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An Israeli rocket is fired into the northern Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday instructed the military to begin a ground offensive in Gaza, an official statement from his office said. The Israeli military says Gaza militants have fired more than 1,300 rockets into Israel. Palestinian health officials say 233 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air and naval strikes. One Israeli civilian has been killed by fire from Gaza.
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Left wing Israelis hold signs as they participate in a demonstration against the Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Fierce fighting between Israel and Hamas resumed Thursday, including an airstrike that killed three Palestinian children feeding pigeons on their roof, after a temporary cease-fire that allowed Gazans to stock up on supplies.
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An Israeli soldier sits atop an armoured personnel carrier (APC), after the end of a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014. Israeli leaders on Thursday played down prospects of a permanent Gaza ceasefire and fighting returned to a familiar pattern of Palestinian rocket salvoes and Israeli bombing after a five-hour humanitarian truce.
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An Israeli tank performs a maneuver after the end of a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014. Israeli leaders on Thursday played down prospects of a permanent Gaza ceasefire and fighting returned to a familiar pattern of Palestinian rocket salvoes and Israeli bombing after the five-hour humanitarian truce.
An Israeli soldier launches a Skylark unmanned aerial vehicle near the Israeli-Gaza Border, July 16, 2014. Israel on Wednesday agreed to a proposed six-hour cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons, a Israeli senior official told Reuters. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it had not yet been decided when the lull would take place. Hamas had no immediate comment.
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Mourners carry the bodies of the four Palestinian children from the Baker family, whom medics said were killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, during their funeral in Gaza City, July 16, 2014. The four Palestinian children were killed and another child was critically wounded on a Gaza beach on Wednesday by the shell fired by the Israeli naval gunboat, a Palestinian health official said.
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AFP photographer Jaafar Ishtayeh looks at his burning car after it was hit by tear gas canisters fired by Israeli soldiers, during a protest by Palestinians against Israeli air strikes in Gaza strip, at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 16, 2014. Ishtayeh, a Palestinian, was at the scene to provide coverage of the protest.
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A man, who is hoping to cross into Egypt, shouts as he holds his passport and other family members' passports while he waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, July 16, 2014. Egyptian authorities decided to open the Rafah border crossing to Gaza last week to allow wounded Palestinians to receive medical care in Egypt, and to allow holders of foreign passports, including Egyptians, to leave the Strip, border officials in Gaza said. Under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Cairo has secured closures on the Gaza border, increasing economic pressure on Hamas from a long-running Israeli blockade. Israel resumed its air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after holding its fire in deference to an Egyptian-proposed cease-fire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks.
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A Palestinian boy looks at the remains of a car which police said was hit in an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 16, 2014.
Beach-goers look at explosions as Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, over Tel Aviv, July 15, 2014. Israel resumed air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after agreeing to an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks. The week-old conflict seemed to be at a turning point, with Hamas defying Arab and Western calls to cease fire and Israel threatening to step up a week-old offensive that could include an invasion of the densely populated enclave of 1.8 million.
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Israelis gather to look at air strikes on the Gaza Strip from a hilltop near the southern town of Sderot, July 15, 2014.
A Palestinian man is pictured through a damaged wall as he walks past a police station, which was under construction when it was destroyed in what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 15, 2014.
Flares fired by the Israeli military above the northern Gaza Strip are seen from the Israeli town of Sderot, July 14, 2014.
A Palestinian woman walks past the remains of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, July 15, 2014.
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A ball of fire is seen following an early morning Israeli air strike, July 11, 2014, on Rafah in the southern of Gaza strip. Israeli warplanes kept up deadly raids on Gaza but failed to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets across the border. The United States offered to help negotiate a truce.
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Firefighters try to douse a fire from a rocket that hit a Petrol station in Ashdod, Israel, July 11, 2014.
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Palestinian men inspect the site of an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, July 8, 2014. The Israeli air force launched dozens of raids on the Gaza Strip overnight after massive rocket fire from the enclave pounded southern Israel.
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Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers at the gates of the Beit El Jewish settlement in the Israel occupied West Bank near Ramallah, July 9, 2014, as they protest against the bombardment of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli air force.
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Israelis take cover in an underground car park in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, July 10, 2014, during a rocket attack by Palestinian militants from the nearby Gaza Strip. A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip was intercepted over Tel Aviv earlier that morning, the Israeli military said.
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The mother of four-year-old Palestinian girl Yasmeen al-Motawaq, whom hospital officials said was killed in an Israeli air strike, carries her body during her funeral in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014. Israeli air strikes carried out a pre-dawn raid in Khan Younis on Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, while Hamas-led fighters launched rockets at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.
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Palestinians stand on the edge of a crater as others look for people under the rubble of a house that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, July 9, 2014.
Israelis hide in a large concrete pipe used as a shelter during a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern Israeli village of Nitzan, July 10, 2014. The Nitzan village is mainly inhabited by former Israeli settlers who left the Gaza Strip in 2005.
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Lebanese and Palestinian protesters set fire to U.S. and Israeli flags during a demonstration to denounce Israeli air strikes on the Gaza strip, in Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon, July 10, 2014.
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Israeli D9 Bulldozers roll along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip following Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014.
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Relatives of Palestinian Hamas militant Abdulrahman al-Zameli throw flowers as they mourn during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 7, 2014. Israeli air strikes killed six Hamas militants, one of them al-Zameli, in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Islamist group said. The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted "terror sites and concealed rocket launchers" in the enclave. It said about 10 rockets hit southern Israel on Monday, wounding one soldier.
Smoke trails are seen as rockets are launched towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014. Israeli air strikes killed eight members of a family including five children in a pre-dawn raid on Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, while Hamas-led fighters launched rockets at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians collect their belongings from the rubble of their house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014.
Israeli soldiers sleep under a truck near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014.
A man inspects the aftermath of what police said was an air strike on the house where militant Hafez Hamad and five other people were killed, in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014. Israel assassinated a senior local leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, neighbours and hospital officials said, and five others including family members were killed. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she had no initial details on the strike.The militant, Hafez Hamad, two brothers and his parents were killed when his house was bombed in an air strike in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, Hamas media and Gaza interior ministry said. An unidentified woman in the house was also killed.
Boys carry their surf boards ashore after their lesson was cancelled following a mid-air explosion from a rocket which was intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, in Tel Aviv, July 9, 2014. Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes on Wednesday, and militants kept up rocket fire at Israel's heartland in intensifying warfare.
Smoke is seen following what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014. Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes on Wednesday, and militants kept up rocket fire at Israel's heartland.
Israelis run towards a bomb shelter as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in the southern city of Ashkelon, July 9, 2014.
