YouTube user Carl Vause recently uploaded a side-by-side shot of two identical aircraft carrier landings?one during the light of day and one in pitch black. The result is absolutely stunning.
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Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai has said the company's entertainment division is off limits.
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Since May, the hedge fund investor has pressed Sony to spin off its entertainment division. The Japanese electronics giant has responded by indicating its movie and music business isn't going anywhere near an auction block at the moment.
Now, Loeb is increasing pressure on the company -- and he's not dancing around the key issues.
"Keeping entertainment underexposed, undervalued and underperforming is not a strategy for success," Loeb wrote in a July 29 letter to investors with his Third Point fund.
The letter says that profits from the division lag behind its competitors, a trend exacerbated by recent summer blockbuster films like After Earth and White House Down that "bombed spectacularly at the box office."
Loeb also issued a sharp critique of management in the entertainment division, saying the operation has a "famously bloated corporate structure, generous perk packages, high salaries for underperforming senior executives, and marketing budgets that do not seem to be in line with any sense of return on capital invested."
Sony won't realize its full potential unless it stops treating its entertainment division as a "red-headed stepchild," he said.
Related story: Nintendo's big problem
Third Point, as one of Sony's largest shareholders, has continued to raise its stake. In June, the fund boosted its holdings to about $1.4 billion.
Sony's earnings could benefit directly from a separation, as it "stands at the crossroads of compelling corporate opportunity and massive Japanese economic reform," Loeb wrote previously in a letter to the company. "Under Prime Minister Abe's leadership, Japan can regain its position as one of the world's preeminent economic powerhouses and manufacturing engines."
Related story: Why Dan Loeb loves Japan
Loeb has been vocal about his interest in Japan, telling investors that his firm is "extremely focused" on the country. At a hedge fund conference in May, Loeb said Japanese stocks were cheap despite recent strong gains.
Sony was noncommittal when asked for comment on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it was "focused on creating shareholder value" while the board reviews Loeb's proposal, and "looks forward to a constructive dialogue with our shareholders."
Sony shares gained 3% in Tokyo trading and have surged 121% so far this year. The company will release its latest quarterly earnings report on Aug. 1.
-- CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki contributed reporting. 
First Published: July 30, 2013: 4:52 AM ET
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As ASUS goes full steam ahead in the smartphone space, prepping itself for an entry into the US market, the company has apparently done a rethink on its support for Windows RT. Chairman Jonney Shih told All Things D that, as far as the company's work with the Windows 8 offshoot goes, "the result is not very promising." Don't take that to mean that ASUS is set on completely abandoning the OS, but the future of ASUS Windows RT devices doesn't look particularly bright at the moment.
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11 innings, and 21 runs after the first pitch, the Colchester Cannons held on for the 2013 Legion state championship, over Bennington. ?In a game that seemed it would never end, Colchester got runs in the 11th inning to pull out a 1 run win, for their 3rd legion title since 2009.
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(Reuters) - Community Health Systems Inc
Community Health would pay $13.78 per share in a combination of cash and its own stock.
Both chains operate hospitals primarily in smaller cities and rural areas. Health Management has a strong focus in the U.S. Southeast, including Florida.
(Reporting by Susan Kelly in Chicago and Caroline Humer in New York; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/community-health-buy-health-management-3-9-billion-111105172.html
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Scalpers stop at nothing to make a few bucks off Apple?s popularity around the world, and especially in the 1.33 billion people market that is China. As you know, large-scale buyers are known for paying scalpers to stand overnight in snaking queues and buy Apple devices in bulk to resell at a premium.
According to a report Monday, scalpers now have a new innovative technique: they are booking up all available Genius Bar appointments in Apple?s retail stores in China for the purposes of selling these slots online?
Beijing Morning News?(thanks, Robert!) writes about complaints from customers who are unable to reserve an appointment with Apple Geniuses. This can be put down to scalpers who book Apple Store Genius appointments.?According to the story, these appointments sell for a few bucks online.
While not much, that doesn?t mean the digital age ticket scalpers aren?t profiting handsomely: keep in mind scalpers don?t have to spend money in advance as anyone can book an appointment with a Genius using only his or her email address.
