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Idyllic Pacific Vacation Turns into Decades-Long Adventure: 'Stan's Leap'
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Jenny and Stan had the all-American life: good careers, a nice apartment and their first baby on the way. To celebrate the impending arrival, the couple decides to take one last vacation before they become parents. The brochure for Henderson Island promised a Polynesian paradise untouched my modernity. However, as "Stan's Leap" (published by iUniverse) by Tom Duerig unfolds, what transpires is beyond what either of them could have imagined.
Stan and Jenny arrive on the Pacific paradise and meet their hosts, Kimo and Nani, as well as the 18 fellow guests. However, a few days after their arrival the island is rocked by a heat wave and strange red lights in the sky. The heat wave is the herald of a gargantuan storm that will come to be known as the "Great Storm." The aftermath of that storm will change all of their lives forever and propel "Stan's Leap" forward.
Soon after the storm passes and life struggles back to normal, Henderson Island's occupants realize that they've become isolated from the outside world. The island's radio doesn't work and the plane that should have come for them is long past overdue. Weeks later, Kimo informs his guests that the reason the radio doesn't work and the plane hasn't come is that there is no one left to come and get them. The inhabitants of the island are the last remnant of humanity. Kimo further explains that the red lights and heat wave were the result of a massive solar flare that has likely left them the Earth's last inhabitants. With no evidence to the contrary, the vacationers come to grips with their new reality.
As the plot of "Stan's Leap" moves forward, readers are witnesses to the struggles of the island's inhabitants as they endeavor to maintain themselves and their hold on their humanity. As the years tick by, the characters in "Stan's Leap" reinvent themselves and create their own society. In the second part of this three-part novel, readers meet Stan and Jenny's son Adam and his girlfriend Mati. Adam and Mati set out on an adventure of their own that will change the lives of Henderson Island's survivors for a second time, finally discovering the truth about the world and their isolation.
The author, Tom Duerig, was born in Rhode Island, and has lived in Pennsylvania, Switzerland, and California. He earned an undergraduate degree in Physics from Lehigh University and his PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Duerig is a scientist and entrepreneur who founded and is now CEO of a medical device company in California's Silicon Valley. While he has written multiple academic works, this is his first novel. He has three grown children and one grandchild. Dr. Duerig and his wife live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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GREENVILLE – Greenville Police Officer Ryan Benge was sworn into active duty on Monday in the Greenville's Council Chambers, marking the first of two new officers slated to join the department in 2014.
"I'm just glad to be here," said Benge. "The Greenville Police Department seems like a great group to work with."
Both Greenville Police Chief Dennis Butts and Greenville Mayor Mike Bowers wished Benge congratulations as he was sworn in, which concluded an intense selection process that began in June of 2013.
"He was the highest quality person we had presented to us," said Chief Butts. "We go through a very extensive hiring process, and we preferred a higher character rather than training. We can train people, but we can't give them character."
Benge, 23, previously served as a part-time Auxiliary Officer with the Ansonia Police Department and served in the United States Army for three years prior to that.
He also grew up in Greenville and chose the career of a police officer in order to give back to his community.
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Texan foils burglary in Britain via Beatles webcam
August 25, 2006
LONDON (Reuters) – An American helped foil a burglary in
northern England whilst watching a Beatles-related webcam over
the Internet, police said on Friday.
The man from Dallas was using a live camera link to look at
Mathew Street, an area of Liverpool synonymous with the Beatles
and home to the Cavern Club where the band regularly played.
He saw intruders apparently breaking into a sports store
and alerted local police.
"We did get a call from someone in Dallas who was watching
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"He called directly through to police here." Officers were
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Houston Dynamo president Chris Canetti says the club will explore the possibility of bringing in a quality player soon.
Recently, the Dynamo have signed Boniek Garcia from Honduran club Olimpia and Andrew Driver from Scottish outfit Heart of Midlothian and Canetti says there are plans to make a similar signing in the not too distant future.
"We have a desire to make moves and get better if we can. We're cap challenged right now and roster challenged," he said in an interview with MLSsoccer.com.
"We'll have to see what happens and what opportunities come about. We want to see if there's something that can make us better.
"The Boniek GarcĂa deal with the way it was structured is something we believe in. If something along those lines presents itself and the player is what head coach Dominic Kinnear is looking for, then we're willing and able to do that."
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- Combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Marinade cut vegetables for 3 to 4 hours and then grill or brush marinade onto vegetables as you grill.
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Almond Lake With Mandarin Oranges is an amazing dessert which you really have to try at home. I served it at the last party and the guest loved it.Try this Almond Lake With Mandarin Oranges recipe and you will understand why.
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Put the milk, sugar, essence and rice in a saucepan.
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Jets, Tebow get to work on wildcat package
As Ryan has insisted, it appears the wildcat will be at least a small part of Sparano's offense with Tebow around. Sparano helped make the scheme popular a few years ago with running back Ronnie Brown when he was the coach of the Miami Dolphins, and Tebow was clearly brought in to be the guy to make it work in New York.
"They've seen Miami run the wildcat more than anybody, so they get an idea of what our plays are," Ryan said. "But still, you have a different guy back there at quarterback, you can throw the ball more. There are different elements to it where even though you've seen it before and it's on tape, having him back there specifically I think opens more pass opportunities and things like that than maybe most wildcat situations.
The Jets used quarterback-turned-wide receiver Brad Smith in their wildcat formation for five seasons before he signed with Buffalo as a free agent last summer, and also used running back Leon Washington in a version of it. Once Smith left, the Jets were left without a reliable option in the wildcat - one of the main reasons they acquired Tebow in March.
