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Justin Bieber has been accused of battery by his neighbor who says Bieber threatened him during an argument, according to E! News.
Having Justin Bieber threaten you must be terrifying. It's probably like having a small poodle bark at you, only not quite as loud.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore told E! News deputies were called to the singer's Calabasas home shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday. The alleged incident in the vicinity of Bieber's home remains under investigation.
There were no arrests, charges or injuries reported, Whitmore said. "Everyone that we will need to talk to, we will talk to," he said.
That's right, Mr. Bieber. The authorities will get to the bottom of your reign of terror.
Bieber's rep has not returned a request for comment from E!.
The last anyone heard, Bieber was still on tour overseas. He tweeted on Tuesday about being excited to go to Germany and Russia and "im working with charities like @FeedingAmerica (follow them) to fight #childhunger. get involved! thanks. #giveback."
He was spotted Thursday at the airport in Lodz, Poland, going through security with no shirt on, reported E!. Because that's how the Beebs rolls.
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Published: Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 9:44 p.m.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu thought he hit rock bottom when Les Miles kicked him off the team last August for failing multiple drug tests.
He was wrong. Eleven weeks later, Mathieu and three of his ex-teammates were arrested at his Baton Rouge apartment for marijuana possession.
Now, after undergoing drug treatment and seeking counseling, Mathieu is trying to restore his reputation and return to the game he loves.
"I know what it's like not to have football, I know what it's like not to be the center of attention, I know what it's like to be humiliated and I'm not going down that road again," Mathieu said Sunday at the NFL's annual scouting combine in Indianapolis.
It's certainly not the path Mathieu expected to take into the NFL.
A year ago, the hotshot cornerback with the catchy nickname "Honey Badger" was considered a Heisman Trophy front- runner.
Instead, he wound up in a two-week drug treatment program run by former NBA player John Lucas and tried to rebuild his image even as it continued to take hits.
When police searched Mathieu's apartment in October, they found a marijuana grinder, a digital scale and 10 bags of high-grade marijuana, seven of which were in another ex-LSU's teammate's book bag.
"That's when I decided to go to rehab," Mathieu said.
Since then, Mathieu insists he's cleaned things up — pointing to the fact he sought out counseling, got a sponsor and has refocused his efforts on making it in the NFL.
His height, he measured in at just under 5-foot-9, and his troubled history that are raising red flags among team decision-makers. A month ago, some analysts thought the laundry list of problems might leave Mathieu undrafted in April. Now, his stock is rising again and he's in Indianapolis like most of the other 300-plus draft hopefuls — trying to assuage doubts about themselves.
It's a tricky journey with a potential pitfall in every answer.
On Sunday, when Mathieu was asked about the last time he used an illegal substance of any kind, Mathieu blurted out Oct. 26, 2012 — the day after his arrest. Whether he was being honest, misunderstood the question or made a simple slip of the tongue didn't matter. If he does that again in the 15-minute team interviews, it could wind up costing him money.
How did Mathieu get himself into this mess? "Half of it, I think, is that you actually start believing the hype, believing the clippings," he said, trying to explain what had happened over the last 12 months. "The other half, I think, is that you're young and you want to have some fun."
Adding a six-figure salary to the mix could complicate matters.
But Mathieu is far from alone in trying to find redemption in this draft. A handful of defensive back with character questions rolled through the media room at Sunday's combine. The list includes names such as: — Bacarri Rambo, who failed two failed drug tests at Georgia; — Sanders Commings, Rambo's former college teammate, who was suspended last season after being charged with domestic violence and faced his own battle with marijuana two years earlier; — Greg Reid, who was booted off Florida State's team following last summer's arrest on marijuana possession charges; — And Hawaii's Mike Edwards, who was kicked off Tennessee's team following a 2009 arrest for attempted armed robbery. Eventually, he pled guilty to reckless endangerment as part of a plea deal.
Each of the five, including Mathieu, expected questions about these issues.
Yet each used remarkably similar language to explain what happened, making it seem as if the answers were rehearsed, at best, or disingenuous, at worst.
"It's behind me. I'm moving on from that situation," Rambo said. "I'm a better person and I've learned from my mistake."
Mathieu, however, is could be the best known and arguably the most talented cornerback in the draft. He says he hopes to run the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds, fast enough to perhaps keep him in the upper echelon of cover cornerbacks in Indy.
But he hasn't played a game in 13 months, and by the time preseason games begin, the layoff will be 19 months.
Those who know Mathieu best believe he will excel in the pros.
"He'll make a big impact in the NFL, too," said ex-LSU teammate Tharold Simon. "A lot of people think he won't, but I know he will. He will be a key contributor in the NFL."
Others aren't so sure.
"I think he's a better football player than he is an athlete," NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said. "He's short and probably speed deficient. He's probably a slot defender with return skills. I know he's going to come in here and say all the right things, but I think how he handles things with the teams is what really matters."
Mathieu is ready to put their angst to rest, too, and forget about his past.
Instead, he wants to spend the next two months focusing on what he has to do to get back in the game.
"I'm not focused on money right now. I just want to play football because I've played it my whole life for free," he said. "I know I made some mistakes. At the end of the day, I think I can overcome them."
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BISMARCK, N.D. – July 28, 2010 – Ducks Unlimited says the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new Conservation Reserve Program general sign-up comes at a critical time for duck populations, with nesting grounds continuing to disappear. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday that the agency will allow new enrollments in CRP in 2010, the first time since 2006.
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CRP provides critically important upland nesting cover for ducks in the United States portion of the Prairie Pothole Region, one of DU's highest conservation priority areas. Both native grassland and CRP continue to decline at alarming rates across the PPR. More than 1.5 million acres of CRP have disappeared from the PPR since 2007. Another 2.8 million acres are scheduled to expire from September 30, 2010, to September 30, 2012.
