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A new course on Open Research at the School of Open
The following is a guest post by Beck Pitt, researcher at the Open University's OER Research Hub. We are collaborating with Beck and her team to investigate attitudes towards sharing educational resources online and the impact of School of Open courses.
Are you curious about what it means to research openly and what benefits it could have? Interested in how you can be open and ethical when conducting research? Wondering how openness could help raise the profile of your research? Thinking about the benefits of sharing reflections on your research?
The award-winning, Hewlett Foundation-funded OER Research Hub based at The Open University (UK) is pleased to announce its very own School of Open course in collaboration with the Peer 2 Peer University and Creative Commons. It opens for sign-up today at https://p2pu.org/en/courses/2377/open-research/.
Over six months in the making and peer-reviewed by the community, this new School of Open course offers the opportunity to explore the concept and practices of open research with participants from around the world. The course has been designed for any researcher who has an interest in utilizing open techniques and practices in their own research.
Join researchers Bea de los Arcos, Rob Farrow, Beck Pitt, and project manager Natalie Eggleston for this four-week course that explores what open research is and the issues involved around it, including: ethics, dissemination, reflection, and evaluation. The course starts Monday, 15 September 2014 and features its very own "Open Research" badge for course completion and participation.
To sign up, simply click the "Start Course" button on the lower left of the course page once you have signed into or registered for a p2pu.org account. Sign-up will remain open through Friday, 12 September.
About the OER Research Hub
The OER Research Hub is an international open research project examining the impact of open educational resources (OER) on learning and teaching practices. It works collaboratively with initiatives, projects and organisations around the world, disseminating its research and curating evidence for the impact of OER on its Impact Map.
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, and research. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a peer learning community for developing and running free online courses.Comments Off on A new course on Open Research at the School of Open
Announcing the Institute for Open Leadership Fellows
Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network are pleased to announce the first round of fellows for the Institute for Open Leadership. The Institute is a training program to develop new leaders in education, science, public policy, and other fields on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies, and practices. We received over 90 applications from around the world and representing a broad diversity of fields. Here are the fellows for this year.
- Dairo Alexander Escobar Ardila; Instituto Humboldt – SiB Colombia; Bogotá, Colombia
- David Ernst; University of Minnesota; St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Eric Phetteplace; California College of the Arts; Oakland, California, USA
- Fátima Silva São Simão; UPTEC – Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto; Porto, Portugal
- Georgia Angelaki, National Documentation Center/Hellenic Research Institute; Athens, Greece
- Jagadish Chandra Aryal; Social Science Baha; Kathmandu, Nepal
- Jane Gilvin; National Public Radio; Washington, D.C., USA
- Julian Carver; Land Information New Zealand; Christchurch, New Zealand
- Klaudia Grabowska; Polish History Museum; Warsaw, Poland
- Mohamud Ahmed Rage; Ministry of Higher Education & Culture, Somalia; Mogadishu, Somalia
- Nasir Khan; Management Information Services, Directorate General of Health Services, Bangladesh; Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Paul UE Blackman; Barbados Community College; St. Michael, Barbados
- Vincent Kizza; Open Learning Exchange Uganda; Kampala, Uganda
- Werner Westermann Juarez; Instituto Profesional Providencia, Santiago, Chile
The in-person portion of the Institute will take place in San Francisco, California in January 2015. The fellows will be develop, refine, and work to implement a capstone open policy project. The point of this project is for the fellow to transform the concepts learned at the Institute into a practical, actionable, and sustainable initiative within her/his institution.
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Examining deficiencies of and limitations on data sharing
Whether patients, or part of traffic, or exercising or simply walking with one of the behavioral trackers du jour, we are constantly giving data about ourselves and our surroundings to data collecters with few returns. From privacy regulations to bureaucratic barriers to collecting and locking up information just in case it might create monetary value in the future, there are a multitude of barriers between those who collect information and those who want to use it.
With support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), we are launching two projects exploring different aspects that often get in the way of easy sharing of citizen-sourced information.
Sharing v. Privacy
In collaboration with the Institute for Human Genetics and EngageUC at UCSF, and Personal Genome Project at Harvard University, we will explore the practical, ethical and legal implications of emphasizing benefits of sharing over the need for privacy at a workshop planned for Spring 2015 in Washington DC. A few of the questions to be tackled at the workshop: What if, instead of emphasizing the imperative of protecting privacy, we emphasized the potential benefits from sharing? Would most patients agree to let their information be shared? more →
Sensored City
Partnering with Manylabs, a San Francisco-based sensor tools and education nonprofit, and Urban Matter, Inc., a Brooklyn-based design studio, and in collaboration with the City of Louisville, Kentucky, and Propeller Health, maker of a mobile platform for respiratory health management, we will design, develop and install a network of sensor-based hardware that will collect environmental information at high temporal and spatial scales and store it in a software platform designed explicitly for storing and retrieving such data.
Further, we will design, create and install a public data art installation that will be powered by the data we collect thereby communicating back to the public what has been collected about them. more →
Please follow our progress on Sharing v. Privacy and the Sensored City projects, and get in touch with us if you want to learn more.Comments Off on Examining deficiencies of and limitations on data sharing
Fotopedia closes, but CC-licensed photos live on
If you're a fan of photo-and-knowledge-sharing community Fotopedia, you've likely heard that the site is closing this Sunday, August 10. When Creative Commons heard the news, we contacted Fotopedia to ask if there were some way that we could help save all of the Creative Commons–licensed photos on the site. Now, we're working together with the staff at Fotopedia to create a new archive of all of that content. At the same time, our friends at Archive Team are creating a copy of the entire Fotopedia website.
