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Open.Michigan leads real world School of Open class
Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge / Open.Michigan / CC BY
Last Friday, Open.Michigan helped a group of students get Creative Commons savvy in an offline version of the School of Open's "Get CC Savvy" challenge, a course originally designed for independent online learners. For those yet unaware, the School of Open is a growing community initiative that will provide educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Though offline School of Open workshops and activities have been held (see previous School of Open updates), they have primarily focused on creating new courses for the School; Open.Michigan's Fun Friday session was the first time actual course material was taught in a real world group setting.
Victoria Lungu, student at the University of Michigan's School of Information, who co-organized and led the session with her Open.Michigan colleagues, writes about how the event went below.
Last Friday I ran a workshop at the University of Michigan where a group of eight worked through the P2PU School of Open challenge "Get CC Savvy." A year ago or even a few months ago, I would have never imagined taking part in such an exciting opportunity.
So what got me here? Well, to put it simply, a class with Kristin Fontichiaro at the School of Information and her choice to pair me with mentor Emily Puckett Rodgers at Open.Michigan. The class and mentorship were structured to give me the chance to explore my personal interest in open education and informal learning opportunities with a focus on information literacy and teaching.
After a few conversations and brainstorming sessions, Emily and I aimed to try and get the educational potential of the School of Open offline and into a group setting. It was an experiment to see how well an online and physical learning environment could work together.
We had some questions.
- Were the School of Open challenges able to support this kind of learning?
- What benefits would there be to learning something like Creative Commons in this sort of setting?
- How do we record the evidence and learning that is taking place?
We couldn't answer these questions, or any of the other many questions we had. But we were ready to learn something from this event.
The session drew in participants of all different backgrounds from experts in CC/open licensing at Open.Michigan to students interested in librarianship, information policy, and even a student Wikipedian at the University of Michigan. The informal setting allowed for flexibility and creativity on how the session would evolve. I wanted participants to pick how they wanted to learn as long as they followed two measures of engagement:
- That they created an account with P2PU if they didn't have one, and
- To comment and engage with the actual challenge and its tasks in the discussion areas.
I asked for participants to abide by these measures to encourage them to preserve evidence of the types of learning and questions that were inspired by the session and to encourage them to (hopefully) explore P2PU and the School of Open more at a later date.
University of Michigan students get CC savvy / Victoria Lungu / CC BY
As seen above, and as evidenced in the "Get CC Savvy" challenge discussion fields, eight of us worked together to explore the content, ask questions, post comments, and discuss personal perspectives and experiences relating to Creative Commons. We were even lucky enough to have an audio clip captured (it can be found and listened to in the discussion section of Task 3 in Get CC Savvy) and a fairly immediate response from Jane Park, CC Project Manager and P2PU founding volunteer, to one of the participants questions. The multimedia evidence and outside engagement really enhanced the experience and created a rich environment for learning.
While the hour and a half session allowed for this in-depth exploration of Creative Commons, it also taught us about how group dynamics and other factors impact the takeaways and experience.
- This experience was unique in that it actually had experts in the room, including Open Education Specialist Piet Kleymeer who helped build the challenge. While this won't always be the case for others who choose to develop workshops like this, it definitely allowed for a more dynamic conversation and avenues of exploration than if there had not been someone to field questions. Even though we were fortunate in this aspect, it makes me question how deeply one might explore content like Creative Commons in an online module without that facilitation.
- Sometimes things built for individual work and short answer don't always help facilitate a group effort to work through the material. Some of the exercise answers and singular tasks required more front-end effort to structure it into conversations to draw out the participatory aspect of the workshop. While P2PU and School of Open are not necessarily built to support live group workshops as a main source of learning, is there a better way to facilitate this method of learning the challenge content on P2PU?
- Capturing the learning that happens in a group can be hard (especially when working through an online module). Early on, we were so involved in the conversation that we had hardly realized no one had captured the ideas we had discussed. Sometimes a discussion board might capture central ideas or themes but it cannot capture the dialogue and discussion that leads to ideas or encourage further exploration that happens in groups. Some of the best learning occurs in collaborative spaces and it is something that should be preserved and shared when possible.
With all this in mind, would I do it again? Definitely. It is inspiring to participate in a conversation with minds that strive to understand, explore, and challenge ideas, new or mastered. The opportunity to see the group engagement play out before my eyes shows me the meaningfulness of the material and the ability of collaborative thought to spark interest beyond the framework of a challenge– where informal learning really starts to take shape.
Get Involved
Kudos to Victoria and Open.Michigan for piloting this School of Open class! If you'd also like to contribute to building this initiative:
- Visit http://schoolofopen.org. Register for a P2PU account and take or help improve one of the courses listed in various stages of development.
- Join the discussion and introduce yourself and your field of "open" interest: https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open.
- Create a course. You can create directly on the P2PU platform or use http://pad.p2pu.org for collaborative editing. Just make sure to email the list or the Project Manager (that's me) with a link to the working draft so we can help.
Call for the Release of Bassel Khartabil
Earlier this year, Creative Commons issued a statement in support of Bassel Khartabil, a longtime CC volunteer who has been detained by Syrian authorities since March 15. Amnesty International recently released a document with information suggesting that Bassel has been ill-treated and even tortured. This morning, we sent a letter to President Bashar al-Assad, Minister of Foreign Affairs Walid al-Mu'allim, and Minister of Defense 'Imad al-Fraij; urging that Bassel be released unless he is promptly charged with an internationally recognized criminal offense. We urge Syrian authorities to grant Bassel immediate access to his family, a lawyer of his choice, and all necessary medical treatment.
Bassel has played a crucial role in the open technology and culture communities, both in Syria and around the world. Through his service as Creative Commons' project lead in Syria and his numerous contributions to the advancement of open source and related technologies, Bassel has spent his career working toward a more free Internet. Many of us at Creative Commons have become friends of Bassel's over the years. All of us have benefited from his leadership and expertise.
Please stand with us in support of Bassel. Amnesty International has provided instructions for contacting Syrian authorities. For more information, visit freebassel.org.
Read Creative Commons' call for the release of Bassel Khartabil (PDF).2 Comments »
European Regional Meeting at OKFestival
Creative Commons Europe Regional Meeting in Helsinki / Kristina Alexanderson / CC BY
In September, a number of CC's European affiliates congregated at the Open Knowledge Festival taking place in Helsinki, Finland, for a regional meeting. Held as a side event over one day of the festival, the meeting was attended by representatives of our affiliates in 17 different European countries.
Each meeting between our affiliates is an excellent opportunity to network and bridge the geographic, as well as cultural, distance between the various jurisdictions they represent. As such, it's not surprising that one of the more significant outcomes from the meeting was a series of discussions starting between the affiliates after the actual meeting.
During the meeting itself, the affiliates got to hear about Creative Commons global strategy work from Jessica Coates, our Global Network Manager, and about policy work from Timothy Vollmer, our Manager of Policy and Data. Looking towards December, we also discussed Creative Commons' upcoming 10th birthday and the activities and events taking place around it. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the idea to create a Creative Commons mixtape with Creative Commons licensed music from around Europe, covering the last 10 years, to be released around the 10th birthday.
