Peter Schiff on his new book (VIDEO)

Stossel episode on free trade (VIDEO)

Ron Paul on MSNBC: ‘Audit the Fed!’ (VIDEO)

Ron Paul on MSNBC: ‘Audit the Fed!’ (VIDEO)






I love how MSNBC accredits Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, with the Audit the Fed bill — if it were for Sanders the only bank in America would be the Federal Reserve.

Read more: http://www.jackliberty.com/ron-paul-on-msnbc-audit-the-fed-video/#ixzz0n7cspy2j

致富!最重要的一句話/朱成志第八集

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【天下講堂】哪一句話可以讓你賺錢？哪一句話會讓你身敗名裂、負債累累？理財專家朱成志與你分享投資理財最重要的一句話！不管你是學生還是上班族，只要你慎選座右銘，就可以累積財富喔！






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【天下講堂】比原子彈威力更強大的投資概念，究竟是什麼？什麼樣的股票適合長期投資？什麼樣的股票適合短線操作？投資專家朱成志教你翻倍獲利的秘密。







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【天下講堂】關心地球也能致富？太陽能、風力發電、水資源都是你可以投資致富的關鍵。但是投資人必須小心，打著能源名號的基金也常隱藏著危機喔！








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【天下講堂】你的藝術投資眼光到底準不準？你會不會從藝術投資中獲利，還是輸到傾家當產？「藝術投資小測驗」馬上分析出你的投資個性。









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【天下講堂】世界首富巴菲特擁有620億美元的身價，少年時期的巴菲特，究竟有何特質與行動，才成就今天的巴菲特？朱成志帶您向巴菲特學習致富絕招。







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【天下講堂】巴菲特因為愛喝可樂而投資飲料賺大錢？愛喝飲料的年輕人們，是否也可以向巴菲特學習，將消費觀察轉成投資，並且產生財富效應？








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【天下講堂】一個月收入只有三萬的上班族，應該如何投資房地產呢？投資房地產有哪些重要的技巧呢？投資房地產又有哪些盲點應該要避免呢？理財大師朱成志為什麼說，買房子好處多多？租房子不如買房子？







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【天下講堂】做一個邊上班、邊投資的上班族，應該學會哪些投資技巧呢？投資理財要達到20%的年報酬率，最重要的三個原則是什麼呢？投資大師朱成志，立刻告訴你「年報酬率20%的投資致富法」。

科特勒行銷新論（英文版）

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科特勒在台灣首度提出4P的行銷模式應該轉化為「CCDVTP」新行銷模式。他認為該新模式建立後再經由創新溝通來傳遞商品價值，針對目標市場才能獲利。除此，他還提出品牌建立三步驟。但究竟是哪些呢？







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品牌一定要花大錢砸廣告嗎？代工到底能不能經營品牌？科特勒認為，善用事件行銷及口碑行銷，品牌自然會流行。他舉例維珍集團的創辦人自身也是品牌，究竟這些企業如何運用不同行銷活動，成功打造品牌呢？






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如何才能做好B2B行銷呢？台灣是否能做到B2B2C呢？當行銷大師科特勒遇到品牌先生智融集團董事長施振榮，他們精采對話要告訴你，B2B品牌第一步是什麼？台灣企業究竟如何利用B2B2C成功建立品牌優勢。

安藤忠雄演講精華：夢想的追尋

安藤忠雄



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安藤忠雄，不曾受過正統建築教育，卻創造出許多世界級的建築作品。成名後的安藤忠雄，不愛名與利。他將書籍版稅所得，全數捐給保護環境的綠色組織。這位與眾不同的建築哲學家，用自己的言行舉止，影響人，感動人。他的夢想與堅持，仍在一點一滴改變這個世界。


http://video.cw.com.tw/pages/public/movie/player/tv_player.jspx?id=40288ae71a56a6eb011a77275c0a2517

Computers suck

Cronk games

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom
In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community.


Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as contributor” and to globalize our curriculum by linking students with authentic audiences from around the world. (For more on this topic read Alan’s article, Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm.


Find more videos like this on NL Connect



He also discusses three myths regarding the impact of technology on student learning:

Myth #1: Technology is going to be the great equalizer of society.
In reality, technology is actually polarizing society.

Myth #2: The Internet is going to provide a diversity of opinion. We will have an input of ideas from around the world and generally have a better educated society.
In reality, people are going to the web to get their “version” of the truth.

Myth #3 Technology is going to make kids smarter.
In reality, it’s a distraction. Overall we are missing out on critical thinking.

Telepresence Demo

An Educator's Introduction to Poll Everywhere

Tutorial – Using Overlays with Google Maps

Tutorial – Using Overlays with Google Maps
We recently received an email request from Fran Stromsland of Watchung Hills Regional HS in NJ requesting information about a particular Google Maps overlay. This overlay demonstrates the effect of sea level rise anywhere in the world.

The tutorial below explains how to get a Google Maps account, find the Google Map overlays and add one of these overlays to your own map.

To view this video, I highly recommend that you click on the full screen icon at the bottom right hand corner of the video window. You will see it when the video plays and you hover your mouse over the video window

More from Channel 4 News - US questions oil production as disaster looms

More from Channel 4 News
- US questions oil production as disaster looms

Ecological disaster looms as oil from damaged BP well head reaches US shoreline

Ecological disaster looms as oil from damaged BP well head reaches US shoreline
By Kris Jepson Updated on 30 April 2010
The prospect of an ecological disaster looms along America’s vulnerable Gulf of Mexico coastline as oil from a damaged BP well head begins to wash ashore. But BP’s head of group media tells Channel 4 News that the cause of the accident is still not known.



It is BP’s fourth major incident in the United States in as many years.

The rig exploded last Friday, killing 11 men. One week on, oil is still belching out of the open well hole, 5,000 feet below sea level, at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day.

Desperate efforts have been launched to try to protect the wildlife habitats along the coast.

President Obama has ordered a complete halt on oil exploration in the area.

The White House has suspended any new exploration in the Gulf pending the review of last week's explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

Interview: Andrew Gowers, BP head of group media
The head of group media for BP, Andrew Gowers, told Jon Snow that the rig involved in the incident was operated by Transocean, an American company.



He said it was BP's responsibililty to cope with the consequences of the incident. BP was now staging a massive clean-up operation, both below the surface in efforts to cap the well, and on the surface with the largest maritime clean-up the world had ever seen.

Mr Gowers said huge volumes of dispersants were being sprayed on the leak.

More from Channel 4 News
- US questions oil production as disaster looms

He conceded that the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico was BP's – "and that's why we have primary responsibility for cleaning up the consequences and stopping it."

He stressed that "the issue of fault and responsibility between various operators is not actually an issue for now". And he stated that the rig involved "was owned and operated and regulated separately, under Transocean".

Mr Gowers admitted that the cause of the accident was not known. BP, Transocean and the US government had all launched investigations, and that it would take some time to determine the cause, he said.

He continued: "What we know as a consequence of that accident was that the piece of kit – the vital, failsafe piece of safety machinery that is supposed to stop wells tight when trouble happens – failed to work. That's a piece of kit on the Transocean rig."

BP was focused on "helping them (Transocean) (…) by making the blowout preventer (…) work and, failing that, doing other things to cap off the spill."

State of emergency in Louisiana
President Barack Obama pledged to "use every single available resource" and the US military is mobilizing to help contain the spreading spill from the deepwater leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Crude oil is spewing out of the well, following the explosion which sank the BP rig Deepwater Horizon, at a rate of up to 5,000 barrels a day, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

That is five times the original estimate.

Local residents in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have expressed concerned the slick will damage fisheries, wildlife refuges and tourism.

The governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal has been heading up the ongoing recovery from the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Declaring a state of emergency, he has warned that the slick "threatens the state's natural resources." He also asked the Defence Department for funds to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to help with the expected clean-up.

Experts have warned that the ecology of the Mississippi Delta area is under threat as the huge 3 mile oil slick spreads to marshland.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Neopolitano declared it "a spill of national significance", which essentially means funds and federal resources could be used from other states to help in the clean-up.

Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson are travelling to the Gulf coast today to assess the situation.

Drilling permits
For Barack Obama, he says the London based BP PLs shoulders most responsibility for the clean-up, but his current proposals to offer new offshore drilling permits, which are before Congress, may be an incentive for the US to do whatever it can to help.