Here at CC, we've been big fans of Fotopedia for a long time. The site elegantly mixes together content from Flickr, Wikipedia, and other sources in a way that's only possible thanks to CC licenses. And over the years, Fotopedia developed an amazing community of people curating all of that content into highly entertaining, visually rich albums.
It's fitting that all of that work will live on in the new archive. Fotopedia has always been a great example of the power of the decentralized web. Just like Fotopedia brought new life to great photos from Flickr, the archive will bring new life to great photos from Fotopedia.
If you'd like to know when the archive is open, subscribe to our mailing list.. If you have any questions, email us at email@example.com.
Creative Commons salutes Fotopedia for its work as a leader in online content-sharing. We wish Jean-Marie Hullot and his team all the best on their future projects.6 Comments »
Dozens of organizations tell STM publishers: No new licenses
The keys to an elegant set of open licenses are simplicity and interoperability. CC licenses are widely recognized as the standard in the open access publishing community, but a major trade association recently published a new set of licenses and is urging its members to adopt it. We believe that the new licenses could introduce unnecessary complexity and friction, ultimately hurting the open access community far more than they'd help.
Today, Creative Commons and 57 organizations from around the world released a joint letter asking the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers to withdraw its model "open access" licenses. The association ostensibly created the licenses to promote the sharing of research in the scientific, technical, and medical communities. But these licenses are confusing, redundant, and incompatible with open access content published under other public licenses. Instead of developing another set of licenses, the signatories urge the STM Association to recommend to its authors existing solutions that will truly promote STM's stated mission to "ensure that the benefits of scholarly research are reliably and broadly available." From the letter:
We share a positive vision of enabling the flow of knowledge for the good of all. A vision that encompasses a world in which downstream communicators and curators can use research content in new ways, including creating translations, visualizations, and adaptations for diverse audiences. There is much work to do but the Creative Commons licenses already provide legal tools that are easy to understand, fit for the digital age, machine readable and consistently applied across content platforms.
So, what's really wrong with the STM licenses? First, and most fundamentally, it is difficult to determine what each license and supplementary license is intended to do and how STM expects them each to be used. The Twelve Points to Make Open Access Licensing Work document attempts to explain its goals, but it is not at all clear how the various legal tools work to meet those objectives.
Second, none of the STM licenses comply with the Open Definition, as they all restrict commercial uses and derivatives to a significant extent. And they ignore the long-running benchmark for Open Access publishing: CC BY. CC BY is used by a majority of Open Access publishers, and is recommended as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, and reuse of scholarly work by the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Third, the license terms and conditions introduce confusion and uncertainty into the world of open access publishing, a community in which the terminology and concepts utilized in CC's standardized licenses are fairly well accepted and understood.
Fourth, the STM licenses claim to grant permission to do many things that re-users do not need permission to do, such as describing or linking to the licensed work. In addition, it's questionable for STM to assume that text and data mining can be regulated by their licenses. Under the Creative Commons 4.0 licenses, a licensor grants the public permission to exercise rights under copyright, neighboring rights, and similar rights closely related to copyright (such as sui generis database rights). And the CC license only applies when at least one of these rights held by the licensor applies to the use made by the licensee. This is important because in some countries, text and data mining are activities covered by an exception or limitation to copyright (such as fair use in the United States), so no permission is needed. Most recently the United Kingdom enacted legislation specifically excepting noncommercial text and data mining from the reach of copyright.
Finally, STM's "supplementary" licenses, which are intended for use with existing licenses, would only work with CC's most restrictive license, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (BY-NC-ND). Even then they would have very limited legal effect, since much of what they claim to cover is already permitted by all CC licenses. As a practical matter, these license terms are likely to be very confusing to re-users when used in conjunction with a CC license.
The Creative Commons licenses are the demonstrated global standard for open access publishing. They're used reliably by open access publishers around the world for sharing hundreds of thousands of research articles. Scholarly publishing presents a massive potential to increase our understanding of science. And creativity always builds on the past, whether it be a musician incorporating samples into a new composition or a cancer researcher re-using data from past experiments in their current work.
But to fully realize innovations in science, technology, and medicine, we need clear, universal legal terms so that a researcher can incorporate information from a variety of sources easily and effectively. The research community can enable these flows of information and promote discoveries by sharing writings, data, and analyses in the public commons. We've already built the legal tools to support content sharing. Let's use them and not reinvent the wheel.
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Creative Commons announces launch of CC Belarus
Creative Commons leaflet / Sviatlana Yermakovich / CC BY-SA
Creative Commons is happy to announce the launch of CC Belarus. Youth organization Falanster is now the belarusian Creative Commons affiliate team!
On August 29, the official launch of CC Belarus will take place in Minsk. For now, CC Belarus will focus on the following topics:
- researching the applicability of Creative Commons licenses in Belarusian legislation
- connect with foreign teams to exchange experiences
- organizing open discussions on adding Creative Commons licenses to Belarusian law
- create a platform to discuss the reform of Belarusian Copyright Law
- inform the Belarusian public about Creative Commons
Falanster began using Creative Commons licenses on its own sites (falanster.by, pirates.by, drupal-sliot.by), has been hosting meetings to endorse the open source principles, organised the Minsk Open Data Day in 2014, and has hosted several summer courses with lectures and panel discussions about copyright law and necessary reforms. Since 2013, Falanster has been holding Wiki-Days periodically, encouraging participants to add articles and photos to Wikipedia (Belarusian, Russian, English). The team has also been spreading information about Creative Commons through leaflets.
