And the Webster dictionary word of the year is...

Blog.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6957386

'Blog' Tops U.S. Dictionary's Words of the Year
Tue Nov 30, 2004 02:12 PM ET
By Greg Frost

BOSTON (Reuters) - A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.

Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year.

Eight entries on the publisher's top-10 list related to major news events, from the presidential election -- represented by words such as incumbent and partisan -- to natural phenomena such as hurricane and cicada.
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Blog will be a new entry in the 2005 version of the Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The complete list of words of the

year is available at http:/www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm

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JOB: Supervisory Editor - Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE: Supervisory Editor ( Posted on Dec 1, 2004 )

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Supervisory Editor

 

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA;

Job Category: Publishing, Arts & Media, Writing & Reporting

Year(s) of Experience: 5

Number Of Positions: 1

Date Posted: Dec 1, 2004

 

Position Title:  Supervisory Editor
Pay Scale Group:  Editor 3/05B

Department:  Faculty of Arts and Science - Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Hiring Rate:  $47,396 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $60,562

Appointment Type:  Grant - Term
From present to April 30, 2005

Position Summary:

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada operates on five-year editorial schedules. Editorial work is based upon volumes of historical biography usually covering ten-year periods of the Canadian past. From 1966 to 1998, the DCB has published 14 volumes (the 15th will be published in 2005). The preparation of a single volume comprises approximately seven years moving from initial research to publication either in print, in CD-ROM, or online. The work of the project is carried on in two offices, here at the University of Toronto and the French-language office at the Universite Laval. The D CB/DBC is a fully bilingual project that requires staff to operate daily within a bilingual environment. The incumbent will assist the General Editor in directing all facets of the editorial operation and serves as the GE's editorial deputy as well as supervising every aspect of editorial work carried out in the Toronto office. Duties include: advising and working in close consultation with the Executive Officer in supervising all aspects of editorial work; reading all texts for style and content before they are sent to authors for their approval; assisting the GE in reading the manuscript for online or print publication; approving all decisions regarding the style and presentation of texts; reading all English-language texts prepared in the Laval office; supervising all translation work; supervising all the work carried out on the bibliographies accompanying the texts, the preparation of the General Bibliography and other ancillary material, and reviewing all bibliographies prepared; assigning work to freelance editors and supervising their work; ensuring the readiness of biographies for publication online or in print; working in close consultation with the DBC office, the online services branch of LAC, and the production department of the University of Toronto Press to ensure satisfactory communication of information relating to the publication of DCB/DBC biographies, and supervising the work schedules for these various endeavours; participating personally in the various stages of biographical preparation, especially when experience is particularly required, such as the editorial preparation of text at all stages, the readying and revision of final texts and translations, the preparation of manuscript for various forms of publication, and the completion of individual and general bibliographies; supervising and training new editors.

Minimum Qualifications
Education: PhD, perferably in 20th century Canadian history/studies.

Experience: Extensive experience in and aptitude for historical research; considerable editorial experience and superior editorial skills; successful executive record with major historical/editorial project in the arts or humanities.

Skills: Fluently bilingual in French; keyboarding; familiarity with a range of software, especially Word.

Other: Demonstrated ability to maintain world-class editorial standards in editorial work; demonstrated success in planning, executing, and adhering to editorial schedules.

Please submit
Résumé and
Cover Letter to: Ellen Brikaras

Benefits Officer / HR Generalist
2018 - 100 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Fax: 416-971-2881

Human Rights Diploma Programme - Jan 12 - Mar 24 2005 - The Hague, The Netherlands

 Human Rights Diploma Programme - Jan 12 - Mar 24 2005 - The Hague, The Netherlands

This programme is aimed at strengthening capacity for the promotion, protection and advancement of human rights activities to meet a specific need in human rights advocacy and activism. The programme targets those involved in human rights advocacy, education, mobilisation and poverty eradication.

http://www.comminit.com/training2005/2005-events/events-2641.html

Contact Information:
Institute For Social Studies
P.O. Box 29776
2502 LT The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 70 426 0460
Fax: +31 70 426 0799
mihyo@iss.nl

More information

http://www.iss.nl/navFrame/frame2.html?content=/tprogrs/hur.html

THERAPY FOR WAR JOURNOS?

