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1. ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING: Inuits Blame U.S. for Climate Change
From: David P. Dillard
2. New Books Available from University of Manitoba Aboriginal Issues
From: George Lessard
3. REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS : REFERENCE: ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES AND
From: David P. Dillard
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1. ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING: Inuits Blame U.S. for Climate Change
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Mar 1, 2007 3:08 pm ((PST))
ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING:
Inuits Blame U.S. for Climate Change
Inuits Blame U.S. for Climate Change
Thursday, March 1, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
Associated Press (AP)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=
/n/a/2007/03/01/national/w000355S66.DTL&type=politics>
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As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has
come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top
of the world.
The Inuits of Northern Canada and beyond are taking their case against the
United States on Thursday to an international human rights commission.
They have scant chance of a breakthrough but still hope to score moral and
political points against the U.S. and its carbon spewers.
"The point here is that our way of life is at stake," says Sheila
Watt-Cloutier, who was nominated with former Vice President Al Gore for a
Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change.
She was preparing to make the Inuit case at a hearing of the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the 34-member
Organization of American States.
The Inuit population hails from Canada, Russia and Greenland, as well as
Alaska, where they are known as Eskimos. They have been trying to tell the
world for more than a decade about the shifting winds and thinning ice
that have damaged the hunting grounds the Northern peoples have used for
thousands of years.
Watt-Cloutier spoke earlier this week in Iqaluit, the capital of Canada's
Arctic Nunavut Territory about 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle,
before leaving for Washington.
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2. New Books Available from University of Manitoba Aboriginal Issues
Posted by: "George Lessard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] themediamentor
Date: Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:37 pm ((PST))
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University of Manitoba Aboriginal Issues Press
by Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Thursday, March 1 2007, 08:01 AM
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New Books Available from University of Manitoba Aboriginal Issues Press
For further information and to order the books, please go to:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/environment/aboriginal_issues_press/
or contact:
Jill Oakes
Centre for Earth Observation Sciences, University of Manitoba
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The University of Manitoba Aboriginal Issues Press announces the publication
of the following books:
Aboriginal Connections to Race, Environment and Traditions
Edited by Rick Riewe and Jill Oakes
Price: $20 CDN (plus shipping and handling)
This book includes 14 papers written by experts in the social sciences,
health sciences, and humanities on topics such as:
- Internment of Japanese Canadians and colonization of Canada's Aboriginal
Peoples;
- Nature in the literary works of Louise Erdrich;
- Cosmology and Inuit clothing;
- Aboriginal students and faculty experiences with distance education;
- First Nations and Black American soldiers;
- Mi'kmaq Nation of Newfoundland, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and
Nicolas Denys (1598-1688);
- The Baldoon Experiment and the Sustainability of Bkejwanong Territory
(Walpole Island, Ontario);
- Wild rice harvesters and marketers in northern Manitoba;
- Past and present First Nation's government;
- Women and self-government;
- Aboriginal Community and University 'Partnership'; and
- Culture and health in the Urban Aboriginal Diabetes Project (UADP).
Climate Change: Linking Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
Edited by Rick Riewe and Jill Oakes
Price: $25 CDN (plus shipping and handling)
This refereed publication includes papers written by over 50 community
experts and scientists addressing theoretical concerns, knowledge transfer,
adapting to climate change, implications of changing weather, water and ice
conditions for northerners and wildlife, and the impact of climate change on
tourism, fire, and industrial development. Northern communities, politicians,
managers, policy makers, scientists, and schools will gain valuable insights
by exploring linkages between traditional and scientific knowledge in the
north.
Residents' Perspectives on the Churchill River
Researcher: Joel Edye-Rowntree
Price: $15 CDN (plus shipping and handling)
The lower Churchill River was and still is a very important part of the
psyche of Churchill residents, being used for recreational purposes such as
fishing and boating, as well as transportation routes for hunting and
trapping. Residents' spatial orientation is based on the river; "upriver" and
"across the river" are terms used in everyday language. The overall
purpose of
this book is to share Churchill residents' perspectives on the importance of
the lower Churchill River. The specific objectives include:
- increase understanding and awareness of the importance of the lower
Churchill River to local residents;
- enhance knowledge of how the lower Churchill River was and currently is
used by local residents;
- obtain insights into issues concerning the social impact of changes to
residents as a result of changes to the lower Churchill River;
- obtain local perspectives on ways of addressing concerns related to the
lower Churchill River; and
- provide a forum for sharing local residents' perspectives with future
generations of Churchill residents.
