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I have refrained from commenting on the events of June 25th in Honduras because I knew that soon I was going to get an opportunity to speak with a very close friend with first hand knowledge. Last week I spent some time with this friend of more than two decades and we discussed the politics of the area and his home country.
This individual, a Honduran who has served in the Honduran Congress, emphasized to me that President Zelaya was ignoring a ruling by the Supreme Court and that his actions were completely illegal. My friend very soberly told me that Zelaya, yet another Hugo Chavez-supported latin american leader, simply had to be removed from office and that it had been done legally. The graveness with which he presented that fact was testimony to how serious he knew the situation was and he made it quite clear that the Honduran Supreme Court had ruled against Zelaya.
In the few days since our discussions I have done some research and then got an article today (tweeted by @KarlRove – worth following) written by none other than Miguel Estrada, who you may remember is a Honduran immigrant. Estrada's well-written article opinion piece, titled Honduras' non-coup, makes a few points that tell the real story of what happened.
Honduras, the tiny Central American nation, had a change of leaders on June 28. The country's military arrested President Manuel Zelaya — in his pajamas, he says — and put him on a plane bound for Costa Rica. A new president, Roberto Micheletti, was appointed. Led by Cuba and Venezuela (Sudan and North Korea were not immediately available), the international community swiftly condemned this "coup."
The points made by Estrada that struck me:
- The Honduran Constitution specifically forbids changing the rules limiting the President to one four-year term.
- Article 239 of their Constitution states that any President who even proposes the idea of reelection "shall cease forthwith" in his duties.
- When President Zelaya ignored the Honduran high court and attempted to proceed with his referendum, the Honduran Attorney General got an arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court.
- The interim president, Micheletti, was lawfully made the President by the Honduran Congress.
People seem to want to think of this like some banana republic coup but this reads more like legal proceedings in the US than a bunch of generals taking over. There simply was no coup in Honduras. It is far more correct to say that there was an attempted coup in Honduras that was headed off by the rule of law.


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James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. During childhood he was educated at Jesuit schools and then continued his studies at University College in Dublin, where he studied French, Italian, German and English languages and literatures. He graduated in modern languages in 1902. He established himself on the continent, precisely in Paris, but, in 1903, he had to return in Dublin because the mother's fatal illness. A year later he fell in love with Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old girl who was working as a chambermaid in a hotel. In this period they settled in Trieste (Italy) and Joyce began teaching English and made friends with Italo Svevo. James and Nora had two children and he married in 1931. The writer, with a lots of financial problems, published his works: Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), Exiles (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
In 1917 he received the first of several anonymous donations which enabled him to continue writing Ulysses, started in 1904, which was published in Paris in 1922. In 1923 he became to write "Finnegans Wake", published in 1939. James Joyce died in January 1941, in Switzerland.

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He hasn't played a game since March 16.
Hall's injury-shortened 65-game season featured 22 goals and 42 points. As a rookie the previous year, he ended up with a 61-game 27-goal, 53-point season.
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Going by bus from London to Stockton-On-Tees may not be so obvious to you. To encourage you to take the bus to Stockton-On-Tees, here are some arguments that will convince you.
- Unbeatable prices! On the London Stockton-On-Tees route, coach companies offer fares that are often much lower than train or carpooling.
- The new buses used by National Express are greener than the use of carpooling and even more than your personal car. The road London Stockton-On-Tees is an already existing infrastructure shared with other vehicles. The landscape balance sheet is therefore neutral.
- The coaches operating the London Stockton-On-Tees line are mostly equipped with an air conditioning system, which will allow you to travel in good conditions during hot seasons.
- The modern buses that you take from London to Stockton-On-Tees are all comfortable, with toilets and reclining seats.
Which coach companies to travel between London and Stockton-On-Tees?
The journey by coach London Stockton-On-Tees is served by only one bus company: National Express.
Bus stops in London
Depending on the company, it is requested to be present at the bus stop in London from 15 to 30 minutes before the indicated departure time. To avoid catching the wrong bus, check in front where the destination 'Stockton-On-Tees' should be displayed. Before boarding, show your ticket to the driver, put your luggage in the hold and then sit at your seat.
Bus stops at arrival in Stockton-On-Tees
In Stockton-On-Tees, make sure you leave nothing in your seat or in the trunk of the coach.
Train London to Stockton-On-Tees
Is London connected to Stockton-On-Tees with a direct train?
Yes, it is possible to go from London to Stockton-On-Tees by train without making any changes. Be careful, as this may depend on the date of your trip to Stockton-On-Tees and there may be fewer direct trains from London on certain days. To check prices and availabilities, launch now a search for a London-Stockton-On-Tees train ticket on Vivanoda.
Intercity train London Stockton-On-Tees
The intercity trains served the main cities of the route between London and Stockton-On-Tees with a reduced duration in comparison to regional trains.
London Stockton-On-Tees train companiesThere is only one rail company for this journey: Grand Central.
Railway stations from London
Railway stations in Stockton-On-Tees
Carpool from London to Stockton-On-Tees
Carpooling is a recent way to travel by sharing your journey London-Stockton-On-Tees with other travellers looking for the same route. This helps reduce travel costs for both the driver and the passenger, and also reduces the impact on the environment.
The important difference between carsharing and the other modes of transport is that it has not a scheduled timetable. So, you surely have better chances to get London-Stockton-On-Tees rides searching three days in advance than one month. This is interesting for lastminute travel to Stockton-On-Tees.
When you book a ride between London Stockton-On-Tees, you'll set directly with the driver how he can pick you up. To avoid any money chats with the drivers, you pay your ride online.
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After serving 11 years at Newcastle United, Dutch goalkeeper Tim Krul moved to Brighton permanently after his initial loan move turned permanent in his first game for the Seagulls.
Rafa Benitez defended Newcastle decision in selling Krul as the keeper hadn't been used in two years and the Tynesiders have enough keepers to choose from, Daily Star understands.
