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Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D. speaks to leaders and aspiring leaders on how to strengthen their people skills in the workplace. She is also a well respected career coach and a sought after media expert on workplace issues.
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Her forthcoming book is Shy I.Q.: People Skills for Introverted Leaders (Berrett-Koehler). She also co-wrote Shaping Your HR Role: Succeeding in Today's Organizations (Elsevier, 2005), created and wrote the Advisor column for AARP The Magazine, and is a regular blog contributor to the Atlanta Journal Constitution/Yahoo Hot Jobs website. In her media role, Jennifer was a "makeover expert" on the WTBS television show "Movie and a Makeover," where she successfully advised a homemaker transitioning back to work She is also frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Washington Post.
Dr. Kahnweiler earned her Ph.D. in Counseling and Human Systems from Florida State University and received her Master's degree in Counseling and Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Washington University, St. Louis. In addition to holding Master Career Counselor (MCC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) certifications, she has served on the boards of both the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the Georgia Executive Women's Network (GEWN).
In 2005, Jennifer was awarded the Outstanding Career Practitioner of the Year by the National Career Development Association and has been deemed a world class expert by the American Management Association. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and a founding member of the Leadership Executive Circle of the Women's Leadership Exchange. Jennifer mentors rising female leaders in the community and finds her work as a volunteer ESL tutor especially rewarding.
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- I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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- I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.
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More Wednesdays – 6.19.13
I headed back to Wednesdays on the roof of The DL last night. I am leaving for my massive road trip on Saturday so I decided I needed one last night on the town before I leave New York for a month. The party was per crazy as usual and Prince Terry was DJing as usual and I snuck away to make out with a girl on some random LES stoop as usual… er ignore that last part. It was good time adventures for all and I don't have much more to say because I have way too much shit to do to get ready for this trip.
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In true form, the Duchess of Cambridge, 32, pulled out yet another fashionable look for the day, as she donned a snorkel blue LK Bennett dress for the special occasion. (It's the first high street outfit she's worn during a formal royal tour engagement, and is listed at $245.) She accessorized the chic look with an Oroton clutch, which is an Australian brand and approximately $115.
The royal pair arrived without 10-month-old Prince George in a RAAF plane, and met RAAF officials and their partners. "Kate was very chatty and didn't seem to mind being out in the blazing sun without sunglasses," an eyewitness tells Us. After introductions, the twosome climbed inside an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter plane cockpit, with Middleton leading the way. The onlooker adds: "They both giggled at him being her co-pilot."
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Trooper Andrew Steen tried to stop a vehicle around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in western Sioux Falls. When the driver wouldn't stop, a chase pursued.
While police are not releasing too many details, we do know the situation escalated and the trooper was struck by the suspect's car and the suspect was hit by law enforcement's gunfire.
Steen was rushed to the hospital after being run over in the parking lot of the Bridges strip mall near 57th and Western Avenue.
Authorities say it looks like the suspect, a 25-year-old woman, struck the trooper with the front of her car.
In response, law enforcement opened fire on the suspect's car to try to stop her. Lincoln County sheriff's deputies had been called for back up; however, Highway Patrol Captain Kevin Joffer says details on who fired weapons aren't being released.
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Thursday, November 04, 2010
Hirano Aya Guests on Highly-rated TV Show
The show garnered a 13.54% share of the audience right in the middle of prime time, between 8:00 and 9:00 pm. This was about the same rating as the week before (0.1% higher, in fact).
There is no comparison between the TV audience for a show like this and for anime. Animes generally get between one and four percent of the small late-night audience. This one appearance has put millions of eyes on Aya.
It's no wonder that her agency sent her a fairly grand congratulatory bouquet.
Aya has recently shifted her blog to Ameba Blog, a system used by many seiyuus and other entertainers. She has also upped her posting frequency, usually posting from one to several times a day. Her twitter feed is also active.
She is also a regular on the new late-night comedy show, Pikaru's Theorem. That is on FujiTV, for the business section of which she acts as website navigator. The news show is on TV Asahi.
I haven't been following her blog, twitter feed, 2channel threads, etc., that closely recently, but I did note that in one blog post, she said that her dancing had become better. So perhaps her health is continuing to recover.
I haven't been able to confirm Sankaku's claim that she said on one show that she wanted men to use thinner condoms. I hope it's not true, since that goes a bit far even for me.
Here are some recent photos. Mouseover some photos for captions:
9 comments:
- abandonedfactory said...
Yay! She does look healthier these days. Props to her for going on a news show to discuss current events. I think public discussions of current events can be important (although much is light-weight entertainment). I think she has the ability to endure and become an increasingly important cultural figure. I certainly wish her well.
- 04 November, 2010
- animekritik said...
I agree with the last comment. Also, never mind the condom gossip, how about the tumor gossip??
