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Deep Thoughts: James Cameron on the New Age of Exploration and His 11-Kilometer Dive to the Challenger Deep, Part 1

DEEP SEA CHALLENGER: James Cameron hopes the technology that enabled him to dive to the deepest spot on the planet will facilitate further deep-sea exploration. Image: Courtesy of Angela George

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Editor?s Note: This article is the first of a two-part Q&A from a roundtable in which James Cameron discussed deep-ocean science with researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Mass.

In March filmmaker and aquanaut James Cameron, back from his record-setting visit to the Challenger Deep in the Marinas Trench 11 kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, announced the donation of his sub, DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, to Woods Hole, where scientists plan to use its cutting-edge technology to help further their understanding of life in ocean trenches.

The first order of business when the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER arrives at Woods Hole in a few weeks: Fit its custom-made lights, imaging equipment and high-definition 3-D cameras on to Woods Hole?s Nereus robotic sub in preparation for the latter?s dive to the 10-kilometer-deep Kermadec Trench?off the northeastern tip of New Zealand's North Island?in February or March 2014. The Kermadec Trench is a kilometer shallower than the Challenger Deep site that Cameron explored, but Nereus?s mission is crucial to understanding the peculiar inhabitants, ecosystem and geologic activity that have evolved in ocean trenches?the planet?s most hostile habitat.

The roundtable discussion with Cameron took place in New York City in April and included: Tim Shank, a Woods Hole deep-sea biologist and lead investigator for the institution?s Hadal Ecosystem Studies (HADES) program; Andy Bowen, director of Woods Hole?s National Deep Submergence Facility; Susan Avery, president and director of Woods Hole; along with a handful of journalists.

In part 1 Cameron and the Woods Hole researchers talk about how the technological advances that enabled the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to take him to the deepest spot on the planet will unlock new possibilities for understanding life at the vastly unexplored hadal depths, those below six kilometers. The discussion also addresses the upcoming Nereus mission and what Woods Hole hopes to find at the bottom of one of the world?s deepest, coldest trenches. Cameron also describes his experiences piloting the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER on his historic voyage to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

In part 2 Cameron discusses how the era of exploration in the 1960s?both into space and to the ocean?s depths?inspired his career as a filmmaker and, later, as an deep-sea pioneer and science advocate.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

Why are you donating the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to Woods Hole?

James Cameron: To me, that?s an infinitely better outcome than it sitting dormant until I?m done with my next two movies, and maybe comes to the tech community five or six years down the line when it?s already obsolete or other solutions have been found in the meantime.

[When the dust settled following the March 2012 piloted expedition to the Challenger Deep] my fantasy goal was that the entire scientific community would want to have access to it. Unfortunately the kind of money that existed in the 1960s and ?70s, the heyday of deep-sea exploration, is harder to come by these days. So we had to look for a way the technology could be beneficial to the oceanographic community. And we came up with something that we?re all happy about.

In terms of [future missions for] DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, I don?t think that any of us want to take that off the table. We?ll look at possibly getting it out to sea again at some point and go out and try to find some funding for that when it makes sense. The more immediate goal is to transition technology from the sub into the mainstream of the oceanographic community.

Short of taking the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER out again, how will it benefit deep-ocean science?

Andy Bowen: That?s underway right now. Some of that technology will be transitioned into our Nereus underwater robotic vehicle, which will undertake a scientific survey project in the [Kermadec Trench] using, in particular, the cameras developed as part of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER program.

Cameron: It?s interesting how those cameras came about. We knew the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER was going to move through the water column rapidly so we would have as much bottom time as possible. But that meant if we wanted to have the camera out on a boom to be able to see the sub and the area around it, that camera was going to be tiny, and I wanted high-definition and 3-D [capabilities]. My previous HD [or high-definition], 3-D submarine camera weighed about 180 pounds, and it went on a 150-pound pan-and-tilt mechanism. Well, all of that was going to have to go out on a boom, and that clearly wasn?t going to happen on a small weight- and space-constrained vehicle.

So I set my engineers with the challenge of coming up with something that was orders of magnitude smaller and had to operate twice as deep as our previous camera system. That puts you off the scale in terms of difficulty, but they built the camera from the sensor level up. [Two of these cameras in a titanium housing weighed about four and a half pounds] We put it on a four-pound pan-and-tilt platform. You could put a couple of these on Nereus.

What else will Woods Hole do with the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER when it arrives in June?

Cameron: My team of engineers that spent seven years building the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER will share their experiences and knowledge with Woods Hole engineers, and vice versa.

I don?t expect a fleet of DEEPSEA CHALLENGERs to be built. That was a very specific vehicle that served a very specific purpose. But if you were able to take the various systems on the sub and abstract them out to a different form factor, you might end up with some of that being integrated into an [autonomous underwater vehicle] for hadal research. Several of those out there going through the trenches starts to give you much better science in return.

I haven?t put any constraints or restrictions on [how the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER?s technology is used]. I think we agreed not to saw up the sub for awhile.

What are the specific scientific goals of the 2014 expedition to the Kermadec Trench?

Tim Shank: We want to take Nereus on a six-week expedition to the Pacific Ocean?s Kermadec Trench to explore part of the ocean?s hadal regions, which are largely unknown. The vast majority of information about these regions comes from two cruises in the 1950s [the Danish Galathea and the Soviet Vitjaz expeditions], which is rather embarrassing. We just have a catalogue with the names of some species that came up in a trawl. In the 2000s there were a couple of cruises that explored hadal depths and brought back some samples, each of which is incredibly valuable. [Sediment samples from the Mariana Trench, for example, have contained highly active bacteria communities even though the environment there is under extreme pressure almost 1,100 times higher than at sea level, according to a March Nature Geoscience report.] The research [also] showed a carbon food supply down in the trenches that we hadn?t known about. [Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.]