For further information and to order the books, please go to:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/environment/aboriginal_issues_press/
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3. REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS : REFERENCE: ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES AND
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Mar 2, 2007 3:42 am ((PST))
REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS :
REFERENCE: ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES AND TOOLS :
WIKIS:
Look Who's Using Wikipedia
Look Who's Using Wikipedia
Thursday, Mar. 01, 2007
By BILL TANCER
Time / CNN
<http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html>
Poor Wikipedia. Professional Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing one of its
contributors for a defamatory cyber-attack. And last year, television host
and comedian Stephen Colbert urged his audience to vandalize a Wikipedia
entry about elephants to prove the point that in a model where any user
can edit encyclopedia entries, those entries are only as good as their
source.
<snip>
Academics are split on the usefulness of Wikipedia, which bills itself as
"the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." The sheer volume of content
(Wikipedia claims over 5.3 million entries, 1.6 million in English) is
partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When
compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the U.S.,
Wikipedia is #1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category, according
to Hitwise data. But as the recent drama illustrates, a body of online
knowledge built by an army of 75,000 volunteer, anonymous contributors and
editors is prone to anything from simple benign errors to outright
information vandalism.
Search and Internet behavior data provide alarming insight into this
powerful but volatile resource alarming because one of the core groups of
Wikipedia users are school children.
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Conservapedia - the US religious right's answer to Wikipedia
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
Friday March 2, 2007
The Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2024762,00.html>
It has been attacked many times in its short life, most notably by a
former aide to Robert F Kennedy and the editor of Encyclopaedia
Britannica. But now the online reference site Wikipedia has a new foe:
evangelical Christians.
A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they
claim is "liberal bias" on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has
become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders of
Conservapedia.com say their site offers a "much-needed alternative" to
Wikipedia, which they say is "increasingly anti-Christian and
anti-American".
Although entries on Wikipedia are open for anyone to edit, conservative
campaigners say they are unable to make changes to articles on the site
because of inherent bias by its global team of volunteer editors. Instead
they have chosen to build a clone which they hope will promote Christian
values.
"I've tried editing Wikipedia, and found that the biased editors who
dominate it censor or change facts to suit their views," Andy Schlafly,
the founder of Conservapedia, told the Guardian. "In one case my factual
edits were removed within 60 seconds - so editing Wikipedia is no longer a
viable approach."
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Wikipedia's credibility debated by professors
Jamie Smith
Issue date: 3/2/07 Section: News
The Daily Vidette Online
<http://media.www.dailyvidette.com/media/storage/paper420/news/
2007/03/02/News/Wikipedias.Credibility.
Debated.By.Professors-2753399.shtml>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/3cbchh>
Controversy was sparked after the history department at Middlebury College
banned students from citing Wikipedia as a research source.
ISU's history department has not taken any measures as far as banning the
Web site, but does discourage its use for reliable information.
"I would never say never, but generally we don't have that kind of
departmental control over what any one professor does. We leave it in the
professor's hands to decide for themselves whether or not they want
students to use Wikipedia," Gifford said. With the ability for the
information to be edited, some wonder why the Web site is as a popular as
it is.
"I would just say that no one who was even thinking would think of citing
Wikipedia," Stewart Winger, a professor of history, said.
The main reason for the debate about Wikipedia is the ability for people
to be able to edit the information on the site. "I guess I just don't see
any controversy here because I don't see why anyone would ever cite
Wikipedia, which itself consists solely of non-cited material. It's like
chain of custody in a criminal proceeding. You've got to have some way of
knowing where your evidence came from," Winger stated.
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The Wikipedia Admin Brouhaha
Submitted by Mathew Ingram on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 14:53.
WebProNews
<http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/
2007/03/01/the-wikipedia-admin-brouhaha>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/3drkct>
Hardly a month goes by without some new dustup involving Wikipedia either
because someone edited their own entry, or because someone bitched about
not being able to edit their own entry, or because someone paid someone
else to edit an entry.
The latest brouhaha concerns a New Yorker piece that quoted a senior
Wikipedia administrator named Essjay, a person described as a tenured
professor of religion at a private U.S. university.
As it turns out, Essjay is no such thing. His real name is Ryan Jordan,
and he doesnt have a degree in theology or canon law (as his Wikipedia
profile claims), nor does he teach at any kind of educational institution.
He is 24, and works for Wikia, the for-profit company started by Wikipedia
co-founder Jimmy Wales. And what was the response to the New Yorker piece?
Jimmy Wales told the New Yorker that he regards Essjays fake profile as a
pseudonym and I dont really have a problem with it. On his talk page at
Wikipedia he says:
EssJay has always been, and still is, a fantastic editor and trusted
member of the community. He apologized to me and to the community for any
harm caused.
