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The Barren Measures Formation (middle Permian, ∼271–260 Ma), the non-coaliferous lithounit sandwitched between two major coal-bearing formations in the Indian Lower Gondwana succession, was earlier...
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Natural gas hydrates in the Rio Grande Cone (Brazil): A new province in the western South Atlantic
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[*]A "damaged" gut flora and increased intestinal permeability --> Low-level inflammation [*]Oxidative stress and inflammation --> Acne vulgaris [/list] [b][size=5][color=#FF0000]Treatment[/color][/size][/b] No point in starting treatment if you're only going to give it a couple of weeks. Be patient, treatment takes TIME. Those with acne and [u]few other health concerns[/u] should follow [url="http://gutflora.com/?page_id=203"]The Gut Diet[/url]. Basic principles: [size=5][b][u]Several[/u] sources of beneficial bacteria in your diet[/b] [/size] - Quality probiotics - Fermented foods - Fresh, organic, minimally washed vegetables and plant products - Staying in contact with healthy people and pets. [b][size=5]Prebiotics either from diet or supplements. [/size][/b][size=5]([i][size=4]Will give initial worsening(gas, bloating, acne++) until gut flora adjusts)[/size][/i][/size] - Leeks, onions, chicory root and more - Supplement: Start slow(1/2 ts) and work your way up [size=5][b]Diet[/b][/size] ([i]Anti-inflammatory diet / The Gut Diet / Paleo Diet[/i]) [b]- Eat plenty: [/b]Meat, fish, fowl, eggs, vegetables, Extra virgin Olive Oil, extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Butter/GHEE - [b]Eat in moderation:[/b] Fruits, berries, nuts(if you tolerate them) [b]- Avoid or eat in small amounts: [/b]Grains, sugar, milk, vegetable oils [b][size=6]FAQ[/size][/b] [size=5][b]- Where can I read more studies and reports on the gut-acne connection?[/b][/size] [url="http://gutflora.com/?p=344"]Acne originates in the gut[/url] [url="http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=479093"]Acne vulgaris: A disease of western civilization[/url] [url="http://www.gutpathogens.com/content/3/1/1/"]Acne vulgaris, probiotics and the gut-brain-skin axis - back to the future?[/url] [url="http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.no/2009/06/diet-nutrition-and-health.html"]Diet nutrition and health[/url] [size=4][url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11525176"]Study shows that 54% of patients with acne have either the first (21%) or second (78.7%) impaired bacterial microflora.[/url][/size] [url="http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.no/2012/06/dr-oz-on-gut-flora-repair.html"]Gut Flora repair[/url] [url="http://chriskresser.com/the-gut-skin-connection-how-altered-gut-function-affects-the-skin"]The gut-skin connection: how altered gut function affects the skin[/url] [url="http://gutflora.com/?p=1170"]A new era in the treatment of acne vulgaris[/url] [size=5][b]When can I expect to get better?[/b][/size] [size=4]Most people will begin to see great improvement 2 weeks-2 months after they have - Followed the diet for a couple of months - Adjusted to several sources of probiotics and prebiotics (e.g. raw sauerkraut, kefir, probiotic supplements, prebiotic supplement) - Achieved great digestion. Regular nice BMs - No food intolerances[/size] When you can put a green check beside all of these l[size=4]ines yo[/size]u have achieved a healthier gut flora and intestinal lining. Inflammation goes down and acne improves:) [size=5][b]Why are grains excluded from the diet?[/b][/size] Oats, wheat and other grains are some of the "worst" foods for people with acne (most everyone else also benefit from excluding grains from their diet). Grains contain several anti-nutrients (phytic acid, lectins, enzyme inhibitors etc.), have a high-carbohydrate density, a lot of insoluble fiber and the protein gluten. Anti-nutrients, excess insoluble fiber and gluten is known to promote leaky gut. High-density carbohydrates alter gut flora [b]Recommended reading on grains:[/b] [url="http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/EvolutionPaleolithic/Cereal%20Sword.pdf"]Cereal Grains: Humanity's Double-Edged Sword[/url] [url="http://gutflora.com/?p=569"]The silent killer: Modern lifestyle promotes leaky gut and low-level chronic inflammation[/url] [url="http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-grains-are-unhealthy/#axzz25I4W0Ibm"]Why grains are unhealthy[/url] [url="http://gutflora.com/?p=872"]Top five reasons why you should remove grains from your diet for good[/url] [url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19332085"]Effects of wheat germ agglutinin on human gastrointestinal epithelium: insights from an experimental model of immune/epithelial cell interaction.[/url] [url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224837"]Gluten Causes Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Subjects Without Celiac Disease: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial[/url] [url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16635908"]Gliadin, zonulin and gut permeability: Effects on celiac and non-celiac intestinal mucosa and intestinal cell lines.[/url] [size=5][b]Why is milk not allowed on the diet, and why is fermented dairy okay?[/b][/size] Milk is not just this white substance that is high in calcium. Milk is specifically designed to promote rapid growth of a a growing child. It contains several hormones and bio-active peptides that potentially breach the gut barrier. Lactose and casein is also problematic for a lot of people. [url="http://thepaleodiet.com/qa-with-dr-cordain-milk/"]Read more on the problems with milk[/url] Full-fat, grass-fed, natural (no sugar etc.) and fermented dairy (cheese, yoghurt etc.) is okay because there's very little hormones, lactose etc. left after fermentation:) Butter and GHEE are also excellent choices. [url="http://gutflora.com/?p=392"]Lactose intolerance can be treated with probiotics[/url] [size=5][b]- What can I eat for breakfast?[/b][/size] [b]For example:[/b] Meat, fish or fowl Avocado and kefir Eggs Kefir smoothie - Properly fermented kefir, berries and coconut oil Quality yogurt, nuts and berries Salad with some type of protein source [b][size=5]- What do I have to look for when choosing fermented foods?[/size][/b] It is very important to pick foods that have been fermented properly and still have live cultures. [b]Examples:[/b] [b]Kefir[/b] - Made from kefir grains, refrigerated and no added ingredients (e.g. sugar) [b]Yogurt[/b] - No added ingredients (e.g. sugar) and preferably full-fat [b]Sauerkraut [/b]- Choose raw and refrigerated sauerkraut. The pasteurized stuff you'll find in the shelf of the average supermarket has no live microorganisms. [b][size=5]- How strict do I have to follow the diet?[/size][/b] When first starting this plan you shold aim to follow the diet as strictly as possible. However, it doesn't matter if you cheat once in a while. After some months, when you have introduced [u]several[/u] sources of probiotics and prebiotics, you can slowly start to cheat a little on the diet if you want. Most people find that they can eat a certain amount of crappy foods once their gut flora and leaky gut has improved. [b][size=5]- I have moderate-severe gastrointestinal problems besides acne. Will this plan work for me?