Man Uses Women’s Facility At Members-only Health Club - Trial Run For New Coed Law
January 17, 2008
A “trial run” has been launched for a new law in a Maryland county that arguably would allow coed locker rooms in public accommodations, and women aren’t pleased with the results.
It happened this week when a man, wearing a skirt and makeup, walked into a women’s locker room at a health club.
“I could see his muscles, I could see his large hands. He was wearing a blue ruffled skirt that came down to above the knee,” Mary Ann Andree told WJLA-Television after the incident at the Rio Sport and Health Club in Gaithersburg.
It was about 1 p.m., when Andree was drying her hair, that the man, who was identified by the health club only as a member, entered, an action that critics of the new county ordinance say would be legal when the law takes effect in February.
“I was very upset, I’m still upset,” Andree told the station. “There’s a lot he could’ve seen.”
“It is becoming obvious that this bill will have very real and serious repercussions,” said Michelle Turner, a spokeswoman for the local organization that has adopted the Not My Shower slogan and is working on a petition that would have residents vote on the plan.
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Russia To Have 50 Silo-Based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles By The End of 2008
January 17, 2008
Russia will fully equip a fifth strategic missile regiment with new silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2008, a spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) said on Thursday.
At present, Russia operates 48 Topol-M systems (NATO reporting name SS-27) and will deploy another two with a missile regiment in the Saratov Region in southern Russia this year, bringing the total number to 50.
“Rearmament of the Tatishchevo missile regiment with two silo-based Topol-M systems will be completed in 2008,” Colonel Alexander Vovk said, adding that each regiment has 10 missile complexes.
The missile, with a range of about 7,000 miles (11,000 kms), is said to be immune to any current and future U.S. ABM defense. It is capable of making evasive maneuvers to avoid a kill by the use of terminal phase interceptors, and carries targeting countermeasures and decoys.
It is also shielded against radiation, electromagnetic pulse, nuclear blasts at distances more than 500 meters (1,650 feet) away, and is designed to survive a hit from any form of laser technology.
Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, SMF commander, earlier said that Topol-M systems would be equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV) in the next two or three years.
RIA Novosti - Russia - Russia to have 50 silo-based Topol-M ICBM systems by end of 2008
US Agency Chief: Iran Speeding Up Development Of Missiles
January 17, 2008
Iran has sped up efforts to develop long-range missiles, demonstrating the need for a proposed missile defense system in Europe, the head of the US missile defense program said Wednesday.
”They are developing missiles today in an accelerated pace,” Lt. Gen. Henry Obering said about Iran in remarks at the Czech Foreign Ministry. He said Iran was the third most active country in flight testing missiles last year, behind Russia and China.
”They’re developing ranges of missiles that go far beyond anything they would need in a regional fight, for example, with Israel,” Obering said.
”Why are they developing missiles today that … will be possible to reach Europe in few years?” he asked.
Defense shield in Europe
The US is in talks with the Czech government about plans to place a missile tracking radar system at a base in a military area near Prague as part of the system.
Washington also wants to place 10 interceptor missiles in Poland as part of a defense shield that US officials say is needed to protect the US and its European allies against a possible threat from Iran.
The Czech government has been receptive to the proposal, which Russia has strongly opposed.
Iran recently announced it manufactured a new missile, the Ashoura, with a range of 1,200 miles that was capable of reaching Israel and US bases across the Middle East.
”They also made statements that once you reached that range, getting beyond that is fairly easy,” Obering said. He stressed that the proposed missile defense installations could counter such a threat.
US agency chief: Iran speeding up development of missiles - Israel News, Ynetnews
Faction Pulls Out of Israel Government Narrows Olmerts Majority
January 17, 2008
A hawkish faction in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition pulled out of the government on Wednesday, weakening him at a time when he needs broad support to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of the year.
The withdrawal of Yisrael Beiteinu’s 11 lawmakers from the government leaves Olmert with a narrower majority of 67 in the 120-seat parliament.
“Negotiations on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake,” Avigdor Lieberman, head of the faction, told a news conference.
After Lieberman’s announcement, Olmert’s office released a statement saying the prime minister was determined to pursue peacemaking.
