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Attorney General Pam Bondi said late Thursday that Florida should stop fighting the gay-marriage battle at the state level and wait until the U.S. Supreme Court settles the issue nationally, once and for all.
"Neither this Court nor the Florida Supreme Court can decide this federal issue with finality," Bondi wrote to the state's 3rd District Court of Appeal. "The United States Supreme Court, however, 'has the final word on the United States Constitution.'"
Bondi told the appeals court she expects the U.S. Supreme Court will act soon on the gay marriage issue. She cited filings this week from the states of Utah and Oklahoma asking their gay-marriage cases be heard by the nation's highest court.
"A ruling from the United States Supreme Court would end the constitutional debate, end this appeal, and end all related cases," Bondi wrote. "The State of Florida will respect the United States Supreme Court's final word. In the meantime, this Court should preserve taxpayer and judicial resources by staying briefing until the United States Supreme Court rules."
Lawyers for eight same-sex couples, who last month won the right to marry in Monroe and Miami-Dade counties, say they want the cases heard as soon as possible at the Florida Supreme Court.
"Justice need not be patient," said Miami Beach attorney Elizabeth Schwartz, who co-represents six couples and Equality Florida Institute in the Miami-Dade case. "In my law practice, I see the real-life damage done to same-couples each day because of the failure to allow us to marry or to recognize our out-of-state marriages. For Florida's attorney general to argue that they should continue to wait, asserting both that there is no real urgency and, somehow, the Florida Supreme Court is incapable of resolving the matter statewide is insulting to Floridians and to our judiciary."
Bondi's filing in court came as a response to motions by the eight same-sex couples, whose lawyers want the cases to be consolidated and sent from the appeals court directly to the Florida Supreme Court.
The attorney general agreed to consolidating the cases, but said there is no rush to conclude the Florida cases. Bondi's filings did not mention rulings this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties that also declared Florida's 2008 gay-marriage amendment as unconstitutional.
The appeals court has not said whether it will keep the cases or send them to Florida's Supreme Court.
So far, no same-sex couples have been married in Florida. Rulings by Monroe County Chief Circuit Judge Luis Garcia and Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel have been stayed until the cases are appealed.
Bondi believes the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the issue, perhaps before the Florida cases are resolved.
"If the United States Supreme Court rules before this court does, there will be nothing left for this Court to decide," Bondi wrote.
Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida, disagrees. The ACLU and LGBT-rights group SAVE represent about a dozen same-sex couples in a separate marriage-recognition case in Tallahassee federal court.
"Florida couples and families shouldn't be forced to wait to be treated equally to secure health insurance for a spouse and children, to ensure greater economic security for their families," Simon said. "These families should not suffer just because our attorney general has chosen a legal strategy that has plagued her with awkward and embarrassing media coverage."
Bondi, whose own marital history (she has been divorced twice) has been scrutinized since she began defending Florida's gay-marriage ban, said whichever way the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the Sunshine State will accept the decision.
"Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that States must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall," Bondi wrote. "And if the United States Supreme Court holds that States may choose, then Plaintiffs' contrary legal claims must fall, and it would be up to Florida's voters to effect any change. Either way, this appeal would be over, and it would end without consuming any further taxpayer resources and without burdening Florida's judiciary."
Bernadette Restivo, an attorney for Key West plaintiffs Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones, said there is no guarantee the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gay marriage and that Bondi, who is up for reelection in November, is "more worried about the voters than fundamental rights."
"We've had four very scholarly judicial opinions, all concluding that fundamental rights cannot be put to a vote. Absolutely not," Restivo said. "Her response was so cavalier to the essence of our clients' case. The civil rights that are being addressed go to the very core of our being. To expect our clients and other hundreds of thousands who are similarly situated — to put their lives on hold — is outrageous."


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Dark Red Hair Color chart are bold and bright ,hot copper or shades of dark blonde .Your stylist can put them all through your hair , or smartly to enhance your current haircut and also face shape . The choices are limitless !
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Bidders must register with Diane Hvasta at 609-984-5844 no later than February 24, 2011. Bidders who fail to register prior to the mandatory site visit will not be admitted into the prison the day of the site visit. Note: bidders MUST present picture ID on the day of the mandatory site visit.
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At Brookdale Place at Kenwood, we promise Respect for Individual Preferences and offer personalized care needs in an atmosphere that encourages each resident of our Cincinnati, Ohio-based community to live in health and longevity. Our residents enjoy life with the support they need, coupled with the appropriate assisted living and Alzheimer's care accommodations as those needs change.
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Snowflakes…no two are alike. No two fingerprints, no two people. We're all special snowflakes, right? And no two guitars are exactly alike either. Isn't that what makes your favorite guitar(s) great?
OK, so maybe what makes it great is the bridge pickup, or that it's lightweight, or it stays in tune and the action is perfect. But you could transfer all those features to another guitar, the exact same model, the exact same year, and it would not be the same.
