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Monday, August 13, 2012

Egypt's president retires defense minister

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's Islamist president ordered the retirement of the defense minister and chief of staff on Sunday and made the boldest move so far to seize back powers that the military stripped from his office right before he took over.

It was not immediately clear whether President Mohammed Morsi's surprise decisions had the military's blessing. But the appointment of outgoing Defense Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff Gen. Sami Annan as presidential advisers suggested that the nation's top two soldiers may have agreed, perhaps reluctantly, in advance. Morsi awarded them two of the country's highest honors.

Adding to the sweeping changes in the military leadership, the president also ordered the retirement of the commanders of the navy, air defense and air force, but named two of them to senior positions. He appointed a senior judge, Mahmoud Mekki, as vice president. Mekki is a pro-reform judge who publicly spoke against election fraud during Hosni Mubarak's 29-year rule before he was ousted in last year's uprising.

Mohammed Aboul-Ghar, a founder of the new Egyptian Social Democratic Party ? a secular group critical of the military as well as Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood ? said the power struggle has now been settled in Morsi's favor.

"The military council was forced out of power and lost its position and this was inevitable," he said. "In the power struggle, the military council was increasingly weakened because of its decisions" and its failure to secure a more straightforward path to democratic transition, he said.

Morsi, a U.S.-educated engineer, has been intensely seeking to assert his authority in the face of the powerful military. On Wednesday, he fired the nation's intelligence chief after militants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers along the border with Israel in Sinai. He was sacked after it was disclosed in the Egyptian media that he failed to act on an Israeli warning that an attack was imminent in the Sinai peninsula.

Egypt's first democratically elected president and the first who does not hail from the military, Morsi has since the Aug. 5 attack on the soldiers made two visits to Sinai in the company of top commanders, chaired several meetings with the armed forces' top brass and made a point of calling himself the supreme commander of the armed forces during televised speeches.

The Muslim Brotherhood won both parliamentary and presidential elections in the first free and fair votes in Egypt's modern history. The group had been repressed under Mubarak, who ran a secular state.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which ruled Egypt for 17 months, stripped the presidency of many of its key powers before it handed the reins of office to Morsi on June 30. Tantawi was the head (SCAF) and Annan was No. 2 on the ruling council.

The two men appointed to replace them were also members of the SCAF ? something that could indicate either the military's agreement to the shuffle or splits at the highest level of the armed forces.

Days before the inauguration, the ruling generals decreed constitutional amendments that gave them the power to legislate after the military dissolved parliament, as well as control over the national budget. It also gave them control over the process of drafting a new constitution.

With Sunday's moves, Morsi restored to his office the powers taken from him, taking back control of the constitution drafting process and the right to legislate.

He decided that if the 100-member panel currently drafting the document did not finish its work for whatever reason, he will appoint a new one within 15 days and give it three weeks to finish its work. The draft will then be put to a vote in a national referendum within 30 days. Parliamentary elections will follow if the draft is adopted.

His decisions were announced at a time of day when life in Egypt grinds to a halt as Muslims prepare to eat the sunset meal that breaks the 15-hour, dawn-to-dusk fast every day in the holy month of Ramadan.

"The question is now will these decisions end that conflict and the duality of powers or will there be resistance?" said analyst Gamal Abdel-Gawad. "These are huge changes."

Morsi was able to take the higher moral ground since taking office as an elected leader, while Tantawi and his generals on the SCAF continued to be vilified by rights groups for mismanaging the transitional period and accused of human rights violations, such as killing protesters, torturing detainees and hauling before military tribunals at least 12,000 civilians.

Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said told a news conference aired on state TV that Morsi named a career army officer, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to replace Tantawi and Lt. Gen. Sidki Sayed Ahmed to replace Annan.

El-Sissi and Mekki were sworn in shortly after the announcement.

The outgoing navy commander, Lt. Gen. Mohab Mameesh, was named executive chairman of the Suez Canal, the strategic waterway linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and a major source of revenues for the country.

Lt. Gen. Abdel-Aziz Seif, the outgoing air defense commander, was named head of a major industrial military complex owned by several Arab nations and established in the 1970s.

