Envoys seek to avert bloodbath in Egypt

By Tom Perry and Matt Robinson

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs on Saturday of a readiness to compromise, pressed by Western envoys trying to head off more bloodshed.

Faced with the threat of a crackdown on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, diplomacy appeared to pick up pace, a month to the day since Egypt's army deposed President Mohamed Mursi and plunged the country into turmoil.

Recognizing for the first time the strength of popular protest against his one-year rule, Mursi's allies said they respected the demands of millions who took to the streets before his overthrow.

A spokesman said the Mursi camp, which has refused to abandon weeks of sit-in protests until he is reinstated, wanted a solution that would "respect all popular desires".

They told envoys from the United States and the European Union that they rejected any role in a political settlement for army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led Mursi's ouster, and wanted the constitution he suspended to be restored.

"I respect and hold in regard the demands of the masses that went out on June 30, but I will not build on the military coup," spokesman Tarek El-Malt told Reuters, relaying what the pro-Mursi delegation had told the envoys.

Asked whether the delegation had insisted on Mursi's reinstatement as part of any political deal, Malt, a member of the Brotherhood-affiliated Wasat party, said that was a detail for future discussion.

But given that Mursi's opponents insist he should not be part of the political solution, Malt said that "Sisi must also not be in the political equation". He said the pro-Mursi camp was ready to talk with the National Salvation Front, a loose alliance of leftist and liberal parties represented in the interim government installed by the army.

RAGE 'THE EASIEST THING'

In an interview with the Washington Post, Sisi appeared to rule out running for president himself, despite his growing popularity among some of the 84 million-strong population.

"You just can't believe that there are people who don't aspire for authority," Sisi told the interviewer when asked if he would stand for president. Asked "Is that you?", he replied, "Yes." The Post said the interview was conducted on Thursday.

Egypt's military has laid out a "road map" to elections in about six months. It promises a return to civilian government, having brought down the first freely elected president after 60 years of rule by military men.

The Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that spent decades in the shadows before winning power in elections after the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, had spurned the road map.

But its supporters, camped out at two sites in Cairo, face the threat of being violently dispersed by security forces who shot dead 80 of them a week ago. Almost 300 people have been killed in political violence since Mursi's overthrow, and much of the movement's leadership is in custody.

The deposed president is being held in a secret location, under investigation on a raft of charges including murder.

Diplomats say the Brotherhood and its political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), understand that Mursi will not return as president, but they want a face-saving legal formula for him to step down.

"Those empowered to speak for the FJP understand that Mursi is not coming back. But they are maintaining that as a negotiating position," a Western diplomat said. Another diplomat said the Mursi bloc had shown flexibility in Saturday's talks.

Analysts say civilians in the new government are also trying to promote a political solution despite resistance from security services that want to take a hard line on the Brotherhood.

"Rage is the easiest thing. It is the easiest thing to say, 'Let's crush the Brotherhood'," interim Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei told Al-Hayat TV. "There is no solution in Egypt that can be based on exclusion. Salafists, Brotherhood, secularists, liberals, whoever, we are condemned to live together."

He said talks with outside envoys would focus on "specific steps" to reduce tensions. "We will discuss together how in the next 48 hours how we can halt the violence, reducing the number of protests."

'CONTACTS' WITH BROTHERHOOD

Stepping back from a threat to disperse the Brotherhood protests, the government said on Friday it would blockade the camps, but not storm them.

On Saturday, the Interior Ministry offered protesters a "safe exit" and political integration. Spokesman General Hany Abdel Latif said they had been "brainwashed".

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and European Union envoy Bernadino Leon were leading the diplomatic push, meeting Mursi's allies, interim Foreign minister Nabil Fahmy and interim President Adli Mansour. The United Arab Emirates, which has given the new government $3 billion in support, sent Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, who also met with Fahmy.

Fahmy told reporters there had been some contact with the Brotherhood.

"I wouldn't use the word negotiation. There have been contacts between different figures. There is no desire to use force if there is any other avenue that has any potential for success," he said.

The crisis in the Arab world's most populous country has posed a dilemma for the United States and other Western governments, which had advocated democracy following the overthrow of Mubarak but grew increasingly uncomfortable with Mursi's Islamist leanings.

Many Egyptians shared that concern, and frustration grew over Mursi's failure to solve social and economic problems.

The interim government gained the United States' approval on Thursday when Secretary of State John Kerry said the army had been "restoring democracy" when it toppled Mursi. Cairo remains central to U.S. policy in the Middle East, notably because of its peace agreement with Israel.

(Additional reporting by Michael Georgy, Tom Finn and Omar Fahmy in Cairo, Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Angus MacSwan and Matt Robinson; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/international-envoys-meet-minister-cairo-ease-egypt-crisis-123128004.html

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Jobs growth in the US slows

Employers across the US hired fewer than expected people last month, according to new figures that showed a slow, if steady, recovery in the labour market that is likely to factor heavily in the Federal Reserve's calculations as it considers rolling back its stimulus measures.

The Labor Department said payrolls in the world's largest economy expanded by 162,000 over July, fewer than the 183,000 news jobs anticipated by analysts. Although the growth was slower than forecast, the unemployment rate, drawn from a separate survey, fell to 7.4 per cent from 7.6 per cent, its lowest since December 2008.

The lacklustre growth highlighted the continued impact of what is still a wounded economy that is recovering only slowly. The pressure of government spending cuts was apparent in the figures, which showed that public payrolls had declined.

Worryingly for an economy dependent on consumer spending, the report showed Ameri-cans are earning less money: average hourly earnings fell 2 cents to $23.98 and the average workweek also fell.

In addition to publishing figures for July, the Labour Department revised its estimates of job growth over May and June, saying 26,000 fewer jobs had been created.

The figures come as the Fed considers when and how to begin reducing the size of its $85bn (?56bn) per month bond buying programme.

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Total War: Rome 2 Interview with Jamie Ferguson and Al Bickham

If the IncGamers hands-on preview with Total War: Rome II still left you with questions, perhaps they?ll be answered here by Creative Assembly?s Jamie Ferguson and Al Bickham. David Reid chatted to the duo about gameplay, physics, AI, factions and even whether Total War will be playable in 20 years time via telekinesis.

Read on to learn about the mass of elephants, the benefits of flaming sheep and how the Iceni are all just a bunch of angry Essex boys.

We?ll show you angry, mate.

Gameplay

IncGamers: Do you have stats that scale dynamically in battle for units ? for example if an elite Roman unit of troops were hit by a unit of chariots due to their ?mass? rating and subsequently knocked down, do the Roman still attack as if they were imbued with Mars himself?

Jamie Ferguson (Lead Battle Designer): Our stats do change as the battle goes on, your units will be affected for example by fatigue and also their morale stats will actually change when a unit fights in combat. Also whether you?re standing on top of a hill defending or whether you?re pushing up that hill is completely different in terms of combat. So you could be hit by a bunch of chariots, depends whether you?re organised, i.e. set for the charge or actually in the middle of running up hill or whatever, those kinds of things all affect combat.

IG: I?ve always faced my friends uphill during battles. During your E3 demo of the Battle of the Nile, the defenders had a lot of advantages over the attacker. What advantages would an attacker have if no reinforcements or missile/siege weapons are available for either side when attacking a defending army upon the hill?

JF: If you?ve developed the game obviously that helps (laughs). Also it?s picking your grounds and using what you have, we have a line of sight system so for example if the terrain is right you can actually sneak around behind the enemy without them realising that you?re there. So even if they?re in a well-entrenched position you can actually negate that by attacking through surprise. Again on the campaign map you can actually try to create an ambush, if you ambush the enemy then their options of manoeuvring and placing their units are severely limited, same applies to you if you get ambushed.

So tactics and strategy are all important in terms of being a successful commander, picking the troops at the right time. If you don?t have those things than you could find yourself in a losing situation. Obviously skill and strategy are human elements that the player himself inputs into the game so there?s no such thing as an automatic win, it?s up to the player how they do things and how they react.

We do have an AI control that allows the player to give over control of his forces, so if they feel they?re not particularly confident in a battlefield situation, they can still actually let the AI control and still enjoy the whole kind of spectacle, obviously the AI won?t be as competent as a very good player, but at the same time it will do a good job. The AI certainly has managed to catch me unawares on a number of occasions. Obviously I still win, as it?s one of those things where I know how it works but at the same time? (laughs) you know there?s not one way of doing things and necessarily the way to win.

Jumping across water to attack boats may or may not be an official Sun Tzu tactic.

IG: What effects can we expect in regards to terrain playing a part on the battlefield and campaign map? Could I use fire arrows and set a forest alight with enemy troops inside for example?

JF: As with all previous games, terrain affects fatigue and fatigue affects your unit?s speed and as a result of that it also has effects on morale. Again those are all the way through the game so that affects both the campaign map and the battlefield as well. So how far you move is entirely dependent on where you?re walking and what you?re walking on, so if its mountains the experience is different compared to walking on the fields.

IG: Is it possible to sack Rome and remove the Senate?

JF: Yes it is possible to sack Rome. If you?re an enemy fraction you automatically remove the senate (evil laughs) and if you?re a Roman fraction you can try and remove the senate but you may end up with a civil war on your hands.

IG: Will there be any units to directly control like in Fall of the Samurai or Empire Total War? What did you learn from such a feature from previous series?

JF: We do still have artillery pieces that you can control and also you can move down in the first person view of melee units and watch them get involved in combat and so on. There?s no reason we?d want to take that out, maybe in the future we might think of expanding on that.

IG: Could you tell us about the starting and ending dates for the campaign? Also is there an option to change the campaign game turns into more than just seasons like in Shogun 2?

JF: There is no ending date; it?s up to the player on how quickly they complete their game. Starting date is 272BC, the prologue itself take place just before that and is actually an introduction to the player of the situation that begins the Roman campaign. There isn?t an option for the player to change the campaign game turns; I?m sure though somebody?s capable of getting their hands in there and might be able to do something with a mod.

IG: Are there finishing moves for a unit that?s about break another or like what we saw in the pre-order Greek states trailer with the Spartan Warrior? Will this apply to missile weapons as well?

JF: Yeah you will see finishing moves. They are actually just a naturally moving element of combat and we got more animations than we?ve done in a previous Total War game, nearly double, and in terms of the depth and quality, the entire system is completely overhauled. It creates very spectacular views, so one of my favourites is an overhand kind of downward swing with sword into the clavicle? (laughs). You get to see stuff like the Roman guys out there today, doing testudo and so on, all in the game.

Well, close enough.

AI

IG: Can you give me some in-depth examples on the improved AI since the previous series?

Al Bickham (Studio Communications Manager): One feature in Rome 2 for AI in the campaign game is the faction AI now reasons a lot more deeply about what everybody else is doing. So it builds an ?I like you for these reasons and I hate you for these reasons?? list as it always has done, but it looks deeper and looks at more cultures; specifically, the cultures that you?re friendly with in a broader way. So you can see that when you open up the diplomacy panel and we have a sort of attitude meter and it lists the reasons why it likes you, so your actions as a player faction influence how that culture feels about you. If you have rampaged through the lands of Sparta and Macedonia the faction you?re in diplomacy with right now is going to have a reaction to that. So they might really like that because they?re friends of yours or enemies of those guys.

And they look beyond the immediacy and more factions down the chain. For example, I?m playing as the Brits (Iceni) and I?m at war, say, with Rome itself and I?ve come down the map. Rome is going to look at who my friends are and how they feel about me as well as my direct actions or non-actions against Rome. So it?s a lot more subtle and you?ll find there?s interesting power blocks growing as a result of that.

IG: In Shogun 2 you had Sun Tzu strategies implemented. Could you give some faction-specific AI examples using strategy from Roman times? E.g. would the AI know that my Spartan army uses pikes almost exclusively so they would play coy and try to get my unit?s rear flank exposed whist trying to make me keep moving?

AB: So the battle AI is more based around unit types, not necessarily that it?s a Greek army, it will go those are spearmen and I?m going to react to them like this?, it will look to cover its flanks and do that stuff a player would do. But one of the things is that we?ve had to work quite hard on the siege AI because we?ve got decisions that are completely different now.

So in Shogun 2 they were kind of a series of steps and buildings, whereas cities in Rome 2 are like this?i.e. there are side streets and avenues and things like that and in the bigger cities we?ll have several capture points so we?ve had to sort of train the AI to understand the use of capture points and the ways to split its forces to make that successful.

Imagine if you were the player, what would you do in that situation if that pillar there (points to one of HBO Rome?s TV sets pillars) and the other there is a capture point? So, I?m going to put all my guys at one point and make that undeniable. How many am I going to send over there, what are the variables between the two points, (e.g. enemy units) and are they in line of sight? Line of sight is a new feature so if there?s a unit of archers round a corner I wouldn?t know about it until I saw them, so the AI has to react to that as well. We?ve had to do quite a lot of new work, which is good.

Source: http://www.incgamers.com/2013/08/total-war-rome-ii-interview

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Most doctors in urban India are not MBBS, study finds

MUMBAI: In a shocking representation of the lack of essential healthcare, the largest chunk of doctors in the country do not hold the MBBS degree (bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery) ? a basic prerequisite to practice modern medicine (allopathy). Instead, they have degrees of alternative medicine like ayurveda or homeopathy, but they may still be prescribing a significant portion of allopathic medicines.

Data culled from the physician census by market research firm, IMS Health says that the non-MBBS general physicians (GPs) charge the lowest ? possibly because of their low qualification, experts point out, while the super-specialists like the oncologists and neurologists occupy the top rung, in terms of consulting fees.

The physician census, covering 120 cities (metro and non-metro) across the country with nearly four lakh doctors, confirms the huge dearth of quality healthcare professionals, and worse, this situation is not illustrative of rural areas at all.

When contacted by TOI, an official of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), a body representing healthcare practitioners, said it has urged the government to bring in laws to prevent quacks from practicing. Corroborating the census findings, the IMA says on its website that quacks are increasing in the country, both in urban and rural areas, and an estimated 10 lakh quacks are practicing allopathic medicine, out of which four lakh belong to practitioners of Indian Medicine (Ayurvedic, Sidha, Tibb and Unani).

It further divides quacks amongst three basic categories? quacks with no qualification whatsoever, secondly, practitioners of Indian Medicine (Ayurvedic, Sidha, Tibb, Unani), Homeopathy, Naturopathy, commonly called Ayush, who are not qualified to practice modern medicine (allopathy) but are practicing modern medicine, and lastly, practitioners of so-called integrated medicine, alternative system of medicine, electro-homeopathy, indo-allopathy etc terms which do not exist in any Act. Only practitioners who hold the MBBS degree, and registered with the Medical Council of India or the state medical council can practice modern medicine (allopathy).

IMA has also urged the government to bring in an anti-quackery law to curb unqualified and unlicensed people from taking up medical practice in the country, IMA national president Dr K Vijayakumar told TOI, adding "we are demanding an increase in the undergraduate and post-graduate seats in medical colleges to fill the gap".

Says Amit Backliwal MD IMS Health South Asia: "Access to good quality healthcare is a significant challenge in India. A key issue in getting access, according to an earlier IMS study is availability of healthcare workers, diagnostic facilities and delivery of care of a standard quality. The significant variations and disparities in number of doctors across cities, high burden on tertiary care physicians especially more prominent in smaller towns, along with mismatch in healthcare indicators to inadequate presence of healthcare infrastructure and manpower, all lead to an extremely fragmented, chaotic and poor state of healthcare in India".

The disparities in consultation charges exist across doctor specialities as well as towns and cities, with factors like qualification and high cost of living, driving this trend.

While general physicians, dentists and consulting physicians are at the bottom, the top rungs are occupied by the super specialists like oncologists, neurologists, cardiac surgeons and nephrologists - whose fees are 4-5 times that of the general physicians. In the middle lie doctor specialties like pediatricians, gynecologists, ENTs and ophthalmologists who charge 2-3 times more than general physicians. Predictably doctors from mega metros charge a premium over doctors from smaller cities; on an average a consultation with Mumbai doctors is 20-40% costlier than the all-India average doctor fee. Factors like higher cost of living, high disposable incomes, advanced treatment facilities, and higher repute of doctors drive this trend.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Most-doctors-in-urban-India-are-not-MBBS-Study/articleshow/21566944.cms

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IMF Wants EU to Help Cut Greek Debt

IMF Wants EU to Help Cut Greek Debt

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde says Greece needs more help from its European partners in cutting its crushing debt as two bailout packages of $325 billion haven?t done enough and worsened a recession.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The International Monetary Fund chief said she is counting on Europe to live up to its commitment to help Greece meet its targets for slashing debt under an international rescue program. The IMF said in its quarterly review of Greece?s progress earlier this week that the bailout program would fall short of the country?s needs by a total of $14.59 billion by the end of 2015 and Eurozone countries need to plug the hole. The international lending agency described the expected shortfall as a ?test of European support? and said finance ministers from the 17 countries that use the euro have already started discussing how to fill the financing gap.