However, opponents of Obama's plan for more drilling permits are moving to block the legislation.

Democratic Senator from Florida, Bill Nelson, said he was filing a bill to temporarily prohibit the administration from expanding offshore drilling, citing the risk of a potential "environmental and economic disaster" from the spill.

The Obama administration did not rule out imposing a pause in new deepwater drilling until oil companies can show they can control any spills that may happen.

Resources deployed so far
· 174,060 feet of boom (barrier) to contain the spill. An additional 243,260 feet is available and 265,460 feet has been ordered.

· Recovered 18,180 barrels (763,560 gallons) of an oil-water mix.

· Deployed 98,361 gallons of dispersant. An additional 75,000 gallons are available and 184,748 have been ordered.

· Deployed 76 response vessels, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts-in addition to six fixed-wing aircraft, 11 helicopters, 10 remotely operated vehicles, and two mobile offshore drilling units.

· Five staging areas (Biloxi, Miss., Pensacola, Fla. Venice, La., Pascagoula, Miss. and Theodore, Ala.) are in place and ready to protect sensitive shorelines.

Containment
The navy has supplied inflatable booms and seven skimming systems to the coastguard to contain the oil.

US coastguard Captain Steve Poulin in Alabama said: "We have a booming strategy for coastal Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle."

Poulin added that some 500,000 protection and containment booms were stockpiled along the coastline for deployment.

BP and the coastguard are working together in what the company says is the biggest oil spill containment operation in history.

The oil giant confirmed that it is struggling to control the spill. It has asked the Pentagon for access to military imaging machinery and remotely operated vehicles to help plug the leak in the well which lies 5,000 feet under the sea.

Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead after the rig exploded and caught fire 11 days ago.

Underwater robots failed to activate a cutoff valve on the ocean floor and now BP is relying on a plan to cover the well with a steel cap. However, this will take at least four weeks to put in place, by which stage over 150,000 barrels could have been spilled.

If that plan fails, BP has no alternative other than drilling a relief well, which would take two to three months. If it takes that long, there is a strong chance that over 300,000 barrels could be leaked - that is more than the US's worst oil spill in 1989 by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska.

Obama has been briefed over any disruption to the shipping channels of the Gulf, which is crucial for the delivery petroleum to the US market. But no disruption has been reported as yet.

Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Julian Rush reports:

With the winds forecast to shift to the south-east, oil engineers are in a race against time to prevent the growing oil slick from hitting the Louisiana shore near New Orleans.

At its closest, the slick is only 16 miles from the coast, and it is forecast to come ashore by Friday. The outflow of water from the huge river may push some of it back but no-one's pretending the environmental impact won't be immense - the fragile ecosystem of the Mississippi River delta is very delicate.

NASA satellite imagery shows the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

There's the long term solution. A second drilling rig is now on site and will "spud" this weekend (start drilling). The aim is to drill down to meet the existing well in the seabed beneath the well head, to divert the flow and cap it again.

It's been done often enough before, but it's difficult - they have to drill down and sideways for several thousand feet to hit a target that is two feet wide, several hundred feet underground. And it will take at least a month.

Lawsuit
BP's shares took a massive hit yesterday, falling by six per cent, as investors realised the consequences of the potential cost to stop the leak.

BP has seen its shares plummet by 10 per cent since the explosion, and Transocean Ltd's, the firm which owns the rig, has fallen by 14 per cent.

Oilfield services companies Cameron International Corp and Halliburton Co have also seen their shares tumble on fears about their ties to the Deepwater Horizon rig.

Cameron, which supplied the blowout preventer for the rig, says it is insured for $500 million of liability, if needed. Halliburton says it did a variety of work on the rig and is assisting with the investigation.

Shrimp fishermen in Louisiana filed a class-action lawsuit against BP, Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron, accusing them of negligence. None of the companies would comment on the lawsuit.

