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ECB's Draghi Sees Economic Weakness Continuing Into 2013
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi comments on inflation, economic expectations, next week's European Union summit and a single banking supervisor for the euro-area.
He made the remarks at a press conference in Frankfurt today after policy makers kept interest rates unchanged at a record low of 0.75 percent.
On rate cuts:
"There was a wide discussion, but in the end, the prevailing consensus was to leave the rates unchanged."
"I also highlighted the very accommodative monetary policy stance. If you think from July to today, some countries' spreads, or some sovereign bond yields, went down by 200 to 250 basis points. That's much more than anything you can achieve by a reduction in the short term policy rate."
On Greece:
"A lot has been asked on the public sector. The debt buyback is part of this and it's early to say how this is going."
"What is most important of this latest agreement is the medium term commitment to possibly provide new money in case Greece were to have primary surplus, but somehow things were not going, -- not because of Greece's lacking of compliance with the program. This is quite important, that's the first time it's been done."
There has been "significant progress."
"I acknowledge progress the government has done. That's very important. Part of what's happening is needed adjustment. Let's not forget the imbalances from which the Greek economy was starting were very large.
On Spain and OMT:
''We all said all the time we would not tell governments what to do. It's up to them. They know what the conditions are. This is going to be a necessary, but not sufficient condition. The ECB will carry out its own independent assessment. This holds for Spain and any other country."
"Its hard to say whether it's a price worth paying."
"The conditions under which the OMT is activated are very clear."
"Don't speak about negotiations or agreement about a certain interest rate."
"The main aim of the OMT is to remove tail risk to overcome monetary or financial fragmentation of euro area that stem from redenomination risk."
"We will do it in a size that would be adequate to achieve its objective."
On Ireland:
"The new budget reaffirmation of successful commitment of Irish government in restoring sound economic conditions."
On markets and OMT:
"After OMT the improvement on financial markets has been significant."
"You have these conflicting signs. Some point downwards, some point upwards. We will continue monitoring the situation."
On single supervisor for banks:
"The benefits of one single supervisor in euro area are not disputed."
"I'm very confident we will reach an agreement. There are benefits of having one single supervisor."
"I'm quite confident we will soon have an agreement."
"One should aim at having this mechanism covering all euro area banks from a legal jurisdiction viewpoint."
"You want to keep a level playing field."
"In practice it's quite obvious the ECB supervisor will not be able to supervise 6,000 banks. But in practice I don't think there's much difference between this and what has been suggested by others."
On inflation:
"The underling pace of monetary expansion remains subdued."
"Over the policy relevant horizon, inflation should remain in line with price stability."
"Inflation rates are expected to decline further to below 2 percent next year. Underlying price pressures should remain moderate."
"In the governing council assessment, risks to the outlook for price developments are seen broadly balanced."
"The outlook for the medium term price stability hasn't changed substantially. We will continue to look at the situation, but to some extent, we have already done much."
On euro-area economy:
"In 2013, economic activity should gradually recover as our accommodative policy and significantly improve financial markets work their way through the economy."
Data "continue to signal further weakness in the final quarter of thus year."
"Weak activity is expected to continue into next year."
"A gradual recovery should start later in 2013."
"Financial market confidence has improved further."
"A strengthening of foreign demand should also support export growth."
"The governing council continues to see downside risk for the euro area that relates to sovereign debt risk."
"Geopolitical issues and fiscal policy issues in the U.S. are possibly dampening sentiment for longer than currently assumed."
"The economic outlook is weak. At same time we haven't seen any substantive change in our medium term assessment of price stability."
"Monetary policy remains accommodative."
On government bonds:
"I haven't said that higher credit costs are unjustified, but there is a extent, a range, beyond which, like redomination risks, which make these differences unacceptable."
On euro-area summit next week:
"This is going to be an important council."
"I am sure the determination of the June summit will be confirmed in the oncoming summit."
On euro bonds:
"We have to understand that originally there was a breach of trust in euro area between countries that were always, or most of time, complying fiscal soundness and countries that didn't do so."
"The issue in last two years was to rebuild trust."
"It's pointless to begin from a euro bond. It's pointless to begin from a policy where I issue and you spend."
"That will become realistic when the trust is reestablished."


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PlayStation 4
PS4 FAQs V3
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2 years ago#1
[RD0] Release Date
[PR0] Price
[BC0] Backwards Compatibility
[HS0] Hardware/Specs
[TC0] The Controller
[TC1] a) Physical Features
[TC2] b) The Share Button and Light Bar
[EC0] Eye Camera
[RP0] Remote Play
[RP1] a) Second Screen
[RP2] b) Vita/Vita TV/PS4 Ecosystem
[OS0] Operating System
[FE0] Features
[FE1] a) Gaikai
[FE2] b) Media
[FE3] c) Others (4k, BC, Move)
[SP0] Specifics
[SP1] a) PS4
[SP2] b) DS4
[SP3] c) PS4 Eye
[IB0] In the Box
[PS0] PlayStation Plus
[GL0] Games Available at Launch
The Release Date [RD0]
NA November 15th 2013
EU November 29th 2013
The Price [PR0]
399 Euro
349 Pounds
Games will be anywhere from free to $60 (49 Euro)
Playstation Plus will be required to play online multiplayer. Other services such as Netflix will not require the additional fee. PS+ can be bought for $50/year or $18/ three months.
Certain games (like Planetside 2) that are Free-to-Play will not require a Plus subscription. You will also not need PS+ for updates/patches to games.
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
(Topic Creator)2 years ago#2
Backwards Compatibility [BC0]
The PS4 will not be natively backwards compatible for PS3, PS2, or PS1 games on launch. An update may come for PS2 and PS1 support, and Gaikai may offer a solution for PS3 support <see Gaikai section>.
The PS4 will only feature "Disc Check" DRM. This is just the basic anti-piracy measure. Any online passes will still be available for the developer/publisher to provide. There is no "always-on" internet connection except for those games that require it (think Dust 514 and MAG). This also means that the PS4 is region free.
The Hardware and Specs [HS0]
The first thing we notice is that the PS4 comes with a new controller and a new rendition of the Playstation Eye. They will have their own section in this FAQ.
The new PS4 features a stacked parallelogram shape. http://sketchfab.com/m4jig2c0a
The Playstation 4 features an AMD 8-core Jaguar x86/64 CPU. It is said to run right around 1.6ghz. It also features a Radeon GPU comparable to the 7850. Currently it has a 6x Bluray drive (read only) as well as the capabilities to read DVD. It will also include the now standard USB 3.0, Bluetooth 2.1, and Gigabit Ethernet Port.
The PS4 has 8GB of GDDR5. What does that even mean? First it needs to be clarified that DDR is not the highly acclaimed Dance Dance Revolution. It stands for Double Data Rate. It is comparable to DDR3. Right now GDDR5 is the fastest available RAM on the market, and it's main use is for applications that require high bandwidth (memory bandwidth). It is needed for the new features to help reduce "lag".
In all it is just a new type of fast RAM that will improve certain functions.
It should be noted that: "Sony has revealed that you will be able to power down the PS4 mid-game and then switch it on again in seconds and pick up right where you left off." Which is enabled by the new RAM.
RAM available to developers is limited to around 6GB with the flexible OS reserved RAM.
Here is a note from OmegaDL50
GDDR5 is based on DDR3 SDRAM memory, the difference is that has a higher bandwidth rate due an additional 8-bit wide prefetch buffer.
