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...shoot for only about five minutes before the image sensor overheats. (You can step down the quality and get 20 minutes of shooting time.) You'll need at least an 8-GB SD card for video, since five minutes of HD can chew up a full 600 MB of space. Likewise, autofocus doesn't work after you start shooting; that means if you're following a target that moves closer or farther, you'll need to focus manually, which can be a nuisance...
That has not stopped the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed, socially conservative Islamist party, from winning one-fifth of the seats in parliament with its members running as unaffiliated independents. Despite the legal roadblocks - Cairo decries the MB's history of terror - the party has proven popular at the grassroots level (its social organizations provide education and health services in the communities that the government does not reach). And so, when seats in what were presumably MB strongholds became vacant in 2005, the government found several legal reasons to postpone elections. Until last weekend...
Almost as soon as the Ministry of the Interior announced the snap election on July 2nd, the Brotherhood suffered harrassment and arrest: an estimated 50 Muslim Brothers are believed to have been taken into custody. The MB, nevertheless, managed to field candidates for three of the four open seats. The districts, according to Reuters, saw only a "trickle" of voters at the polling stations on July 13. The next day the government declared victory. The MB pronounced the results fraudulent...
Accomodating the MB's agenda will also be difficult. While individual Brothers have varying views on religious and social issues, the party as a whole limits the roles of women and non-Muslims (they cannot, for example, hold the office of President). It also wishes to create a council to "guarantee that legislation adopted by the president and parliament conform with Sharia" - that is, Islamic law. For Egypt's secular rulers, such views are problematic; many believe legalizing the Brotherhood as a party would validate its views, and that any of the MB's actions would be simply cosmetic. Heritage...
...hardly oblivious to its rivals, which is why Express has links to Facebook, Picasa and Photobucket so users can drag and drop edited pictures into those applications without having to open a separate browser window. The generous 2 gigabytes of free storage (which is significantly more than the 100 MB per month allotted to Flickr users, for example) and personal URL assigned to each user for their online photo gallery make storing and sharing your pictures a breeze...