Stones to play long-awaited Glastonbury gig

PILTON, England (AP) ? This could be the last time, as Mick Jagger once sang. For the Rolling Stones, it's definitely a first.

The veteran rock rabble-rousers play Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, their debut appearance at the country's most prestigious rock music event.

Many of the 135,000 festival ticket-holders are expected to cram the space in front of the Pyramid Stage for the gig.

Jagger wouldn't reveal details of the set list in a pre-show BBC radio interview, saying "it's nice to have a bit of a surprise."

Jagger, who turns 70 in July, also gave no clue about whether the band he started with Keith Richards in 1962 will ever call it quits. He said, "I've no idea," before telling an interviewer that he'd probably continue as long as he was wanted.

The band recently played a string of North American dates on its "50 and Counting" tour and is due to play two concerts in London's Hyde Park next month.

The Stones turned down offers to play Glastonbury for years, but appear to have embraced the down-to-earth spirit of the festival, held on a farm in southwest England. On Saturday Jagger tweeted a picture of himself outside a yurt, a Mongolian-style felt tent where he reportedly spent the night.

Guitarist Richards said the band was "destined to play Glastonbury."

"I look upon it as a culmination of our British heritage really," he said. "It had to be done and it's going to be done, and we'll see what happens, you know."

The Glastonbury Festival was founded by Michael Eavis in 1970 on his Worthy Farm near Pilton, 120 miles (193 kilometers) southwest of London. It is famous for its eclectic lineup ? and the mud that overwhelms the site in rainy years.

Other performers on Saturday include Elvis Costello and Primal Scream.

But for many festivalgoers, the Stones were the main event.

?"I know the festival organizers have been trying to get hold of them for a long time, so there will be a brilliant atmosphere," said Adam Robinson, 25. "I predict there will be a massive sing-a-long."

The three-day festival wraps up Sunday with a headlining set from Mumford & Sons.

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Microsoft executive thought company owned Donkey Kong following Rare purchase

June 30th, 2013 Posted in General Nintendo, News, Posted by Brian

In collaboration with Nintendo, Rare worked on a number of Donkey Kong games, including Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong 64. It?s perhaps due to the studio?s strong involvement with the series that a Microsoft executive thought that the company owned the IP following its acquisition of Rare.

Former Rare staffer and Conker?s Bad Fur Day director Chris Seavor revealed on Twitter:

Donkey Kong was one of Nintendo?s first franchises, so it?s kind of hard to believe how out of the loop this Microsoft executive was!

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Cavendish covets Tour de France yellow jersey

British sprinter Mark Cavendish walks onto the stage during the official team presentation of the Tour de France cycling race in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island, France, Thursday June 27, 2013. The 28-year-old native of the Isle of Man, garnering him the "Manx Missile" moniker among fellow Britons and cycling buffs, is the best sprinter of his generation. Cavendish already has 23 Tour stage victories, putting him fourth on the all-time list. The race starts in Porto Vecchio on Saturday June 29, and the 198-rider peloton, or pack, is to cover 3,479 kilometers (2,162 miles) over three weeks, 21 stages and two rest days, before an unusual nighttime finish July 21 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

British sprinter Mark Cavendish walks onto the stage during the official team presentation of the Tour de France cycling race in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island, France, Thursday June 27, 2013. The 28-year-old native of the Isle of Man, garnering him the "Manx Missile" moniker among fellow Britons and cycling buffs, is the best sprinter of his generation. Cavendish already has 23 Tour stage victories, putting him fourth on the all-time list. The race starts in Porto Vecchio on Saturday June 29, and the 198-rider peloton, or pack, is to cover 3,479 kilometers (2,162 miles) over three weeks, 21 stages and two rest days, before an unusual nighttime finish July 21 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

British sprinter Mark Cavendish adjusts his hair as he walks onto the stage during the official team presentation of the Tour de France cycling race in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island, France, Thursday June 27, 2013. The 28-year-old native of the Isle of Man, garnering him the "Manx Missile" moniker among fellow Britons and cycling buffs, is the best sprinter of his generation. Cavendish already has 23 Tour stage victories, putting him fourth on the all-time list. The race starts in Porto Vecchio on Saturday June 29, and the 198-rider peloton, or pack, is to cover 3,479 kilometers (2,162 miles) over three weeks, 21 stages and two rest days, before an unusual nighttime finish July 21 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Spain's Alberto Contador, right, prepares to leave for a training ride in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island, France, Thursday June 27, 2013. The Tour de France cycling race starts in Porto Vecchio on Saturday June 29, and the 198-rider peloton, or pack, is to cover 3,479 kilometers (2,162 miles) over three weeks, 21 stages and two rest days, before an unusual nighttime finish July 21 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Spain's Alberto Contador answers questions of reporters during a press conference at his hotel in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island, France, Thursday June 27, 2013. The Tour de France cycling race starts in Porto Vecchio on Saturday June 29, and the 198-rider peloton, or pack, is to cover 3,479 kilometers (2,162 miles) over three weeks, 21 stages and two rest days, before an unusual nighttime finish July 21 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Spain's Alberto Contador prepares to leave for a training ride in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island, France, Thursday June 27, 2013. The Tour de France cycling race starts in Porto Vecchio on Saturday June 29, and the 198-rider peloton, or pack, is to cover 3,479 kilometers (2,162 miles) over three weeks, 21 stages and two rest days, before an unusual nighttime finish July 21 on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

PORTO VECCHIO, Corsica (AP) ? Soccer's World Cup. Football's Vince Lombardi Trophy. Hockey's Stanley Cup.

And, of course, the yellow jersey. No list of the most famous trophies in sports can be complete if it doesn't include that gaudy shirt from the Tour de France ? and British speedster Mark Cavendish aims to get his hands on the first one this year.

Over the next three weeks, 21 of them will be distributed at the 100th Tour. None will be more important than the last one ? worn by the overall winner on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on July 21: Many pundits believe that will be either Britain's Chris Froome or two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador of Spain.

But it would be a mistake to reduce the Tour to a two-horse race. Multiple heartbreaks, crashes and other dramas await over the meandering 2,110-mile trek along wind-swept sea sides, through flat plains and Alpine and Pyrenean mountain punishment, and even to a medieval island citadel in the English Channel.

