Xu Zhiyong's detention and its significance for Chinese political reform

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Source: lawprofessors.typepad.com --- Sunday, August 04, 2013
The following is a very slightly modified version of my contribution to the ChinaFile conversation on this subject: When I heard that Xu Zhiyong had just been detained, my first thought was, ?Again?? This seems to be something the authorities do every time they get nervous, a kind of political Alka Seltzer to settle an upset constitution. I searched the New York Times web site to confirm my intuition. Although my hopes were briefly raised by a pop-up ad that optimistically proclaimed, ?We know where Xu Zhiyong is? and offered me his address, telephone number, and credit history, the stories in the results list were depressingly as expected: ?A leading human rights advocate is detained in Beijing? (July 13, 2013); Xu Zhiyong ?in the company of security agents and unable to talk? (Feb. 20, 2011); ?Just before dawn on Wednesday, the founder of Gongmeng, Xu Zhiyong, was taken into police custody, and he has not been heard from since? (July 31, 2009). Two other detentions, on June 7, 2012 and in June 2011, didn?t show up. There may be more I?ve missed. In any case, this is clearly a man who knows his way around the back seat of a Black Maria. Today?s topic is what, if anything, this detention means for the broader question of political reform in China. Let?s be clear: Xu Zhiyong is an extremist in his moderation. As Jeffrey Prescott, then at Yale?s China Law Center, said in 2009, ?He is someone of rare idealism, judgment, commitment t ...

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Egypt says clock ticking on sit-in standoff

FILE - In this Friday, July 5, 2013 file photo, The Muslim Brotherhood's General Guide Mohammed Badie speaks onstage as military helicopters fly overhead before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt?s official news agency says the Muslim Brotherhood?s leader, Badie and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater will go on trial Aug 25 for their complicity in and incitement of the killing of eight protesters. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Friday, July 5, 2013 file photo, The Muslim Brotherhood's General Guide Mohammed Badie speaks onstage as military helicopters fly overhead before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt?s official news agency says the Muslim Brotherhood?s leader, Badie and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater will go on trial Aug 25 for their complicity in and incitement of the killing of eight protesters. (AP Photo, File)

In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 photo, Muslim Brotherhood nominated deputy leader Khairat el-Shater, listens during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt?s official news agency says the Muslim Brotherhood?s leader, Mohammed Badie and his powerful deputy, el-Shater will go on trial Aug 25 for their complicity in and incitement of the killing of eight protesters. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi prays before "Iftar," the dusk meal when observant Muslims break their day-long fast, during a protest near Cairo University in Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. Egypt's Interior Ministry warned supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday for a second time to abandon their protest encampments as a senior U.S. diplomat was meeting with officials on both sides of the political divide to try to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi wash their hands before "Iftar," Arabic for breakfast, the dusk meal when observant Muslims break their day-long fast, during a protest near Cairo University in Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. Egypt's Interior Ministry warned supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday for a second time to abandon their protest encampments as a senior U.S. diplomat was meeting with officials on both sides of the political divide to try to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a banner with Morsi's image, during a march against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the Nasr City section of Cairo on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's highest security body warned Sunday that the clock is ticking for a peaceful end to the standoff over sit-ins by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, suggesting that authorities will break up the vigils unless mediation efforts produce results soon.

More than a month after the military overthrew Morsi, tens of thousands of the Islamist leader's supporters remain camped out in two main crossroads in Cairo demanding his reinstatement. Egypt's military-backed interim leadership has issued a string of warnings for them to disperse or security forces will move in, setting the stage for a potential bloody showdown.

Also Sunday, authorities announced a court case accusing the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and his powerful deputy of inciting murder will start Aug. 25. Morsi hails from the Brotherhood.

The U.S. and EU are trying to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff to avoid a repeat of violence that has killed more than 250 people ? at least 130 of whom pro-Morsi protesters shot dead by security forces in two clashes ? since the July 3 military coup.

While diplomats raced to find a compromise, the Egyptian interim government signaled that its patience with the pro-Morsi sit-ins was running out.

The National Defense Council, which is led by the interim president and includes top Cabinet ministers, said the search for a peaceful resolution is not open-ended. The council said a negotiated resolution also would not shield from legal proceedings what it called "law-breakers" and others who incite against the state.

It said a chance should be given to all "negotiations and mediations" that could end the protests without bloodshed, but that the timeframe should be "defined and limited." It also called on the protesters to abandon the sit-ins and join the political road map announced the day of Morsi's ouster.

With the Islamist-backed constitution adopted last year suspended and the legislature dominated by Morsi's supporters dissolved, the road map provides for a new or an amended constitution to be put to a national referendum later this year and presidential and parliamentary elections early in 2014

In a move that underlined the government's resolve in dealing with the protests ? now in their second month ? Egyptian authorities on Sunday denied Yemen's Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman entry into Egypt after she landed at Cairo airport on Sunday.

Karman, the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace prize, has stated her opposition to Egypt's military coup and said she had intended to join the pro-Morsi sit-in protests.

Airport officials said she was sent back on the Sunday flight that brought her to Cairo from the United Arab Emirates. They did not say why she was denied entry, only that her name had been placed by various security agencies on a stop list at the airport. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

The decision to bar Karman suggests authorities wanted to deny the pro-Morsi camp the publicity she would have generated and the idea that prominent figures outside Egypt also oppose Morsi's ouster. Morsi supporters strongly condemned Karman's barring, claiming it was evidence of the "resurrection" of the police state Egypt had under autocrat Hosni Mubarak, toppled in a 2011 popular uprising.

Karman shared the Nobel Peace prize in 2011 with Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women's rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee. She earned it for her role in the protests that swept Yemen in 2011 to force longtime dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh from office.

Pro-Morsi protesters blocked a major road Sunday that runs through most of the city and leads to its international airport.

Meanwhile, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns extended his visit to Cairo by one day so he can have further talks with Egyptian leaders. He met Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, who led the coup, on Sunday. A member of the pro-Morsi delegation that met Saturday with Burns said the four delegates also would hold another round of talks with the U.S. diplomat.

