The chief executive of the Publishers Association
has accused organisations including the British Library and the
Open Rights Group of using the language of freedom of expression
"as a cloak for their tawdry theft".
Speaking at the Westminster Media Forum, Richard Mollet said
that these organisations, along with research councils, ISPs and
search engines were trying to erode copyright and that using the
language of freedom of expression was a "grotesque attempt to draw
moral equivalence between stealing someone's work and the struggle
for political representation".
The Publishers Association objects to certain parts of the
British Library's
response to the government's consultation on
copyright. The Library supports copying and datamining as
a means to interrogate data for non-commercial research. "Currently
we face a situation where for legal copyright reasons medical
researchers are not able to mine the very minutes of science in the
form of journal articles, and yet currently the law allows the
mining of personal data for perhaps less prosaic purposes such as
online shopping recommendations," said the British Library in its
response document.
The Publishers Association
has warned against proposals to relax copyright law to allow
for datamining, photocopying in schools and private copying,
however it does support incremental changes such as releasing
orphan works and digitally preserving archives. It argues that the
Consultation on Copyright is based on a "skewed analysis of the
Hargreaves Review", which "failed to account for the potential
impact on the significant economic and cultural contributions made
by the creative industries."
The PA
also believes that introducing elements of an American-style "fair use"
exception would "create legal ambiguity and put a chokehold on
innovation".
A British Library spokesperson declined to comment on Mollet's
speech, but the Open Rights Group's executive director Jim Killock told
Wired.co.uk:
I am not sure why Richard
Mollet wishes to attack ORG in the way he does. It strikes me
as a very personal viewpoint, rather than one that seeks to show
true leadership of a public-facing association.
I say this because
publishers are being tremendously successful in their transition to
ebooks. Yes, some wrongful copying of ebooks will happen. But
it is poor advocacy to concentrate on this phenomenon as if it were
a threat to copyright itself, or even the main concern of the
industry. To do so makes the Publishers Association look like they
prefer to preach doom and failure, rather than working as a beacon
of success. And publishers have been very successful with
ebooks.
Richard also makes a
strategic error when he accuses the British Library and ORG of
wishing to weaken copyright. The Publishers Association has opposed
flexibilities we support, like permission to parody or text mine.
Yet these flexibilities would create true strength. Flexible
systems are stronger.
Hard line enforcement, like the Digital Economy Act,
internet censorship and ACTA are very dangerous to the public and
the copyright industries. They risk the legitimacy of the system.
People are not prepared to tolerate hard-line copyright laws that
endanger other rights.
Update 18:00 29/05/2012: Richard Mollet, chief
executive of the Publishers Association, told Wired.co.uk: "You can
update copyright law without reducing the ability of content
creators to control their works. Erosion of copyright takes place
when copyright holders lose the ability to control their works, for
example through creating a blanket exception to format shifting or
text mining."
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Specifically, according to mayoclinic.com, the benefits of yoga are numerous and may include:
? Stress reduction. With its quiet, precise movements, yoga draws your focus away from your busy, chaotic day and toward calm as you move your body through poses that require balance and concentration.
? Increased fitness. As you learn and refine new poses, you may enjoy improved balance, flexibility, range of motion, and strength. And this means you?re less likely to injure yourself in other physical endeavors or in your daily activities.
? Management of chronic health conditions. Yoga might help with a variety of health conditions, such as cancer, depression, pain, anxiety and insomnia, by helping with sleep problems, fatigue, and mood. Yoga also can help reduce heart rate and blood pressure.
? Weight loss. If you?re overweight or have binge-eating disorder, yoga may help you make the healthy lifestyle changes necessary to gain control of your eating and drop those extra pounds.
And, according to webmd.com, yoga can:
? Improved posture through increased flexibility and strength.
? Improved lung capacity with deep, mindful breathing, which can improve performance and endurance.
? Lower blood pressure and slower heart rate.
If you are new to yoga, consider the following advice:
? Wear clothing that allows you to move freely and warm up first.
? Listen to what your body tells you. Go slow. Yoga isn?t supposed to hurt. Know your limits and stay within them.
? Keep hydrated.
Before you start practicing yoga, webmd.com and mayoclinic.com recommend checking with your doctor if you have any of the following health conditions: balance problems; severe osteoporosis; high or low blood pressure; ear, eye or spine problems; artificial joints; or if you are pregnant.
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Study finds emissions from widely used cookstoves vary with usePublic release date: 29-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Liz Ahlberg eahlberg@illinois.edu 217-244-1073 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner and a cloud of pollutants and particles that threaten both health and the environment. How families in developing countries use their cookstoves has a big effect on emissions from those stoves, and laboratory emission tests don't accurately reflect real-world operations, according to a study by University of Illinois researchers.
Biomass-burning cookstoves are used throughout the developing world, using wood, agricultural waste and other organic matter as fuel. They are also a major cause of poor air quality in the regions where use is prevalent. Policymakers and nonprofit organizations are working to develop and distribute "improved" cookstoves, for example, adding insulation or chimneys to reduce emissions. They are especially concerned with fine particles that are emitted, which cause health problems and also affect climate.
Much like automobiles undergo emission testing before hitting the market, cookstoves are tested in the lab before distribution to gauge how effective improvements are at reducing emissions. But if the conditions aren't the same as how people use them at home, then the changes that designers make to the stove may not actually reduce emissions in the field.
"The understanding of how people really use combustion devices is important if we're going to optimize that device," said study leader Tami Bond, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at U. of I. "In the laboratory, where tests are conducted by trained people, there's a lot more attention to operating the stove carefully. At home, people are not as concerned with its operation; they're more concerned with making a meal. So they operate in ways that are non-optimal."
