Muslim Brotherhood refuses to accept ban

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CAIRO – The Muslim Brotherhood said Sunday that it will fight the
banning of its candidate forpresident that has thrown Egypt's move
toward elected civilian rule into disarray and threatens a return to
massive street protests.
"We do not accept it. We will challenge it," said Gehad El-Haddad, a
member of the steering committee for the Renaissance Project, which is
at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential campaign.
Ten presidential candidateswere barred from contesting the nation's
top job in a decision announced Saturday by thepresidential election
commission, five weeks before the presidential raceis set to begin in
May.
The decision comes at the tail end of a week marred by a slew of
shocks and shifts — from a candidate jumble to a march on Tahrir
Square — that persisted in shaking the pre-election period.
"There is a continuously increasing state of confusion," Egyptian
writerand blogger Bassem Sabry said.
Among the 10 deemed ineligible to run, three were front-runners in the
race for Egypt's presidency.
They are former head of intelligence Omar Suleiman , Muslim
Brotherhood nominee Khairat al-Shater and Hazem Salah Abu Ismail , a
lawyer who supports an Islamic state such as Iran's. All three are
appealing the decisions.
Disqualified by conviction
The Brotherhood's lawyer, Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud, said Sunday that
the exclusion does not comply with applicable laws. Shater was
disqualified because of a previous criminal conviction. The group is
continuing with Shater's campaign until the electionjudge issues a
final verdict.
"At the moment, our position is that this is the continuation of the
policiesof (ousted president Hosni) Mubarak," Haddad said, adding that
his organization believes the decision is primarily targeted at Shater
and Abu Ismail who are "strong Islamic candidates."
Abu Ismail, who has seen a surge of support, has denounced American
influence and demanded an end to Egypt's peace treaty with Israel.
He was barred from the race because his mother is a U.S. citizen.
(Egyptians holding foreign passports or born to foreign parents are
disqualified.) He has sued, demanding proof of the claim from the
Interior Ministry.
"I'm guessing the Abu Ismail supporters are goingto respond in a very
exaggerated manner," Sabry said about the candidate's backers,
knownhere as Hazemoon . "I thinkit will be manageable if Suleiman
stays out of the race, … but if he is the only one allowed back in,
then it will spark extreme national unrest."
Anticipating the possibility that Shater might be disqualified, the
Muslim Brotherhood dashed last week to field the head of the
Brotherhood's Freedomand Justice Party , Mohammed Morsi, as a backup
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Smile Plz

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When you smile it like a sunrise to me. and I want a daily sunrise in
my life. so so. so.. so so keep SMILING...

A gun can kill someone. Fire can burn someone. Wind can chill. Anger
can rage till it tears u apart. But d power of ur smile can heal some1

Help ever,hurt never. Luv ever, hate never. Smile ever,cry never. KEEP SMILING!

Tears are more truthful than smile because you can smile in front of
everyone but you will onlycry in front of one who is special for you.
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Shift workers 'risking'Type 2 diabetes and obesity

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Shift workers getting too little sleep at the wrong time of day may be
increasing their risk of diabetes and obesity, according to
researchers.
The team is calling for more measures to reduce the impact of shift
workingfollowing the results of its study.
Researchers controlled the lives of 21 people, including meal and bedtimes.
The results, published in Science Translational Medicine , showed
changes to normal sleep meant the body struggled to control sugar
levels.
Some participants even developed early symptomsof diabetes within weeks.
Shift work has been associated with a host of health problems.
Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in the US, were trying to
study its effects in a controlled environment.
Lower insulin levels
The 21 health-trial participants started with 10 hours' sleep at
night. This was followed by three weeks of disruption to their sleep
and body clocks.
The evidence is clear thatgetting enough sleep is important for
health, andthat sleep should be at night for best effect"
Dr Orfeu Buxton
Brigham and Women's Hospital
The length of the day was extended to 28 hours, creating an effect
similar toa full-time flyer constantly getting jet lag.
Participants were allowed only 6.5 hours' sleep in the new 28-hour
day, equivalent to 5.6 hours in anormal day. They also livedin dim
light to prevent normal light resetting the body clock.
During this part of the study, sugar levels in the blood were
"significantly increased" immediately after a meal and during"fasting"
parts of the day.
The researchers showed that lower levels of insulin - the hormone that
normally controls blood sugar - were produced.
Three of the participants had sugar levels which stayed so high after
their meals they were classified as "pre-diabetic".
They also highlighted a riskof putting on weight as thebody slowed down.
"The 8% drop in resting metabolic rate that we measured in our
participants... translates into a 12.5-pound increase in weight over a
single year," they wrote.
Clearly, this does not equate to the normal experience of shift
workers... it is not possible to conclude that the findings would
translate to real conditions in the wider public" / :-: Translator :-:
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Taliban military chief held after secret talks with Afghan envoys

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The head of Taliban's military council is to be tried by the jihadist
group for having engaged in unauthorised negotiationswith
Afghanistan's Higher Peace Council, intelligence sources have told The
Hindu .
Maulvi Muhammad Ismail was held by the Taliban in early April, two
weeks after he returned to Pakistan after a meeting with envoys from
the Higher Peace Council in the United Arab Emirates. His secret
negotiations with Kabul, the sources said, may have led the Taliban to
stage Sunday's attacks in Kabul — unprecedented in their scale — to
warn against future attempts to infiltrate its ranks.
Few details were availableon Mr. Ismail's arrest, which was impossible
to independently verify. Military sources in Kabul, however, said he
was replaced by Mullah Nasir, earlier the head of Taliban operations
in Ghazni. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the
sources alleged, had unearthed Mr. Ismail's negotiation efforts, and
insisted that the Taliban crack down on it.
Taliban negotiations with the United States in Doha broke down after a
stalemate developed over the release of five prisoners held in
Guantanamo Bay. The Taliban negotiation team is made up of Tayyab
Agha, Abbas Stanikzai and Shahabuddin Delawari, who moved to Doha from
Pakistan in 2010.
However, the Higher PeaceCouncil envoys have continued to reach out to
Taliban commanders operating inside Afghanistan. Afghan politicians
have blamed the ISI for not allowing their efforts to come to
fruition. In a report issued,the International Crisis Group said
Pakistani hardliners see "victory for their Afghan proxies" as
imminent. "This contributes greatly to Kabul's lack of progress in
talks with the insurgents," the ICG stated. / :-: Translator :-:
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