There are seven institutions around the world and 10 scientists [involved in the Kermadec expedition as part of the Hadal Ecosystems Studies (HADES) program] who are out to answer six major questions, including what?s there in terms of biodiversity, what they are feeding on and how they?ve evolved in isolation.

Cameron: I think it?s interesting to have an overview of just how little is known about hadal depths in terms of biology and geology. Most of what?s known about the bottom has come from images shot miles up in the water column, and it?s a relatively coarse data set. So you?ve got to get down there and look around and ground-truth it. Very little of that looking around has been done. As Tim said, there?ve been a couple of cruises.

Shank: Foremost, we want to bring back samples and study their use for biotechnology. Based on the hadal samples we?ve seen so far, these animals secrete enzymes that are very beneficial for humans. Some are being used for trials to treat Alzheimer?s disease. Now we?re looking for antibody, anticancer, anti-tumor properties, too. All of this depends on how well you can preserve these animals and bring them up [alive], something we can?t do now. [Living samples have been brought to the surface successfully from no deeper than about 1.4 kilometers.]

Cameron: Their biology just doesn?t work when that pressure is taken away. But the deeper you dive the less equipment you can bring with you. It would take a heavy piece of gear to bring a pressure vessel down to hadal depths [that could keep specimens alive when they are brought to the surface].

To the best of our knowledge right now, what is life like at the bottom of the trenches?

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Tesla to Take Supercharger Network Coast-to-Coast

As Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk hinted in an interview yesterday during the D11 conference, the California-based EV automaker plans to expand its fast-charging "supercharger" network across the continental U.S. During today's announcement, Musk said New York to Los Angeles trips would be viable as soon as this winter.

"When you get in a car you have the ability to go almost anywhere," Musk said. "That's what the supercharger network will do."

The rollout will begin as soon as this summer, with the number of stations tripling to 27 nationwide by the end of June. In addition to increasing supercharger density along the already-established California and Mid-Atlantic coasts, Tesla will debut chargers in a handful of new metropolitan areas within the next few weeks, including Austin/Houston, Portland/Seattle, Boulder/Denver, and Chicago/Milwaukee. By the end of the year, Musk expects to to have "a couple hundred" superchargers spread across the U.S. and southern Canada, with as little as 80 to 90 miles between stations along the Altantic and Pacific coasts.

Tesla also will begin rolling out improved Supercharging capability at select stations this summer. With a more powerful 120 kW charger?up from 90 kW?and a modified charging algorithm, these new chargers will require only 20 minutes to provide around three hours of driving time, Musk told reporters. "This allows people to stop anywhere they would normally stop on a road trip," he said.

While Musk was hesitant to put a cap on maximum number of superchargers, he estimated the critical mass for the fast-charging network to be around 200 stations. By 2015, Tesla expects to have the entire continental U.S. dotted in supercharging station (a map detailing the expansion can be found here.)?effectively allowing Tesla owners to have free travel across the U.S. and parts of southern Canada. The company says trips from L.A. to New York, Vancouver to San Diego, Montreal to Miami, or any combination will be possible. While the Model S can safely travel 200 miles on a single supercharger charge, Musk predicts that "in the long-term, it'll be quite rare to be 200 miles from a Supercharger station. Even in a pretty unpopulated section of the country it'll probably be under 150 miles between supercharger stations."

With a $300,000 price tag for each station, Musk estimates, the entire network would cost the company somewhere around $60 million over the next year and a half. Given that the company recently announced its first profitable quarter?totaling $561.8 million in revenue with a $11.2 million profit (albeit with help from $68 million in zero-emission vehicle credits from the state of California) it would appear Tesla has the means to invest in fast-charging proliferation.

If Tesla is able to meet its self-described "dramatic expansion," the supercharger network would be the most robust fast-charing system to date. And although Musk was coy about the prospect of opening it up to other manufacturers, he reluctantly entertained the idea of licensing Tesla's fast-charging tech. "Because of the nature of the technology?the supercharger is delivering 60 times the power level [of a house]?it's extremely difficult to make that generic," Musk says. However, he admits that if a "major manufacturer was interested in the Supercharging system, and were willing to use the same basic architecture, then it could be used by more than just Tesla. We're not closed to that idea."

While such licensing could provide Tesla with another revenue stream, Musk maintains that isn't the primary goal of the expansion. "We need to solve the problem of long-distance travel, and we can't wait for others to agree with our strategy," he says. "We just need to get going and other manufacturers can either copy us or join us."

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California 12-year-old accused of killing sister denies charge in court

By Ronnie Cohen

SAN ANDREAS, California (Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his younger sister in a crime that traumatized their California town denied a second-degree murder charge through his attorney in juvenile court on Wednesday, and the boy's lawyer said he planned a vigorous defense.

The boy, who is identified in court as Isaiah F., appeared in shackles and spoke only once during the proceeding in Calaveras County juvenile court when he agreed to continue to waive his right to a speedy trial.

The case has drawn widespread attention because of the age of the boy and the rare crime of killing a sister. If convicted, he could be incarcerated until his 23rd birthday. One of his lawyers, Mark Reichel, said the boy denied the charge.

"Our view of the case hasn't changed," Reichel said outside the courtroom after the hearing. "We got in believing our client was innocent, and as we stand here, that's what we believe."

Judge John E. Martin set a July 31 hearing to schedule a date for a juvenile bench trial for the tall, dark-haired boy, who looked back at his mother, father and his father's fianc?e, who were in attendance at the hearing.

"We're concerned about whether or not a 12-year-old can actively participate in his own defense," Reichel said.

The boy said an intruder had slain his 8-year-old sister, Leila Fowler, on April 27, setting off a massive manhunt and paralyzing the sleepy town of Valley Springs for two weeks while police searched for a long-haired stranger.

But two weeks later, authorities arrested the brother and he was charged with second-degree murder on May 15.

The defense had planned to ask the judge to release Isaiah to his family, but Reichel said that they have left their home and have no place to care for him.

