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The Enterprise, Ala. police department will discontinue alarm monitoring of residences and commercial business.
The Enterprise City Council voted to discontinue the Enterprise Police Department's involvement in monitoring burglary and fire alarms, according to the Enterprise Ledger.
The police department currently monitors 17 residences and six businesses in the city as an additional source of income. However, a $4,000 upgrade to the system is needed to keep the monitoring system working properly.
The police department has proposed giving the individuals and businesses being monitored a 30-day notice to find an alternate monitoring provider.
BOCA RATON, Fla.—He had commanding roles in "Pulp Fiction" and "Mission Impossible" and starred in HBO's "Don King: Only in America." Now award-winning actor Ving Rhames is putting his tough-guy persona and deep voice to work for ADT.
Well, wait a sec. According to Rhames, he's not just working for the huge home security firm; he says in the new commercials that he "is ADT."
The ad campaign seeks to set ADT apart from the increasing number of smart home products available to consumers. The spots are based on the premise that consumers often mistake convenience "with the added safety of professionally monitored security," ADT said in a prepared statement.
In the ads, Rhames asks, "What good is a smart home if it's not a safe home?"
"Our new campaign addresses the desire for connectivity, control and most important of all—security. Self-monitored security solutions do not provide police, fire or emergency medical response in the event of an emergency," Jerri DeVard, chief marketing officer of ADT, said in the statement.
Rhames says in one of the spots I viewed: "Strong isn't wrong, I'm ADT, I oughta know. But what makes brawn even better is brains. See, I'm both the big brain at the center of your peace of mind and the big muscle to keep the peace."
Big brain, big muscle, gotcha. I'm not going to argue with Mr. Ving. Good ad campaign, I think. What do you think?
CSAA recently posted on its site about the matter of net neutrality, as well as sending out a message from Alarm Industry Communications Committee chair Lou Fiore concerning the topic. Capitol Hill has various items up for consideration on net neutrality, according to Fiore.
"Our goal at this point is simply to let Congress know we are here again and what our needs are as primarily small businesses. At some point legislation will move forward, probably as a rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, and we want to ensure we are not forgotten," Fiore said in the message.
Net neutrality is the concept that all Internet traffic should be treated the same by Internet service providers. This has been an ongoing issue for the security industry and carries with it serious implications.
"Our primary concern is that broadband and wireless network providers are increasingly offering services that compete with us in providing home and business security services. Without some protection for smaller players, these network providers will have an incentive to favor their own security services and 'throttle' or 'block' our emergency signals in order to gain a competitive advantage," CSAA said on its site.
CSAA also provides a letter template to be sent to key members of Congress, along with contact information for these key people. CSAA urges its members to contact their local congressperson by Feb. 26, and to emphasize the personal aspect of their company's situation in this issue.
The association has also posted other stances the industry has taken on this issue, as well as a portion of the 1996 telecommunications act, on its site.
In addition to this push towards net neutrality, AICC announced today the start researching the matter of dropped signals from digital alarm communications transmitters. This will be done through a survey also available on CSAA's site.
According to a recent press release from CSAA, findings from this effort will be made available at the next AICC meetings in March and June of 2015.
We are putting together our April, ISC West Show Issue, and we have TWO opportunities for product coverage in that issue: The ISC West New Product section and the Product Spotlight on Mobile Apps.
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Genetec, a developer of open-platform, hardware and cloud-based services for the physical security and public safety industries, based in Montreal, hosted a Press Summit this week. I was supposed to be there. But no! A snowstorm on Sunday prevented me from making my flight out.
I was disappointed. I was interested in learning and reporting about what Genetec has going on for 2015 in advance of its reveals at ISC West. I also was looking forward to finding out more about the corporate culture of the company, which was founded in 1997.
Corporate culture is worth knowing about. Just ask John Loud of LOUD Security, who spoke about it at Honeywell's Connect2014 event.
Brian Katz of Google, keynoter at our recent TechSec conference, discussed that progressive company's culture of security.
Attitudes all add up in making companies more successful.
When I visited Genetec's HQ last year I was impressed with the atmosphere there, from the popular, low-cost gourmet food in its company cafeteria to its on-site gym. Then there's the foosball- and X-box-equipped meeting areas. Employees trying to untangle snags in projects are encouraged to work them out over a game or two. (My teenage son has often told me that video games help him think, too, when he's stuck on a homework project. Now I just might believe him.)
It's not only about good food and fun and games for Gentec's 620 employees, though. Those perks, along with generous vacation time and benefits and company-sponsored outings, are designed to promote a work environment that fosters "a strong culture of innovation, which is essential to the growth and future of [the] business," the company says.
Genetec this year was named one of the top employees in Montreal for the ninth consecutive year by MediaCorp Canada. The contest evaluates employers on criteria that includes physical workspace, work atmosphere and social, health, financial and family benefits, vacation and time off, employee communications, performance management, training and skills development and community involvement.
The award isn't just about good external public relations, the company told me when I inquired. In addition to prompting more visitors to the Genetec website and boosting job applications and greater, favorable awareness about the company overall, it has made current employees proud to work at the company and, Genetec says, employee retention will grow because of it.
I'll be writing more about Genetec's corporate culture, so stay tuned!
About two months ago, Security Systems News spoke with Steve Keefer, national law enforcement liaison for SIAC, about the unique way the Carson City Sheriff's Department approaches false alarms; by utilizing volunteers. Since, Keefer followed up with this sheriff's office and found that while false alarms have dropped, it is difficult to determine how the volunteers were involved.
Upon looking at the figures over all reductions, "I told the sheriff, 'I bet you're close to a fifty percent reduction in your commercial [false alarms]," Keefer told SSN. Yet, because of how the data was organized, the exact influence of this volunteer program can't currently be determined, Keefer said.
Keefer gave the sheriff recommendations, such as hand-outs, like flyers and printed statistics, as well as a heavier focus on false panic and hold-up alarms. "Those are probably more problematic for a police department, because you're not getting, traditionally, two officers going to a robbery or hold-up—you're probably getting three or four."
A primary reason for Keefer's follow-up was to investigate the viability this practice might hold for other jurisdictions, perhaps to be incorporated into SIAC's recommended practices.
A positive aspect of this program is the small commitment for volunteers, Keefer said; they could finish a month's duties in four hours, across two days. "It's not draining by any means."
According to Keefer, the city of 55,000 people saw about 1,300 false alarms last year. These false alarms are split about 70 percent commercial and 30 percent residential. While these volunteers exclusively visit commercial offenders, Keefer underlined that this method could benefit the residential sector as well.
The volunteers, a husband-and-wife pair, only visit businesses that have received two or more false alarms in a given month, totaling about 10 to 15 per month.
Systems integrator Diebold has been talking about the importance of APIs for years and cloud-based VMS provider Eagle Eye, which opened its doors one year ago has also been a vocal proponent of APIs.
This week, Diebold and Eagle Eye announced a national strategic alliance to deliver cloud-based video services.
The deal will allow Diebold customers to "stream and store live and recorded video, provide flexible cloud storage, and generate notification and real-time analytics."
The alliance combines Diebold's SaaS solution (called SecureStat—here's a story about SecureStat) and Eagle Eye's VMS and API interface
The service is "easy to use, scalable, secure and reliable," Diebold says and it's particularly suitable for multi-location customers who may want to use "local and cloud-based applications that … [integrate] IP-enabled or legacy analog cameras."
In a statement, Eagle Eye CEO Dean Drako lauded Diebold as the "first security integrator and alarm services company to leverage the power of an open API strategy and service offering."