The first story could be written by Cavendish: the "Manx Missile" is a favorite to win the mostly flat Stage 1 (132 miles) from Porto Vecchio to Bastia in the race debut on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on Saturday.

The Briton, whose muscle, timing and accelerations make him the finest sprinter of his generation, has already won other coveted prizes in his sport. In 2011, he won both the green jersey given to the best Tour sprinter and the rainbow-striped jersey awarded to cycling's road-race world champion.

The yellow jersey, however, has eluded his grasp.

"It's not just one of the most iconic symbols in cycling, it's one of the most iconic symbols in the world of sport," Cavendish said. "To be able to wear that for at least a day in your life, it's a thing to make any rider's career. It's a thing you dream about when you're a child. It would be a beautiful thing."

Cycling could use some beautiful things. This is the first Tour since Lance Armstrong was stripped of his record seven victories for doping, which he finally acknowledged on U.S. television after years of denials that were exposed as lies by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Despite millions spent on fighting drug use in the peloton, blasts from cycling's checkered past keep on coming: Ahead of this race, French media reported that a Senate investigation into the effectiveness of doping controls pieced together evidence that a urine sample provided by long-beloved French rider Laurent Jalabert contained EPO, cycling's designer drug, at the Tour of 1998.

Tour organizers will be hoping the racing drama of the next three weeks will push such miseries to the background.

In the traditional pre-race presentation, the 22 teams took a stage one after the other Thursday in Porto Vecchio, with its idyllic mountain backdrop on France's "isle of beauty." Hundreds of fans clapped politely, as white yachts stuck up like teeth from the shimmering blue Mediterranean.

Contador predicts an action-packed race in this comeback year for him. The 30-year-old Spaniard was stripped of his 2010 Tour title and missed out last year over a doping ban. He could be the biggest danger for Froome. Both riders excel in mountain climbs that feature heavily this year. But Contador said there would be more to this Tour than simply their rivalry.

"This year won't just be the story of two riders; we'll have more actors in this film," he said.

"This year will see more action than in past years," he added. Of Froome, he said: "I would have no motivation to be here if I thought I couldn't beat him."

Among longer-shot contenders are 2011 Tour winner Cadel Evans of Australia ? though at 36, his legs aren't the freshest ? and his young BMC teammate Tejay Van Garderen of the United States, plus Spaniards Alejandro Valverde of Movistar and Joaquim Rodriguez of Katusha.

Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour winner and a Sky teammate of Froome, is injured and sitting out this year. Last year, Froome was more impressive than Wiggins in the mountains, but that race was more heavily weighted to time trials ? Wiggins' specialty ? than in this year's edition.

Like Wiggins last year, Froome has had a nearly flawless run-up to the Tour: the 28-year-old Kenyan-born Briton won four of five races he started. He said he's confident, but not fond of the "favorite" moniker.

"It's an absolutely privilege for me to be in this position," he said, but "there is a certain amount of pressure that comes with it."

"Coming in as the race favorite sets that precedent of people looking to beat you ... so it definitely opens doors that people may be ganging up," he said, acknowledging the possibility that Valverde, Contador and Rodriguez might form a Spanish alliance against him.

Contador is high in Froome's mind.

"I don't think we have seen Contador at his best yet," he said. "His goal was never to perform well at any of the races building up to the Tour, but then to come to the Tour at his absolute best. I believe he'll be here at his best ? and that's what we'll expect."

Andy Schleck, who inherited the 2010 title stripped from Contador for testing positive for the muscle-building drug clenbuterol, said this year's mountainous course would have suited him under normal circumstances. But he's coming off a rough year, including a crash injury to his lower back that kept him out last year. The Luxembourg rider considers himself an "outsider," not a favorite.

The race spends three days on Corsica's winding, hilly roads. It then sets off on a clockwise run through mainland France along the Mediterranean, into the Pyrenees, then up to Brittany and the fabled Mont-Saint-Michel island citadel before a slashing jaunt southeastward toward the Alps before the Paris finish.

"The Tour's always full of surprises," said Garmin-Sharp team director Jonathan Vaughters, insisting his American squad could have contenders like Ryder Hesjedal of Canada and Andrew Talansky of the United States. "The easy answer is: Yes, it's Chris Froome vs. Alberto Contador, but I think we're going to try and make the answer not as easy."

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AP Sports Writer Jerome Pugmire contributed from Porto Vecchio.

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Chick-fil-A president denounces rulings on gay marriage

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Chick-fil-A, the Atlanta-based fast-food chain known for its chicken sandwiches, waffle fries and Christian evangelism, has once again positioned itself at the center of America?s gay marriage debate, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

On Wednesday, the company?s president, Dan Cathy, sent out a tweet criticizing the Supreme Court?s rulings, which extended federal recognition to same-sex marriages and paved the way for the return of gay marriage in California.

?Sad day for our nation; founding fathers would be ashamed of our gen. to abandon wisdom of the ages re: cornerstone of strong societies,? Cathy wrote. His post was later deleted, but not before the Atlanta-Journal Constitution obtained a screenshot of it.

The company issued a statement on Thursday saying the tweet reflected Cathy?s personal views and not necessarily those of all Chick-fil-A customers and employees. The company added that it is ?focused on providing great-tasting food and genuine hospitality to everyone.?

This wasn?t the first time that Cathy has publicly come out against same-sex marriage. In July 2012, the Chick-fil-A president and COO told the Baptist Press that he was ?guilty as charged? in his opposition, saying that he and his company were ?very much supportive of the family unit?the biblical definition of the family unit.?

During the same week, Cathy also appeared on a radio show, on which he said same-sex marriage was ?inviting God?s judgment on our nation.?

He added, ?I pray God?s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we would have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is all about."

Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A?s founder and chairman, Truett Cathy, has a history of grabbing headlines for his unapologetic brand of social conservatism. In February 2012, students at Boston?s Northeastern University protested a proposal to put a Chick-fil-A on their campus and the school abandoned its plans.

Later that year, Boston Mayor Tom Menino sent Cathy a letter, urging him to ?back out? of his plans to open new locations in Boston because of his views on same-sex marriage. The letter was published online soon afterward.

According to ABC News, Chick-fil-A?s WinShape Foundation donated $3.2 million to advocacy groups that oppose same-sex marriage between 2008 and 2010. The company has since agreed to stop funding anti-gay groups.

