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My dear, good friend Tycienski.
Even though there is rarely any news to report from up here on the moon, I must apologise for the lengthy period which has elapsed since my last letter. The following may not excuse my tardiness but I hope that it will suffice as an explanation.
Over the last two years, my time has been increasingly consumed by a remarkable new hobby. You have frequently written about the great cause of Scottish independence, and as a devoted reader of your website, Tychy, I soon began to take a renewed interest in this subject. I suppose that some of the hullabaloo about Scotland's future which is presently rocking the planet would have eventually reached me up here on the moon. To educate myself further, I subscribed to the website Wings Over Scotland and I followed its founder, the Reverend Stuart Campbell, on Twitter. This acquainted me with all of the controversies raging within the referendum debate.
You should have seen the astonishment and anger with which I read about the brave Scottish nation being suppressed by the bias of BBC Question Time. The huddled Scottish masses yearning to breathe free, but cruelly chained down by Alan Cochrane's disagreeable articles in the Telegraph! I crammed my brain with every detail of every news story from Wings Over Scotland, until I was trembling and flickering in a sort of thin, perpetual epileptic fit. For over a year I also dutifully read Bella Caledonia and National Collective every day, which is strange since I now cannot remember a single thing from either of these websites. I profited greatly, however, from reading Lallands Peat Worrier. Whilst Wings usually induces the watery muddle of Tennent's lager, the Peat Worrier provides the rich, lovely clarity of Drambuie.
I soon wanted to strike a blow for Scottish independence rather than merely read about it. I registered with Twitter, assuming the name Luna-Nat, and I began to tweet along to the debate. I tweeted that Alistair Carmichael was "outrageous" and Alistair Darling "abominable." Every time that Project Fear reared its head, I was there to fire a tweet at it. Indeed, I was soon issuing tweets with the rapidity of a machine-gun spraying bullets.
Immediately upon awakening, I would spring from my bed and rush stark-naked to my computer to begin tweeting. Eighteen hours later, I would sink exhausted from the screen, perhaps gobbling at a biscuit before crawling back under the covers again to sleep dreamlessly.
The paradox of hell is that you never know when you are finally there. You slip imperceptibly from normality into something dark and damnable.
Yesterday morning, I was suddenly startled, and then my heart was thumping thickly with panic. The telephone was ringing.
I rarely receive phone calls up here on the moon and the last one had been several years ago (this had been a wrong number). I had even forgotten that I still retained the applicable equipment. I followed the ringing until I had located the device under a stack of old newspapers in the hallway.
"Good morning," an unnervingly clear voice said. "Do I have the honour of addressing the Man in the Moon?"
For all of the speaker's politeness, there was a horrible, almost glistening quality to his voice. It sounded at once jolly and menacing.
"Yes, this is the Man in the Moon. How may I help you?"
"I'm a journalist from the Scottish Daily Mail. We're presently running a feature which unmasks Cybernats and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind answering a few questions?"
"Certainly – I'd be delighted. Will my picture be in the paper?"
The journalist agreed that this was a possibility.
"Very well, what would you like to know?"
"I see that you spend a lot of time tweeting about Scottish independence…"
"I do!" I laughed with surprise.
"Over 30,000 tweets in the last… err… day?"
For a moment, the note of diabolical assurance in the journalist's voice was suspended and there was an impromptu familiarity between us. He sounded disappointed or even upset. "Everybody should take an interest in politics," I hastened to explain.
"But you can't even vote in the referendum. You live on the fucking moon!"
I gasped in shock. "I am not accustomed to being insulted," I spluttered at the journalist. "And since you insist on taking that tone with me, I shall bid you good morning!"
On putting down the receiver – where it would most likely remain undisturbed for years – I found that my whole world had been within a matter of minutes completely deflated. I traipsed around the rooms of my home, surveying them afresh and with raw bewilderment. I looked at my computer and shivered with a cold, grimy disgust.
Perhaps I had been spending too much time on the internet. It had been once a new world to explore, a place for amusing outings and expeditions, but it had recently become as unremarkable as the dreary rhythm of my own breathing.
One sometimes forgets that there is far more to life than Twitter. Operas, nineteenth century Russian novels, jigsaws of impressionist paintings – they are all waiting for the adventurous soul. Shouting to my dog and lighting my lantern for the first time in months, I was at once determined to go for a good walk.
Although I still let my dog out to relieve himself, the lack of regular walking has lately made him fat and downcast. Whereas previously he had bounded ahead of me, he now waddled along glumly and I had to keep calling to him in encouragement.
We set out across the surface of the moon. I collected a few stray sticks for the fire, arranging them in a bundle which rattled under my arm.
Passing the crater where the moon landings were supposedly filmed (I still haven't come across that flag yet), I looked up to behold the Earth shining high in the heavens with all of its might, unutterably glorious and perfect. It suddenly struck me that even though I knew what Scotland looked like, I had no idea where it could be found on the surface of the Earth. For several minutes, I studied the streaky, multi-coloured blotches which were spread all over the planet. Was Scotland above or below the equator?
My dog had settled in the path ahead and he was now waiting for me restlessly.
I scoured the Earth's surface with vexation, wishing that I had brought along my telescope. Once, some slight, familiar shape twinkled and my eyes shot back to where I thought that I had seen it, but it had faded away into nothing.
Please keep thinking of me my old friend.
The warmest of wishes,
The Man in the Moon.
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BLAZE MESSAGE: 14 lessons fire comms can teach everyonePosted: July 31, 2016 | Author: Dan Slee | Filed under: emergency planning, social media, Uncategorized | Tags: case studies, data, examples, Facebook, fire, fire and rescue, fire and rescue communications, instagram, mapping, open data, public sector, snapchat, twitter | 3 Comments
A thousand flowers are blooming in this new era of digital communications.
Amazing things are happening, new rulebooks are being written and old ones tossed away.
But if you are too busy growing roses you won't spot the great things happening.
Or in other words, look outside your own corner of the world and you'll find great things.
And so it is with fire and rescue services not just across the UK but across the world. I've done some work in the sector and got to know some people and I've always left with knew ideas on how to do things.
Often, people in the sector don't realise just how great their work is. Less in number than local and central government comms people from the sector communicate to save lives and to prevent them. I'd love them to be bolder. They don't just get you to test your smoke alarm. They save lives.
