Unbelievable: Outrageous Avatar Of US Embassy Riyadh Twitter Account

You can see it here, blown up in a tweet by someone urging it be taken down:

Is this administration so under the sway of the Saudis that we have our Embassies using their flags on our twitter accounts, and putting their flag on equal level with our flag, a complete and utter violation of U.S. flag protocol? Not to mention the sword positioned with point toward the flag and any other symbolism in the Saudi flag, apparently being endorsed.

We had Embassy officials in Cairo that apologize for being attacked, and don?t answer information on dead Americans after 10 p.m..

Now we have this Embassy account debasing us still further? Take it down!

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Poland economic policy to protect growth:Tusk

CHORZOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the government will run an economy balanced between fiscal discipline and economic expansion, signaling it will not sacrifice growth to spending cuts.

The former communist country has posted nearly two decades of uninterrupted growth but its economy began to slow sharply last year and growth fell to near zero in the first quarter of 2013.

Tusk said the government would be flexible in its approach to economic growth.

"We will save but in a way that economic growth in Poland will be stronger than in the last months," Tusk said at his Civic Platform party congress in southern Poland.

Poland announced in April it would not succeed in cutting its budget deficit this year below a target of 3 percent of gross domestic product required by the European Union, leaving the country in the bloc's excessive deficit procedure for another two years.

Poland expects its deficit to be 3.5 percent this year and come closer to 3.0 percent in 2014.

The economic slowdown has hit support for Tusk's government and his Civic Platform (OP) party lags its main rival, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS), in opinion polls for the first time in years.

The PO congress is expected to set a date for party leadership elections later this year.

Tusk will be challenged by former justice minister Jaroslaw Gowin but many observers say the prime minister is unlikely to be defeated.

(Reporting by Pawel Sobczak, Writing by Dagmara Leszkowicz; Editing by David Cowell)

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Obama tells leaders to follow Mandela's example

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? President Barack Obama encouraged leaders in Africa and around the world Saturday to follow former South African President Nelson Mandela's example of country before self, as the U.S. president prepared to pay personal respects to relatives who have been gathered around the critically ill anti-apartheid icon.

"We as leaders occupy these spaces temporarily and we don't get so deluded that we think the fate of our country doesn't depend on how long we stay in office," Obama said.

Obama spoke at a news conference with South African President Jacob Zuma in the midst of a weeklong tour of the continent that also included stops in Senegal and Tanzania. But many other African nations are embroiled in religious, sectarian and other conflicts.

Obama decided to avoid stopping in his father's home nation of Kenya because of international disputes there. The International Criminal Court is prosecuting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, rape, persecution and inhumane acts allegedly committed by his supporters in the violent aftermath of Kenya's 2007 elections.

"The timing was not right for me as the president of the United States to be visiting Kenya when those issues are still being worked on, and hopefully at some point resolved," Obama said. He noted he's visited Kenya several times previously and expects he will as well in the future.

Obama and Zuma appeared at the Union Buildings that house government offices and the site of Mandela's 1994 inauguration as the country's first black president after 27 years behind bars for his activism.

The 94-year-old Mandela has been in a nearby hospital for three weeks after being admitted with a lung infection. Zuma told reporters that Mandela is in critical but stable condition and the whole nation is praying that he will improve.

Obama and his wife visited with some of Mandela's relatives Saturday at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, part of the former president's foundation. The White House didn't say which relatives were meeting with Obama. In accordance with the family's wishes, Obama doesn't plan to visit with Mandela.

Obama revered Mandela as "one of the greatest people in history," referred to him by his clan name as he praised South Africa's historic integration from white racist rule as a shining beacon for the world.

"The struggle here against apartheid for freedom, Madiba's moral courage, this country's historic transition to a free and democratic nation has been a personal inspiration to me, it has been an inspiration to the world," Obama said.

"The outpouring of love that we've seen in recent days shows that the triumph of Nelson Mandela and this nation speaks to something very deep in the human spirit, the yearning for justice and dignity that transcends boundaries of race and class and faith and country," Obama said. "That's what Nelson Mandela represents, that's what South African at its best represents to the world, and that's what brings me back here."

Zuma told Obama he and Mandela are "bound by history as the first black presidents of your respective countries."

"Thus, you both carry the dreams of millions of people in Africa and in the diaspora who were previously oppressed," Zuma said, reading from a prepared statement.

On other topics, Obama declined to commit to supporting South Africa's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. He said the U.N.'s structure needs to be updated and it would be "odd" for an expanded Security Council not to have African representation.

"How we do that and what fashion is complicated, it's difficult and it involves all kinds of politics," Obama said.

"Everybody wants a seat at the table, but when it comes time to step up and show responsibility, sometimes people want to be free riders," Obama said, adding he wasn't referring to South Africa specifically.

Zuma responded that he wishes the process of change at the U.N. would speed up.

Obama also said he wants to boost trade with Africa and plans to renegotiate an African trade pact to improve it for American businesses. He said he welcomes competition from other nations who have been aggressive in pursuing commercial opportunities in Africa, including China.

"I don't feel threatened by it. I think it's a good thing," he said. He added: "Our only advice is make sure it's a good deal for Africa." He said that includes making sure foreign investment employs Africans and doesn't tolerate corruption or take its natural resources without compensation for Africans.

Obama also is paying tribute to South Africa's fight against apartheid by visiting the Soweto area Saturday afternoon for a town hall with students at the University of Johannesburg. At least 176 young people were killed in Soweto township 27 years ago this month during a youth protest against the apartheid regime's ban against teaching local Bantu languages. The Soweto Uprising catalyzed international support against apartheid, and June is now recognized as Youth Month in South Africa.

The university plans to bestow an honorary law degree on the U.S. president.

