COKE: 'RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING POVERTY,' DROPPED FROM LIVE 8 BILL

COKE: 'RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING POVERTY,' DROPPED FROM LIVE 8 BILL
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(20 jun 2005) The news that Coca-Cola was in negotiations to
sponsor the anti-poverty Live 8 concert series brought swift
condemnation from across the globe. Among other gross misdeeds, the
company stands accused of pumping massive amounts of groundwater from
India's parched earth and allowing the intimidation and killing of
union leaders in Colombia.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/113600/7263/29000
From: India Resource Center
http://www.IndiaResource.org

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PLACES COKE ON PROBATION
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(20 jun 2005) The University of Michigan is placing the Coca-Cola
company on probation until August 2006 for the company's egregious
actions in Colombia and India. The major setback for the Coca-Cola
company comes after a 10 month investigation into Coca-Cola's crimes
in India and Colombia by the Dispute Review Board (DRB), an advisory
body set up by the University of Michigan.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/113631/1893/29000

World's largest school launches FM Radio

From: "Alokesh Gupta" <alokeshgupta@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:49:03 +0530
Subject: [cr-india] World's largest school launches FM Radio

World's largest school launches FM Radio
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Monday, 20 June , 2005, 09:52

Lucknow: The world's largest school as recognised by the Guinness
Book has made its foray into the media world with the launch of an
Educational Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio Channel.

Lucknow-based City Montessori School (CMS) would become the first
intermediate level institution in the country to run an educational
FM Radio.

Union HRD minister Arjun Singh will inaugurate the Channel on July 1
next at a ceremony here.
CMS is the biggest school in a single city anywhere in the world
having over 29,000 students on its rolls. Addressing a news
conference yesterday, CMS Founder-Manager Jagdish Gandhi said the
90.4 MHz FM Radio would air five hours programme daily in two shifts
from 0700 to 0930 hrs and from 1900 to 2130 hrs.

The Channel has materialised with the active support and cooperation
of the All India Radio (AIR).

''The Channel aims at establishing a strong link between the
students, teachers and parents as well as act as a friendly channel
for today's youth,'' said Gandhi.

The FM Radio will also host phone-in programmes featuring guest
lectures, career counselling, subject tutorials, interview with child
psychologists, teaching sessions, besides quizzes based on general
and subject knowledge. ''It will encourage students to produce their
programmes and act as anchors on the Radio shows,'' he added.

United Nations General Assembly has invited Gandhi, also a social
activist, to participate and provide inputs from NGOs in the hearings
to reform the world body.

http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=13876534

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Turning Ghana's Youthful Population Into Skilled Human Resource

Turning Ghana's Youthful Population Into Skilled Human Resource by:
George Koomson
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http://www.iconnect-online.org/Articles/iconnectarticles.2005-05-09.7326350124

Ghana aims to increase its per capita income from its current level
of $400 to $1000 per annum within the next 10 to 15 years. Included
in plans to bring about this development, are turning the country's
large youthful population into a skilled human resource and
increasing the percentage of her key technical and professional
manpower. The plans identify e-learning as a cost effective and
quickest way of achieving this.

LAUNCH OF CHINESE LANGUAGE GATEWAY

LAUNCH OF CHINESE LANGUAGE GATEWAY
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We are delighted to announce the launch of a Chinese language version
of SciDev.Net's China gateway, which can be found at
http://www.scidev.net/chinese/gateway/. This will contain both
original items about science-related developments in China, and
translations into Chinese of relevant articles appearing elsewhere on
the website.

The opening of the new gateway coincides with the launch of our
latest regional network, SciDev.Net China.
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InuktiChat unveiling - InuktiBoard - InuktiCode

As part of the National Aboriginal Day, launched by the Department of
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, NunaSoft and the SAT unveil their
new line of technology (hadware and software) dedicated to the
aboriginal cultures:

- InuktiChat(tm) (first pure-Inuktitut chat environment);
- InuktiBoard(tm) (first keyboard specifically engineered for the
Inuit language);
- InuktiCode(tm) (first universal tool for Inuktitut conversion and
transliteration).
http://www.sat.qc.ca/breve.php3?id_breve=458&id_rubrique=68

The aboriginal communities are, for the most part, isolated.
Community exchanges are limited by technology, infrastructures and
therefore by the costs related to them. It is the reason why the SAT
and NunaSoft took on this ambitious research and development program,
which objectives are the preservation and dissemination of the
aboriginal arts and cultures.

For more information on NunaSoft, go to : http://www.nunasoft.com
<http://www.nunasoft.com>
For more information on the National Aboriginal Day, go to:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nad/index_e.html
<http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nad/index_e.html>

<http://www.sat.qc.ca/NAVPICS/inuktiboard_desktop2_detail.jpg>

<http://www.sat.qc.ca/NAVPICS/inuktiboard_phonetic_screenshot.gif>

The café is now open only during events. 18+

Programming details at: www.sat.qc.ca <http://www.sat.qc.ca/>

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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:48:36 -0400
From: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson@GOV.NU.CA>
Subject: FW: Darlene: InuktiChat unveiling

Thought this might be interesting...

Darlene A. Thompson

Community Access Program Administrator

Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

P.O. Box 429

Pond Inlet, NU X0A 0S0

Phone: (867) 899-7363

Fax: (867) 899-7334

dthompson@gov.nu.ca

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