Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters ransacked amid nationwide Egypt protests

LIVE VIDEO ? Protesters gather in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt.

By Ayman Mohyeldin, Charlene Gubash and Ian Johnston, NBC News

CAIRO - Egypt?s military on Monday said mass protests calling for the resignation of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi were an ?unprecedented? expression of the will of the people and gave the government 48 hours to meet the opposition's demands.

In a statement read on state television just hours after the headquarters of Morsi?s Muslim Brotherhood movement were ransacked, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said if this did not happen the army would intervene.

The protesters' main demands are that Morsi announce early elections and step down, allowing a temporary government to take over.

"If the demands of the people are not realized within the defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed forces)... to announce a road map for the future,? the statement said. It was followed by patriotic music.

Protesters attacked and stormed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, calling for Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi to step down. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

The road map would be created by the army, which would also oversee the plan's implementation, the statement said.

It was unclear if the military was effectively demanding Morsi's resignation and a Muslim Brotherhood politician insisted there would not be "a coup."

On his Facebook page Monday, Morsi said he was meeting with the general al-Sisi as well as the prime minister. What they discussed was not disclosed.

Sixteen people were killed and more than 700 were wounded during the protests Sunday and early Monday.

The military statement stressed that the military would remain neutral in politics and maintain its role as protector of the people and the nation?s borders.

The statement said the military will "not be a party in politics or rule."

But it added the armed forces had a responsibility to act because Egypt's national security was facing a "grave danger."

A source at Egypt's presidential palace said Morsi's office was not told in advance that the 48-hour ultimatum would be issued.

In Cairo's Tahrir Square, the vast crowd began to chant that the army and the people were one after al-Sisi's address. Army helicopters circled over the city flying Egyptian flags.

However, Yasser Hamza, a leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party,?warned against misinterpreting the army statement.?

"For an institution of state to come and stage a coup against the president, this will not happen," he said. "Any force that goes against the constitution is a call for sabotage and anarchy."?

As the military statement was read, President Barack Obama urged all sides to refrain from violence shortly after he arrived in Tanzania.

"We're all concerned about what's happening in Egypt," Obama said. "There is more work to be done to create the conditions in which everybody feels that their voices are heard and that the government is responsive and truly representative."?

U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the U.S. is closely watching the situation in Egypt, and is in touch with all sides, and?encouraged groups to avoid violence.

"Our message publicly and privately has been very consistent, that we want to see Egyptians succeed, that we don't take sides, we don't have a?particular party or group or interest that we're backing.? Ventrell said. ?Indeed, the only thing that we're backing is the Egyptian people and the goal?of their success in their democratic transition, that they can get their economy back on track, that they can fully see their democratic transition?succeed."

In a statement, the United Nation also called for Egyptians to resolve differences through ?democratic means.?

The attack on the Brotherhood building was bloodiest incident of the weekend's huge and mostly peaceful protests against Morsi.

It began after dark Sunday and continued for hours, with guards inside the suburban Cairo building firing on youths hurling fire bombs and rocks. Reuters cited medical and security sources as saying that eight people were killed but the figure could not be independently confirmed by NBC News.

Protesters breached ?the Cairo compound's defenses and stormed the building. Crowds later carried off furniture, files, rugs, air conditioning units and portraits of Morsi, according to an Associated Press journalist. One protester emerged with a pistol and handed it over to a policeman outside. ?

Footage on local television showed broken windows, blackened walls and smoke coming out of the building. A fire was still raging on one floor hours after the building was invaded. One protester tore down the Muslim Brotherhood sign from the building's front wall, while another hoisted Egypt's red, black and white flag out an upper-story window and waved it in the air in triumph.

Lasers were used as part of a demonstration in Cairo against President Mohamed Morsi. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Morsi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign.

The images were reminiscent of the destruction of the state security headquarters when Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.

A spokesman for the Brotherhood said it would be demanding answers from security officials who failed to protect it. ?He said two of those inside were injured ?before a security detail from the movement was able to evacuate all those inside the compound in mid-morning.

Organizers behind Sunday's protests -- who managed to get 22 million signatures calling on Morsi to step down -- ?said they would give him until Tuesday at 5 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) to meet their demands otherwise they would call for nationwide strikes.?

Protesters also demanded?early elections, but late on Sunday night word from the presidential palace was that Morsi had no intentions of calling them.?