A senior member of the SCAF, Maj. Gen. Mohammed el-Assar, was named assistant defense minister. Another career army officer, Lt. Gen. Reda Mahmoud Hafez, was named minister of state for military production to serve under Prime Minister Hesham Kandil, a former water minister promoted by Morsi earlier this month.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-president-retires-defense-minister-171112057.html

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EYES ON LONDON: Sharp wit, fake mustaches, no WiFi

Hwang Woojin, of South Korea, and his horse Shearwater Oscar, fall down after the horse bucked after the starting bell sounded to start their run in the equestrian show jumping stage of the men's modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in London.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Mexico players celebrate winning the gold medal during the men's soccer final against Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Tervel Ivaylov Dlagnev of the United States competes against Aleksei Shemarov of Belarus (in blue) during the men's 120-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Erick Barrondo, of Guatemala, refreshes himself during the men's 50-kilometer race walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Eric Lindbergh of T.A.L.E.N.T. Murals works on the image of gymnast Gabby Douglas on the side of the Gator's Sports Bar & Grill on Holland Road in Virginia Beach, Va. on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. The mural shows Douglas holding a gold medal with an American flag backdrop. It says "Way to go Gabby." (AP Photo/Virginian-Pilot, Steve Earley)

LONDON (AP) ? Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:

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QUICK WIT

Patrick Sandusky serves as the primary spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, meaning his job is to know exactly what to say.

It's a skill he put on display Saturday.

At a USOC news conference, a British journalist wanted to know why Americans feel comfortable calling their country the greatest in the world. He phrased the question like so:

"For people from here, it's a bit of a strange thing to say. We don't really talk about our countries in the way you guys do. So do you genuinely think the USA is the best country in the world?"

Sandusky immediately sprung into action, asking U.S. chef de mission Teresa Edwards to answer the question.

"Teresa, you can start answering the question from the gentleman who comes from the country with the word 'Great' in the front of the title, Great Britain," Sandusky said to much laughter.

? Tim Reynolds ? Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ByTimReynolds

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SECOND SOCCER LANGUAGE

"Felicitaciones Mexico!" volunteer Dave Clements barked into a megaphone over and over outside Wembley Stadium in a decidedly London accent. Asked whether he speaks Spanish, the 43-year-old said no, but he did his homework. "I figured it out," he said.

? Niko Price ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nikoprice

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WHAT, NO WiFi?

Soon after leading Japan to a bronze medal in the women's volleyball competition on Saturday, coach Masayoshi Manabe called the London Games "the toughest environment I've had to coach in."

Not because of opponents South Korea but because the Earls Court venue didn't provide the data-crunching coach with the WiFi network he needed to analyze real time data of his opponents.

Manabe called the omission of an internet connection on court a "huge surprise" that the competing teams had asked organizers to rectify early in the competition, to no avail.

Bob Clarke, the volleyball manager for London organizers, says "we went to the IOC, all the way to the top, with the request but we were denied. We don't know why."

Teams improvised instead, with both Japan and the United States relaying data to their coaches through walkie-talkies and earpieces.

"We got the information we needed, with a delay," Manabe said.

? Paul Logothetis ? Twitter http://twitter.com/PaulLogoAP

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QUICKQUOTE: BRAZIL

"We had 89-plus minutes to turn it around and we didn't. All of us lost, not one of us." ? Brazil coach Mano Menezes on defender Rafael's mistake that led to a goal 29 seconds into the match.

? Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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CHEERING A TIBETAN

Tibetan exiles are out to support what is believed to be the first Tibetan athlete to compete in the Olympics. The Chinese are supporting her, too.

That's because Qieyang Shenjie was born in Qinghai, a province of China that is also on the Tibetan plateau and part of the region that Tibetan exiles consider to be Tibet.

For Tibetans, it's essentially the first time they've had a sports figure to cheer for at an internatinal event, even though she represents the country they regard as their occupier.

On Constitution Hill, next to Queen Elizabeth II's gardens behind Buckinham Palace, they have hung a banner using her Tibetan name: "You go, girl, Choeyang Kyi! The first ever Tibetan Olympian!!! We Tibetans are with you."

Tibetan fans say they're torn between their pride for her as a Tibetan and their discomfort that she's running in Chinese colors.

"I have really, really mixed feelings about today. I'm cheering her because she is Tibetan," says Dhundup, who like many Tibetans uses only one name. He was born in Tibet but fled when he was a boy.

