More Sony Honami images leak out, confirm a 20MP shooter again

1. boosook posted on 3 hours ago 3

A phone that wants to compete with the best cameraphone in 2013 cannot lack an optical image stabilizer. I don't care about the 20mp, look at the Nokia 1020: it has 41mp but to deliver its super-sharp pictures it downsamples them to only 5mp...

6. kobainez posted on 2 hours ago 4

It comes with image stabilizer

9. EXkurogane posted on 2 hours ago 2

it's downsampling to either 3, 5, or 8MP. 8MP is good enough if you want larger photos.

15. tango_charlie posted on 1 hour ago 2

It has a far small sensor to compete with the 1020 and the lack of Xenon flash is another let down.

20. TakashiDeo posted on 1 hour ago 1

well its too early
the sensor size has not been officially confirmed by sony
so sensor size is still officially unknown
excluding rumours....

27. EXkurogane posted on 31 min ago 0

Such a small camera on the top end corner, i bet the sensor is even smaller than Nokia N8's sensor, not to mention absence of xenon flash.

24. jackhammeR posted on 1 hour ago 0

lack of a xenon flash is a big let down for a camera-centric phone

19. SonyXperiaNexus posted on 1 hour ago 0

in my opinion It is NOT a competitor to the lumia 1020 coz it is not MEANT to compete with it. its more likely a competitor to the galaxy S4 zoom and the S4 and iP5 cameras. this is meant to be the best camera on an android phone, not a smartphone.

23. jackhammeR posted on 1 hour ago 0

...and you obviously still don't understand the idea behind 41 mpx monstrosity..please, read a bit before commenting

2. aditya.k posted on 3 hours ago 1

Some please gift me this phone when it arrives! :'(

13. ScottSchneider posted on 2 hours ago 1

A flash will not be required when you have a bigger sensor, as ther will be plenty of light falling even when at low light conditions... A Xenon Flash or any other flash it may be will make the picture look flat... there will be no difference between the object and the background and both will lie on the same line (No 3D effect)... That is why top end DSLR's do not come with a flash attached, since most photographers will not use them with a full frame sensor or they will use light reflectors...

16. tango_charlie posted on 1 hour ago 0

True, but Honami has a quite small sensor. Because of that a xenon flash would have been welcomed.

18. TakashiDeo posted on 1 hour ago 0

well its too early
the sensor size has not been officially confirmed by sony
so sensor size is still officially unknown
excluding rumours....

25. jackhammeR posted on 1 hour ago 0

don't compare dslr with phones...xenon is helpfull to setoff disadvantages

5. TakashiDeo posted on 3 hours ago 1

awesome
just waiting sony

8. CX3NT3_713 posted on 2 hours ago 1

Looks glassy. And elegant :-)

10. jeff1434325 posted on 2 hours ago 1

why is it so hard for sony to put a xenon flash to this phone?...

17. tango_charlie posted on 1 hour ago 1

Cause people are obsessed by slim phones.

21. pyradark posted on 1 hour ago 0

bcoz sony dont want it to look same as 1020 bulky

11. xperiaDROID posted on 2 hours ago 1

The sexiest cameraphone! Come on Sony, bring it on!

12. neutralguy posted on 2 hours ago 1

Is it me or it looks like the sensor might just be too small for 20 mp?

22. itsdeepak4u2000 posted on 1 hour ago 0

I think this time Sony will be good in their camera dept. as their phones are not that great shooters e.g. Xperia Z.

28. anleoflippy posted on 15 min ago 1

The Exmor RS in Xperia Z is good actually, it's the software that ruins it. Sony has addressed this in a update. The S4, Oppo Find 5 and the Lenovo K900 uses the same sensors.

26. james004 posted on 1 hour ago 0

Its metal plate? I thought it was glass like xz

29. smallworld posted on 2 min ago 0

OMG I think it would be great if it had a metal back covered by glass. That would be awesome looking !

