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U.N. Envoy: Israel Must Investigate Civilian Killings in Gaza War A United Nations envoy called on Israel on Tuesday to investigate the killing of more than 15-hundred Palestinian civilians, one third of them children, duri... By: wochit General News
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on March 2. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Thank you. Wow, 16,000 people. Anyone here from California? Florida? New York? Well, these are the easy ones.
How about Colorado? Indiana? I think I got it. Montana? Texas? You're here in record numbers.
You're here from coast to coast, from every part of this great land. And you're here at a critical time. You're here to tell the world that reports of the demise of the Israeli-U.S. relations are not only premature, they're just wrong. You're here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever. And because of you, and millions like you, across this great country, it's going to get even stronger in the coming years.
Thank you Bob Cohen, Michael Kassen, Howard Kohr and all the leadership of AIPAC. Thank you for your tireless, dedicated work to strengthen the partnership between Israel and the United States. I want to thank, most especially, Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans. I deeply appreciate your steadfast support for Israel, year in, year out. You have our boundless gratitude.
I want to welcome President Zeman of the Czech Republic. Mr. President, Israel never forgets its friends. And the Czech people have always been steadfast friends of Israel, the Jewish people, from the days of Thomas Masaryk at the inception of Zionism.
You know, Mr. President, when I entered the Israeli army in 1967, I received a Czech rifle. That was one of the rifles that was given to us by your people in our time of need in 1948. So thank you for being here today.
Also here are two great friends of Israel, former Prime Minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar and as of last month, former Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird. Thank you both for your unwavering support. You are true champions of Israel, and you are, too, champions of the truth.
I also want to recognize the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, for your genuine friendship, Dan, and for the great job you're doing representing the United States and the State of Israel.
And I want to recognize the two Rons. I want to thank Ambassador Ron Prosor for the exemplary job he's doing at the U.N. in a very difficult forum.
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Posted By richards on March 2, 2015
You may hear revelations from new books that purport to tell the "real story" about Jesus, opinions from friends who have discovered a "secret" on the Web about the son of God, and airtight arguments from co-workers who can prove he never existed.
Beware of most of these revelations; many are based on pure speculation and wishful thinking. Much of what we know about Jesus has been known for the last 2,000 years.
Still, even for devout Christian there are surprises to be found hidden within the Gospels, and thanks to advances in historical research and archaeological discoveries, more is known about his life and times.
With that in mind, here are five things you probably didn't know about Jesus.
1.) Jesus came from a nowhere little town.
Nearly all modern-day archaeologists agree the town of Nazareth had only 200 to 400 people. Jesus' hometown is mentioned nowhere in either the Old Testament or the Talmud, which notes dozens of other towns in the area.
In fact, in the New Testament it is literally a joke.
In the Gospel of John, when a man named Nathanael hears the messiah is "Jesus of Nazareth," he asks, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" He's dissing Jesus' crummy backwater town.
2.) Jesus probably didn't know everything.
This is a thorny theological question. If Jesus is divine, wouldn't he know all things? (Indeed, on several occasions Jesus predicts his death and resurrection.)
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Denmark synagogue attack: Security fears for Jewish community
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Posted By richards on March 2, 2015
Courtesy of Wisconsin Historical Society 1821
A crowd gathered near the Capitol July 19, 1971 as witnesses to Madisons first ever transported-for-preservation building made its way from Washington Avenue to James Madison Park. Gates of Heaven Synagogue, now used as a voting location and various celebrations, went mobile for a day as it was thrown on wheels and saved from demolition.
The edifice was a creation of prominent local architect, August Kutzbock, known for his Reconstructionist style also seen inPierce House, The Van Slyke House and the second Capitol building. The current Capitol is the third, so far.
It was originally constructed at 214 W. Washington in 1863 after a group of 17 Jewish families put together $4,000to construct the first synagogue in the state of Wisconsin, according to the 1970 Register of Historic Places Nomination.
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Financial issues plagued the congregation and during the panic of 1887 they leased the building and in 1916 sold the building. Its subsequent string of occupants included a Unitarian Society, the Womens Temperance Union, a Lutheran church, an undertaking parlor, a temporary recording studio, a tea room, federal storage, a veterinary clinic, offices, a beauty shop and a dentist office. Finally, showing its age in 1970, the building sat vacant, and along with the rest of the block, was slated for demolition.
The synagogue was largely constructed using sandstone from a local quarry, historian Dick Wagner said. In fact, during the era of the synagogues construction, Madison experienced a golden age of architecture with a multitude of German and Swiss masons building many of the houses that sit around the Capitol. Kutzbock used the distinctive Madisonian sandstone on the Peirce House and many of his creations adorning the Mansion Hill district.