Tebow ran a run-read option style of offense at the University of Florida and did some of the same during his first two NFL seasons with the Denver Broncos.
"Even in high school, too," he said. "So, it's something I'm very comfortable with."
For how many snaps and when it'll be used, well, that all remains to be seen.
"The great thing is, you don't know if we're going to run it once and you don't know if we're going to run it 20 times, 50 times or whatever," Ryan said. "It's up to us. If you're not prepared for it, why wouldn't we run it?"
When asked if the wildcat could become increasingly featured as the season goes along, Ryan went with a line he has used a few times this summer: "Hey," he said brushing off the question, "anything's possible."
Some around the league have suggested that the wildcat can no longer be effective in the NFL after defenses caught up to it during the last few seasons. Not so, said Ryan, who insists it remains one of the more difficult aspects of the game for a defense to prepare for.
And with the 250-pound Tebow in the mix, that's exactly what the Jets are counting on.
"I think it can be a weapon," Sanchez said. "I think if you run it the right way like Coach Sparano will do, we can get explosive with it. We have some great athletes and we want to use all of their talents."
NOTES: Ryan thinks it's unlikely WR Santonio Holmes (rib), NT Sione Pouha (forehead/back), S Eric Smith (knee) or WR Jeremy Kerley (hamstring) will play against the Giants. ... LG Matt Slauson downplayed beating Vladimir Ducasse for the starting job, and declined to discuss recently taking a paycut in the last year of his rookie contract. "I don't want to get into that," he said.
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The Year: 1962
The Setting: 8:45 am. A mid-June morning that promises to turn muggy and warm before noon. The large study hall across from the Principals office at OFA. Two hundred plus open wooden desks anchored by black wrought iron legs to each other and the floor. A large raised platform at the front of the room, directly under the clock, with a teachers oak desk positioned squarely in the center. Large windows opened wide by teachers with long window poles (resembling spears) in anticipation of the rising temperatures both in and outside the room.
The Characters: OFA sophomores sitting in every other seat, each with two #2 pencils. Six or eight teachers as proctors walking around the study halls perimeter and up and down each aisle checking for any miscellaneous scraps of paper.
The Action: At exactly 9:00 am, Mr. Bill Plimpton, world history teacher, ceremoniously breaks the seal on a large brown envelope, reaches inside and removes The World History Regents Examination. There is no sound except the pop of the seal and an errant bird or two outside that doesnt know enough to pause at this dramatic moment. The moment is made even more dramatic because the same seals on the same type of envelopes are being broken in every high school in the State of New York.
As the proctors pass out the examination booklets, Mr. Plimpton scans the test. He looks a little concerned. We all find out why within secondsthe first ten questions on the Regents that year deal with architectureidentifying a Doric, Ionic or Corinthian column just for startersfollowed by questions on Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque architectures. Topics we never covered in any of our weekly preparation sessions spent reviewing years of past Regents exams bound in a little yellow book. And this is just the beginning of the multiple choice sectionwe havent yet dared to see what the essay questions might require that we never discussed. We have three hours to figure it out.
Rhode Island, like most of the countrys public educational systems, is embroiled in a contentious debate about the place that high stakes standardized tests should have in determining a students readiness to graduate from high school. In Rhode Island that high stakes test is the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP). I will admit that as a product of the New York State Regents system, my early reaction to the debate was Whats the problem? But, as we have all learned, the debate is complicated by issues of poverty, diversity, language barriers, learning disabilities, and serious behavioral problemsto name just a few of the considerations included in the discussions.
A recent letter to the Editor of the Providence Journal came from a fellow New York State graduate who had received his high school diploma in 1963. He too cited his experience with Regents examinations that were given to validate proficiency in academic achievement. If you passed, you got a Regents Diploma signifying that you met state-expected standards.
I also dont remember a lot of angst on the part of our teachers (my Dad was one) that the Regents results would somehow be used exclusively to evaluate their worth as instructorsan argument that is being used today against the NECAP in RI.
Im not sure that any of my class members or our parents ever gave much thought to whether the Regents system was fair, whether preparing all year to take the Regents exam was the best way to spend class time or whether their sons or daughters were being unfairly labeled as Regents or Non-Regents students, thereby somehow limiting all of their life options, including employment opportunities, education and economic status. In addition to the classification as Regents or Non-Regents, there were students enrolled in business courses that crossed the line between Regents and Non-Regents and vocational students who undoubtedly made more money than all of us liberal arts types who spent a life-time hiring them to fix everything.
I dont remember the Regents with a lot of affection. The best part was that my Mother always made me a wine cooler (Mogen) David red wine, ginger ale and lemon), the night before each test to calm my nerves. I was also not the best test taker and most of the required Regents exams were in the math and science area, clearly not my strengths.
But the Regents exams were important; they qualified us for consideration for New York State Regents Scholarships (which, in my day, could only be used in-state). And they did earn us that Regents Diploma which was immediately filed and forgotten.
The exams also created some very special social moments. Several of our teachers would post the results of the examination in the back windows of George Hall Trade School. We hung around those windows, rehashing how we might have done, until those lists were scotch-taped in place. Teachers used a code system and didnt really list our names, but we always knew it was Jimmy Graves who got 100s on the math exams. Im fairly sure that the posting of Regents results doesnt happen todaybecause we seem to be reluctant to openly admit that some students do better than others. Our cumulative grade point averages were actually listed by name in the yearbook. The only objection I had to that was that the football player who always copied by American History homework actually had a better class rank than I did.
