De acceptatie van homoseksualiteit onder tieners daalt fors. Nog maar één op de vijf jongens tussen de 12 en 16 jaar heeft een positieve houding tegenover lhbtiq’ers. Bij meisjes van dezelfde leeftijd is dat ongeveer de helft. Dat de acceptatie afneemt, verbaast schoolcoördinator Rozanne Vleugel niet. De cijfers wel: “Ik schrik van de percentages.”

Een 19-jarige Amsterdammer moet een jaar de cel in vanwege zijn rol bij een overval op een Capelse juwelier. Met veel geweld overviel de man samen met een plaatsgenoot de zaak in winkelcentrum De Terp afgelopen januari. Ook moet hij het slachtoffer een schadevergoeding betalen.

Scientists who identified a previously unknown wildcat in Bolivia have called the new species Leopardus tilcayo. The 10-year-old wildcat, called Tigrino, had been adopted by a family that thought he was a domestic cat

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The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to stay in office despite heavy losses in two state elections that he described as a ‘disaster’. The anti-immigration, Kremlin-friendly Alternative für Deutschland won with 38% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while the leftwing Die Linke was victorious in Berlin.

Merz has promised political change, but speculation is growing that his party could soon oust him. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole.

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Teams are running further and set-piece strikes are in decline as end-to-end football takes over the division

Goals in the Premier League are up. Chaos is returning. End-to-end football is back. The division is more open, in more ways than one.

The figures show a rise from 2.75 goals per game last season to 2.82 so far this year, which is a small average increase – but one that could easily widen. The goals-per-game rate was at least 0.21 higher across the final 330 games than it was for the first 50 in four of the past five seasons. If 2026-27 sees a similar upturn, it will become the second highest scoring season in the Premier League era.

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US president reportedly changed his mind over Saudi Arabia’s pleas for assistance as bombs were being loaded

Houthi fighters are moving to seize strategic heights in Yemen that would cut the Red Sea coast off from areas held ​by Saudi-backed forces after Donald Trump called off US strikes on the group at the last minute, reportedly as bombs were being loaded on to aircraft.

Amid increasingly heavy fighting in Yemen, which has displaced tens of thousands of people in recent weeks, the New York Times reported on Monday that the US president had flip-flopped wildly in recent days after a call from Saudi Arabia for US strikes on the Houthis.

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Through vivid collages layering fragments of paper and fiber, Clotilde Jiménez echoes his own mélange of experiences and histories. The Mexico City-based artist was born in Honolulu to a Puerto Rican mother and African-American father, and he grew up in Philadelphia, before attending university in Cleveland and London. Both his heritage and ties to different cities around the globe nest together in his work, which draws references from the cultural and political contexts of each locale.

Using magazine clippings, Mexican craft paper, fabrics, and other pliable materials, Jiménez fashions dense portraits of his family alongside archetypal depictions of Blackness and masculinity. Fragments of burlap and thin woven strips add texture to “China de Mayagüez,” a vibrant autobiographical piece portraying a young Jiménez and his family member Juan. Rendered as a jíbaro, Juan evokes the subsistence farming traditions of Puerto Rico. Together, the pair pick oranges, while monarchs flutter among the fruits.

The woven hat also appears in “The Nightcall,” worn by a woman enveloped in the blue light of darkness. Black birds with shiny plumage and blooming cacti flank the figure as a bouquet hangs from her hand. Fresh blooms also appear in the Flower Portal series, circular works that draw on Dutch still life paintings. Fish, faces, and beams of light augment lush bouquets, referencing both the fleeting nature of life and humble joys.

For this body of work, Jiménez dives into silences and what’s left unsaid in a family, particularly the secrets children aren’t privy to. In a recent conversation, he describes these pieces as visualizing a “revelation,” one that gave insight into a history of abuse. He explains:

My grandmother, when I was an adult, randomly was like I need to tell you something, and she told me that my grandfather was not my real grandfather. It is actually his brother, the one who kind of looked out for you and raised you. Everything made sense. I’m not making excuses for abuse, but I’m seeing it a little bit more objectively now, why certain things were said, why certain things were done, why certain things were ignored. So the show is really about silence and how that forms us from a young age.

The collages shown here are included in the exhibition Éramos silencios, which translates to “we were silent,” on view through October 31 at Marianne Ibrahim’s Chicago gallery. Explore more of the artist’s work on Instagram.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Lush Mixed-Media Collages by Clotilde Jiménez Piece Together an Artist’s Lineage appeared first on Colossal.

ARNHEM (ANP) - De 38-jarige Wout Poels is aangewezen als kopman van de Nederlandse ploeg voor de EK wielrennen in oktober in het Sloveense Ljubljana. De ervaren klimmer voert een jonge ploeg aan met daarin ook debutanten, meldt wielerbond KNWU.

Bondscoach Koos Moerenhout heeft voor de wegwedstrijd ook Sjoerd Bax, Senna Remijn, Jochem Kerckhaert, Tijmen Graat, Alex Molenaar, Gijs Leemreize en Jardi van der Lee geselecteerd. Bax en Axel van der Tuuk rijden de individuele tijdrit.

