[Jane Mann] is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the vegetation from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where vegetation is brown and dead because it did not receive enough sunlight.
She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn't cause cancer.
Mann's husband warned that the entire town would be devastated by the panels stealing all the sun's energy. There were other concerns that the farms would drive down property values, depress the economy of the town, and that people would sell off their land to solar developers and leave the area.
In the end, even with some supporters coming forward, the solar farm's permit was denied by a vote of 3 to 1. A later vote placed a moratorium on any future solar farms in the area.
[Dhaka Tribune] A bottle has been recovered from the stomach of a patient at a clinic in Barisal city. Being a highly trained medical professional and all (I once wrote a web page for a nurse) I can tell that ain't his stomach. I can also tell that musta really hurt. Terrible, when you fall off a bridge and land on a bottle like that, ain't it?
Dr Jahangir Hossain Selim, surgeon of Health Care Clinic in the city, said the patient, of Farashganj under Lalmohon upazila of Bhola district, came to the clinic on the night of August 17 with severe stomach pain. "Wholly crap that hurts!"
The patient and his attendants at first claimed that a ’Djinn' had put the bottle inside the stomach. Later they said the bottle entered through his rectum after he fell off a bamboo-bridge into a canal.
The patient and his attendants at first claimed that a ’Ginn’ (a supernatural spirit or demon) had put the bottle inside the stomach. "That's right, Doc! He falls of this bridge and the genie pops right outta the bottle and then he shoves the bottle right up his--"
"Ow, Doc! Get it out!"
Later they said the bottle entered through his rectum after he fell off a bamboo-bridge into a canal. "That's right, Doc! Right off the bridge! I seen it! I think the genie pushed him!"
After diagnosed by X-ray the doctors confirmed the existence of the bottle in the stomach of the patient and referred him for surgery at Barisal Sher-E-Bangla Medical College. "Doctor, I don't think that's the patient's stomach..."
"Button yer lip, nurse! There's laws against that sortta thing! This is a Moslem country!"
"Sorry, doctor. Yer right. He does seem to have a jug in his lung... I mean stomach!" However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the patient requested the doctors that they perform the surgery at that clinic. "Doc! Y'gotta get it out! It ain't empty yet, Doc!"
A team of surgeons of the clinic led by Dr. Jahangir Hossain Selim then removed the bottle from inside the patient after two hours’ of surgery early Thursday. "Nurse, you may start the timer!"
"The patient is now stable and improving. "Yeesh! Where am I? Gosh my... ummm... liver hurts!"
We are not yet sure how the bottle went inside his stomach. It was an event unprecedented in my whole career," Dr. Jahangir told. "Hey! Youse guys drank it all!"
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Terrible, when you fall off a bridge and land on a bottle like that, ain't it?
You're telling me? I can't even count the number...umm...nevermind
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[Iraq Sun] A senior Moroccan holy man has lashed out at what he called "nudity" in the Moslem kingdom, claiming that more and more women are immodestly dressed, sparking criticism in the media.
Morocco is seen as promoting a more tolerant form of Islam than some Arab countries, and woman in cities and towns often eschew the Islamic veil in public.
While the countryside is somewhat more conservative, attitudes to female dress vary according to local social and cultural customs and in the cities many women don Western-style clothes.
Omar al-Kazabri, imam of Casablanca's Hassan II mosque, Morocco's largest house of worship, said there is a growing trend among women across the country to go about "unclothed".
"Nudity is no longer confirmed to season, it is spreading before our eyes in winter and summer," he said on his official Facebook page earlier this week.
"Look at the streets. It breaks your heart to see the situation we find ourselves in. Obscene nudity [is an] affront to God's commandments and an insult and an outrage to the population," he wrote.
"Young women, unclothed, smoking cigarettes. Where are their guardians?" he asked.
And he warned that "impudent women could go to hell".
Kazabri said what he calls "nudity" is part of a "conspiracy" against Morocco by people who wish to "kill modesty, values and principles".
