Een ongeval met een losgeschoten aanhanger zorgt voor een lange file op de A29.
Boven Rotterdam-Zuid en omgeving is donderdagochtend een militaire oefening bezig met vijf gevechtshelikopters. Het gaat om drie Apache-helikopters en twee Chinooks. De oefening begon rond 05.00 uur en zorgt bij verschillende regiogenoten voor ergernis omdat ze door het lawaai uit hun slaap zijn gehaald.
Boven Rotterdam-Zuid en omgeving is donderdagochtend een militaire oefening bezig met vijf gevechtshelikopters. Het gaat om drie Apache-helikopters en twee Chinooks. De oefening begon rond 05.00 uur en zorgt bij verschillende regiogenoten voor ergernis omdat ze door het lawaai uit hun slaap zijn gehaald.
We can no longer deny that many children get their sex education from online pornography. But the normalisation of violence can lead to tragedy
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Often mistakenly referred to as choking, sexual strangulation in the mainstream is new. It has arrived into the bedrooms of young people via online porn which has become part of life, one of the many addictive services generously provided by tech companies making billions of dollars. Some companies do a good job of cleaning up the urgent issues of child sexual abuse material and trafficking, but still, violent porn proliferates.
Continue reading...Did a massive glacial collapse in the Himalayas trigger the disaster and is climate change involved?
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– with Reuters and Associated Press
Continue reading...US Geological Survey says massive glacial collapse caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal and Tibet
The massive glacial collapse that caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal and Tibet has killed at least 165 people, though the number of dead is set to rise, with local officials saying more than 1,000 were missing.
Officials said 826 people were missing in Nepal, among them 579 tourists from two dozen countries, including India, the US, Australia, Britain and Canada. Chinese state media said 558 people were missing in Tibet’s Gyirong county. It was not immediately clear if the missing counts were separate or some people been counted twice.
Continue reading...Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
More than 1,000 people are missing – the majority of whom are tourists – after a catastrophic flash flood hit Nepal and Tibet, roaring down valleys, wiping out entire villages and leaving a preliminary death toll of 165, authorities said on Thursday.
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The data from the pilots is in stark contrast to public comments from Thames Water that their water recycling project in south-west London will not harm the riverine environment.
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Grace McLean brings vocal and emotional range in the central role of Alex Bechtel’s Homeric song cycle
She is the one played by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the central figure in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and the inspiration behind a 2010 play by Enda Walsh. And here she is again, this time alone with her thoughts, a longsuffering woman in white, in a seductive song cycle by Alex Bechtel.
Penelope is played by Broadway actor Grace McLean who brings both vocal and emotional range to the part. Drily witty, defiant and elegant, she is the wife of Odysseus, doggedly hanging on for her husband’s return long after the end of the Trojan war. Much to her annoyance – and occasional temptation – a load of suitors are camping out in her house, ready to take his place.
Continue reading...Horticulturalists begin moving and propagating plants before the rusty and warped Palm House begins renovation – but some are too tall to save
It will be a gut-wrenching moment for the horticulturalists at Kew Gardens when some of the magnificent trees in the Palm House have to be felled.
“There are some sad moments ahead,” said Palm House manager, Will Spoelstra, who knows all the plants inside the cathedral-like greenhouse.
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Cofnas secured a postdoctoral research role “on the future of liberalism” at Belgium’s Ghent University in March. Weeks later, Ghent’s department of philosophy and moral sciences handed a 19-page statement to university officials, setting out why it believed it was “improbable” that Cofnas was the best candidate.
Continue reading...Laborious to harvest and extortionately priced, the sunset-coloured stigmas of the saffron crocus have an extraordinarily warm, pungent taste. Fortunately, however, a little goes a very long way …
The saffron crocus has six lilac-purple flowers, three yellow stamens and three orange-red stigmas that extend beyond the petals like the wiry antennae of an insect. The thread-like stigmas have to be picked only by hand when the flowers are fully open, a laborious, finickety job that hasn’t changed much since ancient times. Then, to avoid the colour and flavour fading, the stigmas need to be dried very quickly, a process that reduces their weight by about 80%. Tens of thousands of fiery-looking filaments are required to produce half a kilogram of the dried threads, which make the “hay” or powder we know as saffron and explains the exorbitant cost. Fortunately, just a few threads of this precious spice go a long way.