By the waythat World History RegentsI scored a 68 (65 was passing and Im sure my three point differential was a little subjective). It did not derail my life.
Authors notes: Carol Siri Johnson published a History of the New York State Regents Exams in December 2009. She points out that the first academic exit exam was administered in 1878 New York and it evolved into the controversial Regents subject matter exams. The controversy in New York over the Regents extends to the current day. A 2012 article in the New York Post points out that 2012 was the first year that students were required to pass all five current Regents exams: Global History, US History, Math, English and Living Environment (which I deduced to mean science). The debate is whether or not students in Career and Technical Education (CTE) should have to pass Global History, an exam that covers two years of study and which has the lowest pass rate. The Regents have decided that in 2013-2014 students in CTE programs may replace the Global History exam with a test that measures vocational skills or substitute an extra math, science or engineering based examination.
What is clearthe controversy that has been raging around the Regents Examinations for almost 140 years is far from overbut Im proud to be a product of the system.
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Atlanta Braves - Turner Field, Atlanta
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We got tickets to see the Braves vs Nationals at Turner Field while in town. We sat in the outfield behind the right foul pole, and seats were $23 each, a little expensive considering the obstructed view ... the foul pole eliminated my view of the batter's box.
The Atlanta Braves are considered the the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports. The team was founded in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings, and they had several names while in Boston, including the Beaneaters, then the Braves. In 1953, the team moved to Milwaukee, then in 1966 it moved to its present home city of Atlanta. From 1991 to 2005, the Braves were amazingly successful, winning the division pennant 14 consecutive times. They won in large part due to their pitching, and during the 1990s, Braves pitchers Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, and Greg Maddux won 6 Cy Young Awards as best pitcher in the National League.
Turner Field was built for the 1996 Olympics, then became the Atlanta Braves home stadium in 1997. When constructed the stadium had 85,000 seats, but after the Olympics, many seats were removed to create a more cozy 45,000 seat stadium for baseball.
The stadium is located at 755 Hank Aaron Drive, to commemorate Hank Aaron's 755 career home runs, still the most home runs ever hit by someone who wasn't on illegal steroids.
Turner Field was named for Ted Turner of Turner Broadcasting and is commonly called The Ted by Atlantans. The Braves play here as well as concerts, tractor pulls, and many other fun times for families. It is located downtown right off the Expressway and lots of safe parking all around.
The new arena-stadium is much larger than in the past and the area is in better condition for the neighborhoods. Although, you still need to be aware of your surroundings. Some parking can "arranged" in the front yards of homes for the games. Go figure.
pictured is turner field home to the atlanta braves major league baseball team. this modern stadium was upgraded for the 1996 atlanta summer olympic games. turner field has a huge jumbotron and is a very nice modern stadium. personally i like more traditional stadiums such as rigley field and fenway park but for fans of major league baseball this is a must see spot when in atlanta.
There's no better way to spend an Atlanta summer evening or weekends afternoon than at beautiful Turner Field for Atlanta Braves baseball. The Braves usually have a good team, and Turner Field is a very comfortable, modern ballpark. It was originally built for the 1996 Olympics.
Everyone can have a ball at Turner Field. Along with enjoying the game, there are lots of kids activities. The ballpark cuisine isn't bad - my workmate had a pulled pork sandwich there - but the beer selection is minimal. So, grab a sandwich and a Bud or two and watch the Braves win. Though not as often as they used to.
FYI, the Braves have had many great players through the years. Currently, their best players are Chipper Jones, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz, but the greatest Brave ever is former home run king Henry Aaron, one of baseball's immortals.
Turner Field is just south of downtown Atlanta. You can reach it by car or by free shuttle from near Underground Atlanta and the Five Points MARTA stop.
Now this was a lot of fun, we were invited by some friend who just happen to have a suite by 1st base. Terry nor I watch much baseball if any so we figured we would spend time with the friends and not watching the game much. That was not the case at all, they really get the crowd involved and make it quite fun. It didn't hurt that we had free food and open bar and good friends to spend it with. Traffic was a little bad getting to and from but well worth the trip. The stadium is pretty new so the it was in good shape, all the workers seemed very nice and always greeted you kindly, the suite was very nice, ice cold beer, soda and much more with a wonderful view!
One cannot visit Atlanta during baseball season and not visit a Braves game! With 14 divisional titles, the Braves are considered one of baseball's greatest dynasties. There are usually always affordable tickets available for the games. They are very exciting and great overall experience. For those with more money to spend, a view from the 711 club is a great way to watch the game.
Nice field, nice team, nice people . . . Turner Field is just too nice. For a Baltimore girl, the fans here are too nice. Where's the rowdiness? The rudeness? Nowhere to be seen. So grab a Coke and a small child and head on out to the home of the Braves.
My heart belongs to the Braves. Regardless of losing or winning we are Braves fans.
Turner Field has lots to do than just watch a game. The kids usually love it here. Batting ranges where you can test you swing speed and pitching speed. Lots to eat although it is really expensive.
And on top of the fun you get to watch the best team in baseball... what more could you ask for!!
Grab a hotdog and a coke and settle in to watch the home team, the Atlanta Braves continue their streak of winning all the way to the playoffs then losing horribly! The best way is to watch a game live, watching on t.v. is for no comparison.
If you are visiting Atlanta and the Braves are playing at home, grab a couple of tickets and check them out! No matter how good the Braves are playing, there are almost always good seats available.
