Thailand's election
Yingluck Shinawatra must keep her word on reconciliation and break it on spending
France and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
More extraordinary twists in the DSK affair grip France - and create fresh agonies in the Socialist Party
26.07.2011 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
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Die norwegische Polizei will in wenigen Stunden die Namen der 76 Todesopfer der Anschläge vom Freitag veröffentlichen. 68 von ihnen hatte der Attentäter Anders Behring Breivik bei einem Massaker auf der Insel Utøya getötet. Die große Mehrzahl sind Jugendliche, die an einem Sommerlager der sozialdemokratis
Ex-Treasury official calls for Fannie, Freddie reform
Aug. 18 - Former Treasury official Phillip Swagel says Washington will have a hand in administering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but regardless of the government's future roll, it needs to be explicit.
A Horse Connection
Five persons with special needs have their lives changed forever through a unique and engaging horse riding therapy program.“What is it we feel when we ride a horse?” This question opens ‘A Horse Connection,’ a documentary that explores the relationship between horses and persons with special needs. Nancy King, a specialist in Equine Assisted Therapy, introduces us to her riding therapy program, designed to assist special needs considerations. This includes au
Causes of the First American Revolution
This four minute video provides an overview of the impact of the French and Indian War on the preparation of the colonies for the Revolutionary War. A good video that could benefit from a timeline to help students understand the cause and effect relationships such as the Writs of Assistance and tax acts.
All About Llamas
Take a virtual field trip to the mountains of Colorado for a visit with friendly llamas at Touch the Earth Ranch in this video. One of the ranchers describes the characteristics of llamas and video of many llamas is shown. ( 4:46)
Seeing Texas Tech Mascot As A Kid Influenced Former Masked Rider
While attending a parade in Midland, Texas, former Masked Rider Perry Joe Church knew that is what he wanted to do someday.
Later, Church was given that opportunity while attending college at Texas Tech by representing the school as the Masked Rider from 1982-1983. He still recalls the excitement of running onto the field during football games and being a part of one of Texas Tech's most beloved traditions.
ORENGA Special Lecture - Fashola's Lagos: the man, the method, the megacity
Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, gives a special lecture for the African Studies Centre.
Kelp Forest
This video from Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, describes the unique, interdependent characteristics of an underwater kelp forest ecosystem and explores the delicate balance of life between sea otters, urchins, and the kelp plant.
Introduction to Conic Sections
By definition, a conic section is a curve obtained by intersecting a cone with a plane. In Algebra II, we work with four main types of conic sections: circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas. This video explains how each of these conic sections has different characteristics and formulas that help us solve various types of problems. (1:27)
Italian anger after record debt sale
Dec. 14 - Italy paid a new record 6.47% to sell its five-year debt in a bond auction, as anger grows over the country's austerity measures and Prime Minister Mario Monti was interrupted by the opposition in parliament. Joanna Partridge reports
CESU 2011: Débat n°1 Qualification professionnelle des enseignants en soins d'urgence
XXIV Colloque national des CESU au palais des congrès de Strasbourg du 30 novembre au 2 décembre 2011.
CESU: Centre d'Enseignement des Soins d'Urgence.
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Organisateur: CESU 67
70 rue de l'Engelbreit
672000 STRASBOURG
colloquedescesu@chru-strasbourg.fr
0369553110
Gunbattle erupts in Tripoli
Jan. 3 - A deadly militia gunbattle erupts in Tripoli, casting doubt over the new government's ability to reassert control in the post-Gaddafi era. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
The Mathew Brady Bunch: Civil War Newspapers
The Civil War was the first American war thoroughly caught on film. Mathew Brady and his crew of photographers captured many images of this divisive war, ranging from portraits to battle scenes. This site offers 1000 annotated Civil War photographs ranging from portraits to battle scenes. Students become reporters, assigned to sort through photos to find one that will bring the war to life for their readers. They write a newspaper article based on their chosen photograph and publish it on the we
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
Furniture Beetle in Hole in Wood
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a Furniture Beetle in a hole in a piece of wood. The furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum), also known as ‘woodworm’, is a notorious pest of timber in buildings and old furniture. Very few people, however, have actually seen the small brown adult beetles responsible for making the characteristic round holes in timber when they emerge. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make r
SHIFT 2: Building Knowledge in the Disciplines
This is an 8 minute video which features a discussion between NYS Commissioner of Education John B. King Jr., David Coleman (contributing author to the Common Core) and Kate Gerson (a Sr. Fellow with the Regents Research Fund) addressing Shift 2 – 6-12: Building Knowledge in the Disciplines. By unpacking Shift 2, the discussion addresses the role of the content area teachers in secondary contexts as well as the benefits of giving literary non-fiction the time it deserves in the secondary E
Designing Medical Devices for the Ear
Students are introduced to engineering, and more specifically, to biomedical engineering and the engineering design process through a short lecture and interactive, hands-on activity (approximately 30 minutes long), where students design their own medical device for retrieving foreign bodies from the ear canal. In this lesson, the teacher first reviews the basics of ear anatomy then discusses how ear infections occur and how they are treated. Following antibiotic treatment, the most common treat
Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro '12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at 5 of the winning apps from the "Your APP here" monthly contest:
