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Ajarn Donald's Blog: This Day In History

Ajarn Donald's Blog: This Day In History | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it

May 5, 1961:
The first American in space

From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
NASA was established in 1958 to keep U.S. space efforts abreast of recent Soviet achievements, such as the launching of the world's first artificial satellite--Sputnik 1--in 1957. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the two superpowers raced to become the first country to put a man in space and return him to Earth. On April 12, 1961, the Soviet space program won the race when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, put in orbit around the planet, and safely returned to Earth. One month later, Shepard's suborbital flight restored faith in the U.S. space program.
NASA continued to trail the Soviets closely until the late 1960s and the successes of the Apollo lunar program. In July 1969, the Americans took a giant leap forward with Apollo 11, a three-stage spacecraft that took U.S. astronauts to the surface of the moon and returned them to Earth. On February 5, 1971, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, became the fifth astronaut to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.

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Ajarn Donald's Blog: English-Attack's Booster Pass Arrives

Ajarn Donald's Blog: English-Attack's Booster Pass Arrives | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
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Ajarn Donald's English Language Services is rolling out English-Attack's Booster Pass for 2013. On the English-Attack! website Booster Pass refers to an Unlimited Use of a PremiumSubscription English-Attack! Thailand Now Available is the Real Booster Pass which is guaranteed to be the most Affordable, Practical and Convenient way for people to learn/improve their English language skills. It is also a fun way to meet new friends from around Thailand or around the world who want to improve their English language skills too.  Donald Patnaude had this idea ever since becoming the Marketing Partner in Thailand for English-Attack back in August 2012. The English-Attack platform is an online interactiveEnglish learning software that users can use online 24-hours a day 7-days a week with new content being refreshed everyday. This program is suitable for all teenagers and adults. The problem is that most teens do not have a credit card to purchase a premium subscription on the website. Another problem is with adults who work very hard and then are forced to signup for a long period of time to learn English at some crowded language center. This can be very costly too. Therefore there is the Booster Pass solution. Save money and time and buy a 1-month subscription for a Booster Pass and use is anywhere in the world anytime you want. Just purchase the card (like a pre-paid calling card) and on the back side scratch the panel to see and enter the promo code onto our website  มีPromo Codeหรือไม่ ถ้ามีใส่ที่นี่   Enter Code Here This card is available to all schools, universities, language centers, groups, companies and shops who are currently reselling pre-paid calling cards. The minimum order is 20-cards at the wholesale price.  Retailers earn a fair profit by purchasing the cards at wholesale and reselling them at retail. Users save money and time by purchasing these Booster Passes and it's the most affordable, practical, convenient and fun way to improve their English skills.  For all inquiries relating to the wholesale purchasing of these Booster Passes please Email: Email English: Donald Patnaude or Call 081-855-2701         Thai Email: Supawan Inbunna or call 089-201-1680

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Ajarn Donald's English Language Services is rolling out English-Attack's Booster Pass for 2013. On the English-Attack! website Booster Pass refers to an Unlimited Use of a PremiumSubscription English-Attack! Thailand Now Available is the Real Booster Pass which is guaranteed to be the most Affordable, Practical and Convenient way for people to learn/improve their English language skills. It is also a fun way to meet new friends from around Thailand or around the world who want to improve their English language skills too.  Donald Patnaude had this idea ever since becoming the Marketing Partner in Thailand for English-Attack back in August 2012. The English-Attack platform is an online interactiveEnglish learning software that users can use online 24-hours a day 7-days a week with new content being refreshed everyday. This program is suitable for all teenagers and adults. The problem is that most teens do not have a credit card to purchase a premium subscription on the website. Another problem is with adults who work very hard and then are forced to signup for a long period of time to learn English at some crowded language center. This can be very costly too. Therefore there is the Booster Pass solution. Save money and time and buy a 1-month subscription for a Booster Pass and use is anywhere in the world anytime you want. Just purchase the card (like a pre-paid calling card) and on the back side scratch the panel to see and enter the promo code onto our website  มีPromo Codeหรือไม่ ถ้ามีใส่ที่นี่   Enter Code Here This card is available to all schools, universities, language centers, groups, companies and shops who are currently reselling pre-paid calling cards. The minimum order is 20-cards at the wholesale price.  Retailers earn a fair profit by purchasing the cards at wholesale and reselling them at retail. Users save money and time by purchasing these Booster Passes and it's the most affordable, practical, convenient and fun way to improve their English skills.  For all inquiries relating to the wholesale purchasing of these Booster Passes please Email: Email English: Donald Patnaude or Call 081-855-2701         Thai Email: Supawan Inbunna or call 089-201-1680
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Suspected CW arsonists revealed | Bangkok Post: learning

Suspected CW arsonists revealed | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
CentralWorld fire, suspects, arsonists, ivnestigation
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If you have any information about thes men in these photos released yesterday, call the police. They are suspected of being involving in the CentralWorld fire and a reward may be waiting for you if they are arrested.

