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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Oniony pig farts legal, court rules - The Local
A court in the northern German town of Osnabr?ck has ruled that a farmer is allowed to feed his pigs vast quantities of raw onions, despite complaints from neighbours about their eye-watering gaseous emissions.
The council justified its decision on the grounds that planning permission for the pigsty forbade ?strong-smelling foods, e.g. kitchen waste.?
But the court overturned the decision, saying that the city council had imposed the penalty on the assumption that the onions were to blame for the stink without providing sufficient evidence.
According to the court?s statement, the court called in an expert witness on ?emissions control,? who testified that ?onions did not count as strong-smelling foods, because they are untreated organic raw materials that have not decomposed.?
There was no indication, however, that the expert lived near the farm.
But the legal procedure has not been exhausted on this noxious issue. Onions could still be banned as pig food, if the council proves they are responsible for the distinctive farts.
The farmer has not been named, to protect his identity, but he is reportedly easy to find in a favourable wind.
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Source: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111222-39675.html
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Peter Andre and Katie Price To Reunite For The Kids
News from across the pond – Peter Andre and Katie Price to reunite for the sake of their kids. Reuniting in terms of a romantic reconciliation or are the two simply working towards a “friendly” relationship with each other? For kids whose parents are divorced and seemingly do not get along with each other, it certainly can take a toll on them, especially if they are young. Peter Andre and Katie Price have two children – Junior, who is 6 and Princess, who is 4. During their three and a half year marriage, Andre was also stepfather to 9-year-old Harvey, Price’s son with her ex, Dwight Yorke. Their bitter divorce was finalized in September of 2009. Katie started dating MMA fighter Alex Reid soon after and the two wed the following year. Andre reportedly felt “sick” when he would see pics of Katie and Reid together with the kiddos. Alas, Katie’s marriage to Reid would not last long, as the two split just two months ago. Peter has previously been linked to former Sports WAG Elen Rivas, who was the longtime fiancee of footballer Frank Lampard. So here we are now, with Price and Andre agreeing to work on their [...]
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Egypt Protest: Troops Use Brutal Force Against Women
CAIRO -- Troops pulled women across the pavement by their hair, knocking off their Muslim headscarves. Young activists were kicked in the head until they lay motionless in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Unfazed by TV cameras catching every move, Egypt's military took a dramatically heavier hand Saturday to crush protests against its rule in nearly 48 hours of continuous fighting in Egypt's capital that has left more than 300 injured and nine dead, many of them shot to death.
The most sustained crackdown yet is likely a sign that the generals who took power after the February ouster of Hosni Mubarak are confident that the Egyptian public is on its side after two rounds of widely acclaimed parliament elections, that Islamist parties winning the vote will stay out of the fight while pro-democracy protesters become more isolated.
Still, the generals risk turning more Egyptians against them, especially from outrage over the abuse of women. Photos and video posted online showed troops pulling up the shirt of one woman protester in a conservative headscarf, leaving her half-naked as they dragged her in the street.
"Do they think this is manly?" Toqa Nosseir, a 19-year old student, said of the attacks on women. "Where is the dignity?"
Nosseir joined the protest over her parents' objections because she couldn't tolerate the clashes she had seen.
"No one can approve or accept what is happening here," she said. "The military council wants to silence all criticism. They want to hold on power ... I will not accept this humiliation just for the sake of stability."
Nearby in Tahrir, protesters held up newspapers with the image of the half-stripped woman on the front page to passing cars, shouting sarcastically, "This is the army that is protecting us!"
"Are you not ashamed?" leading reform figure and Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei posted on Twitter in an address to the ruling military council.
Egypt's new, military-appointed interim prime minister defended the military, denying it shot protesters. He said gunshot deaths were caused by other attackers he didn't identify. He accused the protesters of being "anti-revolution."
Among those shot to death in the crackdown was an imminent cleric from Al-Azhar, Egypt's most respected religious institution. At the funeral Saturday of the 52-year-old Sheik Emad Effat, thousands chanted "Retribution, retribution." Some of them marched from the cemetery to Tahrir to join the clashes.
The main street between Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the anti-Mubarak protests, and the parliament and Cabinet buildings where the clashes began early the previous morning looked like a war zone Saturday. Military police on rooftops pelting protesters below with stones and firebombs and launched truncheon-swinging assaults to drive the crowds back.
Flames leapt from the windows of the state geographical society ? a treasure trove of antique scientific books ? that was hit by firebombs in the melee. Some youths tried to rescue books from the fire.
Young activists put helmets or buckets on their heads or grabbed sheets of concrete and even satellite dishes as protection against the stones hailing down from the roofs. The streets were strewn with chunks of concrete, stones ,broken glass, burned furniture and peddlers' carts as clashes continued to rage after nightfall Saturday.
