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Words at War: Love at First Flight / Malta Spitfire / Dynamite Cargo
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on December 3rd, 2012
The Siege of Malta was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War. From 1940-1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important island of Malta pitted the air forces and navies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. The opening of a new front in North Africa in mid-1940 increased Malta’s already considerable value. British air and sea forces based on the island could attack Axis ships transporting vital supplies and reinforcements from Europe. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in command of Axis forces in North Africa, recognised its importance quickly. In May 1941, he warned that “Without Malta the Axis will end by losing control of North Africa”.[1] The Axis resolved to bomb, or starve Malta into submission by attacking its ports, towns, cities and Allied shipping supplying the island. Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war. The Luftwaffe (German Air Force) and the Italian Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) flew a total of 3000 bombing raids over a period of two years in an effort to destroy RAF defences and the ports.[10] Success would have made possible a combined German—Italian amphibious landing (Operation Herkules) supported by German airborne forces (Fallschirmjäger) (citation needed). It was never carried out. In the end, Allied convoys were able to supply and reinforce Malta, while the RAF defended its airspace, though at great cost in material and …
Words at War: Assignment USA / The Weeping Wood / Science at War
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on November 8th, 2012
The Detroit Race Riot broke out in Detroit, Michigan in June 20, 1943, and lasted for three days before Federal troops restored order. The rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle on June 20, 1943 and continued until the 22nd of June, killing 34, wounding 433, and destroying property valued at million. In the summer of 1943, in the midst of World War II, tensions between blacks and whites in Detroit were escalating. Detroit’s population had grown by 350000 people since the war began. The booming defense industries brought in large numbers of people with high wages and very little available housing. 50000 blacks had recently arrived along with 300000 whites, mostly from rural Appalachia and Southern States.[2] Recruiters convinced blacks as well as whites in the South to come up North by promising them higher wages in the new war factories. Believing that they had found a promised land, blacks began to move up North in larger numbers. However, upon arriving in Detroit, blacks found that the northern bigotry was just as bad as that they left behind in the deep South. They were excluded from all public housing except Brewster Housing Projects, forced to live in homes without indoor plumbing, and paid rents two to three times higher than families in white districts. They also faced discrimination from the public and unfair treatment by the Detroit Police Department.[3] In addition, Southern whites brought their traditional bigotry with them as both races head …
Words at War: War Bond Drive Special / Fair Stood the Wind for France / War Criminals and Punishment
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on November 2nd, 2012
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am British Double Summer Time (GMT+2). In planning, as for most Allied operations, the term D-Day was used for the day of the actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. The landings were conducted in two phases: an airborne assault landing of 24000 British, American, Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing[4] of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France starting at 6:30 am. Surprise was achieved thanks to inclement weather and a comprehensive deception plan implemented in the months before the landings, Operation Bodyguard, to distract German attention from the possibility of landings in Normandy. A key success was to convince Adolf Hitler that the landings would actually occur to the north near Calais. There were also decoy operations simultaneous with the landings under the codenames Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable to distract the German forces from the real landing areas.[5] Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces was General Dwight Eisenhower while overall command of ground forces (21st Army Group) was given to General Bernard Montgomery. The operation, planned by a team under Lieutenant-General Frederick Morgan, was the largest …
Words at War: The Hide Out / The Road to Serfdom / Wartime Racketeers
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on October 29th, 2012
Friedrich August Hayek CH (8 May 1899 — 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. In 1974, Hayek shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Gunnar Myrdal) for his “pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and… penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.” Hayek is considered to be a major economist and political philosopher of the twentieth century. Hayek’s account of how changing prices communicate information which enables individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. He also contributed to the fields of systems thinking, jurisprudence, neuroscience and the history of ideas. Hayek served in World War I and said that his experience in the war and his desire to help avoid the mistakes that had led to the war led him to his career. Hayek lived in Austria, Great Britain, the United States and Germany, and became a British subject in 1938. He spent most of his academic life at the London School of Economics (LSE), the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg. In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his “services to the study of economics.” He also received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in …
