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No nudity or vulgarity, Playboy club warnedComment on this story
Mumbai - Indian tourist officials in Goa warned on Friday that they would shut down a Playboy club set to open next month if there was any evidence of "obscenity, vulgarity or nudity".
Playboy's local franchisee PB Lifestyle has announced plans for more than 100 outlets in India, starting with a beachside club in the holiday state, but their "bunny" waitresses will sport a new look to suit conservative Indian values.
"They may brand the club as Playboy but if they indulge in obscenity, vulgarity or nudity, then we will withdraw their permission immediately," Goa's director of tourism Nikhil Desai, told AFP.
He said he was unaware of any formal application for a licence.
PB Lifestyle, which has the rights to develop Playboy outlets in India, plans to open clubs, hotels, fashion cafes and shops across the country in the next 10 years, investing at least two billion rupees ($37 million).
The firm is planning more modest outfits for the bunnies, famous for their skimpy costumes of corsets with fluffy rabbit tails and ears, PB Lifestyle chief Sanjay Gupta told AFP on Thursday.
He also stressed no nudity would be involved.
Playboy magazine, along with a host of other foreign "adult" magazines, is not permitted in India owing to obscenity laws banning material deemed "lascivious or appealing to prurient interests".
Bollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra this year became the first Indian woman to pose naked for Playboy magazine. - Sapa-AFP
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Coaches To Appear on Football Report
On the next Big Ten Football Report on Friday at 7 p.m. ET we roll out the red carpet for our Big Ten football coaches as we prepare for Saturday's Big Ten slate. Our own Mike Hall chats with Wisconsin's Bret Bielema, Michigan's Brady Hoke, and Minnesota's Jerry Kill and checks in with Iowa's Kirk Ferentz and Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald. On top of all of that, the show will air a great feature on Joe Paterno and the 10th anniversary of the Penn State coach Bear Bryant's coaching victory record. Watch a preview video clip here.

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Affluent and Wealthy consumers prefer customer service via remote channels rather than face to face. This is as true for GenY as it is across all generations. That is, interactions across virtual channels, and specifically social media, has become ubiquitous. This, according to an infographic entitled: Your wealthiest customers want service on Social Media researched by McKinsey & Co..
The (Highly) Discounted Value of Checking Accounts
What Community Banks Can Learn From JPM
Why Branches Are Dead
2014 Banking Priorities – Revenue Growth, Efficiency, M&A …
Debit Card Use Leads to Low Engagement for Banks and Credit Unions
Are Checking Accounts a Viable Acquisition, Retention or Growth Strategy?
The topic of Business Strategy and implications to Customer (Member) Loyalty, Revenue Growth and Profitability are rather timely as Banks and Credit Unions prepare for the Annual Strategic sessions. Specifically related to checking accounts, every Bank and Credit Union ought to be asking questions including: How effective and efficient has the customer acquisition program led by checking account product sales been? How effective is the cross-sale plan that is based on WOWing the checking account customer into additional product sales? How much products have been upsold, on average, to a checking account led acquisition? How much revenue and profit have the checking account led acquisition customers generated for the Bank or Credit Union? Perhaps the experience of your Bank or Credit Union is an outlier, but the data is overwhelmingly and unequivocally negative. That is, checking accounts are effective only at increasing the count of checking accounts (and perhaps the wallets of certain vendors who continue to sell the value of the checking account). 10 years ago, the checking account may have been the gateway to a broader wallet-share, revenue and profit growth, but circumstances have changed and the checking account is a liability – in all senses of the [Read More…]
Credit Union Strategic Thinking: Contradictions And Insight
Do Credit Unions, as a group, understand Business Strategy? The findings are not encouraging based on the survey of nearly 500 Credit Unions conducted by Aite Group. Though the focus of the survey was limited to Credit Unions' Online- and Mobile-Channel business objectives – the findings give us much cause for concern. The survey found that 88% of Credit Unions believe that Up / Cross-Sell of Existing Members is a key business objective for online offering and 87% believe that online is a key business strategy for Acquiring New Members. So far so good… However, just 27% of Credit Unions believe that Generating Revenue was a key online objective. So, just to restate… nearly 90% of Credit Unions want to cross-sell and acquire new members, but less than 30% are interested in generating revenues! In which case, why bother cross selling and trying to acquire new members? Here is another doozy. More than 90% of Credit Unions believe that a key business objective of their online offering is to Maintain Competitive Parity, while at the same time, 85% also believe that Obtaining Competitive Differentiation is a key business objective. Again – how can you 'keep you with the Joneses' and differentiate [Read More…]
Cross-selling Success Depends on Your Customers' Profile
Cross-selling, despite significant focus and investment, is ineffective at most Banks. Based on Deloitte survey conducted in August 2012, just 54% of consumers have more than just a basic checking account at their Primary Financial Institution (PFI) or elsewhere. Of those that own multiple banking products, only19% owned 3 or more products in addition to the checking account with their PFI compared to 49% who have 3 or more products with another Bank or Credit Union. Bank and Credit Union executives must therefore ask themselves questions including: – Why are consumers not purchasing banking products (in addition to the checking account)? – Why are consumers not purchasing banking products with their PFI? Customer Satisfaction with Banks and Credit Unions Nearly 90% of consumers are satisfied with their Bank and Credit Union. The high customer satisfaction has resulted in the average tenure of nearly 6.5 years, with 40% of the customers staying with their Bank or Credit Union for more than 10 years. Contrary to popular belief, consumer trust in Banks is neither weak nor waning and an average banking relationship lasting about as long as an average marriage in the US. Ownership of Banking Products Excluding Checking [Read More…]
Deloitte Warns Banks and Credit Unions to Change (while they still can)
Banks and Credit Unions executives continue to be challenged to improve effectiveness of product and service pricing. Never more so is true than when it applies to Checking Accounts – the staple of a banking relationship and the stepping-stone to a deeper Banking relationship. Consumers are Satisfied with their Bank or Credit Union Although many surveys seem to indicate that the vast majority of consumers hold a negative view of Banks and Credit Unions (FIs) and their practices, the reality of consumers' actions are very different. 88% of consumers are satisfied with their Primary Financial Institution (FI) according to Deloitte's Retail Bank Pricing survey conducted in August 2012 with over 4,200 checking account customers. Just 7% of consumers expressed some level of dissatisfaction. This figure correlates well to the historical trend of 8% – 10% of consumers who switch their Primary Financial Institution annually. Consumers Disinterested in Paying for Previously Free Products & Services Not surprisingly, most consumers are very sensitive to price increases, especially for products and services that were previously offered at no charge. Given same level of service and same products, consumer reaction to fee increases is … not positive. After all, very few of us enjoy [Read More…]


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I think what Alex did was unacceptable. Yes, Meredith shouldn't have messed with the results, but seriously, the only person who would've known was Meredith. The Chief put so much pressure on Meredith to get Adele into the trial, and Richard is practically Meredith's father. I think she only wanted to please him, everyone wants the approval of their parents or parental figures. Also, Izzie killed someone. She cut Denny's LVAD wire, and that is WAY worse than what Meredith did. No one died, no one was harmed by Meredith making sure Adele got the drug. Lastly, I'm so sick of Alex. He was doing so awesome this season. He had grown up and become a decent person, and now he does this? Not only is he completely stabbing Meredith in the back, what about the hospital? In one episode Alex said the hospital could lose it's credibility as a research hospital or something like that. So if the hospital goes down, it's Alex's fault for opening his big stupid mouth and telling on Meredith just so he could get the position of Chief Resident. I hope he doesn't make Chief Resident just because he's screwed Meredith over. Screw you, Alex Karev. You can get on a plane to Africa and never come back, that's the only kind of closure I want.
Alex can die in this finale, I'm actually okay with that. I was so happy with his character this season, he had gotten so mature and was finally acting like a decent human being, and then he goes and destroys not only Meredith's career, but the Alzheimer trial and probably the credibility of SGH hospital. I hope he gets on a plane to Africa and never ever comes back. He's not welcome.
Dear Teddy, PLEASE MAKE THIS EPISODE NOT SUCK BY CHOOSING HENRY. I NEED ONE RELATIONSHIP TO SURVIVE THIS FINALE. I REALLY DO. SO PLEASE BE THE RELATIONSHIP THAT LASTS, OR I DON'T THINK I CAN CONTINUE WATCHING THIS SHOW. REALLY.


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Apologies for the late post. Blogger's Picasa picture service is down and I loathe link based pictures. So... That's what I gave you in the end.
The Front List title being reviewed today will be released tomorrow at respectable bookstores everywhere. I highly recommend it. It fits into nearly any reader's spectrum.
The Back List title is Aura by Carlos Fuentes, which recently came back into attention when the author accepted an honorary degree in a country that has banned the book.
Something that he rightfully grumbled about.
From The Front List
Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky. Translated by Tim Mohr. Fiction. Europa Editions. Trade paperback. ISBN: 9781933372969. 336 pp. $15.
Coming of age novels are often described as turbulent or chaotic. The more reserved expressions describing the "formative years" have seemingly gone by the wayside with doilies, chastity and fair play. The list of novels, short stories and fictive memoirs that deal with the chaos of those awkward (another cliche word) years before adulthood are legion, and not all are equal.
Legion of course is not a flattering image to conjure when describing a sub-genre of fiction, but it is apropos. It is also important to recognize that though there are many of these stories there are few successful modern attempts. There is a nostalgia found in the reminiscent writings of aging writers that can lack profundity, just as there can be a dated sense of life in more earnestly written books from decades ago.
Think of Salinger, Twain or Dickens.
That is precisely what makes Alina Bronsky's Broken Glass Park both timely and important. Published way back in 2008 to wide acclaim in Germany, Broken Glass Park is just now making its way to the US via the conveyor belt of works in translation that is Europa Editions. Europa has both impeccable taste and what apparently is a tireless work ethic. They're catalog is well worth a lengthy perusal.
In the case of Broken Glass Park the publisher had what amounted to a no-brainer to work with. It is a young author's first book, written with alarming narrative power and contains a heart-breaking tale that is sure to scratch even the most hardened of hearts.
Sacha Naimann is seventeen years old and extremely intelligent. She is devoted to her studies with a blinding sense of purpose. She is the eldest of three children, poor, Russian and living in an ethnic ghetto in Germany. Her stepfather is in prison for murdering her mother and the man who the mother had taken up with after him. Her entire life revolves around two furious engines. One is the motivation to excel and escape the life of the poor, alienated Russians in her housing development. The other is to violently kill her stepfather and avenge her mother.
Ah, not your ordinary coming of age novel. While many have described the book as dealing with "life on the fringe" or "life on the margins" I find these terms to be somewhat off mark, and well, cheaply convenient. Nor is there an element of "shock value" to the drugs and sex found in the book. These promiscuous scenes are rendered matter of fact, neither being particularly shocking or extraordinary in content or revelation.
What is extraordinary and what makes the book unique is the violence and anger that live inside of young Sacha. The violence of the "margins" is an external one. One you've read about and seen in books and movies, or perhaps have lived with yourself. The inward drive to slay your mother's murderer is hopefully not something you have experienced before.
It is precisely this dark nature that changes the book from merely being a rendering of the awkwardness of youth or the hardships of poverty. The book is about a talented young person whose growth has been twisted and perverted by the horror of their past. In some ways young Sacha has already outgrown her youth and in others she is cruelly atrophied, stunted and ill equipped to deal with life.
It is a book about life on the dark side of human emotion and perhaps what is most intrinsically evident in this wonderful debut novel is the fact that our darker motives are not as close to the margins as we would like to think.
Such dreadful realizations are what makes Broken Glass Park more than the sum of its parts.
From The Back List
Aura by Carlos Fuentes. Translated by Lysander Kemp. Fiction. Bilingual Edition. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Trade paperback. ISBN: 9780374511715. $13.
Last week the great Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes accepted an honorary doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico. In his address he brought up the fact that his book, Aura, was still banned from educational curriculum and from schools throughout Puerto Rico. Irony of ironies.
So in honor of that ban I'd like to call your attention to this very uncommon book. Let me start by saying that it is supposedly notoriously difficult to translate. In order to create a sense of timelessness Fuentes employs narrative perspectives that essentially eliminate or marginalize the past, present and future tenses.
The novella is short and thankfully so. I don't mean to say that it is boring or poorly written, because the opposite is obviously the case. It is oppressive though, both in content and atmosphere. The story is unmanning and vertiginous and thus, a small page count comes as some relief to the astounded reader.
Felipe Montero is young, bookish and somewhat adrift. It is because of this situation that he throws himself headlong into the project of editing the memoirs of the late General Llorente. The stacks of papers and writings that he catalogs at the General's home is only the beginning of young Montero's problems. Enter the General's widow, Consuelo.
The novella quickly becomes a combination of ghost story, romance and paranormal thriller of an order that even the original Twilight Zone rarely touched upon. Consuelo's beautiful niece Aura enters the story and quickly she and Felipe fall in love. Meanwhile certain congruences begin to emerge between Felipe and Aura and the story of the General and his lifelong love, Consuelo, whose odd obsession with her lost youth seems to manifest in a odd affection for Felipe.
Worse for young Felipe is the fact that Aura is inconsistently present and seems to come and go, appear rather, in a manner that further unmans Felipe. The young historian navigates the claustrophobic corridors of the house in a stupor, which buys the fantastical elements of the novel some time. At times you begin to doubt Felipe's sanity, just as he begins to doubt it himself. As a reader you almost become upset at the notion that your narrator might be unreliable.
Really, you aren't sure what's going on until that first moment of horrific clarity.
Confused yet? Good. Intrigued? Even better.
Now go read it. It's banned so you should do something guilty while reading it. Like holding a copy of Lolita in your other hand.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Front List / Back List: Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky and Aura by Carlos Fuentes
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February 15, 2010
Barbara LeBlanc
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The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College and the New Hampshire Political Library and Archives will join forces starting in March, after the Political Library board of directors voted unanimously Friday for the affiliation.
The 14-year-old library will come under the umbrella of Saint Anselm, and relocate to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics (NHIOP) on the college campus. Neil Levesque, executive director of the NHIOP, will assume day to day leadership of both entities. A number of members of the Political Library's board will join the institute's board and continue to be involved in carrying forward the library's mission.
A significant part of library's political memorabilia will move to the NHIOP, where Levesque plans to establish interactive exhibits on the New Hampshire Primary. The remainder of the library's collections and archives will remain at the State Library and Archives, where they can be accessed by journalists and historians.
"I am thrilled to welcome the Political Library to Saint Anselm College," said Father Jonathan DeFelice, O.S.B., president of Saint Anselm. "For over a decade the library has done much to preserve the rich history and protect the future of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, while also sponsoring civic engagement initiatives that seek to strengthen political knowledge and discourse in our state.
"The NHIOP and the library share fundamental and longstanding commitments to advancing this state's unique democratic tradition and role in the national presidential nomination process," he said.
"This is a merger that benefits everyone – the Political Library, the Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College, and most importantly our state and everyone who cares about preserving our first-in-the nation tradition," said Ambassador Terry Shumaker, chair of the library's board of directors. "Two great institutions will be enhanced by joining forces behind their shared missions."
The Political Library was founded in 1996 by Governor Hugh Gregg and Secretary of State William Gardner. Sen. Judd Gregg, son of the late Gov. Gregg, was instrumental in the establishment of the NHIOP and chairs its advisory board.
Once the agreement is complete, the library will move from the Pierce Manse, in Concord, which will continue to be owned and operated by the Pierce Brigade. Several of the library's programs, which include Kids Voting, the lesser known primary candidates debate, and the Politics and Eggs speaker series, will continue the auspices of the NHIOP


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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ALBANY, Ga. — Albany police responded to at least 52 incidents Monday into the early hours of Tuesday, according to available police reports. Police responded to incidents including:
— Burglary on the 1700 block of Fir Lane, the the 900 block of Ninth Avenue, the 1800 block of Melrose Drive, the 600 block of West Residence Avenue and the 1400 block of Gillespie Avenue;
— Theft by taking on the 1600 block of North Jackson Street, the 1200 block of North Westover Boulevard, the 1000 block of Clark Avenue, the 300 block of South Slappey Boulevard, the 300 block of Pine Avenue, the 1000 block of Whitney Avenue, the 300 block of West Oglethorpe Boulevard and the 200 block of Cotton Avenue;
— Forgery on the 1300 block of North Slappey Boulevard;
— Motor vehicle theft on the 1500 block of Cordele Road;
— Arson on the 200 block of Salmon Circle;
— Disorderly conduct on the 500 block of North Carroll Street and the 600 block of Johnson Road;
— Aggravated assault on the 400 block of West Mercer Avenue and the 400 block of Gaines Avenue;
— Missing juvenile on the 600 block of Willard Avenue;
— Entering auto on the 2800 block of Nottingham Way;
— Terroristic threats and acts 600 block of Johnson Road;
— Vandalism (domestic) on the 2000 block of West Broad Avenue;
— Assault (domestic) on the 600 block of North Jefferson Street;
— Domestic (unfounded) on the 800 block of Ninth Avenue, the 2700 block of West Oakridge Drive, the 500 block of Dorsett Avenue, the 600 block of Johnny W. Williams Road, the 400 block of West Gordon Avenue, the 900 block of Whitney Avenue and the 1400 block of Whispering Pines Road.
Dougherty County police responded to at least eight calls, according to police reports.
Police responded to incidents including:
—Fraud on the 1200 block of LaJuana Street;
— Criminal Damage on the 1000 block of Spring Hill Drive and the 1000 block of Nelms Road;
— Animal control investigation on the 1700 block of Antioch Road and the 3500 block of Sylvester Road;
— Information (juvenile) on the 3100 block of War Eagle Road.
The Dougherty County Emergency Medical Service responded to 52 calls on Monday.
There were 32 medical calls, 18 trauma calls and two other calls. Medical Calls: Two chest pain, six respiratory issues, three faints, one diabetic issue, one seizure, two mental health calls, one miscellaneous pain calls and 16 various medical; Trauma calls: Six vehicle crash victims, seven falls, one laceration, one other trauma and three fight/assaults. Other type calls are typically medical alerts or standby.
ALBANY FIRE DEPARTMENT: The Albany Fire Department responded to seven incidents.
— A grass fire, four fires in adjacent vacant buildings, an unauthorized burn and a cooking fire.
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Officials from NOAA's National Weather Service praised Campbell County Virginia and Caswell County North Carolina for completing a set of rigorous warning criteria necessary to earn the distinction of being StormReady®.
"StormReady encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations and public awareness," said Phil Hysell Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Blacksburg, VA. "StormReady arms communities with improved communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property – before and during the event."
The nationwide community preparedness program uses a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle local severe weather and flooding threats. The program is voluntary and provides communities with clear-cut advice from a partnership between local National Weather Service forecast offices and state and local emergency managers. StormReady started in 1999 with seven communities in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. There are now more than 1,200 StormReady communities across the country, but Campbell County and Caswell County are only the second and third communities, respectfully, in Blacksburg's forecast area.
A recognition ceremony was held August 20th, 2007 in Rustburg, VA, where National Weather Service officials presented StormReady signs to Aubrey Cheatham, public safety director, Campbell County, Karen Briggs, Administrative Assistant, Campbell County, Christin Anthony, former Administrative assistant, Campbell County, and Mike Cocker, VDEM Regional Coordinator for Region 3.
On September 17th, 2007 in Yanceyville, NC, National Weather Service officials presented StormReady signs to Jim Gusler, Caswell County Emergency Management Director, Dennis Hancock, Operations Officer, Caswell County Office of Emergency Services, and Joe Wright, NCEM Area 9 Coordinator.
The StormReady recognition will be in effect for three years when the counties will go through a renewal process.
"Every year, around 500 Americans lose their lives to severe weather and floods, said Brig. Gen. David L. Johnson, USAF (Ret.), former director of NOAA's National Weather Service. "More than 10,000 severe thunderstorms, 2,500 floods and 1,000 tornadoes impact the United States annually, and hurricanes are a threat to the Gulf and East Coasts. Potentially deadly weather can affect every person in the country. That's why NOAA's National Weather Service developed the StormReady program."
To be recognized as StormReady, a community must:
• Establish a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center;
• Have more than one way to receive severe weather forecasts and warnings and to alert the public;
• Create a system that monitors local weather conditions;
• Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars;
• Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises.
"Just like communities, families need to be storm ready by having an action plan for severe weather. Through StormReady, the National Weather Service plans to educate every American about what to do when severe weather strikes because it is ultimately each individual's responsibility to protect him or herself," Hysell said.
For more information about StormReady visit: http://www.stormready.noaa.gov
StormReady® is a registered trademark used by the National Weather Service.


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2011 January
Report from the first Creative Commons board meeting of 2011
On January 8, 2011, Creative Commons held a board meeting in the San Francisco headquarters.
We discussed the CEO transition plan. I reiterated my commitment to continue working with Creative Commons in my new role as Chair of the Board focusing on international and in particular, the Middle East.
Our current plan is for the transition work to begin immediately, but for Cathy to come on board starting March 1. While the timing and the exact location are to be determined, we will be moving the headquarters from San Francisco to Silicon Valley to be closer to some of our funders and many of our core adopters coinciding with Cathy joining full time.
We reviewed and discussed the strategic plan and the board was supportive of the new structure and the objectives and metrics driven format. There was a discussion about the importance of developing the science and education sections of the vision and strategy more. We discussed the importance of involving the stakeholders and community in the conversation as well and looked to other successful models such as Wikimedia.
The board approved the budget which linked to the strategic plan and its objectives with the understanding that Cathy and I will be working on fund raising over the next few months and that certain costs such as the move and the global meeting were still only estimates. We agreed to return to the board with additional updates as they became available.
We discussed the commitment of the board to add additional board members from the international community and committed to publish the criteria within weeks. The board found no reason why board members couldn't be added as soon as qualified board members were identified through this process. We hope to add two new non-US board members as soon as possible.
We discussed the global meeting and the board reiterated its support for the meeting.
The board discussed the website redesign. "Phase 0" the initial redesign was viewed as an improvement to the old design. (Data about the performance metrics support this.) The board supported the continuation of the website redesign, but asked staff to be prudent about the budget, interview stakeholders for feedback and input, and use internal resource where this made sense and were available.1 Comment »
Belgian and Israeli Courts Grant Remedies to CC Licensors
Litigation involving CC licenses is infrequent even though we've been around almost a decade and hundreds of millions of creative works are published under CC licenses. CC believes that this absence of litigation is evidence of widespread acceptance and understandability of our licenses. That said, we still appreciate occasional decisions by courts confirming that CC licenses operate as intended when tested (we note a few on our wiki), such as recent decisions in Belgium and Israel. These decisions also showcase important features of our licenses and how they operate to help copyright holders share, while fully retaining any rights they have not chosen to grant.
In the Belgian case, Lichôdmapwa v. L'asbl Festival de Theatre de Spa, a theater company used 20 seconds of the song "Abatchouck" in an advertisement. The song had been released by the Belgian band Lichôdmapwa under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND (Attribution, NonCommerical, NoDerivatives) license. Lichôdmapwa brought suit, claiming the theater company violated all three license conditions when it failed to provide attribution, used the song in a commercial advertisement, and used only a segment of the song.
The Belgian court agreed. Citing opinions from Dutch, Spanish and American courts, the judge held that the theater company violated the Creative Commons license and therefore had committed copyright infringement. The Belgian court disagreed with the defendant's claim of ignorance to the license given the defendant's prior licensing experience and because the website from which the music was downloaded referenced the CC license. The judge also dismissed the defendant's claim that because the band was not a member of the Belgian collective rights management association SABAM, the band should receive reduced or no damages. The court awarded the band 4500 Euros.
This month, an Israeli court for the first time granted relief in a suit for copyright infringement brought by a Creative Commons licensor. In Avi Re'uveni v. Mapa inc., the plaintiffs uploaded photographs to Flickr and licensed them under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. The defendant likely violated all three license conditions when she made a collage incorporating the photographs, sold the collages, and did not provide attribution. The defendant asserted she had no knowledge the photographs were under copyright or distributed under a CC licenses, claiming that she had instead downloaded them from another website where no copyright or CC license information existed.
The judge concluded that the defendant had no right to use the copyrighted photographs and therefore was liable for infringement. Although the judge mentioned the CC license only in passing and did not discuss enforceability or whether its terms had been violated, he did not suggest that the license was unenforceable, or that the defendant was not liable for copyright infringement based on the distribution of the photos with a Creative Commons license. For further analysis, CC Israel has made a statement about the case as well.
These cases together highlight some important fundamentals about how CC licenses operate. First and foremost, our licenses operate in conjunction with copyright, not in lieu of copyright. This means that if the terms of the CC license you have applied to your music or other creative work are violated, as the judge concluded in the Belgian case, the result is copyright infringement and nothing less. Conversely, the CC licenses are designed so that downstream users who abide by the license conditions are not in violation of the license. Both court decisions also reinforce a related and subtle (yet important) point for CC licensors — using a CC license does not work against you when it comes to enforcing your copyright later, even when users of your work may not be aware of your license choice. There is no penalty down the line for choosing flexibility over "all rights reserved" when it comes to enforcing your copyright.
These are just a few fundamentals of the licenses that CC works everyday to steward. Please support our ongoing stewardship efforts by donating to Creative Commons today!
A special thanks to our own Tal Niv for her careful reading and translation of the original Israeli court decision (referenced in this blog post), and to the CC Israel team for their assistance!Comments Off on Belgian and Israeli Courts Grant Remedies to CC Licensors
New federal education fund makes available $2 billion to create OER resources in community colleges
The Department of Labor and the Department of Education today announced a new education fund that will grant $2 billion to create OER materials for career training programs in community colleges. According to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program (TAACCCT) will invest $2 billion over the next four years into grants that will "provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs." The full program announcement (PDF) states that all the resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license:
In order to further the goal of career training and education and encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant ("Grant"), the Grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant ("Work") under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ("License"). This License allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted work and requires such users to attribute the work in the manner specified by the Grantee. Notice of the License shall be affixed to the Work. For more information on this License, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.
The program supports President Obama's goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 by helping to increase the number of workers who attain degrees, certificates, and other industry-recognized credentials. The first round of funding will be $500 million over the next year. Applications to the solicitation are now open, and will be due April 21, 2011.
Cathy Casserly, incoming CEO of Creative Commons, said, "This exciting program signifies a massive leap forward in the sharing of education and training materials. Resources licensed under CC BY can be freely used, remixed, translated, and built upon, and will enable collaboration between states, organizations, and businesses to create high quality OER. This announcement also communicates a commitment to international sharing and cooperation, as the materials will be available to audiences worldwide via the CC license."
Beth Noveck, professor of law and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director of the White House Open Government Initiative, said, "The decision to make the work product of $2 billion in federally funded grants free for others to reuse represents a historic step forward for open education. The Departments of Labor and Education are to be congratulated for adopting more open grantmaking practices to ensure that taxpayer money funds the widest possible distribution of this important job-training courseware."
Congratulations to The Department of Labor, The Department of Education, and others involved in crafting this important, innovative program. Creative Commons is committed to leveraging this opportunity to create a multiplier effect for public dollars to be used on open, reuseable quality content.
Where new learning materials are created using grant funds, those materials must be made available under CC BY. However, it is not a requirement that all the TAACCCT grant funds be spent on the creation of learning materials. We've also updated the title of this post to reflect this clarification, which before read U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2-billion to create open educational resources for community colleges and career training.
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CC Talks With: The Right to Research Coalition's Nick Shockey: Open Education and Policy
Nick Shockey is the Director of the Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) and the Director of Student Advocacy at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). The R2RC is an international alliance of 31 graduate and undergraduate student organizations, representing nearly 7 million students, that promotes an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the research they need for their education because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of scholarly journals. We spoke to Nick about similarities in the open access and open educational resources movements, the worldwide student movement in support of access to scholarly research, and the benefits of adopting Creative Commons tools for open access literature.
Nick Shockey by Right To Research Coalition / CC BY
"It all started in a hotel room in Paris," explains Shockey, who while studying abroad at Oxford and on a brief trip to France happened to catch a CNN special about MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) program. Nick was immediately impressed by the idea of OCW, and upon his return to Trinity University campaigned to get his school to implement a similar program. For a number of reasons, OCW didn't catch on at Trinity, but the experience Shockey gained in advocating for it provided him with two crucial pieces that led to his work at SPARC: a deep interest in opening up the tools of education, and an introduction to Diane Graves, Trinity's University Librarian and then SPARC Steering Committee member. Shockey began advocating for open access to research at Trinity, and convinced the student government to pass a resolution supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), as well as a later resolution endorsing the Student Statement on the Right to Research. The statement calls for students, researchers, universities, and research funders to make academic research openly available to all. These principles formed the foundation for what was to become the Right to Research Coalition.
Growth of R2RC
In the summer after Shockey moved to Washington D.C., he was able to add new signatories to the Student Statement on the Right to Research, including the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) and the National Graduate Caucus of the Canadian Federation of Students. It soon became clear that a larger impact could be made by organizing as a coalition that actively advocated for and educated students about open access, and Nick joined SPARC full time to lead the Right to Research Coalition.
R2RC has grown to include 31 member organizations and now represents nearly 7 million students worldwide. "The incredible diversity of our membership speaks to how important access to research is to students," says Shockey. R2RC's members range in size from groups with less than a hundred students to organizations with more than a million. But Nick notes that all the member groups have two things in common: they believe students should have the benefit of the full scholarly record (not just the fraction they or their institution can afford), and they recognize that the Internet has made unfettered access possible by driving down the marginal cost to distribute knowledge virtually to zero.
Federal open access advocacy
SPARC and the Right to Research Coalition have been supportive of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), a law which would require 11 U.S. government agencies with annual output research expenditures over $100 million to make manuscripts of journal articles stemming from research funded by that agency publicly available via the Internet. While FRPAA didn't pass in 2010, Shockey's very happy with the remarkable progress made, which culminated last year in the Congressional hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research. Shockey, colleague Julia Mortyakova, and R2RC members have been advocating in support of FRPAA in various ways, such as letter-writing campaigns and in-person office visits. Shockey estimates his membership has reached out to well over two hundred Congressional offices.
Student support for OA around the world
Shockey describes that the current situation of limited access to academic research is a widespread problem that affects students all around the world. But, he explains that the real difference isn't between the United States and the rest of the world, but between the developed and the developing world. "Paying $30 for access to one article is expensive even for many researchers in the U.S.," says Nick, "but when you realize that $30 is an entire average month's wage in Malawi, you can see the huge disparities in access faced by huge swaths of people around the world."
At the end of last summer, R2RC began a concerted effort to expand their coalition to incorporate international student groups, and launched their Access Around the World blog series to feature stories and activities from students across the globe. In fall 2010, Shockey pitched the importance for student access to scholarly research to the European Medical Students' Association's General Assembly in Athens and the European Students' Conference in Berlin. "The students understood the issue right away and have gotten involved immediately," says Nick. The President of the European Medical Students' Association has already made a presentation on Open Access and the R2RC at a major international medical conference, and just this month, the coalition welcomed the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), the world's largest medical student organization, which operates in 97 countries around the world.
Access is crippled by cost; OA enables novel downstream benefits
The high cost to users to access academic journals and educational materials is a criticism shared by advocates of open access (OA) and open educational resources (OER). Scholarly journal prices have increased at 200% the level of inflation, similar to that of college textbook prices. Shockey believes that the that the greatest value of open access is to help knock down the prohibitive barriers that high prices pose to individual users. "A singe U.S. university we studied spent about $900,000 for only 96 journal subscriptions–and that was at a well-funded school," says Shockey. "At less wealthy institutions, or those in the developing world, the price barriers often prove insurmountable. Students and researchers must make do with what their school can afford rather than what they need."
Nick explains that through open access, the entire scholarly record could be available for anyone to read and build upon, leading to innumerable public benefits. But he's most excited by the uses of open access scholarship we can't even think of at the moment. "Lawrence Lessig points out that the real 'secret sauce' of the Internet is that you don't need anyone's permission to innovate on it," says Shockey, "and I believe open access will finally bring this ability to academic research." Nick describes a world of open access in which researchers will not only be able to read any article, but also be permitted to perform semantic text mining to uncover trends no one person could discover and connect together. But for this promise to be fulfilled, he reinforces that researchers need access to the entire scholarly record, not just a selected subset, and the rights necessary to reuse these articles in new and interesting ways.
Open access and Creative Commons
Shockey explained that Creative Commons plays a crucial role within the OA movement by providing a standard suite of prepackaged open content licenses. "To make an obvious point," he said, "very few researchers are also copyright lawyers, and the CC licenses make it simple for scholars and journals to make their articles openly available. CC also helps prevents a patchwork system where it's unclear which uses are allowed and which are not." Nick notes that this sort of ambiguity can be very harmful–particularly to reuse of content, so it's important that the open access community leverages CC to ensure access and communicate rights.
Shockey says that the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license has become the gold standard for open access journals. In general, scholars want recognition for their work, and the CC BY license ensures attribution to the author while allowing anyone to read, download, copy, print, distribute, and reuse their work without restriction. Shockey notes that several studies have shown a strong increase in article views and citations when an article is made openly available. "This makes intuitive sense," Nick says. "If an article is available for more people to read and build upon, it's unsurprising that it will also tend to be cited more often. Given the importance of citation counts in academic advancement, the citation increase can be an important benefit that flows from open licensing."
OA support via the university
Open access (and increasingly, OER) initiatives at universities have been promoted in part through the university library. For example, at some schools librarians help educate faculty and students about the options available to them for scholarly publishing, including administering the Scholar's Copyright Addendum. Shockey thinks that the library is a natural central organizing venue for OA and OER work, and meshes well with the library's fundamental mission to provide their community with access to the educational resources they need. Nick also noted that libraries are perfectly positioned to play an OA/OER organizing role because they are one of the only institutions that reaches every department and every member of the campus community. Shockey said that some libraries have already taken the lead by supporting initiatives such as the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE), which sets aside money to pay for the publication fees that some open access journals charge, in order to help transition to an open model.
OA and OER working together
Open access advocates argue that access to scholarly literature should not be limited to scientists and academics, but available to patients, parents, students at all levels, entrepreneurs, and others. Shockey believes that since the OA and OER movements are both working to enable free access to the tools of education, it's important to explore the ways in which these movements can work together. Even though the R2RC is centered on open access, it's begun to weave OER into its messaging alongside open data and open science. Nick thinks it's important for R2RC members to see the larger network in which they work. "When we hit roadblocks in one area," said Shockey, "there are often opportunities in others, and advancing one of these pieces (be it OA, OER, open data, open video, etc) opens the door for further progress in other areas. Furthermore, once you've convinced someone about one of these issues, be it a friend, colleague, or the U.S. Congress, it's much easier to engage them on the others."
Shockey is optimistic with regard to the future of the student open access movement, but stresses the need to move ahead with the clear vision that advancements in education, science, and scholarship require access to raw research materials. "We must always remember what it is we're fighting for," said Shockey, "academic research is the raw material upon which not only education but also scientific and scholarly advancement depend. When we allow these crucial resources to be locked away, it hinders the entire mission of the Academy – student learning suffers, scholarly research is impeded, and scientific discoveries are slowed." Nick says that widespread open access promises to benefit science and scholarship in radical ways that are almost unimaginable today. "Open access will improve how we teach, learn, and solve problems in ways that are impossible within a closed system."
While there are many ways to get involved with the Open Access movement, Shockey stressed that the most important was simply to learn about this issue of access to research and start conversations with friends, colleagues, mentors, and students to raise awareness. The R2RC website has an individual version of their Student Statement on the Right to Research open for anyone to sign, as well as a host of other education and advocacy resources for those interested in Open Access.Comments Off on The Right to Research Coalition's Nick Shockey: Open Education and Policy
An Island: CC-Licensed Film, Public-Private Screenings Announced
Music and film lovers take note – An Island, a beautiful new film by Vincent Moon featuring Danish band Efterklang, is very quickly nearing public release. A new teaser for the film was released today along with an announcement describing the "Private-Public Screenings" of the film:
Efterklang and Vincent Moon welcome all our listeners and followers to host their own screenings of An Island.
We call these screenings Private-Public Screenings and the rules are very simple.
- The screenings need to have free entrance
- The screenings need to be public.
- The screenings need to have a minimum capacity of 5 people
- The screenings need to be verified by Efterklang & Vincent Moon and only screenings that are featured on www.anisland.cc are official Private-Public Screenings
Moon and Efterkland hope to create "a free and inspiring distribution method for [the] film" – as such, An Island is CC BY-NC-SA licensed (like all of Moon's current work), allowing the free sharing and reuse of the film for non-commercial purposes.
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ePSIplatform Blog Series on Creative Commons and Public Sector Information
The following is cross-posted from the blog of the European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform). ePSIplatform is a comprehensive portal showcasing research and projects working to stimulate and promote public sector information (PSI) re-use and open data initiatives in Europe. Creative Commons is pleased to contribute a series of blog posts discussing the role of CC tools for use in public sector information.
Creative Commons' (CC) suite of licenses and public domain tools have set a global standard for legally facilitating maximum re-use of information, where re-use (access, collaboration, dissemination, follow-on innovations, business and community ecosystems, etc.) of information is desired — as has particularly been the case with public sector information (PSI).
This ought to be of little surprise, as open licensing is completely aligned with the interests of governments in encouraging re-use of PSI, as expressed in EU Directive 2003/98/EC and similarly around the world. More broadly, there is great interest in open licenses for publicly funded information, including various kinds of cultural, educational, and research information. Across these broad categories stakeholders have realized again and again that if rights statements are confusing or not present, re-use of information will be suboptimal. Implementing CC is the solution.
In this short blog series, we will not describe the basics of the CC license suite and public domain tools, nor their burgeoning adoption by governments throughout Europe and around the world–follow the links for a review.
Instead, for the expert ePSIplatform readership (many thanks to ePSIplatform for the opportunity) we will highlight some useful "things you may not know" and point out some "things you might think you know, but are incorrect" about legal and technical aspects of CC tools — ones particularly pertinent to PSI adoption that have surfaced repeatedly in discussions CC and institutions in our global affiliate network have had with governments and publicly funded institutions, including in the course of providing implementation assistance for governments seeking to share. Following are some of the things we'll discuss briefly in upcoming posts:
While all CC licenses require attribution, it is built in a sophisticated and flexible manner: non-endorsement, right to request removal of attribution, attribution to a publisher or funder, appropriate to medium, attribution links, and technical support for making attribution easier and more useful.
How the CC0 public domain dedication works robustly across jurisdictions, including its minimal license fallback that effectively works like our attribution-only license, and how the same technology that makes attribution under our licenses easier and more useful also makes non-legally-mandated citation of public domain materials also easier and more useful.
Jurisdiction and CC licenses: how that works legally (all CC tools are designed to apply worldwide). Also the leadership role of CC affiliate network jurisdiction projects in PSI.
How CC0 and CC licenses are being used for data (both are used extensively for PSI); also how they treat sui generis rights (separately, CC will be issuing an in-depth contemporary statement on this topic in the near future), what this means for PSI, and related improvements we're exploring for an eventual version 4.0 of the CC license suite.
We are also developing a topic report on PSI and CC tools, to be published at the conclusion of this series. The report will include references to much of the excellent material published on PSI and CC over the last several years.
Feel free to leave a comment on this post if you have burning questions about the items above, or requests for other points to be covered in this series or the topic report. As always, if you have questions about CC licenses and public domain tools, we hope you'll come to the source for the official story.Comments Off on ePSIplatform Blog Series on Creative Commons and Public Sector Information
CC Website Changes
If you watch our website carefully, you'll notice a few changes today. Some of those changes are small, and some are fairly significant, and we'll be making more changes later in 2011.
We're making these changes because we've received feedback — from our community of users, friends, supporters, and more — that the current set of web properties we have here at Creative Commons isn't working as well as it could. Our websites have always emphasized using Creative Commons tools, or finding Creative Commons-licensed works. But we haven't always made it easy to understand exactly how we are making possible the full potential of the internet via open licensing.
Today's changes mark the first step towards fixing that problem.
The first change you'll notice is that we're putting learning about CC into a featured spot on the home page, right next to where you can choose a license for your works.
Another change is that we are making it easy to see that we work across culture, education, and science, instead of putting those as links in a sidebar or even onto different domains, as we have done in the past with education and science. On each of those pages, we put in a "carousel" of users and implementations that draw on our growing repository of CC case studies. All of our work is global across all three domains, so we've also updated and prominently feature our international affiliates network page.
Regarding science, we're redirecting the old Science Commons front page to http://creativecommons.org/science. This is part of our comprehensive integration of science into the core of Creative Commons — on a par with culture and education. We're still figuring out exactly how to migrate all of the content inside the sciencecommons.org domain, so for now we're leaving that content up and linking to it from the new page.
We made it easier to find and learn about the licenses themselves, and we made our vision and mission explicit on the About Creative Commons page.
Last, we put a "fat footer" into place at the bottom, so that visitors and experienced CC users could rapidly access key parts of the site without having to dig around and click around in a site map.
This is just the beginning of the process. We're working on a much more complete site redesign as part of our strategic plan for 2011, but we wanted to get these fixes implemented immediately. For those of you following CC's progress over the long term, note that our previous significant website refresh came nearly two years ago. We will be tracking the impact of the changes through our website analytics, and we welcome feedback on how you use the site, what you'd like to see, and how you think we can make our website more effective throughout the course of the year.3 Comments »
CC REL by Example
The following is cross-posted from the CC Labs blog. Creative Commons technical team blogs at CC Labs about metadata, emerging standards, demos, prototypes, and Creative Commons' technical infrastructure.
