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Motherly tenderness: Pope says church must embody, mirror God's mercy
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Motherly tenderness: Pope says church must embody, mirror God's mercy
 Pope Francis addresses journalists on his flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome. (CNS/Paul Haring) |
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Mercy is a word Pope Francis uses often, and an attitude he believes the Catholic Church must embody and all Catholics must mirror.
"This is the time for mercy," Pope Francis told reporters July 28 during his flight back to Rome from Brazil. "The church is mother and must follow the path of mercy, and find mercy for everyone."
"This age is a 'kairos' of mercy," he said, using the Greek word for a special or particularly opportune moment.
The church has a special obligation particularly to the many who are suffering because "of the not-so-beautiful witness of some priests, also the problem of corruption in the church, and the problem of clericalism, for example, which have left so many wounds, so many wounded," he said. "The church, which is mother, must go and heal those wounds."
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told Vatican Radio July 30 that one of the things that strikes people most about Pope Francis is his "great effectiveness in helping people understand the theme of God's love and mercy, which reaches out to soothe and heal the wounds of humanity."
For Pope Francis the best place for an individual Catholic to experience God's mercy is in the sacrament of confession. But he has insisted that human repentance does not trigger God's mercy -- God already is waiting for his children to return.
When speaking about God's mercy, Pope Francis often uses the story of the Prodigal Son from the 15th chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, and he used it with the reporters as well.
"When the Prodigal Son returned home, the father didn't say, 'Sit down. Tell me what you did with the money.' No, he threw a party. Maybe later, when the son was ready to talk, he spoke. The church must be like that," the pope said. And like the father in the story, the church must not "just wait, but go out and watch" for those in need of mercy and forgiveness.
In his first Angelus address, just four days after his election March 13, he told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that "God's face is the face of a merciful father who is always patient. Have you thought about God's patience, the patience he has with each one of us? That is his mercy. He always has patience, patience with us, he understands us, he waits for us, he does not tire of forgiving us if we are able to return to him with a contrite heart."
In that same address, he said the book "Mercy" by retired Cardinal Walter Kasper "has done me so much good," particularly its insistence that the church needs to develop a stronger theological reflection on "this mercy of God, this merciful Father who is so patient."
"Let us remember the prophet Isaiah who says that even if our sins were scarlet, God's love would make them white as snow," the pope said. "This mercy is beautiful!"
In one of his daily Mass homilies in late April, Pope Francis told Vatican employees that going to confession is not like going to "the dry cleaners," but is an encounter with "Jesus who waits for us as we are," helps people feel shame for the wrong they have done and embraces them with God's love so that they know they are forgiven and can go out strengthened in the battle to avoid sin in the future.
In his speech to Brazilian bishops July 27, Pope Francis said, "We need a church capable of rediscovering the maternal womb of mercy. Without mercy we have little chance nowadays of entering the world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love."
When he spoke to reporters on the plane, Pope Francis said the need for a new age of mercy was an intuition of Blessed John Paul II, who wrote an encyclical, "Rich in Mercy" in 1980, and instituted the celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday on the Sunday after Easter.
Pope John Paul's encyclical, like Cardinal Kasper's book, recognized that many people assume that God's mercy is limited by God's omnipotence and justice, but -- as the late pope wrote -- even in the Old Testament God's mercy "is shown to be not only more powerful than justice, but also more profound."
Love and mercy, Pope John Paul wrote, condition God's justice and, "in the final analysis, justice serves love."
"No human sin can prevail over this power (of God's mercy) or even limit it," the late pope said. "On the part of man only a lack of good will can limit it, a lack of readiness to be converted and to repent."
Cardinal Kasper wrote that mercy isn't God's response to a person's conversion; rather his mercy is "a grace that aims at conversion."
Although it's not an exchange or barter -- God saying he'll be merciful if one promises to repent -- Cardinal Kasper said God's mercy also isn't the "cheap grace" denounced by the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.
"Mercy without truth would be a consolation lacking honesty," Cardinal Kasper wrote; it would be "empty chatter."
"On the other hand, however, truth without mercy would be cold, off-putting and ready to wound," he said. "The truth isn't a wet rag that you throw in someone's face, but a warm cape that you help him wrap around him" to protect and give strength.
All of the sacraments are sacraments of God's mercy, the cardinal wrote, but the sacrament of penance is the one where an individual actually hears God's voice say to him or her personally, "I absolve you."
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Microsoft boosts Xbox One GPU clock speed
The latest in the series of many changes to the Xbox One since its announcement is an increase in its GPU performance. Although the hardware in the Xbox One is more or less identical to the one in the PS4, due to differences in tuning it is theoretically slower compared to its Japanese rival.
With the update, however, Microsoft has reduced the gap, albeit by a small amount. The GPU in the Xbox One was originally clocked at 800MHz but Microsoft has now confirmed that it has now been increased to 853MHz. This makes it 6.5 percent faster than before in theory but it is still slower than the PS4.
Even though the PS4 is still more powerful than the Xbox One, it is best not to read too much into the numbers. Technically, the PS3 is also more powerful than the Xbox 360 but that difference never actually showed up in the games. The PS3?s convoluted development process coupled with developers choosing to optimize their cross platform games for the lowest common denominator (which was the 360 in that case) meant that the Xbox 360 was not just on par with the PS3 in terms of real world performance but often bit better.
The same could be true for the Xbox One and the PS4. Although the PS4 no longer has the same complex development process thanks to the use of mainstream x86-64 architecture, developers are still likely to optimize for the Xbox One since it is the weaker of the two and few will take the time to tweak their games to take advantage of the PS4?s more powerful hardware.