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First same-sex civil union legalized in Colombia

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BY LIBARDO CARDONA, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia got its first legalized same-sex Union Wednesday when a judge sanctioned the partnership of two men who have been a couple for two decades. The newly legalized couple cheered the ceremony as a marriage, although experts cautioned that a high court ruling that deemed the Union legal did not make it the equivalent of marriage. "We are civilly married," Gonzalo Ruiz, 44, told The Associated Press just after ceremony with his partner, Carlos Hernando Rivera, 57. The ceremony follows Congress' failure in April to pass a law setting up a legal framework for civil unions. A 2011 order from the Constitutional Court had ordered legislators to pass a law granting marriage equality to gay couples by June 20, 2013, or else such couple would be allowed to join in civil unions before judges. A previous ruling by the high court had allowed same-sex couples in Colombia to enjoy since 2007 many of the benefits of marriage, including inheritance, pensions and health and death benefits. "They entered as bachelors and exited married," Marcela Sanchez, director of Colombia Diversa, an LGBT-rights group, said after about 100 guests celebrated the Union by throwing rice at the couple. However, former Constitutional Court president, Carlos Gaviria, said that while the contract that Judge Carmen Lucia Rodriguez sanctioned between Rivera and Ruiz is a kind of civil matrimony, it cannot lega ...

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: Comparing the Law of Police Interrogations in Canada and Japan

One interesting scrap of legal news that passed under the radar recently was a testy exchange involving Hideaki Ueda, Japan?s human rights envoy to the United Nations at a session of the UN torture committee in Geneva, Switzerland. The donnybrook arose when a fellow envoy called-out the Japanese criminal system for not mandating electronic recording or the presence of counsel at police interrogations. Mr. Ueda sprang to his nation?s defence, only to be met by the audience?s muffled laughter. In true diplomatic fashion, Japan?s emissary responded by telling his esteemed colleagues to ?shut up? not once, but twice.

At first glance, Japanese procedure regarding the recording of police interrogations shouldn?t be that shocking to Canadian lawyers. Like our Japanese friends, Canada doesn?t require that interviews be videotaped or that defence counsel be present.[1] That said, the Japanese context is somewhat different in that the police over there seem a little more fixated on scoring confessions than adhering to any pesky constitutional limits.

That the Japanese authorities refer to an accused?s confession as ?the King of Evidence? should give you some insight into how they roll. Japanese police have been in the spotlight over the past decade for reaching an altogether new standard in ?robust? interview methods that reportedly include physical abuse, sleep deprivation, threats, isolation and marathon sessions.[2] In fact, Amnesty International cites the Japanese justice system?s propensity for ?torture and ill-treatment? to procure confessions as an ongoing concern. In one 2007 case, a court in Saga prefecture acquitted a man who confessed to three murders following seventeen days of ten hour-plus grilling by the local constabulary. More recently, a hacker was apprehended and subsequently convicted of making threats over the internet, but not before police had managed to extract four separate confessions from four different individuals for the exact same crime. In an interesting twist, the real perpetrator cited their reason for making the threats as a way ?to expose the police and prosecutors? abomination.?

Comparatively speaking, Canada appears to be a veritable nanny state. In this country, the rule relating to the evidentiary admissibility of confessions is rooted in centuries of common law, and holds that any confession made by an accused to an authority figure outside the courtroom is inadmissible unless the prosecution can illustrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the confession was made voluntarily. This was reaffirmed most recently by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Oickle, which revisited the rule precisely because of growing judicial cognizance of aggressive interrogations and the false confessions they can engender.[3]

Japanese authorities however appear quite blas? about the whole phenomenon. In fact, they?re aided in their Bronson-esque investigative methods by a legal system that essentially puts suspects at their mercy. A suspect can be held for up to three days by police and prosecutors before he or she sees the inside of a court room. Moreover, police and prosecutors frequently work together to avail themselves of the daiyo kangoku, or ?substitute prison? procedure which permits a suspect to be detained for a further 23 days without charge. This extended period of incarceration must be approved and then renewed every 10 days by a judge ? something that happens 99.77% of the time according to official government statistics.[4] Contrast this with Canada?s ?soft on crime? approach which mandates that according to Section 503(1)(a) of the Canadian Criminal Code, an accused must be brought before a Justice of the Peace within 24 hours to determine if they will be released or remanded into custody.

