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Expertise: Cerebral Palsy, Neurogenetics, Neurology
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Dr. Fatemi received his medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria in 1999. After graduation, he served as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Medical Chemistry in Vienna and at the Department of Pediatrics at the Vienna General Hospital. He then moved to the United States to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics and neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001.
During this initial period, Dr. Fatemi collaborated with a team of scientists and developed new imaging methods in patients with leukodystrophies (rare genetic diseases that affect the brain's white matter) and coordinated an internet-2 based imaging network for these diseases. He then left Kennedy Krieger Institute to train in general pediatrics and then completed a child neurology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fatemi returned to the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2008 as faculty.
He is a member of the Child Neurology Society, the International Child Neurology Association, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Academy of Neurology and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He has served as ad hoc reviewer for the Journals Child Development and American Journal of Neuroradiology.
- Associate Professor of Neurology
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Neurology - Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Pediatrics - Kennedy Krieger Institute
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- MD, University of Vienna (1999)
- SUNY Downstate Medical Center / Pediatrics (2005)
- Massachusetts General Hospital / Neurology (2008)
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Research Summary
Dr. Fatemi is also a research scientist who focuses on genetic and acquired conditions that lead to cerebral palsy. In the laboratory, his team has developed a number of animal models of neonatal brain injury with a focus on testing different therapeutic interventions including stem cell therapies in these models. He has authored over 20 scientific articles and several book chapters and has co-edited a book on leukodystrophies.
The brain's white matter consists of axons that build up a complex network of connections between different neurons. Axons are wrapped by oligodendrocytes, cells that produce myelin, a thick membrane that isolates and protects the axons. Other cellsastrocytesare important constituents of white matter, supporting brain metabolism and acting as gatekeepers for nutrients that enter the brain. Disorders of white matter can affect axons, oligodendrocytes or astroyctes. Perinatally acquired white matter injury is the leading cause of cerebral palsy and other neuropsychiatric conditions in children born prematurely. Dr. Fatemi is a member of the neuroscience laboratory and the F.M. Kirby Research Center for functional brain imaging. He collaborates closely with a multi-disciplinary group of scientists at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute and at Johns Hopkins to study the molecular mechanism involved in white matter development and injury in cerebral palsy and perinatal white matter injury, using molecular, histological and advanced MRI techniques to examine rodent models. The neuroscience laboratory also uses animal models as a test bed for cell-based therapeutic approaches, including stem cells and progenitor cells derived from mouse embryos. Dr. Fatemi and his colleagues evaluate the survival of transplanted cells in injured animals, and how they migrate to the desired site and eventually restore white matter function, either by differentiation into more mature cells or by providing support to the injured tissue. Dr. Fatemi is also a member of the Neurogenetics Research Center at Kennedy Krieger and is involved in clinical and imaging research studies of patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy.
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A Diagnostic Approach for Cerebral Palsy in the Genomic Era. Lee RW, Poretti A, Cohen JS, Levey E, Gwynn H, Johnston MV, Hoon AH, Fatemi A. Neuromolecular Med. 2014 Oct 4. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:25280894
Neurogenetics Fatemi A. Semin Neurol. 2014 Jul;34(3):237. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1386761. Epub 2014 Sep 5. No abstract available. PMID:25192501
Clinical whole exome sequencing in child neurology practice. Srivastava S, Cohen JS, Vernon H, Barañano K, McClellan R, Jamal L, Naidu S, Fatemi A. Ann Neurol. 2014 Oct;76(4):473-83. doi: 10.1002/ana.24251. Epub 2014 Aug 30. PMID:25131622
A novel variant in GABRB2 associated with intellectual disability and epilepsy. Srivastava S, Cohen J, Pevsner J, Aradhya S, McKnight D, Butler E, Johnston M, Fatemi A. Am J Med Genet A. 2014 Nov;164(11):2914-21. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.36714. Epub 2014 Aug 13. PMID:25124326
Systemic Injection of CD34+-Enriched Human Cord Blood Cells Modulates Poststroke Neural and Glial Response in a Sex-Dependent Manner in CD1 Mice. Kadam SD, Chen H, Markowitz GJ, Raja S, George S, Shotwell E, Loechelt B, Johnston MV, Kamani N, Fatemi A, Comi AM. Stem Cells Dev. 2014 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:25121827
Pathologic role of glial nitric oxide in adult and pediatric neuroinflammatory diseases. Ghasemi M, Fatemi A. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2014 Sep;45:168-82. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.06.002. Epub 2014 Jun 13. PMID:24933692
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Many small businesses have been disabled by Superstorm Sandy, but they can take certain measures to speed recovery. Bankrate talked to a wide range of experts, both in the academic and business communities, to come up with a business disaster recovery plan.
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"The first step is to assess your damage," says Jeffrey Robinson, an assistant professor at Rutgers Business School in Newark and New Brunswick, N.J. "It sounds simple," but in a time of great stress, it can be easy to skip vital steps.
Check for damage to your equipment or building. If you lease your space, building damage is the owner's responsibility. "Document damages and take photos of losses," says Gerald McSwiggan, senior manager of the Business Civic Leadership Center's disaster assistance service. The BCLC is affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Then, figure out your economic damage, Robinson says. "If your power was out for a couple days, what would you have been making without a hurricane? The impact can last for weeks if you can't get supplies or get to clients or if customers can't come to a retailer."
If you have property or business interruption insurance, contact your insurer immediately, so you can find out exactly what reimbursement you are entitled to and get it quickly. Many insurers are now besieged with storm requests, so it may take some time.
