on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:
Een zorginstelling aan de 1e Middellandstraat in Rotterdam-West is zaterdagavond ontruimd. Bewoners kregen rond 20:00 uur last van een sterk geurende, prikkende stof. De veiligheidsdiensten kwamen ter plaatse en hebben de eerste verdieping ontruimd.
Met het lied ‘Lang zal hij leven’ is zaterdagmiddag afscheid genomen van Jack Kerklaan. Zo’n vijfhonderd mensen verzamelden zich bij het pand van Loopuyt in Schiedam voor een laatste groet aan de markante verslaggever, die begin deze week overleed.
Op door NRC geverifieerde beelden zijn de gevolgen te zien van Israëlisch-Amerikaanse bombardementen die deze zaterdag op een wijk in de Iraanse hoofdstad Teheran werden…
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There were a lot of seamstresses, and then there weren't. The best of the webpages I found looking at this shift in history:
Kittie Knox did so much and died so young: a bicycle racer, a pathbreaker, and a seamstress who made her own knickerbocker suits to ride in. Rosa Parks was also also a seamstress; one of her works was recently conserved with some delicate custom patching. We know there must have been more African American seamstresses and dressmakers, and that they will have been under-reported; a museum specialist went looking and found mostly echoes. But also a thesis on The Fall of the American Dressmaker 1880-1920 (pictures start on p 41, pictures of full size recreated dressmaker-style formal dresses on p 60). In the substructure of the Gilded Age, the poor base under the gilded crust, garment and textile workers have been unionizing and striking in the US since at least 1824. Seamstresses -- the word is always unstable, I find -- are between dressmakers (roughly, a claim to be a designer of dresses) and factory or piecework garment workers. "Seamstress" has been used to refer to people at both ends of that, and menders too; and often a seamstress did any of those jobs as available. SO all of that was in the back of my mind when reading the recent data-dive from The Pudding on how the mass manufactured women's clothing size system works (and doesn't). The first half of the article is framed in a series of plots sharing one X-axis, "Waistline in Inches". It walks us through how, even if only the waistline measurement counts, current production is not good at providing clothes for everyone, or even letting us know what's likely to fit beforehand. The second half of the article is about learning how to sew, and a little bit how to fit, your own clothes, and revisiting the limitations of mass fitting models given that. But even this understates the limitations of a single scale for clothes. Who dealt with that when clothes did fit? Seamstresses.
Kittie Knox did so much and died so young: a bicycle racer, a pathbreaker, and a seamstress who made her own knickerbocker suits to ride in. Rosa Parks was also also a seamstress; one of her works was recently conserved with some delicate custom patching. We know there must have been more African American seamstresses and dressmakers, and that they will have been under-reported; a museum specialist went looking and found mostly echoes. But also a thesis on The Fall of the American Dressmaker 1880-1920 (pictures start on p 41, pictures of full size recreated dressmaker-style formal dresses on p 60). In the substructure of the Gilded Age, the poor base under the gilded crust, garment and textile workers have been unionizing and striking in the US since at least 1824. Seamstresses -- the word is always unstable, I find -- are between dressmakers (roughly, a claim to be a designer of dresses) and factory or piecework garment workers. "Seamstress" has been used to refer to people at both ends of that, and menders too; and often a seamstress did any of those jobs as available. SO all of that was in the back of my mind when reading the recent data-dive from The Pudding on how the mass manufactured women's clothing size system works (and doesn't). The first half of the article is framed in a series of plots sharing one X-axis, "Waistline in Inches". It walks us through how, even if only the waistline measurement counts, current production is not good at providing clothes for everyone, or even letting us know what's likely to fit beforehand. The second half of the article is about learning how to sew, and a little bit how to fit, your own clothes, and revisiting the limitations of mass fitting models given that. But even this understates the limitations of a single scale for clothes. Who dealt with that when clothes did fit? Seamstresses.
Interesting Engineering reports:
US tech giant Google announced on Tuesday that it will build a new data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. The new facility will be powered by 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy from wind and solar, coupled with a 300-megawatt battery, claimed to be the 'world's largest', with a 30-gigawatt-hour (GWh) capacity and 100-hour duration... The planned battery would dwarf a 19 GW lithium-ion project in the UAE...
Form Energy's batteries work very differently from most large batteries today. Instead of using lithium like the batteries in electric cars, they store electricity by making iron rust and then reversing the rusting process to release the energy when needed... Form's iron-air batteries are heavier and less efficient than their counterparts; they can only return about 50% to 70% of the energy used to charge them, while lithium-ion batteries return more than 90%. However, Form's batteries have one distinct advantage. They are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, costing about $20 per kilowatt-hour of storage, which is almost three times as cheap... It will store 150 MWh of electricity and can supply to the grid for up to 100 hours, delivering about 1.5 MW at peak output.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.
US tech giant Google announced on Tuesday that it will build a new data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. The new facility will be powered by 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy from wind and solar, coupled with a 300-megawatt battery, claimed to be the 'world's largest', with a 30-gigawatt-hour (GWh) capacity and 100-hour duration... The planned battery would dwarf a 19 GW lithium-ion project in the UAE...