Palestinians search for their belongings under the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014. Israel pressed on with a punishing aerial offensive in Gaza for a third day on Thursday, killing eight members of a family including five children in a predawn strike, Palestinian officials said, while militants fired rockets at Israeli cities. The attack destroyed at least two homes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing the eight people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
A protestor holds a portrait of Mohammed Abu Khder, a 16-year-old Palestinian from east Jerusalem who was kidnapped and killed in a suspected revenge attack, during a protest in the northern Israeli Arab city of Acre, July 7, 2014. Three Jewish extremists arrested for the killing of Khder have confessed to the attack, an Israeli official said, as shock waves from the brutal murder continued to spread.
A Jewish woman prays during the joint funeral of the three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank, in the Israeli city of Modi'in, July 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of mourners joined in an outpouring of national grief on Tuesday at the burial of three Israeli teenagers, Gil-Ad Shaer, U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, whose kidnapping and killing Israel blamed on the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The Islamist group has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the disappearance of the students as they hitchhiked near a Jewish settlement on June 12 nor in the cross-border rocket salvoes from Gaza.


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JE033: Tunnel Vision
|"Tunnel Vision"
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|Pokémon: The Johto Journeys
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|April 7, 2001
Synopsis[edit | edit source]
En route to Goldenrod City, Ash and co decide to take the Onix Tunnel, only to be stopped by Jigglypuff and its Markerophone. On top of that we encounter Team Rocket and Snubbull again. Jigglypuff, Team Rocket, Snubbull and Onix, Oh my! Will our heroes be able to get out of Onix Tunnel in one piece? And has Wobbuffet taken over for Meowth?
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- Now that Wobbuffet has been included in Team Rocket, every time they nearly finish the motto Wobbuffet pops up at the very end. This episode is the first to do so and has been going on like this until BW001.
- This episode aired before JE031: The Fire-ing Squad.
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- Brock: "How ya doin' today Pineco? Ready to have some fun?"
- Pineco answers by exploding. The dust settles.
- Brock: "We're already having a blast."
- Pineco: "Pineco."
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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) has created think/able: Miles for a Cure, calling on the Parkinson's community to walk, run, or bike a collective 50,000 miles to raise funds for research. For 30 days only, medical technology company Medtronic will match miles tracked through the Charity Miles smartphone application (app) with dollars up to $50,000.
"Miles for a Cure offers a great way for our community to take action and help raise $50,000 in 30 days," said Debi Brooks, co-founder and executive vice chairman of MJFF. "This challenge is a limited opportunity to turn important everyday movement activities – running, walking, and biking – into a collective fundraising effort for critical Parkinson's research."
From October 5 through November 3, anyone can participate in the challenge by visiting the Miles for a Cure Web page (www.michaeljfox.org/milesforacure) and either downloading the Charity Miles app for smartphones, which records miles covered using GPS technology, or using an online form to record miles daily. Miles for a Cure will also host "Triple Miles Weekend," October 26-27, when miles tracked through the Charity Miles app will be matched with $3 each by Medtronic.
"We are proud to partner with The Michael J. Fox Foundation on this fun and important challenge," said Lothar Krinke, PhD, vice president and general manager of the Deep Brain Stimulation business at Medtronic. "In addition to motivating people across the country to get out and be active, funds raised through this month-long challenge will fund vital research efforts intended to help people with Parkinson's disease. This fits perfectly within our company's mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for people worldwide."
Patient focus has been the core value of the Foundation's research efforts since its inception in 2000. MJFF has a strong track record of efficiency, with 89 cents of every dollar spent going straight to the research effort toward breakthroughs patients can feel in their everyday lives.
"Staying active and exercising has been essential for me to live well with the disease," says Bob Harmon, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2006. "Now when I go for a walk or a run, I know it's not just for me. It's giving back and helping to fund a cure."
Visit www.michaeljfox.org/milesforacure to help raise $50,000 for MJFF by November 3.
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About The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
The Michael J. Fox Foundation exists for one reason: to find the cure for Parkinson's disease in our lifetime. Parkinson's is the second most common brain disease, estimated to affect one in 100 individuals over age 60. Founded by Michael J. Fox in 2000, the Foundation has quickly grown to become the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research globally, with over $350 million in research funded to date, and has been called "the most credible voice on Parkinson's research in the world" by The New York Times. As Michael returns to network television full-time after more than two decades living with Parkinson's disease, the Foundation has launched think/able, a project celebrating the power of optimism and determination to overcome challenges and achieve our biggest goals.
For more information, visit us on Facebook, Twitter, Web and LinkedIn.
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More than 100,000 patients worldwide have received Medtronic DBS Therapy, which uses a surgically implanted medical device, similar to a pacemaker, to deliver mild electrical pulses to precisely targeted areas of the brain.
The therapy is currently approved in many locations around the world, including Europe and the United States, for the treatment of the disabling symptoms of essential tremor, advanced Parkinson's disease and chronic intractable primary dystonia, for which approval in the United States is under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE). In Europe, Canada and Australia, DBS therapy is approved for the treatment of refractory epilepsy. DBS therapy is also approved for the treatment of severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder in the European Union and Australia, and in the United States under an HDE. The stimulation can be programmed and adjusted non-invasively by a trained clinician to maximize symptom control and minimize side effects.
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Charity Miles is a free iPhone/Android app that enables people to earn corporate sponsorships for charity when they walk, run or bike. Charity Miles has been widely recognized as one of the top fitness apps of 2013 and has won several awards, including the SXSW Dewey Winburne Award for Community Service and the SXSW People's Choice Award for the entire 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival.
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Collection consists of materials relating to musical life in Toronto, Ontario. The collection includes photographs of various Canadian and European musicians, including various photographs of Canadian Opera Company productions from the late 1980s and early 1990s, autographs from various opera singers and musicians from the late-nineteenth century, three scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and programs, and a collection of songs published in the Toronto Evening Telegram at the end of the nineteenth century.
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"A rising tide lifts all boats," goes the old adage. It's a dubious promise: pay no attention to yawning income gaps, say the cruise ships to the dinghies, we're all getting paid. But the same ebbs and flows don't apply to everyone. Median family income has been declining for the first time since the Great Depression. According to economist Emmanuel Saez, 93% of all income gains since 2009 have gone to the top 1%. We're told we're three years into the post-recession era, but if you haven't noticed, it's not your fault.
Few places better illustrate the uneven recovery than Joliet, Illinois, where nearly 800 factory workers are locked in a bitter, three-months-and-counting strike against their employer. Caterpillar, famous maker of yellow bulldozers, has demanded its employees accept a six-year freeze on wages and pensions; the machinists' union says its members had no choice but to walk out.
