Base of Operations : Canadian north
First Appearance :Super Shamou (Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, 1980s)
Powers/Abilities : Flight. Other powers unknown
History : Super Shamou is an Inuk (Eskimo) super hero. He protects the wilderness of Canada, looking out for unwary travellers who fall foul of the unforgiving conditions, and children in particular. As well as rescuing such individuals, he also makes sure to teach them some realities of life in the North.
Comments : Super Shamou is the world's first Inuk (Eskimo) super hero. He was created by Barney Pattunguyak and Peter Tapatai © Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. This comic was drawn by Nick Burns and the translations were done by Micah Lightstone.
If you are interested in finding out more about this character, you can order his comic book in English, French and Inuktitut by contacting:
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, 251 Laurier Avenue West # 703, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 5J6, or Calling1-800-267-8327.
http://www.inuitbroadcasting.ca/
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
SUPER SHAMOU - Inuk super hero descends on Ottawa
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:34:56 -0500
From: Galerie SAW Gallery
Date: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:11:31 PM US/Eastern
Subject: INUK SUPERHERO DESCENDS ON OTTAWA
La version française suivra.
Galerie SAW Gallery Media Release
WORLD PREMIERE OF RESTORED SUPER SHAMOU
EXHIBITION: The Winter Life
ARTISTS: Joelle Ciona (Vancouver), Eryn Foster (Halifax), Barney
Pattunguyak (Baker Lake), Liss Platt (Hamilton) + Laura Splan (San
Francisco)
CURATORIAL THINK TANK: Darsha Hewitt, Stefan St-Laurent, Ryan Stec,
Ming Tiampo + Tam-Ca Vo-Van
DATES: February 3 - March 19, 2005
OPENING: Thursday, February 3 from 8PM to 1AM. World premiere of
Remix 2004 at 10PM followed by an audio performance by Pho. Free
admission and cash bar.
PERFORMANCE: Puck Paintings by Liss Platt, Saturday, February 5 from
12PM to 2PM, on the Rideau Canal at Patterson Creek. Presented in
collaboration with Winterlude. Free admission. Audience participation
is encouraged.
A common metaphor in many of the world's most celebrated novels,
winter has not been ignored by visual artists, who often relate their
own dark experiences through a cold, foggy lense. Indeed, it could be
said that there is no better circumstance than to put a subject in
the alienating landscape of winter, where everything that we know is
lightly covered by an enormous blanket of snow or ice. More
interestingly, we try to fool ourselves into believing that this
season is not that bad - cold weather, expensive heating, limited
access - by using coping devices that create physical and
psychological barriers. We half-believe that we can have a superhuman
control over the Earth's elements.
[snipped]
Barney Pattunguyak imagines the world's first Inuk superhero, Super
Shamou, who protects the Canadian wilderness and teaches children the
harsh realities of life in the Artic. Certainly a spoof of Superman -
that perfectly Caucasian male who seduces more than he saves - Super
Shamou looks and acts just like a regular Inuk Joe who happens to
fly. Although the flying scenes are a little unconvincing, due to
limited resources and to video's capabilities at the time, we are
more enraptured by the context than we are by Shamou's special
powers. In fact, he is a sort of antihero created by the autonomous
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. Founded in 1981, the IBC was formed
in direct response to the proliferation of southern televisual images
being disseminated to the North, threatening a culture that was
already impacted by trade and religion. What a better way to counter
America's rapidly expanding Capitalist regime than to produce
Superman's cultural nemesis? Pattunguyak's tape will premiere in its
new, restored version during the exhibition.
[snipped]
REMIX 2004. CURATORS: Anne Clarke + Ryan Stec. ARTISTS: Tony
Asimakopoulos (Ottawa), Kerry Campbell (Ottawa), Lee Demarbre
(Ottawa), Adad Hannah (Montréal), Donna James (Ottawa), laura jeanne
lefave (Gatineau / Montréal), Jenny Lin (Montréal), Liss Platt
(Hamilton), Frank Shebageget (Ottawa), Dan Sokolowski (Ottawa) +
Susan Terrill (Ottawa / Los Angeles).
Galerie SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N 7B9
T: 613.236.6181 sawgallery@artengine.ca http://www.galeriesawgallery.com
Hours of operation: Tuesday to Saturday, 11AM to 6PM
For more information, to book interviews with the artists or to
receive a media kit, please contact Erin Kelly at 613.236.6181 or at
sawgallery@artengine.ca.
Galerie SAW Gallery acknowledges the support of its members, the
Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of
Ottawa and Canadian Heritage. Special thanks to the Winterlude
festival, co-presenter of THE WINTER LIFE, and sponsors Available
Light Screening Collective, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, Oboro,
SAW Video, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Bridgehead
Coffeehouse + Steam Whistle Brewing.
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE DE LA GALERIE SAW GALLERY
COUP D'‘IL SUR LA MODE, LE SPORT, L'ARCHITECTURE, LE LOISIR ET LA
SURVIE DURANT LA SAISON LA PLUS RUDE DE L'ANNÉE
EXPOSITION : La vie d'hiver
ARTISTES : Joelle Ciona (Vancouver), Eryn Foster (Halifax), Barney
Pattunguyak (Baker Lake), Liss Platt (Hamilton) + Laura Splan (San
Francisco)
COMITÉ D'EXPOSITION : Darsha Hewitt, Stefan St-Laurent, Ryan Stec,
Ming Tiampo + Tam-Ca Vo-Van
DATES : du 3 février au 19 mars 2005
VERNISSAGE : le jeudi 3 février, de 20 h à 1 h. Première
internationale de Remix 2004 Ã 22 h et une performance audio de Pho.
Entrée libre et bar payant.
PERFORMANCE : Puck Paintings de Liss Platt, le samedi 5 février, de
12 h à 14 h, sur le canal Rideau. Présentée en collaboration avec le
festival Bal de neige. Entrée libre. Les spectateurs sont invités Ã
participer à cette performance.
L'hiver est une métaphore répandue dans plusieurs romans importants Ã
travers le monde, et les artistes visuels ne l'ont pas négligée : ils
et elles témoignent souvent de leurs expériences difficiles sous une
perspective glacée et brumeuse. En effet, l'on pourrait affirmer
qu'il n'existe pas de meilleure situation que de placer un sujet dans
un paysage d'hiver aliénant, lorsque tous les éléments familiers sont
recouverts d'un énorme manteau de neige ou de glace. Il est
intéressant de constater à quel point nous essayons de nous leurrer
en croyant que cette saison n'est pas si mal - avec ses températures
froides, le coût élevé du chauffage, l'accès limité -, en ayant
recours à des mécanismes d'adaptation qui créent des barrières
physiques et psychologiques. Nous sommes presque convaincus d'exercer
un contrôle surhumain sur les éléments terrestres.
[snipped]
Barney Pattunguyak a créé Super Shamou, le premier superhéros inuk au
monde, qui protège les grands espaces canadiens et apprend aux
enfants les dures réalités de la vie arctique. Assurément une parodie
de Superman - ce mâle type de race blanche qui séduit bien plus qu'il
ne sauve - Super Shamou a l'apparence et le comportement d'un Inuk
tout à fait ordinaireŠ capable de voler. Même si les scènes de vol
sont peu convaincantes en raison des ressources limitées et des
possibilités de la vidéo à l'époque, c'est le contexte qui nous
charme, plus que les pouvoirs spéciaux de Shamou. En fait, ce genre
d'antihéros a été créé par une compagnie indépendante, la Inuit
Broadcasting Corporation. Fondée en 1981, la IBC a été mise sur pied
en réaction directe contre la prolifération d'images télévisuelles en
provenance du Sud et diffusées dans le Nord, une menace pour une
culture déjà atteinte par le commerce et la religion. Existe-t-il un
meilleur moyen de contrer l'expansion rapide du régime capitaliste
américain que de produire la némésis culturelle de Superman? Cette
exposition coïncide avec la première de la nouvelle version restaurée
de la bande de Pattunguyak, grâce au talent de l'équipe du festival
de film et vidéo imagiNative de Toronto.
[snipped]
- Stefan St-Laurent + Tam-Ca Vo-Van (traduction : Denis Lessard)
REMIX 2004. COMMISSAIRES : Anne Clarke + Ryan Stec. ARTISTES : Tony
Asimakopoulos (Ottawa), Kerry Campbell (Ottawa), Lee Demarbre
(Ottawa), Adad Hannah (Montréal), Donna James (Ottawa), laura jeanne
lefave (Gatineau / Montréal), Jenny Lin (Montréal), Liss Platt
(Hamilton) + Frank Shebageget (Ottawa), Dan Sokolowski (Ottawa) +
Susan Terrill (Ottawa / Los Angeles).
Galerie SAW Gallery 67, rue Nicholas, Ottawa (Ontario), CANADA K1N 7B9
T: 613.236.6181 sawgallery@artengine.ca http://www.galeriesawgallery.com
Heures d'ouverture: du jeudi au samedi, de 11 h à 18 h
Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements, pour réserver des
interviews avec les artistes participants ou pour recevoir un dossier
de presse, veuillez contacter Stefan St-Laurent ou Tam-Ca Vo-Van au
(613) 236-6181 ou à sawgallery@artengine.ca.
La Galerie SAW Gallery remercie ses membres, le Conseil des Arts du
Canada, le Conseil des arts de l'Ontario, la Ville d'Ottawa et
Patrimoine canadien de leur appui. Merci également au festival Bal de
neige, co-présentateur de LA VIE D'HIVER, et aux commanditaires
Available Light Screening Collective, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation,
Oboro, SAW Video, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival,
Bridgehead Coffeehouse + Steam Whistle Brewing.
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CBC "Definitely Not The Opera" Contest
From: Magnus Thyvold <magnus@vcn.bc.ca>
Subject: CBC DNTO Contest
Hey All!
CBC's DNTO has a contest that might be of interest to Canadian DJ's hoping for a chance to ply their trade at the Mother Corp.
They have asked me to pass along the attached PSA which is pretty self explanatory. There's an audio version as well at http://www.ncra.ca/resources/temp/take_me_home_promo_cc1.MP3
Post the PSA at the station, play on air or whatever you think. Programmers will probably be interested.
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TAKE ME HOME : DNTO's brand new contest
EXPIRES FEB 8, 2005.
Whatís even more fun than listening to the radio? Being on the radio. And thatís just where you might end up if you enter Definitely Not The Operaís new contest. Itís called Take Me Home.
Last year, Nora Daisy Fannin won and got to co-host 4 freakin' hours of radio along with DNTO's regular host Sook-Yin Lee. She spent the time showing us around her hometown of Cobalt, Ontario.
Whoever wins the contest this year will get to take DNTO to their hometown too!
Whatís that I hear? Is it all of you asking How can I enter this Take Me Home Contest? Well, perk up your ears and grab a pen to write all this down.
Here ís what you have to do to win. Send DNTO a tape or cd of you talking about what your plan for your show is, so they can tell what you sound like on-air. Write a paragraph about where you want to take Sook-Yin and DNTO's listeners while you're on the show. Send us a playlist of the tunes you'll spin and tell DNTO why you like'em!
The final step is to put all that stuff in an envelope and send it to us at this address: Definitely Not the Opera, Take Me Home Contest, P.O. Box 160, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 2H1.
So get cracking buckaroos, the deadline for entries is Feb 8, 2005, and if you win DNTO and Sook-Yin Lee will be coming to your hometown. If you need a bit more information head to our website http://cbc.ca/dnto then click on the link to Take Me Home.
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Airplay Basics
OK, so you got a CD. What now?
OK, so you got a CD. What now?
and top 200 |electronica |hip hop |loud |international |jazz
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Days of Radio Caroline
Days of Radio Caroline
"Radio Caroline" - a true short story by Clive Warner, can be found HERE . The year is 1974, and the characters include reclusive Irish millionaire Ronan O'Rahilly, George Harrison and friends, Harold Wilson, Johnny Jason, Andy Archer, John B Mair and the late Tony Allan. A tale of madness and rock music set in the gale-thrashed English Channel.
[excerpt]
Recruitment
It must have been September 1974, or thereabouts. For the last year - since the start - I'd been working for Capital Radio, London's first commercial radio station. That had all changed with the introduction of a new 'national agreement' that had resulted in most of the engineers being downgraded in status, pay, and conditions. It was time to move on.
http://www.citiria.com/novelist/miamigo.jpg
I accepted a one-year contract in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But the visa took forever to come through. Russ Tollerfield, one of the engineers at Capital, knew I wanted 'out' and surprised me one day, saying "Why don't you go to work for Radio Caroline until the Saudis sort out your visa?"
