Najuqsivik, the Saniqiluak Daycare Centre – Inuktitut Version DEMO

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This was one of the projects I worked on as editor when at Education Nunavut… In Arviat Nunavut. On Final Cut Pro…[English http://youtu.be/fpbW7opprzo  and Inuktitut versions] It is the story how a community worked together to get a daycare centre…”Najuqsivik”Project funding came from Health CanadaI produced it for Education Nunavut.2001 PRODUCER / DIGITAL EDITING – “Saniqiluak Daycare Centre” a half hour documentary about how Saniqiluak, a Nunavut community of 700 people, has organized and run their daycare centre and its programs. English & Inuktitut versions
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Camera traps catch Arctic predators in the act

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A gripping new set of photos from camera traps in the Alaskan Arctic catch animals in the carnivorous act of preying on the eggs and the young of nesting birds, showing how these predators may be benefitting and migratory birds suffering from human…
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FotoPelaPaz Youth Media Project | Children, Equity, and Development

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In summer 2010, 15 students from the New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), located in New York, the United States, travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to work on various media and human rights projects in favela communities around the city. One of them is the FotoPelaPaz Youth Media Project, which used photography as a tool in Complexo da Maré and sound exploration as a tool in Nova Holanda, one of the 17 communities that together comprise the favela of Complexo da Maré, to introduce human rights and child rights themes to the participants. The project sought to give the children and youth a new way of voicing their opinion and show a different image of their lives and their communities than the image often portrayed my mainstream media in Brazil.
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Request for Proposal (RFP) Abstract: Nunavut Fibre Optic Feasibility Study

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Nunavut Fibre Optic Feasibility Study The objective of this project is to examine the feasibility of fibre optic connectivity for Nunavut, as a complement to or alternative to satellite-based Internet access in the long term. The project will identify the costs and technical challenges of installing fibre optic infrastructure in the territory, identify possible landing points, assess the long term costs and benefits of fibre optic connectivity, and evaluate how fibre optic connectivity can contribute to a long-term solution to Nunavut’s growing telecommunications needs.
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All the easiest ways to search old tweets

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Update: There is no free search product that is 100% reliable. Even just trying to see tweets written to you on a day-to-day basis can be problematic. Also, read about how, in July, 2011, Twitter changed how search works. [excerpt] Twitter’s default search only goes back a week—if that—and often chokes on multiple keyword searches. Fortunately, there ARE many great alternatives, and I’ve included a chart comparing the nine top tweet search engines below. For example, Topsy lets you search all the way back to May, 2008. Here are links to each of the nine (plus a few extra ones), in order of what I’ve found most useful to least useful for general tweet searches (however, some are powerful in other ways)): TwimeMachineSnapBirdTopsyThe Archivist (a service that lets you search Twitter for Tweets. Then you can create an archive, view it as a spreadsheet or download a .zip file and analyze, export and share the tweets. It displays some stat charts about the tweets.)TweetBoardGoogle Tweet Search with date optionGoogle Realtime Search Update: Google has cancelled this service after coming out with their own social networkTweetScanBackTweetsFriendFeedTwitter Advanced SearchSocial Searching (claims search years back in Twitter or Facebook, doesn’t always work) http://chirpcity.com searches local, city and keyword based trends and tweets.Research.ly announces you can access up to 1,000 days of Twitter conversations: http://bit.ly/hVxcbN
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Server farms: A new industry in the Arctic? Facebook thinks so.

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Facebook intends to capitalize on the Arctic’s frigid climate by building a data center on the coast of Swedish Lapland.
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“Inuk” Film set in Greenland to open Anchorage International Film Festival | adn.com

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The Anchorage International Film Festival has announced this year’s selections, which will screen at various venues around town from Dec. 2 to Dec. 11. Among the highlights is opening night selection “Inuk,” [trailer http://youtu.be/5fBkfXvhzTE ] More than 100 films were chosen for this year’s festival, including international selections from Italy, Poland, Rwanda, Israel, Pakistan and India. Awards will be given for best feature narrative, documentary, short film, super short (10 minutes or shorter), animation, family and youth media as well as the annual Snowdance category, which showcases movies by Alaskans or about Alaska. Full information about participating venues and ticket prices has yet to be announced. Check http://anchoragefilmfestival.org for more info. –Matt Sullivan
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#NWT Centre for Geomatics web map viewer of publicly available data sets

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A web map viewer of publicly available data sets is provided on behalf of the Government of the Northwest Territories. The web map viewer provides a means of mapping geospatial information, satellite imagery and aerial photography over the internet. The map viewer can be launched in a web browser; allowing access to the GNWT’s Spatial Data Warehouse without specialized software.
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New York court rules lawsuit against Arianna Huffington for “stealing” Huffington Post idea can go to trial | Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

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A New York judge has ruled that a lawsuit claiming Arianna Huffington stole the idea for the Huffington Post can go to trial, according to Reuters. The lawsuit against Huffington brought last year by plaintiffs Peter Daou and James Boyce can go forward “under a New York law that allows people to sue if someone steals an idea that is both novel and concrete,” Paid Content explained. Huffington and co-founder Ken Lerer earlier had filed to dismiss the lawsuit, but now the judge’s decision may “increase the pressure on Huffington to settle the case before further details about the origins of her site are put before a jury,” Paid Content said. According to Business Insider, a Huffington Post spokesperson responded to the judge’s ruling, saying, “Seven out of the eight claims were thrown out. To describe this as any kind of victory is as laughable as their lawsuit.” Earlier this year AOL acquired the Huffington Post for $315 million, resulting in a class-action lawsuit brought by volunteer, freelance bloggers wanting to be paid, according to the Associated Press.
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Sign from 1969 ‘Bed-In’ could fetch big bucks

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Money was a prime villain — along with war, bigotry and some of the other ills of modern society — when Beatles mega-star John Lennon and his newlywed wife Yoko Ono spent a famous week in bed at a Montreal hotel in 1969 to promote peace, love and…
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