For those of you who did not attend last years STAR-TIDES field demo at National Defense University here is a photo search that gives a glimpse of what sort of ideas we like to play with

Enjoy

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Pat McArdle is a member of the board of Directors for Solar Cookers International has been working with the STAR-TIDES project from the beginning. A retired Senior Foreign Service Officer with experience in Afghanistan, she has done some incredible work as our Integrated Cooking expert. 

Testing out a few new things this week - check out our tumblr page http://star-tides.tumblr.com/

The STAR-TIDES network has been very busy lately. With events and activities ranging from Operation Golden Phoenix last week in San Diego and on-going work in Jalalabad, Afghanistan - we thought it was time to update and revise some of our core literature. These powerpoints and overview documents reflect the current direction of the project, which you'll probably notice has evolved a bit over the last year since our start. These changes reflect the dynamic nature of what we are trying to do in regards to social networking, analysis, and information sharing.

STAR-TIDES will particpate in Operation Golden Phoenix, July 21-25

Yesterday I learned of a Presidential memo regarding information sharing - certainly could have implications for future ST goals

This is the memo

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080509-6.html

This is the WaPost article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR200805...

This is the new office that has been created to address the issue

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-107.html

And this is my published notebook for any other related articles I come across

Slideshow of the Field Testing on the mountain in Virginia -

It seems that the embed option isn't working

http://picasaweb.google.com/star.tides.net/PreliminaryFieldTesting

PACOM - Asia Pacific Network (APAN), an Internet site which has multiple tools for civil military collaboration.  http://www1.apan-info.net/crp/Events/TropicalCycloneNargis/Home/tabid/5375/Default.aspx - registration and login required

Follow STAR_TIDES on Twitter - http://twitter.com/STAR_TIDES

Twitter is one part social network, one part micro-blogging. We'll be exploring how best to use this for STAR-TIDES purposes in the coming weeks.

Any comments or suggested welcome on how best to use this for the network

http://www.star-tides.net/myanmar