I thought he was joking. He wasn't. Russ knew Ronan O'Rahilly, legendary Irish Outlaw of the Aether, a good-looking rich batchelor who toured London in his Range Rover; one of the 'in crowd' Ronan was always seen with the prettiest debs and was a good friend of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, the famous Indian sitar player.
A few days later Russ said, "If you're interested, be at the Casserole restaurant on King's Road, (Chelsea), at 6 o'clock."
I accepted a one-year contract in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But the visa took forever to come through. Russ Tollerfield, one of the engineers at Capital, knew I wanted 'out' and surprised me one day, saying "Why don't you go to work for Radio Caroline until the Saudis sort out your visa?"
I thought he was joking. He wasn't. Russ knew Ronan O'Rahilly, legendary Irish Outlaw of the Aether, a good-looking rich batchelor who toured London in his Range Rover; one of the 'in crowd' Ronan was always seen with the prettiest debs and was a good friend of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, the famous Indian sitar player.
A few days later Russ said, "If you're interested, be at the Casserole restaurant on King's Road, (Chelsea), at 6 o'clock."
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Monday, January 24, 2005
Stanford Digital Vision Program Application Announcement
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:26 -0000
From: "Stuart Gannes" <sgannes@stanford.edu>
From: "Stuart Gannes" <sgannes@stanford.edu>
Subject: Stanford Digital Vision Program Application Announcement
Announcement
Announcement
The Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program at Stanford University is accepting applications for 2005-06 (September-June).
The deadline is Tuesday, March 15, 2005.
Fellowships will be awarded after Monday, May 16, 2005.
The Program
Digital Vision Fellows are social entrepreneurs dedicated to using information technology solutions. For the 2005-06 academic year, the program will focus on the following broad categories:
The Program
Digital Vision Fellows are social entrepreneurs dedicated to using information technology solutions. For the 2005-06 academic year, the program will focus on the following broad categories:
• Micro-finance, remittances, and alternative currencies.
• Low-cost Internet connectivity networks, devices, and interfaces.
• Rural telemedicine networks, equipment, and services.
• Low-cost Internet connectivity networks, devices, and interfaces.
• Rural telemedicine networks, equipment, and services.
• Social software, community-building, and learning tools.
DV Fellows draw on the resources of Stanford University and Silicon Valley to research the needs and requirements of their projects, identify the best technology choices, create proof-of-concept
prototypes, and develop sustainable business models. Some financial support is available for prototype development. DV Fellows have Visiting Scholar privileges at Stanford, including the ability to audit courses. Fellows also participate in a structured Digital Vision Program with weekly classes, seminars, and workshops. DV Fellows collaborate with faculty, students, and with each other. The
program also facilitates connections between DV Fellows and its technology partners including Reuters, Google, Advanced Micro Devices, and the Grameen Technology Foundation.
Fees and Scholarships
DV Fellows draw on the resources of Stanford University and Silicon Valley to research the needs and requirements of their projects, identify the best technology choices, create proof-of-concept
prototypes, and develop sustainable business models. Some financial support is available for prototype development. DV Fellows have Visiting Scholar privileges at Stanford, including the ability to audit courses. Fellows also participate in a structured Digital Vision Program with weekly classes, seminars, and workshops. DV Fellows collaborate with faculty, students, and with each other. The
program also facilitates connections between DV Fellows and its technology partners including Reuters, Google, Advanced Micro Devices, and the Grameen Technology Foundation.
Fees and Scholarships
The Reuters Foundation will award twelve full time fellowships, covering all Stanford fees and expenses. Additionally living stipends are available for fellows accepted from developing world countries. For additional information click on the "Become a Fellow" link at http://rdvp.org. Successful candidates are mid-career technologists and professionals who wish to apply their skills to a humanitarian IT- based project in the developing world.
Stuart Gannes, Director
Reuters Digital Vision Program
Stanford University
"Stuart Gannes" <sgannes@stanford.edu>
Stuart Gannes, Director
Reuters Digital Vision Program
Stanford University
"Stuart Gannes" <sgannes@stanford.edu>
Become a Fellow
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Eligibility
You must have at least five years of full-time professional experience working with information and communications technologies in your organization.
You should have an in-depth knowledge of, and interest in, the latest information and communications technology applications and their implementation in the developing world.
There is no age limit.
The minimum educational qualification is a bachelor's degree.
Suitable Projects
Applicants have two main options:
You can develop your own project.
You can contact former DV Fellows if you want to continue work on their existing projects.
The Program aims to give fellows as much flexibility as possible in selecting a project; however, projects should adhere to the following basic guidelines:
Projects should address a real and identifiable need relating to an area of the developing world.
Projects should be scalable and sustainable.
Solutions should be driven by information and communication technologies (e.g. Internet, web, mobile, satellite).
Project proposals should detail a realistic 6-9 month project for one fellow to undertake.
[excerpt]
Eligibility
You must have at least five years of full-time professional experience working with information and communications technologies in your organization.
You should have an in-depth knowledge of, and interest in, the latest information and communications technology applications and their implementation in the developing world.
There is no age limit.
The minimum educational qualification is a bachelor's degree.
Suitable Projects
Applicants have two main options:
You can develop your own project.
You can contact former DV Fellows if you want to continue work on their existing projects.
The Program aims to give fellows as much flexibility as possible in selecting a project; however, projects should adhere to the following basic guidelines:
Projects should address a real and identifiable need relating to an area of the developing world.
Projects should be scalable and sustainable.
Solutions should be driven by information and communication technologies (e.g. Internet, web, mobile, satellite).
Project proposals should detail a realistic 6-9 month project for one fellow to undertake.
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Canadian Institute for Training in Public Broadcasting
CBC/Radio-Canada's Canadian Institute for Training in Public Broadcasting offers training programs in broadcasting http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/training/programs at the international level that draw on the recognized expertise of Canada's national public broadcaster in the production and broadcasting of programming on radio, television and the web, in English as well as in French.
The Institute's training programs encompass key areas as follows:
The Institute's training programs encompass key areas as follows:
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The Institute customizes its training programs to meet the specific needs of broadcasters and broadcasting-industry organizations in terms of professional development. Contact us http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/training/contact.htm for more information on the Institute or to submit a proposal or training request http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/training/submit.htm on behalf of your organization.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Academics give lessons on blogs
* Academics give lessons on blogs *
Lecturers are increasingly using blogging as a tool for teaching and learning.
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Lecturers are increasingly using blogging as a tool for teaching and learning.
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Until a few months ago, the attention paid to web logs, or blogs, focused mainly on politics and the media business.
However, many in academia followed the web-diary of Salam Pax, the famous Baghdad blogger during the build-up to the war in Iraq.
Now, the technology that has been an alternative source of news to many academics is being incorporated more fully into university life.
Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper.
Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom. .
However, many in academia followed the web-diary of Salam Pax, the famous Baghdad blogger during the build-up to the war in Iraq.
Now, the technology that has been an alternative source of news to many academics is being incorporated more fully into university life.
Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper.
Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom. .
[...]
Academics can become too insular, constructing their own language and cliques which do nothing to promote the getting of knowledge
Esther Maccallum-Stewart, Sussex University
[...]
Warwick not only wants those within its four walls to be able to self-publish to the web.
John Dale, its head of IT services, says the university aims to provide new personal development opportunities for students and believes that blogs might be one means of helping to accomplish this.
"We believe that blogging may open new opportunities for students and staff," says Mr Dale. "It gives students an opportunity to work together on projects."
John Dale, its head of IT services, says the university aims to provide new personal development opportunities for students and believes that blogs might be one means of helping to accomplish this.
"We believe that blogging may open new opportunities for students and staff," says Mr Dale. "It gives students an opportunity to work together on projects."
There are three such blogs in the Business School at Warwick alone and the university hopes that staff will also use blogs for collaborative projects.
Bore Me (New media viral art or advertising?)
The very best (and worst) viral e-mails that have amused, enlightened
or outraged the world...
example
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(P.S. The product is you.)
Includes...
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Adverts, Animals, At work, Battle of the sexes, Celebrities,
Christmas, Consumer world, Crazy stunts, Education, Food & drink,
Football, Games, Japan, Jokes, Microsoft, Mishaps, Movies, On the
road, Optical tricks, Politicians, Press clips, Quotes, Science,
Signs & posters, Song & dance, Star Wars Kid, Super skills, US
elections 2004, War on terror
http://www.boreme.com/bm/fr_by_type.htm
Animation, Images, Interactive, Movies, Sound, Text
or outraged the world...
example
http://www.boreme.com/bm/JAN05/a/vw-suicide-bomber/fr.htm
(P.S. The product is you.)
Includes...
http://www.boreme.com/bm/fr_collections.htm
Adverts, Animals, At work, Battle of the sexes, Celebrities,
Christmas, Consumer world, Crazy stunts, Education, Food & drink,
Football, Games, Japan, Jokes, Microsoft, Mishaps, Movies, On the
road, Optical tricks, Politicians, Press clips, Quotes, Science,
Signs & posters, Song & dance, Star Wars Kid, Super skills, US
elections 2004, War on terror
http://www.boreme.com/bm/fr_by_type.htm
Animation, Images, Interactive, Movies, Sound, Text
Friday, January 21, 2005
My personal world map
This is a map of the countries I've either lived in or visited... The dark red countries are the ones I've lived in and the lighter red ones are those that I've just visited.
![The MI AMIGO radio ship [...].](http://www.citiria.com/novelist/miamigo.jpg){kind=link}
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Chinese 'to overtake US net use'
* Chinese 'to overtake US net use' *
Within three years more Chinese people will be using the net than
Americans, reveals a report.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/4190937.stm
Within three years more Chinese people will be using the net than
Americans, reveals a report.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/4190937.stm
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
North's French radio withers as Canadian federal ads dry up
North's French radio withers as federal ads dry up
CBC North - Canada
WebPosted Jan 18 2005 07:57 AM MST
CBC News
http://north.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/french-radio-18012005.html
IQALUIT - French-language radio stations in the North are struggling
to cope with the financial fallout from the three-year old federal
sponsorship scandal.
The francophone radio station in Iqaluit is weathering hard times,
and its Yellowknife sister station may close as a result of an
advertising moratorium imposed last year after the scandal.
Although the moratorium ended in June, minority language stations
across Canada are still dealing with the repercussions.
Ghislain Couture, who ran Iqaluit's Radio CFRT for more than two
years, said revenues dropped in half after the moratorium was imposed.
"Federal bureaucrats are still very nervous about buying advertising,
buying media space," he said.
CFRT is the only French news source for the city's 600 francophones
and depends on federal advertising money, as its audience is too
small to drum up much local advertising.
CFRT however is luckier than other stations, as the local francophone
association has used its own federal funding to keep it on the air.
However, Yellowknife's Radio Taiga may be forced to close, along with
Fredericton's CJPN, and two other stations.
Public Works, the federal department that issues government
advertising, says it is committed to giving minority media outlets
their fair share of advertising.
But Couture says the station needs more than vague words of support.
"They've come to depend on this advertising revenue to operate and to
develop," he said.
Francophone radio stations are looking to other sources for funding,
such as the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.
CBC North - Canada
WebPosted Jan 18 2005 07:57 AM MST
CBC News
http://north.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/french-radio-18012005.html
IQALUIT - French-language radio stations in the North are struggling
to cope with the financial fallout from the three-year old federal
sponsorship scandal.
The francophone radio station in Iqaluit is weathering hard times,
and its Yellowknife sister station may close as a result of an
advertising moratorium imposed last year after the scandal.
Although the moratorium ended in June, minority language stations
across Canada are still dealing with the repercussions.
Ghislain Couture, who ran Iqaluit's Radio CFRT for more than two
years, said revenues dropped in half after the moratorium was imposed.
"Federal bureaucrats are still very nervous about buying advertising,
buying media space," he said.
CFRT is the only French news source for the city's 600 francophones
and depends on federal advertising money, as its audience is too
small to drum up much local advertising.
CFRT however is luckier than other stations, as the local francophone
association has used its own federal funding to keep it on the air.
However, Yellowknife's Radio Taiga may be forced to close, along with
Fredericton's CJPN, and two other stations.
Public Works, the federal department that issues government
advertising, says it is committed to giving minority media outlets
their fair share of advertising.
But Couture says the station needs more than vague words of support.
"They've come to depend on this advertising revenue to operate and to
develop," he said.
Francophone radio stations are looking to other sources for funding,
such as the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.
Monday, January 17, 2005
HEARTACHES OF JOURNALIST BLOGGERS
HEARTACHES OF JOURNALIST BLOGGERS
Adam Penenberg: Independent journalist/blogger Chris Albritton has
parlayed a reader-sponsored blog into a plum assignment as Time's
Baghdad correspondent.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66251,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
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Adam Penenberg: Independent journalist/blogger Chris Albritton has
parlayed a reader-sponsored blog into a plum assignment as Time's
Baghdad correspondent.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66251,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
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Sunday, January 16, 2005
Media That Matters Film Festival: DEADLINE JAN. 19
Youth-produced submissions are welcome and will be considered for all awards.