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Reports: Retired general target of leaks probe

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to media reports.

Retired Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright has been told he is a target of the probe, NBC News and The Washington Post reported Thursday. A "target" is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.

The Justice Department referred questions to the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore, where a spokeswoman, Marcia Murphy, declined to comment.

The investigation of the leak about the Iran cyberattack is one of a number of national security leak investigations that have been started by the Obama administration, including ones involving The Associated Press and Fox News.

In June 2012, the New York Times reported that Cartwright was a crucial player in the cyber operation called Olympic Games, started under President George W. Bush.

Bush reportedly advised President Barack Obama to preserve Olympic Games.

According to the Times, Obama ordered the cyberattacks sped up, and in 2010 an attack using a computer virus called Stuxnet temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges that the Iranians were using to enrich uranium.

Congressional leaders demanded a criminal probe into who leaked the information, and Obama said he had zero tolerance for such leaks. Republicans said senior administration officials had leaked the details to bolster the president's national security credentials during the 2012 campaign.

The Times said Cartwright was one of the crucial players who had to break the news to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden that Stuxnet at one point had escaped onto the Internet.

An element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it out on the Internet, the Times reported. After the worm escaped onto the Internet, top administration officials met to consider whether the program had been fatally compromised.

Obama asked if the program should continue, and after hearing the advice of top advisers, decided to proceed.

Cartwright, a four-star general, was cleared in February 2011 of misconduct involving a young aide. An anonymous accuser had claimed Cartwright acted inappropriately during a 2009 overseas trip on which the aide traveled as a military assistant. Several sources confirmed that the former aide was a young woman.

The Pentagon inspector general quickly cleared Cartwright of the most serious allegations, which involved claims that he may have had an improper physical relationship with the woman. The report did find that Cartwright mishandled an incident in which the aide, drunk and visibly upset, visited his Tbilisi, Georgia, hotel room alone and either passed out or fell asleep on a bench at the foot of his bed. Cartwright denied any impropriety and was later cleared of all wrongdoing.

Cartwright, once considered the leading candidate to become Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, resigned from the military in August 2011.

NBC said Cartwright did not respond to request for comment and that his attorney, former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, said he had no comment.

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Cameron Diaz Playing Miss Hannigan Is The Week's Most Important News

By Amelia Mularz Cameron Diaz...that old grouch. While we still may think of her as the hot girl who licked Jim Carrey's face in "The Mask," or the hot girl with the "hair gel" in "There's Something About Mary," or the hot girl (is this typecasting or what?) who boogied in her tighty whities in [...]

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'Glee' star Matthew Morrison engaged

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"Glee" star Matthew Morrison is engaged to his girlfriend Renee Puente, a fact he confirmed with a simple tweet, saying he was going to "marry my best friend!"

The news initially came out during Elton John's White Tie and Tierra Ball on Thursday, an event the couple often attend. Coldplay singer Chris Martin dedicated John's "Your Song" to the couple, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and then sang the tune with John himself.

The proposal appears to have been done earlier; E! Online reported that the couple arrived at the event with her already wearing a "huge sparkler" in the appropriate left-hand finger.

Morrison tweeted the news Thursday morning.

They reportedly began dating in 2011, and this will be a first marriage for both.

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Committee's Attack upon Lender's Make-Whole Premium Denied

By Shawn K. Watts?

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the ?Court?) recently upheld a $23.7 million make-whole payment (the ?Make-Whole Payment?) in In re School Specialty (Case No. 13-10125), denying the assertion by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (the ?Committee?) that the fee is unenforceable under the United States Bankruptcy Code and applicable state law.

In May of 2012, School Specialty Inc. (?School Specialty?) borrowed $70 million from Bayside Finance LLC (?Bayside?) pursuant to a credit agreement containing a make-whole provision designed to ensure that Bayside would receive its bargained-for yield in the event that School Specialty prepaid the loan.

Less than a year later, School Specialty breached the credit agreement?s minimum liquidity covenant, which triggered the borrower?s obligation to make the Make-Whole Payment. The parties thereupon entered into a forbearance agreement, which recognized the borrower?s obligation for the Make-Whole Payment.

Shortly thereafter, School Specialty filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy petition and sought an order approving debtor-in-possession financing to be provided by Bayside (the ?DIP Loan?). The DIP Loan request acknowledged School Specialty?s debt to Bayside, including a roll-up of the prepetition indebtedness into the post-petition DIP loan and the Make-Whole Payment. The Court approved the DIP Loan on an interim basis. Shortly thereafter, the United States Trustee appointed the Committee and the Committee thereupon filed a motion seeking to disallow the Make-Whole Payment claiming, among other things, that the Make-Whole Payment was an unenforceable penalty under New York state law because the amount was disproportionate to Bayside?s probable loss, the payment was an unreasonable fee under federal bankruptcy law, and the payment constitutes a claim for unmatured interest.

The Court denied the Committee?s motion and upheld the Make-Whole Payment. Under the basic federal rule in bankruptcy that state law governs the determination of property rights in the assets of a debtor?s estate, the Court applied New York law to analyze the enforceability of the Make-Whole Payment. The Court determined that prepayment premiums, such as the Make-Whole Payment, are enforceable under New York law: (1) when the actual damages are difficult to determine, and (2) the sum is not plainly disproportionate to the possible loss considering the reasonableness of the damages determined at the time of contract, not at the time of breach. In considering whether the amount of the Make-Whole Payment was plainly disproportionate to Bayside?s possible loss, the Court determined that the fee was calculated so that the lender would receive its bargained-for yield and the fee was the result of an arms-length transaction with which the Court should not interfere.

The Court next held that that, even if the reasonableness standard applicable to fees under 11 U.S.C. ? 506(b) is applicable to the Make-Whole Payment, such payment satisfied this standard because it was not an enforceable penalty nor plainly disproportionate to Bayside?s probable loss.

Finally, the Court held that the Make-Whole Payment was not a claim for unmatured interest, siding with the majority view that make-whole premiums should be analyzed as prepayment penalties rather than claims for unmatured interest.

By endorsing the general trend upholding make-whole payments when the credit agreement is clear and unambiguous, the stipulated amount is not plainly disproportionate to the lender?s potential loss, and the contract was the product of an arm?s length negotiation, the School Specialty decision should provide comfort to lenders that elect to structure and price their credit agreements using make-whole premiums.