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North America : Discovery Channel

North America : Discovery Channel | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
This is our land. North America, an unforgettable television event, premieres Sunday, May 19, at 9|8c.
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Discovery Education invites you to tune in to the breathtaking premiere of the series NORTH AMERICA and be transported across magnificent mountain ranges, glaciers, and valleys to explore the majesty of our awe-inspiring continent.

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Billionaire air hostess for a day (video included) | Bangkok Post: learning

Billionaire air hostess for a day (video included) | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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Sir Richard Branson shaves legs, puts on lipstick & air hostess dress, serves passengers on Air Asia flight from Australia to Malaysia after losing bet 3 years ago.

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Teachers Turns Himself in After Accusations Surface | KTXL FOX40

Teachers Turns Himself in After Accusations Surface | KTXL FOX40 | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
A teacher has turned himself in to police after allegations surfaced of an inappropriate relationship with a student.
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Orosco was wanted after the grandparents of the victim saw him carry the victim at Vacaville High School’s theater. After talking to the girl, she reported Orosco kissed her at least three times. Officers say text messages support the allegations.

Read more: http://fox40.com/2013/05/09/teachers-turns-himself-in-after-accusations-surface/#ixzz2SqDGzhvW

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Twitter / mbteachers: Celebrate Manitoba's amazing ...

Twitter / mbteachers: Celebrate Manitoba's amazing ... | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
RT @mbteachers: Celebrate Manitoba's amazing humanitarian students w/ @AceBurpeeShow @theRealMimoza @DANEBJORNSON May 22! #YHA2013 http://t.co/RvPgv3y1sl
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Celebrate Manitoba's amazing humanitarian students
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Luxury airline food for rich & famous | Bangkok Post: learning

Luxury airline food for rich & famous | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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These are examples of the cases, some bizarre, some ordinary, of providing ground services for the rich and famous who travel in private planes.

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Adapt or melt - Bangkok Post

Adapt or melt - Bangkok Post | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Bangkok Post
Adapt or melt
Bangkok Post
With relative humidity rising as the rainy season approaches and the merciless sun continuing to make us sweat buckets, we need something lightweight and non-sticky to pamper our skin.
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During daylight hours, if your skin should start looking oily, blot the excess oil off with blotting paper. But never reapply powder to oily skin; it will just look "cakey".

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Call center work for prisoners | Bangkok Post: learning

Call center work for prisoners | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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Something isn't right here...

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Pan Am Education Chosen To Develop English Attack! Online Language Learning Service in U.S. and Korea

Pan Am Education Chosen To Develop English Attack! Online Language Learning Service in U.S. and Korea | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Entertainment Learning announced its partnership with Pan Am Education today for the marketing of the English Attack! online English language learning platform (www.english-attack.com) in the United States of America and the Republic of Korea.
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Pan Am has clearly chosen the Best and No.1 English Language Learning 2.0 Platform. English-Attack! is reaching higher grounds as more people become aware of its fun and easy to use platform. 

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Boston bombing suspect photos released (video) | Bangkok Post: learning

Boston bombing suspect photos released (video) | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Boston bombing, FBI, photos released, learning English
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A few hours ago, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held a press conference and released photos of two men who are suspected of setting off the bombs at the Boston Marathon which killed three people and injured more than 170.

You can read what was said and revealed in your own Thai newspapers or on the bangkokpost.com website, but if you are an English learner, it will be more interesting and useful if you watch and listen to what was said directly. The video contains the first three minutes of the press conference during which the photos of the suspects were released.

If you are interested, you can see a longer video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZRzB_nYkFQ. You can find a transcript (text) of the FBI statement here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/statement-at-fbi-press-conference/article11392117/.

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U.S. diplomat died 'doing what she loved' in Afghanistan

U.S. diplomat died 'doing what she loved' in Afghanistan | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
The U.S. diplomat killed in a bombing in Afghanistan this weekend died doing what she loved, her family says.
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"Anne was an incredibly optimistic, fearless, and giving person," said Ryan Hanley, the program's founder

"We mourn a life cut short," he said Sunday, "but are blessed to have shared in it."

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Snoop Lion and Mylie Cyrus team up in "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks" | Bangkok Post: learning

Snoop Lion and Mylie Cyrus team up in "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks" | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Snoop Lion, Snoop Dogg, Mylie Cyrus, Ashtrays and Heartbreaks. Reincarnated
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Video Boosters are language exercises based on short videos rarely exceeding two minutes in length.

 

You can choose from clips of recent films or current TV series; music videos or items from international television news: whatever interests you most.

 

The Video Booster format is based on a series of progressively deeper contextual exercises.

 

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IU Northwest Weekend MBA students travel to Thailand for lessons in ... - IU Northwest (press release)

IU Northwest Weekend MBA students travel to Thailand for lessons in ... - IU Northwest (press release) | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
IU Northwest (press release)
IU Northwest Weekend MBA students travel to Thailand for lessons in ...
IU Northwest (press release)
This past spring, the latest cohort of 11 students visited Thailand.
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A highlight of the trip was a visit to an International Business class at Bangkok University, where MBA students on the opposite end of the globe traded conversation with the IU Northwest students. In comparing their programs, the students learned their curriculums are actually very similar.