One myth exploded, though. In the UK the comms is not geared up primarily for documenting heroic rescue. Prevention is better than cure. Statistics say there were 258 fatalities in the 12-months to March 2015 and 3,225 were taken to hospital. There were almost 155,000 fires. This is the second lowest in UK history.
Fire comms people need to move from the pedestrian pace of advice to business to communicating death and sometimes the death of their own colleagues. That takes guts. Not everyone can do this.
There is a community of fire communicators
The FirePRO organisation is the umbrella group for the sector and a bright bunch they are too. But Twitter also connects them not just across the UK but far further. The fact I asked a question about best practice on a Friday night and got a pile of responses is perfect evidence. Neil Spencer from West Midlands fire describes this as a 'can do, will do, let's give it a try attitude.'
Here are 14 things you can learn from fire comms
#1 Using planning to get your shizzle ready
Nobody wants an emergency. But they tend to happen and when they do public sector comms people have to react. I've lost count of the number of blank faces in local government when I ask what they'd do if a plane crashed, a bomb went off or a tower block started to fall down. Not so fire and rescue.
As award-winning Bridget Aherne wrote in a blog post for comms2point0:
"The way to sum this up quickly – and sorry to anyone who knows me because you'll have heard me utter this phrase, annoyingly, hundreds of times before – you have to be proactive about your reactive communications."
Lesson: Good comms planning always helps.
#2 Using Periscope for realtime situation reports
Lesson: If an incident is breaking live video from the scene to give situation reports has real value and can plug into online networks as well as media organisations.
I've spent a lot of time in the last 18-months co-delivering workshops on making effective video for comms. It teaches people to plan, edit, shoot and post video. However, in an emergency the value is not the well-shot video. The value is have video footage from that particular spot at that particular time. Why? So you can communicate with people in realtime. In the UK, there is a duty on comms people in local government, fire, police and other agencies to warn and inform.
As this US example shows, a firefighter giving a commentary or even a brief situation report – has value. Don't forget anyone with a smartphone and the Periscope app has the ability to fill that information vacuum. Questions can also be posed by people following the stream and answered by fire crew.
In an era where video is highly sought by media organisations online to be in the frontline is priceless.
LIVE on #Periscope: San Bernardino major fire https://t.co/td3Y3O2FSR
— EPN564 (@EPN564) July 22, 2016
#3 Using a hashtag
Lesson: A simple sharable hashtag can help spread a campaign.
One of the greatest uses of a hashtag by anyone in the public sector is the excellent #testittuesday tag. Started by Norfolk Fire and rescue it is that brilliant thing of basic advice shared as a hashtag. It encourages people every Tuesday to test their smoke alarm. As basic good advice it can be hard to measure the effectiveness or the fires that didn't happen because of a test.
You don't need 2 be Batman or Superman 2 test your smoke alarms be an everyday hero! #TestitTuesday #BatmanvSuperman pic.twitter.com/BmcYecmeoN
— Norfolk Fire Service (@Norfolkfire) April 19, 2016
#4 Using Instagram as a channel
Lesson: Instagram can be used for soft power. Images of the work people to do interspersed with more serious messages.
Services across the world are starting to make headway with Instagram. Really, there's no surprise. It's not like there's nothing to photograph. If there isn't a fire there's the equipment or the staff in the equipment. Kent Fire and Rescue Service excell in this area. A stream that is engaging, fun and personable people could do worse than looking at this.
Keep smiling after after a good night out. Being drunk and cooking don't mix. #smilesafe #fire #firefighter
A photo posted by Fire and Rescue (@kentfirerescue) on Jul 12, 2016 at 5:41am PDT
#5 Using mapping
Lesson: Maps can communicate with the media and residents and reduce avoidable contact.
Back when I was a journalist we made a round of calls to fire stations on our patch at 7.30am, 1pm and 10pm. There were six in our patch and a further 14 in surrounding areas which we sort of covered. That's 60 calls a call.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service have a mapping page embedded in their website which gives news of incidents with some basic details. They also post images and videos which can be used with a credit. This must cut the amount of time on routine calls. Hats off to Sarah Roberts for this.
#6 Using the social web as a firefighter and human being
Lesson: People respond to people so let your people.
One thing I've long argued for is for public sector people to use social media as themselves. There's far greater cut-through. People connect better to real people than a logo. So, it's always inspiring to see real people doing just that. Thanks to @rubonist on Twitter for flagging this.
@danslee @Rubonist I'm a big fan of keeping my community informed. This includes #media when something significant is occurring.
— Thanh Nguyen (@PIOthanhn) July 29, 2016
#7 Using the social web as a senior officer
Lesson: Using the social web allows senior people to be visible and to listen better. It also allows partners and the organisation to better understand their thinking and priorities.
There has been a trend in recent years of senior public sector people using Twitter to engage, listen, share ideas and give some visibility to yourself.
@BridgetAherne @JackGrasby @LFRSABrodie @HolmesyL @danslee Its about more than fires, it's prevention & rescue too #InstitutionallyModest
— Dave Walton (@WYFRSDaveWalton) July 29, 2016
#8 Using embedded social media video
Lesson: Embedding video to drop into people's timelines can be a good way to communicate.
Sometimes things don't always go to plan as this incident which saw five people die in Nechells, Birmingham. Video content posted to Twitter shared the press conference to the community. This could have been uploaded to Facebook too.
Press conference given by area commander Ben Brook at Nechells site pic.twitter.com/41OISXyNve
— Jasbir Authi (@JABhammail) July 7, 2016
#9 Using humour and newsjacking
Lesson: Being creative about your communications and the channels you use can pay off.
As London Fire Brigade showed in their epic news jacking of the racy film 50 Shades of Grey imagination on comms works. A campaign followed in the wake of the film to talk about the number of times people had called for help with locked handcuffs, penis rings and other rather embarrassment-creating problems. The #50shadesofred campaign is a benchmark in public sector comms. Data driven it used a range of channels.
#10 Using data to allow people to build their own picture
Lesson: Data can be turned into something searchable to give people street-level insight.
Everyone's experience is different. This is why it is refreshing to see West Midlands Fire Service use their incident data to allow you to search by postcode to see what incidents happened in your neighbourhood.
#11 Using Flickr as an image library
Lesson: A Flickr library can make thousands of images available for re-use.
Social photo storage site Flickr may not have the sexiness as Snapchat but as a place to be your public image library it remains peerless. There are several organisations in the UK using it well. However, the US use is the benchmark. Los Angeles Fire Department post images to the stream. They have almost 20,000 images. With an open licence anyone can use them. As the argument goes, public money paid for then so why shouldn't with the permission of the photographer people and organisations re-use them?