Prosecutors declined immediate comment on the case after Wednesday's hearing.

'BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL'

The family's ranch house on a parched, unlandscaped lot appeared vacant on Wednesday. Bags of garbage, toy trucks, an exercise machine, a mattress, and a faded plastic slide filled the front yard. A sign saying "Welcome to the Looney Bin" sat in the weeds next to the front porch.

Neighbor Dana Wydner, who was adjusting a purple bouquet of synthetic flowers tied to a mailbox across the street, said it was a shock to learn of Leila's death and Isaiah's arrest.

"She was just a beautiful little girl, always out there playing," Wydner said. "They were good kids. They were just a normal family."

Reichel has said Isaiah was suspended for five days in January for bringing a "tiny little Swiss Army knife" to school. But he was otherwise "a very normal boy in a very normal setting with normal siblings," the lawyer said in advance of the hearing.

Isaiah and Leila lived with their father and his longtime fianc?e in a blended family of seven children where money was tight, court documents and police reports show.

The records show that the father, Barney Fowler, a boat mechanic, was involved in child-support disputes with three different women, including the mother of Leila and Isaiah.

Family court records show the children's mother, Priscilla Rodriguez, was largely cut off from Leila and her brother. After the court hearing on Wednesday, she declined to comment.

Whether Rodriguez chose to keep her distance, as Fowler said in court papers seeking child-support payments, or was essentially denied access to her children by their father, as she suggests, remains unclear. She claimed in a court declaration last year to be indigent and homeless.

(Reporting by Laila Kearney and Ronnie Cohen; Writing by Steve Gorman and Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Eric Beech and Bill Trott)

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Tale of two Zimmerman's as Nats fall to O's

By DAVID GINSBURG

AP Sports Writer

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updated 10:25 p.m. ET May 29, 2013

BALTIMORE (AP) - Ryan Zimmerman hit three home runs in the first five innings, leaving the Baltimore Orioles with a four-run deficit to overcome against one of the best pitchers in the National League.

On a toasty night at Camden Yards, the Orioles turned to their hottest player to get them out of the hole.

Chris Davis went 4 for 4 with two homers, and the Orioles battled back to beat Jordan Zimmermann and the Washington Nationals 9-6 Wednesday night.

In a wild game before 39,129 fans, each team slugged four home runs and Baltimore got six of its 13 hits in a six-run seventh inning.

"To battle back and really pull it out in a game like that is huge," Davis said. "I gave a little fist bump to let you know how much this win meant to us."

Zimmerman hit solo homers in the first and fourth innings before adding a two-run drive in the fifth, all off Chris Tillman. With a chance to tie the major league record of four homers in a game, Zimmerman came to the plate in the seventh against Steve Johnson and looked at a third strike.

It was the first three-homer game of Zimmerman's career. He came in with three home runs in 38 games this season.

"It's tough to have a night like that and not be able to kind of celebrate or have fun with it because we lost," Zimmerman said. "I've been kind of swinging the bat better. Tonight, everything kind of came together in one game."

Davis hit a solo drive in the fourth and capped the pivotal seventh with his major-league leading 19th homer, a two-run shot off Tyler Clippard.

"He's been doing that the whole year, so every home run he hits from now on is just another one," teammate Manny Machado said. "It's impressive pop. He's a tremendous hitter and he's swinging the bat well."

Davis is batting .359 after going 18 for 30 over his last seven games.

"It's fun," he said. "You're always working on things, whether you're locked in or struggling. Just the consistent approach every day has helped me out."

Steve Johnson (1-1) pitched 2 1-3 innings and Jim Johnson worked a perfect ninth for his 16th save.

Baltimore trailed 6-3 in the seventh before rallying against Jordan Zimmermann (8-3), who was seeking to become the majors' first nine-game winner.

After Ryan Flaherty singled and Steve Pearce homered, Nate McLouth got an infield hit and scored on a double by Machado. Clippard entered and gave up an RBI single to Nick Markakis before Davis crushed a 3-2 pitch to make it 9-6.

"It's on me. I am too good a pitcher to let that happen," Clippard said. "You have to execute the pitches you need to throw in those situations."

Zimmermann gave up seven runs and 10 hits in six-plus innings. He came in with a 1.71 ERA and a streak of 15 straight starts allowing three runs or less.

He, like Clippard, shouldered the blame for the defeat.

"Those guys give me six runs like that and I ought to do a better job. We should win this ball game," Zimmermann said. "It's solely on me this time."

Tillman gave up six runs and eight hits - including a career-high four homers - in 4 2-3 innings. He left with Baltimore down 6-2.

In his defense, it was a tough night to be a pitcher.

"Strange things happen in this ballpark," said Nationals manager Davey Johnson, who held the same job with the Orioles in 1996-97. "It's a great ballpark to hit in, but it's a tough park to pitch in."

The major league record for home runs in a game is four. The last to do it was Josh Hamilton, for Texas on May 8, 2012, at Camden Yards, of all places.

After Zimmerman homered in the first inning, Baltimore tied it in the second. Davis singled and scored on an RBI double by Flaherty, who was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk earlier in the day.

In the Washington fourth, Roger Bernadina sent a shot onto Eutaw Street beyond the right-field wall and Zimmerman followed with a drive to center that traveled an estimated 430 feet. After going homerless in the first 36 games of the season, Bernadina has connected in two straight.

Davis got the Orioles to 3-2 in the bottom half, but Zimmerman's third homer of the game highlighted a three-run fifth for Washington. Markakis homered with no one aboard in the sixth for Baltimore.

Coming into the game, Zimmermann had allowed only three homers in 10 starts, no more than one per game.

NOTES: Baltimore optioned INF Yamaico Navarro to Norfolk to make room for Flaherty. ... Washington 2B Danny Espinosa (wrist) returned after a five-game absence. ... Nationals RF Jayson Werth (groin) was scheduled to begin his rehab assignment with Single-A Potomac on Wednesday night. ... Baltimore RHP Freddy Garcia faces Dan Haren in the series finale Thursday night. ... Davis has scored a run in eight straight games, three short of the team record set by Frank Robinson in 1966.