On top of that, in booking up all the available Genius slots they?re inevitably creating a situation when users who need a Genius expertise ASAP have no other choice but to pay for the privilege. All of the communication between scalpers and users is handled via instant messaging applications.
Upon sending the payment, users receive login details in an IM message and so they could log in to Apple?s support website and change their appointment details.
Apple has to deal with Chinese scalpers on a regular basis.
Large-scale buyers often pay scalpers to stand in the line and purchase iPads and iPhones in bulk to resell them on gray market, turning a substantial profit. Sometimes things get a little out of control. In January 2012,?a huge fight broke out between scalpers and regular customers, so much so that Apple had to order a complete shutdown of the Beijing store and call in a SWAT team.
Apple on its part took some steps to address the situation by imposing a three-hour window for online reservations, which did little to scare scalpers away who, as we?ve seen, always find innovative ways to outsmart Apple and regular consumers that patiently stand in line to buy their Apple product.
Source: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/07/29/chinese-scalpers-now-selling-genius-bar-appointments-online/
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DALLAS (AP) ? A Dallas man says he's shocked to have been swamped with a nearly $67,000 erroneous water bill a few months after a similar computer error.
Tom Hoffman says he is looking forward to getting a new bill after the latest mistake that Dallas officials blame on a bad water meter.
WFAA-TV (http://bit.ly/1e853CN ) reported Monday that Hoffman canceled his auto-payment system earlier this year after getting a water bill for more than $66,000. Hoffman's financial accounts were frozen before the error was fixed.
Now it's happened again.
City of Dallas spokesman Frank Librio says the stuck meter has been replaced and accurate billing will follow.
Librio also apologized for the error and the inconvenience to Hoffman.
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Viber is today announcing an update to its Android app with a few new features, including a doodling feature that lets you draw or paint over photos or on a blank page and then send those doodled up pictures to friends. Doodling on photos has become a huge trend lately.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/n-OB8w3rwAs/
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The LLVM SLP Vectorizer was covered earlier this year on Phoronix (and benchmarked) with its premiere in LLVM 3.3. The SLP Vectorizer is about "Superworld-Level Parallelism" and works towards vectorizing straight-line code over LLVM's already present and proven Loop Vectorizer. The SLP Vectorizer can vectorize memory access, arithmetic operations, comparison operations, and other select operations.
For now in LLVM (3.3 and SVN), the SLP Vectorizer isn't the default but must be enabled via the -fslp-vectorize and -fslp-vectorize-aggressive compiler switches for LLVM/Clang. However, LLVM/Clang developers have been discussing enabling this option for at least the -O3 optimization level.
Earlier this month I wrote initially of the discussion about enabling the LLVM SLP Vectorizer. Apple's Nadav Rotem on Sunday morning reignited the discussion with a new mailing list post to highlight their latest test data.
Nadav Rotem wrote, "As you can see [from the new compiler benchmark results], there is a small number of compile time regressions, a single major runtime *regression, and many performance gains. There is a tiny increase in code size: 30k for the whole test-suite. Based on the numbers below I would like to enable the SLP-vectorizer by default for -O3."
Google's Chandler Carruth followed up with, "I also have some benchmark data. It confirms much of what you posted -- binary size increase is essentially 0, performance increases across the board. It looks really good to me. However, there was one crash that I'd like to check if it still fires. Will update later today (feel free to ping me if you don't hear anything.). That said, why -O3? I think we should just enable this across the board, as it doesn't seem to cause any size regression under any mode, and the compile time hit is really low."
So it seems many are in agreement with enabling the SLP Vectorizer by default for the -O3 optimization level but it's possible that the straight-line code vectorizer could also be enabled for other optimization levels too if this Google compiler engineer gets his way. This change is likely for LLVM/Clang 3.4, which will likely be released around the end of the calendar year.
Coming up soon will be new LLVM 3.4 SVN benchmarks on Phoronix while for now you can see our early benchmark results that are quite positive towards improved performance in LLVM/Clang 3.4. LLVM 3.4 is also really important for AMD R600 GPU users.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? Israel's chief negotiator Tzipi Livni says negotiations with the Palestinians in Washington could start right away.