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Tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb | Bangkok Post: learning

Tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Moore, Oklahoma, tornado
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A powerful tornado with winds of up to 320 kilometers per hour pulverised an Oklahoma City suburb Monday, hitting at least two schools and wiping out block after block of homes.

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Free from jail after police mistake | Bangkok Post: learning

Free from jail after police mistake | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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Working to support his 3-year old son & finishing university, police mistake jails for 2 years, can't get job with criminal record.

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A T-shirt for you | Bangkok Post: learning

A T-shirt for you | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
T-shirts, Phappim Drawn T-shirts, Cicada Market in Hua Hin
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It’s “you want it, you got it” with Hua Hin T-Shirt designer Anusorn 'Q' Praneerat-chalert. If you can imagine it, he can produce it for you.

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Watch out, bullies: She's got the band behind her

Watch out, bullies: She's got the band behind her | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Mano has high-functioning autism. To help her deal with bullying at school, her parents gave her music lessons.
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"We cannot prove anything, but there are many studies that say how the brain can change when you do music-making ... the part of the brain that wasn't working very well has to find another way to work."

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Day trip food adventure in Nakhon Pathom | Bangkok Post: learning

Day trip food adventure in Nakhon Pathom | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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Around 5pm every day, hundreds of merchants turn up here and start unloading their vehicles, setting giant woks down on bottled-gas rings to cook up a storm and turn this dusty open space into a bustling food bazaar.
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Asbestos kills, that's for sure | Bangkok Post: learning

Asbestos kills, that's for sure | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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Rebuilding the Death Railway from Myanmar to Kanchanburi | Bangkok Post: learning

Rebuilding the Death Railway from Myanmar to Kanchanburi | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Death Railway, Myanmar, Kanchanaburi
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Exhaustion, starvation, disease and torture were the chief causes of fatalities among those impelled by the invading Japanese to gouge a rail route through dense jungle and solid rock between October 1942 and December 1943.

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Giant snake has feast of a lifetime | Bangkok Post: learning

Giant snake has feast of a lifetime | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
giant snake, rabbit cage, Pathum Thani
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This is one hungry snake. 

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Songkran road accidents: Mostly motorcycles | Bangkok Post: learning

Songkran road accidents: Mostly motorcycles | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Designed to make learning English a great deal easier. Every day we cover key stories in the news, define dozens of words in English and Thai and even include sound files of most of the stories for you to hear.
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A total of 232,600 motorcyclists were charged with failing to wear a safety helmet and 222,601 motorists facedcharges of driving without a licence.

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Songkran 2013 in pictures | Bangkok Post: learning

Songkran 2013 in pictures | Bangkok Post: learning | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
Songran 2013, Thailand, Bangkok Post photographers
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During the Songkran period our Bangkok Post photographers have been out and about braving the man-made delugeto send back hundreds of high-quality photos of the festivities. The newspaper itself only has space to publish a smallfraction of them, but our internet section has fewer limitations. I have published a large number of Songkran photos on our Bangkok Post learning Facebook page, but I thought it would also be nice to post a collection of photos right here on our webpage. Let’s get started.

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Happy Songkran 2013 Special Promotion Save 55-60% | Ajarn Donald's English Language Services

Happy Songkran 2013 Special Promotion Save 55-60% | Ajarn Donald's English Language Services | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
English Attack! is a totally new approach to learning English, developed by media and videogaming experts in collaboration with researchers in cognitive neurosciece. Our innovative learning method combines videos,...
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English Attack! is a totally new approach to learning English, developed by media and videogaming experts in collaboration with researchers in cognitive neurosciece.  Our innovative learning method combines videos, photos, games and social networking for a daily English workout. It's fun and effective. Once you try it, you won't want to learn any other way. English Attack! เป็นทางเลือกใหม่ในการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษ พัฒนาโดยสื่อและผู้ชำนาญการด้านทำวิดีโอเกมส์ ได้รับความร่วมมือจากผู้มีความรู้ในด้านประสาทวิทยาศาสตร์เกี่ยวกับการรับรู้ วิธีการเรียนรู้แบบใหม่ จากวิดีโอ รูปภาพ เกมส์ และเครือข่ายเกี่ยวกับสังคม ใช้ภาษาอังกฤษเป็นประจำวัน วิธีการสนุกและมีประสิทธิภาพ คุณลองเรียนเมื่อไร คุณจะชอบและเรียนไปเรื่อย ไม่อยากกลับไปเรียนแบบเดิม English-Attack! Thailand
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Fire at Muslim school in Myanmar kills 13 children | Big News Network

Fire at Muslim school in Myanmar kills 13 children | Big News Network | Ajarn Donald's Educational News | Scoop.it
An electric short circuit set off fire at an Islamic school in Myanmar Tuesday leaving 13 schoolchildren dead, officials said, amid rumours that religious fanatics may have caused sabotage.
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Even as police assured that the blaze was accidental, religious tensions ran high soon after the news spread in the country rocked by a wave of Buddhist-Muslim killings and arson in central Myanmar.

The government appealed for calm as posse of security forces were deployed at the scene after an angry crowd gathered demanding answers about the deadly fire.

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