He added that this API strategy "has revolutionized other industries and will do the same for the security industry." Diebold EVP Tony Byerly in a statement called this strategy "the future of security as we continue to leverage APIs to create a connected security program for businesses, starting with easy-to-use cloud-based video services." Diebold will integrate Eagle Eye's cloud VMS at its monitoring centers and customers will be able to see showcase demo applications at its Center of Excellence in Elmsford, N.Y.
At last week's TechSec conference, Diebold's Jeremy Brecher moderated an educational session about cloud-based security systems. Drako was one of the speakers on that panel discussion. Look for a report on that session in the next week.
TechSec2015 is now past, but here's a photo of some of our "20 under 40" end user award winners just after our poolside award ceremony on Day 1 of the new technology conference.
Half of the winners couldn't make it to the conference, and we missed them! But the 10 who were in attendance contributed greatly to an awesome show. One was our keynote speaker, Brian Katz of Google, and five others sat on panels for our education sessions. A winner from last year was our second-day speaker opener, that would be Ralph Nerette of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Thanks to all, congratulations again and keep in touch!
Don't forget to pay it forward and be thinking of peers that fit the bill for next year's awards.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—I'm writing this midway through the second and final day of our TechSec Solutions conference. So far, so great!
This is my third TechSec conference, and as always, I am impressed, albeit blown away, by the passion and commitment that participants and panelists have for the jobs they do.
My favorite part of TechSec is meeting and getting to know in person our "20 under 40" award winners. If you, out there in the physical security world, have any doubts about the future of the industry, you can rest assured it's under control. These young people, the future security leaders, are more than smart and certainly dedicated to their profession.
Our keynoter, Brian Katz from Google, a "20 under 40" winner, was outstanding. Following his speech I don't think he had a moment to himself. Whenever I'd look his way, he was surrounded by people asking him questions, seeking his insights. That's what TechSec is all about.
During one of the sessions yesterday, "Who's the boss of video surveillance? IT vs. physical security," Les Paul Vernon, vice president, enterprise solutions, for Protection 1, and Kelly Klatt, area director of safety and security, Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando, stressed that having a good relationship with IT departments from the start of projects is the only way to go. It's not us against them anymore, they said. Both benefit each other.
My panel, "NextGen: Security practitioners' perspective" with David Avedikian from Southwest Airlines and Brad Reeves of A&P, was, without being biased in the least (!), a highlight of the first day. These two young pros, minus the third scheduled panelist who was stranded in snow-plagued Boston, talked about their biggest challenges of the past year and those they face in the year ahead; how they deal with emergency situations; and the security technology they want along with the technology they're not all that interested in at the moment.
We capped off the day with the "20 under 40" awards ceremony. A great turnout along with great appreciation for the winners made for a fine evening in Delray Beach.
Today's opener from Ralph Nerette, former 20 under 40 winner and director of security and emergency management for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, did much to shed light on what today's end users have to deal with, especially when it comes to the unexpected. In the space of two weeks, Nerette and his team, in addition to their plethora of daily duties, had to deal with the fallout of an active shooter at a next-door hospital and the impending consequences of a huge storm bearing down on his area.
I also sat in on the "Student Innovation: Young Minds with fresh ideas" session, with Mark Robinton, the manager of technology innovation, strategic innovation team, for HID Global, and Jeff Hale, an MBA student at Chapman University.
And we're not done yet! Stay tuned.
TechSec 2015 is in full swing today.
The security industy's leading conference about new and emerging technology kicked off yesterday, Feb. 3 with a keynote speech by Google's Brian Katz. Click here to read that story.
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"20 under 40" integrators Class of 2014 winners were honored at TechSec.
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TechSec attendees show support for Mission 500's #Show Orange campaign. Read about that here.
Speakers on the "Get off of my cloud" educational session, from the left: Christian Morin from Genetec; Dean Drako from Eagle Eye; Steve Van Till of Brivo; Jeremy Brecher of Diebold.
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Both Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are signed up for a third Robert Langdon movie, Dan Brown's latest 'Inferno'.
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Work with a Faraday Cage. Learn to stay a step ahead of cyber criminals. Experiment with a 3D printer and robotics. Refurbish scrapped computers in our lab. Lakeland's computer science program is an all-encompassing foray into the ever-changing world of computers and how they work. Here, you won't focus on just programming, database or system analysis. You'll learn it all, with multiple classes that span all disciplines.
"As a computer science student at Lakeland, you don't have to specialize," says Cynthia Lindstrom, assistant professor of computer science, who has a doctorate in computing and information technology and has more than 20 years of corporate computer science experience. "In fact, you can't specialize here. You will be a generalist; you will know a little bit about everything. And that's what businesses are looking for today."
Recent Lakeland University computer science graduates have landed jobs at Briggs & Stratton and General Electric in Milwaukee, Kohler Co. in Kohler and The Manitowoc Company in Manitowoc, among many others. In addition, Lindstrom says, internships are a regular part of the program.
"One of the best things students can put on their résumés is that they have actually worked, hands-on, with many of the companies in our area. We have numerous internships going on every term and during the summer, and we try to get our students internships that match their interests."
One of Lakeland's newer and most popular classes is forensics, which involves the discovery and recovery of data – often as it relates to crime and cybercrime. This type of expertise is more and more valued, particularly in the areas of law enforcement and corporate law.
That's where a Faraday Cage comes in. In a Faraday Cage, a computer is shielded from Wi-Fi signals and therefore can't be accessed or tampered with remotely. It's called a "computer seizure." Information can't be retrieved or erased. It's a vital tool in legal cases and the use of a Faraday Cage allows computer evidence to hold up in court.
"Companies expect our graduates to know how to prevent cybercrime," says Lindstrom. "Forensics is a fun course and the students love it."
Name: Adam Beltran
Hometown: Sheboygan Falls
Title: Programmer
Business: ACUITY
Eighteen years after graduating from high school, Adam graduated from college.
Between ceremonies, he worked at a couple of Sheboygan factories and got an associate's degree before enrolling at Lakeland in 2010. Now he's excelling at one of the most highly regarded companies in Wisconsin – ACUITY, where he writes and modifies programs for commercial insurance.
"It's awesome," he says of his job. "It's very challenging. I only know a fraction of what I will know a year from now. It probably takes between two and two-and-a-half years to learn everything."
Adam's interview process at ACUITY, which included a phone conversation and two personal visits, totaled about eight hours. He says Lakeland's liberal arts based education and its computer science curriculum thoroughly prepared him to take on the competition. For example, few state colleges teach COBOL language, which happens to be a staple atACUITY. Adam also lauds Lakeland's career development department, which helped him polish his resume and introduced him to job fairs, mock interviews and speed networking.
"Lakeland really reinforced a couple of key things for me," Adam says. "One is to think for yourself; don't just go along with everyone else all the time. And the other is that when you make a claim, either verbally or on paper, you have to be prepared to back it up with evidence.
"Overall, what Lakeland does is open your eyes to the world and help you understand things on a macro level. It really makes you a well-rounded person."
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Kids will love watching Tiptoe Joe lead a group of his animal friends on an adventure. Joe instructs his buddies to be as quiet as possible. They tiptoe—as well as they can on their hooves, claws, and furry feet—through a field, across a fallen log leading over a stream, through the woods, and up a hill. When they arrive at Joe's, he shows them something very special. It's his brand-new baby bear cubs, fast asleep!
