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Recently NASA teams took extreme measures to get decent views of this quick shower: they took an airplane to the Arctic Circle and rose above the clouds for viewing.Alpha Centaurids (ACE)Jan. 28 - Feb. 21, Peak Feb. 8, ZHR - 6Although a very weak shower in terms of meteors per hour, with its over three-week duration, chances are good that on a cold, clear night a brilliant "shooting star" will be seen.Gamma Normids (GNO)Feb. 22 - Mar. 22, Peak Mar. 13, ZHR - 8This rather small shower comes from the rather small constellation Norma, located in the Southern Hemisphere. Situated between Scorpius and Centaurus, the constellation's name is Latin for normal. The Latin word refers to a right angle, quite appropriate considering the constellation resembles a carpenter's square.                                                                                               Lyrids (LYR)Apr. 16 - Apr. 25, Peak Apr. 22, ZHR - 15The Lyrids are a fairly steady shower, averaging 10 meteors per hour. 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This is an ideal shower for the patient photographer.Perseids (PER)Jul. 17 - Aug. 24, Peak Aug. 12, ZHR - 60The Perseids are undoubtedly the most well-known in the Northern Hemisphere, largely due to the time of year in which this shower occurs. The ZHR has fluctuated wildly in the last twenty years, most likely due to the reappearance of Swift-Tuttle, the parent comet of the Perseids. In 1991 and 1992, the ZHR was reported to be over 400 per hour.Orionids (ORI)Oct. 2 - Nov. 7, Peak Oct. 21, ZHR - 20Produced by the inbound particles from Halley's comet, this shower has remained fairly consistent in the past twenty years. The Orionids can be seen equally well from both hemispheres; however, viewers in the Southern Hemisphere generally see twice the number of meteors per hour as those in the north.Draconids (GIA)Oct. 6 - Oct. 10, Peak Oct. 8, ZHR - VariedParented by the periodic comet Giacobini-Zinner, the hourly rate is impossible to predict. 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And the hope, presumably, was to best Nick Clegg, who quipped that Pickles was "the only cabinet minister who you can spot on Google Earth".For the chancellor George Osborne, Mr Pickles provided this year's keynote speech with its only memorable line. "Economic adviser to Gordon Brown," mused Osborne. "I'm not sure I'd put that on my CV if I were Ed Balls. It's like 'personal trainer to Eric Pickles'."Pause for mirth."Although I have to say, when it comes to chasing down council waste, no one runs faster than our Eric."Did this, as some Pickles joke connoisseurs have suggested, come close to plagiarism? In last year's conference speech, after alluding to the "great shadow" cast by "the big man on the side of the people", David Cameron said Pickles had "hit the ground sprinting". On the contrary, surely we should savour the subtle condescension of "our Eric", with which phrase George Osborne, the heir to Frank Richards, conjured up the true spirit of Greyfriars School. Here, Bunter fans will recall, Billy's nouveau riche origins were of a deplorable piece with his obesity, idleness and doomed exercises in low cunning. It cannot be impossible that "our Eric" has become the nation's janitor because, in the eyes of more affluent and elegant colleagues, he both looks and sounds like one.Even if you accept that Pickles's crimes against local government are on a scale so massive as to merit almost any form of torment, including eternal jibes about his appearance from his supposed allies, you wonder how much this new, high-level incorrectness is going to help, say, teachers in the post-Greyfriars era, who must care for overweight pupils as well as thin ones, and without making hilarious jokes about running, personal trainers and Google Earth.Many of them next month will be spreading the message of Anti-Bullying Week 2011: "Stop and think – words can hurt". If, mercifully, most children are not sufficiently au fait with coalition politics to have noted its rival, pro-bullying message – ie, find your nearest fat-bastard kids and go for it lol – its sanctioned, high-level taunting must be instructive to any overweight people who are both politically ambitious and averse to constant personal humiliation. Against an increasing disinclination outside Westminster to persecute overweight people for the problems caused by impoverished diets and eating disorders, coalition ministers reserve the right to engage in the kind of old-fashioned, good-natured ribbing that has seen Billy Bunter go the way of Enid Blyton's gollies and Tintin in the Congo.Conversely, any person w From the fringe to centre stage, the Occupiers may yet change US politics ho can spare the cost of a personal trainer and the time to run round in circles now finds him or herself at an immediate political and moral advantage. Possibly, even considered leadership material. One day, at this rate, it will seem absurd that we let David Cameron run the country instead of the infinitely faster, higher and stronger Matt Roberts. Virtually the only point raised in Ed Miliband's favour two weeks ago was that, unlike a certain Ed Balls, Mr Weird had definitely lost weight, a process involving, it was revealed, a personal trainer and fewer carbs."Nobody ever tells you you look fat," he blushed, "they just tell you how slim you're looking once you've lost weight." Unless you are Eric Pickles. Now, like Cameron and Osborne, Sarkozy and Boris Johnson, the improved, reduced fat Miliband has taken to exhibiting his confident, leadership bod in running shorts.In the US, the withdrawal of Chris Christie from the presidential race has already signalled that even in a country where almost 34% of the population are obese, excess weight will be interpreted as a lack of discipline that contrasts unforgivably with the poise and self-control of politicians who play ball games and get their wives to bang on about vegetables. According to this wisdom, even the vanity of a preening Blair or Cameron is preferable to the bloated evidence of pies.Given Christie's size, David Letterman's 10 fat gags might have been expected – "cabinet now has a secretary of cake" was one gem the comedian was proud to advertise – but the politician was also discriminated against, quite openly, by liberal pundits such as Michael Kinsley, writing for Bloomberg. "Look, I'm sorry," he said, "but New Jersey governor Chris Christie cannot be president: He is just too fat."Christie's weight is indefensible, explain writers who were able to tolerate Obama's smoking and Clinton's philandering, because he sets a poor example, because his health is compromised, because he is a symbol of excessive consumption. Just as a leader the size of Churchill is now unthinkable here, William Taft, more than 300lbs when he quit in 1913, looks to have been the last fat US president. No one told him to "eat a salad and take a walk", the prescription of one enlightened well-wisher, indifferent to Christie's claim that he has, genuinely, been "struggling" to lose weight.Maybe it's the effect of too much exercise – people do sometimes go a bit mad on the endorphins – but Cameron, too, seems less and less inclined to listen to excuses. At any rate, an early interest in nudging people into good behaviour involving, if memory serves, the proposal that they stop living off chocolate oranges seems to have given way to an interest in outright bullying: a new Danish tax which puts a punishing surcharge on all food containing more than 2.3% fat. "A fat tax is something we should look at," Cameron declared last week, ignoring the obvious objection that such a tax would make absolutely no difference to the wealthy Pickleses in his own party, while it leaves the less fortunate and overweight as obese as ever, on a diet of refined carbohydrates."The problem in the past," he conceded, "when people have looked at using the tax system in this way is the impact it can have on low incomes. But frankly, do we have a problem with the growing level of obesity? Yes."But not half as much, frankly, as the growing level of obesity has with him. Why is rape so difficult for some people to understand? </a>