Protesters under police watch demonstrated outside the university against Obama's record on surveillance and foreign policy. Demonstrators from a range of trade unions and civil society groups chanted, "Away with intelligence, away," holding posters depicting Obama with an Adolf Hitler moustache.

"People died in Libya. People are still dying in Syria," said 54-year-old Ramasimong Tsokolibane. "In Egypt, in Afghanistan in Pakistan drones are still killing people. So that's why we are calling him a Hitler. He's a killer."

Obama has been trying to inspire the continent's youth to become civically active and part of a new democratically minded generation. Obama hosted young leaders from more than 40 African countries at the White House in 2010 and challenged them to bring change to their countries by standing up for freedom, openness and peaceful disagreement.

Obama wraps up his South Africa stay Sunday, when he plans to give a sweeping speech on U.S.-Africa policy at the University of Cape Town and take his family to Robben Island to tour the prison where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years behind bars.

Obama has visited the island before, but said it's a particular privilege to bring his daughters back to learn its lessons.

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Associated Press Television News reporter Bram Janssen contributed to this report.

Follow Nedra Pickler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nedrapickler and Julie Pace at https://twitter.com/jpacedc

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-tells-leaders-mandelas-example-112000386.html

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UPDATE ON US CITIZEN MURDERED IN ALEXANDRIA EGYPT, JEWISH COLLEGE STUDENT WHO ONCE LAUDED RELEASE OF MOROCCAN JIHADI PRISONERS??.

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By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

06/29/2013 12:56

Andrew Pochter active at Hillel; stabbed in Alexandria at protest.

Protesters demonstrate in Sedy Gaber in Alexandria, June 28, 2013Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghan

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt ? An American college student stabbed to death?during a protest in Egypt?was in the country teaching English to children and improving his Arabic, according to a Facebook post on Saturday that appeared to be from his family.

According to the?The Kenyon Collegian, the student newspaper, Pochter was active in Hillel, the campus?s center for Jewish life, and lived at the group?s on-campus house.

Andrew Pochter, 21, from Chevy Chase, Maryland, died after being stabbed in the chest in the coastal city of Alexandria, where anti-government protesters stormed an office of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.

It was not clear what Pochter was doing at the protest, but Egyptian officials said he was carrying a small camera.

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Gene deletion affects early language and brain white matter

June 27, 2013 ? A chromosomal deletion is associated with changes in the brain's white matter and delayed language acquisition in youngsters from Southeast Asia or with ancestral connections to the region, said an international consortium led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine. However, many such children who can be described as late-talkers may overcome early speech and language difficulties as they grow.

The finding involved both cutting edge technology and two physicians with an eye for unusual clinical findings. Dr. Seema R. Lalani, a physician-scientist at BCM and Dr. Jill V. Hunter, professor of radiology at BCM and Texas Children's Hospital, worked together to identify this genetic change responsible for expressive language delay and brain changes in children, predominantly from Southeast Asia.

Lalani, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM, is a clinical geneticist and also signs out diagnostic studies called chromosomal microarray analysis, a gene chip that helps identify abnormalities in specific genes and chromosomes, as part of her work at BCM's Medical Genetics Laboratory.

"I got intrigued when I kept seeing this small (genomic) change in children from a large sample of more than 15,000 children referred for chromosomal microarray analysis at Baylor College of Medicine. These children were predominantly Burmese refugees or of Vietnamese ancestry living in the United States. It started with two children whom I evaluated at Texas Children's Hospital and soon realized that there was a pattern of early language delay and brain imaging abnormalities in these individuals carrying this deletion from this part of the world. Within a period of two to three years, we found 13 more families with similar problems, having the same genetic change. There were some children who obviously were more affected than the others and had cognitive and neurological problems, but many of them were identified as late-talkers who had better non-verbal skills compared to verbal performance," said Lalani. Hunter, helped in determining the specific pattern of white matter abnormalities in the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans in children and their parents carrying this deletion. Most of the children either came from Southeast Asia or were the offspring of people from that area. (White matter is the paler material in the brain that consists of nerve fibers covered with myelin sheaths.)

Now, in a report that appears online in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Lalani, Hunter and an international group of collaborators identify a genomic deletion on chromosome 2 that is associated with bright white spots that show up in an MRI in the white matter of the brain . The chromosomal deletion removes a portion of a gene known as TM4SF20 that encodes a protein that spans the cellular membrane. They do not know yet what the function of the protein is. They found this genetic change in children from 15 unrelated families mainly from Southeast Asia.

"This deletion could be responsible for early childhood language delay in a large number of children from this part of the world," says Lalani.

She credits Dr. Wojciech Wiszniewski, an assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM with doing much of the work. Wiszniewski has an interest in genomic disorders and is working under the mentorship of Dr. James R. Lupski, vice chair of the department of molecular and human genetics.

Lupski said, "Professor Lalani has made a stunning discovery in that she provides evidence that population-specific intragenic CNV (copy number variation -- a deletion or duplication of the chromosome) can contribute to genetic susceptibility of even common complex disease such as speech delay in children."

"In a way, this is a good news story," said Hunter. There is evidence from family studies that some of these children may do quite well in the future, said Lalani.

Lalani elaborates. "This is a genetic change that is present in 2 percent of Vietnamese Kinh population (an ethnic group that makes up 90 percent of the population in that country)," she said. "In the 15 families we have identified, all children have early language delay. Some are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, and if you do a brain MRI study, you find white matter changes in about 70 percent of them. We have found this change in children who are Vietnamese, Burmese, Thai, Indonesian, Filipino and and Micronesian. It is very likely that children from other Southeast Asian countries within this geographical distribution also carry this genetic change."

Because these are all within a geographic location, she suspects that there is an ancient founder effect, meaning that at some point in the distant past, the gene deletion occurred spontaneously in an individual, who then passed it on to his or her children and to succeeding generations.

