Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood marches on military facility

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood said the marchers had set off from the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in northern Cairo, where they have been manning a vigil to demand deposed President Mohammed Morsi's reinstatement.

At least 72 Morsi supporters were shot dead by security forces on Saturday near the vigil, deepening the turmoil convulsing the country since the army shunted Egypt's first freely elected president from power on July 3.

A Reuters reporter said the march numbered several thousand, chanting: "Our blood and souls we sacrifice for Morsi." The military intelligence building is several miles from the site of the vigil.

The army, saying it was aware of the planned march, issued a statement urging protesters "not to come close to military facilities in general, and the headquarters of military intelligence specifically."

Thousands of Brotherhood supporters are defying a threat by Egypt's army-backed authorities to clear them from the site of the vigil.

Saturday's killings at dawn, following a day of rival mass rallies, fuelled global anxiety that the Arab world's most populous nation - a bridge between the Middle East and North Africa - risked broader conflagration.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, was due to meet on Monday with the army's General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the overthrow of Mr Morsi, and officials of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood's political wing.

Edited by Bonnie Malkin

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Obamacare contraception: Could religious exemption be headed to Supreme Court?

Sharp disagreement between US appeals courts suggests the issue of religious exemptions for the Obamacare contraception requirement could be on a fast track to the Supreme Court.

By Warren Richey,?Staff writer / July 26, 2013

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For-profit, secular corporations may not claim a religious exemption from providing employees with certain methods of contraception as required under President Obama?s health-care mandate, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

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In a 2-to-1 decision, the panel of the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that although corporations have free speech rights under the Supreme Court?s Citizens United decision, they do not enjoy the protections of the free exercise of religion.

?We simply cannot understand how a for-profit, secular corporation ? apart from its owners ? can exercise religion,? Judge Robert Cowen wrote for the two-judge majority.

The case is one of 60 lawsuits across the country challenging the contraceptive portion of the employer health-care mandate on religious grounds.

Last month, the full Tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case involving the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores that for-profit, secular corporations can claim the protections of religious freedom.

That court upheld an injunction blocking the required provision of contraceptive methods that offended the company owners? religious beliefs.

The sharp disagreement between the appeals court in Philadelphia and the Tenth Circuit in Denver suggests that the dispute may now be on a fast track for review at the US Supreme Court.?

Friday?s decision comes in a case filed by the owners of a Pennsylvania furniture company, all members of the same family and all devout Mennonites.

The owners objected to being forced to pay for contraception methods that they consider abortifacients.

The mandate, which took effect in January, forced the owners to choose between violating their religious beliefs or facing the destruction of their business through fines of $95,000 a day.

The company, Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation, employs 950 workers. It provides a health insurance plan for employees in line with mandated health insurance coverage, but the owners objected on religious grounds to inclusion of certain kinds of contraceptives that involve destruction of a fertilized egg.

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State Farm to sue NV Energy over 2011 wildfire in Reno

RENO (AP) -- State Farm Insurance plans to seek action against NV Energy for claims stemming from a November 2011 wildfire in Reno sparked by arcing power lines.

The wind-driven fire destroyed 26 homes and damaged 17.

The Reno Gazette-Journal reports State Farm has sent letters to customers notifying them that the company will file action against NV Energy through a long-standing industry practice known as subrogation.

It's a legal action that can be taken by insurance companies against a third party they believe to be responsible for damage sustained by customers.

State Farm declined to comment about specifics because it has yet to be filed.

A NV Energy spokesman says the company doesn't comment on pending lawsuits.

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Twitter casts new light on blanket royal baby coverage

NBC presenter Natalie Morales knits baby booties opposite St Mary's Hospital as the media waits for the royal birth. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Twitter added something quite new to the royal learning curve. We already knew many of the lessons on offer last week. That 14-and-a-half hours of waiting for nothing remotely visual to happen outside a hospital on Britain's hottest day seemed like a hardship posting for 90 or so TV crews and at least 150 photographers. That the hours of nothing to say have to be filled by saying something asinine. That expecting Sophie Raworth (two daughters, one son), Julie Etchingham (two sons) or Kate Silverton (one daughter) to simulate ecstasy over this miracle child flies in the face of experience or reality. That all newborn babies look much the same. Aahh! That recent mums have a residual bump. And that the Guardian website's special home page ? press Royalist to get the whole works and Republican to see it vanish in a trice ? was a demonstration of digital gymnastics scary enough to make David Cameron drool.

