Years ago, CBC's "Quirks & Quarks" science program had at least 2 items (the later on a follow-up) on transplating Islets from healthy donors into Type 1 diabetes sufferers.
[ Research was from University of Alberta ]
Trials have been going for years already, with over 90% success rates. Not good enough?!?:-/
Besides access to a lot of cool technologies, it offerred one of the only places around where you could go & call out (albeit cryptically):
"Hey, anybody out there wanna talk to me right now?"
Of course, there were many more males prepared to jump the entry hurdles into Ham Radio, then as now.
But, today, we have Skype... Since September 2004, I've had the pleasure of meeting:
- a plastic surgeon (from India) in Israel
- a Palestinian woman in Jordan
- a Swedish-speaking student in the Far North of Sweden, with whom to practice my Swedish
I've also used a Kenwood TS-2000 HF / VHF / UHF transceiver remotely (it's a bit like the now dated JavaRadio, but with Transmit Capabilities for licensed Hams).... all via Skype!
ALL I NEED TO KNOW IS:
What do I need to provide so as to be able to use Skype exclusively on an Intranet?
Has anybody done this -without- an Internet connection?;-/
In Australia, indig. lang's are all too quickly going out of use & human memory...
Arabunna (no longer spoken, but originating north of Marree, in South Australia) has been preserved - as best as a non-indigenous research-educator can do - to date, in a massive loose-leaf binder (published, in 2004, by SA's Education Dep't), soon to be supplemented with an audio CD of people reading and/or speaking this language.
In the Marree Aboriginal School, we heard kids being encouraged to sing non-indigenous kids' songs, with lyrics translated to Arabunna.
A multimedia version of a simple kids story (written for the purpose) was also translated into Arabunna & read (& recorded) by one of the few surviving people (a woman living far south of the original Arabunna lands) & blended with colorful drawings of scenes for the story.
When money is available research records, documents & analyses some of the languages... but few urban (or, as here, "urbanised") indigenous young people seem to be speaking them, except when they wish to pass small "secrets" while others are present, who do not know any of the language (as all kids will do...).
There are festivals (eg, "Croc Festival 2004") around Austraila that attempts to celebrate local indigenous culture (or that from around the states or territories in which they are held), again while funding is available.
I haven't see any signs of a re-birth of at least the Arabunna language... Indeed several of the Marree kids are said to be using more broadly known words from other indigenous languages.
I have not, for myself, decided whether this cultural recording & (to some degree) encouragement is geniune for - God forbid! - just to develop more plausible content to offer or refer to when tourists come around...
Contrast this with the re-birth of Hebrew into modern Hebrew (which, of course, is actually used in Israel).
The former seems to be to be encouraged by external government funding bodies, while the latter seems to have come from the people itself, by way of preparing to create the State of Israel.
Would that our indigenous peoples were as highly motivated in re-creating their cultures, as they seem to be in sports, so that they were leading their own projects & not simply being lead by others, eg, who may wish to have some "show communities" to point to, when international guests or dignataries come to SA.
For, side by side, the well-funded but externally lead academic projects (staffed, I would suggest, mostly by non-indigenous people) that seem to be happening in a town of under 100 people are the all too typical social problems, for which South Australia has recently been known:
- addiction to recently permitted Poker Machines, - alcoholism, & - all that comes from the above
The most recent Commonwealth Government contribution:
Funding for the construction of a large, empty shed - a "youth shed."
Nothing to put inside it, no shade for it... just a space, behind the Telecentre (where computers can he used, a bit like an Internet cafe).
No one seems to be addressing the social issues... and the resulting gambling & alcohol use contributes only to non-indigenous business operators' wealth.
A recent proposal (from another state's indigenous leader) was that gov't and/or corporations should pay to send indigenous students to private schools, as they are not getting enough from the public schools to give them skills to manage & improve their own communities, generally speaking.
A radio program (Bush Telegraph or Country Breakfast) told of a "technical advancement" - an software that displays outputs from a community's accounting program with icons representing where money goes & possibly where it comes from...
(Dumbing down or approprate to the people who need to manage their own affairs?)
We read that Canadian & US indigenous peoples' health statistics run -much- closer to non-in
Q: What's the Swiss newspaper, that...
on
Press freedom
·
· Score: 1
Years ago, I heard of a news service or 'paper
that published its news reports intentionally
delayed; the idea was that only after more of
the stories & evidence coming out about an
event have had a chance to flow out of the area
where it happened does it make sense to publish
it.
