A cash-strapped council has revealed plans to heat a swimming pool using furnaces at a nearby crematorium.
Town hall chiefs want to use excess heat generated by the incinerator to warm the water for swimmers - and save £14,500-a-year on heating bills. If approved, Redditch Borough Council will be the first authority in the country to use a crematorium to heat a swimming pool.
The council has outlined plans to heat Abbey Stadium Sports Centre from the cremators at neighbouring Borough Of Redditch Cemeteries & Crematorium. Currently, heat from the incinerators - which reach 800 degrees C (1,472F) - is lost into the atmosphere.
Council chiefs say it will save cash and is a greener way of powering the leisure centre.
But local people have expressed concerns at the proposals, branding them "eerie".
Simon Thomas, of Thomas Brothers Funeral Directors, said: "I don't know how comfortable people would feel about the swimming pool being heated due to the death of a loved one, I think it's a bit strange and eerie.
"I'm not comfortable with it at all and I think trying to save money due to the death of someone's family member or friend is a bit sick.
"I think it will cause uproar and may even put people off using the facilities which would lose the council money. It just doesn't feel right." Mother Nature recycles everything. Get used to it. There won't be any ashes or bodies floating in the pool. Trust me.
But council leader Carole Gandy yesterday (Mon) defended the plans, saying it would be save money and energy "in the long-term".
She said: "I'd much rather use the energy rather than just see it going out of the chimney and heating the sky. It will make absolutely no difference to the people who are using the crematorium for services.
"I do recognise some people might not like it, but if they don't they don't have to use our crematorium. I wouldn't want them to do that but they have to make that choice.
"It's only a proposal at the moment but personally I'm supportive of it because I think it will save the authority money and, in the long-term, save energy which is what we're all being told we should do."
Gordon Hull, from the Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities, said: "From an environmental view it makes sense that you don't need a separate boiler because of how much waste heat is created from the process."
A public meeting to discuss the plans will be held on Thursday before the matter is discussed at the council's executive committee next Tuesday.
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"I do recognise some people might not like it, but if they don't they don't have to use our crematorium.
ROFLMAO.
But when the Earth's dying, you gotta do what you gotta do. At least people are carbon neutral. Maybe Gore could give it a try: "Oh, this isn't the sauna?"
[An Nahar] As crestfallen followers of a Caliphornia preacher who foresaw the world's end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before global cataclysm struck the planet, said Monday that he felt so terrible when his doomsday message did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions -- some of it from donations made by followers -- on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 recreational vehicles plastered with the Judgment Day message.
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HMMMMM, HMMMMM, wehell, iff the good Parson is not a MADONNA, WHITNEY, or MARIAH FAN, then I have no choice but to presume that he read ...
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > {Aussie Climate Commission = Report] "ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY" FLOODING COULD HAPPEN EVERY YEAR!
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On Ghostbusters II when Bill Murray is hosting the para-normal show and his guest starts having a breakdown predicting the end of the world on Feb.14.
Bill Murray's reply: Well for your sake, I hope you're right.
[Ennahar] Algerian authorities have ordered the closing of seven Protestant churches in the region of Bejaia in Kabylia (east) Where???
Clearly we need to invest in new maps. But where are we to store them?
because they do not meet conditions set by law on the exercise of a religion in this country, told AFP Wednesday the head of the Protestant Church of Algeria.
Protestants? They didn't exist at the time of Mohammed.
"We received a notification on May 8 from the prefect of Bejaia asking us to close the seven churches located in the region," said Pastor Mustaphan Krim.
"No reasons were given. But it seems that this decision was taken in February 2006 law" requiring official authorization for the exercise of religion of non-Mohammedans," he added.
"We will continue our activities because our churches existed before the law. We have contacted the authorities for our compliance with this law but we are faced with obstacles," said the president of the EPA.
They don't want you to exercise your religion, so obstacles anti-miraculously appear.
The exercise of a religion, Mohammedan or non Mohammedan, is conditioned in Algeria to obtain an approval determining the place of worship and another for the preacher, according to a law enacted in February 2006.
The exercise of non-Mohammedan worship is recognized by the Algerian Constitution which also recognizes the freedom of conscience.
