Scheidsrechter Paul Ramdayal is zaterdag overleden nadat hij onwel werd tijdens een wedstrijd. Feyenoord heeft het nieuws naar eigen zeggen "met droefenis" ontvangen en wenst de familie en naasten van Ramdayal veel sterkte toe.
Van een staande opbaring met een zwaard in de hand tot een begrafenis in Feyenoord-stijl: voor uitvaartondernemer Mirjam Boogaard is geen verzoek te gek. “Vrijwel alles is mogelijk.”
Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off in battle between leftwing incumbent and far-right son of jailed ex-president
Brazilians go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a highly polarised and high-stakes presidential election that could change not only the direction of Latin America’s largest country but that of the entire region.
The election pits the leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term, against the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of Donald Trump and the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup after his failed 2022 re-election attempt.
Continue reading...The singer-songwriter owes a lot to Georgie Fame and likes the romantic side of Jimi Hendrix – but which ringtone song can put him in a bad mood?
The first song I fell in love with
The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix, which came out in 1967 when I was 12. Hendrix was known for outgoing music, but I was a romantic soul, so the emotional side of his music led to that strain in my own writing.
The song I do at karaoke
Karaoke? Certainly not. I do this for a living. Would you have made my great-grandfather dig ditches for fun? I prefer to live vicariously through Bill Murray singing (What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding in Lost in Translation.
BERLIJN (ANP/DPA) - Vakbonden en welzijnsorganisaties hebben de Duitse regering opgeroepen de geplande bezuinigingen te stoppen. Het bondgenootschap van veertien organisaties bekritiseerde dit weekend in een gezamenlijke oproep met name de plannen van de regering voor een hervorming van het Duitse stelsel voor langdurige zorg.
Woensdag stemde het Duitse kabinet in met wetgeving om de pleegzorg te hervormen, die onder toenemende druk staat door de vergrijzing. De plannen, die nog door het parlement moeten worden goedgekeurd, omvatten onder meer het over een langere periode uitsmeren van de eigen bijdragen voor bewoners van verpleeghuizen. Ook gaat het om bezuinigingen, zoals een strengere indeling in zorggraden.
Het bondgenootschap benadrukt dat het essentieel is dat er voldoende zorg wordt geboden. Maar de organisaties vrezen dat de regering ook van plan is te korten op andere sociale voorzieningen, bijvoorbeeld de jeugdzorg. Morrelen aan het welzijnsstelsel vinden ze een slechte zaak, ook omdat dit slecht zou zijn voor de democratie.
SEPANG (ANP) - De startprocedure bij de Grote Prijs van Bahrein is afgebroken, omdat tal van coureurs problemen hadden met hun Formule 1-auto tijdens de opwarmronden. Het leek erop alsof software in de half-elektrische auto's niet functioneerde in de regen. Onder anderen Max Verstappen en Lewis Hamilton ervoeren problemen bij het intrappen van het gaspedaal.
De start van de race op het circuit van Sepang was al uitgesteld door noodweer op de baan. Er was lang oponthoud door zware regenval, met ook donder en bliksem erbij.
Autosportfederatie FIA gaf een halfuur na de oorspronkelijke starttijd van 09.00 uur (Nederlandse tijd) aan dat de coureurs eerst een aantal opwarmronden zouden rijden om te bekijken of de race daadwerkelijk kan starten. De natte baan leek niet zozeer het probleem; het was de elektronica in de auto's die tegenwerkte.
BEIJING (ANP/AFP) - China verwerpt kritiek vanuit de Amerikaanse overheid op het openen van nieuwe filialen van koffieketen Starbucks in de regio Xinjiang. Een woordvoerder van de Chinese overheid verklaarde dit weekend dat het gaat om een nieuwe poging "om China aan te vallen en zwart te maken".
Een belangrijk lid van het Amerikaanse Congres had Starbucks opgeroepen twee pas geopende koffiezaken in de Chinese regio te sluiten om vermeende mensenrechtenschendingen in dat gebied. Met de nieuwe vestigingen in de stad Ürümqi zou een Amerikaans merk verbonden worden aan de "wrede campagne" van China tegen de Oeigoeren, stelde John Moolenaar, voorzitter van de China-commissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden.
Mensenrechtenorganisaties beschuldigen China al tijden van onderdrukking van de overwegend islamitische minderheid in Xinjiang. De VN waarschuwde in 2022 voor mogelijke misdaden tegen de menselijkheid. Daarbij zou sprake zijn van dwangarbeid. China ontkent dit alles. In het commentaar noemde de overheidswoordvoerder "de zogenoemde genocide in Xinjiang een schaamteloze leugen".
