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Leicester City Council gives permission to 84 schools to create and share OER
Leicester City Council / CC BY 4.0
Leicester City Council is the first local government authority in the United Kingdom (UK) to provide 84 community schools with blanket permission to openly license their educational resources. The council is recommending that school staff use the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to share materials created in the course of their work. The Council has also released guidance and practical information for school staff on using and creating open educational resources (OER).
As part of Josie Fraser's (ICT Strategy Lead, Leicester City Council) work with the council, she leads on a citywide project to raise school staff skills and confidence in using technology to support teaching, learning, and school community development. The project has surveyed staff across the city to identify strengths and gaps in their use of technologies and digital resources. While the results on the whole have been very positive, the survey identified that school staff knowledge about OER and open licensing is very limited.
In response to this, Josie worked with Björn Haßler and Helen Neo (from the University of Cambridge) to create accessible OER schools guidance and practical resources for schools on finding, attributing, remixing, creating, and sharing CC licensed resources. School staff were invited to participate in the development of the resources, by review and discussion, and by taking part in pilot workshops for school staff and leaders.
"The response to the guidance has been very positive, with schools keen to raise the profile of excellent work being produced through the use of Creative Commons licenses. Schools want to raise staff knowledge in relation to copyright and open licensing, and see the classroom modelling of good practice in using and accrediting resources as important for their learners."
– Josie Fraser
Schools routinely make use of web-based resources to support their learners, but don't routinely benefit from the range of openly shared resources available if they aren't aware of open licensing. The permission and guidance are designed to work together in raising awareness about CC licenses and OER, and support schools in promoting the work they are doing by sharing – enabling them to create, and to connect and collaborate with other educators. At a time when so many resources used in schools are digital, and accessed and shared online, understanding copyright and the role that open licenses play is essential for education professionals.
"Leicester City Council is the first local authority in the UK to provide its school employees with permission to openly license their resources. This is a highly commendable and visionary step. We very much hope that this will inspire other councils and schools to look at how they can also support staff in sharing their work."
– Dr. Björn Haßler, University of Cambridge
Resource packs, which including model policies, guidance and resources for schools, are available at: http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation. The resources themselves build on existing openly licensed materials, and all new materials are all released under CC BY 4.0 and are available in editable versions for adaptation.
Josie concludes:
"Open licensing is an important step in making cultural change happen – for educators and learners to benefit from public work, and for schools across the city to move towards open practice. Change will not happen overnight, but the permission and guidance provides a great way for schools to think about how they share and collaborate, and how they would like to take their communities forward."
- OER Guidance for Schools was commissioned by Leicester City Council, as part of the Council's award winning digital literacy school staff development project, DigiLit Leicester.
- The OER Guidance resources were produced by Björn Haßler, Helen Neo, and Josie Fraser, and are available under CC BY 4.0.
- For further information please contact Josie Fraser (email@example.com) or Björn Haßler (email@example.com).
Related: Creative Commons policies grow in New Zealand schools4 Comments »
Sketchfab announces CC licensing; Microsoft, HTC, and British Museum early adopters
Sketchfab – an awesome website for sharing 3D models – just unveiled an option to make files downloadable. All of the files marked for download are available under Creative Commons licenses, including those from some big players like HTC, Microsoft, the British Museum and celebrated designer Francis Bitonti.
This makes Sketchfab not only the best and easiest way to publish and embed a 3D file, but also a great place to find and use 3D content – for example for 3D printing, to build video games or VR experiments – or just to share and collaborate privately on 3D designs. Any user can now chose to publish 3D content for display only, or for display and download under Creative Commons licenses.
This launch comes with another important milestone: more than 200,000 3D files have been uploaded on the platform so far, making Sketchfab one of the largest repositories of 3D content, and the leading platform to publish and embed interactive 3D models. We want to thank all of our users for that, we are proud to be home for your work. This milestone, combined with our new download option, is strengthening our position as The place to be for 3D files.
Sketchfab co-founder Alban Denoyel told us that his team knew from the start that they wanted to use CC licenses rather than create a new license for model use. "As soon as we started looking into adding a download option on Sketchfab, we wanted to find a legal framework to cover the way people could use the files, and CC was top of mind as the perfect solution to do that."
And did the high-profile users like Microsoft and HTC have any qualms about CC? Not really, says Alban. "We had a pretty straightforward approach, exposing our plans of enabling download under CC, and asking if they were in or not. No special concerns were raised, they quickly jumped in!"
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CC Science's Indian November
We are in New Delhi and Mumbai for a number of presentations, workshops and meetings. Please come say hello if you are at these events or in the area.
SciDataCon2014 in New Delhi
The International Conference on Data Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability (SciDataCon) is motivated by the conviction that the most research challenges cannot be addressed without attending to issues relating to research data essential to all scientific endeavors. However, several cultural and technological challenges are still preventing the research community from realizing the full benefits of progress in open access and sharing. CODATA and WDS, interdisciplinary committees of the International Council for Science (ICSU) are co-sponsoring and organizing a high profile international biennial conference at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Nov 2: A day long Text and data mining (TDM) workshop offered in collaboration with ContentMine
TDM is an important scientific technique for analyzing large corpora of articles used to uncover both existing and new insights in unstructured data sets that typically are obtained programmatically from many different sources. While the science and technology TDM is complex enough, its legal complications are equally dizzying. Not only is its legal status unclear at best, it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction making cross-national collaboration difficult. Besides the license status of the original material, contractual agreements between research institutions and publishers, who are often the gatekeepers of the corpora, can create significant hurdles. The workshop offers an introduction to TDM, presenting the legal considerations through hands-on exercises.
Nov 3: How well is the data chain working?
Effective and efficient application of scientific data for the benefit of humanity entails agreed goals, clear and reproducible methods, and transparent communication throughout the data chain from producer to user via data organizer and research publisher. How well is that working? A Panel Discussion at the close of each day will summarise that day's conclusions, and respond to the question of how well the data chain may be working from a trio of perspectives: Conference Organizer, data-management expert, and data producer.
Nov 5: Citing Data to Facilitate Multidisciplinary Research
Synthesis Data Citation Principles and Their Implications for TDM: Importance, Credit and Attribution, Evidence, Unique Identification, Access, Persistence, Specificity and Verifiability, and Interoperability and Flexibility: these eight important phrases describe the data citation principles agreed upon by the community and published under a joint declaration and endorsed by 185 individuals and 83 organizations. But, what are the implications of these principles beyond just citation, particularly with respect to automated analysis of large corpus of articles? This presentation will briefly present the principles, and then explore some of the issues that we have to come to grips with in order to make text and data mining (TDM) easy for scientists.
Nov 5: Challenges and Benefits of Open Science Data and International Data Sharing
Maximizing Legal Interoperability Through Open Licenses: Many scientists do think about interoperability as they have to work with colleagues from other domains. However, common interoperability efforts are focused on technical, and if we are lucky, semantic interoperability. Rarely do scientists think of legal interoperability in the design of their science experiments. Can my work be legally mixed with someone else's work without violating any intellectual property (or worse, privacy and security) laws? Is my work portable across not just scientific domains but also across judicial boundaries? We attempt to shed light on some of these questions in this presentation.
Nov 5: Talk on CC/OKF open science activities to be given at the computer science dept., Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
Jenny Molloy, OKFN Open Science and I will be introducing the young computer science students at IIT-Delhi on the various open science and data activities around the world. This talk is organized by Prof. Aaditeshwar Seth, Computer Science, IIT-Delhi.
Nov 6-8: Meetings on citizen science and sensors at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai
HBCSE at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai is a National Center with the broad goals to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education from primary school to undergraduate college level, and encourage the growth of scientific literacy in the country. We will be discussing with HBCSE's metaStudio potential areas of collaboration in citizen science and the use of sensors in projects to accelerate the growth of scientific awareness in the country through direct public participation in science.Comments Off
LRMI stewardship transferred to Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Re-post from: http://www.lrmi.net/lrmi-transfers-stewardship
Effective October 23, 2014, leadership and governance of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), an education metadata project developed to improve discoverability and delivery of learning resources, have transferred from the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).