Native to Crete, Iran and south-west Asia, the saffron crocus has been cultivated since the dawn of civilisation for its medicinal properties, as well as for use in cosmetics, perfume, food and as a dye. According to Alan Davidson in The Oxford Companion to Food, the Moguls brought the use of saffron from Persia to India, in particular Kashmir; meanwhile, in the westward direction, the Arabs were cultivating saffron in Spain by AD960, although it was not until the 13th century that cultivation spread to Italy, France, Germany and England, particularly Essex. In his book The Last Food of England, Marwood Yeatman describes the “orderly strips of purple flowers inches apart in beds of up to 10ft wide” growing in a field outside the prosperous, half-timbered Essex wool town of Chipping Walden. “The women (‘crokers’) stooped to lift the crop on damp and dewy September mornings.” By the early 1500s, Chipping Walden had been renamed Saffron Walden.
Continue reading...An anti-Farage army of voters is there to be galvanised, as exclusive data shows. But getting them out will be tricky
Who can stop Nigel Farage? Which voters would actually dig out their ID and schlep down to the polling booth to fight him?
Over the past year, these two questions have come to shape British politics. From Runcorn and Helsby to Caerphilly and Aberdeen South, via countless flimsy leaflets claiming “Only X can win here”, parties have jostled for the part of his majesty’s opposition to Reform. Those battles have given us Hannah Spencer and Andy Burnham; they have bulldozed Labour in Wales and forced Keir Starmer out of No 10.
Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
Every now and then the Thursday quiz gets involved in a flap, as it did last week with “birb”-gate. After a sustained campaign lasting at least two weeks, subeditors finally relented and allowed the quiz to call our feathered friends “birbs” – only for half the comment section to revolt against the indignity of modern internet parlance. Still, that is nothing compared with the time a reader complained that the quiz using the phrase “baby cows” was unbecoming of a broadsheet newspaper. Anyway, 15 questions on news, general knowledge and obscure trivia await, and no “birbs” were harmed in the process. Allons-y!
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Continue reading...Findings from research into illnesses associated with bathing in lakes and rivers come amid boom in hobby
Wild swimming has been linked to a higher risk of stomach bugs and skin rashes, according to the largest ever controlled study of illnesses associated with bathing in rivers and lakes.
The research found that swimmers at locations in Hungary were more than twice as likely to develop skin problems, while the risk of contracting a stomach bug rose significantly in water with higher concentrations of E coli and other bacteria linked to faecal pollution.
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Nvidia zag de omzet en winst in het afgelopen kwartaal meer dan verdubbelen ten opzichte van dezelfde periode vorig jaar. Grote techbedrijven investeren gigantische bedragen in datacenters voor AI-toepassingen en kopen daarvoor halfgeleiders van onder meer Nvidia.
In het afgelopen kwartaal van Nvidia kwam de omzet uit op 96,2 miljard dollar, 106 procent meer dan een jaar eerder. De nettowinst steeg 126 procent tot 59,7 miljard dollar. De resultaten overtroffen de verwachtingen op de financiële markten.
Nutanix is closer to porting its stack to the Arm architecture, spurred by the high price of hardware and a desire to ensure customers can run its wares wherever they want to. CEO Rajiv Ramaswami today told The Register Nutanix customers are currently acutely aware of hardware costs and availability, issues that are slowing some purchases of its software. Nutanix is trying to avoid such delays by expanding its hardware compatibility list and supporting external storage devices – moves Ramaswami said mean users can migrate away from VMware without needing to replace hardware. He said Nutanix also continues to optimize the footprint of its stack and pointed to its decision to allow bare metal installations of its Kubernetes Platform as another hardware-minimization effort. The CEO today told The Register Nutanix now sees Arm support as another way to ensure its software platform can run wherever users need it, and believes that adopting the architecture will mean it can run on lower-cost hardware that users won’t balk at buying in the current climate. That’s an advance on Nutanix’s 2024 position on an Arm port as a worthy future consideration, but not an item on its development to-do list. AI support is, understandably, higher on that list and yesterday Nutanix delivered an update to its Enterprise AI suite that added a Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway – a tool that sits between agents and MCP servers to provide identity management and security services to control the data and other services agents can access. MCP Gateways are quickly becoming standard issue in packaged AI infrastructure stacks, so Nutanix has made sure it’s on par with competitors. Another cost Ramaswami thinks his customers want to control is spending on tokens used in and produced by AI apps, and the company has dogfooded in this field by spending $20 million on its own AI infrastructure – a sum that he expects to recoup in a year “Our software teams have been using AI for coding across the lifecycle,” he told The Register, and initially used tools including Copilot and Claude. “Usage exploded and so did costs,” the CEO admitted. The company has therefore moved to using open weight models and an on-prem cluster. “We are no longer paying on a per-token basis,” Ramaswami said. Some users occasionally use frontier models or external clusters, when necessary, an arrangement the CEO suggested is increasingly common as organizations match models and infrastructure providers to workloads rather than using LLMs for all AI apps. Ramaswami made his remarks about Arm and Nutanix’s on-prem cluster during a media briefing about the company’s Q4 results, which saw it win $757 million revenue, a 16 percent year-over-year jump. Full year revenue grew 12 percent to $2.85 billion. Net income remains modest – just $1.5 million for the full year. “Our fiscal 2026 results demonstrated a good balance of top and bottom line performance with,” said CFO Rukmini Sivaraman. “We remain focused on delivering sustainable growth and improving profitability.” Ramaswami pointed to the fact that Nutanix won 3,000 new customers in the financial year as evidence of growth and said many chose the company’s platform as an alternative to VMware. Nutanix will continue to win customers from VMware for another five years, he predicted. ®
Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 27-08-2026 07:15 CEST
In één oogopslag:
• 17.4°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 17.4°C / Max 28.7°C | Kans op neerslag 25%
Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 17.4°C, Max 28.7°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 2.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1009.2 hPa ↘️ -2.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ← 105°
Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:
