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COP 26 has proved to be about fine sounding words and little action
photo by Frank Jordans/AP: pro-climate crowd outside the COP 26 venue
Posted By: Editor 5 November 2021
Contributed by Jim Hayes
The COP 26 clmate4 conference in Glasgow has proved a disappointment for those who were hoping for a change to real action to combat the climate threat.
Greta Thunberg's "blah., blah, blah commend was prophetic. As the speakers lined up and talked about the need to do more than just talk, COP 26 proved to exactly this, many pretty words, and no commitment to do anything substantial. It proved, yet again, that the heads of state and chiefs of giant corporations who dominated COP 26 proceedings used the event as a photo shot, a cheap propaganda trick to make them look good, and that they can't be relied upon.
Thunberg, who had after all, not been invited to speak was in the audience and brought a great deal of attention, by thanking the assembled leaders for the "greenwash" and walking out. Greenwash is the term for pretending to care for the environment to turn attention away from the fact you are doing nothing about it.
Mark Carney, vice chair and head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management and former governor of the privately owned Bank of England was speaking at the time. Carney championed the "voluntary Carbon Market," as the way to lower carbon emissions. This is the already discredited tax credit system where corporations can buy or sell their rights to create carbon.
Photo from Getty: Mike Carney played a prominent role at COP 26
Carney's involvement was a reminder of the high profile role given to bankers, investors, and insurers, at the official COP 26 conference. The pitch was for a corporate led reaction to global warming and reliance on the market.
United States President Joe Biden was supposed to go to Glasgow with a Green New Deal. It turned out to be mired in the same market led recovery, providing lucrative business opportunities through $550 billion in tax incentives.
Outside, Thunberg told the crowd of the failure inside to give leadership. She said that change will have to be made by those actively involved outside gatherings of heads of state.
More than a million people signed an open letter from Thunberg in which she demands that leaders "face the climate emergency."
Greta Thunberg speaks to the crowd outside the Cop 26 venue
There has been no shift on the past failed response, which has already condemned the world to a 1.5C increase in temperature.
Critics point out that the only major difference now, is that all political leaders know what is happening. Most continue to refuse to act, and this amounts to criminal neglect.
COP 26 organisers made a point of excluding environmentalist organisations from participation. They, along with trade unions and community organisations took part in alternate activities in Glasgow and around the world.
The failure of governments to move forward meaningfully is spelt out in the outcomes listed in a one page statement. Below are the most important.
A pledge of 40 countries to stop funding fossil fuel projects with built in exceptions. The United States, Great Britain, Japan currently finance 87 percent of current global coal. There can be no progress without putting the greatest responsibility here.
Establish a fund of $US100 billion to help poor nations to make a transition, which is nowhere near enough to be effective. This would require a larger amount. The history of previous commitments is that they are not made, and that most of the funding provided has gone to finance corporate projects that have fallen short of the mark.
The carbon trading scheme will be provided with $US130 trillion in loans from corporate financial institutions, as the cornerstone of the market led strategy. With this, the climate debate will be turned into a profit opportunity for some. without the guarantee of a tangible carbon reduction result in the end. The paradox is that these same corporate financial institutions are the financiers of fossil fuels and the fossil fuel dependent economy. They are not going to put their money in projects promising a negative impact on their bottom line.
More than 100 countries have signed a pledge to reduce methane output.
This result will go to negotiators to hammer out further details.
Extinction Rebellion participant holds up Green Washing sign
The climate crisis will not be overcome through a corporate led recovery. This requires a major commitment by governments to play a leading role in a major economic restructure. National economies and the global economy must be reshaped through a coordinated plan that accounts for all linkages and priorities carbon reduction over private profit. Concentrating on isolated projects, even the best intentioned, will not be enough.
Climate action that results in lowering living standards and eliminates jobs will not generate public support, which is another necessary ingredient for success.
Scientists are telling us that unless the status quo of non-action ends soon, the world will be set for a temperature increase of at least 3.7C. This could be enough to ensure environmental collapse widespread extinction, economic collapse, a major shortage of food and water, and towards the breakdown of society as we know it, and the death of millions.
The window of opportunity to stop it is small. The rest of us must rise to the occasion and make change happen.
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Members of the St. Louis Classic Rock Preservation Society are, from left: Ron Stevens (seated), John Sebben, David Mueller, Sue Moody, Steve Scorfina and Gary Kolander.
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St. Louis Classic Rock Preservation Society honors area's rock 'n' roll legacy; Hope for musical venue at new mall development
Real Rock Radio KSHE 95 moved out of Crestwood years ago, but a new rock presence is now firmly in place. It's called the St. Louis Classic Rock Preservation Society and it calls Crestwood home.
Members of the rock preservation society met last week at the Crestwood home of rockers John and Angela Sebben. Nostalgia was at the top of the agenda, but so was the voting now underway for nominations to the St. Louis Classic Rock Hall of Fame.
"We're taking nominations for our Hall of Fame through Memorial Day weekend," explained John Sebben. "Then we will have voting on the rock nominees through July 4.
"The inductees will be honored on Nov. 1 at our trivia night in Crestwood at the community center in Whitecliff Park," added Sebben. "Also in the works for the society, there may be a Crestwood Classic Rock Fall Festival the same weekend at Whitecliff."
Nominations and voting can be accomplished by going to the website: www.stlouisclassicrock.com/hall-of-fame.
Among the artists who have made their way into the hall of fame since the society was founded in 2012 are: Chuck Berry, Mama's Pride, Michael McDonald, Pavlov's Dog, Bob Kuban, Johnnie Johnson, Gayle McCormick, Miles Davis, Ike & Tina Turner and even more St. Louis greats.
Among the artists nominated thus far for the Class of 2019 are Bonnie Bramlett, Fontella Bass and John Hartford. Some unusual nominations include Gus' Pretzels, Ted Drewes, Gaslight Square and Stonehenge.
"Anyone can nominate anyone or anything they feel has contributed to our unique St. Louis musical and pop culture identity," explained Sebben. "I'll sort them into the various categories of Local Artists, DJs, Venues/Institutions, which includes record stores, radio stations and outside influences.
"On occasion, our board will add a 'pioneer' outside of the voting. Also we award a sort of 'super fan' award, called the Jerry M. Cook award," added Sebben. "We do this award to recognize individuals who keep the history alive in various ways, from sharing copies of old KSHE and KXOK tapes, to having websites about bands of the 1960s, to keeping the Mississippi Nights spirit alive with various functions."