Currently, 31.3 million acres are enrolled in CRP, just shy of the 32-million-acre maximum enrollment mandated in the 2008 Farm Bill. The sign-up will enroll 4.4 million acres, which will help offset the nearly 4.5 million acres scheduled to expire in 2010, helping to maintain the program near the authorized level.
"Ducks Unlimited applauds Secretary Vilsack for his commitment to maintaining CRP near the 32 million acre mark," Hall said. "CRP has been one of the premier conservation programs for America's soil, water and wildlife resources over the past 25 years, and this announcement is an important step toward ensuring that the program remains a national priority."
The sign-up will be open to interested landowners August 2-27, 2010. Offers compete nationally through an Environmental Benefits Index, with the highest scoring offers being accepted into the program.
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers picked up potential pass-rushing help Saturday by using a fifth-round pick on South Florida's Aaron Lynch, whose college career began at Notre Dame before getting sidetracked by what Lynch called "mistakes."
Lynch (6-foot-6, 255 pounds) could help at defensive end and outside linebacker in case 49ers premier pass rusher Aldon Smith is disciplined by the league or team for off-field issues.
"Physically we match up -- same height, around same weight," Lynch said of he and Smith (6-4, 265). "He's an amazing, amazing football player. I've watched film on him. Amazingly athletic. He's got a great motor, too."
Whereas Smith was a first-round draft pick in 2011, Lynch heard he also could have been one if not for a checkered past.
"Everybody's right, I am first-round talent, but I made some mistakes in my past and I figured that's what hurt me a little bit," Lynch said. "... I'm just so happy somebody took time out of their time to take a chance with me."
What mistakes did he make?
"Just regular mistakes a person my age makes," Lynch said. "They weren't mistakes like robbing or things like that, but they weren't supposed to happen associated with football. I chose to do those things so they hurt me in the end."
Lynch made a pre-draft visit to the 49ers and said he spoke several times with general manager Trent Baalke.
"I'm just happy my opportunity is here," Lynch continued. "I waited my whole life to be drafted. This is my dream. I don't know how to express how I'm feeling. It's amazing. First round, seventh round, it doesn't matter."
While sitting out the 2012 season because of transfer rules, Lynch said his weight dropped to 240 pounds as a result of taking prescription Adderall to "quench my eating habits." He said he is no longer on the drug, which is banned by the NFL without a prescription.
At Notre Dame, Lynch played alongside linebacker Darius Fleming, a 2012 draft pick by the 49ers who's yet to suit up because of knee injuries. Lynch's coach at USF was Willie Taggart, a long-time friend of 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh.
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The guest speaker for the event will be Jim Two Crows Wallen bringing the Lewis & Clark expedition to life. Jim will be telling stories and sharing artifacts from the company of 40 men who traveled to the Pacific Ocean and back. He will take on the persona of George Shannon, the youngest member of the expedition.
Two Crows presented the program at the society's quarterly meeting in January of this year, speaking on the Civil War and attracted the largest crowd the society has ever enjoyed for the event, according to board member Ron Wilder.
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AIKEN, S.C. -- Besides serving up sandwiches and deli favorites, Ryan's Market and Deli in downtown Aiken has alcohol, too.
"We serve beer and wine, but you know, people aren't coming here to get drunk," said owner Hayes Mitchell.
Soon, Mitchell's customers could be enjoying breakfast or lunch while concealing a gun.
A bill filed Tuesday would allow someone with a Concealed Weapons Permit to bring a gun into restaurants that serve alcohol as long as they're not drinking any themselves.
"As far as a business owner is concerned, it's just that extra safety," said Hayes, who supports the measure.
Customers like Neil Reed value the extra security, too.
"If someone does come in to rob an establishment or something like that, there's kind of a level playing field," he said while picking up lunch at Ryan's.
However, what happens if the proposed law is broken? What happens if someone who is drinking is also concealing a firearm?
"If you're drinking, you have no business carrying a gun at the time, because it affects your judgment and safe gun-handling," said Chris Medlin, who has certified about 1,500 people with CWPs.
However, the bill's sponsor, Rep. Bill Taylor of Aiken, says there is a penalty if someone concealing does consume alcohol.
"The penalties for violating the Concealed Weapons Permits are very strong: heavy fines and jail terms up to three years," Taylor said.
Medlin says restaurants like Ryan's probably won't have a problem. He says the legislation is overdue.
"These are really responsible citizens, and they're not out there waving guns around. They're out getting the permits to protect themselves and their families and other people around them," he said.
"You have to think of the Concealed Weapons Permit holders as the good guys," Taylor said.
Rep. Taylor has also re-filed a bill to implement the Fair Tax in the Palmetto State.
Rep. Bill Clyburn, also of Aiken, introduced three bills the same day.
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Another would give free public transportation to disabled vets.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Merry Christmas... Or Happy Holidays? (Weekend Whine)
Some background information first. I am and will always be a Christian. And by that proclamation, I must devoutly hold true to the belief that "Jesus is the reason for the season," and "Let's put the Christ back in Christmas." I feel a strong message needs to be sent to all my Christian sisters and brothers that our beliefs mandate that we put Christ first in the celebration of Christmas. Of course, there is room for all of the other traditions that accompany this joyful honoring of Christ's birth, but He will remain first and foremost in my thoughts and prayers on Christmas.
That being said, I must admit that I get a little miffed at those who campaign against the retail establishments who have chosen to go the route of wishing their patrons "Happy Holidays." Does it not make sense to you (and you know who you are) that there are other faiths in this world we live in and that by wishing us "Happy Holidays," regardless of faith or tradition, we are ALL being wished good will, peace and happiness at this time of year?
