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[View \| Download]	Newest Fendt 8400 P Combine harvester Nouvelles moissonneuses batteuses Fendt série P à 8 secoueurs, comprenant 4 modèles: 8370 P, 8370 P AL, 8400 P et 8400 P AL. Tablier de coupe Power Flow de 6,8 à 7,7m, moteur Sisu Diesel Citius 8,4 litres de 378 à 413 chevaux Newest Fendt P 8000 series combine harvester, fitted with an eight-straw walker system. The new Fendt combines are powered by the latest-generation Sisu Diesel Citius 8.4-litre common rail engines with maximum power of 378hp in the 8370 P and P AL ranges or 413hp in the 8400 P and AL ranges and come with 6.8m and 7.7m Power Flow headers, respectively. Plus d'informations sur http://www.grostracteurspassion.com Tags: 8370p, 8400p, 8r, 8rt, 930, 936, 9630, 9r, 9rt, Fendt, agriaffaires, allemagne, batteuse, big, biggest, bière, blé, brasserie, bud, case, centora, challenger, claas, combine, cougar, cr9090, deere, elevation, farming, ferguson, forage, france, germany, harvest, harvester, holland, ih, jaguar, john, landwirtschafts, lexion, massey, moisson, moissonneuse, mt, mähdrescher, new, news, orge, schlepper, simtractor, simulator, steiger, tms, tracteur, tractor, trekker, trisix, vario, versatile, world, xerion 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Shortage of Nurses Is Worldwide, but Worst in Poorer Nations This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The health care industry needs more nurses. All areas of the world face a nursing shortage. But the shortage is most severe in developing countries. Many of their nurses leave. They move to more developed nations for better pay, better working conditions and better chances for career development.A World Bank report earlier this year called attention to the problem. For example, nearly two thousand nurses left the Caribbean between two thousand two and two thousand six. Caribbean nations currently have about one nurse for every one thousand people. The ratio of nurses to population is about ten times higher in the United States and countries in the European Union. Currently, more than twenty-one thousand nurses who trained in the Caribbean are working in the United States, Canada and Britain.Gaetan Lafortune is with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He says the nursing shortage also affects industrialized countries. Mr. Lafortune says a large number of nurses are expected to retire within the next ten years. At the same time, the health care needs of aging populations are expected to grow, intensifying the shortage of nurses. He says some researchers in the United States have projected that there may be a shortage of close to a million nurses by two thousand twenty. The United States is one of thirty-one countries in the O.E.C.D. Gaetan Lafortune says in recent years many of the countries increased their efforts to hire foreign nurses. But he says this has raised concern that O.E.C.D. countries were mainly exporting their shortage problem to countries that may have an even greater need for these nurses. In May, the World Health Assembly approved a global code of practice on the international recruitment of health workers. The assembly is made up of countries in the World Health Organization. The code advises against actively recruiting health workers from developing countries that face severe shortages. The world also faces a shortage of nursing trainers. As a result, nursing schools are forced to turn away qualified students. And that's the VOA Special English Development Report. You can find transcripts, MP3s and podcasts of our reports at voaspecialenglish.com. What are your thoughts about the nursing shortage and what should be done about it? Share your comments on our website or on Facebook at VOA Learning English. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 07June2010) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, secondary, simple, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	How to Make Your Own Solar Water Heater This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Solar water heaters are used around the world and are not very difficult to build. The system we are going to describe is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan. Since then, it has been built and used in many countries. It can heat seventy liters of water to sixty degrees Celsius. It can do this between sunrise and noon on a clear day with an average air temperature of thirty-two degrees Celsius.There are two parts to the solar water heater. One part is made of a sheet of metal painted black. Black surfaces become hotter in the sun than surfaces painted any other color. This black metal plate is called a collector. The collector is placed in contact with the water. There are several kinds of metal sheets that can be used for the collector. Corrugated metal will work very well. Corrugated sheets are often used as roofs on housing.Once the water is heated, it is kept hot with insulation material. This allows the water to stay warm for a long time. The second part of the solar water heater holds the water for the system. This storage tank can be a container that holds about one hundred liters. Two rubber pipes are attached to the water storage tank. One pipe lets water flow into the system. The other lets water flow out.When the water heater is working correctly, water will flow from the storage tank to the collector and back again. You can use the hot water at the top of the tank for washing and cleaning. You can change the flow of water so that the temperature is hot or warm as desired. This solar water heater is easy to build and operate. It will last about two years before the rubber pipes need to be replaced. There is also something else you will need to make the solar water heater work -- the sun. As you might expect, the heater will heat water only on sunny days. You can get more information about solar water heaters and other projects from EnterpriseWorks/VITA. This group works internationally to fight poverty. The website is enterpriseworks.org. Choose the link for News & Resources, then click on Publications. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. To read and listen to more stories about technology and for English teaching activities, go to voaspecialenglish.com. We're on Facebook, Twitter and iTunes at VOA Learning English. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 25Apr2011) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, energy, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, secondary, simple, simplified, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	La nostra Terra "Home" - Yann Arthus Bertrand " Home" il film documentario sullo stato del pianeta Terra. Realizzato da Yann Arthus Bertrand e prodotto da Luc Besson . Esce in tutto il mondo il 5 giugno 2009, giornata mondiale dell'ambiente. "La nostra Terra" è il libro che trasmette per immagini il messaggio e la missione del film. terra agricoltura città petrolio surriscaldamento globale oceani risorse idriche foreste. L'Uomo e la sua Terra. Tags: Ciro, Emanuele, June, Sponzilli, agricoltura, bertand, besson, città, farming, foreste, forests, giugno, global, globale, home, idriche, land, ocean, oceani, oil, petrolio, risorse, surriscaldamento, terra, town, warming, water 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Farming in Phichit Farming in Phichit Tags: Phichit, agriculture, farm, farming, thailand 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	What Do You Know About the Common Cold? This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Do you think getting cold can give you a cold? Is it bad to drink milk when you have a cold? Can chicken soup cure a cold? Ranit Mishori is a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. She says colds are more common in winter, but not because of low temperatures. The cold weather just means people stay inside more, often with other people. "And the way the common cold virus is transmitted from one person to another is through handshakes, through sneezing, or through coughing on one another." Adults generally get two to three colds a year. Children are likely to catch four or five. Dr. Mishori says some people mistakenly believe they can become resistant to colds. She says, "There are about two hundred different viruses that cause the common cold. People think that once you get infected one time you develop immunity for the rest of your life. This is wrong."There is still no cure for the common cold. But Dr. Mishori says there are ways to feel better sooner. "So if you catch a cold and on day one you start taking about two grams of vitamin C a day, there is evidence you might shorten the number of days that you will be suffering with these symptoms." She says honey can also help. There is evidence that it can shorten the length of the common cold sometimes even by two to three days. She says honey seems to be especially effective in children with colds. But the Agriculture Department says never to feed honey to babies less than one year old. It says even honey in prepared foods may contain substances that can make babies very sick. Some people believe in treating a cold with chicken soup. Does it work? Dr. Mishori says, "Chicken soup has anti-inflammatory properties, so it helps reduce the duration but also it helps clear the mucus." Mucus is the sticky substance that can make you cough and have trouble breathing during a cold. Have you ever heard the old saying "feed a cold, starve a fever"? Dr. Mishori says this is not necessarily a good guideline to follow. She says if you have a cold but do not feel hungry, then don't eat. "But you have to drink a lot and you can drink water or tea -- anything that gets fluids into your body. That's very important." But what about drinking milk during a cold? Some people think it only causes more mucus. Dr. Mishori says yes and no. Dairy products do not cause increased mucus, she says, but they can thicken the mucus. She says, "It's possible that discomfort is somewhat more enhanced when you drink milk. But obviously, if you're a baby and that's all you drink, you should not stop giving babies milk." For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. MP3s, podcasts and transcripts our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com. We're also on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 20Apr2011) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, secondary, simple, simplified, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	A Farm for the Future 01 BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK. Featuring Martin Crawford (Agroforestry Research Trust), Fordhall Farm, Richard Heinberg and others. Topics covered are the influence of oil on the food production, peak-oil, food security, carbon emissions, sustainability and permaculture. Tags: Food, equality, farm, farming, food-procution, freedom, globalisation, health, independence, nature, oil, oilcrisis, peak-oil, permaculture, preservation, sustainability, vegan 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	What is Genetically Modified Food? For a transcript of this video along with resources and other information please visit http://www.MEDIAROOTS.org Take Action: http://www.nongmoproject.org/ http://truefoodnow.org/ http://www.organicconsumers.org/action.cfm http://www.saynotogmos.org/ Tags: abby martin, allergies, biotechnology, cancer, corn, disease, farming, films, food, foods, future, genetically modified, gmo, lily, monsanto, of, organic, rat study, san diego, science, seeds, soy, then3twork, yournetwork 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Fair Oaks Farms Adventure Center - America's Heartland On our travels throughout the heartland we've visited small farms, big farms, and really big farms. But there are some that, in size anyway, simply defy classification. Tags: Adventure Center, Americas Heartland, Fair Oaks, Fair Oaks Farms, Gary Corbett, Indiana, KVIE, PBS, Paul Ryan, agri-tourism, agriculture, cheese, conservation, cows, dairy, education, entertainment, environment, exhibits, farm, farming, food, food