- 04 November, 2010
- hashi said...
@animekritik -- Thanks for the info. Interesting that Sankaku feels the need to cast doubt on whether it's true or not that Aya does have a (benign) brain tumour. Pretty low on his part, it seems to me. Having followed her for a few years now, it all tallies to me. Others can read the story here.
I just can't understand the passion to attack celebrities, Aya in particular. But in any case, Sankaku does keep the info flowing -- as long as we take care to check sources, lol.
- 04 November, 2010
- Andrew said...
Now this is the first I've heard of this news. Aya has a brain tumor?!
The story is of course on Sankaku Complex (the anime equivalent to the National Enquirer), so...do you really believe it 100%? If so, no offense, but I thought that would've been the subject of your latest post.
Of course, it would make some sense considering her health. If true...this would be quite a big deal. I hope it isn't of course, but if there is anything wrong, then I wish the best for her.
On a lighter note, that first picture of her made her look much more mature, which I think she's very focused on right now. It was hard to believe that she was the same woman as the younger-looking figure in some of the lower pics.
- 04 November, 2010
- hashi said...
@Andrew -- animekritik's comment was the first I'd heard of it, too. Sankaku only posted on Tuesday, and I haven't been reading all the news about Aya every day, as I said. It would be hard for me to make that the subject of this post, since I didn't know about it until a comment came in, lol. But I checked Aya's twitter feed, and Sankaku appears to have these facts straight.
This would also explain why she sat out many phys ed classes in high school, but still did her dance work. She has opened up about so much else and now she has opened up about this. She said years ago that there were things about her condition that she couldn't tell us, and this may be it.
Sankaku Complex may like to make fun of her and doubt her word, but I see these apparent facts as further reason to admire her tenacity. How many of us could just accept occasional blindness and keep soldiering on? It's another question whether she should be doing it, but that's up to her and her doctors.
I think she looks young but mature, and has for a couple of years now. After all, she has been through a heck of lot in the past few years. But she is a bit of a chameleon, and can act, and be lit and made up, to look various ways.
- 04 November, 2010
- Nili said...
I thought you'd read this blog (http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-7115.html), from which sankaku seems to copy 50% of their content.
(Also, in contrast to sankaku, the source is posted there)
- 05 November, 2010
- Andrew said...
It's probably not the end of the world for her; the actress Sandy Duncan (she played Peter Pan in one adaptation) also had a benign tumor behind one of her eyes. She had it removed but ended up losing sight in that eye (leading to false rumors that she now has a glass eye).
That said, Wikipedia doesn't say whether Sandy had any of Aya's symptoms.
- 05 November, 2010
- hashi said...
@Nili -- Quite right. I should read that more. I had noticed previously that Artifact sourced a lot of his stuff from there, but I lost track of the site. Still doesn't give detailed enough sourcing of the condom comment: was it playing a character? a joke based on the program? Not sure.
Her being thrown out of a bar for saying sexy things in an anime voice doesn't bother me, but the condom comment does, depending on context. The report of that show is here: (http://yunakiti.blog79.fc2.com/blog-entry-6935.html)
- 05 November, 2010
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The show starts at 12:45 in the morning, so if Aya wants to keep her spot she has to say naughty things. That's how these shows work.
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Maybe a silly question, but: how good a simulation of reality is this engineering software? By which I mean, if you build something in there, can you operate it and see if it really would work? If so, would it be possible to fuel this thing up and try to fly it/subject it to the g-forces it would experience and see if it would really operate?
It's not "silly" but I'd need rooms full of supercomputers to do that sort of thing. As it is, the Vega got so large that it overwhelmed my system (part of why I'm leaving it... which is a much more complicated ship than this one is... alone for the time being. Until I get a new machine that can handle it!)
What this does is models volumes, and can calculate mass properties (that is... assign the proper material to all your bits and pieces and you'll know exactly how much it weights, what the center of gravity is, the center of inertia, etc, etc.
I can also simulate mechanisms... and basic kinematics. That is.. I can apply a force and it will tell me how the part responds. I can model all sorts of mechanical elements (springs, pins, cams, etc). This lets you do complete mechanisms.
For instance... a transit vehicle door system I did once, I drove through the physical motion by applying an "air pressure" value. This told me how fast, and with what force, the door would operate, given a particular air pressure supplied by the vehicle... and since there are safety regulations dictating that you can't have a door which slams on someone standing in it and cut them in half, is sort of important!
But... "fueling it up?" Not so much. There is other software which CAN do that, but that's a different problem and requires a different means of solution. Propulsion systems... that's really out of the realm of this. At best, I can determine how fast the ship will spin out of control if the impulse engines aren't located properly!
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Following up on the not so popular poll (it isn't too late though ;)) inviting players to weigh in on GUI design decisions, as well as a lengthier discussion on this subject on RPGCodex, here is the current state of affairs concerning the traditional version of the GUI.