If you want, get teh standing room only tickets and walk around the stadium. It's chock full of Braves History. There are a lot of Kids activities as well.
Turner Field was built for the Olympics and was the site of the 1996 Opening ceremony. The Stadium was reduced to about half it's original size to accomodate the Braves. There are occasional concerts there as well.
The Braves are one of Major League Baseball's best and most consistent teams and Turner Field is a great baseball stadium. Catch a game in the "Chop Shop" and learn about the history of this great baseball franchise. Baseball's all-time home-run king, Henry Aaron was a Brave!
But, they'll never get over losing to my beloved Minnesota Twins in the 1991 World Series, one of the greatest Fall classics ever. Go Twins!!
for me, if atlanta has anything good to offer its the atlanta braves. GO BRAVES! i winning season for the last 11 years straight, u can bet on having a good time at any atlanta braves game...getting tickets are easy, i go through a reliable scalper named ted who never misses a game. just go to the corner of capitol st. and fulton ave, 1 block north of turner field. look for a heavy set black man wearing a ball cap, he ussually stand right infront of the entrance of the hotel on the corner (holiday inn, the name may have changed) tell him what your price range is and what section u are looking for, hes got everything. i have sent dozens of people through hima nd never once got a complaint. if u dont want to go through a scalper, just go to the ticket office on the north side of the stadium on hank aaron drive. tickets start at 5 dollars in the nose bleeds, and 45 dollars to 80 dollars field level. 18 dollars on the upper lever are decent if u are not looking to spend much. or u can do what i do sometimes and just get the dollar seats and move up to a better seat after the 3rd inning.
If you are in town during baseball season, catch a Braves game. Nice open stadium with relatively inexpensive tickets, which is more than I can say for the beers.
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How many people log on to Eteamz, see there hasn't been a post since the beginning of November and think the site is dead or out of business?
I don't get the feeling that it's closed or anything. Could be that baseball is not on many people's minds right now. Or more likely.... could be that the new format sux. Takes longer for each page to load. And I can't believe the Popular Blog Posts in the right-hand column are:
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The site has been going down for a number of years. That said, there just isn't anything going on right now to talk about. Fall ball is done, the World Series is past, and the bats, gloves and baseballs are in the garage. The other sites that I visit are much the same way.
I'm still checking in from time to time but no where near as often as "during the season" ! ;o)
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CORPUS CHRISTI - For the next three weeks, Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses members will be going door to door, inviting the community to attend its annual convention in August.
"This is sort of our pre-convention -- we're going door to door and an invitation is going to be placed at every door," said Jim McCreery, an elder in the South Congregation. "In Rockport, Sinton -- everywhere where there's a congregation."
Fourteen congregations are located in the Coastal Bend, McCreery said, and all members -- about 1,500 -- will be distributing the invitations until the big event.
The 2007 Follow the Christ District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, set for Aug. 10-12 at the American Bank Center, will focus on following in Christ's footsteps.
"Jesus is Jehovah's son, and he set an example while on the Earth how Christians should live and operate -- being fair and courteous and moral -- that's what we follow," McCreery said.
Attendance is expected to reach 6,000. About 7,000 people attended last year's conference in Katy.
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this past summer I was working on my boat in the slip. On the dock behind me is a Sea Scout group preparing to shove off. The leader has everyone huddled up and is explaining the itinerary for their sail. They all take their assigned positions on the boat and the skipper puts the little outboard in reverse and cranks it wide open. They are backing out of their slip with good speed, coming directly toward my stern. That's when the little outboard jumps off the transom and dances around like one of those hand-held electric blenders while still attached to the boat by the fuel line. I didn't realize an outboard would actually run under water for a few seconds, but it did. The boat still has backward momentum and the skipper is in dis-belief about what has happened. Fortunately a couple of the kids thought quick, got a pole and held off against the boat next to me. It was great entertainment watching them figure out how to get the motor back on the boat and then get the boat itself back in the slip. Once everything was secure they had the motor on the dock looking at it.
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The idea of Digital Reverse Development is an observation and a call to action. It describes the way digitally-enabled social innovations from Brazil, Africa and elsewhere will start to tackle problems in the West. The part that's most visible is the digital: @Ushahidi is moving mainstream, and there's mobile tools from @FrontlineSMS and Android apps from @AppsForGoodCDI. But behind the tech are, as @giantpandinha says, the social operating systems, the cultural behaviours that drive these innovations from the ground.
Digital Reverse Development is the mutant offspring of reverse innovation and liberation learning. Reverse innovation is a business concept which "...uses developing markets as seedbeds for product innovations to challenge incumbents in world markets" and is a hot topic places like the Harvard Business Review. Liberation learning (a.k.a. critical pedagogy) is exemplified by Paulo Freire, a radical Brazilian educator from the 1960's who said "There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the 'practice of freedom', the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
Digital Reverse Development is what you get if you combine new technology with methodologies of participatory development, as in CDI's Apps for Good. What leaks back to the West is innovation from cultures that haven't lost the idea of community and collective action as much as we have. Innovation from elsewhere allows us to see ourselves differently.
The developing world also has more experience of crisis. Argentina's financial meltdown in 2001 prefigures some of the social consequences hitting Europe following the failures of the banks, and Brazilian favelas are in a permanent state of social crisis. What we know from the developing world is that, in a crisis, people fall back on their informal networks. What do you do in a society which has lost it's informal networks - can we use digital reverse development to rebuild them? Can we, for example, combine the praxis of Argentina's neighbourhood assemblies with the UK's emerging hyperlocal sites?