safety, info-tainment, kids, learning, milk, museum, organic, playing, production, ranching, stewardship, sustainability, sustainable farming, tourism, tourists 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Hydroponic baby lettuce and micro-greens Hydroponic lettuce and micro greens grown in a shade house. Hydroponic Lettuce and Micro-greens test to test varieties and growing mediums. No electricity was uesed. A greenhouse will be built in spring 2010. Tags: Agriculture, Jamaica, baby, build, farming, greenhouse, greens, house, hydroponic, hydroponics, lettuce, micro, micro-greens, own, shade, soil-less, system, your 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Humane Slaughter? A Farm Sanctuary documentary on poultry slaughter. Tags: Farm, Sanctuary, animal, bird, broiler, chicken, factory, farming, inhumane, poultry, rights, slaughter, turkey, welfare 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robotic Farmer: Prospero This is just a short video of the hexapod robot, Prospero, planting. Prospero is an autonomous robotic farmer that would be used as part of a group or swarm of identical robots. Imagine a hundred of these robots walking across a field, planting and working together like a colony of ants or bees. For more a longer video that goes more in depth, search for "vanmunch36" and look for the other Prospero videos. Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory and is the first of four steps. It is meant to be deployed as a group or "swarm". The other three steps involve autonomous robots that tend the crops, harvest them, and finally one robot that can plant, tend, and harvest--autonomously transitioning from one phase to another. Prospero is controlled with a Parallax Propeller chip mounted on a Schmart Board. Its body is designed by Lynxmotion and the orginal programming allows it to walk autonomously in any direction while avoiding objects with its duel ultrasonic Ping))) without turning it's body. An underbody sensor array allows the robot to know if a seed has been planted in the area at the optimal spacing and depth. Prospero can then dig a hole, plant a seed in the hole, cover the seed with soil, and apply any pre-emergence fertilizers and/or herbicides along with the marking agent. Prospero can then talk to other robots in the immediate proximity that it needs help planting in that area or that this area has been planted and to move on via IR (currently represented with a green and red LED ). The more seeds it plants, the more the "green" LED lights up, the more it draws other robots nearby (+2). The more it detects planted seeds, the more it repulses other robots with the "red" LED (-1) Why small, autonomous robots? Robotics in Agriculture Despite its quaint reputation, agriculture has always been an early adapter of technology. This is evident from the beginning of mechanization with the cotton gin, McCormick's Reaper, tractors, hybrid seed, to genetically engineered plants that protect themselves and grow in arid environments. Yields have grown quickly, but demand from developing countries and population growth are growing faster We know that we need to continue to find ways to increase the productivity of land on a per unit basis. Agriculture has started to add computerization and automation to the current machinery with things like GPS based precision farming systems that can autonomously drive tractors, monitor yield, and apply fertilizer. However, these aftermarket add-ons are built around the single most expensive and awkward part of the equipment. The person controlling the tractor. Today's agricultural equipment has been designed around a person sitting in a chair. It cost a lot to employ a single person so the equipment grew larger in order to maximize the productivity of that one person. However, this method has its drawbacks. Farming decisions have to be made at the field level. Nature is chaotic and dynamic. Soil nutrients and moisture change from foot to foot. Having equipment that allows a single person to plant a thousand acres in a day comes at the cost of productivity per acre as a result of treating all those acres as the same. A swarm of small robots like Prospero would have the ability to farm inch by inch, examining the soil before planting each seed and choosing the best variety for that spot. This would maximizing the productivity of each acre, allow less land to be converted to farm land, feed more people, and provide a higher standard of living for those people because they would spend less of their money on food. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Tags: Farming Robot, Hexapod, Hexapod robot, Lynxmotion, Parallax, Parallax Propeller, Robotic Farmer, Schmart Board, ant, ants, corn, electronics, farmer, farming, future, game theory, insect behavior, planting, robot, swarm, swarm robot, swarm theory, technology 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Dallas Creates a Public School for Boys This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Girls and boys usually attend classes together in American public schools. But there are some single-sex programs, like a girls public school in Dallas, Texas. It opened in two thousand four. The students have done well enough that the school system is now opening a school for boys.Nakia Douglas is principal of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy. He says he was the kind of student that the school is seeking. "I was born and raised in south Dallas by a single parent. I was a neighborhood child. I was that child that -- I would work if I knew the teacher believed in me. But, at the same time, I had a hunger and desire for more."Educational researchers say boys learn in different ways and mature more slowly than girls, and are more likely to leave school. Being in class with the opposite sex can also take attention away from learning. Kendall Keeter thinks the boys school will be good for his son the way the girls school was for his daughter. "Our thought was to also give our son an opportunity that would best prepare him for college in the same manner she