When you think about it like that, it's not suprising that these snowflake-like items stubbornly resist assimilation into a Walmart-like big-box driven retail environment. Guitar Center is having a tough time. Making commodities of musical instruments has not been as clear-cut as they had hoped, and it hasn't been very profitable for Guitar Center and their Bain Capital overlords. The company has seen shrinking profits and a downgraded credit rating since the venture capital company took it over. This article spells it out pretty clearly:
I guess it all comes down to money. (doesn't it always?) The big box model is concerned only with the bottom line, and they make the assumption that the customer is as well. But I don't think that's true. Most players pour their heart and soul into their guitars. Why would you buy an item like that from a place that has no heart and soul?
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Reviewed By Sebastian R (Santa Ana, CA) Reviewed for a 2013 Infiniti QX56 —2/12/2015 8:26 PM
AWESOME bulbs... the interior of my 2013 Infiniti QX56 light up like the White House! AWESOME! Fog light bulbs could be a little brighter, but that's a compliment coming from someone born underneath of a halogen bulb! :) ~Sebastian


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Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage "Native America: Poverty Point" At the time Ramses II was ruling Egypt, Moses was leading the Israelites from bondage and the Phoenicians were trading along the Mediterranean, Native Americans were thriving at Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana. Jon Gibson, an expert on the Poverty Point settlement, introduces us to this unique civilization. David Griffing of Poverty Point explains how these early Americans were ingenious in their "hot rock" cooking and demonstrates how to prepare steamed fish. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Vienna and the Danube" Rick takes in the city's wealth of elegant gardens, great art and fine music. He travels along the Danube River and hikes through the Baroque Melk Abbey.G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Reflexiones I (Reflextions I)" This episode reviews the highlights of Raquel's journey from the time her investigation began to her departure for Puerto Rico.G
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A friend once sent me an email asking how much I helped my sons with their writing assignments.
"They surely sought out and valued your editing skills as they moved through school," she wrote.
I wish! I think because I am an editor my kids were very self-conscious about sharing their work with me. Once they got past elementary school, I rarely saw a writing assignment. It was only begrudgingly that my sons allowed me to look at their college application essays.
My oldest son Andy got all the way to his senior thesis in college before he finally asked for help — and that was only because he wanted his paper squeaky clean and recognized the fatigue factor in catching your own typos and grammatical errors. David managed to get all the way through college — including a thesis of his own — without a single parental eyeball on his written work.
It is so hard to read your own child's writing. They are writing at their developmental level. You are reading at yours. You may know ways to make something "sound better" and you may have great ideas for a smooth transition but really, is that the kind of help you should be offering?
I opted for a hands-off approach. I followed my sons' lead and didn't get involved unless help was requested. I do, however, have some specific suggestions for those of you whose children may be more willing than mine were to ask for your input.
• Bracket areas you think are confusing and add notes like "maybe there's a better way to say this?" or "I'm not sure I understand what you meant here."
• To make suggestions about flow, bracket entire sections and note that "this might go better closer to the top" or "It seems like this section belongs with the point you made about [whatever]."
• Circle typos, grammatical errors and punctuation errors but make your children correct them so they [hopefully!] remember the next time. (My sons consistently made errors with there/their/they're…it drove me crazy!)
Both of my sons managed to become excellent writers without me, so we either lucked into great teachers or they simply got better as they got older. My advice is that you ask your children how much they want you to nitpick. Do they want feedback on whether they have made their point? Whether the flow is logical/easy to follow? Whether particular phrasing is effective? Or do they just want you to look for obvious errors in typing, spelling, grammar and punctuation? Let them set the ground rules.
Beyond that, I think it's much more effective to help your child find a neutral adult with whom they can seek feedback, whether it's a teacher, tutor, family member or friend. I used to read a lot of my friends' kids' college application essays. Criticism is always easier to take from someone who's not your mom.


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Wichita State kept its undefeated season alive on Wednesday night thanks to a 70-55 road win over Illinois State.
The Shockers, ranked No. 5 in the country, trailed by three at the half but put together a dominant second half, which included one of the best dunks of the year, courtesy of Tekele Cotton.
MIDSEASON AWARDS: All-American teams | Best dunks | Best buzzer-beaters
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Tomato plants will be available at the market for 2 or 3 weeks from mid to late May only.
Never before have we had such a wide assortment of vegetable, flowering and herbs plants. We not only sell the ordinary variety of plants but we also sell the unique and not to be found in the garden centers. Plus, you may talk to the person who planted and nurtured the seed to what it is today!! New to our market this year-- wild mushrooms, fiddleheads, wild leeks and orchids (edible and foraged responsibly). Make sure you visit weekly because a variety of cheeses are coming your way, namely goat, cow and sheep. Spinach, greens galore, asparagus and rhubarb and before we know it garden peas. Local hydrophonic greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers from Centreton will be soon at the market. Local honey and maple syrup will sweeten your table as well.


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Ranking the 5 Best Signature Submissions in UFC History
(Farm Boy Strength: No can defense. Photo via Getty.)
