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Demir: "Mijn reputatie is me te veel waard om leugenaar genoemd te worden"

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Tournée Minérale is veel makkelijker gegaan dan gedacht

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Zaventem - De Vlaamse regering heeft via een elektronische procedure het licht op groen gezet voor een nieuw belangenconflict in het dossier van de Brusselse geluidsnormen. Het belangenconflict is intussen ook ingediend bij het Overlegcomité, het orgaan van de verschillende regeringen in België, waardoor de verstrenging van de Brusselse geluidsnormen opnieuw voor 60 dagen wordt opgeschort. Nu stelt de Brusselse regering dat zo'n belangenconflict niet rechtsgeldig is. Vanaf middernacht gelden dus de strenge Brusselse normen en zullen er boetes uitgeschreven worden. De 'Luchthavengemeenschap' vraagt nu aan de Brusselse regering om de boetes achterwege te laten tot de onderhandelingen rond zijn.

De vergadering van het Overlegcomité maandag bracht geen doorbaak in het dossier van de geluidshinder rond de luchthaven van Zaventem. De Vlaamse regering had vooraf al aangekondigd dat ze in dat geval een nieuw belangenconflict zou indienen tegen de verstrenging van de Brusselse geluidsnormen.

De invoering van die strengere normen was al eens met 60 dagen uitgesteld door een eerste belangenconflict van de Vlaamse regering. Maar omdat de termijn woensdag zou aflopen, dient de Vlaamse regering nu een tweede belangenconflict in. De regering-Bourgeois heeft daarvoor dinsdagochtend via elektronische procedure het licht op groen gezet. Die beslissing is intussen ook overgemaakt aan premier Charles Michel en het Overlegcomité.
Niet rechtsgeldig
Nu stelt de Brusselse regering dat het nieuwe belangenconflict niet rechtsgeldig is. Brussels minister-president Rudi Vervoort (PS) en minister van Leefmilieu Céline Fremault (CDH) hebben naar eigen zeggen juridisch advies ingewonnen en stellen dat het nieuwe belangenconflict de rechtstaat schendt.

Ze zeggen dit op basis van een staatshervorming uit 1980, die omvat een wet die bepaalt dat een belangeconflict niet tweemaal voor hetzelfde probleem ingeroepen mag worden. Ze vragen formeel aan de federale premier om de rechtstaat na te leven en het belangenconflict niet te agenderen op het Overlegcomité. Premier Charles Michel moet ook zijn minister van Mobiliteit, François Bellot, opdragen om op korte termijn rechtvaardige, transparante vliegroutes voor te stellen, die de internationale geluidsstandaarden respecteren - meer bepaald door de minst bevolkte gebieden te overvliegen - evenals de veiligheidsstandaarden.

Op deze manier gelden vanaf middernacht de strenge Brusselse geluidsnormen. Wie deze overschrijdt zal dus een boete in de bus krijgen.
Politiek staakt-het-vuren
De verzamelde 'luchthavengemeenschap' lijkt ten einde raad. "Er is de voorbije dagen nog nooit zo vaak gepraat, voor en achter de schermen, over een oplossing voor de geluidsnormen en de befaamde Vliegwet. Nu er eindelijk voorstellen tot compromissen op tafel gelegd worden, is het nodig om een sereen onderhandelingsklimaat te behouden. We willen een politiek staakt-het-vuren en roepen de Brusselse regering op om de boetes achterwege te laten. Dit is met getrokken messen aan tafel komen, niet met een constructieve geest, op zoek naar een oplossing", zegt Geert Keirens, coördinator van de actie #keepourairportjobs namens de luchthavengemeenschap op Brussels Airport.
In de koelkast
Als premier Michel niet ingaat op de Brusselse vraag belandt de beslissing opnieuw voor 60 dagen in de koelkast. Zo krijgen de verschillende regeringen extra tijd om een overlegde oplossing voor het dossier te vinden.

Opmerkelijk is dat de Vlaamse regering toch voor een andere procedure kiest dan eerder was gepland. Oorspronkelijk dacht de regering-Bourgeois met haar tweede belangenconflict namelijk de oorspronkelijke geluidsnormen van 1999 te viseren. Maar de Vlaamse regering kiest er nu toch voor om het belangenconflict in te dienen als gemeenschapsregering, een piste die eerder ook al was gesuggereerd door Kamerlid Hendrik Vuye (Vuye & Wouters). "We hebben gekozen voor een piste die ook is gebruikt in het BHV-dossier", luidt het in Vlaamse regeringskringen.