Q: What's the name of that Newspaper or Service?
Do they have a web site, at which we can read
some/all of their news?
From the Eugenics department... (even one of
Australia's honored scientists - Mark Oliphant
is said to have held eugenic thoughts in later
life)
Today brought news of another -dark- Australian
tradition:
Giving would-be-TALL girls -estrogen-
to inhibit ("stunt") their growth!!!
(The tall-popey syndrome has been with us - in
many ways - for years over here, apparently...)
Anyway, the study (which only looked at females)
supports the conclusion that fertility is REDUCED
in later life.
"Victims" of early estrogen treatments have
been calling for BANNING of the same.
Now, has anyone done research on MALES...?
Anybody (in Oz or elsewhere) been given estrogen
to bring on earlier puberty, thereby stopping
their growth in stature, who's later had issues
when trying to procreate? (Men, I mean...)
(Aussies continue to strike me as REALLY ODD;
positioning their young women to be SHORT?!?)
Check your figures... most of the others still buy their ADSL from Telstra's wholesale arm...
That's why the ACCC issued a warning of Telstra, that might have cost them big, eg, for pricing their RETAIL ADSL -below- their WHOLESALE price- levels.
Telstra is still pretty much "the only game in Aussie town"...:-(
In a land where the gov't used to own 100% of the only TelCo on the continent (Australia),
we know how gov't control of telecommunications goes.
But - more recently - we noticed (on wwwl.Skype.com) a reference to the FCC's head,
just after he tested Skype, suggesting that TelCo's should be worried...
Now, we read that FCC insists that it regulate VoIP...
I guess that means the worries of TelCo's will be less (in USA, at least)
Oh, in Oz, Telstra seems to be retaining 90+ % of our telecomms market...
Another Amateur Radio moving-map tool - this one capable of displaying -multiple- moving GPS- carrying symbols across the screen (not just one, that represents yours) is UI-View
Great for tracking various emergency service vehicles at an incident.
It's from the UK... A cost-free 16-bit demo is available, bur it's maybe 10 UK Pounds for 32-bit Windows (only!) version.
I'm late to the world of VoIP, arriving just after the release of Skype 1.0.0.29
Here's what I've got on my To Try list:
Applications for Skype:
Intercom
I'net Dating
Random Surveys
Conference Calls
Lic-free "Ham Radio"
VoIP I'net Phone (free)
Remote [Language] Teaching
Remote Councilling Service
Remote Computer Consulting
Improve Int'l Relations (P2P)
---
Unanswered questions about Skype:
What's needed to use it "standalone" across a LAN?
Try Linux Australia's "Cheaper by the Dozen" Idea
on
Anatomy of a LAN Party?
·
· Score: 5, Informative
I don't know if it would work for all, but
it's worth looking into:
Linux Australia buys a "big ins. policy"
Your branch wants to hold an event
It notifies the LA of type, place, date & times
LA notifies the ins. co. of same
Branch's event is covered by organisation's ins.
Again, I'm not directly involved in details,
but just heard the above scenario described
at its latest conference in January.
It's the kind of thing that could help to both
save small groups $'s -and- strengthen network-
ing among compatible groups... there's incentive
to keep in touch (at least a bit)
If you could choose the kind of people
you say the movie with, & maybe had a
chance to discuss / debate the flick -
afterwards... that might justify pay-
ing $ at the cinema...
- a bit like a classical music concert
I mean... who says we all have to stay
just while the film's running... let's
build little communities around films,
at least for the newly rising doco's
that may (hopefully) be changing how
people think about war, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
So, one [sometimes] has to -open- a suspected
spam message to confirm its Spam-nature...
Doing that when using OE can mean getting hit
by the "flavor of the day" virus or worm.
Who needs that ?!?
This will impress me when it addresses the
non-MS eMail clients on this planet, both
Windows & OSS based.
Alone, Skype needs Win 2000 or XP.
Kazaa 3.0's site says it works with Win 98 & Me.
Does this means Skype runs (as p/o Kazaa)
under Win 98 or Me...?
The European Community could well put
some pressure on the country or maybe
bounce Yurkey out of the EC.
How soon a wrongly sentenced person
might be released from prison is,
of course, another matter.
There were to be several versions of the
Japanese TRON operating system (-not- a
very recent development, and -not- OSS)
Did this die?
If so, about how long ago?
