Japanese Consumer Health Information
This Web page from the 24 Languages Project out of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library provides access to sound files on various consumer health topics including chickenpox and hepatitis B vaccinations. A QuickTime plug-in, Real Media, Windows Media, or other MP3 player is needed in order to use the resources.
Mathematics Diagnostic Test 05
A mathematics diagnostic test examining pupil's competency and attainment in the areas of: Test 5 Minutes in an hour, half hour, quarter hour, 2 hours etc. Time - a.m. and p.m. e.g. 20 past 7 in the evening is 7.20 p.m. How many minutes from 3.30 to 3.55 How many hours and minutes from 24 hour clock Analogue to digital clock Hours and minutes - addition and subtraction
Jobs put brakes on Wall Street gains
July 8 - Wall Street finished lower for only the second time in nine sessions after dismal U.S. job creation and a rise in the jobless rate revived worries the recovery is stuck in neutral; Euro stocks fell on Italy concerns. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Gates/Hillman Centers
Opened in 2009 by Bill Gates himself. See the unique building design complete with helix, green roofs and the Randy Pausch Bridge connecting to the Purnell Center.
Asia: Week ahead
July 8 - China's inflation, economic data and Asian central bank meetings dominate, with Australia's carbon tax also in focus. Cathy Yang reports.
Jean Potocki et la Russie ou L'identité en crise / Remigiusz Forycki
Jean Potocki et la Russie ou L'identité en crise / Remigiusz Forycki. In colloque "Jean Potocki. Pérégrinations", organisé par la section de slavistique de l'UFR de Langues, Littératures et Civilisations Étrangères de l'Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail dans le cadre de la "Semaine polonaise". Toulouse : Université-Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 14-15 avril 2011.
Thématique 2 : A la recherche de l'identité 2, 14 avril 2011.
The Writing Process
Outlines the steps involved in the writing process approach.
The Marriage of Preservation & Access
The close alliance between preservation of cultural heritage collections and the provision of access to them will be explored, with particular reference to the ways in which the grant programs of the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities exemplify that alliance. The results of a recent strategic planning effort, which included attention both to physical preservation and to preservation of the digital cultural record, will be presented and shown to have
Celebrations at the birth of a nation.
Thousands celebrate on the streets in South Sudan, marking their long-awaited independence. Marie-Claire Fennessy reports
6.2 Alerts
This unit will help you to identify and use information in business and management, whether for your work, study or personal purposes. Experiment with some of the key resources in this subject area, and learn about the skills which will enable you to plan searches for information, so you can find what you are looking for more easily. Discover the meaning of information quality, and learn how to evaluate the information you come across. You will also be introduced to the many different ways of or
Prince William and Kate Middleton arrive in LA
July 8 - Britain's Prince William and Kate arrive in Los Angeles at start of U.S. visit .Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Ex-Cameron aide released on bail
July 8 - British Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief Andy Coulson was bailed until October, after being arrested over allegations of phone hacking while he was editor of the News of the World newspaper. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Carla Peterson: Black Gotham: A Family History
Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York" (Yale University Press, 2011), is Carla Peterson's account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her 19th-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City.
Speaker Biography: Carla L. Peterson is professor of Engl
Managing customers globally
Professor Kaj Storbacka of Vectia Ltd and Hanken School of Economics talks about how successful global growth focuses on customers and the standardization and integration of processes according to market segments - part of the Key Account Management Best Practice Club Speaker Series: http://bit.ly/h0iHSn
Training Montage from The Karate Kid Movie
In this clip from the movie, Karate Kid, Mr. Han prepares Dre for his Kung Fu tournament through a series of strength and technique exercises. (03:14)
Themes in this clip include:
Training, Dedication, Focus, Preparing, Coaching, Discipline, Hard Work, Perseverance, Persistence, Accomplishment, Fitness
How to Solve Quadratic Equations with the Square Root Rule
How to Solve Quadratic Equations with the Square R - Mathematical tutorial: this three-minute tutorial will show the viewer how to solve quadratic equations with the square root rule.
Oricalco - thermal shape memory fabric
The first orthogonal weaving example of Nitinol. The 'Thermal Shape Memory Alloy' is characterized by its extraordinary ability to recover any shape, pre-programmed, upon heating. Until today this light weight alloy with about 50% Titanium inside has been used in advanced sectors like space and recently in medical applications. Moreover this fabric is the first for which the shape memory alloy, named Nitinol, was weaved orthogonally that is to say that Oricalco is the first fabric with shape mem
Algebraic thinking: a basic skill
The resources highlighted here aim to reflect students' growing mathematical capacity over the span of the middle school years. The activities and lessons, intended as supplementary materials, range from introduction to the fundamentals of algebra to work on linear functions. Uniformly, they take into consideration the preference of the middle school student for concrete models, visual representations, and interactive tasks.
Meet the Weaver
War makes the weaver busy. Cloth for everything from sails to bedsheets is created on his loom. Max Hamrick weaves the tale.