Volgens De Tijd heeft federaal minister van Mobiliteit François Bellot (MR) een eerste voorstel klaar voor de verdeling van de lusten en lasten op Zaventem. In dat voorstel zit ook de langverwachte vliegwet. Ook langs Vlaamse kant zou er een voorstel tot compromis uitgewerkt zijn. "Wat dat compromis inhoudt, wil ze nog niet kwijt. Vlaanderen zal het ook pas op de onderhandelingstafel leggen 'als Brussel bereid is om mee te delen in de lasten'", staat te lezen in De Tijd.

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Brussel drijft conflict op de spits: boetes vanaf middernacht

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Zaventem - De Vlaamse regering heeft via een elektronische procedure het licht op groen gezet voor een nieuw belangenconflict in het dossier van de Brusselse geluidsnormen. Het belangenconflict is intussen ook ingediend bij het Overlegcomité, het orgaan van de verschillende regeringen in België, waardoor de verstrenging van de Brusselse geluidsnormen opnieuw voor 60 dagen wordt opgeschort.

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Het afscheid van Tom Boonen in het peloton komt steeds dichterbij. Op 9 april rijdt hij in Parijs-Roubaix zijn laatste profkoers, daarna breekt een nieuw hoofdstuk aan voor de Tornado Tom. Aan het wielermagazine Grinta! verklapt Boonen dat hij al plannen heeft zijn voor na zijn carrière. Boonen gaat van twee naar vier wielen en wordt ambassadeur en verdeler voor Donkervoort, een Nederlandse autoproducent die sportauto's op maat maakt met de hand.

'We gaan Donkervoort op de kaart zetten in België', aldus Tom Boonen aan wielermagazine Grinta. Hij wordt na zijn actieve wielercarrière dan ook ambassadeur en verdeler van de Nederlandse autoconstructeur. Donkervoort opent binnenkort een vestiging in Herent, bij Leuven. 'Een authentiek, handgemaakt product: daar heb ik het voor', stelt Boonen.

Boonen is natuurlijk al langer een liefhebber van snelle wagens en is sinds 2015 ook zelf eigenaar van een Donkervoort-auto. Geen goedkope auto, zijn exemplaar kostte tussen de 150.000 en 200.000 euro.

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Tom Boonen heeft al plannen na zijn wielercarrière

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Korean artist Do Ho Suh references the different places he has lived and worked with this colourful installation at London's Victoria Miro Gallery, which explores ideas about identity and migration.

The Passage/s exhibition gives physical form to Suh's idea of life as a journey - his installation is designed as a sequence of passageways that each represent a different place he has occupied.

"I see life as a passageway, with no fixed beginning or destination," said Suh. "We tend to focus on the destination all the time and forget about the in-between spaces."

The main part of the exhibition is a one-to-one scale structure made from panels of colourful translucent fabric, named Hub.

Each section references a different place that the artist has lived and worked, including his childhood home in South Korea, and various apartments and studios since then.

Following his move to London five years ago, Suh created the Hub, London Apartment structure, which is a partial representation of his home in the UK capital.

This section is joined with nine other structures, which come together to create a walk-through installation spanning the length of the 25-metre-long gallery.

"To move through these delicately precise, weightless impressions is to experience a distinct emotional register, a sense of being in flux, crossing boundaries and moving between psychological states," said the gallery.

This theme is also explored in animations displayed around the installation, in which photographs of various locations have been digitally stitched together.

One of these works came about following the birth of Suh's first daughter. The artist attached three GoPro video cameras to her pushchair to capture the different viewpoints and sound from the street, along with conversations between father and daughter in English and Korean.

A recently-completed work named the Rubbing/Loving Project, is also on show in the gallery.

Made over the past three years in the New York apartment Suh first moved into in 1997, it was created by lining every surface of the interior with paper and taking a rubbing using coloured pencils and pastels.

His departure from New York is visualised in a set of works displayed within lightboxes, which are a series of household items constructed from white fabric.

The exhibition also introduces Suh's new process in which his architectural structures are compressed into large-scale two-dimensional pieces.

Using gelatin tissue, the works are sewn together. But once immersed in water, the gelatin dissolves and fuses with the paper to leave an image where the threads appear as a framework of the form.

Passage/s is on show at the Victoria Miro gallery in north London until 18 March 2017.

