Telangana: Hyderabad to be a Union territory

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad is likely to be a Union territory for five years and will act as joint capital of the two states to be created out of the bifurcation of the present Andhra Pradesh.

The Union territory will be administered by a lieutenant governor. The governor of the Telangana state will be the ex-officio lieutenant governor of Hyderabad in these five years. A proposal to this effect is going to be put up to the Union cabinet before August 5.

The cabinet will meet after the Congress working committee and the UPA steering group approves a proposal to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh. Highly placed sources privy to the proposals told TOI that the cabinet will also take a final call on whether to create Telangana or a Rayala-Telangana state. The former will consist of the ten districts of Telangana and the latter proposal envisages the addition of two Rayalaseema districts ? Anantapur and Kurnool to the proposed Telangana state. Interestingly, the Andhra part of the bifurcated state will be called Andhra Pradesh.

Sources told TOI that Congress party bosses are hopeful of completing this process within a week because Parliament convenes for the monsoon session on August 6. A bill might be presented in this session itself. Meanwhile, with Kiran Kumar Reddy having already resigned, a new chief minister for integrated Andhra Pradesh to oversee the process of bifurcation will be appointed. In all likelihood the new incumbent will belong to Telangana. However with intelligence reports suggesting that there will be major trouble in the Seemandhra region in the wake of the announcement, it seems inevitable that President's rule will be clamped in the state till the process of bifurcation is complete. Much of the trouble is expected to be fomented by interested parties although spontaneous outpourings are not unexpected.

Highly placed sources told TOI that when Kiran Kumar Reddy called on Sonia Gandhi on Friday evening and told her that he could not preside over the process of bifurcation, the latter was very angry. She is believed to have asked him why he had kept quiet for such a long time giving the impression that he would go along with the high command. Kiran's resignation came at this meeting.

Sources told TOI that after meeting Sonia, Kiran flew back to Hyderabad and he has been 'extremely depressed' after that.

Seemandhra ministers including Union ministers who met Prime Minister on Saturday to convey their opposition to the bifurcation seemed crestfallen with Manmohan Singh hearing them out and promising nothing. However, the Seemandhra lobby has not lost heart because the last time round in 2009 it was Manmohan was instrumental in the government going back on its promise of creating a Telangana state after publically announcing the intent for doing so. They are expected to move the Prime Minister once again. The Seemandhra lobby is also hoping that with the Gorkhaland issue coming upfront some sections of UPA may help to stall the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

However, it seems doubtful if the upcoming session of Lok Sabha will be able to clear the Telangana bill. This is because the BJP which has already committed to Telangana may disrupt the proceedings of the house. One of the reasons is that the passage of the bill (which the BJP will be forced to support) will politically benefit the Congress.

The Congress thinking is that the bifurcation will put it in a vantage position in Telangana that has 17 Lok Sabha seats. With the Telangana Rashtra Samiti's unofficial nominees not performing well in the ongoing party less panchayat polls and the Congress's unofficial candidates doing well, has given hopes to the party.

Meanwhile more details about the meeting that Kiran Kumar had on Friday with Digvijaya Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad are emerging. Sources say that Kiran and Azad had a virtual slanging match with the former accusing Ghulam of coming up with the proposal of Rayala Telangana. Kiran found the proposal to be highly objectionable.

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Cleveland kidnap suspect agrees to plea bargain

In what might be the first act of mercy shown to his victims, the man charged with kidnapping, raping and beating three Cleveland, Ohio, women agreed to a plea deal on Friday that would spare the women the agony of reliving the horrific details of their years in captivity during a jury trial.

Ariel Castro, 53, of Cleveland would serve life without parole, plus 1,000 years, and be spared the death penalty, according to the agreement.

Castro, unlike in prior hearings when he hung his head, repeatedly looked around the courtroom and responded to Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Michael Russo's questions in a loud voice.

Russo asked Castro in numerous ways if he understood that, based on the plea deal, he would never get out of prison and was waiving his rights to a jury trial. Each time, Castro looked at Russo and clearly answered, "Yes, your honor." He also said, "I knew I was pretty much going to get the book thrown at me."

When questioned about his ability to read and write, Castro said he was proficient, but he also said his addiction to pornography had taken a toll on his eyesight.

After more than an hour of explaining the consequences of the agreement to Castro, Russo began asking him for his plea to the specific charges of aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping. Castro's response to each was "guilty."

Russo said a sentencing hearing would be held Aug. 1 and that he still needed to agree to the sentencing recommendations in the plea deal. Castro's victims can appear at that hearing by live video, recorded video or letter or be represented by someone else.

Castro's home and his savings of more than $22,000 will be forfeited to the state of Ohio, according to the plea agreement. Castro told the judge that he thought there was more cash, and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty responded that the state would be going over the house very carefully.

"If there's anything else, we plan to keep it," McGinty said, adding that Castro's home will be razed "very soon."

McGinty said of Castro after the hearing, "This man is the worst of the worst. He is the most violent sexual predator a community can offer. He's a manipulator; he has no remorse. ... The captor is now the captive." Castro will not leave prison, McGinty said, "except nailed in a box or in an ash can. ... That's the best justice we can achieve here."

Earlier this summer, a grand jury indicted Castro on 977 charges, including kidnapping, rape and murder.
As part of the plea deal, 40 counts that were considered redundant were dropped from the indictment. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty to 937 charges.

Authorities say Castro kidnapped the three women ? Gina DeJesus, 23, Michelle Knight, 32, and Amanda Berry, 27 ? and held them captive in his west side Cleveland home for the past decade. While in captivity, authorities say, he chained the women in his basement, repeatedly beat and sexually assaulted them, and allowed them outside his house on only a few occasions.

He also fathered Berry?s 6-year-old daughter while he held Berry captive, authorities say. When he impregnated another of the women, he beat and starved her until she miscarried, which led to an aggravated murder charge. It was that charge that could have resulted in the death penalty.

Castro previously had asked that his 6-year-old daughter be able to visit him, but McGinty said after the hearing that the plea agreement stipulates Castro is a sexual predator and he cannot see the girl.

The women, who did not attend Friday's hearing, were able to escape Castro?s home on May 6. They have not spoken publicly of their ordeal and have released only a video on the Internet thanking the community for being supportive.

McGinty said the women are continuing to get help but that they have "a long way to go," and he noted that "they were held longer than prisoners in Korea or Vietnam." He also said the women approved of the plea deal.

Cleveland City Council member Matt Zone, who represents the ward DeJesus lives in, said after the hearing that he spoke with DeJesus' mother, Nancy Ruiz, on Thursday evening. He said Ruiz did not want Castro to get the death penalty but instead spend the rest of his life in prison.

