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Bobcats fall to Magic 100-79

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 11:08 PM PST

Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard scored two of his 20 points over Bobcats' rookie Bismack Biyombo in Charlotte's 100-79 lose to the Magic Friday at Time Warner Cable Arena.

Bobcats Fall to Magic at Home 100-79

Charlotte's Corey Maggette scored a team high 20 points in the loss to the Magic.

CHARLOTTE – Former Duke forward Corey Maggette had his best game in a Charlotte Bobcats’ uniform as he scored a team high 20 point and grabbed seven rebounds in team’s 100-79 lose to the Orlando Magic Friday at Time Warner
Cable Arena.

Magic center Dwight Howard had a huge game with 20 points and 24 rebounds while teammate Ryan Anderson had a game-high 24 points.

The Magic jumped out to an 11-0 lead to open the game and never looked back.

The Cats trailed at the half 56-43 but was able to hang tough in the third quarter before the Magic closed the game by outscoring Charlotte by seven in the final period.

Former Bobcats’ guard Jason Richardson contributed with 16 points in the Orlando win.

The Bobcats (1-2) have a rematch with the Heat Sunday after Charlotte lost in the final seconds in Wednesday’s game against Miami.

The Magic (3-1) will host the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.

New Year’s Eve

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:00 PM PST

Profile AmericaProfile America — Saturday, December 31st. On this New Year’s Eve, more than 312 million Americans of all ages are ready to greet the year 2012. A hundred years ago, the U.S. population was approaching 94 million — 50 years ago, it was nearing 184 million. To show how fast the nation is growing, by this time tomorrow, there will be more than 7,200 new babies on hand to welcome the New Year. Tonight’s celebration will see many of the 182,000 musicians and singers in the U.S. entertaining crowds in night clubs, bars, and restaurants across the country. Also on hand will be most of the 393,000 bartenders and just over 2 million waiters and waitresses. The men and women of the U.S. Census Bureau wish you a happy, safe, and prosperous New Year.

Sources: Chase’s Calendar of Events 2011, p. 617
Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, p. 10
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2012, t. 616
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012edition.html

Yemeni protesters demand trial for President Saleh

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:53 PM PST

SANAA (BNO NEWS) -- Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Yemen on Friday to demand that embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for the killings of hundreds of anti-government protesters during the uprising this year.

Saleh handed over presidential powers to his deputy last month and agreed to leave office in February 2012 after signing a political agreement brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Under the accord, Saleh received immunity from prosecution, which has been rejected by some protesters.

Earlier this week, Saleh applied for a visa to enter the United States for medical treatment. He said he would leave for the US "in the coming days... to get out of sight... to calm the atmosphere for the unity government to hold the presidential election" in February. But he has also said he would return later as "an opposition figure", the BBC reported.

Saleh previously spent more than three months in Saudi Arabia to recover from injuries he sustained in a rocket attack which hit the mosque of the presidential palace in Sanaa on June 3. It was part of an uprising against his government which began in February, resulting in a crackdown by security forces which left at least 1,500 people killed.

A national unity government, led by Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi, was sworn in earlier this month in an effort to restore peace and democracy. The ruling party and opposition parties evenly divided the 34 ministries.

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GRAIL Probes Set to Begin Lunar Orbit Saturday, Sunday

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:48 PM PST

U.S. space agency NASA says its twin lunar spacecraft that are on a mission to study the Moon's gravitational field and internal structure are set to begin orbiting Earth's satellite on Saturday and Sunday.

NASA launched the two unmanned Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, probes in September. It says the first probe, GRAIL A, is scheduled to be placed into its lunar orbit on Saturday, beginning at 2121 Universal time [4:21 p.m. EST Saturday). The second probe, GRAIL B, will start its orbit placement on Sunday at 2205 Universal time [5:05 p.m. EST Sunday].

The orbiting GRAIL spacecraft are scheduled to spend about 90 days gathering data to create the first complete high-resolution map of the Moon's curiously uneven gravitational field. Scientists say they will use the new gravity data to find out what goes on beneath the lunar surface, "from crust to core."

Mission principal researcher, Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the GRAIL project will "rewrite the textbooks on the evolution of the Moon."

NASA says it expects insights from the GRAIL mission to lead to a better understanding of how the Earth and the three other rocky planets [Mercury, Venus and Mars] in the inner solar system developed into the diverse worlds seen today.

The GRAIL A and GRAIL B orbital maneuvers on Saturday, December 31 and on Sunday, January 1 happen to coincide with New Year's Eve 2011 and New Year's Day 2012.   

NASA anticipates that GRAIL's comprehensive map of the Moon's gravitational field also will provide an important navigational tool for future lunar spacecraft. The space agency says it plans to plunge both GRAIL spacecraft into the lunar surface several weeks after the orbital mapping mission is complete.

The Moon orbits the Earth from an average distance of about 385,000 kilometers. It has a diameter of nearly 3,500 kilometers. By contrast, the Earth's is 12,756 kilometers wide. Because the Moon is smaller and has less mass, the force of gravity on the lunar surface is only 17 percent of that on the Earth. That means the same object that weighs 100 kilograms here on Earth will weigh only 17 kilograms on the Moon.

Astronomers believe the Moon formed only 30 to 50 million years after the rest of our solar system first coalesced from left over stellar dust and gas some 4.6 billion years ago. The dominant theory proposes that the Moon is made of debris that circled the still-molten Earth in the wake of a cataclysmic collision with a smaller Mars-sized protoplanet.

Turkish gov’t says it ‘regrets’ airstrike which killed 35 civilians

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:43 PM PST

ANKARA (BNO NEWS) -- The Turkish government on Friday said it regrets an airstrike which mistakenly killed 35 civilians along the Turkey-Iraq border on late Wednesday evening, the Antolia news agency reported.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the incident was unfortunate and saddening. He said unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) had noticed that nearly 40 people were moving in a region where the main camps of the armed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are situated.

"Naturally it is not possible for unmanned aerial vehicles to identify the group exactly. In a further identification, it is revealed that the group was comprised of cigarette and diesel oil smugglers," Erdogan added.

Turkish F-16 warplanes carried out the airstrike in Uludere township of Şırnak province on Wednesday night after receiving information that PKK members were preparing to cross into Sirnak. At least 35 Kurdish civilians who were mistaken for PKK members were killed.

President Abdullah Gul also expressed sorry about the incident and offered condolences to the victims' families. Gul and Erdogan said an investigation will be conducted into the incident, adding that there was about four hours of footage from the operation.

A mass funeral for the victims took place on Friday afternoon in Uludere. Thousands of Kurds gathered to mourn the victims and condemn the attack.

The PKK, which has been labeled as a terrorist organizations by the United States, Turkey and the European Union, was established in 1984 in its efforts to establish the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey as an autonomous Kurdish state. Over 40,000 soldiers and civilians have been killed in violent clashes since the group took arms. The PKK maintains its military bases across the Iraqi border.

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