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Dan was born in Dubuque, IA, on October 5, 1950, a twin to brother Dick, son of Margene (Reiff) Besler and Urban J. Besler of Hopkinton, Iowa. Dan grew up in rural Hopkinton, graduated from Western Dubuque High School, and enlisted in the US Navy in 1971. He spent much of his adult life at sea and living on land in California. In 1989 Dan met the love of his life, Trina Villicana and they married in 1991 Dan retired from the Navy in 1992 after 21 years of service. He was a decorated sailor with numerous commendations and a Bronze Star. In Dan's years of service, he spent 18 years at sea and saw the 7 Wonders of the World. Dan will be honored by a Veteran's service at The National Cemetery in Dixon, California on December 12. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, Relay for Life, or any Veteran's organization.
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Dan was preceded in death by his parents Margene (1973) and Urban (1994); brother Bill (1979); brother Tom (1984); twin brother Dick (2008); and nephew Tom Jr. (2006) as well his maternal grandparents, Julia & Albert Reiff, and his paternal grandparents, Frank & Margaret Besler.
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Kiev - Perfect weather in the top two grain producers in the Black Sea region - Ukraine and Russia - has created conditions for an all-time-high maize harvest of up to 40 million tonnes in 2013, half of which could be shipped abroad, analysts and officials say.
The two countries, once known only as major exporters of wheat and barley, have gradually increased their role on the world's maize market, pushing US maize out of markets in the Middle East, North Africa and even in Asia.
Favourable weather, new hybrids and modern technologies have allowed farmers to boost maize yields and increase the quality of a grain used mainly as livestock feed.
"This year's weather was fantastic for maize - warm enough and with moderate level of rain," said Tetyana Adamenko, head of the agriculture department in Ukraine's weather forecasting centre.
A dry and warm September is expected to help Russia get a record maize (corn) harvest and export a record amount of the cereal this year as early yields are up 14 percent, year-on-year, weather forecasters said.
The Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) expects the 2013 maize harvest to reach a record level of 10 million tonnes, of which about 3 million tonnes would be available for export during 2013/14.
"There are expectations that Ukraine would also get a record maize harvest and export, and if Russia does the same, our prices (in both countries) would sink," Dmitry Rylko, the head of IKAR, said.
SovEcon agriculture analysts also expect Russia to harvest a record 9.7 million tonnes of maize this year, up from 8.2 million tonnes last year.
Russia has already harvested 0.6 million tonnes of maize from 4.7 percent of sown area as of September 9.
The harvest is delayed, compared to last year, when the country harvested 1.0 million tonnes at the same date.
Yields are higher, however, and are quoted at 4.89 tonnes per hectare, compared to 4.28 a year ago, data from Russia's agriculture ministry showed.
Ukraine, which has boosted its maize production by 400 percent in the past 10 years, plans to reach an all-time-high maize output of 30 million tonnes in 2013, according to a government source.
The agriculture ministry had forecast the output at 26 million tonnes, the same volume as expected by most of Ukrainian agriculture analysts and weather forecasters. "Our figure is 25 million tonnes and we will not update it," Adamenko said.
ProAgro consultancy saw the 2013 maize harvest at 26.8 million tonnes while UkrAgroConsult expects output of 25.5 million tonnes.
The former Soviet republic harvested 472,000 tonnes of maize from 2 percent of the sown area as of September 9.
The yield totalled 5.21 tonne per hectare, the ministry said.
But rains across most Ukrainian regions, which are likely to last next 10 days, could have bearing on the pace of harvesting and reduce maize quality. "We are not talking about volume because rains could not reduce the weight, but rains could hit the quality," Adamenko said.
Maize occupies a special role for Ukraine's grain since, unlike wheat and barley, more than half of it is exported, mainly to clients in North Africa and the Middle East.
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|Several studies suggest that cerebral microbleeds (CMB) seen on gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging (GE-MRI) of brain increase the future risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). We investigated 26 newly diagnosed patients of aplastic anemia (AA) with GE-MRI of brain who were otherwise neurologically asymptomatic. These patients were then further followed up for a period of 6 months for development of overt ICH. The median age of patients was 20.5 years (range 12-40 years). The median values of complete blood counts at the time of diagnosis were hemoglobin 5.7 gm/dl (range 2.5-9.2 gm/dl), white cell count 2,320/μl (800-7,000/μl), and platelet count 11,500/μl (7000-45,000/μl). Three patients were detected to have CMB while two patients had asymptomatic cerebral macrobleeds (>1 cm). During the follow-up period of 6 months, two patients developed spontaneous ICH. None of the two patients had CMB at diagnosis. In conclusion, asymptomatic CMB were found in 11.5 % of patients with AA. The overall prevalence of asymptomatic ICH (CMB & macrobleeds) was 19.2 %. Further studies with larger number of patients are required to clearly delineate the association.
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Carpool Conversations: CC-Licensed Video Collaboration Between Pink Cloud Events and Honda
Carpool Conversations is a newly launched video series from LA-based Pink Cloud Events. Produced in collaboration with Honda, the 3-part series aims to capture intimate and unexpected conversations between strangers sharing a ride in a Honda Insight. While the topics vary from episode to episode, a common thread through out is the importance of sharing experiences – a concept that resonates strongly with CC's mission.
The first episode finds members of LA-based fruit finding collaborative Fallen Fruit and Damien Somerset of green video site Zaproot discussing the merits of hybrid cars, free fruit, and a variety of other topics. This sharing of information extends beyond the car ride as Carpool Conversations is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative license, allowing the video to be legally and openly shared across the web.
Thankfully, this is just the first in a delightful series – the next episode of Carpool Conversations features Top Chef Master contestant, Elizabeth Falkner of Orson/Citizen Cake, community manager Michelle Broderick of yelp.com, and tech-chocolate maker Timothy Childs of tcho.com.1 Comment »
CC as a hybrid organization and a tool for hybrids
Used in connection with Creative Commons the word "hybrid" has typically denoted an "economy" or "models" involving both sharing and commerce. Over half of CC founder Lawrence Lessig's most recent book is devoted to exploring this sort of hybrid — see Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. CC licenses are a vital tool for enabling such hybrids in an environment where the default is hostile to the "sharing" side of the equation.
In a series of thought provoking blog posts Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, has introduced a different but entirely complementary "hybrid" — hybrid organizations. What is a hybrid organization? Mark asks and tentatively answers that question in the first post of the series:
So, what is a hybrid org? In the case of Mozilla — and an increasing number of other orgs — it's a mix of social mission, disruptive market strategies and web-like scale and collaboration. Or, at least, that's the definition I see emerging.
Another intriguing description, from the same post:
All of these organizations are trying to 'move the market' on the web in a way that both engages and benefits a broad public. As they do so, they are charting new territory.
Many of the comments and blogged replies are well worth reading, offering refinements and alternative descriptions. Frank Hecker, also of the Mozilla Foundation, provides some critical grounding in the theory of disruptive innovation. Commenter Stephan provides an alternative and also compelling description:
I find it easier to think about these organizations as a hybrid between a classical (hierarchical) organization and a social movement (or network).
It is the mix of the two that requires both a market perspective (the classic organization needs to make money to function) and a social mission (need that to create passion for the product or service among your the movement or network).
Much has been said about the interaction of movements and organizations — see Epistemic Communities and Social Movements : Transnational Dynamics in the Case of Creative Commons for a paper looking at the CC case — and how digital networks are changing the boundaries and interactions of movements and organizations. Nearly all of the organizations Mark mentions in his series have a strong "movement" aspect. One open question I have about hybrid organizations is their relationship to movements, or more broadly, non-organizational actors. Are hybrid organizations better able to leverage (and be leveraged by) the non-organizational sector, itself abetted by digital networks? Or even have hybrid organizations arisen in order for non-organizational actors and movements to achieve things in the world that require just-enough-organization and market savvy?
Stephen DeBerry provides an astutely skeptical comment on hybrid organizations:
One can approach this hybrid space with varying intent. In your/my case public benefit is central and necessary. In other cases the claim of public benefit is great marketing, but the actual public benefit is secondary or worse.
If that's the case then there's an interesting question for those seeking to drive public benefit: how do you ensure the public benefit remains core to the hybrid model?
This is a place where CC plays a vital role as a tool for hybrids. Just as CC licenses enable healthy hybrid economies and models, use of CC licenses by a hybrid organization help signal that such an organization takes its public benefit side seriously, and help ensure that it continues to do so. With so much of hybrid organizations' output being digital media, offering that media under CC licenses, in particular free as in freedom ones, serve as a continual check-up on the organization's public benefit intent, and an assurance against lock-in if that intent wavers. There may be useful parallels to be drawn between unhealthy "sharecropping" hybrid models (typically where a web company retains all of the rights to media created by users, making users unfree to use their own creations) and the hybrid organization as "great marketing" or worse described by Stephen. It should also be noted that free and open source software licenses provide a similar and complementary check on hybrid organizations that produce software — and nearly all do, at least in the form of customization of web site software.
What about CC as a hybrid organization? We're very carefully exploring the most obvious incarnation of hybrid in the form of the CC Network. However, the addition of a non-donation revenue stream to a nonprofit isn't necessary or sufficient to qualify it as a hybrid organization (see Frank Hecker's post). Mark Surman's initial descriptions of hybrid organizations (see above) don't even mention business or revenue. These are worth quoting again, as the top of this post is far away:
[A] mix of social mission, disruptive market strategies and web-like scale and collaboration … trying to 'move the market' on the web in a way that both engages and benefits a broad public.
