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Smell Free Astronaut Underwear

A Japanese astronaut is busy in administration of a line of odour free inners and casual clothing on the international space station. Koichi Wakata first person from the Far East nation to live in the orbiting conditions is trying out J-ware by textile experts at Japan Women’s University in Tokyo.

Koji Yanagawa, a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency official said that he can wear his underwear about 8 to 10 days at a stretch. Mr. Wakata’s clothes, developed by researcher Yoshiko Taya, they designed underwear in such way that it will kill bacteria and can absorb moisture. These are also resistant to flame and anti-static. These are too comfortable and stylish yet.

The international space station conducted the experiment and gave his views that even after a tiring day the spaceman’s clothes was dry whereas others were sweaty.

But J-ware should be conscious about amount of clothing since it costs huge sending cargo to the orbit. Also the space has no facility of laundry. So a less clothing saves on important time.

So the Japanese space agency is planning to export it to NASA and the other space station as soon as its development gets finished. These products can be launched on commercial lines too.

The researchers are sitting with the manufacturers Toray Industries and Goldwin Inc on the inners that the clothing’s had a very thin layer which absorbs the perspiration and keep it dry.

Mr. Wakata paid his visit last week at the space station for his three month research said no complaints have been received so far that means that they are working fine.

The Ripper is fighting for parole

Yesterday, the judge in the case of Peter Sutcliffe quickly lifted the cloak of anonymity away from the infamous serial killer after he applied for a parole hearing to find out what his eligibility would be.

The case is creating a stir due to the fact that if he is granted a tariff that expires, or a minimum jail term, then he would not only be eligible for parole, but also for a lifelong anonymity order which could place people in peril.

At the moment the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper is going by the name Peter Coonan and in October a judge instructed that he should be referred to in court as Sutcliffe so that his new identity is protected. The media was able to successfully argue however, that the alias should be part of public domain and thus is mentionable.

If he is granted lifelong anonymity then Sutcliff would be able to start his life again in the shadows of the world with his previous actions behind him, with only a small handful of police officers and probation officers aware of his presence.

Due to the new court release order, Sutcliffe how has a few problems in his way such as winning a tariff and proving that he is mentally fit to be transferred from Broadmoor to a prison cell where he can be eligible for parole.

It seems inconceivable that such a man is even being considered for release, it is hard to fathom why it is even being discussed, a bank robber or drug dealer may change his ways, or at least has paid his prescribed debt to society, but a serial killer will not change his spots, and should certainly not benefit from being able to live next door to a woman without her knowing.

Tag Rugby Trust launch rugby charity auction

An online raffle aiming to raise money for the Tag Rugby Trust has just been launched with nearly 20 great prizes to be won, including signed memorabilia, rugby tickets, clothing and kit, generously donated by companies such as Puma, Gilbert, Kitbag and viagogo.

The Tag Rugby Trust is a rugby-based charity that was formed in 2002, which helps to improve the lives of children in some of the poorest regions of the world. We currently work with orphanages and government schools in India, Mexico, Zambia, Uganda and Kenya using the game of Tag Rugby as our vehicle. We fund our tours through volunteers who pay to join the adventure and who work closely with the children in a coaching capacity. Almost without exception our volunteers say that the tour is a life changing experience for them.

Raffle tickets cost just £2, and every penny of the funds raised will go to the charity, helping to improve the lives of under-privileged children all around the world.

There are so many prizes on offer that there will be three draws made, with the first taking place on April 1st – tickets will be valid for every draw after the date on which it was bought.

The plan is to make the Rugby Raffle an annual event, with the aim of growing the prize list and raising plenty of money for charity – please help to make the first year is a success, and then look out for another in 2011.

To enter the raffle, please visit: www.justgiving.com/rugbyraffle2010

The Tag Rugby Trust website can be found at www.trdt.co.uk.

Transsexuals To Get Two ID Cards

The Home office minister for Scotland has declared that transsexuals who are yet to perform their sex-change operation should have two ID cards.

One card is of their gender by birth and the other, which they will get as “gender of designation”. Though ID Cards bills have faced many problems, still Scotland declared it will go all out those controversial ID cards.

