COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "poorer nations could be affected by a problem they have largely not been responsible for and that while all the international outpouring of aid and assistance was incredibly welcome, that support for preventing and adapting to such events is paramount and efforts are urgently needed to curb emission increases.

In an emotional speech the Philippines lead negotiator for the conference, Naderev Saño, received a standing ovation for announcing that he will go on a hunger strike until a meaningful outcome is in sight."

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Now more then ever, everyone is watching each other, leaders are few and precious!

The title took some though, some rare original content to follow.

Stephen C. Sanders

First I decided to decide, and then I decided. Time is moving so much more quickly since this change has taken place. I apologize to those who perhaps expected so much more from me by now.

Things will turn around just prior or right after December 21, 2013 because the time demands it!

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "Typhoon Haiyan was the largest cyclone on record to hit land
The meeting came at the time when the devastating Typhoon Haiyan had just killed thousands in the Philippines and affected millions more. It was an ominous warning of what could be more frequent as climate change continues to take hold.

It was also an example of how poorer nations could be affected by a problem they have largely not been responsible for and that while all the international outpouring of aid and assistance was incredibly welcome, that support for preventing and adapting to such events is paramount and efforts are urgently needed to curb emission increases."

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COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues

COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference — Global Issues: "climate change was largely the result of actions from today’s industrialized nations, as carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — stays in the atmosphere for decades. Yet, the poorest would end up suffering the most for a problem they largely did not cause. The approaches to mitigation (emissions reduction) would therefore be different for those groups of countries — the common but differentiated responsibilities principle."

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Parsha Chukas

Parsha Chukas: "parsha Chukas is relegated to the classification of things we can not do until Messhiach arrives, there are also the mitzvot that we do because Hashem tells us to do, without even attempting to understand why. "

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Truth Seeking: Today's Daf

Truth Seeking: Today's Daf: "ot every learning experience occurs the way one would expect it. For example one could strain their very ability to comprehend simply by seeking to penetrate a matter too deeply."

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Parsha Chukas

Parsha Chukas: "The life we are all living is by default the only single reference point that we have. In order to develop a rudimentary understanding of parsha chukas we have to expand our point of reference, via analogy.

The simplest reference we might come up with to understand how: we can burn a pure red cow and then sprinkle have a mixture of the ashes from this cow along with water sprinkled upon us, and this can purify us from having contact with the dead."

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The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "Social Networking is growing like texting did. Texting is now a normal form of communication around the world. However, only 8% of all U.S. Internet users are active on Twitter every day. A recent report released by Pew discovered that 20% of smartphone owners are active on Twitter with 13% using the service on a typical day. While that ratio will certainly increase, so will the penetration of smartphones. 18-24 are not only the fastest growing group of Twitter users over the last year"

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The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: "Social Networking is growing like texting did. Texting is now a normal form of communication around the world. However, only 8% of all U.S. Internet users are active on Twitter every day. A recent report released by Pew discovered that 20% of smartphone owners are active on Twitter with 13% using the service on a typical day. While that ratio will certainly increase, so will the penetration of smartphones. 18-24 are not only the fastest growing group of Twitter users over the last year"

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Welcome to our Hour of Code! | Hour of Code | Khan Academy

Welcome to our Hour of Code! | Hour of Code | Khan Academy: "rom the author:
We only have one video on Youtube, the rest are independent of Youtube. I think we also have an alternate player when we can detect that Youtube is blocked."

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Content Curation: 12 Ways To Add Value - Heidi Cohen

Content Curation: 12 Ways To Add Value - Heidi Cohen: "Content curation is a great way to augment your content marketing offering. It enables you to leverage other people’s content to meet your target audience’s content needs and your goals. While part of the process can be automated, it requires people to supply the editorial function and perspective that can’t be delegated to machines."

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The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media

The Future of Social Networks as Interpreted by 21 Social Media Practitioners | Ignite Social Media: " I definitely think we are far from a peaked interest in social networking. Since as far back as we can remember, social gatherings have been the core of our existence. They have been something we look forward to and help us cope with many of the struggles in life.
What I have seen over the last few years has been a significant transfer of traditional social gatherings going online. "

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Welcome to our Hour of Code! | Hour of Code | Khan Academy

Welcome to our Hour of Code! | Hour of Code | Khan Academy: "Code is a term that in this context means instructions given to a computer. There are many different computer languages. Here the programming language is javascript with processing. For the hour of code there are different companies that are sponsoring different courses.

