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World leaders mourn death of Nelson Mandela

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ISLAMABAD: World leaders mourned the death of anti-apartheid icon and South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela who died Thursday at his home in Houghton, a suburb of Johannesburg.Madiba as Mandela was affectionately called by his clan name by South Africans, passed away on Thursday evening.The 95-year-old's death was announced late by South African President Jacob Zuma in a television address to the nation.World leaders in unison paid tribute, including President Obama who said Mandela embodied the promise of change for the better BBC reported. Obama said Mandela achieved more than what could be expected of any man.We have lost one of the most influential, courageous, and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth. He no longer belongs to us he belongs to the ages Obama said.Obama, the first black president of the US, said he was one of the millions who drew inspiration from Mandela's life.Obama has ordered flags at half-mast o...

Public art project elicits the profound, profane

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                                                       It is public art made of private wishes. In a phenomenon spreading across the globe oversized blackboards painted on buildings and freestanding displays invite passers-by to complete the sentence: Before I die I want to... Answers some profound some profane, are written on stenciled lines with pieces of sidewalk chalk picked from the ground below. make my dad proud.  find the yin to my yang. Since artist Candy Chang created the first wall on an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood in 2011, more than 400 walls have gone up in the United States and more than 60 other countries including Kazakhstan, Mexico, Iraq, Haiti, South Korea and South Africa. be happy. ...

Kidnapped Daughter and Her Mother Reunite Through Facebook After 44 Years

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Angela Palmer has spent most of her life believing that her own mother abandoned her as a baby. Now, at 44, she's learned the truth and has spoken with her mom for the first time in decades. And while Palmer is thrilled, her quest isn't over yet. Now she has to raise funds to bring the mother she never knew from Croatia to the United States. Palmer, a medical health project services coordinator, is seeking the money through the website Fundly, where, as of Tuesday, she had raised more than $1,200 of the $4,000 she needs for two round-trip plane tickets for her mother and her husband. The new beginning was triggered by, of all things, a Facebook friend request. "I was at work the week before Thanksgiving, when I received a friend request from a woman named Helga Simeckie in Croatia," Palmer, from Oceanside, California, tells Yahoo Shine. "I didn't think much of it because I get random requests all the time, until she sent me a message written in German asking ...

Vin Diesel Posts Touching Tribute to Lost ‘Fast & Furious’ Co-Star Paul Walker

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Two days after Paul Walker's death, the star most closely associated with him spoke out about the tragic loss.On Monday evening Vin Diesel posted a brief message and an on-set photo of himself and Walker to his over 52 million followers on Facebook: Diesel quotes Scottish poet Thomas Campbell's 1825 work Hallowed Ground and refers to Walker by the nickname Pablo.The bond between Diesel and Walker was obviously strong as they were in the midst of shooting Fast & Furious 7 their fifth film together over the course of a dozen years.

Oh, snap! Facebook is implementing an unfollow button

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It looks like Facebook is going the way of Twitter and Instagram.Soon users will be able to unfollow friends whose comments and updates they'd like to remove from their News Feed according to a Facebook spokesperson.Yes that's right folks! Now if you're not a fan of Suzy Q's droning on about Cyber Monday or Larry's love for his kitty cats or Amy's insufferable photos of the latest adorable thing her daughter did you can just nix them from your News Feed with the quick click of a button.The new phrasing will replace the existing hide all button which is available to users in the drop-down on posts in the News Feed. The best part is that users will not be notified if they've been unfollowed thus keeping your social circle intact and avoiding any hard feelings.The functionality ultimately allows you to avoid news you're not interested in without actually defriending someone and shrinking your social presence.The goal of this change is to help people curate...

Popularity x Prestige in science – what matters most?

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In my endure blog commodity I wrote that science is in a moment of transformation like any added acreage mainly because of the Web 2.0 anarchy – which implies that the user has the ability to admit and annul whatever he wants in websites mainly amusing networks and advice sites such as Wikipedia, Facebook, blogs, and etc.Association is ambidextrous with a lot of aloofness issues apropos these new internet advances.Some humans anticipate this is not a acceptable sign about any evolving acreage brings acceptable and evil outcomes and association has to accord with it. In its aboriginal years for example the aggregation Google declared that they would never play evil and aggregate clandestine abstracts from humans application their seek engine. It looks like this is not the case now that we apperceive they are adverse some problems with privacy, abnormally in China and in Europe. In the aforementioned fashion, Facebook faces accretion aloofness issues and problems. Anyway, the point of th...