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Can you hear it?
Can you smell it?
Can you see it?
Can you feel it?
Then it must be.
I can hear the silent sobs
from the girl next door.
Can her family not?
Do they not realize
what is barely hanging
from a thread?
I can smell the fear
from the girl next door.
Can her family not?
Do they not realize
what is barely hanging
from a thread?
I can see the blood
from the girl next door.
Can her family not?
Do they not realize
what is barely hanging
from a thread?
I can feel the pulse
from the girl next door.
Can her family not?
Do they not realize
what is barely hanging
from a thread?
She did not know
that I was there.
She merly thought.
Thought she was alone.
It must have been real.
I am at her funeral now.
There her mothers cries.
There her brothers hides.
There her fathers battle.
There her sister dies.
Her mothers criy,
for a daughter lost.
Her fathers battle,
within themselves.
Her brothers hide,
the smell of drugs.
Her sister dies,
from the loss.
The loss of the only
thing she had.
I can. Can you?
?You don?t know what goes on in anyone?s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person?s life, you?re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can?t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person?s life, you?re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.?
? Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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By Maggie Fick and Peter Graff
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prosecutor ordered the arrest on Wednesday of the leaders of ousted President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with inciting violence that saw 55 of their members shot dead.
A week after the army toppled Egypt's first democratically elected leader, the bloodshed on Monday has opened fissures in the Arab world's most populous country, with levels of bitterness unseen in its modern history.
Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said the announcement of charges against leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior figures was a bid by authorities to break up a vigil by thousands of Mursi supporters demanding his reinstatement.
The leaders were charged with inciting the violence which began before dawn, when the Brotherhood says its followers were fired on while peacefully praying. The army says terrorists provoked the shooting by attacking its troops.
The past week's violence alarmed Western donors and Israel, which has a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Washington, treading a careful line, has neither welcomed Mursi's removal nor denounced it as a "coup", which under U.S. law would require it to halt aid including the $1.3 billion it gives the army each year.
The Brotherhood's downfall has been welcomed by wealthy Gulf states Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which offered Egypt $8 billion in aid on Tuesday.
The charges against the Brotherhood leaders were "nothing more than an attempt by the police state to dismantle the Rabaa protest", Haddad said by telephone from the vigil at Rabaa Adaweya mosque in northeast Cairo. He said some of the leaders whose arrest was being sought were at the site of the protest.
"What can we do? In a police state when the police force are criminals, the judiciary are traitors, and the investigators are the fabricators, what can one do?"
RAMADAN OVERSHADOWED
In addition to Badie, prosecutors ordered the arrest of others including his deputy, Mahmoud Ezzat, and outspoken party leaders Essam El-Erian and Mohamed El-Beltagi.
The new interim prime minister on Wednesday reached for liberals to revive a shattered economy as he began forming a government to try to heal the bitterly divided nation. Egyptians had hoped the start of the Ramadan Muslim fasting month would cool passions but it has been overshadowed by rancor.
Hazem el-Beblawi, a 76-year-old economist and former finance minister named to head the cabinet on Tuesday, told Reuters he would start selecting ministers and would begin by meeting liberal politicians Mohamed ElBaradei and Ziad Bahaa el-Din.
Both are prominent figures in the National Salvation Front, the main secularist group that led protests against Mursi.
Both also support a stalled $4.8 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund, which would require Egypt to make politically painful reforms to subsidies for food and fuel that support its 84 million people but drain its finances.
Beblawi accepted that it would be a challenge to find a cabinet line-up with universal support. "I don't believe that anything can have unanimous approval," he told Reuters.
"Of course we respect the public opinion and we try to comply with the expectation of the people but there is always a time of choice. There is more than one alternative, you cannot satisfy all of the people."
BROTHERHOOD CONDEMNS "FASCIST COUP"
The Brotherhood has said it will have nothing whatsoever to do with a government of what it calls a "fascist coup".
Beblawi was named prime minister by the military-backed interim head of state installed after the army removed Mursi. ElBaradei, a former U.N. diplomat, has been named vice president. Bahaa el-Din, a former head of Egypt's investment authority, has been touted for senior posts.
The promised cash, loans and fuel from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will go a long way to easing a deep economic crisis that has worsened during two and a half years of instability since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was swept from power by a popular revolt.
But the Gulf money could also reduce the incentive for Egypt to make the subsidy reforms the IMF says are needed to stabilize public finances, draw investment and rekindle economic growth.
Despite the violence that followed Mursi's removal, the interim authorities are proceeding with the army's "road map" to restore civilian rule. On Tuesday they announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it, and a timetable for elections beginning in about six months.
Those moves already demonstrated the difficulty achieving political consensus, even among Mursi's opponents. The secularist NSF initially rejected the interim constitution, as did Islamists and others, although on Wednesday the NSF withdrew its rejection and issued a new, milder criticism.
Beblawi has indicated he would be open to offering cabinet posts to Islamists, including Brotherhood figures, although it seems impossible to imagine the Brotherhood accepting.
