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Title: Capitol sponsors lip mission by US group giving Africans smile
Post by: MIKELIGALIG.com on February 05, 2018, 03:01:19 PM
Capitol sponsors lip mission by US group giving Africans smile (published by Bohol Sunday Post in September 2013)
The Bohol government led by Gov. Edgar Chatto sponsors a week-long lip surgical mission to be performed by a US-based group who gave many Africans a lifetime smile at the Borja Family Hospital (BCH) here starting today.
In consistent partnership with the Philippine Gift of Life (PGL), the province brings in the JP Clawson Medical Mission Foundation from Longview, Washington to perform free facial plastic reconstructive surgeries on cleft lip and palate patients who are poor and indigent.
The American humanitarian group helped world celebrated black prisoner and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela grant lasting smiles to his African people with lip deformities.
The Bohol mission, said to be the foundation's first in Asia, is led by no less than the group's founding president, Dr. Joseph Clawson, who is a diplomate of otolaryngology.
PGL President and Chief Executive Officer Francisca Baluyot thanked this early Clawson and his group while commending the administration of Chatto and Vice Gov. Concepcion Lim for sustaining the selfless partnership for the care and cure of the needy.
Herself a foremost humanitarian champion having also formerly administered the Bohol Red Cross for decades, Baluyot said two more major missions are set before yearend and early next year.
Both likewise sponsored by the province, these are the free heart operations by the Heart Foundation of the Philippines this coming November 19-20 and goiter, hernia, myoma and breast cyst surgeries by another US-based group, the Association of Filipino Physicians of Southern Illinois (AFPSI), on February 14-21, 2013.
February 21 is the birthday of the governor, who has been accustomed to providing surgical and medical missions on the special date as his birthday gift to Boholanos in dire health care needs.
The JP Clawson cures both major and minor lip defects regardless of the ages of the patients unlike the usual missions done here by different groups.
Chatto has a separate continuing year-round program for children with deformed lips, tapping the services of participating competent local hospitals, centers and doctors.
The Clawson group conducted free surgeries on children and adults with facial cleft defects not just in his homeland of Africa but Latin American areas as well.
The merciful foundation responded to the call of Mandela, the African leader who was formerly jailed for 27 long years for his diehard anti-apartheid crusade, to help his sick people.
Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, US Presidential Medal of Freedom, Soviet Order of Lenin and Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
One African beneficiary of JP Clawson was a 31-year-old man from Zimbabwe who, after the surgery on his serious lip and palate deformities, found a woman he could not think would want to marry him.
In deepest joy coupled with extreme disbelief that a woman could love him and be his wife, he offered his would-be mother-in-law six cows for wedding endowment.
In the past 24 years, the JP Clawson also performed free harelip, cleft lip and palate operations on thousands of patients belonging to the underprivileged class in Ecuador, South America.
"Boholanos are fortunate to benefit from the group's pioneering mission in Asia and Gov. Chatto deserves another pat on the back for the consistent mercy work in tie-up with the Gift of Life," Baluyot said.
The JP Clawson brings in its own specialists and volunteer surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologist, orthodontist and speech therapist.
Baluyot likewise thanked in advance for the support of the Rotary Club of Tagbilaran District 3860 led by its president, Angelina Hoffman, Department of Health (DOH) thru Sec. Enrique Ona and Asec. Elmer Punzalan, and the mission's host hospital thru its medical director and administrator, Dr. Belinda Borja and Dr. Pepe Borja, respectively.
She expressed equal gratitude to PGL chairman Dr. Ramie Cadag and his fellow officers, all participating local medical and health groups, and the private sector groups and individuals who have always been kind to the province's mission program.
Apart from its main mission curing for free the people suffering from lip defects, the JP Clawson has given ancillary training to doctors at the University of California Davis Medical Center and US Peace Corps medical ambassadors to various nations.
By sheer coincidence, US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas, Jr. visited Bohol on Thursday and Friday along with the country directors of the US Peace Corps and United States Assistance for International Development (USAID).
It was Thomas' first official visit to Bohol---and last to a province hosting USAID programs outside Manila---as he is leaving in weeks his diplomatic post in the Philippines for another assignment. (Ven rebo Arigo)


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Serbien (serbiska: med det serbiska kyrilliska alfabetet Србија, med latinska alfabetet Srbija), officiellt Republiken Serbien (, Republika Srbija; ), är en stat på Balkanhalvön i Sydöstra Europa. Serbien gränsar till Kroatien, Montenegro och Bosnien och Hercegovina i väst, Ungern i norr, Nordmakedonien i söder samt Rumänien och Bulgarien i öst. Gränsen mot Albanien i söder är omtvistad (Kosovo har förklarat sig som självständig stat men erkänns inte av Serbien). Serbiens huvudstad är Belgrad med cirka 1,6 miljoner invånare. I norr ligger den autonoma provinsen Vojvodina.

Från 1918 utgjorde Serbien stommen i den sydslaviska statsbildningen Jugoslavien men från och med den 7 juni 2006 är Serbien en självständig stat efter att statsförbundet Serbien och Montenegro upplösts. Sedan 1999 har Kosovo varit placerad under en tillfällig administration av Förenta nationerna i enlighet med resolution 1244 som hade antagits. I februari 2008 deklarerade Kosovos parlament enhälligt självständighet från Serbien. Serbiens parlament har inte erkänt Kosovos självständighet. Omvärldens reaktioner är splittrade.

Serbien är bland annat medlem i Förenta nationerna, världshandelsorganisationen och den centraleuropeiska frihandelsorganisationen CEFTA. Serbien ansökte om EU-medlemskap den 22 december 2009 och hoppas att på sikt bli medlem i unionen. Den 1 mars 2012 blev Serbien kandidatland till EU-medlemskap. Den 21 januari 2014 inleddes anslutningsförhandlingarna.

Historia

Vid delningen av Romarriket år 395 kom dagens Serbien att hamna i det östromerska riket (Bysans). På 500- och 600-talen invandrade slaviska stammar till området. På 700-talet slöt de sig till den ortodoxa kyrkan. De serbiska furstendömena Duklja (senare Zeta) och Raška upprättades som vasallstater under Bysans runt år 750.

År 1040 tillkämpade sig Zeta oavhängighet och blev ett eget kungadöme år 1077. Zeta lade Hum (senare Hercegovina) och Raška under sig under perioden 1090-1138. År 1168 blev Raška en bysantinsk vasallstat, för att sedan uppnå oavhängighet år 1180. Därefter övertog Raška kontroll över Zeta och kungadömet Serbien upprättades därefter år 1217, då storfursten av Raška, Stefan Prvovenčani kröntes till kung. 1219 erkändes Serbisk-ortodoxa kyrkan av patriarken av Konstantinopel; kung Stefans bror Sankt Sava betraktas som kyrkans grundare.

Nemanjići-dynastin regerade under perioden 1167-1371. Detta inledde en storhetstid. På 1200- och 1300-talen blev en stor del av Balkan (inkluderat Makedonien, östra Hercegovina, eller Hum, Epirus, Thessalien och Albanien) erövrat av Serbien. År 1346 krönte Stefan Dušan sig själv till tsar, men riket splittrades och upplöstes efter hans död år 1355. De splittrade serbiska adelsfamiljerna förlorade därpå viktiga slag mot det osmanska riket år 1371 och den 15 juni 1389 i slaget vid Kosovo Polje, medan Zeta (sedan 1500 kallat Montenegro) bevarade sin oavhängighet. Från 1459 var Serbien en del av Osmanska riket.

Som en del av Osmanska riket fick den serbiska befolkningen färre rättigheter än vad man hade haft under de kristna härskarna, även om livegenskapen avskaffades. De kristna bönderna diskriminerades vid konflikt med muslimska då rättsväsendet favoriserade utövare av islam. Den serbiska befolkningen hade inte rätt att lära sig läsa och skriva, äga musikinstrument och fram till 1800-talet var de även förbjudna att äga vapen. Dessutom införde osmanerna "blodskatt", vilket innebar att kristna bönder som var befriade från reguljär militärtjänst kunde bli tvungna att lämna sina söner som slavar, för att dessa sedan skulle bli muslimer och ingå i den osmanska armén. Blodskatten avskaffades senare under 1600-talet, men de återkommande kidnappningar av kristna barn fortsatte. I samband med kriget mellan Osmanska riket och Habsburg 1683-1699 reste sig serberna i ett uppror som dock slogs ned så snart habsburgarna dragit sig tillbaka norr om floden Donau.

Serberna, ledda av Đorđe Petrović, gjorde uppror mot osmanerna år 1804 och igen år 1815. Vid fredsavtalet i Bukarest den 28 maj 1812 fick Serbien en autonom status inom Osmanska riket. Furstendömet Serbien etablerades den 21 november 1815. Den osmanska administrationen av området avslutades 1835 och de sista osmanska militära styrkorna lämnade landet 1867. Vid Berlinkongressen år 1878 (som hölls efter det rysk-turkiska kriget 1877-1878) fick Serbien full självständighet. Kungadömet Serbien upprättades den 6 mars 1882. Efter balkankrigen åren 1912-1913 erövrade Serbien även Kosovo, Sandžak och dagens Nordmakedonien.

Den 28 juli 1914 förklarade Österrike-Ungern krig efter mordet på tronföljaren Franz Ferdinand i Sarajevo av en serbisk nationalist, Gavrilo Princip (se skotten i Sarajevo), vilket utlöste första världskriget. Efter kriget upprättades Slovenernas, kroaternas och serbernas stat den 1 december 1918. Landet bytte namn till kungariket Jugoslavien den 3 oktober 1929.

