MENLO PARK, Calif., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on May 18, 2012, under the symbol “FB.” Facebook is offering 180,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. Closing of the offering is expected to occur on May 22, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.

In addition, Facebook and the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 63,185,042 additional shares of Class A common stock to cover over-allotments, if any.

Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co., BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Allen & Company LLC, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank Securities are serving as book runners for the offering. RBC Capital Markets and Wells Fargo Securities are serving as active co-managers.

The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department (Tel: +1 866 718 1649; e-mail: prospectus@morganstanley.com); J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, (Tel: +1 866 803 9204); or Goldman, Sachs & Co., 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Attention: Prospectus Department (Tel: +1 866 471 2526, e-mail: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com).

A registration statement related to these securities has been filed with, and declared effective by, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

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The followers of John Wycliffe undertook the first complete English translations of the Christian scriptures in the 15th century. These translations were banned in 1409 due to their association with the Lollards.

The Wycliffe Bible pre-dated the printing press but was circulated very widely in manuscript form, often inscribed with a date earlier than 1409 to avoid the legal ban. As the text translated in the various versions of the Wycliffe Bible was the Latin Vulgate, and as it contained no heterodox readings, there was in practice no way by which the ecclesiastical authorities could distinguish the banned version; consequently many Catholic commentators of the 15th and 16th centuries (such as Thomas More) took these manuscript English Bibles to represent an anonymous earlier orthodox translation.

William Tyndale translated the New Testament into English in 1525.

In 1525, William Tyndale, an English contemporary of Martin Luther, undertook a translation of the New Testament.

Tyndale’s translation was the first printed Bible in English. Over the next ten years, Tyndale revised his New Testament in the light of rapidly advancing biblical scholarship, and embarked on a translation of the Old Testament.

Despite some controversial translation choices, the merits of Tyndale’s work and prose style made his translation the ultimate basis for all subsequent renditions into Early Modern English.

With these translations lightly edited and adapted by Myles Coverdale, in 1539, Tyndale’s New Testament and his incomplete work on the Old Testament became the basis for the Great Bible. This was the first “authorised version” issued by the Church of England during the reign of King Henry VIII.

When Mary I succeeded to the throne in 1553, she returned the Church of England to the communion of the Roman Catholic faith and many English religious reformers fled the country, some establishing an English-speaking colony at Geneva. Under the leadership of John Calvin, Geneva became the chief international centre of Reformed Protestantism and Latin biblical scholarship.

These English expatriates undertook a translation that became known as the Geneva Bible.

This translation, dated to 1560, was a revision of Tyndale’s Bible and the Great Bible on the basis of the original language.

Soon after Elizabeth I took the throne in 1558, the flaws of both the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible (namely, that the Geneva Bible did not “conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its beliefs about an ordained clergy”) became painfully apparent.

In 1568, the Church of England responded with the Bishops’ Bible, a revision of the Great Bible in the light of the Geneva version.

While officially approved, this new version failed to displace the Geneva translation as the most popular English Bible of the age – in part because the full Bible was only printed in lectern editions of prodigious size and at a cost of several pounds.

Accordingly, Elizabethan lay people overwhelmingly read the Bible in the Geneva Version – small editions were available at a relatively low cost. At the same time, there was a substantial clandestine importation of the rival Douay-Rheims New Testament of 1582, undertaken by exiled Roman Catholics. This translation, though still derived from Tyndale, claimed to represent the text of the Latin Vulgate.

In May 1601, King James VI of Scotland attended the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at St Columba’s Church in Burntisland, Fife, at which proposals were put forward for a new translation of the Bible into English.  Two years later, he ascended to the throne of England as King James I of England.

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Many newspapers in Africa have welcomed the guilty verdict against former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, who was convicted of aiding and abetting war crimes committed during the Sierra Leone civil war.

Commentators say the verdict, handed down by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, marks an end to impunity and should serve as a warning to all rights abusers in Africa – past, present and future.

“The days of impunity are gone,” says an editorial in Sierra Leone’s Cocorioko.

The US-based news website, observed to run articles supporting Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, hopes the verdict will prevent efforts to disrupt the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in November.

“If you are among these people who have a deviant agenda for our country, meet you at the International Criminal Court,” the paper says.

An editorial in Liberia’s New Dawn private daily also welcomes the verdict, saying that “justice has finally prevailed in the interest of hundreds of Sierra Leoneans maimed and victimized one way or the other”.

“Let there be no wheeling and dealing about this. Let war criminals or suspected war criminals of the wars fought in Liberia face justice, too; let them be prosecuted as Taylor has been,” the paper says.

