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Jun. 4, 2015
Drs Mark R Showalter and Douglas P Hamilton study in journal Nature describes complex and chaotic orbits of Pluto's five moons, as influenced by competing pulls of Pluto and large moon Charon. MORE
Feb. 3, 2015
Study in Astrophysical Journal reports discovery of planet outside Earth's solar system with ring that is 200 times size of Saturn's. MORE
Jan. 27, 2015
New York Times readers submit mnemonic phrases for remembering order of planets in solar system, should scientists decide to include dwarf planets Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. MORE
Jan. 20, 2015
NASA spacecraft are set to arrive at dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto during separate missions in 2015; are expected to provide data that will uncover more information about Pluto and Ceres, as well as origins of universe, and provide fodder for debate over what constitutes a planet. MORE
Jan. 7, 2015
Astronomers say they have found eight new planets that are potentially habitable, bringing total number discovered to a dozen or two, depending on how habitable zone is defined; most planets are hundreds of light-years away, too far for close observation; NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered 4,175 potential planets; astronomers say more powerful telescopes and instruments will be required in search for alien life. MORE
Dec. 19, 2014
NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers new 'super-Earth' circling star 180 light years away; planet, about two and a half times size of Earth, is unlivable, at roasting distance of only 8.4 million miles from its sun. MORE
Oct. 21, 2014
Science Q&A explains how mapmakers determine direction north on planets other than Earth and elsewhere in universe. MORE
Oct. 14, 2014
Rebekah Dawson study in journal Science explores finding that some large planets in other galaxies orbit their stars very closely, and have unusually elliptical orbits. MORE
Aug. 5, 2014
Dennis Overbye Out There column notes International Astronomical Union is sponsoring NameExoWorlds contest in which public may vote on names for distant exoplanets, many of which are designated only by strings of numbers; laments that contest's rules make it more cumbersome than fun. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
Dr Paul Robertson study in journal Science reports that Gliese 581g, distant Earthlike planet whose discovery caused stir in 2010, and neighbor planet Giese 581, were illusions caused by Gliese 581, star they supposedly orbited. MORE
Apr. 18, 2014
Astronomers say planet known as Kepler 186f, 500 light-years away, is closest match to our own home world yet discovered; temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at surface, making it potentially hospitable for life. MORE
Feb. 27, 2014
Kepler spacecraft astronomers announce in a news conference and a pair of papers published in The Astrophysical Journal that they have verified the existence of 715 more planets orbiting other stars, nearly a year after a pointing system failure ended the main planet-hunting mission of the NASA spacecraft. MORE
Jan. 14, 2014
Newly discovered planet KOI-314c weighs same as Earth but is 60 percent larger in diameter due to thick, gaseous atmosphere. MORE
Jan. 7, 2014
Astronomers from University of Chicago have used Hubble Space Telescope to observe weather conditions on GJ 1214b, 'super-Earth' planet orbiting distant star in Milky Way galaxy. MORE
Nov. 19, 2013
NASA says it has a plan to keep disabled Kepler spacecraft in use hunting for planets for several more years; under plan, telescope would monitor one spot in sky for 80 days before moving on to another spot; over such an interval, Kepler could detect planets with habitable orbits around dim stars known as red dwarfs. MORE
Nov. 19, 2013
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing several satellites capable of identifying nearby exoplanets and expanding upon work carried out by the Kepler telescope. MORE
Nov. 5, 2013
Astronomers report in journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that analysis of data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft suggests there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in galaxy; says one out of every five of galaxy's sunlike stars has planet the size of Earth circling it in Goldilocks zone--not too hot, not too cold. MORE
Oct. 31, 2013
Astronomers say they have found the first Earth-size planet that seems to be made of the same mixture of rock and iron as Earth, and that orbits a star similar to the sun; planet's surface is infernally hot, at 3,500 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit; findings appear in journal Nature. MORE
Jun. 11, 2013
Analysis published in Astrophysical Journal of data that was released in 2011 by European astronomers casts doubt on their claims of discovery of planet with mass comparable to Earth's orbiting Alpha Centauri B; scientists had posited that other planets in vicinity may have favorable conditions for life, but analysis indicates planet's existence cannot be confirmed. MORE
Apr. 19, 2013
Astronomers working with NASA's Kepler mission say pair of newly discovered planets in the constellation Lyra appear capable of supporting life; planets, named Kepler 62 and Kepler 62e, orbit a star 1,200 light-years from Earth, so odds are that no one will ever know if life exists on them. MORE
Nov. 27, 2012
Study in journal Nature finds that Makemake, dwarf planet that circles Sun beyond Pluto, does not have significant atmosphere. MORE
Nov. 25, 2012
Download interview with astronomy Prof Geoff Marcy, who with his research team has discovered 300 planets and was first to discover multiple planets circling single star; Marcy offers recommendations for books, music and television. MORE
Oct. 23, 2012
Dennis Overbye Out There column observes that the discovery of a planet circling Alpha Centauri B, four light-years away, has set off an epidemic of space-travel daydreaming among the scientific community. MORE
Aug. 21, 2012
Dr Steven S Vogt and Dr R Paul Butler study in journal Astronomische Nachrichten argues for the existence of a potentially life-supporting planet circling star Gliese 581g in the constellation Libra; Vogt and Butler claimed to have discovered the planet in 2010, but other scientists have since come forward to dispute their findings. MORE
Jul. 13, 2012
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope identify a fifth moon orbiting Pluto; discovery of moon, provisionally called P5, does not change the terms of the debate surrounding Pluto's planethood. MORE
Jun. 19, 2012
Astronomers discover two new planets, both similar in makeup to the gas giant Jupiter; discoveries, which were made with a small telescope no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, are presented at the national meeting of the American Astronomical Society. MORE
May. 11, 2012
Observation's by NASA's Dawn spacecraft published in journal Science confirm that Vesta, the solar system's second largest asteroid, is in fact a dwarf planet. MORE
Mar. 3, 2012
Editorial reflects that the first days of March, with Jupiter and Venus in a rare moment of alignment, offer some of the best views of Earth's neighboring planets. MORE
Feb. 28, 2012
Zachory K Berta study in The Astrophysical Journal reports on the discovery of planet in the Milky Way galaxy; planet GJ1214b is composed mostly of water in the form of steam and high-temperature ice. MORE
Jan. 24, 2012
Science Q&A on what will happen to the Earth and the other planets in our solar system as the sun dies. MORE
Jan. 17, 2012
Study published in journal Nature describes NASA Kepler spacecraft's discovery of two more planets in the Milky Way that orbit two suns; finding, which follows a similar discovery in 2011, suggests the probability that there could be millions of such planets in the galaxy. MORE
Dec. 21, 2011
Astronomers from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announce the discovery of a pair of planets the size of Earth orbiting a distant start; discovery is an encouraging sign that planet hunters can someday succeed in the goal of finding other Earth-like planets. MORE
Dec. 3, 2011
Scientists say they are closing in on finding distant planets that replicate earth's habitable zones--proper mix of temperature, atmosphere and water that would support the development of life; are set to meet in California to to review findings from first two years of NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which is used to discover such planets; (Series: Life Out There) MORE
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Almost Time for Pluto's Close-Up
In a few days, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the former ninth planet, the first up-close look of the icy world in the outer solar system.
