by Dmitri Popov
Although computers are yet to take over the business of language translation, they have become an essential part of the translation process. Many professional translators use computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools such as SDLX, TRADOS, Déjà Vu and WordFast. But since integrate tightly with Microsoft Word, you can’t use them with OpenOffice.org Writer. The Anaphraseus extension provides solution to the problem: using it, you can turn Writer into a powerful CAT tool.
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Zimbabwe Horror
New York Times - “The youth,” as foot soldiers of Zimbabwe’s ruling party are often called, broke the legs of an 11-month-old baby when they were looking for his father, an opposition organizer.
Mandela speaks on Mugabe failure - BBC News
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When I first heard about the Gloucester, Massachusetts high school girls who made a pact to become pregnant and to raise their children together, I wasn’t surprised by the media reaction to this Time story. Some reporters pulled a knee-jerk response that called for more birth control and sex education. The reaction from other writers is to criticize the previous reactions and to call for more discipline, a stronger sense of responsibility, and no public funds used to support any of the girls. As one article stated bluntly, “They made their ‘choice,’ and they can live with the consequences.”
My initial reaction to the Time story was, “It takes a village.” While a few friends thought my reaction was funny, I didn’t intend it as a joke. In fact, this pact reminded me of my time spent in a little town in Colorado, where I belonged to a group of families that took this philosophy seriously. Kids were dropped off at one family’s house, sometimes for days at a time while their parents went to Denver or off to some remote mountain top. In exchange, the host parents felt free to leave their children with other families to go off for a few days. The kids felt at home in over a dozen residences in that town. And, they knew that love - as well as discipline - was the same across the board. No manipulation allowed!
So, when I read the Time article and the subsequent media fallout, I wondered what prompted these seventeen teens to initiate this pact. Where they trying to build community? Or, was this decision a result of delusional and immature thinking? The teens and their parents decline to be interviewed. Instead, psychologists, school officials and other authority figures feel obligated to express their reasons for the pact. The high school clinic nurse, Kim Daly, stated that, “This is a community that is very much struggling…Some probably see this as something to do…Having a baby gives them an identity.” And, from the same story, Superintendent Christopher Farmer told the Gloucester School Committee that, “This is a community problem.”
But, what is this community like, and what, exactly, is the problem?
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