2012
Morning / mourning after MLK Day 2012
reflecting on how it's been...
Roberts Rules of Order, Parliamentary Procedure
for meetings and groups, used in small (read non profits)
to large organizations (read guberment)
versus the contender, Concensus, where everyone
has to agree, but there isn't a set known standard
on how to do it, or most don't know it, so stumble and
fumble along...
Weekend before MLK Rally, some people
need to know what it's really like, and ironically
on Friday the 13th, November the other year,
a few back, a Fairfax Special Forces man
was killed for picking flowers...
And I Have A Dream, yet unrealized
of caring for All people, as difficult as that is,
sometime before I die...
20120113 3.27 am Jerry
2011
From BadWill2011 to learning to Sew,
yet undone, see AVeteransSonLaughsAndSpitsAtMe2011
and HippieClownCamp2011 for some reasons to sew,
clown pants, juggling balls, and well, an alternative
view on what gender is...
Plus, for a limited time,
Prelude to Sewing for Men...
OK, so PBWorks.com page names don't do periods,
Dry.Amemoir.ByLUSHAugustenBurroughs.
is what is should have been. Other things it doesn't do,
is Question Marks, like PatrickAsSaint?
and other stuffs...
But it's free, not Love, but a service.
Anyways, Dry, is a book about Augusten's
Detox and live without his fav Dewar's,
and Foster, and Pighead, and stuff,
like AA, and other non traditional things
like anonymity, how ever that is spelled...
And it's SPOLING, but that got boring,
so LUST substituted like an email
spam filtering process...
StarDate 20111129 11.14 am
or whatever
So what's Hippie Clown Camp?
Difficult to explain... Remember the 1960's?
Well, then, you haven't lived it...
as they say...
Many may not have been alive during the 1960's,
as a whole new generation has popped out,
and the resurgence of 1970's shows like
That '70's Show and stuff, some fashion/
bad fashion and nostalglia which seems to go
on the 20-30 year cycle, remember or learning
what their parents grew up with, so for 2000
it would be the 1970's or 1980's? Not the 1960's
but well, like Vietnam Veterans and lots of others,
some hippies are still back there...
Hunter "Patch" Adams, MD's Gesundheit! Institute
Crafting Your Humanism medical elective October 2011,
in Hillsboro, WV contained a "healing" where I was the
subject/ object... Farting, while originally humorous,
got old on daily "healings".
I created a clause where others had to receive and
give treatments too, and didn't end up doing them all,
nor did everyone else, but my "insurance ran out"...
As it seems, my Housing...
A kids book, but good on many levels, for Aspergers,
Autism Spectrum and other uses, like some fun...
50 State named streets within DC in under 8 hours,
or 13 Colonies in a shorter time.
Washington Area Bicycle Association (WABA.org)'s
annual meeting, with elections for board,
and annual report type business...
Another digression into Race, this time
off of a Smithsonian Natural History Museum,
or should I call it unNatural History?
as race was presented as a construct,
socially defined, not in scientific fact,
eventually science doesn't hold up
to it, evidence from the way the fellowship
was being run, not the presentation,
but the "worship" essentially segregating
peoples like me with disabilities and not
the same interests, a comment about
Thomas Jefferson , who had 200 slaves
going off into the history and ideas behind
that silenced?
Probably more have died on the roads,
than in the attacks so things like
from a bike touring list,
http://www.kenkifer.com/newworld/index.htm
may give an alternative,
we had a big rush when it was an unknown
enemy, back in Sputnik days,
why can't we be motivated to do something
better?
20110911 7.05 am Jerry
Writing to online group, but can't use that online email system very well,
for long writings, which I need a writing tool I normally use,
and can edit/ clean up, and because it related to what already
said, put up here...
Make A Career Of Humanity.
Commit Yourself To The Noble Struggle For Human Rights.
You Will Make A Greater Person Of Yourself,
A Greater Nation Of Your Country
And A Finer World To Live In.
District of Columbia 1959
MLK Jr. Memorial
Addendum:
http://www.nps.gov/nama
NPS Flyer including "The name, likeness
and quotations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are the intellectual
property of The Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Inc.
and are used with express permission." This on public land,
public funds, public, but somehow freedom doesn't ring
as true for me when copyRight isn't CopyLeft...
Ironically, someone handing out $1,000,000 dollar bills with
Obama's face on it (not a dead president)
selling Jesus http://TheGoodPersonTest.net ...
20110905 aka Labor Day
Attended my first Arlington Housing Commission
meeting, and some impressions and comments
upon that public meeting...
SAMHSA misses the boat again...
http://feedback.samhsa.gov/forums/129063-closed-definition-of-recovery
Waiting the calm before the storm, too quiet really,
would be better to be frantic and tired instead,
wonder if someone trimmed that tree,
60 mph winds might take it down, don't have anything
underneath it, but maybe it takes out power lines again?
Shake, rattle and roll, DC...
Now, if it could get Congress Moving...
And news reports of our local nuclear power plants,
shutting down, makes you say hmmm...
A cross the world trip, first by a woman, before the right to vote,
showing men a thing or two, not to mention journalism
about sensationalism of the time, and maybe even
her own distant family...
Subtitled "Bicycle Adventures on Three Continents", this 140 page book
with a few black and white photos in each chapter, and maps, of the
continents: India, Africa and the Balkans/ Eastern Europe
or where ever that really is...
SPOILING, this book review, description, or impressions,
give a little about the book I normally would not be reading,
but bought it to increase my bill, to hopefully get free shipping,
but online, it was from so many different sources, that
it probably didn't save me anything, though browsing like
in a brick and mortar store, mishaps do happen...
Someone I randomly encountered liked this book, and I,
having run out of money following Autreat2011 ,
could relate to the starving climber bum part,
he lived in his car, saving money while working odd shifts
as an ER nurse to go back and keep his promise,
to build a school, with donations, mostly a Silicon Valley
pioneer climber, one of the few climbers who
visiting the area to climb, actually kept his word,
and then got an alpine society to help fund schools
in the area...
I guess you have to experience it,
my experience, or some parts of it,
are on the title link above...
Book with a kid on the front, late 50's, early 60's red crosshatched
pattern, with eyes and mouth closed tightly shut...
As if one were jumping into a pool and didn't want water to get in...
Ironically enough some of the sess pool type experiences
he grows up with, both inside and outside the family are included,
but otherwise a rather positive / uplifting book.by the brother of
Augusten Burroughts, of Running with Scissors
and YouBetterNotCryBySPOILEDAugustenBurroughs fame...
Another year at the biker's Mecca...
Good stuff, wish I had a DVD or more links to share...
Interesting bike touring book, with plenty of gadgets, and electronics,
though from the later part of the 1980's...
Biking in the area near North East and decide to hit the concert
coming up that evening...
Compare with last year's
http://novapeers.pbworks.com/FortDupontSummerConcertSeries2010
In record time, only a week, went from joining
a field test, spending so many hours with the "product",
trying it, putting stuff up, adding my address book,
or parts of it, to being excluded,
so virtually don't exist to at least 60 people who
recognized me, when most would not,
face to face, in person...
After years attending Bike Advocacy meetings in Alexandria, VA
a comment dismissing the possibility of outreach to the
African American community, makes me walk out of a meeting...
Google+ is Google's answer to FaceBook and maybe Twitter too.
They had tried Wave, and it kind of failed, near as I can tell.
Wheel building is putting together the parts
of a wheel and a whole lot more, but it seems to be
a rite of passage for a bike mechanic, so I'll
get into it a little...
Collection of links to this site for Autreat.com and general Autism
stuff like movie DVDs, etc sent to a confidential Autreat.com
list (AutreatInfo or similar yahoo group, look it up if you qualify to join),
but since I wrote it, I can share it publicly, collecting my
Autism related stuff for those interested, and probably those not
interested...
