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Why Welcome a Same-Sex Couple to Church?
Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post / Getty Gary Nixon, right, and Mel White, a gay couple, attend Jerry Falwell's church in Lynchburg, VA. The couple (together for 20 years) has rented a cottage directly across the street from Falwell's church for a year, are are attending services there and getting to know the neighbors. While some people have called them sinners, others have brought over pies and cookies in welcome.
Imagine this no-longer-hypothetical situation: Matt and Alex Jones-Smith, newlyweds, arrive on a Monday morning in summertime to register their adopted daughter, Rachel, for Vacation Bible School at Maranatha Bible Church on Main Street.
What should be the response of the Sunday school superintendent?
- Provide directions to the nearest liberal congregation.
- Register Rachel for Vacation Bible School and then hand the couple Marantha Bible's statement of faith, including the part on human sexuality where homosexual behavior is condemned.
- Proceed with registration, and then ask the Jones-Smiths, legally married in the eyes of the state, to meet with the pastor to talk about baptism and membership.
- None of the above.
The Unbiblical Marriage
This week, Minnesota and Rhode Island became the 12th and 13th states to allow same-sex marriage. With the favorable U.S. Supreme Court rulings in June, there will be more same-sex marriages nationwide for years to come. The 2010 federal census estimated there are already more than 150,000 same-sex couples legally married or in legal civil unions. It reports some states experienced a 50 percent or more increase in households with same-sex couples from 2000 to 2010.
For generations, Christianity has encountered unions outside the one man-one woman Christian ideal. During the colonial missionary era in Africa, many Christian churches had zero tolerance for a new convert with multiple wives. If these men wished to be baptized, join the church, and follow Christ, they had to dismiss all but one wife.
But missionaries soon realized that this policy of zero tolerance created enormous hardship on abandoned mothers and their children. It also absolved the polygamous husband of providing for dependent children of his former wives, according to Sunday Agang, academic dean at ECWA (Evangelical Church of West Africa) Seminary, Jos, Nigeria.
Over time, indigenous churches developed more than one response. Some churches accepted the entire household of a husband who desired to become a Christian yet had more than one wife. Many churches, however, did not permit these new converts to preach or teach or lead in the church.
Yet, the goal of churches remained the same. Once a person accepted Christ, Christians invited the individual into joyful, church-based fellowship and a lifelong journey of discipleship and sanctification.
Welcoming, Not Affirming
Choice #4?none of the above?is the answer that best reflects the sense of confusion that many church leaders have regarding the most appropriate response to state-recognized same-sex couples.
But for churches committed to the biblical teaching about heterosexual marriage and compassion for all, is there a solidly biblical approach or model for churches to follow? As early as the 1990s, conservative Christian leaders began to welcome, but not affirm, the open involvement of people with same-sex attraction into church life. Along with a sincere welcome, tragically, too many times fear of disease (HIV/AIDS), public condemnation, homophobia, and pressure for behavior change through unproven and often harmful therapies overwhelmed any sense of welcome.
There is some evidence of progress. A new Pew Research Center survey found that less than 1 in 3 LGBT respondents reported feeling unwelcome in a place of worship. Even fewer reported that this unwelcome feeling occurred within the past 12 months.
Christians and the church can do much more beyond welcome. About half of LGBT adults surveyed report no religious affiliation. While the ones who did attend worship felt welcome, the Pew survey found that most LGBT respondents view major religious groups (Christians, Jews, and Muslims) as "unfriendly."
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Dempsey leaves England, joins Seattle Sounders
SEATTLE (AP) ? Clint Dempsey waited on the small stage at midfield. Finally he unzipped his sweatshirt and made official a surprising career move.
Dempsey is leaving behind the Premier League to play for the Seattle Sounders.
Dempsey was introduced as the newest designated player for the Sounders on Saturday night prior to Seattle's match against FC Dallas. It concluded a whirlwind 48 hours of rumors and speculation that Dempsey was leaving Tottenham Hotspur and returning to Major League Soccer.
ESPN first reported Friday that a transfer was imminent and Tottenham confirmed Dempsey's move back to MLS early Saturday. Terms of Dempsey's deal were not announced by the club.
"This is a historic day for Sounders FC and our fans," Sounders majority owner Joe Roth said in a release. "Clint is a world-class soccer player who can take this club to a higher level. We have been consistent in our message to the fans that we will spare no expense to win trophies."
Dempsey was expected to address the reasons behind his move during a press conference scheduled for Monday.
The 30-year-old Dempsey played for the New England Revolution from 2004-06 before joining Fulham in 2007. He moved to Tottenham last summer and scored 12 goals in 43 games, but wasn't a regular.
The move is surprising as Dempsey is giving up a chance to play in one of the top leagues in the world in the prime of his career and a year before the World Cup in Brazil.
"I was a little bit surprised about it, sure. Because it is an interesting step career wise at a point in time where you would kind of maybe question that," former U.S. national team goalkeeper and current Sounders TV analyst Kasey Keller said before Saturday's announcement. "But when you look more at the details and who is involved and what we're talking about financially it all kind of comes into place."