Next, identify local, state and federal resources that are available to provide assistance. "They are plentiful, but it's a challenge to know which ones are for you," Robinson says. You can find the resources through an Internet search.
Unfortunately for businesses in great distress, almost all aid programs provide loans rather than grants. "But even if you think right now you don't want a loan, you might think differently in 30 days," McSwiggan says. "Go ahead and apply to see what assistance is available."
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The Small Business Administration, or SBA, has two loan programs to help storm victims. One is a disaster loan for physical damages. Businesses can borrow up to $2 million to repair real estate, machinery and other assets damaged by Sandy. The interest rate does not exceed 4%, and the SBA offers terms of up to 30 years.
You can also increase the loan by up to 20% of the amount of damages to make improvements to mitigate the cost of future disasters.
The second program consists of economic injury disaster loans. These loans apply to any expenses a business would have been able to handle had the storm not occurred -- rent and utilities, for example. Think of the loan as working capital to cover operational costs. Again, up to $2 million can be borrowed at up to a 4% interest rate with terms up to 30 years.
If you apply for both loans, you can only receive $2 million altogether, not $4 million. The loans are available to companies in the portions of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that were declared disaster areas.
The SBA encourages businesses to file their applications online for a quicker turnaround. The agency tries to give applicants a decision within 10 days, says spokeswoman Carol Chastang.
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An array of loan programs and helpful information is available at the state and local level, too, offered by groups such as the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The NYCEDC also serves as a repository of information about workspace available to flooded businesses from other businesses with extra space.
Your local Chamber of Commerce also may be able to help. The BCLC has set up an assistance hotline: (888) 692-4943. Some local chambers are setting up business disaster recovery programs that may include grants, says McSwiggan.
Government agencies should implement grant programs, says Robinson. "Everything can't be a loan because it puts people deeper into debt," he maintains. "Some people say, why give them free money? The money will go in one way or another. The question is, what's the best way to get money directly to business owners with the lowest impact?"
On the insurance front, many small businesses go without coverage such as business interruption insurance. It is during disasters such as Sandy when they learn the folly of their decisions, experts say. The best way to be ready after a catastrophe hits is by preparing beforehand.
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Many people are unfamiliar with business interruption insurance. It reimburses you for loss of income when your business is disabled by a disaster. For example, Robinson, who owns a day spa with his wife, has coverage that is triggered after they lose power for more than eight hours.
Keep in mind that you'll need documentation of your sales history to get properly reimbursed, he says.
A lot of businesses also don't realize that private insurance companies' property coverage doesn't include floods. The government provides flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program.
In purchasing insurance, consider policies with high deductibles and low premiums, says Dennis Ceru, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass. You can "self-insure" with the money you save in premiums, putting it aside for a rainy day.
To put a business disaster recovery plan in place, "a lot of it comes down to being a good Boy Scout -- be prepared," Ceru says.
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Tea Party firestorm could stall other IRS probes
WASHINGTON —The political firestorm over the Internal Revenue Service's admission that it targeted conservative groups for additional scrutiny during the 2012 election could jeopardize separate efforts underway in Congress to force the agency to crack down on non-profit political organizations, observers say.
Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, immediately denounced the IRS after a top official acknowledged that organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional questioning. The Republican-controlled House plans an investigation.
The scandal erupted Friday when Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, apologized for the enhanced scrutiny of Tea Party-related groups' tax-exempt applications. She told reporters Friday that the actions were undertaken by low-level employees in Cincinnati, and that she learned of the additional scrutiny through news reports last year.
STORY: IRS knew of Tea Party profiling in 2011, report shows
A draft timeline of events compiled by the agency's inspector general, however, indicates Lerner was briefed about the additional scrutiny in 2011.
"This is going to be fodder for partisan warfare in Congress," said Richard Hasen, a campaign-finance expert who teaches law at the University of California-Irvine. He said congressional hearings are justified.
"At the very least, it's a distraction for the IRS," he said. "At the most, it will significantly dampen efforts to rein in shadowy" groups.
Campaign-finance watchdogs, along with a handful of mostly Democratic lawmakers, have put increasing pressure on the IRS to more closely monitor the actions of self-described "social welfare" organizations — arguing these groups have abused the tax code to mask their funders.
These tax-exempt groups can conduct political activity, but it cannot be their primary function. Experts say that groups are spending as much as 49% of their money on politics, instead of a minimal amount.
In the 2012 election, social welfare groups — led by Crossroads GPS, an organization linked to Republican strategist Karl Rove — spent more than $254 million on last-minute advertising to shape the outcome of the presidential and congressional elections, according to a tally by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political money.
None disclosed its donors.
Bills in the House and Senate would require top donors to put their names on any political advertising they helped fund. Previous efforts to pass similar measures have failed. Proposed legislation introduced last month by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also would give the IRS the power to temporarily revoke the tax-exempt status of serious violators.
Wyden said political operatives are "masquerading as tax-exempt social welfare groups."
"The IRS has refused to take on its clear responsibility to interpret and enforce the existing law when it comes to these tax-exempt 'social welfare' groups that injected massive amounts of dark money into the 2012 elections," he said.
David Keating, president of the Center for Competitive Politics, which favors fewer campaign-finance regulations, said the IRS incident "proves Congress should not pass pending legislation to give the IRS more power over advocacy or political groups."
"The agency abuses that power, doesn't understand the need to exercise it with caution, or is simply incompetent to exercise it with care," he said.
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David Vance of the Campaign Legal Center, one of the campaign-finance watchdog groups urging the IRS to investigate social-welfare groups, said that "the goal of this political storm is to scuttle the IRS cracking down on the larger abuses."
"I hope this doesn't cause them to turn around with their tail behind their legs and leave the field," he said.
The controversial IRS action disclosed Friday did not involve groups that had already secured their tax-exempt status and were active in politics. Instead, IRS officials decided to subject conservative groups to additional questions as they reviewed the organizations' applications for tax-exempt status.
Lerner, who heads the IRS Exempt Organization section, said workers inappropriately assumed that any group with "tea party" or "patriot" in its name needed more scrutiny for political activity just because of its name. About 300 groups that had applied for tax-exempt status were put into a "bucket" of cases needing further scrutiny, and of those, about a quarter had Tea Party affiliations, she said.
Lerner said what happened in Cincinnati won't affect the agency's ability to investigate other tax-exempt groups for improper political conduct. Officials who conduct those reviews are "used to looking at organizations in a very different way," she said.
Those reviews are done by staffers in Dallas, who submit allegations to a review panel, which decides if further investigation is warranted. She said the episode has further sensitized the IRS to avoiding even the appearance of political decision-making. Lerner made her apology at a meeting of the American Bar Association's exempt organization committee in Washington on Friday.
Suzanne Ross McDowell, a partner with Steptoe & Johnson who heads that committee, said the IRS has been inundated with new applications for tax-exempt organizations ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2010 to allow direct corporate and union spending on independent political advertising.
"But there is a lot of uncertainty about how you draw the line between intervention in a political campaign, and other activities that are not intervention in a political campaign, such as issue advocacy," she said.
"These are very tough questions, and I don't think any of us have the answer."
Richard Briffault, a campaign-finance expert at Columbia Law School, said the IRS has a legitimate responsibility to examine whether organizations that receive tax protections have appropriately limited their political activity. But, as non-profits proliferate, the agency has been pressured to play a larger role in helping to uncover donors who critics say choose to fund social-welfare groups just to hide their political contributions.
"If Congress were to develop more effective rules for campaign-finance disclosure … some of this problem would go away," Briffault said. "That doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon."
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William Bean was born 18 September 1792, we believe in Baltimore, Maryland. [Family lore leaves us to believe that, and a search through Baltimore Church records indicate a male child was baptized who was born on 18 September 1792, whose name was William Bean.]
At some point, William McBean [William's father], brought his wife, Sarah, and his oldest son, John, into the the Potts Valley area of Monroe County, Virginia [now West Virginia].
What happens next is unknown. William McBean disappears from history sometime before February 1804. It was then that Sarah places John Bean, her eldest son, into an indenture contract. [through the overseers for the county poor] where he was to be taught to be a weaver. [We'll discource on John another time.]
Just a few months later, on his 12th birthday, young William was also placed through the county poor for indenture. A copy of the contract is above.
A transcription of the document reads:
Dated 18 Sept. 1804
"This indenture made this 18th of Sept 1804 one thousand eight hundred and four between Jas. Christy owen Neal Robt Johnston and henry McDaniel of the one part overseers of the poor for monroe County and henry Smith of the other part witnesseth that the so overssers doth bind an orphan boy named William Bean aged twelfth years to the said henry Smith of the county aforesaid and State of virginia to Serve the said henry Smith until he arrives at the age of twenty one years, during all which time the Said William Bean Shall faithfully Serve his Master and all his lawful Commands obay he Sall not suffer any Damage to be done to his Said Masters goods without giving him notice thereof he Shall not frequent Still houses or taverns he shall not play at Cards dice or any unlawful game or at any time abscond himself from his masters business without his Masters leave he Shall not commit fornication nor Contract matrimony during said term but as a true and faithful servant shall truely and diligently Serve his Said Master until he arrives at the age aforesaid and the henry Smith in Consideration thereof doth Covenant and agree to have the so William Bean taught the art trade or Mastery of a Black Smith and provide for him a sufficiency of everyt thing thats requiset for an aprentice during the term of his aprenticeship likewise he is to have him taught to read the holy Scriptures planely to write a plane hand and arithmatic through te rule of three which Education he is to be thoroughly acquainted with at the Expiration of his time and also to give him Such freedom dues as the law direct taking Care to have Said aprentice instructed in the Principals and duties of the Christian religion as far as Said Master is Capable In writing whereof the partys have interchangeably set their hands inscribed this day and year above writen Signed Sealed ad delivered in the presents of - John Hinchman - Owen Neal - Henry Smith - Jas. Christy" [sic]
I have left the grammar exactly as the original was written. There are no paragraphical or line delineations. You will also note that punctuation is sporadic at best.
Young William was taught to be a blacksmith. It was a trade he did not use.
Instead, 9 years later on 20 Nov. 1813, he married the daughter of one of the county's most influential residents, Joseph Wiseman.He married Rachel, who was born in 1790.
By 1820 William had begun to have a collective amount of land that would net him a fortune [worth a couple of million dollars today]. He brought a suit against a Mr. Ballard in Monroe County [to whom he had been indentured], and won a large sum of money which enabled him to begin his climb to fortune. While the suit is named in Monroe County, records, no one, to date, has located the details of this suit. I have searched through the County Clerk's records for the time, and if the suit actually went to court, the records are not there to support it, although the date for hearing was set and is noted on the court calendar.
William led a full life. He and Rachel were married just 13 days shy of their 43rd wedding anniversary, when she succombed to a fever. [Their daughter Nancy had fallen from the same fever just 27 days earlier.] Rachel was buried in the family cemetery on Potts Creek, near present day Waiteville, WV.