"It is important to follow these children longitudinally to see how these late-talkers develop as they grow," said Lalani. "We have also seen this deletion in children whose parents clearly were late-talkers themselves, but overcame the earlier problems to become doctors and professionals. The variability within the deletion carriers is fascinating and brings into question genetic and environmental modifiers that contribute to the extent of disease in these children.

Language delays mean that they may speak only two or three words at age 2, in comparison to other children who would generally have between 75-100 word vocabulary by this age. While there is evidence that children with this deletion may catch up, it is unclear if they continue to have better non-verbal skills than verbal skills. It is also unclear how the specific brain changes correlate with communication disorders in these children.

In fact, when doctors check the parents of these children, they often find similar white matter changes in the parent carrying the deletion. "Young parents in their 30s should not have age-related white matter changes in the brain and these changes should definitely not be present in healthy children," said Lalani. Hunter said they are not sure how the gene variation relates to the changes in brain white matter and how all of these result in delay in language.

Others who took part in this work include Neil A. Hanchard, Chad Shaw, Qi Tian, Anna Illner, Xueqing Wang, Sau W. Cheung, Ankita Patel, Ian Campbell, Patricia Hixson, Audrey R. Ester, Mahshid S. Azamian, Lorraine Potocki, Gladys Zapata, Patricia P. Hernandez, Melissa B. Ramocki, Regie L.P. Santos-Cortez, Gao Wang, Michele K. York, Monica Justice, Zili D. Chu, Heather P. Crawford, Carlos A. Bacino, Adiaha I.A. Franklin, Robin Goin-Kochel, Pawel Stankiewicz, Arthur L. Beaudet, Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, John W. Belmont, Suzanne M. Leal, Muhammad E. Haque, Marija Stosic, and Penelope Bonnen ; all of BCM; Jason R. Willer, Erica E. Davis, and Nicholas Katsanis, all of Duke University Medical Center in Duham, North Carolina; Nirupama S. Madduri, Misti D. Williams, Thomas M. Morgan, Sumit Pruthi and Reed Omary of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesee; Gunter Scharer of Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colorado, Pattamawadee Yanatatsaneejit and Apiwat Mutirangua of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand; Anna Eifert of the Department of Speech and Language at Texas Children's Hospital; Jeffery Kerr, Gayle Simpson and Ladonna Immken of Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, Texas; Patricia I. Bader and Lisa Omo-Griffith of Northeast Indiana Genetic Counseling Center in Fort Wayne; Simeon A. Boyadjiev of University of California Davis; Kay K. Win Harlem Hospital Center in New York; Aye Thida of Allcare Pediatrics in Missouri City, Texas; Matthew Hurlesof Wellcome Trust Sanger Institutue in Cambridge, United Kingdom; Martin Lloyd Hibberd and Chiea Chuen Khor of Genome Institute of Singapore; Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Sarah Dunstan and Cameron Simmons of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Thomas E. Gallagher of Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; Jill A. Rosenfeld of Signature Genomic Laboratories of PerkinElmer, Inc. in Spokane, Washington and Lisa G. Shaffer of Paw Print Genetics in Spokane, Washington.

Funding for this work came from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Gillson Longenbaugh Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (RO1-HL091771) and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (RO1-NS058529-03, Career Development Award K23NS078056 ( Wiszniewski) and 5K08NS062711), the National Human Genome Research Institute (5U54HG006542), the Molecular Medicine Scholars Program at BCM (HL-66991), the McKnight Endowment for Science, Dana Foundation, and the NIH Intellectual and the Developmental Disabilities Research Grant (P30HD024064), the Children's Medical Network endowed chair in pediatric genetics.

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Impertinent. Mumbling. Offended. Teary-eyed. Rachel Jeantel, star witness for the prosecution in George Zimmerman's murder trial, was all of those, and more, as her testimony Wednesday provided new details into Trayvon Martin?s last moments and infused racially loaded commentary into an already-sensitive trial.

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Couple indicted for capital murder in deaths of Texas DA, wife, and assistant

Kaufman County Sheriff's Office

Eric Williams, left, and his wife Kim Williams are shown in booking photos released by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office.

By Charles Hadlock and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News

A grand jury has indicted a former justice of the peace and his wife on capital murder charges in the deaths of two Texas officials who were shot to death earlier this year, one at home with his wife and the other outside a courthouse.

Kim and Eric Williams were indicted by a grand jury in Kaufman County, Texas, in the deaths of District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia, and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse on Thursday.?

Authorities allege that Eric Williams, 46, gunned down Hasse as he walked to the courthouse on Jan. 31, and killed the McClellands in their home over Easter weekend. Kim Williams, also 46, was allegedly in the getaway car during the killings.?

Investigators matched spent shell casings found at the McLelland crime scene with a live round found at the McLelland crime scene with a live round found at a storage shed where Eric Williams stored large amounts of ammunition of various types and dozens of weapons. Both had been ejected from the same gun.

The cache of weapons was found after authorities said they received emails from someone who confessed to all three murders and threatened to harm more county officials, according to The Associated Press.

Investigators were able to trace the emails to a computer in the Williams' house, The AP reported; Eric Williams had allegedly rented a storage unit in a friend's name for his weapons.

Both suspects are expected to be tried for capital murder and could face the death penalty.

Eric Williams, who practiced family law in Kaufman County for more than 10 years according to the AP, is being held in lieu of $23 million bail; Kim Williams is being held on lieu of $10 million bail.

The Kaufman County DA's office and a judge previously assigned to the case have recused themselves because of their connections to the victims. Special prosecutors will be assigned.

Kaufman County is about 35 miles southeast of Dallas.?

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Pa. Senate heads toward floor debate on liquor

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's Republican senators plan to take their disagreements over legislation to liberalize Pennsylvania's laws on wine, liquor and beer sales to the chamber's floor on Thursday, amid signs of growing desperation among Republican majority leaders to reach a consensus on issues that are important to Gov. Tom Corbett.