You may have noticed that the copy-and-paste HTML you get from the CC license chooser includes some strange attributes you're probably not familiar with. That is RDFa metadata, and it allows for the CC license deeds, search engines, Open Attribute, and other tools to discover metadata about your work and generate attribution HTML. Many platforms have implemented CC REL metadata in their CC license marks, such as Connexions and Flickr, and it's our recommended way to mark works with a CC license.
In an effort to make CC license metadata (or CC REL metadata) much easier to implement, we've created CC REL by Example. It includes many example HTML pages, as well as explanations and links to more information.
We're hoping this guide will serve as a useful set of examples for developers and publishers who want to publish metadata for CC licensed works. Even if you just use CC licenses for your own content, now is a great time to take a first step into structured data and include information about how you'd like to be attributed.
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Nature Publishing Group Announces New Open Access Journal and Support for CC!
Nature Publishing Group has long been a leader in scientific and medical publishing. The company's flagship publication, Nature, has been publishing across a broad range of scientific disciplines since 1869 and is the world's most cited interdisciplinary journal. In the past several years, Timo Hannay as head of web publishing and Annette Thomas as CEO of MacMillian (NPG's parent company) successfully brought NPG into the digital age with a wide variety of new scientific journals and projects that leverage the power of the Internet.
As part of this program, NPG has made very clear its support of open access publishing. Last month, the company announced that an additional 15 of its journals now offer open access options. And this week, the company announced a brand new online open access journal called Scientific Reports. With this launch, a full 80% of NPG academic and society journals and 50% of all journals the company publishes offer open access options to authors.
Another way in which NPG shows its support of open systems is by supporting the work we do at Creative Commons – both philosophically and financially. We find ourselves on the same side of the table as NPG during many discussions on how to increase openness and innovation in scientific communication and digital access. Key members of NPG have repeatedly expressed their deep appreciation for the fact that CC licenses are the foundation on which the Open Access movement rests. In a recent meeting between CC and NPG, Jason Wilde, Publishing Director of NPG, told us that they would like to show that appreciation in a concrete manner – a donation to Creative Commons for every each publication in Scientific Reports. We are thrilled to have this financial support that will help us continue to provide the legal and technical infrastructure of open systems.
Nature Publishing Group is a visionary group of people with a clear view into the potential of the digital era to enhance scientific communication. They believe in open access and, as the world's premiere publishing group, they have the authority to lead the rest of the world towards increased OA. We are excited about the launch of Scientific Reports and the way in which it strengthens the long-standing bond between our two organizations.Comments Off on Nature Publishing Group Announces New Open Access Journal and Support for CC!
CC kicks off its 9th year with incoming CEO Cathy Casserly and a successful year-end campaign
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A warm thank you to all of our supporters! Our 2010 campaign raised $522,151.25 from 1,139 individual supporters and 22 companies. A huge thanks to our Board of Directors and all of our corporate sponsors, including 3taps, Tucows, Digital Garage, Ebay, Microsoft, LuLu, wikiHow, Hindawi, Squidoo, The Miraverse, and Aramex. More campaign numbers will be available soon on our blog.
Creative Commons enters 2011 with renewed energy, thanks to the holiday season and a new incoming CEO! As many of you know, we welcomed Cathy Casserly as incoming CEO of Creative Commons. As the Senior Partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and former Director of OER at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Cathy brings with her extensive experience with foundations and open educational resources (OER). But Cathy has also been involved with CC from the beginning. Lawrence Lessig writes,
Cathy Casserly by Joi Ito / CC BY
"One of the most important moments in the history of Creative Commons happened on the day the Supreme Court upheld (incorrectly, in my view, but let's leave that alone) the Copyright Term Extension Act in Eldred v. Ashcroft. After reading the decision, I had my head in my hands, buried in sadness, when my assistant reminded me that I had a 10am meeting with two people from the Hewlett Foundation. This was exactly one month after we had launched Creative Commons.
Cathy and Mike had heard about the Supreme Court's decision. They recognized I wouldn't be in much of a mood to chat. So they launched right into the reason for the meeting: The Hewlett Foundation had decided to help launch Creative Commons with a grant of $1 million dollars.
I won't say that after I heard that news, I forgot about the Supreme Court. But from that moment on, it was much more important to me to prove Hewlett's faith right than to worry about what the Supreme Court had gotten wrong. And I was especially keen to get to know these two people who understood our mission long before most had even recognized the problem that CC was meant to solve."
We welcome Cathy and thank Joi for his fruitful two years as CEO. We are equally excited that Joi will remain Chair of the CC Board, and look to both Cathy's and Joi's strong leadership to move CC forward in 2011.
In other news:
- CC talked with Mark Surman from the Mozilla Foundation about the connection between Mozilla and CC, and CC's role in the broader digital ecosystem. CC also talked with the Maine Department of Education about how they are investing their educational grants in OER.
- Journalist Dan Gillmor reflected on the challenges and rewards of publishing "Mediactive" under CC.
- CERN Library and the University of Michigan Library released hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records into the public domain using CC0.
- CC filed comments in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy.
- In an effort to balance legally sound terminology with culturally palatable translations, CC Affiliates in the Spanish-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds have harmonized the language in their license deeds.
- Finally, CC turned eight last month. In celebration, "Building on the Past" creator re-released his video under CC BY. Watch the video and read about Justin Cone's motivations.
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Democrats needed 25 seats to put the speaker's gavel back into Rep. Nancy Pelosi's hands.
About 60 to 70 of the 435 House seats were in play. While there are fewer competitive districts and Republicans controlled redistricting in many states, history wasn't on Democrats' side. The House hasn't changed majority control in presidential election year since 1952.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
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By Joel Hall
In April of 2009, Clayton County was awarded $9.7 million in stimulus funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to stabilize neighborhoods, by purchasing and rehabilitating foreclosed houses.
With the Sept. 4 deadline to obligate the funds rapidly approaching, the county's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) still has $5,760,000 it needs to spend. In order to fully maximize the funds, the county has set out to buy at least 65 foreclosed, or at-risk homes, before the deadline. With HUD recently relaxing it's purchasing rules, the county is giving builders and banks with troubled housing assets a chance to liquidate their stock.
"It [the HUD funding] was to acquire foreclosed properties, rehab those properties, and to provide mortgage assistance to resell those properties," said Clayton County NSP Manager Mickie Williams. "HUD has just changed its rules to allow us to purchase homes that are in danger of foreclosure. That includes short-sale and deed-in-lieu-of foreclosure. We've been able to do that for 30 days. Prior to that, we had to wait until the home went into foreclosure.
"If there are builders that have had to walk away from their property, for whatever reason, they should let us know about it and we can contact the bank," she added.
Clayton County got a late start in utilizing NSP funds, according to Williams, because of the county's failure to put asset-management teams into place until January of this year. She said the county's NSP program purchased it's first properties on March 1, but since then, has been able to acquire 37 homes.
Williams said all of the houses purchased through the NSP program are refurbished, if necessary, and then resold to qualified owners. She said the program also offers downpayment assistance to buyers.
