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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...caring for the children, and sleeping with the men. As such, men set the agenda of the counterculture, while women tended to occupy more supportive roles, such as accompanying protest marches or distributing leaflets. The marginalised position of women rock and folk musicians mirrors the wider side-lined position of women within the counterculture more generally. As...
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...care very deeply about wellness. We think that healthy communities are part of sustainability. And then sustainability is part of our own internal operations. Our workforce has values around wellness, balance, environmental issues, and sustainability. So it's really ingrained in everything that we do. BOB BURTON Including, of course, our investment perspective. So when...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...careful refinements or modifications made to existing services or processes. These small changes can help them evolve and make them ‘better’ through an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary approach to innovation. As it involves the slow and gradual refinement of what already exists and is known, incremental innovation can often be regarded as a safer option. In...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...care is needed in ascribing a perspective to a group as there is likely to be variation within it). Individuals might in that case come from different geographical locations. The group might be predominantly ‘local’ but the organisation ‘regional’ or ‘national’. However, diagrams can be useful in different ways and Uphoff’s diagram is a valuable prompt for...
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...careful balance of costs, using the available supply of high volume components at lower cost combined with the higher cost of special components made by the company specifically for their product. Getting this balance right is one of the keys to a successful design and designers must keep this in mind constantly as they develop a product...Introducing engineering: 2.6 The...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...adults who are not very close friends or relatives of yours) du you (when talking to a close friend, a relative or a child) ihr you (when talking to two or more close friends, relatives or children) er he sie they sie she es it Note that sie with a small ‘s’ means ‘she’ and also ‘they’. Sie with a capital ‘S’ means ‘you’. There are several ways of...
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...care levy, disposable plastic tax and tourism tax. [This is a screenshot of some financial information from the Welsh Government. It shows areas where, on the website, information boxes can be revealed about various tax developments from recent years. A diagram at the bottom of the screenshot shows numerous income streams – Welsh Block Grant, Non-domestic rates, Welsh...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...careful design of the cutting tool is of paramount importance. There are specific tool geometries and cutting angles for different materials which help to keep temperatures and energies to a minimum while they are being cut. The main attraction of machining as a shaping process is its ability to produce almost any shape accurately. However, machining requires expensive...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs