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The week in Belgium from 12 to 18 October
Openings, opera, fashion, music, and books – a selection of things to do in Belgium this week. See you there!
Opening: Ivan Moudov Artists Club Coffre Fort
Thursday, 15 October, 19-22h00 Brussels
Ivan Moudov at Art Brussels 2015
Exhibition project Artists Club Coffre Fort already convinced with a strong appearance at Art Brussels earlier this year. Now you can discover the work of Ivan Moudov in their own spectacular space, the vault of a former jeweller in the center of Brussels: a rather unlikely venue. Bulgarian artist Moudov's multifaceted practice ranges from performance to video work and installations. At Coffre Fort he will also present an interactive, retrospective catalogue of his creations. Visitors are invited to buy pages, and only those sold to a collector will later appear in the actual publication, integrating the audience into the making of his book.
Opera: La Vestale at Cirque Royale
15 and 17 October Brussels
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Due to extensive renovations, Brussels' opera house La Monnaie is leaving its homebase quite a lot this season, taking over other venues of the Belgian capital such as Bozar or the Kaaitheater. This week you can enjoy a La Monnaie production in the gorgeous premises of Cirque Royal. "La Vestale", composed by Gaspare Spontini, is about a woman who frees herself from the power of religious authority, and has influenced composers from Wagner to Berlioz.
Fashion: Brussels Fashion Days 2015
From 16 to 18 October Brussels
This week the fourth edition of the Brussels Fashion Days kicks off with a multitude of events from fashion shows to talks and exhibitions taking place all over the city, aiming at making the sometimes slightly elusive world of fashion more accessible to the general public. A sure highlight is the Brussels Fashion Days after party hosted by Libertine Supersport, which at the same time celebrates its sixth birthday. See the full programme here.
Shop launch: La Super Ouverture at Lulu
Friday, 16 October, 18h00 Brussels
Only a few weeks ago Lulu, a 830 square meters big space dedicated to all things interior, opened its doors for the very first time. The new Ixelles hotspot also hosts a lovely café (which reportedly makes delicious Oreo lattes) and a pop-up store under the name Super. The latter is being launched this Friday, and you're invited to the opening! Super's goal: to showcase great products made in Belgium, featuring everything from Frédérique Ficheroulle's design objects to Superpieceofchic's clothes and bags.
Apartment expo: KLAN
From 16 to 18 October Ghent
KLAN is a non-profit exhibition project launched by two Ghent-based artists, a French photographer and Italian painter. With the goal to show art in a different, more intimate setting, they recently started organizing expos in their own home. This week you can check out their second show, the duo exhibition "La Peur D'Un Monde Entier", presenting works by Gabrielle G. Bianco and Emmanuel Le Cerf.
Release gig: Ulysse at Reflektor
Saturday, 17 October Liège
Ulysse first appeared on Belgium's music scene back in April 2014 with its debut EP "U as in Ulysse". Now the electro-pop three-piece is back with its second EP, "Cashmere Guns", and this weekend you can discover the new tracks live on stage when the band throws a release party at Liège's new music venue Reflektor.
Printed matter: Art book fair at Antwerp Academy
Saturday, 17 October, 10-18h00 Antwerp
For the second time Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts hosts an international art book fair putting forward more than 70 publishers from Belgium and abroad. Unique is the mix of antiquarian and second-hand books with contemporary artist editions. This year there's a special focus on the printed works of Werner Cuvelier, who left his mark on publishing with his geometrically abstract, conceptual and minimalist publications. Featuring Ghent's Art Paper Editions, Berlin's Antiquariat Walter Markov, and many many more.
Opening: Sarah Morris at M Museum
Sunday, 18 October, 15h00 Leuven
© Image taken from Art Wiki
We're really excited to announce this one: Leuven's M Museum is bringing the captivating work of renowned British artist Sarah Morris to Belgium. From her homebase New York, the city of all cities, she explores different facets of city life, examining codes and structures in Paris, Rio, and other urban landscapes. The results are fascinating films and large-scale, colorful, abstract paintings focusing on architectural details and a city's psychology and actors. A must-see!
Cover photo Murielle Victorine Scherre


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Bernie Sanders is running for president again. This time, he's a frontrunner.
Sen. Bernie Sanders caught the establishment Democratic Party off guard three years ago; few anticipated the strength of his candidacy and message.
Things have changed. Sanders announced on Tuesday he is running for president again — but this time, he's not the underdog. This time, he is a frontrunner who, despite coming in second in 2016, has fundamentally altered the Democratic Party.
