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Velzeboer en Schulting na val op 1500 meter uitgeschakeld

MILAAN (ANP) - Shorttrackster Xandra Velzeboer gaat in Milaan geen derde olympische titel winnen. De 24-jarige Nederlandse ging in de halve finale onderuit, net als haar landgenote Suzanne Schulting.

Velzeboer, olympisch kampioene op de 500 en 1000 meter, en Schulting zijn door hun val allebei uitgeschakeld.


Belastingdienst blijft algoritmes gebruiken, belooft beterschap

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Belastingdienst belooft algoritmes op een meer verantwoorde manier toe te passen, na hiervoor te zijn berispt met een Big Brother Award. Maar de organisatie kan volgens een woordvoerder niet zonder algoritmes om miljarden euro's aan belastinginkomsten te kunnen controleren. "Wij gebruiken algoritmes en zullen die blijven gebruiken."

Hij zegt dat de organisatie al bezig was om het gebruik van algoritmes door te lichten en te verantwoorden naar aanleiding van een kritisch onderzoek van de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. Een algoritme is een door een computer uitgevoerd stappenplan.

Belangenorganisatie Bits of Freedom reikt de genoemde 'prijs' jaarlijks uit aan personen of organisaties die digitale rechten en het recht op privacy schenden. De politie heeft er dit jaar ook een ontvangen voor het online in de gaten houden en thuis opzoeken van activisten.


Melle van 't Wout vervangt De Laat in finale olympische aflossing

MILAAN (ANP) - Het Nederlandse shorttrackteam voor de finale van de olympische aflossing kent geen verrassingen. Bondscoach Niels Kerstholt vervangt Itzhak de Laat zoals verwacht door Melle van 't Wout. Kopman Jens van 't Wout, Teun Boer en Friso Emons zijn de andere drie rijders.

De Laat mocht maandag nog wel meedoen in de halve finale. Nederland eindigde toen als tweede achter Zuid-Korea. Naast de Koreanen treft Nederland vrijdag vanaf 21.40 uur in de finale de teams van Canada en Italië.

De Nederlandse shorttrackmannen wisten op de Olympische Spelen nog nooit een medaille te winnen op de aflossing.


Velzeboer en Schulting bereiken halve finale op 1500 meter

MILAAN (ANP) - Shorttracksters Xandra Velzeboer en Suzanne Schulting hebben bij de Olympische Spelen de halve finale op de 1500 meter bereikt. Beide Nederlandse rijdsters eindigden in de vijfde kwartfinale bij de eerste drie.

Velzeboer, olympisch kampioene op de 500 en 1000 meter, passeerde de finish als eerste. Schulting moest als nummer 3 ook de Italiaanse Elisa Confortola voor zich dulden. De nummers 1 tot en met 3 van elke kwartfinale plaatsten zich automatisch voor de halve finale.

Schulting, die onlangs haar rentree maakte als shorttrackster, doet bij de Spelen alleen mee aan de 1500 meter. Op de aflossing bij de vrouwen koos bondscoach Niels Kerstholt voor een basisteam bestaande uit Xandra Velzeboer, Michelle Velzeboer, Selma Poutsma en Zoë Florence Deltrap.

De halve finales en finale van de 1500 meter zijn later op vrijdag.


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Op een tabakswinkel aan de Bree in Rotterdam-Feijenoord is vrijdagavond een gewapende overval gepleegd. De overvaller sloeg met een onbekende buit op de vlucht, maar kon niet veel later worden aangehouden.

Hier leer je al wandelend Nederlands: 'Het is eigenlijk een win-win-win'

Samen wandelen en ondertussen Nederlands oefenen. Het klinkt eenvoudig, en dat is het ook. En dat maakt het concept Walking & Talking juist zo doeltreffend. Elke week lopen nieuwkomers en Nederlandstaligen samen een rondje door de stad. Al pratend leren ze nieuwe woorden én doen ze nieuwe contacten op. Rijnmond loopt een avond mee in Schiedam.

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Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American, officials and witnesses say

Nasrallah Abu Siyam shot dead in occupied West Bank as UN human rights office accuses Israel of war crimes

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian health ministry and a witness have said.

Raed Abu Ali, a resident of Mukhmas, said a group of settlers came to the village on Wednesday afternoon where they attacked a farmer, prompting clashes after residents intervened.

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What will happen to Trump’s tariffs after supreme court verdict?

6-3 ruling against unilateral imposition of tariffs without congressional approval labelled a ‘disgrace’ by Trump

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Eze plays long game but end-of-season form could give Arsenal title lift now | Ed Aarons

Playmaker, out of favour under Mikel Arteta, has scored 18 of his 38 Premier League goals at business end of the season

Eberechi Eze was asked in an interview this week if there is a motto that he lives by and his answer was most revealing given how things have been going for him at Arsenal recently. “It’s not about now. It’s the long game,” he told the Men in Blazers podcast before Sunday’s north London derby.

