DEN HAAG (ANP) - Freek Staps neemt afscheid als hoofdredacteur bij het ANP. Hij verlaat het persbureau rond de jaarwisseling omdat hij "ruimte wil maken voor nieuw leiderschap voor de redactie, verse ideeën en nieuwe energie".
Staps werkte 7,5 jaar bij het Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau. "Het is bevredigend op een zelfgekozen moment plaats te kunnen maken. Ik ben trots op de nieuwsgierige en vakkundige collega's en heb alle vertrouwen in de innovatieve ANP-redactie om onze onmisbare feitelijke rol verder uit te bouwen."
Het ANP levert non-stop artikelen, foto's, graphics, agendapunten, bronnen, radiobulletins en video's aan de hele journalistieke sector en het persbureau staat in de top van de meest vertrouwde nieuwsmedia van Nederland. Staps: "Ik weet nog niet wat ik hierna ga doen en daar kijk ik nu al naar uit."
Reactie directeur ANP
Martha Riemsma, directeur van het ANP: "Freek heeft met zijn energie en vakmanschap een sterke journalistieke en innovatieve redactie neergezet die elke dag met plezier en trots werkt voor vrijwel alle Nederlandse media. Daar zijn we hem zeer erkentelijk voor. Nu op naar nieuwe avonturen en daarbij wensen we hem veel succes."
Staps (50) was eerder Amerikacorrespondent en leidinggevende bij NRC. Hij is ook bestuurder bij het Persvrijheidsfonds en lid van de raad van toezicht van mediamuseum Beeld en Geluid.
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Miklosko played 373 times for West Ham from 1990
He won 42 international caps from 1982
The former West Ham and QPR goalkeeper Ludek Miklosko has died at the age of 64. Miklosko, who won caps for Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, had been living with cancer.
Miklosko joined West Ham from BanĂk Ostrava in 1990 for ÂŁ300,000 after a trial and helped the club win promotion to the top division in his first season. He left in 1998 having made 373 appearances, joining QPR, initially on loan.
Continue reading...Price spike comes as rebel Houthis in Yemen target oil infrastructure and capture strategic island in Bab al-Mandab strait
Oil prices have climbed above $108 a barrel after a series of drone attacks forced Saudi Arabia to close its east-west crude pipeline.
Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, surged to as much as $108.03 a barrel on Monday – a 3.25% increase on the day.
Continue reading...After Samantha Robinson decides a forest cabin in deep winter is the perfect spot to bear her child, it’s going to be a very bad shift for the doula and midwife
Conception, pregnancy and childbirth are defining human experiences, and so remain perennial themes for horror, from Rosemary’s Baby to the Alien franchise to Prevenge. Occupying a no-woman’s-land between life and death, they’re innately anxiety-inducing, perhaps making it harder for film-makers to supply a truly individual take. Debut director Raymond Creamer comes close by initially digging into the interpersonal dynamics around the home-birthing pool of a headstrong mother-to-be, before he defaults into a schlocky creature feature.
Goody (Samantha Robinson) is in the pool, ready for battle, soaking in good vibes beamed at her by husband Jayson (Colby Hollman), his doula sister Candace (Zoe Renee) and their rock, midwife Sarah (Colleen Foy). But shaken by weirdly spaced contractions, Sarah takes Jason aside and admits that she has a bad feeling. It’s not purely premonition: a flashback reveals, in contrast to the new-age love-in around the tub, Goody’s insistence against Sarah’s advice that she give birth in winter at their forest cabin. The midwife fears it will make going to hospital too difficult should anything go wrong – and only agrees to supervise because Goody will probably go ahead solo if she pulls out.
Continue reading...A returning British soldier is haunted by his time in Palestine in this panoramic epic set after the second world war
Sebastian Faulks’s latest book focuses on the most irreconcilable geopolitical struggle of our age, the Israel-Palestine conflict. While “the sound of mortar and machine gun, the collision of flesh and metal” are integral to Faulks’s best known works, such as Birdsong, in his 17th novel the military presence is a peacekeeping one. It’s 1946 and infantry officer Philip Deval, who saw action in Normandy, is deployed to the Holy Land to take part in maintaining Britain’s mandate in Palestine. Initially Philip is second in command of a battalion overseeing febrile relationships between Jewish and Arab communities. Britain’s profound failures and manipulation in the region, and the imminence of its disastrous departure from the territory, come under scrutiny.
While able to drum up motivation and cheer for the men in his battalions, privately Philip wrestles with inner melancholy. He is “shrouded” in a “loneliness … that insulates him from the world”. Experiences on the battlefield and other, slowly elucidated tragedies have led to his pessimistic bent. Much of what Philip observes in the Middle East, and his “foreboding” sense of its intractable problems, only confirms his despairing sense of human nature. It also underlines his ambivalence towards notions of divine benevolence.
Continue reading...For most companies, issuing a public statement on anything kink or fetish-related only happens when something’s gone horribly, horribly wrong. Not for sex positive, forward-thinking companies like AMC Theaters, which just announced that their employees will now split in your popcorn if that’s your thing.
How cool is this? If you’re a cinephile who gets off on other people’s spit, AMC sees you!
In a press release this morning, AMC Theaters proudly revealed that all their locations will officially begin accommodating customers with spit kinks. Moviegoers who identify as salivary fetishists may now request any employee over the age of 18—including but not limited to concession stand workers, custodians, projectionists, and corporate executives—to spit in their popcorn for the sole purpose of sexual gratification, with no limits on how many different employees they can ask to spit in their popcorn, nor how many times they can ask any one given employee to hawk one in their concession stand treat.
“Kink-shaming has no place at AMC,” explained AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron in the sex positive company statement. “Just as we accommodate non-perverts with butter dispensers for their popcorn, saliva perverts now have a spit dispenser in any AMC employee that is over the age of 18 (WARNING: if you ask an employee under 18 years-old to spit in your popcorn, we will have you arrested, then hang a framed photo of you at the front of the theater warning the public about your soliciting a minor). Any movie lover who wants to get their rocks off by having a stranger spit in their food is welcome in our business, and our employees are here to help. That includes me. Anywhere, anytime. Spit’s your thing. Crafting an incredible theatergoing experience is ours.”
There’s no doubt about it: AMC Theaters is the most sex positive theater chain in the entire world!
Kudos to AMC for walking the walk when it comes to fostering an inclusive environment for everyone, not just people who don’t get aroused when other people spit in their food. Streaming be damned, going to the movies is so back!!!