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The law firm said in a statement it would seek compensation from Billabong on behalf of its shareholders, alleging the company gave earnings guidance for 2012 financial year that lacked reasonable grounds.
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I've loved Liza Palmer's writing since I read Conversations with the Fat Girl. In her forthcoming 5 Spot release, Seeing Me Naked (released Jan. 8), Palmer again addresses the issue of outward appearance, only this time the focus is on a young woman from an extraordinarily high profile family. Elisabeth Page, a pastry chef, is the daughter of famed author Ben Page and sister of literary man of the day Rascal Page. In the glare of their spotlights, Elisabeth feels inadequate; she can never be good enough for her father or heroic enough for her brother. Not only is she stuck working crazy hours at the hottest restaurant in LA, she is stuck in a relationship with Will, a childhood friend who simply can't commit to anything other than his journalism. When she is presented with a great job opportunity and meets Daniel Sullivan, a basketball coach, Elisabeth must let go of all the pretense, shed her "clothing" and allow herself to appear naked, flaws and all. Once this occurs, her transformation will allow her to move on with her life.
Palmer writes with humor and warmth, bringing the reader in to the story quickly and creatively with each word. We are meant to like these characters and we do...they are us, struggling with family, with the desire and search for happiness in love and career and faltering as we go. At its heart, a story of family and the fact that love can truly conquer all.
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MA'O Organic Farms combines ag with Hawaiian culture and youth education
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MA'O may not provide the full blueprint for the future of local agriculture, but its supporters say it is part of the solution.
"The traditional subsistence or mom-and-pop farm, I think there's still a place for it, but it didn't lead us to feeding ourselves or growth. I think that's why we always fell back on the industrialized farming model," says Kenney. "Whereas, if someone can be creative in how they operate, we can think of new ways to feed ourselves, and that's exactly what I think MA'O has done."
"I think we've developed a model that's got pieces other people can replicate, and I think is really important in Hawaii ag in general," says Maunakea-Forth. "People can argue that Hawaii ag's going to go industrial and GMO and whatever, but I think this model – maybe not the entire model, maybe not setting up a nonprofit completely – but (other farmers can) use some of the pieces."
Hannahs certainly hopes Kamehameha Schools can learn from MA'O. The trust's strategic agricultural plan identified 88,000 of its acres as prime agricultural land, and its goal is to create a sustainable food system in a post-plantation era. Doing so requires land planning and people planning, Hannahs says.
"That's where I thought MA'O was way ahead of the pack, in terms of engaging people in the business of farming," he says. "Most of the farmers that we see out on our land today are elderly, in the advanced part of their lives and careers. When we've looked to who their successors will be, it's really uncertain, and I think a lot of labor is imported in this state. That's a very complex issue, but what we are particularly looking for is not necessarily field laborers so much as agri-business entrepreneurs, and how do you find those opportunities in organizations like MA'O or in individual local people, especially our Hawaiian stakeholders."
In the future, MA'O hopes to build new relationships, such as with the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, which has shown an interest in building a community agriculture program at its new Kapolei campus. Another new relationship is with Waianae High School's Searider Productions, called Kauhale, which was recently awarded a $4 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
On a larger scale, MA'O hopes to raise awareness of Hawaii's food and economic security. "The best thing we have going on for us is that we don't necessarily have to produce more than what we can eat," says Maunakea-Forth. "We've got a million people locally who want to eat and we're only feeding them 10, 15, 20 percent of what they want to eat. So if we fill that gap in first, we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of market potential right there. Then we're talking about 7 million people coming here a year as well. We have a captive market, that if we structure agriculture right and get people psyched about it, they might want to work in the sector."
His biggest concerns are stories of human trafficking to supply labor to local farms. "It's not making farming more attractive for people to want to work in it."
The ultimate goal of the nonprofit is to redevelop Waianae, and it will look closely at the 2010 and 2020 Census data to see if it has made progress. "Ten years down, we're hoping the poverty rate will be different, people will be making more money, the number of people in the community with a college education will have changed quite radically, and some of those socio-economic deficits, we'll be looking at them having been improved," Maunakea-Forth says.
He knows at least two people who will make a positive difference. Farm co-manager Cheryse Sana would like to eventually earn a master's degree and become a teacher. She also has influenced her family to eat healthier (with produce from the farm, of course).
Miles is looking forward to a lot of things. He's working on his associate's degree, he owns a home in the valley where he grew up, and he and his wife, Summer, MA'O's director of education, are expecting their first child. Eventually, he'd like to buy an acre of land in the valley and run his own farm. He remembers helping his family raise chickens for eggs, which they sold to neighbors, and says, "What we did back then is what we need to do now."
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UNDATED (WSAU) Leave the shoppers alone. That's basically what the State Republican Party is telling Democrats and others who planned to circulate Walker recall petitions near shopping malls on this Black Friday.
Lots of folks are off work, so they can take advantage of the Day-after-Thanksgiving bargains that have been offered since as early as nine last night. In a statement, the G-O-P's Nicole Larson said she doubted that stores would want to be associated with a quote, "partisan ploy." The Republicans said businesses should call the police if petition circulators don't leave their properties on request. The G-O-P also asks shoppers to report any problems on the party's "Recall Integrity Center" Web site.
Democrats had planned to set up petitioners near malls and park-and-ride facilities today. The Democrats had not responded by late morning to the G-O-P's statement. Recall petition drives are underway against Governor Scott Walker, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, Senate G-O-P leader Scott Fitzgerald, and Republican Senators Van Wanggaard, Terry Moulton, and Pam Galloway.


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Last night, the unstoppable Joe McCutchen of Ellijay attempted to explain his unmatched passion for Mitt Romney on Comedy Central.
Oscar Poole, famous for the bright yellow suit he wears to GOP conventions, unfortunately was campaigning for Romney in Florida and doesn't make an appearance. But you still have to watch it:
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I don't know anything about Joe, but I sure would like to have a couple of gallons of whatever he is drinking.
January 24th, 2012
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What a remarkable man Joe McCutchen is, seriously, anyone his age that can think of Mitt Romney 8 times a day is doing pretty good.
January 24th, 2012
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Mitt has about as much passion as a dead tree limb.
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Romney's America: His income is in the millions ours is in the thousands. Romney's effective tax rate is 13-15%.Our effective tax rate is 20-to 35%. We invest our money in banks in America. Romney invests his money in Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands. Romney has five sons; he nor any of his sons have any military service. Romney wants to send our sons to fight in Iran and other places to preserve his America… Romney does not want to pay $120,000.00 more in taxes. A majority of Americans thinks he should.
Romney says he believes in America. Question: Do you believe him???
Uuestion: Which America do you want???