The expectation had been that Monday's meeting in Washington would prepare for a new round of Mideast peace talks after five years of diplomatic stalemate, but Livni said "the idea is to start the negotiations today."
"There is a lot of cynicism and skepticism and pessimism but there is also hope," Livni told The Associated Press before heading to Washington for a dinner Monday evening with the Palestinians hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after meeting U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon.
"I believe that by relaunching the negotiations we can recreate hope for Israelis and Palestinians as well," she said.
Source: http://nwherald.com/2013/07/29/israel-talks-with-palestinians-should-start-today/aw0zrqr/
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By Steve Slater and Sinead Cruise
LONDON (Reuters) - A clutch of European banks are primed to lift dividends to put them back on the radar of yield-hungry investors after years spent using cash to repair balance sheets.
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But obscuring the route for banks with excess cash is a stubborn regulatory fog, meaning investors in Europe may have to wait until 2014 or later for more juicy rewards, later than an expected pick-up in the United States.
"The problem ... is that they are waiting for the regulator to say the final level of capital they need before they can be confident enough to distribute," said Andrea Williams, European equities manager at Royal London Asset Management.
Bank dividends have been a casualty of the financial crisis, since when regulators have proposed a wide array of capital ratio plans to protect taxpayers from future bank bailouts.
Payouts from 28 of Europe's top lenders peaked at 46.5 billion euros in 2007, six times their level a decade earlier, but they slumped to 15 billion euros in 2008 before recovering to 21 billion last year, Barclays analysts estimated.
The surge early in the century was driven by banks making record profits and being allowed to run with thin capital cushions; the drop after 2007 was inevitable as profits were wiped out or were retained to build capital.
Barclays analysts forecast payouts will rise to more than 32 billion euros next year, up 50 percent from last year's level and only behind the boom years of 2006 and 2007.
Many banks are well placed to ramp up payouts because they are generating cash, keeping loan growth limited given muted economic growth and are in no mood for acquisitions, according to analysts, investors and the banks themselves.
Royal London's Williams said Nordic banks like Handelsbanken
SPANISH BANKS STILL PAYING
HSBC's annual dividend is forecast to rise to 55 cents per share for 2014 and BNP Paribas' will increase to 1.99 euro, both up about a third from last year, and UBS's should quadruple to 0.66 Swiss francs, according to Thomson Reuters data.
In a world of low interest rates, the sector could return to favor with investors on the hunt for good, sustainable yields.
Income investors relied on financial firms for 18-26 percent of all dividends in the dozen years up to 2008, but that sagged to near 15 percent in recent years, according to Citi research.
Yields would rise to over 6 percent at Swedbank, to about 5 percent at HSBC and Standard Chartered and to near 4 percent at BNP Paribas, Societe Generale
But not all banks will be able to join the party.
Spain's Santander
Its shares currently yield 11 percent but the dividend futures market is pricing in a 60 percent cut to its 2014 award and also a 25 percent cut at BBVA, said Jad Comair, founder of Melanion Capital, a Paris-based investment manager focusing on dividend futures.
Santander has paid out 16 billion euros over the past three years, although more than 80 percent of its recent dividends have been in shares, which means the bank does not use up cash, but does dilute earnings per share.
Other Spanish lenders are also expected to slash what they distribute after the Bank of Spain last month fired a warning shot and told banks to limit cash dividends to a quarter of profits and make scrip dividends at sustainable levels.
For a graphic on yields by bank: http://link.reuters.com/pex89t
Sector dividend yields: http://link.reuters.com/fyb65s
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Banks are being cautious about the timing of any increases in case the regulatory landscape shifts, but several have made the roadmap clear.
HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver said in May he is targeting a payout ratio of 40-60 percent, making clear he has broken from the past when his bank typically spent excess cash on acquisitions.
"This is an important marker to put down. We're quite clearly signaling that the mix of the appropriate balance we're nudging towards (is) dividend growth," Gulliver said.
UBS has said it is aiming for a payout ratio of 50 percent once it hits its capital targets.
Swedbank said it wants to pay out 75 percent of its annual profits once it has satisfied the capital demands of regulators.
Lloyds Banking Group
For a bank that was long one of Britain's best dividend payers it would be a symbolic step in its revival and help the government's plan to sell its 20 billion pound stake.
