Global Views Welcome to Global Views, opinions about the world from ESL students from around the world. These students were interviewed in Kelowna, BC, Canada between April 1994 and the present. Their views presented in 'Global Views' are their own, and are not meant to represent their country or culture as fact. and To take advantage of the CD-quality sounds in these files, you will need a computer with a floating point unit (FPU), and the latest Shockwave Plug-in from Macromedia. 1. 2. [Top] 3. 4. 5. Brazil (Quicktime video 1.5 mb) Bulgaria (Quicktime video 1.6 mb) South Korea 6.Varia Produced by Brian Rhodes
The Adventure Cycling Guide: Enjoying Your Tour <span><b> To view photographs and access the menu, please enable JavaScripts</B></span> Fitness You don't have to worry too much about getting fit. This is particularly true for long tours, where you just ride yourself fit over the first two or three weeks. You may only do 50km a day for the first week, but this is no big deal. For shorter tours, it's a little more important to hit the ground running to make the most of your limited time. Before you set off, just try and ride your bike as much as you can. Speaking from experience, if you want to avoid excitement, it's best if you don't spend the first day of your very first tour learning how to pedal a fully loaded bike. Take it easy Take it easy on your tour - it's not a race. Do take rest days. Don't be too reluctant to cheat. Challenges Listed below are some of the the main challenges you might have to face on tour, in rough order of increasing difficulty. Hill and mountains Deserts Bad weather Washboard tracks Headwinds Food Drink Wild Camping
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FedStats 10 Tips For Your First Big Bicycle Expedition | The Next Challenge THIS ARTICLE: Is written by Andy Welch who set off in 2007 on an attempt to cycle around the world on a mountain bike with his friend Tom Allen. It would be unjust and impossible for me to try and summarise everything that Andy’s adventures have led to since then (for that you can visit the Ride Earth website) but suffice to say, he is a good man to advise anyone preparing for their first big bicycle expedition. Here are his top ten tips: 1. Prepare Tom and I spent a considerable chunk of time preparing for our bike trip, Ride Earth. We started a collaborative ‘Wiki’ website to collect a range of information from the philosophy of why we were going to kit lists, visa information for each country we planned to visit, medical advice, etc. In the end it became obvious that we could endlessly prepare but it wasn’t going to help us leave. 2. This was the main piece of advice that Al Humphreys gave us at the expedition planning seminar Explore at the RGS in 2006. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
How the EU works The EU is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 European countries that together cover much of the continent. The EU was created in the aftermath of the Second World War. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: the idea being that countries who trade with one another become economically interdependent and so more likely to avoid conflict. The result was the European Economic Community (EEC), created in 1958, and initially increasing economic cooperation between six countries: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Since then, a huge single market has been created and continues to develop towards its full potential. From economic to political union What began as a purely economic union has evolved into an organisation spanning policy areas, from development aid to environment. The EU is based on the rule of law: everything that it does is founded on treaties, voluntarily and democratically agreed by all member countries.
The Adventure Cycling Guide: Planning <span><b> To view photographs and access the menu, please enable JavaScripts</B></span> Travelling by bike you don't have to do much planning. In most cases, it boils down to drawing a line on a map and either getting on a plane or just setting off. How many of you? Going solo If there is only one of you, don't let it stop you going. Two's company "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." I think two is probably the ideal number for a cycling adventure. Three or more It's quite nice to travel in a small group for awhile. How far, how fast In planning your route you need a rough idea of how far and how fast you can travel. Research Key things you need to research before you go include: Security Travelling independently you are responsible for your own security. Road conditions Weather Wind direction Cost of living You need to have a rough idea of what your daily budget is going to be. Sources of information Internet Maps
Making of America aking of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. New Additions: We have recently added a new feature, subject browsing. 99 more volumes focusing on New York City were added to MoA in June 2007.
MayflowerHistory.com Countries Member countries of the EU (year of entry) The European Union has 28 member countries: On the road to EU membership Candidate countries Potential candidates Bosnia and Herzegovina Kosovo * * This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence Joining the EU Becoming a member of the EU is a complex procedure which does not happen overnight. Map