Some anti-Morsi protesters spent Sunday night in dozens of tents pitched in the capital's central Tahrir Square and in front of the president's Ittihadiya Palace. They have vowed to stay there until Morsi resigns. Morsi supporters, meanwhile, went on with their sit-in in front of a major mosque in Cairo.?

Sunday's protests were the largest seen in Egypt in the 2? years of turmoil since the ouster of autocratic Mubarak in February 2011.?

NBC News' F. Brinley Bruton, Jeff Black, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Amr Nabil / AP

The headquarters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was ransacked as widespread protests against President Mohammed Morsi turned violent.

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Tablets most often used for consuming video on the sofa

By Ken Y-N ( July 2, 2013 at 00:39) ? Filed under Hardware, Lifestyle, Polls

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Mobile Marketing Data Laboratory recently conducted a survey with a lot of useful data points, looking at tablet device issues.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 20th of June 2013 568 members of the MMD research panel who were also users of both tablets and smartphones completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The ages were between 20 and 59 years old, but no further information was provided.

There?s a lot of great data here that I?ve been hoping to get my hands on for a while. Over 20% of Android tablet users being iPhone owners is not a surprise to me; given that the iPhone is the biggest-selling smartphone in Japan it is statistically quite normal (I think!) that there is such a split. However, I would like to know why iPhone users chose an Android tablet, or did Android tablet users choose the iPhone? At a guess, I would say that price would be the deciding factor, but I wonder how many of those choosing an Android did have a significant investment in iTunes and app purchases? Perhaps next time we can get answers to these questions.

Research results

Q1A: iPad users, what smartphone do you use? (Sample size=355)

Apple iPhone	68.5%
Sony Xperia	9.0%
Sharp Aquos Phone	4.2%
Samsung Galaxy	4.2%
Other	14.0%

Q1B: Android tablet users, what smartphone do you use? (Sample size=213)

Apple iPhone	21.1%
Sony Xperia	19.2%
Samsung Galaxy	10.8%
Sharp Aquos Phone	9.9%
Other	39.0%

Q2: Where or when do you use your tablet and smartphone? (Sample size=568, multiple answer)

?	Tablet	Smartphone
When relaxing at home	71.5%	51.6%
When watching television	37.7%	33.5%
When passing free time outside	37.1%	63.9%
At a cafe, restaurant	31.2%	50.7%
While riding a train, bus, airplane	31.0%	65.1%
For work, studying	26.4%	26.9%
While waiting for a train, bus, airplane	25.7%	58.3%
At break times at work, school	23.6%	47.2%
When working outside the office	22.4%	29.2%
When cooking in the kitchen	20.8%	13.4%
During meals at home	11.3%	14.6%
In the bath	7.4%	11.3%
Other	8.8%	9.3%

Q3: What genres of apps do you use on your tablet at least once a week? (Sample size=568, multiple answer)

Video	43.8%
Weather	39.3%
SNS	34.7%
News	30.1%
Game	28.5%
Electronic book, magazine	25.9%
Lifestyle	25.5%
Work efficiency	25.4%
Navigation	20.4%
Photos, home video	19.7%
Catalogue	18.8%
Dictionary	16.7%
Entertainment	15.0%
Travel	14.4%
Free voice calls, chat	14.1%
Education	13.7%
Utility	13.4%
Business	11.8%
Music	10.7%
Health care, fitness	10.4%
Sports	8.5%
Finance	8.1%
Medical	3.9%
Other	3.0%
None in particular	12.1%

Q4: Do you share your tablet with your family? (Sample size=568)

No, have exclusive use	59.3%
Yes, share it	40.7%

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Boredom drives trolling on Facebook and Twitter

Boredom and amusement are behind several incidents of cyberbullying and trolling on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter, a first-of-its-kind study has found.
The research by Lancaster University in UK, suggests that those who engage in trolling ? Internet user behaviour that is meant to intentionally anger or frustrate someone else in order to provoke a response ? do so for their own amusement and because they are bored.

Claire Hardaker, a linguistics expert from the university's faculty of arts and social sciences, studied almost 4,000 online cases involving claims of trolling, The Independent reported.

Trolls operate out of a feeling of power, amusement, boredom and revenge and thrive on the anonymity which the internet provides, she found.

The research identified seven tactics used by trolls to bombard their victims with insults and threats. These include digressing from the topic at hand, especially onto sensitive topics, and hypocriticising ? pedantic criticism of grammar, spelling or punctuation in a post, which itself contains proof-reading errors.