It should be able to pay a 4 pence dividend by 2015, analysts estimate, offering a 6 percent yield.
Payout ratios - or how much a company pays in dividend as a share of profits - could rise significantly across the industry once the regulatory landscape becomes more settled.
Mike Harrison, analyst at Barclays, estimated banks' payout ratios have averaged about 40 percent over the last 15-20 years, but that could increase to near 60 percent over the medium term, similar to that offered by utilities.
"If opportunities to grow aren't there, it's realistic to think the payout ratios for banks go up. But it's contingent on regulations, and banks being happy with the rules of the road," he said.
(Additional reporting by Sarah White and Toni Vorobyova; Editing by David Cowell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/europe-banks-set-dividend-lift-regulators-allow-232759091.html
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By Christian Lowe
WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has agreed to consider a second case against Poland over allegations it allowed the CIA to run a secret jail on its soil, intensifying pressure on Warsaw to reveal how closely it was involved in the U.S. "war on terror".
The Strasbourg-based court will consider an application from Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah, who alleges that he was held illegally about a decade ago in a CIA-run facility on the grounds of an intelligence training academy in a Polish forest.
His case will be considered alongside one brought earlier by Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who says he was held in the same place as part of a CIA program of "extraordinary rendition" to detain and interrogate suspected al Qaeda operatives.
According to applications submitted to court by lawyers for the two men, they were flown by private jet to a remote Polish airfield and then driven to the facility near a village called Stare Kiejkuty. While there, they say they were subjected to interrogation techniques - including water-boarding - that human rights activists say amount to torture.
Polish officials deny hosting a CIA jail. Poland's foreign ministry said it had received details of the case from the ECHR.
"Poland is obliged to reply to the complaint by the deadline of September 16 this year. The case is currently being analyzed by the legal services of the ministry," it said in a statement.
The twin court cases are awkward for Poland's government: it is caught between a desire to be seen as a model of human rights and respect for the law on the one hand, and its close security relationship with the United States on the other.
GUANTANAMO INMATES
The United States has acknowledged that, as part of its "war on terror" it had facilities around the world where it held al Qaeda suspects. Putting them on foreign soil meant the detainees were not entitled to the protections afforded under U.S. law.
Washington has never disclosed the location of any of the prisons, and President Barack Obama signed an order ending their use after taking office in 2009. Both Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri are now being held in the U.S. military jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Warsaw has so far declined to answer questions from the court about the allegations made by al-Nashiri, citing national security concerns and worries about interfering with a separate criminal investigation inside Poland.
"As a member of the Council of Europe, Poland is obliged to cooperate with the Court," said Helen Duffy, senior counsel for Abu Zubaydah on behalf of Interights, a human rights group.
"It needs to begin to engage with the detailed allegations against it and to account for its central role in the rendition program," she said.
Abu Zubaydah's application against Poland was on Monday listed by the ECHR as having been "communicated", which means that on a preliminary examination the court believed there was a case to answer.
The court usually takes several years between receiving an application and communicating it, but it acted more swiftly in the two cases against Poland: 14 months for al-Nashiri and six months for Abu Zubaydah's application.
Some people with expertise in the court's workings say this could mean a ruling will be made as early as this year.
The U.S. government says Abu Zubaydah ran a camp in Afghanistan that trained some of those who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities. It accuses al-Nashiri of directing an attack on the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in 2000 that killed 17 sailors.
Prosecutors in Poland have been conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that Polish officials knew there was a CIA jail. It has been running now for five years, with no sign any prosecutions are imminent.
(Additional reporting by Dagmara Leszkowicz; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/european-court-hear-cia-jail-case-against-poland-150155823.html
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Basic Mobile Phone Troubleshooting Steps that may Save you Money
In today?s age, most people will find it hard to survive a day without a mobile phone by their side. This?is because there are many things that a mobile phone can give to us. More than for communication,?mobile phones can give different features like taking pictures, playing games, browsing the internet and?many more. Using mobile phones every day for our work, personal use, or what have you made this?gadget so helpful to every one of us. As this gadget had become so important, people panic when one of?the features it offers suddenly stop working. People might want to send it to repair center and pay big?amount of cash just to make the mobile phone to be fixed.