The Japanese are also not too hot about having suspects talk to their lawyers. While Articles 34 and 37(2) of the Japanese Constitution purportedly enshrine the accused?s right to counsel, Article 39 of the Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure eviscerates this principle by permitting authorities to control the timing and duration of these consultations if it would ?interfere with the ongoing investigation?.[5] In contrast, the Supreme Court of Canada has been a little more protective of an accused's rights. In R. v. Suberu, the Court interpreted Section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: ?everyone has the right upon detention to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right?, to mean that a detained suspect is entitled to speak to a lawyer ?immediately? upon their detention and that the police have a duty to facilitate the process.[6]

So, how do these two legal systems stack-up? The stats are telling ? while the Japanese might be loose cannons, dammit, they get results. With a commendably efficient conviction rate of 99.7%, Japanese police and prosecutors make their Canadian brethren look like black sheep living in their parents? basement ? the latter checking-in with a paltry 64% success-rate as of 2011.

Given that Japan strove to fashion itself as a western-style liberal democracy in the decades following World War Two, the authorities? prevailing tactics and attitudes are particularly perplexing. For example, Chapter Three of the Japanese Constitution offers broad protections to the criminally accused that bear striking resemblance to those enshrined in the U.S. constitution, and so would be recognizable to any Canadian who has watched an episode of Law and Order. The similarity is unsurprising: the Japanese document was drafted with heavy American involvement following Tokyo?s defeat in World War Two. Specifically, Articles 36 and 38 of the Japanese Constitution explicitly prohibit the use of torture by police as well as self-incrimination and compelled confessions.[7]

So how did the islands that gave us Hello Kitty and astonishingly jovial Blue Jays? shortstop Munenori Kawasaki also manage to create a criminal justice system that?s presumptively modeled on an episode of The Shield? The answer has something to do with the difference between legal codification and legal culture. In 1890 Japan introduced a constitution that provided for the rule of law through representative government, separation of powers and the protection of civil liberties. One important, nagging carve-out however, was that the Emperor retained absolute power over the country. While the Emperor is only a figurehead these days, police and prosecutors have since done their best to take up his mantle as ?heavenly sovereign? when it comes to assigning guilt. The result is that Japan?s Thin Blue Line apparently sees its Constitution not so much as a set of codified, unalienable rights, as an inconvenient guideline that hinders them from putting no-good punks behind bars.[8]

In fact, some of the policy rationales used to justify business-as-usual in Japan would strike Canadian observers as bizarre inversions of how a justice system should work. While Japan?s law talks about a presumption of innocence, observers have noted a de facto onus on defendants to prove their innocence at trial. [9] Moreover, there is no requirement that authorities reveal exculpatory evidence, increasing the risk of false convictions. [10] When the debate over recording of police interrogations erupted in the early 2000s, police justified their opposition on the grounds that suspects would be less likely to confess. Too true.

And historically-speaking, Japanese society hasn?t seemed to mind the state?s general aversion to protecting their constitutional rights. The theories explaining this cognitive dissonance are broad and varied, ranging from Japan?s history as a civil law system, to its cultural tendency towards deference to authority, to its general attitudes towards crime and punishment, to straight-up bureaucratic and judicial inertia.[11]

But, before we Canadians get too smug about the splendour of our own criminal justice regime, it should be noted that Canadian police aren?t exactly paragons of virtue when it comes to making suspects talk. Cops in Canada have repeatedly been taken to task by judges for their aggressive use of interview methods such as the ?Reid technique?, which have been found in some cases to produce false confessions. In the Reid scenario, an interviewing officer will subject the accused to lengthy questioning, repeated interruptions and constant assertions of guilt in the hope of garnering an admission of guilt. In R. v. Chapple, an Alberta court was scathing in its appraisal of the Calgary police service?s methods when it ruled that a defendant?s confession was inadmissible as evidence on the grounds that the Reid technique had been employed in an oppressive way:

I denounce the use of this technique in the strongest terms possible and find that its use can lead to overwhelmingly oppressive situations that can render false confessions and cause innocent people to be wrongfully imprisoned. In this case, the police were convinced of the accused's guilt even though there was medical evidence available that was consistent with the accused's version of events. They pushed ahead with the interview with one goal in mind: a confession.

Moreover, before one criticizes the underlying assumptions and mores of Japanese legal philosophy, it also bears mentioning that Japan is home to far lower per capita incarceration and recidivism rates than most developed nations. The moral of the story is that while helpful, recording interrogations is by no means a cure-all for police excess. Instead, what?s required is broad, societal commitment to the presumption of innocence and a transparent justice system ? and it?s here where Japan has traditionally been M.I.A.