Other top diplomats in Cairo are the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, which had been at sharp odds with Morsi's government, and Qatar, which maintains close ties to the Brotherhood. European Union's special envoy, Bernardino Leon, is also in Cairo.

At the core of discussions is the political future of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies. The Brotherhood says it is looking for concessions before beginning talks with the military-backed administration. These measures could include releasing detained Brotherhood leaders, unfreezing the group's assets, lifting a ban on Islamist television stations loyal to Morsi and reigning in the use of force against its protesters.

Morsi has been held at undisclosed locations since July 3. He faces accusations of comprising with the militant Palestinian Hamas group to escape prison in 2011. Morsi has been visited by Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, and a delegation of African statesmen. Ashton reported that he was well and had access to television and newspapers.

Egypt's state news agency said on Sunday that Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat el-Shater are to stand trial Aug. 25 for complicity and incitement in the killing of eight demonstrators outside the group's Cairo headquarters.

Badie is at still large, while el-Shater is in custody.

The killings took place during the first day of the mass street protests calling for Morsi's ouster. The agency also said that senior Brotherhood figure Rashad Bayoumi will face trial on the same charges. Three others face murder charges in the same case.

Morsi's palace aides Rifaah el-Tahtawi and Asaad el-Sheikha meanwhile faced questions over allegations they illegally held and tortured anti-Morsi protesters last Dec. 5 after supporters of the ousted leader descended upon a group of unarmed demonstrators camped outside the presidential palace. Clashes lasting all day left at least 10 dead and hundreds injured.

Both el-Tahtawi and el-Sheikha are in detention.

Associated Press

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Refoldable Cardboard Furniture Makes It Cheap And Easy To Mosey On

When you're moving and you have a lot of IKEA furniture, you know what you should do. You should take it apart, transport it and then put it back together on the other end. You know this. You consider this. And then you create a last minute flash sale on Craig's List, get whatever money you can from all that MALM, and re-buy down the line. Chairigami is trying to end this cycle.

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Best of food and drink this week | canada.com

A round-up of some of our favourite recipes and food-related features this week including an ingredient spotlight on corn, sweet and savoury recipes featuring peaches, a food chat on late-summer fruit, and finding your wine style.

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Corn on the cob

We?ve put together a collection of sweet, savoury and boozy recipes featuring corn, including Sweet Corn Ice Cream, Grilled Corn on the Cob, and a Bourbon Sour cocktail.

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Grilled Lemon Garlic Seafood and Peach Skewers

This juicy, nutritious, flavour-packed fruit can work in sweet or savoury recipes: Grilled Lemon Garlic Seafood and Peach Skewers, Peaches and Cream with a Warm Caramel Sauce, and Fresh Cut Peach Salsa.

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Saskatoon Jam

Turn fresh, delicious fruit into something you can savour all winter long with recipes for Cherry and Rhubarb Jam. Microwave Blueberry Jam, Saskatoon Jam, Strawberry Jam, and Prize Apricot Jam.

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Nectarines, plums and apricots

This week?s food chat was all about the best in late-summer fruit ? cherries, peaches, plums and nectarines ? while the wine chat focused on understanding your own personal wine style.

Wine chat panelist and columnist Michael Godel also shares seven alternative wines to look for this coming August holiday long weekend.

For late-summer fruit recipe inspiration, please see our Pinterest board.

Be sure to check out Chat Central on Thursdays at 1 p.m. ET for the food chat, and 2 p.m. ET for the wine chat with our editors and writers, or follow the events on Twitter.

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Paloma cocktail

The Paloma cocktail is the most popular tequila-based cocktail in Mexico ? even more popular than the margarita. It?s simple and refreshing, and typically prepared by mixing tequila with grapefruit soda.

And to finish, some tasty inspiration from the blog world:

- 1 Minute Meal: ?Arepas Del Viaje? via The Eaten Path
- Scream! How to Make Your Own Incredible Ice Cream from Bon App?tit
- French Dining Staple Is Losing Its Place at the Table from The New York Times
- Before Cronuts: 50 Years of Pastry Hybrids from Food & Wine
- Knives: The New Bling from Eat This Podcast

Source: http://o.canada.com/2013/08/02/best-of-food-and-drink-this-week-60/

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Drugs And The Future Of Baseball

By editor

Originally published on Sat August 3, 2013 7:45 am

The MLB will make an announcement this weekend about suspending players for using performance enhancing drugs. ESPN's Howard Bryant joins guest host Linda Wertheimer to talk sports.

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Publication Letter from the ECB President to Mr Sven Giegold, MEP

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Ford celebrates 150th anniversary of Henry Ford's birth

July 30th, 2013 marked the 150th anniversary of Henry Ford's birth. Celebrations were held in Dearborn, Michigan, on what is now known as Henry Ford Day, while in Washington D.C., hundreds of people enjoyed commemorative cupcakes delivered by a food truck.

Elsewhere around the world, dealers in 21 Asia Pacific markets have launched Ford Heritage month, transforming showrooms into exhibitions on Ford?s rich history. In the U.K., celebrations were capped by the reveal of a restored statue of Henry Ford at the company?s Tech Centre. Ford of Germany held a series of 5 road rallies that celebrated Ford?s numerous automotive breakthroughs, while more than 4,000 people attended community events held by Ford in Romania.

Festivities will continue with additional events across the United States, Europe, and South America in the coming months.

Henry Ford, who died on April 7th, 1947 at 83 years old, was named ?Businessman of the Century? by Forbes in 1999. Last year, a History Channel documentary highlighted him as one of ?The Men Who Built America.?

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In the latest Temeraire novel, only Chinese dragons can save Europe

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Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series is about to come to an end. Her penultimate novel of the alternate history series, Blood of Tyrants, comes out August 15. In it, we witness some of the last battles of the Napoleonic Wars ? from the backs of dragons who aren't just weapons anymore. They're generals.

Spoilers for previous books in the Temeraire series ahead!

Perhaps the most fascinating part of Novik's series has always been the evolving role of dragons. In England, homeland to our hero Captain William Laurence, dragons are treated as chattel. Though they are clearly intelligent, able to speak, read, and reason, English dragons are treated as sentient bombers in the Aerial Corps. But all of that begins to change when Laurence is adopted by a brilliant, fierce and slightly eccentric Chinese dragon named Temeraire.

The two fight in the British Corps, but also travel the world, where we discover how the fate of Asia, Africa and the Americas has been completely altered by the existence of dragon warfare. Each nation has its own ways of handling dragons. In China, they are treated as honored citizens and leaders. Among the Inca, they are the heads of human families. Their existence has meant that colonization didn't quite go as it did in our world. Napoleon, for example, has solidified his political power by marrying an Incan princess.

Laurence and Temeraire become war heroes and diplomats, but they also become civil rights activists. In England, they have become outcasts for insisting that dragons be granted the same rights as humans. At one point, they were even banished to Australia because Laurence rescued foreign dragons from a plague spread by the British.

And yet despite these grand changes to world politics, Novik charms us with her odd insistence that the Napoleonic Wars have raged on, with familiar battles unfolding much as they did in our own histories. Blood of Tyrants takes us to the Russian front, where the British are depending on military aid from the Chinese to defeat Napoleon's forces in the wasted, frozen fields outside Moscow.

There are long battles but there are also culture clashes between the Chinese troops ? led entirely by dragons ? and the British. (And also, my darling, we'll figure out the best way to deal with those troublesome Opium Wars.) Once we meet the insane Russian dragon corps, there are more problems. It's hard for Laurence to know whom to root for at certain points. After all, the French acknowledge the humanity of their dragons, granting them equal rights; but the Russians torture their dragons with wing hobbles and worse.

In many ways, this novel is about Temeraire finally becoming a true adult. He's already come of age, seen action, and even made an egg with another dragon. But he's never had to take a leadership role comparable to Laurence's on the battlefield. Temeraire's self-confidence will be tested, and he's forced to confront the fact that he can't be his fussy, peculiar self if he's going to lead men and dragons.

If you love these novels, this installment will please you immensely. The final battle scene is a little overlong, but all the intriguing dragon politics are in play, and we even meet old Boney himself.

And if you've never read these novels, now is the time to start. The final novel arrives next year, so you'll have a complete set to devour.

Source: http://io9.com/in-the-latest-temeraire-novel-only-chinese-dragons-can-979234540

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Amnesty International weighs in on California prisons hunger strike

By Ronnie Cohen

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amnesty International weighed in on a 22-day-old hunger strike in California prisons on Tuesday, calling solitary confinement conditions faced by protesting inmates an "affront to human rights" and urging an impartial probe into the death of a prisoner.

Billy Sell, 32, serving a life term for attempted murder, was found hanged in his cell July 22 in the "security housing unit" - for prisoners held in solitary confinement - at the Corcoran State Prison in central California.

The local coroner preliminarily ruled his death a suicide by strangulation, prison officials said. They added there was no evidence that Sell's participation in the hunger strike, which the corrections department initially denied, had been a factor.

According to inmate advocates, however, fellow prisoners reported Sell had been requesting medical attention for several days before his death, though a spokeswoman for a federal receiver overseeing state prison healthcare denied Sell was refused medical treatment.

In a statement issued late on Monday, corrections officials acknowledged that Sell had been on a hunger strike from at least July 11 - by which time he already had missed nine straight meals - until July 21, the day before his death.

They also said Sell was awaiting trial on murder charges and facing the death penalty if convicted in the 2007 strangulation and stabbing death of a cell mate. A source close to the corrections probe said he hung himself with a bed sheet.

Several entities at the state, federal and local level are reviewing the circumstances surrounding Sell's death, which inmate advocates say was preventable and points to inhumane conditions that protesting inmates claim to suffer.

The global human rights group Amnesty International joined inmate supporters from the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition in calling for an independent inquiry into the death, one that is thoroughly transparent and without government ties.

"Conditions for prisoners in solitary confinement in California are an affront to human rights and must end," Thenjiwe McHarris of Amnesty said in a statement. "No human being should be held under the deplorable conditions we have witnessed in California prisons for prolonged periods, even decades."

DEATH WAS 'ABSOLUTELY PREVENTABLE'

Isaac Ontiveros, a spokesman for the inmate support coalition, said Sell had been in solitary for five years, adding that the United Nations "counts any day after 15 days (of isolation) as cruel and unusual punishment."

"His death was absolutely preventable," he said.

Corrections department spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman countered that inmate advocates "are shamelessly exploiting a man's death to mislead the public about a hunger strike orchestrated by violent gang members."

More than 30,000 inmates from some two dozen California prisons began refusing food on July 8 to protest what they regard as cruel and unfair use of solitary confinement as punishment within the system. By Tuesday, the number of inmates participating in the strike had dwindled to 525 in eight prisons, corrections officials say.

Strikers' principal demand has been to end a policy of keeping thousands of inmates in near or total isolation for years on end solely on the basis of alleged gang affiliations. They say the only way out of solitary confinement for many inmates is to become a gang informant, a choice that would be tantamount to signing their own death warrant.

On Tuesday in Sacramento, the state capital, about 50 mothers, wives and other relatives of inmates presented Governor Jerry Brown's office with a petition bearing 41,000 signatures calling for reform of solitary confinement practices.

"We're hoping the governor realizes the support that's being gained to end these types of conditions," Dolores Canales said before leading a march to Brown's office. She said her 37-year-old son has been in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay State Prison for 13 years because of his alleged gang ties.

Corrections officials say nearly 3,600 inmates, or 3 percent of the state's prison population, are held in security housing units, most of them for ties to gangs, others for committing crimes while in prison.

The protest comes at a challenging time for the state prison system, which houses roughly 132,800 inmates and has been ordered by a federal court to reduce its population by 10,000 prisoners this year to ease crowding.

The state has begun housing many low-level offenders in county jails. Medical care in the prisons has been placed under the supervision of a court-appointed federal receiver, and mental healthcare is being watched by a special master.

(Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Stacey Joyce)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/amnesty-international-weighs-california-prisons-hunger-strike-015629832.html

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Why Some People Can Eat A Lot and Stay Thin / Nutrition - FitDay

We all have that one friend who seems to defy all laws of calories and weight gain. You know, the one who can put down jumbo-size fries, jelly-filled donuts and staggering portions of spaghetti and never seem to gain an ounce. Is it just luck, or does this person have a weight-maintenance secret that we can all learn from? The latter is most likely, and adopting the tactics of the thin-yet-well-fed crowd can help the rest of us keep (or restore) our trim waistlines.

Eat A Lot and Stay Thin? Sounds NEAT!

Health experts are beginning to explore the idea that people who eat all they want and don't gain weight are actually more active than the rest of the population, and therefore burn more calories. However, these folks don't necessarily spend more time at the gym. They probably engage in a practice known as non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT), according to the American Council on Exercise (ACE).

NEAT may sound like a lofty concept, but it's actually quite simple: all physical activity--aside from regimented workouts--counts. When you stand up and pace while talking on the phone, chop cabbage for dinner or even twiddle your thumbs sitting at your desk, you are engaging in NEAT. So that friend who can pig out without consequence probably fidgets more than you do and stands on her feet while you're sitting down.

According to ACE, engaging in NEAT throughout the day can increase your metabolism by up to 50 percent--so if you normally burn 2,000 calories per day while sedentary, NEAT can help you burn up to 3,000 calories per day. That translates to a lot of pasta, and definitely entitles you to dessert.

How to Be NEAT

If NEAT doesn't come naturally to you, you may be able to train yourself by consciously including more small movements into your day. Wiggle your legs or tap your fingers at your work desk, rock back and forth on your heels while waiting in line at the post office, and choose standing over sitting whenever possible. You may also burn more calories by purchasing a pedometer and setting goals for yourself, such as 12,000 steps a day.

Lean Muscle Tissue is Also a Factor

Aside from NEAT, people with fast metabolisms may have one other trick up their sleeve: a high percentage of lean muscle tissue. Muscle takes more calories to maintain than fat, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn--even as you sleep. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that you can increase your metabolism by up to 15 percent by building more muscle.

Increasing muscle mass takes time (months, rather than seconds as with NEAT), but the payoff is worth it. Not only will weight control become easier, but you'll also be able to perform everyday activities more capably, and may even help curb arthritis, osteoporosis and back pain. To build more muscle, lift weights, take a vigorous yoga class or simply perform calisthenic exercises like push-ups, squats and sit-ups two to three times per week, working all major muscle groups.

ARE YOU READY TO LOSE WEIGHT? ANSWER THESE 9 QUESTIONS TO FIND OUT!

Nina Kate is a certified fitness nutrition specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). She also studied journalism at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and has contributed to numerous major publications as a freelance writer. Nina thrives on sharing nutrition and fitness knowledge to help readers lead healthy, active lives. Visit her wellness blog at BodyFlourish.com.

Source: http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/why-some-people-can-eat-a-lot-and-stay-thin.html

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Scientists analyze genetic makeup of human and mouse embryos in amazing detail

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have used the powerful technology of single-cell RNA sequencing to track the genetic development of a human and a mouse embryo at an unprecedented level of accuracy. The success of this technique could lead to genetic diagnoses of diseases with higher resolution and in embryos earlier than ever achieved before, even when the embryo consists of only eight cells.

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Fred Grimm: In South Florida, psychic fraud is a family affair

Peaches? Come on. Really?

Sorry, but Peaches T. Miller does not conjure up images of voodoo queens and black magic and evil curses and a scam worth $838,000.

To be fair, Peaches? well-do-to Indian-American victim from Sunnydale, Calif., thought she was dealing with a mysterious psychic intervener named Shanna.

The woman had been lured to Peaches by an ad in a publication called India Abroad: ? Worried-Troubled-Confused?? The ad offered the services of ?India?s best renowned Psychic Shanna.?

Eight years later, Shanna?s client was out the $838,000 she had turned over to her trusted healer to properly cleanse it of an evil voodoo curse.

As it turned out, India?s renowned Shanna was actually Pompano Beach?s less-than-renowned Peaches T. Miller, the latest in a long and ignominious string of South Florida psychic scammers. Most of them related.

She was hunted down by private investigator Bob Nygaard, whose work led to her arrest in Broward County. Nygaard has made a speciality out of chasing down these felonious fortunetellers.

Nygaard, based in Boca Raton, usually doesn?t need to travel far. He described South Florida as a kind of safe haven for mystic miscreants, blaming an utter lack of interest in prosecutions by the state attorneys in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

In 2008, the detective nabbed the infamous Gina Marie Marks of Hollywood ? author of the 2006 memoir (as Regina Milbourne) Miami Psychic: Confessions of a Confidante ? twice for a similar psychic money-laundering scam. He tracked down Marks after she persuaded five clients to turn over about $65,000 to be cleansed of evil spirits. She pleaded guilty and got probation.

Her psychic powers, however, could not be contained by some temporal decree. Two years later, Nygaard nabbed her again, this time for a $504,000 fraud. Marks was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Mind you, Gina Marks is not be confused with Rose Marks, the Roma matriarch whose fortune-telling family amassed a $40 million fortune, including a waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale.

Rose and clan were finally busted in 2011, charged with running a spiritual extortion racket. Either pay up, and big, or else the likes of the Archangel Michael would wreak havoc. Eight of the nine members of the family pleaded guilty in March. Momma Rose, however, still awaits trial.

Then there was Linda Marks, who pleaded guilty to a fortune-telling fraud scheme in 2006, along with Delray Beach policeman Jack Mackler, who was greasing her operation.

Nygaard sent me a kind of fraudster?s family tree Monday evening. ?Gina Marie Marks? father is John Uwanawich. Gina Marie Marks? brother is Gino Uwanawich. Peaches Miller?s estranged gypsy husband is Gino Uwanawich, making Peaches Miller Gina?s estranged sister-in-law.?