Reporting of the bill was completed. A third reading has been set to 6 March.

Disclosure of information

On Monday when peers voted with 155-138 a majority of 17 were against the government. The National Identity Scheme Commissioner is appointed by the Crown rather than the home secretary.

The government just won another when peers voted 155 to 155 on a Tory scheme to make sure the role of home secretary in authorizing the disclosure of information is kept in place.

National Security

She said that they were not in the same level as of the Information Commissioner or the Immigration Services commissioner. It is the commissioner who will decided what should be deleted because he has gone through the issues, which is affecting crime and national security.

She gave an argument saying an edited copy should be displayed by the home secretary along with security statements would change the nature of the role of a commissioner.

Peers have called for a separate act of parliament before the voluntary ID scheme can be made compulsory. After the bill passes its third reading in the Lords it will move to the Commons where ministers will ask MPs to idea of two IDs for transsexuals.

Marijuana Is Legal. If you’re A Shepherd

Italy’s highest court had given his verdict that an Italian shepherd can take marijuana since he has sheep as his only company. So marijuana had received an unexpected endorsement for recreational purposes.

It is fine to use for medicinal purposes but it is quite surprising that the verdict has been passed to use the drug for loneliness. When an old shepherd was moving with his flock in the mountains of Alto Adige for long periods of time, he would partake of the weed, but he was then caught with marijuana in his car.

Police found some 38 grams of the drug in his possession. So the shepherd was convicted. He decides to go for an appeal and the court gave its verdict in favour of the shepherd.

The court said that it is justified or a shepherd to carry this small amount of drug with him as this person is about to spend “a long and solitary period”. He has no company other than the sheep so for recreational purpose marijuana can be used.

It is not so surprising at the court’s verdict because it is not the first time that the court has given such verdict in favour of marijuana. Last July the court squashed the conviction of a Rastafarian, Giuseppe G… the court said that the drug does cause a possible damage to the persons brain or turn him to a psycho but it was believed that this herb grew on tomb of Solomon who was regarded as a wise king so was acceptable.

No food but plenty of opium poppies in Afghanistan

Marjah is an opium paradise found in the Helmand River valley where the reign of the Taliban is still quite strong creating the most insurgent den out of all the southern Afghanistan areas.

It was first built as a model farm belt that was irrigated by canals by the US government during the fifties, but has seen then become the target of the largest offensive since the original 2001 invasion in which the Taliban regime was ousted.

Saturday was the official launch date of the offensive, tagged Operation Mushtarak by the US in a strategy aimed at finally defeating the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The area of Marjah and the Helmand province contains about 125,000 people and has been out of control since 2001.

Although the area is quite fertile cropland, it is mostly composed of impoverished villages that farm livestock.

While the area could help provide plenty of food to the nation, instead it is one of the richest areas in the world when it comes to heroin and opium, which earns billions of dollars every year that is put to use by the insurgency.

The residents of the land are mostly from Pashtub tribes and are either jobless or generally poor. Woman in the area are still restricted to keep purdah and are fully clothed in public and are often kept indoors.

Many people in the area are actually forced to grow poppies, a problem that has increased since the US Marines drove the Taliban out of other areas within the Helmand province.

Haiti Kids Kino Project setting up temporary social cinema for affected kids

The Haiti Kids Kino Project is a voluntary project traveling to the Dominican Republic to set up a temporary social cinema for children affected by the Haiti earthquakes. The project will screen films for children and provide workshops, equipment, mentoring and tuition to make their own films. These films will be shown to Haitian audiences and then in the UK.

The Haiti Kids Kino Project is organised by Bristol’s The Cube Cinema own children’s project – Nanoplex, which aims to stimulate and encourage young people’s creativity and active learning. Nanoplex regularly runs children’s workshops, cabarets, film screenings and musical events in Bristol.

The Haiti Kids Kino Project is a micro-humanitarian goodwill project to provide an opening for escape, community, emotion and social occasion to a people and a place devastated by natural disaster. Haitian children are experiencing damage and despair, and further anxiety can grow through inaction, loneliness, isolation and boredom. Sharing the experience of making and watching films, while offering a temporary respite, the Haiti Kids Kino Project will contribute to quality of life through creating, sharing, reflecting, forging friendships and connections.

