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Europe's national librarians support opening up their data via CC0
Following the exciting news of Europeana's new data exchange agreement, which authorizes Europeana to release the metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication, the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) voted to support the agreement in a meeting last week at the Royal Library of Denmark. CENL represents Europe's national libraries and "is responsible for the massive collection of publications that represent the accumulated knowledge of Europe." From the press release,
"It means that the datasets describing all the millions of books and texts ever published in Europe – the title, author, date, imprint, place of publication and so on, which exists in the vast library catalogues of Europe – will become increasingly accessible for anybody to re-use for whatever purpose they want.
Bruno Racine, new Chair of CENL and President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann, former Chair of CENL and Director of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, welcomed the leadership shown by CENL. Dr Niggemann said…'Only in that way can society derive full social and economic benefit from the data that we've created to record Europe's published output over the past 500 years. The best analogy is between bottled water and a water main. Rather than bottling it and branding it, we're putting data on tap, so that everyone has free and open access, and can use it for whatever purpose they need.'"
Read more about Europeana's Data Exchange Agreement.1 Comment »
Europeana adopts new data exchange agreement, all metadata to be published under CC0
Europeana — Europe's digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark for works in the worldwide public domain — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement. The agreement, which data providers and aggregators will transition to by the end of 2011, authorizes Europeana to release the metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. All metadata for cultural works accessible via the Europeana portal, including previously-delivered metadata, will then be available for free and open re-use.
Additionally, the new agreement requires data providers to make best efforts to correctly identify content that is public domain as being public domain. Last October, Europeana announced plans to use the PDM as the standard mark for works free of known copyright that are shared via the Europeana portal, playing an important infrastructural role in the EU's efforts to ensure that all works shared online are marked with rights information.
Europeana has also published non-binding Usage Guidelines that users of the metadata are asked to follow, including a specific request that users "actively acknowledge and give attribution to all the sources" of the metadata.
This is hugely exciting news for CC and open culture! Read more about the Data Exchange Agreement. Congratulations Europeana on your leadership!
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Using CC0 for public domain software
The basic idea of Creative Commons, offering free copyright tools, is copied from the free software movement. However, CC licenses are not intended to be used to release software, as our FAQ has always said.
One important reason why Creative Commons licenses should not be used to release software is that they aren't compatible with existing free software licenses, most importantly the GPL from the Free Software Foundation, which is used by over half of free software projects. A commons fractured by legal incompatibilities is a weak commons, and it would be deeply contrary to our mission to fracture the commons of software. (It should also be noted that the FSF helped unfracture the non-software commons by facilitating Wikimedia's migration to CC BY-SA as the main content license of Wikipedia and its sibling sites.)
While the vast majority of contemporary free software is released under the GPL or another free software license, there is also a long tradition of public domain software, which was free before the term free software existed. Indeed, prior to the 1970s, copyright did not apply to software. Currently, SQLite, an embedded database that you almost certainly use, is probably the most popular software that is dedicated to the public domain.
There are a variety of public domain dedications used to release software, which is mostly not a problem — to the extent such dedications are well-crafted, they don't present a legal interoperability problem. This means it is possible to improve the state of the art in public domain dedications without harming the ecosystem. (Though this doesn't mean an infinite variety of public domain dedications is optimal — at the extreme having to determine whether a new dedication is well-crafted each time one encounters a new public domain work would make using public domain works unattractive.)
In addition to licenses, Creative Commons also offers public domain tools. In creating the CC0 public domain dedication, we did set out to improve the state of the art in public domain dedications, and we think we've been pretty successful. Users seem to think so — ranging from governments and institutions to musicians.
We hadn't set out with CC0 to improve on public domain dedications for software. However, since the release of CC0, we've been approached a number of times about using CC0 to dedicate software to the public domain. While we were happy to hear of this unanticipated demand, we wanted to tread very carefully so as to not create any unintended consequences for the free software ecosystem. This led to discussions with the Free Software Foundation, the steward of the GPL and moral leader of the free software movement.
We're really happy to announce that the Free Software Foundation has added CC0 to its free software licenses list (which includes public domain terms). As usual, the FSF's language is extremely clear, so we simply quote two sections from their list:
CC0 is a public domain dedication from Creative Commons. A work released under CC0 is dedicated to the public domain to the fullest extent permitted by law. If that is not possible for any reason, CC0 also provides a simple permissive license as a fallback. Both public domain works and the simple license provided by CC0 are compatible with the GNU GPL.
If you want to release your work to the public domain, we recommend you use CC0.
If you want to release your work to the public domain, we encourage you to use formal tools to do so. We ask people who make small contributions to GNU to sign a disclaimer form; that's one solution. If you're working on a project that doesn't have formal contribution policies like that, CC0 is a good tool that anyone can use. It formally dedicates your work to the public domain, and provides a fallback license for cases where that is not legally possible.
We've also added an entry to the CC0 FAQ about using CC0 to release software, which you ought read if you'd like to do that. If you're only familiar with the way CC licenses and public domain tools are typically used on web pages and other media, be aware that with free software, the full license (or public domain terms) are usually included with the software. In order to make this easy to do, we've taken this opportunity to fulfill a longstanding request — plain text copies of the "legalcode" for CC0 and CC's six main international licenses. See CC software engineer Chris Webber's post for details.