"We have enough keepers in terms of numbers," Benitez said. "I wanted to maximise the time with them."
Rob Elliot has so far taken the number one spot for Newcastle this season and is predicted to continue as Benitez's main keeper.
"Tim was available and you cannot stop a player if they want to play. For us, it is OK," the Spaniard explained in regards to Brighton's permanent deal of the player, which he believes the team had every right to do.
"They announced it now but they knew before. We wish him all the best – after this game!"
Brighton announce their permanent deal with the Dutchman after their Carabao Cup defeat to Bournemouth on Tuesday.
Having played his last game for Newcastle more than two years ago, Krul went for loan spells including one with AZ Alkmaar in early 2017 where he impressed.
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Two veteran House Republicans announced on Tuesday that they would not seek re-election next year, the latest conservative lawmakers to commit to leaving office under President Trump.
The representatives, Frank A. LoBiondo of New Jersey and Ted Poe of Texas, made their announcements within hours of each other and added their names to a growing list of Republicans bowing out before the midterm elections. The rush of retirements has led some, particularly eager Democrats, to believe that the House of Representatives could look very different in 2019.
Mr. LoBiondo, 71, who first took office in 1995, did not mention Mr. Trump in his announcement though he delivered a searing indictment on a decline in political civility, action and collegiality during his time in Congress. He bemoaned a constant polarization that discouraged opposing sides to engage in honest debates about legislation.
"As some of my closest colleagues have also come to realize, those of us who came to Congress to change Washington for the better through good governance are now the outliers," Mr. LoBiondo, who represents South Jersey, said in his retirement statement. He added, "A vocal and obstinate minority within both parties has hijacked good legislation in pursuit of no legislation."
After 12 terms in office, Mr. LoBiondo said he decided to leave now in part because of term limits on his service on the Intelligence Committee and as chairman of the Transportation Committee's subcommittee on aviation. But Democrats have also targeted the seat held by Mr. LoBiondo, a moderate who has opposed major Republican legislation like a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, as a possible priority in trying to take back the majority in the House.
Mr. Poe, 69, who represents suburbs outside Houston, said in his announcement that he wanted to retire to spend time with his 12 grandchildren, who were all born after he first took office in 2005. "Thanks to the good Lord, I'm in good health, but it's time for the next step," he said.
If he had sought another term, Mr. Poe would most likely not have faced a serious Democratic challenger. His district, which has voted for the Republican candidates for president the past five elections, is solidly conservative territory.
Including the upcoming departures by Mr. Poe and Mr. LoBiondo, 29 House Republicans have left office or announced plans to leave within the past year. Two of those, the longtime House Republicans Jeb Hensarling and Lamar Smith, both of Texas, announced within the last two weeks that this term would be their last. In the Senate, two prominent Republicans who have quarreled with Mr. Trump, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee, also said recently that they would not seek re-election.
The list is much shorter among Democrats: Seven House members and no senators.


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Heaven Below Are a Voice for Abused Youth on 'The Mirror Never Lies' – Video Premiere
Heaven Below might not be a household name yet, but that doesn't mean the Los Angeles rockers aren't working their butts off. The quartet has been busy touring and sharing the stage with the likes of Buckcherry and Avenged Sevenfold, while their hard-hitting music has already invaded the Amazon.com charts. Although they are still in stage of their career where promoting their band should be their number one priority, Heaven Below are still finding time to put their music to work for a noble cause.
The group has joined forces with members of Papa Roach, Filter, Black Veil Brides, Three Days Grace, and others, to promote and raise awareness for Children Without a Voice. The non-profit organization dedicated and determined in fighting crimes against children in the United States. Heaven Below has recorded 'The Mirror Never Lies, 'the theme song for the organization and Noisecreep is proud to present the world premiere for its video.
Watch 'The Mirror Never Lies' from Heaven Below
Heaven Below vocalist Patrick Kennison told Noisecreep about the band's connection with Children Without a Voice:
"It's no secret that many artists & musicians have suffered the same traumatic pasts as the fans who listen to heavy rock music. The members of Heaven Below are no exception. So when the band was presented with the opportunity to be a voice for the abused youth of our country, we immediately stepped up to make our message and music be heard loud and clear. We are no different from our fans – we just have a louder PA system."
The band is selling copies of 'The Mirror Never Lies' directly on their website for $2.99 with $1 from each sale going to Children Without a Voice at this link.
Heaven Below is currently working on a new album that will hit stores this coming winter. The California combo will be playing the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood on September 8th. In October/November, a tour of the southern US will commence, with the group Madlife, called "The Hollywood Riot Tour." Dates for the trek will be announced soon.


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by Paige Johnson of LearnFit.org
Would you like a year with less doctors visits? With fewer asthma attacks? With the ability to keep up with your children (or grandchildren)? If these are goals for your life, consider making health and wellness a priority this year. If you're concerned about falling off the bandwagon, here is how to keep a health and fitness resolution for the next twelve months – and beyond!
Start by getting into the right mindset. Remember, each day you have a choice. You can choose positive thoughts or negative ones. Positive thoughts have been proven to release "feel good" hormones like serotonin and dopamine in our brains. Meanwhile, negative thoughts release adrenaline and increase the stress hormone cortisol. This increases the cycle of stress, depression and anxiety, makes you hold onto belly fat, and sets you up for various poor health conditions. Know each day that you have a choice. This gives a whole new perspective to the old saying: "pick your poison."
Pick a type of health or wellness activity that you are interested in, curious about, or excited to do. Start implementing it slowly. This could be a dietary change, a strength-building exercise, a daily self-care routine, or a weekly fitness class that you take with friends. Be willing to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things. Want to de-stress but think yoga isn't right for you? Try Yoga Nidra – the yoga of sleep. Want to get your heart rate up but hate the idea of running? Try a kickboxing class. The possibilities are endless. Be willing to see what is out there. If you don't find something locally, chances are you can find online videos (free or paid) that will allow you to workout from the comfort of your own home!