July 7, 2015, Tuesday
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Reaching Pluto, and the End of an Era of Planetary Exploration
When the New Horizons craft passes Pluto as expected July 14, we will have explored the known worlds. There are other finds ahead, but a personal journey will end.
July 7, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Sun , Space and Astronomy , Planets , Solar System , Jet Propulsion Laboratory , National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronomers Describe the Chaotic Dance of Pluto's Moons
On Nix, one of Pluto's five moons, the sun could rise in the east and set in the north. The moons form a sort of miniature planetary system.
June 4, 2015, Thursday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Pluto (Dwarf Planet) , Planets , Nature (Journal) , Space and Astronomy , Solar System , National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Hubble Space Telescope , SETI Institute , University of Maryland
Earth, the Marvelous Blue Orb
The International Space Station, about 250 miles away, allows a view of the planet that shows geology has become destiny.
April 7, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Earth , Photography , International Space Station , Space Stations , Space and Astronomy , Carbon Dioxide , Oceans and Seas , Planets
A Planet With Rings That Dwarf Saturn's
The planet, the first of its kind to be found outside our solar system, is surrounded by 30 rings, each tens of millions of kilometers in diameter.
February 3, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Planets , Saturn (Planet) , Astrophysical Journal , Space and Astronomy , Eclipses , Solar System
A Scientist's View of 'Planetary Boundaries' from the Ground Up - in Rural India
A scientist studying rural communities in India pushes back on the value of scientists measuring planetary limits.
January 30, 2015, Friday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Kipling, Rudyard , India , Madhya Pradesh (India) , Columbia University , Agriculture and Farming , Biodiversity , Earth , Fertilizer , Forests and Forestry , Global Warming , Planets , Poverty , Rural Areas
My Very Educated Readers Just Served Us Some New Planet Mnemonics
We asked our readers to submit their own mnemonics, including the dwarf planets. Here are some of our favorites:
January 27, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Planets , Memory , Pluto (Dwarf Planet) , Makemake (Dwarf Planet) , Ceres (Dwarf Planet) , Eris (Dwarf Planet)
NASA Spacecraft Closing In on Dwarf Planets Pluto and Ceres
The Dawn and New Horizons missions will soon start collecting data about Pluto and Ceres that may help uncover clues on the origins of the solar system.
January 20, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Pluto (Dwarf Planet) , Ceres (Dwarf Planet) , Planets , National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Space and Astronomy , Eris (Dwarf Planet)
My Very Educated Readers, Please Write Us a New Planet Mnemonic
If dwarf planets are considered actual planets, the mnemonic device for remembering their order will need to be rewritten. We are taking suggestions.
January 20, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Planets , Pluto (Dwarf Planet) , Makemake (Dwarf Planet) , Space and Astronomy
Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable?
What astrobiology can tell us about the fate of the planet.
January 18, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON PLANETS AND: Global Warming , Space and Astronomy , Extraterrestrial Life , Greenhouse Gas Emissions , Stars and Galaxies , Planets
Fast and Light to Pluto
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its five known moons. Nobody really knows what it will find.
Images of Pluto From NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft
The New Horizons probe will fly past Pluto and its moons on July 14.
Recipe for a Small Planet
Astronomers have found a recipe for rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
Kepler's Tally of Planets
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered more than 1,000 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars.
Birth of a Star
In galactic nurseries like the Orion Nebula, clouds of gas and dust mingle, birthing new stars and planetary systems. The ALMA radio telescope made a recent observation of possible planets being born.
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Think like a journalist (in general, not photo-journalist). "Localize" your speech - relate it to what they know, then work backwards.
Many digital shooters will take their files to a store to have them printed RA-4. You could explain it works just as it had before digital (as far as automated 1-hour photo services). Of course now the negatives are scanned, and exposed to the paper differently. Start with how it's done now, and then explain how it was done "optically" by a minilab. Not a huge difference. Describe the darkroom as simply a manual version that is far more versatile. As we get more "modern" we get more automated, and arguably more convenient. Leave quality out. I like to debate quality, but that would be a subject for _after_ an informative speech.
Then use the Photoshop analogies people have mentioned above to show 1) where the computer tools got their names and 2) how the same things were done before computers as we know them. Perhaps a tiny sidebar about how the amount of light (duration of exposure, aperture, etc.) affects the print, and how computer tools basically just emulate this.
Explain how this is similar for film, paper, and even a digital sensor. Not every digicam has the same sensor; some sensors react differently, just as papers can be different.
Same concepts, different methods/materials.
Personally, I don't like digital, but it has it's place. Different tools for different needs, and there is nothing wrong with that.
It is also very convenient.
Give digital credit for making things convenient for people who would otherwise not be able to do employ photographic processes. Not only does this relate to darkroom versus digital, but expensive versus cheap digital. One can get a cheaper digital camera and The Gimp, Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is a powerful Photoshop equivalent for free: gimp.org
Before digital, it was not as easy for just anyone to do more than take snapshots and settle for what a minilab gave them.
People can now also get a cheap point-and-shoot, have the film scanned when developed, and then do "darkroom" work without a darkroom. There are disadvantages too, but you are trying to inform people about the concept, not which side of the bread should be buttered.
Also keep in mind there are other, more general, analogues that may relate to some of your audience. For example, most people take their cars to a garage for repair - they don't need to know how to fix anything. However, some people like to do some of there own work. Fixing my own car is cheaper, but more importantly, I really enjoy it. The same can be said with landscaping yards, baking cakes and pies, etc.
I can buy a lousy pie from one store, a good one from another, and I can make my own. Each has it's advantage.