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Razer reveals the Blade Pro and 14-inch Blade gaming laptops (update: $999 Pro for indie game devs)

Razer promised it was aiming to iterate its Blade gaming laptop on a yearly basis, and despite the company's recent focus on tablets, it appears to be keeping its word. Today, a mere eight months after releasing the second-gen Blade, Razer unveiled two new members of the Blade family: the 17-inch Blade Pro and its 14-inch sibling. As you might expect, the Pro tops its elders with new silicon and storage options. It's exchanging third-gen Intel Ivy Bridge silicon for a fourth-gen Haswell chip and upgrading from an NVIDIA GTX 660M to a GTX 765M GPU. Oh, and Razer's nixed the HDD options from the big Blade's menu -- the Pro packs a 128GB SSD standard, with optional upgrades to 256 or 512GB. That new hardware is evidently smaller than what it's replacing: though the Pro shares the same size chassis as its predecessor, it packs a 74Wh battery (the older Blade has a 60Wh cell). Other than that, the Blade Pro comes with Razer's Switchblade interface, a trio of USB 3.0 ports, 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 1920 x 1080 display, just like the prior Blade.

Meanwhile, the new 14-inch Blade will come with mostly the same hardware as the Pro, meaning it's got a Haswell chip and GTX 765M graphics along with a buffet of SSD choices. Those components are stuffed inside a chassis that measures 13.6 x 9.3 x 0.66 inches, and weighs 4.13 pounds. Naturally, given its smaller size, it lacks the Switchblade LCD and buttons, has a 1.3 megapixel webcam (as opposed to the Pro's 2 megapixel unit) and a 14-inch 1600 x 900 display. And, despite its relatively svelte dimensions (for a portable gaming rig), the baby Blade still has a 70Wh battery inside. The Pro starts at $2,299, or $200 less than prior Blades and the 14-inch model will set you back a minimum of $1,799. Each will be available in North America in Q2, with a worldwide rollout of the Pro coming sometime later this year.

Update: Good news, Indie game developers! Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan just announced that those devs with a successfully funded Kickstarter can get a new Blade Pro for just $999.

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Ex-Yammer Execs Raise $5.5M For CoTap, A Mobile Messaging App Aiming To Be WhatsApp For The Workplace

The rush of new mobile messaging apps, building on the popularity of services like WhatsApp and Line, continues apace, with the latest twist is a service for business users. CoTap, an app co-founded by Yammer ex-chief product officer Jim Patterson and ex-senior director of engineering Zack Parker, has picked up a $5.5 million Series A round led by Charles River Ventures, an early Yammer investor before Microsoft bought that company for $1.2 billion. CoTap is still in stealth mode but plans to use the funding to staff up and help launch its first app, a free service, later this year for iOS and Android devices.

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Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)

An interesting article regarding the President's war powers under the AUMF passed immediately after 9/11. Twelve years later the situation has changed geographically, as well as the players on the other side.

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Tyne Darke: German Food on the Brain? Take a Trip to Old Europe

When I was a junior in college I spent a semester in Berlin. I studied German, lived with a host family, and traveled about as much as I could. It was a great experience, and I hope that one day I have the opportunity to go back to Germany. You might think that when people ask me what my favorite part about the country was, it may take me a little bit to come up with answer, but in fact, I am always quick to say: the food.

I. Love. German. Food. And often, this answer surprises people (especially people who just ask me directly, "What did you think of the food?"), which then surprises me because in my mind, what's not to love?! My host mom always made wonderful meals for me, and especially in Berlin, the imbiss food (street food) is pretty cheap, filling and delicious, which was a delight to my college wallet.

Since returning to the good ol' USA, I experience a serious hankering for German food from time to time. It's a craving that comes out of nowhere and leads to reminiscing about my time in Berlin. So as you could expect, I was quite pleased when I came across Old Europe in Glover Park, a restaurant that's been dishing out German food since 1948.

After doing a bit of research and finding that it had a good deal of solid reviews, the time had finally come to try it out for myself. And I was not disappointed. I wouldn't be surprised if the inside of the restaurant hasn't changed much since it originally opened, but I say this positively. Walking in, I definitely felt like "Old Europe" was an appropriate name, and I found the decorative ships and portraits quite entertaining to look at.

But anyway, the food. From Tuesday through Saturday, Old Europe offers a lunch special for $11, which comes with a meal, dessert and coffee -- great! I actually did not choose this option, but some friends that I went with did, and it seemed like a pretty good deal to me. For myself, I decided to get Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus (potato pancakes with applesauce) and a Bauernwurst. I was incredibly pleased. To me, German food is a great mix of sweet and sour, and although I've been fighting the urge to say it this entire time, I'm going to say it: to me, German food is comfort food. I'm not sure if others would agree or think it's strange, but that's how I feel.

Needless to say, I was happy as a clam. So happy, in fact, that I returned to Old Europe a week later, enjoying some more Kartoffelpuffer and sausages along with steak tartar and quite a large piece of Schwarzw?lder Kirschtorte (Black Forest cake).

So if there are any fellow German food lovers out there, I highly recommend a visit to Old Europe. The scenery, pleasant staff and quality food are sure to provide you with an entertaining (and delicious) experience.

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Video: Tim Cook talks iOS 7, Android apps from Apple, TV and more in 81-minute interview

Amid a buzz of controversy about her role in invading the privacy of several Harvard staff members, Evelynn Hammonds, the 60 year old Dean of Harvard College, will step down on July 1, five years and one month after she became both the first African-American and first female to occupy the highest office in Harvard's undergraduate school. ...

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Iterate 47: Chris Harris and Wonders of the Universe

Chris Harris of The Other Media joins Marc, Seth, and Rene to explain why he calls himself an app director, using Paper and Motion to design UX, and his work on Wonders of the Universe, Atlas, Glide, and more.

