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US envoy in Egypt holds talks with rival sides

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's Interior Ministry warned supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday for a second time to abandon their protest camps as a senior U.S. diplomat met with officials on both sides of the country's political divide.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns extended his visit to Cairo by one day so he could meet military leader Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi and the country's prime minister on Sunday, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official said. A member of the pro-Morsi delegation that met Saturday with Burns said the four delegates also would meet again with the U.S. diplomat on Sunday for more talks.

At the core of talks is the political future of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies following the July 3 coup that ousted Morsi, the country's first freely elected president. The military coup, which followed several days of mass protests by millions of Egyptians demanding his ouster, also led to the dissolution of the Islamist-dominated parliament and the suspension of an Islamist-drafted constitution.

The Brotherhood says it is looking for concessions before beginning talks with their rivals. Such measures could include releasing detained Brotherhood leaders, unfreezing the group's assets, lifting a ban on its television stations and reigning in the use of force against its protesters.

Tarek el-Malt, who met with Burns and is a member of the Brotherhood-allied Wasat Party, said the delegation insisted that any initiatives for a way out of the crisis must center on the 2012 constitution being restored.

"Morsi would return to power in all cases," he told The Associated Press. "Whether he spends his full term in office or delegates his power to a national Cabinet is up for discussion."

However, Burns and others have signaled that the West has moved on from Morsi's presidency. Washington and others are foremost seeking stability in the Arab world's most populous nation, and have called for the Brotherhood's participation in the transition as a way to achieve national reconciliation.

The trip by Burns, his second to Cairo since the coup, comes amid heighted fears of more bloodshed after more than 80 Morsi supporters were killed in clashes with police a week ago. More than 280 people have been killed nationwide in political violence since Morsi's removal.

America's No. 2 diplomat also held talks Saturday with interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour and Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, as did the European Union's special envoy, Bernardino Leon.

Nevine Malak, who attended the same meeting with Burns as el-Malt as part of a delegation representing those against the coup, said the session was mainly for "listening." She said the group, which includes two members of the Brotherhood's political wing, would meet Burns again on Sunday.

"Any solution or any initiative must include the return of the (suspended) constitution," she told the AP. "We don't ignore the fact that there were masses that took to the streets, but we don't ignore either that what happened was a coup against legitimacy."

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy also met Burns and said Egyptian officials have made clear to their Western counterparts "there is no moving back." Fahmy also said the transitional roadmap adopted by the country's military-backed interim leaders is open to the Brotherhood for participation.

"There have been contacts between different figures, be they in government directly or indirectly, and those among the Brotherhood's leaders," Fahmy told journalists. He declined to describe those discussions as "negotiations."

Fahmy, who served as Cairo's ambassador to Washington under autocrat Hosni Mubarak, also said that key to the U.S. is "their interests in the region."

"I think they do that by assessing who's in power, who's not in power ... and how to deal with that situation given what their interests are," he said.

While Egyptian authorities say the political sphere is open to Morsi's allies, they are simultaneously outlining plans to break up the two main sit-ins where thousands of protesters still rally daily for Morsi's return to power. Authorities plan to set up a cordon around the sites while offering "safe passage" to those willing to leave.

In televised remarks Saturday, Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel-Latif urged Morsi's supporters to end their protests, saying it would help the Brotherhood's return to Egypt's political process. He repeated the offer from the ministry, which is in charge of police, to give a safe exit to those who abandon the sit-ins.

Meanwhile, Al-Qaida's leader Ayman al-Zawahri condemned Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in a message for having "tried its best to satisfy America and the secularists." He said that democracy is allowed only for those who agree to "be a slave for the West's ideology, action, policy and economy." The message's authenticity could not be independently confirmed but was posted on a militant website late Friday commonly used by al-Qaida.

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Associated Press writer Mariam Rizk contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-envoy-egypt-holds-talks-rival-sides-193724522.html

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West Virginia Lawmakers Criticize 'War on Coal' in Washington

The coal industry has traditionally opposed regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency. That conflict heightened recently after President Obama?s speech on the nation?s energy future, calling for stricter regulations on carbon emissions. This ?War on Coal,? as it was identified by political leaders in Washington, was immediately criticized by lawmakers across West Virginia leading them to a sit down with newly appointed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.

Source: http://www.governing.com/news/state/West-Virginia-Lawmakers-Criticize-War-on-Coal-in-Washington.html

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Hacking Group Linked To Chinese Army Caught Attacking Dummy Water Plant

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holy_calamity writes "MIT Technology Review reports that APT1, the China-based hacking group said to steal data from U.S. companies, has been caught taking over a decoy water plant control system. The honeypot mimicked the remote access control panels and physical control system of a U.S. municipal water plant. The decoy was one of 12 set up in 8 countries around the world, which together attracted more than 70 attacks, 10 of which completely compromised the control system. China and Russia were the leading sources of the attacks. The researcher behind the study says his results provide the first clear evidence that people actively seek to exploit the many security problems of industrial systems." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

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শনিবার, ৩ আগস্ট, ২০১৩

Amateur combat sports become legal

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For Immediate Release
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Aug. 2, 2013

Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development

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Amateur combat sports become legal

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VICTORIA The B.C. government has introduced new regulations that give clarity and confidence to the combat sport sector to allow amateur events to go forward, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Coralee Oakes announced today.

