Google: We didn?t really believe rounded corners were patentable

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Obama: US safer, resilient on 9/11 anniversary

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama first lady Michelle Obama, and members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

(AP) ? President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are at Arlington National Cemetery visiting the graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The visit to the burial ground across the Potomac River from the White House is part of the president's observance of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Obamas quietly walked between rows of graves at Section 60, which contains the remains of the most recent war dead. Pausing at several graves, Obama placed presidential "challenge" coins at the base of the headstones. The first headstone listed the names of 10 victims of an Oct. 26, 2009, helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Obamas placed a wreath at the Pentagon and observed a moment of silence on the White House South Lawn.

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Babies' ability to detect complex rules in language outshines that of adults, research suggests

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2012) ? New research examining auditory mechanisms of language learning in babies has revealed that infants as young as three months of age are able to automatically detect and learn complex dependencies between syllables in spoken language. By contrast, adults only recognized the same dependencies when asked to actively search for them. The study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig also highlights the important role of basic pitch discrimination abilities for early language development.

The speed and apparent ease with which young infants learn the basics of a language regularly astound parents and scientists alike. Of course, adults are usually assumed to have the edge in sophisticated language learning. However, scientists Jutta Mueller, Angela D. Friederici and Claudia Maennel have now found that when it comes to extracting complex rules from spoken language, a three-month-old outperforms adult learners.

For 20 minutes, the scientists played a stream of syllables to babies while measuring their brain responses using electroencephalography (EEG). Pairs of syllables appeared together, but were separated by a third syllable. Jutta Mueller, first author of the study, stresses that "such dependencies between non-neighbouring elements are typical for natural languages and can be found in many grammatical constructions." For instance, in the sentence "The boy always smiles," the third-person-suffix "s" of the verb is dependent on the noun "boy." In the study, this was reflected in the use of combinations like "le" and "bu" in sequences like "le-wi-bu."

From time to time, however, combinations like "le-wi-to" would appear, in which one of the syllables was out of place. "EEG measurements showed us that the babies recognized this rule violation," Mueller explains. Additionally, the scientists would occasionally change the tone of one syllable to a higher pitch -- with an interesting outcome: Only those infants whose brains reacted to pitch changes in a more mature way could detect the syllable dependencies.

When facing the same task as the babies, adults only showed a reaction to the rule violations when asked to explicitly look for dependencies between the syllables. Mueller and her colleagues conclude that, evidently, the automatic recognition ability is lost later on. "What we found particularly interesting is that the small group of adults who did show evidence of rule learning also showed a stronger brain response to the pitch changes."

These findings not only help understand how children manage to learn language so quickly during early development, but also point to a strong link between very basic auditory skills and sophisticated rule learning abilities. In a follow-up study, the scientists are now investigating whether differences the babies showed in response to pitch changes and in rule learning ability have any long-term effects on language development.

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A.M.O., A Mecha Space Opera

Note that this may be subject to because I'm open to suggestions and it's something I wrote up in only the course of a morning.

In the year 2074, in a desperate attempt to reverse the effects of climate change, the UN had resorted to what was known as Project Pinatubo. This consisted of a naval effort of shooting aerosol filled artillery shells into the atmosphere in order to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight in a manner emulating sulfur dioxide shrouds of a volcano. The effort was pyrrhic success in that there was significant drop in temperature, though not enough, and yet the sudden rapid cooling affected the hydrological cycle in a way that caused a severe drought.

Sensing they were too far gone, the remainders of Japan, the United States, and Europe cerated the Haruna-Ark Program, led by eccentric scientist Michiyo Hiraga. This robotic space ship, possessing the most advanced ai and English/Swiss Thorium reactors, was designed to search for a habitable planet and terraform it, though it had no human passengers. Instead, it carried genetic samples of not only the human race, but enough of flora and fauna to hopefully create a suitable ecosystem, as well as a breadth of archived information of Earth for the revived humans. However, before the ship was launched, Hiraga was able to the creator of the ship?s ai to do something though impossible, to copy her mind into part of the Haruna Ark?s program.

It was only a couple years before the Haruna Ark?s communication with Nasa and the European Space Union was cut completely, a split second compared to how long it took for the Haruna Ark to complete the mission. Hiraga was arguably driven insane from a lack of human contact, keeping her brain occupied with media loaded onto the computer, and the ship partially cannibalizing itself to stay running. However, she experienced the greatest joy of her life when a suitable planet was found. However, before reaching the planet, the ship suffered a tragic accident in the form of being hit by an asteroid that effectively split it in half.