TIA
Years ago, CBC's "Quirks & Quarks" science program
had at least 2 items (the later on a follow-up) on
transplating Islets from healthy donors into Type 1 diabetes sufferers.
[ Research was from University of Alberta ]
Trials have been going for years already, with
over 90% success rates. Not good enough?!?
What's the latest on this treatment...?
Besides access to a lot of cool technologies, it offerred one of the only places around where you could go & call out (albeit cryptically):
"Hey, anybody out there wanna talk to me right now?"
Of course, there were many more males prepared to jump the entry hurdles into Ham Radio, then as now.
But, today, we have Skype... Since September 2004, I've had the pleasure of meeting:
- a plastic surgeon (from India) in Israel
- a Palestinian woman in Jordan
- a Swedish-speaking student in the Far North of Sweden, with whom to practice my Swedish
... all via Skype!
;-/
I've also used a Kenwood TS-2000 HF / VHF / UHF transceiver remotely (it's a bit like the now dated JavaRadio, but with Transmit Capabilities for licensed Hams).
ALL I NEED TO KNOW IS:
What do I need to provide so as to be able to use Skype exclusively on an Intranet?
Has anybody done this -without- an Internet connection?
(subj sezs it all..)
In Australia, indig. lang's are all too quickly going out of use & human memory...
Arabunna (no longer spoken, but originating north of Marree, in South Australia) has been preserved - as best as a non-indigenous research-educator can do - to date, in a massive loose-leaf binder (published, in 2004, by SA's Education Dep't), soon to be supplemented with an audio CD of people reading and/or speaking this language.
In the Marree Aboriginal School, we heard kids being encouraged to sing non-indigenous kids' songs, with lyrics translated to Arabunna.
A multimedia version of a simple kids story (written for the purpose) was also translated into Arabunna & read (& recorded) by one of the few surviving people (a woman living far south of the original Arabunna lands) & blended with colorful drawings of scenes for the story.
When money is available research records, documents & analyses some of the languages... but few urban (or, as here, "urbanised") indigenous young people seem to be speaking them, except when they wish to pass small "secrets" while others are present, who do not know any of the language (as all kids will do...).
There are festivals (eg, "Croc Festival 2004") around Austraila that attempts to celebrate local indigenous culture (or that from around the states or territories in which they are held), again while funding is available.
I haven't see any signs of a re-birth of at least the Arabunna language... Indeed several of the Marree kids are said to be using more broadly known words from other indigenous languages.
I have not, for myself, decided whether this cultural recording & (to some degree) encouragement is geniune for - God forbid! - just to develop more plausible content to offer or refer to when tourists come around...
Contrast this with the re-birth of Hebrew into modern Hebrew (which, of course, is actually used in Israel).
The former seems to be to be encouraged by external government funding bodies, while the latter seems to have come from the people itself, by way of preparing to create the State of Israel.
Would that our indigenous peoples were as highly motivated in re-creating their cultures, as they seem to be in sports, so that they were leading their own projects & not simply being lead by others, eg, who may wish to have some "show communities" to point to, when international guests or dignataries come to SA.
For, side by side, the well-funded but externally lead academic projects (staffed, I would suggest, mostly by non-indigenous people) that seem to be happening in a town of under 100 people are the all too typical social problems, for which South Australia has recently been known:
- addiction to recently permitted Poker Machines,
- alcoholism, &
- all that comes from the above
The most recent Commonwealth Government contribution:
Funding for the construction of a large, empty shed - a "youth shed."
Nothing to put inside it, no shade for it... just a space, behind the Telecentre (where computers can he used, a bit like an Internet cafe).
No one seems to be addressing the social issues... and the resulting gambling & alcohol use contributes only to non-indigenous business operators' wealth.
A recent proposal (from another state's indigenous leader) was that gov't and/or corporations should pay to send indigenous students to private schools, as they are not getting enough from the public schools to give them skills to manage & improve their own communities, generally speaking.
A radio program (Bush Telegraph or Country Breakfast) told of a "technical advancement" - an software that displays outputs from a community's accounting program with icons representing where money goes & possibly where it comes from...
(Dumbing down or approprate to the people who need to manage their own affairs?)
We read that Canadian & US indigenous peoples' health statistics run -much- closer to non-in
Years ago, I heard of a news service or 'paper
that published its news reports intentionally
delayed; the idea was that only after more of
the stories & evidence coming out about an
event have had a chance to flow out of the area
where it happened does it make sense to publish
it.
Q: What's the name of that Newspaper or Service?