Kenya’s Daily Nation, a top-selling private daily, points out that the trial took almost five years, but says that international justice works in the end.

Four prominent Kenyans are due to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over crimes against humanity following post-election violence in 2007.

“If there was ever any doubt that international courts can deliver judgment, however long it takes, then such misapprehensions have been corrected,” says the paper in an editorial.

“For too long, people in positions of power all over the world have been getting away with similar crimes. That will be no more. The era of impunity for is over,” it says.

‘Message to Mugabe’

In Ivory Coast, several newspapers see the verdict as a warning to ex-President Laurent Gbagbo, who is at The Hague awaiting trial at the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity.

Le Jour Plus, a privately owned newspaper supportive of Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, comments that Mr Gbagbo is particularly worried by how long he might remain under ICC custody, considering how long Taylor spent there.

Le Patriote, another pro-Ouattara newspaper, says that Mr Gbagbo is likely to meet a “similar fate”.

He could have avoided this, Le Patriote says, by admitting defeat in the 2010 elections instead of provoking a stand-off with Ouattara’s supporters, which claimed innocent lives and left scores injured.

L’Expression, a privately owned daily, echoes the sentiment – drawing parallels between Taylor and Mr Gbagbo and saying that the verdict has set the former Ivorian president and his backers “panicking”.

The Zimbabwe Independent says Taylor’s conviction should send an “important message” to President Robert Mugabe.

“Perpetrators of horrendous crimes continue to walk the streets freely and in some cases even enjoy comfy lifestyles after being rewarded with top jobs and perks for work well-done in the killing fields,” the privately owned weekly paper says.

“Zimbabwean leaders must take notice, especially those who have been spearheading human rights abuses against innocent people. Time will come – hopefully soon – when you will be held to account.”

Writing in Burkina Faso’s privately owned, pro-opposition Le Pays newspaper, Seni Dabo regrets that Charles Taylor could not be brought to justice in Africa.

“It’s a shame that we need international justice to remind some what they are supposed to know,” the article says. “Nothing can justify the rage of a ruler against his own people, from whom, paradoxically, comes his power.”

“If these bloodthirsty leaders want to avoid disgrace, they should review their governance while there is still time,” Le Pays warns.

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed.

An international team of scientists used a combination of satellite measurements and models to differentiate between the two known causes of melting ice shelves: warm ocean currents thawing the underbelly of the floating extensions of ice sheets and warm air melting them from above. The finding, published today in the journal Nature, brings scientists a step closer to providing reliable projections of future sea level rise.

The researchers concluded 20 of the 54 ice shelves studied are being melted by warm ocean currents. Most of these are in West Antarctica, where inland glaciers flowing down to the coast and feeding into these thinning ice shelves have accelerated, draining more ice into the sea and contributing to sea-level rise. This ocean-driven thinning is responsible for the most widespread and rapid ice losses in West Antarctica and the majority of Antarctic ice sheet loss during the period studied.

“We can lose an awful lot of ice to the sea without ever having summers warm enough to make the snow on top of the glaciers melt,” said the study’s lead author Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, United Kingdom. “The oceans can do all the work from below.”

To map the changing thickness of almost all the floating ice shelves around Antarctica, the team used a time series of 4.5 million surface height measurements taken by a laser instrument mounted on ICESat from October 2003 to October 2008. They measured how the ice shelf height changed over time and ran computer models to discard changes in ice thickness because of natural snow accumulation and compaction. The researchers also used a tide model that eliminated height changes caused by tides raising and lowering the ice shelves.

“This study demonstrates the power of space-based, laser altimetry for understanding Earth processes,” said Tom Wagner, cryosphere program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Coupled with NASA’s portfolio of other ice sheet research using data from our GRACE mission, satellite radars and aircraft, we get a comprehensive view of ice sheet change that improves estimates of sea level rise.”

Previous studies used satellite radar data to measure the evolution of ice shelves and glaciers, but laser measurements are more precise in detecting changes in ice shelf thickness through time. This is especially true in coastal areas. Steeper slopes at the grounding line, where floating ice shelves connect with the landmass, cause problems for lower-resolution radar altimeters.

ICESat was the first satellite specifically designed to use laser altimetry to study the Earth’s polar regions. It operated from 2003 to 2009. Its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in 2016.

“This study demonstrates the urgent need for ICESat-2 to get into space,” said Jay Zwally, ICESat project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “We have limited information on the changes in polar regions caused by climate change. Nothing can look at these changes like satellite measurements do.”

