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Could the UK actually split? Experts explain the legal route for pro-independence leaders

Could the UK actually split? Experts explain the legal route for pro-independence leaders

Published by Sam Flores

As the Scottish National Party gathered in Aberdeen for the its annual conference, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had also travelled north of the border. SNP conferences are of course a platform for the party to coalesce around its core aim of Scottish independence. But at Labour’s conference in September, Burnham told colleagues the union is “worth saving” and “worth fighting for” and he was determined not to be “the last prime minister of the United Kingdom”. This was a riposte to SNP leader and Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who had predicted exactly that weeks earlier. Also in September, Swinney and his fellow pro-independence leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland met for a summit where they asserted their right to decide their own futures. At the talks in Cardiff, the leaders signed two agreements – neither of which changes the law. What they do expose, however, is that the three nations stand in very different legal positions – and that two of them have no route forward at all. The party leaders (Swinney of …

Adam Shopkorn’s Alternative Route to Frieze London

Adam Shopkorn’s Alternative Route to Frieze London

Published by Jenni Sidey

Dealer Adam Shopkorn of New York–based gallery Fort Gansevoort has always taken an unorthodox route when it comes to the business he cofounded in 2015 with his wife, Carolyn Tate Angel. After participating at Frieze Los Angeles this past February, he will show at the fair’s London edition this week with a solo booth dedicated to the textile flags of Haitian artist Myrlande Constant, who is living in a state of emergency in her home country. Frieze London will mark his third fair this year after last showing at one in January 2020. “It’s important for us to be in these places now,” Shopkorn told ARTnews on a Zoom call before heading to London, noting that demand for Constant’s work has soared in the past few years after appearances in the 2022 Venice Biennale, Prospect.6 in 2024, and the 2025 São Paulo Bienal. Related Articles At Frieze London, he will show five of Constant’s monumental textiles, priced between $90,000 and $450,000. Each work takes its cues from Vodou spiritual practices in Haiti that are grounded …

A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.

A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.

Published by Jenni Sidey

A teenage hiker in Canada recently became another cautionary tale about the perils of overtrusting artificial intelligence. After relying on an AI-generated route to ascend Crown Mountain in British Columbia, the 16-year-old found himself stranded on a steep cliffside near a climbing route known as the “Widowmaker.” The wayward traveler’s position was so precarious, that it took roughly three hours to coordinate a proper rescue plan. “The boy was very scared. He definitely feared for his life,” search manager Paul Markey told North Shore News earlier this month. The teen’s position near Widowmaker’s final headwall prevented helicopter pilots from safely steering close enough to retrieve him. Instead, an onsite crew reached the hiker using a rope belay system, equipped him with additional protective gear, and then moved him to a better extraction location. As luck would have it, responders had also just completed a rescue certification training session earlier that day not far from the lost teen’s predicament. “It put him into a situation which was beyond his abilities, so things could have gone sideways …

Saunas, cinnamon buns and coastal scenery on the new rail route from Malmö to Oslo | Scandinavia holidays

Saunas, cinnamon buns and coastal scenery on the new rail route from Malmö to Oslo | Scandinavia holidays

Published by Sam Flores

‘This carriage is due for modernisation. Don’t miss the opportunity to experience 90s Germany style,” reads the sign on the door to the dining carriage. The couple inside aren’t missing theirs: they’re taking endless selfies in the clinical pink-and-turquoise carriage that looks like a hospital canteen and smells like cinnamon buns and strong filter coffee. I’m on Snälltåget’s iconic red-shelled train, on the Swedish rail company’s new route from Malmö to Oslo – a 6.5-hour journey along Sweden’s picturesque western corridor. Until now, the journey between the two cities involved long bus rides and fragmented train transfers. This direct line is easier and cheaper, with tickets starting at £11 each way. It’s already a hit, shuttling more than 25,000 passengers since launching this summer. I was first seduced by Scandi rail travel a decade ago on a journey from Stockholm to Gothenburg, when I was berthed in a cosy dark-wood cabin and listened to a pianist play in a dining car. This time, starting in Malmö, I will take advantage of the new route to …

Google Maps isn’t giving everyone the same route, and these 3 settings are why

Google Maps isn’t giving everyone the same route, and these 3 settings are why

Published by skeptic

Google Maps seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to suggesting a route. When my friend and I decided to leave our co-working space at the same time for the same destination, it suggested different routes to each of us, with nearly a 3-minute difference. We were both at the same place, both using Android phones, and entered the destination maybe a minute apart. I reached the destination 3 minutes earlier, which made me wonder: why? Why isn’t Google Maps giving everyone the same route? There’s no definitive answer, but my theory is that it all depends on your Maps settings as well as how the algorithm decides the best route. So, I dug into the settings and found a few things that could explain the difference, starting with one that most people never bother to check before their first drive. Related I turned off one Google app and gained nearly two hours of battery life I found the Google app behind my battery drain. Choosing fuel-efficient routes Google now picks …