As for most things in life, focusing on differences can pull people apart. Differences are important, but focusing first on similarities helps draw us together.


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A little known Packers wide receiver earned public praise today from two very important men, Head Coach Mike McCarthy and quarterback Aaron Rodgers. That wide receiver is Diondre Borel. Borel is not a well known player by any stretch of the imagination. He is a 2nd year player out of Utah State and was a collegiate quarterback, spending last season on the practice squad learning the wide receiver position. The Packers have a knack for finding diamonds in the rough like this and Borel could definitely end up making the 53 man roster, especially if the Packers trade James Jones. Borel's development, as well as the development of 2011 2nd round pick Randall Cobb, could make James Jones expendable and he's already seen his name in trade rumors with the Houston Texans this week. If Jones is traded, Borel could make the roster and even compete with veteran Donald Driver for the #4 receiver job. If Jones stays, Borel's chances of making the roster would be much smaller and would be tied to...
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The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a book that I talk about on our yet-unpublished "2013 Preview Podcast." Which hopefully will be up in a few days, once our podcasting computer is fixed. So when you hear me talk about Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, and published by FSG, you can temper my vocal enthusiasm with this review.
I've been a big Zambra fan since I read the first paragraph of Bonsai. His first two novels—one of which we published—are spectacular gems, best read in one sitting and reflected upon for days.
Which is why it's a bit heartbreaking that Ways of Going Home is a bit of a disappointment. (To me at least.) I've been looking forward to this book since I read a sample way back when, and I'm really glad that FSG is behind it and will help get Zambra an even larger international audience than he currently has. But it would be intellectually dishonest to simply praise this book because Zambra's one of our authors and a great guy, and Megan's a friend and a great translator. Which is why I wrote this as seriously as I could.
Ways of Going Home, Alejandro Zambra's third book to be published in English (and second translated by Megan McDowell), packs a lot of themes—historical memory, difficulties of love, honesty in art—into a brief 139 page novel set between the two great Chilean earthquakes in 1985 and 2010. It's an ambitious project from one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists," and one that is a bit of a mess.
Before getting into the reasons why I think this book doesn't work, here's a brief synopsis of the two intertwined storylines: In what I'll call the "Claudia novel" storyline, the narrator is growing up in Chile in the mid-1980s, at the time when Pinochet was finally forced out. On the night of the 1985 earthquake, he meets Claudia, a pretty, slightly older girl who is somehow connected to the boy's neighbor, Raúl, the only single man in the neighborhood. Two years after the earthquake, he sees Claudia again, and she asks him to spy on Raúl. That's part one. Part two—of the Claudia novel narrative—takes place twenty years later, with the narrator decides to try and find out what's going on with Claudia. Oh so coincidentally, she's about to return home to deal with her father's death, during which time, she hooks up with the narrator, explains her life story (bit more on that later), and then breaks things off with the narrator.
Interspersed between these two sections are two sections written by the "author" about writing his Claudia novel. The author and his wife have separated, he's a bit lonely and nostalgic, and having a really hard time writing this novel. He wants Eme—his estranged wife—to read it and approve of it, and he surrounds his explication of this basic desire with a ton of quasi-intellectual observations about life and forgetting, parents and love, and everything else. He reunites with Eme briefly, but that doesn't really work out. Then the 2010 earthquake takes place.
Two earthquakes, two failed love stories, two tellings of the same story involving his mother, Eme claiming Claudia's story is just a retelling of hers, the end of Pinochet's realm kicks off the book and Sebastian Pinera's election ends it—there's a lot of doubling in this book. Also the two narrators—one pretty obviously the novelized reflection of the other.
Overall, this set-up—which calls to mind tons of so-called metafictional works, such as Lost in the Funhouse and the vastly superior Mulligan Stew—is Zambra's attempt to break out of the writing style that defined his first two novels. This is a very difficult situation for a young author. Those two books have a very specific style, one that's emotionally affective, incredibly compelling to read, and instantly recognizable. The writing in those novels is very precise, almost poetic, and the stories are related from a restricted third-person point of view, allowing for certain "cheesy" moments to play more seriously than they might in a first-person voice.
Anyway. Ways of Going Home feels like a novelist trying to change his aesthetic, maturing from something simple and direct into something more complex and respectably "Literary." Reading the representation of the author in this novel as Zambra himself, and the author's relationship to the Claudia novel he's writing as Zambra's relationship to this book, it's clear that there's a lot of anxiety, an awareness that this book might not live up to heightened expectations. And one of the best tricks for evading that is to foreground it (it's a book about an author who can't write his next novel!) and then bury it in a false postmodern trick (the novel isn't just a novel, but a novel about the difficulty of writing novels!). Everything about this rings false, and makes me feel sympathetic for Zambra—he doesn't have to hide his talents. But then again, I have no idea what it's like trying to create art after being anointed by just about everyone important in the world of letters.
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Founded in 1960 by such creative pioneers as George Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, the Oulipo, shorthand for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, came about in when a group of writers and mathematicians sought constraints to find new structures and. . .
There's little to say about a series of prose poems that willfully refuse to identify pronoun antecedents. Or perhaps there are a million things. The poems in Morse, My Deaf Friend— the chapbook by Miloš Djurdjević published by Ugly Duckling. . .
The Crimson Thread of Abandon is the first collection of short fiction available in English by the prolific Japanese writer and all-around avant-garde trickster Terayama Shūji, who died in 1983 at the age of 47. This collection would be important. . .
Last year, NYRB Classics introduced English-language readers to Catalan writer Josep Pla with Peter Bush's translation of The Gray Notebook. In that book, Pla wrote about life in Spain during an influenza outbreak soon after World War I, when. . .
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Mahasweta Devi is not only one of the most prolific Bengali authors, but she's also an important activist. In fact, for Devi, the two seem to go together. As you can probably tell from the titles, she writes about women. . .
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The smoking areas.
"The old man's gonna knock on the sky. Listen to the sound."
AP'er since 2004. Yup.....I'm one of THEM.
On POTC in a boat with a guy who won't stop taking flash photos.
"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money." - Walt Disney
The HM elevator with obnoxious Ghost Host wannabes. Yup, I'm bringing it up again!
Be Cool Stay in School!
Next year I'm trying for a summer internship at Stark Industries.
