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| Present Like Steve Jobs |
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs is well known for his
electrifying presentations. Communications coach
Carmine Gallo discusses the various techniques
Jobs uses to captivate and inspire his audience
— techniques that can easily be applied to your
next presentation. For more tips on presenting
like Jobs, read our Crash Course.
Tags : Steve Jobs Recruitment Selection Human Resources Workforce Management |
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Durée : 414 s |
| Official Ever Present Past Video |
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Official Ever Present Past Video - Taken from
'Memory Almost Full': Deluxe Edition CD/DVD
The CD includes the bonus tracks 'In Private',
'Why So Blue' and '222',
The DVD features the videos for 'Dance Tonight'
and 'Ever Present Past', plus live performances of
'Drive My Car', 'Only Mama Knows', 'Dance Tonight'
'House Of Wax' and 'Nod Your Head' taken from
Paul's show at the Camden Electric Ballroom in
June 2007
Tags : Official Ever Present Past Video Paul McCartney Beatles Memory Almost Full |
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Durée : 174 s |
| Remington-Rand Present the Univac |
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UNIVAC is one of the earliest commercial computers
and was easily the most famous computer of the
1950s. This film, produced between 1950 and 1952,
shows how the UNIVAC computer was used in
business, defense and by the census. The film
shows several of the important portions of the
UNIVAC system at work, including the high-speed
printer, the UNISERVO tape drive, the UNITYPER,
card readers and the mercury delay line tanks that
served as main memory. The programming process is
fully discussed and a business problem is
demonstrated. These films served a promotional
film as well as a way to demystify computers to
the average person.
Tags : Computer history UNIVAC Eckert-Mauchly Remington-Rand Office Automation Programming Technology Documentary |
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Affichage : 18510
Durée : 1051 s |
| MAXIUMUS Present: Alger la blanche |
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Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر, Standard Arabic:
Al Jaza'ir IPA: [ɛlʤɛˈzɛːʔir], Algerian
Arabic: Dzayer ([dzæjer] (From Berber
pronunciation), [[Berber languages|of the largest
in the Maghreb[1] (behind Casablanca).
Nicknamed El-Bahdja (البهجة) or Alger la
Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening
white of its buildings as seen rising up from the
sea, it is situated on the west side of a bay of
the Mediterranean Sea. The city name is derived
from the Arabic word al-jazā'ir, which translates
as the islands, referring to the four islands
which lay off the city's coast until becoming part
of the mainland in 1525. Al-jazā'ir is itself a
truncated form of the city's older name jazā'ir
banī mazghannā, "the islands of (the tribe) Bani
Mazghanna", used by early medieval geographers
such as al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi. Algiers is
the only Algerian city with an English name
different from its French name.
The modern part of the city is built on the level
ground by the seashore and the old part, the
ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill
behind the modern town and is crowned by the
casbah or citadel, 400 feet (122 m) above the sea.
The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.
commercial outpost called Ikosim, later developed
into a small Roman town called Icosium, existed on
what is now the marine quarter of the city. The
rue de la Marine follows the lines of a Roman
street. Roman cemeteries existed near Bab-el-Oued
and Bab Azoun. The city was given Latin rights by
Vespasian. The bishops of Icosium are mentioned as
late as the 5th century.
City and harbour of Algiers, circa 1921
City and harbour of Algiers, circa 1921
The present city was founded in 944 by Buluggin
ibn Ziri, the founder of the Berber Zirid-Senhaja
dynasty, which was overthrown by Roger II of
Sicily in 1148. The Zirids had before that date
lost Algiers, which in 1159 was occupied by the
Almohades, and in the 13th century came under the
dominion of the Abd-el-Wadid sultans of Tlemcen.
Nominally part of the sultanate of Tlemcen,
Algiers had a large measure of independence under
amirs of its own, Oran being the chief seaport of
the Abd-el-Wahid. The islet in front of the
harbour, subsequently known as the Penon, had been
occupied by the Spaniards as early as 1302.
Thereafter, a considerable trade grew up between
Algiers and Spain.
Algiers from this time became the chief seat of
the Barbary pirates. In October 1541, the king of
Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sought to
capture the city, but a storm destroyed a great
number of his ships, and his army of some 30,000,
chiefly Spaniards, was defeated by the Algerians
under their Pasha, Hassan. From the 17th century,
Algiers, by then only formally part of the Ottoman
Empire but essentially free of Ottoman control,
sited on the periphery of both the Ottoman and
European economic spheres, and depending for its
existence on a Mediterranean that was increasingly
controlled by European shipping, backed by
European navies, turned to piracy and ransoming.
Repeated attempts were made by various nations to
subdue the pirates that disturbed shipping in the
western Mediterranean and engaged in slave raids
as far north as Cornwall. The United States fought
two wars (the First and Second Barbary Wars) over
Algiers' attacks on shipping.
In 1816, the city was bombarded by a British
squadron under Lord Exmouth (a descendant of
Thomas Pellew, taken in an Algerian slave raid in
1715), assisted by Dutch men-of-war, and the
corsair fleet burned. The history of Algiers from
1830 to 1962 is bound to the larger history of
Algeria and its relationship to France. On July 4,
1827, on the pretext of an affront to the French
consul — whom the dey had hit with a fly-whisk
when he said the French government was not
prepared to pay its large outstanding debts to two
Algerian Jewish merchants — a French army under
General de Bourmont attacked the city, which
capitulated the following day. Algiers became a
French colony.
In 1962, after a bloody independence struggle in
which up to 1.5 million Algerians died at the
hands of the French Army and the Algerian Front de
Libération Nationale, Algeria finally gained its
independence, with Algiers as its capital. Since
then, despite losing its entire European or
pied-noir population, the city has expanded
massively. It now has about 3 million inhabitants,
or 10 percent of Algeria's population — and its
suburbs now cover most of the surrounding Metidja
plain.
Having hosted the All-Africa Games in 1978,
Algiers will again host the games in 2007. Algiers
is also the "Capital of Arabic Culture" for 2007.
In August 2007, The Economist magazine ranked
Algiers as the least livable city in a survey of
132 cities.
Tags : algeria music musique rai kabylie arabe arabic oriental france video clip canada usa maroc tunisie khaled tv travel max |
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