Do you know that there are some mobile phone issues that look complicated but in fact can be resolved?by doing simple things? These simple troubleshooting steps will not only help you have a working mobile?phone but will also help you save tons of money by not sending your mobile phones to repair centers.
Here are some of the troubleshooting steps that you may try to fix the problems on your mobile phones:
1. Power Cycle ? This is done to reset or to give a little kick on the software of the phone. This may?resolve simple issues like hanging, slow response, and many more. There are different ways?to perform a power cycle on your phone; one is by removing the battery, and the other way is?pressing and holding the power button which is usually for those that have integrated batteries.?This process might be stated in your mobile phone?s user manual so it is better to check this?out to know how to correctly perform a power cycle on your phone. Note: This tip is for mobile?phones only, performing this step on other electronic gadgets my harm the device.
2. Soft Reset ? This process is to restore the default setting in your mobile phone like ringtones,?themes, wallpapers, etc. that users may change by simple going to the settings section on the?phone. Performing this troubleshooting step may help resolve different issues on the phone?like not being able to send text messages, sudden change in the interface, and many more. To?perform this step, you will need to navigate your mobile phone and get to the settings menu.?Once you are in the settings menu, you may find the ?Restore to Factory Settings? selection.?Choose this one and if asked, enter your security code and that is it. You may change the?settings on your phone to your preferences once again after performing this step.
3. Software Update ? This troubleshooting step involves a change in your mobile phone?s software?which may include the interface, usability, controls, and many more. A software update is?usually an upgrade but also it is to help fix bugs that are detected on the previous software?version. There are two common ways to perform this step, one if using the mobile phone and?the other with the help of a computer. Mobile phone software update can be done by using the?mobile phone?s ability to connect to the internet or you can all Over the Air. You may check your phone?s manual on?how to go to the software update menu on your phone as mobile phones may have different?procedure for this. Using a computer on the other hand will require you to install a software?which the installer might be downloadable or is included on the package when you purchase?your mobile phone like in a cd or memory card. You will only need to connect your mobile?phone with your computer via USB or other modes of connection then navigate the installed?software in your computer to help update the software in your mobile phone.
These steps can be done easily without a broad knowledge technically. You might just need to?read the steps which are mostly printed in the mobile phone?s manual to do the tasks. You may?resolve lots of mobile phones issues with those steps which in turn can help you save money by?not going to a repair store near you. For more money saving tips for your mobile phone usage, you?may check out http://www.thewirelessbanana.com/boost-mobile-promo-code for more details.
Apple's plans to release a low-cost iPhone got a solid confirmation from a new report by China Labor Watch this morning. The unlikely source of new product info was an undercover investigation into Pegatron, to shed light on working conditions at the Apple supplier (which also acts as a partner to other consumer electronics makers).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/t1TrmAzChIU/
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and the United Steelworkers on Saturday night reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract covering about 8,000 employees at six U.S. plants, according to the company's negotiations website, corporate officials and local union officials. The current contract had been set to expire at 11 p.m. CDT.
The Goodyear Gadsden Plant on June 26, 2013 Gadsden Times Photo by Eric T. Wright
Gadsden TImesRatification votes will be scheduled at the facilities in the near future, according to the negotiations website.
The tentative agreement must be approved by a majority of the members at the majority of union locals.
If approved, it will cover employees at Goodyear plants in Gadsden; Akron, Ohio; Buffalo, N.Y.; Danville, Va.; Fayetteville, N.C.; and Topeka, Kan.
Company officials said they would have no further statement on the agreement until Monday.
Agreements were reached earlier Saturday during negotiations in Cincinnati with Bridgestone Americas and BFGoodrich.
The talks between the USW and the tire companies had begun in April. The main issues on the table were wages, vacation time, health-care costs, pensions and grandfathering of employees in some categories.
The previous agreement, in 2009, also was reached before the contract in place expired. In 2006, the union worked "day to day" after the contract expired while negotiations ensued, before eventually striking for three months.
Source: http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20130727/news/130729810
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Green Bay --- One by one, high-profile players across the NFL continue to say they want human growth hormone (HGH) testing in the NFL. On Friday, league MVP?Adrian Peterson said to bring on testing.