In the weeks following the regional meetings, on the initiative of Alek Tarkowski (our lead for Creative Commons in Poland), the affiliates and regional coordinator put together a proposal to the European Union Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency's (EACEA) call for proposals on support for organisations active at the European level in the field of culture. The activities of the proposal that we sent aim to encourage and support cultural institutions in their work to maximize public access to their cultural data and content. Through a series of workshops including experts of the network and participation from European museums, the European affiliates will develop guidelines and instructions on how to increase circulation of cultural data and content in the digital environment at the legal, technical, and organizational levels.
Such a cooperative approach to putting together a compelling proposal in such a short amount of time could not have happened without the ability to meet in person from time to time. While not a direct outcome of the meeting, it exemplifies the relevance of the regional and global meetings of Creative Commons, and the European group is already looking forward for when we next meet, at latest in about a year's time for the next global summit.Comments Off on European Regional Meeting at OKFestival
CC News: British Columbia Embraces Open Textbooks
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British Columbia has just announced a groundbreaking open textbook policy, providing for open textbooks for 40 popular college courses.
It's open access week! Join Creative Commons and dozens of other organizations as we celebrate the OA movement.
On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders to lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open.
On Ada Lovelace Day, CC CEO Cathy Casserly reflects on the importance of women in science and technology.
In other news:
- Cost of reusing educational materials developed by grantees? $0. The US Departments of Labor and Education make a big investment in open educational resources.
- Geoscience Australia recently announced that it will license all images from the Landsat 8 satellite under CC BY. Australia's partnership with the United States in the Landsat program is a perfect example of why it's important to use a license that's open and internationally applicable.
- Our friends at the Free Music Archive are holding a video remix contest. Get your entry in by November 4! And stay tuned: next month, we'll be announcing a special music contest in celebration of CC's tenth anniversary.
- It's official: Wikimedia's Wiki Loves Monuments is the world's largest photo competition.
- CC's Tim Vollmer writes about HowOpenIsIt?, a new reference guide for understanding open access standards.
- Not only is this Open Access Week; it's also Pro Bono Week. CC's legal team takes a moment to say thanks.
Oppikirjamaraton: How to Write an Open Textbook in a Weekend
One Thursday a few weeks ago, just as most of us at Creative Commons were on our way home for the evening, we saw this startling tweet:
@creativecommons You need to know: ~30 maths enthusiasts begin a CC-BY course book hackathon in five hours in Helsinki, Finland.
— Joonas Mäkinen (@JoonasD6) September 28, 2012
Of course we had to learn more. I contacted Joonas Mäkinen to get more information, and he explained to me that he'd helped organize a team to write a secondary school mathematics textbook over a weekend, in an event called Oppikirjamaraton ("textbook marathon"). The book was to be licensed CC BY, so that anyone could reuse or remix it in Finland or around the world.
The text — now in version .91 in GitHub — is called Vapaa Matikka. The title translates as "Free Math," but since matikka can also mean "burbot," the book's title also reads as "free fish" and its slogan — Matikka verkosta vapauteen — could be either a rallying cry to keep educational resources free and open or an instruction to free a fish from a net.
But I was interested in more than math puns. I wanted to find out how the book sprint had gone, what the team was planning to do with the textbook, and what advice he had for others organizing similar events. This interview was conducted by email between October 2 and 5.
What range of math concepts does the book cover?
It is a text book for the first advanced level mathematics course in Finnish upper secondary (high) schools. Although people who just start the course have usually just finished their mandatory primary school studies, we decided to take quite a "for dummies" approach and try to minimize all the prerequisites.
We introduce rational numbers, go through the arithmetic of them and real numbers in general. Power rules and roots follow and lead to the very basics of equation solving and the concept of a function. The most important applications of all this are proportionality and percentage calculations. Even with the freedom of writing we had we were tied to the current curriculum.
Tell me more about the curriculum requirements. Are they the same throughout Finland?
There is one national curriculum and everyone follows it. The only standardized tests you get are your finals, or matriculation examinations as they are known here, so some book series approach topics in a slightly different order than others. There is some flexibility and writing a course book based on the curriculum was easy.
Doesn't change the fact that the curriculum sucks, though. The first reaction from a lot of participants was: "Can we write a new curriculum first?" And I understand them. We don't have wars over content as I've understood you have in the USA, though. It's more about how certain topics are grouped together in courses.
In the case of advanced level mathematics, there are 10 national, mandatory courses that consist of approximately 18 75-minute lessons. Plus a few optional courses, plus a lot more if you're in a science- or math-focused school. An example of a highly non-mathematical, non-systematic grouping would be for example a course which is supposed to cover sequences and trigonometric functions. These two have nothing in common at this level. They could if series expansions and complex numbers were taught earlier, but nooooo…
Oppikirjamaraton (Caption added) / Joonas Mäkinen / CC BY
Vesa Linja-Aho / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
What was the breakdown of participants? Was everyone involved an educator? Did participants have prior experience writing or editing textbooks?
There were over 20 people who partook in writing that weekend. We had regular upper secondary teachers, university students (mathematics and computer science), a teacher of automotive electronics, my own private students, and even a couple of university professors working both locally and remotely. We had our own inner circle of enthusiastic grammar nazis, too, to help us actually write grammatically and typographically better materials than you see in some books by big publishers. The diversity of people involved turned out to be a great resource for producing a variety of problems and perspectives.
A few people had experience writing and publishing a "normal," old-fashioned commercial book, but that experience didn't seem to divide people into groups at all when we actually started working.
How did you organize yourselves? Were people's roles in the project determined before the weekend began?
Vesa Linja-aho, who got the idea of this booksprint/hackathon in the first place, was our de facto PR and bureaucracy guy. Lauri Hellsten promised to take the main role in creating much-needed graphics at the set. Other than them, no writer was predestined any specific work. Surely quite a few people had their own topics they really, really wanted to write about, but all in all the whole writing process was very spontaneous and dynamic.
Video in English: youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA RT @slashdot: Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon bit.ly/Rr78RZ
— Joonas Mäkinen (@JoonasD6) September 30, 2012
Lauri Hellsten / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
How much preparation happened ahead of time? Did you enter the weekend with an outline of the book? Schedules?
After realizing that this could be a big thing we just sort of waited for our friends and friends' friends to fill out a Doodle poll about which weekend we should pick. I planned a table of contents beforehand to have something as a starting point, but it was modified very heavily during Friday and Saturday. Juhapekka Tolvanen made us some LaTeX layout templates beforehand, and we also had one planning meeting but that was not really about content but more about technology: which version management systems we should use, etc. Most of the planning in general was just about getting potential sponsors, writing a press release, checking where we can actually do the writing work, did we have enough laptops, and so on.
One funny copyright anecdote: we had gathered up pretty much all available, related text books. You know, to check how others have explained this and that. Another reason was that in mathematics education (and obviously in other subjects too) there are usually many "pathological" examples and exercises that it's good for everyone to go though, so you keep running into and using the same tasks again and again. Vesa Linja-aho had received a written decision earlier from the local copyright council that exercises do not constitute works and thus are not copyrightable. Nevertheless, a teacher who had written one of the books we had with us commented and reminded us on our Facebook page that it's not right to copy others' work. We got some good laughs out of that.