"We are not against the practice of religions other than Islam. We invite non-Mohammedan religious to comply with the law" said the prefect of Bejaia, Hammou Touhami, quoted by the French-language daily El Watan Wednesday.
"We ask them to comply with the law. Some exercise their worship in garages," said the prefect.
The Evangelist church progresses in Algeria, particularly in Kabylia, and its followers would reach according to Mustaphan Krim, some 30,000 faithful.
All of whom no doubt used to be something else. But under Sharia law, conversion may only be to Islam, not to another religion. Freedom of conscience, my foot.
Algerian religious leaders had repeatedly denounced illegal evangelical activities against Islam the state religion and religion of the majority of Algerians.
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Kabylia is in east Algeria, where the Berbers live. The have traditionally been treated like second class citizens by the "Arabs" (actually people who forgot their original language and culture and went with the new rulers).
The Berbers have been disatisfied with their lot under Islam. In Berbers have been attracted to other religions as a result.
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Someone's kid must be doing a business course on-line or something -- they appear to have discovered the twin ideas of holding costs and lost opportunity costs... Or else the increasing violence of the navies' responses has planted the idea of cashing out and getting into a safer line of work.
hello OP didn't get a chance to respond to yesterday where you mentioned levelling Eyl and Haradheere as a solution.
Only solution is on land by supporting Farole. If you destroy Eyl and Haradeere there are millions more starving young 14 year olds willing to jump in a skiff with an AK 47 and hold up a merchant ship.
Only way to stop it is to create order on land.
Puntland has a functioning court system you know, and has hundreds of pirates locked in its jails. But Farole can't do much on a yearly budget of less than $20 million.
Blame the UN for this one. They are totaly to blame for the chaos of somalia.
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anon1 - Neither Haradhere or Eyl are in Puntland. They're both in lower Somalia.
The way to put an end to piracy is to make it unprofitable. If too many pirates end up dead, if their families and friends are blown to rubble, and their villages obliterated from the Earth, they'll find a safer line of work.
All the law enforcement in the world hasn't stopped the illegal drug industry. Blowing apart about half of Mexico would put an end to it in a heartbeat, if you choose the right half. Robert Heinlein had a great treatise on the use of force: force has changed more than any other single factor in history. Used correctly, it can be a force for good. Used indiscriminately, and it becomes a call for greater force. Arabs/Africans/Muslims believe in strong horse/weak horse philosophy. The United State has yet to show it's willing to be the strong horse, no matter who gets hurt. Until it does, we'll be nickeled and dimed to death in the Muddled East and central Africa. The first time we can show we will make Genghis Khan look like a piker, all that will stop.
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[Arab News] Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have tossed in the clink one of the criminal masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... court handling their cases said on Wednesday.
The Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said Bernard Munyagishari, a former Hutu militia leader, was wanted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape.
"The ICTR Prosecutor, Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow, announced today the arrest in the DRC of ICTR runaway Bernard Munyagishari (52), former President of the Interahamwe for Gisenyi, who was tossed in the clink in ... Kachanga, North Kivu," the court said in a statement.
Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus over 100 days between April and June 1994.
Munyagishari, born in 1959 in Rubavu commune in Gisenyi prefecture, was among those who featured in the US State Department's Rewards for Justice program, with a reward of up to $5 million for his capture.
The court said he was tossed in the clink in an operation involving the Congolese army and the ICTR's tracking unit and was in detention in Goma awaiting transfer to the court in Arusha, Tanzania.
"The prosecutor hailed the DRC authorities for their cooperation in executing the warrant of arrest despite the hurdles encountered in tracking down the runaway in difficult terrain," it said.
"The accused is alleged to have recruited, trained and led Interahamwe Death Eaters in mass killings and rapes of Tutsi women in Gisenyi and beyond, between April and July 1994."
The ICTR said that after his arrest, nine of those it says were most responsible for the slaughter were still on the lam.
Since its establishment in late 1994, the court has delivered 46 judgments of which eight were acquittals. Another nine cases are on appeal.
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For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
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...Parliament seems to have 'unlearned' the lesson about not paying the army. That little thingy about telling the boys and Cromwell to go home without pay didn't turn out too well.
A democracy is not predicated upon how many votes are in the ballot box, but how many of its citizens are willing to 'give the last full measure of devotion' to sustain it. When no one is left who will effectively do that, the game is up.