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Fire breaks out aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ship

BALTIMORE (AP) ? A fire that broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship Monday did enough damage that the rest of the cruise was canceled and company said the more than 2,200 passengers aboard will be flown from the Bahamas back to Baltimore.

The fire that began at 2:50 a.m. Monday was extinguished about two hours later with no injuries reported. A cause wasn't immediately known.

Royal Caribbean said in a series of tweets that executives have met with passengers and that the cruise line is arranging flights for all 2,224 guests on Tuesday. It said passengers will receive a full refund of their fare and a certificate for a future cruise.

Aboard ship, the captain announced that passengers needed to go to their muster stations, rousing Mark J. Ormesher from his stateroom on the Grandeur of the Seas.

Ormesher said in an email to The Associated Press that immediately after the captain's announcement, his room attendant knocked on the door and told him and his girlfriend to grab their flotation devices, saying it wasn't a drill.

Orsmesher, a native of England, who lives in Manassas, Va., said he and his girlfriend smelled acrid smoke as they went to their muster station, the ship's casino. The crew quickly provided instruction.

"This encouraged calm amongst the passengers," he said. Passengers were required to remain at their stations for four hours, he said, and the captain "provided us as much information as we needed to stay safe."

Ormesher, who is 25 and on his first cruise, said the air conditioner had been shut off, and as the hours passed and the ship got hot, bottled water was passed around. The crew and passengers remained calm, and helped those who needed it. Crying babies were given formula and held while their parents used the bathrooms.

Royal Caribbean said in a statement on its website that most public areas and staterooms were safe and power, propulsion and communications systems worked without interruption. Photos show a substantial area on one end of the ship burned on several decks.

The ship had sailed from Baltimore on Friday and arrived in Freeport, Bahamas, Monday afternoon. It had been planned to be a seven-night cruise.

In Freeport, passenger Andrea Sanders of Washington, D.C., said she slept on the deck with hundreds of other passengers as smoke billowed out of the stern of the ship. "I was terrified with it being my first cruise," Sanders told The Freeport News as she ate lunch in port.

Royal Caribbean said all guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for.

The company in a statement on its website said it is "deeply sorry for this unexpected development in our guests' vacation. We understand that this may have been a very stressful time for them. We appreciate their patience and cooperation in dealing with this unfortunate situation."

Carnival Corp. also had trouble with fire aboard ship earlier this year.

The 900-foot Triumph was disabled during a February cruise by an engine room fire in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages while the ship was towed to Mobile, Ala. It remained there for repairs until early May when it headed back to sea under its own power .

On the Grandeur, after passengers were allowed to leave their stations, Ormesher said he saw water on the outside of deck 5 and in the hallways. The mooring lines were destroyed he said; crew members brought new lines from storage.

The damage at the rear of the ship "looks bad," Ormesher said; burned out equipment was visible.

Magnus Alnebeck, general manager of the Pelican Bay Hotel, said his staff was asked to hold rooms for passengers, although it was not yet clear how many would stay there.

The ship will stay docked in Freeport at least overnight. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a tweet that it will join the U.S. Coast Guard in investigating the fire.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fire-breaks-aboard-royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-121209870.html

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LG Optimus G Pro Review: The Fastest Big Phone Out There

Fun fact: In a sprint, the hippo is one of the fastest land mammals, despite also being one of the largest. Similarly, the LG Optimus G Pro is unquestionably one humungoid phone, but it runs about as fast as the top speedsters out there. Whether or not you should consider buying it, however, is up to the elasticity of your fingers.

What Is It?

It's a bigass phone made by LG to compete with Samsung's bigass phone, the Galaxy Note II. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p HD screen, it's running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), and it has Qualcomm's screaming fast quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor clocked at 1.7GHz.

Who's It For?

People who want a lot of screen real-estate. People with big hands, or people with small hands who don't mind using two hands on their phones.

Design

It is, frankly, so much like Samsung's Note II that the two could play a Freaky Friday-style prank on their owners.. It's got Samsung's classic rounded, glossy, plastic back. Up front there's a home button that you physically press down, which is flanked by a menu button and a back button. There is a very thin bezel up front, which is a nice look. The biggest difference between it and the Note II is the lack of a built-in stylus. (Above, from left to right: Galaxy Note II, Optimus G Pro, and the Galaxy S4.)

Using It

While the phone is decidedly quick, there's just no getting around how unwieldy it is. One-handing it is a difficult proposition. I have larger-than-average hands, and it's a real strain to get into a position where my thumb can reach both the top and bottom of the screen. It was possible for me, but just barely. It also feels extremely prominent in your pants pocket. Every time I bent down to tie my shoes I was wondering if the screen or my pocket would break.

To be fair to the the Optimus G Pro, these issues aren't unique to this phone. It's a big-phone problem, and one that hasn't stopped people from buying the Galaxy Note or Note II.

The Best Part

It is very, very fast. Right up there with the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4. It flies though home screens, app drawers, and opening applications. HD games (such as Dead Trigger) play like butter. It actually feels a little faster than the S4, and just slightly slower than the One.

Tragic Flaw

Good God, LG really needs to smarten up its software or (more preferably) just give up and let Android do its thing. LG's skin is exceptionally unintuitive and bad. Example: The app drawer is just a clutter mass of apps without any order by default. Luckily, you can choose to sort them alphabetically. Unluckily, any new apps you install still get stuck at the back, regardless of alphabetical order. This is dumb. The menu system's layout is perplexing, and the remote control app (it has an IR blaster) is about as good as the app on the HTC One or S4, which is to say, not good.