The overflow seating area of Pizza Port by the entrance to Space Mountain, and Toon Town (especially when you remember that it was actually a fun place for little kids at one time, with the Jolly Trolly, Chip n Dale slide, acorn ball pit, Goofys bounce house that was actually bouncy, and Donalds boat that had plenty of stuff to climb on-all gone now).
The exit
Also on a really crowded day, that spot where Adventureland, NOS, and Frontierland meet. I call it the Bermuda Triangle of Disneyland because my relatives always seem to get lost there.
I would say anywhere near the river starting about 2 hours prior to Fantasmic... the crowds of people simply taking up space is annoying as all get out.
The exit from the grand back onto DL drive. It means our Disney vacation is over and we are on our way back to reality.
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Innoventions needs to be scrapped completely. The building is outdated and irrelevant and Disney's just using it to promote Iron Man...
Tarzan's Treehouse is kinda an eyesore, too, imo.
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Elana Goldstein, 18, went to Israel last month for what's called a "birthright trip": a subsidized visit available to anyone with at least one Jewish parent.
She was greeted with air-raid sirens and exploding rockets.
Another Central Florida woman, Natalie, 23, traveled with her mother to visit relatives in the West Bank. She was surprised to see the greatly expanded Jewish settlements and saddened by what she saw as a lack of basic human rights endured by Palestinians in the area. She, too, was never far from the gunshots and explosions.
Both young women — Elana an Oviedo High graduate on her way to University of Florida, and Natalie a hairstylist and University of Central Florida student — shared their opinions about the latest violence in Gaza, which has killed more than 1,600 Palestinians, more than 60 Israeli soldiers and three people in Israel from rocket and mortar fire.
As in past bloody clashes in this war-torn region, the most recent eruption has galvanized both sides, confounded diplomats throughout the world and left little hope for anything close to a lasting peaceful resolution.
Passions have run high in Central Florida as well. In recent weeks, hundreds of people gathered at Maitland's Jewish Community Center to hear an Israeli diplomat discuss his country's response to Hamas rocket attacks. Two days later, hundreds of Palestinian supporters gathered at Lake Eola to condemn Israel's incursion, which started weeks after the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank.
The pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Orlando blamed Israel for killing scores of innocent civilians in Gaza, where 1.8 million people live in an area of only 139 square miles. Israel's supporters saw a much different picture, insisting that the country's sole aim has been to stop Hamas rocket attacks and to destroy the sophisticated tunnels through which the Islamist militants move men and weapons.
For Elana and Natalie — two Americans with different backgrounds and perspectives — these unyielding positions became much more personal during their visits to the region.
Natalie's parents are Palestinian Christians from the West Bank town of Ramallah who immigrated to the United States before she was born. She asked that her last name not be used because she fears Israeli authorities could bar her from visiting the area again. She traveled with her mother to visit relatives and attend a gathering of about 2,000 Palestinian-American Christians with ancestral roots in Ramallah.
Elana was among a group of 39 young Jewish adults from across the U.S. who set out to gain a greater appreciation of their roots by exploring Israel, and being immersed in Jewish and Israeli culture.
Elana's story
Elana left for Israel on July 7 — a day before the country launched its operation in Gaza — with no idea what she was getting into.
"I knew the three boys were kidnapped," she said. "I knew that might turn into something, but I didn't think it would be a full-blown war."
A few days into her trip, while in Jerusalem, she heard the first siren warning of a possible incoming rocket.
"We were in a five-star hotel, and we ran into a bomb shelter," she recalled, adding that the group had to remain there for only about 10 minutes. "The rocket didn't come close."
But trip organizers were worried enough to cancel a visit to Tel Aviv, opting instead to head to the city of Eilat, far south of the danger zone. Or so they thought.
After a night out, Elana and some friends were in one of their hotel rooms when they again heard a siren wail.
"I was running for the staircase toward the bomb shelter, and I heard a loud boom," she said. "The rocket hit two blocks from our hotel. It set cars on fire and shattered a window in my hotel."
Members of the group stayed in the hotel's shelter for about two hours before being allowed to return to their rooms.
"It was ironic because we thought we'd be safe," she said. "The rocket didn't come from Gaza; it came from Sinai, which is in Egypt. There's a lot of trouble coming from different directions."


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The slaughter of Nanking, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937.The duration of the slaughter is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, including rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, it is stated that a large number of innocent men were intentionally identified as enemy combatants and executed-or simply killed outright-as the slaughter gathered momentum.A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread.Watch the second part of this documentary here.
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Slightly bland and a little boring, this documentary is nonetheless an interesting look into the lives and attitudes of the children of some of the richest people in the world.This documentary was produced by the Heir of the Johnson & Johnson fortune and features some of the most high profile "rich kids". To be honest, I think I sympathize with some of them.On a final note, I think that this documentary was more of an attempt to brush off the "spoilt little rich kid" stigma from the producer.
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The investigation into Arnold Friedman's life started after a federal sting operation, when he received a magazine of child pornography from the Netherlands by mail. In searching his Great Neck, New York home, investigators found a collection of child pornography. After learning that Friedman taught children computer classes from his home, local police began to suspect him of abusing his students.In police interviews, some of the children Friedman taught stated Friedman played bizarre sex games with them during their computer classes. Jarecki interviewed some of these children himself; some stated that they had been in the room with other children alleging abuse, and that nothing had happened. The film portrayed police investigative procedures as the genesis of a "witch-hunt" in the Friedmans' community.The Friedmans took home-videos while Arnold Friedman (and, later, his son Jesse) awaited trial. They were allowed to stay at home in order to prepare for court. The pictures were not made with publishing in mind, but as a way to record what was happening in their lives. The movie shows much of this footage; family dinners, conversations, and arguments. Arnold's wife quickly decided that her husband was indeed guilty and advised him to confess and protect their son.Arnold Friedman pleaded guilty to multiple charges of sodomy and sexual abuse. According to the Friedman family, he confessed in the hopes that his son would be spared prison time. Jesse Friedman later confessed as well, but now claims he did so to avoid being sent to prison for life. He said in mitigation that his father had molested him. Arnold Friedman admitted to molesting two boys, but not those who attended his computer classes. He is also quoted as admitting that, when he was 13, he had sex with his younger brother, Howard, who was eight years old at the time of the abuse; Howard Friedman has said he does not recall this.Arnold Friedman committed suicide in prison in 1995, leaving a $250,000 life insurance benefit to his son. Jesse Friedman was released from prison in 2001 after serving 13 years of his sentence.