This long-planned transfer represents a logical next step for the LRMI since the project has reached the end of its initial scope of work. DCMI will take the leadership role in advancing the project into its next phase with AEP and CC engaged as active LRMI community members.
"Creative Commons and AEP are happy to add this governance transfer to the long list of successes we've achieved together on the LRMI project," said Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons. "After a long and careful evaluation process, the LRMI leadership identified a candidate in DCMI that is well-established and highly respected in the metadata sector and will carry on the LRMI's spirit of transparency and community involvement."
"AEP has enjoyed the opportunity to work alongside our partners Creative Commons the past three years to get the LRMI effort off the ground, build a community of practice, and finally, to establish a plan for long-term sustainability for the project," said Dave Gladney, Project Manager of the AEP LRMI project, which has been housed at the Association of American Publishers since the merger of AEP and AAP in July 2013. "With this transfer, we're confident that we're leaving the LRMI with the ideal steward for long-term success."
"DCMI is pleased to assume stewardship of LRMI at this key, long-planned transition in its development," said Eric Childress, DCMI Governing Board Chair. "Meeting the metadata needs of the education and training community has been a goal of DCMI since the founding of its Education Community in 1999. DCMI has played encouraging, advisory roles in development of the LRMI specification from the inception of Phase I technical development in 2011 under the leadership of AEP and Creative Commons. DCMI is now poised to provide LRMI with both a permanent home that assures the long-term sustainability of the specification and an open, collaborative context for future community-driven development."
More information about the transfer and the project follows.
The LRMI began in 2011 shortly after the announcement of Schema.org, a search engine-backed standard for tagging content on the web. AEP and Creative Commons, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, set out to extend the general Schema.org hierarchy with a lightweight set of metadata properties that could describe the instructional intent of a web page, resource or piece of content. The resulting LRMI specification version 1.1 was accepted as an official extension of Schema.org in April 2013. Additionally, AEP and Creative Commons have worked closely together throughout the past three years to meet dozens of important project milestones.
The third and final Gates-funded phase of the project focused on long-term sustainability and success. Among other Phase III projects, the LRMI leadership team has worked over the past six months to identify the ideal next-phase steward for the LRMI specification. This process included surveying the LRMI community, identifying potential candidates, measuring each candidate against a list of agreed-upon requirements and vetting candidates through a series of interviews.
Why DCMI was chosen
DCMI was chosen based on its status as a well-known, well-respected name in the metadata space; its open governance structure, which closely aligns with the open spirit of the LRMI; and its ongoing connection to the LRMI through the involvement of DCMI's Managing Director and Education Community chair, Stuart Sutton, on the LRMI Technical Working Group.
DCMI's next-stage priorities
DCMI stewardship of the LRMI specification will include:
- Moving the canonical representation of the specification from lrmi.net to dublincore.org with appropriate cross referencing between the two websites.
- Creating a permanent LRMI Task Group within the context and working processes of the DC Education Community to supplant the original LRMI Technical Working Group for:
- Ongoing maintenance of the LRMI 1.1 specification
- Assessment of open community input as the means for defining future development of the specification
- Management of transparent editorial and decision-making processes in executing further developments
- Supporting open community communications through a Jiscmail list for the new LRMI Task Group (public "read") and through the existing DC-Education Jiscmail list (public "join/read/write"). Public conversations on the existing, open LRMI Google Group will be continued until the coordination of two public lists is deemed by DCMI to be no longer tenable. During this time, current members of the Google Group will be encouraged to join the Jiscmail lists.
- Initiating immediate engagement with Schema.org to coordinate changes in its cross-referencing for LRMI and the potential development of additional developer/web master documentation at schema.org of those aspects of LRMI 1.1 it has adopted in support of learning resource markup.
For more information:
- Stuart Sutton, Managing Director, DCMI (email@example.com)
- Cable Green, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Dave Gladney, LRMI Project Manager, AEP (email@example.com)
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) is a globally-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. Creative Commons provides free licenses and other legal tools to give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions and get credit for their creative work while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make specific uses of it.
About the Association of Educational Publishers
The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) is the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers. At the inception of the LRMI in 2011, AEP was an independent organization serving the educational resource community with programs, events, advocacy, and thought leadership. In July of 2013, AEP merged with the AAP School Division to form the PreK-12 Learning Group. Most of AEP's programs were transferred over to the newly-formed Learning Group pursuant to the merger, but LRMI projects and administration of grant funding continued on under the 501(c)(3).
About the Association of American Publishers
The members of AAP are building the future of publishing. AAP represents America's premier creators of high-quality entertainment, education, scientific and professional published content. They include commercial and not-for-profit organizations, scholarly societies, university presses, educational technology companies and digital start-ups. These nearly 450 organizations dedicate the creative, intellectual, financial and technological investments to bring great ideas to life and deliver content to the world's diverse audiences in all the ways they seek it.
About Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
DCMI is a global community that has played key roles in the development of best practices in metadata modeling, design and implementation since 1995. The DCMI community has developed and maintains some of the major languages of description used on the Web and in systems. DCMI's principles of operation are open consensus building, international scope and participation, neutrality of purpose and business models, neutrality of technology, and a cross disciplinary focus. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and is supported through membership programs for both individuals and organizations.Comments Off
Kenya Ministry of ICT congratulates School of Open for transformative model of learning
SOO Africa Launch Nairobi / CC BY / Phillip Ranja
Today the Mr. Joseph Tiampati, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of ICT of Kenya gave a speech to formally launch the School of Open Africa in Nairobi. The full text of the speech is below and also available as a PDF. In addition, a congratulatory message from Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology was delivered by Mr. John Temba, Head of ICT in Education at the Ministry. More info on the event from our announcement post yesterday.
Some highlights from the speech:
- The Ministry recognizes Kenya as a signatory of UNESCO's 2012 Paris Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER) and that "open education resources improves the quality of teaching and learning, including by accelerating student comprehension and by providing more opportunities for the realisation of universal access to education."
- Kenya has developed and is rolling out a National ICT Master plan for the next five years. The Ministry recognizes "that Creative Commons through the School of Open Africa has provided a good example of innovative use of ICT in education that resonates well with the Kenya National ICT Master Plan… Open Education Resources coupled with innovative use of ICT in education will accelerate realization of a modern Kenya that will be a knowledge-based economy."
And lastly,
"By using Open Educational Resources, OER, School of Open is opening up to many students who would have otherwise missed the opportunity of accessing education, especially in the marginalized areas which could not adequately access quality education. Ongoing, voluntary, and self- motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons is one of the characteristics of the 21st Century. One of the major ways of promoting life-long learning is the continuous use of ICT innovations in education.
"I congratulate School of Open teams across Africa for the innovative and transformative mode of teaching and learning that we are launching today. This African initiative is a worthy model for other regions of the world to emulate."
Congrats on a successful launch to our communities across Africa!
"Good morning.
"It gives me great pleasure to be here today as the Chief Guest during the launch of School of Open – Africa. I would like to begin by sincerely thanking Creative Commons Africa community and under the able coordination of Alex Gakuru and Tobias Schonwetter, and the global Creative Commons Community for inviting me to preside over this launch.
"I am happy to note the enthusiasm demonstrated by School of Open Africa in transforming education along Sustainable Development Goals proposed for post-2015 (Goal No. 4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all") and in line with the Kenya Vision 2030 which seeks to transform Kenya into a middle-income country that offers high quality of life to all citizens by the year 2030. I am happy to note how much School of Open Africa has grown in Kenya and embraced in countries like Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa among other African countries in the last few years. I am informed that School of Open by Creative Commons is highly reputed around the world for addressing universal access to education.