#12 Using Facebook for large communities
Lesson: Facebook pages are a start but not the last word on how people can be reached on the platform.
Pages can be a useful way to have some Facebook real estate although they deal with broadcasting to small corners of the web that can be shared on. Manchester Fire and Rescue and Scottish Fire and Rescue are examples.
But to really engage, you need to use Facebook as the page to comment and add content on other pages. Or join Facebook groups as an individual.
#13 Using Facebook for niche communities
Lesson: Facebook pages for smaller communities can be effective ways of reaching them. The Polish community, maybe. Or in Biker Down's case motorbike riders.
Facebook has the numbers so it is worth using. Seeing as it has the numbers yo can also carve out niches where people will congregate. There were more than 5,000 serious incidents with motorbikes in 2014. I've long believed that the single corporate page is almost always not the answer for large organisations. There are communities within them, so plug into them. If you are a biker the Biker Down page would work.
#14 Using Facebook quizzes
Lesson: Quizes reach people. Often people who are hard to engage with.
Facebook quizzes can engage with audiences that may well be resistant to leaflets and other comms. London Fire Brigade uses them well and creates them to accompany campaigns. They've done them to see if people fancy being firefighters, for example. With this one, they are celebrating their 150th anniversary with helmets.
#15 Using Snapchat
Lesson: Yes, you can use Snapchat.
One of the good things about the web is coming across organisations doing good things in other countries. Take Sapeurs Pompiers Volontaires du Gard. They are a French fire brigade in Nimes in the south of the country who have an imaginative use of images on Twitter and Snapchat too.
Thanks for the input for this post from people across the Fire and Rescue comms community. In particular: Catherine Levin, Neil Spencer, Bridget Aherne, Sarah Roberts, Robert Coles, @Rubonist, Thanh Ngugen, Steven Morgan, Phillip Gillingham, Jim Williams, Pave Dhande, Leigh Holmes, Jack Grasby, Pete Richardson, Dave Walton and Dawn Whittaker.
TRUE GRIT: A localgov winter social media case studyPosted: December 13, 2010 | Author: Dan Slee | Filed under: social media | Tags: emergency planning, Facebook, flickr, grit, gritting, ice, mapping, open data, snow, social media, Twitpic, twitter, winter | 5 Comments
Every mile is two in winter, the Elizabethan poet George Herbert wisely said.
True words then and true today and he never had to drive a Vauxhall Astra on the M6 in minus five degree weather.
In local government its worth going the extra mile in wintry weather.
Get things right in sub zero weather and you're laughing.
Get it wrong and you're not. Just ask the Scottish transport minister who resigned after scathing criticism.
For the past two weeks Walsall Council – the council I work for – has been using social media as a key way to keep people updated on wintry weather.
It's not the first time. Last year, we were one of a small number to use social media. We used Twitter to flag up gritting and service disruption.
This time, we expanded a touch. During the icy period of November 26 to December 11 2010 we used the council website, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.
Staff were primed to email the communications unit, members of the team by 8am every day as well as individuals. When the gritters went out the engineers e-mailed and even called to flag up what they were up to.
Council website www.walsall.gov.uk
With new digital channels taking all the attention you'd be forgiven for overlooking your website. Don't. It's where a lot of your content can go.
We used one page on the website as a links directory to more than half a dozen potential service areas so people didn't have to search around the website.
It's where most people will go first.
Twitter @walsallcouncil
Stats: 2,200 followers (a five per cent rise in two weeks)
261 tweets at almost 19 a day.
Content: Updates on gritting, school closures, service disruption.
Links to council gritting pages, school closure page organised by education provider Serco.
Links to winter shots taken by residents and posted on Twitpic and Flickr.
Links to BBC weather.
Link to the @mappamercia grit map.
Did we RT?: Of course. Social media is supposed to be social. We retweeted the Met Office weather forecasts, neighbouring authority grit updates and advice on
Facebook: Our Walsall fan page
Stats: 345 likes (up 10 per cent in two weeks)
Daily post views up 3,105 or 82 per cent.
Updates: 27
Each status update received between 159 and 783 page impressions.
Content: Three to four updates a day with links to a general page.
Flickr and Twitpic
Stats: 6 pics posted on Flickr and 12 pics crowdsourced and retweeted on Twitter to provide content from residents themselves. Shots varied from the amateur twitpic to the almost professional here.
A set of pics were posted of the gritters in action at a training event in late autumn designed to test out the routes. These were posted to Flickr but the best pics came from residents themselves. In the spirit of web 2.0 we posted links to good shots.
One pic was crowdsourced for the council website header shot.
Content: snowy scenes taken by residents as well as shots of gritters posted by the press office.
Open data
It's one of the great jobs of this winter to see a mapping project really take off in Walsall. The Mappa Mercia group are people I'ce blogged about previously. Last winter they drew-up a grit map on open street map for Birmingham. You can take a look here. They spotted the grit routes for Walsall and Solihull too and quietly added them. So, when winter came we were quite happy to link to their map. It shows residents spotting a need and doing it themselves.
Content: grit routes.
EIGHT things we'd suggest:
- Get service areas to tell you what they are doing.
- Communicate to residents in good time.
- Monitor, respond and communicate every four hours. Have a rota to do this.
- Put the same message across different channels. But in the language of the platform. Don't RSS it across everything. It won't work.
- You can crowdsource good picture content.
- Have an idea what the frequently asked questions are and think about the answers before you are asked.
- Take a screen shot of the positive and negative comments from Facebook and Twitter. It gives the service areas an idea of what is being said if you email it to them. The positive stuff will go down very well and make them more supportive of what you are doing.
- You can reply to negative comments. But if people swear or are sarcastic think twice. You may not have a constructive conversation.
DAY TO DAY DATA: An idiot's guide to what the open data revolution means for local governmentPosted: March 9, 2010 | Author: Dan Slee | Filed under: data, local government, social media | Tags: data, linked data, local government, mapping, maps, open data, social media, Tim Berners-Lee | 7 Comments
Okay. Cards on the table. For the last 12 months I've been coming across geeks who have been banging on about data with a religious zeal.
You can see them wherever digital people meet-up with their Atari t-shirts and their Mash the State badges.
Internet creator Tim Berners-Lee a while back got an entire conference to chant 'free the data!' over and over.
