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Ardun Motor Install - Meticulous MercWritten by on November 1, 2010 All The "Little" Jobs Ardun
We're back at Wheeler's Speed Shop for the second month running to follow their buildup of a Merc woodie with a new, all-aluminum Ardun motor and modern 700-R4 trans. I'll reiterate what I said last issue in that this isn't so much a "how-to" but more of an overview of how the crew at Wheeler's overcame the packaging problems of squeezing the Ardun into the Merc's engine compartment. While the block is the same as the Flathead that the car was originally equipped with, those Ardun heads are extremely large, making this a very wide motor, despite its identical length to the stocker.
Add in the associated complications of fitting a new front chassis clip, independent suspension, steering, and new ABS electric brake system, and making all the components fit in the same small space required some intricate planning and fabrication. The end result is an extremely neat build, beautifully finished, and we're sure, not a little inexpensive, both in parts and labor, but then some things are just worth having, whatever the outlay!
I enjoyed watching the project come together, and picked up a number of tips for future use on my personal projects, as I'm sure you will too. Here's how the guys at Wheeler's Speed Shop wrapped up the install with brakes, oil pan, headers, and exhaust.
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Here's where we left off last month: with all the heavy fabrication done, the Fatman clip tacked in place, along with the modified crossmember. Note all the inner and outer fenders and gravel pan are in place as are the bumper brackets and bumpers, to check for final fit before the Merc gets torn down for the last time.The heater motor housing and air ducting required substantial re-working to clear the massive cylinder heads and retain a factory appearance. A large diameter elbow will be fabricated to join the two.The stock brake pedal was modified to pivot on this fabricated bracket in order to actuate the new master cylinder.Once the clip was removed, this small recess was let into the top of the crossmember to allow clearance for the lower universal joint on the steering column.While the front clip was at the powdercoaters, there were plenty of smaller jobs to be completed, not the least of which being this bracket to mount the master cylinder from ABS Power Brake. Note the residual valve also mounted to the bracket on stainless brake lines.With everything final welded, the Fatman Fabrications clip was removed from the chassis. While usually it would be welded permanently at this juncture, the Merc's chassis was powdercoated for the first build, so the clip was sent out for powdercoating prior to welding in place. Once welded, the areas around the joints will be blended with paint.Once the front clip was powdercoated it was welded to the chassis, the joints ground smooth and primed before blending with paint. The areas where the original trans crossmember was removed were also painted.With the chassis work completed, powdercoated, and painted, final assembly could begin. Here, the electric ABS master cylinder and accumulator are installed and plumbed with stainless lines.
With all parts either powdercoated or stainless steel, care was taken during assembly. Note the use of rags to prevent scratches during the process. Here Andy Humenik is removing part of a spring compressor required when installing the coils.One of two causes for the slight delay in progress (the other being waiting for the 700-R4 trans to be powdercoated and rebuilt) were the front hubs. While the Wilwood aluminum hubs are faultless, the owner wanted to retain his 5-on-5 1/2-inch early bolt pattern wheels, and the Wilwood hub was of insufficient diameter to allow re-drilling to suit. New hubs will be machined for the car, but were not finished prior to our deadline, hence the bare steel "roller" wheels used on the front for the remainder of this story.With a jig fabricated to where the oil pan was bolted to ensure the mounting surface remained flat, reconstruction began. The first attempt was to retain the fins on the whole bottom surface, but the finned sections weren't long enough (arrow) and would require labor-intensive fabrication.We showed you the beautiful cast finned aluminum oil pan from Ardun Enterprises last month, and how it was going to require modification to fit this application. After measurements were taken to ensure it would clear the crank and rods, a Sawzall was used to remove sections that could be reused. The front part of the lower sump for instance was relocated farther back.The final result features a V'd lower section to clear the crank, lending some character to the finished article, while saving on labor time and still looking like a cast piece. Once it was welded and ground smooth, it was blasted with coarse media to give a cast appearance. Mission accomplished!Installed in the car you can clearly see how the oil pan is notched at the front to clear the steering rack, and how it now fits above the dropped crossmember.Here's how the stainless steel exhaust looked at the beginning of this project. Most of the front section would be removed from the mufflers forward.With the dummy block in place, along with all ancillaries, like the starter motor, shifter arm, brake pedal, oil pan, and oil lines, header fabrication could start. New collectors were joined to the old system using V-band clamps (arrow), available from companies like Deeds Engineering or Dynatech, which provide a leak-free joint that can be removed and reused indefinitely. A temporary jig was used to ensure both collectors would be at similar heights and then header construction could start.
This is the driver side header almost completed. Fabricated from sections of mandrel-bent stainless tubing, each tube was welded and ground smooth during installation. The tubes will now be sent out for polishing before they're welded to the header flange and collector, then polished again. This way no welds will be visible on the tubes themselves, and they'll be polished even in between the tubes, impossible to do after they're assembled.Looking up at the driver side header flange, you can see how the tubes exit the heads vertically. They'll be welded inside the flanges. The masking tape is holding everything in position during fabrication.Almost too nice to install in a car, the all-aluminum Ardun is a work of art. The polished ribs on the valve covers are replicated on the air cleaner, while a PowerGen alternator mounts in the stock Flathead location. Even the oil fill tube is a ribbed Ardun piece.When fabricating an exhaust system, especially headers, it's vital that all other components are in place, such as the external engine oil lines in the previous picture. Likewise, ensure that components, such as the starter motor, can be removed and replaced without having to remove the headers. That's why the header tubes on this side curve away from the engine.This is where we leave the project, as it's still awaiting its new trans and front hubs, plus some minor work such as the heater, which may now be changed for an A/C unit inside the car.With the headers nearly completed, the system's almost done. You can see the new forward section of the system, with the mufflers left where they were before. A new crossover section was added just aft of the trans pan. The headers vary in shape from side to side in order to clear the steering shaft and starter motor.While he may have opted for a vintage (albeit brand-new!) motor, the Merc's owner had run vintage carbs on his old blown Flathead, and this time opted for a Demon four-barrel. Ardun Enterprises offers this four-barrel manifold to suit the Ardun, which features separate flanges, as a one-piece intake wouldn't be removable, owing the engine's "overhanging" cylinder head flanges.


