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Tinnitus, also known as tinnitus, has been getting a lot of attention lately.There is great concern about the laconic attitude of outgoing young people whoare not so careful with the number of decibels their ears can tolerate.

The information page of the Dutch Association for Ear, Nose and ThroatMedicine reports that two million Dutch people have a form of tinnitus, 10percent of whom suffer from it a lot, and it causes psychosocial problems inseveral tens of thousands of people. “Fortunately, we know from experiencethat a very large part of this group eventually learns to deal with tinnitusand can function again (as well as possible) in society and social life.”

Nevertheless, I would strongly urge young people to prevent tinnitus. Thenoise level in entertainment venues has not been allowed to exceed 103decibels since 2018, but the KNO Association advocates 100 decibels (withearplugs in). Even at 100 decibels you still suffer damage without hearingprotection, says Henri Marres, professor of ENT surgery, in de Volkskrant.

I have heard young people say that they are willing to take the risk, becausefor them noise is part of going out in clubs and concert halls. May I, as anexpert by experience, interfere with this for a moment? Finally an expert!

In October 2002 I attended a concert by the Italian pop singer Gianna Nanniniin Paradiso. I wrote in it that week NRC Handelsblad a laudatory columnabout it: “She sang with an astonishing devotion for an accomplished artistand she moved around the stage like a Mick Jagger in his prime.”

Little did I know then that I would regret this visit for the rest of my life.The music had been loud and because of the crowds on the floor I had beenstanding way too close to the speakers all evening. A few weeks later I hearda noise in my left ear and immediately I had a premonition: this will neverstop.

That has come true. One night of thoughtlessness and you’ll never lose yournoise again. With one it is a noise, with the other a hiss, hum, squeak,whistle or a combination of such sounds. It starts out modest, some days it’sbarely there, but it grows steadily over the years, at least that’s myexperience.

Yet I experience less pain than before. That’s because I’ve learned toacquiesce in it. Those first years you do everything to get rid of it. I reada lot about it, talked to experts, tried therapies. I also visited anafternoon with fellow sufferers, something I can wholeheartedly adviseagainst. I met people who had it much worse than me, like that woman whoconstantly heard the sound of a vacuum cleaner blaring. Afterwards I couldonly think: is this my foreland?

Tinnitus is incurable. One doesn’t even know what exactly is the cause – thehearing organ or the brain? — not to mention a cure. What do you do with anunbeatable enemy? You dodge the fight and walk around him. You talk as littleas possible with and about him. You ignore him. You live your life as if itdoesn’t exist. Yes, writing this piece seems to contradict that, but hopefullyit will help people who are still without tinnitus. Maybe they hear me.

The Great Hall of the Concertgebouw is buzzing. The music on stage, at least.The Cleveland Orchestra plays the timpani and brass bangs of Bruckners”Scherzo’ Ninth Symphony bounce off the walls. The stirring rhythms inviteyou to dance along, but that is not possible here. A man in the room makes acompromise and performs a tiny choreography over his armrest: his thumb andforefingers swing an imaginary baton back and forth, strict in time.

Silence and sitting still during classical concerts has always been part ofit, you would think. We consider classical music to be timeless, and that alsoapplies to etiquette.

The opposite is true, says Thomas Delpeut (1988). He is a lecturer in culturalhistory at Radboud University in Nijmegen and will soon complete adissertation on nineteenth-century concert culture in four major Dutch cities.“Take the year 1815,” he says enthusiastically. “Concert visitors had verydifferent expectations of a concert. They were used to walking through thehall during the music. When something was to their liking, they clapped – evenwhen the orchestra was still playing. And if they thought something was bad,they booed.”

The halls also looked different then: in some of them there were tables, wherethe audience sat. “Even later in the nineteenth century you still had roomswhere that layout was common.” Delpeut shows a drawing from between 1850 and1860. ‘This is the Parkzaal, at the time one of the most important stages inAmsterdam, located in what is now the Wertheim Park, near Artis. You can justsee the orchestra in the background. In the foreground you see the audience.”

That audience seems mostly busy with themselves. Groups of dressed men andwomen stand around tables, talking. In the foreground you see a waiter holdingup a wine glass.