Special thanks to Chris Webber and the FSF's Brett Smith for their persistent work to make the CC0 software recommendation possible.3 Comments »
CERN Library releases its book catalog into the public domain via CC0, and other bibliographic data news
Tape library, CERN, Geneva 2 by Cory Doctorow / CC BY-SA
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. This is not the first time that CERN has used CC tools to open its resources; earlier this year, CERN released the first results of the Large Hadron Collider experiments under CC licenses. In addition, CERN is a strong supporter of CC, having given corporate support at the "creator" level, and is currently featured as a CC Superhero in the campaign, where you can join them in the fight for openness and innovation!
Jens Vigen, the head of CERN Library, says in the press release,
"Books should only be catalogued once. Currently the public purse pays for having the same book catalogued over and over again. Librarians should act as they preach: data sets created through public funding should be made freely available to anyone interested. Open Access is natural for us, here at CERN we believe in openness and reuse… By getting academic libraries worldwide involved in this movement, it will lead to a natural atmosphere of sharing and reusing bibliographic data in a rich landscape of so-called mash-up services, where most of the actors who will be involved, both among the users and the providers, will not even be library users or librarians."
The data is available for download here, and will soon be available at the Open Library, the Internet Archive's online catalog with 20 million records to date under CC0.
Cologne-based libraries
In related news, the Cologne-based libraries have made the 5.4 million bibliographic records they released into the public domain earlier this year, also via CC0, available in various places. See the hbz wiki, lobid.org (and their files on CKAN), and OpenDATA at the Central Library of Sport Sciences of the German Sports University in Cologne. For more information, see the case study.
German Wikipedia
The German Wikipedia has also used CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia's way of organizing the various data. "In short a BEACON file contains a 1-to-1 (or 1-to-n) mapping from identifiers to links. Each link consists of at least an URL with optionally a link title and additional information such as the number of resources that are available behind a link." Learn more from the English description of the project.1 Comment »
University of Michigan Library adds 700k bibliographic records to the public domain via CC0
University of Michigan Library Card Catalog by dfulmer / CC BY
In addition to changing their default licensing policy from CC BY-NC to CC BY, the University of Michigan has enabled even greater sharing and reuse by releasing more than half a million bibliographic records into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. Following on the heels of the British Library, who just released three million bibliographic records into the public domain, the University of Michigan Library has offered their Open Access bibliographic records for download, which, as of November 17, 2010, contains 684,597 records.
The University of Michigan Library has always been particularly advanced in regards to open content licensing, the public domain, and issues of copyright in the digital age. To learn more, see the John Wilkin's post and help to improve the case study.
In addition, ever since we rolled out the CC0 public domain dedication, CC0 use for data has been on the increase. Check out the wiki for all current uses of CC0, and feel free to add case studies of any that are missing.Comments Off
Improving Access to the Public Domain: the Public Domain Mark
Today, Creative Commons announces the release of its Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that allows them to be easily discovered over the Internet. The Public Domain Mark, to be used for marking works already free of copyright, complements Creative Commons' CC0 public domain dedication, which enables authors to relinquish their rights prior to the expiration of copyright.
"The Public Domain Mark is a further step on the path towards making the promise of a digital public domain a reality," said Michael Carroll, a founding board member of Creative Commons and a law professor at American University.
Europeana—Europe's digital library, museum and archive—is the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark. Europeana estimates that by mid-2011, the Public Domain Mark will be used in connection with millions of out-of-copyright works made available through its portal.
"An important part of our mandate is to ensure that digitized works made available through Europeana are properly labeled with rights information, including when a work is free of known copyright restrictions so that teachers, students and others can freely use it in their work, changing it and remixing it as they wish," noted Jill Cousins, Executive Director of Europeana.
The Public Domain Mark in its current form is intended for use with works that are free of known copyright around the world, primarily old works that are beyond the reach of copyright in all jurisdictions. We have already started mapping the next phases of our public domain work, which will look at ways to identify and mark works that are in the public domain in a limited number of countries.
A final note about design. We took this opportunity to revise the CC0 deed, to align it more closely with the Public Domain Mark deed. We think the design changes will help everyone recognize the difference between our licenses, which apply to works restricted by copyright, and our public domain tools.
For more information, read the full press release.14 Comments »
New Dutch government portal uses CC0 public domain waiver as default copyright status
The Netherlands government has launched Rijksoverheid.nl, a new website that all Dutch ministries will migrate to (English; other links in this post are Dutch).
Creative Commons Netherlands notes that the site's copyright policy signals a seriousness about open sharing of public sector information — its default is to remove all copyright restrictions with the CC0 public domain waiver.
Rijksoverheid.nl not only signals a true commitment to openness but also sets a strong example for other governments. Congratulations!Comments Off
Cologne-based libraries release 5.4 million bibliographic records via CC0
Last week we tweeted that Cologne-based libraries had released 5.4 million bibliographic records under CC0. This is tremendous news, as "libraries have been involved with the Open Access movement for a long time." From the press release,
Rolf Thiele, deputy director of the USB Cologne, states: "Libraries appreciate the Open Access movement because they themselves feel obliged to provide access to knowledge without barriers. Providing this kind of access for bibliographic data, thus applying the idea of Open Access to their own products, has been disregarded until now. Up to this point, it was not possible to download library catalogues as a whole. This will now be possible. We are taking a first step towards a worldwide visibility of library holdings on the internet."
"In times in which publishers and some library organisations see data primarily as a source of capital, it is important to stick up for the traditional duty of libraries and librarians. Libraries have always strived to make large amounts of knowledge accessible to as many people as possible, with the lowest restrictions possible," said Silke Schomburg, deputy director of the hbz. "Furthermore libraries are funded by the public. And what is publicly financed should be made available to the public without restrictions," she continued.
With so much library data now in the public domain, there emerges greater potential synergy for libraries and the Semantic Web:
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The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center has recently begun evaluating the possibilities to transform data from library catalogs in such a way that it can become a part of the emerging Semantic Web. The liberalization of bibliographic data provides the legal background to perform this transformation in a cooperative, open, and transparent way. Currently there are discussions with other member libraries of the hbz library network to publish their data. Moreover, "Open Data" and "Semantic Web" are topics that are gaining perception in the international library world.
Public Domain Day 2010 and Beyond
Creative Commons has been celebrating Public Domain Day – January 1st – for several years, alongside many others who are similarly passionate about the value of the public domain and the need to prevent its demise. Each year on this day, copyright protection expires for millions of creative works, allowing those works to be used, repurposed and built upon by anyone, without restriction or need for permission.
This year we are excited to witness a growth in the number of organizations and websites dedicated to celebrating and promoting this day. COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain and an organization in which Creative Commons is a member, has started a new website devoted to Public Domain Day that includes resources such as public domain calculators, information about countries' copyright terms, and related information. The "project aims at increasing public awareness of this celebration and educating about the Public Domain concept and its potentialities for spreading culture and knowledge worldwide."
As well, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University has several valuable web pages dedicated to Public Domain Day, including a detailed FAQ. As the site explains, "On the first day of each year, Public Domain Day celebrates the moment when copyrights expire. The films, photos, books and symphonies whose copyright term has finished become "free as the air to common use" (quoting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis).
As Creative Commons embarks on its 8th year, plans are well underway to increase our focus and effort in the public domain arena. Here are a few highlights of what you can look forward to:
- In 2009, we launched the CC0 waiver, a tool that allows creators to effectively place their works in the public domain through a waiver of all copyright to the extent permitted by law. This coming year, Creative Commons will publish for comment and adoption norms – non binding, community-based guidelines such as how to properly cite the author – to accompany CC0. Look for more information about norms in early Spring.
- As a complement to CC0, which is designed to add content to the public domain, in 2010 we will also be increasing development efforts on our public domain assertion tool. This tool will enable members of the public and organizations such as libraries and museums to mark and tag public domain works available over the Internet. Although long in the development cycle, the demand and desire for such a protocol endures. Look for more information about our development plans soon.
- As always, Creative Commons will continue its public domain work in other fora, such as COMMUNIA WG6 (Mapping the Public Domain).
These initiatives, together with those of many other like-minded organizations and individuals, are critical to the construction and maintenance of the public domain. We hope you will join us in our efforts to build, preserve and make easily accessible this shared cultural resource.
Happy Public Domain Day 2010!Comments Off
Does your sharing scale?
Techdirt's Mike Masnick is perhaps the most prolific blogger on the ill impact of overly restrictive legal regimes, including of course copyright and patents, but also trademark and even employment law (see Noncompete Agreements Are The DRM Of Human Capital) and often on people delivering real value to customers (sad that these are considered "alternative" business models) instead of replying on protectionist legal measures — as blogged here, Masnick's case study on NIN is an absolute must read/watch — and he hosts awesome guest authors.
So it's a little disappointing to read Masnick write:
I don't use any of their licenses, because I don't necessarily see the point. We've declared in the past that the content here is free for anyone to do what they want with it, and thus I feel no need for a Creative Commons license.
The need arises from the reality that sharing without standardized legal tools doesn't scale. It doesn't scale socially — if I wasn't a regular Techdirt reader I wouldn't know that Masnick had declared Techdirt content is free for anyone and for any purpose (and even now I could only find one such declaration because I remembered that Masnick had written about it in a post that mentioned CC!), nor depending on wording would I know what that meant. It doesn't scale technically — there's no way for software such as search engines to recognize ad hoc declarations. It doesn't scale legally — any community or institution that requires legal certainty (eg due to risk that the community's work will be suppressed or that the institution will be financially liable) will avoid ad hoc declarations.
It's no surprise that in the more developed field of free and open source software (which has a 10+ year head start on free culture/open content) anyone who claims that making an ad hoc declaration is good enough and did not release their code under an established license would be laughed at and their code not allowed in other projects, distributions, and repositories, not to mention getting no attention from IBM, Google, Red Hat and thousands of other corporate contributors to and adopters of open source software.
Communities and institutions outside software also require works under established licenses (ie those provided by CC) to scale, e.g., Wikipedia, OpenCourseWare, the Public Library of Science and many, many others. What about individuals and small group efforts? Of course they don't have to use real legal tools for their content any more than an individual programmer has to share code under an established open source license — that is if they don't actually want others to "do what they want" with their content or code — because no license means no-understand, no-find, and no-go.
