In dit blog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws uit de regio van dinsdag 28 april.

Veel mensen doen het: als je een kwaaltje of pijntje hebt, eerst online opzoeken wat het kan zijn. Is dat gevaarlijk? De Schiedamse dokter Lieneke van de Griendt denkt van niet. Ze moedigt het juist aan dat mensen eerst zelf onderzoek doen voordat ze naar de huisarts gaan.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

photograph I acquired from a large archive of negatives from a San Francisco Bay based commercial photographer taken mostly in the 1960s to 1970s.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options

European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…

Drie nieuwe boeken over het innerlijke leven van dagboekschrijfster Etty Hillesum gaan in op de vraag waarom zij tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog niet wilde onderduiken en hoe zij zo in de ban kon raken van chiroloog Julius Spier.

In tijden van maakbaarheid zijn we zoekender dan ooit. Elk individu moet voldoen aan een onmogelijke eis, zeggen Esther van Fenema en Joost Röselaers: zichzelf verwezenlijken.

De neiging je te verlustigen aan het lichaam van de ander, schrijft Arnon Grunberg, is vermoedelijk door en door menselijk en zeker niet alleen een westerse of mannelijke ondeugd. In Zürich bezoekt hij de tentoonstelling Laboratorium van de lusten, over het werk van Félicien Rops.

The Trump administration says it will reimburse energy companies $885 million to cancel two planned offshore wind farms, with the firms in turn agreeing to put money into oil and gas projects instead. "The deals are modeled after a similar agreement last month with the French energy giant TotalEnergies," notes the New York Times. "TotalEnergies forfeited its leases for two wind projects planned off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, while committing to a range of fossil-fuel investments." From the report: [...] The first new agreement affects Bluepoint Wind, a wind farm in the early stages of development off New York and New Jersey. The project was proposed by Global Infrastructure Partners, a part of asset manager BlackRock, and Ocean Winds, which is itself a joint venture between Engie and EDP Renewables, two European clean-energy firms. The second deal would cancel Golden State Wind, another early-stage venture off California's central coast. Golden State Wind is a 50-50 partnership between the developers Ocean Winds and Reventus Power.

Both Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind agreed not to pursue any new offshore wind projects in the United States, although that pledge would not necessarily apply to the companies behind the ventures. Ocean Winds has also been developing another giant wind farm known as SouthCoast Wind, off Martha's Vineyard, Mass., that is much further along in the planning and permitting process. That project is not affected by Monday's announcement, although it has essentially been paused since Mr. Trump took office last year. [...] It is also unclear how much the companies will actually invest in new fossil fuel infrastructure. In documents released this month, Interior revealed that it would count investments that TotalEnergies made before the deal toward its pledge, raising questions over whether the company had any obligations to make additional investments.

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Plucked from relative obscurity to score Hugh Jackman film The Death of Robin Hood, the skilled singer-songwriter explains how he conquered his impostor syndrome

Last year, Jim Ghedi was having a chicken dinner at his mother’s house in Sheffield when he checked his phone. “This director started following me on Instagram,” he recalls. “And there’s pictures of him with Nicolas Cage. As a joke, I said to my mam: ‘I might message him and say, let me do your next film score.’ As I said it, he messaged me, saying: ‘I want you to do my next film score.’”

The director was Michael Sarnoski and the film is the forthcoming A24 production The Death of Robin Hood, starring Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer. Sarnoski had heard Ghedi’s excellent 2025 album, Wasteland, a stirring and brooding album of apocalyptic folk that was a reflection of societal rot and collapse in England. Released on the small Calder Valley label Basin Rock, the album was critically acclaimed – and his most successful and ambitious to date – but it had not turned Ghedi into a household name. He thought that the film opportunity “would all blow away and they’d find out who I am”, he says. “Some top producer would put up the red flag.”

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