This, then, becomes digitally-enabled community development. Community development seeks to empower people by providing them with the skills to make changes in their own communities. It involves changing the relationships between ordinary people and people in positions of power. The role of the tech in this is both practical and imaginary. It enables us to organize stuff in the real world, but also to re-imagine how we organize ourselves. The critical edge of Digital Reverse Development moves it beyond the voluntarism of the Big Society to an explicit call for social justice.
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The moment I spotted MentalHealthCamp Toronto I wanted to help make it happen here. Years ago I was a volunteer MIND mental health advocate in the old Hackney Psychiatric Hospital (a former workhouse) which was a schooling in one side of mental health services. Now that I'm an accidental digital innovator I can see the huge potential in a mashup of mental health and digital, which I can't really put better than the MentalHealthCamp Toronto mission statement :
"We live in a society with access to the newest technologies, open access to information and the possibility to connect through social media and online communities. Our goal for MentalHealthCamp is to ignite conversations around how can we use these technologies to promote better mental health and help improve the lives of people with mental health problems.
Mental health concerns everyone. So if you're a mental health professional, someone with lived experience of mental health problems, a family member or friend of a person with mental health problems, or have a passion or an interest in the topic, then MentalHealthCamp is for you! MHCTO also welcomes technophiles, change architects and all sorts of social media types."
In the tradition of our times, MentalHealthCamp UK started with a hashtag (#mhcuk), exchanged in tweets with the organizers of the Toronto camp, and is now working its way into reality. I hope that #mhcuk will be about positive mental health as much as it's about mental health problems, which it surely will be as one of the other organizers is Andy Gibson of Mindapples. I also hope that it'll get gritty and apply digital innovation to some of the more intractable issues around mental health, whether that's the limitations of statutory care or the stigma of being labelled as 'mad'. For an idea of topics covered in Toronoto check out their Take Action Videos.
And for me #mhcuk is just a start – an idea generator and constituency builder for the idea of a mental health Social Innovation Camp. There's already been a #sicamp pilot for a specific sector - the team ran the Jailbrake weekend to find and support great ideas that could break the cycle of youth offending using simple web and mobile tools (see here for the film of the weekend).
There are already pioneering projects exploring the potential of digital for mental health, like Buddy, the social media radio from Sidekick Studios which they're developing with South London and Maudsley Trust. Some studies show that online social support is an effective means of mediating stress and Social Innovation Camp Central & Eastern Europe generated the Betterfly project for psychology first aid. On the other hand, this Psychology of Twitter article asks whether it's supporting self-actualisation or leading to increased narcissism.
Holding a mental health sicamp and extending some prototypes in to really useful working services also fits with my new role at Media for Development and my aspirations for the ways digital innovation at Media for Development can use the untapped potential of media to empower marginalised communities.
But first, #mhcuk. The silos of the mental health scene can only benefit from the peer to peer conversations that'll take place at Mental Health Camp UK, and the follow-up could inject a post-digital kind of co-production into the mental health scene. As the folk of MentalHealthCamp Toronto said
"The age of digitization and technology enabled living is here and has catalyzed a new paradigm of participation. Please bring your ideas, questions and open minds as we work on solutions that are possible today and that we are dreaming about for tomorrow."
At this stage we're looking for potential venues, potential sponsors, and (of course!) passionate participants. If you are any of the above then please leave a comment, head over to our wiki or join the google group.
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Open data doesn't empower communities. I'm not saying open data is a bad thing, but we need to highlight the gap between the semantic web and social impact. Otherwise we'll continue to get swept along on a tide of technocratic enthusiasm where hope lies in 'a flood of data to create a data-literate citizenry'.
I'm inspired by the idea that nuggets of opened data could seed guerilla public services, plugging gaps left by government, but i don't see any of that in the data.gov.uk apps list. The reasons aren't technical but psychosocial - the people and communities who could use this data to help tackle their own disadvantage and marginalisation don't have the self-confident sense of entitlement that makes for successful civic hacktivism.
So why the big push behind open data and the lack of interest in enabling communities? i think the crude answer is 'bread and circuses'. And anyway, opening up data is a technocrat friendly activity whereas empowering communities is messy and difficult. So we'll continue to be told that we can improve public services and create future economic growth by linking data rather than tackling power.
There are many missing steps between open data & an empowered citizenry that can fulfill David Cameron's claim that "People will be the masters. Politicians the servants. And that's the way it should be". It might be useful to contrast the histories of libraries and of Chartism - libraries are a necessary platform for an informed citizenry, but it takes the channeled anger of a social movement to focus that in to historic change.
So which path leads beyond the sterility of SPARQL queries? Part of me says forget the whole thing. In a past life i helped collect data for the NHS, so i know that most government data is fake anyway (massaged beyond recognition as it passes upwards through the layered sphincters of bureaucracy). I'll keep an open mind to the results of the Open Data Impacts survey but i think we should sound the alarm that open data risks becoming (as Becky Hogge says) a kind of cargo cult.
The real struggle, as ever, is on the terrain of meanings. Who will write the narrative that we inhabit? And how much does data actually help here?
Adam Greenfield captures the issue in microcosm when comparing two local crime apps, Asborometer and SpotCrime NYC:
"In my talks and writing, I frequently argue that 'data' in and of itself is seductive, its dynamic visualization more so, and that we need to be very careful that we don't get drawn into real-world decisions based on such visualizations without due reflection.... The distinction is between an abstract fear on the one hand, given apparent substance by its inscription in seemingly authoritative numbers, charts and graphs — and the actual texture of street crime on the other, in all its tawdry, banal and occasionally appalling isness. You're likely to have much more of a sense of agency when confronted with particulars than you would against inchoate percentages. And agency, as far as I'm concerned, is the name of the game".