Labour-management fights are nothing new, especially not for Caterpillar, which wears its union-busting credentials as a badge of honour. When car-workers resisted company plans to impose a two-tier wage system in 1992, Caterpillar crushed two strikes before they surrendered unconditionally. When workers at a London, Ontario locomotive factory refused a 50% wage cut last year, the company locked them out and then shut down the plant. "Few companies are as willing to take on unions, and uproot entire communities, as Caterpillar," says author Stephen Franklin, who covered the strikes for the Chicago Tribune.
What's surprising is how, in a still sluggish post-recession economy, Caterpillar is actually doing well. Incredibly well, in fact: last year's total sales, $60.1bn, broke all company records. Little of this comes from the US market, which counts for less than a third of Caterpillar's global sales. The company has been aggressively building its presence in Asia, and riding China's construction boom. Caterpillar's per-share profits soared 78% in 2011, from $4.2 to $7.4bn. Analysts predict profits will top $9bn by year end.
Labour costs, on the other hand, have declined. Caterpillar's most recent annual filing with the SEC shows the share of total operating costs represented by employee salaries and benefits shrank, from 24% to 21%, in the same period.
This explains the absence of the usual "we're broke" pronouncements from management, and the rather tortured pretexts for concessions in their place. "It's not solely about profitability," says Caterpillar spokesman Rusty Dunn, "but a need to be competitive in the industry."
Given Caterpillar's undisputed dominance of the construction equipment industry, it's unclear who it fears falling behind. The company says it wants cuts now to be better positioned for future downturns, although these rainy day scenarios are "intentionally vague," says Frank Larkin of the machinists' union, and "seem to apply to anything from an increase in raw material costs to Armageddon."
What could really drive Caterpillar to demand its workers tighten their belts in a period of unprecedented prosperity? "Greed," might be the moralist response; "capital accumulation" the Marxist one. But a better explanation is even simpler: because they can.
The political climate in the US today is such that it's open season on unions. The ongoing evisceration of public workers' collective bargaining rights, solidified with governor Scott Walker's triumph in Wisconsin's June recall election, set the trend, one that spilled over to other states and is now spilling over to private sector workers as well. That the justification for revoking those rights – state budget shortfalls – didn't hold up to evidence that many of the largest shortfalls were in non-union states, made no difference.
As with Caterpillar, it was never about labour costs, but opportunity. Public opinion has shifted. The rights to organise, and bargain collectively, have transformed from bedrock civil rights to vestigial luxuries; good salaries and pensions from objects of inspiration to resentment. All of this from the decades-old message drummed into us by politicians and businesses alike, that we are all on our own. Human agency consists of two choices: take it or leave it. To want more say in what you do for a living, for how much and under which conditions, and to want the same for others, is crazy.
Caterpillar understands this. Its corporate culture may be more predisposed than most to punishing uppity workers. But for it to do so without even the flimsiest appeal to economic necessity is truly a milestone. And in today's atomised America, it isn't just good business. It's good politics.


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Naughty Dog's heavily-anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us will be getting a demo, Sony has announced.
Additionally, first access to The Last of Us demo will be given to owners of the upcoming God of War: Ascension.
Could very well become 1 of the most downloaded demo's on ps3. The hype is over 9000.
Can't wait to finally play my most anticipated game ever !!!! Well at least a small part of it. Either way I'm excited as hell!!!!!


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A few weeks ago Apple started offering an app in the iOS App Store as a free App of the Week. The initial app was Cut the Rope: Experiments HD, followed by Snapseed, and this week it's Monsters Ate My Condo.
All three have been great apps, with plenty more sure to come. Missing out on a chance to grab an app for free can be frustrating, and remembering to check the App Store each week isn't always going to happen. Instead of trying to remember, or setting a weekly reminder, let an IfThisThenThat (Ifttt) task alert you once it's posted. The App Store Twitter account sends a tweet with the hash tag of #FreeAppoftheWeek once the latest app is posted, making an easy trigger for Ifttt.
To get started, log in to your Ifttt account and create a new task.
Select Twitter > New tweet from search for the "This" portion of the task.
Copy-and-paste: "#FreeAppoftheWeek from:AppStore" into the search field. The first part of the text identifies the hash tag you would like Ifttt to search for, with the second part (from:AppStore) indicating the Twitter account to monitor.
For the "That" portion of the task, you can select whatever alert method you would prefer. Some of the options include receiving a text message, e-mail, or Google Talk instant message.
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CULTURE- FRIDAYS UPDATE Decide: Catch Indecision while you can
Young'ns take note: if your band has been around for anything less than 25 years, Indecision guitarist David Ibbiken has a wisened veteran perspective on the music industry you might find helpful.
Decades ago, his band's members were peppered around local high schools, and the group got started at local parties before cracking the club scene at places like the Mineshaft.
"We tell people that our official beginning was in '84," says Ibbiken, at early gigs such as Red Light Management founder Coran Capshaw's annual "Van Riper's" festival out in Nelson County. They've spent the 20-odd years since as a local staple, and during the '80s and '90s, they shared the stage with peers who have turned into some of the top concert draws in the country.
"Hootie opened for us at one point, Phish opened for us, and Widespread opened for us," recalls Ibbiken. "Obviously that's not happening anymore."
"We were doing okay, but we couldn't make the jump," he admits. He's being modest– the band had a slot on the 2003 installment of the Bonnaroo music festival, the annual Tennessee mother-of-all-shindigs that has since grown into one of the biggest music events on the east coast.
"We certainly hadn't been part of anything quite that large," says Ibbiken. "We were definitely on one of the smaller stages, but just to have your name on that t-shirt with all those others was pretty cool."
More recently, Indecision has a small cameo in Live From The Hook, the movie about Charlottesville's music scene that was released last year at the Virginia Film Festival.
"If you go to the mid to late '70s, they obviously had some cool, homegrown music happening," says Ibbiken. "By the the early '80s, we were coming on the heels of Skip Castro and the Casuals.
"By the late '80s, some of those old bands tailed off, and we were just starting to hit our stride," he continues. "We kind of carried the torch a little bit there; as we tailed off, Dave Matthews took it up, and he obviously carried it all the way to the top."
Meanwhile, Indecision stoppped playing full time in 1993, opting instead for a luxurious occasional schedule that hardened road warriors can only dream of. Ibbiken says the band plays sporadic gigs around the Southeast about once a month.
Keep that in mind if you're still not sure whether you want to go– if you make the wrong choice, it'll cost you 30 days and a road trip to Charleston to recover.