Republicans, who control the Senate, spent four-plus hours behind closed doors Wednesday, but they left without any clear idea about what exactly will win a majority of the 50-member chamber, senators said.

Normally, the Senate's Republican leaders do not bring a bill to the chamber's floor unless the Republican majority approves of it and they are assured that it will pass. But Senate Republicans are split over legislation on wine, liquor and beer sales that is being sought by House Republicans and Corbett.

Compounding the problem for Senate Republicans is solid opposition by the chamber's 23 Democrats to any bill that would allow private store operators to sell wine and liquor.

Sen. Michael Brubaker, R-Lancaster, said trying to find the right combination to win enough votes to pass something was like playing with a Rubik's Cube.

"Almost every amendment gains some votes and loses some votes," Brubaker said.

Lawmakers are planning to meet all week as they scramble to wrap up a new budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year that begins Monday and other business before leaving Harrisburg for the summer.

Sen. Richard Alloway, R-Franklin, said the Republicans' closed-door meeting was a good one, and discussion never became heated. The chamber's Republican leaders will decide before Thursday's debate which combination of amendments that they will offer to an underlying wine, liquor and beer sales bill on the floor in an effort to win passage, he said.

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High above the Hudson, a battle over development

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. (AP) ? It's one of the most beautiful, and surprising, views from New York City ? sheer cliffs rising about 330 feet from the western banks of the broad Hudson River and lushly blanketed by emerald foliage, nature's unexpected counterpoint to the steel skyscrapers and glass towers that crowd the shores of Manhattan and northern New Jersey.

Now, in an area preoccupied by real estate, development and views, this vista has sparked the latest skirmish over construction, conservation and job creation.

A collection of stakeholders including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, conservation groups, the Manhattan and Bronx borough presidents and former New Jersey governors object to the design of a new headquarters for LG Electronics USA above the cliffs, called the Palisades.

One part of the proposed building would pierce the tree line of the Palisades Interstate Park, a 12-mile-long National Historic Landmark along the shores of the Hudson. The company received a height variance from the town to build the 143-foot building. Development along the Palisades is normally limited to 35 feet.

LG's headquarters will stand across from the Cloisters museum and garden, which is nestled into a hilltop high above the eastern side of the river and is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan. Industrialist John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated land for the Cloisters and purchased 700 acres of cliffs on the other side of the Hudson in the 1930s to keep the view pristine.

Looking west from the Cloisters on a sparkling summer day, one feels transported far from Manhattan. But while breathtaking, the view is not entirely pristine. Apartment towers and a crane rise about a mile south near the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, and closer to Englewood Cliffs, a stone apartment building rises out of the trees along with another, smaller building.

Opponents say they're not opposed to LG building a new headquarters on a 37-acre parcel that sits about a quarter-mile behind the Palisades in Englewood Cliffs. They just want it to be squat and below the tree line.

"It's rare in such a densely populated area to have protected for more than 100 years such an unspoiled viewscape and natural resource," said Mark Izeman, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which opposes the development.

In a rare reversal, the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew from an agreement it entered into with LG regarding the Englewood Cliffs development. In a letter, EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck said the impact of the building on the beauty of the Palisades and the height variance was not made clear. She requested the building's height be lowered.

"This is not a step I take lightly," Enck wrote this month. "However, this viewshed is so important that the adverse impacts of construction of high-rise building cannot be condoned."

In a response, Wayne Park, president and CEO of South Korea-based LG, said the company is exploring design alternatives.

It's one of many salvos in a back-and-forth between the two sides that has lasted for months.

In 2012, conservation groups and residents filed two lawsuits over the project. One claimed the company was given an improper variance and accused the town of spot zoning. The other asserted the project would ruin the preservation efforts. The cases were consolidated and are before a judge.

Court-supervised mediation between the groups aimed at finding a compromise broke down two weeks ago.

LG ran a full-page ad in New Jersey newspapers June 23, proclaiming the "truth about LG's new HQ project," opposition to which has been "orchestrated by New York-based groups with no interest in the wider economic well-being of New Jersey."

The building will be a huge source of tax revenue to Englewood Cliffs, said Joseph Parisi Jr., mayor of the town about 12 miles northwest of midtown Manhattan that is also home to CNBC and Unilever USA. Nearly 94 percent of residents own homes, and the average income is $116,000. LG did not receive a tax incentive to build here, Parisi said.

The LG building is expected to create about 1,000 construction jobs, and 1,000 to 1,200 employees are expected to work at the new headquarters; about 500 people work at the current headquarters complex in Englewood Cliffs.

Hayley Carlock, an attorney at Scenic Hudson, said the conservation group believes that New Jersey and LG should build the headquarters, just lower than planned.

"We're concerned the LG building will stick out like a sore thumb and set a precedent," she said. "LG did it, so why can't we do it?"

Larry Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, spoke with LG last year, urging them to lower the building.

LG spokesman John Taylor said the building will be a glass, environmentally friendly one that is wider than it is tall. One wing will be eight stories tall; the other three. Taylor said a total redesign would set the project back years because it would require another round of public hearings and approvals. He said the company is committed to going forward.

"To hear the other side they would say just make the building shorter and fatter," he said. It sounds good, but it's oversimplifying."

Four former New Jersey governors wrote to the company this month, saying the cliffs have inspired artists and been protected for more than 100 years. The governors asked for a resolution that would preserve the headquarters and the jobs its construction and completion will bring while protecting "one of the great landscapes of New Jersey."

Parisi said he just wants a building, regardless of height.

"I just hope all parties for or against come to some reasonable conclusion and come to a compromise," Parisi said. "I know the residents of Englewood Cliffs will be happy whatever that conclusion is."

