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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 08-11-2026 19:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 8.9°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 6.6°C / Max 9.7°C | Kans op neerslag 34%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 6.6°C, Max 9.7°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1022.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 200°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 8.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 197°
• 21:00: 9.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 205°
• 22:00: 8.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 187°
• 23:00: 8.6°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.8 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• 00:00: 8.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 165°
• 01:00: 7.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 166°
• 02:00: 6.8°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 172°
• 03:00: 6.3°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 165°
• 04:00: 5.8°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°
• 05:00: 5.4°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1020.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 161°
• 06:00: 5.3°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• 07:00: 5.7°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1020.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 172°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• maandag 09 november: Min 5.2°C, Max 10.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ↘️ -3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↖ 140°
• dinsdag 10 november: Min 3.7°C, Max 8.8°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1012.5 hPa ↘️ -6.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• woensdag 11 november: Min 4.8°C, Max 7.4°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1003.2 hPa ↘️ -9.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 45°
• donderdag 12 november: Min 4.8°C, Max 10.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1005.9 hPa ↗️ +2.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 355°
• vrijdag 13 november: Min 4.0°C, Max 9.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1013.7 hPa ↗️ +7.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 9°
• zaterdag 14 november: Min 2.2°C, Max 8.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1022.8 hPa ↗️ +9.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.6 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 88°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 8.9°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 6.5°C (-2.4°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 196°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 18.4 km/h (5.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 83%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1022.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:49 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 17:01

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 80 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 19.9 μg/m³
• PM10: 22.3 μg/m³

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Baseball season is over, so what's a fan to do? Break out a deck of cards and play some baseball solitaire.

Eddy Elfenbein is a financial speaker/manager/blogger and a baseball fan. In 2020, while Major League Baseball was on hiatus, he shared the baseball solitaire game he invented as a kid. He didn't name it, so I'm just calling it: ELFENBEIN BASEBALL

• Uses a standard deck of cards (no Jokers)
• Rules follow those of baseball.
  • Visiting team bats first.
  • The game is won by whoever is ahead after nine innings.
    • If the home team is ahead they don't take their final turn batting.
    • If the game is tied after nine innings, extra innings are added as needed.
• For each at bat, draw a card and consult the chart.
• Reshuffle the deck after every three innings.

Elfenbein Baseball
Cards |  ♥  |  ♦  | ♠/♣ |
------+-----+-----+-----|
A     | 1B  | BB  | GDP |
2     | 1B  | BB  | GDP |
3     | 1B  | BB  | GDP |
4     | 1B  | BB  | Out |
5     | 1B  | Out | Out |
6     | 1B+ | Out | Out |
7     | 1B+ | Out | Out |
8     | 1B+ | Out | Out |
9     | 2B  | SF  | SF  |
10    | 2B+ | SF  | SF  |
J     | 2B+ | K   | K   |
Q     | 3B  | K   | K   |
K     | HR  | K   | K   |
------+-----+-----+-----+
1-3B = A hit. Batter and any runners advance the indicated number of bases.
       A + (plus sign) indicates runners take an extra base.
  HR = Home Run (the batter, and any runners on base, score.)
  BB = Base on Balls (batter walks to first.)
       If a runner is on first, they advance, forcing any runner on second
       to advance, etc.
 GDP = Out.
       If there's a man on first and fewer than two outs it's Ground into Double
       Play (batter and 1B runner are both out.)
       If there's NO outs, 2B & 3B runners advance as if it were a single.
  SF = Out.
       If there's a man on third and fewer than two outs it's a Sacrifice Fly
       (batter out, third base runner scores.)
       Other runners do NOT advance.
   K = Batter Struck Out

Elfenbein doesn't specify how to physically play. I can see a baseball obsessed kid (or financial blogger) simply flipping cards and keeping track in his head, but an obvious thing to do is to imagine a diamond in front of you and place the "hit" cards on the appropriate bases and the "out" cards (including any runners caught in double plays) on the pitcher's mound. Let the scored runs accumulate at the home plate position until the inning ends, then discard all played cards to the side. You can keep score with a notepad, recording the innings and runs like a box score.

  INNING | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |   |   |
---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Visitors |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
---------|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Home     |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

Elfenbein Baseball Modified Personally, I'm a fan traditional scorekeeping. (It can get detailed, but you'll only need the basics here.) You can download PDFs for simple scorecards or more elaborate ones. Elfenbein's chart doesn't make for an interesting scorecard (an out is just an out) so I modified it to provide more information without changing his overall odds.

