tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716152744602052122024-03-14T08:03:22.368+00:00comfort zonesLive simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-14753305255783436962014-02-12T23:40:00.001+00:002014-02-12T23:40:08.434+00:00Floods across UK show no signs of letting up<div id="watch-uploader-info" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Published on <span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">12 Feb 2014 | </span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent;">Flooded homes along England's River Thames are being evacuated as water levels are expected to keep rising in the next few days. With some homes and businesses under water for more than a month, its expected to take months for groundwater to seep away and flood levels to fall. Al Jazeera's Simon McGregor-Wood reports from London.</span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-31277607914811801652013-10-26T00:40:00.003+01:002013-10-26T00:40:51.455+01:00US Nuclear Negotiator Calls for Pause in Iran Sanctions<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on 25 Oct 2013 | The top U.S. nuclear negotiator is calling for a pause in U.S. congressional efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, weeks after accusing Iran of being deceptive about its nuclear program.In an exclusive interview Friday with VOA's Persian service, U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman said any push for additional U.S. sanctions should be delayed to see if nuclear talks can "gain traction."</span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-70713789344299158592013-10-22T16:17:00.000+01:002013-10-22T16:17:03.530+01:00 ... the Chinese regime does the right thing - here?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Reforms to the National College Entrance Examination or "gaokao" are to be carried out in major cities in China, including Beijing. The English language assessment system is the major focus of the change. The Beijing draft has triggered wide debate among the public. While many applaud the move, saying that students no longer have to face the stress of endless language tests, some oppose the idea, claiming that without the pressure of exams students' English levels will decline</span>.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-38439669662168533532013-10-17T16:54:00.000+01:002013-10-17T16:54:04.695+01:00Online reactions to Nobel Peace Prize - MediaWatch<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on Oct 16, 2013 | This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW. Opinion is divided over the decision, with many disappointed that Pakistan's Malala Yusufzai didn't win. The 16-year-old was a favourite to become this year's laureate for her valiant fight against the suppression of female education by the Taliban.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on Oct 17, 2013 | Find out exactly what caused the 16 day shutdown, what affect it had on America, how it was resolved and whether it could happen again. Report by Anna Collinson.</span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-51502134018980603872013-10-17T10:13:00.002+01:002013-10-17T10:13:23.546+01:00Rouhani (President of Iran) background according to Gareth Porter.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Gareth Porter: Rouhani earned the trust of Supreme Leader Khomeni by working along side him on a daily basis </span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-87294891430498042842013-09-27T13:22:00.004+01:002013-09-27T13:22:58.248+01:00President Rouhani: All powers should get rid of nuclear weapons <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on 26 Sep 2013 | We want to hear #YourSay#! Join the discussion on hot issues everyday on @CCTVNEWS Weibo.Today's question:What do you think of President Rouhani's proposal for all powers to get rid of nuclear weapons?</span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-77006064755346509012013-09-25T23:59:00.002+01:002013-09-25T23:59:28.658+01:00Renewable Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">posted by M Caulfield | September 24, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Renewable energy is becoming more and more competitive. Alternative and renewable energy sources are increasingly becoming more affordable. According to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, it is now less costly in America to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels, than it is to get it from coal-fired power plants. The study shows, when climate change costs and other health impacts were factored in, that it is even more cost effective to convert an existing coal-fired power plant with a wind turbine, than it is to keep the old fossil fuel-burning plant.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unsubsidized renewable energy is now cheaper than electricity from coal and gas power stations in Australia as well. Wind farms in Australia can produce energy at AU$80/MWh. Meanwhile, coal plants are producing energy at AU$143/MWh and gas at AU$116/MWh. And the myth that alternative energy sources were enormously more costly than the typical fossil fuels, is proving to be untrue. And after initial investment costs are waged, making them now ameliorated, and the raw materials for solar and wind power are free, besides costs of upkeep, and the harvesting of those sources doesn’t cause mayhem to the environment. Making it an ever-more appealing alternative energy source.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perovskites (a calcium titanium oxide mineral species composed of calcium titanate) have been known for over a century, but no one thought to try them in solar cells until recently. “While conventional silicon solar panels use materials that are about 180 micrometers thick, the new solar cells (using perovskites) use less than one micrometer of material to capture the same amount of sunlight.” New research on the combination, aims to reduce the cost or solar panels to between 10 and 20 cents per watt, current panels typically cost around 75 cents per watt.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Renewable energy sources (such as Hydro and wind) are expected to be plentiful enough to supply the needs of humanity for almost a billion years. We do not have to worry about renewable energy sources being depleted. And they are cleaner sources of energy which have a lower environmental impact than conventional sources.
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-81033319831756799502013-09-01T00:33:00.001+01:002013-09-01T00:33:15.372+01:00The Coming Global Revolution<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on 27 Jul 2013 | An amazing speech by Rainn Wilson on the coming global revolution that must happen in order for us to move forward as a human race.</span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-32292461282046712882013-08-29T17:23:00.002+01:002013-08-29T17:23:18.837+01:00Philanthropic Colonialism : The Charitable-Industrial Complex<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett, made good on his commitment to give nearly all of his accumulated wealth back to society. In addition to making several large donations, he added generously to the three foundations that my parents had created years earlier, one for each of their children to run.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Early on in our philanthropic journey, my wife and I became aware of something I started to call Philanthropic Colonialism. I noticed that a donor had the urge to “save the day” in some fashion. People (including me) who had very little knowledge of a particular place would think that they could solve a local problem. Whether it involved farming methods, education practices, job training or business development, over and over I would hear people discuss transplanting what worked in one setting directly into another with little regard for culture, geography or societal norms.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Often the results of our decisions had unintended consequences; distributing condoms to stop the spread of AIDS in a brothel area ended up creating a higher price for unprotected sex.
