Lecture series on Leadership by Prof. Kalyan Chakravarti, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Duration : 0:55:37
Song:
In a Manner of Speaking
By:
Nouvelle Vague
I really like this song so I put some pictures up with it.
I don’t own the rights to anything you see or hear in this video.
By this CD and all the movies you see and this video if you like all of it.
Star Wars, The Notebook, very nice images found through Google, Silence of the Lambs, The Fountain, Hannibal Rising, Princess Diana & Dodi Fayed, Casino Royale, along with the actors and actresses that star in the movies.
Duration : 0:3:56
This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
The lack of clean drinking water is a major problem worldwide. The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available. The problem is especially serious in Asia and the Pacific.
A United Nations report says water availability in that area is the second lowest in the world, after Africa.
Nearly seven hundred thousand people in Asia and the Pacific lack safe drinking water. The U.N. report notes that the world’s poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture. Agriculture uses about eighty percent of the water in the Asia-Pacific area. There has also been an increase in water used for industry. China and India more than tripled their industrial water use between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand two.
The lack of clean drinking water around the world forces millions of people to drink unsafe water.
This leads to an increase in diseases like diarrhea, the second leading cause of death in children under five. Floods, droughts, pollution and
climate change have created
even more problems.
The Millennium Development Goals
for two thousand fifteen call for a
fifty percent decrease in the number
of people without safe drinking water
and basic sanitation.
Scientists, governments and aid organizations around the world are increasing their efforts to meet these goals. Still, the U.N. says there is much work to be done. During its yearly World Water Day observance in March it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are doing just that.
The American and South Korean researchers are investigating a new technology for turning sea water into drinking water. The new technology is called ion concentration polarization. The process uses electricity to
help separate electrically charged
salt particles from water to
make it drinkable.
The researchers tested their desalination process on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.
The chip removed ninety-nine percent of the salt and other harmful substances from water samples.
So far the method purifies only small amounts of water. But the researchers say it may someday be available as a personal water purification product.
And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 05Apr2010)
Duration : 0:3:59
Author of Blowback, The Sorrows Of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Empire, Chalmers Johnson has literally written the book on the concept of American Hegemony. A former naval officer and consultant of the C.I.A., he now serves as professor Emeritus at UC San Diego. As co-founder and President of the Japan Policy Research Institute, Mr. Johnson also continues to promote public education about Asia’s role in the international community.
In this exclusive interview, you will find out why the practice of empire building is, by no means, a thing of the past. As the United States continues to expand its military forces around the globe, the consequences are being suffered by each and every one of us.
Duration : 0:6:37
Mercy Me – Word of God Speak
I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay
The last thing I need is to be heard
But to hear what You would say
[Chorus]
Word of God speak
Would You pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see
Your majesty
To be still and know
That You’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest
In Your holiness
Word of God speak
I’m finding myself in the midst of You
Beyond the music, beyond the noise
All that I need is to be with You
And in the quiet hear Your voice
[Chorus 2x]
I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay
Duration : 0:3:17
by Professor Joel Cohen (Rockefeller University, Columbia University)
The second lecture of the Doran Fund Annual Lecture Series
The Faculty of Social Sciences
The D.B Doran Fund in Population, Resources and Economic Development
Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at 18:00
Mairsdorf Faculty Club (room 501)
Mount Scopus Campus
Duration : 1:41:41
A short video detailing the undergraduate experience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Duration : 0:24:1
TORONTO is the CANADA’S LARGEST CITY, the CAPITAL of ONTARIO PROVINCE, and the HOME to a DIVERSE Population of more than 4.7 Million people as of year 2008.
TORONTO is home to virtually all of the world’s culture groups and is the city where more than 100 languages and dialects are spoken.
The Diverse City of Toronto celebrates DIVERSITY. The Different People with Different Culture make the City DIVERSE or DIVERSE City. DIVERSITY of race, religion and lifestyle help define and set Toronto apart from other world cities.
Almost three-quarters of Torontonians aged 15 or older have direct ties to immigration. About one-half (52%) are themselves immigrants while another 22% are 2nd generation immigrants with at least one parent born outside of Canada. The remaining 26% of the Toronto population (aged 15 or older) is comprised of individuals who were born in Canada to two Canadian-born parents.
In 2006, people of European ethnicities formed the largest cluster of ethnic groups in Toronto, 52.6%, mostly of British, Irish, Italian, and French origins. The FIVE Largest Visible Minority Groups in Toronto are South Asian (12.0%), Chinese (11.4%), Black (8.4%), Filipino (4.1%) and Latin American (2.6%). Aboriginal peoples, who are not considered visible minorities, formed 0.5% of the population.
This DIVERSITY is reflected in Toronto’s Ethnic neighbourhoods which include Little Italy, The Junction, Little Jamaica, Little India, Chinatown, Koreatown, Greektown, Portugal Village, Corso Italia, Kensington Market, and Bloor West Village.
CHRISTIANITY is the largest religious group in Toronto. The 2001 Census reports that 31.1% of the city’s population is Catholic, followed by Protestant (21.1%), Christian Orthodox at (4.8%), Coptic Orthodox (0.2%),[69] and other Christians (3.9%). Other religions in the city are Judaism (7.0%), Islam (6.7%), Hinduism (4.8%), Buddhism (2.7%), Sikhism (0.9%), and other Eastern Religions (0.2%). 18.7% of the population professes no religion.
While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians, many other languages have considerable numbers of local speakers, including French, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Tamil, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Filipino (Tagalog), and Hindi. Chinese and Italian are the second and third most widely spoken languages at work. As a result, the city’s 9-1-1 emergency services are equipped to respond in over 150 languages.
Duration : 0:7:43