Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Easter Egg

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
ROAD SCHOLARS: INUIT ADVENTURE AFRICA follows six Inuit teenagers volunteering at an orphan care centre in Botswana. This one-hour documentary from award-winning producer Jane Hawtin premiered on APTN this past February. Check your local listings for repeat broadcasts!



English In the Air!
Check out this amazing program in Hong Kong where Road Scholars, Lizzie McGuire, Smallville and Sail Away are used to teach English and earn students big bucks!

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Episode 3 : Mexico

The mysterious temples and pyramids are just one aspect of the amazing civilization that was the Maya. During a period we have come to label the Dark Ages, these amazing people mapped the heavens, evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas and were masters of mathematics, inventing the calendars we use today. While the Mayan empires died out by the beginning of the second millennium, there are close to 7 million Maya descendants today, speaking up to thirty languages and living from Central America to Mexico. What better place than the Yucatan Peninsula to immerse oneself in the Mayan culture. With visits to the Museum of Cozumel and the ancient villages of Chichen Itza and Tulum, our young Inuit host, Jessie Fraser, will explore the history and culture of one of Mexico's indigenous people. As an accomplished throat singer and Inuktitut translator Jessie, who wants to become the first female Inuit physician will also earn a grade 10 science credit in one of the most beautiful living laboratories in the world.



Hurricane Emergency
(Preview)


 Highlights:
Jessie and her crew weren't the only surprise visitors to Cozumel. As her Mayan adventure was about to begin the area was alerted to an approaching hurricane. Emergency measures were put into place, putting a damper on the adventures!
Hurricanes

The term "hurricane" is a regionally specific name for a strong "tropical cyclone". A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation.

Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions" (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)). Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name. If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called a "hurricane" in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E.
Other facts:

The World Meteorological Organization is responsible for naming hurricanes using six lists in rotation. The same lists are reused every six years. New names are added only if a hurricane is particularly deadly or costly, in which case that name is retired and a new name is added to the list.

Here's a list of hurricane names retired since tracking of these nasty storms began: 
Agnes		David		Hazel 
Alicia		Diana		Hilda 
Allen		Diane		Hortense 
Allison 	Donna		Hugo 
Andrew		Dora		Inez 
Anita		Edna		Ione 
Audrey		Elena		Iris 
Betsy 		Eloise 		Jane 
Beulah 		Fifi 		Joan 
Bob 		Flora 		Keith 
Camille 	Fran 		Klaus 
Carla 		Frederic 	Luis 
Carmen 		Floyd 		Lenny 
Carol 		Gilbert 	Marilyn 
Celia 		Gloria 		Michelle 
Cesar 		Gracie 		Mitch 
Cleo 		Georges 	Opal 
Connie 		Hattie 		Roxanne

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