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Good performance last night but we're only halfway there. Thanks #RSL faithful for coming out last night. See ya in Portland in a fortnight!
Absolute Amazing support last night! #The Riot was at a different level last night.
Talking about Javi Morales and his enormous night at Rio Tinto for #RSL #MLSPlayoffs http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/11/10/real-salt-lake-man-of-the-match-javier-morales-2/ …
RSL's magnificent display was dazzling in its 4-2 win over Portland Sunday night, and dizzying to the Timbers. http://bit.ly/17iMnxp
We raised the bar this week... @OriginalWinger vs @AlexiLalas in the Crossbar Challenge: http://tinyurl.com/lzvpaed
RealSaltLake.com: Highlights: Real Salt Lake vs Portland Timbers | Western Conference Final 1st Leg - November 10, 2013
RealSaltLake.com: RSL vs Portland Timbers, Postgame Press Conference with Jason Kreis - Western Conference Final 1st Leg
RealSaltLake.com: RSL vs Portland Timbers, Postgame Reactions: Javier Morales
RealSaltLake.com: RSL vs Portland Timbers, Postgame Reactions: Robbie Findley
RealSaltLake.com: RSL vs Portland Timbers, Postgame Reactions: Devon Sandoval
ESPN 700: RSL vs Portland Postgame Show 11-10-13
ESPN 700: Ned Grabavoy Postgame 11-10-13
ESPN 700: Sebastian Velasquez Postgame 11-10-13
MLSsoccer.com: 6 things we learned from this weekend | Playoff Central
Real Salt Lake News & Notes
RealSaltLake.com: Playoff Recap: RSL 4-2 Portland Timbers
RealSaltLake.com: Quote Sheet: RSL 4-2 Portland Timbers
MLSsoccer.com: Mindful of their 2011 ambush in Seattle, Real Salt Lake say bunkering won't be an option at Portland
MLSsoccer.com: Be aggressive: Real Salt Lake attack keeps humming against Portland Timbers' "very open" approach
MLSsoccer.com: Armchair Analyst: Three things we learned from Real Salt Lake's smackdown of listless Portland Timbers
MLSsoccer.com: Real Salt Lake 4, Portland Timbers 2 | MLS Cup Playoffs Western Conference Championship Recap
MLSsoccer.com: Futty Danso's error just one ingredient in Portland Timbers' "recipe for disaster" vs. Real Salt Lake
MLSsoccer.com: Late Frederic Piquionne goal infuses Portland Timbers with belief: "We can turn this thing around"
The Salt Lake Tribune: RSL thumps Portland 4-2 in first leg of Western Conference final
The Salt Lake Tribune: RSL takes down Portland 4-2
The Salt Lake Tribune: Kragthorpe: RSL's depth delivers flurry of goals vs. Timbers
The Salt Lake Tribune: RSL notes: Team's first Sunday home game nearly sells out
Deseret News: Timber! RSL chops down Portland 4-2 in fantastic Game 1 performance
Deseret News: Real Salt Lake vs. Portland report card: RSL wins leg 1 of Western Conference Finals
Deseret News: Real Salt Lake notebook: Forward Robbie Findley delivers in a big way against Portland
Deseret News: Brad Rock: RSL owner in 'charitable mood' negotiating with coach Jason Kreis
KSL.com: RSL beats Portland 4-2, takes lead in Western Conference Final series
ABC 4: RSL cuts down Timbers in Western Conference Finals
SI.com: Real Salt Lake dismantles Portland, 4-2, in first leg of MLS Western Conference finals
ESPN FC: Three Thoughts: Real Salt Lake-Portland Timbers
Pro Soccer Talk: What We Learned from Real Salt Lake's dismantling of the Portland Timbers
Pro Soccer Talk: Real Salt Lake Man of the Match: Javier Morales
Pro Soccer Talk: Four-goal night leaves Real Salt Lake up two on Portland after West's first leg
Goal.com: RSL finds Portland's weak link and takes control
Soccer by Ives: RSL roll in first leg but late goal gives Timbers hope
Soccer Wire: Lessons learned from Real Salt Lake 4-2 Portland Timbers
For the Fans, By the Fans
RSL Soapbox: Domineering RSL beat Portland 4-2 in home leg of Western Conference Final
Real Nation: Big Win Over Portland
MLS, Other News & Notes
MLSsoccer.com: Kick Off: Real Salt Lake take a leg up on Portland Timbers in MLS playoffs
MLSsoccer.com: Sporting KC have war wounds to show for physical first leg vs. Houston, welcome more in second
MLSsoccer.com: Running on fumes: Fatigued Houston Dynamo happy to recharge, send series back to Kansas City even
MLSsoccer.com: Report: Tab Ramos gets new deal as United States Under-20 national team coach