Crestwood Contributions
In addition to honoring the rock legacy of the Gateway City, the St. Louis Classic Rock Preservation Society has also become a model Crestwood booster. The society was recognized in late 2018 by the Crestwood Board of Aldermen for it contributions to the city.
"Christmas in Crestwood was our first big introduction to local businesses," said Sebben. "We had the businesses pick five holiday songs and we had a rotation going 24/7 on our web main page streaming site among the other stations we have.
"Instead of an album cover the company logo would be up and their name would be under the song. It was a fun experiment that had about 35 businesses participate, with listeners coming in from most U.S. states and England, France, Japan, India, Australia and more."
The rock preservation society also has been providing Crestwood officials with ideas for the mall redevelopment. Some of those ideas can be found at: crestwoodcourt.com/classic-rock-museum-venue.
"Our big goal would be to have a Wildey Theatre-type venue at the mall site like they have in Edwardsville, Illinois," said Sebben. "It would be great for concerts and much more."
The theatre site would be a little tamer than the old Mississippi River Festival (MRF) in Edwardsville, but would likely attract many of the MRF veterans who witnessed Janis Joplin, Iron Butterfly and The Who.
"With lots of encouragement from musicians and residents, we have spread the word and it has been gathering steam," added Sebben. "The venue would be used for shows, for local events, could be rented out for weddings or proms, would have museum space for our collection of Route 66 items, and a 'Where Did You Go To High School' exhibit – the sort of things that standing alone wouldn't do much, but together could be a lot of fun."
Standing Together
Standing together for rock history at the recent meeting in Crestwood were folks like Ron Stevens, David Mueller, Sue Moody, Steve Scorfina and Gary Kolander. Stevens is president of the rock preservation society.
Stevens was a disc jockey at KSHE from 1971 to 1978, then became program director. He met his wife, Joy Grdnic of "Joy in the Morning," in 1972 and they married in 1974. In 1979 they moved to Los Angeles and became nationally syndicated on 700 radio stations, but eventually returned to St. Louis
"St. Louis has such a rich history of radio personalities who played classic rock," said Stevens. "Ted Habeck, who replaced me at KSHE, has yet to be inducted into our hall of fame. He belongs there. So does Rick Balis who steered KSHE for many years, up to and beyond KSHE's 50th anniversary."
Gary Kolander, another veteran DJ of KSHE fame, and Steve Scorfina of Pavlov's Dog, have also put in yeoman work to make the preservation society connect with rock music's past.
"Steven and Gary are just great ambassadors for the cause," said Sebben. "They have introduced the society to music artists I never thought I'd meet. They are great sources of knowledge and love sharing stories, whether about their experiences or just about music or the industry."
Preserving the legacy of the St. Louis influence and footprint on rock music is a personal passion for Moody.
"My goal, and the society's goal, is to see an event and museum venue in Crestwood," said Moody. "We all work tirelessly toward that goal. St. Louis' contribution to music in general, and classic rock specifically, is an undertaking that I think many people in the Gateway City support."
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• "I was such a fan of the 'Indiana Jones' movies, I grew up on them. I was completely in love with Harrison Ford, and I still am! He's a hottie, and has definitely stood the test of time.
• Also known as 'Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark Sequel'.
• Cate was three months pregnant with her son Ignatius when she completed filming.
• Producer Frank Marshall stated that the film would be shot the same way as the previous three – with stunt men, and using CGI only when necessary. Before the film entered production Steven Spielberg corroborated these claims, but during filming the decision was made to employ more CGI than had originally been anticipated (Spielberg estimated at the time that about 30% of VFX would have to be CGI).
• Sean Connery was approached for a cameo appearance as Henry Jones Sr., Indiana's father, but he turned it down, finding retirement too enjoyable. George Lucas later stated that in retrospect it was good that Jones Sr. did not appear, as it would disappoint the audience when he would not come along for the adventure. Harrison Ford also joked that he was getting old enough to play his own father, so Sean wasn't needed anymore.
• This is the first Indiana Jones film without actor Pat Roach, who had a role in all the first three films. Roach died in 2004.
• Shia LaBeouf signed on for the film in April 2007, so excited about doing an Indy film that he didn't even read the script. To prepare for his role as the greaser Mutt Williams, LeBeouf repeatedly watched the previous three Indiana Jones films and gained fifteen pounds of muscle.
• Originally, Indy was to be up against an uprising of ex-Nazis, but Steven Spielberg felt he could not treat the Nazis lightly after directing Schindler's List (1993), and Harrison Ford felt they had "plumb wore the Nazis out." George Lucas also felt that the 1950s decade would have to take into account the Cold War, and when he heard that that Joseph Stalin had been interested in crystal skulls, he made the Soviets the script's villains.
• In 2006, Harrison Ford declared that if this film was not made by 2008, then the filmmakers should drop the idea altogether. This got Steven Spielberg looking for a good script immediately.
• Steven Spielberg cast Russian actors in the roles of Russian soldiers so their accents would be authentic.
• Harrison Ford apparently has kept himself in such good shape over the years that his costuming measurements for this film had not changed from those in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), nearly 20 years earlier. He performed many of his own stunts, because stunt technology had become safer since 1989; he also felt it improved his performance.
• To prepare for her role of Irina Spalko, Cate Blanchett learned to fence and practiced karate during filming. She based her performance on Rosa Klebb from From Russia with Love (1963), who also has a stern manner and a bob-cut hairdo.
• Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Virginia Madsen were all rumored to play a part in the movie.
• Costume designer Mary Zophres based much of the designs of the main characters on certain real-life figures. For instance, Mutt is obviously based on Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953), Irina Spalko is based on Marlene Dietrich and Marion is based on famed pilot Amelia Earhart.
• The only Indiana Jones film to not receive any Oscar nominations. The first three movies in the series had won at least one Oscar each.
• Security throughout filming was very tight with one of the measures to prevent info leaks was to address the cast with false names in daily call sheets. In those call sheets for example, Harrison Ford was called '#', Cate Blanchett as 'Mean Girl' and Karen Allen titled 'The Damsel'.
• Cate's portrayal of Irina Spalko in this film is director Steven Spielberg's favorite villain in the Indiana Jones series.
• When Irina Spalko is hanging from the tree above the ants, she crushes an ant between her legs squirting red goo all over her knees. A short time later you see her legs again and her trousers are perfectly clean – no ant body parts!
• During the jungle campsite face-to-face close-up moment with Oxley, Irina Spalko's contact lenses' edge lines are visible.
• When Indy is first seen bound into the chair at the Soviet camp, the tape recorder supplying the music for the soldiers' party has played nearly all of its supply reel. When Spalko comes in for the interrogation, shortly after this scene, the supply reel has more, not less, tape on it.