Yet it was the tweets that told the underlying story. The Mail and Telegraph are keen on leftwing conspiracies: no, not just in the Indy or Guardian, but amid the tentacles enfolding the BBC. All life, it seems, is warped to a hidden agenda. But Twitter, through the wastelands of waiting, told a parallel story. Were the reporters and columnists from papers and news organisations right, left or centre displaying genuine fascination with unfolding events, or were they just groaning sotto voce? Was the excitement that filled US news-channel screens fact or confected fiction? Frankly, my dear, did anyone give a damn ? except the millions of readers, viewers and unique visitors out there who, it was variously assumed, displayed rapt attention? Could this ? as the BBC put it ? really be "the people's pregnancy"?

Of course, in a way, there are moments of history here. Hail the future King George (86 when the next millennium dawns). Strike a few more peripheral royals off the civil list. Watch opinion polls squeeze the republican vote still further, at least for a while. But if I were sitting in Buckingham Palace pondering the future, I wouldn't be worrying much over any of these things: rather, uneasily, the perception that when push came to gush, the media was delivering a battle of bitten lips. Here were columnists for Tory papers making bad jokes about hard Labour. Here was a sweaty BBC presenter groaning that "nothing's going to happen". It was routine royal business as usual from London to LA.

And the question for journalists to ask themselves is a nagging one. Do we jump through all these hoops, fill all these hours, churn out of all these supplements, because our audience is enthralled ? or because we merely suppose they're enthralled?

Somehow 2.8% of the viewing population watching BBC News (not to mention 1.6% of the Sky News legions) through the longest day doesn't quite hit that spot. Somehow 50,000 extra copies of The Times as stowaway souvenirs doesn't do it either. Perhaps too many punters were on the phone to YouGov at the time, defining how interested they were in this amazing baby. Answer: not very, 29%; not at all, 24%; don't know, 2%.

Of course it all surged up later, when there were swaddling clothes there to see. Of course the blogosphere staged its predictable explosion. Of course two obviously cheery young marrieds had something pleasant to celebrate. And of course some millions of Brits and others round the globe wished to celebrate with them. A happy event. But this blanket of media cynicism and boredom that suffocates such simple feeling? An enthusiasm fuelled by audience figures alone? Portent because it's expected, not felt? Alas, that's nothing to feel happy about.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jul/28/twitter-blanket-royal-baby-coverage

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Pope scolds rich, demands social justice in visit to Brazil slum

By Philip Pullella and Anthony Boadle

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday issued the first social manifesto of his young pontificate, telling slum dwellers in Brazil that the world's rich must do much more to wipe out vast inequalities between the haves and the have-nots.

The pope also urged Brazil's youth, who have taken part in recent protests showing discontent with the status quo, to keep alive their "sensitivity towards injustice" and be a catalyst in the fight against corruption.

The first Latin American pope, who has rallied the Church on behalf of the poor and who lives more austerely than his predecessors, called for a "culture of solidarity" to replace the "selfishness and individualism" prevailing in modern society.

"No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world," he told residents of Manguinhos, a sprawling shantytown, or favela, of ramshackle brick dwellings that until recently was overrun by violence and controlled by drug lords.

His speech, under rains that have persisted throughout most of his first trip abroad as pope, came halfway through a week-long visit around World Youth Day, a gathering of young Catholics that is expected to attract more than a million faithful to Rio de Janeiro and nearby sites.

Despite the downpours and unusually chilly weather, tens of thousands of rapturous Brazilians and foreign visitors have turned out to welcome the pope. The World Youth Day events are an effort by the Vatican to inspire Catholics at a time when rival denominations, secularism and sexual and financial scandals continue to lead some to abandon the Church.

Brazil, home to the world's biggest population of Catholics with over 120 million faithful, is an apt locale for the pope to remind the world of inequality. A recent decade of economic growth in the country raised incomes for many, but tens of millions of Brazilians still live in poverty or with little more than the basics to get by.