Sanders, now 77 years old, is the most popular senator among constituents in America and consistently ranks among the top potential 2020 candidates in early polls. That said, he's joining a packed field, including progressive firebrands like Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris and possibly Sherrod Brown Prominent Democrats such as Joe Biden are also expected to jump into the race.
Sanders, in an email to supporters on Tuesday, laid out a vision featuring a number of his longstanding policy priorities including free college and Medicare-for-all. "I'm running for president because a great nation is judged not by how many billionaires and nuclear weapons it has, but by how it treats the most vulnerable — the elderly, the children, our veterans, the sick and the poor," the email reads.
As part of the message, Sanders is calling on 1 million supporters to sign on to his campaign and demonstrate the impact of grassroots backing — a key component of his 2016 presidential campaign that he intends to build on this cycle.
Sanders, now a well-established contender, faces a fresh challenge during his second presidential run.
The rallying cries that distinguished Sanders from Hillary Clinton in 2016 — Medicare-for-all, a $15 minimum wage, campaign finance reform — are no longer unique positions. In some ways, that's an advantage for him; he's become a progressive father figure who can credibly claim a lifelong dedication to the issues the party is now standing behind.
Sanders offers a nod to this in his 2020 launch message, highlighting just how effectively his 2016 campaign has helped spread a wide range of progressive positions. "Together, you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution. Now, it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that we fought for," he writes.
"I don't want to say [the party came my way], but most people would say that," Sanders told CBS.
On the other hand, Sanders has to make the case that he's still the progressive that voters should choose. He's remained consistent; he's fighting for the same things today that he was in 2016. The question is: Can he win at his own game?
In 2016, Sanders said he would start a "political revolution." Today, it's hard to overstate the influence his campaign — which railed against corporate greed, economic inequality, and money's influence in politics — has had on Democratic politics.
Sanders's policy ideas have arguably had more of a lasting influence on Democratic politics than Clinton's platform did. The policies Sanders campaigned on three years ago are now mainstream.
Sanders "is not a candidate who is adopting these issues — he has always been running on these issues," said Joshua Ulibarri, a partner with the Democratic polling firm Lake Research Partners.
Sanders popularized single-payer health care with his Medicare-for-all bill. It's now one of the most prominent progressive health care policies and increasingly popular among Americans — so much so that many House Democratic candidates campaigned on some variation of it in 2018. Medicare-for-all has come to mean many things, from a public option to getting rid of private health insurance altogether.
Sanders has been clear with his proposal: a bill that transitions the country to a universal Medicare system over four years, eventually sunsetting Medicaid and Medicare in their current forms, while leaving the Veterans Affairs health system and the Indian Health Services in place.
He normalized a $15 minimum wage. During the Obama years, the Democratic platform supported increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 and tying it to inflation. Clinton initially supported an increase to $12 per hour. Sanders, however, made the case for $15 an hour. At the time, it was a huge debate within the Democratic Party, but by the summer of 2016, Clinton had endorsed Sanders's view and Democrats adopted it in their platform. Now the debate feels almost passé.
There has been a tangible shift toward class warfare in Democratic politics. The "millionaires and billionaires" that Sanders targets in every stump speech are now the basis of almost every leading progressive economic policy proposal. Especially in light of Republicans' tax cuts, which gave the biggest windfall to corporations and wealthy Americans, Democrats have crafted a message around wealth distribution.
The issue has taken center stage in the 2020 battle of ideas as well. Warren unveiled her wealth tax on Americans with assets worth more than $50 million. Sanders, who in 2016 proposed a 65 percent top estate tax rate, this year has proposed raising that top rate to 77 percent.
And, of course, his calls for campaign finance reform. By the end of the last presidential primary, the country was well aware that Sanders's average campaign donation was $27. Running without corporate PAC donations is now something politicians — especially 2020 contenders — now all feel pressure to conform to, and that's largely because of Sanders.
In fact, a lot of these ideas have adopted, or are being echoed, by other 2020 contenders. Harris and expected candidate Sen. Cory Booker have signed on to Sanders's Medicare-for-all bill. All the top candidates support a $15 minimum wage. The list goes on.
The feeling is echoed among left-wing grassroots groups as well. "This progressive movement feels like it can win elections," Gautney said.
The runup to Sanders's presidential announcement wasn't smooth.
Reports of gender and pay discrimination in his 2016 campaign and allegations of sexual harassment against some of his campaign surrogates have made for a rocky rollout of his 2020 campaign. When first confronted with the allegations, Sanders said he didn't know of the complaints.
"I was a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case," he told Anderson Cooper, saying the campaign he ran in 2016 wasn't perfect. Since then, he has delivered a more formal apology on the matter.