Modernist ruin in London canal provides a glimpse at an uncertain future

It follows on from British artist Alex Hartley's exhibition, for which he installed crumbling modernist ruin in the gallery's gardens.

Photography is by Thierry Bal.

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Even before New York Fashion Week began last Wednesday, it was evident politics would be a major theme throughout the week. Fashion shows have gotten political in the past, but something felt different this time around. It felt more pressing, urgent and necessary.

Pins announcing fashion's support of Planned Parenthood were going to be at all the major shows. Designers had started speaking out against the Trump administration and its policies regarding women and immigrants.

At several shows, designers made sure to mix fashion with politics, with models walking out in pointed statement T-shirts or even guests giving speeches. Over the course of the nine official days that comprise NYFW, politics was as much a trend as Trainspotting.

Here are all the times fashion got political during New York Fashion Week this season, perhaps setting a precedent for seasons to come.

Prabal Gurung's feminist statement T-shirts

Prabal Gurung is known for his flirty and elegant gowns, with plenty of sparkle and sheen. And while those dresses did appear at his runway show at NYFW, for the finale, Gurung decided to switch it up a bit, giving all the models a statement T-shirt to wear with a skirt.

On those statement T-shirts read different political slogans, from " We will not be silenced" to " I am an immigrant" to " Love is the resistance" to " uture is female," which seems to be borrowed from a T-shirt from .

There was even a T-shirt that read " Nevertheless she persisted," which are that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) used to reason his silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Tommy Hilfiger's white bandanas

Similarly to Gurung, Tommy Hilfiger also waited until his models' finale walk to make his political statement. For the models' final stomp down the runway in Los Angeles, they all wore a white bandana around their wrists, which were part of a campaign called #TiedTogether that encouraged people to wear white bandanas as a statement on human unity.

"I'm just focused on what we're trying to do with our brand, which is disrupt," Hilfiger told the Hollywood Reporter.

In addition to Hilfiger, designer also chose to wear the white bandana for his show as well.

LRS's cheeky political underwear

Didn't think political statements could still be powerful when they're written across a bum, did you?

Well it's 2017, so here we are. At the LRS New York show at NYFW, several different models backstage flaunted their large white underwear with political slogans written across the backside. On one, it read, "Fuck your wall." On another: "No ban no wall!!!"

Perhaps in 2017, underwear will be the new protest sign.

Public School's take on the Make America Great Again hats

For months now, artists have taken Donald Trump's Make America Great Again hat and had their fun with it, creating hats that look similar but read things like "Black Lives Matter" or "Make America Native Again."

Public School's show marked the first time a high fashion designer has looked for inspiration in the MAGA hat to make a statement though, and what a statement it was. Several models walked the runway in red hats and red shirts that read "Make America New York," a nod to a city where people of all genders and background and races mingle in harmony. Some models also wore jackets with " We need leaders" printed across the back, which was probably a nod to you-know-who as well.

Naeem Khan's moving Maya Angelou moment

Naeem Khan, an immigrant himself from India, hasn't kept silent these past few months as the Trump administration has moved into the White House. He's openly refused to dress Melania Trump, and against Trump's immigration ban.

At the end of his show at NYFW, Khan decided to get political once more, sending a lone model down the runway in what looked like an ornate wedding gown as a recording of Maya Angelou's poem " Human Family" played.

It's a poem that celebrates differences.

Mara Hoffman's spotlight on the Women's March on Washington

Designer Mara Hoffman was so inspired by the Women's March on Washington, which she attended in January, that she wanted to bring a piece of it to her own runway show at New York Fashion Week.

So on Monday, before a single model took to her runway, Hoffman had the organizers of the march - Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour - give speeches about female power and unity.

Then, after the models took the stage, they danced about as Maya Angelou's poem "Phenomenal Woman" was read aloud.

Apparently Maya has had quite the week.

Gypsy Sport's diverse activist runway

From its inception, Gypsy Sport's brand has been about celebrating diverse people from all backgrounds and different shapes and sizes and genders. During its show on Sunday, it was about that once more, but it came with a much more pointed message. First, the models themselves weren't all models, with some being activists and protesters Gypsy Sport's designer had meant at rallies across the country.

And before the show started, Uribe offered a message of his own, telling the crowd:

To those who can hear me, be optimistic. There's a cloud of hate that is now upon [us] but is passing: the hate of men who fear what we can do when we get together. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. It's people [who] have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Christian Siriano's subtle but powerful T-shirt

The T-shirt designer Christian Siriano sent down on Saturday shouldn't be political, but really a fact. "People are people," it read in bold block lettering.