So either we dump data for narrative, or we 'queer' the data in the full knowledge of its limitations. I'm inspired in that by the counter-cartographies collective (3Cs) who say in their report from a Chicago community mapping workshop:
"One big point of discussion was how to deal with the embedded biopolitics behind data sources like US Census data that we use in our maps — as 3Cs, we often talk about how we 'queer' data or statistics by pulling map stories out of them that they weren't intended for. But data sources often come so tightly bound up with state politics, white supremacist racial policies, definitions of family structure, etc., that queering them might require more conscious work than we always put in".
Open data is not a magic recipe for righting wrongs. What will move things on is the stories that communities tell about their situations and their possible futures. If open data has a part to play in this it will be through the bootstrap empowerment of projects like savvy chavvy, social startup labs and transition towns.
Although I've only been at Media for Development for a week, I can already see the potential for digital innovation to boost MFD's mission. I hope that a mashup of my background in web & social change and Media for Development's experience of participatory media will produce some pioneering ways to empower marginalised communities. So here's a snapshot of my thinking about where to go and how to get there.
My starting point is the way Media for Development uses participatory media to help transform people's lives. As a digital guy, this seems to me like a good match for the 'maker' meme - people participating in building their own stuff and their own solutions to problems. To my mind, a good starting point for MFD digital projects would be co-creation and the kind of co-design promoted by @thinkpublic and @wearesnook . This can by carried through the technical side of digital projects by appropriating agile development- the tech project methodology that iterates in small stages, keeping the project close to the users and allowing it to adapt as new issues and opportunities emerge.
At the other end, the digital scene is a wellspring of questions about impact and ROI, as embodied by Measurement Camp. The visibilising of social connections that's embedded in the social web makes social network analysis a way in to measuring impact, especially around ideas of social capital. And I expect Social Return On Investment (SROI) will be a useful way to pin numbers to our projects in a way that aligns with MFD's values. Of course, the most powerful way to convey impact is to hear from people themselves and MFD is already expert in the power of narrative.
One of the biggest challenges that faces MFD or anyone trying to build peer to peer support is the investment of time and resources it can take to get self-generating momentum in an online community. My first ideas about tactics is to start with stuff that's simple and useful, and can be applied immediately in people's lives. There were some good examples of this at Jailbrake - an event that applied the Social Innovation Camp approach to making web & mobile services for young people caught up in the criminal justice system. For example, we heard that even a simple text reminder at the right moment can make a difference by helping someone with a fairly chaotic lifestyle make it to their probation appointments.
Daniel from the Nudge Me project at Jailbrake (Photo credit: theps.net)
As one of the founders of Social Innovation Camp, I'd say its approach has a natural fit with media for Development and I'm expecting to draw a lot on @sicamp contacts and experience as I go forward with projects here, including the aim of making enterprises not just projects i.e. innovations that can find a way to be sustainable instead of petering out when the initial funding fades away.
But no statement about strategy would be compete without a 2 by 2 matrix :) so here's mine for MFD-Digital: with communities along one axis and digital along the other, we start with the communities that MFD knows well (e.g. people with experience of prison) and the tech that has already been successful (like the online community of Savvy Chavvy). Innovation on the communities axis means new hard to reach groups, and MFD already has plans to work with military veterans, and with young dad's who are in danger of being excluded from parenthood. Innovation on the digital axis has some straightforward starting points, like mobile and mapping: i've been inspired by the potential of open street mapping to catalyse community mobilisation, and i've already met with frontlinesms to look at ways that toolset can help overcome the digital divide here in the UK. In the future we may convene sicamp / crisis camp style events to catalyse unexpected digital innovations.
At the end of the day, though, it's not about tech but about the potential of digital to enable transformation; a change in people's lives and ultimately in themselves. And also, perhaps, in those of us doing this work. I'm looking forward to reporting irregularly on this journey.
One of the darkest things about war crimes is that most of the perpetrators get away with it. From Pinochet to Serb paramilitaries, the men (& it's mostly men) involved in acts of vile horror carry on with their lives untouched by justice. Will the digital age have any impact on impunity? If you need convincing about impunity, the Guardian's Datastore has taken the data provided by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague and compiled a spreadsheet of the cases that have been concluded. Set against the scale and duration of the horror, this is an essay in ineffectiveness. And listen to the women from the Omarska concentration camp recount their experiences on BBC radio. Their job was to clean the torture rooms of skin, teeth, hair; at night they were raped. Having bravely returned her home town of Prijedor, one the muslim women regularly comes face-to-face with her tormentors while the war memorial in the town glorifies the Serb 'war heroes'. I know from personal accounts that the spectacle of the ICTY is wholly failing to bring closure to those who experienced ethnic cleansing. But behind the horror there's the determination of some women to fight for justice. Having set up an association for women victims of war in Sarajevo, they have also become a detective agency, taking witness statements and tracking down & photographing perpetrators based on 'crowdsourced' identification of the men in the statements - a process that starts to sound a lot like the citizen journalism ushered in by digital tech. What impact could citizen journalism & social reporting have in unblocking the politically-motivated inertia of official war crimes investigations?