China invaded Tibet in 1959 amid an aborted uprising, and the Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama, fled with thousands of his followers across the Himalayas and into India, creating an exile community that now numbers 150,000 people around the world.

? John Leicester ? Twitter http://twitter.com/johnleicester

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SOUTH KOREA BAN

South Korea has been told to bar a football player from collecting his bronze medal on Saturday.

Midfielder Jongwoo Park carried his national flag with a slogan supporting South Korean sovereignty of islets at the center of a territorial dispute with Japan during the third-place match against Japan on Friday.

The incident came just hours after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak raised diplomatic tensions by traveling to the islets.

In a statement, the International Olympic Committee requested the South Koreans take "swift action on this issue" and that "the athlete not be present" at Saturday's ceremony. They also said they had asked for an explanation.

Spokesmen for the South Korea Olympic body could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Olympic Charter prohibits political statements by athletes and players.

? Graham Dunbar ? Twitter ? http://twitter.com/gdunbarap

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GUERILLA GOLD

The Royal Mail has a message for overexuberant Olympics fans: Leave the spray can at home.

The postal service has been painting traditional red mailboxes gold in the hometowns of every British Olympic champion ? but has appealed to Britons not to do the same.

Two men have been detained by police for unauthorized mailbox gilding, and a postbox in the central England town of Doddington was painted bronze after the British women's field hockey team took the third-place prize.

"We understand the sentiment, and congratulate the women's hockey team on their achievement," a Royal Mail spokeswoman said. "However we'd rather people left the painting of postboxes to us."

? Jill Lawless http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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FAKE MUSTACHES

After Mexico's 2-1 victory in the football final, many of the yellow-clad Brazilians filed out somberly, leaving a sea of people in green, many wearing silly fake mustaches and oversized hats.

"It's representative of our country," said Jose Maria Rosales, 31, who flew in from Hermosillo, Mexico, to see the match.

Sitting nearby ? also in mustache and sombrero ? was Richard Webster, 32, who didn't have to travel so far. He's from London, and he has never even been to Mexico. "I was supporting team GB until they were knocked out," he says. "Then I went down to the fancy dress shop and got myself these."

? Niko Price ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nikoprice

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NEXT UP: PARALYMPICS

The white concession tents stand there in Olympic Park, but they are closed. People walk up to the gate, but they are turned away.

"I'm confused," says tennis coach Mirco Hampeo, 35, as he looks at a map.

He's not the only one.

Many people have ended up at Eton Manor, the only permanent Paralympics structure in the park, which seats 10,500 and will host the wheelchair tennis competition. It's not on the Olympics maps but you just can't miss it.

Some 4,200 athletes will take part in the Paralympics Games from Aug. 29 to Sept 9.

? Fergus Bell ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb

NEYMAR IN DISBELIEF

Brazilian star Neymar is sitting in the middle of the Wembley Stadium pitch with his hands on his knees and staring in disbelief. The latest in a long line of Brazilian soccer virtuosos looks like he can't believe his heavily favored team just lost to Mexico in the gold medal men's soccer game.

Neymar was bottled up for most of the game, unable to use his famously quick feet to get free of Mexico's determined defense.

He just missed a goal in the 48th minute, firing a rocket from about 30 yards out that just went over the crossbar. He also sailed one high over the goal in the 59th, dropping to his knees after mishitting a perfect crossing pass.

The Mexicans surrounded him with two defenders for most of the game and even bloodied his nose in the second half when goalkeeper Jose Corona hit Neymar with an elbow while chasing a loose ball.

In the end, Neymar goes home from the Olympics like every Brazilian star before him ? without a gold medal.

? Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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MEXICO JUBILANT

The Olympic men's soccer final is over, Mexico has won the gold medal 2-1 over Brazil and its supporters are celebrating in the stands at Wembley Stadium.

Fans threw sombreros in the air and waved Mexican flags at the final whistle, while the players, some already shirtless, danced at midfield. Oribe Peralta, who scored both goals for Mexico, got ahold of a straw sombrero and passed it around among his teammates.

The dejected Brazilians watched, some sitting on the grass, exhausted.

Mexico midfielder Jorge Enriquez left his celebrating teammates to come over and shake hands with the Brazilian players.