I worked as a dental hygienist for thirty years. And during those years, I got to know many of my patients on a personal level. If I knew they were Christian and/or celebrated Christmas in whatever way they'd become accustomed to, I wished them a "Merry Christmas" when I greeted them. However, if I didn't know their traditions or beliefs, I wished them "Happy Holidays." It's the right thing to do when you're in a professional/public business environment. It shows respect rather than lack thereof. I mean no disrespect for my Lord and Savior. Quite the contrary, I'm showing Him that I love Him by respecting others' beliefs and that I accept the differences between myself and my neighbor.
Thank you for reading another edition of Weekend Whine. It's what I do when there's nothing good on TV on a Saturday night. We'll return to regularly scheduled programming next week. Lots of fattening Christmas/holiday goodies to get your cholesterol good and ready to take the New Year's diet plunge.... promise.
14 comments:
- Jenn said...
thank you. for getting it. for being what a christian *should* be...accepting and understanding. thank you for being you.
- December 19, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Frieda said...
Amen! Thank you for standing up for your beliefs and for being respectful of others~
- December 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- Cathy (breadexperience) said...
I second that!
- December 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM
- Melaina25 said...
As someone who grew up celebrating and celebrates Christmas and Chanukah, I really appreciate when people are all inclusive!
My boss here in the UK tried to tell me that "Happy Holidays" undemines British traditions and is an "American thing." No, it's about including everyone regardless of what they do or do not celebrate. You'd hope she'd have more understanding since she's also a minister!
- December 20, 2009 at 4:01 AM
- HoneyB said...
I don't think this is a whine! However, I'm glad you addressed this! I too was brought up in a Christian home and still hold my Christian beliefs - but I work in education. I work where the majority of our graduate students are from foreign countries. Some are Christian, some aren't. I in general will wish Happy Holidays because of this, unless like you, I know they are Christian. People need to get their bugs out of their butt!
- December 20, 2009 at 5:35 AM
- Moogie said...
You go girl! Maybe you and I were at the same protesting events back in the sixties.
- December 20, 2009 at 5:58 AM
- June said...
I'm with ya too on this one Mags.
- December 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Megan said...
I couldn't have said it any better! Merry Christmas from our home to yours!!!
- December 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Linda said...
Merry Christmas!
- December 20, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Karen said...
I agree. Too many people love to jump on bandwagons!
- December 20, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Mags said...
It's nice to see so much support on this matter! Thanks to all of you for commenting.
- December 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
I never understood why people get upset over happy holiday greetings either. Even if they are Christian wishing happy holidays doesn't mean you're putting down Christmas, but perhaps you are also including a nice new years celebration as well. Lighten up people!
- December 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Denise said...
I couldn't agree more with all the points you stated! Love you.
--p.s. where's my Christmas card????
- December 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Well said and quite right!
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Thanks to advances in health care and nutrition, our beloved family pets are living longer and longer. Senior pets are becoming the norm rather than the exception, and with the happy increase in the number of furry senior citizens, there has been a shift in health concerns for both veterinarians and pet parents alike.
One area of great concern for veterinarian and dog parent alike is the decline in a senior dog's cognitive abilities or brain function. Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome, or CDS for short, is the term vets use to describe a degenerative brain disorder in senior dogs. Often, when pet parents are talking to their veterinarian, they will share that their senior citizen is uncharacteristically disobedient or soiling in the house. Other tell-tale signs of CDS include generalized anxiety (pacing or panting), confusion, decreased grooming habits, a changed appetite, acting depressed and forgetting regular habits. Signs of CDS are typically irreversible and progressive, but with effective treatment and management, the signs can be slowed and some can even be reversed. It is important to know that many of the signs of CDS can be confused with other diseases, such as hypothyroidism, arthritis or even dental disease, so if your senior dog is acting differently, schedule a full checkup with your local veterinarian.
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Borra's, D., Ferrer I., and Pumarola, M. 1999. Age-related Changes in the Brain of the Dog. Vet Pathol 36:202–211.
Dimakopoulos, A. C. and Mayer, R.J. 2001. Aspects of Neurodegeneration in the Canine Brain. Waltham International Symposium: Pet Nutrition Coming of Age.
Lansberg, G. 2005. Therapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome in Senior Dogs. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 29: 471-479.
Milgram, N.W. et al. 2002 Landmark Discrimination Learning in the Dog: Effects of Age, and Antioxidant Fortified Food, and Cognitive Strategy. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 26: 679–695.
Fahnestock M, Marchese M, Head E, Pop V, Michalski B, Milgram WN, Cotman CW. BDNF increases with behavioral enrichment and an antioxidant diet in the aged dog. Neurobiol Aging. 2010 May 4.
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For Tara, working in the public interest field "was pretty much the only option [she] ever considered." Her laser-focus on child welfare as an undergraduate at Rice University guided her senior thesis, which in turn inspired her to pursue a J.D. After analyzing her thesis research, she concluded that the best way to affect change in the field was by "advocat[ing] for children through policy and the law." Now Tara knows exactly what she wants to do after law school. She will begin her legal career representing children in dependency hearings and later take on broader policy reform to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of children.
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The number of the current, freshly-released version of the Creative Commons licenses: 3.0. The total number of CC licensed works on the web at last estimate: 145 million. The percent of those that we would call "free": 29%. The time it takes to double the number of free, Creative Commons licensed works: approximately 115 days.
Every so often, Creative Commons publishes some statistics intended to estimate how many people are using their licenses, as well as which licenses they use. Now that Creative Commons has just released their new, more-compatible version of their license, it seems an apt time to go over some of the success metrics for the Creative Commons licenses. Also—conveniently—I just happen to be analyzing this data for a book I'm working on, so I'm in a good position to write this.
One of the things that CC does right is to make it very easy to trace their licenses. The recommended licensing system is to link back to a unique URL for each license type and version. Both Yahoo and Google provide a means by which you can search for web pages that link to a certain URL, so it then becomes possible to estimate how many pages on the net are pointing at the CC licenses. The bulk of these, one assumes, will be licensing statements. Of course, like all data-gathering of this type, the assumptions aren't perfect, so there is some error, but probably not enough to make the numbers violently wrong.