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-53950362949680060202013-08-27T09:48:00.000+01:002013-08-27T09:48:01.185+01:00Pants - Jessica Oreck<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on 2 Apr 2013 - TEDEducation | From 4th Century Roman Saint Pantaleon to the trousers we wear on our legs, Jessica Oreck details the story of the word 'pants.'</span></div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-43739173273917834412013-08-18T20:17:00.001+01:002013-08-18T20:17:22.560+01:00Mongolia - going renewable & sustainable!<div style="text-align: justify;">
Published on 18 Jul 2013 | Mongolia's first wind farm has switched on its turbines. The eco-friendly plant is expected to reduce pollution by cutting coal consumption by 150,000 tonnes each year. Al Jazeera's Divya Gopalan reports from Ulaanbaatar, one of the world's most polluted cities.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-58027758175702043002013-07-24T12:23:00.000+01:002013-07-24T12:23:05.808+01:00How Credit Card Numbers Are Created?<br />
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start with a 4, Mastercards a 5, Amex a 34 or 37. But there's far more
to it than that. In fact, we have a chap called Hans Peter Luhn to
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You don’t select this last digit, it is deterministic. The exact
mathematic formula for its generation was invented by Hans Peter Luhn,
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Obviously, with just a single check digit, not all errors can be
detected (there’s a one in ten chance of a random number having the
correct check digit), but the Luhn algorithm is clever in that it
detects any single error (getting a single digit wrong), such as
swapping the 9 with a 6 in the above example. It also detects almost
all* pair-wise switching of two adjacent numbers. These errors are
typical common errors people make when transcribing card numbers, so the
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An added side benefit is that, as discussed above, there is only a
one in ten chance that a randomly generated number has the correct check
digit. This provides a small amount of protection from hackers or
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So there you have it: more thought went into your credit card number than you probably ever imagined. If you want more detail, <a href="http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/july42013/index.html" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">read the Data Genetics article</a>; it makes for interesting reading. [<a href="http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/july42013/index.html" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Data Genetics</a> via <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/24/How-Credit-Card-Numbers-are-Determined/" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Neatorama</a>]</div>
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abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-62750730792869543852013-07-22T21:10:00.004+01:002013-07-22T21:10:49.566+01:00Syria :: Who is supplying whom, what?<div style="text-align: justify;">
One of the key issues in the Syrian conflict over the past two years has been the supply of weaponry to both sides, which has kept the fighting going.
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The government has been able to rely on a steady flow of arms from its foreign allies, while the rebels have received weapons and non-lethal aid in a more clandestine way. Here is a look at where the military support is coming from.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-73956145165499314032013-06-26T19:11:00.003+01:002013-06-26T19:13:32.254+01:00Why Do These Women Stretch Their Necks?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Published on 29 May 2013 : Starting at an early age, women of the Padaung tribe wear a coil of brass rings around their necks. This collar, and the elongated appearance it gives their necks over time, are Padaung symbols they wear proudly. In their native Myanmar, Padaung people often faced persecution over these visible tribal symbols. Now, having relocated to a Thailand refugee camp, these Padaung women continue this centuries-old custom, memorializing the struggles of the past and maintaining a link to their tribe's history.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published on 24 Jun 2013 : When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear. And yet this experience became the bedrock of his belief. Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and questioning as the foundation of faith -- and an end to fundamentalism of all kinds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Published on May 30, 2013 : HELLO! We are Truthloader, and this week we are LIVE from the Bilderberg conference at the Grove Hotel in Watford. Check out our playlists, and subscribe so you don't miss out!
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Published on 31 Jan 2013 : Former CIA agent John Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison for revealing the identity of a covert officer to a reporter. But originally he was pending charges on the violating the espionage act. Kiriakou is the first CIA official to publicly confirm the use of waterboarding and other tactics he describes as torture under the Bush administration. His supporters believe he has been unfairly targeted and punished. John Kiriakou and his attorney Jesselyn Radack join us for the details.</div>
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Published on 11 Jan 2013 : Fifteen years of civil war left Lebanon's capital, Beirut, a bombed out, pock-marked city in the early 1990s, but some 20 years later, Beirut is back. VOA Moscow Correspondent James Brooke traveled to the city and talks with On Assignment's Doug Bernard about its renaissance.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-60844372861747957962012-12-16T20:35:00.000+00:002012-12-16T20:35:17.811+00:00British Guantanamo detainee to sue UK MI6 for defamation<div style="text-align: justify;">
Published on 14 Dec 2012 : The last British resident held in Guantanamo Bay detention centre is suing the UK intelligence services for defamation. Shaker Aamer has been held without charge or trial for nearly eleven years. He has been cleared for release by the U.S. administration but remains in prison.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-79154942995824460082012-12-15T01:34:00.005+00:002012-12-15T01:34:53.923+00:00Much easier to hide corruption in an autocratic state?<b>China's 'Princelings' Create a Name for Nepotism.
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Published on 14 Dec 2012 : China's booming economy has some experts predicting it could surpass the U.S. economy as the world's largest by 2030. Many people have become recently rich in China, but none have become as fabulously wealthy as the so-called "princelings" -- the children of high party officials.</div>
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<br />abe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-871615274460205212.post-2747706121128619152012-12-05T13:49:00.001+00:002012-12-05T13:50:52.440+00:00Climate Financing ? <b>UN head says world is in a race against time.</b>
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Published on 5 Dec 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish : Ban Ki-Moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations has stated that the world is in a race against time against climate change. The COP18 UN Summit in Doha will conclude on Friday, giving the delegates two more days to agree on targets for cutting carbon emissions. The UN says climate change will cost developing countries up to $67 billion each year by 2030. Tarek Bazley reports from Doha, Qatar.</div>
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