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World News - Prize offered to tag an asteroid
A $50,000 competition has been launched to find the best way to tag a 400m-wide asteroid. The Apophis space rock is set to make a close pass of Earth in 2029 & scientists would like to confirm that it poses no danger to our world. The Planetary Society will give a prize to the designers of a mission that would allow the huge asteroid's orbit to be tracked with the most precision. The competition has support from the US & European space agencies. "The threat of a strike from asteroids is always a very low probability at any given time, & yet bad things will happen," said the Planetary Society's director of projects, Bruce Betts. "We need to know whether Earth's name is on it," he told BBC News. Apophis will come closer to Earth in 2029 than the orbits of many communications satellites - but it will not hit the planet, that is clear. The concern centres on the small chance that its orbit could be perturbed enough in the flyby to put the rock on a collision path for its return in 2036...
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Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned" about the growth in "phishing". Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing their bank account numbers. The amount stolen is still relatively small but it is set to go up by 90% for the second year running, peers heard. Between January and June 2005, the number of recorded phishing incidents was 312, the Lords science and technology committee was told. The figure for the same period this year was 5,059, according to banking trade body Apacs figures. The amount of cash stolen in the first half of 2006 was £23.2m, the committee was told, and was likely to be £22.5m in the second half of the year. The increase was put down by Apacs security chief Philip Whitaker to better detection. But Mr Whitaker told peers the criminals behind "phishing" scams were ...
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Japanese PM forfeits pay over rigged public meetings
Japans prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is to take a three-month pay cut following revelations that the government paid dozens of people to ask senior politicians easy questions at town hall-style public meetings. Mr Abe, who became premier at the end of September, said he would return three months of his annual salary of ¥41.5m (£177,000). The chief cabinet secretary, Yasuhisa Shiozaki, and the education minister, Bunmei Ibuki, are among four other cabinet members who will forfeit part of their salaries. Launched in 2001 by Mr Abes predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, the meetings were lauded as a long-overdue experiment in participatory democracy. But a report published this week by a cabinet office commission found that the meetings, each of which cost millions of yen to organise, had been micromanaged to cast government policies in the best possible light....
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Palestinian PM allowed to return
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has returned to Gaza from Egypt after being stranded at the border for several hours amid chaotic scenes. But he crossed the border at Rafah without tens of millions of dollars in donations, which Israel says go to the funding of "terrorist operations". The money was left on the Egyptian side with Mr Haniya's aides. The earlier closure of Rafah by Israel sparked an angry reaction from Hamas militants who stormed the post. A number of people were reportedly injured when the militants went on a rampage, occupying the terminal and firing shots in the air and at the building. Mr Haniya crossed into Gaza several hours later, following hours of intense negotiations, that involved Egyptian mediators....
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Kidnappers seize then free at least 25 people
At least 25 people, mostly Shiites, were freed in northern Baghdad Thursday, hours after being kidnapped, an Interior Ministry official said. They were released in the Basateen neighborhood at about 5 p.m., the official said, adding that he could not say how many people were still missing from the earlier raid. Armed men in outdated Iraqi National Police uniforms kidnapped as many as 30 Iraqis in a central Baghdad shopping area Thursday morning, an Interior Ministry official said. The kidnappers arrived in 10 vehicles and rounded up shop owners, street vendors and bystanders in the Sinagh area where car parts and oil are bought and sold, the official said. The gunmen did not appear to target any specific sectarian group, abducting both Shiites and Sunnis, police told Reuters. Previous mass kidnappings by gunmen wearing uniforms prompted the Iraq government to issue redesigned military and police uniforms earlier this year....
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Top General: Army Near Breaking Point Chief Of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker Says Army 'Will Break' Without Thousands More Troops
As President Bush weighs new strategies for Iraq, the Army's top general warned Thursday that his force "will break" without thousands more active duty troops and greater use of the reserves. Noting the strain put on the force by operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said he wants to grow his half-million-member Army beyond the 30,000 troops already added in recent years. Though he didn't give an exact number, he said it would take significant time and commitment by the nation, noting some 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers could be added per year. Officials also need greater authority to tap into the National Guard and Reserve, a force once set up as a strategic reserve but now needed as an integral part of the nation's deployed forces, Schoomaker told a commission studying possible changes in those two forces....