Indecision plays Fridays After 5 Friday, June 1. Free, 5:30-ish at the Pavilion on the Downtown Mall.


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PALA (Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition) is an international symposium, held yearly, in different universities, focusing on processability approaches to language acquisition, particularly second language acquisition and bilingualism/multilingualism research, empirical issues and practical applications.
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Alpha is hosting a private, invite only discussion for a select group of founders, CEOs and executives in New York City. Andy Katz Mayfield, Founder & CEO of Harry's will be moderating the discussion, and will focus on how brands are built from the earliest of stages and the various tools and services that enable success behind the scenes.
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Since Halo 3 released, we haven't lost a Humpday. There have been some close battles, some sketchy outcomes but we haven't out and out taken a beating yet. Now that's not to say that we're going to stay unbeaten, we don't want to be the Patriots – the team everyone looks at and hopes they lose. We want to be the kids learning how to triple deke, the kids you're really hoping makes it happen with the coach's daughter, we want to be that one good dude from Varsity Blues.
Unfortunately, that means no matter who we're playing, they have to be the bad guys. Or in the case of last night's crotch-to-face experience four bad guys and one bad girl even though they were perfectly friendly, kind and hilarious – the admins from Web site http://halo3.junk.ws had to be treated like generic villains in a Seagal flick.
Halo3.junk.ws (HJW) is a community-driven website that expands on the statistical tracking done via Bungie.net and takes that data, repurposes it and displays it in a variety of ways. They have graphs, charts, forum signatures and some leaderboard functionality. The only way they can track your stats though, is if you sign-up over at their website.
Here's the cast for this week's show.
BungieNew0001 – Joe Tung "Hey, you don't die instantly when you're shot in Halo 3"JonnyOthan – Jon Cable "You guys wanna try out this new Rocket Race variant?"TJ Scoot – Luke "I have a Madden game after this."Frankie – "No, srsly, my Internet is fine."Thug Larz – Lars Bakken "Can we hurry up, I gots more assassinations to do."
Halo3.junk.wsImportant note: We're just using the titles they provided and there are a lot of "these players should be really good" type titles. Naturally, we were concerned.
xATHENAx – Community Rep and Halo 3 Junkies LeaderM0NKEYNUTZ – Forum and Internal community manageroi1 – Web site creator and site programmerIndutiomarus – Database manager and site programmerExcardon – Community representative and Halo 3 Junkies Team Leader
Game 1
Team King of the Hill on The PitTone of Game: Spammy, with a side of pork.
So, about the whole "pink" thing. For whatever reason when he joined the lobby, New0001 switched to the pink team, probably just to distinguish himself from the chatty horde in the lobby that he'd just joined. So I switched to pink and as the room filled up, each Bungie player just followed suit and switched their team color to pink. It wasn't until the second game had begun and Frankie pointed out that the Emperor, wasn't naked, but rather, clad in fleshy pink. Not that there's anything wrong with that, pink is just a softer shade of red. I'd wear a pink sweater, I think Frank would too.
I remember the Team King rules I'd arbitrarily made a few weeks ago – and maybe I made those because I was irritated, but I forgot to change the settings before this game, so we played some good ol' default Team King, instead. There's a bunch of slippery corners to hide around barely outside of the explosion radii of well-placed spammed grenades and that's where we made our encampment.
Lars spent a ton of time in the Hill and we got out to a pretty sizable lead before our communication broke down and we started to lose focus, lose time and just lose. Almost.
Final Score: Bungie wins, 150-116Watch the game here
Game 2
Lowball on GuardianTone of Game: WTF Frank
Before the first game there were nine of us in a lobby waiting on the last person. That person was Frankie and he was having issues with his Internet, again. There was something wrong with his router, just like there seems to be every week that he plays. He "fixed it" and then joined. We suggested Lowball, a kindler, gentler change from our typical Team Slayer on a symmetrical map. Lowball, for those folks who haven't played it before, is just like Oddball, but the only score that counts is the score of the lowest person on your team. With default settings, each player has to hold the ball for 25 ticks and then once each player has 25 points, the game ends, hence the name – Lowball.
We got out to a big lead in the Shotgun corridor on Guardian. We holed up and were passing the rock like the Showtime-era Lakers. Cable was dishing it like Magic, Tung was killing dudes like Kareem, Lars was consistent like Worthy, and while he might've come in the post-Showtime era, Frankie was pulling an Elden Campbell. I was running around trying to keep folks from harassing the other fellas while they shared the Oddball. Then, disaster struck.
After getting his 25 points AND an Overkill (that clip of the cosmos aligning is available for download in Bungie Favorites, this week), somehow Frankie was disconnected. His Internet connection struck again, only this time with horrific repercussions. When you're the last guy who needs to grab the ball on Lowball, you become a huge target and we were a man down. Halo3.junk.ws organized, focused their fire like saavy MMO players and kept killing me over and over again.
Down a man, their time ticked upwards and ours didn't move at all. To their credit, the Halo3.junk.ws folks asked us if we'd like to rematch the game with even teams, but we respectfully declined. Life gave us lemons and our faces were puckered up.
Final score: HJW Wins (25-10)Watch the game here
Game 3
Team Slayer on IsolationTone of Game: Redemptive
Originally, we had planned on trying out one of the HJW folks' new gametypes – a hybridization of Slayer and Oddball where teams earned points for kills and toting the ball – but because our first two games had been objective-focused, HJW chose a Team Slayer game for the pivotal third match. With Frankie's Internet still on the fritz, M0NKEYNUTZ stepped aside, as well.
Isolation Team Slayer is pretty straightforward, while Froman prefers to take the "if you camp it, they will come" tactic of hanging out in the goo-tunnels, we decided to just run around the top of the map spraying foolishly with the Needler. And by decided, I mean "with no planning whatsoever, this is what unfolded naturally over the course of battle." Mid-game, the Internet fairy visited Frankie's house and turned on his connection. He rejoined as a member of the blue team, he may have killed us a few times, but he did switch colors and then moments later, M0NKEYNUTZ rejoined as well. The penalty killing was done for both teams.
Frankie's five kill performance in limited action versus M0NKEYNUTZ lone kill upon rejoining turned the tide (not really, actually).
Final score: Bungie Wins (50-41)Watch the game here
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A 4v4 mix of Double EXP Slayer and Objective gametypes on a whole mess of your own community created maps.
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Fix your -blam!-, Bungle!
So, yeah, This week's Double EXP Weekend is running a little behind. I blame Ninja 0n Fire. (He tells me that some fairly large updates are being deployed and as a result, we'll likely not see the Double EXP Weekend go live until tomorrow, or, *gulp* "later").