Knowing some coding can help you with the thinking skills you need later in life. Knowing more coding will make it more likely you can find a good job in the future. The need for people who know coding is growing faster… (more)
7 Votes"

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Your sequestered brain can’t see next crash coming - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch

Your sequestered brain can’t see next crash coming - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch: "In fact, our collective brain, America’s conscience, our psyche, mind-set, even our soul is sequestered. America lapsed into a trance, confused. Our entire nation’s rational brain has been sequestered, collectively “removed, set apart, isolated, retiring, withdrawn.”

Brain sequestration: read all about your biggest problem"

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Your sequestered brain can’t see next crash coming - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch

Your sequestered brain can’t see next crash coming - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch: "In fact, our collective brain, America’s conscience, our psyche, mind-set, even our soul is sequestered. America lapsed into a trance, confused. Our entire nation’s rational brain has been sequestered, collectively “removed, set apart, isolated, retiring, withdrawn.”

Brain sequestration: read all about your biggest problem"

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Your sequestered brain can’t see next crash coming - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch

Your sequestered brain can’t see next crash coming - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch: "America’s big problem is our “sequestered” brains. Meaning: “to remove, isolate, set apart, retire, withdraw into solitude.” Think post-trauma stress, paralysis, amnesia, lobotomized, entranced, just plain irrational. You’re out of it, incapable of acting rational.

And not just you: Economists, politicians and media pundits all have sequestered brains. They blab on endlessly about this or that of their special interests hiding among the trillion-dollar war-and-peace sequester cuts. Blab on and on. Myopic.

Why? Their brains are sequestered too"

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We are very slowly moving to unquestionably accept the hopelessly outdated paradigms of "economic experts". Their determinations are grounded in theories that not only have never been proven true, but rather have been proven false. Like the trickle down theory!

Yahoo! YSlow for Chrome

Yahoo! YSlow for Chrome: "Put Scripts at the Bottom
Avoid CSS Expressions
Make JavaScript and CSS External
Reduce DNS Lookups
Minify JavaScript and CSS
Avoid Redirects"

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Yahoo! YSlow for Chrome

Yahoo! YSlow for Chrome: "Web Performance Best Practices and Rules
Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team has identified 34 rules that affect web page performance. YSlow's web page analysis is based on the 23 of these 34 rules that are testable. Click each performance rule below to see the details.
Minimize HTTP Requests
Use a Content Delivery Network
Avoid empty src or href"

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Speed Tips: Turn On Compression

Speed Tips: Turn On Compression: "CONFIGURE media caching
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Header unset ETag
FileETag None

Header unset Last-Modified
Header set Expires "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT""

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Wipe that smile off your face, optimists: Science says you’ll die sooner

Wipe that smile off your face, optimists: Science says you’ll die sooner: " A team of researchers used a sample of 11,131 people, who had, every year, provided the database with their current level of happiness. They also predicted how happy they would be five years in the future.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, young people (ages 18 to 39) tended to be the most likely to overestimate how happy they would be five years out in the future, by about a half-point on this 10-point scale."

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Make Rhino Horn Trade Legal, Scientists Plead | Care2 Causes

Make Rhino Horn Trade Legal, Scientists Plead | Care2 Causes: "Rhinos grow almost two pounds of horn (about 0.9 kilogram) a year; “farming” rhinos to “harvest” their horns would only pose minimal risks to the animals, say the scientists. A central selling organization could oversee the legal harvest and sale of rhino horn, which would sell for less than on the black marke"

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Want to catch people stealing your website content? Use an RSS honeypot

Want to catch people stealing your website content? Use an RSS honeypot: "Heck, if people want to quote an entire article from me, then supplement it with their own original reporting and/or commentary, I probably wouldn't mind. It's the automated copying and reposting of content that really bothers me. So a while back, I decided to do something: I programmed the script that generates the RSS feed of my articles on ThemeParkInsider.com to append a line to end of each RSS feed article entry:"

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Quote - Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once... on Quotations Book

Quote - Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once... on Quotations Book: "One of the greatest writers of all time, Shakespeare, the peerless poet of the Sonnets and the creator of such dramatic masterpieces as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King Lear, is a playwright of paradigmatic originality."

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Rabbi Leff - Audio on Line - Rabbi Leff's Shabbos Drasha

Rabbi Leff - Audio on Line - Rabbi Leff's Shabbos Drasha: "the Parasha of the Week. Culled from the wisdom and insights of our Sages and elucidated by the author's own unique ideas, its contents shed a new light on the lessons of the weekly Torah Portion. Carefully crafted to enlighten both scholars and students, Rabbi Krokocki's text includes clever analogies and anecdotes to assist the reader in apprehending the writer's most lofty ideas and profound analyses"

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Outlooks & Insights Parshat Matot: In the Eyes of Man and God

Outlooks & Insights Parshat Matot: In the Eyes of Man and God: "We learn from this parsha how careful one must be to take into consideration the effect of his actions on others. Maharil Diskin explains that we judge others favorably for our own sake as well as theirs. Most people are highly influenced by the behavior they witness. When we judge what others do in a favorable light, we raise the level of our environment in our own eyes and prevent it from negatively influencing us."

