New HD channels on Sky HD in 2011 and 2012

UKTV, who operate some tv chanenl on the SKy satellite service, have inked finalised a deal which will see HD versions of Watch, Dave and Alibi

These new HD chanenls will join their exisiting HD channels of Eden HD and Good Food HD as part of the Sky HD subscriptin package.

Watch HD and Dave HD will launch in October, with Alibi HD due to go live in 2012.


More information here

Formula 1 on BBC and Sky in new deal from 2012

Sky and the BBC have been jointly awarded the rights to Formula 1 motor racing between 2012 and 2018. The BBC had been under pressure to shed Formula 1, because of the disproportion of cost to the number of viewers the competition brings in.
Under the split rights half of the races and qualifying sessions will remain live on the BBC, including key races such at the British Grand Prix, Monaco

BBC Iplayer launched in Spain and 10 other European countries for Ipad only

BBC Worldwide is launching its global iPlayer service today, via an iPad app that will be made available in 11 countries in Western Europe. The US, Canada and Australia will follow later this year, as part of what is intended to be a one-year pilot.

The service will offer a limited amount of content for free, supported by pre-roll ads and sponsorship, but its core business model is subscription,

Notes on Decolonising Universities (Part Two)

On 27-29 June 2011, Multiversity held its fourth international conference in Penang, Malaysia, on the topic of 'Decolonising Our Universities.' Hosted by Citizens International and Universiti Sains Malaysia, the conference brought together academics, activists, journalists and students from throughout the Global South to address the problem of Eurocentrism in university curricula and governance. Going beyond criticism of colonialism, many participants shared experiences in decolonising higher education, reporting on local initiatives from Asia, Africa and the Mideast. Sessions and excerpts are being aired throughout July and August on TV Multiversity, and a book of the proceedings is forthcoming later this year. In this second of a two part conference report, we bring our readers highlights from Days Two and Three of this landmark event.

Day Two opened with the Fifth Session of the conference, which featured C.K. Raju, visiting professor of mathematics at Universiti Sains Malaysia, who noted that math and science as taught today are ‘full of superstitions.’ He outlined how the Arabic and Islamic knowledge was sanitized in the West and that the purpose of the university was to make that knowledge fit the doctrines of Christian theology. In the Western world, he continued, all knowledge had to be either from the Greeks or it had to conform to Christian theology, and the resulting falsification of history 'wrote minds' of the West. He suggested that these falsifications are maintained through the process of refutability and the 'piling on of hypotheses.' Referring to Einstein as ‘the god of science,’ he explained that Einstein was in fact unreliable but that he is still believed because there is no method to refute his work and few people have the background to decide the truths of science. Suggesting that the laws of physics are not based on science but based on belief, he pointed out that what remains is trust in superstitions and it has become the job of universities to keep people from knowing and instead basing their awareness of the truth on trust. Truth, he continued, is a decidedly Western endorsement of the many false gods of science, such as Euclid, Ptolemy and Newton. In order to decolonise universities, Raju insisted that it is necessary to understand how they were colonised, that the key to this is to move beyond denouncing colonialism and realizing that a sort of soft power is at work, and that Eurocentrism is a very deliberate strategy of mind control for which stories are invented to defend the indefensible. He gave the example that while the world is non-reversible Newton's laws are reversible, that, in other words, Newton's world is mechanistic. He went on to note that Newton didn't invent calculus, he misunderstood it, and his misunderstanding led him to conceive of time in metaphysical terms. This was necessary, he suggested, because math had become in the West the language of eternal truths, with eternity being the religious component of math that needs to be exorcised. Getting into the necessary technical background, and referring participants to his books on the topic for the details, he pointed out that because infinite series cannot be summed set theory handles infinity metaphysically, and that therefore this metaphysics is religiously biased. He next asked why metaphysics has been accepted instead of empiricism in science, pointing out that logic is not universal and that, for example, Buddhist logic allows for contradictions. He further explained that infinity is not necessary to send a man to the moon, which needs 9 decimal points, or 16 to be safe, but that formal math demands infinite precision and therefore requires metaphysics. To decolonise math, he concluded, its applications can remain but its understanding will have to change and this will necessarily involve the elimination of the superstitions.

Session Five then turned from science to the topic of law. Shad Faruqi, Emeritus Professor of Law at Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia, spoke on legal education and noted that it is profession oriented and text based, but that it ought to be people related and experience based. He observed that syllabi for courses on legal studies in Malaysia ‘blindly ape’ Western approaches, and pointed out that the legal profession does not require knowledge of the Malaysian constitution. This results in issues of constitutional law being evaded, and to illustrate this he reminded participants that in 53 years of independence there have been very few cases of parliamentary review. He suggested that indigenisation of knowledge will assist in true globalisation, because diversity is necessary for meeting many of the social challenges of the day. He further observed that external reviews, governing bodies and sources of teaching are all Western and concluded by urging scholars of the Global South to compile the 'treasuries of our thought.' Shadrack Gutto, Director of the Institute for African Renaissance Studies, continued on several of these themes by noting that both small and large legal cases in Africa are sent to the European courts. At the same time, he pointed out that although there is an international criminal court, the USA and Israel are not part of that justice. Furthermore, he observed, international laws are often used in a way to depict Africans as criminals, while the real criminals are those who make the laws, and insisting that 'we have laws but no rule of law, we have constitutions but no constitutionalism.' He concluded by suggesting that lawyers in general are only 'half educated' and asked if it is really necessary to maintain the traditional academic disciplinary structure of universities when it comes to legal education, since many legal cases will often require interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from science, sociology and other areas of expertise.

Massoud Shadjareh of the Islamic Human Rights Commission chaired Session Six, which focused on language, literature and the arts. Roghayeh Rostampur Maleki, Head of the Arabic Language and Literature Department of Al-Zahra University in Tehran, opened the session by speaking about 'The West in Arabic Literature.' She asked why the Nobel Prize should be awarded only to those who are approved by the West, and gave the example of Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz who denigrated the Prophet of Islam. She concluded that the main aim of the West is to eliminate religion from literature, and that this is related to Arabic today being separated from its Quranic authority. To remedy this, she suggested, scholars and literary figures ought to be accustomed to the language of the Quran. Mahdi Hamidi Parsa opened the following presentation with a quotation from the Islamic sage Imam Sadiq, who said that 'Guide people not by talk.' He suggested that teachers ought to be honest and faithful, because they influence others, and noted that teaching in circles reduces hierarchy among learners. Speaking from his experience as Vice-President of the Islamic School of Art in Qom, he recalled that master learners live in a group and learn together and that teaching art is by doing art in a workshop environment. Building on the spirit of the quote from Imam Sadiq, he suggested that acting is more important than talking, that explanation is not necessary, and that teaching is by doing. He also reminded participants of the role of the sacred in education, giving the example of Muslim architects who fast and pray for a month before they begin work on building a mosque, because it will be a place in which people will seek to be close to God and so the architect ought to be close to God, too. To decolonise universities, he concluded, it is crucial to return to local tradition and part of that involves students and teachers living, learning, and traveling together so as to know one another. Session Six concluded with Sue-San Ghahremani Ghajar of Al-Zahra University and Seyyed Abdolhamid Mirhosseini of Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran offering ways to decolonize language education research in Iranian universities. Ghajar noted that that researchers have to be conscious of how they talk about their work and how they feel about what they are doing, and Mirhosseini added that research pervades the work of academia and that this is related to questions of relevance and publication. He observed that the sources of legitimation in research are not people but rather institutions or ideas, such as 'the West,' concluding that there is a form of 'captive research,' being that which is largely irrelevant to the needs and concerns of a locality.

The afternoon of Day Two began with Session Seven, which was chaired by Molefi Kete Asante of Temple University in the US. Erwin Soriano Fernandez, Director of the House of Pangasinan Studies in the Philippines, opened the session by speaking about neo-colonialism in the university, providing a review of how much decolonisation has actually taken place in universities, the people associated with it and at what level it is occurring, taking note of the obstacles, often self-imposed, that prevent furthering the work of decolonisation. He was followed by Zhou Li, Professor of Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University in China, who enumerated the of traps of academic studies as the uncritical and ideological use of theory, and the pervasive culture of Eurocentrism. He noted that the division of thought into traditional and modern was a one way movement with no return, giving the example of modernization theory. He also cautioned against the responses to this predicament that often resort to a kind of provincial and self-centered localism, warning that 'if we jump from one trap, we may fall into another.' He observed that in modern China, beating down Confucianism was followed by dependency on German Marxist thought. For most of modern history, the social sciences have been occupied by Western sources and the adoption of various social and natural science indices are a form of self-colonisation. Courses in development, he gave as an example, are based on comparing theories of the Western world. He jokingly noted that, 'you have to lay many eggs' to get promoted in Chinese academia by publishing in the right indexed journals. He concluded by suggesting that decolonisation needs to come about through ‘our utterances as well as in our college lectures.’ Cheng-Feng Shih, Professor of Political Science from Taiwan, continued this line of thought by noting that after colonising bodies was achieved, colonizing minds was necessary 'so that we can learn to be happy slaves.' He noted the irony of the situation of Taiwanese professors, who are asked by their institutions to publish in US journals to 'gain recognition' but that US editors say that their works 'lack audience' and send them back. Evaluations of faculty, he continued, are based on quantitative notions of 'productivity' as the basis for promotions and bonuses, and that the standards are biased toward the natural sciences. The result is that young scholars frequently lose interest in the social and political problems of their country and indigenous peoples are deprived of identity in Taiwan. Session Seven concluded with Ibrahim Pur of Gazi University in Ankara, speaking about the impact of Westernization on the Turkish educational system, illustrating this by listing the Eurocentric curriculum content of a typical degree program in Turkish universities. He also reported on the case of Imam Hatip schools that teach the usual academic subjects along side of religious subjects as a sort of compromise, noting that Muslim parents in Turkey want moral education as well as academic subjects and that Imam Hatip schools produce graduates recognized for both their morality and ethics as well as their academic achievements.

Session Eight, chaired by Shaikh Abdul Mabud of the Islamic Academy in London, began with Abdolhossein Khosropaneh, a teacher and research at Islamic seminaries in Iran, speaking about a model of the social sciences from a Muslim perspective and providing an overview of relevant theories from the Islamic tradition. Mohideen Abdul Kader, Chairperson on Citizens International, spoke next about universities failing to rise to the task of addressing the systems that are destroying the world, noting that the knowledge they are teaching is part of the destructive mentality, and that it is materialist and lacks any sense of the sacred. He observed that philosophy departments are often closed down because they have no utilitarian purpose, that scientists have become ensconced in the market, and that most universities produce graduates with 'tunnel vision.' He concluded that universities need to introduce moral and ethical values into the curriculum but that there are obstacles to this prospectus. Giving the example of Universiti Sains Malaysia, he noted that compulsory economics courses are based on the capitalist model while Islamic oriented courses are optional. The result of this, he observed, is that graduates come out with only the increasingly irrelevant and already destructive mindset of the capitalist economic model but that there is a complete absence of ethics and justice in economics, pointing out the implications that 'our minds have become captive to those who are trained in this way.' Mohammad Reza Aghaya, Vice President of the University of Religions and Denominations in Qom, Iran, turned to the question of integrating the knowledge domains in the Islamic seminary, suggesting that in Islamic seminaries today there is a 'focus on God words but on God books,' and that there needs to be a return to a system in which knowledge can be modelled on that of the prophets and imams. Arif Ersoy, Secretary General of the Economic and Social Research Center in Ankara, concluded the session by recalling that while Turkey was indirectly colonized in the past, today's colonisation is worse than before because it is mental and cultural colonisation. Drawing upon  the wisdom of the Islamic mystical tradition, he observed that in the mineral and plant worlds there is harmony of function according to their instinct and nature, but that human beings have four faculties that need to be aligned in order to bring about harmony and sociability. The session, and the day, concluded with a lively discussion of the previous themes featuring comments from the floor.

The third and final day of the conference featured two sessions in the morning and then an afternoon of reflection and planning. Session Nine, chaired by Mani Shankar Aiyar, began with Molefi Kete Asante, professor of Africology at Temple University, reminding participants that the USA was born with two ‘birth defects,’ genocide and slavery. After pointing out that Africa was the original home of the human species, he suggested that the experience of Europeans has colored the views of Asians toward Africans. He went on to point out that the curriculum of African universities is much like those of the West, that the regional universities are 'imitation European universities.' Part of the way to rectify this problem is to acknowledge chronology, which he insisted was crucial. For instance, he showed that it is important to realize that Nubia and Kemet (the original African name for Egypt) are the China, India and Greece of Africa and that the pyramids were already up 5000 years ago, long before Greece and Rome. Given that, he asked why African universities begin their studies of history with ancient Greece. Similarly, he continued, Africans had highly developed philosophies long before Greece, pointing to the Egyptian polymath Imhotep. If it is necessary to refer to the Greeks, then he suggested checking Herodotus to find out how much the Greeks learned from Africa. The modern university, he observed, was promoting a Eurocentric version of world history, and that ‘there was a Greek on every corner.' Yet the truth is, he insisted, that the Greeks sat at the feet of Africa, and it is therefore necessary to re-integrate the ancient history of Africa. Unfortunately, he continued, there is no African foundation to today's African universities. Drawing upon forty years of teaching in universities, he observed that if you see 'origin unknown' in any references or sources then it means that it must have come from Africa. In other words, it may have been unknown to Europe, but that doesn’t preclude peoples of the Global South from having a look. He also noted that the way we talk about the world is part of self-colonisation, in that while Europeans have ‘philosophy,’ other peoples have myths, tales, stories and religions. He concluded by reminding the conference participants that Africology is the Afrocentric study of Africa and that it proceeds from the agency of the African people, not the Europeans imposing their agency. Building upon these themes, Samuel Tindifa from Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan University in Uganda delivered a paper prepared by Babuuzibwa Mukasa Luutu, Vice Chancellor of Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan University, on the topic of bringing community back into the university. Based upon the teachings of Marcus Garvey, he suggested that peoples’ traditions are fundamental pillars of learning, concluding that Africology is the study of the scientific development of humanity, that it is a liberation theology drawing its legitimacy from Africa as the cradle of humanity. Session Nine was followed by an extensive and lively discussion around the question of what it means to be Afrocentric and what might be the relationships between Afrocentrism and a similarly configured Sinocentrism or Indocentrism or others, and in turn if these were all dependent on Eurocentrism.

Session Ten, chaired by Omar Farouk Bajunid of Hiroshima City University, began with Yusef Progler, Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan, speaking on the challenges faced by higher education undergoing an imposed transition in many locales from the national university to the corporate university, pointing out that the structure and outlook of business has undermined higher education’s traditional encounter with culture. In the event that elite minded researchers collude with money minded managers to close the doors of universities to all but the privileged, he suggested using the Internet to construct online learning communities and repositories of knowledge to fulfill Ivan Illich’s prospectus for deschooling societies. James Campbell, Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University in Australia, spoke next on the problem of mimicry in today’s university, pointing out the role of international university ranking systems in perpetuating a colonialist hierarchy of knowledge and value. Claude Alvares, coordinator of the Multiversity Project, followed up on these presentations and summarised many of the previous ones by providing an overview of Eurocentrism in universities, with an emphasis on the social sciences. He noted that beyond the curriculum, the structure of university learning is also colonised and destructive, suggesting that compulsory attendance needs to be eliminated, textbooks have to be abandoned, and lecturing ought to be banned, replacing these with an environment in which self-learning is encouraged and made to flourish. Building upon these later points and also noting ways and means of learning outside the academy, Manish Jain of India-based Shikshantar: The People’s Institute for Rethinking Education and Development concluded the session with a presentation on the recently founded Swaraj University in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Inspired by Gandhian notions of self-sufficiency, he noted that the hidden curriculum of modern universities has a far greater impact on minds and learning than the written curriculum. He suggested that the alternative is to see the world as a classroom, and outlined a paradigm for moving away from schooling and toward self-organizing learning communities, pointing to the example of Swaraj University, which operates as a two year learning program that provides opportunities for young learners to develop the ‘skills and perspectives they need to create viable green-collar enterprises and to support healthy and resilient local communities.’ The session then turned to a series of several exchanges between the conference participants and the presenters.

The Concluding Session of the conference, on the afternoon of Day Three, featured Anwar Fazal, a Penang-based activist and organizer and founder of the Right Livelihood College, leading a plenary discussion to chart a roadmap for decolonising during 2011-2012. In an aspect that is often excluded from typical academic conferences, the session began with a series of presentations from the student rapporteurs responding to the conference themes. The session concluded with Anwar Fazal asking each of the conference participants to commit themselves to a specific activity to bring the conference themes to fruition in the coming year. The conference was brought to a close by S.M. Mohammed Idris, Chairperson of Citizens International, and Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice Chancellor of University Sains Malaysia, who thanked the participants and urged them to keep alive the diverse proposals and prospects presented.

The conference was attended by several local journalists, and along with reports and reflections from conference participants a number of articles have appeared in the Malay press. Zainon Ahmed wrote in the Sun Daily that 'decolonisation of universities begins with us.' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak wrote about decolonizing our minds in the New Straits Times and conference participant Shad Saleem Faruqi wrote on 'decolonising our universities' in the The Star Online. Additional media coverage is reported at the USM homepage on the Multiworld website, and C. K. Raju is archiving media reports on his blog. Further information about the conference is available on the conference page at Multiworld and videos featuring excerpts as well as full sessions are available for viewing and downloading at the TV Multiversity channels on YouTube, Vimeo and TVU Networks.

[This report was written by Multiversity co-creator Yusef J. Progler, who was a participant in the Penang conference and who presently works as professor of Media, Culture and Society at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. It is the second of a two part report. Part one is available here.]

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Notes on Decolonising Universities (Part One)

On 27-29 June 2011, Multiversity held its fourth international conference in Penang, Malaysia, on the topic of 'Decolonising Our Universities.' Hosted by Citizens International and Universiti Sains Malaysia, the conference brought together academics, activists, journalists and students from the Global South to address the problem of Eurocentrism in university curricula and to develop alternatives and pathways of resistance. The conference went beyond critique with many participants sharing their experiences in decolonizing higher education by reporting on local initiatives from throughout Asia, Africa and the Mideast. The event was live streamed and also recorded. Complete sessions and excerpts are available on the TV Multiversity internet television channels and a book of the proceedings will be forthcoming later this year. This first of a two part report offers highlights from Day One.

In the Opening Session, S.M. Mohamed Idris, Chairperson of Citizens International, gave the welcoming address. He reminded participants that colonialism is not just a political and economic system; it is a 'malady' that has 'afflicated' the Global South on the level of culture, and the so-called 'independent' ruling elite has continued to operate without dismantling the old colonialist ways of thinking. Multiversity was launched a decade ago to reverse this tendency, and specifically to redesign curricula and resist Western hegemony. He called for participants to create 'socially useful sciences' and avoid meaningless hybrids. The next speaker, Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia, noted that previous educational systems are becoming dysfunctional and that it was necessary to create something new, different and concrete to replace the present system. An advisor to the Iranian Ministry of Higher Education, Asghar Zarei, was the third speaker. He observed that imperialism and education have implications for developing states, and that imperialism is about hegemony and gain. The Third World is on a road map drawn up by imperialist powers seeking hegemony, he insisted, and this involves channeling global scientific knowledge to serve the needs of the imperialists. He also noted that students who go abroad are part of the problem by working for research agendas established in the Global North. In his inaugural address, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Higher Education Saifuddin Abdullah suggested that there is a need to develop indigenous knowledge systems of the Global South, including university curricula and teaching methods. He also noted that the ranking of universities is a way of preserving the hegemony of knowledge of the Global North. He concluded the session by suggesting that the Global South is not lacking in terms of talented people, but that ways have to be found to put an end to dependency of Western ideas, theories and methods.

The Second Session featured a keynote address by Pavan Varma, Ambassador of India to Bhutan, who emphasized a point made by Idris Mohamed, that the deepest colonization is that of the mind. Drawing upon the Indian experience, he continued that the 'culture of the ruled' was systematically devalued and that European colonialists were completely dismissive of all that was part of Indian culture, and that there was a systematic denigration of all that was other than their own. This had two results: an alienation of oneself and a sense of awe toward the colonialists. Noting that the first thing the colonisers took from the ruled was language, he added that, 'Language is a window to your culture... you close that window and a culture ceases.' He suggested that global languages have their place, but not at the expense of local languages, cautioning that, 'We cannot become a nation of linguistic half castes.' Varma concluded his address by observing that while the Global South can be proud of its doctors and engineers, the humanities are stunted and in a shambles.

The keynote address was followed by commentary from several conference participants. Hossein Doostdar of the Center for International Scientific Studies and Collaboration in Iran pointed out that the spirits of Macaulay and Churchill may be alive but they themselves are dead, emphasising that the Global South has to also be aware of the living forces in its midst that are perpetuating the thinking of the former colonisers. Ashis Nandy of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi made the point that Euro-centrism was a limited way to understand what was happening, and that the former colonised world is more universal and multicultural than the West and the colonisers. He further noted that notions of 'progress' and 'revolution' have not served the Global South very well in the past 200 years. The first phase of colonialism was about money and Christianity, he recalled, and the second phase proceeded from the African slave trade. But the first half of the the 19th century brought a new phase when enlightenment and moral values changed this old colonial model. The early colonisers wore local dress, married local women, and feared local gods. But this changed in the 1830s, Nandy continued, with the entry of the British middle classes into India, for whom Social Darwinism became the dominant value system. This enabled the rulers to strike a posture of 'stern schoolmaster' and 'despotic father' in their campaign to shape the local people into citizens of the modern nation state. Mani Shankar Aiyar, member of the Upper House of Indian Parliament, observed that there has always been a thesis and anti-thesis in the colonial era's interaction between Britain and India. He turned the old adage that 'Nalanda was the Harvard of India' on its head by suggesting that Harvard ought to be seen as the Nalanda of the US. He insisted that the Global South can stand on its own feet, 'With the winds of the world blowing around us, but we cannot be blown over,' and that there has always been a productive interaction. The Macaulay 'Minute on Indian Education,' he concluded, was the 'suicide note of the British in India,' since once the English ideas were accepted they were turned against the West. Other respondents to Varma's address included: Joan Valenzuela of the Philippines, who noted that dismantling colonialism needs to consider the Global South's own complicity in Western systems; Ahmad Merican of Malaysia, who reminded participants to reclaim the discourse of the Global South's own history; and Lee Seunghwan, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding, who suggested that education should be for cooperation rather than competition and that the Global South needs less education and more cooperation. Varma replied to the commentators by noting that colonialism was not a level playing field, that the people of the Global South must be clear about the destruction wrought by colonialism and they ought to avoid excessive benevolence toward the colonizers.

On Monday afternoon, Session Three and Four focused on the state of the social sciences in the Global South. Session Three was dedicated to discussion of the World Social Science Report (WSSR) published in 2010 by UNESCO. The session began with Daryl Macer of UNESCO Thailand summarizing the report, admitting that the idea of social science in the report is closest to that of the West and that UNESCO believes that social sciences need to support a global agenda of development goals. He added, however, that knowledge cannot be suppressed, especially that which challenges the dominant viewpoints. One of the concrete outcomes of the conference was a memorandum to reform the WSSR, which Macer agreed to deliver to UNESCO on behalf of the participants. Shyam Singh of the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore responded that the WSSR is about knowledge from the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, its relevance to those who didn't have that experience was dubious. Vishram Gupte, a Goa-based writer, noted that the WSSR had 'impeccable research methods' and is a 'meticulous collection of data,' and that its point about the 'knowledge divide' is a useful admission that holds out a possibility of hope. However, he stressed that the 'knowing heart' and the 'language of intuition' is missing from the WSSR. The guru model as developed in India, he continued, is based on heart-to-heart talking to develop knowledge, but that in most universities today the liberal exchange is ruled out and replaced with authority-based lectures as the normative mode of instruction. In his response to the presentations, Hazim Shah of the University of Malaya added that the Global South needs to avoid superficial universalism inherent in global reports, that the WSSR has little recognition of other ways of knowing and that there's no attempt to produce independent thinking outside the market orientation. Srinivasan Ramani, an editor at the Economic and Political Weekly, suggested that journals need not cater to the impulse toward indexing and impact factoring. He offered the example of the Dalits in India who use poetry to reflect their social experiences, and asked if there was room for alternative ideas about apprehending reality and experience. Rajaram Tolpadi of Bangalore University noted that social science often provides a 'gloomy picture of what is happening in the non-West,' and asked participants to evaluate what was included as social science, and that in the end it might be better to forget the WSSR.

Building upon the critique of the WSSR in Session Three, the fourth session of the day was dedicated to alternative curricula and methods. Farid Alatas, professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore, began by noting that there is a general neglect of ideas that originated from the non-West. He gave the example of Ibn Khaldun, who is often seen only as a source of knowledge but not as a source of social theory. He outlined two interrelated tasks. First, a step toward decolonizing Eurocentrism would be to ask what of Marx, Durkheim, and other Western thinkers can be salvaged. He suggested that the goal should be to critique but not abandon, and that there can be a focus on aspects of Western thinkers that are neglected in Europe and America, such as the views of Marx and Weber on Islam and Asia. Second, the Global South needs to introduce non-Western thinkers of the same period, such as Jose Rizal of the Philippines, whose works are virtually ignored in the region but who was doing a critique of Eurocentrism before it was recognized as such. He blamed the structure of 'academic dependency' and the 'captive mind' for not moving from critiques to concrete reforms. Most importantly, he urged participants to recognise that besides imperialism there are problems in the Global South that need to be addressed, such a lack of standards or government interference in curricula. He concluded by asking what social scientists are doing to fight the abuses and corruption in their own countries and whether the social sciences can confront the problems of Asia today.

The next speaker in Session Four was Vinay Lal of the University of Delhi, who reminded participants that, despite what Eric Wolf wrote in Europe and the People without History, all peoples today insist they have a history and so what is therefore necessary is an epistemological critique of history. Offered the example of James Mill's History of British India (1818) to illustrate that periodisation was already well established by that time but that Mill used Hindi, Muslim and Modern for his periods, Lal pointed out the 'sleight of hand' between the second and third periods, which relied on the negative connotations of the Medieval period in the West to suggest that Britain had somehow transcended religion. He then asked about the categories used to write history, noting that this same movement from Medieval to Modern is implicit in the discourse of development, which hijacks the past as well as the future. Chaipraditkul Napat, a researcher at the Eubios Ethics Institute in Thailand, spoke next about the philosophy of education and the need to develop wisdom. She noted that in terms of scholarship 'they keep writing and we keep citing,' and asked if the Global South can learn to write its own histories. Reporting on the potential of developing African psychotherapies in African universities, Augustine Nwoye from the University of Dodoma in Tanzania outlined the benefits of drawing from the best practices of African and Western models of affecting psychological healing. In outlining an African derived course in psychology, he emphasised that decolonising is worthy but needs care. Continuing on the theme of psychology, Akomolafe Adebayo Clement of Covenant University in Nigeria asked about relevance of the social sciences in Africa. He suggested the need to develop nosologies and classifications that come out of community narratives in order to move away from the idea that universities need to look like Harvard. Giving the example of Swaraj University, he noted that a student need not be defined as some one sitting in a classroom. Stressing the importance of stories and narratives or myths, he reported on the development of a local storytelling circle to generate narratives, asking that if psychology is a form of storytelling practice, it's important to focus on what stories are being told and by what myths people may be living. Session Four concluded with comments from the floor that raised several points, including that religion and spirituality play an important role in the Global South and that more local grounding is needed before doing criticism of Eurocentrism.

The conference was attended by several local journalists, and along with reports and reflections from conference participants a number of articles have appeared in the Malay press. Zainon Ahmed wrote in the Sun Daily that 'decolonisation of universities begins with us.' Vice Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia and conference co-host Dzulkifli Abdul Razak discussed 'decolonizing our minds' in the New Straits Times and conference participant Shad Saleem Faruqi reflected on 'decolonising our universities' in the The Star Online. Additional media coverage is reported at the USM homepage and on the Multiworld website, and C. K. Raju is archiving media reports on his blog. Further information about the conference and participants is available on the conference page at Multiworld, including a selection of conference papers, and videos featuring excerpts as well as full sessions are available for viewing and downloading at the TV Multiversity channels on YouTube, Vimeo and TVU Networks.

[This report was written by Multiversity co-creator Yusef J. Progler, who was a participant in the Penang conference and who presently works as professor of Media, Culture and Society at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. Part two of the report, featuring notes on Day Two and Three of the conference, is available here.]

Intellian t110W and t130W with WorldView LNB delivers HD and SD programming all over the world

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Live Premier League Football matches on Sky 2011/2012

Confirmed live Premier League fixtures for 2011/12:
AUGUST

Sun 14: Stoke v Chelsea (1.30pm)
Sun 14: West Brom v Man Utd (4pm)
Mon 15: Man City v Swansea (8pm)
Sat 20: Arsenal v Liverpool (12.45pm)
Sun 21: Bolton v Man City (4pm)
Mon 22: Man Utd v Tottenham (8pm)
Sat 27: Aston Villa v Wolves (12.05pm)
Sat 27: Liverpool v Bolton (5.30pm)
Sun 28: Man Utd v Arsenal (4pm)

SEPTEMBER

Sun 11: Norwich

Channel 5 on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain. Freesat TV in Spain. Channel 5 in Spain

Channel 5 on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain

The Freesat version of UK TV s Channel 5 is free to air, meaning you need no viewing card to watch this channel.

Channel 5 reception on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain can be difficult.





This is because the frequency used for Freesat Channel 5 is an Astra 2D horizontal frequenxcy. This is perhaps the weakest frequency for UK TV on the Costa Blanca.

Channel 5 on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain

Channel 5 on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain

The Freesat version of UK TV s Channel 5 is free to air, meaning you need no viewing card to watch this channel.

Channel 5 reception on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain can be difficult.





This is because the frequency used for Freesat Channel 5 is an Astra 2D horizontal frequenxcy. This is perhaps the weakest frequency for UK TV on the Costa Blanca.

This means that reception of Channel 5 on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain can be limited.

In many cases you will not be able to receve Channel 5 on Freesat in Costa Blanca Spain 24/7, even if you have the biggest 2.4m satellite dish or even a 3.1m satellite dish.

Yes even on the Famaval Portuguese 2.4m satellite dish, supposably the best perfomring satellite dish for UK TV on the Costa Blanca Spain, can struggle to recevie Channel 5 24/7.





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Egypt Energency Response Numbers - case in point

Last night, a member's purse was snatched just outside our Club.

This morning I received an email with the following information.
Please share.

The Ministry of Interior has deployed special patrol units in areas of Cairo, Giza and Helwan, armed and equipped with mobile phones for quick response to emergencies.
Please print and keep in your car, wallet or purse.

Signed: Moataz El Shorbagy - Regional Chief of Seciruty

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The 'New Time Religion' of Advertising

One of North America's foremost media theorists, Sut Jhally is professor of communications at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and director of the Media Education Foundation. He has written numerous books and articles on advertising, social communications and cultural politics. In the following interview with Kalle Lasn and Nicholas Racz, conducted in the Vancouver offices of 'Adbusters' magazine in 1993, professor Jhally suggests that modern advertising has become a cultural force resembling a religion. He implicates this 'new time religion' in the culture of consumerism threatening to bring about environmental collapse on a planetary scale. The way out of this mess, he suggests, is to mount a 'reformation' in attitudes toward ourselves.

Adbusters Quarterly: You talk a great deal about advertising as religion. Please elaborate on that.

Sut Jhally: Advertising has increasingly come to provide answers to those same questions that religion often raises. How does the world work? Where do I fit in? What is a moral life? But I don't think advertising is a religion in the same way that Catholicism or Islam are religions. The religion of advertising operates at the level of the everyday. It's close to the kind of religious practice called fetishism that existed in West Africa, in which people believed in God but also worshipped magical spirits that populated the ordinary places in which they lived. Those spirits can influence, not the big problems, but the small problems. They can influence the question about how to get better, how to heal yourself and how to enhance your sexual, romantic and family lives. That's where advertising fits in. It creates a world in which goods come to play all kinds of magical roles in our daily interactions. The religion of advertising is based upon a magic in which goods instantly can cure us of all kinds of ailments, instantly make you more attractive or act as a love potion. Buying the right good can act as a sort of passport into a magical world of consumption, a magical world of style.

AQ: Which religion is more powerful?

SJ: I would say it's the religion of advertising. We pay lip service to these other religions, we may go to religious services for an hour or two a week, but they don't dominate our lives. We live in the media culture 24 hours a day. This other vision is pumped at us constantly from all the media. Advertising is so powerful because it recognizes the real things that people want, the things that make people feel: friendship, love, security, some kind of autonomy. Advertisers use our real desires, our need to belong, for identity, for love, for friendship. That's why those images are so powerful.

AQ: But most people don't believe that advertising has that kind of power.

SJ: I think North Americans live in the most powerful and most effective propaganda system in history. Especially in the United States, people really believe that the media are free. A propaganda system only works if people think that they're in a free system. So if you know you're in a propaganda system, it ceases to work, which is why the Soviet Union fell apart overnight.

AQ: You make it feel like an eminently solvable problem, that all we have to do is simply make our propaganda system apparent to more and more people.

SJ: Except that you have to have access to society, and those media channels are already monopolized.

AQ: Did this propaganda system, this new time religion, just creep up on us? How did it happen?

SJ: It happened as a result of struggle - people struggling to see who would control public space, who would control cultural institutions and the public airwaves. There was a battle in the U.S. in 1934, which resulted in the Federal Communications Act in which commercial interests got the best airwaves. The people with other visions of broadcasting - were shunted off into the salt mine. Now that was the the result of a battle, and it's a battle that in Europe still goes on.

AQ: How do we get back on track?

SJ: Through democratization of the media. The big problem we now have is monopoly control of the media. We live in a very sensitive media society where vast corporations control everything. And it's their interests that structure our vision. The way to fight that is to fight for access and argue for diversity. It was one in the 1930s, but we lost.

AQ: Hasn't this battle been fought since 1934?

SJ: No. And it's very difficult to fight in the U.S. because historically, it's tied to another issue, which is anti-communism. Freedom in the U.S. is tied up with the freedom from government. It's a very specific American notion. I've always been struck by that. Americans have a very narrow definition of freedom. They think that if you can be free from government then somehow you're free. There seems to be no way of conceiving that there might be other entities as well that could pose threats to freedom. I think what's required is an enjoining battle over what the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution really means. The First Amendment is a very interesting document, because it links up three freedoms - freedom of beliefs, freedom of speech and freedom of action. This supposes that when different ideas are expressed, then consensus will automatically develop from this free exchange. That 'Congress shall make no laws...' is no longer enough. We need to realize that there are now other powerful ways to limit free expression and debate.

AQ: In the underground art circles there is already a powerful realization that our mass media, especially television, are not free.

SJ: But it's on the fringes. The key question is how to get this realization from the periphery into the mainstream.

AQ: So how do we do that? How do we see through this religion and catalyze a 'reformation'?

SJ: It's an important question, because I actually believe the survival of the human race is at stake. We're now coming to a stage in human history when that notion of unlimited growth can no longer go unquestioned. The physical limits of the planet are literally bursting at the seams and if we keep producing at this rate, the planet will destroy itself. What we need now is a vision of society that is not based upon ever increasing numbers of goods. The 'reformation' will be a questioning of the very nature of economic growth, the health of our society, what we want it to do and how to organize it. The growth ethic is about consumption. It says happiness is connected to the number of things a society produces and the number of things individuals have. But having said that, I don't know how to do it. We can talk and analyze the situation, but when it comes to constructing that new vision, I don't know how to do that. The advertising vision has mobilized people around a set of social relations in which they ultimately lose, but with which they identify very strongly. It provides answers to questions that they ask. For the first time in human history, huge numbers of individuals are able to experience and explore their own needs and wants. It's not just manipulation, and it's not just a question of showing people that they're being fooled. Unfortunately, what we don't have yet is an alternative vision, an alternative way of thinking about ourselves. I think for the future of the planet, we need to develop that alternative vision and mobilize people around it. That's the challenge.

[The foregoing was originally published as 'An Interview with Sut Jhally' in Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment, Vol. 2 No. 3, Winter 1993, pp. 22-25. Portions of the interview were excerpted from Media and Values, No. 57, Winter 1992. More at Sut Jhally's homepage and the Media Education Foundation.]

Space Shuttle and Space Station Tracker

A nice little tracking tool from NASA to show you the location of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle and Space Station Tracker

Space Shuttle Last Launch and mission

Space Shuttle Last Launch and mission

You can watch live HD pictures of the last Space Shuttle launch and mission for free via NASA TV.


http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv





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Gandia TV closed down by Gandia Town Hall

Gandia Town Hall has closed Gandia TV after 13 years of operations.

Spanish media reports that Gandia Town Hall has closed its local TV channel "Gandia Televisio", with the loss of 30 jobs.

Reports say that the closure of Gandia TV is a temporary measure, while the correct broadcast licence is obtained. This is due to a regional Valencian government case against Gandia TV for not having the

Live UK football on Sky, ESPN, ADMC and BBC and ITV for the 2011 / 2012 season

The English football season is less than 1 month away!