The clashes began early Friday with a military assault on a 3-week-old sit-in outside the Cabinet building by protesters demanding the military hand over power immediately to civilians.
More than a week of heavy fighting erupted in November, leaving more than 40 dead ? but that was largely between police and protesters, with the military keeping a low profile.
In the afternoon, military police charged into Tahrir, swinging truncheons and long sticks, briefly chasing out protesters and setting fire to their tents. Footage broadcast on the private Egyptian CBC television network showed soldiers beating two protesters with sticks, repeatedly stomping on the head of one, leaving the motionless bodies on the pavement.
They trashed a field hospital set up by protesters, swept into buildings where television crews were filming and briefly detained journalists. They tossed the camera and equipment of an Al-Jazeera TV crew off the balcony of a building.
A journalist who was briefly detained told The Associated Press that he was beaten up with sticks and fists while being led to into the parliament building. Inside, he saw a group of detained young men and one woman. Each was surrounded by six or seven soldiers beating him or her with sticks or steel bars or giving electrical shocks with prods.
"Blood covered the floor, and an officer was telling the soldiers to wipe the blood," said the journalist, who asked not to be identified for security concerns.
The military's violent response suggested it now felt emboldened. Two rounds of voting ? last weekend and in late November ? have been held for Egypt's lower house of parliament, and millions of Egyptians turned out for the freest and fairest elections in the country's modern history.
The generals appear to be betting that Egyptians engaged in elections have had enough of the multiple protests since Mubarak's fall and want quiet.
One man arguing with activists in the square said he opposes protests. "Elections were the first step. This was a beginning to stability," said Ahmed Abdel-Samei, 29. "Now we are going 10 steps back."
The military shrugged off criticism from a civilian advisory panel that it created only last week to show it was consulting with others. The generals gave no comment after the panel announced it was suspending its operations in protest and demanded the army apologize for the violence.
At least nine people have been killed and around 300 people injured in the two days of clashes, according to the Health Ministry.
"The military council is either fed up or lacks vision in dealing with protests. It's unbelievable what is happening; the revolution was meant to give us freedom," said Aboul-Ela Madi, a member of the panel who resigned.
Meanwhile, the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the more conservative Islamist Salafis focused on following vote counting from the most recent round of elections. The groups have emerged as the biggest winner so far and likely do not want to do anything to disrupt the voting, which continued until March. The Brotherhood has called for the military to apologize but has not urged supporters to join the protests.
"Islamists went after their own interests. The ballot boxes are their interests," said Ahmed Hussein, a 35-year-old protester. He accused the military of trying to prolong the transition to ensure protection from civilian scrutiny.
As night fell in Tahrir, clashes continued around a concrete wall that the military erected to block the avenue from Tahrir to parliament.
Aya Emad told the AP that troops dragged her by her headscarf and hair into the Cabinet headquarters. The 24-year-old said soldiers kicked her on the ground, an officer shocked her with an electrical prod and another slapped her on the face, leaving her nose broken and her arm in a sling.
Mona Seif, an activist who was briefly detained Friday, said she saw an officer repeatedly slapping a detained old woman in the face.
"It was a humiliating scene," Seif told the private TV network Al-Nahar. "I have never seen this in my life."
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Mexican city to begin countdown for Dec. 21, 2012
MEXICO CITY?? A city in southern Mexico wants to live each moment as if it were the last.
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Tourism officials in Tapachula have installed a digital clock to count down the time left before the Dec. 21, 2012, solstice, when some believe the Mayan long-count calendar "runs out."
The clock will be started this Dec. 21, a year before what many see as an apocalyptic event.
Chiapas state tourism regional director Manolo Alfonso Pinot said Friday that Mayan priests will perform a ceremony at the nearby archaeological site of Izapa.
Maya experts say the apocalypse fears are a misreading of Maya texts that mention the date, saying the Mayan considered it the end of one calendar cycle and the beginning of another.
Pinot said he does not believe the world will end, but looks at it as a sort of beginning, in the business sense at least.
"I look at this as an opportunity for rebirth. A lot of people know they can fill their body with energy if they come to these exceptional sites," he said. "If people are interested, we have to take advantage of this."
Tapachula, best known as a gritty border town crossed by Central American migrants en route to the United States, is not a popular Mayan tourism destination. But nearby Izapa is a place where many stelae have been found, including the "Tree of Life" stone.
But at Izapa, close to the Tajumulco volcano, Pinot says a Mesoamerican ball court, a carved stone and the throne of the Izapa ruler face a straight line that on Dec. 21, 2012 is expected to align with the planets.
"It is hard to say what you will be able to see that day," he said.
The doomsday theories stem from a pair of tablets with inscriptions that describe the return of a Mayan god at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, which falls on Dec. 21, 2012.
Experts say the date is the end of a cycle of 5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C., and the start of another.