And on Saturday, outside linebacker Clay Matthews basically echoed the running back.
?Absolutely,"?Matthews said. "I?ve been in favor of that for a long time now. I?m glad it finally looks like we?re taking steps in the right direction to even the playing field. I know a lot of players have come out in favor of it so I?m looking forward to it."
Matthews has a unique perspective in that his father spent 19 years in the league. Clay Matthews Jr.'s career stretched from the 70's to the 90's.
"Speaking to my father when he played,"?Matthews said, "and they leveled the playing field back in the day, it?s always interesting to see the players who maintain their level of play and who fall off. But I also think it?s just a step in the right direction for sports in general.?
It's been two years since the NFL?and NFLPA agreed to implement HGH?testing. As the Journal Sentinel detailed in April, some former and current players in the league believe that HGH use in the league is common. One anonymous NFC?starter said "it's like clockwork," adding "Not tested and it's easy to get. Nowadays, dude? In 2013? (Expletive) yeah."
The player estimated that 10-15 players on each team use HGH.
There has been progress of late. The league and the players association are reportedly working on an agreement.
Asked if he looks at players around the league and wonders himself about the substance's use, Matthews said, "We've got some talented players around here."
"There are some studs around the league,"?he said. "We?ll see when the time comes. But for the time being we have to deal with some pretty good players out there.?
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Advocates from both ends of the immigration reform debate rally at Rep. Gary Miller s office in Rancho Cucamonga. Immigration reform supporters are calling on Miller to support legislation to allow a path for citizenship for undocumented residents. (Neil Nisperos/Staff)
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Scores of advocates on both sides of the national immigration issue converged Friday at the office of a local congressman to rally their causes.About two dozen immigration reform advocates from the Justice for Immigration Coalition are asking Rep. Gary Miller, R-Rancho Cucamonga, to support legislation that would allow a path for citizenship for 11 million undocumented citizens.
"I'm here in support of a new law on immigration because the one that we have does not answer the needs of the people," said San Bernardino County Diocese Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio Del Riego, who came on behalf of the diocese in support of immigration reform. "We need a new law on immigration that is comprehensive, not piece by piece, and includes the path to citizenship and contributes to the unity of families."
Benjamin Wood, an organizer with the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, and the Rancho Cucamonga Day Laborers, had a petition signed by nearly 700 in San Bernardino County to show the congressman "how much the folks in his district support immigration reform."
"There's too many people living in the shadows, and it's time for people to participate fully in a society that they've been a part of for a number of years," Wood said.
Also at Miller's office on Friday were about two dozen supporters of legal immigration and jobs for American workers. Among them were anti-illegal immigration advocates, including those from the Claremont-based We The People California's Crusader, who are against legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to become citizens.
Vicky Arzaga-Chapman of Rancho Cucamonga is involved with the group.
"I understand that they want citizenship," said Arzaga-Chapman. "I'm Filipino and I have a lot of friends who became legal U.S. citizens, but you have to go about it the right way. I don't begrudge any of them, but they need to go the legal route, and I'm not talking about changing the laws to have them become citizens."
Rancho Cucamonga resident John Batten, who was with the group of anti-illegal immigration advocates, said he was rallying for American workers.
"We have over 22 million unemployed Americans and American veterans. I want to see them get jobs, not somebody who comes across the border illegally. I'm all for immigration -- that's what made this country great. We have to have legal immigration and we need jobs for Americans."
Chris Marsh, district director for Miller, said the congressman agrees "the system is badly broken in need of fixing" but is focusing on two priorities right now as far as the immigration debate goes.
Marsh said Miller's priorities are "making sure American jobs are preserved for American workers," and to strengthen the nation's borders and coastlines.
"Once those priorities are met, we can discuss all other aspects of the immigration debate," Marsh said.