Elfenbein Baseball (Modified) 
Cards | ♥   | ♦   |  ♣  |  ♠  |
------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
A     | 1B  | BB  | DP5 | DP4 |
2     | 1B  | BB  | DP5 | DP4 |
3     | 1B  | BB  | DP5 | DP4 |
4     | 1B  | BB  | F6  | F3  |
5     | 1B  | SF8 | F7  | F9  |
6     | 1B+ | SF8 | F7  | F9  |
7     | 1B+ | SF7 | F7  | F7  |
8     | 1B+ | SF8 | F8  | F8  |
9     | 2B  | SF9 | F9  | F9  |
10    | 2B+ | SF8 | F7  | F9  |
J     | 2B+ | K   | K   | K   |
Q     | 3B  | K   | K   | K   |
K     | HR  | K   | ꓘ   | ꓘ   |
------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
As Elfenbein Baseball, except:
   F# = Fly out to indicated position
  SF# = Fly out to indicated position or (if man on third) Sacrifice Fly
  DP5 = 5-3 ground out or (if man on first) 5-4-3 double play 
  DP4 = 4-3 ground out or (if man on first) 4-5-3 double play 
    ꓘ = Batter struck out looking

Hearts (unchanged from the original) are always positive for the batter. Diamonds can be positive, with a walk or sacrifice as possibilities, and tend to happen in the center of the field. The black cards are all negative, and black kings are a ꓘ (called strikeout.) Clubs tends to be left side of the field, while Spades tends to be right side. Non-hearts 7,8, and 9 are always fly outs to that position. I tried to keep it simple, but you could easily expand it by playing an additional card in certain situations to provide extra depth to the chart (e.g., a black four could require an additional card to determine which infielder catches the pop fly.) You could also adapt either version to a two player game by simply having each player deal their half of the inning. Then you might want to add options like Base Stealing and Pick Offs, using the additional card method. What's that, you say? This is Hockey season? No worries; I have you covered. Also in 2020, redditor "9or9pm" shared a Hockey solitaire game they had made when younger. They also neglected to name it in their post, so I'm calling it: 9PM HOCKEY

• Standard Deck, no jokers
• Assign Red and Black to teams
• Scroll through cards face up
  • A sequential pair matching in number and color is a goal for that color.
  • A run of five or more cards of the same color is a penalty on that color (power play.)
    • Penalty is called on the fifth card exactly, and prevents that card being used for a goal. (Other cards in the run can score.)
    • The first card of the opposite color ends the power play.
      • If that card is a jack or higher it is a goal for that color.
      • Every additional card of the penalized color's run lowers the goal threshhold by one (e.g., after six consecutive red cards a black ten will score a goal for black.)
• Finishing the deck ends one period. Three periods is a game.
  • If tied after three periods, golden goal overtime ensues (first to score wins.)

That's it. Once you get the hang of the power play it goes very quickly—you'll spend more time shuffling than scanning the deck. It's still an engaging game. You'll see things like a pair separated by another card, which can be read as a disrupted play. Despite how quickly it goes, it would take quite a while to simulate an entire league; the National Hockey League plays over thirteen hundred games a season. Fortunately, there's a solitaire that can handle that! STANLEY CUP RUN This one is from a defunct website that was fortunately crawled by archive.org. It actually comes with a name (in the title of the web page.) Stanley Cup Run was posted in 2006, so it assumes an NHL of that era. At that time it was split into two conferences of three divisions of five teams each (so, 30 teams total.) There's a linked reference image that was also archived. You can check Wikipedia to see how the 05-06 season actually played out. Stanley Cup Run has two distinct parts. The first abstracts the season standings and the second simulates the playoff games. Part One, Season Standings

• Uses a standard deck, no jokers.
  • Remove and shuffle all the cards numbered 5 through 10.
• Turn over two cards for each team to determine its season point total.
  • The first card turned is ten times its face value (e.g., a 9 and 5 is 95.)
  • A 10 is 100 as the first card, and 10 as the second (e.g., a 5 and 10 is 60.)
  • Reshuffle when you run out of cards (you'll do this twice)
• For each conference:
  • Arrange the highest scoring team of each division as the 1st - 3rd seed
  • Arrange the highest scoring five teams of the remainder (regardless of division) as 4th - 8th seed
  • Note these seed numbers, as they will be used throughout.
  • The rest miss the playoffs.