Awarding CopyrightX certificates / CC BY / Phillip Ranja
"Kenya is a signatory to the UNESCO's 2012 Paris Declaration on Open Education Resources licensed under Creative Commons open licenses. The use of open education resources improves the quality of teaching and learning, including by accelerating student comprehension and by providing more opportunities for the realisation of universal access to education. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
"Fully aware of the role of education in a country's development agenda, I am sure that the new initiatives being undertaken by School of Open Africa, the Creative Commons and UNESCO are making their contribution towards the social, economic, and political pillars which are the three fundamental cornerstones of our country, and indeed for our great continent.
"Ladies and gentlemen, as you may be aware, the Country's development blue print is being implemented through successive five- year Medium Term Plans (MTPs) that will finally enable the country to achieve the long-term goals. We are now in the second medium term plan cycle (2013-2017) whose theme is "Transforming Kenya: Pathways to Devolution, Socio-economic Development, Equity and National Unity". As you may be aware, the ICT Authority rolled out the National ICT Master plan that will set the pace for progression of the country in ICT for the next five years. The Master plan – once fully rolled out – will completely transform government processes, services and management, and make information access and service delivery more efficient. Again, the Master plan, with the flagship projects to pilot its implementation, will steer the march towards the digital future that will transform the country to a regional technical hub, raise the country's competitiveness and align the country in line with vision 2030's ICT goals.
"By launching the Kenya ICT Master Plan, the government revealed its commitment towards the enhancement of access to quality education and training through ICT in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We are reviewing the National ICT Policy Guidelines to ensure alignment with proposed Sustainable Development Goals.
As a country, we are also privileged to have a National ICT Policy whose goal is to create a prosperous ICT-driven Kenyan society. With a well mainstreamed ICT society, we are assured of better livelihoods of Kenyans attainable through the availability of accessible, efficient, reliable and affordable ICT services.
"ICT provides a platform that enables the realization of these goals. I must emphasize that Creative Commons through the School of Open Africa has provided a good example of innovative use of ICT in education that resonates well with the Kenya National ICT Master Plan. The integration of ICT into educational programmes places both the teaching staff and students at the forefront in the utilization of ICT for the enhancement of lives.
"I note with great pleasure the freedom to re-purpose offered by openly licensed educational resources, the convenience online access to learners as alternative courses delivery and certification methods. At this juncture, ladies and gentlemen, I thank William Fisher III, Professor of Intellectual Property and his staff at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School for providing a free copyright law course taught to graduands present today to receive their certificates. I also thank Michael Murungi (then CEO, National Council for Law Reporting or "Kenya Law") and Alex Gakuru for successfully conducting the course in Nairobi. I must congratulate the former students and ask to make the very best use of the copyright law knowledge they acquired while also challenging all universities represented here to consider emulating the highly successfully CopyrightX initiative.
"As the government continues to work on modalities of ensuring universal access to education and increasing the internet penetration in all parts of the country, we are pleased to witness this mode of study that will definitely translate to affordable education. Open Education Resources coupled with innovative use of ICT in education will accelerate realization of a modern Kenya that will be a knowledge-based economy.
"By using Open Educational Resources, OER, School of Open is opening up to many students who would have otherwise missed the opportunity of accessing education, especially in the marginalized areas which could not adequately access quality education. Ongoing, voluntary, and self- motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons is one of the characteristics of the 21st Century. One of the major ways of promoting life-long learning is the continuous use of ICT innovations in education.
"I congratulate School of Open teams across Africa for the innovative and transformative mode of teaching and learning that we are launching today. This African initiative is a worthy model for other regions of the world to emulate.
"As I conclude I take this opportunity to applaud UNESCO's efforts and contribution in the development and growth of the country through this noble initiative that enables the primary, secondary and universities to optimize the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in learning. I acknowledge the generous financial support from the Hewlett Foundation and SOO Africa teams support by Google.
"With those remarks, it is now my pleasure to declare the School of Open Africa officially opened.
"Thank you."Comments Off
Build a commons for everyone
I joined CC in June of this year, and immediately set out to update our strategy. I spent the summer working with our staff, affiliates, board, partners, and funders to understand the needs and the opportunities, and to plan for 2015 and beyond.
Today, we're focused on three strategic objectives:
- A vibrant commons. Supporting the CC license suite so it's easy to contribute to the commons —from improving the experience on platforms, to enhancing our license chooser, to translating the 4.0 licenses;
- A usable commons. Helping creators find and reuse the content they want and need, including exploring ways to improve search and content analytics, so creators can see where their content goes after they share it; and,
- A relevant commons. Leading a movement of individuals, organizations, and institutions who will inspire others to create the commons of creativity and knowledge we all want.
These three simple objectives will guide our work over the next year. If you share our goal of a more healthy and vibrant commons, we're proud to work alongside you.
This month, we'll launch our most ambitious annual campaign yet. We're going to tell the story of the commons, its reach, and its potential, to make a compelling case for our work. We'll share some exciting new projects that show how we're building the next phase of CC.
I hope that you'll make a donation, but equally as important, I hope you'll help us spread the word and grow our community of donors to build a more sustainable organization.
Open Access Button launches with new features
Open Access Button / CC BY 2.0
Today at an Open Access Week event in London, the Open Access Button was re-launched with new features "to help researchers, patients, students and the public get access to scientific and scholarly research." The Open Access Button originally was created in response to researchers running into paywalls or other control mechanisms when they attempted to read and re-use scholarly journal articles.
The beta Open Access Button–released in November 2013–documented these stymied research efforts, tracking nearly 10,000 instances of denied access due to paywalls. The updated button is a browser plug-in that enables a person who conducts a similar search–but who is once again denied access–to explore other options in order to get access to the paper. It does this by conducting a search for a freely-available version of the research article on the web, for example a preprint or unformatted version of a finalized article manuscript. If this does not work the button provides the functionality to send an email to the author of the article to ask that a copy of the article be made available and shareable to others who need it. The button will do other things, too, such as creating a unique listing for each paper that is requested, so that authors can view demand for access to their works. Finally, the button aims to collect data and anecdotes arising from its use in order to feed advocacy and reform efforts related to the scholarly communications and publishing system.
The Open Access Button is an interesting tool because it both increases awareness of a problem within the academic publishing ecosystem and strives to deliver needed articles into the hands of the researchers to conduct their work. It is informational, empowering, and practical. Anyone can now install the Open Access Button. Congratulations to the terrific team on extending a creative and useful tool in support of open access to scholarly research.
Below is the video recording from the Open Access Button launch on 21 October. Keep an eye on the CC blog and Open Access Week website for more information about OA events this week.
Big win for an interoperable commons: BY-SA and FAL now compatible
Move-Horizontally / P.J. Onori / CC BY
Glühwendel brennt durch / Stefan Krause / FAL 1.3
This FAL-licensed photo was selected as Wikimedia Commons' 2013 Picture of the Year.
Like CC Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the Free Art License (FAL 1.3) is a copyleft license, meaning that it requires licensees to share their adaptations under the same license. Therefore, it's impossible to create an adaptation that combines works under both BY-SA and FAL. Until now.
Today, we're proud to announce in collaboration with ArtLibre.org that the Free Art License 1.3 and CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 are now compatible.
With this compatibility declaration, anyone remixing a work under FAL can license her remix under BY-SA. Similarly, people can adapt works under BY-SA and license them under FAL, or mix works under both licenses and license the resulting works under either license or both.
From the beginning, Creative Commons ShareAlike licenses were designed with interoperability in mind. We believe that the commons is at its best when there are as few walls as possible preventing people from mixing and combining its works. As CC co-founder Lawrence Lessig noted when speaking of compatibility between BY-SA and the FAL, "Our idea was eventually that it [wouldn't] matter which of the free licenses you were in as long as you could move into the equivalent free license that would be CC compatible."
Today, this idea has been realized, and there is one less barrier preventing licensees from remixing and combining openly licensed works.