Critical Mass is a worldwide bike ride (I call it a "Bike Pride Parade" tm)
with all sorts of people, this one is DC meets the First Friday of every month
at Dupont Circle (the statue in the Circle) and rides randomly around DC
for about 2 hours.
Below (see video links off of the title page link above) is some video
and a few stills from one such ride...
20110702 10.53 am Jerry
An annual event along Georgia Avenue in North West Washington,
from Petworth to Howard University, full of music and further
down, food, booths, etc. Lots of people, parade style,
with huge audio systems pulled by tractor trailers
generators and followed by people dancing,
usually in costume/ traditional dress, and some
pulling huge trains of decorations...
Rambling down memory lane,
some good, some bad, well, truthfully mostly bad,
as I tend to write to figure out stuff, and don't have much
positive to figure out, so end up writing the bad stuff,
this time on Father's Day topic, as if I stay on topic...
20110619 8.03 am Jerry
By now most people I already know, have heard
I got a motorcycle, but not the gory details...
Missed some stuff in the BambisOutToGetMeAndSnakesInTheStore2011
so giving a clearer page name and more academic/ less biased/
ranting approach... Oh, and a book list from the Con's SilentAuction...
Drivng SkyLine Drive, Deer (aka Bambi's) hanging out like
gang members on street corners waiting to pick off
(or should I say Tick off?) drivers
and then the other creatures in Dollar General in Radford, VA
at VOCALCon2011 ...
Oh, and ranting about Vomitting off the cafeteria foods,
parking problems, dorm noise and lots of other stuffs...
Among the technical groups I'm involved with, or have experienced,
it's really a different animal, conceived on different assumptions,
about people and groups, and how they interact, AFAICT.
It barks like a provider,
It looks like a hospital,
It stinks like a back door closed room deal,
and it may be just plain illegal?
It's a partnership, one sided, in favor of the other side...
Yet again...
Along with Toys come taxes, well Uncle Sam wants his part,
and it's how the services you may depend upon are paid for,
they say one thing is certain, Death and Taxes...
Paula Poundstone, a classic depressive,
along with Steve Wright and some others,
George Carlin, Robin Williams (had that up part,
so many are jealous about, but real mania,
as in can not sit, pacing the hospital
and can't even stop to drink water,
breeds exhaustion, like a car racing engine
burns everything and eventually likely out...
Well, Paula seems to have said,
Death after taxes, a tired feeling really
or very similar (maybe can find on youtube?)
[ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33021.html ]
They say toys are for kids,
but they are also what people call the fun stuff,
and other meanings...
Technology is sometimes fun (when it works)
but it is expensive, and well, the digital divide and all...
Housing systems compared, from experience but a little anonymized...
Disability movie related to Autism Month
premiered in Georgetown AMC over the weekend,
and well, you can't see it for a while, it will be on some
cable channel I don't have, and eventually on DVD,
but here is some info about my impressions of it,
for the general public (and others)...
20110423 Addendum: April 23, 2011 Two places (both AMC) showing TODAY
Gaithersburg, MD & Columbia MD. See WretchesAndJabberers.org
for details on that and one in Fairfax, VA on MAY 12, 2011.
I still want the DVD, as watching in theatres, and you can't pause
"STOP THE WORLD" ;-/
Started trying to be funny on April 1,
as been thinking about transportation for a while,
while days of rain, and stuck inside, hungry,
angry, lonely and tired...
And cold too...
FIRST ( something like Foundations of Innovation Robotics Science & Tech)
think High School geeks doing NASCAR Pit Crews
with Robots...
At the DC Convention Center, Friday 3/25/2011
and Saturday 3/26/2011, Thursday was practice,
and I hear it went late...
This has been a long time coming...
20110323 1.53 - 4.09 am Jerry
Tables turn, not always for the best...
Seasons change, not always for the better
(tornado, flooding, earthquakes, etc)
and well some things never seem to change,
"providers" being one of them...
Taxpayers and politicians another?
20110313 ?? am Jerry
Moving experiences...
Adventures in moving <sarcasm>...
Long rant, some about moving companies, rental place,
and going off into tangents of history and scooters,
gas, running out of it, and well that's the metaphor
for now, out of gas, and asked for help...
20110227 10.32 am Jerry
Update on BikeCulture2011 comments about 3 Foot Passing Bicyclists
FAILED
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/02/wider-bicycle-passing-distance-fails-close-va-house-vote
I guess we aren't human, nor worth living...
Well Done VA. Sit in your SUVs and kill more people
by being too lazy to turn the wheel a little more
and avoid us.
And you wonder why we pull up at stop lights,
getting in front of the exhaust,
we're trying to breath without your exhaust pipes in our faces...
And then get out of the intersection,
as moving slowly we swerve more
and widen the gap between vehicles...
Easier passing for both. Wonder who we lose this season?
20110216 13.10 pm Jerry
2011021810.04 am Jerry
added rants and body of the article/ verbage, plus links to relevant bill numbers reports and analysis
and corrected month on previous dated log
Take a moment to acknowledge that this is a holiday weekend,
of sorts, Valentine's Day weekend, while technically
Valentine's Day is Monday February 14, 2011,
but it's the weekend closest, so why not?
20110212 8.32 am Jerry
Mental Health movie coming locally to George Washington Hospital
Auditorium (in the basement) THIS SATURDAY EVENING at 7.30 pm.
Movie then long discussion afterwards, is announced somewhere
else... And some advocacy training event too.
Check with DBSANCA.org for more information.
20110208 8.50 am Jerry
Some people you may not have met,
on bikes and off, who might benefit from not
being hit by a careless driver, and the 3 foot
passing law, up in Virginia, might help that...
Bikers (like MH people) come in all sizes, shapes, ages,
education, cultures, etc...
What? You're late?
Do it over...
Point In Time survey of unsheltered homeless in Washington, DC
Seemed to be a press event this year :-(
20110130 in middle of the night
20110131 cleanup and additions by Jerry
Yelled at by a bus driver, probably previously
nice, about getting permission to take a photo
of a bus, when it was on a public street,
blocking traffic and my photo ops,
Point In Time survey/ census delayed
returning home after a fall and likely injury
on another busy intersection.
20110127 10.33 am Jerry
Pulling out some rally comments from other pages
and adding video links now that some of it is [ finally ] uploaded...
Until there is much here, see below...
Was trying to get the mood up higher,
but the undercurrents getting me?
20110125 11.00 am Jerry
You may not know him, but Cliff Carle
was a photographer and Vendor of Street Sense.
http://streetsense.org/2009/06/cliff-carle/
for his old vendor page. The pdf archive of the
paper special centerfold doesn't seem to be online,
and new issue just came out...
20110120 5.16 am Jerry
Starting as a place holder for the New Year,
but might drone on about some stuff,
eventually. Come to think of it OWN
(Oprah Winfrey Network) started up.
And she doesn't have much to fill
24x7 yet, or just too tired to be interesting?
2010
Visit to DisneyLand on the Beltway,
my first, and deal with the beauty of the place,
and the attempts at conversion, a little hard sell
for my tastes, I'd think you would be hard pressed
to even find a priest or nun or rabbi in most
churches, synagogues, and convents,
but missionaries were everywhere I turned,
trying to talk to me, and I'm basically asocial,
so a little annoying, but they let me in their
house of worship/ visitor's center,
so can't be all that bad?
20110102 9.57 am Jerry written up late
Stream of consciousness probably impossible to follow,
but that is the life, my life anyway, this time about Temple
Grandin HBO movie DVD...
20101231 12.12 pm Jerry
Little book of 206 pages, small pages, a page turner
really, and the flashing santa on the cover, might
need a plain brown wrapper, reading it on the subway,
might get you noticed, not by the drunken carrolers
but by the pervs. It's trashy, it's pop culture, but
seeing black and white movies, Street Car Named Desire,
by Tennessee someone, think it was set in SF,
but anyway, a diversion from the real full
catastrophe called the holidays...