大前研一：台灣，東亞的超級矽谷

http://video.cw.com.tw/pages/public/movie/player/tv_player.jspx?id=40288ae71b6cc87b011b7403bab73714
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台灣可以成為東亞的「超級矽谷」？趨勢大師大前研一，接受天下雜誌邀請來台，為三千名企業中高階主管演講。在這個詭譎莫測的世界裡，台灣應站在什麼位置上，大前研一提出了讓人耳目一新的觀點。

大前研一：2020年，世界經濟大預測！





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(採訪整理/莊素玉)2008年春天，日本知名趨勢專家大前研一，接受天下雜誌獨家專訪。他認為世界即將出現巨大的經濟霸權轉移，這段會撼動世界的大洗牌中，2020年將是最關鍵的一年。而誰將是世界的第一霸權，答案恐怕你不一定想得到。

大前研一：台灣要打造成「生活者大國」

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【採訪：狄英、莊素玉】面對21世紀的金融海嘯，台灣學習20年前的日本經驗是否恰當？天下雜誌獨家專訪日本趨勢專家大前研一，他日本人拼命儲蓄、不捨得花錢，是經濟無法成長的主因，台灣必須打造成「生活者大國」，才能避免步上日本後塵！

BP oil spill poses 'logistical nightmare'

May 5, 2010

BP oil spill poses 'logistical nightmare'

Channel4: BP admits operation to keep spill away from the Louisiana coast could take three months



As BP admits the operation to keep its oil spill away from the Louisiana coast could take three months, one expert tells Alex Thomson it is "a logistical nightmare".

The race to keep the oil offshore, as BP admits it could be three months before the leak is fully sealed.

Today saw a further fall in BP’s share price mid the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. How long will it take to tame the gushing well 5,000 feet below sea level?

The company hopes to drop a dome over it before siphoning the oil flow away - but that will take a week. And to stem the leak altogether could take at least three months.

Tony Hayward, the head of BP, promised today that the company would pay for the leak, as he outlined plans to try to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . President Obama has called the leak a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster”.

Mr Hayward admitted it could be three months before the flow of oil from the ruptured well is capped. For now, the company is trying to drop giant metal hoods directly over the leaking pipe.

The spill has been growing steadily since an explosion sank the Deepwater Horizon rig eleven days ago. Scientists think it may have tripled in size and could threaten coastlines further east - towards Alabama.

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson, reporting live from the Louisiana coast, told Jon Snow the rain and wind which have swept the region for several days are now dying down.

But nobody in the area is under any illusions about the mammoth nature of the clean-up task ahead. And local fishermen are demanding action, not words.

The effects of the vast slick are being felt on a variety of species. The booms are not working in the high winds and heavy seas.

From the air, the main slick is still visible – bigger than Hampshire, nine miles out. Nobody knows how much is leaking into the sea.

BP Tony Hayward boss finally accepted today that the clean-up could cost £8bn and that the responsibility was with his company.

Kerry O’Neill, a fisherman from Venice, told Channel 4 News: "Hurricane Katrina was bad, but we were able to kind of go back to work afterwards. This here, there ain’t no telling how long we'd be shut down."

President Obama flew in to the area yesterday, and he underlined BP’s responsibilities. But this morning in Venice, the fishermen were not easily moved. "Talk is cheap," Kerry O’Neill told Alex Thomson.

Booms are being laid down out to sea, but many of them have already been swept to shore.

Venice lives and dies by oil and fishing. BP is saying a well funnel under construction could be placed over the leak in six to eight days, allowing safe pumping and storage of the crude. But the technology is untried at this depth.

But BP also says the well could spew its crude for up to three months – what BP calls a "worst-case scenario".

'Logistically a nightmare, technologically pushing the limits'
Dr Simon Boxall, of the National Oceanography Centre, told Channel 4 News that on land it was easy to put a funnel over a leaking oil well.


"But we're dealing here with a hole that is 1,500 metres, over one mile, deep. And at those depths the pressure is phenomenal," he said.

In addition, the work was remote and in the dark. And the oil pumping out through the sea floor "is like a fog".

"So you're dealing with robots, though a fog, a mile away, with phenomenal pressures (…) It's pushing the boundaries of technology."

Dr Boxall explained: "At these sorts of depths, low tech is the best option… At this stage what they need is a quick fix to at least stem the oil flow."

Those involved in sealing the leak needed to wait for a "calm weather window" to complete the operation. "They've got to get this thing down through a mile of water. They've then got to use robots to position it.

