Pendle Hill, the mummified cat and the wonder in our surroundings | Faisal Hanif

the ruins of a house in Lancashire that once may have been a witch meeting house threw local historians into a frenzy

Lancashire is often associated with the golden age of British companies and invention. The monuments of the litter was great industrial nation of its towns and villages, many of which are unfortunately prolonged economic hangovers. But last week offered an often overlooked, timely reminder of a permanent distribution of more amazing the region and history.

Despite the private industrial enclaves after sitting in his shadow, Pendle Hill is a commanding presence on the horizon to the east of Lancashire. Choline is one of the many natural wonders that make up this picturesque landscape: go east and you get the Apennines, north-west is the Forest of Bowland, traveling south-west takes you to the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Despite its position among the many, Pendle Hill feel a bit isolated, perhaps rightly, given its unique status.

Before chimneys began to dominate the landscape, the hill was the site of a pre-industrial histories most infamous of Great Britain. In 1612, 11 men and women were accused of witchcraft, and the trial ended with the hanging of all but one of them.

Although the story are well known in Britain and beyond, has always been an element of mystery and romance attached to it. Each year thousands of visitors to Pendle Hill are intrigued by one of the major episodes historic regions. But the modern spirit has come to accept most of which was a bit more of a history of persecution that has an atmosphere of superstition, where the religious fanatics are willing to protect the name of faith led by the crown.

the discovery last week of a country house which bears the remains of a mummified cat on the walls can do little to dispel the idea accepted, but there is a finding of great historical importance . When accused of witchcraft were found in the castle of Lancaster, Thomas Potts, the clerk of the court records all indicating a meeting place, ie, "Malkin Tower." To date, the location of this place has remained unknown. This latter finding has local historians into a frenzy, and the nature of the comparisons of well-preserved cottages began to Pompeii, and even the tomb of Tutankhamun.

If the house is presented as the legendary meeting place of witches or not remains to be seen. But what conclusion should train the local community and across the country is a related idea of ??the enormous potential that your environment may vomit. At a time when the fortunes of the nation depend heavily on the City of London financial district, so much so that Prime Minister may challenge an entire continent to protect its interests, the connection to the immediate environment has been eroded .

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Starwatch: Mercury in view

It is not our moon, but recently published a mosaic of the planet Mercury as seen in images from NASA's MESSENGER probe. Despite representing an entire hemisphere of the smallest planet, shadows delineate several characteristics and, of course, be visible if it were a real "Mercury full" view from the direction of the sun.

The most important characteristics are the impact basin Tolstoy dark bordered, about 350 km in diameter and just under the right of center, and the enormous Caloris Basin, located in quadrant the top left. It, 1550 miles across and one of the largest structures of its kind in our solar system, is just north of the Mozart 225 km from the crater.

Although there is little interest in the effort to detect these features on the Earth, Mercury is the start of a race in favor of the poor visibility within the department Economy in our morning twilight. A view of Britain from 13 to 29, amounts to more than 100 minutes before sunrise and walk between 8 ° and 10 ° height thirty minutes before sunrise. Brightness of magnitude 0.5 to -0.4, must become an object visible to the naked eye and binocular easy if our horizon is clear. Through a telescope, its phase varies between 28% and 76% sun that its diameter is reduced from 8.5 to 5.9 seconds of arc.

not forget the imminent peak of 14 on Wednesday, the Geminids meteor shower of the year. Its bright meteors are relatively slow and occur in all regions of the sky, although their paths separated from the radiant point near Castor in Gemini, N and E (left) of Orion. Low in the northeast at dusk, this radiation is from about 70 ° S at the top at 02:00. The problem this year is that the moon is bright behind only an hour late to the harsh light of bright meteors and smaller. Ideal moonless sky could have given the number of meteors above 100 per hour.

Finally, astronomers see a comet to the limit Sun discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy, Nov. 27. With an orbit that takes about 150,000 km from the Sun at midnight GMT on December 15-16, Comet Lovejoy belongs to the Kreutz family of comets sungrazer have produced some of the greatest comets of all time.