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Funny! I wonder what was Mr. McCutchen's reaction to the interview once he caught onto what the comedian was doing w/ his hands…
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vietnamvet, his tax rate is not that low. This is why nobody can have an intelligent tax debate…….nobody knows the facts. 1) He made over $7mm in charitable gifts which are tax deductible, thus lowering his rate, 2) The income from the businesses that he owns is taxed at 35%, and then taxed again at 15% when it gets paid to romney…….that's a 45% tax rate, which is more than you "average" american pay.
So, yes, I'll take Romney over Obama who criticizes Romney's taxes because he either doesn't know that much about tax law (which is scary because he is supposed to know as president), or he does know, but is trying to muddy the waters for political gain. Either way, Obama is not a man I can trust on this issue.


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- 5 packages dark-red edible Greek egg dye (see the Guide)
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- 1/2 teaspoon setting powder (see the Guide)
- 16 large eggs
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Place both dyes in a large saucepan. Pour 1 cup boiling water over dye, and stir with a metal spoon until dissolved. Stir in the setting powder. Add 6 cups cold water.
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Place eggs in liquid; if necessary, add more cold water to completely cover eggs. Very gently simmer eggs for 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer an egg to a double thickness of paper towel; gently roll egg to dry. Store egg in egg carton. Repeat with remaining eggs; chill until ready to use.
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The Beast's "Beast 120" menu: great way to snack or have an early dinner!
- atomeyes Nov 13, 2010 08:01 AM
My friends and I wanted to meet up after work and we thought we would try The Beast's "120" menu. On Wednesday-Friday, they offer $4 beer, $5 wine and tapas-sized offerings for $4 each. The burger is $8 (sides are extra).
We got there at 5 and grabbed a table near the front. Between the 4 of us, we sampled most of what was on the menu.
My wife and I had the tasty pago de ariaz tempranillo (we learned to appreciate this black grape when in Spain) to drink and we ordered:
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Ricotta-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers
Dirty Rice Fritters
Lamb Ribs
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Lamb Ribs
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House-Made Charcuterie
Southern Sliders
Cauliflower Pakoras
They drank Flying Monkey's Hoptical Illusion and prosecco ($5/glass).
Everything was quite tasty. The pig's head pasta was made from headcheese and served with an egg yolk on top of a good-sized portion of homemade pasta. It was an incredible offering at a great price.
I loved the stuffed peppers and the rice fritters were also a very nice snack. We all attacked the charcuterie board (we mistakenly ordered all 3 charcuterie instead of one). The elk loaf w/blueberry was very very nice.
In all, it was a great way to get to know a cute downtown restaurant.
96 Tecumseth St, Toronto, ON M6J, CA
Glad to hear it was good. Have been meaning to hit this up, but I'm on the opposite end of the city usually...
Went last night, and overall a great value for this type of restaurant.
The tasso ham sliders were the highlight for me. Great texture with the combination of meat + cheese + biscuit. My gf really enjoyed the lamb ribs also. Although I felt the pig's head pasta was under-seasoned and the pappardelle too thin (1.5 on the dial?), thus lacking bite.
Plus hoptical illusion for $4, pretty good deal. Props to them for making quality food in such a small space.
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Wanted to bump this.
We went today at 5:00, sat on the patio, and had a lovely time. Still: $4 beers, $5 glasses of wine, and snacks from $2 to $5. Wednesday to Friday from 5:00 to 7:00.
Two of us had the:
"poutine" (gnocchi poutine), chorizo, spot prawn po'bo, goat cheddar with pimento and crackers, 4 oysters with a simple mignonette. Each had a glass of wine. With tax, before tip. $38. It was all reaaallly good, especially the poutine with roasted mushrooms. The patio was lovely, not at all full.
Highly recommended. I will definitely go again and check out some of the other items including lamb ribs and hushpuppies.
re: EarlyDrive
Beast is an incredible value and the food/atmosphere/service is all amazing. Went with a group a while back and enjoyed the "120" menu. The entire group was thoroughly impressed with all the food offerings, not to mention the $4 Hoptical Illusion!! (aren't going to find that in too many Toronto spots at a $4 price point).
All round wonderful time
For the month of July they are doing Beast 120 on Saturdays as well...
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At this price, it's cheaper than the food truck event!
re: ace123
And less crowded...
I must say that I've been to Beast for their 120 menu. And while it's a great deal, it's not something I would go out of my way for. I've now eaten at Beast 3 or 4 times and each time I think "that was decent". I really want to like it more, but it feels more like a nice neighbourhood spot rather than a destination. If I still lived around the corner from there, I would probably be a regular. Perhaps I need to try the whole beast dinner to convert me.
I was there tonight and had a great time. Arrived at 6:15pm and there were only two other tables. Over the course of the hour, the place filled up.
What a great value! The drink list features Ontario wines from better-than-average Niagara vineyards like Lailey and Stratus. Wines are 5oz pours for $5 - awesome. The most of the food comes portioned to it's easily split between two people (e.g. two lamb ribs, two dirty rice balls). The food was all good and the price made it great.
re: littlelam
I went to Beast for the 120 menu on the recommendation of this board and it was the first time a recommendation had let me down. The food was awful, the service was awful and the wine was pretty lacklustre. Two other friends were supposed to meet us there and we quickly texted them to make other arrangements. I don't know if it was an off night but it was certainly off putting.
re: tjr
We were three girls and we ordered the bread & butter (which was the only good thing), olives, pimento cheese and crackers which was basically philedelphia cream cheese (and so stated by the waitress when asked if it was goat or cow's milk) prawn po boy, lamb ribs that were both dry and gristly and the dirty rice balls which were very, very bland. My friend asked if there was a sparkling on the 120 wine list and was told there was and what arrived was in a flute but not sparkling at all. When she told the server - who was disinterested at best our entire time there - that it was flat she was told in reply that it was supposed to be like that and was just not a very bubbly sparkling. All in all it was a most disappointing experience.
re: Non Doctor
That report is at odds -- both food and service wise -- with every experience I've had there. I doubtful about the Philly Cream Cheese as well. That would be very weird and out of character for the place.
re: jamesm
Have you had the item in question? I suggest going to taste it yourself before weighing in with an opinion on what it was made of. And the waitress didnt state the brand of cream cheese but certainly did state that it was cream cheese. I may not have the most sensitive palate in the universe but its a pretty universal taste...that type of cream cheese. I understand this report is at odds to the others. I went specifically because of all the great reports I had read. I was not happy to say that I had an unpleasant experience but I did and I thought it was worthy to note. It was not just my opinion but also the two other girls I was with who felt strongly enough about it to tell the two other people who were coming to meet us to meet us elsewhere. I understand off days happen and usually would be willing to give a place another go but to be honest there was nothing about that first visit that even hinted at the possibility of a better experience.
re: jamesm
she said she had pimento cheese, which is a southern dish, the recipe of which includes cream cheese (some don't). philadelphia cream cheese is not bad.
it's very tasty, if made well. but maybe not in this case.
i'll still try to make it to beast's 120 menu, though.
re: binzy
I'm with you on the lamb ribs. I wasn't a huge fan - they were on the dry side with chunks of fat / gristle (though there was still enough meat on the bone to eat).
