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November 14 - Like online stores, retail stores look to track you while shopping
Article: Technology For A Global Monetary System
You know those ads on the sides of some webpages
that seem to know everything you've shopped for, like, ever?
This very well may be the kind of
shopping experience retailers like Nordstrom, American Apparel and other
brick-and-mortar stores have in mind for the future. Each of these companies has
recently experimented with indoor customer tracking, as reported by the MIT
Technology Review. Retailers not only want to track sales numbers and trends,
but also, similar to sites like Amazon and Google, take in statistics showing
what customers are "viewing" or how much time is spent in each section of the
store.
With new indoor location tracking technology,
brick and mortar retailers would be able to intelligently send advertisements
and deals to specific shoppers, based on past preferences. So pretty soon, if
you're in the electronics section of a store, you might receive a notification
on your iPhone directing you to all the televisions on sale. Or perhaps you're
grabbing a frozen pizza at the grocery store when all of the sudden you receive
a coupon notification for chicken wings (Mmmm).
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November 19 - Eucharistic Adoration; We are Bonded to Him through each moment spent in His Real Presence!
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
A small amount of the hormone oxytocin is
released every time you make eye contact with someone. It is for this reason you
come to trust other people. Now all you'll be able to think when you make eye
contact with someone is "Oxytocin. Oxytocin. OXYTOCIN". So, I've been
wondering... is oxytocin released during
Eucharistic adoration?
"As a result of transubstantiation, the species
of bread and wine undoubtedly take on a new signification and a new finality,
for they are no longer ordinary bread and wine but instead a sign of something
sacred and a sign of spiritual food... For what now lies beneath the
aforementioned species is not what was there before... since once the substance
or nature of the bread and wine has been changed into the body and blood of
Christ, nothing remains of the bread and the wine except for the species-beneath
which Christ is present whole and entire in His physical "reality," corporeally
present, although not in the manner in which bodies are in a place."
(Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei ¶46)
Therefore, when we place ourselves in
Eucharistic adoration, we place ourselves in the true presence of Christ. Like a
date with a loved one, there He sits before us.
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November 17 - Conference highlights Mary as example of evangelization
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Church leaders at a conference in Mexico City
emphasized unity and Christ-centered witness, as they discussed Our Lady of
Guadalupe's ongoing call to evangelize the Americas.
"Our Lady of Guadalupe is the mother of the
Mexicans, but she is also the mother of everyone who draws near to her,"
Archbishop Christophe Pierre,
apostolic nuncio to Mexico, said Nov. 16. When
Our Lady appeared, she changed the future of the people, "giving them new hope"
and planting the seed of a new race, he explained.
And since that time, "she has not stopped
calling." Rather, she continues to reach out as a mother to comfort those who
have suffered, bringing a "new heart" to Mexico and the New World.
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November 19 - Rob Bell's 'Love Wins' Nudged 1,000 People to Leave Mars Hill Bible Church, Says Michigan Megachurch Successor
Article: Emerging Church
Mars Hill Bible Church, the congregation founded
by author Rob Bell, lost about 1,000 people
over their former pastor's controversial 2011 book, Love Wins: A Book about
Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived,
according to the Grandville, Mich., megachurch's new pastor Kent Dobson.
Dobson was chosen by Mars Hill Bible Church in 2012 to replace Bell, who founded
the congregation in 1999.
"I would say about
1,000 people left (over 'Love Wins'), and that's okay. I don't think even a lot
of them left in anger," he added.
"They just thought 'Well, Mars Hill's not the place I thought it
was.' Surely some people were upset, but on the other hand it wasn't exactly a
mass exodus. Rob had been saying everything in that book for five years."
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November 21 - Church must foster encounter with culture, cardinals say
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Prominent Church leaders from the Americas
encouraged the faithful to consider the intersection of faith and culture, so as
to respond to radical and fundamental changes in society.
However, due to assimilation, the "glue" that bound people to the Church became
weak, he continued. Today, it is easy to leave the Church, and people do so for
a wide variety of reasons. The result has been
a movement "from cultural Catholicism to intentional Catholicism." When being
Catholic is no longer supported by the culture, it requires a conscious decision
to remain in the Church, and those who do so are strengthened in their faith,
he said.
"The transition from a strong cultural Catholicism to an intentional Catholicism
urgently requires a new type of evangelization
and a new apologetics that will respond to the questions that people have,"
Cardinal O'Malley said. "To continue to do
things as we have in the past simply no longer works."
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the
Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization - Iran's top ally in the Middle
East -
warned today
that a major regional war could be coming soon if Iran and world leaders don't
make a deal. His warnings were ominously echoed by the White House and by
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. It's hard to remember when
these three agreed on anything.
The Bank of America has pushed through a patent
application, which describes a biometric ATM
system. Reported in ATM Marketplace, the patent was
submitted to the USPTO in 2012, and published recently in 2013.
Research into new uses
of biometrics is blossoming. Iris and
fingerprint scans as well as facial and voice recognition are just a few of the
biometrics tools that can improve security while making lives easier, biometrics
researchers say. Such biometric security may effectively eliminate the need to
create and frequently change passwords.
Fujitsu Frontech North America and PulseWallet
have announced a new relationship utilizing Fujitsu's
PalmSecure biometric technology for biometric payments.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran
would not step back from its nuclear rights, and his negotiating team had set
limits for talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program.
Data is the currency of surveillance, and it's
not just the NSA and GCHQ looking to cash in. As a newly released cache of
documents and presentation materials highlights,
the private surveillance industry is booming. More shocking is that many firms
claim in their own corporate PowerPoints that they've got capabilities that
rival that of the government giants.