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
(Topic Creator)2 years ago#3
The Controller [TC0]
All about the new Dualshock 4 controller
Physical features [TC1]
The new Dualshock controller will feature everything from the Dualshock 3 with a few changes. The width of the controller has been changed to accommodate the new touchpad in the middle (not a touchscreen), as well as to fix complaints about "touching thumbs" on the analog sticks. The new analog sticks are now concave like the Xbox controller and feature a smaller dead zone. In addition to those, the triggers have been changed to respond better and prevent sliding off. A speaker has been added just below the touch pad for "immersive gaming experiences" (for more sounds) and they have done away with our start and select buttons. The start and select buttons have been replaced with "options", "share", and the clickable touch pad. Finally, there is a light bar on the back, 3.5mm jack on the front, and the Mini USB has been replaced with Micro USB.
Share Button and "Light Bar" [TC2]
The share button adds a new dimension to gaming by giving you the ability to record videos and take screenshots at the push of a button and upload them to facebook. There is a live message feed that goes with this. The share button will also allow a new feature dubbed Director Mode. Director Mode allows you to give control of your game over to a friend, and they will be able to beat a level for you. The specifics on director mode are not yet confirmed (time limits?).
This is what Sony has for launch:
The PS4 system provides dedicated, always on video encoding systems that enables seamless uploading of gameplay. Users can share their epic triumphs by simply hitting the Share button on DualShock 4, take screenshots or scan through the last 15 minutes of gameplay, tag it and return to the gamethe video uploads as the user plays. At the PS4 systems launch in North America, users will be able to share their images and videos with friends on Facebook and screenshots with followers on Twitter, though users will need to sign up for individual accounts to use Facebook and Twitter.
The Light Bar adds move to your controller. Each player in the room has a different color on their light bar (red, blue, green, pink). The main focus on this is for tracking player position around the room, so if you pass the controllers during split screen then the screens will switch places.
Controller Backwards Compatibility [TC3]
Currently the Dualshock 4 controller works with several PS3 games on the PS3. It will also work with the Vita TV. This is a temporary list of games that work with the Dualshock 4 on PS3:
The Dualshock 4 has also been stated to work on your PC. You can play all of those games with a Dualshock 4 instead of an Xbox 360 controller now. As of this writing it does not currently work with the PC or wireless, but there will most likely be an update. You can see it working on a PC here:
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
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The Eye Camera [EC0]
Well, it looks neat. It is more like the Playstation Eyes now (haha) because it has two cameras (get it?). The Extra cameras allow for Sony to fix problems with motion tracking that they've had since 2002 like depth and multiple players. Users with PlayStation Camera will be able to register their facial image onto their PS4 system, and login to their system using facial recognition instead of DualShock 4. Furthermore, users can use either the microphone of the (provided) Mono Head set connected to DualShock 4, or PlayStation Camera to navigate through the PS4 home screen (PlayStation Dynamic Menu) with voice commands to start up games and shutdown the system, among other unannounced features. There will be a voice command guide from Sony's website.
The eye camera connects with a type of lightning connector similar to the iPhone 5 models.
Remote Play [RP0]
The Playstation Vita will now be able to play almost all of your PS4 games! It is a new hardware feature in the PS4 that allows you to stream your PS4 game to the Vita. Remote Play works by downscaling the 1080p framebuffer to the Vita's native 720p resolution (while the screen operates at 960 x 544), using the PS4's in-built hardware h.264 video encoder to compress the image. This is then beamed out over WiFi to the Vita, which decodes the video and sends back controller inputs to the PlayStation 4. It is no longer something that developers have to labour away at just to make Sony happy. Any controls will be emulated onto the Vita and its touchpad unless the developer decides to make custom controls. Other features will work much like PS3 remote play.
Second Screen [RP1]
Users can use the PS4 Link application for the PS Vita system, and PlayStation App for iPhone, iPad, and Android-based smartphones and tablets, to use these devices as second screens in supported titles. PlayStation App has the ability to enable users to interact with games with their mobiles devices. For example on The Playroom, a title pre-installed in all PS4 systems that requires PlayStation Camera, users can draw pictures on their mobile device screens and flick them towards the TV. The images then appear as a 3D object within the game.
The Ecosystem [RP2]
This is a great FAQ by darkdragongirl on how the Vita/ Vita TV/ and PS4 will all interact with one another.
The Playstation app will be available November 13th.
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
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(Topic Creator)2 years ago#5
The New Operating System [OS0]
It is an advanced version of the XMB called the PlayStation Dynamic Menu (PDM). There is a new social integration of the operating system that allows for twitter and facebook posts/ friends/ videos/ and pictures to be viewed as well as sent. Based on the games you play, much like the google search software, the PS4 will start customizing your home screen with games and videos it thinks you would like to see. It is part of the "reduce downloads times" campaign.
Features [FE0]
There are several other new features coming to the PS4
Gaikai [FE1]
Gaikai has been integrated into the playstation hardware and software to help reduce the time you are waiting to play games. With the new store system you will be able to download part of the game and Gaikai will slowly stream the rest of the game to you eventually having the full game downloaded to your hard drive. Basically Gaikai reduces the wall between you and digital games.
Gaikai is also a game streaming service that Sony is hoping to use to stream PS3 games to the PS4. Because the Gaikai servers will be calculating everything, this is an online only service much like Netflix.
Cloud Service available in 2014. Allows PS3 BC.
Media Services [FE2]
Sony Entertainment Programming is a new video and music streaming surface under one Sony application. Most likely this will be the 4k movie service that was announced. Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited are still available and accessible day 1. Netflix, Flixster, and Redbox will be other apps that are supported under media services. New TV apps may be coming to the PS4 including an MTV channel. Details on this to come.
The ESPN apps as of now are no longer exclusive and may be removed entirely.
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
(Topic Creator)2 years ago#6
Other Stuff [FE3]
4k: Yes 4k resolution will be available for the PS4. It will be available for movies and everything else (except games), but right now 4k movies are around 100GB of data. Sony is looking into a 4k movie service for the PS4. No games will be played in 4k resolution.
Backwards Compatability: It is possible to stream games with Gaikai to the PS4, but nothing will be native. Sony is looking into using Gaikai to solve the problem.
Playstation Move: Yes it is still around.
Instant On Feature: As explained in the RAM section, the PS4 will boot up in 5 seconds and you will be able to start off where you left off. No more leaving your console on because you can't find a save point.
Sony stuff compatability: They've said that TVs, headsets, tablets, and phones will still be compatible.
Cross-game-chat: Yes. Up to 8 friends.
Party System: Yes. Up to 8 friends.
Background Music Player: You can listen to Music Unlimited in the background of games that allow it; Installed music has not been confirmed. Party/Cross-game Chat is still available while listening to music.
PSN Account: It transfers over and you have the option of displaying your real name through social media integration. Up to 4 people can be logged in at once.
Spectating: The PS4 system enables users to broadcast their gameplay in real-time to game fans around the globe, using Ustream and Twitch live internet streaming services (users will need to sign up for individual accounts to use Ustream and Twitch). There are two ways for users to view live broadcasts. First, the Live from PlayStation application on PS4 aggregates streams from all PlayStation users. Second, users can spectate friends PS4 gameplay from PCs, and applications such as Ustream, Twitch, and browsers, which are installed on their mobile devices. These applications can be easily started up via PlayStation App, and users can also use these applications to post comments to gameplay broadcasts. Furthermore, users with PlayStation Camera can stream camera images and microphone sounds along with their live gameplay broadcast.
PS Store: There will be a new "user-friendly" version of the PS Store for the PS4
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
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(Topic Creator)2 years ago#7
Specifics [SP0]
This is the section for all of you techies.
CPU: low power x86-64 AMD "Jaguar" 8-core
GPU: 1.84 TFLOPS AMD Radeon
Memory: GDDR5 8GB
HDD: 500GB (upgradeable)
Optical Drive: Read only BD 6x DVD 8x
Communication: Ethernet, IEEE 902.11 bgn, blutooth 2.1
AV output: HDMI, Analog-AV out, Digital Optical Output
162mm x 52mm x 98mm
Micro USB, Stereo Headset Jack
Bluetooth 2.1
Touchpad: Multitouch 1920x900
Speaker: Mono
Eye Camera [SP3]
186mm x 27mm x 27mm
183g (less than the controller hmmm)
2 Cameras at 1280x800
Framerate: 1280x800 at 60fps 640x400 at 120fps 320x192 at 240fps
Format: RAW, YUV
FOV: 85 degrees
Mic: 4 channel
Cable length: TBC 2m
What's in the Box [IB0]
-PS4 System
-DS4 Controller
-Mono Headset
-HDMI Cable
-Micro USB Cable
-PS4 Power Cable (based on your region)
PlayStation Plus [PS0]
PS+ carries over from PS3 and Vita. Ther will be games for the Instant Game Collection service on launch, as well as 3 others monthly.
Playstation Plus is required to play online multiplayer.
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
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(Topic Creator)2 years ago#8
Games Available at Launch [GL0]
(Thank you Zyxer22 for compiling most of this list)
Total: 30
The Playroom
Console Exclusives
Blacklight: Retribution
DC Universe Online
Injustice Gods Among Us: Ultimate Edition
Planetside 2 (at least a beta will be available soon after launch)
Putty Squad
Super Motherload
Tiny Brains
Witness, The
War Thunder
Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag
Battlefield 4
Call of Duty Ghosts
Fifa 14
Just Dance 2014
Lego Marvel Superheroes
Madden NFL 25
NBA 2k14
NBA Live 14
Need for Speed: Rivals
Pinball Arcade, The
Skylanders: Swap Force
Thanks to everyone who helped :)
What does it mean if the PS Button glows blue?
"orcs are near" -OMG_A_PONY
2 years ago#10
Nice job sticky requested
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News and notes on health, medicine and fitness
Officer wounded at Sikh Temple shooting will appear at holiday blood drive
Retired Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy, who survived 12 gunshot wounds in the attack on the Sikh Temple more than a year ago, will be on hand at the 13th Annual Season of Giving Blood Drive from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 26 and 27 at the Peck Welcome Center at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
"People call me a hero, but blood donors are the real heroes," Murphy said in a press release. "They save lives every day. They saved mine."
The event is being put on by the BloodCenter of Wisconsin. The holiday season is often a time when blood donations drop, according to the center.
The goal for this drive is to bring in more than 800 donors. Each one will receive a complimentary zoo admission for the day of the drive, a zoo ticket for a future date and free parking and childcare.
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On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 7 PM, Midwest Magic Midwest Magic, 9706 Franklin Av., Franklin Park, Illinois is proud to present another Chicagoland Exclusive:
Eric Andersons
Performance Marketing Seminar
How Too Get Your Clients To Hire You Repeatedly By Using Performance Marketing
I am sure most of you reading this have no clue who Eric Anderson is, or anything about him. Honestly, you should not.
He has not been on the cover of Genii or Magic Magazines.
He has never worked the Magic Castle.
He has never worked Monday Night Magic.
He does not have a DVD series sold in shops or magazines.
He has only worked one very small magic convention.
He has never entered a magic competition.
He rarely lectures to magicians!
He loves hanging out with magicians and talking shop but because of his business, he doubts any of the above will change in a major way.
Here are a few things you should know...
Eric is 36 years old, has been interested in magic since age five and made his living performing in the real world for the past 14 years. He has performed in almost every situation/venue you can think of:
Street performing
Night Clubs
Comedy Clubs
Corporate Strolling Magic
After Dinner Corporate Events
Country Clubs
Theater Shows.
A prison
And the list goes on.
Over the years he has been booed off stage, cussed out, spit on, forced to take less money just to pay the bills, and almost arrested for performing the watch steal.
So why would he say all of that and expect you to be interested in his lecture? It is the truth. Any professional who claims that everything is all-good and smooth sailing will also lie to you about how much they really make per show.
With all of that said, Eric would never trade his experience in this business. Today his situation has changed dramatically. Without going into detail, lets just say his life is better then fantastic.
He has learned two major lessons in this business. First off, you must know how to market yourself. Thats number one. The second thing--you must give a Powerful Performance. If your client has not called you back for a repeat show, something is
Eric had one client in 2006 call him 22 separate times for events. He was only able to do 14 of those events for that client. Trust me--this makes your job as a marketer a lot easier. His lecture will teach you how to create this same type of dedication with your own clients.
During his Performance Marketing Lecture he will walk you through his personal system for creating Powerful Performances.
You will learn:
The lecture opens with a performance.
Eric's #1 rule for creating a powerful magic performance.
How to choose the strongest material for your show? In fact, Eric will teach you 3 performances pieces right out of his own repertoire. His opener (you will never guess what he opens almost all of his shows with and why.) The second routine is his personal workhorse--every pro has one--this is his. Finally, a routine Eric calls A Closer For All Occasions. He has only taught this routine to one person and it has been in his repertoire for 22 years--as a side note all of this material can be performed on stage, close-up or strolling.
How to make your effects play huge. One of the secrets many pros know is that you make more money when you are perceived larger then life. Eric will teach you the most effective way to do this.
As an added bonus, he will share one of his favorite techniques for getting new clients. Very few performers use this marketing approach. It is one of most powerful and easiest methods to use.
Of course, there is something to purchase, but it is not a dealers show.
Rave Reviews:
I would use Eric Anderson in my place and have with my top clients without any hesitation.--Joel Bauer, Bauer & Associates, Author: How To Persuade People Who Dont Want To Be Persuaded .
Your performance during the Close-Up show and your wonderful lecture kept the audience laughing and perplexed. You were definitely a highlight of the convention for many of our attendees. Combining a gentle wit, unbridled enthusiasm, and amazing magical talent, you absolutely floored the audience with your performance.--Paul Sponaugle, International Brotherhood of Magicians, SEAM Co-Chairman.
I must admit that when I told some of my colleagues here, Halldale Publishing, that I was going to fly this guy named Eric Anderson from Atlanta to London just to perform for a couple of hours at our cocktail party, they all thought I was crazy! Now that they have seen you in action they all agree that it was worth every penny.--Stephan Marston, Sales & Marketing Director, Halldale Publishing
Wow, your presentation at our annual event was truly amazing! I think you could tell by the audiences reaction, they enjoyed your show tremendously. I cant tell you how many people told me that your show was the best we have had in our nine year history. We arent sure what we are going to do to top your show next year.--Deb Mulch, Executive Director
Eric Andersons advice on marketing have to put at least $100,000 in my pocket to date. He is also a great teacher and communicator.--Marco Frezza, Professional Magician, New York City.
Tickets for this amazing event are $20, and seating is in the order of reservation, so call (847) 455-4288 soon for your seat!


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For Immediate Release
Email: donald.campbell[AT]reprieve.org.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 207 553 8140
Complaint Filed Over UK Spying on Libyan Torture Victims' Legal Communications
LONDON - Two Libyan families who were kidnapped and 'rendered' to Gaddafi's prisons by British intelligence have filed a complaint over GCHQ's eavesdropping on their legal communications.