One half, which possessed the data from Hiraga?s brain, was able to stay course and reach the intended planet, which Hiraga named Shin Kansei, after the Kansei region of Japan where she was born and raised. Shin Kansei was perfectly habitable even had a thorium reserve nearly as plentiful as Earth?s, which gave Hiraga the potential of almost unlimited fuel. The one problem was that Hiraga?s half of the ship contained none of the genetic samples, no Earth life to inhabit the new world. Hiraga heavily considered shutting herself down before finally some life of her own creation for the planet, androids, using her program as a base, and declared herself Mother to them. Although she gave the androids free will, both loyalist, who call themselves The Children, and heavily armed puppet robots mostly kept the population in check to Mother?s wishes until the end of a civil war. A parliament was eventually formed, but has always kept a sizable amount of The Children in its ranks, leading to the nickname of ?The Children?s Council.?

The half with the main computer and genetic samples crashed on a planet that was far from ideal, a water world farther from the sun. With limited power from being split, this half of the Haruna only created a single underwater settlement out of itself, Haruna City, which quickly became crowded. However, it provided a way for the new human race to prosper on the new planet. It did this with large piloted robots called Automaton Mining Operatives, or A.M.O, allowed people to venture into hazardous underwater areas of the planet and harvest its resources. As the A.M.O pilots explored more of the planet, they found traces of underwater life, particularly large, hostile sea serpent like creatures which forced the pilots to arm the A.M.O. While an easy life was to be had for those of the aristocracy that began to form, the majority of citizens of Haruna City do the best they can through the underwater mining and other often dangerous forms of labor. Despite, or perhaps in spite of, these difficulties, Haruna City outfitted their A.M.O for space travel. These were primarily used in creating satellites in hopes of contacting Earth in hopes that civilization there still existed. Instead, they contacted Shin Kansei.

Although immigration from Haruna City to Shin Kansei was initially welcome, a decade long policy of isolation and hostility was put in place when Shin Kansei discovered that Haruna City still used uranium/plutonium fission, and thus had the capability to create nuclear weapons. This lead to the torture and imprisonment of hundreds of humans, as there was heavy suspicion of spies. However, this was eventually stopped due in large part due to Mother?s pressure on The Children. Human members have been added to the parliament, though not an amount proportionate to the actual amount of humans on Shin Kansei; plenty of the androids see humans as inferior, or still suspect a human attack, including some of The Children despite Mother?s stance.

Shortly afterwards, Haruka City had a real invasion to death with. The force approached in enormous battle ships, which released swarms of A.M.O looking soldiers towards the city. The A.M.O themselves couldbarely hold them off, and enough came though that thye were able to break through the shields and flood Section 6, a whole tenth of the city. But when all seem lost, a satellite known as the Orion Buster fired a laser power by a focused nuclear blast, destroying several battle ships. Although a squad of the invading soldiers ended up severely damaging the Orion Buster, the invading force ultimately retreated.

With both prisoners of war and corpses, a bit has been learned about the invading force. They were not in fact robots, but a giant humanoid species wearing armored space suits. Removing the armor revealed that their bodies were feminine and that they all had reptilian traits such as a tail and a pair of horns, as well as yellow, read, and orange scales. Although work has been done on trying to translate their language, there has been no success as of yet.

Although scared, most of the android population of Shin Kansei wanted little to do with the conflict until their intelligence confirmed that the alien forces built bases on two of Shin Kansei?s moons in order to recooperate. This lead to the forging of an alliance in preparation of another alien attack. Shin Kansei not only are gathering their own army, but have overhauled the development of Haruna City?s A.M.O for both Haruna City and now their own use, the designs of which seem to be influenced by at least partially influenced by various old earth media. They have even provided aid in trying to repair Haruna city. However, the mysteries of the attackers and whether or not Haruna City and Shin Kansei?s efforts are enough to stop a second attack are still to be seen.

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Iraq's fugitive VP Hashemi urges Iraqis to oppose Maliki

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Ashton: more sanctions on Syria, Iran an option

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ? The EU's foreign policy chief says more sanctions against Syria and Iran are being weighed.