William was 72 years old when he lead a posse of "home guard" to arrest some renegade's from the Civil War who had stolen items from various homes in the area [the latest being clothing from a washline]. As he was approaching a cabin in Wiseman's Hollow, one of the renegade's shot from the loft of the cabin. The bullet hitting William in the top of his head.
He was carried back to the Bean home on Potts Creek, and "layed out" in the parlor. He was buried the next day in the family cemetery beside his love, Rachel.
From the county poor, to one of the most wealthiest men in the county at the time, William Bean overcame and prospered.
When I hear individuals say that they are victims of their circumstance, I am compelled to them that we are all victims. But we must rise above that victim mentality to become victors.
What an example I have had to come before me.
William is but one of the examples from which I have shaped my life. The poor little boy, who was placed up for indenture on his 12th birthday. He was my great-great-grandfather.


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In an explosion of stars and stripes, fireworks and parades, Independence Day takes place in the United States today (4 July). In tribute to our friends over the pond, we've taken a look at a number of American composers who have had a great influence on the art form.
One of the best known American operas, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess saw the composer bridge opera and musical with what he called an "American folk opera". Premiering in 1935, the piece tells the story of a number of African-American residents of Catfish row in 1920s South Carolina. Although not a success when it opened, the piece's stock has risen and a number of songs from the folk opera have become hits in their own right – "Summertime" in particular, has been memorably performed by the likes of Billie Holiday and Miles Davis.
Philip Glass has dominated American classical music since the 1960s. As well as working on operas including Einstein on the Beach (recently receiving its British premiere as part of the London 2012 Festival) and Satyagraha, Glass has collaborated with artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Woody Allen. He remains tagged by many as a minimalist, although the composer prefers the description of 'classicist', referencing his training in harmony and study of Bach, Mozart and – apparently his favourite – Schubert.
President Richard Nixon and his 1972 visit to China provided John Adams with the inspiration for his first opera. A fusion of 20th century stateside sounds, the work melded Stravinskian neoclassicism with jazz and big band sounds, and even a synthesizer. The work has since been deemed a significant contribution to American opera.
He may be primarily known for his musicals – including Broadway heavyweight West Side Story – but Leonard Bernstein also wrote a slew of other works including ballets, film scores, orchestral works and operas. Candide, an operetta based on Voltaire's satirical novella, achieved enormous popularity. Originally premiering in 1956 on Broadway, the piece was revised with a new libretto in 1973 and was revised for a final time in 1989, a year prior to Bernstein's death.
Although not American-born, Igor Stravinsky became a US citizen in 1945, living out his days in Hollywood and New York. During his time in Los Angeles, Stravinsky became friends with the likes of George Balanchine, Aldous Huxley and WH Auden, with whom he collaborated on The Rake's Progress. According to legend, his unconventional arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" led to an incident with the Boston police who warned him that he could be fined for "rearrangement of the national anthem in whole or in part".
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Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers
The Mapping Texts project, a collaboration between the University of North Texas and Stanford University, recently released two new interactive visualizations that allow users to map language patterns embedded in 230,000 pages of digitized historical newspapers from the late 1820s through the early 2000s.
Sponsored by a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant (HD-51188-10), the project team—led by Andrew J. Torget and Jon Christensen—spent the last eighteen months experimenting with developing new methods for finding and analyzing patterns embedded in massive collections of historical newspapers.
The primary goal of the project, explains Torget, "was to find new ways for people to make sense of the overwhelming abundance of information being made available in the digital age. Historical newspapers are being digitized at an astonishing rate. The Chronicling America project, for example, now provides access to over four million pages. People are going to need new ways to make sense of such massive and rich collections, because when you can explore hundreds of millions of words a basic text search simply isn't enough."
The project focused on a collection of historical Texas newspapers digitized by the University of North Texas Library as part of NEH-funded National Digital Newspaper Program (and now available via the NEH/Library of Congress' Chronicling America site). Together, the UNT and Stanford teams experimented with ways to combine text-mining (to find patterns in the collection) and data visualization (to make sense of them) in order to produce new visual indexes of the newspapers. "By mapping the contents of these newspapers across both time and space, as well as the quality of the OCR digitization," says Christensen, "we aimed not just to reveal patterns and surprises in the collection that you simply would not otherwise see, but also to give researchers a concrete sense of what information is and what information is not available to them in a large digital archive."
The results are two interactive visualizations:
(1) "Mapping Newspaper Quality" maps a quantitative survey of the newspapers, plotting both the quantity and quality of information available in the digitized collection. Through graphs, timelines, and a regional map, users can explore the quantity of information available for any particular time period, location, or newspaper, as well as the quality of the digitization of the newspapers. By clicking on individual newspaper titles, users can also access the original newspaper pages.
(2) "Mapping Language Patterns" maps a qualitative survey of the newspapers, plotting major language patterns embedded in the collection. For any given time period, geography, or newspaper title, users can explore the most common words (word counts), named entities (people, places, etc), and highly correlated words (topic models), which together provide a window into the major language patterns emanating from the newspapers. Users can also click on individual newspaper titles to access the original documents.
One thing I find particularly compelling about this project is that since all the National Digital Newspaper Project pages are created using the same standards, work like the Mapping Texts project could, in theory, scale beyond the Texas newspapers to other states or even nationally. As we scan millions of pages of newspapers (and other humanities materials) new methods for searching and analyzing the materials will become critical to scholarship.
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Google user licenses: clarification would be nice, but they're not panic-worthy
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During its brief 11 days of public-albeit-limited existence, Google+ has breathed new life into online discourse. It also has brought new interest and attention to Google's Picasa service, which allows users to share photos to Google+.
Both Google+ and Picasa are governed by Google's Terms of Service, and involve a nonexclusive license of user data to Google. Take away the license, and you take the "share" out of a sharing service. Users are right to pay attention to the scope and implications of the license, and it's fantastic to see people examining it and making sure they're comfortable with the terms.
Professional photographer, podcaster, and prolific blogger Scott Bourne is no stranger to giving close reads to user license grants. Scott has decided not to use Google services in connection with his photography because he's rightly concerned it's impossible for him to grant an exclusive license for use and display of his work — something he and other photographers routinely need to do — if he has already licensed those rights elsewhere. It's an excellent point that photographers should bear in mind when using any Web service that stores, displays, and distributes their work. (We discussed this more on TWiL last week in connection with looking at the Dropbox terms of service.)
For users who don't need, as a matter of livelihood, to grant exclusive licenses to the text or photos they might otherwise share on a social network, Google's terms are a different matter. They grant Google the license to use submissions as necessary to run its services, with the following limitation:
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"The Services" are elsewhere defined as Google's products, software, services and web sites. Google would have a hard time using user content for anything other than operating and "promoting" its services (more on that below) given this language.
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First, users agree to let Google "make [their] Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services," and that Google and those third parties may "use such Content in connection with the provision of those services." "Syndicated services" aren't otherwise defined, so I'm not sure what to make of this. What kind of activity is this intended to cover? API calls? RSS and Atom? It would be nice to see an explanation there, bearing in mind that while users may decide they trust Google, granting unspecified, Google-discretionary rights to "other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships" is (or should be) a user red flag. Those relationships are Google's, not the user's.
Second, and another user red flag issue, is the "promotion" license. By signing up for Picasa and Google+, users do not reasonably contemplate pictures of their little "Sophie," conscientiously shared only to a "family" circle, showing up in ads or other materials Google may use to "promote" its services. I'm not saying Google would do this, but if that's not the intent, the license is too broad and the language should change. Worse, it's off-putting and inconsistent with the huge strides Google is making on the user trust, confidence, and privacy fronts with its Circles system. My suggestions: either eliminate "to promote" from the description of the license purpose, or provide reasonable limits, choices, and opt-outs for users for what kind of promotion is acceptable, and which submissions, if any, are eligible. (Maybe some parallel to Circles could be useful in implementing.) Surprises on this front are frustrating for users, and a potential PR disaster for the service — as Google well knows.
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- The "Ending your relationship with Google" section, paragraph 13 of the terms, is a well-written, straightforward, user-friendly complement to Google's Data Liberation Front.
- Picasa supports Creative Commons. Go to Picasa's Settings > Privacy and Permissions tab, and you'll see four CC licenses available. Unfortunately, this is a batch selection, not a photo-by-photo one. (Another potentially good place to implement Circles-type controls.)
Updates, July 11, 2011:
- William Carleton comments he thinks the full/downloaded app version of Picasa allows for photo-by-photo license selection. I've been using Picasa Web Albums, which is all of the product a user might ever see if they're using it solely in connection with Google+.
- Trout Monfalco points out that Twitpic recently used its licenses from users to enter into a deal with World Entertainment News Network whereby the latter will sell images originally posted on Twitpic for publication. (See Joshua Brustein/NY Times, Fine Print Blurs Who's in Control of Online Photos.) Remember that Google's terms of service expressly limit the purpose of the license to "enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services" (presumably ruling out deals like the Twitpic/WENN one as long as the limitation remains in place). Note Facebook has no such "purpose" limitation; users simply grant Facebook a license to "use" their "IP content."
- Rolando Gomez further examines Google's terms of service from a photographer's perspective, and particularly focuses on the perpetual, nonrevocable nature of the user license. (The content license to Google would survive even a user's express termination of her/his relationship with Google per paragraph 13 of the terms, since rights "which are expressed to continue indefinitely" are exempted.) The duration of the user license on Facebook has been subject to much public discussion and backlash, and it currently "ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it." So, is Google guilty of a "rights grab" if the user license remains nonrevocable? I think the express "purpose" limitations go a long way toward making the duration of the license (i.e., as long as the original copyright exists) palatable. Creative Commons licenses too are nonrevocable. And as Creative Commons wisely cautions, "if you depend on controlling the copyrights in your resources for your livelihood, you should think carefully before giving away commercial rights to your creative work."
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See also photographer Jim Goldstein, How I Evaluate Terms of Service for Social Media Web Sites – Google+


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The BBC picked the Woman of the Year for 2011. Sweetie, the panda, won hands down!
BBC executives debated for weeks about the most important woman of 2011. They considered Gabrielle Giffords, Michele Bachmann and Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, but none of those women were as important as Sweetie, the panda, who came to Scotland from mainland China.
Pippa Middleton is named as the female face of April after she caught the nation's attention as maid of honor at the wedding of her sister Kate to Prince William.
For December, the BBC picked Sweetie the panda, who arrived along with Sunshine in Edinburgh from China. The pandas are on loan to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland for $1.2 million a year.
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"In 2009, Benson the Carp, a much-caught giant fish, was August's entry on the male list and last year Peppa the Pig was on the female list for April. But this is the first time that an animal has taken the crown."
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July: Charlene Wittstock (married Prince Albert of Monaco)
August: Michele Bachmann
September: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff
October: The Duchess of Alba (Spain) got married again at age 85.
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Seven years ago, Marine Medal of Honor recipient Col. John J. McGinty (ret.) came out to Iraq and talked to Marines about his experiences in Vietnam as an infantry platoon commander.