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Associated Press writer Mark Stevenson contributed to this story.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Russia's Mars Probe Appears 'Dead in the Water' (SPACE.com)
Russia?s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which is stuck in low-Earth orbit due to an engine failure rather than on its way to Mars, appears to be doomed, with small pieces of the wayward probe already falling to Earth.
Flotsam from the stranded Mars spacecraft quickly re-entered Earth?s atmosphere and were reportedly listed in the space object catalog maintained by the United States Strategic Command.
According to SPACE.com sources, shedding of pieces from spacecraft and rocket bodies at such a low altitude is common. But since the altitude of Phobos-Grunt itself did not change after the two small objects fell from the vehicle, the fragments were likely not that significant.
Still, the news is not good for Phobos-Grunt. According to one analyst, "[t]he vehicle appears dead in the water."
A fiery demise
Phobos-Grunt was launched Nov. 8 on a mission to collect rock samples from the Mars moon Phobos. Shortly after launch, the spacecraft suffered a malfunction that stranded it in Earth orbit. [Photos: Russia's Mars Moon Mission]
Despite repeated attempts, mission controllers have not been able to communicate with Phobos-Grunt.
Unless engineers can regain control of the spacecraft, the 14.6-ton (13.2 metric tons) probe is headed for an uncontrolled plunge into Earth?s atmosphere.
"I estimate that Phobos-Grunt will decay on Jan. 13, 2012, plus or minus eight days," said Ted Molczan of Toronto, a leader in the community of citizen satellite watchers.
After picking up a signal from the marooned probe Nov. 23 at a ground station in Australia, the European Space Agency (ESA) had been tracking Phobos-Grunt as part of a joint effort with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
Last week, however, ESA announced that, "in consultation and agreement with Phobos-Grunt mission managers" in Russia, they would end tracking support.
"Efforts in the past week to send commands to and receive data from the Russian Mars mission via ESA ground stations have not succeeded; no response has been seen from the satellite. ESA teams remain available to assist the Phobos-Grunt mission if indicated by any change in the situation," agency officials said in a statement.
Lessons learned from Phobos-Grunt
There have been a number of lessons learned in trying to rescue Phobos-Grunt, said Wolfgang Hell, a service manager who is overseeing ESA support to Russia's main contractor on the Phobos-Grunt project. Hell is based at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
In a SPACE.com interview late last month, Hell said there were challenges beyond what ESA does in support of NASA missions. For one, NASA and ESA spacecraft are designed with interoperability in mind to make joint missions ?a relatively straightforward process, he advised.
"That was not the case with this [Phobos-Grunt] mission. The uplink is completely private in terms of data structures and telecommand protocol," Hell said.
Also, early ideas about how to rescue Phobos-Grunt could have benefited from better knowledge of the true condition of the spacecraft.
"Maybe even imaging capabilities would have been useful," he said. "We were not absolutely certain that the solar arrays were deployed ? although I believe the Russians got telemetry initially stating that. But an optical verification that this is true would be nice."
Re-entering Earth's atmosphere
Given the growing prospect that the sizable Phobos-Grunt will face an uncontrolled re-entry, there will undoubtedly be pieces of the spacecraft that survive, analysts agree.
For one, Phobos-Grunt?s nose-cone-shaped descent vehicle ? designed to bring back to Earth bits and pieces of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars ? was purposely fabricated to fall to Earth and land without the use of a parachute. [Worst Space Debris Events of All Time]
Also onboard Phobos-Grunt, and facing destruction, is the hitchhiking Chinese Mars orbiter, Yinghuo-1.
Due to the spacecraft?s hefty load of toxic fuels, some concern has been raised about the probe?s re-entry and the prospect that dangerous propellant could reach the Earth?s surface.
Don?t lose sleep
This concern has been addressed by Nicholas Johnson, NASA?s chief scientist for orbital debris at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Johnson spoke to the issue on Dec. 5 on "The Space Show," a popular radio and Internet program hosted by David Livingston. The orbital debris expert said that the head of the Russian space agency has explicitly said that the main propellant tanks for Phobos-Grunt are made of aluminum.
"Aluminum has a much lower melting temperature," Johnson said. "So with the statement by the Russians that the main propellant tanks are aluminum, that certainly would significantly reduce the chances of any harmful substance reaching the surface of the Earth."
Still, there is no reason to panic, Johnson said, because the Earth is roughly three-fourths water, and another large percentage of the land is relatively sparsely populated.
"I?m happy to report, since the beginning of the Space Age, there?s been no report of anybody being harmed ? by being hit by space debris re-entering."
On average, there is one known cataloged object that falls back to Earth every day, Johnson added.
"This is not a serious concern," he said. "I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over it."
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is a winner of this year's National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society's Ad Astra and Space World magazines. He has written for SPACE.com since 1999.
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