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GUARDIAN Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:48:29 GMT
Corporation supports formal complaint after signal jamming and removal of Persian service from satellite Iran is facing mounting international protests about its jamming of the BBC's Persian TV service (PTV) after the channel – which has millions of viewers and is hugely popular with opposition supporters – was taken off a satellite owned by Europe's leading operator. The BBC said today it was "actively supporting" a formal complaint to the International Telecommunication Union, a UN-affiliated body, about "deliberate interference" from Iran. The ITU confirmed it had received representations from regulators in France, home to Eutelsat, owner of the Hotbird 6 satellite, which suspended PTV's transmissions last month. German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle said it too would protest about interference with its Persian-language radio broadcasts. Voice of America Persian TV programmes have also been jammed. The BBC said it was "determined" to carry on broadcasting PTV and is telling viewers how to adjust their satellite dishes to receive programmes via Eutelsat's Telstar 2 satellite, out of range of jamming from inside Iran. Eutelsat says PTV was removed from Hotbird 6 "in agreement" with the BBC, though sources close to the affair say the operator caved in to commercial and legal pressures from other customers broadcasting on the same transponder. Another Eutelsat satellite, Hotbird 8, provides capacity to Iranian state broadcasting channels, including the English-language Press TV, which has offices in London. "We had to make a business decision," a Eutelsat spokeswoman said. Iranian opposition supporters are accusing satellite operators of "siding with dictators". Eutelsat and GlobeCast, a France Télécom subsidiary which leases bandwidth from Eutelsat, refuse to say publicly that the Iranian government is responsible for the jamming. "It makes me angry that we are the victims of jamming by the Iranian government and the Iranian government is still able to use Hotbird for its own programmes," said one BBC source. "We are the victims and they are the perpetrators." PTV was launched a year ago this week to Iranian fury. Sporadic jamming began after last June's disputed presidential elections but intensified in late December after the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a revered cleric associated with the opposition Green movement, which triggered a new round of demonstrations. Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a "velvet revolution". Last week it included the BBC on a list of 60 "subversive" international organisations. Britain and Iran are at odds over Iran's nuclear programme, Israel, and other Middle Eastern issues. The BBC said in a statement that it was exploring other options with Eutelsat. "We will try every avenue to give our large audiences in Iran the television news services that they want," said Peter Horrocks, World Service director. Iran has gone to extraordinary lengths to block TV broadcasts it considers hostile. Signals transmitted from the US, beyond reach of Iranian jamming, have occasionally been jammed from Cuban territory, triggering US protests. But hopes of a response from Tehran to these latest complaints are slim as the Geneva-based ITU has no enforcement power and is widely seen as toothless. Iranian viewers are angry and frustrated. "We Iranians are now under repression," one PTV fan said. "We are passing another turning point in our history and we need unbiased news more than ever." Another told the BBC: "People have been left with an utter lack of information … Perhaps you don't realise the extent of your influence on Iranian society." "Iranians keep asking me why the west is so powerless," Sadeq Saba, head of PTV, wrote on his blog. "They say: 'This is a rogue government jamming international signals. How will the west stop Iran getting nuclear weapons if they can't deal with........
GUARDIAN Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:10:02 GMT
Porsche's first saloon is a caged tiger around town. But it purrs on the open road PORSCHE PANAMERA £72,266 MILES PER GALLON: 22.6 CO2 PER KM: 290 GRAMS GOOD FOR: FAT CATS BAD FOR: COOL CATS Being a Porsche driver is a tricky business. On the one hand you are the owner of the ne plus ultra of performance cars – a Richard Wagner in a carpark of Louis Walshes. On the other, you are derided as a jumped-up boy racer, a vulgar pillock and an arrogant "porker" – and that's if you're in your 20s. In your 40s, the insults focus on your lost virility and your shiny head. But you don't care because you are doing the one thing you love above all else – driving your Porsche. But what, I wonder, will this group of obsessives make of the Germanic marque's latest offering – the Panamera. It goes where few Porsches have gone before. It has four doors and four seats – four proper seats, not those pathetic folding jobs that most 911s come with. It has a boot, too. And it has an engine at the front! As you may know, Porsches are always rear-engined – it is a defining part of their perverse uniqueness and an act of faith that has imposed endless technical rigours on its engineers. But not the Panamera… This car is clearly aimed at the more mature buyer, at the family man (who, let's face it, is clearly in deep denial over his responsibilities). Manufacturers always try to broaden their potential sales net by claiming their cars are multipurpose. So the Panamera is a "luxury saloon", a "superfast hatchback" and a "sports car". And like those all-in-one multi-tools, it makes a brave fist in all categories, but it never quite excels in any. At first glance the Panamera looks like a beefed-up 911. Designer Michael Mauer has stuck with many of Porsche's trademark cues, but the sense of heft about the car is off-putting. While the great four-seaters from the likes of Ferrari, Maserati and now Aston Martin conceal their bulk with long, elegant lines, the bulky Panamera looks like a teen bodybuilder who's been slurping synthetic growth hormone. Inside it is, naturally, exquisitely finished. The seating is sporty rather than luxurious. It is also crammed with technology – from controllable air suspension to a button that mutes the roar of the engine. However, the rear visibility is appalling and its vast width makes parking tricky. Still, this car isn't about parking spaces, it's about the open road. To better sample its wares I asked a couple of chums if they'd like to come for a Sunday drive. It says everything about the brand that this was seen as a perfectly reasonable thing for three middle-aged men to do. Both are true Porsche men. One has owned two in his time, the other – incredibly – still owns four. As the three of us sped into the autumn countryside, the car seemed to become itself. It felt nimble, purposeful, rewarding. Like a lumbering sea lion sliding off its iceberg, the Panamera was finally in its element. There are two to choose from, the £72,266 "entry-level" Panamera S, its 400bhp delivering 62mph in 5.6 seconds, and the £95,298 turbo, which is a second quicker. I asked my two Porsche judges what they thought. Does the car have the X factor? "A classic in the making," said Porker 2. "Definitely through to the next round," replied Porker 4.★ martin.love@observer.co.uk Motoring Porsche Martin Love guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