Delpeut: “For most people at the time, music was a background for the socialscene. Audience arrived late and left early. When an opera singer sang, themen would stand between the seats so they could see her better. After whichthe women sometimes went back to the chairs, so that they could see the stagebetter.”

cock fur

For his PhD research, Delpeut worked with a database of almost twenty thousandpieces of music. In this way he learned which pieces were programmed the mostand in which order. He also used magazine articles, letters and minutes fromconcert societies to form a picture of the burgeoning concert culture.

“In the past, there was a perception that Dutch concert life only becamesignificant from the opening of the Concertgebouw in 1888. Finally there was agood hall, and shortly afterwards a good orchestra. Even the public began tolisten “seriously.” I am trying to show that those events are the culminationof a process that has already started.”

In the nineteenth century there was no question of the fully-fledged concertlife of today, mostly by subsidized ensembles and orchestras. But our currentdoubts about how we can best shape classical music life in the future – therewere already those in the past. „Around 1850 there was still no fixed way toorganize concerts, the description ‘classical’ was not yet common either. ”,says Thomas Delpeut. “An important part of musical life took place in closedconcert societies, to which only men were allowed to join. Women were allowedto join as guests.”

The audience has learned that passive listening style themselves>> Thomas Delpeut researcher

Programming is a good lens to view concert life, says Delpeut; it sayssomething about musical taste and about social relationships. “The laterfavorite formula of overture, solo concert and symphony did not yet exist.Concerts often offered a mix; symphonies, solo instruments, opera arias andromances alternated. Concerts also lasted much longer. A contemporary calledit ‘Cock fur’.”

Concert by harpist Lavinia Meijer, 2020. Photo Concertgebouw

At that time, the public came for famous, preferably virtuoso soloists. Butconcert organizers, musicians, critics and visitors who considered themselvestrue music lovers felt that ensemble music deserved the emphasis. Theydiscussed the optimal program design for this purpose. Is it best to program asymphony at the beginning of a concert, or at the end? Their ideas wereinspired by what was happening in other European musical centers.

Delpeut: “In practice, a hybrid form was dominant: you program a belovedsoloist, so that you can also play a symphony by Schumann. The drawing of theParkzaal looks crazy to us now, but there people have learned to listen toBeethoven’s symphonies.”

In the course of the nineteenth century concert practice changed; attentionshifted to the music and to listening quietly in neat rows. Around 1900, thestill usual concert form of the classical concert came into being, while themusic that is played is often older. “Many people call the listening culturethat emerged ‘passive’,” says Delpeut. “But the public has learned thatchanged listening style itself. That was a gradual process.”

We are now used to the strict etiquette and form of ‘modern’ classicalconcerts. Should we let them go then? “Of course you can’t just transplant thenineteenth-century concert to our time,” says Delpeut. “But if you realizethat the past was not as rigid as is often thought, innovation does becomeeasier.”

Innovation

Researcher Veerle Spronck (1993) is also concerned with the ways in which youcan organize concerts – but she focuses on the present and obtained her PhDthis summer at the Maastricht Center for the Innovation of Classical Music.

This center was founded in 2017 as a collaboration between MaastrichtUniversity, Hogeschool Zuyd and members of the South Netherlands Philharmonic.The mission: to experiment with new ways of organizing concerts. Does she seesomething in the nineteenth-century concert form?

“I discovered that orchestras are very flexible, so yes: you can also breathenew life into ‘old’ programs. Inspiration from the past can be a great way toshape the future. But not because it should. Well, because it is alsopossible.”

I want to break the ‘wall’ between musicians and audience>> Veerle Spronck researcher

Spronck chose a performance at new music festival Gaudeamus as an example:Three Degrees from Reality by the ensemble Modelo62 from The Hague.

In the Utrecht Theater Kikker, two figures in gray nuclear reactor suitsinstruct the audience to take off shoes and socks and put on silver suits,’for protection’.

The supervisors drive the audience through a door, which leads directly ontothe stage. The floor is littered with indefinable objects. What are those cansdoing here? What does this weird mountain of blankets, pillows and feathersmean? And what are those devices in the corner? The musicians of Modelo62spread throughout the space, creating alienating soundscapes.

Towards the end of the concert, the atmosphere turns grim: some spectators aretold to “dance and enjoy” as a menacing drum beat swells. Others have to forma circle around them – which fails. Veerle Spronck looks a bit lost.

“That was a bit extreme,” she notes afterwards, somewhat relieved that theperformance is over. Should this be the future of the classical concert as weknow it?