Siiri Anttonen / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
What did you learn from the experience? What was more difficult than you expected? What advice would you give others planning a similar sprint?
Get the tech side done before you start, and that will save everybody's nerves and time for the actual writing! We used LaTeX to write and typeset the whole book and Github to handle versions, but hassling with both caused a lot of delays during the first two days. Most people were not familiar with Git and version conflicts and other funnies took maybe a half of our time. Just think what we could have achieved if everyone had had their laptops completely ready…
Some guys were still debating if we should add this and that during Saturday and Sunday, and that was something people should try to avoid. In sprints like this, it's always the best to just keep writing more content – it's always easier to comment out or edit something later on. Some arguments got pretty heated a couple of times, but that might also be the lack of sleep talking. Keep it cool and remember to have fun!
Joonas Mäkinen / Senja Opettaa / CC BY
What's next? Is there a revision or review period planned? Are there educators planning to teach from it?
The immediate physiological response after finishing the marathon on Sunday was euphoria. Everyone agreed immediately to organize another sprint. The technical delays and lack of graphics artists made sure that our book didn't reach the level of ready that we'd just send it to printing immediately, but it's alive now: people keep sending "bug reports" over Github and all participants have continued to make improvements: fixing typos, adding exercises, fixing inconsistencies…
Our book is now version 0.9, and we'll wait a couple of weeks till we say it's appropriately ready for translations and focused printing. Though, we've already been hearing that the book has been used as a handbook by a couple of teachers, some have been giving their students exercises from the book and so forth. And of course I and other writers have used it as a resource, too, when teaching our own students. After some polishing we're pretty sure it'll be used in plenty of places. Another kick in popularity will come when we continue with the rest of the courses (since schools don't like to switch book series between courses).
The project was so fun and well-received that we'll have our next sprint on the second course soon!1 Comment »
A Global, Pro Bono Week Tribute
Universal Thank You Note / woodleywonderworks / CC BY
This week is Pro Bono Week in the United States. We wish to take this opportunity to thank the many talented legal professionals on whom we count for impeccable, cutting-edge advice around the world on an array of issues, all on a volunteer basis.
CC leverages pro bono legal expertise on a number of important projects. For example, almost exactly one year ago, Creative Commons formally embarked on the versioning of our license suite. This is one of the most important responsibilities we have as the steward of licenses relied upon by creators to share an estimated one-half billion works on the Internet (and counting). As with the development of the past four license versions, this undertaking involves major policy decisions, complicated questions of international, regional and jurisdiction-specific law, and ambitious goals. Those include internationalization, compatibility, licensing of database rights in Europe and elsewhere, and anticipating future impediments to sharing that take the form of paracopyrights, such as technical protection measures and other copyright-like rights.
The issue of internationalization alone benefitted greatly from multiple efforts: a law firm with international reach provided detailed research on license formalities under both common law and civil law copyright systems; database experts within our affiliate network responded to our inquiries on the details of licensing sui generis database rights in a way that would not have adversely impacted people in countries where those rights do not exist; and a law firm with offices in Asia and Europe provided detailed research on effective technological measures around the world.
The support CC receives in the form of pro bono services extends deep within the organization itself in equally important but less visible ways. This includes the legal expertise required to maintain a strong, compliant tax-exempt organization, upkeep and outreach involving our current licenses and public domain tools, working with affiliated organizations in more than 70 countries, and supporting intricate policy work that consistently pushes the envelope on public domain policy, education and open access initiatives, and science and data, to name just a few.
Here at Creative Commons, we find ourselves in the privileged and fortunate position of working daily with an impressive array of legal experts around the globe who lend insights, legal acumen, and depth of perspective to every dimension of our legal work. This effort and dedication in the aggregate makes our vision and reach possible, and our legal products among the most trusted, respected and robust of any offered. More amazingly still, the large majority of these experts provide assistance free of charge.
We count many among this amazing group:
- attorneys from prestigious law firms around the world, including (among others) Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Latham & Watkins, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, WilmerHale, and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton;
- sophisticated copyright experts who help make up our 100+ member affiliate network and lend their expertise from leading universities, organizations, and beyond; and
- the legal experts on CC's volunteer board of directors, as well as Diane Cabell, CC's long-serving corporate counsel who has been providing CC with pro bono advice since our founding.
We extend our sincerest gratitude to all of those — both current and past — who have provided Creative Commons with volunteer legal assistance. As a direct consequence of this assistance, CC as well as our community of affiliates and adopters are all in the strongest position possible to maximize digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.2 Comments »
Celebrate Open Access Week with CC
Next week, Creative Commons will be joining individuals, institutions, and publishers all over the world in celebrating Open Access Week. Find out where you can find Creative Commons and its affiliates during OA Week, and share your own OA events in the comments.
Open Access Week 2012 Kickoff Webcast
On Monday, CC founding board member Michael Carroll will be speaking at the open access week kickoff event hosted by SPARC and the World Bank.
Webinar: Creative Commons and the Future of Open Access
On Tuesday, CC education technology and policy coordinator Greg Grossmeier will be speaking about CC licensing for open access publishing in a webinar hosted by the University of Northern Colorado Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
Open Data and Open Access Panel
If you're in Northern California on Wednesday, join CC policy and data manager Timothy Vollmer, UC Davis university librarian and CC Science advisor MacKenzie Smith, and California Digital Library's Carly Strasser for a discussion on advancements in open access and open data at UC Davis.
CC New Zealand Guest Blog Series
Courtesy of CC Aotearoa New Zealand, here's a great collection of perspectives from thought leaders on the open access landscape in New Zealand.
Connecting the Dots Between Open Access and Open Educational Resources
Watch an archived discussion hosted by SPARC, with CC director of global learning Cable Green and Student Public Interest Research Groups' Nicole Allen.
New Open Access Resources
Open Access Wikipedia Challenge
In this new School of Open challenge, learn how to reuse open access content to improve a Wikipedia article.
PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA have just released the first iteration of a great reference guide for understanding open access standards. Timothy recently wrote about the guide for the PLOS blog.
Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies
Our friends at the Harvard Open Access Project have written a new guide for universities considering OA policies.
School of Open builds curriculum at Creative Commons Palo Alto meeting
On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders from the various "open" movements to lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open. If you haven't heard of it yet, the School of Open is a community initiative that will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Participants gathered the day before for a convening on an Open Policy Institute, which will be blogged about separately in the coming weeks.
The meeting/workshop was extremely valuable in identifying existing needs around education and training on open policy, open education, open access, open science, and open culture. It was also a lot of fun! The full agenda and raw notes are at the etherpad, but here is a brief overview.
First, in pictures:
We broke out into groups and thought long and hard about the one person we'd really like to help as part of the School of Open. Who would actually come to take courses about "open" and what would they want to learn about? What questions would they have? The result was a set of detailed user scenarios spanning from Marcie the researcher working for a legislator to Maggie the wannabe rap star, from academic Professor Lovenchalk with questions about losing control over his work to elementary school teachers with questions about CC and copyright, and even to "optics nerds" on Wikipedia. You can check out all the user scenarios at Flickr. The folder of user scenarios will continue to grow with each workshop.