The news that the historic building was to be torn down pulled at the heartstrings of many historians and members of the Jewish community, and community members felt an approaching threat from an attitude of commercial institutions, which would endanger landmark sites, according to a news report from 1970 from Wisconsin Historical Societys archives.
the decision to demolish the Old Synagogue was apparently made in silence and permitted by city officials in the most hushed of legal tones, according to the news report.
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Smartphones are about to get smarter, chip makers say, exploiting technologies that recognize people, objects and sounds to boost security and take helpful actions on behalf of users.
Qualcomm Inc., Intel Corp. and other component suppliers are using the Mobile World Congress, a trade shot that takes place in Barcelona this week, to describe innovations they expect to emerge as mobile devices incorporate advances in sensor chips, cameras and software. A key focus is protecting handsets against hacking by using biometric technologies in place of passwords.
Qualcomm, for example, is describing a higher-security way to read fingerprints to unlock smartphones and authorize online transactions. The San Diego-based company is also unveiling a set of technologies called Zeroth, designed to exploit smartphone cameras and microphones to recognize surrounding imagery and conditions for a variety of purposes. A phone might compare user movements with stored information about their past behavior, the company said, to detect theft of the device and automatically send an alert.
Intel in Barcelona plans to provide new information about RealSense, a technology that exploits advances such as three-dimensional cameras that can map the dimensions of objects and the distances between them. The chip maker cites applications such as controlling devices via gestures or facial expressions, inserting imagery of users into animated scenes and scanning objects to make 3D copies of them.
Intel also says it will demonstrate a mobile app called True Key that uses facial recognition along with other safeguards to authenticate users.
Other Silicon Valley companies planning to discuss new biometric sensor technology at Mobile World Congress include Synaptics Inc. and Cypress Semiconductor Inc.
The offerings underscore the race to add selling points to smartphones, which lately has reflected concerns about handset theft and online security breaches. Apple Inc., whose iPhone kicked off the vogue for smartphones, more recently helped spur alternatives to passwords by including fingerprint readers in its devices.
We are on the cusp of another revolution, said Andrew Hsu, Synaptics director of concept prototyping. And once more Apple is spearheading that revolution.
The authentication technologies come with tradeoffs, Mr. Hsu and other experts say. Most existing fingerprint sensors, for example, use a version of the capacitive technology used in touch screens. They create images of the ridges and valleys in fingerprints based on variations in their ability to store electrical charges. Asaf Ashkenazi, Qualcomms director of product management for security, says capacitative sensors can be hampered by the presence of water, sweat or hand lotion. And some people have fooled them by molding copies of fingerprints using substances like glue, he said.
Qualcomm is proposing instead the use of an ultrasonic sensor to create what Mr. Ashkenazi said is a more detailedand harder to spoofimage of a fingerprint. It uses sound waves that arent affected by foreign substances coating a finger, he said. Its a forgiving technology, Mr. Ashkenazi said.
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BARCELONA: CHIPMAKER Qualcomm debuted its ultrasonic Snapdragon Sense ID 3D Fingerprint technology at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Monday, making the Galaxy S6look instantly dated.
Qualcomm's fingerprint scanning system is based on sound waves, unlike the scanners found on the likes of the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6. The company claims that this makes the scanner much more accurate and secure than those already available commercially.
The scanner bounces ultrasonic waves off a finger, picking up the pattern and depth of contours, unlike current capacitive options which essentially use a mini camera to capture a print.
Qualcomm claims that the technology can extract a unique print, even down to the pores on the skin.
The sweatier the finger the more accurate the Sense ID's reading is likely to be, according to the firm, unlike the iPhone 6 TouchID sensor which will fail to recognise a print if a finger is sweaty or greasy.
We can vouch for this. After a few hours running around the seemingly never-ending, nor air-conditioned, MWC show floor, we thought it would be a good idea to put our greasy fingers to good use.
Asaf Ashkenazi, director of product management at Qualcomm, walked us through the process, which immediately struck us as a huge improvement over current fingerprint scanners.
As it is based on ultrasonic technology, the Snapdragon Sense ID 3D technology can read a fingerprint through any material, including glass, metal and sapphire.
The fingerprint scanner on the test device we handled wasn't immediately obvious as it's situated in the bezel.
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B #39;nai B #39;rith 2014 Annual Report: Message From EVP Dan Mariaschin Hear a message from B #39;nai B #39;rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin as part of the 2014 Annual Report. Find out everything that B #39;na..
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