Spronck: „The evening did offer promising elements, such as taking off shoes.That’s a ‘power move’, a way to take the audience out of the routine and makethem part of the performance.”

Spronck concludes in her research that even small changes in an orchestra’sroutine can greatly alter the audience’s concert experience. “Think, forexample, of the ensemble Pynarello, which plays without a score. This makesmore interaction possible, they also play without a conductor. And that alsobenefits the audience: you can better see what is happening in the music. Andthe audience can sit between the musicians, because there are no desks in theway.”

Spronck’s research resonates in practice; she is currently working with theSouth Netherlands Philharmonic on a new experiment. She also shared herinsights about innovation with, among others, professional magazine DasOrchestra and with the European network of artistic directors of concerthalls ECHO. Her enthusiasm is infectious, but you also feel that there isurgency behind her words. „In all reports of the Council for Culture you willdefinitely come across ‘innovation’; ensembles are therefore necessary. But Ialso think that it is inherent in the profession of an artist to ask yourself:why and how do I do what I do?”

_When her daughter Dakota was diagnosed with autism at age 2½ in 2016, Rosie O’Donnell felt afraid at first. “I was worried about how she would make it inthis world,” says the star, now 60. “I worried about my longevity, because asyou speak to parents of kids with autism, their main worry is what happenswhen they die. Who’s going to love their child and understand them the way youdo?” _

It ‘s something that O’Donnell, now playing a tough-talking detective in theShowtime series _American gigolo , still grapples with as she watches her9-year-old daughter come of age in a world that does not always understand hercomplexities. “I know this is something that will be with her her whole life,and she’ll learn to adjust to a world that doesn’t necessarily go at her ownpace,” says O’Donnell, also mom to Parker, 27, Chelsea , 25, Blake, 22, andVivienne, 19. _

_Meanwhile, raising her active, artistic little girl has given O ‘Donnell newperspective. “With Dakota, I am learning to have compassion much deeper than Iever did,” she says. “To really listen and communicate in a way I never had towith my other kids. I know there are people struggling and they don’t know howthey will get through another day. And I understand. But the sense ofvulnerability that comes with having a kid with autism has been a gift to me.She teaches me.” _

Here O ‘Donnell shares their journey in her own words.

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Dakota’s first word was a full sentence before she was 1. We were watching_Frozen_ , and she said “I been…pale.” I said, “What?” and then I hear Olafsay “I’ve been impaled.” She was always highly verbal. Sometimes she wouldstare off in a way that she felt unreachable for a moment. She had a littlebit of stimming [a repetitive behavior often associated with autism] she wasdoing with her hands. She has always been very cuddly — and loves to curl upbeside me on the couch. I thought she was quirky — and beautiful and perfect.

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Still, I knew something was off, but I wasn’t sure what it was. She didn’tanswer to her name. When she was being tested [for autism], the doctor keptcalling out to her “Dakota, Dakota.” She didn’t respond. Somewhere deep down Iknew. Getting the diagnosis felt like I was punched in the stomach. I had togive myself a moment to go, “Okay, we’re going to figure out how to getthrough it.”

You can read as much as possible, but they say when you meet one person withautism, you’ve met one person with autism. It’s a spectrum. For me — it’slike an angel fell into my life. One who doesn’t function by societalstandards. I’m not taking away from the pain and hardship that this diagnosisbrings to families. All of a sudden, there’s a child with a lot of needs andyou spend a lot of time trying to connect on their level. It’s not easy — butit’s necessary to let them know they are seen.

I didn’t want Dakota to feel shame about her diagnosis. I have told her fromthe start that autism is her superpower. I hear her announcing to strangers,”My name is Dakota. I’m 9 and I have allergies and autism.” It’s like adifferent operating system.

She was endlessly curious. So I focused on how to enable her to learn in theway that her brain was set up to learn. When she was in second grade, all thekids were reading Dory Fantasmagory. Even though she couldn’t read, shewould bring the book to school and pretend. I knew for her self-esteem, we hadto get her reading. We found a great school in Los Angeles, and she’s nowreading at grade level. They have all kinds of neurodivergent kids andspecial-needs learners. It’s a beautiful melting pot.

She feels things deeply but doesn’t always express emotions. We were drivinghome one night and she said, “Mommy, there’s water on my face.” I said, “Thoseare tears. Are you sad?” and we talked about what feelings were. I held herand let her cry, reminding her everyone has feelings.