Do they have a web site, at which we can read
some/all of their news?
Consider the laws that limit our abilities to protect ourselves,
even from telephone abuse, using an audio recorder...
Getting the runaround from a government department?
You need the other party's permission before you can
record them while on the phone together.
I would expect to see similar "privacy" laws enacted
that could limit use of video devices, like those
suggested here.
but in response to SCO's nonesense,
I'd say: Good on IBM
From the Eugenics department... (even one of
Australia's honored scientists - Mark Oliphant
is said to have held eugenic thoughts in later
life)
Today brought news of another -dark- Australian
tradition:
Giving would-be-TALL girls -estrogen-
to inhibit ("stunt") their growth!!!
(The tall-popey syndrome has been with us - in
many ways - for years over here, apparently...)
Anyway, the study (which only looked at females)
supports the conclusion that fertility is REDUCED
in later life.
"Victims" of early estrogen treatments have
been calling for BANNING of the same.
Now, has anyone done research on MALES...?
Anybody (in Oz or elsewhere) been given estrogen
to bring on earlier puberty, thereby stopping
their growth in stature, who's later had issues
when trying to procreate? (Men, I mean...)
(Aussies continue to strike me as REALLY ODD;
positioning their young women to be SHORT?!?)
I agree... a bit like the difference between
Ham Radio & Commercial Radio services...
(Freer equipment license conditions in the former)
Check your figures... most of the others still
:-(
buy their ADSL from Telstra's wholesale arm...
That's why the ACCC issued a warning of Telstra,
that might have cost them big, eg, for pricing
their RETAIL ADSL -below- their WHOLESALE price-
levels.
Telstra is still pretty much "the only game in
Aussie town"...
We still hate doing business with this dinosaur!
In a land where the gov't used to own 100% of the only TelCo on the continent (Australia),
we know how gov't control of telecommunications goes.
But - more recently - we noticed (on wwwl.Skype.com) a reference to the FCC's head,
just after he tested Skype, suggesting that TelCo's should be worried...
Now, we read that FCC insists that it regulate VoIP...
I guess that means the worries of TelCo's will be less (in USA, at least)
Oh, in Oz, Telstra seems to be retaining 90+ % of our telecomms market...
Telstra: "What? Me Worry?"
(Never!)
I know... one more protocol to implement (P2P)
But why not look at this a upgrading the under-
lying technology?
Skype has IM functionality... shouldn't this BitlBee
get some Skype functionality... someday?
Another Amateur Radio moving-map tool - this one
capable of displaying -multiple- moving GPS-
carrying symbols across the screen (not just one, that represents yours) is UI-View
Great for tracking various emergency service vehicles at an incident.
It's from the UK... A cost-free 16-bit demo is
available, bur it's maybe 10 UK Pounds for 32-bit
Windows (only!) version.
I'm late to the world of VoIP, arriving just after
the release of Skype 1.0.0.29
Here's what I've got on my To Try list:
Applications for Skype:
Intercom
I'net Dating
Random Surveys
Conference Calls
Lic-free "Ham Radio"
VoIP I'net Phone (free)
Remote [Language] Teaching
Remote Councilling Service
Remote Computer Consulting
Improve Int'l Relations (P2P)
---
Unanswered questions about Skype:
What's needed to use it "standalone" across a LAN?
I don't know if it would work for all, but
it's worth looking into:
Linux Australia buys a "big ins. policy"
Your branch wants to hold an event
It notifies the LA of type, place, date & times
LA notifies the ins. co. of same
Branch's event is covered by organisation's ins.
Again, I'm not directly involved in details,
but just heard the above scenario described
at its latest conference in January.
It's the kind of thing that could help to both
save small groups $'s -and- strengthen network-
ing among compatible groups... there's incentive
to keep in touch (at least a bit)
You milage may vary...
If you could choose the kind of people
you say the movie with, & maybe had a
chance to discuss / debate the flick -
afterwards... that might justify pay-
ing $ at the cinema...
- a bit like a classical music concert
I mean... who says we all have to stay
just while the film's running... let's
build little communities around films,
at least for the newly rising doco's
that may (hopefully) be changing how
people think about war, etc.
My 2.2 cents (includes 10% Aussie GST)
Sorry, I meant: We have to pay to GET access
to the data, if WE want to USE it... (also).
First, we pay public servants to CREATE data,
then we have to pay them to USE it!
USA seemed to be better at this than we are.
Where there's a need, there will arise a community to fill it... or there should!