Warning to those that consider this Non Profit,
or proported to be 501c3 as a social services
agency, in it's treatment of individuals of the
disability community, and likely minority communities.
Suggesting government and private partnerships
consider wiring internet into public housing
like little college campuses and considering
it as a utility, since most applications and communications
with Human Services, Social Services, etc require
online skills and access. Head Start school
age learning, and making ends meet for people,
disabled, poor, disenfranchised, might be a helping
hand, similar to OneLaptopPerChild (laptop.org)
we help fund overseas.
Rants about transportation, discrimination,
sn*w, and many other things,
as an automated call without saying who
it is, or who they are calling for,
expects a call back, nay demands a call back,
on a "civil matter", or similar, but the first call I've gotten,
first I've heard of it, and said I've not returned calls.
Maybe not everyone doesn't understand,
phones aren't good communication devices
for everyone, disabled, and different,
in many ways...
Some quick comments about a DVD movie called
A Boy Inside, including some spoiling things,
so read the beginning to the SPOILS part
if you haven't seen it and don't want to be
"spoiled"...
Er, a quick fact check. TheBoyInside
IcarusFilms.com
Fanlight.com
47 minutes. Copyright 2006
From the Fanlight Collection.
Following a little Eric Berne, MD's book, Games People Play,
Housing Choice Voucher, landlords/ Public Housing Authorities
and other parts of the system seem to play some games
consumers need to be aware of...
Humorist takes it to the end, writing late in his
career, even in Hospice, describing visitors
when he would not die on schedule, outliving
other residents, becoming the poster boy
for hospice, regressing back to military service,
Paris, meeting his wife, outliving her,
and losing his leg, then planning his funeral,
five speakers including Tom Brokaw,
fellow depressive/ manic depressive now called
bipolar Mike Wallace, and Ben Bradlee,
George Stevens, Jr.,
Ken Starr,
his Doctor Michael A. Newman,
his son, Joel, and lesbian daughter
Jennifer.and finally Carly Simon, a singer
on Martha's Vineyard, with the theme song
Too Soon to Say Goodbye (pages 180-181).
See the index to see if you're in it...
Not likely, but check anyway, as Art's gone,
with style and grace, and is getting the last laugh...
20101105 16.34 pm Jerry
Old guy enters
DeadCityHalloween.BlogSpot.com
and tries to just finish, but really, like Marines,
running the Marathon this early am, or not,
in a far far land, just make it out alive,
and with honor...
20101031 6.58 am by Anonymous Guest
MindsOnTheEdge.org from SLAMHSA, PBS, Fred Friendly Seminars,
basically hypothetical cases of bad mental health consumers/ survivors/
ExPatients done wrong. Old hospital and med based, no alternatives,
nothing consumer run but the Token Peer Specialist,
Family and Psychiatrist that didn't speak English well,
so really Anti Stigma Done Wrong.
A rambling musing of the later years, housing,
purpose and contributions, media and portrayals,
betrayals and denials of things old, myself included...
20100923 7.00 am Jerry (who else?)
Careless driver hits me...
I've read a fair amount on depression and certainly lived a lot,
been to a lot of clinical trainings, but actually learned something
from this one, so sharing it with others, as fall is a depression time
for lots of people...
Uninformed commentary on the Discovery
Hostage situation, from a disabled person...
20100901 18.13 pm Jerry
Off after eventful days and little sleep
to the last concert of the summer Series
at Fort Dupont, in South East DC,
and all my baggage, white and otherwise
getting in my way of having some fun
and actually seeing the headline event...
20100822 12.54 pm Jerry
Instigate Farmers Market Clinic
with MRBikeCoop co-founder and organizer
and then to the BikeHouse Saturday
coop time...
20100822 12.56 pm Jerry
Some ranting about the next step in the
Voucher application process...
20100822 10.53 am Jerry
Not at all inspiring, positive, or even useful,
but that is the depressed/ disabled life at times...
20100820 06.09 am Jerry
From an initial visit to PhoenixBikes ,
learning a little about what it is and
how it operates, and comparing with
some of the other ones like VeloCityBikeCoop
TheBikeHouse and eventually MRCoop
new DC TheBikeSpace and maybe
creating one of my own sometime
in the future...
20100810 9.43 am Jerry
SPOILING
Needs a better catcher headline
but It's a Link now, so guess I'm (and your) stuck with it
describing a Movie in the Park in Mount Pleasant, NW DC
roughly between Adams Morgan and Georgia Avenue Petworth,
where TheBikeHouse had a clinic/ stand helping neighbors,
and others building and maintaining bike culture,
plus the DC Bike Ambassadors program running
a table, the event was sponsored by Cricket Wireless,
and the Mt Pleasant Neighborhood Association,
better writing and descriptions with background
http://www.mtpleasantdc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=23166&sid=283e5b969ea05f6fb6145e5b7bd38733
It's one of a series of movies in the park.
next one is Latino in Spanish with subtitles,
and was to benefit a Latino substance abuse
program, the name I'm going to have to learn,
but I'm poor, so writing this as a donation,
maybe some publicity from over the river will help...
20100808 10.28 am Jerry
Adding SPOILING and see notice
http://novapeers.pbworks.com/TheGreatDivideMovieInMtPleasantLamontPark#RideTheDivideAtArlingtonCinemaAndDraftHouse
that it's playing locally
20100816 12.10 pm Jerry
Seasons change, much like Winter/ holiday
angst, but more restrictive, no snow days
for high heat, no school or good grades
to reward, only pain, and too much of it...
20100806 10.35 am Jerry
Folllow up on
ExtraordinaryMeasuresScienceInCinemaAndAFIAccommodating
http://novapeers.pbworks.com/StaringBeauracracyInTheFace2010#Two
email to NIH OSE and AFI's response
20100805 8.20 am Jerry
StaringBeauracracyInTheFace2010 was preparation for
this, the Main Event...
20100802 11.36 am Jerry
Two stops of many for a government
that CSPAN is arguing over paying
for HUD and other entitlements,
maybe a Poll Tax performed by
Rent A Cops is the way to reduce
spending? Or fire the guy for humiliating
customers, probably for the enjoyment
of government clerks...
20100730 7.45 am Jerry
aka Ticket # R745, iirc
A first time visit to DocsInProgress
Film Festival showing class project
short clips this time about Silver Spring
community, businesses, perhaps
making it easier to hire, or whatever...
20100724 7.33 am Jerry
SPOILING
Experience going to AFI Silver Spring again for
NIH's Science in Cinema series.
Movie partial description, totally biased and uninformed commentary and
approached by a host organization person afterwards..
20100722 12.54 pm Jerry
Whining about something that might be
good, and asked for years ago,
finally happening (or like a pregnancy,
you don't talk about it until it actually
does...)
20100722 9.46 am Jerry
Title from the graffiti in the area
north of Howard University and
up through Petworth Georgia Avenue
area, with some commentary on actual
experiences and witnessing...
20100718 12.00 noon Jerry
Given that I've been to so many different Cons
(tech term for conferences) of many different types,
here is an attempt to summarize
what I'd hope would happen.
20100716 10.58 am Jerry
PBWorks is not good at photos,
and I'm too tired/ lazy to
create PDFs of my writings,
so a link to a public google Picasa album,
I created for something else
(WWFFWG).
20100715 10.13 am Jerry
I learn experientially, so after attending
Autreat and experiencing sickness on the
Vegan food meal plan, stressed out on
adjusting to the culture, maybe I'd change
some things, for it to grow, operate
more smoothly, etc...
20100713 7.50 am Jerry
Announcing a Bike Coop in Alexandria
City, just south of the Torpedo Factory
on South Union Street (#204?)
near where the old former Deli on the Strand
captured bikers for a mini bread loaf
sandwich on the way to Mount Vernon
and back to DC along Mt Vernon Trail...
20100712 7.58 am Jerry
Since I rant, I also say good things,
not often, but here are some...