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Judge taking no action in Jackson guardianship

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2011 file photo shows Paris Jackson on stage at the Michael Forever the Tribute Concert, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. A judge overseeing a guardianship of Michael Jackson's children said Tuesday June 25, 2013, that he was making no changes to oversight of the children after receiving an investigator's report on their well-being and speaking with lawyers for their guardians, Katherine and TJ Jackson. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2011 file photo shows Paris Jackson on stage at the Michael Forever the Tribute Concert, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. A judge overseeing a guardianship of Michael Jackson's children said Tuesday June 25, 2013, that he was making no changes to oversight of the children after receiving an investigator's report on their well-being and speaking with lawyers for their guardians, Katherine and TJ Jackson. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)

FILE - This Jan. 27, 2012 file photo shows, from left, Blanket Jackson, Paris Jackson, and Prince Michael Jackson at the opening night of the Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour in Los Angeles. Paris Jackson is physically fine after being taken to a hospital early Wednesday, June 5, 2013, an attorney for Jackson's mother said. Perry Sanders Jr. writes in a statement that Paris Jackson is getting appropriate medical attention and the family is seeking privacy. Fire and sheriff's officials confirmed they transported someone from a home in Paris' suburban Calabasas neighborhood for a possible overdose but did not release any identifying information or additional details. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A judge said Tuesday that he will make no changes to the guardianship of Michael Jackson's three children after receiving an investigator's report on their well-being and meeting with attorneys for their caretakers.

Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ordered the inquiry after 15-year-old Paris Jackson was hospitalized on June 5. Authorities reported she took Motrin pills and cut her arm with a kitchen knife.

The judge ordered an investigator to interview Jackson's children and report back to him.

Beckloff also met with attorneys for the children's guardians, grandmother Katherine Jackson and their adult cousin TJ Jackson.

"I'm taking no further action," Beckloff told attorneys for Jackson' estate.

The decision was announced during a hearing at which Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the estate, raised the issue of potential harm to the singer's daughter that might come with unsealing "salacious details" of a choreographer's recent molestation allegations against the pop superstar.

Beckloff told attorneys he will consider which portions of Wade Robson's complaint to unseal and inform attorneys of his decision. Robson claims the acts occurred when he was a child.

Another hearing will be held to determine if Robson can pursue that allegation.

Perry Sanders Jr., an attorney for Katherine Jackson, has said Paris Jackson is physically fine and receiving proper medical attention. He has not provided further updates on her condition.

"In light of all current circumstances and the special investigator's report, we agreed with the judge that appropriate decisions are being made regarding care of all three children, and no further action is required," Sanders wrote in a statement Tuesday.

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This is the Modem World: Internet radio is inhuman

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.

I gripped the handset, twirling the coiled wire around my wrist, listening for a ring tone. Instead, a busy signal triggered an autonomous twitch reaction in my teenage hand: hang up, wait for dial tone, hit redial, listen for ring tone. Again. Again.

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Online Book Publishing Platform 7write Raises $250,000 Seed Round From Early PayPal Investor, Others

It's not too often that a startup from 'down under' up roots to join an accelerator in Europe and then gets funded before graduating. Enter online book publishing platform 7write, which originally hails from Australia but has since relocated to the Netherlands after being accepted into accelerator Startupbootcamp's Amsterdam program. Graduating teams don't present until Demo day this Friday, but that isn't stopping 7write from making an early grab for the limelight by announcing that it's raised $250,000.

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Asian shares drift lower, focus on China liquidity

By Chikako Mogi

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares slipped further on Tuesday and investors braced for more volatility in Chinese markets as worries spread that tight liquidity could impede China's economic growth and take the shine off an emerging U.S. recovery.

Japan's Nikkei stock average <.n225> opened up 0.1 percent but quickly gave up early gains and fell 0.7 percent. <.t/>

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> eased 0.1 percent after shedding 1.8 percent to its lowest since early September the previous day.

"Volatility will rule the market today. The market is more than ripe for a technical rebound, but this probably won't happen as sentiment has deteriorated badly," said Ko Seung-hee, a market analyst at SK Securities, of Seoul shares.

Australian shares <.axjo> fell 0.2 percent on concerns about economic and financial instability in China, its main export market, while South Korean shares <.ks11> opened down 0.5 percent to a fresh 11-month low.

China shares suffered their worst daily loss in almost four years on Monday as the authorities showed more determination to curb the risks of shadow banking than accommodating the money market, raising fears of a potential credit squeeze.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index <.hsi> closed below the 20,000-point mark for the first time since September 11. and the Shanghai financial sub-index <.ssefn> skidded 7.3 percent in its worst day since November 2008 - during the financial crisis that started that year.

The sell-off sent most of the region's stock indexes well into oversold territory, with most Southeast Asian stocks falling to multi-month lows on Monday, where investor sentiment had already been hurt since the U.S. Federal Reserve said last week it would scale back its stimulus.

DOLLAR TAKES BREAK

Less than a week after the Fed set off a global market sell-off by announcing its intent to scale back stimulus, two Fed leaders - Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota and the head of the Dallas Fed Richard Fisher - downplayed an imminent end to monetary stimulus on Monday and said the acute market reaction was not yet cause for concern.

The dollar's rally slowed on the comments. It has been gaining on rising U.S. yields and the prospect of an improving U.S. economy that has let the Fed to hint at toning down its aggressive bond-buying scheme, which had channeled abundant funds to global markets and underpinned risk asset prices.

The dollar index <.dxy>, measured against a basket of major currencies, was down 0.04 percent at 82.390, after rising to a three-week high of 82.841 on Monday.

The shift out of assets that have benefited most from cheap money has been sharpest in the U.S. debt market, where yields on 10-year Treasury notes at one point spiked to a two-year high of 2.67 percent but dipped to 2.55 percent on Monday on recovering bond prices, which move in opposite direction to yields.