Andra världskriget
Jugoslavien invaderades av axelmakterna i april 1941 under andra världskriget. Det serbiska territoriet ockuperades av Tyskland, Ungern, Bulgarien, Oberoende staten Kroatien och Albanien. I den del som ockuperades av Tyskland upprättades det en marionettregering, ledd av Milan Aćimović och senare av general Milan Nedić. Tillsammans med de tyska nazisterna förföljde och mördade den serbiska marionettregeringen tusentals judar. Belgrad förklarades 1942 som den första "judefria" (Judenfrei) huvudstaden i Europa av SS-officeren Emanuel Schäfer, som var befälhavare för Sicherheitspolizei och Sicherheitsdienst i det ockuperade Serbien. Bland annat inrättades koncentrationslägret Banjica.

Samtidigt upprättades en motståndsrörelse, tjetnikerna, av Draža Mihailović. Rörelsens mål var att återupprätta monarkin, bekämpa nazisterna och skapa ett Storserbien som skulle omfatta Serbien, Bosnien och Hercegovina och stora delar av Kroatien. Tjetnikrörelsen använde sig bl.a. av etniskt rensning för att uppnå sina mål och människor av annan etnisk börd än serbisk (främst kroater, bosniaker och albaner) mördades. Tjetnikerna opererade i Serbien, Bosnien och Hercegovina och delar av Kroatien som ju var tänkta att ingå i det nya Storserbien.. Flera extremnationalistiska organisationer av annat etniskt ursprung än serbiskt var nazistkollaboratörer och de bedrev etnisk rensning mot serberna. Någonstans kring 750 000 serber dödades i koncentrationsläger. Det korrekta antalet kommer förmodligen aldrig att fastställas då en stor mängd dokument och personbevis både från före och under kriget förstördes. I slutskedet av andra världskriget genomfördes hämndaktioner av partisaner som avrättade delar av den tyska och ungerska minoriteten i Vojvodina; minst 35 000 fick sätta livet till enbart för att de hade ungerskt ursprung.

Efterkrigstiden
Efter kriget tog partisanrörelsen makten och den 29 november 1945 proklamerades den federala folkrepubliken Jugoslavien av Josip Broz Tito. Serbien blev en av sex delrepubliker i statsfederationen. Jugoslavien regerades av kommunistpartiet fram till upplösningen 1992. Under början av 1990-talet valde alla delrepubliker utom Serbien och Montenegro att lämna federationen Jugoslavien vilket motsattes hårt av den dåvarande centralregeringen i Belgrad. Flera krig följde sedan upplösningen av Jugoslavien. Dessa krig brukar kallas för de jugoslaviska krigen och Serbien var en stridande part i samtliga krig med undantag för den väpnade konflikten i Makedonien 2001. Som ett resultat av dessa krig var Serbien och Montenegros relation till Slovenien, Kroatien, kroaterna och bosniakerna i Bosnien och Hercegovina länge ansträngda men är idag betydligt förbättrade.

Efter upplösningen av Socialistiska federativa republiken Jugoslavien bildade de två kvarvarande delrepublikerna Serbien och Montenegro Förbundsrepubliken Jugoslavien som år 2003 bytte namn till Statsförbundet Serbien och Montenegro. Relationerna mellan de två delrepublikerna i statsförbundet var dock ansträngda och efter att en folkomröstning i maj år 2006 i Montenegro uppvisat att ungefär 55,5% var för Montenegros självständighet utropade Montenegro sig som en oberoende stat den 3 juni 2006. Den 5 juni 2006 erkände Serbien detta i och med att de själva förklarade sig självständigt från unionen som därmed upplöstes.

Den 17 februari 2008 förklarade den autonoma provinsen Kosovo sig självständig från Serbien. Serbien och bland annat FN:s säkerhetsråd har inte erkänt förklaringen medan omvärldens reaktioner har varit splittrade. Självständighetsförklaringen ledde till protester från den serbiska sidan och utmynnade i kravaller och protestmarscher i Belgrad och i flera städer runt om i landet. Protester ägde även rum av serber i Bosnien och Hercegovina och Montenegro. En del fall av kravaller har noterats då flera utländska mål attackerats, däribland ambassader, konsulat och köpcentra. Den 21 februari 2008 organiserade den serbiska regeringen en massprotest i Belgrad mot Kosovos självständighetsförklaring som samlade uppemot 500 000 - 1 000 000 demonstranter.

Från 19 december 2009 kan serbiska medborgare resa utan visum till länder i Europeiska unionen. Under de följande nio månaderna sökte 4 000 serber asyl i Sverige, vilket är en kraftig ökning jämfört med 421 under hela 2009. De flesta är romer. EU-kommissionär Cecilia Malmström hotade i oktober 2010 att återinföra visumtvånget om inte Serbiens och Nordmakedoniens regeringar får stopp på flyktingströmmen.

Geografi

Serbien ligger på Balkanhalvön i korsningen mellan centrala, östra och södra Europa.

Topografi
Serbien är kustlöst och består av mycket bergiga landskap i södra delen av landet. Norra delen av landet, med provinsen Vojvodina, består mest av slättland med låga kullar.

Högsta bergstoppen är Midzor (2 170 m) som ligger på gränsen mellan Serbien och Bulgarien.

Hydrografi
Den längsta floden i Serbien är Donau (588 km), som i nordvästra delen av landet utgör gränsen till Kroatien. Donau utgör även en del av gränsen till Rumänien. Floden Sava utgör södra Vojvodinas gränser och rinner in i Donau i huvudstaden Belgrad. Andra betydande floder är Tisa, Tamis och Begej i Vojvodina, Velika Morava och Drina i det centrala Serbien. Drina utgör gränsen till Bosnien och Hercegovina.

Klimat
Norra Serbien har kontinentalt klimat med fuktiga, varma somrar och kalla vintrar. Södra delarna av landet har torrare och varmare somrar och kallare vintrar med mer snöfall än i norra Serbien.

På sommaren kan temperaturen gå upp till mer än 40 grader i norra delen av Serbien.

Enligt fakta från 1961-1990 är lufttemperaturen i Serbien i snitt 10,9 °C upp till 300 meters höjd. På 300–500 meters höjd är den 10,0 °C och över 500 meters höjd 6,0 °C.

Naturskydd
Serbien har fem nationalparker:

Fruška Gora (250 km²)
Kopaonik (120 km²)
Tara nationalpark (220 km²)
Đerdap (640 km²)

Styre och politik

Administrativ indelning
Serbien har två autonoma provinser

Vojvodina
Kosovo (Omtvistat territorium)

Resten av Serbien brukar kallas centrala Serbien men fungerar ej som en administrativ enhet.

Serbien är även indelat i distrikt (okrug). Distrikten i det centrala Serbien:

Belgrad, huvudstadsregion
Bor
Braničevo
Jablanica
Kolubara
Mačva
Moravica
Nišava
Pčinja
Pirot
Podunavlje
Pomoravlje
Raška
Rasina
Šumadija
Toplica
Zaječar
Zlatibor

Vojvodina delas in i tre geografiska områden med tillhörande distrikt:

Bačka
Norra Bačka
Södra Bačka
Västra Bačka
Banatet
Norra Banatet
Mellersta Banatet
Södra Banatet
Srem

Politik
Tomislav Nikolić, grundare av det nationalkonservativa partiet Serbiens progressiva parti (SNS) var president sedan 2012 till 2017. Nikolić ersatte den västinriktade och EU-positive Boris Tadić från Demokratiska Partiet efter ett jämnt val. I den andra rundan av presidentvalet, som ägde rum den 20 maj 2012, hade Nikolić, när 70 procent av rösterna hade räknats, 49,4 procent av rösterna mot Tadićs 47,7 procent och kunde därmed utropas som segrare. Tadić erkände sig besegrad redan innan alla rösterna var räknade. Detta var en skräll, eftersom opinionsmätningar före valet tydde på att Tadić skulle bli återvald.

Efter att premiärministern Vojislav Koštunica avgått i protest mot provinsen Kosovos ensidigt proklamerade självständighet hölls nyval till nationalförsamlingen den 11 maj 2008. Valet blev en stor framgång för valalliansen För ett europeiskt Serbien, som förespråkar EU-medlemskap och ekonomiska reformer. Huvudmotståndarna De Radikala nationalisterna (SRS), som förespråkar en hårdare linje gentemot Europeiska unionen och de länder som erkänt Kosovo som självständigt land, tappade mark. Valet blev dock mycket jämnt, utan en klar vinnare, vilket ledde till segdragna koalitionsförhandlingar.

I april 2017 vann den förre premiärministern Aleksandar Vučić, ledare för det nationalistiska partiet SNS, Serbiens presidentval. Ana Brnabic utnämndes till Serbiens premiärminister av president Aleksandar Vucic i juli 2017. Brnabic blev både landets första öppet homosexuella regeringschef och Serbiens första kvinnliga premiärminister.

Nuförtiden domineras Serbisk politik av president Aleksandar Vučić och hans nationalistparti SNS. Ett ökande missnöje över vad som uppfattas som ett alltmer auktoritärt styre har gjort att en proteströrelse vuxit fram och stora delar av oppositionen bojkottade parlamentsvalet i juni 2020, vilket bidrog till en överväldigande seger för SNS.