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Welcoming Cathy Casserly to the Creative Commons board of directors
I'm pleased to announce that today the Creative Commons board of directors has elected Cathy Casserly as a new member. Cathy has been a foremost champion of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement for a decade and of Creative Commons since its inception.
She served as Director of Open Educational Resources Initiative at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. A year ago she joined The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as Senior Partner.
Cathy has become a great personal friend and invaluable mentor as I ramp up my involvement in CC's open education strategy. It is a great honor for me to welcome Cathy to the Creative Commons board of directors.
Addendum: CC board chair Esther Wojcicki on her Huffington Post blog writes Open Education Resources Get a Big Boost: Cathy Casserly Joins Creative Commons Board.Comments Off on Welcoming Cathy Casserly to the Creative Commons board of directors
Earlier this week we announced a reorganization of Creative Commons open education projects. The objective of this reorganization is to maximize CC's impact by focusing our activities in support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement where we have unique leverage and expertise — developing and explaining the legal and technical infrastructure required to make "open" work.
Today's post lays out the details of our structure going forward and highlights some of our open education projects and goals for 2010. Apologies for the length of this post (and that of the previous announcement), but there's much to cover. If you just want to hear about new developments as they happen please bookmark or subscribe to the Open Educational Resources tag on this blog or follow us on Facebook, Identi.ca, or Twitter.
Brand and Websites
The ccLearn (sometimes written CC Learn) brand and website are going away. Over the past year we've realized two things that fed into this decision. First, the Creative Commons brand is very strong and we need to leverage it wherever we can, including in education and science. While the ccLearn brand has gained recognition among those in the open education community we've directly engaged with, we want our impact and visibility to scale far beyond those we talk to directly. Second, separate branding led to a separate website for our open education activities, which essentially meant nobody saw them — last quarter alone the main CC site had 400x more visitors than the ccLearn site.
It will take some time to migrate and rebrand all relevant content, but the net effect is that going forward you can expect to see much more OER-related content and news on the CC home page, main site, and wiki. This is a big win for the open education movement — many more people will learn about OER, and for CC as well — OER may be the single most compelling use of our tools, and one that any member of the public can understand right away. Free access to materials for learning, worldwide — of course!
Resources and Funding
Creative Commons is increasing, not decreasing, its resource commitment to open education projects. The reorganization results in the departure of one staff, but the addition of direct open education project responsibility to several of our most senior staff, including our CEO, Creative Director, CTO, GC, and VP. It's fair to ask what these people will not be doing now that they have significant new responsibilities. In brief, we get some efficiency gains through less internal communications overhead due to the reorganization and some replication of efforts that both core and ccLearn have pursued in the past. Additionally, we're doing less pure outreach and outreach-related travel. This is worth an entire post in itself, but the short version is that direct outreach by CC staff now constitutes drops in the ocean of the burgeoning commons movement, so we're focusing on relationships where an official CC representative is required and implementation could have a major impact. We plan to leverage education experts in our worldwide affiliate network — who are better positioned and more knowledgeable than staff at times — to do more of the direct outreach on behalf of CC. And finally, we'll be making some support hires to free up more senior staff time for education project management and strategy.
We also think that making OER part of CC's core messaging and focusing more of our project energy on supporting OER makes CC more attractive to donors — see brand above.
Photo: Cathy Casserly by Joi Ito / CC BY. OER champion Casserly joined the CC board of directors this month.
Following are staff with direct open education responsibilities. All are listed on our organization chart (pdf), which you can always find linked from our people page. Note that all are completely integrated into the organization and that several others have (and always had) supporting roles for OER through as a matter of course in their work running CC's operations, supporting affiliates, developing software, etc.
Joi Ito, CEO. Joi sets the overall direction of the organization, including our OER strategy. He will be greatly increasing the visibility of CC's open education projects this year with the public and funders, including via keynoting conferences, writing, and personal appearances. He also has responsibility for leveraging the extensive education expertise of our board of directors and bringing external expertise to a new CC advisory board comprised in part of education experts. Joi will also play a key role in helping CC and OER grow in regions such as the Middle East and Africa — for those in the San Francisco, please come to our salon on February 16 to hear Joi speak on this topic.
Lila Bailey, Counsel, is focused on legal projects supporting OER and is supervised by Diane Peters, General Counsel, who leads the development of CC's legal tools and overall legal strategy and policy, and will make OER one of the primary drivers in development of upgraded licenses and public domain tools.
Nathan Yergler, CTO, heads CC's technology team, has direct responsibility for our OER search projects, and was lead developer for DiscoverEd, our OER search prototype. Nathan is currently hiring a software engineer to support further development of DiscoverEd.