There were signs Seattle was on the verge of making a big splash before the international transfer window closed.
The Sounders cleared one of their three designated player slots earlier this week when midfielder Shalrie Joseph restructured his contract to no longer be counted as a designated player. The team website also asked fans to arrive early to Saturday night's game against FC Dallas for what the club called a "special presentation."
At 7:26 p.m., a video chronicling Dempsey's career highlights played on the CenturyLink Field video board and moments later he revealed his new rave green jersey.
"I think we'll accomplish some great things here, so thank you," Dempsey told the roaring fans.
Dempsey raved about Seattle when the city hosted the U.S. against Panama in a World Cup qualifier in June.
"It's great to see the game is building and there are markets like this where people have so much passion for the game," he said then.
A star for the U.S. national team, Dempsey wasn't a regular in Andre Villas-Boas' starting lineup with Tottenham. Even so, his move is somewhat surprising because Tottenham could also lose forward Gareth Bale this offseason to Real Madrid.
One of the most successful Americans to play in England's top league, Dempsey was first sold from the Revolution to Fulham in 2007. Dempsey spent five years playing at Craven Cottage, where he scored 50 goals in 184 league appearances and became a fan favorite. Last year with Tottenham, Dempsey scored seven goals in 29 Premier League matches, scored three times in two FA Cup matches and had two more goals in 10 other games.
As his stock in Europe rose, so did Dempsey's role on his national team. He's played in eight games in 2013 for the United States and scored five times. His next international appearance for the Americans will be his 100th, and he's served as the U.S. captain most of this year when Landon Donovan was out.
Dempsey came to England as an attacking midfielder but has developed into a potent forward in recent seasons, starting up front for the U.S. too.
Outside of CenturyLink Field on Saturday, fans were already buzzing about Dempsey's arrival prior to the official announcement. At retailers around the stadium, custom Sounders jerseys with "Dempsey" across the back and No. 2 were being printed with regularity all afternoon in both versions of Seattle's jersey.
During the pregame march near the stadium, fans chanted "Deuce upside the head, I said Deuce upside the head," and carried head shots of Dempsey attached to sticks.
"Major League Soccer is thrilled to have Clint Dempsey, arguably one of the best players the United States has ever produced, return to the league to play for the Sounders," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in a statement. "Clint could have played in any league throughout the world, and he chose MLS and the Sounders. Our vision is to become one of the best leagues in the world, and we look forward to Clint being a part of that legacy."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dempsey-leaves-england-joins-seattle-sounders-022957589.html
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There Are So Many More Options If You Want To P*ss Off Liberals ...
By Amanda Marcotte
Friday, August 2, 2013 12:35 EDT
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I highly recommend Alex Pareene?s dead-on description of what?s going on with Ted Cruz and the Republicans who, while also batshit themselves, at least are reality-attached enough to oppose a government shutdown as a petulant kind of revenge for Obamacare. They just want Ted Cruz to go away, but as Pareene explains, they created this problem and now they have to live with it:
To all these critics, the only reasonable response is, hope you enjoy this bed you made for yourselves. Ted Cruz is the right man for the decadent decline stage of the conservative movement, which has always encouraged the advancement of fact-challenged populist extremists, but always with the understanding that they?d a back seat to the sensible business interests when it came time to exercise power. The result has been a huge number of Republican activists who couldn?t figure out why the True Conservatives they kept voting for kept failing to achieve the creation of the perfect conservative state once in office. That led to an ongoing backlash against everyone in the party suspected of anything less than perfect ideological purity. Meanwhile all the crazies got rich simply for being crazy. There?s no longer any compelling reason, in other words, not to act like Ted Cruz, and the result is Ted Cruz.
And if Ted Cruz is reading, all of these columns are only going to strengthen his resolve. Just look at this?amazing conservative Facebook image macro shared by Gawker?s Max Read:?Cruz is in the company of batshit far-right folk heroes like Allen West and Oliver North, people revered as much because of the disdain they inspire in both liberals and professional conservatives as for their actual beliefs or accomplishments.
This is what they get for building a coalition built around the politics of resentment: Men who resent women, whites who resent black people, straights who resent queer people, etc. Bitter, resentful people whose main political goal is pissing off the liberals tend to not have very good boundaries or limits.
With that in mind and in response to this tweet, I thought it would be useful to list some things that conservative politicians can do that will definitely piss off liberals and help rally the base, long term political consequences be damned:
- Tear the still-beating heart out of a puppy on live TV and proceed to eat it.
- Go around tripping elderly women, and when they cry out, say, ?You think that hurts? Wait until I take away your Medicare!?
- Force PBS to air various ?Real Housewives? TV programs instead of ?Sesame Street?.
- Declare the President?s citizenship a fraud, and use that as a pretext to impeach him.
- Create a real-life version of the Hunger Games, and claim that the proceeds from ticket sales will be replacing the income tax as a source of government income.
- Ban oral sex. Oh wait, they?re already on that.
- And absolutely, start taking dumps in public, preferably on the floor of the House. When people start objecting, run to right wing talk radio and explain that your critics are nanny state liberals who are hiding behind the discredited germ theory to emasculate red-blooded, shit-flinging American males.