Internationella relationer
Serbien har uttryckt önskan om att bli medlem av Europeiska unionen. EU har länge varit skeptiskt till ett serbiskt medlemskap då landet inte samarbetade fullt ut med Internationella krigsförbrytartribunalen för det forna Jugoslavien i Haag. Kraven var att de misstänkta krigsförbrytarna Ratko Mladić, Radovan Karadžić samt Goran Hadžić, som misstänks för krigsförbrytelser begångna i grannländerna Bosnien och Kroatien under 1990-talet, skulle gripas och utlämnas innan EU beviljade Serbien kandidatlandsstatus. EU har också uttryckt att säkerhets- och stabilitetsavtalet inte kommer att träda i kraft förrän Serbien anses samarbeta fullt ut med den Internationella krigsförbrytartribunalen för det forna Jugoslavien i Haag.

De senaste dryga tio åren har Serbien emellertid tagit flera steg för att gå EU:s vilja till mötes:

Karadžić greps på en buss i Belgrad fredagen den 18 juli 2008 av serbisk säkerhetstjänst. Den 30 juli 2008 utlämnades Karadžić till Haag.
Mladić greps av serbisk polis i den nordliga provinsen Vojvodina den 26 maj 2011. Den 31 maj 2011 utlämnades Ratko Mladić till Haag.
Den 20 juli 2011 greps Goran Hadžić i Fruška Goraområdet i Serbien. Han blev utlämnad till Haag den 22 juli. Goran Hadžić var den sista av de tidigare 161 eftersökta krigsförbrytarna i det forna Jugosalvien som fortfarande var på fri fot.

Den 22 februari 2008 beslutade EU att tillsvidare avbryta samtalen för att teckna ett samarbetsavtal mellan EU och Serbien. EU:s beslut om frysta samtal med Serbien kom efter de oroligheter som följde i Serbien efter provinsen Kosovos självständighetsförklaring eskalerat . 1 januari 2009 undertecknade Serbien ett interimsavtal om handel med EU, vilket trädde i kraft den 1 februari 2010.

I oktober 2011 ansåg EU-kommissionen att Serbien borde kunna få status som kandidatland till EU-medlemskap, och sa sig hoppas att EU-toppmötet i december 2011 skulle besluta det. Den 1 mars 2012 blev Serbien officiellt EU-kandidatland.

Europeiska unionens ministerråd har beslutat att innehavare av nationella biometriska pass i Serbien, Montenegro och Nordmakedonien får resa visumfritt till EU-länder samt Island, Norge och Schweiz från och med den 19 december 2009. Beslutet gäller inte Storbritannien och Irland. Serbien är sedan den 14 december 2006 medlem i Partnerskap för fred (PFF), vilket är ett villkor för att ett land ska kunna bli en fullvärdig medlem av NATO. Landet söker inte medlemskap i NATO utan bara nära samarbete med organisationen. Serbien är ett militärt neutralt land. Relationerna var länge mycket spända mellan Serbien och NATO efter Kosovokriget men har förbättras mycket genom åren. Den 14-15 juni 2011 hölls i den serbiska huvudstaden Belgrad en NATO-konferens för militärt partnerskap mellan NATO och dess bundsförvanter. I sitt första möte med Rysslands president Vladimir Putin i slutet av maj 2012 underströk Serbiens nya president Tomislav Nikolić att Serbien "aldrig" kommer att bli medlem i NATO.

Serbien har av tradition nära band med det likaså ortodoxa och nationalistiska Ryssland. Ryssland stödde under 1800-talet Serbiens frihetskamp mot det Osmanska riket och gick 1914 i krig med Österrike-Ungern på Serbiens sida, vilket ledde till första världskriget.

Försvar
De serbiska väpnade styrkorna består av markstyrkor, luftförsvar och träningsförband. Frivillig militärtjänst gäller från 18 år. Den obligatoriska värnplikten avskaffades under 2011. De flesta objekten i de serbiska väpnade styrkorna har köpts ifrån Ryssland, men Serbien har också tillverkat egna föremål som till exempel stridsvagnen M-84, artilleripjäsen Nora B-52, luftvärnssystemet PASARS-16 och raketartilleriet M-77 Oganj med mera.

Ekonomi och infrastruktur
Serbien är ett mindre medelinkomstland. Fattigdomen i landet har halverats men arbetslösheten är fortfarande hög. Arbetslösheten är på 9,8 procent (2022) . Valutan är serbisk dinar (RSD). Serbien har som många andra länder i Östeuropa problem med korruption och ekonomisk brottslighet, vilket i Serbiens fall var ett resultat av många års sanktioner och hyperinflation efter kriget.

Efter att Milosevic kastats ut har arbetet med att återuppbygga Serbiens sargade ekonomi tagit fart och BNP växer med cirka 7,5 % per år, bland annat tack vare rekordhöga utländska investeringar som underlättas av regeringens omstruktureringar av ekonomin och satsningar på infrastruktur. Detta gör att Serbien idag (2011) uppskattas ha en av de starkaste ekonomierna i regionen och ett instabilt Serbien skulle påverka ekonomin i hela regionen. EU, USA, Ryssland, Kina, är Serbiens viktigaste handelspartners.

Näringsliv

Tjänster och turism
Serbiens medeltida ortodoxa kloster har länge lockat turister med dess unika arkitektur och freskomålningar. En annan stor attraktion är de över 50 mineralvattenkällorna, vilka dock främst lockat inhemska turister. Turismen, både den inhemska och den internationella, minskade dock avsevärt under oroligheterna på 1990-talet. Turismen ökar till Serbien igen och fler och fler turister besöker landet varje år.

Serbiens mest kosmopolitiska städer är Belgrad och Novi Sad som är fulla av kaféer, pubar och restauranger. Där finns även många sevärdheter, museer och aktiviteter.

Infrastruktur

Transporter
Serbiens största flygplats är Belgrad-Nikola Teslas flygplats i Belgrad. Därifrån avgår de flesta internationella flygningarna. Busstrafiken är väl utvecklad med bussar från Västeuropa och Turkiet. Internationell tågtrafik har sin utgångspunkt i Belgrad och de flesta går via Novi Sad och Subotica mot norr och väst samt via Niš österut. Järnvägsnätet i Serbien når ut till de större städerna men är relativt glest utbyggt. Underhållet har varierat genom åren men på senare tid har det förbättrats. Tågen i Serbien går dock fortfarande relativt långsamt. De serbiska tågen har de senaste åren blivit ganska omoderna. Men på senare år har det köpts in nya tåg. Järnvägslinjen från Belgrad mot Bar i Montenegro är känd för att vara väldigt vacker.

Vägnätet i Serbien varierar i standard. Mellan de större städerna går det motorvägar med Belgrad i centrum. Motorvägarna går också från Belgrad till Ungern, Kroatien, Nordmakedonien och Bulgarien. De serbiska motorvägarna ingår i det kontinentala motorvägsnätet. Utbyggnader av motorvägsnätet pågår. Bland annat byggs en ny motorväg från Belgrad till Montenegro.

Utbildning och forskning

Utbildning
I Serbien börjar barn skolan vid sju års ålder. Den åttaåriga grundskolan är obligatorisk och avgiftsfri och det finns också ett frivilligt, fyraårigt gymnasium som ger grundläggande behörighet för vidare studier på universitetsnivå.

Den kommunistiska regimen i forna Jugoslavien genomförde framgångsrika åtgärder för att eliminera analfabetismen. Efter andra världskriget kunde två tredjedelar av den serbiska och montenegrinska befolkningen varken läsa eller skriva, och hos den albanska befolkningen var antalet analfabeter betydligt större. På 1950-talet var antalet rapporterade analfabeter i Serbien mindre än hälften.

Det finns fem statliga universitet i Serbien det största universitetet är Belgrads universitet, grundat 1863.

Befolkning

Demografi

Statistik
Medellivslängd i Serbien 2010:

Män: 71,26 år
Kvinnor: 77,1 år
Total: 74,09

Befolkningens åldersstruktur 2010:

0-14 år: 15,4 % (män 586 806/kvinnor 549 900)
15-64: 67,8 % (män 2 503 194/kvinnor 2 502 807)
65+: 16,8 % (män 508 606/kvinnor 728 026

Urbanisering

Städer
Serbiens största stad är huvudstaden Belgrad med cirka 2 - 2,5 miljoner invånare med förorter inräknade (2012). Ingen annan stad kommer i närheten av dess storlek och av landets nästföljande städer, Novi Sad och Niš har ingen mer än 300 000 invånare. Dock är antalet invånare svårt att fastställa sedan krigen under 1990-talet, då många serbiska flyktingar från Kroatien, Bosnien och Hercegovina och Kosovo främst bosatt sig i de större städerna.

Belgrad
Novi Sad
Niš
Subotica
Kragujevac
Krusevac
Novi Pazar
Valjevo
Kraljevo
Vršac
Kikinda
Zrenjanin

Minoriteter

Serbien (exklusive Kosovo) hade 7 498 001 invånare vid folkräkningen år 2002. En överväldigande majoritet av Serbiens befolkning är serber, men det finns många minoritetsgrupper såsom ungrare, albaner, rumäner och kroater med flera.

Serbiens näst största befolkningsgrupp är av albanskt härkomst och är bosatta i provinsen Kosovo. Ungrarna är den tredje största befolkningsgrupp och är bosatta i den norra autonoma provinsen Vojvodina.

Vojvodina är den mest etniskt blandade regionen i Europa med mer än 26 olika etniska folkgrupper. Under en tid bodde många tyskar i Vojvodina men den kommunistiska regeringen massdeporterade alla tyskspråkiga invånare.