"De EK vallen op een lastig moment, zo kort na de WK, terwijl veel renners in deze periode ook verplichtingen hebben bij hun eigen ploeg", zegt Moerenhout in een persbericht. "Tegelijkertijd biedt dat kansen aan andere renners. We hebben een jonge groep samengesteld met jongens die zich gedurende het seizoen hebben laten zien en voor wie dit een mooie kans is om in het oranje te rijden."

ANTWERPEN (ANP) - In Antwerpen is een Nederlandse vader (47) veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van 23 jaar voor de moord op zijn 14-jarige zoon. In januari 2022 overleed de jongen in het huis van zijn vader in Turnhout, waar hij pas acht weken later door de politie werd gevonden. Al die tijd wisten zijn moeder en broers niet waar hij was. In het lichaam van de jongen werd ketamine gevonden.

Vier andere personen die destijds in het huis van de vader woonden, kregen gevangenisstraffen tussen de een en drie jaar. Zij werden schuldig bevonden aan het onthouden van voedsel en verzorging.

De rechter verklaarde dat de man heeft geprobeerd zijn kinderen te isoleren en te indoctrineren met zijn geloofsovertuiging. Daarbij heeft hij volgens de rechter onherstelbaar leed veroorzaakt bij zijn moeder en broers.

Bij het bepalen van de strafmaat heeft de rechter er rekening mee gehouden dat de redelijke termijn voor een veroordeling ruim verstreken is.

In Nederland verblijven duizenden asielzoekers in tijdelijke noodopvang als containerwoningen. Minister Van den Brink probeert meer opvangplekken af te dwingen, maar de Onderzoeksraad waarschuwt dat te harde druk de samenwerking met gemeenten kan verslechteren en afhankelijkheid van noodopvang juist verlengt.

Een explosie in het Rotterdamse Zuidwijk in 2024 verwoestte een deel van een appartementengebouw. Er vielen drie doden. De eigenaar van de bedrijfsruimte waar de ontploffing zich voordeed, houdt vol dat hij van niets wist.

Elke week legt Annemiek Leclaire een lezersvraag voor aan deskundigen. Deze week: mag onze dochter (10) een dure tas kopen?

AI infrastructure growth is running into limits on energy, water, and land, according to researchers at Forrester, which predicts governments will increasingly make datacenter operators pay for the resources they consume. Governments, utilities, datacenter operators, and enterprises will have to rethink how that growth is funded, managed, and regulated, the firm said in its 2027 sustainability predictions. The scale of the infrastructure buildout needed to support AI across businesses, governments, and consumer services is beginning to emerge. Earlier this month, PwC put cumulative global datacenter capital expenditure through 2050 at between $22 trillion and $50 trillion, with a central estimate of $31.6 trillion – roughly equivalent to a year of US economic output. Whether grids and communities can support those ambitions is another matter. "Unlimited AI ambition faces a reckoning with limited resources," Forrester said. Forrester predicts that governments and utilities will require datacenter operators to finance grid upgrades, pay for reserved capacity, and provide guarantees against speculative demand. It also expects community impact reviews to become a gate that new projects must pass before construction. Forrester senior analyst Abhijit Sunil explained the reasoning in a blog post: "With unprecedented growth demands, utilities cannot assume that every proposed datacenter will arrive on schedule or consume its promised load. Building generation and transmission for speculative demand could leave households and businesses paying for stranded infrastructure. "Already, the White House has called on hyperscalers to procure their own power, fund upgrades, and pay for reserved capacity even when unused. In 2027, at least two countries will turn this ratepayer-protection principle into tariffs or equivalent obligations. Cloud and colocation costs will become more location-specific, contractually committed, and exposed to power-market risk." Sunil said datacenter operators should expect long-term minimum payment commitments, financial guarantees, energy tariffs, and requirements to reduce their loads when grids are under strain. "Cloud economics will consequently become more dependent on location, electricity contracts, grid maturity, and providers' ability to generate or reduce power. Enterprises rapidly scaling AI capacity will increasingly inherit these costs," he said. The US, however, appears to be moving in the opposite direction on some forms of environmental oversight. In August, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed eliminating federal minimum requirements for public participation in minor-source air permits. The change could make it easier for some datacenter power projects to proceed without public notice, even as Forrester predicts that community scrutiny will increasingly determine which facilities get built. ®

Oh my goodness, I love the look of these cups.

They were made by Indonesian potter Nabila Nareswari using the nerikomi technique. From her about page:

Nerikomi is a technique in pottery that creates decorative patterns by stacking, rolling, and slicing colored clay. Patterns produced by it are structural rather than painted on, which allows the potter to make detailed images or complex repetitive patterns on both sides of the clay slabs.

Nareswari posts videos of her process on Instagram; it is painstaking.

Nerikomi takes a lot of patience and heart 🤍

I think Iris is the epitome of trusting a process. No other work of mine takes as much patience as these lovely mugs and cups do. There isn’t really a shortcut to having them done quicker, you just have to do one thing after another, after another, and before you know it, it’s there in your hands! Albeit two months later😜

She has a shop but all of her Iris collection is currently sold out.

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From March 2027, players of Hot Wheels Infinite Rush will be able to choose from the grid's 11 teams.

Anti-war activists and lawyers say that anxiety is rising, even though helping Russians avoid military service has long been a routine part of their work.

linoleum snede, heel veel puntjes. op deze uitsnede zijn twee kattenkoppen te zien.