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Peak of Mt.Nishiazuma
Mt.Nishiazuma (2,035m)
西吾妻山
I checked the map with GPS and found that the summit of Mt. Nishiazuma was marked by the tree in the bottom right. Everyone there was excited, saying, "Is that it?" Mt. Nishiazuma is said to be a little monster compared to Mt. Zao, but it is a gentle mountain buried in about 3 meters of snow.
GPSで地図と確認して、西吾妻山山頂の目印は右下の木。これかよ、ってその場にいた皆さんと盛り上がりました。西吾妻山では蔵王に比べリトルモンスターと言われますが、なだらかな山で3mほど雪で埋まっています。
Kita-shiobaramura, Fukushima pref, Japan
MÜNCHEN (ANP) - De Europese Unie wil nog geen datum noemen waarop Oekraïne EU-lid kan worden, denkt buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas. Oekraïne wil een datum vastleggen in een vredesregeling met Rusland, waarover nu wordt onderhandeld. Het land ziet dat als een van de 'veiligheidsgaranties' die het tegen Rusland moeten beschermen.
"Mijn indruk is dat de lidstaten nog niet klaar zijn om een concrete datum te geven", zei Kallas op de grote veiligheidsconferentie in München. "Er is nog veel werk dat gedaan moet worden."
Zelensky drong er zaterdag in München opnieuw op aan dat de EU afspreekt dat Oekraïne volgend jaar toetreedt. Het kandidaat-land werkt daar volgens hem in een ijltempo naartoe en denkt dan aan de vele voorwaarden te kunnen voldoen. Als het tot een vredesakkoord met Rusland zou komen zonder afspraak over EU-toetreding, zal Rusland er nadien alles aan doen om die te dwarsbomen, vreest Zelensky.
Slimme mensen denken vaak anders dan je zou verwachten: minder snel, minder stellig, maar wel diepgaander en met meer oog voor nuance. Drie opvallende denkpatronen vallen daarbij op.
GAZA-STAD (ANP/AFP) - In de Gazastrook zijn zondag zeker elf mensen gedood door Israëlische aanvallen, meldt de Palestijnse burgerbeschermingsdienst. Het Israëlische leger zegt dat de aanval werd uitgevoerd als reactie op schendingen van het staakt-het-vuren.
De burgerbeschermingsdienst noemt twee aparte aanvallen, waaronder een op een tent met vluchtelingen in Noord-Gaza. De andere aanval zou in het zuiden van de Gazastrook hebben plaatsgevonden.
Israël en Hamas sloten in oktober een bestand, maar ook sindsdien zijn er veel Israëlische aanvallen geweest. Daarbij zijn bijna zeshonderd Palestijnen gedood. Israël zegt steevast dat die aanvallen volgen op Palestijnse schendingen van het bestand. Dat wil doorgaans zeggen dat Hamasstrijders zouden zijn gesignaleerd in het gebied dat nog onder controle staat van Israël.
Kateryna Kotsar gets engaged at end of qualifying run
‘It was so cute … it’s two really huge things for me’
For most athletes, qualifying for your first Olympic final would be more than enough excitement for one night. But Ukrainian freeskier Kateryna Kotsar’s evening was just getting started.
Having made the big air final, Kotsar then wrote “freedom of memory” on her glove to protest against the ban of her compatriot Vladyslav Heraskevych for wearing images of slain athletes on his helmet. And a Valentine’s Day she will never forget took another surprise turn when her boyfriend, Bohdan Fashtryha, then dropped to one knee and proposed.
Continue reading...It was the reality show that aimed to disrupt the fashion industry but, as a shocking Netflix docuseries details, it also became part of the problem
Even for those who didn’t watch the show religiously, there’s a scene in America’s Next Top Model that has broken through from reality TV infamy to hall-of-fame virality.
It’s when Tyra Banks, model-turned-TV-mogul, loses her temper in spectacular fashion at contest Tiffany Richardson, after misunderstanding her post-elimination response as something to be read as ungrateful. “I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this!” she screams. “When my mother yells like this, it’s because she loves me. I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you, how dare you!”
Continue reading...The trees morph into sand dunes to protect homes on the seafront against rising sea levels and serve as habitat for rare species
Britain’s fight against climate breakdown may usually look like windfarms or solar energy. But on miles of Lancashire coast the frontline is rather more festive.
Tens of thousands of discarded Christmas trees have been partially buried on beaches south of Blackpool as a frontier against rising sea levels.
Continue reading...He went from being the east London boy who was expelled from school to becoming the Bafta award‑winning star of Alien: Romulus. Ahead of his prison drama Wasteman, David Jonsson discusses the pressures of being a leading Black British actor
David Jonsson is the kind of actor who disappears so completely into his roles that it’s easy to forget you’re watching the same person each time. In Rye Lane, he’s a lovestruck south Londoner; in Industry, an Etonian banker with ice in his veins; in Alien: Romulus, a paranoid android. He’s now starring as heroin addict Taylor in the ultraviolent British prison drama Wasteman and, for the first time, the 32-year-old actor claims he is playing something close to himself. “This is the most personal role I’ve done,” he says. “It’s so messed up because it’s a dark story about rehabilitation and addiction, but I know these men really well. Especially when you’re growing up somewhere like where I did.”
We meet on a Friday afternoon at a photo studio in Islington, closer to where Jonsson lives now in north London than to Custom House in the East End, where he grew up. He arrives wearing a beanie pulled tight over his cornrows and a windbreaker. He looks stylish but carries a delicate shyness that mirrors his character’s air of desperation. Wasteman, which opens this month after a critically acclaimed festival run that netted five British Independent Film awards (Bifa) nominations including best lead performance for Jonsson, tells the story of Taylor, a young father who has spent 13 years in prison for a crime he committed as a teenager. In the film’s unflinching depiction of the British prison system, he’s referred to as a “nitty” – UK slang for a desperate, pathetic drug addict. Jonsson lost 1.8 stone to embody Taylor’s “wasted” physique. “I was mawga, properly skinny,” he says, slipping into patois.
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