MLSsoccer.com: American Exports: Aron Johannsson bags a brace to take tally to 14, but AZ Alkmaar fall out of first place
MLSsoccer.com: American Exports: Tijuana Yanks may have to prove themselves again after coach Jorge Almiron departs
MLSsoccer.com: USMNT: Jurgen Klinsmann calls 23-man roster for upcoming friendlies vs. Scotland, Austria
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43.0501 By publication-Permitted when.Cite as [A.S.C.A. § 43.0501]
When an affidavit is filed that personal service cannot be made upon the defendant within American Samoa, service may be made by publication in any of the following cases:
(1) actions involving real property in American Samoa or any right, title, interest or estate therein, including, without limiting the foregoing, actions brought for:
(A) the sale, recovery or partition of real property;
(B) specific performance of a contract of sale covering real property;
(C) foreclosure under any mortgage, lien or other encumbrance or charge upon real property; or
(D) quieting of title to real property;
(2) an action brought against a nonresident of American Samoa or a foreign corporation, having in American Samoa property or debts owing to such defendant and sought to be appropriated in any way;
(3) all action where the defendant, being a resident of American Samoa, has departed therefrom with intent to delay or defraud his creditors, or to avoid the service of a notice, or keeps himself concealed in American Samoa with like intent;
(4) where the action is for a divorce or annulment, or for a change or modification of a decree of divorce or annulment, if the defendant is a nonresident of American Samoa or his residence is unknown.History: 1962, PL 7-36.
Case Notes:
When personal service cannot be made upon a respondent in a divorce action within American Samoa, a petitioner may apply for an order authorizing issuance of a notice for service by publication, supported by an affidavit or another acceptable, verified statement of nonresidency or unknown residency. A.S.C.A. §§ 43.0501-43.0504; T.C.R.C.P. 4(e). Pula v. Pula, 24 A.S.R.2d 151 (1993).
When a petitioner files an affidavit that personal service cannot be made upon a respondent in a divorce action within American Samoa, due to nonresidency or unknown residency, service of process may be made by publication or registered mailing. A.S.C.A. §§ 43.0501-43.0504; T.C.R.C.P. 4(e), 12(a). Pula v. Pula, 24 A.S.R.2d 93 (1993).


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DEERFIELD, Ill. -- July 4, 2013 -- Mondelēz International, the world's second-largest coffee company with iconic brands such as Jacobs, Carte Noire and Kenco, today unveiled its first-ever training facility for coffee farmers to promote sustainability and entrepreneurship in Vietnam. The farmer training center is an important first step in the company's "Coffee Made Happy" sustainability program, a commitment to invest at least $200 million to empower one million coffee farming entrepreneurs by 2020.
Working with the 4C Association and supplier ACOM, the program will train 1,500 farmers in agricultural practices to help boost their coffee crop yields and increase the quality of their beans. Together, the investments should help farmers supply about 7,000 metric tons of coffee that meets the 4C standard. The program should, in turn, improve the livelihoods of about 5,000 families in farmers' coffee growing communities.
"Coffee Made Happy is focused on helping farmers to become more successful entrepreneurs by working with partners to improve coffee production and business skills," said Hubert Weber, President, Global Coffee at Mondelēz International. "Farmers are learning how to manage their businesses more effectively through simple tools like profit-and-loss log books, and they're using new skills to grow more coffee with fewer resources, leading to more productive and profitable farms."
"The program is a key part of Mondelēz International's overall commitment to sustainable agricultural commodities," added Weber. "Connecting Coffee Made Happy with our iconic brands creates a story that we can share with consumers about how we support entrepreneurs and nurture thriving communities in a quest to guarantee a supply of high-quality coffee for our delicious products."