What the flip is data? Why the flip should I be bothered? I'm just a local government press officer.
It was Tom Watson MP who I first heard talk about data in the summer of 2009 at the Black Country Social Media Cafe.
Gradually, after scores of conversations, blog reading and thinking it's started to make some sense.
What has emerged to me is a picture of the potential for nothing short of a revolution. In life and by extension in local government.
What is data?
It's information. It may be bicycle accidents. It may be crime figures. It may be the location of street lights or a leisure centre.
Pretty boring, yes?
On it's own probably. But it starts to get really, really interesting when that information gets presented in an easily digestible way. Like on a map, say.
It gets even more interesting when several streams of information are put on the same map. It can make the world we live in look a different place.
The bicycle accidents map is a brilliant early example of how this can work.
Isn't that only of interest to cyclists?
Yes, but that's the whole point. It's information – or data – that's buried away which is fabulously interesting if you were a cyclist. You could find out where the accident blackspots were and avoid them. Or maybe campaign for something to be done about them.
The open street map is one such editable map with scores of snippets of data.
In the West Midlands, the MappaMercia project have kicked some ideas around. The gritting map of Birmingham is one example of turning data into something interactive. It plots gritting routes around the city which are treated in icy weather.
Start to make sense?
Here is a Q and A. It's an idiot's guide to data written by an eejit after talking and listening. It's not a definitive. But it's one take on what data will mean for local government.
What is data?
Data is information. Simple as that. Broadly speaking, this can be on a whole range of subjects. It could be weather data, news data, scientific data or government data. Even what time the 404A bus route runs from Cradley Heath to Walsall can be classed as data.
What about personal data?
All that stuff isn't really of interest to enthusiasts who want to build maps and mess about with things. However, every time you use your Tesco Clubcard that data gets stored by Tesco. The supermarket giant then use that to build a picture of what lines are doing well and also a snapshot of your shopping habits.
Isn't data available anyway?
If you are Sherlock Holmes and you look hard enough there's a stack that could be found. But that's just it. In the 21st century we expect more than just that information is stored in filing cabinets that may or may not be open to the public twice a year. In 430 different locations (one for every local council).
But isn't data about bus routes and bus arrival times like, really, really boring?
To you maybe. But if you catch the 404A from Cradley Heath you'd want to know when the buses left and – here's the nub – how reliable they were.
What is a 'mash-up'?
This is where information has been taken and presented in a different format. On a fun level, the United Cakedom mash-up plots where cake reviews were carried out. There's also a picture and a link to the blog that carried them.
Yes, but what does this mean for local government?
It means more transparency.
It means that people can see what is going on. It can also means that better informed decisions can be made by decision makers. That has to be good.
What would the average council officer think of making data freely available?
Frankly, they may be terrified.
If you are working at a particular coalface you may think that the information you are collecting is actually yours.
It can be sat on an officer's hard drive and jealously guarded.
The officer may be worried at how this information plays out amongst residents. It could lead to criticism and awkward questions being asked. That's democracy.
Why should local government officers not worry?
Frankly, many of the decisions about releasing data are being made at a very senior level in Government. More than 3,000 data sets – that's packets of useful information – have been made available by the British Government via data.gov.uk.
Are there any amusing examples of data worry?
The Localgovcamp event in London recently heard of an example of how the Royal Mail stepped in to ask a council to stop mapping Victorian postboxes as the information 'could be of use to terrorists'.
There was also the worry that a grit bin map could be used by grit thieves at a time of short supply.
What's all this fuss about data.gov.uk?
This is a website for masses of data to be made available.
What sort of information can be found there?
It's a range of public information from birth rates to accident statistics to death rates.
Isn't data.gov.uk difficult to understand to the lay person?
Yes and no. It's all in one place which makes a start. But the real beauty is when web developers get their hands on it and make easy to use applications like the iphone ASBOmeter that tells you where and how often anti-social behaviour orders are handed out by courts.
What about council websites? What does this mean for them?
Previously, there was effectively one door to knock on for council information. The council website. That's changing.
As data becomes freely available anyone tech-savvy can build a website and display council data. Remember, as taxpayers it is effectively theirs.
Remember the bicycle accident site? People would be more inclined to go there rather than turn detective. See? See how it starts to work?
Do council websites do nothing then?
No, not at all. It means that as the bar has been raised to present information council web people will have to learn new skills. Interactive mapping is a must. Simply posting a pdf that won't show up in a google search just isn't good enough.
Is this political?
Different political parties are starting to construct policies around it. It's not for me to comment on the rights and wrongs of those parties.
Undoubtedly, in local politics the trends and anomolies thrown up by open data will enter into the political arena.
So, this is all about big government then isn't it?
Not really. There's a stack of data collected by government both local and national.
There's also a lot more which individuals create, either consciously or unconsciously. It happens every time you use the web, for example. Google checks where you are clicking so it can rank pages accordingly. When you follow someone on Twitter data is collected. Add a picture to Flickr and more gets created.
Can we go off as local government officers and build Google maps? And what about Ordnance Survey?
Err, no. No blog about the public sector and maps is complete without a line about Ordnance Survey. This is the state-owned organisation that licenses people, companies and state owned bodies, such as councils, for the right to use maps.
Open data people get really cross with OS. It's our data, they argue.
Right now, there is a row going on between OS and Google which means that local government people can't use Google maps. This may change in the near future.
Not heard enough? What does world wide web creator and brains behind data.gov.uk Tim Berners-Lee say about it?
There is a brilliant TED talk on data which should be required viewing. You can view it here.
During it (at about 4 minutes 30 seconds) he shows a clip of Hans Rosling using data visualisation to shatter a commonly held myth about poverty. People in non-western countries die early with big families. Right? Wrong. Not any more they don't. He used birth and death data to create an animated chart to bring alive his argument.
The original talk by Hans is here.
This is what Tim Berners-Lee says: "Data drives a huge amount of what happens in our lives.
"I want to think of a world where everyone has put data on the web and so everything you imagine is on the web.
"I'm calling that linked data. It's about making the world run better."
If you were looking for a starting point, take a look at Tim Berners-Lee's six minute film here on how that data stuff and people who knew what they were doing helped save lives in Haiti in 2010.
SIX things local government people can do:
1. Remember that data collected by local government doesn't belong to local government. Or the officer that collected it. It belongs to residents.