In the brief history of the UFC, there have been a handful of submissions so unique, so brilliant, so positively Raven that they became synonymous with the fighters who dared attempt them in the octagon. That a sport as old as jiu-jitsu is still capable of evolving and expanding its techniques is a credit to the dedication and inventiveness of the modern mixed martial artist, and a fact that has led to many a thrilling moment inside the cage.
Recently, UGer Tycho made the painstaking effort of cataloging and graphing every single submission ever executed in the octagon by frequency. Not wanting to let such a thorough and digestible work simply come and go, we decided to focus on the rarest of rarities, the aforementioned "signature" submissions, and rank them according to brutality, ingenuity, and of course, brutality. Enjoy.
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Nigella Lawson's husband Charles Saatchi defends choking pictures, Dr. Oz says Kim Kardashian and Kanye West should "focus" on their premature baby, and Jessica Simpson shows off her big baby bump in a bridesmaid dress: See Us Weekly's top 5 stories from Monday, June 17, in the roundup!
1. Nigella Lawson's Husband Charles Saatchi Defends Choking Photos
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson appeared to be crying and distraught as husband Charles Saatchi grabbed her throat during a tense al fresco lunch nearly two weeks ago at a London restaurant Scott's, as revealed in shocking photos published over the weekend. But art mogul Saatchi, 70, defended himself and dismissed the disturbing photos to the Evening Standard June 17.
2. Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Should "Really Focus" on Their Premature Baby, Says Dr. Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz has some cautionary words for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: He knows first-hand what it's like to have a five-weeks-premature baby — and it's not easy. Far from it, in fact. The host of The Dr. Oz Show spoke to Us Weekly at the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 16 in Beverly Hills about his thoughts on the new parents' pre-term baby girl.
3. Jessica Simpson Shows Big Baby Bump as Bridesmaid at Friend's Wedding
Jessica Simpson walked down the aisle this weekend — but she wasn't the one saying "I do" at the end of it. The pregnant Fashion Star mentor, 32, was a bridesmaid in pal Kathryn Syroka's wedding to Chris Hetherington in San Diego, Calif., on Saturday, June 15.
4. Reggie Bush Introduces Baby Daughter Briseis in Instagram Photo
Kim Kardashian's just-born daughter isn't quite ready for her closeup — but her ex Reggie Bush's baby girl Briseis is! The Detroit Lions running back and fiancee Lilit Avagyan welcomed their first child on May 6, and Briseis made her photo debut in an adorable Father's Day Instagram photo with her famous father.
5. Beyonce Congratulates Kim Kardashian, Kanye West on Baby's Birth: "Enjoy This Beautiful Moment"
Time to schedule a baby Kimye and Blue Ivy playdate! The birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's first child has spurred a big public congratulations from their superstar friend, Beyonce. Jay-Z's wife wrote a special post on Tumblr Monday, June 17 to the new parents, who welcomed a baby girl on June 15.
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Acid Rain Lesson Plan
- The goal of this lesson plan is to introduce the grade school student to the topic of acid rain and its relevance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- Five lessons are included, each building upon the previous one.
- There are many high quality environmental education kits on the market concerning acid rain. Teachers are encouraged to use them.
- This lesson plan was prepared by the staff of the Uplands Field Research Laboratory and is intended to provide information to the public on current research.


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The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office is pleased to promote a new funding opportunity for prospective applicants for the ALA/NEH Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys program. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Institute of International Education (IIE) have launched a new public education initiative entitled, "U.S. Institute of Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support." The ALA Public Programs Office encourages Bridging Cultures Bookshelf applicants to apply for USIP Public Education for Peacebuilding Support, in order to secure matching funds for lectures, panel discussions, forums and other public events that highlight the Muslim Journeys theme and collection materials, while addressing the goals of the USIP Peacebuilding initiative.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The life and times of the late rocker Lou Reed will be detailed in a biography that will be penned by Rolling Stone magazine writer Will Hermes, publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux said on Wednesday.
Reed, the frontman of the 1960s influential band The Velvet Underground, died of liver disease last October at the age of 71, months after receiving a liver transplant.
"Over six decades, the sound of Lou Reed's voice defined everything that's smart and streetwise about New York City, while his songs set the standard for what can happen when popular music takes artistic risks," said Alex Star, senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
"His influence is everywhere, but the full story of his life remains to be told," he added in an email.
The book is tentatively titled "Lou: A New York Life." No publication date has been set, but a spokesman said it is about two to three years away.
The Brooklyn-born Reed, whose solo songs include "Walk on the Wild Side," and "Perfect Day," formed The Velvet Underground with musician John Cale as an experiment in avant-garde rock. The group was managed early on by pop artist Andy Warhol, who spotted them after they performed in New York clubs.
Reed was considered by many to be a godfather of the punk rock movement that emerged in the 1960s and has been widely credited with expanding the lexicon of rock music with provocative lyrics that chronicled androgyny, illicit sex and drug abuse.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Hermes's previous book, "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire," about the New York music scene in the 1970s.