Alex Kozak, Program Assistant, does project coordination for our Student Journalism project, works on OER metrics and other analysis, and provides support and documentation for our education-related technology projects. Jane Park, Communications Coordinator does much of our OER-related blogging and interviewing and liaises with both the media and community. Alex and Jane are supervised by Eric Steuer, Creative Director. Eric was CC's primary representative at education events prior to the formation of ccLearn. In addition to education management responsibilities, Eric will be using experience gained from orchestrating major CC adoptions and improvements across many fields to help OER platforms improve their support for CC tools.
Tim Vollmer, Open Policy Fellow, is primarily responsible for supporting the OER policy community with analysis, explanations, metrics, and case studies concerning the benefits of open licensing for OER. Tim is supervised by Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, who manages CC's day to day operations and oversees overall OER project planning, and is writing this blog post. If you have questions about CC's open education projects, feel free to contact Mike at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Many of CC's affiliates are heavily involved in OER projects worldwide. We'll be featuring many of them over the coming months.
Following is a sampling of open education projects CC is working on this year.
- Licensing and copyright for OER, including its relationship to minors. Especially as OER becomes more prevalent in K-12, consideration must be given to the licensing of works created by minors. Our goal is to provide materials which allow parents, teachers, and learners to use and contribute to OER with confidence by following common-sense best practices, keeping parents and teachers involved.
- Explanations of all elements of our core legal tools for an education audience.
- A Continuing Legal Education course module for lawyers on copyright and open licensing that addresses education-specific issues.
- Development of education use cases to inform the future development of our licenses and public domain tools.
- Further exploration of copyright exceptions & limitations (including fair use) and OER production.
- R&D on metadata, discoverability, provenance for OER — a mouthful, but some of the key
challengesopportunities for increased OER adoption and impact.
- Publications on known best practices for OER metadata.
- Continued development and support of DiscoverEd, pushing ahead the state of the art for OER search.
- Consulting on implementations of CC tools on key OER platforms.
- Convening further in-person and online summits and code sprints concerning OER, discoverability and CC tools.
Social, Media, Policy
- A new introductory video focusing on CC and OER.
- A new and continuously updated slide deck for anyone to use and modify for presentation on CC and OER.
- Further interviews and case studies highlighting the best and brightest implementations and implementers of CC for OER.
- Analysis of lessons learned from Open Access policy and possible translation to OER policy.
- Metrics regarding CC and OER adoption.
- Further analysis of the reasons for heterogeneous copyright policies in online education and a new push for CC adoption and interoperability.
- Materials for teaching about CC in curricula where open licensing and remix are instructive, e.g., journalism and arts education.
As with staffing resources above, it's fair to ask what projects we won't be doing, given that we've said we're focusing our support for open education on projects in which our core legal and technical expertise come to bear. Here are some examples of areas related to open education that we've considered or been lobbied to consider involvement in that are outside of our core expertise and therefore out of scope: advising on health privacy and education; translation, formats, and content management systems beyond their support for open licensing and discoverability; direct advocacy and political movement building; advising on pedagogy. This is not a complete list by any means — there is much demand for expertise within the burgeoning open education movement.
We believe that by focusing on legal and technology projects and explanations that further adoption of CC and OER we will make great progress on the in-scope projects above and more in 2010, setting up 2011 to be a breakthrough year for the open education movement. Onward!4 Comments »
Brazil's 3.0 to go live at Campus Party
In 2004 a remarkable event took place in Porto Alegre. With an audience numbering in the thousands, the Creative Commons project in Brazil was launched. The then-Minister of Culture and Grammy Award-winning musician, Gilberto Gil applauded the efforts of these "freedom fighters of cyberspace" and endorsed the project as a way to solve copyright issues "in a more open and democratic way, in a more transparent way for Brazilian society." His words and musical performance are captured in this short film about the event.
Today, six years later, CC Brazil is again drawing crowds. Following a speech by CC's founder, Lawrence Lessig, the Brazilian team will later unveil Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons licenses, translated and adapted to Brazilian law. As Ronaldo Lemos, Project Lead of CC Brazil explains, Version 3.0 of the licenses offers a range of improvements upon previous versions, without changing the licenses' basic structure or function.
The launch will be hosted at Campus Party 2010, a massive innovation festival pulling together young people to build, design, collaborate, and write, powered by a 10GB/s connection and each others' energy. Lessig's keynote will be delivered today (Friday, Jan. 29) at 9PM GMT, together with Ronaldo Lemos and Campus Party director Marcelo Branco. You can catch the live stream here on channel 1.
The Creative Commons project in Brazil is hosted by the Center for Technology and Society School of Law at Fundacao Getulio Vargas and is led by Lemos and a team of dedicated lawyers, technologists, and activists.
Congratulations and thank you to CC Brazil!
Image from Creative Commons' film, "CC Brasil", directed by Danny Passman / CC BY
ccSalon SF (2/16/10): Panel Discussion with CEO Joi Ito
If you're in the SF Bay Area, we hope to see you at our next Creative Commons Salon, which will feature a panel discussion about CC from an international perspective. The panel will feature CC staffers CEO Joi Ito, Arab World Media & Development Manager Donatella della Ratta, and International Project Manager Michelle Thorne, who will be joined by David Sasaki, Outreach Director for Global Voices.