Sometimes she’s a little awkward with strangers and she’ll start to give themscientific information. She tells kids about the Mariana Trench and how to digup sea crabs. We were once playing on the beach with a new family. I said tothe dad under my breath, “She’s neurodivergent.” Then Dakota turned and said,”I have autism. It’s okay.”

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When she was 5 she asked if she could talk to her birth mother. We’re incontact, so Dakota gets on FaceTime and says, “Are you the lady whose tummy Iwas in? I just wanted you to know I’m the kid that was in there, and when Igot born, my mommy held me and I squeezed her pinkie, and I am with her. So Ijust want to let you know that’s what happened to me. Bye.” I was in tears aswas her birth mom. That’s a pretty intense, complex, emotional thing for alittle girl to put together.

Dakota is 9½ now. I’ve been fraught with anxiety when each of my childrenturned 10. I have that year of thinking, “I better not die.” I was 10 yearsold when my mom died of breast cancer. It’s a shocking thing to lose a motherat a young age. Your mom is the center. You need them for everything: trainingbras, transitioning into puberty. Going through that on my own was a scarypart of my childhood. You feel very alone. I don’t ever want Dakota to feelthat.

Dakota’s autism forces me to see the world from a completely different place.She’s a gift from another dimension. The things she knows — about sea anemonesand tide pools. I got to 60 not knowing about the Mariana Trench. Now I knowall about it! Her ability to absorb information is unparalleled. I can imagineher winning on jeopardy! someday. She teaches me. To be able to see theworld as she does — for me, it’s been a wonderfully magical experience. I’m soglad we have each other.

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According to him, we cannot separate the partial mobilization of 300,000reservists from the ‘referenda’ announced in four (partly) Russian-occupiedparts of Ukraine. “Reservists are constitutionally only allowed to be deployedon Russian territory,” he explains. And that is exactly what the plebiscitesare about: citizens in the four provinces must vote on joining Russia.

The result of the referendum, which is not representative because manyUkrainians have fled the areas, is not recognized in advance by Ukraine andinternationally. But if a majority of voters vote for annexation by Russia,the Kremlin will consider the areas Russian.

It is inevitable that the West will become even more involved in the> conflict.>> Mart de Kruif, former commander of the Land Forces

According to De Kruif, the partial mobilization and the expected annexationconstitute an “unattached escalation”, including for Ukraine’s neighboringcountries. “The Baltic states will feel threatened and NATO must respond tothat. It is inevitable that the West will become even more involved in theconflict.”

The retired general also expects it to take weeks, if not months, before theRussian reservists can get to work. “You have to train them, equip them, feedthem. And there must also be enough NCOs and officers to direct them. I don’tthink we’re going to see these people at the front until spring.”

Correspondent Geert Groot Koerkamp:

“Russia was abuzz with rumors about what Putin was going to say. Many,especially young Russians, were afraid of a general mobilization, with allover 18s being drafted into the army. That fear has not completely disappearednow, although Putin has stresses that this is a partial mobilization.

A general mobilization would also not fit into the Kremlin’s narrative, whichalways says that there is no question of war, but a special military operationin which everything goes smoothly. As soon as you mention the word’mobilization’, you recognize: we are at war. Then it comes very close. Such apartial mobilization is a half-hearted compromise in that regard.”

The partial mobilization will also lead to unrest in Russia itself, expectsRussia expert Laura Starink. According to her, many Russians will try toescape, for example by leaving the country. Tens of thousands of people havealready done so in recent months, she says, mostly critics of the regime.”Often they go to Georgia and Turkey.”

According to Reuters news agency, direct flights to Turkish Istanbul andYerevan in Armenia sold out quickly after Putin’s speech. Also, the searches”How do I leaveRussia?” and”How do I break anarm?aretrending on Google. And according to a Russian lawyer, the telephoneline forinformation about the rights of military personnel called more than a thousandtimes this morning.

Nuclear Rhetoric

President Putin also used nuclear rhetoric in his speech. He accused the Westof “nuclear blackmail” and warned that Russia will not shy away from using”all available resources” if necessary in the eyes of the Kremlin. “That’s nota bluff,” he added.

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Putin’s words seem like a veiled reference to Russia’s nuclear arsenal, andthis is not the first time. But these statements in the context of announcedreferendums and partial mobilization have a different meaning, says LaurienCrump, expert on Eastern Europe and international relations.

