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Pope’s General Audience
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Paris Jackson Rushed To Hospital After Possible Suicide Attempt!
By Christina Coleman
UPDATE: 4:30 PM EST
It is being reported that Paris Jackson cut her right forearm with a meat cleaver and took a large number of Motrin pills. She received numerous stiches for the cut.
She also called a suicide hotline and the person on the other end was alarmed enough to call 911.Paris Jackson left a suicide note, but authorities haven’t released what was in the letter.
SOURCE: TMZ
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UPDATE: 3:50 PM EST
Perry Sanders Jr., a lawyer for the Jackson family, writes in a statement to The Associated Press that Paris Jackson is getting appropriate medical attention and the family is seeking privacy.
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UPDATE: 3:20 PM EST
TMZ has also obtained the 911 call after Paris Jackson reportedly overdosed and cut her wrists in a suicide attempt.
Read More Paris Jackson Rushed To Hospital After Possible Suicide Attempt! (PHOTOS) | Global Grind.
How To Avoid The Virus On Facebook That Can Drain Your Bank Account
If you click on the wrong link on Facebook, a virus may find its way into your bank account and drain it of all your money. The New York Times’ Bits Blogs details how a 6-year-old virus called Zeus is all over Facebook right now. Here’s how to avoid it.After a malicious link is clicked, Zeus will remain inactive on your computer until someone logs into a bank account, swiping usernames and passwords so hackers can access it. A security firm called Trend Micro has found Zeus-laden links with increasingly frequency on Facebook, including on one football fan pages.Of course, there is no fool-proof way to avoid viruses like this one. But there are three ways to avoid becoming the victim of this particular one:
1. Avoid Windows computers if possible.
Business Insider’s Kevin Smith notes that Zeus targets machines running on Windows, and does not work on Mac OS X or Linux. It’s usually not feasible to switch operating systems, but it’s one way of avoiding the virus. However, variants of Zeus that can infect Android and Blackberry smartphones have been found, so it is possible that a modified version of the virus is at work here as well.
via How To Avoid The Virus On Facebook That Can Drain Your Bank Account.
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Tagged Bank account, cyberspace, facebook, Kevin Smith, Linux, money, New York Times, technology, Trend Micro, virus, Windows, Zeus
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St. Louis Police Shoot Black Honor Student 25 Times
By Aviva Shen
Protesters rallied in St. Louis, MO on Wednesday over the death of 25-year-old Cary Ball Jr, who was shot 25 times by police officers last month. Police say Ball refused to pull over for a traffic stop, eventually crashed into a parked car, and started running. According to police, Ball pointed a semi-automatic handgun at the officers, prompting them to open fire.
Several witnesses who spoke to the family, however, say Ball threw his gun on the ground and was walking toward police with his hands up to surrender when he was shot. Some unverified reports say 7 of the 25 shots hit him in the back. Police say there was no surveillance video in the area to verify exactly what happened.
Ball was an honor student with a 3.86 GPA, majoring in human services at Forest Park Community College, where he had been celebrated as an “emerging scholar.” According to family and friends, Ball was working to reform his life after being convicted of armed robbery when he was 17. His older brother, Carlos Ball, said Cary probably ran from the police because, as an ex-convict, it was illegal for him to possess a gun.
Read More St. Louis Police Shoot Black Honor Student 25 Times | Alternet.
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Tagged Cary Ball, law, police, Police officer, race, Robbery, Semi-automatic pistol, St. Louis, St. Louis Missouri
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Obama appoints Susan Rice as national security adviser
By Michael O’Brien
Hailing her longtime role as a “trusted adviser,” President Barack Obama formally named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his next national security adviser on Wednesday.Obama tapped Rice, a target of Republican criticism in recent months, to succeed Tom Donilon; the president also nominated Samantha Power, a longtime foreign policy adviser, to take over Rice’s role at the United Nations.“I am absolutely thrilled that she’ll be back at my side leading my national security team in my second term,” Obama said of Rice, a longtime confidant whose role in publicly explaining the administration’s initial assessment of last year’s terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, has made her a lightning rod for criticism.
