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
===
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Peace, Earth & Justice News - http://PEJ.org
Subscriptions . Information . Links . Toolkit - http://pej.ca
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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GEORGE LESSARD
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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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"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
For more Northern information consider subscribing to:
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)
"Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do." (Yoda)
"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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To: caj-list@eagle.ca
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:33:30 -0400
Subject: Photojournalists in war
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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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From: peter evans
To: caj-list@eagle.ca
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:33:30 -0400
Subject: Photojournalists in war
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Tsunami disaster and the Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service
Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service (DARES):
The Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service (DARES) aims to provide and
maintain knowledge and know-how regarding licensed radio amateurs and
registered listener amateurs for the support of professional aid
agencies to combat disasters and other major incidents.
http://www.dares.nl/tsunami_disaster.htm
Tsunami disaster
The Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service Foundation has started a
relief project on behalf of the radio-amateurs in the disaster area's.
http://www.dares.nl/ares_in_de_praktijk.htm
ARES in de praktijk
29 december
Amateur Radio "Saved Lives" in South Asia artikel op ARRL-website
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/29/100/?nc=1
Radiowereld.nl:
http://www.radiowereld.nl/2003/home/medianieuws/010.archief/2004/12/93286.html
Zendamateurs verzamelen radioapparatuur voor Azië Nederlandse
radioamateurs zijn begonnen met het inzamelen van oude
radioapparatuur voor de rampgebieden in Azië. De apparatuur kan
volgens de radioamateurs een cruciale rol spelen in de
noodcommunicatie. Dat meldde de stichting Dutch amateur radio
emergency service (Dares) vrijdag.
>From a private communication:
"Seems that Dutch fire brigades are collecting their old
communication stuff as well. Since [Dutch] Fire brigades, Police and
Ambulances turned to a new digital communication system, the old one
can be re-used."
See also mostly in Dutch
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&c2coff=1&q=azie+apparatuur+nederlandse+radioamateurs&btnG=Zoeken&lr=
and
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&c2coff=1&q=De+stichting+Dutch+Amateur+Radio+Emergency+Service+DARES+&lr=
*****
Asia Tsunami Relief Efforts (Dutch article, links to articles in English
and other languages):
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/12/24072.shtml
English article:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/112664.shtml
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maintain knowledge and know-how regarding licensed radio amateurs and
registered listener amateurs for the support of professional aid
agencies to combat disasters and other major incidents.
http://www.dares.nl/tsunami_disaster.htm
Tsunami disaster
The Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service Foundation has started a
relief project on behalf of the radio-amateurs in the disaster area's.
http://www.dares.nl/ares_in_de_praktijk.htm
ARES in de praktijk
29 december
Amateur Radio "Saved Lives" in South Asia artikel op ARRL-website
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/29/100/?nc=1
Radiowereld.nl:
http://www.radiowereld.nl/2003/home/medianieuws/010.archief/2004/12/93286.html
Zendamateurs verzamelen radioapparatuur voor Azië Nederlandse
radioamateurs zijn begonnen met het inzamelen van oude
radioapparatuur voor de rampgebieden in Azië. De apparatuur kan
volgens de radioamateurs een cruciale rol spelen in de
noodcommunicatie. Dat meldde de stichting Dutch amateur radio
emergency service (Dares) vrijdag.
>From a private communication:
"Seems that Dutch fire brigades are collecting their old
communication stuff as well. Since [Dutch] Fire brigades, Police and
Ambulances turned to a new digital communication system, the old one
can be re-used."
See also mostly in Dutch
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&c2coff=1&q=azie+apparatuur+nederlandse+radioamateurs&btnG=Zoeken&lr=
and
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&c2coff=1&q=De+stichting+Dutch+Amateur+Radio+Emergency+Service+DARES+&lr=
*****
Asia Tsunami Relief Efforts (Dutch article, links to articles in English
and other languages):
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/12/24072.shtml
English article:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/112664.shtml
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"Several factors make bloggers' books attractive to agents and editors."
NYT Books: "Several factors make bloggers' books attractive to agents
and editors."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/books/15blog.html?amp;ei=5090&en=6a428f0391c35fb6&partner=rssuserland&ex=1260853200&pagewanted=print&position
[excerpt]
December 15, 2004
A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books)
By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
Like many aspiring authors, Marrit Ingman had a tough time convincing
publishers that her big book idea - a wry, downbeat memoir of
postpartum depression - could sell.
"I had to convince the publisher that an audience for the topic
really did exist," said Ms. Ingman, a Texas-based freelance
journalist. "The big publishers kept telling us that mothers only
wanted prescriptive or 'positive' books about being a parent."
But Ms. Ingman had her own persuader: her Web log. She'd been writing
it for two years and had attracted a following of mothers.
"I turned to readers of my blog," she said. "I asked them to comment
on whether a book like mine would be relevant to them. Readers wrote
back expressing why they wanted to read about the experience of
maternal anger. I stuck their comments into my proposal as pulled
quotes."
Her readers were convincing. She and her agent, Jim Hornfischer, sold
her memoir, "Inconsolable," to Seal Press in August, she said. "The
blog showed publishers she was committed to the subject matter and
already had an audience," Mr. Hornfischer said.
Bloggers have their own Web sites, on which they write frequently
updated posts, almost like online diaries. The postings are about
current events, culture, technology or their own lives. Many of their
postings contain links to relevant sites.
During the last year many Web logs, or blogs, have focused on the war
in Iraq and the presidential campaign, and as these blogs gained a
wider audience some publishers started paying attention to them.
Sometimes publishers are interested in publishing elements of the
blogs in book form; mostly they simply enjoy the blogger's writing
and want to publish a novel or nonfiction book by the blogger,
usually on a topic unrelated to the blog.
One of the first to make the transition was Baghdad blogger known as
Salam Pax, who wrote an online war diary from Iraq. Last year Grove
Press published a collection of his work, "Salam Pax: The Clandestine
Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi."
In June a former Senate aide, Jessica Cutler, whose blog documenting
her sexual exploits with politicos dominated Capitol gossip in the
spring, sold a Washington-focused novel to Hyperion for an advance
well into six figures, said Kelly Notaras of Hyperion.
Meanwhile, a British call girl with the pseudonym Belle de Jour, who
had created a sensation with a blog about her experiences, has signed
a six-figure deal with Warner Books to publish a memoir, said Amy
Einhorn, executive editor at Warner Books who bought the book.
Ms. Einhorn said that after she heard about the blog, "I downloaded
the whole site, read it that night and then bought the book."
and editors."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/books/15blog.html?amp;ei=5090&en=6a428f0391c35fb6&partner=rssuserland&ex=1260853200&pagewanted=print&position
[excerpt]
December 15, 2004
A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books)
By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
Like many aspiring authors, Marrit Ingman had a tough time convincing
publishers that her big book idea - a wry, downbeat memoir of
postpartum depression - could sell.
"I had to convince the publisher that an audience for the topic
really did exist," said Ms. Ingman, a Texas-based freelance
journalist. "The big publishers kept telling us that mothers only
wanted prescriptive or 'positive' books about being a parent."
But Ms. Ingman had her own persuader: her Web log. She'd been writing
it for two years and had attracted a following of mothers.
"I turned to readers of my blog," she said. "I asked them to comment
on whether a book like mine would be relevant to them. Readers wrote
back expressing why they wanted to read about the experience of
maternal anger. I stuck their comments into my proposal as pulled
quotes."
Her readers were convincing. She and her agent, Jim Hornfischer, sold
her memoir, "Inconsolable," to Seal Press in August, she said. "The
blog showed publishers she was committed to the subject matter and
already had an audience," Mr. Hornfischer said.
Bloggers have their own Web sites, on which they write frequently
updated posts, almost like online diaries. The postings are about
current events, culture, technology or their own lives. Many of their
postings contain links to relevant sites.
During the last year many Web logs, or blogs, have focused on the war
in Iraq and the presidential campaign, and as these blogs gained a
wider audience some publishers started paying attention to them.
Sometimes publishers are interested in publishing elements of the
blogs in book form; mostly they simply enjoy the blogger's writing
and want to publish a novel or nonfiction book by the blogger,
usually on a topic unrelated to the blog.
One of the first to make the transition was Baghdad blogger known as
Salam Pax, who wrote an online war diary from Iraq. Last year Grove
Press published a collection of his work, "Salam Pax: The Clandestine
Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi."
In June a former Senate aide, Jessica Cutler, whose blog documenting
her sexual exploits with politicos dominated Capitol gossip in the
spring, sold a Washington-focused novel to Hyperion for an advance
well into six figures, said Kelly Notaras of Hyperion.
Meanwhile, a British call girl with the pseudonym Belle de Jour, who
had created a sensation with a blog about her experiences, has signed
a six-figure deal with Warner Books to publish a memoir, said Amy
Einhorn, executive editor at Warner Books who bought the book.
Ms. Einhorn said that after she heard about the blog, "I downloaded
the whole site, read it that night and then bought the book."
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Great software - now better than ever
When OpenOffice.org 1.0 was released, no one could believe that
software this good could be free. An estimated 16 million+ people
have downloaded the software; many more have installed it from CDs
or were passed copies by enthusiastic users. Community members
produced translations in over 30 languages.
The OpenOffice.org community listened to users' comments, fixed
their bugs, and is now proud to announce OpenOffice.org 1.1. More
powerful, more compatible, more international, more accessible,
more open than ever 1- and best of all, this world class
software is still free!
A new approach to office productivity software
OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office
software. You can create dynamic documents ,analyse data ,design
eye-catching presentations ,produce dramatic illustrations , and
open up your databases . You can publish your work in Portable
Document Format (.pdf), and release your graphics in Flash (.swf)
format - without needing any additional software. OpenOffice.org
1.1 is now available for more users than ever, with support for
complex text layout (CTL) languages (such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic,
and Hebrew) and vertical writing languages.
If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft
Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1.
However, as you become used to OpenOffice.org 1.1, you'll start to
appreciate the extras that make your life easier. You can of course
continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any
problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still
using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either.
System Requirements
http://www.openoffice.org/product/reqts.html
What's in the suite?
WRITER
http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html
Is a powerful tool for creating professional documents, reports,
newsletters, and brochures. You can easily integrate images and
charts in documents, create everything from business letters to
complete books with professional layouts, as well as create and
publish Web content.
CALC
http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html
is a feature-packed spreadsheet which can turn boring numbers into
eye-catching information. Calculate, analyse, and visually
communicate your data quickly and easily. Use advanced spreadsheet
functions and decision-making tools to perform sophisticated data
analysis. Use built-in charting tools to generate impressive 2D and
3D charts.
IMPRESS
http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html
is the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia
presentations. Your presentations will truly stand out with special
effects, animation and high-impact drawing tools.
DRAW http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html
will produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D
illustrations and special effects.
The Database User Tools
http://www.openoffice.org/product/dbase.html
give you all the tools you need for day to day database work in a
simple spreadsheet-like form. They support dBASE databases for
simple applications, or any ODBC or JDBC compliant database for
industrial strength database work.
Find out more - try it today!
Click here to view an introduction to OpenOffice.org in Flash format.
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Read our 4 page Product Flyer in pdf format, either screen optimised (93k) ,
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STUDY: BLOGS RISE IN '04
STUDY: BLOGS RISE IN '04
Readership of blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased
awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major
news events.
Readership of blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased
awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major
news events.
Sunday, January 02, 2005
WHO bulletin article on mental and social health after acute emergencies
Mental health in emergencies
- Mark van Ommeren, Shekhar Saxena, & Benedetto Saraceno
Mental and social health during and after acute emergencies: emerging
consensus?
Mark van Ommeren, Shekhar Saxena, & Benedetto Saraceno
ABSTRACT
Mental health care programmes during and after acute emergencies in
resource-poor countries have been considered controversial. There is
no agreement on the public health value of the post-traumatic stress
disorder concept and no agreement on the appropriateness of vertical
(separate) trauma-focused services. A range of social and mental
health intervention strategies and principles seem, however, to have
the broad support of expert opinion. Despite continuing debate, there
is emerging agreement on what entails good public health practice in
respect of mental health. In terms of early interventions, this
agreement is exemplified by the recent inclusion of a "mental and
social aspects of health" standard in the Sphere handbook's revision
on minimal standards in disaster response. This affirmation of
emerging agreement is important and should give clear messages to
health planners.
Discussion - Derrick Silove; Derek Summerfield
Full Text [pdf 190kb]
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/83/1/en/71.pdf
|pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 473kb]
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/83/1/en/71arabic.pdf
|Abstract [HTML]
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/83/1/rt105abstract/en
- Mark van Ommeren, Shekhar Saxena, & Benedetto Saraceno
Mental and social health during and after acute emergencies: emerging
consensus?
Mark van Ommeren, Shekhar Saxena, & Benedetto Saraceno
ABSTRACT
Mental health care programmes during and after acute emergencies in
resource-poor countries have been considered controversial. There is
no agreement on the public health value of the post-traumatic stress
disorder concept and no agreement on the appropriateness of vertical
(separate) trauma-focused services. A range of social and mental
health intervention strategies and principles seem, however, to have
the broad support of expert opinion. Despite continuing debate, there
is emerging agreement on what entails good public health practice in
respect of mental health. In terms of early interventions, this
agreement is exemplified by the recent inclusion of a "mental and
social aspects of health" standard in the Sphere handbook's revision
on minimal standards in disaster response. This affirmation of
emerging agreement is important and should give clear messages to
health planners.
Discussion - Derrick Silove; Derek Summerfield
Full Text [pdf 190kb]
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/83/1/en/71.pdf
|pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 473kb]
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/83/1/en/71arabic.pdf
|Abstract [HTML]
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/83/1/rt105abstract/en
Canadian Children's Book Centre
Welcome to the Canadian Children's Book Centre's home on the web!
A national not-for-profit organization and registered charity, the
Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) was founded in 1976 to
promote, support and encourage the reading, writing and illustrating
of Canadian books for children and teens.
With book collections and extensive resources in five cities across
Canada, the CCBC is a treasure-trove for anyone interested in
Canadian books for young readers. Through our publications and
programs (such as the quarterly magazine, Canadian Children's Book
News and the annual TD Canadian Children's Book Week ), the CCBC
actively promotes Canadian books and brings their readers and
creators together.
We're here for anyone who cares about Canadian children's books. We
provide resources for teachers, librarians, students and parents,
writers, illustrators, storytellers, publishers and booksellers.
We hope you'll enjoy looking over some of the resources and
information we have here on our site, and if you have any questions,
just click on the ' Contact Us ' button on the site tools menu on the
bottom left hand side. We'll be happy to help however we can.
http://www.bookcentre.ca/
A national not-for-profit organization and registered charity, the
Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) was founded in 1976 to
promote, support and encourage the reading, writing and illustrating
of Canadian books for children and teens.
With book collections and extensive resources in five cities across
Canada, the CCBC is a treasure-trove for anyone interested in
Canadian books for young readers. Through our publications and
programs (such as the quarterly magazine, Canadian Children's Book
News and the annual TD Canadian Children's Book Week ), the CCBC
actively promotes Canadian books and brings their readers and
creators together.
We're here for anyone who cares about Canadian children's books. We
provide resources for teachers, librarians, students and parents,
writers, illustrators, storytellers, publishers and booksellers.
We hope you'll enjoy looking over some of the resources and
information we have here on our site, and if you have any questions,
just click on the ' Contact Us ' button on the site tools menu on the
bottom left hand side. We'll be happy to help however we can.
http://www.bookcentre.ca/
Friday, December 31, 2004
* Blogs take on the mainstream *
* Blogs take on the mainstream *
Blogs have shifted the balance of information online, argue experts, and they are here to stay.
Full story:
Blogs have shifted the balance of information online, argue experts, and they are here to stay.
Full story:
It seems unlikely that we will end up living in a planet where every human is a blogger.
We are entering one era in which the technological infrastructure is creating a different context for how we tell our stories and how we communicate with each other
Andrew Nachison, Director, Media Center
But the current number of blogs is likely to keep on growing, in a web already overloaded with information.
Blog analysis firm Technorati estimates the number of blogs in existence, the so-called blogosphere, has already exceeded five million, and is growing at exponential levels.
Tools such as Google's Blogger, MovableType and the recently launched beta version of MSN Spaces are making it easier to run a blog.
We are entering one era in which the technological infrastructure is creating a different context for how we tell our stories and how we communicate with each other
Andrew Nachison, Director, Media Center
But the current number of blogs is likely to keep on growing, in a web already overloaded with information.
Blog analysis firm Technorati estimates the number of blogs in existence, the so-called blogosphere, has already exceeded five million, and is growing at exponential levels.
Tools such as Google's Blogger, MovableType and the recently launched beta version of MSN Spaces are making it easier to run a blog.
US research think-tank Pew Internet & American Life says a blog is created every 5.8 seconds, although less than 40% of the total are updated at least once every two months.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Eclectic Blogs -- from Inuvik, NWT
Eclectic Blogs -- Professional and personal insights about Inuvik,
NWT, with photos. http://martin.eclecticblogs.ca/
NWT, with photos. http://martin.eclecticblogs.ca/
BLOGGERS BEST IN TSUNAMI COVERAGE
BLOGGERS BEST IN TSUNAMI COVERAGE
Blogs from around the world are offering instant eyewitness reports
from the region affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
that the mainstream media cannot match.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/974504.cms
and
Now on Net: Tsunami whodunnit
While nations pool in resources to help out the victims of the
tsunami tragedy and as people contribute their day's salaries, the
Internet is rife with some funny business of its own.
There are theories circulating on the Net about the "real" reasons on
why the tsunami "targeted" India.
What is more disturbing than the theories - ranging from the bizarre
to the ridiculous - is that there are some, who will actually believe
these hearsays.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/974399.cms
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Blogs from around the world are offering instant eyewitness reports
from the region affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
that the mainstream media cannot match.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/974504.cms
and
Now on Net: Tsunami whodunnit
While nations pool in resources to help out the victims of the
tsunami tragedy and as people contribute their day's salaries, the
Internet is rife with some funny business of its own.
There are theories circulating on the Net about the "real" reasons on
why the tsunami "targeted" India.
What is more disturbing than the theories - ranging from the bizarre
to the ridiculous - is that there are some, who will actually believe
these hearsays.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/974399.cms
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Salvation Army HAM radio operators are helping to establish communication in tsunami-hit regions.
RADIO: AMATEUR :
EARTHQUAKE: SOUTH ASIA: DECEMBER 2004:
DISASTERS: RESOURCES:
Radio Operators Assist
Radio Operators Assist
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BALTIMORE (December 27, 2004)
Salvation Army radio operators are helping to establish communication
in tsunami-hit regions.
Current News
Disaster News Network
The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) is a HAM
radio team that can help families and emergency workers find each
other when a disaster wipes out all other forms of communication.
According to Major Pat McPherson, national director of SATERN,
representatives from the Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
Association (DERA) have requested SATERN's help in listening to
certain frequencies for missing Indian HAM radio operators in the
tsunami-affected islands between India and Sumatra.
"If we can help effectively, we will," said McPherson. And so far
they have. McPherson noted that several SATERN members have reported
contact from these missing members of the National Institute for
Amateur Radio India (NAIR) from these hard hit regions. This contact
is crucial in order
to establish communication routes for these areas. Information about
the extent of the damage is important as well.
One of the operators recently spoken to is even a SATERN volunteer
who was doing work with NAIR on one of the islands when the tsunamis
hit.
McPherson added that anyone seeking information about a missing
relative in the tsunami-affected areas across south Asia can fill out
the request form available on the SATERN Web site. "We will give it
our best shot."
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THERE'S NO ESCAPING BLOGS
THERE'S NO ESCAPING BLOGS
David Kirkpatrick and Daniel Roth: Freewheeling bloggers can boost
your product or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force
business can't afford to ignore.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1011763,00.html
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
BOOK REVIEW Societies don't die by accident - they commit ecological suicide
Book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"
from the http://www.csmonitor.com December 28, 2004 edition
How to succeed in history
Societies don't die by accident - they commit ecological suicide
By David Shi
Full story
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1228/p15s01-bogn.html
[excerpt]
COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond
Viking
575 pp., $29.95
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" is remarkable for
its ambitious sweep and interpretive panache. Diamond studies four
ancient societies across space and time: Easter Island in Polynesia,
the native American Anasazi tribe in what is now the southwestern
United States, the Maya civilization in Central America, and the
isolated Viking settlement on the coast of Greenland. Although
diverse in nature and context, these four societies experienced what
Diamond calls "ecocide," unintentional ecological suicide.
[...]
In each case, though, what ultimately caused ecocide was a series of
flawed responses to societal crises. Environmental degradation does
not ensure collapse. A society's fate, Diamond concludes, depends
upon how it manages challenging situations.
He reveals, for instance, how the Vikings who settled in Greenland
after AD 984 established a pastoral economy, raising sheep, goats,
and cattle. They also hunted caribou and seal, and developed a
flourishing trade in walrus ivory with Norway. But 300 years later,
the Vikings vanished from Greenland. Documentary sources along with
physical evidence reveal that their settlements gradually experienced
deforestation and soil erosion. A colder climate in the 14th and 15th
centuries impeded commerce with Norway and reduced the production of
hay, which diminished their herds.
At the same time that the Vikings were being cut off from Norway, the
Inuits began attacks on the Norse settlements in Greenland. Cultural
prejudices prevented the Vikings from adopting Inuit technologies,
such as harpoons, so they could not harvest whales. Nor were they
willing to mimic the Inuits in developing dog sleighs, sealskin
kayaks, and seagoing boats. As a result of these cultural prejudices,
by 1440 the Vikings had all died out in Greenland, whereas the Inuits
survive to this day.
Diamond's perspective is not solely historical. He also discusses
contemporary developments in Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, China, and
Australia, as well as in Montana, a state that once was among the
wealthiest in the nation but now struggles with poverty, population
decline, and environmental problems.
Diamond complements his sobering analysis of collapsed civilizations
with more uplifting examples of societies that have found ways to
sustain themselves without overexploiting their environments.
What determines a society's fate, Diamond concludes, is how well its
leaders and citizens anticipate problems before they become crises,
and how decisively a society responds. Such factors may seem obvious,
yet Diamond marshals overwhelming evidence of the short-sightedness,
selfishness, and fractiousness of many otherwise robust cultures. He
reveals that many leaders were (and are) so absorbed with their own
pursuit of power that they lost sight of festering systemic problems.
Today, Diamond observes, the world is "on a nonsustainable course,"
but he remains a "cautious optimist." The problems facing us are
stern, he notes, but not insoluble. They demand stiff political will,
a commitment to long-term thinking, and a willingness to make painful
changes in what we value.
[...]
He concludes, "We have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of
distant peoples and past peoples." But the question remains, will we?
*David Shi is the president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
from the http://www.csmonitor.com December 28, 2004 edition
How to succeed in history
Societies don't die by accident - they commit ecological suicide
By David Shi
Full story
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1228/p15s01-bogn.html
[excerpt]
COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond
Viking
575 pp., $29.95
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" is remarkable for
its ambitious sweep and interpretive panache. Diamond studies four
ancient societies across space and time: Easter Island in Polynesia,
the native American Anasazi tribe in what is now the southwestern
United States, the Maya civilization in Central America, and the
isolated Viking settlement on the coast of Greenland. Although
diverse in nature and context, these four societies experienced what
Diamond calls "ecocide," unintentional ecological suicide.
[...]
In each case, though, what ultimately caused ecocide was a series of
flawed responses to societal crises. Environmental degradation does
not ensure collapse. A society's fate, Diamond concludes, depends
upon how it manages challenging situations.
He reveals, for instance, how the Vikings who settled in Greenland
after AD 984 established a pastoral economy, raising sheep, goats,
and cattle. They also hunted caribou and seal, and developed a
flourishing trade in walrus ivory with Norway. But 300 years later,
the Vikings vanished from Greenland. Documentary sources along with
physical evidence reveal that their settlements gradually experienced
deforestation and soil erosion. A colder climate in the 14th and 15th
centuries impeded commerce with Norway and reduced the production of
hay, which diminished their herds.
At the same time that the Vikings were being cut off from Norway, the
Inuits began attacks on the Norse settlements in Greenland. Cultural
prejudices prevented the Vikings from adopting Inuit technologies,
such as harpoons, so they could not harvest whales. Nor were they
willing to mimic the Inuits in developing dog sleighs, sealskin
kayaks, and seagoing boats. As a result of these cultural prejudices,
by 1440 the Vikings had all died out in Greenland, whereas the Inuits
survive to this day.
Diamond's perspective is not solely historical. He also discusses
contemporary developments in Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, China, and
Australia, as well as in Montana, a state that once was among the
wealthiest in the nation but now struggles with poverty, population
decline, and environmental problems.
Diamond complements his sobering analysis of collapsed civilizations
with more uplifting examples of societies that have found ways to
sustain themselves without overexploiting their environments.
What determines a society's fate, Diamond concludes, is how well its
leaders and citizens anticipate problems before they become crises,
and how decisively a society responds. Such factors may seem obvious,
yet Diamond marshals overwhelming evidence of the short-sightedness,
selfishness, and fractiousness of many otherwise robust cultures. He
reveals that many leaders were (and are) so absorbed with their own
pursuit of power that they lost sight of festering systemic problems.
Today, Diamond observes, the world is "on a nonsustainable course,"
but he remains a "cautious optimist." The problems facing us are
stern, he notes, but not insoluble. They demand stiff political will,
a commitment to long-term thinking, and a willingness to make painful
changes in what we value.
[...]
He concludes, "We have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of
distant peoples and past peoples." But the question remains, will we?
*David Shi is the president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
'Where There is No Doctor' now available online free of charge and in full text
[Each chapter is a separate PDF file]
'Where There is No Doctor' - probably the most important health care
manual of all time - is now available online, free of charge and in
full text, at:
http://www.healthwrights.org/booksonline.htm
'Where There is No Doctor'
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/WTINDonline.htm
en español:
Donde No Hay Doctor
http://healthwrights.org/books/DHNDonline.htm
In addition, the following primary health care books are also
available on the above website:
'Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and
Child Survival'
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/QTSonline.htm
en español:
Cuestionando la Solución: Las PolÃticas de Atención Primaria de Salud
y Supervivencia Infantil
http://www.healthwrights.org/static/cuestionando/index.htm
'Nothing About Us Without Us'
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/global/david/dwe001/dwe00101.htm
en español:
Nada Sobre Nosotros Sin Nosotros
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/NSNSNonline.htm
'Disabled Village Children'
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/global/david/dwe002/dwe00201.htm
en español:
El Niño Campesino Deshabilitado
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/ENCDonline.htm
'Helping Health Workers Learn'
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/HHWLonline.htm
en español:
Aprendiendo a Promover la Salud
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/APLSonline.htm
'Where There Is No Dentist'
http://healthwrights.org/books/WTINDentistonline.htm
All the above e-books are available in both English and Spanish.
Best wishes,
Neil
Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Moderator, HIF-net-at-WHO
[HIF-net-at-WHO profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh has a background in medicine
and medical publishing, including work with the World Health Organization,
the journal Medicine Digest, and the CD-ROM series Topics in International
Health (Wellcome Trust). He has worked as a medical officer in rural
Ecuador and Peru. From 1996 to 2004 he helped create the INASP-Health
programme (International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications), which aims to support cooperation, analysis, and advocacy
among those working to improve access to reliable information for
healthcare workers in developing and transitional countries.
neilpw@doctors.org.uk ]
'Where There is No Doctor' - probably the most important health care
manual of all time - is now available online, free of charge and in
full text, at:
http://www.healthwrights.org/booksonline.htm
'Where There is No Doctor'
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/WTINDonline.htm
en español:
Donde No Hay Doctor
http://healthwrights.org/books/DHNDonline.htm
In addition, the following primary health care books are also
available on the above website:
'Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and
Child Survival'
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/QTSonline.htm
en español:
Cuestionando la Solución: Las PolÃticas de Atención Primaria de Salud
y Supervivencia Infantil
http://www.healthwrights.org/static/cuestionando/index.htm
'Nothing About Us Without Us'
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/global/david/dwe001/dwe00101.htm
en español:
Nada Sobre Nosotros Sin Nosotros
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/NSNSNonline.htm
'Disabled Village Children'
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/global/david/dwe002/dwe00201.htm
en español:
El Niño Campesino Deshabilitado
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/ENCDonline.htm
'Helping Health Workers Learn'
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/HHWLonline.htm
en español:
Aprendiendo a Promover la Salud
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/APLSonline.htm
'Where There Is No Dentist'
http://healthwrights.org/books/WTINDentistonline.htm
All the above e-books are available in both English and Spanish.
Best wishes,
Neil
Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Moderator, HIF-net-at-WHO
[HIF-net-at-WHO profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh has a background in medicine
and medical publishing, including work with the World Health Organization,
the journal Medicine Digest, and the CD-ROM series Topics in International
Health (Wellcome Trust). He has worked as a medical officer in rural
Ecuador and Peru. From 1996 to 2004 he helped create the INASP-Health
programme (International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications), which aims to support cooperation, analysis, and advocacy
among those working to improve access to reliable information for
healthcare workers in developing and transitional countries.
neilpw@doctors.org.uk ]
Monday, December 27, 2004
Young Power in Social Action - Bangladesh ( ICTs for Development).
Young Power in Social Action - Bangladesh ( ICTs for Development).
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1026942?intcmp=700
Established in 1985, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) is a
voluntary social development organisation with the mission to engage
Bangladesh's poor, vulnerable and marginalised youth in bringing
about their own and society's sustainable development. The YPSA ICT4D
...
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 18 December, 2004
Direct URL
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_background.html
Goal & Objectives
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_objectives.html
Implementation strategy
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_strategy.html
Project activities
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_done.html
Contact
YPRDO - Office
YPSA, Collage Road, Ayesha Villa
Sitakund - 4310
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)
House No # F10(P) ; Road No # 13 ; Block B
Chandgao R / A
Chittagong - 4212 , Bangladesh
Land Line: +88-031-672857
Fax: +88-031-650145
Mobile: +88-018-321432, 017-825068
Internet: www.ypsa.org
eMail: info@ypsa.org
akef@ypsa.org
debobrotochakraborty@yahoo.com
What is YPRDO?
Youth led Poverty Reduction through Digital Opportunities (YPRDO) is
a UNESCO supported project aimed towards affective poverty reduction
& development through the innovative use of Information &
Communication Technologies.
PROJECT AREA
The project is being implemented in Sitakund Upazilla under
Chittagong district, which offers different opportunities for
implementation of the project. The area situated 37 km. away from
Chittagong City flanked by hills and rivers. The total population of
the area is 274,903, Literacy rate is 41.1% and employment status of
men and women are 86% and 21% respectively. 85% of total villages and
65% of total HHs of the Upazilla are under electricity coverage.
Total length of Pucca, HBB and Katcha road is 111.75, 38 and 256 km
respectively. The digital opportunities center will be set up in the
village of MOHADEBPUR of the Upazilla, which is the center point of
the project.
Why Youth Leadership?
The young people are the most socially conscious and active segments
of the population. They are concerned about social issues like
culture, environment, economic inequality, and human rights, lack of
employment opportunities etc. Generally these young people can't
participate in the decision making process, don't have access to the
formal institutions of society. Yet these young people try to
organize themselves voluntarily to address the social problems &
bring about positive social changes. They cover the lack of finance
with their person power, lack of resource with their talent &
intelligence and overcome social barriers with their immense
challenge loving hard working mentality.
As a youth focused organization YPSA have noticed that that
potentially the deprived youths & adolescents of the rural areas are
not behind the urban youths & adolescents. But still the reason why
the rural youths remains behind is not of brain power but of
position. The rural youths have less accessibility to information
because of their position. The reasons adding to this are lack of
access to communication & technology. So if these youths can be
introduced to Information & Communication Technologies they can be
the future leaders to apply it in the field of social development.
Youth are a large untapped resource that have the innovation &
potential to find out ways of using ICTs properly & affective to the
local context.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1026942?intcmp=700
Established in 1985, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) is a
voluntary social development organisation with the mission to engage
Bangladesh's poor, vulnerable and marginalised youth in bringing
about their own and society's sustainable development. The YPSA ICT4D
...
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 18 December, 2004
Direct URL
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_background.html
Goal & Objectives
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_objectives.html
Implementation strategy
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_strategy.html
Project activities
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_done.html
Contact
YPRDO - Office
YPSA, Collage Road, Ayesha Villa
Sitakund - 4310
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)
House No # F10(P) ; Road No # 13 ; Block B
Chandgao R / A
Chittagong - 4212 , Bangladesh
Land Line: +88-031-672857
Fax: +88-031-650145
Mobile: +88-018-321432, 017-825068
Internet: www.ypsa.org
eMail: info@ypsa.org
akef@ypsa.org
debobrotochakraborty@yahoo.com
What is YPRDO?
Youth led Poverty Reduction through Digital Opportunities (YPRDO) is
a UNESCO supported project aimed towards affective poverty reduction
& development through the innovative use of Information &
Communication Technologies.
PROJECT AREA
The project is being implemented in Sitakund Upazilla under
Chittagong district, which offers different opportunities for
implementation of the project. The area situated 37 km. away from
Chittagong City flanked by hills and rivers. The total population of
the area is 274,903, Literacy rate is 41.1% and employment status of
men and women are 86% and 21% respectively. 85% of total villages and
65% of total HHs of the Upazilla are under electricity coverage.
Total length of Pucca, HBB and Katcha road is 111.75, 38 and 256 km
respectively. The digital opportunities center will be set up in the
village of MOHADEBPUR of the Upazilla, which is the center point of
the project.
Why Youth Leadership?
The young people are the most socially conscious and active segments
of the population. They are concerned about social issues like
culture, environment, economic inequality, and human rights, lack of
employment opportunities etc. Generally these young people can't
participate in the decision making process, don't have access to the
formal institutions of society. Yet these young people try to
organize themselves voluntarily to address the social problems &
bring about positive social changes. They cover the lack of finance
with their person power, lack of resource with their talent &
intelligence and overcome social barriers with their immense
challenge loving hard working mentality.
As a youth focused organization YPSA have noticed that that
potentially the deprived youths & adolescents of the rural areas are
not behind the urban youths & adolescents. But still the reason why
the rural youths remains behind is not of brain power but of
position. The rural youths have less accessibility to information
because of their position. The reasons adding to this are lack of
access to communication & technology. So if these youths can be
introduced to Information & Communication Technologies they can be
the future leaders to apply it in the field of social development.
Youth are a large untapped resource that have the innovation &
potential to find out ways of using ICTs properly & affective to the
local context.
Unnatural story selection - Media still aims for easy targets - But 2004 better than 2003 overall
Dec. 26, 2004. 09:25 AM
Unnatural story selection - Media still aims for easy targets - But
2004 better than 2003 overall
ANTONIA ZERBISIAS azerbis@thestar.ca
MEDIA CRITIC
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Page&cid=970599109774&ce=Columnist&colid=969907624636
"What is the role of a free and independent press in a democratic
society? Is it to be a passive conduit responsible only for the
delivery of information between a government and its people? Is it to
aggressively print allegation and rumor independent of accuracy or
fairness? Is it to show boobies? No. The role of a free press is to
be the people's eyes and ears, providing not just information but
access, insight and, most importantly, context."
- From America (The Book) by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
It is, one hopes, a positive sign that a book of media and political
criticism ends up as book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
It is, however, not a good thing that it took a fake news show on a
comedy network to give Americans the real deal on their country.
At least 2004 was an improvement on 2003. This year, some of the
mainstream media, at least some of the time, stepped out of the
pro-war, pro-George W. Bush conga line and stopped beating the war
drums.
The New York Times copped to having swallowed the administration
hook, line and clunker about weapons of mass destruction. The New
Yorker and CBS showed the extent of American war crimes at Abu Ghraib
prison. The networks gave big play to Kevin Sites's video of an
American marine shooting an unarmed Iraqi in a mosque. Another
embedded journalist encouraged a National Guardsman this month to ask
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the lack of armoured Humvees
- probably saving many American troops and contributing to the
almost-certain demise of Rumsfeld's long political run.
But it wasn't all good.
[...]
As America (The Book) points out, the media have never been freer -
and "the status never quo-er."
full story
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1103842212752&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist969907624636&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
OR
http://tinyurl.com/6zede
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Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to:
Bill Doskoch
Toronto, ON
http://billdoskoch.blogware.com
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http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm
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Unnatural story selection - Media still aims for easy targets - But
2004 better than 2003 overall
ANTONIA ZERBISIAS azerbis@thestar.ca
MEDIA CRITIC
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Page&cid=970599109774&ce=Columnist&colid=969907624636
"What is the role of a free and independent press in a democratic
society? Is it to be a passive conduit responsible only for the
delivery of information between a government and its people? Is it to
aggressively print allegation and rumor independent of accuracy or
fairness? Is it to show boobies? No. The role of a free press is to
be the people's eyes and ears, providing not just information but
access, insight and, most importantly, context."
- From America (The Book) by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
It is, one hopes, a positive sign that a book of media and political
criticism ends up as book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
It is, however, not a good thing that it took a fake news show on a
comedy network to give Americans the real deal on their country.
At least 2004 was an improvement on 2003. This year, some of the
mainstream media, at least some of the time, stepped out of the
pro-war, pro-George W. Bush conga line and stopped beating the war
drums.
The New York Times copped to having swallowed the administration
hook, line and clunker about weapons of mass destruction. The New
Yorker and CBS showed the extent of American war crimes at Abu Ghraib
prison. The networks gave big play to Kevin Sites's video of an
American marine shooting an unarmed Iraqi in a mosque. Another
embedded journalist encouraged a National Guardsman this month to ask
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the lack of armoured Humvees
- probably saving many American troops and contributing to the
almost-certain demise of Rumsfeld's long political run.
But it wasn't all good.
[...]
As America (The Book) points out, the media have never been freer -
and "the status never quo-er."
full story
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1103842212752&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist969907624636&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
OR
http://tinyurl.com/6zede
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Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to:
Bill Doskoch
Toronto, ON
http://billdoskoch.blogware.com
© info
http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm
Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources.
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See "The Wagon Burner" winner best experimental -2004
The Wagon Burner
Super 8 Film, Video, Audio
Terrance Houle 2003
"Wagon Burner" examines what happens when a boy reclaims his identity
through the simple act of destruction. The boy burns his wagon and
dances to put out the flames. Music is done by Isho Bailey. Houles'
images tell a story older than colonization: the power of resistance
and remembrance.
WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL
2004 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto, CANADA
Terrance Houle, born in Calgary, is a member of the Blood/Blackfoot
nation. His creative work includes painting, drawing, video/film,
mixed media, performance and installation.
See it at
http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?POS=430&CONTENT_ID=205377&FILTER_KEY=133369&page=content&user=chagoosh2
Actual file
http://static.zed.cbc.ca/users/f/flawed/files/WagonB02.mov
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http://chagoosh.blogspot.com/
© info
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Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources.
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Super 8 Film, Video, Audio
Terrance Houle 2003
"Wagon Burner" examines what happens when a boy reclaims his identity
through the simple act of destruction. The boy burns his wagon and
dances to put out the flames. Music is done by Isho Bailey. Houles'
images tell a story older than colonization: the power of resistance
and remembrance.
WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL
2004 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto, CANADA
Terrance Houle, born in Calgary, is a member of the Blood/Blackfoot
nation. His creative work includes painting, drawing, video/film,
mixed media, performance and installation.
See it at
http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?POS=430&CONTENT_ID=205377&FILTER_KEY=133369&page=content&user=chagoosh2
Actual file
http://static.zed.cbc.ca/users/f/flawed/files/WagonB02.mov
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Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to:
http://chagoosh.blogspot.com/
© info
http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm
Due to the nature of email & the WWW, check ALL sources.
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Canadian copyright law; CLA Copyright Information Centre
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:43:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Russell McOrmond
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Paul Nielson wrote:
> http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm
This information is a bit dated and many of the links are broken.
Our own links on the digital-copyright.ca site are a bit dated as
they focused on the 2001/2002 consultation process, rather than the
upcoming legislation that may be tabled in 2005. Latest is that it
won't likely be
February, and it is uncertain whether there will be another election
before legislation is tabled.
Those Canada-wide that are involved in Copyright Revision should be
at least aware of http://digital-copyright.ca/ which we hope to keep
updated with the latest information on this and related areas of
policy.
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant:
Have you, your family, your friends (, your enemies) signed the
Petition to the Canadian Parliament for Users' Rights in Copyright?
http://digital-copyright.ca/petition/
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:53:34 -0600
From: Paul Nielson
Subject: [CPI-UA] CLA Copyright Information Centre
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm
This section will provide the latest information on revisions to
Canada's Copyright Act and regulations; position statements by
associations and governments on copyright reform; interpretations of
Canadian copyright law; issues related to digital information and
media copyright; international copyright law and the Multilateral
Agreement on Investment (MAI); collective and performing rights
societies; and some readings and writings on Canadian, U.S. and
international copyright.
Table of Contents
1. Canadian Copyright Act
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#cdn_law
Law
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#cdn_regulat
Regulations
2. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#int_law
International Copyright Law
3. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#mai
Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
4. Position Statements on Canadian Copyright Law Reform & Regulations
Bill C-32 (Phase II)
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#gov_posit
Canadian Government
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#positions_assoc
Associations & Organizations
5. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#interpret
Interpretations of Canadian Copyright Law
6. Digital Information & Related Issues (Phase III)
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#digital_gov
Government Reports & Discussion Papers
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#digital_net_access
Access to Information
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#digital_liability
Internet Content & Liability
7. Media Copyright
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_ledg
Legislation
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_orgs
Organizations & Institutions
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_studies
Studies & Discussions
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_us
United States
8. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#collectives
Collectives & Performing Rights Societies
9. Readings & Writings on Copyright Law
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_can
Canada
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_us
United States
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_uk
United Kingdom
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_int
International
10. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyrightforum.htm
Discussion Paper On Digital Copyright Issues (issued by the Copyright
Forum, of which CLA is a member)
11. http://www.cla.ca/top/whatsnew/wnjl1901.htm
Public Access to Information Threatened by Copyright Inaction (by Margaret Law)
12. http://www.cla.ca/issues/copyright.htm
CLA Response to the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues
(Issued by the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry
Canada and the Copyright Policy Branch, Canadian Heritage)
13. http://www.cla.ca/resources/23april2002.pdf
Copyright Protection in Unpublished Works: Final Report by Wanda
Noel, Barrister & Solicitor (pdf) ~ April 23, 2002
For further information, please contact:
Karen Adams - Convenor, Copyright Committee (2004)
Cameron Library
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8
Tel.: (780) 492-6491
Fax: (780) 492-8302
e-mail:karen.g.adams@ualberta.ca
From: Russell McOrmond
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Paul Nielson wrote:
> http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm
This information is a bit dated and many of the links are broken.
Our own links on the digital-copyright.ca site are a bit dated as
they focused on the 2001/2002 consultation process, rather than the
upcoming legislation that may be tabled in 2005. Latest is that it
won't likely be
February, and it is uncertain whether there will be another election
before legislation is tabled.
Those Canada-wide that are involved in Copyright Revision should be
at least aware of http://digital-copyright.ca/ which we hope to keep
updated with the latest information on this and related areas of
policy.
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant:
Have you, your family, your friends (, your enemies) signed the
Petition to the Canadian Parliament for Users' Rights in Copyright?
http://digital-copyright.ca/petition/
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:53:34 -0600
From: Paul Nielson
Subject: [CPI-UA] CLA Copyright Information Centre
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm
This section will provide the latest information on revisions to
Canada's Copyright Act and regulations; position statements by
associations and governments on copyright reform; interpretations of
Canadian copyright law; issues related to digital information and
media copyright; international copyright law and the Multilateral
Agreement on Investment (MAI); collective and performing rights
societies; and some readings and writings on Canadian, U.S. and
international copyright.
Table of Contents
1. Canadian Copyright Act
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#cdn_law
Law
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#cdn_regulat
Regulations
2. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#int_law
International Copyright Law
3. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#mai
Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
4. Position Statements on Canadian Copyright Law Reform & Regulations
Bill C-32 (Phase II)
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#gov_posit
Canadian Government
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#positions_assoc
Associations & Organizations
5. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#interpret
Interpretations of Canadian Copyright Law
6. Digital Information & Related Issues (Phase III)
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#digital_gov
Government Reports & Discussion Papers
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#digital_net_access
Access to Information
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#digital_liability
Internet Content & Liability
7. Media Copyright
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_ledg
Legislation
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_orgs
Organizations & Institutions
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_studies
Studies & Discussions
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#media_us
United States
8. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#collectives
Collectives & Performing Rights Societies
9. Readings & Writings on Copyright Law
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_can
Canada
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_us
United States
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_uk
United Kingdom
http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyright.htm#read_int
International
10. http://www.cla.ca/resources/copyrightforum.htm
Discussion Paper On Digital Copyright Issues (issued by the Copyright
Forum, of which CLA is a member)
11. http://www.cla.ca/top/whatsnew/wnjl1901.htm
Public Access to Information Threatened by Copyright Inaction (by Margaret Law)
12. http://www.cla.ca/issues/copyright.htm
CLA Response to the Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues
(Issued by the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry
Canada and the Copyright Policy Branch, Canadian Heritage)
13. http://www.cla.ca/resources/23april2002.pdf
Copyright Protection in Unpublished Works: Final Report by Wanda
Noel, Barrister & Solicitor (pdf) ~ April 23, 2002
For further information, please contact:
Karen Adams - Convenor, Copyright Committee (2004)
Cameron Library
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8
Tel.: (780) 492-6491
Fax: (780) 492-8302
e-mail:
Friday, December 24, 2004
"Abologs" list from APTN National News (ANN)
"Abologs"
Many Aboriginal people in Canada, the US, and around the world
maintain their own blogs. Such blogs - we've nicknamed them "abologs"
- can provide a fascinating view into the personal lives and
differing political and social realities of Aboriginal people.
APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network ) has compiled a blog
list (or blogroll) of just some of the Aboriginal blogs available on
the web.
Links to all the Blogs below may be found at:
http://www.aptn.ca/strands/news_currentaffairs/blogs.htm
Please note: APTN National News (ANN) provides these links as a
service only, and ANN neither endorses nor is affiliated with
off-site material or opinions. ANN is not responsible for any content
that may appear on other sites.
Canada
Want to suggest other aboriginal blogs in Canada? Email us
mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
Alan's Blog
Alan Greyeyes is a 25 year old living in Winnipeg
As Twisted by Dave
Ojibway/Cree/Scot blogging from Sioux Lookout, ON
Big Wab All Day, E're Day
Life & times of a young Aboriginal hip hop artist in Winnipeg
The Daily Blog: Insight into the Life of Anishnawbe
Based out of Nipissing First Nation in Ontario
Daybi
Yet another young Aboriginal hip hop artist - only he's in Montreal
gôdag wajo
Web log of an abenaki parent
Life on the Rez
Life in Nisga'a Territory; Métis living in Gingolx BC
My Stolen Cat
Yukon blog
NOD version 5.1
Aboriginal woman blogging from Thunder Bay, ON
North-South-East-West
Metis new media artist
one more nish gyrl left to shatter
An engineer poet "with big cheekbones" from Wikwemikong
OrcaPhyll
'Mom/Animator/Poet/Writer/Director' from Pabineau First Nation, NB
sAy2k.tv
Sonny Assu is an Aboriginal artist from the West Coast
Scott's page of Picto-graphic Impressions of a PAGAK!