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Landfill Harmonic reveals a mind-boggling, inventive effort to change that – musical instruments made from trash. In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials – and a youth orchestra is born. Music arises and children find new dreams.Find out more or donate at: www.landfillharmonicmovie.com
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A glimpse into the mind of the three activists of the major child abuse: Chris Wittwer, Bill Bryant and Shane Maloney.This documentary film explores ideas to help protect children from predators prey and points the finger at the UK legal system for their failures to the victims.Accompanied by fellow activists and victims of abuse in the streets of Devon, the film is controversial, sometimes funny, compelling and stimulating.
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A shocking look at the current state of the very secretive North Korea and the abuses the children suffer. Dictatorship has left the country in ruins with all food aid going where it is least needed. Shocking footage shot by refugees from North Korea risking torture and execution if they are caught.
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The Imposter is a 2012 British-American narrative film about the 1997 instance of the French con artist Frédéric Bourdin, who imitated Nicholas Barclay, a thirteen year old Texas kid who vanished in 1994. The film incorporates interviews with Bourdin and individuals from Barclay's family, and file TV news footage and reenacted scenes. Bourdin, who ended up having a long record of imitating different kids, genuine or fanciful, decorated his case to be Nicholas Barclay by charging that he had been captured for purposes of sexual misuse by Mexican, European, and U.S. military work force and transported from Texas to Spain. His mimic tricked a few authorities in Spain and the U.S., and he was evidently acknowledged by huge numbers of Barclay's relatives, despite the fact that he was seven years more seasoned than Barclay, talked with a French intonation, and had chestnut eyes and dim hair as opposed to Barclay's blue eyes and blonde hair. The mimic was in the end uncovered as an aftereffect of the suspicions of a private agent, Charles (Charlie) Parker, and a FBI specialists, Nancy Fisher. Bourdin therefore made a full admission, and in the film he expounds on the different stages in his mimic. Watch more CRIME DOCUMENTARIES on Documentary Tube.
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Born Into Brothels is a documentary about children inspiring foundation nonprofit with cameras, who teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities. In 1998, New York, photographer Zana Briski started photographing prostitutes in Calcutta's red light district. Over time they developed a relationship with their children, who were fascinated with his team.After several years of learning in workshops with Briski, the children created their own pictures with a point and shoot cameras 35 mm. His images capture the intimacy and color of daily life in the overpopulated sections of Calcutta. Proceeds from the sale of photographs of children go to fund their future education. Directed by Briski and filmmaker Ross Kauffman, born in the brothels was presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the documentary competition.The photography is splendid, rich in color and material, and the video camera through the red light district following miserable Briski, pausing to listen to abusive mothers and fathers withhold approval drugged children a better life, listening the wisdom of the elders who want something more for these children, catch a world known a few. Briski and Kauffman dedicated as they are to your dream, be realistic and document an element of life in a third world country that is enlightening. This is a poignant without being maudlin film, beautiful, without ignoring reality. In English with subtitles for the children's comments. Highly recommended.
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While enjoying the sweet taste of chocolate, the reality is totally different for African children.In 2001, consumers around the world were shocked to discover that child labor and slavery, trafficking and other abuses existed in the cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, a country which produces nearly half the world's cocoa. An avalanche of negative publicity and consumer demands for answers and solutions soon.Two members of U.S. Congress, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Representative Eliot Engel, New York, addressed the issue by adding a pilot of a farm bill that proposes a federal system to certify and label chocolate products as a slave free.The measure was passed by the House of Representatives and has created a potential disaster for Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland Mars, Hershey, Nestle, Barry Callebaut, Cacao-Saf and other chocolate manufacturers. To avoid legislation that would have forced chocolate companies to label their products "without child labor" labels (for which many major chocolate makers do not qualify), the industry fought back and finally agreed to a voluntary protocol to end abusive child labor and forced labor on cocoa farms by 2005.The chocolate industry fought back. Ultimately, a compromise was reached to eliminate child labor in cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast in 2005. In 2005, the cocoa industry has not complied with the terms of the protocol, and a new deadline for 2008 was set. In 2008 the terms of the protocol is still not met, and another term for 2010 was set.Almost a decade after the chocolate companies, governments and foundations interested in particular spent millions of dollars in an effort to eradicate child labor and trafficking in the cocoa trade, has anything changed?Miki and U Roberto Romano Mistrati an investigation behind the scenes and see whether the allegations of child labor in the chocolate industry are present today.
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This is no ordinary travel documentary; this is total "Hell on Earth". Warlords, cannibalism, child soldiers on heroin, squalor and total madness. General Bin Laden, General Butnaked, General Mosquito…just imagine the scene in Baboon town. This is a black humorous look at what is a comical yet deadly situation…amazing!What Andy Capper, Editor Vice UK, is said about the film: We came to Liberia with a small team of three and quickly found a local journalist who would be our guide and fixer. Our first shoot location was the prestigious West Point, home to 80,000 people living in that redefine squalor. Thousands of rotting garbage around the neighborhood, which has no sewage system.Almost everyone – including local government officials – defecate and urinate in the open. Drugs, prostitution and armed robbery are the main industries. We got to know some of the residents of West Point, they told us their stories as he smoked heroin and cocaine and we asked for money.Then we visited a local brothel. Women who lived there spoke to us about the UN peacekeepers who have sex with child prostitutes and beat older women, and then not pay.But perhaps the most revealing parts of our trip to Liberia came to the meeting of the main leaders of the nation's civil wars. There is a tradition in the Liberian militias outrageous noms de guerre assumed. Therefore, our subjects Bin Laden named General, General Rambo and General Butt Naked. The latter, in particular, was one of the Liberian warlords, most famous. He claims to have personally killed 20,000 people, including babies, and sometimes have cannibalized his victims.Today, General Butt Naked is on his birth name, which is Joshua. During our time together, we said that Liberia will surely implode into civil war when the UN leaves again next year. But in the meantime, Joshua wants to redeem himself. He offered us a vision of Liberia that wants to establish, and we are growing for him. He took us to his church, which rehabilitates child soldiers. We watched as he preached his way through Monrovia on a Sunday.Is there a possibility that successful mission, and the civil war still can be avoided in this country so desperately? That's one of the many questions that arose with our safe return of Liberia. View our documentary about our stay there and see what you think.