När de jugoslaviska krigen bröt ut 1991 gav sig många högutbildade och ungdomar iväg för att undkomma militärtjänstgöring, fattigdom och en osäker framtid. Samtidigt hade den serbiska befolkningen ökat drastiskt under 1990-talet till följd av att landet fick ta emot omkring en halv miljon serbiska flyktingar från Bosnien och Hercegovina och Kroatien.

Enligt uppgifter från 2002 är den etniska fördelningen följande (Kosovo ej inräknat):

Serber - 6 293 822 (83,94 %)
Ungrare - 190 172 (3,91 %)
Bosniaker - 136 464 (1,82 %)
Romer - 107 971 (1,44 %)
övriga - 666 572 (8,89 %)

Utöver dessa finns det cirka 1,8 miljoner albaner och ytterligare 250 000 serber i Kosovo. Ny folkräkning kommer genomföras från den 1 - 15 oktober 2011.

Språk
I Serbien talas serbiska, som är ett sydslaviskt språk och är det officiella språket i landet. Språket skrivs med såväl det kyrilliska alfabetet som det latinska alfabetet, även om det förra är vanligare och dessutom det skriftspråk som en gång infördes av den serbiska ortodoxa kyrkan. Det viktigaste minoritetsspråket är ungerska.

Det kyrilliska alfabet som används i Serbien idag utformades av den serbiske lingvisten Vuk Karadžić under 1800-talets första hälft. Han uteslöt vissa bokstäver ur den gamla kyrilliska skriften och tillfogade andra som han ansåg att språket behövde. Hans motto och mål med det nya alfabetet var att det skulle vara så fonetiskt som möjligt: Piši kao što govoriš, čitaj kao što je napisano ("Skriv som du talar, läs som det står skrivet").

Religion

Den ortodoxa kristendomen är den dominerande religionen i landet och de flesta serber tillhör den Serbisk-ortodoxa kyrkan.

Ortodoxi har länge varit införlivad i den serbiska nationella identiteten och den serbiska ortodoxa kyrkan har stort inflytande i samhället. Trots den serbiska ortodoxa kyrkans dominerande ställning i Serbiens kulturella liv tillhör många serbiska medborgare andra trosriktningar, särskilt islam, katolicism och protestantism. Största delen av ungrarna är romerska katoliker. En majoritet av albanerna är muslimer, men även ett betydlig antal är katoliker. I Sandzak-regionen finns en avsevärd muslimsk (bosniakisk) minoritet. De flesta muslimer är sunniter.

Religionsfrihet finns formellt inskriven i serbisk lagstiftning som dock tillskriver sju religiösa riktningar en särställning som "traditionella"

År 2011 var cirka 1% av Serbiens befolkning protestanter.

Kultur

Konstarter
Serbiens samhälle är starkt präglat av gamla patriarkaliska traditioner som har utvecklats från det osmanska inflytandet i landet och återspeglas i familjelivet och i den offentliga sektorn. Den bysantinska tiden har också satt sina spår i serbisk kultur och den serbiska (tidigare bysantinska) ortodoxa kyrkans starka fäste i den serbiska samhället har påverkat konsten mycket.

Musik och dans
Den 12 maj 2007 vann Serbien Eurovision Song Contest med låten Molitva, som sjöngs av Marija Šerifović. 2008 sjöngs låten Oro av artisten Jelena Tomašević som komponerades av Željko Joksimović.

Trumpetfestivalen i Guča hålls i augusti varje år och brukar enligt arrangörerna locka uppåt 500 000 deltagare.

Varje år hålls den stora festivalen EXIT i Novi Sad. Där spelar över 100 band i Petrovaradinfästningen och festivalen besöks årligen av över 300 000 - 500 000 människor från hela världen. EXIT blev vald till Europas bästa festival 2007 och 2008 av UK Festival Awards. Festivalen startade år 2000 som en protest mot Slobodan Milošević-regimen och varade då i 100 dagar. Nu är festivalen ett årligt fyradagarsevenemang.

Serbiska artister
Nadežda Petrović
Marina Abramović
Paja Jovanović
Sava Šumanović
Milena Pavlović-Barili (Milena Pavlović Barilli)
Đura Jakšić
Katarina Ivanović
Milan Konjović
Uroš Predić
Olja Ivanjicki
Simonida Rajčević
Momo Kapor
Emir Kusturica
Hornsman Coyote (Nemanja Kojić)
Šaban Bajramović
Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
Bajaga (Momčilo Bajagić)
Koja (Dušan Kojić)
Milan Mladenović
Ceca (Svetlana Ražnatović)
Željko Joksimović
Bebi Dol
Bora Đorđević
Đorđe Balašević
Marija Šerifović
Boban Marković

Teater
Serbien har en väletablerad teatertradition med många teatrar runt om i landet. Den serbiska nationalteatern i Novi Sad grundades 1861 och dess byggnad härrör från år 1868.

Bitef, Belgrads internationella teaterfestival, är en av de äldsta teaterfestivalerna i världen. New Theater Tendencies (Nya tendenser inom teatern) är festivalens ständiga undertitel. Sedan starten 1967 har Bitef kontinuerligt följt och stöttat de senaste trenderna inom teatern. Den har blivit en av de fem viktigaste och största europeiska festivalerna. I Serbien har den blivit en av de viktigaste kulturinstitutionerna.

Film
Filmmediet etablerades relativt tidigt i Serbien. 12 filmer hann produceras innan andra världskriget bröt ut. Den mest betydande förkrigsfilmen var Mihail Popovićs Slaget om Kosovo från 1939. Filmmediet blomstrade efter andra världskriget. Den främste efterkrigsregissören var Dušan Makavejev som blev internationellt erkänd för filmen Kärleksakten eller En växeltelefonists tragedi från 1967. Makavejevs film Montenegro spelades in i Sverige 1981. Zoran Radmilović var en av de kändaste skådespelarna under efterkrigsperioden.

Serbisk film fortsatte att utvecklas under 1990-talet och även idag, trots 90-talets omvälvningar. Regissören Emir Kusturica har vunnit två Guldpalmer för Bästa film vid filmfestivalen i Cannes. Den ena för När pappa var borta på affärsresa 1985 och den andra för Underground 1995. 1998 vann Kusturica Silverlejonet för bästa regi vid Venedigs filmfestival för filmen Svart katt, vit katt.

År 2001 fanns det 167 biografer i Serbien (exklusive Kosovo) och över fyra miljoner serber gick på bio under det året. 2005 orsakade filmen San zimske noći ("En midvinternattsdröm") av Goran Paskaljević en del debatt då den riktade kritik mot Serbien och dess roll i krigen på 1990-talet.

Traditioner

Matkultur

Galleri

Internationella rankningar

Se även
Jugoslaviska krigen
Serbiska republiken

Referenser

Vidare läsning
Michael Boro Petrovich, The History of Modern Serbia 1804-1918, 2 vols. I-II, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1976.
Stevan K. Pavlowitch, (2002). Serbia: the History behind the Name, London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. .
Dušan T. Bataković, Histoire du peuple serbe, (sous la direction de) D. T. Bataković, L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 2005.
Dušan T. Bataković, The Kosovo Chronicles, Plato Books, Belgrade 1992.
The Serbs and Their National Interest, N. Von Ragenfeld-Feldman & D. T. Bataković (eds.), SUC, San Francisco & Belgrade 1997
Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave, D. T. Bataković (ed.), Institute for Balkan Studies, SASA, Belgrade 2007.
Dušan T. Bataković, Kosovo. Un conflit sans fin ?, Lausanne, L`Age d`Homme 2008.
Dušan T. Bataković, Serbia's Kosovo Drama. A Historical Perspective, Čigoja Štampa, Belgrade 2012.

Externa länkar

CIA The World Factbook Serbien

Europas länder
Balkan

Kustlösa stater

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Q: How to share a ViewModel between different pages in jQuery mobile? I am trying to share a ViewModel between pages.
Say I have pageA.html and pageB.html and a separate data.js file. pageA has fields bound (using Knockout) and after clicking a button it moves to pageB which also has some fields bound to the same ViewModel. I can't get this to work - what am I missing?
Of course I can keep all pages (data-role="page") inside a single .html file and it would work fine but is that the only way?
EDIT - pageB.html is a copy of pageA - I am trying to show the problem NOT having another login functionality in many pages!!!
This is the code:
pageA.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>PageA</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.0-rc.1/jquery.mobile-1.1.0-rc.1.min.css" />

                    Username:
                <input type="text" name="name" id="username" data-bind="value: userid" />

                    Password:
                <input type="text" name="name" id="pswd" data-bind="value: pswd" />

        Login

pageB.html (largely the same as above but its javascript block doesn't seem to get called...)
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>pageB</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.0-rc.1/jquery.mobile-1.1.0-rc.1.min.css" />

            <input type="text" name="name" data-bind="value: userid" />

            <input type="text" name="name" data-bind="value: pswd" />

data.js
var S5;

(function (S5) {

    S5.myViewModel = {
        userid: ko.observable('marcel'),
        pswd: ko.observable('xxx'),
        login: function () {

            // ** DO LOGIN CHECK then move to pageB

            $.mobile.changePage("pageB.html", { transition: "slideup" });
        },
    };

})(S5 || (S5 = {}));

A: jQuery Mobile uses Ajax Navigation to load and change views. When using multi-html page template, it loads first page (html file) entirely. However, for other views /pages fetched with Ajax, it loads contents inside  only, neglecting other tags i.e.