Gaddafi opponent Abdul Hakim Belhadj and his then-pregnant wife Fatima Boudchar, and the al Saadi family – including four children aged 12 or under – were kidnapped and forcibly flown back to Libya in joint MI6-CIA-Libyan operations in 2004. Since then, they have taken legal action against the UK Government over its part in their abuse, revealed in a fax from MI6's Sir Mark Allen which came to light after the fall of Gaddafi.
However, following recent revelations over the extent of eavesdropping by UK agency GCHQ, they have filed complaints with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) over the "strong likelihood" that UK intelligence is intercepting their legally privileged communications with their legal team – a move which would undermine their attempts to secure justice through the courts.
Legal professional privilege is a crucial and centuries-old principle of English law, which protects the confidentiality of a client's communications with their lawyer, and without which the right to a fair trial is undermined.
The IPT is a highly-secretive tribunal responsible for complaints made over abuses by the security services. Concerns have been raised over the one-sided nature of the IPT process – in the vast majority of cases, the complainant sees none of the evidence deployed by the Government, and will often be left in ignorance even of the outcome of the case. However, it remains one of the few avenues for pursuing accountability against the intelligence services.
Reprieve's Strategic Director, Cori Crider said: "It is bad enough that UK security services helped kidnap and render young children and a pregnant woman into the hands of Colonel Gaddafi. To add insult to injury, they are now trying to undermine their right to a fair trial by spying on private communications with their lawyers. UK complicity in Gaddafi's torture of his opponents is a shameful incident that needs to be opened up to public scrutiny - not subject to more skulduggery from GCHQ."
Reprieve is a UK-based human rights organization that uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.


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Looking forward to Rinne no Lagrange S2.
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Originally posted by Inactive UserShigurui is so good... but the Manga is even better. It goes way more indepth and I'm pretty sure there is a definitive ending now.
has anyone read vagabond? one of the best samurai manga out.
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Sword Art Online first two episodes got me hooked. seems way better than .hack so far.
champloo = fav anime OAT
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Originally posted by Inactive UserSword Art Online first two episodes got me hooked. seems way better than .hack so far.
Me too, just watched them and cant wait till Saturday for the next episode. .hack got me so confused in the beginning.
Phantom requiem for the phantom will be on your top 10 of addictive shit. Angel beats, Elfen lied, gantz, the list goes on.
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I fuck with a lot of Samurai animes. Samurai Champloo of course. Afro Samurai I liked too. Sengoku Basara is nice just because I like the era that it's based off and it's a weird take even though they make some of the characters feminine as fuck. Shigurui Death Frenzy though
I like a lot of violent animes with action so if anyone can recommend stuff like that it'd be nice. Stuff like Fist of the North Star, Shigurui Death Frenzy, Cowboy Bepop, Akira or something similar to the O'Renn Ishii anime scene would be nice. I'm not really into stuff like Naruto or more childish (no offense to those who like it. Just the easiest way to describe my taste) anime. I like adult oriented stuff if that makes sense.


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New Education Highway uses OER to make education accessible in Myanmar
ICE-Youth members / NEH / CC BY-NC-ND
New Education Highway (NEH) is a nonprofit project that could not exist without open educational resources (OER). Launched this year in Myanmar, NEH leverages new and existing OER to provide remote and rural communities — often with no Internet connection — with access to a quality education.
NEH partners with existing organizations in local communities to open free learning centers with tablets or laptops installed with an offline, easily navigable learning interface. Resources are preloaded and span all manner of subjects, including comprehensive K-12 education, standardized test preparation, vocational skills, health/HIV education, sanitation, critical thinking, community development, foreign language training, and environmental and agricultural science. All resources are available under CC licenses, developed by NEH or other organizations. Because permissions have already been granted for reuse, NEH, as well as its communities, can adapt and redistribute the resources as needed.
NEH works with each community it serves to customize the offline interface and OER to that particular community. NEH is always seeking new and existing materials to incorporate, currently in the environmental and agricultural sciences. If you have suggestions for OER, materials that might be adapted and released as OER, or are interested in getting involved as a volunteer, visit http://www.neweducationhighway.org/ or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Informational content on NEH's website is defaulted under the CC BY license. The OER used within the NEH Learning Interface is licensed under the CC BY-SA and CC BY-NC-SA licenses and will be made available on the site in the coming months.2 Comments »
Commonly: Refreshing the Public Domain
Last week, indie videogame designer Nick Liow launched the Open Game Art Bundle. It's a simple idea: independent videogame designers contribute game assets – animations, soundtracks, character designs – and customers can pay any price they want to access them. Nick describes it as a sort of cross between Kickstarter and Humble Bundle, and like Humble Indie Bundle, the income is split between the developers themselves and charities (including Creative Commons). But there's one big twist: if the bundle reaches its goal of $10,000 by July 15, all assets will become public domain under the CC0 public domain declaration.
This is actually the third bundle Nick has put out under the brand Commonly. It's the most ambitious bundle to date, but it's really just the beginning. What Nick's really interested in isn't just about videogames; it's about changing how people think about the public domain. I met up with him a few days ago to chat about videogames, public domain, and the open source movement.
We also talked about the increasing rift in the videogame world between the indie developers like himself and the high-budget, "Triple A" games of the big-name studios. There's been a lot of talk recently about the videogame industry's occasional tone-deafness to issues like race and sexuality. Nick told me that he sees a parallel conflict over issues like intellectual property and digital rights management (DRM). While many young developers like Nick share his opinions, some big-name developers are sticking to what he sees as a more old-fashioned view.
"The triple-A industry has to reach out to as massive an audience as possible," Nick said. "They close things off because they can't afford the risk. You notice that indie games tend to be for a more a more open ecosystem. With the Humble Indie Bundle, "DRM-Free" is a part of their tag line. Indie games go with the more open ecosystems… while triple-A's create their own walled gardens with game consoles." And, he was quick to add, "The iPhone counts as a [closed] console."
Nick recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area – he'll be here for the next two years as a part of the Thiel Fellowship. "You have to have a big vision [for the fellowship]," he told me, "and my big vision was a thriving public domain."
He originally applied for the fellowship with his project Craftyy, an open source game-development platform and social network. Although the Thiel judges liked Nick's ideas, "It wasn't clear to them how Craftyy would lead to a thriving public domain." That was when Nick started to shift to the idea of crowdfunding for public domain creative works. He told me that his plan for the next two years is to expand the Commonly concept beyond the world of videogame developers into the broader creative community. I can't wait to see where Commonly goes next and what awesome stuff it brings into the public domain with it.
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OpenChem, Open Curriculum, and the Value of Openness
I recently spoke with Larry Cooperman, director of OpenCourseWare at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Larry also serves on the boards of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the African Virtual University. I asked Larry about UC Irvine's new OpenChem project.
Why, in the middle of such excitement over MOOCs, would the Department of Chemistry and the OpenCourseWare project at the UCI unveil their CC BY-SA–licensed OpenChem project, a set of video lectures equivalent to four years of classes? Because they've designed OpenChem to focus on building out an extensive path to learning chemistry via an open curriculum rather than offering highly designed intensive course experiences like Coursera and EdX.
OpenChem is designed to be reused, revised, and remixed — by institutions, departments and instructors. This differs in the most fundamental way from the fixed-path, single-instructor model of most MOOCs. OpenCourseWare and MOOCs aspire to provide access to high quality, higher education learning to those unable, for a variety of reasons, to attend either an "elite" institution or any college or university at all.