2. Realise it's going to happen anyway. It's not your decision. Open data is often Government level.
3. Start using data to feed back into the decision making process. Maybe there is a site out there that can be used?
4. Raise the bar when presenting information on council websites. Think maps. Think RSS feed too.
5. Realise that data no matter how boring to you is madly interesting to somebody somewhere.
6. Look for data that can be made public. A map with layers to show who your councillor is, where the leisure centre is and where the library is is a start. Add past election results too.
Start to make sense now?
Creative commons credits
Data – Patrick Hoesly, Bike – Kicki, Seventies computer – AJ Mexico, Caramel – Matthew Murray, Handheld – Zach Klein, Tim Berners-Lee – Farm4Static.


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Jessica Fletcher
"But because I'm a romantic I still believe that we have the potential to be nobler than we know and better than we think. That the darkness I've seen is only a shadow on the "potential" of the human heart. Warren, in his own way a romantic, made hard by the world around him until he finally made a tragic mistake. He walked away from his own moral compass. So I urge you to keep your hearts' compass on the true North of your dreams. Be free to be romantics, to reject sinisism, to believe that good will prevail, and that those who do wrong will be punished. Because, when the hour of the wolf comes, as it comes to all of us, sooner or later. Those are the things that sustain us. Thank you and goodnight."


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Sarah Young's devotionals for children are scattered throughout this ICB (International Children's Bible) version.
ICB Jesus Calling Bible for Children: with Devotions by Sarah Young. Tommy Nelson, 2017, 1472 pages.
Recommended for: ages 6-10
The subtitle says it all: if you like Sarah Young's direct-from-Jesus devotional style, you'll like this Bible; otherwise not. In her introduction she writes, "The devotionals are written as if Jesus is speaking right to you . . . I wrote the devotionals this way to help you know that Jesus is with you all the time and wants to be your best friend." Some of the major themes of the Bible are stated as, "How amazing is God love for us," "Jesus, our best friend," "How to live a great life," "Knowing right from wrong," and "Asking God to forgive us for wrong choices." Each one-page devotional includes a meditation, a short prayer, and an application. About 22 four-page color inserts are scattered throughout the text at regular intervals; these feature well-known Bible stories, with pictures (many pictures of Jesus), a key verse, and a "Jesus Calling moment." There are no book introductions to provide context. The appendix includes a dictionary, key verses to learn, a story index, promise verses, and four maps.
Much has been written about the problems with Sarah Young's approach, in particular the presumption of speaking for God and dwelling on his immanence at the cost of his transcendence. Besides that, I find her devotionals repetitive, unchallenging, and very much reader-centered. Her devotional book for children is reviewed here.
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as you may know, our family (dads whole extended side) has been going up there every fall for many years.
we do a lot of the same activities & eat a lot of the same meals, but tradition, with room for improvisation, is what makes it a wonderfully relaxing & familiar trip.
we drove up thursday, late afternoon. it was COLD & rainy. the evening was spent in the cabins, sipping hot chocolate (served to us by grandfather) & unloading our stuff for the weekend.
friday, the day dawned COLD & cloudy--but no rain. and kids don't mind cold. so they were outside, climbing the hills, throwing leaves, tossing the football; while the adults spent most of their time indoors. we took a trip up to the lodge for a while before lunch, browsed around/letting the kids run around. Bentley stuck his hand in a touch & feel box (you know, the kind where you are supposed to identify what you are feeling with out seeing?) and SCREAMED when he felt the fur that was in the box. he recovered, remembering he was brave "cause God made me brave". We did take-a-drive style naps for B, shawn & i rewarding ourselves with a dr pepper from the tiny gas station, & kind of spent the day just waiting for dinner. Grandmother starts a roast in the crock pot, BEFORE lunch and the smell wafts throughout the cabin all day. it's a highlight to say the least. caroline got roast in her lap thanks to B using her plate to balance himself, but it was quickly cleaned up & we all enjoyed the evening. saturday, it was a bit warmer & sunny! we broke tradition a little this year, & the "breakfast tree" bloomed early! for those who may be unfamiliar with a breakfast tree, it only blooms once a year (amazing that we can always time our trip out right for this), & it is a tree (or a grouping of tiny trees) that has little boxes of cereal, juice boxes & milk, doughnuts/breakfast bars--all hanging by ribbons, waiting for us to come choose the perfect combination. bentley was so excited for the "tea party" (somehow breakfast tree got translated as tea party. he also thought we should be wearing party hats) but when he walked up, he grabbed the first cereal bar he saw (ignored everything else), ran into the cabin & sat there, eating his breakfast. after breakfast, shawn & dad snuck off before the husker game for a round of golf, their yearly tradition & bentley got to pretend his was a big kid-going on a hike with the cousins! he came back shouting "lets get this party started!" so i think he had fun. we roasted our lunch over the fire--hotdogs & s'mores. we also saw two bald eagles flying overhead! we did another take-a-drive style nap, but this time the little man wasn't so easy to bore, so we stopped to browse at a few shops in town. the rest of the afternoon was spent outside enjoying the now nicer weather, coloring pictures, taking pictures, & watching the kids play. we ended the day bundled up, up on the hill looking at the stars! we took a detour on the way home & drove through a part of the haunted hayrack ride that is right along the normal road. bentley covered his eyes with my hands & promptly fell asleep! sunday morning dawned bright & early (since bentley fell asleep early, we all stayed up late. that math never works out). we had coffee & pumpkin muffins in our cabin as we got ready for the day/ cleaned out & packed up the cabin. we ended our weekend at the park with a picnic. by now, the weather was gorgeous! we all took our turn going down the slides, some played football, others just sat around the picnic tables. after lunch, we went up to the look out (you can see three states/over looks the missouri river) & headed home!
i'm so thankful for a loving family who loves each other & tradition. it is a highlight of each year, we are already looking forward to going back!