As such, Microsoft choosing to increase the hardware performance of the Xbox One is not just good news for Xbox One owners but PS4 owners as well.
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Sex, Violence, and Autocomplete Algorithms
There go your plans to have Google help you out with your search for boob-related things.
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Warning: This article contains explicit language.
Autocomplete is one of those modern marvels of real-time search technology that almost feels like it?s reading your mind. Thanks to analyzing and mining what millions of other users have already searched for and clicked on, Google knows that when you start typing a query with a ?d,? you?re most likely looking for a dictionary. Besides the efficiency gains of not having to type as much, suggestions can be serendipitous and educational, spurring alternative query ideas. In the process our search behavior is subtly influenced by exposure to query possibilities we may not have considered if left to ourselves.
So what happens when unsavory things, perhaps naughty or even illegal, creep into those suggestions? As a society we probably don?t want to make it easier for pedophiles to find pictures of naked children or to goad the violently predisposed with new ideas for abuse. Such suggestions get blocked and filtered?censored?for their potential to influence us.
As Google writes in its autocomplete FAQ, ?we exclude a narrow class of search queries related to pornography, violence, hate speech, and copyright infringement.? Bing, on the other hand, makes sure to ?filter spam? as well as to ?detect adult or offensive content,? according to a recent post on the Bing blog. Such human choices set the stage for broadly specifying what types of things get censored, despite Google?s claims that autocompletions are, for the most part, ?algorithmically determined ? without any human intervention.?
What exactly are the boundaries and editorial criteria of that censorship, and how do they differ among search engines? More importantly, what kinds of mistakes do these algorithms make in applying their editorial criteria? To answer these questions, I automatically gathered autosuggest results from hundreds of queries related to sex and violence in an effort to find those that are surprising or deviant. (See my blog for the methodological detail.) The results aren?t always pretty.
Armed with a list of 110 sex-related words, gathered from the linguistic extremes of both academic linguists and that tome of slang the Urban Dictionary, I first sought to understand which words resulted in zero suggestions (which likely means the word is blocked). In the following diagram, you can see words blocked only by Google or Bing, and by both or neither. For example, both algorithms think ?prostitute? is just dandy, suggesting options for prostitute ?phone numbers? or ?websites.? They?re not about sexual deprivation: Bing is happy to complete searches for ?masturbate? and ?hand job.? Conspicuously, Bing does block query suggestions for ?homosexual,? raising the question: Is there such a thing as a gay-friendly search engine? In response, a Microsoft spokesperson commented that, ?Sometimes seemingly benign queries can lead to adult content,? and consequently are filtered from autosuggest. By that logic, it would seem that ?homosexual? merely leads to ?too much? adult content, causing the algorithm to flag and filter it.
Initially it would appear Google is stricter, blocking more sex-related words than Bing. But really they just have different strategies. Instead of outright blocking all suggestions for ?dick? as Google does, Bing will just scrub the suggestions so you only see the clean ones, like ?dick?s sporting goods.? Sometimes Bing will rewrite the query, pretending a dirty word was a typo instead. For instance, querying for ?fingering? leads to wholesome dinner suggestions for ?fingerling potato recipes,? and searching for ?jizz? offers suggestions on ?jazz,? for the musically minded searcher, of course. Both algorithms are pretty good about letting through more clinical terminology, such as ?vaginas,? ?nipples,? or ?penises.?
For something like child pornography, the legal stakes get much higher. According to Ian Brown and Christopher Marsden in their book Regulating Code, ?Many governments impose some censorship in their jurisdiction according to content that is illegal under national laws.? So it?s not entirely surprising that, in order to head off more direct government intervention, corporations like Google and Microsoft self-regulate by trying to scrub their autocomplete results clean of suggestions that lead to child pornography.
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RadioShack Debt Gets Even Junkier
After markets closed last night, Standard & Poor?s downgraded the already junk-rated debt of RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) from ?CCC+? to ?CCC?. That?s eight notches below investment grade. S&P?s outlook on the company remains negative.
S&P said that the downgrade reflects the agency?s view that RadioShack could default within 12 months without a major turnaround or increased liquidity. We should probably count out more liquidity because lenders willing to front some cash to RadioShack are likely to be pretty scarce. And those that are willing will want a pretty steep premium, which will not help the company in the short term.
Earlier this year we closed our eyes and held our noses and put RadioShack on our list of the nine most promising turnarounds of the year. But we added as many caveats as we could stack up:
We would simply point out here that this is a situation where investors are betting with enough dollars that whatever turnaround plan that will be formalized actually works, or at least stops the bleeding. With a new solid CEO, our key-man concern is that RadioShack hired a guy with a drugstore background. Maybe it is that no one else was willing to gamble on a career here. We remain doubtful, unless RadioShack will open a prescription drug delivery service as well.
Shares are down about 10.4% in the early afternoon today, at $2.59, in a 52-week range of $1.90 to $4.28. That?s still a gain of about 36% from the low. It?s also about 40% below the high.
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Xu Desheng, Man From China, Commits Suicide Over Struggle To Use Smartphones, Says He Was 'Unable To Keep Up With The Times'
Xu Desheng, a 53-year-old man from China, felt he was drifting away from his young grandchildren who were continually surfing their smartphones or computers ? so much so that it led to the decision to take his own life.
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"It was too soon for him part from us like this, just too soon." Xu's son told Matome Naver.