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Koreans turn back Chinese

Fiba Asia champ falls in upset

By June Navarro
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Steady and resilient throughout, South Korea hammered out a stunning 63-59 win over defending champion China last night in the 27th Fiba Asia Championship at Mall of Asia Arena.

High-energy forward Cho Sung-min and veteran guard Yang Dong-geun cooly sank their free throws in the dying seconds as the Koreans escaped with the narrow victory in one of the most awaited matchups in Group C.

Former NBA center Yi Jianlian and shifty guard Wang Shipeng hastened China?s downfall by losing possession twice and muffing their desperation threes.

?They have taller guys than ours, so we really focused on the matchups,? said Korean coach Yoo Jae-hak through an interpreter. ?But it?s still a long tournament. I?m just glad to overcome the height of China.?

Yi, a 7-foot rim protector who played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Washington Wizards, was dominant in the paint but the Korean frontline simply held its ground with Cho, Lee Seung-jun and Kim Jong-kyu ganging up on him.

?He?s (Yi) a good player. Tall, fast and we had a hard time defending him. We just helped each other out to stop him,? said Cho, whose free throws with 21.5 seconds left gave the Koreans a 61-57 breather.

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Health and Fitness Festival heading to Victoria Park | North ...

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Taiwan lawmakers brawl over nuclear plant bill

Ruling and opposition lawmakers fight on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant. Friday?s fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou?s ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Ruling and opposition lawmakers fight on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant. Friday?s fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou?s ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Ruling and opposition lawmakers are sprayed with water as they fight on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant. Friday?s fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou?s ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Ruling and opposition lawmakers fight on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant. Friday?s fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou?s ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Ruling and opposition lawmakers fight each other on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant. Friday?s fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou?s ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Opposition lawmakers shout during fighting against ruling lawmakers on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant. Friday?s fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou?s ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water at each other Friday ahead of an expected vote that would authorize a referendum on whether to finish a fourth nuclear power plant on this densely populated island of 23 million people.

Nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in Taiwan and became more so following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. While many Taiwanese consider nuclear power generation an unacceptable safety risk for the earthquake-prone island, economic analyses suggest disruptive power shortages are inevitable if the fourth plant is not completed.

Friday's fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou's ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. DPP lawmakers occupied the legislative podium late Thursday night amid vows to disrupt the vote. It had not taken place by midday Friday, but with a large Nationalist majority in the 113-seat legislature, the referendum bill is expected to pass easily.

Construction of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant began in 1997 but was halted while the DPP was in power between 2000 and 2008. If the referendum is passed it could become operational by 2016.

Physical confrontations broke out early in Friday's session. Associated Press television footage shows some eight people pushing and shoving in one scrum. Two people scuffled on the floor, while others tried to separate them. More than a dozen activists in bright yellow shirts chanted and waved signs on a nearby balcony, and several of them splashed water onto lawmakers below. A few water bottles were thrown into the fray.

Some DPP lawmakers object to the idea of any nuclear referendum at all, while others say that the language in the bill needs to be changed because it is prejudicial. According to the bill under discussion, referendum voters would be asked to vote on whether they agree with the proposition that "the construction of the fourth nuclear power plant should be halted and that it not become operational."

Taiwan began transitioning away from a one-party martial law regime in 1987 and is regarded today as one of Asia's most vibrant democracies. But its political process has been undermined by occasional outbursts of violence in the legislature, much of which appears to be deliberately designed to score points among hardline supporters on either side of the island's longstanding political divide.

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Egypt's rulers tell pro-Mursi protesters to quit camps

By Asma Alsharif and Tom Perry

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army-backed government warned supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday to abandon their Cairo protest camps, promising them a safe exit if they gave up without a fight.

The appeal, made by Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif on state television, followed the government's declaration on Wednesday it was ready to take action to end two weeks of sit-in protests by thousands of Mursi supporters at two sites.

European Union envoy Bernardino Leon, who has been trying to defuse political tensions on a trip to Cairo, said the EU would not easily accept the use of violence to break up the protest camp and that such action would have to be explained to the international community, Al-Hayat television station reported.

It quoted him as saying efforts should be made to reach a political solution by reaching out to moderates on both sides.

Since the army ousted the Islamist Mursi on July 3, police have rounded up many leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood, mostly on charges of inciting violence. The latest warnings raised the possibility of a potentially bloody showdown.

Latif said that if protesters left the sites peacefully, they would be guaranteed a safe exit. No deadline was set.

"There is no specified date. We will continue to study the situation on the ground," Latif told Reuters.

The protesters remained defiant and prepared for the worst.

At the Rabaa al-Adawiya camp, ground was cleared of rubbish to allow easier ambulance access. Buckets of sand were placed throughout the camp to be used to extinguish teargas canisters.

Behind a barricade of bricks and sandbags, rocks had been piled up to use as ammunition.

"We are ready. We are ready to die for legitimacy. An attack can happen at any moment," said Mohamed Saqr, a Brotherhood activist guarding an entrance to the encampment at a mosque in northeast Cairo.

Egypt is more polarized than at any time since the U.S.-backed autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, starting a political transition fraught with unrest.

Mursi became Egypt's first freely elected leader in June 2012, but faced opposition over his inability to address social and economic problems and fears that he was leading the country towards stricter Islamist control.

GLOBAL CONCERN

The new government's transition plan envisions parliamentary elections in about six months, to be followed by a presidential vote. The Brotherhood says the army has mounted a coup against a legitimate elected leader and wants nothing to do with the plan.

The United States has refused to label Mursi's removal a "coup". That would trigger a cutoff in aid and could alienate it from the Egyptian military, which benefits from $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.

On a visit to Pakistan on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the Egyptian army was "restoring democracy" when it toppled Mursi.

"The military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people, all of whom were afraid of a descendance into chaos, into violence," he told Pakistan's GEO TV.

"And the military did not take over, to the best of our judgment so - so far."

Egypt's government was buoyed by huge pro-army rallies in response to a call by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for Egyptians to give him a mandate to crack down on "violence and terrorism".

Mursi has been in detention since his overthrow and faces a judicial inquiry into accusations that include murder and kidnapping. The authorities also brought formal charges on Wednesday against the Brotherhood's three top leaders, two of whom are in custody.

The arrests, along with street violence that has killed well over 100 Mursi supporters, have fuelled global concern that the government plans to crush the Brotherhood, even though it says it wants to involve the Islamists in the transition plan.

Khaled Hanafi, general secretary of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, said the interior minister was trying to terrorize the protesters.

"These statements won't deter peaceful protesters and will only increase their determination and resolve to fulfill their demands for a return of legitimacy, and they will not leave the squares until legitimacy returns," he said.

A prominent Salafi cleric, Sheikh Mohamed Hassan, warned the government against spilling blood.

Egypt's biggest liberal and leftist coalition, the National Salvation Front, said it supported "all legal measures aimed at restoring security and stability".

The group, which backed Mursi's overthrow, said the authorities should confront what it called a "campaign of incitement and intimidation by the Brotherhood and their allies."

A grouping of Mursi supporters calling itself the Anti-Coup Pro-Democracy Alliance said the security forces planned to foment violence as an excuse for committing a massacre. It appealed to soldiers and police not to fire on protesters.

It said the protests would continue.

"All revolutionary groups, including the Alliance, also announce that they do not recognize the coup government or its decisions or negotiations," it said in a statement.

The prospect of a showdown appeared to undermine efforts by the European Union to negotiate a peaceful settlement.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton spent two days in Cairo this week and met Mursi when she was flown after dark by military helicopter to his secret place of confinement.

The visiting German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, urged the authorities on Thursday to avoid "the appearance of selective justice".

But his Egyptian counterpart, Nabil Fahmy, speaking alongside him, retorted that there was no agenda of vengeance and no selective justice.

"There is law and it applies to everyone," Fahmy said.

Any forcible action against the Mursi supporters could set off more bloodletting after security forces killed 80 Brotherhood followers on Saturday. The Brotherhood has called for a "million-man march" on Friday.

