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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg Was The 2nd Most Charitable ... - Business Insider
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan were two of the most charitable Americans last year, second only to Warren Buffet.Zuckerberg and Chan donated about $500 million worth of Facebook stock (18 million shares) in 2012. They gave it all to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
It was Zuckerberg's largest donation to date. In 2010 he gave Newark, New Jersey schools $100 million to further education efforts there.
Warren Buffet donated about $3.6 billion last year. His money went towards the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, NoVo Foundation, and the Sherwood Foundation. But then, his fortune is much more sizeable than Zuckerberg's: $46 billion versus $9.6 billion.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Apple Doesn?t Care, That?s Why It?s Winning
Apple doesn't care if competitors have cheaper products. It doesn't care if its next big thing canabilizes its last big thing. Not about buying big money-makers, and certainly not about how you think it should deal out stock. Today at Goldman Sach's conference, Tim Cook played the defiant king of an empire too powerful to be distracted by the present or the past. All he sees is Apple's future.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_8KxBNB25Ek/
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iPhone Twitter app timeline View Comparision
iPhone Twitter app timeline View Comparision
Nice post Comparing iPhone Twitter app timeline views, should you be concerned with such things. Interesting to see the differences and similarities though.
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Snapchat Brings Video To Android In A Private Beta - TechCrunch
Snapchat has been on a roll lately, scooping up a $13.5 million funding round from Benchmark last week, toying around with monetization features, and becoming the world?s favorite misunderstood mobile app.
But today the train keeps on chugging, as Snapchat has released a beta build of its Android app that includes the ability to send self-destructing video messages along with the usual picture messages. But be forewarned, loyal Snapchatters, as the beta link expires at 2am PST.
To be perfectly clear, this is a pre-release beta build. Snapchat is still working out a few kinks before launching the official Android update, but a few lucky users will have the chance to hop on the beta tonight.
Snapchat launched its new video feature for iOS in December of last year.
Just in case you decided to take a year off from tech news consumption, Snapchat is one of the fastest rising startups of 2012. It lets users send self-destructing selfies (photos of oneself), complete with the ability to add doodles and text.
The idea is that Snapchat users, many of whom have grown up using social networks since they were ?tweens, are yearning for a place where they can stop worrying about keeping up virtual appearances. Since Snapchat photos self-destruct, users are able share a real moment, even if they?re Snapping with someone thousands of miles away.
?Video is really important to our service because it allows Snapchatters to share a broad range of experiences and emotions,? said Evan Spiegel. ?The Snapchat community is all about living in the moment and video brings those moments to life.?
Many members of the media concluded that such a service was only useful for sexting, but Snapchat?s growth to now sending over 60 million snaps per day puts those rumors to rest. In total, users have now sent over 5 billion snaps in a little over a year.
Snapchat is the fastest way to share a moment with friends. You control how long your friends can view your message ? simply set the timer up to ten seconds and send. They?ll have that long to view your message and then it disappears forever. We?ll let you know if they take a screenshot! Build relationships, collect points, and view your best friends. Snapchat is instantly fun and insanely playful. Show your friends how clever you can be and enjoy the lightness of...
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Robbie Keane would like to manage Ireland one day
By RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 4:06 p.m. ET Feb. 11, 2013
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) - Robbie Keane would like to manage Ireland in the future.
The 32-year-old forward is Ireland's captain and career scoring leader with 54 goals. He has won two Major League Soccer titles with the Los Angeles Galaxy and last month agreed to a contract through 2014. When he's done playing, he'd like to move into management.
During an interview with The Associated Press on Monday at Red Bull Arena, Keane said, "Of course, that's my next step."
Keane says he wants to be an assistant first and "learn the ropes," then become a head coach.
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PST: Currently in fine form for Puebla, DaMarcus Beasley could yet find his way back into Jurgen Klinsmann's good graces.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Benedict stumbled trying to right troubled church
Pope Benedict XVI set clear and ambitious goals for his papacy quickly after he was elected: He hoped to re-evangelize the increasingly secular West. He would show that religious faith and reason could co-exist in the modern world. He would reach out to traditionalists who had split from the church and shore up Catholic identity.
