2011 Profile in Courage Award Recipient Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in the name of the People of Egypt. In June 2010, in response to the ruthless killing of Alexandria businessman Khaled Said by Egyptian police, Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian Google executive living and working in Dubai, anonymously launched a Facebook page, "We are all Khaled Said," to condemn the killing. Even anonymous criticism of the repressive regime of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was uncommon; police brutality and
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Max Mathews & John Chowning - Music Meets the Computer
[Recorded: December 14, 2004] Computers have revolutionized music making. Two of the most important pioneers of computer music, Max Mathews and John Chowning, stand at the epicenter of this musical revolution. Research led by Mathews at Bell Laboratories, beginning in the 1950s, created a series of programming languages that are the direct precursors of today's software synthesizers. Max Mathew's many contributions to interactive music systems, algorithmic composition, and psychoacoustics (with
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CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.

Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
Hôpital d’instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce – Ecole du Val-de-Grâce
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.
Intervenant : Catherine GOUJON
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 28 : Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.
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CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Vaccins du futur.

Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
Hôpital d’instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce – Ecole du Val-de-Grâce
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Vaccins du futur..
Intervenant : Marc GIRARD
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 40 : Vaccins du futur.
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Conférence enregistrée lors du DIU de vac
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Predit 4 : Cérémonie de remise des prix

Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)

Cérémonie de remise des prix

Les prix du Predit sont décernés, à mi-parcours et en fin de programme, à des recherches dont la qualité et les impacts font référence
pour le programme au regard de ses différentes priorités. Soixante-sept projets nommés et seize primés seront ainsi mis à l’honneur dans
les c
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Politiques de transport, quel chemin vers 2050 ?

Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)

Cérémonie d'ouverture : Politiques de transport, quel chemin vers 2050 ?
La France s’est donné comme objectif de diviser par 4 ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre d’ici 2050 par rapport à 1990. Cet objectif ambitieux ne pourra être atteint qu’en combinant un ensemble de leviers : la technologie certes, mais aussi des rég
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Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres

Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)

Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Le Grenelle de l’environnement a donné une forte impulsion pour l’évolution du système de transport vers plus de sobriété, en énergie
mais aussi en matières, pour les transports de marchandises comme de voyageurs, pour les transports collectifs comme indiv
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La maladie d’Alzheimer : pourquoi les progrès thérapeutiques sont-ils si lents ?
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La chimie théorique, miroir de la réalité ou miroir aux alouettes - Odile Eisenstein
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Trafficking in Nepal: Overview
Anup Kaphle and Habiba Nosheen traveled to Nepal to report on the issue of sex trafficking, a problem the country has been dealing with for decades. Thousand of young Nepali girls are trafficked to neighboring India, where they are sold to brothels in cities like Mumbai and Calcutta. Kaphle and Nosheen reported on the lives of some of these girls who are rescued and rehabilitated by private organization based in Kathmandu.
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Making Natural Language Processing More Accessible for Analysis of Clinical Text
Speaker: Wendy W. Chapman, Division of Biomedical Informatics UCSD
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Borderline cases
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Women and the Rule of Law
Aileen Pisciotta introduces and demonstrates the new website impowr.org from the International Models Project for Women's Rights, established by the American Bar Association in 2008 to harness the information sharing power of the internet to empower advocates and defenders of gender equality under the law around the world. Speaker Biography: Aileen Pisciotta is a business lawyer with over 25 years experience as a major law firm partner, corporate general counsel and senior government manager. S
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Authors@Google: Dan Savage and Terry Miller
Dan Savage and Terry Miller spoke to Googlers in Mountain View in May, 2011 about their book It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living and http://www.itgetsbetter.org/. Dan Savage is the well-known columnist for Seattle's The Stranger, and the founder of the It Gets Better project, which uses videos on YouTube to send positive messages to at-risk LGBT youth. Watch the It Gets Better video with Google employees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLs4NCgvNU
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Your Q&A: Restoring the Hitchcock 9 (Questions)
Follow us behind the scenes at the BFI National Archive to find out how Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent films are being restored -- simply ask our restoration team a question and we'll get back to you on YouTube. How to join in: We welcome all questions, be they specialist, general or even philosophical. Imagine chatting to our team of experts: what would you ask them? Here are some ideas to get you started: • Have you considered commissioning a contemporary soundtrack for any of the
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CIF vaccinologie 2011 – La vaccination contre les papillomavirus : le point de vue du virologue.

Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
Hôpital d’instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce – Ecole du Val-de-Grâce
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 – La vaccination contre les papillomavirus : le point de vue du virologue.
Intervenant : Pierre COURSAGET
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 11 : La vaccination contre les papillomavirus : le point de vue du virologue.
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Types of accommodation
Op het einde van deze les kun je via internet informatie zoeken over verschillende types van huisvesting.
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Student Live@edu e-mail
http://www.youtube.com/user/StPetersburgCollege Student Live@edu e-mail About St. Petersburg College: In 1927, St. Petersburg College (then known as St. Petersburg Junior College) became Florida's first private, non-profit, two-year school of higher learning located in downtown St. Petersburg. Full accreditation followed in 1931 and in 1948 SPC became a public college. In June 2001, SPJC officially became St. Petersburg College when Florida's governor signed legislation making it the first c
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SAIS Grads Say Thank You
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3.1 Introduction

Much of economics and finance theory rests on the notion of people as formally rational decision makers. First, people are understood to have ordered preferences. That is, if someone prefers A to B and prefers B to C then they should prefer A to C. Second, decision makers are assumed to engage in a formally rational decision-making process on the basis of those preferences.

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