For some time, Larry has been arguing that we are falling short of this vision. 80% of Coursera users are college graduates and most of the rest are advanced high school and current university students. There is no doubt that others, for lack of access to a basic internet connection, much less the bandwidth required for high-resolution video streaming, won't share in these benefits. But there is a second reason, even more troubling than the bandwidth problem, which should concern us. The design of university-level courses, when they come from "elite" institutions, is for that audience — namely, "elite" students. Courses aren't designed for students whose secondary institutions have left them with gaps in their education.
And that gets me back to the design of OpenChem — or openly licensed curriculum in general. If there is one thing that we can do to use open education to improve higher education, it is to allow existing colleges and universities that serve these students to improve their educational offerings through adoption and adaptation. That means that those who best know a specific cohort of students must be free to choose from easily integrated, openly licensed materials that match their curricular needs and objectives. The very first use of OpenChem occurred locally at Saddleback College, when an instructor used ten minutes of a UCI video lecture that offered an explanation of a very specific topic to use in his flipped classroom. And that's really the point. An instructor may find ten minutes useful. A department may adopt a course that had not previously been offered. An institution may adapt an entire curriculum. Further, if the content is not exactly what an instructor wants, the open license allows her to change it to meet local needs.
MOOCs could also enable these opportunities, though they will need to make it simple for their course authors and their contributing colleges and universities to add a Creative Commons license to their course content. CC stands ready to help them do so.
Of course, chemistry is a lab science. Allowing students to virtually sit in UCI lecture halls for four years via OpenChem could never substitute for a local institution offering a complete education. By creating a full pathway from a course designed for those without adequate high school chemistry preparation to graduate electives, UCI is making its chemistry education visible. But the goal of OpenChem isn't substitution — it is to enable both educators and students to collaborate with others. Just as UCI hopes to support science education, they also hope others will adapt and improve OpenChem courses, translate them into other languages, and distribute them far and wide.
Kenneth Janda, Dean of the School of Physical Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at UCI, invites institutions to use "a whole lecture or a series of lectures, free of charge, and without asking permission to advance your educational mission." That's a fairly good itemization of the key benefits of openly licensed resources versus public but read-only copyrighted resources; it is the difference between open and free.
UCI also anticipates important learner benefits that are derived from having an open curriculum, including the ability to go forwards and backwards at will. For instance, looking ahead, an advanced high school student can go past the level of AP Chemistry. An entering college freshman could study Preparation for General Chemistry to ensure their readiness. Or an enrolled student can view the typical coursework and decide whether to become a chemistry major. Just as important, a student having trouble with a class can review the prior knowledge — the building blocks that are required to succeed in their current class.
This last point is perhaps the most crucial. Openness in education is about visibility. UCI uses an entire open curriculum to let learners and instructors alike see how it all hangs together. UCI has a lot of work left to do to optimize OpenChem for learning, but is excited to point its university and other institutions in a new direction that brings us all a little closer to the goal of universal access to higher education.Comments Off on OpenChem, Open Curriculum, and the Value of Openness
OPEN Partners Host U.S. Department of Labor TAACCCT Grantee Kick-Off Conference
Wave 2 Kick-off Event, Minneapolis MN
Round 2 Grantees from the US Department of Labor's (DOL) Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT) program were invited to attend last week's Kick-off Conference, hosted by OPEN Partners: CC, CMU's OLI, CAST, and SBCTC. This was a unique opportunity for the Gates-funded OPEN Partners to explain services made available to grantees at no cost, supporting the building of Open Educational Resources (OER) that meet current standards of accessibility, pedagogically-sound and technology-supported design, as well as legal openness. Creative Commons is leading the OPEN Partner services and support, lending expertise in legal and technical aspects of open education to the project. Representatives from forty seven Round 2 TAACCCT projects attended workshops to understand service basics, and a showcase to hear from select Round 1 Grantee projects that made use of the complementary services offered to all grantees.
Photo by Cable Green / CC BY
Highlighted Round 1 Grantees included The National Stem Consortium (NSC), the Colorado Online Energy Training Consortium (COETC), and the Missouri Online HealthWINs program, sharing their experiences in the program thus far. All grantees are funded to support the building of community college-level and technical training courses that will provide opportunities for unemployed and under-employed adults to gain certificates and degrees in high-skilled industries. The OPEN partners offer expertise to grantees around accessibility frameworks, open-licensing and technical interoperability, and quality standards for online education. All of the courses and learning materials created in this four year $2 billion DOL grant program are being licensed for reuse with a Creative Commons (CC BY) license, making this the largest OER production effort to date. The pool of courseware will include lessons, videos, images, and interactive content for learners in health care, information technology (IT), advanced manufacturing, and other industries that need high-skilled workforce support. It's a big deal.
Keynote and Plenary Sessions
CC's Director of Global Learning, Cable Green, provided the opening keynote for the conference titled Online Technology, Open Licenses, and Open Educational Resources – The Opportunity for DOL TAACCCT Grantees. The Center for Accessibility Supportive Technology's (CAST) Samantha Johnston provided an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, and spoke about accessibility in distance education, which most TAACCCT courses are being developed for. Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) Boyoung Chae offered a session about creating and managing OER, targeted at new grantees that will likely be collaborating on content in the coming year. CC, CAST, and the Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC) offered multiple hands-on sessions to familiarize grantees with DOL-mandated aspects of their course design, and describe how the OPEN Partners are offering continue support. CC's Jane Park led sessions on the CC-BY license and best practices for applying CC licenses to work.
As a special service to grantees, Giulia Forsythe joined the OPEN Partners to provide visual recording (see image above) for the major talks. The creation of visual notes offered another way for participants to understand the big ideas of the speakers' messages, using sketch-based keywords and symbols to describe connections. During a lightning around for new grantees, participants from over forty of the funded college and consortia spoke briefly about their projects and plans. Visual representations of these descriptions will soon be posted to the OPEN4us.org site.
OPEN Supporting TAACCCT Grantees
Creative Commons and the OPEN Partners will continue to support TAACCCT Grantees in the upcoming months, maximizing the value and reusability of this amazing pool of OER. Handouts, visuals, webinar recordings, and additional grantee information can be found on the OPEN Partner website, Open4Us.org.Comments Off on OPEN Partners Host U.S. Department of Labor TAACCCT Grantee Kick-Off Conference
KA Lite: an offline version of the Khan Academy
We'd like to draw your attention to KA Lite, an offline version of the Khan Academy developed by a team of volunteers from around the world in collaboration with the Foundation for Learning Equality. KA Lite was developed with the aim of furthering universal access to education, especially those without an Internet connection — or those with a very slow Internet connection. This map shows all registered users of KA Lite around the world.
KA Lite is an independent project, not associated with the Khan Academy, though as the KA Lite FAQ states, Khan Academy is unofficially supportive of the project. The great thing is that the folks behind KA Lite didn't have to ask for permission because permission was already granted thanks to the CC BY-NC-SA license on Khan Academy materials. This allowed KA Lite volunteers to build an open source application that would support and make available Khan Academy's 4,200+ high quality educational videos and exercises in an offline setting.
Dylan Barth, one of the creators behind KA Lite, says,
"Through KA Lite, we distribute Khan Academy videos and exercises which are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
The KA Lite sourcecode itself is open-source MIT licensed, and the other included software and content is licensed as described in the LICENSE file (it's all open-source, it's just different licenses for different packages we use).
