For two decades, the Private Finance Initiative has been a controversial way of building new hospitals, schools, roads and prisons. Well over £200bn of taxpayers' money has been committed to the companies managing these projects. The coalition government describes some PFI contracts as 'ghastly' and wants some of this cash back. One cabinet minister says 'the people on the other side must have been laughing all the way to the bank'.
But, while public services are facing cuts, PFI payments are guaranteed under watertight contracts. So experts say the government can win only small amounts in rebates. Much of the money has already gone offshore. Huge profits have been made by selling and reselling many contracts in a secretive 'secondary market' - with none of the proceeds returning to the taxpayer.
It's a phenomenon which seems to have come from nowhere, but in fact computer-based social networks have been around for decades. In this three-part series the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones traces the hidden story of social networking, from the early days of computing and the 60s counterculture through to the businesses worth billions today. From their roots in utopian experiments in California, online social networks spread around the world. In the past few years companies such as Facebook and Twitter have captivated millions of users. But what will be the next big thing in social networking, and how is it changing our lives? This series was originally broadcast in three weekly parts from 26 January 2011.
It's a phenomenon which seems to have come from nowhere, but in fact computer-based social networks have been around for decades. In this three-part series the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones traces the hidden story of social networking, from the early days of computing and the 60s counterculture through to the businesses worth billions today. From their roots in utopian experiments in California, online social networks spread around the world. In the past few years companies such as Facebook and Twitter have captivated millions of users. But what will be the next big thing in social networking, and how is it changing our lives? This series was originally broadcast in three weekly parts from 26 January 2011.
Rory Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the counterculture of the 70s through early bulletin boards and the first networks on the World Wide Web. Forty years ago, hippies and hackers came together to produce the first attempts at online community. Rory follows the trend through to the arrival of the World Wide Web, which turned a mass audience on to the internet and social networking.
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(" What were you expecting, magic? ) The whole point is that there is no secret. Decide to be happy and do it. It's from an old "Wear a seat belt" commercial from the 70's. The idea was if you love someone, make sure they wear their seat belt. The song they sung during the commercial was "Go belt someone today."
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval universities. Within the 11th and 12th centuries a brand new kind of institution began to seem within the main cities of Europe. The very first universities were these of Bologna and Paris; within a hundred years comparable educational organisations had been springing up all more than the continent. The first universities primarily based their research around the liberal arts curriculum, a mix of seven separate disciplines derived through the educational theories of Ancient Greece.
The universities provided coaching for all those intending to embark on careers in the Church, the law and education. They provided a new focus for intellectual life in Europe, and exerted a substantial affect on society around them. And also the university model proved so robust that many of those institutions and their medieval improvements nonetheless exist today.
The one and only episode that was aired for this show. This is when the Beckhams were moving to the USA and Victoria came to prepare everything for David and the Kids arrival. Victoria had a blast with this and makes fun of herself every chance she gets. A great show I thought anyway.
This revealing special hour delves into Victoria's larger-than-life world to reveal, among other things, her wicked sense of humour and style. Her willingness to poke fun at her image leads to some of the most insightful and hilarious moments, as Victoria enlists her tight circle of friends to shop for a new home and settle into life in Los Angeles.
The president of Earth Policy Institute presents his thesis on how best to save mankind. Past stabilizing global warming, he advocates many actions, such as maximizing utilization of the world's land to better feed the globe population, stabilizing the world's population through world-wide entry to family members planning methods and redesigning metropolitan areas. The occasion is in Chicago.
Lester Brown is the writer of the lately printed guide World on the Edge - How you can Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.
He thinks the world has to mobilize to embrace sustainability within the same way that the much from the western globe mobilized to battle in Globe War II. With his Washington policy makers' concentrate, he calls it the Pearl Harbour model. Tune in to this podcast is a must
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Wind power, small hydro, landfill gas, and concentrated solar power technologies will all fetch a higher price for the electricity they produce, from Eskom, which will run the single buyer office. This higher tariff allows renewable energy project developers to cover their costs and make a decent return on invest, because renewable energy is more expensive to generate than coal-fired power. The Refit has been outlined, and now the details are being finalised.
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Check out this YouTube video then go listen to the podcast below a special programme on the extraordinary case of Phineas Gage, a 19th century railway worker who survived a bizarre accident that changed him and the study of neuroscience forever.
BBC Word Sevice PodCast Claudia Hammond visits Harvard Medical School Museum in Boston to see for herself what remains of the man with the hole in his head. At the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, Cambridgeshire she meets clients with brain injuries similar to those suffered by Phineas Gage and discovers how far we've come in understanding and treatment since Gage suffered his appalling trauma. More Phineas Gage Information
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David Icke: Still crazy after all these years? It is 20 years since David consciously began his incredible journey - and there's such a long way still to go.
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There were a few lines in this book that jumped off the page when I first read them
- Worry; a sustained form of fear caused by indecision -
– Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time – - the cemetery -
- If you cannot help worrying, Remember that worrying cannot help you -
– So Why Worry? ~
The secret of Health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, But to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly…
Buddha
– How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened? -
Thomas Jefferson
In a nutshell – “We will have to deal with what we worry about at the time we have to deal with it, So what is the point in worrying about it?”