When it is ready to go, we'll let you know.
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Feet first into awesome.
Looks like ubald unleashed another render over at HBO. This one's a WIP and part of a much larger collection that will ultimately serve as a webcomic. But you should check it out now.
ubald: Halo Rendered Comic
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Faux Chief.
This week's Steve's getting all Batman on some Scarab carapace.
Chronicles of ODS Steve: Faux Chief (#81)
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You know the deal.
Anoj didn't submit his latest entry to Comm Chatter, but they gang at HBO picked up the slack. Besides, even without Anoj's familiar wordplay, we all know what this video's about anyway. There's like ten kills. You can submit your own for next week if you're astute enough to figure out how to make it happen.
Top 10 Halo 3 Kills on The Pit: Episode 59
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From next year, the University of Adelaide's Faculty of Science will be moving towards mobile delivery, with all first-year students provided with iPads, and textbooks replaced by digital materials. They will be the first Australian University to begin delivering in this way, and this is the first step towards an overhaul of their teaching strategies, including moving to fully online delivery of first-year Science courses from 2012, according to Professor Bob Hill, Executive Dean of the Faculty. To help ensure that teaching materials and activities are compatible with the iPads, teaching staff will also be receiving the devices.
I have a modicum of skepticism about some aspects of this planned course of action, however. Firstly, the focus on iPads might force thinking around mobile learning into a iPad-shaped box, rather than encouraging the development of mobile learning activities and resources to suit a wider range of devices. This is already apparent in the kinds of materials they describe as being prepared for their iPads:
"The aim is to transfer all learning content to an electronic version which includes many currently printed textbooks for first-year students sometime in 2012."
Aaargh. Transferring learning content to computers, including textbooks, does not equate to e-learning. Transferring learning content to mobile devices is unlikely to result in quality mobile learning. The REAL task here should be to develop new learning activities and resources that target the required learning outcomes and utilise the affordances of mobile devices, rather than thinking that an electronic textbook on an iPad is somehow better that a paper-based textbook. Instead, the focus appears to be on the *delivery* of content, rather than ways in which students can interact with, and create on, iPads:
"The online material will take a variety of forms with students being able to access lecture notes, audio, background documents and textbooks through tailored web-based apps. This is in addition to all the student services currently available through the MyUni website such as timetabling, video downloads, slides and email."
THERE IS NOTHING NEW or innovative about ANY of those content sources or activities. All that's happening is that they're being displayed on a shiny new device, instead of a laptop or a desktop computer, and they're accessed through "app" buttons. Contrast that philosophy with a learner-centric pedagogical model in which learning activities are developed that use key affordances of the iPad: for example, designing activities where students annotate or complete worksheets or experiments using an app like Noterize; or focusing on using mobile devices equipped with cameras to document science experiments or field trips using blogs, images, and video.
I hope the University of Adelaide will take time to consider how learning with technology is much more than learning ON technology. A successful mobile learning strategy requires working with the inherant strengths and limitations of mobile devices to enhance learning and engagement – not just trying to do the same thing as before with the new tool!


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2014 ESPYs gift bag: Why we're completely jealous of the nominees
The 2014 ESPY Awards will take place tomorrow night, Wednesday July 16th. This year's awards will be hosted by Drake (yay!) and will surely be attended by plenty of fashionable people. I mean, hello we're talking about athletes here... when you work in a uniform every day, you love to get all dolled up.
We were lucky to get a sneak peek at the goodie bag that nominees will be taking home with them, and we're not kidding - the list goes on and on. The ESPY gift bag is known as the "most anticipated goodie bag in sports" and for good reason! There are over 50 exclusive luxury items included, and no, they're not all super sporty. Once we got to see the list, we (as fashion and beauty editors) wanted everything inside!
Some highlights (for us) are:
- Fitbit Flex (chic wearable tech for the win!)
- A 2-night stay at several different hotels and spas (including Harrahs Resort in Southern California and the Loretto Santa Fe)
- A gift card for a Soda Stream starter pack
- His and hers watches from Swiss Legend
- CHOCOLATES (yum)
- A gift card to Denim Repair (save those old jeans you love so much!)
- A wellness/yoga retreat
- Sailing lessons (!!)
- A teeth whitening kit
- A gym membership to CRUNCH
- So. Many. Gift. Cards.
Tune in tomorrow Wednesday, July 16, at 9:00 p.m. ET on ESPN to catch the show, and check back with us for the full fashion recap!


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Venge is a small, family-owned winery in Calistoga which began in 1992 in Oakville. Third-generation owner and Winemaker, Kirk Venge gravitated to winemaking at an early age and is now making wines in his own style with his vision for Venge wines, and his legacy in Napa Valley. Today, Kirk focuses on select vineyard sites that produce fruit worthy of the longtime Venge family name.
Plan a trip to Venge Vineyards on our interactive winery map:
Tucked into the Northeastern foothills of the Palisades Mountains, our 12-acre estate offers a unique vantage point within the Napa Valley. We invite you to join us and relax while enjoying a seated tasting of our current releases.
Our tasting features wines that are allocated and seats a maximum of four guests. As a result, we welcome guests by advance reservation only. This assures each tasting the attention our guests expect from their visitation.
Limited number of visitors to comply with social distancing, masks required when not seated, and temperature scanned upon arrival . Tastings offered Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.vengevineyards.com or call 707-942-9100.
To learn more about Venge wines and our wine releases, you may sign up for our mailing list. You will be notified of upcoming releases, new offerings at the winery, and release dates. Currently, our Wine Guild has a waiting list, as we have a limited number of wines to offer.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
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Release Date: January - 2011
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Konerko could return to Sox lineup Monday
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.
CHICAGO -- White Sox captain Paul Konerko could return to the lineup as soon as Monday, per comments made by manager Robin Ventura before Saturday's contest with the Braves.
"I hope so," Ventura said. "I haven't talked to him, but listening to what [White Sox head athletic trainer] Herm [Schneider] says, he feels pretty good."
Konerko has been on the disabled list since July 3 with a lower back strain. He has played two Minor League injury rehab games with Double-A Birmingham, producing one hit in six at-bats with an RBI, and will play Saturday and Sunday with the Barons.
Before leaving for the rehab assignment, Konerko said that he also had hoped to play one game at first base for Birmingham.
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(Pocket-lint) - While brief, taking Dell's XPS Duo 12 for a spin was definitely fun. The Duo combines tablet and laptop by using a rotating screen which flips over. Unlike most tablets, however, inside are the internals of a normal laptop.
