Zero Robotics "Summer of Innovation 2010"
Zero Robotics is a robotics programming tournament for students, where the robots are autonomous nanosatellites called SPHERES, developed by MIT SSL. Students can write programs to control the satellites from a web browser and final competition is aboard the International Space Station. The NASA/SG Summer of Innovation 2010 tournament was geared toward Massachusetts middle school students. http://zerorobotics.mit.edu
Walmart shrinks to grow sales
July 27 - Walmart is slowly rolling out a new smaller store format called Walmart Express aimed mostly at urban areas like Chicago, as the retailer struggles to end a two-year slide in U.S. same-store sales. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Jim Cooper on Building a Sustainable Employee Enterprise
Jim Cooper (MBA '84)
Managing Partner
Thompson Street Capital Partners
1 John (Part 2) - Bruce Winter
This is the 9th and final part of the Culture vs. Cross Culture series by Bruce Winter, this time focusing on 1-3 John, James and Jude. The writers of 1,2 and 3 John, James and Jude instructed first-century believers how to deal with the Trojan horse that seeks to destroy love, truth and fruit. The same antidote is needed today.
"The Pilgrim" by John Bunyan (poetry reading)
John BunÂyan started writing Pilgrim's Progress durÂing his 12-year priÂson sentÂence for reÂfusÂing to conÂform to the ofÂfiÂcial state church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress
This is the best edition of the book I could find on-line:
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=bunyan&book=pilgrim&story=_contents
A pilgrim is someone who is on a spiritual journey, originally a real journey to visit some holy place, such as Canterbury or Mecca. Pilgrims Progress i
Michael O'Neill on Moving Innovative Ideas into Practice
Michael O'Neill (MBA '74)
Director of Citigroup
North Carolina Coastline Flyover from SeaWiFS
Panning along the North Carolina coast, from SeaWiFS imagery
3.1 Listening to and taking notes from a telephone call
Do you want to relocate to the UK? This unit will help you with the language difficulties that can arise while providing assistance with the practicalities of taking the decision to relocate. You will also examine the factors that influence that decision including its impact on all those connected with the company from employees to suppliers and customers.
2.1 Making a shortlist of locations
Do you want to relocate to the UK? This unit will help you with the language difficulties that can arise while providing assistance with the practicalities of taking the decision to relocate. You will also examine the factors that influence that decision including its impact on all those connected with the company from employees to suppliers and customers.
1 John (Part 1) - Bruce Winter
This is the 9th and final part of the Culture vs. Cross Culture series by Bruce Winter, this time focusing on 1-3 John, James and Jude. The writers of 1,2 and 3 John, James and Jude instructed first-century believers how to deal with the Trojan horse that seeks to destroy love, truth and fruit. The same antidote is needed today.
George Washington's Farewell
George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address teems with advice that rings true today. Listen to interpreter Ron Carnegie read excepts from the timeless epistle.
Detroit True Color Time Lapse from SeaWiFS
Transitions between relatively cloud free true color scenes of the Detroit region from SeaWiFS
EEHU ARRAS 2011: Connaître la personne soignée et son entourage
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
En partenariat avec
Conférence enregistrée à l'IFSI d'Arras le lundi 27 juin 2011.
-l'UNF3S
-l'Université d'Artois
- l'Institut de formation en soins Infirmiers IFSI d'Arras
et Canal U Sciences de la Santé et du Sport
Moth using proboscis to get food from flower
Not only bees pollinate flowers. Moths have a specialized mouth structure called a proboscis that is used to extract nectar and pollinate the flower. The moth benefits by getting food and the flower benefits by being pollinated.
Blasts kill at least 15 in Iraq's Tikrit
July 28 - Two suicide bombers killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 in Iraq's Tikrit city. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Lower Intermediate S6 #15 - An Offer of Kindness in Japan
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s your first day of your summer job at the Japanese radio station, and you’re walking around greeting the people you’ll be working with. When you meet the host of a popular Japanese radio show, you’re surprised at how humble he is and taken aback when he kindly allows you to [...]
DSK maid has her say
July 28 - The woman accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault defends her story and her credibility. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
6 Part 2: 2 Immersing yourself in complexity The first three activities in Figure 4 are to plan a strategy, then to immerse yourself in an example of complexity, and then represent that complexity through drawing a rich picture. I've selected a rich picture as the focus of this task because it is a means of bringing you into a rich encounter with the complexity of the situation described. The rich picture is a representation of your encounter with the situation, and s
4.1 Something different Perhaps it will not surprise you if I say you may experience this unit as rather different to any you may have previously encountered. Like any course of study, you are likely to find surprising and interesting material in it but there are three specific ways this unit may surprise and even challenge you. These three ways are concerned with: The nature of systems thinking and systems practice; A style of learning where you have to tak
3.2 Learning by experience It's a familiar idea but it implies two activities: learning and experiencing. Both activities need to happen if I am to say that learning from experience has happened. Experiencing seems to have two components. The first is the quality of attention that allows me to notice the experience and its components. The second is memory. Calling experience to mind allows me to examine the experience and to think about it in ways that were not possible at the time. Learning is what I take away from th