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Pilgrims and residents gather on Copacabana beach before the arrival of Pope Francis for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Francis will preside over an evening vigil service on Copacabana beach that is expected to draw more than 1 million young people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Pilgrims and residents gather on Copacabana beach before the arrival of Pope Francis for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Francis will preside over an evening vigil service on Copacabana beach that is expected to draw more than 1 million young people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Cardinals meet with Pope Francis at St Joaquim Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis took his message to shake up the Catholic Church to bishops from around the world on Saturday, challenging them to get out of their churches and go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful and preach. (AP Photo/Luca Zennaro, Pool)
Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Rio de Janeiro's Cathedral, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis on Saturday challenged bishops from around the world to get out of their churches and preach, and to have the courage to go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful. Pope Francis is on the sixth day of his trip to Brazil where he attends the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
A bishop watches live video on his tablet of Pope Francis at an event as he waits for Francis to arrive for a meeting with Brazilian cardinals and bishops at St Joaquim Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis took his message to shake up the Catholic Church to bishops from around the world on Saturday, challenging them to get out of their churches and go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful and preach. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Rio de Janeiro's Cathedral, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis on Saturday challenged bishops from around the world to get out of their churches and preach, and to have the courage to go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful.. Pope Francis is on the sixth day of his trip to Brazil where he attends the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Pope Francis drew a reported 3 million flag-waving, rosary-toting faithful to Rio's Copacabana beach on Saturday for the final evening of World Youth Day, hours after he chastised the Brazilian church for failing to stem the "exodus" of Catholics to evangelical congregations.
Francis headed into the final hours of his first international trip riding a remarkable wave of popularity: By the time his open-sided car reached the stage for the vigil service Saturday night, the back seat was piled high with soccer jerseys, flags and flowers tossed to him by adoring pilgrims lining the beachfront route.
"I'm trembling, look how good you can see him!" gushed Fiorella Dias, a 16-year-old Brazilian who jumped for joy as she reviewed the video she shot as the pope passed by. "I have got to call my mother!"
On the beach, pilgrims staked out their spots on the sand, lounged and snacked, preparing for an all-night slumber party ahead of the final Mass on Sunday. Many of those actually paying attention to the vigil had tears in their eyes, moved by Francis' call for them to build up their church like his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, was called to do.
"Jesus offers us something bigger than the World Cup!" Francis said, drawing cheers from the crowd in this soccer-mad nation.
The vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasized throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
In the longest and most important speech of his four-month pontificate, Francis took a direct swipe at the "intellectual" message of the church that so characterized the pontificate of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Speaking to Brazil's bishops, he said ordinary Catholics simply don't understand such lofty ideas and need to hear the simpler message of love, forgiveness and mercy that is at the core of the Catholic faith.
"At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people," he said. "Without the grammar of simplicity, the church loses the very conditions which make it possible to fish for God in the deep waters of his mystery."
In a speech outlining the kind of church he wants, Francis asked bishops to reflect on why hundreds of thousands of Catholics have left the church for Protestant and Pentecostal congregations that have grown exponentially in recent decades in Brazil, particularly in its slums or favelas, where their charismatic message and nuts-and-bolts advice is welcome by the poor.
According to census data, the number of Catholics in Brazil dipped from 125 million in 2000 to 123 million in 2010, with the church's share of the total population dropping from 74 percent to 65 percent. During the same time period, the number of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals skyrocketed from 26 million to 42 million, increasing from 15 percent to 22 percent of the population in 2010.
Francis offered a breathtakingly blunt list of explanations for the "exodus."
"Perhaps the church appeared too weak, perhaps too distant from their needs, perhaps too poor to respond to their concerns, perhaps too cold, perhaps too caught up with itself, perhaps a prisoner of its own rigid formulas," he said. "Perhaps the world seems to have made the church a relic of the past, unfit for new questions. Perhaps the church could speak to people in their infancy but not to those come of age."
Francis asked if the church today can still "warm the hearts" of its faithful with priests who take time to listen to their problems and remain close to them.
"We need a church capable of rediscovering the maternal womb of mercy," he said. "Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness and love."
Despite Francis' critical assessment of the sorry state of the church in Brazil, the pope's reception in Rio has shown that he can draw quite a crowd. Copacabana beach's 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) of white sand was overflowing for the final vigil Saturday night, thanks also to Mother Nature which finally cooperated with chilly but dry temperatures after days of rain.
Local media, citing information from the mayor's office, said 3 million people were on hand for the vigil; calls to the mayor's office weren't immediately returned. That's far higher than the 1 million at the last World Youth Day vigil in Madrid in 2011, and far more than the 650,000 at Toronto's 2002 vigil.
