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Sortir du nucléaire en 14 mois, c’est possible… Tandis que François Hollande s’engage à réduire la part du nucléaire dans la production d’électricité en France de 75% à 50% en 5 ans et que Nicolas Sarkozy s’y oppose avec virulence, le Japon est en train de démontrer que l’on peut passer de 30% à 0%... en 14 mois! Pour établir un tel record, il aura néanmoins fallu une terrible catastrophe, celle du 11/3. C’est ainsi que les Japonais nomment le drame de Fukushima qui a suivi le tremblement de terre du 11 mars 2011, suivi par un tsunami qui a dévasté des centaines de kilomètres de la côte nord-est de l’ile d’Honshû. Et fait 20.000 victimes. Une vague d’environ 11 mètres s’est ainsi abattue sur la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima Daïchi 1, située à 225 km au nord-est de Tokyo et des 30 millions d’habitants de son agglomération. publicité Sous contrôle mais précaire Un an après la catastrophe, certaines images de la centrale de Fukushima ne montrent guère de progrès dans le déblaiement des réacteurs en ruine. L’une des rares «chances»

acljohn Le nucléaire est une énergie du passé Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Par Franck Pupunat, porte-parole du Mouvement Utopia, Nicolas Pagnier (PS), Pierre Lucot (EELV), Myriam Michel (Parti de gauche) Il est urgent qu'Arnaud Montebourg et Manuel Valls posent enfin le pied dans l'univers de la société civile et de l'immense majorité de la communauté scientifique qui défendent des scénarios de sortie progressive du nucléaire. L'Allemagne, la Belgique, l'Italie, les Etats-Unis, la Chine et évidemment le Japon considèrent tous que le nucléaire n'est pas une industrie d'avenir : tellement d'inconvénients et si peu d'avantages ! Tellement d'inconvénients. Les ministres socialistes ne semblent pas croire au risque… et pourtant André-Claude Lacoste, président de l'Autorité française de sûreté nucléaire, déclarait il y a quelques mois : "Je l'ai toujours dit : personne ne peut garantir qu'il n'y aura jamais un accident grave en France." Et si peu d'avantages. Alors, le nucléaire, une filière d'avenir ou du passé ?

A Cleaner Internet: Reduce Clutter and Enhance Youtube Viewing I’ve written about Readability and Readability Redux. These are browser add-ons that remove distracting clutter from web pages and customize the reading experience in terms of style, font size and margin width. Today I’m writing about a browser extension that reduces clutter from Youtube and customizes the viewing experience. A Cleaner Internet is a browser add-on available for Safari, Firefox and Chrome. After the extension is installed, when you go to Youtube.com, you see only the simple search bar shown below. Here are the first three results returned for ‘india trains paulhami’. Here’s what I see when I select the second option. Finally, here’s what I see when I click ‘Dim Lights’.

A Cleaner Internet - Browser Extensions and Add-ons for Amazon, YouTube and more Are you a brainiac? Take the YouTube EDU Pop Quiz As Chris Anderson, founder of TED, said, “Tomorrow's best teachers will be global stars reaching literally millions of kids”. We believe that the next generation of great teachers will come from all walks of life - they might be popular vloggers, lifelong educators, popular scientists, or journalists - and we’re working hard to get them sharing their knowledge on YouTube EDU. To highlight the breadth and depth of awesome educational content we have on the site today, we worked with some of our newest YouTube EDU partners to put together an interactive game testing your smarts. At the end of the video you’ll be asked a question which you should answer using the annotations embedded in the video. This will automatically take you on to the answer, and to the next question.

Looking ahead in the YouTube player Pssst! We’ve got a surprise — we want to give you a sneak peek to videos on YouTube. Years ago we created a way to link to a certain moment on a video, which let you find, share and comment on just your favorite parts. Now we’re expanding that control even more. Over the coming weeks, you’ll be able to see an image preview or a series of thumbnails with three new features on our video player. So whether you’re sneaking a peek ahead, scanning backwards, or using a thumbnail to find where you stopped watching a video, you’ll soon have three options to instantly look through YouTube videos. Taking a sneak peek So excited (or maybe so scared) that you want to find what happens later in the video? Scanning through thumbnails Let’s say you started a video but had to come back and finish it later. With an hour of video uploaded to YouTube every second, we’ve got a lot of sneak peeks to get ready on YouTube, and not every video will have this feature available at launch.