This is a special moment for another reason. Originally drafted in 2000, the Free Art License is one of the first copyleft licenses designed for content, not software. It's only fitting that it become the first third-party license to be declared compatible with CC BY-SA.
See our Compatible Licenses page for more information. If you'd like to learn more about the steps that led to this announcement, see this page on the CC Wiki.
We applaud and congratulate ArtLibre.org and its community on this shared achievement. Thanks to Antoine Moreau and the team at CC France for their support throughout this process.
What's next? Since the CC licenses launched, many people have dreamed of compatibility between BY-SA and the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), a widely-used copyleft software license. Sometimes when reusing openly licensed content in software, it can be difficult to discern where the content ends and the software begins. Allowing developers to license their adaptations of BY-SA content under the GPL would prevent a lot of licensing headaches.
CC will begin to tackle GPL compatibility with a proposal and preliminary analysis in the coming weeks. If you'd like to listen in or get involved, subscribe to our license development list.
Artlibre.org announcement (français)Comments Off
Ministries of ICT, Education, & UNESCO join to formally launch School of Open Africa
As promised last week, here are the details around the formal launch event for School of Open Africa taking place in Nairobi tomorrow morning.
SOO logo here. Earth CC BY by Erin Standley, Noun Project.
Our Creative Commons and School of Open volunteers in Kenya, including CC Regional Coordinator Alex Gakuru, are hosting a formal launch event of School of Open Africa in celebration of the School of Open programs launched last month in Africa, and to announce new programs in higher education. The event will feature a panel discussion with senior government officials from the Kenyan Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and Ministry of ICT along with Dr. Bitange Ndemo (University of Nairobi) and regional representatives from UNESCO and Google regarding the status of open education in Africa, School of Open's contributions and future. Alex says,
"This event will help establish a conversation platform for policymakers around School of Open Africa, connecting and synchronising education and ICT policies with the innovative open education programs being led by Creative Commons volunteers in Africa. It will also connect current School of Open programs in primary and high school education to academia and NRENs1 — towards the realisation of the international aspiration for universal access to education."
Additional attendees include professors from local universities and law schools; participants of the copyright law course, CopyrightX:Kenya, who will be awarded certificates of completion; our CC Kenya affiliates; and School Open Kenya leads.
CopyrightX Kenya / CC Kenya / CC BY
In addition to the panel, SOO Kenya's Simeon Oriko will present on School of Open Africa programs led to date, and Dr. Tonny Omwansa with C4DLab at the University of Nairobi will announce a new School of Open program to develop OER courses for higher education. This program will serve as a model for other universities across Africa to develop high quality open educational resources for use in higher education under CC BY. In celebration, CC t-shirts in Kiswahili will be distributed, "mwananchi mbunifu," aka 'creative commoner.'
The event is hosted at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi and will last from 9am-1pm, followed by a celebratory lunch. The event and new OER program in higher education is made possible with technical support from UNESCO and generous financial support from the Hewlett Foundation.
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers that provides free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, and research. Volunteers develop and run courses, workshops, and training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a nonprofit that builds and supports learning communities on the web.Comments Off
Open Access Week 2014 is underway
Today begins the 8th annual Open Access Week. Open Access Week is a week-long celebration and educational opportunity to discuss and promote the practice and policy of Open Access to scholarly literature–"the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment." Open Access Week has become a huge international initiative, including dozens of in-person and virtual events, the launch of OA-related projects, and the development and publishing of materials and tools supporting education about the benefits, challenges, and opportunity for open access to scholarly research. This year's Open Access Week theme is "Generation Open":
The theme will highlight the importance of students and early career researchers as advocates for change in the short-term, through institutional and governmental policy, and as the future of the Academy upon whom the ultimate success of the Open Access movement depends. The theme will also explore how changes in scholarly publishing affect scholars and researchers at different stages of their careers.
Check the feed at openaccessweek.org for hundreds of posts about the variety of activities hosted this week, and share what you're doing on Twitter using the hashtag #OAWeek2014. There's already many interesting things happening, with more to come this week! Follow the CC blog, Twitter, and Facebook for more.3 Comments »


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I was at this party and have to say is was a good time. Guitar Hero, Halo 3, taco bar (though not a CmdrTaco bar), cake, face painting, and of course smashing stuff. I personally took my pent up aggression out of a Cisco router.
Many thanks to Vibrant for hosting the party!
The only negative, we didn't get any
I think I could salvage some of that hardware. [flickr.com] It still looks useable and I bet I could install Linux on it.
I'm imagining a beowulf cluster already...
I think I could salvage some of that hardware. It still looks useable and I bet I could install Linux on it.
I think there's a new geek test here. If you watched the video/looked at the pics, and your first thought was, "Damn, I could have used that equipment", you're a geek. I know I certainly felt an urge to shout "Noooo!" for some of it.
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On the Concept of Irony w/ Continual Reference to Caro, the #1 Sunshine Queen
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Have read where Dokic is a fairly bitchy,self-centered gal....not exactly the ideal choice to do the official WTA blog.....and,sure enough,Jelena has apparently pissed away her blog after an embarrassing loss.Perhaps the WTA should ask these gals for a genuine commitment up front before selecting them for this relatively straightforward task
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Professionals tend to expect more from the tools they use. They expect them to perform reliably, accurately and smoothly on good days and bad. On top of all that, they expect their tools to feel proper, secure and "right" in the hand. And these very same folk often have the same expectations when it comes to pedestrian items. We'd like to talk about a half-dozen point-and-shoot digital cameras that should appeal to serious-minded shooters seeking a pocket-sized camera that feels and performs like a "real" camera.
Each of the following cameras is unique in that it incorporates the sort of features serious shooters prefer even in their "down-time" cameras. These features include fast apertures, high-quality glass, sturdier-than-average construction, full manual override, JPEG+RAW still capture, a hotshoe for use with flashguns and accessories, analog-style controls for quick and intuitive on-the-fly exposure adjustments and a tactile feel that makes you want to take one wherever you go.
Five out of six of these cameras contain 10MP imaging sensors typical of their class. The exception is the Leica X1, which contains a larger APS-C sensor despite its easily pocketable size. As for optics, each of these cameras features premium glass with wide maximum apertures, the slowest among them f2.8 and the fastest a truly bright f/1.8.
Two of the cameras, the Canon PowerShot G12 and Nikon CoolPix P7000, feature optical viewfinders coupled to their respective zoom lenses as welcome (though peephole-ish) alternatives to composing and editing images on the camera's LCD under bright lighting conditions. Similarly, you can slip optical finders (DMV-VF1) onto the hotshoes of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 and Leica D-LUX 5 that match the wide-angle field of view of the 24-90mm equivalent Leica DC Vario-Summicron lens that is shared by both cameras. Leica also offers a hotshoe-mounted optical finder matched to the angle of view of the camera's fixed lens (Leica X1 Brightline Finder).
The Canon PowerShot G12 is the latest in a long line of top shelf pro point-and-shoot cameras. Encased in a tough, all-metal housing, the G12 features a DIGIC 4-powered 10 MP CCD, an image-stabilized 5x (28-140mm equivalent) UA zoom lens, full manual override, close focusing down to 0.4" from the lens surface and a 2.8" (460,000-dot) Vari-Angle LCD.
In the imaging department the PowerShot G12 can capture JPEGs, RAW, JPEG+RAW, as well as 720p HD video, with sound. The top shutter speed of the G12 is 1/4000th-second and you can squeeze off up to two frames per second when shooting flat out. In the power department, you can expect up to 1000 exposures per charge and for recording stills and video, the G12 accepts SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC, MMC Plus, HC MMC Plus memory cards.
Similar in design is Nikon's CoolPix P7000, which in addition to a 10.1MP CCD, a coupled optical finder, JPEG and/or RAW still capture, analog-style control dials and a 3" (921,000-dot) LCD, can also capture 720p HD video, with stereo sound. The lens, a five-way optically stabilized 28-200mm equivalent zoom with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and close focusing down to 0.8" from the lens surface, has the widest focal range in its class.