The outburst from one of Morocco's most prominent holy mans was criticised in the media.
"What's gotten into him?" the private news site Media24 asked on Thursday.
It said such remarks are "scary" coming from a top holy man.
Another private site, Telquel, said Kazabri had a "peculiar concept of nudity".
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[Libya Herald] A group of law students at the university in Gharyan who did badly in their exams set fire to the faculty registrar’s office yesterday, according to the Libyan news agency LANA. The flames spread to adjacent offices, destroying them and their contents, and threatened to spread to other buildings before being extinguished by the local fire brigade.
The head of the faculty’s administration has launched an investigation to identify the culprits.
There has been an expectation of automatic success in exams in Libya as a result of the former regime allowing students to pass regardless of their abilities or performance. University authorities are no longer willing to accept this since the revolution, although there continues to be allegations of teachers passing students either in return for bribes or because they have been theatened.
There remains, nonetheless, a view that if a student does not do well in exams, it is the fault of the teachers, not the student.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The organizing committee of the coffee and chocolates exhibition, which will be held for the third year in a row at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Centre on December 20-23, 2016, revealed increasing the size of exhibition area by 100 per cent more of what it was in the past few years reaching 7781 sq. meters’ display area, while the total number of participants reached more than 100 participants because of the outstanding and unprecedented turnout during the exhibition second year.
Participation varies this year among domestic and international and specialist entrepreneurs in coffee and chocolate industry, which included many of the leading chocolate and coffee makers and dealers and international brands agents, besides representatives of global chocolate companies in the region who are participating in the exhibition to demonstrate the visibility of their brands and their strong presence in the Gulf and Arab market and enhance communication with their customers. In addition, they will display all the coffee and chocolate kits as well as the making and preparation machines and other modern technologies that fascinate coffee and chocolate lovers.
New horizons Participants this year are from Brazil, India, Indonesia, Philippines, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Leb, Egypt, Oman and the UAE. The exhibition aims to attract investors, suppliers and those seeking new investments in this vital sector to open new horizons for entrepreneurs.
It puts the kingdom on the map of commodity producing countries of coffee and chocolate instead of being only a consuming nation, conforming to the National Transformation Program 2020 and Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Vision 2030. This is especially important since it is known that the kingdom has more than 70,000 coffee trees from the finest in the world at the Jazan mountains along with cocoa trees which Faifa region development authority successfully planted in the first experiment of its kind in the Arab world.
The exhibition organizers and participants have planned many surprises and new developments to engage visitors and lovers of coffee and chocolate. The exhibition is the largest recreational demonstration specific to these two commodities and will feature competitions , training courses and workshops and also enable visitors to meet specialists and professionals in the industry.
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apparently, Filipino laborers are learning new skillz
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nearest I can quickly find to Saudi coffee beans: Yemen beans
Yemen has a coffee culture like no other place, and the distinct flavor profile can be partially credited to the old style of trade in the country. Yemen is the first place coffee was commercialized, traded through the port city of Al Mahka (Mokha). Yemeni coffee has a distinct, rustic flavor profile which can be attributed to the old seed stocks cultivated there, the near-drought condition in which the coffee survives, and (sadly) defects in the cup. These defects are usually due to poor picking and processing, delays in transporting the coffee, and the very humid climate of the port city, Al Hudaydah (or Hodeidah)
The BDI has steadied since pushing toward 700 points, and has shown slight, downward corrections this week, which indicates that the climb may be running out of steam, but some optimism about Q3 and Q4 shipping activity is limiting losses.
Even though some optimism may be driving the BDI higher, there is currently a mixed consensus on what is in store for the BDI as the year winds down, and there is an argument for both an increase in prices, and a decrease.
The BDI’s value depends on the demand to transport raw materials. So far this year, demand has been strong, supported by increased building in China, an increase in demand for coal imports to China, and strong harvests and demand for soft commodities. While soft commodity demand will persist into later this year, there is a mixed opinion on what will happen to the coal and iron ore market. Both commodities are major cargoes that are transported by the BDI’s largest component ships.