(Photo from Calling the Ghosts, A Story about Rape, War and Women by Women Make Movies) Another challenge is highlighted by the Kenyan election violence of 2007. On the one hand, this was the stimulus for Ushahidi, open source software which uses the lessons learned from Kenya to create a platform that allows anyone around the world to set up their own way to gather reports by mobile phone, email and the web - and map them. Ushahidi has now been used in many critical situations around the world including the first European application at our Social Innovation Camp Central and Eastern Europe by the Map Your Nazi project. Ushahidi is an exemplar of bottom-up digital innovation, but more than 2 years later no-one in Kenya has been prosecuted for the crimes against humanity that it helped to map. It turns out that neither a mashup nor the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court can have much impact on the political forces that trade power for impunity. My contention is that the real impact of digital comes from it's catalysis of horizontal process, social action that routes around institutional complicity. Could Ushahidi or something like it be used to convene activities of transitional justice - people-powered initiatives that take on the need to confront legacies of mass abuse? I'm not talking about the real-world equivalent of a Twitter lynch mob but holistic additions to criminal prosecutions that promote accountability and create just and peaceful societies. These would need to be more active than digital memorials. Perhaps we should apply the radical transparency of wikileaks to the archive of the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and pipe the results through citizen-up initiatives like we20? Whatever the challenges of transparency 2.0, the alternative is to freeze societies in a state of denial. Despite the efforts of Michael Portillo most Brit holidaymakers are still unaware that the beaches of Malaga contain mass graves of Republican sympathisers shot by Franco. Even though I count myself knowledgable about the Spanish Civil War, I visited Granada without knowing that the hills we strolled over still conceal 10,000 bodies. The psychic damage to Spanish culture is still in full effect thanks to the 'Pact of Forgetting' and the 1977 amnesty law. The transparency of the digital age is not just about open data but the surfacing of suppressed histories as starting points for transformation.
(Photo credit Mike Elkin & archaeology.org)
Lawrence Lessig's New Republic article 'Against Transparency' really rattled the cages of transparency fans and led to a spirited defence from Ellen Miller and Michael Klein, the co-founders of the Sunlight Foundation.
Lessig's opening diatribe is long-winded and sets up some straw men that Miller and Klein dispose of - like saying that transparency will increase cynicism because the public don't have the attention span to make proper judgements. I suspect the need for a complete throwdown comes from his lawyer-genes :)
But IMHO he wins out by addressing the core issue; that the only way to capitalise on transparency to increase trust is to actually change structures. So if we can never be sure whether a certain political donation did or did not influence a vote, we should take donations out of the process altogether. As Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah tweeted during the debate: "amazing how people r missing the point of @LESSIG article. disclosure useless without changing uderlying dynamics".
Despite the Sunlight folks efforts to 'annually directly train more than a thousand reporters and bloggers on how to use these datasets, tools, and sites to better inform their investigations' their aspirations stop at cleaning up the existing system. In this they follow the democracy geeks at MySociety, believing that current mechanisms would deliver fairness if only they were cleansed of unethical gunk.
For sure, we need transparency around finances, but cash is just a proxy for power. And power is a far trickier thing to map than money; it ranges from the psychological to the physical and involves us all in complex and contradictory networks. Our current institutions accrete power in ways that amplify its abuse while simultaneously producing narratives of denial.
Us liberal Twitterati have flexed our Streisand effect in the last few days to challenge the old trappings of power, in the specific shape of UK libel laws and #Trafigura. One rightful rallying cry for this was the 1688 Bill of Rights. But it's ironic that so many other flaws of our system are still glossed over, despite the fact that in the Putney Debates of 1647 the Levellers were predicting the need for a better system than the one we have.
While Sunlight say "the very idea of exposing government data feeds for outside developers is, at its core, about spurring innovation in the way we all perceive and contextualize data" I'm still troubled by The Unbearable Lightness of Mashups and the increasing tendency of information mashup initiatives to align themselves with the status quo rather than with movements for social change.
Last word goes again to @alaa: "activism that limits its ambition to exposing and reporting is useless if not harmful. work on redefining reality behind what is measured."
Observ. LIII. Of a Flea., from Micrographia by Robert Hooke
Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio has penned a couple of sparky posts this week about the more trenchant realities of government 2.0. In 'Will Politics 1.0 Swallow Government 2.0?' he characterised Tom Steinberg's decision to advise the Tories as heralding the way that gov 2.0 leaders will inevitably align with politics 1.0:
"What interests me, though, is how people like Steinberg in the UK or like Beppe Grillo in Italy feel the urge to join or take sides with a party, although they have been making independence and grass-root approach their mantra."
The reason being that bloggy tweety aggregation is all well and good but if you want to get stuff to stick in the real world you need established structures. "Perhaps going back into existing silos is the price to be paid for moving from vision to execution". That's the bit that makes me smile - the idea the the government, or any large incumbent institution, represent the best hope for executing anything flies in the face of experience, especially when it comes to anything that involves tech.
My sense is that it's easier for mySociety types to cleave to The Man because their agenda is to make current modes work more smoothly, rather than to question the distribution of power at a basic level. Shame, because the interesting thing about Stuff 2.0 is its potential to leak a bit of power back to a peer-to-peer model. That's not to deny the challenge of sustaining bright ideas in a hard economic reality, which is why I wrote about Lightweight Structures for Social Innovation Startups after the first SICamp. But politics 1.0 has the gravitational pull of a black hole and the only way to break the paradigm is to connect digital innovation with social movements that are the soil for its participatory roots. So, for example, if you really want to see government 2.0 you'd be better off doing digi with Transition Towns than with the Green Party.