This will be a great chance to learn about how globally diverse communities use Creative Commons, as well as challenges faced in various regions and projects around the world. How do sharing norms, for example, or compelling use cases differ from country to country? What works in one context may not carry over to another, so where do models fail and what lessons can be learned? How can specific fields, such as open education or citizen journalism, solve some of these issues and foster healthier sharing communities?
Come meet CC staff and other free culture friends and enthusiasts from the Bay Area in an informal setting.
When: Tuesday, February 16, 7-9pm
Location: PariSoMa, 1436 Howard St. (map and directions). Plenty of street parking available. (Please note, the space is located up two steep flights of stairs, and unfortunately does not currently have elevator access.)
Light refreshments will be provided, and since we rely on the generosity of our community to keep us afloat, we'll be accepting donations for CC at the door.
Check out the event posting on Upcoming and Facebook. We hope to see you there!
CC Salons are global events, and anyone can start one, no matter where you live. We encourage you to check out our resources for starting your own salon in your area.Comments Off on ccSalon SF (2/16/10): Panel Discussion with CEO Joi Ito
Planning for sustainable and strategic impact: Creative Commons and open education
Creative Commons recently celebrated its seventh anniversary, capping an impressive year of success for the organization, including the launch of CC0, our new public domain tool, migration of Wikipedia to a CC license, and compelling new implementations — from CC-aware discovery in both Google and Yahoo! image search, to adoptions of CC licenses ranging from the U.S. White House to Al Jazeera, and by major educational and scientific institutions to countless individual bloggers, musicians, photographers, teachers, and more. We also surpassed our year end public fundraising goal, raising $533,898 to continue building infrastructure that makes sharing easy, scalable, and legal. Thanks again!
In light of our continued growth and maturation, we are ever mindful of how CC can best ensure that as an organization we continue to increase our impact sustainably. As a provider of critical infrastructure that millions and more depend upon, this is our responsibility. Sustainability is not only or first a financial issue — though we will ask for your continued support in funding the organization — but depends on staying focused on our goals, executing on our strengths and core competencies, constantly looking for ways to streamline operations while empowering our vast international community, and avoiding mission creep however tempting.
Over the last six months we've been putting these thoughts into plans and action. Last summer we integrated the team supporting our international affiliates with our core team of experts based in San Francisco, eliminating two of our three Berlin-based staff positions. Over the next several months most of our science team (Science Commons) will move from Boston to San Francisco to align message and operations with our core, also. This month, we are integrating our education team (known heretofore as CC Learn), the subject of the rest of this message.
CC Learn was conceived as a focus point for CC adoption in the education arena. Since its launch two and one half years ago, it has progressed itself into a valuable member of, and broadly engaging with, the open education movement, providing not only legal and technical infrastructure and expertise, but subject matter expertise on a range of issues relevant to open education. Education is one of the most compelling uses of CC legal and technical tools. CC licenses are mission-critical for the development and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) — the ecosystem would fail without standard, interoperable legal terms for sharing, using and reusing content. It relies on collaboration between many institutions and many individuals in many different jurisdictions. Only CC licenses are capable of providing such a bridge.
Yet as much as CC has to offer as a leader of the open education movement, we remain humbled by the many others with yet deeper expertise and experience in these areas and from whom we continue to learn. And while we have much to offer, and will continue to offer as a life-long member of these remarkable movements and communities, we feel compelled to consider our own sustainability. We come back to, as we always have, our irreplaceability on the infrastructure level of providing unparalleled legal and technical excellence that allows education, science, and culture to work — this is what we do uniquely, and this is what we do best. We've decided that we can best support the open education and OER communities by focusing our resources and support where we are strongest and provide the most unique value. This means engaging the open education community as legal and technical experts rather than as participants in a broad conversation about the potentialities of open education — which we fully believe in, making the need to support open education in the most leveraged fashion we can all the more compelling.
Such changes mean that some of the activities and, sadly, personnel cannot be integrated successfully with the new structure, consequently transitioning out of CC so that they can better pursue such work elsewhere. In this current transition, Ahrash Bissell, the Executive Director of CC Learn, has left the organization. As with all alumni, CC expects great things of the departing staff and looks forward to ongoing collaboration with Ahrash and the open education community, building on his excellent work. We extend to Ahrash our heartfelt gratitude for his passion, dedication and wisdom, and wish him well with his future endeavors.
In the coming months we'll be making further announcements about our comprehensive integration of education and science into our core activities and messaging. Exciting developments are on the horizon with respect to new and enhanced legal and technical tools as well as explanatory materials and support for policy development in education and science. More importantly we'll be asking for your support and input, including specific feedback on designs, prototypes, messages, and initiatives as they develop. Most importantly, we will be asking for your input on whether we're on the right track. Have something to say about CC? We're listening!
Addendum: See a follow-up post with specifics concerning CC's plans, projects, and team for open education in 2010 and beyond.1 Comment »
UK moves towards opening government data
In a step towards openness, the UK has opened up its data to be interoperable with the Attribution Only license (CC BY). The National Archives, a department responsible for "setting standards and supporting innovation in information and records management across the UK," has realigned the terms and conditions of data.gov.uk to accommodate this shift. Data.gov.uk is "an online point of access for government-held non-personal data." All content on the site is now available for reuse under CC BY. This step expresses the UK's commitment to opening its data, as they work towards a Creative Commons model that is more open than their former Click-Use Licenses. From the blog post,
"This is the first major step towards the adoption of a non-transactional, Creative Commons style approach to licensing the re-use of government information.