Some believe, that after a solid performance in the first half of the year, demand will fall starting in September. This sentiment is backed by data showing that iron ore purchases typically contract in the fall. On the other hand, there are those who think China will ramp-up iron ore purchases in the fall to last through the winter season, and this will provide a boost to shipping demand. Supporting this opinion is the fact that this year, iron ore’s seasonality has not been typical, with demand lasting later into the season than expected.
On Thursday, the BDI fell 3 points to 682. The BDI has managed to trade just below 700 points over the past few weeks even though demand for cargoes has been somewhat muted. The reason for the resilience has been the hope that if August activity is low, then September shipping activity should heat up in preparation for the upcoming winter.
There could be a rebound in the dry bulk market in the fourth quarter, driven by a recovery in iron ore, coal and grain trade, shipping consultancy Maritime Strategies International said Thursday.
One key driver will be a new operation at western Australia’s Roy Hill iron ore mining project, which is “ramping up more quickly than expected and should reach just below its maximum capacity by December,” MSI senior analyst Will Fray said.
“Seasonal coal trade should also provide some support for Capesize shipments into China. We continue to forecast Capesize spot rates over $10,000/day in October, but rates will most likely drop early in the new year on seasonal trade weakness,” Fray added.
With the August Capesize time-charter average contract pegged August 17 at $4,525/day by Freight Investor Services, and the Q4 contract at $8,250/day, MSI predicted an average spot earnings level for a modern Capesize in October 2016 at $10,400/day.
In the Panamax market, MSI forecast an average spot rate for October 2016 at $7,000/day, compared with FIS’ $5,550/day for August, and $6,625/day for Q4.
MSI said that the recent strength in Chinese and Indian coal imports “have diverging causes” and may cancel each other out as China’s stronger imports hold up India’s near-term decline.
At the same time, winter stockpiling in the rest of Asia could end up supporting Panamax demand as Q3 gives way to Q4.
In coming months, the dry bulk market may also receive some support from US grain exports, with the International Grains Council increasing its estimate for US wheat and coarse grain exports by 6% for the 2016-17 season, while slashing Brazilian corn production estimates by 10%.
But MSI said it foresaw slim opportunities in the Handymax and Supramax dry bulk freight markets in the next six months. This is because, despite strong grain expectations out of the US in the remainder of this month and September, the Handymax/Supramax segment is still being weakened by strong newbuilding deliveries.
In addition, hopes for a resumption in bauxite trade from Malaysia have diminished with yet another extension of the ban on production until the middle of September, MSI said.
[Reuters] The leader of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has spoken out in favor of people arming themselves with guns and self-defense devices following a series of violent attacks last month. Helga hunting in the nearby Czech Rep. video
The anti-immigrant AfD has won growing popular support in Germany due in part to Europe's migrant crisis, which has seen more than 1 million refugees arrive over the past year, and it now has seats in eight of Germany's 16 state assemblies.
After two Islamist attacks and a shooting rampage by a mentally unstable teenager last month, Germans are on edge and the AfD is expected to make a strong showing in votes next month in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
"Many people are increasingly feeling unsafe. Every law-abiding citizen should be in a position to defend themselves, their family and their friends," Frauke Petry told the Funke Media Group in an interview published on Saturday.
"We all know how long it takes until the police can get to the scene, especially in sparsely populated places," she said.
Known for her fiery speeches to AfD supporters, Petry sparked an uproar earlier this year when she called for German police to be allowed to use firearms against illegal migrants.
Breitbart is doing the reporting here that the MSM and the Guardian will never do.
[Breitbart] Integration into the job market for migrants has become a major ongoing task for the German government but in one town migrants are refusing to work entirely.
One of the major issues of the migrant crisis is Germany and elsewhere has been the economic impact the massive wave of migrants will have in Europe. While some experts initially were optimistic about a potential vast new source of skilled labour, most economists have come to the conclusion that the migrants who have arrived are for the most part unskilled and poorly educated.