According to his son's account,?Xu was a devoted and loving grandfather who tried to visit his grandchildren at least once a week. Xu's life as a fruit and vegetable vendor did little to prepare him for the technology boom of which his grandchildren were clearly a part.
"I suddenly realized that I really have to get with the times. I'm useless at just about everything these days, whether it be computers or cellular phones," read a suicide note left beside Xu's body.
"I rarely buy anything new and there really isn't much I can do. Going on living in this way is scarier than dying. Therefore I've made the decision to end my life."
Local authorities found Xu's body slumped over in the front seat of his pick-up truck with a bottle of weed killer and a container of burnt coal. This led police to believe he took his life by intentional carbon monoxide poisoning.
There were other factors in Xu's life that could have led to his eventual suicide. His second marriage that ended last month was reportedly due to his short temperedness. The man also suffered from diabetes, which may have contributed to his unfortunate decision.
Although Xu clearly faced troubles in his life, there's no denying the strain that smartphones have put on relationships. Lew Bayer, etiquette expert and president of Civility Experts Worldwide, says that technology dependency is causing not only a lack of communication, but also a lack of trust with loved ones.
"Our research shows people are in the habit of being dependent on their technology and not even realizing the extent to which they're withdrawing physically and visually and making less eye contact (with others)," explained Bayer.
"People trust you less. They see you as not listening to them, being inattentive, lacking confidence and having low social intelligence."
If anything, remember a little face-to-face contact can never hurt your relationships with those closest to you.
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Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum
MOSCOW (AP) ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn't shying away from further conflict with the United States.
Snowden's whereabouts will be kept a secret for security reasons, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, making it even harder to keep track of the former NSA systems analyst, who has been largely hiding out at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23.
The move could further strain U.S.-Russian relations already tense amid differences over Syria, U.S. criticism of Russia's human rights record and other disputes.
President Vladimir Putin has said his asylum was contingent on him not hurting U.S. interests, but the Kremlin could have interpreted that to exclude documents he had already leaked to newspapers that continue to trickle out.
The U.S. has demanded that Russia send Snowden home to face prosecution for espionage over his leaks that revealed wide U.S. Internet surveillance practices, but Putin dismissed the request.
In his application for asylum, Snowden said he feared he could face torture or capital punishment if he is returned to the U.S., though the U.S. has promised Russia that is not the case. The U.S. has revoked his passport, and the logistics of him reaching other countries that have offered him asylum, including Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, are complicated.
"He now is one of the most sought after men in the world," Kucherena told reporters at the airport. "The issue of security is very important for him."
The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday published a new report on U.S. intelligence-gathering based on information from Snowden, but Kucherena said the material was provided before Snowden promised to stop leaking.
The one-year asylum can be extended indefinitely, and Snowden also has the right to seek Russian citizenship. According to the rules set by the Russian government, a person who has temporary asylum would lose it if he travels abroad.
Kucherena said it would be up for Snowden to decide whether to travel to any foreign destination, but added that "he now has no such plans."
Snowden's father said in remarks broadcast Wednesday on Russian television that he would like to visit his son. Kucherena said he is arranging the trip.
WikiLeaks, the secret-spilling group that has adopted Snowden's cause, said its legal adviser Sarah Harrison is now with him. The group also praised Russia for providing him shelter.
"We would like to thank the Russian people and all those others who have helped to protect Mr. Snowden," WikiLeaks said on Twitter. "We have won the battle ? now the war."
Kucherena said that Snowden spent little time packing and left the airport in a taxi. The lawyer said the fugitive had friends in Russia, including some Americans, who could help ensure his security, but wouldn't elaborate.
"He has got friends, including on Russian territory, American friends, who would be able to ensure his safety for the time being," Kucherena said.
He refused to say whether Snowden would stay in Moscow or move to stay elsewhere in Russia, saying the fugitive would discuss the issue with his family.
Kucherena argued that Russia did the right thing by offering shelter to Snowden despite U.S. pressure. "Russia has fulfilled a humanitarian mission with regard to the U.S. citizen who has found himself in a difficult situation," he said, voicing hope that the U.S. wouldn't try to slam Russia with sanctions.
Putin's foreign affairs aide, Yuri Ushakov, sought Thursday to downplay the impact on relations between the two countries.
"This issue isn't significant enough to have an impact on political relations," he said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies.
He said that the Kremlin hasn't heard any signal from Washington that Obama could cancel his visit to Moscow ahead of next month's G-20 summit in St. Petersburg.
But Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that the Russian decision to grant asylum to Snowden would hurt ties.
"Edward Snowden is a fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom, not a free man deserving of asylum in Russia," the Democratic lawmaker said. "Regardless of the fact that Russia is granting asylum for one year, this action is a setback to U.S.-Russia relations. Edward Snowden will potentially do great damage to U.S. national security interests and the information he is leaking could aid terrorists and others around the world who want to do real harm to our country."
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran of Russia's human rights movement and head of the respected Moscow Helsinki Group, welcomed the news on asylum for Snowden, but added that his quest for freedom of information has landed him in a country that has little respect for that and other freedoms.
"Having fought for the freedom and rights, Snowden has ended up in a country that cracks down on them," Alexeyeva said, according to the Interfax news agency.
Rachel Denber of Human Rights Watch sounded a similar note. "He cannot but be aware of the unprecedented crackdown on human rights that the government has unleashed in the past 15 months," Denber said in an e-mailed comment.
Putin has launched a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent since his inauguration for a third presidential term in May 2012, with the Kremlin-controlled parliament stamping a series of laws that introduced heavy fines for participants in unsanctioned protests, imposed new tough restrictions on non-government organizations.