was prepared, and I can't imagine any other option that would have prepared her better."Another parent, Madeline Hayes, also likes the idea of a publicly funded school for boys. "This is something, as cheesy as it sounds, that I've always dreamed about, that there will be a boys school that doesn't charge twenty-five thousand dollars a year, but would give the same academics, the same level of interaction and leadership."The school is for grades six through nine. It will offer college preparatory classes and leadership courses even on weekends. Principal Douglas says the boys will be urged to support one another. "All of our young men we call 'brother.' So it may be Brother Malyk Davis or Brother Samuel Keeter. The young men understand they are their brother's keeper. And so the young men are really learning to be responsible not only for themselves, but also for their brothers here at the campus."Most students who want to be accepted into the Obama Academy in Dallas will need to have good grades and pass a number of tests. But ten to fifteen percent will not have to meet all of the entrance requirements. Principal Nakia Douglas says they will have to show they have a strong character and a desire to learn.For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 18Aug2011) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, dallas, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, school, secondary, simple, simplified, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texas, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Positive Planet : Friends of the earth short film One minute short film for entry in the Friends of the earth Green Film Competition. An animation showing all of the positive things that people do to help preserve the planet for tomorrow. http://www.foe.co.uk/green_film Tags: 3D, animation, car, competition, earth, farming, friends, green, green_film, hypa, of, organic, plants, recycle, reduce, reuse, the 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Understanding & Raising Sheep : Handling Sheep Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to handle sheep in this free online video. Expert: Tia Pinney Bio: Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubons Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso Tags: agriculture, anatomy, animal, animals, behavior, biology, breeding, ewes, farm, farming, food, habits, husbandry, lambs, mutton, pets, raise, rams, sheep, shepherd, techniques, types, wildlife, wool, zoology 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Claas Jaguar 830 Harvesting Maize in Guernsey A video of a Claas Jaguar 830 self propelled harvester harvesting maize in fields in Guernsey, Channel Islands. This is the only self propelled harvester in Guernsey and it was filmed on the 17th October 2008. The last clip I filmed following the tractor and trailer was filmed using a hard hat with a mounting for my camera which I recently made. I have another video which shows the Claas Jaguar harvesting grass silage which is on my Channel. Tags: Channel, Claas, Deere, Guernsey, Islands, Jaguar, John, Lamborghini, farm, farming, harvesting, in, machinery, maize, tractors, trailer 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Emu farming reaping gold in Orissa The majestic Emu is to be found completely at home in Orissa's Pitatoli village, making it hard to believe that their original habitat is several thousand miles away in Australia. These birds were hatched and raised here in the past two years under the loving care of D Mohan Reddy, a rural medical practitioner, who was inspired by the successful Emu farms in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Tags: Emu, India, NDTV, Orissa, farming, majestic 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robots Spread Seeds of Change in Fruit Orchards Fruits and vegetables, nuts and nursery plants are big business in the United States. Yet growers of these "specialty crops," which require individual pickers, are facing rising labor costs, a shortage of workers and increased demand for safe and affordable products. Production - unlike that of wheat, corn or soy - is relatively unmechanized, and farmers are desperate for ways to boost food quality without boosting their cost. From an apple orchard in western Pennsylvania, Rosanne Skirble reports that robotic technology is gearing up to help. Tags: Pennsylvania, Skirble, crops, farmers, farming, labor, news, production, shortage, specialty, technology, unmechanized, voa, workers 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Make Algae Biodiesel at Home Making Algae Biodiesel at Home is the quickest and easiest way to learn about algae biodiesel. Inside this comprehensive work you'll get over 700 pages of gold-mine info. Absolutely everything anyone interested in algae biodiesel would need. http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/making-algae-biodiesel.html Tags: algae, algae_biodiesel, algal, alternative, biofuel, cars, diesel, energy, farming, fuel, gas, hydrogen, photobioreactor, renewable 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Sheep Cheese: Ancient Heritage Dairy For more Stories, Food News, and Cooking Fresh videos, visit: http://cookingupastory.com Sheep cheese tastes distinctive, characteristically strong, and very different from cow or goat cheese. On this family sheep farm, the making of cheese reflects a slower pace of life along with a direct connection to the land. Consuming this cheese requires a careful eating pace. To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/ Tags: advertising, bittman, cheese, commercials, cooking, cooking up a story, environment, farming, food, game, green, health diet, kirschenmann, milk, photography, politics, pollan, series, sheep, slideshow, stories, sustainable, tr, tv, video, web, yt:quality=high 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)

