Fabio Bruna posted a photo:
Een tot woningen verbouwde kerk, ik vind ḿ erg mooi geworden// Voorburg, langs de Vliet..
Fabio Bruna posted a photo:
Zicht op de Suezkade / Newtonstraat., Den Haag. Die brug heet niet echt de Chassébrug, maar het is een naam die iemand ooit heeft voorgesteld. En het voorstel werd volgens mij afgewezen
Aan de Leeuwenhorst in Rotterdam-Zuidwijk is zaterdag een kindje op een fiets in botsing gekomen met een auto. Hoe dat heeft kunnen gebeuren is nog onduidelijk. Het kind is naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.
In dit artikel houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws uit onze regio van zaterdag 19 april.
In dit artikel houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws uit onze regio van zaterdag 19 april.
De friet vertegenwoordigt de Nederlandse snackcultuur, de shoarma brengt Midden-Oosterse invloeden mee en het Kaapverdiaanse tintje komt van de kapper die het gerecht heeft bedacht. Zo ontstond de Kapsalon – een Rotterdamse klassieker. Maar wat gebeurt er als deze stadsfavoriet een Venezolaans randje krijgt?
A personal illustration project inspired by folk art, childhood dreams and restoring faith in nature. All illustrations were also made as a screen print on warm white paper. A keep... fallen in ruin, watched the sky come down and the world grow strong. The horsemen decided to ride into the night, over the hills, through the still of night. In the bowels of the stronghold they got restless... mumbling, crying, pacing. Even the warlock failed to hold the walls together, slowly losing grip. Fortunately the horses were strong and well fed, they'd know what to do.
Lando Norris ended the third and final practice session of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend fastest of all, leading his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by 0.024s while George Russell was best of the rest in third.
LEUSDEN (ANP) - Meer dan zeshonderd mensen hebben zaterdagmiddag bij het Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort herdacht dat de nazi's het concentratiekamp tachtig jaar geleden overdroegen aan het Rode Kruis. Een van de laatste oud-gevangenen van het kamp, Hans Gerritsen, was erbij. Schrijver Roxane van Iperen zei tijdens haar toespraak dat herdenken "niet alleen eer betonen aan de slachtoffers van toen" is.
Volgens Van Iperen is herdenken "ook een poging om met elkaar te verkennen welke processen kunnen leiden naar zo'n morele afgrond". "Geschiedschrijving is in die zin geen doel, maar een middel. Het is een poging het verleden te herstellen, het onbevattelijke persoonlijk te maken of met penseelstreken tot een completer beeld te komen", aldus de schrijver.
Bij de herdenking waren onder meer de Oostenrijkse ambassadeur, de commissaris van de Koning van Utrecht en nabestaanden aanwezig.
Leiding
Nadat het kamp op 19 april 1945 was overgedragen, kwam de leiding in handen van Loes van Overeem, vertegenwoordiger van de hulporganisatie. De vlag van het Rode Kruis werd gehesen en de laatste bewakers verlieten het Kamp Amersfoort. De gevangenen waren vrij, maar konden nog niet naar huis, omdat de oorlog nog bezig was en het buiten het kamp te gevaarlijk was. Daarmee werd het kamp een enclave in bezet gebied.
In het kamp zaten tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in totaal 47.000 mensen gevangen. Naast enkele duizenden Joden sloten de Duitsers ook onder meer artsen, politiemannen, communisten en Jehova's getuigen op. Honderden mensen vonden de dood in het concentratiekamp. Veel anderen werden doorgevoerd naar andere kampen en keerden niet meer terug.
"There has never been a consensus or a 'smoking gun' to explain what started the pandemic," writes ABC News.
Yet the Associated Press reports that "A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak." (This despite the fact that "about 325 Americans have died from COVID per week on average over the past four weeks, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.")
The covid.gov website shows a photo of President Donald Trump walking between the words "lab" and "leak" under a White House heading... The web page also accuses Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of pushing a "preferred narrative" that COVID-19 originated in nature. The origins of COVID have never been proven. Scientists are unsure whether the virus jumped from an animal, as many other viruses have, or came from a laboratory accident. A U.S. intelligence analysis released in 2023 said there is insufficient evidence to prove either theory.
"Many scientists think it's more likely the virus originated naturally in a wild animal and then spilled over into people in a wildlife market located in Wuhan," reports NPR.
And even Jamie Metzl, a critic of the wildlife spillover theory, told NPR that while they appreciated "efforts to dig deeper... it would be a terrible shame if such efforts distracted from essential work to help prevent further infections and treat people suffering from COVID-19 and long COVID." (The federal website covidtests.gov now also redirects instead to the new page...)
Some scientists were critical of the new site, which they say appears political in intent. "Every one of the five pieces of evidence supporting the lab leak hypothesis ... is factually incorrect, embellished, or presented in a misleading way," [wrote Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada]. "But making evidence-based arguments in good faith about the pandemic's origin is not the purpose of this document. This is pure propaganda, intended to justify the systematic devastation of the federal government, particularly programs devoted to public health and biomedical research," Rasmussen added.
Other scientists said the web site doesn't follow the existing body of scientific evidence on the issue. That evidence does not support "any of the many, often contradictory, lab leak scenarios that have been proposed," Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona, in an email to NPR. He argued that the evidence is consistent with "the less flashy hypothesis that bringing live animals infected with pathogens with pandemic potential into the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world was how this pandemic started.... the next pathogen with pandemic potential will find us easy pickings if we don't appreciate how risky this sort of 'biosafety level zero' activity is."
Yet the Associated Press reports that "A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak." (This despite the fact that "about 325 Americans have died from COVID per week on average over the past four weeks, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.")
The covid.gov website shows a photo of President Donald Trump walking between the words "lab" and "leak" under a White House heading... The web page also accuses Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of pushing a "preferred narrative" that COVID-19 originated in nature. The origins of COVID have never been proven. Scientists are unsure whether the virus jumped from an animal, as many other viruses have, or came from a laboratory accident. A U.S. intelligence analysis released in 2023 said there is insufficient evidence to prove either theory.
"Many scientists think it's more likely the virus originated naturally in a wild animal and then spilled over into people in a wildlife market located in Wuhan," reports NPR.
And even Jamie Metzl, a critic of the wildlife spillover theory, told NPR that while they appreciated "efforts to dig deeper... it would be a terrible shame if such efforts distracted from essential work to help prevent further infections and treat people suffering from COVID-19 and long COVID." (The federal website covidtests.gov now also redirects instead to the new page...)
Some scientists were critical of the new site, which they say appears political in intent. "Every one of the five pieces of evidence supporting the lab leak hypothesis ... is factually incorrect, embellished, or presented in a misleading way," [wrote Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada]. "But making evidence-based arguments in good faith about the pandemic's origin is not the purpose of this document. This is pure propaganda, intended to justify the systematic devastation of the federal government, particularly programs devoted to public health and biomedical research," Rasmussen added.
Other scientists said the web site doesn't follow the existing body of scientific evidence on the issue. That evidence does not support "any of the many, often contradictory, lab leak scenarios that have been proposed," Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona, in an email to NPR. He argued that the evidence is consistent with "the less flashy hypothesis that bringing live animals infected with pathogens with pandemic potential into the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world was how this pandemic started.... the next pathogen with pandemic potential will find us easy pickings if we don't appreciate how risky this sort of 'biosafety level zero' activity is."
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