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Earth Hour: Are you going to switch off the lights tonight?1

JEDDAH – With only a few hours to go, the countdown to Saudi Arabia’s first Earth Hour has begun amid considerable buzz across the Kingdom about what exactly will happen between 8:30 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. tonight.

Mazen Batterjee, vice president of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), announcing that the JCCI will take part in Earth Hour, said: “We will turn off all the lights of our main building during Earth Hour. We are encouraging our employees and (business) partners to take part as well. It is our social responsibility to save the Earth and we should spread awareness in this regard.”
Batterjee added that “we are willing to extend our cooperation to organize conferences and seminars on the importance of Earth Hour and other environmental issues”.
He said Al-Bir charitable organization is also participating. “This is an opportunity for others as well to join hands and come forward,” he said.

Confirming their commitment to Earth Hour as had earlier been reported, a circular from Ahmad Sulaiman Al-Batah, administration supervisor general of Okaz Organization for Press and Publication, informed employees that “in line with directives from the Organization’s Director General, Okaz will take part in this important event by disconnecting power at the same time and on the same day, and we therefore ask all staff to take the necessary precautionary measures”.

Lights in the Jeddah office of the British Council (BC), which has been an active organizer of various environmental awareness programs in the past, will be dimmed and its employees will fully switch off lights at their homes to be part of the event, said Marcus Gilbert, BC western region director, Saudi Arabia. “Because of security issues we cannot have a complete blackout in the office,” he said.
Not wanting to be left out, various consulates in Jeddah are also doing their bit. B.K Aseeja, HOC at the Indian consulate, and Mohammed Tariq, press consul at the Pakistani consulate, confirmed to Saudi Gazette their consulates’ participation in Earth Hour.
“This is our responsibility. However, since the gas emitted by vehicles is much more damaging to the environment, Earth Hour should also entail keeping all vehicles off the streets for that one hour,” said Pakistani welfare consul Nusrullah Watto.

Abdul Muqtader, trade officer at the British consulate, said: “Britain has always been at the forefront of environmental programs. We will switch off the lights except the security lights at the (British) consulate and all our employees will do so at home in an effort to show their solidarity with the rest of the world in saving the environment and energy”.
Sri Lankan Consul General Sabarullah Khan and Swiss Consul General Hans Stalder said their respective consulates will go dark during Earth Hour. “Of course we will participate. Switzerland has always initiated programs on environmental awareness. This is the time to be active and spread awareness about such issues as energy conservation, etc.,” said Stalder.

Kai Fitness Center in Jeddah has created an Earth Hour awareness slogan, which is: ‘Turn off the electricity to turn on your future’.

“Over 100 people at our centers will participate to show their love for the Earth. We plan to turn off certain electric machines, lights and signboards. We are also sending out Earth Hour reminders through messages and emails to our 10,000-strong customer base,” said Mohammad Bakhrieba, marketing manager of Kai Fitness Center.
Meanwhile, Saudi Gazette’s visit to the Jeddah Mayoralty last week was met with curious questions from some of its employees, one even asking “What is Earth Hour, please?” This was despite a stack of brochures on Earth Hour, prepared in English and Arabic by one contracted cleaning company, lying on the employees’ desks. Sharifa Abdulrahman, who started a Facebook event ‘Earth Hour Jeddah ‘10’, which has over 1600 confirmed participants, and has been actively pursuing corporate houses and establishments to volunteer for Earth Hour, lamented “a huge lack of enthusiasm or excitement from businesses to participate”. “A lot of people don’t understand the concept of why we are doing Earth Hour. This is only a tiny step out of the many steps ahead to help make this country greener. Nobody expects the Earth to be saved in one hour. It’s about people coming together to do something very simple, which is to turn off the non-essential lights and electrical items for one hour. When we all do little things like these, it adds up into a much bigger force.”
Though Saudi Wildlife, Earth Hour’s official sponsors of Saudi Arabia, have been negotiating with some of the Kingdom’s landmark’s to get them go dark for an hour tonight, it seems not much has transpired.
Nevertheless, the word is spreading and some of the Earth hour 2010 participants, apart from the JCCI and the aforementioned consulates, across the Kingdom include: Saudi British Bank, Al-Baik, British Council, Alwan Company, King Saud University in Riyadh, King Fahd University in Dammam, Tabuk University, Jubail School, Pakistan International School Jeddah – English Section (PISJ-ES), Le Meridian, IKEA, Jeddah Teacher’s College, Sheraton, Hilton, Rosewood Corniche, Il Villagio Restaurants & Lounges, Friday’s restaurant, the Help Center and Kai Fitness Center.
Musicians Anwar Idriss, Qusai and Street locoz, a band that raps about important issues, and a group of girls from Effat University have been actively raising awareness about Earth Hour. – SG

[*moon light*]

very nice idea

very useful aims

keep going

[داانه]

great idea

Thnx Polymer

[English boy]

well.. I guess it's very good idea to swich off the power. If everyone this planet participates on this, surly it would help very much to delay the global warming. but in other hand, it might be the great time for theifs to steal and break in innocent people's houses.

Well done Polimar. that was such a great Idea..
all the best

[S0o0Ma]

فكره رائعه جدا جدا...مشكور اخوي بولمير...سجلني اول المستفيدين وراح ادعيلك

جزاك الله خير

[The Eagle]

“Run, ElBaradei, Run!”











Hundreds of people gathered at Cairo International Airport on February 19 to greet Mohammed ElBaradei, the former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), perceived by many to be a potential candidate for the 2011 presidential elections.

ElBaradei is returned to his homeland after more than 20 years working with the IAEA. In 1997, he was first named director general of the agency, serving three terms before leaving the post in November 2009.

Supporters welcomed ElBaradei at the airport by displaying pins with the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s face and banners endorsing an ElBaradei run for the presidency. Among the diverse crowd at the airport were members of the April 6 Youth Movement, veteran journalist and media personality Hamdy Qandeel, popular socio-political analyst Hassan Nafaa, and actor Khaled Aboul Naga.

Gamila Ismail, former wife of Ayman Nour, also turned up, declaring she would be willing to share her advice and experience with him. Nour, founder of El Ghad party, failed in his bid for the presidency in the 2005 elections and is already campaigning in anticipation of his own 2011 run.

State media coverage of the welcome party was expectedly low-key, but elsewhere, such as in the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm and opposition paper El-Dostor, the event was covered extensively. News website Al-Youm Al-Saba’ published a photo essay of ElBaradei’s homecoming from Vienna to Cairo, right up until he arrived at his house in Granna Farm on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road with supporters running after his car.

The ElBaradei bandwagon kicked off when he hinted at a possible presidential run during a November 2009 CNN interview, where he responded to a question about a possible challenge with the words “Never say never.”
However, ElBaradei has never declared an actual presidential campaign and repeatedly told the press that he would only consider running were a fair, democratic system in place. While his statements have generated public support for the outsider with international prestige, critics from both the government and opposition groups claim that ElBaradei has relatively little political experience and does not understand the reality in Egypt.



thanks my brother polymer and plz accept this




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مقال لأحد الكتاب المسيحيين يقول :

The promise of heaven

By Billy Graham
evangelist

What is heaven like? I've never met a Christian who didn't want to know the answer to this question - including me! Even Jesus' disciples wondered; after saying He soon would be going to Heaven to prepare a place for them, Thomas protested, "Lord, we don't know where you are going" (John 14:5).

The Bible doesn't answer all our questions about Heaven - but it does tell us that it will be far more glorious than anything we can imagine. Heaven is like the most perfect and beautiful place we can possibly conceive - only more so. Only in Heaven will we know exactly what Heaven is like. People have speculated for centuries about what Heaven will be like - some realistic, some fanciful (or even perverse).

But the most essential truth about Heaven is this: We will be in God's presence forever. And because we will be with God, no harm or evil can ever touch us again. One of the most moving deions of Heaven in all ure is this: "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old

order of things has passed away" (Revelation 21:4).
In Heaven there will be no more fear or worry or stress. We won't need locks on the doors, or bars on the windows, or sophisticated alarm systems - because everything that causes fear will be eliminated. Evil and Satan and death will be banished forever, and we will no longer be threatened, either by nature or by other people. Conflicts and wars will cease, and all the things that divided us on earth will divide us no more. God's promise will be fulfilled. In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to "a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness" (2 Peter 3:13).

Heaven will also be a place of reunion. I am often asked if we will meet our loved ones there who have died in the Lord. I have no doubt that we will! This truth has become even more precious to me since the death of my wife, Ruth, almost three years ago.

The most important truth about Heaven for us today, however, is that God wants us to be there! We cannot win our way into Heaven by our own goodness, because we will never be good enough; God's standard is perfection. But God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to become the final and complete sacrifice for our sins - and when we put our faith and trust in Him, all our sins are erased and Heaven's door opens before us.

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[joudy Abbout]

nice lovely

Ilike it

thank you