Mondelēz International is one of the largest buyers of coffee in Vietnam, so the company's scale can make a big impact. The Vietnam investment supports Mondelēz International's goal to sustainably source 100 percent of its coffee in Western Europe by 2015. Today, the company is more than two-thirds of the way toward that goal. Including the Central and Eastern European markets that became part of Mondelez Europe's scope at the beginning of 2013, more than half of all coffee beans in the region are sustainably sourced.
Over the next two years, the company plans to invest more than $1 million in Vietnam and Indonesia to support Coffee Made Happy programs, in cooperation with the IDH Sustainable Coffee Program -- http://www.idhsustainabletrade.com/coffee -- to scale up sustainable coffee in both countries.
Coffee Made Happy aims to inspire, innovate and shake-up the way coffee companies do business sustainably. It's a new approach that reflects Mondelēz International's core values and practices by making farming a more attractive profession. Through Coffee Made Happy,
Mondelēz International has committed at least $200 million to empower one million coffee farming entrepreneurs by 2020. The program will focus on the next generation of farmers -- through training to boost their agriculture and business skills, tools and know-how to increase their growing capacity and programs to improve the livelihoods of coffee growing communities.
Coffee Made Happy works with coffee traders at the farm level to develop skills training for small-scale farmers. And it's working with communities and organizations like Ecom and its subsidiary ACOM, Pronatur, 4C and Rainforest Alliance to identify local needs to help young people reach their greatest potential. By collaborating to raise the visibility and commercial focus of farming in Vietnam, Peru, Indonesia, Honduras and Brazil, as well as other important coffee growing countries, Mondelēz International plans to make its full supply chain more transparent and sustainable, from bean to cup.
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CHESTERTON, Ind., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Indiana said a juggler using lit torches accidentally set fire to his props at a public park.
The Chesterton Fire Department said Aaron Rossetti, 36, was practicing his juggling Saturday night at Thomas Centennial Park when the burning portion of a lit torch broke off and landed on the table where he was keeping his props -- which included an open can of camping fuel, The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana, Merrillville, Ind., reported Tuesday.
Rossetti told police the can of fuel caused his props -- which were mostly made of plastic -- to ignite, so he threw them to the ground, where the fire spread to the rest of his props. He said the plastic melted into the park's paving stones.
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This guy is killing me. This is some game.
God this game is giving me a heart attack!
3 points... I hope and pray that Lebron will turnover the ball!!!!
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Green needs to eat some bench! Costing the Spurs the game...
If you're gonna lose it, lose it with TD missing. Damn, TD should have had that.
ughh duncan gotta make those
Fuck.... I'm actually scared now! Don't want another Heat Championship!
Sigh.. let's see if the Spurs can pull what the Heat pulled in Game 6
That's game! Fuck Manu is useless!
Congrats Heat... Spurs r done.
Manu... Just bleepin' retire. That looked like vintage Rafer Alston.
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Operating XP, renewed my ZA last month, cannot access my ZA site anymore. There is a red circle with a white x inside the circle that is sitting on part of the Z symbol, this will not go away with a restart, will not open ZA panel so I can check to see what is going on. If I close the Firefox session, I cannot reopen by clicking on the proper image. I have to restart the computer in order to start a new internet connection.
I know only the basics about computers, I cannot gain access to a support "live chat" person in order to ask them what this red circle with the white x on the ZoneAlarm Z means. Anyone know how I can get in touch with ZoneAlarm by email, or have a telephone number for them?
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The most recent iteration of The Oatmeal is a lovely, lengthy treatise on creativity, inspiration, and public response. Complete with bonus beaver slap fight and hipster goats.
I don't know about you, but the "inspiration is like food poisoning" line is going to stay with me for a long, long time.


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January 30, 2013 - submitted by Stephanie,
Q. O wise Oracle, could you please enlighten me, is there going to be any chance of seeing a song called Car Kids in the near future, or an EP album (much like Prospekt March). Thank you.
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There will not be a follow on E.P like Prospekt's March and as far as I know, there is no plan to ever release Car Kids - or any other songs that didn't make the album.


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Man who worked in Washington under eight presidents is part of Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series.
Could political gerrymandering threaten national security?