Along with all of the above, a new EXPEED C2 imaging processor keeps things moving at burst rates up to 1.3 frames per second continuous shooting for up to 45 frames. Other important features found on the CoolPix P7000 include Active D- Lighting, a top shutter speed of 1/4000th-second and top ISO sensitivity of 12,800. The P7000 accepts SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards, and for times you find yourself in dire straights, the P7000 contains about 79MB of internal memory. As for shooting times, according to Nikon, you can expect to squeeze off about 350 stills or two hours and 45 minutes of HD video per battery charge.
Mention the name Samsung and most people think HDTVs, remote controls and cell phones, but as the Samsung TL500 illustrates, Samsung's engineers seem to take low-light shooting with sturdy pocket cameras seriously. Among its key attributes is a 10MP CCD, a fully-rotatable 3" AMPLOD display, dual image-stabilization systems, a hotshoe, analog-style control dials, JPEG and/or RAW, in-camera RAW processing, full manual overrride and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video, with stereo sound.
The biggest selling point of the Samsung TL500 has to be its Schneider 3x, 24-72mm equivalent wide-angle zoom, which with a maximum aperture of f/1.8, is a third-stop faster than its closest f/2 competitors. Even at the 72mm mark, the lens still transmits a respectable maximum aperture of f/2.4.
The TL500's f/1.8 maximum aperture also allows for a wee bit more selective focus when shooting tight, narrow-focus images, which in the world of tiny imaging sensors, isn't all that easy. The Samsung TL500 accepts SD and SDHC memory cards and contains a rather hefty 1GB of internal memory.
Panasonic's Lumix DMC-LX5 is a trim, smartly designed pocket camera that features an f/2, Leica DC Vario-Summicron Aspheric zoom lens with a 24-90mm equivalent zoom range, which along with a top ISO setting of 12,800, makes it an ideal pocket-sized street-shooting machine. To complement the camera's 3" 460,000-dot LCD, the Lumix LX5 allows you the option of slipping a 24mm FOV DMV-VF1 optical finder (optional ) onto the LX5's hotshoe for fast and accurate, eye-to-the-ocular shooting.
Panasonic's Lumix DMC-LX5 in White & Black
(with optional DMV-VF1 Electronic Viewfinder)
Like the other cameras in the pro quality point-and-shoot category, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 features a hotshoe and captures stills in the form of JPEG and/or RAW. Other features include a top shutter speed of 1/4000th-second, up to 2.5 frame-per-second continuous shooting, macro focusing down to 0.39" (1cm) from the front lens surface, and 720p, 30 fps HD video capture. The Lumix LX5 accepts SD, SDHC or SDXC memory cards and contains about 40MB of internal memory.
From Leica we have not one but two distinct and unique models to choose from, starting with the Leica X1, which despite its compact profile, contains a 12.2MP APS-C format CMOS sensor, similar in size and resolving power to the sensors found in compact DSLRs. To complement the camera's hi-res sensor, the X-1 has a super-sharp, 24mm f/2.8 Leica Elmarit fixed focal length lens that renders the field of view of a 36mm lens on a full-frame Leica M-series camera, which as you might have guessed, was part of the master plan.
Leica's X-1 features a fixed 24mm f/2.8 Leica Elmarit Lens,
12.2MP APS-C Format Sensor and is available in Black or Silver.
Manufactured entirely in Germany and available in a choice of Black or Silver, the Leica is strictly a still camera, and like its larger sibling there's no video capture with this baby. Out of the box, the X-1 features a 2.7" LCD for composing and editing imagery, but to better facilitate the full Leica experience, the Leica X1 Brightline Finder, designed to match the 62° angle of view of the camera's lens, is highly recommended. There's also an optional X1 Handgrip, which screws onto the base of the camera to add a positive handhold when grasping the camera.
Other features found on the Leica X-1 include JPEG and/or RAW (DNG) capture, analog controls with full manual overrides, Live View, 11 AF points, a two-year international warranty and a copy of Adobe Lightroom 3, which is downloadable when you register your camera online.
Our second offering from Leica is the Leica D-LUX 5, which (truth be told) is one and the same as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 described above once you dig down under the skin. The skin it's been replaced with, however, is pretty sleek and features the ego-satisfying red Leica logo.
As for image quality, the firmware in the Leica D-LUX5 is designed to render color and tone more neutrally than its Panasonic counterpart, which like most cameras from Japanese manufacturers, renders color and tone at punchier levels.
Along with an f/2, Leica DC Vario-Summicron Aspheric zoom lens (24-90mm equivalent), the Leica D-LUX5 features a top ISO setting of 12,800, 3" 460,000-dot LCD (and optional DMV-VF1 optical finder), JPEG and/or RAW still capture, a top shutter speed of 1/4000th-second, up to 2.5 frame-per-second continuous shooting, macro focusing down to 0.39" (1cm) and 720p, 30 fps HD video capture. The Lumix LX5 accepts SD, SDHC, or SDXC memory cards and contains about 40MB of internal memory. The Leica D-LUX5 comes with a two-year international warranty, which is double the industry standard of one year.
|Image Viewing
|Highest ISO Rating
|Nikon CoolPix P7000
|28-200mm f/2.8-5.6 (Equivalent)
3" LCD(921,000-dots)
Coupled Optical Finder (80% Coverage)
(Stereo Sound)
|Canon PowerShot G12
|28-140mm f/2.8-4.5 (Equivalent)
Vari-Angle 2.8" LCD
Coupled Optical Finder (approx 80% coverage)
(Stereo Sound)
|Samsung TL500
24-72mm f/1.8-2.4 (Equivalent)
|3" OLED (614,000-dots)
MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (Mono Sound)
|Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
|24-90mm f/2-3.3 (Equivalent)
|3" LCD(460,000-dots)
(Mono Sound)
|24-90mm f/2-3.3 (Equivalent)
|3" LCD(460,000-dots)
(Mono Sound)
|Leica X1
|24mm f/2.8 (Fixed 36mm Equiv)
|2.7" LCD (230,000-dots)
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Great write-up on some nice Compact cameras.. I've been going back and forth between several of these for a while as an alternative to my 7D when I want to travel light... I'm looking at the Panasonic ZS7, Canon S95, Samsung TL500, Panasonic LX5 .. and even the Seiko FH100 (the high speed video is really intriguing)


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Entangled: hearts' tentacles entwined
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Kate MacDowell's Entangled is a beautiful, tentacly porcelain sculpture depicting two hearts whose questing tentacles have entwined. (via JWZ)
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"It's all true folks. All you need is love." (Blank on Blank)
Via Public Domain Review: "The Open Country of Woman's Heart, Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein" (1830s), by D.W. Kellog.
Quinn Norton, who was Aaron Swartz's lover, remembers him:
We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right, but the last word you get in as the still living is a hollow thing, trailing off, as it does, into oblivion. I love Aaron. I loved Aaron. There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it and hope that somewhere in the heart of a reader, they have the strength and the magic to resurrect it. I can only say I love him. That I will always love him, and that I known for years I would. Aaron was a boy, not big, who cast a shadow across the world. But for me, he will always be that person who made me love him. He was so frustrating, and we fought. But we fought like what we were: two difficult people who couldn't escape loving each other.
While you were eating Thanksgiving turkey, surrounded by loving family and friends, one whale was all alone, swimming through the Pacific Ocean with no one to talk to and no one to care.
Since 1989, researchers have been tracking this specific whale based on its distinct vocalizations. Baleen whales — a category of cetaceans without teeth, separate from their toothy dolphin/beluga/orca relations — are famous for producing eerie, underwater songs and scientists think those sounds are probably an extremely important aspect of participation in whale society. Baleen whales lack keen eyesight and sense of smell underwater, so sounds are probably how they recognize one another, help each other navigate, and even find mates. But these vocalizations happen in very specific frequency range — between 10 and 31 hertz, depending on the species. The Christmas Whale, on the other hand, speaks at 52 hertz. Imagine brining a piccolo to a tuba party. That is analogous to the awkward position that the 52-hertz whale is in.