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School of Open Africa to launch in September
(SOO logo here. Earth icon licensed CC BY by Erin Standley from the Noun Project.)
After months of discussions, deliberations, and planning between CC staff, African Regional Coordinators, African Affiliate teams, and others in the open space, Creative Commons Africa is set to storm Africa by having a continent-wide launch for School of Open in September.
School of Open is a global community of volunteers providing free online courses, face-to-face workshops, and innovative training programs on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age. Through School of Open, you can learn how to add a Creative Commons license to your work, find free resources for classroom use, open up your research, remix a music video, and more!
School of Open programs will be launched in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and South Africa in September on a series of topics ranging from Creative Commons licensing, intellectual property protection, open society concepts, and the Linux operating system .
Strategic collaborations are underway with the Mozilla Foundation, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, WikiAfrica, University of Lagos, University of Tanzania, and the Institute of Educational Management Technology of the Open University of Tanzania to make the launch a success.
School of Open Kenya
School of Open Kenya already started out as a trail blazer by organizing a two-week after school program that introduces high school students to open culture through the use of online School of Open courses and related open educational resources (OER). The training was designed to satisfy the academic needs of the students and to enable the students to use open tools such as Creative Commons licenses to create and share knowledge, as well as learning required subjects in new and creative ways. The students integrated the School of Open training into their school work and were able to produce projects such as this Titration Demo video by the Lenana School under CC BY. Despite its long strides, Jamlab and CC Kenya are not resting their oars; they will be launching a Train the Trainers program this September where they will train 10+ community members to organize and run SOO workshops in more high schools and in neighboring countries. SOO Kenya will also host a SOO Africa launch event and Maker Party entitled PopJam. Jamlab + CC Kenya, in collaboration with Mozilla Kenya and Wikipedia Kenya, will host the event for 5 high schools in the region. Stay tuned for details!
School of Open South Africa
CC South Africa hosts three projects under the School of Open initiative. The first is the #OpenAfrica project where in conjunction with WikiAfrica, open advocates from Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda and Ghana were put through an "open" bootcamp. The month-long camp covered Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Open Street Maps, Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Data, Open Government, and related fundraising and community building skills. Advocates returned equipped with "open" knowledge and skills to their home countries to influence and spur their communities into action. This has resulted in the creation of new CC affiliate teams in Ethiopia and Cote d'Ivoire and the launch of open mandated tech hubs in these communities.
Launching off #OpenAfrica, participants were invited to compete for the first Kumusha Bus stop. The Kumusha Bus is an African adaption of the South American Libre Bus. Ethiopia 'won' the first Kumusha Bus stop. The team spent four days inspiring, teaching and sharing at GIZ Headquarters in Addis Ababa. Participants from Sheger Media, AIESEC and Addis Ababa University were in attendance. The four days resulted in the launch of Project Luwi. Luwi is an open source project, aiming to increase the application of open source information and communication technologies (ICT). Luwi intends to create a local community of interested volunteers that is able to foster motivation and creativity around Open Educational Resources (OERs) and supports a culture of sharing information freely in Ethiopia.
The third project is the Creative Commons for Kids program (CC4Kids). CC4Kids was built with Obami, a South Africa-based social learning platform. The course is self-taught and takes about 45 minutes to complete. CC South Africa was invited to teach its first course as part of a Maker Party at the Code for Cape Town project (Code4CT) with 24 grade 10 and 11 girls from the Centre for Science and Technology (COSAT) in Cape Town, South Africa. For three weeks the girls were trained on how the web works and actively participated in building web content. Instead of policing students' actions, CC4Kids teaches youth how to open and share their creative and educational works legally through the use of CC licenses. All the girls now have simple web pages they created. CC4Kids' next Maker Party will be held at RLabs in August. Stay tuned!
School of Open Tanzania
CC Tanzania is planning to host three sets of trainings. The first will be an ICT empowerment training for unemployed youth, the second will focus on teaching persons with disabilities how to use computers, and the third will focus on training educators on using ICT to improve how they teach their students. Participants will become new School of Open volunteers, improving and running future training programs as a way to give back to and grow their community. Development will be led by CC Tanzania volunteers with expertise in law, journalism, and information technology. CC Tanzania will host a joint SOO Africa launch event + Mozilla Maker Party, date and location TBD.
School of Open Nigeria
CC Nigeria will, in five weekends, train participants on Nigerian copyright law, intellectual property protection, and the Linux operating system. The training will have two tracks: the first track being copyright law and the second being the Linux operating System. Participants will have the opportunity to choose either or both tracks. CC Nigeria also plans to host a joint SOO Africa launch event + Mozilla Maker Party during the training. During the event, experienced web users will train participants on easy ways to creating content using Mozilla tools.
SOO Nigeria links:
- Courses schedule: http://creativecommonsng.org/school-of-open-nigeria/
- SOO Nigeria Launch Event & Maker Party: https://events.webmaker.org/#!/events/4526
- Registration form for all SOO Nigeria activities: http://creativecommonsng.org/school-of-open-nigeria/soo2014/
After the continent-wide launch, participants who attended the courses will have together obtained and built knowledge of open culture, IP protection and ICT skills.