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import io.material.catalog.R;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import com.google.android.material.search.SearchBar;
import com.google.android.material.search.SearchView;
import io.material.catalog.feature.DemoActivity;

/** An activity that displays the main Open Search Bar demo for the Catalog app. */
public class SearchMainDemoActivity extends DemoActivity {

  private SearchBar searchBar;
  private SearchView searchView;
  private LinearLayout suggestionContainer;

  @Nullable
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      @Nullable ViewGroup viewGroup,
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    searchBar = view.findViewById(R.id.cat_search_bar);
    searchView = view.findViewById(R.id.cat_search_view);
    suggestionContainer = view.findViewById(R.id.cat_search_view_suggestion_container);

    SearchDemoUtils.setUpSearchBar(this, searchBar);
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Luffenham Heath Golf Club
Sir Walter Scott pronounced Stamford to be "the finest sight on the road between Edinburgh and London". "If there is a more beautiful town in the whole of England, I have yet to see it" wrote the historian Hoskins.
5 miles to the west of Stamford, across the Great North Road, called less romantically nowadays the A1, lays another gem. A golfing gem - The Luffenham Heath Golf Club. Widely acknowledged by golfing cognoscenti as one of the finest and most challenging heath-land courses in the Midlands and beyond, it lies in the gently rolling countryside of Rutland, England's smallest county. Surrounded by woodlands and delightful stone villages, this wonderful course perfectly encapsulates the County's motto "Multum in Parvo".
1909 Meeting chaired at The Stamford Hotel by Right Hon Gilbert Heathcote Drummond Willoughby Baron Wiilloughby de Eresby MP to discuss the feasibility of a golf course to be designed on South Luffenham Heath
1910 Sketches of the original course layout were produced.
1911 course opened with a celebrity match, witnessed by over 1000 spectators, between James Braid and Harry Vardon
1912 Viscount Castlereagh becomes Captain
1928 The Prince of Wales, later to become the uncrowned King Edward VIII, was invited by letter to St James' Palace to become Captain; a position commemorated by the presentation of a trophy in 1929
1932 Viscount Castlereagh becomes Captain for a second time, this time with the title Marquess of Londonderry.
1941 An exhibition match, including three time Open Champion Henry Cotton, was played to help with the war effort. £200 was donated to the Red Cross as a result of the match.
1943 60 acres of land, including holes 9,10 & 11, were given up to help meet the demands for food during World War II. Compensation of £33 was paid to the Club per annum.
1946 A re-arrange of hole 9 & 10 as well as new holes for 11 & 12, meant 18 holes were in play. The course has remained in this layout ever since.
1951 The Club took the opportunity to purchase, with membership donations, the freehold of land and buildings from the Ancaster estate for the sum of £6,000. The Members Club, in the form in which it exists today, dates from 1964.
1963 Mrs A Marrion won the Ladies' Midland Championship.
1969 The County Champions Tournament for the Presidents Bowl was won by Alex Holmes with rounds of 71 & 73.
1973 The entire golf course was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest and currently managed in agreement with Natural England to ensure the propagation of rare flora and fauna.
1982 Reciprocal with Lindrick Golf Club was agreed
1984 The clubhouse veranda was extended enlarging the social horizons of the Club.
1990 The western end of the clubhouse was extended to facilitate the secretary's office
1990 The Club hosted the English Boys' Amateur Championship (Carris Trophy). With a course record of 64 followed by rounds of 69, 74 & 69 Michael Welch (Hill Valley Golf Club) claimed a 6 shot victory ahead of Simon Williams (Glen Gorse Golf Club) and Lee Westwood Worksop Golf Club).
1997 Rutland County Council granted the Club full planning permission to construct a water storage lagoon with a capacity of 35000 cubic meters.
1999 Pumping commenced on January 1st to fill the reservoir.
1999 Robert Stevens, Luffenham Heath Assistant Professional won the inaugural PGA Midlands Pro-Am with a new professional course record of 65.
2003 Dr Martin Hawtree was commissioned to review the golf course. All 70 original bunkers were renovated, deepened and/or repositioned with a further 6 added to catch big-hitters playing from the new blue-tee course measuring 6560 yards. 6 men's tees and 3 ladies tees have been built and two new greens add length to holes 8 and 10.
2005 The Club formed a reciprocal agreement with Notts Golf Club (Hollinwell)
2006 The Club formed a reciprocal agreement with Alwoodley Golf Club
2006 Work was completed and all improvements were back in play by mid-summer. The golf course was reassessed with a standard scratch of 73 against a par of 70 from the very back tees.
2007 Gary Wolstenholme, Rebecca Hudson, Emma Duggleby and Stephen Lewton took part in an exhibition match to officially open the new course.
2011 The English Boys' County Championships were held at Luffenham Heath, with Lincolnshire taking victory over Surrey by 7 points to 2.
2011 The Club celebrates its centenary
2013 First staging of The Open Championship Regional Qualifying
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Title: 1993 Italian Grand Prix
Subject: Italian Grand Prix, Minardi M193, Luca Badoer, Karl Wendlinger, Mika Häkkinen
Race 13 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One season
Pioneer 64o Gran Premio d'Italia
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy
Permanent racing facility
5.800 km (3.603 mi)
53 laps, 307.400 km (191.001 mi)
Hot and sunny
Williams-Renault
Damon Hill Williams-Renault
1:23.575 on lap 45
The 1993 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on September 12, 1993. It was the thirteenth round of the 1993 Formula One season.
The Williams cars had once again dominated qualifying, locking out the front row with Prost on pole and Hill alongside him. Alesi had put his Ferrari third on the grid, much to the joy of the Italian fans, and he was joined by Senna in his McLaren on the second row of the grid while Schumacher in the Benetton and Berger in the second Ferrari lined up on the third row of the grid. Further down the grid there were two new faces, with Pedro Lamy making his Grand Prix debut for the cash-strapped Lotus outfit and after the retirement of Thierry Boutsen at the previous race, Jordan had decided to evaluate promising young Japanese Formula 3000 driver Marco Apicella, and handed him his debut at his home race. Jordan had originally intended to replace Boutsen with their test-driver, Emanuele Naspetti, but he had turned the opportunity down.
At the start, Alesi got ahead of a sluggish Damon Hill and Senna tried to do the same, but there was contact between Hill and Senna, resulting in both drivers dropping back, with Senna ending up in 9th and Hill right behind him in 10th. Further back there was chaos. Due to the bunching effect the first sequence of chicanes at Monza tend to cause at the start of a race, there is always the risk of contact in the tightly packed midfield and on this occasion that is exactly what happened. Two separate incidents saw 5 cars eliminated at the first chicane. In the first incident, the Footworks of Derek Warwick and Aguri Suzuki collided and took each other out and in the second incident, poor-starting Sauber driver JJ Lehto arrived at the chicane with a full head of steam, hoping to recover lost ground and proceeded to take himself and the Jordans of Rubens Barrichello and the debutant Marco Apicella out of the race. Apicella's debut - which would also turn out to be his only Grand Prix start - had lasted no more than 800 metres, unofficially making him the driver with the shortest career in Formula One. Midway through the opening lap Schumacher passed Alesi to take second position. Prost led Schumacher, Alesi, Berger, Herbert and Brundle into lap 2.
On lap 8 Senna's race went from bad to worse. He was up to seventh and in an attempt to take sixth place from Brundle, he collided with the Brit's Ligier, his second collision of the day, and eliminated the both of them. Prost's championship ambitions had been given a major boost with Senna's retirement. Then ESPN commentator Bob Varsha called it as the "second major incident of the day for Ayrton Senna", while Derek Bell, sitting in for Derek Daly during the ESPN broadcast, put the blame on Senna for having the wrong brake balance on his car. Hill was now up to sixth place with the elimination of Brundle and Senna. Hill further benefited from the bad luck of others as he was up to fifth on lap 15 when Herbert spun off and found himself in fourth position one lap later when the suspension on Berger's Ferrari failed. Hill caught and passed Alesi on lap 18 to move into third position and on lap 22 he found himself in second place when Schumacher's engine expired. He was now 5 seconds adrift of his team-mate.
By lap 48 Hill was only 2 seconds behind Prost but Prost seemed to have enough time in hand to cover his team-mate. But, on lap 49, with less than 5 laps to go, the Renault engine in Prost's Williams let go. This allowed Hill to take the lead and win the race with Alesi in a fine second ahead of Andretti, Wendlinger, Patrese and Comas. The finish of the race also provided Formula One with one of its most spectacular moments. The Minardis of Pierluigi Martini and Christian Fittipaldi had approached the chequered flag line astern when Fittipaldi's left front wheel made contact with his team-mate's right rear wheel. The contact launched Fittipaldi's car into the air where it did a near perfect back flip before landing back on its wheels and skidded across the line. Neither driver was hurt and both finished the race without losing a position. This victory was the Williams team's 7th consecutive victory.
The win allowed Hill to retain a slight mathematical chance of winning the championship, and made him the first driver in F1 World Championship history to score his first three victories in succession (an achievement only equalled more than
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European Union, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada
United Kingdom, European Union, Italy, Canada, Spain
Italy, Formula One, Red Bull Racing, Team Lotus, McLaren
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Italy, Spain, Formula One, Minardi, Brazil
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Karl Wendlinger
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Verizon is still running a BOGO deal on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, but if you only need a single phone, Best Buy has the current best deal. The Verizon Pixel 2 at Best Buy is $150 off and the Pixel 2 XL is $300 off.
Of course, this "deal" arrives in the form of a discount that has been spread out over 24 months, so rather than $150 or $300 off today, you'll see a monthly discount on your bill. That basically eliminates anyone who would rather buy the phone at full retail and receive a discount. However, if you plan to stay with Verizon, this is still technically a deal.
Best Buy only sells the Verizon version, so you have to activate the phone on Verizon with a monthly payment plan in order to get the $150 or $300 off.


