Pope Francis: Theories of Evolution & the Big Bang are Right

According to the Holy Bible, God created heaven and earth. However, according to Pope Francis, this may not necessarily be the case.

 

 He has declared that the theories of Evolution and the Big Bang are real, The Independent reports.

 

The pope reportedly made these comments while speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Here are excerpts from his speech:

“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so… 

He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment. 

The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it. 

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”

Demi Lovato on Kim Kardashian and Beyonce Revolutionizing Beauty

 

 

Speaking with Access Hollywood last week, actress and singer Demi Lovato, 22, said Kim K and Beyoncé's famous curves have helped refine beauty and made a whole generation of women see it is not all about being skinny, making it easier for women these days to accept and embrace their full figures.

"When I was growing up and when I was a pre-teen, the people that I had to look up to for body image were extremely underweight. They were all very bony at that time and that was the in thing. But now I'm glad I have curves and role models to look up to that also have curvaceous physiques.

'I really credit women like Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian, they completely revolutionized what our generation's view of perception of what beautiful is and I really think that they had a huge impact on that." Demi said.

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Pamela Anderson Rejects #Icebucketchallenge For Animals Testing

While many celebrities have accepted the now-viral ice bucket challenge, meant to raise awareness and money for the ALS Association, Pamela Anderson has decided to turn the challenge down.

In a Facebook post written Wednesday, August 20, Anderson explains she would like to "challenge ALS to stop Animal testing."

The former "Baywatch" star, 47, further explains that experiments made on animals to find a cure for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in humans have been unfruitful, and encourages her fans to "support charities that never harm animals and which pour their time and resources into advanced, promising, human-relevant cures."

 Anderson is a known animal rights activist and was named PETA's Person of the Year in 2010.

Despite tremendous Hollywood support, Anderson is not the only celebrity to publicly speak again the trend. Zachary Quinto opted out of the challenge, pointing to "staggering drought in california [sic] and the desperate need for clean drinking water in developing countries" as cause. P!nk's husband Carey Hart praised ALS for its "creative" campaign while condemning its social factor, saying the challenge has evolved "into a pass along joke to some."

As of Thursday, August 21, The ALS Association has received $41.8 million in donations, reads its official website.

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Canadians With Higher Education Struggling To Get Suited Jobs

Canadians are spending more time in school, only to wind up with careers unrelated to their high-priced university degrees, a Workopolis study says.

An overwhelming 73 per cent of online poll respondents told the job site Workopolis that they work in jobs unrelated to their educational backgrounds, while 56 per cent said they are over-educated for their current jobs.

The Workopolis study also found that nursing students are most likely to find a job in their chosen field after graduation, while engineering students have the highest starting salary among all post-secondary graduates.

Tara Talbot, vice-president of human resources at Workopolis, says most people wind up with jobs unrelated to their education because the world is changing too fast for educational institutions to keep up. As a result, many are left to rely on “soft” skills like communication, problem solving and teamwork to land a job in an increasingly competitive job market.

“A lot of Canadians are telling us they’re not actually doing what they went to school for – at least, not directly,”

She added while a post-secondary education still holds value, it doesn’t always lead directly to employment.

“It’s no longer a direct line of sight,” Talbot said.

Instead, those with a strong foundation of soft skills are using those skills to gain a competitive edge.
“Employers are really looking for holistic employees who can jump in the deep end, be productive and perform right away,” Talbot said. That’s where the soft skills make a difference, she said.

However, professions with heavily-specialized training produced the most graduates working in the fields they studied. Nursing grads with a bachelor’s, masters or PhD degree found a job in their profession 97 per cent of the time. Graduates from pharmacy-training programs found jobs in their field 94 per cent of the time, followed by graduates with degrees in computer science (91%), engineering (90%) and human resources (88%).

Talbot said the need for nursing and pharmacy grads will continue to rise as the baby boomer generation grows older.