? Jimmy Golen ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jgolen

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IT'S MEXICO

It's Mexico ? unexpectedly.

Oribe Peralta scored twice to lead Mexico to its first Olympic gold medal in men's soccer, stunning favored Brazil 2-1 on Saturday.

Peralta scored 29 seconds into the game, the fastest goal since FIFA started keeping track of Olympic records in 1976, then headed a free kick from Marco Fabian past Brazilian goalkeeper Gabriel in the 75th minute to put the game away.

It was another devastating defeat for Brazil, which is now 0-3 in Olympic gold medal games.

? Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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FASTEST GOAL

Mexico's early goal against Brazil in the men's gold medal soccer match has been officially recognized as the fastest in the competition since records began in 1976.

FIFA, soccer's world governing body, says it still doesn't know if it's the fastest goal ever in the Olympics because it hasn't kept track of all tournaments.

The fastest goal ever in a senior soccer competition was scored by Turkey's Hakan Sukur ? 11 seconds into a match in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.

Brazil's Fabinho was even quicker in the 2007 under-17 World Cup in South Korea, netting after just nine seconds.

? Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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BUT IS HE A MARVEL?

These London Games have a lot of snazzy names out there, from Usain Bolt to Lolo Jones. But the winner for the best name out there has to be Brazilian forward Hulk. Just Hulk. With a name like that, who needs a nickname?

He is a reserve on the Brazilian team. But coach Mano Menezes inserted him in the 32nd minute of the gold medal game on Saturday after watching his team look lethargic in falling behind Mexico 1-0.

Hulk's presence was felt almost immediately, when he, yes, smashed a left-footed shot from about 20 yards out that Jose Corona had to lunge to save. That seemed to wake the Brazilians up, and they turned up the offensive pressure on Mexico for the rest of the half.

Just don't make Hulk angry, Mexico. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.

? Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://twitter.com/APkrawczynski

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A MURAL FOR GABBY

Gabby Douglas is really big in her hometown. Really big and painted on a wall.

The gold-medal-winning gymnast has a giant mural painted in her honor in Virginia Beach, Va. And she loves it.

"WOW!!! This is amazing!! (hashtag)so honored," Douglas tweeted Friday from the Olympics in London, where the 16-year-old gymnast won two gold medals at the Summer Games.

The mural shows Douglas holding a gold medal with an American flag backdrop. It says "Way to go Gabby."

Media outlets report brothers Todd and Eric Lindbergh spent four days painting the 9-by-30 foot mural on the outside wall of a sports bar. Todd Lindbergh says he found out that Douglas was from Virginia Beach, and the idea behind the mural came the moment he saw her on television at a medals ceremony.

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QUICKQUOTE: ALL TOGETHER

Missy Franklin, U.S. swimmer who has won four golds and one bronze at the London Olympics, on Sunday's closing ceremony:

"I am walking also. I am so excited. We didn't get the opportunity to do opening because I swam the very next day .... We're all going to get ready together tomorrow. I think it is the perfect way to end the entire journey."

? Danica Kirka ? Twitter http://twitter.com/danicakirka

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? "Eyes on London" shows you the Olympics through the eyes of Associated Press journalists across the 2012 Olympic city and around the world. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Mars rover: Color panorama of crater brings scientific treasure into view (+video)

The rover Curiosity has provided NASA scientists with its first full-circle panorama of the Gale Crater. In the distance beckon hills whose rocks hold a trove of information: Mars' climate history.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / August 9, 2012

A 360-degree panorama in color of Gale Crater Vista, taken by NASA's Curiosity rover is displayed at the Malin Space Science Systems control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., early morning Thursday.

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned the first full-circle color panorama of its landing site in Gale Crater, providing scientists with the first on-the-ground look at their ultimate destination ? distant knolls and layered rock formations at the base of Mt. Sharp.

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Mt. Sharp, the informal name given to a mountain that rises nearly 16,000 feet above the crater floor, has a treasure-trove of information ? Mars? climate history ? locked up in its rocks, researchers say.

Most important, they say, the rocks hold clues as to whether the 3-billion to 4-billion-year-old crater might have hosted conditions favorable for the emergence of life early in the planet's history.