Isa Willinger is a documentary filmmaker from Munich. She studied film at the University of Television and Film Munich and she has an MA in Slavic Studies and American Studies. Isa spent one year in New York City, on a Fulbright scholarship, enrolling in film and sociology programs at the New School University. In 2010, she started researching the Constructivist buildings, while she lived in Moscow on a scholarship by the DAAD. Isa has been working on topics like gender, social upheavals, human rights, film theory and embodied film perception. Michael Ballhaus produced a social spot that she wrote and directed, dealing with energy consumption. She is working as a film educator for Munich's documentary film festival, and she is currently writing a book on the works of Russian-Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova.
Kaspar Kaven was born in 1981 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. After finishing high-school, he graduated in cinematography at the Bavarian Academy for Television (BAF) Munich.
He then completed an internship of 9 months at the company ARRI in Munich. Further, he was involved in a great range of films, short films and commercial film productions as a camera assistant and cameraman.
Since 2006, he is studying documentary film with focus on cinematography at the academy for film and television Munich.
After six years at leading youth and music TV producer MME, an Adolf Grimme TV-Award for ARD-series POP 2000 and a 2-year-interval in multimedia, he founded Kloos & Co. Medien in 2002 and has since produced numerous award-winning creative documentaries with international TV broadcasters and for the cinema. Kloos is a member of EDN and AG DOK and an alumni of the DOCUMENTARY CAMPUS MASTERSCHOOL. He is one of the most active and experienced German producers on the international market and festival circuit and regularly lectures on documentary film and distribution.
Recent award-winning films and coproductions include: THE OTHER CHELSEA, PUTINS KISS, OF SHARKS AND FISH, IT´S MORE THAN TV!, PLANET GALATA and THE DAY WE DANCED ON THE MOON. The cultural comedy AND WHO TAUGHT YOU TO DRIVE? was premiered in competition at DOKLEIPZIG and had its international premiere at SXSW. Current productions and coproductions include AWAY FROM ALL SUNS, GANGSTER OF LOVE, ON THE SEA WITH BADJAO and FAITHLESS.
Studio Art-N is based in Moscow and has been founded in 2010. Since then Art-N made numerous documentaries, music videos and commercials. Has extensive experience - more than 40 different projects, provides a full range of shooting and producing documentaries: script writing, shooting, selecting characters, editing, promotion, etc.
Art-N projects have received awards at festivals "Kinotavr", "Saint Anna", "IFF Cinematography", "KlipFest" and the Asia Pacific Film Festival in Berlin.


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Lidnäs is een plaats in de gemeente Alvesta in het landschap Småland en de provincie Kronobergs län in Zweden. De plaats heeft 93 inwoners (2000) en een oppervlakte van 19 hectare.

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Q: jquery - how to copy content to textarea I have form with textarea that allows users to add replies
I would like to add button to each reply (class "quoteMsg"). clicking on it will copy the reply content (have class="replyMsg" ) + the writer name+date (inside SPAN tag) to the textarea (name="msgText") + add "$" note before and after the content
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                By esther  »  21-10-2014 12:06
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                If will happen again, I will open a new track

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            By esther  »  23-07-2014 11:19
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            OK, thanks

should i do something like this:

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if yes - how do i put in inside the textarea field?

A: You can use jQuery's closest() attribute to find the element like this:

$(document).on('ready', function() {
 $('.quoteMsg').click(function()  {
  var txt = $(this).closest('.replyBox').find('.replyMsg').text();
  $("textarea[name='msgText']").val($.trim(txt));
 });
});

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                By esther  »  21-10-2014 12:06
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                If will happen again, I will open a new track

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            OK, thanks

Hope this helps!