I was a Marine combat correspondent at the time, it was the end of my deployment, and I was downright tired. Nonetheless, when I sat down with McGinty, I'd read his Medal of Honor citation about 25 times.
Rare was the opportunity to talk to a living MOH recipient.
My first question was about one line of his citation which had particular weight with me:
"So your citation has a line that reads," looking down at my notepad then, "quote — 'When the enemy tried to out flank his position, he killed five of them at point-blank range with his pistol.' — and I just have to ask, what's it like to kill five guys at point-blank range with a pistol?"
McGinty chuckled then, as old men do when confronted by the zeal of their younger counterparts, then he said the obvious, "Well, hell, son, it was downright scary."
McGinty said the enemy fighters had rounded the corner of his bunker and he turned to see them pointing their weapons at him, dead to rights. They all fired high.
"That AK, it's got a nasty kick. And they don't control it well if they're just holding down the trigger," McGinty said he drew down with his 1911 and let loose.
"Let me tell you one thing, if it weren't for that Colt 1911, I'd be dead right now." McGinty told me it was his, and some other MOH recipients, personal mission to see the reinstatement of the Colt 1911 as general issue. Though they "had very little clout to throw around, believe it or not."
Being qualified with the weapon, I have to say don't blame him, most Marines I'd ever talked to hated the standard issue 9 mm Beretta. It's a glorified pellet gun, as far as I'm concerned, it has no balls, no stopping power. If you're shooting at a motivated target, and you don't hit vitals, that target will just keep coming.
McGinty got his wish, Fox News reported that Marines have recently started to fill orders for a new 1911 .45-caliber colt pistol.
The Marines are calling it the "M45 Close Quarters Battle Pistol," and I'm sure the Marines carrying it will have a lot more confidence in close quarters.
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Warm day helps child learn to swing
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Wearing a smile that stretched from ear to ear, Elijah Klenda of Pilsen grabbed his mother by the sleeve and ran toward the swing set.
"I'm going to fly like a bird," the 4-year-old said. "I love to swing. It is the best thing ever."
Elijah is one of the many children who enjoyed playing Monday afternoon in Marion's Central Park, after school let out. The sun was high in the sky. The temperature just hit 70 degrees and the wind had started to blow. Elijah's mother, Andrea, said it was the perfect weather to spend the afternoon outdoors — and her children thought so too.
Elijah was there for only one reason: to learn how to swing "like a big kid."
"I want to do it all by myself," he said, while pointing to his chest.
His mother smiled and swiftly scooped him up in her arms and set him in the small swing. With the wind at her son's back, she pulled on the swing, only letting go when it had enough momentum. Elijah squealed in glee as she pushed him a couple more times and then yelled out the instructions: "Pump your legs up and down. You have to keep them moving. Keep it up and you'll go higher and faster!"
Moments later, he was soaring high above his mother's head and waved to his two brothers — Evan, 2, and Silas, 2 ½ months. He slowed down then and threw his arms around his mother, giving her a big hug.
"I did it," he exclaimed with a proud look on his face. "I finally did it all by myself. Thank you for teaching me."
Wiping a tear from her eye, Andrea Klenda said she was glad she brought her children to the park today.
"As a parent, you don't get moments like that too often," she said. "We don't have a park in Pilsen. It's wonderful that Marion has a place where kids can play. Going to the park will be a lot easier on me now that he knows how to pump. It takes a lot of hard work — and a lot of muscle strength — to push a kid on a swing set, and I've got three."
Getting back on the swing, the 4-year-old began to pump his legs and was able to lift himself into the air within moments.
For the next hour, the Klenda children played together on the playground. They shrieked and laughed as they ran, jumped and spun on all of the equipment.
"I love to be outside," the 4-year-old said. "It makes me happy."
His brother, Evan, agreed, chanting "outside, outside" as he raced after his brother.
Klenda said she will definitely be bringing her children back to play in the park as the temperature continues to rise and summer weather sets in.
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I have had a lovely Mother's Day, we have done some work in the garden, it looks so beautiful at this time of year. This photo is from one of our pear trees.
The sky last night was beautifully pink, just perfect....
Many of our trees and plants are in full bloom..
Happy Mother's Day to all of you mums who do the hardest job in the world...but the most rewarding.
And for those of you that can't be with your mothers or if you are a mum that can't be with your child today, then keep them close in your hearts.
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As I have mentioned in previous articles, I am currently working on the family and descendants of my great-great grandfather Joseph Madison Carroll Norman and had planned to compile a list of Norman researchers I had found online and send out an e-mail to them to inquire about sharing information. It seems as though I have been writing down names and e-mail addresses with the intention of doing this forever, but only last weekend did I finally get around to it.
Needless to say, I should have done this sooner. Many of the addresses were outdated and starting earlier might have yielded one or two more active addresses. Still, the results were encouraging and even "happy dance" inducing. In addition to the many "Delivery Failure" messages I got back, I received four positive replies the very same day. All were positive about sharing information and one of them (thank you, Pat!) was so kind and generous as to send me scans of a photograph of J.M.C. Norman and the family history of the Normans written by Inez E. Cline. This is the first time I have seen a picture of J.M.C. Norman and the Norman family history is a real gem. It is obvious that much meticulous research and legwork and many family interviews went into this history. Compiling and chronicling the history of a family traced back to a man who had approximately 27 children by three wives is no small task, and like some of the fine research done by some of my other cousins on other family lines, the Norman family history will be very helpful.
If I have learned a lesson from this experience, it is to start the contact list as soon as I run across the names and addresses in my research and to have an introductory letter already written up that I can just copy and paste into an e-mail. I have some of these lists in the front of the my family name binders, but have not been careful to keep them all up to date.