Tiptoe Joe is a great pick for parents who want to acclimate a child to a new baby brother or sister, and perfect for bedtime or story hour.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey (WOMENSENEWS)--During the 11th annual Istanbul pride parade for LGBT unity, which drew record crowds on June 30, chants from Taksim Square protests echoed through the side streets of Istiklal, the main street leading into the square.
"Taksim is just the beginning," tens of thousands cheered.
The familiar chant wasn't so much a spillover from the Taksim protests as a different venue for members of the LGBT community, who have been on the frontlines of the anti-government protests in Istanbul that erupted on May 27 when Turkish police attempted to violently eject activists from Gezi Park.
LGBT activists and Gezi Park protesters in Taksim Square are fighting for similar human rights, said Oznur, a 31-year-old marketing manager who attended the pride march after demonstrating alongside LGBT activists in Taksim Square. Oznur and other Gezi Park protestors and pride participants asked to not use their full names in fear of police targeting and the recent arrest of protestors who are speaking out on social media websites.
"People feel what gays are feeling because we have been suppressed and they have been suppressed all the way, so we are feeling great to defend them," Oznur said.
Oznur had wanted to participate in the parade in previous years, but this was her first time in the march. "With the Gezi protests I wanted to be added in to the crowd to defend gay rights."
Yudum, a 30-year-old sales clerk marching in the pride parade, said the national protests were spreading support for the LGBT community. "I think more people are becoming tolerant toward other groups. This is a part of Gezi as a whole idea."
She doesn't see any legal or institutional changes for LGBT rights on the horizon. "But I think people can get more tolerant and as people get more aware it will translate to legal issues one day," she said.
Istanbul Pride March: Gezi Protests Creates Awareness for LGBT Community
Thousands Marched
Istanbul pride organizers estimated that 40,000 people lined the city's Istiklal Avenue to support gay, lesbian and transgender citizens at the pride parade, saying that attendance has doubled since last year and reached a high watermark in the history of the event. Estimates vary however, and some news outlets reported attendance as high as 100,000.
A wide array of age groups joined the parade. Signs in Turkish, Arabic and Kurdish read "my child is gay."
Members of opposition and Kurdish political parties also participated in the parade on Sunday, according to the Association for the Study of Social Policy Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation (SPoD), a national nongovernmental LGBT organization based in Istanbul.
Neval, a university student from Istanbul who protested during the Gezi Park demonstrations and asked not to give her full name, shook a tambourine in the crowd beside her mother, Yasemin, in Taksim Square before the pride parade began to march.
"This is my mother and this is her first time in a demonstration like this," said Neval, 23. "I came here last week [for Gezi Park protests] and she's here this week [for pride]. We can share this and people can just join."
"We haven't seen this kind of unity in Turkey before," said Istanbullite Deryz Yusek, 35, who was also marching in the parade. "So it's all great."
For parade participants, unity looks like a massive rainbow flag clutched by dozens of LGBT supporters with flower tiaras and anonymous masks. It sounds like tambourines, whistles and shouts. It feels like confidence and safety while walking down the street wearing a short skirt and heels. Neighborhoods of Istanbul transformed into a safe space for a day.
In a country dominated by Islamic culture where individuals have been murdered for their sexual orientation, a massive pride march offered a reprieve from the underlying reality of harsh bias and discrimination.
One Turkish man recently pleaded guilty to "accidentally" murdering his son for being gay, The Gay Star News reported on June 29.
Homosexual residents of Turkey conceal their sexual identities on a daily basis. Neval said she's observed interactions between traditional members of society and gays.
"I've seen a lot of people who express that they are gay, like with their looks, and a lot of people give looks to them and that's the judgment," Neval said.
Same-Sex Marriage Unlikely
Marriage equality for same-sex couples may be spreading fast in the United States and in other countries, but Simge, a psychologist from Istanbul who also marched in the parade asked not to provide her last name, doesn't see that happening in Turkey any time soon.
"It will take a long time, maybe centuries, for society to change their viewpoint," Simge, 32, said while laughing. "Maybe more than one century, because of cultural issues in Turkey."
Merverur Yunaz, 23, from Istanbul's conservative neighborhood of Uskudar, does not think same-sex marriage is right for Turkey.
"Same-sex marriage will be maybe free in America but not suitable for Turkey's society. Yes, we have a lot of liberal people and we believe everyone has rights, but same-sex marriage is very different for Turkey," she said.
Unlike some in her neighborhood, however, Yunaz recognizes the LGBT community. "When I think about homosexuality, I think about my future son or my future daughter," she said. "If I have a homosexual son or daughter . . . I believe I will defend their rights because I listen to a lot of mothers of homosexual Muslim people, it's a very hard problem."
LGBT civil rights are lacking in Istanbul, said Sezen Yalcin, a coordinator at SPoD. Partnerships, jobs, housing, legal justice and life are at risk for the LGBT community.
Last month, the main opposition Republican People's Party lobbied to initiate a parliament commission focusing on LGBT issues. Yalcin saw that as a good first awareness step for the LGBT community. Next on the civil rights agenda, she said, are social security, access to adequate health care, access to housing and incorporating LGBT issues into the education system.
Peaceful March
Despite the heavy police presence in Istanbul since the start of the anti-government protests, the pride march was peaceful. Still, some were equipped with gas masks decorated in dazzling ways and construction helmets painted in colors of the rainbow.
"In every peaceful protest the police attack the people," said Oznur, who overcame fears of getting gassed again as she had during the Gezi Park protests.
"This being an international event, pride march, [the police] could even attack if they wanted. They don't need a reason," said Oznur. "But it's kind of humorous to paint a rainbow on my helmet."
For weeks Deryz Yuksek had routinely carried a gas mask while running errands around her neighborhood, but left her mask at home for pride. "Every time you rise up for your rights, there is a possibility that you will be attacked by police unfortunately," Yuksek said.
Yunaz, a student of Islamic philosophy at Marmar University, keeps the narrative of a Muslim prophet in mind when it comes to the intersection of LGBT and Islamic societies. "Some people came to the prophet and said, 'Must we kill the man wearing like woman?' The prophet said, 'No. I am not allowed to kill people who are praying'."
Yunaz has a Muslim friend who calls herself a lesbian. "But she is hiding," said Yunaz. "She believes she is sick and wants to change."
"Muslim people are saying [homosexuality] is just a choice and they can change. But I don't believe it," said Yunaz. "I believe in sexuality as part of biology, not as a sickness."


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The SONORA Plate Green Leaf Award, sponsored by Kodak, presented its first Latin American recipient to Grupo RBS for its efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the commercial printing industry in the region.
RBS is a leading multimedia communication company in Brazil, publishing eight major newspapers throughout the southern part of the country. RBS has combined their use of KODAK SONORA Process Free Plates with capital and operational investments to enhance their environmental friendliness. These include constructing a R$ 70 million printing plant with state-of-the-art environmental considerations such as green roofing, natural lighting to save on energy costs, innovative water reuse and runoff prevention systems, and an advanced treatment station to recycle liquid effluents generated by the plant.
Latin America's surging literacy rates and education expenditures, growing employment, and increasing incomes are driving demand for more high-quality print services. Customers are demanding products that meet the highest standard of quality while reducing their environmental footprint.
Grupo RBS, founded in 1957, is an exemplary model for sustainability in the region.
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Detectives from the Henderson County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Unit have charged two men after a reported armed robbery and assault on July 30.
The victim told investigators he had been contacted by one of the suspects to come to his residence and look at construction materials that were for sale. Once the victim went to the location, he was struck in the face with a golf club and had a box cutter held to his throat, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office Friday.