A: Simple way
$('.quoteMsg').click(function()
{
    var msgContent = $(this).closest("article").find(".replyMsg").text();
    console.log(msgContent);
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WEBINAR: POLICE STATES, BLACK SELF-RELIANCE, AND COLLIDING WORLDS
By Jamye Wooten
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTUESDAY, MARCH 3RD 09:00 (EST) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 14:00 UNITED KINGDOM 16:00 SOUTH AFRICA In the age of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, the Marikana miners in South Africa, and the Chibok girls in Nigeria, the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race will be hosting a transnational conversation on...
TUESDAY, MARCH 3RD
09:00 (EST) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
14:00 UNITED KINGDOM
16:00 SOUTH AFRICA
In the age of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, the Marikana miners in South Africa, and the Chibok girls in Nigeria, the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race will be hosting a transnational conversation on assaults on Black humanity on the African continent and in the Diaspora!
Students, scholars and activists will discuss the role of young people in 21st century social struggles; lessons they've learned from past struggles for Black humanity including the anti- colonialism movement in Africa and the Caribbean, the civil rights movement in the US and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
Presenters will share ideas and practices to move us beyond #BlackLivesMatter, to a future where the defense of Black humanity is more than a social struggle, more than a civil rights moment and is a global call for human rights for Black people everywhere.
R. Drew Smith, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
William Ackah, Birkbeck, University of London
Rothney Tshaka, Itumeleng Mothoagae, and Mokhele Madise, University of South Africa
Yolande Cadore, Drug Policy Alliance
David Muir, Roehampton University
Iva Carruthers, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
Danielle Ayers, Friendship West Baptist Church
Jonathan Weaver, Pan African Collective
Jamye Wooten, KineticsLive.com/Friends of the Congo
Vuyani Vellem, University of Pretoria
Allan Boesak, Desmond Tutu Center, Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University
Webinar Format
Opening statements from each institutional site (10 minutes)
Student responses from each institutional site (5 minute)
Dialogue between sites
For more information or to register go to http://goo.gl/rnRUO0
Jamye Wooten
Digital Strategist – Faith-rooted Organizer – Social Entrepreneur – Minister of Information and 2015 Social Justice Institute Fellow at Boston University School of Theology.
Jamye Wooten is the founder and publisher of KineticsLive.com ; a faith-rooted organizer that has documented social movements from across the United States, United Kingdom and Africa. He is the former program director of the Collective Banking Group, Inc. (CBG), a Christian ministry that draws together leaders from the faith, business, and public service sectors to develop and enhance economic empowerment strategies for the African American community.
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It's simple. In the big bully schoolyard he USA is now an friend of Big Al Kyder who was its enemy last week. They've found a new sickly kid to beat up on.
What, Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama has stopped bowing down to the Saudi king?
Sanford reply spot on- why in tarnation does this government keep the insane strategy for dealing with police actions/insurgencies etc as the only one to use? Did we learn nothing from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq etc? The amateurish comments re Kobane and recently Ramadi indicate the military brass and their civilian Commissar overlords and the POTUS advisors need intensive training on Systemic(not just 'Systems') Science Design in the context of dealing with socio-political 'messes' ( see Ackhoff, Buckley, etc.). We are Manicheans with ADD and historical Alzheimers and unlike Kindergartners we don't clean up our own messes because we have the tendency to wimp out- i.e. Korea, Lebanon etc..- thus endowing future generations with more messes to deal with! In addition, it seems that the top heavy military Commissar minions are the result of deep mistrust of our military and with the novice academic advisors of the POTUS leads to disgrace, defeat and criminal aggression. There is also Anglo-Centric superiority complex that creates deadly blind spots in our ability to meaningfully know and anticipate events- we desperately need a national educational policy that requires at least two world languages for high school graduation and at least a course in Systemic Design for all non Arts majors- those who study/know the uncommon languages should be given stipends/ extra pay. Lastly, I propose that all intelligence/counterintelligence be under direct miltary supervision after the Pentagon Commissars are retired/transferred and the Defense Secretary is a rotating position from the Joint Chiefs. Otherwise, our march towards Orwell's nightmare world will continue- compare our dystopic geopolitical map and the one he described in 1984 – what do you see?
Of course, it's impossible for us mere mortals outside the intelligence community to dowse with certainty into these murky issues. But when the dots revealed don't exactly line up, there's always room to speculate about the surreptitious nature of what's afoot. The link to the Graham Fuller article is one of those dots. "If the Saudis had asked us, we would have told them it was a bad idea." Knowing what it is possible to know with a $60 Billion intelligence budget, and given the fact that multiple sources confirm that U.S. prepositioned munitions are being dropped on Yemen, and that the U.S. has been surveilling and providing target coordinates, and that the U.S. has had naval assets standing by to rescue Saudi pilots at sea, and that the U.S. has provided refueling tankers for Saudi fighter jets, and that the U.S. has conducted an ongoing drone war against Yemen for years, that seems a rather ingenuous dodge. Fuller is right about some things. The whole plan seems a bit "schizophrenic". He is, after all, in a position to know. He's one of the guys who penned the memo laying out the particulars for implementing the Iran-Contra affair. He's also an early exponent, perhaps even the founder, of the doctrine which argues that "Islamic evolution" may be guided by selective manipulation of sectarian elements in order to achieve foreign policy objectives. That's how the Mujahideen morphed into Al Qaida, and he was proud of that accomplishment. Fuller's low profile at the Rand Corporation was briefly interrupted when it was discovered that "Uncle Ruslan" was his former son-in-law. Figure the odds against THAT connection! Some may recall that Kubrick made light of the "Bland Corporation" in his film, "Dr. Strangelove". Strange, indeed. It certainly does look like a proxy war, but not one proxied by an amorphous coalition of senile Arab potentates. Maybe it's true that, just like in the Baltics, we're trying to "reassure" our allies against Russian-ahem-Iranian "aggression". That seems rather ingenuous too. I'd suspect there is another "ally" we're trying to reassure. But if Graham Fuller has any skin in this game, my guess would be that his primary motivation is laying out the think-tank case for plausible deniability.
Ingenuous = frank, guileless, innocent. May have meant "disingenuous" here.
I meant "lacking artfulness", but your point is well taken. The disinformation campaign now waged against Americans eschews any sense of need for nuance. They realized that if we'll believe the Warren report, we'll believe anything.


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Project CARS Delayed Until March 2015
October 21st, 2014 / Niraj Shah / News
It looks like delays with driving simulators is becoming common place. Namco Bandai have decided to delay the launch of Project CARS on all platforms until March 2015, for a number of reasons. Given that the game's release date was just a few weeks away, the main reason for the delay is to avoid clashing with other big games in the run up to Christmas.
Another reason is to give the developers, Slightly Mad Studios, more time to polish the game. Seeing that it was very close to release, this second reason doesn't seem as plausible. We speculate that the server issues with PS4 exclusive DRIVECLUB may have given the developers some time to think about how they can avoid similar issues and improve the game at the same time.
As part of the press release, Head of Studio Ian Bell wrote the following:
Our goal has always been to deliver a landmark title that encompasses the wishes and desires of racing fans from all around the world; something with features and content powered by the community that provide a truly unforgettable and pioneering experience. Whilst a tough decision to make, the change in release date allows the game the greatest chance of success and visibility, and the opportunity to polish the game even further to the high standards that both ourselves and our community demand and expect. We're eager for you all to see what we've been working on in just a few months.
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It may seem strange that the winter break layout has Disney pictures on it, but in 2015 a Disney vacation was what we did on Winter break! So I added some Mickey heads and went over them with our clear glitter pen so they would sparkle too just like the Castle!
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Metrotvnews.com, Jakarta: The Ministry of Communication and Informatics shuts down the websites offering pirated movies.
It goes following the joint regulation between the ministry with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights on the closure of Internet content violating copyrights in electronic systems.
On July 2nd, the joint regulation of Minister of Law and Human Rights No. 14 Year 2015, Minister of Communication and Informatics No. 26 Year 2015 on the closure of content of access rights on the violations of copyrights or related items within electronic systems.
Communications Minister Rudiantara revealed that the filmmakers are facing challenges on the copyrights protection, both the Internet piracy or physical piracy, such as CD, VCD and DVD.
"It is also part of the government effort to boost Indonesian creative economy growth, where the movie copyright is one of the focus of the Indonesian Creative Economy Board," mentioned Rudiantara at the press conference of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, as well as the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, in Jakarta, Tuesday (8/18/2015).
The act of broadcasting movies online (streaming) or illegal downloading are considered to have negative impact on the film industry in Indonesia.
"It is conducted to protect our intellectual rights. Government protects the art produced by film artists. There are 22 sites being closed as of today," affirmed Rudi.
The real action from the government was appreciated by the Head of Indonesian Film Producers Association (APROFI), Sheila Timothy.
"The sites are destructive to Indonesian film industry. We see the measure as a real support in boosting the potential of national film industry," mentioned Sheila.
The Indonesian Film Festival 2016 (FFI 2016) took place at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta on Sunday (11/9) night.