All of which brings us back to the travails of the hapless Mr. Ueda. While the use of video recording has expanded in police and prosecutorial interrogations over the past decade, practical problems remain evident. Electronic documenting of police interrogations in Japan began in 2006, and this year it was proudly proclaimed that 97% of interviews relating to ?major? crimes were taped. In absolute numbers however, this amounted to a mere 67 cases in a nation of approximately 130 million people. Prosecutors have also jumped on the VHS bandwagon, though a majority of prosecutorial examinations still aren?t taped. As of June 2013, recordings are only mandated for certain serious offences, and even then, police and prosecutors have the final say on what portions of their interviews actually get recorded.

But times in Japan may well be a-changin?. The Japanese Federation of Bar Associations has been outspoken in its efforts to reform the law, and there is increasing public outcry over highly-publicized examples of police and prosecutorial misconduct. [12] The authorities appear to be listening. In 2009 Japan instituted the jury-style ?Saibanin? system for serious crimes in an effort to make legal proceedings more transparent.[13] This shift marked the first time in the postwar era that Japanese citizens had a participatory role in court proceedings. [14] More recently, the widespread shock expressed in the Japanese media following Mr. Ueda?s outburst in Geneva suggests that popular attitudes towards suspects? rights may be evolving. With this development comes the realization that the sun might indeed be setting on a truly badass era in the history of Japanese policing.

Despite the differences between the laws of our two great nations, Japanese cops have clearly taken at least one cue from the Canadian experience. Foremost, they appear to have directly cribbed the Mounties? old adage ?we always get our man? though, in true Japanese style, they?ve adapted it to suit their own sensibilities: while the RCMP sees the motto as more of a loose aspirational goal, Japanese cops mean it. I mean, they really mean it.

Mark Donald is a member of the Ontario bar.?

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[1] R. v. Sinclair, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 310, 77 C.R. (6th) 203 at paras. 2, 33-42, 46. See also The Path to Justice: Preventing Wrongful Convictions, Public Prosecution Service of Canada (2011), chapter 6: False Confessions, online: http://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/pub/ptj-spj/ch6.html. For a more in-depth discussion of Canadian law pertaining to police interrogations and suspects? rights, see Lisa Dufraimont, The Interrogation Trilogy and the Protections for Interrogated Suspects in Canadian Law, (2011), S.C.L.R. (2d) at 309.

[2] Arne F. Soldwedel, Testing Japan?s Convictions: The Lay Judge System and the Rights of Criminal Defendants, 41 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1417 at 1433 [Soldwedel].

[3] R. v. Oickle, [2000] 2 S.C.R. 3, 147 C.C.C. (3d) 321 at para. 32.

[5] Soldwedel, Supra note 2 at 1435.

[6] R. v. Suberu, 2009 SCC 33 at para. 42.

[7] Soldwedel, Supra note 2 at 1432.

[8] Soldwedel, Supra note 4 at 1428.

[10] Ito, Supra note 10 at 380-381.

[11] Soldwedel, Supra note 5 at 1427-30. See also Ito, Supra note 18.

[12] Ito, Supra note 10 at 384-385.

[13] Soldwedel, Supra note 4 at 1420.

[14] Ito, Supra note 10 at 370.

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The Followers Of A New WittyCuisiner's Twitter Account Enjoy Its Food Fact Tweets

(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 23, 2013 ) Denver, Colorado -- The newly established company WittyCuisiner, Inc. located in the suburb of Denver Colorado recently opened its very first Twitter account. The company has posted one tweet daily and so far there are twenty posts as of July 20. There are several followers already and the number has been increasing steadily since it opened.

According to Wikipedia, "Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet".

The spokesperson at the company, Evelyn Stewart, explains, "Twitter is a wonderful way to connect with the customers. If we have an unhappy customers, there is a good chance that we'd hear them on Twitter. This is certainly going to help the company to help those customers. We constantly search the tweets that mention our company or brand."

Stewart further continues, "Just like other social media such as Facebook. Twitter is great place to market our measuring spoons to more consumers. We believe that using social media for marketing is so much better than television or radio ads."

WittyCuisiner tweets food facts to engage and connect with its followers. One of the tweet simply says, "Yellow or green?" which is followed by the link to a company's Facebook post. The post shows a picture of spotted bananas with a question, "Do you like spotted bananas or green ones?" followed by the fact, "Spotted ones are much sweeter with a sugar content of 20% or more compared with only 3% in green ones."