Images captured by an Ojibway photographer in Winnipeg
Sondra
Mohawk woman from Kahnawake blogs about family, friends, music and art
Urban Injun
'Step into my world for a minute or two'
Waublog
Kept by Waubgeshig Rice, originally from Wasauksing FN
Suggest other Blogs? mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
USA
Bad Eagle
Oft-controversial web log of Dr. David A. Yeagley, conservative American Indian
Beats Per Minute
A "full-blooded Navajo" living in New Orleans
Black Mesa Girl >TEXTBLOG >PHOTOBLOG
Aboriginal woman in Phoenix, AZ
Blog Goddess
A "22 yr young Navajo female" blogger
Brown Chick
"Devoted to the steamy textures and tastes of frybread"
chimEra / saaniidotcom
A Navajo poet from northern New Mexico named Zoey
DoubleHelixMe
Atlanta-based Cherokee
Incoherent Musings
Some postings from a Colville native in WA state
Joy Harjo's Web Log
Artist Joy Harjo reports here on her life, travels, and other happenings
Kiwasicu: The Life of an Urban Indian
Pebbles is a 27-years-young Lakota Sioux blogger from New York City.
Very nice layout.
Mick
26-year-old native american male living on the Navajo Indian reservation
::my trip to felicity::
Navajo and Jamez Pueblo female blogger
Nativeagle
Dine photo blog
Native American ties to the land
Collaboration between Anishinabe elders and students in Minnesota
(note: seems inactive, but still a good read)
Reflections of an Outlaw Indian Lawyer
The title speaks for itself
RezBlog
"The Collective Braindump Project."
Sarcastic Life
A blog written in Chinle, AZ
7th Direction
Nez Perce blogger now in S.Dakota
Sweet Complexity
22-year-old "rez chick" and self-described "wannabe artist" from Kayenta, AZ
Wampum
Group blog from the US. Progressive Politics, Indian Issues, and
Autism Advocacy
World Suggest other Blogs? mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
Blogger de Timor
About East Timor, which re-gained independence in 2002 (note: em
portugêse somente)
Free Hawaii
set up by the Koani Foundation
Hawaiian Independence Weblog
A media log in Hana, Maui
John's Weblog
Political New Zealand blog kept by Maori MP John Tamihere
Maldito
another Hawaiian blogger
No Rest for the Awake: Minagahet Chamorro
Dedicated to the Chamorro people of the Marianas Islands in Guam
Tanya Wooley - Flexible Learning Leader 2004
Australian interested in education in remote aboriginal communities
tupiniquim
Weblog sobre povos indÃgenas (note: em portugêse somente)
Want to suggest other international indigenous blogs? Email us.
mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
Many Aboriginal people in Canada, the US, and around the world
maintain their own blogs. Such blogs - we've nicknamed them "abologs"
- can provide a fascinating view into the personal lives and
differing political and social realities of Aboriginal people.
APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network ) has compiled a blog
list (or blogroll) of just some of the Aboriginal blogs available on
the web.
Links to all the Blogs below may be found at:
http://www.aptn.ca/strands/news_currentaffairs/blogs.htm
Please note: APTN National News (ANN) provides these links as a
service only, and ANN neither endorses nor is affiliated with
off-site material or opinions. ANN is not responsible for any content
that may appear on other sites.
Canada
Want to suggest other aboriginal blogs in Canada? Email us
mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
Alan's Blog
Alan Greyeyes is a 25 year old living in Winnipeg
As Twisted by Dave
Ojibway/Cree/Scot blogging from Sioux Lookout, ON
Big Wab All Day, E're Day
Life & times of a young Aboriginal hip hop artist in Winnipeg
The Daily Blog: Insight into the Life of Anishnawbe
Based out of Nipissing First Nation in Ontario
Daybi
Yet another young Aboriginal hip hop artist - only he's in Montreal
gôdag wajo
Web log of an abenaki parent
Life on the Rez
Life in Nisga'a Territory; Métis living in Gingolx BC
My Stolen Cat
Yukon blog
NOD version 5.1
Aboriginal woman blogging from Thunder Bay, ON
North-South-East-West
Metis new media artist
one more nish gyrl left to shatter
An engineer poet "with big cheekbones" from Wikwemikong
OrcaPhyll
'Mom/Animator/Poet/Writer/Director' from Pabineau First Nation, NB
sAy2k.tv
Sonny Assu is an Aboriginal artist from the West Coast
Scott's page of Picto-graphic Impressions of a PAGAK!
Images captured by an Ojibway photographer in Winnipeg
Sondra
Mohawk woman from Kahnawake blogs about family, friends, music and art
Urban Injun
'Step into my world for a minute or two'
Waublog
Kept by Waubgeshig Rice, originally from Wasauksing FN
Suggest other Blogs? mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
USA
Bad Eagle
Oft-controversial web log of Dr. David A. Yeagley, conservative American Indian
Beats Per Minute
A "full-blooded Navajo" living in New Orleans
Black Mesa Girl >TEXTBLOG >PHOTOBLOG
Aboriginal woman in Phoenix, AZ
Blog Goddess
A "22 yr young Navajo female" blogger
Brown Chick
"Devoted to the steamy textures and tastes of frybread"
chimEra / saaniidotcom
A Navajo poet from northern New Mexico named Zoey
DoubleHelixMe
Atlanta-based Cherokee
Incoherent Musings
Some postings from a Colville native in WA state
Joy Harjo's Web Log
Artist Joy Harjo reports here on her life, travels, and other happenings
Kiwasicu: The Life of an Urban Indian
Pebbles is a 27-years-young Lakota Sioux blogger from New York City.
Very nice layout.
Mick
26-year-old native american male living on the Navajo Indian reservation
::my trip to felicity::
Navajo and Jamez Pueblo female blogger
Nativeagle
Dine photo blog
Native American ties to the land
Collaboration between Anishinabe elders and students in Minnesota
(note: seems inactive, but still a good read)
Reflections of an Outlaw Indian Lawyer
The title speaks for itself
RezBlog
"The Collective Braindump Project."
Sarcastic Life
A blog written in Chinle, AZ
7th Direction
Nez Perce blogger now in S.Dakota
Sweet Complexity
22-year-old "rez chick" and self-described "wannabe artist" from Kayenta, AZ
Wampum
Group blog from the US. Progressive Politics, Indian Issues, and
Autism Advocacy
World Suggest other Blogs? mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
Blogger de Timor
About East Timor, which re-gained independence in 2002 (note: em
portugêse somente)
Free Hawaii
set up by the Koani Foundation
Hawaiian Independence Weblog
A media log in Hana, Maui
John's Weblog
Political New Zealand blog kept by Maori MP John Tamihere
Maldito
another Hawaiian blogger
No Rest for the Awake: Minagahet Chamorro
Dedicated to the Chamorro people of the Marianas Islands in Guam
Tanya Wooley - Flexible Learning Leader 2004
Australian interested in education in remote aboriginal communities
tupiniquim
Weblog sobre povos indÃgenas (note: em portugêse somente)
Want to suggest other international indigenous blogs? Email us.
mailto:rharp@aptn.ca,%20tfontaine@aptn.ca
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Ottawa unwraps $9 million to protect Arctic ecosystems from development
Canada.com, Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:35 PM PST
Ottawa unwraps $9 million to protect Arctic ecosystems from
development
http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=81fe3f8d-8730-4121-b184-46f3d806c4e5
YELLOWKNIFE (CP) - The federal government played Santa Claus to
northern environmentalists Tuesday when it unwrapped a long-awaited
$9-million commitment to protect Arctic ecosystems threatened by
industrial development in the Mackenzie Valley.
Ottawa unwraps $9 million to protect Arctic ecosystems from
development
http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=81fe3f8d-8730-4121-b184-46f3d806c4e5
YELLOWKNIFE (CP) - The federal government played Santa Claus to
northern environmentalists Tuesday when it unwrapped a long-awaited
$9-million commitment to protect Arctic ecosystems threatened by
industrial development in the Mackenzie Valley.
New Voices Competition of digital art and design
[A $25 (Canadian) registration fee is required for each entry. ]
From: Design Exchange Express [mailto:express@dx.org]
Sent: December 13, 2004 5:13 PM
Subject: Express Alert: New Voices Competition
EXPRESS ALERT
December 13, 2004
Call for Submissions
digifest 2005: go wild!
New Voices Competition
Presented by Design Exchange and Telefilm Canada
Deadline: January 31, 2005 - 5:00pm EST
In 2005, digifest goes wild! That's right - in May 2005 Canada's
largest annual festival of digital art and design is taking a look at
all things wild. Tired of the mechanistic point and click paradigm?
Get ready for WILDcode, WILDstates, WILDmedia and more.
We invite you to join digifest goes wild! in exploring the
increasingly potent intersections of digital technologies with wild
(i.e. irrational or uncontrolled) forces, from the biological to the
psychological to the socio-political and beyond. Key issues that may
be addressed by artists and designers include organic interfaces,
animals and computers, digital mysticism, disruptive technologies,
digital terrorism, wild games, digital sexuality, cybernetics, worms,
parasites and viruses, and chaotic information systems, products or
environments with "wild" styles or aesthetics, to name but a few
possibilities.
The New Voices Competition is an opportunity for emerging and
mid-career designers, artists, and technologists to showcase their
latest innovations in digital media technologies. Companies, design
teams, digital media artists and other content creators are eligible
to submit new and innovative ideas and applications in interactive
digital media, games, 3D design, real-time environments, digital film
and video, web applications, mobile applications, fashion, digital
performing arts and all other digital idioms.
Winners will present their work at digifest in Toronto and their work
will be installed or displayed as part of digifest. Winning entries
will also be highlighted in both the digifest program and an in-depth
website.
For an application and complete competition details, go to our
website http://www.dx.org/digifest
Contacts
Irene Chong, New Voices Coordinator irene@dx.org
Paola Poletto, Director, digifest paola@dx.org
John Sobol, Associate Director, digifest john@dx.org
Design Exchange is grateful for the support of Telefilm Canada.