Based on our user scenarios, we outlined course ideas, potential partners, and existing resources. Course ideas included: Crash course on the basics of open for government officials; How to ensure that my film can be shared; Rights info and tagging for (cultural) curators; How to integrate Wikipedia authorship in your academic workflow; Intro to Open Textbooks; and OER for faculty: what's in it for me? More courses outlined at the pad.
Everyone was excited for the potential of the School of Open to support existing efforts and demand. And we want you to join us! Whether you're part of the CC, P2PU, Open Access, OER, free culture, or any other open communities, the School of Open exists to support your education needs. We are aiming for an ambitious (but not impossible!) official launch date of February 2013, with at least five facilitator-led courses and five peer-led courses. Help make this possible by joining in course development efforts!
Where do I start?
- Go to http://schoolofopen.org and get familiar with the project. What course do you want to take or build?
- Join the discussion and introduce yourself and your field of "open" interest: https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open. See if others are interested in building it with you. Someone might already be developing the course you want to create.
- Register for a P2PU account at http://p2pu.org.
- Start creating! You can create directly on the P2PU platform or use http://pad.p2pu.org for collaborative editing. Just make sure to email the list or the Project Manager (that's me) with a link to the working draft so we can help.
We will be holding several virtual meetings (eg. webinars) to support course creators, so stay tuned for those!
For those of you who just want to receive key updates and find out when the School of Open officially launches, sign up for our announcements-only list.
The School of Open is being run as an open community project — which means that you can help shape its direction and drive it forward. Find out more about that here.
Also see: School of Open builds community at the Open Knowledge Festival1 Comment »
British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks
Visual Notes of Honourable John Yap's announcement at #opened12 / Giulia Forsythe / CC BY-NC-SA
The government of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, has announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first- and second-year courses in the province's public post-secondary system. The texts will be available for free online, or at a low cost for printed versions, to approximately 200,000 students. The first texts under this project could be in use at B.C. institutions as early as 2013 for courses in arts, sciences, humanities, and business.
BCcampus, a publicly funded collaborative information technology organization serving the higher-education system, will engage B.C. faculty, institutions, and publishers to implement the open textbook project through an open request for proposals.
David Porter, executive director for BCcampus, explained why CC licenses are crucial to this project. "Open licenses are integral to making textbooks free for students, and flexible enough for instructors to customize the material to suit their courses."
B.C.'s minister of advanced education, John Yap, announced the project at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver. He said students could save up to $1,000 a year on textbooks if free, open versions were available for many of their courses, and he challenged other jurisdictions to follow British Columbia's lead and support open educational resources: "By taking advantage of technology, more people can get the learning they need in the knowledge economy and access to new or better jobs."
You might remember that a few weeks ago, we celebrated a similar piece of legislation in California. The British Columbia legislation was actually based on California's version. Taken together, these are exciting steps for the OER (open educational resources) movement. Since the textbooks produced in B.C. and California will be licensed under the CC BY license, their impact has the potential to spread far beyond the US and Canada, being reused and adapted by educators around the world.
B.C. is leveraging 21st-century technologies and licensing to ensure that its citizens have affordable access to high-quality post-secondary textbooks. Open licensing on publicly funded content ensures the greatest impact for the public dollar.
There was an OER Forum later that week. Videos and images.7 Comments »
Ada Lovelace Day: Women, Tech, and OER
Ada Lovelace / Kaldari / CC0
Ada Lovelace — widely considered the first computer programmer — famously said, "I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand." That quotation brings to mind the axiom that a curious mind is always asking more questions and learning is never complete. Every day, like Lovelace, I am all too aware that my knowledge is dwarfed by what I have yet to learn.
Around the world today, the technology community is celebrating Lovelace and the many women in technology who've followed in her footsteps. Here at Creative Commons, we think a lot about women in science and technology and the untapped potential we have yet to realize. In his speech to the United Nations a few weeks ago, President Obama spoke of the importance of women and girls in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The White House identified Creative Commons as a key member of an emerging community of practice supporting girls in STEM.
A few days later, Creative Commons and the OpenCourseWare Consortium announced that we'd formed a task force to determine how open educational resources (OER) can support the success of girls and women in STEM fields. As I said in that announcement, the challenges of the future will require bright, ambitious, well-educated people of both genders.
Many people reading this probably know that the OER movement played a pivotal role in my career. When I was at the Hewlett Foundation, we made a gamble in starting our OER initiative. At that time, OER was an untested idea. Today, those early investments are paying off, with open-licensed resources benefitting women, men, boys, and girls around the world, many of whom wouldn't otherwise have access to high-quality educational materials that can be localized and improved for teaching and learning.
But like Lovelace, we're not yet satisfied. Last month's groundbreaking open textbook legislation in California was a huge step in the right direction, but it was just one step. We must keep the end vision in mind: together, we can democratize education through openly licenses resources, tools and processes. While we can't create future Ada Lovelaces in a lab, we can provide for a culture of education that rises to the challenge of its most curious learners.1 Comment »
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I will be in NY for both the meet and Headzone. Two busy weekends in NY!
Well, we have 3 days to go!!!!!!!!! My ears are a-twitching There are so many vendors I would like to visit and sample the products I hope are available!
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my greatest impression from the last show was how good some of the lower priced stuff was.
Came very close in sound to the expensive stuff.
Myself, and 2 friends, will be going saturday most likely. If any1 wants to meet up, we will probobly be in the city around 10am, if you guys wanna group up, lets all meet by "X" booth at like 12 noon.
Looking forward to the show, see you guys there!
Hi guys, so are we gonna have a meet up on Sat before the show?
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At 1 o'clock, on Saturday, I will be there with my 2 friends, I will put my K167's around my neck, so you can identify me. We are all around 16 so we should stand out. We will leave around 1:20 probobly, so if you want to group up or just chat, we will be there 1:00-1:20.
Prior notice of people planning on meeting us would be nice :)
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Annual Missions Conference, through March 2, Hendersonville First Alliance Church, 1821 Windsor Drive, Hendersonville. Special music, a parade of nations, skits and interntional buffet are some of the week's events. Info: 692-3814.
Holiday Events
"Reflections at the Foot of the Cross," a series of programs for the Lenten season based on the stories of those who witnessed Christ's death firsthand, will be held at 5 p.m. Sundays through March 16 at Hendersonville First Presbyterian Church. For more information, call 692-3211. Child care is provided and parking for the disabled is available in the parking lot at the rear of the church.
Lenten film series, 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Felix Building, Hendersonville First Congregational United Church of Christ, corner White Pine Drive and Fifth Avenue West. A discussion will follow. No admission charge. Scheduled films and discussion leaders are: Tuesday: Babette's Feast (rated G), the Rev. Larry Anderson; March 11: Sweet Land (rated PG), Jean Winkler; March 18: The Apostle (rated PG-13), Bob Laney. Info: 692-8630 or visit www.fcchendersonville. org.
Midweek Lenten Services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesdays through March 12 at Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church. The theme for the series is "The Animals Tell the Story." Featured animals will be the the hen, Wednesday; and the vulture, March 12. Soup and sandwich supper will precede each service. The church is at 2606 Chimney Rock Road (US 64E), Hendersonville. Info: 692-7027.
Lenten chamber concert series, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Grace Lutheran Church, corner of Sixth Avenue West and Blythe Street, Hendersonville. Schedule: Wednesday, Candace Norton and Brenda Williams, flutists; March 12, Robert Chesebro, clarinet. Recitals are free and the public is invited. Info: 693-4890, ext. 306.
Lenten supper and worship series, Wednesdays through March 12, Grace Lutheran Church, corner Sixth Avenue West and Blythe Street, Hendersonville. Soup and sandwich supper (free will offering) begins at 5:15, followed by worship serive to 6:15 p.m. Reservations for supper can be made by calling 693-4890 no later than Sunday before each Wednesday supper. Reservations are not necessary for the worship service after the supper.
Lenten supper and class series, Wednesdays through March 12, Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville. Class is based on The Christian Life: A Geography of God, by the Rev. Michael Lindvall. Congregational meal, 5:30 p.m., class, 6:30 p.m. Same class is also offered at noon Wednesdays.
Calvary Episcopal Church, Fletcher, will hold two programs Wednesdays through March 5 during Lent. "Lectio Divina Group" will meet from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and "Living a Holy Lent" will meet from 6:45 to 8 p.m. A simple supper will be served at 6 p.m. Reservations for supper should be made no later than the Monday before by calling the church office at 684-6266. Cost for the supper is $5 per person.
Who Is This King, a musical program by Lloyd Larson and Joseph Martin, orchestrated by Brant Adams, will be presented at 10:55 a.m. Sunday, March 9, at Hendersonville First Presbyterian Church. The program will be presented by the adult choir, with orchestral accompaniment, under the direction of Gayle Stepp, director of music/organist. For more information, call the church office at 692-3211. Child care is provided and parking for the disabled is available in the parking lot at the rear of the church.
Living Savior Lutheran Preschool, corner of Long Shoals and Overlook roads, Skyland, is now accepting enrollment for the 2008-09 school year. Classes for three and four-year-olds, two, three and five days a week. Info: 650-0404, ext. 208.
Spring/Summer Super Children's Sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 15, in the gymnasium at Hendersonville First Baptist Church, Fourth Avenue West. Items offered will include gently used children's clothing, toys, books, furniture, equipment and accessories. Proceeds will go to benefit the Weekday Early Education School scholarship fund. If you would like to be a consignor, or for more information, contact the school at 693-9312.
Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by Anointed Word Church, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15, Kate's Park, next to Fletcher Library. Games, prizes, candy, a Bible message and egg hunt. Everyone is welcome but the hunt is for ages 12 and under. Call Rebecca at 280-7994 for more information. Bad weather date, March 22.
Music & Drama
Carolina Crossmen in First Sunday Night Singing at 6 p.m. Sunday at In Jesus Name Church, 2934 Sugarloaf Mountain Road, Hendersonville. Info: 685-3313.
The Camp Family in concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 8, Apple Valley Church of God, U.S. 64E, Hendersonville. Info: Texie at 693-0381.
Gospel Singing, 6 p.m. Sunday, Zion Hill Baptist Church, Highway 25S, Zirconia. Info: 685-0258.
Special Services
World Day of Prayer 2008 will be observed today, Episcopal Church of the Holy Family, 419 Turnpike Road, Mills River. Registration: 9:30 a.m.; program: 10 a.m. Info: 694-0602.
Senior Citizens Appreciation Sunday, 10:45 a.m. followed by meal and gospel singing at 2 p.m. featuring Jimmy Justice Sunday, Forkcreek Baptist Church. Family. Info: 749-3347.
Christian Women's Day of Reflection, prayer service at 8:30 a.m., program at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 8, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Brevard. Anne Trufant will be morning speaker and Jane Derrick will speak in the afternoon. Registration is required and includes a $10 fee to cover the cost of lunch. To register, contact Debbie at 884-5321 or Irene at 884-9308. Deadline for registration is today. The church is at 4 Brian Berg Lane, Brevard, just off U.S. 64.
Tracy Grove Baptist Church will celebrate 37 years in the current building at 984 Tracy Grove Road with special services at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 9. There will be a guest speaker and special music. Info: 698-3928 or 693-7596.
Study & Retreats
Financial Peace University, 13-week program taught by Dave Ramsey, begins at 1 p.m. Sunday at Mount Pisgah Lutheran Church, 2606 Chimney Rock Road (U.S. 64E, Hendersonville. Contact Wendy White at (864) 878-0444 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or to register.
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Missouri welcomes Texas A&M to Mizzou Arena tonight for an SEC clash. The Tigers are 20-and-9 with an 8-and-8 conference record after beating Mississippi State on Saturday.
Saint Louis plays host to Dayton tonight at Chaifetz Arena. The Billikens are now the 16th-ranked team in the country after losing at VCU on Saturday.
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Cardinals shortstop Jhonny Peralta homered twice yesterday against his former team as the Redbirds lost to the Tigers 8-5 in Lakeland.
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"Arch Madness" comes to St. Louis this Thursday for the start of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament at Scottrade Center.
The Class 5 District 10 Semifinal game between Washington and Rolla is postponed today and rescheduled for Tuesday evening at 7:30 on AM 1220.
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Rockhopper penguin at the New England Aquarium. Unfortunately this was the only photo that turned out. I could watch these little guys all day!
Thanks for sharing
Penguins just so cool
Ooh, penguins are cool!
Yo Lovelace! XD
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I wish incould see penguins. 0w0
Awesome btw~!
I wish incould see penguins. 0w0
EEEEEEEE!!! I remember them!!!
DO they still have the Fairy Penguins?
DO they still have the Fairy Penguins?
Hmm...I think so! There were so many different species there! Unfortunately my camera started effing up--I need a new one! I missed some shots of these birds "kissing" and shaking their tail feathers! A new camera with a telephoto lens and a proper flash is on my wish list!
Ooh you are so so rightthey look adorable
and i love that funny way they walk
and i love that funny way they walk
Haha!! Those guys are the absolute cutest things ever there! I agree, I could watch them all day long! They're the highlight of our trips there


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Cylinder-Head TestWritten by Jeff Smith on February 1, 1997 A New Twist on the Old Wedge
Its obvious that hot rod parts have evolved tremendously over the past 70 years or so. One of the best examples is the small-block Chevy cylinder head. A scant 30 years ago, the iron fuelie casting was the single choice for any small-block, race or street. Today, dozens of specialized heads are available for every type of small-block imaginable.
Recently you may have noticed race-only small-block heads with unusual valve angle designations, such as Chevys race-bred, 18-degree head. This refers to the angle of the valve in relation to the deck surface. Standard small-block Chevy heads position the valves at a 23-degree angle to the deck. In 1989, Chevy introduced the 18-degree Bow Tie aluminum head that shifted the valve angle vertically while simultaneously raising the intake port to take advantage of this angle. The advantage of the valve angle change is improved airflow due to placing the valve in a more upright position relative to the piston. Raising the port also necessitated a dedicated intake manifold, requiring a sizable cash investment to switch to these heads.
