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Ban calls for redoubled efforts against climate change to save lives

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Sydney (Australia), 8 sep (EFE).-the Secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community to redouble efforts to combat climate change in order to save millions of lives threatened by desertification or flooding is causing.

“Gas emissions continue to increase.” Ban “today millions of people are suffering from the impacts of climate change” said in a speech at the Australian University of Sydney.

Ban lies in Australia after participating in the Summit of Heads of State or Government of countries of Oceania that place in the New Zealand city of Auckland, and in which small island developing States presented its serious concern at the gradual increase of the level of the sea caused by climate change.

“Migrants for reasons related to the environment are restructuring the demographics of the planet.” “This (climate change) increases levels of the sea and the advance of the desert,” said Ban.

The maximum representative of the United Nations visited this week the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, two of the island States of the South Pacific which was submerged due to climate change.

In his speech at the Summit of leaders of the South Pacific, the President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, warned on Wednesday that the sinking of the Islands that make up their State is so close that it contemplates building a platform floating to accommodate the population.

Tong explained that the model of floating platform which has been thinking “will be of science fiction” and similar to those employed by the oil companies for extraction sites located under the seabed, at a cost estimated at some two billion dollars.

Ban rejected criticism from some participants in the sense of progress in the fight against climate change has been until now irrelevant and pointed out that at the Summit in the Mexican city of Cancun countries pledged to avoid a global warming greater than 2 degrees relative to the pre-industrial era. EFE

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Republicans attack health reform of Obama and promise of jobs and security

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Washington, 7 sep (EFE).-the attacks on health reform and pledges to create jobs and improve border security dominated the debate among the eight candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States today.UU., which was almost a face to face with Rick Perry Mitt Romney.

Perry, Governor of Texas, and Romney, exgobernador of Massachusetts, they are the best placed in the polls and that reflected today, since both dealt with you to you and monopolized the debate organized by the chain of NBC television and the daily political in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

The Governor of Texas, who insisted one of his speeches in his defense of the death penalty, existing in their State, was the most anticipated since it was his first debate after formally announcing his candidacy makes less than a month.

Only a day before the President Barack Obama present to Congress his expected plan to reduce the high unemployment rate, which is located at 9.1%, Perry stressed that he has created “a million jobs” in his State while the country “has lost two million”.

Perry had put in doubt his participation in the debate by the forest fires which is suffering from Texas, the worst in decades and who have already left four dead, but eventually attended.

Romney, which on Wednesday presented at a rally in Las Vegas your own employment plan based on lower taxes, produce more energy and apply sanctions on China for its “unfair” trade practices, argued that EE.UU. It is experiencing “a crisis of confidence” and “leadership”.

For the former Governor of Massachusetts, the problem is Obama, something what agreed other candidates: businessman Herman Cain, the exsenador of Pennsylvania Rick Santorum, the legislature of Texas Ron Paul, the former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman, the former President of the House of representatives Newt Gingrich and the Congressman by Minnesota Michelle Bachmann.

Bachmann Spain mentioned in the debate, arguing that Obama wants to be like that country in the creation of jobs in the sector of renewable energies, and warned that precisely Spain “has one of the highest levels of unemployment,” currently.

On immigration passed this time candidates almost on tiptoe, but referred more broadly to border security, with proposals such as the Romney of having more agents on the border with Mexico.

Perry, whose state is bordered by Mexico, Obama of “lying” when he asserts that the border is now more secure than has ever been accused, and raised more agents and surveillance by land and air.

Meanwhile, Bachmann recalled that the issue is complex because it is currently grappling with the Mexico, from “narcoterrorism” and entrepreneur Cain also advocated increased security on the border, as well as for using technology to curb immigration illegal.

The controversial health care reform enacted by Obama in 2010 and makes obligatory the health insurance for all persons was another of the issues most widely discussed with coincidence of views on the need to take her back.

The most controversial point of this reform is the so-called “universal mandate” requiring that all people have some type of health insurance or pay a fine if they do not possess.

Bachmann and Romney said that, if they reach the White House, its priority will be to revoke this reform.

When there are very few days for the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 (9), this matter also sneaks in the thoughts of some of the contenders, with critics such as the underhand of Perry to send American troops abroad “without a clear reason”.

Ten years after the 9-11 “we have lost our confidence as a country and our innocence has been destroyed,” reflected the former Governor Huntsman.

Republican candidate that will be measured to Obama will be announced on August 27, 2012 at the Convention of Tampa Bay, Florida, once closed the long process of the primary.

Is still the question of whether will also compete Sarah Palin, Idol of the right-wing Tea Party movement, exgobernadora of Alaska and candidate for the Vice-Presidency in the 2008 election.

From left to right, the presidential candidates of the Republican party, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Herman Cain and Jon Huntsman, Jr. participating in the debate among aspirants to the White House, in Simi Valley, California (United States)(UU.). EFE

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Energy and environment issues of the neighbourhood Commission of Colombia and Panama

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Bogota, 7 sep (EFE).-the issues concerning energy, health and the environment will be the points to be addressed in the 14th neighbourhood Commission of Colombia and Panama, which will be installed in Bogota Thursday, reported today the Chancery Colombian.