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Obama continues to lose supporters
Case in point:
"The truth must not only be the truth, it must be told." - Fidel Castro
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"Philosophers only interpret the world, the point remains to change it." - Karl Marx
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu
"We all live in a crowded theater." - Eli Stephens

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The match will be the 20th of the year for the USA and will kickoff at 4 p.m. in Scotland (9 a.m. MT). The match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and fans can also follow live on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker presented by Philips Electronics.
The squad blending a mix of European and domestic-based players arrived in Glasgow on Tuesday and began training in the late afternoon.
"Despite the fact we've had a rash of injuries and some conflicts with clubs we feel this game is an excellent test for our veteran players in Europe as well as some new players in the team said Arena. "We have a solid group and are looking forward to the challenge."
The roster boasts a wealth of experience led by Fulham forward Brian McBride. With 90 caps to his credit the USA's second all-time leading scorer (29 goals) is just five shy of the team record.
At the other end veteran goalkeeper Kasey Keller has collected an amazing 44 shutouts in 88 career matches an average of one shutout for every two games played. Also in the goalkeeping department Manchester United 'keeper Tim Howard returns after blanking Panama 2-0 in the USA's final World Cup qualifier on Oct. 12 in Boston.
PSV Eindhoven midfielder DaMarcus Beasley has had a banner year for both club and country posting career highs in both goals (4) and assists (4) for the national team while becoming the first American ever to play in the semifinals of the prestigious UEFA Champions League.
The U.S. backline looks to have a largely European flavor as well with 2002 World Cup veterans Gregg Berhalter (Energie Cottbus) and Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96) being called upon along with Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham). Jonathan Spector on loan to Charlton Athletic from Manchester United makes his third appearance in the U.S. camp while newcomers Benny Feilhaber Heath Pearce and Chris Rolfe are all in search of their first cap with the senior team. Feilhaber's impressive performance at the 2005 World Youth Championship earned him a contract with Hamburger SV in the German Bundesliga.
D.C. United and the Kansas City Wizards each contribute three players to the squad heading to Glasgow. From the Wizards MLS Defender of the Year Jim Conrad and forward Josh Wolff join United midfielders Ben Olsen and Santino Quaranta. All four helped the U.S. side capture the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup in July the third time the USA has won the regional championship.
The U.S. has played Scotland five times in their history holding a lifetime record of just 1-3-1 but hasn't played in Scotland in 53 years. The team's lone match in Scotland came way back on Aug. 30 1952 when the Scots blanked the U.S. 6-0 in Glasgow. The teams last met in the USA's final preparation match before the 1998 FIFA World Cup playing to a scoreless draw on May 30 1998 in Washington D.C.
The United States has already made history in 2005 collecting its highest-ever win total with an overall record of 13-3-3. The U.S. hit a pair of high marks in their 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign finishing in the top spot in the group for the first time ever and qualifying first out of the CONCACAF region for the first time in 71 years. In addition to winning the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup the U.S. also reached a record-high sixth place in the FIFA rankings earlier this summer (currently ranked seventh).
The U.S. is one of 32 finalists that will compete in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The Draw to determine group pairings will take place Dec. 9 in Leipzig Germany. The USA has chosen the northern port city of Hamburg as its base of operations in Germany.
