After plundering a Berlin office, a robber making his getaway was forced to call the fire department when he got stuck in the elevator. An office elevator foiled a would-be thief in Berlin on Saturday. A robber almost pulled off a successful heist in an office building in central Berlin early Saturday morning. But on his way out of the building, he was captured -- by the elevator. The 27-year-old man broke into an office building in Berlin's Mitte district and gathered up four laptop computers, according to police. But his getaway did not quite go as planned.
After plundering a Berlin office, a robber making his getaway was forced to call the fire department when he got stuck in the elevator.
An office elevator foiled a would-be thief in Berlin on Saturday. A robber almost pulled off a successful heist in an office building in central Berlin early Saturday morning. But on his way out of the building, he was captured -- by the elevator.
The 27-year-old man broke into an office building in Berlin's Mitte district and gathered up four laptop computers, according to police. But his getaway did not quite go as planned.
Turkey's central bank has been criticised by secularists for choosing a previously obscure Ottoman writer as the first woman to adorn the country's bank notes.Critics say the choice of Fatma Aliye, believed to be Turkey's first female novelist, represents a surrender to religious conservative forces and a snub to others who fought for women's rights.Aliye, who died in 1936 and was the daughter of a senior Ottoman bureaucrat and historian, is among several historical figures who will appear on the notes from January. The notes are being minted to mark the inauguration of a fresh currency to replace the existing New Turkish Lira.A central bank-appointed committee also chose a mathematician, a composer, an architect and a 13th-century Sufi mystic in a departure from the established practice of notes carrying political figures.
Turkey's central bank has been criticised by secularists for choosing a previously obscure Ottoman writer as the first woman to adorn the country's bank notes.
Critics say the choice of Fatma Aliye, believed to be Turkey's first female novelist, represents a surrender to religious conservative forces and a snub to others who fought for women's rights.
Aliye, who died in 1936 and was the daughter of a senior Ottoman bureaucrat and historian, is among several historical figures who will appear on the notes from January. The notes are being minted to mark the inauguration of a fresh currency to replace the existing New Turkish Lira.
A central bank-appointed committee also chose a mathematician, a composer, an architect and a 13th-century Sufi mystic in a departure from the established practice of notes carrying political figures.
The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News. Nearly 200 countries signed up to the target in 2002. Ten leading conservationists asked here at the World Conservation Congress were unanimous that the goal cannot be met. All the global indicators of progress are heading in the wrong direction, and few governments have even translated the target into national legislation. Not all the experts questioned would go on the record, and some said there was a reluctance to embarrass governments over their failures on the matter.
The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News.
Nearly 200 countries signed up to the target in 2002.
Ten leading conservationists asked here at the World Conservation Congress were unanimous that the goal cannot be met.
All the global indicators of progress are heading in the wrong direction, and few governments have even translated the target into national legislation.
Not all the experts questioned would go on the record, and some said there was a reluctance to embarrass governments over their failures on the matter.
If you look at wind in terms of percentage of final consumption, it looks better.
And that ignores the broader point that wind has moved from nowhere to visible in just a few years, and is now only reaching the "statistically significant" stage - but it is still keeping its nice growth rates, which means that it will rapidly claim a bigger chunk of final energy use.
EWEA conservatively estimates that 40% of new installed capacity in Europe by 2030 will be wind, just like in the current decade. That requires almost no growth in yearly installations. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
2006 are the freshest numbers I could get from Eurostat. I would love to have newer ones, but these ones to me still say daunting. Not impossible by a long shot, but needing real policy support rather than just targets.
nice shears.....shiny....won't hurt.... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
sheep are intelligent, next to bush worshippers!
she's probably wondering how humans ever got so loony ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
LA Times: At least 1 dead, more than 10,000 acres burned in 2 San Fernando fires
With treacherous Santa Ana winds as their bellows, twin wildfires raced through populated canyons, forests and brushlands on the northern fringes of the San Fernando Valley, claiming at least one life and 49 structures, and prompting authorities to suggest a hair-raising, worst-case scenario -- that one of the blazes, which began near Porter Ranch, could burn all the way to the Pacific Ocean about 15 miles away. "This fire has the potential to move from where it is now . . . perhaps as far as Pacific Coast Highway," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Michael Freeman said Monday afternoon as he assessed what he called "a design for disaster." Freeman said winds of up to 60 mph were expected to push the fire down through canyons at least through this morning. More than 800 city, county and state firefighters battled the two blazes, which shut down major portions of the 210 and 118 freeways and filled the horizon with a thick curtain of smoke, white at the edges but fading from red to black near the core. The scene took on an apocalyptic cast as traffic ground to a standstill and blasts of wind sent shudders through cars and buildings, bending trees, snapping limbs and sending trash cans clattering on empty, smoke-darkened blocks. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, warning residents that the fickle winds made the fires especially dangerous and unpredictable.
"This fire has the potential to move from where it is now . . . perhaps as far as Pacific Coast Highway," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Michael Freeman said Monday afternoon as he assessed what he called "a design for disaster." Freeman said winds of up to 60 mph were expected to push the fire down through canyons at least through this morning.
More than 800 city, county and state firefighters battled the two blazes, which shut down major portions of the 210 and 118 freeways and filled the horizon with a thick curtain of smoke, white at the edges but fading from red to black near the core. The scene took on an apocalyptic cast as traffic ground to a standstill and blasts of wind sent shudders through cars and buildings, bending trees, snapping limbs and sending trash cans clattering on empty, smoke-darkened blocks.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, warning residents that the fickle winds made the fires especially dangerous and unpredictable.
In the meantime, the Marek is about 3 miles away, but the winds seem to be pushing it in the opposite direction, so we're fine, although the kitties have been oddly subdued - I think they can smell the smoke. Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2008) -- Thirty-five percent of the world's birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are likely to be particularly susceptible to climate change, the first results of an IUCN study have revealed.> The report identified more than 90 biological traits which are believed to make species most susceptible to climate change. It found that 3,438 of the world's 9,856 bird species have at least one out of 11 traits that could make them susceptible to climate change. Albatross, penguin, petrel and shearwater families are all likely to be susceptible to climate change, while heron and egret families, and osprey, kite, hawk and eagle families are among those least likely to be susceptible to climate change.
ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2008) -- Thirty-five percent of the world's birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are likely to be particularly susceptible to climate change, the first results of an IUCN study have revealed.>
The report identified more than 90 biological traits which are believed to make species most susceptible to climate change. It found that 3,438 of the world's 9,856 bird species have at least one out of 11 traits that could make them susceptible to climate change.
Albatross, penguin, petrel and shearwater families are all likely to be susceptible to climate change, while heron and egret families, and osprey, kite, hawk and eagle families are among those least likely to be susceptible to climate change.