[/size][/b] Moderate-severe gastrointestinal problems usually involves moderate-severe gut dysbiosis and candida overgrowth. This plan might work for you, but some individuals with candida overgrowth have to use antifungals to reduce the counts of candida before trying to establish healthy gut flora. Look at the gut dysbiosis treatment plan at gutflora.com. [size=6][b]My journey[/b][/size] [b]About me:[/b] Some of you might remember me as I have been a member of the boards for quite some time now. When I first became a member of acne.org in 2007 I was determined to find the "root" cause of acne. I always knew that acne wasn't a natural part of human development and that there was some underlying issue. Even though I was reading intensively I was grasping in the dark, there is so much bullshit out there and 99% of the people giving advice aren't even clear. I tried every natural treatment under the sun. I have also done two courses of accutane which didn't work. I always knew accutane did nothing to improve the underlying issues, but I was frustrated and desperate and just wanted acne to go away. After a while I started to read more and more scientific journals and a couple of years ago I knew that the answers could be found in the gut. Some of you might remember "[url="http://www.acne.org/messageboard/index.php/topic/262148-white-fox-anti-candida-log-with-pics/"]White Fox' anti-candida log[/url]" which was a popular thread in 2010. When I started that treatment I was still lacking a lot of important knowledge when it comes to proper gut health. I wasn't totally committed, made several mistakes with diet and supplements and didn't properly heal my gut. It only worked to some degree. Even though my anti-candida treatment didn't work 100% I was still convinced that my gut was causing some issues. So I continued looking. After a while I found the information now available at gutflora.com. I learned most of my knowledge by studying that site and information from people like Dr. Art Ayers(cooling inflammation), Dr. Loren Cordain, Dr. Weston A. Price and more. Since I was very ill with severe acne, food intolerances and more I used a long time to heal my gut and get rid of acne. [b]What I've learned:[/b] Most of our immune system is located in the gut. Modern lifestyle with sugar, grains, antibiotics(and other drugs), simplified diets++ damage gut flora and gut cells. We get a damaged gut flora with missing species of bacteria and possible overgrowth of opportunistic flora(candida f.ex). Gut Flora plays an important role in keeping our gut wall healthy. When our gut flora is compromised, our gut wall becomes malnourished and damaged. When our gut wall is working propely it allows properly digested food "molecules" to pass through. When it get's damaged unwanted particles can get to pass; causing inflammation. Gut Dysbiosis and increased intestinal permeability resulting in inflammation is the main cause of acne. I know people on the boards have been looking at leaky gut before. However, it's so important to treat it the right way! The most important thing I can say is that you have to be determined. 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Camille Grammer Net Worth is $50 Million. Camille Grammer is an American actress, model, and producer, as well as, a writer, with a net worth of $50 million. Camille Grammer earne...[read more]http://www.richestnetworth.com/camille-grammer-net-worth/
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Camille Grammer is an American actress, model, and producer, as well as, a writer, with a net worth of $50 million. Camille Grammer earned her net worth through her roles on TV, as a dancer and model, and producer of several TV shows. She is an actress starring in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, an American reality series for the Bravo cable network. She was born in Newport Beach, California, on September 2, 1968. She is also the ex-wife of Hollywood actor Kelsey Grammer. They were married in 1997, and she worked in their company called Grammnet Productions, as a producer and writer. Camille grew up in a typical middle class family in New Jersey. Her father is a financial adviser, who still works in New York City. She attended Montclair State College in New Jersey where she studied English literature. She also attended New York University and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. Camille started her show bizz career as a dancer in the 1980's on Club MTV, for many years, as a member of a dance group performing at the Tavern on the Green in New York City, as well as appearing in several music videos. Her modeling and acting career came about in the 90's with her posing in Playboy's Book of Lingerie for Playboy publications and she also appeared in such R-rated erotic films as Marilyn Chambers' Bedtime Stories, New York Nights, and The Naked Detective. Grammer also had some minor roles in mainstream films, such as, Private Parts and Deconstructing Harry. She also had a guest appearance in one episode of Frasier. She met actor Kelsey Grammer in 1996 and were married in1997, in Malibu, California. They share two children, both born via a surrogate mother. However Camille filed for a divorce in July 2010, she asked for primary physical custody of the couple's daughter and son, in addition to child and spousal support. On February 10, 2011 their divorce became final. In 1996 Grammer was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and she has been featured in a Public Service Announcement to raise public awareness of this disorder. Grammer is the half owner of Grammnet Productions, where she works as a creator, writer, and executive producer. This company has produced a number of television shows from the late 1990s through 2010s, including Girlfriends, Medium, and The Game. She has been a star on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, since 2010. In 2011 she had a guest-starring role on the season finale of the CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, playing a recently divorced reality star named Camille. She says "My character Camille is basically a parody on myself, obviously, from 'Housewives of Beverly Hills.' Just making fun of it, you know, making fun of all the quirky things I do and say." The RHOBH episode on January 13, 2011, where she revealed that her husband wanted out of their marriage, out ranked all cable competition in its timeslot and was the No. 1 telecast among adults 18-49. It was also the highest rated episode of the season among all viewers. The episode "Watch What Happens Live," that featured Grammer as a guest after the show, outperformed all late night cable talk shows that night. Kelsey and Cammille Grammer Divorce Settlement: When Kelsey Grammer and Cammille Grammer finalize their divorce, she is set to receive a $50 million cash settlement.
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"Obviously, everybody loves to score, but as a point guard those are the two stat lines that I definitely value, especially my assist-to-turnover ratio," he said. "It goes to show how valuable the ball is to you. As the quarterback out there on the court, you've got to take care of it."
Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin is about as excited about the command his youngster has of the basketball as Burke is about being called "TB" by a certain someone who occasionally gets away with pushing off during the NBA Finals.
Last week, Corbin jokingly said he didn't want to talk about Burke's low turnover rate. He didn't want to jinx it. But the coach complimented his player Saturday for that excellent ball control and decision-making process after the Jazz's second road win of this Southeastern journey.
"He continues to do a great job there. He's been very successful in not turning the ball over and we need that," Corbin said. "He's learning every night out. He has a lot of pressure on him to be who he wants to be and everybody else thinks he should be in this league."
Burke's shooting percentage still needs to rise for him to be consistently effective, but his TO percentage is a testament of how well and quickly he's adapting to the NBA game.
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"Just trying not to rush," Burke explained. "Making sure that that pass that I'm about to pass is there — if not, going to the next option, trusting my teammates when I throw them the ball, trusting the bigs when they get a spot to throw it to them in the paint."
Being attentive to his teammates and to opponents was a trait that helped him lead his school to the national championship game last spring.
"At Michigan, that's something that I really valued — not turning the ball over," Burke said. "It led over into this level. I'm just going to continue to try to take care of the ball."
He'll continue to soak up his MJ moment, too.
Put yourself in his shoes for a minute, and imagine the excitement.
After 21-plus years, Burke suddenly found himself chatting face-to-face with one of his childhood idols, and the larger-than-life shoe salesman knew his name. All the better that it came after Burke's smooth play in the win.
Burke couldn't stop smiling while talking about the experience.
"It was an exciting moment," he said.
MJ didn't just casually greet TB, either. The man considered by many to be the greatest basketball player to ever play also left Burke with some advice.
"(Jordan) said, 'Keep working. You're doing really good. Just stay healthy,'" Burke said, again cracking a grin. "Those words will stick with me, absolutely."
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November 25, 2013, was a day we had looked forward to for years — the official launch date of Version 4.0 of the Creative Commons licenses. But despite months of planning, something unexpected started to happen just after we hit publish: our website started to fail.
We spent the next 12 hours working to fix the current setup while simultaneously moving our website to higher-performance servers. That situation was maddening: for a few hours, half of the world could see the new 4.0 licenses, and half couldn't. Finding a fix was our highest priority. All hands were on deck to ensure we delivered on our promise of providing stable, trustworthy infrastructure for our licenses.
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I'm telling you about the site outage for two reasons. First, it shows us for what we are: a very small organization with extremely limited resources. CC licenses will always be free, but maintaining them isn't. Whether it's tech infrastructure, adoption support, or helping users understand the licenses, our stewardship responsibilities are ongoing, in demand, and require resources.
Second, and more importantly, it says a lot about you. A lot of you were up all night with us. The people who could see the new licenses were excitedly sharing details with those of you who couldn't, and asking us how they could help. I remember laughing to myself, "How many site outages get live-blogged?" Basically, you're the best community we could ask for.
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- Publications Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately. All publications shall be available immediately upon their publication, without any embargo period. An embargo period is the period during which the publisher will require a subscription or the payment of a fee to gain access to the publication. We are, however, providing a transition period of up to two years from the effective date of the policy (or until January 1, 2017). During the transition period, the foundation will allow publications in journals that provide up to a 12-month embargo period.
- Data Underlying Published Research Results Will Be Accessible and Open Immediately. The foundation will require that data underlying the published research results be immediately accessible and open. This too is subject to the transition period and a 12-month embargo may be applied.
Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the foundation, said that Gates "put[s] a high priority not only on the research necessary to deliver the next important drug or vaccine, but also on the collection and sharing of data so other scientists and health experts can benefit from this knowledge."
Congratulations to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on adopting a default open licensing policy for its grant-funded research. This terrific announcement follows a similar move by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, who recently extended their CC BY licensing policy from the Open Educational Resources grants to now apply foundation-wide for all project-based grant funds.
Regarding deposit and sharing of data, the Gates Foundation might consider permitting grantees to utilize the CC0 Public Domain Dedication, which allows authors to dedicate data to the public domain by waiving all rights to the data worldwide under copyright law. CC0 is widely used to provide barrier-free re-use to data.