"Because Clayton homes are so affordable, we have investors coming in from all over the country trying to buy these homes and turn them into rental properties," Williams said. "We would like to see Clayton County go owner-occupied. We feel like there is more of a commitment from the families involved. None of the [NSP] homes will be sold to investors, they will all be owner-occupiers living in these houses."
David Barton, president of the Metro South Association of Realtors, said realtors, sellers and buyers all have reasons to be excited about the county's home-buying blitz. He said the houses sold by the Clayton County NSP are some of the most well-priced on the market, and buyers will have to do little, once the homes are acquired.
"These are the best-priced homes that we've seen in the industry," Barton said. "It's a lot of square feet for a very affordable price, without any repairs having to be done to them. It's almost like having a new home, or a home that has been completely refurbished.
"With the programs they have in place [such as mortgage assistance], the realtors are just as excited," he continued. "We're hoping that the buyers see the benefit of these programs. It helps build stability for the neighborhood and it builds wealth for the individual."
Williams said houses to be purchased by the NSP must be single-family homes built after 1980, be vacant or owner-occupied, meet HUD environmental compliance, and preferably be connected to the county's water and sewer system. She said the program can usually determine if a home meets selling requirements in 48 hours.
Anyone can purchase NSP homes, as long as they make 120 percent, or less, of the area median income, Williams said. That amounts to an annual salary of $60,360, or less, for a single person; $86,160, or less, for a family of four; and $113,760, or less, for a family of eight, she said.
"We sent out e-mails to over 1,500 real estate agents last week, who work in Clayton County," Williams said. "We have to buy 65 more over the next three months. If we don't, HUD will recall that money. When we spend that money, we will also be in line to receive additional money from HUD."
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PeterTimber wrote:Dear Michele your comments were not offensive but seemed "piccino" and unecessary. People do not know who you are, how old your are, whether you are a male or female, why you choose one word or another and it is easy to make things go from bad to worse.
Nevertheless we welcome you to the forum with open arms and we are here to help not "rompere............i". =Peter=
You know Peter what you said there is in fact true of many of us - that includes you and me too! All people know about me is that I am based in the Alps in Northern Italy. Not whether I am male or female, my age or my nationality. Much the same can be said about you too I suppose. We know you live in Yonkers, but have no idea of your age, your background or your nationality. I (personally) assume that you are a gentleman because of your name. But I have no idea how you gained your knowledge of Italy or it's customs and practices.
I know that I joined IG in February 2006, and you followed in December 2007, so we both have some considerable time and experience under our belts - but nowhere near as much as many of the great researchers who abound on this site.
For my part I had already married a Milanese guy and was living in Milano, Italy during those 'real' times that you mentioned here:
"Back in the 60's and 70'swhen life in Italy was real, the month of August was always referred to by the average personin Italy as the Feria Agosto meaning that everything in Italy closed down for the month of August. iIts meaning was not what you technically describe but a popular description for vacation time in Italy and nothing more."
Well life in Italy was surely VERY real in the 60's and 70's, I can't argue with that, and from your statement I can only assume that you were living here too in those days - am I right?
Age wise I'm nearing my 70's and for the last half century of my life I have been either living in, or been closely connected to my family in Italy and to it's culture. My retirement life is now permanently based in a small mountain village of about 1000 souls but where I am accepted as one of them!
I have never considered my attempts to help people as a contest, but more as an opportunity to ensure that they are given correct information. I'm certain that you must feel the same way.
I don't want to be considered as a 'rompi scatola...'
So perhaps we can now get back to the original reason for the thread... the response to a military enquiry and how long one should expect to wait for a response at this time of year!


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Richie Farmer arrives at the Federal Courthouse in Lexington Thursday afternoon. (By Matt Stone, The Courier-Journal) April 25, 2013
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Federal prosecutors say there is more to Richie Farmer's "unwarranted sense of entitlement" than is included within Farmer's indictment.
In a notice filed late Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Taylor said prosecutors intend to introduce evidence of wrongdoing for which Farmer was not charged but "reflect the same unwarranted sense of entitlement that underlies the allegations in the indictment."
Primarily, Taylor said, "The government will seek to introduce testimony and other evidence that the defendant misappropriated and misused public resources prior to 2008." ...


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Staccato Communications and Fujitsu have announced that they've jointly developed a
wireless USB demonstration
system made up of Staccato's new Ripcord UWB
Development Kit and Fujitsu's digital still camera development platform. It's apparently the first demonstration
to show wireless USB connectivity with digital cameras which is, well, a pretty big deal when you think about it (no
more cables!). The system will be demonstrated in the Wireless USB Community at the Intel Developer Forums, which are
being held in Tokyo, Taipei and Beijing this month.
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First Known Use: 14th century
adjective pub·lic \ˈpə-blik\
: of, relating to, or affecting all or most of the people of a country, state, etc.
: of, relating to, paid for by, or working for a government
: supported by money from the government and from private contributors rather than by commercials
Full Definition of PUBLIC
a : exposed to general view : openb : well-known, prominentc : perceptible, material
a : of, relating to, or affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state <public law>b : of or relating to a governmentc : of, relating to, or being in the service of the community or nation
: of or relating to business or community interests as opposed to private affairs : social
: devoted to the general or national welfare : humanitarian
a : accessible to or shared by all members of the communityb : capitalized in shares that can be freely traded on the open market —often used with go
: supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by income from commercials <public radio> <public television>
— pub·lic·ness noun
See public defined for kids
Examples of PUBLIC
- Public outrage over the scandal eventually forced him to resign.
- The ads are intended to increase public awareness of the risks of smoking.
- She was elected to a public office.
- He was in Congress for many years but he recently retired from public life.
- They decided on a nearby restaurant as a convenient public place to meet.
- The government has allowed public access to the documents.
- The city council is holding a public meeting.
- This will be her first public performance in five years.
- Her trial will be public.
Origin of PUBLIC
Middle English publique, from Anglo-French, from Latin publicus; akin to Latin populus people
Related to PUBLIC
- Synonyms
- open, on record
- Antonyms
- confidential, private, privy, secret
the public : the people of a country, state, etc.
: a group of people who have a shared interest, quality, etc.
Full Definition of PUBLIC
: a place accessible or visible to the public —usually used in the phrase in public
: the people as a whole : populace
: a group of people having common interests or characteristics; specifically : the group at which a particular activity or enterprise aims
Examples of PUBLIC
- The beach is open to the public.
- The general public is in favor of the law.
- Members of the public called for the mayor's resignation.
First Known Use of PUBLIC
15th century
PUBLICNESS Defined for Kids
adjective pub·lic \ˈpə-blik\
Definition of PUBLIC for Kids
: open to all <a public library>
: of or relating to the people as a whole <public opinion>
: known to many people : not kept secret <The story became public.>
: of, relating to, or working for a government or community <a public prosecutor> <My uncle holds public office.>
: well-known, prominent <public figures>
— pub·lic·ly adverb
Definition of PUBLIC for Kids
: the people as a whole <The sale is open to the public.>
: a group of people having common interests <The author is adored by her public.>
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