The Commission will be installed by the director of Territorial sovereignty and development Fronterizo de Colombia, Francisco Coy, director of policy outside of the Chancery Panamanian, Ambassador Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, and the representative of the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Hernando Arciniegas.

A statement from the Colombian Foreign Ministry requires that the Commission will continue to progress in the project of interconnection between both countries.

The Commission will address the recovery of the Katíos National Park (Colombia), the creation of a protected area in the Caribbean for the conservation of endangered species in both countries, border area as well as the proposed binational aqueduct Sapzurro – the honey.

Health, strengthen cross-border cooperation through a project of epidemiological surveillance, while communications establish commitments to share reports of theft of mobile phones in both countries.

Also expect progress in the project of electricity interconnection between Colombia and Panama, as well as effective mechanisms for the control of boats circulating waters bordering.

By his side, the Sub Commission on migration, Labor Affairs and judicial cooperation will work issues as a cross-border displacement, fight the against and judicial cooperation drugs.

The meeting is also expected progress in the project of interconnection between Colombia and Panama, as well as effective mechanisms for the control of boats circulating bordering waters. EFE/file

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They show that the intelligence “is contagious”

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Research in Spain found that intelligence could “catch” to a large extent, depending on the environment and incentives offered by the children.

Such a study, in which participated the Faculty of psychology of the University of Malaga, Spain in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza, took as a basis more than 2,000 children Spanish aged between 13 and 18 years.

All them them tests were conducted for the purposes of assessing their skills verbal, numerical and intelligence reasoning.

Also investigated the educational and professional level of the parents, which the researchers included three categories: management, worker qualified or not, unemployment or housewife who is rated as high, medium and low.

In addition it was taken into account, if the formation of the students was carried out in public schools or private.

As it relieves the work released by the world of Spain, “cognitive skills or intelligence in the teens predict an important physical and health psychological of a child in the future”

And continues: “in addition, academic accomplishments relate to positive variables from the psychological point of view, as having a better self-esteem.” “Enjoy a lesser intellect in childhood, however, is associated with problems of anxiety in adulthood”.

The results

According to conclude the researchers, “the likelihood that adolescents should have a high cognitive performance and his parents had a high educational level was between 1.6 to 1.7 times higher than those with parents with low-level training.”

“Just – add – the possibilities were of 1.8 to 2.4 times higher for teens with parents of high professional level”.

In the educational field, the work determines that “the likelihood of greater intellectual capacity was 1.5 times higher in those who attended private schools as compared with those who instruct in public”.

These findings confirm that parents have a key role in their children’s intellectual development. Experts point out that “a higher educational level of parents is related to greater attention from the child and with a better acquisition of language and memory”.

Likewise, socio-economic factors include another aspect which most influence on language and memory.

 

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The EC wants to new cars to integrate the emergency call by 2015

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Brussels, 8 sep (EFE).-the Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) and the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, responsible reported today a proposal for the mandatory adoption of the “eCall”, the European system of emergency call, it should be integrated into all new invoice of EU cars by 2015.

“We believe that the mandatory introduction is necessary,” he said Kroes in a speech in the Committee on transport and tourism of the European Parliament, where he presented the new recommendation community.

“eCall” consists of a device incorporated in the car that is activated when you have an accident and automatically connects with the 112, the phone number of European for the emergency services, to broadcast a minimum of essential data, such as the coordinates of the exact location of the vehicle.

According to estimates by the EC, this device has a cost of less than 100 euros per car and you could save up to 2,500 lives on the European roads.

“Pan-European eCall service has the potential to reduce the number of victims on the roads in at least one 4%, and the seriously wounded, in at least one 6%.” “This means that you could save a life every six hours if the eCall is deployed”, said Kroes to MEPs.

In addition, this technology can accelerate the arrival of emergency teams approximately 40 per cent in urban areas and 50% in rural.

Document adopted by the Commission today is a call to the Member States, automakers and telecommunications operators support this system of emergency calls

The goal is to ensure that the countries of that network operators give the same treatment to notices of eCall that any call to 112: giving priority and without charging any fee.

With respect to the issues of privacy, this system does not allow the tracking of vehicles you are “asleep” and does not send any signal until the vehicle suffers a shock, moment in which active.

Currently, only 0.7 per cent of cars in the European Union are equipped with such devices, which does not offer sufficient interoperability or continuity in the whole of the EU.

Given the “slowness” that Member States are incorporating this service, that in 2009 Brussels urged to voluntarily adopt the Commission has decided to take legislative action to deploy mandatory in all new vehicles by 2015.

Kroes also indicated that the EC was preparing an awareness campaign and that a working group is considering the introduction of these devices in older cars. EFE

car producer Daimler, Dieter Zetsche, CEO presents a new vehicle in Stuttgart, Germany. EFE/file

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips