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The Mississippi SIDS Alliance, Inc. provides support services to families who are or may be touched by the tragedy of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The Alliance also provides training and education on SIDS and Safe Sleep environment to professionals, low social economic communities/ individuals and to the disadvantaged high risk populations. The Mississippi SIDS Alliance also supports research to help find a cure for this devastating syndrome.
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Education to expectant and newly delivered parents on risk reduction factors for sudden infant death syndrome and safe sleep environments for babies. Over 500 families have been reached in the last fiscal year.
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In partnership with Cribs for Kids of PA, pack-n-play cribs are distributed to families who are in desperate need of a crib. These cribs are distributed out only by the use of a strict referral protocol. In 2011, 367 cribs were distributed to Mississippi families who do not have the means to provide a seperate sleep environment for their infant.
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With a grant from the Mississippi State Department of Health Office of Tobacco Control, the MS SIDS Alliance continues to deliver a no smoking message to any caregiver, parent, grandparent, friend or family member involved in an infant's life. The importance of pre-natal care, not smoking during preganancy or after the birth of an infant, and no smoking at all around an infant is emphasized. Participants are given information on how to quit smoking, along iwth the Back to Sleep: Safe Sleep message for their infants.
Peer Contact Volunteer Program
The Mississippi SIDS Alliance is establishing a Peer Contact Program in order to foster a crucial connection between family members who have suffered the death of an infant from SIDS. Fellow SIDS family members who have reconciled their own grief are capable of helping newly-bereaved families in ways that may be beyond the experience of relatives, friends, and professionals. Peer contacts will share themselves and their experiences with grieving families through telephone calls, home visits, and written communication. Peer contacts must be a minimum of 18 months past the death of their child. Each peer contact will attend a training session and receive an acceptable evaluation from the Peer Contact Coordinator. If anyone is interested in participating in this program, please call Cathy Files at 601-955-1057 or Leslie Threadgill at 601-573-1458.
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The Mississippi SIDS Alliance held its First Annual Memorial Service at St. Richard Catholic Church on December 14, 2008. The memorial service was very special for all those who attended. It was great to celebrate our precious babies and how much they meant to us, as well as the happiness they brought and still bring to our lives. All of the Mississippi babies' names were read, and if their family was present, they were invited to come up to the Memory Tree for an ornament to take home with them. There was also a candlelighting and responsive poem reading. At the end of the service, everyone left with a candle to take home to light that night in conjunction with Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting.
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Environmental and Architectural Acoustics
2nd Edition
By Z. Maekawa, Jens H. Rindel, P. Lord
CRC Press – 2011 – 366 pages
CRC Press – 2011 – 366 pages
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to the practice of achieving a more acceptable acoustic environment, this book draws on the same basic principles to cover both the outdoors and indoor space. It starts with the fundamentals of sound waves and hearing and goes on to the measurement of noise and vibration, room acoustics, sound absorption, airborne sound insulation and noise and vibration control.
This serves as a foundation reference for students of architecture and environmental engineering, including those new to the study of acoustics. Problem-solving exercises are provided at the end of each chapter. The authors focus on techniques, methods and standards and lead into further more specialized material which makes the book useful for more advanced students and professional engineers.
Fundamentals of Sound Waves and Hearing. Sound Waves. Speed of Sound. Impetence. Noise and Vibration – Measurement and Rating. Measurement of Sound/Noise. Noise Rating. Measurement of Vibration. Room Acoustics. Sound Field in a Room. Normal Modes of Vibration in Rooms. Reverberation Time. Sound Absorption – Materials and Construction. Types of Sound Absorption Mechanisms. Measurement of Absorption Coefficient and Acoustic Impetence. Characteristics of Porous Sound Absorber. Airborne Sound Insulation. Propagation and Transmission of Airborne Sound. Measurement and Rating of Airborne Sound Insulation. Mass Law for Sound Insulation of a Single Wall. Isolation of Structure-borne Noise and Vibration. Propagation and Radiation of Structure-borne Sound. Reduction of Structure-borne Noise. Measurement and Rating of Impact Sound Insulation. Noise and Vibration Control in the Environment. Basic Strategy. Determination of Required Reduction. Plan for Dealing with Noise and Vibration Sources. Acoustic Design of Rooms. Design Target. Design of Room Shape. Planning the Reverberation. Electro-acoustic systems. Function and Aim of Electro-acoustic Systems. Reinforcement Systems and Architectural Design. Prevention of Howling. Agenda. Wave Equation. Analogues in Electrical, Mechanical and Acoustic Systems and Time Constant. Fourier Transformation and Correlation Functions.
Z. Maekawa is Professor Emeritus at the Environmental Acoustics Laboratory in Osaka, Japan. He is a former Vice-President of INCE/Japan and past member of the International Commission on Acoustics.
J. H. Rindel is former Professor at the Technical University of Denmark and Managing Director of Odeon Room Acoustics Software, Denmark.
P. Lord is former Professor at the University of Salford, UK.
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Photography is changing & I'm torn. Help!
I think I have an eye for how to compose a good photo and I've taken some great ones over the years, but I've never had a great camera. I'm also a dedicated light packer and a person who likes things as simple as possible. It seems to me that we now have three levels of photography led by the newcomer on the block, the smartphone (or similar device). Then you have pocket cameras and SLR's. The pocket camera has always been my choice (usually a better Canon), but they are getting challenged by better smartphone cameras. Since that device does so much else that makes travel easier, I love the idea of that being a decent camera, too. It appeals to my simpler-is-better side. Then you have SLR's that appeal to my artistic side since they have so much more potential for artistry. But all that potential comes at the cost of simplicity. The fact is, almost all of my favorite photos are only viewed and enjoyed on the screen of my computer. I've never printed a photo larger than 8x10 and don't expect to. The SLR seems like overkill under these circumstances. The only thing that seems certain to me is that my pocket-sized Canon is soon to be a dinosaur, made obsolete by continually improving smartphone cameras. It no longer feels like the right choice for me, but choosing an SLR would be a drastic change that might cramp my simpler-is-better style. Help!


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This may be old news but Norway Tankers have been participating in a program where they use an Oculus Rift headset for better visibility when driving under "hostile" conditions, basically any time they would need to close down their hatches a mounted camera system pipes in a 3D surround view to the Rift and the tanker can drive relatively unimpeded. (the latency in the kits at time of writing provide too many problems for extended wear.) I was recently watching Patlabor 2 (1993) and when I came across the photos of these norwegian tankers it blew my mind a little. The mechanical design of Oshii's films always seemed grounded and realistic but damn, that's pretty fucking close.
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In the time since Grand Theft Auto V's release on new generation platforms, we've received lots of questions from the community about what is in store for the future, including the highly anticipated launch of Online Heists...
Dropbox bug in Selective Sync feature accidentally deletes some user files
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As we become increasingly attached to our phones for work and play it's very important that our data is safely backed up and it can be easily moved between devices when it's time for an upgrade. Without a proper management suite this can be quite a chore. Enter Moborobo.
Synology DS2413+ NAS Review: For when you're serious about storage
The DS2413+ is Synology's newest twelve-bay DiskStation NAS for small to medium sized businesses who need loads of storage. Along with supporting up to 48TB worth of drives out of the box, the DS2413+ can be paired with the company's DX1211 expansion enclosure that houses an extra 12 drives, doubling the maximum storage capacity of the base unit to a whopping 96TB.
We should also make a quick note before you get to the end and scoff at the price: the DS2413+ isn't for average home users. It's retailing for $1,700 without drives or the 12-bay expansion. With that in mind, let's see what the DS2413+'s upgrades offer.
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Hoping to drive small and medium business sales, NAS-makers have been pushing to deliver enterprise features such as cloud storage, virtualization support, automated backup software and iSCSI support. There's also been an effort to include technologies such as Link Aggregation, which can increase network bandwidth when dealing with multiple users and also provides redundancy in case one of the links fails.
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Trend changes in global greening and browning: contribution of short-term trends to longer-term change
Article first published online: 7 NOV 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02578.x
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Global Change Biology
Volume 18, Issue 2, pages 642–655, February 2012
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de Jong, R., Verbesselt, J., Schaepman, M. E. and de Bruin, S. (2012), Trend changes in global greening and browning: contribution of short-term trends to longer-term change. Global Change Biology, 18: 642–655. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02578.x
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- Issue published online: 12 JAN 2012
- Article first published online: 7 NOV 2011
- Accepted manuscript online: 11 OCT 2011 12:35AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 15 SEP 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 9 SEP 2011
- Manuscript Received: 24 MAY 2011
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- global greening and browning;
- gradual and abrupt change detection;
- time series analysis;
- trend breaks
Field observations and time series of vegetation greenness data from satellites provide evidence of changes in terrestrial vegetation activity over the past decades for several regions in the world. Changes in vegetation greenness over time may consist of an alternating sequence of greening and/or browning periods. This study examined this effect using detection of trend changes in normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) satellite data between 1982 and 2008. Time series of 648 fortnightly images were analyzed using a trend breaks analysis (BFAST) procedure. Both abrupt and gradual changes were detected in large parts of the world, especially in (semi-arid) shrubland and grassland biomes where abrupt greening was often followed by gradual browning. Many abrupt changes were found around large-scale natural influences like the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 and the strong 1997/98 El Niño event. The net global figure – considered over the full length of the time series – showed greening since the 1980s. This is in line with previous studies, but the change rates for individual short-term segments were found to be up to five times higher. Temporal analysis indicated that the area with browning trends increased over time while the area with greening trends decreased. The Southern Hemisphere showed the strongest evidence of browning. Here, periods of gradual browning were generally longer than periods of gradual greening. Net greening was detected in all biomes, most conspicuously in croplands and least conspicuously in needleleaf forests. For 15% of the global land area, trends were found to change between greening and browning within the analysis period. This demonstrates the importance of accounting for trend changes when analyzing long-term NDVI time series.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Patriots linebacker
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While players have been given the option to wear pink cleats this month as part of the NFL's breast cancer awareness campaign, players are prohibited from wearing any other cleats that don't align with the rest of their teammates/team colorsĀ (the Patriots wear blue and white cleats).
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Friday, 14 Nov 2008 10:09 AM
Former Vice President Al Gore has sent out a mass e-mail asking for supporters' contributions to help Democrats win the three undecided U.S. Senate races and attain a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority.
"On Election Day, we won six new seats, giving us a total of 57 Democratic senators," Gore wrote in the e-mail sent on Friday. "Now we have a chance to get even closer to a filibuster-proof majority."
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee "is in a one-month sprint to run an entirely new campaign in Georgia, at the same time doing everything we can to support crucial recounts in Alaska and Minnesota. That's why a group of Democratic senators will match every dollar you give so we can raise the $100,000 we need before midnight tonight."
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Excitement surrounded first lady Barbara Bush Thursday from the moment she stepped out of her limousine onto the school parking lot. She had come with federal and state officials to kick off Maryland's participation in "America 2000," the president's initiative to increase high school graduation rates, improve student competency and ensure that children are prepared to start school.


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On Wednesday, Nats players were spotted in Viera wearing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Hurlers" shirts featuring the heads of Rafael Soriano, Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard, and Craig Stammen photoshopped onto the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, per this Tweet from MASN's Dan Kolko: Another day, another photoshop by Nationals fan @ambp77 infiltrates the Washington Nationals clubhouse. Last year, it was Edwin Jackson and Ross Detwiler as "The Other Guys". A few weeks ago, it was Detwiler decorating Ryan Zimmerman's locker with safari-themed photoshops. The original photoshop is above, via ambp77's Tumblr. Now all we need is an actual photo of one of the shirts on an actual player. Befriend Nats Enquirer on Facebook. Follow on Twitter.
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"Brainiac Part 3: Greetings"
Writer: Geoff Johns
Penciller: Gary Frank
Inker: Jon Sibal
Reviewed by: Adam Dechanel
Her return has woken the male libido in literally every male member of staff.
A shining moment for the gossip queen, until she makes her first enemy via a spilled big belly cola...
Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, arrives searching for Clark but it turns out he's off on assignment. Kara thanks the older lady and is about to leave when said lady tugs on her cape - angrily. Cat takes great offense to being referred to with an ageist term even if it was polite and respectful.