There's a whole quick menu in the notification panel (boosted from Samsung), quick apps which can hover over your other apps (boosted from Samsung), and even an option that can tell when you're looking at it so the screen stays on (again, boosted from Samsung). What it can't do is something simple like auto-adjust your screen's brightness to the ambient lighting. The option is there, it just doesn't work. At all. The Optimus G Pro's keyboard has the worst auto-correct on any mobile device I've ever used. The one positive is that LG's bad software somehow manages not to slow the phone down at all (can't say the same for Samsung's TouchWiz), but it's still awful. Replacing the homescreen with Nova Launcher and replacing the keyboard with SwiftKey 4 solves some, but not all, of these problems.

This Is Weird...

The phone has a physical button on the upper left side called the QuickButton. By default it's set to take a screen cap of whatever is on screen so you can then draw notes on it with your finger. Pretty much useless. Luckily, you can remap it in the settings so it opens up your camera application, and while it will work as a shutter button, technically, it doesn't have a two-stage press to it, so it doesn't work very well.

Test Notes

• We tested the Optimus G Pro on AT&T's LTE network in NYC and the SF Bay Area, and in both locations it got better than average reception, and solid data speeds when it was on the LTE network. We got 25Mbps downloads and 15Mbps uploads when we had a strong signal.
• The screen is very nice. Text looks great on it, as do videos. It's not as good as the screen on the One or the S4, but it's certainly better than the screen on the Note II, which isn't a surprise given that it's 1080p vs 720p, both at 5.5 inches.
• Despite the king-sized 3140mAh battery, the phone's battery life is fairly middle-of-the-road. That screen sucks up a lot of juice. On days of heavier use, I'd only make it to about 6pm. When I used it less, it'd go well past midnight. Your mileage may vary.
• Despite the 13MP camera in tow, photos are just okay. Shots are reasonably sharp, but colors tend to be washed out, and it really struggles with contrast. It does a better job in low light than the Galaxy S4, but it doesn't come anywhere near the HTC One or Nokia Lumia 900. (Some samples.)

Should I Buy It?

If you're absolutely sold on owning a phone this big, well, it's the best giant phone presently out there. That said, Samsung is bound to release a Galaxy Note III in the months to come, and HTC is rumored to be unveiling a big one, too, so if you can wait, do. Or just get an HTC One or a Galaxy S4. Their screens aren't that much smaller and both phones are infinitely more useable because of simple ergonomics. We'd definitely recommend either of those phones (and the Nexus 4, and the iPhone 5) over the Optimus G Pro. That said, if you want something with size and speed and you want it right now, have at it. [LG]

• LG Optimus G Pro Specs

  ? Network: AT&T
  ? OS: Android 4.1 with LG's skin
  ? CPU: 1.7 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600
  ? Screen: 5.5-inch 1920x1080 IPS LCD (401PPI)
  ? RAM: 2GB
  ? Storage: 32GB + micro SD up to 64GB
  ? Camera: 13MP rear / 2MP front
  ? Battery: 3149 mAh
  ? Dimensions: 5.91 x 3.00 x 0.37 inches
  ? Weight: 5.64 ounces
  ? Price: Starts at $200 with a two-year contract

Source: http://gizmodo.com/lg-optimus-g-pro-review-the-fastest-big-phone-out-ther-510096255

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Gunmen kill soldiers on Lebanese military checkpoint near Syrian border: report

Gunmen fired on a Lebanese government checkpoint near the Syrian border on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, the state-run National News Agency said. The attack comes amid escalating tensions in Lebanon linked to Syria?s conflict, in which rival Lebanese groups have taken sides.

The fighting in the volatile Lebanon-Syria border region also comes just hours after the European Union decided not to extend an arms embargo on Syria, enabling member states to send weapons to help Syria?s outgunned rebels and step up the pressure on the government of President Bashar Assad to seek a negotiated settlement to the 26-month-old conflict.

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Lebanon?s official news service said the pre-dawn shooting was at a roadblock near the predominantly Sunni town of Arsal, in hills about 12 kilometres (seven miles) from the border. The army said in a statement it?s investigating the attack and its troops have launched a massive search for the gunmen.

The Lebanese are divided over Syria?s civil war, with Shiite militant group Hezbollah fighting alongside Assad?s troops while large numbers of Sunnis back the opposition. Clashes between factions backing the opposing sides in the Syrian conflict have been raging in Lebanon?s northern city of Tripoli for days, raising fears that the Syrian violence spilling over into Lebanon will re-ignite the sectarian war that devastated the country before it ended in 1990.

In Brussels, EU member states decided late Monday to allow an arms embargo on Syria expire on Saturday. While none of the block?s 27 members have any immediate plans to send arms to the rebels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the decision ?sends a very strong message from Europe to the Assad regime.?

The move is aimed at forcing Damascus to participate in good faith at the prospective ?Geneva II? talks next month. The meeting is part of a joint U.S.-Russia initiative.

Hague spoke after an all-day meeting of foreign ministers Monday that laid bare EU hesitation on feeding arms into a civil war that has spread to neighbouring countries and threatens to become a regional war if the opposing sides ? Assad?s regime and the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition ? remain unwilling to compromise.

Also on Monday, Sen. John McCain, a proponent of arming Syrian rebels and a fierce critic of Obama administration policy in Syria, crossed into Syrian territory on Monday to meet with anti-government fighters.

Washington and many of its European allies have been reluctant to provide rebels with more sophisticated weapons for fear they might end up in the hands of the radical Islamic factions, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a group that has been the most effective fighting force on the opposition side.

Syrian crisis began in March 2011 as peaceful protests against Assad, whose family has ruled the country for more than 40 years. The uprising turned into a civil war after some opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

More than 70,000 people have been killed and more than five million Syrians fled their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries or in other parts of Syria.

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Why I started writing online | Beyond Life's Challenges

I have had an online writing presence ever since I was encouraged by an acquaintance and fellow military veteran to sign up with Associated Content with a piece I wrote on Veterans? Day nearly five years ago called ?Thank You for Your Service: My Promise to All Veterans.?? Associated Content was bought out and is now called the Yahoo! Contributor Network and I?ve seen a lot of changes in the site.