What was the the autie culture like
and how am I adjusting?
20100708 11.42 am Jerry
4-5 Days of the Autistic and Aspergers community,
For and By Austitics, one short cram writing
before the equivalent of finals today...
20100702 7.10 am Jerry
Headlining Doug's contribution of group home information...
I've also got many ideas of combining Special Needs Trusts
/ Pooled trusts using the house/ property as a
the investment instead of more risky stocks/ bonds/ mutual funds,
etc. and People live in the investment, the trust owns
it, and it funds what we have been wanting for so long,
but for MH people instead/ or in addition to the other
disabilities like ID Group Homes, Substance Abuse
Oxford Houses, and what usually happens in
MH, provider controlled housing, but more on a separate
page or so...
Writings about Father's Day, Special Needs Trusts,
Pools and Self Funded, some local options and other
issues in disability and public benefits
and why the public possibly screws with
disabled after their parents die,
with lawyers and in other ways...
20100620 3.44 am Jerry
OK, so back to VSA (Very Special Artists) at AFI.com 's
Silver Theatre for the Nobody's Perfect
and then Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll
showings for International Disability film
or something or other festival...
20100612 8.31 am Jerry
Falls Church has a Blues Festival this weekend,
and kicked off at theStateTheatre.com with
Chuck Brown,
Bobby Parker,
Miss Nadine Rae & Band.
Comedy too.
Tina Turner showed up.
Michelle Obama showed up...
(Impersonated by Nicky Sunshine,
and the humor was sharp!)
TinnerHill.org
Some free stuff at the Cherry Hill Park Saturday.
Happens in various forms (some $$) all weekend.
Wished I'd known previous years...
20100611 7.33 am Jerry
So I've lived in low rent areas,
"Points Of Blight", I sometimes
call it, with gang activity, graffitti,
Slumlords, Thugs & Drugs on the corner(s),
but some relatively recent
stuff is getting beyond me...
20100610 11.09 am Jerry
BenX was one of many movies and shorts available
at the Very Special Arts event. I recommend it,
but caution as it's rather toxic like
UpInTheAirAndPreciousSPOILER2009
and most of what is up on this site...
20100609 10.13 am Jerry
OReilly technical publishers offer a Con
http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010
about doing a major revision of government,
with technology, but probably misses a few points.
20100528 06:09 am Jerry
A tribute to Darla, and her role
as the heart of Pathway Homes.
20100501 7.40 am Jerry
A quick review of this time of year, remembers
JerrySpaceIdea
FundingInput
VOCALCon2009
WaitingForGodot
AlexandriaLaughs
LetsReview
MeatForVegetarians
SomePublishedWorks
all the way to what the traditional press
like PBS's NOW reports
and Papers in Peril?
as newspapers are dying
choked out of information from government
sources, claiming reporting by citizen reporters
are more opinion and not backed up by fact,
research, fact checking, editorial review, etc
hard to disagree, but the dinasaurs have funding,
most of it part of the problem, afaict,
bought out and Wall Street, etc
choking the papers out of existence,
funds required for modernization with computer,
printing techniques, ill fated attempts at
online web presence, and now the Apple iPad,
Amazon Kindle, and other press controlled
devices, and hyped by those with financial
interest in them, and scoffed by people with
no actual experience with them, as Apple
controls even access to the closed Hardware
and Software, but some have been "jail broken"
like iPhone, iTouch, etc....
Androids (Google's cell smart phone like device)
and competitors abound, even Palm, one of the originators
has devices that can give wifi to up to 3 devices,
but all out of the range of your average C/S/X
because SafetLink/ Tracfone, and other subsidized
services widen the digital divide while trying to
fill it, Cricket and lower cost mobile broadband
that got the Digital TV High Definition TV
airwave spectrum when the analog SDTV
conversion happened, and what did the public get?
More on the full page (click title link as usual),
as this rant is rambling, and getting long,
and will hopefully get back to topic...
20100421 11,53 an Jerry
Fairfax County CSB offers a small grant announcement
for Consumer Operated Programs and forming them,
which may be related or continuing the RRWG type
grant process, or a modification thereof,
so sharing with a larger audience the public
website address
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/csb/announcements/grant.htm
NB: "It's not my department" or somesuch,
so get questions and answers to and from
those listed in the announcement...
but you can't say I didn't tell you... 8-/
20100409 11.22 am Jerry
Given the MetroAccess and Metro issues,
and recurring theme of the seasonal insanity
during the spring (meteorological spring was March 1)
can we have some planned insanity instead
of likely death by cop/security guards?
20100305 7.44 am Jerry
After a prolonged fight with heart disease,
and lupus then heart failure,
my father passed away last night.
20100228 7.58 am Jerry
As part of the Continuum of Care HUD requirement
for continued funding, Community Partnership
in DC hosted a training and coordination efforts
for the annual homeless Point In Time Survey,
for DC. Click on the title link above to see
some impressions from participating/ volunteering
for that effort, which may lead to incorrect
assumptions about the homeless population,
in DC, regionally, and nationally, IMO.
20100130 12.31 pm Jerry
In an autocratic fashion that could teach the Amish
how to better shun people, the NVRPPP set focus
on the children, for the ear [and pocketbook]
of the new governor. While the dead pile up
and jokes of making new closets [presumably
for the added skeletons], while the bodies
of our fallen are probably still warm,
but not yet buried, I wouldn't let the
Administrations, new nor old near kids
after what they've done with adults,
myself included...
20100123 8.30 am Jerry
Author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives
to the Mental Health System published back in
1977 and still relevant today, passed away
at age 65 on Saturday. She was keynote
at the first state VOCAL Conference,
and consultant to the consumer movement
as well as with the National Empowerment Center,
and many other roles.
20100120 01.16 Jerry
A line from Judy Gold's Mommy Queerest
at the TheatreJ.org in DCJCC to transition
between holiday family time and the real world...
20100106 11.51 am Jerry
2009
So the Senate does overtime,
tries to make history,
but how does that effect us little people?
We don't understand it, AFAIK and
I predict it won't be what we thought it was or
would be, but something done to us...
Time will tell.
and a feral cat still walks by my window
in a cold Xmas day.
Where is it's milk, family and shelter???
20091225 12.40 pm Jerry
Various topics including Homeless and other losses,
floating an idea about using drop in centers as
safe havens for the disabled and homeless,
and more personal stuff...
20091220 18.47 pm Jerry
Might as well be nice one day a year ;-/
20091126 04.27 am Jerry
You can probably see where this is going,
but by all means, click the link above to see
WTF he's talking about now...
20091111 6.45 am Jerry
I should really be getting some sleep, but since we were on the topic
of books (TheFireBook.org) and did a BookSprint
on OLPC XOs across the world in early September,
and it's a holiday weekend, and all you non busy
people who happen to be reading my blogging/
reporting anyway, thought I'd share
(possibly thanks to VOCAL for possibly dealing
with a ConstantContact Alternative)...
20091010 5.34 am (yea, earlly, really early) Jerry
Click the link above to see the issues...
20091008 Jerry
Having only spent a few hours in the heat recently, and basically
being housebound because of it, I'm remembering and publicizing
that our homeless [and others] are probably in need of help,
as cooling stations at Drop In Centers, and kindness,
instead of the nastiness, so maybe that is the southern
charm, a politness that developed over the centuries,
on how to be kind to people, because it's hot as hell
out there, and that's before global warming...
20090810 7.52 am Jerry
Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of July 26, 1990,
and now 19 years later how far have we come? Don't know how
it was, but highlighting the President Obama's statement,
and personally looking at some of what hasn't trickled down?
20090727 10.13 am Jerry
Lots of meanings here, organizational, NoVAPeers.PBWorks, personal, etc...
2009090719 12:30 pm Jerry
In response to a question of where's the meeting,
Jerry presents his thoughts on recent events,
presenting more ideas which others may not have
heard, because email doesn't get people we don't
already know...