We've updated the information we've been tracking on foundation intellectual property policies to reflect the new agreement from Gates, and continue to urge other philanthropic foundations to adopt open policies for grant-funded research and projects.3 Comments »
State of the Commons
Today, we're releasing a new report that we think you will want to see. State of the Commons covers the impact and success of free and open content worldwide, and it contains the most revealing account we've ever published, including new data on what's shared with a CC license.
We found nearly 900 million Creative Commons-licensed works, dramatically up from our last report of 400 million in 2010. Creators are now choosing less restrictive CC licenses more than ever before — over half allow both commercial use and adaptations.
We're also celebrating the success of open policy worldwide. Fourteen countries have now adopted national open education policies, and open textbooks have saved students more than 100 million dollars. These are big moves making big impacts.
Please help us spread the word about this groundbreaking report.
If Creative Commons plays a role in how you use the internet or share your work, please consider making a gift to support the organization. Creative Commons licenses will always be free, but they would not exist without your generous support.
SciDataCon 2014 Recap
Photo by Puneet Kishor published under CC0 Public Domain Dedication
Earlier this month, CODATA and World Data System, both interdisciplinary committees of the International Council for Science, jointly organized SciDataCon, an international conference on data sharing for global sustainability. The conference was held Nov 2-5, 2014, on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Creative Commons Science had a busy schedule at the conference attended by 170+ delegates from all over the world, many from the global south.
Photo by Puneet Kishor published under CC0 Public Domain Dedication
We started early with a full day workshop on text and data mining (TDM) in cooperation with Content Mine. The workshop was attended by a mix of PhD students and researchers from the fields of immunology and plant genomics research. It was really rewarding to see the participants get a handle on the software and go through the exercises. Finally, the conversation about legal uncertainty around TDM appraised them about the challenges, but bottom-up support for TDM can be a strong ally in ensuring that this practice remains out of the reach of legal restrictions.
During the main conference we joined panel discussions on data citation with Bonnie Carroll (Iia), Brian Hole (Ubiquity Press), Paul Uhlir (NAS) and Jan Brase (DataCite) and international data sharing with Chaitanya Baru (NSF), Rama Hampapuram (NASA) and Ross Wilkinson (ANDS). We also participated in a daily roundup of the state of data sharing as presented at the conference organized by Elizabeth Griffin (CNRC).
SciDataCon, which used to be called CODATA, is held every two years, and is an important showcase of open science around the world. It is an important gathering for it brings together many scientists from the global south. A lot remains to be done to make real-time, pervasive data sharing and reuse a reality in much of the world, but there are heartening signs. At a national level, India's data portal holds promise, but making data licensing information more explicit and data easily searchable by license would make it more useful. Citizen science projects in the Netherlands, India and Taiwan demonstrated how crowds can be involved in experiments while ensuring the user-generated content is made available for reuse, and SNEHA's work on understanding perspectives on data sharing for public health research was particularly insightful of the value of listening to the feedback from participants.
We look forward to continue working with CODATA and WDS promoting and supporting open science and data initiatives around the world, and particularly in the global south, and hope for more success stories in the next SciDataCon.1 Comment »
Finnish translation of 4.0 published
We are thrilled to announce our first official translation of 4.0, into Finnish. Congratulations to the CC Finland team, who have done an outstanding job. The translation team consisted of Maria Rehbinder of Aalto University, legal counsel and license translation coordinator of CC Finland; Martin von Willebrand, Attorney-at-Law and Partner, HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law Ltd: for translation supervision; Tarmo Toikkanen, Aalto University, general coordinator of CC Finland; Henri Tanskanen, Associate, HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law Ltd: main translator, and Liisa Laakso-Tammisto, translator. Particular thanks go to Aalto University, HH Partners, and the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture for their support.
Internationalization was one of the 5 main goals of the 4.0 licenses, so this is an important milestone for the CC community. Our translation policy was written to reinforce that goal: if the licenses work everywhere, everyone should be able to use them in their own language without needing to worry about what the original English version says. The official translations are accessible to anyone, anywhere wishing to have access to the official legal text of the 4.0 licenses in Finnish.
Particular kudos go out to this team for their detailed work: producing linguistic translations is difficult! Many words don't have exact equivalents between languages, especially where you're bringing in specialized language from countries with different legal systems. Teams working on translations go through a detailed review of their work with CC to ensure that the meaning of the documents lines up. This often involves many detailed questions about exact meanings of words and the legal concepts they refer to, especially when no one on the CC legal team speaks the language. (If you're particularly curious, you can look at some of the notes in the translators' guide.) The Finnish team anticipated most of the questions we might have asked, providing a detailed explanation that will be useful as an example to others, and their thorough work has paid off.
Keep your eyes out: several more translations are in the final stages of review and will be published in the coming months! In the meantime, we join CC Finland in celebrating the launch of the first official 4.0 translation.
Read CC Finland's announcement.1 Comment »
The Voyager Golden Record
"Voyager Golden Record Cover Explanation" by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Voyager Spacecrafts are carrying with them sounds of the earth, of our civilization, recorded on a 12″ gold plated copper disc, a golden record, along with instructions for how to play them.