Antipathising, by taking up an alienating position, asking pseudo-naive questions is another tactic used by trolls besides giving dangerous advice and encouraging risky behaviour.

Trolls also employ "shock strategy" by being insensitive about sensitive topics, explicit about taboo topics, etc. They also provoke others by insulting or threatening them.

They may cross-post ? sending the same offensive or provocative message to multiple groups and then waiting for the response.

"Aggression, deception and manipulation are increasingly part of online interaction, yet many users are unaware that not only some of these behaviours exist, but how destructive and insidious they can be," Hardaker said.

She also found that while trolling is associated with the young, trolls come from all ages and backgrounds.

"An incredible amount of time and strategy can be involved in trolling, as my research into the techniques they use highlights," she said.

She warned that trolling can in some cases develop into more serious behaviour, including cyberharassment and cyberstalking.

The study was published in the Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict.

Source: http://feeds.hindustantimes.com/~r/HT-WorldSectionPage-Topstories/~3/PaUYCgBgIYw/story01.htm

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Intergalactic magnifying glasses could help astronomers map galaxy centers

June 30, 2013 ? An international team of astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant galaxies. Team leader Prof. Andy Lawrence of the University of Edinburgh presents the new results on Monday 1 July at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews, Scotland.

If a star passes too close to a giant black hole found in the centre of a galaxy, it will be shredded by the strong gravitational field. This produces a flare-up in the brightness of an otherwise normal looking galaxy that then fades over a few months. In a large scale survey using the PanSTARRS telescope on Hawaii, Prof. Lawrence and his team studied millions of galaxies to search for this rare effect. They did find flare-ups but with very different behaviour to the 'star shredding' predictions.

Instead of seeing a fade over months, the objects they found look like 'normal' quasars, regions in the centre of galaxies where material is swirling around a giant black hole in a disk. But the quasars in the survey were not seen a decade ago, so must now be at least ten times brighter than before. Monitoring with the Liverpool Telescope on La Palma showed that they are also changing slowly, fading over a timescale of years rather than months.

The biggest surprise however was that the quasars seemed to be at the wrong distance. Measuring the characteristic shift in lines found in the spectrum of the quasars allows astronomers to measure the speed at which they are moving away from Earth. Knowing the way in which the universe is expanding enables scientists to deduce the distance to each object.

In the new survey, the quasars are typically around 10 billion light years away, whereas the galaxies that host them seem on average to be about 3 billion light years distant. The distances are rough estimates, so it could be that the estimated galaxy distances are completely wrong and that they are actually much further away. The black holes in their centres have then have flared up very dramatically, explaining why they seem so bright. But past studies of thousands of well-known quasars have never shown events on this scale.

If however the estimated galaxy distances are right, then Prof. Lawrence and his team believe they are looking at a distant quasar through a foreground galaxy. Normally this has little effect on the light of the quasar, but if a single star in the foreground galaxy passes exactly in front of the quasar, it can produce a gravitational focusing of the light which makes the background quasar seem temporarily much brighter.

This "microlensing" phenomenon is well known inside our own Galaxy, producing a brightening when one star passes in front of another. (It is for example also now being used to detect exoplanets). Microlensing may also be the cause of low-level "flickering" seen in some quasars. But this is the first time it has been suggested to cause such giant brightening events.

Prof. Lawrence sees real potential in this newly-discovered effect. "This could give us a way to map out the internal structure of quasars in a way that is otherwise impossible, because quasars are so small. As the star moves across the face of the distant quasar, it is like scanning a magnifying glass across it, revealing details that would otherwise simply be impossible to detect."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/dx2MD1m0pB4/130630225229.htm

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Blast in Thailand kills eight troops

Bangkok, June 30 (IANS) At least eight soldiers were killed and four injured, including two villagers, in a bomb explosion in Thailand?s Yala?s province Saturday.

The incident occurred when a bomb, buried in the road, exploded and left eight of the 10 soldiers dead on the spot. They were returning home after their duty in a military truck early morning, reported Xinhua citing police.

The explosion caused a four by two metre crater in the road.

Initial investigation revealed the explosion was caused by a 50 kg homemade bomb, made in a metal box, and buried under the road. Police blamed suspected separatist militants.