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Child or infant abduction is every parent's nightmare. This documentary explores what would drive abductors to use violence to abduct a child. The documentary starts with a case of a baby born in Harlem hospital and it was here that she was abducted…from the hospital… and 19 years later the baby or abductor have not been found.Usually the baby can be found and returned to the mother in 95% of the cases…this 95% is also reflected in the fact that this is the characteristic number of lone woman abductors.In cases the abductor steals the baby dressed as one of the nursing staff but in some cases the baby is abandoned if the abductor feels that they have been rumbled and so this makes the search very difficult for the authorities because they do not wish to jeopardise the infant. The abductor often act out a pregnancy in order to feign a pregnancy so that they can get away with the deception. One such example is described in detail in this documentary. The FBI investigators find this to be a characteristic and typical trait in the infant abductor. Tanya Sheldon was given 20yrs imprisonment for her abduction of a new born.Once the abductor comes under pressure due to her pregnancy act and time scale they can become increasingly violent in order to see their way to the goal of snatching the baby.Signs:Fake PregnancyIncreased weightDesperation due to pregnancy time-scales.Unstable relationshipWe see footage of a daylight abduction whilst the mother is dragged behind the abductors car. The offender will usually show off their "new" baby but many people are not convinced that the abductor demonstrates the looks of a new mother…often the baby is simply too old to be passed off as a new born and the abductor is classically arrested.Abduction of a baby BEFORE a baby is even born is probably the most horrific of cases when the baby is actually cut from the womb !! The case detailed in this documentary demonstrates a complex degree of planning to execute this shocking case. This was a plan which backfired and resulted in the death of this would be offender…a lucky escape for Sarah Brady in this instance… but this is not always the case.Another horrific case ends in death of almost a whole family. The mother had died in the process of her having her foetus being removed under "surgery" by the abductor. The missing baby was found but the young son had been brutally killed also. This case had a twist because much of this was to do with checking for paternity of the unborn child…any witness no matter how old was murdered. In Chicago, Annette Williams faked her own pregnancy and had all the classic traits of the child abductor and eventually was almost forced to carry the plot through to its conclusion.Annette Williams and her two accomplices are all serving a life imprisonment sentence.The snatched foetus is now eleven and has the nickname of "miracle baby" but is struggling to come to terms with the full consequences of the crime and the fact that his own biological father was one of the three in involved in the murders and kidnapping.Interesting footage from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children have discovered babies who have been raised by the abductors and image ageing and enhancing software has had success in reacquainting parents and abducted children.Sadly it seems that there still are those who are prepared to kill for a baby.
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"Walking Merchandise exposes the sad story of middle-school-aged, Chinese children trafficked to the U.S. by smugglers known as "snakeheads." Sent by their parents to work as low-wage laborers as a source of income, the children embark on a perilous journey that can include physical harm, sexual assault, and even death. Once in the U.S., they are trapped in a life of debt-bondage and forced to work around the clock in dangerous conditions with the hope of paying off debts as high as $100,000.Produced over two years, this short film tells the story of five children trafficked to the U.S. and the lawyers, social workers, and journalists who have dedicated their careers to helping them and understanding the global forces that brought them to the U.S. Walking Merchandise premiered at the prestigious Rhode Island International Film Festival and is an official selection of the Artivist Film Festival – an NGO partner of the U.N.Official Website: walkingmerchandise.com"
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"A short documentary that showcases a volunteer guide at Quetzaltrekkers, a hiking/trekking organization in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala, that gives all of its profits to Escuela de la Calle and El Hogar, a school and a home built to aid street kids in Guatemala.Find out more about the filmmakers, the subjects and Guatemala at whywehike.actualitymedia.org/Director: Sarah MegyesyCinematographer: Sanna WittnerEditor: Robin Canfield"
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"This documentary film is an episode of The Biography Channel's "I Survived - Beyond and Back" series which outlines a profound childhood Near Death Experience. As a result of a martial arts demonstration which went horribly wrong, Raymond Kinman, (a very devout Catholic boy) suffered a traumatic head injury in which he was rendered unconscious – without heartbeat or breathing for twelve minutes, only to be revived by CPR.During this brief period, Raymond had a profound Near Death Experience which was sadly misinterpreted by a Catholic Priest – the coaching he received was, "Since I couldn't say that I saw Jesus, it was probably a trick of Satan"… resulting in decades of guilt and shame for a nine year old boy.During this brief window of enlightenment, Raymond was reunited with his lost dog, "Skippy" and he met God "face to face", which eventuated in a life – long inability to reconcile what he was shown (when he died) with what he as being taught in the Catholic Church.Raymond's message is clean and simple. "Our purpose in life is NOT TO LEARN AND GROW, as is often trumpeted by modern gurus, priests, ministers and teachers, "When I died I was gifted with INFINITE knowledge and wisdom -we have nothing whatever to learn". "We are here to Love. That is our purpose – all of us". As a lifelong professional artist, Raymond has also created a series of paintings of some of the images he saw when he died. At his website you can see some of those images, as well as to listen to an audio version of one of his lectures in which he describes his Near Death Experience in remarkable detail:Ray asked Documentarytube to bring this video to the public attention and we felt it a worthwhile inclusion in our selection of videos and we wish him well in the future.http://LovingIsWhy.com"
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Welcome to the world is an expressive, thrilling and now and again unsettling view of birth around the globe. Annually, 130 million children are being born. Their life chances are a lottery relying upon where they are conceived. In Europe, six infants out of 1000 will leave this world before their first birthday. In Africa, the number of such children is 82. In America, 1 in 3 will have obesity issues; in Cambodia, a child is more inclined to end up malnourished than go to secondary school. In Sierra Leone, one in eight moms dies while in labor. Through the stories of moms and infants around the globe, we take a gander at how poverty influences labor, adolescence and everything past that. As indicated by the World Health Organization, 99% of death cases during pregnancy and labor are in the developing countries. Consistently and an a large portion of, women who died from pregnancy-related reasons and only eight nations represent just about half of the world's maternal passings consistently.If you want to watch more medicine related documentaries, click here.
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The Romanian Gypsies is becoming a huge problem to the European community. Children are being forced to beg and steal from innocent people in order to buy drugs or just to live. To understand what is happening to these children Romanian film-maker Liviu Tipurita begins a journey through Europe which takes him inside the closed world of the Gypsy community, and talks to the authorities and institutions meant to be dealing with this disturbing phenomenon.
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The Rwandan Genocide was the most bloody event of the 90s. Over the course of 100 days over 800,000 men women and children where slaughtered do to their ethnicity. Soon the U.N. intervened and the bloodbath subsided. This documentary goes into the reasons behind the massacre, the genocide and the aftermath. A truly horrifying film, released ten years after the genocide.