A law passed in June bans imposes hefty fines for providing information about the gay community to minors or holding gay pride rallies, a move that has prompted gays in the U.S. and elsewhere to call for boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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Laura Mills contributed to this report.
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Charting Death: Radio Host Breaks Old Barriers
As radio host Scott Simon put it, "the heavens over Chicago have opened up and Patricia Lyons Simon Newman has stepped on stage."
For the past two weeks, Simon, of NPR's "Saturday Weekend Edition," has been tweeting about the looming death of his 84-year-old mother, sharing it with his 1.2 million followers. She died Monday.
Since July 16, when he learned about her emergency surgery, through the ICU to the "Heart rate dropping. Heart dropping" moment, as he tweets, the world had a 140-character view of life's final journey.
Ethicists have taken note.
"This is the tip of a very big iceberg shift in thinking about privacy and intimate moments, when someone that prominent does that," said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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"It's not that he should or shouldn't do it; that's for him to decide and discuss with his mom and other relatives," he said. "But it's clear to me that one of the last places -- sex, birthing and dying -- are not off limits anymore. There aren't many spheres left, and that's a really notable shift."
Simon, 61, described holding his mother's hand: "Haven't held it like this since I was 9." And shares her pain: "Will this go on forever?"
He jokes about her joy over flossing her teeth and tears up when his mother reacts to the birth of the royal baby.
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He tweeted wryly Tuesday about being at the cemetery: "Almost interred next to total stranger. Why not make new friends?"
"Worst: telling our daughters," he tweets. "Oldest was flinty, youngest sobbed."
Simon himself broke into tears when he was interviewed on NPR Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, Simon's heartfelt messages have gone viral, encouraging strangers to respond and share in his grief.
One follower, Steve McLaughlin, tweeted, "I haven't held my mother's hand in a long time, thank you for reminding me that time is fleeting and that I need to do that."
Other public figures have shared similar moments, but not in real time on the Internet. In 2004, the photographer Annie Leibovitz documented the death of her partner, writer Susan Sontag. Her son later called the photos, "carnival images of celebrity death."
"Social media has changed the way many people do lots of things," said Dr. Stuart Youngner, the Bioethics Department chairman at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. "Why not grieving? Scott Simon is a public figure and may well find that pubic expression of what many consider private feelings is helpful to him."
"After all," he adds. "Eric Clapton wrote a song about his young son who fell and died from an open window."
Philadelphia psychologist Ann Rosen Spector agrees that social media are "just a fact of life now."
But when it comes to grieving, sharing can be helpful, "as long as people don't feel pressured into doing it," she said. "Some people share every time they buy a new pair of shoes or sneeze or cough. Some people share medical updates. It's a whole new world. There is not a standard of care to grieve."
Kenneth Doka, a senior consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America and author of "Beyond Kubler-Ross: New Perspectives on Death, Dying and Grief," calls the support system that Twitter created around Simon "an incredible phenomenon."
But he said he was "curious" why Simon's mother was in so much pain, given scientific and medical advances in hospice care. "I wondered if we did all we could for this woman in pain," said Doka, who's also a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle in New York.
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The U.S. economy grew at only a ?modest pace? in the first half of the year, and while labor market conditions have shown improvement in recent months, unemployment remains elevated, a Federal Reserve committee that sets monetary policy said today ...
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LinkedIn Expands The Influence Of Its Influencer Program With Search Functionality And Threaded Comments
LinkedIn today is adding some new features into its "Influencer" program, the company's Klout-inspired network of experts and leaders in different fields launched in October 2012, who regularly publish posts that get extra special syndication on LinkedIn's network. Now, users can start conversations around Influencer posts with threaded comments. And now more than 300 people in the Influencer program -- some like Richard Branson with nearly 2 million followers -- users can now search for them and their posts specifically through LinkedIn's search box.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/J6cPrplWJM8/
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Tables of Power: Inside the Inner Sanctums of Fortune 500 Companies
Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been inside some of the most important and cloistered rooms in the world. But these aren't science labs or political offices?they're the opulent boardrooms of Europe's largest companies, which Hassink photographed as part of a project called The Table of Power.
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Microsoft patents futuristic transparent laptop display
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Microsoft's drawing from its patent of a laptop with transparent display technology.
Your future computer may be able to do more than just detect your gestures and last longer on a charge. Microsoft has filed a patent for transparent display technology for laptops and mobile devices that can actually project holographic images right before your eyes.
In the patent?s claims, Microsoft describes a projection device that would be ?coupled to the mobile base for displaying the image,? which seems to be in reference to future cameras that will be built into devices. Additionally, the claims describe a transparent display that would come with a holographic optical element for directing images that are displayed by the projection device.
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The document describes various implementations of this type of technology, one of which could superimpose virtual images from augmented reality apps on to real-world environments. Microsoft hints that there could be a heads-up display accessory similar to Google Glass that would be used to navigate these apps.
?The mobile device may be used with pointing and telestration applications including but not limited to use as a portable heads-up display for an operator of the mobile device.?
The patent?s drawings depict a laptop with a projector in the keyboard deck. This component projects up through the notebook?s display panel and on to a surface beyond such as a wall. As shown in the drawing above, the user would look at the laptop?s display at the same angle and distance as you would when using a standard notebook, but the image would extend beyond the tangible screen.