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Smith: 3 Questions for NATO on Pres. Obama's Plan for Afghanistan
By Julianne Smith
The President's announcement today that the United States will maintain 9800 troops in Afghanistan throughout 2015 has ended months of speculation about the U.S. post-2014 troop presence there. The lengthy debate has frustrated an array of U.S. defense planners, policymakers, members of Congress and think tank analysts eager for a decision that would define the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan going forward. But that debate has also had an impact on our NATO allies, many of which have been hesitant to make their own commitments before knowing exactly how the United States would proceed. With the final U.S. number now established, NATO allies are expected to provide a modest presence of an additional 3,000 to 5,000 troops. But the U.S. decision today raises three questions for NATO moving forward.
1. What will NATO's presence in Afghanistan look like once the United States moves towards the second phase of the drawdown, now labeled the "Kabul and Bagram" presence, when it will cut the 9,800 troops by half, consolidating them in those two locations? With Germany committed to taking the lead in the North and Italy in the West, will those two nations continue to assume a leadership role even as the United States consolidates its forces in two primary locations? If not, who will be on hand to assist the hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians from foreign capitals and international organizations that will likely stay in Afghanistan for years to come?
2. How will NATO commit itself to Afghanistan's future at its summit this September in Wales? After the Alliance pays tribute to the indispensible role it has played in Afghanistan over the last decade, NATO allies will need to determine their role in Afghanistan moving forward. Other than Germany and Italy, which NATO allies will contribute to NATO's future mission to train, advise and assist the Afghan security forces moving forward? And at what level are NATO allies willing to continue to fund the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), especially if troop commitments prove to be a bridge too far?
3. Finally, if U.S. plans to withdraw the remaining troops by 2016 proves too ambitious, how might this affect NATO and NATO's views on its Afghanistan mission in the long term? When the United States asked NATO to assist with the 2010 surge virtually all allies found ways to contribute despite low public approval ratings for the mission. But if the United States finds itself rethinking its commitment to withdraw its troops by 2016, can it rely on NATO allies to maintain their commitments a little longer?
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Mancini Confident There Is More To Come From Italy After Strong Start
ROME, Italy, June 15 (Reuters) - Italy coach Roberto Mancini said his "excellent" team can only improve ahead of their second European Championship match, against Switzerland on Wednesday, even though they made a near perfect start in their opening clash with Turkey last week. Italy stretched their unbeaten run to 28 matches - two shy of the Azzurri record set nearly a century ago - with a 3-0 win last Friday in the Stadio Olimpico, leading many to consider Mancini's side Euro 2020 title contenders. "The Turkey game was difficult," Mancini told a news conference. "But when we scored, they opened up. We will have to win the next one and if possible also the next one. We have to do our best. "I am confident. This is an excellent team that can only improve. If the English bookmakers say (Italy are favourites), we accept it because they get it right, but the championship is still long. We have much work to do." Victory over Switzerland will see Italy become the first team to reach the knockout stages of Euro 2020, with one Group A match still to play. However, the Italians have won their opening two matches only twice in their nine previous appearances at the European Championship, doing so in 2000 and 2016, and Mancini is not taking Switzerland lightly. "Switzerland has always put Italy in difficulty," he added. "They are always among the top rankings in world football, with good and experienced players, and they have a coach who knows Italy very well having coached here previously. "It will be difficult, and we will need to be at our top level." Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci praised the togetherness of the group, highlighting team spirit as one reason for their resurgence since failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. "Three years ago was a real low point for us," he said. "Humility and keeping your feet on the ground are the secrets to competing like we did against Turkey. "We have always reset after great wins, continuing to do our duty. The desire to return to the national team is back. It is thanks to the coach, we came from a dark place. "The fact we are improving is a natural consequence of the good feeling among us." (Reporting by Peter Hall; Editing by Hugh Lawson)