The fee for submissions is $20 (US $) (checks payable to Arts Engine, Inc.). Youth / Student submissions are FREE - you must provide proof that you are a student by sending in a photocopy of your dated school ID or an official letter from your school administration indicating your enrollment.
MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL: DEADLINE JAN. 19
--------------------------------------------------
(14 jan 2005) With advances in video technology making high-quality equipment increasingly affordable, it seems like everybody and his sister has made a film these days. And you'd be surprised how good some of them are. If you've got a film with a message, enter it in this year's festival for a chance to reach millions. If you don't have one, check out some of the entries and be inspired.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/101385/2332/11763
From: MediaRights.org
The fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival is a celebration of short films, videos, digital stories and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change.
Our yearlong Festival features 24/7 online streaming
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/,20+ community screenings
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/the_media_that_matters_traveling_film_festival.php
around the country, numerous national and local broadcasts and
distribution of a DVD http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/dvd/index.php and Teacher's Guide to thousands of teachers and activists.
Sixteen works will be chosen by a jury
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/jury.php
of esteemed filmmakers, activists, journalists and industry
professionals. The festival will launch in May 2005 with a Premiere
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/premiere_at_bam_a_huge_success.php
and a high-profile Awards Ceremony in New York City. (Previous hosts include rapper/activist Chuck D and comedian David Cross.)
Flmmakers will receive a cut of all VHS and DVD sales, and many official selections will receive $1,000 grants to be used for further outreach and distribution campaigns. That's right, in addition to the impact of Media That Matter's national outreach campaign, selected media makers will get $1,000
http://www.mediarights.org/apply/mtm05/about_the_cash_awards.php to create a Web site, send out mailings, publicize screenings, or to do any of the other things that will help your media and its important message mobilize audiences to take action.
The Media That Matters Film Festival is a project of MediaRights, a nonprofit organization that helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues. Visit our site to learn more.
http://www.mediarights.org/
Begin Application
http://www.mediarights.org/apply/mtm05/application_step_1.php
The fee for submissions is $20 (US $) (checks payable to Arts Engine, Inc.). Youth / Student submissions are FREE - you must provide proof that you are a student by sending in a photocopy of your dated school ID or an official letter from your school administration indicating your enrollment.
MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL: DEADLINE JAN. 19
--------------------------------------------------
(14 jan 2005) With advances in video technology making high-quality equipment increasingly affordable, it seems like everybody and his sister has made a film these days. And you'd be surprised how good some of them are. If you've got a film with a message, enter it in this year's festival for a chance to reach millions. If you don't have one, check out some of the entries and be inspired.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/101385/2332/11763
From: MediaRights.org
The fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival is a celebration of short films, videos, digital stories and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change.
Our yearlong Festival features 24/7 online streaming
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/,20+ community screenings
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/the_media_that_matters_traveling_film_festival.php
around the country, numerous national and local broadcasts and
distribution of a DVD http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/dvd/index.php and Teacher's Guide to thousands of teachers and activists.
Sixteen works will be chosen by a jury
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/jury.php
of esteemed filmmakers, activists, journalists and industry
professionals. The festival will launch in May 2005 with a Premiere
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm04/archives/premiere_at_bam_a_huge_success.php
and a high-profile Awards Ceremony in New York City. (Previous hosts include rapper/activist Chuck D and comedian David Cross.)
Flmmakers will receive a cut of all VHS and DVD sales, and many official selections will receive $1,000 grants to be used for further outreach and distribution campaigns. That's right, in addition to the impact of Media That Matter's national outreach campaign, selected media makers will get $1,000
http://www.mediarights.org/apply/mtm05/about_the_cash_awards.php to create a Web site, send out mailings, publicize screenings, or to do any of the other things that will help your media and its important message mobilize audiences to take action.
The Media That Matters Film Festival is a project of MediaRights, a nonprofit organization that helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues. Visit our site to learn more.
http://www.mediarights.org/
Begin Application
http://www.mediarights.org/apply/mtm05/application_step_1.php
Fiji Women Community Radio Initiative Takes Suitcase Radio to the
Fiji Women Community Radio Initiative Takes Suitcase Radio to the Field
10-01-2005 (femLINKpacific) - Another exciting initiative is about
to take place with femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a
womenÃs media NGO which in 2004 launched femTALK 89.2FM, its mobile
womenÃs community radio project. This month, the femLINKpacific
volunteer team takes to the road with their "radio in a suitcase"® in
Fiji.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17911&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
or this shorter URL
http://tinyurl.com/3z9pz
For more on femLINKpacific see this Google Search
femLINK pacific
or
femLINKpacific
10-01-2005 (femLINKpacific) - Another exciting initiative is about
to take place with femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a
womenÃs media NGO which in 2004 launched femTALK 89.2FM, its mobile
womenÃs community radio project. This month, the femLINKpacific
volunteer team takes to the road with their "radio in a suitcase"® in
Fiji.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17911&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
or this shorter URL
http://tinyurl.com/3z9pz
For more on femLINKpacific see this Google Search
femLINK pacific
or
femLINKpacific
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
The "Edge" Annual Question-2005
"WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?"
Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the
evidence or arguments for it (Diderot called it having the "esprit de
divination"). What do you believe is true even though you cannot
prove it?
http://edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html
The 2005 Edge Question has generated many eye-opening responses from
a "who's who" of third culture scientists and science-minded
thinkers. The 120 contributions comprise a document of 60,000 words.
The New York Times ("Science Times") and Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung ("Feuilliton") have been granted rights to publish excepts in
their print and online editions simultaneously with Edge publication.
The editors of "Science Times" and "Feuilliton", respectively, made
their own selections. The Italian newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore will
follow on Sunday, January 9th.
This year there's a focus on consciousness, on knowing, on ideas of
truth and proof. If pushed to generalize, I would say it is a
commentary on how we are dealing with the idea of certainty.
We are in the age of "searchculture", in which Google and other
search engines are leading us into a future rich with an abundance of
correct answers along with an accompanying naïve sense of certainty.
In the future, we will be able to answer the question, but will we be
bright enough to ask it?
This is an alternative path. It may be that it's okay not to be
certain, but to have a hunch, and to perceive on that basis. There is
also evidence here that the scientists are thinking beyond their
individual fields. Yes, they are engaged in the science of their own
areas of research, but more importantly they are also thinking deeply
about creating new understandings about the limits of science, of
seeing science not just as a question of knowing things, but as a
means of tuning into the deeper questions of who we are and how we
know.
It may sound as if I am referring to a group of intellectuals, and
not scientists. In fact, I refer to both. In 1991, I suggested the
idea of a third culture, which "consists of those scientists and
other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and
expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional
intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives,
redefining who and what we are. "
I believe that the scientists of the third culture are the
pre-eminent intellectuals of our time. But I can't prove it.
Happy New Year!
John Brockman
Publisher & Editor
This year's Edge Question was suggested by Nicholas Humphrey.
(120 contributors; 60,000 words:) Howard Gardner *Nicholas Humphrey
*Marc D. Hauser *Daniel Gilbert *George Dyson *Daniel C. Dennett
*William Calvin *Lawrence Krauss *Neil Gershenfeld *Joseph LeDoux
*Stephen Kosslyn *Philip W. Anderson *Kevin Kelly *Paul Davies *Haim
Harari *Janna Levin *Steven Pinker *Alison Gopnik *Martin E. P.
Seligman *John McWhorter *Freeman Dyson *Robert Sapolsky * Leonard
Susskind *Keith Devlin *Susan Blackmore *Clifford Pickover *Piet Hut
*Gino Segre *Roger Schank *Alan Kay *Bruce Sterling *Judith Rich
Harris *Arnold Trehub *Gregory Benford *Lynn Margulis *Sam Harris
*Elizabeth Spelke *Kai Krause *Todd Feinberg *Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*Irene Pepperberg *Jesse Bering *Scott Atran *Karl Sabbagh *Gary
Marcus *Stuart A. Kauffman *Ray Kurzweil *John Barrow *Jaron Lanier
*Alex Pentland *Richard Dawkins *Jean Paul Schmetz *Thomas Metzinger
*John R. Skoyles *John Horgan *David Gelernter *Jordan Pollack *Lee
Smolin *Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi *Jeffrey Epstein *Michael Shermer
*Leon Lederman *Tom Standage *Simon Baron-Cohen *Stephen Petranek *J.
Craig Venter *Maria Spiropulu *David Buss *Esther Dyson *David Myers
*Denis Dutton *Donald Hoffman *Kenneth Ford *Margaret Wertheim *Alun
Anderson *Philip Zimbardo *Paul Bloom *Robert Provine *W. Daniel
Hillis *Martin Nowak *Seth Lloyd *Donald I. Williamson *Jonathan
Haidt *Rebecca Goldstein *Ned Block *Christine Finn *Rupert Sheldrake
*Rudy Rucker *Douglas Rushkoff *Verena Huber-Dyson *Chris W. Anderson
*Charles Simonyi *Carolyn Porco *Martin Rees *Pamela McCorduck *James
O'Donnell *John McCarthy *Carlo Rovelli *Leo Chalupa *Howard
Rheingold *Steve Giddings *Tor Nørretranders *Stanislas Deheane
*Benoit Mandelbrot *Ellen Winner *Paul Steinhardt *Oliver Morton
*Alexander Vilenkin *Terrence Sejnowski *Brian Goodwin *Stephen H.
Schneider *Randolph Nesse *Timothy Taylor *Marti Hearst *Daniel
Goleman *Jared Diamond *Anton Zeilinger *Ian Wilmut *Robert Trivers
*Ian McEwan
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Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to:
http://edge.org/
© info
http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm
Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the
evidence or arguments for it (Diderot called it having the "esprit de
divination"). What do you believe is true even though you cannot
prove it?
http://edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html
The 2005 Edge Question has generated many eye-opening responses from
a "who's who" of third culture scientists and science-minded
thinkers. The 120 contributions comprise a document of 60,000 words.
The New York Times ("Science Times") and Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung ("Feuilliton") have been granted rights to publish excepts in
their print and online editions simultaneously with Edge publication.
The editors of "Science Times" and "Feuilliton", respectively, made
their own selections. The Italian newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore will
follow on Sunday, January 9th.
This year there's a focus on consciousness, on knowing, on ideas of
truth and proof. If pushed to generalize, I would say it is a
commentary on how we are dealing with the idea of certainty.
We are in the age of "searchculture", in which Google and other
search engines are leading us into a future rich with an abundance of
correct answers along with an accompanying naïve sense of certainty.
In the future, we will be able to answer the question, but will we be
bright enough to ask it?
This is an alternative path. It may be that it's okay not to be
certain, but to have a hunch, and to perceive on that basis. There is
also evidence here that the scientists are thinking beyond their
individual fields. Yes, they are engaged in the science of their own
areas of research, but more importantly they are also thinking deeply
about creating new understandings about the limits of science, of
seeing science not just as a question of knowing things, but as a
means of tuning into the deeper questions of who we are and how we
know.
It may sound as if I am referring to a group of intellectuals, and
not scientists. In fact, I refer to both. In 1991, I suggested the
idea of a third culture, which "consists of those scientists and
other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and
expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional
intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives,
redefining who and what we are. "
I believe that the scientists of the third culture are the
pre-eminent intellectuals of our time. But I can't prove it.
Happy New Year!
John Brockman
Publisher & Editor
This year's Edge Question was suggested by Nicholas Humphrey.
(120 contributors; 60,000 words:) Howard Gardner *Nicholas Humphrey
*Marc D. Hauser *Daniel Gilbert *George Dyson *Daniel C. Dennett
*William Calvin *Lawrence Krauss *Neil Gershenfeld *Joseph LeDoux
*Stephen Kosslyn *Philip W. Anderson *Kevin Kelly *Paul Davies *Haim
Harari *Janna Levin *Steven Pinker *Alison Gopnik *Martin E. P.
Seligman *John McWhorter *Freeman Dyson *Robert Sapolsky * Leonard
Susskind *Keith Devlin *Susan Blackmore *Clifford Pickover *Piet Hut
*Gino Segre *Roger Schank *Alan Kay *Bruce Sterling *Judith Rich
Harris *Arnold Trehub *Gregory Benford *Lynn Margulis *Sam Harris
*Elizabeth Spelke *Kai Krause *Todd Feinberg *Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*Irene Pepperberg *Jesse Bering *Scott Atran *Karl Sabbagh *Gary
Marcus *Stuart A. Kauffman *Ray Kurzweil *John Barrow *Jaron Lanier
*Alex Pentland *Richard Dawkins *Jean Paul Schmetz *Thomas Metzinger
*John R. Skoyles *John Horgan *David Gelernter *Jordan Pollack *Lee
Smolin *Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi *Jeffrey Epstein *Michael Shermer
*Leon Lederman *Tom Standage *Simon Baron-Cohen *Stephen Petranek *J.