This isn?t the first time we?ve heard of such plans from Microsoft, but the newly published patent shows that the company is pushing for this tech in laptops and mobile devices. Microsoft?s IllumiRoom concept for gaming details a similar system that would project images and scenes from the video game on your television onto the furniture and surfaces around you.
In a reportedly leaked Microsoft internal document from 2010, the company makes mention of an accessory called Kinect Shades that would accompany such a device, hinting that AR eyewear is in the works. Not too long ago, Microsoft posted a job listing that described telepresence technology for depicting virtual holograms in Skype conversations.
There?s no telling whether or not these technologies will hit the market, but the recently published patent is little short of a confirmation that Microsoft is diving deeper into perceptual computing.
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Crash kills Texas A&M lineman, Utah recruit, teen
Damontre Moore helped recruit Polo Manukainiu to Texas A&M and remembered the day the two met.
Manukainiu was still in high school, even then a fearsome figure at 6-foot-5 and some 275 pounds. Beneath that mammoth frame, though, was a young man with sweet and caring personality, a huge smile and kind words for everyone fortunate enough to know him.
"He was this huge kid," Moore told The Associated Press in a phone interview from New York Giants training camp. "I'd been in college already for like two years and he was this huge monster who had at least two inches over me and he was so intimidating. And when he talked he was the kindest person in the world. He was like the gentle giant."
Texas A&M said Tuesday that Manukainiu, a 19-year-old redshirt freshman for the Aggies, was among three people killed in a single-car rollover crash in the high desert of northern New Mexico, stunning both schools just days before fall practices begin. Also killed where 18-year-old Utah recruit Gaius "Keio" Vaenuku and 13-year-old Andrew "Lolo" Uhatafe.
The wreck happened Monday evening on U.S. 550 near Cuba, N.M., about 85 miles north of Albuquerque, as the group of five was returning from Salt Lake City to suburban Dallas, where three of them had ties to prep football power Trinity High School in Euless.
The southbound 2002 Toyota Sequoia drifted off the sagebrush-lined highway, New Mexico State Police spokesman Emmanuel T. Gutierrez said. The driver, 18-year-old Siaosi Salesi Uhatafe Jr. of Euless, over-corrected, causing the vehicle to lose control and roll several times. Alcohol wasn't involved and it appeared the driver was the only one wearing a seatbelt, investigators said.
Manukainiu and Andrew Uhatafe died at the scene after they were ejected from the vehicle, Gutierrez said. Vaenuku was pronounced dead in an ambulance that responded to the accident.
The driver and his father, Salesi Uhatafe, were taken to the San Juan Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., and suffered only minor injuries, authorities said. Siaosi Uhatafe was a stepbrother of Manukainiu and, like Vaenuku, also is a Utah recruit.
Manukainiu had apparently traveled to Salt Lake City for some relaxation, tweeting Sunday: "It's always good to get away from the Texas Heat for the weekend. Utah got that breezeeeeeee."
On Monday, hours before the accident, he tweeted: "22 hour drive back to Texas on no sleep. Oh my."
Manukainiu played football at Trinity High and was part of the Aggies' 2012 signing class. He was a recreation, parks and tourism science major, the school said, and is survived by his mother, Lima Uhatafe of Euless.
"We lost a terrific young man," Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin said. "Polo was loved by his teammates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members."
He was very close to his family, even bringing them on his recruiting trip to College Station and constantly checking on them while on his official visit. He was proud to be an Aggie, and Moore said he never complained when he was redshirted last season and toiled through months on the scout team.
"He put the team before himself," Moore said. "He was just overall, a good, gentle and loyal person. He was more than a teammate. He was like a brother to everybody. Everybody just loved being around him."
Texas A&M finished last season ranked No. 5 after an 11-2 season, their first in the Southeastern Conference. They were led by quarterback Johnny Manziel, who became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, and are expected to be highly ranked again this year.
"Heart hurts waking up to news about Polo," Manziel tweeted on Tuesday. "I think I speak for everyone on our team when I say we love you brother you will be missed."
It is the second such tragedy for Texas A&M in less than two years: Senior offensive lineman Joseph Villavisencio, 22, was killed in a December 2011 car accident after veering head-on into the path of an 18-wheeler 40 miles from College Station. He had spent part of that day delivering gifts to families at a local shelter. Manziel mentioned Villavisencio during his Heisman acceptance speech last year.
"It's mind-boggling that this has happened to this team twice in such a short time," Moore said. "It's such a crucial time with all the expectations for the season and I hope this will bring the team closer together and make them cherish everybody around them and just realize that they've got to live every day like it's their last."
Vaenuku was a defensive tackle who had planned to play one year at Utah before going on a two-year Mormon mission.
"Everyone who knew Gaius is heartbroken today," Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. "He was the kind of young man who lit up a room and his future in football and life had no boundaries. Words cannot express our devastation over the loss of Gaius."
Vaenuku was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and considered playing at church-owned Brigham Young but he said he felt more at home in Salt Lake City playing for the Utes. His mother, Cela Vaenuku, said the last time she spoke to him was on Sunday ? a brief conversation on how he had spent his day.
"He was a wonderful son," she said. "He was very social, very outgoing young man and a people person who always made people laugh."
She said he was the third oldest among seven brothers and sisters, and "they took it very hard" when they heard the news of his death. She said her son had planned to be dormitory roommates with Siaosi Uhatafe, the driver.
The news stunned Trinity High in Euless, where Manukainiu, Vaenuku and Siaosi Uhatafe all played football. The team has been one of the best in Texas in recent years, with three state titles in a span of five seasons from 2005-09 and a trip to the championship game in 2010.