"It seems like a completely natural evolution from his last book," a spokesman for the publisher said about Hermes. "He is going to cast his net as broadly as possible in terms of who he talks to."
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Lately I've been wondering, wearing my historian's hat, what changes in technology have meant to people for the past few thousand years. No, I'm not off my head, though sometimes I do wonder if indeed I am whilst in my day time, cubicle-bound state. Lately I have jumped headlong into the world of e-books by attempting to convert the original Word.doc manuscript of CHILDREN OF APOLLO to e-book format for release on Amazon, the iBookstore, Sony store etc. etc. I shall plug and promote shamelessly in later posts.
To my great surprise, making my work available in e-format is not just a matter of going to the appropriate site and uploading my lovingly crafted, nicely honed manuscript as is. I did try that and the whole thing blew up in my face, one big formatting disaster with font sizes changed on an ad hoc basis, several blank pages where there should be none and several other headaches for which no over-the-counter drugs provide any form of relief. In the online communities, there are discussion groups, or rather therapy groups, on just this topic. I found myself in the chat room with other green hopefuls being given various bits of helpful advice from veterans of the formatting war. The campaign from paper to pixels can be a frustrating affair.
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So what have changes in method or technology done to the artistically inclined of history? I laugh at the thought of someone in the
, circa 400 B.C. complaining to his teacher that the Iliad and the Odyssey were just too long to memorize. "Well then, my dear block head," said the teacher, " you had better set it down in stone." But then, wouldn't the finely chiselled stones be too heavy to carry about, or read from an odd angle? Maybe another student received a visit from a merchant uncle of Academy of Athens who brought some rolls of papyrus and the student thought, "Now these are much more portable! I shall set down the works of the poet here." Little did he know that if papyrus got too wet it would not last, depending on the quality of the papyrus of course. Alexandria
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Flash forward to ancient
. Ah, yes. The quality of papyrus scrolls improved a great deal with the annexation of Rome and the subsequent drop in prices of Egyptian products. Wax tablets became popular, they were portable, waterproof and reusable. But how many would you need to carry about the works of Homer? Perhaps they had abridged versions at that point, 'SPQR Notes' or something of the sort. Oral tradition, mind you, is still going strong in the Celtic lands of western and north-western Egypt Europe, bards still recite lengthy works from memory. But we must set things down for posterity!
Enter the Middle Ages and vellum as well as improved parchment. Hunchbacked monks are copying everything down and basically saving western civilization from being forgotten. They are also adding to the reading enjoyment of those who could afford books by illuminating them in brilliant colours and gold leaf. What a joy it must have been to caress the pages of an illuminated edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth, or the Roman de Brut.
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Books, the format of varying qualities and thicknesses of paper bound together within the protective folds of a cover, have lasted for hundreds of years.
Now, it seems that we are moving away from that.
Everywhere you go, you see more people reading, gaming or texting etc. on some kind of mobile device or iPad. There are still quite a few who brave crowded subway cars with thick tomes of textured paper. But there are more and more e-readers out there now, more and more people 'flipping' through their e-ink pages. Some even say, 'Books are dead'.
But are they? Are paper books well and truly, dying?
I don't think so. A few weeks ago, before learning about formatting text for e-books, I would have through that yes, at the back of my mind, paper books are fading into the mists of time. I don't think so now. Here's why…
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A paper book and an e-book both provide very different reading experiences. With a paperback, for instance, you can change up the fonts a bit, choose your quality of paper and have a flashy back cover. One thing that I have found out is that there is not a lot of elbow room to mix up the fonts in e-book format. Even though you should not have more than three different fonts at most, it is still nice to be able to have your title or chapter headings in a different font. For the paperback version of CHILDREN OF APOLLO, I chose a font that looked a bit more ancient than what I have for the text. It adds a nice touch along with bits of Latin. When I converted the files the font wasn't recognized and it all became uniform.
A friend of mine who just received an e-reader and loves it noted that it is not the same as reading a paper book because you don't have the sense of being able to flip back to previous scenes or a map as easily in order to refresh your memory.. I know I refer back to maps and glossaries etc. if they are there. E-readers do allow you to bookmark pages but then you have the fiddly thing of going through a menu to get there. It is a strange thing but with an e-book, there is not such thing as page numbers. Because readers can change the font size to whatever they wish, the amount of text on a page is variable. If there was a book club the members of which all had e-readers, how would they refer to particular events and go back to those events in discussion? How could they possibly be (sorry about this) on the same page? Might be an issue for some.
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I could go on about little things for and against both formats but, either way, I don't think it really matters which format one prefers. Both are readily available now, and both have their uses. I like both and though e-books seem to be making headway, it seems that paper books are still in the game.