[View \| Download]	Newest Fendt 8400 P Combine harvester Nouvelles moissonneuses batteuses Fendt série P à 8 secoueurs, comprenant 4 modèles: 8370 P, 8370 P AL, 8400 P et 8400 P AL. Tablier de coupe Power Flow de 6,8 à 7,7m, moteur Sisu Diesel Citius 8,4 litres de 378 à 413 chevaux Newest Fendt P 8000 series combine harvester, fitted with an eight-straw walker system. The new Fendt combines are powered by the latest-generation Sisu Diesel Citius 8.4-litre common rail engines with maximum power of 378hp in the 8370 P and P AL ranges or 413hp in the 8400 P and AL ranges and come with 6.8m and 7.7m Power Flow headers, respectively. Plus d'informations sur http://www.grostracteurspassion.com Tags: 8370p, 8400p, 8r, 8rt, 930, 936, 9630, 9r, 9rt, Fendt, agriaffaires, allemagne, batteuse, big, biggest, bière, blé, brasserie, bud, case, centora, challenger, claas, combine, cougar, cr9090, deere, elevation, farming, ferguson, forage, france, germany, harvest, harvester, holland, ih, jaguar, john, landwirtschafts, lexion, massey, moisson, moissonneuse, mt, mähdrescher, new, news, orge, schlepper, simtractor, simulator, steiger, tms, tracteur, tractor, trekker, trisix, vario, versatile, world, xerion 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Shortage of Nurses Is Worldwide, but Worst in Poorer Nations This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The health care industry needs more nurses. All areas of the world face a nursing shortage. But the shortage is most severe in developing countries. Many of their nurses leave. They move to more developed nations for better pay, better working conditions and better chances for career development.A World Bank report earlier this year called attention to the problem. For example, nearly two thousand nurses left the Caribbean between two thousand two and two thousand six. Caribbean nations currently have about one nurse for every one thousand people. The ratio of nurses to population is about ten times higher in the United States and countries in the European Union. Currently, more than twenty-one thousand nurses who trained in the Caribbean are working in the United States, Canada and Britain.Gaetan Lafortune is with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He says the nursing shortage also affects industrialized countries. Mr. Lafortune says a large number of nurses are expected to retire within the next ten years. At the same time, the health care needs of aging populations are expected to grow, intensifying the shortage of nurses. He says some researchers in the United States have projected that there may be a shortage of close to a million nurses by two thousand twenty. The United States is one of thirty-one countries in the O.E.C.D. Gaetan Lafortune says in recent years many of the countries increased their efforts to hire foreign nurses. But he says this has raised concern that O.E.C.D. countries were mainly exporting their shortage problem to countries that may have an even greater need for these nurses. In May, the World Health Assembly approved a global code of practice on the international recruitment of health workers. The assembly is made up of countries in the World Health Organization. The code advises against actively recruiting health workers from developing countries that face severe shortages. The world also faces a shortage of nursing trainers. As a result, nursing schools are forced to turn away qualified students. And that's the VOA Special English Development Report. You can find transcripts, MP3s and podcasts of our reports at voaspecialenglish.com. What are your thoughts about the nursing shortage and what should be done about it? Share your comments on our website or on Facebook at VOA Learning English. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 07June2010) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, secondary, simple, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	How to Make Your Own Solar Water Heater This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Solar water heaters are used around the world and are not very difficult to build. The system we are going to describe is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan. Since then, it has been built and used in many countries. It can heat seventy liters of water to sixty degrees Celsius. It can do this between sunrise and noon on a clear day with an average air temperature of thirty-two degrees Celsius.There are two parts to the solar water heater. One part is made of a sheet of metal painted black. Black surfaces become hotter in the sun than surfaces painted any other color. This black metal plate is called a collector. The collector is placed in contact with the water. There are several kinds of metal sheets that can be used for the collector. Corrugated metal will work very well. Corrugated sheets are often used as roofs on housing.Once the water is heated, it is kept hot with insulation material. This allows the water to stay warm for a long time. The second part of the solar water heater holds the water for the system. This storage tank can be a container that holds about one hundred liters. Two rubber pipes are attached to the water storage tank. One pipe lets water flow into the system. The other lets water flow out.When the water heater is working correctly, water will flow from the storage tank to the collector and back again. You can use the hot water at the top of the tank for washing and cleaning. You can change the flow of water so that the temperature is hot or warm as desired. This solar water heater is easy to build and operate. It will last about two years before the rubber pipes need to be replaced. There is also something else you will need to make the solar water heater work -- the sun. As you might expect, the heater will heat water only on sunny days. You can get more information about solar water heaters and other projects from EnterpriseWorks/VITA. This group works internationally to fight poverty. The website is enterpriseworks.org. Choose the link for News & Resources, then click on Publications. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. To read and listen to more stories about technology and for English teaching activities, go to voaspecialenglish.com. We're on Facebook, Twitter and iTunes at VOA Learning English. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 25Apr2011) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, energy, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, secondary, simple, simplified, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	La nostra Terra "Home" - Yann Arthus Bertrand " Home" il film documentario sullo stato del pianeta Terra. Realizzato da Yann Arthus Bertrand e prodotto da Luc Besson . Esce in tutto il mondo il 5 giugno 2009, giornata mondiale dell'ambiente. "La nostra Terra" è il libro che trasmette per immagini il messaggio e la missione del film. terra agricoltura città petrolio surriscaldamento globale oceani risorse idriche foreste. L'Uomo e la sua Terra. Tags: Ciro, Emanuele, June, Sponzilli, agricoltura, bertand, besson, città, farming, foreste, forests, giugno, global, globale, home, idriche, land, ocean, oceani, oil, petrolio, risorse, surriscaldamento, terra, town, warming, water 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Farming in Phichit Farming in Phichit Tags: Phichit, agriculture, farm, farming, thailand 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	What Do You Know About the Common Cold? This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Do you think getting cold can give you a cold? Is it bad to drink milk when you have a cold? Can chicken soup cure a cold? Ranit Mishori is a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. She says colds are more common in winter, but not because of low temperatures. The cold weather just means people stay inside more, often with other people. "And the way the common cold virus is transmitted from one person to another is through handshakes, through sneezing, or through coughing on one another." Adults generally get two to three colds a year. Children are likely to catch four or five. Dr. Mishori says some people mistakenly believe they can become resistant to colds. She says, "There are about two hundred different viruses that cause the common cold. People think that once you get infected one time you develop immunity for the rest of your life. This is wrong."There is still no cure for the common cold. But Dr. Mishori says there are ways to feel better sooner. "So if you catch a cold and on day one you start taking about two grams of vitamin C a day, there is evidence you might shorten the number of days that you will be suffering with these symptoms." She says honey can also help. There is evidence that it can shorten the length of the common cold sometimes even by two to three days. She says honey seems to be especially effective in children with colds. But the Agriculture Department says never to feed honey to babies less than one year old. It says even honey in prepared foods may contain substances that can make babies very sick. Some people believe in treating a cold with chicken soup. Does it work? Dr. Mishori says, "Chicken soup has anti-inflammatory properties, so it helps reduce the duration but also it helps clear the mucus." Mucus is the sticky substance that can make you cough and have trouble breathing during a cold. Have you ever heard the old saying "feed a cold, starve a fever"? Dr. Mishori says this is not necessarily a good guideline to follow. She says if you have a cold but do not feel hungry, then don't eat. "But you have to drink a lot and you can drink water or tea -- anything that gets fluids into your body. That's very important." But what about drinking milk during a cold? Some people think it only causes more mucus. Dr. Mishori says yes and no. Dairy products do not cause increased mucus, she says, but they can thicken the mucus. She says, "It's possible that discomfort is somewhat more enhanced when you drink milk. But obviously, if you're a baby and that's all you drink, you should not stop giving babies milk." For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. MP3s, podcasts and transcripts our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com. We're also on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 20Apr2011) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, secondary, simple, simplified, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	A Farm for the Future 01 BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK. Featuring Martin Crawford (Agroforestry Research Trust), Fordhall Farm, Richard Heinberg and others. Topics covered are the influence of oil on the food production, peak-oil, food security, carbon emissions, sustainability and permaculture. Tags: Food, equality, farm, farming, food-procution, freedom, globalisation, health, independence, nature, oil, oilcrisis, peak-oil, permaculture, preservation, sustainability, vegan 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	What is Genetically Modified Food? For a transcript of this video along with resources and other information please visit http://www.MEDIAROOTS.org Take Action: http://www.nongmoproject.org/ http://truefoodnow.org/ http://www.organicconsumers.org/action.cfm http://www.saynotogmos.org/ Tags: abby martin, allergies, biotechnology, cancer, corn, disease, farming, films, food, foods, future, genetically modified, gmo, lily, monsanto, of, organic, rat study, san diego, science, seeds, soy, then3twork, yournetwork 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Fair Oaks Farms Adventure Center - America's Heartland On our travels throughout the heartland we've visited small farms, big farms, and really big farms. But there are some that, in size anyway, simply defy classification. Tags: Adventure Center, Americas Heartland, Fair Oaks, Fair Oaks Farms, Gary Corbett, Indiana, KVIE, PBS, Paul Ryan, agri-tourism, agriculture, cheese, conservation, cows, dairy, education, entertainment, environment, exhibits, farm, farming, food, food safety, info-tainment, kids, learning, milk, museum, organic, playing, production, ranching, stewardship, sustainability, sustainable farming, tourism, tourists 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Hydroponic baby lettuce and micro-greens