The color panorama was built from low-resolution thumbnail images taken by MastCam, one of three camera systems perched 7 feet above the Martian surface atop Curiosity's mast. Some 20 to 24 of the larger, higher resolution images that will begin building the next panorama are expected to arrive on Friday.

Still, the preview drew an enthusiast welcome from Dawn Sumner, a geologist at the University of California at Davis and a member of the science team using the high-resolution camera. The camera is being used to scout new rocks and soil deposits for close-up analysis.

The rock layers "are recording the history in Gale Crater, and they are the main reason we chose Gale Crater ? to study those rocks," she said in a briefing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thursday. "It's very exciting to think about getting there."

Starting Saturday, engineers will spend four days replacing the software that governed the rover during its landing on Mars to a software package that will govern it during its two-year mission at Gale Crater.

Once the software has been swapped, flight controllers will download the remaining high-resolution color images researchers will use to build their detailed portrait of the rover's new surroundings.

Prior to Curiosity's arrival, the science team divided an image of the rover's landing zone into squares, or quads, roughly a mile on a side and began mapping features in the images as potential targets for the rover's investigations en route to Mt. Sharp.

Ironically, NASA's mechanical alien from Earth landed in quad 51, a postage-stamp patch that shares a number with the US Air Force Base in southern Nevada that is the object of many a UFO conspiracy theory.

The science team now is working up an agenda for the rover, identifying "the key observations we can make here that will tell us about our landing site," Dr. Sumner says.

The team has been using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to develop their maps, but those images lack the detail to spot small features that also may be of interest. Researchers plan to overlay those with images from the Mars Descent Imager, which took high-resolution photos of the approaching ground as descent stage delivered the rover to Mars.

For all the harsh conditions Curiosity faces on Mars, it's got the easy part of this mission, compared with its human coworkers. Its designers figured out how to keep it comfortable in the wide temperature swings of a Martian day, or sol, and it?s built to withstand the elevated levels of radiation coming in from the cosmos.

Meanwhile, on Earth, planning teams work long hours ? on Mars time. Each workday on Earth starts 40 minutes later than the previous one to keep in sync with sols.

Various teams on the ground meet from about 5 p.m. Mars time through about 9:45 the next Martian morning to assess information from the rover from the previous day and plan its next set of activities. At about 9:45, they have a narrow slice of time to send new commands to the rover.

For Curiosity, however, it's a leisurely wake-up around 9:30 a.m. Mars time, and lights-out at 5:00 p.m.

All the creature comforts you need. An exotic location. A good night's sleep. Such a life.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/science/~3/szeZu8--Z98/Mars-rover-Color-panorama-of-crater-brings-scientific-treasure-into-view-video

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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Road-starved South Sudan eyes a $4 billion road network

JUBA (Reuters) - It has virtually no roads and its economy is in tatters but South Sudan said on Thursday it plans to spend up to $4 billion in the next decade on building itself a 7,000 km (4,300 mile) road network.

Buoyed by his government recently sealing an oil deal with neighboring Sudan, Roads and Bridges Minister Gier Chuang Aluong told Reuters the new road network would link his country - Africa's newest nation - to both Sudan and Kenya.

South Sudan, a country which stretches across almost 240,000 square miles, has only 300 km (186 miles) of paved roads and most of the country is linked only by dirt tracks which are impassable during the summer rain season.

"As we talk today, some states are getting cut off because of the rains," Aluong told Reuters in his Juba office, underlining the scale of the challenge ahead. "There are some bridges which are being washed out."

Aluong said the plan - which is based on a similar idea floated a decade ago - would be funded from oil revenues and development loans. He did not say when the Sudan or Kenya roads would be ready.

He said he envisaged linking Juba by paved roads with Malakal and the White Nile port of Renk on the southern side of the border. The Juba link to the Ugandan border in Nimule has just been completed with the help of the United States.

Another road will link Juba with Kenya, which will shorten the time it takes to transport goods. Most of South Sudan's imports currently arrive in Mombasa on the Kenyan coast and are trucked from there via Uganda to Nimule, a trip that can last several weeks.

South Sudan recently struck a deal with Sudan agreeing how much it should pay to export its oil through northern pipelines, ending a dispute that had led to the shutdown of its entire output of 350,000 barrels a day.

Turning off the oil wells deprived one of the poorest countries in the world of 98 percent of state revenues.