The spokesperson added, "People don't like to be sold on especially on social media, which is a place for the sharing the interesting information. Our primary focus is on providing lots of good contents as well as a few occasional promotions."

About WittyCuisiner, Inc.

WittyCuisiner, Inc is a company which is devoted to providing premium quality cooking and kitchen tools such as stainless steel measuring spoons. One of its missions is to create fun yet functional tools which make cooking and baking experience more enjoyable for anyone at any age.

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Brazil police: Francis security 'positive' rating

A crowd of faithful cheer as Pope Francis rides in his popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday July 22, 2013. The pontiff arrived for a seven-day visit in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation. During his visit, Francis will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A crowd of faithful cheer as Pope Francis rides in his popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday July 22, 2013. The pontiff arrived for a seven-day visit in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation. During his visit, Francis will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Pope Francis waves from his popemobile as he make his way into central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 22, 2013. The pontiff arrived for a seven-day visit in Brazil, the world's most populous Roman Catholic nation. During his visit, Francis will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this image from video, a crowd mobs the silver Fiat carrying Pope Francis through Rio de Janeiro on Monday, July 22, 2013. Ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as they swarmed around during the drive from the airport to an official opening ceremony in the center of the city. (AP Photo)

In this photo released by Prefeitura do Rio, Pope Francis waves to people from his popemobile in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. Pope Francis returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff, embarking on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. (AP Photo/Raphael Lima, Prefeitura do Rio)

A young monk takes pictures as he waits for the arrival of Pope Francis in front of the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 22, 2013. Pope Francis returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff, embarking on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Even though Pope Francis' motorcade ended up stalled on a traffic-choked street and swarmed by thousands of faithful, Brazilian officials said Tuesday they evaluated security for the pontiff's arrival in Rio as "positive."

The frenzied crowd surrounded the motorcade Monday afternoon as people reached inside to touch Francis, snap photos with their phones or hand him babies to kiss ? scenes that alarmed some onlookers, although the pope himself seemed overjoyed with the raucous welcome and kept his car window down. Francis later moved through the masses in an open-air vehicle.

Early Tuesday, Brazilian security forces blamed each other for the lapse, and no one took responsibility for the traffic fiasco, which began when the driver of the pope's car made a wrong turn.

Later though, federal police, who are in charge of most of Francis' security, took an upbeat tone.

The agency said a meeting was held with officials from a federal agency overseeing megaevents that Brazil is hosting over the next few years, the highway police who played a role in the motorcade's planning and the Rio mayor's office to evaluate the security provided.

"The evaluation was positive, since there was no incident involving the pope or with any of the faithful," an emailed note read.

It added that the swarming and halting of the motorcade "occurred for a number of reasons, in particular the options of the Vatican itself, concerning the visibility and contact with the pilgrims, expressed by the pope himself. The reduced speed of the motorcade and the vehicle's open window are facts revealing the profile of this pontiff and the encouragement given to the faithful to approach."

Federal police didn't respond to requests for more explanations on how the breakdown in security happened.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is in Brazil and said that in watching the motorcade scene, "I was one of those alarmed myself." He said he was concerned about the pontiff's security.

"I love him and I don't want another conclave. We just finished one so we don't need him to be hurt at all," Dolan said. "So they might need to up the security a bit. But the people of Brazil, the people of Latin America, tend to be enthusiastic by nature, they're just so dynamic in their faith."

Experts said that allowing the pope's car to be swarmed was a grave mistake, but they agreed that the desires of Francis to be out among the public made it difficult to ensure his security.

Paulo Storani, a Rio-based security consultant who spent nearly 30 years on the city's police force and was a captain in an elite unit used to clear out slums, said the events seen Monday had to be analyzed in two ways.

"From the point of view of a head of state, and the pope is a head of state, it's unacceptable what happened. The proximity people had with him was a huge risk, even for his image," Storani said. "On the other hand, in the case of a head of a church and having a charismatic figure like this pope, the situation is different because he wants to be close to the people."

"The police intelligence units have to do a lot more work to detect potential threats to the pope's security and there needs to be a bigger presence of plainclothes officers in the middle of the masses to ensure his security," Storani added.

Ignacio Cano, a researcher at the Violence Analysis Center at Rio de Janeiro State University, said that despite the problems with the motorcade, it's the style and message that Francis wants to get across that is the source of woes for officials.