Reuters reported that the law firm Jones Day released a statement on behalf of the three women that said, "Amanda, Gina, and Michelle are relieved by today's plea. They are satisfied by this resolution to the case, and are looking forward to having these legal proceedings draw to a final close in the near future."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cleveland-kidnapping-suspect-plea-bargain-041908571.html

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Mayor Bob #Filner to see intensive therapy as sexual harassment charges mount

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What Superheroes Would Post to Instagram

Having fun taking pictures of slushy drinks in highball glasses on perfectly distressed hardwood tables and hashtagging it #happyhour? What about posting pictures of the sky and clouds that look like every other picture of the sky and cloud and commenting how 'this is just how I feel right now'? These are the Instagram pictures we see everyday! But that's because we're mere humans. What would superheroes post to Instagram?

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The Doubleclicks: Nothing to Prove (Girls Can Be Geeks Too)

Geeks come in all shapes, sizes, forms, kinds, heights, hair colors, ethnicities and yes, even gender. This lovely little music video by The Doubleclicks shows off geek girls who have "Nothing to Prove" about their geekiness. Geek girls are constantly and wrongfully tested about their geekiness because us dimwitted males can't believe they exist. They don't have to be fake geek girls just because they're girls, people! Everyone should enjoy whatever it is they want to enjoy (well, unless they're hurting people and that's a whole 'nother story). So geek on. And be proud.

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Unity 4.2 Released, Now Supports Blackberry 10, Windows 8

published: 2013-07-22 12:15:26

Unity has pretty much surpassed the likes of Unreal and CryEngine, by going after both the big dogs and the little ponies. It was announced today that additional platforms are now officially supported by Unity, along with the release of version 4.2.

So there's a lot to cover and not a lot of time to cover it in. Gamers and developers alike will benefit greatly from this new partnership (and update) as some of the Unity Pro features will be available to those with the standard Unity license, including real-time dynamic shadows, text-based serialization of materials and prefabs for easy pickings and manifests, as well as NavMesh baking.

There have also been some updates to support newer graphics options for the latest Android devices and lots of improved optimization for OpenGL ES 3.0 and DirectX 11 APIs. So remember how David Helgason said that they would make DirectX 11 equivalent functionality potentially possible for the Wii U? Yeah baby, Nintendo just got promoted to the big leagues in software graphics processing.

Anyway, the real big catch here is that Blackberry 10 support has been added. Now, I know a lot of people have been sketchy about Blackberry running the smartphone race against Androids and iOS-powered devices, and market share hasn't always been in RIM's favor. However, they seem to be in it for the long haul and acquiring an established connection with one of the most popular and versatile game engines on the market certainly makes it seem as if they understand how to usurp some of that market share from competitors with unique games and an easy-way to port large games from other platforms directly to the Blackberry 10.

But how did Unity and Blackberry make this happen? According to Alec Saunders, Blackberry's vice president of developer relations...

?How did we get together? Well, we had been talking to Unity for well over a year. We released the biggest support for Unity at GDC [2013]. The platform itself is an incredibly capable gaming engine and we had spent a ton of time recruiting game developers.

?You know, most people think of a Blackberry as being an enterprise phone. The Blackberry 10 device is a very competent multimedia, gaming device; it's designed to have broad appeal and we knew that we had to have games on the platform to do that. So we struck agreements with the likes of EA, Marmalade and we've done numerous open-source platform ports.

And Unity was one of the last big ones that we needed to have. So we've been working really hard at it and it came to fruition ? well, the agreement was struck just before we launched Blackberry 10 and the beta went out GDC and now the full offering will be coming out.?

This opens the doors for a lot of porting possibility and gaming possibilities.

While mobile phones still don't quite carry the same amount of time-consumption as console and PC gaming, according to the latest ESA reports, they still make billions of dollars and have a growing presence on the digital entertainment market.

Tony Garcia, Executive Vice President at Unity Technologies believes that this was the right time to dive in on the opportunity to have Unity games on Blackberry's latest 10 device, and stated that...

"We want to open paths for our incredibly talented community of developers to find success on the most exciting mobile technology and ecosystems," ..."BlackBerry 10 provides an excellent opportunity for all of our developers to connect with an incredible user-base hungry for high-quality BlackBerry 10 games."

The Unity 3D game engine code and software library of tools are currently available for download and use with Blackberry 10 and other newly supported devices over on the official Unity website. I guess in addition to new games coming out for iOS and Android, don't be surprised to see more games with Blackberry 10 in the supported platform manifest.

Source: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Unity-4-2-Released-Now-Supports-Blackberry-10-Windows-8-57697.html

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Superman is coming back _ this time with Batman

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Henry Cavill as Superman in "Man of Steel." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos, File)

This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Henry Cavill as Superman in "Man of Steel." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos, File)

Henry Cavill and director Zack Snyder attend the Superman 75th anniversary party on Day 3 of 2013 Comic-Con International Convention on Friday, July 19, 2103 in San Diego. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP)

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Superman is coming back, and he'll have a caped co-star.

"Man of Steel" director Zack Snyder made a surprise appearance at Comic-Con on Saturday to announce he is making another Superman film and it will include Batman ? the first time the two superheroes will be united on the big screen.

He declined to reveal many details, saying the script is just being written. He then invited an actor onstage to read a passage to hint at the story line.

"I am the man who beat you," read Harry Lennox, before an image of the Superman logo, backed by the Batman symbol, flashed on the screen.

Warner Bros. confirmed the first-ever pairing in a statement.

Snyder reimagined Superman in his June blockbuster "Man of Steel," starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams. The film has grossed more than $630 million worldwide.

Cavill and Adams will appear in the sequel, Warner Bros. said.

Reaction to the news stunned Twitter and left fans at Comic-Con giddy.

"Personally, I love him," said Claudia Gomez, who was wearing a Batman T-shirt while her niece, Ana, wore a Superman shirt.

Gomez, who traveled to Comic-Con from Mexico City, said the pairing of both heroes left her optimistic about a new Superman film.

Benjamin Ha, who dressed as Superman to his wife's Wonder Woman, said bringing the two superheroes together will yield fireworks.

"They're both alpha males," he said.

Saturday's announcement about the film follows DC Entertainment's debut last month of the Greg Pak-written Batman/Superman comic, an ongoing monthly series illustrated by Jae Lee that was the top-selling title among comic books in June.

The book pairs the two characters together a time in their lives when they're both young and still adapting to being superheroes.

Superman and Batman have also been at odds in comic books, too. In Frank Miller's dark telling of The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue mini-series from the 1980s, Batman came out of retirement while Superman became a tool of the federal government.

Production on the Superman sequel is set to begin next year. The film is expected to be released in the summer of 2015.

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Canada needs to up conservation game, preserving half of boreal forests: paper

A group of top international scientists says Canada needs to dramatically up its conservation game to ensure its vast northern forests remain healthy in the face of increasing industrial pressure.