One of Masnick's best turns is his stylized formula
Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$). As he explains, each part of the formula has many facets — reasonable copyright terms are just one — and as he points out, in a sense copyright is irrelevant, as CwF+RtB would work in the complete absence of copyright. However, as Techdirt points out every day, copyright is in more than full effect, producing all kinds of anti-creative and anti-innovation effects, from labels suing fans, bloggers, startups and anyone else available to heirs suppressing the use of work by long-dead authors. In this environment it seems rather necessary to offer fans the legal certainty of an established public license that grants at least the right to non-commercially share. Anything less seems to betray a lack of respect for fans or, if done unknowingly, is an instance of failed sharing.
Of course one might want to go beyond offering a relatively restrictive license and not rely on copyright at all, giving fans complete freedom with respect to one's works. As Masnick has noted, CC has developed a legally rigorous tool to do just that, worldwide — CC0 — we hope that he is still considering it.☺
The Techdirt post quoted above is primarily a solid response to another blogger's post on whether CC is good or bad for copyright policy — a very worthy question. Masnick's conclusion is good:
Many of the people behind it went through (and are still going through) numerous battles to push back on the excesses of copyright. Creative Commons wasn't the solution — it was a helpful (and hopefully temporary) oasis in a bleak desert, following numerous well-reasoned, but ultimately futile attempts to push back corporate expansion of copyright. And while I agree that there are problems with shifting the issue to a contractual agreement (and the post highlights some of the many legal problems CC licenses may cause), I think that CC, as a whole, did turn a lot more people onto the some of the problems with copyright law as it stands today. In many ways, CC is an easy way for people to first start to understand the problems of copyright law, in understanding why CC is needed.
From there, many who do understand this have started questioning the larger issues around copyright — and many of those involved with CC have continued to fight that good fight, rather than just assuming that CC is "the answer." So, in the end, I agree that we should be clear to recognize that Creative Commons and efforts to really rethink copyright are two separate things, but that doesn't mean that Creative Commons is necessarily bad for copyright policy issues. It has been, and hopefully will continue to be, a real stepping stone to getting more people to recognize these bigger issues. In fact, I'd argue that many of the folks now leading the debate for more reasoned copyright policy in Canada first came to understand these issues via their exposure to Creative Commons' licenses.
While CC and other voluntary efforts (such as free software and open access) aren't the solution (if there is such a thing), their contribution goes well beyond serving as stepping stones for thinking about how messed up the copyright environment is. They are simultaneously tools for enabling billions of dollars of collaboration across organization boundaries and unlocking untold social value now and in proving out models that don't rely on excessive enforcement, changing the facts on the ground in a systemic way that arguably should increase the probability of good outcomes relative to those likely to result from a single-track strategy of merely complaining about the current regime as it worsens.
Copycense, the blogger that Techdirt responds to above, has unrealistic assessments of CC's ability to "muzzle" the conversation about copyright reform and of the ability of such a conversation to obtain the "best case scenario, with a balanced and effective law that serves citizens and corporate owners equally well". Copycense is enamored with the current Canadian copyright consultation — it's worth noting that CC Canada has been around since 2004, that Michael Geist, the most prominent voice for positive reform, is a long time CC user and advocate — one can hardly say CC has muzzled the conversation — and furthermore it isn't clear the consultation will lead to any good progress. Hopefully good reform will result, and many involved in CC in Canada and elsewhere are also involved in reform efforts (if you read French see the consultation of Olivier Charbonneau, one of the project leads of CC Canada) — but to denigrate voluntary efforts, at least while some rather intractable problems with the ability of concentrated interests to hijack politics remain, is a gigantic missed opportunity at best, and possibly flirting with very bad outcomes.2 Comments »


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Conference Awards 2013
Elsevier shortlisted as finalists in the Conference Awards 2013
Announced on April 11th Elsevier has been shortlisted as finalists in the Conference Awards 2013 in the following categories:
- Best New Conference Launch category for Planet under Pressure
- Best Publication led Conference category for The 2nd Water Research Conference
- Best Managed Event category for 19th Biennial meeting of the International Society of Developmental Neuroscience
- Best Operations Team
The winners of each category will be announced at the Conference Awards ceremony in London on June 7th.
Elsevier serves the scientific community by organising high quality conferences Our conferences offer world class content, great delegate experience and exceptional networking opportunities.
- Elsevier conferences offers the best networking opportunities by getting the right people together at conferences, as well as facilitating the networking and interacting with delegates
- Conference attendees have a fantastic experience at Elsevier conferences
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- We align our conferences with our journals and their communities
Best New Conference Launch category for Planet under Pressure
Just as London was gearing up for the Olympic Games last summer, the city also welcomed the world's most influential global-change scientists at Planet Under Pressure 2012Planet Under Pressure (PLAN2012), organized by Elsevier, explored the pressures our planet is under. And just as science does not operate in a silo, this conference was not limited to the scientific community. The 3,060+ delegates included CEOs and industry professionals, government policymakers, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and environmental agencies, conservationists
and delegates from development agencies and the developing world.
In the largest conference Elsevier has ever organized, a record-breaking 3,832 abstracts were submitted. 3,060 professionals attended the 5-day event in London with an additional 8,000 delegates participated online.
There were five days of presentations by prominent researchers in the field, with up 14 sessions running simultaneously. This complex set-up required a lot of support – the entire conference department was on site, working 16hour long days.