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Xiaomi Launches Its Own Text Message Service

Users on Xiaomi devices will now be able to send international text messages faster and more reliably, it said. The Chinese smartphone maker just announced its enterprise international SMS platform at the Mobile Asia Expo event in Shanghai. The new service looks like it’ll rival Apple’s iMessage service in function, but is based entirely on SMS technology. That means that while iMessage requires a data or Wi-Fi connection, Xiaomi messages will go through SAP’s global gateway of over 990 operators globally, an SAP representative said. It will also likely be more reliable, because fewer packets are required to transmit SMS compared with data-based messages such as those exchanged over WhatsApp or iMessage. That means it’s more likely to send successfully if you have patchy connectivity, and will work if you’re traveling with data roaming switched off. SAP also said that the service won’t be an extra subscription for users since it’s based on SMS. Messages sent will just come out of your regular SMS quota or be charges as ordinary text messages. Xiaomi’s service is built on SAP’s SMS 365 platform (which SAP acquired by purchasing?enterprise messaging company?Sybase in 2010?for $5.8 billion).?Prior to its acquisition, Sybase was one of the world’s largest SMS and MMS exchanges in the world. In 2010, it delivered messages at a rate of 32,000 per second all year round. Xiaomi also has a consumer messaging app called Mi Talk?is a closer rival to Whatsapp?and WeChat. It has a relatively small base compared with the latter two, however. Mi Talk reportedly has about 23 million registered users, while WeChat has 300 million?and 50 million of those active monthly. WhatsApp has 200 million active monthly users. The launch of the messaging service follows Xiaomi’s recent launch outside of its home country to neighboring Taiwan and Hong Kong. The smartphone maker is known for its powerful but relatively low-priced smartphones.?The company?s newly launched flagship, the Mi-2S, is priced at just $373 (RMB 2299). Xiaomi reportedly makes 10 percent profit on its handsets, which exceeds the margins of other domestic players like Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo.

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'Shields to maximum, Mr. Scott': Simulating orbital debris impacts on spacecraft and fragment impacts on body armor

June 27, 2013 ? We know it's out there, debris from 50 years of space exploration -- aluminum, steel, nylon, even liquid sodium from Russian satellites -- orbiting around Earth and posing a danger to manned and unmanned spacecraft.

According to NASA, there are more than 21,000 pieces of 'space junk' roughly the size of a baseball (larger than 10 centimeters) in orbit, and about 500,000 pieces that are golf ball-sized (between one to 10 centimeters).

Sure, space is big, but when a piece of space junk strikes a spacecraft, the collision occurs at a velocity of 5 to 15 kilometers per second -- roughly ten times faster than a speeding bullet!

"If a spacecraft is hit by orbital debris it may damage the thermal protection system," said Eric Fahrenthold, professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, who studies impact dynamics both experimentally and through numerical simulations. "Even if the impact is not on the main heat shield, it may still adversely affect the spacecraft. The thermal researchers take the results of impact research and assess the effect of a certain impact crater depth and volume on the survivability of a spacecraft during reentry," Fahrenthold said.

Only some of the collisions that may occur in low earth orbit can be reproduced in the laboratory. To determine the potential impact of fast-moving orbital debris on spacecraft -- and to assist NASA in the design of shielding that can withstand hypervelocity impacts -- Fahrenthold and his team developed a numerical algorithm that simulates the shock physics of orbital debris particles striking the layers of Kevlar, metal, and fiberglass that makes up a space vehicle's outer defenses.

Supercomputers enable researchers to investigate physical phenomenon that cannot be duplicated in the laboratory, either because they are too large, small, dangerous -- or in this case, too fast -- to reproduce with current testing technology. Running hundreds of simulations on the Ranger, Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Fahrenthold and his students have assisted NASA in the development of ballistic limit curves that predict whether a shield will be perforated when hit by a projectile of a given size and speed. NASA uses ballistic limit curves in the design and risk analysis of current and future spacecraft.

Results from some of his group's impact dynamics research were presented at the April 2013 American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' (AIAA) meeting, and have recently been published in the journals Smart Materials and Structures and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. In the paper presented at the AIAA conference, they showed in detail how different characteristics of a hypervelocity collision, such as the speed, impact angle, and size of the debris, could affect the depth of the cavity produced in ceramic tile thermal protection systems.

The development of these models is not just a shot in the dark. Fahrenthold's simulations have been tested exhaustively against real-world experiments conducted by NASA, which uses light gas guns to launch 'centimeter' size projectiles at speeds up to 10 kilometers per second. The simulations are evaluated in this speed regime to insure that they accurately capture the dynamics of hypervelocity impacts.

Validated simulation methods can then be used to estimate impact damage at velocities outside the experimental range, and also to investigate detailed physics that may be difficult to capture using flash x-ray images of experiments.

The simulation framework that Fahrenthold and his team developed employs a hybrid modeling approach that captures both the fragmentation of the projectiles -- their tendency to break into small shards that need to be caught -- and the shock response of the target, which is subjected to severe thermal and mechanical loads.

"We validate our method in the velocity regime where experiments can be performed, then we run simulations at higher velocities, to estimate what we think will happen at higher velocities," Fahrenthold explained. "There are certain things you can do in simulation and certain things you can do in experiment. When they work together, that's a big advantage for the design engineer."

Back on land, Fahrenthold and graduate student Moss Shimek extended this hybrid method in order to study the impact of projectiles on body armor materials in research supported by the Office of Naval Research. The numerical technique originally developed to study impacts on spacecraft worked well for a completely different application at lower velocities, in part because some of the same materials used on spacecraft for orbital debris protection, such as Kevlar, are also used in body armor.

According to Fahrenthold, this method offers a fundamentally new way of simulating fabric impacts, which have been modeled with conventional finite element methods for more than 20 years. The model parameters used in the simulation, such as the material's strength, flexibility, and thermal properties, are provided by experimentalists. The supercomputer simulations then replicate the physics of projectile impact and yarn fracture, and capture the complex interaction of the multiple layers of a fabric protection system -- some fragments getting caught in the mesh of yarns, others breaking through the layers and perforating the barrier.