Stay tuned to this blog or sign up for School of Open Announcements to be notified when each program launches in September! Learn more about how you can get involved with the School of Open at http://schoolofopen.org.
About Maker Party
School of Open and Creative Commons is excited to be partnering with Mozilla to celebrate teaching and learning the web with Maker Party. Through thousands of community-run events around the world, Maker Party unites educators, organizations and enthusiastic Internet users of all ages and skill levels.
We share Mozilla's belief that the web is a global public resource that's integral to modern life: it shapes how we learn, how we connect and how we communicate. But many of us don't understand its basic mechanics or what it means to be a citizen of the web. That's why we're supporting this global effort to teach web literacy through hands-on learning and making with Maker Party.
About the School of Open
The School of Open is a global community of volunteers focused on providing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of "openness" in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, and research. Volunteers develop and run online courses, offline workshops, and real world training programs on topics such as Creative Commons licenses, open educational resources, and sharing creative works. The School of Open is coordinated by Creative Commons and P2PU, a peer learning community for developing and running free online courses.1 Comment »
Rijksmuseum case study: Sharing free, high quality images without restrictions makes good things happen
Girl in white kimono, George Hendrik Breitner, 1894; CC0
Yesterday Europeana published a great case study documenting the experiences of the Dutch Rijksmuseum in opening up access to their collection of digital public domain images. The case study was written by Joris Pekel, community coordinator for cultural heritage at the Europeana Foundation. Over the last few years, Europeana has worked with the Rijksmuseum in order to make available at the highest quality possible images of public domain artworks held by the museum.
The report discusses the Rijksmuseum's initial apprehension to sharing these high quality images of public domain works. The museum originally planned to share the digital reproductions of public domain works under an open license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). But after some convincing by organizations that advocate for unrestricted access to the public domain, the Rijksmuseum began to open its collections more by choosing to use the CC0 Public Domain Dedication for the digital reproductions.
The Rijksmuseum began to experiment with how it would offer high quality reproductions of the public domain artworks. The museum adopted a mission-driven approach, and staff understood the opportunity to showcase the best of the museum's collection as a promotional tool. The marketing department argued that "…The core goal of the museum is to get the collection out and known to the public as much as possible…[and] the digital reproduction of an item would pique public interest in it, leading them to buy tickets to the museum to see the real deal." The Rijksmuseum also realized that by releasing high quality digital reproductions of works out of copyright, it could help educate the public by providing true-color images and accurate metadata about the works.
Instead of worrying that making available high quality digital reproductions of public domain artwork for free would destroy a piece of the museum's revenue stream, the Rijksmuseum initially adopted a hybrid approach. They made images available in two sizes: .jpg images at approximately 4500×4500 pixels were free, while the huge 200MB master .tiff files were made available for €40. The museum saw a steady increase in revenue from image sales, but eventually decided to discontinue the tiered offerings. Since October 2013 the Rijksmuseum has been releasing their highest quality images for free.
The Rijksmuseum has found a way to support broad access to its rich collection of cultural heritage resources. And it's done so in such as way that promotes interest by new audiences, recuperates costs, and upholds the principles of supporting unrestricted access to the digital public domain.
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"Why Open?" course now open for sign-up
Project 365 #303: 301009 Blink And You'll Miss It! / Pete / CC BY
Another run of School of Open courses is starting up in August, September and October! The first course to kick things off is a second iteration of "Why Open?" "Why Open?" was collaboratively developed and facilitated one year ago in August 2013; now the facilitators are back to run it a second time from 10 August to 5 September 2014. What is "Why Open?" From its About page,
Why Open? What does open mean? Does it mean free? Does it mean without restriction? What is the role of the producer? What is the role of the consumer? Why is open important? How does open relate to you and your area of expertise?
In this course, we will discuss and answer these questions. With your help, we will explore the different meanings of open in various contexts as well as its benefits and issues. Participants will use open practices to complete a series of open activities that builds into a final project.
Facilitators include Christina Hendricks (Philosophy lecturer at the University of British Columbia), Simeon Oriko (School of Open Kenya Initiative), Jeanette Lee (English lit and writing teacher), and myself.
Read more about the course over at the School of Open blog.
Sign-up is open now through 10 August; to join, simply click the 'Start Course' button on the lower left of the course page.Comments Off on "Why Open?" course now open for sign-up
Wattpad upgrades to Version 4.0 of CC licenses
Fiction-writing community Wattpad has upgraded to the Creative Commons Version 4.0 licenses and unveiled several improvements to its CC implementation. As of today, there are 300,000 CC-licensed stories on Wattpad, making this one of the largest adoptions of Version 4.0 to date.
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"The biggest question facing new writers today isn't how to protect their work; it's how to find a readership for it, said Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger. "It makes complete sense that so many Wattpad writers are gravitating toward Creative Commons licenses: by giving others permission to share your writing, you can open doors to new audiences and new creative opportunities." Cory Doctorow has shared five stories on Wattpad under CC licenses, including New York Times best-selling novels Homeland and Little Brother. Today, to coincide with the roll out of CC 4.0, he will share his first novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom on Wattpad.
"All knowledge and culture owes something to what came before it – it's this public commons of ideas that forms the foundation of our society," said Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley. "I'm excited that the Wattpad community will have Creative Commons' simple, free tools to share their work, to re-use the works of others, and to contribute to the global creative community."
