The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Henry Larsen is a highly specialized ice-breaker. In addition to keeping shipping lanes open for commercial fishing vessels and other ships, she’s especially outfitted for search and rescue missions as well as oceanographic research in the High Arctic. This ship is a lifeline. It’s work really does make a difference between life and death, in terms of the ‘search and rescue’ work. But Henry Larsen is also a lifeline for the people of Fogo Island. If there was no icebreaker, there would be no ferry and the communities would be completely stranded.
Subjects: Technology
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Frontline: Flying Cheap – Public Performance
One year after the deadliest domestic airline accident in seven years, FRONTLINE investigates the crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, NY, and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where regional carriers now account for half of the nation’s daily departures. The rise of the regionals and arrival of low-cost carriers have been a huge boon to consumers, and the industry insists that the skies remain safe. But many insiders are worried that now, thirty years after airline deregulation, the aviation system is being stretched beyond its capacity to deliver service that is both cheap and safe.
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Frontline: Flying Cheap – Home Use
One year after the deadliest domestic airline accident in seven years, FRONTLINE investigates the crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, NY, and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where regional carriers now account for half of the nation’s daily departures. The rise of the regionals and arrival of low-cost carriers have been a huge boon to consumers, and the industry insists that the skies remain safe. But many insiders are worried that now, thirty years after airline deregulation, the aviation system is being stretched beyond its capacity to deliver service that is both cheap and safe.
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AMEX: Henry Ford
HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century. Ford’s Model T automobile and his five-dollar-a-day wage ushered in the modern world, earning Ford reverence from millions of Americans. Yet many of the changes he wrought deeply troubled the carmaker. In frustration, he lashed out at enemies, real and imagined.
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AMEX: Silicon Valley
SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley. The film spotlights the creativity of the young men who founded Fairchild Semiconductor and in particular the brilliant, charismatic young physicist Robert Noyce.
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Gridlock
Drivers all over the world fume as they sit in traffic jams-rush hour is not an hour any more-it’s stretched to six hours in many cities and commute time has doubled for most. A quarter of us spend more than an hour and a half getting to and from work…in the winter heading out in the dark and crawling back home at night. We’re going nowhere slowly, and as we do our blood pressure rises and so does the risk of heart attacks and lung disease. Gridlock, explores new solutions to sitting in traffic jams. Could the cell phone, now a cause of accidents, be used differently-to help us navigate our way out of traffic jams? Is charging people to come into the city an effective solution? Maybe paying commuters to use roads and bridges at the least busy times? What about taking the driver out of driving-developing the ultimate cruise control? One thing we know, do nothing and it will get a whole lot worse.
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Designing for Different Needs
This program is aimed at the continuing changes in the designing and manufacturing world. New material and manufacturing processes are influencing what products we buy and how we use them. The use of robotics in manufacturing now allows more complex and intricate products to be made catering for wider range of differing needs. It also shows the impact that political, environmental, physical and social context has on the designing and manufacture of new products.
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Designing, Manufacturing and Evaluating a Product
This program takes a careful look into the steps and processes involved in the Design and Technology course. It poses problems and actively identifies needs; gathers information and building knowledge about the nature of needs, wants opportunities and areas for improvement and best routes towards designing a solution; develops and uses design and technology skills knowledge of processes etc; assesses the outcomes of design and technology processes, and the resulting products in relation to environmental, social and economic factors.
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New Year’s Eve NY
Tonight , what if the famous crystal ball doesn’t drop? What if the electricity that lights up
the world’s biggest New Years party is cut off? And what if something much, much
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The Sports Arena
Today it’s a basketball court, tomorrow an ice rink, the next a tennis court, and on and on. What does it take to put on an indoor sporting event in one of the world’s most modern sports facility? To find out Ultimate Access gives you the best ticket in the house. Ultimate access to the unique multi-talented world of modern indoor sports arena.