Form Energy's batteries work very differently from most large batteries today. Instead of using lithium like the batteries in electric cars, they store electricity by making iron rust and then reversing the rusting process to release the energy when needed... Form's iron-air batteries are heavier and less efficient than their counterparts; they can only return about 50% to 70% of the energy used to charge them, while lithium-ion batteries return more than 90%. However, Form's batteries have one distinct advantage. They are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, costing about $20 per kilowatt-hour of storage, which is almost three times as cheap... It will store 150 MWh of electricity and can supply to the grid for up to 100 hours, delivering about 1.5 MW at peak output.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
There's already 5,000 sensors embedded in Antarctica's ice to look for evidence of neutrinos, reports the Washington Post. But in November scientists drilled six new holes at least a mile and a half deep and installed cables with hundreds more light detectors — an upgrade to the massive 15-year-old IceCube Neutrino Observatory to detect the charged particles produced by lower-energy neutrinos interacting with matter:
When they do, the neutrinos produce charged particles that travel through the ice at nearly the speed of light, creating a blue glow called Cherenkov radiation... "Within the first couple years, we should be making much better measurements," [said Erin O'Sullivan, an associate professor of physics at Uppsala University in Sweden and a spokesperson for the project.] "There's hope to expand the detector, by an order of magnitude in volume, so the important thing there is we're not just seeing a few neutrino point sources, but we're starting to be a true telescope. ... That's really the dream."
The scientists spent seven years planning the upgrade, according to the article. "To drill holes a mile and a half deep takes about 30 hours, and 18 more hours to return to the surface," the article points out. "Then, the race begins because almost immediately, the hole starts to shrink as the water refreezes." ("If it takes too much time, the principal investigator says, "the instruments don't fit in anymore!")
When they do, the neutrinos produce charged particles that travel through the ice at nearly the speed of light, creating a blue glow called Cherenkov radiation... "Within the first couple years, we should be making much better measurements," [said Erin O'Sullivan, an associate professor of physics at Uppsala University in Sweden and a spokesperson for the project.] "There's hope to expand the detector, by an order of magnitude in volume, so the important thing there is we're not just seeing a few neutrino point sources, but we're starting to be a true telescope. ... That's really the dream."
The scientists spent seven years planning the upgrade, according to the article. "To drill holes a mile and a half deep takes about 30 hours, and 18 more hours to return to the surface," the article points out. "Then, the race begins because almost immediately, the hole starts to shrink as the water refreezes." ("If it takes too much time, the principal investigator says, "the instruments don't fit in anymore!")
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - Volgens president Donald Trump is een groot deel van de Iraanse leiding omgekomen bij de gezamenlijke Amerikaanse en Israëlische aanvallen op Iran. "Een groot deel wel, ja. We weten niet alles, maar een groot deel wel. Het was een zeer krachtige aanval", zei hij zaterdag in een telefoongesprek met ABC News.
Trump sprak zich verder optimistisch uit over het verloop van de operatie. "Het gaat zeer goed", aldus de president. Op de vraag hoe lang de operatie zal duren, antwoordde hij: "Zo lang als we willen, eigenlijk. Maar het heeft al zoveel schade aangericht. Ze zijn in wezen uitgeschakeld."
Over een mogelijke nieuwe Iraanse leider zei Trump dat de VS "een zeer goed idee" hebben wie dat zou kunnen zijn. Israël beweert dat ayatollah Ali Khamenei is omgekomen en dat zijn lichaam is gevonden. Teheran spreekt dit tegen.
Section of fans reacted as play paused at Elland Road
Guardiola: ‘Respect the religion, respect the diversity’
Leeds coach calls it ‘disappointing … we need to do better’
Pep Guardiola has called on football supporters to “respect religion and diversity” after fans booed a brief stoppage in play at Elland Road to allow Muslim players to break their Ramadan fast.
Play was halted in the 13th minute of Manchester City’s 1-0 win against Leeds after the sun had set to allow the Muslim players to eat. At this point, despite a clear message on the big screen, fans audibly jeered the situation.
Continue reading...The radical cleric took over as supreme leader in 1989 and is likely to be replaced by hardline figures
When he appeared in public for the first time in five years in October 2024, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had an uncompromising message: Israel “won’t last long”, he told tens of thousands of supporters at a mosque in Tehran in a Friday sermon.
“We must stand up against the enemy while strengthening our unwavering faith,” the then-84-year-old told the gathering.
Continue reading...Regime could try to retain control of streets as US and Israel have expressed no intention of mounting ground invasion
Venezula’s Nicholás Maduro was captured. But Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have chosen a different strategy for Iran: to target and aim to kill the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, , and as many other senior regime figures as possible.
Though Iranian military sites and its air defence systems were also targeted by coordinated US and Israeli bombing, beginning in the morning, the most significant attack was on Khamenei’s compound in Tehran.
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