Trick Flow Specialties is an aftermarket cylinder head manufacturer best known for its excellent small-block Ford aluminum castings. Taking on the small-block Chevy market, it decided to take advantage of this valve angle change. Since interchangeability is so important, the first order of business was to ensure the head was a 100-percent bolt-on. This involved some compromise. First of all, the intake mounting flange would have to be compatible with the standard small-block Chevy intake manifold. Second, the valvetrain would also require significant modifications.
The intake valve was angled even more vertically, to a 13-degree angle. However, this valve angle change also required repositioning the intake rocker arm stud and mandated a new pushrod guideplate. These pieces are included with the Trick Flow Twisted Wedge head while retaining the use of stock-type rocker arms and pushrods. While the intake is dramatically altered, Trick Flow elected to leave the exhaust valve at its production 23-degree angle.
Altering the intake valve angle also changes the valves angle to the piston, which means the valve will not match the valve relief pockets machined into most small-block pistons. According to Trick Flow, camshafts with up to 238 degrees of duration at .050 tappet lift with a 106-degree lobe separation angle and .512-inch valve lift will work without requiring machine work to the piston valve reliefs.
Dyno testing is the only real way to evaluate engine components, so we collected all our parts and bopped over to John Baechtels Westech Performance Group facility to use his SuperFlow 901 dyno. To evaluate these new Twisted Wedge heads, we decided to baseline the test with a set of stock iron castings and then install the Trick Flow heads for comparison. The test engine was a 355ci small-block with flattop TRW pistons, a mild Crane HMV-266 dual-pattern hydraulic cam and a set of Crane 1.5-ratio aluminum roller rockers. The cam specs out at 210/216 degrees of duration at .050 with .440/.454 lift and a 114-degree lobe separation angle. The iron heads were rebuilt 882 castings equipped with 2.02/1.60-inch valves, guides, springs, screw-in studs and guideplates.
Since aluminum heads can tolerate a slightly higher compression ratio, Trick Flow equips the Twisted Wedge head with a 63cc combustion chamber (the 882 castings typically have 76cc chambers). Using a .041-inch gasket, compression computed out at 9.8:1, while the iron head compression came out at 8.9:1 using a .041-inch head gasket. The Trick Flow compression may seem high, but with aluminum heads this is a safe compression on 92-octane pump gas. In fact, Trick Flow recommends only 33 degrees of total timing, which also reduces the risk of detonation.
For induction we decided on a mild Edelbrock Performer dual-plane intake along with a matching Edelbrock Performer Q-jet carburetor. On the exhaust side, Hooker 15/8-inch primary tube headers vented the spent gas with an open exhaust, 18-inch exhaust collectors and Fel-Pro header gaskets.
As you can see from the power figures, the baseline combination made respectable power with the iron production heads, making 357 lbs-ft of torque at 3500 rpm and 294 hp at 5000 rpm. This is typical of a short-duration-cam small-block with stock iron heads and corresponds nicely with earlier tests on this engine. Now it was time to bolt on the Twisted Wedge heads.
With the engine still warm, we put on our Mechanix Wear work gloves and replaced the iron heads with the Trick Flow castings. With the ARP head bolts torqued, we installed a new set of Bosch Platinum spark plugs and buttoned up the engine with fresh Fel-Pro gaskets. After the engine was refired, we set the ignition timing at the same 36 degrees and ran the first test. Then we pulled the timing back to the recommended 33 degrees of total timing to evaluate that change. We were in the midst of studying jetting changes when our test came to an abrupt halt with the failure of a connecting rod (see A Death in the Family).
Despite the engine failure, we recorded a couple of full-power runs with the Trick Flow heads to give us a basis for comparison. Peak torque rpm increased from 3500 to 4000 and boosted torque to 392 lbs-ft (an increase of 35 lbs-ft), while horsepower improved 41 ponies from the baseline 294 to 335 at the same 5000 rpm. In addition, the Trick Flow heads carried the power further up the rpm scale, making 59 more horsepower at 5500 rpm over the stock heads (although the peak was still at 5000).
The flow bench tests revealed that the Twisted Wedge head enjoys a strong exhaust port compared to the intake port flow. This means these heads would probably perform best using a single- pattern camshaft with the same duration and lift on both the intake and exhaust lobes. Our test engine was equipped with a dual-pattern cam with more exhaust lift and duration, which is probably not necessary with these heads. We estimate by merely using a cam having the same duration and lift and by tightening the lobe separation slightly, the Trick Flow heads would probably jump to around 345 to 350 horsepower, for a 50-plus horsepower gain, while also pumping the torque curve.
We also believe that a single-pattern cam with duration of around 215 to 220 degrees at .050-inch tappet lift would make even more power, especially if combined with a high-rise dual-plane like the Edelbrock Performer RPM or Holley Contender intake. This cam choice would result in less idle vacuum and probably lope slightly at idle.
While the Twisted Wedge concept is not a radical improvement over other similar aluminum small-block Chevy cylinder heads, it delivers a comparable power increase over stock heads. One clear advantage is the price. Summit offers these heads (at the time this story was written) at about $200 a pair less than similar competitive aluminum small-block heads. The choice is yours. Wanna get twisted?
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Trick Flow designed the Twisted Wedge head with a 13-degree intake-valve angle along with the standard 23-degree exhaust-valve angle. Despite the intake-valve angle change, the head is a 100-percent bolt-on for most small-block Chevy engines. Trick Flow also makes direct replacement heads for the new LT1 small-block and center-bolt heads for the earlier L-98 Corvette applications as well.This illustration shows the difference in valve angle from the standard 23-degree Chevrolet valve angle to the 13-degree Twisted Wedge Head angle. Making the valve angle more vertical also increases the size of the intake-port bowl area, increasing the size of the port to 185 cc's.This close-up shows how the intake rocker arm stud parallels the intake valve in order to create the proper valvetrain geometry. Stock-length pushrods will work, as will either stock or aftermarket roller rockers. The springs are typical 1.250-inch-diameter springs. If larger springs are desired, Trick Flow offers its part No. 31400005 head with 1.470-inch-diameter springs.The valves measure 2.02/1.60-inch for the intake and exhaust. The Trick Flow head is completely machined and ready to bolt on; all you have to do is install the studs and guideplates. The kidney-shaped 63cc chamber requires only 32-33 degrees of total timing for best power.The intake port flange is machined at the production angle so most small-block Chevy intake manifolds will fit. The valves are stainless steel with necked-down stems. Intake port volume is a healthy 185 cc's. Hidden behind the valvespring is a heat riser passage. By the time this story appears, Trick Flow hopes to have a complete 50-state exemption for these heads, making them legal on any '95-and-earlier small-block.Flow testing revealed a very efficient exhaust port. We'd suggest running a single-pattern camshaft with these heads to take advantage of the exhaust port flow. The exhaust ports are also in the stock location for interchangeability.The Trick Flow exhaust valves feature a fully radiused edge that could be responsible for some of its exhaust port flow. Both valves are also back-cut on the inside of the valve faces. This tends to improve low and mid-lift flow.Crane supplied a set of 1.5 and 1.6:1 narrow-body rocker arms that are designed for use on the production 'Vette heads to clear the center-bolt valve covers. Here, they're installed on the Trick Flow heads.