“There is no substitute for serious negotiations with a goal of achieving peace,” the statement said. “That is the order of the hour.”
Olmert brought Lieberman into his coalition in October 2006 to prop up his government, badly weakened by the just-concluded Lebanon war. Israel’s peace camp criticized Olmert for swinging his government lineup to the right, and accused him of seeking a pretext to avoid concessions to the Palestinians. On Wednesday, they welcomed Lieberman’s departure.
“Today, I think that Olmert is in a better position to proceed with the peace process,” said Yossi Beilin of the dovish Meretz party. “My hope is that now the way will be clear and there will be no excuses to proceed with an agreement in 2008.”
Lieberman’s decision came just days after Palestinian and Israeli negotiators began tackling the core issues of their conflict — final borders, sovereignty over disputed Jerusalem, and the fate of Palestinian refugees who lost homes in Israel during the war that broke out following the Jewish state’s creation in 1948.
He had repeatedly threatened to leave the government if these issues were broached.
“If we pull back to the 1967 borders, everyone should ask himself, what will happen the following day,” Lieberman said. “Will the conflict stop, will the terror stop? Nothing will change.”
In a small step to remove a major obstacle to peace talks with Palestinians, Israeli forces evacuated two makeshift settlement outposts in the West Bank on Wednesday. Israel promised under a 2003 peace plan to evacuate about two dozen outposts. As part of the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, President Bush pressed Israel last week to fulfill its commitment.
Political motivations might have also played a role in Lieberman’s move: Sitting in a peacemaking coalition could undermine any ambitions he might have to position himself as leader of Israel’s rightwing opposition.
At his news conference, however, he denied any interest in supplanting former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as leader of the rightwing camp.
The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party with 12 lawmakers has also threatened to leave if Israel agrees to any compromise over Jerusalem, whose eastern sector Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
Israelis and Palestinians relaunched talks after seven years of violence at a U.S.-sponsored Mideast conference in November. The leaders pledged to try to reach an agreement before Bush leaves office a year from now.
Olmert had tried to persuade Lieberman to stay in the government in a meeting with him on Tuesday. But Yisrael Beiteinu decided in a meeting Wednesday to leave, Lieberman said.
“Nothing will come of these negotiations,” he declared.
The Moldova-born Lieberman, whose party garners much of its support from immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is known for blunt threats such as his November suggestion that Hamas leaders be sent to “paradise.”
His party supports a two-state solution — but controversially, one based on an exchange of territory and population that would see as few Arabs as possible left inside Israel and many Israeli settlers remaining under Israeli sovereignty.
Animal - Human Embryo Research Approved In Britain
January 17, 2008
Experiments to create Britain’s first embryos that combine human and animal material will begin within months after a government watchdog gave its approval yesterday to two research teams to carry out the controversial work.
Scientists at King’s College London, and the University of Newcastle will inject human DNA into empty eggs from cows to create embryos known as cytoplasmic hybrids, which are 99.9 per cent human in genetic terms.
The experiments are intended to provide insights into diseases such as Parkinson’s and spinal muscular atrophy by producing stem cells containing genetic defects that contribute to these conditions. These will be used as cell models for investigating new approaches to treatment, and to improve the understanding of how embryonic stem cells develop.
They will not be used in therapy, and it is illegal to implant them into the womb. The decision, taken by the by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority HFEA, to grant one-year licences to both teams ends more than a year of uncertainty for the researchers, who first applied for permission in the autumn of 2006.
Subprime Nation - United States Debt Spiraling Out of Control
January 16, 2008
Since it began to give credit ratings to nations in 1917, Moody’s has rated the United States triple-A. U.S. Treasury bonds have been seen as the most secure investment on earth. When crises erupt, nervous money seeks out the world’s great safe harbor, the United States. That reputation is now in peril.
Last week, Moody’s warned that if the United States fails to rein in the soaring cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the nation’s credit rating will be down-graded within a decade.
Our political parties seem oblivious. Republicans, save Ron Paul, are all promising to expand the U.S. military and maintain all of our worldwide commitments to defend and subsidize scores of nations.
Democrats, with entitlement costs drowning the federal budget in red ink, are proposing a new entitlement – universal health coverage for the near 50 million who do not have it – another magnet for illegal aliens. Moody’s is telling America it needs a time of austerity, while the U.S. government is behaving like the governments we used to bail out.