Scientists usually pick up the call of the 52-hertz whale sometime between August and December, as it makes its way through a Cold War-era network of underwater microphones in the North Pacific. Although this whale has apparently survived for many years and seems to have grown and matured during that time (based on its voice deepening slightly), it also appears to exist outside of whale social systems. It travels alone. Nobody answers its high-pitched pleas for love. Every so often, non-scientist humans remember that it exists and write sad stories about it. But nobody is sure why it sings out of range of its fellow whales.
It strikes me as the kind of horribly sad thing that should get made into a maudlin children's picture book. The central message: Appreciate the love you have and give love in return. This holiday season, remember the plight of the loneliest whale. Give thanks for the presence of the people who love you. Show affection to others.
Listen to NOAA recordings of the 52-hertz whale (these have been sped up 10x)
The Loneliest Mix is a fan-site where you can download 52-hertz whale audio and video clips.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's page on the 52-hertz whale
Research paper explaining how scientists capture whale sounds in the north Pacific.
Picture taken the day after Thanksgiving at the Milwaukee Public Museum. I don't think they meant to tie into the legend of The Christmas Whale. But hey, it works.
I am grateful for friends like Grady, who alert me to stories like this.
U.S. President Barack Obama said today he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters. Your thoughts on the news, and what it means for the presidential election season in America, are welcome in the comments.
The first-ever wedding sanctioned by the Church of Kopimism (an officially Swedish church that reifies copying and characterizes file-sharing as a sacred act) was convened last weekend. It was a beautiful and awfully funny and joyous occasion, judging from the video. Here's Torrentfreak's Ernesto with more:
It was only a matter of time before the first Kopimist couple would become married, and last weekend this joyful union took place at the Share conference in Belgrade.
On stage, a Romanian woman and an Italian man were joined in a holy Kopimist act. Both promised to share the rest of their lives together and to uphold the highest sharing standards.
The Church was delighted to bring the news and commented: "We are very happy today. Love is all about sharing. A married couple share everything with each other."
Like any other matrimony, a Kopimism marriage is bound by rules. The Church of Kopimism allows the couple to share their love with others, as long as those others don't steal it. Most importantly, however, they have to copy and remix themselves.
"Hopefully, they will copy and remix some DNA-cells and create a new human being. That is the spirit of Kopimism. Feel the love and share that information. Copy all of its holiness."
Or to put it in the words of another famous religion: "Be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it."
Nothing to Celebrate is a music video from The Zax, directed by Ben & Julia. [Submitted by Rion]
While they were both in the psychology department of Stony Brook University, Bianca Acevedo and Arthur Aron scanned the brains of long-married couples who described themselves as still "madly in love." Staring at a picture of a spouse lit up their reward centers as expected; the same happened with those newly in love (and also with cocaine users). But, in contrast to new sweethearts and cocaine addicts, long-married couples displayed calm in sites associated with fear and anxiety. Also, in the opiate-rich sites linked to pleasure and pain relief, and those affiliated with maternal love, the home fires glowed brightly.
The Brain on Love (NYT)
Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic Traveler magazine says, "I thought you might like this sweet story about Alexander Graham Bell, who was a 27-yr-old Scottish speech therapist and part-time inventor when he fell madly in love with 17-yr-old Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, who was deaf, and whose father was the first president of the National Geographic Society."
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard was only five years old when scarlet fever rendered her deaf for life. At the age of 17, she would meet a young Scottish speech therapist who was destined to shape her life. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Mabel's father and National Geographic's first president, took a liking to the industrious teacher and part-time inventor. We know him better as Alexander Graham Bell. This is their love story.
The 27-year-old Alexander fell in love with Mabel when she was 17, but it was an unreciprocated fancy. "He was tall and dark with jet-black hair and eyes, but dressed badly and carelessly," she said. "I could never marry such a man!" Despite her initial disinterest, she began to grow fond of him during his time as her speech teacher and their relationship evolved. After one of her first classes with him, a giddy Mabel wrote to her mother: "Mr. Bell said today my voice is naturally sweet." In a letter to Mabel on the night of their engagement, Alexander wrote, "I am afraid to fall asleep, lest I should find it all a dream — so I shall lie awake and think of you."
Photo: Mabel Hubbard Bell and Alexander Graham Bell. (National Geographic Society)
This Valentine's Day, enjoy a classic essay by Annalee Newitz about celebrating differently-defined love.(image: Shutterstock)
If that special person in your life has the right sense of humor, this card, designed by dandee and for sale on Etsy, may be just the thing to make them feel all smooshy inside without playing in too heavily to the Valentine's Day prisoner's dilemma game.
Luckily for Christopher Baker, who showed me this card, I do have the right sense of humor. Happy early Valentine's, babe.
Luckily for Christopher Baker, who showed me this card, I do have the right sense of humor. Happy early Valentine's, babe.
"My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. I'll be featuring posts in this series all week. Want to see them all? Check out the archive post. I'll update the full list there every morning.
Not every museum exhibit will survive untouched from your childhood to your grandchildrens'. Over time, historic and scientific accuracy, changing mores and aesthetics, and improvements in design will force some exhibits off the main stage and into the dusty storage room of memory.
But you can still love them from afar.
On this, the last day of "My Favorite Museum Exhibit" week, I'd like to include one man's tribute to a long-dismantled museum exhibit. Tom Luthman writes:
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I'd go to the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio (COSI). COSI opened in 1964, in the old Franklin County Memorial Hall, built in 1906. It closed in 1999, or rather, it moved to a new location, and most of the old exhibits didn't make the move.
One of the exhibits was THE TRIUMPH OF MAN, a leftover exhibit from the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, built by the Travelers Insurance Companies. You'd walk down a darkened corridor, and off in alcoves were 14 paper-mache scenes depicting the history of humanity. All accompanied by a recorded narration from the World's Fair. It was also sold in the gift shop as a 33-1/3 record, which we had.
Now, Luthman has put that recording to good use, incorporating it into a Flash-based recreation of THE TRIUMPH OF MAN* that will live online, long after the physical exhibit has decomposed in a landfill somewhere.
This is a really neat project and worth checking out, even if you don't have the emotional connection to THE TRIUMPH OF MAN that Luthman does. Just make sure you're someplace where you can crank up the sound and enjoy that sweet, sweet mid-20th-century triumphalism in stereo.
A virtual recreation of The TRIUMPH OF MAN
*Of course it's in all caps every time. It's THE TRIUMPH OF MAN, for god's sake.
The New York Times has an op-ed out today, which claims that fMRI studies show that, when people are exposed to a pretty, shiny, ringing iPhone, the experience lights up the part of their brains that signifies a deep, compassionate love for something. iPhones trigger the same brain activity that your parents and loved ones trigger, writes branding strategist Martin Lindstrom.
Clearly, this was going to turn out to wildly misleading. You love your iPhone like you love your mother is just not the kind of statement that passes a cursory bullshit inspection. And lots of people have handily debunked it, including a couple of actual nueroimaging specialists, Russ Poldrack and Tal Yarkoni.
So, how wrong was the NYT op-ed? Pretty damn wrong. Turns out, the part of the brain Martin Lindstrom identifies with lovey-dovey emotions is a lot more complicated than that. Here's Russ Poldrack:
Insular cortex may well be associated with feelings of love and compassion, but this hardly proves that we are in love with our iPhones. In Tal Yarkoni's recent paper in Nature Methods, we found that the anterior insula was one of the most highly activated part of the brain, showing activation in nearly 1/3 of all imaging studies! Further, the well-known studies of love by Helen Fisher and colleagues don't even show activation in the insula related to love, but instead in classic reward system areas.