This of course describes just what Creative Commons does. Through free (as in freedom as well as gratis — and yes zero price is a market strategy as is freedom) and carefully branded legal and technical tools deployed on a web scale in collaboration with businesses, affiliates, supportive movements, and individuals, Creative Commons is "moving the market" consensus and practice away from default lockdown and toward more hack-remix-opportunity-generative-ness (to quote another and not explicitly related Mark Surman post) or more conventionally, more sharing, freedom, openness, autonomy and lower transaction costs and barriers to collaboration and innovation.
Be sure to read the rest (so far) of Mark's hybrid organizations series — Hybrid orgs. What's old? What's new?, Why do hybrid orgs matter?, and What challenges do hybrid orgs face?
Creative Commons will be watching this discussion closely, and participating. Do you find the "hybrid organization" construct useful? What insights can be gained from the construct and experiences of other hybrids to make CC a more effective organization (hybrid or not) and enabler of healthy hybrids — organizations, models, and economies?Comments Off on CC as a hybrid organization and a tool for hybrids
Runes of Gallidon, CC-Licensed Online Fantasy World, Launches Public Beta
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Runes of Gallidon is a "user-generated online fantasy world of swords, magic, adventure and mystery" that just launched in public beta. Distinguishing Runes of Gallidon from other virtual worlds is the decision to license all the content in the ROG universe under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Any work that the community creates is kept free and open for the rest of the community to use and build upon, a choice that allows the plot lines and characters of Runes of Gallidon to evolve naturally and legally.
While the ROG universe evolves through user-submitted content, Brain Candy, LLC (the group behind Runes of Gallidon)
will be doing legwork to turn Rules of Gallidon into a source of potential revenue, namely in film/TV and merchandise will be marketing the website to help audiences find the creative community's Gallidon works (content creators have the ability to shop their ideas to interested parties as well). The monetary gains from these endeavors will be split between community and Brain Candy in two distinct ways:
If Brain Candy, LLC, prints your story in a book, prints a poster, a T-shirt, etc. and makes any money directly from your Work, you receive 50% of the money. If you sell your Work set in Runes of Gallidon (a published book, album cover art, posters, etc.), we ask that you contribute to Brain Candy, LLC 10% of the money you receive.
That is the basic formula: each Artisan owns the Work they create, but the world of Runes of Gallidon and everything in it is shared by the entire Gallidon creative community.
This is a unique implementation to our CC+ protocol and a fresh approach to crafting an online fantasy world. By using CC licenses, the group behind Runes of Gallidon have created a hybrid-economy where the sharing of content (enabled by CC licenses) is monetized based on an additional set of legal guidelines, in turn encouraging growth through legal protection and an opportunity for monetary gain.2 Comments »
Clive Thompson on the Hybrid T-Shirt Economy
A great article in the most recent WIRED, Clive Thompson on How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free, discusses the growing hybrid economy developed by purveyors of free content looking for a stable source of income. Their answer? Schwag in general, t-shirts in particular:
Increasingly, creative types are harnessing what I've begun to call "the T-shirt economy"—paying for bits by selling atoms. Charging for content online is hard, often impossible. Even 10 cents for a download of something like Red vs. Blue might drive away the fans. So instead of fighting this dynamic, today's smart artists are simply adapting to it.
Their algorithm is simple: First, don't limit your audience by insisting they pay to see your work. Instead, let your content roam freely online, so it generates as large an audience as possible. Then cash in on your fans' desire to sport merchandise that declares their allegiance to you.
While Thompson doesn't mention CC directly (he does mention Jonathan Coulton, a CC-staff favorite and current partner in our fundraising drive), he hints at the mentality behind our CC+ initiative and generally argues that openness is an important component of functional business models going forward.Comments Off on Clive Thompson on the Hybrid T-Shirt Economy
State Shirt Call for Remixes/Samples and Shannon Plays Live
Over a year and a half ago the ccMixter community decided to stop having formal remix contests in part because in a CC context, the traditional format seemed outdated. In a typical remix contest an artist would post the stems to one song, retaining all the rights to the samples as well as the remixes produced by the entrants. After the contest deadline, the samples are typically taken off the web site in order to take them out of official circulation.
By contrast, on ccMixter, we've turned to a 'call for remixes' model where we get the artist to put the stems for an entire album into the Commons and keep it there. Therefore the concept of a 'deadline' seems mute. The best part is that the rights to the remixes are retained by the artist. This has proven to be much more amenable to the community and it has responded with 1,000s of remixes to calls by DJ Vadim, Bucky Jonson, Trifonic,Calendar Girl, Brad Sucks and Shannon Hurley.