The complaints elevated a trope that Sanders's campaign was propped up by the "Bernie Bro" — an army of young, mostly white men — who didn't get him over the finish line. He got trounced by Clinton in Southern states, where African-American leaders said the Vermont senator just couldn't connect.
But recent polling tells a different story about his base. According to a December Quinnipiac University national poll, Sanders was more popular with women than with men, and had more support among African Americans and Latinos than whites. And he's still leaps and bounds more popular than President Trump, who lands among the most disliked presidents in modern history.


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TweetDeck is a hugely successful third party Twitter platform. It's success lies in the ability to have multiple timelines showing on one screen, providing the user with a lot of information in a single glance. TweetDeck have also successfully managed to incorporate new Twitter features such as promoted tweets.
TechCrunch claim to have heard from a "source with knowledge of the deal" that the transaction will be announced over the coming few days and Twitter paid $40-$50 million for TweetDeck.
Back in February, it was reported that Bill Gross' UberMedia was buying TweetDeck for $25-$30 million. Over the past few years, they have acquired a number of Twitter start-ups but none as successful as TweetDeck. It seems Twitter could not run the risk of another company having such a monopoly.
Twitter have also spent a lot of time contesting stats reporting the high number of Twitter users who use third party API's rather than Twitter itself while using the service. With this deal, it seems that Twitter is finally acknowledging the power of successful API's.


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Germany is going to promote and protect industrial champions.
By Nikolaus Piper
In late 2018, one of Germany's most venerated and long-standing companies stopped being German. Linde AG was founded in 1879 by Carl Linde, the inventor of the refrigerator, and rose to become the world's largest supplier of industrial gases, including oxygen and nitrogen. Late last year, it merged with its US competitor Praxair. Today, the new company, Linde plc, has its head offices in Dublin instead of Munich – for tax reasons.
In fact, what is officially being called a "fusion" is actually an outright takeover, and the German industry icon is now poised to become American. The transaction is not without Historical irony, as Praxair was once the US subsidiary of Linde AG. During World War I, Linde assets in the US were confiscated and sold to a US company, which ultimately renamed it Praxair and listed it as such on the New York Stock Exchange starting in 1989.
This is all interesting to historians and perhaps a few analysts, who question the business logic behind the takeover of one entirely healthy company by another. Politicians and the public, however, rarely take interest in the matter, which is not surprising. After all, the question of whether a company is "German" is usually irrelevant in Germany – the world's export leader – as long as the jobs stay in the country.
The idea of fostering "national champions" has been a foreign concept in German politics for many years. When Siemens (Germany) and Alstom (France) sought to merge their rail operations in an attempt to create a European champion of railway technology, the European Commission disallowed the merger over concerns as to how it would aff ect competition. There was very little protest to this decision, except among those directly aff ected.
Similarly, nobody stepped in when Germany lost its leading market position in solar tech to the People's Republic of China. In Germany, it doesn't seem to matter whether a company is German or not – at least when it comes to investments.
We might soon have to say it didn't seem to matter. It is possible that Germany's agnostic attitude with regard to national industrial policy will soon be coming to an end. In early February, Peter Altmaier, Germany's current minister for economic aff airs and a close confidante of Chancellor Angela Merkel, presented a "National Industrial Strategy 2030" in Berlin. This plan foresees Germany using state funds to support, for example, a European factory for car batteries, with one billion euro coming from Berlin and 700 million from Paris. It would also create a fund that invests in companies vulnerable to takeover, thus protecting them from being swallowed up. Altmaier is even thinking about easing antitrust laws, with the aim of lowering the barriers to company mergers.
At the moment, there is much debate as to whether or not all of this makes any sense. Much more important, however, is the fact that the Ministry for Economic Affairs published such a paper in the first place. Since the days of Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's first postwar economics minister and the architect of its "economic miracle," stewards of the German economy have consistently promoted – in theory, not always in practice – a classic, economically liberal position; that is, decisions with regard to investments are made by companies, not politicians. It would appear that this is about to change.
There are three clearly identifiable reasons for this paradigm shift. First is the presidency of Donald Trump in Washington. His aggressive rhetoric against German export surpluses, his threats with regard to punitive tariffs and the prospect that German automobile imports could be declared a danger to US national security – have come as a shock to Germans. The country's most important ally is no longer a benevolent hegemon standing for shared values; instead, it is a rude competitor that uses its political power to gain economic advantages for itself. In fact, if negotiations on Praxair's takeover of Linde were being held today, it is unclear whether German politicians might attempt to block the deal.