The first thing that immediately jumps out at you from this plot is that there's nothing complicated going on here: the growth is a plain exponential. The wobbles that are there are probably not that significant—they can easily be explained by changes in the methodology (such as switching from Yahoo to Google statistics).
That's interesting, because with all the fuss going on over whether CC has "betrayed" the free culture movement by promoting "non-commercial" licenses, which has earned them a specific _non-_endorsement by Richard Stallman, and much flak from Debian and other free software organizations; with all the FUD flying from Microsoft, the RIAA, and the MPAA, and so on; you might expect to see dips and jumps in the license adoption rate. But if such political upheavals have any effect, it must be pretty small, because the overall story is "unrestrained growth".
That's what you expect to see early in the growth of something that will one day be much bigger: first, there's exponential growth, then as environmental factors start stunting the growth (e.g. the friction that ASCAP, BPI, RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft among others are very highly motivated to create) the growth slows down to linear, then sub-linear growth, eventually capping out at an "equilibrium" state.
If free culture were an edge phenomenon, only interesting as a loss-leader to attract proprietary sales, for example, you would expect to see this equilibrium be pretty small. However, it's clear from the numbers that whatever the equilibrium is, we are currently very far from it—exponential growth means that anything that is trying to retard the growth isn't working, and so there is apparently loads of room to grow.
"Exponential growth" means that over any fixed interval of time, the amount increases by a fixed percentage—you've probably heard of this in connection to compound interest. The growth we see here is around 0.6% per day (it's about 0.53 for all CC works and maybe 0.60 for free works). That probably doesn't sound like much, but it builds up quickly. One way to characterize exponential growth is to specify the "doubling time"—how long do you have to wait for the amount to increase by 100%, or for the phenomenon to double in size?
For 0.6% per day, that number is about 115 days, or a bit under 4 months. Another way of looking at it is that the number is increasing by almost an order of magnitude (more exactly, about 8.9 times) each year. This is the growth rate of free-licensed CC works.
The fact that the free licenses (Public Domain, CC-By, and CC-By-SA) are showing the same growth (in fact, slightly beating the overall CC licensed growth) appears to refute the widely-held belief in the free-software community that the non-commercial and non-derivative variants are stunting the growth of free licenses for cultural works.
Certainly, we can afford to lay off of CC about it: even if they are stunting that growth, we have little to worry about. The free license options are becoming slightly more popular: between early 2005 and the middle of 2006, they went from about 22% to about 29% of the total. Copyleft (By-SA) licensed works are growing just a teensy bit faster than the non-copyleft licensed works, though not enough to really call it significant.
In June 2006, the number of free-CC-licensed works was about 40 Million. If the growth rate observed in this plot keeps up, that number will be about 360 Million by June 2007, and of course, about 3.2 billion by June 2008. After that, I'm a little afraid to predict, but I think you can see that it will be pretty huge.
It's much more speculative to talk about the relative increase in free-licensed works (PD, By, By-SA), but if the growth curves I've plotted here were to be extended to June 2008, then free works would make up about half of all CC works by then (the total would be about 6.6 billion by then).
Unfortunately, I don't have comparison figures for the amount of work under proprietary licenses on the web. It's probably a pretty huge number, so these may well still be small percentages of the total—though it's already clear that CC licensing is becoming more mainstream, and another couple of orders of magnitude of increase will surely make them much more important to mainstream culture.
Another problem, of course, is that this picture doesn't distinguish by media. There are some other statistics by media type available, but they're somewhat limited, and they I'm not able to find time-series data, so it's not really possible to try to find a trend, though we could naively assume that the media makeup isn't changing that much.
All in all, it's a picture of roaring success. Congratulations are clearly due to the Creative Commons!
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How about the template effect? In my blog I link to the CC license from my sidebar, so that it appears on every page. If a lot of sites are doing this, it would drastically skew the total numbers and maybe even the growth rate, if we interpret each new post as an increase in adoption. (That's if their statistics simply count links and don't consolidate link counts from the same domain.)
Possible, but...
That's possible, of course. There are a lot of reasons why the numbers wouldn't be totally representative.
However, if you link to CC licenses on every page, don't you mean to license every page under that license?
If so, then those are legitimate hits -- the numbers are tracking your production along with others and with newcomers.
It's very unlikely, however, that a fixed number of authors would produce exponential growth (you'd have to be constantly increasing your own production -- just continuing at the present rate would produce linear growth). The exponential growth almost certainly means that the numbers are dominated by increasing numbers of people using the licenses.
You might think that this probably indicates that most new content is just textual (blogs), but in fact, there are other numbers suggesting that significant amounts of this data are represented by images, sound, and video. In those cases, I imagine sites like Flickr which make selecting CC licenses easy are at work.
Free software concerns with CC
You talk about:
... the widely-held belief in the free-software community that the non-commercial and non-derivative variants are stunting the growth of free licenses for cultural works
You also mention Richard Stallman. It might be interesting to note that neither Non-commercial nor "No derivatives" is the major problem for Richard Stallman.
Richard Stallman mentions that licenses should at least give the right to make verbatim copies for non-commercial purposes. So, CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-ND are not among the "bad" licenses.
The problematic CC licenses are one kind of Remix license that doesn't allow non-commercial verbatim copying (file-sharing), but only derivatives. (The problem is that such a license wouldn't stop the RIAA lawsuits.) And the "Developing Nations" license, which is pretty restrictive unless you're in Africa.
If I understand his position correctly, that is. Some sources: http://fsfeurope.org/documents/rms-fs-2006-03-09.en.html
Uh, huh... right
I give Stallman a lot more credit than that. If he were genuinely most concerned about the tiny trace (<1%) using the non-systematic "CC" licenses like "Sampling" and "Developing Nations", then he'd really be off his rocker.
