John Milton Cooper on Breaking the Heart of the World
Historian and Woodrow Wilson biographer John Milton Cooper presents Breaking the Heart of the World: Reflections on the Deep Soul of Woodrow Wilson and his Farsighted Decisions at the opening night of the Jepson Leadership Forum. Cooper debunked myths and addressed Wilson's political legacy and shared how Wilson's leadership and his era shaped current international challenges. October 5, 2010
Kling on the Unseen World of Banking, Mortgages, and Government
Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the weird world of banking. Why do mortgages look the way they do? What do banks contribute to economic activity? How does regulation and legislation change the structure of what banks do? What would banks look like and the housing market look like if government were less involved? Kling discusses these questions and more including the hidden subsidies built into the current structure of the mortgage market. The conversation is
World Wise Schools
program aims to engage learners in an inquiry about the world, themselves, and others in order to broaden perspectives, promote cultural awareness and encourage service. Students can email currently serving Peace Corps volunteers and build cross-cultural awareness by reading Culture Matters, the workbook used by Peace Corps Volunteers in the field.
Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe
Digital information technologies are transforming the way we work, learn, and communicate. Within this digital revolution are new learning approaches that transform hierarchical, industrial-based models of teaching and learning.The creation of this book employed the very principles it espouses. It embodied a forming relationships model, and the sharing of ideas to produce new thinking model. A unique interactive, collaborative research model based on the formation of online relationships among 5
World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010: Monitoring the WSIS Targets - A Mid-Term Review
<p>The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the Tunis phase of WSIS (2005) and the deadline for achieving the ten targets that governments agreed upon at the Summit (2015). These targets range from connecting villages, schools, health centres, libraries and government agencies, to developing content, and providing ICT services to people. The main objective of the report is to provide policy-makers with a comprehensive assessment of what has been achieved so far, and what remains to be done
World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010: Monitoring the WSIS Targets - A Mid-Term Review
<p>The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the Tunis phase of WSIS (2005) and the deadline for achieving the ten targets that governments agreed upon at the Summit (2015). These targets range from connecting villages, schools, health centres, libraries and government agencies, to developing content, and providing ICT services to people. The main objective of the report is to provide policy-makers with a comprehensive assessment of what has been achieved so far, and what remains to be done
World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010: Monitoring the WSIS Targets - A Mid-Term Review
<p>The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the Tunis phase of WSIS (2005) and the deadline for achieving the ten targets that governments agreed upon at the Summit (2015). These targets range from connecting villages, schools, health centres, libraries and government agencies, to developing content, and providing ICT services to people. The main objective of the report is to provide policy-makers with a comprehensive assessment of what has been achieved so far, and what remains to be done
8.7 Hinduism as ‘a world religion’: a more recent understanding
This unit will give you an opportunity to think about some of the key concepts and methods of the discipline of Religious Studies. You will meet examples of different forms of religious practice and belief, mostly from Britain and India.
The world of Orthodox sainthood
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2009.
The enthusiasm for Valentine’s Day and Father Christmas is an example of the continuing legacy of the cult of saints in contemporary society. But who were the original St Valentine and St Nicholas? What can their lives tell us about the culture they lived in, and how were they venerated before the invention of chocolate hearts and the Christmas tree?
This 10-credit module will
First Snowfall of Fall Semester At WSU Pullman
PULLMAN, Wash.— Students at Washington State University got a pre-Thanksgiving surprise this morning. A few inches of snow fell in Pullman overnight, forcing students to dig through boxes and closets to find their winter gear. While students were making their way to class, crews from WSU Facility Operations had already been busy for several hours, cleaning roads and pedestrian paths of snow.
More information about WSU Pullman's snow removal plan, including maps of priority areas, can be foun
Article :: Five Alive: The Brave New World of Adobe Production Premium CS5
Adobe Production Premium CS5 has has two main focuses: performance—specifically the Mercury Engine and GPU acceleration—and script-to-screen metadata workflow. Jan Ozer, contributor to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book, reivews Adobe Production Premium CS5, paying particular attention to attention on Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder.
Article :: Real-World Solutions with Adobe Technology: Health Care e-Form
In this chapter, you will meet a doctor and the IT staff of a regional hospital and learn how they replaced piles of paperwork with their new paperless systems.
Article :: Real World Tips For Using Illustrator's Objects, Groups, and Layers
Just as there are benefits to keeping an orderly desk, there are advantages to using groups and layers for adding structure to your files. In Adobe Illustrator CS2, groups and layers not only offer a convenient way to manage objects in a file (as they did in earlier versions of Illustrator), but now they can also control the appearance of your file. Find out more in this informative chapter by Mordy Golding.
Article :: Type in Real World Adobe InDesign CS4
InDesign offers a number of improvements and surprises in the area of typesetting. It’s an evolutionary product, not a revolutionary one, but, on its release, InDesign became the best desktop typesetting program, and raised the bar for its competition.
Article :: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Tables
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Article :: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Placing Text on a Path
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Article :: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Text Wrap
Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to apply a text wrap to any independent object in InDesign.
Article :: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Interactive Documents
Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner explain InDesign's features for the “rich media” producer. Many of these tools don’t produce any visible effect on your InDesign pages, but change the behavior of PDF or Flash SWF files that you export.
Article :: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: XML
XML is as simple or complicated as you care to make it. Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to keep it simple, at least at first.
Article :: Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Paragraph Rules
Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to apply paragraph rules, ground rules for paragraph rules, and tinting paragraphs.