In a paper to be presented today at the International Congress of Conservation Biology in Baltimore, Md., its authors argue that Canada needs to preserve about half of its boreal forest. That's significantly more than the 10 per cent level researchers previously thought was necessary to conserve natural systems.

"Conservation science has caught up to an understanding of what is really needed," said Jeffs Wells, a scientist with the Boreal Songbird Initiative and one of 23 researchers from Canada and around the world who contributed to the paper.

"We need to have much larger spaces than was ever realized."

Scientists used to set conservation goals by looking at single species or representative slices of landscape, Wells said.

"They didn't really think about how interconnected places were and how animals moved across the landscape, how water flow is affected, all of those sorts of things. As we started to look at multiple species, whole ecosystems and how they function, we now know that it's not really possible to maintain all those values without really thinking about much bigger scales of conservation."

The boreal forest is a huge stretch of green that runs across the northern part of most provinces and the southern tips of the territories. Its 5.8 million square kilometres of forests, taiga, tundra, peatlands, salt marshes, rivers and lakes include the largest blocks of intact forest and wetlands left on Earth ? more than half the world?s intact boreal forest and its largest area of surface freshwater.

It's also home to caribou, grizzlies, wolverines, lynx and wolves as well as to many aboriginal communities that depend on it for food and cultural sustenance.

The report notes increasing industrial activity.

The authors say about 730,000 square kilometres have already been disturbed by oil and gas, mining, forestry and hyro development. Many boreal species from woodland caribou to Atlantic salmon to Canada warblers appear on at-risk lists.

Canada had the world's largest share of mineral exploration spending in 2011. Much of that probing was in the boreal forest.

Also at risk are "ecological services" such as water quality and marine productivity in places such as the Great Lakes, said Wells. Development also releases carbon stored in the boreal forest, which aggravates climate change.

Wells acknowledged that setting aside half that ecosystem will involve tough choices.

Agreements already made, such as the Canadian Boreal Forest Initiative signed between environmental groups and forestry companies, have frayed under implementation pressures. Attempts by aboriginal groups to use land claims to establish large protected areas have been resisted by governments.

But it's possible to have both conservation and economic development, said Wells.

"There are massive areas still open for development. We know that these northern communities need continued economic opportunities."

The paper says local communities, including aboriginal groups, should have an important say in development. It adds that land-use planning that takes into account connections between watersheds, ecological zones and migration paths should come before lands are opened to exploration or development.

Rigorous environmental monitoring that also watches for cumulative effects should be conducted and developers should strive for minimum impacts.

"You can't get away from the facts," Wells said. "And the facts are that if we want to maintain these values, then that's what we have to do."

Proper conservation is an investment, not a cost, he said.

"A balanced approach to conservation is avoiding the mistakes that other countries have made that they are paying for now."

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Comic-Con: Answers To Your Nerdiest 'Planet Of The Apes' Question

Director Matt Reeves explained that a world ruled by apes is, understandably, kind of complex.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

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Detroit bankruptcy: Bailout unlikely, mayor and Michigan governor say

WASHINGTON -- Michigan?s Republican governor said Sunday he does not expect -- or necessarily want -- a federal bailout of Detroit as the city struggles to provide services and pay pensions for city workers after becoming the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.

Gov. Rick Snyder pledged that city operations would continue, but he sought to lower expectations that Washington might step in to save the iconic American city. In 2009, the federal government intervened to rescue much of the U.S. auto industry, which is headquartered in Detroit.

The bankruptcy filing ?is a very tragic situation, and this was a very difficult decision, but it's the right one,? Snyder said on ?Face the Nation.?

?If the federal government wants to do that, that's their option,? he said, referring to a bailout. ?The way I view it is I want to partner with all levels of government to stay focused on services to citizens.?

Some have compared the city?s plight to that of a natural disaster, worthy of federal intervention.

But the city?s mayor, David Bing, said Sunday that ?it's very difficult right now to ask directly for support.?

?Now that we've done our bankruptcy filing, I think we've got to take a step back and see what's next,? Bing said on ?This Week with George Stephanopoulos. ?There's a lot of conversation, a lot of planning, a lot of negotiations that will go into fixing our city.?

Vice President Joe Biden said last week it was unclear whether the federal government could play any role in helping Detroit provide services or pay its retirees.

Federal law governing municipal bankruptcies does not provide for the kind of quick restructuring that occurred in the auto industry rescue. Moreover, a federal bailout of Detroit would probably require legislation passed by Congress, which seems almost impossible in the current political environment.

Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy last week after Snyder?s appointed turnaround expert, Kevyn Orr, said there was no other alternative. Decades of falling population and fiscal mismanagement, he said, had left the city $18 billion in debt.

The once-thriving home of the U.S. automotive industry has seen its population drop steadily for more than half a century, to 700,000 now from more than 1.8 million at its peak in 1950, leaving the city struggling to provide police, fire and general services across a huge metropolis now pocked with vacant lots and swaths of abandoned buildings.

Orr, who represented Chrysler during its successful restructuring, said the city had few expectations that a federal bailout was coming from Washington.

?We are not expecting the cavalry to come charging in,? Orr said on ?Fox News Sunday.? ?We are out here on outpost and we have to fix it because we dug the hole. And that's the assumption that we are operating on, on how we're going forward.?

Some 30,000 current and retired city workers face a future with reduced pensions. Basic city services exist, but not at ?normal? levels, Snyder said.

At the same time, what to do with decayed structures of Detroit?s core have been a subject of both economic and artistic scrutiny.

Pension liabilities make up the bulk of Detroit?s debt, and Orr, who has been the city?s emergency financial manager for the past four months, said there would likely be changes in the payments retired city workers receive.

?There are going to be some adjustments,? Orr said on ?Fox News Sunday.? ?We don't have a choice. We've crossed the Rubicon on the level -- we have $18-plus billion -- $18 billion to $19 billion in debt and no funding mechanism for it.?

The path forward, however, remained uncertain after a judge in Michigan on Friday ordered a halt to the bankruptcy proceedings, saying they violated the state?s constitution, which bars reductions in public pensions. The state?s attorney general vowed to appeal.

The battle over funding the city?s pensions may reverberate in other troubled cities, including California?s Stockton and San Bernardino, which have also filed for bankruptcy protection.

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Batman to battle Superman in sequel, Warner Bros. unites franchises

By Piya Sinha-Roy

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - "Superman" director Zack Snyder said on Saturday that a sequel to last month's hit film was not only in the works, but would feature two of DC Comic's best-known caped crusaders - Superman versus Batman.

Snyder, who directed British actor Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent, surprised the audience with the news at the end of a Warner Bros. film panel at San Diego's Comic-Con, an annual comics convention, and received thunderous applause from the 6,000-plus in attendance.