The truth is, these are the only licenses that make his claim that "there is literally no single freedom" guaranteed by CC licenses truthful, but that's an obvious stretch to make a point, not a true diagnosis of the problem, and these are not the problem licenses (too few people use them, and almost no one identifies them with the label "a Creative Commons License").
If any licenses were causing a real problem, it would have to be the NC/ND licenses, because they are the ones which are confusingly identified with the label "Creative Commons License" (indeed, the CC-By-NC-SA is the one which is most likely intended by this expression when it is used). I still think it is rather likely that many people using this particular license are subject to some confusion (using NC and SA together suggests the author wants to get "something for nothing": commons-like leverage without actually having to put their work in the commons -- and as a practical matter, that doesn't work very well).
However, the numbers show that there's really not much to worry about on that score: the free licenses are showing impressive growth.
It stands to reason, of course, that the NC and ND licenses will be more popular -- especially initially -- because they are the ones that require the least adjustment from the "All Rights Reserved" business-as-usual of the entertainment and arts industry. If you're a professional who's been creating and selling works under the existing copyright regime, then these licenses require the least from you. So it's a no-brainer that they will be used in greater numbers.
Truly free-licensed works involve a complete turn-around in thinking: inventing new business models, developing new marketplaces to try them out in, and risking hard work on untried methods. So far, no one has yet come up with a totally satisfactory solution to how to make a living off of producing free-licensed artistic works (I've seen some good ideas, but nothing that works as well as the old system, nor anything that works as well as the already-pioneered systems of making income from free software). Until someone does, there can't be a real revolution in free licensed cultural works.
Nevertheless, they are still booming. I can only conclude, that confusion or no confusion, CC's licensing strategy is not at fault (or not causing any serious damage at any rate). It may even be that artists who try CC's "semi-free" licenses are likely to experience success and are therefore more likely to experiment with the free licenses. IOW, it may be that the NC/ND licenses are piloting for the By/SA licenses -- selling the idea to new markets. I know this idea has been promoted by CC representatives in the past.
I'm inclined to think that the numbers support that hypothesis over the hypothesis that the NC licenses are succeeding at the expense of free licenses.
I think he's concerned most
I think he's concerned most with people lumping together all the CC licenses and referring to them just as "a/the Creative Commons license" (which most web sites do, as that's how the CC banners were designed -- not just when they refer to the CC-BY-NC-SA, as you suggest).
Creative Commons doesn't have any specific freedoms as its goal, and this is how they came to accept these new licenses. Granted, Sampling and Developing Nations are obscure, but it just shows that CC doesn't actually stand for anything.
I don't fully understand why you say that "no derivatives" licenses cause "real problems". Isn't that just "verbatim copying is allowed", which happens to be the license of Stallman's book "Free Software, Free Society". Stallman has repeatedly said that for works of opinion, "no derivatives" is useful, so that one's views are not misrepresented. I don't see this as a real problem.
I personally don't think that NC is such a big problem either. It at least stops the intrusion of the music/movie industries into private homes. When non-commercial uses are allowed, file-sharing, transferring music/movies among devices within your home, etc. all become legal, and the RIAA can stop suing minors.
Of course, allowing commercial uses as well is the logical next step. (If the GPL wouldn't allow commercial uses for software, it wouldn't be nearly as powerful.)
Enough of speculating about RMS's thoughts on this. If anyone wants to know about them in detail, they should ask him or get a copy of "Free Software, Free Society".
I agree with you that ND
I agree with you that ND licenses have their place (and as you rightly note, I use them from time to time, as does Stallman, although not the CC-By-ND "brand"). The issue there is not the validity of the license, but the issue of confusion with more liberal licenses.
Likewise, CC-By-NC might not be a totally unreasonable license in itself, but the question is, does it cause confusion? And here, the answer from my personal experience is that yes it does.
On the other hand, there is (at least theoretically) a competing effect which is the "get your feet wet" theory: that artists will be willing to try a By-NC license who would not otherwise consider free licensing. Then, if they have a good experience with that, some will educate themselves about the licensing issues, and some of those will begin using free licenses at least part of the time. Thus, under this hypothesis, NC contributes to the growth of free-licensed content.
Good news
It's good news that the fully free licences are doing well. It is a concern for me that people often lump the CC licences together, so when someone says "this is under a Creative Commons licence" that's useless information from the point of view of your freedom. It's true that it almost always means that it allows at least noncommercial unmodified copying, but you can't be absolutely sure it's not one of the Sampling or Developing Nations licences. I'd definitely prefer it if they just scrapped those. Another thing I don't like is Lawrence Lessig referring to works which ban commercial use as "free culture", but luckily most people don't seem to agree on that and mostly only refer to works which allow the four freedoms of free software as completely free. I think the Definition of Free Cultural Works (http://freedomdefined.org/Definition) is very good, and I hope it becomes the most popular definition of that type.
A major source for new non-textual CC-licensed works seems to be the music site Jamendo. There's a huge amount of music on there, and it seems to keep increasing extremely quickly. They talk about CC quite a lot, but luckily they only allow music under one of the licences which at least allows noncommercial unmodified copying of the whole work. They also allow the Free Art License, which I think is very good. It's not as professional as the CC licences, but the motivation behind it is closer to the free software movement's, as it takes the view of "people should have freedom" rather than "wouldn't it be good if we made it easier for copyright holders to exert their power more flexibly?" I've seen that quite a lot of the French language music seems to be under it.
GNU - free as in freedom
This article misrepresents Stallman's views
This article is definitely wrong that Richard Stallman's 'un-endorsement' is because they promote non-commercial licences. His reason for not supporting them is that some of the licences don't allow at least noncommerical, unmodified copying of the whole work. Creative Commons have always promoted noncommercial licences, and he used to support them. You can read what his views are on this in one of his blog entries at http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html.
