peter has been teaching here since two thousand and four legs and he's a senior lecturer at the faculty of foreign languages today's topic was all about how teaching and examination methods are about to change across europe. if you look at the us we can see that every european country except. and some of the reno have signed up to it we will be discussing the future of cation next week thanks for attention. this is going to be a first and probably i don't really i would think your support comes and becomes a lecture to you to first talk. well it's a simple story sound so i study russian university and then in two thousand and four i came here is a long distance i like to so much that's after i graduated i was an advisor to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. since little is a great city and it's constantly changing and you can see the show you see in the wonderful architecture that we have here. in addition to being such an old. city it's also a very young city we have twenty percent the population of. six universities under a very vibrant atmosphere w

when said was allowed to keep their laptops open during a lecture. -- one set was allowed to keep their laptops open during the election. they took a test over how well they had assimilated the information from the lecture, and the kids with laptops open did significantly worse than the people who actually paid attention, so there are all kinds of different studies, and all of them provide us with hints. i do not think there is one study that explains everything. you have to look across the whole lot of research. >> it almost seems given the direction we're heading in that it is pretty impossible to arrest this development. >> one of the big challenges is it is no longer just a matter of personal choice. it is no longer a matter of, should i close my laptop for my cellphone? the expectation that we are always processing messages is being built into our employment lives. it is being built into our social lives. if all your friends are arranging their social activities through twitter or through tax thing, it becomes a big challenge to back away, -- or through tax thing, -- texting, it be

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this is going to be a first and probably i don't really think your support comes and becomes a lecture at the university of. study russian university and then in two thousand and four i came here as a long distance i like to so much that's after i graduated i wasn't invited to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. since. the great city and it's constantly changing and you can see the. scene the wonderful architecture that we have here. being such an old. city it's also a very young city we have twenty percent the population of. six universities and a very vibrant. inventing it's of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh around. but the people here are very friendly. people always rushing around. very nice people so this is the real rush for the. phrase often in my trips around russia and this really is a city full of characters i wanted for twenty six history and there's one place here which deals with the city's time. terror of the. imprisoned and killed in. the stones this park is now morial to them and i'm going to visi

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. >> reporter: typically, more than 100 university students attend lectures in large halls.ot knowing anyone, okawa couldn't cope. he started skipping classes. finally, he dropped out. >> translator: i got stressed out, feeling that i wasn't fitting into society. then i fell into a depression. when i look back at that time, i guess i was too passive about everything. i wish i could have done things differently. >> reporter: why are so many college students dropping out? a non-profit organization surveyed 101 people who had dropped out of college. the organization soon formed an image of a young person who could not adapt to a conventional college education, who felt estranged right after setting foot on campus. >> translator: they're dropping out too easily. without considering risks involved and not thinking about their future. >> reporter: the increase in the number of dropouts could cut into universities' revenue. some universities took remedial action. 4.9% of its students drop out. that's 2.6 times higher than the national average. in some cases freshmen drop out within

that as they have it was a good list of the five years that the people were just so color lectured divided into two groups. is there is a small portion of the kyrgyz people support the government and an absolute majority of those who don't recognize the prison authorities either legally or socially. or you know without approaching the twenty minute mark of the hour it's good to have your company today let's check out some other stories now making headlines all around the u.n. says the number of civilians killed or wounded in afghanistan rose by thirty one percent in the first half of this. highlights the increasing toll the military effort in afghanistan has had on civilian lives over twelve hundred afghans have lost their lives and nearly two thousand injured the report blames antigovernment forces for over three quarters of those casualties. iran has reportedly launched a second cycle of uranium enrichment which if true would breach the u.n. resolution inspectors say they saw signs of a more efficient method being used during their latest visit in july in february iranian leader mahmoud

otherwise i'll show you later in the lecture. paint lines are another indicator of how damaged buildings are. if you want to look at the paint lines on this building, it's kind of hard to tell until you get up close. remember, this building is kind of a grayish tannish color, i guess. when you get a little bit closer, this side of the building should be the same color as this side of the building. what happened was this building moved away from the building next door and that's how far it moved. separation between buildings. you want to look at the separation to see if it's even, is it the same distance at the bottom as at the top, but that's another indicator of how damaged buildings are. this one looks fairly even, but when you get closer you can tell with the racking on the bottom that this building was pulled away. liquefaction, liquefaction is a term they use when the ground is loose. usually when structures or infrastructure is built on sand or land fill, something that's not solid, what happens is in shaking, during an ear

i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have a great problem when they come to a concert of classical music and view it as this is supposed to be serious music. this is not serious music and i would ask to you laugh. you are welcome to laugh. you may laugh. you need to practice laughing. we can progress -- all right. now, for those of you that find laughing difficult ladies and gentlemens you can at this timtiter in a nice way andf you want to be butch about it do the manly thought. please this isn't a work of aesthetic value it should be seen as humorous. as i of practicing this piece i can assure you and my ability for tongue twisters in english is limited let alone in japanese so if you see me stop and the priest turn extraordinarily red it's because i had a booboo. if you will excuse me. (music) this is the sort of thing you don't normally see. this would be a curtain and the oil makes it easier t