"Using a hybrid technique for fabric modeling works well," Fahrenthold said. "When the fabric barrier is hit at very high velocities, as in spacecraft shielding, it's a shock-type impact and the thermal properties are important as well as the mechanical ones."

Moss Shimek's dissertation research added a new wrinkle to the fabric model by representing the various weaves used in the manufacture of Kevlar and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (another leading protective material) barriers, including harness-satin, basket, and twill weaves. Each weave type has advantages and disadvantages when used in body armor designed to protect military and police personnel. Layering the different weaves, many believe, can provide improved protection.

Fahrenthold and Shimek (currently a post-doctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory) explored the performance of various weave types using both experiments and simulations. In the November 2012 issue of the AIAA Journal, Shimek and Fahrenthold showed that in some cases the weave type of the fabric material can greatly influence fabric barrier performance.

"Currently body armor normally uses the plain weave, but research has shown that different weaves that are more flexible might be better, for example in extremity protection," Shimek said.

Shimek and Fahrenthold used the same numerical method employed for the NASA simulations to model a series of experiments on layered Kevlar materials, showing that their simulation results were within 15 percent of the experimental outcomes.

"Future body armor designs may vary the weave type through a Kevlar stack," Shimek said. "Maybe one weave type is better at dealing with small fragments, while others perform better for larger fragments. Our results suggest that you can use simulation to assist the designer in developing a fragment barrier which can capitalize on those differences."

What can researchers learn about the layer-to-layer impact response of a fabric barrier through simulation? Can body armor be improved by varying the weave type of the many layers in a typical fabric barrier? Can simulation assist the design engineer in developing orbital debris shields that better protect spacecraft? The range of engineering design questions is endless, and computer simulations can play an important role in the 'faster, better, cheaper' development of improved impact protection systems.

"We are trying to make fundamental improvements in numerical algorithms, and validate those algorithms against experiment," Fahrenthold concluded. "This can provide improved tools for engineering design, and allow simulation-based research to contribute in areas where experiments are very difficult to do or very expensive."

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Hong Kong: US Got Edward Snowden's Middle Name Wrong

HONG KONG ? Hong Kong officials say the U.S. government got National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's middle name wrong in documents it submitted seeking his arrest.

Snowden hid in Hong Kong for several weeks after revealing secret U.S. surveillance programs. Hong Kong allowed him to fly to Moscow on Sunday, saying a U.S. request for his arrest did not fully comply with its requirements.

Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen said that discrepancies in the paperwork filed by U.S. authorities were to blame, although the U.S. Justice Department denied that Wednesday.

Yuen said Hong Kong immigration records listed Snowden's middle name as Joseph, but the U.S. government used the name James in some documents and referred to him only as Edward J. Snowden in others.

"These three names are not exactly the same, therefore we believed that there was a need to clarify," he said Tuesday.

Yuen said U.S. authorities also did not provide Snowden's passport number.

The decision to let Snowden leave Hong Kong irked the White House, which said it damaged U.S.-Chinese relations. U.S. officials implied that Beijing had a hand in letting Snowden leave Hong Kong, a former British colony that is now a semiautonomous region with its own legal system.

Hong Kong officials have pushed back, stressing that they followed the city's rule of law in processing the U.S. request.

The U.S. Justice Department rejected the notion Hong Kong had required clarification about Snowden's middle name ? or that it needed his passport number, saying the U.S. had provided to Hong Kong all that was required under the terms of their extradition treaty.

"The fugitive's photos and videos were widely reported through multiple news outlets. That Hong Kong would ask for more information about his identity demonstrates that it was simply trying to create a pretext for not acting on the provisional arrest request," a spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the department.

Yuen said the confusion over Snowden's identification and his passport were among factors that delayed an arrest. He said the government requested clarification from its counterparts in the U.S. on Friday afternoon.

"Up until the moment of Snowden's departure, the very minute, the U.S. Department of Justice did not reply to our request for further information. Therefore, in our legal system, there is no legal basis for the requested provisional arrest warrant," Yuen said. In the absence of such a warrant, the "Hong Kong government has no legal basis for restricting or prohibiting Snowden leaving Hong Kong."

Snowden flew from Hong Kong to Moscow and was expected to seek asylum in Ecuador.

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Stocks bounce higher on strong economic reports

In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, specialist Stephen Ruiz, left, and trader Michael Smyth work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Asian stock markets were mostly lower Tuesday June 25, 2013 as investors continued their flight from risky assets on the prospect of slower Chinese growth and the winding down of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus. European markets rebounded. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, specialist Stephen Ruiz, left, and trader Michael Smyth work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Asian stock markets were mostly lower Tuesday June 25, 2013 as investors continued their flight from risky assets on the prospect of slower Chinese growth and the winding down of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus. European markets rebounded. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are ending higher on Wall Street after several encouraging economic reports brought buyers back to the market.

Home prices jumped in April. Durable goods orders also rose and consumer confidence soared.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 100 points, or 0.7 percent, to close at 14,760 Tuesday. The Dow slumped 139 points the day before.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 14 points, or 1 percent, to 1,588. Telecommunications and bank stocks rose the most.

The Nasdaq composite rose 27 points, or 0.8 percent, at 3,347.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.60 percent from 2.54 percent late Monday.

The gains were broad. Four stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was average at 3.6 billion shares.

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Continued research needed on treatment for women with lung cancer who are never smokers

Public release date: 25-Jun-2013
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This lung cancer associated with EGFR mutation and ER expression

DENVER The incidence of lung cancer in women affects an estimated 516,000 women worldwide, of which 100,000 are in the United States and 70,000 in Europe. Until now, lung cancers occurring in women have been treated similarly to lung cancers in men. However, numerous studies have highlighted different characteristics of lung cancer in women.

Researchers at the University of Toulouse III in France aim to compare clinical, pathological and biological characteristics of lung cancer in cohorts of women smokers and women never-smokers. They looked at a total of 140 women, 63 never-smokers and 77 former/current smokers who had adenocarcinoma.

A study published in the July issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO), concludes that lung cancer in women who have never smoked is more frequently associated with EGFR mutations and estrogen receptor (ER) overexpression.

They observed differential genetic alteration repartition in women according to their tobacco status: 50.8 percent of never-smokers displayed an EGFR mutation versus 10.4 percent of smokers. In contrast, K-Ras was more frequently mutated in smokers (33.8%) than in never-smokers (9.5%). The researchers also observed a higher percentage of estrogen receptors (ER) ? expression in patients who never smoked when compared with smokers.