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Now that Intel is done with releasing CPUs for the time being, we've got a chance to analyse the situation and see what's worth buying. For those on a budget, the Intel Core i3-530 is your best bet unless your budget is limited to £70 or so, in which case you'll have to look elsewhere. But I'm betting that if your budget is so tight that you can't go for the superior Intel Core i5-750, you haven't got fancy DDR3 memory or an LGA1156 motherboard. Enter the easy Core i3 upgrade bundle.


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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado - People filtering into the Vail Valley for the ski season - especially those coming for the first time - are often looking for work, information and, of course, a place to live. A business show happening today can help with a couple of those things.
The inaugural Apres Expo - an evolution of the Vail Daily's long-running BizTech show - is set for Thursday at Gerald R. Ford Hall at Beaver Creek. The event is a good chance for both valley rookies and long-timers to learn more about the companies doing business in the valley.
The event used to be just a business show, with exhibits, snacks and, sometimes, a job fair. This year is a bit different, and features some educational opportunities, too.
People interested in beefing up their online tactics are welcome at a free "digital strategy" seminar from 3 to 4 p.m.
After the seminar, the 4 to 5 p.m. time slot brings an invitation-only event for people on hotel concierge staffs. People on those crews are crucial to steering guests to services from ice sculpting to baby-sitting. That session will be a chance for business owners to get to know the people who often answer a guest's first call of "Where can I find ... ?"
"Any opportunity to educate front-line staff is a good thing," Vail Valley Partnership Executive Director Chris Romer said. "This is an opportunity for the business community to spread the word about what they have."
Besides the concierge event is an old-fashioned business show and job fair. People who attend the free event can pick up brochures, business cards - and, of course, some snacks.
The pre-season show has long been viewed as an opportunity for people in the guest-service business to take one last opportunity to renew or establish connections before being buried in the bustle of ski season.
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By Tony Hicks
Why can't the Queen start executing people she doesn't want taking pictures of her family?
Oh ... right. It's not the 17th century anymore.
Well, anyway, the British royals are again upset over someone taking pictures of them. This time, some snapped photos of a pregnant Kate Middleton, also known as the Duchess of Cambridge, in a bikini. Reports say the pics are about to be published.
The Duchess was vacationing on the beach with husband Prince William on the private island of Mustique last week when the long-lens shots were taken.
Pretty soon one of these tabloids is going to buy its own satellite, then everyone is in trouble.
"We are disappointed that photographs of the Duke and Duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas," a spokesman for the couple at St. James's Palace told People.com. "This is a clear breach of the couple's right to privacy."
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Engagement Initiative (CEI) by piloting the CEI Training &
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engagement course and placed 35 CCSF students from our most
underserved communities in 15-hour per week structured civic
engagement internships with community based organizations in San
Project SHINE
Our largest service learning program, Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders) engages hundreds of students enrolled in political science, psychology, sociology, foreign languages and health science credit courses in assisting ESL faculty in non-credit English language classes and in preparing elders to take the citizenship exam.


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STOCKTON – Police officers and members of the U.S. Marshals Service task force arrested Chanda Uy, 24, wanted in connection with a homicide that occurred one year ago this month.
The arrest took place at 5 p.m. in the 2600 block of Monte Diablo Avenue, according to a report. Uy was arrested on suspicion of homicide and attempted homicide.
Read more on this story in Wednesday's Record.
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Sunday, 31 October 2010
Halloween night
Happy halloween everyone!! I hope everyone have/had a fun night!
I have more pictures of what I wore coming up next...
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Saturday, 30 October 2010
Shoes at LFW
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Thursday, 28 October 2010
Berry stains
topshop fur
simone shailes for topshop knit
topshop pants
jimmy choo shoes
mulberry for target bag
market rings
revlon 663 lipstick
photos by tasha
It's finally cold enough to wear my fur! I had it for a year already but it's still one of those things I treasure like it was exclusive or vintage.. I'm scared to wear it cos it rain here at least once a day here and the straightened
fur hair might curl up - maybe I'll try a straightening iron on that later.. the knit is old but treasured, I super loved the collection CSM graduate simone shailes did for topshop 2 years back.. I have another piece from the same collection and it is a even more amazing version of this... have to get that one out as well..
and also I'm now in love with purple lipstick.
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Give me blue shoes
Ahhh nice shoes that I spotted at river island!! they also come in black but for some reason the electric blue just landed on my must have list.... what do you say...? should I?
also I love reading your sweet comments, especially in my previous entry.. you all are so cute, many mentioned spicy pumpkin candles as a fall favorite.. need some of those asap.
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Monday, 25 October 2010
Favorite little things for fall
1. the messy braid 7 days a week
2. sleeves with thumb holes
4. old piercing, new ring and cuff
4. frozen grapes outside our house back home
5. nails inc. new autumn colors
what's yours?
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Welcoming vogue's fashion night in
Most of you are probably familiar with vogue's fashion night out, right? well now it's been confirmed that november 1st will be vogue's fashion night in, with amazing discounts and exclusive offers at your fave online shopping destinations! on board is some of my addictions like my-wardrobe, asos, net-a-porter, selfridges, browns, louisaviaroma and maaaany more (others can still sign up!) I will also have a little 'cyber party' over at my blog, with giveaways and other fun, so mark that night as a stay at home monday and get ready to shop like never before!
check it out here
also if you are an online retailer taking part in the event and would like to offer a discount/giveaway for readers of 5 inch and up, do drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com
wooohoooo it's gonna be fun!!
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Sunday, 24 October 2010
Stella mccartney for adidas ss11
I had the pleasure of being invited to view the presentation of stella mccartney's ss11 adidas collection. the venue was held at a roomy 3 floor flat, where the collection was divided into three main sections of gym-wear, yoga and a new range called weekender. The whole presentation was laid out so well and a range of delicious food was served in the kitchen with stella mccartney there herself, looking beautiful in her pregnancy... I had a great time and totally forgot that I should already be running to the next show!
thank you for having me!