Craig Venter *Maria Spiropulu *David Buss *Esther Dyson *David Myers
*Denis Dutton *Donald Hoffman *Kenneth Ford *Margaret Wertheim *Alun
Anderson *Philip Zimbardo *Paul Bloom *Robert Provine *W. Daniel
Hillis *Martin Nowak *Seth Lloyd *Donald I. Williamson *Jonathan
Haidt *Rebecca Goldstein *Ned Block *Christine Finn *Rupert Sheldrake
*Rudy Rucker *Douglas Rushkoff *Verena Huber-Dyson *Chris W. Anderson
*Charles Simonyi *Carolyn Porco *Martin Rees *Pamela McCorduck *James
O'Donnell *John McCarthy *Carlo Rovelli *Leo Chalupa *Howard
Rheingold *Steve Giddings *Tor Nørretranders *Stanislas Deheane
*Benoit Mandelbrot *Ellen Winner *Paul Steinhardt *Oliver Morton
*Alexander Vilenkin *Terrence Sejnowski *Brian Goodwin *Stephen H.
Schneider *Randolph Nesse *Timothy Taylor *Marti Hearst *Daniel
Goleman *Jared Diamond *Anton Zeilinger *Ian Wilmut *Robert Trivers
*Ian McEwan
--
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Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to:
http://edge.org/
© info
http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm
Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources.
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Saturday, January 08, 2005
US Federal voyeurism law aimed at peeping Toms, not journalists
Federal voyeurism law aimed at peeping Toms, not journalists
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0103s1301p.html
Reporters and photographers are not targeted by a new law banning
video voyeurism on federal property.
Jan. 3, 2005 -- A new law making it a federal offense to knowingly
photograph a naked or partially clad person on federal property with
a camera phone or other hidden recording device only applies to those
who intend to capture such private images in a situation where the
subject has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Many similar state
laws are not as specific in what types of activities are covered, and
consequently can be used against journalists using undercover cameras.
The Video Voyeurism Act of 2004 makes it a crime to photograph or
videotape a person in such situations without their consent. The law
applies only in federal jurisdictions such as federal buildings,
military bases and national parks.
The law targets photographs of a "private area of an individual,"
which is defined as "the naked or undergarment clad genitals, pubic
area, buttocks, or female breast of that individual."
Under the law, an expectation of privacy can exist in public places
in some contexts. A reasonable expectation exists under
"circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe that he or
she could disrobe in privacy" or "that a private area of the
individual would not be visible to the public, regardless of whether
that person is in a public or private place."
The law, recently passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on
Dec. 23, is geared toward stalkers and peeping Toms who use cell
phones and other micro-recording devices to shoot photos that are
frequently posted on "upskirting" or "downblousing" Web sites.
(S. 1301; Public Law No: 108-495) -- KM
Related stories:
Congress approves criminal "video voyeurism"
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2004/0923s1301b.html
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0103s1301p.html
Reporters and photographers are not targeted by a new law banning
video voyeurism on federal property.
Jan. 3, 2005 -- A new law making it a federal offense to knowingly
photograph a naked or partially clad person on federal property with
a camera phone or other hidden recording device only applies to those
who intend to capture such private images in a situation where the
subject has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Many similar state
laws are not as specific in what types of activities are covered, and
consequently can be used against journalists using undercover cameras.
The Video Voyeurism Act of 2004 makes it a crime to photograph or
videotape a person in such situations without their consent. The law
applies only in federal jurisdictions such as federal buildings,
military bases and national parks.
The law targets photographs of a "private area of an individual,"
which is defined as "the naked or undergarment clad genitals, pubic
area, buttocks, or female breast of that individual."
Under the law, an expectation of privacy can exist in public places
in some contexts. A reasonable expectation exists under
"circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe that he or
she could disrobe in privacy" or "that a private area of the
individual would not be visible to the public, regardless of whether
that person is in a public or private place."
The law, recently passed by Congress and signed by President Bush on
Dec. 23, is geared toward stalkers and peeping Toms who use cell
phones and other micro-recording devices to shoot photos that are
frequently posted on "upskirting" or "downblousing" Web sites.
(S. 1301; Public Law No: 108-495) -- KM
Related stories:
Congress approves criminal "video voyeurism"
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2004/0923s1301b.html
Friday, January 07, 2005
FIAT TV Award 2005
The International Federation of Television Archives FIAT Award 2005
[31st March 2005 deadline]
The FIAT Award honours a television production first broadcast or
produced in the previous year, which is significantly based on and
makes best use of audiovisual archive material.
http://www.fiatifta.org/awards/index.html
The winner will be invited to the Award ceremony during the Annual
Conference 2005 in New-York as a guest of FIAT/IFTA.
Nomination
Any media organization and/or FIAT/IFTA member can nominate one programme.
Nomination forms must give a detailed description of the reason for
the nomination, the programme concept and content in English or
French.
http://www.fiatifta.org/awards/docs/nomination_form_2005.doc
For the FIAT/GLS Award 2005, the nomination form together with a
video cassette, preferably VHS Pal and if possible subtitled in
English or French, must be sent to the address below by 31st March
2005. Nominations which arrive after this deadline cannot be
considered for the FIAT Award.
Three programmes shortlisted by the FIAT/IFTA Programming and
Production Commission will be screened in full length at the IFTA
annual conference. Each conference delegate will be entitled to vote
in a secret ballot after the screening.
Rules
The FIAT Award will be open to television programmes first
transmitted or produced in any country in 2004, which display
outstanding use of audiovisual archival material. This material must
represent a significant contribution to the programme.
Please note
Participation in the Awards gives FIAT/IFTA the authority to display
the programme on the FIAT/IFTA website, duplicate the VHS for the
internal use of FIAT/IFTA and copy for replay at FIAT/IFTA gatherings
.
Address for questions and nominations
Südwestrundfunk
Controlling FS
z.H. Herrn Karl Maier
Postfach 820
76522 Baden-Baden
Germany
E-mail: Karl.Maier@swr.de
Tel: + 49 7221-929-3497
Fax: +49 7221-929-6177
The International Federation of Television Archives is an
international professional association established to provide a means
for co-operation amongst broadcast and national audiovisual archives
and libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and
exploitation of moving image and recorded sound materials and
associated documentation.
http://www.fiatifta.org/
[31st March 2005 deadline]
The FIAT Award honours a television production first broadcast or
produced in the previous year, which is significantly based on and
makes best use of audiovisual archive material.
http://www.fiatifta.org/awards/index.html
The winner will be invited to the Award ceremony during the Annual
Conference 2005 in New-York as a guest of FIAT/IFTA.
Nomination
Any media organization and/or FIAT/IFTA member can nominate one programme.
Nomination forms must give a detailed description of the reason for
the nomination, the programme concept and content in English or
French.
http://www.fiatifta.org/awards/docs/nomination_form_2005.doc
For the FIAT/GLS Award 2005, the nomination form together with a
video cassette, preferably VHS Pal and if possible subtitled in
English or French, must be sent to the address below by 31st March
2005. Nominations which arrive after this deadline cannot be
considered for the FIAT Award.
Three programmes shortlisted by the FIAT/IFTA Programming and
Production Commission will be screened in full length at the IFTA
annual conference. Each conference delegate will be entitled to vote
in a secret ballot after the screening.
Rules
The FIAT Award will be open to television programmes first
transmitted or produced in any country in 2004, which display
outstanding use of audiovisual archival material. This material must
represent a significant contribution to the programme.
Please note
Participation in the Awards gives FIAT/IFTA the authority to display
the programme on the FIAT/IFTA website, duplicate the VHS for the
internal use of FIAT/IFTA and copy for replay at FIAT/IFTA gatherings
.
Address for questions and nominations
Südwestrundfunk
Controlling FS
z.H. Herrn Karl Maier
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Germany
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and libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and
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associated documentation.
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Bloggers undercut reporters' 1A privilege defense [fs]
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:07:37 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh
Sender: politech-bounces@politechbot.com
[I meant to send this out last month. It's provocative and raises
some of the hoary who's-a-journalist-and-can-get-creds issues that
are becoming important again. --Declan]
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/12/06&ID=Ar00600
Bloggers Blur the Definition of Reporters' Privilege
By JOSH GERSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun
As two prominent Washington journalists struggle to avoid jail
time over their refusal to disclose confidential sources, one of the
biggest obstacles the reporters face is America's fastgrowing army of
citizen Web loggers, or bloggers.
It's not that the town criers of the online world are campaigning
to send Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of
Time Magazine to prison. Rather, it's the bloggers' very existence
that undercuts the journalists' legal defense.
On Wednesday, lawyers for Ms. Miller and Mr. Cooper are scheduled
to appear before a federal appeals court in the capital to argue that
reporters should have a legal privilege not to testify about their
sources under most circumstances. A federal prosecutor investigating
whether the White House leaked the name of a CIA operative,Valerie
Plame, has asked the pair to appear before a grand jury to answer
questions.They have refused.
The crux of the reporters' contention is that the public would be
less well informed if journalists could not promise their sources
confidentiality. However, the proliferation of blogs and bloggers
could represent the Achilles' heel in this approach. If Ms. Miller
and Mr. Cooper are entitled to claim special treatment in the courts,
so too could hundreds of thousands of Americans who use the Internet
to post comments about their views on current events.
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Urgent Appeal to Support Local Media in Asia, January 6, 2005
From: "Patricia Chadwick" pchadwick@internews.org http://www.internews.org
Subject: INTERNEWS FLASH: Urgent Appeal to Support Local Media in
Asia, January 6, 2005
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:42:58 -0800
PLEASE HELP SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA OUTLETS IN THE
TSUNAMI-RAVAGED AREAS OF ASIA
January 6, 2005
Rehabilitating the capacity of local media is critical to the
humanitarian response in the aftermath of the December 26, 2004
earthquake and tsunami in Asia .
As we mourn for the victims of the tsunami, Internews is seeking to
do all that we can to help and we urgently need your support!
Getting local radio stations back up and running is essential to
delivering relief and saving lives.
Local media in areas hard hit by the Tsunami are vital in assuring
that important public health and relief information reach the most
vulnerable in their communities.
Local audiences need accurate, investigated, and balanced information
in their local languages during this chaotic and traumatic time and
relief agencies need credible feedback from the communities on the
services they need to provide.
Unfortunately, most of these local media outlets, like the towns and
villages they serve, have been devastated by the earthquake and
tsunami.
We are making a worldwide appeal to individuals, foundations, and
corporations to invest in the rehabilitation of local independent
media in Aceh and Sri Lanka .
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
More Information:
http://www.internews.org/prs/tsunami/tsunami_relief_050105.html
How to Make a Donation:
http://www.internews.org/about/donations.htm
For additional information on how you can help local media outlets
and journalists affected by the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian
Ocean , please contact JoAnne Sullivan, Internews Director of
Development, at +1(202) 833-5740 ext 208 or mailto:jsullivan@internews.org .
Subject: INTERNEWS FLASH: Urgent Appeal to Support Local Media in
Asia, January 6, 2005
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:42:58 -0800
PLEASE HELP SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA OUTLETS IN THE
TSUNAMI-RAVAGED AREAS OF ASIA
January 6, 2005
Rehabilitating the capacity of local media is critical to the
humanitarian response in the aftermath of the December 26, 2004
earthquake and tsunami in Asia .
As we mourn for the victims of the tsunami, Internews is seeking to
do all that we can to help and we urgently need your support!
Getting local radio stations back up and running is essential to
delivering relief and saving lives.
Local media in areas hard hit by the Tsunami are vital in assuring
that important public health and relief information reach the most
vulnerable in their communities.
Local audiences need accurate, investigated, and balanced information
in their local languages during this chaotic and traumatic time and
relief agencies need credible feedback from the communities on the
services they need to provide.
Unfortunately, most of these local media outlets, like the towns and
villages they serve, have been devastated by the earthquake and
tsunami.
We are making a worldwide appeal to individuals, foundations, and
corporations to invest in the rehabilitation of local independent
media in Aceh and Sri Lanka .