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Browse > Home / Chaléwood, Interviews / Francisco X. DeJesus – Alice in Wonderland (DVD)
May 28, 2010 by Kiko Martinez
Francisco X. DeJesus – Alice in Wonderland (DVD)
Sony Imageworks digital effects supervisor Francisco X. DeJesus helped create this scene in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" where the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) prepares to fight the Red Queen's army.
When Francisco X. DeJesus, digital effect supervisor for Sony Imageworks, found out his company would be in charge of the computer animation for Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," he didn't react the way most people would knowing a visionary filmmaker like Burton was entrusting them to help create a entire new cinematic world for him.
DeJesus was actually a bit disappointed.
"When it first came up, my first thought was 'Darn!' because I was already working on another project," DeJesus told me during a phone interview explaining that his work on the guinea pig adventure "G-Force" prevented him from starting the exciting project. "Knowing that [Burton] was going to be here working with Imageworks and that I wasn't going to be working with him was kind of a bummer."
Once on vacation after "G-Force" was complete, however, DeJesus received a welcomed phone call.
"It turned out the scope of work on 'Alice in Wonderland' had grown and they needed more people," said DeJesus, who is known to some of his friends as "F.X." "They wondered if I would be interested and I said, 'Yeah!'"
DeJesus, who has worked on such films as "Titanic" and the "Spider-Man" franchise, was brought into "Alice in Wonderland" specifically for the final battle sequence where Alice and the White Queen's army face off against the Jabberwocky and the Red Queen's army.
During our interview, DeJesus, who was born in Puerto Rico, talked about how the vision behind "Alice in Wonderland" was different from any other movie he's ever worked on in the past and what types of challenges he faced coming onto the film late in the game.
"Alice in Wonderland" will be available on DVD and Blu-ray June 1.
How were creating the digital effects for "Alice in Wonderland" different from movies you've worked on in the past?
It was vastly different. "Alice in Wonderland" was probably the most aesthetic movie that I've ever worked on. I've worked on a lot of movies that are technical and photo realistic where you could go in a build something digitally based on photos like New York City or the Titanic. But the world of Wonderland and Tim Burton's vision was quite an artistic challenge.
Was Tim Burton someone you always looked up to in this industry?
I always admired Tim Burton's work. I also did a movie called "Monster House" years ago and we referenced "A Nightmare Before Christmas" as the gold standard. It was a pleasure watching him work and draw little sketches for us. He comes from this traditional artist background and it shows in everything he does.
Were there any major challenges coming onto a project at the very end instead of starting from the beginning?
This is probably the second time something like this has happened. The first time, I was working on "Monster House" and "Spider-Man 3" was already going on. I came into "Spider-Man 3" at the end to do the final battle sequence of that movie. But I had already worked on "Spider-Man" and "Spider-Man 2" and I knew the director and the team so it was really easy for me to slide in and do the work. "Alice in Wonderland" was a little more challenging because I had never worked with Tim Burton. Part of the challenge was learning his style. Also, it was a lot of work in a very short amount of time.
Is it important for you as an artist to work with filmmakers who have different visions?
I do like to work on different things because every project can take up to two years to complete. So, when I finish one movie I want to go and try something different. I've gone from full computer-generated animation to photo realistic superheroes. You always want to flex your muscles with different projects.
Do you like working more on live-action films or animated films?
I tend to find more work in the live action just because I like the energy and the dynamic of being on the set and being on location. That really drives me.
Do you like working on films that are adapted from other works or is it more rewarding to start on a film with completely original characters and storylines?
The most important thing for me is if there is a clear vision from the director. Sometimes that comes across in concept art. Sometimes it's in a "Spider-Man" movie where you have other media like comic books that you can draw upon as inspiration. Tim Burton was like that. That made this movie fantastic to work on.
Francisco X. DeJesus – G-Force
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Q: Getting the name of a hyperlink when it's clicked using jQuery Is there a way to get the hyperlink name when you click on it using jQuery? I have the following code, I need some jQuery direction:
<a href="#" id="imageClick" name='<%# Eval("fileName1") %>'><asp:Image ID="myImage" name='<%# Eval("fileName1") %>' runat="server" ImageUrl='<%#"~/Image/" + Eval("fileName") %>'  />

Basically I would like to return the value of whatever <%# Eval("fileName1") %> is.
Thanks.
EDIT: To be more clear, I have a popup page which contains a listView which that has images and radio buttons. The requirement is if you click on the radio button, it should get the value of that specific choice and close the popup. I'm also passing a value back to the parent window. So this is what I have:
    $(document).ready(function () {
    $("#form1").change(function () {

        var val = "";

        if ($('input:radio[name=myRadio]:checked').val()) {
            val = $('input:radio[name=myRadio]:checked').val();
        }

        if (val != "") {

            $(window.opener.document).find('#txtLogos').val(val);
            // Close the window
            window.close();
        }
    });
});

This works fine when I click on one of the radio buttons. But now they added another requirement that if they click on the images they want the same result (Obviously without disrupting the functionality that the radio button has).

A: You can just access it using this.name inside your click handler. this here is the Dom element (Don't need jquery to retrieve the element attribute value), so just directly access the name attribute of the element.
$('#imageClick').click(function(){
   alert(this.name);
});

Edit
Form change will not be triggered if you click on an image; unlike input, select, textarea etc. So you need to trigger form change manually on image click event (to simulate a radio button click triggering the form change event).
Bind a click handler to your images to add class:
$('yourimageselector').click(function(){

      $(this).toggleClass('checkedImage'); // Add a class on first click and again clicked on it remove the class to say it is turned off. If you dont want a turn off functionality simply say :

     //$(this).addClass('checkedImage'); //or if this is the only class then this.className = 'checkedImage' classList is not yet supported in all browsers.

     $('yourform').change(); //as this is image it wont trigger form change event so you need to manually trigger form's change event (only for input, select, textarea etc form change will be triggered).

});

And in your form event:
$("#form1").change(function () {

        var imgNames= $('.checkedImage')
              .map(function(){return this.name; })
              .get(); // Will get you all the image names in an array.
   //if it is just one image then simply do if($('.checkedImage').length > 0) $('.checkedImage')[0].name,

   //Code follows

  });

Fiddle

A: this can also work in the event handler of your click :
document.getElementById("new-answer-activity").name


I think the whole world must think I am crazy for believing you are out there, somewhere. Maybe it is just the only damn way that I can cope, or maybe you really are there, waiting somewhere on the other side of this devastating mess. I have never dreamt someone so real in my life, that I never, ever will get the chance to meet.
You are small feet digging into the sand, an umbrella over a carseat to shield you from the South Florida sun, platinum blonde curls, high-pitched giggles, tailored baby outfits made just for you, tiny blue Nikes. You are a heartbreaker, the extra gel in pre-teen hair, acne, homework undone, the soccer field. You are a degree from my alma mater, backwards Dolphins' hat, her smile when she fell for you in the law library.
When I was young, I imagined your all-white nursery with your initials in the wall as I took care of my favorite doll, Jenny the Gymnast. When I was a teenager I imagined you would be a boy that loved soccer and lived in a big city. When I was in college, you were half-Indian, half-Dutch and the most gorgeous thing to ever live. When I graduated, you became a spiritual, kind boy who loved everything about life as a UM graduate.
See, I already planned your entire life. So how could you not exist? How could you not arrive after all of the love I've already invested in you?
I think the whole world must think I am crazy, but that's okay. It's worth knowing that someday, when I am least expecting it, I will see you there, waiting for your mother.
And, my love, that is what I live for, forever and always.