I'm amused that a team's entire regular season is boiled down to two cards, but it does give plausible point values: 55-110 compared to 2006's 57-124. It's not specified how to seed two teams in a conference with the same season point total, so I just drew two more cards to simulate the tiebreaking procedures. Part Two: The Playoffs

• Uses a standard deck, no jokers.
  • Remove and shuffle all the cards numbered 1 (Ace) through 10.
• For each game in a series (see below,) turn over two cards.
  • First card is the higher seeded team's score, second is the lower's.
    • In case of tie, repeat until one wins.
  • Continue until one team has four wins (best of seven games.)
  • Reshuffle when you run out of cards (as needed.)
• Round One: Within each conference:
  • 1st seed plays 8th seed
  • 2nd seed plays 7th seed
  • 3rd seed plays 6th seed
  • 4th seed plays 5th seed
• Round Two: Within each conference:
  • Highest seeded team plays the lowest.
  • Remaining two play each other.
• Conference Championship: Within each conference:
  • Remaining two play each other.
• The Cup.
  • Conference Champions play each other.

The matchups are easy as long as you remember that the highest seeded team always plays the lowest. I'm not sure why the deck is paired down the way it is. A spread of 1-9 doesn't give realistic scores† (in 2006 nobody scored more than 4 goals in a playoff game.) It makes ties less likely, but then you might as well use a complete deck. Historically, the playoff overtime percentage is around 23%, so I would just use 1-4 or 5, with a 0 (joker) thrown in for the occasional shutout. I almost only mentioned Stanley Cup Run as a curiosity, but I'm glad I actually tried it. In my case, part of the fun was creating a literal fantasy league (actually, a Fantasy Conference and a SciFi Conference.) Creating the league easily took me more time than playing through the game†, which moves quite fast once you get the hang of it. † It occurred to me late that I really only had to create sixteen teams and assume they're the ones that made the playoffs. FWIW, the SciFi Conference's Dantooine Mirage took the cup over the Fantasy Conference's The Twins Twins in six games. ROGUELIKE? All these games are what I call Calvinist solitaires; the outcome is determined by the shuffle, not how you play it. That's not uncommon in Solitaire games, and may be particularly suited (as it were) for adapting spectator sports. Traditionally, solitaires are classified by the disposition of the cards. Broadly speaking, you're either moving them into ordered piles or moving them out of the starting deck. With these, the final disposition of the cards is unimportant (in 9PM Hockey it doesn't even change!) They use the cards more like a game engine, providing a type of randomized code that is read by the player. They have that in common with the Roguelike Solitaires I've posted previously, which is why I'm tagging this as "RoguelikeSolitaire," although a broader term might be desirable.

Why optimising everything can backfire, badly.

Het laatste wat Nederland nu kan gebruiken, is een kabinetscrisis. Nu is het moment om het stikstofpakket wettelijk te verankeren en uit te voeren, zodat Nederland weer vooruit kan.

De middelste dochter (9) brak op een kinderfeestje een botje in haar hand. Zo werd het niet gecommuniceerd, maar ik moest wel meteen komen. Het was in een gymzaal ver weg.

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ole (Slashdot reader #19,909) writes in about his free, Norwegian open-source music recording studio for GNOME called GarageJam, which he says allows musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet.
The latest release, GarageJam 8.0.1, is available in C and Python. It records audio immediately to Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) files in the current working directory and lets you edit metadata in .gjxml XML files from a GTK/GNOME wizard — all built on the Gingerblue Recording Studio API.

Ole shares links to its IETF GarageJam XML draft and GitHub repositories, and there's also GarageJam Studio, "a commercial music and audio recording app for the World Wide Web written by Aamot Innovation from Norway.".

ole is also spreading the word about GNOME Media, which "puts internet radio and your photographs on one OpenStreetMap... built from GNOME Radio 85.0.1."

Click a station on the map to listen. Cities with several stations show a count and a menu.
Open a folder of pictures or import from a camera. Photos with a GPS position in their EXIF data appear on the map. Double-click a thumbnail to open it. The search box filters the station list and the map together.


ole also announces:


GPhoto 3.0.1. ("After 25 years, libgphoto2 2.5.34 now supports more than 2,500 camera models, and GPhoto 3.0.1 is built on it.")
Skolelinux 13.6.0. Built on Debian 13 âoetrixieâ, Skolelinux is "a complete, ready-to-use Free Software operating system for schools, classrooms and home computers... an office suite, web browser, educational programs and network services for an entire school, all set up out of the box."

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