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Justin Timberlake has made his career off of being repetitive. This recurring tendency in his songs dates back to his earliest days as a teen sensation when tearing up N'SYNC fans' hearts with earworm hooks. He's continued this habit well into his solo career. Along the way, he's told an ex to cry a river, brought sexy back, and implored that his love not be given away. It's never once or twice, but rather dozens of times or more, just to make sure he's been heard. And to a degree, it works. The former boy wonder turned Top 40 savant is up to his old tricks on his latest record, The 20/20 Experience. We brought out the abacus and went deep on the album, logging each word or phrase said ten times or more. (Two songs — "Spaceship Coupe" and "Blue Ocean Floor" — are fairly repetition free.)


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With Blizzard's annual convention Blizzcon kicking off today, we knew we'd be getting a plethora of gaming goodness thrown our way today, and many were hoping for some detailed information on Starcraft II's upcoming expansion, Heart of the Swarm. Blizzard certainly didn't disappoint, showing a 2+ minute trailer mixing cinematics and actual gameplay, which you can watch below. The trailer is truly epic, but the real juicy part came with the unveil of the new units, some of which you can see in the trailer. PC Gamer compiled a list of the new units, along with which units from the first game have gotten the axe.
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The Terran get two new units and one modified unit. The Shredder can only attack when it enters stationary mode, where it channels area-effect damage to both air and ground units, automatically shutting off if a friendly unit enters the vicinity. The Warhound is a small, walking ground mech that is highly effective against air, but also contains a ground attack weapon that does additional damage to mechanical units. Lastly, the Thor gets a complete overhaul, becoming much more massive. You can now only have one Thor at a time and it no longer has anti-air weaponry, instead having a new bombardment ability that does a huge amount of damage to a wide swath of ground.
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The End of Stationarity
Searching for the New Normal in the Age of Carbon Shock
Scientists have devised a new term to explain the turmoil caused by climate change: the end of stationarity. It means that our baselines for rainfall, water flow, temperature, and extreme weather are no longer relevant—that making predictions based on past experience is no longer possible. But climate change has upended baselines in the financial world, too, disrupting the global economy in ways that are just becoming clear, leaving us unable to assess risk, and causing us to fundamentally re-think economic priorities and existing business models.
At the heart of that financial unrest is the role of carbon, and as the world moves toward making more and more polluters pay to emit it, a financial mystery unfolds: What are the costs? Who has the responsibility to pay for them? Who do you pay? How do you pay? And how will those costs ripple through the economy?
These are the questions veteran journalist Mark Schapiro attempts to answer as he illuminates the struggle to pinpoint carbon's true costs and allocate them fairly–all while bumping up against the vagaries of the free market, the lobbying power of corporations, the political maneuverings of countries, and the tolerance of everyday consumers buying a cup of coffee, a tank of gas, or an airplane ticket.
Along the way, Schapiro tracks the cost of carbon through the drought-ridden farmland of California, the jungles of Brazil, the world's greatest manufacturing center in China, the carbon-trading center of Europe, and the high-tech crime world that carbon markets have inspired. He even tracks the cost of carbon through the skies themselves, where efforts to put a price tag on the carbon left by airplanes in the no-man's land of the atmosphere created what amounted to a quiet but powerful global trade war.
The End of Stationarity deftly depicts the wild, new carbon economy, and shows us how nations, emerging and developed, teeter on its brink. Originally published in hardcover as Carbon Shock, the book is updated throughout and includes a new afterword, based on the Paris climate talks.
Reviews and Praise
Choice, winner, Outstanding Academic Title 2015-
"This is a very important book about a subject of urgent importance. Through descriptions of personal encounters with people who are trying to cope with climate change, as well as those who are producing climate change, veteran journalist Schapiro offers readers a tour through the various sources of carbon dioxide releases and the world of those who are negatively impacted by the costs of carbon emissions. These range from the obvious sources, such as a coal-fired operation for producing electricity, to farmers who are trying to cope with climate change even while they are creating climate change by plowing the soil—which releases stored-up carbon dioxide—or by applying artificial fertilizer, which releases even more destructive gases. Despite the grim prospects, Schapiro manages to convey the importance of taking actions to mitigate climate change without losing readers by inserting only dire warnings. Instead, he produces a very readable book that includes important, but often unfamiliar, scientific information. No other book manages to do what Schapiro has accomplished in terms of its combined traits; by providing both critique and solutions, he offers a readable narrative, useful information, and dire warnings—all without being weighed down by a writer's negativity. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers."
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Foreword Reviews-
"The costs of climate change are often talked about in terms of the loss of human life and environmental degradation, but the unprecedented amount of carbon in the atmosphere also has massive implications for the world economy. And when it comes to large companies that pollute and the governments that have the responsibility to regulate them, economic factors like those Mark Schapiro documents in The End of Stationarity shouldn't be overlooked. A journalist with a strong track record on the subject matter, Schapiro takes an in-depth look at this specific aspect of climate change. He does an excellent job of explaining a complicated web of interconnected economic impacts, from the way carbon offsets and credits function to how commodities from food to finance to fuel are already being affected, and how some businesses are trying to limit their risk. (…) Perhaps the strongest part of the book is Schapiro's thorough coverage of the cap-and-trade approach, as he documents the history of carbon exchanges and clearly lays out the pros and cons of a system where industries buy the right to further pollute, and where the same challenges of any commodities market—from theft to artificial price manipulation—apply. Schapiro explains these economic issues in an accessible way, shows approaches with varying degrees of success, and adds to the evidence that numerous industries will soon have to reckon with how best to pay monetary costs as well as environmental ones."