Hydroponic lettuce and micro greens grown in a shade house. Hydroponic Lettuce and Micro-greens test to test varieties and growing mediums. No electricity was uesed. A greenhouse will be built in spring 2010. Tags: Agriculture, Jamaica, baby, build, farming, greenhouse, greens, house, hydroponic, hydroponics, lettuce, micro, micro-greens, own, shade, soil-less, system, your 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Humane Slaughter? A Farm Sanctuary documentary on poultry slaughter. Tags: Farm, Sanctuary, animal, bird, broiler, chicken, factory, farming, inhumane, poultry, rights, slaughter, turkey, welfare 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robotic Farmer: Prospero This is just a short video of the hexapod robot, Prospero, planting. Prospero is an autonomous robotic farmer that would be used as part of a group or swarm of identical robots. Imagine a hundred of these robots walking across a field, planting and working together like a colony of ants or bees. For more a longer video that goes more in depth, search for "vanmunch36" and look for the other Prospero videos. Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory and is the first of four steps. It is meant to be deployed as a group or "swarm". The other three steps involve autonomous robots that tend the crops, harvest them, and finally one robot that can plant, tend, and harvest--autonomously transitioning from one phase to another. Prospero is controlled with a Parallax Propeller chip mounted on a Schmart Board. Its body is designed by Lynxmotion and the orginal programming allows it to walk autonomously in any direction while avoiding objects with its duel ultrasonic Ping))) without turning it's body. An underbody sensor array allows the robot to know if a seed has been planted in the area at the optimal spacing and depth. Prospero can then dig a hole, plant a seed in the hole, cover the seed with soil, and apply any pre-emergence fertilizers and/or herbicides along with the marking agent. Prospero can then talk to other robots in the immediate proximity that it needs help planting in that area or that this area has been planted and to move on via IR (currently represented with a green and red LED ). The more seeds it plants, the more the "green" LED lights up, the more it draws other robots nearby (+2). The more it detects planted seeds, the more it repulses other robots with the "red" LED (-1) Why small, autonomous robots? Robotics in Agriculture Despite its quaint reputation, agriculture has always been an early adapter of technology. This is evident from the beginning of mechanization with the cotton gin, McCormick's Reaper, tractors, hybrid seed, to genetically engineered plants that protect themselves and grow in arid environments. Yields have grown quickly, but demand from developing countries and population growth are growing faster We know that we need to continue to find ways to increase the productivity of land on a per unit basis. Agriculture has started to add computerization and automation to the current machinery with things like GPS based precision farming systems that can autonomously drive tractors, monitor yield, and apply fertilizer. However, these aftermarket add-ons are built around the single most expensive and awkward part of the equipment. The person controlling the tractor. Today's agricultural equipment has been designed around a person sitting in a chair. It cost a lot to employ a single person so the equipment grew larger in order to maximize the productivity of that one person. However, this method has its drawbacks. Farming decisions have to be made at the field level. Nature is chaotic and dynamic. Soil nutrients and moisture change from foot to foot. Having equipment that allows a single person to plant a thousand acres in a day comes at the cost of productivity per acre as a result of treating all those acres as the same. A swarm of small robots like Prospero would have the ability to farm inch by inch, examining the soil before planting each seed and choosing the best variety for that spot. This would maximizing the productivity of each acre, allow less land to be converted to farm land, feed more people, and provide a higher standard of living for those people because they would spend less of their money on food. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Tags: Farming Robot, Hexapod, Hexapod robot, Lynxmotion, Parallax, Parallax Propeller, Robotic Farmer, Schmart Board, ant, ants, corn, electronics, farmer, farming, future, game theory, insect behavior, planting, robot, swarm, swarm robot, swarm theory, technology 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Dallas Creates a Public School for Boys This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com \| http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Girls and boys usually attend classes together in American public schools. But there are some single-sex programs, like a girls public school in Dallas, Texas. It opened in two thousand four. The students have done well enough that the school system is now opening a school for boys.Nakia Douglas is principal of the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy. He says he was the kind of student that the school is seeking. "I was born and raised in south Dallas by a single parent. I was a neighborhood child. I was that child that -- I would work if I knew the teacher believed in me. But, at the same time, I had a hunger and desire for more."Educational researchers say boys learn in different ways and mature more slowly than girls, and are more likely to leave school. Being in class with the opposite sex can also take attention away from learning. Kendall Keeter thinks the boys school will be good for his son the way the girls school was for his daughter. "Our thought was to also give our son an opportunity that would best prepare him for college in the same manner she was prepared, and I can't imagine any other option that would have prepared her better."Another parent, Madeline Hayes, also likes the idea of a publicly funded