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The emergence of African literature goes as far back as the 1500s, when literature in Africa was predominantly oral, unlike literature as we know it usually – in print. Oral literature was spoken in various forms at the time which included poetry, lyrics, songs, story-telling, riddles and proverbs, and recitals. These works, spoken in the mother tongue, consisted mainly of mythical and historical settings that, all in all, portrayed the essence of African culture – pure, undiluted, exciting, and especially educational.
Written literature in Africa began to emerge as colonialism took over the continent; writers began to write (mainly autobiographies and narratives) in the mother tongue of their nation's colony, mainly on obvious themes such as slavery, colonization, politics, and oppression. By early 20th century, writers started publishing works written in the English language. African plays also started to emerge, and as colonialism drew to an end and most African countries gained their independence, these plays and works began to take on themes like liberation, independence, individualism, socialism, African culture versus Western culture, and so on.
By mid 20th century, we begin to see brilliant writers emerge with brilliant works that speak volumes of the state of Africa, the impact of colonization, conversion to Christianity, and preserving African traditions. These authors include Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi, Guinean writer Camara Laye, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, South African playwright Athol Fugard, and Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. These authors opened wide the door for the recognition of African literature worldwide.
African literature continues to gain momentum; more women writers have emerged and still are, powerful, determined to take a stand, for their gender (self-worth, self actualization), for their countries, for Africa as a whole. These women writers include Senegalese author Mariana Ba, Nigerian authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Flora Nwapa, and South African author Bessie Head.
This sub-genre continues to flourish in brilliant - however complex - themes, in literary genuineness and clarity, and in deep discourse within the plots and narration that always leaves readers with great food for thought. African literature is a part of literature that is definitely worth exploring and adopting into one's literary collections!
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Syria: Web 2.0 for Participation and Development
"[The Internet has] given Syrians free speech. It has expanded the range of topics people can read about. It has created a new, open atmosphere."
-- Ayman Abdel Nour, prominent Syrian Internet journalist, quoted in an interview with Human Rights Watch.
"The Internet has changed public discourse in Syria. People are getting a much more sophisticated view of the world." -- Joshua Landis, creator of Syriacomment.com.
Introduction: The Syrian Context
Syria is far from the most active country in the world when it comes to blogs, independent news sites and other interactive Internet applications. However, Internet use is growing in Syria, and the country is a good place to examine the possibilities of Web 2.0 in a development context, because it has the unique blend of a relatively educated population (with a higher than 80 percent literacy rate), relatively high availability of computers, and a lack of dependable, traditional channels for public expression and participation.
A History of Conflict
Before drawing conclusions about what the Internet can and cannot accomplish in this context, it is worthwhile to take a closer look at how the context came to be. In particular, it is important to understand the reasons behind the restrictive environment for media and civic participation in Syria.
Syria's Emergency Act – in place since the 1963 Ba'ath takeover of the government – strengthens the powers of security agencies and the executive branch of government. The emergency law helped the government end a decades-long cycle of coups and later to repel insurrections. Syrians accept the increased security the state of emergency entails in part because of fear of the very real threats emanating from both inside and outside the country -- there have been frequent wars with Israel, which still occupies the Golan Heights on Syria's southern border, and invasions, unrest and attacks in every neighboring country. [1,2] The government has frequently cited those threats as the reason for strict controls on speech. (Take a look at the OHCHR report on the emergency act). Private Syrian media is hard to come by (though it is getting more common), and much news is produced by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) [3].
(Below: The Syrian flag with the slogan "God is protecting Syria." Patriotism runs high in Syria, as many people feel under siege. Above: The occupied Golan, symbol of Syria's emergency. Photo by Eamon Kircher-Allen)
An Information Revolution
The most profound disruption to the government information machine was the advent of satellite television in Syria in the 1990s. Alan George, author of the definitive book Syria: Neither Bread Nor Freedom, writes that satellite and Internet technology have been a "nightmare" for Syria's regime. Satellites made comparatively low-budget state-run TV all but irrelevant. A second disruption came with the introduction of the Internet. The Syrian state has made an effort to control the Internet, both with technology and through example -- there have been high-profile incidents of repression in response to Internet use. As a result, self-censorship also plays a role in limiting the kinds of discussions that occur. (Read more in the section "Anecdotal Evaluations.")
But the Internet is still an important force in Syria. According to American blogger Joshua Landis, a professor at the University of Oklahoma who runs Syriacomment.com, "The Internet has changed public discourse in Syria."
"In the 1980s, Syria was a dark and gloomy place in terms of public discourse. It was hard to find a happy conversation about politics," he said in a phone interview. Syrians' only source of news and information were the state-run newspapers. "The major revolution was satellite TV. Internet was the next wave. The elite are reading the Internet and refining their views.... People are getting a much more sophisticated view of the world. Now, you can have exciting conversations in Damascus about politics, and the Internet is a big part of that. The Syrian education system is broken, and there aren't libraries in Syria. But Syrians are now educating themselves."
So how are Syrians using the Internet?
The Interactive Internet in Syria
Following is a brief sampling of Internet news sites, blogs and other interactive web applications that either originate in Syria or are dedicated to matters concerning the country. These sites have been chosen because they are either directly or indirectly related to issues of participation in Syria, in both politics and human development. While the number of such sites in and about Syria may be modest compared to some other countries, it is increasing. Even as new restrictions and obstacles to interactive Internet use arise in Syria, blogs' profiles and Internet literacy are on the rise.
(Right: a wall of graffiti in Damascus mimics the hodgepodge free-for-all of the interactive Internet, which stands in stark contrast to the atmosphere of control in other mediums. Photo by Eamon Kircher-Allen.)
Aks Al-Ser
This news site, whose title means "opposite direction" in Arabic, prints distinctly Syrian news that is nevertheless different from the standard fare of both Western and Syrian sources.
all4syria.com
This is an Arabic-language site billing itself as an independent source of news from within Syria. Its creator, Ayman Abdel Nour, is a member of the ruling Baath party, which gives him a level of legitimacy as a Syrian patriot that he might have to struggle for otherwise. This is an example of the way change can be accomplished in Syria, on Syria's terms: from the inside and one step at a time. Here is an article about Aymen Abdel Nour in the Washington Post and an interview with him in this report from Human Rights Watch. Here is his profile on creativesyria.com. His website has been intermittently blocked from within Syria.
This blog was created by Ammar Abdulhamid, an author who left Syria in 2005 after being "faced with harassment and threats," according to Human Rights Watch.
creativesyria.com
Creativesyria.com hosts this thematic blog space and solicits contributions about issues related to Syria. It appears that many of the contributors are Syrian emigrants. Posts are in English, which means that the site has limited readership, at best, inside Syria. But Syrian emigrant -- who number about 15 million, almost the population of Syria itself -- are a force to be reckoned with and a valuable resource for the country. A site like this one links them across borders. (The UNDP Syria project promoting coordination with emigrants offers an idea of the importance with which the country views its emigrant community.) This site also has a list of blogs about Syria and the Middle East.
Imad Moustapha's blog
Even Syria's envoy to the United States, Imad Moustapha, has created his own blog. The subjects are decidedly non-political -- Moustapha writes about Syrian painters and his vacation to Turkey -- but as with anything having to do with Syria, even the apolitical is political. The blog looks tailored to project a modern, open-minded picture of Syria.
Mideastviews
This site was created by Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst and professor at al-Kalamoun University in Syria. Moubayed writes on such provocative issues as the recent elections in Syria. He is a frequent contributor to Syria Today, which bills itself as the first independently-produced, English-language Syrian magazine dealing with politics, current affairs and culture. The issues Moubayed discusses in Mideastviews are a step beyond the news put forward by Syria Times and Tishreen, the Syrian state-run newspapers. When Moubayed started the site in 2002, it had only 20 subscribers. "I now have over 1,000 [subscribers] from around the world," he wrote in an email interview. Moubayed is also launching a new magazine called "Forward" with publisher Haykal Media. The magazine's website is: http://www.fw-magazine.com/.
mideastimage.com