Almost 300 people have been killed in violence since Mursi's overthrow, inspiring fears in the West of a wider conflagration in Egypt, which straddles the Suez Canal and whose 1979 peace treaty with Israel is central to U.S. policy in the Middle East.

(Additional reporting by Maggie Fick, Shadia Nasralla and Noah Browning in CAIRO and Lesley Wroughton in ISLAMABAD; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Michael Roddy and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/germany-chides-egypt-selective-justice-brotherhood-defiant-105526618.html

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Manning changed data access protocol, U.S. argues at sentencing

By Tom Ramstack

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - As a military judge considered sentencing for convicted U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, prosecutors argued that his leaks of classified information to the WikiLeaks website changed the way the military allowed intelligence analysts to access data.

Manning, 25, on Tuesday escaped a life sentence with no parole at his court-martial when Judge Colonel Denise Lind acquitted him of aiding the enemy, the most serious of 21 criminal counts against him. But he still faces the possibility of 136 years in prison on 19 other charges.

The slightly built Army private first class was working as a low-level intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2010 when he was arrested and charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history - a trove of 700,000 battlefield videos, diplomatic cables and other files.

Following Tuesday's verdict, the court-martial at Fort Meade, Maryland, moved into the sentencing proceeding on Wednesday with arguments by military prosecutors and Manning's lawyers.

A prosecutor, Major Ashden Fein, said Manning's leaks "have impacted the entire system" for granting defense analysts access to classified information.

Manning's attorneys were expected argue that the Army private was not trying to jeopardize U.S. national security. He did not testify during his trial or during the first day of his sentencing hearing.

The first prosecution witness, retired Brigadier General Robert Carr, said that allowing young analysts such as Manning to have access to classified information was "hugely important" to the U.S. military.

In a court martial that stretched over two months, military prosecutors had argued that Manning became a "traitor" to his country when he handed over files to the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks website. The U.S. government charged that the breach put national security at risk. It also thrust WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange into the international spotlight.

Observers said the verdict could have "a chilling effect" on WikiLeaks by making potential sources of documents in the United States more wary about handing over secret information.

It could also encourage the United States to seek to prosecute Assange for his role in publishing the information.

Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for over a year to avoid extradition to Sweden, where two women have accused him of sexual assault. The activist says he fears Sweden might hand him over to U.S. authorities.

Army prosecutors contended during Manning's court-martial that U.S. security was harmed when WikiLeaks published videos of a 2007 attack by an American Apache helicopter gunship in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff, diplomatic cables, and secret details on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

Manning supporters who gathered at Fort Meade on Tuesday said they were relieved he had been acquitted of the most serious charge, but thought the sentence he could face was excessive.

"The remaining charges against him are still tantamount to life in prison," said Nathan Fuller. "That's still an outrage."

The verdict was praised by two U.S. Congressmen - Representatives Michael Rogers, a Republican who chairs the House intelligence committee and Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, its ranking member.

"Justice has been served today. PFC Manning harmed our national security, violated the public's trust, and now stands convicted of multiple serious crimes," they said in a statement.

(Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Grant McCool)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/manning-changed-data-access-protocol-u-argues-sentencing-173106257.html

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Thomas Pink Suing Victoria's Secret Pink - Business Insider

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A luxury British shirt maker called Pink is suing Victoria's Secret for infringement.?

London-based Thomas Pink filed the suit against the British arm of Victoria's Secret in May, alleging that the name of the brand's teen line is confusing to customers, Vogue reports.?

"Thomas Pink is determined to protect the considerable investment that has been made into building the world's luxury leading shirt brand," a spokesperson told Vogue.?

Now Victoria's Secret is fighting back. Last week the lingerie brand filed a declaratory judgment suit in the U.S., seeking to?to establish "the rights of the parties, allowing them to continue the peaceful coexistence that has been in place for many years," according to Vogue.

The teen line has seen wild success in recent years, leading the brand to open standalone stores around the world.?Victoria's Secret just launched two standalone Pink stores in London.?

Victoria's Secret hasn't commented on the suit.?

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Nazi suspects still living in America

MINNEAPOLIS ? At least 10 suspected Nazi war criminals ordered deported by the United States never left the country, according to an Associated Press review of Justice Department data ? and four are living in the U.S. today. All remained eligible for public benefits such as Social Security until they exhausted appeals, and in one case even beyond.

Quiet American legal limbo was the fate of all 10 men uncovered in the AP review. The reason: While the U.S. wanted them out, no other country was willing to take them in.

That's currently the case of Vladas Zajanckauskas in Sutton, Massachusetts. It's the case of Theodor Szehinskyj in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Of Jakiw Palij in New York City. And of John Kalymon in Troy, Michigan.

All have been in the same areas for years, stripped of citizenship and ordered deported, yet able to carry out their lives in familiar surroundings. Dozens of other Nazi war crimes suspects in the U.S. were also entitled to Social Security and other public benefits for years as they fought deportation.

The United States can deport people over evidence of involvement in Nazi war crimes, but cannot put such people on trial because the alleged crimes did not take place on American soil. The responsibility to prosecute would lie with the countries where the crimes were committed or ordered ? if the suspects ever end up there.

In the 34 years since the Justice Department created an office to find and deport Nazi suspects, the agency has initiated legal proceedings against 137 people. Less than half ? at least 66 ? have been removed by deportation, extradition or voluntary departure.

At least 20 died while their cases were pending. In at least 20 other cases, U.S. officials agreed not to pursue or enforce deportation orders, often because of poor health, according to a 2008 report by the Justice Department. In some cases, the U.S. government agreed not to file deportation proceedings in exchange for cooperation in other investigations, the report said.

But the key stumbling block has been the lack of political will by countries in Europe to accept those ordered to leave.

"Without any doubt, the greatest single frustration has been our inability, in quite a number of cases now, to carry out the deportation orders that we've won in federal courts. We can't carry them out because governments of Europe refuse to take these people back," Eli Rosenbaum, the longtime head of the Justice Department agency charged with investigating accused Nazi war criminals, said in the 2011 documentary "Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals."

Justice officials declined to make Rosenbaum available for an interview.

The four men still living in the U.S despite deportation orders have all exhausted appeals:

?Zajanckauskas, 97, remains in Massachusetts 11 years after authorities first began the denaturalization process. He was ordered deported to his native Lithuania in 2007, and ran out of appeals in 2010 but remains in the U.S. because other countries, including Lithuania, won't accept him, Rosenbaum has said. Zajanckauskas took part in the "brutal liquidation" of the Warsaw Ghetto, according to Rosenbaum. Zajanckauskas, who didn't return a message from the AP, has denied being in Warsaw at the time.

?Szehinskyj, 89, remains in Pennsylvania nearly 14 years after DOJ began a case against him. He was denaturalized and ordered deported to his native Ukraine, Poland or Germany, and exhausted all appeals in 2006. The Department of Justice has said no country has been willing to accept him. Authorities say Szehinskyj was an armed guard at Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Poland, a claim he has denied. Szehinskyj's attorney didn't return messages from the AP.

?Palij, 89, remains in New York 11 years after the DOJ initiated a case against him and seven years after he exhausted appeals. Court records say Palij ? born in a part of Poland that is now part of Ukraine? was an armed guard at an SS slave labor camp for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland until at least the spring of 1943, and helped to keep prisoners from escaping. Palij has denied the accusations. The original order deporting Palij to Ukraine has been amended to allow deportation to Germany, Poland or any other country willing to accept him. Justice officials say none has been willing. A man who answered the phone at Palij's number had trouble hearing and could not carry out a phone conversation. A woman who answered the phone at the office of Palij's attorney said he does not speak to reporters.

?Kalymon, 92, is still in Michigan despite exhausting appeals earlier this year in a process that took nine years. Prosecutors said Kalymon, who was born in Poland, was a member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Lviv, which rounded up Jews and imprisoned them. Prosecutors said Kalymon also shot Jews. He was ordered deported to Ukraine, Poland, Germany or any other country that would take him. His attorney, Elias Xenos, said his client was a teenage boy who was essentially guarding a sack of coal.

"That's not the government's position, of course. But they've run out of true persecutors, and they are trying to now prosecute people on the fringes," Xenos said.

He said he is not aware of any country that has agreed to take Kalymon, who he said has Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

In Poland, prosecutor Grzegorz Malisiewicz said an investigation of Kalymon was closed in January because authorities couldn't definitively tie him to crimes committed in 1942. In Germany, Munich prosecutors have been investigating Kalymon on suspicion of murder since 2010.

Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said many countries lack the political will to accept suspected Nazi criminals who have been ordered deported: "I don't think it's any lack of effort by the American government."

Germany has taken the position that people involved in Nazi crimes must be prosecuted, no matter how old or infirm, as it did in the case of retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk. He died last year at age 91 while appealing his conviction of being an accessory to 28,060 murders while a guard at the Sobibor death camp.

Before that case, Germany had been reluctant to prosecute Nazi war crimes suspects who weren't German citizens, said Stephen Paskey, a former Justice Department attorney who worked on the Demjanjuk and Zajanckauskas cases. Germany has also resisted accepting those who are ordered deported because, like other countries, it doesn't want to be seen as a refuge for those with Nazi pasts, the DOJ said.

The case of Johann Leprich fell into that category. Authorities said Leprich, of Clinton Township, Michigan, served as an armed guard at a Nazi camp in Austria during World War II. He was 78 when he was ordered deported in 2003. Germany, Hungary and Leprich's native Romania ? which passed a law in 2002 barring the entry of war crimes suspects ? all refused to accept him. A technical issue related to Leprich's deportation order allowed him to remain eligible for public benefits until he died in 2013, although for unclear reasons he stopped receiving them long before that.

According to AP's analysis of DOJ records, five other Nazi suspects were ordered deported but remained in the U.S. until they died because no country was willing to take them:

?Osyp Firishchak, 93, of Chicago, died last November, nine months after exhausting appeals. A U.S. judge concluded that Firishchak had lied when he said he was not a member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, which helped Nazis arrest Jews in large numbers and sent them to labor and death camps. He was born in territory that was then Czechoslovakia and is now part of the Ukraine. He was ordered deported to Ukraine in 2007.

?Anton Tittjung, of Wisconsin, died last year at age 87. Born in a part of the former Yugoslavia that is now Croatia, he was accused of being an armed guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and was ordered deported to Croatia in 1994. He said he was not a Nazi. He exhausted his appeals in 2001 but remained in the U.S. because Croatia would not accept him, saying he was neither born there nor a citizen of Croatia, according to a DOJ report. The U.S. also asked Austria and Germany to accept him; both refused.

?Mykola Wasylyk spent most of his American years in the Catskills region, 90 miles north of New York City, and died in North Port, Florida, in 2010 at age 86. He exhausted his appeals in 2004. He was born in former Polish territory that is now part of Ukraine. Prosecutors say he was an armed guard at two forced labor camps in Nazi-occupied Poland, but he claimed he was unaware that prisoners there were persecuted. The United States ordered him deported to Ukraine. At Wasylyk's request, the DOJ amended the order to seek to deport him first to Switzerland. Neither country took him in.

?Michael Negele, died in St. Peters, Missouri, in 2008 at age 87. He was ordered deported to his native Romania or to Germany in 2003, and he exhausted appeals in June 2004. Neither country was willing to take him, the DOJ said. Negele was accused of being an armed guard and dog handler at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, and later at the Theresienstadt Jewish ghetto in what is now the Czech Republic. Negele had argued he was not involved in any wartime atrocities.

?Bronislaw Hajda, died in Schiller Park, Illinois, in 2005 at age 80. He was ordered deported to his native Poland or Germany in 1998, and his appeals process ended in 2001. But both countries repeatedly refused to accept him, authorities said. He was accused of participating in a massacre of Jews at a Nazi slave labor camp. Hajda had denied the allegations and said he never killed anyone.

Leading Holocaust experts express frustration at the failure to remove such men from the United States.

"That they have been able to live out their lives enjoying the freedoms of this country, after depriving others of freedom and life itself, is an affront to the memory of those who perished," said Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

The reluctance of countries to accept suspected Nazi collaborators could become a factor in the case of Michael Karkoc, a Minnesota man identified in an AP investigation last month as a commander in a Nazi SS-led unit accused of massacres.

Both German and Polish prosecutors are investigating whether there is enough evidence to bring charges against Karkoc, 94, and seek extradition. If neither country decides to charge Karkoc, U.S. officials may try to hold him accountable through separate civil proceedings that would strip him of his citizenship and seek to have him deported. In that event, the U.S. would need to find a country that would take him in ? and the earlier cases suggest that may prove difficult.

"No one is obligated to take him unless he is charged," Paskey said. "Ukraine wouldn't have to take him. No one else would want him."

The AP investigation revealed that Karkoc lied to American immigration officials to enter the United States after the war, saying he had no military experience and concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion. Records don't show Karkoc had a direct hand in wartime atrocities, but the evidence shows that he had command responsibility over a unit that massacred Polish civilians. Karkoc's family claims he was never involved in Nazi war crimes. Justice officials would not confirm whether the U.S. is investigating Karkoc.

Paskey said the U.S. could have a good denaturalization case against Karkoc, because prosecutors wouldn't have to prove he had a direct hand in war crimes. But the quickest ? and perhaps only ? way to remove him from the U.S. would be if he is charged criminally.

"Unless Poland or Germany decides to prosecute him," Paskey said, "he is likely to die in the United States."

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Associated Press writers David Rising in Kabul, Afghanistan; Monika Scislowska in Warsaw; Geir Moulson in Berlin; Michael Rubinkam in Aldan, Pennsylvania; Karl Ritter in Stockholm, Sweden; and Liudas Dapkas in Vilnius, Lithuania, contributed to this report. Herschaft reported from New York.

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Follow Amy Forliti on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/amyforliti and Randy Herschaft at http://www.twitter.com/HerschaftAP

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-s--limbo-for-nazi-suspects-ordered-out-115224229.html

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Rocket-launched camera reveals highways and sparkles in the solar atmosphere

June 30, 2013 ? Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international team of scientists have captured the sharpest images yet of the Sun's outer atmosphere. The team discovered fast-track 'highways' and intriguing 'sparkles' that may help answer a long-standing solar mystery. Prof. Robert Walsh of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will present the new results on Monday 1 July at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews, Scotland.

With partners in the United States and Russia, the UCLan team used a sounding rocket to launch the NASA High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA. During its short flight, the Hi-C team obtained images of the solar atmosphere (the solar corona) five times sharper than anything seen before and acquired data at a rate of about one image every five seconds.

The new camera observed the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light and focused on a large, magnetically-active sunspot region. Images from Hi-C reveal a number of new features in the corona, including 'blobs' of gas ricocheting along 'highways' and bright dots that switch on and off rapidly which the group call 'sparkles'.

In the new images, small clumps of electrified gas (plasma) at a temperature of about one million degrees Celsius are seen racing along highways shaped by the Sun's magnetic field. These blobs travel at around 80 km per second (the equivalent of 235 times the speed of sound on Earth), fast enough to travel the distance from Glasgow to London in 7 seconds. The highways are 450 km across, roughly the length of Ireland from north to south.

The flows of material are inside a so-called solar filament, a region of dense plasma that can erupt outwards from the Sun. These eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), carry billions of tonnes of plasma into space. If a CME travels in the right direction it can interact with Earth, disturbing the terrestrial magnetic field in a 'space weather' event that can have a range of destructive consequences from damaging satellite electronics to overloading power grids on the ground. The discovery and nature of the solar highways allows scientists to better understand the driving force for these eruptions and help predict with greater accuracy when CMEs might take place.

Another new set of images could help explain an enduring mystery of the Sun. Astronomers have long struggled to understand why, with a temperature of two million degrees, the corona is around 400 times hotter than the solar surface. Hi-C images reveal dynamic bright dots which switch on and off at high speed.

These 'sparkles' typically last around 25 seconds, are about 680 km across (the size of the UK) and release at least 1024 (one million million million million) Joules of energy in each event, or around 10,000 times the annual energy consumption of the population of the UK (based on information from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change). The sparkles are thus a clear signal that enormous amounts of energy are being added into the corona and may then be released violently to heat the plasma.

Solar physicist Professor Robert Walsh, UCLan's University Director of Research, added: "I'm incredibly proud of the work of my colleagues in developing Hi-C. The camera is effectively a microscope that lets us view small scale events on the Sun in unprecedented detail. For the first time we can unpick the detailed nature of the solar corona, helping us to predict when outbursts from this region might head towards the Earth."

