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[View \| Download]	Daily Video Recap (7/23): Stress Tests Releases, But Were They Stringent Enough? The day's big event was the release of Euro-zone bank stress tests, which were set out to gauge whether Europe's banking sector has sufficient capital, if the economy suffered another more severe shocks than the financial crisis. The results showed 7 banks needed more capital, but questions remain about if the criteria used was too lenient. News Provided by CMS Forex http://www.cmsfx.com Market Analyst: Nick Nasad Tags: bank, currencies, dollar, economy, euro, exchange, finance, foreign, forex, fx, manufacturing, new, news, orders, services, stress, tests, trading 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Dick Cheney ex-director of CFR talks to David Rockefeller Dick Cheney, former director of CFR, talks to David Rockefeller about his dishonesty He's a liar. . And hides things of vital importance for the public to know in an election with him as candidate. Wake up ----------------------- Video Clip Info: The clip is from the John Birch Society's 2004 video: "The Free Trade Area of The Americas." It is a discontinued item but you might still be able to obtain one from the JBS at one-eighthundred-JBS-USA1 (There is, apparently, a 2005 twenty minute short version that does not include the Cheney/Rockefeller exchange.) Tags: Cheney, Dick, cfr, conspiracy, council, david, director, foreign, president, relations, rockefeller, vice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Myles Hernandez (First Time) Sex Scene Sex scenes from the movie "First Time" Tags: arrouse, ass, bang, boobs, breasts, buns, bust, busty, cheeks, cowgirl, devirginize, erotic, filipina, fingers, first time, foreign, hot, hottie, international, luscious, lusty, myles hernandez, pinay, ride, scenes, sensation, sex, sexy, softcore, steamy, striptease, tease, tits, virgin 5 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/tag/sexy (Your Blog here!)
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[View \| Download]	Iraq, the Neocons and the Israel Lobby - John Mearsheimer Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1967 Author and political scientist John J. Mearsheimer argues that neoconservative and pro-Israel lobby groups were both greatly influential to the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq. ----- John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt discuss "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." What is at the heart of the special relationship between the United States and the state of Israel? Does Israel truly represent a strategic U.S. asset in the Middle East? Are the two nations really partners in the same "War on Terror", with the same threats up against them, and the same interests at stake? Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt had become well-known authorities in our understanding of contemporary international relations theory, security, and policy long before their collaboration on The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Atlantic Monthly approached the pair in the fall of 2002 to research the depth of influence of the pro-Israel lobby on U.S. policy. By the time they returned with the results of their research, the magazine's editor had decided not to go ahead with the piece, and was not even interested in a revision. At the prompting of an American academic peer, they decided to submit the article to the London Review of Books where it was finally published in March of 2006. Mearsheimer and Walt argue that if there ever truly were significant strategic (i.e. balance of power considerations during the Cold War) and/or moral (i.e. common Judeo-Christian and democratic values) grounds to justify the unique level of American support afforded the Jewish state, they have long been exhausted. Has this unwavering support made Israel a liability in U.S. foreign policy? And, does this special relationship threaten, rather than enhance, American security in the Middle East, in the world, and at home? - World Affairs Council of Oregon John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Tags: aipac, ajc, bush, east, fora, fora.tv, foratv, foreign, house, iraqi, israelis, lobbying, lobbyists, middle, mideast, neoconservatives, policy, saddam, tv, war, white 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	President Obama's Full Speech on Mideast Policy http://rouijel.blogspot.com/2011/05/future-of-mena-region-through-obamas.html President Obama's speech on the Middle East, delivered on Thursday, May 19th, 2011, in Washington. Take a look at my reaction to Obama's speech: http://rouijel.blogspot.com/2011/05/future-of-mena-region-through-obamas.html Tags: African, East, Full, Middle, Mideast, North, Obama, Policy, President, Speech, US, foreign, on, turmoil 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]	Rationale for War in Afghanistan - President Obama's YouTube Interview President Obama answers the question "Do you still really feel that it's important for our young men and women to be dying in Iraq in Afghanistan?" in his first post-State of the Union interview. This clip is from the citizen-powered interview of President Obama, streamed live on YouTube on Thursday January 27th, 2011. The full interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/AskObama. Tags: afghanistan, barack, foreign, interview, iraq, obama, of, policy, president, rationale, state, the, union, youtube 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