The victim was driven to a nearby ATM machine and forced to make a cash withdrawal and then driven to a nearby convenience store and forced to purchase cigarettes, the release says. The victim was released by the suspects and sought medical attention for a broken jaw. He has been released from the hospital.
Lafoy "Buzzy" Ball is being held in lieu of $316,000 secured bond. Eddie Ellenburg is being held in lieu of $367,000 secured bond. Both subjects were being held as of Friday in the Henderson County Detention Facility.
Ball, 47, of Horse Shoe, is charged with felony robbery with dangerous weapon, felony assault with deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, felony conspiracy-robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of felony first-degree kidnapping and felony conspiracy-first-degree kidnapping.
Ellenburg, 32, of Hendersonville, is charged with felony robbery with dangerous weapon, felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, felony conspiracy-robbery with dangerous weapon, two counts of felony first-degree kidnapping, and felony conspiracy-first-degree kidnapping.
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NREL Helps Car Industry Develop Engineering Tools for Batteries
After a competitive procurement process, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently awarded three industry teams a total of $7 million for the development of computer-aided software design tools to produce batteries for electric drive vehicles. Selected teams will contribute half of the costs of the project over the next three years, bringing the overall project budget to $14 million. These projects support DOE's Computer-Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries program. The objective is to help the automotive and battery industries design and develop a wide array of advanced electric vehicle batteries more quickly, resulting in less expensive batteries. Electric drive vehicles—hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and electric vehicles—have the potential to significantly reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Project goals for the selected teams include developing battery engineering tools to design cells and battery packs; shortening the battery prototyping and manufacturing processes; improving overall battery performance, safety, and battery life; and reducing battery costs. Each team will independently develop and validate the tools, with an emphasis on electrochemical, electrical, mechanical, and thermal issues. They also will integrate different chemistries, cell geometries, and battery pack configurations. NREL anticipates that the resulting systems will become competitive marketplace offerings in the near term.
The three industry teams are EC Power, Penn State University, Johnson Controls, and Ford Motor Company; General Motors Company, ANSYS, and ESim; and CD-adapco, Battery Design LLC, A123 Systems, and Johnson Controls-Saft. In addition to the funding, NREL will provide technical support on battery electrochemical-thermal modeling and testing to the teams. DOE's Vehicle Technologies Program at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is funding the research. See the NREL press release.


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Deals of the Day: J.P Morgan, Wells Fargo Earnings Come in Above Analyst Estimates
Deals of the Day compiles this morning's biggest news about mergers and acquisitions, banking, bankruptcy and more. Catch us on Twitter, @WSJDealJournal.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Roche: Roche stepped up its courtship of U.S. gene-sequencing company Illumina, again signalling that the Swiss company might find extra value in the reluctant target if Illumina agrees to begin takeover talks. [WSJ]
Glen-X: Documentation relating to commodities trader Glencore's $37 billion takeover of miner Xstrata will be sent to shareholders a month later than previously anticipated. [Reuters]
Big Blue-Varicent: IBM announced its will acquire Varicent Software. Financial terms were not disclosed. [News Release]
Western Potash: Canada's Western Potash Corp. is in talks with several Indian and Chinese state-owned and private enterprises that could lead to an investment in, or sale of, the potash miner. [WSJ]
Icahn vs. Amylin: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sued Amylin Pharmaceuticals demanding records related to a $3.5 billion takeover offer by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. as he seeks to start a proxy fight against Amylin's board. [Bloomberg]
BSkyB: A British parliamentary report into a phone hacking scandal may lead eventually to News Corp being forced into cutting or selling its stake in the highly profitable pay-TV firm BSkyB, having already dropped its bid to buy it outright last year. [Reuters]
Financial Institutions
J.P. Morgan: The nation's largest bank's profit fell 3.1%, beating Wall Street expectations but masking a surprise increase in revenue. The bank raised its dividend and unveiled a $15 billion stock buyback. [WSJ]
London Whale: One sobriquet would be bad enough. But two? For a single swaps trader? This is cause for serious concern. [Bloomberg]
Related: Jamie Dimon has transformed the bank's chief investment office in the past five years, increasing the size and risk of its speculative bets, according to five former executives with direct knowledge of the changes. [Bloomberg]
Wells: Wells Fargo's quarterly profit rose 13%, helped by better-than-expected revenue growth with help from strong mortgage banking. [WSJ]
Related: Rising expenses are thwarting banks' attempts at belt-tightening, adding pressure on an industry struggling to find new ways to boost profits. [WSJ]
Goldman Sachs: The New York securities firm has been engaging with small but vocal shareholders – and negotiating compromises that address some of their concerns. [WSJ]
Bankruptcy & Restructuring
MF Global: The trustee unwinding the brokerage operations of MF Global said he may sue former officers and directors of the company, a group that includes former CEO Jon S. Corzine.
Companies & Industries
Best Buy: Best Buy's investigation into the personal conduct of former CEO Brian Dunn is exploring whether he misused company assets in the course of an alleged relationship with a female subordinate. [WSJ]
Barnes & Noble: The book seller bore the brunt of the U.S. antitrust settlement with three book publishers, losing 6.4% of its market value on Thursday. [WSJ]
Google: Google unveiled a 2-for-1 stock split designed to assuage investors while allowing its founders to maintain control over the company. [WSJ]


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Flavorful, homemade tomato sauce. Melted mozzarella cheese. Warm, fresh-baked pizza dough. Savory sausage and pepperoni. Zesty bell peppers and roasted garlic. Creamy, house-made bleu cheese dressing. Is your stomach growling yet?
Pizza is one of the most delectable comfort foods. Its origins date back to the Neolithic age where records show people added toppings to their bread to make it taste better. It's the staple of childhood birthday parties, football games and movie nights. It brings families together on a Friday evening when mom or dad doesn't want to cook after the end of a long work week.
Pizza is arguably one of the best culinary creations known to man, especially when the ingredients are homemade, like the pizza from Bar Bar Bar Pizza in Incline Village.
The Brockelsby family has been sharing their traditional take on pizza with the Incline Village community since 1988, and the family-owned establishment is nothing short of "the big cheese" when it comes to serving up high-quality, reasonably-priced pizza and salads.
"There were only two pizza places in town when we opened in 1988 — Mofo's and Azzara's — and they're both still here, but we thought we wanted to do something a little different," said owner Rhonda Brockelsby, who co-owns the establishment with her 81-year-old father and 79-year-old mother. "My father's background is in gaming, so we added gaming machines and a full bar."
The Brockelsby family had invested in other small-business operations prior to opening Bar Bar Bar Pizza, also known as U-Bake Pizza, but with Rhonda's mother's delicious Italian recipes combined with her father's collection of gaming machines, a pizza parlor with poker seemed like the best bet.
At the time, the Village Shopping Center located off Mays Boulevard in Incline was a thriving business location. Over the years, however, the Brockelsbys have seen the businesses come and go.
"As the town changes, people sometimes forget the Village Shopping Center is here," Brockelsby said.
But Bar Bar Bar Pizza clientele have remained loyal to the family-based restaurant and in return, the owners haven't shrunk their product, inflated their prices or altered their recipes, Brockelsby said.
"We've been doing our lunch special for 15 years and I'm proud to say we've never gone up in price, never shrunk it, and we've continued to do it as we always do," she said. "I'm amazed how many people come have lunch with us or take it to go, and they keep coming back.
"Our clientele is wonderful."
Maybe it's the flavorful pizza that entices customers to return to the establishment, or perhaps it's because the restaurant is built around the fundamentals of giving back to the Incline Village community.