THERAPY FOR WAR JOURNOS?
Journalists have begun to acknowledge their own emotional trauma, and some J-schools are teaching students how to cover tragedy sensitively and cope with their own emotions.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1129/p11s01-ussc.html

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Season's Greetings 2004

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"... Tree climber answers mayor's Christmas prayer
WebPosted Nov 29 2004 02:28 PM MST

http://north.cbc.ca/

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. - The Christmas season officially started in Fort Smith on Sunday with the traditional lighting of the town's 30-metre spruce tree.

Decorating the 100-year-old tree in the centre of town has been a community tradition since the Great Depression.

But it almost didn't happen this year, after the N.W.T. Power Corporation staff who usually decorate the tree were unable to do it this month.

That sent Mayor Peter Martselos on a quest for a tree climber.

"I have to look around to find someone to climb the tree. I tell you I had many nights I never slept because I was worried who was going up and if there was an accident or something it won't be Christmas in Fort Smith," he says.

"But we found David Burke and he climbed the tree to the top and that's why this year it's special, because we have a star at the top and lights from top to bottom."

Hundreds gathered in the downtown Sunday night to cheer as the tree was lit up with brand-new strings of lights.

Martselos says the new energy efficient lights are more expensive, but are sturdier and said to last 100,000 hours...."

The Greatest Canadian: Tommy Douglas

 

Date:         Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:08:49 -0800

From: Mycos mycos@SHAW.CA

Subject:      [NEWSROOM-L] The Greatest Canadian: Tommy Douglas

 

Last night, we had the final vote on we consider to be the greatest Canadian http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/ of all time. The list to choose from included such diverse personalities as those ranging from Terry Fox to scientists like  David Suzuki, Alexander Graham Bell and Frederick Banting, to politicos like Trudeau, Nobel Prize winner Lester Pearson, to relatively unknowns like Tommy Douglas. Well, in true Canadian fashion, and something I am quite proud of, the winner was indeed the relative unknown; Tommy Douglas. \

So. Who is he?  Read on... and gain some insight into just how much more different Canadians really are compared to our American friends*

* For the time being. The longer America continues to inflict upon us that nut-job you call "President", you are being referred to more and more often by the much more impersonal term "acquaintance",

Anyhow. Tommy Douglas. *The* Greatest Canadian......

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Excerpts:

"Douglas resigned his federal seat to lead the Saskatchewan CCF (Commonwealth Cooperative Federation the precursor to todays New Democratic Party http://www.ndp.ca/ )  and, in the memorable election of June 15, 1944 he led the party to a massive victory, winning 47 of 53 seats. At the age of 39, he became head of the first *democratic socialist* government in North America."

(highlights mine (*)

"More than 100 bills, 72 of them aimed at social or economic reform, were passed during the CCF's first year in power. By the end of two years, they had removed the sales tax from food and meals and managed to reduce the provincial debt by $20 million."

"New departments were established which reflected the government's priorities. These included the new Department of Co-operatives, the Department of Labour and the Department of Social Welfare. To pay for the new departments, all the CCF cabinet ministers took a 28 per cent pay cut."

"In 1944, pensioners were granted free medical, hospital and dental services, and the treatment of diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis, mental illness and venereal disease was made free for all."

"In 1947, Douglas introduced universal hospitalization at a fee of $5 per year per person. "It is paid out of the treasury. Instead of the burden of those hospital bills falling on sick people, it is spread over all the people," Douglas said. In 1959, twelve years later, when the province's finances seemed to him to be strong enough, Douglas announced the coming of the medicare plan. It would be universal, pre-paid, publicly administered, provide high quality care, including preventive care, and be accepted by both providers and receivers of the medical service. "

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More at http://www.saskndp.com/history/douglas.html

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Gary Williams

http://mycos.blogspot.com/