i switch from reading the newspapers to the books i find james lacy of the books of lectural districtf the poor law union. the library has most of the electoral district books for the 1840's. they are beautiful leather bound books with copper writing and calligraphy. the spelling of each name is not consistent from year to year. i find lacy spelled as l. a. krfrment y. e l. aechlt c. e. y. the books show the records of james lacy up through 1847. there are other tenants on the books. hanly, boshg, ryan, kennedy,llower and hoge an. i examine the rate books people were paying. they paid a tax shillings to the pound. another indicate the tax is paid and another indicate the taxes in arrears. james lacy was paid in full and not in a rears. the tax in 1846 was cut in half from the previous year. the year 1847 shows something else. the people were taxed in may of 1847 and made to pay a 4 fold increase and in october of 1847, 15 times what they were paying in 1846. this amoun

in 2004, the university of puerto rico asked me to come there and lecture and read. i immediately called my favorite cousin, and she said, what are you doing here? i told her and i said, please come to the reading, i have a book for you. she came. she said my son is getting married tomorrow at the caribbean hilton, could you please come? and i went. i hadn't seen her in 30 years. we were kids together. and after the wedding, there was a reception and she introduced me to her daughters, very beautiful girls, then i met the last one, very beautiful, green eyes, and she said, i want you it meet my son. all this is in spanish, you know? so i said, sure. so she called these 3 boys over, about my complexion, curly hair, and this is barry, brian, and brady. you expect jose jimenez, you know. what's your last name? murphy. murphy? si, si, murphy. very close to the way the irish pronounce murphy. i said, that's amazing. did you marry a serviceman from the -- military person who came to puerto rico. no, the family has been here since the 18th century. and i said, really? so we

to offer the naturalists and hotness demonstration space, for five lectures and workshops as well as to partner with the unified school district to provide educational awareness programs and to offer the reduce cost of field trips to students. also they will open up the lounge space and the main dining area for committee meetings. the benefits to the city of the order taker proposal would be a capital contribution in the first year of over a quarter billion dollars to renovate the boathouse. additionally, there is a proposed annual maintenance budget that ortega would set aside for the boat house of $20,000 each year and that is significant. this will help to meet our deferred capital needs in the first year and also having a boat house but also your tan as well when i assume that we will be facing budgetary constraints and still have quite a significant deferred maintenance needs within the departments. they would purchase entirely new fleets of boats. benefit would be rejuvenated boathouse experience for everyone to enjoy. i've spoken briefly about some of the other reach that has

this is a series of lectures and it talks about -- the second part of this is how did roosevelt and hismbrace of global power arrive at his convictions and become the first commander in chief actively to project american power around the globe? your book also talks about global power and how eisenhower and roosevelt fit into that. >> it was a series of lectures at johns hopkins. it is interesting to me because roosevelt's reputation was at a very low ebb at the time. there was a famous older prize- winning biographer of roosevelt, a man called henry pringle. he described him as a grown-up little boy roaming around the world and making trouble. if you ever have seen "arson and old lace," that is sort of the image of roosevelt in terms of the old uncle running around the house. there was actually a book published a year or two before that which was a short book and it might even be shorter than mine. it was a resurrection of roosevelt as a serious figure. to some degree come of those books raised a roosevelt revival. you could argue that mckinley, with his war on the spanish empire, have

he came to in the attic to give a lecture. i will you tell the story about the song. lama has come to indiana a couple of times. the center is there. my wife is like his escort. she goes with him everywhere and make sure he is there. they were having a lunch and elaine says, do you know your plan today at the luncheon? -- playing today at a luncheon? the dalai lama is on stage and they introduce him and he introduces me and i play this song. the greatest thing happened. he changed his entire conversation about what he was going to speak about that date and address the topics of the lyrics of "save some time to dream." how they played into and were like buddhist philosophy. i am not a buddhist. i was really flattered by that, to have the holiest man on earth talking about a song that some dumb kid from indiana rep. it was pretty astonishing to me. i would look out in the audience because i was on stage and the lane is going -- elaine is going, do you believe this i am sitting behind the dalai lama and he is smiling and shaking his head. i am deafer than a doornail. in