The sequel to the latest Superman film, "Man of Steel," is banking on the success of recent comic-book films that have paired up heroes from the comic book universe, such as Disney's Marvel superhero ensemble "The Avengers" in 2012, which made $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office.

The most recent installment of the Batman franchise, 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises," directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, has made more than $1 billion at the global box office.

"Superman" has not always seen success at the box office and 2006's sequel starring Brandon Routh did not perform up to industry expectations.

But Snyder's darker reimagining of the complex superhero in June's "Man of Steel" delivered a strong performance at the box office with $621 million worldwide. With Nolan as executive producer of the film, rumors were circulating that a pairing of Batman and Superman could come to the big screen.

Cavill is expected to reprise the role of Superman but there was no word on who would play Batman. Bale has previously shot down rumors that he would play the masked hero again.

Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc, showcased a number of upcoming films on Saturday at Comic-Con, including "Seventh Son," "300: Rise of an Empire," "Godzilla" and "The Lego Movie," which will bring together Superman and Batman in animated Lego form.

(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Mary Milliken and Eric Beech)

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Hyperloop and Friends: Why Don't We Have Super-High-Speed Rail Already?

San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour. Do the math and you're zooming along at a speed of more than 600 miles per hour. That expedient California commute is what Tesla Motors and SpaceX chief Elon Musk is promising with his new project Hyperloop. At the moment, Musk is keeping mum on just about everything but the name and the boast, promising the big reveal of what he calls a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table" on August 12.

But there are few options out there that can meet Hyperloop's promised velocity. Ordinary magnetic levitation (maglev) trains like Japan's speed demons can't do much better than 300 to 350 mph?above that speed the air resistance is simply too great. The proposed technology that seems closest to Musk's promise is the vactrain, a marvel that has been promised for decades and never come close to fruition.

Where Musk appears to be aiming for 600 to 700 mph, Vactrain backers like Evacuated Tube Transport seek to send passengers screaming along at speeds up to 4000 mph, fast enough to fling them cross-country in 45 minutes or from New York to Beijing in the time it takes to watch a movie. This sick speed is possible by combining frictionless maglev travel and tunnels maintained in a vacuum state so that train cars travel with essentially no resistance. Engineers have toyed with this idea for a century, and got serious about it in the 1970s, but today they are merely in an experimental, regional stage.

Musk has said his system is not based upon such a vacuum. Instead, it appears that his creation might resemble a long skinny loop with air continuously circulated at ludicrous speeds?perhaps like the pneumatic tube that uses compressed air to send mail zipping around a post office. (Here's a 1957 PopMech story in which the company Honeywell predicted pneumatic tube travel by the year 2000.) Here's the diagram, by John Gardi, that Musk has called the best guess so far as to what he's up to:

Pneumatic tube transport for humans or vehicles is a staple of sci-fi, but like vactrains, it has yet to become a reality. And many of the same problems that have plagued vactrain dreamers also present major obstacles for any high-speed, long-distance train transit system, including Hyperloop.

Building

Whatever solution a super-high-speed train uses to overcome air resistance, the first major issue is just having enough power to keep it going, says John Mansman, MIT engineering professor and transportation expert. In the case of a vactrain, he says, "just the electrical cost of keeping [the vacuum] evacuated in not trivial"?constantly pumping air would probably require more energy than operating the maglev system itself.

What about Musk's train? If speculation is correct that Hyperloop will keep air cycling through the system at hundreds of miles per hour, then the mechanics of keeping that air blowing won't be cheap, either. And don't forget the maintenance costs of either A) a vactrain having to keep hundreds of miles of vacuum tunnel leak-proof, or B) maintaining the "air hockey" part of Musk's system?the column of air needed to propel the train through the straightaway.

Rights

A tunnel between L.A. and San Francisco will pass under a lot of private and public land. And at 600 mph, the train can't zigzag around places where owners didn't agree to sell their rights. Those cars have got to go in a straight line. (The Verge reports that Hyperloop would have a turning radius of 40 miles.)

Jim LaRusch, attorney for the American Public Transportation Association, says this is an illustration of why huge transportation projects are typically government-funded, or at least have the government as a partner: It's much, much easier to get the rights in order. For example, in parts of California, LaRusch says, the government can reimburse utilities if a utility must move its underground infrastructure to make way for a tunnel. A private firm is on its own. "There's got to be somebody with a sewer, or a cable line, or something in the way," he says.

In Musk's case, he's fortunate to be building Hyperloop within one state and avoiding the legal tangle of trying to secure rights across states, as a nation-spanning vactrain would have to do?states and cities have a hodgepodge of different laws covering these property rights.

Still, LaRusch says, the rights question is an open one, especially if Musk isn't working with the State of California. "It's not really been tested," he says. "Not a lot of people have tried it without a government piece." Even the transcontinental railroad of the 1800s, perhaps the closest analog to a nation-spanning underground rail, was possible only because of using government land grants to the rail companies, LaRusch says.

From the December 1957 PopMech.

Safety

What happens when a train that uses electric power to brake is traveling hundreds or thousands of miles per hour and the power goes out? "The thing is then scraping along the bottom of the track at [incredible speeds]," Mansman says. That's why backup power, and using any means necessary to avoid a blackout, is so important for a super-high-speed train.

"The trains have to be space vehicles," Mansman says of vactrain systems, because sending humans flying through a vacuum tunnel in a pressurized can at thousands of miles per hour presents a few key safety challenges. First, the train has to be able to withstand extreme deceleration in the case of an emergency stop?riders must be able to survive a bump off the wall and a hard slowdown. Second, the train car can't suffer any leaks even in a crash, since it's sitting in a vacuum tunnel. Third, Mansman says, the car needs to have a sufficient backup oxygen system in case it takes a long time for crews to rescue the vactrain passengers. "You're stopped 500 miles from the nearest station, with limited oxygen," he says, and letting air back into such a huge system could take hours.

Here Musk would have a leg up. Hyperloop would avoid the dangers of air supply if it's not a vacuum system. Musk still must account for the risk of an accident at 600-plus mph, however statistically low it might be, but the "loop" part of Hyperloop's design would mean there's no hard terminus to worry about.

Money

Simply, enormous underground rail costs a fortune. "There's not a basic physics issue," Mansman says. Super-high-speed trains can be built?it's a matter of making the business case for them.

Just building the Chunnel 30 miles between England and France cost several billion dollars, he points out. The trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles is more than 10 times as far, never mind crossing the country or the ocean as an even more ambitious system might. "It's how you build up infrastructure over the distances that are important," he says.

We'll see what Musk says about the dollars and cents in August.

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Detroit bankruptcy could hit millions of public sector retirees

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John W. Schoen CNBC

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Once American?s third-largest city, Detroit?s population has fallen by a quarter since 2000. A shrinking population further erodes the tax base, intensifying the budget squeeze.