But in a political climate so divided over seemingly the most basic human rights and virtues, that statement is unfortunately political.

The T-shirt itself is already on sale, with all profits from the going toward the ACLU.

Creatures of Comfort's similar call for unity

Much like Siriano, this Creatures of Comfort T-shirt shouldn't have to be political either, because it is a fact. "We are all human beings," some shirts read on the Creatures of Comfort runway.

And similarly to Siriano, these T-shirts are already , with 50% of proceeds going towards the National Immigration Law Center.

"It's kind of a reaction to what's happening right now," founder Jade Lai told Vogue. "I thought it was a good way to bring positivity to what's going on."

This season, political statements came big and small, from bandanas to T-shirts to speeches. But in a time such as this one, not one felt too small. Any hint of wanting unity rather than division - and peace rather than war - felt welcome from a community clearly still trying to process what this administration has in store for us all.

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CAFÉ ZEEZICHT BANT AMERIKAANSE PRODUCTEN ZOLANG TRUMP AAN DE MACHT IS

Antwerpen De eerste economische boycot tegen Donald Trump is een feit. Café Zeezicht gaat vanaf vrijdag geen Amerikaanse producten meer verkopen, zolang president Trump aan de macht is. Coca Cola en Lays sneuvelen, maar ook de Amerikaanse whiskey's en de sigarettenmerken gaan eruit.

"Nee, dit is geen grap. Alle Amerikaanse dranken gaan eruit, zolang het beleid van Donald Trump niet wijzigt." Niet alleen café Zeezicht, maar ook de twee restaurants boven het café zullen geen Amerikaanse producten meer verkopen. Het bekende café op de Dageraadplaats wordt zo de eerste horecazaak die een economische boycot tegen de Verenigde Staten invoert.

"Enkele dagen geleden hadden we een vergadering met al ons personeel. We vonden dat we iets moesten doen tegen het beleid van Donald Trump, dus stelde iemand voor om niet langer Amerikaanse dranken en snacks te verkopen. Een economische boycot is waarschijnlijk de enige maatregel die Trump in staat is om te begrijpen", zegt David Joris, een van de uitbaters van café Zeezicht.

Amerikaanse producten boycotten is - zeker voor een horecazaak - een vrij drastische maatregel, want Amerika is meer vertegenwoordigd in de Belgische café's dan men zou vermoeden. Coca Cola is een van de meest iconische Amerikaanse merken, maar ook het water van Chaudfontaine en de chips van Lays zijn in Amerikaanse handen. Daarbovenop komen nog de Amerikaanse whiskey's en de sigaretten van Amerikaanse merken zoals Marlboro en Lucky Strike. Zelfs de Heinz-ketchup voor de croque-monsieur wordt geschrapt.

"Het klopt dat we hier inderdaad zeer veel cola en spuitwater verkopen, maar die drankjes gaan we vervangen door Belgische alternatieven", zegt David. "De Oost-Vlaamse brouwerij Roman zal voor cola zorgen, water kopen we nu van het merk Val. De Amerikaanse Lay's-chips vervangen we door de Belgische chips van Croky."

Ongerustheid

Zullen de klanten niet wegblijven als ze geen 'echte' cola meer kunnen krijgen? "Nee, dat denk ik niet. De ongerustheid over Donald Trump is wijdverspreid, en veel klanten zijn het eens met deze maatregel. Ze mogen er ons trouwens op attent maken als ze nog Amerikaanse producten in ons aanbod ontdekken."

"Ja, het is drastisch, maar ik vind het wel goed dat zij een statement maken", zegt Eefje Pilon, een van de klanten. "Ik kom hier trouwens niet om cola te drinken, wel voor bier."

De boycot van het Zeezicht blijft duren zolang Donald Trump aan de macht is. "Of tot wanneer hij zijn drastische maatregelen terugschroeft. Het is jammer voor de werknemers van de Amerikaanse bedrijven, die hierdoor ook getroffen worden. Maar we denken dat dit de enige maatregel is die impact zou kunnen hebben."

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The world has become used to Beyoncé dropping new projects at a moment's notice - and this is no different.

On Wednesday afternoon, she shared on Instagram the news of her forthcoming second and third child.

"We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over," Beyoncé wrote. "We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes."