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The original Judo Information Site

The original Judo Information Site: "udo develops self-discipline and respect for oneself and others. Judo provides the means for learning self-confidence, concentration, and leadership skills, as well as physical coordination, power, and flexibility. As a sport that has evolved from a fighting art, it develops complete body control, fine balance, and fast reflexive action. Above all, it develops a sharp reacting mind well-coordinated with the same kind of body."

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Read Japanese Language Articles to Help You Learn Japanese aug_00

Read Japanese Language Articles to Help You Learn Japanese aug_00: "Karate
Karate, meaning "empty (kara) hand (te)," suggests the absence of a weapon to defend oneself. Like most martial arts, karatedo relies on one's body, mind and spirit to achieve harmony and humility within, following many principles of Zen Buddhism. Central to karate are kata, the blocking techniques and combative patterns involving the hands, arms, legs, and feet. Karate has numerous branches and schools throughout the world; many are connected to Okinawa,"

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Read Japanese Language Articles to Help You Learn Japanese aug_00

Read Japanese Language Articles to Help You Learn Japanese aug_00: "Aikido
Founded by Morihei Ueshiba in 1942, Aikido currently enjoys considerable popularity. Ueshiba wanted to train the mind and the body in ways that would refine the inner force called ki, the essential life force within us, the source of mental and spiritual energy. Aikido uses techniques from jujitsu and sword fighting. It does not support tournaments or contests in the way judo and karate do. Ueshiba believed aikido should be a mastery of oneself, not mastery of opponents. "

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How to Properly Install Elgg From Your cPanel Using Softaculous | Arvixe Blog

How to Properly Install Elgg From Your cPanel Using Softaculous | Arvixe Blog: "n order to avoid that problem, or any future problem, I will show you how to do a proper Elgg install:

1) Sign into your cPanel.

2) Look for the mail section and click on Email Accounts:"

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Create a typical common e-mail account such as admin

Into the Fray: Be afraid, very af... JPost - Opinion - Columnists

Into the Fray: Be afraid, very af... JPost - Opinion - Columnists: "These are all issues which neither Lapid nor Yacimovich have any competence to deal with – or lay claim to any such competence. Indeed, neither gave them any centrality during their campaigns. Yet they enticed almost a third of the electorate to vote for them.

Disturbing drop in national adrenaline?

The fact that such a significant portion of mainstream Israeli voters supported lists that not only deliberately downplayed – but made little pretense of intending to address – matters that impact the very survival of the state, seems to point to a dramatic and disturbing drop in the levels of “national adrenaline.”

For given the immediacy and the intensity of the threats facing Israel, it seems almost inconceivable that the issue of who was best suited to deal with them played such a negligible role in the election."

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Into the Fray: Be afraid, very af... JPost - Opinion - Columnists

Into the Fray: Be afraid, very af... JPost - Opinion - Columnists: "We are compelled to the conclusion that in casting its ballots, a decisive portion of the Israeli electorate has given priority to issues of “bread and butter” over those of “life and death.”

Retreat into denial?

It was as if the Israeli voter opted for denial, ignoring the massive challenges facing the nation, such as: "

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Today is a Day Nothing Like The World Has Ever Seen Before. | Lamed Vav- 36 People Save The World

Today is a Day Nothing Like The World Has Ever Seen Before. | Lamed Vav- 36 People Save The World: "The seeds for our planets destruction,

Have been planted long ago.

By subtle yet very real forces,

That perhaps only a handful of people could even hope to understand.

Call it a fable, myth, or legend, if you prefer,

Yet the steadfast true believers, who quietly exist,

Understand that the concept has it’s roots,"

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TheHost.US

TheHost.US: "TheHost.US
Transparency in practice, This websites precedes the initial release of the fully functional website (now currently in its domain-seed form)."

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Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing

Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing: "Prosecutors and lawyers often talk about the Rule of Law. But I never hear them talk about ethics. And really, that is the first thing anyone who is considering using the force of the government needs to consider. They need to ask "will these criminal charges help the public", "are the charges proportional to the damage caused", and "are these charges not just a means to an end or are they necessary for actual justice". All three of these answers for Aaron would have be a resounding and deafening 'no'!"

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