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Raymond Edward Stevens
January 7, 1950 - April 16, 2020
Raymond Edward Stevens, 70, of Spring Grove, IL and Surprise, AZ, died unexpectedly on Thursday, April 16, 2020 in Arizona while helping a friend. Ray was born on January 7, 1950 in Woodstock, IL to J. Robert and Marjorie (Townsend) Stevens. He was married to Margaret (Peg) Amore on June 18, 1971 at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Richmond, IL. He graduated from Richmond-Burton High School in 1968. Ray was recently awarded his 50 year Gold Card with the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150. He worked for many union employers over the years including Waste Management for 31 years. He took an active role in encouraging many people to join the union, including his proudest works, his son and daughter. With the union, he held positions on both the advisory board and executive board. Ray retired on December 31, 2010. He was active in his community as a Richmond firefighter from 1969-1973, charter member of the Richmond Trailblazers, Trustee of the Spring Grove fire department 1995-2001, 'Grandfather' coach of Stateline Comets football, member of the Church of Holy Apostles since 2000, where he was an usher for the 'A' team, charter member of the McHenry VFW men's auxiliary and he was a proud member of the #18 Petska Pit Crew. His hobbies included teasing his grandkids, NASCAR and dirt track races, as well as horseback riding and helping anyone who needed him. Ray and his beloved Peg traveled across the country with their RV and horses for many years and made countless friends. Ray is survived by Peg, his son, Raymond R. (Traci) Stevens of McHenry, his daughter, Sarah (Mike) Erikson of Genoa City, his treasured grandchildren, Rachel and Amy Stevens, Cody Stevens and Chloe Erikson. He is also survived by his brothers, Bill (LaVerne) and Bob (Joy) Stevens, his sisters, Lois (Harvey) Petska, Anna (Jim Ross) Penza, and Pam (Dave Palcek) Kopacz. He is survived by his sisters-in-law, Marlene Stevens, Sr. Jean Amore, Marge Amore and Sandy Amore, Barb (Ron) Williams, Patty (Bill) Vavrik, and Fran (Gil) Michelini; his brothers-in-law, Wayne (Christine) and Buster (Cindy) Amore as well as numerous nieces, nephews and forever friends. Ray is preceded in death by his parents, his in-laws, Robert and Mary Amore, his sister Judy, his brother Larry, his brothers-in-law, Tom and Terry Amore, his nieces Melissa Petska and Cheri Amore, his nephew, Tony Williams and great-nephew Braden Petska. On the day of his passing, his nephew Mark Amore passed away in an accident in Illinois. Due to Covid-19, funeral services will be privately held for the family and the service will be live-streamed on the Church of Holy Apostles website at 1pm on Monday, April 27, 2020. The burial will also be private at the Saint Peter's Cemetery in Spring Grove, IL. A Celebration of Life at a later date will be announced. In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to Heart of Gold Charities, PO Box 116, Twin Lakes, WI 53181 or to The MACC Fund, 10000 W. Innovation Drive, Suite 135, Milwaukee, WI 53226.
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As Uday Shankar walks into the unfinished and forbidden terrace of Star House, there is an amusing look of incredulity on the face of the security guard whose job is to restrict entry to this area. Shankar, CEO of Star TV India, has never been on the terrace. And the guard in all likelihood has never been on Shankar's floor. Seemingly unsure of what course of action he should follow, the guard stands up, perhaps to register a forbiddance, fidgets as though he is unsure if he should offer some pleasantries, accompanies us a few paces, but eventually returns to his seat without speaking.
We climb tiny inconvenient steps to reach the terrace that stands above the unfinished 40th floor of this imposing building. Shankar almost races ahead, while his female companions totter on their large heels, first on the steps, and later against the breeze on the terrace. After we complete the photo-shoot, his companions appear to want to leave the place. But Shankar stands, his elbows resting against an unfinished wall. "Look at that view," he says. Below you can see Bombay in all its grandeur and hopelessness. Tiny figures of traffic that halt more often than they move, old rattling trains carrying people home from work, a cluster of buildings shooting up around Mahalaxmi Race Course, and a gorgeous sea at a distance almost as though containing an exploding city. "Isn't that a great view?" he says, pointing to the distant setting sun.
As we walk down, Shankar is the only one to thank the guard.
Until then, Shankar had breezed through life with little care. Born to a civil engineer and homemaker, he was, according to himself, curious about the world from a young age. "I had three vices, really, as a kid–Newsweek, Time magazine, Far Eastern Economic Review," he recalls. "And most of my classmates were then still reading comic books." But he lacked the ambition his father so desired in him. He moved to Delhi to pursue a Master's degree in Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, but continued to lead a life of little worry. He got himself a two-wheeler, hung out with friends, often plied himself with whisky, but rarely considered where his career was going. "So when I failed at the UPSC, it really shook me up. I started to reconsider where my life was headed," he says. He realised that he wouldn't enjoy the job of a civil servant, if he ever got selected for it. So instead of preparing for the civil services' examination again, he chose, much to his father's disappointment, a job he thought his curiosity and interest in current affairs would be more naturally inclined to. After completing a course at Times School of Journalism in Delhi, he found himself on a train to Patna, to become a political correspondent for The Times of India.
Shankar is leaner in reality than he appears on TV and in newspaper pictures. As the 52-year-old walks down a passage that leads from his office to his conference room, the military clatter of his shoes filling the air, he chats with colleagues who work on the floor with informal familiarity. It feels more like a newsroom crowd than that of a staid corporate house. He is dressed in a formal blue shirt and dark trousers, and wonders if he can leave the top button of his shirt undone for a photograph. His office exudes luxury, with a seating area for him to entertain guests and a desk beside a glassed-in sun porch where he can work, drinking coffee that is poured by gloved hands into mugs with 'Star TV' embossed on them.
In many ways, Shankar's career mirrors the rapid changes that have occurred in the country's media industry. He learnt journalism at various publications before shifting, like other ambitious journalists, to the then exciting new industry of TV news. Over the next few years, Shankar would work his way into various news channels, overseeing and bringing about changes in the technology and content of Indian TV news, and ascend to become one of the top editors in the business. The careers of most journalists would have reached a plateau here. But Shankar became part of another industry, a larger one, and another revolution. Shankar became Chief Executive Officer, unheard of for a journalist in India, of a multi-million dollar entertainment company that has a bouquet of 34 channels in seven different languages and which reaches roughly 650 million viewers every week. Shankar became the top boss of Star India.
When Shankar joined The Times of India as a political correspondent, he was focused on his career, but was still 'trouble' for management. He became involved with the local journalists' trade union, demanding better wages for journalists, and later protested against the paper's management when some of his colleagues lost their jobs. Over the next few years, he moved to a string of other publications in Delhi, covering various beats, from politics and health to the environment, and also became one of the founding editors of the environmental magazine Down To Earth. Television news was opening up to Indians at this time and Shankar wanted to join it.
Shankar also began to frequent the sets of televised current affairs programmes in India. He once even became a part of the audience for current affairs shows for Doordarshan. "I was getting drawn to the medium. Everything about it, from its lighting and cameras to the urgency of the news, began to captivate me," he recalls.
When the media baron Rupert Murdoch of News Corp purchased the Hong Kong-based Star TV in 1992 for almost $1 billion, he wanted to expand his media empire and create a truly global satellite network. He was particularly focused on China, which he visited often and whose leaders he courted extensively. Some even claim his marriage to Wendi Deng, his third wife who worked as a Star TV executive and whom he has now divorced, was motivated by that.
But Murdoch and Star TV burnt their fingers in China. Faced with legal regulations that prohibit foreign stations from buying domestic media outlets, as well as attempts to control content, it became clear after 2010, when Murdoch sold control of Star China TV to China Media Capital, that he was on his way out. Earlier this year, it was announced that Murdoch was selling his remaining stake–47 per cent–in the company. Murdoch's focus is now entirely on Star India, which in comparison with Star China TV has been doing remarkably well.
But it wasn't all that good, even in India. In fact when Shankar was asked to take over Star India in 2007, many believed it was a stop-gap arrangement. The performance of the entertainment channel was dipping, the ratings of its shows were low, revenues were shrinking and rival channels were pulling a march on it. The fact that the jobs of Peter Mukerjea and Sameer Nair, the two big names associated with the entertainment channel's set-up in India, who performed the separate and independent roles of looking after the programming and the running of Star India, were being combined and offered to someone who only had news industry experience appeared perplexing to industry watchers.
"All sorts of rumours were doing the rounds," he says.
But Shankar has turned the fortunes of the firm around. It is not just the leader in the category of entertainment channels, its various channels draw large revenues; it is also, through an eclectic mix of content like the Aamir Khan- hosted Satyamev Jayate, investing for the future. Shankar has also become an influential industry leader, currently serving as President of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), who has used his clout to effectively lobby for a switch from analogue broadcasting to digitisation, a move that's expected to benefit all TV entertainment companies.
That experiment with content continues till today, its most notice example being when he roped in Aamir Khan, to– unlike other channels that brought in stars for tried and tested formats–do a non-fiction show where social ills would be examined and discussed. When Shankar came up with the idea of Satyamev Jayate and began to discuss the concept, it is said that one of his colleagues claimed he was 'totally out of line'. The show was an unusual marriage of sorts between journalism and entertainment, it was to be telecast on Sunday mornings, and each episode, it is rumoured, costs at least Rs 5 crore to make. Shankar had to take the concept to James Murdoch, the co-chief operating officer at 21st Century Fox which owns Star India (and son of Murdoch), to get a go-ahead.
Since then, the show has achieved remarkable success. Having just completed its third season, its viewership of the first episode of Season 3 was 4.9 million. The opening show of the second season, in March this year, had 4.8 million viewers.
This article is from Open Magazine.
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Sadly, my time on air at CJSW is drawing to a close. I'm moving away from Calgary so I'll no longer be able to host the Fat Beat Diet. I'm incredibly thankful to have been invited into your homes, cars, and wherever else you listen to CJSW over the last 17 or so years or so. Join me one last time as I celebrate my time on air with you.
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Item 10: General William Holmes diary, 23 August 1914-22 February 1915 - Page 78
2-35 p.m. "Australia" to General:- [assumed to be a general message]
"Apia station call signs XA and R.I.P. and uses W.N.S. to address all Ships."
2-55 p.m. "Australia" to General:-
"Squadron will be formed up at 3-30 p.m. and proceed to meet "Parramatta"
The Admiral previously informed the Brigadier that the New Zealanders were in occupation of German Samoa.
"Waihora is to take station astern of "Aorangi"; "Murex" and "Koolonga" will form astern of "Waihora".
"Take up night cruising stations."
5-20 p.m. Captain "Sydney" to Brigadier:-
"I sent a telegram direct to Navy Office about Captain Fry, and I see the Admiral has also done so."
"Take up cruising stations."
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"Australia" to "Melbourne":-
"Well done, you should proceed at best speed without. As coal supply is too close, you must arrive during day."
The "Melbourne" had been instructed by Admiral on leaving "Samoa" to proceed to Nauru and demolish the wireless station at same. This had evidently been accomplished.
During the day the Troops were engaged as follows:-
Early morning parade: Physical drill, rifle exercises.
Fore and Afternoon: Musketry Instruction, Rifle Exercises, Lecture on Sanitation and Tropical Diseases, and Inspection of Arms and Accoutrements.
P.M.O. reports that the supply of fresh water in the latrines aft is still unsatisfactory. There are no serious cases of sickness. During the day a commencement was made with the administration of Quinine, a dose of 5 grains being given to all ranks, Naval and Military; this will be continued daily.
At mid-night the Ship ha sailed 212 nautical miles, making a total of 624 nautical miles since leaving Port Moresby.
At 4-15 p.m. the Brigadier met all the Officers of the Contingent and gave them a resume of events to date and mentioned his intended plans for the occupation of New Britain.