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
More Information:
http://www.internews.org/prs/tsunami/tsunami_relief_050105.html
How to Make a Donation:
http://www.internews.org/about/donations.htm
For additional information on how you can help local media outlets
and journalists affected by the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian
Ocean , please contact JoAnne Sullivan, Internews Director of
Development, at +1(202) 833-5740 ext 208 or mailto:jsullivan@internews.org .
Thursday, January 06, 2005
BLOGS' POWER STRETCHES BEYOND POLITICS
Blogs' power stretches beyond politics
Chris Nolan: While blogs have grabbed the public's attention for
their political revelations, their value as forums for collective
knowledge is becoming known in other areas as well.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1748637,00.asp
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Chris Nolan: While blogs have grabbed the public's attention for
their political revelations, their value as forums for collective
knowledge is becoming known in other areas as well.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1748637,00.asp
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Community News Photography
Community News Photography
WestportNow http://www.westportnow.com/ is a "citizen journalism"
website (published in blog format) serving a tony Connecticut
community of 26,000. Run part-time by Gordon Joseloff , the site puts
special emphasis on photography by community members. You can see the
work of more than 50 citizen photographers in the site's " Year In
Pictures 2004 " http://www.westportnow.com/2004inreview/index.htm
feature. (Alas, there are no captions, but it will give you an idea
of the contributions the site receives.)
While most of the images that run on WestportNow.com aren't
professional quality, many are. And when news breaks in Westport, the
website does a nice job; the site was the best place to find coverage
and photographs http://www.echoditto.com/node/519 of an early
morning Christmas Day fire that almost devastated a Westport landmark.
Joseloff, a former UPI and CBS News journalist, says the photography
on the site does not just fall into his lap; he works at getting it.
In addition to taking lots of images around town himself at community
events (he's head of the city council, among other things), he seeks
out volunteers who are competent photographers and encourages them to
participate in the site. Typical "pay": mugs and t-shirts. And he
gives advice to his volunteers, explaining what he wants for the site
and selecting the best of their work.
Joseloff wonders why more newspaper reporters aren't following his
lead into hyper-local community journalism. The way he sees it, what
he's done in Westport -- now two years old -- is the equivalent of
starting a small community newspaper 20 years ago.
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website (published in blog format) serving a tony Connecticut
community of 26,000. Run part-time by Gordon Joseloff , the site puts
special emphasis on photography by community members. You can see the
work of more than 50 citizen photographers in the site's " Year In
Pictures 2004 " http://www.westportnow.com/2004inreview/index.htm
feature. (Alas, there are no captions, but it will give you an idea
of the contributions the site receives.)
While most of the images that run on WestportNow.com aren't
professional quality, many are. And when news breaks in Westport, the
website does a nice job; the site was the best place to find coverage
and photographs http://www.echoditto.com/node/519 of an early
morning Christmas Day fire that almost devastated a Westport landmark.
Joseloff, a former UPI and CBS News journalist, says the photography
on the site does not just fall into his lap; he works at getting it.
In addition to taking lots of images around town himself at community
events (he's head of the city council, among other things), he seeks
out volunteers who are competent photographers and encourages them to
participate in the site. Typical "pay": mugs and t-shirts. And he
gives advice to his volunteers, explaining what he wants for the site
and selecting the best of their work.
Joseloff wonders why more newspaper reporters aren't following his
lead into hyper-local community journalism. The way he sees it, what
he's done in Westport -- now two years old -- is the equivalent of
starting a small community newspaper 20 years ago.
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On the role of citizen journalism in a disaster.
THE GUARDIAN has an interesting article on the role of citizen
journalism in a disaster.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1383611,00.html
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Tsunamis and this Thing Called Humanity
Tsunamis and this Thing Called Humanity
From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation
Manuel Valenzuela
Millions of humans die prematurely each year not by tsunamis or
earthquakes, but by our exploitation of their lands and labor, by our
indifference to their plight as industrialized nations commit yearly
acts of economic genocide, as their nation's treasure is gobbled up
by banks and lending institutions, as their lands and their resources
are pillaged and raped, as their social programs are gutted to suit
the needs of America and other northern nations, condemning billions
to a life subsisting on two dollars a day, their talents ignored,
opportunity made extinct and futures oppressed.
http://207.44.245.159/article7628.htm
From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation
Manuel Valenzuela
Millions of humans die prematurely each year not by tsunamis or
earthquakes, but by our exploitation of their lands and labor, by our
indifference to their plight as industrialized nations commit yearly
acts of economic genocide, as their nation's treasure is gobbled up
by banks and lending institutions, as their lands and their resources
are pillaged and raped, as their social programs are gutted to suit
the needs of America and other northern nations, condemning billions
to a life subsisting on two dollars a day, their talents ignored,
opportunity made extinct and futures oppressed.
http://207.44.245.159/article7628.htm
BETWEEN THE LINES A weekly radio newsmagazine
BETWEEN THE LINES A weekly radio newsmagazine
http://www.btlonline.org
Between The Lines History
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media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic
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Poverty at the root of tsunami tragedy
POVERTY AT THE ROOT OF TSUNAMI TRAGEDY
In the infancy of the 21st century, two sudden human tragedies have
found dramatic attention in the global eye: the terror attacks of
September 11, 2001, and the tsunami of 2004. That two such different
events can be compared is testament to the importance of 9/11's
lasting influence on the order of global political power. But the
tsunami, ostensibly a natural force for which no people or nation can
suffer blame, has its political dimension, too.
> by Raywat Deonandan
>
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=36065
[excerpts]
Consider if the tsunami had struck a wealthier part of the world,
perhaps the eastern seaboard of the United States.
[...]
Canada has shown leadership in this matter, with our federal
government now pledging $80 million in aid. The provinces have so
far given over $18 million independently, while individual Canadians
continue to give in heartwarming amounts. In addition, we have placed
a moratorium on debt payments from stricken nations who owe us a
total of $993.3 million.
The United States, however, initially announced a donation of only
$US35 million. This is equivalent to 12 cents for every U.S. citizen
and is noticeably less than the $US40 million Bush has earmarked for
his own inauguration ceremonies in the new year. Poorer Western
nations like Spain and Sweden have pledged $US68 million and $US75
million respectively; Sweden's GDP is one seventh the size of the
U.S.'s.
[...]
The entire U.S. foreign aid budget in 2004 was $US2.4 billion, loudly
touted as the most generous aid budget in the world. Yet this is
what the Bush administration spends in occupying Iraq every 10 days.
Moreover, aid is rarely if ever strictly altruistic. The much touted
$US3 billion/year of HIV/AIDs money ("Bush money" to field workers)
is tainted: only nations which agree to receive imports of U.S.
genetically modified foods are eligible to receive it.
In the infancy of the 21st century, two sudden human tragedies have
found dramatic attention in the global eye: the terror attacks of
September 11, 2001, and the tsunami of 2004. That two such different
events can be compared is testament to the importance of 9/11's
lasting influence on the order of global political power. But the
tsunami, ostensibly a natural force for which no people or nation can
suffer blame, has its political dimension, too.
> by Raywat Deonandan
>
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=36065
[excerpts]
Consider if the tsunami had struck a wealthier part of the world,
perhaps the eastern seaboard of the United States.
[...]
Canada has shown leadership in this matter, with our federal
government now pledging $80 million in aid. The provinces have so
far given over $18 million independently, while individual Canadians
continue to give in heartwarming amounts. In addition, we have placed
a moratorium on debt payments from stricken nations who owe us a
total of $993.3 million.
The United States, however, initially announced a donation of only
$US35 million. This is equivalent to 12 cents for every U.S. citizen
and is noticeably less than the $US40 million Bush has earmarked for
his own inauguration ceremonies in the new year. Poorer Western
nations like Spain and Sweden have pledged $US68 million and $US75
million respectively; Sweden's GDP is one seventh the size of the
U.S.'s.
[...]
The entire U.S. foreign aid budget in 2004 was $US2.4 billion, loudly
touted as the most generous aid budget in the world. Yet this is
what the Bush administration spends in occupying Iraq every 10 days.
Moreover, aid is rarely if ever strictly altruistic. The much touted
$US3 billion/year of HIV/AIDs money ("Bush money" to field workers)
is tainted: only nations which agree to receive imports of U.S.
genetically modified foods are eligible to receive it.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
United Nations opens Official Document System to general public public
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 11:37:22 +0100
Subject: [huridocs-tech] United Nations opens Official Document
System to general public
United Nations opens Official Document System to general public
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/pi1631.doc.htm
An ODS Training Guide is posted at:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/train.htm
NEW YORK, 23 December -- The United Nations today announced the
availability of its Official Document System (ODS), the premier
full-text web resource for official United Nations documentation, to
the general public via http://documents.un.org, as of 31 December
2004. The ODS covers all types of official United Nations
documentation originating from duty stations worldwide, including
selective documents of the regional commissions: Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Economic Commission for Europe
(ECE).
Comprehensive coverage starts in 1993. Older United Nations documents
are added to the system on a daily basis. Selective coverage of
General Assembly and Security Council documentation currently reaches
back to 1985. The ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the
General
Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the
Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
Currently, the ODS contains close to 800,000 files and approximately
100,000 new documents are added each year.
Users may take advantage of the ODS benefits such as: quick access
to valuable United Nations official documents, easy-to-use search
functionality, easy-to-print PDF documents and user-friendly design.
An ODS Training Guide is posted at:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/train.htm
announcement received from Patrick M=FCller, CPT-Council of Europe,
Strasbourg
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
US & British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on
The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq
US and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter
By George Monbiot 01/04/05 " The Guardian "
Over the past few months, reviewing the complete lack of public
interest in what is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
and the failure, in the west, to mobilise effective protests against
the continuing atrocities in Iraq, I had begun to wonder whether we
had lost our ability to stand in other people's shoes. I have now
stopped wondering.
[...]
But one obvious question recurs. Why must the relief of suffering, in
this unprecedentedly prosperous world, rely on the whims of citizens
and the appeals of pop stars and comedians? Why, when extreme poverty
could be made history with a minor redeployment of public finances,
must the poor world still wait for homeless people in the rich world
to empty their pockets?
The obvious answer is that governments have other priorities. And the
one that leaps to mind is war. If the money they have promised to the
victims of the tsunami still falls far short of the amounts required,
it is partly because the contingency fund upon which they draw in
times of crisis has been spent on blowing people to bits in Iraq.
The US government has so far pledged $350m to the victims of the
tsunami, and the UK government £50m ($96m). The US has spent $148
billion on the Iraq war and the UK £6bn ($11.5bn). The war has been
running for 656 days. This means that the money pledged for the
tsunami disaster by the United States is the equivalent of one and a
half day's spending in Iraq. The money the UK has given equates to
five and a half days of our involvement in the war.
[full story at]
http://207.44.245.159/article7617.htm
===
Congress expects $100 billion war request:
Congress expects the White House to request as much as $100 billion
this year for war and related costs in Iraq and Afghanistan,
congressional officials say.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-01-03-iraq-costs_x.htm?POE=click-refer
http://snipurl.com/brsu
===
US and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter
By George Monbiot 01/04/05 " The Guardian "
Over the past few months, reviewing the complete lack of public
interest in what is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
and the failure, in the west, to mobilise effective protests against
the continuing atrocities in Iraq, I had begun to wonder whether we
had lost our ability to stand in other people's shoes. I have now
stopped wondering.
[...]
But one obvious question recurs. Why must the relief of suffering, in
this unprecedentedly prosperous world, rely on the whims of citizens
and the appeals of pop stars and comedians? Why, when extreme poverty
could be made history with a minor redeployment of public finances,
must the poor world still wait for homeless people in the rich world
to empty their pockets?
The obvious answer is that governments have other priorities. And the
one that leaps to mind is war. If the money they have promised to the
victims of the tsunami still falls far short of the amounts required,
it is partly because the contingency fund upon which they draw in
times of crisis has been spent on blowing people to bits in Iraq.
The US government has so far pledged $350m to the victims of the
tsunami, and the UK government £50m ($96m). The US has spent $148
billion on the Iraq war and the UK £6bn ($11.5bn). The war has been
running for 656 days. This means that the money pledged for the
tsunami disaster by the United States is the equivalent of one and a
half day's spending in Iraq. The money the UK has given equates to
five and a half days of our involvement in the war.
[full story at]
http://207.44.245.159/article7617.htm
===
Congress expects $100 billion war request:
Congress expects the White House to request as much as $100 billion
this year for war and related costs in Iraq and Afghanistan,
congressional officials say.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-01-03-iraq-costs_x.htm?POE=click-refer
http://snipurl.com/brsu
===
Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:08:07 -0800
To: justice@pej.ca
From: Alan Rycroft
Subject: Justice.int-- Dauncey: Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
Posted by: rycroft on http://PEJ.org Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 02:08 PM
Can you pass this around? This "adopt a village" idea is beginning to get
legs, and the timing is very urgent. In particular, it needs to reach
people in the key aid agencies.