If you can redeem Ollie North, you can sell anything on the ?piss off the liberals? front. So get to work, Republicans!
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Fairy tale: Court ruling awards $3.3 billion to Indian princesses
A court ruling last week put to rest a decades-old legal battle involving scheming servants, disinherited princesses, and a forged will.
The Faridkot estate is seen in New Delhi, India, Monday, July 29. A court in Punjab state recently ruled that the will of Sir Harinder Singh Brar of Faridkot leaving all his wealth to a trust set up by his palace officials was forged.
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Scheming servants, disinherited princesses, forged wills ? these are standard elements of fantasy. But for the daughters of Sir Harinder Singh Brar, the last Maharajah (or king) of Faridkot, a small city in India, the elements are all part of a very real saga they have endured for more than two decades.
Last Thursday, a judge in Chandigarh, in the northwest state of Punjab, awarded Mr. Brar?s daughters the equivalent of $3.3 billion after ruling that a 31-year old last will and testament that placed his estate in the hands of his servants and lawyers was a forgery. The verdict ended the decades-long legal battle and made the sisters the 33rd richest in India, according to the Guardian.
According to the Hindu newspaper, Maharajah Brar?s servants and lawyers forged the will in 1982, while the maharajah was in the grips of depression following his only son?s death. Instead of awarding his assets to his family, the fraudulent will set up the Maharawal Khewaji?Trust to manage Mr. Brar?s estate.
The suspicion about the will arose as the Maharaja excluded his mother Mohinder Kaur and his wife Narinder Kaur while all the servants, irrespective of their designation, and lawyers were appointed trustees. Amrit had been divested of all the powers of heiress on the grounds that she had married against the wishes of the late Maharaja. Deepinder had been appointed trust chairman on paltry salary of Rs 1,200 per month while Maheepinder Kaur was given a salary of Rs 1,000 a month.
Brar had been the ruler of Faridkot until 1947, when India gained independence from Britain, reports the Times of India. After independence, he was allowed to keep his fortune and properties.
The maharajah died in 1989 and three years later his daughter Amrit Kaur filed a suit against the trust, alleging that the will had been forged. And after 21 years, a court magistrate ruled that the will was a fraud, thereby making the trust?s claim to the estate illegal.
Instead, Brar?s two daughters, Amrit Kaur and Deepinder Kaur, were awarded the remainder of the former royal?s estate, which included several properties and palaces, jewels, and even a private aerodrome, reports the Daily Telegraph. A third daughter, Maheepinder Kaur, died in 2001.
However, according to the Times of India, the Maharawal Khewaji Trust is planning on challenging the ruling to an upper court, with Ranjit Singh, the trust?s legal counsel claiming that ?The will was real and it was not forged.?
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Our universe is filled with gobs of galaxies, bound together by gravity into larger families called clusters. Lying at the heart of most clusters is a monster galaxy thought to grow in size by merging with neighboring galaxies, a process astronomers call galactic cannibalism. New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is showing that, contrary to previous theories, these gargantuan galaxies appear to slow their growth over time, feeding less and less off neighboring galaxies.
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Texas A&M-Commerce unveils a really big logo on its field
Everything is bigger in Texas, especially football. Now, it?s football logos.
Texas A&M-Commerce unveiled a larger-than-life ?Texas-sized? gold Lion head logo on its field today.
The logo, perhaps the largest in the nation, measures 50-yards wide by 50-yards long, stretching from sideline to sideline and the 25-yard lines.
Designed by AstroTurf, the field is part of a Memorial Stadium reconstruction project which began back on May 21st. In addition to the complete turf replacement, the track surrounding the field has been resurfaced and will be repainted along with other cosmetic upgrades to the stadium.
A&M-Commerce plays its season opener? against Sul Ross State on Sept. 7.
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GOP prepares bill to cut food stamps by 5 percent
House Republicans are preparing legislation that would cut food stamps by as much as $4 billion annually in an effort to downsize a program that many conservatives say has become too bloated in recent years.
A group of Republicans led by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has agreed to try to advance the legislation as early as next month. The measure would reduce the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program by as much as 5 percent. House conservatives have urged major cuts as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has doubled in cost since 2008.
The bill is certain to face strong opposition from the Democratic Senate and President Barack Obama, who have opposed major cuts to the program. They say cuts could drop millions of Americans off the rolls when they are already struggling from the Great Recession.
Reps. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana and Kristi Noem of South Dakota, two Republicans who helped design the bill, said the legislation would find the savings by tightening eligibility standards and imposing new work requirements. It would also likely try to reduce the rolls by requiring drug testing and barring convicted murderers, rapists and pedophiles from receiving food stamps.
Many provisions in the proposed bill were included in farm legislation defeated on the House floor in June, though several were added by amendment. The original farm bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee would have cut food stamps by about $2 billion a year, but conservatives revolted against the bill even after adding additional savings through amendments, saying the cuts weren't high enough.