Shannon exemplifies the new hybrid sharing+business model because when we she was ready to put together an album of remixes she licensed, for a fee, the remixes from the producers for the album "Second Light: The Ready to Wake Up Remixes" (AMIE Street, CD Baby and iTunes).
She will be performing the remixes with Ben Eisen on bass, Sam Cunningham on drums, and "my apple notebook" in Los Angeles on December 10th. This gig will be quite the party as ccMixter producer DJ Doughy will be flying from Kansas City, Mo. and I'll be making a special trip to LA for this event as well. (There is a $12 charge at the door.)
Shannon Hurley Remix Album Release Party
Wed. Dec. 10th
8pm sharp, all ages
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Our latest call has special significance because we've been trying to get indie star State Shirt for a while and he's come through in a big way. Not only did he put his entire "This is Old" album, stems, a cappellas and all, into the Commons but his plan is to use the remixes themselves as source material for a new album of original music. State is a master songwriter who writes and performs in an "energetic and ridiculously catchy" way according to DoKashiteru who should know: his DnB smasher remix was an Editor Pick minutes after upload.
The State Shirt call is: "Remix Me So I Can Remix You"
He says: "Creative Commons is the perfect antidote for a collapsing landscape still clinging to traditional copyright. I hope more artists discover that freedom, flexibility, collaboration and community are now an option. I also hope that my fellow ccMixters would want to get involved with me, in both the creation and re-creation of music."Comments Off on State Shirt Call for Remixes/Samples and Shannon Plays Live
The Growing Hybrid Business of Music Sharing
One of the things we've become very interested in finding more examples of are creators who are using our licenses in combination with traditional business models. For example, many musicians (including our recent Commoner Letter author Jonathan Coulton) sell copies of their CC-licensed music. This may seem cognitively dissonant but in practice it makes perfect sense, as a CC-licensed piece of music simply announces what you can do once you get your hands on it, and it certainly doesn't restrict the original creator from selling it to you.
Some of the most robust instances of this behavior are musicians who have released CC-licensed material on iTunes, Amazon, and Magnatune. Ambient Electronic artist Kirsty Hawkshaw has done this with her album The Ice Castle, which has a presence in all three stores, but also indicates that is under CC's Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In the cases of iTunes and Amazon, the stores themselves are not using the CC license, but are selling the work via the rights they have under their direct agreement with the copyright holders – Hawkshaw and her label, Magnatune. For more about how CC licenses can work in tandem with other agreements, visit our page that describes CC+.
We'd love to hear and see more examples of this kind of hybrid business thinking utilizing our licenses. Do you know of any others? If so, just drop a comment on this post, or contact us any other way. Thanks!Comments Off on The Growing Hybrid Business of Music Sharing


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New Deal buildings, including the Cowboy Bar and Museum and a brick Cascade County shop building, are located in an urban renewal area on the West Bank of the Missouri River.
Ellen Sievert, the city-county historic preservation officer, is awaiting word on whether state government will approve a $10,000 grant to study the urban renewal area's history and structures. The Preserve America grant would be matched by money from an urban renewal tax-increment fund, she said.
Some urban renewal districts end up leveling most or all of the buildings in an area to make way for new construction, Sievert said, adding she disagrees with that approach.
"In this day and age, that's probably not the greatest thing in the world to do," Sievert said. Supporters of the "green" movement say it is better to maintain or reuse structurally sound buildings than to tear them down and spend lots of time, energy and money on a new one.
Cascade County already tore down one of its shop buildings, a New Deal-era, cast-concrete structure. A brick county shop building remains standing on the property.
Sievert said a study of the area would identify buildings worthy of listing on the National Register of Historic Places. For instance, she said the remaining county shop building "has a lot of architectural integrity." She also likes a tiny brick building in the Cowboy Bar and Museum area, but added she does not know much about it.
Such buildings could be "great tax-credit projects," she said. In that case, owners can write off as much as one-fourth of construction costs on federal and state tax forms.
Dorothy Schmidt, a member of the westside neighborhood council, said she believes the Cowboy Bar and Museum should remain.
"It's been there for so many years," Schmidt said.
Meanwhile, Sievert said the West Bank's early history also would be studied if the grant is approved, adding it was the only place for miles where wild game was able to ford the Missouri River. At one time, the area featured bison, bears, mountain lions, antelope and deer, she said.
Sievert added that Native Americans successfully hunted the animals in the area.
"Great Falls was basically the meat market for a very large area for thousands of years," Sievert said.
A study of the West bank area will give officials a better guide to the area's historical gems, she said.
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GOP panel gathering data for sale or lease of state liquor storesApril 17, 2007 12:00 AM
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HARRISBURG -- In the 1980s, Republican Gov. Dick Thornburgh tried very hard to sell the state liquor store system to private interests, but he failed.
In the 1990s, Republican Gov. Tom Ridge gave it another shot, but he also failed.
