Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”
ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De Nederlandse turnsters zijn als team definitief uitgeschakeld bij de WK in Rotterdam. Na de achtste van tien startgroepen (subdivisies) bezetten Sanne Wevers, Naomi Visser, Sanna Veerman, Vera van Pol en Vera Ubbink de negende plek in het klassement. De top acht plaatst zich voor de finale.
Onder meer China en Brazilië moeten nog in actie komen. De Nederlandse turnsters behaalden een totaal van 158,029 punten. Nederland had een sterke start aan de brug en vervolgde redelijk op de balk, maar liet op de vloer te veel punten liggen voor een hogere eindscore.
Amerika gaat voorlopig aan de leiding (164,529), gevolgd door de Russische ploeg (163,662). Om de Russen was de afgelopen periode veel te doen, omdat de visa van drie turnsters, onder wie wereldkampioene meerkamp Angelina Melnikova, werden geweigerd. Uiteindelijk verscheen Rusland alsnog met een complete ploeg aan de start.
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Huiliehuilie op de vid hierboven is politiek verslaggoelag Bob Scholte in 2015, destijds nog actief als clown bij de circusvoorstelling Geef Huis, nu met z'n terreurvrindjes pleitbezorger van politiek geweld & terreur, het onderdrukken van vrijheden en het vervolgen van bevolkingsgroepen. Als je jezelf als linkse knakworst niet helemaal kapotwijsvingert op de intersectionele rotonde lijk je al gauw vrij normaal, maar dat is Left Laser als ideologisch doorontwikkelde variant op de huilstruik hierboven natuurlijk niet. Enfin, op 11 november kun je samen met Bob collectivisatiecoke snuiven op de plee van Arminius. "Er staat een bijzonder programma klaar. Bob presenteert de eerste druk van onze vernieuwde uitgave van ‘Het communistisch manifest’, de klassieke tekst van Karl Marx en Friedrich Engels. Met een panel van werkende mensen bespreken we wat deze ideeën vandaag betekenen." Leuk! Vooral benieuwd hoe de expliciete rechtvaardiging van geweld om maatschappelijke veranderingen af te dwingen is uitgewerkt.
The scenes of social unrest and violence at the weekend are an ominous portent, ahead of elections which may deliver a far-right presidency
In Emmanuel Macron’s book Revolution, published ahead of the 2017 presidential election that he went on to win, he promised to restore hope to a country that was losing faith in its future. As Mr Macron’s lame-duck second term enters its last phase against a quasi-insurrectionary backdrop of torched public buildings and looted shops, the failure of that political project appears total.
The worst scenes of urban violence for years overshadowed a weekend of protest that gravely undermined what is left of the French president’s authority. As police lost control of the streets, more than 2,000 shops were ransacked. Far-left groups targeted town halls and local buildings, and engaged in pitched battles with the police, whose disastrously heavy-handed response to last week’s high school protests has succeeded only in escalating tensions.
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Continue reading...The 19-year-old scored a cracker in Seville, days after his ‘almost rabona’ at Galatasaray, as La Liga leaders beat Real Betis
When at last it was time for Lamine Yamal to leave, the 19-year-old’s number going up before the 90th minute for only the second time since the opening day, Real Betis fans whistled him all the way to the touchline where Barcelona’s coach was waiting. His work here done, Hansi Flick invited him to take the weight off his feet and his shoulders, not that he wanted to. First, though, he took Lamine Yamal’s head in his hands and, leaning in away from the amateur lip readers, tried to make himself heard over the noise. “I told him I was proud of him because he played a fantastic game,” he said.
At least he could think of something. When Lamine Yamal had opened the scoring just nine minutes into the match that was supposed to find out how good Barcelona really were, it hadn’t been easy. Nothing erudite, anyway. On the morning that Barcelona went to Betis – first versus third, a proper opponent at last – Jorge Valdano had lamented that sometimes he doesn’t have the words, and he always has the words. Valdano had just watched Lamine do that, whatever that was, in Istanbul – an “almost rabona,” the kid called it – and now he had a problem. “If he keeps doing strange things, we’re not going to be able to explain it,” he wrote.
Continue reading...Russia wants America and China to decide Ukraine’s future without Kyiv. Europe must challenge this dangerous return to diplomacy of the strong for the strong
Does Vladimir Putin know exactly how to play Donald Trump? The history of chummy phone calls, high-profile meetings and attempts to bring Russia in from the cold certainly suggests that Moscow’s thuggish ruler has a hold on this American president. If Mr Trump agrees to negotiate Ukraine’s future with Mr Putin and China’s Xi Jinping without Ukraine at the table, he will have handed the Russian leader a victory before talks begin. The message will be that strongmen are ruling the world and determining the fate of weaker nations.
Ukraine has the right to determine its future. That right cannot be waved away by a self-serving Russian proposal, however much it indulges Mr Trump’s belief that world affairs should be settled by powerful men. The scales are falling from European eyes. Trumpian America is raising doubts about whether it will help deter aggression or even honour its Nato commitments. If Washington now rewards Moscow and pressures Ukraine to accept a raw deal, it would be a betrayal. European governments would wonder where America might be in the future when their own security is threatened.
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Continue reading...Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse crimes came to light 10 years ago
Survivors gather at World Gymnastics Championships to call for reform
The judge who sentenced the former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to up to 175 years in jail for the sexual abuse of more than 250 women and girls has condemned the lack of meaningful change in the decade since Nassar’s crimes were exposed.
Against the backdrop of the World Gymnastics Championships, taking place in Rotterdam this week, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told the Guardian that human rights must be prioritised over the desire for sporting success.
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Experts are reaching consensus on what the condition is. Now they're debating how best to treat it. [NYT gift link]
De roep om oud-voetballers de VAR te laten ondersteunen wordt steeds luider. Aanleiding zijn de omstreden beslissingen van de afgelopen weken in diverse wedstrijden, waaronder Feyenoord – AZ en Telstar - Feyenoord. In FC Rijnmond reageert Geert den Ouden, wiens naam wordt genoemd als mogelijke versterking voor de arbitrage.