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:37:15 -0800From: Guy Dauncey
Subject: Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a
VillageThis was published in today's Vancouver Sun, Globe & Mail, Tyee
andStraight Goods. Here's the Tyee's
version:http://www.thetyee.ca/Views/current/ATsunamiKindness.htm
A Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
By Guy Dauncey
The images tell it all.
All down the coastlines of Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and so man yother
places, we see the same heart-wrenching images of loss and destruction. The
survivors not only have to cope with losing their families and neighbours;
their homes, boats, jobs and local economies have also been washed away.
The world is organizing a massive relief mission, but the recovery effort
will need to go on for months, perhaps years.
We are already writing cheques, and clicking the electronic button to send
money to the agencies which are racing to get supplies to the people who
need it. But quietly in the sidelines, waiting to become properly organized,
lies a whole new movement which could radically affect the way we respond to
disasters of this kind.
ItÂ’s called "adopt a village".
In the small town of Nelson, BC, the Kootenay Christian Fellowship is asking
residents to raise $10,000 to adopt a small fishing village near
Mamallapuram, on the disaster-stricken coast of India.
In Vancouver, the lounge and events club Campoverde wants Vancouver to adopt
a village devastated by the tsunami, and is holding a silent auction on
January 20th to get their efforts started. "By focusing on one particular
village," they say, "our community can focus our resources to make a viable
contribution." They are inviting other communities in Canada and around the
world to do the same.
In Upper Township, New Jersey, the Catholic Church of the Resurrection has
adopted the fishing village of Colachel, on the southern tip of India, where
hundreds were killed in the deadly tsunami.
In India, the Rotary ClubÂ’s District 3000 in Tamil Nadu is planning to adopt
a village or two, and to take responsibility for all the reconstruction
efforts. The Indian Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi has adopted a village in
the Nagapattinam region of Tamil Nadu, and is supporting it with medicines,
fishing nets, and food packages.
Two years ago, in India, members of the India Gospel League adopted villages
in the stricken earthquake area of Gujarat, knowing that most relief
agencies would withdraw after the initial stage of relief was over. They are
now planning to use the same strategy to help peoplere build their homes,
provide them with basic amenities, utensils and supplies, and provide
micro-credit of $500 each to 100 families to help them restart their fishing
businesses. The former Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has
asked each of his partyÂ’s MPs to adopt a village.
Still in India, the non-profit, non-religious social service organization
Udavum Karangal, based in Chennai (Madras), is adopting villages near
Chidambaram and Cuddalore. They plan to provide low cost housing for 500
families, at a cost of 15,000 to 20,000 rupees per house ($415 to $520 CAN,
totalling $250,000).
In Hyderabad, India, the Andhra Pradesh Real Estate Developers'Association
has offered to adopt a village hit by the tsunami, and construct at least 50
houses to rehabilitate the worst affected people.
Back in Canada, the community of Squamish, British Columbia also wants to
adopt a village. Councillor Jeff Dawson, who is spearheading the project,
remembers that Squamish received a lot of help when it was hit by floods
just over a year ago, and he wants to return the generosity, hoping that
Squamish will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So letÂ’s pause, and look at this globally.
There are five million people who need help, as they struggle to rebuild
their lives and their villages. Can we respond to the cruelty of the tsunami
with a tsunami of kindness?
There are millions of people who live in the worldÂ’s wealthy
nations,however, and many people in India, Thailand and elsewhere who
also want to help.
Using the Internet, it is possible to visualize someone creating a website
which would list every village that needed help, from the beach resorts of
Thailand to the fishing villages of India and Sr iLanka. Cities, villages,
Rotary Clubs, churches, businesses, and community groups could then step
forward and say "weÂ’ll sponsor that village".
We could include the Haitian town of Gonaives, still in shock after the
disastrous flooding it received from Hurricane Jeanne this summer,and the
Caribbean island of Grenada, savaged by Hurricane Ivan, along with other
small communities which have been hit hard by natural disasters.
It is also possible to believe that global and local aid agencies would
welcome this kind of participation. The biggest challenge they face is how
to sustain their fund-raising efforts once the global media has moved on to
other things.
By putting down roots at the village level, where individuals feel they can
make a difference, we could stabilize the flow of aid, while building
long-term relationships which would enrich peopleÂ’s lives for years. The
agencies could guide the movement by setting up partnerships with the
sponsoring communities, and the personal connections which would make it
come alive.
The Internet allows us to think, plan and organize in totally new ways, as
we address the challenges of the 21st century. It also allows ordinary
people to share in huge global undertakings.
The tsunami is the biggest natural disaster that has hit us in modern times,
aside from wars and famines. If the agencies can help the fledgling adopt a
villageÂ’ movement to find its legs, using the Internet to its fullest
capacity, they may be surprised how fast it an run.
*
Guy Dauncey is author of Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate
Change (New Society Publishers, 2001) and President of the BC Sustainable
Energy Association (http://www.bcsea.org).He lives in Victoria, B.C.,
Canada. http://www.earthfuture.com
Links:Campoverde, Vancouver: http://www.campoverde.caHyderabad
Realtors:http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/01/stories/2005010103400500.htmNelson,
BC: http://www.nelsonbc.ca/adopt_a_village.htmlRotary
Club:http://www.rotary.org/programs/wcs/disaster/reliefefforts.htmlUdavum
Karangal: http://www.udavumkarangal.org/default.aspUpper Township, New
Jersey:http://www.nbc10.com/news/4030554/detail.html
Canadian Red Cross: http://www.redcross.caCARE Canada:
http://www.carecanada.caMédecins Sans Frontières: http://www.msf.caOxfam
Canada: http://www.oxfam.caUNICEF Canada: http://www.unicef.ca
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Alan Rycroft, Sunshine Communications
Public Relations and Fundraising Consultant
250.592.8307 Canada
Box 8307, Victoria, BC, V8W 3R9
rycroft@SunshineCommunications.ca
http://SunshineCommunications.ca
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To: justice@pej.ca
From: Alan Rycroft
Subject: Justice.int-- Dauncey: Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
Posted by: rycroft on http://PEJ.org Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 02:08 PM
Can you pass this around? This "adopt a village" idea is beginning to get
legs, and the timing is very urgent. In particular, it needs to reach
people in the key aid agencies.
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:37:15 -0800From: Guy Dauncey
VillageThis was published in today's Vancouver Sun, Globe & Mail, Tyee
andStraight Goods. Here's the Tyee's
version:http://www.thetyee.ca/Views/current/ATsunamiKindness.htm
A Tsunami of Kindness: Adopt a Village
By Guy Dauncey
The images tell it all.
All down the coastlines of Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and so man yother
places, we see the same heart-wrenching images of loss and destruction. The
survivors not only have to cope with losing their families and neighbours;
their homes, boats, jobs and local economies have also been washed away.
The world is organizing a massive relief mission, but the recovery effort
will need to go on for months, perhaps years.
We are already writing cheques, and clicking the electronic button to send
money to the agencies which are racing to get supplies to the people who
need it. But quietly in the sidelines, waiting to become properly organized,
lies a whole new movement which could radically affect the way we respond to
disasters of this kind.
ItÂ’s called "adopt a village".
In the small town of Nelson, BC, the Kootenay Christian Fellowship is asking
residents to raise $10,000 to adopt a small fishing village near
Mamallapuram, on the disaster-stricken coast of India.
In Vancouver, the lounge and events club Campoverde wants Vancouver to adopt
a village devastated by the tsunami, and is holding a silent auction on
January 20th to get their efforts started. "By focusing on one particular
village," they say, "our community can focus our resources to make a viable
contribution." They are inviting other communities in Canada and around the
world to do the same.
In Upper Township, New Jersey, the Catholic Church of the Resurrection has
adopted the fishing village of Colachel, on the southern tip of India, where
hundreds were killed in the deadly tsunami.
In India, the Rotary ClubÂ’s District 3000 in Tamil Nadu is planning to adopt
a village or two, and to take responsibility for all the reconstruction
efforts. The Indian Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi has adopted a village in
the Nagapattinam region of Tamil Nadu, and is supporting it with medicines,
fishing nets, and food packages.
Two years ago, in India, members of the India Gospel League adopted villages
in the stricken earthquake area of Gujarat, knowing that most relief
agencies would withdraw after the initial stage of relief was over. They are
now planning to use the same strategy to help peoplere build their homes,
provide them with basic amenities, utensils and supplies, and provide
micro-credit of $500 each to 100 families to help them restart their fishing
businesses. The former Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has
asked each of his partyÂ’s MPs to adopt a village.
Still in India, the non-profit, non-religious social service organization
Udavum Karangal, based in Chennai (Madras), is adopting villages near
Chidambaram and Cuddalore. They plan to provide low cost housing for 500
families, at a cost of 15,000 to 20,000 rupees per house ($415 to $520 CAN,
totalling $250,000).
In Hyderabad, India, the Andhra Pradesh Real Estate Developers'Association
has offered to adopt a village hit by the tsunami, and construct at least 50
houses to rehabilitate the worst affected people.
Back in Canada, the community of Squamish, British Columbia also wants to
adopt a village. Councillor Jeff Dawson, who is spearheading the project,
remembers that Squamish received a lot of help when it was hit by floods
just over a year ago, and he wants to return the generosity, hoping that
Squamish will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So letÂ’s pause, and look at this globally.
There are five million people who need help, as they struggle to rebuild
their lives and their villages. Can we respond to the cruelty of the tsunami
with a tsunami of kindness?
There are millions of people who live in the worldÂ’s wealthy
nations,however, and many people in India, Thailand and elsewhere who
also want to help.
Using the Internet, it is possible to visualize someone creating a website
which would list every village that needed help, from the beach resorts of
Thailand to the fishing villages of India and Sr iLanka. Cities, villages,
Rotary Clubs, churches, businesses, and community groups could then step
forward and say "weÂ’ll sponsor that village".
We could include the Haitian town of Gonaives, still in shock after the
disastrous flooding it received from Hurricane Jeanne this summer,and the
Caribbean island of Grenada, savaged by Hurricane Ivan, along with other
small communities which have been hit hard by natural disasters.
It is also possible to believe that global and local aid agencies would
welcome this kind of participation. The biggest challenge they face is how
to sustain their fund-raising efforts once the global media has moved on to
other things.
By putting down roots at the village level, where individuals feel they can
make a difference, we could stabilize the flow of aid, while building
long-term relationships which would enrich peopleÂ’s lives for years. The
agencies could guide the movement by setting up partnerships with the
sponsoring communities, and the personal connections which would make it
come alive.
The Internet allows us to think, plan and organize in totally new ways, as
we address the challenges of the 21st century. It also allows ordinary
people to share in huge global undertakings.
The tsunami is the biggest natural disaster that has hit us in modern times,
aside from wars and famines. If the agencies can help the fledgling adopt a
villageÂ’ movement to find its legs, using the Internet to its fullest
capacity, they may be surprised how fast it an run.
*
Guy Dauncey is author of Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate
Change (New Society Publishers, 2001) and President of the BC Sustainable
Energy Association (http://www.bcsea.org).He lives in Victoria, B.C.,
Canada. http://www.earthfuture.com
Links:Campoverde, Vancouver: http://www.campoverde.caHyderabad
Realtors:http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/01/stories/2005010103400500.htmNelson,
BC: http://www.nelsonbc.ca/adopt_a_village.htmlRotary
Club:http://www.rotary.org/programs/wcs/disaster/reliefefforts.htmlUdavum
Karangal: http://www.udavumkarangal.org/default.aspUpper Township, New
Jersey:http://www.nbc10.com/news/4030554/detail.html
Canadian Red Cross: http://www.redcross.caCARE Canada:
http://www.carecanada.caMédecins Sans Frontières: http://www.msf.caOxfam
Canada: http://www.oxfam.caUNICEF Canada: http://www.unicef.ca
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Alan Rycroft, Sunshine Communications
Public Relations and Fundraising Consultant
250.592.8307 Canada
Box 8307, Victoria, BC, V8W 3R9
rycroft@SunshineCommunications.ca
http://SunshineCommunications.ca
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Monday, January 03, 2005
Math in Indigenous Weaving - An Overview
Math in Indigenous Weaving
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/
An Overview
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/overview.html
BASKETRY RESOURCES ON THE WEB Compiled by Steve Henrikson
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/resources.html
Tlingit Weaving Glossary
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/glossary.html
Tlingit Elders Traditional Education Checklist
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/educationchecklist.html
Math in Tlingit Art curriculum project Power Point slide show
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/MathTlingitArt.html
See also
Tlingit Basketry: Art~Math~Technology:
http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jflmh/TlingitBaskets/
Andy Hope
July 2004
Approximately twenty educators gathered at the Sitka Campus of the
University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) in August 1999 for an Indigenous
Curriculum Development in Science Institute. Dr. Claudette
Engblom Bradley (UAF), Dr. Tom Thornton (UAS), Michael Travis, Dr.
