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Elbaradei sworn-in as Egypt?s vice president

CAIRO ? Egyptian reform advocate Mohammed ElBaradei, who led the country?s main opposition group in criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood, was sworn-in today (July 14) as the country?s interim vice president.

The 71-year-old former diplomat and Nobel laureate emerged as a prominent democracy advocate and later as the head of the National Salvation Front, a secular coalition of groups opposed to former President Mohammed Morsi.

According to NSF spokesman Khaled Dawoud, Mr ElBaradei no longer heads the coalition.

?He is now a vice president for all Egyptians,? Mr Dawoud said.

Egypt?s interim President Adly Mansour oversaw the swearing in of Mr ElBaradei, the latest move by the country?s new leadership to push ahead with a transition plan following the military?s ouster of Mr Morsi nearly two weeks ago.

Thousands of Mr Morsi?s supporters, though, have vowed to continue their sit-in in Cairo until he is reinstated. They have refused to accept his ouster or the military-backed timeline for transition, which calls for changes to the constitution and new elections for parliament and president.

Mr ElBaradei?s NSF group under Mr Morsi was among the president?s strongest critics. The coalition stood with Defense Minister General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as he announced Mr Morsi?s ouster amid massive protests against his rule.

The former Egyptian diplomat to the United Nations is known internationally for his 12 years of work as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. AP

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Rebuild Lost Empires From Sand--At Least Temporarily

Forget bulging muscles or a toned set of abs. If you really want to impress everyone on the beach this summer, a stunning sand castle is the way to go. And if your sculpting skills max out at Play-Doh snakes, these architectural sand castle molds will let you re-build the most stunning structures from past empires, ready to be lost to time once again once the tide rolls in.

At around $3 each you can complete the whole set for less than $20, and since they max out at just seven inches in size, they're perfect for crafting sandbox civilizations too. [Educational Toys Planet via Fancy]

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Syria: Arming rebels is 'dangerous' US decision

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? The decision by the United States and its allies to arm rebel groups in Syria is "very dangerous" and will prolong the violence and killing, Syria's foreign minister said Monday.

The warning came as an artillery shell slammed into a village in central Syria and killed 11 people, including a woman and six of her children, activists said, and a leading human rights group charged that Syrian forces are abusing women in custody for supporting the opposition to President Bashar Assad's regime.

Walid al-Moallem said sending more weapons to the opposition would also hinder efforts to convene a peace conference in Geneva to work on a negotiated solution. He said his country remains ready to take part but added that Assad will not step down. His resignation is a key opposition demand to be raised in any talks with Damascus.

Al-Moallem spoke two days after an 11-nation group that includes the U.S. met in Qatar and agreed to step up military and other assistance to the Syrian rebels. He said all those who met in Qatar "have Syrian blood on their hands."

U.S. Secretary of States John Kerry, who took part in the conference, would not disclose details of the aid, saying only that it would re-balance the fight between the rebels and the government. Assad's better-equipped forces are increasingly backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group.

"They will not be victorious no matter how much they conspire," al-Moallem said. He said arming the rebels "is a dangerous decision because it aims at prolonging the crisis, prolonging the violence and killing and encouraging terrorism."

President Barack Obama's change of policy was partly based on a U.S. intelligence assessment that Assad had used chemical weapons, but Kerry expressed deeper concern about Assad's foreign support. He said that Iranian as well as Hezbollah fighters had joined the war.

Al-Moallem denied that any Iranian fighters were in Syria. Damascus acknowledges that Hezbollah is assisting government troops.

The foreign minister said his regime was willing to take part in a peace conference, but would go to Geneva not to hand over power to the other side but rather to establish "a real partnership" and a national unity government that includes representatives of all Syrian society.

"President Bashar Assad will not step down," he said. "If anyone has such illusions on the other side, my advice to them is not to go to Geneva," he said, rejecting the opposition's demand that Assad's departure from power should top the agenda in at the peace conference.

He insisted Syria will not accept any solutions or ideas dictated from the outside.

Syria's main opposition bloc said the willingness of Assad's regime to attend the peace talks is not genuine and neither are the government's assurance it want to "build a real partnership" in Geneva.