“We see a president here who is cornered,” says the researcher, who isaffiliated with Utrecht University. According to her, Putin will not besatisfied if he comes out of the war with less than what he started with.

If the four areas with ‘referenda’ will soon belong to Russia in the eyes ofthe Kremlin, he will therefore want to defend them at all costs, she says. “Hewill not just pull out a nuclear weapon, but he also does not want to loseface. If there is fighting in areas that the Kremlin will soon consider to beRussian, Moscow sees this as an infringement of Russia’s right to exist.option will be on the table.”

The success of the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) this year will also bereflected in the size of the panda eyes at premiere parties. The smearedmascara of brightly made-up visitors after a game of crying in the cinema.After all, all four feature film premieres on this 42nd edition are aboutmourning and losing a child, loved one or parent much too early.

This is how the festival opens with Sea of ​​Time , based in part on thetrue story of a young couple in the 1980s. While sailing around the world,they experience every parent’s nightmare: their son disappears and is neverfound. Back in the Netherlands, their relationship breaks down during therecovery process. Also in narcosis mourned for an untraceable body. Adiver’s family has to move on after he has not surfaced after a job. Inclosing film bo A troubled young woman travels to her father’s grave inGeorgia and begins a tempestuous relationship. And then there’s femi whichshows that a twenty-something who has a child has never come to terms with thesuicide of his own father.

Peter de Bruijn established in corona time, when many Dutch people lost lovedones to Covid, that relatively few films have been made about mourning. Thereare well-known examples: films by Ingmar Bergman, or closer to home TheBroken Circle Breakdown (2012) and Tonio (2016) __. But their number issmall when you consider that everyone loses loved ones in his life.

The wave of mourning films that is flooding NFF this year is not becausemakers and financiers became aware of a defect in corona times, says NFFprogrammer Claire van Daal. “Many of the films shown were already planned orready for the crisis.” She calls the fact that they are released and selectedfor the festival at the same time a coincidence. She does notice that manyyoung Dutch film makers throw themselves into the subject. The directors of_femi_ and narcosis are 29 and 39 respectively. And at the festival is alsorunning Pink Moon by Floor van der Meulen, in their thirties, in which a sonand daughter go through a grieving process before their father opts foreuthanasia.

Is there less fear among novice makers these days about raising this heavytheme? Possibly. What is also striking about these debuting Dutch directors isthat they do not choose, like Theu Boermans in the opening film, to look agrieving process straight in the eye and to portray it straight forward. Theyoung makers on NFF cross the processing of a loss with other genres. So is_Pink Moon_ in addition to grieving, it is also an absurd comedy that providesloaded moments with clumsiness. In femi the protagonist tackles hisunresolved past with Nigerian voodoo, with a thriller-like result. Because ofthese crossover elements, the films easily manage to maintain the precariousbalance that grief films simply are: you want to take the viewer into the painof the main character, but not let him drown in a sea of ​​sadness.

One of the most elegant solutions to that balancing act can be seen in thisyear’s documentary _L ‘Amour La Mort _by Ramon Gieling. His film states thatdeath and love are inextricably linked. He opens with the question: “Would yourather love more and suffer more than love less and suffer less?” Most ofthose portrayed seem to gravitate towards the former, despite immense agony.

The spring fire spider, the Loch Ness monster from Lommel

In Lommel there is one of the last populations worldwide of a spider that onlycomes above the ground a few days a year. The spring fire spider, that’s thename of the hermit bug. The male is sexually mature after four years. It thenturns bright red and starts looking for a female, which stays underground forthe rest of her life.

The spring fire spider was only discovered in 2009 by Natuurpunt veteran KoenVan Keer and his brother, after the animal was declared extinct in our countryfor a hundred years. “After a report, we launched a search called Operation Nfor Nessie, the Loch Ness monster,” Van Keer recalls. “Everyone was lookingfor them, but no one found them. Until my brother saw one crawling under hisfeet just before we wanted to quit!”

The film features two scenes of the spring fire spider that have barely been> seen, and have never been filmed before

“It is a very beautiful animal with beautiful colors that was immediately veryhigh on my wish list”, adds “Our nature” cameraman Pim Niesten. “It’s kind ofan ambassador for spiders. Spiders are the underdog for me, the less valuedanimals I want to champion. Although I still wonder how I can get such a fathouse spider outside when one is walking around at home.”