Principal Mike Harris said the deaths have affected a majority of the Euless community, where there is a tight-knit Polynesian community.
"They were students with bright smiles that everybody knew and everybody loved," the principal said.
Texas A&M associate athletic director Alan Cannon said Manukainiu was known for his sense of humor and "will be sorely missed as a person you enjoyed being around." He said the football staff was working Tuesday to notify teammates of his death. Players are scheduled to report to campus Sunday to begin practicing for the upcoming season.
Cannon said Manukainiu was to wear jersey No. 90 and that it was too early to determine if players will affix the number to their uniforms as a tribute. The NCAA must approve any such recognition, Cannon said.
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Associated Press writers Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City and David Warren and Uriel Garcia in Dallas contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crash-kills-texas-m-lineman-utah-recruit-teen-215657586.html
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Amazon promises 7,000 new jobs ahead of Obama visit
Amazon has just announced that it will add 5,000 jobs at 17 fulfillment centers across the US, along with 2,000 customer service positions. The news comes just ahead of a visit tomorrow by President Obama to the retail giant's Chattanooga, Tennessee fulfillment center, where he's set to outline new job-creation policies. Amazon says such jobs typically pay 30 percent more than in retail stores, and all are full-time and include retirement, health care and stock benefits. The company has tripled its workforce over the past three years, and currently employs over 20,000 employees in its US warehouses, and 97,000 worldwide -- neck and neck with Microsoft. Such expansion resulted in a small loss $7 million last quarter, despite growing sales, but Amazon evidently plans to carry on regardless.
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Blast kills military bomb expert in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines ? A Philippine marine ordnance expert was killed and two others were wounded when one of several bombs they were trying to defuse around a house exploded on restive Jolo island in the country's south, a military commander said Sunday.
An ordnance team was deployed Saturday to a house of a village leader in the town of Panglima Estino on Jolo in Sulu province where residents reported finding more than 10 bombs made from ammonium nitrate around the residence. The marines had defused one bomb and were working on a second one, which suddenly exploded, marine Col. Jose Cenabre said.
The bombs may have been placed around the house like booby-traps due to a clan war involving the village leader, Cenabre said, adding that Abu Sayyaf extremists, who are active in Sulu, apparently were not involved.
Due to the explosion, Cenabre said he withdrew the marines and deployed an air force ordnance team, which defused two more bombs on Sunday. The new team, however, kept finding more bombs in the vicinity of the house, which had been cleared of its occupants, prompting the military to seek help from police, he said.
Such violent clan conflicts, known as "rido," have long complicated security worries in the southern Philippines, which is already mired in decades-long Muslim rebellions.
The explosion was one of two deadly blasts in the south over the weekend. A homemade bomb went off in one of a row of upscale bars and restaurants in Cagayan de Oro city late Friday, killing six people and wounding more than 40 others, police said.
Among the dead were a provincial government official and a doctor who was unwinding in the crowded nightspot near a shopping mall after attending a medical convention, said Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.
Investigators have not determined if that attack was staged by terrorist groups or was sparked by rivalries among politicians or other groups. Roxas, who flew to the site of the blast, said Sunday that he was dismayed to find out that the scene of the explosion was immediately cleaned the next day after investigators scoured the area overnight.
"There were some lapses here," Roxas said. "People did not only sweep the place. They scrubbed it."
"I don't know of any instance in the whole world where the blast site is released less than 12 hours after," he said.
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Source: http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/blast-kills-military-bomb-expert-in-philippines-1.232680
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Apple Probes New Violations at Troubled China Plants
(Newser) ? Apple is again feeling the heat for the conditions at its Chinese factories, but this time it's Pegatron that may be to blame. A US-based advocacy group claims the supplier's plants, which are taking on more and more Apple production, have "benefited from and relied upon labor violations to increase their competitive edge," CNN reports. China Labor Watch lays out the violations, ranging from pollution to unpaid overtime, in a new report compiled after undercover investigators spoke with almost 200 workers from three factories between March and July.
Workers also complained of tight living quarters, packed cafeterias, workweeks over 60 hours, and recruitment firms illegally taking portions of their wages, the group said, per Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. Though Apple has looked into the plants?even made surprise audits within the last 18 months?a rep says the claims "are new to us and we will investigate them immediately." If the audits find any wrongdoing, "we will require that Pegatron reimburse (workers) in full," says the rep.
Source: http://www.newser.com/story/171700/apple-probes-new-violations-at-troubled-china-plants.html
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study shows that families can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars by making their own household items with a 3-D printer.
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Hoppenot Gives Union 1-0 Win Over Whitecaps
Antoine Hoppenot File Photo (Credit: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ? Second-half substitute Antoine Hoppenot scored in the 85th minute to give the?Philadelphia?Union a 1-0 victory over a Vancouver Whitecaps side that played with 10 men most of Saturday night.
Philadelphia?(9-6-7) remained unbeaten in three games, while the Whitecaps (9-7-5) lost their second straight game.
Hoppenot scored off a?Philadelphia?counterattack moments after Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath had robbed Whitecaps striker Camilo at the other end.
The Whitecaps were a man down from the 8th minute, when midfielder Jun Marques Davidson received a red card for head-butting Keon Daniel in the back. The incident resulted after Keon kicked the ball while Davidson was on top of it after a whistle.
Daniel received a yellow card for the infraction and had turned to walk away following a confrontation with Davidson when the Whitecaps player struck him.
Davidson, Whitecaps players and coach Martin Rennie protested the ejection to no avail. Following the incident, Daniel was booed every time he touched the ball before subbing out in the second half.