After the farm bill defeat, Republican leaders split the legislation in two and passed a bill in July that included only farm programs. They promised a food stamp bill to come later, with deeper cuts.
A spokesman for Cantor said the proposed bill will "build on those reforms already considered by the House."
"That will include common-sense measures, such as work requirements and job training requirements for able-bodied adults without children receiving assistance, that enjoy a broad range of support," said Doug Heye.
Much of the estimated savings could come from requiring such adults to seek work, a provision that wasn't in the original bill. The law already requires that they eventually work or receive work training to receive SNAP, but the 2009 stimulus law and waivers issued by the Agriculture Department since then have allowed states to set aside those work requirements.
The proposed bill hasn't been released and its exact cost isn't yet known, but the Republicans are estimating the cuts would be around $4 billion annually.
A farm bill passed by the Senate in June keeps the food and farm programs together and cuts food stamps by about $400 million a year, or about half a percent. Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., on Thursday accused House leaders of trying to block the farm bill by proposing something that the Senate would never accept.
"It's wasted time and effort, it's not going anywhere," she said. "It's not going to become law."
Current farm law expires at the end of September, and it's unlikely that both sides will agree on a final farm bill before then, even if the House is able to pass a food stamp bill. Food stamp dollars will continue to flow after the law expires but some farm programs would be in danger. Without an extension or a change in policy, for example, dairy subsidies would revert to decades-old law and cause milk prices to potentially double.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he won't allow another extension after the law was continued once early this year to avert the dairy crisis. Stabenow said an extension would be difficult anyway because many members don't want to continue certain farm subsidies that would be eliminated under the House and Senate farm bills.
"This is a ticking time bomb here, waiting to go off," she said. "It makes no sense."
Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said the proposed food stamp bill "effectively kills any hopes of passing a five-year farm bill this year."
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., hinted Thursday that the differences are so "huge and dramatic" between the Senate bill and what the House is proposing, that the White House may need to get involved, something the Obama administration has so far declined to do. The White House supported the Senate bill but had threatened a veto of the House bill.
"This may be one of those issues that may need some guidance from on high," Lucas said.
First, though, Republicans have to get the votes to pass the food stamp bill in the House. That could be difficult as Democrats are likely to be united in opposition and some moderate Republicans may not go along.
Stutzman said he thinks the issue will play well with their constituents when members return to their districts in August. The Republicans say they are trying to focus on the policies, not the number of dollars that would be cut.
"Most people will agree that if you are an able bodied adult without any kids you should find your way off food stamps," Stutzman said, referring to the proposed work requirements. "I don't think we will find much disagreement on this."
Noem agreed, saying that talking about policies and not just dollars "shows that you really care about adding integrity into the program."
Still, she said, making cuts to the program is a "huge culture change" not only for Democrats but also for some Republicans who have a lot of food stamp recipients in their districts.
"That's all a big pill to swallow for some of them," she said.
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) And Samsung Dominate Value Share: Canaccord
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) remained the most profitable company in the smartphone market compared with its competitors in terms of profit value share, according to investment research firm, Cannacord Genuity.
Apple (AAPL) Value shares down in second quarter
Based on the latest data released by Cannacord Genuity senior analyst, Michael Walkley,?Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) value share in smartphone profits during the second quarter was 53% down from 57% in the first quarter. Its value share is even significantly lower than its 69% value share in 2012.
For the June quarter,?Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported that it sold 31.2 million iPhones compared with 26 million units sold a year ago.
Despite the decline in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)?s share in smartphone profits, it is interesting to note that the iPhone maker remains more profitable than its strongest rival,?Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) with 50% value share in the second quarter.
Samsung?s market share grow every year
It is also important to note that the South Korean electronics manufacturer?s value share in the smartphone market continues to grow every year. In 2011, its value share was 17% and the following year its share jump substantially to 34%. In the first quarter of 2013, its value share increased by 11% to 43%. The figures clearly shows that?Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) is taking a bite out of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as well as other competitors in the market.
During the second quarter, Walkley estimated that Samsung shipped approximately 72.5 million smartphones, up from 69.7 million units shipped in the previous quarter. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930)?s IT Mobile Communications unit posted?KRW 35.54 trillion sales.
Walkley?s research showed that the smartphone market is 100% dominated by?Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung because the profit value share of other manufacturers in the industry have were, break-even, zero or negative.
Other companies negative in value shares
Data showed that the smartphone profit value shares of Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V), LG Electronics Inc. (KRX:066570) (KRX:066575), and Sony Ericsson recorded 0% profit value shares.?BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) and?Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc (NYSE:MMI) posted negative value shares.
In terms of smartphone operating system unit share, Cannacord Genuity revealed that the Android operating system of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is the market leader with 74.6%. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)?s iOS operating system has only 13.5% market share while Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)?s Windows Phone has 5.1% market share and the BlackBerry 10 operating system has 2.9% market share.
Walkley estimated that Android OS will gain another 2.5% in the next quarter to 77.1%. The iOS and the Windows Phone will decline by 2% and 0.3%, respectively to 11.5% and 4.8%.