The second force behind the shift in opinion in Berlin is the scandal surrounding manipulated diesel emissions. Since 2015, when it was revealed in the US that Volkswagen had installed illegal defeat devices in its diesel models in order to meet the official limits for nitrogen oxide emissions, "Dieselgate" has been one of the most discussed topics in Germany. Volkswagen already paid a fine of $4.3 billion to the US, with a number of lawsuits on behalf of motorists in several countries still pending. Stuttgart and other German cities have even had to impose driving bans on diesel cars for some roads.
The diesel scandal rocked the very core of the German auto industry, which had until recently been the pride of the country. Is it possible the industry is facing massive technical and economic problems? In Germany, more than 820,000 people are employed in the development and construction of automobiles, contributing 7.7 percent to the gross domestic product. The suspicion plaguing Germany's general public today is that the industry has missed the boat on important technical trends and might, for example, no longer play a meaningful role in battery technology development for electric cars, which is exactly where Altmaier has called for action.
The third and perhaps most important reason for the novel involvement of politicians in the German economy is the rise of China or, more precisely, a changed assessment of that country's economic ascent. Until recently, Germans have only benefited from China's successes. The People's Republic is Germany's most important trading partner, ahead of both the Netherlands and the US. For 2018, the total volume of trade with China reached €200 billion, with Germany exporting goods worth €93 billion euro to China and importing goods totaling €106 billion. No other European country enjoys a position comparable to Germany's status in China. Today, however, an increasing amount of skepticism is diluting that enthusiasm. After all, the Asian giant remains a communist dictatorship and continues to pursue an aggressive foreign policy increasingly characterized by the aspiration to achieve dominance. In the context of the fundamental shift toward the digital age, this behavior serves to cause anxiety and fear.
The first wake-up call that prompted Germany to rethink its policies toward China was the Kuka case. In 2016, the Augsburg based industrial robot manufacturer was sold to the Chinese Midea Group. Prior to that, Sigmar Gabriel – a Social Democrat and then-minister of economic affairs – had tried in vain to prevent the deal and shield Kuka's strategically important robot technology. Now the technology is gone, and Kuka might even become a victim of the current Chinese-US trade dispute; as the economic climate worsens, Chinese industrial companies are buying fewer robots.
More and more Germans are worried about issues that go beyond the possible loss of a key technology. Concerns about data protection and national security are on the rise. In this realm, the focus is on the Chinese tech giant Huawei, the second-largest provider of mobile phones worldwide. Huawei is currently expanding its market strength in Europe at a rapid pace. Deutsche Telekom, for example, is an important Huawei client. Huawei equipment is also set to play a key role in the expansion of Germany's infrastructure for the new generation of 5G mobile communications; that is, unless the federal government intervenes at the last moment and puts a stop to Huawei's plans.
And this is precisely what the US government would like to see happen. Officials in Washington fear that when push comes to shove, China could use Huawei components as tools of espionage. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's CFO and daughter of the company's founder, was arrested recently in Canada on a warrant from the US.
Concerns over the loss of data security as a result of the use of Chinese technology are likely justified, especially considering the nonchalance with which the Beijing government uses the data of its citizens to carry out comprehensive surveillance. For European governments eager to protect their own citizens' freedoms, it would not be wise to give Huawei unprotected access to sensitive data. However, in light of the aggressive behavior exhibited by President Trump, it looks like these legitimate concerns might also be used as weapons in a Chinese-US battle for supremacy over the technology of the future.
This is the backdrop against which Germany's minister for economic affairs is now attempting to intervene in industrial policy – an approach that is very unusual in the country's economic history. Still, one of Altmaier's areas of concern is right on the nose: no new global corporations and no world market leaders are emerging in Germany anymore, or, for that matter, in the EU. The only exception to this rule is the Walldorf-based software company SAP. Almost all other globally operating companies in Germany can be traced back to the early days of industrialization: Siemens, Daimler, Thyssen-Krupp, Bayer, BASF and even Deutsche Bank. Moreover, countless names have disappeared over the course of the years: AEG, Hoechst and Grundig. Until recently, Germany had hoped to facilitate the growth of new companies by means of improved framework conditions. Now, however, a hands-on industrial policy is being set up to accomplish that task and generate some European champions.
But does this approach make sense? There is indeed one shining example of successful European industrial policy: Airbus. But that company required a large amount of time and money to become a serious player on the global aircraft market. Only in 2001 – more than 30 years after it was founded – did the European corporation sell more planes than its US competitor Boeing. But the digital age doesn't provide companies with as much time as that. For this reason, Peter Altmaier's industrial policy initiative could easily go down in history as one of the many missteps made in these uncertain times.
Nikolaus Piper
has been a business editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and reported for many years as a New York correspondent.
