Deense krijgsmacht maandagavond bijna een militaire helikopter.

"Deze Russische acties zijn bedoeld om te intimideren en om ons te verdelen", schrijft Frederiksen in een verklaring op X. "Dat zal niet lukken. Wij zullen niet wankelen."

Volgens de Denen was de militaire helikopter bezig met een routineoperatie om foto's te nemen van het Russische fregat, toen die opeens schoot met lichtkogels.

Het Russische schip bevond zich in de internationale wateren, in de buurt van Gedser. Dat is de zuidelijkste plaats van Denemarken en ligt ten noorden van het Duitse Rostock, aan de andere kant van de Oostzee.

Canada en de EU zoeken toenadering tot elkaar, nu de VS zich onder Trump een onbetrouwbare partner tonen. Donderdag spreekt premier Mark Carney het Europees Parlement toe. „Beide zijden willen een politiek signaal afgeven dat ze klaar zijn om de relatie naar een volgende fase te tillen.”

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大分県豊後高田市の昭和ロマン蔵 / Showa Roman-gura in Bungotakada City, Oita Prefecture

Maar zijn er al beelden van de buizen op/aan het spoor? Liggen die over de rails heen (dwars) of is het voldoende om aan een rails een buis te plakken en zo het systeem laten denken dat er een trein rijdt?