The film features two scenes that are barely seen and never filmed before: afight between two males for a female, and a mating scene. That last scene inparticular was a lot of work. The cave in which the female burrows had to befully excavated and fitted with a glass wall so that filming could be done.

Pim Niesten at work for “Our nature”, up to his knees in water.

“And then you have to get a small ray of light in there,” Niesten continues.“I hung a microscope light above it. Fortunately, that didn’t bother thespiders, the romance was clearly still there (laughs).”

The makers do not want to say exactly where the spiders live, so as not todisturb the peace of the animals. “In Great Britain, where they are also veryinterested in the species, they are very secretive about it,” Van Keeroutlines. “On a study trip there, it was almost ‘Allo Allo’-like situations.The guide just didn’t say ‘ listen very carefully’ as she unfolded the mapof the locations in the pub, and looked over her shoulder to make sure no onewas listening.”

About 800 kilometers before the last stop, Jan and Willy’s car stops. And thenyou expect the whole group to help them, but no…

Final Episode of ‘We’re Almost There’

In the last episode of the season, there is a battle for first place in thejeu de boules competition. But first, the participants still have a few longtravel days ahead of them. They travel from the south to the final campsite onthe Mediterranean near Tarragona. In between they make another stop in thesurprising city of Cuenca, famous for its hanging rock houses.

Jan and Willy in tears

The group was less than twenty kilometers away when Jan and Willy’s car -which has already broken down twice – finally stops. They are stuck on theside of the highway. Unfortunately, they can no longer follow the group andthe emotional couple remains behind while waiting for the car to be repaired.”This is a drama, of course, you can’t do anything anymore,” Jan says whilecomforting his wife. Tears roll down her cheeks. “We were so looking forwardto the holiday,” she says with a sniffle.

According to Jan it is ‘the end of the exercise’. “We need a tow truck andthen we’ll see,” he says. One thing he does know, they won’t make it to thefinal campsite. The group holiday ends here for them and they really hate it.

boules

The episode then continues without them, as the other travelers just drove on.When the group arrives at the final campsite, they have a few more funactivities planned. For example, there is a jeu de boules competition in whichthe group participates. Except Jan and Willy, because they are still unlucky.They are now at a campsite 800 kilometers away, waiting for their car to berepaired.

‘Hypocrite’

Throughout the episode, viewers keep hoping that a very happy Willy will soonbe parading onto the final campsite. “Her vacation should not end like this,”one viewer wrote on Twitter. They feel very sorry for stranded couple.Secretly, the viewers expected that the program would arrange something thatthey could join the group on the last evening, but unfortunately. For example,someone reacts with: ‘No, we are going to do everything together with thewhole group … well, pretty hypocritical, let the stranded couple burst.’

I hope that soon a very happy Willy will parade on the camping site.>> Her vacation should not end like this.#We are almost> there>> — Sebastian Hall (@SebastiaanHall) September 20,> 2022

So Gurbe had put all his energy into messing around. And not in Jan and> Willie. Because they are 800km away. Not a colorful evening for Jan and> Willie… #We are almost> there>> — Tristan (@Tristanzid) September 20,> 2022

No, we are going to do everything together with the whole group .. well> hypocritically let the stranded couple burst ..#We are almost> there>> — Dorien Bergman🤗nice..🤲 (@PannieWannie) September 20,> 2022

No, we are going to do everything together with the whole group .. well

Wednesday 21 September this year will be dominated by the Alphense Jaarmarkt,the largest annual market in the Netherlands. After two years of absence,there is a lot to experience again this year. Curious what all? You can checkthat here!

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Relay

This year there will again be a relay race at the annual fair. This relaystarts on the Rijnplein and will be held right through the center of Alphen.The relay is of course all about sports and fun. For this reason, the relay iscompletely without cars.

There are different types of relays. Below you can do the times of the runs.

6:10 pm |

Kids run 7 to 9 years old —|— 6:30 pm |

Children’s run 10 to 13 years old 7 p.m. | Children’s run 14 to 19 years old 7:30 pm |

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Mayor of Fisherman’s Park

Of course there is also a lot to do in the Burgemeester Visserpark this year.It can go either way with the annual market. See below all times and what todo.