Engineering graduates earn the highest starting pay at an average annual salary of $76,000, according to Statistics Canada data used in the Workopolis study. Healthcare graduates earn the second-most at $69,600 a year, followed by computer science graduates ($68,000 a year) and law and math grads ($67,600).

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President Obama Annouces U.S. Can’t Control Global Agenda

During a news conference Friday, President Obama addressed the growing border crisis, the conflict between Israel and Gaza and other topics. Here are highlights of his remarks in two minutes. (The Washington Post)

As he moved to wrap up his impromptu news conference Friday afternoon, President Obama pleaded with the public to remember how much he’s accomplished.

“In my first term, if I had a press conference like this, typically everybody would want to ask about the economy and how come jobs weren’t being created and how come the housing market’s still bad and, you know, why isn’t it working?” he said, speaking on a day when it was announced that 209,000 jobs were created in July. “And, well, you know what? What we did worked, and the economy’s better.”

Obama’s frustration is understandable: Republicans refuse to cooperate with him on almost anything, including urgent crises like managing the thousands of migrant children at the border. Russian President Vladi­mir Putin ignores his threats on Ukraine. A massive investment in Israeli-Palestinian peace by his administration has collapsed in violent, unending hostilities.

The limits of his presidency have become one of the dominant themes of his second term. He’s now trying to shatter that perception, arguing that neither the nation nor the presidency was endowed with the power to control events around the world. And he insisted he still retained power to make a difference.

“This is a common theme that folks bring up,” Obama said, in response to a question about whether the United States has lost its global influence under him. “Apparently people have forgotten that America, as the most powerful country on earth, still does not control everything around the world. And so, you know, our diplomatic efforts often take time

The president noted that in Eastern Europe, the United States is doing what it can do, aiding the Ukrainians and sanctioning Russia, but “we can’t control how Mr. Putin thinks.”

In the Middle East, he affirmed Israel’s right to self-defense while calling for more efforts to protect Palestinians in Gaza. But with the conflict escalating, he also pointed out that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for decades.

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Why raising speed limits on Canadian highways is a bad idea

Canadians concerned with road safety should be shocked that British Columbia will increase speed limits to 120 km/h on some highways. This decision begs scrutiny and flies in the face of public health, injury prevention and common sense. A recent survey in Ontario revealed that many Ontarians also favor raising speed limits to 120 km/h on some highways.

Fast driving is a serious public safety problem. Speeding increases the likelihood and severity of a crash; the laws of physics are not very forgiving to the speeding driver. The faster a vehicle is moving, the less time the driver has to react to a hazard and for other user of the road to react to that vehicle. Speed is a factor in more than 20 per cent of fatal crashes and 12 per cent of all crashes. As speed increases over 100 km/h, the fatality rate of vehicle occupants goes up dramatically. For example, the chances of being killed in a vehicle traveling at 120 km/h are four times higher than at 100 km/h.

Speed of impact is also critical for pedestrians, the most vulnerable road users. A 1995 European Transport Safety Council report found that only 5 per cent of pedestrians died when struck by a vehicle at 32 km/h; fatalities increased to 85 per cent at 64 km/h.

7 Top Tourism Destinations in Canada

Canada offers many diverse tourist attractions within its borders spanning from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Atlantic in the east, to the Arctic Ocean in the north and to the world’s longest undefended border shared with the United States to the south. Whether it’s “fly in” fishing in the Northwest Territories, an exotic sampling of urban nightlife in old Quebec City or anything in between, Canada has a destination for virtually any taste.