The new research also links the observed increase in melting that occurs on the underside of a glacier or ice shelf, called basal melt, and glacier acceleration with changes in wind patterns.

“Studies have shown Antarctic winds have changed because of changes in climate,” Pritchard said. “This has affected the strength and direction of ocean currents. As a result warm water is funnelled beneath the floating ice. These studies and our new results suggest Antarctica’s glaciers are responding rapidly to a changing climate.”

A different picture is seen on the Antarctic Peninsula, the long stretch of land pointing towards South America. The study found thinning of the largest ice shelf on the peninsula can be explained by warm summer winds directly melting the snow on the ice shelf surfaces. The patterns of widespread ocean-driven melting and summer melting on the Antarctic Peninsula can be attributed to changing wind patterns.

The study was carried out by an international team from the British Antarctic Survey, Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, the University of California in San Diego and the non-profit research institute Earth and Space Research in Corvallis, Ore.

For more information, a visualization and related imagery, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/currents-ice-loss.html

SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Next week, the California State Assembly Judiciary Committee will determine the fate of Assembly Bill 1844, authored by Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose). The bill would prohibit employers from requiring an employee or prospective employee to provide the username and password to their social media accounts, such as Facebook and Twitter.

“When we seek employment, we would never be expected to provide our prospective employer with personal information, such as family photos,” said Assemblymember Nora Campos. “The same expectations must be applied to social media, where a user’s personal profile is just that – personal.”

In addition to the prohibition the bill would place on requirements that applicants provide prospective employees with access to their social media accounts, AB 1844 specifically eliminates an employer’s responsibility to search or monitor social media before hiring the employee as part of its duty under existing law to exercise reasonable care in employing a person and is required to use reasonable care to discover whether a potential employee is unfit or incompetent.

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, there are 129 cases from across the nation before the National Labor Relations Board in which employer workplace policies around social media are being scrutinized. In California, this ambiguity in social media policies has led to a broad coalition of support for AB 1844, including from the CalChamber, ACLU, AFSCME, and members of the tech community.

The bill will be heard before the California State Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, April 24th at 9 a.m. in the Capital room 4202.

Legislative History of AB 1844

First introduced to the California State Assembly on February 22, 2012; AB 1844 requires passage through the Assembly Judiciary Committee. If successfully passed, it will go to the Assembly Labor Committee for a vote on May 2,2012. Upon successful passage in that committee, AB 1844 will be sent back to the full Assembly for a vote.

About Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose)

Nora Campos was elected in November 2010 to represent the 23rd Assembly District, encompassing approximately half of the city of San Jose, including East San Jose, downtown and the Monterey Road corridor. She previously served as a City Councilmember in San Jose, where she was first elected in 2001 in a special election and twice overwhelmingly re-elected to represent residents in East San Jose.

Assemblymember Campos is the Chair of the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism & Internet Media Committee, where she is focusing her efforts on bridging the gap between the high-tech, education and arts sectors, while ensuring that our Internet and entertainment industries in California are able to thrive and continue to grow.

Key pieces of legislation introduced by Assemblymember Campos are AB 403 and AB 746. AB 403 would require the State Department of Public Health to establish a primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium (Chromium 6) before January 1, 2013. This cancer-causing contaminant is widely found throughout drinking water in California. Assemblymember Campos introduced AB 403 because she believes that all residents in California deserve access to clean drinking water, free from harmful contaminants.

AB 746 is Assemblymember Campos’ Cyber Bullying legislation. This bill simply clarifies the language of the existing law to specifically include any posts on social networking sites in the definition of bullying. This bill has received wide support from various stakeholders.

At the local level, Campos forged a $73.5 million public/private partnership that turned a once neglected area and former beacon for crime and blight into a major economic engine for San Jose, increasing the tax base by 105 percent. Campos maintained a commitment to providing increased access to affordable housing for renters and first-time home-buyers, while working with public and private entities to create jobs and stimulate California’s economy.

While on the City Council, Nora Campos also partnered with Grail Family Services in the development of the reading mentor program, “Yes, We Can…READ!” This program connects Silicon Valley professionals with elementary students in East San Jose as reading mentors, spending one hour a week together to develop the children’s literacy skills. This program was the first of its kind in East San Jose.

In addition to her accomplishments as an Assemblymember and City Councilmember, Nora Campos is a founding member of the San Jose Latino Leadership Alliance (LLA). LLA aims to identify, develop and support future leadership. In partnership with Stanford University, LLA created a Leadership Academy for professionals in 2010, providing them with the tools to advance in business, community, education and civic leadership positions.