Robert Gates, the former Defense Department secretary who famously navigated his public-service career among eight ideologically diverse presidents, cannot dismiss the linkage.
"To get anything done in Washington, you have to reach across the aisle," said Gates as he prepared for the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series at Sarasota's Van Wezel Auditorium on Feb. 5.
"One of the reasons we won the Cold War was because we were able to sustain a basic strategy of containment through nine presidential administrations of both political parties."
But that sort of bipartisan resolve has collapsed as surely as the Berlin Wall. And Gates — former CIA director, National Security Council adviser — has watched redistricting exact a toll on domestic and foreign policy.
"It took us a long time to get to where we are," said Gates, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama upon leaving his five-year hitch as the Pentagon boss in 2011. "Even if you changed every member of Congress overnight, it wouldn't make any difference, because the polarization is structural, because of gerrymandering.
"Of the 435 members of Congress, perhaps 50 of those nationally are actually contested. The real elections are in the primaries," Gates said. "That's where the political bases are the most committed and ideological, on both the left and the right.
"That leaves 60 to 70 percent of those in the middle with very little voice in that selection process. That's just one example of something that has to change, and you can't reverse it overnight."
In fact, in between his duties as chancellor of William & Mary College, Gates, 69, is completing a book he hopes will offer a way forward. Following publication this year of a memoir of his tenure as Defense Secretary, Gates will release a book in 2014 about "changing public institutions."
Deputy CIA director under President Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal, appointed to run the Defense Department by President George W. Bush, the Air Force veteran is the only secretary of defense in history to be retained by a newly elected president. Party politics failed to alter his performance inside the Beltway.
"I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an example of the secretary of state and the defense secretary working more closely together than I did with Hillary Clinton," Gates said. "Unless it was with Condoleezza Rice when she was secretary of state."
But Gates, who plans to give his Sarasota audience an update on "a variety of trouble spots around the world that tend to be neglected in lieu of domestic policy," sounds relieved to finished with the posturing on Capitol Hill. He says he declined to watch the recent two-day Senate grilling of Clinton.
"I have no desire to ever watch congressional hearings on TV," he said. "I've sat through enough of those."


text: I just wanted to say job well done to everybody. Regardless if you're going to make the post season or not, it's great to see that everyone stayed active to the very end. That's rare and it makes for a much more interesting season. Even if you're out it's fun to play spoiler in the final weeks.


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Three years after the Marion County Sheriff's Office launched its non-emergency texting alternative to dialing 911, the screens at the county's communication center rarely light up.
Three years after the Marion County Sheriff's Office launched its non-emergency texting alternative to dialing 911, the screens at the county's communication center rarely light up.
The project began in 2010 to help residents who, for one reason or another, needed to text law enforcement for help rather than call and speak to an operator. The Sheriff's Office bought the computer equipment and established a telephone line and number (352-351-9111) to accept text messages for help. The 911 number itself cannot accept text messages.
Since early 2012, the county's Public Safety Communications Center, now overseen by county government and no longer the Sheriff's Office, has received only 56 text messages — and many of those were mistakes or test calls to see if the system worked.
By comparison: In 2008, the communication's center received more than 130 million calls for help.
Karl Oltz, director of the communications center, said part of the problem is that many people don't know about the texting service. There's no easy fix to that.
"It can't be promoted as (an emergency) 911 option, only as informational." Oltz said.
Although the communication center's 911 operation is state-of-the–art, the rest of communication technology serving cellphones hasn't kept pace. Communication companies haven't developed the ability to ensure emergency workers get a person's 911 text message, nor is there technology in place to let the texting person know emergency workers received their message.
Meanwhile, the 50 cents that's collected from every Florida telephone bill that funds 911 emergency services can only be used for traditional 911.
"So, I can't use 911 dollars for anything other than 911-authorized expenditures," Oltz said. That means he can't use 911 funds from the state to market 911 texting or build more local texting infrastructure.
The scenario that former Sheriff Ed Dean eventually wanted to prepare for when he established the 911 texting was, for example, a school shooting where hiding students had to quietly call for help.
Another scenario: A person is home during a burglary and the resident had to quietly contact law enforcement.