Patrick McCormick, emergencies communication officer for the UN says:

“The worst thing for children in natural disasters isn’t just the damage that they see around them, but also when they sit around with nothing to do. It ramps up anxiety and despair, and that’s what does even more damage.”

Esther May Campbell, BAFTA award winning director and Cube volunteer says:

“The Cube has always had a fantastically, hands on approach to things. As a provider of grass roots cultural exchange, this is the most direct humanitarian response it can offer. When children, who have suffered these kind of traumas have nothing to do, desperation and anxiety levels shoot through the roof. The Cube has skills, passion and networks, enabling us to create a mobile cinema for young people, intending to offer community, hope and distraction.”

The intention is not only to screen films for children, but also to provide workshops, equipment, mentoring and tuition for children to make their own films. These are then projected back to them, and back in the UK. The benefits include temporary childcare, community, sharing stories and the cinematic experience. This is intended to be a long term project that becomes a Haitian led and self sufficient initiative.

Two volunteers will be going to Haiti within the next month and the Cube project is raising funds to equip them with screens, cameras and films, vaccines and to cover travel costs.

The Haiti Kids Kino Project are urgently looking for donations of equipment and funding. There are many ways of donating:

1. To donate the old fashioned way, please send cheques made out to ”Cube Cinema Ltd” , The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT c/o The Cube Cinema 4 Princess Row Bristol BS2 8NQ

2. Or, by bank transfer to the Cube Cinema’s dedicated Haiti Kids Kino account.

ACCOUNT NAME: CUBE CINEMA LTD
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 20201907
SORT CODE: 16-58-10
Reference: Haiti Kids Kino Project

3. Or donate this way : The HAITI SCREENINGS

http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Ha…
You can buy tickets online, by phone or in person from Bristol Ticket Office for a screening in Haiti or The Dominican Republic. And, if you can’t make it yourself (!), don’t worry because your seat will go to a Young Haitian Person, and the 5 price of a ticket, goes to raising funds for The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT.

Please buy as many tickets as you can. Its a great way to donate.

4. If you want to make a greater donation, please get in touch directly haitikidskino@cubecinema.com

Further information on the project can be found at http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/haiti_kids_kino.php.

How to Hula – Advice from Marawa the Amazing

Who better to teach you how to hula than Marawa the Amazing, star of the sensational cabaret and circus act, La Clique. In this fun video she takes you through the basics of hula hooping and gives some top tips for being able to keep it going for the two minutes needed to help set a new world record at the Hula Hoops Hoopathons for Sport Relief.

The public are being encouraged to register for a place at one of the 16 nationwide events where thousands of people will simultaneously hula hoop across different locations for two minutes to set a new hula hooping record.

The Hula Hoops Hoopathons are taking place at the 16 Flagship Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile events across the UK on Sunday 21st March. Book a place at www.hulahoops.com and get sponsored to raise loads of cash for this fantastic cause.

Afghanistan now has more dead Brits than the Falklands

Over the past two days three more soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan by bombs. This brings the total number of British service personnel who have died in the Afghanistan conflict up to 256 which is one more soldier than was lost in 1982 in the Falkland Islands.

Sunday, two people from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the Royal Scots Borderers died while near the Helmand province on foot patrol. Yesterday another soldier was killed near Nad-e-Ali in the Southern area of Helmand while attempting to clear the area of explosive devices.

The men’s names have not yet been released but their family members have been notified.

A spokesman for the Royal Scots stated that the two soldiers on foot patrol were helping the local people with security when an explosion caught them off guard. The spokesman continued to say that while they were cruelly taken; their fortitude and bravery will be remembered.

The men were killed the night before the NATO ground forces launched what is touted as the largest offensive by the group since 2001. The offensive is known as Operation Mastarak and is allegedly going to include about 10,000 troops in an effort to take back Marja from the Taleban.

In an unusual fashion, western commanders have made their decision widely known so that civilians in the area have the chance to vacate the area before action commences.

Commander of Helmand UK forces, Brigadier James Cowan, stated that the aim is to make sure that innocent people are safe.