The joint 1,800 kilometer (1,200 mile) border between the two former civil war foes has been closed since South Sudan became independent last July because of a dispute over its demarcation.

The closure has disrupted trade, sending inflation to 100 percent in some southern regions, and Sudanese traders have been unable to sell food and consumer goods to customers on the other side of the border.

(Reporting by Mading Ngor; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/road-starved-south-sudan-eyes-4-billion-road-205402732.html

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Verizon's Galaxy S III gets global roaming workaround, packs its bags

What's the point of owning Samsung's shiny new flagship if you can't take it on tour? Well, prior to Verizon's Galaxy S III launch, customers were promised that global roaming would be enabled sometime in the future via an OTA update. That unspecified date has yet to come, but if it's something of a priority for you, XDA Developers forum member lair12 has discovered a way make it happen without Big Red's involvement. We feel we should add a warning here -- switching from LTE to GSM isn't a simple process and goes far beyond a basic rooting (which, of course, is required). It includes a fair amount of preparation, including manually adding GSM network identifiers, and several steps to switch allegiances once abroad. But if you're a jet-setting Android tinkerer interested in giving it a go (at your own peril), the step-by-step guide is just a source link away.

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

5 Ways To Tap Into Career Intuition

Do you believe in intuition? Do you realize you can tap into your own future and "see" your next successful career step?

Perhaps you're smart, successful, practical, realistic and don't believe in what you can't see. But then why are you in this mess? Why are you rethinking your life?

You carry the solution to all of your problems right inside of you. It's called intuition. And usually, whatever problem you think you have in front of you - is actually your solution.

What did you dream last night? Conjure up those lost memories. Honor what your soul is trying to tell you. Your inner wisdom is banging on the door of your practical, logical left-brain as powerfully as it can. Are you listening?

In the 1900 edition of Sigmund Freud's book Interpretation of Dreams, the father of modern psychology wrote about his own dreams and what he thought they meant. One of those documented dreams clearly foretells his future illness 28 years later and eventual death from mouth cancer.

The dream even offers a solution (to stop smoking cigars). But Freud interprets this dream in his own narrow parameters of sexual metaphors rather than seeing the divine gift of premonition and solution that the dream offered.

Are you doing something similar with your dreams? Are you dismissing your inner guidance? Are you doubting your intuition?

If life isn't as "realistic" as you imagine it to be - what are you missing?

Maybe you've had glimpses through the cracks in the fa?ade of our physical world. Perhaps it was at the birth or death of a loved one. Maybe you've had a moment where you knew there was something more, and you heard your inner self whisper: "Life is not what you think it is.

"This is your powerful intuition reminding you of what you already know but may have forgotten. That's the same higher self that can reveal your new life and work as effortlessly as a dream in the night.

Are you afraid? Are you worried about your future? Then you're not listening. You're tapped into your fear instead of your intuition. Do you understand the difference?

Fear is a low, negative energy and it resonates in the pit of your stomach. Your intuition and divine guidance speak up in the quiet moments when time stops and you simply know what's true. Just know it in your bones. It's a peaceful knowing.

First you have to stop and be quiet for this to happen. When was the last time you really did that? Right now, sit down, unplug, and quiet your monkey mind. You can pray, meditate, or just breathe. Think nothing and do nothing. Just wait. In the spaces between your breaths you'll understand everything.

Is it possible that every failure, loss, and victory from your life story has been on purpose so that you would discover your great potential and live up to it?

Imagine this: Your job dilemma or economic problems are on purpose - ordered up by your higher self to get you to change directions.

Now instead of focusing on what you've lost, focus on what you wish your life looked like. Picture an imaginary world where you have all the money you'll ever need. In this new world, you still "work" by bringing your gifts to the world and making a difference. What are you doing?

See it. Now do it?

Here are five steps to help you tap into your intuition:

1) Quiet your mind through meditation, prayer, breathing, hiking or whatever works for you.

2) When you're feeling calm, ask yourself a question about your career and sit still until you hear a peaceful answer from deep inside of you.

3) Trust it. Act on it.

4) Start a morning routine of sitting still, quieting your mind for 20 minutes and asking for guidance about things you should do or decisions you should make.

5) Write down what you get and act on it everyday.

Sue Frederick is a Career Intuitive Coach and author who brings a breath of fresh air and enlightenment to her teachings. Sue's unique practice combines powerful intuition and practical career know-how. She has been featured in leading journals including The New York Times and Real Simple. Visit: http://www.CareerIntuitive.org for your free gift from Sue.

Source: http://articles.submityourarticle.com/5-ways-to-tap-into-career-intuition-287251

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Olympics: Beach volleyball tries to move beyond the bikini

Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor will try for their third consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball Wednesday when they face fellow Americans April Ross and Jen Kessy in the final at the London 2012 Olympics.

Now that that's out of the way, can we talk about what they were wearing? In the semifinal between Ross/Kessy and Brazilians Larissa and Juliana, neither team wore just their bikinis on a cold London night with driving rain, prompting International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge to promise a full investigation. "This is clearly not in the Olympic spirit," he said.

OK, he didn't say that, and there is no inquiry. But in the sometimes alternate universe of beach volleyball, that it often what it feels like.

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From head scarves to skirts, there has been a lot of talk at the London Olympics about what not to wear for women, but nowhere more so than at beach volleyball, where the decision earler this year to allow women not to wear bikinis has been met with relief by women's rights groups, dismay by some casual fans, and a gigantic shrug by the players themselves.

It is the flip side to another and rather more momentous first at London 2012: each competing nation has brought at least one woman athlete. To reach that goal, which the IOC made a high priority, the federations that govern Olympic sports have had to reach out to Muslim nations, and by doing so, the Olympic dress code has begun to change.

Yet some tensions remain between sports' traditions and their desire to expand women's participation.

VELCRO HEADSCARVES

Before the London Games even began, the International Judo Federation banned head scarves, saying they were too dangerous in a sport where athletes grapple by grabbing each other's clothes and can win by means of a choke hold. The problem was that one of Saudi Arabia's two woman athletes ? their first two woman athletes in Olympic history ? was a judoka.

Eventually, a compromise was struck and the Saudi judoka was allowed to wear a modified head scarf. The international body governing soccer recently allowed players to wear a similar head scarf that has velcro fastenings and can tear away if pulled inadvertently. Taekwondo, fencing, and rugby also allow such head scarves.

The problems with beach volleyball, however, went far beyond head scarves. Before a March rule change, women had to wear a bikini, though they could wear a body suit beneath it when the weather was cold (which is what the Brazilians did Tuesday). Now, they can wear shorts, as well as the sleeved tops that Americans April Ross and Jen Kessy wore Tuesday.

At the 2006 Asian Games, only one Muslim country fielded a women's beach volleyball team, and they were two Christians from Iraq.

BIKINI ADS

The old rule was the cause of much criticism from outside groups, which called it a blatant attempt to trade on the sexuality of the players. A British pair did nothing to dispel that notion last year when they sold advertising space on their bikini bottoms ? putting a QR code there that, when photographed by a smartphone, led to a betting website.

At times, the Great Bikini Debate has overshadowed the sport itself. The first question at a pre-Games press conference with the British pair was: "Will you promise you will wear bikinis even if it rains?"

The airline Virgin Atlantic even vowed in a press release to "come to the rescue of red-blooded males across the UK by offering to provide banks of patio heaters around the courts ? so that competing beauties will continue to wear bikini bottoms."

Who could take offense at a statement like that?

Not the "beauties," actually. To the Americans, at least, the bikini is a uniform as much as a leotard or a judoka's judogi.

"I'm most comfortable in a bikini," said Kessy before the Olympics began. "I grew up in southern California, so this is what i grew up wearing."

But she added: "We want women of all different religions and everyone from across the world to be able to play our sport, and to not be able to play because of the attire is not OK for us."

To teammate Ross, it's all irrelevant. "I could care less what we wear when we play."

On Tuesday night in the rain, she and Kessy were the best possible promotion for that opinion. She and Kessy upset the Brazilians in a thrilling three-set match to advance to the finals against Walsh and May-Treanor.

In what could become one of the images of the London Games for the US, Ross and Kessy, overcome with emotion, lay on the sand after the match, hugging each other in delirious disbelief ? clothed in long-sleeved shirts that would have been illegal a year ago.

Call it the reverse Brandi Chastain sports bra moment ? a night when beach volleyball did just fine without its bikinis, thanks.

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