GUARDIAN Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:05:32 GMT
Scientists rejoiced last night when they managed to smash proton beams together for the first time in a £6bn giant machine designed to reveal clues about the origins of the universe. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the nuclear research organisation near Geneva, hope their experiments can recreate conditions moments after the big bang. The machine, which occupies an almost 17 mile-long tunnel 100 metres beneath the French-Swiss border, achieved the collisions by sending two groups of sub-atomic particles around in opposite directions at the same time. Collisions were recorded in all four of the main detectors during "experiments" in rooms the size of cathedrals. "It's a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time," said Cern's director general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer. Researchers waited eight years for the machine to be built, only to see it partially explode shortly after being switched on in September last year. Repairs and a new safety system cost an estimated £24m. Earlier this month, work on the machine was again interrupted when a short circuit took out an electrical substation. The incident was blamed on a piece of bread dropped by a passing bird. "This is great news, the start of a fantastic era of physics and, hopefully, discoveries after 20 years' work by the international community to build a machine and detectors of unprecedented complexity and performance," said Fabiola Gianotti, who represents the Atlas particle physics experiment at Cern. The key aim of the project is to try to discover how the universe took shape, after the big bang 13.7bn years ago spilled out energy and matter at vast speeds that eventually became stars – including our sun – planets and then life itself. The scientists plan to increase the beam intensity and accelerate the particles further. They hope the collider will help them see and understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and supersymmetry. Cern Particle physics Helen Pidd guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
GUARDIAN Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:06 GMT
Scientists have repaired the world's largest atom smasher and plan by this weekend to restart the machine Scientists have repaired the world's largest atom smasher and plan by this weekend to restart the machine that was launched with great fanfare last year before its spectacular failure from a bad electrical connection, a spokesman said yesterday. This time the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is taking a cautious approach with the super-sophisticated equipment, said James Gillies. It cost about $10 billion, with contributions from many governments and universities around the world. Scientists expect to send beams of protons around the 27-kilometer (17-mile) circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, but they have refrained from setting a date. That stands in stark contrast with the hype of the Sept. 10, 2008, launch, when the startup was televised globally. Some scientists blamed the failure nine days later on keeping to that schedule because the problem section had yet to be fully tested. The first day of last year's launch went unusually well: Beams of protons were quickly sent in both directions, happily surprising many of the scientists around the world used to delays and problems with such superconducting equipment. But nine days later a single electrical splice overheated because it had been badly soldered, and disaster struck. Fifty-three of 1,624 large superconducting magnets, some of them 15 meters (50 feet) long, were damaged and had to be replaced. An electric arc punctured the container holding the liquid helium used to keep the collider at a temperature colder than outer space for maximum efficiency. Six tons of helium leaked out, overpowering the relief valves and adding to the damage. CERN had to clean "soot-like dust" from the firehose-size pipes meant to contain an extreme vacuum so that nothing would obstruct the proton beams passing through. "It was a disaster, no question about it," said Chip Brock, a physics professor at Michigan State University. But he said CERN had taken a number of innovative steps to avoid a repeat. "This problem won't happen again," he said. The current caution gives a little more time to the collider's chief rival, the United States' Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago, to beat the European machine to the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson. The winner of that race would almost certainly be in line to win the Nobel Prize for physics. Particle physics Switzerland France guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
GUARDIAN Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:05:01 GMT
Scientists have analysed its colour – and it's beige Age: Approximately 13.73bn years. Appearance: Beige. What do you mean, beige? The universe is beige. It's been proven by science. Astrologists Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry took light measurements from more than 200,000 galaxies, broke them down into their constituent colours and then averaged the colours out to produce a single shade visible to the human eye. The result was beige. The universe is the sum of everything that ever has been, is or will be. It's even bigger than Wikipedia. It can't just be beige. No, you're right, that's ridiculous. Which is why they came up with a special name for it: the universe is, in fact, cosmic latte. And cosmic latte is? A shade of beige. Right, my problem was never really what the colour was called. It was the idea that the universe, also known as everything, is a single colour. We could call it something else. They also considered skyvory, astronomical almond and primordial clam chowder. Again, the name's not important. Univeige? Someone really suggested that? Yep. Sure, fine, I give up. The universe is univeige. Correct, for now, but Glazebrook and Baldry claim the universe started off blue and, as it continues to expand, is slowly getting redder. So it'll all be cosmo-crimson? If the current rate of expansion continues,yes. As in the phrase "Red universe at all times, shepherds go absolutely buttwild"? Sure, but at that point the stars will have cooled off, died and become black holes, which will themselves then evaporate, leaving nothing but old red light stretched across an ever-widening expanse of nothing. So no more shepherds? Probably not. Are there no other options? There are; the rate of expansion could increase, causing the universe to rip itself apart, or slow, causing it to collapse on itself. Shepherds would survive neither. And I thought beige was boring. It's univeige. Don't say: "One apocalyptic strawberry frappuccino to go.' Do say: "It's the end of the world as we know it. And it's a sort of reddish cream colour. Space exploration guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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