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[View \| Download]	Madame Brouette Official Trailer - TLA Releasing What on earth could have pushed Madame Brouette to take such extreme actions? And is it really her who pulled the trigger? Tags: Canada, France, Senegal, art, drama, foreign, house, independent, international, murder, mystery, subtitles, tla releasing, trailer 1 Downloads - Last from: http://www.peliculadirecta.com/peliculas/madame-brouette/ (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]	The Lives of Others trailer At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' AMEN), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Tags: Germany, Lives, Others, The, best, film, foreign, movie, of, trailer 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Chapter 02 - The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 2: How Mouston Had Become Fatter. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark F. Smith. Playlist for The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82E56AF3CD359996 Tags: audio, audiobook, book, captioning, captions, cc, cc prose, ccprose, classic, closed, complete, english, entire, esl, foreign, free, full, language, learn, librivox, literature, mini, minibook, novel, prose, read, reading, subs, subtitles, synchronized, text, translate, translation, video, videobook 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	marilyn manson/ twiggy ramirez interview- 1995- 1/2 recorded on latin television to promote 'portrait of an american family.' Tags: christian, foreign, god, jesus, latin, manson, marilyn, ramirez, reznor, satan, television, tony, trent, twiggy, wiggins 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Carroll Quigley Interview (part 1 of 5) Rare Carroll Quigley interview in 1974. Please contact me if you have any Carroll Quigley's material other than his books. Tags: Alex, CFR, Carroll, Jones, NAFTA, Paul, Quigley, Ron, commission, council, foreign, on, relations, trilateral 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
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[View \| Download]	Wake Up Call - New World Order Documentary - Remastered - 12 of 16 Full version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT1GavDtiwM For high quality, dual layer DVD's, please email me at john.nada@hotmail.co.uk Some of the topics covered in the film: The New World Order, Federal Reserve, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, North American Union, the Rockefeller/Rothschild families, Freemasonry, Bohemian Grove, the Illuminati, Illuminati symbolism, Problem-Reaction-Solution, 9-11, war profiteering, the phony 'War on Terrorism', the impending 'Big Brother Surveillance Society', the war on civil liberties, microchipping, mind control, media control and 'education system' indoctrination. Featuring: Alex Jones, David Icke, Aaron Russo, Jordan Maxwell, G. Edward Griffin, Jim Marrs, Bill Hicks, Daniel Estulin, Jim Tucker, Ted Gunderson, Anthony Hilder, Professor Steven Jones, Webster Tarpley, George Carlin, John Taylor Gatto, Charlotte Iserbyt, Dave vonKleist, Stan Monteith and others... Please spread the word as much as you can! Torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4391414 Tags: 9-11, CFR, NAU, aaron, alex, american, are, bilderberg, bill, bohemian, call, carlin, change, commission, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, control, council, david, documentary, economy, federal, foreign, freemasonry, george, government, grove, hicks, icke, illuminati, infowars, jones, jordan, maxwell, microchip, mind, new, north, nwo, one, order, problem, reaction, relations, reserve, russo, secret, societies, society, solution, trilateral, truth, union, up, wake, we, world 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]	Daily Video Recap (7/23): Stress Tests Releases, But Were They Stringent Enough? The day's big event was the release of Euro-zone bank stress tests, which were set out to gauge whether Europe's banking sector has sufficient capital, if the economy suffered another more severe shocks than the financial crisis. The results showed 7 banks needed more capital, but questions remain about if the criteria used was too lenient. News Provided by CMS Forex http://www.cmsfx.com Market Analyst: Nick Nasad Tags: bank, currencies, dollar, economy, euro, exchange, finance, foreign, forex, fx, manufacturing, new, news, orders, services, stress, tests, trading 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Dick Cheney ex-director of CFR talks to David Rockefeller Dick Cheney, former director of CFR, talks to David Rockefeller about his dishonesty He's a liar. . And hides things of vital importance for the public to know in an election with him as candidate. Wake up ----------------------- Video Clip Info: The clip is from the John Birch Society's 2004 video: "The Free Trade Area of The Americas." It is a discontinued item but you might still be able to obtain one from the JBS at one-eighthundred-JBS-USA1 (There is, apparently, a 2005 twenty minute short version that does not include the Cheney/Rockefeller exchange.) Tags: Cheney, Dick, cfr, conspiracy, council, david, director, foreign, president, relations, rockefeller, vice 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
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[View \| Download]	Iraq, the Neocons and the Israel Lobby - John Mearsheimer Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1967 Author and political scientist John J. Mearsheimer argues that neoconservative and pro-Israel lobby groups were both greatly influential to the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq. ----- John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt discuss "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." What is at the heart of the special relationship between the United States and the state of Israel? Does Israel truly represent a strategic U.S. asset in the Middle East? Are the two nations really partners in the same "War on Terror", with the same threats up against them, and the same interests at stake? Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt had become well-known authorities in our understanding of contemporary international relations theory, security, and policy long before their collaboration on The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Atlantic Monthly approached the pair in the fall of 2002 to research the depth of influence of the pro-Israel lobby on U.S. policy. By the time they returned with the results of their research, the magazine's editor had decided not to go ahead with the piece, and was not even interested in a revision. At the prompting of an American academic peer, they decided to submit the article to the London Review of Books where it was finally published in March of 2006. Mearsheimer and Walt argue that if there ever truly were significant strategic (i.e. balance of power considerations during the Cold War) and/or moral (i.e. common Judeo-Christian and democratic values) grounds to justify the unique level of American support afforded the Jewish state, they have long been exhausted. Has this unwavering support made Israel a liability in U.S. foreign policy? And, does this special relationship threaten, rather than enhance, American security in the Middle East, in the world, and at home? - World Affairs Council of Oregon John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Tags: aipac, ajc, bush, east, fora, fora.tv, foratv, foreign, house, iraqi, israelis, lobbying, lobbyists, middle, mideast, neoconservatives, policy, saddam, tv, war, white 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	President Obama's Full Speech on Mideast Policy http://rouijel.blogspot.com/2011/05/future-of-mena-region-through-obamas.html President Obama's speech on the Middle East, delivered on Thursday, May 19th, 2011, in Washington. Take a look at my reaction to Obama's speech: http://rouijel.blogspot.com/2011/05/future-of-mena-region-through-obamas.html Tags: African, East, Full, Middle, Mideast, North, Obama, Policy, President, Speech, US, foreign, on, turmoil 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]	Rationale for War in Afghanistan - President Obama's YouTube Interview President Obama answers the question "Do you still really feel that it's important for our young men and women to be dying in Iraq in Afghanistan?" in his first post-State of the Union interview. This clip is from the citizen-powered interview of President Obama, streamed live on YouTube on Thursday January 27th, 2011. The full interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/AskObama. Tags: afghanistan, barack, foreign, interview, iraq, obama, of, policy, president, rationale, state, the, union, youtube 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	YOUR FACE! GOD DAMMIT! a guy faceplants, and has the worst friends ever. hahahaha WATCH A CRAZY GUY DOING FLIPS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAv9G13jcc Tags: cleaning, damnit, face, faceplant, foreign, friends, funny, god, pool, worst, your 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Madame Brouette Official Trailer - TLA Releasing What on earth could have pushed Madame Brouette to take such extreme actions? And is it really her who pulled the trigger? Tags: Canada, France, Senegal, art, drama, foreign, house, independent, international, murder, mystery, subtitles, tla releasing, trailer 1 Downloads - Last from: http://www.peliculadirecta.com/peliculas/madame-brouette/ (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]	The Lives of Others trailer At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' AMEN), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Tags: Germany, Lives, Others, The, best, film, foreign, movie, of, trailer 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Chapter 02 - The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 2: How Mouston Had Become Fatter. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark F. Smith. Playlist for The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82E56AF3CD359996 Tags: audio, audiobook, book, captioning, captions, cc, cc prose, ccprose, classic, closed, complete, english, entire, esl, foreign, free, full, language, learn, librivox, literature, mini, minibook, novel, prose, read, reading, subs, subtitles, synchronized, text, translate, translation, video, videobook 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	marilyn manson/ twiggy ramirez interview- 1995- 1/2 recorded on latin television to promote 'portrait of an american family.' Tags: christian, foreign, god, jesus, latin, manson, marilyn, ramirez, reznor, satan, television, tony, trent, twiggy, wiggins 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Carroll Quigley Interview (part 1 of 5) Rare Carroll Quigley interview in 1974. Please contact me if you have any Carroll Quigley's material other than his books. Tags: Alex, CFR, Carroll, Jones, NAFTA, Paul, Quigley, Ron, commission, council, foreign, on, relations, trilateral 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Reign of Assassins - Drizzle & Wisdom Great scene from the movie Reign of Assassins. Wisdom says to her I would willingly turn into a bridge for 500 years and endure the wind, the sun, and the rain. Tags: arts, assassins, film, foreign, martial, movie, of, reign, scene, sword 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!)
[View \| Download]	Wake Up Call - New World Order Documentary - Remastered - 12 of 16 Full version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT1GavDtiwM For high quality, dual layer DVD's, please email me at john.nada@hotmail.co.uk Some of the topics covered in the film: The New World Order, Federal Reserve, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, North American Union, the Rockefeller/Rothschild families, Freemasonry, Bohemian Grove, the Illuminati, Illuminati symbolism, Problem-Reaction-Solution, 9-11, war profiteering, the phony 'War on Terrorism', the impending 'Big Brother Surveillance Society', the war on civil liberties, microchipping, mind control, media control and 'education system' indoctrination. Featuring: Alex Jones, David Icke, Aaron Russo, Jordan Maxwell, G. Edward Griffin, Jim Marrs, Bill Hicks, Daniel Estulin, Jim Tucker, Ted Gunderson, Anthony Hilder, Professor Steven Jones, Webster Tarpley, George Carlin, John Taylor Gatto, Charlotte Iserbyt, Dave vonKleist, Stan Monteith and others... Please spread the word as much as you can! Torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4391414 Tags: 9-11, CFR, NAU, aaron, alex, american, are, bilderberg, bill, bohemian, call, carlin, change, commission, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, control, council, david, documentary, economy, federal, foreign, freemasonry, george, government, grove, hicks, icke, illuminati, infowars, jones, jordan, maxwell, microchip, mind, new, north, nwo, one, order, problem, reaction, relations, reserve, russo, secret, societies, society, solution, trilateral, truth, union, up, wake, we, world 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!)