"And another thing we're not used to is dealing with mini-robots under the sea at the same time (…) If you've got two or three things dangling over the side of a ship, or different ships, the chance of them getting tangled up is also very high.

"So logistically it's a nightmare, technologically it's pushing the limits."

Dr Boxall likened the situation in the Gulf of Mexico to a succession of stopcocks controlling the water supply to a house.

"You have a mains stopcock from the mains supply," he told Alex Thomson, "and you've got lots of stopcocks along the line – under your sink, in the shower, whatever.

"If the mains stopcock itself goes, then at the end of the day you have a problem. You can’t turn that safety valve off.

"And that's what’s happened here. You've got a situation where, if you like, it's broken right at the beginning of the line. And when that happens, there’s a limit to what you can put in in terms of safety measures."

Alex Thomson writes from Louisiana
We are way down the Bayou. And when it comes to being way down the Bayou, Venice is about as way down it as you can get.

The thick, driving tropical rain smashed down all the way last night, as I drove from a massive concrete freeway of central New Orleans, down, down and down into the dark night of the Mississippi Delta.

By night you see nothing – and then the vast, sudden light-show of a refinery or flare stack. By day the light has gone, but the thick tropical rain remains.

With the possible exception of water, Venice Louisiana doesn’t share much with the place of gondoliers. You simply drive down Highway-23 till the swamps and waters finally close in, and the only way back by land is reverse.

This morning, sheltering from the rainy onslaught, groups of burly men, all high-vis and hard hat, stand around – and they wait. This whole town – well, "town" isn’t the right word – this whole weird collection of docks, service vessels, oil yards and fishing boats, is in suspended animation.

There are yards full of clear-up equipment, oil booms, even catering. But till the weather clears, little is happening. And for the fishermen too, of course, their ground’s now closed.

And as for the perpetrators, well, BP have admitted responsibility for the oil and for cleaning it up. Potus, visiting Venice yesterday, said so. Venice fishermen and oil men say so. And now Tony Hayward – BP boss – says so.

The BP chief executive said the oil giant was "absolutely responsible" for cleaning up the oil spill caused by a ruptured offshore well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaking on NBC's Today Show, Tony Hayward also said the company was preparing for a "worst case scenario" that it would need to contain the spill for two to three months.

His comments came a day after President Barack Obama said BP was responsible for footing the bill for $4.6bn of damages caused by the massive oil slick heading towards the wetlands of the Gulf Coast.

BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill", Obama said, as the race to save wildlife from gallons of crude oil continues.


BP has more than 2,500 people working to clean up the slick, which the oil giant says is costing it at least £6.5m a day.

However, BP's bill looks set to soar as new evidence suggests the slick has tripled in size over the past two days and could cost the US more than $14bn.

Satellite images analysed by the University of Miami show the growing spread of the spill – and indicate the well may now be leaking at a greater rate.

US officials have banned fishing for at least 10 days in the affected area, which provides the nation with around 20 per cent of its seafood.

Mr Hayward said: "We've made it clear that where legitimate claims are made, we will be good for them."

"We have the claims process set up, small claims today that are being paid instantly ... bigger claims we clearly have a process to run through," he added.

The President vowed to spare no effort in responding to the crisis, which he said threatened one of the "richest and most beautiful eco systems on the planet".

Meanwhile, there are fears of a worst-case scenario that would see the spillage infiltrating the Gulf Stream where it could be carried to Florida’s beaches.

"It is also the heartbeat of the region's economic life and we're going to do everything in our power to protect our national resources and compensate those who have been harmed, rebuild what has been damaged and help this region preserve like it has done so many times before," he said in Louisiana yesterday.


The stricken waters in the Gulf of Mexico span the coastlines of four states, with the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana and Florida's Pensacola Bay the worst affected, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA officials are working to keep oiled seafood off the market – which is well-known for its shrimp and oyster supply as well as being a rich source of crabs and fish.

"There should be no health risk in seafood currently in the marketplace," Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Board said in a statement.

More than a billion pounds of fish and shellfish were harvested by fishermen in the region in 2008, according to government figures.

Eleven BP workers were killed after an explosion on April 20 that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and lead to the massive oil spill.