Tag: Neighborhood
Buchrezension: „Alte Zachen/Old Things“ von Ziggy Hanaor und „My Neighborhood“ von María José Ferrada
Diese alten Leute existieren nicht nur für ihre Enkelkinder, wenn sie welche haben, und sie verteilen keine Weisheit oder Suppe.
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Fahrer schlagen 50-Yard-Low Traffic Neighborhood zu, das Bußgelder in Höhe von 6 Millionen Pfund kassiert hat
Quartiere mit geringem Verkehr werden langsam immer häufiger, da Kommunen nach Wegen suchen, den Verkehr zu reduzieren und Gebiete lebenswerter zu machen. Lokale Behörden in London, Oxford und Birmingham haben Pflanzgefäße auf Straßen installiert, Fahrradwege angelegt und Bürgersteige ausgebaut.
Dies ist Teil einer nationalen Anstrengung, mehr Menschen durch Radfahren und Gehen zu bewegen.
Die Fahrer sind jedoch in Aufruhr über einen LTN in einem Teil von Hackney, der Geldstrafen von rund 6 Millionen Pfund einkassiert hat.
Die 50-Yard-Strecke der Straße
From Madrid summit, NATO steps into more dangerous era – POLITICO
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MADRID — It’s riskier than the Cold War.
It’s less predictable, with fewer ground rules, a real danger of nuclear escalation, attritional bloodletting deeply scarring Ukraine, and no clear path back to any sort of détente.
NATO leaders on Thursday concluded a summit meeting in Madrid that positioned the alliance on the brink of a confrontation with Russia. Allies insisted that they would back Ukraine “as long as it takes” to repel Russian
EU countries unanimously back Ukraine — except on its bid to join the EU – POLITICO
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EU countries are all for Ukraine in its war against Russia, but they are all over the map when it comes to Ukraine’s demand to be recognized as a candidate for EU membership.
The European Commission on Friday is expected to recommend formal candidate status for Ukraine and for neighboring Moldova, but the final decision requires unanimity among the 27 EU heads of state and government who will gather for a European Council
The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters
A recent study calculated that in the first year of a baby’s life, parents face 1,750 difficult decisions. These include what to name the baby, whether to breastfeed the baby, how to sleep-train the baby, what pediatrician to take the baby to, and whether to post pictures of the baby on social media. And that is only year one.
How can parents make these decisions, and the thousands to come? They can always turn to Google, but it’s easy to
House-flipping algorithms are coming to your neighborhood
For years, Michael Maxson spent more nights in hotels than his own bed, working on speaker systems for the titans of heavy rock on global tours. When Maxson decided to settle down with his wife and their two dogs, they chose the city where stadium rock spectacles took him more often than any other: Las Vegas.
After renting for several years, in 2021 he found a home he wanted to buy in Clark County—a place within easy reach of Vegas’s … Read more
Neu im Taschenbuch: ‘Wild Minds’ und ‘People From My Neighborhood’
WILD MINDS: Die Künstler und Rivalitäten, die das goldene Zeitalter der Animation inspirierten, von Reid Mitenbuler. (Hain, 432 S., $18.) Dieser Bericht über die Illustratoren des 20. Jahrhunderts, die die frühe amerikanische Animation geprägt haben, ist akribisch und eindrucksvoll. „Wie die Animatoren, die er feiert“, kommentierte unser Rezensent Michael Tisserand, Mitenbuler „kann einen Charakter mit ein paar schnellen Strichen zusammenfassen.“
ICH HABE NICHT HUNGER, ABER ICH KÖNNTE ESSEN, von Christopher González. (SFWP, 115 S., 14,95 $.) Diese Debütkollektion
Europe’s under-fire gatekeeper – POLITICO
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As EU leaders prepare to meet their Western Balkan counterparts on Wednesday, they might want to ask the European Commission’s point man for an impartial view of the region’s efforts to meet democratic standards and one day join the bloc.
Then again, they might not.
According to more than a dozen officials from multiple institutions and an analysis of internal documents, European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi has overseen a push to play down concerns