Once you pick something, be sure to take a "before" photo. Keep it as a reminder of what you want to accomplish. Take another photo in one week. Take yet another photo in one month. Compare and take notes. When you begin to measure your progress, you'll notice changes that you might not have noticed before. Slowly but surely, you'll see your body (and your life) evolving in the direction of your goals right before your eyes.
A tip for those who are short on time (or those who are short on time and are trying to get quicker results) is to focus on strengthening your legs. The legs contain several large muscle groups – some of the largest in the body. For this reason, working these muscles can jumpstart your metabolism and help you burn more calories. Having said this, be sure not to just work one area of the body. It is important to get a total body workout, so don't make your workout just about your legs. Instead, try to focus on movements that work multiple parts of the body at the same time.
It is possible to stay committed to healing your body, mind and soul by bringing more health and wellness into your everyday activities. Remember, your success is always your choice. Even if you fall off the bandwagon today, tomorrow is a new day. You'll wake up with the ability to make a new choice. What will you choose?
Paige Johnson is a contributing writer for LearnFit.org. A self-described fitness "nerd," she possesses a love for strength training, weight-lifting, yoga and cycling.


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Before the summer we began the search for new Trustees and Non-Executive Directors to join our charitable and commercial boards. As we enter Autumn I'm very pleased to be able to share the fruits of our search with a clutch of lovely and talented new board members.
For our mySociety Ltd board which oversees our commercial and product development work we are pleased to welcome three new Directors:
Steve Skelton
Steve is Director of Strategy and Innovation at the Government of Jersey, turning emerging theory of open policy making, participatory design and digital government into practice. Previously at Stockport Council, and as Chair of the GM Connect programme for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority he is a leading thinker on all things Local Government.
Ade Adewunmi
Ade is no stranger to mySociety and has been a supporter of our work since her time leading the Government Digital Service's Data Infrastructure programme. Currently a data strategist at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs, she will help us consider the wider application and impact of ethical data use across our range of services.
Cam Ross
Cam is a Director of Green Angel Syndicate, a network of angel investors funding early stage technology businesses which fight against the climate crisis, and for the sustainable use of resources. He'll help advise on the further development of our SaaS products, with a particular interest in shaping our response to climate change.
We welcome two new Trustees to our charity board for UK Citizens Online Democracy, who are responsible for the strategic direction and sustainability of the whole organisation:
Julia Keutgen
Julia is a Senior Transparency Advisor at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, advising parliaments and political parties on accountability, transparency and the rule of law. She works closely with the Open Government Partnership (OGP) on enhancing the role of civil society in public policy making and government oversight.
Kate Jones
Kate is currently Private Secretary to the Chief Executive of the Civil Service & Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, where she works on EU Exit and Civil Service HR. Previously working in the Cities and Local Growth Unit at BEIS and before that at the Design Council and CABE, she brings invaluable insights around Government and public policy.
In addition to Owen Blacker who stepped down after an amazing 17 years of involvement with mySociety, we also say goodbye as a Trustee to Nanjira Sambuli. Both stepped down at our AGM in July. Immense thanks to both for their support and service.
Our search for a new Chair of UKCOD will continue over the next couple of months as we speak to candidates, and we expect to make additional board appointments during 2020.
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After over five years of active development we have decided to pause work on the EveryPolitician project for the foreseeable future.
In this post we'll outline where we are leaving things, how you can make use of the data that does exist, and how you might be able to help migrate or transfer some of what we've collected over to services like Wikidata.
What's in place today
The EveryPolitician project is, as its name suggests, based on the simple idea to gather accurate and up-to-date data on every politician in the world, collated and shared in a consistent format for free download and use by researchers, democracy projects, campaigners and individual citizens.
Over the course of the project we have gathered, structured and shared data on 78,382 politicians from 233 countries and territories presented on EveryPolitician.org via hundreds of scrapers run on morph.io and hosted on GitHub, producing the data on everypolitician-data.
Mostly the data covers the main chambers of recent parliaments around the world, but it also includes thousands of entries for previous parliaments, in some cases going back decades.
This has been a sizeable undertaking, involving a handful of very talented developers and colleagues within mySociety, as well as contributions from dozens of other organisations and individuals, many of whom make use of the data within their own projects.
The reality is that this work is hugely time consuming, complex and requires not just expert knowledge but a commitment to go deep into the intricacies of parliamentary data in order to make it comprehensible to a wider group of users. And looking to the next couple of years this task is only ever going to increase in complexity — too much for one underfunded organisation.
We therefore intend to freeze the current data as it currently stands, and it will continue to be available for download and reuse. We just can no longer commit to keeping this data up to date.
Always playing catch up
The challenge with data projects like EveryPolitician, beyond the complexity of understanding the structures and relationships within hundreds of individual parliaments (every parliament is an edge case in some way), is that the data is always steadily going out of date.
Across the world's national parliaments there is an election somewhere roughly once a week, and that's often when parliaments choose to update their websites, sometimes breaking our scrapers and changing the format of the data. Throughout the life of a parliament you might expect a few percent of MPs to change, sometimes more in different systems, so keeping on top of those individual changes is a sizeable task – especially where errors or duplications occur.
In addition to managing the hundreds of scrapers, we also included data from other sources — increasingly from Wikidata. Over the past 18 months we've been attempting to migrate more and more of what we've learned on EveryPolitician over to Wikidata via the WikiProject every politician.
Where the project goes next
EveryPolitician was built on the many years of work we had already delivered in this area, through PopIt, Poplus and working with Popolo. We knew what was needed, what worked and what didn't.
We saw the potential to create an Open Corporates for political data, and hoped that EveryPolitician would be able to attract grant funding to grow, and potentially develop appropriate commercial services in support.