According to Walkley, the major smartphone suppliers will profit from LTE smartphone sales growth in Western markets and global upgrades from feature phones to 3G smartphones. The analyst believe that the sales of smartphone globally is better than feared by investors. Walkley said, ?In fact, we believed depressed valuations reflect an overly pessimistic view of the global smartphone market.?
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British court dismisses landmark right-to-die appeal
By Adam Jourdan
LONDON (Reuters) - A British court rejected appeals for the right to die by a paralysed road accident victim and the family of a deceased locked-in syndrome sufferer on Wednesday, saying only parliament should decide on matters of life and death.
The Court of Appeal said the law on assisted suicide could not be changed by the courts, quashing the appeal by paralysed man Paul Lamb and the family of Tony Nicklinson, who suffered locked-in syndrome, where someone is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate.
He refused food and medication after he lost his bid to end his life with a doctor's help last year, and died a week later.
"The short answer must be, and always has been, that the law relating to assisting suicide cannot be changed by judicial decision," Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, said in the ruling, which is sure to spark more debate over a person's right to choose when and how to end his or her life.
Another paralysed man, known only as Martin, won a separate case on Wednesday seeking clarification of prosecution guidance for health workers who help others to die.
In Britain, anyone who helps another person to kill themselves commits the offence of assisted suicide, while a person who carries out euthanasia commits the offence of murder.
Switzerland and the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Montana are among the few places where some forms of euthanasia or assisted suicide are legal under certain circumstances.
Lamb, who has been paralysed since a car accident almost 25 years ago, said he was "gutted" by Wednesday's ruling. He is immobile except for limited movement in his right hand, requires 24-hour care and is constantly on morphine to relieve pain.
"I was hoping for a humane and dignified end. This judgment does not give me that," he said in a statement.
The case was an appeal against the Nicklinson decision, whose case was dismissed in August last year.
Nicklinson's wife, Jane, told BBC television: "I saw the way that Tony suffered and I would hate to think of anyone else suffering the way he did."
But expert and public opinion is divided over whether people should have the right to be helped to die.
British disability charity Scope opposes giving the right to people with disabilities to kill themselves.
Talking about the hearing earlier this year, the charity's chief executive, Richard Hawkes, wrote: "These cases are unbearably tragic, but they cannot be the basis for changing a law that could affect millions."
(Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-court-dismisses-landmark-die-appeal-122842898.html
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Apple's new suppliers are 'even worse' than Foxconn, says China Labor Watch
Just as Pegatron has managed to snatch more Apple contracts away from Foxconn, so too has it attracted greater scrutiny of the conditions faced by its 70,000 workers. China Labor Watch, the US-based worker welfare monitor, now alleges that Chinese factories run by the up-and-coming Taiwan-based manufacturer are "even worse" than Foxconn's. It claims to have found health and safety violations, poor living conditions in dorms, and the coercion of workers by withholding their pay or identity cards -- in other words, the sort of stuff that breaches both Chinese law and Apple's supplier policy. Its latest report also accuses Apple of failing to treat abuses with the same urgency that it applies to lapses in product quality.
For its part, Apple has responded by highlighting the fact that it has audited Pegatron facilities 15 times in the last six years, and that a recent survey found that Pegatron employees were working an average of 46 hours per week. It also said it had dealt promptly with earlier instances of ID cards being withheld, but admitted that China Labor Watch's report includes "claims that are new to us" and that will need to be investigated "thoroughly."
[Image credit: Jay Greene, CNET]
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile, Apple
Source: WSJ, China Labor Watch
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Samsung caught boosting benchmark performance numbers on Exynos devices
Benchmarks often catch the ire of critics because their scores don't necessarily reflect real-world experience, and it appears that some Samsung devices aren't helping that reputation out at all. Our friends at Anandtech started sifting through data for two Exynos octacore variants of the Galaxy S 4, and discovered multiple benchmarks that appear to run those devices at higher CPU and GPU clock speeds than they normally run. Some of the apps included in the report are GLBench 2.5.1, AnTuTu, Quadrant and Linpack. Coincidentally, the site also found code within the GS4 that indicates the existence of a program called "BenchmarkBooster," which is responsible for overclocking the processors when certain apps are running. Is this an evil plot by Samsung to take over the world using rogue benchmarking results? Is this something other manufacturers are doing? It's hard to say, but there is certainly something curious afoot. Check out the source to get all of the skinny on what exactly is going on.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Samsung
Via: 9to5google
Source: Anandtech
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/Teeae5aUYnw/
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Betty Crocker toasts marriage equality with wedding cake tasting
Three of the first same-sex couples who will legally marry in Minnesota on August 1st visited the Betty Crocker Kitchens at General Mills Headquarters in Golden Valley, Minnesota to taste-test wedding cakes for their ceremonies. The company has kindly donated the cakes to the couples for their celebrations, which will take place this Thursday at midnight. The couples will be wed at Minneapolis City Hall and the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul.
Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke, the first couple who will be married, were joined by Reid Bordson and Paul Nolle, the second. Both will be married on Thursday by?Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. The third couple was?Al Giraud and Jeff Isaacson, who will be the first couple married in St. Paul. The three couples tasted three Betty Crocker cakes, designed specifically to their tastes, in order to select one for their ceremony.