Source: http://hillpost.in/2013/06/blast-in-thailand-kills-eight-troops/91485/

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In Texas, a filibuster for the digital age

Twitter. Videostreams. Liveblogs. And a group effort to figure out what the heck happened amid the #StandWithWendy chaos

AUSTIN, TX ? At 10 minutes to midnight Tuesday evening, tempers in the Texas Senate finally boiled over. On the floor, Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) was fighting with every parliamentary knife in Robert?s Rules of Order to both challenge the latest ruling from the chair and to buy time.

That?s when the gallery erupted in shouts and screams that drowned out all other noise. Time was of the essence for Republicans who favored some of the sharpest new restrictions on abortion in the nation, and for the handful of Democrats who opposed them?led by Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Ft. Worth), who had launched a grueling filibuster more than 12 hours earlier.

And for reporters, the battle to cover a fight over one of the nation?s most divisive issues was reaching its peak. But it turned out to be not so much a contest of one news outlet against one another (though there were some definite media standouts) as against the Senate itself. In an era when it?s reasonable to worry about government watching us through the eerie lens of social media, citizens and journalists used streaming video, live-blogging, and Twitter in a collaborative exercise to help each other watch what government was doing in the literal dead of night?and to ferret out what the hell had just happened.

So when Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a Republican, tried to ram the bill through?claiming a roll call to pass the legislation came before constitutionally-mandated midnight deadline?the moment may not have been captured on cable news, but a state, and a nation, was watching. And when the official record on the legislature?s website was changed to show the vote getting in under the wire, screenshots flagging the alteration immediately began circulating on Twitter. Nearly three hours later, the galleries cleared, protesters still outside, Dewhurst would reverse himself. The bill, which would have outlawed abortion after 20 weeks and placed new regulatory restrictions on clinics that critics said would restrict the procedure to a handful of major facilities in big cities, died?for now.

A ?dreadfully dull? livestream is set ablaze

Texas is, in a way, home to both today?s constitutionally protected reproductive rights and the divisive controversy that continues to surround them. A Texas woman, Norma McCorvey, known under the legal pseudonym of Jane Roe, was the plaintiff against Dallas County Attorney Henry Wade in Roe v. Wade, decided by the Supreme Court in 1973. (McCorvey would later become an anti-abortion activist.)

Forty years later, the state?s conservative legislative majority is at the forefront of efforts to impose restrictions on abortion; proposals to do so had percolated in the House throughout this year?s legislative session. But pro-choice Democrats comprise just over a third of the Senate, which by custom gave them enough votes to keep a measure from coming to the floor in that chamber.

When Republican Gov. Rick Perry convened a special session and announced that the abortion bill was among his top priorities, however, confrontation hung in the air. As Texas Monthly?s Sonia Smith noted in a sharp June 19 story, at the start of the special session the Republican majority had scrapped the longstanding rule that allowed Democrats to have a say on what made it to a vote on the Senate floor. A few days later, after the measure cleared the House, her Monthly colleague Paul Burka observed that on this issue, there was no middle ground to be found: ?What is true of abortion is true of all the social issues: They can?t be debated. They can only be argued and argued and argued.?

In fact, endless argument?a traditional marathon filibuster?was now the Democrats? only weapon. In the US Senate, filibusters are routinely used to block legislation, but ?talking filibusters? are so rare that when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) launched one earlier this year to raise questions about the Obama administration?s use of drones for targeted killing, it became a social media sensation. When Wendy Davis rose to the Senate floor in Austin Tuesday, she had a very specific goal in mind: to run out the clock on the abortion bill. But she was also, like Paul, creating a media event.

?This was the first long filibuster in the social media age in Texas,? said Ross Ramsey, executive editor of The Texas Tribune.

Twitter would play a huge role as the night went on?but only because everyone could see what was happening. And that was possible because the Tribune, alone among news organizations, had secured a live video feed of the Legislature under a contract begun just this year. The video was the building block of everything else Tuesday night. Dubbed LiveStream, it relies upon state cameras and microphones on chamber floors and in some committee rooms. I?ve watched it before. It?s like C-SPAN: usually informative, and usually dreadfully dull. As Brian Stelter of The New York Times wrote on Twitter, the stream ?sat on YouTube, mostly ignored, for months. Until the stream was set ablaze.?

On Tuesday, the drama of the moment and the emotional power of abortion?whatever side of the divide one occupies?drew people to the video feed like moths to a flame. As day turned into night and night wore on, and activists alerted each other and everyday people took interest, the usual trickle of viewers swelled into a river of 54,000. ?Amazing,? tweeted Evan Smith, the Tribune?s CEO and editor-in-chief. Then there were 100,000 viewers?just on the Tribune site. Elsewhere, far-flung news organizations like The Washington Post were embedding the video on their own sites. Then the river became a torrent of about 200,000 viewers to the Tribune site alone, according to Ramsey?in the middle of the night. (CJR?s Ann Friedman has an interview with Smith about the livestream and other elements of the Trib?s coverage here.)