[An Nahar] Ukrainian prosecutors on Tuesday denied arresting former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko after the pro-Western leader's party said she had been taken into custody.
"Pshaw! Perish the thought!"
The 2005 Orange Revolution leader has been repeatedly summoned for questioning on charges that she defrauded the state out of millions while serving as head of ex-Soviet state's government.
"See? No arrest, just harassment."
Petty harassment is a specialty of every state...
She and the party see the claims as the political vendetta of Ukraine's current leader Viktor Yanukovych, Tymoshenko pro-Russian rival who narrowly beat her in presidential elections last year.
Her supporters have expressed repeated fears that Tymoshenko may soon be taken into custody and announced on their party website on Tuesday that "the authorities have nabbed Yulia Tymoshenko" following another interrogation session.
But a top investigative official said Tymoshenko would be allowed to go home after questioning.
"Right now we are holding an interrogation, and it concludes, Yulia Tymoshenko will go home," Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Tymoshenko is currently barred from leaving the capital Kiev, and a front man for the prosecutor general's office said a decision to place her under arrest "has not yet been taken" by the judge overseeing the case.
The authorities accuse Tymoshenko of refusing to cooperate with the investigation, and Sherlocks said in a statement that "she has long been evading the investigation."
Tymoshenko has turned into one of the most high-profile and powerful political opponents of Yanukovych, her eternal political rival whose controversial presidential victory in 2005 was overturned after mass street protests.
Several government allies of Tymoshenko face embezzlement charges and potential long terms in jail.
In April, Tymoshenko herself was accused of costing her government almost $200 million by signing excessively expensive natural gas deals with Russia.
Tymoshenko backers say the government is rallying public opinion in support of her future detention, accusing the prosecutor general's office of trying to arrest their leader before deciding to let her go.
"We are talking about an attempted arrest," party spokeswoman Natalia Lysova told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Tymoshenko may be tossed in the calaboose for up to 10 years and forbidden from running for office for another three if convicted.
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New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to 424,000 last week from a revised 414,000 in the prior week, pointing to a painfully slow improvement in the nation's job markets. Also tied in with this story: MORE WEAKNESS: Q1 GDP Misses Expectations, Personal Consumption Unexpectedly Dives Good thing I'm not playing a drinking game where I take a shot every time I hear "Unexpectedly". I'd be drunk and passed out by 9am. Just remember kids, our economy is improving thanks to teh 0ne and it is the fault of the evil capitalist businesses that won't hire.
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IIRC PAUL RYAN on FOX NEWS AM > POTUS BAMMER ECON RECOVERY, as influenced by QE stimulus, is AMER'S WEAKEST IN THE ENTIRE POST-WAR [WW2?] PERIOD, + espec the weakest since 1972 or 1973 WHEN US ECON INDICATORS WERE WORSE???
Caught only part of the end segment, so I may be mistaken as to Ryan's finer points.
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"
President Obama tried to marshal global economic support for Egypt and Tunisia at a gathering of industrialized countries on Thursday, even as some European allies were privately urging him to boost Americas role in the military campaign in Libya.
These crosscutting pressures show the complexity of the Arab upheaval and the responses it is drawing from major powers. While the United States is stressing the need to stabilize the economy of Egypt, its major Arab ally, France and Britain are eager to intensify the NATO air strikes on Libyas leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Ratko Mladic, the war crimes fugitive accused of orchestrating the Siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, is understood to have been arrested in Serbia. The former Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army was reportedly seized by police after an anonymous tip-off. Tip o' the hat to Milan the Weasel...
"He has some physical features of Mladic. We are analysing his DNA now," an Interior Ministry official said.
Serbian media reported that the suspect was living under the name of Milorad Komadic.
The European Commission said it had "all reason to believe" that Mladic could be the man arrested.
Serbia had been told it must arrest Mladic, sought by the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide during the Bosnian war, if it wants to join the European Union.
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Hopefully they took the DNA from the center of his brain. He's an animal and doesn't deserve to die of old age under Jerry Springer's Carla Del Pontes slow wheels of justice
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We actually went after him when we were there. That shriveled up Biatch was Sec-state. Had teams prepped to get him, called it off because he was on electoral ballot. I guess the Russians (Who were right) warned that old bag that this was Serbian territory. That whole thing was another democrat run crap train vying for the evil side as usual.