Lily Bui, a graduate student in the MIT Comparative Media Studies program built a lovely web site that allows everyone to enjoy the sounds and music from the golden record via an attractive, easy to use web interface. In a serial burst of inspiration, Lily has also dedicated her web site to the public domain via a CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
In her words, "To be perfectly frank — I mostly designed this mostly for myself so that I wouldn't have to access the archival audio through the Library of Congress portal." Well, turns out a lot of people share Lily's point-of-view. Ever the academic, she was taking a course at MIT that "examined the 'migration of cultural materials' into the digital space, combining traditional humanities with computational methods." She is convinced her work is grounded in theory. Perhaps, for we love the sounds and music so much that we have yet to read Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display by Johanna Drucker.
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CC in a world of worthy causes
Creative Commons wasn't done after we created our first license suite, or even after hundreds of millions of licensed works were shared. The web is changing — and so are the ways we get, share, and use content — so we're trying new things.
One new idea is our mobile app, The List, supported by a prototype grant from the Knight Foundation. The List app will allow users to make lists of wanted images, or submit requested photos to a global archive of images, all licensed CC BY. We'll release a public beta in the next few months.
We're also still active in areas where we can make a huge difference, like open educational resources (OER). We've been helping foundations and governments adopt open policies and exploring new ways of licensing scientific data. Teachers and learners everywhere — from Kenya to Canada — are reaping rewards of shared information and knowledge, with huge savings.
All of that work, old and new, is supported by a small team, and a lot of inspired supporters and volunteer advocates, including more than 100 affiliate teams in 75 countries. Our licenses have become the global standard for legal sharing, and they underpin many of the most well-known media platforms on the web.
If Creative Commons plays a role in how you use the internet or share your work, please consider making a gift to support the organization. Our licenses are (and will remain) free, so developing a stable funding stream to support sharing has always been a challenge. A generous — but small — group of individual donors has always supported us. Let's grow that number and work together to build a better internet and world.
As you're considering which charities to support this year, please take a moment to reflect on what we've built together these past 12 years, and the challenges we face in copyright reform, open access, and building an open web for everyone to learn and create.
In a world of worthy causes, it's our job to demonstrate the value of CC to individuals, governments, institutions, and corporations. And especially to you.
Please support us and help us spread the word.
PS: In a few weeks, we'll be releasing information about the state of the commons — our most accurate assessment to date. Watch for it.
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CC Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting Held in Seoul
Representatives from CC affiliates in Asia and the Pacific were once again hosted by CC Korea for the CC Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting this year. Asia-Pacific CC affiliates have a regular face-to-face meeting every two years to share their experience and know-how, to discuss common issues, and to seek opportunities for collaboration. Last September, 13 representatives from CC affiliate teams in China Mainland, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mongolia, and South Korea came all the way to Seoul for this rare opportunity to get inspired by each other and meet Ryan Merkley, new CEO of Creative Commons, whom many of them met in person for the first time.
This year's regional meeting was held in conjunction with the 3rd CC Korea Conference, "Share Everything, Connect Everything." Ryan Merkley, CEO of Creative Commons, opened the event with an inspiring keynote speech on sharing and the commons attended by more than 200 people from various fields including government, business and academia. Around the three main themes of Creativity, Sharing City, and Civic Hacking, insightful presentations were given by various local and international speakers including Todd Porter, Co-founder of FabCafe and Hal Seki from Code for Japan. As the closing session, Won-soon Park, Mayor of Seoul City, and Jay Yoon, Project Lead of CC Korea, discussed how we could shape our future with sharing and cooperation.
Following the successful conference on the first day, the CC affiliate representatives sat down together for a full-day meeting dedicated to the discussion of internal issues, from individual activities to regional and global cooperation. After a round of warm greetings to each other, each presented not only their success stories but also exchanged experiences in projects that did not turn out as they had expected, focusing on what they could improve and how they could do better in the future. Challenges faced by teams varied from fundraising to support and sustain their activities to restructuring their volunteer community. Discussion revolved around how to address these by facilitating regional collaboration both among individual affiliates and with CC headquarters in California.
After a lunchtime walk along the Cheonggye stream, Ryan Merkley joined the group to share CC's new vision and strategies and solicit feedback from the participants. Generally participants were glad for his willingness to share and to engage more closely with affiliates, welcoming opportunities to contribute and work more closely on various fronts. A theme of the day was ways that CC could collaborate and engage more actively with global affiliates on specific projects such as conducting research, developing tools to improve usability of CC licenses and reuse of CC-licensed content, etc. Some representatives also pointed out that more practical support from CC such as toolkits and resource repositories would be useful, especially for teams who are new or restructuring. Regional activities, such as the creation of a regional website and combining efforts in popular areas such as education, were also important part of the day's agendas.
The meeting was followed by a CC Salon, held as a wrap-up event of the whole program at a cozy book cafe down an alleyway, away from the noise and bustle of the Hongdae area. Conference speakers, CC Asia-Pacific representatives, and members and friends of CC Korea were all invited to meet old and new friends, try different traditional beverages brought by the participating CC representatives, and get inspired by interesting ignite talks ranging from a fantastic dance performance by Muid Latif from CC Malaysia to Ryan's "20 things I love from the commons" and a 3rd-grader girl's talk about her coding projects.
CC Korea would like to once again thank all representatives who participated and hopes that this could lead to more cooperation in the region and beyond.
For more details, see post-conference resources, including videos, all available under CC licenses. You can also read about the previous regional meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2012.
bssmile / CC BY 3.0
The thoughts below are from Muid Latif, Project Lead of CC Malaysia:
Seoul, Korea Trip / Muid Latif / CC BY-NC-SA
Visiting Seoul is life-changing experience. As a creative person, each turn you take around the city gives a perfect visual story-telling of its culture and economic progress. Since I was very familiar to the design community in Korea through Behance Network and Creative City project curated by Jackson Tan (Singapore) this year in conjunction of Kaohsiung Design Festival, I was introduced to amazing designers like Yoon Hyup and the talented Na Kim who I had the privilege to meet in September this year in Penang, Malaysia.