08:00 to 12:00 | clothing market —|— 10am to 4pm | Giant obstacle course 12:00pm to 4:00pm | Mountain bike trail show ####

Hemaplein

Do you feel like dancing to the jazz music of the famous tenor saxophonistWouter Kiers? Then you’ve come to the right place at Hemaplein. Wouter Kierswill perform there together with his band. You can’t stop thinking about that!

Paradise Avenue

At Walk the plank you challenge yourself to walk over a 20 centimeter wideplank at a height of 160 meters. It is the biggest virtual reality hit of themoment. The VR glasses make it look lifelike. Participation is free, if youdare of course.

10am to 4pm | Walk the plank —|— ####

Paradise avenue/church street

Are you not a fan of jazz music? Don’t worry, because not only Wouter Kierswill perform at the annual fair, but the PearlyGates will also come. They playmany different types of rock music from the 60s to the present.

12:00pm to 4:00pm | Jazz music Wouter Kiers —|— 12:00pm to 4:00pm | PearlyGates ####

Rijnplein

You can really do everything on the Rijnplein. There are also a number ofperformances, magic shows, musicals and much more. Famous people are alsocoming!

12:00 to 12:30 and 13:00 to 13:30 | groaning lock gates —|— 13:30 to 14:00 | Goocheme Magic show 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Castellum presents: Cinderella the musical 14:30 to 14:45 | Drums United preview 14:45 to 15:30 | Goocheme party show 15:30 to 17:30 | Family de Buyn Band 19:00 to 19:30 | Robert Sand 19:30 to 20:30 and 21:00 to 22:00 | The Night Flight 22:15 to 22:45 | John the beaver 23:00 to 23:30 | PIECE ####

Stevinstraat

There will be a market again this year on the Stevinstraat. Just market as youknow it. Where you can buy antiques and books, but which never gets boring.Here you can buy all your new stuff from 10:00 to 17:00.

Thorbeckeplein

This year, Heel Alphen dances on the Thorbeckeplein under the guidance of Pietvan Leeuwen. He is a master salsa dancer. Throughout Alphen danst, danceschools from the surrounding area can show their talent here.

There is also an Escape Caravan. This is like an escape room, but a mobileone. You can get out of this by solving various assignments and riddles.

10am to 4pm | All of Alphen Danst —|— 12:00pm to 4:00pm | Escape Caravan ####

Fair

The fair is also back this year! But it is not only there at the annualmarket, but from 16 to 21 September!

Many say the UK will never have a queen like Elizabeth II again.

The UK’s longest-serving monarch died last week at the age of 96, afterserving her country all her life.

The fact that Elizabeth II remained on the English throne for 70 years issomething extraordinary. In total she has seen 15 different Prime Ministers,starting with the well-known Winston Churchill and ending a few days ago withthe new Prime Minister of her country, Liz Truss.

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Her passing, however tragic, is perhaps not too surprising given her declininghealth since the loss of her beloved husband, Prince Philip, last year.

Her Majesty was forced to cancel a number of commitments late last year, andwhile she was able to celebrate her platinum anniversary, many feared the endwas slowly approaching.

Still, the Queen seemed to be doing relatively well this past weekend,according to Rev. Dr. Iain Greenshields.

He stayed with the Queen after giving a sermon and told the Daily Mail that hedined on Saturday and had lunch with Her Majesty on Sunday. He added that shewas “full of joy”.

“I was very surprised to find out she was seriously ill because she was insuch great shape this weekend,” said Greenshields.

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However, a statement from Buckingham Palace Thursday night stated:

“The Queen passed away peacefully this afternoon in Balmoral. The King andQueen consort will remain in Balmoral tonight and return to London tomorrow.”

The Queen’s eldest son and heir, Charles – the former Prince of Wales – hasbecome King of the United Kingdom and the 14 parts of the Commonwealth.

“The passing of my beloved mother, Her Majesty the Queen, is a moment ofdeepest sadness for me and all members of my family,” King Charles said in astatement.

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Since the death of the Queen, all kinds of questions have arisen, especiallythose about the reason for her death. Unsurprisingly, Buckingham Palace haskept quiet about Her Majesty’s diagnosis, although many people have shared theQueen’s bruised hands online in the photo taken the day she met new BritishPrime Minister Liz Truss. .

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Several experts said in the years before her death she met medical criteriafor “geriatric syndrome,” a condition used to describe features of commonhealth problems in older adults that don’t fit into specific categories.