I did, however, really love the dirty rice balls. They were basically risotto balls with cajun seasoning - mine were definitely not bland and actually quite yummy.
re: littlelam
Lamb ribs by nature are very fatty. When I've been there the server actually explained that nature of the lamb ribs when we ordered them as she said often ppl aren't used to the product so to speak.
re: binzy
I will say that I have been to Beast twice and the food has been underwhelming to me as well.
Much like Local over in Roncesvalles it's one of those places that gets a lot of love here but I can't seem to find the attraction. I also found the food to be quite bland with the exception of a poutine I had there which was quite good. The lamb ribs are indeed fatty, and they are almost inedible, it's fine to explain the "character" of the ribs, but even better would be to prepare or cook them in a way that would make them more delicious.
The staff and service however are super friendly and efficient - the second time I was there was for a birthday party and everyone had a great time, but most agreed the food didnt blow them away.
I would go one more time to try their brunch - that may be more to my liking.
re: themiguel
I don't think anyone described the food as being stellar or anything. It's cheap happy hour food done surprisingly well given the price point. If you went expecting something else, your expectations were far too high.
re: themiguel
I'm also had the regular menu and always found good value for money and tasty food in a local hood kinda place.
re: themiguel
Note the thread title?
For the value, it's one of the best deals in the city that I've come across. Food has always ranged from good to great, never bad. The bread is unreal, chorizo always tasty, enjoyed his po'boys. A lot of white bread based items on the 5-7, but I don't blame them for it.
We left stuffed with 4 drinks total and we came out around 50-60. Will definitely go again.
re: miketoronto
I've never tried the 120 deal. My comments are based on a few dinner and brunch experiences.
I've been to Beast for their 120 happy hour and I don't really have any complaints about it. On a nice summer day like today, it's a nice little patio to enjoy a few drinks and have a few dishes to share to snack on which is what it's designed to be.
I agree that the lamb ribs are a little fatty and it's very off putting for those that can't stomach the fat, but to those that prefer the flavour, it's actually not bad in terms of value. I quite enjoy their poutine as it's very different than a traditional poutine. If I'm not mistaken, it's made with gnocchi, cheese curds, beef and beef jus rather than a traditional gravy. It was unconventional, but once again, fairly good. Oysters are $2 a piece so you can easily go in there, have a few oysters, a glass of white wine and some other snacks and drinks for under $25/$30 a person all in and a good afternoon.
I think that's the expectation people should have when going for the 120 menu rather than it being the go to spot with spectacular dishes.
Just my 2 cents.
re: ragged25
What does 120 signify?
re: dogseatfree
I just assumed it signified the two hours it is on for.
Finally made it for the 120 and was really impressed, such a great deal. My wife and I don't eat pork so we ordered everything that didn't have it, and it was way too much food. By the end I was hurting. Anyway, some thoughts...
- Bread + butter ($2), house-baked, warm, and delicious, terrific butter.
- House-marinated olives ($3), the small ones were addictive.
- Braised duck tongues ($4, they were out of duck hearts), in a spicy soupy stock, perfect snack food.
- Pimento cheese + crackers ($4), a good rendition of this Southern fave, nothing fancy.
- Veal sweetbreads ($4), these were big and meaty and tender, with a thin fried coating. Could have used a bit more salt and maybe some spice too, a touch bland.
- Spot prawn po'boy ($4), we ordered two of these assuming they'd be tiny, but they weren't really, should have split one. Flavour was dominated by these roasted pickled tomatoes, but in a good way.
- Hushpuppies ($4), very crispy and nice spicy flavour. Excellent.
- Braised artichokes ($4), I need to stop trying to love artichokes, I just don't. Maybe these were good, but yeah, no more artichokes for me.
- Lamb ribs ($4), two nice-sized ribs, very fatty and very moist, not dry at all despite previous reports. The sauce was tasty. I liked these a lot.
- Ricotta + tomato crostini, the fresh ricotta was lovely. Same tomatoes as on the po'boy, this time I did not like them, fresh raw summer tomatoes would have been better.
- Gnocchi "poutine" ($4), I can see why this one of their signature dishes, super delicious. Alas at this point we were dreaming of Rolaids.
- Fish cakes ($4), this was a special that night that they gave to us when the waitress remember that the collard greens we ordered had pork. A very nice bit of service, a seriously amazing fish cakes, spicy and almost all fish. Of course at this point we were swelling up like Mr. Creosote from Monty Python.
- Tres leches cake ($4), saturated in sweet condensed milk and topped with a blueberry sauce, we managed a few bites of this before turning it over to our toddler daughter who polished if off.
Total with a beer and three glasses of wine before tip was $86. Tremendous value, we really could have had half of what we ate and left satiated. But as usual we went buck wild and ordered the whole menu. REALLY need to stop doing that...
re: childofthestorm
thanks for the detailed review! i loved Beast when I went (Okay, so I am still dreaming of the toffee pudding..) and I cannot wait to return. Thanks for the reminder.
re: childofthestorm
That is so much food!


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The most popular majors that St. Olaf offers are within the natural sciences and mathematics. This includes biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and mathematics. Statistical data shows the popularity of the sciences and the commitment the college has made to reinforce new information that prepares students for graduate and professional programs. Forty percent of St. Olaf students will graduate in one of these five departments. According to the Research Corporation, a study showed that out of 1,115 predominately undergraduate schools, St. Olaf ranked second in chemistry, 20th in physics, 35th in biology and 17th overall. The professors are trained in diverse research topics. Teaching comes first and research is the means of teaching, said biology and biomedical studies major Dan Grossman 03. Competition comes to mind when thinking of the strength and seriousness of the science departments. While the exceptional performance of students speaks to the schools ability to prepare them for graduate and professional careers, that competition is not felt among students. Biology major Niloo Ratnayake 03 said Its not a competitive atmosphere, but more complimentary. I have learned best by teaching others. Were not competing against each other, were only competing against the system, adds Grossman. Professors receive much recognition for the commitment made in the education of others. They really care about students success and failure, said Ratnayake. Esther Lee 03 and Anne Kent 03 suggest that there are competent and informed professors who try hard to get ideas across. They are making a strong program by advancing others education, said Grossman. From the perspective of a fellow faculty member, Professor Johnson adds, Im excited for the new professors who are coming in with enthusiasm. The science department is a community that thrives on working together to maintain the interest of students. Both in and out of class, various communities are shaped to keep students motivated and exited about their aspirations. I have developed a group of friends as partners who have some of the same experiences, said Grossman. This community also comes through in the various conferences, symposiums, and consortiums that the students have become involved in. Of course, with the help of the professors, students have the ability to create connections, seize opportunities, and most importantly, learn in the process. These incentives also create a sense of community within the department that brings students and professors together in a productive and collaborative learning environment. Some examples include the Science Symposiums held on campus every May, departmental newsletters, departmental seminars and national meetings that students participate in at schools like Washington University and the University of Chicago. There is a good variety of opportunities considering the size of the college that always generates new ideas, said Kent. The future of science at St. Olaf faces challenges that will help to improve its programs. We are challenged to reach those who are not science majors, Johnson said. This is really important in carrying out the mission of the college as a liberal arts school, Van Wylen said. The future is not as five separate departments, but a unit of interdisciplinary sciences, biology major Erin Huppert 04 said Strong programs are illustrated as disciplines cross. As technology infleuences science more and more, we must also make sure that scientists engage in ethical issues that prevent dilemmas, says Johnson. The overall experience of science at St. Olaf for both professors and students is keeping up with new technology and information, helping to advance the students experience.