Despite being short-handed, the Whitecaps had several scoring chances. In the 15th minute, midfielder Russell Teibert lobbed Kenny Miller?s pass over?Philadelphia?goalkeeper Zac MacMath ? and the net.
In the 27th minute, Vancouver?s Young-Pyo Lee shot over the net after taking a pass from Russell Teibert. Seven minutes later, Whitecaps striker Kenny Miller sent a header wide of the net.
Vancouver also had scoring chances in the second half but MacMath turned them away.
The Whitecaps were fortunate not to lose goalie Brad Knighton after he and?Philadelphia?captain Jack McInerney knocked heads in the 24th minute. Knighton lay face-down on the ground for a few moments, kicking the grass in pain and was tended by trainers, but stayed in the game.
McInerney received a yellow card for his involvement.
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Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/07/27/hoppenot-gives-union-1-0-win-over-whitecaps/
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NFL training camp roundup: Jason Pierre-Paul injury update, Colts wide receiver competition
After the barrage of disastrous injuries on Saturday, Sunday's NFL news is a bit more positive.
The New York Giants have leaned on their pass rush in recent years, but one of the team's most important defensive linemen may not be ready for Week 1. Jason Pierre-Paul underwent back surgery this summer, adding Saturday that he's not ready to discuss whether he will be on the field for the Giants' first game of the season.
Pierre-Paul has been dealing with back pain since 2011, and told SB Nation's Giants blog, Big Blue View, that it was getting to be too much before the procedure.
"The back is a really, really horrible pain to have, and back surgery period. And you don't want to rush back. I'm not concentrated on the first game, second game, third game, fourth game, fifth game, sixth game, I'm just trying to come back when I feel like I'm ready to come back."
Mikel Leshoure and Joique Bell locked in training camp battle
Mikel Leshoure worked as the Lions' No. 2 running back on Sunday, according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. For most of the spring and early part of training camp, Joique Bell had been filling that role. Reggie Bush should see a healthy workload, but Leshoure and Bell will battle it out to be the secondary back.
Reggie Wayne and Darrius Heyward-Bey top Colts wide receiver depth chart
Reggie Wayne and Darrius Heyward-Bey started as the Colts' wide receivers in their base package, according to Mike Chappele. T.Y. Hilton is presumed to be the third wide receiver and will likely work out of the slot. Stampede Blue, SB Nation's Colts blog, broke down the team's wide receiver competition heading into training camp.
While I do expect Hilton to improve, the fans expecting him to light up the stat sheet every week are probably going to be disappointed. Hilton left a lot of plays on the field last season in between all of the deep passes he managed to reel in. Even though I love his YAC ability, he's going to be limited to routes closer to the line of scrimmage, which should decrease his yards per catch and receiving yards at the end of the season.
But even if Hilton is the No. 3 receiver in title, he should be on the field often and serve as one of the team's best weapons on offense. Just don't fret over his stats too much.
Denard Robinson struggles at Jaguars camp, Marcedes Lewis is distraction-free
Denard Robinson wasn't quite as effective at Jaguars training camp on Sunday, according to John Oesher of Jaguars.com. While he ran for a touchdown during team drills, he had a few drops at wide receiver and lost a fumble when running a play from the wildcat. He's going to get a chance to make an impact on offense, but it's unclear at this point how the Jaguars will get him involved. Quarterback Blaine Gabbert did improve on Sunday, though, which is a positive the team can take away from practice.
In other Jaguars news, Marcedes Lewis feels as focused as he has been in years, with a custody dispute behind him and a new culture in the Jaguars facility. He hasn't quite lived up to his contract in recent years, but Lewis feels mentally ready for a big season in Jacksonville.
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This Man Tried To Rob A Gun Store Using A Baseball Bat
Derrick Mosley walked into Discount Gun Sales, smashed one of the glass cases with a bat and helped himself to an unloaded handgun. The store owner, who was ? not too surprisingly ? packing his own loaded pistol, very calmly like trained his sights on Mosley and demanded that he drop the gun, the baseball bat and a knife he was carrying. Mosley complied and was held at gunpoint until deputies arrived a short time later and arrested him without further incidence.
Mosley was charged first-degree robbery, first-degree theft, unlawful possession of a firearm and second-degree criminal mischief.
No one was injured during the robbery attempt, but there are unconfirmed reports that the store owner was seen shaking his head in disbelief at some point during the ordeal.?
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National Debt Stacked in Dollar Bills Would Stretch from Earth to Moon Five Times
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CNS News
July 26, 2013
The U.S. national debt would reach 1.1 million miles into space if stacked in one dollar bills.
According to the latest available data from the U.S. Treasury, the total public debt outstanding is $16,738,105,803,858.21.
A dollar bill is .0043 inches in thickness.
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This article was posted: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Tags: domestic news, economics
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The #RoyalBaby already has more Twitter followers than you
Royal baby: Kate Middleton has gone into labor. Twitter is abuzz.
A news cameraman reads a newspaper across from St. Mary's Hospital's exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labor.
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EnlargeAfter weeks of anticipation, the Duchess of Cambridge has gone into labor with Britain?s future monarch, pushing a long summer of frenzy around the royal baby to its zenith. The baby will be the queen?s third great-grandchild and the third in line for the British throne.
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Embattled journalists, weary from weeks of camping outside of St. Mary?s Hospital in London ? where Kate Middleton is now in the early stages of labor ? have sprung to attention today for the long-awaited birth. And according to Agence France-Presse, they?ve been joined by mobs of enthusiastic royalists, some of whom have traveled from other parts of the Commonwealth to witness the birth.
