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1. mounting - noun
· an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Hypernym(s): rise, rising, ascent, ascension
2. mounting - noun
· framework used for support or display
3. mount - verb
· attach to a support; "They mounted the aerator on a floating"
Hypernym(s): attach
4. mount - verb
· go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
Hypernym(s): increase
5. mount - verb
· fix onto a backing, setting, or support; "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"
Hypernym(s): fix, prepare, set_up, ready, gear_up, set
6. mount - verb
· put up or launch; "mount a campaign against pornography"
Hypernym(s): initiate, pioneer
7. mount - verb
· get up on the back of; "mount a horse"
Synonym(s): hop_on, mount_up, get_on, jump_on, climb_on, bestride
Hypernym(s): move
8. mount - verb
· go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
Synonym(s): climb, climb_up, go_up
Hypernym(s): rise, lift, arise, move_up, go_up, come_up, uprise
9. mount - verb
· prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance; "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack"; "mount a play"
Synonym(s): put_on
Hypernym(s): organize, organise, prepare, devise, get_up, machinate
10. mount - verb
· copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow"
Synonym(s): ride
Hypernym(s): copulate, mate, pair, couple
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Check the problematic games link in my sig for help.
To make a long story short as far as my wii history goes I softmodded my wii a few months prior to MHTri comming out and then I stupidly updated to 4.2 to play online when i purchased the game (which i ended up not using very much).
Then recently I decided to re soft mod my wii and followed a number of guide to hoping that my current problem would be solved.
No matter what format i use be it dvd or usb I cant get my new backups to load properly. For example super mario galaxy 2 the original work perfectly fine however when it comes to a backup (I have used my disk and a number of others to test) it freezes either at the menu or about 10-20 second after that. Same thing happens to kirby's epic yarn it freezes when loading the game, at the start with the story intro and sometimes before that.
The most annoying thing which is really bugging me is the fact that my old backups work perfectly fine on disk and usb so I cant see where the problem lies unless it really is down to specific titles. One thing I have noticed is the backups im currently trying to load are nintendo made as opposed to my old ones such as Murumasa and Madworld.
I did search and found a similar topic to mine but there was no fix in that thread unfortunatly. Did I screw my wii up by updating over an old softmod or is there still hope in playing backups on my system?
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Thanks for the reply. I checked your guide but It doesnt seem to cover the problem I have unfortunately.
I cant really explain the problem very well but there has been other incidents which have caused crashes too including copying a disk through the wii menu to a HDD. I would get about 2.5% through the installation process and it would randomly freeze.
I have also had this happen when trying to install certain wads. I use Verbatim DVD-R and burn at 4x and I also have a 320 GB seagate drive which I have managed to start games on.
The only thing I can think of it that I have ruined the installation of my softmod and there is conflicting files.
Ok I would like to appologise. I just tried the new donkey kong and it seems that playing a backed up version of that works perfectly fine. It does seem that the two games I have been focusing all my effort on trying to fix are just problem games. I will go and relook at your guide for mario galaxy but Im not sure what kirbys problem is yet.
Thats for the post again and hopefully this thread will help anyone who has the same "problem" I had.
Ok After reading over the guide and seeing that Mario galaxy 2 should work pretty much on any disk or HDD that is capable of loading games with no problems then I am back the square one apparently unable to find the cause of my backups freezing.
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Welcome everybody to the Extreme Arena! This is Nickelodeon GUTS - do...you...HAVE IT?! Welcome to Nickelodeon GUTS Central, the most informative GUTS fansite out there. For all you guys out there, regardless of if you're a hardcore fan or a newcomer to the show, have a great stay, and check out all the pages. The guestbook is open for your comments and constructive criticism, so don't forget to post!
So what is Nickelodeon GUTS anyway? Well, you can find out way more about this in the pages of the site, but to sum it up, it was a game show that pitted three kids each episode in a series of heart-pounding, action-packed events, that were as good as a kid's Olympics. But what made the show famous was the final round - a climb up to the peak of an intimidating mountain called the Aggro Crag (Seasons 1-2), the Mega Crag (Seasons 3-4), and the Super Aggro Crag (Global GUTS).
Love Nick GaS shows do you? Well, then you can check out my website about another Nick GaS show, Legends of the Hidden Temple right here. It's called The Bamboo Forest. My brother, Long Live Olmec also has a Get the Picture website called The GTP Webstation, so go check that out too!


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Adrenaline Sportz 15 on 15 Event in Puerto Rico on October 16th
ADRENALINE SPORTZ Presents the 3rd annual BAD COMPANY Conflict Desert event. This is the biggest event in the southern area of Puerto Rico!
Format: 15 vs 15 Hyper field, First place $$$ and Trophy (cup), 2 and 3 place trophies, prizes to the MVP, and an award to the team that finishes a game the fastest!
Adrenaline Sportz Puerto Rico will be representing Dye with tents, techs (repairing guns), and the Reflex/Rail and Rotor Demo Program!!!!
If you are in the area stop in and say hello to Jorge and Manny!!!!


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History of Holman's is brought to life
Posted: October 11, 2012|
ONE of the enduring images of my Seventies' childhood was looking out of my bedroom window on a drizzly, late autumn afternoon; a hooter sounds mournfully, and suddenly the street is thronged with men in overalls walking, riding Honda 90s, driving Ford Escorts, Anglias, Morris 1100s.
This was the scene day in, day out, at knocking-off time at Holman's.
The mining drill company not only kept Camborne's economic heart pumping, but was Camborne, to all intents and purposes.
Now the Trevithick Society has brought those memories back into sharp focus.
It has produced a revised, retitled and expanded edition of the late Clive Carter's book on Cornish engineering, first published 11 years ago to mark the Holman's bicentenary.
This tome, From Holman Brothers To CompAir: The Story Of Camborne's Engineering History, weighs in at an impressive 342 pages. The new edition features 150 never-before published photographs of the company's premises and products, and its employees – at work and play.
The book traces the development of a Cornish engineering dynasty, from its family roots in St Allen and of Menadarva, near Kehelland; through Nicholas senior's collaboration with Trevithick, and the opening of the first Holman's foundry, occupying the site on Camborne's Wesley Street it was to remain in for almost a century and a half.
Examining the company's growth, its role during both world wars, and by including separate chapters on both its social club and the works' choirs, this book recalls the days when a job was not only for life, but a time when companies were far more paternalistic towards their employees.
If you harbour an interest in the former engineering heartbeat of the county, then this book deserves a place in your library.
From Holman Brothers To CompAir: The Story of Camborne's Engineering History is available now at £18.50.


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MANKATO (TEC News) – Two women were arrested early Sunday morning for the downtown Mankato assault of another female.
Mankato police officers were on patrol when they witnessed the attack in front of the bus shelter at the intersection of Cherry and Front Streets around 2:22 a.m.
By the time officers reached the scene, by-standers had pulled 29-year-old Becky Kilpatrick of Mankato and 18-year-old Jasmine Mary Sirois of Mankato off the 24-year-old victim from North Mankato.
Police say it appears the assault carried over from a previous incident that evening. However investigative reports don't indicate what issue caused the ruckus.
The assault was caught on downtown surveillance cameras and back up the victim's story that she was trying to avoid a confrontation with her attackers.
Police Commander Jeremy Clifton says the video shows Kilpatrick and Sirois confronting the victim. It also shows the victim walking away and hiding behind a crowd.
That's when Clifton says the video shows Kilpatrick running after the victim, punching her and tossing her to the ground. The victim can be seen covering her head as both Kilpatrick and Sirois start kicking the female.
The victim was treated at the scene for a cut lip and a bump and bruise on the head.
The victim was treated at the scene for a cut lip and a bump and bruise on the head.
Clifton says the video shows the victim never tossed a punch.
Both women face charges of felony Third Degree Assault, along with lesser charges of Fifth Degree Assault and Disorderly Conduct. Sirois is also facing a charge of Fleeing Police On Foot.
As far as the video, Clifton says there are cameras all over.
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ccNewsletter #10 – ccLearn
December's newsletter features ccLearn, the education branch of Creative Commons which has grown substantially this year and has a lot of exciting plans lined up for its bright future as a leader in the open education movement. The newsletter also brings to you news highlights from each of CC's other program areas.
As you'll see in this newsletter, we have begun experimenting with a new format as a way to bring you the latest CC news in a more manageable way, so check out #10 and see what you think! As always, many thanks to the CC Philippines team for designing the PDF version.
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The Student-engineered Open Textbook: Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls
It is commonly known that students learn by doing—by practicing, rather than simply soaking in, the information that is taught them in the classroom. But it is also commonly known that anyone can obtain information; the internet is chock-full of the stuff; all one has to do is type in a few key words and hit search. The reality is that formal education, aka the classroom, can no longer be, and no longer is, just one side of this perceived divorce in education: the acquisition of knowledge versus the practice of it.
Open education acknowledges that information is abundant, and that it takes someone to organize, interpret, and make it meaningful. This is one value that formal and higher education still offers the net generation, those bred on Google and Wikipedia. The culling of data becomes the responsibility of professionals, their peers, and their students—the results of which are high quality educational resources available to the rest of the world.
The Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan has taken this idea of synthesis and run with it. They have integrated the practice of knowledge into class curriculum, by requiring students to contribute to an open textbook in wiki format—Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls. Since 2006, senior chemical engineering students have been developing this resource, building off of the preceding year's work. The result is a comprehensive and dynamic textbook, available for free on the web, that is both high quality and openly licensed under CC BY. Though you must be a member of the class to directly edit the wiki text, nothing prevents the rest of the world from copying and deriving it for their own uses—even republishing it and distributing it at a low cost in concrete form is possible.
Originally conceptualized by Peter Woolf (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering) with help from Leeann Fu, the system of textbook creation is anything but haphazard. Each week, a team of students is selected to become "experts" on a particular topic. The students research and present on the topic, adding the relevant text and diagrams to the wiki. The wiki's content is further vetted by "the faculty and Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs)" who "act as managing editors, selecting broad threads for the text and suggesting references." They also check for copyright issues, and the students are encouraged to re-use public domain materials.
"In contrast to other courses, the students take an active role in their education by selecting which material in their assigned section is most useful and decide on the presentation approach. Furthermore, students create example problems that they present in poster sessions during class to help the other students master the material."
In addition, full class lectures in video format and powerpoint presentations are available on the wiki, also under CC BY. CC BY is the most appropriate license for educational materials, since all one has to do is attribute the original authors. The freedoms to copy, adapt, remix, and redistribute are crucial to advancing progress in education.1 Comment »
Latam Commons 2008 is a Success
Latam Commons 2008: The Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Open Education in Latin America, held Nov 19-21 in Santiago, Chile, was a great success. The event was co-hosted and excellently managed by NGO Derechos Digitales, and representatives from all over Latin America were present and actively participated in the meeting. Project Leads of Creative Commons jurisdictions first held a one-day meeting to discuss their projects, possible strategic initiatives and collaborations across the region, and shared challenges. These conversations are just the beginning of what is planned to become a regular regional gathering to leverage the expertise and resources that are distributed throughout the region. The next day was devoted to a highly interactive "unconference" on open education which brought together leading international advocates for open education with key figures in libraries and ministries of education in Chile and beyond. The goal of the meeting was to gather information regarding top concerns and key projects involved in the growth of the open education movement, to be synthesized and then leveraged for collaborative opportunities both within and beyond the region. Look for a report on this event in the coming months. Finally, Derechos Digitales orchestrated a seminar on the public domain which included cutting-edge research reports and discussions regarding the legal and practical elements of both defining and utilizing the public domain in Latin America. The philosophical and legal issues pertinent to consideration of the public domain is clearly of broad interest in the region, and we are hopeful that these ideas will continue to serve as organizing themes for ongoing conversation and action to enhance access to knowledge and improved scholarship in the future.
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Latam Commons 2008
Santiago, Chile: ccLearn is hosting a three day conference on "open licensing, open technologies, and the future of education in Latin America" from November 19th to the 21st. The conference is split up into three meetings over the three days.
Nov 19 is for Creative Commons International, where CC affiliates will meet to discuss the latest developments in licensing and other CC-related issues. Though this day of the conference is only CC, the latter two days are open to all. From the Latam Commons 2008 invitation:
"We are writing to invite you to join us in Santiago, Chile, on Nov 20-21, for a ground-breaking meeting about open licensing, open technologies, and the future of education in Latin America. The meeting on Nov 20 is called Latam Commons 2008: Creative Commons, Open Education, and the Public Domain. It is being co-hosted by ccLearn, the education division of Creative Commons, and Derechos Digitales."
You can register for the Nov 20 meeting on Open Education here. Registration is free and open to anyone until we reach our capacity of 60. So register now to reserve your spot.
"Derechos Digitales is also hosting a seminar on the public domain on Nov 21, to which everyone is welcome." There is no attendance limit on this day.
"Latam Commons 2008 is expected to include representatives of different organizations and projects in open education from throughout the Latin American region. The meeting will be a participatory gathering in which all attendees will be able to discuss a range of issues relevant to open education in Latin America, with the goal of developing a broad understanding of major education issues in the region and a focused vision of how open education and widely available educational resources can address these needs. As the workshop will be dynamic and discussion-based, we are inviting anyone interested in these issues to attend and contribute.
Please visit the registration page at: http://accesoalacultura.cl/registros-cclearn/ You can sign up for one or both of the meeting days at this site. Registration is free, and some meals will be provided for all registered participants. Visit the meeting wiki (http://derechosdigitales.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Learn) for additional information about travel, lodging, and the meeting agenda.
This meeting is intended to catalyze conversations and projects that will continue after the meeting is over, and to build relationships among people and organizations so that we can bring our collective energies and resources to bear on common challenges for open education. Future meetings are already planned, and we look forward to seeing the progress on this global effort that grows out of Latam Commons 2008.
Please direct any questions or concerns to Ahrash Bissell, Grace Armstrong, or Claudio Ruiz. We hope to see you in Santiago."Comments Off on Latam Commons 2008
International OER Community Update
The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is a global movement. Education is an issue that crosses borders and spans continents; open education—the creation and distribution of OER—empowers people in a global dialogue. However, the mere promotion of OER is not sufficient for the success of this international effort, as many issues and barriers to open education are country- and culture-specific. In this sense, the international OER community has some significant differences to bridge, and we must somehow synthesize the diverse range of projects and perspectives into clear and tangible objectives.
The UNESCO OER Community exemplifies progress made on this front, with currently 700+ members from 105 countries. Although North America and Western Europe account for about half of the participants, the community is still represented by 72 developing countries. One of the most compelling components of the community is its case studies project, "stories – of how institutions and individuals have developed or used OER," based in various countries. These case studies—including those from Canada, Rwanda, Italy, South Africa, New Zealand, the Netherlands and more—explore OER against the background of their heterogeneous contexts. What works? What doesn't work? What did the organization or persons involved do or must they now do in order to overcome obstacles—either due to institutional bureaucracy, lack of resources, or otherwise? These stories are windows of insight into different ways of progressing globally.
In addition to case studies, the international community is developing an OER toolkit, templates for ease of sharing more stories (from community members, academics creating and using OER, and learners using OER), and discussion surrounding such issues as access to technology, copyright, best practices, learning psychology of OER, and more. The OER toolkit will prove especially useful in addressing the issues raised by case studies, as it targets any persons interested in becoming involved with OER, either as creators or users, and those wishing to integrate OER into their institutions or organizations.
eLearning Papers, a journal that "promotes the use of ICT for lifelong learning in Europe," recently examined similar issues surrounding OER and the international community in its September installment, "Open Educational Resources." From the editorial,
"This issue of eLearning Papers is dedicated to the thriving work around Open Educational Resources (OER) by committed individuals, institutions and user communities. Five selected papers by the guest editors investigate the organisational, social, cultural, pedagogical and technical aspects of implementing OER…
We have two papers that investigate how higher education institutions work OER into their policies and practices. "Open Educational Resources for Management Education: Lessons from experience" elaborates on a French faculty which created a digital distribution place to share and disseminate university courses. The initial resistance of the faculty members evaporated as they started receiving positive feedback on their courses, as well as international interest in their French content. On the other hand, "Reflections on sustaining Open Educational Resources: an institutional case study" shows how first gaining high level policy support within the institution for the initiative of OER was turned into a sustainable institutional practice."
The journal is licensed CC BY-NC-ND, while the UNESCO OER Community site is open for re-use and adaptation under CC BY-SA. It is also hosted on a wiki which means anyone is free to contribute to the OER case studies and OER toolkit. The UNESCO OER Community has been funded by one of our avid supporters, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, since its inception in 2005.Comments Off on International OER Community Update
ccLearn's COSL Open Ed '08 download
Although we've already had a weekend plus a Monday to digest COSL's Open Ed '08, the events from the conference and general good feeling inspired by speakers and individual conversations still drives us forward into the week and the beginning of next month. This year's conference featured several notable speakers; the keynotes themselves were given by WikiEducator's Wayne Mackintosh, Magnatune's Teresa Malango, and MITE's (Monterey Institute for Technology and Education) Gary Lopez . Personally, I attended all three keynotes plus a few other sessions from which I extracted some thought-provoking facts and ideas.
WikiEducator, Commonwealth of Learning: Wayne broke the news that WikiEducator will be moving to the awe-inspiring Dunedin, New Zealand, home to not only breathtaking landscapes but also Otago Polytechnic, the first ever university to have a default CC BY licensing policy. See my interview with Leigh Blackall in April. He also shed light on why many educators use WikiEducator. Surprisingly (or not, depending on your presumptions), the number one reason people go to the site is "to explore new ideas and trends". I found this encouraging; educators are seeking to innovate, to learn in order to innovate. Case in point: the second reason was "to learn wiki skills". Now we've just got to help them do it. Wayne also mentioned catering to different knowledge levels when it came to open source and sharing. He described what he called "capability phases". The phases go something like this: personal teaching resources → WikiEducator featured resource → WikiEducator featured collaboration → peer-reviewed resource. Teachers begin by sharing their personal educational resources developed primarily for their own classroom; then they realize they can create resources on WikiEducator; furthermore, in collaboration with other educators!; finally, they ensure quality by reviewing each other's work and constantly making changes to better place the work in context.
Magnatune – a history: Teresa's presentation provided an outside viewpoint regarding possible business and sustainability models for openly licensed resources. She described how Magnatune was founded with a few core principles around which the business models had to be developed. The principles included respect and fair compensation for the artists, engagement with the consumers, and transparency in all that they do. Much of the conference focused on issues of sustainability and mechanisms for leveraging the value of OER, so her presentation served as a useful lesson regarding such issues from a different domain. Many of the key tools and technologies developed by Creative Commons, such as the CC Plus protocol, are core elements of the Magnatune site. What possibilties lie ahead for OER?
MITE on How to Build a Financially Self-sustaining OER: Practical Considerations: Gary launched an interesting study of how OER could financially sustain itself, based on MITE's own policy regarding individuals and institutions. Basically, the premise is that individuals shouldn't have to pay, but someone's got to―that leaves institutions who are usually more than happy to pay for a service that would be free for their members. The value I took away from this was this off-shoot idea; that in the age of the internet, we are now living in a service-economy where content is free (either legally or illegally on the internet), but the services required to aggregate, make cohesive, and analyze that content is still needed. In the words of David Wiley, "If my students can Google it, I don't need to teach it." Open education is not just about freeing up content; it's about making that content accessible in ways that are smart, novel, and interesting.
Financial sustainability is still an issue, but if we go back to Wayne's presentation: what about commercial activities that would support OER? There are distribution channels; for example, we've already got sites like Lulu.com, and Flat World Knowledge is another big open textbook initiative set to launch next year. We've also got to think about incentive systems to get educators, researchers, and commercially employed persons to contribute beyond their full-time jobs. And finally, the most important statement that, I think, reiterates David's sentiment: in the development of OER, quality is more about the process than it is about the product. Quality is a very different thing in one country's context than it is in the next. But the process of producing OER, of gaining those critical thinking and analytic skills (remember why some of us went to college?) yields a quality process that can be integrated universally.
Demos: I was busy demo-ing ODEPO while Nathan was just as busy demo-ing the Universal Education Search, but I did get to check out one other tool―the University of Michigan's dScribe. This technology was definitely built around the idea of sustainability. The basic question as I saw it: How do you make the materials (slides, handouts, images, video, etc.) that an educator uses in the classroom legal so that it can be shared online as OER? Further, how do you do so without draining the school of huge amounts of dollars and other resources? Answer: You build a tool that trains and allows students to gauge and evaluate the course materials for copyright information, and then to search for creative replacements (licensed under a CC or other open license) for those materials that are fully restricted. Ingenious! Props to the U of Michigan; we look forward to seeing progress on this initiative.
Various other sessions I attended were equally inspiring, but the basic sentiment I gathered from everyone was that this year's conference marked great progress in all the projects initiated the year previous. ccLearn is excited about its own projects and looking forward to more dizzying collaboration within the Open Ed community.
"Opening Up Education"
is the new publication by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and MIT Press exploring "the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education." Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge is a collection of thirty essays written by leaders in the open education movement. From the press release:
"[They] reflect on current and past open education initiatives, offer critical analyses, share the strategic underpinnings of their own work, and delve into open education's implications in three areas: technology, content, and knowledge. Together, they address the central question of how open education can improve the quality of education."
Co-editor M. S. Vijay Kumar is also quoted:
"A look at the landscape tells us that efforts with open education so far have been largely confined to attempts at improving what we already do. While this is certainly valid, we encourage consideration of approaches that transcend traditional practices, organizations, disciplines and audiences."
John Seely Brown agrees in his Foreword, "We need to reconceptualize twentieth-century education models, and at the same time reinforce learning outside of formal schooling. This book provides real leverage for open education, and is a major step toward creating a culture of learning for this century."
The book is also edited by Toru Iiyoshi and is available for download at MIT Press under CC BY-NC-ND.
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OER Handbook for Educators 1.0
The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has been hosting an OER Handbook on WikiEducator for a while now, inviting others to contribute and edit various elements of the book. Now they've finally published the first printable version of one of their mini-handbooks: OER Handbook for Educators 1.0.
The actual handbook isn't so mini—though it weighs nothing at all in the virtual world, the printed version is a hefty 269+ pages. But you don't have to print it out; you can access it in various forms for free on the web: as it currently exists on WikiEducator or as black and white or full color pdf's on Lulu.com.
The OER Handbook for Educators is the collaborative result of various contributors, ultimately authored by Seth Gurell and edited by David Wiley. Its aim is to serve as an introductory guide to educators on open educational resources: how to "find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom." The handbook is an especial eye-opener for those new to the world of open education. However, it is also useful for more seasoned OER creators and users, grappling with such topics as "The Copyright Paradox"—because we all know that copyright is no simple matter.
The handbook itself is licensed CC BY-SA, so go check it out! If your connection is slow, don't worry: the black and white graphics are just as stunning as their full color counterparts.Comments Off on OER Handbook for Educators 1.0
ccLearn Workshop Video Now Live at OSL
In April I blogged about Open Source Lab's fourth official workshop featuring ccLearn's Executive Director, Ahrash Bissell. The Open Source Lab has now posted a video of the workshop at their blog. The workshop focuses on recent developments within open education, including but not limited to the impact of open licensing, as Ahrash emphasizes the grander scale of the movement.
The video, like all content on OSL's blog, is licensed CC BY-NC-SA.Comments Off on ccLearn Workshop Video Now Live at OSL
eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons
In April, ccLearn crossed telephone lines with Italy and Ukraine for the first time. Executive Director Ahrash Bissell spoke with eIFL.net, Electronic Information for Libraries, an international nonprofit organization whose interests, among many, lie in open access publishing and fair and balanced intellectual property laws for libraries.
Below is a follow-up interview over email with Rima Kupryte, Director of eIFL.net, and Iryna Kuchma, Program Manager of eIFL-OA (Open Access).
First, can you say a few words about yourselves and eIFL? How did you come to get involved in eIFL and to hold your respective positions within the larger framework? What about eIFL attracted you?
I am a professional librarian, graduated from Vilnius University in Lithuania. I joined the Open Society Institute – Budapest (OSI) Network Library Program late in 1995. The idea for eIFL was born at OSI and later the idea turned into an independent organisation which I joined from its establishment in 2003. Coming from Lithuania, which had poorly resourced libraries and where access to information was restricted when I was a student, I was very passionate about ideas—what could be done in order to improve libraries, open them and offer better services to its users. eIFL.net is a very innovative and creative organisation that offers a lot of opportunities and ideas; it makes things happen.
eIFL's mission statement, "Enabling access to knowledge through libraries in developing and transition countries," appeals to me a lot. I graduated from the social sciences department and access to knowledge was one of my research topics as well as social aspects of open access, free and open source software and open content licenses. For nine years I worked for OSI in Ukraine and Open Access was one of my program areas. It was fascinating to see the positive changes in scholarly communication and I am glad I can go on with this program – Open Access – in eIFL.net.
What about eIFL itself–can you sum up what it stands for, its mission and overarching agenda? Assuming you don't already have one, if you could come up with a catchy new slogan for what eIFL is trying to do, what would it be?
eIFL.net is a not-for-profit organization that supports and advocates the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transitional and developing countries. It is universally acknowledged that access to knowledge is fundamental to education and research and the creation of human capital upon which the development of societies depend. This is especially true in a knowledge society where economic progress depends on having a literate and educated population. Libraries and education are synonymous. A library has little meaning if it cannot impart knowledge. Good education cannot exist without access to quality information resources to support teaching, learning and research. Our current slogan is "Enabling access to knowledge through libraries in transition and developing countries". In July we will be having an eIFL visioning retreat to brainstorm and think where eIFL.net will be five to ten years from now.
eIFL.net is a powerful network of 2,220 libraries in 47 transitioning and developing countries with a combined population of 800 million people including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2008, a pilot Open Access workshop is planned in Latin America – Cuba.
I've gathered (mainly from information on your website) that eIFL and Creative Commons are promoting and doing similar things. For example, the vision of the eIFL program "Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries", known as eIFL-IP, is the development of fair and balanced copyright laws taking into account libraries and the public interest. How would you relate these goals to CC and CC-licensing?
The goal of eIFL-IP is to maximise access to knowledge for education, research and civil society through fair and balanced copyright laws that take into account the needs of libraries and students, researchers and professionals who depend on library services to advance their education, careers and life opportunities. Our vision is that eIFL-IP librarians will become activists and leaders for promoting access to knowledge, especially in the digital age. We are achieving this by
- creating a network of library copyright specialists and building capacity in the library perspective in copyright issues.
- becoming the recognised advocate for library copyright issues in developing and transitioning countries at international and national levels.
- encouraging the international library community to place the issues of developing and transitioning countries high on their agendas.
eIFL-IP and CC are natural allies because
- eIFL-IP supports the use of alternative models through open content licenses, such as CC and GPL. eIFL.net advocates for open access and OER.
- eIFL-IP and CC both promote access to content (for CC digital content).
- eIFL-IP builds capacity and raises awareness, including how to use copyright law as an enabler of access to knowledge rather than a means to distort, deny or delay access. CC licenses support this goal by promoting the full spectrum of possibilities within the copyright system, i.e. from all rights reserved to the public domain.
- As information professionals, librarians should be in a position to advise library clients on issues relating to access and use of digital content. With its powerful brand, CC helps librarians to understand and promote issues relating to access.
For more information on the library perspective on CC: http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/docs/handbook-e/#cc
What are some of the major challenges eIFL-IP faces?
The challenge that remains is how to build capacity at the national level; when we are working well at both international and national levels, we will achieve the best results.
The relevance of copyright to libraries wasn't always recognised because the connection with day-to-day library activities was not fully understood. This is changing, however, and eIFL-IP librarians are becoming more aware and thus are more active. Once this connection is made, the importance of advocating for better copyright laws will be better understood.
Good activists are in short supply so it is disappointing to lose trained people due to changes in jobs or through emigration. We rely almost entirely on volunteers which limits our ability to make too onerous demands or to enforce deadlines.
How do you think these challenges will be overcome?
By focusing on building capacity
- providing resources e.g. http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/eifl-handbook-on
- holding an annual conference for face-to-face training e.g. http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/training/2008-istanbul
- identifying "champions" and encouraging those who are active e.g. Moldova came to WIPO in March 2008, support for regional events (e.g. Nigeria Library Association pre-conference on copyright and digitisation in June 2008).
- developing a curriculum in copyright issues for libraries for mass training (see below).
You are also now developing a distance learning course on copyright for librarians jointly with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law. Can you describe the project?
In partnership with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in the USA, we are developing a brand new curriculum on copyright for librarians. This is a first, and we hope that many more librarians, especially in developing and transitioning countries, will benefit from the training and become advocates for access to knowledge.
The curriculum seeks to develop greater understanding of copyright by librarians. The goal is to build a human network from which they can draw support. We hope to reach a critical mass of librarians who can contribute to public discussion, who can take part in informed debate with government and industry representatives, and who can join the library community from the developed world by expressing their views in important international forums, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The course should be implemented with strategic partners in the global South, such as library training and law schools in universities, as well as distance learning programs.
The goals of the course are:
- To develop greater understanding of copyright by librarians by providing copyright training tailored to the needs of librarians in developing and transitioning countries.
- To support librarians' mission (participation to the access to knowledge movement).
- To help librarians answer copyright questions they face during their work.
- To help librarians answer users' questions on their rights (professors, students, general public).
- To empower librarians to advise governments and other public policy makers and initiatives toward balanced copyright law.
The project lead Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Berkman Fellow, has been legal lead for CC France since 2003.. A meeting of international experts in libraries, copyright, distance learning and developing countries took place at the Berkman Center 17-18 April 2008 to provide advice on the structure, methodology and the content of the course as well as its sustainability.
How important is this and other collaborative relationships to your work? Are you reaching out to additional partners? What types of organizations are key to your efforts?
Collaboration is very important as our agenda and wishes are great and we can not accomplish everything by ourselves. There are certain movements and program areas that require strong advocacy, and for this, more voices are better. This applies to our activities in Open Access (OA), Intellectual Property (IP) and Free and Open Source (FOSS). Some of our programs are more advanced than others as we launched them in different years. Our newest program is on FOSS; we started it only last fall. We have quite a long list of NGO partners in IP, which were built due to our strong presence at WIPO. We are building more partnerships in OA and FOSS this year.
Our target audience is scholars and researchers, doctors and lawyers, students and teachers. And in Open Access projects we set alliances with human rights groups, environmental organizations, patient groups demanding access to government information, Internet activists (Wikipedia communities, Creative Commons, etc.) modeling the approach of the Alliance for Tax Payers Access (a diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research). We are working closely with SPARC and SPARC Europe, EurOpenScholar, DRIVER project, Electronic Publishing Trust, BioLine International, Association of Research Libraries, Stichting SURF, Dutch collaborative organization for Higher Education and Research on IT, Directory of Open Access Journals, and we are also glad to start working with ccLearn and Creative Commons International (and iCommons).
Like ccLearn, eIFL is a project that is involved with the Open Education Movement. How would you define the Open Education Movement, and what role does eIFL play in it?
The goal of the Open Education movement is to create a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge. This goal can be reached by developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. eIFL Open Access (OA) Program encourages sharing of research publications and educational materials.
Through the eIFL OA Program, eIFL members build capacity of the issues related to OA to enable members to benefit from the content, which is made freely available through OA, as well as ensuring that the local content produced within their countries is widely distributed. This is accomplished through the development of open repositories (for the research papers and educational materials) and by encouraging authors within the countries to publish their articles in Open Access journals. eIFL-OA Program seeks to enhance access and use of research findings, increase the efficiency of research developments, and accelerate use and innovation—stimulating the economy. To achieve this, we apply the developing practices of Open Access as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/). The same practices became the foundation for the recently launched Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources (http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/).
Among other things, ccLearn is focused on educating people about the importance of legal and technical interoperability for open education. What are your thoughts on this? What other activities do you think should be priorities for ccLearn (and Creative Commons) with respect to open education?
Yes, legal and technical interoperability is extremely important for open education. We encourage educators, scholars and students to use open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing. We advocate for Creative Commons Attribution Licenses used by a number of open access projects, e.g. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) – a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. Everything they publish is freely available online to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution) any way one wishes. Creative Commons did a lot for the free culture movements around the world. These approaches should be adjusted now for the educators and learners encouraging them to practice open education and raising their awareness about open content licences. Raising awareness and sharing good examples and advocacy are key elements to the success of the Open Education movement.Comments Off on eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons


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Andy Warhol is the closest thing the art market has to a commodity investment. He has an iconic and instantly recognizable name and oeuvre, he was prolific in his output, and his works are sold at auction frequently, often at dizzying prices.
According to artprice, he was the world's third best-selling artist in terms of total auction revenue in 2011, after two Chinese artists, Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi. Fetching a hammer price of $33 million, his Double Elvis was also the sixth most expensive art work sold at auction in the first half of 2012. Given that the sale prices fetched for many of his silk screens keep going up, he presents a compelling argument for those who see the investment potential in art.
One of the biggest questions about the tremendous success of Warhol in the auction market is whether the global appeal of his pop iconography has pushed up prices so dramatically or whether it is just that so many Andy Warhols come up for auction every year, they represent one of the most liquid parts of the art market.
The announcement yesterday that The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is going to sell over 20,000 Warhol works through Christie's is sure to test the liquidity theory. The foundation hopes to raise over $100 million by selling off its whole stock of Warhol silk screen paintings, prints, drawings, collages and photos.
It seems pretty astonishing that the foundation set up in his name would flood the market with Andy Warhols. Sure, Christie's says it will release this vast inventory incrementally, through a series of physical auctions and online sales, over several years. But it is planning to auction off some 350 of the most valuable works in one sale on November 12. Highlights will include Three Targets, a 19-foot-long silkscreen produced near the end of Warhol's career, which is expected to fetch up to $1.5 million, and a red Jackie, a screen print and paper collage from 1960 expected to fetch up to $300,000.
That could present a problem for anyone else planning to sell a Warhol during the fall auction season. Sotheby's sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints in London on September 19 features no less than 24 Warhol prints in just one auction, including three prints inspired by Edvard Munch's The Scream, which broke all auction records when it sold for $119.9 million this year. Warhol's 1966 canvas of Marlon Brando on a motorcycle was expected to fetch around $20 million when it is sold at Christie's this November. Will it now?
Perhaps prices will stay buoyant. After all, the works the foundation is selling are mostly lower value items, so may not upset demand for Warhol's most coveted paintings like Marlon. Christie's also believes that online auctions will reach Warhol fans that would never normally have access to his works.
It's true that online sales have fetched large sums for Warhol works before and perhaps seasoned and new collectors will jump at the last chance to buy works that have never been seen before directly from the Warhol foundation, where the provenance of the work is assured.
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Nearly a week after Gore unveiled his carbon-free challenge (sounds sadly kind of like a reality TV gimmick), the substantive reactions from the nation's editorial pages and blogosphere fit (for better of for worse) into two groupings: precedent versus vision. Brushing past the naysayers (John Tierney and his "junk science" complaints) and the yes-men (Christine Pelosi and her Gorish platitudes), those in the "precedent" camp tend to disapprove of Gore's goal on the basis that United States continues to produce very little renewable energy, so these critics say ramping up to 100 percent renewable is impossible. Those in the "vision" group tend to applaud Gore's call on the basis that it offers a compelling vision for the future, even if it lacks details. These divisions do not completely break down along political lines. It's true that those who tend not to like Al Gore tend not to like Al Gore's challenge and vice versa; yet, there are some notable exceptions.
In response to this post on the many varied reactions to Gore's energy speech, Behind the Plug (the coal industry blog for which we have strong language) contacted me regarding questions for Gore on "Meet the Press." The impetus: Coming from very distant sides of political and editorial spheres, could we find some common ground to collaborate on a question for Gore? As Behind the Plug says in its post, "We all breathe the same air and we all have an interest in America's energy future." Thus, based on the blogosphere roundups and reader comments -- and without feigning scientific expertise -- the joint question that both of us would like to see answered:
Liberals love Gore's gall. Conservatives hate that he drove a gas-guzzler to the big speech. Politicians grumble over his timing. Climate policy wonks and science geeks admire the inititive, but want something a little more ... feasible ... say, 50 to 90 percent renewable electricity by 2020 with a little natural gas for good measure? Across the blogosphere, however, certain questions about Gore's plan remain unanswered. What practical measures will we take to get to zero emission electricity in 10 years? Who will lead the charge? From where will the requisite funds come to finance this energy operation? Will Tom Brokaw grill Gore on "Meet the Press" this Sunday? Or will the Goracle leave the details to those in the political trenches and dodge the pragmatic bullet? The remaining voices:
This Sunday, Al Gore will appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" to talk about the energy action plan he unveiled in Washington this week. So, Grist readers, in tribute to the late Tim Russert, what kind of tough questions do you want host Tom Brokaw to lob Gore's way? Offer your suggestions here. Looking ahead, is it safe to say that Gore stands to get a very warm reception from interim "Meet" host Brokaw? After all, the ex-NBC anchor hosted an Emmy Award-winning Discovery show back in 2006 that explored the reality of climate change and the need to address it. And he's a self-proclaimed environmentalist -- a lover of the outdoors (travels the world with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard) who touts his personal efforts to conserve energy. Brokaw also did his part to flack Gore's movie, "An Incovenient Truth." Will Brokaw embrace his inner Russert and grill Gore about how exactly the nation can meet a 100 percent renewable electricity goal by 2018?
Al Gore stood up in Washington today to call on Americans to join a crusade for 100 percent renewable electricity use by 2018. The blogosphere's response? A golf clap and general round of nitpicking ... Some see the renewable energy goal as a touch impractical, and his beating of the carbon tax drum (1993 ... anyone? anyone?) irked plenty of conservatives -- no surprise -- and congressional Democrats on the grounds of poor timing as the American economy limps along. A roundup of reactions:
Tonight's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in New York should be the "greenest" MLB event ever, according to Reuters. In partnership with Chevy and NRDC, MLB incorporated a number of "green" initiatives into tonight's game: Athletes will be transported to and from Yankee Stadium in FlexFuel Chevy Silverados, post-consumer recycled waste content and bio-based materials will be included in paper products, and NRDC green teams will roam the stands of Yankee Stadium encouraging debauched and inebriated baseball fans to recycle. However, the centerpiece of the green All-Star Game is the giant "green" red carpet upon which the all-star players paraded for 18 blocks down Sixth Avenue. The 95,000-square-foot carpet, created by Bentley Prince Street, Inc. of California, was made completely out of recycled fiber content, and 100 percent of electricity was generated by an on-site solar array or financed through the purchase of Green-e certified renewable energy certificates. Too bad the FlexFuel Chevy Silverados in which the All-Stars paraded were less green than the carpet upon which they rolled. Fox will broadcast the final Yankee Stadium All-Star Game starting at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Beijing Olympics 2008: With less than 30 days to the Olympic games, Chinese officials and businesses have actively been touting efforts to reduce air pollution. Even as visibility was down to a few hundred meters in the pollution-laden misty July weather, Beijing's environmental bureau insisted that there will be clear skies for the August games. Chinese corporations are trying to do their part to curb the smog. The Beijing Shougang Group has cut steel production by 70 percent and will take a 2 million yuan loss for the third quarter. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge told the AP, "We are confident that atmospheric pollution will have no major impact on the Olympic Games." However, Olympic athletes are not quite as confident as Rogge in the Beijing climate. In the lead-up to the games, the Canadian Olympic Road Racing Team will train in Kyoto, Japan, thereby avoiding the streets of Beijing until the last possible second. Perhaps the Canadians are right to raise a skeptical eyebrow at Rogge's claims. As of early July, Beijing's smog was five times over the safety limit and a few recent health studies have indicated that polluted air may affect blood circulation and athletic performance for asthmatics and non-asthmatics alike.
Officials in the Northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia have mobilized 33,000 people to stop a swarm of locusts 267 miles outside of Beijing. Concerned that the locust swarm may descend on Beijing during the Olympic Games, the regional government has set aside 4 million yuan for pesticides and large-scale spraying machinery. As of July 2, the swarm had infested 5,000 square miles. "The larvae are in the hatching stage in the counties and cities near Beijing, Gao Wenyuan, of the Inner Mongolia's grassland office, told the Xinhua news agency, as reported by Bloomberg. "The plague is becoming more apparent."
With a mere 37 days until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Qingdao, the port city where Olympic sailing events will be held, has sailed into troubled waters. Since June 12, municipal and Olympic officials have been wrestling with an algae bloom in Fushan Bay that has produced over 20,000 metric tons of weeds and green muck. Approximately 10,000 troops and Qingdao residents and 1,000 boats have been dispatched to dredge the bay. According to a Reuters report, algae blooms are regular occurrences in Qingdao, but this one stands out:


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Changing to Mac
I have just signed on so I hope I am posting this in the right place.
I have always used a Windows computer, but I am getting incresingly fedup with the problems associated with Microsoft's programmes. Windows XP SP2 may well be the last straw for me.
Apart from buying a machine (!) where can I find information on changing over all my applications and files? I am reasonably computer literate as far as using the computer is concerned, but totally ignorant when it comes to diving below the bonnet so to speak.
My thanks in advance
Many thanks - just what I wanted.
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Handle Finish: plastic-dipped
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Jaw Thickness: 7/16'' (11 mm)
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The picture-perfect York stone building that makes up The Balmoral Hotel is over 100 years old. It started life as three separate homes but gradually, as the hotel expanded, it grew to occupy the whole terrace. In fact, the third house only became part of the hotel as recently as the 1980s.
It is widely believed that the reason the Balmoral is so-called is because the first owner used to be the chef to the Queen Mother making the name a perfect fit for the understated grandeur and quiet luxury of The Balmoral Hotel.
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Pizza Obsessives: Damian Barneschi
Today's obsessive is a pizza-lover from the Boston area who makes some very fine contributions to My Pie Monday, which I have even been lucky enough to try! (I once got to attend one of his epic pizza parties in Cambridge.) Let's get to know our fellow pie enthusiast Damian a little better as he spends a little time in the ol' 'hot seat'. More


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Updated: 07/25/2013 3:42 PM KSTP.com By: Scott Theisen
Stocks are closing with modest gains on Wall Street.
Technology stocks fared far better than the rest of the market Thursday.
Facebook soared 30 percent to $34.36 after reporting earnings late Wednesday that easily beat the forecasts of Wall Street analysts as mobile ad revenue rose.
The Dow Jones industrial average edged up two points, just 0.02 percent, to close at 15,544.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose four points, or 0.03 percent, to 1,690. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 19 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,599.
Home builder PulteGroup plunged 12 percent to $16.16 after reporting a 14 percent drop in profits.
Rising and falling stocks were evenly split on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was very light at 1.9 billion shares.
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|April 8-12, 2013
Earth Week
The theme of Earth Week 2013 is "Live Free." Utah State University has planned a variety of activities throughout the week to celebrate Earth Week. Go to the website to see a full schedule of events.
VITA - Tax Assistance
With the help of IRS certified volunteers, come get your federal and state taxes done for free. Simply call 2-1-1 to schedule an appointment.
VITA, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, is a program implemented through the statewide Earn It. Keep It. Save It. Coalition made up of local community partners. The coalition works to recruit IRS certified volunteers that provide free tax preparation services to low to moderate-income households (incomes below $51,000 in 2013).
Sites are available Monday - Thursday.
11:00 AM Special Ballet Storytime
Cache Valley Civic Ballet is pleased to share Storytime with the Fairy Godmother. She has flown in to read stories, talk about the very special slippers Cinderella wears in the ballet, and dance with storytime attendees. She may even grant a few wishes!
Bring your little fairies, dancers, and princes and princesses to this very special storytime (and don't forget your camera!)
Come early seating is limited!
Note: the same program will also be presented at:
Smithfield Library's Storytime held at the Smithfield Senior Citizens Center Friday March 29 at 2:30pm
7:00 PM Helicon West Open Mic Night
Helicon West is an open-mic reading/featured readers series for local poets and writers. Creative writers are invited to read up to 7 minutes of their original work. Arrive early to sign up. Readings are free, open to the public and uncensored.
Helicon West provides a regularly-scheduled place and time for members of the writing community to give their work a public voice, with no restrictions on levels of skill and no censorship of ideas or craft. Publication of readers' work is a main goal.
Sponsored by the USU Writing Center and the Logan Library.
Listed below are details on some upcoming events:
January 22nd: Courtney Moser, SLC Drag Queen/Columnist
February 12th: League of Utah Writers contest winners
February 26th: RaeAnne Thayne, prolific romance author
March 26th: Darren M. Edwards, performance poet, essayist and teacher
April 9th: Poetry at Three writing group
April 23rd: Scribendi winners (USU creative writing contest) Held at the Merrill-Cazier Library, Rm 101
7:00 PM Free Regency Dancing Lesson
Regency dancing classes will be taught in preparation for the First Annual Jane Austen Spring Ball at the following times and locations:
April 4th, 7:00 p.m., HPER 102: "Hole in the Wall" Dance Lesson
The ball itself will be held at 7PM on April 20th in the Whittier Center.
7:00 PM Young Artist Cup
Mountain Crest presents the 16th Annual Young Artist Cup. Vocal and String performances held Thursday, April 9th. Piano and Instrumental performances held Friday, April 10th. Admission is free.
7:30 PM Mary Poppins
Four Seasons Theatre Company presents Mary Poppins. Tickets available online. Group and Family rates available by phone.
Four Seasons Theatre Company is Cache Valley's newest non-profit community production company. Four Seasons is dedicated to providing quality, affordable entertainment. As their name indicates, you can expect four productions a year, each with a theme appropriate to the season.
The Logan Library does not endorse
non-library events or entities described in the events calendar.
Because events may be changed, rescheduled, or cancelled, event information should be confirmed with the events contact.
While the Logan Library makes every effort to ensure the most accurate information is provided, the Logan Library assumes no liability for
the costs or inconvenience of any party due to the rescheduling or canceling of events listed, or for the costs or inconvenience of any party
due to information which may be incomplete or inaccurate.
To update this information, email the Logan Library Staff


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No Core Charge!
ZZPerformance short blocks are the industry's best choice for performance, strength and reliability. Every detail of the ZZP short block has been fine tuned for extremely long life and high performance. Each engine is built using the finest components, eliminating factory weak points and upgrading everything needed to withstand the abuse of a driving enthusiast.
Our engines start with a GM block, disassemble and clean, install ZZP custom girdle, square deck, resurface deck to a finish finer than OEM, and we replace the oil plugs. If selected, the balance shafts are replaced with ZZP neutral balance shafts. Oiling to vital engine components is increased. On the stroker engine option the GM crankshaft is modified for use in this application. Improvements are made to ensure reliable operation. Only ZZP has been to 898whp without failure.
Model:Determines the car that it is going into. The 2.0L LNF engine has optional direct injection specific Wiseco pistons, all other models come with (non direct injection) JE pistons. When you select "Turbo" you will get a oil pan with a oil return bung installed. The stroker engines will require our ZZP specific stroker aluminum flywheel in option 2.Option 1:Select what kind of balance shafts you would like installed in your engine.Option 2:Select what kind of flywheel you would like balanced with the new rotating assembly.Option 3:Select what kind of harmonic balancer/damper you would like balanced to your rotating assembly. ATI balancers will help with the harmonic vibration that these engines make at high RPM, so you can spin your engine to higher than stock RPM without failure. The ATI overdrive balancer is larger so it will spin the serpentine belt 1 supercharger pulley size faster. The ATI underdrive balancer is 12% smaller to reduce the drag from the accessories and is intended for Turbo and NA applications.Option 4:Select what rods you would like installed. Our ZZP rods are the most affordable option and they have been tested without failure to 898whp.Option 5:You will need to select the proper compression piston for your engine. TVS and Turbocharged cars will generally run the lower compression, where a M62 supercharged car would run the higher compression so you don't have to try to run high boost where the M62 looses its efficiency. The 2.1L adds .2 to the compression listed due to the extra cubic inch being forced into the combustion chamber. Shipping:Due to the weight and size, our short blocks are shipped by freight. "shipping to business" means that it is going to a location that has a forklift to remove the skid from the truck. "shipping to residence" means that it is going to your house and you will need a lift gate to remove the skid from the truck. Our website will email you a tracking number that you will have to enter into the "Pro Number" box on the R&L Carriers website page: http://www.rlcarriers.com/shiptrace.asp
Important break in procedure:We recommend that you install the engine, fill with oil, then leave the injector harness unplugged and turn engine over until the oil pressure light goes out. This ensures that you are starting the engine with full oil pressure.
When the engine is running, at light throttle, bring it up to 4500rpm, then coast down to near idle(still in gear), then 5000, then 5500, then 6000, and 6500 each time letting it coast down to idle. This will help seat the rings. Then after a couple heat cycles, start running it under power.
Can I send you parts to install?
Some items we can use of yours. We do not recommend using your balancer. Ours are press fit instead of the original fitment. Using your balancer will void your warranty.
Anything we use of yours will be inspected prior to installation but we cannot guarantee items we are not selling.
How much power will I gain with the stroker LSJ and no other changes?
Expect 40 additional WHP and 40ft/lbs of torque on an LSJ with no other changes. With our high compression pistons and E85 fuel, we made 400WHP with this bottom end and a factory M62 blower.
How much power will the engine handle?
We tested our 2.0 version of this motor in Ryan's turbo cobalt with over 50psi of boost. The car made 898WHP before the head gasket started leaking.
Our stroker motor is currently being tested. We made 570WHP and ran into transmission problems. We'll be back to testing again shortly.
5-26-2011, Engine has now been tested to 719WHP w/o failure. 30psi.
What rpm can I spin to?
The engine is built to withstand 9,000 rpm. Valve springs, cam selection, blower pulley, will determine its limitations. Engines with OEM balance shafts should not be run past 7k rpm.
Does the stroker motor need anything special?
The stroker engine option, will bolt right into your LSJ car. It uses a gen 2 block so external oil cooling is eliminated. you will need to loop your oil lines.
Will I get all of my core money back?
If there is damage to the block, you will lose 1/2 of your core. If there is other or additional damage, the core will be reduced accordingly. Email if you have detailed questions.
Warranty information:
Warranty is 1 year. Warranty begins on date of purchase and covers defects in materials and workmanship. The warranty provides for a replacement or repair (at our discretion) of engine only, and does not cover labor, shipping, or any other costs. Purchaser and installer assume all liability with regard to any and all damages in any way related to the purchase, shipping, installation, and/or use of this engine.
HP related, and tuning related failures are not covered under warranty. This means piston melt down/chipping, blown head gaskets, or broken sleeves are not covered under warranty. We recommend discussion usage plans and having us build an appropriate engine for you to avoid this problem.
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Advantages of ZZP girdle over sleeves?- Better cooling- Better head gasket sealing on high HP builds- Much less chance of install/build error- Less cost- Far less material removed. Less chance of coolant leaks or block failure.- Longer life due to less cylinder distortion. Girdling blocks have better rigidity than stock.
The OEM sleeves are extremely strong. They are steel, the problem is that they are completely unsupported at the area they receive the most stress. When breaking people thought the sleeves we're weak so they installed darton kits. Problem with Darton sleeves is that they destroy your block. The block becomes weak, cooling is greatly reduced, weight is increased. The picture below shows this on two blocks cut in 1/2. 1st, see the red between cylinders? that's from cracking where the block is cut so thin that it can't hold expansion contraction of steel sleeves which grow at a different rate. Alum is brittle. The lock tite went right inbetween cylinders into the cracks that the owner didn't even know were there. 2nd, look at the sleeve casing of the block and edges. That is all that is holding the block together now. You've cut HALF of the material holding the top and bottom of the block together. This is why high HP builds break them in 2 and have to be 'fixed' by running studs top to bottom.We have experienced sleeved cars with cooling issues and noticed that they run hotter than stock vehicles. There is also talk about the differences in a Gen 1 and Gen 2 block. Below is a sleeved Gen 1 block. The areas in blue are where coolant is traveling. Notice how the cooling on the Gen 1 block covers less than 1/2 of the cylinder bore but on the Gen 2 it covers 2/3 of it? This is the increased cooling discussed on the Gen 2 block but is also what causes them to crack and leak coolant into the oil in high HP applications.With sleeves you change things a bit tho. The stock sleeve is only 60 thousands thick. The lower part of the cooled sleeve is a total of .220 thick with the top being .300 thick. .240 is aluminum which cools very well. The Darton sleeve is .280 thick of steel which doesn't transfer heat well. This is where some of the increased cylinder wear comes from and why Darton sleeved motors run hotter. This brings us back to the cars Darton showcases and the GM race vehicles. Guess what? They run filled blocks and methanol and only run for seconds at a time. Methanol burns very, very cool. But when building a street motor, heat matters a lot. KR comes quicker on sleeved blocks and timing and/or boost must be reduced, lowering overall HP potential.


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Posted at: 04/21/2013 10:53 PM
By: Maria Guerrero, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Residents in a Sandoval County community have noticed there are a lot more horses roaming freely.
There have been at least two crashes in the past couple of days where horses have been hit by vehicles in and around the Village of Placitas.
One resident fears it's only a matter of time before a person is killed.
The issue of wild, feral or free-roaming horses is not a new issue for Placitas. Residents continue to debate whether the horses are wild and what to do with them, if anything at all.
The presence of the majestic creatures roaming freely throughout the area lured some residents.
"I sit on the deck in the back and watch the horses walk around, yeah it's not bad," said resident Fred Rahmer.
But, concerns for the population of free roaming horses seems to have grown in recent years.
The horses roam the entire village and are often found on the side of the road.
Sandoval County Sheriff's deputies have responded to two crashes in the area since Thursday. One crash happened on Thursday along Interstate 25 in the Sandia Pueblo. A horse was killed early Friday morning when it was hit by a vehicle along Highway 165 entering Placitas.
There are other concerns as well.
"They tear up all the hillsides and go across the roads. I've almost been hit them running across the road," said resident Shon Perin.
Perin spent Sunday afternoon fencing up his property near Las Huertas Creek which is one water source for the animals.
"I don't hate horses but I think it's just a little bit out of hand but it wasn't bad when there was just six or seven running around out here," he said.
Perin estimates there may now be up to a hundred horses.
"I don't mind it at all to be honest. The problem is going to be there's not enough food to supply the number of them," said Rahmer.
These residents can't really pinpoint a solution.
The sheriff's office says it only works to move the horses away from the road when needed.
The sheriff's office adds that in the past, the New Mexico Livestock Board has expressed interest in relocating the horses.


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After Hours event on tap in Warren County
The Warren County Business and Music After Hours event is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 26.
Hosting the event are Vance-Granville Community College, the Warren County Chamber of Commerce and the Lake Gaston Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center.
Hors d'oeuvres will be prepared by VGCC culinary arts students.
Bill Miller, president of the Warren chamber, will give the welcoming at 6:30 p.m., followed by Tim Ennis, executive director of the chamber, and Christina Wells, executive director of the Lake Gaston chamber.
Dr. Stelfanie Williams, president of VGCC, will also make remarks.
The Vance-Granville Community Band, directed by Ivory Brock, will provide music.
The event, free and open to the public, will be held at the Warren County Armory Civic Center, home of the Warren County Economic Development Commission, located at 501 U.S. 158 Business, Warrenton.
More information is available from the Warren County chamber at (252) 257-2657 and the Lake Gaston chamber at (252) 586-5711.


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We bring together people from across the planet with indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon to co-vision and commit to a common goal – working collectively for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, her people, traditions and biodiversity.


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Arriving at the best exposure for a photo is part science and part art. In Foundations of Photography: Exposure, Ben Long helps photographers expand their artistic options by giving them a deep understanding of shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and all other critical exposure practices. This course covers the basic exposure controls provided by all digital SLR cameras, as well as most advanced point-and-shoot models. Learn how to master a camera's metering modes, how to use exposure compensation and bracketing, and much more. By the end of the course, you'll know how to develop an "exposure strategy" that will allow you to effectively employ your exposure knowledge in any shooting situation.
Earlier you saw how we can control tone through exposure--that is, we can darken a tone by underexposing to put it back to its true dark value. Remember, your light meter is assuming that everything it's pointed at is middle gray and is trying to calculate exposure settings that will reproduce the scene as middle gray. Tone also has an impact on color. Take a look at our flowers again. This is a different set than we have used before. My light meter is looking at them and assuming that they are middle gray, and it's calculating some exposure values to reproduce them as middle gray, and here is what it's coming up with here.
Now, they look pretty good. They look like colorful flowers. But as I look at the scene with my eye, I see that they are actually a little darker; they are a little more saturated than what I am getting here. If I dial in just a tiny little bit of exposure compensation, I am going to dial in a 1/3rd-stop exposure compensation and watch what happens to these tones in here. They get just a little more saturated. Now, I am sure you notice the background getting darker too. There's no way around that. I am lowering my exposure. But again, watch the difference in the color. I am going to put it back to where the camera wants to meter.
It's just a little bit lighter. That may not seem like much, but that will show up in print, that difference. Let's go to a 2/3rds stop down, and they saturate a little more. This is getting back to the idea that color has a tone. Just the way black-and-white objects have a tone from black to white, color objects have a tone from, in this case very, very dark orange to lighter orange on the highlights. We can increase the saturation of colored images, dark-toned color images by underexposing.
If you have ever shot slide film, you're probably already used to this. The general rule with shooting slide film is that you want a little bit of underexposure to get your colors nice and deep and rich. And that can be true when you are shooting with your digital camera, when you are shooting JPEGs. It's a little bit different when you are shooting RAW. But for the most part, if you underexpose a little bit, you will get deeper, richer colors. That doesn't mean you want to necessarily walk around all the time with your camera set to underexpose by a 3rd of a stop. But if there are times where you are shooting some darker colors, you want to be sure they are really saturated, then maybe bracket your exposure--that is, shoot one normal, then underexpose a little bit, shoot another one.
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SPSU helps Atlanta hotel design rainwater harvest system
SPSU helps Atlanta hotel design rainwater harvest system
JULY 11, 2013 – SPSU's International Knowledge and Research Center (IKRC) recently helped the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead bring an idea to life that will increase the 439-room hotel's energy efficiency and save its owners considerable money in water bills.
Wes Shirley, the hotel's director of engineering, came up with the idea of using the Grand Hyatt's 32,000-sq. ft. third-floor roof to collect and reuse rainwater. To get started, he turned to Jim Mabes, an engineer and director of administration and development for the IKRC, who researched the local annual average rainfall over a 30-year period (50 inches a year) and calculated the measurements for the state-of-the-art catchment system. Mabes then worked with Craig Carroll – an SPSU student with experience in computer-assisted design who graduated in May with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology – on the engineering drawings.
Steve Miller of the local firm The Plumber Company handled the June installation of the system, which catches and recycles both rainwater and condensation through a series of drains and stores it in tanks. These tanks hold up to 30,000 gallons and will primarily be used for the hotel's cooling tower, which will decrease the amount of city water needed.
The harvesting system is expected to gather 992,000 gallons of water per year for a total annual savings of $26,050 and will take 3.84 years to pay back its cost at that rate.
"Atlanta has some of the highest water rates in the country, and we also are very mindful of the carbon footprint of the hotel," said Shirley, who noted that the Hyatt pays about $0.02 per gallon for city water. "A rain harvest system made both financial and socially responsible sense for us."
"Our student learned a real-world lesson about how to calculate the payback for a capital investment project," said Mabes. "The IKRC looks forward to helping the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead with future projects that have a sustainability component that can serve as a learning experience for our students."
The hotel plans to next look into ways to save gray water, which is wastewater used in activities such as dish washing or laundry.
This is one of many projects on which the IKRC has partnered with local businesses and government entities, including the Cobb County Schools, Atlanta Public Schools, the governing officials of Cobb County, the Georgia Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Office of the Georgia Lieutenant Governor, the Construction Education Foundation of Georgia and the Association of Building Contractors of Georgia.


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Freshman Josh Freeman is ranked 14th nationally in the shot put.
April 4, 2013
By Tyler Wooten
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Saluki track and field will make the short trip to Southeast Missouri State to compete in the Joey Haines Invitational this Friday and Saturday.
In addition to SEMO, other regional schools in attendance include SIU-Edwardsville, Arkansas State and fellow Missouri Valley Conference member Northern Iowa.
Day One on Friday features only one event -- the hammer throws. However, with four student-athletes nationally ranked in the top-35 in the event, Southern is looking to claim another hammer sweep.
Day Two begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday with field events, followed by the men's 3000m steeplechase at 11:30 a.m.
Southern is coming off an impressive performance at the inaugural Bill Cornell Spring Classic, where the Salukis won nine event titles and the women's team competition. Winning for SIU were Lauren Cheadle (long jump), Kenya Culmer (high jump, triple jump), Josh Freeman (shot put), J.C. Lambert (discus, hammer throw), Dougie Palacious (triple jump), DeAnna Price (hammer throw), and Amiris Warren (100m dash).
As it currently stands, Southern has 13 student-athletes ranked nationally in the top-50 in their respective events (six men, seven women).
Hammer throw at Day One begins at 3:30 p.m. on Friday.
Men's National Rankings:
3. J.C. Lambert - Hammer Throw - 67.09m (220-01) - All-Time MVC and SIU Record
14. Josh Freeman - Shot Put - 18.09m (59-04.25) - Sixth all-time at SIU in outdoor shot put
31. Eric Reeves - Long Jump - 7.34m (24-01.00)
33. Bradley Sauer - Hammer Throw - 60.50m (198-06)
43. Dougie Palacious - Triple Jump - 15.00m (49-02.50)
48. Brett Kohler - 400 Meter Hurdles - 52.87