Remaining patient has been a recurring theme throughout Eze’s career ever since he was released by Arsenal at 13 and then rejected by several other clubs before finding a home at Queens Park Rangers. Yet having made an immediate impression after a £67.5m dream move back to his boyhood club from Crystal Palace that peaked with a memorable hat-trick against Tottenham at the end of November, the goals have dried up completely as Mikel Arteta has seemingly lost faith in the England forward.

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England bet on Pollock spark against Ireland to reignite Six Nations charge

Steve Borthwick needs a charge of electricity after the power cut in Scotland and team’s 21-year-old forward could fire up title challenge

The third weekend of the Six Nations used to be a time for contemplation and reflection. After the fury of the first two rounds, everything would stop for a much-needed fallow week in which to restore energy levels. And now? The battle-scarred gladiators are about to “go again”, putting their bodies on the line out on the pitch or, in the case of travelling supporters, in the pub.

Player welfare rules OK? That debate still rumbles on but certain other areas – fitness, mental resilience, squad depth – traditionally reserved for the tournament’s closing fortnight are increasingly front and centre. The rhythm of this year’s championship is subtly different, particularly for sides such as England with only two home fixtures. Slip up for a second successive Saturday and that’s it, folks, until November in terms of high-profile Twickenham opportunities.

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AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack

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Pre-season testing came to a close at the Bahrain International Circuit on Friday, with Charles Leclerc setting the pace for Ferrari via an eye-catching evening run.

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Closing Time | Jill Scot geeft geschiedenisles

Jill Scott schreef de tekst in 1991, ze was 19 jaar. Sindsdien zong ze het bij menig gelegenheid. Maar pas op 51-jarige leeftijd, in 2023, leidde haar uitvoering op het Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans tot ophef. Ze werd bejubeld, ze werd verguisd.

En dat alles omdat ze de geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten eventjes in een notendop samenvatte:

Oh, say, can you see,
by the blood in the streets,
that this place doesn’t smile on you, colored child.

Whose blood built this place
with sweat and their hands.
But you’ll die in this place
and your memory erased.

Oh say, does this truth hold any weight?

This is not the land of the free
but the home of the slave

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Itamar Gov Draws on History and Legend for ‘The Rhinoceros in the Room’

Itamar Gov Draws on History and Legend for ‘The Rhinoceros in the Room’

You’ve probably heard the idiom, “the elephant in the room,” to describe when there’s some uncomfortable and obvious problem that no one is addressing—the kind of issue that feels as though it’s taking up all available space. But what if yet another megafauna came stampeding onto the scene? That’s where Berlin-based artist Itamar Gov’s large-scale installation comes in.

The Rhinoceros in the Room is a towering, inflatable sculpture that fills a medieval church nave at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Germany. Gov draws inspiration from Renaissance engraver Albrecht Dürer’s iconic rhinoceros woodcut, which the artist created in 1515 without having ever seen one of the animals himself. His rendering is wildly inaccurate in terms of anatomy, depicting an extra horn at the creature’s shoulders and armor instead of a thick leather hide, but thanks to the ability to replicate it in print, it captured the public’s imagination.

A giant inflated sculpture by Itamar Gov of a gray rhinoceros amid Romanesque church architecture

Dürer’s image persists as a symbol of imperial might and prestige. The animal itself represents power and vigor, and one was even gifted from Sultan Muzafar II of Gujaratm, India, to King Manuel I of Portugal in 1515, providing the inspiration for the artist’s rendering.

The rhinoceros has also been hunted and poached nearly to extinction, and several species remain critically endangered today. For The Rhinoceros in the Room, Gov “combines historical events, philosophical ideas, and local legends and questions the fragile boundaries between fact and fiction; memory and imagination,” the museum says.

Portrayed in monochrome gray, the gentle giant lumbers amid the 11th-century Romanesque colonnades, assuming a spectral guise. On one hand, it’s somewhat absurd in its sheer size and sense of being out-of-place, yet on the other, the creature invokes curiosity and wonder and stands sentry as an icon of brawn and resilience.

The Rhinoceros in the Room remains on view through July 5. Find more on Gov’s Instagram.

The rear end of a giant inflated sculpture by Itamar Gov of a gray rhinoceros amid Romanesque church architecture
The head of a giant inflated sculpture by Itamar Gov of a gray rhinoceros amid Romanesque church architecture
A leg and haunch of a giant inflated sculpture by Itamar Gov of a gray rhinoceros amid Romanesque church architecture
The head of a giant inflated sculpture by Itamar Gov of a gray rhinoceros amid Romanesque church architecture

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