Workforce Strategies, Energy Efficiency, and Green Jobs - Session 2C
Workforce Strategies, Energy Efficiency, and Green Jobs: A summit to discuss needs, challenges, and opportunities in California - Afternoon Session 2
Opportunities and challenges for improving coordination of economic and workforce development planning in the energy efficiency, distributed generation, and demand management sectors
Moderator: Barbara Baran, California Budget Project
Speakers:
Eleni Papadakis, Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Washington State
Larry Frank,
Save The Planet!
A colorful cartoon video featuring Polly the Bear that explains the history of Earth Day. Run time 01:54.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire April 18, 1906
Grainy, blurred vintage film--after all, it is more than a hundred years old--but one can still see the damage inflicted by the earthquake.This short documentary is suitable for older elementary, middle school, and high school students. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Today, its importance comes more from the wealth of scientific knowledge derived from it than from its sheer size. Run time 04:58.
Infrastructure development will be India’s next economic wave
Infrastructure development will drive India’s economic growth in the next decade. That’s according to Kamal Nath, the country’s Road Transport and Highways Minister.
How To Write in Cursive
This video goes throught the basics of writing from holding the pencil to its angle and paper position. Typically taught during the elementary school years, cursive writing builds on the letter formation of block letters or printing.
Improving Literacy Through Technology
Improving your child’s literacy skills is a very important goal for a parent and luckily there are many tools out there that can help. Paige and Gretchen sit down with Gail Lovely, literacy and technology specialist, to discuss some programs available.
Discovery Channel-Planet Earth-Ice World-Polar Bears
This video shows a mother bear and her cubs coming out of hibernation. The mother must find food before her milk runs out. She is in the process of teaching her cubs survival skills. It also touches on how as the Earth warms there is less ice for polar bears to stand on to hunt for seals (Running Time 3:01)
Blast in Iraq kills militants
At least two suspected insurgents are dead after a bomb detonated in the driveway of a home in Nassiriya.
001 - 006 Vestibulum Januae Linguarum 1717
This 1717 edition of Comenius' Vestibulum has been augmented by other authors - as a text it sits comfortably half way between the Orbis Pictus and the Janua Linguarum.
It is much longer than Comenius' original Vestibulum.
To use this text effectively as a revision tool, you should have studied the Orbis Sensualium Pictus, and learned the vocabulary contained there.
There is a whole series of Latin educational texts from this time period that make use of Comenius as a foundation, providing the
Discovery Channel-Planet Earth-Pole to Pole-African Animals Return to the Wet Season at Kalahari
This video beautifully illustrates how African animals including hippos, giraffes, baboons, and zebras return to Kalahari as the wet season begins. (Running Time is 3:01.) (There may a short commercial before the video commences.)
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Mir During the Holocaust
Holocaust survivors from Mir, Belarus talk about the daily life of the Jews in Mir before the Holocaust. The video is part of the exhibition "The Story of the Jewish Community in Mir" on the Yad Vashem website.
This exhibition was prepared with the support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Click here to enter the exhibition: http://bit.ly/hKeW1u
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Interwar Period in Mir
Holocaust survivors from Mir, Belarus talk about the daily life of the Jews in Mir before the Holocaust. The video is part of the exhibition "The Story of the Jewish Community in Mir" on the Yad Vashem website.
This exhibition was prepared with the support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Click here to enter the exhibition: http://bit.ly/hKeW1u
Silal
This sample shows the typical structure of silal, irons with high Si content (5.5-7.9 wt%). It is a grey cast iron alloyed with 4-6wt% Si to provide good oxidation resistance. The high Si content forms a dense, adherent iron silicate surface film, which is resistant to oxygen penetration. The flake graphite iron Silal was one of the first heat resisting cast irons developed. Spheroidal graphite Si irons have higher strength and improved ductility. The structure shows cored dendrites of ferrite w
Survival Phrases #54 - CSP 4 - What do you think about your Japanese fans
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! If it weren’t for your fans, you wouldn’t be famous in the first place, right? So when you wanna show a little love to your fans, try out some of these gems for maximum impact! You’ll probably even pick up a few more by showing you try harder [...]
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CI Days 2010 at Purdue Using CI at Purdue
CI Days 2010 at Purdue Using CI at Purdue December 8, 2010 featuring Gabriela Weaver, Chemistry; David Salt, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, and Matt Potrawski, Purdue Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems.
Signs of Kindergarten Dyslexia
Signs of Kindergarten Dyslexia. Part of the series: Dyslexia. Signs of kindergarten dyslexia include a history of language impairment, a family history of reading difficulties and problems with memory abilities. Identify signs of dyslexia. (3:09)