Also, Gina?s daughter Hillarie Miller was implicated last year in yet another fortune-telling scheme. Hillarie, Peaches? niece, is still at large.

When it comes to psychic fraud, South Florida style, it?s all relative.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/29/3530116/fred-grimm-in-south-florida-psychic.html

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BlackBerry Q5 Canada release closer following launch

BlackBerry are trying to win back some of its market share it has lost in the smartphone market over the last few years to Android and iOS, and it got the ball rolling earlier this year with the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 OS. To begin with there were only two flagship devices available but now the BlackBerry Q5 Canada release is getting closer following an official launch for the handset.

Surprisingly the handset manufacturer made the BlackBerry Q5 available in other regions ahead of its home country, but now the company has officially announced the device and revealed it will be available to purchase for consumers from August 13th.

The device will be ideal for BlackBerry users that love their Curve handsets but can?t afford to purchase the BlackBerry Q10, and it has been revealed that the device will land on carriers such as Bell, Fido, Koodo, Sasktel, TELUS, and Virgin Mobile.

It will also be available from third party resellers such as Best Buy Canada, Target, The Mobile Shop, The Source, Walmart, and many more retailers across the country. While the BlackBerry Q5 is a small step down from the Q10 it still shares many of the same features such as the 3.1-inch touchscreen display with its 720 x720 resolution.

It has the same 1.2GHz dual core processor paired with 2GB of RAM and while the devices have the same similar shape the keyboard on the Q5 is the smaller of the two handsets. Camera wise the Q5 sports a 5-megapixel rear camera capable of Full HD video capture while around the front is a 2-megapixel shooter.

Will you be getting the BlackBerry Q5?

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Maybe There Won't Be a Manufactured Fiscal Crisis This Fall

Though several Republicans have been threatening a big showdown over the debt limit and government funding with President Obama this fall, it's possible that maybe we won't approach total fiscal calamity this time. In an interview with The National Review's Robert Costa, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sounds tough, but outlines what could be the outlines of a deal. And top Obama aides have been meeting with eight Senate Republicans to figure out a compromise on these issues, The Wall Street Journal's Peter Nicholas and Kristina Peterson report. But there probably won't be a longer-term "grand bargain."

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And McConnell, who is up for reelection in 2014 and facing a conservative challenger in the Republican primary, says lots of aggressive-sounding things that might play well with conservative voters. He even makes a gay joke about Sens. John McCain and Chuck Schumer, who worked together on immigration:?"You know, I was kidding [New York Democrat Chuck Schumer] and McCain the other day, and asked, 'When are you all getting married? It's getting almost embarrassing.'"

RELATED: Boehner Declares GOP Victory But Still Faces Tough Math

McConnell warns Democrats, "The tax issue is over." But he suggests Republicans are open to preventing a second year of the sequester. "You want sequester relief? Then let?s talk about a reduction in entitlement spending," he says. "I think a place to talk is on things like chained CPI." Obama has already said he'd support chained CPI, which is a less generous way of calculating the cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security benefits. McConnell also floats raising the age of eligibility for Medicare, which Democrats do not like. McConnell says, "In return for that, we could trade less spending reduction on the discretionary side, because we all know the biggest challenge is actually not on the discretionary side, but on entitlements. To me, that?s a better place to go in the fall than signaling that you?re open to raising taxes."

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There are still big sticking points. A dozen Republican senators have said they'll shutdown the government unless Obama agrees to defund Medicare.?Marco Rubio even has an essay titled "Shut Down ObamaCare, Not Government" at the conservative blog RedState on Monday. The senator who got that movement started, Utah's Mike Lee, suggested on Sunday that he wanted to keep deep cuts, but spare the Pentagon. "What we need to do is make sensible cuts, not back away from the cuts, but make sure that we're not taking them disproportionately out of those brave men and women who are protecting us," Lee said. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the White House would not accept bills that only spared the Pentagon from those spending cuts.

RELATED: How the Debt Limit Deal Passed the House

Even so,?many other Republican senators have said threatening a shutdown over Obamacare is a dumb idea.?Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee tells the Journal that the GOP senators are meeting with White House aides to "deal with our fiscal issues in more intelligent ways than now exist."?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/maybe-wont-manufactured-fiscal-crisis-fall-134528776.html

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Upper Merion Police: Car keyed, animal bites

Sheraton Hotel 480 North Gulph Road ? occurred between 4 p.m. on July 20 and 8:49 a.m. on July 21.

An employee called UMPD when she saw a vehicle in the parking lot with a rear passenger window smashed out. The owner arrived at the vehicle and stated the wife?s purse had been stolen. He stated the bank called him about a suspicious purchase that was made with a credit card.

King of Prussia Plaza 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 20 between 1 and 1:30 p.m.

Victim stated she was at the Apple Store for a training session and placed her laptop in a backpack. She later discovered her laptop was missing.

Vehicle Theft

Pole 30 King of Prussia Plaza Lot 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 25 between 3 and 4 p.m.

Stolen was a red 2012 Kia Optima.

Warrant Service other Agency

West DeKalb Pike and Shaffer Road ? occurred July 22 at 1:27 a.m.

Police stopped a vehicle for an equipment violation. The driver was wanted out of Chester Continued...

County for a probation violation; she was turned over to Chester County officials.

AREA NORTH OF ROUTE 202 AND WEST OF HENDERSON ROAD

Animal Bite

300 block West Beidler Road ? occurred July 9 at 11:21 a.m.

Victim was taking his dog and child for a walk when a pit bull from ran from a house and attacked them. The victim was taken to the hospital for his injuries and his dog was taken to the vet for injuries to his head. This is the second time this dog has bitten someone. The owner was cited for the last incident and will be cited again for this incident. An additional charge of ?harboring a dangerous dog? will be filed.

Criminal Mischief

Walker Field 515 Williams Road ? occurred July 25 at 12:29 a.m.

On patrol police found the lights on at the basketball courts. Unknown actors pushed the bleachers up against the light post to the control box. There was trash, t-shirts, water bottles and a basketball left behind. The actors also broke out one of the lights that were center court and attempted to burn items on the court.