And Tal Yarkoni adds a lot more to this:
... the insula (or at least the anterior part of the insula) plays a very broad role in goal-directed cognition. It really is activated when you're doing almost anything that involves, say, following instructions an experimenter gave you, or attending to external stimuli, or mulling over something salient in the environment.
So, by definition, there can't be all that much specificity to what the insula is doing, since it pops up so often. To put it differently, as Russ and others have repeatedly pointed out, the fact that a given region activates when people are in a particular psychological state (e.g., love) doesn't give you license to conclude that that state is present just because you see activity in the region in question. If language, working memory, physical pain, anger, visual perception, motor sequencing, and memory retrieval all activate the insula, then knowing that the insula is active is of very little diagnostic value.
I'd recommend reading Yarkoni's full post, because it also gets into some really fascinating nuance behind the neuroscience of addiction. Shorter version: We don't have a clear biomarker that signals addiction, or addictive behavior. You couldn't even diagnose an obviously addicted individual using neuroimaging. So you should beware of anybody who tells you that an fMRI study demonstrates that people are addicted to anything.
Eh'häusl ("Little Wedding House") is the "world's smallest hotel," located in Amberg, north of Munich. It dates to an 18th century ordinance that required couples to own a house before they got married, so some clever fellow slapped a roof and walls up to enclose a narrow alleyway between two other buildings. It wasn't intended to be livable, but rather to satisfy the formal requirement of "home ownership" for a marriage license. The house was passed from non-owning couple to non-owning couple for generations, and thus marriages continued in Amberg.
There is no reliable record of how long the practice continued, but the building survived, and in 2008 it received a complete refurbishment, transforming it into a luxury hotel. Total size? 56 square meters. Maximum number of guests at any one time? Two. [Google street view]
But there's more! According to an old legend told by the locals, couples who spend their wedding night at the tiny hotel are guaranteed
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Replacing Insinkerator Garbage Disposal
1/3 hp Badger. Broke this morning and flooded my cabinet under the sink. I want to get rid of entirely! Don't need one anyways. Is there something on the market that will just bolt right in and replace it with just pipe? The opening seems to be part of the sink. Some sort of adapter needed?
You will want to remove the drain that incorporates the ISE mounting and replace it with a conventional drain. This is a nuisance, of course, but not difficult. You'll find conventional drains at hardware stores, plumbing supply outlets, Lowes, Home Depot, etc.
Just be careful to remove all of the left over plumber's putty on the old one and put sufficient new PP to seal the new one.
Add piping/traps to complete the job and that's it. A little mess and a few curses and you'll have what you want.
Thanks for the fast reply!
My dishwasher drains into the Badger 1 which further complicates things.
Not sure what to do at this point. Think I will go to HD tomorrow and ask around. It might be easier for me just to replace it with a new one and and never use it.
Thanks again.
I don't know that you'll get away without using it if you replace it. Whatever washes in there or gets pumped in from the DW will mean you have to run it eventually. My wife is always forgetting to run it before running the DW and then it backs up in the sink when the DW drains.
Probably not what you want to hear, but I'd consider getting a sure-enough Insinkerator over the Badger. Higher power (3/4hp min) and a little better built even if by the same company. The extra cost might be worth it for it to work better and last longer. Shop around and see if you can get a deal.
My office has a Badger in the break room sink, and it's been replaced after burning out the motor. And that's with a very minimal load of stuff going through it, though I suspect that a plastic utensil did the deed.
Badgers are rubbish, but the line just above is fine...if you want it....but I don't think you do based on what you wrote.
You will have zero trouble connecting DW outlet to your new drain without disposal. Any hardware store or Lowe's or Home Depot attendant can show you what's needed. Very common request. Don't be intimidated by this.
If you want something that will last and work, get at least a one horsepower GD with a stainless steel grinding chamber.
While not much goes down ours anyway (old habits from having a septic system once) a decent unit should last at least 10+ years.
Got delayed for a few days, but finally finished yesterday.
No more Insinkerator for me, ever. Several employees in the plumbing department told me that used to be a good brand, but are getting numerous complants abt the casings cracking in less than ten years.
Mine must have been leaking for a long time before the bottom seam gave away.
One last thing... the Insinkerator basket had a retaining ring. Not easy to see unless you know it is there. Was driving me crazy trying to remove the basket. On my 3rd visit to the store one of the employees told me about it.
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Explore this bohemian neighbourhood, from art galleries and royal parks, to theatres and vintage markets, then retire to Walnut Tree House- a spectacular three bedroom, three bathroom home. Take tea in the grand drawing room, or retreat with the morning papers to the master dressing room, where antique armchairs and a cowhide rug lavish before two large sash windows. Downstairs, run your fingers along the culturally cultivated bookshelves and push gently to reveal a secret doorway. With stunning interiors, a fabulous garden, and an optional live-in butler, this home is about as glamorous as they come.
Down to earth
Your hosts are an interior designer and a barrister, and they share their home with their two young children. Her creativity and his discernment have helped make their hideaway a visual showstopper, and their mutual passion for travel means it's filled with the fruits of their wanderlust. Their eclectic musical taste and sonos soundsytem, mean she's often to be found listening to Bach in the dressing room while he's cooking up a storm in the kitchen with Amy Winehouse.
House detail
Don your safari gear and head off to explore this four storey sanctuary, stepping first into the huge ground floor drawing room, where African wood carvings and paintings set the tone for the rest of the home. Here, traditional style meets contemporary design, as antique mahogany sits alongside scorching hot pink upholstery.
Prepare for the lower ground floor to take your breath away, and descend to see the spotlights shimmer in the kitchen's myriad shiny surfaces. Brew yourself a Terranova coffee and admire the yards of chrome and granite, peppered with super high-end appliances.
Head through to the dining room, where ten can dine in style at the elegant Arts and Crafts table, before retiring to the sitting room to enjoy a digestif surrounded by a library of books. After a long day, the home-cinema's HD projector and wood burning stove will probably prove irrestible.
Up on the first floor, revel in the master suite, reclining on the Ottoman-style carved wooden bed, or enjoying some down time in the sensuously textured sitting area. The master ensuite, clad in limestone, with a tatami tiled shower tray is similarly high-end. Ascend to the second floor where the whimsically finished pink bedroom hosts a double bed, window seats and an antique rocking horse, or wander through to the bedroom next door and admire the oriental antiques juxtaposed against the wrought iron double bed. There's one more, spectacular bathroom to discover, best admired from the conceptual, angular bath. Lie back in our White Company bubbles, and be lulled by the light dancing across the clear glass and black ceramic tiles.
Off the beaten track
Walnut Tree House is just a stone's throw from the alt-chic atmosphere of central Camden, with its vintage markets and ever-thriving music scene. Wander farther afield by hopping on a 'Boris bike' (there are several docking stations nearby) and cycling down the Regents Canal to the galleries and flower markets of Hoxton, or the mansion-fringed waterways of Little Venice. Get a tube from Camden Town and be on Oxford Street in ten minutes.
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Booking a stay is as easy as booking a hotel room, with online payment and confirmation. You get the same attention to detail and personal service too.
Every home is properly cleaned before and after you stay, beds made (we can even do hospital corners) and bathrooms kitted out with luxury toiletries. There's a maid service if you want it, as well as other hotel-style amenities.
Once we've helped you settle in, we're just a call away, 24/7. If it's something we can't solve over the phone, we'll pop over to lend a hand.
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Walnut Tree House is just a stone's throw from the alt-chic atmosphere of central Camden, with its vintage markets and ever-thriving music scene. Wander farther afield by hopping on a 'Boris bike' (there are several docking stations nearby) and cycling down the Regents Canal to the galleries and flower markets of Hoxton, or the mansion-fringed waterways of Little Venice. Get a tube from Camden Town and be on Oxford Street in ten minutes.