1. The Calgary Stampede

Tourists captivated by the colorful culture of the west may be interested in witnessing “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth”, The Calgary Stampede, taking place for ten days each July. The Calgary Stampede is a spectacular event drawing in excess of 1.2 million visitors each year. Tourists taking in the Stampede are treated to rodeo and agricultural competitions including Chuckwagon races, a midway, stage shows, concerts and First Nations exhibitions. Stampede Park also hosts year-round sports, trade shows and other entertaining events. The site includes the hockey arena Pengrowth Saddledome, BMO Centre, a casino and of course the racetrack flanked by the grandstand

2. Toronto International Film Festival

In mid-September, movie fans and film creators from around the globe flock to Toronto, Ontario for the Toronto International Film Festival, attending premier screenings of the season’s most relevant releases. Film buffs visiting Toronto are entertained by the stars outside the cinemas as well; many of Hollywood’s “A list” thespians can be spotted on the red carpet en route to industry parties in the city’s entertainment district, in fashionable Yorkville or in the more recently developed creative Mecca of Gooderham and Worts in the distillery district.

Why Vladimir Putin is Still the Boss

'The prospect of Vladimir Putin facing a backlash of public anger over suspected weapons supplies to separatist gunmen is zero.' Photograph: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images

Neither western sanctions nor claims of Russia’s involvement in flight MH17 influence its citizens, who live on a diet of state propaganda.

There is a satirical cartoon doing the rounds online in Russia that depicts a figure slouched in front of a television set, both the screen and the anonymous viewer’s brain filled with identical swirls of bewildering electronic static. Drawn by Russia’s finest political cartoonist, Sergey Elkin, it is at once a powerful portrayal of the stupefying influence of Kremlin-controlled TV and an indication of why neither increasingly harsh western sanctions nor international allegations of Russian culpability in the destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are likely to damage Vladimir Putin’s soaring popularity at home.

Dubbed the “zombie box” by opposition-minded Russians, state-run TV is perhaps Putin’s most valuable weapon, a tool for manipulating public opinion without even the pretence of objectivity. Indeed, Dmitry Kiselev, the controversial TV presenter appointed by Putin to head Rossiya Segodnya, Russia’s main state news agency, has declared media objectivity to be a “myth”. “Russia needs our love,” Kiselev told journalists at the Moscow-based agency’s headquarters earlier this year.

Three days after the suspected shooting down of flight MH17 by pro-Moscow rebels in east Ukraine, the Russian state-run channel Rossiya 1 aired its weekly round-up of current affairs. For anyone who has been paying even cursory attention to western media coverage of the tragedy, what followed must have seemed like a direct transmission from some bizarre alternative reality.

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♫ Stop playing with fire ♫, a lullaby I can sing a million times for all women who wear provocative dress that extenuate their female attributes. Know for sure you are not communicating to a man’s senses but speaking directly to his libido. His libido reactions- I can tell you that nine out of ten is irrational. Be warned! Should we be surprised to know 80% of victims are under age 30? These youngies have misconstrue what being sexy should be, they expose too much which warrants those sly attention. Can you blame them?

The society is lost in lust and the media is wrecking us more than ever before. If the council of fashion designers in USA can honor a celebrity who showed up 95% naked with full visibility of her breast and butt as the fashion Icon for the year 2014, and most media reporting how flawlessly, immaculate, trendy and fit she is.

You can imagine girls who take her as role model, not my daughter though, will adopt nudity as their idea of fashion on the street of some of the violent neighborhoods in the world thinking the street is their award red-carpet can do no wrong when they are violated. Whose nemesis?

A friend comments recently ‘this is sad, because she doesn’t have anything on the inside worth displaying so she puts her private parts in display’. I differ though, she is sweet musician who has a formidable platform to plant good seeds in the vineyard of morality. I feel sorry for Rihanna but sorrier for those who follows after her diametric example. Since when is complete public nudity fashion? Imagine, she has the power to reshape the pop culture positively and ultimately her revered fans, but what all these celebrities want to prove is who can break bad the most.

Breaking bad TV series is off-air, oh I wished celebrities breaking bad tendencies can be off-sight as well. Then this is really sad .Please don’t try this on the streets of Mexico, Brazil, Afghanistan, India, Somalia, Pakistan, Nigeria… you may not survive to recant the storyline. No wonder Ms.Pepples pays lip service to this madness, some rape victims forced this evil on their head. Be wise

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