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It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem.
The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Read: Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone - NYTimes
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Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering.
Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. "It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds," he said.
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Analysis of climate change modelling for past 15 years reveal accurate forecasts of rising global temperatures
The debate around the accuracy of climate modelling and forecasting has been especially intense recently, due to suggestions that forecasts have exaggerated the warming observed so far – and therefore also the level warming that can be expected in the future. But the new research casts serious doubts on these claims, and should give a boost to confidence in scientific predictions of climate change.
The paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Geoscience, explores the performance of a climate forecast based on data up to 1996 by comparing it with the actual temperatures observed since. The results show that scientists accurately predicted the warming experienced in the past decade, relative to the decade to 1996, to within a few hundredths of a degree.
The forecast, published in 1999 by Myles Allen and colleagues at Oxford University, was one of the first to combine complex computer simulations of the climate system with adjustments based on historical observations to produce both a most likely global mean warming and a range of uncertainty. It predicted that the decade ending in December 2012 would be a quarter of degree warmer than the decade ending in August 1996 – and this proved almost precisely correct.
The study is the first of its kind because reviewing a climate forecast meaningfully requires at least 15 years of observations to compare against. Assessments based on shorter periods are prone to being misleading due to natural short-term variability in the climate.
More at The Guardian
(Source: climateadaptation)
› When the climate crisis merits civil disobedience
With the announcement that the Sierra Club will engage in an act of civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history, this grassroots environmental organization is stepping up to join a long and honorable American tradition that civil rights advocates and so many others have used to strengthen American values.
In the 19th century, the searing injustice of slavery inspired Henry David Thoreau to lay out the principles of civil disobedience, even as he and other antislavery activists helped fugitive slaves reach freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad. In the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a courageous campaign of nonviolent resistance that ultimately prevailed over a caustic national legacy of racism and segregation. Now the threat of climate disruption, hammered home last year by wildfires, droughts, and superstorm Sandy, again tests our moral values.
Civil disobedience is the response of ordinary people to injustices committed by powerful and entrenched special interests. The NAACP and the Sierra Club share a long history fighting for justice. Both of our organizations recognize that environmental pollution and recklessness causes enormous suffering in communities of color, where people still face a hugely disproportionate share of the burden. From "Cancer Alley" on Louisiana's Gulf Coast, to the brownfields of Camden, NJ, to the coal-ash–contaminated lands of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians in Nevada, good people with little power suffer from the indefensible actions of rich and powerful corporations — and no corporations wield their power to more corrosive effect than those in fossil fuel industries.
Simply facing a powerful foe does not justify civil disobedience. Anyone familiar with the histories of the Sierra Club and the NAACP knows that both organizations have long and proud traditions of working within the system to effect change — through the courts, public opinion, community organizing, and the ballot box. How, then, do we choose the moment that demands something more? In truth, it is the moment that chooses us.
… [A]lthough President Obama has declared his own determination to act, much that is within his power to accomplish remains undone. Worse, he could make decisions, such as allowing the construction of a pipeline to carry millions of barrels of the most-polluting oil on Earth from Canada's tar sands to the Gulf Coast of the U.S. — that would make it virtually impossible to stop climate disruption from spinning out of control and "betray[ing] … [his word] future generations."
This is the moment that has chosen us. We must seize it. [more]
› Will the Keystone XL Pipeline Go Down? | Michael Klare
Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the "dirtiest," carbon-rich oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. In the near future, President Obama is expected to give its construction a definitive thumbs up or thumbs down, and the decision he makes could prove far more important than anyone imagines. It could determine the fate of the Canadian tar-sands industry and, with it, the future well-being of the planet. [continue]
› Disaster Capitalism Hits New York | Arun Gupta
The city will adapt to flooding—but at the expense of the poor?
› Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'
I devoured Lord Stern's now famous report six years ago (has it been that long!?). At the time Stern's report was very controversial. It focused primarily on the economic impacts from climate, and had included some incredibly high numbers. It was widely thought to be out-of-touch with reality - that his numbers were wildly overestimated and his analysis of the models was flawed. True, this reception has softened somewhat over the years.
Now Stern says he didn't go far enough.
Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures.
In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern, who is now a crossbench peer, said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then."
The Stern review, published in 2006, pointed to a 75% chance that global temperatures would rise by between two and three degrees above the long-term average; he now believes we are "on track for something like four ". Had he known the way the situation would evolve, he says, "I think I would have been a bit more blunt. I would have been much more strong about the risks of a four- or five-degree rise."
He said some countries, including China, had now started to grasp the seriousness of the risks, but governments should now act forcefully to shift their economies towards less energy-intensive, more environmentally sustainable technologies.
"This is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one? These risks for many people are existential."
Keystone's Tar Sands Waste Said to Warm Climate More Than Coal
Refining Canada's oil sands into gasoline may speed global warming more than previously estimated after accounting for use of a waste product, which can be burned like coal.
Opening a new front in a fight to persuade President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil sands from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, environmental groups yesterday released a study that found refining the heavy material will create 5 billion tons of petroleum coke, or petcoke, that's used by power plants, aluminum factories and steel mills.
Compared with coal, petcoke is cheaper and releases more carbon dioxide when burned. Much of the U.S. supply is exported.
"Petcoke is the coal hiding in the tar sands," said Lorne Stockman, research director for Oil Change International, a Washington-based advocacy group that works for a transition away from fossil fuels. Until now, "the emissions of burning petcoke has not been included in the analyses."
Opponents of TransCanada Corp. (TRP)'s 1,661-mile (2,673- kilometer) pipeline are stepping up their efforts to stop the project as the U.S. State Department completes its review of a new route in Nebraska that avoids drinking water supplies. Obama delayed* the pipeline year ago, citing concerns about water, and encouraged the company to reapply.
Stockman said he gave State Department officials a research report yesterday showing that 15 percent to 30 percent of a barrel of oil sands bitumen can end up as petcoke. A lighter crude would have less than 2 percent, he said.