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Words at War: Eighty-Three Days: The Survival Of Seaman Izzi / Paris Underground / Shortcut to Tokyo
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on October 21st, 2012
The French Résistance has had a great influence on literature, particularly in France. A famous example is the poem “Strophes pour se souvenir”, which was written by the communist academic Louis Aragon in 1955 to commemorate the heroism of the Manouchian Group, whose 23 members were shot by the Nazis. The Résistance is also portrayed in Jean Renoir’s wartime This Land is Mine (1943), which was produced in the USA. In the immediate post-war years, French cinema produced a number of films that portrayed a France broadly present in the Résistance.[188][189] The 1946 La Bataille du rail depicted the courageous efforts of French railway workers to sabotage German reinforcement trains,[190] and in the same year Le Père tranquille told the story of a quiet insurance agent secretly involved in the bombing of a factory.[190] Collaborators were hatefully presented as a rare minority, as played by Pierre Brewer in Jéricho (1946) or Serge Reggiani in Les Portes de la nuit (1946), and movements such as the Milice were rarely evoked. In the 1950s, a less heroic interpretation of the Résistance to the occupation gradually began to emerge.[190] In Claude Autant-Lara’s La Traversée de Paris (1956), the portrayal of the city’s black market and general mediocrity revealed the reality of war-profiteering during the occupation.[191] In the same year, Robert Bresson presented A Man Escaped, in which an imprisoned Résistance activist works with a reformed collaborator inmate to escape.[192] A …
Words at War: Apartment in Athens / They Left the Back Door Open / Brave Men
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on October 18th, 2012
Greece entered World War II on 28 October 1940, when the Italian army invaded from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek army was able to stop the invasion and even push back the Italians into Albania, thereby winning one of the first victories for the Allies. The Greek successes and the inability of the Italians to reverse the situation forced Nazi Germany to intervene in order to protect her main Axis partner’s prestige. The Germans invaded Greece and Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, and overran both countries within a month, despite British aid to Greece in the form of an expeditionary corps. The conquest of Greece was completed in May with the capture of Crete from the air, although the Fallschirmjäger suffered such extensive casualties in this operation that the Germans abandoned large-scale airborne operations for the remainder of the war. The German diversion of resources in the Balkans is also considered by some historians to have delayed the launch of the invasion of the Soviet Union by a critical month, which proved disastrous when the German army failed to take Moscow.[citation needed] Greece itself was occupied and divided between Germany, Italy and Bulgaria, while the King and the government fled into exile in Egypt. First attempts at armed resistance in summer 1941 were crushed by the Axis, but the Resistance movement began again in 1942 and grew enormously in 1943 and 1944, liberating large parts of the country’s mountainous interior and tying down …
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Words at War: Your School, Your Children / The Cross and the Arrow / Scapegoats in History
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on October 13th, 2012
Gustavus Myers (1872–1942) was an American journalist and historian who published a series of influential studies on capital formation. His name is associated with the muckraking era of American literature. In 1891, Myers went to work as a reporter for the Philadelphia Record, leaving the next year for New York City, where he remained for the rest of his life.[1] In the 1890s, Myers became a member of the People’s Party (commonly known as the “Populists”), later joining the Socialist Party of America (SPA).[1] In the decade of the 1910s, Myers emerged as a leading scholar of the American socialist movement when he authored a series of volumes for Charles H. Kerr & Co., the country’s largest publisher of Marxist books and pamphlets. Between 1909 and 1914, Myers published three volumes on the history of family wealth in the United States, one volume on the same topic for Canada, and a history of the Supreme Court of the United States. These publications were frequently cited and used in an academic setting for several decades, with Myers’ History of the Great American Fortunes revived in a single volume format in 1936.[1] Myers split with the Socialist Party in 1917 over the SPA’s position against American intervention in World War I.[1] In 1918 Myers contributed to the American war effort by publishing a book attacking what he called “Germany’s Sinister Propaganda” entitled The German Myth: The Falsity of Germany’s “Social Progress” Claims. Myers received a Guggenheim …
Words at War: Der Fuehrer / A Bell For Adano / Wild River