The trio of cakes were designed and baked by Terri Leckas from Queen of Cakes in Edina, Minn. ?We did a little taste testing of our own at my cake shop over the weekend and it was a lot of fun to walk in to the smell of baking at home. It was a really good feeling,? Leckas says.
Betty Crocker is performing this donation as a part of The Families Project. The company states that it?wanted "to celebrate with these families and mark this moment in the state's history."
Source: http://www.glaad.org/blog/betty-crocker-toasts-marriage-equality-wedding-cake-tasting
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Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked fighters in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped father Paolo Dall'Oglio while he was walking in Raqqa, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the sources in Raqqa province told Reuters.
Syrian authorities expelled Dall'Oglio from the country last year for helping victims of Assad's military crackdown while he served at a sixth-century monastery in the Anti-Lebanon mountains north of Damascus.
He has been an advocate of reconciliation for the country's myriad religious and ethnic sects, especially between Kurds and Arabs, as Syria slipped into civil war. Dall'Oglio blamed Assad for provoking sectarian mayhem and called his forces "thugs."
Abdelrazzaq Shlas, a leading opposition activist in Raqqa, said the Islamic State appeared to have been angered by comments Dall'Oglio had made criticizing violence against Kurdish residents of Tel al-Abiad, on the border with Turkey.
Fighting flared in the town and other areas to the northeast in recent weeks between Islamist militants and members of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militia.
"Father Paolo was received in Raqqa with open arms but the Islamic State appears not to have taken well to his position regarding Tel al-Abiad," Shlas said.
Shlas pointed to crowds in Raqqa cheering Dall'Oglio during a street rally he attended on Sunday night in support of the besieged city of Homs. Video footage of the rally showed Dall'Oglio saluting the crowd.
A Western diplomat said Dall'Oglio crossed into Syria from Turkey last week, ignoring warnings from his friends not to go to Raqqa, where Islamist militants kidnapped several liberal activists in recent weeks.
"He insisted on going," the diplomat said.
Dall'Oglio served for three decades at the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, or Deir Mar Musa, before being expelled from the country in 2012. He was instrumental in restoring the monastery, whose cathedral houses an exquisite 11th century fresco of the Last Judgment.
In a statement from Raqqa published on Facebook before his disappearance, Dall'Oglio said he considered Syria to be his homeland.
"I feel happy because first I am in a liberated city and second because of the marvelous reception I have gotten. People walk the streets with freedom and in harmony. It is a picture of the homeland we want for all Syrians," Dall'Oglio said.
(Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-group-kidnaps-italian-priest-syria-activists-234155467.html
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Monogamy evolved as a mating strategy: New research indicates that social monogamy evolved as a result of competition
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Social monogamy, where one breeding female and one breeding male are closely associated with each other over several breeding seasons, appears to have evolved as a mating strategy, new research reveals. It was previously suspected that social monogamy resulted from a need for extra parental care by the father.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/iP24iiHSiiQ/130729172244.htm
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Apple Distributing Free iBooks to Employees Ahead of Mavericks and iOS 7 Launch
During quarterly retail meetings that took place today, Apple announced a new ?iBooks Discovery? initiative that will see Apple Store employees provided with free iBooks beginning next week in order to prepare the retail workers for the launch of OS X Mavericks and iOS 7, reports 9to5Mac. While an iBooks app has been available on iOS devices since the debut of the original iPad in 2010, OS X Mavericks will mark the first instance of an iBooks app for the Mac.
The Mavericks version of iBooks offers a number of features that will appeal to readers and students alike, including full screen reading capabilities, note taking functionality, and a feature that allows study cards to be automatically created from notes.
With access to free ebooks, Apple Store employees will be able to familiarize themselves with both the iBookstore and the many features that iBooks offers, allowing the employees to answer customer questions and promote the apps and the new operating systems.
Apple has also provided some of its employees with beta access to OS X Mavericks and recently, it sent out a memo asking its retail workers for innovative ideas on how to improve the iPhone, the retail store environment, and sales techniques.
At a retail summit that took place in early July, Tim Cook announced plans to improve the in-store sales of iPhones, which are considered a ?gateway product? to other Apple devices. As part of its push for greater sales, Apple has launched a new iPhone Back to School promotion and has plans for an in-store trade-in program for older devices.
The company also plans to heavily market both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, which are expected to be released to the public this fall.
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2-headed turtle at Texas zoo gets Facebook page
SAN ANTONIO -- A two-headed turtle born last month at the San Antonio Zoo has become so popular that she has her own Facebook page.
Zoo officials say the Texas cooter, named Thelma and Louise for the female duo in the 1991 Oscar-winning movie, has been doing well.
Spokeswoman Debbie Rios-Vanskike (van SKYKE') says the turtle eats and swims, and added that the two heads ? named Louise Left and Thelma Right ? get along.
The Facebook page on Sunday showed photos of the quirky reptile and imaginary conversations between the two heads.
The turtle hatched June 18. The animal is on display at the zoo's Friedrich Aquarium.