Every year in October for Brockelsby's birthday, she puts together Rhonda's Coat Drive, a fundraiser in which the small-business owner collects jackets for the Boys and Girls Club of Reno. This past October, with the help of the community, Brockelsby was able to donate more than 150 coats to children in need.
"There are so many people in need and I really don't need presents on my birthday, so it's a good thing to give to somebody else," Brockelsby said.
The pizza and gaming joint also sponsors dozens of local organizations, including Incline High School, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, after school programs, the Pet Network Humane Society of Incline Village, Toys for Tots and Relay for Life, to name a few.
"High school kids come almost every school day for a discount lunch," said Brockelsby. "Then they come back when they are adults, which I love, and they bring their families back to say 'this is where I had lunch every day' — that's always an honor."
The small mountain community has made Bar Bar Bar Pizza a staple establishment, but when TV producers from CSI Las Vegas asked to use the Bar Bar Bar logo in a season four episode, and when the pizza place served as the background of a scene in the novel "Dreams of the Dead," the Brockelsbys knew they had earned their place.
"We have people that have been with us since we opened our door in 1988 and we feel so fortunate to have that," Brockelsby said.
And it's not just the owners who feel grateful for the success of their business. Dani Rand, a Bar Bar Bar Pizza bartender for nearly two years, said it's undoubtedly one of the best jobs she's had.
"I love working there. Rhonda and her parents are amazing people to work for and it's so nice working for a local family and not a big corporation," said Rand. "They've been really good to me."
Brockelsby said it's hard to predict what will happen with Bar Bar Bar Pizza, but she hopes to remain a part of the Incline community for the foreseeable future.
Through a recent partnership with the Incline Village Business Association, the Brockelsbys are hoping to increase sales through a new online marketing campaign and customers can anticipate a Bar Bar Bar/U-Bake Pizza website to launch soon, Brockelsby said.
"It all depends on the town and it's not all easy, but we will be here as long as the town continues to support us," she said. "It's work, but it's also very personal. A lot of people who come in are our friends. If somebody comes in and needs something, we can figure out how to get it. If somebody is sick, we take them pizza. If somebody hasn't seen someone for couple of days, we go knock on their door. That's what small towns are all about; we have to take care of each other."


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I'm streaming movies from my desktop (Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP1, Intel Core i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7900) to PS3 using PS3 Media Server 1.72.0 Build d9fd0a44c. I'm connected wireless via a Linksys E2500 Router.
This normally works very well but yesterday I tried to stream a movie with subtitles and after no more than about a minute into the movie there is some small stuttering.
I've tried all Transcoding options. Some stutter more, and some less, but all do so.
When I play the movie without subtitles the stuttering is gone.
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Many moderate to liberal bishops across America are opposing the anti-Obama rhetoric they see from more conservative colleagues such as Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, the Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is reporting.
Dolan yesterday lashed out at the Obama administration against claiming that President Obama's health care policy is "strangling" religious freedom.
The Cardinal said: "I worry that members of [President Obama's] administration might not particularly understand our horror at the restricted nature of the exemption that they're giving us.
"For the first time we can remember, a bureau of the federal government seems to be radically intruding on what the term of a church is."
However, bishops in California in particular are seeking a more moderate line on the issue of health care rights and seeking to forge a compromise with the Obama administration.
Dionne points out that only 13 of the 105 dioceses across the country joined the recent law suit against the Obama administration.
Many Catholic Bishops wanted a compromise, he stated.
"Until now, bishops who believed that their leadership was aligning the institutional church too closely with the political right had voiced their doubts internally.
"But in recent months, a series of events — among them the Vatican's rebuke of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, encouraged by right-wing U.S. bishops — have angered more progressive Catholics and led to talk among the disgruntled faithful of the need for a "Catholic spring" to challenge the hierarchy's shift to the right," Dionne wrote.
Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., has now taken on his more conservative colleagues, Dionne reported.
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In an interview with America, the Jesuit magazine, Blaire stated that groups "very far to the right" are turning the controversy over the contraception rules into "an anti-Obama campaign".
"I think there are different groups that are trying to co-opt this and make it into [a] political issue, and that's why we need to have a deeper discussion as bishops," he said.
"I think our rhetoric has to be that of bishops of the church who are seeking to be faithful to the Gospel, that our one concern is that we make sure the church is free to carry out her mission as given to her by Christ, and that remains our focus."
Meanwhile, lawyers for California's bishops said the lawsuits against the Obama administration would be "imprudent" and "ill-advised."
Many moderate bishops have highlighted Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore as well as Dolan as being the key figures behind the anti Obama drive.
Dionne wrote that "Bishop Blaire believes discussions with the Obama administration toward a resolution of the dispute could be fruitful even as alternative remedies are explored.
Cardinal Dolan told CBS show "This Morning" that the compromise reached over the health plan policy earlier this year was insufficient because the exemptions being made for the Church are too restrictive.
He said, "They tell us if you're really going be considered a church, if you're going to be really exempt from these demands of the government, well, you have to propagate your Catholic faith and everything you do, you can serve only Catholics and employ only Catholics.
"We're like, wait a minute, when did the government get in the business of defining for us the extent of our ministry."
The Catholic institutions are suing in protest over the government's requirement that most employers provide birth control coverage as part of employee's health plans. After initial protest from Catholic establishments, Obama offered to soften this rule so the insurer would pay for the birth control, rather than the religious groups.
Dolan, the bishops, and the other Catholic groups suing the Obama administration, feel that this doesn't go far enough.
Speaking to CBS, Dolan criticized Georgetown University's decision to invite Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary, to speak to graduates last week.
He said, "Well, I do think that's a problem. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic university in the country. Part of Catholic identity is to be in union with the bishops.


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the show starts out in nice festive fashion with a my soul, yamar opener. good summer time tunes. oh kee gets the crowed anxious for whatever may come next, then they blast into a nice sharp ac/dc bag. nice classic phish. they don't take this one out to far, but it is a nice precursor to the rare, for the time, wedge. this one is pretty well played, but it still lacks the fluidity that is present in this tune later. i love vultures. this was easily one of my favorite "first set tunes" from this era of phish. they just played this song so well, and this one is no exception. the tension of vultures is resolved when the band gets back into fun mode with i didn't. fefy cools things down before a nice firey bowie closes the set. fishman plays really well on this one, and trey navigates through this jam seemlessly.
ghost is a great party time/fourth of july opener. they take a nice textured funk jam on this one, similar to most this summer. i would say i still like the columbus version a lot better; that one cant be beat, but this one travels into some nice dark territorities before rolling into a very pleasant slave. this slave just has a wonderful layed back tempo, but it the band does not seem to lose focus. trey and page play off each other very well, and after that monster opening duo, the band earned a quick breather. they picked horse>silent, which is one of my favorite breather selections. well played and it works nicely into what's the use. not my favorite tune, but there are a few sets, namely this one and first night of deer creek '00, where i feel it just seems to fit well. wilson gets the crowd back and fired up after the opiated daze of wtu. they let this energy roll right into a very strong mike's song. i, unfortunately, feel this song really peaked between 95 and 98, but this one is still worth the listen. page plays under trey brilliantly, while gordo and fishman just drive this one way up high. while i feel this song was past its prime, i do feel this one is completely worth the listen. in fact, and i need to check my tapes out to see if there's one i'm forgetting about, this may be my favorite mike's groove of the year, except for memphis. anyway, after the mike's jam eases off, they roll into sleepy monkey. gordon seems extra fired up for an excellent set closing weekapaugh. trey rips off a really nice solo in there to...certainly inspired by gordon's firey playing.
carini is somewhat of a surprise encore, but hey, why not? it works. then, as they were proned to do in 99, they took every chance they could to get everyone into the meatstick dance. not my cup of tea but hey...
are they leaving without performing their patriotic duties... oh no...they rolled out in these goofy stars and stripes outfits, some more clothed than others. a nice little run through the ssb before the fireworks kicked up....
overall, this is an excellent show. it's not the best of the tour, but the playing is sharp, the setlist is rock solid, and the boys seemed to really be gassed for this one. if you don't have this show, pick it up. if you like this one, see columbus 99. the first set is not as strong, but i like its ghost>free combo better than this very good ghost>slave combo. also, it has an interesting 30 min birds of a feather.
