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History of New Zealand - NZ History - 0 views

  •     Maori Legend – the creation of New ZealandA long time after the creation of the world – after Tane mahuta had created a woman out of red earth, breathed life into her nostrils, mated with her and had a daughter, who also became his wife and bore him other daughters, and after many other things had happened – the demigod Maui, who lived in Hawaiki, went out fishing with his brothers. They went further and further out to sea. When they were a long way out, Maui took out his magic fish-hook (the jaw of his sorcerer grandmother), tied it to a strong rope, then dropped it over the side of the canoe. Soon he caught an immense fish and, struggling mightily, pulled it up. This fish became the North Island of NZ, called by the ancient Maori Te ika a Maui (the fish of Maui) or sometimes Te ikaroa a Maui (the big fish of Maui). The Mahia Peninsula, at the north end of Hawke Bay on the east coast of the North Island, was known as Te matau a Maui (the fish-hook of Maui), since it was the hook with which he caught the giant fish. The South Island was known as Te waka a Maui, or the canoe of Maui, in which he was sitting when he caught the fish. Kaikoura Peninsula, on the north-east coast of the South Island, was the seat of the canoe. Another name for the South Island was Te wai Pounamu (the water greenstone), since much greenstone (jade, or pounamu) was found in the rivers there. Stewart Island, south of the South Island, was known as Te punga a Maui (the anchor of Maui). It was the anchor that held the canoe as Maui hauled in the giant fish.      
Amanda Stueve

LABOUR: Reversing South Africa's Brain Drain - 0 views

  • the country's dark days of post-apartheid crime, that triggered an exodus of the white population are over. According to them new opportunites are building up and there is no more ‘reverse discrimination' against whites.
  • The reality today is that if you are black, young, and male, your chances of being affected by crime is much higher,
  • Whites constitute most of the South African expatriates.
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  • encouraging trends
  • one white for every 11 blacks in the population, of every 33 murder victims only one is white
  • while blacks still account for 31 percent of the unemployed, the rate for the whites was only five percent.
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    Ok. Wow. I so did not think of white South Africans when I thought about African professionals. The statistics they are using to try to convince white expatriates to return to South Africa are very interesting.
Justin Heldenbrand

One Laptop Per Child reaches South America | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

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    Article on olpc in South America
Chelcie

Climate Change - Guaraqueçaba Climate Action Project - global warming and cli... - 0 views

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    This article focuses on climate change problems that are directly affecting the South America area. Due to destruction of tropical rainforest, which is an issue we discussed on Friday during class, there are at least 15 species of birds that are being endangered.
jcoop11

New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • New Zealand comprises two main islands (called the North and South Islands in English, Te-Ika-a-Maui and Te Wai Pounamu in Māori) and a number of smaller islands, located near the center of the water hemisphere. The total land area, 268,680 square kilometres (103,738 sq mi), is a little less than that of Italy and Japan, and a little more than the United Kingdom. The country extends more than 1600 kilometres (1000 miles) along its main, north-north-east axis, with approximately 15,134 km of coastline. The most significant of the smaller inhabited islands include Stewart Island/Rakiura; Waiheke Island, in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf; Great Barrier Island, east of the Hauraki Gulf; and the Chatham Islands, named Rēkohu by Moriori. The country has extensive marine resources, with the seventh-largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, covering over four million square kilometres (1.5 million sq mi), more than 15 times its land area.[5]
Ryan Felber

People 'simply die for lack of health care' - 0 views

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    Lack of healthcare in america. Places like Kentucky and the south mostly
Amanda Stueve

DEVELOPMENT: Keeping Civil Society on the Straight and Narrow - 0 views

  • Quite a large number of civil society organisations and NGOs have no organically-evolved mandate from the citizens,"
  • Mkaronda said complaints about NGO conduct may sometimes stem from public misunderstanding about the roles of these groups: "For example, the Zimbabwean community in South Africa expects us to mobilise resources to sort out shelter, feeding and legal (immigration) status. Yet our role is to highlight the crisis in Zimbabwe."
  • believes self-regulation may hold the key to improving matters: "It would be a good idea if NGOs and civil society groups came up with a code of conduct like the one which guides other professionals such as medical doctors and lawyers."
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  • These include working "in genuine partnership" with local organisations and communities; complying with governance, accounting and reporting obligations in countries of operation; and balancing expectations of NGOs with the salaries needed to attract competent staff, when deciding on remuneration.
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    Puts forth some ideas that could make NGO's more effective. One thing noted is that even NGO's have to pay their employees wages high enough to have a low turnover rate, or else they cannot be effective.
Brandon Fox

South Park Two Day before the day after tomarrow - 0 views

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    forget this one
rhanley

LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document - 0 views

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    Africa Asia and South America pledge not to use children as soldiers
jcoop11

Stopping Africa's medical brain drain -- Johnson 331 (7507): 2 -- BMJ - 0 views

shared by jcoop11 on 30 May 07 - Cached
  • Only 60 of the 500 doctors trained in Zambia since independence are still there.4 Mozambique has only 500 doctors for a population of 18 million.5
  • Any number of incentives have been tried to persuade doctors to remain in or return to their countries of origin—enhanced salaries, better pensions, cars, and housing allowances. Ethical recruitment codes may make us feel that we occupy the moral high ground. But, as long as the rich countries have plenty of vacancies, the flow of healthcare professionals from South to North will continue.
Brandon Fox

MIT World » : The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations - 0 views

shared by Brandon Fox on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Negroponte has begun to line up millions of orders from Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, China and South Africa.
    • Lynn Dee
       
      I think we need these in the States as well. There are children here too who dont have computers and might benifit from them.
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    MIT explains how OLPC will improve developing nations
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