"It is a difficult situation because authorities want the pope to surround himself with protection, something that goes against the message he wants to impart which is one of simplicity, openness and approximation," Cano said. "In light of this message, isolating him from contact with the people makes no sense at all."

Authorities in Brazil had said about 10,000 police officers and more than 14,000 soldiers would take part in the overall papal security plan, but on Monday virtually no uniformed officers were seen along the motorcade route.

There were few barricades set up along the route and thousands of faithful easily made their way onto streets that were meant to be sealed off from the public. In some places along the route, people could be seen forming "human chains" to keep the crowds at bay.

For a nation that will host the 2014 World Cup and a city that will host the 2016 Olympics, it was a blow for the globe to see television images of the pontiff's car being mobbed and stuck in traffic. The scene comes a month after violent, nationwide protests broke out during the high-profile Confederations Cup soccer tournament, when the nation was also in the global spotlight, unrest that continued Monday outside the government palace where Francis met with top Brazilian leaders.

The papal spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, made clear that despite the mobs, Francis wouldn't change his decision to use an open-air vehicle and specifically planned to use the open car for the very events expected to draw the largest crowds: a speech on Copacabana beach Thursday, a Way of the Cross procession Friday, and a weekend vigil and Mass in a rural part of Rio.

Lombardi said the pontiff deliberately chose to use the same car he uses in St. Peter's Square, and not the bulletproof popemobile, to be closer to people and interact with them. But that square is a closed and controlled, with Vatican and Italian police ringing the square, the faithful being fenced into pens, and bodyguards trailing the car at all times.

Yet how Vatican and Brazilian authorities decide to organize his security going forward is ultimately not the pope's responsibility, Lombardi said.

"Obviously he desires to have a possibly very direct contact with the people. This is clear, and not a militarization of the situation," said the spokesman. "But the concrete solutions are not chosen by him."

On Wednesday, Francis travels to the town of Aparecida in Sao Paulo state, where the governor said 1,800 police will provide security for the pope.

He's traveling to the town to venerate the Virgin of Aparecida, Brazil's patron saint. About 200,000 faithful are expected to pack into the normally sleepy hamlet where Francis is scheduled to drive about a half mile (1 kilometer) in an open-air vehicle after he lands.

Francis is visiting his home continent for the first time since becoming pontiff, with his visit coinciding with the church's World Youth Day, an event held every three years to bring young Catholics together in an effort to inject new energy in the church.

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Associated Press writers Marco Sibaja and Vivian Sequera in Rio de Janeiro and Stan Lehman in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.

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Study: Parents are funding less of their kids' college tuition

(CBS News) LOS ANGELES -- Nobody but bankers was happy when interest rates on college loans doubled to 6.8 percent this month. But Wednesday, the Senate may vote on a plan to roll them back. College costs have been soaring, and a study out Tuesday shows that parents are not picking much of the tab as they used to. In 2010, they funded 36 percent; now it's more like 27 percent.

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Jessica Phan will be a freshman at the University of California, Irvine. Her grades and need got her a state grant that will cover more than 90 percent of the $15,000 tuition.

Jessica Phan will be attending the University of California, Irvine. She acknowledge that cost was a factor in terms of searching for colleges.

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Asked how much of a factor was cost in searching for colleges, Phan replied: "It was the biggest factor, actually. I was actually going to apply to a bunch of private schools, but I didn't apply to any because my mom could not afford them anymore."

The survey released Tuesday showed 67 percent of students eliminated schools during their college search because of cost -- up from 58 percent in 2008. Parents used to pay the biggest share of their children's tuition bill. Now grants and scholarships cover 30 percent of college costs, while parents fund 27 percent. Loans cover 18 percent.

It's not that parents are suddenly cheap -- it's that college tuition has outpaced inflation by 27 percent in the past five years. Tuition and room and board at a private four-year college averages just under $40,000.

"Each year it goes higher and higher," said Phan, "and it's hard because I know my family income isn't increasing at the same rate that college tuition is increasing. I was very careful to make sure that I didn't ask my parents for too much."

Phan plans to live with an aunt close to campus, saving $10,000 in room and board.

"If I didn't have the scholarships or grants," she said, "I would definitely be struggling with debt until I was 40. It's just too much."

While her first year is all but paid for, she has to keep her grades so she can keep her grant.

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Map and chart: Jobs in Nevada's counties; health care, senior care a billion dollar Washoe County business

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