U.S. equities slumped but recovered some losses on the rise in Treasury bond prices, while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index <.fteu3> closed at a seven-month low on Monday. The Euro STOXX 50 Volatility index <.v2tx> hit a nine-month high, reflecting a sharp rise in risk aversion among investors.

U.S. crude futures were down 0.4 percent to $94.83 a barrel.

(Additional reporting by Jungyoun Park in Seoul; Editing by Eric Meijer)

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Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised In A Breach - Unless It Was Encrypted

In the wake of the latest notice from a major internet company revealing that user data has been compromised -- Facebook's admission of a security bug compromising data from 6 million users -- the European Commission today is publishing new, Europe-wide rules that will require ISPs, carriers, broadband providers and others to report to both national regulators and to subscribers more specific detail about what has been compromised within 24 hours of the breach.

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Obama hit by Snowden setbacks with China, Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) ? For President Barack Obama, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's globe-trotting evasion of U.S. authorities has dealt a startling setback to efforts to strengthen ties with China and raised the prospect of worsening tensions with Russia.

Indeed, Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday called U.S. demands for Snowden's extradition "ungrounded and unacceptable."

Relations with both China and Russia have been at the forefront of Obama's foreign policy agenda this month, underscoring the intertwined interests among these uneasy partners. Obama met just last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland and held an unusual two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California earlier this month.

Obama has made no known phone calls to Xi since Snowden surfaced in Hong Kong earlier this month, nor has he talked to Putin since Snowden arrived in Russia.

Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said it wasn't clear that Obama's "charm offensive" with Xi and Putin would matter much on this issue. The U.S. has "very little leverage," she said, given the broad array of issues on which the Obama administration needs Chinese and Russian cooperation.

"This isn't happening in a vacuum, and obviously China and Russia know that," said Harman, who now runs the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Both the U.S. and China had hailed the Obama-Xi summit as a fresh start to a complex relationship, with the leaders building personal bonds during an hour-long walk through the grounds of the Sunnylands estate. But any easing of tensions appeared to vanish Monday following China's apparent flouting of U.S. demands that Snowden be returned from semi-autonomous Hong Kong to face espionage charges.

White House spokesman Jay Carney, in unusually harsh language, said China had "unquestionably" damaged its relationship with Washington.

"The Chinese have emphasized the importance of building mutual trust," Carney said. "We think that they have dealt that effort a serious setback. If we cannot count on them to honor their legal extradition obligations, then there is a problem."

A similar problem may be looming with Russia, where Snowden arrived Sunday. He had been expected to leave Moscow for a third country, but the White House said Monday it believed the former government contractor was still in Russia.

While the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, the White House publicly prodded the Kremlin to send Snowden back to the U.S., while officials privately negotiated with their Russian counterparts.

"We are expecting the Russians to examine the options available to them to expel Mr. Snowden for his return to the United States," Carney said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday bluntly rejected the U.S. request, saying Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border, and angrily lashed out at the U.S. for warnings of negative consequences if Moscow fails to comply.

"We consider the attempts to accuse Russia of violation of U.S. laws and even some sort of conspiracy, which on top of all that are accompanied by threats, as absolutely ungrounded and unacceptable," Lavrov said.

The U.S. has deep economic ties with China and needs the Asian power's help in persuading North Korea to end its nuclear provocations. The Obama administration also needs Russia's cooperation in ending the bloodshed in Syria and reducing nuclear stockpiles held by the former Cold War foes.

Members of Congress so far have focused their anger on China and Russia, not on Obama's inability to get either country to abide by U.S. demands. However, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said in an interview with CNN on Monday that he was starting to wonder why the president hasn't been "more forceful in dealing with foreign leaders."

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton echoed the White House's frustration with China. "That kind of action is not only detrimental to the U.S.-China relationship but it sets a bad precedent that could unravel the intricate international agreements about how countries respect the laws ? and particularly the extradition treaties," the possible 2016 presidential contender told an audience in Los Angeles.

Snowden fled to Hong Kong after seizing highly classified documents disclosing U.S. surveillance programs that collect vast amounts of U.S. phone and Internet records. He shared the information with The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. He also told the South China Morning Post that "the NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data." SMS, or short messaging service, generally means text messaging.

Snowden still has perhaps more than 200 sensitive documents, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said over the weekend.

Hong Kong, a former British colony with a degree of autonomy from mainland China, has an extradition treaty with the U.S. Officials in Hong Kong said a formal U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with its laws, a claim the Justice Department disputes.

The White House made clear it believes the final decision to let Snowden leave for Russia was made by Chinese officials in Beijing.

Russia's ultimate response to U.S. pressure remains unclear. Putin could still agree to return Snowden to the U.S. But he may also let him stay in Russia or head elsewhere, perhaps to Ecuador or Venezuela ? both options certain to earn the ire of the White House.

Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said she expected Putin to take advantage of a "golden opportunity" to publicly defy the White House.

"This is one of those opportunities to score points against the United States that I would be surprised if Russia passed up," Hill said.

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Apps pinpoint locations of nearby concerts for music lovers

By Natasha Baker

(Reuters) - Music lovers looking for a nearby concert can turn to apps that detect a person's location and list nearby live events based on the type of tunes they and their friends like.

Apps such as Bandsintown and Songkick scan fans' music libraries on their mobile devices and iTunes, along with music streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and SoundCloud, to learn musical preferences so fans never miss a show.

Bandsintown also shows users which bands their friends are heading to see.

"There are two reasons why someone might go to a concert. The first is that they like a particular style of music or the artist. The second is that it's a social event with friends," said Julien Mitelberg, the CEO of New-York based Bandsintown.

The app makes recommendations for concerts nearby and notifies users when friends indicate they are going to see a show. Users can also invite friends using the app, which is available worldwide for iPhone and Android.

Songkick, which is available worldwide for iPhone and Android, gathers information from ticket vendors, websites and newspapers to compile its database of concerts.