Oltz predicts that during the next three years, the communication infrastructure will be there for the emergency 911 apparatus to receive texts, photos and video from a caller. That photo and video will be invaluable to law enforcement.
As soon as the infrastructure is there, Oltz said, he has no doubts 911 texting will become a common way to summon help.
"Especially with kids nowadays," Oltz said, noting that they use their phones mostly for text, not voice.
As for the current landscape: Sheriff's spokesman Capt. Jimmy Pogue said he wasn't surprised there were so few 911 texts for non-emergency help.
"We never developed the texting, thinking it would take off and that within a year where people would text their 911 (calls) instead of calling 911," Pogue said. "It's not a secured, iron-clad, foolproof way of communicating an emergency."
The dedicated landline costs the county about $600 a year, a relatively small amount considering that the 911 text program could one day save a life, Pogue said.
The financial investment also is not much as the county awaits new communication infrastructure to catch up.
But until technology does catch up to Marion County, the current 352-591-9111 texting program has limitations.
For example, the communication center can identify the telephone number from the phone sending a 911 text, but can't say where the caller is located.
By comparison, verbal 911 calls from landlines and cellphones can be traced to the telephone number from which the call came — and the caller's geographical location can be pinpointed.
When 911 texting infrastructure improves, "then we will start marketing it as an emergency form of contact. (Then) we'll get the message out," Pogue said.
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Richard Littlemore | November 9, 2007
By Richard Littlemore • Friday, November 9, 2007 - 13:36
A new paper by Oxford Research Fellow Max Boykoff shows that phony media balance has almost disappeared in U.S. climate change coverage.
But Boykoff's paper also shows an embarrassing difference in the extent and quality of climate change coverage in the United States, compared to coverage in the United Kingdom. For example, he found that between 2003 and 2006, UK papers covered the story three times as often as U.S. papers and were significantly more likely to present it accurately.
Boykoff, a James Martin Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, released a landmark paper three years ago with his brother Jules, demonstrating that the "prestige press" in North America was misrepresenting climate science by usually reporting one voice attesting to that science and one voice denying it. While the scientific literature between 1993 and 2003 was unanimous in accepting that human activities were making climate change worse, Boykoff and Boykoff found that newspaper stories between 1988 and 2000 reported in more than half the cases that there was still a scientific dispute.
Max Boykoff has now updated that study and extended it to the U.K.
He surveyed news coverage in four U.S. prestige newspapers (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times) and three prestige papers in the UK (The Times, The Independent and The Guardian).
Boykoff's first discovery is that UK papers have been giving the climate change story almost three times as much attention. During the three-year survey period, the three UK papers carried 6,922 stories on climate change, compared to 2543 articles in US newspapers. He also found that in 2003 - at a time when U.S. papers were giving the story "he said/she said" treatment more than 35 per cent of the time - U.K papers were quoting contrarians in only 1.67 per cent of their stories. In the time since, however, contrarian coverage in both countries has dwindled to a level below statistical significance.
In his conclusion, Boykoff speculated on several reasons for the difference in coverage. One was the political split in the U.S.
Also, a 2007 National Journal poll revealed that 95 per cent of Democrats and just 13 per cent of Republicans answered 'yes' to the question 'do you think that it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made problems?' (There is an obvious chicken-and-egg problem here: was American media coverage biased by politicians or were Republicans intransigent because they were being misinformed by their newspapers?)
Boykoff also reported on the political manipulation of climate change research by the Bush administration and, especially, the intervention by think tanks and front groups funded by energy interests, particularly Exxon Mobil.
Regardless of the causes, however, Boykoff's research proves what we have suspected: the U.S. media blew this story - seriously letting down the people who rely on American journalists to show leadership - and give accurate information - on issues important to the whole world.
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Tom replied on Permalink
I love it, but...
How much distribution will this paper receive?
And without any of the good parts left out!
Dan replied on Permalink
fickle media
Yes, it might be overlooked. Instead, the media will promote nonsense like the book below. It is a game called hindsight. Had there been no WWII, they could be shouting about the trouble and money wasted on getting ready for Nazis who never fired a single round at Britain, etc., etc. Draw up a list of impeding disease outbreaks, dangerous products, invasive species, murderers on the loose, etc., and then after the fact separate out the ones that didn't result in losses. The money spent trying to anticipate and reduce the damage looks wasted, but only to the very naive. A lifetime of wearing a seatbelt is not wasted just because you make it through without ever having a head-on collision!