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In its annual report, State of the Climate, NOAA reported that the average annual temperature was 55.3 degrees — 3.3 degrees greater than the average temperature for the 20th century.
It's an easy to read report, and well worth checking out. Also, follow the LATimes tumblr for some solid journalism.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
› Hottest Day in History for All of Australia
40.33c/104.6f average for the entire country.
The nation has suffered a week of extreme heat; heat that has shattered record temperatures while also sparking hundreds of bushfires.
Monday was called the "hottest day on record" after the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) calculated a national average high temperature of 40.33 degrees C (104.6 degrees F), the Australian ABC News website said.
We're talking about a fight between human beings and physics. And physics is entirely uninterested in human timetables. Physics couldn't care less if precipitous action raises gas prices, or damages the coal industry in swing states. It could care less whether putting a price on carbon slowed the pace of development in China, or made agribusiness less profitable. Physics doesn't understand that rapid action on climate change threatens the most lucrative business on Earth, the fossil fuel industry. It's implacable. It takes the carbon dioxide we produce and translates it into heat, which means into melting ice and rising oceans and gathering storms. And unlike other problems, the less you do, the worse it gets. Do nothing and you soon have a nightmare on your hands. We could postpone healthcare reform a decade, and the cost would be terrible – all the suffering not responded to over those 10 years. But when we returned to it, the problem would be about the same size. With climate change, unless we act fairly soon in response to the timetable set by physics, there's not much reason to act at all.
Bill McKibben
› When The Big Muddy Runs Dry | The Agonist
Those who care to know realize that this Winter so far has meant no relief from severe drought over most of the central United States and prospects do not look good for Spring either. Another Summer like last year, and some towns in West Texas will start to run out of water entirely. Despite that, not a single West Texas broadcast news station has used the words "climate change" in three years of reporting on the drought. Denialism is rife in the Red States even when the object of denial is right up in people's faces.
And here's another symptom where the underlying cause is hardly being talked about where it matters – the mighty Mississippi is so shallow that barge traffic cannot move - costing the economy billions in lost trade and wages.
A news release issued by two trade groups, the American Waterways Operators and Waterways Council, warned last week that water levels had fallen faster than anticipated, and a section of the river may become impassable by Thursday. The groups estimate that a closure until the end of the month would affect about 8,000 jobs, $54m in wages and benefits, and 7.2m tonnes of commodities, worth around $2.8bn dollars.
Debra Colbert, senior vice-president of the Waterways Council, told The Independent: "We have never had an extended closure on the Mississippi. This is the height of the export shipping season. From now until March, more than 60 per cent of the nation's grain moves on the inland waterway, bound for export. The impacts are going to be enormous, not only to barge and towing operators, but also to farmers, shippers and producers, and those who rely on the waterways."
The worst-affected stretch runs 180 miles from St Louis, Missouri, south to Cairo, Illinois, where the Mississippi is met by the Ohio River. A depth gauge at Thebes, Illinois, measured just 6ft last week; the National Weather Service forecasts a drop to 3ft by Thursday, and as low as 2ft before February. The minimum depth for the safe passage of most barges is 9ft.
Responsibility for keeping the shipping channel open falls to the US Army's Corps of Engineers, which said the drought-induced crisis was "equal to or worse than any of the past five decades".
Last year's drought could herald further disruption. Ms Colbert said: "Whether or not anyone believes in climate change, it is worth looking at how the Corps of Engineers manages all the rivers it is responsible for. Their operating manual was last updated in the 1940s, so it doesn't take into account the changes we've seen."
Climate change is set to be a big story in 2013 whether the denialists like it or not, however. 2012 was a disaster of a year, weather-wise, with 11 billion dollar events. The Mississippi drying is only the first such event of 2013.
› New (and free) climate change report by USGS, NWF, and ASU: Emerging Consensus Shows Climate Change Already Having Major Effects on Ecosystems and Species
Emerging Consensus Shows Climate Change Already Having Major Effects on Ecosystems and Species
"Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events – such as flowering, laying eggs or migrating – at faster rates than researchers documented just a few years ago, according to a technical report on biodiversity and ecosystems used as scientific input for the 2013 Third National Climate Assessment.
The report, Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services, synthesizes the scientific understanding of the way climate change is affecting ecosystems, ecosystem services and the diversity of species, as well as what strategies might be used by natural resource practitioners to decrease current and future risks. More than 60 federal, academic and other scientists, including the lead authors from the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Wildlife Federation and Arizona State University in Tempe, authored the assessment.
"These geographic range and timing changes are causing cascading effects that extend through ecosystems, bringing together species that haven't previously interacted and creating mismatches between animals and their food sources," said Nancy Grimm, a scientist at ASU and a lead author of the report.
Grimm explained that such mismatches in the availability and timing of natural resources can influence species' survival; for example, if insects emerge well before the arrival of migrating birds that rely on them for food, it can adversely affect bird populations. Earlier thaw and shorter winters can extend growing seasons for insect pests such as bark beetles, having devastating consequences for the way ecosystems are structured and function. This can substantially alter the benefits people derive from ecosystems, such as clean water, wood products and food.
"The impact of climate change on ecosystems has important implications for people and communities," said Amanda Staudt, a NWF climate scientist and a lead author on the report. "Shifting climate conditions are affecting valuable ecosystem services, such as the role that coastal habitats play in dampening storm surge or the ability of our forests to provide timber and help filter our drinking water."
Another key finding is the mounting evidence that population declines and increased extinction risks for some plant and animal species can be directly attributed to climate change. The most vulnerable species are those already degraded by other human-caused stressors such as pollution or exploitation, unable to shift their geographic range or timing of key life events, or that have narrow environmental or ecological tolerance. For example, species that must live at high altitudes or live in cold water with a narrow temperature range, such as salmon, face an even greater risk due to climate change.
"The report clearly indicates that as climate change continues to impact ecological systems, a net loss of global species' diversity, as well as major shifts in the provision of ecosystem services, are quite likely," said Michelle Staudinger, a lead author of the report and a USGS and University of Missouri scientist.
For example, she added, climate change is already causing shifts in the abundance and geographic range of economically important marine fish. "These changes will almost certainly continue, resulting in some local fisheries declining or disappearing while others may grow and become more valuable if fishing communities can find socially and economically viable ways to adapt to these changes."
Natural resource managers are already contending with what climate change means for the way they approach conservation. For example, the report stated, land managers are now more focused on the connectivity of protected habitats, which can improve a species' ability to shift its geographic range to follow optimal conditions for survival.
"The conservation community is grappling with how we manage our natural resources in the face of climate change, so that we can help our ecosystems to continue meeting the needs of both people and wildlife," said Bruce Stein, a lead author of the report and director of climate adaptation at the National Wildlife Federation.
