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How to Teach a Child to Read
Howcast - Make the process of learning to read easy and fun for your child -- and you!
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What in the Word...is a Resolutionary?
Brad Smith and Nora Ali play 'What in the Word?' where Cheddar producers pick a word from Urban Dictionary and the hosts try to guess what it means. Today's word: 'Resolutionary'.
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Italy - Clinton & Major Over Crossword Puzzle
00:00 ws clinton and major at table
00:10 cu clinton filling in crossword puzzle
00:31 ws room
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A hand pencils in a word in a crossword puzzle.
A hand pencils in a word in a crossword puzzle.
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Brain stimulation effective with eating disorders
This is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or rTMS.
Put simply it's a high frequency magnetic field that is sent through the skull.
A twitch in the fingers of this student volunteer shows that the target part of the brain is...
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Zaila Avant-garde Wins 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee
She's the first African American winner in the bee's 96-year history.
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Video games you can touch and feel
Video games and computer technology is getting so realistic you can literally feel it.
Haptics - the technology of physical interaction with the digital world - is all the rage at the SIGGRAPH emerging technologies show in Los Angeles....
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Millennials bored with video gaming turn to board games
LEAD IN: Forget your smartphones and tablets, we're in the middle of an old fashioned board game revival.Sales are buoyant according to the industry with people looking for group and family entertainment because we're 'bored' of staring...
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Group speaks in advance of Super Bowl halftime performance
AP Entertainment
Dallas, 3 February 2011
1. Wide of stage as Black Eyed Peas take their seats
2. Medium of Fergie, middle, speaking, surrounded by will.i.am, to her left and Taboo, to her right
UPSOUND (English) Fergie/Recording...
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Puzzle enthusiats compete at crossword tournament
New York City, March 1-2 2008
1. Wide shot New York City skyline, Empire State Building
2. Wide shot Marriot Hotel facade
3. Pan left ballroom full of about 700 participants
4. Medium shot New York Times Puzzle Editor William Shortz...
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Sean Gunn, Flavor Flav, Corey Feldman name Spider-Man as their favorite Marvel character
SEAN GUNN, FLAVOR FLAV, COREY FELDMAN NAME SPIDER-MAN AS THEIR FAVORITE MARVEL CHARACTER
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Spelling Bee Champ Shares Study Secrets
Ananya Vinay showed little emotion as she plowed through word after mystifying word in the final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.She says, for her, it's a sport."I like words and I like language and once I get started I don't...
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World Francophone Scrabble championship starts
1. Exterior of the grounds in Dakar where scrabble competition is taking place, sign reading (French) "37th World Francophone Scrabble Championship from the 18 to the 26 July."
2. Wide of flags
3. Mid of players looking at results...
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USA: REPORT CLAIMS INTERNET HATE CRIMES INCREASING
English/Nat
A new report in the U-S claims hate crimes are on the rise with the help of the Internet.
The report published on Friday by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in New York documents how hate crime groups and other extremists use the...
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Folk music veteran releases new book and CD
music/video/performance rights must be cleared
please note, profanity in shot 10
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Los Angeles, 8 September 2010
1. Performance clip: Christine Lavin - "Realities"
2. (Reporter: "Who is Christine Lavin?")
SOUNDBITE (English)...
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Simple video games appeal to a wider group of gamers
1. Woman playing game on laptop with zoom out
2. Astro Pop game (filmed courtesy of PopCap Games)
3. Various of Chuzzle game (filmed courtesy of PopCap Games)
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Vechay, Online Director, PopCap Games:
"Casual...
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Culpeper, Virginia, USA - March 4th, 2011
1. Mid of Library of Congress campus sign at entrance
2. Zoom out from front door of campus
3. Wide of Main Street in Culpeper
4. Mid of air vents on top of film vault earth...
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Former ‘Doctor Who’ companions, Karen Gillan and Freema Agyeman, reflect on their time on the series
FORMER 'DOCTOR WHO' COMPANIONS, KAREN GILLAN AND FREEMA AGYEMAN, REFLECT ON THEIR TIME ON THE SERIES
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The Cook County Jail in Chicago and many of its 3,300 counterparts across the country have become treatment centers of last resort for people with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes. (July 14)
NATS: I get up really early in the morning and I just sit up and I draw
SOUNDBITE: Elli Petacque Montgomery, Deputy Director of the Office of Mental Health Policy
"The majority of crimes by mentally ill are people who are off their meds...
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USA: WASHINGTON: SCRABBLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
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The best Scrabble players from 36 countries are gathering in Washington D-C this weekend for the Scrabble World Championships.
The competition, held every other year since 1991, awards 25-thousand U-S dollars to the...
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Crossword constructor Bernice Gordon marked two milestones this past week. She turned 100 on Saturday and by Wednesday became the first centenarian to have a puzzle published in the New York Times. (Jan. 17)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus004023
(Nats - singing "Happy Birthday")
SOUNDBITE (English) Will Shortz, New York Times crossword puzzle editor:
"For years, every crossword I've published of Bernice's has set a new record for...
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Brazil seeks to beat Guinness World rec with a giant book during Rio Book Fair
1. Wide top pan of book fair
2. Top shot of book stand of Ediouro, publisher of the Guinness Book of World Records in Brazil and Guinness record breaker
3. Wide of book competing to be the largest book ever published in the Guinness...
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USA: WASHINGTON: FINAL DAY OF NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
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Children from around the United States spelled their little hearts out on Thursday as the National Spelling Bee entered its final day.
The knockout competition aims to find the best young speller in the country.
When the...
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USA: NATIONAL SPELLING BEE CHAMPION
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A 14-year-old student from Florida is 10-thousand dollars richer because she knew how to spell a word most people probably have never heard of.
Nuper Lala correctly spelled "logorrhea" in the final round of a U-S national...