Police Information

Upper Merion Baptist Church 585 General Steuben Road ? occurred July 23 at 3:54 p.m. Continued...

Neighbors have advised the pastor of the church that juveniles have been loitering and smoking behind the shed at night.

Theft Report

1000 block Penn Circle?between 1:30 p.m. on July 19 and 11:30 p.m. on July 21

Resident had two large packages delivered. When he returned home one was undisturbed and the other was cut open and contents missing.

900 block of Parkview Drive? occurred July 23 at 8:13 p.m.

Victim was selling a car on Craig?s List. A male called and stated he wanted to buy the vehicle and was sending the victim a check for $3,500. He requested the victim send two checks in return to two addresses for a total of $2,200. Victim deposited the check and wired the money as requested. The $3,500 check the buyer sent was eventually discovered to be counterfeit.

The victim was advised this practice is a common internet scam.

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Found Property

Executive Estates Park Longview Road ? occurred July 22 at 5:17 p.m.

A resident stated there are vehicles at the park after dark and while in the park he found rolling papers and baggies that appear to have contained marijuana.

MALL AND VICINITY

Criminal Mischief

King of Prussia Plaza Lot ? occurred July 22 between 1:25 and 1:45 p.m.

Victim stated she was approached by a female who started screaming at her as she parked her vehicle out by a Rite Aid. When she returned, the word ?bitch? was keyed onto the passenger side rear door.

Retail Theft

Sears 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 24 at 6:59 p.m.

An employee observed a male remove the security sensor from a 55-inch TV and walked out of the store. The employee watched the subject put the TV in an unknown make black vehicle.

Theft Report

Go Games 690 West DeKalb Pike ? occurred July 20 between 3 and 9 p.m.

A lone employee reported money missing from the safe.

Sheraton Hotel 480 North Gulph Road ? occurred between 4 p.m. on July 20 and 8:49 a.m. on July 21.

An employee called UMPD when she saw a vehicle in the parking lot with a rear passenger window smashed out. The owner arrived at the vehicle and stated the wife?s purse had been stolen. He stated the bank called him about a suspicious purchase that was made with a credit card.

King of Prussia Plaza 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 20 between 1 and 1:30 p.m.

Victim stated she was at the Apple Store for a training session and placed her laptop in a backpack. She later discovered her laptop was missing.

Vehicle Theft

Pole 30 King of Prussia Plaza Lot 160 North Gulph Road ? occurred July 25 between 3 and 4 p.m.

Stolen was a red 2012 Kia Optima.

Warrant Service other Agency

West DeKalb Pike and Shaffer Road ? occurred July 22 at 1:27 a.m.

Police stopped a vehicle for an equipment violation. The driver was wanted out of Chester

County for a probation violation; she was turned over to Chester County officials.

AREA NORTH OF ROUTE 202 AND WEST OF HENDERSON ROAD

Animal Bite

300 block West Beidler Road ? occurred July 9 at 11:21 a.m.

Victim was taking his dog and child for a walk when a pit bull from ran from a house and attacked them. The victim was taken to the hospital for his injuries and his dog was taken to the vet for injuries to his head. This is the second time this dog has bitten someone. The owner was cited for the last incident and will be cited again for this incident. An additional charge of ?harboring a dangerous dog? will be filed.

Criminal Mischief

Walker Field 515 Williams Road ? occurred July 25 at 12:29 a.m.

On patrol police found the lights on at the basketball courts. Unknown actors pushed the bleachers up against the light post to the control box. There was trash, t-shirts, water bottles and a basketball left behind. The actors also broke out one of the lights that were center court and attempted to burn items on the court.

Police Information

Upper Merion Baptist Church 585 General Steuben Road ? occurred July 23 at 3:54 p.m.

Neighbors have advised the pastor of the church that juveniles have been loitering and smoking behind the shed at night.

Theft Report

1000 block Penn Circle?between 1:30 p.m. on July 19 and 11:30 p.m. on July 21

Resident had two large packages delivered. When he returned home one was undisturbed and the other was cut open and contents missing.

900 block of Parkview Drive? occurred July 23 at 8:13 p.m.

Victim was selling a car on Craig?s List. A male called and stated he wanted to buy the vehicle and was sending the victim a check for $3,500. He requested the victim send two checks in return to two addresses for a total of $2,200. Victim deposited the check and wired the money as requested. The $3,500 check the buyer sent was eventually discovered to be counterfeit.

The victim was advised this practice is a common internet scam.

AREA EAST OF HENDERSON ROAD

GULPH MILLS AND VICINITY

Found Property

Executive Estates Park Longview Road ? occurred July 22 at 5:17 p.m.

A resident stated there are vehicles at the park after dark and while in the park he found rolling papers and baggies that appear to have contained marijuana.

Source: http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2013/07/28/king_of_prussia_courier/news/doc51f2b3099dc51231070566.txt

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Republicans weigh short-term U.S. budget measure

By David Lawder and Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With time running out for the Congress to agree on next year's budget, some Republicans are pushing for a short-term fix that would delay the confrontation over a government shutdown until November.

If lawmakers agree on a short-term plan to fund the government for a few weeks past the current October 1 deadline, it would mean that the fight over government funding for next year would coincide with a potentially more consequential clash over raising the federal borrowing limit.

House Republican aides said a growing number of party lawmakers want to try to buy more time to agree on funding levels for government agencies and programs, though no decisions have been made.

One aide said a short-term spending measure would be a "no-drama" way to allow the House and Senate extra time to work on annual spending bills.

Another Republican aide said there would be advantages to tackling differences over government funding at the same time Congress is debating conditions for increasing the debt limit.

House Republican leaders have not made any decisions yet on whether to seek a short-term spending measure known as a "continuing resolution" because the chamber is still focused on passing its 12 appropriations bills, said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.

President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are bracing for a major budget battle this fall as they try to resolve deep divisions over taxes, automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, and whether to rein in costly federal benefits programs.

