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Wenn das Dach versinkt…

Für Hausbesitzer bedeutet dies, Schneefanggitter oder Schneestopper am Dach anbringen zu lassen. Dies empfiehlt sich vor allem bei H?usern mit st?rkerer Dachneigung. ?Besteht die akute Gefahr, dass eine Dachlawine über einer ?ffentlichen Stra?e abgeht, sollte der Hausbesitzer Warnschilder und Stangen an der Hausfassade aufstellen, um den Gehweg freizuhalten“, lautet der Rat von Anne Kronzucker, Rechtsexpertin der D.A.S.

Um bei besonders starken Schneef?llen auf Nummer sicher zu gehen, k?nnen noch drastischere Ma?nahmen empfehlenswert sein. Freilich kann von Hausbesitzern nicht verlangt werden, dass sie jeden Tag aufs Dach klettern und dort den Schnee wegfegen. Aber sie müssen nach heftigen Schneef?llen oder bei pl?tzlichem Tauwetter das Dach überprüfen. Bei Schneebergen, die sich nicht entfernen lassen, müssen gut sichtbare Warnschilder auf die m?gliche Gefahr aufmerksam machen. Autofahrer und Fu?g?nger sollten derartige Hinweise unbedingt beachten.

Haftung für besch?digte Autos

Weitere Informationen zu rechtlichen Fragen unter www.das-rechtsportal.de.

Wer grunds?tzlich für Sch?den haftet

Tauwetter: wer für Dachlawinen haftet

Wird ein parkendes Auto von einer Dachlawine besch?digt, haftet der Hauseigentümer nur dann für den Schaden, wenn er seine Verkehrssicherungspflicht verletzt hat. Auch der Autohalter tr?gt n?mlich eine gewisse Mitverantwortung, da er bei widrigen Wetterverh?ltnissen für den Schutz seines Fahrzeuges zu sorgen hat. ?Wer bei anhaltendem Schneefall sein Auto in der N?he eines Hauses parkt, muss sich der m?glichen Gefahr durch Dachlawinen bewusst sein“, so Anne Kronzucker.

Der 32-j?hrige Einbrecher kam nicht dazu, Diebesgut zu entwenden und konnte den Tatort lediglich mit einer Anzeige wegen Einbruchs wieder verlassen. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass der in Haft sitzende Mieter der Wohnung sich nach Beendigung der Strafe gebührend bei seinen Nachbarn bedankt.

Wohnungseinbruch w?hrend Gef?ngnisaufenthalt

The capability of barium titanate crystals to harvest power doubles when they’re about 23 nanometers in size, according to an analysis led by engineer Tahir Cagin at Texas A&M University. A human hair, for contrast, is about 100,000 nanometers wide.

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What if power cords and batteries were a thing of the past?

For now, at least, wind-up radios, shake flashlights, and other devices that use kinetic energy for power are currently available. Products under development include a dance-powered iPod charger that could be worn on an arm. M2E Power is building motion-powered gadget chargers that could come to market in 2009.

What would make this possible is piezoelectricity, in which a mechanical force is converted to electricity. Some cigarette and barbeque grill lighters are an example. When a button is punched, pressure on a crystal within produces voltage, creating a spark.

“There are limitations to how much power you can generate at a given size,” said Cagin, adding that aniPod or cell phone may require nano-sensors at a scale and composition different from what his research suggested.

However, it could be years or decades before scientists and entrepreneurs apply the findings to consumer products, he said.

Could nanotech create speech-powered phones?

A variety of off-grid devices use the wind, the sun, or fuel cells to power up small electronics. But what if you could charge your cell phone just by talking into it, eliminating the need for batteries or cords?

The journal Physical Review B this fall published Cagin’s research, in which engineers at the University of Houston also participated.

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We will lift their voice and sound
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
Yeah, when Johnny comes marching home
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

If you love this land of the free
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
Bring them back from overseas
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

A roar went up for the arena-sized crowd on this live recording. I also recognized the singer’s voice, but it was not one I associated with the song.

This wasn’t Pete Seeger on the radio, though. It was a recent recording by Bruce Springsteen. And the lyrics are tragically apropos today.

No more compromises. Bring ‘em home!

At the end of the song, at the top of the hour, the radio station switched to the news. The lead story was that the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives defeated a bill that would have required the withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within nine months. Congress could have also, with a simple majority and no need for an override, simply zeroed out all war funding except for the costs of bringing our troops safely home, but that option wasn’t even considered. Later that evening, however, my Congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, pushed through a bill providing for $40 billion of unconditional supplemental funding to enable the Bush administration to continue to make war on Iraq at least through July.

The men will cheer and the boys will shout
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
Yeah and we will all turn out
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

The church bells will ring with joy
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
To welcome our darlin’ girls and boys
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

Stephen Zunes is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and the Foreign Policy In Focus Middle East editor. Recommended Citation:

It will make the politicians sad, I know
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
They wanna tangle with their foe
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

Thousands of American parents and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi parents have lost their children since the U.S. invasion a little over four years ago. And the death toll continues to rise. I have three former students, all of whom opposed the war but who are now being forced to fight it, having joined the ROTC in order to afford a college education.

They wanna test their grand theories
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
With the blood of you and me
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

Stephen Zunes, “Bring ?Em Home, Bring ?Em Home” (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, May 14, 2007)

I then recalled when I first heard it: it was in 1965 at one of the early anti-war rallies in Washington, DC and I had come up from North Carolina with my parents. On the stage, was a 45-year old folk singer named Pete Seeger, with the thousands of demonstrators joining him in the line “bring ‘em home.”

I turned 50 this past year. And my first-born went off to college. As a result, the deaths of the young Americans who are being killed in the Iraq hits me on a deeper emotional level than those who have died during other wars in my lifetime: these are the sons and daughters of my generation. I have been a father for nearly 20 years now and now have some sense of just how unbearable it would be to lose one of my children.

Bring ?Em Home, Bring ?Em Home

I first heard it while driving home from work on a college FM station. It was a song I had forgotten about but had known, with slightly different opening lyrics, in my childhood:

Now we’ll give no more brave young lives
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
For the gleam in someone’s eyes
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home

I was born just a few years too late for me and my friends to have been shipped off and killed in Vietnam. I knew only a few people indirectly who had died: The older brother of my classmate David. The boy who used to deliver the News &Observer to our driveway every morning. It was sad and, as I got older, I started going to anti-war protests on my own, but individual deaths still seemed rather distant to me.