I was blown away by the amount of art galleries located in each district. I could easily be overwhelmed by so much talent. It shows how organised and cultured Koreans are in accepting creativity as a part of their daily routine.
While I was in Seoul, attending the CC Korea International Conference provided me with such an insightful experience to know how enthusiastic creators are in ensuring citizen could access better, organised public information and allowing transparency of the government, through projects like CodeNamu. And Randomwalks, for example, amplified various media and data and turned it into phenomenal info-graphics, as shown in Sey Min's presentation and demonstration. An aspiring young girl named Hannah enlightened us about the best creative way to have fun by creating DIY ear-folding rabbit and a fun wrist-band. I also had the chance to do a contemporary dance performance during the CC Salon featuring music of DD.85's 'Adaptation'.
It's more extraordinary to learn that Koreans take seriously into sharing culture thus seeing Creative Commons as a medium to empower their creations. From sharing innovation of technology through open source, mobile apps and web-based programmes are easily accessible to all. It facilitates greater alternative in cost-saving, and yet at the same time, some generous users would donate through PayPal as part of their appreciation. This is what CC is catered for its content users, the power to appreciate and attribute. The support does not only stop there, a local renowned KPOP artist expresses interest in offering to become an ambassador of CC Korea to increase more awareness. This is indeed admirable and I see that other CC affiliates could adapt and follow the same strategy to advance CC movement into the next level. If people would ask me, what's the next big thing for CC? Well, this is it.
- See CCKorea's photo sets from the event: 1, 2, 3
- See Muid's photo set.
Leicester City Council gives permission to 84 schools to create and share OER
Leicester City Council / CC BY 4.0
Leicester City Council is the first local government authority in the United Kingdom (UK) to provide 84 community schools with blanket permission to openly license their educational resources. The council is recommending that school staff use the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to share materials created in the course of their work. The Council has also released guidance and practical information for school staff on using and creating open educational resources (OER).
As part of Josie Fraser's (ICT Strategy Lead, Leicester City Council) work with the council, she leads on a citywide project to raise school staff skills and confidence in using technology to support teaching, learning, and school community development. The project has surveyed staff across the city to identify strengths and gaps in their use of technologies and digital resources. While the results on the whole have been very positive, the survey identified that school staff knowledge about OER and open licensing is very limited.
In response to this, Josie worked with Björn Haßler and Helen Neo (from the University of Cambridge) to create accessible OER schools guidance and practical resources for schools on finding, attributing, remixing, creating, and sharing CC licensed resources. School staff were invited to participate in the development of the resources, by review and discussion, and by taking part in pilot workshops for school staff and leaders.
"The response to the guidance has been very positive, with schools keen to raise the profile of excellent work being produced through the use of Creative Commons licenses. Schools want to raise staff knowledge in relation to copyright and open licensing, and see the classroom modelling of good practice in using and accrediting resources as important for their learners."
– Josie Fraser
Schools routinely make use of web-based resources to support their learners, but don't routinely benefit from the range of openly shared resources available if they aren't aware of open licensing. The permission and guidance are designed to work together in raising awareness about CC licenses and OER, and support schools in promoting the work they are doing by sharing – enabling them to create, and to connect and collaborate with other educators. At a time when so many resources used in schools are digital, and accessed and shared online, understanding copyright and the role that open licenses play is essential for education professionals.
"Leicester City Council is the first local authority in the UK to provide its school employees with permission to openly license their resources. This is a highly commendable and visionary step. We very much hope that this will inspire other councils and schools to look at how they can also support staff in sharing their work."
– Dr. Björn Haßler, University of Cambridge
Resource packs, which including model policies, guidance and resources for schools, are available at: http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/openeducation. The resources themselves build on existing openly licensed materials, and all new materials are all released under CC BY 4.0 and are available in editable versions for adaptation.
Josie concludes:
"Open licensing is an important step in making cultural change happen – for educators and learners to benefit from public work, and for schools across the city to move towards open practice. Change will not happen overnight, but the permission and guidance provides a great way for schools to think about how they share and collaborate, and how they would like to take their communities forward."
- OER Guidance for Schools was commissioned by Leicester City Council, as part of the Council's award winning digital literacy school staff development project, DigiLit Leicester.
- The OER Guidance resources were produced by Björn Haßler, Helen Neo, and Josie Fraser, and are available under CC BY 4.0.
- For further information please contact Josie Fraser (email@example.com) or Björn Haßler (email@example.com).
Related: Creative Commons policies grow in New Zealand schools4 Comments »
Sketchfab announces CC licensing; Microsoft, HTC, and British Museum early adopters
Sketchfab – an awesome website for sharing 3D models – just unveiled an option to make files downloadable. All of the files marked for download are available under Creative Commons licenses, including those from some big players like HTC, Microsoft, the British Museum and celebrated designer Francis Bitonti.
This makes Sketchfab not only the best and easiest way to publish and embed a 3D file, but also a great place to find and use 3D content – for example for 3D printing, to build video games or VR experiments – or just to share and collaborate privately on 3D designs. Any user can now chose to publish 3D content for display only, or for display and download under Creative Commons licenses.