Hooker Industries, Inc. supplied the 15/8-inch headers, which were fitted with exhaust gas temperature (EGT) probes to keep track of the exhaust temperatures. We also tried a set of Made For You Products spark plug wire looms that kept the wires off the headers.Edelbrock supplied the Performer intake, Performer Q-jet carburetor and the Elite series valve covers for our test. Ignition duties were handled by MSD with one of its Billet series distributors, MSD-6A ignition amplifier and a set of Heli-Core plug wires.The flow bench tests of the production Trick Flow heads were performed at Bob Lambeck's shop on his SuperFlow 600 flow bench.


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Former Sooner tackle Donald Stephenson is injury insurance for Kansas City Chiefs
When Kansas City selected Eric Fisher with the No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft it wasn't an indictment against former Oklahoma offensive tackle Donald Stephenson. Chiefs management said it was a best-player-on-the-board situation.
But after the Chiefs drafted Fisher, and used the franchise tag to re-sign former first-round pick Branden Albert, Stephenson was relegated to being the No. 3 offensive tackle.
The Chiefs re-signing Albert was a sign the organization believes Stephenson needs more seasoning even though he started eight games as a rookie.
For now, Stephenson is injury insurance. In the Chiefs' 17-16 win Sunday over Dallas, Stephenson played two series when Albert left with a shoulder injury.
"I know my role on this team," Stephenson said. "I work hard at what I do. When I'm in there I have to play like a starter and prove I'm worthy of being a starter in this league."
A third-round pick in the 2012 draft, Stephenson showed promise but at times was exploited by veteran defensive ends. Stephenson was responsible for nine quarterback hurries, seven quarterback hits and five sacks.
"No question I have some things to work on, but I did a lot of things right last year," Stephenson said. "This is a fast league. It took some getting used to, the speed of the game. Once you experience it you don't have to think as much, you can just go play."
Last week's game against Dallas was an example Stephenson must raise his level of play. Stephenson was overmatched against Dallas' seven-time All-Pro defensive end DeMarcus Ware.
While Stephenson was in the game Ware recorded a sack. Ware was so disruptive the Chiefs offense sputtered with two three-and-outs.
"It's tough sitting on the sidelines and if someone goes down it's all of a sudden, 'Go in there and block DeMarcus Ware,'" Stephenson said. "But that's my job. I have to be ready."
Fisher's arrival has pushed Stephenson to a reserve role, but he played 239 snaps last season as a rookie.
"That was huge," Stephenson said. "It's all about experience in this league. To start some games means the world. The more you play the more the game slows down."
First-year Chiefs coach Andy Reid said offensive linemen like Stephenson are invaluable over the course of a 17-week regular season grind.
"He plays an important position," Reid said. "We're lucky we have Donald Stephenson. He can swing back and forth. If we needed, he could play guard for us. Donald gives us a little flexibility."
Management evidently wasn't overly concerned with Stephenson. There were reports the Chiefs were close to trading Albert to Miami for a second-round pick. The deal fell through the second day of the draft when Oakland made a similar deal.
One factor that could work in Stephenson's favor is some decisions are based on salary cap numbers.
Earning $9.8 million this season, Albert, the No. 15 overall pick in 2008, will be an unrestricted free agent after the season. Stephenson costs only $664,000 this season, $755,000 in 2014.
Having signed Fisher to a five-year, fully guaranteed contract worth $22.2 million, the Chiefs might not want to invest major money in both starting tackles. Another possibility is KC could let Albert walk and draft an offensive tackle the first three rounds to compete with Stephenson.
"Nothing is ever certain in this league," Stephenson said. "I have to prove every day I'm worthy. Right now I have to do that in practice and the chances I get into games."
Choosing the Sooners over Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska, Stephenson was a two-year starter at OU at left tackle protecting quarterback Landry Jones' blindside.
Stephenson, 6-foot-5, 312 pounds, has quickness, broad shoulders and long arms to keep rushers off his body. The one area that needs work is better footwork to handle speed rushers like Ware.
The Blue Springs, Mo., product is thrilled just to have the opportunity. Having played high school football 12 miles from Arrowhead Stadium, Stephenson is living the ultimate dream. He grew up idolizing KC offensive linemen Will Shields, Willie Roaf, Brian Waters and John Tait.
"This is so awesome," Stephenson said. "But last year wasn't fun. It was a tough year for us. But this year I'm seeing how much of a good thing this could be, how excited my mom, friends, everyone in Kansas City, would be if we made the playoffs."
The playoffs aren't an unrealistic goal despite a 2-14 finish last season. Playing a soft schedule is a huge advantage in the AFC, which doesn't have nearly as many playoff contenders as the NFC.
"Last year was kind of depressing. But this year could really be special," Stephenson said. "We're all excited about what could happen."
And Reid's impact?
"It was huge," Stephenson said. "As soon as they told us Andy Reid was coming here a lot of players' confidence went up immediately. Everyone knew the potential this team had. We just needed somebody to help us put it all together."
Stephenson is in the second year of a four-year deal that runs through 2015. Next season he could be a starter. At worst, Stephenson is a salary-cap friendly "swing" tackle on the team he rooted for as a kid.
"All I can do is keep working hard," Stephenson said. "Whatever decisions they make in the future it will be what's best for this team. I've just got to be ready when they put me in. When I get my chance I have to do what I'm supposed to do."


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Braves stars Freddie Freeman, Jason Heyward agree to multi-year deals
The Atlanta Braves and Jason Heyward sidestepped MLB's arbitration process on Tuesday, announcing the parties had agreed on a two-year contract.
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Braves' front office was quite busy this week.
After announcing that outfielder Jason Heyward sidestepped MLB's arbitration process, the two parties agreeing to a two-year contract through the 2015 season on Sunday night, reports soon followed that first baseman Freddie Freeman, who finished 5th in the NL MVP voting last season, also agreed to a multi-year deal.
Heyward's deal is reportedly worth $13.3 million and it buys out his remaining arbitration-eligible seasons.
Freeman's new contract, on the other hand, is a long-term extension and the largest in franchise history: eight years worth $135 million, according to multiple reports. The deal was first reported by FOX Sports 1 MLB Insider Jon Morosi, with the team confirming the contract's length on Tuesday night.
Freddie Freeman's deal is worth $135 million, source confirms to @FOXSports1.— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi)
February 5, 2014
"Freddie has established himself as one of the best young talents in the game," Braves general manager Frank Wren said in a statement. "We are excited to sign one of our own homegrown players to a contract that will keep him in a Braves uniform for the next eight seasons."
The deal buys out Freeman's remaining three years of arbitration and his first five seasons of free agency at the average rate of $16.875 million per year.
Though Wren and the front office remain steadfast as a "file-and-trial" team in arbitration dealings, that philosophy does not limit the organization to negotiating multi-year deals. And it's clear that avoiding present and future arbitration dealings with two of its best players is viewed as a definite positive for the organization.
"Baseball is the most important thing here. And if we don't have to sit here and go back and forth about the arbitration process, determining your likes and don't likes, pros and cons and whatnot -- to me that's not what's most important," Heyward said on a conference call Tuesday afternoon. "So as far as a two-year deal, from my side of things and my point of view, it clears things up for me to go play baseball and not to be concerned about this year with arbitration, next year with arbitration."