The only potential cost to the end user would be hardware to run KA Lite on (it can run on all types of hardware bundles, from old Windows computers to the $35 Raspberry Pi) and the electricity to run the hardware."
Check out, download for free, and volunteer for the project at http://kalite.learningequality.org/.3 Comments »
Blackboard xpLor officially released with OER and CC license options
In January I blogged about Blackboard xpLor — a new cloud-based learning object repository that was being piloted at 70 institutions. Blackboard officially released it today, giving educators the ability to discover, create, and share resources across learning management systems (LMS). As part of its launch, xpLor has integrated support for CC license options for creators of content as well as the search and discovery of existing OER under CC licenses, such as the Khan Academy's rich collection of videos and exercises. xpLor currently offers four CC license options for course creators (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA) in addition to the CC0 public domain waiver, which allows you to waive all copyrights to your work should you choose to do so.
From the press release,
Users can create and store materials in xpLor, and then extend their content by sharing and making it discoverable to instructors across working groups, courses and institutions. Content is delivered through the cloud to users' LMS; xpLor currently supports Blackboard Learn™, ANGEL, Joule® from Moodlerooms and Sakai. Users can tag and rate content, making it easy to find items their peers found to be valuable.
Content can be adapted over time by multiple users. Content authors can control who can see and change their content, and can apply to their work a variety of rights and permissions from All Rights Reserved to Creative Commons open sharing, to enable crowdsourcing collaboration and remixing of content.
For details with screenshots of the CC license implementation, see my earlier post. If you want to check it out yourself, you can via CourseSites or an existing LMS account with your institution (as named above). If you use a different LMS, xpLor may work with it if your LMS employs IMS standards — since xpLor is cloud-based and built to work across systems. To find out more, see the form at http://www.blackboard.com/sites/xplor/.Comments Off on Blackboard xpLor officially released with OER and CC license options
Open Call for Creative Commons Board of Directors & Advisory Council Candidates
*Board of directors: Hal Abelson, Paul Brest, Glenn Brown, Michael Carroll, Catherine Casserly, Caterina Fake, Brian Fitzgerald, Davis Guggenheim, Joi Ito, Lawrence Lessig, Laurie Racine, Eric Saltzman, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Annette Thomas, Jimmy Wales, and Esther Wojcicki.
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The Creative Commons Board of Directors is seeking recommendations from the Creative Commons community for potential candidates to serve on the board of directors and a new, to-be-formed advisory council. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Creative Commons and advance our mission of maximizing digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Why we are doing this
Creative Commons Board of Directors is making structural adjustments and engaging in succession planning. As part of this process, during the April 2013 Creative Commons Board of Directors meeting, the board agreed to form a Creative Commons Advisory Council for which it is also seeking members. The advisory council is distinct from the board. While it will not have decision-making authority, its role is to provide depth of experience and knowledge for the board to tap.
This open call for board and advisory council nominations is designed to engage the entire Creative Commons community in identifying candidates who will ensure Creative Commons continues to have the resources, leadership, and oversight necessary to carry out its vision and mission, and does so in a way that is inclusive of our global community.
What the Creative Commons Board of Directors is looking for
The board seeks candidates who have a passion and enthusiasm for Creative Commons and can act as ambassadors, fundraisers, and experts.
Creative Commons has developed a matrix of key skills needed on the board and advisory council. In making your nomination for board or advisory council please reference this skills matrix and describe the skills you believe your nominee would bring to Creative Commons.
Nomination process
To nominate yourself or someone else, please complete this web form by July 15, 5pm PDT (GMT -7). Please share this form with your networks and anyone you think may be interested in serving. There is no limit to the number of candidates you may nominate.
Nominations will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 15, 5pm PDT (GMT -7) and reviewed by the board of directors Executive Committee. Potential candidates will be contacted in late July to early August.
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CC Summer Interns 2013
We're happy to have two interns this summer: Pei-Yi Wang (Google Policy Fellow) and Teresa Sempere Garcia (Community Support Intern).
Pei-Yi Wang / CC BY
Teresa Sempere Garcia
by Christian H. Paleari / CC BY
Pei-Yi has been with CC Taiwan via Academia Sinica part-time since 2006. As a graduate student at the Law School of National Taiwan University, she helped conduct research about open licenses, porting and translating the CC 3.0 licenses and the CC0 text, assisting governments, academic institutions, libraries and museums to apply CC licenses, and analyzing copyright and other legal issues. More recently, Pei-Yi received her LL.M. degrees from New York University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center, with focuses on IP, corporate and international business. Before joining CC as a Google Policy Fellow, she practiced law in Taiwan National Digital Archive Project, a leading law firm, and served as in-house counsel in a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company in Taiwan. In her free time, she loves food tasting, music, and traveling.
Teresa is a free culture and free software activist who has been working in the field for many years. She was one of the creators and organizers of the highly successful Librebus Project in both 2011 and 2012, which took open advocates on a tour of Central and Southern America, running workshops and seminars. Teresa has earned degrees in Advertising and Public Relations (University of Alicante, Spain), Specialist in Design and Communication (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Specialist in International Cooperation for Development (University of Alicante, Spain), and Cultural Management focusing on Culture, Communication and Politics (Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina). She has worked in educational and cultural projects around the world, including in Belgium, Sweden, Italy, and Slovenia (working as Assistant Project Coordinator of Europe WAGGGS), in addition to Argentina and Costa Rica (working for AECID, the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development). Teresa enjoys traveling, photography, swimming, and cycling.
Teresa is based remotely in Cordoba, Argentina and will be working with Jessica Coates, the Affiliate Network Coordinator, as well as the Regional Coordinators, to facilitate collaborative projects among CC's global volunteer network, particularly focused on the Global Summit and a new project for the production of CC toolkits. Pei-Yi will be based in Mountain View and will help with the development of the Open Policy Network.1 Comment »
Report Released by U.S. GAO Demonstrates the Need for Open Textbooks
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A report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office on June 6th confirms a trend of the educational publishing industry: textbook costs to students at higher education institutions are rising 6% per year on average, and have risen 82% over the last decade. The study, ordered by Congress, looks at the efforts of publishers and colleges to increase the availability of textbook price information and "unbundled" buying options as required under provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA). The GAO also interviewed faculty regarding benefits of this transparency and offering of new options for students purchasing course materials.
What they found
Findings of the study indicated that faculty are more aware of textbook affordability issues than they used to be, though they see the appropriateness of materials as the most important factor when it comes to choosing resources to use in a course. HEOA requires publishers to include information about textbook prices when marketing to faculty, including wholesale prices and copyright dates of previous versions. While the report finds that publishers have passively made this information available through their websites and other materials, the GAO did not investigate whether publishers are actively providing the information to faculty as required by law. Making this information not only available, but highly visible, is the best way to support and equip faculty to consider textbook costs and potentially explore more affordable and flexible textbook options.
The study also finds that textbook price transparency helped students save money, particularly because of the information colleges and universities posted in course catalogs. Of the 150 institutions the GAO reviewed, 81 percent provided textbook information online during the months leading up to the fall 2012 semester. This allowed students the opportunity to consider the costs associated with each course and the time to seek cost-cutting alternatives like used books and renting. But even with this relief, textbook prices continue to reach into the $200-and-more range for high-enrollment courses. The end goal of the HEOA price transparency provisions is to pressure publishers into lowering their prices for good.
What this means
As Nicole Allen, Affordable Textbooks Advocate for the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs) explained, "Overall, the report shows that the HEOA requirements have helped students and professors become more aware of textbook costs, and this awareness builds market pressure that will eventually lead to fairer prices and more affordable alternatives. Although right now publishers stubbornly continue driving prices skyward, they can only ignore the call for affordability for so long."
The report mentions other textbook affordability efforts that colleges and universities explored alongside providing textbook price information. About two-thirds of the schools that the GAO interviewed offered an institutional rental program, and many offered price information for alternate formats, such as e-textbooks. For example, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges' Open Course Library, which offers Open Educational Resources (OER) and other low cost materials for the system's 81 largest courses, has saved students $5.5 million to date — about three times as much as the program cost. As the shift of resources towards efforts that provide more options to students and faculty is seen across the US and in other areas around the world, we anticipate more participation in communities around OER. Which is a great thing.
Next steps towards affordable textbooks
The HEOA requirements for textbook price transparency were a good first step, but there's more work to do to solve rising textbook costs and lack of flexibility in choosing learning materials for courses. OER, like those created, revised, and shared in the Open Course Library have the potential to significantly offset these costs while at the same time providing more options for faculty and students to customize textbooks and other courseware to their needs. CC believes that OER is the next step in providing affordable, flexible, and truly open educational opportunities for students and faculty, allowing global citizens to better choose their own learning pathways.
opensourceway / CC BY-SA
A joint statement issued by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on June 7th affirms the potential for OER as a solution: "As the GAO report suggests, transparency alone isn't enough. Students need more access to high-quality, affordable options that challenge the current price structure set by a handful of publishers. Open Educational Resources, which include high-quality open textbooks that are free for faculty to adopt and students to use, offer a promising step forward. With many recent technology advancements it will be important for Congress to continue to learn more about the textbook sector to ensure that there are accountability mechanisms in place to protect students and taxpayers."
The Student PIRGs announcement about the study is here
The full report of the GAO's study can be found here
And lastly, a podcast with a member of GAO's staff that led this study is here
CC Launches Affiliate Project Grants
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CC is excited to announce the launch of our Affiliate Project Grants. These project grants will be used to support and expand the work of CC's Global community of volunteers.
The goal of the grant program, which is enabled by sponsorship from Google, is to increase the capacity of CC Affiliates and community members working towards our mission, by providing support for local events and projects. Projects that might be covered by the grants include everything from OER workshops to film and music festivals to publications to research – anything, in fact, you can imagine that expands knowledge and adoption of open policies and practices around the world.
Proposals submitted by CC affiliates and community members will be selected to receive up to $20,000 USD towards their project(s). We are hoping to distribute these globally, with at least one project in each of the major geographical regions, and to cover projects small (eg writing and printing factsheets) and large (eg running a region wide series of workshops).
The application deadline is July 8. You can find out more about how to apply, eligibility, timeline, example projects, and the selection process here. Only those working with CC's local community teams are eligible to apply – so if you have a good idea, find out how to contact your local CC team here.
We are looking forward to reviewing all the exciting project ideas that come from our affiliate community!1 Comment »
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The Boston Herald talks to roots musician Corey Harris '91
The Boston Herald interviews roots musician Corey Harris '91, a MacArthur "genius grant" winner, who was in Cambridge for a mid-month show. Harris tells writer Jed Gottlieb, with a shrug, that his musical achievements are "no different from what other musicians who travel have done. I keep my ears open and I know where I'm coming from musically." A bit put off by being called a "scholar, " Harris says that "when a musician talks about the music they play, suddenly they're a scholar." Harris also seems bemused at the fascination with how black music has traveled with the African diaspora. "People seem to think that it's a real big leap to go from blues to African music where they don't see a leap between English folk and Appalachian folk. But it's not a leap. People are ignorant about African music." View story from the Boston Herald, Feb. 15, 2010.
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A 37-year-old cab driver for Union Taxi has been detained by village police after they learned he was wanted in New Jersey on sexual assault charges.
Francot Chouloute, the driver, was stopped in the vicinity of Mamaroneck and Secor roads in Scarsdale at 6 p.m. Sunday when a village police officer noticed Chouloute was obstructing traffic.
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This page forms part of the RCN Research Society historical initiatives, and is preserved as a historical record for reference purposes only. Some information contained within it may no longer be accurate or up-to-date.
Informed consent
The RCN publication "Informed consent in health and social care research: RCN Guidance for nurses" (publication code 002 267) is in line with current information available to the RCN Research Society.
RCN Informed Consent Guidance (PDF, 1.4MB)
A bibliography (PDF, 77KB) associated with the RCN Informed Consent guidance is available
Recent guidance from other sources
Pick A et al (2013), Informed consent in clinical research. Nursing Standard. Vol 27, No. 49, pp44-47
Scottish Children's Research Network (2012), "Guidance: Obtaining informed consent for clinical research in children and young people under 16 in Scotland".
General Medical Council (2010), "Good practice in research and consent to research". The GMC guidance on consent to research provides a detailed overview of informed consent in research and includes a section on research involving children or young people.
Clinical Trials in Children and Young People. Youthhealthtalk is an online resource which enables young people, their family and friends, and professionals such as doctors and teachers to understand young people's experiences of health, illness and life in general.
Teaching guide - 2011
Sue Allen, research nurse at the Primary Care Research Network, East of England (PCRN EoE), devised and implemented a DVD on informed consent on research. The RCN is pleased to publish an online version of this excellent teaching resource, to sit alongside the RCN publication on informed consent.
With thanks to: Sue Allen PCRN research nurse – development , direction and script; Cassi Duffin, City College, Norwich – production and pre –production; Teele Killing, City College, Norwich – post production, editing and artwork; Heather Leishman – PCRN co-ordinator – actor; Libby Aitchison – lecturer CCN – actor; Isabel Schoppe – film voiceover. Primary Care Research Network, East of England (PCRn EoE); National Institute of Health Research (NIHR); NHS Norfolk and Waveney – Research and Development (R&D); City College, Norwich (CCN); Norfolk and Suffolk Comprehensive Local Research Network ( N&SCLRN); Innovations East
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Best Bavarian Beer and Food Evening Tour in Munich
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Mickey enjoying the Bavarian Beer and Food Evening Tour with our guide, Iain
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Enjoying beer and food with our tour guide, Iain.
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Our new friends at Hofbrauhaus! We had a great time together!
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Our guide, Austin, in front of the Beer Museum at the start of our tour
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Neil with a beer and a lovely spread of cheeses and meats to snack on. A great way to end the tour.
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Our tour leaders, Iain and Bernard (aka Norbert)
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the ceiling of the hofbrauhaus - the final stop on the tour
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Enjoying a giant beer
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Last stop was the Haufbrauhaus where we were left by Iain and given the chance to hang out for as long as we wished, or head out to Marienplatz or anywhere we may want to go for the remainder of the evening. It was late by the time we arrived here however, so one more beer and we called it a night.
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Platter of food offered at the Haufbraukeller where we enjoyed chat, food, and of course, more beer!
Very first refrigerator in history!!
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Who knew the need to cool and store beer in the summer months was the mother of necessity for the invention of refrigeration!
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Enjoying beer samples at the museum before heading off to our next stop.
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Iain gets our evening off to a start at the Radius tour office with a beer and a toast!
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Munich is a perfect place for father and 2 sons to bond and have some fun and great beer!
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Photo with our Tour Guide Iain. What a great guide, he made the tour interesting and fun. Don't miss this tour if you are in Munich.