NOUR PARTY ASCENT
The authorities are courting the approval of Egypt's second largest Islamist group, the ultra-orthodox Nour Party, to demonstrate that Islamists will not be repressed as they were for decades under military-led rule.
Nour officially withdrew from politics in response to Monday's violence but has said it does not object to Beblawi's appointment and will assist his government.
Nour spokesman Nader Bakkar said on Wednesday the group would not accept posts in the new cabinet but would offer "consent and advice to help the cabinet pass through the transition period as soon as possible and with minimum damages".
"We are waiting to help. We are ready to advise but for the time being we still take the decision not to participate in the political process until the judiciary committee gives its report about what happened (on Monday)."
Bloodshed has abated since Monday's incident, the deadliest since Mubarak's fall, apart from a 2012 soccer stadium riot.
However, there are fears that the political violence could lead to a breakdown in security, especially in the lawless Sinai peninsula region bordering Israel.
Two people were killed and six wounded overnight when Islamist militants attacked a Sinai checkpoint.
On Tuesday Israeli troops found the remains of a rocket they believe was fired across the border from Egypt.
(Reporting by Maggie Fick and Tom Perry; Writing by Peter Graff, editing by Peter Millership)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-looks-forward-elections-back-week-bloodshed-010843122.html
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Reuters/Lucy Nicholson An inmate reads a book in a gymnasium where they are housed due to overcrowding at the California Institution for Men state prison in Chino, California, June 3, 2011.
Prisoners refused meals for a second day on Tuesday in about two dozen jails, signalling what was thought to be the biggest protest of its kind in California's history.
The campaign is a ramped-up sequel to hunger strikes in 2011, which shone international attention on the state's troubled penal system but failed to wring significant concessions from authorities.
A group of inmates at the maximum security Pelican Bay state prison in Crescent City has organised the protest, saying they will starve themselves unless the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) agrees to meaningful negotiations.
At any one time, California holds about 12,000 inmates in extreme isolation, including some who have been in windowless boxes known as security housing units (SHUs) for decades. They are allowed out for an hour a day to exercise ? some in a yard, others in a kennel-size cage.
Supporters say the strike is a legitimate response to cruel and inhumane conditions. "The use of prolonged solitary confinement is a form of torture," said Laura Downton, director for US Policy and Program at the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. "We stand with them in their call for five core demands."
The strikers have issued a number of demands, including the end to group punishment, an overhaul to the policy of identifying suspected gang members, an end to long-term solitary confinement, better education and rehabilitation programmes, and the provision of adequate and nutritious food.
The principal grievance is California's unusual policy of indefinitely putting suspected gang members in solitary and moving them back into the regular jail only if they identify fellow gang members.
The protest has united black, Latino and white inmates, including members of racist gangs. "It's phenomenal. They are coming together because they know in unity is where ultimate victory lies," said Dolores Canales, co-founder of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement.
"The mood is hopeful, but this also shows how hard things are. They are sacrificing the one thing that is given to them to keep them alive." Many family members on the outside have joined the strike, she said.
The Pelican Bay leaders had defied their isolation, and the supposed mutual loathing between racial groups, to organise the mass protest, said Laura Magnani of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker advocacy group. "Prisoners have to communicate and find ways to do it. They have a grapevine. It's amazing."
Inmates in two-thirds of the state's 33 jails, as well as four out-of-state jails, started refusing meals on Monday, said corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton. Inmates are deemed to be on hunger strike if they skip nine meals. Authorities said that about 30,000 are classified to be taking part on the action.
Meanwhile, around 2,300 prisoners also refused to turn up for work or classes, some citing illness.
At its peak, the 2011 hunger strike, also led by Pelican Bay inmates, drew about 12,000 inmates in about 11 jails. It ended after authorities promised to consider reforms.
The California assembly held hearings, and the gang validation procedure was tweaked so an inmate would be deemed a gang member based on behaviour, not on association with other inmates.
But what inmates saw as insufficient change and follow-up prompted the new protest, which has been planned for months.
"Our decision does not come lightly," said a June 20 letter from the Pelican Bay leaders. "For the past two years we've patiently kept an open dialogue with state officials, attempting to hold them to their promise to implement meaningful reforms, responsive to our demands."
It said its leaders had participated in a mediation session ? ordered by a judge in their class action lawsuit ? but that authorities acted in bad faith.
"Thus we are presently out of alternative options for achieving the long overdue reform to this system and, specifically, an end to state-sanctioned torture, and now we have to put our lives on the line via indefinite hunger strike to force CDCR to do what's right.
"We are certain that we will prevail ? the only questions being: How many will die starvation-related deaths before state officials sign the agreement? The world is watching!"
The start of the protest, though more than double the size of the previous one, has generated some local media attention but not made national headlines as yet.
The use of solitary confinement spread from federal to state penitentiaries, especially in California, which said gang violence behind bars required isolation cells to separate the "worst of the worst".
The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, a union representing 27,400 members, has defended their right to select inmates for solitary confinement and to determine the punishment's duration, saying it helps to tamp down violence.
