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In Rheinland-Pfalz soll das Bestattungsrecht geändert werden, da gibt es Kritik und vor ein paar Tagen wurden zwei jungverstorbene Menschen heiliggesprochen. Für Carlo Acutis gibt es eine kurze Beschreibung von den anderen ausgestellten Leichenteilen mal ganz ab.

Oslo (AFP) – Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway.

The first to relocate is the Oseberg, which on Wednesday slowly began making its way from its current location in the old Viking Ship Museum to a newly built addition that will house the national treasures in optimal conditions.

The extremely fragile oak hull inched forward so slowly its movement was almost undetectable to the human eye, the structure encased in a heavy protective steel rig.

The hundred-metre journey was expected to take over 10 hours, with the ship hanging from a crane moving on a track high above the ground.

"It's almost like it's sailing in the air," museum director Aud Tonnesseen said, visibly exhilarated as she watched the slowly-approaching spiralling serpent's head that rises up from the ship's stern.

"There is something deeply moving when you think that these ships -- with their long history and all the voyages they have undertaken -- will embark on their final journey," she said.

Named after the places where they were discovered, the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune -- all believed to have been built between 820 and 910 -- have been housed in a cross-shaped building considered too small and unsuitable to conserve them properly.

"They've been subjected to humidity, vibrations ... Over time, the strain became so intense that they started showing signs that they would eventually collapse onto their supports," Tonnessen said.

A decision was therefore taken to move them to a new climate-controlled facility, built as an extension to the old museum, which should make it possible to maintain the ships in their current condition for at least another century.

The relocation process is perilous.

"We have to complete this operation without causing any further damage to the ships, but we know that each handling is harmful to them," said curator David Hauer, who has been planning the project for years.

"These are clinker hulls (featuring partially overlapping planks) that are 1,200 years old. At the slightest deformation, they split between the rivets, the wood cracks," he explained.

Endless precautions have been taken to prevent any breakage or vibrations during the relocation. The ship is being moved very slowly, at a pace of 5.5 minutes per metre.

Among other things, an oil services company experienced in high-precision work -- such as positioning massive structures 300 metres below the sea with millimetre accuracy -- has been called in.

"But this is yet another level," Hauer said.

"The level of precision required, for example when it comes to vibrations, is the same as for electron microscopes in hospitals" which require extreme stability, he said.

"Except here, it involves lifting the electron microscope, moving it, and then setting it back down so you can use it again," he said.

If everything goes as planned, the Gokstad is scheduled to be relocated next during the autumn, and then finally the Tune in the summer of 2026.

All three ships were found in separate burial sites southwest and southeast of Oslo between 1867 and 1904, each one very distinct from the other.

Richly decorated with ornate carvings, Oseberg, the oldest of the three vessels, is considered the best preserved Viking ship in the world.

Gokstad is meanwhile the largest of the three, measuring 23 metres (75 feet) long and five metres wide and with space for 32 rowers.

Tune is much more decomposed than the other two and is believed to have been a particularly fast warship.

The new museum is set to open in 2027.

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Spanish authorities say an “extraordinary” security boost will accompany the final two stages of the Vuelta in the Madrid region. Protesters have burst onto the course and caused crashes, while last week’s stage 11 was neutralised before the finish in Bilbao with no winner declared due to demonstrators disrupting the run-in. Organisers have suggested that Israel-Premier Tech withdraw for other teams’ safety. Israel-Premier Tech owned by Israeli-Canadian property developer Sylvan Adams is a private outfit and not a state team. The Palestinian cause enjoys widespread support in Spain.

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Poland says that it and its NATO allies had shot down Russian drones that violated Polish airspace in what it called an “act of aggression” as Russia launched aerial attacks on Ukraine.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-poland-drones-1232774279039f9e5c5b78bd58686cb9

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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/fbi-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-b2324528.html

The big bag of meth will get weighed out into individual doses and put into tiny cardboard boxes, labeled with its contents, purity, and the logo of Dulf – the Drug User Liberation Front.

The office’s location is not on any maps or findable by any search engines, but it is not exactly secret. Vancouver’s government, the cops, drug users and maybe even dealers all know where it is, and it turns out that has been pretty much fine, despite the fact that the people inside it are buying and selling felony-level quantities of drugs every week.

Such is life in Vancouver, where the drug problem has been so bad for so long that the authorities here have, reluctantly and with a lot of pressure, begun to allow for a kind of radical experimentation not really going on anywhere else.

She envisions a future in which heroin and every other drug are handled similarly to alcohol: regulated, free from impurities, legal and available to the public. She does not see any other way out of the crisis. Everything else people have tried has simply not worked.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4480693

Poland's newly elected President Karol Nawrocki arrived in Helsinki on Tuesday for a one-day working visit hosted by Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

As expected, the two heads of state's discussions centred on their countries' security policies, particularly in regard to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

In that vein, at a joint press conference alongside Stubb, Nawrocki said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was prepared to attack other countries besides Ukraine.

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Stubb said more pressure needs to be placed on Russia than is currently the case.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37194925