Richard and Mrs.Nora Dauenhauer (Sealaska Heritage Foundation) served
as the Institute instructors.
The purpose of the institute was: (1) to develop classroom
adaptations of science lessons based on the Cultural Atlas (which
began in 1997 in the Southeast Region) and Axe Handle Academy (Which
began in 1996)curriculum projects; (2) To inform teachers about the
work of Tom Thornton, Michael Travis, Lydia George (Tlingit Elder)
and Jimmy George on the Angoon Cultural Atlas (which was produced in
1998); (3) To familiarize teachers with the bioregional, thematic
curriculum of the Axe Handle Academy developed by Richard and Nora
Dauenhauer (1996-present); (4) To provide teachers with field
experience with middle school student science projects at Dog Point
Fish Camp of Sitka, AK.; and (5) To facilitate development of science
curriculum for Southeast Alaska schools in the 1999-2000 school year.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/
An Overview
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/overview.html
BASKETRY RESOURCES ON THE WEB Compiled by Steve Henrikson
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/resources.html
Tlingit Weaving Glossary
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/glossary.html
Tlingit Elders Traditional Education Checklist
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/educationchecklist.html
Math in Tlingit Art curriculum project Power Point slide show
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/MathTlingitArt.html
See also
Tlingit Basketry: Art~Math~Technology:
http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jflmh/TlingitBaskets/
Andy Hope
July 2004
Approximately twenty educators gathered at the Sitka Campus of the
University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) in August 1999 for an Indigenous
Curriculum Development in Science Institute. Dr. Claudette
Engblom Bradley (UAF), Dr. Tom Thornton (UAS), Michael Travis, Dr.
Richard and Mrs.Nora Dauenhauer (Sealaska Heritage Foundation) served
as the Institute instructors.
The purpose of the institute was: (1) to develop classroom
adaptations of science lessons based on the Cultural Atlas (which
began in 1997 in the Southeast Region) and Axe Handle Academy (Which
began in 1996)curriculum projects; (2) To inform teachers about the
work of Tom Thornton, Michael Travis, Lydia George (Tlingit Elder)
and Jimmy George on the Angoon Cultural Atlas (which was produced in
1998); (3) To familiarize teachers with the bioregional, thematic
curriculum of the Axe Handle Academy developed by Richard and Nora
Dauenhauer (1996-present); (4) To provide teachers with field
experience with middle school student science projects at Dog Point
Fish Camp of Sitka, AK.; and (5) To facilitate development of science
curriculum for Southeast Alaska schools in the 1999-2000 school year.
Tlingit Whale House Series
Nine years ago, brilliantly carved Tlingit artifacts linking the
Chilkat people with their ancestors were sold and removed from the
village of Klukwan. Since then, families, neighbors and lawyers have
fought bitterly over ownership. No one sees them now.
By Marilee Enge
Whale House Series
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/
Series At A Glance
Part 1 : The sale of the Whale House legacy.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part1.html
Part 2 : Carving the masterworks.
Modern-day carvers and anthropologists follow the trail of a Tlingit
artist of profound skill and vision
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part2.html
Part 3 : A Tlingit buyer of Tlingit artifacts.
Tlingit nobleman Louis Shotridge, so of a keeper of the Whale House,
becomes a scholar of his people - and a controversial collector
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part3.html
Part 4 : A dealer's passion for the Whale House.
A Seattle art dealer's decade of obsession ends in bitterness and in court.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part4.html
Part 5 : Epic sage becomes litigation.
A tangle of bloodlines and birthrights is now a court's to unravel.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part5.html
See also
CHILKAT INDIAN VILLAGE, IRA v. JOHNSON Decision
Summary
In an action brought by the Chilkat Indian Village, IRA against an
individual and a corporation and individuals comprising the "Whale
House Group" for the conversion of tribal trust property and
violation of a tribal ordinance which prohibits the removal of such
property from the village without prior notification of and approval
by the Chilkat Village Council seeking declaratory and injunctive
relief and monetary damages, the Chilkat Indian Village Tribal Court
orders the return of artifacts and the payment of expenses for the
artifacts' return as well as costs and fees of litigation.
Full Text
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/ChilkatIndianVillage/
Chilkat people with their ancestors were sold and removed from the
village of Klukwan. Since then, families, neighbors and lawyers have
fought bitterly over ownership. No one sees them now.
By Marilee Enge
Whale House Series
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/
Series At A Glance
Part 1 : The sale of the Whale House legacy.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part1.html
Part 2 : Carving the masterworks.
Modern-day carvers and anthropologists follow the trail of a Tlingit
artist of profound skill and vision
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part2.html
Part 3 : A Tlingit buyer of Tlingit artifacts.
Tlingit nobleman Louis Shotridge, so of a keeper of the Whale House,
becomes a scholar of his people - and a controversial collector
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part3.html
Part 4 : A dealer's passion for the Whale House.
A Seattle art dealer's decade of obsession ends in bitterness and in court.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part4.html
Part 5 : Epic sage becomes litigation.
A tangle of bloodlines and birthrights is now a court's to unravel.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part5.html
See also
CHILKAT INDIAN VILLAGE, IRA v. JOHNSON Decision
Summary
In an action brought by the Chilkat Indian Village, IRA against an
individual and a corporation and individuals comprising the "Whale
House Group" for the conversion of tribal trust property and
violation of a tribal ordinance which prohibits the removal of such
property from the village without prior notification of and approval
by the Chilkat Village Council seeking declaratory and injunctive
relief and monetary damages, the Chilkat Indian Village Tribal Court
orders the return of artifacts and the payment of expenses for the
artifacts' return as well as costs and fees of litigation.
Full Text
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/ChilkatIndianVillage/
US forces on Diego Garcia had advance warning of tsunami
===
US had advance warning of tsunami:
Canadian professor: A Canadian expert has claimed that the US
Military and the State Department were given advance tsunami warning
and AmericaÂ’s Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean was notified but the information was not passed on to the
countries that bore the brunt of the disaster.
http://207.44.245.159/article7600.htm
===
[excerpt]
The team contacted the US State Department, which apparently
contacted the Asian governments. The Indian government has confirmed
that no such warning was received. The Director of the Hawaii Warning
Centre stated that "they did not know" that the earthquake would
generate a deadly tidal wave until it had hit Sri Lanka, more than
one and a half hours later, at 2.30 GMT. "Not until the deadly wave
hit Sri Lanka and the scientists in Honolulu saw news reports of the
damage there did they recognise what was happening. Then we knew
there was something moving across the Indian Ocean," McCreery told
the New York Times on 27 December. "This statement is at odds with
the Timeline of the tidal wave disaster. Thailand was hit almost an
hour before Sri Lanka and the news reports were already out. Surely,
these reports out of Thailand were known to the scientists in Hawaii,
not to mention the office of Sec. Colin Powell, well before the tidal
wave reached Sri Lanka," argues the Canadian professor.
"We wanted to try to do something, but without a plan in place then,
it was not an effective way to issue a warning, or to have it acted
upon," Dr. McCreery said. "There would have still been some time -
not a lot of time, but some time - if there was something that could
be done in Madagascar, or on the coast of Africa," he added. The
Canadian academic finds the statement "inconsistent." The tidal wave,
he argues, reached the East African coastline several hours after it
reached The Maldives islands. According to news reports, Male, the
capital of the Maldives was hit three hours after the earthquake, at
approximately 4.00 GMT. By that time everybody around the world knew.
Prof. Chossudovsky writes, "It is worth noting that the US Navy was
fully aware of the deadly tidal wave, because the Navy was on the
Pacific Warning Centre's list of contacts. Moreover, America's
strategic Naval base on the island of Diego Garcia had also been
notified. Although directly in the path of the tidal wave, the Diego
Garcia military base reported 'no damage'," All that was needed was
for someone to pick up the phone and call Sri Lanka, he adds. Charles
McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, said, "We
don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that part of
the world." The fact is that only after the first waves hit Sri Lanka
did workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and others in Hawaii start making
phone calls to US diplomats in Madagascar and Mauritius in an attempt
to head off further disaster. "We didn't have a contact in place
where you could just pick up the phone," Dolores Clark, spokeswoman
for the International Tsunami Information Centre in Hawaii has said.
"We were starting from scratch."
Prof. Chossudovsky argues that these statements on the surface are
inconsistent, since several Indian Ocean Asian countries are in fact
members of the Tsunami Warning System. There are 26 member countries
of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning
System, including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. All these
countries would normally be in the address book of the PTWC, which
works in close coordination with its sister organisation the ICGTWS,
which has its offices in Honolulu at the headquarters of the National
Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters in downtown Honolulu. The
mandate of the ICGTWS is to "assist member states in establishing
national warning systems, and makes information available on current
technologies for tsunami warning systems."
Australia and Indonesia were notified. The US Congress is to
investigate why the US government did not notify all the Indian Ocean
nations in the affected area: "Only two countries in the affected
region, Indonesia and Australia, received the warning" Although
Thailand belongs to the international tsunami-warning network, its
west coast does not have the system's wave sensors mounted on ocean
buoys. The northern tip of the earthquake fault is located near the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and tsunamis appear to have rushed
eastward toward the Thai resort of Phuket. "They had no tidal gauges
and they had no warning," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the
National Earthquake Information Centre in Golden, Colorado, which
monitors seismic activity worldwide. "There are no buoys in the
Indian Ocean and that's where this tsunami occurred
US had advance warning of tsunami:
Canadian professor: A Canadian expert has claimed that the US
Military and the State Department were given advance tsunami warning
and AmericaÂ’s Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean was notified but the information was not passed on to the
countries that bore the brunt of the disaster.
http://207.44.245.159/article7600.htm
===
[excerpt]
The team contacted the US State Department, which apparently
contacted the Asian governments. The Indian government has confirmed
that no such warning was received. The Director of the Hawaii Warning
Centre stated that "they did not know" that the earthquake would
generate a deadly tidal wave until it had hit Sri Lanka, more than
one and a half hours later, at 2.30 GMT. "Not until the deadly wave
hit Sri Lanka and the scientists in Honolulu saw news reports of the
damage there did they recognise what was happening. Then we knew
there was something moving across the Indian Ocean," McCreery told
the New York Times on 27 December. "This statement is at odds with
the Timeline of the tidal wave disaster. Thailand was hit almost an
hour before Sri Lanka and the news reports were already out. Surely,
these reports out of Thailand were known to the scientists in Hawaii,
not to mention the office of Sec. Colin Powell, well before the tidal
wave reached Sri Lanka," argues the Canadian professor.
"We wanted to try to do something, but without a plan in place then,
it was not an effective way to issue a warning, or to have it acted
upon," Dr. McCreery said. "There would have still been some time -
not a lot of time, but some time - if there was something that could
be done in Madagascar, or on the coast of Africa," he added. The
Canadian academic finds the statement "inconsistent." The tidal wave,
he argues, reached the East African coastline several hours after it
reached The Maldives islands. According to news reports, Male, the
capital of the Maldives was hit three hours after the earthquake, at
approximately 4.00 GMT. By that time everybody around the world knew.
Prof. Chossudovsky writes, "It is worth noting that the US Navy was
fully aware of the deadly tidal wave, because the Navy was on the
Pacific Warning Centre's list of contacts. Moreover, America's
strategic Naval base on the island of Diego Garcia had also been
notified. Although directly in the path of the tidal wave, the Diego
Garcia military base reported 'no damage'," All that was needed was
for someone to pick up the phone and call Sri Lanka, he adds. Charles
McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, said, "We
don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that part of
the world." The fact is that only after the first waves hit Sri Lanka
did workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and others in Hawaii start making
phone calls to US diplomats in Madagascar and Mauritius in an attempt
to head off further disaster. "We didn't have a contact in place
where you could just pick up the phone," Dolores Clark, spokeswoman
for the International Tsunami Information Centre in Hawaii has said.
"We were starting from scratch."
Prof. Chossudovsky argues that these statements on the surface are
inconsistent, since several Indian Ocean Asian countries are in fact
members of the Tsunami Warning System. There are 26 member countries
of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning
System, including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. All these
countries would normally be in the address book of the PTWC, which
works in close coordination with its sister organisation the ICGTWS,
which has its offices in Honolulu at the headquarters of the National
Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters in downtown Honolulu. The
mandate of the ICGTWS is to "assist member states in establishing
national warning systems, and makes information available on current
technologies for tsunami warning systems."