"These findings underline the possibility of treatment for women who have never smoked with drugs to target hormonal factors, genetic abnormalities, or both," the authors say.

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The lead author of the paper, Dr. Julien Mazieres, is currently the PI of a randomized phase II trial sponsored by the French Cooperative intergroup (IFTC) named "IFCT 10-03 - LADIE: Lung cancer in women treated with anti-oestrogens and inhibitors of EGFR " specifically dedicated to post-menopausal women. More information can be found at: http://www.ifct.fr/.

About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit http://www.iaslc.org.

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This lung cancer associated with EGFR mutation and ER expression

DENVER The incidence of lung cancer in women affects an estimated 516,000 women worldwide, of which 100,000 are in the United States and 70,000 in Europe. Until now, lung cancers occurring in women have been treated similarly to lung cancers in men. However, numerous studies have highlighted different characteristics of lung cancer in women.

Researchers at the University of Toulouse III in France aim to compare clinical, pathological and biological characteristics of lung cancer in cohorts of women smokers and women never-smokers. They looked at a total of 140 women, 63 never-smokers and 77 former/current smokers who had adenocarcinoma.

A study published in the July issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO), concludes that lung cancer in women who have never smoked is more frequently associated with EGFR mutations and estrogen receptor (ER) overexpression.

They observed differential genetic alteration repartition in women according to their tobacco status: 50.8 percent of never-smokers displayed an EGFR mutation versus 10.4 percent of smokers. In contrast, K-Ras was more frequently mutated in smokers (33.8%) than in never-smokers (9.5%). The researchers also observed a higher percentage of estrogen receptors (ER) ? expression in patients who never smoked when compared with smokers.

"These findings underline the possibility of treatment for women who have never smoked with drugs to target hormonal factors, genetic abnormalities, or both," the authors say.

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The lead author of the paper, Dr. Julien Mazieres, is currently the PI of a randomized phase II trial sponsored by the French Cooperative intergroup (IFTC) named "IFCT 10-03 - LADIE: Lung cancer in women treated with anti-oestrogens and inhibitors of EGFR " specifically dedicated to post-menopausal women. More information can be found at: http://www.ifct.fr/.

About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit http://www.iaslc.org.

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This Ghostly, Abandoned NYC Island Could Become a Special Needs School

New York City?s North Brother Island has lived many past lives, as a shipwreck site, a smallpox clinic, a tuberculosis colony, and a drug rehab facility, for starters. The 20-acre island, which sits between the Bronx and Riker?s Island, has been abandoned since the 1970s. But two architecture students are hoping to change that soon, with a proposal to build a school for autistic children on the island.

A daring kayaker trekked out there earlier this year to snap some erie pictures of what the abandoned place looks like now. In the 50 some-odd years since the island has been used, its crumbling, decrepit buildings have been overtaken by vegetation, and the land has become a nesting ground for water birds. It's a really cool spot that looks somewhere in between war ruins and farmland that you don't really believe exists in the Big Apple's backyard. And Ellis and Peterson want to build something that respects its integrity and provides for both kids, their parents, and the plant and wildlife that's set up shop on North Brother.

So what would the plan look like? The main school building would be built in the middle of the island, as to avoid bird's typical nesting grounds. Five of the existing buildings on the island would be restored for the school's use. Structures on the south end of North Brother would be revamped for use by the New York City Parks Department, Cornell University Department of Ornithology, and the Audubon Society.

The island would allow administrators to control the school environment more carefully, which makes it a good fit for kids with Autism, whose needs are often not met in traditional schools. There are different types of Autism?some kids are hypersensitive, meaning they need safety, control, and consistency. Others are hyposensitive, meaning they need to be able to explore and discover. With varying types of indoor and outdoor spaces, the island would be able to satisfy all of these needs. There would be a contained play area in the middle, so kids could explore; but they'd also have access to a controlled area if necessary. Classrooms would be mostly identical, but the scissor-shaped roof as well as gardens would provide nuance. The roof would also allow for enough natural light to enter the school without being totally overwhelming.

Overall, the designers would respect the way the island has grown as it's decayed. For example, the existing vegetation would be used to guide further plant growth and establish tidal flats. The harmony of manmade and natural structures is designed to benefit the students with special needs and the wildlife that needs protection equally?even the city stands to gain from the economic growth. Although for now, it's just that?a plan. For now the island remains empty, only accessible to birds and fearless explorers. [ArchDaily via BusinessInsider, SeriouslyForReal]

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PFT: Gators AD angry over Hernandez misreporting

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As the pace of the Odin Lloyd murder investigation appears, from an external perspective, to have slowed, a judge has ensured that the public will continue to be in the dark.

According to Christine McConville of the Boston Herald, the file has been sealed.

All records of the Attleboro District Court Clerk Magistrate?s office involving the homicide investigation in North Attleboro have been impounded by order of the court,? said a notice posted by Attleboro District Court Magistrate Mark E. Sturdy outside his office on Tuesday.? ?No further information is available at this time.?

This means that no documents will be given to the media, including search warrants or arrest warrants.

Meanwhile, police have not returned to Hernandez?s home today.? On Saturday, they searched the property for four hours.? On Monday, police searched a nearby pond, finding ?no evidence.?

The media stakeout at Hernandez?s home noticed that two men in ?business attire? arrived at Hernandez?s house in a BMW convertible on Tuesday.? They knocked on the door, made a phone call, and then were allowed inside.

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Gyorgy Scrinis on Nutritionism - Columbia University Press

The following post is by Gyorgy Scrinis, author of Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice:

Does the food you?re eating contain good or bad fats, good or bad carbs, vitamin D, fiber, calcium, antioxidants, cheap calories, or empty calories, and is it low-G.I., energy dense, or nutrient dense? Our language for describing food has itself become nutrient dense, even if many of the manufactured foods and drinks we consume are not.

Nutrition science and dietary advice have for many decades been characterized by a dominant focus on nutrients as the key to understanding the relationship between food and health, and a reductive interpretation of these nutrients. The ?truth? of the relationship between food and the body has been sought by nutrition experts?and definitive dietary advice has been communicated to the lay public?primarily at the level of nutrients, rather than at the level of foods and dietary patterns.