Decades before the modern web, the BBC Domesday Project dared to archive an entire nation using…. what else – massive LV-ROM (LaserVision Read Only Memory) LaserDiscs. To mark the impending 40th anniversary of the BBC Domesday Project's release, the UK's Centre for Computing History (CCH) hosted a celebration at its museum on September 19, bringing together several of the original team members responsible for the system. One was Mike Tibbetts, an assistant to Peter Armstrong, the BBC producer behind the project. Tibbetts revealed that the UK's domestic intelligence service, MI5, took an interest in the system, but "they didn't understand a word of what we were doing!" "And on one occasion, Peter and I had to give a presentation, or Peter gave the presentation to [former prime minister] Margaret Thatcher, and well, I'm not sure she understood what we were doing either…" What they were doing was compiling a trove of data that will prove invaluable to historians in the years to come, even if the politicians of the era looked nervously on at the amount of data being handed over to the public. The Domesday Project was intended to be a modern version of the Domesday Book, compiled after the 1066 Norman invasion of England. The original book surveyed most of England and parts of Wales and was used by the King to assess dues owed to him. 900 years later, the name was given to a project in which more than a million people participated to provide a snapshot of life in the UK. Participants (many of whom were school children) contributed content, which was linked with maps, photographs, and other data. It was all compiled onto a pair of LaserDiscs – the Community Disc and the National Disc – and accessed via a BBC Master computer and a Philips VP415 LaserVision player. Armstrong came up with the idea, and the team compiled the project between 1984 and 1986. The system was eventually released at the end of 1986, and was aimed at schools, libraries, and universities. It was, alas, not a roaring sales success – the exact price per unit is difficult to pin down, but approximately £5,000 is a fair estimate. Government subsidies lowered the cost to around £3,000, but it was still out of reach for much of its audience. As a resource, however, it has huge value, which will only increase as the years pass. Tibbetts drew parallels to the original Domesday Book, which took centuries for historians to recognize as a vital resource. "Perhaps," he mused, "40 years is simply too short a time for historians to perceive the Domesday Project as a sufficiently distant benchmark of useful research." Perhaps. However, while hundreds of years have passed since the Domesday Book was compiled, the years have not been kind to the Domesday Project, thanks to technology's inexorable march. "The original Domesday Book had one huge advantage over the Domesday Project when it comes to future-proofing and longevity," explained Tibbetts. "The vellum pages of the original Domesday have been preserved for 940 years so far, and it's likely to continue to exist well into the future. "It took very few years for the bespoke technology of the BBC Domesday Project to be overtaken by universal media technologies." However, they chose the technology at the time for good technical reasons. The BBC Micro could output a 625-line television picture. The Philips LaserVision system could be re-engineered to store alphanumeric data. There wasn't much in the way of authoring and playback systems, so, as Tibbetts explained, the team had to invent everything. "In technological terms," he said, "the world of 1984 really couldn't be more different from the instant-access, media-rich world of today." And so, inevitably, within a few short years, that technology began to show its age. "As was entirely predictable, our discs aged and became difficult to read. The expensive LV-ROM player was quickly superseded by cheaper and more widely available CD-ROM and DVD systems." And, worse, "Largely because of the lack of any great academic interest in preserving our massive resource for the future, the BBC Domesday Project was in grave danger of disappearing without a trace." Several initiatives have kicked off over the years to preserve the project, and the CCH's event was as much about celebrating those as it was about looking at the project's genesis. Tibbetts dropped some nuggets of information about the project, estimating that 60 people reported directly to him and Armstrong, with another 60 in subcontracted teams. He also discussed the frustration the team felt as doubt was cast about whether the project was even possible. "We came back from Christmas in January 1986," Tibbetts recalled, "we sat down for our first team meeting, and I was forced to point out that our little VAX minicomputer didn't have one byte of data that was ready to go onto the Domesday discs, so we did the whole thing in a few months!" As far as hardware was concerned, Andy Finney, who handled mastering the discs, remembered that the original plan for the Domesday Project was for it to be mouse-based, rather than the trackball the system used for navigation. The mouse was still a relatively novel concept, alien to many users. "I remember vividly one chap who was navigating with this mouse on the table, and he moved the mouse towards him, and by the time he got to the edge of the table, he hadn't actually reached the bottom of the screen. So he went on the edge and underneath…" Tibbetts added, "I always feel guilty about the mouse, because we got that wrong … the decision came down in favor of the trackball because that is much more easy for somebody with movement disabilities to use rather than a mouse." "But boy, did we get that wrong…" As Tibbetts noted, even with little interest from some parts of the academic community, enthusiasts have continued to put in a huge amount of effort over the years to keep the resource accessible. Simon Inns of the Domesday86 project described it as "a race against time" – not just for hardware, but to get data off discs before bit rot rendered them unreadable. The good news is that the Domesday discs have been preserved, and reside in the Internet Archive. "Anyone," said Inns, "can go to the Internet Archive and download a Domesday Disc. This is, like, groundbreaking stuff. 10 years ago, this was a laugh, right? Now you can actually do this." While there might not be many functioning examples of the hardware around anymore, the preservation efforts mean that the Domesday Project will endure. "Our hope," said Inns, "is that within the next couple of years, everyone in this room [at The Centre for Computing History] will be able to have a Domesday system and be able to experience what it was like." ®
Live coverage of Sunday's Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia 2026.
The full official starting order for Sunday's 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
Take It Or Leave It is a BFI restoration of the 1981 formative times recreation of the group Madness. A short clip, the making of the movie, and an interview with Suggs. Songs heard in the trailer include One Step Beyond and Night Boat To Cairo. Review: Guardian, Camden New Journal.
Steeds meer kerkgangers twijfelen aan de echtheid van het bloed van Christus dat tijdens de eucharistie wordt geschonken. Volgens kenners vertoont het opvallend veel overeenkomsten met een cabernet sauvignon.
“Een volle, stevige smaak, duidelijke tonen van zwarte bes, stevige tannines”, vertelt kerkganger Peter van Loon. “Misschien wel wat je van het bloed van onze Redder zou verwachten, maar toch doet het me sterk denken aan een cabernet sauvignon.” Ook het alcoholpercentage roept vragen op. Uit onderzoek blijkt het bloed van Christus ongeveer 13,5 procent alcohol te bevatten.
De parochie ontkent dat kerkgangers worden misleid. Volgens pastoor Van den Broek is er geen enkele reden om aan het bloed van Christus te twijfelen. “Dat het exact naar wijn smaakt, naar wijn ruikt en dezelfde eigenschappen als wijn heeft, betekent niet dat het ook wijn is.”
De Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit gaat de zaak onderzoeken. Tot die tijd wordt geadviseerd het bloed van Christus eventjes goed te laten ademen.
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