the school will keep the dna evidence anonymous and present it in lectures. >>> a five-year effort to come bat truancy in san francisco seems to be paying o the district attorney says the number of elementary and middle school kids who skip class has dropped by about a third in the last two years. high school students are still falling through the cracks. the in fact has identified 300 chronically truant students. harris said her office has prosecuted 25 parents of young kids for failing to get them to school regularly. >>> more trouble for google. the company already facing a lawsuit from a major software company. today, there will be a protest outside the company's headquarters for a completely different reason. kiet do tells us why activists are concerned about a new high- tech concept. >>> reporter: google with its corporate mantra of don't be eel is just not the kind of company that normally attracts protestors. >> they are violating their motto, don't be evil. >> reporter: he is the director of colorofchange a group that's helping to organize a protest at google headquarters abo

the diagnostic tests provide medical ca t patient, and now, this week provided to stet student on lecturesand panel discussions. >> now, here's stanley roberts to from people behaving badly. >> off let us watch this man on this mountain bike. notice his bicycle helmet on for safety which is very important and also he is crossing a set of foreign retracts. in fact, this is very dangerous. >> this is the burlington trained. and it is safe to say that these are very active train tracks. yet, every day, people use this as a short cut. and one of these ladies, >> hominy? >> at least three-four times per week. >> and before you think that this is a persostory of people crossing tracks? >> to get to this, these people have to walk over 3 mi.. they live on alamo st. and in one direction, there is a paved sidewalks and on the other direction? people have to walk in the street. so instead of walking the streets, they will use this short cut, is illegal, dangerous. the city of hercules has plans to expand as with more housing. it is a transit test. until this transit town is completed this is perhaps

students will be taking tours and attending orientation, lectures, and receptions. >>> up next, leaving iraq. what the united states is leaving behind in the warton -- war-torn nation. >>> there for demonstrations at the site of the ground zero mosque, and how someone was able to still >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >> dan: president obama will address the nation next week about the situation in iraq. the address comes after this week's withdrawal of u.s. combat troops. we have the story. >> reporter: as the last u.s. combat brigade from iraq folds up their flag, president obama plans to show he has fulfilled a campaign promise. he will mark the end of the u.s. combat mission in iraq with a major speech. after stenbruising years of war ask the loss of more than 4400 soldiers, commanders on the ground say iraq is moving forward. >> it's moving forward a little bit economically, security forces are improving, its diplomatic efforts are improving, so they're headed in the right direction. >> reporter: the iraqi government said in a statement its forces are

students will be taking a variety of campus tours and atakenning orientation workshops, lectures andeptions. >>> food-lovers brought their appetite to san francisco to the street food festival yesterday in the mission district. rob lewis, 56, shot this video and sent it to you -- ureport. if you have something to share, upload it to abc7.com or e-mail it to ureport at kgo tv --.com. >>> what a day out there. >> leigh: everyone is just out and about, and the heat wave is going to begin monday, just in time for kids to get back into the classrooms. check out this picture. what a fabulous day it was today. wasn't it? highhigh definition sutro cam looking down on almost a cloud, free bay area. the wind starting to set up. talked about this last night. and starting to scour all the low clouds and fog to the south. check out these highs, 85 right now in antioch. livermore, 86. 86 in concord. san francisco, 67. half moon bay seeing sun, 63. 83 in sunny sail and 80 in san jose. i'm going to keep it clear tonight. slight offshore winds will pick up over the east bay hills tonight, a good sign

starting tomorrow, new students will take part in campus tours, attend workshops, lectures, receptions. some students have been planning for this for years. >> my goal since, like, the beginning of high school that i get into berkeley. weird to have it happen now. >> a lot of hard work. this year's incoming berkeley class includes 500 international students and 600 out of state students. >>> do you have a green thumb but nowhere to grow plants. community gardens are popping up >>> reporter: if only i could speak russian, i could ask her for tips. clearly this woman speaks the language of plants. she's a backyard gardener, sort of. this isn't her backyard. the 28 by 7-foot plot of dirt belongs to the pleasant hill recreation parks district and is part of a community garden. folks rent the space for 70 bucks a year and grow mostly veggies. >> they are more edible than flowers. >> reporter: people garden for different reasons. the price of food, relaxation, the community garden started decades ago but the demand for space reached full bloom more recently. a lot of the gardeners are new be

the show includes a pair of the electric boat heels -- a lecture blow heels that famously laid low a fashion icon. >> here is the affect. one of the most famous moments when naomi campbell toppled off her rather tall shoes. this is the woman who designed them, vivian wedgewood, surrounded by more than 200 examples of her attention- grabbing footwear. >> everything has to be sexy. that is what my job is. i suspect ideas enter into fashion. we have some good ideas for flat shoes, too. >> she has rated the toy box to create styles and covers -- styles and colors, many you will not be able to afford or where, but this is fashion as an artistic statement, and if you manage to stand up, you will make an impression. what of that moment in 1993, when gravity got the better of mrs. campbell? >> it looks like a gazelle in slow-motion. it was fantastic. she never looked more beautiful. she is a very proud woman of course, so she laughed, but when she got backstage, she was so angry at me. >> vivian wedgewood says she does not have a thing for shoes even though they have made her famous, but whe