Profile: Peter Ayliffe, President and CEO, Visa Europe
Peter Ayliffe, CEO and President of Visa Europe speaks about his role, looks to the future for Visa Europe and their involvement in the Olympics and Paralympics.
An Elephant That Paints
This painting is done by an elderly elephant named Suda. I am not sure how she/he is able to do this. Some say that the elephants are tortured to do this. I do see a human, just out of view, on the right side. I believe that person is changing the paintbrush for the elephant. I certainly hope they are not tortured. (11:35)
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21F.110 Chinese IV (Streamlined) (MIT)
This is the second semester of the intermediate level sequence intended for students whose conversational ability exceeds their reading and writing skills. Focus is on reading and writing, as well as broadening conversational skills and control of standard pronunciation, for students with background in conversational Chinese. Lab work is required. On completing this course, students should be able to speak the language with standard pronunciation, to converse with some fluency on everyday topics
Churches, place names and landscape architecture
Local historian and archaeologist, Dr Simon Draper, discusses place names and their links to Anglo-Saxon landscape architecture for a number of Wessex communities in this Minerva series lecture (formally known as GULP). From the 7th century onwards, what was the meaning of place names like 'bury' and why were they significant?
An evaluation of Simventure
This paper discusses the value of providing a simulated experience of how organisations work enabling skills and knowledge from disparate subject areas to be synthesised and assimilated in solving complex business problem
Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the rationale for careers education and guidance (CEG) and young people's need for it understand your school's statutory responsibilities for CEG and its links with Connexions understand the basic knowledge and skills needed to help students access careers information and guidance; understand the school's CEG programme and the confidence to carry out your role in it.
Professor David Miller inaugural lecture: Disembedded elites?
In his inaugural lecture, titled 'Disembedded elites? Policy communications and the transformation of elite networks', Professor David Miller reviewed the main writing on 'power elites' in the tradition of power structure research and asked what's changed with the advent of neoliberalism?
Virtual Maths - Numbers, 2D Elipse simulation tool
Interactive simulation tool demonstrating formula for calculating the area of an elipse
7.3 Developing a strategy In developing a strategy for improving your application of number skills you are aiming to: identify the opportunities you can use to develop and practise your number skills; establish the outcomes you hope to achieve and targets for meeting them; identify the resources you might use for developing your skills, including people who might be able to help you as well as sources of data, books, study guides, tutorials, s
Inkflow Visual Notebook App for iOS
'Inkflow works like a word-processor for visual thinking. Capture your ideas as easily as with pen and paper, then arrange and reorganize them with your fingers!DIGITAL WRITING DONE RIGHTInkflow's ink feels like a really smooth fountain pen. Great for expressive writing or sketching. Effortlessly scale or move anything you select. This will change the way you think about ink: Jot down a list of concepts then rearrange them to fit into the bigger picture. literally move your thoughts around the p
Economic Progress and the Primacy of the Individual
Members of an Austrian School of economics forum to which I belong have been discussing the source of economic progress. It began with the usual elements
of capital, technological development, and managerial expertise before getting more philosophical when a member suggested the acceptance of rationality in
all things. I felt this was not a proper answer, because the definition of
Signature Course: Soccer Politics {Duke University}
ROMST 204/ICS 204. Soccer Politics. (Instructor: Laurent Dubois)
This course explores the history of soccer and of its premier competition, the World Cup, in order to understand how and why it has become the most popular sport in the world. We will examine the development and spread of the game, the institutions that have grown up around it (such as F.I.F.A.), and the economics of the sport. We will also study the biographies of legendary players and the return to legendary World Cup games stret
Lawrence Bailey - Market Research Valedictory Lecture
Colleagues from both academia and business were present on 27 January 2011 for Lawrence Bailey's guest lecture on Market Segmentation, Qualitative Research and Conversations Across the Garden Wall.
The garden wall of the lecture's title was Lawrence's metaphor for the potential divide between the two sectors.
The lecture reflected Lawrence's career-long wish to get qualitative researchers in the commercial world to talk to their counterparts in the academic world, and vice versa. He discusse
1.2.2 Learning new tasks We are about to turn our attention to the approach we take when learning about computers. Over the coming days think about how you learn to do new tasks, and in particular computing tasks. Think about the barriers you have to learning a new task. Do you fear failure? Breaking the computer? Feeling exposed?
Enterprise in the sports industry
This presentation discusses Drucker's thesis that failure is a "good thing" if the opportunities that arise from such failure allow the development of personal and enterprise skills
Job interviews
Job Interviews is one of several Futures workbooks which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio. Interviews are still the most commonly used method for assessing a person’s suitability for a job. In the UK 99 per cent of employers use selection interviews to recruit
Cellular Metabolism For Anatomy and Physiology : Introduction (04:01)
Anatomy and Physiology students must know the basics of cellular metabolism. This is an introduction to cellular metabolism. This is Lesson 1 in our Cellular Metabolism For Anatomy and Physiology series. This is part of our Anatomy and Physiology lecture series.
Kinect to Windows Store App development Today's post goes into a little more depth on the Kinect for Windows v2 Windows Store App future Today at Microsoft BUILD 2014, Microsoft made it official: the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and SDK are coming this summer (northern hemisphere). With it,
Windows Store app development is coming to Kinect for Windows
Embedding the concept of competency maps
This presentation outlines the background, context and transferability of a competency mapping tool originally developed in health but suitable for enterprise