However, after five years of significant investment we just don't have the funding to continue this work on our own.
In time we hope to be able to continue to contribute again to the wider availability of political data, and with hindsight it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data – benefitting from much greater reach, the contribution of motivated individuals in each country, and from the wider Wiki community.
As part of our contribution to Wikidata, we've created numerous tools to support the cross-referencing, verification, and supported update of data between EveryPolitician and the Wikiproject. This is still something of a work in progress, but we see it as a key way that others might contribute and take on aspects of the project in the future.
In the meantime we hope that many people continue to make use of the wealth of data that's already been collected.
If you have a specific interest in a country, group of legislatures or some other combination, perhaps you can consider adding the kind of data that EveryPolitician has collected to Wikidata. We have no further resources to devote to this work; however if you do have an interest in taking some of this on then we will try to advise what options might best suit.
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For a charity like mySociety the appointment of a new Chair and Trustees is an important opportunity to bring new leadership and energy to our boards and to the organisation as a whole.
Over the next three months we are looking to appoint a clutch of new board members for UK Citizens Online Democracy (our charity board) and for mySociety Ltd (our commercial board) as well as the uniquely important appointment of a new charity board Chair.
After 15 years of service, our Chairperson, James Cronin will be stepping down at the end of the year.
James was one of the original founding group of volunteers who established mySociety. He has been a Trustee and Chair of UK Citizens Online Democracy and a Non-Executive Director of mySociety Ltd for most of their existence. James has been critical to the success of mySociety over the years and continues to be a mentor for me and the team.
Before then another of our very long-standing Trustees, Owen Blacker, will be stepping down at our AGM in July. Owen was also one of the original cohort of mySociety volunteers and has similarly served for over 15 years. We'll miss Owen's technical expertise, passionate defence of privacy rights and support of LGBT rights, and our board will be diminished as a result.
Strengthening our boards
So with this changing of the guard we have the opportunity to appoint new leadership and advisors to our boards and we hope you might consider applying.
A strong and diverse board is essential to ensure that our organisation is well-run, solvent, operating within the law, and making the right strategic decisions.
Three years ago we went through a similar exercise, appointing new Trustees Rachel Rank, Tony Burton and Nanjira Sambuli. We also established our commercial board with Jonathan Flowers, Tim Hunt and Anno Mitchell all being appointed. We also very recently appointed Mandy Merron as a new Trustee following a number of months in which she acted as an independent advisor to our Finance Committee.
So over the past few years we've already brought in new voices and opinions, improved our gender balance, and moved to fixed term appointments with a maximum of two consecutive three year terms and we're keen to continue this progress through the next phase of our development.
Applications and appointments
For our charity board we are looking for new Trustees who can bring additional legal and policy experience. Specifically we need help in understanding the impact of any legal challenges we might face, especially in relation to data protection and Freedom of Information. We also need advice on how best to shape and influence public policy and consultations, especially where they relate to Democratic Participation, Place and Communities or International Development.
Trustees should have experience of working with the charitable or not for profit sector and must have a passion for our goals and experience of pursuing them.
You can see the full advert and application process here.
For our commercial board we would like to appoint new Non-Executive Directors with SaaS development experience and service provision to government and the public sector. We would especially welcome experience in developing and scaling software as a service products, and working on, or commissioning, service provision within Local and Central Government; especially in relation to Democratic Participation, or Place and Communities.
It would be beneficial for Directors to have experience of working with the charitable or not for profit sector, but this is not essential. They of course must have a passion for our goals and experience of pursuing them.
You can see the full advert and application process here.
We're keen to continue to diversify the make-up of our boards and are particularly keen to see applications from women and underrepresented groups.
A unique new Chair
Appointing a new Chair is an exceptional opportunity to join a pretty amazing and committed, impactful charity. You'll work with your fellow Trustees and the senior management of mySociety to help shape and direct our growth and development over the next few years.
We want to recruit a Chair who represents the best of what mySociety has to offer, who can help extend our ambition, hold us to account and champion our cause. They will need to be comfortable representing UKCOD and mySociety publicly and be prepared to speak on our behalf from time to time.
They will help us continue to diversify our board and team across a range of occupational and personal backgrounds, ensuring we deliver on our support of equal opportunities in ways that reflect the range of our users and work programmes.
They will be able to use their experience and connections to contribute towards helping more people to be active citizens and improving access to and participation in democratic processes around the world.
The closing date for all applications is 10.00am, Monday 13th May.
If our mission motivates you in the way it motivates our staff and volunteers, we would love to hear from you and you can find full details for how to apply here.
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In our previous post, we identified WhatDoTheyKnow's current need for sources of funding.
But WhatDoTheyKnow also needs more volunteers to join the team. Since the site's launch, it's always depended on a highly-motivated, active group of administrators who work to keep it running.
At mySociety, we're very grateful for the work the volunteers do; for their part, they tell us that they find the work rewarding and interesting — but we're always aware that we can't, and shouldn't, demand too much from them. The more volunteers we can recruit, of course, the less the workload will be for everyone.
We've identified three general areas in which volunteer help would be very welcome, and if you think you'd fit in to any of these, we'd love to hear from you.
General volunteers
Are you:
- interested in FOI and transparency
- happy to work remotely but as part of a team, communicating mainly via email
- able to dedicate a minimum of a few hours per week to helping run the site
Each of our volunteer administrators give their time freely and are the only reason we can run the service day to day at all.
Being a volunteer is both rewarding but also challenging, as each juggles their day jobs and home lives. So the more volunteers we have, the more we can spread the workload between them.
If you have a specific interest in FOI or transparency, or indeed you'd just like to help support a well used civic tech service then we'd love to hear from you. There is always a diverse range of jobs and tasks needing to be done, even if you can only help a couple of hours a week. We all work from home and communicate via email and other online tools.