An app from music streaming service Rhapsody, called Rhapsody Concerts, shows upcoming concerts nearby and lets users stream a band's albums before deciding whether to buy tickets.

"Our customers like to go see live music. But there weren't really any services out there that combined an unlimited catalog of songs with live music discovery," said Paul Springer, senior vice president of product at Rhapsody International, which is based in Seattle.

Thrillcall, which started four years ago, lets users buy tickets for any concert in every major city from their iPhone and Android apps.

The company also introduced exclusive offers in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco that allow fans to meet the band, bypass lines and buy VIP tickets and merchandise.

Matthew Tomaszewicz, co-founder of Thrillcall, said one of the main benefits of the app is that users can buy tickets to shows in two clicks on the app.

About 100,000 concerts are available in the app at any time.

(Editing by Patricia Reaney and Phil Berlowitz)

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Obama hit by Snowden setbacks with China, Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) ? For President Barack Obama, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's globe-trotting evasion of U.S. authorities has dealt a startling setback to efforts to strengthen ties with China and raised the prospect of worsening tensions with Russia.

Relations with both China and Russia have been at the forefront of Obama's foreign policy agenda this month, underscoring the intertwined interests among these uneasy partners. Obama met just last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland and held an unusual two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California earlier this month.

Obama has made no known phone calls to Xi since Snowden surfaced in Hong Kong earlier this month, nor has he talked to Putin since Snowden arrived in Russia.

Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said it wasn't clear that Obama's "charm offensive" with Xi and Putin would matter much on this issue. The U.S. has "very little leverage," she said, given the broad array of issues on which the Obama administration needs Chinese and Russian cooperation.

"This isn't happening in a vacuum, and obviously China and Russia know that," said Harman, who now runs the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Both the U.S. and China had hailed the Obama-Xi summit as a fresh start to a complex relationship, with the leaders building personal bonds during an hourlong walk through the grounds of the Sunnylands estate. But any easing of tensions appeared to vanish Monday following China's apparent flouting of U.S. demands that Snowden be returned from semi-autonomous Hong Kong to face espionage charges.

White House spokesman Jay Carney, in unusually harsh language, said China had "unquestionably" damaged its relationship with Washington.

"The Chinese have emphasized the importance of building mutual trust," Carney said. "We think that they have dealt that effort a serious setback. If we cannot count on them to honor their legal extradition obligations, then there is a problem."

A similar problem may be looming with Russia, where Snowden arrived Sunday. He had been expected to leave Moscow for a third country, but the White House said Monday it believed the former government contractor was still in Russia.

While the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, the White House publicly prodded the Kremlin to send Snowden back to the U.S., while officials privately negotiated with their Russian counterparts.

"We are expecting the Russians to examine the options available to them to expel Mr. Snowden for his return to the United States," Carney said.

The U.S. has deep economic ties with China and needs the Asian power's help in persuading North Korea to end its nuclear provocations. The Obama administration also needs Russia's cooperation in ending the bloodshed in Syria and reducing nuclear stockpiles held by the former Cold War foes.

Members of Congress so far have focused their anger on China and Russia, not on Obama's inability to get either country to abide by U.S. demands. However, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said in an interview with CNN on Monday that he was starting to wonder why the president hasn't been "more forceful in dealing with foreign leaders."

Snowden fled to Hong Kong after seizing highly classified documents disclosing U.S. surveillance programs that collect vast amounts of U.S. phone and Internet records. He shared the information with The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. He also told the South China Morning Post that "the NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data." SMS, or short messaging service, generally means text messaging.

Snowden still has perhaps more than 200 sensitive documents, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said over the weekend.

Hong Kong, a former British colony with a degree of autonomy from mainland China, has an extradition treaty with the U.S. Officials in Hong Kong said a formal U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with its laws, a claim the Justice Department disputes.

The White House made clear it believes the final decision to let Snowden leave for Russia was made by Chinese officials in Beijing.

Russia's ultimate response to U.S. pressure remains unclear. Putin could still agree to return Snowden to the U.S. But he may also let him stay in Russia or head elsewhere, perhaps to Ecuador or Venezuela ? both options certain to earn the ire of the White House.

Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said she expected Putin to take advantage of a "golden opportunity" to publicly defy the White House.

"This is one of those opportunities to score points against the United States that I would be surprised if Russia passed up," Hill said.

___

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Gettysburg offers lessons on battlefield medicine

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) ? As gunshots ravaged the bodies of tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, military doctors responded with a method of treatment that is still the foundation of combat medicine today.

Union Army Maj. Dr. Jonathan Letterman is remembered as the father of battlefield medicine for his Civil War innovations. He realized that organizing the medical corps was a key for any battle.

"For military medicine, in particular, the lessons that Letterman gave us are as true today as they were then," said retired Lt. Gen. Ronald Ray Blanck, the former surgeon general for the U.S. Army.

Before the war, medical supplies were handled by regular quartermaster wagons, Blanck said, meaning they had to compete with "beans and bullets."

The situation was so bad that, in some early Civil War battles, the wounded were left on the field for days, subject to the mercy of untrained troops and civilians.

In 1862, Letterman began to create an ambulance corps and three tiers of field hospitals: at the battlefield for simple wound dressing, nearby for emergency surgery and behind the battle lines for long-term care and recovery.

Dale Smith, a professor of military history at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., said Letterman's innovations were so successful that Prussian and English observers wrote home to praise the system.

"There's never been any question that he changed military medicine internationally," Smith said.

But the Battle of Gettysburg was 150 years ago, and some have wondered how that could possibly be relevant for doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan, said George Wunderlich, director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md.

Wunderlich recalled that about 10 years ago, a military member remarked that it was a shame the Civil War "has nothing to do with what we do today" with battlefield medicine.

But after Wunderlich told him how Civil War doctors resolved problems with transportation, training and even corruption, the man asked Wunderlich if those topics could be turned into a one-day course.