BACK-TO-BACK DEADLINES

As Congress prepares for a five-week recess that starts on Friday, it is grappling with two deadlines - the need for government funding legislation as it starts the new fiscal year on October 1 and the need to raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit to avoid default, likely sometime in November.

Once lawmakers return from their break on September 9, they have only nine legislative days to work out differences before the October 1 deadline to avert a government shutdown.

"There's not much time," said Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington. "So it looks to me like a continuing resolution. The only question is what number."

Obama's Democrats and congressional Republicans are deeply divided over spending levels for the new fiscal year. Republicans want to keep savings from the automatic cuts in place and have written their spending bills to a $967 billion cap, the lowest in a decade.

Democrats, meanwhile, view that spending limit as far too austere and are proposing a higher cap of $1.058 trillion. The caps apply to programs ranging from education to national parks to the military.

Some aides say one way to find common ground on a short-term funding fix would be to keep funding at this year's annualized level - about $988 billion - for a few additional weeks.

Given the polarization between the two parties, even hammering out a short-term agreement could be challenging, though Congress has often resorted to temporary funding extensions at the start of a new fiscal year.

Democrats are likely to insist that any funding extension replaces the sequester cuts, which are now causing temporary layoffs at government agencies and military contractors alike.

"We want sequestration to be turned off, not extended," said Matthew Dennis, spokesman for Representative Nita Lowey, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.

Many Republicans want to keep the sequester in place and view the debt limit as a key leverage point to demand even deeper spending cuts, particularly reforms to the Social Security and Medicare programs for the elderly.

However, pushing the government too close to a debt default would likely cause turmoil in financial markets. This happened during the bruising budget fight of 2011, when congressional dysfunction over the issue prompted Standard and Poor's to strip the United States of its top-tier credit rating.

(Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-weigh-short-term-u-budget-measure-001818379.html

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NASA's Curiosity logs longest Mars day trip yet

NASA's Curiosity rover trekked more than twice it's previous record for a day trip on Sunday, moving 329 feet. Scientists credited the feat to good visibility. Longer trips like this may become more common when the vehicle switches to automatic navigation in a couple weeks.

By Mike Wall,?SPACE.com / July 24, 2013

This image captured by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager camera looks toward the south, showing a portion of Mount Sharp and a band of dark dunes in front of the mountain. The Mars rover recently took its longest day trip so far on the Red Planet.

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The 1-ton?Curiosity rover?made by far the longest drive of its nearly year-long surface mission on Sunday (July 21), traversing 329 feet (100.3 meters) of Martian terrain. The robot's one-day distance record prior to Sunday had been 161 feet (49 m), NASA officials said.

Good views of Curiosity's surroundings allowed the rover to cover so much ground on Sunday, the 340th Martian day, or sol, of its Red Planet mission. [Curiosity's Latest Amazing Mars Photos]

"What enabled us to drive so far on Sol 340 was starting at a high point and also having Mastcam images giving us the size of rocks so we could be sure they were not hazards," rover planner Paolo Bellutta, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement, referring to Curiosity's head-mounted camera system.

"We could see for quite a distance, but there was an area straight ahead that was not clearly visible, so we had to find a path around that area," Bellutta added.

While Bellutta and his colleagues guided Sunday's drive, mission team members plan to start using the rover's autonomous navigation capability soon. Long treks may thus become more and more common for Curiosity in the coming weeks, officials said.

The car-size rover is three weeks into an epic journey to a huge and mysterious mountain called?Mount Sharp, which rises 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) into the Red Planet sky. The team is targeting a spot near Mount Sharp's base that lies nearly 5 miles (8 km) from Curiosity's current location.

Mission scientists want Curiosity to climb up through Mount Sharp's foothills, reading the history of Mars' changing environmental conditions as it goes.

Rover team members have said the drive to Mount Sharp may take a year or so. There is no set timeline, however, as mission scientists want the freedom to check out interesting features and formations along the way.

Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5, 2012, kicking off a planned two-year surface mission to determine if Mars could ever have supported microbial life. The rover has already checked off this goal, finding that an area near its landing site?was indeed habitable?billions of years ago.

The rover's odometery stands at 0.81 miles (1.23 km) as of today (July 23), NASA officials said. Curiosity's top speed over flat, hard ground is about 0.09 mph (0.14 km/h).

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall?and?Google+.?Follow us?@Spacedotcom,?Facebook?or?Google+. Originally published on?SPACE.com.

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This Week's Most Popular Posts: July 19th to 26th

This week we learned why tech support makes you wait 10 seconds when you reboot your router, improved our daily routine with science, stopped retail stores from tracking us, and rounded up more apps in our second wave of Lifehacker Packs. Here's a look back.

We've all heard it before when troubleshooting a router: unplug your router, wait ten seconds, and plug it back in. More often than not, this fixes whatever problem we have. But why is that? Superuser user Phoshi has an explanation.

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When you walk into a brick and mortar retail store like a Nordstrom, Cabela, or even Family Dollar, you're being tracked around the store. Not by an over-suspicious security guard, but by the store's wireless network, using your phone's Wi-Fi. The store then uses your phone to track you around the store, determine if you're a repeat visitor, see what departments you visit, and more. Here's how they do it, and how to stop them.

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It took a little while for the apps to come into their own, but we're at a place now where the iPad has nearly as good of a selection of apps as the iPhone. Now, it's harder than ever to find apps that are worthwhile. Let us save you some time with this collection of the best iPad apps.

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Rick Warren returns to pulpit after son's suicide

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Nearly four months after his son's suicide, popular pastor Rick Warren returned to the pulpit Saturday afternoon at the Southern California megachurch he founded.

Warren, dressed in his usual casual black T-shirt and jeans, took the stage at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. with wife, Kay Warren, and was greeted with a long standing ovation by the congregation.

A shout of "We love you!" came from the crowd before Warren began.

"I love you, too," a smiling Warren replied. "Have I told you lately that I love you?"

It was the first time Warren had taken the Saddleback pulpit since his 27-year-old son Matthew shot and killed himself on April 5.