“I’m deeply honored and humbled to serve our country as your national security adviser,” Rice said at a White House event to formally announce the shake-up, just the latest instance of staff turnover on Obama’s foreign policy and national security teams in his second term.
Rice also told Obama she was “deeply grateful for [his] enduring confidence,” a seeming nod toward the whirlwind of controversy around her role in the Benghazi explanation, which helped scuttle her chances of becoming secretary of State.
Read More Obama appoints Susan Rice as national security adviser – NBC Politics.
***Congratulations Dr. Rice!! If you visit often you will already know I predicted this last year. ~ SB***
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New Music Tuesday
Here’s a playlist of new singles that are available now or are coming soon. This week the playlist features Chris Brown, Ke$ha, Iggy Azalea and more artists. If you like any of them their albums are out or will be soon. The singles are available on iTunes or Amazon. Enjoy!
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Tagged 50 Cent, Amazon, American Idol, Chris Brown, Fat Joe, hip-hop, Iggy Azalea, iTunes, Ke$ha, Kylie Minogue, music, Playlist, pop, r&b, rock, Semicolon, Sevyn Streeter, Solange, soul
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Analyst: Xbox One to cost $399, PlayStation 4 priced at $349
By Jay Greene
When Microsoft’s Xbox One goes on sale before the end of year, it should cost $399, $50 more than the Sony’s PlayStation 4, likely to debut at the same time, according to estimates by Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
The analyst made his estimates in a research note prepared in advance of next week’s E3 video game conference. He based those estimates on the cost of materials needed to build the consoles, taking into account speculation about the specifications for each box.
Pachter also took into account the launch prices for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 premium edition debuted at $399 in November 2005 and went on to become the best-selling console in the United States in the current generation. The top-end PlayStation 3, with a 60GB hard drive, initially sold for $599, a price Pachter wrote “negatively impacted its long-term popularity.”
Both Microsoft and Sony declined to comment on the report.
Pachter believes Microsoft, Sony, and their various partners will likely offer some subsidies to offset the cost of the consoles. Given that the Xbox One includes the ability to watch live television, cable and satellite television operators might offer discounted boxes in exchange for multiyear contracts. Similarly, given that the Xbox One depends in large measure on being connected to the Web, Internet service providers could offer a subsidy as well. And Microsoft could offer discounts for gamers who purchase long-term commitments for its Xbox Live Gold service.
Read More Analyst: Xbox One to cost $399, PlayStation 4 priced at $349 | Microsoft – CNET News.
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Tagged gaming, Microsoft, PlayStation, Sony, technology, Wedbush Securities, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox 720
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Is the Samsung Galaxy S4 the right phone for you
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The Corporation is at Odds with the Future
By Grant McCracken
A client recently asked me to comment crisply on the future. I came up with these observations.
See if you can spot my error.
1. The world is speeding up. In 1989, Alan Kay said it takes at least 10 years for an innovation to get from the lab into everyday life. Twitter did it in 4.
2. Faster change means more turbulence. Assumptions are now less reliable. Best guesses are often shots in the dark. Planning sounds like an act of courage, strategy like a flight of imagination. When Alvin Toffler warned us of this in 1970, we scoffed. Now we’re living it.
3. Every individual and organization lives in a state of surprise, as Peter Schwartz puts it. Just a couple of years ago, professional planners at a big ad agency informed me that Twitter was a passing fancy. So I was interested to note that the first thing LL Cool J did as host of the Emmy’s this year was announce the hashtags for the show. Boy, was that agency surprised.
4. There is a considerable advantage to seeing the world in motion, picking up “noise” well before it becomes an intelligible “signal.” We have to extract more intelligence from less data. We will need “big data” and good ethnography to spot and track the world in the works. For instance, this would have meant grasping the fact (and some of the implications) of Twitter in, say, 1998.
5. And what we really need is a more responsive organization, one that can reinvent itself in real time, on the fly. This will take potent, new powers of adaptation, but it’s our only hope.
Spot the error?
I carried my assumptions into the future. I continued to think about the corporation as I normally do… and resolved merely to retrofit it with new parts in order to make it more sensing and more responsive in the future.
Read More The Corporation is at Odds with the Future – Grant McCracken – Harvard Business Review.
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