The result of this is a quick and refined Windows experience, helped massively by Windows 8 performing as well with a cursor as it does with touch. The i5 chip as standard definitely kept the thing snappy, but this can be upgraded to an i7 should you desire.
Dell irritatingly is keeping the connections side of things on the Duo 12 under wraps for now, so we simply can't tell you. What we can say though is that there is plenty to choose from and nothing you would find on a normal laptop is missing.
The screen is extremely bright for a tablet and responded well to our touch input. It also rotates nicely and uses what looks like magnets to lock itself in in both positions. The carbon fibre back on the Duo 12 keeps it very light, while the aluminium wrap ensures it feels like a premium product. In fact this is up there with the rest of Dell's XPS range, albeit with a rotating screen.
Keyboard was good as was trackpad, both being decent for activities like web browsing and standard computer interaction. We really need to spend more time with it to make certain its isn't without issue though.
In fact we need to play with the XPS Duo 12 for a while to make any judgements on it. Having Windows 8 on board puts it in an entirely different league from the previous model, making it responsive to touch and a nice thing to use with your fingers. It might look weird, but the XPS Duo 12 sort of makes sense.
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Maggie Bawabeh is another friend of mine that continually inspires me. Maggie is always quietly helping so many people behind the scenes in her elegant and classy manner. She also puts her heart and soul into being an "agent" for Sephardic Link, a community organization founded by my good friend Charles Mizrahi. Every month, about 40 married women, all "agents" who volunteer for Sephardic Link, meet and discuss potential matches and shidduchim within the community. All of the work and connections are done behind the scenes, and are very confidential, They have had much success, and B'H, Maggie actually set up someone very close to me! Thanks for everything, Maggie, and thanks for the healthy, dairy free, vegan recipe!
"Hi Marlene,How are you doing just a few days before the wedding? I've been wanting to share with you a falafel salad that I make for my family. I made it once for a Sephardic Link meeting, and it was gone in minutes.I made it again for my niece's shower and again it was a hit.
- You'll need a box of frozen falafel balls.
- Bake it till they are very crispy.
- Meanwhile chop lettuce,cucumbers,tomatoes,mint leaves,parsley,onion,scalions,red+green peppers, jalapeno pepper+radishes.
- Sprinkle with dry mint,cayene pepper,cumin and kosher salt.
- Drizzle with olive oil.
- Dressing is made by mixing fresh lemon juice,salt,crushed garlic and tehina till a medium to thin consistency.
- When falafel balls are rispy+cooled, crumble them w gloved hands over the salad,drizzle the dressing+mix.
- It should taste spicy and lemony.
- It can be stuffed in pita quarters, or with toasted pita chips around it. Please feel free to edit the text as I'm no expert in writing recipes.
Love, Maggie"
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Adrian Smith and colleagues explore grassroots innovations, their potential for development and challenges facing practitioners.
Turning ideas into new products, services or practices often requires systematic steps in a process of innovation. Conventional policies for promoting innovation link entrepreneurial firms, science institutes, investors and policymakers, and aim to keep up with advancements in promising technologies. But innovation also takes place below the radar of national and regional innovation systems.
Grassroots-level, alternative innovation activities recognize the ingenious solutions continually developed locally to improve livelihoods and promote sustainability. Rooting innovation in local problems, resources, capabilities and socioeconomic conditions makes it meaningful to communities, which maintain control over the processes and outcomes. Grassroots innovation requires adaptable, locally inclusive policies — quite different to the mainstream.
Development organisations, funders, governments and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) recently put grassroots innovation back on the agenda. But for practitioners, it never really went away. Many networks have supported it since the 1970s or earlier, when organisations like the Intermediate Technology Development Group (founded in 1966, now called Practical Action) and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation drew initial attention to grassroots innovation as part of an alternative to the high-technology and large-scale industrialisation dominating development theory and practice.
The challenge now is to bring the potential of grassroots innovation into debates about research, indicators, and pathways to sustainability at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and beyond.
Diversity and perspectives
The sheer diversity of grassroots innovation — in terms of technologies, people involved, organisations, purposes and contexts — makes it difficult to define. Overlapping terms such as user-led innovations, inclusive innovation, social innovation and hacking cultures can add to confusion. But there is one defining characteristic: grassroots innovation must emerge from, or be directed towards, local development.
Grassroots innovations develop through networks of activists, practitioners and organisations generating novel, bottom-up solutions for sustainable development — solutions that respond to the local situation and communities' knowledge, interests and values. Grassroots innovation can be viewed from three distinct perspectives, each focusing on a different part of the process.
Local inventors have devised a more user-friendly gear system for rickshaws
The local ingenuity perspective focuses on innovations from local groups or individual inventors. They might be farmers developing irrigation systems [1], or drivers developing gear trains for their cycle rickshaws [2]. The emphasis is on people innovating for themselves and their community, perhaps drawing upon traditional and indigenous knowledge, and occasionally turning it into social enterprise, sometimes with outside help.
Organisations such as the Honey Bee Network and complementary institutions (see Table 1) seek out and help innovators documenting and developing knowledge, ideas and products, such as a pedal-powered washing machine [3] and a compost aerator device. After devastating earthquakes in Alto Mayo in Perú in 1990, Practical Action worked with local communities to develop 'improved quincha' — timber and lattice frame homes with an earth infill, based on traditional local housing technologies. Thousands of households adopted these after they withstood subsequent earthquakes. Practical Action has also helped develop the zeer pot [5], a homemade refrigerator that extends produce storage from four to twenty days, reducing waste and improving nutrition.
A second perspective focuses on local empowerment resulting when communities and technology developers interact. Local groups may not be the innovators, but developers make sure they are fully included in adopting and benefiting from technology, which may even be mass-produced devices such as solar photovoltaic systems. In other cases, the technology is deliberately developed with community engagement in the design, manufacture, maintenance and operation.
The emphasis here is on the innovation process as a tool or catalyst for developing capabilities, relationships and organisational partnerships useful to wider development processes — such as generating revenues, improving security and livelihoods, and building organisational capacity. The Social Technologies Network in Brazil (See Table 1), for instance, claims that a more socially just relationship can be built between technologists and local communities if the community controls both the process of innovation and the distribution of outcomes.
The third perspective is more critical sometimes, dismissing support for small-scale initiatives and simple technology as romanticising 'second-class' development. Grassroots innovation programmes are seen as overly optimistic and failing to address the root political, economic and social causes of poverty, social exclusion and unsustainability — causes that cannot be changed by working at the local level. Grassroots innovation does little to address the distribution of power in trade and investment, or the knowledge economies that channel scientific activities towards the interests of the wealthy and those controlling capital. But supporters of grassroots innovation counter that bottom-up activity makes these sometimes unjust economic and social structures all the more visible, and itself serves as criticism of the exclusions associated with conventional innovation systems.