With its bankruptcy filing, the city of Detroit has entered uncharted territory. It's a dark place that no major U.S. city has ever gone ? but that could change.

Despite the uncertainties surrounding what?s expected to be a hard fought legal battle, the outcome promises to inflict more pain on Detroit?s already-beleaguered city workers, residents, businesses, creditors and investors.

The case will also set a legal precedent that will be watched closely by other major cities across the country struggling under the weight of years of accumulated debt and underfunded pensions covering millions of public sector retirees.

"Everyone will say, 'Oh well, it?s Detroit. I thought it was already in bankruptcy,' " said Michigan State University economist Eric Scorsone.

Read more: Detroit becomes largest city to file for bankruptcy

"But Detroit is not unique. It?s the same in Chicago and New York and San Diego and San Jose. It?s a lot of major cities in this country. They may not be as extreme as Detroit, but a lot of them face the same problems.?

The bankruptcy filing follows a decades-long decline of a city that prospered through much of the last century as the capital of U.S. manufacturing. But as that industrial base has declined, so too have the city?s fortunes.

Detroit has endured booms and busts in the past. But even as the auto industry has roared back to life since the Great Recession, the economic recovery has left the Motor City in its rearview mirror.

Though unemployment has fallen from a peak of nearly 28 percent in 2009, some 16.3 percent of Detroit workers are still without a paycheck. As a result, income tax revenues have fallen 30 percent in the last decade. Meanwhile, the national recovery in home prices has yet to spread to Detroit. Property taxes are 20 percent lower than 2008 levels.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the cost of maintaining city services has grown. Tens of thousands of abandoned buildings and vacant lots, and a resulting increase in fires and crime, have increased the burden on firefighters and police. Forty percent of the city?s streetlights don?t work.

?There?s no way Detroit can afford to service 140 square miles anymore,? said Scorsone. ?So for parts of the city, if your streetlight?s out, they?re not going to fix it. If your road has massive potholes, it?s going to turn it to gravel. It?s that stark.?

Many residents have responded by simply moving away. America?s fourth-largest city from the 1920s to the 1940s, Detroit?s population has further fallen by a quarter since 2000. A shrinking population further erodes the tax base, intensifying the budget squeeze.

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As tax revenues have shrunk, the city?s financial obligations have grown ? mainly to an ever-expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life-time pensions and health benefits by short-sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations. The city now owes more than $18 billion ? roughly $25,000 for every resident.

Union officials, who have vowed to fight any effort to reduce benefits to retirees and vested workers, claim the city has undermined the pension fund by outsourcing city services to workers who don?t pay into the system.

"As older people leave the workforce, the city has been privatizing those jobs instead of bringing people back in to pay into the fund,? said Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, which represents city workers.

Union officials also argue the city is owed hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes that should be collected before retirees are asked to take a cut in benefits.

?If they went after that money, they could pay their debts,? said McNeil.

Investors holding Detroit?s bonds have already taken a hit as the steady erosion of the city?s finances has slashed the city's credit rating to junk status. Last month, Kevyn Orr, a bankruptcy lawyer named to restructure Detroit?s debts, declared a ?moratorium? on some interest payments.

In the days leading up to Thursday?s bankruptcy filing, Orr had been working with individual creditors to renegotiate those debts at a dime a dollar.

That could help close the gaping financial hole in the short run. But inflicting too much pain on bondholders could have dire long term consequences, according to Kim Rueben, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who specializes in municipal finance.

?You don?t want to have to do that because you want to keep your ability to borrow again to rebuild your city,? she said.

Orr must now convince a bankruptcy judge to invalidate the city?s pension contracts, freeing him to reduce payments to retirees. The unions' lawyers will argue that pension and health benefits are protected by Michigan?s constitution, one of seven states that specifically ban cuts in retiree pension and benefit payments.

That?s why the case will be closely watched by states like Illinois and California, which also have badly underfunded their pensions. If Detroit is allowed to cut payments to its retirees, city and state workers in those states and others could see their future benefits pared back.

Future public sector workers can all but count on lower retirement benefits, as many state and local governments scale back the kind of financial promises that sank Detroit. With retirees living longer, those promises have become too costly to make.

?I think there is going to need to be an understanding with public employees that working for 30 years and being able to have a pension for that much time or longer is not sustainable,? Rueben said.

The crisis is also being watched closely in the White House.

?The President and members of the President?s senior team continue to closely monitor the situation in Detroit," Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman, said. "While leaders on the ground in Michigan and the city?s creditors understand that they must find a solution to Detroit?s serious financial challenge, we remain committed to continuing our strong partnership with Detroit as it works to recover and revitalize and maintain its status as one of America's great cities.?

