No sign of results in Haiti
Haitians are left waiting and wondering what will happen after elections still have produced no results. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Seeing the world as an African language speaker Is the way we see the world influenced by our language, or is it the other way around: is our language influenced b The rise of the Grid and the Large Hadron Collider - Glenn Patrick Introduction Sweatshops and the exploitation of workers are often linked to the globalised production of ‘big brand’ labels. This course examines how campaigners have successfully closed the distance between the brands and the sweatshops, while others argue that such production ‘kick starts’ economies into growth benefiting whole communities. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course Author(s): Lies, damned lies, and statistics - Simon Woo "C" stands for Carbon I'm Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher (monologue read by Tom O'Bedlam) PES Celebration 1.464 E-Commerce and the Internet in Real Estate and Construction (MIT) 4.4 Structural explanations II: families Our second example of structural explanations of criminal behaviour takes a different starting point. It looks at pathological or problem families and the transmission of criminal careers within them. This work is most closely associated with the social-psychological research of David Farrington (1994). Farrington's argument has two core components. First, he argues that criminal offending is part of a larger syndrome of anti-social behaviour. A syndrome is a medica Must-Know Japanese Social Media Phrases #6 - An Unfortunate Accident 7.2 Religious Studies as a discipline Until the late nineteenth century, theology had provided the main academic discipline in European universities for the study of religion. Theology (from the Greek, ‘discourse about God’) is concerned with questions relating to the relationship between God (or gods) and humanity. A theologian may begin from what is held to be a divine revelation taken, say, from a sacred book or religious teacher, about the nature of God and the relationship of God to humanity. In this form, theology is co 2007.04.27-Building Democracy: Challenging Corporate Power 2.8 Descriptive statistics Scientists collect many different types of information, but sets of data may be very loosely classified into two different types. In the first type, so-called 'repeated measurement', an individual quantity is measured a number of times. An astronomer wanting to determine the light output of a star would take many measurements on a number of different nights to even out the effects of the various possible fluctuations in the atmosphere that are a cause of stars 'twinkling'. In the second type Itse1359-2245-Color-Explanation of the HSV Color Space Josephine: -ight- Has Political Correctness Really Gone Mad? Understanding operations management Troisième session : L’enquête de terrain, l’expert l’image. ... « Du Vicaire à Amen : Pie XII est-il coupable ? Les historiens dans l’arène médiatique »
Guittat-Naudin Muriel, Docteur en histoire contemporaine (GSRL, EPHE), enseignante dans le secondaire, Laboratoire de rattachement : Crises, Université Paul Valéry. « La crise des caricatures de Mahomet à Libération et au Devoir: Image, représentation et ... Acknowledgements The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: Table 1: Eurobarometer 49, September 1998, © European Communities. www.flickr.com TPCOM All other materials included in this unit are derived from co
Particle Physicist Dr Glenn Patrick talks about the Large Hadron Collider. Based at CERN, in Geneva, the collider is the largest scientific machine in the world. It started operation in the summer of 2008 and aims to produce colossal amounts of data, which thousands of scientists around the world will analyse to further our understanding of the universe.
Professor Simon Wood from the University of Bath talks about smoothing, letting data speak without telling it what to say.
This computer animated video is great to help teach the properties and characteristics of the element carbon, found on the periodic table. Some key words in this video include: carbon,  atomic number, allotropes, graphite, diamond, electrical conductor, electrical insulator, covalent bonds, polymers, and organic molecules.Run time 02:28.
Warning - this contains foul language, naughty words and general obscenity.
Mike has a wonderful comic talent. I found the original by accident here, posted on 15th June 2010:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
then I did a search and found many references to it on the web. Here's one in the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/19/comic-sans-asshole_n_903392.html
Here's Mike's website which contains many other gems:
http://mikelacher.com/
Mike's parod
This artefact outlines the creation of a new website for Innovation North students holding details of all work placements (short, long term, voluntary, paid).The Institute for Enterprise funded the project and the money helped pay a student to maintain the website for a year
1.464 examines the long term effects of information technology on business strategy in the real estate and construction industry. Considerations include: supply chain, allocation of risk, impact on contract obligations and security, trends toward consolidation, and the convergence of information transparency and personal effectiveness. Resources are drawn from the world of dot.com entrepreneurship and "old economy" responses.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Have you ever wanted to combine your love of learning language with your love of using social media? This series allows you to do just that! You’ll learn more Japanese so you can chat to your Japanese friends online about topics like shopping, going out to dinner, and being on vacation. [...]
Consumer advocate, lawyer, and author Ralph Nader offers his perspective on?keeping corporate power in check?to?foster?a healthy democracy.
R.G. (Dick) Baldwin
This module explains the HSV color space.
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Watch Josephine as she sells some interesting items to her friends and neighbors. The goal for this segment is word family -ight-. (0:30)
Has Political Correctness Really Gone Mad?
Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations. This free course, Understanding operations management, will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function, whether producing goods or services or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. In addition, this OpenLearn course discusses the role of operations managers and the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers.Author(s):
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