Another man who complained that the Civil War training sessions were "unrealistic" called Wunderlich later after responding to Hurricane Katrina, where moving supplies was slow and difficult and even some cell towers were down.

"He says, 'I'm so sorry. I'm in 1862 down here and now I get it,'" Wunderlich recalled.

Now, more than 5,500 military members and emergency responders have attended history courses run by the Museum of Civil War Medicine. The classes are designed to get people to think about how decisions get made in combat or crisis, and some are taught on battlefields at Gettysburg and Antietam. The courses include topics such as courage and innovation; artillery and its effects; evacuation; and stress and fatigue.

"Our job is to use history to save the lives of people" today, Wunderlich said.

Some of the lessons are subtle. For example, instead of just inspecting hospitals and his staff, Letterman sat beside Union General George McClellan during pre-battle meetings to better predict where to station ambulances and doctors.

"These are the kinds of things that come out from thinking about history," Blanck said. "The battles are won or lost on the creativity of the medical officer and the support of the commander."

Wunderlich said the museum also works to dispel many myths about Civil War medicine. The battles and wounds were certainly horrible, but anesthesia using chloroform or ether was involved in more than 95 percent of all major operations, he said.

And while doctors didn't yet understand exactly what germs were, they had noticed that patients did better when certain folklore was practiced. So while military camps were known for being filthy, hospitals followed strict rules for washing bed sheets and letting in plenty of fresh air and sunlight.

"They didn't know why, but they knew it worked and they put it to use," Wunderlich said.

But the biggest benefits of Civil War medicine may have come in the decades after the war, Wunderlich said. The young doctors and medics who had witnessed so much horror and saved so many lives went on to become leaders in many communities, pushing for public health reforms in major cities.

"Those people never stopped practicing medicine," Wunderlich said. "The benefit to the public was immediate."

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Social media spreads and splinters Brazil protests

Social media

Caroline Stauffer Reuters

June 22, 2013 at 2:17 PM ET

UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS

A demonstrator holds a sign next to street structures set on fire during a protest against the Confederations Cup and President Dilma Rousseff's government, in front of the National Congress in Brasilia June 20, 2013.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest protests in decades are a confusing, conflicting mix of people and messages. Blame Facebook.

Social media tools like Facebook and Twitter enabled mass protests of the sort that have not happened in Latin America's biggest country in more than two decades.

As a result of the speed, efficiency and anonymity of online activism, though, an amorphous, unwieldy movement has emerged that is beyond the control of any of those who first began pushing for change.

"Social media has helped us organize without having leaders," said Victor Damaso, 22, demonstrating on Sao Paulo's main Paulista Avenue on Thursday night. "Our ideas, our demands are discussed on Facebook. There are no meetings, no rules."

The demonstrations have been mostly peaceful, but as more than a million Brazilians took to the streets on Thursday, vandals and looters cast a violent pall over some of the protests. Police and security forces have responded with teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.

Facebook pages set up for logistical coordination and Twitter hash tags have cropped up for protests in hundreds of cities across Brazil. Rival groups appear to be vying for control of one of the most-viewed organizing pages on Facebook and an associated Twitter feed.

"Any movement risks attracting unaffiliated groups and individuals," said Angela Alonso, a sociologist at the University of Sao Paulo. "It's a price of growth. In this case there is no centralized leadership, administration is more difficult and it is even becoming uncontrollable."

The Free Fare movement, a group of 40 activists who marched for - and got - lower transportation rates, said on Friday it was suspending any further marches for now because of mounting tension and violence.

Sparked by Free Fare's protests, the nationwide call for reform quickly evolved into what is now known online as Anonymous Brazil.

The group appears to use encrypted Web browsers that make it difficult to identify page administrators and has adopted the Guy Fawkes mask, the symbol for the global cyber group of hackers known as Anonymous, as its mascot, although it is not clear if the two have a formal link.

While that opens the door to all sorts of fringe groups, the people at the core of the protests generally share a commitment to better public services. Their rallying cries, found on Twitter and Facebook and on traditional signs at the protests, range from ending political corruption to lambasting more than $12 billion being poured into soccer stadiums and other preparations for the 2014 World Cup.

The demonstrators, mostly educated, middle class and under age 30, want nothing to do with established groups that were behind the causes of their parents' generation.

Online organizing
Unlike Brazil's movement for redemocratization in the 1970s and 1980s and protests for the impeachment of President Fernando Collor de Mello in the early 1990s, today's demonstrations have no clear leadership or political affinity.

"The recent protests are not partisan, and they do not have centralized leadership," said Alonso, the sociologist. "This has to do with new technologies that allow for organization without centralization, and also with the fact that the activists are from a new generation that is no longer guided by ideals like socialism, and doesn't want state power."

Indeed, Brazil's protests do not target any specific leader or political party. That makes them different from the Arab Spring, a series of uprisings against autocratic leaders in the past few years, or even this year's demonstrations in Turkey against the government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

While some of the Arab governments blocked access to the Internet to disrupt the planning of protests, Brazil's intelligence agency, Abin, has beefed up efforts to monitor calls for demonstrations online and on popular smart phone chat tool WhatsApp.

President Dilma Rousseff, a leftist guerrilla in the 1970s, has praised the protests as democratic.

Anonymous Brazil's Facebook page, which has nearly 1 million followers, briefly disappeared from the Web on Friday. The group later said via Facebook that its Twitter account had been "robbed" by one of its own members, generating conflicts on its linked Facebook platform.

The group says competing Twitter accounts like @AnonymousBr4sil and #AnonymousFuel are run by "usurpers."

Of the 53.5 million Brazilians online, almost a third of the population, 86 percent use some kind of micro blog or social media tool, according to polling firm Ibope.

(Additional reporting by Silvio Cascione; Editing by Paulo Prada and Mohammad Zargham)

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

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