Business, NGOs and the challenge of sustainability
Today's consumer driven culture is ecologically unsustainable; this fact poses a clear challenge to governments who must agree responses to climate change and other issues. But what role can business play? Jim Leape, Director General and Chief Executive of WWF International, explains how companies can help drive a shift to sustainability in their sectors and more broadly, the roles that NGOs can play in catalysing such a shift.
Cells biology
Parts of the Cell
Thailand in Crisis vodcast series: Episode 01
Thailand is a nation on the verge - from the Red Shirt protests that culminated in violence and loss of life, to ongoing issues about democratic accountability and political instability. Over the next six weeks, the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific will bring you Thailand in Crisis - a series of six vod and podcasts released each Friday and beginning on 28 May. The vodcast will be available for viewing on ANUchannel at YouTube, while the podcast will be available for download from this page a
Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008
Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples.
Insp
Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008
Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples.
Insp
Immigration Detention and the Aesthetics of Incarceration
Michael Flynn, Global Detention Project, Graduate Institute of Geneva gives a talk for the first session of the workshop; Legal Approaches.
Politics in 60 seconds. War
Dr Lucy Sargisson defines a polical concept in 60 seconds for those with a spare minute to learn something new. This videocast focuses on War as a political concept.
Warning: video does contain bloopers and out takes.
May 2010
Suitable for Undergraduate study and Community education
Dr Lucy Sargisson, School of Politics and International Relations
Dr Lucy Sargisson is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. She is an active member of the profession, serving on th
Politics in 60 seconds. Property
Professor Christopher Pierson defines a polical concept in 60 seconds for those with a spare minute to learn something new. This videocast focuses on property as a political concept.
Warning: video does contain bloopers and out takes.
May 2010
Suitable for Undergraduate study and community education
Professor Christopher Pierson, School of Politics and International Relations
Professor Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham, director of teaching and lea
6. Malthusian Times
Global Problems of Population Growth (MCDB 150)
In many regions, the central cultural idea is that of a lineage, a family and its line of male ancestors and descendants. The prime duty in these cultures is to keep the lineage going. Religion is small scale with the ancestors performing many of the functions of gods. Denser populations and larger political entities lead to large-scale religion where conformity is stressed and cultural rules are codified in a book and not subject to discussion wi
Tuberculosis
Essential reading for those planning on working abroad, as global numbers of TB patients increases.
Mini project : DVD navigation : document transcript
This is Mini Project documentation about DVD navigation. It is part of the 2009/10 BSc in Media Technology and Digital Broadcast (course number 2ELE0073) from the University of Hertfordshire. All the mini projects are designed as level two modules of the undergraduate programmes.
It includes a project introduction and briefs for days 1 and 2.
The project provides an awareness of current audio and video standards for television and also introduces the use of contemporary digital video autho
Mini project : digital video editing : document transcript
This is Mini Project documentation about digital video editing. It is part of the 2009/10 BSc ( Hons ) in Multimedia Technology (course number 2ELE0075) from the University of Hertfordshire. All the mini projects are designed as level two modules of the undergraduate programmes.
It contains a project introduction and briefings for days 1 and 2 and an exercise.
This project entails the creation, editing, and encoding of a video sequence with the intention of distribution over a particular d
Maroon Tafetta Short Evening Dress
Maroon tafetta short evening dress. Bodice is strapless and boned, ruched horizontally to centre front seam. Drop waist with two-tiered skirt gathered onto waist. Large bow to left hip; long zip to centre back which is elasticated with smocking. Unworn, price label still attached. Maker: Debenhams - from the The Betty Smithers Design Collection at Staffordshire University.
Black Radley Trouser Suit.
Jacket : long sleeves, edge to edge (no buttons). Gold stitching around collar, cuffs and hem. Oriental style dragon motif on back, embroidered in gold thread with red, gold and blue seads and green gold and red 'jewels'. Shoulder pads.. Maker: Radley - from the The Betty Smithers Design Collection at Staffordshire University.
Distributed Web Systems - Time and global state
This quiz forms part of the "Time and global state" topic in the Distributed Web Systems module.
Getting Started: 08 Inserting scores
Tour the Scores and Resource Central panels. Explore the musical scores and ambient noises available with Soundbooth CS4. Insert a score into a file.
Getting Started: 09 Multitrack mixing
Learn how to mix sound using multitrack files. Raise the volume of dialog and reduce background noise. Use the Mute, Solo, and Pan buttons.
The Viking Age: England and Francia
Scandinavians, popularly known as Vikings, began to explore and settle in Europe from the ninth century. Contemporary Christian writers voiced their dismay at what they saw as the sudden eruption of these savage pagans into their area. Commentators since, down to the 20th century have largely echoed these writers' views, sometimes portraying the Scandinavians as mindless thugs led by psychopaths. In a period when savagery in warfare was commonplace, the Vikings have been placed by some in a spec
GS-18: Creating text
Add editable text to any image. Then, format the text by changing the font, color, point size, style, and more. After formatting the text, move or rotate it.
Use with either Photoshop Elements version 7 or 8.
Photoshop.com Membership Benefits
Discover the benefits of using the Photoshop Elements Organizer with Photoshop.com. Learn how to use Photoshop.com to share your images and videos or store them securely online.