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the wedge, vultures, bowie
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$16 got me a whole tank of gas. So I started a new trail. Don't know if its shorter, but it starts at Baker Beach goes through and up Battery Chamberlain, and continues by the Bunkers until you go underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, through the tunnel and down to Crissy Field. Cross over the estuary on the wooden plank bridge, up Halleck on to the Main Post and Pershing Square (incidentally, that is the tallest flag pole in San Francisco, at aprox. 205 feet and 2.5 tons). Then past the Presidio Theatre and cut across and blow up the Cemetery Trail. Below Nauman and up the trail to the Wine Bunker, Immigrant Point, the lost at sea memorial, and down Battery Crosby and the Sand Ladder back to the beach.
Think I want to do this a few more times, like on Monday for sure. Recurrent lingering left hamstring and so forth. I'll get a chance to rest it on Holiday. I think I have to come up with some new training program for 2009 after these holidays get settled. Anyways, just a way to finish up fall/winter. Prolly best to stick with what I got until after my race on Feb. 28.
btw. It was cute seeing all of the runners out there in the new gear they got for Xmas. My new adidas track suit is to hot to wear even in 40 degree temp. The weather was perfect. Cold clear with a high marine layer.
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Guideline examples[edit]
Non-free content that meets all of the policy criteria above but does not fall under one of the designated categories below may or may not be allowable, depending on what the material is and how it is used. These examples are not meant to be exhaustive, and depending on the situation there are exceptions. When in doubt as to whether non-free content may be included, please make a judgement based on the spirit of the policy, not necessarily the exact wording. If you want help in assessing whether a use is acceptable, please ask at WikiQueer:Media copyright questions. WikiQueer talk:Copyrights, WikiQueer talk:Copyright problems, and WikiQueer talk:Non-free content may also be useful. These are places where those who understand copyright law and WikiQueer policy are likely to be watching.
Acceptable use[edit]
The following cases are a non-exhaustive list of established examples of acceptable use of non-free media on WikiQueer. Note that the use of such media must still comply with the Non-free content criteria and provide rationales and licensing information.
Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea. Copyrighted text that is used verbatim must be attributed with quotation marks or other standard notation, such as block quotes. Any alterations must be clearly marked, i.e. [brackets] for added text, an ellipsis (...) for removed text, and emphasis noted after the quotation as "(emphasis added)" or "(emphasis in the original)". Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited.
Audio clips[edit]
All non-free audio files must meet each non-free content criteria; failure to meet those overrides any acceptable allowance here. Advice for preparing non-free audio files for WikiQueer can be found at WikiQueer:Music samples. The following list is non-inclusive but contains the most common cases where non-free audio samples may be used.
- Music clips may be used to identify a musical style, group, or iconic piece of music when accompanied by appropriate sourced commentary and attributed to the copyright holder. Samples should generally not be longer than 30 seconds or 10% of the length of the original song, whichever is shorter (see WikiQueer:Music samples).
- Spoken word clips of historical events, such as speeches by public figures, may be used when accompanied by appropriate sourced commentary and attributed to the speaker/author.
Some copyrighted images may be used on WikiQueer, providing they meet both the legal criteria for fair use, and WikiQueer's own guidelines for non-free content. Copyrighted images that reasonably can be replaced by free/libre images are not suitable for WikiQueer. All non-free images must still meet each non-free content criteria; failure to meet those overrides any acceptable allowance here. The following list is not exhaustive but contains the most common cases where non-free images may be used.
- Cover art: Cover art from various items, for identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary).
- Team and corporate logos: For identification. See WikiQueer:Logos.
- Stamps and currency: For identification of the stamp or currency, not its subject.
- Other promotional material: Posters, programs, billboards, ads. For critical commentary.
- Film and television screen shots: For critical commentary and discussion of the cinema and television.
- Screenshots from software products: For critical commentary.
- Paintings and other works of visual art: For critical commentary, including images illustrative of a particular technique or school.
- Images with iconic status or historical importance: As subjects of commentary.
- Images that are themselves subject of commentary.
Unacceptable use[edit]
The following are a non-inclusive list of examples where non-free content may not be used outside of the noted exceptions.
- Unattributed pieces of text from a copyrighted source.
- Excessively long copyrighted excerpts.
- An image of a newspaper article or other publication that contains long legible sections of copyrighted text. If the text is important as a source or quotation, it should be worked into the article in text form with the article cited as a source.
- All copyrighted text poses legal problems when making spoken word audio files from WikiQueer articles, and should be avoided in such files, because the resulting audio file cannot be licensed under the GFDL.
- A complete or partial recreation of "Top 100" or similar lists where the list has been selected in a creative manner, such as AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies. Articles on individual elements from such lists can discuss their inclusion in these lists. Complete lists based on factual data, such as List of highest-grossing films, are appropriate to include.[1]
- Excessive quantities of short audio clips in a single article. A small number may be appropriate if each is accompanied by commentary in the accompanying text.
- A long audio excerpt, to illustrate a stylistic feature of a contemporary band; see above for acceptable limits.
- A short video excerpt from a contemporary film, without sourced commentary in the accompanying text.
The use of non-free media (whether images, audio or video clips) in galleries, discographies, and navigational and user-interface elements generally fails the test for significance (criterion #8).
- Pictures of people still alive, groups still active, and buildings still standing; provided that taking a new free picture as a replacement (which is almost always considered possible) would serve the same encyclopedic purpose as the non-free image. This includes non-free promotional images.
- However, for some retired or disbanded groups, or retired individuals whose notability rests in large part on their earlier visual appearance, a new picture may not serve the same purpose as an image taken during their career, in which case the use would be acceptable.
- An album cover as part of a discography, as per the above.
- A rose, cropped from a record album, to illustrate an article on roses.
- A map, scanned or traced from an atlas, to illustrate the region depicted. Use may be appropriate if the map itself is a proper subject for commentary in the article: for example, a controversial map of a disputed territory, if the controversy is discussed in the article.
- An image whose subject happens to be a war, to illustrate an article on the war. Use may be appropriate if the image itself is a proper subject for commentary in the article: for example, an iconic image that has received attention in its own right, if the image is discussed in the article.
- An image to illustrate an article passage about the image, if the image has its own article (in which case the image may be described and a link provided to the article about the image)
- A photo from a press or photo agency (e.g., Associated Press, Corbis or Getty Images), unless the photo itself is the subject of sourced commentary in the article.
- A Barry Bonds baseball card, to illustrate the article on Barry Bonds. The use may be appropriate to illustrate a passage on the card itself.
- A magazine or book cover, to illustrate the article on the person whose photograph is on the cover. However, if the cover itself is the subject of sourced discussion in the article, it may be appropriate if placed inline next to the commentary. Similarly, a photo of a copyrighted statue (and there is no freedom of panorama in the country where the statue is) can only be used to discuss the statue itself, not the subject of it.