More on the new information on the Normans in the next Family Newsletter Friday.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Cousins to the Rescue Again!
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I highly recommend keeping this contact list. I also like to keep track of who descends from whom so I know who I'm talking to.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your Norman find. I have had the same experience as you with outdated e-mails and also snail mail addresses. Every now and then, I get a lucky strike with an old address. I guess the best method is to just get those letters out ASAP...but there aren't always enough hours in the day ;-)ReplyDelete
Ginger - Good idea - I have done this with a few contacts but not done it systematically. If I could just be consistent! Linda - Yup, same problem here. That's why I'm hoping to use the "prewritten letter" approach - just slap it into an e-mail and hit "send."ReplyDelete
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I've been a happy MJ user for a couple o years now, but the software/device does need a bit more polish - it's got some rough edges and the tendancy to get itself hung up and need a reset/reformat
It works a lot better with MagicFeatures - http://www.pcphonesoft.com - annoying it needs an add-on to make these work.
Somewhere between Skype and this would make a perfect solution
let market forces sort this out.
If I can't open my own garage door from a remote that I fit to my car (one came with HomeLink - which I guess licenses technology from Chamberlain, one has an aftermarket opener wired in that may or may not... I don't really care)
Looking for a new motor for the second garage and keen to know which ones are not covered by this stupid game playing
I've had some interesting experiences recently where great support via Twitter has impressed me. HP and Polar Fitness have both responded to tweets not directed to them (but about their products) to see if they could help.
Interestingly though when I ended up working with HP traditional support they've rather dropped the ball, but Polar have handled the transfer pretty seamlessly.
I think as there are more open and public communications channels open with customers the companies that make it are going to be the ones who "get" social media and the fact that it's not just about deflecting a complaint it's about engaging with your existing and potential clients in a much more genuine fashion
there are so many alternative ways of getting the content today for the technologically savvy that the cable cos need to start looking at acceptable alternatives because if they don't their cozy little monopoly will dry up and they'll be turned into dumb pipes fighting for every customer/byte.
Just like VoIP is starting to hurt the telcos it will make it's way to the typical consumer
Imagine a way to watch movies on-demand on your Xbox... oh, you can with Netflix. Hulu, EPSN, CBS and other content... PlayOn (http://getplayon.com), AppleTV. Microsoft MediaCenter etc ... all make it easy to use BitTorrent to get any show you want from anywhere in the world
Of the 100 channels Comcast try to deliver to me, I maybe use 5. If it wasn't for my daughter wanting to watch cartoon network and the ability for me to get live sports... we'd probably have got rid of the service in favor of just using the cheapest pipe...
I thought they worked by some detection of induction frequencies or similar (at least that was the myth when I was growing up there!)
wonder if they're more sophisticated these days! ~Offbeatmammal
I don't know if you've noticed but MS have slowly been ramping up a "currency" all of their own - MS Points.
At the moment it's only really useful in the Zune and Xbox360 marketplaces but a logical next step would be to roll it out to buy bling for Messenger or upgrades for Vista...
Imagine then if they were to start to open it up to allow 3rd party online stores to use it, and then as a peer-to-peer transaction method.
Imagine a secure app on a windows mobile device that acts as your wallet and they've got a reach that PayPal and others may find hard/expensive to duplicate.
I personally dislike PayPal (and even more since they became part of eBay) and would love to see some competition.
None of the credit card companies seem to have realised yet that there is a market here for micropayment (ebooks, music downloads etc) so MS and Google (both trusted brands on the whole) have a good oportunity here.
Of course eBay will do like it did with Google Checkout and refuse to let MS play in "their" space as well "... in the interest of protecting their users..." but they are slowly finding their grip on the market slipping
I have Sirius. It came with my car.
My most listened to channel seems to be "nosignal"
and when I do have a channel their playlist appears to be pretty short
I don't listen to the "celebrities" because if I wanted to listen to childish chatter I'd keep my daughter in the car at all times ;)
It annoys me (out of all proportion probably) that while in FM mode I get track details on the radio display, but with Sirius I just get the station name - seems the wrong way round somehow.
I'd love to see something like Pandora and infinite personalisation, or at least a way to tag-and-share tracks I like (from the car and ten sync bck to them somehow)
Will a merger help... maybe if they can spend the money on R&D and better service instead of a marketing war.
Will it happen.... oes common-sense ever prevail?!
FictionWise, Sony Reader, eBooks, Google, HarperCollins
If I go into a bookstore and buy a paperback I know I can read it on any technology platform I want (at home, on the bus, in the office....except perhaps underwater) and I can lend it to a fried, trade it in a 2nd hand book store or keep it for ever
But if I want a decent eBook experience I have to pay for a reader software that is possibly limited to a hardware platform (what if I want to read using my PocketPC on the bus, my UMPC on te bus and my iMac at home) or a dedicated device (yet another thing to carry) and I loose all the flexibility that the paper copy costs me.
Yet in many cases the electronic version costs the same as the paper one.
Go figure!
.... Joe Public will buy into this idea, flawed as it is.
Searching for a torrent of a movie often leads you into a mire of porn and malware. When you find the movie it's often an esoteric format that needs a strange codec pack that wants to reset your browser homepage....
While a reasonably tech savvy user will work through these problems (to watch a downgraded, downsampled version of the movie) Joe Public (and me on a day where I don't have time to spend fighting this stuff) wants to get home, turn on the tube, grab a beer and watch a movie.
If it's one-click and instant-on it's going to get traction as long as they don't price themselves out of the market. Folks don't often factor in the Cable cost (especially on an all-you-can-eat package) and do a cost analysis of download vs packaged... their value proposition is watching the movie.