Muslim Store Clerk Refuses To Sell Bible Book To Grandmother - Calls It Unclean
January 15, 2008
A Muslim store worker at Marks & Spencer refused to serve a customer buying a childrens book on biblical stories because she said it was “unclean”.
Sally Friday, a customer at a branch of one of the famous stores, felt publicly humiliated when she tried to pay for First Bible Stories as a gift for her young grandson.
When the grandmother put the book on the counter, the assistant refused to touch it, declared it was unclean and then summoned another member of staff to deal with the purchase.
Mrs Friday was so upset that she has now complained to the stores manager.
Politicians and religious leaders supported her in condemning the high street chain and it has reignited the debate over religious beliefs in the workplace.
Conservative MP Philip Davies said the refusal to serve Mrs Friday, 69, was “unacceptable” and “damaging” to community relations.
Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, described the assistants comments as “offensive” and called for Marks & Spencer to conduct an investigation.
He said: “This appears to be a very regrettable incident and the unclean remark was clearly very offensive and unacceptable.
“Many Biblical stories complement the teachings of the Koran. We hope that M&S will investigate this incident.”
1 In 6 Now Begin Puberty Before Age 10
January 15, 2008
At the age of three, the worries of most little girls rarely stretch beyond what outfit to dress their dolls in, and how to ride a bike.
But for Hayley Smith, her third year brought a set of problems most children her age wouldn’t even have heard of, let alone been able to comprehend - puberty.
UFO Seen By Dozens in Texas Town
January 14, 2008
In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.
Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it.
“People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it’s the end of times,” said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. “It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts.”
While federal officials insist there’s a logical explanation, locals swear that it was larger, quieter, faster and lower to the ground than an airplane. They also said the object’s lights changed configuration, unlike those of a plane. People in several towns who reported seeing it over several weeks have offered similar descriptions of the object.
Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
“You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal,” Sorrells said. “It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I’m not crazy.”
Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle’s telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.
Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when most people reported the sighting.
Lewis said the object may have been an illusion caused by two commercial airplanes. Lights from the aircraft would seem unusually bright and may appear orange from the setting sun.
“I’m 90 percent sure this was an airliner,” Lewis said. “With the sun’s angle, it can play tricks on you.”
Officials at the region’s two Air Force bases — Dyess in Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita Falls — also said none of their aircraft were in the area last week. The Air Force no longer investigates UFOs.
One man has offered a reward for a photograph or videotape of the mysterious object.
About 200 UFO sightings are reported each month, mostly in California, Colorado and Texas, according to the Mutual UFO Network, which plans to go to the 17,000-resident town of Stephenville to investigate.
Drug-resistant MRSA Staph Infection Found To Be Passed In Gay Sex
January 14, 2008
A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.
They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.
Sexually active gay men in San Francisco are 13 times more likely to be infected than their heterosexual neighbors, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable,” said Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco who led the study. “Thats why were trying to spread the message of prevention.”
According to chemical analyses, bacteria are spreading among the gay communities of San Francisco and Boston, the researchers said.
“We think that its spread through sexual activity,” Diep said.
This superbug can cause life-threatening and disfiguring infections and can often only be treated with expensive, intravenous antibiotics.
It killed about 19,000 Americans in 2005, most of them in hospitals, according to a report published in October in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
About 30 percent of all people carry ordinary staph chronically. It can be passed by touching other people or by depositing the bacteria on surfaces or objects.
The bacteria can cause deep-tissue infections if they enter the body through a wound in the skin.
Of those people who carry staph, most carry it in their noses but community-based MRSA also can live in and around the anus and is passed between sexual partners.
Incidence of MRSA is rising along with the resurgence of syphilis, rectal gonorrhea, and new HIV infections partly because of changes in beliefs about the severity of HIV and an increase in risky behaviors, such as illicit drug use and having sex that abrades the skin, Dieps team wrote.
“Your likelihood of contracting each of these diseases increases with the number of sexual partners that you have,” Diep said. “The same can probably be said for MRSA.”
Staph infections often look like raised red dots on the skin. Left untreated, the areas can swell and fill with pus.
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