school for boys. "This is something, as cheesy as it sounds, that I've always dreamed about, that there will be a boys school that doesn't charge twenty-five thousand dollars a year, but would give the same academics, the same level of interaction and leadership."The school is for grades six through nine. It will offer college preparatory classes and leadership courses even on weekends. Principal Douglas says the boys will be urged to support one another. "All of our young men we call 'brother.' So it may be Brother Malyk Davis or Brother Samuel Keeter. The young men understand they are their brother's keeper. And so the young men are really learning to be responsible not only for themselves, but also for their brothers here at the campus."Most students who want to be accepted into the Obama Academy in Dallas will need to have good grades and pass a number of tests. But ten to fifteen percent will not have to meet all of the entrance requirements. Principal Nakia Douglas says they will have to show they have a strong character and a desire to learn.For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 18Aug2011) Tags: TV, agriculture, america, american, business, captioned, college, communication, controlled, culture, dallas, development, download, economics, education, efl, elementary, english, esl, farming, finance, food, foreign, gardening, health, higher, history, international, language, learn, learning, linguistics, medicine, mp3, music, news, of, plain, radio, report, school, secondary, simple, simplified, special, speech, states, students, subtitled, teach, teacher, teaching, tertiary, texas, texts, transcripts, u.s., united, university, videos, voa, voice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Positive Planet : Friends of the earth short film One minute short film for entry in the Friends of the earth Green Film Competition. An animation showing all of the positive things that people do to help preserve the planet for tomorrow. http://www.foe.co.uk/green_film Tags: 3D, animation, car, competition, earth, farming, friends, green, green_film, hypa, of, organic, plants, recycle, reduce, reuse, the 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Understanding & Raising Sheep : Handling Sheep Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to handle sheep in this free online video. Expert: Tia Pinney Bio: Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubons Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso Tags: agriculture, anatomy, animal, animals, behavior, biology, breeding, ewes, farm, farming, food, habits, husbandry, lambs, mutton, pets, raise, rams, sheep, shepherd, techniques, types, wildlife, wool, zoology 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Claas Jaguar 830 Harvesting Maize in Guernsey A video of a Claas Jaguar 830 self propelled harvester harvesting maize in fields in Guernsey, Channel Islands. This is the only self propelled harvester in Guernsey and it was filmed on the 17th October 2008. The last clip I filmed following the tractor and trailer was filmed using a hard hat with a mounting for my camera which I recently made. I have another video which shows the Claas Jaguar harvesting grass silage which is on my Channel. Tags: Channel, Claas, Deere, Guernsey, Islands, Jaguar, John, Lamborghini, farm, farming, harvesting, in, machinery, maize, tractors, trailer 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Emu farming reaping gold in Orissa The majestic Emu is to be found completely at home in Orissa's Pitatoli village, making it hard to believe that their original habitat is several thousand miles away in Australia. These birds were hatched and raised here in the past two years under the loving care of D Mohan Reddy, a rural medical practitioner, who was inspired by the successful Emu farms in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Tags: Emu, India, NDTV, Orissa, farming, majestic 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Robots Spread Seeds of Change in Fruit Orchards Fruits and vegetables, nuts and nursery plants are big business in the United States. Yet growers of these "specialty crops," which require individual pickers, are facing rising labor costs, a shortage of workers and increased demand for safe and affordable products. Production - unlike that of wheat, corn or soy - is relatively unmechanized, and farmers are desperate for ways to boost food quality without boosting their cost. From an apple orchard in western Pennsylvania, Rosanne Skirble reports that robotic technology is gearing up to help. Tags: Pennsylvania, Skirble, crops, farmers, farming, labor, news, production, shortage, specialty, technology, unmechanized, voa, workers 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Make Algae Biodiesel at Home Making Algae Biodiesel at Home is the quickest and easiest way to learn about algae biodiesel. Inside this comprehensive work you'll get over 700 pages of gold-mine info. Absolutely everything anyone interested in algae biodiesel would need. http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/making-algae-biodiesel.html Tags: algae, algae_biodiesel, algal, alternative, biofuel, cars, diesel, energy, farming, fuel, gas, hydrogen, photobioreactor, renewable 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Sheep Cheese: Ancient Heritage Dairy For more Stories, Food News, and Cooking Fresh videos, visit: http://cookingupastory.com Sheep cheese tastes distinctive, characteristically strong, and very different from cow or goat cheese. On this family sheep farm, the making of cheese reflects a slower pace of life along with a direct connection to the land. Consuming this cheese requires a careful eating pace. To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/ Tags: advertising, bittman, cheese, commercials, cooking, cooking up a story, environment, farming, food, game, green, health diet, kirschenmann, milk, photography, politics, pollan, series, sheep, slideshow, stories, sustainable, tr, tv, video, web, yt:quality=high 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)