20090713 10.35 am Jerry
Saturday June 25, 27, 2009 in the afternoon, OnOurOwnBaltimore had
an open house for the Dundalk Center and annual meeting. Seems
like maybe what RRWG could become, as OOOMD has been around
since, well, they started it... 27 28 years or so ago... Check the announcement
that I'll paste in the title link page above, and get into [my experience with] it more...
20090703 10.24 am Jerry
20090719 12.28 pm Jerry Correcting [some] inaccuracies
Chronologically, the Institute had another Trauma Conference,
a full day event, and maybe the last one, but I didn't make it,
(TVTherapy with childhood stars on cable, a little while before hearing
Michael Jackson died) so difficult to report on it, maybe I should
just phone it in???
But told others about it, and granted some writers access to
contribute here in the queue, so maybe they can write/ post/
report/ contribute/ give back on it here???
Hint: Use the last pull down Template, add/cut and paste
this text intro from here on FrontPage, and put what you want
[within reason in the body, allow for feedback in discussion,
and comments, etc..] and don't get too upset if someone like
me edits you, as seasoned writers, and frustrated writers,
editors are people too, though maybe the enemy of writers,
it's in the union contract...)
20090703 8.36 am Jerry
20090720 1.37 pm Jerry Union contract refers to draft
WritersRightsAndResponsibilities, which was basically a
list of demands for continuing at StreetSense, after a year
of WritersGroups, facilitating meetings, helping homeless
writers getting started and published, learning some editing
and layout by starting the WillWriteForFoodWritersGroup
page, google group (private), etc...
Overview of an idea for the funding input.
20090619 10.20 am Jerry
Events today in Arlington. Check the title link above for specifics...
20090618 9.05 am Jerry
Addendum: Attended the two events, the first morning for people
with lived experience, and then the two Panels in the afternoon
including VOCAL staff, VOCAL veterans, and DMHMRSAS's
Dr. Reinhard.
More writing descrbing the experience likely
after the funding input deadlines...
20090619 10.18 am Jerry
An official like RRWG announcement, (now late) about consumer input to provider
controlled money that was RRWG's...
20090616 11.45 am Jerry
Will have to click on the title link above or wait for the meaning...
20090615 11.40 am Jerry
The state consumer organization VOCAL (Virginia Organization of Consumers
Asserting Leadership) is meeting again at James Madison University this week
June 2-4, 2009. Roots and Wings is the theme of this years conference,
and will see how it goes and hopefully report about it up here again this year...
20090601 8.41 am Jerry
Addendum: Click title link for 4k words of description of one person's experience
there...One of the highlights of the VOCALCon2009 , besides the open mic
entertaining gong show like performances of our aspiring American Idols was
the Peer Specialists organizing, found online at http://vpsc.collectivex.com/
Virginia Peer Support Coalition, held an organizing meeting
(one of 3-4? all others I've missed so far). Website requires
registration, and mostly for Certified, but will see how the great unwashed rest of us
unpaid people fit in... Ironically, this pbwiki/ pbworks.com site started out of the Peer
Specialist focus group done years ago with Pat, and I took photos of the group notes,
and had no place to put them, plus the other websites, NVMHCA, VaOrgCAssertingLeadership
with yahoo groups and others CWC, OOOFxCo, etc not able to afford/ create peer / consumer/s/x
driven information sharing, and previously got it in the VOCAL Network grant and later RRWG grant,
but still I'm not funded to make it what it should be, much more work than one person,
unpaid is going to get done, like here... But rested some after VOCALCon2009 and being more
positive (at least for little old depressive me, on father's day? Founding Father's day?
or deadbeat dad day? not sure which... [June 21st or so NOT TODAY)
Still early morning waking, pre/post Con, TOTAL DIGRESSION FOLLOWING:
as toilet running and autoflushing every few minutes at subsidized apartment, how I know it's
summer, as does it each year, and up in middle of night to use bathroom, probably
flush badly pulling the plunger sideways, but I digress, a little from blogging shit...)
20090616 7.06 am Support -> Specialist
20090607 7.56 am (and updates after) Jerry
Stand Up for Mental Health appeared at the newly renovated TC Williams High School
('Remember the Titans' movie subject) and across the King Street from David O'Brien's
funeral home reception and a Radio$hack store...
To a mostly filled auditorium, with tables of Mental Health Month intormation outside
in the entranceway/ foyer, the Alexandria CSBExec, David Granirer and some people
trained by him presented a form of stand up comedy like his book
"The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead to Happiness and Success"
(ISBN 189462275-8 $15 warwickgp.com sold on site afterwards taking the last of my cash,
as well as Videos available, which I could not afford, even after $3 million out, so poor personally...)
Remembering David O'Brien like to open stuff up with a joke, it was perhaps fitting,
though a little painful to have humor at a site so close to the funeral home, in a site
with so much memories of civil rights, way back in the 60's? and still continuing, it seems
to this day, conflicts, but with Obama, maybe reparations are on the way? First Stimulus
Funding, next catch up on the debts???
Anyway, some politics and personal pain / grieving aside, the counselor Granirer
had the audience laughing and probably crying too, Click on the title link to hear more...
20090601 10.30 am Jerry
Arlington Recovery and Empowerment Center opened it's doors in early May,
and having missed the opening celebration, Jerry stopped by one early afternoon
in mid to late May and talked with some people there, got some pictures
(given to the organizers, officers and staff, and perhaps best to be replaced with better
pictures, as while I've been published, I'm not a pro and they didn't turn out
as well as hoped...)
They have a brochure for the center, a small library of recovery publications,
and some initial activities including WRAP, iirc. Your participation is requested
in welcoming Arlington to the regional and state drop in center community...
It is Jerry's opinion that visiting the center and cross fertilization
(the right word? pollenation?) will help the center grow into what we all want,
what it will and we can become...
Welcome AREC and congratuations, starting a center is a long and difficult
task (imagine trying to get a group of c/s/x, much less anyone else,
to agree upon anything, much less mission, policy and procedures, incorporation,
hiring, decor, etc), and kudos on opening your doors...
Clicking on above title link will give contact info like address, etc.
but I can't seem to find the hours quickly while catching up before going
to VOCALCon2009...
20090601 8.23 am Jerry
For those that haven't bothered to read the long winded, stream of
consciousness, lots of whining and other stuff on the early development
of this site, a quick review in the title link above...
20090601 8 am Jerry
During the NVRPP meeting or the RMG meetnig before, both open public
meetings, a comment was made that CSB Execs wanted
'meat' in the Peer Specialist training being developed and initiated
by providers for the region. It occurred to me at the time,
and later that what providers consider meat, and
the general vegetarian nature of many consumers/ survivors/
ex-patients may be a mismatch. This site is sometimes like a psychiatric
yelp, comments on some actions made with public funds,
and just thought you should know...
What appers to be missing, the special sauce, as it were,
is the consumer directed principle part of the original proposal
as up on this site and approved by the state,
with outside expert and almost token consumer representation
(one paid former RRWG staff among 5 CSB Execs and 2 Facilities
NVMHI aka the Institute and NVTC aka the training center
in the RMG/RPO), it's a wonder how your average
John Q. Consumer, much less the people working/
volunteering/ suffering on the RRWG could get
an adequate hearing on matters that effect them.
And to hear that CSBExecs voted on taking the money
to the local jurisditions when most of the RRWG
doesn't seem to even be consulted
upon their work products seems criminal to me,
as in 'misappropriation of funds'...
Much more could be said about the control freaks
activities directed at c/s/x, but it's fallen upon deaf
ears so far, so why bother...
20090601 8.36 am Jerry
Here are some of my published writings in StreetSense, some
MH related, typed in before I realized that some were now
up on StreetSense.org archives. Interesting to see how the
writing has and hasn't changed, plus look at accomplishments
of writing some poetry that was published, learning some
layout, but the interpersonal stuff of suspension for
a writing offense still not a good feeling...