True Crime: Hong Kong was canceled earlier this year by Activision, and now picked back up by Square Enix, who has just set a time frame for the game's release.
Apparently that amount of time was quite short, because earlier today we found a posting on Square Enix's website stating the game will be releasing sometime in 2012. The game formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong was previously slated for this November, so it's clear that United Front Games still has a bit of work to do on it yet, perhaps including thinking of a new title. It was also mentioned that since the acquisition of publishing rights the name would need to be changed, but to something fairly straight forward according to Singleton. In the mean time United Front Games seems happy to be able to finish their project, with President Stefan Wessels saying they are "really pleased to be working with Square Enix London Studios and their excitement on the game means a great deal to us." Hopefully this is Activision's folly to Square Enix's benefit, since there have been rumblings of Square Enix's projected profits being slashed, leading many to speculate about their future success.


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A storm extending from South Dakota to Oklahoma rolled through Omaha this evening. The College World Series was in session, causing some mild panic by the out-of-towners not used to this type of weather. As it turns out, the storm's bark was much worse that its bite, but it sure looked nasty as the gust front rolled into town!
There are many reports of trees down in the area as some winds clocked in at 70mph. More threatening is the rainfall, which won't help the flood situation along the Missouri River—which Omaha is adjacent to.


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The Gift Card: One would think a 25 dollar gift card would go far, especially in a chain restaurant. Â Not in the world of Outback Steakhouse. Â It barely covered my part of the meal. Â My poor wife-to-be was forced to cover her own end. Â That's what she gets for marrying a blogger.
The Ambience: Dim red lighting, with a little bulb hanging over each table. Â A play-off hockey game (yawn) played in the background. Â Most of the waiters wore red-and-white striped uniforms with…flare. Â The Office Space reference is sad and easy. Â But there, I wrote it anyways.
Prices: It's all kind of expensive.  All of it.  I know it's a steak house, but let's be honest.  This is a chain restaurant.  You don't go to a chain restaurant to murder your wallet.  In my tiny mind, a chain restaurant should offer decent food at an affordable price. Make sure you're ready to spend 40-50 dollars if you want to take your loved one to Outback Steakhouse.
The food: We decided to take chances, and now look back and regret that NEITHER of us ordered steak. Rats. I order the Ribs and Alice Spring Chicken. The ribs are fine, but alas, the chicken is suffocating.  A dense, claustrophobic eating experience, it is covered with mushrooms, bacon, cheese and a honey mustard sauce.  Oh yeah, there are Australian fries too.  Good lord.  I eat the ribs and fries first, and then go for the chicken.  What makes it an "Alice Spring Chicken" is beyond me, and not by choice.  They might have put a shoe underneath the toppings and I wouldn't have been able to tell. It's as if Cholestoral has manifested in front of me in the form of a high school bully, who instinctively punches me in the heart and stomach. The fries are great by the way, especially dipped in the honey mustard sauce.
My poor date orders the filet tenderloin.  Look up filet tenderloin on wikipedia.  Nope.  Nothing there, because it seems to only exist on the menu at Outback Steakhouse.  It is a bastardized version of a beef tenderloin, and it is was interesting to say the least.  My date received a pink piece of meat in a pool of diluted blood.  And that blood?  Soaked up into her garlic mashed potatoes. I tried a bite.  It tasted like it was once a steak, until someone chewed it up piece by piece.  They then spit all the pieces into a bucket and re-formed the pieces into the shape of a steak, cooked it for a while and served it.  My date likened the experience to eating a damp gym sock that melts in your mouth.  But the potatoes were great!
Overall Outback Steakhouse Fun Rating: 4 out of 10. Wasn't awful, wasn't great.  I didn't get the feeling this was a family joint (as it is often advertised), as there were more older gentlemen nursing giant containers of Foster's than family units enjoying Australian delicacies.  Another irksome quality was brought to the fore during our visit: What about this restaurant chain makes it Australian?  Is it the Australian Fries, which are french fries with salt and pepper? Perhaps the restaurant exists as a cultural high-five, where Americans and Australians look at each other and say, "We have the same eating habits-HEY! We're NOT THAT DIFFERENT!" and everyone rejoices while men and women drink giant cans of beer and children devour Flinstone's-style racks of ribs while Men at Work, Russell Crowe, and Silverchair play "Give Peace a Chance" with Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bob Thorton and Stone Temple Pilots. Either way the food wasn't up to snuff that night. Perhaps next time I'll order steak.
Speaking of which, will I ever go back to Outback Steakhouse? Â Maybe in a year, if you gave me a 70 dollar gift card.
PS – If any of our readers actually LIKE filet tenderloin, please tell me why and where you ate it. Â I just need to know why this happened to us.
Going to Outback and not getting a steak is moronic. I'm sure the rest of their food is pretty average to sub-par, but hell, you can generally still get a pretty good steak there.
Also, nowhere in this review did I read the words "Bloomin Onion" which basically means your trip to Outback was an epic fail.
I don't care for these chain places…they're always such a huge disappointment. Who needs all that fat/sugar/cream/sauce….food should taste good on it's own….it shouldn't been to be laden with lard. The problem with these places is that they want all their dishes to taste the same through the nation, which means they have to supply the "cooks" with everything wrapped up ready to go.
I recall their bread being good but I haven't been in a while. My friend swears by their ribeye.
@Eick – I guess while for most that would certainly be an epic fail, but when you know what actually goes into those abominations it will fear you into not enjoying them.
Eick, I eyed the Bloomin' Onion for about five minutes, but the 'ole date vetoed that business. Also, the term "Bloomin' " is not Australian. It is awesomely British.
@bear silber – the bread was wonderfully mediocre. nothing special, served with soft butter for easy spreading and plain old bread.
Outback usually serve their beef rare to medium rare, my first visit, I made the mistake of just saying medium well, and that still came out as something between medium rare to medium in my opinion, so your experience might have been affected by that. When I usually go there, I usually ask and remind the server to make sure that it is well-done, and then pan seared, and depending on the branch, it usually comes out as medium to medium well, which is my preferred doneness.
Did I miss the part of Meat Madness where we filled out a bracket and could win stuff?
$25 can buy you two steaks (w/ unlimited trips to the buffet/ice cream machine), 4 beers and a pie (to go!).
poderosa — the ghetto golden corral.
Any time I've been unfortunate enough to end up at Outback, it is always filled with divorced dads, sucking down Fosters and looking sad after work.
And, occassionally, if we're at the one in Issaquah, Jay Buhner and his fam.
I would KILL to eat steak with Jay Buhner. KILL.
you can't go to outback expecting an exquisite culinary experience. you have to go experienced in ordering at outback. appetizers are good, even if they're covered in lard (you don't go there to eat healthy; run two times more that week). order a burger (they're delicious). chicken is bad at any chain (outback doesn't do any worse). the bread really is good. the steaks are not bad (the only bad steak is an overcooked steak, in which case you can send it back). if you really hate outback, spend the 25 dollars on beers and go somewhere else.
I hate Outback and I'll tell you why. I had sworn to never go back to Outback because of shrinking portions and rising prices. My parents get me 2 $25 gift cards. I decide to use although I honestly considered giving them back. I place an order through their website for pickup. It's supposed to be ready in 20 minutes, since I had done this in the past I knew that it might take a little longer. I showup at the 25 minute mark and I'm parked in their takeaway area. They are "supposed" to come out to me. After waiting another 10 minutes my wife decides to get off and go inside. The employee is claiming that I never placed an order. At this point, it's been 35 minutes since the order was placed. I have the confirmation number and give it to her. Once the order the was located, I'm told "someone forgot" to have the order made. I have a feeling I know who the someone is. He never apologizes and asks if we'd like to wait another 15 to 20 minutes and the order can be prepared. No thanks, I pass. I'm angry enough that I write Outback via email about what occurred and their response? None, they didn't have the decency to respond to me. It doesn't end there. A few days later I figure I'll buy up some appetizers to try and kill these cards. Same process except when I park someone does come out to greet me. I'm told the food will be ready in a few minutes. I pay with the gift cards (I still have approx. $22 on one of the cards) and when I get home, nothing is hot, it's all room temperature, this is a less than a 5 minute drive. I think to myself I deserve this for going against my better judgment . And I wish I could say it ended here but it didn't. Since I wanted to finish off the last card I decide to go have some appetizers and drinks with my wife. When I pay, using the gift card I was given a few weeks earlier I'm told there is no credit left on the card. I don't argue the point, I take my medicine, which I deserve and go home and investigate. It turns out the guy at Outback, when I paid with the 2 gift cards only gave me back the empty one, he kept the one that had credit. I'm not insinuating he jacked me but that he made the mistake of dumping the card with credit instead of the empty one. I would say I hate the guy, except I hate myself for going through this self inflicted drama. Wow, it felt good to get that off my chest.
I also ordered the filet tenderloin and thought that it just wasn't right. i let my husband try it and he said that it tasted just like liver. i went on today to see if anyone esle had tried it and started reading your review. My thoughts exactly! So i don't know for sure but i had 2 testers and they both agreed it was liver.
I went to publix ans bought the exact filet tenderloin that i got at Outback Steak House. So yes it really does exist. I personally think that all of Outbacks food is great! You get good portions for the price you pay. (unless you are overweight because you don't know what portions are) i also receive great service every time I go.
People should stop complaining so much and look at the good in life. Do you complain when you go to a drive through. No you don't and a value meal isn't much cheaper than outbacks food.
I go to outback all the time and get the tenderloin never had a problem. Now I go to the butcher and cook it myself. Best piece of steak I've had. You experience could have been at that outback and maybe a bad day.
i'm quite surprised how many people complain about Outback. My food was fantastic, compared to the only other steakhouse near me (longhorns…which was putrid, and shouldnt be aloud to call that crap steak). I got the tenderloin with shrimp. I honestly loved it. It doesnt taste ANYTHING like liver, thats absurd. Maybe they were rich snobs that wrote that review, and are used to $50 steaks. Mine tasted very simular to roast beef consistency… tender enough to cut with a fork. when you mix with the garlic potatoes, it was great though. oh, and @cary, its not "diluted blood gravy"…it tasted like regular beef gravy diluted a lil and brown, not red.
You realise filet tenderloin is filet mignon, right? and filet mignon is steak. hah. what a joke. It also can be argued that anything Australian is technically English. This "blogger" is clearly inexperienced and uneducated.