Read the full press release and find more information in Wattpad's announcement. Congratulations to Wattpad and its community of 30 million writers and readers!2 Comments »


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. In a study of pregnant women, those with pregnancy-induced high blood pressure were found to have higher levels of a peptide that raises blood pressure in the pieces of tissue linking mother and fetus, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The finding, reported online in the journal Hypertension, may help explain how the disorder develops.
Preeclampsia, or high blood pressure induced by pregnancy, affects 7 to 10 percent of pregnancies in the United States and is the second-leading cause of maternal mortality. It is the leading cause of pre-term delivery and contributes significantly to stillbirths and death in newborns.
The researchers found that in women with preeclampsia, levels of angiotensin II (Ang II), a hormone that constricts blood vessels and causes blood pressure to rise, was doubled in the chorionic villi, part of the placenta that links mother and fetus and supplies food and oxygen.
This finding may be part of the preeclampsia puzzle, said Lauren Anton, a graduate student who is first author on the research. Anything that gets us closer to understanding this disease is important because there is no treatment and no cure and women are still delivering babies too early.
The researchers theorize that Ang II may restrict the fetal vessels that lie within the chorionic villi, which not only raises blood pressure, but also lowers oxygen and nutrient flow to the baby and may result in lower birth weight and other complications of preeclampsia.
The study involved 21 women with preeclampsia and 25 women without the disorder. After delivery, tissue sections were taken from the center of the placenta for analysis.
Ang II is part of the renin angiotensin system (RAS) that regulates blood pressure. The system has been shown to play an important role in preeclampsia. However, changes in the system also occur in women who dont develop the condition. I
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This is a really, really good, moist cake! I was surprised how moist it turned out, actually. I used fine cornmeal, because that's all I had. In addition, I didn't use the skillet to bake the cake. Instead, I used a springform pan. The only thing I might recommend in doing that is to put parchment down first as the bottom stuck a little bit and sort of ruined an otherwise lovely presentation! Delicious, though, truly!flag if inappropriate
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Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.
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The first was of an overwhelming back and forth of people, voices, lights, cars. Noises. Smog. Dust. The second was of infinite variety, infinite stimuli, infinite opportunities.
The third was of vibrant meltin' pot, cultures, ages --all busy, either alone or in group, all in a hurry, all heading toward something.
The forth was of melancholy for a city that can give it all, but that can never belong to anyone.
I loved NYC. It's so rich, diverse, interesting. There's always something to look at, something to learn, something to listen to. On the subway train, on the street, in line at the supermarket.
The camera struggles at grabbing pieces of this restless life. The frame is to small for containing New York, its different levels, its multiple souls. New York is too high, too much.
I walked a lot, down the avenues and along the streets of Manhattan island, trying to create imaginary limits and boundaries to order neighborhoods in my mind --limits that don't exist in the reality, New York has no boundaries. Little Italy melts with China town, the East Village with Noho and Soho. One block can belong to both, or to none.
New York is confusing and ordered at the same time. The logical plan of the city doesn't match with it's illogical inner life. It's always in conflict between these two components --rationality and irrationality.
New York is rich and poor. I saw a well dressed, put-together kid ordering an expensive bunch of flowers and a cupcake at Dean and Deluca, and a homeless asking me to swipe him in the subway to give him a place to spend the night.
New York has no mercy. You're either a winner or a looser. No rules, everything works in order to emerge, to be seen, to pop out of the madding crowd. Even dancing on the train without music in front of careless passengers.
New York has all the food you want, all you can imagine, all you can desire. I ate all the Asian bowls of soup I could possibly find and bare. Ramen, udon, chinese noodle soup, pho, Thai soup. I ate pastrami on rye, lox on a bagel. I ate tacos and tamales. I ate sushi, stir fry, baoguette. I ate pretzels, muffins, scones, cookies, waffles, pies. I drank liters of American coffee, Belgian beers, American beers, Japanese beers. I ate Napolitan Pizza and NY style pizza, cacio e pepe and oxtail. I ate the original no-knead bread and Finnish flatbread. I ate whenever I wanted, whatever I wanted. Food is in your face all the time. No rules, no places. It's gastronomic anarchy.
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TravelPod Member ReviewsIzaak Walton Inn Essex
I dislike writing reviews like this one because there are way too many variables.
One Star: If you think that roughing it is a Holiday Inn then this is not the hotel for you. The rooms a small almost primitive compared to modern hotels. If you are a very light sleeper the train tracks are way too close for you.
Two Stars: The reason I gave this hotel two stars can be attributed to the fact that this is the early part of the season. We had small problems with housekeeping and the menu in the Diner was obsolete as in they did not have everything that was on the menu and some of the menu items had changed.
Three Stars: This is the score I would have liked to give this hotel and if I were to return in July once all the summer staff had had a chance to learn their jobs the hotel would probably earn three stars.
Four Stars: If you want to experience what it was like to stay in a hotel nearly 100 years ago this is the place for you. About the only difference between then and now is the indoor plumbing. Izaak Walton Hotel is a perfect example of a historic hotel.
Five Stars: If you want to experience a historic railroad hotel and are a rail fan, this is heaven on earth. The BNSF main line is almost outside the front door. The trains are close enough that you can enjoy them yet far enough away to not seriously disturb your sleep.
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Great skiing, good food, friendly staff. We drove to the inn since it was part of a longer trip to a number of national parks but, one of the appeals of this location is taking the train right to the inn and back. A great winter retreat. I definitely need to go by train some time.