"As it has done with all previous initiatives of the U.N. and Arab League missions, the Assad regime is stalling for time by attending Geneva," the statement by the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said. "For Assad, this creates an opportunity for more destruction and for the Assad forces to gain more ground in Syria."

Syrian government troops clashed with opposition fighters Monday in central provinces of Homs and Hama. An artillery shell slammed into the village of Tarfawi in Hama province, killing at least 11 people, including a woman and six of her children, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The group relies on the network of activists inside Syria. It said government forces fired the shell.

More than 93,000 people have been killed in Syrian conflict that started in March 2011 as largely peaceful protest against Assad's rule. The uprising turned into a bloody insurgency in response to a military crackdown by regime forces on the protest movement. In the past year, the war has taken on increasingly sectarian overtones.

Also Monday, a rights group said Syrian military and fighters recruited from Assad's Alawite sect have arbitrarily detained female opposition activists, female relatives and neighbors of opposition activists and fighters, abusing and torturing them in custody.

Human Rights Watch said in a report that its activists interviewed 10 Syrian women who had been detained. Of the 10, eight were jailed because they were anti-government activists. All said they were abused by the security forces and the Alawite militiamen, known as shabiha, while in custody.

The abuse included electric shocks, extended time in stress positions, and beatings with metal rods, wires and nightsticks, the U.S.-based group said in a report. In a number of cases, women were also subjected to torture and sexual abuse, it charged.

The eight women were detained by the security forces at checkpoints or military raids on their homes. They were in custody for up to 14 months between February 2012 and April 2013, the group said.

HRW has been documenting abuses on both sides of Syria civil war during the 27 months of conflict.

The group said it has not received information about opposition forces detaining and mistreating female Syrian government supporters or relatives of those associated with government forces.

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Associated Press writer Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-arming-rebels-dangerous-us-decision-163346184.html

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Connecting the Dots, Missing the Story

In this image released by the FBI on April 19 two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing walk near the marathon finish line on April 15.

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Could Big Data have prevented 9/11? Perhaps?Dick Cheney, for one, seems to think so. But let's consider another, far more provocative question: What if 9/11 happened today, in the era of Big Data, making it all but inevitable that all the 19 hijackers had extensive digital histories?

It used to be that one's propensity for terrorism was measured in books or sermons. Today, it's measured in clicks. It's not that books or sermons no longer matter?they still do?it's just today they are consumed digitally, in a way that leaves a trail. And that trail allows us to establish patterns. Are the books you bought on Amazon today more radical than the books you bought last month? If so, you might be a person of interest.

The Tsarnaev brothers, who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon earlier this year, are of this new breed of terrorists. The brothers felt at home in the world of Twitter and YouTube. And some of the videos reportedly favorited by Tamerlan, the older brother, are clearly of extremist nature. Had someone been analyzing the brothers' viewing habits in real time, a great tragedy might have been averted.

The good news?at least to Big Data proponents?is that we don't need to understand what any of these clicks or videos mean. We just need to establish some relationship between the unknown terrorists of tomorrow and the established terrorists of today. If the terrorists we do know have a penchant for, say, hummus, then we might want to apply extra scrutiny to anyone who's ever bought it?without ever developing a hypothesis as to why the hummus is so beloved. (In fact, for a brief period of time in 2005 and 2006, the FBI, hoping to find some underground Iranian terrorist cells, did just that: They went through customer data collected by grocery stores in the San Francisco area searching for sales records of Middle Eastern food.)

The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the ?why??i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists?one can focus on predicting the ?when? so that a timely intervention could be made. And once someone has been identified as a suspect, it's wise to get to know everyone in his social network: Catching just one Tsarnaev brother early on may not have stopped the Boston bombing. Thus, one is simply better off recording everything?you never know when it might be useful.

Gus Hunt, the chief technology officer of the CIA, said as much earlier this year. "The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time,? he said at a Big Data conference. Thus, ?since you can't connect dots you don't have ? we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever." The end of theory, which Chris Anderson predicted in Wired a few years ago, has reached the intelligence community: Just like Google doesn't need to know why some sites get more links from other sites?securing a better place on its search results as a result?the spies do not need to know why some people behave like terrorists. Acting like a terrorist is good enough.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/06/with_big_data_surveillance_the_government_doesn_t_need_to_know_why_anymore.html

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France's Hollande believes hostages in North Africa alive

(Reuters) - France has "all reason" to believe that the French hostages being held by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are alive, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.