In Manguinhos, Francis, an Argentine known for frequent outings into the slums near Buenos Aires even as a cardinal, smiled and visibly enjoyed the chaotic close contact allowed with residents there. He called for more efforts to end poverty and said authorities must do more than just crack down on the drug trade to ensure opportunities for those at the bottom of the economic ladder.

"Everybody, according to his or her particular opportunities and responsibilities, should be able to make a personal contribution to putting an end to so many social injustices," he said in an address on a muddy, rain-drenched soccer field next to a river smelling of sewer water.

Making the speech after blessing the favela's small chapel and visiting one of its homes on a recently cleaned street, the pope challenged the rich and powerful to use their influence to enact lasting change.

"I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!" he said.

Reflecting his humble personal style, Francis said he would like to have been able to stop in every Brazilian home "to ask for a glass of cold water, to take a cafezinho, but not a shot of cacha?a," a mention of Brazilian rum that drew laughter from the crowd.

Driving in an open popemobile, Francis was surrounded by a throng of residents, some barefoot, and leaned out to kiss a woman and shake extended hands as he entered the slum, where there was a heavy presence of police and military.

'PACIFICATION' OF POOR NOT ENOUGH

The pope praised Brazil?s efforts over the last decade to reduce poverty in Latin America's largest nation, which last month was rocked by massive protests against corruption, the misuse of public money and the high cost of living.

But he said more needed to be done to bridge the gap between rich and poor at the root of social injustice, in a reference to the police occupation of Rio's slums started last year to "pacify" drug-related violence.

"No amount of 'pacification' will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself," he said.

Manguinhos, home to about 35,000 poor people, was known locally as "Gaza Strip" for its frequent shootings. It is one of the slums that have been part of a community policing operation that has reduced violence in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro.

"In those days, I never knew when I entered the church if I would be alive when I got out," said Father Marcio Queiroz, pastor of the local chapel. "It was like a fruit market but instead of selling fruit on the tables on the street there was guns, crack and other drugs."

At one end of the sports field where Francis spoke hung a huge painting of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, who often denounced repression and poverty in his weekly homilies and was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980.

Francis has decided to unblock the beatification process for Romero, the penultimate step before Catholic sainthood.

From the slum, Francis traveled to Rio's modern cathedral, where he received a roaring welcome from tens of thousands of young people from his native country who were in Rio for the Catholic jamboree.

On Thursday evening he is to welcome participants in the World Youth Day from a stage on the crescent shaped Copacabana beach. More than one million people are expected for the event.

On Sunday, he presides at the close of World Youth Day in a pasture outside Rio before leaving for Rome that evening.

(Editing by Paulo Prada and Vicki Allen)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-scolds-rich-demands-social-justice-visit-brazil-103446753.html

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Need help updating your Nexus 4 to Android 4.3?

It's important to remember that not everyone's a whiz when it comes to the command-line aspect of Android. And to that end, the fine folks in our forums — 1.6 million strong and growing — have you covered. 

The over-the-air update that brings the Nexus 4 to Android 4.3 is pushing out now. But if for some reason you haven't gotten it yet and you don't want to wait any longer, Phalgun Gujjar in our forums has a nice little tutorial for sideloading the update. No, it doesn't root your phone, and it's really no different than just waiting for the update to push out. It's quick and it's easy and it's a great way to learn one of the basics of working with your Android phone with the command line.

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The term ?search engine optimization? refers to deliberately crafting parts of your website to improve its search engine performance. There is an entire industry that revolves around search engine optimization. Some people might tell you that SEO is an arcane field beyond the reach of ordinary webmasters. Pay no attention to that.

Make sure you use the right keyword density when optimizing your website. To keep out of trouble, at least 80 percent of your page content should not be keywords.

Keywords that best identify your business should be prominent in your domain name. After all, you want people to find your website easily. Remember, not all people coming to your site will be from advertisements, some people will come from searching for products that are on your site.

To make your site more noticeable you should use a lot of keywords; even ones that are misspelled in the meta tag area. Sites that have effective meta tags will show up in more searches for a higher variety of keywords. For example, if you have a website about Maine Coon cats, then use ?Maine Coon? as well as ?Main Coon? and ?Mainecoon.?