(i sorted through over 300 pictures for this post. caroline had my camera a lot of the weekend. so be prepared, lots of pictures!)
|on the road! ponca here we come!
|testing out the bunk beds.
|good morning! pumpkin spice coffee & creamer.
|grandma kathy sent binoculars for the little explorer
|uncle joe helping bentley play cards
|all decked out for the cold!
|elsie & mira at the lodge
|bentley & luke paddling down the missouri
|ponca motorcyle drivers beware!
|every year the "pumpkin buns" get a good laugh out of us.
|caught instagraming.
|can you smell the roast?
|bentley, mira, & heidi
|he loved these girls!
|and these boys.
|caroline, paige, bentley, megan, & rachel (megans friend)
|aunt beths glasses
|telling stories
|hot apple cider!
|this boy needed a bath!
|bundling up!
|breakfast tree collage
|reading with uncle matt
|luke, heidi, mira, & bentley
|headed out on their hike!
|the guys ready to golf
|mmm, lunch.
|running by, taking bites. (the shadow is a perfect beard)
|the oldest getting a piggy back by the youngest sister. seemed dangerous to me.
|new shades
|when you hang out with high schoolers & jr highers, you get caught in photo shoots.
|had to take a quick break
|on our way to look at the stars!
|dad testing out the slide


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Two hikes were agreed upon for today, to Howe Lake (4 miles RT) and then to Rocky Point (2.2 miles RT) for lunch.
Howe Lake's trailhead was up a gravel road, so glad we did not meet anyone as it was narrow and at times on the edge!!
This area of Glacier had fires in 2003 so much of what we walked through was what you see after a fire.
Even though it had been burned, it created its own beauty. Plus we saw thousands of new trees growing, a new forest growing.
This is Howe Lake. Beautiful, isn't it!
We were walking
in grizzly country, so I had to find a bell, you know "bear bells" and this tiny jingle bell was the only one I could find in the coach-think it was part of a candle gift we received. It MUST have worked!! As we are alive to write this post. yea!!! (Bob called this bell a 'cub' bell, wasn't big enough to qualify as a bear bell.)
I love taking photo's up a tall objects, water towers, etc. This burned tree was very unique!!
The trail sometimes has obstacles.
Lunch overlooking Lake McDonald.
We added a new state to our US map, Montana!!
Tomorrow we drive over 90 miles to Saint Mary's to explore the eastern side of Glacier.


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by: The Offspring
It's more mixing of stylized punk revival and hybridism with left-field musical experimentation and in-the-now pop culture lyrical references on Splinter, the Offspring's seventh full-length. "Never Gonna Find Me," "Long Way Home," and "Lightning Rod" each bristle with overdriven guitars and Dexter Holland's high-pitched bleating; they're somewhat workmanlike, but still roil with that precision fury particular to a veteran band. At the same time, Holland, guitarist Noodles, and bassist Greg Kriesel can't resist returning to the towel-slapping trash humor and mean-spirited loathing that typified past tracks like "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" and "Self Esteem." Lead single "Hit That" talks up baby daddies over a bopping bassline and keyboard right out of a Bloodhound Gang track, while "Spare Me the Details" subverts its lighthearted acoustic strum with foul-mouthed (on the clean version, anyway) attacks on a philandering girlfriend ("I'm not the one who acted like a ho"). "Da Hui" overdrives surf rock while paying homage to hardcore Hawaiian board riders, and "When You're in Prison" ends Splinter with sage advice about protecting your dignity in the clink. For whatever reason, the latter track is performed as 1930s Brill Cream dinner theater, complete with the faked crackle of an old 78 and muffled crooner vocals suggestive of a whining Victrola. The curious "Prison" renews the longstanding knock on the Offspring. They're very talented, write killer hooks, and can really crank up a punk rock racket when they want to, like on the Splinter standout "(Can't Get My) Head Around You." But the accessibility and crackling energy come shackled to crassness and frivolity, making the listener wonder whether Holland and his boys are committed to making effective music, or need to fill up albums with throwaways like the directionless "Neocon," the ska-hop predictability of "Worst Hangover Ever," or the aforementioned "Prison." It's the old saying -- the jokes were funny once, but just don't keep over time. This questioning of intent will likely be irrelevant for longtime fans. They'll be more than happy with Splinter, which crams every last piece of the Offspring puzzle -- slickly produced rock racket, hints of anti-establishment rabble-rousing, and reams of relationship and strip mall culture gaggery -- into its brief half-hour run time. ~ Johnny Loftus


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When Kids Refuse to Go to School
It isn't unusual for a kid to face the new school year with some fear and trepidation. But for some youngsters, school is absolutely terrifying—and they'll do anything to miss it.
The result is school-refusal behavior. These are kids who may be absent for weeks or even months. Those who make it to school may spend a big chunk of the day hiding out in the nurse's office or throw hours-long tantrums before the morning bell rings, as I report in today's Personal Journal,
Some of that behavior can be misconstrued as sheer defiance (After all, what kid hasn't begged not to go to school at some point.) Indeed, some kids, especially older ones, who miss school are being truant; they think it's just more fun to hang out at the mall or get high in a friend's backyard than go to class. And sometimes there are genuine reasons to fear school, because of bullying, for example. But in about two-thirds of cases, a psychiatric problem, most commonly an anxiety disorder, is the cause.
School refusal affects the whole family and can be very disruptive to parents' work and routine. "If your kid doesn't go to school, it is hard for you to keep your job," says Helen Egger, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center…
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Counter Intuitive Presents: Cosmic Debris, Vol 1.
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It has been a cool year running this label!!! I can't believe it has actually been this long already. I have been fortunate to get such great support from all over the world for the releases I have put out and so I'd like to thank you all so much for allowing me to play a small role in these wonderful bands existence.
This compilation was built with tracks from current CIR bands, some future CIR bands, friends of the label, and some bands I've looked up to for a long time. The comp is made up of demo's, acoustic versions, live sessions, covers, and a few full band tracks. Every track on here was selected because I truly love these bands and hope you all can find the same merit in them as I do. You may know some, you may not know others, so please give them a chance! CDs were made by the amazing Pavonine Packaging and artwork by my friend Sarah.
p.s. thanks to my dad for thinking up the name cosmic debris
1. Bay Faction - Alex
2. LFSX - Sweater Weather (demo)
3. Hodera - North Dakota (acoustic live @ WPRB)
4. sports. - Words That Rhyme With Different, Etc. (demo)
5. Plainclothes - Under Overcoats (demo)
6. oldsoul - Eyeless (Litter Box Session)
7. Motel TV - Veins (demo)
8. Sleeping Patterns - Choose (demo)
9. Shiver - Peak (acoustic)
10. Toy Cars - Dull (Honest Face Session)
11. dollys - Somebody Made For Me (Emitt Rhodes Cover)
12. Love Under The Sun - Make Sense of My Head
13. Granite to Glass - Between the Bars (Elliot Smith Cover - Litter Box Session)
14. Graduating Life - D
15. Equipment - Boring (acoustic)
16. Tom Stevens - Two Chord Song
17. Board Games - Baseball (acoustic)
18. State Lines - I'm New (acoustic live session)
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Google says a shipment problem with the new Pixel phones means some customers will have to wait, a new report said.