The Islamist group said in a statement posted on its Twitter account on Saturday that eight European hostages, including five from France, were safe.

The message repeated previous statements by AQIM that it would kill the hostages if there were any new French military intervention in North Africa, but said it remained open to negotiations to free them.

"We are still looking for contacts, we have all reason to believe that the hostages are alive but we must seek to free them," Holland said during a visit to Qatar.

The AQIM statement coincided with rallies across France organized by the families of French hostages who were seized in Niger in September 2010 to mark more than 1,000 days of captivity.

French newspapers have reported the hostages had been transferred to Algeria and were in the hands of AQIM's new chief, Yahia Abou el Hamam. The French government declined to comment on the report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/frances-hollande-believes-hostages-north-africa-alive-123215332.html

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North Carolina talent takes the stage at the American Dance Festival ...

Every summer since 1978, Durham, NC has become a place of inspiration and a place where dreams are born and realized for dancers from all over the world. Choreographers, dancers and companies travel from the United Kingdom, Canada, New York City, etc., to take to the stage or studio at the American Dance Festival. Those of us living in the Triangle find ourselves in a vibrant international hub celebrating the greatest dance talent in the world ? Paul Taylor, Pilobolus, Scottish Dance Theatre, Shen Wei Dance Arts. It makes a lover of the arts glad to be a North Carolinian.

This year, audiences also had the opportunity to see work created by our own neighbors, choreographers who are part of North Carolina?s dance community. Together with the North Carolina Dance Festival, an annual adjudicated tour to cities around North Carolina, the American Dance Festival welcomed five local choreographers to the main stage at Reynolds Industries Theater.

The program was a sampling of diversity in North Carolina?s dance community. Each work was a beautiful example of smart, honest and timeless choreography.

Featured choreographers were Lindsey Kelley and Mindy Upin, John Gamble, Cara Hagan, and Natalie Marrone.

Kelley and Upin created and performed A Tribute and Reflection of the Relationship, a funny and endearing dance that felt like an authentic look at their own shared memories. It was set to a medley of Queen songs, and even with its intimacy among the two specific friends, it could have been any two friends who have sung [badly] along together to a song on the radio. The pair went from stillness to bursts of grand movement, but what made the dance most memorable were the little things, like making faces, bike-riding and a little kiss on a pony-tail. Watching the never-grow-up friendship journey was a sentimental and nostalgic experience.

Gamble?s Changeant d?habit de Sexe was set to cabaret music by Jacques Brel. Seven women dressed in dapper men?s attire and invoked European male impersonators in the late 1800?s. It was an intriguing dance of mostly pas de deux, with the seventh woman adding tension by disrupting the pairs, and perhaps exerting control.

Worlds Apart, by Hagan, was a series of four seemingly unrelated stories told by regular people. The dance was a moving visual expression of the storytellers? feelings and linked all of them together with the common thread of the dancer-human. From the woman discriminated against in her church who said she thought the idea behind Christianity was to love one another to the girl who saw her father cry in Pizza Hut, to the old friends who each swore the other was the most kind, the selected stories were examples of the joys and challenges we all face. Hagan?s work is comparable to literary fiction, with a theme you may not recognize or appreciate until the dance is over. It?s the sort of work that gains relevance in your mind as you continue to think about it the next day.

The final dance of the evening was Strega Stories Part II: Revolt by Marrone, in collaboration with the dancers. The dance was based on interviews with Italian Americans who have participated in traditional healing methods of southern Italy. It was visually and musically exciting to follow what felt like a band of gypsies on their journey. Ritual, tradition and healing were apparent themes, expressed in circles with a dancer animated by a hovering and shaking hand. The dance developed from a slow journey to traditional music to a tribal drum-circle kind of dance, reminiscent of a Grateful Dead show, down to the swirling skirts and dreadlocks. The scene was so vibrant it was often hard to believe there were only four dancers on stage.

You don?t have to wait to visit New York City to see fresh and original work on stage. From just about anywhere in North Carolina you are a short drive from dance artists dedicated to creating expressions of something true and relevant.

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Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/2013/06/north-carolina-talent-takes-the-stage-at-the-american-dance-festival/

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