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A California judge said Friday that he's finalizing a settlement worth more than $1 billion in cases where motorists say the value of their Toyota vehicles plunged after recalls over claims they unexpectedly accelerated.http://news.yahoo.com/judge-finalizing-deal-toyota-acceleration-cases-184552498.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:18:34 -0400Associated Pressjudge-finalizing-deal-toyota-acceleration-cases-184552498<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sebastian-arcelus-star-bway-time-kill-181138714.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/O0Pa2vbVR7kU2tJZHNL79g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/54a74bed27cf0a18380f6a7067001aed.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this file image released by The Hartman Group, Sebastian Arcelus is shown in a scene from the Second Stage Theatre presentation of &quot;The Blue Flower&quot; in New York. Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham&#039;s &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; on Broadway. Performances will begin Sept. 28, 2013, at the John Golden Theatre. Opening is set for Oct. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Ari Mintz, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this file image released by The Hartman Group, Sebastian Arcelus is shown in a scene from the Second Stage Theatre presentation of &quot;The Blue Flower&quot; in New York. Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham&#039;s &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; on Broadway. Performances will begin Sept. 28, 2013, at the John Golden Theatre. Opening is set for Oct. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Ari Mintz, File)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) ? Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham&#039;s legal thriller &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; on Broadway.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/sebastian-arcelus-star-bway-time-kill-181138714.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:18:32 -0400Associated Presssebastian-arcelus-star-bway-time-kill-181138714<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sebastian-arcelus-star-bway-time-kill-181138714.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/O0Pa2vbVR7kU2tJZHNL79g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/54a74bed27cf0a18380f6a7067001aed.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this file image released by The Hartman Group, Sebastian Arcelus is shown in a scene from the Second Stage Theatre presentation of &quot;The Blue Flower&quot; in New York. Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham&#039;s &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; on Broadway. Performances will begin Sept. 28, 2013, at the John Golden Theatre. Opening is set for Oct. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Ari Mintz, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this file image released by The Hartman Group, Sebastian Arcelus is shown in a scene from the Second Stage Theatre presentation of &quot;The Blue Flower&quot; in New York. Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham&#039;s &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; on Broadway. Performances will begin Sept. 28, 2013, at the John Golden Theatre. Opening is set for Oct. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Ari Mintz, File)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) ? Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham&#039;s legal thriller &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; on Broadway.</p><br clear="all"/>By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, who was convicted in Italy of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric and detained in Panama this week, was headed back to the United States, a State Department spokeswoman said on Friday. The former spy was among 23 Americans sentenced in absentia by an Italian judge in 2009 for the abduction of the cleric. Lady was given a nine-year jail term. "It is my understanding that he is in fact either en route or back in the United States," said Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman. ...http://news.yahoo.com/ex-cia-official-arrested-panama-heading-back-u-165910444.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:14:27 -0400Reutersex-cia-official-arrested-panama-heading-back-u-165910444NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Privacy experts say a court ruling in New Jersey on cellphone tracking could have effects beyond the state's borders.http://news.yahoo.com/nj-court-warrants-needed-cellphone-tracking-115338163.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:12:47 -0400Associated Pressnj-court-warrants-needed-cellphone-tracking-115338163<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/derailed-quebec-train-had-insufficient-brake-force-investigators-144936894.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BbW8gW25S753aAumP7drLw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-19T191202Z_2_CBRE96I156Y00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-TRAIN-PROBE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A firefighter and an emergency crew work on the site of the train wreck in Lac Megantic" align="left" title="A firefighter and an emergency crew work on the site of the train wreck in Lac Megantic" border="0" /></a>By Julie Gordon (Reuters) - Canadian investigators issued their first recommendations on Friday after a devastating train wreck in Quebec, urging that trains hauling dangerous goods not be left unattended, and pushing for stricter guidelines on railway braking systems. Transportation Safety Board (TSB) investigators probing the July 6 disaster in the lakeside town of Lac-Megantic said the &quot;braking force&quot; applied to the train, which was hauling 72 tanker cars of crude oil, was insufficient to hold it in place. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/derailed-quebec-train-had-insufficient-brake-force-investigators-144936894.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:12:02 -0400Reutersderailed-quebec-train-had-insufficient-brake-force-investigators-144936894<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/derailed-quebec-train-had-insufficient-brake-force-investigators-144936894.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BbW8gW25S753aAumP7drLw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-19T191202Z_2_CBRE96I156Y00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-TRAIN-PROBE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A firefighter and an emergency crew work on the site of the train wreck in Lac Megantic" align="left" title="A firefighter and an emergency crew work on the site of the train wreck in Lac Megantic" border="0" /></a>By Julie Gordon (Reuters) - Canadian investigators issued their first recommendations on Friday after a devastating train wreck in Quebec, urging that trains hauling dangerous goods not be left unattended, and pushing for stricter guidelines on railway braking systems. Transportation Safety Board (TSB) investigators probing the July 6 disaster in the lakeside town of Lac-Megantic said the &quot;braking force&quot; applied to the train, which was hauling 72 tanker cars of crude oil, was insufficient to hold it in place. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/aurora-newtown-survivors-honor-theater-victims-173129582.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jHh93Ej.4VP0zRD9l5HDrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9d277135096cf518370f6a706700586c.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Tom Sullivan and his wife Terry hold hands as they visit the grave site of their son Alex Sullivan on Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Alex was killed along with 11 others in the Aurora theater shooting last July on his 27th birthday. Saturday is the anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)" align="left" title="Tom Sullivan and his wife Terry hold hands as they visit the grave site of their son Alex Sullivan on Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Alex was killed along with 11 others in the Aurora theater shooting last July on his 27th birthday. Saturday is the anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)" border="0" /></a>AURORA, Colo. (AP) ? Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut were among those gathered Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater a year after the attack.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/aurora-newtown-survivors-honor-theater-victims-173129582.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:10:38 -0400Associated Pressaurora-newtown-survivors-honor-theater-victims-173129582<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/aurora-newtown-survivors-honor-theater-victims-173129582.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jHh93Ej.4VP0zRD9l5HDrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9d277135096cf518370f6a706700586c.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Tom Sullivan and his wife Terry hold hands as they visit the grave site of their son Alex Sullivan on Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Alex was killed along with 11 others in the Aurora theater shooting last July on his 27th birthday. Saturday is the anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)" align="left" title="Tom Sullivan and his wife Terry hold hands as they visit the grave site of their son Alex Sullivan on Thursday, July 18, 2013, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Alex was killed along with 11 others in the Aurora theater shooting last July on his 27th birthday. Saturday is the anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)" border="0" /></a>AURORA, Colo. (AP) ? Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut were among those gathered Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater a year after the attack.</p><br clear="all"/>WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday filed civil charges against Steven A. Cohen that accused the billionaire hedge-fund manager of failing to prevent insider trading.http://news.yahoo.com/sec-files-charges-against-hedge-fund-founder-cohen-181940565.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:09:47 -0400Associated Presssec-files-charges-against-hedge-fund-founder-cohen-181940565<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-israel-palestinians-agree-basis-talks-190942797.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LMFsC07ZclMr5lfCqzqx4A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/35b3053027a80918380f6a7067001d16.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)" align="left" title="U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? Israeli and Palestinian officials will meet soon in Washington to work out final details on relaunching Mideast peace negotiations for the first time in five years, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/us-israel-palestinians-agree-basis-talks-190942797.