If you can help us a volunteer the first thing to do is to write to the team introducing yourself and letting us know about your relevant skills, experience and interests.
Legal support
Are you:
- a law student or professional who can offer expertise in the day-to-day running of the site; or
- a legal firm or chambers who could offer legal advice on an ad hoc, pro bono basis
Volunteers with legal backgrounds We take our legal and moral responsibilities in running WhatDoTheyKnow very seriously and we always welcome volunteers with experience of legal matters. Some of the legal aspects of running the site are handled routinely on a day to day basis by the admin team.
They may, for example, remove correspondence which could give rise to claims of defamation, or where personal data is disclosed by an authority mistakenly and they consider continued publication to be unwarranted.
The legal challenges thrown up by operating our service are varied and interesting. Joining us could be an opportunity for someone to get some hands on experience of modern media law, or for a more experienced individual, to provide some occasional advice and guidance on more challenging matters.
We often find ourselves balancing claims that material published on our site could aid criminals or terrorists, or could cause harm in other ways, and we do our best to weigh, and balance, such claims against the public interest in making the material available.
As material published on our website may have been used to support news articles, academic research, questions from elected representatives, and actions by campaign groups or individuals it's important we don't remove correspondence lightly and that we're in a position to stand up, where necessary, to powerful people and institutions.
Legal firms that can offer advice As from time to time there are cases which are more complicated, we would like to build a relationship with a legal firm or chambers that can advise us on an ad hoc basis on defamation, privacy (misuse of private information) and data protection.
The ability to advise on copyright law and harassment law would also be an advantage. And we also on very rare occasions may need help as to how to respond to the threat of litigation.
Could you offer help in this area? Please do get in touch to discuss getting involved.
Administrative support
Are you:
- a committed, organised, empathetic person who could volunteer a few hours (working from home) a week
In our previous post we mentioned that we'd ideally secure funding for an administrator who could handle our user support mail and deal with routine but potentially complex and time-sensitive tasks such as GDPR-based requests.
While we seek funding for this role, would you be willing to fill it on a voluntary basis? Please get in touch.
Lots to help with
So in summary, what we need to keep WhatDoTheyKnow running is money, volunteer help, and legal support. If you can help with any of these, or have some ideas of leads we might be able to follow, please do get in touch. It also helps to share this post with your networks!
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If you appreciate our Freedom of Information site WhatDoTheyKnow, then you'd probably like to know that it'll be around for the foreseeable future.
That will only be a certainty if we can secure new volunteers across a broad range of areas; or new sources of funding for the site — or ideally, both! WhatDoTheyKnow is a free service, run on a charitable basis by a currently very thinly-stretched team of volunteers.
We've identified four areas in which we need help:
- Funding
- Legal support
- Admin support
- Additional volunteers
In this post we'll be looking at the first of those; and in our next post we'll talk more about various volunteer roles and ways of helping the site to operate. If you think you might be able to assist in any of these categories, please do read on.
Some background
WhatDoTheyKnow.com is a Freedom of Information service used by millions of people each year, from journalists and campaigners to ordinary people trying to navigate bureaucracy.
We recently celebrated the 500,000th request made via WhatDoTheyKnow, and also the site's tenth anniversary. Each month, it's visited by over half a million people and over 2,500 requests are made via the site. It's a success story — an example of civic tech that runs at scale, has lasted, and has had an impact to match.
One of the ways that mySociety has always tried to make change in the world is by building things on the web that show how the world could be better. In the case of WhatDoTheyKnow, we asked 'What would it be like if everyone felt able to ask questions of those with power, and get answers?'.
Our position as a small digital charity allows us to be bold in the things we build, to act as critical friends to institutions of power, and to design for the citizen. In practical terms, it also allows us to ask forgiveness, not permission — without that freedom, many of our sites and ideas would never have seen the light of day. That we have had success with WhatDoTheyKnow is wonderful, but leads us to ask a new question: how can we, again as a small digital charity, ensure its future?
It's always been a necessary engineering principle for us as software developers, trying to build sites that have impact, to require as little ongoing intervention as possible. However, technology isn't and shouldn't be everything — a site that runs on the scale of WhatDoTheyKnow can't run without different kinds of support. In running WhatDoTheyKnow, we've learned that digital institutions, like other institutions, are shaped by people. The people who originally designed them, for certain, but also those who pick up the torch, who continue to make the day-to-day decisions that keep the institution relevant, humane, responsive and responsible. It's this support that distinguishes brilliant technical ideas that flame out from those that grow and become so embedded in our culture that they start to fundamentally change the way the world works.
A vital part of that support for WhatDoTheyKnow comes from a handful of volunteers who run the service day to day. These volunteers handle everything from simple user support to advising on complex points of law and policy.
Now the success of the site means that they need help on the front line. We're always on the lookout for new volunteers — but there are also other things we need to ensure that WhatDoTheyKnow is around for the next ten years and another half a million requests.
We need funding for admin
It's becoming increasingly urgent that we recruit a part-time assistant, responding to our users' queries via email. This person would help our amazing team of volunteers support people in all walks of life as they go through the process of requesting information from public authorities.
They'd help to deal with the diverse day to day user enquiries, make sure we meet important deadlines in handling time-sensitive issues like GDPR-based requests, and share feedback to improve our user and volunteer experience over time. The cost of a paid part-time support role would be at least £15k per year.
We don't currently have any funding for this increasingly essential role, nor indeed any direct funding for WhatDoTheyKnow itself.
We need funding for development
Although WhatDoTheyKnow hasn't changed fundamentally over the years, there are always ways in which we could improve it — a recent example is our work to start developing features for journalists and other professional users.
The site does also require a certain amount of ongoing development work in order to keep it running at the scale it does. That includes making sure it gets the latest security updates, and dealing with new problems that arise as it grows, such as the fact that the more popular it becomes, the more rewarding a target it becomes for spammers.
