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Ready for a one-way trip to Mars?
A Dutch company wants to send four people, selected via reality-show-style elimination, on a permanent trip to the Red Planet in 2022.
A scientist participates in a month-long Mars field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud in Morocco, February 2013. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, the small field crew conducted experiments to prepare for future human Mars missions.
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EnlargeHumans may not have landed on Mars just yet, but that isn?t stopping a Dutch company from devising a plan to send four people to the Red Planet within the next 10 years. The initiative, dubbed Mars One, aims to send a small group of people to Mars in 2022 and eventually establish a permanent colony on the planet.
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"Everything we need to go to Mars exists,? said Mars One?co-founder Bas Lansdorp. ?We have the rockets to send people to Mars, the equipment to land on Mars, the robotics to prepare the settlement for humans ? so, for a one-way mission, all the technology exists.?
But that?s the caveat: The four astronauts chosen for the trip will be stuck on Mars?? forever.? And despite Mars One?s thorough planning, there are a number of challenges that may prevent the mission from ever taking place. The biggest road block could be the mission?s $6 billion price tag. However, Lansdorp is confident that Mars One will be able to fund the project by selling the broadcast rights for the mission and subsequent experiences living on the planet.
Those broadcast rights will also play a part in helping to select the people who will be sent to Mars. Lansdorp said the company will hold a national selection process akin to a reality show. Lansdorp is expecting at least 1 million applications from people around the world, ABC News reports.?
In addition to the cost, several other potential problems could inhibit the mission to Mars. ? ?
"To send people there with life support, with food, with air, with all the other things that they'll need ? books, entertainment, means of communication and means of providing for their own resources for a long stay on Mars ? that's even more challenging,? said Adam Baker, senior lecturer in space engineering at Kingston University in London. ?The sheer size of the rockets you'd need to do this would be absolutely colossal.?
However, Mars One is up to the challenge. The company hopes to launch a rocket in 2022 and land on Mars in 2023. ABC News reports that the initial group would work on constructing a colony on Mars, while additional team members?would continue to land on the planet every two years.?
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BoE says deposits transferred to Bank of Cyprus
LONDON (Reuters) - All deposits in Britain's branch of Laiki Bank have been transferred to Bank of Cyprus UK and won't suffer a "haircut" to help bail out the Cypriot government, the Bank of England said on Tuesday.
The BoE's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)said the money will be covered under Britain's compensation scheme which protects deposits up to 85,000 pounds.
"The agreement does not affect access to bank accounts and therefore all customers who had an account with Laiki Bank UK will be able to access funds as normal and do not need to do anything," the PRA said in a statement.
A BoE spokeswoman said the switch follows a decree issued by the central bank of Cyprus and that the deposits in Laiki are being transferred in full, meaning there are no deductions.
Under an international bail agreement for Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank, parent of Laiki, is being wound down.
Depositors with savings of more than 85,000 pounds or 100,000 euros at Cyprus Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus in Cyprus itself will lose at least 30 to 40 percent to help pay for the bail out.
Laiki Bank UK is a branch, meaning Britain was not obliged to protect its depositors, unlike with Bank of Cyprus UK, which is a subsidiary and therefore its deposits up to 85,000 pounds are protected.
Laiki UK said some 15,000 accounts with total balances of about 270 million pounds have been transferred.
"In consideration for Bank of Cyprus UK Limited assuming liability for these deposits it has received an equivalent amount in cash from Laiki," Laiki said in a statement.
"Furthermore to ensure continuity of service during transition, holders of transferred deposits can continue to use the branch services of the Laiki UK branch," Laiki said.
(Reporting by Huw Jones, editing by Sinead Cruise)
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The film and its talking head participants paint the picture in both broad strokes and fine detail.
Whatever one's political stripe regarding Israel, it's hard to dispute the impressions and perspective of the film's six eyewitnesses.
The level of candor here may not satisfy hard-liners of either stripe, but it can help viewers begin to formulate new questions about the philosophical, strategic and moral challenges of conflict, in particular "wars on terror."
Ultimately the movie feels evasive, and its flashy, digitally animated re-creations of military surveillance footage unpleasantly evoke the Call of Duty video games.
It offers startlingly honest insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from some of those who called the shots.
As a political testament, the result is revealing and important.
Much like Errol Morris' "The Fog of War," Dror Moreh's film is a sobering inside look inside history, at mistakes made and opportunities missed.
Moreh employs a direct interviewing style, reminiscent of Errol Morris' work, to get the men to talk about their days leading Shin Bet.
Moreh gets some startling confessions and insights from each man but also misses the opportunity to truly challenge his subjects on their regard for democracy, basic human rights and their own accountability.
Director Dror Moreh doesn't rest on his scoop
A powerful look inside the Israeli defense establishment
A deadly serious and detailed examination of and meditation upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Gatekeepers makes no attempt to find a silver lining.
The rule of surveillance is to keep quiet and let others do the talking. The Oscar-nominated documentary The Gatekeepers flips the script, to astonishing effect, giving voice to the retired directors of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency.
An up-close and personal look at the psychology of war -- their war and, by extension, all war.
A riveting firsthand account of how legitimate security concerns can lead to policies considered extreme and even immoral by the people administering them.
Extraordinary...not only an engrossing first-hand account of Israel's Palestinian policies over time, but one that may have lessons to teach both Israeli leaders and other nations confronting those they identify as terrorists.