The Government's commitment in Putting the Frontline First: smarter government is to "establish a common licence to re-use data which is interoperable with the internationally recognised Creative Commons model". This is key to supporting new information initiatives such as the beta release of data.gov.uk also launched today to promote transparency, public service improvement and economic growth."
We at CC are thrilled by this new development and congratulate the UK for this move. Though we are confident that this shift will increase the UK's capacity to foster reuse, collaboration, and innovation in government and the world, we hope to see the UK as well as other governments move in the future towards even fuller openness and the preferred standard for open data via CC Zero, a tool that "enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright-protected content to waive copyright interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright."
This would not have been possible without the hard work of Creative Commons teams in the UK, especially that of Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos, our CC England and Wales Legal Project Lead. Check out the press release, the PerSpectIves or data.gov.uk blog, and the Guardian article for more details.4 Comments »
New Stanford Electronic Dissertation Program enables CC licensing
Last November, Stanford started accepting digital dissertations for the first time, allowing students to opt out of hundreds of dollars in printing and processing costs. The new program also enabled CC licensing, allowing students to make their work available under a license of their choosing. Of the 60 doctoral students who submitted their dissertations electronically, 52 went with CC licensing, choosing the CC BY-NC license. 47 doctoral theses will be displayed in their entirety in the Stanford Digital Repository. From the Stanford Report,
"The doctoral students who chose the digital route last quarter came from five of Stanford's seven schools: Earth Sciences (1), Education (2), Medicine (7), Humanities and Sciences (15) and Engineering (35).
Gunnarsdottir's 160-page dissertation, "Modeling the Martian Surface Using Bistatic Radar at High Incidence Angles," honed an existing method for evaluating the roughness of the planet's terrain – one of many factors NASA uses to select landing sites for spacecraft.
She used "The Dish," the 150-foot diameter radio telescope located in the Stanford foothills, to beam a signal to Mars. Then she analyzed the surface echo detected by the orbiting 2001 Mars Odyssey, the NASA spacecraft carrying science experiments designed to improve understanding of the planet's climate and geologic history.
"Our results were incorporated into the landing site selection of the 2007 Mars Phoenix Lander," said Gunnarsdottir, who earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Iceland in 1999, and a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford in 2002."
Since the program is already in place, Stanford expects greater numbers of electronic dissertations this quarter. We hope other universities will take Stanford's lead in enabling the CC license option for their students' work. For past dissertations that have been CC licensed by individuals, see my post "CC Licensing Your Dissertations." "CC licensing increases your creation's visibility, even if by only a small margin at first. It lets current and future students access and read (and even derive, based on the specific CC license you choose) your work so that they can build and improve upon it—all the while giving credit where credit is due, namely, to you."1 Comment »
CC Licenses and the Haiti Relief Effort
In the immediate aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake a number of efforts were put in place to connect survivors with their family and loved ones. In all its good intention, this lead to numerous websites that, in the words of Marc Fest of the Knight Foundation, became "silos" of information with no ability to interact. As a result, Fest – who is VP of Communications – sent an impassioned plea to news organizations to utilize an open-source Google app that was not only collecting similar information but releasing the data under a CC Attribution license – from PhilanTopic:
We recognize that many newspapers have put precious resources into developing a people-finder system. We nonetheless urge them to make their data available to the Google project and standardize on the Google widget. Doing so will greatly increase the number of successful reunions. Data from the Google site is currently available as "dumps" in the standard PFIF format…and an API is being developed and licensed through Creative Commons. I am not affiliated with Google — indeed, this is a volunteer initiative by some of their engineers — but this is one case where their reach and capacity can help the most people.
A similar effort has been taken up by Architecture for Humanity. Already known for their use of CC licenses, AFH is proposing a plan to build Community Resource Centers – centralized locales that will operate as base points for greater building relief through out Haiti. All of the work produced in these recovery centers would be released under a CC license, mirroring similar centers that were built in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
In both efforts, there is a distinct desire to keep relief efforts fluid and focused on helping people, a goal assisted by keeping valuable information open, free, and widely usable. Put succinctly by AFH co-founder Cameron Sinclair, "there is no 'ownership' in rebuilding lives."Comments Off on CC Licenses and the Haiti Relief Effort
Copyright Criminals: PBS Documentary on Sampling
Copyright Criminals is a new documentary on the rise of sampling, specifically in hip-hop music, and the cultural and legal effects it has caused. From the Copyright Criminals website:
Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.
This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a "borrowed melody" became a "copyright infringement."The film showcases many of hip-hop music's founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground—while also featuring emerging hip-hop artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more.
The film will be broadcast publicly on PBS this Tuesday night, January 19th so be sure to check your local listings for time. You can get a taste of what is in store by watching the film's trailer and starting January 26th you will be able purchase the film on DVD.
In conjunction with the film's development a contest was held at ccMixter challenging community members to sample select voice-overs from the film to create an original track. Winner Dermes' track Sounds that Sound good is featured on the Copyright Criminals DVD as well as a compilation CD featuring the other 12 top entries. All of the tracks are available for free at ccMixter under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license.
Lastly, for those in New York City, a party is being held this Tuesday (1/19) at The Brooklyn Bowl to celebrate the film's premiere and DVD release. The night will feature appearances by EL-P, Eclectic Method, Mr. Len and DJ Spooky – doors open at 8PM to be followed by the PBS Broadcast Premiere at 10PM.1 Comment »
Daily life in Iraq—new footage at Al Jazeera
Last year, Al Jazeera launched their Creative Commons Repository with 12 videos shot in Gaza under CC's most open license, Attribution only. Since then, Al Jazeera's collection has grown, and their most recent footage includes videos documenting everyday life and culture in Iraq.
Check out this video of an Iraqi artist sculpting a Minaret and painting a tree. The sculptures seem to be encased afterward in gold or some other substance—I'm not entirely sure since I'm not fluent in Arabic. The good news is that the video and all others in this repository are licensed CC BY, so someone can help translate this into English or other languages, for use by rival broadcasters or in documentaries.
There are also more videos about the communication network in Iraq, and Samarra's pharmaceutical factories and poultry farms.
You can also start remixing these videos to tell a compelling story, whether it's a 30 sec or twenty minute film clip, maybe laid with some CC licensed soundtracks. Be creative. There's a lot of CC licensed stuff out there. All Al Jazeera CC repository videos are available via CC BY, which means you can edit, adapt, translate, remix or otherwise use them as long as you credit Al Jazeera. Interested persons can add the Al Jazeera repository to their Miro feeds.Comments Off on Daily life in Iraq—new footage at Al Jazeera
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Introducing a new technology that converts heat to electricity with breakthrough performance using semiconductor chips
Our modular semiconductor chips can generate electricity using 45% less heat than traditional systems. Our advantage in solid state design, scaleability, miniaturization, and power density has the potential to create revolutionary products for many markets.
The three segments of MTPV's initial focus are waste heat conversion, solar power and, portable power:
Waste heat conversion: A line of products that can be used in industrial environments for converting waste heat to electricity. In addition to creating electricity for either sale or use, this process can also become a source for reducing the amount and temperature of vented waste heat and emissions from the industrial plant process.
Solar: Manufacturing MTPV solar devices that can enhance the current economics of concentrated solar by increasing efficiency, power output and providing a solution for 7x24 electrical production.
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|County Planning Commission still looking to fill vacancy
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By Jan Schultz
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For more than a year, the Chase County Planning Commission has been operating short of one board member.
Chairman Charley Colton said it has been difficult finding people willing to serve on the board that deals with zoning issues throughout Chase County.
And, on top of it, four of the five current board members have been serving since the commission organized in the late 1990s.
Besides Colton, those who have been serving since the commission was formed include Dave Bauerle, Shona Heim and Dennis Strand. Bauerle serves as commission secretary and the fifth board member, John Engbrecht, is vice chair.
Billie Muehlenkamp serves as the county zoning officer.
Colton, who also is the Chase County Historical Society president, said the County Planning Commission originally formed in the late 1990s with nine board members.
The first full year or more was spent developing the county's first Comprehensive Plan and zoning regulations.
The board later dropped to six members due to difficulty finding people to serve, he said. Two from each commissioner district are to serve on the board, appointed by the commissioner in that district, Colton said.
The vacant board position came open when Duane Dinnel left the area to serve on a mission trip for an extended period of time.
The planning commission meets quarterly unless a special hearing is needed, Colton said. Muehlenkamp, who works in the county roads department, handles the day-to-day issuance of permits, he said.
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Hallie Christofferson. Christofferson led the Cyclones' offensive attack with a clutch 25 points on 7-of-9 shooting, while grabbing seven boards. Christofferson knocked down five three-pointers, tying a career high. She also went a perfect 6-of-6 from the charity stripe leading the Cyclones to a 14-of-16 performance at the line.
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Today I am attempting to install a Single Node instance of Zimbra on Zimbra Collaboration Appliance 8.0, to kick off my 30 day trial period. unfortunately an odd fault is arising when stepping through the installation process through the web console. I am running this VM instance in Workstation 8.0.3
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That's FUCKED.
Thanks to sheisblessed for the link!
I expected nothing more of these fucked up brits. Kuzzy implied such discrimination the other day, and to see it confirmed in an official statement shows just how backwards this tournament can be.ReplyDelete
Well Federer and Murray AEE the prettiest of them all.
No, but seriously, this is lame.
Lamest thing I've ever heard. Wimbledon is so stodgy.
Yes, Murray is quite the eye candy isn't he? *rolls eyes in disgust*
The Wimbly powers that be always have to act like asses before they give in. They did the same thing years ago when they said didn't have enough money to give equal pay to the women because they spent it on the flowers decorating the grounds. They talked trash for years before giving in and getting a roof. The right players will eventually get on Center Court as the pretty faces fall by the wayside as usual.ReplyDelete
I'm so appalled. This just pisses me off so much... Urgh.
Espdemerde: don't hate on the brits. Wimby tournament directors aren't truly representative of all of Britain.
Johnny's last words as a Wimby spokesperson? Next headline, Loose lipped Johnny sinks Wimby's ship (at least causes a bit of a storm)ReplyDelete
This kinda did surprise and I am not sure why. Not that I care, it's their tournament and they can run it how they like.ReplyDelete
I noticed Saturday and today that the BBC, or whoever is covering the match that the US gets it's feed from, shows a good mix of people in the crowd. Today during the Murray/Wawrinka match, there was a fair mix of people in the shots. Older women, younger women, pretty women, average looking women, heavy, thin, etc. The same thing applies for men. So probably the BBC are not the ones requesting looks. But...you would NEVER see that mix on US network coverage at the USO. Only celebrities and hot young chicks get camera time in the good ol' US of A.