However, these variations in use are masked by the current methods of testing, which use only average values to determine emissions sort of like a snapshot of the stove in operation, not accounting for variation in use. Bond's team developed a real-time analysis technique called Patterns of Real-Time Emissions Data (PaRTED) that allows researchers to compare emissions under different operating conditions and to measure how often a stove operates under certain conditions in the field.
"Wood burning is like a dance," Bond said. "A movie gives you a better understanding than a photograph. This is a way to make movies of how users change as they make fires, and that can help people understand emission rates and make better stoves."
Using PaRTED, Bond's team tested cookstoves in use in a village in Honduras and compared the field results to lab results. The researchers found that operation under less-than-ideal conditions produces the highest emissions. They also found that in the field, stoves are rarely used under optimal conditions, a scenario not reproduced in laboratory tests.
The team compared emission profiles, or the chemical makeup of the smoke, from traditional cookstoves and two types of improved stoves: insulated stoves and stoves with chimneys. They found that although stoves with an insulated combustion chamber could increase overall efficiency, they did not significantly reduce emissions per mass of fuel burned. Chimneys did reduce certain types of particle emissions but chimneys did not cut down on black particles, the type most harmful to climate.
"Our measurements confirm that changes in stove design cause a change in the way they operate," Bond said. "I think people weren't aware that changes in design actually change the profile of the emissions rather than just reducing emissions."
Next, the researchers will use PaRTED analysis to study variations in cookstove use in different regions of the world. Bond hopes that PaRTED and this study will inform future testing protocols for cookstoves in the lab, enabling researchers to more accurately test under realistic conditions and providing insight into a whole range of possible use scenarios.
"Insulated and chimneyed stoves are a step in the right direction, but not as far as we need to go to get really clean stoves," Bond said. "The next step is to identify both the patterns of stove operation and the factors that lead to the characteristic profile of operation so that those can be brought into the lab and optimized. The cookstove world is moving toward having emission standards. It would be best if those standards were relevant to real operations."
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The researchers published their study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency supported this work. Postdoctoral research associate Yanju Chen and Bond group alumnus Christoph Roden were co-authors of the paper.
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Study finds emissions from widely used cookstoves vary with usePublic release date: 29-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Liz Ahlberg eahlberg@illinois.edu 217-244-1073 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner and a cloud of pollutants and particles that threaten both health and the environment. How families in developing countries use their cookstoves has a big effect on emissions from those stoves, and laboratory emission tests don't accurately reflect real-world operations, according to a study by University of Illinois researchers.
Biomass-burning cookstoves are used throughout the developing world, using wood, agricultural waste and other organic matter as fuel. They are also a major cause of poor air quality in the regions where use is prevalent. Policymakers and nonprofit organizations are working to develop and distribute "improved" cookstoves, for example, adding insulation or chimneys to reduce emissions. They are especially concerned with fine particles that are emitted, which cause health problems and also affect climate.
Much like automobiles undergo emission testing before hitting the market, cookstoves are tested in the lab before distribution to gauge how effective improvements are at reducing emissions. But if the conditions aren't the same as how people use them at home, then the changes that designers make to the stove may not actually reduce emissions in the field.
"The understanding of how people really use combustion devices is important if we're going to optimize that device," said study leader Tami Bond, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at U. of I. "In the laboratory, where tests are conducted by trained people, there's a lot more attention to operating the stove carefully. At home, people are not as concerned with its operation; they're more concerned with making a meal. So they operate in ways that are non-optimal."
However, these variations in use are masked by the current methods of testing, which use only average values to determine emissions sort of like a snapshot of the stove in operation, not accounting for variation in use. Bond's team developed a real-time analysis technique called Patterns of Real-Time Emissions Data (PaRTED) that allows researchers to compare emissions under different operating conditions and to measure how often a stove operates under certain conditions in the field.
"Wood burning is like a dance," Bond said. "A movie gives you a better understanding than a photograph. This is a way to make movies of how users change as they make fires, and that can help people understand emission rates and make better stoves."
Using PaRTED, Bond's team tested cookstoves in use in a village in Honduras and compared the field results to lab results. The researchers found that operation under less-than-ideal conditions produces the highest emissions. They also found that in the field, stoves are rarely used under optimal conditions, a scenario not reproduced in laboratory tests.
The team compared emission profiles, or the chemical makeup of the smoke, from traditional cookstoves and two types of improved stoves: insulated stoves and stoves with chimneys. They found that although stoves with an insulated combustion chamber could increase overall efficiency, they did not significantly reduce emissions per mass of fuel burned. Chimneys did reduce certain types of particle emissions but chimneys did not cut down on black particles, the type most harmful to climate.
"Our measurements confirm that changes in stove design cause a change in the way they operate," Bond said. "I think people weren't aware that changes in design actually change the profile of the emissions rather than just reducing emissions."
Next, the researchers will use PaRTED analysis to study variations in cookstove use in different regions of the world. Bond hopes that PaRTED and this study will inform future testing protocols for cookstoves in the lab, enabling researchers to more accurately test under realistic conditions and providing insight into a whole range of possible use scenarios.
"Insulated and chimneyed stoves are a step in the right direction, but not as far as we need to go to get really clean stoves," Bond said. "The next step is to identify both the patterns of stove operation and the factors that lead to the characteristic profile of operation so that those can be brought into the lab and optimized. The cookstove world is moving toward having emission standards. It would be best if those standards were relevant to real operations."
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The researchers published their study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency supported this work. Postdoctoral research associate Yanju Chen and Bond group alumnus Christoph Roden were co-authors of the paper.
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