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Boys Dance of Afghanistan exposes the horrific practice known as Bacha Bazi, in which young men are sold to Afghan warlords and powerful businessmen to be trained as dancers performing to male audiences in women's clothing and then used and sold for sex. The practice is sadly making a comeback in the country.While the West pours billions of dollars in the fight against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, an ancient tradition (banned when the Taliban were in power) has re-emerged in the rest of the country. Many hundreds of young people living in extreme poverty are lured off the streets with the promise of a new life away from misery, he knows that his true destiny is to be used for entertainment by the warlords and other powerful men in Afghanistan.Having gained access noticeable within a ring of sexual exploitation, Najibullah Quraishi awarded Afghan journalist investigating this illegal practice, the consequences of which are surrounded by a focus on the war. The film exposes the lack of support from authorities and explore possible responses to the plight of children in this conflict zone.
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"Children of Darkness" is a 1983 American narrative film created by Ara Chekmayan and Richard Kotuk. It was assigned for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was about physically and mentally challenged kids and youthful grown-ups living in different private and open homes, state establishments, for example, Elan School in Poland, Maine and New York City's open run South Beach psychiatric healing center in Staten Island. It had interviews with different folks, including ones whose kids passed on under suspicious circumstances while in guardianship and additionally with different staff individuals who work with individuals who will convey their debilitations and sicknesses all their lives, and the staff's consciousness of their powerlessness to cure them. One of the medications that brought on patient passing in the South Beach healing center is Mesoridazine, which was withdrawn from the United States advertise in 2004 because of perilous heart reactions. The Élan School shut in 2011 because of feedback of its asserted treatment of patients. If you want to watch more health related documentaries, click here.
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North Memphis, Tennessee's Manassas High School, an inward city school populated by children whose teenager years are tormented with troubles, is accustomed to losing. In the 110-year history of its athletic system, the school's football team, the Tigers, had never won the playoff. At that point, in 2009, the group's exceptionally gifted left tackle, the solid and quick O.C. Cocoa, put trust coming soon. In Undefeated, movie producers Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin take after the group's season, indicating how the likelihood of a hotly anticipated win really played out among individuals from the Tigers and their committed Coach Bill Courtney, and how it supported the confidence of Manassas High School understudies and pulled in the consideration of the encompassing group. It additionally underscores the significance that athletic ability can have in making open doors for an inward city child to accomplish longer term objectives later on. Sean "Diddy" Combs joined the directing team at the beginning of 2012 acting as the executive producer. Impressed by the story of the Tigers, Combs planned on making a remake of the documentary in collaboration with The Weinstein Company. Watch more SPORT DOCUMENTARIES on Documentary Tube.
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This is a 2010 American narrative film composed and coordinated by Phillip Montgomery that takes a gander at the issues confronting today's childhood and youthful grown-ups, and the impacts that add to America's current society of lack of concern toward to political and social reasons. ReGeneration was a co-creation between Anonymous Content and Engine 7 Films, and debuted at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival. The film was delivered by Ryan Gosling, Matt DeRoss and Joel and Jeremy Goulder. Gosling went about as storyteller for the film. The film emphasizes the support of the late Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now's! Amy Goodman, Adbusters Foundation's Kalle Lasn, Talib Kweli, STS9, Tucker Carlson and specialists on media, popular society, and instruction. Recovery had its reality debut at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2010, where the film won the Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature.If you enjoyed this documentary and would like to see more society videos, click here.
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Child obesity is a serious issue in North America. Nearly a third of the children are overweight or obese and the numbers continue to rise. We're at risk of raising supersized kids who may live sicker and die younger than the generation before them."Our Supersized Kids" profiles four families whose grade school children are overweight or obese. Each of these families are actively working to help their child turn around an out-of-control weight gain.
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This excellent documentary staff, both in English and Dutch with English subtitles, follows Dutch journalist / filmmaker Michael Schaap as he learns from his own mother interviews, circumcision, politicians, Jews, Muslims, a man restored British and American activists.From the author: "I am a born Dutch male who came to Canada in 1981. In most European countries, circumcisions are performed only for religious reasons.In 1989 I married a Canadian girl very well and we had our first child in February 1992. Although my wife had not seen a circumcised penis until he married me, he realized that circumcision without medical reason was a form of abuse.There have been some comments from my in-laws, but after talking with them also realized that there was no reason for our son to be circumcised or indeed any child without medical necessity was not.December 1992 adopted a son and one of the first questions we asked was, "do you want to be circumcised?" Of course our answer was no.The point of view on circumcision worlds has to change. Most people admit to amputate the foreskin of the clitoris in women is an abuse. There is no difference in the amputation of the glans cover boys.Thank you and please continue to raise awareness about involuntary circumcision."
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'The Drugging of Our Children' is an informative documentary that highlights the dangers child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD can face in the absence of proper diagnosis and objective medical tests, leaving their treatment on guesses and chances.There is yet no organic basis found that causes these symptoms. Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first without making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia, loss of appetite, headaches, psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as cardiac arrhythmia, without taking into consideration other causes or aggravating factors, such as diet, or environment.A greater awareness in thus required to avoid unnecessary harassment by establishments.
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This documentary follows surprisingly intimate five street children in Romania, where the fall of communism has led to a life on the street to 20,000 children.In a 16-year-old, who leads his band with a mixture of brutality and compassion, a small, intelligent and very articulate 12-year-old boy, these children seem at first still wild and scary in the course of the film of loneliness, despair, and glimpses of hope will transform the way we perceive them.Make no mistake: this is difficult to see. As Children Underground explores the state's scarce resources to support these children and follows some of the children to their families hard, the scope of the problem becomes bigger and more intractable.However, this documentary offers an unblinking and compassionate look deeply at the extremes of human existence, do not forget easily
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Mr. Kanamori, a professor of a class of grade 4, teaches his students not only to be students, but how to live. He gives lessons on teamwork, community, the importance of openness, how to deal, and the damage caused by the harassment.In the award-winning documentary of children with life, a fourth grade class at an elementary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, to learn lessons about the compassion of his tutor, Toshiro Kanamori.It instructs each to write their true feelings in a letter and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.Toshiro is a stunning example of what all teachers around the world should be. He really understands how to teach children and is certainly a positive difference in the lives of these 10 years of age.