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Dennis Dodd on SEC East, Big 12, North Dakota State and more
Dennis Dodd joins me once again for a "Doddcast" edition of the Eye On College Football Podcast, discussing everything from the title races in the SEC and Big 12 to North Dakota State.
Dennis was on the scene for South Carolina 's comeback at Missouri , so we begin with his take on the win and size up each team's SEC title hopes -- including which team could pose a bigger threat to Alabama's BCS title hopes. We then transition to the Big 12, where Texas has quietly become a realistic title contender and Baylor's toughest challenges await.
We then transition to a discussion of North Dakota State football. If you have't checked out Dennis' column, I suggest you give it a read. The Bison have a strong argument as one of the most successful programs in Division I, but there is very little desire from the administration to make a move to the FBS (like Georgia Southern, Appalachian State, and others).
We wrap with a discussion of sexiness in the Big Ten. I'll let you listen to figure out what that means.
Ways to Listen
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1 Bedroom
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2 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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4 Bedrooms
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Property Features
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Carlyle of Sandy Springs in Atlanta, GA
The Carlyle of Sandy Springs is a community offering a great residential environment, featuring newly upgraded upscale amenities and units coming in Spring 2015! Our Superior Customer Service will make you feel like you are talking to family! We offer one, two and three bedroom apartments and also two, three and four bedroom town homes. Whether you want to relax by our resort-style pool or sit by the fire pit while your dog plays in the dog park, The Carlyle is sure to have something for you! We are close to shopping, dining and easy access to the MARTA bus.
Special Features
- Large 1,2,3 Apartments and Townhomes
- Washer/Dryer Connections
- Olympic Sized Swimming Pool
- Private Patios/Balconies
- Linen and Coat Closets
- Minutes from I-285 & GA 400
- State-of-the-Art Fitness Center
- Great School District
- Huge Renovated Kitchens
- Clothes Care Center
- Close to Chattahoochee Recreation Center
- Breakfast Bars in Select Apartments
Community Features
- Apartment
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- Club House
- Controlled Access
- Courtyard
- Disability Access
- Electronic Lease Signing
- Entry Alarm System
- Fitness Center
- Freeway Access
- Garden Style
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Additional Information
Apartments in Community: 389
Apartment Amenities
- Air Conditioning
- Alarm System
- Broadband Internet Access
- Cable or Satellite
- Carpet
- Ceiling Fan
- Dishwasher
- Extra Storage
- Garbage Disposal
- Individual Locking Bedrooms
- Internet Access
- Large Bedrooms
- Patio or Balcony
- Private Bathroom
- Walk In Closets
- Washer Dryer Hookup
- Water Sewer and Trash
- Window Covering
Local Schools
- Dunwoody Springs Charter School
- North Springs High School
- Sandy Springs Middle School
We believe school data to be accurate, but do not guarantee that. Please be sure to verify where your children will attend school before making your housing decision.
Pet Policy
Maximum of 2 pets per home. We welcome 2 pets per apartment home. There is a $250 pet fee for each animal. There is a weight limit of 70 pounds per pet. Aggressive breed are prohibited.
- Cats Allowed
- Pets Allowed
- Small Dogs Allowed
Contact Carlyle of Sandy Springs
Carlyle of Sandy Springs
Office HoursSunday CLOSED-CLOSED Monday 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Tuesday 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Wednesday 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Thursday 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Friday 8:30 AM-5:30 PM Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
1, 2 and 3 Bedroom apartments and townhomes in Sandy Springs, GA. Carlyle of Sandy Springs offers washer dryer connections, large closets, private patios and balconies with French doors, and fully renovated kitchens. Conveniently located in north Sandy Springs/Dunwoody Georgia, Carlyle of Sandy Springs Apartment Homes is minutes to GA-400 and I-285 and upscale shopping only a short drive away.
Take I-285 to GA 400 North, exit #6 Northridge Road. Stay in center lane and continue to Roswell Road. Turn right on Roswell Road and follow to North River Parkway. Turn right and continue for approx. 1/4 mile. Carlyle of Sandy Springs is on right.
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A mental health consultant with offices in the New York area offers advice for parents who are considering whether they should send their child to therapy.
The National Institute of Mental Health defines the different types of psychotherapy that can be adapted for both children and adults.
For the ninth annual National Family History Day, make an effort to create an accurate picture of your family health history with the help of My Family Health Portrait, an online tool.
Dealing with procrastination woes? Are you putting off important tasks or events. Procrastinating leads to bad habits, relationships suffer, and professionalism declines. Dr. Jay Earley offers tips for breaking your procrastination habit and heading towards success.
By the time teens get through their growth spurts, about 90 percent of adult bone mass is established and after that, no more calcium can be deposited in the body's "bone bank."
Marla Tomazin, a Manhattan-based certified image consultant, shares her tips for avoiding stress during the holidays and how you can relax if you find that you are stressed.
From playing apps on the iPhone or iPad to sitting in front of a computer transfixed on role playing games and staring at a television to beat the next big boss in the latest video games, there's no doubt kids are spending a lot of hours playing video games. Experts from the Child Mind Institute delve into the effects playing video games may have on ADHD.
Strategies To Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation have partnered to bring parents a virtual guide with advice on how to talk to kids about obesity.
A certified nutritionist who has worked with many picky eaters over the years offers parents 7 tips for getting kids to try new and different foods.
Approved by a certified nutritionist and kids' cooking instructor, this recipe for pumpkin pie pasta is a simple and fun fall dinner idea that the whole family will love.
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Mom's health advice is well-meaning, but it may not always be accurate. Don't go outside with wet hair, or you'll catch a cold—false! This excerpt of Sue Castle's new book "Mother Knows Best? The Truth About Mom's Well-Meaning (But Not Always Accurate) Advice" explains how people really get sick.
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Serbia arrests suspects in Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslims
Prosecutors on Wednesday made Serbia's first arrests of people suspected of the Srebrenica massacre killings, The Associated Press has learned. It is a milestone in healing the wounds of Europe's worst civilian slaughter since World War II.
Serbian police arrested seven men accused of taking part in the slaughter of over 1,000 Muslims at a warehouse on the outskirts of Srebrenica, a joint team of Serbian and Bosnian prosecutors told the AP. Altogether, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed in the eastern Bosnian enclave by the Serbs in 1995 — the only atrocity in Europe to be labeled genocide by the United Nations since World War II.
The prosecutors said they were searching for more suspects in Serbia and in neighboring countries.
Serbia in the past has put on trial men who took a group of prisoners away from Srebrenica to be killed. And in 2011 it arrested Ratko Mladic — the warlord who masterminded the slaughter — and sent him to an international criminal court in The Hague, Netherlands. But Wednesday's arrests were Serbia's first attempt to bring to justice men who got their hands bloody in the killing machine known as the Srebrenica massacre 20 years ago this July. »»» The China Post
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Denying voters' rights?
In light of last year's U.S. v. Windsor Supreme Court ruling that states have the "historic and essential authority" to regulate marital relations within their borders, and the federal government should not disrespect this authority by ignoring state's marriage laws, plaintiffs' claim to a constitutional "right" to homosexual "marriage" is untenable.
Florida voters, including plaintiffs, got the chance to rule on the issue of marriage in the historic 2008 elections that ordained marriage as the union of one man, one woman.
Those disagreeing with how Florida voters ruled, can always gather the required number of signatures and let Florida voters decide again in a democratic election. What they cannot do is to come around, nearly six years later, and ask one judge to throw out 8 million votes.
Yes, rogue judges in other states have denied citizens their constitutional rights. But does this justify the possibility of Judge Sarah Zabel denying Floridians due process, equal protection and voter rights?
Wasn't Florida's attorney general clear when she informed Zabel that she is legally bound by the Windsor ruling and, therefore, precluded from overruling the will of Florida's voters? Surely Zabel doesn't think she's above the law, does she?
Anthony Verdugo, founder and executive director, Christian Family Coalition Florida, Miami
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