U.S.A. ROSTER VS. SCOTLAND (By Position):
Goalkeepers (2) – Tim Howard (Manchester United) Kasey Keller (Borussia Moenchengladbach)
Defenders (7) –Gregg Berhalter (Energie Cottbus) Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham FC) Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96) Jim Conrad (Kansas City Wizards) Oguchi Onyewu (Standard de Liege) Heath Pearce (FC Norjælland) Jonathan Spector (Charlton Athletic)
Midfielders (7) –DaMarcus Beasley (PSV Eindhoven) Brian Carroll (D.C. United) Benny Feilhaber (Hamburger SV) Eddie Gaven (MetroStars) Ben Olsen (D.C. United) Santino Quaranta (D.C. United) Kerry Zavagnin (Kansas City Wizards)
Forwards (4) – Brian Ching (San Jose Earthquakes) Brian McBride (Fulham FC) Chris Rolfe (Chicago Fire) Josh Wolff (Kansas City Wizards)


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As Colombian rock singer Juanes prepares for Sunday's concert in Havana, a Cuban musician touring the United States is unsure if he will even be allowed to return home.
Gorki Aguila, a dissident punk rocker who has served time in prison in Cuba, is on a 15-day tour promoting his latest anti-government CD, "The Faded Red Album."
He says Juanes invited him to play in Sunday's concert but was forced to decline because the Cuban government has banned him from public performances as well as the public airwaves.
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"I do believe in Juanes' good intentions. I just think his intentions are very naive," Aguila said Friday.
Meanwhile, Juanes is still battling criticism for what will be the most controversial concert of his career. The Peace Without Borders concert will be live-streamed on NBC Miami starting at 2 p.m. Sunday.
While he has continually assured that his intentions are not political, it is impossible to avoid politics when it comes to Cuba.
In fact, he had to get permission from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before he could even proceed with his plans.
And the concert will be performed in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion, which is overlooked by a giant Che Guevara image.
Also, Aguila's U.S. visit was sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group Global Cuba Solidarity Movement, an umbrella group for roughly 20 organizations in the U.S. and Eastern Europe, some of which receive federal funding.
Although Juanes' plans have incensed some of the older Cuban exiles, he has gained support from the younger Cuban-Americans.
He has even gained support from Gloria and Emilio Estefan – who have always voiced strong opposition against the Castro government. And this despite the fact that the Estefans have vowed not to return to Cuba until it is a democracy.
But even then, he says he has received death threats and a group of Cuban exiles held a protest against him where they destroyed his CDs.
Aguila, the lead singer of Porno para Ricardo, or Porn for Ricardo, has a small but dedicated following on the island but is better known outside the country for his sexually explicit and irreverent criticism of Fidel Castro.
In 2003, he was jailed after a policewoman posed as a cop and baited him into giving her amphetamine. He spent two years in jail, claiming it was a government attempt to silence him.
He said that two months before his arrest, a government official came to his house and demanded he sign a paper rejecting his previous anti-government statements, as well as change the name of the band.
He refused.
After his release from prison, he became even more defiant against the government through his music.
In 2008, he was arrested on the charge of "social dangerousness" but was eventually released on a lesser charge after Amnesty International put pressure on the Cuban government.
He believes there is a chance that he may be denied re-entry to Cuba, which is something he does not want because he has a daughter there.
"I want to return," Aguila said. "I have my projects in Cuba, and more importantly, I have my daughter," he said, adding that he would hold the Cuban government responsible if he is denied re-entry.
The Cuban government has also limited visas for some international news outlets for Sunday's concert, indicating that they are not as open to lifting the borders as Juanes would prefer.


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Dr. Grumpy: "That's nice. Boys? Girls?"
Mrs. Hyper: "One of each."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
uuuummmm...... but you forgot the imaginary child.
I bet she home schools.
To be fair, she didn't say ONLY one of each. So if she, say, had two boys and a girl, her answer is still true, she just left one out.
Specifically, they're hermaphrodite amputee triplets.
And this after I just posted a whine about math education in this country.
Well, you know what they say. There are three types of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can't.
If she is pregnant and doesn't now the sex of the child then according to quantum mechanics the child is:
a boy and not a boy and also
a girl and not a girl.
The third child is her husband...
Anonymous: don't forget that you have to renormalize the wavefunctions of all three children so that the sum total adds up to one boy and one girl.
Disca Man: But if the wave function has not collapsed yet then currently the third child is 50% male and 50% female.
Is half one way or the other?