Other key findings of the report include:
- Changes in precipitation and extreme weather events can overwhelm the ability of natural systems to reduce or prevent harm to people from these events. For example, more frequent heavy rainfall events increase the movement of nutrients and pollutants to downstream ecosystems, likely resulting not only in ecosystem change, but also in adverse changes in the quality of drinking water and a greater risk of waterborne-disease outbreaks.
- Changes in winter have big and surprising effects on ecosystems and their services. Changes in soil freezing, snow cover and air temperature affect the ability of ecosystems to store carbon, which, in turn, influences agricultural and forest production. Seasonally snow-covered regions are especially susceptible to climate change because small precipitation or temperature shifts can cause large ecosystem changes. Longer growing seasons and warmer winters are already increasing the likelihood of pest outbreaks, leading to tree mortality and more intense, extensive fires. Decreased or unreliable snowfall for winter sports and recreation will likely cause high future economic losses.
- The ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats are especially vulnerable to sea-level rise and more severe storms. The Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts are most vulnerable to the loss of coastal protection services provided by wetlands and coral reefs. Along the Pacific coast, long-term dune erosion caused by increasing wave heights is projected to cause problems for communities and for recreational beach activities. However, other kinds of recreation will probably improve due to better weather, with the net effect being that visitors and tourism dollars will shift away from some communities in favor of others.
- Climate change adaptation strategies are vital for the conservation of diverse species and effective natural resource policy and management. As moreadaptive management approaches are developed, resource managers can enhance the country's ability to respond to the impacts of climate change through forward-looking and climate science-informed goals and actions.
- Ecological monitoring needs to be improved and better coordinated among federal and state agencies to ensure the impacts of climate change are adequately monitored and to support ecological research, management, assessment and policy. Existing tracking networks in the United States will need to improve coverage through time and in geographic area to detect and track climate-induced shifts in ecosystems and species.
Federal law requires that the U.S. Global Change Research Program submit an assessment of climate change and its impacts to the President and the Congress once every four years. Technical reports, articles and books – such as this report — underpin the corresponding chapters of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, due out in 2013. This technical report is available at the USGCRP website, as are other completed technical reports. Additional lead authors of this report include Shawn Carter, USGS: F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy; and Mary Ruckelshaus, Natural Capital Project."
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Although many industries have fought to prevent action on climate change, there's at least one major business that's taking it seriously, according to a recent perspective in Science. Climate change is estimated to cost the world economy $1.2 trillion annually, which is proving to be a stress test for the insurance industry. Lest you think that's a niche concern, insurance accounts for seven percent of the global economy and is the world's largest industry.
Climate change is big business (for the insurance industry) | Ars Technica
… the insurance industry's steps towards climate change mitigation and adaption are necessarily going to be limited, and the risks of climate change may eventually become uninsurable. And it seems that many companies are struggling to define their approach. Mandatory risk disclosures identified a broad consensus on the relevance of climate change among insurers in the United States, but only one in eight companies has a formal strategy.
Insurers publicly voiced concern about human-induced climate change four decades ago, and have warned that loss-prone development is unsustainable.
› 10 reasons why we won't stop climate change
List by Tom Giesen, an adjunct professor at University of Oregon. I edited it down some, for the entire post, visit here. I'll add that, generally, I personally cannot see how we're going stop the climate from changing. Too many people in the world are starting to want - and get - TVs, laptops, cars, and a single family home. Who are we to deny them?
1. Delayed consequences. Warming is a current phenomenon, but most of the damage is in the future, like a time-delayed bomb – we emit now and suffer the consequences later. Because it is a future event, neither citizens nor politicians feel sufficient urgency.
2. Belief in the necessity of growth! The sanctity of growth in the economy and in population is the real American religion. What all cities/communities want is more economic and population growth. But growth is now impossible without cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and they are finite and becoming prohibitively expensive – causing recessions.
3. Energy cornucopia! The "booms" in oil and gas are mostly just Wall Street bubbles like the real estate and internet bubbles of recent years. Conventional (cheap) fossil fuels are declining resources, and fracked, deep water, oil sands and arctic sources are prohibitively expensive. But no matter – the press is still full of empty chatter about the US out-producing Saudi Arabia and being energy independent.
4. Individualism. Devotees of individualism dislike cooperative processes, preferring go-it-alone methods. Cutting emissions requires a globally cooperative effort, and such cooperative projects might feel to individualists like unacceptable collectivism, and hence resisted.
5. Anti-intellectualism. Many in America have not moved beyond medieval science. Rationality does not often apply in scientific issues with political overtones, or with personal preferences, and hence global warming, the end of cheap oil, and other issues are falsely labeled as scientific frauds by opponents of science.
6. American exceptionalism. We imagine we are different from other nations, and many Americans accept that we are not subject to the same rules as other nations.
7. Failure of international cooperation. It is nearly universally believed that the solution to the problem of warming lies in global treaties involving all nations and dealing with emissions reductions and related equity/financial issues. It's now 25 years since James Hansen warned Congress, and we have done nothing. Nothing.
8. Difficulties of monitoring and assuring compliance. How do you closely monitor emissions of a gas which quickly diffuses globally in the atmosphere? How do you closely monitor all production and use of fossil fuels? How do you monitor and control land use change (deforestation) before the deed is done? Etc.
9. Greed. Greed permeates political life: worldwide, governments' subsidies to fossil fuel producers now total $100,000,000,000 a year, and subsidies to consumers are $675,000,000,000. The subsidies are like crack cocaine – the addiction is extremely difficult to treat.
10. Disinformation. The fossil fuel industry lavishly funds global warming deniers and skeptics – the "lavish" funding is chump change in view of current profits.
If we follow the path we are on, the path of no cutting back on emissions, and in fact the path of continued increases in the rate of increase of emissions, our civilization will very possibly collapse.


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Dear Pharmacist: What do you think about fish oil being linked to prostate cancer? I used to take it everyday but stopped after hearing about it in the news. Do you still recommend it? — L.D., Miami, Fla.
Answer: My opinion is that headlines which suggest fish oils raise risk for prostate cancer are nonsense. Some people cannot even think their way around this and have given up fish oils despite scientifically sound literature that, if printed, could fill a football stadium.
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It may be a sub-folder problem. Various threads suggest that it is email accounts that have a long list of subfolders under the inbox. I cant confirm that all 16-odd have the problem but I have checked three and they definitely do.
Info is here:
Inbox's sub folders are not migrated with IMAP migration tool - Email and calendar - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community
and here:
IMAP migration fails - Email and calendar - Office 365 - Microsoft Office 365 Community
this may well be why SWGfL stopped offering the service?
Now what :(
I have just checked a successful migration and this particular user has so many folders that they run off the page (has she never thought about saving them ELSEWHERE!) so I'm not even sure that this is the issue
With a connected account emails will be pulled in until the easymail server is no longer available.
