Twee mannen zijn aangehouden voor het voorbereiden van de invoer van cocaïne via de havens van Rotterdam en Vlissingen. Het gaat om een 42-jarige man uit Ridderkerk en een 43-jarige man zonder vaste woon- of verblijfplaats. De politie vermoedt dat de Ridderkerker al langer betrokken is bij internationale drugssmokkel.

Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying across the face of the moon.

Over the course of 10 years, he took photos and videos of birds and statues silhouetted by the moon, but planes eluded him.

I realized if I wanted to film this, I was going to have to try a different approach. It wasn’t just going to happen by accident. So in February of this year, taking advantage of being in London, I decided to go near one of the busiest airports in the world to maximize my odds as much as possible.

But while we were on our way, I had second thoughts. I felt like it took the fun out of it. It didn’t make sense to force it that much either. So we got off.

I’m not going to spoil the video, but the whole thing is just so lovely — a meditation on obsessions, journeys, and finding meaning in your life. (via virginia)

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LUIK (ANP/BELGA) - De politie in het Belgische Luik heeft 76 mensen opgepakt tijdens studentenprotesten in de stad. Net als in Frankrijk lopen de protesten van scholieren en studenten in Luik de afgelopen dagen ook uit op rellen.

Er geldt sinds donderdagochtend een samenscholingsverbod in de stad. Volgens de Luikse autoriteiten was de situatie op donderdagavond "kalm". Wel blijft er 's nachts nog politie actief in het centrum.

In Frankrijk zijn donderdag meer dan vijfhonderd mensen gearresteerd bij onderwijsprotesten in het hele land. Het is de derde week op rij dat er in het land scholen worden geblokkeerd door studenten en scholieren.

The incident is the latest to raise questions about the growing reliance on digital maps for wilderness navigation

The route up the Widowmaker Arete, a 1,700-foot wall in British Columbia, is deceptively described as “mostly easy slab climbing”, interspersed with “short steep sections that can include finger cracks, blocky face climbing”. It requires careful planning, and the right equipment.

When 16-year-old Bryce Vincent Gowryluk found himself facing its sheer headwall last week, he had neither. He did, however, ask the AI chatbot Claude for directions.

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