From: Design Exchange Express [mailto:express@dx.org]
Sent: December 13, 2004 5:13 PM
Subject: Express Alert: New Voices Competition
EXPRESS ALERT
December 13, 2004
Call for Submissions
digifest 2005: go wild!
New Voices Competition
Presented by Design Exchange and Telefilm Canada
Deadline: January 31, 2005 - 5:00pm EST
In 2005, digifest goes wild! That's right - in May 2005 Canada's
largest annual festival of digital art and design is taking a look at
all things wild. Tired of the mechanistic point and click paradigm?
Get ready for WILDcode, WILDstates, WILDmedia and more.
We invite you to join digifest goes wild! in exploring the
increasingly potent intersections of digital technologies with wild
(i.e. irrational or uncontrolled) forces, from the biological to the
psychological to the socio-political and beyond. Key issues that may
be addressed by artists and designers include organic interfaces,
animals and computers, digital mysticism, disruptive technologies,
digital terrorism, wild games, digital sexuality, cybernetics, worms,
parasites and viruses, and chaotic information systems, products or
environments with "wild" styles or aesthetics, to name but a few
possibilities.
The New Voices Competition is an opportunity for emerging and
mid-career designers, artists, and technologists to showcase their
latest innovations in digital media technologies. Companies, design
teams, digital media artists and other content creators are eligible
to submit new and innovative ideas and applications in interactive
digital media, games, 3D design, real-time environments, digital film
and video, web applications, mobile applications, fashion, digital
performing arts and all other digital idioms.
Winners will present their work at digifest in Toronto and their work
will be installed or displayed as part of digifest. Winning entries
will also be highlighted in both the digifest program and an in-depth
website.
For an application and complete competition details, go to our
website http://www.dx.org/digifest
Contacts
Irene Chong, New Voices Coordinator irene@dx.org
Paola Poletto, Director, digifest paola@dx.org
John Sobol, Associate Director, digifest john@dx.org
Design Exchange is grateful for the support of Telefilm Canada.
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Proposed AP ethics policy draws some Guild concerns in US
Proposed AP ethics policy draws some Guild concerns in US
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A proposed new ethics policy for US The Associated Press, which would
be the news organisation's most extensive to date, is drawing some
concern from union leaders, who say its limits on financial
investments, conflict of interest, and freelance work may be too
restrictive. The 11-page draft proposal, includes a number of basic
journalistic tenets such as requirements that datelines be used only
when a reporter is at the datelined location. But it extends to some
areas that have been the
subject of recent news industry concern, such as anonymous sources,
conflict of interest, and corrections. "Much of it has been in print
in lots of different places," said Kathleen Carroll, AP executive
editor, who distributed copies of the proposal to staff last week.
Source:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000740863
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What can blogging teach traditional journalism?
1) Be more personal.
2) Let the public in on news decision-making.
3) Be more focused and intentional -- stop trying to be everything to
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The Associated Press 'insurgency'
The Associated Press 'insurgency'
Conservative bloggers suggested Monday that an Associated Press
photographer was complicit with militants who executed three Iraqi
election workers on Baghdad's dangerous Haifa Street on Sunday. They
accused the photographer of knowing in advance that the executions
were to take place; rather than warn the authorities, they insinuated,
the photojournalist went after the disturbing story and images to
shock readers and smear the Bush administration's war effort.
Wretchard [of the Belmont Club blog] compared the AP coverage with the
famous Vietnam-era photo taken by Eddie Adams, who captured the
execution in Saigon in 1968 of Vietcong Capt. Bay Lop by South
Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan. . . . This is hardly the first time
that pundits on the political right have sought to portray a left-wing
media insurgency bent on capturing grim images in U.S.-occupied Iraq
in order to undermine the Bush administration. Last April, the editors
of the New York Post blared accusations of the AP cutting a deal with
Fallujah's mutilators and helping to maximize the carnage of the four
American military contractors murdered there.
Source: Mark Follman, Salon
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/12/22/executions/index.html
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Conservative bloggers suggested Monday that an Associated Press
photographer was complicit with militants who executed three Iraqi
election workers on Baghdad's dangerous Haifa Street on Sunday. They
accused the photographer of knowing in advance that the executions
were to take place; rather than warn the authorities, they insinuated,
the photojournalist went after the disturbing story and images to
shock readers and smear the Bush administration's war effort.
Wretchard [of the Belmont Club blog] compared the AP coverage with the
famous Vietnam-era photo taken by Eddie Adams, who captured the
execution in Saigon in 1968 of Vietcong Capt. Bay Lop by South
Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan. . . . This is hardly the first time
that pundits on the political right have sought to portray a left-wing
media insurgency bent on capturing grim images in U.S.-occupied Iraq
in order to undermine the Bush administration. Last April, the editors
of the New York Post blared accusations of the AP cutting a deal with
Fallujah's mutilators and helping to maximize the carnage of the four
American military contractors murdered there.
Source: Mark Follman, Salon
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/12/22/executions/index.html
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PhotoPermit.org - US ACLU Bustcard and UK Photographers Rights Guide.
[Forwarder's Note; If anyone knows of a Canadian version... or
versions for other countries... please let me know and I will pass
them along too. Thanks, George]
http://www.photopermit.org/
[excerpts]
PhotoPermit is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and
supporting them when trouble looms.
This site is mostly about the US.
Recent News Items
Navajo Nation: Exceptions to US Rules
NY MTA PhotoBan Protest, This Friday
Send NYC Photo Ban Comments NOW
DHS Civil Rights Office
UK Photographers' Rights Doc http://www.photopermit.org/archives/000045.html
NYC Transit Photo Ban Moves Forward
A Tip for December
Cosmetic Site Changes
NY Student Photo Threat
U.S. vs. Bill Emory
Have you been hassled while trying to make what you thought was an
innocuous photograph or video? Have you been threatened? Have
security guards demanded that you hand over your film, memory cards,
and/or camera? Perhaps snatched them from you? Then PhotoPermit.Org
is intended for you.
Have you been successful in convincing irate parents, confused
rent-a-cops, and troublesome self-appointed "authorities" to let you
go on with your own perfectly legal work in peace? Then this site is
especially intended for you, to share your methods and success in
making the world a more free one. No one has ever demonstrated that
an ignorant society is a safer one.
Have you been one of millions of honest, non-threatening
photographers who are anxious about visiting the streets of their own
cities, national parks, or public landmarks for fear they will be
targeted by overzealous authorities? Then PhotoPermit is here to help
you be you sure and comfortable in your rights and responsibilities.
Working journalists at least have the resources of their publishers
and agencies to call upon when dealing with denial of their rights to
see - independent artists and photographers often have nothing. Many
are frightened and confused by what has occurred or may still be
occurring. PhotoPermit.Org is especially for them, which is why we
permit anonymous posting in the forums (though we encourage all
visitors to register - it's easy, useful, and private).
See also..
Know Your Rights: Bustcard from the ACLU at
http://www.aclu.org/Files/Files.cfm?ID=10042&c=184
and
FREE DOWNLOAD - The UK Photographers Rights Guide.
This is intended to provide a short UK guide to the main legal
restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to
publish photographs that have been taken.
The guide was written by Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip.L.P., LL.M, who
is a lecturer in law at Heriot Watt University, with particular
experience in Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law
and Media Law.
The guide is a 2 page PDF, it will print out front and back of an A4
page allowing you to make leaflets to hand out. The guide is intended
as an overview of the current legal situation in the UK for
photographers, it is not a definitive bible of UK law.
http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php
and
If you're looking for a USA based photographer rights guide please
take a look at http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
[excerpt]
The Photographer's Right - A Downloadable Flyer
Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography
The right to take photographs is now under assault more than ever.
People are being stopped, harassed, and even intimidated into handing
over their personal property simply because they were taking
photographs of subjects that made other people uncomfortable. Recent
examples have included photographing industrial plants, bridges, and
bus stations. For the most part, attempts to restrict photography are
based on misguided fears about the supposed dangers that unrestricted
photography presents to society.
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and
http://www.photopermit.org/
and
http://www.sirimo.co.uk
and
http://www.krages.com
and
http://www.aclu.org/
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versions for other countries... please let me know and I will pass
them along too. Thanks, George]
http://www.photopermit.org/
[excerpts]
PhotoPermit is about keeping photographers out of trouble, and
supporting them when trouble looms.
This site is mostly about the US.
Recent News Items
Navajo Nation: Exceptions to US Rules
NY MTA PhotoBan Protest, This Friday
Send NYC Photo Ban Comments NOW
DHS Civil Rights Office
UK Photographers' Rights Doc http://www.photopermit.org/archives/000045.html
NYC Transit Photo Ban Moves Forward
A Tip for December
Cosmetic Site Changes
NY Student Photo Threat
U.S. vs. Bill Emory
Have you been hassled while trying to make what you thought was an
innocuous photograph or video? Have you been threatened? Have
security guards demanded that you hand over your film, memory cards,
and/or camera? Perhaps snatched them from you? Then PhotoPermit.Org
is intended for you.
Have you been successful in convincing irate parents, confused
rent-a-cops, and troublesome self-appointed "authorities" to let you
go on with your own perfectly legal work in peace? Then this site is
especially intended for you, to share your methods and success in
making the world a more free one. No one has ever demonstrated that
an ignorant society is a safer one.
Have you been one of millions of honest, non-threatening
photographers who are anxious about visiting the streets of their own
cities, national parks, or public landmarks for fear they will be
targeted by overzealous authorities? Then PhotoPermit is here to help
you be you sure and comfortable in your rights and responsibilities.
Working journalists at least have the resources of their publishers
and agencies to call upon when dealing with denial of their rights to
see - independent artists and photographers often have nothing. Many
are frightened and confused by what has occurred or may still be
occurring. PhotoPermit.Org is especially for them, which is why we
permit anonymous posting in the forums (though we encourage all
visitors to register - it's easy, useful, and private).
See also..
Know Your Rights: Bustcard from the ACLU at
http://www.aclu.org/Files/Files.cfm?ID=10042&c=184
and
FREE DOWNLOAD - The UK Photographers Rights Guide.
This is intended to provide a short UK guide to the main legal
restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to
publish photographs that have been taken.
The guide was written by Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip.L.P., LL.M, who
is a lecturer in law at Heriot Watt University, with particular
experience in Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law
and Media Law.
The guide is a 2 page PDF, it will print out front and back of an A4
page allowing you to make leaflets to hand out. The guide is intended
as an overview of the current legal situation in the UK for
photographers, it is not a definitive bible of UK law.
http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php
and
If you're looking for a USA based photographer rights guide please
take a look at http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
[excerpt]
The Photographer's Right - A Downloadable Flyer
Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography
The right to take photographs is now under assault more than ever.
People are being stopped, harassed, and even intimidated into handing
over their personal property simply because they were taking
photographs of subjects that made other people uncomfortable. Recent
examples have included photographing industrial plants, bridges, and
bus stations. For the most part, attempts to restrict photography are
based on misguided fears about the supposed dangers that unrestricted
photography presents to society.
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Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to:
Tim Atherton
and
http://www.photopermit.org/
and
http://www.sirimo.co.uk
and
http://www.krages.com
and
http://www.aclu.org/
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* Speech takes on search engines *
* Speech takes on search engines *
A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search
engine that reads out results.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/4079005.stm
[excerpts]
Called Speegle, it has the look and feel of a normal search engine,
with the added feature of being able to read out the results ...
But experts have questioned whether talking search engines are of any
real benefit to people with visual impairments.
RELATED INTERNET LINKS:
Speegle
http://www.speegle.co.uk/
A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search
engine that reads out results.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/4079005.stm
[excerpts]
Called Speegle, it has the look and feel of a normal search engine,
with the added feature of being able to read out the results ...
But experts have questioned whether talking search engines are of any
real benefit to people with visual impairments.
RELATED INTERNET LINKS:
Speegle
http://www.speegle.co.uk/
Monday, December 20, 2004
On Mac? Need to see MSWord, Excel & PowerPoint files without the programs?
FYI There is software for the Max
[disclosure... I have nothing to do with these programs... I just
dislike MS products)
icWord 3.1X+ icExcel 2.0X ... 39.00 CAD
Viewers and converters for - Microsoft(r) Excel and AppleWorks(r)
spreadsheet - Microsoft(r) Word, AppleWorks(r) and NisusWriter word
processor. - Microsoft(r) PowerPoint presentations. Displays the
content of the documents in a WYSIWYG fashion and allows conversion
to various formats. These versions of icWord and icExcel work with
Mac OS X version 10.2 and version 10.3
Other versions available for OS 9.
http://www.panergy-software.com/products/index.html
[disclosure... I have nothing to do with these programs... I just
dislike MS products)
icWord 3.1X+ icExcel 2.0X ... 39.00 CAD
Viewers and converters for - Microsoft(r) Excel and AppleWorks(r)
spreadsheet - Microsoft(r) Word, AppleWorks(r) and NisusWriter word
processor. - Microsoft(r) PowerPoint presentations. Displays the
content of the documents in a WYSIWYG fashion and allows conversion
to various formats. These versions of icWord and icExcel work with
Mac OS X version 10.2 and version 10.3
Other versions available for OS 9.
http://www.panergy-software.com/products/index.html
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Arctic peoples demand the right to exist - take on US over threat
International Herald Tribune, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 7:43 AM PST
To Eskimos, warming is a rights issue
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/15/news/climate.html
The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered
around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing
substantially to global warming, is threatening their existence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/international/americas/15climate.html?ex=1103778000&en=d761794d53ac8420&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue
New York Times Tue, 14 Dec 2004 5:44 PM PST
The Eskimos plan a legal effort to cast global warming as a human
rights violation.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/environment/story/0,14124,1373541,00.html
Damage litigation
Guardian Unlimited Tue, 14 Dec 2004 6:13 PM PST
We know that human behaviour is leading to global warming, but what
if the companies responsible for changes to the weather in specific
areas could be identified?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Environment/Inuit-take-on-US-over-threat-of-warming/2004/12/15/1102787150148.html
Inuit take on US over threat of warming
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the elected chairwoman of the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference, the quasi-governmental group recognised by
the United Nations as representing ...
The New Zealand Herald, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 4:15 PM PST
Arctic peoples demand the right to exist
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=9003525
Their ancient way of life is in unprecedented peril. Their very land
is melting beneath their feet. Even the endless night of the Arctic
winter, which should be one of nature's most immutable constants, may
be changing.
Independent, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 4:32 PM PST
A nation demands the right to exist
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593660
The Inuit peoples of the Arctic have launched a dramatic legal action
against America. The charge? Their ancient way of life is in
unprecedented peril. Their very land is melting beneath their feet.
U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 3:50 PM PST
Inuit Leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier Announces Intention to File Human
Right Claim Against U.S. for its Dangerous
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20041216/pl_usnw/inuit_leader_sheila_watt_cloutier_announces_intention_to_file_human_right_claim_against_u_s__for_its_dangerous_greenhouse_gas_e
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, elected chair of the Inuit Circumpolar
Conference (ICC), announced tonight that the ICC will soon petition
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, seeking a declaration
that emissions of greenhouse gases that are destroying the Inuit way
of life are a violation of human rights.
To Eskimos, warming is a rights issue
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/15/news/climate.html
The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered
around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing
substantially to global warming, is threatening their existence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/international/americas/15climate.html?ex=1103778000&en=d761794d53ac8420&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue
New York Times Tue, 14 Dec 2004 5:44 PM PST
The Eskimos plan a legal effort to cast global warming as a human
rights violation.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/environment/story/0,14124,1373541,00.html
Damage litigation
Guardian Unlimited Tue, 14 Dec 2004 6:13 PM PST
We know that human behaviour is leading to global warming, but what
if the companies responsible for changes to the weather in specific
areas could be identified?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Environment/Inuit-take-on-US-over-threat-of-warming/2004/12/15/1102787150148.html
Inuit take on US over threat of warming
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the elected chairwoman of the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference, the quasi-governmental group recognised by
the United Nations as representing ...
The New Zealand Herald, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 4:15 PM PST
Arctic peoples demand the right to exist
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=9003525
Their ancient way of life is in unprecedented peril. Their very land
is melting beneath their feet. Even the endless night of the Arctic
winter, which should be one of nature's most immutable constants, may
be changing.
Independent, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 4:32 PM PST
A nation demands the right to exist
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593660
The Inuit peoples of the Arctic have launched a dramatic legal action
against America. The charge? Their ancient way of life is in
unprecedented peril. Their very land is melting beneath their feet.
U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News, Wed, 15 Dec 2004 3:50 PM PST
Inuit Leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier Announces Intention to File Human
Right Claim Against U.S. for its Dangerous
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20041216/pl_usnw/inuit_leader_sheila_watt_cloutier_announces_intention_to_file_human_right_claim_against_u_s__for_its_dangerous_greenhouse_gas_e
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, elected chair of the Inuit Circumpolar
Conference (ICC), announced tonight that the ICC will soon petition
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, seeking a declaration
that emissions of greenhouse gases that are destroying the Inuit way
of life are a violation of human rights.
Monday, December 13, 2004
How to do Community Radio - A Primer for Community Radio Operator
How to do Community Radio - A Primer for Community Radio Operators Community Radio has a special place in UNESCO's programs. The aim of UNESCO's community radio program is to address crucial social issues at a community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, empower marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic processes and development efforts.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16162&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
English (file)
How to do Com.radio.pdf
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/file_download.php/37c85eb27b647e22710e2b3e8c3c9752How+to+do+Com.radio.pdf
Also
Community Radio Handbook
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/publications/community_radio_handbook.pdf
via
http://ictpr.nic.in/publications/publications.htm
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16162&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
English (file)
How to do Com.radio.pdf
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/file_download.php/37c85eb27b647e22710e2b3e8c3c9752How+to+do+Com.radio.pdf
Also
Community Radio Handbook
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/publications/community_radio_handbook.pdf
via
http://ictpr.nic.in/publications/publications.htm
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Digital recording and transcribing on a Mac
Remembering a past thread on recording interviews and transcribing -- some BoingBoing ( http://www.boingboing.net ) posts may be helpful. Mac only tho' -- sorry PC'ers
"Yesterday, I wrote about a super simple recorder for OS X, called Audio Recorder. I've been using iTunes to play back the files, but last night Boing Boing reader Mason told me about a $20 transcribing program called Listen&Type. I gave it a whirl, and I'm sold on it. Here's why: (1) You
don't have to switch back and forth between iTunes http://www.apple.com/ilife/itunes/ and a text editor to stop and start the recording. Listen&Type http://www.nattaworks.com/english.html lets you set up keyboard commands so you can stop and start the audio without leaving your text editor. (2) You can skip back 5 seconds by entering a keyboard command. There are some other functions, too, such as marking.."
"A few weeks ago, I discovered Audio Recorder, a freeware program for OS X http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17392 that records audio input as MP3 files. The interface couldn't be simpler. I've used it three times so far and the results have been flawless. I use it with the $25 RadioShack Wireless Phone Recording Controller http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1&catalog_name=CTLG&product_id=17-855 , which is also great. I play back the interviews in iTunes and transcribe them in BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml ."
Tom Popyk
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:42:37 -0500
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