This site, which is connected to creativesyria.com, includes user-generated and historical photo albums of Syrian cities. For a country that suffers from as much misinformation in the West as Syria does, a direct window on daily cultural life like this is important in projecting its human face.
syplanet.com
This is a comprehensive link of blogs by Syrians and about Syria. The blogs are of varying quality, but do give an idea of the issues that are being debated in the blogosphere, and who is debating.
syriacomment.com
This is a blog created by Joshua Landis, the Co-director of the Centre of Peace Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Landis's posts and news aggregation are valuable in themselves: he is an impartial Syria expert who has spent time in the country and shows concern for human development there. Just as valuable are the comments and posts from regional experts, in both English and Arabic. Contributors to the blog include Ibrahim Hamidi, al-Hayat's bureau chief in Damascus. (Al-Hayat is a major Arabic-language newspaper.) Landis says his site gets about 2,000 hits a day.
Syria News Wire
This is a blog-style news site that is a popular independent source of news in Syria.
Syrianhistory.com
A creation of Sami Moubayed and his friend Sabhan Abd Rabbo, this is a collaborative "online museum" for historical photographs about Syria. This Internet initiative may provide a model for funding Web 2.0 initiatives. Moubayed described its inception in an email interview: "Syrianhistory started in October 2005. I had been collecting photos and data, for pleasure and research for my books on Syria, since 1995." Moubayed started the site to preserve these treasures. "We started off with 1,000 photos," he wrote. "The traffic and the acclaim were unbelievable; not in our wildest dreams did we expect such a response. A front page article was written about the site in al-Hayat, the mass circulation Arabic daily. Another followed in Tishreen, and a third in al-Ahram [the Egyptian newspaper]. Pretty soon people were calling us to place ads on the site, and others to send whatever material they had left from their parents and grandparents."
This Week in Syria
This site hosts a lively online debate about different Syrian issues, which include contributions from prominent Syrian writers.
Anecdotal Evaluations of the Impact of Web 2.0 Initiatives
Monitoring and Evaluation of the effects of Web 2.0 must be anecdotal. This should not stop us from seriously considering their possible uses in a development context. This is especially the case because blogs do not require a large investment of money.
Official Restrictions and Reactions
Much of the anecdotal evidence about the Internet in Syria has been negative. The country is often portrayed as a lone flouter of accepted Internet freedoms in much of the rest of the world. Reporters Without Borders lists Syria as one of 13 "Internet enemies," and the OpenNet Initiative lists Syria as one of several countries where Internet filtering is "pervasive." The Syrian government has had a mixed reaction to Internet use, and appears to have clamped down in specific instances, perhaps in order to encourage people to observe the same limits to their activities on the Internet that they adhere to in their speech or in print and broadcast media. (See a 2004 Amnesty International report on controls on Internet access in Syria here.)
(Right: Internet cafe, Damascus. Photo by "istanbul mike," flikr.com, some rights reserved. Click photo for license information.)
Official suspicion of blogs may be deepened in incidents such as one during the 2006 Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, when the Israeli ambassador to the UN cited a young Lebanese blogger's thoughts on the war as support for Israel's position in the UN Security Council. (See Gal Beckerman's Columbia Journalism Review article.)
Perhaps in response to this perceived danger, more controls on the Internet have been imposed more recently. According to one writer, even urls containing the word "blog" are blocked in Syria. And in the time leading up to the Annapolis Mideast peace talks of November 2007, Syria blocked access to Facebook. (However, the block is apparently only effective when applied to dial-up connections. In the wake of criticism of this move, the Syrian Minister of Communications was replaced, though it is not clear if the uproar over the blocking of Facebook was the reason.)
Despite all this, the government has not stopped Internet access in Syria. Syrian Internet users who are knowledgeable enough to use the web extensively have proven to be extremely resourceful (see this report from Human Rights Watch). It seems that bloggers are consistently finding ways around obstacles that authorities put in place. As Rhonda Roumani reported in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2005, "Syrians are constantly finding ways around censored sites. Mirror sites sprout like weeds, but are jammed as soon as they are discovered. And for a dollar, Syrians can use a computer program—called a proxy blocker — that steers them around the censor and to the banned site."
Reasons for Optimism
Despite all the negative press about Internet restrictions in Syria, it is worthwhile to note the Internet did not create censorship, political prisoners or the Emergency Act. It is incomplete to view crackdowns on Internet users as an indication that the growth of interactive Internet sites is untenable in Syria.
It is much more useful to note that the web has opened up an indigenous dialogue on Syrian issues that did not previously exist. Even with its problems and limited scope, it is clear that blogging has incrementally increased the margins of participation and free discourse in Syria, which is no small thing. It has also given Syrians a voice and a face in the international scene, something that they have not been able to achieve through standard media channels, Syrian or otherwise.
Sami Moubayed, the Syrian political analyst, wrote in an email interview that the Internet's effect on public discourse has been "very important."
"The Internet has changed the face of Syrian society. True, some people go to porn sites. Others just use it to chat. A high number (myself included) now have Facebook accounts. But look at how 'connected' people are becoming. My students [in the Faculty of International Relations at al-Kalamoun University] cannot work--simply--with no Internet. There is no public library in Syria. They use it for information, for research, for notes, etc."
Moubayed added that Internet use is becoming pervasive. "From experience, every single person I know for example, goes to Syria News," he wrote. "Everybody knows Syrianhistory.com. Even the older generation is currently 'wired.'"
Further, Moubayed sees people reaping unique benefits from the Internet. "[People who] have not studied beyong high school . . . now go to the Internet to read news about Syria. I know people with a mediocre education who are young, and who don't speak English. You cannot believe how hard they have worked to improve their language skills, only for the Internet."
Anecdotes such as these suggest that there is no reason to think that achieving free speech or governance reform are the most important development goals that blogs can help address. For instance, the expanded knowledge network that blogs have created among Syrian emigrants living in the Americas, Europe and elsewhere represents a tool with real potential. Like many developing countries, Syria has felt the strain resulting from the emigration of many of its best-educated and wealthiest citizens. Interactive websites like creativesyria.com represent a chance for this diaspora to reconnect, together, to the fate, finances and development of Syria. If contributions to these sites are any indicator, there is a strong demand for this reconnection.
Web 2.0 initiatives are low-budget, require a minimum amount of expertise to set up, and are probably easier to publish over a large area than any other kind of media. This makes them an exceptional tool for development. Given Syria's specific context -- especially its concerns about manipulation and destabilization instigated by foreign powers -- promoters of blogs in Syria should tread lightly on the issues the Syrian state finds most sensitive. Political discussion certainly has a place. But members of the online community who engage in the dialogue should be sensitive to the safety of the Syrians who must live with the threat of war and instability hanging over their heads.
Replicate Successful Models
The models for interactive Internet sites that are of proven utility in a development context include those promoted by creativesyria.com and all4syria.com. The former has subject-specific blogs that channel conversations to relevant topics. A development agency could use such a forum judiciously to for comments about and participation in its projects -- and set a standard for Syrian institutions to follow. Such a blog would need an editor to make sure posts stay on subject -- not a strictly Web 2.0 design, but the best way for an international organization to respect local norms. Like any initiative in an uneasy atmosphere, such a project would need to be started conservatively.
All4syria.com is appealing because its creator, Ayman Abdel Nour, has combined the golden possibility of the Internet - -the ability to self-publish to a large audience at minimal cost -- with the wisdom of someone who understands the Syrian context well.
Internet Education and Infrastructure
The foundation for all of this work -- and perhaps the place where international development agencies can play the biggest role -- is laying the ground for broader computer literacy. The UN Development Programme in Syria, for instance, has funded several communications centers in rural areas. There is no explicit link to Web 2.0 in the project's description, but increasingly, any interaction with the web will be truly that -- interactive. It is hoped that this will mean less passivity for the beneficiaries of human development projects. Education about computers and the Internet must be targeted, not only at users, but also the officials responsible for the Internet in Syria.
Cited print works:
[1] Kircher-Allen, Eamon, "State of Emergency," California Lawyer Magazine, June 2007, p. 64.
[2] Seale, Patrick, Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
[3] George, Alan, Syria: Neither Bread Nor Freedom, New York: Zed Books, 2003.


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