Publishers Weekly-
"In this thought-provoking work, journalist Schapiro (Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products) tackles the question: 'What are the costs of climate change?' In search of an answer, he embarks on a multi-year investigation that sends him across the globe. To humanize the issue, Schapiro traces the carbon footprint he leaves through such trips as a flight to Siberia, visits to the biggest commercial nursery west of the Mississippi and to Manchester (England's former textiles center), and a tour of Guangzhou, 'one of the top ten carbon-emitting provinces in a country that is itself the leading emitter.' One of the most affecting chapters recounts how an oil spill from the tanker Prestige along the coast of Galicia in 2002 devastated a nearby town's economy and cost billions in cleanup expenses. Along the way, Schapiro assesses the response from multinational corporations and governments, asserting that they don't sufficiently quantify these costs–or worse, hide them, with the help of compromised auditors. While not a deeply scientific or academic examination, Schapiro's tough look at how our current habits of consumption will cost us down the road, combined with his hard-hitting, journalistic style, makes for a dramatic read."
Library Journal-
"Journalist Schapiro (Exposed) offers a highly readable explanation of the impacts of climate change on everyday life and of public policies that attempt to embed costs associated with carbon emissions into prices, including cap-and-trade and carbon taxes. His argument for such policies is economic rather than moralistic, based on a straightforward application of the economic concept of externalized costs. Where Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth made a strong case for action against climate change, Schapiro's focus is on the practicalities of placing a price on carbon. His account of the vulnerabilities of carbon markets to fraud and manipulation is especially compelling. However, more insight into the factors that determine whether the costs of such policies fall on producers or consumers would have strengthened the book's final chapter. While Schapiro is writing from a U.S. perspective, his points are drawn from a wide range of global examples of both climate change impacts and environmental policies. VERDICT Recommended for readers interested in a nontechnical introduction to the rationale for, and some of the likely consequences of, economic approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
Kirkus Reviews-
"Environmental journalist Schapiro (Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power, 2007) investigates the costs of our greenhouse-gas binge from new economic angles and new axes of geopolitical power. 'We can no longer rely on past events to predict future probabilities,' writes the author. 'The ground is shifting beneath our feet.' Schapiro explores the many costs of climate change: heat waves, lower rainfall in dry areas, torrential rain in wet areas, floods, refugees, public health impacts as diseases once limited to the tropics move north and south. 'Follow all those many circuits of production, follow the trails of greenhouse gasses rising into the atmosphere, and you will ultimately land upon each of us,' he writes, 'making our choices about what we consume and from where.' This is not breaking new ground, but Schapiro is particularly sharp in pointing to the elephant in the room, and not just because it is producing a great deal of methane. The costs of climate change are borne by the commons in the form of such practices as federally guaranteed insurance coverage, but most egregiously, the 'emitters of greenhouses gases get a free ride [in the U.S.]....This is known as asymmetric risk, a fine term of the financial arts that means that the public bears the risks while fossil fuels users earn the profits.' Schapiro covers a good number of projects to cut down on emissions (such as buying forests to sequester carbon dioxide, then selling that use to polluters), though we will all have to pay for pulling in the greenhouse reins, especially through the use of taxes as punitive disincentives to fossil fuel abuse and as a way to fund research into alternative energy sources. In this finely tuned study, Schapiro has some good news: Even the most fitful international negotiations admit that greenhouse gases come with a cost that must be paid."