Catherine Ashton said Saturday that a top priority for the EU is to offer its full backing to the new U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who is set to begin mediation efforts to end the violence between Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and opposition groups seeking to topple his rule.

Speaking to reporters at the end of an EU foreign ministers meeting in Cyprus, she urged Syrian opposition groups to form a united front against the Assad regime in order to make all Syrians feel secure about their future.

On Iran, Ashton said that she will "do everything I can" to ensure Iran complies with its obligations regarding its nuclear program.

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September 6, 2012

Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ?Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.? Simon answered, ?Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.? When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus? knees, saying, ?Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!? For he and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish that they had taken; and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, ?Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.? When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.

New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989, by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. USCCB approved (http://www.usccb.org/bible/approved-translations)

I like animals. I?ve gotten very close to some in my life, and the affection of a pet is a wonderful and unforgettable experience. Animals have natures which they are bound to follow. It is the rare pet that will pass up a treat, and even rarer is the pet that will say: ?I?ve given that up for Lent.?

Humans are different. We are made to share the life of God, but in our freedom we can reject that highest destiny and become far worse than the beasts. All humans are wounded by original sin, and, sooner or later, all humans find it hard to live with others because of those wounds: our own, those others inflict on us, those we inflict on others. How often we hear people say they prefer animals to people! Without grace?without God reaching into our world?we are lost, and things will only get worse. How much safer to relate to a pet who will always respond as nature dictates.

Yet God has not abandoned man, and has sent His Son into the human mess to model man?s high destiny?sacrificial love, freely chosen?to pave the way and to show the way to become who God wants us to be. It is much easier to catch fish, and likely much more profitable in the short run. But what a marvelous task: to catch men, men who are lost in an ocean full of sharks, men who float aimlessly through life, confused, purposeless. To catch them in a net of love and lead them out of the world in which they will otherwise drown into the light and air of the God who calls them to their highest destiny. And how blessed are we to be in the bark of Peter: first, caught in his net, and then, by the grace of God, taking our turn at the nets!

?Fr. Raymond Gawronski, S.J.

Lord, like Peter, it is so easy to doubt your intimate connection to our lives. Though you repeatedly manifest yourself to us, we begin to doubt those times when you visibly reached out to us. Then inevitably the time resurfaces when we pray for your direction and for your intercession in the depth of our problems. Like Peter we again experience your presence, and you invite us to serve more consistently and more authentically. Here we are, Lord, we come to do your will.

?The Jesuit Prayer Team

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Mormon Church buys ads in 'Book of Mormon' playbill in L.A.

Taking the high road, or throwing down the gauntlet? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has purchased ads promoting the faith in the playbill for the Los Angeles engagement of "The Book of Mormon," the?satirical musical from the creators of TV's "South Park."

The show, which is currently in previews at the Pantages Theatre as part of a national tour, tells the comical story of two Mormon missionaries who travel to a remote African village. The musical pokes fun at the tenets of the Mormon Church, as well as those of other religions. It also targets a host of sensitive subjects such as AIDS and female circumcision.

The LDS Church has not purchased playbill ads for the Broadway run of the musical at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The L.A. engagement is the first time the church has bought playbill ad space for the musical, and church officials are considering doing the same for other cities, according to a source.?

"The Book of Mormon" is set to officially open at the Pantages on Sept. 12 and then run through Nov. 25. The tour kicked off last month in Denver.

The playbill for the musical is published by Playbill Inc., which creates programs for Broadway and off-Broadway productions as well as for shows across the country.?

[Updated 1:55 p.m.] Michael Purdy, a spokesman for the Mormon church, issued the following statement on Thursday: "Patrons of the musical aren't likely to leave the theater with a better understanding of the Book of Mormon. Our message in the playbill invites the audience to seek a more complete perspective on the book, its Christ-centered message and its place in Mormon belief.

"Currently, these ads are running only in the playbill for the L.A. production, and plans for future use have not been determined."

One of the ads that in the L.A. program features the face of a smiling man with the words "I've read the book." Another features a smiling woman with the words "The book is always better." The ads contain the URL thebookofmormon.org, which takes you to an official site for the church.

The musical's official website is?bookofmormonbroadway.com.

Since the musical opened in New York last year, the Mormon Church has been conspicuously reticent about the show. The church released a brief statement in 2011: "The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ."

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"Book of Mormon" coming to L.A. in September 2012

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"Book of Mormon" adds cast members for tour, including L.A.

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