GAZA-STAD (ANP/RTR) - Hamas heeft de Amerikaans-Israëlische gijzelaar Edan Alexander vrijgelaten, meldt persbureau Reuters. De 21-jarige man is in de Gazastrook overgedragen aan het Internationaal Comité van het Rode Kruis (ICRC) en op weg naar Israëlisch grondgebied.
Edan Alexander diende in het Israëlische leger toen Hamas hem in oktober 2023 ontvoerde en meenam naar de Gazastrook. Hamas hoopt dat de vrijlating leidt tot een bestand of de toelating van humanitaire hulp tot Gaza. Israël blokkeert de levering van goederen ruim twee maanden. Israël heeft benadrukt dat er in ruil geen staakt-het-vuren komt en dat het land geen Palestijnse gevangenen vrijlaat. Dat gebeurde bij vorige vrijlatingen van gijzelaars wel.
Rusland is schuldig aan het neerhalen van vlucht MH17 en heeft daarmee de internationale afspraken over burgerluchtvaart geschonden, oordeelt de Raad van de Internationale Burgerluchtvaart Organisatie (ICAO-Raad). De organisatie heeft dit besluit genomen in een zaak die is aangespannen door Nederland en Australië, meldt het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.
Pstrey has added a photo to the pool:
Fantastisch nieuws voor het OM, voor (de zeikerds van) de rechtspraak, voor alle slachtoffers van misdrijven, zelfs voor daders van misdrijven en dus voor: heel Nederland! Het Openbaar Ministerie meldt in haar jaarbericht dat er in 2024 wel 214.500 misdrijfzaken zijn afgehandeld, wat 10% meer is dan in 2023. Vooruitgang! Toch wil Rinus Otte, voorzitter van het College van procureurs-generaal, de champagnefles nog niet ontkurken: "Te veel strafzaken wachten te lang op behandeling en er worden te weinig aangiftes opgepakt, zeker bij veelvoorkomende criminaliteit zoals inbraken, vernielingen en mishandelingen. Ook op de alsmaar toenemende online criminaliteit hebben we nog onvoldoende antwoord." Nou kunnen we die nuance best begrijpen, en sowieso is elk misdrijf er een te veel, om er maar eens een mooi en waar cliché in te gooien. Gelukkig is Otte ook niet in zijn eerste cliché gestikt want die wil nog even het volgende kwijt: "Het gaat hier niet om zaken, maar om mensen, verdachten en slachtoffers."
De strafketen ontlasten en zaken sneller behandelen blijft een belangrijk doel voor het OM en wat natuurlijk bijzonder goed helpt om de druk wat van die strafketel te halen is allerlei Pallie-demonstranten (benieuwd of hierrrr nog wat van terecht is gekomen trouwens) of XR-doemdenkers oppakken, even later gewoon weer laten gaan en NIET vervolgen (of ze helemaal niet vinden door gezichtsbedekkende kleding), en als je van de honderden reljongeren in Scheveningen maar twee stuks in de kraag vat doe je ook puik werk (jaja vooralsnog). Maar goed, zul je zien dat door al die geweldige verlichting van het strafrechtsysteem juist tijd en ruimte overblijft om een volledig team van OvJ's op Marco Kroon te zetten (voor de misdrijfcijferfetisjist hele jaarbericht hier).
When you think of an orange safety cone, you might imagine rows of the small reflective objects placed around temporarily parked vehicles or, say, next to potholes. But a stroll through GAFFAâs recent exhibition, Level Up at Kunsthalle Arbon, and the everyday sight took the form of an unmissably imposing, monumental structure.
GAFFA is a collective founded nine years ago by Wanja Harb, Linus Lutz, Dario Forlin, and Lucian Kunz. Through a signature blend of humor, irony, and an interdisciplinary approach involving zines, collages, photography, sculpture, and installation, the group challenges our perceptions of physical space, history, and society.
In their sometimes absurd installations, GAFFA often brings the outdoors in, like importing a beach chair and umbrella into a concrete room or constructing an enormous brown slug that slid across a gallery floor. In Level Up, traffic serves as the primary focusâboth its symbols and the fine line between regulation and chaos.
