Egypt president stresses Syria resolve

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's president on Saturday stressed the need for his country to have a bigger role in international affairs, using his first local television interview to urge the Syrian government to end the carnage coursing through Cairo's onetime ally.

"The Syrian regime needs to understand that the continuation of bloodshed goes against all laws, desires, history and humanity," Mohammed Morsi said in the hour-long interview, broadcast on state TV.

The one-on-one interview addressed a range of issues facing the new president, who was sworn into office on June 30 in the country's first free presidential elections. He assumed the post after a rocky transitional period governed by the country's military, which took power after last year's uprising that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's uprising inspired others in the region, including in Syria.

"Egypt is not on the sidelines of this problem. There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people," Morsi said, in a reference to the shortly-lived alliance that ended in 1961 between Egypt and Syria, when both nations shared the same flag as part of a union. "The Syrian struggle pains us now, pains all people of the region."

Syria's bloody 18-month conflict, which activists say has killed nearly 30,000 people, has so far eluded attempts at international mediation.

Morsi has launched an "Islamic Quartet" of regional powers to seek an end to the violence, bringing together Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

However, the quartet faces deep divisions. Sunni led Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, while Shiite Iran firmly backs him. Saudi Arabia and Iran are also bitter rivals with longstanding disagreements over Gulf security issues.

"I do not believe Iran's presence in the group is part of the problem, but part of the solution" Morsi said, adding that he hopes the four nations along with other countries can meet "at the highest level" on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting later this month.

Morsi, who is scheduled to travel Sunday to New York for the U.N. meetings, has been criticized by some in Egypt for focusing too much on foreign affairs and doing little to address Egypt's internal challenges.

In the interview, he explained that in order to help Egypt domestically, he needs to reach out to other nations, particularly in Africa, and increase investments from the West and China to help build the country.

While he did not discuss Israel, with which Egypt has a decades-old peace treaty following years of war, Morsi said that "there cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights."

"This is what the peace treaty was based on ? a full and balanced (regional) peace," he said, referring to the 1979 accord that ended decades of hostility between Egypt and Israel, but did not contain the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.

"Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians," he said. Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, is itself an offshoot of Morsi' Muslim Brotherhood group, which has long rallied for Palestinian statehood.

Earlier on Saturday, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court upheld last summer's ruling that dissolved parliament just days before Morsi was declared victor in the elections.

The ruling means that Morsi now maintains legislative powers in the absence of parliament, after the forced retirement of generals with which he previously shared powers.

"I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework," he said in the interview.

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My Love Hate Relationship with the Amber Teething Necklace ...

When Addie started teething as a baby, I wanted to give an amber teething necklace a try. I have never used them for either of our sons and didn?t know much about them.

I was offered to review one and we gave it a try. I loved it, not only did it seem to really help with Addison?s misery, but it was also adorable. Where ever we went she would get compliments on her bling.

We never really took it off of her, and with her molars making an entrance into our life these past couple weeks, I figured we should continue using it. It had been so much of a life saver all these months, why not continue right?

Tuesday night after leaving the grocery store as a family, we were right around the corner from the house and I heard a crunching coming from the backseat.

?Boys? What is that noise??? automatically assuming someone got into a bag which contained snacks from the store.

?That isn?t us Mommy. It is coming from Addie. She is eating her necklace?

?PULL OVER!?

As my husband pulled over to the side of the road I jumped out into the backseat to do the typical finger sweep through her mouth and discovered pieces of the beads in her mouth. I freaked and took the necklace off while still sweeping through her mouth to make sure I didn?t miss any pieces.

Talk about sheer HORROR!

I couldn?t believe it!

She had never, ever, EVER tried to put her necklace in her mouth let alone eat it! You would think we don?t feed her?!

Needless to say, that night we retired the necklace, and my heart broke a little bit. Especially after last night when she woke up at 2:30am and stayed up for an hour crying in what seemed to be pain and frustration of her mouth.

The most helpless feeling as a parent is not being able to comfort your baby. After climbing in her bed with her several times, Addison decided the only way she would go back to sleep was on Daddy?s chest.

I foresee a long stretch of frustration without the help of her teething necklace until these molars aren?t being such assholes!

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Things To Know About Using Payday Cash Loans | Free Finance ...

You may have noticed the increasing number of services offering payday cash loans to help you manage your finances. Read on to get more information. There are a number of advantages to using these loans. They are quick to approve, the money can often be paid into your account on the same day as you make your application so you can pay for your expenses as soon as possible. The loans are simple to manage and short-term. You won?t have the stress of paying off a long-term loan hanging over you. The amount you borrow can be as little as ?50, you decide. The majority of payday loan applications will be approved as long as you are in employment and over the age of 18. Do not worry if you have a poor credit history or have been refused loans in the past.