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hundreds of comets of this type were seen in images from around the Sun taken by the SOHO spacecraft, but it seems that all this was of small icy bodies, any more than a few meters wide, and none survived a meeting of fire to emerge and fly away in their sockets. The same fate may await the new comet, but since this is the first sungrazer Kreutz be known around the world since 1970 may be bigger and stronger.

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Iceland's Katla volcano shows signs of activity (AP)

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Depictions of disability on TV still leave much to be desired

Why document the disability programs for some, no fascination for the grotesque or the paternal sentiment?

last week, was born to be different - Channel 4 long biography that chronicles the lives of six disabled children - drew the most difficult feat for a TV near you have the following results : document the disability no fascination for the grotesque sentimentality or condescension. In a genre full of disasters, it is a success that few can claim.

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representing disability, traditional broadcasters give us the right, but give us the bad and the ugly - and in the case of Bodyshock or extraordinary people, so when they are called exactly that. The monster show modern day, these votes mixture successfully deformity, disability and obesity in a one-size-fits-all demolition work of ignorance. Products of the school of literal titles, new specialties as not easy being a wolf-child, the boy whose skin fell, and girls with skin too, arise each year. The damage, however, is actually reduced by the total lack of subtlety, lacking the most impressive bronze attempt to do something remotely worthy.

• Like many people in life is when programmers think they are still useful that can cause more damage. Grub of the BBC - in which celebrities wandering through the streets blindfolded (but not through traffic) who pretend to be blind - and challenge its successor Celebrity wheelchair are excellent examples, shows the cursed objective of "conscience." What Gaby Roslin sat looking sadly in the narrow door of the hotel has been assumed that the viewer aware that I'm sure - "Get Up" which was beyond its threshold to resist the urge to shout

I imagine was an attempt to show how people "courageous" and "inspiring" with a disability were real. These terms are, apparently, congratulations. He is the go-to tactic, even for programs with the premise of the show achievements rather than vulnerability. Across the Andes: Beyond the borders, which focuses on injuries and "working through adversity" is a lesson in how a story of strength can quickly degenerate into a "low." Disabled "spin -offs, "as Dancing on Wheels (Strictly Come Dancing, but in a wheelchair) is a little better, with their exclusion from the main program only serves to separate. Earnest shows in the UK could learn something from their American counterparts - at least when you look at the little people, Big World (producers opt against "achondroplasia and people of a society physically impossible"), which does not feel anyone involved think they are changing the world.

To some extent, shows the struggle against disability are struggling. Thank you to entrenched social attitudes and sensitive provisions, without digging into the brain of the viewer with a bit of fight against condescending, it is inevitable to see some even better representations of disability and feel bad ease the feeling of pity or inspiration. However, although difficult, not impossible - and often feels like what we see is not even trying. Programs tend to be in trouble when his message is that the issue has not done well themselves up. Avoid this is a good start. And as simple as it sounds, is a lot of shows representing the disability criteria are unable to respond.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops II PC gets dedicated servers

Treyarch has confirmed the director of server technology ranked next to the Windows version of shooting ahead.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II PC dedicated servers offer the job, according to a tweet from Treyarch CTO Cesar Stastny.

Dedicated servers are categorized reach Black Ops II.

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Filming gaming giant was incompatible with the well-to-PC on the street. In 2009, the PC community roars against the IW offers multiplayer net Infinity Ward Modern Warfare 2, which fell entirely dedicated servers.

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Designer / Scripter - Airtight Games Redmond, WA, USA

close games is a group of industry veterans formed around the nucleus of the team that produced award-winning, 90-ranked game "Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge "and the highly anticipated new period, Quizz quantum developed with Square Enix. "We are in production on another original AAA IP with a first class publication and we recruit the best talent for the class several key positions. This is an opportunity to get the board a unique project with a team focused on quality development and publication.

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Metal Gear: Rising footage to hit pre-E3

new details emerge Kojima Twitter.


Rising and Video Game Metal Gear guru Hideo Kojima in each author revealed that images of Metal Gear. Rising E3 demo show before E3



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