- An image with an unknown or unverifiable origin. This does not apply to historical images, where sometimes only secondary sources are known, as the ultimate source of some historical images may never be known with certainty.
- A chart or graph. These can almost always be recreated from the original data.
- A commercial photograph reproduced in high enough resolution to potentially undermine the ability of the copyright holder to profit from the work.
- Board or card game artwork and photos where the game itself is shown more than de minimis; such images can nearly always be replaced by a free de minimis photograph of the game's layout while it is being played. Exceptions are made for parts of a board or card games that have received critical commentary.
Non-free image use in list articles[edit]
In articles and sections of articles that consist of several small sections of information for a series of elements common to a topic, such as a list of characters in a fictional work, non-free images should be used judiciously to present the key visual aspects of the topic. It is inadvisable to provide a non-free image for each entry in such an article or section. The following considerations should be made to reduce the number of new non-free images associated with such lists:
- Images that show multiple elements of the list at the same time, such as a cast shot or montage for a television show, are strongly preferred over individual images. Such an image should be provided by the copyright holder or scanned/captured directly from the copyrighted work, instead of being created from multiple non-free images by the user directly (as the "extent" of use is determined by the number and resolution of non-free images, and not the number of files.)
- Images which are discussed in detail in the context of the article body, such as a discussion of the art style, or a contentious element of the work, are preferable to those that simply provide visual identification of the elements.
- An image that provides a representative visual reference for other elements in the article, such as what an alien race may look like on a science-fiction television show, is preferred over providing a picture of each element discussed.
- If another non-free image of an element of an article is used elsewhere within WikiQueer, referring to its other use is preferred over repeating its use on the list and/or including a new, separate, non-free image. If duplicating the use of a non-free image, please be aware that a separate non-free fair use rationale must be supplied for the image for the new use.
- For media that involves live actors, do not supply an image of the actor in their role if an appropriate free image of the actor exists on their page (as per WQ:BLP and above), if there is little difference in appearance between actor and role. However, if there is a significant difference due to age or makeup and costuming, then, when needed, it may be appropriate to include a non-free image to demonstrate the role of the actor in that media.
- Barring the above, images that are used only to visually identify elements in the article should be used as sparingly as possible. Consider restricting such uses to major characters and elements or those that cannot be described easily in text, as agreed to by editor consensus.
Non-free image use in galleries or tables[edit]
The use of non-free images arranged in a gallery or tabular format is usually unacceptable, but should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Exceptions should be very well-justified and alternate forms of presentation (including with fewer images) strongly considered.
In categories that include non-free content, MediaWiki's __NOGALLERY__ code should be used to disable the display of the content while still listing it.
Exemptions from non-free content policy are made for the use of non-free content on certain administrative, non-article space pages as necessary to creating or managing the encyclopedia, specifically for those that are used to manage questionable non-free content. Those pages that are exempt are listed in Category:WikiQueer non-free content criteria exemptions.
Implementation and enforcement[edit]
Non-free images need a copyright tag, source information, and use rationales. We have various copyright tag templates. Be sure to describe the source from which the image was obtained. A separate use rationale must be given for each use of the image in an article, specific to that particular use. All of these go in the image description page at the time the image file is uploaded. Additional rationales must be provided for additional uses.
Explanation of policy and guidelines[edit]
"Free" content is defined as that which meets the "Definition of Free Cultural Works".
Material that is not free is permitted only if it meets the restrictions of this policy. Being generous to the world sometimes means being hard on ourselves. Please understand that these rules are not arbitrary; they are central to our mission.
WikiQueer distributes content throughout the world with no restrictions on how people use it. Legally, we could use any copyrighted material for ourselves that is either licensed to us by the owner, or that fits the definition of "fair use" under US copyright law. However, we favor content that everyone can use, not just WikiQueer. We want them to be free to use, redistribute, or modify the content, for any purpose, without significant legal restrictions, particularly those of copyright.
To honor its mission, WikiQueer accepts incoming copyright licenses only if they meet WikiQueer's definition of "free" use. This is a higher standard than we would need just for our own use. But our ability to use a work does not guarantee that others may use it. We reject licenses that limit use exclusively to WikiQueer or for non-commercial purposes. Commercial use is a complex issue that goes well beyond a company's for-profit status, another reason to be careful. In fact, we reject any licenses with significant limitations. That is not free enough.
Similarly, WikiQueer, like Wikipedia, imposes higher fair-use standards on itself than US copyright law. There are some works, such as important photographs, significant modern artworks, that we cannot realistically expect to be released under a free content license, but that are hard to discuss in an educational context without including examples from the media itself. In other cases such as cover art / product packaging, a non-free work is needed to discuss a related subject. This policy allows such material to be used if it meet U.S. legal tests for fair use, but we impose additional limitations. Just because something is "fair use" on a WikiQueer article in the US does not mean it is fair use in another context. A downstream user's commercial use of content in a commercial setting may be illegal even if our noncommercial use is legal. Use in another country with different fair use and fair dealing laws may be illegal as well. That would fail our mission. We therefore limit the media content we offer, to make sure what we do offer has the widest possible legal distribution.
We do not want downstream re-users to rely solely on our assurances. They are liable for their own actions, no matter what we tell them. We therefore show them and let them make their own decision. To that end we require a copyright tag describing the nature of a copyrighted work, sourcing material saying exactly where any non-free content comes from, and a detailed non-free media rationale for every use of copyrighted content in every article, justifying why use in that article is permitted.
A further goal of minimizing licensed and fair-use material is to encourage creation of original new content, rather than relying on borrowed content that comes with restrictions.
Legal position[edit]
In general[edit]
Under United States copyright law, creative works published in the United States prior to 1923 are in the public domain. Some creative works published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 are still copyrighted. It is illegal (among other things) to reproduce or make derivative works of copyrighted works without legal justification.[2] Unless a thorough search is conducted to determine that a copyright has expired or not been renewed, it should be regarded as copyrighted.[3]
Certain works have no copyright at all. Most material published in the United States before 1923, works published before 1978 without a copyright notice, with an expired copyright term, or produced by the US federal government, among others, is public domain, i.e. has no copyright. Some such as photos and scans of 2-dimensional objects and other "slavish reproductions", short text phrases, typographic logos, and product designs, do not have a sufficient degree of creativity apart from their functional aspects to have a copyright.
Copyright law only governs creative expressions that are "fixed in a tangible medium of expression," not the ideas or information behind the works. It is legal to reformulate ideas based on written texts, or create images or recordings inspired by others, as long as there is no copying.
If material does have a copyright, it may only be copied or distributed under a license (permission) from the copyright holder, or under the doctrine of fair use. If there is a valid license, the user must stay within the scope of the license (which may include limitations on amount of use, geographic or business territory, time period, nature of use, etc.). Fair use, by contrast, is a limited right to use copyrighted works without permission, highly dependent on the specific circumstances of the work and the use in question. It is a doctrine incorporated as a clause in United States copyright code, arising out of a concern that strict application of copyright law would limit criticism, commentary, scholarship, and other important free speech rights. A comparable concept of fair dealing exists in some other countries, where standards may vary.
Anything published in other countries and copyrighted there, is copyright in the United States.[4]
Applied to WikiQueer[edit]
Never use materials that infringe the copyrights of others. This could create legal liabilities and seriously hurt the project.
Uploading an image file, audio or video file, or text quotation into WikiQueer, and adding that file to a project page, both raise copyright concerns. Editors who do either must make sure their contributions are legal. If there is any doubt as to legality, ask others for help, try to find a free equivalent, or use your own words to make the same point. Also, consider asking the copyright holder to release the work under an appropriate Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) or a CC-BY-SA-compatible license (dual-licensing under a GFDL license is also possible). See WikiQueer:Boilerplate request for permission for a sample form letter.