And that's why I was rocked to see the title of Andrea's follow up post 'Why Government 2.0 Has Little To Do With Government'. Critiqueing the idea that gov 2.0 is about the ways "organizations and institutions can leverage technology to improve effectiveness and efficiency and to better engage constituents" he reframes the issue: "The problem is that government 2.0 is not about organizations and institutions. It is about the way in which constituents aggregate and socialize knowledge in ways that change their expectations and how they relate to government institutions." It's nicely articulated but stays on the safe ground of information and knowledge. I'd contend that the bolder win is for people to aggregate and socialize solutions i.e. actual functioning answers to social needs, whether stand-alone, grant funded or direct hacks of gov operations. That's what Social Innovation Camp has been trying for, and it'll be interesting to see which side of the wavy grey line that folk at the myPublicServices unconference will plump for.
Image courtesy of edmittance: part of his work with Transition Towns.
It's the weekend before Social Innovation Camp Central & Eastern Europe (SICamp CEE); one of the most intense experiments in digitally-enabled social innovation to have targeted that region. We've assembled seventy amazing people to build six great ideas in a manic 48 hours. Time to reflect on why it matters.
SICamp CEE is the guerilla sideshow to a Civil Society Forum (CSF) convened by the CEE Trust. In a bold move, this major funder of NGOs is questioning whether those dollars are having much social impact. The commissioned opinion pieces on the state of CEE civil societies reveal the depth of disillusionment and loss of direction.
The truth is that we didn't get rid of the Berlin Wall. Sure, there was a festive destruction of that hated bit of concrete, but the Berlin Wall and all walls like it are the physical parallels of a certain approach to the world; a way of dealing with life that works best with division and control. Read the insightful CSF essay Redefining NGOs by Primož Šporar: NGOs are "autocratic", "top-down" and "donor-driven", have an increasing "political dependence on the government in power" to maintain an "existence more closely related to the salaries of employees than the potential benefits for the target group". Bluntly, they are afraid that truly active citizens could undermine their "monopoly on problems".
This is the description of social change with a wall around it. Of barriers between people and the supposed agents of that change. Of hierarchical control that stifles innovation and the kind of "informal, ad-hoc and problem-oriented" local initiatives that Primož sees springing up outside of the NGOs. And I can say for sure that his description fits the so-called Third Sector in the UK as much as it does NGOs in Central & Eastern Europe.
Enter Social Innovation Camp! Of course we're not the answer to all that. But SICamp is like one of those early crowbars, digging at weak points in the wall, looking for leverage. And our leverage is digital because that enables people to connect and collaborate without the overhead of old institutions. It enables crowdsourcing, wikifying and the emergence of new possibilities by mashing stuff up.
And that's why we say SICamp is about "individuals using the web to change things" and not about making the third sector more efficient or effective. In my experience, people working in an NGO automatically filter out ideas that they know don't fit with the organisation's expectations, even if they're innovative ideas. An organisation bringing an idea to SICamp would want control and this would kill the magic. At SICamp the development of the idea is totally in the hands of the team who've formed around it. They can change it and play with it. They can be spontaneous and creative. But this is serious play - they want to win, and to win they need to create something that will have real social impact.
SICamp works. At least, our past events have generated enough real projects and ideas with legs that the momentum is growing. But SICamp CEE is a uniquely internationalist experiment, with campers from Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, UK, USA, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. One of the criteria for selected ideas is that they can be applied in more than one country, and multinational teams will build them. SICamp CEE is truly internationalist.
SICamp and all similar hacktivist initiatives are using digital tech to break through the walls of resources and respectability, tapping straight in to people power by creating a space for free imagination. The liberatory potential of digital is that it allows us to do this without asking for permission. The tools are to hand - down with all Berlin Walls!
My slides from the civil society workshop in Tbilsi in May 2009. Questions, suggestions and comments welcome!
When I was trying to explain Social Innovation Camp to NGOs & journalists in Tbilisi I settled on the phrase 'Making Things To Make A Difference'.
I got enthused about the whole 'Making Things' meme by Chris Thorpe, while helping him cook up the idea for 'Making Things for 2morro' (a hackday for youngsters as part of 2morro 09). Making Things captures the proactive and DIY approach to problems that infuses Social Innovation Camp and marks it out as a social impact that's distinct from campaigning, policy or orthodox service delivery.
And kicking around Social Innovation Camp ideas with the helpful Dan Burgess of Naked Comms reminded me that the powerful flip side is '...because so much is BROKEN'. That's why we must make stuff; because we can all see that it's not just charities that are broken but the financial system, the economy, our cities and all the other fruits of collapsanomics.
There's a great article called 'Alinsky vs. Arizmendi: Redistribution or Control of Wealth In Changing the World' which contrasts two visions of changing the world. One is the campaiging of Saul Alinsky for "the improvement of the distribution of wealth that the system generated to include communities that were systematically excluded or shortchanged because they were Black, Latino, or working class." The other is the Mondragon network of worker-owned co-ops started by an anti-Franco priest in Spain, and which now has has 85 companies employing 130,000 people globally.
The article finds in favour of the co-ops, on the basis that the redsitribution model depended on a social contract that has since been shattered. Personally, I suspect that we'll always need a bit of both. But more than that we need the creative hacktivism that's breaking out as we realise we can (in the words of a Social Innovation Camp mantra) "use online tools to organise offline change". And that's why 'Making Stuff...' appeals to me; not just making tools or whole solutions, but in the process re-making expectations about what's possible. The tools are there and we don't have to ask permission, so...
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