Meanwhile, on the floor, Republicans had objected to Davis getting help putting on a back brace, and to her discussion of Roe v. Wade and a Texas law on sonograms as not germane to the bill at hand. With three such objections sustained by Dewhurst, she was in danger of being cut off, and Democrats turned to other strategies to run out the clock. On their liveblogs, the Tribune and The Dallas Morning News recorded every procedural twist and turn.

But the updates slowed as midnight approached. Increasingly the state?s leading news outlets simply posted the video on their home pages. Developments were moving too fast. The Austin American-Statesman flirted with its very own ?Dewey Beats Truman? moment: even as its reporters kept up with events on a liveblog, at 12:16 am the headline on the paper?s homepage still declared, ?Challenge upheld; Davis? filibuster all but over.?

By that point, the Senate had voted along straight party lines?though over exactly what was unclear amidst the shouting from the gallery. Was it a Republican objection to end the filibuster? Was it the bill itself? Had the vote?whatever it was about?come before midnight?

Fuming senators disappeared from the floor into a closed-door caucus, and Twitter lit up even more, as journalists, citizens, and advocates described the scene, tracked what politicians were saying had happened, and tried to suss out what had actually happened. ?Have seen nothing like this in #texaslege in 22 years. Not even close. Waiting for someone to yell ?Attica,?? tweeted Smith (168 retweets). ?If Dewhurst can assert that it passed, I can assert that it didn?t. I believe I was closer to the dais at the time,? tweeted Texas Monthly?s Erica Greider (93 retweets). A minute later, Greider again: ?From what I saw on the Senate floor, the last roll call vote was a motion to have a vote on #SB5, ie end discussion, not a vote on the bill? (200 retweets).

Around the same time, a pair of images began circulating on Twitter?screenshots from the Texas Legislature Online site showing a vote on the bill recorded on Wednesday and then, nine minutes later, altered to show the vote on Tuesday, before midnight. ?TLO sheet has been edited!? Smith tweeted. The Tribune?s Ramsey had the screenshots, too. Soon, a tweet from the main Tribune account: ?The Senate?s revisionists are very fast. Nine minutes earlier, these showed the record votes on 6/26? (1,366 retweets).

Inside the Senate, the jig was just about up. ?TexasSens say timestamp issue proved the end of #SB5,? tweeted the Statesman?s Mike Ward. ?No way around it.? If the bill was passed after midnight, it would certainly be subject to a lawsuit as unconstitutional. Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak posted on Twitter: ?Source inside TX Senate caucus tells me #SB5 will be ruled to have been voted late.? Shortly after 2 am, the Houston Chronicle?s Peggy Fikac tweeted: ?Re report that SB5 didn?t pass: Sen West said, ?you?re on the right road.?? Greider, who had earlier posted a photo of print-outs showing the altered time record, tweeted reports from the floor: ?Vote happened at 12:03.?

To be even more precise, the official time stamp read 12:03:14 am, Ramsey would tell me Wednesday. Ramsey believes that the Senate acted honestly to invalidate the vote once the true time emerged, though the change on the Texas Legislative Office?s website remains something of a mystery.

A little after 3 am, senators flooded back into the chamber; the tall, patrician-looking Dewhurst gaveled them back to order and announced that the abortion bill had not passed before the midnight deadline. He turned to leave the dais, but then stooped back to the microphone one more time and grinned: ?It?s been fun but see ya soon.? Later, he told reporters, according to the Statesman: ?An unruly mob, using Occupy Wall Street tactics, disrupted the Senate from protecting unborn babies.?

The long night in Austin was over?but not the debate. The sun came up and the temperature soared. Later Wednesday, Perry called the legislature back into a second special session at the pink-domed capitol. By then, the Morning News?s Christy Hoppe had perhaps the best recap of the crazy night, under a simple headline: ?About Last Night: How the Abortion Bill Failed.?

Richard Parker is CJR's Texas correspondent. A regular contributor to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times, his columns on national and international affairs are syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune. He has also twice been appointed the visiting professional in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

Source: http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/in_texas_a_filibuster_for_the.php?page=all

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