This launch comes with another important milestone: more than 200,000 3D files have been uploaded on the platform so far, making Sketchfab one of the largest repositories of 3D content, and the leading platform to publish and embed interactive 3D models. We want to thank all of our users for that, we are proud to be home for your work. This milestone, combined with our new download option, is strengthening our position as The place to be for 3D files.
Sketchfab co-founder Alban Denoyel told us that his team knew from the start that they wanted to use CC licenses rather than create a new license for model use. "As soon as we started looking into adding a download option on Sketchfab, we wanted to find a legal framework to cover the way people could use the files, and CC was top of mind as the perfect solution to do that."
And did the high-profile users like Microsoft and HTC have any qualms about CC? Not really, says Alban. "We had a pretty straightforward approach, exposing our plans of enabling download under CC, and asking if they were in or not. No special concerns were raised, they quickly jumped in!"
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Dinka Corset - Manlual - South Sudan
Gloria Ssali
Painting - Enamels On Wood
When one hears the term 'corset' we immediately associate it with a woman's item of clothing, right? Well here is some interesting insight, the MEN of the Dinka tribe; a Southern Sudanese ethnic group,would beg to differ. Among the Dinka, corsets, known as "Manlual" are worn by men as a form of daily attire which primarily symbolize a man's age group as well as his wealth within the community.
The wealth of a Dinka is measured according to the height of the back of a corset; the higher the projection, the richer the wearer is.
Wealth is usually calculated in terms of their cattle and herd number. These corsets are initially sewn around a Dinka tribe member at a very tender age. Removal of the beaded garments, which serve as a great representation of the tribes creative abilities, is not initiated until the wearer reaches a certain age, usually when he is ready for marriage. The 'manlual' can therefore usually worn for over 15 -20 years before removal and are raised in height ever so often.
Different colour combinations featured on individual corsets signify a wearers age bracket. Red and blue cominations indicated a man of fifteen to twenty years of age whilst blue and yellow would usually be worn by men of thirty years and above.
Dinka herders of a younger age group can be identified by the height of their corsets.
The Dinka traditionally view the body as a focal point for artistic expression and what better way to be expressive then adorn ones body with carefully crafted pieces like these beaded corsets.
The beauty of the Dinka corsets have influenced fashion and costume designs worldwide. Interpretations of the Dinka corset have been worn by characters in the musical stage adaptation of world known animated film,"The Lion King". As well as this, prominent fashion house Christian Dior adapted the dexterity and bold design behind these corsets to create pieces for his Haute Couture 1997 collection. This definitely serves as proof of how African traditional culture has been adapted, interpretated and recognised worldwide.
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Castrop-Rauxel, NR - Germany
Great colors and expression, a joyful created work Gloria (F/L)
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so very lovely Gloria! I love the tones you used as well as the design!! Beautiful :) l/f!!
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Very nice work.. wow.
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Fantastic colors and shape, a wonderful creative work Gloria (F/L)
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Lyon - France
You so beautifully created this painting, Gloria, the colors are a marvel. Your description is also great, so very interesting. f+V
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Interesting colors and composition a wonderful work Gloria - Chris (F/V)
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Columbus, OH - United States
Lovely image and very interesting reading, Gloria! f/v13
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Magnificent colors Gloria and love the movement! v/f
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Cape Coral, FL - United States
Makes a wonderful abstract, and such an interesting story. voted.
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Bucharest, Ro - Romania
Again f,v for this great work, Gloria. I just love it.
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thank you everyone for your awesome support and kind words they are much appreciated
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Another instant v/f for this amazing work. I'm not sure I've ever seen this particular color of green in your work before, but it's extremely appealing to the eye and soul. Excellent!!!
Storybrooke, ME - United States
Your colors are wonderful Gloria! Beautiful art work, great description! V/F/SU
Strykersville, NY - United States
Just love love love your work - it makes me feel alive and full of energy. Fabulous Gloria. F/V
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Wonderful background color and movement ....great work Gloria - Chris (F/V)
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The colors in this painting are breathtakingly beautifully combined, Gloria. Love this work and enjoyed to read your informative description. f,v, SU
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I love the colors in this-beautiful! vf
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Friday Summary at Sachsenring: Marquez's Big Crash, Some Fast Yamahas, & Fixing Turn 11 Again
There are those who say that Marc Marquez is due for a big crash soon. He is always riding so close to the edge of traction that at some point, he will go over the limit and suffer the consequences, they reason. They will therefore not have been surprised to learn that Marquez had a huge highside on Friday morning.
What will surprise them is the cause of the crash. It was not due to pushing his Honda RC213V beyond the limits of adhesion, he explained to the media afterwards, but was caused by a minor slip of his foot. His toe touched the gear lever, clicking the bike into 3rd, and that caused the rear tire to grip momentarily and flick him off.
The crash happened at Turn 2. "You turn with the gas in second gear," Marquez said. "I didn't know at the time, but I was touching a little bit the gear lever." In the last part of the corner, he accidentally engaged third, and as he kept the throttle in the same position, the bike highsided.
Marquez was thrown upside down, and landed on his neck. He was lucky to walk away, but walk away he did. He returned to the garages and was straight back on the bike again, posting the sixth fastest time, six tenths off the pace of Aleix Espargaro, and a third of a second behind Jorge Lorenzo.
By the afternoon, Marquez was back at full speed, and second quickest behind Aleix Espargaro once again. He still had some stiffness in his neck, he said, but it was not really hindering him.