I started writing online to give myself a ?voice.?

Throughout my life, I?ve been accused of talking too much about things that should not be talked about and being too confrontational. Most saw this as ?attitude? when it was actually my personality. Consequently, I took? a lot of criticism.

?You talk too much,? ?You have diarrhea of the mouth,? ?Why must you always have an argument?? and ?Must you always ask ?why??? were comments and questions I?ve heard many times over the last 50+ years from people who simply wanted to change me.

Quiet me. Control me. Beat me verbally into submission.

I had rarely felt that others listened to what was beneath the words. I was careful not to question certain people, as ?Why?? was not well-received in my family, in the military, nor in several of the companies for which I?ve worked.

But I could not help myself. It is part of who I am at the very core.

Curious. Challenging. Wanting to learn and understand.

It was not until much later in my life that I learned that most of the time the people who were most uncomfortable with me were people who were unsure of themselves.? They did not want to be challenged because they had no answers, nor were they comfortable with being able to ?agree to disagree.?

What I also learned later in life is that I did not often speak my truth.? I was careful not to make others uncomfortable or to ask questions to make them think. I learned to ?be quiet,? even though I was still quite loquacious.

I have similar stories from my younger days where writing is concerned, graded with high marks for spelling, grammar and the like; yet, I was marked down considerably for content that did not fit the ?norm? or that was written in such a way to pose a challenge.

It was when I challenged myself and attended university in my mid-40s that I started to blossom.

Although I met some professors who did not share my beliefs and values and did not particularly care for my challenging nature and also tried to ?quiet me,? I saw a marked change in my being free to share my opinions and my questioning.? There were equally as many professors who were quite adept at returning the volley in a way that energized me.

And volley they did!

I have found that the Internet is another place where there are people who are also capable of returning the volley!? I am able to share my thoughts, opinions and much more without as much fear of the criticism

Yes, I still receive a lot of criticism. But I have been able to say what I need to say with much more confidence.? Doing so in writing has allowed me to find my ?voice,? able to talk about the things I think are important in a manner that is true to my personality. It has also helped me to develop similar skills in the way that I deliver the spoken word.

And I began to find others who think like I do. Not always in agreement with the content, but in concert with the right to say it. Friendship. Camaraderie. Like-mindedness. My cohorts.

My Tribe.

Now I am in the company of people from around the world who speak their minds.? Engage in conversation and philosophical debate. Who encourage me to do so.? Some like what I have to say and tell me. Others do not and also tell me.

I think this is a pretty good reason to continue to write online here on my blog and to find other avenues continue to speak what I think needs to be said.

From my head. From my heart.

Using my voice.

A message from the author:

To read my original ?Thank You for Your Service,? if you do a search for the title and my name, it will take you directly to the article.? From that article, you can find many other things that I have written in the early years online.? Let me know by commenting at the content that you? have stopped by.

And if you would like to speak your mind and use writing as a way to do it, I have recently been introduced to a new site that allows us to do so and get paid to do it. Each submission requires only 400 characters, not 400 words.? I have seen greater success in 5 days with 5 submissions than I have in other places I?ve written? over several months.? I encourage you to at least check the site out,? read the rules, sign up and try it out.? Bubblews ? A place you can ?Speak freely. Write your world.?

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UK sets up task force to target radical preachers

LONDON (AP) ? Britain's government is setting up a new terrorism task force to tackle radical preachers and extremism following the brutal killing of a British soldier.

The group will look at whether new powers and laws are needed to clamp down on religious leaders who promote extremist messages and who target potential recruits in jails, schools and mosques.

The force will include senior ministers, London's police chief and the head of the MI5 domestic security service.

Sunday's announcement came less than a week after 25-year-old British soldier Lee Rigby was run over and stabbed to death in a London street. Hard-line Muslim leaders have identified one of the two suspects as Michael Adebolajo, an Islam convert who allegedly used to take part in events organized by British radical group al-Muhajiroun.

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European stocks claw back ground as markets steady

By Marc Jones

LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks, bonds and the dollar traded more calmly on Monday after last week's turbulence, though another 3 percent dive in Japan's main share index kept investors on edge.

UK and U.S. holidays kept European equity and bond markets quieter than usual, but with last week's falls tempting buyers, the Euro STOXX 50 was up 0.8 percent and Italian and Spanish bonds eyeing their first gains in three sessions.

The dollar was also steadier, though it slid back to 101 against the yen as the latest lurch in Japanese equities encouraged investors who have been unwinding their dollar hedges on share portfolios and heading for bonds.

The 3.2 percent drop on Tokyo's Nikkei brought its losses since Thursday to more than 10 percent, although the index is still up 35 percent this year.

Last week's shakeout of equity, bond and currency markets was triggered by concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve could wind in its monetary support sooner than had been expected, weak Chinese data, and doubts over how low Japan will allow the yen to go.

But despite the wobble, analysts largely foresee a period of moderation in risk assets, rather than a big correction.

"The transition to a post U.S. QE (quantitative easing) world will be turbulent," said J.P. Morgan global strategist Dan Morris. "But with fundamental drivers for equities still supportive, investors should tighten their seatbelts instead of reaching for the parachute."

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Whereas the Fed appears to be eyeing an exit from its crisis measures, the European Central Bank may still have some scope to counter a long-running euro zone recession triggered largely by efforts to contain the bloc's sovereign debt crisis.

On Wednesday, the European Commission will release its review of countries' debt-cutting policies, which will confirm that the likes of France, Spain and Slovenia are to be given more time to trim their budget deficits to target. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will publish a review of major economies on the same day.

Three Italian government bond auctions this week will also test demand after the talk of Fed stimulus withdrawal.

Italian and Spanish bonds were caught in the sell-off in risk assets last week but yields on both have eased back as focus turns to the ECB's next step.