He came into the papacy with the reputation of a brilliant theologian; nearly eight years later, he leaves the Holy See with that reputation intact. But because of burdens he inherited and ongoing problems in his own pontificate, Benedict fell short of the mark he set for himself on unifying the church, building relationships with other religions and restoring the church's influence in broader society.
A look at some aspects of his legacy:
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE: Benedict dedicated his pontificate to stemming the spread of secularism, especially in Europe, where church attendance has dwindled. He condemned same-sex marriage, argued that gender had become something chosen instead of given from God, and said lack of belief was dangerous, pointing to violence that resulted when past atheist governments "tried to stamp out the light of God to instead turn on illusory and misleading glows." Yet even as he made his arguments, acceptance of same-sex relationships grew throughout Europe and the United States.
RESTORING TRADITION: Benedict wanted to restore Catholic traditions largely abandoned during the modernizing changes of the Second Vatican Council. The pope relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass. He streamlined the process for traditional Anglicans who, objecting to ordaining women and gays in their own church, wanted to become Catholic. He even donned pontifical hats and other clothing that hadn't been worn in decades. Many younger Catholics responded to his emphasis on orthodoxy and a stronger sense of Catholic identity. But many others were alienated. In the United States alone, studies have found Catholics dropping out of the church in large numbers.
VATICAN SCANDALS: Some major scandals shook the Vatican during Benedict's pontificate. In 2010, the Holy See's top two banking officials came under scrutiny in a money-laundering inquiry that resulted in millions of euros being seized from a Vatican bank account. The pope hired a Swiss expert a few months ago to help upgrade safeguards against wrongdoing, but problems remained. Meanwhile, the pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was sentenced to prison after stealing the pope's personal correspondence and leaking the documents to a journalist. Gabriele said he thought the pope wasn't being informed of the "evil and corruption" in the Vatican. Benedict later pardoned him.
PAPAL GAFFES: Benedict was a star on Twitter and his books were popular far beyond the Catholic Church. But his pontificate was marred by ongoing communication blunders. Benedict riled the Muslim world with a speech in Regensburg, Germany in September 2006 in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith." In 2009, the pope enraged the United Nations and several European governments when, en route to Africa, he told reporters that using condoms "increases the problem" of AIDS. Last year, a Vatican-ordered reform of American nuns prompted widespread condemnation of church leaders and a dramatic outpouring of support for religious sisters. The overhaul order came after bishops accused American nuns of promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith." Last June, the pope hired Fox News Channel's former Rome correspondent to help advise Vatican officials on how they should shape their message.
SEX ABUSE SCANDAL: Benedict became the first pope to meet with victims of clergy sex abuse. In 2010, he issued an unprecedented apology to Ireland for chronic abuse, appealing to any remaining guilty clergy to "submit yourselves to the demands of justice." In another dramatic move, he ordered a full-scale reform of the Legionaries of Christ, a conservative religious order that Pope John Paul II had championed whose founder for years sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least three children. However, Benedict didn't discipline church leaders who kept guilty priests in ministry or hid claims from parents and police. "His method was to translate crimes into sins, and sins can be forgiven, sins of the cardinals and bishops," said author Jason Berry, who has written extensively on the crisis, including the book "Render Unto Rome."
CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS: Benedict's first official act as pope was a letter to Rome's Jewish community. In his 2011 book, "Jesus of Nazareth," he made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Christ, explaining biblically and theologically why there was no basis in Scripture for the argument that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus' death. However, he also angered Jews on a number of fronts. Jewish leaders harshly criticized Benedict when he removed the excommunication of a traditionalist British bishop who had denied the Holocaust. Jews were also incensed at Benedict's constant promotion toward sainthood of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope accused by some of having failed to sufficiently denounce the Holocaust. "There were bumps in the road during this papacy," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "But he listened to our concerns and tried to address them."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/benedict-stumbled-trying-troubled-church-214542250.html
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