A California desert icon, the Bagdad Cafe on Route 66, is in limbo

A California desert icon, the Bagdad Cafe on Route 66, is in limbo

Published by Sam Flores

NEWBERRY SPRINGS, Calif.  — Four decades ago, the cult hit “Bagdad Cafe” was filmed at a ramshackle diner in the Mojave Desert. The tale of two women in the lonely landscape — a hardworking, rifle-wielding cafe owner and a stranded German tourist with a suitcase full of lederhosen — captivated viewers, particularly in Europe and Japan. Busloads of international tourists rolled up to the actual Bagdad Cafe on a cracked, sunbaked stretch of Route 66. Real-life proprietor Andrea Pruett, a sweet but steely Southerner who kept her own gun behind the counter, greeted them in French and German, then fed them buffalo burgers and omelets. A memorial announcement for owner Andrea Pruett is seen at the Bagdad Cafe on Route 66 in the Mojave Desert. As Pruett aged, her grip on reality loosened. But she refused to leave. Now, the Bagdad Cafe is in limbo. Though T-shirts and tchotchkes are still for sale, the kitchen is closed. And Pruett’s family is figuring out what comes next. Buses full of Europeans still come. So, too, do the …

Zelensky’s plane ‘almost hit’ by drone en route to Oslo, Norway PM says

Zelensky’s plane ‘almost hit’ by drone en route to Oslo, Norway PM says

Published by Sam Flores

Ukraine and Moldova on Wednesday played down claims from Norway’s prime minister that a plane carrying President Volodymyr Zelensky was almost hit by a drone as it flew to Oslo. Jonas Gahr Store told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that Zelensky’s plane was “almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova”. But a source in the Ukrainian presidency described the claim that Zelensky was at risk as “exaggerated”. Source link

3rd Burning Man Attendee Dies En Route To Hospital

3rd Burning Man Attendee Dies En Route To Hospital

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A third person has died at this year’s Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert, according to the local sheriff’s office. Details about the death, reported on Sept. 8, were not released as festival attendees faced the usual traffic jam on their way home from the annual event in Black Rock Desert about 110 miles north of Reno. The death occurred en route to a Reno-area hospital on Sept. 4, according to the Burning Man Project. “We are saddened to have learned that a Burning Man participant, who experienced a serious medical emergency in Black Rock City during the early hours of Friday, Sept. 4, and immediately received on-site lifesaving measures, later passed away after being transported to Reno for medical care,” a festival spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. The examiner overseeing the death investigation at the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office didn’t return requests for more information. Two other festival attendees died this year at the weeklong event that started on Aug. 30. …

Europe’s wildest pilgrimage route: a trek through the mountains of north-west Sweden | Sweden holidays

Europe’s wildest pilgrimage route: a trek through the mountains of north-west Sweden | Sweden holidays

Published by Sam Flores

I wasn’t exactly in “Sunday best”, but I had made some effort. Well, I’d changed my underwear for the first time in a couple of days and given myself a baby-wipe bath. Still, as we filed into the chapel at Alkavare, I felt more a member of an expedition than a congregation. We sat on the low wooden benches, waterproof jackets rustling and leather walking boots stamping on the flagstone floor to keep warm. Fortunately, the priest, Mogens Amstrup Jacobsen, appeared to be a “man of the Gore-Tex”, as well as a man of the cloth, as he unzipped his own black rain jacket to reveal his dog collar. As the service began, the Arctic wind whipped through cracks in the dry stone walls, insulated only with reindeer hair, and candles flickered in their brass sconces. I had hiked to Alkavare following the Präststigen, or “Priests’ trail”, a 37-mile (60km) route from Kvikkjokk that could stake a claim as Europe’s wildest pilgrimage route, and certainly one of its most beautiful. The Präststigen follows the path …

South Korea Ship to Test Arctic Commercial Route Amid Western Concerns

South Korea Ship to Test Arctic Commercial Route Amid Western Concerns

Published by Sam Flores

SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A South Korean container ⁠ship ⁠sets sail on Saturday ⁠for Europe via the Arctic in the nation’s first commercial ​voyage on the route to test its viability, with the hope of turning ‌the southeastern port of Busan ‌into a global maritime hub. The PanStar Acro will sail north, hugging ⁠eastern Russia’s ⁠Kamchatka peninsula, cross the Bering Sea, and take the Northern Sea ​Route, stopping in Felixstowe in Britain, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Poland’s Gdansk before returning on a journey expected to take 40 to 45 days. President Lee Jae ​Myung has made Arctic shipping a priority for South Korea, a shipping ⁠powerhouse. ⁠Officials say this could ⁠help transform ​Busan and position the Arctic as a regular trade route by 2030. But the ​project risks friction ⁠with Western allies hoping to keep Russia isolated during its war in Ukraine. Seoul has consulted with Moscow about the journey, including whether the ship needed help to tackle any problems, such as getting stuck in ice. South Korea’s ⁠Oceans Ministry and Russia’s Foreign …