Perhaps that will work better than the migration would have to test perhaps using one of the failures?
By golly @witch - those two schools get some added value with you don't they. I hope that they let you claim all the overtime you give them.
Now for the oft expected numpty question from me! You mention saving messages from UnEasymail to other than the folders provided - I'd love to know how to do that myself - especially as my Bursar now has fast approaching 2GB in her folders; that come migration time if I lost any of them I'd be hugely in the deep, deep, doo da!!
For users where you have this sort of issue I think you may have to get them an outlook client licence to enable a local copy to be made.
did I? Where!
It seems to be saying that the default folders are ok but the issue is if you have lots of folders you have created
Tomorrow I will follow @plexer's instructions and try and do the connected account thing to see if that works. If it does, then I might go down that route as there aren't TOO many to do.
Ahh - I see, I thought you meant in another sort of Easymail folder.
I was thinking of getting them to use Outlook - at least the emails will be saved on their own machines - but where? It cant be in their profile so I would have to make sure that it was saved somewhere that will be synced. But if we are going to office 365 then that is all moot. @plexer If I am going to try the connected account thing - presumably I need to take the account I am going to try out of the migration. At the moment all the accounts are still there, both failed and working.
Will doing it that way pull in ALL the emails in the account
It should show them the same structure as already in easymail. They should then be able to drag the mail between accounts in a similar fashion to the migration (just not automatically)
I removed one of the accounts that failed to migrate from the migration list
I logged on to Office 365 as that user
I followed the instructions to connect an account very very carefully. I have received an error message stating that a test connection to that account wasn't successful. Either the email address or password is incorrect
But it isn't
I have just logged on to the user's Easymail account with the same details successfully. And also started the connection wizard again, with the same result.
I am at a loss now as to what to do, @Boredguy @plexer
Also - reading around the subject - the connection only downloads new emails so it wouldnt migrate all their old emails?
Have you tried to connect the 2 accounts via outlook? It's very strange if 365 can not see those few accounts.
We dont use Outlook. I don't know how to do that. I wouldnt be able to change someone else's email account anyway


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6-Year-Old Sends Brandon Jacobs $3.36 So He Can Stay With Giants
When a six-year-old, die-hard Giants fan from New York named Joe learned that his favorite player Brandon Jacobs wouldn't be returning to the Giants due to the team's inability to afford him, he did the only thing he knew to do.
Schuster: Why, Oh Why, Was Rose In The Game?
As I sit here at the Bulls practice facility I can't help but think back to the aftermath of yesterday's playoff game vs. Philadelphia.
Schuster: Injured Rose Fighting To Stay Positive
Derrick Rose had led a charmed life regarding injuries up until this season.
Schuster: Hamilton Will Be Out 'Awhile'
If you think you're frustrated with Richard Hamilton being so injured this season, you should know it's nothing compared to his frustration.
Schuster: Team Chemistry Vital To Success
Chemistry and camaraderie are extremely important to winning in baseball, if you believe most players.
Schuster: Cubs Yearning For Spring Training Games To Start
Over the years, teams that have gone on to win the World Series have had poor records during the spring and vice versa, so is winning important in exhibition play?
Schuster: Sale 'More Comfortable' In Starter Role
Unlike other pitchers who ease into throwing harder and harder as Spring Training develops, Chris Sale looks to be in mid-season form.
Schuster: Konerko Admits Ozzie Drama Cost White Sox Wins
Paul Konerko confirmed Tuesday that internal strife doomed the White Sox last season.
Schuster: Rizzo Fun To Watch, But Likely To Start Season In Iowa
Rizzo was especially fun to watch as he put four straight over the wall including one over the 50-foot barrier in center that traveled an estimated 500 feet.
Schuster: Williams Balances Winning Now, Rebuilding
All baseball executives are trying – or hoping – to win for now, but they also have to look at the future. The Cubs and White Sox are no different.
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Schuster: Samardzija Will Get Shot To Start
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Schuster: Thibodeau Not Being Smart With Rose's Injuries
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If print on demand became widespread, publishers could cut their fixed costs and solve the perennial problem of stores returning unsold books. But that would throw into doubt almost everything else about the way big publishers conduct business, since they're compensated based on the range of services they provide, from editorial guidance to storage and distribution. Print-on-demand technology would make it harder for the publishers to justify keeping a large majority of a book's wholesale price.
This statement appeared in a Business Week article about Amazon's challenge to mainstream publishing and the role of print-on-demand (POD) in that strategy. While it has the breezy know-it-all tone of the business press, I don't find their analysis of why big publishers aren't doing POD to be compelling. I don't have the numbers myself, but to make their case, they would have to do something like compare publisher profits to the number of books they remainder or destroy from big print runs. Otherwise, the story just comes off as what it is: empty, tech-fetishizing cheerleading for Amazon.
In any case, it misses the much larger elephant in the room, focusing only on the production of commodities rather than the production of the means of production of commodities. In other words, the article focuses solely on the circulation of printed books rather than the extensive process necessary for a printed book to enter circulation - including but not limited to the very large machines that make it possible to sell books at wholesale prices and still make a profit. I don't know much about these machines, I admit, but part of what annoys me about the article is that it doesn't provide any comparison between the productivity of the machines used in POD and that of traditional presses. Instead it opts for looking at POD as the cure for all that ails mainstream publishing - a cure they are refusing to take because it would threaten their power. This may be true in some way, but it may also be true that the POD option isn't economical for mainstream publishing in the first place.
I think it is far more likely that big publishers don't want to use POD because, on the one hand, the machines they use are likely far more efficient at printing large runs and; on the other hand, they have invested a lot in these machines and the distribution network that makes them profitable. Big publishers don't want to make a switch to small batch, POD publishing because they are, by definition, big publishers.
In general, POD puzzles me. It enters the debate about the future of publishing in an odd place. Most people gunning for innovation in book publishing focus their energy on digital only, e-books and other e-reading platforms that will replace the printed codex as the dominant delivery mechanism for long form content. POD seems to say all that is true, but people will likely continue to want printed books for whatever reason so we should still have a way to print books. And for small runs or books that have a really small and/or dispersed market, it makes a lot of sense. For the next Stephen King pulp title, not so much.
I've never seen any analysis about publishing that says their biggest overhead is in overprinting, warehousing, and distribution, but if these were the primary problems (or if the current solutions weren't working) I can't imagine they wouldn't be doing more about it. On the other hand, the article itself opens by noting that Amazon remains pretty invested in the warehousing and distribution of books. In this sense, POD appears less as a model of efficiency than as one of Amazon's strategies for distributing "the long tail." It is unlikely, for instance, for it to be efficient for Amazon to do POD for big bestsellers that would require huge print runs in a limited amount of time.