The conference reached an audience well beyond the science community. During the talks, more than 500 questions came in via Twitter and text messages. By tracking Twitter feeds and other online activity, our PR Team estimates that we reached more than a million people through social media.
The conference was covered by media outlets worldwide, including The New York Times, BBC, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Reuters, Agence France Presse and leading bloggers such as SciDev.net and Conservation International. There were hundreds of articles in many languages, including this article in an Indonesian newspaper.
The delegates' feedback indicates that the conference was successful in facilitating the discussion of environmental issues. As one delegate wrote on a post-event survey: "It was such a high profile conference, almost a 'once in a lifetime' feeling in preparing for the conference. Everybody was there."
Best Publication led Conference category for The 2nd Water Research Conference
The world's water situation is becoming more challenging each year. In the last century, water use has grown at twice the rate of population increase. Human global population growth leads to concomitant growth in water demand by agriculture, human consumption and industry. By 2025 two thirds of the population could be facing water stress.
The knowledge needed to meet this challenge is already being created by researchers from a growing number of countries, often working together in international collaborations. This research is published in many scholarly journals. Elsevier delivers 26% of the scientific literature in the field of water resources. Water Research, a journal of the International Water Association (IWA) published by Elsevier, is devoted to interdisciplinary research related to water and tops the Thomson Reuters Water Resources category, with impact factor of 4.865. In 2012, the Water Research journal published 636 original papers relating to research on treatment processes for municipal, agricultural and industrial water and wastewaters, water quality standards and analysis by chemical, physical and biological methods.
As a global provider of information solutions, Elsevier's mission is to deliver superior tools and information to build insights and advance research. Water and wastewater research topics, aiming to boosting efficiency, augment supply, and create new technologies for water reuses, need to be shared and evaluated in a discussion forum which allows all the different players in the field of water research, ranging from microbiologists, engineers, city planners, policy makers. The Water Research Conference aims to become such a forum.
Following the success of the first in the conference series, which was held in 2010 in Lisbon, the 2nd Water Research conference took place in January 2013, in Singapore. The conference focussed on two major topics, addressing the wider issue of water:
- Urban water management to increase sustainability of cities
- Microbial ecology of water and wastewater treatment
Held in association with the International Water Association (IWA), and chaired by Water Research journal Editor-in-Chief Prof. Mark van Loosdrecht, who was awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize earlier in 2012.
Best Managed Event category for 19th Biennial meeting of the International Society of Developmental Neuroscience
The 19th Biennial meeting of the International Society of Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN) took place in Mumbai in January 2012. Elsevier has managed ISDN's biennial meeting since 2004. The meeting is the key event in the society's calendar and is essential for their mandate to develop and promote research for basic and clinical scientists interested in the development of the nervous system in the broadest sense.
Over 250 delegates attended, with 25% being international students and a further 29% being Indian students. Feedback from the attendees was fabulous. We had a 55% response rate to our post event questionnaire and delegates awarded the event an exceptional 44.7 net promoter score.
"Interacting with the best possible scientists in a forum of only 200-300people is ideal to start off a research career in developmental neuroscience"
"It has been tremendously fruitful with regard to quality of talks, collegial interactions and boost of confidence"
"Very well organized, high profile speakers and very lively interest specific small group meeting of particular interest"
"The Elsevier staff at the meeting were excellent and very helpful whenever I had a query"
Best Operations Team
Elsevier's Conference Operations Team are the best at what they do
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The team, from the Conference Administrator through to the Head of Operations is made up of 11 members, who between them have over 93 years of experience of working in events (and 64 years of working with Elsevier)!
Delighting delegates is key to the Elsevier Conferences team, and at the heart of the everything they do. The team takes great pride in delivering events for the market leader in scientific conferences and this is reflected in the feedback we receive from our delegates.
The post event survey results for our 2012 conferences (4334 respondents) shows exceptional levels of service:
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The Hills Review: "Make Up to Break Up"by Steve Marsi at . Comments
Week after week, The Hills continues to illustrate with crystal clarity why the current sixth season will be its last. It's run clear out of ideas and interesting people.
Lauren Conrad was a girl we fell in love with and made this guilty pleasure a can't-miss show for a time. But it wasn't just her departure that ruined the MTV hit.
Say what you will about Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, they are interesting! The two villains have apparently been dropped, without any explanation, for good.
Now we're left with Audrina Patridge, the most boring individual ever, and Kristin Cavallari, who would be cute if she could tone down the bitchiness just a little.
Both of them are smitten with that loser Justin-Bobby. It seems every The Hills recap seems to eventually come back to this guy for years on end. What the H?!
Try as they might, Brody Jenner and Kristin Cavallari can't make The Hills.
Seriously, what is so appealing about this guy that TWO women will be trampled on by him time and time again, then go running back. He's not rich, famous OR good-looking!
Audrina even dumped Ryan Cabrera, who (hair aside) could be considered all three. The rocker is at least a really nice-seeming fella ... but no matter. He's no Justin-Bobby.
It's painful, really, to watch him come on board for her birthday boat trip, which ended with J.B. and Audrina sitting snuggled with a blanket on the boat's deck reminiscing.
What we wouldn't give for a "man overboard" twist as the credits roll.
The other thing that kills us is the "relationship" between Brody Jenner and Kristin Cavallari. We get it. They're friends with benefits. But that's just not interesting enough.