GAFFA transformed the Swiss art gallery into a parking garage containing an extra-long stretch limo, an entry ticket, orange cone, and double-arrow directional sign. We don’t know to whom the car belongs or where they are.
Viewers are transported into a kind of Alice in Wonderland experience where the scale of everything feels befuddling and incongruent. The car, though life-size, is made of cardboard, and the yellow sign is an oil painting.
“Underground garages and parking garages are places we usually only notice in passing,” the gallery says in a statement. “They are purpose-built ‘non-places’ to which hardly anyone pays attention, yet they have their own aesthetics: the strict geometry of the parking spaces, the rhythmic movement of the barriers, the seemingly random arrangement of the holes on a parking ticket.”
Anyone who has driven into a large garage knows the anxieties of a gate not opening when it’s supposed to or the ticket machine not working. Within the large yet controlled space of the Kunsthalle Arbon, Level Up begged the question: how does one get out of here? Explore more on the collective’s website.
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James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:
These observations of Jupiterâs auroras (shown on the left of the above image) at 3.36 microns (F335M) were captured with NASA's James Webb Space Telescopeâs NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on Dec. 25, 2023. Scientists found that the emission from trihydrogen cation, known as H3+, is far more variable than previously believed. H3+ is created by the impact of high energy electrons on molecular hydrogen. Because this emission shines brightly in the infrared, Webbâs instruments are well equipped to observe it. The image on the right shows the planet Jupiter to indicate the location of the observed auroras, which was originally published in 2023.
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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Jonathan Nichols (University of Leicester), Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Webb)
Image description: A two panel image. On the right is the planet Jupiter as seen in near-infrared light. Its clouds are dark blue and white in color, with some red spots within the clouds, while its poles are tinged with green, yellow and red. A box over the north pole is overlain with more data in shades of orange, displaying auroras as arcs and rings on the planet. To left, this area is shown larger in size and captioned â09:53:57 25 Dec. 2023."
europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar Systemâs largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.
These observations of Jupiterâs auroras (shown on the left of the above image) were captured with Webbâs Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) on 25 December 2023 (F335M filter). Scientists found that the emission from the trihydrogen ion, known as H3+, is far more variable than previously believed. H3+ is created by the impact of high energy electrons on molecular hydrogen. Because this emission shines brightly in the infrared, Webbâs instruments are well equipped to observe it. The image on the right shows the planet Jupiter to indicate the location of the observed auroras, which was originally published in 2023 (F164N, F212N, and F360M filters).
A video of these observations can be found here.
[Image description: On the right is the planet Jupiter as seen in near-infrared light. Its clouds are dark blue and white in colour, with some red spots within the clouds, while its poles are tinged with green, yellow and red. A box over the north pole is overlain with more data in shades of orange, displaying aurorae as arcs and rings on the planet. To left, this area is shown larger in size and captioned â09:53:57 25 Dec. 2023â.]
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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), J. Nichols (University of Leicester), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); CC BY 4.0
europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar Systemâs largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.
These observations of Jupiterâs auroras were captured with Webbâs Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) on 25 December 2023 (F335M filter). Scientists found that the emission from the trihydrogen ion, known as H3+, is far more variable than previously believed. H3+ is created by the impact of high energy electrons on molecular hydrogen. Because this emission shines brightly in the infrared, Webbâs instruments are well equipped to observe it.
A video of these observations can be found here.
[Image description: Three panels, each showing a close-up near-infrared image of Jupiterâs north pole, in shades of orange. The planet is mostly dark. Thick, bright arcs and rings caused by aurorae cover the pole. The centre and right panels each show the aurora a few minutes later in time, as Webbâs field of view slowly scans over the planet.]
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Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, J. Nichols (University of Leicester), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); CC BY 4.0
In Enschede leven de emoties over de vuurwerkramp nog volop. Dat ondervond hoogleraar René Torenvlied, die de ramp onderzocht. En zijn, na 25 jaar, de juiste lessen getrokken?