If a work has no copyright or is licensed to WikiQueer under an acceptable "free" license, it is a free work and may be used on WikiQueer without copyright concerns. See Cornell University's guide to copyright terms for discussion of works that are not covered by copyright. Also see WikiQueer:Image copyright tags/Free licenses for a list of copyright tags for these works. Restricted licenses to these works offer some legal rights, but WikiQueer ignores them because they are not free enough for its purposes. Instead, works covered by inadequate licenses are treated the same on WikiQueer as works with no licenses at all.
If a work is not free, WikiQueer requires that it comply with WikiQueer's non-free use policy. As explained above, this policy is more restrictive than US law requires. Logically, material that satisfies the policy should also satisfy legal requirements as well. However, to be more certain of avoiding legal liability, and to understand the meaning of WikiQueer policy, editors should consider the legal rules as well. See the Stanford University summary of relevant cases, on the subject of fair use.
Non-free material is used only if, in addition to other restrictions, we firmly believe that the use would be deemed fair use if we were taken to court. The Aequalitas Project reserves the right to remove unfree copyrighted content at any time. Note that citation sources and external links raise other copyright concerns that are addressed in other policies.
See also[edit]
- WikiQueer:Basic copyright issues — An essay explaining the rationale behind the fair use policy
- WikiQueer:Copyright FAQ
- WikiQueer:Copyright problems
- WikiQueer:Copyrights
- WikiQueer:Media copyright questions
- WikiQueer:Deletion of all fair use images of living people (historical page)
- WikiQueer:Example requests for permission: how to ask a rights holder for free use of existing materials
- WikiQueer:Removal of fair use images — An essay regarding the removal of images from user and template spaces
- WikiQueer:History of non-free content policies - Survey of the development of the present NFC policy
- WikiQueer:Quotations#Fair use
- WikiQueer:Veganism parable
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- ↑ The Wikimedia Foundation's associate counsel advised Wikipedians in March 2011 that while the courts have not firmly established precedence on the matter, polls are likely to be protectable as well because the parameters of the survey are chosen by those who conduct the polls and the selection of respondents indicates "at least some creativity." She recommended using polls in accordance with fair use principles, reminding that "Merely republishing them without any commentary or transformation is not fair use." She also recommends that the use of even uncopyrightable lists be considered with regards to licensing agreements that may "bind the user/reader from republishing the list/survey results without permission", noting that "Absent a license agreement, you may still run afoul of state unfair competition and/or misappropriation laws if you take a substantial portion of the list or survey results."
- ↑ "A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For books, the figure was even lower: 7%. Barbara Ringer, "Study No. 31: Renewal of Copyright" (1960) "Study No. 31: Renewal of Copyright" (1960), reprinted in Library of Congress Copyright Office. Copyright law revision: Studies prepared for the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, first [-second] session. (Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off, 1961), p. 220. ... A good guide to investigating the copyright and renewal status of published work is Samuel Demas and Jennie L. Brogdon, "Determining Copyright Status for Preservation and Access: Defining Reasonable Effort," Library Resources and Technical Services 41:4 (October, 1997): 323-334." , Hirtle, Peter (2007) Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States footnote 7. Of the total US material first published between 1923 and 1963, the percentage of renewed copyrights is far lower, because most published material was never registered at all.
- ↑ To find out how to search for copyright registrations and renewals, see, e.g., How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work, Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database, Project Gutenberg and Iinformation about The Catalog of Copyright Entries.
- ↑ Non-US copyrights apply in the US under the URAA.
External links[edit]
- TinEye.com, an effective tool to discover the original source of an image.
- A Fair(y) Use Tale by Media Education Foundation
- Coverage of U.S. fair use law by Cornell University
- Coverage of U.S. fair use law by Stanford University
- Guidance about fair use from .Edu site
- U.S. Copyright Office summary of fair use
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video - American University Center for Social Media. July 7, 2008.


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Originally Posted by BURGH86STEELI think that Parker is a tough inside runner. If he was not they would not call those plays. One way that Parker generates power is by the use of his speed and low center of gravity. If the center position was a bit stronger last season that would increase Parker's ability to gain those tough yards. People fail to take into accout that Parker has not run behind a quality Oline in their primes.Originally Posted by stlrz dThe "Parker can't catch" myth needs to go away forever because it's based on people looking at his total catches and thinking, "He doesn't have many receptions so it must be because he can't catch." They seem to forget that 1) The Steelers historically just don't throw to the RB that often, and 2) When the do Parker usually isn't on the field...or he's kept in to pick up the blitz.
Here's part of a post I made on this topic once before and I think it bears repeating:
The links don't work because they can't be cut & pasted since when they were posted they are displayed as truncated links. The links can be accessed in my post in this thread: http://planetsteelers.com/phpBB3/viewto ... f=2&t=1052His receiving numbers over his career:
2004 - 8 games, 3 catches, 16 yards, 5.3 avg
2005 - 15 games, 18 catches, 218 yards, 12.1 avg
2006 - 16 games, 31 catches, 222 yards, 7.2 avg
2007 - 15 games, 23 catches, 164 yards, 7.1 avg
I don't recall seeing him drop many passes. The Steelers haven't thrown much to the running backs since Bettis was added to the roster. Take a look at his numbers for yourself: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/s ... ayerId=389
Here's Fred Macafee: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/s ... ayerId=152
Najeh Davenport: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/s ... yerId=3663
Amos Zereoue: http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/players/s ... yerId=1848
Tim Lester: http://www.databasefootball.com/players ... LESTETIM01
Fu: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/s ... yerId=1567
Erric Pegram: http://www.nfl.com/players/erricpegram/ ... =PEG358660
Bam Morris: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/p ... .htm?redir
You have to go back to John L. Williams in '94 to find a season when the Steelers really threw to the RB: http://www.nfl.com/players/johnl.willia ... =WIL381258
That's all I can think for RBs of at the moment. I couldn't even find stats on Jon Whitman.
Shall I continue or can we put to rest the Parker can't catch myth?
Will Mendenhall change that? Who knows...every time the Steelers draft a TE they say they will throw to them more and it never seems to work out that way...so I have my doubts.
Now, as for Parker getting the "tough" yards, how do you define tough? Does tough yards mean we need 2 yards and the O line gets one but FWP is responsible for the other or do you define it as FWP is responsible for 2? If your definition is the latter then you're talking about only a small handful of backs who are capable of that. If your definition is the former (as is mine) then I would say that FWP is not nearly as bad as many want to make him out to be. There is no doubt he's not a power back...he doesn't have the physical size to be a power back. That's genetics. But is he a quality back in this league? Absolutely. He takes a pounding and keeps coming back for more. A freak injury in St. Louis probably cost him the rushing title in '07...that certainly accounts for something.
I suspect if we had an O line on par with the Vikings or Cowboys the Parker critics would be silenced.
I agree the myth about Parker not being a good pass catcher. Parker can catch the football. Most times they do not call plays for Parker or Ben does not look his way when there is nothing open down field. You cannot blame the OC for not throwing the football to the RBs outside of screens with the other weapons they have to incorporate into the offense. It amazes me that people still do not think Parker can get it done after producing quality numbers over the last 2 to 3 years. After all he was leading the league in rushing before he got injured. That means he had more yards than all of the other RBs in the league behind a worse Oline.
I must be in the Twilight Zone.


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