Policymaker Joerg Asmussen said the bank would remain accommodative "as long as needed" although he sounded cautious about charging banks to put money on deposit at the ECB, something that could help hold down national borrowing costs.

"One should be very cautious regarding the discussion if the ECB could introduce negative deposit rates ... This can have advantages, but it can also have disadvantages," Asmussen said in a speech in Berlin.

OIL SLIPS

The mood was once again cautious in the commodities markets. Brent crude slipped towards $102 per barrel, extending last week's 2 percent drop, as the patchy economic outlook in a well-supplied market pressured prices.

The broader market nerves also helped safe-haven gold firm to $1394.39 an ounce as it built on last week's best run in a month, while growth-attuned copper fell 0.2 percent.

After disappointing data from China last week dimmed the outlook for global oil demand, oil producer cartel OPEC is expected to keep policy unchanged at a meeting on Friday.

The shale revolution in the United States, still the biggest oil consumer, may even bring an end to the relentless rise in fuel prices seen over the past decade.

"OPEC is in a hard situation," said Chakib Khelil, Algeria's oil minister from 1999 to 2010. "The demand for OPEC oil is going down, while increasing demand is being met by others..."

(Additional reporting by Alex Lawler and Peg Mackey; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-stocks-still-shaky-nikkei-slides-3-percent-003037377.html

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Egypt's court says police and army should vote

CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptian Islamists and former members of the nation's military voiced concern Sunday about the potential pitfalls stemming from a decision by the country's top constitutional court that would allow members of the armed forces and police to vote in the nation's elections.

For decades, a long-running legal tradition in Egypt's army and police barred soldiers, conscripts and members of the security from voting while in the service. The ban, which was written into law in 1976, was widely seen as a move designed to keep both the military and the security agencies out of politics ? despite the fact that the country was run by former generals.

The Supreme Constitutional Court said Saturday the ban violated the country's new constitution, which stipulates that all citizens have the right to vote. The court also shot down 12 other articles of the election laws drafted by Egypt's Islamist-led legislature, saying they too went against the charter.

Human rights groups and some in Egypt's secular opposition welcomed the decision, saying that in Egypt's nascent democracy the right to vote should be extended to all Egyptians. Islamists and former members of the military, however, expressed fears that the decision risks forcing the nation's highly polarized politics into the armed forces.

"This is a threat to national security. Divisions in the streets will be reflected in the military ? the sectarianism, the partisanship," said Hossam Sweilam, a retired general who served in the military for more than 30 years. "We are different from other countries. We have political problems. ... This (ruling) would be in the interest of the Muslim Brotherhood and could be a problem for the cohesion of the military."

The Brotherhood, winner of both the parliamentary and presidential elections that followed the country's 2011 uprising, and its fellow Islamist groups also pushed back against the decision, which would add more than 1 million votes to Egypt's already 50 million registered voters.

Mourad Aly, a senior advisor for the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, said the court's ruling raises questions about attempts to bring the military into politics through the back door.

"Is the point transferring the political polarization into military units? Would any reasonable person agree to have politics and election campaigns in the barracks?" he asked on his Facebook page. "Keep your hands off Egypt's army and don't force it into the parlors of politics. It has a sacred mission from which it shouldn't be distracted."

Sobhi Saleh, a lawmaker with the Brotherhood's party, told Al-Jazeera Live Egypt that the legislature would take the court's decision into consideration when rewriting the law. But he questioned how such a vote could be organized unless the military and security agencies were all on board.

Some in Egypt's secular opposition praised the ruling, while cautioning that safeguards need to be put in place to ensure the police and military are not abused by political powers in the election process.

Ziad el-Oleimi, one of the leading youth figures in the 2011 uprising and a member of one of the new secular parties, said as a matter of principle the court decision extends a universal right to members of Egypt's military and police. But, he said, as the military and police are currently the monitors of the election process, there should be new elements to guard the integrity of the elections.

"It can be a double-edged sword if there are no guarantees from civil society and the international community to monitor these elections," he said. "We have to make sure that the executive doesn't direct and use these votes as it sees fit."

The debate reflects the divide over the role of the military in Egypt's political life since the 2011 revolt that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak ? a former air force general ? from office and brought the country's first civilian president to power. For the last six decades, Egypt was run by a military officer, and the military establishment enjoyed an expansive network of influence and business that were largely shielded from accountability or public review.

The military stepped directly into the political arena after Mubarak's ouster to rule the country through a rocky 17-month transition to civilian rule, which ended with the election of President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt's troubles did not end with Morsi's swearing-in ceremony, however, and Egypt has been hit by repeated cycles of street violence and mass protests that have left the country's political life deeply polarized. Islamist groups accuse the opposition, including former regime supporters, of undermining the powers they won at the ballot box; while the largely secular opposition accusing Islamists of governing alone.

The instability and deepening economic malaise has prompted some Egyptians, including some liberal groups and former supporters of the old regime, to view the military as the last bastion of stability ? a force "made up of our own sons," as many often say.

As the country's troubles appeared to be spiraling out of control earlier this year with riots in cities along the Suez Canal, some Egyptians even called for the military to intervene directly and act as arbiter and protector of the state against the rise of Islamic groups.

In its Saturday ruling, the Supreme Constitutional Court said that 13 articles in the laws governing the elections and political participation were unconstitutional and run against the newly adopted charter, which was highly disputed by was approved in a popular vote in December.

The court's decision also highlights the continuing tension between the judiciary and the Islamist-dominated legislature and executive over what it says are attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to control state institutions, including the courts.

It was the second time the constitutional court has dismissed the election laws crafted by the Islamist-led legislature, further throwing into disarray the schedule for the parliamentary elections.

The legislature is also discussing a law governing the judiciary despite an outcry from the majority of judges, who say the law under review aims to get rid of over a quarter of the country's most seasoned judges. The backers of the law say the courts are stacked with Mubarak loyalists, who seek to curtail Morsi's rule.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-court-says-police-army-vote-211111426.html

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