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Kimono + miu miu
vintage 1920's kimono
hervé léger dress
vintage clutch
topshop boots
miu miu flower spats
photos by tasha
photos by tasha
So this is what I wore on the night! I picked up this 1920's kimono at a vintage market.. I learned something fashinating - when women in japan get married they cut their kimono sleeves shorter, cos the long ones are concidered too sexy.. anyone know anything more about this? I just thought it was such an interesting thing..
But now on to the shoes! or more like shoe spats or what ever they are! I was on the waiting list in miu miu and finally got the call that they are in! the heels from the show was a bit too low for me so it's perfect that you can customise your own heels with these!! next I need to try them with pointy pumps.. I'm in loooooove, I'll get some better pics of them soon.. (they deserve a proper ''shoot'' haha)
have a nice weekend, and if you are in london I challenge you to a elbow fight tomorrow at this vintage fair...
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Claremont McKenna College Computer Labs
Poppa Computer LabNamed for Ryal Poppa '57 and opened in 1980, Poppa Computer Lab is the main computing lab for students on campus. Located in CMC's Adams Hall, Poppa Lab features the largest collection of lab computing resources on campus, including scanners, video editing stations, free laser printing, among other critical offerings for students. Poppa Lab has 36 computers - a mix of Macs and Windows.
Ryal Residential Lab
Ryal Lab, also named for Ryal Poppa '57, is the newest computer lab at CMC. Finished in the fall of 2008, Ryal completes a comprehensive offering of computing facilities and supports students in the heart of the campus. Special attention in design of this lab was dedicated to group work areas as well as including a beautiful outdoor area with full computer support.Ryal Lab has 17 Windows computers.
South Lab at Stark Hall
South Lab, opened in 2001, is the most ecological of the CMC computer labs with its furniture recycled from a previous install. However, the space has been outfitted with brand new chairs to meet the demands of students who use the labs daily. South Lab is located in Stark Hall and assists with providing resources to all students in all locations of the college.South Lab has 14 Windows computers.
Poppa Family Technology Classroom (Kravis Center 165)
KC165, also known as KTC, is a resource for both students and faculty. The classroom can be used with or without the computers - flip the monitor down for non-computing use, flip it up for computing use. While some classes meet in KC165 on a regular basis, the Technology Classroom doubles as a computer lab for students during non-classroom hours and is open during weekday evenings with specialty computer workshops available as well.KC165 has 32 Windows computers.
Fletcher Jones Lecture Hall
Fletcher Jones Lecture Hall (Roberts North 12) is solely a computing classroom and features a proxy system, where instructors can show their screen to all students at their computers and toggle between instructor screen and student screens. With high-capacity seating, Fletcher Hall can also be used without the technology features and make use of its eight whiteboards. Located in Roberts North Hall, Fletcher is a powerful and exciting example of instructional computing.Fletcher Jones Lecture Hall has 47 Windows computers.
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Talk:Die Hebriden, Op.26 (Mendelssohn, Felix)
Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Set of parts by unknown typesetter
- In replacing the clarinet parts of the typeset version, the original typesetter incorrectly copied the part, in bar 244 in octaves it should read D, C# C natural, instead of D C double sharp C sharp as written in the part.
- These parts have been extracted from the typeset score, without any attention to the location of page turns. It is still possible to use them, but by keeping the sheets in a loose stack, shifting them aside during bars of rest.


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STOCKTON – A woman was arrested on suspicion of child abandonment today after police said she left her 2-year-old son at a central Stockton park.
According to police, 44-year-old Silvia Perez took her son to Caldwell Park in the 3100 block of Allston Way in a stroller about 1:40 p.m. Witnesses told officers the child was yelling for his mother as she left, but Perez pushed the boy away and left the park without him.
The child was taken into protective custody and placed at Mary Graham Hall, a children's shelter in Stockton, authorities said.
Read Thursday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Jason Anderson.
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Despite this week's episode being chock full of school shootings, a suicide attempt and brain eating, it was actually kind of boring in comparison to the last few episodes. In episode six we get to see Tate shoot up the library, Violet finally uses the internet to research Tate and his past, and Eric Stonestreet (Cam from "Modern Family") guest stars as one of Ben's patients who is terrified of urban legends.
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James Hoggan | August 23, 2006
By James Hoggan • Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 07:31
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Among the ideologues in the climate change denial camp, this quote has several strikes against it. First, it was penned by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Upton Sinclair, a socialist firebrand whose early investigative journalism led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act, both in 1906.
A journalist, a socialist, an advocate for regulating the free market; actually, that's three strikes right there.
Worse still, the quote warranted a two-page spread in Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, a fact that is guaranteed to rile those defending America's right to be wrong on climate change.
But leaving aside the political connections, consider the quote on its own merits. Does it make sense? Does it explain why objectively intelligent people like Financial Post Editor Terrance Corcoran or National Center for Public Policy Research President Amy Ridenour tie themselves up in such elegant knots trying not to believe in climate change?
There is, in the executive offices of ExxonMobile or Peabody Energy, an evident disregard for the evidence - a ruthless disregard. But among the think-tankers and contrarian scientists - maybe even in the writings of Corcoran and Ridenour - you can sometimes see a flicker of real sincerity, so desperately do they want to believe what Exxon or the Scaife or Koch foundations tell them to believe.
If Scaife, Koch or Exxon really cared about science - if they really were interested in the truth about climate change - you'd think that they would invest in scientific research, working hard to ensure that the researchers' credentials were impeccable. Instead, they fund policy hothouses like the Cato Institute or the George C. Marshall Institute, or Ridenour's NCPPR. They fund "scientists" like Pat Michaels or Sallie Baliunas - scientists whose current publications appear not in peer-reviewed journals, but in think-tank brochures and in the mainstream press.