Work to maintain Alaveteli, the code that runs WhatDoTheyKnow, also supports the community of Freedom of Information campaigners, journalists and citizens around the world that use Alaveteli-based services to exercise their right to know in 26 countries.
We don't currently have any financial support for developers to support and maintain WhatDoTheyKnow and it's important we find at least project funding of £30,000 to £40,000 a year, if not general unrestricted financial support from new funders.
Funding to date
We should acknowledge the funding which has allowed us to run thus far, and for which we are of course very grateful. A grant from the Joseph Rowntree Trust originally got WhatDoTheyKnow off the ground; Google's Digital News Initiative supported the development of Alaveteli Professional, and unrestricted support from a number of funders ensured that mySociety has been able to continue paying their developers to work on the project. It's perhaps worth noting that this support has, to date, always sustained development rather than administration.
We do have a revenue stream through WhatDoTheyKnow Pro, our FOI service for professionals such as journalists, but as yet this is very modest. As the service develops, we hope that this may one day become part of the framework that helps sustain WhatDoTheyKnow, but we're some way from that at this point in time.
Sourcing funding
Can you help identify a fund or donor who might be willing to cover the costs we've identified above for the next year or two? Please get in touch.
Or perhaps we can be more imaginative. One model we've seen used to good effect by other sites run on our FOI platform Alaveteli has inspired us to conceive of a similar (but not identical) set-up for WhatDoTheyKnow. This would involve sponsorship from one or more reputable media organisations who could make use of WhatDoTheyKnow for their own journalistic investigations, while also gaining the benefit of recognition across the site.
Of course, that's just one idea — there must be many other possible models for supporting the site and we'd love to hear any ideas you have in the comments below.
Now you might like to read our second post, in which we'll be talking about ways you might be able to help with time, rather than money.
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mySociety has been a leading light in the Civic Tech movement since 2003, helping to shape and define the sector and building services used by over ten million people each year in over 40 countries worldwide.
During this time Civic Tech has grown and matured; delivering plenty of impact, but also hitting numerous stumbling blocks along the way. In mySociety's fifteenth year we're taking stock of the best way to achieve our long term goals and ambitions.
So today at the Code for All summit, Heroes of Tech in Bucharest, we announced our intention to become an affiliate member of the Code for All network.
mySociety and Code for All both recognise the power of working in partnership, of being honest and self-critical about the effects of our work, of working openly and transparently and seeking the best outcomes for citizens in their dealings with governments and the public sector.
Code for All is probably best known for Code for America, which set out the blueprint for a civic tech group working closely with government. Now that Code for All is growing beyond these early roots to become more than a collection of individual 'Code For' organisations it is broadening its own perspective to include more groups outside of government, we feel that this is a good time for mySociety to deepen our collaboration within this growing movement.
Every success we've had has come from working well with our partners. Each of our services internationally is run by a local partner with mySociety providing development help and support and the benefit of our service development and research experience.
In recent months through our Democratic Commons project we've worked with numerous Code for All partners, including CodeForPakistan, OpenUp, CodeForJapan, ePanstwo, G0v and others. Those of you who have attended our TICTeC conferences will know that they attract many members of the Code for All network as participants each year.
What mySociety can bring to the network is a unique international aspect, a commitment to collaborate and combine our efforts on cooperative democratic projects, a willingness to more widely share our research and evidence building experience and a desire to improve the positive impact of our work.
We would benefit from more of our work being seen as truly collaborative, and are no strangers to the challenges of seeking grant and project funding and the importance of working together to achieve this.
With all the challenges facing democracy — governments struggling under austerity; fake news and dark money distorting the truth; a slow burn environmental catastrophe playing out around us; hard won rights and the norms of a fair and just society under threat — now more than ever feels like an important time to be working more closely together.
So we're excited by the opportunities that this timely partnership will deliver and keen to see where this takes us.
Over the past few months we've been periodically updating you on the progress of our website for mapping Assets of Community across England. Now, we've officially launched.
Keep it in the Community, or KIITC for short (pronounced 'kitsy'), currently shows a snapshot of over 5,000 England-wide registered ACVs. We hope that researchers of all sorts will use it as a resource.
A nationwide picture
Since the introduction of the Localism Act, community groups up and down England have been taking advantage of the opportunities it affords to nominate places and spaces as Assets of Community Value.
And while the Act also requires local authorities to maintain and publish a register of such Assets, one thing has been missing: the ability to see a picture of how these rights are being used across the country as a whole.
Do some regions contain substantially more ACVs than the norm? Are more applications rejected in some places than others? And just how many Assets of Community Value have been identified to date?
We believe this sort of inquiry is essential if we're to understand the efficacy of the Act and whether it's achieving what it was designed to do, and now KIITC makes that possible.
Scaled back ambitions
As you may recall from our previous posts, our original ambition was not only to gather together and publish all the existing data from the ACV records of England's many councils, but also to invite community groups to submit new applications to their local authorities, directly through the website. From long experience in similar projects, however, we knew that there would be challenges, and indeed this turned out to be the case.
While all councils are legally required to display this data, they're not given any guidance as to the format in which it should be displayed, and the huge variety of different formats, together with the frequency with which the location of the files in which they are published change, make an automated approach almost impossible, especially within a resource- and time-constrained project.
These factors make it hard to sustain what is really the only practicable approach for a project with limited funding — the automated 'scraping' of websites. Scraping sends a small script out onto the web to regularly check whether new data has been added to a location; in this case, each council's ACV register. A piece of code can retrieve the data and put it into the right format to be republished on your own site: it's how we published Parliamentary debates each day on TheyWorkForYou.com for many years, for example.
But this is really only a practical option when everyone is publishing in one of a few standardised formats.
What would be a solution? Well, in an ideal world every authority would be putting their records out as lovely, consistent data. But we understand that this is rather an unrealistic expectation.
