Dining for Dealmakers: Hong Kong hotels
Sept. 15 - Reuters Correspondent Fred Katayama discovers Hong Kong's best hotel restaurants with Tim Zagat. Experience local fare and french flare at The Peninsula, the Four Seasons and the Mandarin hotels.
Sarkozy and Cameron hailed as heroes in Libya
Sept. 15 - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, leaders of the NATO bombing that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi, arrive in Libya. Lily Grimes reports.
Groupon investors impatient, Facebook gets a pass: analyst
Sept. 15 - It's a tale of two IPOs: Facebook and Groupon. One is proceeding with caution, the other pushing ahead. Wedbush Securities' Lou Kerner says Groupon is under pressure to go public now, while Facebook investors are willing to wait.
Sell first year, buy 4th year Eurodollar futures: Rombach
Sept. 15 - Short-term funding concerns among euro zone banks have made Eurodollar futures in the first year of the curve expensive, while those in the fourth year have the most potential for profit, says Reuters Credit Analyst Ed Rombach.
L'histoire du cinéma sonore est-elle seulement technique ? Une conférence de Claude Bailblé
Depuis le phonautographe de Léon Scott (1857), nombre d’inventions techniques en cascade (microphone, lampe triode, haut-parleur, modulateur optique…) finissent par se rencontrer en un seul dispositif : le cinéma sonore des années 1930. Commence alors l’exploration des possibilités expressives de la monophonie, que d’autres progrès technologiques (l’enregistrement magnétique, la caméra silencieuse, le montage et mixage multipistes) viennent faciliter.
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Le cerveau et le monde : Shining et après. Conférence d'Emmanuel Siety
Dans L’Image-temps, Gilles Deleuze voyait en Stanley Kubrick, à l’instar d’Alain Resnais, un cinéaste « de l’identité du monde et du cerveau ». En partant de Shining, nous questionnerons et prolongerons ce rapprochement en avançant trois autres noms de cinéastes explorateurs d’états limites du monde et de la conscience : David Lynch, Michael Haneke et Gus Van Sant.
Emmanuel Siety est maître de conférences en cinéma à l’université Paris 3 - Sor
Alamin Belhaj on governing Libya
The most prominent Islamist on the National Transitional Council explains why Sharia law should be part of Libya's new democracy
Hot Apps: Fight Game Rivals, Bad Trip, Multi Browser, Showcase'd, Bulls n Cows Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at:
Aurora Australis Over Indian Ocean
Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 28 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 7, 2011 from 17:38:03 to 17:49:15 GMT, from the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the South Indian Ocean to southern Australia.
Biological Monitoring of Workers Exposed to Pesticides: Guidelines for Application in Field Settings
This guideline was produced for those persons responsible for the maintenance of health and safety measures at agricultural workplaces handling potentially hazardous organophosphate and carbarnate chemicals. It is primarily aimed at professional nursing and other medical staff charged with monitoring workers for pesticide exposure, but will be useful to all personnel involved in workplace health and safety monitoring for pesticide exposure. The guidelines concentrate on monitoring for organophos
Popsicle
Nothing says summer like ice cream. In the 1870s, the Scott Brothers of Topeka built an ice cream empire that lasted a century.
Keynote: Energy Innovation in New Single-Family Development
Lawrence Gotlieb, KB Home
Literacy for Professional Purposes - a module summary
A module summary for 'Literacy for Professional Purposes', with links to all of the module resources
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Concurrency Visualizer This discussion about new Concurrency Visualizer features available in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview includes team members James Rapp, Sasha Dadiomov, Matthew Jacobs, and Alexey Kamenev. Some of the new features include C++ AMP profiling support, an SDK for custom visualizations, and improved performance. See more details at the Concurrency Visualizer team blog: Author(s):
Physical Science: Distance vs Displacement
This is a five-minute video concerning the physics of distance. The educator appears in a small window on the right side. It might be best to open the video to 'full screen.'
The Dark Ages - Part 10 - The Crusades
At its height in the second century A.D., the Roman Empire was the beacon of learning, power, and prosperity in the western world. This ten minute segment of this video series goes into detail about how the actions of the rich to intimate the poor brought work to the soldiers who were unemployed at the time. Provides good insights and debate topics as to why this time was called the Dark Ages.
Nick Mount interviews novelist Sam Lipsyte
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, in conversation with author Sam Lipsyte. The interview was taped following Mount's lecture on Lipsyte's novel Home Land
Number for Nurses: Division
The Number for Nurses Computer Assisted Learning Package begins with a basic principles section which is followed by application to nursing practice. The basic principles section deals with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, S.I. units and scales and gauges. In each area a variety of methods are used to enable the student to understand these principles, through interactive tutorials and consolidate learning through exercises.
The aim of the division section is to help the student
Terrestrial Biomes: The Savanna
This professionally made video is a small segment from the program: Terrestrial Biomes: Deserts, Grasslands, and Forests. (02:37)
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