NASA Marshall heliophysicist Dr Jonathan Cirtain, principal investigator for the Hi-C mission said: "Our team developed an exceptional instrument capable of revolutionary image resolution of the solar atmosphere. We took advantage of the high level of solar activity to focus in on an active sunspot and obtained these remarkable pictures."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/Ztg1Lp94jwI/130630225227.htm

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Paul McCartney carries the weight at Bonnaroo

MANCHESTER, Tennessee (AP) ? Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo.

A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Paul McCartney wrapped his arms around his signature Hofner bass and surveyed a crowd of 80,000 adoring fans.

"Hey, listen, I'm going to take a moment just to drink all this in for myself," McCartney said.

McCartney is one of the world's most recognizable musicians and showed why as he led a massive 2?-hour sing-a-long of three dozen songs that included two encores Friday night.

Playing for a crowd consisting mostly of fans who were born a decade or more after the Beatles broke up in 1971, he lavishly revisited the Beatles, Wings and his own solo catalog, laying down hit after hit and playing two Beatles cuts he only recently began playing live for the first time ? "Lovely Rita" and "Mr. Mustard."

McCartney, who turns 71 next week, acknowledged some cultural similarities between the generations, however.

"That's some pretty good weed I can smell," McCartney said as wispy puffs of smoke rose from hundreds of spots in the crowd. "What are you doing to me?"

McCartney took the time to talk about several songs, explaining his Beatles classic "Blackbird" was written about the civil rights struggle in Arkansas.

He noted songs he wrote for his wives over the years, took a moment to express support for incarcerated Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot after playing "Back in the USSR" and told a humorous story about Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.

He also paid tribute to late Beatles members John Lennon and George Harrison. Drummer Ringo Starr and McCartney are the only surviving members of the genre-defining British rock band.

McCartney kicked off Harrison's biggest hit "Something" on the ukulele, playing in an unfamiliar time signature that gave the song new meaning, before strapping on a guitar to finish the song. And he played "Here Today" for his old songwriting partner Lennon, a song he wrote after Lennon was shot to death in 1980.

McCartney warned members of the crowd to never hold back their feelings, as he did with Lennon after the group broke up.

"That's it," McCartney said after finishing the song on a baby grand piano. "If you wait to tell someone you love them, it's too late."

The set only seemed to pick up speed as the night edged toward midnight. With the crowd yet to diminish, he played "Live and Let Die" accented by onstage pyrotechnics and fireworks.

The entire crowd joined in on "Hey, Jude" before McCartney and his four-piece band left the stage. He returned waving a Tennessee state flag and played a three-song encore that included "Day Tripper" and "Get Back."

He returned for a second encore that included a rollicking version of "Helter Skelter." A member of the crowd tossed McCartney a stuffed toy walrus, alluding to a cryptic nickname given to him by Lennon, and McCartney concluded his first show at Bonnaroo by singing "Carry That Weight" to the toy he placed atop his piano.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/paul-mccartney-carries-weight-bonnaroo-071300746.html

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Human Genes Not Patentable, Supreme Court Says

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the mere act of isolating a DNA sequence does not make human genes patentable. Mary-Claire King, who helped discover the breast cancer gene at the center of the court dispute, discusses the ruling and its implications for genetics.

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I Just Started Muay Thai & My (Blank) Hurts. Is This Normal? | Miss ...

After a fight in 2004 ? I?d been training 2 years at this point. When I first started Muay Thai my body and mind were soft. The sport has shaped me for the better inside and out.

I get this question at least once a month. I?m not trying to be funny or poke fun at anyone. When you?re starting a new sport there is a huge learning curve for the mind, the body and the culture that surrounding it. If you factor in the steep decline of our youth?s athleticism and combine it with the new popularity of combat sports like MMA you?ve got a lot of newbies starting a challenging sport that need a huge amount of (re)education about how to simply move their body safely, condition it well and recover.

These days being athletic is the exception and not the norm. Even playing outside as a kid is unusual. I?ve trained many clients who have never played a sport in their lives and many more who played the occasional sport in high school, but from college through several years into their professional career they haven?t done anything athletic consistently for any length of time. Then they show up to the gym with mobility issues, muscle imbalances, poor diet, crappy cardio and a few extra pounds on them. The situation finally gets to the point where they are willing to take action. Change of course is possible and with effort and consistency all these things can be reversed. I?ve even seen adults train and become more athletic and fit than they every were in high school.

However, if true fitness is the client?s desire along the way, the client has to be open to an entire re-education in fitness and health. Getting an athletic body means you have to develop an athletic training ethic, an athlete?s mindset and the skill of listening to your body, knowing when to push it hard and knowing when to back off. I played basketball and tennis in H.S. I was on the varsity team at a very small private school, but I was far from the star player. I was mediocre at best. It wasn?t until I found Muay Thai that I truly excelled at something athletic, developed an athletic body and most importantly learned to suffer through challenges and taste the sweet nectar of true success. I will share with you what I have learned over the past 11 years. The physical challenges, conditioning and set backs I experience along the way and how I coach my clients through their Muay Thai journey.

In this blog you will learn how to navigate the new world of Muay Thai, specifically the physical conditioning and recovery aspects. What to expect, what changes your body will go through, what will hurt, what pain is healthy and what is not, the difference between an injury and the discomfort in stages of progression, how to care for your body, rest, recover and grow. You may also want to check out my Blog: Tips for Muay Thai Beginners

How Sore is Too Sore?

It?s very common for people to have soreness for 1-3 days, after a Muay Thai workout, especially in the beginning. After consistent training however, you won?t get really sore from a basic Muay Thai workout unless you?re pushing it super super hard (p.s. this does not mean you are not getting results). Sometimes students get a little freaked out by the soreness, thinking they did something wrong or hurt themselves. Some people also think they need to be 100% not sore to workout again, but this is not true. There are many reasons that your soreness is more severe than others. #1 Maybe you haven?t worked out in a long long time. #2 Maybe you have never worked out those particular muscles in the way Muay Thai works them. #3 Maybe you have a poor diet that has too many processed foods or inflammatory foods and/or don?t drink enough water. #4 Maybe you don?t sleep enough #5 Or maybe you are just sensitive and have a low pain tolerance. I?m serious, some clients I?ve noticed are just more sensitive than others.

The only time to worry about muscle soreness is if you are peeing blood, which can indicate a condition called rhabdomyolysis, however I have never seen anyone get rhabdo from a Muay Thai workout in all my years in the sport. I?ve only seen rhabdo occur from a CrossFit workout, as the weights plus intense exercise can be too much for a unconditioned body to handle. You are more susceptible to rhabdo if you are on statins.

I generally recommend that if you are just starting an intense exercise like Muay Thai (p.s. spin class, yoga, aerobics and Pilates don?t count as intense exercise) to train 3 times a week with rest between the days. M/W/F or T/TR/SAT are good schedules to follow. Come all these days regardless of muscle soreness. Once you warm up and start moving around the soreness will diminish to allow you to workout safely. Another reason to be on time for class. You don?t want to skimp on that important warm up.

I also suggest you invest in a foam roller. This nifty invention will help speed recovery and help prevent injury. There are plenty of online tutorials on how to use your foam roller for various muscle groups.

One last tip if you are very sore is to come to class and just work on technique, drilling combos while going much lighter than normal. The activity will help you recovery faster while not pushing your body too far. You can also just jump rope, warm up, do some stretches and shadow box that day in open gym ? this is called ?active rest? and is good for recovery.

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Kate McGray?s spilt shin after a fight in Canada.

Shin conditioning is a necessary part of Muay Thai. For some it takes longer than others to condition shins. In order to have shins that withstand Muay Thai fight competition you have to go through a lot of pain and TLC before your shins are hard enough to check kicks without shin guards. That?s not everyone?s goal, but even if you just want to wail on the Thai pads and heavy bag, your shins will need to toughen up a bit.

When I first started Muay Thai my shins were black and blue. I guess I bruised easy, or maybe I ?just had wimpy shins. Today I hardly ever bruise. The body is amazing at adapting to outside conditions, this is the basis of evolution? but yes using your body as a weapon will hurt a little.

If you find that your shins ache, bump or bruise after kicking pads or heavy bags don?t worry, you didn?t break anything. Trust me, a stress fracture of your shin feels absolutely horrible. You will know if it?s broken. It kind of feels like a lightening bolt up your leg every time you touch it. What?s super common is a basic bruise/lump. If this happens to you you need to ice your shin after training. I personally spent everyday after training for 3 years with ice packs on my shins for 20 minutes while eating dinner. Then I just stopped needing to unless I got a major bump from sparring.

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You don?t need to stop training because of a shin bump. Bumps are common, mostly from sparring and hitting an elbow or knee by mistake, but they can also happen by hitting the edge of a Thai pad the wrong way. Most of the time they just need a few days to heal. It helps to massage them after a hot bath or shower or before training with Thai Liniment, a menthol oil from Thailand used by fighters to to warm the muscles before training and fighting.? Thai oil helps numb the shins a bit while you train so the bruises hurt less and it also makes it easier to rub out the lumps in your shins?. yeah, this is not a sport for the timid.

If the bump is really bad you might have a bone bruise. These can take a longer time to heal usually 2 -6 weeks, but that doesn?t mean you have to stop training. Many a times I have hurt my shins sparring: bumps, bone bruises or even stress fractures and I went back to train, but just didn?t kick with that leg for a while.

The awesome thing about Muay Thai is it?s the art of 8 limbs (not 2) so if one of my weapons is busted I can use all the other 7. Unless you are the amazing Baxter Humby?(that guy is awesome, next time you are complaining think about what he has accomplished) you all have 2 hands, 2 elbows, 2 knees and 2 shins. I?ve trained Muay Thai with a busted hand, bloody elbows, bruised knees and completely destroyed shins. That?s a pretty picture huh?

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Guys: Girls love bruises and scars, don?t? sweat it. Girls: I?ve sported many a dress with sexy bruises on my legs. If you are a Muay Thai chick and some guy has a problem with your bruises, they are probably not the guy for you? However, here?s my suggestions to minimize bruising?

First, if you really can?t deal with bruises I don?t recommend learning to spar. Just stick to pad work. You WILL bruise at sometime if you spar or drill defense and you have little control over this . Second, make sure you have your diet in check. A poor diet can make you more susceptible to bruises.

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?My foot hurts. Can I go to the nurse??

?My Foot Hurts.?

When you are first learning to kick you?ll probably hit the top of your foot a lot. This is one reason why we suggest not going hard when you don?t have the proper technique. Slapping your foot across a hard pad does not feel awesome. Once you learn to kick properly you will crush the Thai pads & kick pads with your shin the right way.

Once you start sparring injuries to the foot and toes are common as it?s hard to anticipate an opponent?s movement and kicking a knee or elbow is common. Sparring more advanced partners generally helps cut down on the bumps and bruises, as they are more accustomed to sparring and have better control. If you sustain a bone bruise on the top of the foot just don?t kick for a while with that leg while sparring, until it heals.

Throwing push kicks when sparring is the number one cause of broke toes. Catching an elbow or knee to your toe is not a good time, but broken toes are really not a huge deal, they are just really annoying. Most of the time, it?s not really a break, it?s just badly bruised and needs some rest. If you severely break the big toe you might need a cast or operation, but this is pretty rare. You can?t cast most broken toes. All you can do is tape the broken toe to the toe next to it, creating a splint of sorts. Ice it, wait until the swelling goes down enough to allow walking and then return to normal activities. If it?s still painful when kicking don?t kick with that leg until it heals.

Knees make a great sub in class when you have shin, foot or toe issues. Your knees will get awesome and your opposite side kick will improve greatly as it will get more reps in. The key to training Muay Thai long term (which is the only way to get really good) is to figure out what you can safely do pain free, while still allowing some recovery for your minor injury.

Troubleshooting Your Wrist Pain

I have the smallest wrists known to man or woman, at least it seems that way. I also had a really bad habit of jacking up my wrist with hooks for most of my career. I finally found a way to throw my hook that didn?t jack up my wrist, thanks to one coach, but by that time the damage was done. I also think it was from years of waiting tables and bartending that started my wrist pain, but that?s another story. Anyway, at the end of my career I ended up having such bad wrist pain it would just ache while I wasn?t doing anything?. all day. Driving really aggravated it big time. I?m pain free now, but I only train Muay Thai a couple times a week so I?m not exposing it to constant impact like before. I tell you this not to scare you against punching things. Punching things is fun, but you don?t have to end up with crappy wrist pain like me if you do it right.

This is the way I like to throw my hook, turning it over at the end, facing the palm down. Notice the direct contact of the top two knuckles on the chin with a straight wrist.

First, make sure you are throwing your punches correctly. You should always be hitting with the top two knuckles (the index and middle finger knuckles) with a perfectly straight wrist. If you bend your wrist or hit with the smaller knuckles of the ring or pinky fingers you will hurt your wrist, especially if you are throwing hooks like Vandalay Silva.?That bad-ass can get away with crazy punch angles, but he is also super human. Hooks from strange angles create uneven distribution of the punch and most often you will tweak the wrist or in the worst case scenario break your hand in a fight, particularly if your wrists are weak or you have other underlying repetitive movement issues like carpal tunnel syndrome.

Second, you must have a good wrap job that keeps the hand and wrist secure. I made two videos on how to wrap?your hands for Muay Thai:?Version 1?and?Version 2?. I think version 2 is a little easier to do on yourself, but both work for protecting the wrist. If your wrist is a little tweaked focus less on the knuckle pad and add more to the wrist protection, particularly securing the hand and wrist to prevent bending. I strongly suggest getting some?2 inch athletic tape?with which to tape your wrist. Secure the wrist a couple times with the athletic tape before putting on your wrap. Make sure you put the tape on while you are making a fist with a straight wrist.

If possible tape/wrap your hands after your jump rope, so you can make it very secure. Don?t cut off your circulation, but you want a wrist that won?t bend much, which makes warm ups and jump rope more difficult or loosens the wrap during warm up. Do the best you can. If you have to wrap your hands pre-warm up due to class programming. I suggest making a fist on the ground instead of bending your wrist for any body weight movements like mountain climbers, bear crawls or push ups, so as not to loosen your hand wraps.

If you do tweak your wrist ice your entire hand in a bowl of ice water after training for 20 mins, and apply Traumeel until it heels. You can usually go back to training with a good tape job and just hit a little lighter than usual on that hand until it feels 100%, make sure to tell your pad holding partner, so they don?t give you more resistance than necessary. You can ice after every training session if it?s a chronic inflammation.

The Kind of Roll you Don?t want: an Ankle Roll

Rolling your ankles is super common in all sports and the downside is once you roll your ankle once you are more prone to injure it again. Muay Thai is practiced barefoot and you need strong ankles to support all the single leg movements of various kicks and knees. Jumping rope helps to strengthen ankles, which is one reason it?s a good warm up. Those anklets you see Muay Thai fighters wear are actually not designed to support the ankle, they are designed to catch sweat from your body and keep the mat dryer to prevent slipping. That?s good for protecting your ankles if you perspire a lot, but it doesn?t really protect the ankle in any other way. It also, as I found out the hard way one way doesn?t allow the skin on the top of the foot to get conditioned to the heavy bag. I used to wear anklets every day, then I forgot them one day and did a heavy bag workout with a lot of high kicks and wore the skin off my foot. Good times. After that I just wore them for fights, not training.

To prevent ankle rolls the best thing is to understand your kick angles and improve your footwork. Don?t try to do kick combos too fast before you feel very comfortable using kick switches and transitions. The #1 move in which I see ankle rolling is the left switch kick. When a students goes to switch stance and throws a kick they try to switch faster than they are able to adjust their balance and their foot slides under them. Foot placement matters a lot too. If care is not taken to step off the center of your partner or heavy bag when you kick you have little balance and again the foot can slide or roll under you.

Be cautious with jumping or switching moves. Like with any new combo you should do several reps slowly with focused intention until you feel confident in the footwork and your instructor says it looks clean, then you can pick up speed and power. This concept of learning and breaking things down is the cornerstone of any good athlete?s progress and the key to top technical performance. You have to perfect the movement slowly, breaking down the sequence before doing it hard or fast. If you don?t not only will you not learn good form, but you will risk injury.?

This can happen through wraps & gloves if you punch really hard.

Bloody Knuckles

Once you do start punching correctly with power you might notice some redness or even lost skin on the knuckles. If you get bloody knuckles on the index or middle finger you did it right, if you got them on the smaller pinky or ring fingers?back to the drawing board, you?re hitting incorrectly. It?s easy to take care of bloody knuckles. Here is my proven method to getting back to mitt work the next day.:

1. Put some antibacterial ointment on the bloody knuckles
2. Cover them with a band aid, two or a large one if it?s both knuckles. These work well.
3. Loop some 1 inch athletic tape over so it?s double sided sticky and covers the knuckle(s)
4. Stick a pad of boxing gauze over the tape and press gently. This will ensure the gauze won?t slip and slide.
5. Proceed with your hand wraps as usually, giving a little extra knuckle pad support.
6. Punch away to your hearts desire.