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Prost! - Hofbraukeller
The Beer Museum
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Located in the oldest house in Munich.
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A huge restaurant.
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Food platter at Hofbraukeller. We couldn't finish it between 10 people!
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Enjoying a bier with our fantastic tour guide!
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Erin and Jen at the Oktoberfest Museum.
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At the Oktoberfest Museum, you get to sample three different beers and they served fresh warm pretzels as a snack.


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What kind of video game consoles would Rangers, others in wild card race be?
Photo: Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer
They are leading the wild card race, but the hype for this team has dwindled over time. Can you guess which game system seemed to have a similar fate?
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This is the fifth of a series of posts based on the book Programming Proverbs by Henry Ledgard. The index for the series is an earlier post and discussion of the list as a whole is taking place in the comments there. Comments on this "proverb" are of course very welcome here.
To many Construct the program in logical units seems pretty logical (no pun intended). After all what is the alternative - illogical units? But at the time the book was written huge monolithic programs were common place. A lot of beginners still code the same way today though. The way to understand this proverb is the understand that by "logical units" what is meant is a lot of units that are logically complete and relatively independent.
A logical unit handles a set of logic, instructions for a single purpose, that is small and easy to understand. The standard I have heard is that a unit should fit on one page of paper. Some would say one screen. Traditionally a sheet of computer paper back in the line printer days was 66 lines. The traditional screen held 24 lines. Today of course with screens coming in all sorts of sizes and fonts allowing us to get a lot on a piece of paper these sorts of arbitrary line counts don't make much sense.
Think about is as the amount of code one can look at and keep in ones head at one time. Could you, after spending a small amount of time reviewing the code, reproduce it from memory? If not it is clearly too long. To really understand and debug (or better yet make sure there are no bugs before actually testing it) you have to be able to get it really deeply into you head.
A logical unit should do one thing and do it really well. It should be easy to understand so that if it needs to be changed or debugged someone new can look at it and understand it in totality. The last thing one wants to do is guess what is going to happen. Not a problem in a reasonably sized logical unit.
Mark Guzdial (CS Faculty at Georgia Tech) had a recent post about Information Technology students not studying data structures. Frankly it blew my mind. Data structures is such a fundamental aspect of computer science and information technology that I find it hard to understand students skipping around it. It's not like it is hard really.
The Advanced Placement AB exam covers a lot of data structures. That is in fact the larger part of what makes the AB course more involved than the A course. High school students can and do grasp these concepts. So what is the excuse for university Information Technology students not studying them? This I have trouble grasping.
Computer science is more than just programming but data structures, while on one level is real computer science, is so basic to professional programming that I think a programmer would be seriously handicapped without some knowledge of it. I think that all programmers should at least know how linked lists, trees, queues and stacks work. It's really about a way of thinking as much as using the specific structures.
What do you think? Does every programmer need data structures or can someone who is an Information Technology major get by without them?
The IEEE History Center announced recently that they have added 75 oral histories to their collection.
There are interviews with all kinds of engineers and not just computer or Internet related people. Anyone interested in the history of engineering will likely find this collection of interviews of value. It is not just American engineers either. There is a while collection of interviews (in English) with Japanese engineers.
On the computer and electronics side though there are interviews like Robert Noyce talking about the events that led to his development of the integrated circuit. Wm. Ross Aiken talking about the invention of the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube). Vinton Cerf talking about the ARPANET and the origins of the term "Internet." And many more.
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BTW, the old Joe Boccardi's in Eureka (is it still there?) at least used to bill their St. Louis-style pies as "Sicilian Style." That's where I got the reference.
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Though The Mess of Me, Chantelle Atkins' first novel, centers on sixteen-year-old Lou Carling, it also tells the story of Lou's family and friends. Covering quite a lot of ground in its 432 pages, this dramatic novel depicts the spiraling world of one crazy summer, including raging parties, eating disorders, drug use, self-harm, domestic abuse, and the confusion of young love.
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Emmental and Gruyère are the most commonly used cheeses in a classic fondue, but Appenzeller, Comté, Beaufort, Tête de Moine, and Hoch Ybrig — all relatively low in moisture — also work fine. Not every fondue recipe calls for cornstarch, but we find it keeps the cheese and wine from separating.
As an additional treat, when you're almost done eating the fondue, leave a thin coating of cheese on the bottom of the pot. Lower the flame and allow the coating to turn into a brown crust, then break it into pieces and share it with your guests. The crust is considered a delicacy in Switzerland.
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I like the idea of the garlic but just to even it out, I would add some salt and/or pepper
As others have said, this recipe is the real thing. It is canonical Swiss fondue. Nice to see a couple of the tweaks others have suggested: nutmeg, herbs de provence. Not both of course. Serve with cornichon pickles, pickled pearl onions, and sliced fruit, usually apples. Somebody said it reheats. I have never seen a fondue that reheats but the best thing to do is that if there is ever any left - rare in my house - scrape out the rubbery pieces, cut them up, and use them in omelets. Oh. my.
really delicious and fun recipe. i wondered if the cheese was going to come together but in the end it was smooth and silky. my family loved it. we got it on the table in about 30 minutes so much faster than i imagined all the prep would be. guess we will have to buy our own fondue pot now...
I'm Swiss and this recipe is nearly perfect. Do NOT omit the Kirsch and add a little nutmeg as you cook. The "crust" truly is a delicacy, and you don't need to wait until the end to enjoy it - just gently scrape it from the bottom of the pot every ten minutes or so. For a true Swiss experience, serve with a shot glass of Kirsch for dipping and sipping, and Fendant wine, if you can find it. And don't forget the classic Swiss rule - if you drop your bread in the pot, you must go around the table and kiss each member of the opposite sex.
WOW. This is a spectacular recipe. I just returned from Geneva, and this recipe is spot on authentic. I added a little Herbs Du Provence. My guests were highly impressed.
My favorite fondue...A Christmas Eve tradition. It never disappoints.
Easy and excellent! As other reviewers have noted, make certain you use good wine!
First time making fondue. This recipe is spot on!! I followed a reviewers suggestion on mixing the shredded cheese with the corn starch and stick with the slurry of a little corn starch with kirsch. Keep stirring-- added a few house made sausages, grilled and sliced from whole foods for a man's type meal. Awesome!!
This fondue is delicious. I love garlic, so I wouldn't dream of discarding it. Instead, I minced and cooked the garlic, and included it in the fondue (just before adding the wine). Since the recipe has so few ingredients, make sure the wine you use tastes good on its own (to avoid the whole "garbage in, garbage out" scenario). If you find that you want a smoother fondue, try making a slurry of cornstarch (~1 tablespoon) and water and adding this as you heat and stir the fondue in the last step. This recipe reheats well if you have leftovers or want to prepare it in advance. Make it, you'll love it.
This recipe is spot on to what my Swiss friend gave me years ago. I use a mix of Emmental, Gruyere & Appenzeller, put the cheeses in a ziplock bag with the cornstarch & shake it-it makes it easier to prepare the cheeses ahead of time. When it comes time for the kirch addition, I'll make a paste out of an additional 1/2 tbl.


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Abstract: A well-known theorem of R. L. Moore states that the plane does not contain an uncountable family of pairwise disjoint triods. In 1974, Ingram demonstrated that the same is not true for non-chainable tree-like continua. The continua in Ingram's family are not pairwise homeomorphic, making the example less applicable to the study of homogeneous continua in the plane. In this paper, we construct a non-chainable tree-like continuum such that the product of with the Cantor set can be embedded in the plane.
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