A data snapshot
Faced with these difficulties, we met with Power to Change, who originally funded the work. We were in agreement that, sad though it was to set aside the other features of the project, there was still great value in collecting a snapshot of all ACV data across England.
So, ambitions of scrapers accordingly readjusted, we manually entered all the relevant councils' registered ACVs and uploaded them to the site. Please note that some data may not be 100% accurate; it all depends on what we were able to collect at the time.
The most comical result of this is that assets where we don't have a precise postcode for location may appear to be floating in the middle of the ocean… but these are the minority. And it's worth remembering that the dataset as a whole is the best available right now.
Of course, the data will quickly become out of date, but we believe that this unprecedented collection will have many uses, nonetheless.
For the moment, we won't be updating the site with future data, unless further funding becomes available for us to do so. We've also put plans for community group submissions on the back burner for now, aware that if we are to provide this service, we need to better what is already out there on the councils' own websites.
The future
When time allows, we'd like to explore ways to encourage citizens to help keep the site up to date, allowing them to update data that has already been imported, and consider how they might suggest new ACVs to their relevant council via the website.
As part of that vision we'll need to reach out to councils to demonstrate how we have visualised the data, and work with them to participate.
Open data projects such as these rely on identifying useful and practical ways for public sector organisations to more easily release data in a common and consistent format so that others can make best use of the information — a task that has much wider implications for all sorts of niche datasets such as this.
If you'd like to find out more please get in touch with us at email@example.com: we'd be keen to hear from you if you'd like to help us trial managing your own data on the service.
Thanks again to Plunkett Foundation, Power To Change and MHCLG for their support in making this happen.
You might remember that we shared a post in November announcing the start of a new project, funded by Power To Change, to help communities protect Assets of Community Value.
So we're pleased to announce the (quiet) beta launch of our latest little site, Keep It In The Community, which we hope will become an England-wide register of Assets of Community Value (ACVs).
Improving legislation
The Localism Act 2011 was introduced with a great hope. Its provision for giving groups the right to bid on buildings or land that contribute to community life would allow the protection these assets, potentially taking them into direct community control should they come up for sale.
Sadly, as currently implemented, the law hasn't yet delivered on that promise.
In Scotland, the legislation comes with an actual right to buy, but in England, that's not the case, and with developers finding ways around the legislation more often than not, often the best the Act can bring about is the delay of an inevitable change of control. For the moment we're not expecting the legislation to be given any more teeth.
With Keep It In The Community we intend to at least help support a greater takeup of registration by local communities.
In yet another project built on the flexible FixMyStreet Platform, Keep It In The Community has three main roles:
1. We're gathering together existing asset listings from the 300+ English councils who hold them, to provide a single synchronised and complete record of all listed and nominated ACVs.
2. We're providing a straightforward route for established community groups to nominate new ACVs in their community.
3. We'll allow community members to provide more details, photographs, and useful anecdotes about each registered asset, beyond that required by the legal listing process.
Plans for the summer
So far we have data from around 20 local authorities on the live service, with another 50 or so due to be added over the next few weeks. The remaining councils will be added over the summer. All the data is drawn directly from each local authority and as new assets are nominated or their status changes we'll update their status on Keep It In The Community.
Whilst we complete final testing we're restricting the ability of community groups to nominate assets, but hope to fully switch that on shortly, once more of the existing assets are displayed on the site.
The initial process for connecting each council listing is fairly low tech, relying on the scraping of a commonly formatted spreadsheet hosted on each council website.
So for the moment. there will still be a fair amount of manual tweaking to keep things in sync. This is one of those important elements that will be fine to manage when the service is starting out, but may start to creak further down the line if it becomes well used – a classic 'known known' issue we'll need to keep on top of.
Over the summer we'll be working with a representative set of community groups to extend the features of Keep It In The Community to improve how to submit assets for nomination, and how best to celebrate the listed assets by adding all sorts of local detail and background.
Have a look and let us know what you think so far.
In addition to the initial grant from Power To Change, this project has been implemented with the support of the Plunkett Foundation and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
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In 2014, along with Integrated Transport Planning (ITP), we created Collideoscope — a service based on our FixMyStreet Platform to map collisions and near misses between motor vehicles and cyclists.
Through a mix of imported Department of Transport Data and user submitted reports, the service highlighted potential dangerous hotspots before cyclists were killed or seriously injured.
Since the launch of Collideoscope, cycling has seen even more of an increase in popularity, and we suspect that there have been numerous new initiatives and campaigns developed to highlight and tackle the dangers faced by cyclists through insufficient provision of safe cycling infrastructure and dangerous driving.
So a recent approach from the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership (MRSP) was of great interest: they wanted to explore how we might revisit this task and determine if Collideoscope still has a role to play — or whether some other approach might be more beneficial.
Over the next three months, with the help of funding from MRSP, we plan to carry out a fresh discovery exercise to identify up to date user needs around collision prevention, and also determine how well served these issues are already by other similar initiatives around the country.
In addition to speaking to cyclists, campaign groups and safety experts, we'll also be working with MRSP and in particular the Cycling Safety team within Merseyside Police to better understand how submission of reports can actually contribute to the development of actionable policy.
We'd also like to better understand the process of evidence submission, especially video evidence, in cases of near misses and collisions, and improve how that might lead to appropriate enforcement action.
For the moment we're approaching all of this with a very open mind. We're not going to assume that Collideoscope as it currently exists is necessarily the correct approach, and even if it does have a role to play we suspect it may need to be substantially altered to cater to any newly identified user needs.
Whilst this exploratory part of the project is going to be centred on Merseyside, we're keen to hear from groups across the country and if you'd like to be consulted or participate in the research we would be keen to hear from you.
In the meantime, ride safe and we'll update with progress reports over the next few weeks.
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Like many others we were shocked to read the allegations of attempted rape, and physical and verbal abuse leveled at Clay Johnson, a former senior staff member at Sunlight Foundation – our fellow Civic Tech organisation in the USA.