You still might feel it a little bit, but if you are training for a fight you gotta work through it anyway, it will heal if you keep taping it this way, I promise. It?s worked for me countless times. If you are not a fighter, just use this method and punch a bit lighter for a couple days to speed healing.

How to Hold Pads & Not Jack Yourself Up

Pad holding is a skill. You will suck at first and you have to work at it to get better. Learning to hold pads correctly will help you understanding of the sport as well as your timing. It will also help you to strengthen your body and keep your hands up.

I try to partner up students by size and power, but sometimes you will be matched with a partner that is stronger than you. It?s important to ask them to go slowly at first to get a feel for their power and how much resistance you need to give back into the strike to deal with the power. If your partner is hitting harder than you can handle and makes no adjustment in their power for you to work with you can always ask to be paired with someone else. If you don?t give enough resistance to your partner not only is it an unsatisfying pad workout for them (too easy), but it?s dangerous for you, as you risk getting your shoulder tweaked when your hand flies back after punches or you risk hitting yourself in the face with the Thai Pad when they kick.

Learning a martial art is learning how to use your body?s power, part of that is learning to punch and kick and defend strikes, but the other part is being able to absorb strikes if necessary. Holding pads teaches you how to make your body hard upon impact, allowing you you to meet an opponents power with your own force and not let it make you off balance or knock the wind out of you.

Breathing is an important part of pad holding, as it is an important part of striking, just like you breathe out sharply from the abdomen when you strike, you breath out when you hold pads and tense against your partners strike. This helps you remember to breathe when you get hit with a body kick, knee or punch, so that you can resist the strike. I was taught to say ?hush? when I strike, but any sound or grunt that makes your abs hard is acceptable.

Be careful not to expose your elbows when holding pads for kicks. Keep your elbows tight against your body. If you reach for the kick and leave a gap between your arms and body , there is a chance your partners kick will slide under the pad or worse, hit your elbows. ?For the same reason keep your elbows tucked behind the kick pad when holding it for body kicks. I made this video which is a beginner holding pads tutorial.

The angle you hold the pads matters. For punches always hold the pads straight with the center of the pad at your partners chin level (not yours). For kicks you need to angle the pad slightly downward. If you are looking at a protractor and your partner is directly in front of you the angle of the pads would be about 50 degrees, or 130 degrees depending on if it were a right or left kick. If you are holding pads for someone that can?t turn their hip over well (pivot on the kick) you may need to hold the pads more towards 20 degrees or 160 degrees. Again, communicate with your partner as do a few test kicks if you are working with someone new!

Me training for a fight in 2008 with my S&C coach Kris who is really excited about my pull ups.

Why you need to stop doing so many (shitty) push ups and start pulling and rowing.

If you box you are doing repetitive pushing motions frequently (punching and pad holding are pushing motions). This can lead to a rounded pack, tight chest muscles and muscle imbalances, which predisposes you to shoulder injuries.

I highly recommenced minimizing the push-ups in your program, especially those shitty ones where your back sags and you go about halfway down, your legs touch the ground, not the chest and you do like 50 in 30 seconds just to say you did 50. Those are stupid and yet I see so many martial arts gyms do them. Not only do they not strengthen your chest or shoulders or do anything for your core, but they make your shoulder injury chances even worse. Here?s an example of good push ups -?my client Ali ?kicks ass at them!. Doing 5 of these correctly is better than 50 shitty ones.

Second, you should focus less on push ups and do more rowing motions to even out your upper body musculature. I love the TRX for body rows 3 sets of 10 at a challenging level 3 times a week is a good start to your rowing program. I also love pull ups (done right) and the concept2 rower. These are all good beginner exercises. Deadlifts and cleans are also great for fighters, but those are too advanced to go into now.

The rower, pull up bars and TRX are made available to our F5 fitness students at open gym for this reason!

Push Through or Give it a Rest??

Fighters or other high level athletes I usually have to send home from the gym from trying to train injured or sick. It?s this kind of ?push through? mentality that separates them from the rest and makes them excel at their chosen sport. I?m not suggesting that training injured is smart, far from it, but I am saying that the desire to train regardless of circumstances is what is needed for high level success. The decision to train with bumps, bruises or soreness is entirely up to you, but I will say that there have been many a days when my muscles ached, my shins were battered, my toe blue, my wrist painful and I dutifully slathered on my Thai oil, wrapped up well, got warmed up and in 15 minutes felt no pain, only the adrenaline of competing in a sport I loved.

Of course there are those injuries the require rest. You have the flu? Rest. ?You tore your knee? Rest. You have a concussion? Rest. When I tore my knee a few years ago I took time off, but as soon as I was able to walk I was in the gym doing pull ups, dips, rows, bench press and shoulder presses or any thing I could think of that didn?t involve the use of my knee. If your goal is to compete as an athlete or just be very fit injuries?don?t mean complete cessation of your routine, they mean careful and smart modification of it.

Sleep & Body Work is a Requirement?

Kimura sleeps 16 hours a day & she has a mean left hook and a killer vertical jump!

If you are going to push it hard in training, you need to spend equal time and effort on your recovery. I can?t stress this important concept enough. The harder you work, the more intensely you train the BETTER care of your body you need to take. Exercise is healthy, but not getting sleep, regular chiropractic visits, massages and learning some basic recovery/mobility exercises when you exercise regularly is like driving your car many more miles everyday and not taking it for it?s scheduled tune ups? in time disaster will strike. Exercise is stress on the body, it?s a healthy stress yes, but it?s still stress so when you stress your body out intensely (like is necessary for athletes and those wanting athletic looking bodies) you need to spend ample time on R&R.

If you train moderately (3-4 times a week for 45-60 minutes a session) 7-8 hours sleep is required. If you train intensely (5 or more times a week) 9-10 hours a night is best. If you neglect sleep not only will your results suffer, but eventually your health will too.

When I was fighting I usually got 2 chiropractic visits and 2 massages a month, more if I had a minor injury. Now that I train less I get about one massage a month and a chrio visit every 2 months or so, just to keep healthy. Even if you don?t have chronic pain it?s smart to get preventative care. Those who don?t have any major chiropractic issues to address will benefit from just some smart recovery exercises like foam rolling and stretching. We offer a recovery mobility class for this reason. Everyone should own a foam roller at home. Check out the Mobility Wod for great instructional videos and posts on taking care of your body.

Nutrition for Recovery

If you eat well, keep hydrated and sleep well you will recovery faster & experience less soreness post workout.

I?ve written many blogs about nutrition, so check them out. Eating a real food diet will help you recover faster and improve your performance in the gym.

No Pain No Gain?

Thank you 80?s for leg warmers and workout myths!

Jane Fonda popularized this catch phrase in the 80?s with her workout videos. She was specifically talking about the ?burn? from repetitive aerobics moves, but with body building popular in the 80?s meat heads worldwide made the phrase their own and it shaped the fitness culture as a whole into thinking that without some level of muscle discomfort gains were not being made. The 80?s were rife with fitness and nutrition myths. While ?no pain no gain? is not exactly true, ?the burn? does not mean you are getting results anymore than repeatedly waiving your hand will get you ripped triceps, there is some merit to the phrase.

While actual pain is not necessary to result, I believe some discomfort be it mental or physical is crucial to progress and success. Ask me if someone has the potential to be a top fighter or athlete and the first thing I want to see is their ability to endure suffering. Even if you have no desire to compete at Muay Thai or any sport for that matter, if you want to improve simply for your own education and/or fitness benefit you will need to step out of your comfort zone at some point, experience some degree of physical or mental stress, maybe even ?pain?, endure it and come through the other side more experienced and tougher from accepting and beating the challenge.

The challenge is what I love most about Muay Thai.? I was never a real athlete before I found the sport. Accepting each challenge along the way from bashed shins, to making weight, to title fights was what drove me to want to succeed more. Learning a sport like Muay Thai can teach you how to develop your thick skin, something I feel is lacking in our basic educational system. Muay Thai can teach you how to love that something is hard, embrace it, tackle it and win or lose love the journey and go back for more. Even if you never get in a fight in your life, this is an invaluable lesson.

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