Yet in own Saxon town, they have moved past the usual barriers but the migrants have declared they don’t want to work anyway, reports OE24.
Bernd Pohlers, mayor of the town of Waldenburg told of how he thought creating jobs for the migrants who resided at the asylum home in his town would help alleviate their boredom in waiting for their claims to be processed. The mayor expressed his disappointment that having gone to the trouble of creating seven job opportunities they had been rejected outright by the migrants.
The migrants had claimed that they did not have to work at all because they were "guests" of German Chancellor Angela Merkel who many say invited them to Germany last year.
"It was subsequently argued by these people that they are guests of Mrs. Merkel and guests do not have to work," Pohlers said. The town had created the seven jobs to be 20 hours per week and were part of the controversial one-euro an hour job programs for migrants that have been pushed by the Federal government.
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Working for 'The Man' is demeaning and can lead to cultural assimilation, education, and expectations of responsibility and civility. Remaining a Township statistic will ensure the continued favour and gratuity of liberals.
Jobs? It's not about jobs. It seldom is. Employment is a western concept. No visual required.
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Gee, you'd think that they could at least ask a few basic questions before taking them in. Do you support terrorism? How do you feel about the Jews? Is raping women okay if the deserve it? Are you willing to work for a living?
An obscure website published a vague report Thursday making the dramatic claim that relations between Washington and Ankara had deteriorated so badly that the United States had begun moving nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania.
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be any basis at all for the report, which alleged B61 nuclear weapons were on their way to Romania's Deveselu base. Romania's defense ministry promptly denied it and experts dismissed the idea as illogical for technical and other reasons.
But that didn't stop some of Russia's rabidly anti-American news outlets, including Sputnik and Pravda, from picking up the story and running with it.
"Where do U.S. nuclear weapons travel from Turkey?" read a piece in Pravda posted Friday, speculating wildly about how the whole alleged transfer would work.
Although the Obama administration declined to comment, officials privately scoffed at the report when asked by FP.
The article that set off the chatter came from EuroActiv, and did not impress nuclear weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis, the director of non-proliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey.
For starters, Lewis tweeted, Romania does not have the special WS3 vaults needed to store the weapons safely. And, he noted, the article lacked evidence or quotes to back it up.
"They consulted one person, a generalist who said it was bunk, and Romania, which denied it. Then published anyway," tweeted Lewis, a contributor to Foreign Policy.
Lewis added that the story cites B61 weapons but that it was written "by a guy who doesn't know what a B61 is."
The author, Georgi Gotev, defended his story but acknowledged in a tweet he did not know what a B61 is. (It's a 300-pound U.S.-made tactical nuclear bomb that’s carried by fighter jets with a blast yield of up to 340 kilotons).
Romania's Defense Ministry said in a statement that it "firmly rejects these pieces of information" and that "so far there have not been any plans or discussions (among NATO members) on this topic."
Romania also is not part of a small number of NATO member states like Turkey that have agreed to host U.S. nuclear weapons and deploying the bomb to Romania would be deemed a provocative move by Moscow.
Although the article was widely rejected as off the mark, the failed coup last month in Turkey has set off questions about whether the United States might reconsider keeping nuclear weapons deployed at its Incirlik air base. During the attempted coup, Turkish authorities cut off electricity to the base.
And Turkey has been at odds with the Obama administration over the legal fate of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric who Ankara accuses of orchestrating the July 15 attempted coup. Turkey is demanding his extradition, but the U.S. says Ankara hasn’t provided enough evidence of his involvement.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Jane Mann] is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the vegetation from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where vegetation is brown and dead because it did not receive enough sunlight.
[Dhaka Tribune] A bottle has been recovered from the stomach of a patient at a clinic in Barisal city.
[Iraq Sun] A senior Moroccan 
He was one of my favorites. You ever notice how little democrats bother campaigning in Oklahoma ? 
