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If you are a Facebook user like most of us, when you “logout” of the site you believe that it no longer  has access.

Wrong!

Facebook now admits to having cookies that continually track a user’s activities after signing off. The user must log off  and close it’s browser completely in order for tracking to stop.

“Like every site on the Internet that personalises content and tries to provide a secure experience for users, we place cookies on the computer of the user…..”Three of these cookies on some users’ computers inadvertently included unique identifiers when the user had logged out of Facebook.”

Facebook says it has fixed a problem with cookies that could identify and track users when they visit other websites.

Any page with Facebook codes on them (such as Like buttons, Share buttons, or widgets) will still capture your activity and send it to Facebook, even after you log out.

IN MORE FACEBOOK NEWS…………

The company has decided to enter politics.

Facebook is starting an employee funded PAC that funds candidates who promote

Our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected,” a company spokesman said.

There are no further details as to which candidates the PAC plans to fund. Let’s hope they like cookies.

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World Wide youth skeptical of Democracy?

What happened, Dr. Conrad Murray trial?

Florida cuts in line in the Primary?

Shhh! “Secret” Supercommitte?

Can Christie Clinch It?

And

We love ourselves Generation “Y” ..

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Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)

²⁸ “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Reflection:

Sabbath presents many dimensions to us.  On the one hand, it is a reflective remembrance of all that God has done in the past to bring us into His salvation story.  On the other hand, it is a future hope of the everlasting and perfect rest that we will one day share with our almighty Father God.  But it is also a powerful present-day reality that we can experience through faith in Jesus Christ.  These words are the very words of our Lord Jesus who invites us to come and lay down all of our weariness and burdens.  These words are His promise that we will find real rest for our souls.  How we receive this rest is to come to Him and take His yoke upon us.  His yoke is easy and His burden is light, and we are to learn from Him.  We can do this because He Himself is our real rest.

Response:

Believing in His gentle and humble heart, let’s come before Him with one specific burden that has been in your heart.  With faith and trust, let’s offer up this burden to Him and trust that He will give us the kind of true rest that our souls really need.

This week, the New Yorker published a letter from Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, regarding an essay on the Oxford philosopher Derek Parfit. Spitz compares a literary device used by the writer to one used in “The Tin Woodsman of Oz.”

Her letter can be read here.

One of UMBC’s top revenue-generating technologies has just been licensed for the third time, this time to GE Healthcare. This demonstrates that the University’s strong efforts to commercialize its research are paying off.

“UMBC benefits from technology transfer not just in measurable dollars from licensing revenue but also by building relationships with companies,” said Wendy Martin, director of technology development at UMBC.

The technology allows companies to use an external sensor to measure a range of environmental factors including pH, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in cell culture. The sensor peels and sticks to the inside of the plastic or glassware. The entire vessel is then sterilized and sold to the customer. The sensor works by looking for a specific fluorescent signature associated with each environmental factor.

“It works much like a bar code scanner,” said Govind Rao, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, who developed the technology after almost 20 years of research.

Prior methods required scientists to use something like an “electrical dipstick.” That is, said Rao, “they had to place a corded, electrical probe into the cell culture,” risking contamination of the entire culture. “It’s like moving from a corded phone to a cordless phone,” he said.

Because the adhesive probe allows scientists to avoid costly contamination, it saves companies millions in labor and materials. For the general population this means that the time to market for new drugs can be reduced—an innovation that positively impacts human health.