The Amstel Gold Race will be the largest Dutch one-day sports event in corona time that can take place on Sunday. The organization had to pull out all the stops to allow the race to take place without an audience. The entertainment will really have to come from the riders. It is a new course….
Month: April 2021
No other broad-minded bodyguard has the political talent of Boyko Borisov, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Image Javier Muñoz There are about ten Eastern European men whom I had already seen ‘in person’ before they became prime minister or president. For some I saw the future coming, for others less and not at all for one. Twenty years ago, the Bulgarian ex-king Simeon II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha participated in the elections under…
Huawei could eavesdrop on KPN customers’ conversations
In the past, Chinese technology company Huawei had free access to KPN’s network and could eavesdrop on all conversations. De Volkskrant reports this on the basis of a secret report from 2010 that the newspaper has in its hands. According to the newspaper, Huawei was able to eavesdrop on mobile numbers from the telecom provider…
Life hack: this is the way to fold a fitted sheet
This is how you proceed Put your fitted sheet on the bed or on a table and make sure the bottom hangs down. Take the bottom corners and put them on the top corners. Then stitch the corners together. To make sure it blends in, put your hands in the corners and shake until everything…
Rejected goal kills Leipzig, Champions League out of sight for Tottenham | NOW
RB Leipzig suffered an expensive loss of points on Friday in the battle for the championship in the Bundesliga. Coach Julian Nagelsmann’s team came – partly due to a rejected goal in the final second – no further than 0-0 against 1899 Hoffenheim. Tottenham Hotspur again lost points in the Premier League. RB Leipzig is…
100+ musicians play ‘Everyone is of the World’ for Liberation Festival Brabant | News at Festivalinfo
Through sjoertb on April 15, 2021 – 10:54 AM Liberation Festival Brabant invites hundreds of musicians to form the largest rock band in the Netherlands together and play one song: ‘Everyone is of the World‘from The Scene. The Freedom Band will consist of 60 live musicians including Björn van der Doelen, Nona, Anneke van Giersbergen…
In Rome, corona rules don’t have to make sense, as long as everything is correct on paper
EPA image My favorite ice cream vendor shrugs apologetically, handing a cone wrapped in aluminum foil. His slightly scornful look says: I also know that this doesn’t make any sense, but that’s just the way the rules are. Or maybe that’s my interpretation, through the mouth mask I can only see his eyes. The aluminum…
More private leases than ever, but vulnerable people are at risk
Private lease is booming. For example, the car lease market has grown by about a thousand percent in the past five years, says the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). The SIDN foundation, which registers domain names, already had 664 websites for private lease. Due to strict regulations, it is more difficult for consumers…
In this hotel on the Vecht you go back in time in a stylish way
It must have been a good time for the merchants who came from Amsterdam with a barge across the Vecht to the country house that now bears the name Logement aan de Vecht. Here they shook the stench and pushed the city away with a good party. The first owner dates from 1721 and then…
PSV expects a capital injection of 50 million euros in the coming months NOW
PSV expects to be able to realize a capital injection of tens of millions of euros in the coming months, the Eindhoven club said on Friday. Billionaire Robert van der Wallen, who is also on the supervisory board of PSV, is the main initiator. According to PSV, this concerns an external capital injection. “This will…