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We found this Inn when we drove around the southeast part of the Park. I like all the railroad stuff and would like to stay here one day.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Izaak Walton Inn Essex
Good value in a good location
The rooms are clean and well furnished. Memorabilia throughout the hotel is well worth seeing. The views toward trackside are about as good as they get, if you like trains (which we do). The staff is friendly and helpful, without exception. We thought the restaurant food was good and an excellent value, which is good since there aren't any nearby alternatives. Negatives: creaky floors so you hear every footstep above you. Considering the beautiful setting, nice summer climate, and attentive staff, the place is highly recommended.
Train buffs and Nature lovers paradise
[I found no reviews of this place before we went, so I wanted to be sure to inform people of this GREAT place!]
We stayed here June 12-14, 2005. We arrived via Amtrak's Empire Builder route. The Inn is just a few hundred feet from the tracks and the train stops here. Some one from the Inn is waiting w/ a van for arrivals to help carry your luggage, but it is w/in walking distance.
The setting for this Inn is at the boundaries of Glacier Nat'l Park. (You can rent a car thru the Inn so you can navigate the Park and elsewhere.) It is AWESOME scenery w/ towering fur trees that smell like a Christmas Tree farm. The Rocky Mtns are in the backdrop; some still w/ snow on top--in June. There is the Flathead River nearby, too; it's just a GORGEOUS natural setting. Remember to bring the right clothing, though. This is the mtns, and it got to 40 at night and only 65 at midday in the middle of June! You need to be tolerant of trains, also. This is a main line and about 30 trains can go by each day/night. My husband loves trains and this is why we chose this place.
We didn't stay in the actual Inn, but chose a Caboose Cabin across the tracks from the main lodge. There are only 4 of these cabins, and there is a 3 night minimum stay required. You have to want to "be away from it all" as the rooms have no phone, tv, or radio. [There is also no cell phone reception! But payphones are in the lodge.] They have 2 full size beds (the loft bed is better suited for children as there isn't much space in the top of the caboose to move), the bathroom, a kitchenette, a small sitting area, and a deck. You can even pre-arrange for some basic groceries to be brought to your caboose upon your arrival. We did this for some breakfasts and sodas and a few snacks. There is a wonderful restaurant in the lodge, but there is no grocery store w/in walking distance, so do plan to eat at the restaurant a lot, unless you've gotten a rental car.
The lodge has a gift shop, a huge fireplace w/ newspaper and magazines to read, and downstairs is the bar and gameroom. For being in a small town (population 30!) the prices weren't bad--you could get a beer for $3! There is a jukebox in the bar, but it only plays Big Band music. Just off the bar is the gameroom--a pool table and a ping pong table--and it also has a jukebox which has more current music and a good portion of country music.
The entire place was just SO RELAXING and the staff were very friendly and helpful--get a rental car, mail a postcard, tell the best hiking spots of their trails. There were deer, ground squirrels, and plenty of humming birds--a fun bird to watch at the feeders!
We had the Green Caboose--it has a great view from the deck. There is a Honeymoon Caboose (orange, I believe) and it is the only 1 w/ a fireplace and gets booked the quickest. I don't know anything about the actual Inn rooms, except that they have no phones, tv, etc, either. I heard no complaints from their patrons that we met while sitting on the porch or snapping train photos as they swept by.
All in all, this is a WONDERFUL place if you want to RELAX and enjoy nature!
Staying in a caboose
We spent three nights at the Izaak Walton in mid-February in the "green" caboose and had a nice time. The price was a little steep for the quality of the accomodations ($675 for 3 nights) but the unique nature of staying in a caboose made up for it (for us at least). Our caboose had a kitchen/dining area in one half, a loft area with double mattress in the cupola, a lavatory with shower under the loft bed, and double bed in the back half. The kitchen was stocked with dishes, glasses, pots, pans, small refrigerator, small gas stove, etc. - what we needed to prepare and serve all of our meals. Some general comments: The loft bed would probably be a great place for kids to hang out and sleep but the ceiling is a little low to be a comfortable bed for adults, though we spent afternoons reading up there. Nice view, cozy space. The lavatory and shower are very small. There is a gas furnace to keep the caboose warm but it was pretty noisy and worked better at keeping the kitchen area warm than "bedroom". It is about a quarter mile walk to the Inn and some folks may find it strenuous/difficult in the snow. You cannot drive to the cabooses in the winter but the Inn will shuttle you back and forth when you arrive and depart. Maybe other times too - we didn't check. The cross country ski trails go right by the cabooses so for skiing or snowshoeing a caboose is more convenient than the Inn. Bring what you'll need - Essex is pretty remote. Overall our caboose was showing it age but was comfortable and unique. We will stay there again.
3rd visit in 2 mths
One might suggest that three visits to the Inn in less than three months is a bit much. It isn't. The quiet. The serenty. The food. The staff. The mountains. Did I say the quiet?
The Izaak Walton Inn is an unusual, unique and delightful experience, especially if you arrive by Amtrak. They mean it when they say the train stops at the Inn's door.
One of the best bits is that every morning at 8:45 the Amtrak goes by traveling east. The Inn's staff are all on the veranda waving at the passing train. They sure don't do that at the Holiday Inn.