Watching them actually date would at least be somewhat appealing.After all, don't they have this amazing chemistry we're reminded about every day by their co-stars? Let's see some of it and less of the same old BS for once in our lives.
Steve Marsi is the Managing Editor of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Google+ or email him here.Tags: The Hills, Reviews
Tone down Kristin's bitchiness? Honestly it's the only thing that keeps people watching this show; it's true that the hills has gone downhill since lauren's departure, but it is that Kristin 'the bitch' is back! Kristin is perhaps the only one that could spice up The Hills; even better if she's even bitchier as in drop more scandalous dramas, those bitchy role suits her perfect. And too bad spencer and heidi really left the show, cos really their scary psycho ways of socializing is one new elements of the show.
interesting that you miss hontag & splatt ..
are you nuts?
the 'hills' was DUNSO after lauren left & everyone knows it ..
no way can any of them carry a show ..
oh , and it was not without explanation that they were dropped ..
all the media has dropped them ..
they are slanderers for one thing ..
assused director adam divello of serious charges ..
not always a good move ..
aftwer lying about everyone they've ever known or met & having slandered everyone that ever helped them & after calling the cops on her ma while the TMZ had been called beforehand ..
there 's not a person in their right mind who would work with them or befriend them ...
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The following items will be on the agenda when the Regulations Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, in the Auditorium at Department Headquarters:
- 9:00 a.m. Mr. Kenneth Wells, Missouri Trapper's Association
Purpose: To discuss permit requirements for MTA-sponsored educational programs and to propose a nonresident fur buyer permit for auctions.
- Consideration of a recommendation to set the season dates for each portion of the 2015 - 2016 Fall Firearms Deer Season – Mike Hubbard/Resource Science Division
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Definitions for negotiatenɪˈgoʊ ʃiˌeɪt
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word negotiate
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ne•go•ti•atenɪˈgoʊ ʃiˌeɪt(v.)-at•ed, -at•ing.
(v.i.)to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract.
(v.t.)to bring about by discussion and settlement of terms:
to negotiate a loan.
to move through, around, or over in a satisfactory manner:
to negotiate a sharp curve.
to transfer (a draft, promissory note, etc.) to a new owner by endorsement and delivery or by delivery.
Origin of negotiate:
1590–1600; < L negōtiātus, ptp. of negōtiārī to trade, v. der. of negōtium work, business =neg- not +ōtium leisure
ne•go′ti•a•to`ry-əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i(adj.)
Princeton's WordNet
negociate, negotiate, talk terms(verb)
discuss the terms of an arrangement
"They negotiated the sale of the house"
negotiate, negociate(verb)
succeed in passing through, around, or over
"The hiker negociated the high mountain pass"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
negotiate(verb)ɪˈgoʊ ʃiˌeɪt
to discuss things in order to make a formal agreement
The CEO negotiated a deal with their rival.; as the two sides negotiated
negotiateɪˈgoʊ ʃiˌeɪt
to manage to travel a complicated route
We tried to negotiate the back streets of the city.
To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
1963: "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue." uE000149957uE001Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait
To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.
To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
Origin: From Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari, from negotium (Eng. usg. 1599), from nec + otium.
Webster Dictionary
to transact business; to carry on trade
to treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm
to hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences
to intrigue; to scheme
to carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange
to transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass
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Rank popularity for the word 'negotiate' in Verbs Frequency: #549
Translations for negotiate
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
to bargain or discuss a subject in order to agree.
- onderhandelAfrikaans
- يَتَداوَل أو يَبْحَث في مَوضوعArabic
- преговарямBulgarian
- negociarPortuguese (BR)
- vyjednávatCzech
- verhandelnGerman
- forhandleDanish
- διαπραγματεύομαιGreek
- negociarSpanish
- läbi rääkimaEstonian
- مذاکره کردنFarsi
- neuvotellaFinnish
- négocierFrench
- לְנַהֵל מַשָׂא וּמַתָןHebrew
- मोलतोल करनाHindi
- pregovarati, sporazumjeti seCroatian
- tárgyalHungarian
- merundingkanIndonesian
- semja (um), leita samninga (um)Icelandic
- negoziareItalian
- 交渉するJapanese
- 협상하다Korean
- derėtis, tartis, vesti derybasLithuanian
- vest sarunasLatvian
- berbincangMalay
- onderhandelenDutch
- forhandleNorwegian
- pertraktowaćPolish
- مذاکره کردنPersian
- مذاكره كولPashto
- negociarPortuguese
- a negociaRomanian
- вести переговоры, договариватьсяRussian
- vyjednávaťSlovak
- pogajati seSlovenian
- pregovaratiSerbian
- förhandlaSwedish
- เจร��าต่อรองThai
- görüşmek, müzakere etmek, pazarlık yapmakTurkish
- 談判Chinese (Trad.)
- вести переговориUkrainian
- گفت و شنيد کرناUrdu
- đàm phánVietnamese
- 谈判Chinese (Simp.)