Such is the dominance of this ideology of nutritionism, as I refer to it, that until recently it has largely been taken-for-granted and remained unexamined. In Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice, I set out to deconstruct the origins and the characteristics of this understanding of food and nutrients, to explore its various manifestations and consequences, and to propose alternatives to nutritionism.

I reflect on various nutritional debates and controversies across three eras of nutritionism?the eras of quantifying nutritionism, good-and-bad nutritionism, and the contemporary era of functional nutritionism?and through a number of case studies, including the margarine versus butter debate, the battle between diets framed in terms of their macronutrient profile, and the emergence of so-called functional foods that are promoted by the food industry as capable of enhancing our health in a precise and targeted fashion.

The celebration of margarine as a more healthful spread than butter illustrates how a reductive and simplified interpretation of food in terms of supposedly ?good? and ?bad?fats led nutrition experts to ignore concerns over the highly processed and chemically reconstituted character of margarine, and to exaggerate its health benefits. From the 1960s, margarine was transformed from being a cheap imitation of butter, to being perceived as better than the original food it had been designed to simulate. The unveiling of the harmfulness of the trans-fats in margarine in the 1990s has ironically been used by nutrition experts to reinforce and extend the discourse of good and bad fats (trans-fats are now bad fats). Margarine varieties containing extracted and reconstituted plant sterols are now even celebrated as cholesterol-lowering, health-enhancing functional foods.

The primary way in which weight-loss diets have been promoted since the 1970s is in terms of their ratio of fat, carbs and protein. These diets are premised on the idea that the macronutrient ratio is the prime determinant of a food?s impacts on weight gain or weight loss, regardless of the particular foods in which these macronutrients are contained. The government-endorsed low-fat campaign that dominated the 1980s and 1990s was an early expression of this macronutrient reductionism, insisting that fat is bad, and by extension that reduced-fat foods are better than their high-fat equivalents. The Atkins-style low-carb diet has essentially been a mirror image of the low-fat ideology.

More recently experts have put their faith in the calorie and the energy-balance equation as the key to understanding and tackling the ?obesity epidemic?. This is based on the very nineteenth century idea of the uniform calorie: a calorie is a calorie, all calories are alike, calories-in/calories-out, etc. But food and beverages corporations have now learned to crack that nutritional code?just as they did with the low-fat advice?and to produce and market reduced calorie junk foods and soft drinks.

Nutritionism has also shaped governments? responses to regulating food production and consumption. This includes the shift to providing dietary advice to the public at the level of nutrients, and food labeling regulations that have prioritized nutrition facts rather than more detailed information on the nature and quality of a food and its ingredients. The nutricentric focus of government regulations has continued with the calls for calorie labeling, nutricentric traffic-light systems, and fat-taxes.

The food industry have greatly benefited from nutritionism in a number of ways. The focus on nutrients has drawn attention away from the type and quality of the food and ingredients in which these nutrients are contained. It has also opened up new ways of marketing food products through the use of nutrient-content and health claims. Nutritionism has also produced nutricentric persons?the subjects of nutritionism?who are open and susceptible to this nutritional marketing.

One of the manifestations of nutritionism in the contemporary era is the intense anxieties many people feel regarding the nutritional adequacy of their diets and even of whole foods. In the good-and-bad era, dietary advice was focused on avoiding the bad nutrients, and the fear of fat and cholesterol reigned. In the functional era, nutrition experts and the food industry now celebrate a wide range of supposedly health-enhancing, ?functional? nutrients and food components, such as omega-3 fats, antioxidants and vitamin D. But they have also promoted the idea that our health will be harmed if we are not consuming an ?optimal? level of these functional nutrients. Many people?including those who are otherwise healthy and eating diverse wholefoods diets?are concerned that they?re just not getting enough of these nutrients out if everyday foods, and are thereby compelled to seek these nutrients from fortified processed foods or nutritional supplements.

To criticize nutritionism doesn?t entail rejecting nutritional knowledge, but instead promoting other ways of studying and communicating the knowledge of nutrients, foods, and dietary patterns. My alternative paradigm?the food quality paradigm?also shifts the focus from nutrients to food production and processing quality, as well as to valuing traditional-cultural knowledge and sensible-practical experience. This means cultivating our food quality literacy, which is very much in line with the ethos of the so-called ?real food? movement.

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Pelosi's defense of NSA surveillance draws boos

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ? House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has disappointed some of her liberal base with her defense of the Obama administration's classified surveillance of U.S. residents' phone and Internet records.

Some of the activists attending the annual Netroots Nation political conference Saturday booed and interrupted the San Francisco Democrat when she commented on the surveillance programs carried out by the National Security Agency and revealed by a former contractor, Edward Snowden, The San Jose Mercury News reports (http://bit.ly/19fB6U4).

The boos came when Pelosi said that Snowden had violated the law and that the government needed to strike a balance between security and privacy.

As she was attempting to argue that Obama's approach to citizen surveillance was an improvement over the policies under President George W. Bush, an activist, identified by the Mercury News as Mac Perkel of Gilroy, stood up and tried loudly to question her, prompting security guards to escort him out of the convention hall.

"Leave him alone!" audience members shouted. Others yelled "Secrets and lies!," ''No secret courts!" and "Protect the First Amendment!," according to the Mercury News.

Perkel told the newspaper that he thinks Pelosi does not fully understand what the NSA is up to.

Several others in the audience walked out in support of Perkel.

"We're listening to our progressive leaders who are supposed to be on our side of the team saying it's OK for us to get targeted" for online surveillance, said Jana Thrift of Eugene, Ore. "It's crazy. I don't know who Nancy Pelosi really is."

Netroots Nation is an organizing and training convention for progressive political leaders. Pelosi was Saturday's keynote speaker at the event, which opened Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center and was scheduled to conclude Sunday.

Her remarks criticizing the Republican majority in the House and encouraging powerful women brought applause, cheers and laughs.

Associated Press

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Egypt Morsi Protests: Army Ready To Save Nation From 'Dark Tunnel,' Defense Minister Says

CAIRO ? Wading into an increasingly volatile fray, Egypt's military on Sunday gave the nation's Islamist rulers and their opponents a week to reach an understanding before planned June 30 opposition protests aimed at forcing out the president, in a toughly worded warning that it will intervene to stop the nation from entering a "dark tunnel."