Regardless of one's perspective, grassroots innovators are generating valuable knowledge and experience. The challenge for scientific research institutions or conventional innovators is to learn how to engage with that diversity.
Innovation networks
Given the frequent informality of grassroots innovation, data are patchy. Table 1, by no means exhaustive, lists networks and programmes that provide funds, visibility, guidance, training, services, dissemination, workshops, and advocacy for grassroots innovation.
|Table 1: Grassroots Innovation Networks
Activities and geographical focus
Example Innovations
Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and Natural Resource Management)
Promotes local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural-resource management. It recognises indigenous knowledge and informal experimentation among farmers, forest dwellers, pastoralists, and fisherfolk. The intention is to develop methods, build capacity and scale up experience.
International: 16 country platforms in Africa and Asia, and a regional Andes platform
Farmer-led documentation using participatory video in Ghana; participatory innovation development for climate change [913kB] adaptation in Nepal; linking innovation in agriculture and management of HIV/AIDS in Malawi; innovation in livestock-keeping by women [1.65MB] in South Africa
International Network on Appropriate Technology; and Annual International Conference on Appropriate Technology
Developed to continue the work of annual conferences on appropriate technology.
Africa, Global South and USA
Five annual conferences since 2004
Earth construction to meet urban housing needs in Africa; ICTs for crop improvement and access to markets
Asia-Pacific National Innovation Systems Online Resource Centre
Provides access to resources and information amassed through projects that promote national innovation policy and practice in Asia-Pacific countries. Includes the Directory on Green Grassroots Innovation and Traditional Knowledge, which encourages policymakers in academia and research and development (R&D) institutions to focus on grassroots innovation.
Field visits and six workshops held 2007–2008 in China, Philippines, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India
Linked with Honey Bee Network (see below)
Brings together individuals and institutions collecting, documenting, and disseminating innovations and practices at the grassroots level.
The network receives institutional support from the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) and the National Innovation Foundation (NIF)
Asia – India
It has documented over 100,000 ideas, local innovations and traditional knowledge practices. Members can join the twice-annual Shodh Yatra journey, visiting rural communities to identify and document unrecognised ingenuity.
Techniques for cultivating locally adapted traditional rice and fruit trees; labour/cost-saving machines e.g. for weaving sari cloth into low-cost sanitary napkins and processing bamboo; irrigation systems suited to local crops; gear trains for cycle rickshaws
Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN)
A technology and business incubator of grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge, linked to the Honey Bee Network and the NIF.
Asia – India; six regions and many state-level incubators
GIAN has set up incubation centres across India to bring innovations to market.
Traditional Knowledge
Digital Library (TKDL)
Bridges the gap between traditional knowledge information in local languages and international patent examiners.
Asia – India
Over 150 books on traditional medicine have been transcribed so far
Traditional Knowledge in Indian Systems of Medicine including Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga
Centre of Science for Villages (CSV)
Links research scientists and rural communities through training and other initiatives.
Asia – India
Over 100 staff and volunteers at three demonstration campuses
Rainwater harvesting; plant-based pesticides; honey bee apiary
China Innovation Network (CHIN) Tianjin University
A twin centre to SRISTI. Plans to establish an innovation scholarship and an international grassroots innovation and traditional knowledge registry.
Asia – China; involves 54 universities from 30 provinces of China
Scouted about 6000 innovations
Cycle-based hoe; simple lift to bring agricultural produce to a rooftop for drying
The National Grassroots Innovation Databank – Malaysia
Provides institutional support in identifying, sustaining and scaling up Malaysia's grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge
Asia-Pacific – Malaysia
228 innovations listed
Preventing mosquito breeding in roof gutters; bioethanol produced from starch extracted from cassava
Uses technology to challenge poverty, working with communities on energy, agriculture, urban infrastructure, new technologies, and waste management
International; UK head office; offices in Bangladesh, East Africa, Latin America, Nepal, South Asia, Southern Africa and Sudan
Nanotechnology for water filtration; gravity ropeways for transporting produce to market in mountainous areas; cost-effective housing reconstruction post-tsunami
Social Technologies Network – Brazil (Red de Tecnologias Sociales)
Supports products and techniques developed cooperatively with communities. It has inspired other networks, such as Red TISA (see below).
900 member organisations from Latin America
Annual Social Technology Prize builds a database of entrants and projects.
Potable water storage (cisternas); bio-digesters using cattle dung for home energy; seed fair for exchange of traditional varieties in rural Argentina and Paraguay
Network on Technologies for Social Inclusion – Argentina (Red de Tecnologías para la Inclusion Social de Argentina – Red TISA)
Helps create and exchange community and techno-scientific knowledge, and shares learning for inclusive and sustainable development.
Latin America – Argentina
90 institutions and projects
|Cooperative recycling ventures; sugarcane harvesting machine for small-scale producers
Social Technologies Bank – Brazil (Fundacao Banco Tecnologias Sociais)
This database includes social technologies certified by the Social Technology Prize of the Bank of Brazil Foundation.
Latin America – Brazil
Over 600 certified entries
Dryland horticulture and processing of cashew nuts and fruits into pulp; urban agroecology projects; water conservation and recycling
A non-profit organisation working closely with the Latin American Social Ecology Centre on energy, agroecology and medicinal plants.
Latin America – Uruguay
Low-cost sustainable energy production; knowledge maps of local and traditional medicinal plant uses
Provides research-based insights into grassroots innovation processes.
UK; expanding to other countries
Has documented grassroots innovations in energy, food, housing and complementary currencies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Grassroots Invention Group (GIG)
Develops low-cost personal computation and production technologies
20 active projects
Prometheus, a Learning Independence Network being developed in Costa Rica; new approaches to teaching computer programming
Promotes appropriate, low-cost technologies for international development.
USA and International
Portable solar cooker; ceramic water filter; low cost, pedal-powered rickshaw lighting
Pioneered the term 'social entrepreneurs' for people solving pressing social needs, and changing society. The Ashoka Fellowship for social entrepreneurship, with over 2000 fellows, supports networking and learning to achieve social goals.
International; programmes in over 60 countries; 25 regional offices in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe the Middle East and North Africa.