I'm a little fuzzy on the larger scale POD operations mentioned in the article CreateSpace is an Amazon affiliate that will distribute independent authors' via Kindle or POD print books. It also aids indie musicians and moviemakers in online distribution via Amazon. Lightning Source specializes in printing small runs of books for small presses, and appears to have some of the enormous presses that likely sit in the warehouses of major publishers. In each of these cases, the POD is only part of the bargain. They also help some with marketing (i.e. it appears on Amazon's webpage), distribution, and in some cases design. As major publishers would also point out, they don't offer anything in the way of editorial guidance or real direct marketing to bookstores or libraries, but they are still rather large scale and "full service" as publishing operations.
This is especially true when the article put these in the same category as the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), which is the perennial hero of POD stories. It was launched almost a decade ago, though the actual machine didn't emerge until 2007, when it was named by Time as one of the best inventions of that year. It's is now manufactured (and serviced) by Xerox. They started out at about $50k a pop (according to the Time article above) but now run about $100k. They will produce a book - complete with binding and full cover color - from a digital file in a little under 5 minutes, depending on the size of the book. Video of the machine in action here.
It's impressive as a machine, but has taken a long time to catch on. It had only sold about 30 of the machines by 2009 and it's parent company at the time, On Demand Books, had hoped to sell another 60 that year, with sales boosted by a partnership with Google's public domain book search. According to Rick Anderson, writing last August, there were only 45 machines; other sources claim there are about 70, but the website for the company currently shows it remains under 60. Anderson claims that the low number of titles available through digital vendors limits its uptake, but he also cites a lot of technical problems they've had with the machine at the University of Utah's Marriott Library, where Anderson works. Alongside static electricity problems that the company worked out when Brigham Young University bought one, he mentions that,
It takes about five minutes to print a 300-page book — as long as the machine is warmed up. If it isn't, you've got to let the glue melt, which will take 45 minutes to an hour. [… .] we had issues with balky and leaking ink jets, malfunctioning sensors, and recalcitrant cover feeds, all of which have been fixed or mostly fixed at this point. And we're still waiting for a color text-block printer that will communicate effectively with the machine, despite having been offered that option initially. For now we're still making do with black-and-white (we can print covers in color without any problem)
Many of these bugs will get worked out to some degree the more people adopt them. On the other hand, as anyone with access to an office copier can tell you, machines like these often require a lot of maintenance to keep up with the use. Still, it doesn't make sense to speak about the EBM in the same breath as industrial size initiatives like Lightning Source. And it is hard to see either as viable alternatives to the scale of major printing operations of mainstream publishers. Maybe I'm wrong, but these sound like apples and oranges.
Certainly for some publications, for instance academic monographs, it makes a good deal of sense if it is also paired with digital distribution. Adding currently out of print titles would also be a fantastic gift - as the Utah Library found when they were able to print out a 300 year old German manuscript for a faculty member there. In other words, anything that couldn't be efficiently printed at scale. But almost by definition, none of these are the purview of the major houses Business Week claims are challenged by this model.
While it is just one story, it is of a type in that it looks for disruptive technology as the leading edge of cultural and social change, rather than thinking of it as a part of a total strategy that would make little sense outside of that strategy. At the same time, it ignores far more significant social and cultural disruptions. For instance, is it more important that Amazon offers print on demand or that Amazon offers authors a 70% royalty rate for Kindle books? One could argue that they aren't all that distinct. If an author was reticent about signing onto Amazon's platform for that price - say, for instance, because they also want their book in print - having the print on demand is a nice backup. If your ultimate goal is to get out of the pulp business altogether - and slash those labor costs for warehousing and shipping - then POD is useful to entice more first time authors to the platform. On the other hand, if your business is the pulp business, it hardly makes sense to try retrofitting your infrastructure after the fact.
None of this points to the real disruptions that these emergent models suggest: namely, is there still need for editorial input in the publishing process? And what are the archival and historical consequences of a model like Amazon's POD taking hold? Both of these are questions with widespread implications, ranging from mainstream publishing that is the subject of this article, to scholarly communication, which is under increasing pressure to be open source. Having a big stack of print books may be less and less important for bookstores, libraries, and publishers in the future, but this will not eliminate the extensive human input that goes into creating, curating, and preserving content.
Right now, the argument remains superficially focused on technologies that will likely never catch on completely. It should be focused on instances where Amazon - or other publishers - help to create alternative institutions that fulfill these more essential functions - functions that often cost a lot more than amortize in the short term and often continue to cost money long afterwards. The longer we think about this as a decision to be made by clashing industrial titans instead of broad social questions requiring deliberation and concerted action, the less the answer we get will reflect anything approaching a thoughtful solution for the future.


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S&Man (2006)
S&Man (pronounced Sandman) is a psuedo-documentary following the exploits of writer-director J.T. Petty as he delves into the underground horror scene. Petty starts off the film narrating the story of a local urban legend of a video voyuer in his hometown who was unable to be prosecuted due the victims not wanting to press charges because the videos of them would have to be screened in court. Petty describes his admiration for the voyuer being able to get away with this and wanted to make a documentary about him. This admission, while most likely untrue, sets the tone for the film. Not only that, it indicates the viewer as an accessory for watching this. However, Petty put the cart before the horse and got the funding before his intended subject. The peeper turned down Petty's attempts to film him, so Petty decides to switch gears and focus on another dark territory: fake snuff movies. (more…)
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St. Petersburg, Florida There is nothing in this world sorrier than a grown man crying about the consequences of his own dumbassery. I know we live in the era of "sensitivity" and all that happy horseshit, but come on. If you are fucking up, be a man and take your beating. In Michael Dupree's case, I mean that literally.
Kayla Neighbors Stuns Her Neighbors
By: Deadmyron
Greenwood, In. You know those real cool sites that you can go to with the trick pictures? You may see one thing, but it's something else entirely? Know what I'm talking about? The twenty-three year old woman (yeah 23) pictured above is actually a piece of shit. She gave up all rights to be a human when she slammed her 10 month-old daughter to the pavement, head first, in an apartment parking lot in Greenwood, In. last Thursday. Now you can see the piece of shit can't you? Isn't that amazing? (more…)
Carey Sterling Is Looking for a Flashy Ride
By Lazlo
Missoula, Montana Flashing lights! Sirens! There are few things in this world that are cooler. To this day, anytime I hear the wail of a siren, I stop what I am doing to look around in hopes of catching sight of the emergency apparatus passing by. One brief glimpse is all it takes to make me happy. I volunteered as a Firefighter to be around them. Spent 160+ hours learning to be an EMT and got to drive ambulances. And still, I will stop and look.
That's why I kind of get our silly perp of the day, Carey C. Sterling of Missoula, Montana. She likes flashing lights too. And although her fetish involves those of lesser status (police vehicles), it's obvious to me she has the bug. How else can you explain trying to steal not one, but two of Missoula's Finest's vehicles. (more…)