"I think in Jason's case, this is probably a good thing. Last year was such a tough year physically for him, by no fault of his own, with an appendectomy and getting hit in the face. And so it also made it tough for both sides in an arbitration situation because it's hard to pin a number when you're comparing to players who played a lot more or a lot less or whatever," Wren said. "Jason's an important part of our team. This probably was the best way to answer some of those questions on both sides."
Freeman was unavailable for comment as of Tuesday night.
The All-Star first baseman's contract surpasses Chipper Jones' six-year, $90 million deal signed in 2001 as the most lucrative deal ever signed by a Braves player.
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Freeman became a steadying force in the middle of manager Fredi Gonzalez's lineup last season, hitting .319/.396/.501 and 23 home runs. Just 24 years old, the team's hitting coach Greg Walker has called him the most gifted hitter he's ever worked with and it became more and more apparent that he would become a priority for the organization as free agency loomed in 2017. That is no longer an issue.
Heyward's two-year deal offers performance elevators in the second season. Initial discussions between the two sides began following MLB's salary swap day (Jan. 17) -- Wren characterized it as a two-week or 10-day stretch of negotiations (and it's probably safe to assume Freeman's followed a similar timeline).
Given Heyward's "unique situation" -- the mere $300,000 difference in arbitration asking price, the timing of the hearing, the injury-muddled statistics (appendectomy, fractured jaw) -- Wren said the outfielder's contract was the front office's primary focus.
Well, perhaps one of the franchise's primary focuses.
The 24-year-old outfielder tallied 14 homers and hit .254/.349/.427 in 104 games last season, including a pivotal stretch in which he batted .322 in the leadoff spot. The one-time Gold Glove winner (2012) also remains one of the top defensive outfielders around with the versatility of playing both right- and center field at a high level. According to FanGraphs, only four other outfielders have posted a higher wins above replacement over the past two seasons: Mike Trout (Angels), Andrew McCutchen (Pirates), Ben Zobrist (Rays) and Carlos Gomez (Brewers).
The Braves had reportedly had difficulty coming to terms on a multi-year extension with Heyward, and though this deal only takes him up to free agency -- where many expect he would fetch a high price given his ability -- this at least signifies the two sides are able to get to the bargaining table, even if it was primarily to avoid the arbitration hearings for the remaining two years under team control this time around. Perhaps better news as it pertains to a long-term deal: both Heyward and Freeman are represented by Excel Sports Management.
"It can get in the way," Heyward said of arbitration. "It can be a distraction."
Now, he and Freeman will not have to worry about that.
With Heyward's and Freeman's contract situations settled, the Braves' front office now shifts its focus onto arbitration-eligible reliever Craig Kimbrel -- arguably baseball's premier closer. The team still has a substantial gap between its asking price ($6.55 million) and Kimbrel's asking price ($9 million), and the heavy lifting, in terms of multi-year deals, is likely over for now.


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The brevity of this biography serves Ms. Donald's aim of filling in a specific gap in Truman scholarship. She succeeds. Where Citizen Soldier differs from other Truman biographies is in Ms. Donald's admittance that she is more inclined to interpret Truman's life psychologically than other biographers of the president. What this means is not absolutely clear, but Ms. Donald has placed a special emphasis on her analysis of the Pickwick Papers, letters Truman wrote to himself during his ascension through the vile Kansas City political machine of the 1920s and '30s that have only recently been made available to the public. Ms. Donald wants to know how a man historically perceived to be full of unflappable dignity and goodness adopted such a Manichaean approach to politics.
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Welcome to
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. In commemoration of Valentine's Day, Trade Corner is doing it's very first Sweetheart's Challenge. Unlike other challenges done in the past where each individual member's entry was judged solo, this challenge requires member's to work in teams of two. Both team members will submit a total of two Pokémon and each member must be responsible for catching/breeding one of the entries. The team's entries will be judged based on creativity and collaboration. The winning team will be crowned Trade Corner's Sweethearts! Good luck to you all!
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The Challenge begins Feb. 1, 2013 and ends Feb. 17, 2013 11:59pm EST.
The winning team will be announced on February 18, 2013.
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Any member found hacking their submission will be disqualified and barred from future challenges.
Any member found to have copied or claimed another member's Pokémon and/or description as their own entry will be disqualified and barred from future challenges.
If your teammate has either withdrawn, been disqualified, or gone inactive, you may enter another entry bred or caught by yourself or proceed with just one submission.
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OT: [Your username]
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Level: [###]
Gender: [Male, Female, Genderless]
IVs: [x | x | x | x | x | x ]
EVs: [x | x | x | x | x | x ]
Moves: [xxxx, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx]
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Species: [Pokémon]
OT: [Your Sweetheart's username]
Nickname: [If not applicable, remove from form.]
Shiny: [Y/N]
Trait: [Ability]
Level: [###]
Gender: [Male, Female, Genderless]
IVs: [x | x | x | x | x | x ]
EVs: [x | x | x | x | x | x ]
Moves: [xxxx, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx]
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So, I grew up on bikes. My dad is a cyclist and growing up we always had bikes....His favorite event of the year was in his hometown in MA, the Josh Billings RunAground. In our neighbhood he was the local "bike guy" such that he would raid the scrap metal dumpsters and freebies and piece together bikes for kids and teens, a practice that continued until the past few years. It wasn't uncommon for 3 or 4 bikes to be on our front lawn for $5, $10, or $15 with a coffee can set next to the for the $ to go into. My dad typically went riding once or twice a week and when I was about 11 or 12 I started going along regularly... after my parents went a couple times, we even did the Le Tour de l'Île de Montréal together with my brother and sister. At times we had at least 10 bikes hanging up in the garage including my folks Santana Visa. For me, my brother's old peugeot 10 speed, and an '86 bridgestone 300 later I actually got into pretty good shape and did a couple of biathalons when I was around 12-14 and between my runners 6min miles and my 18mph we did pretty well for a couple of kids. Around that time I sold my dirt bike, and my swap-meet early Jamis (with those odd roller brakes) and bought my first new bike, a 1995 Gary Fisher Montare. A bit later Dad and I came across a Specialized M2-pro frame at a bike swap and were very impressed by how light it was... Dad had replaced his Peugeot PG10 with a newer (at the time) Allez, so we put it together for me with stuff Dad had accumulated. I did one XC mountain bike race and decided I would rather go fast and not hurt everywhere, so mostly stuck to the road bike except to commute, which is what the mountain bike was for. We had one paved road in our town other than the state hwy so I used the MTB as transportation to my first job quite often, about 7 miles each way. Late teens was mostly consumed by VWs (purchased with $ from said job) and at 19 I moved 1100 miles away down to TN for school, decided to stay after graduating, got married, and haven't ridden either one of them more than a mile or two since. This past week I've had some time on my hands and decided to clean up my road bike since the aluminum had oxidized and there was 10+ year old dead bugs stuck to it from it's last trip on a roof rack. So, I think I'll try riding again... though I now live in a town with paved roads, I still have to travel a little (maybe 10min) to find a nice road with a shoulder to ride on... but I think I can squeeze in some time to ride. At least, until it's too hot out to think let alone ride a bike.
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