Beyoncé is the queen of raising the stakes when it comes to her album drops, and now her baby announcements. The surprise Instagram announcement set to break the internet is a departure from her announcement of her pregnancy with Blue Ivy, which she announced by rubbing her stomach after performing "Love on Top" during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.

Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, rumors that Beyoncé was not pregnant spread like wildfire during her pregnancy with Blue Ivy. This prompted Beyoncé to respond - years later - with a shot of her pregnant belly in the visuals for her album Lemonade.

She signed the message from "the Carters." Congratulations, Beyoncé!

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Beyoncé is pregnant with twins and it's not a hoax - check out the photo

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The world has become used to Beyoncé dropping new projects at a moment's notice - and this is no different. On Wednesday afternoon, she shared on Instagram the news of her forthcoming second and third child. "We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over," Beyoncé wrote.

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It's impossible to discuss American history without touching on one the darkest, longest chapters of our nation's past - slavery. So why can't we stop glossing over what may be both the most horrific and historically significant element of our country's relatively short history?

In 1860, one year before the Civil War began, the population of enslaved people in the U.S. was nearly , making the ratio of free people to enslaved people 7-to-1. And, while chattel slavery may have ended with President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, Douglas A. Blackmon in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, that forced labor for black Americans continued on into the 20th century.

You'd think that, considering both the heinous nature of slavery in the U.S. and its long-lasting repercussions, educators tasked with teaching the next generation about the millions of people who lived and died as slaves in the U.S. would approach it with the gravity it deserves.

But year after year, stories surface of textbooks and lessons about slavery that aren't just insufficient, they're flat out wrong and offensive. Here's exactly how not to teach kids about slavery.

Don't call slaves "workers."

Mom calls out textbook 'downplaying slavery' by calling slaves 'workers' and 'immigrants': http://t.co/6tjMsdThXr

The caption read "The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations." And on the next page, authors mentioned that many European immigrants came to the U.S. as "indentured servants" without acknowledging the Africans who were brought to the Americas captive and enslaved.

Burren took a screenshot of the page in his textbook and sent it to his mother, Roni Dean-Burren, with the message, "We was real hard workers, wasn't we." Dean-Burren was shocked too, and she shared the pages in posts on social media.

"It talked about the USA being a country of immigration, but mentioning the slave trade in terms of immigration was just off," Dean-Burren told the Times. "It's that nuance of language. This is what erasure looks like."

And because Burren and his mother spoke out against the textbook's misleading and offensive wording, the book's publisher, McGraw-Hill Education, issued an on Facebook and promised to "update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor."

Don't say slaves were treated like "members of the family."

Textbook that says some slaves treated like family is pulled. https://t.co/kHRLpjMuld

A Connecticut textbook was used for years before it was pulled from classrooms in the state in January after a parent brought up "concerns" about a passage that made slavery sound downright pleasant.

A week after the passage was brought to the attention of school officials, the school district announced that it would be removed from classrooms. "When it was brought to our attention it was pretty clear it wasn't consistent with our core beliefs and values," district spokesperson Brenda Wilcox Williams said in a statement, according to the AP. "We felt it was important to respond quickly as a result of that."

Don't say that plantation owners were "fair and kind" to enslaved people.

In 2014, Brookline, Massachusetts, resident Brooks Ames was shocked when his daughter brought home a textbook used in her fifth grade class that said, of U.S. slavery, "Slaves were treated well or cruelly, depending on their owners. Some planters took pride in being fair and kind to their slaves."

"Slavery was a racist system," Ames said at a school committee meeting in November of that year. "It was a cruel system. It was an evil system. And when you start talking about good slave owners and bad slave owners and happy slaves and slaves that weren't so happy you're completely missing the point. And the fact that this textbook was in our schools for 10 years is a system failure."

According to the Globe, after first hearing complaints, town Superintendent Bill Lupini had originally directed schools not to use the passages that had inspired Ames' concerns, but to keep the textbooks. But after more complaints, the district officials decided to pull them out of classrooms altogether. A spokesperson for Houghton Mifflin, the textbook's publisher, said that newer editions don't include those passages.

Students have been studying slavery in the U.S. for decades, so how do we keep getting it so horribly wrong?

Grappling with massive, institutionalized cruelty is no easy task, especially for kids, but we owe it to American students to tell them the truth. We'll never be able to reckon with our shared national history if we insist on sugarcoating it.

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It's impossible to discuss American history without touching on one the darkest, longest chapters of our nation's past - slavery. So why can't we stop glossing over what may be both the most horrific and historically significant element of our country's relatively short history?