Terry Downton, of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, said the policy caused psychological harm and worsened violence. "After 15 days in isolation the chemistry of the brain begins to change ? leading to increasing rates of hallucinations, paranoia and self-mutilation. It has become a default management tool rather than a tool of last resort."
This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/california-prison-hunger-strike-2013-7
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MLB trade rumors have several players possibly moving from their present clubs out of town. One thing about MLB trade rumors: They're just rumors until a deal is made.
MLB trade rumors: Philadelphia Phillies' Jimmy Rollins in action during a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Monday, July 8, 2013, in Philadelphia.
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There are a number of teams in both the American (AL) and National (NL) Leagues who could be either buyers or sellers by the 4 p.m. Eastern time trade cutoff on July 31. The biggest lead in any MLB division is currently held by the Atlanta Braves in the NL East, a five-game margin over the Washington Nationals.
Staying in the senior circuit, right behind the Braves and Nationals in the East are the Philadelphia Phillies. They have a veteran team that could be on the verge of being broken apart in order to shed big contracts and get younger.?Second baseman Chase Utley's name has been bandied about as a possible trade target. Relief pitcher Jonathan Papelbon also could find himself heading out of town, if the right deal can be made.
In the NL Central, there's a tight race between the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cincinnati Reds. The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers bring up the rear in the division. Cubs president Theo Epstein, who helped create a two-time World Series-winning Boston Red Sox club, is looking to re-tool the Cubs in a similar fashion, and has chips like outfielder Alfonso Soriano and pitcher Matt Garza to deal.
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Spanish River coach Rick Rothman will serve as a coach for the United States Junior Track & Field team at the 19th Maccabi Games in Israel. ?The games are considered the Jewish Olympics and take place every four years, the year after the Olympics. 
One of Rothman's former vaulters, Rob Fellman who went onto vault at the University of Maryland is the Track and Field and Half Marathon Chairman for Maccabi USA and asked him if he would be interested in joining the staff in 2009. Rothman says it was a great in experience the first time and something he couldn't turn down when asked again.
"It was a terrific cultural, athletic, and religious journey. We had a great team, great people, and a great trip. The decision to go again was easy when they asked."
The cultural part of the trip is something very important to Rothman. A lot of these athletes will be making their first trip to one of the holiest places in the world.
Since the athletes on the United States team are from all over the country, Rothman relies on workouts from their current coaches. The event runs from July 17-July 30th so the coach only works with them for three weeks. He says he wants them to maintain the schedules they are currenly on and his goal is to help prepare them for international competition.
Rothman will be familiar with several of the coaches as well as athletes. Spanish River assistant coach Melissa Perlman is also on the coaching staff while Alex Smolka, the FAU head coach will serve as the coach for the open athletes. On Rothman's roster, will be current Spanish River runner Jordana Kimelman and Halli Mel.and of Ransom Everglades. Rothman hopes his athletes can experience everything the Maccabi Games has to offer.
"My goal for these athletes is that I want them to have a great athletic as well as cultural experience while in Israel."
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Victoria and David's trip to China brought us a flurry of Beckham Twitter activity, including a snap of VB grinning (yes, really), but now home she is still tweeting about China as she revealed her Vogue China cover.
For her cover shot by Josh Olins she wears a nude lace strapless bodice, with Tiffany & Co hoop earrings and her hair slicked back into a tight pony. It's simple but oh so stylish. The fashion bunny also tweeted the picture of her cover and a snap of her posing on a sofa in stilettos with the caption 'Do you like my couch?' Once again proving to us that she does have a sense of humour via her Twitter account.
In the mag she opens up about juggling being a mother of four and running her expanding fashion empire: 'When you are successful the hardest thing is maintaining that level of success, so you work harder to maintain what you have achieved.' She added: 'It's a huge juggling act, when you are a working mother and looking after your family, millions and millions of women around the world are doing this every day. But it's not easy and yes, you feel guilty every time you walk out of the door to go to work!'
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The Spice Girl also revealed that she feels prouder when she sees a woman wearing Victoria Beckham than standing on a stage in front of thousands of screaming fans. She said: 'I have been in the limelight for over 20 years/ I am not on an ego trip, empowering women and making them feel sexy and great when they wear my clothes means more than thousands of people clapping. Empowering women is what makes me feel good.'
In her interview she also gives a shout out to her fans in China as she said: 'I love China. The women really understand fashion and I can honestly say the women who come to my events are some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. They have remarkable bodies and are happy and positive and I love that. I think they know what looks good, how to accessorise and have beautiful hair and flawless skin.' She added: 'When I come to China I get given many little gifts and notes from the fans and that genuinely means a lot to me.'
Victoria has come a long way since the Cavalli days, as she has made the giant leap from a hair-extension wearing WAG with a weakness for cut-outs to a slick, acclaimed fashion designer. The Vogue China cover cements her status as a fashion force to be reckoned with.
See how Victoria Beckham went from a Spice Girl to Vogue China cover girl in the gallery below...
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