Oklahoma tornado: Dramatic footage shows power of twister
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Dramatic footage, filmed by a worker at a KFC restaurant, captures the power of the tornado as it approaches the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.
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This video feature looks forward to the adventures of a group of three Brits - two of which are sisters Serena and Tamsin Davies - who have just set out to explore some of the world’s most dangerous disaster areas.
They call themselves ‘Fault Line Living’ and they are an education project raising awareness about the benefits and drawbacks of living alongside volcanoes and earthquake zones.
With the help of a bursary provided by the Royal Geographical Society and Land Rover, they are journeying 15,000 miles though Iceland, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Iran to document the complex relationship people have with their environment.
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Life Cycle UK is a Bristol-based charity that works to inspire, educate, equip and connects like-minded people with the knowledge and confidence to make cycling part of their everyday lives, reaping the benefits of physical exercise and using it as a practical means of transport. They run practical activities such as cycle training, organise awareness-raising events, provide help with bike maintenance, cycle maps and other literature, and organise conferences and seminars. Cycling training is a one of the important activities they engage, teaching people of all ages to ride safely and skillfully.
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A film focused on the benefits of rain water harvesting. It features Elwyn Griffiths on his Shropshire chicken farm. The system he has installed saves him 100,000 pounds a year in water rates and has huge environmental benefits.
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Crédit Agricole S.A., which operates in 70 countries with over 161 thousand employees, is realising the benefits of the improved conferencing capabilities in Microsoft® Office Communications Server.
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Microsoft Partner, Thinkscape IT, discuss the benefits of Microsoft Online Services within their business, the future growth opportunities and advantages cloud technology is bringing to their customers.
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Live meeting extract from Online Tech Days event: Oct 8th 2010 What were the criteria DotNet Solutions looked at when deciding to move this application to a cloud platform? Why does this application suit the cloud and not an on-premise deployment?
Why was Windows Azure chosen as the cloud platform from the many alternatives emerging on to the market? This session also covers some of the gotchas and learnings from writing a cloud application. And eventually, what have the benefits of running in the cloud been?
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The Microsoft Virtualisation competency helps you differentiate your virtualisation expertise to customers and grow your business. Achieving this competency helps you maximise the benefits of the Microsoft Partner Network and quickly gain customer credibility, regardless of your company size, business model, or geography.
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Silverlight enables the development of great UIs that engage users and Metastorm has used it to make user experience the focus of their products. In this demo-driven session, we explore how MVVM was used in the development of a large scale RIA framework for Metastorm's portfolio of commercial applications. We look at samples, what were the benefits, the challenges, when not to use MVVM, and the costs of not using it. We also look at the dynamic generation of ViewModels from ODATA services to apply MVVM and separation of concerns in business process management applications.