Anchor Text

Internal links must use relevant anchor text for the best impact. Not using proper keywords in your anchor text will harm your ratings in search rankings. Good anchor text will really help improve your search engine rank.

When selecting a domain name, choose one that is easily remembered and has a name that has something to do with what you are selling. A memorable name is important, especially for people who find your content through social media sites.

Instead of writing AP styles for SEO, try writing SEO. This means repeating keywords as much as possible without breaking up the flow of the writing. One reason using keywords will improve your rankings on search engines is that search engine spiders work by locating and weighting keywords.

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Blogging about your website, business, or personal life can really boost your search engine rankings. Blogs are a great format for search engine optimization, because they have a nice link structure and update regularly; two key points search engines look for. Search engines look very highly upon websites with a lot of backlinks.

Take the initiative to request that a non-profit or educational site link back to your site content. Any reputable site that links to your website will help you greatly when it comes to ranking with search engines. Ensure that the quality of your content is high, and you may attract reliable, professional organizations who want to feature a link to your site on their own. You must create unique content that is useful for these sites.

You want to make sure that your keyword is included in your domain name. This will draw visitors who are truly interested in your site?s content. There are many people who will be searching for specific products on the site. It is important to make it easy for them to find what they need.

After choosing which keywords are best for your site, get as many as you can in your web page?s title. The first impression of your site is generated by the title, so choose it with care. This way, your site will be clicked because it most fits the search results the user typed in.

A site map is an important part of your website if you want search engines to be able to create an index of your site pages. These maps make it easy to find any subpage on your site. Even if your site is small, a site map can have a big impact on its search engine rankings.

It is essential to regularly add new content and publish fresh articles. Set a weekly goal, and no matter the size remain with it. Search engines recognize websites that constantly update their content as being more informative and up-to-date than those who don?t. As a result, these sites are indexed more often. Higher page rankings are awarded to sites with frequent new content.

You can do this by creating a robots. txt file and putting it in the root of your directory. The contents of this file will direct the search engines to ignore certain parts of your site.

You rarely get image links with sites that are optimized for various search engines. Search engine bots can only parse the URL of an image link for search-relevant keywords.

Optimizing your webpage makes it more visible for your customers. Unfortunately, some online businesses still underestimate the importance of their search engine rankings.

You can give your SEO efforts a boost by using off-site linking, but make sure these links lead to quality content from a reputable site. This is best way to use linking. Relevant links to other websites are more valuable from a SEO perspective than the links that interlink your website. When choosing which websites to link to from your website, you should opt for websites that are willing to link to your website in return. This will further improve your rank.

Using a product feed will give your business a more visible presence and help draw more potential customers to your website. Feeds like this detail your services and products with images, descriptions and prices. Submit your blog posts to shopping comparison websites and all of the major search engines. A feed reader is a program which allows people to keep up with their favorite websites via email. Your clients may interested in following your feed this way.

If you use the plural form or longer form of keywords, you will get more listings in the search results. Keyword stemming is a popular technique of some search engines. By choosing the keyword ?accountant?, alternate forms of the word, such as ?accounting? or ?accountants?, may not automatically be included in the search engine results. Using the longest version of any keyword result will return all the shorter results.

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When you are selecting the keywords and phrases you want to use to attract the search engines, try to think like a customer rather than an insider. Determine what string of words your target audience are typing into search engines.

You should sell yourself to others as a specialist in your field. This marketing tool can be extremely useful. Creating a website that is designed around a niche of buyers is absolutely critical. Then, use search engine optimization tools to help buyers find your services and products. Keep in mind that it?s critical to your company?s success to give customers the items they want, rather than what you might assume they want.

Remember that it takes time to see SEO results. Sometimes it will seem like all your efforts are being done in vain. With millions of websites already online, it will take time for yours to fight its way to the front. You need to stay with it, even if you are not seeing any changes yet. As time goes on, all of these efforts will start to improve your site ranking.

Search engine optimization is a field with a lot of information to master, but there is room for both amateurs and professionals. Instead of wasting time and money hiring someone else, learn a few simple tips to get your website to the top of the search engines? listings. Attracting more visitors to your website is not as hard as it looks.

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