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Truman Survives Assassination Plot
Secret Service agents battled two gunmen during a failed attempt to assassinate President Truman in 1950. In this video clip, learn more about the assassination plot and what happened to the two assassins. (3:35)
Counting to 5
In this computer animation video, students will be introduced to one on correspondence to the number 5. This is a counting to 5 activity using 5 frame boxes. Students will count the happy faces as the number is shown on screen. This is a great resource for the early childhood classroom. (0:38)
SMU Celebrates Founders Day 2012
Founders Day at SMU, held April 20-21, 2012, mixed family fun with tributes to SMU's founding, faculty presentations and the announcement of plans for the future. It included the dedication of the Centennial Cornerstone and groundbreaking of SMU's new Residential Commons complex.
Perestroika in America
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mikhail Gorbachev talks April 28, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona, during an event sponsored by Thunderbird School of Global Management, O'Connor House, Arizona State University, the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and Eight, Arizona PBS. http://www.thunderbird.edu
Lets Go Green Kids - Recycle It Song
This is song from the album "Let's Go Green! Kids", a collection of catchy melodies to encourage all of us to live more environmentally conscious lives. (01:20)
The Hitchhiker (Part Two)
The Suspense episode "The Hitchhiker" is well known because the radio play was transformed into a television episode. Orson Welles, for whom the role was written, first performed "The Hitchhiker" on the CBS network's Mercury Theater on the Air in 1941, and then again on Suspense in 1942. (09:54)
Breakingviews: Aviva's different shareholder spring
April 30 - The UK insurer is the latest company to review executive pay in response to investor pressure. Robert Cole argues this is as much about long-term underperformance as short term pay excess.
Canals of the West Midlands (Birmingham Canal Navigations)
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Geologising on the Isle of Rum
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Another bit of the Jigsaw
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Geoff Baylis Lecture 2009
The Geoff Baylis lectures are a joint initiative between the Otago Botanical Society and the Department of Botany, University of Otago. This lecture was presented by Associate Professor Daphne Lee, a paleo-botanist. The title is "Palms, Podocarps, orchids and proteads: the contribution of new fossil plants from Otago and Southland to our understanding of NZ's vegetation history." The lecture was given on the 16th of September 2009.
New Hope for Children With Tracheal Stenosis
David White, M.D., and Scott Bradley, M.D., of MUSC Children's Hospital discuss slide tracheoplasty, a procedure offering new hope to children with congenital tracheal stenosis. Slide tracheoplasty has a low risk of morbidity and mortality. Because the procedure requires cardiopulmonary bypass, it is best performed at a dedicated children's hospital. See article in April/May issue of Progressnotes at muschealth.com/progressnotes
Waking Up to a Nightmare
CLPR Spring 2011 Speaker Series:
Waking Up to a Nightmare: Undocumented Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood
Robert Gonzales
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of Washington
Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Location: Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Description: For 1.5 generation undocumented youth, the transitions from childhood to adolescence and adulthood involve exiting the legally protected status of K-12 stude
School Reform Policies for English Learners: Leaving Pedagogy Behind
CLPR Spring 2011 Speaker Series:
School Reform Policies for English Learners: Leaving Pedagogy Behind
Tina Trujillo
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
Date: November 18, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Location: Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Description: The current federal policy environment draws unprecedented attention to the achievement of English Learners and Latinos by requiring schools to accelerate the achievement no
Session II: Explaining the Identified Victim Bias
7th Annual Program in Ethics and Health Conference: Identified vs. Statistical Lives - Ethics and Public Policy
Session Chair: Stephen Resch, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Center for Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Deborah Small, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Director, Harva
9.00SC Introduction to Psychology (MIT)
This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Students will consider how such knowledge relates to debates about nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self, and society.
Sam Huntington's New Hampshire
In this video about New Hampshire, Sam Huntington talks about common New Hampshire slang such as wicked, how they have the best maple syrup, and how the best and worst things about New Hampshire are its seasons. (2:17)
01.05.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Dienstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
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Bei einem Fährunglück auf dem Fluss Brahmaputra im Nordosten Indiens sind mindestens 105 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Rund hundert Menschen werden nach Behördenangaben noch vermisst, weitere 150 konnten an Land schwimmen oder wurden gerettet. Die mit rund 350 Passagieren überfüllte Doppeldecker-Fähre war bei schwerem Sturm in zwei Teile zerbro