Home-based nurse training in South Africa; youth involvement in community forest management in Peru; digital inclusion in Brazil
Contributing to sustainability
The grassroots approach is only one of many ways to promote more inclusive innovation, and just one of many approaches to sustainable development. That said, new initiatives looking to the grassroots should learn from established appropriate technology centres and science shops (organisations that respond directly to the needs of citizens and local groups for scientific research) [6]. Research has identified three enduring dilemmas characteristic of grassroots innovation. [7]
Local innovations such as biogas generators need to be affordable
One is the dilemma of how to focus on local problems whilst simultaneously seeking wide‐scale diffusion and influence. Funders and support programmes often ask for ways to scale-up or replicate innovations across regions and markets, and this can undermine the goal of tailoring for local settings. For example, it takes more effort to expand the practice of building housing from local materials and through local capabilities than to expand the sale of standard housing.
The second dilemma is that locally appropriate innovations often conform to the social and economic imbalances they ultimately seek to transform. If the goal is local empowerment, grassroots innovations need to promote sustainable and socially just development, not perpetuate prevailing conditions. For example, biogas generators developed to provide energy access for India's poor produced technology products that only wealthier villagers can afford. [8] In effect, grassroots innovations need to be unsuitable in the short-term, and accompanied by processes that can induce changes that make them work in a more just future.
The biggest dilemma is how to work at finding project‐based solutions to problems that require changing the balance of social and economic power. Grassroots projects seek to incorporate sustainability and social justice without really addressing the wider social structures that cause unsustainability and injustice. Grassroots innovators tend not to have access to R&D institutions, struggle with insufficient resources and infrastructures, and lack the full range of capabilities that would help their activity flourish. And an earlier generation of science shops shows how activities can be misrepresented and marginalised by inappropriately conventional measures of scientific knowledge, such as peer-reviewed journal publications.
There are signs that grassroots innovators are learning to overcome these dilemmas (See Box 1). But without strategies for addressing broader structural problems, grassroots innovations will struggle.
Box 1. Learning to overcome enduring dilemmas in grassroots innovation
In Kenya, experience with developing decentralised solar photovoltaic electricity [9] suggests it is possible to both transform and conform to the local environment. But it also indicates the long-term challenges involved: the process of developing technological systems and business models, training installers, and countering indifference from policymakers took years, but helped change the socioeconomic environment in ways favourable to the solar home system design that was developed.
In India, the People's Science Movement [10] developed an approach that addresses the social relationships required to make technologies work. Innovators found that implementing a cleaner and safer process for tanning animal hides required parallel innovations to organisational processes. This included re-designing relationships between collectors of animal hides and tannery processing centres, and developing a cooperative business structure for the leather goods industry in the region.
And in Brazil, 'social technology incubators' are being developed through partnerships between universities, cooperatives, and fair trade schemes as a strategy for making the grassroots more central to research and development.
Connecting with the grassroots
From community food and energy initiatives to local (re-)manufacturing, community sanitation and water projects, there is a ferment of innovative grassroots activity for sustainable development. Local innovative capabilities generate 'user-led' ideas for sustainable development that stop communities becoming locked into development unsuitable to changing circumstances.
But taking grassroots innovation seriously will entail addressing relations with science and technology institutions, and this includes rethinking conventional innovation systems.[11]
Policies can play a part, by rewarding researchers who work with local communities, and recognising how this work complements more standard scientific outputs such as publications and patents. But discussions for the Rio+20 process and beyond, about research networks and indicators for sustainability, have yet to address how grassroots innovation can be factored into knowledge production processes.
Intellectual property is another thorny issue. Whilst some believe that grassroots innovation should be open and freely disseminated, others believe that innovators should benefit from their invention. Even open source enthusiasts recognise a need to 'protect' innovations from the patenting activities of more predatory firms. The Honey Bee Network is trying to do just that, through a partnership with the National Innovation Foundation, though there are many challenges.
Re-balanced innovation policies that take the grassroots seriously would provide genuine spaces and resources for ongoing engagement between local communities and research. Engagement needs to be a two-way process that ensures the grassroots informs future research agendas and funding priorities. A participatory planning process in Ecuador, consisting of roundtable meetings and discussions, is unusual in the way it is trying to incorporate grassroots and indigenous knowledge into a National Plan for Science, Technology, Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge. [12]
High technologies like mobile phones can help grassroots innovations to succeed
Yet distinctions between conventional and grassroots innovation systems are not clear-cut. Many people network through newsletters, face-to-face visits or events. But mobile phones and radios are also used to transfer cash, share market information, and disseminate novel practices in sectors such as agriculture and construction. So successful grassroots innovations partly depend on technologies produced in conventional innovation systems, just as domestication of high technologies for local use requires grassroots innovation to adapt to local needs.
Wealthier societies also contain many grassroots innovators and networks [13], representing a movement for sustainable innovation that differs from the mainstream of clean technology and green economy debates that have featured in the run up to the Rio+20 summit.
High-level events like Rio+20 open the way for the international community to connect much more effectively and equitably with the wealth of bottom-up activities. The 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio tried to do this with Local Agenda 21. Renewed interest in grassroots innovation provides an opportunity to address enduring challenges and create the conditions needed for all countries to benefit from the resourcefulness of their communities.
Adrian Smith is a senior research fellow, and Elisa Arond is a research officer, both at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and the STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) of the University of Sussex, UK.
Mariano Fressoli is a researcher, and Hernán Thomas is professor of science, technology and society, both working at the Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina.
Dinesh Abrol is a chief scientist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, India.
This article is part of a Spotlight on Supporting grassroots innovation.
[1] Annasaheb Udagavi. Washing Away Whiteflies with a Rain Gun: Saga of a Sprinkler Designer. Honey Bee 8, 5-6 (1997)
[2] Vinoo Kaley. Pedalling Uphill: An Innovation on the Roadside. Honey Bee 7, 5-6 (1996)
[3] Pedal-powered washing machine (National Innovation Foundation, India)
[4] 'Quincha' earthquake-resistant housing (Practical Action)
[5] Zeer pot fridge (Practical Action)
[6] Science shops (Living Knowledge, The International Science Shop Network)
[7] Grassroots innovation – historical and comparative perspectives (STEPS Centre)
[8] Henny Romijna, et al. Biomass energy experiments in rural India: Insights from learning-based development approaches and lessons for Strategic Niche Management. Environmental Science and Policy 13, 326–338(2010)
[9] Lighting Africa: Catalyzing Markets for Modern Lighting
[10] People's Science Movement of Kerala, India (2008)
[11] Trace, S. An era of innovation for the poor? (Practical Action, 2012)
[12] UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean. National Science, Technology and Innovation Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean [12.6MB] (UNESCO 2010)
[13] Grassroots Innovations: About GIs (Grassroots Innovations)


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