A Most Amazing Place
This beautifully restored building and its unique railroad surroundings make this inn one of the most wonderful my family and I have ever stayed in. The rooms were nicely decorated and spotless. The mountain environment is wonderful. Its location makes it easy to access Glacier Park from the east or west and the nearby scenery is in itself fabulous. The food in its dining room restaurant was excellent while the cozy surroundings were very personal. I look foreward to experiencing its charms in the winter since there are fewer summer destinations that I could hope to return to with such pleasure. With its own train whistle stop, arrival via rail is a great experience. Provision of a rental vehicle on site is a great convenience. The staff was very helpful and accomodating.
A rainy day in the park
Although we visited Glacier in August, we encountered a beautiful rain storm that blew shrouds of clouds in and around the mountains. The green got cleaner and it was lovely. Due to being a bit "housebound" we enjoyed the amenities of the lodge...bar, restaurant, ping pong, library, pool table and with those activities met new friends who were also keeping dry.
It was not my first trip to Essex (the first was a honeymoon several years ago!), and hopefully not my last. I was most recently there in the winter and wholeheartedly recommend a trip by train for cross-country skiing, big fires and a quieter pace.
Would definitely return here!
A charming place to visit and relax! Rooms are comfortable but not fussy. It was nice having no telephone, television or computer hookups. A real getaway. Staff was accommodating and friendly, food was very good. Swinging on either porch and watching the hummingbirds was a real treat! The trains going by at odd hours wasn't disturbing at all but so interesting - especially watching the "helper" engines with the freight trains. Recommend this place strongly.
A Great Time at the Inn
Our family took Amtrak to and from the inn. We had a great time. Being a railfan, I really enjoyed watching all of the railroad action, literally, at the front door. Our room was very nice and the staff and the food were excellent. Our eight year old daughter didn't miss the lack of a television at all, since there were so many other activities available. I would definitely stay at the lodge again and highly recommend it to others.
A great hideway... Outstanding atmosphere
The Inn is an warm welcoming lodge with no clocks, no radios and big comfortable overstuffed chairs by a roaring fire. The lodge is roomy with plenty of things to do. It is kid-friendly. I took my 6-year old son for a four-day cross-country ski trip and he had a blast! The staff is friendly, compenent and quick.
We rode the Empire Builder train from Seattle which dropped us off in front of the lodge. Very cool.
Great Time
It was a great time, rode AmTrak out and back. Staff of the hotel was great. Stayed in the B&N caboose. Great place for train and nature nuts. Rented a car and drove to the park and Whitefish, another great place for train nuts. Great resturant in hotel Would go back in a heartbeat
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Will OpenRFM Shake Up the Microwave Industry?
By Barry Manz
Throughout the history of the RF and microwave industry there has never been a form factor standardizing the electromechanical, software, control plane, and thermal interfaces used by integrated microwave assemblies (IMAs) employed in defense systems. Rather, every system has been built to meet the requirements of a specific system, which may be but probably isn't compatible with any other system. It's simply the way the industry has always responded to requests from subcontractors that in turn must meet the physical, electrical, and RF requirements of prime contractors. Read More...
Band Reject Filter Series
Higher frequency band reject (notch) filters are designed to operate over the frequency range of .01 to 28 GHz. These filters are characterized by having the reverse properties of band pass filters and are offered in multiple topologies. Available in compact sizes.
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However, this is basic research, which is always risky: Some projects will produce results but most will not, a scientific equivalent of day-trading or casino gambling: You only have to be right once. In that context, DARPA is winning big:
• The Internet: DARPA's predecessor ARPA created it.
• GPS: DARPA's five-satellite Transit family provided the first satellite-based geolocation capability with resolution of 200 m.
• Stealth: It began in part with a DARPA program to create low-observability aircraft, which resulted in the Have Blue project and the first production stealthy fighter aircraft (Lockheed's Skunkworks-spawned F-117).
• GaAs: DARPA's MIMIC program turned a fledgling technology into a marketable semiconductor material that later created an entire industry. The cost was a paltry $700 million.
• GaN: Without DARPA's development money and DoD's push to get GaN into the field, this semiconductor material would not be at the stage it is today.
• Speech translation: Currently being used with some success in Iraq and Afghanistan, this DARPA-championed technology will ultimately prove essential, compensating for the lack of human translators.
The list of DARPA programs that have "worked" is a long one. How much economic benefit can be ascribed to its efforts is difficult to determine but undoubtedly substantial. Its work in 2013 will consume less than $3 billion of taxpayer money -- lunch money in DoD's $700 billion budget and microscopic in the $3.8 trillion federal budget.
Bell Labs: A Tradition Sorely Missed
Bell Laboratories was perhaps the world's most prolific innovator, with a list of inventions that is breathtaking to behold. The short list is shown in Table 2. Yes, Bell Labs got government money, but the organization spent billions of private money (i.e., its own) developing technology that has in considerable measure changed our lives. Like DARPA, its goal was to break new ground through basic research that more often than not didn't produce results. I once knew a microwave physicist who spent most of his career at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and produced some interesting advances, but he was the first to admit that most of his work came to naught.
It's all gone now, thanks to market pressures, in particular the 2006 Lucent Technologies merger with Alcatel, but its days were numbered even before this. In 2007 what was then called Lucent Bell Laboratories and the former Alcatel Research and Innovation were merged into one organization once again called Bell Laboratories. By 2008 there were reportedly only four scientists left in physics research and later that year Alcatel-Lucent abandoned basic science, material physics, and semiconductor research entirely to focus on technologies on which it could presumably make money more quickly like networking, high-speed electronics, wireless networks, nanotechnology, and software.