So which is worse? Wimby officials coveting (AND deciding who is) good looks, or US networks doing the same thing?
natch: Actually the article is talking about how looks of the lady ballers play a part in who gets to play on Centre Court. *pukes*
But you're so right. I comment about it on my couch all the time. We only get to see big-breasted blonde women or groups of young girls when watching tennis in the US. I'm all about equal opportunity objectification so I'd like to request shirtless dudes - and lots of 'em.
"Actually the article is talking about how looks of the lady ballers play a part in who gets to play on Centre Court."
I know. I meant that Wimby officials decide who is good looking enough to play on court. I also saw that some Wimby officials said it was the BBC's decision. But then I saw who was shown on tv...and that's how I made the comparison.
I am DEF for EOO. But I would request shortless dudes. They could paint and spell out "Vamos!" on their...equipment. ;)
Ah-ha got it!
I think some boys could do it - I've seen bendy equipment up close and personal. Always strangely intriguing to meet one.
Yeah, I was actually commenting on the Wimby website that very few higher seeds played on centre court. Radwanska, for instance, have played on court no. 18 throughout the entire first week + her 4r match. Not very good treatment for a highly ranked/seeded player and a Junior wimby champ. Maybe because she's Polish? Yeah there's definitely racism there too.ReplyDelete
This totally sucks. Last time I checked, beauty was in the eye of the beholder and tennis was a sport, not Wimbly's Next Topmodel...ReplyDelete


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This is one of my favorite times of the year: watching freshmen be freshmen. It's hectic, frustrating and... hilarious. Thought it might be fun to hear observations and interactions with the new folks in town.
Yesterday I saw three cars wait behind a stopped taxi on Lincoln Way for a good minute and a half. Big city driving is hard.
I saw some people actually wait for the cars at the crosswalk today... Then I saw the DIS bag on their back.......
So far it's just the presence of knapsacks and lanyards absolutely everywhere.
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Then I saw the DIS bag on their back.......
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So far it's just the presence of knapsacks and lanyards absolutely everywhere.
Easy pickins...that's how I got my wife.
Also, about an hour ago I was getting pancakes in seasons and was waiting behind a guy who was standing and observing the maple syrups.... He turns around and asks me, "Is this maple syrup?"... I told him yes...... And wondered how the "MAPLE" on the dispenser didn't give it away.....
I'm all for not losing your keys but wearing your keys on a lanyard around your neck is the equivalent of wearing a sign with the word FRESHMAN
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Maps. Maps everywhere.
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Maps. Maps everywhere.
Since I was a cool freshman, I studied the route to my class in my dorm room and did not deviate from that path! My first day of school was also the only day I ever dressed up AND showered... didn't make that rookie mistake again.
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Keys to spotting the typical frosh.
1. Lanyard or DIS shirt.
2. Maps of any kind.
3. Dressing up.
4. Taking every book to class.
5. The "NFFL" aka - the Nervous Freshman Face Look. You know what I'm talking about. When walking to class or sitting in class, you spot that person who looks like they just got to boot camp for the Marines. Like they are trying to hold in a fart. Like they really miss their parents. Like their dog just got kicked.
When Prepared, Fear No One.
Last night my friend and I were making our way from AJ's to Legacy when this group approached us; consisted of a few guys and a couple girls that were all blackout drunk (at 9:30ish). The second girl proceeded to take a drink of what I suspect was vodka out of a water bottle in her right hand and chase it with an open cup of lemonade in her left. All in the middle of the sidewalk in front of the fire station.
I've also seen multiple guys sporting the flat billed caps on backwards and walking around like they're the big man on campus... That shouldn't last long
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AUBURN, Wash. (August 23) – Rocky's Quest simply would not be denied Saturday at Emerald Downs.
The classy 6-year-old gelding held on bravely and scored a nose victory over Fist Full of Green in the $14,800 feature race for 3-year-olds and up.
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Fist Full of Green, ridden by Eliska Kubinova, battled tooth and nail the length of the stretch with Rocky's Quest, and just missed the victory. The longest shot on the board at 14-to-1, Fist Full of Green paid $7 and $3.60.
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A Kentucky-bred by Rockport Harbor-Silver Echo, Rocky's Quest has been a top competitor for several years including a sensational 2012 meet, when he won five races and was voted Top Claimer. For his career, Rocky's Quest is 10-for-27 with earnings of $137,310.
Hustled to the lead from the No. 1 post-position, Rocky's Quest led through fractions of :24.13, :47.71, and 1:11.34. Fist Full of Green advanced to challenge the leader into the lane, and from there it was a virtual match race, the two foes racing in tight quarters and exchanging bumps in a prolonged drive.