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In the past 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend on marketing to children. No wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases – everything from fast food to car cameras. Children under twelve are at the epicenter of consumer culture.There's gold in the hills, and sellers know their children the road. Therefore, it is spending billions of dollars each year on the premise that a tug on your heartstrings to mobilize their purse strings. They have unleashed an army of market researchers to help them fulfill their mission. The children have taken over.Everything has been made possible by a dramatic change in the style of parenting, parents dictating less and listen more, and a generation of under twelve years that is larger and richer than the Baby Boomers. It is a culture of marketing companies are moving beyond traditional boundaries, coining terms like "the niche market for infant formula" and "cradle to grave brand loyalty." Psychologists and marketers have been waving anti-red flag for years, and now they're dressing for battle. Meet the players who helped the children take over.
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Just outside Antigua, Guateamal, Manos Abiertas works to give local Mayan women an alternative to what – when it comes to giving birth -can often be the dangerous environs of a public, government run hospital. This video was produced on location by an Actuality Media student crew and shot with a Canon T2i and a Canon XA10.
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Farmageddon tells the story of small family farms which have been forced to stop their business because of the greater farms which use animal slaugher as their main source of success. Filmmaker Kristin Canty's quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened.
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After months through 11.09 two Americans and two Norwegians travel to Bangladesh to begin an incredible journey. Born from the mind of a young adventurer, Daniel Casanova, these children of twenty years began to build a traditional boat to sail 7000 miles from Australia. Shoestring potential adventurers set out in Cox's Bazar, a dream of third world and the fishing village begin their preparation. The team struggle with language barriers and the negotiation as soon realize that the odds against him perhaps. Time, no reliable carpenters and deportations soon the plague of the crew.Integrate into the community of fishermen / pirates and soon become closely with Kamal their "boat guy. It becomes his confidant and warns them of impending danger – the police, pirates, etc, with the U.S. on the brink of war set sail for Australia. We Were Pirates is an inspiring story of four young people overcome difficulties in achieving a dream. Full of humor and drama of the film is set in the most corrupt and wetter in the world.
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The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children produced by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn won an award for the serious topic discussed, the impact of the use of radioactive weapons during the war against Iraq.The film opens with the two English veterans sharing their personal experience on their exposure to the radioactive weapons and the congenital abnormalities faced by their children. The movie moves forward with citizens of different nations telling their story.The film also portrays the experiences of Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) who had traveled to Iraq, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.
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Wings of Evolution is a film that revolves around the revolutionary educational system Siragu Montessori School, a school for homeless and disadvantaged, who is away on the outskirts of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India.For a long time, the focus of education in India has been one of the compulsory learning, memorization and examination based on the evaluation, without emphasis on understanding children's concepts, critical thinking and the implications in real life.Siragu Montessori School, despite limited resources and unimaginable obstacles has maintained a quality program, free for attendees.On the other hand, the documentary also focuses on bringing together children from around the world through a shop worldwide postal sharing where children from around the world share ideas, exchange ideas and promote cultural diversity, peace and understanding towards building a better tomorrow.
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Never has a generation been completely taken over by a totalitarian state as was the case in Hitler's Third Reich: at the age of 10 children joined the "Jungvolk" movement, at age 14 joined the Hitler Youth, and 18 joined the party, the "Wehrmacht", the SA or SS.This documentary by Guido Knopp 5 parts and the ZDF Contemporary History Department is the representation of the first full-length film by young people in the Third Reich.With statements of witnesses in depth and some unreleased archival material, the documentary demonstrates how Hitler succeeded in gaining power over "their children" through years of manipulation.
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'Conspiracy of Silence' is a documentary film highlighting an alleged child sexual abuse ring involving a number of prominent Nebraska persons, including Lawrence King, an Omaha banker, political fundraiser, and convicted felon.This 56-minute documentary film produced by Yorkshire Television in 1994 was scheduled for broadcast in the United States on cable outlet Discovery Channel on May 3, 1994, but was not aired.The advocates of the film claimed that it was pulled out due to political pressure but there were no official comments on the issue.A copy of this videotape was delivered anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it available to retired FBI Agent Ted L. Gunderson.Many children were shown suffering the humiliation of wearing nothing but their underwear and a number displayed on a piece of cardboard hanging from their necks when being auctioned off to foreigners in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Toronto, Canada.
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In 2007, the abandoned children of the BBC documentary Bulgaria caused an international outcry, because the images were so shocking drop to witness in a country that had just become a member of the European Union. The spectators were overwhelmed by emotion and anger to see Bulgarian children brutality and death before his eyes when state care after being abandoned by their parents because of disabilities.After transmission of the film, MEPs and ministers from across Europe visited Bulgaria to changes in demand, ask to see the conditions in other schools and donate money to instigate the process of change and institutionalization in a country suffering a hangover of communism. Eighteen months after filming the abandoned children of Bulgaria – Director Kate Blewett returned this year to Bulgaria – a movie with a handful of children in the original film, very disturbing – to see where they are today and how their lives have changed since the protest.It is a testament to the power of television to achieve a particular change, and also demonstrate how even seem hopelessly removed and "damaged" children can be reached, helped and given meaning to life and the future with proper care. Bulgaria's abandoned children: Revisited – shows the two worlds, past and present in a 60-minute program.The 2007 film provoked an international scandal, because the images were so shocking drop to witness in a country that had just become a member of the European Union. The documentary shows how even seemingly hopeless, and retreat "damaged" children can be aided and given meaning to life and the future with proper care.
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Through the eyes of three families, the children of God tells the personal story of the first boarding school for children of missionaries to be investigated for abuses at the hands of the colleagues of missionary parents. The survivors and parents share their journey of seeking justice, redemption and healing.Families Beardslee, Darr and left Shellrude North American West Africa during the 1950s. They followed what he believes is God's call – to spread Christianity throughout the world.However, their children – from age 6 – were forced to attend boarding school in Mamou, Guinea, in charge of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.Separated from their families for 9 months per year and no reliable means of communication, child victims of abuse in silence, emotional, spiritual, physical and / or sexual abuse at the hands of officials of all missionaries.It took decades for children to recognize the effects of the abuse had on their lives. When I finally dared to break the silence and speaking, the Church denied all allegations and refused to help.But through years of persistent advocacy to survivors and their parents finally forced the Christian and Missionary Alliance, to carry out an investigation and recognize abuse. The healing can begin.Research Mamou Alliance Academy was the first of its kind, but has since inspired research in other schools of different denominations.


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