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:09:42 -0400Associated Pressus-israel-palestinians-agree-basis-talks-190942797<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-israel-palestinians-agree-basis-talks-190942797.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LMFsC07ZclMr5lfCqzqx4A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/35b3053027a80918380f6a7067001d16.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)" align="left" title="U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps out of a helicopter upon his arrival at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on July 19, 2013, back from the West Bank city of Ramallah. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stepped up his drive to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, meeting with the Palestinian president Friday as he sought to close a deep divide between the two sides over a formula for resuming peace talks after nearly five years. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? Israeli and Palestinian officials will meet soon in Washington to work out final details on relaunching Mideast peace negotiations for the first time in five years, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-march-back-ousted-egypt-president-163306998.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QCNWHmg8N9lMo9dU7KaaQw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/d13dbc4727700818380f6a706700064a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi are seen through an Egyptian flag gathering for prayers Friday, July 19, 2013, at Nasr City in Cairo, where protesters have set up a camp and held a daily rally. Thousands are demonstrating across Egypt to demand the reinstatement of Morsi. His Muslim Brotherhood is mobilizing its followers to march in Cairo and elsewhere Friday for a protest they are dubbing &quot;Breaking the Coup.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)" align="left" title="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi are seen through an Egyptian flag gathering for prayers Friday, July 19, 2013, at Nasr City in Cairo, where protesters have set up a camp and held a daily rally. Thousands are demonstrating across Egypt to demand the reinstatement of Morsi. His Muslim Brotherhood is mobilizing its followers to march in Cairo and elsewhere Friday for a protest they are dubbing &quot;Breaking the Coup.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (AP) ? Thousands of protesters calling for the return to power of Egypt&#039;s ousted Islamist president demonstrated in Cairo on Friday as the military warned it would crack down on any violence, underlining the point with a show of force by fighter jets flying over the capital.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-march-back-ousted-egypt-president-163306998.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:07:42 -0400Associated Pressthousands-march-back-ousted-egypt-president-163306998<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-march-back-ousted-egypt-president-163306998.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QCNWHmg8N9lMo9dU7KaaQw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/d13dbc4727700818380f6a706700064a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi are seen through an Egyptian flag gathering for prayers Friday, July 19, 2013, at Nasr City in Cairo, where protesters have set up a camp and held a daily rally. Thousands are demonstrating across Egypt to demand the reinstatement of Morsi. His Muslim Brotherhood is mobilizing its followers to march in Cairo and elsewhere Friday for a protest they are dubbing &quot;Breaking the Coup.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)" align="left" title="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi are seen through an Egyptian flag gathering for prayers Friday, July 19, 2013, at Nasr City in Cairo, where protesters have set up a camp and held a daily rally. Thousands are demonstrating across Egypt to demand the reinstatement of Morsi. His Muslim Brotherhood is mobilizing its followers to march in Cairo and elsewhere Friday for a protest they are dubbing &quot;Breaking the Coup.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (AP) ? Thousands of protesters calling for the return to power of Egypt&#039;s ousted Islamist president demonstrated in Cairo on Friday as the military warned it would crack down on any violence, underlining the point with a show of force by fighter jets flying over the capital.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/2-indicted-threatening-tygart-181732331.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vm7Mpxy_UzjUU8jFA5230Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/f0e9b99927c80a18380f6a7067007e3e.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this May 17, 2013, file photo, Travis Tygart, the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency addresses, the media at the EU Council in Brussels. Two men have been charged with directing threats toward Tygart in the aftermath of USADA&#039;s decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this May 17, 2013, file photo, Travis Tygart, the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency addresses, the media at the EU Council in Brussels. Two men have been charged with directing threats toward Tygart in the aftermath of USADA&#039;s decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)" border="0" /></a>DENVER (AP) ? Two men have been charged with directing threats toward U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart in the aftermath of USADA&#039;s decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/2-indicted-threatening-tygart-181732331.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:06:39 -0400Associated Press2-indicted-threatening-tygart-181732331<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/2-indicted-threatening-tygart-181732331.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vm7Mpxy_UzjUU8jFA5230Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/f0e9b99927c80a18380f6a7067007e3e.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this May 17, 2013, file photo, Travis Tygart, the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency addresses, the media at the EU Council in Brussels. Two men have been charged with directing threats toward Tygart in the aftermath of USADA&#039;s decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this May 17, 2013, file photo, Travis Tygart, the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency addresses, the media at the EU Council in Brussels. Two men have been charged with directing threats toward Tygart in the aftermath of USADA&#039;s decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)" border="0" /></a>DENVER (AP) ? Two men have been charged with directing threats toward U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart in the aftermath of USADA&#039;s decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-asks-soul-searching-martin-shooting-180758805.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Ri5.iUgJx2c2mNi9EzEseg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/1e4e712727ae0a18380f6a706700ea7a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013. Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict because of a &quot;history that doesn&#039;t go away.&quot; Obama spoke in a surprise appearance Friday at the White House, his first time appearing for a statement on the verdict since it was issued last Saturday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" align="left" title="President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013. Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict because of a &quot;history that doesn&#039;t go away.&quot; Obama spoke in a surprise appearance Friday at the White House, his first time appearing for a statement on the verdict since it was issued last Saturday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Grappling with the Trayvon Martin case in the most personal of terms, President Barack Obama said Friday it&#039;s time for Americans to search their souls on race and look for ways to move forward after the shooting and trial in Florida.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/obama-asks-soul-searching-martin-shooting-180758805.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:06:16 -0400Associated Pressobama-asks-soul-searching-martin-shooting-180758805<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-asks-soul-searching-martin-shooting-180758805.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Ri5.iUgJx2c2mNi9EzEseg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/1e4e712727ae0a18380f6a706700ea7a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013. Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict because of a &quot;history that doesn&#039;t go away.&quot; Obama spoke in a surprise appearance Friday at the White House, his first time appearing for a statement on the verdict since it was issued last Saturday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" align="left" title="President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013. Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict because of a &quot;history that doesn&#039;t go away.&quot; Obama spoke in a surprise appearance Friday at the White House, his first time appearing for a statement on the verdict since it was issued last Saturday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Grappling with the Trayvon Martin case in the most personal of terms, President Barack Obama said Friday it&#039;s time for Americans to search their souls on race and look for ways to move forward after the shooting and trial in Florida.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/marine-ordered-freed-iraq-war-crime-case-190533937.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aL2y.o90WmHb3g2iU7gGrg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/f4a588f5269c0518380f6a7067005468.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this June 29, 2010, file photo, U.S. Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III poses for a portrait in Oceanside, Calif. The military&#039;s highest court has denied a government request to reconsider the overturned murder conviction of Hutchins, who has served more than half of his 11-year sentence in one of the biggest war crime cases to emerge from the Iraq war. Hutchins&#039; military attorney said he was expected to be released Friday, July 19, 2013, and reassigned to Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. (AP Photo/Adam Lau, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this June 29, 2010, file photo, U.S. Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III poses for a portrait in Oceanside, Calif. The military&#039;s highest court has denied a government request to reconsider the overturned murder conviction of Hutchins, who has served more than half of his 11-year sentence in one of the biggest war crime cases to emerge from the Iraq war. Hutchins&#039; military attorney said he was expected to be released Friday, July 19, 2013, and reassigned to Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. (AP Photo/Adam Lau, File)" border="0" /></a>SAN DIEGO (AP) ? The Marine Corps has ordered the release of a sergeant whose murder conviction in a major Iraq war crime case was overturned.