Kara is about to retaliate when she notices something seriously wrong with Cat's physiology... (no I WONT spoil it - suffice to say Kara finally acts like 'a stranger from another planet') enter Lois who shuts Kara up and fabricates a reason to get Kara alone.
Kara explains that despite searching she can't find Clark, the cousin she was meant to be looking out for and as it turns out the fear in the pit of her stomach is warranted.
Clark is unconscious aboard Brainiac's ship probed by his sentries and roachbots. The probe is two way and Clark sees Brainiac's true history. Enraged Clark awakens and demolishes the droids keeping him captive and rips an endoscope from his stomach via his mouth.
Choking up bile and physically drained Clark sees Brainiac has a zoo of pods all containing a living species of a different race. He barely has time to react before a Coluan baboon creature attacks him. Clark makes short work of him and now composure regained he makes his way into the main control chamber.
Upon entering he discovers hundreds, perhaps thousands of bottled cities, including something that amazes him... the one true Kandor! Tri-Circles begin lighting up all over the ship and Clark discovers the pilot who slowly rises from his mechanical cocoon; a 7 foot Coluan man... Brainiac!
Brainiac immediately claims ownership of Superman with physical force! Clark fights back determined to free Brainiac's prisoners. Brainiac shrugs it off and explains without fail he will be perfection evolved - the ultimate vessel of knowledge and power.
Jonathan and Martha meanwhile are worrying about their son, lost in space somewhere. Martha feels that somehow this villain Clark is facing spells something gloomy for their future. Jonathan however is more positive and, almost like a sign, he asks Martha to picture their son soaring through the skies like a bird... only to have one literally fall from the sky and die at their feet...
Back in space Brainiac explains he thought he had a perfect sample of Kryptonian life - the only sample, but one of his probes, had discovered Superman but for whatever reason didn't lead him to the Kryptonian and had left the Coluan on a quest across the universes to find him but the idiotic Kryptonian had searched him out!
Clark comes to realize after Brainiac drains information from a selected planet he ensures its destruction and moves on... could he have deliberately caused Rao to go nova? Brainiac is unimpressed, he had been in stasis for three centuries, his probes doing his work for him, but the promise of a Kryptonian brought up on another world was something that demanded his attention.
An insult to the House of El crest and the Kryptonian flag encourages Clark to fight... a poor fight filled with anger and Brainiac is unfazed. The Sunstone ship Clark arrived in stored a flight path to a world promising a wealth of information. So despite Clark being a pathetic specimen, he's inadvertently sold out his adopted homeworld... and his cousin!
Clark is horrified but this one true Brainiac is too much for him.
Kara and Lois are atop the Daily Planet and Kara proves she isn't as bad as her own book has painted her thus far, she points out to Lois she is Clark's protector, not the other way around. If Clark was on a deadly mission, she should have gone with him!
Steve Lombard is the first to notice what happens next, while watching a footballs game his electrical equipment suddenly dies, and quickly Metropolis is drained of power.
Kara looks skyward and sees something she thought would never threaten her again - a Brainiac probe...
Steve looks up in the sky beyond the probe and whispers, fear filtering through his voice "Where the hell's Superman?"
To be continued...
Story - 5: I'm at a loss for words, this arc has made me remember why I love the Superman Family.
In three pages Geoff does what I thought was now impossible - he fixes Supergirl. He makes the Daily Planet a workplace again and intersperses characterization, comedy, dread, horror... I'm curious as to whether the space pirate 'third' Kryptonian has been erased from existence as Brainiac focuses on Kara and also doesn't reference the little dog too...
I did like that Clark was depicted as slightly inept because it finally makes Brainiac a force that is perhaps the deadliest enemy Superman has ever faced. Does that mean the rogue probe 'Milton Fine' is gone too?
Who will die... Martha or Jonathan... it's almost too much (I say almost)...
Argghhh this book is SO good its like chocolate chip cookie dough! MORE please!
Art - 5: Faultless, I don't think I need to say anything else do I?
Cover Art - 5: Brainiac scares me... in a H.R Giger kind of way and this cover has me yelling, Clark, TURN AROUND AND WALK AWAY... NOW. When a cover emotes a reaction that isn't 'meh' you know it's something special.
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Working together, a swarm of ants can haul a piece of food 10 times their size up a steep slope. And, somehow, workers streaming to and from the nest always seem to settle on the shortest path to a food source.
Recently engineers have taken notice of the insects' impressive use of collaboration and have started finding ways to apply it to problems in the world of humans.
"Ants have been around for 50-90 million years," says Eric Bonabeau, a telecommunications engineer and biologist who conducted studies on ant colonies at the Sante Fe Institute. "That might be the reason why they've got a good system down that doesn't require complex units."
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The ant, itself, Bonabeau points out, is not a complex unit. In fact, all of its movements are based on immediate reactions to its surroundings or to its fellow ants. Put those ants together, however, and a sophisticated system emerges. Some scientists call it a collective intelligence.
Take, for example, the ability of ants to find the shortest path to a food source. When an obstacle, such as a stick or even a person's foot, blocks the most direct path, ants very quickly find the next best route.
Translate that ability to glitches on the Internet or roadways or in telephone lines and the ant can offer some solutions. If the nodes on one Internet network are clogged with too much traffic, it's sometimes necessary to reroute new traffic. The same problem occurs with telephone lines that become tied up or trucking routes that become congested by holiday traffic.
Ants get around the problem by laying down a thin layer of signaling chemicals called pheromones wherever they travel. When other ants detect these pheromones, they instinctively follow the path the chemicals mark. The thicker the pheromone trail, the more likely other ants will follow the path.
Because the ants that follow the shortest path are also those first to make a return trip to the food source, their pheromone trail quickly becomes thicker. The heavier pheromone scents attract more ants and the shortest path is even further reinforced.
Meanwhile, there are always some ants that follow their own trail and explore new routes. These individuals also lay pheromone trails as they go. So when, say, a rock tumbles across the main route and traffic is jammed, the ants are ready with a backup path. Rarely used, inefficient routes are eventually abandoned as the pheromone trails marking them evaporate.
"Ants are not adaptive, themselves," explains Marco Dorigo, a computer scientist at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium, and coauthor with Bonabeau of a study on ant swarming in this week's issue of Nature. "It is the ant colony as a whole that adapts to the changing problem."
To build on the technique that they observed in ants, Dorigo and Bonabeau devised a system they call the Traveling Salesman Problem. In this scenario, virtual ants travel to every point on a given electronic map. When they reach a node that is highly useful (by offering say, a traffic-free zone or a powerful connector) they are programmed to release more virtual pheromones. Other virtual ants then follow this preferred route and eventually the best path is mapped out on the network.


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GOLDEN GATE ESTATES - The voters spoke, and Collier County officials listened.
Collier County's planning commission on Thursday paved the way for developers to build a 41-acre shopping center in Golden Gate Estates. Planning commissioners gave the project the approvals — for a commercial planned unit development, or PUD, and an amendment to the Golden Gate Area Master Plan — needed before it could go to Collier County commissioners for final approval.
Planning commissioners said they were hesitant about the project, but were supporting it because it won overwhelming support among voters in a November straw poll.
"They said they wanted it," said Planning Commissioner Bob Murray. "...The people have voted."
The project is planned for the northwest corner of Golden Gate and Wilson boulevards. While the project could span up to 190,000 square feet, planning commissioners approved a PUD that does not allow developers to exceed 170,000 square feet.
A grocery store will anchor the center, and the developer plans to target restaurants, banks and other service businesses. There are no liquor stores, bars or housing in the works; and Rich Yovanovich, the Naples attorney who represents the developer, said there won't be high-traffic anchors like a Walmart or Lowe's.
"We're a hybrid between a community center and a neighborhood center," Yovanovich said. "We think it's a good project, (and) the voters think it's a good project."
The center has been on the drawing board for years, but faced opposition from change-resistant residents who don't think it belonged in their rural neighborhood.
Mark Teaters, a past president of the Golden Gate Estates Area Civic Association, was among the residents who spoke out against the project Thursday. Teaters said the project didn't support the master plan and would alter the rural feel of Golden Gate Estates.
"This is a big deal," he said. "This is a game changer for Golden Gate Estates. This is something that ... can possibly change the rural environment."
Lori Burns agreed. Burns said she bought her home on Third Street Northwest as a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of Florida's east coast.
The shopping center, she said, could put a damper on that.
"It is unprecedented in a rural area," she said.
But proponents for the project said times have changed, and a grocery store and shopping center are desperately needed in this part of the community.
"We like the size. Golden Gate Estates is different from any place in the city, we have the space," said Fred Rump. "We need a shopping center that's long enough to serve as a place where people want to go."
They should have that soon, but planning commissioners took steps this week to ensure the rural culture is preserved.
Planning commissioners attached more than 20 stipulations to the project before approving the PUD and master plan amendment. The bulk of those stipulations were directed at maintaining the quality of life.
The board's decision means:
• no outdoor music is permitted in the development;
• fast food amplification systems at drive-thru windows can only be on from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.;
• gas stations and convenience stores can be open from 5 a.m. to midnight;
• a 6-foot sound wall; and
• outdoor dining can be for food service only.
Under the outdoor dining scenario, alcohol can be served as an accessory to the meal, but Yovanovich said the developer will take steps to ensure a restaurant doesn't morph into a bar.
Those steps include closing all restaurants at 11 p.m. Outdoor dining spaces will close an hour earlier.
Still those measures didn't pacify all of the county's planning commission members. Planning Commissioner Diane Ebert opposed both the PUD and the master plan amendment, while planning Commissioner Brad Schiffer opposed just the PUD request.
Schiffer cited his displeasure with the PUD's design as the reason he opposed.
Ebert, however, said the entire project was "incompatible with the neighborhood."
The project will now go before Collier County commissioner in September for approval.
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By Derrick Mahone
DULUTH -- They needed a spark.
Forest Park coach Steven Cole was looking for somebody to provide some firepower to an otherwise struggling offensive output.
That glimmer of offensive hope came from an unlikely source - sophomore Raven Wynn. With two of the teams usual offensive sparkplugs - Kierra Dennis and Cydni Bivins - struggling, Wynn was instrumental in a comeback effort that came up short.
She came off the bench to score 12 points in 13 minutes and lead a second-half charge before the Lady Panthers lost 55-45 to Fayette County in the Class AAAA title game at the Arena at Gwinnett Center.
"I just made up my mind that I had to play with a lot of heart," Wynn said. "I just had to give it my all for the team."
It was Wynn's quickness on the Lady Panthers' fullcourt press that was key in forcing Fayette County into 21 second-half turnovers. With Wynn scoring five third quarter points, Forest Park outscored the Lady Tigers 14-6 as it trailed 38-27 going into the final quarter.
Forest Park would cut the led to 45-42 with 3:29 remaining. The Lady Panthers could get no closer. All but two of Wynn's points came on free throws.
"It has been someone every game that has stepped up for us," Cole said. "Raven played well. We expect her to do a lot of us next year. She was really able to match their speed."
Wynn is the younger sister of former Mount Zion wide receiver Austin Smith, who signed a football scholarship with South Carolina State last month.
With three senior starters graduating, Wynn could earn a spot in the lineup next season. She has gotten significant playing time in the Lady Panthers last three playoff games.
In Wednesday's semifinals come-from-behind win over top-ranked Douglas County, junior Cydni Bivins ignited the Forest Park offense with consecutive 3-pointers.
This time it was Wynn's quickness, hustle and free throws that sparked a comeback effort.
"She stepped up," senior Nikki Wilson said.
"Someone had to step up, and Raven was that person," Bivins said.
During halftime, Cole told his team to play with pride and make it respectable game. The Lady Panthers nearly went a step further and nearly completed a comeback win.
"We took what coach Cole said to heart," Wynn said. "We didn't want to get blown out of here. We had to fight through to the end. Fought until the buzzer sounded."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mikhail Prokhorov said Friday he decided to fire Avery Johnson last week, but now wants patience with interim coach P.J. Carlesimo.
Nets turn to Carlesimo, but for how long?
A day after dismissing Johnson after just 28 games, Prokhorov said he won't rush into a coaching search, insisting he wants Carlesimo to have a chance to lead the Brooklyn Nets out of their slump.
The Russian billionaire cut short a vacation to British Columbia to travel to New York, where he plans to meet Saturday with Carlesimo. But even with big names such as Phil Jackson potentially available and Prokhorov vowing to spend whatever it takes to build a championship team, he said repeatedly that Carlesimo was the head coach.
Prokhorov did say that if the Nets do look for a new coach, he would be personally involved. He wouldn't discuss anyone by name, even joking he had never heard of Jackson, the 11-time champion coach.
"Now P.J. is the head coach and if it becomes necessary, you know who the usual suspects are," Prokhorov told reporters at halftime of the Nets' 97-81 victory over Charlotte.
Johnson led the Nets to an 11-4 start, winning Eastern Conference coach of the month honors for November. But they were just 3-10 in December before Friday, had been blown out of their previous two games, and Prokhorov said the Nets were lacking team spirit.
Still, deciding Johnson would be fired last week means Prokhorov had made up his mind even before the lackluster Christmas performance at home against Boston that preceded a rout Wednesday in Milwaukee.
"I think we have very talented players but they are capable of much more than what we have seen in the recent weeks," Prokhorov said. "I respect Avery and really I wish him well, but sometimes chemistry just isn't right. It happens.
"I think the main question is why we were unable to bounce back and to play like champions," he added.
Prokhorov added around $300 million in payroll this summer and has set the expectations high, saying he believes the Nets can reach the Eastern Conference finals. Though it's believed he wouldn't back away from paying top dollar for a coach, he left open the possibility that he may already have the guy he wants.
"P.J. is the head coach and just I think we have a lot of trust in him and really I want him to lead the team," Prokhorov said.
The Nets played with energy under Carlesimo after forward Gerald Wallace had criticized the team following Wednesday's 108-93 loss in Milwaukee in Johnson's last game.
"To me, it's kind of frustrating and sad because that's the first time in my career that a coach's been let go in the middle of the season like that," Wallace said. "But I understand the business part of it. We move on and obviously regardless of who's sitting at the head of the chair, we know what we got to do as players."
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iTunes has one minute & thirty second samples of all the new songs on Ben's upcoming album Give Till It's Gone. Click on "View In iTunes" to access the clips. Here is the link:
Here is a link to a one minute clip of Ben Harper's new song 'Don't Give Up On Me Now' (you have to scroll down a little to get to the player):
It looks like this song has been released in France as the first single from Give Till It's Gone. I found several French sites with short clips of the new song, but I couldn't find the full version. I will keep looking and post it here if I find it. It sounds great! I can't wait to hear the entire song!
Rock N Roll Is Free
Ben Harper
Format: MP3 Download
Original Release Date: April 5, 2011
Song Title 1. Rock N' Roll Is Free - Time 4:21
I noticed the version that will be available at Amazon is almost a full minute longer than the version that Ursus was nice enough to post a link to here http://www.benharper.com/#/blogs/rock-n-roll-free-listen-here. Maybe this longer version will have a longer slide guitar solo from Ben! I like the artwork for the single. I can't wait for this album to come out!


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Has anyone taken them? Do you think it helped? Any side effects? My DD was born at 36 weeks and DS was 33 so I'm looking into taking these during my next pregnancy. TIA
Progesterone Shots?
DD (4 years) and DS (2 years)
Expecting #3 March 29, 2010
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Doing them right now. Did them with my DD after DS was born at 29 weeks. I carried my DD to 37w5d. Right now I am 22 weeks. I started them at 12 weeks this time instead of 16 weeks. Will continue them until 36 weeks. They absolutely help.
DS 4/23/00 born at 29 weeks, DD 8/30/05 full term, DD 7/24/09 successful unplanned VBAC with NO EPIDURAL!!
well in my case a combination of p17 shots, cerclage, procardia and bed rest are helping me to stay pregnant longer, my last pregnancy was only 26 weeks, now i am 34 weeks, i started the progesterone shots at 22 weeks, and my husband or i put the shot every week, i get the medicine on the mail.
Joshua born @ 22 weeks 07-11-07 stillborn
Josue born @ 26 weeks 05-04-08 & doing great
Sara due 05-02-2009 cerclage & p17 shots
I started them w/my 2nd son ( first son was born at 20 wks ) at 15 wks and I honestly can't say whether they helped or not, Kellar was born at 26 wks. I had a cerclage placed at 13 wks as well so did the shots help me make it to 26 wks or was it the cerclage, neither of them helped me make it as far as we had hoped and prayed though I am very thankful for whatever got me as far along as I was.
Kellar 26 wks now 4
Baby Girl Londyn or Kinley due Dec...
praying for a healthy baby girl!!!!


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Category: Air & Climate ×
Subcategory: VOC control ×
Keyword: voc emissions ×
Location: Europe ×
Location: Romania ×
VOC Technology
based in Örnsköldsvik, SWEDEN
VOC Technology is a Swedish company located in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. VOC Technology delivers complete air purification systems to a wide range of industries that generate VOC emissions. Typical applications of our products are in the painting, printing, pharmaceutical, chemical, plastic, manufacturing and sewage treatment industries. `VOC means Volatile Organic ...
Opgal Optronic Industries Ltd.
based in Karmiel, ISRAEL
OPGAL Optronics Industries is a leading global manufacturer of innovative thermal imaging safety systems and infrared cameras. OPGAL developed and manufactured the EyeCGas, a fugitive emission detection thermal imager, capable of gas leak detection from a distance of VOC`s and other gases. OPGAL offers the widest selection of infrared cooled and uncooled OEM cameras and ...
Johnson Matthey Emission Control Technologies
based in Royston, UNITED KINGDOM
A British company with global operations, Johnson Matthey is a world leader in the development and supply of catalytic systems for air pollution control. Catalyst technology from Johnson Matthey helps to control exhaust emissions from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution, including passenger cars and motorcycles, trucks and buses, constructions equipment, as ...
Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H.
based in Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
IONICON is the world's leading producer of trace gas analyzers with market-leading, real-time, single-digit pptv-level detection limits for VOCs using the unique Proton Transfer Reaction – Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS) and Selective Reagent Ionization – Mass Spectrometry (SRI-MS) technology. IONICON also produces trace calibration devices for analytical instruments and ...
22 Zero Four Consulting Ltd
based in Cardiff, UNITED KINGDOM
VOC / Emission Monitoring & Process Development Specialists Welcome to 22 Zero Four the number one online destination for environmental monitoring equipment. With full Mcerts accreditation, and EPA equivalence, all our high quality equipment sets the benchmark in air quality and emissions compliance. At 22 Zero Four we have an extensive range of environmental monitoring ...
Chemisch Thermische Prozesstechnik GmbH / CTP Air Pollution Control
based in Graz, AUSTRIA
CTP (Chemisch Thermische Prozesstechnik GmbH) is one of the world`s leading companies in air pollution control for industrial applications. CTP was founded in 1985 and since then, its engineers, chemists and researchers have been developing individual technologies to serve customers worldwide, covering all industrial sectors. At CTP, we adhere to high quality standards ...
Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc.
based in Milwaukee, WISCONSIN (USA)
Anguil Environmental Systems is a global provider of industrial air pollution control, emission abatement and energy recovery systems. We design, manufacturer, service and install thermal and catalytic oxidation technologies as well as heat recovery systems for a variety of applications and industries.
Baseline a MOCON company
based in Lyons, COLORADO (USA)
Baseline® offers the ultimate environmental measurement solutions package. With a complete line of gas analysis equipment that is ideal for Toxic Workplace Gas and Indoor Air Quality Monitoring, Environmental Source Monitoring and Ambient Air Networks. With measurement solutions for BTEX, Total Hydrocarbons, Methane / NonMethane as well as many others. The GreenLight® ...
Tecam Group
based in Llinars del Vallès, SPAIN
Tecam Group offers advanced environmental technology to reduce Air Pollution Emissions and to incinerate Industrial Waste, both generated during production processes from the Industry. Tecam Group designs, manufactures and installs Thermal Oxidizers (TO), Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO), Regenerative Catalytic Oxidizers (RCO), Zeolite Rotor-Concentrator + ...
Logical Technology, Inc.
based in Peoria, ILLINOIS (USA)
LOGICAL provides MSDS and Environmental Management Software and Online Solutions featuring exceptional regulatory compliance resources for your employees. LOGICAL has customizable solutions for managing MSDS sheets, providing Right-to-Know MSDS access, tracking chemical inventory, insuring permit compliance, and generating environmental regulatory reports. In addition, ...


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Carbon nanotubes offer big promise in a small package. For instance, these tiny cylinders of carbon molecules theoretically can carry 1,000 times more electric current than a metal conductor of the same size. It's easy to imagine carbon nanotubes replacing copper wiring in future nanoscale electronics.
Butnot so fast. Recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggest device reliability is a major issue.
Copper wires transport power and other signals among all the parts of integrated circuits; even one failed conductor can cause chip failure. As a rough comparison, NIST researchers fabricated and tested numerous nanotube interconnects between metal electrodes. NIST test results, described at a conference this week,* show that nanotubes can sustain extremely high current densities (tens to hundreds of times larger than that in a typical semiconductor circuit) for several hours but slowly degrade under constant current. Of greater concern, the metal electrodes failthe edges recede and clumpwhen currents rise above a certain threshold. The circuits failed in about 40 hours.
While many researchers around the world are studying nanotube fabrication and properties, the NIST work offers an early look at how these materials may behave in real electronic devices over the long term. To support industrial applications of these novel materials, NIST is developing measurement and test techniques and studying a variety of nanotube structures, zeroing in on what happens at the intersections of nanotubes and metals and between different nanotubes. "The common link is that we really need to study the interfaces," says Mark Strus, a NIST postdoctoral researcher.
In another, related study published recently,** NIST researchers identified failures in carbon nanotube networksmaterials in which electrons physically hop from tube to tube. Failures in this case seemed to occur between nanotubes, the point of highes
|Contact: Laura Ost
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)


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ccMixter: Using our Imaginashun with CC0, an Upgrade and Podcast
The Creative Commons' sponsored music community, ccMixter, has had a busy week.
Imaginashun Remixes
DJ Vadim, featured and interviewed last week, put out a Call for Remixes for his new album U Can't Lurn Imaginashun and the remixes are the community has responded in kind and some amazing remixes are starting to come in.
CC0 Enabled
ccMixter is now offering the CC0 (CC Zero) waiver for sample uploads. (CC0 FAQ) With this waiver, musicians who upload samples of their work in the form of solo instruments (often looped for easy re-use) are indicating their willingness to participate in the vast public domain (like the World Wide Web itself). The CC0 license carries with it the most freedoms possible, or put another way, the least "friction around your work," meaning, it's the most accessible form of sharing available. James Boyle's The Public Domain (mentioned here many times before) remains the best resource around for getting to understand the importance of a public commons, especially in terms of our culture and creativity itself.
It only took a few minutes for the waiver to be enabled on ccMixter for veteran member spinmeister to upload all the samples to an original composition under the CC0 waiver. "I personally like the idea of a world," he explained, "where a portion (not all) of good stuff is gifted. I also think it's pretty cool when people who have received gifts are making gifts to someone else as their 'response'." Read the rest of spin's explanation in the forum thread announcing the arrival of CC0 at ccMixter.
ccHost 5.1 Release Candidate
ccHost is the open source project that powers ccMixter and is currently going through a release candidate phase for the it's 5.1 version. The previous major version, 4.0, was the winner of the Linux Journal's LinuxWorld Expo Product Excellence Award for Best Open Source Solution and has been very popular as a remix-aware, web management system for liberally licensed content. Last year saw the release of a major upgrade (5.0) while this 5.1 update marks a full year of real-world usage, making it one of the most stable releases of ccHost ever, with 100s of bug fixes on top of the 60+ feature enhancements leading up to this RC release. Those enhancements include many that ccHost sites have long been asking for, including support for OpenID log in and registration. This release boasts extensive admin control of licensing options, built-in special handling for CC0 waivers and support for Creative Commons' latest license tools like RDFa scraping. For the more visually oriented, 5.1 comes with a new skin that mirrors the 2009 clean, simplified look and feel of the mother ship CC site. (See the release notes and changelog for the gory details.)