For me renting a first run, advert free, DVD quality experience through my Xbox Live Marketplace, getting the movie from Netflix or buying from Amazon are easy and so I do that.
Sometimes there's a rare movie or missed TV ep I can't find and I will search the backwaters for it but I'm time poor and so the easiest option wins most times...
Even if we don't get to a technological answer with ePaper and eInk for a while yet does this validate the effort that Google and others are putting into digitising these works? If the libraries need to take the books out of the front-line can they at least consider warehousing and loaning via post (Netflix) consolidating into one uber-library, and/or make the books available as (timed, self destructing) digital downloads (supporting many formats.... don't make me buy an eReader for one book).
Personally I love the feel of a paper book and the physical experience of reading it, fliping back and forth and hunting for an item in a reference book and I can't see a digital solution replicating that experience... but if it's a choice between never being able to read that book or the digital experience... I'll go digital over destruction any day
as the rise of the commercial invasions into the shows I want to watch grows I find I'm being pushed more to wait for a series to come to DVD or BitTorrent so I can watch it without getting frustrated with the interruptions.
As it is I use a PVR and skip most of the ads but that doesn't help with the stings and placement they litter the screen with (often over content because no-one is actually thinking about the timing of this crap)
For preference I watch content where the adverts are top and tail of the show but don't interrupt the flow of the content itself.
I have an attention span of >6 minutes, especially if it's a show I like so for gods sake let me watch the show (especially if I'm paying for the cable....)
I wonder if anyone has done the math to work out what the cable cost would have to become to do away with in-show adverts but maintain the current revenue levels?
... within some limits. Like a lot of other tools careless users can make it a nightmare. People who hate the idea can always set a rule toe at the mail.
I think however it's very much only half the story... if they're hook up with something like LinkedIn.com it would start to add a lot more value to the offering
this whole case sucks. RIM should be in a position to sue the US Patent Office for material adverse effects on their business as well as the judge in this case for consistantly ignoring the ongoing rejection of the very patents that are critical to the case.
Either way RIM has lost out on a lot of business, and it's very bad especially with MS starting to cut their grass with direct push mail capabilities in Exchange and now in Windows Mobile devices (tried the new AKU2 ROM upgrade for my HTC Wizard that includes this, and it works great)
bear with me... I get to a point in a moment...
I use GAIM at the moment. It rocks. I can talk to MSN and Y! users with no effort. Sadly no Gtalk support there just yet.
I don't use Skype because the IM facility sucks and I type more than I talk to folks
If one of these players can come up with a combined VoIP solution that lets me communicate seamlessly with the others... I'd pay for the damn thing (I don't want adverts) or I'll go for the one that has the highest traction with the users I communicate most with... and hands down at the moment it's MSN
While it's great to see Google blurring the boundries between mail and chat (something that I think will be productive, and also help procude more coherent logs) unless there are open system so an Outlook user or a Gmail user or an MS-LiveMail user can IM with a jabber user or call a SIP user... it's just going to be more pain for folks
The record companies would have us believe that the money made by CD pirates goes to fund the drug industry.
But the money rock stars make
from legal record sales ends up in exactly the same place. When they stop breaking the law, so will I.
"...serve as a community watchdog"
the mainstream (and even local) press hasn't been that in over a decade.
they jump on bandwagon hype stories and drop them as soon as they're something new and shiny.
I wouldn't trust the press to keep my place in the lunch queue let alone show any integrity when it comes to looking after the community
many years back I worked for a major European hotel chain implementing a new door key system in one of their flagship hotels.
the system was incredibly smart (and yup, expensive) but allowed the guest to provide any 'standard' mag swipe card with a 2-3 track strip and we'd use that rather than issuing a key (less chance of them loosing it!)
it also allowed us to easily issue several keys for a room, use on key for multiple rooms and put some pretty smart rules in place (eg Mum and Dad could open the mini-bar with their credit card, but junior with a hotel issued key couldn't, the parents could access the rooftop pool after 8pm and junior couldn't).
we didn't have the actual values flying round the network but an encrypted hash key (quicker for checking and applying rules) and we did basic checks to ensure the same hash wasn't active for more than one guest at a time.
some guests didn't like it... so we continued to issue our own keys in those cases. some guests loved it. we found the system to be a pleasure because we got less issues with the guests losing or mis-treating the keys (and argued less about auxilliary charges because they where less likely to let the key out of sight). sadly the system was too expensive to justify rolling out outside the one flagship property... I wonder if it's still in use...
whatever the merits of this invention maybe he should have sold the patent to one of the IP Vampires out there.
anyway, hope all have a great Christmas
.... why buy stuff from junk faxes or (worse) junk emails .... and just encourage the pond life who send them the keep sending them.
I report 100% of spam via Spamcop.net. Every PayPal, eBay, bank or Amazon phishing attempt I get I take the time to report through the MSN Toolbar anti-phishing bolt-on... but still the tide of crap keeps flowing.
Where there is an idiot, there's someone going to take advantage of them. And it seems no amount of education or publicity will out-weight peoples greed and gullibility.
The nice folks at http://musicbrainz.org/ have a more than reasonable audio tagging system that seems to work most of the time.
Their tagger is sometimes spot on. Sometimes (thanks to conflicting data) gets the music so woefully wrong it's funny - but with a larger corpus of data I imagine it would only improve
And their tool does help keep my MB of (my own) backed up CDs organised when I'm too lazy to key in the titles and CDDB didn't recognise them when I originally ripped them !


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