Veterans Day 2012
NorthÂeastern UniÂverÂsity observes VetÂerans Day at the VetÂerans MemoÂrial on campus. PresÂiÂdent Joseph E. Aoun welÂcomed U.S HomeÂland SecuÂrity SecÂreÂtary Janet NapoliÂtano, the guest of honor. Other speakers included Aoun, StuÂdent VetÂerans OrgaÂniÂzaÂtion PresÂiÂdent Michael Trudeau and LTC Blaise Gallahue.
Windows Phone 8: Application Model | Build 2012 Windows Phone 8 dramatically expands the ways in which developers can build applications and games, by adding several new programming models, and also expanding the application model to support a broader set of developer scenarios. Andrew will explore these in depth and give you the information you need to get started building applications that leverage these features today.
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Letter "L" Activities with Food
Featuring the letter L. This video introduces the letter L, the L sound, and foods that start with the letter L. (5:45)
Story Hour in the Library - Peter Orner
Peter Orner reads as part of the Story Hour in the Library series. Orner's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, The Southern Review, The Forward, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Ploughshares. His first two novels received numerous awards. He is also the editor of two non-fiction books. His third book of fiction, Love and Shame and Love was recently called epic by Daniel Handler, "...epic like Gilgamesh, epic like a guitar solo." (O
News #106 - This Thanksgiving, You’ll Thank Yourself for Learning Spanish
The year’s winding down and the busy holidays are approaching. Gifts for moms, gifts for dads, gifts for friends. But what about for you? This Thanksgiving, make sure to thank yourself too! Make sure it’s with something that’s most important to you – mastering Spanish. And we thank you too for tuning in and being [...]
Coin Dice Trade Game (Part 1 - Intro) Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" (Animated Version) Otis in China: Bamboo Challenge 2012 A hidden secret or placebo effect? How Saladin's physicians took care of souls and bodies Dean Emeritus Jerry Trapnell Honored with Endowed Scholarship Otters in Their Environment 1.1 Understanding scale diagrams Plans of houses and instructions for assembling shelves, etc., often come in the form of scale diagrams. Each length on the diagram represents a length relating to the real house, the real shelves, etc. Often a scale is given on the diagram so that you can see which length on the diagram represents a standard length, such as a metre, on the real object. This length always represents the same standard length, wherever it is on the diagram and in whatever direction. 1.2.9 In praise of cheap offshore labour? continued Significantly, no one from the pro-market lobby is actually denying that sweatshops exist, or trying to cover up the fact that workers in such places have to endure bad working conditions. But, as the subtitle of Krugman's (1997) article suggests: ‘bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all’. Low as the wages are in the offshore T-shirt or microwave factories compared with those in more developed economies, they tend to be higher than those of other workers around them. The huma 1.2.8 In praise of cheap offshore labour? continued There are two points which are central to this line of thinking. One, according to Wolf (2004), is that the whole process, as odd as it may sound, is about mutual exploitation. Outside firms do indeed exploit the poor by taking advantage of the profitable opportunities that a pool of cheap labour represents. But Indonesian or Chinese workers, for instance, could be said to exploit the incoming firms by extracting higher pay from them and taking advantage of opportunities that previousl 1.2.7 In praise of cheap offshore labour? Claims over the benefits of globalisation and the exploitation of cheap offshore labour generate strong feelings and, not surprisingly, divide opinion between those who favour the global marketplace and its detractors. The issue turns on whether the constant search for ever-cheaper manufacturing and service locations is seen as a good or a bad thing. It may appear odd, at first, to suggest that exploiting the poor of another country can, on any measure, be regarded as a good thing, but 1.2.6 Defining global markets Global markets for manufactured goods, as opposed to, say, primary commodities such as oil and timber, arose largely in the second half of the twentieth century as trade between countries intensified. The lowering of transport costs and the relative fall in trade barriers enabled firms in one country to compete with a domestic rival in another. The supply of manufactured goods across the globe as a result of worldwide demand, principally from the affluent economies, thus heightened competitio 1.2.5 Offshore fragments of industry: a pro-market standpoint From a pro-market standpoint, global market forces and the competitive pressures that they generate leave businesses with no choice but to take advantage of lower labour costs elsewhere. In the textile business or the toy business, lower wage costs are the key to profitability; if your competitors find a cheaper labour source, you either follow their example or go out of business. It is not, so the argument runs, because managers lack integrity or compassion that there are now more manufactur 3.1 Exploring your personal ecology One of the simplest techniques one can use when investigating a complex situation using a systems approach is to jump between organisational, spatial and temporal scales and explore the relationships between these scales. In this activity the aim is to develop a Author(s): 2.1 The importance of sine waves For much of the rest of this unit we shall be concerned with the properties of a type of sound wave that when represented as a graph has a characteristic shape known as a sine wave. Figure 1 shows you what a sine-wave graph looks like. For the moment you need not be concerned with what this grap References
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This is an animated version of Plato's work, "Allegory of the Cave." In the video, the question of what would be real to a person whom has been in a dark cave all his life and was suddenly set free to roam around outside is contemplated. Would the shadows he only knew be real or would he not long for the real world that he had witnessed if placed back in chains in the dark cave? (08:18)
In 2004, toy company Hape hosted China's first UNESCO bamboo workshop. Hape's bamboo toys, the first collection of toys based on this natural resource, grew out of this UNESCO event.
Since then, Hape, and Peter Handstein, Founder and CEO, has offered an Annual Bamboo Workshop, inviting international design students to propose and create new ideas. The bamboo facility is in Zheijang, adjacent to their own renewable, sustainable, bamboo forest.
In 2012, along with students from the China Aca
Colloquia Week 7 HT10 - Daniel Nicolae; "A hidden secret or placebo effect? How Saladin's physicians took care of souls and bodies"
Dean Emeritus Jerry Trapnell Honored with Endowed Scholarship
On September 23, 2012, approximately 500 family, friends and colleagues from AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) International celebrated Jerry Trapnell's retirement as the first executive vice president and chief accreditation officer by surprising him with an endowed scholarship in his name. The event marked the opening of the AACSB Annual Accreditation Conference held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Atl
This is a video taken from the Planet Earth series from Discovery featuring otters in their natural environment. Hear from camera men and producers about what is was like filming otters. (02:00)