20090513 3.46 pm (took most of the day typing in from papers) Jerry
Responding to a letter from a member/ officer criticizing
my writing about RRWG, and more personal attacks.
20090512 9.22 am Jerry
When the money was no longer flowing to PathwayHomes,
they pulled the Recovery.html web page and from the main menu
[ used in older entries/ links below] describing
RRWG's work, including developing funding application forms,
accounting forms, and other descriptions on that page
and associated stuff. Interesting how the mission
of Recovery is a passing fad for an organization
that still has it stated in it's mission. Guess you have to
get paid to help? So many C/S/X volunteers don't
get anything for years of work and providers
[also as RRWG officers] cut the $50 / meeting stipend
amounts in half overriding the consumer directed
Stipend Committee's recommendations ,
but a 501c3 with mostly paid providers and executives
that got our RRWG administrative and fiscal fees and
they can't keep stuff up on their website?
What are hosting fees? Hundreds per year?
And they got tens of thousands in fees, but
can't continue web hosting to archive our stuff??
20090503 9.49 am Jerry
10.35 am clarifying?
Click above for brief mentions of The Soloist movie,
PBS's The Released and "a cry for help" shows
plus a start on Johns Hopkins Mood Symposium
with nursing staff and security guard as an
[un]welcoming committee...
More possibly to follow, if 'I get a round to it'...
20090430 4.59 Jerry
20090503 10.31 Jerry adding the UN for clariry,
as mentioned elsewhere
Our hosting, PBWiki, short for Peanut Butter Wiki (as in "as easy to create
as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" has renamed itself to PBWorks...
See their blog for more info... Reasoning includes that they are targetting
the legal market and much more than your average wiki hosting....
20090430 4.46 pm Jerry
20090503 10.36 am Jerry most links would just work, but will be starting
to use .pbworks.com instead, just in case. Old stuff might be a problem,
they tried to make it a seamless transition, but it's not like an open source
community process, the hosting company just did it, nothing but a free t shirt
offer for new name suggestions.... Considered suggesting Pretty Bad Wiki?
Weekly's toy? But as a free hosting service, that added gigs to file space
and was thought to be a good choice to start, mostly because I wanted
something easy to use for others, but when the programming API
would not support dl all the editing times to form a bill,
I probably lost thousands $$ in possible billing....
Not the only thing, but it didn't help...
It cost me a new hybrid car dude!...
I'll take that $1.5 mil Tesla prototype. now please...
On the anniversary of the Columbine school shootings
and the week of the VA Tech shootings, it is perhaps
a good reminder that we are on the front lines
of mental health, as consumers/survivors/ ex-patients
and consumer run drop in organizations, when ER and other
locations, funded and not are unavailable...
20090420 10.18 pm Jerry
Uncharacteristically putting an Executive Committee communication out
to the community.
20090420 9.56 pm Jerry
20090503 10.26 am Jerry I'm sharing my views, didn't quote anyone else,
just like paid staff are talking about us at paid conferences with our money,
just because you don't want to hear it, doesn't mean it's illegal nor
unethical...
Here are some drafts and notes from January and February 2008 that shows
my feelings of wasting my time and issues with Street Sense plus lots of work
that never made it into publication, though similar stuff did from interns and others....
I wrote Housing under Bridges as a start for my own publication, but then
ended up giving the ideas to Street Sense [when they didn't even support
my application to use allocated RRWG website funds], only to be 'suspended'
like others on the equivalent of trumped up charges.
20090401 10.44 am Jerry
20090403 10.28 am Jerry adding more RRWG link on not getting support
for an independent or interrelated publication from people who took
so much food money, didn't reimburse much of any of it, then were
even more nasty.
Wondering about starting locally instead?
Washington DC needs summer jobs for kids and plan for next year?
Do a proposal???
20090326 10.48 am Jerry
You might think this is about Christmas, but in reality the opposite...
20090326 8.34 am Jerry
A plot exercise/ writing prompt response that got me a "suspension"/ spring break from the paper...
20090326 8.04 am Jerry
You don't want to hear it, I didn't want it to happen, but here it is.
Probably won't make sense, but there it is...
20090308 9.47 am Jerry
A few liked this but only one didn't, so I'm sharing it...
20090215 9.10 am Jerry
You will need to click the link above to see the page describing the NVRPP/
RMG and other issues...
20090206 9.27 am Jerry
The Regional Community Support Center was a first staffed project of the early RRWG
proposal with the NVMHI under former director Lynn DeLacy.
It aims to provide Trauma Informed services (education mostly) in the region,
by having an annual conference, paid staff director and rumored to have an
advisory council...
Click on the above titled header to see a separate page brief report
on my traumatic experience there.
Jerry 20090124 7.07 am
As on my membership form, I am keeping constituents informed of the
RRWG activities... Click on the titles above go to the pages...
20090113 10.59 am Jerry W.
Email to wiki owner is responded to in the title link...
20090113 11.35 am Jerry
You will have to click on the above title and link to read something
rather uncharacteristically positive...
20090106 Jerry W.
2008
Jerry W., as a newly elected co-Chair presided in
the general meeting with other co-Chair's supplied
agenda, one psychiatrist, two lawyers, one reverand,
and more consumer / survivor/ ex-patient, provider
(CSB Exec) and nonprofit (CEO like) experience
than you might imagine..
Jerry created an introduction, reminiscent of NVMHCA's
icebreakers meetings, giving members an opportunity
to voice their
Name,
Role(s)/Affiliations,
What Changes they would like to see, and
One Positive thing over the last month/year...
Within 15 minutes, though it went over,
most people responded about changing the meetings,
but didn't get specific about what changes were requested,
so perhaps a comment form/ [online] suggestion box?
The 2 hour meeting ended on time, one of the few in
the last 2+ years, but did not get into the fiscal issues
as much, some heated and emotional statements,
given there isn't much information available
at this time (some expect the governor's budget to
determine things 'downstream', so to speak).
20081210 9.31 am by Jerry W.
20081213 3.18 pm governator spelling correction by guess whom...
Please click the titled link above access a napkin sketch budget
Jerry prepared for the Ombuds committees' failed proposal for part
of the state $750k consumer operated funds..
20081210 9.13 am by Jerry W.
At the November 10, 2008 general meeting of the RRWG,
after Jerry repeated the October 2008 protest
of a rushed election process with inadequate notice
of the ballot by the nominating committtee (Lisa, Michael, &?) ,
elected 3 Co-Chairs (Derick, Jerry, Lisa),
2 Co-Chairs (Diane, Michael),
2 Co-Secretaries (L. William aka Bill, Violet),
and 2 Co-Finance (Polly, Tom S.).
More analysis and commentary in the Headline
Elections2008 link page above.
20081210 8.53 am by Jerry W.
20081214 3.32 am correcting double negative without -> with by Jerry W.
20090503 10.22 am striking names of those to protect the innocent [and not so innocent]
A late PBWiki entry [out of posting time sequence as catching up after holidays]
noting that I've published an article critical of Obama written the day after the election results
in StreetSense [not yet online]. I'm an equal opportunity Hater,
as Bush and other political figures including latest 'DC DMH: It's Not Our Policy'
with 'Baron von DMH' have not done so well in my published works either...
What is really behind the title and not published is that the concept was developed over three yearly
Tavistock Power Diversity and Politics Conferences at Howard University
[one of the last I had to leave to arrive by time boundary,
missing the conclusions of a critical IT One meeting],
given that Tavistock are typically world class provider/student experiential training
intending to change the world, but if it doesn't get out of Harvard/Ivory Tower,
then how would that happen?
The Tavistock warned people of 'don't trying this at home', like
talking about what it means to have a black man replace a white man in a leadership role,
psychoanalytic interpretations like
'Does the White Female Director have enough milk to feed the entire group?'