The powerful military also gave a thinly veiled warning to President Mohammed Morsi's hard-line backers that it will step in if the mostly secular and liberal protesters, who have vowed to be peaceful, are attacked during the planned demonstrations.

In a bid to project a business-as-usual image, Morsi's office said in a statement late Sunday that the president met with the army's chief, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to discuss the "domestic scene and the government's efforts to maintain the security of the nation and the safety of its citizens." There was no mention of el-Sissi's warning.

Seeking to assert Morsi's seniority over el-Sissi ? the president is the supreme commander of the armed forces ? the brief statement, alluding to June 30, said he ordered the quick completion of plans to protect the state's strategic and vital installations.

The opposition argues that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, despite having won a series of elections since the 2011 revolution that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, have squandered their legitimacy with heavy handed misrule. It contends that the Islamists have encroached on the independence of the judiciary, sought to monopolize power, and pushed through an Islamist-backed constitution, breaking promises to seek consensus.

Morsi's supporters say the opposition has shunned his offers of dialogue and now are turning to force to remove him because they have been unable to compete at the ballot box.

On Sunday, a court compounded Morsi's troubles by saying members of his Muslim Brotherhood conspired with Hamas, Hezbollah and local militants to storm a prison in 2011 and free 34 Brotherhood leaders, including Morsi. Also, the most iconic youth figure of the 2011 revolution, Wael Ghonim, called on Morsi to step down before June 30 to prevent bloodshed.

Both sides say they intend to be peaceful on June 30, but many fear the day could descend into violence. There are worries young protesters could attack offices of the Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party. Some of Morsi's hard-line supporters have vowed to "smash" the protests or have declared protesters infidels who deserve to be killed.

"Those who will spray Morsi with water will be sprayed with blood," warned one cleric.

El-Sissi, weighed in with his first public comments on the planned protests while addressing officers at a seminar Sunday.

It was his most direct warning yet that the military ? which ruled Egypt directly after Mubarak's fall until Morsi's June 30, 2012 inauguration ? could step in.

He said the country's divisions had reached a point that they were a danger to the state itself.

"Those who think that we (the military) are oblivious to the dangers that threaten the Egyptian state are mistaken. We will not remain silent while the country slips into a conflict that will be hard to control," he said in his comments, made public on the military's Facebook page.

Ostensibly, el-Sissi addressed both sides. But his demand for "genuine reconciliation" seemed to be a nod toward the opposition's stance that Morsi's past gestures of "dialogue" have been empty and a signal to him that he must make compromises.

"It is the most powerful public and direct message from the military to the president," said analyst Abdullah el-Sinnawi, thought to be close to the military. "I see this as a warning of a coup if Morsi does not find a solution."

Another analyst, Gamal Abdel-Gawad of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic studies, said the comments signaled a change in the military's position.

"We are in a different phase now. He (el-Sissi) is giving a deadline for a solution to the president to do what he can do or else they will be forced to intervene," he said.

El-Sissi appeared to lower the threshold for what warrants intervention by the military. In earlier pronouncements, he cited the collapse or near collapse of the state.

On Sunday, however, he said the military has a "patriotic and moral responsibility" to stop Egypt from "slipping into a dark tunnel of conflict or internal fighting." He said sectarian violence and the collapse of state institutions would also justify intervention.

He urged all parties to reach a "genuine reconciliation" to defuse the crisis before June 30.

"We have a week during which a great deal can be achieved. This is a call that is only motivated by love of the nation, its presence and future," he said.

In a thinly veiled warning to Morsi's hard-line backers, el-Sissi said: "It is not honorable that we remain silent in the face of the terrorizing and scaring of our Egyptian compatriots. There is more honor in death than watching a single Egyptian harmed while the army is still around."

El-Sissi also warned that the military will no longer tolerate any "insults" to the armed forces and its leaders, apparently a reference to a series of comments by figures from the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, that were perceived by the military as derogatory.

After its post-Mubarak period of direct rule, the powerful military has largely stayed out of the political fray. Soon after his inauguration, Morsi pushed the military's top two generals into retirement, ending the de facto military rule of Egypt that dates back to a 1952 coup that toppled the monarchy.

Morsi appointed el-Sissi as military chief and defense minister, leading many to believe the general would be beholden to the president. But el-Sissi, through a series of subtle but telling hints, has shown a significant level of independence as well as displeasure over the policies of the Morsi administration.

Morsi's comrades in the Brotherhood have made it clear that they want the military to focus entirely on protecting the nation against outside threats, but el-Sissi has countered by making clear that maintaining the security and stability of the nation was part of the military's mandate.

Protest organizers say they will bring out crowds across the country, building on public anger over a host of problems in the country, from surging crime and rising prices to fuel shortages, power cuts and unemployment. The protests call for Morsi to step down and early elections to be held at the end of a short transitional period.

Sunday, another prominent figure from the anti-Mubarak uprising, Ghoneim, weighed in with a video posted on his Twitter account saying it was time for Morsi to go.

"I was hoping that I would thank (Morsi) for what he has done for Egypt a year after he took office. But regrettably, the conditions in Egypt now are very grave," Ghoneim said. "Please stop the strife we are approaching, for the sake of God and country, and resign before June 30."

The report issued by a court in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia added to Morsi troubles. The court statement read by judge Khaled Mahgoub named two members of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood as among the conspirators along with Hamas and Hezbollah members in an attack on Wadi el-Natroun prison on Jan. 29, 2011.

The judge said his court would refer the evidence and testimonies it gathered to prosecutors so they can start their own investigation.

Morsi and the 33 Brotherhood leaders who were in jail in 2011 have maintained that they were freed by local residents. Hamas, the Palestinian chapter of the Brotherhood, has denied involvement in the attacks on prisons.

The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party said Sunday's court statement on the Wadi el-Natroun prison break was "void and illegal." It posted on its Twitter account that Mahgoub "will end like any other judge who did not respect the law or the constitution."

The prison breaks took place during the 18-day popular uprising that toppled Mubarak's regime. The breaks involved about 11 of Egypt's 41 prisons and led to a flood of some 23,000 criminals onto the streets, fueling a crime wave that continues to this day.

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Associated Press reporter Maggie Michael and Tony G. Gabriel contributed to this report.

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