AKEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse springruiters zijn er bij de wereldkampioenschappen in Aken niet in geslaagd zich al te plaatsen voor de Olympische Spelen van 2028 in Los Angeles. In de eerste manche van de landenwedstrijd kreeg het team van bondscoach Wout-Jan van de Schans donderdag een springfout te veel en eindigde daarmee op de dertiende plaats. Alleen de beste tien landen plaatsten zich voor de finale van vrijdag. Nederland had bij de eerste zeven landen moeten eindigen om al zeker te zijn van een olympisch ticket.

Van de vier Nederlandse ruiters legde alleen Bart Moerings een foutloze ronde af. De WK-debutant staat daarmee in de tussenstand individueel op de twintigste plaats. Harrie Smolders is 34e, Willem Greve 45e en Michael Greeve 78e.

In de landenwedstrijd leidt Duitsland, voor de Verenigde Staten, België en Italië.

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse hockeyers hebben de derde groepswedstrijd op het wereldkampioenschap in eigen land gewonnen van Japan. De ploeg van bondscoach Jeroen Delmee versloeg de Japanners in het Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen met 4-1.

Kazumasa Matsumoto scoorde voor Japan in het eerste kwart en Thijs van Dam voor Oranje. Jip Janssen en Tijmen Reyenga (twee keer) sloegen pas toe in het laatste kwart.

Nederland won eerder van Nieuw-Zeeland (5-1) en Argentinië (3-1) en was al zeker van het bereiken van de winnaarspoule. Argentinië gaat als nummer 2 in de groep door naar de tweede groepsfase, maar begint met 0 punten na de nederlaag tegen Nederland. Oranje heeft door die zege al 3 punten. Nederland speelt zaterdag in de winnaarspoule tegen India en maandag tegen Engeland.

Prof Katya Rubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms

A contributor to a controversial Channel 4 documentary on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has withdrawn her support for the programme, saying it was biased and could lead to an increased suicide risk by encouraging parents to take their children off medication.

Katya Rubia, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, also said The Great ADHD Myth? misrepresented her views.

The president’s empty advice that children should receive separate jabs against measles, mumps and rubella will only lead to less take-up by parents

Nobody wants to hurt a child. The howl of pain, the tears, the look of betrayed shock all make it very hard to deliver a cherished small person to the needle-wielding nurse. But that’s part of being a responsible parent. It becomes a lot tougher if mum or dad is being fed mixed and erroneous messages about the benefits and harms of vaccination.

Parents have to make a lot of decisions about what’s right for their child, from the school they should go to and the food they should eat to the hours they should spend on the phone or watching TV. In the US, Donald Trump wants them to add another: do they choose to give their children separate jabs against measles, mumps and rubella, involving six visits to the clinic, or should they opt for the combined MMR vaccine, which does the job in two? For decades, the vast majority of families have been taking the advice of doctors, accepting their assurance that the MMR vaccine is safe and very effective. But what are they to think when a US president announces that the triple jab could be “quite lethal” and signs an executive order advising states to offer separate vaccines?

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From the late 18th century through the end of the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses where freedom-seekers from the South could find safety and shelter as they traveled north, sometimes all the way to Canada to escape capture and prosecution. It’s possible that there may have even been a secret code in the shapes of quilt blocks, which when arranged or displayed in a certain way could have helped direct people to stops along the route. This has never been confirmed with solid evidence, but even if it’s a thing of legend, the folk narrative is a powerful instrument for meaning in the oft-erased history of African American experience.

From 18th-century hand-appliqué cotton bedcovers to contemporary narrative textile works and an elaborate array in between, Black quilts tell innumerable stories. For instance, Viola Burla Leak’s “Watts Riot” (2021) taps into the violent uprising in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood in August 1965, a response to racist abuse and prejudice by the Los Angeles Police Department in addition to poverty and employment discrimination. And in 1934, Ruth Clement Bond incorporated an enduring symbol of Black power and autonomy with a representation of a fist holding a red lightning bolt, flanked by the American flag and the blazing sun.

Leak and Bond’s creations are just two examples amid a veritable wealth of stitched history in Stories in the Seams: A People’s History of Black Quilts and Their Makers, forthcoming from Chronicle Books. Thoroughly researched by Sharbreon Plummer, the richly illustrated volume delves into the centuries-old practice, illuminating the societal shifts and technological advances that contributed to ways of making and a culture that evolved around textiles.

One of the most crucial themes in Stories in the Seams touches on quilting’s roots in the cotton industry and slavery, especially in the American South during the 18th and 19th centuries. Enslaved women often hand-sewed bedspreads and other items for plantation homes, but following Emancipation, when Black individuals “were no longer bound by the laws of chattel slavery, they entered Reconstruction with the promise of freedom but little material support to build new lives,” Plummer writes in an introductory chapter titled “Homecoming.” “Faced with the uncertainties of labor, land, and citizenship, they relied on their quiltmaking and textile work to generate resources.”

In addition to vibrant images of a huge variety of projects from narrative compositions to incredibly meticulous geometric works, readers discover archival photos of individuals who have defined the tradition. Plummer guides us through centuries of meticulous making and innovation, exploring historical and contemporary methods, materials, and symbolism. Pieces by the Quilters of Gee’s Bend are complemented by 21st-century works by artists like Bisa Butler, Basil Kincaid, and Faith Ringgold, whose practices expand how we think of the craft.

Stories in the Seams is slated for release on October 6. Pre-order your copy on Bookshop.

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