[alluded to in DeadPoetsSociety] or very similar, and while bringing the lettered words,
C[razy] H[omeless] or even N[erd] world into Ivory Tower community
and hearing things from Psych ward students like
'they check in but don't check out' and other experiences of being a hated minority...
'Would we be apologetic if this conference were at G.W.U. instead of Howard?'
and other such things still memorable after a total duration of three years...
Not sure how to contain it, as people have strong feelings about experiences others have
and haven't had based on physical, cultural and sleep deprivation experiences,
but maybe the next article is Reverse Racism Anonymous?
Pre-Obama, Crackers Anonymous has been running for at least a year,
complete with Jewish Mother Jerry 'Where's the Editor's Knife Gone?' W.
feeding people, and trying to abstain from applying guilt...
Look for a meeting in your local publishing house soon aka 'This Old Church'...
Burning crosses, swasticas, skin heads, drugs, gangs, thugs, threats
and weapons as well as sheets, to be left at home/outside...
Actually nothing much has been said about any of it to moi,
so maybe people think just another racist cracker???
20081213 4.00 pm by Jerry W. aka 'Wheelchair Whittaker, Whitey [really Red] Man Walking'
and other such blatently tasteless inflamatory stuff...
BTW, 'Fools rush in to groups' was learned/coined there...
N.B. quotes are not identifiable [redacted?] or made by this participant and should
not reflect the whole Bion based conference, nor represent any fictional characters,
nor attributed to those In Real Life...
SafeLinkWireless.com is a free prepaid Tracfone (& Net10?) cell phone and 68 minutes of airtime per month for those receiving public assistance such as Medicaide, Food Stamps or Federal Public Assistance housing OR "Your total household income is at or below 135% of the poverty guidelines set by your State and/or the Federal Government." plus some other non duplicated LifeLine services, one per household, no PO Boxes and verification type fine print. An online (only?) registration process is required and a phone arrives delivered to a residence in less than 10 days. Cell minutes are automatically transferred to the turned on phone in the first three days of each month. You can purchase Tracfone (and eventually SafeLinkWireless) cards to add additional airtime over the free amount. International calls are considered at the same rate as local and some service of receiving internatioal calls is mentioned. Activiation of a year is included, after a year, you would need to reapply to continue eligibility. Estimated value of this service is $200.
It may do some of the basic Assistive Technology for those without cell phone or limited income. No web nor data services appear to be available on Tracfones, besides text messaging, so we are not talking Blackberries or the latest cool cell phones for poor people. Handsets are limited and not appearing to be PDA Smartphone compatible, though may be GSM. Given some scares about cell phone radiation, and general concern with driving with cell phones, though not sure how someone on limited income affords a vehicle, it may level the field a little and provide a way of calling 911 especially in low rent project like areas with gangs.
We will see if any issues including privacy, as most prepaid phone do not require you to identify yourself and can be done psuedo-anonymously with cash, whereas this requires name, address, and income/asset information, though the website was encrypted and signed by Equifax Secure (credit report company?), apparently it's government funded by the manditory fees off cell phone users, similar to land lines, though metered landlines or the diminishing payphones may be a better value for real world call times. Researching the service, reading the fine print and website privacy information may be revealing...
VOCAL sent out an email link about this service and Derick mentioned it in the last RRWG meeting during announcements time, especially in difficulties or exclusion in getting it listed in NetworkOfCare...
During the October SteeringCommittee meeting, while summarizing the RRWG experience with departing CSB Exec Thur, Jerry publicly recommended to standing legislator Barker introducing anti-bullying legislation for our schools, between providers, police and consumers/survivors/ex-patients, and the general community.
Click the title above to see the document. Sometimes Jerry just creates a page without partial summary
to track the number of page views, especially on contraversial or toxic topics...
The OneLaptopPerChild (laptop.org) little green machine that Jerry's been using in meetings (since using his personal holiday gift money last year) is available again this holiday season. Starting around Nov 18 or so, probably through Christmas 2008 or New Year, the same hardware but updated Linux system and application software is available through Amazon. That would mean it is theoretically available to RRWG and local consumers, as an Assistive Technology purchase. There are some limitations with the machine, built in kid sized keyboard being a main one (though takes an external USB keyboard), but it would be really kewl to mesh network while wordsmithing before, during, after and outside RRWG meetings. No video output for a projector, but might be able to work around that... See the Laptop.org website for more info. Cost for those providers (and other funded/paid people) looking to spoil their children/ grandchildren/ etc with a MIT designed machine: $400 plus shipping for two, while one goes to a kid in a Least Developed Country, as part of the GiveOneGetOne donation program. And, we are all kids sometimes with toys but this one Jerry uses as a low cost commuting wireless network appliance and hopefully for bike touring later with solar panels and dynohubs.
Ray has provided great service to the community over the years, as a co-treasurer of the RRWG, and more other roles than I can imagine even attempting (including a mentor to me), plus overseeing proposal money and process. He will be sorely missed. Rumor has it he's found paid employment elsewhere, and I wish him luck and hope he still stays sociable...
PBWiki, our current host, has updated their software, and I've quickly upgraded the site to the new system. Things may be a little different interface wise, but probably has the same functionality plus added features. NOTE: The classic editing has been lost, so you must do WYSIWYG graphical editing.
Jerry will be playing around with new features, but still keeping the system locked, as may require paying hosting fees to really share and get multilevel (admin, editor, writer, viewer) security plus file space and full backups, last I knew. Otherwise, granting full access has not worked well in this group in the past.
Like the paid staff taking credit for funding things when he had nothing to do with getting the money in the first place, nor gotten the group any more, as the recent Steering/Partnership meeting showed, reporting on the AT project, while being paid to be there, but not thanking Doug for his long service in making it a viable project, taking over for Beverly, The First AT and the person who put it in the original proposal.
After a year volunteering with StreetSense, I've also been editing and got some low level press credentials, as having been published many times. Some of the Mental Health related stuff is:
St_Elizabeths_Summer_Concert_Series-1.txt,
Gotta_go_now_what_.txt (more homelessness, but hard to say homelessness is good for anyone's MH),
self_employment.txt ).
For photography, most recently published in October 2008 with seven photos (one color front page on Gleaning, one color back page on a Street Sense silent auction and five black and whites in the associated articles).
In the same October 2008 issue, a Theatre Review of Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking", see 
There's.Something.about.Carrie.Fisher.in.Wishful.Drinking.txt for a slightly butchered and incomplete
version, so go support your local vendor for a good copy ;-}
[with a stock Arena Restaged photo there]
describing substance abuse and Bipolar themes in a Hollywood context.
My Kennedy Center Open House piece is published, but currently in purgatory due to some of my political statements drawing parallels with our Harvard president and candidate plus Lincoln... Far from the most offensive stuff I've got in print or in process... Damn liberal PIA media...
In addition, I've been learning some InDesign (cough, Winblows, cough, blue screen of death, cough, Flakey Drive, f*, deadline, gag, choke) layout and some editing by creating and adopting plus naming the Writer's Group page "Will Write for Food" after volunteering for a year of weekly groups, donating food and time when I can, and many times when I cannot to get things out and published.
[N.B./Disclaimer: This NoVAPeers.PBWiki.com site is not intended to be a good writing sample, [except maybe for run on sentences? ;-/..., though some attempts at vengeful poetry like DeadPoetsSociety have been instructive...]
Internally, official records of an organization like RRWG are important, so if paid staff is changing or inserting things in minutes, then maybe it's to their benefit, (trying to justify what they want with consumer input, not to mention discrediting opposition sending off copies to people who don't actually bother attending the meetings, cough providers/ administrators/ legistlators, cough), instead of in the public trust, with public money???
See also the page example of what got edited and excluded from the official record of a meeting that could go to court?