Payday loans are really quick to apply for but that does not mean they should not be treated with caution. Any responsible lender will always want to ensure that you can make the repayments in time but it also helps to take some simple advice too so you can avoid accumulating debt. Ask yourself why you need the loan. Click here for more information. A loan should only be taken out when it is absolutely necessary even if it is only for a small amount. Plan your finances for the coming month to ensure that you will be able to make the repayment. Payday loans have a high interest rate because they are short-term loans. They should never be taken out on a regular basis or to cover the repayment of another loan.

What is the interest rate? This can often vary according to your personal circumstances and credit history so you will need to complete an application first. When can the loan be repaid? Is it possible to make repayments early to reduce interest charges? Are there any other hidden fees that will add to the cost? If you are unable to repay the loan in time what are the charges you will incur and is it possible to apply for an extension?

Some lenders will require you to fax documentation through before an application can be completed while others enable you to carry out the entire process online. This can be much quicker and less hassle when you need the loan in a hurry. You should also check how soon the loan can be received. Again this can vary and some lenders will even pay the money directly into your account on the same day. One can also visit http://www.squirrel.co.nz/home-loans/ for the related information.

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Squeeze light 'till it hurts' on a quantum scale: Researchers push the boundaries on ultra-precise measurement

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2012) ? An international team of physicists has pushed the boundaries on ultra-precise measurement by harnessing quantum light waves in a new way.

It is one thing to be able to measure spectacularly small distances using "squeezed" light, but it is now possible to do this even while the target is moving around.

An Australian-Japanese research collaboration made the breakthrough in an experiment conducted at the University of Tokyo, the results of which have been published in an article, "Quantum-enhanced optical phase tracking" in the journal Science.

Leader of the international theoretical team Professor Howard Wiseman, from Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics (pictured), said this more precise technique for motion tracking will have many applications in a world which is constantly seeking smaller, better and faster technology.

"At the heart of all scientific endeavour is the necessity to be able to measure things precisely," Professor Wiseman said.

"Because the phase of a light beam changes whenever it passes through or bounces off an object, being able to measure that change is a very powerful tool."

"By using squeezed light we have broken the standard limits for precision phase tracking, making a fundamental contribution to science," he said. "But we have also shown that too much squeezing can actually hurt."

Dr Dominic Berry from Macquarie University has been collaborating with Professor Wiseman on the theory of this problem for many years.

"The key to this experiment has been to combine "phase squeezing" of light waves with feedback control to track a moving phase better than previously possible," Dr Berry said.

"Ultra-precise quantum-enhanced measurement has been done before, but only with very small phase changes. Now we have shown we can track large phase changes as well," he said.

Professor Elanor Huntington from UNSW Canberra, who directed the Australian experimental contribution, is a colleague of Professor Wiseman in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.

"By using quantum states of light we made a more precise measurement than is possible through the conventional techniques using laser beams of the same intensity," Professor Huntington said.

"Curiously, we found that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Squeezing beyond a certain point actually degrades the performance of the measurement, making it less precise than if we had used light with no squeezing."

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What a Comeback!

French national and Arsenal star Thierry Henry played a part in the resurgance of English soccer

Photo by Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images.

It may have gone under the radar in the United States, but one of the most lucrative television deals in the history of professional sports was signed this summer. In June, Rupert Murdoch?s British Sky Broadcasting and British telecom giant BT collectively bid ?3 billion, or $4.7 billion, for the rights to broadcast English soccer in the United Kingdom for the next three years.

On a yearly basis, major American networks pay just twice as much to broadcast the NFL in a country that is five times as big. And after the Premier League negotiates international broadcasting rights over the next few months, it should come close to closing the remaining gap. England?s Premier League is now the most profitable soccer league in the world, and one of the most successful sports businesses of any kind.

The Premier League?s economic success is a surprising story, the result of a remarkable and unexpected turnaround. In 1992, when the top flight of English soccer split off from the Football Association?s lower leagues after a contentious contract dispute, English soccer was as much of a national embarrassment as it was a national pastime. By the early 1990s, soccer in England had squandered a century-old history as the most storied sports competition in the world.

English teams were coming off a 10-year stretch that saw their reputations sink to catastrophic levels both domestically and internationally. In 1985, soccer reached its nadir in the country that invented the sport. Thirty-nine fans of the Italian club Juventus were killed by a collapsing concrete wall at Heysel Stadium during a European Cup match in Belgium following clashes instigated by supporters of Liverpool. After Heysel, English clubs were banned from competing in Europe indefinitely, a suspension that ended up lasting five seasons. That same year also saw one of the worst soccer riots in history between supporters of Millwall and Luton back in the U.K.

In addition to historic bouts of hooliganism, British soccer had to contend with dangerously deteriorating stadiums from the Victorian era. Just weeks before the tragic events at Heysel and just two months after the Millwall-Luton clashes, a horrific stadium fire at Bradford City resulted in 56 deaths.