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Andy McDonald and T.J. Oshie each scored in regulation and added a shootout goal Sunday, lifting the St. Louis Blues over Vancouver 4-3.
McDonald's tally in the second period lifted the Blues into a 2-2 tie, and Patrik Berglund's score midway through the final frame put St. Louis in front by a goal.
Vancouver's Mason Raymond scored on a power play with 1:47 remaining to force extra time.
Following a scoreless overtime, Blues goalie Jake Allen made a pair of stops in the shootout, while Oshie and McDonald beat Roberto Luongo, handing St. Louis a third straight victory.
Allen finished with 28 saves.
Henrik Sedin had a goal and an assist for the Canucks, who also got a tally from Ryan Kesler.
Luongo turned aside 20 shots as Vancouver wrapped up a 2-1-1 homestand.


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A few weeks removed from the pomp and spectacle that was the 2012 London Olympics, members of the 1972 Team USA men's basketball team met in Lexington, Ky., last weekend to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the team's disappointing silver-medal run. That "silver medal" performance has long been criticized as a hollow number two in the annals of sport, as a combination of terrible referee work, blatantly incorrect scorekeeping, and out and out corruption just about handed the gold medal to a (very good, it should be remembered) Russian team that was full of older pros. Team USA, four decades on, still hasn't accepted their silver medals, and for good reason. Russia was a gold-medal deserving squad on paper, but Team USA earned the gold that year.
And center Tom Burleson, in reflecting on the lowest point of his sporting career, used the get-together to remind us all of what is easily the lowest point in Olympic history. The tragic and stunning kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists just four days before Team USA's gold-medal contest versus Russia. A typically must-read report from NBA.com's Steve Aschburner details the big center's emotional response to recalling the horror from close proximity, some 40 years removed from Munich.
Burleson had been out acting the part of a tourist with his fiancée on Sept. 5, 1972, unaware that the Israeli athletes had been taken hostage. After spying a longer than usual line to get back into the athletes' quarters after his afternoon out, he snuck in a previously used and purportedly innocuous garage entrance with two Italian athletes, only to be met by German police officers (due to complicated Soviet-era international policy, German military authorities could not aid in attempting to bring an end to the kidnapping plot) with rifles drawn. As Burleson was pinned against a wall with a rifle in his back, he could hear the Israeli athletes being led from the Athletes' Village and to an airport where they later met their demise in a hail of terrorist gunfire and incompetence from the German authorities.
The 7-2 NBA veteran broke down as he discussed the events of the afternoon. From NBA.com:
Then Burleson heard the shuffling of the hostages feet as they were brought out. "And I could hear them crying. I could … hear … them … crying!"
At this point, four decades later, a 20-year-old kid turned 60-year-old man began to sob. He leaned back and tried to breathe. He bent forward, burying his face in his hands, his back and shoulders heaving. Jim Brewer, to Burleson's left, placed a hand on the big man's back, then his knee.
"They didn't want to die," Burleson said in gulps. "They didn't want … to DIE!"
The hotel meeting room otherwise was silent. Reed thanked Burleson and tried to move on. But Burleson gathered himself long enough to continue: "As they walked by, they loaded them into the helicopters, they released me. ' Go into the Olympic Village and see the helicopters fly off. …'"
The emotions seized up on Burleson again. The tears doubled and he wailed: "I hear them … in my sleep!"
The 20-year-old was not asked to play in the gold-medal game four days later.
One could wonder how he could ever suit up again for a basketball game following the association between an event like the Olympic tourney and his brush with that sort of traumatic event, but Burleson went on to lead his North Carolina State Wolfpack to the 1974 NCAA championship (playing on a formidable team featuring the explosive David Thompson along with the precise-passing Monte Towe; a duo that helped make the alley-oop a go-to move even in an NCAA era that did not allow dunking) and eight NBA seasons before retiring in 1981.
For the rest of the backstory, please read Aschburner's feature. The team decided to mark the 40th anniversary with the meeting at team captain Kenny Davis' alma mater in Georgetown, Ky.; and the group appears to be as steadfast in its resolve as it always has been to decline to accept the silver medals. Though, to hear Aschburner tell it, this was far from a pity party for players that had been wronged in their moment of amateur glory.