It is, indeed, difficult to get a man - or a woman - to understand something when his - of her - salary depends upon not understanding it. That explains the committed contrarians. For the rest of us, the science isn't that hard.
Climate change is a problem; and there is still evidence that we can fix it if we try. Let's.
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More wingnut climate change denial...
An absolutely atrocious column in the National Post today (Aug 23) by the infamous Terence Corcoran:
It is so full of lies and fabrications that it wouldn't have even passed as "intelligence" in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
Go to town, guys!
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The Reprise opener kind of blew my mind and sent me tumbling out to that scene in 2001 where the guy is traveling through space and time and whatnot. I didn't know that deep space was actually a freezer, but it does make a lot of sense. I was thrilled when they snapped into Divided Sky, and it really soared in that room. In retrospect, Caspian was a straightforward version from that era, but I'd never heard the song, and I was oddly delighted that they were singing about a character that I hadn't thought about since I was a little kid. I didn't know PYITE either, so everyone yelling "Hey!" and the rapping was neato. Simple was rocking so hard that the floor was moving, and the feminine duo of Reba-Tela was sublime. I love Reba jams and this one is especially raucus, with on the spot, dynamic wind-ups. I only knew Teela from Masters of the Universe, but the song didn't seem to be exactly related to that world. It was during the second chorus of Sample that I finally turned around for the first time and surveyed the room, which was awash in white light brilliance, with every single guy and gal absolutely slamming. That image has been burned into my head ever since. Total Dionysian revelry.
I didn't make it back from my halftime adventures until Julius, but the Theme is solid. I like it as a set opener. Julius was rip-roaring. Lizards was another one that I didn't know, but I was loving the story-telling and was immediately hooked on the outro guitar-solo. It reminded me of a trumpet solo. I've always thought that Trey has a bit of horn player in him. The Bathtub Gin from this show unfolds in a manner that could be viewed as a pre-cursor to the famous Real Gin the following month. I love it when they are rolling along and the jam threatens to break out in who-knows-what direction. TMWSIY->Avenu through me for a loop, and when they got to life on Mars I was definitely convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrials. The barbershop quartet thing sealed the deal that this was my new favorite band, and a Squirming Coil closer was exactly what I had hoped for. I was in total agreement with the "beautiful buzz" sentiment in the encore, and I walked out with a huge smile on my face.
I remember standing around in a hotel lobby after the show, and some guy was telling me, "Whoa, Trey was ON tonight, right?" and I enthusiastically agreed, suddenly realizing that there were groups of folks that actually do this often, haha. And I totally understood why. I didn't know a whole lot about the band before that first show, and now I appreciate what an ecelectic and well-played show it was. For that kid 16 years ago, it was an Event that played a big role in catapulting me out on wide adventures. Yay Phish.


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Is there a low carbon future for the retail industry?
By Sarah E Taylor-Oracle on Nov 29, 2011
Recently Oracle published a report in conjunction with The Future Laboratory and a global panel of experts to highlight the issue of energy use in modern industry and the serious need to reduce carbon emissions radically by 2050. Emissions must be cut by 80-95% below the levels in 1990 – but what can the retail industry do to keep up with this?
There are three key aspects to the retail industry where carbon emissions can be cut: manufacturing, transport and IT.
Naturally, manufacturing is going to be a big area where businesses across all industries will be forced to make considerable savings in carbon emissions as well as other forms of pollution. Many retailers of all sizes will use third party factories and will have little control over specific environmental impacts from the factory, but retailers can reduce environmental impact at the factories by managing orders more efficiently – better planning for stock requirements means economies of scale both in terms of finance and the environment. The John Lewis Partnership has made detailed commitments to reducing manufacturing and packaging waste on both its own-brand products and products it sources from third party suppliers. It aims to divert 95 percent of its operational waste from landfill by 2013, which is a huge logistics challenge. The John Lewis Partnership's website provides a large amount of information on its responsibilities towards the environment.
Similarly to manufacturing, tightening up on logistical planning for stock distribution will make savings on carbon emissions from haulage. More accurate supply and demand analysis will mean less stock re-allocation after initial distribution, and better warehouse management will mean more efficient stock distribution. UK grocery retailer Morrisons has introduced double-decked trailers to its haulage fleet and adjusted distribution logistics accordingly to reduce the number of kilometers travelled by the fleet. Morrisons measures route planning efficiency in terms of cases moved per kilometre and has, over the last two years, increased the number of cases per kilometre by 12.7%. See Morrisons Corporate Responsibility report for more information.
IT infrastructure is often initially overlooked by businesses when considering environmental efficiency. Datacentres and web servers often need to run 24/7 to handle both consumer orders and internal logistics, and this both requires a lot of energy and puts out a lot of heat. Many businesses are lowering environmental impact by reducing IT system fragmentation in their offices, while an increasing number of businesses are outsourcing their datacenters to cloud-based services. Using centralised datacenters reduces the power usage at smaller offices, while using cloud based services means the datacenters can be based in a more environmentally friendly location. For example, Facebook is opening a massive datacentre in Sweden – close to the Arctic Circle – to reduce the need for artificial cooling methods. In addition, moving to a cloud-based solution makes IT services more easily scaleable, reducing redundant IT systems that would still use energy.
In store, the UK's Carbon Trust reports that on average, lighting accounts for 25% of a retailer's electricity costs, and for grocery retailers, up to 50% of their electricity bill comes from refrigeration units.
On a smaller scale, retailers can invest in greener technologies in store and in their offices. The report concludes that widely shared objectives of energy security, reduced emissions and continued economic growth are dependent on the development of a smart grid capable of delivering energy efficiency and demand response, as well as integrating renewable and variable sources of energy.
The report is available to download from http://emeapressoffice.oracle.com/imagelibrary/detail.aspx?MediaDetailsID=1766I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the report.


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