Rio's mayor had estimated earlier in the day that as many as 3 million people might turn out for Sunday's culminating Mass.
"At church, it can be a bit tedious, but here it's amazing," marveled Anna Samson, a 21-year-old rising college senior from Long Beach, California.
"Seeing the pope, seeing the Stations of the Cross acted out live, seeing all these young people from all over," she said as she and two friends plied the beach in search of a place to spread their sleeping bags. "It's overwhelming, just amazing."
Even the human statues, a fixture on Copacabana beach, were pious Saturday night, drawing crowds of picture-snapping pilgrims with their oversized angel's wings.
The Argentine pope began his day with a Mass in Rio's beehive-like modern cathedral where he exhorted 1,000 bishops from around the world to go out and find the faithful, a more diplomatic expression of the direct, off-the-cuff instructions he delivered to young Argentine pilgrims on Thursday. In those remarks, he urged the youngsters to make a "mess" in their dioceses and shake things up, even at the expense of confrontation with their bishops and priests.
"We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!" Francis said in his homily Saturday. "It's not enough simply to open the door in welcome, but we must go out through that door to seek and meet the people."
Francis' target audience is the poor and the marginalized ? the people that history's first pope from Latin America has highlighted on this first trip of his pontificate. He has visited one of Rio's most violent slum areas, met with juvenile offenders and drug addicts and welcomed in a place of honor 35 garbage collectors from his native Argentina.
He carried that message to a meeting with Brazil's political, economic and intellectual elite, urging them to look out for the poorest and use their leadership positions to work for the common good. He also called for greater dialogue between generations, religions and peoples during the speech at Rio's grand municipal theater.
On a few occasions, he looked up at the gilded theater boxes almost in awe from the stage and seemed positively charmed when a few dozen young students of the theater's ballet school sat down around him. At the end of the event, the little ballerinas swarmed Francis, and he gave each one a kiss on the forehead.
Also receiving papal embraces were a handful of Brazilian Indians, dressed in their traditional, bare-bellied garb who lined up to kiss his ring. One man gave Francis a feathered headdress, which he gamely wore for a few moments.
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Marco Sibaja contributed.
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Hundreds of Libyans have demonstrated in the capital Tripoli and other main cities, demanding that Islamist parties be dissolved following Friday's assassination of a well-known activist who criticized them.
The demonstrators took to the streets after dawn prayers Saturday setting fire to tires then gathered at Tripoli's main square shouting, "We don't want the Brotherhood, we want the army and the police." The same slogans were raised by Egyptians on Friday's against that country's Muslim Brotherhood group.
Tripoli's protesters stormed the headquarters of a Brotherhood-affiliated party and another Islamist-allied party, destroying furniture. Witnesses say a Brotherhood party office was also stormed in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Abdul-Salam Al-Musmari, who used to publicly criticize the influential Muslim Brotherhood group, was killed by unknown assailants in a drive-by shooting in Benghazi.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libyans-protest-killing-activist-112115215.html
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MoDaCo Switch, revealed a couple of weeks ago, is a unique custom firmware allowing you to switch between HTC Sense and vanilla Android on the HTC One. The software comes as two ROMs in one, with a "Switch" app in the app drawer allowing you to hop between the two flavors of Android. Even more useful, MoDaCo Switch does all this with a single set of user data, meaning apps and accounts are shared between Sense and stock.
It's been in private testing for a few days, but today creator Paul O'Brien has released the current build — beta 8 — to the public. There's a little bit of initial setup to go through, so you'll want to check out the full list of installation instructions before you get started, even if you're familiar with flashing custom ROMs. It's also worth noting that right now only the GSM HTC One is officially supported in MoDaCo Switch.
We've been testing MoDaCo Switch on the European HTC One for the past couple of days, and we've found it works just as advertised. It's a great way to live in the Google Play ROM if you prefer the look and feel of vanilla Android, while having the ability to escape back to Sense if you need to use a certain feature, or if you just fancy a change. And when you do switch over, all your app data and accounts are preserved.
To get started, hit up the link below for download links and installation instructions. Good luck!
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