To all the ccHost-enabled site administrators and developers holding off upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, this is the stability release you've been waiting for. Please download the RC and send us feedback on what you find.
ccMixter Music Podcasts
In a forum posting from June 17, 2008, MC Jack in the Box, our resident double-agent from the very cool RemixFight (a forerunner and model for ccMixter) mentioned nonchalantly that he might have come up with "a cool way to build buzz for the playlists if people can record their own radio shows featuring ccMixter uploads. … I'd create a themed show, with me adding a few 'hidden' voiceovers to the show. Hell, I might even do a weekly 'best of ccMixter' kind of show if that could happen."
Thus began the "Cool Music Show", a weekly feature that quickly became the most popular way to discover new music on ccMixter. Every Friday, like clockwork, he curates upwards of 45 minutes of the best uploads from the previous seven days on the site. Last week, MC Jack posted episode #50 (!) to raves, kudos and much hazaa from a grateful ccMixter nation.
We decided to use the occasion of the 50th show to launch the new ccMixter Music Podcast. Using the ccMixter playlist as a basis, we developed the tools to create a single, seamless MP3 and post it to the archive.org.
To subscribe to the show, just drag this link to your podcast-aware music player (e.g. iTunes, Amarok, etc.).
We seeded the podcast with the last 7 Cool Music shows, but as explained in the announcement thread, we want other community members to contribute their own shows. So, if you have curating and MC skills you'd like to share, we invite you to submit a ccMixter music show of your very own! Instructions for how to do make and submit a show is here.Comments Off on ccMixter: Using our Imaginashun with CC0, an Upgrade and Podcast
Cadyou Takes CC to CAD & Digital Design
All sorts of interesting things show up in our Twitter search feed, and yesterday we were thrilled to come across Cadyou via @sketchupshop. Cadyou is a community launched by Tom Moor in late 2008 whose goal is to create a resource of free, high quality files for everyone to use, available in the Public Domain and under Creative Commons licenses. One interesting component of Cadyou's content is its moderation policy:
Unlike many websites which let user upload their own content, cadyou is moderated ensuring that each file made available reaches quality standards, is tagged well and has great thumbnails so it is easy to find what you need.
Sign up today for unlimited free downloads!1 Comment »
Why Did the White House Choose Attribution and not Public Domain?
The microblogs have been a-buzz this morning about news of the launch of the official White House Flickr stream featuring photos from Obama's first 100 days in office. While the photos are licensed under our Attribution license, one could make the very strong argument that they're actually in the public domain and can be used without attribution (though one would have to be careful and respect the personality rights of the private citizens featured in some of the photos). The photos are likely in the public domain because they are works created by the federal government and not entitled to copyright protection. As you might recall, the Whitehouse.gov's copyright notice indicates as much.
Why would the White House then choose Attribution for their Flickr stream? Simple, unlike communities like Wikipedia and Thingiverse, Flickr doesn't allow their photographers to choose Public Domain as an option to release their work to the world. So the Obama team must have picked the next best option: Attribution only.8 Comments »
Prospector Alliance reappropriates public domain materials
One of the benefits of public domain books is that once they are scanned and made available on the Internet, they are then available for anyone, including other organizations, to use and reuse in other contexts and sites. The Prospector Alliance, the union catalog of Colorado Alliance Research Libraries, did exactly this by enhancing the bibliographic records of the University of Michigan's giant collection of digitized public domain books. According to the press release,
"Library users in Colorado and Wyoming now have access to tens of thousands of additional open-access digitized books and serials through the Prospector Library Catalog (http://prospector.coalliance.org). The digitized items originate from the University of Michigan, a partner in the Google Books digitization project and a member of a consortium of libraries called Hathi Trust. Last year the University of Michigan made available bibliographic records for many of the out-of-copyright titles that Google digitized from its collections. The University then made available online files for each of the digitized works.
…Now library patrons from across Colorado have access to the online books via the Prospector catalog. Except for the University of Michigan where the books originated, the Auraria Library was the first library in the nation to make these books available to its users."1 Comment »
Esther Wojcicki, new CC board chair
We're very pleased to announce that effective today, noted educator, education innovator and journalist Esther Wojcicki is the new chair of the Creative Commons board of directors. From the press release:
"I am thrilled to take on this new role," said Wojcicki. "I strongly believe that the Creative Commons approach to sharing, reuse, and innovation has the power to totally reshape the worlds of education, science, technology, and culture at large. My main goal as chair is to make average Internet users worldwide aware of Creative Commons and to continue building the organization's governance and financial resources. I am also very eager to help CC's education push at high school and college journalism programs worldwide."
Read the whole release for more.
Also see outgoing chair James Boyle's CC BY(e bye) post — finely crafted writing down to the title, as we have come to expect. As you'll read, Boyle, a founder of the modern movement for the intellectual commons (and CC itself), will remain deeply engaged in the movement. There remains no better in depth explanation of the intellectual commons than Boyle's book, The Public Domain.
Thank you and congratulations to both Wojcicki and Boyle!
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CC board members Hal Abelson and Esther Wojcicki. Photo by CC CEO Joi Ito / CC BY. Note that our celebratory offer of Joi's Free Souls book for a donation to CC is still on.
Advice for Authors on Negotiating With a Publisher About CC Licenses
Cory Doctorow points us towards an excellent essay from the team behind Digital Foundations on ten key steps to negotiating a CC-licensed release with a large scale publisher:
4. Pitch it with facts
Use case studies to argue with facts. It also helps for them to see that other reputable publishers have licensed books Creative Commons. O'Reilly has some a study on an Asterisk book that we used very effectively.
The Asterisk book sold 19k copies over two years (about what comparable books from O'Reilly were selling), but was downloaded 180,000 times from *one* of the 5 sites that mirrored it.