"The neck feels a bit locked in some corners, but it is not a problem," he said. Intensive physiotherapy kept his neck warm, and prevented it from seizing up and becoming painful. That only happened after the session was over, and his neck started to cool down.
There was some question of why Marquez was allowed to continue straight away. After what was obviously a very serious crash, Marquez was not subjected to a physical examination to check for signs of a concussion. This is a recurring problem in MotoGP, with pressure on riders to get back on the bike as soon as possible.
Only in very severe and obvious cases does the circuit doctor intervene, and so far this has not caused any problems. How long it will continue without a rider hurting themselves by going back out too soon remains to be seen. There may be a role here for more forceful action by the Medical Director and circuit doctor.
Thursday Summary at Sachsenring: On Breaking the Streak, Fighting for Contracts, & Keeping The Waterfall
After winning the first five races of the season, Marc Marquez said he feared the trio of Mugello, Barcelona, and Assen, which were to follow. He would surely be beaten at one of those tracks, given they favored the Yamaha M1, and were strong tracks for both Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.
Three races and three wins later, and Marquez is looking increasingly invincible. The Repsol Honda man keeps inventing new ways to win, and keeping his opponents at bay.
So if Marquez is impossible to beat at a Yamaha circuit, perhaps he can be beaten at a Honda track. So far, Dani Pedrosa has been the only rider to get close to beating his teammate, after pushing him all the way at Barcelona.
The Sachsenring is a track where Pedrosa has reigned supreme in recent years, having won four times in the last eight years. Impressive as it is, that does not do his record at the track justice. In his rookie year, he finished fourth in Germany, missing out by just three tenths of a second in one of the closest and most thrilling races to be held at the circuit.
In 2008 he crashed out of the lead in the wet, a result that would lead him to concentrate on improving his riding in the rain. In 2009 he finished third, close behind the battle between Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and in 2013, Pedrosa was absent after breaking a collarbone during practice.
There is just one minor problem. If you think Dani Pedrosa's record at the Sachsenring is strong – and numbers don't lie, Pedrosa is the man to beat in Germany – just wait until you see what Marc Marquez has done at the circuit. For the past four years, in three different classes, Marquez has won the race after starting from pole.
The Spaniard won here in his last year in 125s, won both Moto2 races he contested here, then took victory in his first MotoGP race at the circuit. It was his second win in the class, after becoming the youngest ever winner at Austin earlier in 2013.
Marquez did not have to beat either Pedrosa or Lorenzo, of course, both men having withdrawn with broken collarbones. So this race is a straight fight for Sachsenring supremacy. The winner in 2014 may rightly call himself King of the 'Ring.
Chalk a victory up for the two-wheelers, as Germany's famed Autobahn road system is set to go the way of the toll road…except for motorcycles that is. The new toll system will interestingly enough apply only to vehicles with foreign license tags, with permits to circulate on the autobahn being sold at border crossings into Germany and other locations within the country.
Three points makes a trend, so refrain from the high-fives and ching-ching's, but European bike sales are finally showing signs of life after seeing steady growth in January and February, compared to last year.
With motorcycle sales up 14.8%, and combined motorcycle and moped sales up 8.6%, two-wheelers in Europe seem to be headed in the right direction.
After three years of uncertainty, the Nürburgring has finally been sold, and not to an American investment group as had been rumored, but instead to a German real estate development group: Capricorn Development.
Capricorn is said to have paid €77 million for the iconic race course and its surrounding facilities, with the Düsseldorf-based firm promising to pump another €25 million into the property once they take full-ownership of it on January 1, 2015.
We don't know about you, but the eight-part "TT Legends" documentary is really giving us a reason to look forward to Wednesday. In fact it might even be the most popular event at the A&R office since No-Pants Fridays. Sadly, Episode Seven is the penultimate installment, but all good things must come to an end, right?
Today's video takes us to Germany, for the Oschersleben 8hr. Perhaps not the biggest event on the FIM Endurance World Championship, it was a decisive round for the Honda TT Legends squad for the 2012 EWC title. As usually, it's a great look into this top-level team, and your favorite TT heroes have more than enough personality to keep you entertained.
Celebrating its ten year anniversary, American Motorcycle Dealer organizers were invited to host the 2014 World Championship of Custom Bike Building at this year's world renowned INTERMOT expo.
As part of a multiyear, alternating agreement, the world championship will be held at INTERMOT in Cologne, Germany this year, followed by the Big Bike Europe show in Essen, Germany the following year.
Part of the motivation for the agreement is to expose larger crowds to the world championship because, despite last year's success in terms of design and organization, the turnout left much to be desired.
As one the largest international motorcycle trade shows in the world, INTERMOT attracts nearly a quarter of a million people each year, which AMD hopes to take advantage of in this new agreement.
If you ask us, the BMW R nineT is a pretty big deal for the business of motorcycling, as its modular design allows for the air-cooled standard to be modified extensively and easily. BMW Motorrad designed the R nineT that way so tuners and customers alike could put their own stamp on the machine that celebrates the German motorcycle maker's 90th year of business.
Whether your taste is along the lines of the heavily modified BMW Concept Ninety, which Roland Sands had a hand in making, or something more stock from the BMW parts catalog, the BMW R nineT can abide. So, it probably shouldn't surprise us to see that Nicolas Petit has inked another build for German parts maker Wunderlich.
Drawing both a fully-faired and a more bare-boned version of Wunderlich BMW R nineT cafe racer, Petit has once again made a lurid proposition. We think those who love the classic lines of BMW's past will enjoy these concepts, and if anything Petit's work shows the versatility in the R nineT's modular design.