If moslems kill Christians or Jews, its just a few crazies. If the reverse happens, it's genocide.
This world is almost too stupid to care for anymore, and the leaders - I would not piss on if they were on fire.
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An interesting point is that Kagan recused herself on the basis of having been solicitor general (the government's lawyer) during some of the relevant time period. This might bode well for World War Three (the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare.)
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CNN Headline: "High court backs Arizona immigration law that punishes businesses"
No bias there. Nope.
Nothing to see here, move along....
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This is a very potent decision because the federal argument was that States have no authority to enforce immigration laws, and that is the same argument they used for the still pending AZ SB 1070 law.
But the ramification may even be bigger than that, because it both opens the door to the States challenging the federal government on a whole host of issues that the feds have asserted authority over, *and* it menaces the feds directly over their horrific overreach.
Inter- and Intrastate commerce for one, and the General Welfare clause for another. And that is more than half of the federal government right there.
If the Republicans maintain the House, capture the Senate, and the presidency, if their Tea Party people assert themselves, they could cut the federal government in half, and the SCOTUS would back them.
Zero Senate Democrats voted to move forward on President Obama's 2012 budget proposal, and the motion to proceed on it failed by a unanimous 0-97 vote.
- this may a first
- back in Feb 2011, many Donks had praise for the budget - among them were Reid, Schumer, Coons, Carper, Cantwell, Shaheen, Nelson, Conrad, Cardin, Hagin, Kohl, Gillibrand, Blumenthal, Lautenberg, Baucus, Brown, Franken, Harkin and Udall
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first a schooling by Bibi, then faux pas at the State dinner in Britain, now this. Nice week, Oblahblah. Remind us again of how you personally shot Osama...
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But why can't we have a budget that spends 100% of our GDP in one year?
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Four budgets were voted on in the Senate: Ryan's, Toomey's, Rand Paul's, and O'bama's. Ryan's budget got 40 votes, Toomey's 42, Paul's budget got 7 votes, and O'bama's got 0 votes. Paul's budget conforms with a balanced budget amendment. It has now been 756 days since the Senate Democrats have passed a budget. Not a single Democrat voted for any of the four budgets brought up before the Senate.
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The most important thing the Arab/Muslim world did was to save some of what the Greeks discovered. Almost all of that knowledge was lost/destroyed in Christian Europe.
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This seems like something Hillary could effectively launch.
Originally funded by the British government and launched in the United Kingdom in 2006, 1001 Inventions was created by the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization (FSTC). FSTC is a British-based non-profit, international network of the world's leading academics with expertise in the history of science and technology. Both 1001 Inventions and FSTC are non-religious, apolitical organizations and have received support from various arms of the British government, the Wellcome Trust and the British Science Association. Prior to its London launch in January 2010, the content of 1001 Inventions was rigorously reviewed by its inaugural host, the London Science Museum.
Non-religious apolitical organizations. Riiiight. Nothing racial, either. I hope the Brits like it in the ummah. Has anyone debunked this?
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Phil, the Muslim world didn't "save" anything. Greek knowledge was alive and well in the Eastern Roman Empire (aka Byzantine Empire), which is where the Muzzies got it. One of the main causes of the Renaissance was the influx of Byzantines to western Europe as the Turks dismantled their empire.
Come now, EU - how could you forget the buzzing prayer rug? Or the devilishly clever homicide belt for children and the retarded? Or how they've turning seething into an art form?
Give credit where credit it due!
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Parking is 8 bucks, but at least there isn't an additional charge for visiting this little propaganda parade (a lot of the exhibits in the California ScienCenter are and have been exactly that, though).
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I had to look. Apparently there are 1001 of them, which comes out to around 3/4 of an invention per year...no examples though.
OK, I do remember something about a urine and milk mixture which cured AIDS. There is a cure for cancer in Libya. The African slave trade with the colonialists. Can they take credit for body scanners and the reinforced cabin door?
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.
As crestfallen followers of a 
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to 424,000 last week from a revised 414,000 in the prior week, pointing to a painfully slow improvement in the nation's job markets.