Few publically-traded companies today either can afford or have the interest in pursuing basic research that may or may not pay off. Of necessity they focus on developing technologies that are likely to deliver results in the short-term and keep shareholders happy. The trend toward taking companies private has as much to do with being able to develop technologies and products without shareholder scrutiny as it does with dealing with the expensive annoyance of Sarbanes-Oxley. Few electronics technology companies short of powerhouses like Apple and Google have pockets deep enough to explore more than one basic technology at a time.
Fortunately, organizations such as the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) still exist, but they are few. Academia provides enormous resources, albeit of a different type, to industry and government. Beyond these two categories, we have only the government, in the form of DARPA, the National Institutes of Health, and other non-defense agencies to tinker with basic research in partnership with industry. Only the most ideologically rigid would try to make a case for eliminating this type of cooperation because quite simply it produces results that can create new market and even new industries -- which translates into new companies, greater productivity, and higher employment.
I'm not suggesting that blindly throwing huge sums of cash at companies like Solyndra is sensible. It was instead stupid, politically motivated, or both. But compare that with DARPA's penchant for throwing down the gauntlet to industry to leapfrog over currently technology to reap rewards orders of magnitude greater – even if many fall flat – and the difference is clear, at least to me.
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Surprising Answers to "Where Were You When You Took Your Pregnancy Test?"Devan McGuinness
When you ask someone where they took their pregnancy test, the obvious answer is "in the washroom", right? Well, if you go beyond that question and wonder which washroom or where were you — you may be surprised by some of the answers you hear.
When my husband and I were trying to conceive our first child, I was doing a lot of basal body temping and I worked overnight somewhere. That morning when I took my temperature I was convinced I was pregnant. I didn't want to wait until the next morning for the higher concentrated urine — so I took my test there at work (and it was positive!)
I asked some friends of mine and fellow Babble readers the question because I was sure I was not the only one who took a test outside of my own house. I posed the question on Facebook, "Where did you take your pregnancy test? (beyond "the bathroom" — were you at home? at work? at a bar? at a friends house?)."
Click through to read the surprising answers to the question "where were you when you took your pregnancy test":
Walmart 1 of 15"Walmart! Bahaha!" - Bonnie
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McDonalds 2 of 15"I went with a friend who thought she was pregnant to buy the test. She was going to do it at home, but couldn't wait so we pulled into McDonalds and she POAS there!" - Jana
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Tim Hortons 3 of 15"I took at least 12 of them.....bathroom at work was my first one, then at home, then walmart, tim hortons" - Andrea
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A Friend's House 4 of 15"Both times a friends house!" - Lori
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Behind a Tree in the Woods 5 of 15"Drugstore bathroom for my first. Behind a tree in the woods for my second." - Deb
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Mall Washroom 6 of 15"I took mine in a bathroom stall at the mall!" - Amber
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At a Nascar Race 7 of 15"At a nascar race for my first! Lol" - Melissa
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At A Family Dinner 8 of 15"At a my in-laws...we were there for a family dinner and I could not wait any longer" - Sarah
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At Tj-Maxx 9 of 15"I was in the bathroom at TJMaxx. I needed to know if I was pregnant so I knew whether or not to buy new pants" - Jodi
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In A Hotel Room 10 of 15"One was at home...one was in hotel room " - Erika
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At Target 11 of 15"I took one in the Target bathroom once, because I was too anxious to wait until I got home." - Beth
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At Church 12 of 15"At Church and I told the Pastor's wife first.. LOL She saw me crying I was in SHOCK!" - Dana
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I am installing CentOS 6.0 on an Asus E35M1-M Pro to make an energy efficient server.
The results so far with this board are only moderately encouraging, when putting high load on the harddrive i get time out errors and i found a lot of postings on forums about trouble with the onboard network card but anyways, back to the real problem
This mobo is equipped with the AMD A50M Fusion chipset and AMD Fusion E-350 CPU.
When CentOS is booting, it is only recognizing 2.6 Gb of the available 8 Gb RAM.
This has to do with a patch that got included in kernel 2.6.38 but apparently is not included in the stock RHEL6 kernel.
I tried installing CentOS plus kernel, no change.
dmesg says this :
New variable MTRRs
reg 0, base: 0GB, range: 2GB, type WB
reg 1, base: 2GB, range: 512MB, type WB
reg 2, base: 2560MB, range: 128MB, type WB
reg 3, base: 2687MB, range: 1MB, type UC
e820 update range: 00000000a7f00000 - 000000023f000000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 5103MB of RAM.
Some more information about AMD's kernel patch here :
http://amailbox.org/mailarchive/linux-k ... /4/4627743
And a thread on the Asus support site here :
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Where can i make a request for the update to be included in the CentOS plus kernel or is there any repository i can switch on to get a newer kernel for my box?
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"It is most fitting to honor George H. Brenner with four bricks on The Legends Walk at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. "Georgie" was a U.S. Marine, a U.S. Naval Officer, a true gentleman, and a warm and honest friend to all he met. But it was his devotion to the Aquidneck Island tennis community and his genuine interest in growing tennis in Newport that set him apart.
George was the first one on the courts and the last one to leave, never leaving behind a man that wanted to play. He will be lovingly remembered as a great man with a smile on his face, a skip in his step, and a racquet in his hand."
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