Official opinion from the UK National Health Service says: “It is a multi-cause and contributory medical syndrome characterized by decreased strength,endurance and decreased physiological function, increasing an individual’svulnerability to developing increased dependence and/or death. increases.”

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The UK’s health system, the NHS, uses a test known as Prisma-7 to measure aperson’s vulnerability. Of the seven criteria, the Queen met five of thecategories, such as being over 85, needing a cane, needing regular assistance,and being forced to cancel activities.

In a statement on the Weekend Sunrise program, Dr. Ginni Mansberg expressedher opinion that Prince Philip’s death in April last year could also be afactor in Queen Elizabeth’s deteriorating health.

“She lost her husband after many years, and statistically, the 12 months afterlosing the partner… is a very risky time,” she said.

“A death puts an extra strain on the body, and it’s very hard to lose someoneyou’ve been married to for so long, on top of your old age.”

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Also dr. Deb Cohen-Jones said in an interview with the Daily Mail afteranalyzing the photo of Queen Elizabeth in Balmoral with her bruised hand: “Itappears there is evidence of peripheral vascular disease. This is acirculatory disorder that causes blood vessels outside the heart and brain tonarrow, become blocked, or cramp.

“Sometimes it can cause heart failure. When the peripheral circulation is thisbad, the organs don’t get a good blood supply. It could be a sign of multipleorgan failure.”

Social media exploded even when the photo of the Queen (before her death)surfaced, with many readers wondering what her bruised hand might mean.

I don ‘t know about you, but I’m going to miss Queen Elizabeth. There are nomore inspiring people like her.

What do you think of the British monarchy? Will Chalres do as well as hismother? Will William do it after him?

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At the beginning of this year, shortly after the launch of the other newstreaming service Viaplay, HBO Max made a splash in the Dutch market. Got newsubscribers lifetime whopping 50% discount if they took out amembership in the first weeks. The third newcomer to the streaming landscapeof 2022, SkyShowtime now appears to offer the same action at the Europeanlaunch.

New streaming service SkyShowtime offers a lifetime discount of 50%

Today, the new streaming service SkyShowtime went live in the first fourEuropean markets: Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. If you take a look atthe website from one of these countries, it turns out that you currently havea very attractive offer receives from the video on demand platform: 50%discount for life.

For example, a subscription in Finland (comparable subscription costs with theNetherlands) normally costs € 6.99 p/m, but this price is reduced by thepromotion to a very competitive cost of only €3.49 per month. In Sweden(79.00 > 39.50 SEK), Norway (79 > 39.50 NOK) and Denmark (69 > 34.50 DKKK),the offer is also applied. Film and series lovers will have 42 days to takeadvantage of the promotion, because the offer will expire on November 1st.

SkyShowtime will go live in the Netherlands on October 25, 2022, price willbe announced soon

In the Netherlands, we only have to wait a month for the launch, it wasannounced this morning. SkyShowtime will be on here October 25 launched.As a result of the Scandinavian discount campaign, the Streamwijzer editorshave asked the streaming service whether the lifetime offer will also beintroduced here. The SkyShowtime spokesperson could not confirm or deny thisat the moment, but made it clear that we have a similar in the Netherlands_“competitive” can expect surprise at a “exceptional price”_.

“The price will be competitive, allowing us to offer great content at anexceptional price. We will announce this in the coming weeks.” – Spokesperson for SkyShowtime*

HBO Max organized the same temporary discount at the beginning of this year

It is certainly a fantastic action, but not quite exceptional anymore. HBOMax was launched in the Netherlands in March and then the Netherlands fellhead over heels for their offer: 50% off forever. At least, until one day youcancel your subscription. Then you lose your advantage and it cannot berecovered.

SkyShowtime may have been inspired by HBO Max’s offering, which was receivedwith great enthusiasm by Dutch film and series lovers. There is therefore agood chance that the conditions for the promotion are similar: the discountexpires if you cancel your subscription and price increases also applyto your membership, although of course only for half. However, this has notyet been officially confirmed, so we will have to wait for further reporting.As soon as we know more, we will be the first to announce it via your mail andin the Facebook group with SkyShowtime viewers. In addition, you can alwayskeep an eye on our website and social media channels for updates.

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• Original statement in English: “Pricing will be competitive offering great content at exceptional value and will be announced in the coming weeks”