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Police Dogs “Outsourced” for Rats! Dutch Police Train Rats to Aid Crime Investigations – SPIEGEL ONLINE

“Derrick” is unbeatable. He’s right in 98.8 percent of all cases, the kind of accuracy only machines can achieve. But Derrick is no machine. He’s part of an elite group of sewer rats currently being trained in Rotterdam to sniff out drugs, gunpowder or traces of other substances that cling to someone after they’ve committed a crime.

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Shooting a gun leaves behind gunshot residue that until now could only be detected in a costly laboratory. Dutch police, under pressure to save money, now see Derrick and his four classmates as a cheaper and faster option than traditional science. The project’s potential savings has won it the support of the police’s “innovation manager.”

via Dutch Police Train Rats to Aid Crime Investigations – SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Egyptian Aak. Week 37

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Week 37- A Few Thoughts. The Brotherhood’s New strategy

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 A month has passed since the forced ending of the pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo. The widespread security crackdown and the arrest of the Brotherhood’s most senior cadres have had a huge impact in paralyzing the main skeleton of the group and has limited their ability to function.

 How has the Muslim Brotherhood coped with this? It is important to look at other aspects of the Brotherhood’s structure and mindset that opponents miss or ignore. These factors are crucial to understanding how the Brotherhood survives. Two aspects are especially worth highlighting.

 First, many believe the widespread myth that Islamists in general, and the Brotherhood in particular do not read about other ideologies and foreign books. This is untrue, many Islamists read the “Infidel’s” books; mainly to look for ideas that vindicate their ideology, and tips that can be of help to their own goals. For example, many Islamists have read __

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Photos: Crowd Cheers As Firefighters Rescue Dog From Burning Building: LAist

A crowd waited breathlessly as Santa Monica firefighters attempted to revive a dog that had been overcome by smoke inhalation. The good news: Stella the dog pulled through.

Firefighters responded Saturday morning to a fire at an apartment building at the corner of 2nd and Hill Street, according to KTLA 5.

Firefighters discovered the female boxer behind a mattress as they searched the five-unit structure for victims.

“If you walked in there and looked at it the first time through you wouldn’t see it,” Captain Jeff Furrows of the Santa Monica Fire Department—who didn’t at first realize the dog, Stella, was a girl—told KTLA. “But he was obviously trying to get away, that’s what his instincts told him to do,” he said.

Stella suffered smoke inhalation and was unconscious when firefighters carried her to safety. Luckily, they had a pet oxygen mask and placed it over Stella’s muzzle.

A crowd watched and waited along with the rescue workers; 15 minutes later, the dog came around.

A boy who got caught up in the drama told KTLA, “Everybody got excited. It’s a dog, man’s best friend.” A woman confessed, “I got very emotional.”

via Photos: Crowd Cheers As Firefighters Rescue Dog From Burning Building: LAist.

[Update] Cops Mistakenly Shoot Two Female Bystanders In Times Square: Gothamist

Police said one officer fired one shot, not striking the man. Then another officer who had responded fired two shots at the man, also not striking him. Instead, two pedestrians standing on the northeast corner of 8th Avenue and West 42nd Street were struck. A 54-year-old woman who uses a walker was struck in the lower right leg and rushed to Bellevue Hospital. A 35-year-old woman was grazed in her buttocks and was transported to Roosevelt Hospital.

via [Update] Cops Mistakenly Shoot Two Female Bystanders In Times Square: Gothamist.

GM and Green Revolution practices detrimental to ecosystems in Africa (IRIN News)

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http://www.irinnews.org/report/98378/countering-africa-s-green-revolution

Countering Africa’s green revolution

Civil society groups are taking on the policies of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which promotes the use of genetically modified (GM) crops and Green Revolution technologies.

They argue that GM and Green Revolution practices – those aimed at increasing developing countries’ crop yields through specific innovations – will, in the long run, be detrimental to ecosystems across the continent. Earlier this month, a coalition of almost 60 civil society groups across Africa came out to protest AGRA ahead of the G8 Summit in London.

“Green Revolution technologies benefit relatively few farmers, often at the expense of the majority. These technologies produce concentration of land ownership, increasing economies of scale (production has to be at a large scale to get into and stay in markets), and a declining number of food-producing households in a context of limited other…

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