But the Mountain View tech titan is giving those buyers something to look forward to: they'll get $50 vouchers for the Google Play store, to be sent via email "soon after" the phone is delivered, according to TechCrunch.
The notices to buyers told them that their phones had been shipped, but would arrive later than expected. "We're so sorry," the notices said, according to the website, which said Google had confirmed it had sent the notices.
A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that pre-order demand exceeded the firm's expectations, but that the delays resulted from a now-resolved shipping glitch.
The phones in question were shipped last week and should arrive this week if they haven't already, said Google, which wouldn't disclose how many customers would receive credits.
The $50 vouchers will be good for items in the Play store, which sells apps, movies, books, TV shows, music, news subscriptions and devices.
But a purported shipping glitch isn't the only thing keeping some would-be Pixel owners from getting their hands on the devices. On Oct. 31, all colors of the larger Pixel XL were listed as out of stock in the Play store, as were the black and blue versions of the 32GB Pixel.
Photo: Rick Osterloh, Google senior vice president of hardware, introduces the new Google Pixel phone during a product event, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In catching up with my viewing of PBS opera broadcasts, I found myself watching a "rerun" of a live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House of Bartlett Sher's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann that took place on January 31, 2015. I took a particular interest in this production because it seemed to have drawn upon the same score that had been used by the San Francisco Opera (SFO) during its Summer 2013 season, the so-called "integral edition" edited by Michael Kaye and Jean-Christophe Keck and published by both French and German publishers in 2011. For those who do not know the story behind The Tales, so to speak, when Offenbach died on October 5, 1880, he left behind a completed piano score and orchestrations of only the prologue and the first act.
As a result, over the course of my early years of going to the opera, it would be fair to say that I never saw any performing version of the opera twice. (The Wikipedia author of the page for this opera has done an admirable job of accounting for the many versions that have been staged.) The "integral edition" was supposed to converge on a single "authoritative source," although Keck is still treating the project as open, his latest insights having been published in 2016. While I am not sure when the 2011 publication was first staged, seeing it in 2013 at the War Memorial Auditorium was an eye-opener, particularly with respect to the role of the Muse in the overall narrative. At the time I was writing for Examiner.com; and I suggested that, instead of three tales framed by a prologue and an epilogue, there was a "whole-cloth" approach to the narrative that could be called "The Tale of the Storyteller."
Matthew Polenzani in the title role of the 2013 Tales of Hoffmann presented by the San Francisco Opera (photograph by Cory Weaver, courtesy of the San Francisco Opera)
The SFO staging was by Laurent Pelly; and I have to say that I had not previously experienced such a clear approach to the overall narrative, perhaps because the source for that narrative now enjoyed greater clarity. Furthermore, I remember that, on that evening, I was joined by a friend who, while familiar with much of Offenbach's music, had never seen any production of the opera. Pelly's staging held her in rapt attention from the first images of the key characters (Hoffmann, Muse, and Nemesis) until the final curtain. There was no shortage of special effects; but, where Olympia was concerned, Pelly ended up tipping his hand, letting us know why we were seeing the uncanny movements that we experienced.
In that context I have to say that I was far more disappointed with Sher's efforts at the Met. The fundamental problem was that he let the special effects overwhelm the narrative. As a result, all the clarity that Kaye and Keck had brought to clarifying the narrative simply threw the whole concoction back into obscurity. Indeed, the visual overkill was so strong that one could easily lose touch with the music itself and how it was being performed by vocalists, instrumentalists, and the conductor leading them all. All the "usual champions" of the opera experience were thrust into the background by one outrageous staging device after another; and any sense of "tale," whether by or about Hoffmann, seemed to dangle behind Sher's images like the tip of a dog's tail (or tale?).
This is not the first time that a Met production has labored under extreme excess. Unless I am mistaken, Jean-Louis Barrault created a Carmen that was conducted by Zubin Mehta in the Sixties that came close to being all choreography and no opera. One can appreciate that Barrault wanted a Carmen that would not be dismissed as the "same old same-old." There is no doubt that he met that goal but at a price that ended up confounding and/or frustrating much of his audience!


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This delightful candlestick features a figure of Mr. Punch rendered in soft-paste porcelain which has been gilded and painted with enamels. Punch dances--his right foot raised as holds aloft a lantern in his right hand.
He is cheerfully dressed in a striped and floral-patterned jacket, flowered trousers, yellow shoes and a hat. The socket for the candle is formed from a swirl of leaves atop a stump with yellow and crimson applied flowers and details picked out in green.
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ANN ARBOR -- The word out of preseason camp when it came to Brandon Peters proved true.
The redshirt freshman quarterback had the strong arm and talent, but his voice and leadership skills in the huddle were lacking.
That has apparently changed, Peters and Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh admit. But his teammates say his laid-back, no-worry attitude has not.
"The way he walks in and talks, he's just a real calm, cool and collected guy," Mike McCray, Michigan's senior linebacker, told reporters on Monday. "He's the same thing on the field. He doesn't get too high. He doesn't get too low."
Players on both sides of the football have been peppered with questions about Peters since he took over at quarterback Saturday in Michigan's 35-14 win over Rutgers. They describe him as a relaxed, mild-mannered guy off the field, a demeanor that has translated without problem to his game.
And he's in line to make his first start this Saturday against Minnesota (7:30 p.m., FOX).
"Brandon's kind of always been the same, sort of even-keeled," senior defensive tackle Maurice Hurst said after Saturday's game.
"It's just Brandon. I don't think he gets too high or too low, and I think that's a good thing to have when you're a quarterback."
Peters took over for fifth-year senior John O'Korn, who had been struggling to move the offense in recent weeks. He was also known to let his emotions out during games.
After O'Korn threw an interception and mishandled a pair of first-half snaps, Harbaugh made the decision to insert Peters into the game midway through the second quarter. Peters finished out the game, completing 10 of his 14 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown, and perhaps most importantly, made no mistakes.
"We trust him," junior running back Karan Higdon said. "He works hard each and every day in practice. We know what he's capable of and we just followed that. He stayed poised and did what he had to do."
Teammates also describe Peters, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound native of Avon, Indiana, as someone eager to learn. Fifth-year senior center Patrick Kugler says Peters has buried himself in the playbook and film this season.