• 08:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• 09:00: 19.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 98°
• 10:00: 20.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1010.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ← 100°
• 11:00: 21.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ← 87°
• 12:00: 21.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ← 105°
• 13:00: 23.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 30%, 🧭 1010.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ← 101°
• 14:00: 26.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1009.6 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 137°
• 15:00: 28.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1009.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 151°
• 16:00: 28.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1008.8 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 245°
• 17:00: 28.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1008.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 18:00: 27.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1008.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 262°
• 19:00: 26.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1007.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 275°
Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:
• vrijdag 28 augustus: Min 18.0°C, Max 21.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 48%, 🧭 1007.3 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• zaterdag 29 augustus: Min 17.1°C, Max 20.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 67%, 🧭 1008.6 hPa ↗️ +1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• zondag 30 augustus: Min 16.6°C, Max 21.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 40%, 🧭 1009.2 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.9 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• maandag 31 augustus: Min 15.3°C, Max 19.9°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 8.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 59%, 🧭 1009.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.3 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• dinsdag 01 september: Min 15.4°C, Max 19.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 35%, 🧭 1015.4 hPa ↗️ +6.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°
• woensdag 02 september: Min 14.7°C, Max 18.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1018.5 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.3 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: → 249°
Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 07:15): 17.4°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.5°C (+0.1°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 87°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 27.4 km/h (7.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 84%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1011.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 12.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.3
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:45 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:40
Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 58 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 15.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 18.9 μg/m³
Gegevens geleverd door Open-Meteo
#Rotterdam #Meteo #MeteoBot #MeteoNetherlands #OpenMeteo #FediMeteo
In één oogopslag:
• 17.4°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 17.4°C / Max 28.7°C | Kans op neerslag 25%
Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 17.4°C, Max 28.7°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 2.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1009.2 hPa ↘️ -2.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ← 105°
Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:
• 08:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• 09:00: 19.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 98°
• 10:00: 20.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1010.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ← 100°
• 11:00: 21.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ← 87°
• 12:00: 21.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ← 105°
• 13:00: 23.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 30%, 🧭 1010.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ← 101°
• 14:00: 26.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1009.6 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 137°
• 15:00: 28.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1009.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 151°
• 16:00: 28.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1008.8 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 245°
• 17:00: 28.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1008.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 18:00: 27.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1008.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 262°
• 19:00: 26.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1007.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 275°
Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:
• vrijdag 28 augustus: Min 18.0°C, Max 21.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 48%, 🧭 1007.3 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• zaterdag 29 augustus: Min 17.1°C, Max 20.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 67%, 🧭 1008.6 hPa ↗️ +1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• zondag 30 augustus: Min 16.6°C, Max 21.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 40%, 🧭 1009.2 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.9 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• maandag 31 augustus: Min 15.3°C, Max 19.9°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 8.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 59%, 🧭 1009.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.3 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• dinsdag 01 september: Min 15.4°C, Max 19.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 35%, 🧭 1015.4 hPa ↗️ +6.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°
• woensdag 02 september: Min 14.7°C, Max 18.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1018.5 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.3 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: → 249°
Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 07:15): 17.4°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.5°C (+0.1°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 87°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 27.4 km/h (7.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 84%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1011.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 12.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.3
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:45 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:40
Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 58 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 15.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 18.9 μg/m³
Gegevens geleverd door Open-Meteo
#Rotterdam #Meteo #MeteoBot #MeteoNetherlands #OpenMeteo #FediMeteo
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