By the end of the 1980s, English soccer was defined not by the achievements of the players, but by the violent reputations of the game?s fans and by stadium disasters. Margaret Thatcher?s government, notoriously antagonistic to the traditionally working-class sport, had started to treat soccer as a law-and-order issue and was clamoring for legislation that would require fans to show identification cards in order to attend games.

On April 15, 1989 the sport hit a new low point at an FA Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forrest at Hillsborough Stadium. Because of traffic jams on the road from Liverpool to Sheffield, streams of Liverpool fans arrived late to the game. Hillsborough Stadium did not have enough stewards to manage the rush of fans. Thousands of Liverpool supporters were hurried though gates into overcrowded standing-room terraces that were then typical of English football stadiums. Once those terraces were well beyond capacity, the fans were sent into holding ?pens.? The pens quickly became dangerously packed as the rush of fans continued.

Eventually, protective barriers between the fans gave way and scores of people were pressed against each other, causing a fatal ?crush.? Ninety-six people lost their lives, many dying from asphyxiation.

Top police and political officials attempted to scapegoat Liverpool supporters. Rupert Murdoch?s tabloid the Sun, citing false reports from anonymous sources in the South Yorkshire Police force and Parliament, claimed that Liverpool fans had robbed the dead, urinated on them, and prevented police and emergency services from doing their jobs.

?Initially, when all the Liverpool fans were blamed for having caused this there was a credibility to that because of the decade we had,? says Ian Ridley, author of There's a Golden Sky: How Twenty Years of the Premier League has Changed Football Forever.

(Only last week did the full truth come out, when the findings of a three-year long inquest into the Hillsborough tragedy were released. Not only did it definitively conclude that Liverpool supporters were not responsible for the deaths, it blamed the police for attempting to cover up their own faults by altering 146 police statements after the fact. Most disturbingly, police covered up the fact that some 41 lives could have been saved had the emergency response been swifter. In a speech before Parliament, Britain?s Prime Minister David Cameron apologized to the family members of the Hillsborough victims.)

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Gacy investigation solves case of missing man

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Daniel Noe went missing in 1978.

CHICAGO ? A search for victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has led authorities to solve an unrelated cold case ? a young man who vanished in 1978 while hitchhiking home to Illinois from Washington state.

Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Thomas Dart said Thursday that Daniel Raymond Noe, then 21, was living in Bellingham, Wash., and working as a surveyor and a factory employee. On Sept. 30, 1978, Noe called his father in Peoria, Ill., to tell him he would return home to complete college at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Noe was never heard from again.

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After reaching out to family and friends and getting no results, Noe?s family filed a missing persons report on Dec. 12, 1978, Dart said.

The sheriff?s office recognized Noe fit the profile of Gacy victims ? male, white, 14 to 25 years old, potentially traveling through the north side of Cook County hitchhiking or on a Greyhound bus.

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Gacy was convicted of murdering 33 young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy was executed in 1994, but authorities kept up the search for victims and last year renewed their efforts, Dart said.

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Detectives took DNA samples from Noe?s parents and sent them to the University of North Texas Center for Identification, looking to see if there was a match with DNA of suspected Gacy victims, he said.

DNA testing didn't provide a link to a Gacy victim, but did match remains found by hikers in 2010 on a steep side of Mount Olympus in Utah, not far from the Interstate 80 that was on Noe?s route home, Dart said.

According to his Bellingham roommate, Larry Wehking, Noe enjoyed mountain camping trips and loved the outdoors, Dart said.

Utah police searched the Mount Olympus area and found no signs of foul play, Dart said.

Chicago investigators finally confirm the identity of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's "Victim 19". WMAQ's Phil Rogers reports.

Dart?s office has solved numerous unrelated, cold missing-person cases and has collected over 40 DNA samples from family members of missing persons fitting the known Gacy victim profiles, the sheriff said.

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"While solving these cases is a bittersweet moment, the Cook County Sheriff's Office is pleased to give families some sort of closure regarding their missing loved ones."

Noe?s family, through his brother, Michael Noe, thanked authorities ?for their diligence in locating our loved one after a 34-year absence. Without their help we would not have closure, and Daniel would not be coming home to finally be laid to rest.?

Services for Daniel Noe will be held Monday and Tuesday in Washington and Illinois, Dart said.

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Venus Williams to play in Hopman Cup

PERTH, Australia (AP) ? Seven-time Grand Slam tournament winner Venus Williams will represent the United States in the Hopman Cup mixed-teams tournament later this year for the first time in her career.

Organizers said on Wednesday the 32-year-old Williams will team up with big-serving John Isner at the tournament in Perth, Western Australia, from Dec. 29 to Jan. 5. The teams will play a men's singles, a women's singles and a mixed-doubles match in each contest.

Williams and Isner are the second big-name pair confirmed for the tournament after Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic.

Williams said, "I've never played the Hopman Cup, so for me it's going to be a wonderful experience."

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