Our thoughts are with the women affected and the staff of Sunlight and the other organisations involved.
It was brought to my attention that Johnson attended a mySociety meeting in 2008 and retreat in 2011; so I'll take this opportunity now to condemn the behaviour described – it has no place in our community.
No field or sector is immune from the potential for abuse – just because we happen to be in the business of 'tech for good', that doesn't mean as a sector we're automatically any more or less likely to allow abuse to take place.
Whilst these higher profile and serious revelations are the ones that make the headlines, there can often exist a spectrum of abuse, bullying, and inexcusable behaviour that is tolerated, apologised for, or just plain accepted as part of the culture.
It's the job of all of us in positions of responsibility in all organisations to take a zero tolerance approach to bullying or discriminatory behaviour which is the soil that allows these abuses to flourish.
We extend our support to the new team at Sunlight, and we are committed helping identify and call out — and ultimately stamp out — elements of the wider culture that allowed this to take place.
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Making The choice is critical to your site's success, however — so isn't something to be taken. After all, your website's theme will determine the design displayed to your visitors, along with your plugins will add the majority of its functionalities.
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This is Because although all of its goods (MyThemeShop develops plugins and themes ) are readily available to buy individually, in addition, it has a membership option that gives users complete access to its whole product range.
Think It or not, MyThemeShop is one of the largest WordPress clubs around, boasting a whopping customers and a catalog of 20 plugins and 99 themes. Sociallyviral Review Mythemeshop
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As we've Touched on numerous occasions during this post, MyThemeShop provides quality, 24/7 service for many of its customers. It takes place in its own support forum, in public, so that users may learn from common problems.
There is a Dedicated department for themes and plugins, plus separation between free and superior products. Simply post your problem about the forum and among those MyThemeShop-employed service team will respond promptly — usually .
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The forum Additionally supports a search feature, which means that you may look to a problem — usually the fastest way to discover answers. Inquiries are indicated with a green solved postage.
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And, if You're still unable after submitting to this support forum to solve your issue, MyThemeShop also provides support. In the event you need tweaks to your theme, specific customisations, site setup, or website migrations, the MyThemeShop support team will be able to assist you out (though these solutions are, as you would expect, compensated ).
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Now, on To the things that is important: the quality and choice of its own products. We'll begin by looking at MyThemeShop's core product range: WordPress themes.
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MyThemeShop Topics were created with usability in mind, and every single theme ships using a market-leading motif options panel from which you can control the motif's settings, import arbitrary content (to have your website looking like the demo you saw when you purchased the theme), or dive into its numerous customisation choices.
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All Themes include a trailer that will assist you to get an idea of the design. These previews arrive in rows of three by default, butif you'd prefer a slightly bigger preview, then you can select rows of 2. There is also a basic filter that allows you form the topics by recognition or release date.
Maybe Most useful of all is that MyThemeShop lets you select which features you need on your subject. Features are chosen from a drop-down listing, and any motif that fails to meet your standards is dropped out of the search page. There are nine options (and you can pick more than one):
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Before You buy a theme, I'd strongly recommend spending a couple of minutes researching this demonstration. You'll be able to sample the theme's layouts, try out different customisation choices, and find an overall idea of the way the motif looks and performs.
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To give You a taste of the visual quality of these themes, let's take a moment to look at some of the best it has to offer you. No sales amounts are made available, so we're expecting the'popularity' search function here. (Note: Just click on a screenshot to be taken directly to the theme's demo page.)
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MyThemeShop Plugins
As well As topics, MyThemeShop additionally offers 20 WordPress plugins, including 12 premium (at $29 each) and eight free.
All these Plugins permit you to add quite specific functionality to your website, such as telling bars, time-to-read quotes and coming soon pages.
You can Look for plugins in the same way as topics because plugins vary in regard to their capacities, the plugin product pages are the places.
Each Plugin has a long list of this plugin's attributes, giving you a very clear indicator of what it could (or can not ) do. You will also see an individual rating there's a demo for each plugin so that you can see every one in action.
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Since There are plugins than themes, let us run down the three MyThemeShop WordPress plugins. I'll also provide a succinct overview of what every plugin can do.
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MyThemeShop Cost
With so Many competitors, how do MyThemeShop's theme and plugin prices pile up? Let us look at the item rates.
MyThemeShop Functions a pricing structure that is level — any theme will probably set you back a predetermined $59, with plugins. This is a typical price for themes and plugins, and certainly on a par with marketplaces like CodeCanyon and ThemeForest.
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Membership Is pricier than that of some of the other motif clubs, such as ElegantThemes (from $59 annually ), TeslaThemes (from $59 annually ), also ThemeIsle (from $99 a year), but more reasonably priced compared to the likes of WooThemes (from $399 annually — upgrade — 16th July: WooThemes.com is now under the umbrella of WooCommerce.com, with their themes available at https://woocommerce.com/product-category/themes/), WPMU Dev (from $294 annually ), also StudioPress (from $499 annually ).
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MyThemeShop Does a good job of releasing new products every few weeks — in 2015 with over 30 releases.
Overall, MyThemeShop is among the best WordPress clubs round — it delivers an impressive range. Throw in an excellent, flexible choice of support that is ongoing and plugins, and it isn't tough to see why over 300,000 clients have taken the plunge and become MyThemeShop clients.
You will Be wondering whether you should purchase motifs as part of the' club' subscription, or as a job lot on an individual basis. This depends.
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If, However, you're an individual constructing a website that is single, the decision is difficult. You'll save money by buying one theme; on the other, paying for a club membership permits you to examine your website under a variety of guises until you find the one that is right. Sociallyviral Review Mythemeshop
The Membership reflects the best value, and more than holds its own when compared with other WordPress clubs — $167 annually for 20 specialist plugins and 99 quality topics is a complete steal!
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