Now, Republican senators may be gearing up for a third try at privatizing all, or at least the retail portion, of the far-flung system of state-owned and run stores that sell wine and spirits.
The Senate Republican Policy Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow to gather information about the pros and cons of selling the state stores.
It could be the first step toward coming up with new legislation to sell the whole system to a private operator, or at least enter into a public-private partnership. Under that setup, the 600 retail liquor/wine stores now operated by the state, would be sold to private owners, but the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board would continue to handle the wholesale purchase of products.
"I think privatization, generally, is a good thing, the best thing for consumers in the long run," said Sen. Jake Corman, R-Centre, chairman of the Policy Committee. "But I want to hear from all sides and haven't made a final decision" on whether to move forward on another effort to try to sell the state stores.
Stephen MacNett, Senate GOP legal counsel, said that Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell "opened the door for this discussion with his proposal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a private operator. Managing transportation in the state is a core government responsibility, but managing the marketing of alcohol, arguably, is not."
Mr. MacNett noted that the governor thinks the state could get $10 billion -- or even more -- by selling or leasing the 530-mile turnpike system. The governor calls the turnpike an asset,he said, and would use the funds received from a private operator to improve ailing state roads and bridges.
Mr. MacNett said the liquor store system is also an asset.
The Senate Republican review of whether to sell the state stores "was stimulated by the governor's proposal to sell the turnpike," he said. "That has triggered a review of what other state-owned assets the state might possibly privatize."
Testifying tomorrow will be some opponents of selling the liquor stores, such as unions representing the 2,500 Liquor Control Board employees, along with members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and other social conservatives.
The groups come from different political points of view, but in the past have combined to pressure lawmakers to keep hands off of the state-run system, which has existed since Prohibition ended in 1933.
The unions fear members would lose their jobs if private owners take over the liquor stores. MADD fears that liquor might become more accessible, especially to students and underage consumers, if the stores are operated by businessmen whose major interest is making a profit through larger sales.
Members of fiscally conservative groups, such as the Commonwealth Foundation and the Reason Foundation, who generally believe in private enterprise rather than expanded government operations, will testify too.
Also testifying will be some investment bankers and other financial experts who might put a price on the entire state store system.
Mr. Corman said he's heard a sale could fetch "somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 billion."
Democratic governors, perhaps because of pressure from employee unions, have generally opposed selling the state store system. Gov. Bob Casey did so in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Mr. Rendell said yesterday he doesn't think such a sale is a good idea.
"We've made so much progress now [in making state stores more customer-friendly] that it's unnecessary," he said.
Since he became governor in January 2003, there have been improvements at state liquor stores, including a wider selection of wine, clerks with more knowledge about wines, wine-tastings at stores and some being open on Sunday afternoons.
Critics still complain, however, that it's more difficult to find a liquor store in Pennsylvania than in other states where the stores are privately run. They also say the selection of wines and liquors in Pennsylvania stores still pales in comparison with that in other states.
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The Beauty of Arabic Calligraphy
Calligraphy done by Turkish calligrapher Ozcay.
Special thanks to Hussein Al-Azaat for the images.
Calligraphy done by Turkish calligrapher Ozcay.
Special thanks to Hussein Al-Azaat for the images.
Looks like a bunch of squiggles to me.
Kidding, of course. ;)
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Je ne peux m'empêcher de regarder plusieurs fois ces belles calligraphies.
La calligraphie arabe gagnerait à être plus connue qu'elle ne l'est maintenant.
Elle permet une liberté d'imagination pour l'artiste et pour l'admirateur, sans limite.
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The following letters and correspondence from A. J. Gordon and members of his family are available as downloadable PDF files. Click on the link of the individual titles to start downloading. This is a sampling of letters from a much larger archive of letters and correspondence from members of A. J. Gordon's family. To view these letters, please contact the Gordon College Archives by emailing Martha Crain.
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Maria Hale Gordon – A. J.'s wife
Isaac Hale – Maria's father
Harriet Hale – Maria's mother
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After a weeklong break, the Furman men's basketball team is set to return to the court.
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Anthony Williams, 23, and Nicholas Kowana III, 22, both of Howell, are facing heroin charges after police stopped the car they were traveling in on eastbound Interstate 195, police said.
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CLEVELAND -- Cleveland's police pursuit policy is now under scrutiny after two people are shot at the end of a 25-minute chase.
Malissa Williams, 30, the passenger, was shot 24 times. The driver, Timothy Russell, 43, was shot 23 times.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner ruled both deaths homicides late Tuesday afternoon.
The two were shot and killed by 13 officers firing a total of 137 rounds.
The Cleveland Police administration is reviewing the radio transmission between districts and zone cars to determine whether policies were followed.
Two times before the chase ended someone in the 5th District ordered the pursuit terminated and called back cars.
