From January through August, authorities registered more than 6,500 fires across 4.5 million hectares, or nearly one-third less than during the same period last year.

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Feyenoord gaat Julian Carranza, Jeyland Mitchelle en Chris-Kévin Nadje voor de rest van het seizoen verhuren. Carranza speelt komend seizoen in Engeland voor Leicester City.

Vlak voor het sluiten van de transfermarkt lijkt Feyenoord toch nog een nieuwe spits aan te trekken. De 30-jarige Canadees Cyle Larin komt, als de medische keuring goed verloopt, over van Mallorca en wordt gehuurd tot het einde van het seizoen.

E. (Ester) Weststeijn is benoemd tot burgemeester van de gemeente IJsselstein. De benoeming gaat in op 22 september 2025.

McLaren endured the extremes of human emotion at Zandvoort on Sunday as one of their drivers excelled while the other suffered the pain of a shock retirement in a chaotic Dutch Grand Prix. Lawrence Barretto picks out his winners and losers from the first race after the summer break...

charles.jacques has added a photo to the pool:

Vous contemplez ici la pagode à cinq étages (五重塔, gojū-no-tō) du temple Shitennō-ji, l’un des symboles les plus emblématiques d’Osaka et l’une des pagodes les plus anciennes du Japon.

🏯 Ce que vous voyez

Cinq étages superposés, chacun avec son toit aux larges avant-toits recourbés, peints en vermillon et soulignés de blanc.

La flèche dorée (相輪, sōrin) au sommet, composée d’anneaux superposés, symbolise l’axe cosmique qui relie la Terre au Ciel.

Les détails décoratifs : balustrades vertes, motifs géométriques et poutres apparentes qui rappellent l’influence architecturale chinoise des dynasties Sui et Tang.

✨ Sa signification

Chaque étage de la pagode représente un des cinq éléments bouddhiques :

Terre (地 – chi) : la stabilité, la base.

Eau (水 – sui) : la fluidité, l’adaptation.

Feu (火 – ka) : la transformation et l’énergie.

Vent (風 – fū) : le souffle vital.

Vide (空 – kū) : l’esprit, le nirvana, l’ultime éveil.

Ainsi, en levant les yeux, le visiteur suit symboliquement un chemin spirituel : de la solidité de la terre vers l’infini du ciel.

👉 En résumé, cette photo capture la colonne spirituelle de Shitennō-ji, une pagode qui n’est pas seulement une prouesse architecturale, mais un symbole de la philosophie bouddhique : l’élévation progressive de l’être humain, du monde matériel à l’éveil suprême.

PC Gamer reports:

The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they're now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so... A wave of unions have formed at Blizzard in the last year, including the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Story and Franchise Development teams. Elsewhere at Microsoft, Bethesda, ZeniMax Online Studios and ZeniMax QA testers have also unionized...
The CWA says over 3,500 Microsoft workers have now organized to fight for fair compensation, job security, and improved working conditions.
CWA is America's largest communications and media labor union, and in a statement, local 9510 president Jason Justice called the successful vote "part of a much larger story about turning the tide in an industry that has long overlooked its labor. Entertainment workers across film, television, music, and now video games are standing together to have a seat at the table. The strength of our movement comes from that solidarity."

And CWA local 6215 president Ron Swaggerty said "Each new organizing effort adds momentum to the nationwide movement for video game worker power."

"What began as a trickle has turned into an avalanche," writes the gaming news site Aftermath, calling the latest vote "a direct result of the union neutrality deal Microsoft struck with CWA in 2022 when it was facing regulatory scrutiny over its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard."
We've come a long way since small units at Raven and Blizzard Albany fended off Activision Blizzard's pre-acquisition attempts at union busting in 2022 and 2023, and not a moment too soon: Microsoft's penchant for mass layoffs has cut some teams to the bone and left others warily counting down the days until their heads land on the chopping block. This new union, workers hope, will act as a bulwark...
[B]ased on preliminary conversations with prospective members, they can already hazard a few guesses as to what they'll be arm-wrestling management over at the bargaining table: pay equity, AI, crediting, and remote work.

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