And sophomore defensive end Rashan Gary has apparently seen it firsthand.
"He's been preparing since camp," Gary said. "I walk by the quarterback room, I peep in just to mess with him. He's in his books and he's paying attention.
"Just how he prepared, I knew when he got his chance he was going to do what he did (Saturday)."


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Police have named the holidaymaker who died after falling more than 300ft into a Lake District ravine yesterday.
Elisabeth Huber from Heimberg, Switzerland, was holidaying in Cumbria and was walking with a group of people when she fell about 100m at 1.50pm in Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale.
Landale Ambleside and Kendal Mountain Rescue Teams were both called out to the incident, but the 68-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Sea King search and rescue helicopter from RAF Valley, Anglesey, also flew to the site to help in the operation.
A spokesperson for Cumbria Constabulary said: "Police are not treating her death as suspicious at this stage and have passed the case onto the coroner.
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Julia Suryakusumah, in her home in Jakarta. Photo: Jefri Tarigan Julia Suryakusumah. Photo: Jefri Tarigan
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Indonesia's female police recruits subjected to virginity testsFemale Indonesian military applicants receive 'two-finger' virginity tests
Jakarta: On April 21, Indonesian school girls will don the kebaya – a traditional blouse-dress – and firms will offer discounts to females, as the nation pays tribute to the woman widely regarded as its first feminist.
The story of Raden Ajeng Kartini, born in 1879 into an aristocratic Javanese family during the Dutch colonial era, is a seemingly contradictory one.
Kartini staunchly opposed polygamy but married a man with three wives at the behest of her ailing father.
She died after giving birth to her first child but was appropriated by the New Order regime (former president Suharto's 32-year dictatorship) as the archetypal mother.
She established a school for girls and dreamed of women's emancipation but Kartini Day, held every April 21, is largely celebrated with fashion shows and cooking competitions.
"To be honest I'm a little bit allergic to Kartini Day," says one of Indonesia's leading feminists, Julia Suryakusuma.
"I don't want to be judgmental about someone who lived so long ago and is dead, but she went against her principles. We shouldn't be focused on Kartini, we should be focused on gender equality."
Ms Suryakusuma is a feminist pioneer in Indonesia. She coined the phrase "state ibuism", an ideology that defined women as wives and mothers during the New Order.
Ms Suryakusuma says state ibuism was epitomised in Dharma Wanita, a state-sanctioned organisation for civil servants' wives, whose positions within the organisation mirrored their husbands'.
Her thesis – the first gender analysis of the New Order – was later published as a book and is taught at universities throughout the world.
Some gains in women's rights have been made since the fall of Suharto.
"At the beginning of reformasi (the post-Suharto era) the rape of many Chinese women led to the formation of Komnas Perempuan (the National Commission of Violence Against Women)," Ms Suryakusuma says.
She is inspired by Islamic feminists, including Kiai Haji Husein Muhammad, a Muslim scholar who has written a book about feminist reinterpretations of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).
"It's very important for feminism to infiltrate religious organisations. If you look at western feminists they are always shouting from the rooftops but we have to go under the radar. It's not a different feminism, it's a different strategy," Ms Suryakusuma says. "Western feminists don't understand what being subtle is. We have to work with Islam. Islam is not the enemy, patriarchy is."
Ms Suryakusuma says women's issues of concern to her now include poverty, violence against women, workplace discrimination, the exploitation of female migrant workers overseas (many of them domestic workers who take care of other people's children for years to support their own, whom they almost never see) and child marriage.
This month Lady Fast 2016, a cultural event held by female artist group Kolektif Betina, was disbanded by police and Islamic organisations in Yogyakarta.
"People came and insisted we stop all activities, reasoning we were bad girls because we dressed in miniskirts, had tattoos etc," says Mila Deva from Kolektif Betina. "There was no dialogue whatsoever between us and the attackers, they just came and told us what to do."
The feminist movement in Indonesia was only decades old, Ms Mila says, and some Indonesians still hold the misconception that feminism was an attempt by women to dominate men.
"Indonesian society is not so open, therefore the way feminism is addressed in Indonesia is through cultural performance. Some friends do it through legal advocacy which is also good."
However Ms Mila believes awareness of women's rights to education and health is growing in Indonesia. "More and more employers now understand that women need to take maternity leave."
Ms Mila believes Kartini Day is still relevant in Indonesia. "However I hope it is not just celebrated but taken to a higher level with concrete actions."
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Sci-Fi Channel has ordered 20 hours of the BSG prequel 'Caprica.' Filming on the series will start in 2009, with a 2010 premier date. The miniseries airs next year (I can't find a specific date).
Watch the preview for the miniseries here.
Could we just stop with all the prequels? They haven't really worked out too good yet on anything.
how long 'till they ruin it?
I'm having really hard time getting excited about Caprica. Not only because it has been described as "Dallas in Space" but because I'm afraid SciFi might completely screw it over if it ever gets popular. How long does it take to air those 20 hours? 4-5 years? :-)
Watching them flip and turn and delay and re-schedule BSG put me in point where I couldn't care less about the show anymore.
Grrh, nerdrage..
Meh …
Unfortunately, Sci Fi is the Fox of cable television. If they give this the same milquetoast treatment that they've given BSG, it could be high art of the finest quality. We'll get ten episodes, wait eighteen months for the next ten, have the schedule changed to compete with a much stronger (ratings-wise) program, and it'll get lost somewhere in Neilsen's basement.
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Yes yes y'all.
- Adam & The Amethysts – Prophecy
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – (Do Not Feed The) Oyster
- Sebadoh – Ocean
So happy to have heard this in a bar this weekend, until I remembered that I was in one of the few places (in the world?) where I would expect to hear things like this.
- Crooked Fingers – New Drink For The Old Drunk
night turns black cause it's rotten
- Arcade Fire – Born on a Train
I've always had a theory that some artists just weren't meant to play their own songs, my argument being reflected perfectly in some covers being better than their originals and better than anything original by the band covering them. I'm not sure that this is a prime example of that theory (since I have nothing against the original here), but I'd rather listen to this than most of Arcade Fire's discography so it's certainly a starting point. Blah, blah, blah.
- Lifter Puller – Lake Street Is For Lovers
- Bright Eyes – Jejeune Stars
- The Joy Formidable – Austere
- The Strokes – Metabolism
- Metric – Police and the Private
no one wants what we want