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Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/28/3527274/2-headed-turtle-at-texas-zoo-gets.html
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Teresa Heinz Kerry released from hospital
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Photo shows Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, during Kerry's confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to the ketchup company fortune, was released Saturday from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where she was treated for a seizure she experienced on July 7.
Doctors said they expect Heinz Kerry to complete a full recovery at home after some limited out-patient treatment, read a statement released by Kerry's spokesman Glen Johnson.
Heinz Kerry, 74, was admitted to the hospital following an experience of seizure-like symptoms at the family's Nantucket home.
"It was amazing, a miracle," Heinz Kerry said of her care and caregivers, according to the statement. "They are the kindest people, who love what they do and do it superbly well."
Her husband expressed his gratitude: "I'm extremely grateful for the quality of care Teresa received, from the calm and confidence of the EMTs who intervened at the house, to the amazing proficiency of the team at the ICU at Mass. General, to the focused, caring attention of the group at Spaulding. I've always known Massachusetts is blessed to have some of the greatest health care in the world, but we've just lived it, and are grateful to all."
Heinz Kerry, a breast cancer survivor, is the mother of three adult sons from her marriage to the late Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, who died in a plane crash in 1991.
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What did London Olympics 2012 do for us?
Not that many were predicting beforehand that this would be the case. In the weeks immediately before it all began, the vibrations on the radio, in the newspapers and on that 140-character shredder of reputation Twitter, insisted that we should prepare ourselves for national humiliation.
The way it was being told, everything that could go wrong with our hosting of the Games was certain to go wrong. We had outsourced the security operation to cack-handed, greedy incompetents, we had surrendered our civil liberties to the commercial interests of the sponsors, and allowed London?s road network to be thrown into jeopardy in order to accommodate the Ruritanian requirements of officials. Travel agents reported a surge of late bookings as people sought to flee from the anticipated omnishambles.
As a strategy, however, the escape plan began to unravel from the first beat of the opening ceremony. The moment the lights came up on a stadium transformed into a bucolic paradise, complete with livestock, it became clear that those who had deserted our shores were in the wrong place. Ninety minutes of dazzling theatre, dance, film and music later, the telephone lines must have been thrumming with refuseniks trying to negotiate passage home.
An innovative, witty mash-up of our cultural history, the opening ceremony spun the head, brought a tear to the eye and made everyone lucky enough to witness it smile hard and long. Danny Boyle?s brief had been to reintroduce Britain and its capital to the world. How successfully he achieved that, presenting his homeland as a modern, friendly and, above all, humorous place. It quickly became clear that London was now the centre of the known universe, the place on which the world's eyes were trained.
The ceremony was a reminder to the world ? and perhaps, more to the point, to ourselves ? that this country has long held within it a wellspring of joy. It was the most enticing welcome to these isles of wonder.
For the Mexican journalist sitting next to me in the stadium, the high point of that evening was the Queen?s cameo in a James Bond pastiche. He could not believe it really was her, could not believe the Queen was hitching up her skirt to join in the party. And he was right to be astonished. At that moment, all suggestions of stiff formality were bundled out of the helicopter. What her appearance insisted was that the next fortnight, everyone was invited to participate in the fun; we really were all in it together.
And improbable as it may have seemed, from that vertiginous high spot, things just got better. Snapshots of our glorious capital ? of horses apparently leaping over Canary Wharf, of cyclists skirting a sun-dappled Buckingham Palace, of female athletes in micro bikinis playing volleyball on Horse Guards Parade ? spun round the globe. How wonderful it all looked. The facilities were brilliant, the transport smooth, everything just worked.
Even the assumption that corporate ticketing would preclude the ordinary citizen from observing the action at first hand proved unfounded. The opportunity to watch for free was everywhere seized. Tens of thousands filled Hyde Park to witness the Brownlee brothers dominate the triathlon. A million people lined the streets around Hampton Court to see Kilburn?s King of Cool, Bradley Wiggins, win the time trial.
There is no doubt victories such as these by local competitors added to the overall sense of well-being. Not even in the wilder reaches of Lord Coe?s imagination could such a happy confluence have been envisaged: jaw-dropping facilities, brilliant hosting, and world-beating achievement by the home team.
And what was so inspiring about Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Chris Hoy and the other British champions was that they delivered. There was no failure of nerve, no wilting under the weight of expectation, no hint of the traditional way of British sport of crumbling when faced with a crucial penalty in a shoot-out. For a fortnight, spot kicks were smashed unerringly into the top corner.
Thus it was that the Games became awash with an unstoppable benevolent momentum: everyone ? administrators, spectators, volunteers and athletes alike ? quickly recognised they were having the time of their lives. This was an intoxicating daily demonstration of our best side: civic-minded, helpful, properly patriotic, proud of our culture?s sterling qualities. As Mayor Boris Johnson put it, this was ?a nation at ease with itself?.
