Sheila van den Bulk

[Eurosport Nederland @Eurosport_NL]

🔥🇫🇷 | Daar staat Sifan Hassan. Zij ontvangt de laatste gouden medaille van deze Olympische Spelen van Paris 2024! 🥇😍 Wat staat goud je nog steeds ongelooflijk goed, Sifan! 🔥🔥 #Paris2024

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[Eurosport Nederland @Eurosport_NL]

🔥🇫🇷 | Worthy de Jong maakt de tweepunter. De vlaggendrager ziet zijn olympische droom uitkomen. Nederland heeft GOUD! 🤩🥇 #Paris2024 #3x3basketball

📺 Stream Paris 2024 op HBO Max

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

You can't rush art. 🖼️🇳🇱

@ArjenRobben | #FIFAWorldCup

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

One of my most wonderful moments of 2023. Nora, here 3 weeks old, meeting Berit for the first time at Stockholm Stadion. Always a beautiful place to play, but this one was special ❤️

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

@CollinBeijk Vergeet de Damallsvenskan niet, ook leuk om te kijken op Viaplay. Maar je hebt zeker een punt, plus dat ik persoonlijk het Engelse commentaar van F1 tv een stuk interessanter vind.

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.

Check in on those around you.

#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

👏🏻

[Girls on the Ball @GirlsontheBall]

Class act as ever! 👑

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

It's okay for (social) media to be critical, not cruel.

[Marissa Lordanic @marissalordanic]

Having a little sob in a hotel to a Marta speech? That's Women's World Cup heritage, baby.

[FIFA Women's World Cup @FIFAWWC]

Marta. 🫶

#FIFAWWC

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

I just have so many questions for this journalist..

[SHE scores bangers @SHEscoresbanger]

Morocco captain Ghizlane Chebbak’s almost in disbelief reaction to the question, says it all.

A completely unethical out of line question that poses safety concerns to the players he asking to be named.

Bizarre push followed.
https://t.co/MKk84O774E

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

Wilky wrote history!

[Viaplay Fotboll @ViaplayFotboll]

WILKINSON! ⚽🔥

VM:s första mål är gjort och det är värdnationen som får sätta dit det!

[PFA @PFA]

'The reason I became what I became'

Thierry Henry on why Dennis Bergkamp is the best player he ever played with.

#Arsenal | @Arsenal | #PFA50

[ESPN NL @ESPNnl]

FC Twente deelt de eerste tik uit in de Bekerfinale. 🏆

Renate Jansen schiet een prachtige voorzet feilloos binnen! ☄️😍

#twepsv

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

Berit och Östra ❤️

https://t.co/098d8teV8i

[Sports Illustrated FC @SI_FootballClub]

"She [Miedema] is the best player in the women's game by a country mile."

@fara_williams47 just doesn't understand why Vivianne Miedema doesn't get the same hype as other players! 🤔

[90s Footballers @90sPlayers]

Dennis Bergkamp's first touch was out of this world

[Sheila van den Bulk @sheilavdb]

Always open in the upper corner 👀

[Arsenal Women @ArsenalWFC]

Football. The Arsenal way.

[wsoccer.ca @WsoccerCa]

The 🇸🇪 @_OBOSDamallsv is back!!!

That also means Evelyne Viens is back with goals and assists for @KDFF1998

🎥 Here’s the clip of her first goal in Sweden, just 41 minutes into the season.

Picking up where she left off.

#wsoccerCa @AlexGangueRuzic @Canucks_Abroad