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October 15 - The Future, as Imagined by Google
Article: Technology For Global Monetary System
In Eric E. Schmidt's future, his life will
be a lot easier.
His bed will wake him up when he cycles out of R.E.M. sleep. A
driverless car will take him to work. Returning phone calls, scheduling
events and other routine tasks will be taken care of by devices using
artificial intelligence. A microrobot he swallows will monitor his
insides and alert his doctor if something is wrong. At night, a robot
will go to parties in his place.
"He'll have a good time and report back in
the morning," said Mr. Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, speaking
Monday at the company's Zeitgeist sales conference in Paradise Valley,
Ariz.Mr. Schmidt was describing to
Google's biggest advertisers and partners
how technology can change the world, from tracking
financial assets to education to measuring the results of nonprofit
initiatives. Some of the things he mentioned, like universal language
translation and artificial intelligence, are Google
projects.
More important than making his daily life
easier, he said, technology will open up the world to people who have
never been connected, like those in developing countries.
"Imagine
going from no information to all the world's information with one
device," he said. "No textbooks to all textbooks. No language to all
language."
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October 19 - EU leaders agree to one banking overseer
Article: Onr World Government
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday balked at providing aid
directly to Spanish banks on the second day of a two-day summit
in Brussels.
EU leaders on Thursday agreed to create a
single banking overseer for the eurozone that could aid ailing
banks, but Germany and Britain balked at
some details and on Friday Merkel pronounced aid for banks dead
in the water for now, The New York Times reported.
"If recapitalization
is possible, it will only be possible for the future,"
Merkel said after the two-day meeting.
The 27 EU
heads of state and government agreed
"on a political framework for the end of
2012 and a gradual implementation in 2013" of a new EU single
supervisory mechanism, European Commission
spokesman Olivier Bailly said after the first day of a two-day
EU leaders' summit on resolving the eurozone debt crisis. The
commission is the EU executive body.
The European Central Bank was put into the
framework as the region-wide banking supervisor,
officials said, formalizing an arrangement the leaders agreed to
at a summit meeting in late June.
The new system would be phased in
next year starting Jan. 1 and likely cover all 6,000 banks in
the 17-nation eurozone by Jan. 1, 2014,
an EC official said.
It is intended to break the connection
between banks and governments at the root of the euro crisis.
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October 21 - More Brits Believe in Aliens Than in God, Survey Claims
Article: Rising Interest In The Supernatural
The number of those who believe in
extraterrestrial life is significantly higher than those who believe in
God in the United Kingdom, a survey commissioned by
a new alien-themed video game claims.
The survey, for which
the "XCOM: Enemy Unknown" videogame hired market research agency Opinion
Matters to conduct, suggests that 52
percent of U.K. adults believe UFO evidence has been covered up because
widespread knowledge of their existence would threaten government
stability, as opposed to 44 percent who say they believe in God.
Around 10 percent of the country also claims to
have seen a UFO, with almost a quarter more men claiming to have done so
than women, the survey indicated. It also suggested
that about 20 percent of the country
believes UFOs have landed, while over 5 million U.K. residents believe
the Moon landings were faked.
Nick Pope, formerly
of the British Government's Ministry of Defense UFO Project, said he
believes the survey results. "Just 20
years ago, religion was a huge part of life in the U.K., and this shows
just how much attitudes have changed," he told
atvtoday.co.uk. "Belief in the alien
phenomenon is now more widespread than ever, with many wondering how we
and our governments would react to the news that aliens existed."
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October 24 - Brian McLaren tour focuses on inter-faith relations
Article: Emerging Church
Emerging church leader Brian McLaren will be
visiting six English cities this winter.
He'll be picking up on the
themes of his new book, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross
the Road? The tour has been organised by Greenbelt in
partnership with book publisher Hodder & Stoughton.
McLaren will be
joined in each city by a faith leader from a non-Christian faith tradition.
Together, they will explore Christian identity in a multi-faith world and
respectful engagement between the faiths.
The six dates are:
Birmingham
Thursday 29th November 19.30- St Martin's in the Bullring, with music from
Jasmine Kennedy.
Manchester
Friday 30th November 19.30 - Manchester Cathedral, with conversation with
Robert Cohen and music from Jasmine Kennedy.
Newcastle
Saturday 1st December 19.30 - Turbine Hall, CastleGate, with conversation
with Professor Mona Siddiqui and music from Gareth Davies-Jones.
Bristol
Monday 3rd December 19.30 - Woodlands Church, with music from Miriam Jones.
Southampton
Tuesday 4th December 19.30 - Central Hall, with conversation with Mohammed
Ansar and music from Miriam Jones.
London
Wednesday 5th December 19.30 - Oasis, Waterloo, with conversation with Rabbi
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand.
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October 24 - Oregon scientists make embryos with 2 women, 1 man
Article: Cloning And Genetic Engineering
Scientists in Oregon have created
embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative
technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from
inheriting certain rare incurable diseases.
The researchers at
Oregon Health & Sciences University
said they are not using the embryos to produce children, and it is not
clear when or even if this technique will be put to use. But it has
already stirred a debate over its risks and ethics in Britain, where
scientists did similar work a few years ago.
The British
experiments, reported in 2008, led to
headlines about the possibility someday of babies with three parents.
But that's an overstatement. The DNA from the second woman amounts to
less than 1 percent of the embryo's genes, and it isn't the sort that
makes a child look like Mom or Dad. The
procedure is simply a way of replacing some defective genes that
sabotage the normal workings of cells.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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