Also consider google as arbiter:
Results from google search breakdown of references to the two books in the oreilly case study (at the time of negotiation, early 2008):
asterisk: 139,000 references in 2 years (2005-2007), or 70,000 per year
understanding the linux kernel, 42,000 references in 7 years (2000-2007), 6,000 per year
So there was 10x the press/blog/reference/hits for the CC licensed book.
Treading the sometimes delicate waters of negotiating a CC license with those immediately apprehensive to the idea is difficult at the very least – this type of information, from those who have gone through the process, is invaluable. While the Digital Foundations piece focuses on print publishing, the information therein is applicable across media formats, especially when combined with our ever growing case study database.
We would be remiss not to mention James Boyle's thoughts on the matter, particularly regarding his experience in licensing The Public Domain: Enclosing The Commons of the Mind under a CC BY-NC-SA license.Comments Off on Advice for Authors on Negotiating With a Publisher About CC Licenses
Recovery.gov Following Whitehouse.gov's Lead
Recovery.gov is the site that provides US citizens with the the ability to monitor the progress of the country's recovery via the The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As with Whitehouse.gov, the Obama administration is presciently using our Attribution license 3.0 for all third party content on the site, while all of the original content site created by the federal government remains unrestricted by copyright and therefore in the public domain.Comments Off on Recovery.gov Following Whitehouse.gov's Lead
Expanding the Public Domain: Part Zero
Creative Commons has spent a lot of time over the past year or so strategizing, and worrying, about the current state of the public domain and its future. In particular, we've been thinking about ways to help cultivate a vibrant and rich pool of freely available resources accessible to anyone to use for any purpose, unconditionally.
Our copyright licenses empower creators to manage their copyright on terms they choose. But what about creators who aren't concerned about those protections, or who later want to waive those rights altogether? Unfortunately, the law makes it virtually impossible to waive the copyright automatically bestowed on creators. The problem is compounded by the fact that copyright terms vary dramatically and are frequently extended. Additionally, new protections, like the creation of sui generis database rights in the EU, are layered atop traditional rights, making an already complex system of copyright all the more complicated. In combination, these challenges stand in the way of the vibrant public domain that CC and many others envision.
Today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference, our CEO Joi Ito will formally introduce the first of two tools designed to address these challenges. CC0 (read "CC Zero") is a universal waiver that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is not a license, but a legal tool that improves on the "dedication" function of our existing, U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found. Read our FAQs to learn more.
CC0 is an outgrowth of six years of experience with our existing public domain tool, the maturation of ccREL (our recommendations for machine-readable work information), and the requirements of educators and scientists for the public domain. Science Commons' work on the Open Access Data Protocol, to ensure interoperability of data and databases in particular, informed our development of CC0. It should come as no surprise that several of CC0's early adopters are leading some of the most important projects within the scientific community.
The ProteomeCommons.org Tranche network is one such early adopter. "Our goal is to remove as many barriers to scientific data sharing as possible in order to promote new discoveries. The Creative Commons CC0 waiver was incorporated into our uploading options as the default in order to help achieve this goal. By giving a simple option to release data into the public domain, CC0 removes the complex barriers of licensing and restrictions. This lets researchers focus on what's most important, their research and new discoveries," said Philip Andrews, Professor at the University of Michigan.
Another early adopter of CC0 is the Personal Genome Project, a pioneer in the emerging field of personal genomics technology. The Personal Genome Project is announcing today the release of a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using CC0, with future planned releases also under CC0. "PersonalGenomes.org is committed to making our research data freely available to the public because we think that is the best way to promote discovery and advance science, and CC0 helps us to state that commitment in a clear and legally accurate way," said Jason Bobe, Director of Community.
John Wilbanks, CC's vice president for science, follows Joi Ito at Etech with a presentation addressing the role of CC0 in promoting open innovation.
Building CC0 into a universally robust tool has required the efforts and dedication of many over the course of more than a year. CC jurisdiction project leads in particular provided us with meaningful forums in which to openly discuss CC0's development. They also provided jurisdiction-specific research critical to our understanding of public domain around the world. This support was invaluable to the crafting of a legally sound public domain tool for use everywhere. An overview of CC's development and public comment process can be found on the CC wiki, together with links to our blog postings summarizing key policy and drafting decisions.
About the second tool that we refer to above, stay tuned. Funding permitting, we plan to roll out a beta public domain assertion tool this coming summer that will make it easy for people to tag and find content already in the public domain — increasing its effective size, even if due to copyright extensions works are not naturally added to the public domain.
Note, one small improvement we're introducing with CC0 is that its deed and legalcode are located at http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. The forthcoming public domain assertion tool will also be rooted under this directory. Thanks to everyone who reminded us that the public domain is not a license, and public domain tools should not be under a "licenses" directory!
A word of thanks to our pro bono legal counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Latham & Watkins. Their legal review and analysis provided the heightened level of rigor that users of our licenses and legal tools have come to expect from Creative Commons.10 Comments »
UK Events: Jamie Boyle speaking on the Public Domain
Jamie Boyle, Chair of the CC Board, will be speaking at a couple great events next week in both London and Cambridge, giving British CC-ers a great opportunity to learn more about the public domain, both as a legal status and as Jamie's new book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Details below (via BoingBoing):
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LONDON: The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind
Where: RSA Lecture Hall (Google Map)
When: March 10, 2009; 18:00
CAMBRIDGE: Cultural Agoraphobia and The Future of The Library (Google Map)
Where: Lee Hall, Wolfson College (Google Map)
When: March 12, 2009; 18:00
TweetCC Lets You CC License Your Twitter Feed
Until now, the only way to mix your microblog and Creative Commons licenses was to sign up for the free-as-in-speech service identi.ca (or run your own instance of Laconica), which requires all posts to be under our Attribution license. But as of February 18th, thanks to the work of UK author Andy Clarke, you can CC license your twitter feed via TweetCC.
The idea is to post a tweet to Twitter letting @tweetCC know that what license (or waiver, in the case of CC Zero) you want your feed to be under, and then the service keeps track of your choice for the rest of the web's reference. Users can also look up whether and how a given Twitter user has chosen to license their feed. Right now, our Public Domain Dedication is the default and thereby most popular choice, but take a look at the rest of our licenses offered on the site, and CC license your twitter feed today!3 Comments »