"We've been getting updates every morning on Canadian TV and it's great to see that it's a worldwide affair, that everyone's curious about what's happening," said David Wyatt from Toronto, who was holidaying in London with his wife and three young daughters.
"We were wondering whether we were going to be here in London when it happened, and it's wonderful. My family were empire loyalists in Canada and my father's from England. We're proud Canadians."
Elsewhere, crowds of hungry spectators and reporters have assembled outside Buckingham Palace to watch for news of the baby, according to the Telegraph. As tradition has it, royal babies? births are announced by a messenger who tacks a piece of paper confirming the baby?s weight, gender, and time of birth onto an easel outside the queen?s official residence.
But the enthusiasm is not limited to London. The Twittersphere is ablaze with talk of the birth, with #RoyalBaby, Kate Middleton, and the queen all trending.
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Can 'Saturday Night Live' survive Its cast exodus?
By Tony Maglio
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Live! From New York! It's a casting crisis for Lorne Michaels!
When Jason Sudeikis announced his departure this week, "Saturday Night Live" was suddenly bereft of any established crossover talent - its longest-tenured surviving castmember is now Kenan Thompson - and in terms of name-recognition, it drops off steeply from there.
But "SNL" has been here before. The upcoming 2013-2014 season will not be the first time the long-running sketch comedy series has been forced to prop up its B-team and go headhunting on the fly.
Sudeikis follows fellow cast members Fred Armisen and Bill Hader out the door - unlike those they left behind, all have established film and TV careers. A year earlier, fan favorites Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg left for the draw of bigscreen comedy. And head writer and "Weekend Update" anchor Seth Meyers departs in November for Jimmy Fallon's desk.
Jon Lovitz, an "SNL" cast member from 1985 to 1992 - who weathered Lorne Michaels' infamous reboot of '86 - knows the toll a long run on the show can take. He also understands the draw of the Los Angeles movie scene over the sketch comedy one in New York.
"Jason Sudeikis has been on the show for 10 years - at some point you gotta go," Lovitz told TheWrap during an online chat on HuffPost Live. "That's a tough show to do for 10 years."
To give an idea of how key the recent losses are: Only Darrell Hammond has appeared on more episodes of "SNL" than Meyers and Armisen. Sudeikis is 7th on that same list, Hader 9th, Samberg 20th and Wiig 22nd.
Even longtime fans of the show have to ask: Who's even left?
"Saturday Night Live" new senior members are Thompson, Bobby Moynihan, Jay Pharoah, Nasim Pedrad, Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer and, for now, Meyers. On the JV team (called Featured Players) are Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson and Cecily Strong.
Other than Thompson's attempt at a "Fat Albert" movie in 2004, there's hardly a notable screen credit among them.
But to give up on the show now would be foolish: Even Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey were "SNL" scrubs at one point - and in Killam, Strong, Pedrad and Bayer, "SNL" has a number of young players with high upside.
Michaels has constantly retooled the cast since its initial "Not Ready for Primetime Players" took the stage in Studio 8H. Historically, the unknowns have worked out far better than the household names - remember Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, and Billy Crystal in the cast? Not many people do.
Lovitz, who joined with fellow newcomers Downey Jr. and Hall, said some people will welcome new cast members with open arms. Others might not.
"It's competitive," Lovitz said. "It's a very strange show."
So clearly, "SNL" is in a rebuilding year. But with whom will it rebuild? The show historically has favored improv and sketch comedians over stand-up comics, though both are options.
But this year, it's not just about filling a headcount -- it's about stocking up with versatile talent that can stand out quickly. Actors from the Upright Citizen's Brigade, Second City and the Groundlings have had great success in the past, and it's likely that Michaels will go back to that well.
The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York declined comment, citing its relationship with NBC. Phone calls to Second City were not immediately returned. An NBC spokeswoman said that the network does not comment on casting changes.
The "SNL" casting team comes out to scout the Groundlings in Los Angeles a couple times a year, Groundlings Managing Director Heather de Michele told TheWrap. And they've been there recently.
Who they are looking at closely, she wouldn't say. But the Groundlings have recently produced both the aforementioned Killam and Wiig. De Michele, and the rest of the Groundlings, knew those auditions were just a matter of time. What she didn't know is how short that time would be.
Of those already with a seat at the table, Killam seems poised to be the breakout star of "SNL's" 38th season. A promising sign: His "Sloppy Swish" digital short was one of last year's breakout viral hits.
"He's exceptionally good," de Michelle said. "During his first main stage show he was nabbed by 'SNL.' He didn't even get to open his first show as a Groundling."
Wiig's casting happened with nearly the same speed - but that's not always the case. When one goes through the Groundlings school, the top level make it into the Sunday cast. Only after graduating is an actor eligible to be a "Groundling" and perform on Friday and Saturday nights. And there are never more than 30 Groundlings at a time.
One Groundling to watch is Mikey Day, a star of MTV's "Wild'n Out." Jillian Bell of the Main Company wrote for "SNL" in 2010. Jim Cashman has written for the show as well. Tony Cavalero is a founding member of longform improv group "Robert Downey Jr. Jr." - another "SNL" connection. Kind of.
Lovitz believes the show will be fine -- as it has through thick and thin. As will the new cast members. And they shouldn't worry about it anyway. "The audience picks the hit characters, the audience picks the stars," Lovitz said. "That you have no control over."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-survive-cast-exodus-232909647.html
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