Australia and Indonesia were notified. The US Congress is to
investigate why the US government did not notify all the Indian Ocean
nations in the affected area: "Only two countries in the affected
region, Indonesia and Australia, received the warning" Although
Thailand belongs to the international tsunami-warning network, its
west coast does not have the system's wave sensors mounted on ocean
buoys. The northern tip of the earthquake fault is located near the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and tsunamis appear to have rushed
eastward toward the Thai resort of Phuket. "They had no tidal gauges
and they had no warning," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the
National Earthquake Information Centre in Golden, Colorado, which
monitors seismic activity worldwide. "There are no buoys in the
Indian Ocean and that's where this tsunami occurred
Writing and Photography Awards
Writing and Photography Awards
The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) annually recognizes
excellence in the journalistic crafts of writing and photography.
ASNE is the premier organization of editors in the Americas and its
activities concentrate on improving the diversity, readership, and
credibility of newspapers. ASNE will present eight awards for work
done in 2004 including Non-Deadline Reporting and Distinguished
writing on Diversity. No entry fees. Complete descriptions of
awards, and entry forms and instructions are available on-line or
contact Alison Wilcox at ASNE (703) 453-1121 or awilcox@asne.org.
Deadline February 1, 2005
http://www.asne.org/awards
The ASNE Awards
The ASNE Distinguished Writing Awards and Jesse Laventhol Prizes are
designed to foster, recognize, and reward excellence in writing in
daily newspapers, eligible news services and ASNE member
publications. The Community Service Photojournalism Award recognizes
a body of work that contributes to an improvement or heightened
awareness in the community through photography.
Award for Editorial Leadership
Created in 2001 to recognize leaders who make a major difference on
behalf of American newspapers. Nominees can be top editors,
assignment editors or people from outside the newsroom who have
championed great journalism during their careers.
Look for a call for nominations in December.
Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership
This award is given in partnership with the Associated Press Managing
Editors and the Freedom Forum and is managed by the Freedom Forum.
The announcement of the winners is made at the annual APME
conference. Two awards are given annually -- one for newspapers with
a circulation of up to 50,000; one for newspapers with more than
50,000 circulation.
The 2005 contest (the files are PDFs):
Brochure
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsbrochure.pdf
Entry form
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsentryform.pdf
Frequently asked questions
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsfaq.pdf
The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) annually recognizes
excellence in the journalistic crafts of writing and photography.
ASNE is the premier organization of editors in the Americas and its
activities concentrate on improving the diversity, readership, and
credibility of newspapers. ASNE will present eight awards for work
done in 2004 including Non-Deadline Reporting and Distinguished
writing on Diversity. No entry fees. Complete descriptions of
awards, and entry forms and instructions are available on-line or
contact Alison Wilcox at ASNE (703) 453-1121 or awilcox@asne.org.
Deadline February 1, 2005
http://www.asne.org/awards
The ASNE Awards
The ASNE Distinguished Writing Awards and Jesse Laventhol Prizes are
designed to foster, recognize, and reward excellence in writing in
daily newspapers, eligible news services and ASNE member
publications. The Community Service Photojournalism Award recognizes
a body of work that contributes to an improvement or heightened
awareness in the community through photography.
Award for Editorial Leadership
Created in 2001 to recognize leaders who make a major difference on
behalf of American newspapers. Nominees can be top editors,
assignment editors or people from outside the newsroom who have
championed great journalism during their careers.
Look for a call for nominations in December.
Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership
This award is given in partnership with the Associated Press Managing
Editors and the Freedom Forum and is managed by the Freedom Forum.
The announcement of the winners is made at the annual APME
conference. Two awards are given annually -- one for newspapers with
a circulation of up to 50,000; one for newspapers with more than
50,000 circulation.
The 2005 contest (the files are PDFs):
Brochure
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsbrochure.pdf
Entry form
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsentryform.pdf
Frequently asked questions
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsfaq.pdf
When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify Environmental Damage In Ways that Hurt Humans
Monday, January 3, 2005 12:40 PM PST
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/leavitt/20040103.html
FindLaw's Writ - Leavitt: When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify
Environmental Damage In Ways that Hurt Humans, Is
FindLaw Mon, 03 Jan 2005 0:06 AM PST
When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify Environmental Damage In
Ways that Hurt Humans, Is There An International Legal Remedy?
[excerpt]
In mid-December 2004, the Inuit -- a group of about 150,000
seal-hunting peoples in Canada and Alaska -- announced that they plan
to seek an important ruling from the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights. They will ask the Commission to rule that the United
States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is
threatening their very existence. As part of their campaign, the
Inuit will invite the Washington D.C.-based Commission to visit the
Arctic Circle to see the devastation being caused by global warming.
In particular, the Inuit will allege that Washington is violating
their human rights by repudiating the Kyoto Protocol, and refusing to
cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, which make up fully 25% of the
world's total. The Kyoto Protocol - which will take effect in
February, and has been accepted by most industrialized nations -- is
the first international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, and is
an addendum to an earlier convention on climate change. The United
States refuses to comply with the Protocol because it complains that
it will hurt the economy and that it unfairly exempts large
developing countries.
In this column, I will place the Inuit's claims in context -
explaining how they fit into the Inter-American human rights system.
I will also explore a few of the possible spin-offs of the Inuit's
campaign. Finally, I will describe how the legal framework
underpinning the Inuit's arguments might have implications for
thinking about the recent tragic disasters in South Asia.
--
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GEORGE LESSARD
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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." (Max Depree)
"Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do." (Yoda)
"Life is fatal, but not serious" (Oscar Wilde)
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/leavitt/20040103.html
FindLaw's Writ - Leavitt: When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify
Environmental Damage In Ways that Hurt Humans, Is
FindLaw Mon, 03 Jan 2005 0:06 AM PST
When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify Environmental Damage In
Ways that Hurt Humans, Is There An International Legal Remedy?
[excerpt]
In mid-December 2004, the Inuit -- a group of about 150,000
seal-hunting peoples in Canada and Alaska -- announced that they plan
to seek an important ruling from the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights. They will ask the Commission to rule that the United
States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is
threatening their very existence. As part of their campaign, the
Inuit will invite the Washington D.C.-based Commission to visit the
Arctic Circle to see the devastation being caused by global warming.
In particular, the Inuit will allege that Washington is violating
their human rights by repudiating the Kyoto Protocol, and refusing to
cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, which make up fully 25% of the
world's total. The Kyoto Protocol - which will take effect in
February, and has been accepted by most industrialized nations -- is
the first international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, and is
an addendum to an earlier convention on climate change. The United
States refuses to comply with the Protocol because it complains that
it will hurt the economy and that it unfairly exempts large
developing countries.
In this column, I will place the Inuit's claims in context -
explaining how they fit into the Inter-American human rights system.
I will also explore a few of the possible spin-offs of the Inuit's
campaign. Finally, I will describe how the legal framework
underpinning the Inuit's arguments might have implications for
thinking about the recent tragic disasters in South Asia.
--
- -
GEORGE LESSARD
Information & Media Specialist
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Nunavut Circumpolar (Nunavut & the circumpolar regions)
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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." (Max Depree)
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"Life is fatal, but not serious" (Oscar Wilde)
Photojournalists in war - James Fenton on witnesses to war
Interesting column and letter in the guardian over the past few days.
A handful of dust
James Fenton on witnesses to war
Saturday January 1, 2005
The Guardian
It used to be said - perhaps it still is - that there is a hierarchy
of courage among the journalists covering war. The reporters come
lowest in this. Anything that takes place in the war zone is grist to
their mill. It is good for them actually to have witnessed incidents
they write about, but often their most striking material comes from
what they have been told. And the reporters achieve excellence
through their writing, not through their great deed of daring,
although the latter might not come amiss.
Above the reporters come the photographers, who clearly must be
witnesses. But, again, it is a matter of anything that happens in the
war zone. The photographer may not spend his time most profitably at
the front line (assuming there is such a thing). It may be that the
most interesting sights
and events, from his point of view, are taking place at a certain
distance from the front.
Anyway, the crucial question is choice: the photographer sees
something that will make an expressive image, and he chooses to snap
it. Don McCullin used to get irritated that, if he was working in the
company of others, as soon as he snapped a certain object, fellow
photographers would rush to whatever it was he had seen, and try to
bag the same shot. One imagines, though, that they can seldom have
secured a great advantage thereby.
At the top of this courage hierarchy come the journalists least often
known by name: the cameramen. These are expected to be assiduous in
seeking out the action, and when fighting takes place they are
supposed to stand up and film it. Of course if there is no action to
be filmed, they will seek, somewhere in the war zone, those scenes
which most effectively express the news that is unfolding. But, in a
highly competitive profession, they are expected not to miss out on
the fighting. They work generally under the severest restraints.
More at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1381385,00.html
Monday January 3, 2005
The Guardian
James Fenton writes with insight and relevance about the work of
photojournalists in covering war and tragedy (A handful of dust,
Review, January 1). He wonders to what extent the suffering and
trauma of journalists has been researched or recorded.
At the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe, Australasia
and the US, we are building on what's now a substantial, although
still very new, body of research confirming the psychological trauma
that journalists, editors, and their support teams can indeed
experience.
Hacks, like other professional first-responders to trauma, are a
resilient bunch. Many of us at the Dart Centre are former
correspondents ourselves, and we know all too well how journalists
will keep working - and excelling - through reporting sometimes
unimaginable personal anguish and distress.
We also know of the longer-term price some of us pay - in broken
relationships, alcohol abuse, depression, anxiety, and also in terms
of full-scale post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Anthony Feinstein, a South African psychiatrist working in Canada,
has researched the long-term experience of war reporters and
photographers. He found that levels of PTSD over a 15-year career are
the same as for military veterans - about one in four.
Several news organisations are now beginning to take trauma and the
need for educating news teams seriously, notably broadcasters and
news agencies such as the BBC, Reuters and CNN. The broadsheets are
taking longer to get the message.
Mark Brayne
Dart Centre
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A handful of dust
James Fenton on witnesses to war
Saturday January 1, 2005
The Guardian
It used to be said - perhaps it still is - that there is a hierarchy
of courage among the journalists covering war. The reporters come
lowest in this. Anything that takes place in the war zone is grist to
their mill. It is good for them actually to have witnessed incidents
they write about, but often their most striking material comes from
what they have been told. And the reporters achieve excellence
through their writing, not through their great deed of daring,
although the latter might not come amiss.
Above the reporters come the photographers, who clearly must be
witnesses. But, again, it is a matter of anything that happens in the
war zone. The photographer may not spend his time most profitably at
the front line (assuming there is such a thing). It may be that the
most interesting sights
and events, from his point of view, are taking place at a certain
distance from the front.
Anyway, the crucial question is choice: the photographer sees
something that will make an expressive image, and he chooses to snap
it. Don McCullin used to get irritated that, if he was working in the
company of others, as soon as he snapped a certain object, fellow
photographers would rush to whatever it was he had seen, and try to
bag the same shot. One imagines, though, that they can seldom have
secured a great advantage thereby.
At the top of this courage hierarchy come the journalists least often
known by name: the cameramen. These are expected to be assiduous in
seeking out the action, and when fighting takes place they are
supposed to stand up and film it. Of course if there is no action to
be filmed, they will seek, somewhere in the war zone, those scenes
which most effectively express the news that is unfolding. But, in a
highly competitive profession, they are expected not to miss out on
the fighting. They work generally under the severest restraints.
More at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1381385,00.html
Monday January 3, 2005
The Guardian
James Fenton writes with insight and relevance about the work of
photojournalists in covering war and tragedy (A handful of dust,
Review, January 1). He wonders to what extent the suffering and
trauma of journalists has been researched or recorded.
At the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe, Australasia
and the US, we are building on what's now a substantial, although
still very new, body of research confirming the psychological trauma
that journalists, editors, and their support teams can indeed
experience.
Hacks, like other professional first-responders to trauma, are a
resilient bunch. Many of us at the Dart Centre are former
correspondents ourselves, and we know all too well how journalists
will keep working - and excelling - through reporting sometimes
unimaginable personal anguish and distress.
We also know of the longer-term price some of us pay - in broken
relationships, alcohol abuse, depression, anxiety, and also in terms
of full-scale post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Anthony Feinstein, a South African psychiatrist working in Canada,
has researched the long-term experience of war reporters and
photographers. He found that levels of PTSD over a 15-year career are
the same as for military veterans - about one in four.
Several news organisations are now beginning to take trauma and the
need for educating news teams seriously, notably broadcasters and
news agencies such as the BBC, Reuters and CNN. The broadsheets are
taking longer to get the message.
Mark Brayne
Dart Centre
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