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Regulation of amateur combat sport events was required due to recent changes to the Criminal Code of Canada that have had a number of effects:

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???????? Allows provincial governments to exempt amateur combat sports from regulation if they are on the International Olympic or Paralympic Committee lists. The B.C. government is exempting these sports (boxing, wrestling, tae kwon do and judo) at this time.

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While sanctioning processes are still being developed, the BCAC expects that no amateur event will be negatively affected by the changes to the Criminal Code.

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Coralee Oakes, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development

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Judging from the volume of correspondence we received from the sector, I know how passionate organizations are about promoting amateur combat sport. I want to thank them for their patience while government took the time needed to make the right decision on regulations.

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BC Athletic Commissioner: http://www.cscd.gov.bc.ca/bcathleticcommission/

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Source: http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2013-2017/2013CSCD0053-001207.htm

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শুক্রবার, ২ আগস্ট, ২০১৩

Asheville baseball players accused of rape

Two baseball players with the Asheville Tourists are in trouble with the law.

Michael Mason and Jesse Meaux, both 23, are accused of rape.

Officials said Mason and Meaux were arrested and are each being held on $100,000 bond. Both are due in court Friday.

Mason and Meaux are relief pitchers.

Investigators said a woman told them the rape happened Saturday at the players' apartment on Ascot Point Circle.

Both of the players were suspended from the team pending the outcome of the investigation.? They have been removed from the roster on the team's website,

The Asheville Tourists are affiliated with the Colorado Rockies.

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Earlybird Venture Capital Closes Fourth Fund At $200M, Total ...

Earlybird Venture Capital has closed its fourth early stage fund at $200 million (?150 million).

Best known for providing capital to startups like Auctionata (which was started by an eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) PowerSeller) and EyeEm (which recently secured $6 million), Earlybird Venture Capital is one of the most successful venture capital partnerships in Europe.

The company's total capital under management now stands at $800 million (?650 million).

"People used to think that innovation would be a victim of recession in Europe," Jason Whitmire, a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, told Benzinga. "'Oh, what's gonna happen is, people are gonna run to all the established corporations and not startup companies.' The reverse has been happening. There's been an explosion of startups."

Related: What Every Entrepreneur Wants to Hear From an Angel

More and more European graduates are losing interest in the idea of working for big conglomerates like Siemens (NYSE: SI) and Daimler (OTC: DDAIF). Instead of joining an established firm, they are starting their own businesses and looking for employment at new companies that are bringing innovation to various industries.

Whitmire said that there are several reasons for this, including:

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  • It is much cheaper to start a company today than it was 10 years ago.
  • Entrepreneurs now have immediate access to two billion Internet users.
  • The ecosystem has evolved and can provide new businesses with the first $200k, $400k, $600k.
  • In the past, entrepreneurs were forced to raise a few million dollars early on. That is no longer necessary.

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Whitmire said that 80 percent of the entrepreneurs that Earlybird invests in are what he refers to as "repeat entrepreneurs."

"They've already been part of a management team that has exited, typically a startup company," he said. "These people are cycling their wealth and knowhow back into the ecosystem, and that's resulting in companies that are scaling much more quickly because these people typically know how to build companies more robustly."

That's not to say that Earlybird won't invest in passionate newcomers. On the contrary, Whitmire said that the firm has discovered several "very capable entrepreneurs" with big visions and deep product knowhow "that have not gone through the startup lifecycle to exit."

For those individuals, Whitmire said that Earlybird provides a lot of strategic coaching.

"No matter what, there are going to be great ups in the company and big downs in the company," he said. "As an investor you have to weather that and find ways to mitigate the bigger risks. For example, cash flow -- looking at their burn rate, just to make sure these guys don't run out of runway before we can raise a new round."

Inevitably, some companies will not make it past the startup realm. They may barely acquire customers, let alone turn a profit. That's just a part of the industry.

"These are young, volatile industries," said Whitmire. "The technology just doesn't work, sometimes the market comes too late, sometimes the founders themselves disintegrate.

"There's all these different pieces that can lead to that cataclysmic event. I think the most important thing is to try and see it on the horizon -- to already try and steer around it. Usually it's something that happens quarter after quarter. In measuring the metric you can start seeing this."

Louis Bedigian is the Senior Tech Analyst and Features Writer of Benzinga. You can reach him at 248-636-1322 or louis(at)benzingapro(dot)com. Follow him @LouisBedigianBZ

Source: http://www.benzinga.com/news/13/08/3805651/earlybird-venture-capital-closes-fourth-fund-at-200m-total-capital-now-at-800m

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