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/marine-ordered-freed-iraq-war-crime-case-190533937.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:05:33 -0400Associated Pressmarine-ordered-freed-iraq-war-crime-case-190533937<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/marine-ordered-freed-iraq-war-crime-case-190533937.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aL2y.o90WmHb3g2iU7gGrg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/f4a588f5269c0518380f6a7067005468.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this June 29, 2010, file photo, U.S. Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III poses for a portrait in Oceanside, Calif. The military&#039;s highest court has denied a government request to reconsider the overturned murder conviction of Hutchins, who has served more than half of his 11-year sentence in one of the biggest war crime cases to emerge from the Iraq war. Hutchins&#039; military attorney said he was expected to be released Friday, July 19, 2013, and reassigned to Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. (AP Photo/Adam Lau, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this June 29, 2010, file photo, U.S. Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III poses for a portrait in Oceanside, Calif. The military&#039;s highest court has denied a government request to reconsider the overturned murder conviction of Hutchins, who has served more than half of his 11-year sentence in one of the biggest war crime cases to emerge from the Iraq war. Hutchins&#039; military attorney said he was expected to be released Friday, July 19, 2013, and reassigned to Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. (AP Photo/Adam Lau, File)" border="0" /></a>SAN DIEGO (AP) ? The Marine Corps has ordered the release of a sergeant whose murder conviction in a major Iraq war crime case was overturned.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sec-charges-steven-cohen-failure-supervise-employees-182133430.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jKwz7S_Uxy2CgFVKemR0xw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-19T190311Z_1_CBRE96I1F0700_RTROPTP_2_HEDGEFUNDS-SAC.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, listens to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas" align="left" title="Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, listens to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday accused hedge fund mogul Steven A. Cohen of failing to supervise two employees who are facing insider trading charges. The SEC&#039;s action said Cohen failed to supervise former portfolio manager Mathew Martoma and SAC Capital Advisors executive Michael Steinberg. The SEC charges are part of a long-running probe of Cohen and his $15 billion hedge fund by regulators and federal investigators in which nine one-time SAC employees have been charged or implicated. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/sec-charges-steven-cohen-failure-supervise-employees-182133430.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:03:11 -0400Reuterssec-charges-steven-cohen-failure-supervise-employees-182133430<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sec-charges-steven-cohen-failure-supervise-employees-182133430.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jKwz7S_Uxy2CgFVKemR0xw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-19T190311Z_1_CBRE96I1F0700_RTROPTP_2_HEDGEFUNDS-SAC.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, listens to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas" align="left" title="Hedge fund manager Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, listens to a question during an interview at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday accused hedge fund mogul Steven A. Cohen of failing to supervise two employees who are facing insider trading charges. The SEC&#039;s action said Cohen failed to supervise former portfolio manager Mathew Martoma and SAC Capital Advisors executive Michael Steinberg. The SEC charges are part of a long-running probe of Cohen and his $15 billion hedge fund by regulators and federal investigators in which nine one-time SAC employees have been charged or implicated. ...</p><br clear="all"/>HOUSTON (AP) ? Four homeless men were found Friday in "deplorable conditions" at a Houston home and may have been being held so a captor could cash checks the men were receiving, according to police.http://news.yahoo.com/cops-4-men-found-held-deplorable-texas-home-184748950.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 15:01:56 -0400Associated Presscops-4-men-found-held-deplorable-texas-home-184748950<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/vilanova-steps-down-barca-coach-due-cancer-185545735.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/fmj5YBnzKh9bkU5kjwQ2zw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/25e836df06afe818370f6a70670081b3.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Barcelona&#039;s coach Tito Vilanova attends a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)" align="left" title="Barcelona&#039;s coach Tito Vilanova attends a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)" border="0" /></a>BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Tito Vilanova is stepping down as Barcelona&#039;s coach following a recurrence of throat cancer.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/vilanova-steps-down-barca-coach-due-cancer-185545735.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 14:55:45 -0400Associated Pressvilanova-steps-down-barca-coach-due-cancer-185545735<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/vilanova-steps-down-barca-coach-due-cancer-185545735.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/fmj5YBnzKh9bkU5kjwQ2zw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/25e836df06afe818370f6a70670081b3.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Barcelona&#039;s coach Tito Vilanova attends a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)" align="left" title="Barcelona&#039;s coach Tito Vilanova attends a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain, Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)" border="0" /></a>BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Tito Vilanova is stepping down as Barcelona&#039;s coach following a recurrence of throat cancer.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pegg-frost-wright-worlds-end-wraps-trilogy-185506474.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ydomCQfOcISl4ymRM.UFPA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/28c4bbb427d90a18380f6a70670053b7.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="From left, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost attends &quot;The World&#039;s End&quot; panel on Day 3 of Comic-Con International on Friday, July 19, 2103, in San Diego, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)" align="left" title="From left, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost attends &quot;The World&#039;s End&quot; panel on Day 3 of Comic-Con International on Friday, July 19, 2103, in San Diego, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)" border="0" /></a>SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been making movies together for years, but the longtime friends and collaborators say their latest film concludes a trilogy.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/pegg-frost-wright-worlds-end-wraps-trilogy-185506474.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 14:55:23 -0400Associated Presspegg-frost-wright-worlds-end-wraps-trilogy-185506474<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pegg-frost-wright-worlds-end-wraps-trilogy-185506474.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ydomCQfOcISl4ymRM.UFPA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/28c4bbb427d90a18380f6a70670053b7.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="From left, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost attends &quot;The World&#039;s End&quot; panel on Day 3 of Comic-Con International on Friday, July 19, 2103, in San Diego, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)" align="left" title="From left, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost attends &quot;The World&#039;s End&quot; panel on Day 3 of Comic-Con International on Friday, July 19, 2103, in San Diego, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)" border="0" /></a>SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been making movies together for years, but the longtime friends and collaborators say their latest film concludes a trilogy.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/asiana-crash-victim-died-being-struck-vehicle-officials-175636832.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2ntBF3zIjM05MAUhZBF0hA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.fbc.news.com/6c3555abb1ff43b2cf76c5b85ccee013" width="130" height="86" alt="Will Asiana passengers struggle to receive compensation?" align="left" title="Will Asiana passengers struggle to receive compensation?" border="0" /></a>By Gerry Shih SAN MATEO, California (Reuters) - A teenage passenger on the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed in San Francisco died from injuries sustained after being run over by a motor vehicle, most likely a fire truck at the scene, local officials said on Friday. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/asiana-crash-victim-died-being-struck-vehicle-officials-175636832.htmlFri, 19 Jul 2013 14:54:21 -0400Reutersasiana-crash-victim-died-being-struck-vehicle-officials-175636832<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/asiana-crash-victim-died-being-struck-vehicle-officials-175636832.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2ntBF3zIjM05MAUhZBF0hA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.fbc.news.com/6c3555abb1ff43b2cf76c5b85ccee013" width="130" height="86" alt="Will Asiana passengers struggle to receive compensation?" align="left" title="Will Asiana passengers struggle to receive compensation?" border="0" /></a>By Gerry Shih SAN MATEO, California (Reuters) - A teenage passenger on the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed in San Francisco died from injuries sustained after being run over by a motor vehicle, most likely a fire truck at the scene, local officials said on Friday. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/michael-jacksons-mom-describes-rise-fame-185158349.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/sBTZr8m6MM7ZRomtVRZGGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/38e0b1be27590818380f6a706700c877.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. Jackson is expected to be the final witness Friday, July 19, 2013, in the plaintiff?s case against AEG Live LLC. The Jac

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