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Videos on September 21st, 2012
The town of Adano is a fictional Sicilian port town modeled after the real town of Licata, one of the disembarkation town of the Allied Occupation of Italy. Just like Adano, the town of Licata has a shipping and sulfur industry, a fishing port, and its largest church is the Church of Sant’Angelo. Additionally, Benito Mussolini did have Licata’s 700 year old bell melted to make ammunition.[5] Major Joppolo is based on the American military governor of Licata named Frank E. Toscani. John Hersey visited Toscani for four or five days during the war and created Victor Joppolo from him, even noting that he held a job as a civilian clerk in the New York City Sanitation Department.[6] General Marvin is an obvious depiction of the World War II General Patton, who was known for his bitterness and cruelty, but also his effectiveness. Führer was the unique name granted by Hitler to himself, and this in his function as Vorsitzender (chairman) of the Nazi Party. It was at the time common to refer to party leaders as “Führer”, yet only with an addition to indicate the leader of which party was meant. Hitler’s adoption of the title was partly inspired by its earlier use by the Austro-German nationalist Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also commonly referred to as the Führer without qualification, and who also used the Sieg Heil-salute.[3] Hitler’s choice for this political epithet was unprecedented in German. Like much of the early symbolism of Nazi Germany, it was modeled after …
Q&A: i need to change this into my own words for an essay,pliz can somebody help!?
Posted by PuneStuff in Pune Stuff Questions & Answers on June 1st, 2012
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PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION LIMITED
Professional Information Limited is a well-established service provider for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. It operates with one of the largest information groups in the industry and is recognised for the quality of its people and processes.
Services offered by Professional Information include:
Medical Information Enquiry Handling
Multilingual Medical Information
Patient Support Programmes
Ancillary Medical Information Services
The company has grown rapidly since its foundation in 1998, and now provides services for over 80 different pharmaceutical companies including 9 out of the top 10.
Professional Information differentiates itself in the marketplace through:
Expertise Professional Information’s focus on delivering information on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry has enabled the Company to grow a team with real expertise and an in-depth understanding of Medical Information and Patient Programmes.
People The Company works hard to attract, develop and retain the best people to deliver its services.
Quality The systems and processes at Professional Information are founded on ensuring the delivery of a quality service.
Audit-Readiness Professional Information’s skills, and the appropriateness of the systems and processes that are in place, have been confirmed through numerous UK MHRA and client audits.
Customer Service Professional Information aims to provide services that meet and exceed the expectations of its clients and their customers.
Responsiveness and Flexibility Professional Information has built successful collaborations with its clients by demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness whenever possible.
Cost EffectivenessProfessional Information aims to deliver a high quality service within a very realistic budget.
Business Continuity Professional Information operates with highly robust telephony and IT systems as part of its powerful business continuity plan.
CASE STUDY
Professional Information provides a broad range of outsourcing solutions, tailored to specific client requirements.
These case studies illustrate some of the outsourcing options that are currently being provided by Professional Information.
MEDICAL INFORMATION OUTSOURCING
This case study illustrates one outsourcing scenario, whereby Professional Information provides first-line enquiry-handling cover for a large UK pharmaceutical company.
The problem
This major UK company receives a large volume of enquiries and, although the majority are very straightforward, the in-house team were becoming swamped with the workload. As a consequence, the service being provided for the company’s external and internal customers was falling short of corporate standards.
The service
Professional Information was given first-line responsibility for all Medical Information enquiry handling for the entire range of products (n>70). As such, enquiries are handled with reference to the product labelling and standard response documents provided by the client. Any enquiries that cannot be handled from these data are escalated to the client to handle. Second-line support (full enquiry handling) is also provided on an ad hoc basis when the in-house team is unavailable.
The solution
Outsourcing has released capacity in the in-house team to enable them to meet corporate standards for customer service. The solution has proved highly efficient as >90% of enquiries are handled and closed by the first-line team.
Professional Information provides a broad range of outsourcing solutions, tailored to specific client requirements.
These case studies illustrate some of the outsourcing options that are currently being provided by Professional Information.
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