Here are the first weeks fixtures for the English Championship and Carling Cup...


Live English Football matches on Satellite TV (Sky, ESPN, ADMC) in Spain 2011/12
Friday 5th August 2011

English Football Championship

Hull City vs Blackpool, 1945, Sky Sports, Sky Sports HD

Saturday 6th August 2011

English Football League 2

Wimbledon vs

Sky launches Sky Go sports campaign

Sky has recruited Spurs and England striker Peter Crouch and rapper Dizzee Rascal for a new advertisement that will promote the new Sky Go service.
Launching this month, Sky Go is a multiscreen service that will allow Sky subscribers access to Sky content across a range of devices including the iPhone, iPad and laptop.

The 60-second ad, which was created by Brothers & Sisters and premieres today

Good-bye Space Shuttle

Problems with Starmax satellite in Spain?

A few months ago saw the launch of a new satellite TV service for Spain called Starmax. It offered a smal;l selection of channels, some in HD.

However since it launch there have been various complaints from people about its service, including the lack of a functioning EPG.

However, this Friday 1st July the cannels they carry cease transmission.

Many users started to report that even though

"I have no signal quality on my Sky dish in Costa Blanca Spain."

You access the signal test screen on a sky box via the services, signal test option.

This is a test screen and shows the signal strength and signal quality of a particular satellite signal.

In most cases the satellite frequency that this test screen measures is frequency 11778 v 27.5 2/3.

This is a weak satellite frequency in Spain. It is a weak Astra 2 north beam frequency. This frequency is weakest at 5pm. In many areas of Spain in the afternoon this frequency can be unavailable, even on the big 2.4m Portuguese Famaval satellite dishes.

So it is entirely possible for this signal test screen on a Sky box to show "not locked" or no signal at all, yet you are still able to receive other frequencies (and channels).

The loss of these satellite frequencies can be reduced with an accurately aligned satellite dish.




For more information please visit:

The Sat and PC Guy - Digital Satellite and Terrestrial Installations and Maintenance for the Costa Blanca

or the forum

The Sat and PC Guy FORUM - Digital Satellite and Terrestrial Installations and Maintenance for the Costa Blanca

"I have no signal quality on my Sky dish in Spain."

You access the signal test screen on a sky box via the services, signal test option.

This is a test screen and shows the signal strength and signal quality of a particular satellite signal.

In most cases the satellite frequency that this test screen measures is frequency 11778 v 27.5 2/3.

This is a weak satellite frequency in Spain. It is a weak Astra 2 north beam frequency. This frequency is

Le Tour de France 2011. Live free coverage on TV

Saturday July 2 to Sunday, July 24, 2011, is held the 98th Tour de France consists of 21 stages for a distance of 3430.5 km.

The course is prepared as follows:

10 flat stages,
6 mountain stages with four summit finishes,
3 medium mountain stages.
An individual time trial (42.5 km)
A team time trial (23 km).


Watch the Tour de France for free on
France 2 on Atlantic Bird 3 satellite

Add Some Spice To Your Next Vacation

Some people consider a nice vacation to be staying near a pleasant beach or in a secluded cabin. They imagine being waited on hand and foot and a stress free trip. For some individuals, an amazing vacation involves adventure! By the way, Palawan is a must if you want to stay near a beach.

These are individuals who like to get their adrenaline rushing. They are fond of socializing with other adventurers. Are you like this? Are you tackling a decision of what kind of adventure travels you want to try on your next vacation? Deciding on the right adventure trip can be hard work. There is so much to see and do! Here are some of our best-loved adventure vacations. You may not regard them as so, but some cruises are classified as adventure travels. Some cruises with specific destinations, like Europe or the Greek Isles can be a great way to get out and find some adventure learning about the great moments in history and visiting historical sites.

Don't your want to tour the location of the first Olympic games? Do you want to see Stonehenge in-person? It is even possible to stay active while on the boat. These cruises normally offer different ways to stay active, such as rock climbing and sea diving. There is so much more to a cruise than lounging around on the lido deck! Do you love sightseeing? Do you love being able to tour places you've only read about in books? Why not take a sightseeing adventure travels tour of somewhere you've always wanted to see? Highly favored tourist destinations include Greece, Rome, Ireland and Scotland, Africa, China and Tibet.

Unmistakably, there are sightseeing tours in almost every country in the world, so just make a choice of where you want to visit and sign up for one of their touring trips! Let a guide teach you about the country's culture and history. Do you love food? Do you tantalize the idea of learning about and taste testing cuisine from around the world? Why don't you try out a culinary tour? By all means, Italy is among the height of popularity when it comes to food destinations and people who want to try cuisine in it "native habitat." Ireland, Spain and Greece also have amazing "culinary tours." These are tours where, in addition to sampling the food after it is prepared by "native" chefs, you also learn how to cook a variety of dishes yourself. This is a terrific adventure travel for a chef on the rise or any lover of food. Adventure travels don't necessarily have to be lavish, extravagant and flagrant. Sometimes they involve taking daytime adventures while returning to a relaxing setting at night, like in Palawan island and it's many awesome activities and Palawan hotels. The main goal of an adventure vacation is to just have a thrill and get your blood rushing. Thankfully, there is something for just about every adventurer to do-even if they only have a few days of vacation time in which to do it. When you begin making arrangements for your next vacation, why not participate in an adventurer's lifestyle? Next time, you can opt for the relaxing spa.