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He stopped off at Hackney Central during a campaign journey along the North London Line today. I cornered him opposite the old town hall.
A Dutch journalist who was one of many trailing after him, told me his reception in Hackney was the warmest he'd received on the itinerary so far. He certainly seemed at ease. I'd nipped down to see him in the middle of writing a piece for the Guardian about Livingstone, Boris Johnson and community relations. It's now gone live, so have a read.
"Barratt has started work on one of London's key strategic regeneration schemes, the £160m transformation of Dalston, Hackney. The project will provide over 550 new homes, shops, a library and archive, plus a brand new station for the East London line extension at Dalston Junction. At the heart of the scheme will be Dalston Square, a major new town centre space around which the new homes, shops and restaurants will be built in a range of striking modern buildings."
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The Future On My Face: My First 48 Hours with Google Glass
Back in February, I tweeted this out:
"I'm really into knowledge sharing: http://t.co/bOBw9pYSX5 #ifihadglass I'd endeavor to capture even more content to share with the world"
About a month later, Google notified me that I'd been accepted into their Glass Explorers program. Late last week, I picked Glass up. In this post I'll tell you what my first 48 hours with Glass have been like, what's been great about it, and why I don't believe Glass is yet ready for general public use.
Here's a video of me showing up at Google HQ to get Glass:
(In the video you'll notice that the rep actually made me stop taking a video, which I found incredibly ironic, considering that Glass is all about capturing content, and that my tweet was also all about how I capture content).
Here's the first video I actually took with Glass:
(You'll notice the video cut off -- that's because, by default, Glass videos are only 10 seconds long. You have to tap -- twice -- to extend the video to be longer. Here's a longer video I took with Angie, the Glass rep, who was very patient & helpful)
Here's a video of my initial thoughts on Glass while walking around Whole Foods:
So what do I think of Glass?
My brother Sam summed it up well: Glass feels like the first personal computer must've felt. Nobody's quite sure what to do with it. Maybe just accountants would use a computer? And then BAM! everyone is walking around with a mini computer in their pockets 30 years later.
Glass is not intuitive. You can't just hand it over to someone and have them use it (unlike an iPad, which a 3 year old can intuitively pick up and start using with no instruction.) It requires a learning curve, so it's smart that Google is starting with an "Explorers" program. Here's a video of my brother Sam trying to use it with no instruction:
But really, the value of Glass is that it's going to make it OK for innovation to happen in the wearable computing space. For example, there's already an Italian company with a product called GlassUp. VentureBeat says in this article: "it just might be better" than Google Glass. But the most meaningful quote was this one, from the founder of GlassUp:
"It has brought us a lot of publicity,"... "Before Google Glass, everyone said our project was a silly project … and if there is competition there is also an exit opportunity."
The thing about technology and innovation is that you have to start somewhere. So big kudos to Google for having the chutzpah to be the first to go at it in a big way. This is an opportunity that Apple or Facebook (or some other darkhorse like Sony, HTC or Samsung) could've capitalized on but didn't. Google deserves huge accolades for taking the first big, meaningful step in the wearable computing arm's race.
Here's a breakdown of what works and what doesn't on Glass in its current form:
Having hands-free access to all the world's knowledge just by looking up & to the right is an incredible thing. It feels like some sort of Louis CK skit -- like it's magic. Being able to take a picture, record a video, have messages read to you (in a great text to speech voice) and more is all amazing. So my overall first impression is "Wow. This is totally the future, and it's on my face."
The small things are actually some of the best. Literally the best thing about wearing Glass is being at a networking event with it on. It's an incredibly great ice breaker. I was joking at an event yesterday that I could use a 3D Printer to make a non-working version of Glass for networking events, and already have 80% of the value of Glass.
The next best thing about Glass is being able to easily capture content -- both pics and videos. For someone like me that's fanatical about capturing content for knowledge sharing, this is priceless. The 5 megapixel camera on Glass is good; videos come out in great 720p HD quality. Here's a bunch of us Google Glass Explorers huddling to create a 'world record' at a PepsiCo networking event:
And here I'm capturing a 'largest business card passing circle' world record setting event at the PepsiCo event:
People ask about Glass all the time. Here's a cashier at Whole Foods:
I actually like wearing a hat when I have Glass on to minimize the strangeness factor -- it keeps most people from asking about it (especially since my ShareThis hat is black, and so is Glass):
Being able to take videos hands-free is awesome:
I also really appreciate being able to tilt my head up a bit and just see what time it is. Such a simple aspect of Glass, but I use it often.
The 'Places Nearby' feature is also great, and useful.
I would love to see a QR code scanning app -- that would be super useful:
Glass is clunky -- much harder to use than I expected. The problem is excaserbated for iPhone users, because the Android MyGlass app is not yet available for iPhone users. This keeps some of the functionality -- like heads-up turn-by-turn directions -- from being available. Also, since I don't have a data tethering plan on my iPhone, Glass has no network connectivity unless I'm in a WiFi area -- and even then, I have to specifically connect to an open WiFi network. This means that Glass is basically always offline when I'm out & about, and that really diminishes the value of Glass.
There are other usability issues. Videos can't be shared to Facebook -- only photos. And while videos can be shared to Google+, I couldn't find a way to embed those videos into this blog from G+. That meant I literally had to download each video to my computer, and then re-upload it to Vimeo, a huge pain from a workflow perspective. I really wish there was a Socialcam "glassware" app for Glass to let me use Socialcam right from Glass. That would allow me to post videos to FB, YouTube and Twitter all in one shot.
The battery life is also surprisingly short. I'm not sure what the actual standby/active time is, but it's not uncommon for me to see the battery go from 100% to 75% after under a half hour of use.
It's also hard to swipe the Glass pad when wearing a hat because the brim gets in the way, which is frustrating:
Also, the audio is hard to hear. Glass has a mini speaker that's supposed to use 'bone conduction technology' to make the sound resonate in your head. What actually happens is that it feels like a vibrating Mach5 razor, and it's hard to hear in anything but quiet environments. Here's a picture of the speaker/bone conductor:
One last nitpicking thing: Glass only works with an @gmail account, not a Google Apps account. Since I have all my email flowing into a Google Apps account, and I use Google+ primarily from my Google Apps account, that means i don't have any of my contacts in my Gmail G+ account, which makes Glass less usable from a social perspective.
All of the things above, though, are just early adopter growing pains, and my guess is that the current Explorer group will be willing to overlook most or all of these in exchange for the benefits of being among the first to pioneer this device. It was very smart of Google to roll Glass out this way.
There is, however, one thing that may keep Glass from getting mass adoption and turn it into a "Segway for your face" : Cultural Awkwardness.
In intimate settings, it's incredibly awkward to wear Glass. Think: Dinner parties, work meetings, with spouse & family, or in a public bathroom. I consider myself pretty willing to endure this sort of thing, and yet I've literally had to take Glass off in these situations because the pressure is so great. Literally to the point where people are unwilling to speak openly to me, mostly because they fear they are being recorded. The irony is that it's not at all easy to surreptitiously record someone -- you have to make a few gestures and/or say a voice command to initiate recording. However, that doesn't matter -- what matters is that people think they're being recorded. A cultural shift that makes it OK for people to wear Glass in anything but super public situations is likely many years away, and the problem is that if you take Glass off even just 5% of the time, it loses 95% of its value because you don't always have it on for easy access to capturing / retrieving information, which by definition is the point of it being a par of glasses on your face. I'm honestly not sure that Glass can overcome this barrier in the short term. It may just be too forward-thinking for what humans are ready for.
The good news is that you can actually tell when someone is recording you. The prism lights up, like this, and you can clearly see it if you're facing the person:
There's also the question of safety. My wife refers to Glass as a "cancer stick on my face." While it's hopefully not that, Glass does get unexpectedly hot, and I'd guess that its long-term health effects are unknown. The good news is that cell phones don't seem to have caused large-scale cancer epidemics, so maybe there's hope for early tech adopters like me.
What's Next for Me with Glass:
My new employer, ShareThis and I agreed it'd be cool for us to hack around on Glass a bit together, so we're going to dig into the Glass Developer API to see what kinds of fun stuff we can come up with. I'm really looking forward to seeing what our incredible dev team will be able to do with Glass. More to come, for sure!
I'd love to get your questions/comments below.
Here are a few more pics of Glass.
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