This is part of that radio transmission:
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"Yeah, but, this is in our patch here, so that's why we're just gonna try to see what's going on."
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Acapulco, Mexico - Six Spanish tourists were raped by a gang of armed, masked men in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished the once-glamorous Pacific coast resort.
The attackers burst into a house that the Spaniards had rented on the outskirts of Acapulco, in a low-key beachside area, and held 12 Spanish men and women and one Mexican woman at gunpoint before dawn on Monday.
They tied up the six men with telephone cords and bathing suit straps and then raped the six Spanish women, said Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton at a press conference later on Monday.
"This is a regrettable situation, and of course it is going to damage Acapulco," said Walton. The once-glittering resort that attracted movie stars and celebrities in the 1950s and 60s has already been battered by years of drug-gang killings and extortions, but except for a very few incidents, the violence largely has not touched tourists.
Walton said he believed, but wasn't sure, that the assailants in Monday's attack didn't belong to a drug gang.
"From what the attorney general has told me, I don't think this was organised crime, but that will have to be investigated, we don't know," Walton said.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department issued a statement saying it regretted the attack, and suggesting it was not drug-cartel related.
"This is a common crime, and thus up to now, the investigations are being carried out by local authorities and they will be the ones to provide information," the statement said.
In Mexico, federal authorities investigate drug-related crimes.
Security and drug analyst Jorge Chabat said that, after years of drug gang activity in Acapulco, the distinction may be merely semantic.
"At this point, the line between common and organised crime is very tenuous, there are a lot of these gangs that take advantage of the unsafe situation that currently exists, they know the government can't keep up," Chabat said. "Everything points to this being organised crime, because several gangs have operated there for years... it's probably not the big cartels, but there are smaller groups that carry out crimes on a permanent basis."
The Spanish Embassy in Mexico City said the victims were receiving consular assistance.
The attackers gained access to the house because two of the Spaniards were in the yard and apparently were forced to open the door, Walton said. The house is on a more isolated stretch of beach east of the city.
The victims were "psychologically affected" by the attack and received treatment, the mayor said. The lone Mexican woman in the group was not raped.
Guerrero state Attorney General Martha Garzon Guzman said witness descriptions of the attackers were more difficult to obtain because they wore masks.
Spain's Foreign Ministry had already issued a travellers' advisory on its website for Acapulco before the Monday attack, listing the resort as one of Mexico's "risk zones", though not the worst.
"In Acapulco, organised crime gangs have carried out violence, though up to now that has not affected tourists or the areas they visit," the advisory states. "At any rate, heightened caution is advised."
The attack came just three days after a pair of Mexican tourists returning from a beach east of Acapulco were shot at and slightly wounded by members of a masked rural self-defence squad that has set up roadblocks in areas north of Acapulco, to defend their communities against drug gang violence.
The vigilantes say the Mexican tourists failed to stop at their improvised roadblock.
Walton said the city was already contemplating ways to revive the city's image.
"We have to look at an advertising campaign to say that not everything in Acapulco is like that," Walton said. "This happens everywhere in the world, not just in Acapulco or in Mexico." - Sapa-AP
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2015 Turkey Trot
Blue Care Network of Michigan is once again partnering with GRPS for the 23nd annual Turkey Trot. With their support we hope to make our 5K walk/run the biggest and best Thanksgiving 5K walk/run in the country. Join us as we use our feet before we eat on November 26, 2015!
Online Registration is Now Open! Commit now to run with Tom the Turkey at this family fun event by registering online today. Choose to run/walk the 5K (starting at 8am) or have your children participate for FREE in the New Balance Grand Rapids Mini Trot, which starts following the 5K race (roughly 8:40am).
GRPS would like to thank the City of Grand Rapids for again partnering with our event. This collaboration allows our run/walk to start and finish at the Van Andel Arena.
Purpose: This event promotes community fitness, physical activity, and health and wellness to the Greater Grand Rapids Area. GRPS believes that a healthy community is a vibrant community.
Proceeds: Proceeds from this race allow the district to fund the cost of interscholastic athletics to students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Thursday, November 26, 2015 – Grand Rapids Public Schools TURKEY TROT presented by Blue Care Network of Michigan. This Thanksgiving Day event will feature a scenic 5K course through downtown Grand Rapids (8:00 am start) and the New Balance Mini-Trot for kids 12 and under (8:40 am start).
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Rules: Strollers and joggers are allowed, however at the starting line, please line up behind those without. Dogs, bikes, roller blades and skateboards are prohibited.
T-shirt and Awards: Long sleeve T-shirts will be presented to all 5K registrants. Stay following the race to receive the Awards. Awards will be given to the Overall Male and Female Open and Masters winners and, 1st through 3rd place Male and Female in each age category. Age category awards are based on chip time.
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