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Poland’s Maria Kwaśniewska (right), medalist in javelin, surrounded by 100 000 frantic Germans, REFUSES nazi salute.

Berlin Summer Olympics, Germany 1936. 

Gai zoom: ophouden met dat geklier!

 

vondst maangodin afbeelding in Groningse terp?

De archeologisch dag vondst van 15 september in de terp opgraving van Adorp .

De vondst van de dag is een mogelijk verguld hangertje uit de ijzertijd. Het hangertje is in de buurt van het takkenpad gevonden. 

 Het lijkt mij alsof er 18 - 19 indeukingen aan de rand zitten en als dat het geval is betreft het mogelijk een eenvoudige maangodin afbeelding van de draconitische maan cyclus van 18.6 jaar In de IJzertijd was de maancyclus nu eenmaal van levensbelang ook in het Noorden van ons landje!

Hawaii's famous Haiku Stairs will likely be removed

Lilit Marcus, CNN • Published 16th September 2021

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(CNN) — Hawaii's famous Haiku Stairs, sometimes called the Stairway to Heaven, are likely to be removed next year following a Honolulu City Council meeting to discuss ongoing issues with the site.

The stairs, whose 3,922 steps wind through a 2,800 foot mountain trail in Kaneohe, on the eastern side of Oahu, were originally built by the US Navy in the 1940s.

The stairs reach a dramatic apex through the clouds and many locals consider the view to be the best in all of Hawaii.

In 1987, the stairs were permanently made off-limits to the public. But that didn't stop hikers, YouTubers, thrill seekers and other tourists from sneaking into the site. There have been numerous injuries there over the years, most recently a 24-year-old who hurt his knee and had to be airlifted out in April.

"Due to rampant illegal trespassing, Haiku Stairs is a significant liability and expense for the city, and impacts the quality of life for nearby residents," councilmember Esther Kiaʻāina told CNN affiliate Hawaii News Now. Kiaʻāina, whose district includes Kaneohe, authored Resolution 21-154, the proposal to remove the stairs.

On September 8, the Honolulu City Council voted unanimously in favor of removing the staircase for good.

"The city has already spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars to remodel the stairs and hundreds of thousands of dollars in security costs," council member Brandon Elefante told Hawaii News Now.

The measure was then sent to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi. He is expected to approve the removal of the Haiku Stairs and allocate $1 million of the city's budget to cover the expense. He has 60 days to make a final decision.

"Fundamentally, it is inappropriate to have a high-use tourist attraction entering through this residential neighborhood, which lacks the capacity to provide appropriate facilities or parking," the mayor wrote in an email to local outlet the Honolulu Civil Beat.

"In addition, there is no unrestricted access to the stairs and the primary landowner at the base made it clear it is not interested in providing access. Consequently, my administration is aligned with the City Council's resolution to remove the stairs and we intend to move forward with the necessary plans."

Once the measure is formally approved, the mayor's office must establish a timeline for the stairs' removal and destruction.

Currently, there is a maximum $1,000 fine for people caught trespassing at the Haiku Stairs.

CNN has reached out to the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, which owns and manages the site, for comment.

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vaak zijn dergelijke plekken hele oude heilige oorden die door massa tourisme en materialiteit leiden. Een begin van een nieuwe trend van het de-materialiseren van de oude heilige plaatsen die de moderne mens met voeten betreed! 

a deeply held American view that land is something to profit from, rather than conserve or protect en “and let the next generation worry about it.”

 De New York Times schets een zeer sterk beeld van een sterk verstoorde relatie tussen mens en natuur.

President Biden visited California this week to showcase his efforts to better protect the state against the raging wildfires that have burned more than two million acres, displaced thousands and pushed responders to the brink of exhaustion.

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But Mr. Biden’s record on wildfires, which includes more pay for firefighters and more money to harden communities against blazes, demonstrates a worrying truth, experts say: There are limits to what the federal government can do to reduce the scale and destructive power of the fires, at least in the short term.

“Climate change impacts can’t be absolved in a single year,” said Roy Wright, who was in charge of risk mitigation at the Federal Emergency Management Agency until 2018. The goal, he said, should be “investments that will pay back over the coming three to five years.”

Federal action largely depends on Congress approving new funding — but even if approved, that money might not make much of a difference anytime soon, as Zolan Kanno-Youngs and I wrote this week. And even then, curbing the damage relies largely on state and local governments, which experts say should scale back development in fire-prone areas.

Mr. Biden could use the megaphone of the presidency to encourage such restrictions, according to Michele Steinberg, wildfire division director for the National Fire Protection Association. But it would mean competing against a deeply held American view that land is something to profit from, rather than conserve or protect.

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“It’s more like, let’s get the value out of this land that we can right now,” Ms. Steinberg told me, “and let the next generation worry about it.”

The growing scale of fires: Until 2018, the largest wildfires in the state seldom burned more than 300,000 acres, according to state data. In 2018, the Ranch fire consumed more than 400,000 acres, and last year, the August Complex fire topped 1 million acres, making it the largest blaze in the state’s history. Just north of the Caldor fire is the Dixie fire, which has already burned more than 960,000 acres and is not yet contained. That fire could break last year’s record. bron:  nytdirect@nytimes.com

ons lichaam in relatie tot de planeet

 

het noordelijkste woud van de Aarde bezocht

  "Ik ben mede dankzij corona steeds meer gaan beseffen wat het bos met je gesteldheid kan doen, al ben ik ook weer geen bomenknuffelaar geworden. Als ik reportages maak in het buitenland kom ik vaak gejaagd en moe thuis. Na onze Borealis-reizen was ik ontspannen, een heel andere ervaring.”

journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius

In vier jaar tijd reisden journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius en fotograaf Jeroen Toirkens acht keer af naar de meest noordelijke bossen op aarde. Het leidde tot een reeks bijzondere verhalen en foto’s, die behalve in Trouw ook verschenen in boekvorm en als tentoonstelling, in Den Haag én Anchorage, Alaska.

in deze ‘boreale’ zone staat maar liefst 30 procent van alle bomen op aarde. Het is een gordel van vooral naaldbomen die zich uitstrekt over Europa, Azië en Noord-Amerika.

https://www.trouw.nl/achter-de-schermen/jelle-brandt-corstius-en-jeroen-toirkens-reisden-vier-jaar-door-het-bos-voor-borealis-ik-ben-geen-bomenknuffelaar-geworden~baaee9b7/