Unprecedented and deeply unsettling, it offers little hope for a lasting peace in that war-torn region.
For its candor and impact, deserves to be seen and discussed.
An often remarkable Israeli documentary about Shin Bet, the country's internal security agency.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Opinion: Stealing a childhood through identity theft
CHICAGO ? A few years back, I profiled an identity theft victim who didn?t learn that someone had been using his very common Hispanic name to obtain jobs and credit until the IRS came after him for thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.
At the time, state?s attorneys, law enforcement officials and immigration experts told me that legal immigrants, naturalized citizens and U.S.-born residents with common ethnic names were increasingly being targeted by illegal immigrants who resort to stealing plausible identities to find jobs.
As bad as that is for an adult, just imagine how much worse it would be if you were already a longtime victim of identity theft as a minor.
This very thing just happened to a Hispanic student at one of the high schools near my home. She was filling out her applications for college when she discovered that, for years, someone else had been using her name and Social Security number. Worse, the person was someone she had trusted.
?Children are actually being targeted at a rate 35 times greater than adults ? one in every 40 households in America has at least one child that has been victimized by ID theft,? said Robert Chappell, a lieutenant with the Virginia State Police and the author of the book ?Child Identity Theft: What Every Parent Needs to Know.?
?Twenty-seven percent of the children victimized knew the person and it was either a close family member, extended family member or a friend,? said Chappell, who told me that criminals use the identities to gain credit cards, employment, medical insurance and government benefits.
?That?s an emotional no-win situation for the child because if they?re one of the 73 percent who didn?t know who did this to them, they?re left with the feeling that their parents couldn?t or wouldn?t protect them. The [other] 27 percent feel personally violated and believe their parent specifically targeted them for victimization, plus they?re often left with the inability to clean the mess up themselves.?
A child is especially vulnerable in such a situation because the most important thing a victim can do is go to the police and report that they?ve had a crime committed against them.
But in the case of a relative or close family friend ?borrowing? a child?s name, date of birth and Social Security number, the child?s parents might be unwilling to get the authorities involved.
?One of the first critical steps is reporting the crime to the police. But many times, family members are unwilling to turn their relatives or family friends into the police, and without that police report, credit agencies are very reluctant to clean up the child?s record,? Chappell said. ?The standard of proof is the police report, so without it the child is left with damaged credit and it doesn?t go away when they turn 18.?
Much like the young woman I mentioned earlier, many children are learning that this crime has been committed against them when they apply for a driver?s license, to college or for their first jobs.
As for whether Latinos are at outsized risk for this kind of crime, Chappell noted that he was unaware of any definitive research on the subject. But, he added, ?there are particular traits or characteristics that increase your risk. In particular, if an illegal immigrant is looking for an identity to steal, then they want to steal from someone who either resembles them or is of the same culture so they can pass off the stolen name as their own.?
?In general, the lower income you have, the more at risk you are for identity theft. People with fewer means don?t have the luxury of safes or lockboxes.?
Safeguard your child?s identity by understanding that their names and data have great financial value to others. Get them thorough credit reports that include manual searches on their Social Security numbers to weed out criminals who frequently use close-enough names and birthdates to fool creditors.
If it uncovers wrongdoing that can be repaired, your kids will benefit from your efforts for the rest of their lives.
Esther Cepeda is syndicated columnist and an NBC Latino Contributor.
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National Secular Society - Prime Minister should ignore former ...
The National Secular Society has urged David Cameron to ignore Lord Carey's "theocratic and anti-democratic blustering" after he accused the Prime Minister of making Christians feel marginalised.
Writing in the Daily Mail, the former archbishop of Canterbury said it was "a bit rich" for the prime minister to tell religious leaders to oppose secularisation, and accused the government of "aiding and abetting" 'aggressive' secularism in its approach to same-sex marriage.
Citing a ComRes survey of just 535 churchgoers, which suggested that two-thirds of Christians felt they were a persecuted minority, Lord Carey said: "The Prime Minister has done more than any other recent political leader to feed these anxieties."
Responding to Lord Carey's remarks, Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said:
"Nothing in the proposed same-sex marriage legislation requires Christians to conduct or partake in same sex marriage, and Lord Carey has no right to insist that his discriminatory and intolerant views should prevail over those of the public and Parliament. And, rightly, they will not be allowed to.
"The survey referred to in the Daily Mail is a very small self selecting one. The more representative and independent polls show public support for equal marriage, including among Christians in the pews.
"Christians are far from being "marginalised" in this country. The UK is the only country in the world to give bishops the right to sit in its parliament, and England and Wales are the only countries where a daily act of Christian worship is a legal requirement in every state school. These unjustifiable privileges remain despite precipitously declining support, as shown by church congregations declining and ageing for many decades, which continued under Lord Carey's own poor leadership.
"Historically, gay people's lives have been blighted, and indeed ended, by the Church. Dr Carey is determined to continue persecuting them. Mr Cameron should be praised for helping to bring this persecution to an end.
"The UK is a diverse country, and a secular political system is the best chance we have to create a society in which people of all faiths and none can live together fairly and peacefully. There is nothing "aggressive" about this approach. Those practicing religion should show tolerance and more understanding of secularism and recognise the benefits that go with living in a secular society."
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