Update 20081025: Since the remaining two Provider and Family oscifers/incumbents didn't seem to like [someone on] the ballot, they wait and create other candidates, instead of filling consumer and nonprofit vacancies when they occurred (Wendy as non-profit co-chair, Pam as Consumer co-chair, Sherry as co-Treasurer, Doug as Consumer co-secretary, Sharon as Provider co-secretary, all Fairfax Co?), now over six months ago, while money is diverted to provider control... Consumer directed indeed...
And two people on the nominating committee are candidates, which seems like the appearance of a conflict IMO, but I'm not a lawyer, just someone who has been active from the beginning of the project, proposing the website (NOT $50k/year of state money to be diverted to Network of Care, a shelved provider project with little to no consumer input, 'but you can create a website with it', but doesn't actually create the consumer run program sites in addition to being an offensive insult to the consumer directed process???) into the state funded proposal and probably attended more open general meetings than anyone else, as I don't get paid nor 'vacations', which is one of the main objection of David O'Brien, creating positions that one never gets hired to do, basically consumer slavery...
Partial Summary: Forget LoseVote machines, Florida recounts and process, now that the money may be outside our control, historically, then the consumers can have a say...
Think Obama/ Clinton/ Edwards and McCain/Pailin is interesting news, stay tuned, as 'our own road kill is on the menu', or try 'eating our own dog food'...
Partial Summary: The FrontPage has well over 1000 hits, not counting subpages and time before pbwiki.com added plugins. Hard to verify given the long noted statistics disappearances, but to the best of my knowledge, correct, at least for a 'vanity press' ;-}...
Partial Summary: Third annual VOCAL Network conference, this time in Harrisonburg, VA (JMU), starts with board elections, gets around to state hospital/Institute memorials, other 'shit' ;-}, DoubleTrouble, and more...
Partial Summary: Hospital/ Institute does it again, but what about consumers? Again, not participating to the fullest, but lectured at, and considered dogs instead of independent cats and humans. 'fer real.
Partial Summary: Executives in the Steering Committee ignore all collaboration and take matters and more consumer money into their own hands...
Partial Summary: Late notice on a two day Recovery Conference in Prince William turns out to be RRWG funded... Second Day is more local consumer, PWDIC, and more...
Partial Summary: You get to have feedback courtesy of a newer feature of pbwiki.com, Contact The Wiki Owner below, but with some limitations and safeguards...
Partial Summary: Anniversary of SH Cho shootings at Virginia Tech including some continuing local issues?
Partial Summary: April Fools, Housing under Bridges, in draft form. Edited and printed in StreetSense at www.streetsense.org/archives/2008/040208issue.pdf on top of page 5... This was to be front page material for an inaugural issue of NoVAPeers 2.0 in print, but never got much of what was needed...
Partial Summary: Noting the composition of the ExecutingCommittee is mostly CSB, paid staff, or related to board members and other conflicts...
Partial Summary: Threats of Slander / Libel explored in relation to MH Recovery in NoVA and this pbwiki...
Partial Summary: What's wrong with this system?
Partial Summary: How to abuse consumers/ survivors/ ex-patients even more... Pretend they have input then create schedule conflicts or compressed deadlines all over everything...
Partial Summary: Snow storm + crucial Panel/Jury selection meeting + late notice + extremely long commutes = this result...
Recovery Funding Announcement and other stuff
See the fiscal agent's website at http://pathwayhomes.org/Recovery.html for the pdf application file and other info about funding
opportunities...
20080113 Jerry
currently pondering issues of 'False hope is worse than no hope...' and the medical model's
concept of 'do no harm' as people are asked their dreams and wondering if they
don't get realized then what happens? And more historically, when exactly
did caring leave the health care industry?
2007
Virgin Birth and other fictions
VirginBirthAndOtherFictions
PBWiki Counters lost again, Stipends, Last Winter
PBWikiCountersLostAgainStipendsLastWinter
Sullying the reputation of Fairfax County
SullyingTheReputationOfFairfaxCounty
One Laptop Per Child olpc.org
OneLaptopPerChildoplcorg
Addendum 20080319: oplc.org is really Laptop.org
StreetSense [& RRWG Lack of Fiscal Procedures]
StreetSenseAndRRWGLackOfFiscalProcedures
Accidental Disclosures
AccidentalDisclosures
Formally responding to Doug's resignation letter
FormallyRespondingtoDougsResignationLetter
NoVAPeers hosting fees
The $50 [$100-200?] pbwiki hosting fees came due again this year, but NAMI-PW nor another entitiy did not come forward to contribute, so this pbwiki is now the free version. That means that file space went to the 10 MB (over 200 MB over, so no new files until the fee is paid), many pbwiki features were lost... Note: Page Counters mysteriously went to zero in the summer before hosting fees, when were around 400 for this home page after the pbwiki.com added # visitors plugins....
After approximately 10 months of being ignored, and after the first year money was spent elsewhere, the executing committee decided to actually put the website on the meeting agenda. The Summer2007WebsiteStatusEmail replied to that action as well as a few others. The next RRWG meeting attended, this email was referenced, but the executing committee didn't even remember it, nor did it make it in the minutes as a status report... More business as usual, afaict...
VOCAL Network Conference [2007]
VOCALNetworkConference
RecoveryPartnershipsBuildingBridgesToPersonalSafety
Ethics Dignity and Risk Training
EthicsDignityAndRiskTraining
ArlingtonHousingFirstEvent
Recovery Funding Info Session Personal Audio
RecoveryFundingInfoSessionPersonalAudio
College Consumer MH Resources?
CollegeConsumerMHResources
BrainFoundationOpensLaurasHouse
Addendum: 'Interesting' guest before 'going to VA Tech, and not coming back'...
RecoveryApplicationReleased2007040x
300 NoVAPeers hits
300NoVAPeersHits
SteeringCommitteeOJT
BewareOfTheIdesOfMarch
NoVAPeers.pbwiki.com outage
NoVAPeersPBWikicomOutage
New PBWiki WYSIWYG Editor:
NewPBWikiWYSIWYGEditor
Steering Committee Members Viewing
SteeringCommitteeMembersViewing
2006
Recovery Funding Applications Coming soon!
Please note that our timeline has been delayed on the recovery application process. We will keep you informed.
Wendy with tech assist by Jerry
Updates of NoVAPeers Needed
Updates of NoVAPeers
the link above contains discussion on this page, the process and commentary of items included, starting with Steering Committee Viewing anchor
Page Statistics
Page View Counter: 
+ 200 until December 2007 since lost counter in summer 2007
>400 views before to last edit on 20070317,
though editor's views not subtracted...
See FrontPageDiscussion for some discussion on feedback about concerns with the highly controversial paragraph that was right here a minute ago...
Comments (7)
Anonymous said
at 8:48 pm on Jul 13, 2006
may need more of a traditional website FrontPage with menus and features...
Anonymous said
at 10:39 am on Aug 8, 2006
formatting of this FrontPage is bad, as trying to get table of contents to show a menu like appearance, but limited nesting level to two of three... different than an outlining tool with content blocks below headers...
jerry said
at 12:26 pm on Aug 30, 2006
Jerry changed the CSS style sheet of the PBWiki, which may cause some surprise amongst returning visitors. This also indicates some changes on the new upgrade from the Free PBWiki. More news to follow as it develops...
Anonymous said
at 1:57 pm on Dec 15, 2006
I moved Ray's notice to top (like an EXTRA?, so as not to confuse the message authors, but noted that I probably interrupted the presentation in the middle of the last face to face meeting...
Glad others are using the wiki!
Happy Holidays!
Anonymous said
at 11:23 am on Dec 16, 2006
I didn't think it was my job to post the minutes. I have posted the 2006-09-11 minutes I worked on today. It would help me to have a copy of my tasking. Yes, I realize it's my fault for not having it. But who among us does not contradict themselves on occasion.
Anonymous said
at 12:06 pm on Dec 16, 2006
Added some guidance on editing draft RFP.
Anonymous said
at 10:47 am on Jan 30, 2007
needs dates of these announcements on the FrontPage for the reader to follow the flow of events/ timeline
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