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Peter teaches people to lead values-based lives that will let them reach their potential. He thought he'd reached his as the founder of Century 21 Real Estate Canada, but his life came crashing down after his son, Todd, leaped to his death. Peter's search to find meaning in his loss led him to use his "God-given skills, influence, and network to make the world a better place." He's achieved this goal by founding LifePilot, a program that has raised $3 million for children's and mental health charities in Canada and the U.S. These are two of the many countries where Peter gives workshops to thousands, ranging from jail inmates to jet set entrepreneurs. In Arizona, he's reduced recidivism rates by teaching his program in Maricopa County prisons. And he speaks often at colleges where he urges student to remember, "When your values are clear, your decisions are easier." According to Peter's guiding principles, it's the "foundation of an extraordinary life."
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New Drones for Christmas 2014
The Christmas season is nearly upon us. Yes, Christmas comes earlier every year, and it's time you accept it! But there's absolutely no need to fret. There's a whole wide range of amazing new technological wonders that will make excellent stocking stuffers come December. So, why put off shopping now when you can get the jump on the season and put a happy smile on your husband's, son's, or even daughter's face?
One of the most amazing new gadgets that is currently sweeping like wild fire across the culture of the civilized world is the small, compact flying drone. Sure, we've all seen the news on television about drones being used in highly sensitive combat operations. But there is so much more to this rapidly developing new technology. Dronography is a fast paced, exciting branch of scientific wizardry that is rapidly reshaping the way we think about photography, motion picture making, and so much more.
Some of the best drone kit models are coming directly from the Parrot company. These new models, such as the Parrot Mini drone, Rolling Spider, Bebop drone and Jumping Sumo, are giving older, established standards like the DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter a real run for their money. Everywhere you look, drones are swooping through the air and changing the way we view the world around us.
So, if purchasing hobby drones for Christmas 2014 is an idea that tickles your fancy, why not indulge it? Your loved ones will appreciate a gift that's on the cutting edge of technology, one which enables them to fly high on the wings of their imagination.
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KCI welcomes Lucia L. Lee, PE, BCEE, to our Houston, Texas, office, as a senior environmental engineer and project manager. She is charged with growing the firm's water/wastewater practice in the state.
With 25 years of experience, Lee's focus has been in planning, designing and construction management of water/wastewater and infrastructure projects. Before joining KCI, she worked on the city of Sugar Land's $69 million surface water treatment plant and the design of improvements at multiple satellite wastewater treatment plants for the city of Houston.
"With a strong design and construction management background, Lucia's local relationships and strong experience will support our planned expansion in the water/wastewater market," said Vice President Jeffrey B. Lookup, PE. "Her qualifications combined with KCI's national team of environmental engineers and scientists will offer our clients local regulatory and development experience combined with innovative solutions and superior service."
Lee earned a bachelor's degree in civil/structural engineering from the University of California-San Diego in 1989. She is a registered professional engineer in Texas, California, and Nevada and an Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists Board Certified Environmental Engineer. Lee is a member of the American Water Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, and Water Environment Federation. She volunteers locally with Math Counts, the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston, and the Boy Scouts.
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Posted by Marlo on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 10:50pm.
not "a ten" sorry... delete a
I'd put them in an Excel spreadsheet, using cells in only one column. Then sort the data.
First, put the numbers to the left of the decimal point in order.
Example from greatest to least:
10.32; 8.1, 5.61
Then, put the numbers to the left of the decimal point in order.
Example from greatest to least:
0.9; 0.83; 0.67; 0.34; 0.33; 0.32
What you have to do is look for the highest tenth number. if some of them are the same look in the hundreths. If those are the same look in the thousandths. Then you keep on going.
what number comes between the two given numbers? 10 11
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4. 0.425. 4.25
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This afternoon's press release and today's conference call also include certain non-GAAP financial measures. In our earnings release, we announced operating results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012, which exclude the impact of restructuring and other related costs and noncash stock-based compensation expenses. These non-GAAP financial measures are provided to facilitate meaningful year-over-year comparisons. Please see the exhibit of the earnings press release for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and an explanation of why these non-GAAP financial measures are useful and how they are used by management, which will be available today on the Investors section of Infinera's website.
On this call, we'll also give guidance for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012. We have excluded noncash stock-based compensation expenses from this guidance because we cannot readily estimate the impact of our future stock price on future stock-based compensation expenses.
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We're baaaack...overall great time!
I'm too lazy to do a full on trip report, but here is a quick summary of ours. I always enjoy reading other peoples'! We stayed 8d/7n at Coronado Springs with our 5 year old and 9 month old.
Disney customer service is awesome. I wasn't sure what to expect after reading so many mixed reviews, but I can honestly say we didn't have a negative experience all week as far as employees/policies go. I'm not a polyanna type person, but I was really impressed. I saw a lot of cm that went above and beyond...particularly with the kiddos.
The weather....omg, how do people live in Florida? I felt like I needed a shower before I got to the bus stop each morning. I thought October would be ok, but it was gross. lol I don't know how people go during June or July, I really can't imagine. All future trips will be winter trips!
The resort...Coronado Springs gets kind of an "eh" from me. Although the lake and landscaping was very pretty, and the pool/kids' area is wonderful, overall I think I would have preferred to stay elsewhere. It is huge and we were in the back 40. It was a solid 10 min walk, maybe more like 15 with the kids, to get up to the front and the excessive bus stops got annoying. I'd prefer something smaller and with different theming. The staff was very nice though and no complaints about the service.