No longer able to rely on America's military leadership, the EU is harmonizing its military capabilities and facilities
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As of today, we're three points from 19th and tonight we're playing the team 18th only two points behind us. It's only because the team 17th in the table are not playing that we can't end up in the relegation zone. But that's a false narrative; we're okay, things are going in the right direction and silverware beckons.
But don't take my words for it, after the game against Chelsea Mourinho said it best for me by pointing out that if we were relegated "it is not because of the quality of their players". But who puts any credibility on what Mourinho has to say?
But all that is history and I'm firmly of the belief that Lambert is the one to keep us out of the Championship, because disruption now could be catastrophic and it all starts tonight. Tonight, Aston Villa need three points because as the table stands we need five more wins to be safe and it's the teams below us that are the important victories, because that keeps the gap.
Tonight is actually one of those games that could define the season. Three points could be the medicine needed to make the players believe that they can do this while defeat would mean we're closer to the bottom three, could actually find ourselves in the bottom three tomorrow. But again, this is all a false narrative, but then again it's how you define a false narrative, I mean we're 16th, it's not as if we're actually in the relegation zone.
And this game is a six pointer, just like the one coming up at the weekend. If we could play both games today and win both, we'd be in 12th ahead of Everton. These two games are massive for Aston Villa and they're both six pointers. In fact we have to win all the games against the sides below us and pick up points with teams around us.
With fourteen games to go, there are no false narratives because right now, we're in trouble. I think we'll survive, only because I think that even though we're pretty bad there are sides below us that are worse ... just.
But all this is just opinion. This post is about tonight and you have to fancy that the likes of Sinclair and Benteke will start and maybe don't be surprised to see Sanchez start, but not in place of Cleverley, who the manager is apparently not picking because of a clause in the contract. I can't believe he answered that question.
And with that, we'll have team news later, updates throughout the day, because there will be updates today but hopefully good ones. Hopefully it's three points tonight, because if we do get them, it will make it easier to believe we're not heading into the abyss. Because whatever the CEO and owner think, these days a club like us do not come straight up and there is no way of knowing what will come next.


Nurturing your mind and nourishing your body is important.
I have found that focusing on gratitude helps to deter my mind from worries and the disappointments of life.
A spiritual nurturing and nourishing includes a daily communication with God.
Gods creations, the beauty of nature and the lovely kindness of people inspire me. This reminds me of the characteristics of God's own nature.
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You return finished books in the mail using prepaid mailers from BookSwim and BookSwim sends new ones from your list.
The service charges $20 per month. This allows you to rent 3 books at a time. For $36 per month, you can rent up to 11 books at a time. Currently, the service has only 150,000 titles in 27 categories, but the available stock is expanding. The service allows you to buy a book you really like online. Purchasing a book counts as a return.
Another book rental service is Booksfree.com. Its model works essentially the same as BookSwim. The title base is somewhat smaller – 79,800 books, 18,000 audiobooks. Pricing varies by the number and type of books you rent. For hardcover or paperback books, prices range from $10 per month for 2 books, up to $38 per month for 12 books. For audiobooks, the prices range from $22.50 per month for 2 audiobooks at a time, up to $42.50 per month for 4 audiobooks. There are specialty services for audiobooks – e.g. SimplyAudioBooks and Jiggerbug. A couple of years ago, it was reported in the Wall Street Jounral that even Google was exploring the possibility of renting books.
It remains to be seen how popular book rentals will become. However, they currently offer readers a lower cost alternative to read books that are popular, but may not be available at a library. Also, rentals help space conscious readers avoid the necessity to find physical storage for books they have already read. As book prices rise in response to inflationary pressures, publishers might do well to examine the economics of movie rentals to see how rentals might impact the for purchase book market.
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As Reuters adds, the White House was working on Thursday to clear the release of a secret Republican memo. As White House legal and national security experts reviewed the document, the Senate's No. 3 Republican, John Thune, urged his House of Representatives colleagues to allow the Senate Intelligence Committee to review the document and to heed the FBI's concerns before they made it public.
The administration official told Reuters earlier the memo was likely to be released on Thursday. The timing, however, remained in flux.
Nunes has dismissed the objections to the memo's release as "spurious."
Thune, attending a political retreat in West Virginia with other lawmakers in Trump's party, urged fellow Republicans to slow down regarding the memo's release.
"I think the Senate Intelligence Committee needs to see it, for sure," Thune said. "They need to pay careful attention to what our folks who protect us have to say about what this, you know, how this bears on our national security."
Thune also said he believed that a counterpoint memo written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee should be made public if the Republican document is released.
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