Assemblymember Campos also serves on the Santa Clara County Public Health Department’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work Leadership Team and is on the Honorary Council for Destination: Home.

Raised in East San Jose, Campos currently lives in San Jose. Campos received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University and is an alumnus of the Alum Rock and East Side Union school districts. She is married and has one son.

For more information: http://asmdc.org/members/a23/

Media Contact: Maria Noel Fernandez CA State Assemblymember Nora Campos, (408) 277-1220, Maria.Fernandez@asm.ca.gov

Jesus of Nazareth also referred to as Jesus Christ or simply Christ, is easily the most important figure in the history of mankind. It makes no difference what you think of him, you have to concede that he is the most famous man of the last 2000 years.

If you consider him to be God or a man, or was he the world’s greatest prophet or merely just a well intentioned fanatic who came to grief after a short and stormy public career.

However you regard him the fact remains that the life and death of Jesus, and the teachings attributed to him will ensure he is the most famous person to have lived and influenced human history.

As the central figure of Christianity, more people have written and read books and sermons concerning him than anyone else. The Teachings of Jesus and Christianity was the key religion of the entire European race over the last two millenniums, where the race molded and dominated the social and political outlook of the entire world as every corner of the globe was discovered, and this shaped the civilization of the world.

Therefore the fundamental question that needs to be answered is what did Jesus really stand for? What did he want to teach us? What did he really want us to believe? If he came back today, would his original message be the 20th century teaching of Christian faith?

29th Annual Gathering of Nations to Take Place in Albuquerque between April 26 and 28

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s largest gathering of Native American and indigenous people will take place in Albuquerque, N.M. between April 26 and 28, 2012. The 29th Annual Gathering of Nations, considered the most prominent Native American powwow in the world, will host tens of thousands of people and more than 500 tribes from throughout the United States, Canada, and around the world.

The three-day event will include more than 3,000 traditional Native American singers and dancers competing in 32 dance categories, and more than 800 Native American artisans, craftsmen and traders displaying and selling their work. In addition, 36 indigenous bands will be performing a wide variety of musical genres. Vendors in the Native Food Court will offer guests a large selection of food choices ranging between southwestern-style cuisine and traditional Native American fare.

As part of the Gathering of Nations, a young Native American woman will be crowned Miss Indian World and represent all native and indigenous people as a cultural goodwill ambassador. As one of the largest and most prestigious cultural pageants, 28 Native American and indigenous women representing their different tribes and traditions will compete in the areas of tribal knowledge, dancing ability, and personality assessment.

The Gathering of Nations opens with the Miss Indian World competition on April 26 at 7 p.m. at the Hard Rock Casino and Hotel –Albuquerque. The much anticipated “Grand Entry,” where thousands of Native American dancers simultaneously enter the arena dressed in colorful outfits to the sounds of hundreds of beating drums, begins at noon on Friday, April 27. The Grand Entry will be repeated Friday evening at 7 p.m. and on Saturday, at 12 p.m. (noon) and 6 p.m.

The new Miss Indian World will be crowned on Saturday evening, after the Grand Entry. The Gathering of Nations will be held at the University of New Mexico’s University Arena in Albuquerque.

General admission tickets cost $17 per day, or $34 for a two day pass. VIP club level tickets are available for $50 and can be purchased at the door or in advance online. For more information visit www.gatheringofnations.com.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Southern Waste Information eXchange, Inc. (SWIX) WasteMap website (www.wastemap.org) gives Florida residents, and businesses across the state the opportunity to answer an ever-annoying question with regard to managing waste materials: “What can I do with this?” WasteMap Florida is actively compiling a list of facilities, ranging from recycling centers to household hazardous waste disposal facilities and everything in between. It’s designed to make getting your materials properly managed a whole lot more convenient.

With more than 700 facilities already on the website, users simply enter their zip code or address and a range of solid waste and recycling facilities within 25 miles are immediately displayed on an interactive map. Recycling centers are coded with a recycling symbol while yard waste and composting facilities feature a leaf. All the other facility types have their respective icons that can be toggled on and off depending on which type of facility you are looking for.

The SWIX WasteMap Florida website is a useful tool to find up-to-date information on local facilities to recycle, dispose of, or even compost everyday materials. Residents who don’t have curbside recycling or yard waste collection can use this website to find nearby facilities to serve them, including household hazardous waste materials like solvents and paint.

This one-stop-shop website is continuously updated with detailed information and directions to all of the facilities.

Visit www.wastemap.org for more information. If you are interested in getting your facility listed on the website, please contact Ray Moreau, Associate Director of SWIX, at 800-441-7949.