NOTES: Wright and the Maryanskis had two wins Saturday as 3-year-old gelding Can't Get Enough ($3.20) romped to a four-length victory in race five. . .Bowen and Isaias Enriquez rode two winners each on the eight-race card. . .Leading rider Leslie Mawing had one win and leads Bowen 78-58 in the jockeys' race. . .The top two riders have important mounts Sunday as Mawing rides 5-to-2 morning line favorite Stryker Phd in the $200,000 Longacres Mile and Bowen rides 2-to-5 morning line favorite Stopshoppingdebbie in the $65,000 Emerald Distaff. . .In Saturday's second race for maiden special weight 2-year-old fillies, regally bred Herculette ($4.20) debuted with an 8 ¾-length victory in 1:09.34 for six furlongs. A $230,000 Kentucky-bred by Indian Charlie-Seattle Shimmer, Herculette has the same connections as Stopshoppingdebbie—owner Northwest Farms, trainer Tom Wenzel and jockey Rocco Bowen. . .Emerald Racing Club's Dancing Yodeler finished fourth in the seventh race, a $6,400 starter allowance won by Southern Solution ($26.60). In six starts for Emerald Racing Club, Dancing Yodeler has two wins, one second, one third, one fourth, and one eighth, with earnings of $9,745. . .Mr. Leroy ($7.60) prevailed by a head in the Saturday opener to give trainer Robert Lawrence his first win of the meet. . .Live racing continues Sunday with an 11-race program featuring the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3). First post is 2 p.m.


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Well I have lived in the US for the last 11 years and I feel a bit like I am 'going over to the other side.' I think you get used to anything eventually and I have grown used to nay, even fond of US life. It is rather like a man who feels more comfortable wearing ladies clothes – in the end he can't go out without donning a pair of lace panties and a corset. In the same way I am not sure I could adapt back to the everyday snobbishness of UK life.
That is what happens when you go ex-pat in America. At the beginning you can't help tearing your hair out when no one can make a decent cup of tea here or the fact that people don't tend to slag people off so much and are very optimistic about everything. You don't understand how Americans can refer to their country as a cuddly paternal figure like Uncle Sam when you intrinsically (being British) distrust any politician.
But after a few years you get used to it. I used to live in London, did not have a driving licence and travelled everywhere by tube. Since living here I drive everywhere, live in a big house and take public transport about once a year.
Then the longer you are away from your country of birth the more you forget everything about it – good and bad. Like the class system. Okay in the US the class system is based on one thing – how much money you have, how many things you can buy with it, how big a house you can buy and how many flat screen TVs you get cram into said house. Okay that's four things but you get my drift. It still strikes me as fairly egalitarian system (apart from if you have no money in which case you are screwed).
But then the other day it all came back to me when I met a British man here who immediately segued into the sort of status searching conversation I haven't had in donkey's years. The sort of conversations I used to have when meeting people in the UK – okay mostly the posher types of people but still. The conversation always starts with 'What do you do?' then goes on to 'What do your parents do?' moving briskly on to 'Where were you born?' 'Where did you go to school?' and finishing up with the big gun 'Where did you go to University?' The results are tabled up in your conversational partner's head and if you are found to be roughly equal in snob status they will continue chatting to you while finding every opportunity to tell you how classy they are. Even if the conversation is about food ie:
"These canapes are lovely aren't they?" I'd say.
"They are aren't they? Did I mention I went to Oxford University?"
"The weather looks like it's about to thunder doesn't it?" say I.
"Yes, did I mention that I went to school with David Cameron?"
The other thing that might happen in such a scenario was that the person I'd met didn't think I was 'up to snuff' in the snob department and would inch away like I'd just emitted a toxic fart.
I really remember finding this kind of thing quite nauseating and am very glad to put these kinds of conversations behind me.
I think this is something you just take for granted when you live in the UK – but since I moved to the US I suppose I have noticed that no one really does it here.
What about you, do you find the class system less rigid in your new home or worse than ever?


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Trey Hillman Media Session: July 20
Weather update – 7:20: We are currently in a delay, with no scheduled start time at this point.
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Manager Trey Hillman was asked about the difficulty in finding spots for his extremely versatile trio of Mark Teahen, Ryan Freel, and Willie Bloomquist. "It's going to be very difficult in making sure each one of those individuals doesn't rest too long and we find spots for them on the field. You've got foot speed, athleticism, and ability in all three of those gentlemen, it's my job to find a place for each of them in the line-up as often as I can."
Alex Gordon
According to Hillman, third basemen Alex Gordon is feeling pretty good after coming back from his early season hip injury that had sidelined him since April 16. "At the moment Alex is feeling good about where he is at and as a coaching staff we are constantly watching his every move to see how his body responds to different situations. The maneuvering and running of the base paths continues to be the most difficult obstacle to overcome. His conditioning is also a work in progress, there have been a couple of scenarios in the past few games that Alex's body was not prepared for, that will be corrected in time."


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The Coach Factory Outlet is having a members only sale Sunday, February 10th with 50 percent of all bags.
To become a member, sign up here with your email address.
Now is a good time to buy winter clothes for next year, especially for kids. Sears and JC Penney have clearance sales going on with especially good deals on jeans, shirts and pajamas.
There are even some summer items like shorts.
The Children's Place also has a great clearance sale going on with kids' jeans for around $10.
This week one of the biggest children's consignment sales in the country gets underway in Gwinnett County. Kidsignments opens Tuesday, February 12th at 9am at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds and runs till Saturday.
Children and strollers are not allowed in until 2pm Tuesday. Bring a rolling trashbag, suitcase or other container to put your bargains in since there are no shopping carts.
And bring your patience because you'll be waiting on line with lots of other bargain shoppers to pay.
Sunday, February 10th is the final day of the Babies R Us Great Trade In. Shoppers can trade in old high chairs, strollers, car seats or other items and get 25 percent off a new one. The Babies R Us website has a list of all the different items you can trade in.


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