Burleson, who according to Aschburner runs a ministry program in his home in North Carolina, later returned to the banquet in order to give the invocation before the meal that followed the news conference.


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With her Nina Simone biopic still far out on the horizon, Mary J. Blige has apparently found another film project to keep her busy, a film adaptation of a hair-band musical.
Blige is said to be in talks to take the role of strip club owner Justice Charlier in the big-screen version of "Rock of Ages," based on the Broadway smash hit, according to Vulture.
The role would find Blige belting out such timeless classics as "Harden My Heart," "Shadows of the Night," "Any Way You Want It," " I Wanna Rock" and the epic cheese-fest that is Poison's "Every Rose Has a Thorn."
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And if all this isn't toe-curling enough for you, try to imagine Tom Cruise clad in spandex for the role of the villainous Stacee Jaxx, howling the likes of "Sister Christian" and "We Built This City."
For those of us of a certain age, '80s nostalgia is a minefield of horrors that no amount of therapy will deliver us from. But the kids seem to like it.
The film is being co-directed by the show's stage writer, Chris D'Arienze, and Adam Shankman, of "Hairspray" fame.


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Repel Fewer Newcomers: A Drive Time Essay
A couple of years ago I started wondering about how many visitors come to our churches. I found out that nobody knows. Even that, I find fascinating. Here we are, a movement that is made up of over 80 percent of people who were not born Unitarian Universalists. Converting visitors into members is our life blood. And yet we don't know how many visitors we have. Lots of our churches do not bother to count visitors.
I DID know how many we had at the church I served in Colorado, because we DID count. In the course of a year we had about twice as many visitors as we had members. When we counted we had 500 members and we averaged about 20 visitors a week. We figured we had close to a 1000 a year! I started checking informally with colleagues across the country. What I learned is that many congregations easily get more visitors in a year than we have members. Most churches tell me they get about one-and-a-half times to twice as many visitors as they have members. Well, let's do a little math. Let's say our churches average just over one-and-a-half times as many visitors a year as they have members. Remember, we are talking about an average of three visitors a week for a church of 100. I estimate that we have about 250,000 visitors a year, spread across all our congregations. That is about 5,000 visitors a week. I used to think, years ago, that we needed to work to attract visitors. The truth is that we have hordes of visitors.
And who are these people? These are people who are looking for a place to connect. Another thing I have learned as a parish minister is how many of our newcomers already know a lot about us. Many have visited our web sites. In my church a surprising number have already read some of my sermons and recognize me because they have seen my picture on the web site. Our visitors are not people who got lost looking for the Baptist church or the Methodist church or the synagogue. And they are not people who come because they could think of nothing better to do that Sunday. Going to a strange church for the first time is a big decision. Our visitors make a conscious and courageous decision to visit an unknown church! Our newcomers are people who already share our progressive world view and who are looking for a place to belong. They are us. And they come every single Sunday. Thousands of them come to us. We don't need to do any outreach in order to grow. We need to do something much harder. We need to reach out to the people who come to us every week – the religiously homeless that are looking for spiritual shelter, the spiritually hungry who are looking for sustenance in religious community.
Let me put it as crassly as I can: In order to grow your congregation and my congregation and this movement of ours we just need to repel fewer newcomers. That's it. It is really that simple. We just need to repel fewer newcomers.
Why does a movement that says it wants to grow and that has hundreds of thousands of people ready to join it stay so small?
What are the barriers between us and the future we say we want? What can we do to make that future of vital, welcoming, growing churches a reality?
The answer is religion. Really. Religion. And more specifically, religious community. We have tried all kinds of things, mostly to little or no avail. Ironically, and tragically, we have never tried religion as a growth strategy.
The key barrier for us is not organizational. They key barrier is not financial. The key barrier is us.
The challenge before us, in every single one of our congregations, is religious and spiritual.
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