Can a college or university stream feature films through its VLE? To stream a feature film there are two issues involved, and two possible sets of permission required: permission to convert the film to a format suitable for streaming, and permission to show a film to an audience. 1. Permission to convert the film to a format suitable for streaming To stream a film from a server would inevitably require changing the format from video or DVD to a format suitable for streaming. Obtaining the required permission could be time-consuming and costly. 2. Assuming the college or university gains permission from the copyright owners to convert the film for streaming and host it on the VLE, there is an exception (s.34(2) of Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA)) which permits the playing or showing of a sound recording or film before an audience consisting of teachers or pupils at an educational establishment. In summary:

5 Interesting Virtual Museums and Activities for Students As field trip budgets are increasingly trimmed at schools everywhere, teachers will need to find some alternative virtual activities for students. Here are five museums that offer excellent virtual tours and activities for students. The Vatican Museums website hosts a fairly detailed virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. The tour allows visitors to zoom in on small areas and details of the interior of the Sistine Chapel. In addition to the tour of the Sistine Chapel the Vatican Museums host virtual tours of five other places and exhibits. The European Virtual Museum is the product of collaboration between twenty-seven European museums. Tenement Museum is a resource for US History teachers that can best be described as an interactive virtual museum. The JFK Presidential Library and Museum website has four interactive exhibits for learning about John F. The White House Diary is an interactive flipbook of Kennedy's schedule while in office.

Easier copyright management on YouTube From Justin Bieber to The Gregory Brothers, YouTube is a platform for anyone with a passion for performing to showcase their musical talents and get noticed across the web. Smart copyright management is an important part of this online video service—it helps songwriters and performers to be appropriately compensated for their works, while also allowing for those works to be used in new ways. YouTube has had a longstanding commitment to solving the really tough challenges around online copyright—how to manage content rights in a quickly evolving technology world. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired RightsFlow, a New York-based company that helps songwriters, recording artists, record labels, distributors and online music services manage music rights. David King, Product Manager, recently watched "Danny Macaskill - Industrial Revolutions.”

Video Infographs - download cool infographics Get more into what you love on YouTube with our new look From your favorite sports highlights and dance competitions to make-up tutorials, science experiments and great movies, there’s a ton of great stuff on YouTube — over three billion views worth per day by last count. More and more, behind every great video is a great Channel, and with our announcement last month that more of them are coming to YouTube, we want to make it easier for you to find and keep tabs of what you want to watch. So, today we're introducing a new homepage, Channel design and a fresh coat of digital paint. Here are three ways these updates will improve your life on YouTube: 1. A new homepage The YouTube homepage is your gateway to a vast entertainment universe. For step by step instructions on using the new YouTube homepage, you can go to our help center. 2. 3. Ready to get started? Our recent Channels expansion, our grants and educational programs, and this new design are all focused on helping you discover a broader range of entertainment on YouTube. The YouTube team

5 Ways Your Old YouTube Videos Can Triple Their Visibility Are you frustrated with your YouTube and video marketing efforts? Most business owners by uploading a few videos, then walk away. They return in a few weeks to notice each video has only a handful of views. Is that your experience? In this article, I’m going to reveal to you , so your YouTube marketing efforts won’t be in vain. Ready? #1 Action-Step: Identify Your Keywords Reworking keywords is the best place to start when working with your existing videos. Using Google’s Keyword Research Tool , you can quickly , and you can market your videos accordingly. Let’s start by picking just one of your videos. ? Once you’re logged into YouTube, simply click the “Edit” button above your video and you can change, tweak and ! This video is ranked #1 on YouTube for "Video Salesletter." Do this properly, and your video will for your keyword. #2 Action-Step: 3x Call to Action Here are to each of your existing videos to convert each view into highly targeted traffic. The call-to-action overlay. .

Are FE and HE institutions required to purchase the MPLC Umbrella Licence to view pre-recorded films in public? > JISC Legal > ManageContent The Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC) Umbrella licence (available at is not required when showing DVDs or pre-recorded films for educational purposes, for the following reasons: S.34 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 deals with performing or showing copyright works before an educational audience. S.34(2) deals with the showing of a DVD, and states: “(2) The playing or showing of a sound recording, film or broadcast before [an audience consisting of teachers and pupils at an educational establishment and other persons directly connected with the activities of the establishment] at an educational establishment for the purposes of instruction is not a playing or showing of the work in public for the purposes of infringement of copyright.” (the section in square brackets is from s.34(1)). However, the licence on the DVD itself needs to be considered. Filmbank operates the Public Video Screening Licence (PVSL).

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