They will also be missing a couple of players against Germany.
This article or event never appeared in my printed paper, folks:
"Another body found in collapse in World Cup host city | Associated Press July 05, 2014
SAO PAULO — Rescue workers on Friday recovered the body of a 25-year-old man crushed beneath tons of concrete and steel of an unfinished overpass that collapsed in the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte, bring the death toll to two, officials said.
Rescue workers reached a small passenger car that was flattened by the collapsed overpass and retrieved the body of Charlys do Nascimento. No one else was in the car.
Officials had already assumed at least one person had died in the car in addition to a bus driver whose body was recovered earlier. Twenty-two people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in Thursday’s accident.
No one was inside the two trucks trapped underneath the rubble, a City Hall press officer said. The press officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of internal regulations, said inspectors were trying to determine what caused the overpass to fall.
Marcio Lacerda, mayor of Belo Horizonte, told reporters it was premature to talk about causes. ‘‘We don’t know if it was the project or the construction that was flawed.’’ he said.
The overpass collapsed about 3 miles from Mineirao stadium, which is the site of a semifinal match Tuesday.
The collapse has been an embarrassment for the country, which has been basking in praise for what has mostly been a smoothly running soccer tournament.
Maybe that's why this article -- along with the Brazilian protests -- haven't run in my printed pre$$.
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I did see something in the sports the day before, but that is not where I'm looking for news in a printed paper.
"Cybercrime ring uncovered in Brazil" Associated Press July 04, 2014
SAO PAULO — A massive cybercrime ring in Brazil may have stolen billions of dollars from a widely used online payment system, a technology security company said.
Also see: Wanzeler's Wanderings
The RSA Security division of Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC Corp. said in a research report released on Wednesday that a ‘‘malware-based fraud ring’’ had infiltrated the online payment method known as the boleto, diverting payments to accounts held by members of the ring.
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RSA gave the NSA a trapdoor through the backdoor.
Boletos are used in a wide range of transactions, such as telephone, school tuition, and mortgage and credit card payments.
The report said the scheme may have compromised close to 500,000 transactions with an estimated value of $3.75 billion over a two-year period. However, researchers were unable to determine how many of those boletos were paid by victims or whether they went to fraudster-controlled bank accounts.’’
It said transactions of 34 banks were affected, though it did not name the banks.
The Federation of Brazilian Banks that represents Brazil’s banking industry said the country’s banks lost 1.4 billion reals to electronic fraud in 2012.
RSA said it turned over its report to Brazil’s federal police, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to the bank federation.
According to the report, the boleto system is the second most popular payment method in Brazil after credit cards.
The report says the malware appears to affect only boletos generated or paid online via infected Windows-based PCs using Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It modifies the boleto information ‘‘so that payments are redirected to a fraudster’s account,’’ the reports said.
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What's odd is both Germany and Brazil have been targets of U.S. spying and are meeting in the semifinals of the World Cup™.
Colombia has been shut out since the last post hit the ball, and it looks like the Globe is picking the Netherlands to make it through today.