"Can keepers of the fossil flames ever be persuaded that we're all imperiled if we don't de-carbonize? Is it delusional to imagine building monetary bridges to a cleaner future, so that civilization – at least the civil parts of it, including everyone's job – might survive if we did? Is any government actually still in charge, as we face what's surely humanity's greatest challenge? We can be grateful that Mark Schapiro has navigated some dreaded territory – the arcana of global finance – to show with blessed clarity exactly where we are so far, what's failed and why, what might work, and where surprising hope lies."--Alan Weisman, author of Gaviotas, The World Without Us, and Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
"With his skill as a writer and long experience as an investigative reporter, Mark Schapiro brings alive some unexpected angles of the most important story of our time. I thought I knew the basics of carbon and climate change, but reading this lively and intriguing book made me aware of much I didn't know—both fascinating and disturbing."--Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars
"In his powerful new book The End of Stationarity, Mark Schapiro transcends standard discussions about the well-known culprits and ramifications of climate change and takes us on a harrowing, international exploration of the universal economic costs of carbon emissions. In his path-breaking treatise, Schapiro exposes the multinational corporate obfuscation of these costs; the folly of localized pseudo-solutions that spur Wall Street trading but don't quantify financial costs or public risks, solve core problems, or provide socially cheaper and environmentally sounder practices; and the laggard policies of the US, Russia and China relative to the EU in fashioning longer-term remedies. Not only does Schapiro compel the case for a global effort to thwart the joint economic and environmental plundering of our planet in this formidable book, but he expertly outlines the way to get there."--Nomi Prins, author of All the Presidents' Bankers and It Takes a Pillage
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Shirley Coen, 99
Shirley D. Coen, 99, formerly of Arnold, passed away Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, at the Elwood Care Center in Elwood. Shirley was born July 7, 1914, at Gandy, to Moses Lane and Jeanette Maud (Roberson) Adams. She attended the Logan County High School. March 16, 1958, she and Lee Coen were united in marriage at Hershey. They moved to the family farm between Gandy and Arnold. When they retired they moved to Arnold. Shirley especially enjoyed the times family and friends were guests at their home and their 40th and 50th anniversaries. She was very active in the senior center where she delivered meals on wheels and fixed many Thanksgiving dinners for those who did not have family. Shirley loved playing cards, especially when she won! When she was younger, she loved singing with her sister and friends. Shirley was a life-long member of the United Methodist Church. Survivors include her sister, Helen Figuski; nephews, Preston (Cheryl) Adams, Milo (Sue) Adams, Donzel (Sandy) Adams, Jim Adams, Bud Ricketts; nieces, Lynn (Bob) Bauchnan, Euphema Clark, Norene (Ted) Alles, Lois (Allen) Beyer; many great-nieces and nephews, special friends and caretakers, Renee Zikmund and Jewel Shea. Shirley was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lee; infant son; brothers, Ronald, Richard, Marshall and Gordan Adams; sisters, Edythe Barker, Bassie Ricketts and Audrey McClinti. Shirley will be remembered for her great faith and love of The Lord, her sweet and loving personality and ability to make everyone feel special. Services will be Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Arnold, with Pastor Andrew Black officiating. Burial will follow in the Arnold Cemetery. Memorials may go to the Arnold Methodist Church or the Arnold Cemetery. Arnold Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Published in Custer County Chief, Feb. 27, 2014


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With all the Motorola Moto X news that we pushed out yesterday, one of the device's most astounding features didn't get much attention: its size. Technically, the Moto X is a mid-range Android phone that carries a price comparable to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One. Tech enthusiasts may find that a bit off-putting, but we suggest you take a look at a few numbers before you completely write off Motorola's new device.
Like the HTC One, the Motorola Moto X features a 4.7-inch display, but there is a huge disparity in size between the two phones. The Moto X is about 1mm thicker than the HTC One, but it's a good 8mm shorter and 3mm less wide. Comparing the Moto X to the HTC One may not be a fair comparison, because HTC's device sports front-facing speakers above and below its display. But the size of the X becomes even more apparent when it's lined up against the HTC One mini, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the S4 mini. Motorola has found a way to cram a 4.7-inch display into a chassis that's smaller than the HTC One mini.
If Motorola does release a cheaper version of the Moto X, we can assume it'll come with a smaller display and an even smaller chassis. A smaller Moto X with the same design and a 4.3-inch display would out-mini the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Moto X may not have a fancy new processor, but Motorola has managed to create an incredible looking phone with decent specs and a highly customizable experience that is substantially smaller than devices with similarly sized displays. In a perfect world, the phone's price would be a bit lower, but we honestly think the Moto X will be a hugely popular phone for the second half of 2013.


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The Chicago Fire U-18 squad continued their dominance of the USSFDA'S Mid-America Division, downing local side Chicago Sockers 4-0 on Saturday afternoon at Nike Field in Naperville.
The U-18s were bolstered by first half strikes from Jeff Farina (28th), Collin Fernandez (33rd) and Shannon Seymour (42nd) to take a 3-0 lead into the break.
Having assisted on Fernandez' strike and scored one of his own before halftime, Seymour earned a brace on the other side of the break, tallying from close range in the 66th minute to close out the 4-0 win.
The win pushes the Fire U-18s to 13-1-4 on the 2013/14 USSFDA season and has the side sixth nationwide at the moment.
The Chicago Fire U-16s continued to show improved form, coming back from a 1-0 deficit to defeat the Sockers 2-1 in Saturday's second game.
After Adrian Herrera put the home side up 1-0 just before halftime, the Fire's Ben Rhoder chipped in a goal at the back post to level the score in the 42nd minute.
Just before the final whistle, substitute Ron Smith got onto the end of a ball that was flicked over the top by Rogioberto Rojas before poking his effort past the 'keeper to earn the Fire a 2-1 victory.
The win moves the Fire U-16s to an improved 5-8-5 in the Mid-America Division.
An undermanned Chicago Fire U-14 side dropped their first decision of the season 1-0 to the Sockers on Sunday.