A year on, looking back at that month-long festival of good cheer, however, we are obliged to wonder what the lasting effect of those beguiling few weeks might be. The talk now is of legacy. Messrs Coe and Johnson insist that the Olympic Park ? currently being reconfigured for future public use ? will continue to draw the curious in their thousands. But questions are rightly being asked about future funding: how active those inspired by what they saw can become if their local swimming pool is closing or their PE teacher is being laid off.
Talk of participation targets and bricks and mortar, however, may be missing the fundamental point about what the Olympics gave us. Surely the most significant benefit of the Games is the alteration it brought in our wider sensibility. What the festivities proved to us is that we can do things not just well, but better than anyone else. We can take on the world at anything, from a firework display to a rugby Test match, from a transport network to a tennis grand slam, from the production of motor cars to the Tour de France ? and win.
We have discovered, moreover, that the best way to enjoy something is to embrace the effort, to immerse ourselves, to volunteer. A year on, this is what really counts: we now know we can be proud of our country and what it can achieve. And that is surely worth ?9 billion of anyone?s money.
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Buzz Building in Agrabah as Kingdom Prepares for First Royal Baby, Magical Parade
Portrait of royal family and attendants.
For the past week, the streets of Waltier have been electric with excitement as citizens await news of the newest member of Agrabah?s first royal family. Queen Jasmine, 28, has spent the last week preparing for her departure, via magic carpet, to an undisclosed infirmary, where she will give birth to the heir or heiress apparent to the crown.
?The queen can be packed and ready at the drop of a feather as soon as her water breaks,? according to a castle source, a magical talking bird, who spoke to The Observer on the condition that he remained anonymous. ?Obviously, King Aladdin is thrilled, and he will be joining his wife after he returns from his spelunking expedition in the desert with his two best friends, a monkey and an incorporeal blue genie.?
But what?s really got the bazaar buzzing is the rumor that the royal family is preparing another magical parade?the first since King Aladdin first came to the city.
For those who need reminding, King Aladdin?s original spectacle included a veritable ?zoo?: seventy- five golden camels, fifty-three purple peacocks, and many more exotic mammals, including an unprecedented ninety-five white Persian monkeys, sixty elephants and llamas galore. In addition, there were bears and lions, a brass band and more.
?I don?t know what to expect, but I know it?s going to be great,? said apple-stall-owner Gazeem. ?Maybe this time there will be, I dunno, like some flying horse made of diamonds that defecates gold coins or something.?
But Prince Ali Ababwa, as he was known then, took some heat for his original cavalcade into the city when several civil rights organizations took aim over his inclusion of ?servants and flunkies,? as well as showcasing forty fakirs.
?These are religious men who have forsworn material goods, following the basic creeds of Vaishnava-Sahajiya Buddhism,? one spokesperson said. ?To have them paraded around as part of the King?s ?spectacular coterie? is nothing short of disgusting.?
Repeated requests for a statement regarding the possible human rights violations has been met with silence from the royal family, and in one unfortunate case, an angry tiger attack.
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Key molecular pathways leading to Alzheimer's identified
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Key molecular pathways that lead to late-onset Alzheimer's disease have been identified by neuroscientists. The findings present a new approach to Alzheimer?s research and highlight several new potential drug targets.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/CejopCNEoik/130724133035.htm
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South Africa wants Zimbabwe vote to reflect people's will: Motlanthe
By Peroshni Govender and Jon Herskovitz
PRETORIA (Reuters) - With a big vested interest in the stability of Zimbabwe, South Africa is keen that next week's election in its northern neighbor should fairly reflect the people's wishes, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled into South Africa after violence in the last election, in 2008, landing it with an expensive humanitarian crisis. But since it helped to broker a unity government, the economy has been recovering, creating opportunities for South African business.
However, preparations for the July 31 elections have been far from smooth, with President Robert Mugabe's rivals in the Movement for Democratic Change alleging that his ZANU-PF party is making it hard for their voters to register. Washington has said it is not convinced the vote will be free and fair.
In an interview with Reuters, Motlanthe said Pretoria had no preference as to the result.
"Whatever the outcome of the elections, it should be a free expression of the will of Zimbabwe. That is how we view it."
But he also said political stability was a precondition for economic development. "We have a vested interest as a country in ensuring that there is peace and stability in Zimbabwe. We can only benefit from that."
South Africa's major banks, retailers and mining firms have operations in Zimbabwe and positioning themselves to expand if the economy, estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be worth $9.8 billion in 2012, continues to grow. Zimbabwe spends the equivalent of 20 percent of its GDP on imports from South Africa.
Yet two days of advance voting this month for 63,000 police officers and soldiers suggested that fears of election chaos will be borne out, raising the prospect of a disputed result.
Motlanthe said that, so far, there were no indications that the widespread violence and intimidation surrounding the 2008 election would be repeated, but added:
"If anything causes an implosion in Zimbabwe, we would with immediate effect have to deal with the consequences".
Motlanthe said President Jacob Zuma spoke regularly with Mugabe, who has made disparaging public comments about Pretoria's interventions, even calling one of Zuma's top envoys "stupid and idiotic".
(Additional reporting by Ed Cropley in Pretoria and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-wants-zimbabwe-vote-reflect-peoples-motlanthe-172456634.html
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