Dining - I've heard many times that quickservice at Disney is better than the table service, but my experience was the opposite. I think the only quickservice meal I had that I enjoyed was a sandwich from Starring Rolls at HS. Well, I also really liked the Wolfgang Puck Express, but not sure Disney gets credit for that? I was really disappointed in Yak and Yeti and Sunshine Seasons, which get very positive reviews on the Dis for the most part. Sunshine Seasons in particular was barely edible. All of our table service meals were pretty solid.
The parks - Animal Kingdom was my favorite by far. I thought it was a really nice mix of shows/rides and I liked the scenery and the animals. I felt really overwhelmed my Magic Kingdom. It was so busy and I felt like I did a lot of aimless wandering. I needed a better plan for this park. lol We spent 2 days there and there were many attractions I know we didn't do and some I probably wasn't even aware of. I liked Hollywood studios but because there are so many shows I found it difficult to time things. I felt like we were trying to run to catch the start of something all day. We didn't get to see all the shows we wanted to. Epcot....I had really mixed feelings about this park. I liked the world showcase a lot! I found it so interesting to wander around. The rest of the park seemed like the ugly stepsister of theme parks. It seems so outdated and tacky. From the attractions, to the decor. It just looked like a dump, imo.
Shopping - It seemed like every gift shop pretty much carried the same things (outside of the ones found in world showcase). Considering just how many shops there are, I was a bit disappointed. My dd got a ton of junk, but at the end of the week I realized I hadn't bought a single thing for myself. I just never saw anything I liked. I also thought it surprising that they didn't have much merchandise aimed for infants. I wanted to buy something for my ds and my niece/nephew. I saw a few ugly onesies. To be honest with you, the Disney clothing at Target is a lot cuter than most of what I saw at dw, I was really surprised.
This trip was for my dd's 5th birthday and it was really special. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique was definitely a highlight for her. We all had a blast. I look forward to going back for ds' 5th birthday!
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I have to agree with you on the weather. We went in early March and thought it got way too hot midday. We are trying February this year.
I also agree with everything you said about dining QS vs TS. With the exception of WPE, which was wondeful I did not particularly love any QS meals.
For your next trip, if you are looking for another mod resort, I highly recommend POFQ. It is very small, one bus stop, everything is close no matter where you are. It is great for young kids. And it really is a beautiful resort. I don't think that pictures do it justice. Also has a lovely boat ride to DTD.
Glad you enjoyed your trip!
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Sounds like you had a great trip and figured out what you want to do differently next time. We are heading down in 11 days and I really hope that humidity is gone I can do the heat a bit, but I hate that humidity!
I am one of the folks who love the CS options. We have had the dining plan and have done CS by choice both times. When we dont do the plan, we still mainly eat CS except for a couple of TS buffet breakfasts. I am not a fan of the sit downs for dinners.
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Thanks for posting. I love reading the "just back" posts. Can't wait to do one myself next month!
I'll agree with you about Sunshine Seasons...I'm not sure why it always gets such rave reviews. Most of the entrees just don't appeal to me. However, there are lots of CS places that my family loves and we're planning on eating CS for most of our meals on our upcoming trip. I love a lot of TS places too, but with 2 kids who are now "adults" as far as Disney is concerned, those TS places can get pretty pricey.
MK was a little overwhelming on my first trip too. Definitely have a touring plan for your next trip. That will help immensely.
Glad you had such a good time. And Happy Birthday to your DD!
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Glad you had a great time!
I totally agree with you on the weather. My inlaws are snowbirds and have a place down in Florida, and my mother in law keeps telling us that we can stay in their condo and take a summer vacation. In Florida. I told her that going to Florida in the summer makes about as much sense to me as going to Alaska in the winter. Isn't going to happen. We were in WDW last October (and going again next week) and I was shocked at how humid it was that late in the year. We went to see the inlaws in December and it was still humid then. When we were on the plane going home I asked my daughter what she thought of the trip to Grandma's and her reply was: "It's really sweaty in Florida." LOL. Honestly, if Disney World wasn't there, I'm not sure I'd ever go to Florida again.
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Thank you for your report! I, too, love reading the "just back" ones.
I will admit, I like Sunshine Seasons.....BUT....I really only like a couple of things there. You have to like the stuff on the menu and I'm a picky eater. Next time you're in Epcot, you might want to try the Electric Umbrella....might be more to your liking for QS.
And I also agree about the humidity! That is why the majority of our trips are in late October (like next year). I will wilt and then become unbearable for anyone to be around. My hubby & I joke and say it isn't a Disney vacation until we've had our meltdown! :D
Glad you had a great time! And for everything you didn't get to: it's just a reason to come back!
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How did the baby do? Did you have early or late nights? I'm thinking about going in Feb and we will have a 14 month old. Never taken one that young before!
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Baby did great! He is super easy going though. My daughter would have been a nightmare at that age because she was such a stickler for routine. We only did one really late night (to see the fireworks at magic kingdom). Most evenings we were home by around 8 or so and then my dh would take the 5 year old swimming while I put the baby down. We did have two early mornings (8am breakfast reservations), the other days we showed up at the parks around 9:30 for the most part.
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LOL, except for the hotel & the ages of the kids your first 3 paragraphs are my thoughts EXACTLY about our recent trip! We did a lot, had a great time but the weather was horrible! Instead of unpacking yesterday I booked a February trip. I can definitely deal with sweatshirts and long pants better than that awful heat & humidity.
Glad you had a great trip!
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