The team was without David Portugal who was away with the U-15 U.S. Boy's National Team as well as both starting wingers Brayden Callipari, David Gorniak and starting 'keeper Raymon Rosas who was injured in pre-game warm-ups.
The Chicago Fire Academy returns to action on Saturday, April 12 when they take on their sister club, the Indiana Fire Academy in Indianapolis.


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Alexander Rodchenko
Russian, 1891–1956
Female Athletes, c. 1927
silver print on paper
9.6 x 14.2 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from The Winnipeg Foundation
The Russian Constructivist artist Alexander Rodchenko worked as a decorator, furniture and theatre designer, printer, painter, sculptor, as well as a photographer. He was the co-author of the first Constructivist manifesto in 1921. He and his fellow artists argued that labour, technology, and organization were creative activities and, instead of creating "useless" paintings and sculpture, they produced "useful" art such as industrial designs, posters, logos, and photographs. In the early 1920s Rodchenko acquired his first camera, and photography soon became his preferred medium. Many of his photographs, particularly those of athletes and workers, highlight the artist's interest in movement and symbolism. The WAG image celebrates the strength and power of youth, a highly charged political propagandist symbol.
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Ted Talk: We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent resistance to people living under tyranny -- and there's a lot more to it than street protests. She shares encouraging examples of creative strategies that have led to change around the world and a message of hope for a future without armed conflict. "The greatest hope for humanity lies not in condemning violence but in making violence obsolete," Raqib says.
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Remember when TV had a 12-channel dial and only three channels?
April 26, 2013
Remember when TV used to sign off for the night? No infomercials, no reruns, no experimental public-access foolishness — nothing at all but snow. Or, if you were lucky, a test pattern. Try explaining a test pattern to someone who's never seen one. It's like getting "tube tester" as your word in charades. "Two words, sounds like, oh, I give up."
Here's a little experiment: Tell your grandchildren that after midnight, every night, all three channels used to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" and then go off the air for six or seven hours. See if they believe you or if they think you're pulling their leg.
"Three channels? You're just funning me. You mean 300, right? You're talking about back in the Olden Days when you guys only had 300 channels to pick from. It must have been miserable."
Will they believe you if you tell them there was a time when, if you wanted to change the channel, you actually had to get out of your chair, walk to the TV set and turn the channel knob? You didn't watch three seconds of one show and then click around the dial to see what else was on. You'd watch the same station for a half-hour. Why the channel dial had 12 numbers on it was always a mystery. Would there ever be 12 channels? Who could ever watch so much television? You'd have to be glued to the sofa. When would you have time to go bowling or go to the movies? You'd have no time to play; you'd never see your friends. You'd have to do nothing but sit in front of the TV all day long. You'd be isolated and unhappy.
Will youngsters believe you when you tell them that you had to wait for the set to warm up? That you had to get up from the sofa once again to adjust your horizontal and vertical settings to keep that thick black bar from scrolling up and down the screen? Adjusting the antenna might help — but by the time you got it just right, the show would be half over.
Will they believe you when you tell them about television repair shops? Repair a TV? Why? You just throw it out and get a new one. And why wait for it to break? Let's just get a newer, bigger, better one right now.
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Will they believe you when you tell them the idea of having two TV sets in one house would never have occurred to most people? Having one was a huge luxury; who in the world could afford two of them? It'd be like having more than one phone. What on earth for? We're all going to watch the same show, anyway. The sofa majority rules. If four people wanted to watch Ed Sullivan and two wanted to watch "Wagon Train," you'd watch Ed Sullivan. Maybe every couple of weeks you'd let the losers watch what they wanted on the giant 15-inch TV.
The TV screen itself wasn't giant, mind you, but the console it came in sure was. It was 12 feet long and weighed a couple of tons. It'd take the delivery men three hours to get it into the house. It had a radio, a record player (we're back to charades again), a storage bin for records, a bar and a TV, and it matched our Colonial furniture so it wouldn't shock the Founding Fathers if they ever showed up to watch "The Beverly Hillbillies."
It was great until something went wrong. Then the whole thing would have to go to the shop and the delivery men were nowhere to be found. It'd take the whole family to stuff the monster into a borrowed station wagon and lug it down to the shop where they would keep it for a week. A week without television? Suddenly that second TV didn't seem like such a bad idea. And the shop was full of new and better ones. There was talk of color TV. We can always put the old one down in the rec room when it comes back.
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UCR's Financial System (UCRFS) and the campus purchasing system (eBuy) are being upgraded as part of a continuing effort to implement a New Business Architecture (NBA) at UCR. For more information click on cnc.cmsdev.ucr.edu/nba.
Highlights of the upgraded systems are as follows:
- UCRFS and eBuy are web based and thus accessible anytime, anywhere, anyplace
- UCRFS and eBuy are integrated with iViews and are single sign-on enabled
- UCRFS and eBuy are integrated with EACS allowing departmental SAA's a single web page to provide system authorization