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09 Dec 09
How to use MeedanMemory | Meedan Blog
MeedanMemory is a translation memory that is focused on Arabic and English. This memory contains text fragments (sentences) in aligned pairs of Arabic and English. These sentence pairs, also called translation memory segments, can be used in different ways. We will focus here on using them for translation purposes.
07 Dec 09
The 12-Minute Definitive Guide to Twitter
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Twitter is essentially a net-based chatroom filled with your friends. The basic
idea is you log in to the service, add friends, and start sending them simple
little messages. These messages are limited to 140 characters or less, so you
have to make do with a sentence or two. You can elect to send and receive
messages any number of ways--through Twitter's website, through your mobile
phone (via SMS), through your IM client, through RSS, or through a number of
third-party tools that have emerged to help people access and interact with the
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used, perhaps most interesting is the fact we can all use it in our own,
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03 Dec 09
Videochronic — EngageMedia
The past decade in Indonesia has seen a dramatic increase in the use of video as a social change tool by community, campaign and activist organisations. Access to the tools for producing video have become increasingly democratised over this period, and rapidly adopted. Since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime, space has been opened up for a host of new media projects to emerge. Individuals and organisations dealing with issues such as the environment, human rights, queer and gender issues, cultural pluralism, militarism, poverty, labour rights, globalisation and more have embraced video as a tool to communicate with both their bases and new audiences.
24 Nov 09
Who Cares About The White Working Class-2009.pdf
"What we learn here is that life chances for today’s children are overwhelmingly linked to parental income, occupations and educational qualifications – in other words, class. The poor white working class share many more problems with the poor from minority ethnic communities than some of them recognize. All the most disadvantaged groups must be helped to improve their joint lot. Competition between them, real or imagined, is just a distraction." Dr Kate Gavron Jan 2009
White Under-Achievement: Putting Class into the Classroom | Teachers TV
White working class children are failing at school. In this programme, we explore the issue and offer a provocative view of where our schools are going wrong.
It's an issue that few in education are willing to acknowledge, but white working class girls and boys are the worst performing groups in secondary education.
20 Nov 09
New Castro, Same Cuba | Human Rights Watch
"This 123-page report shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code offense of "dangerousness," which allows authorities to imprison individuals before they have committed any crime, on the suspicion that they are likely to commit an offense in the future. This "dangerousness" provision is overtly political, defining as "dangerous" any behavior that contradicts Cuba's socialist norms."
Young Holocaust victim has over 1,700 friends on Facebook | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 19.11.2009
"A young Holocaust victim has been brought back to life on the Internet. As a virtual figure, a young Jewish boy from Poland writes about his life during the Second World War - and he's looking for friends on Facebook."
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A young boy in shorts and a white T-shirt, with black hair, dark eyes, and a mischievous grin - that is how Henio looks to his friends on his Facebook page.
"My name is Henio Zytomirski. I am seven-years-old. I live on 3 Szewska Street in Lublin," he writes on his profile. His birthday is March 25, 1933. He is no more than seven or eight years old. As a young Jewish boy, he was killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp.
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"My name is Henio Zytomirski. I am seven-years-old. I live on 3 Szewska Street in Lublin," he writes on his profile. His birthday is March 25, 1933. He is no more than seven or eight years old. As a young Jewish boy, he was killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp.
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