In the sermon, first in a series called "How To Get Through What You're Going Through," Rick Warren said he had the perfect role model for his struggles.

"God knows what it's like to lose a son," Warren said.

He remained mostly composed, but choked back tears at times, including when he thanked his surviving two children.

"How proud I was of Amy and Josh, who for 27 years loved their younger brother," Warren said. "They talked him off the ledge time after time. They are really my heroes."

He delivered a formal, prepared speech with notes and quotes from Scripture but often broke off to talk frankly about his son.

"I was in shock for at least a month after Matthew took his life," Warren said.

But, Warren said he was grateful to come from "a family of spiritual redwoods."

"Satan picked the wrong team to pick on," he said.

Warren has been an essential figure in the modern, megachurch brand of Christianity.

His multimillion-selling book "The Purpose Driven Life" made him a national star in the realms of religion and self-help, and he delivered the opening prayer at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration.

Saddleback, the church he founded in 1980, has grown to 20,000 members, according to Warren's biography on the church's website.

But in April, Matthew Warren, after a lifetime of struggle with depression, shot and killed himself in what Warren at the time called "a momentary wave of despair."

"For 27 years I prayed every day of my life for God to heal my son's mental illness," Warren said.

But Warren said Saturday that he intended to turn his grief into a message of service and hope.

"God wants to take your greatest sorrow and turn it into your life's greatest message," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rick-warren-returns-pulpit-sons-suicide-235912447.html

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Egypt's Mursi accused of murder, kidnapping before rallies

By Crispian Balmer and Asma Alsharif

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian army is detaining ousted President Mohamed Mursi over accusations of kidnapping, killing soldiers and other charges, the state news agency said on Friday.

The army had previously said it was holding Mursi for his own safety and the report was likely to stoke tension before mass rallies on Friday billed as shows of strength between supporters and opponents of the Islamist Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected leader.

Both sides warned of the potential for bloodshed in Egypt, which has been convulsed by political and economic turmoil since the 2011 uprising that ended 30 years of autocratic rule by the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak.

State news agency Mena said the mooted charges against Mursi included conspiring with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, killing prisoners and officers "deliberately with prior intent", kidnapping officers and soldiers, and setting fire to the prison of Wadi el-Natroun.

They relate to his escape from the prison in 2011, when he was arrested during the uprising against Mubarak, and provide legal grounds for his continued detention.

Mursi has been held by the military since the army ousted him from office on July 3 following huge street protests against his troubled, one-year rule. Washington has previously called for him to be freed.

His Muslim Brotherhood denounced news of the accusations.

"At the end of the day we know all of these charges are nothing more than the fantasy of a few army generals and a military dictatorship," Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said. "We are continuing our protests on the streets."

Throwing down the gauntlet to the Brotherhood, army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on Egyptians to rally nationwide on Friday to give the military a "mandate" to confront weeks of violence unleashed by Mursi's removal.

A military official said the army had given Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood a Saturday deadline to end its resistance and join a military-set road map to new elections, signalling a turning point in the confrontation.

The Brotherhood fears a crackdown to wipe out an Islamist movement that emerged from decades in the shadows to win every election since Mubarak's fall but then struggled to tackle Egypt's growing economic and social woes.

CIVIL WAR

The army has threatened to "turn its guns" on those who use violence. The Brotherhood warned of civil war.

"We will not initiate any move, but will definitely react harshly against any calls for violence or black terrorism from Brotherhood leaders or their supporters," an army official told Reuters.

A few hundred pro-army supporters gathered early Friday morning in Tahrir Square, centre of two years of turmoil in Egypt, before the main rally which might not peak until after the evening prayer marking the end of the day's Ramadan fast.

"The people, the army and the police are one hand," shouted a policeman, leading a group of chanters.

Armoured personnel carriers guarded every entrance to the square.

The Brotherhood, which has manned a street vigil for almost a month with thousands of followers demanding Mursi's return, has called for its own counter-demonstrations.

Confrontation appeared inevitable following a month of clashes in which close to 200 people, mainly supporters of Mursi, have been killed. Many people in the Arab world's most populous country feared the worst.

"I'm staying home all day, it's too dangerous to work. I didn't think things in Egypt could get this bad, but every day you hear about clashes and deaths," said Shadi Mohamed, a 22-year-old taxi driver. "Egypt is a disaster."

There is deepening alarm in the West over the course taken by the country of 84 million people, a pivotal nation between the Middle East and North Africa and recipient of $1.5 billion a year in mainly military aid from the United States.

Signalling its displeasure at recent events, Washington said this week it had delayed delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Cairo and called on the Egyptian army to exercise "maximum restraint and caution" during Friday's rallies.

Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, however, said on Thursday the Obama administration did not intend to rule on whether Mursi's overthrow constituted a coup, wording that would have triggered the cutoff of U.S. aid.

CONFUSION

Mursi and many other Brotherhood leaders were rounded up by the authorities during the 2011 uprising that eventually swept Mubarak from power.

Many managed to escape in the ensuing confusion, alongside militants from Hamas, a Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that governs in the neighbouring Gaza Strip.

Mursi and his fellow Brotherhood members have said they were freed by local residents from the Wadi el-Natroun prison. State news agency Mena said investigating judge Hassan Samir had already confronted Mursi with evidence during questioning.

Brotherhood supporters have been camped out in a Cairo square since June 28, guarded by men with sticks behind barricades and sandbags. They fear a repeat of the July 8 killing of more than 50 Mursi supporters when security forces opened fire outside a Cairo barracks.

Witnesses said army helicopters had dropped flyers at the vigil calling on people to refrain from violence. The Brotherhood says it is the authorities themselves who have stirred up violence to justify their crackdown.

Sisi delivered his call for rallies on Wednesday in full military uniform and dark sunglasses. He was appointed by Mursi in a bid by the president to rein in Egypt's all-powerful military, but Sisi turned against him after a year in which the economy floundered and support for the Brotherhood fell.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/deposed-egyptian-president-faces-murder-kidnapping-charges-report-091338150.html

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