Trolls are claiming that he bragged about it: this is bullshit. He has
been thoughtful and contrite about the entire matter and I consider it
settled.
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The Anarchy of Wikipedia
Daniel Johnson - 3.1.2007 - 9:13AM
Connections
<http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/johnson/202>
Michael J. Lewis makes a fair point about Wikipedia: we have all used it
as a short-cut from time to time, and, provided that information from it
is checked and cross-referenced, it has its legitimate uses. But he does
not go far enough in commenting on its accuracy.
The site is the repository not merely of inaccuracy but of disinformation
on a vast scale. It is a minefield for those whom Nietzsche called die
Halbgebildeten, the half-educated. According to Tom Gross, Wikipedia
recently deleted an entry that claimed the bones of Palestinian children
were one of five ingredients used by Jews to make unleavened bread for
Passover. Though the editors promised to be more vigilant in the future,
it is troubling that an Islamist version of this ancient anti-Semitic
blood libel could be posted on this most popular of online resources for
any length of time at all.
By chance, I discovered that the entry about me also included hostile,
anonymously authored material. At my request, it was removed without
question by the editors of Wikipedia. But what if I had not noticed it, or
had been dead or otherwise unable to lodge a protest?
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Wikipedia doesn't get enough respect
By: Jonas Hogg
Issue date: 3/1/07 Section: Opinion
Kansas State Collegian
<http://media.www.kstatecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1022/news/
2007/03/01/Opinion/Wikipedia.Doesnt.Get.Enough.Respect-2751676.shtml>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/32evac>
Among the many under-appreciated and misunderstood resources in our world,
Wikipedia.com ranks high on the list.
It is abused by college students, damned by professors and generally
shunned among the 30-and-older intellectual crowd. Now, according to an
article in the Feb. 21 issue of The New York Times, it has been banned
altogether from a history department at Middlebury College in Vermont.
This move, while shocking, is disappointing for the wrong reasons -
students should never use this Web site as their sole source.
<snip>
The mistake these students made was not their use of the Web site, but
that they used it as their only source. Wikipedia is a fantastic resource
for primary information and a great starting place for research.
If users need a brief overview of an issue, they often can find it on
Wikipedia and get a very basic and superficial understanding of a topic,
which can help when doing further research. Some entries, however, go into
greater detail than some Wikipedia skeptics might give them credit for.
Also, many of Wikipedia's entries are sourced from other, incredibly
useful links to credible Web sites that could be used in essays as valid
sources.
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March 1, 2007 5:22 AM PST
Wikipedia 101: Check your sources
C|Net
Blogma
<http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6163357.html>
A few months back, The New Yorker published a long piece about online
encyclopedia Wikipedia. This week, the magazine ran an editors' note
detailing a problem with one of the sources in the article.
The Web encyclopedia's management team recommended a Wikipedia
administrator, known to the Wikipedia community and to the article's
author only as "Essjay," as a source for the story. According to the
article, the source, who described himself online as "a tenured professor
of religion at a private university" with "a Ph.D. in theology and a
degree in canon law," remained anonymous on Wikipedia and to the magazine
because he was concerned about retribution from people he ruled against.
It turns out, however, that Essjay is a 24-year-old named Ryan Jordan, who
is not a teacher and holds no advanced degrees. Jordan was recently hired
by Wikia, a commercial company co-founded by Wikipedia founder Jimmy
Wales. Wales told The New Yorker that he didn't "really have a problem
with" Essjay's online profile, and regarded it as a "pseudonym."
The incident had bloggers buzzing trying to decide where the bigger
problem lay: Was Wikipedia to blame for allowing administrators to lie
about who they are? Or should the reporter have been more thorough in
checking her sources?
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University will not follow suit in a liberal arts college's Wikipedia ban
by Harald Olsen
Hatchet Reporter
Issue date: 3/1/07 Section: News
The George Washington (GW) Hatchet Online
<http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/03/01/
News/University.Will.Not.Follow.Suit.In.A.Liberal.Arts.
Colleges.Wikipedia.Ban-2750669.shtml>
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<http://tinyurl.com/367l3w>
"I sincerely doubt the GW History Department will be making a rule like
(Middlebury's), because the assignments that our faculty members give
don't really lend themselves to much use of Wikipedia," Anbinder said.
The department chair and professor said he requires his students to use
primary sources from the era they are studying, which means Wikipedia use
is never allowed.
Anbinder said students aren't the only ones lazily using the site. Some
professors rely too much on Wikipedia for lectures, he said.
"It can be a crutch at times for faculty as well as students," he said.
"Wikipedia is so easy to get and so easy to use that people tend to rely
on it more than they should."
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