Global warming: Don't look now
Nov 11, 2007
James Delingpole reviews Scared to Death: from BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth by Christopher Booker and Richard North
Imagine you could travel back to Britain in 1998…. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/10/boboo110.xml
bigcitylib replied on Permalink
Media Coverage of AGW
Excellent paper, but what I would have liked to have seen is in what way coverage differs when you have a scientific debate without political implications.
For example, it used to be that coverage of the whole "birds are dinosaurs" debate had a "he said, she said" tone to it. But as the evidence turned towards B.A.D., so too did the coverage change so dissidents got less and less space. Ths same process seems to have occured much more slowly here. It would be interesting to see what role to oil lobby's creation of "insta-experts" delayed the inevitable.
Bummer replied on Permalink
House of Cards
The whole paper is based on the assumption that someone actually "knows" for sure without a doubt about the weather.
Poppycock, men, very learned men, armed with the most powerful computers made can't predict where a hurricane will go in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet somehow these other men are supposedly able to predict the climate ten, twenty and a hundred years out.
What's left of the British empire is locked in a morass of political correctness, if "we" believe it to be so then the "They" must be forced to believe it as well or "They" must be evil. Folks that isn't how it works. There are always two sides to every story. Sticking your head in the sand will only get you kicked in the arse.
Mara5 replied on Permalink
You said, "What's left of
You said, "What's left of the British empire is locked in a morass of political correctness, if "we" believe it to be so then the "They" must be forced to believe it as well or "They" must be evil. Folks that isn't how it works. There are always two sides to every story. Sticking your head in the sand will only get you kicked in the arse."
Makes sense to me…
And the two sides to this
And the two sides to this one are:
1) The weight of scientific evidence shows that global warming is occurring more quickly than is natural as a result of human activities producing greenhouse gases.
2) Denialists have failed to provide scientific evidence that disproves 1).
rob replied on Permalink
Pretzel Logic
"1) The weight of scientific evidence shows that global warming is occurring more quickly than is natural as a result of human activities producing greenhouse gases."
So tell us – how quickly should the Earth be warming naturally?
Unless you know of an identical Earth, but without the human activity, to compare with, I'd guess you have no idea.
"2) Denialists have failed to provide scientific evidence that disproves 1)."
Now tell us – when was 1) ever proven to begin with? Since 1) has never been proven, then that makes it impossible to ever disprove.
Go read the IPCC report.
Go read the IPCC report.
rob replied on Permalink
Please clarify for us.
"Go read the IPCC report."
I assume you are referring to the latest report. I have read it. There does not seem to be anything in it which supports your claim that AGW has been conclusively proven.
Perhaps I missed it? If so, can you please direct me to the appropriate section of the most recent IPCC report. Feel free to quote the relevant paragraphs which you say provide conclusive proof of AGW.
Looking forward to your response, VJ!
Prove that AGW is not
Prove that AGW is not happening.
rob replied on Permalink
Right after you prove there are no giant, talking bunny rabbits
In other words, VJ, you finally acknowledge that nowhere in the latest IPCC report does it assert that there is any conclusive proof of AGW, as you had previously claimed.
Thanks for playing. Sorry, no consolation prize.
In fact, I made no such
In fact, I made no such claim. I simply told you to go and read the report. Do not put words into my mouth.
rob replied on Permalink
The mind boggles ...
I guess it hasn't occurred to you, VJ, that all someone has to do is read the previous comments to see you are full of crap. There's really nothing more I need to add, except: thank you.
Oh, and good to see you've finally acknowledged (in your own knuckle-headed way) that there is in fact no conclusive proof of AGW.
Liar. Don't put words into
Liar. Don't put words into my mouth.
rob replied on Permalink
Valery Fabrikant, is that you?
Okay, so now you are saying there is conclusive proof of AGW? You just previously conceded there wasn't.
So which is it?
Compare the models that show
Compare the models that show what warming would be like WITHOUT human burning of fossil fuels with those that show what it is ACTUALLY DOING. Simple.
And BTW, you still haven't answered my question: your full name & coordinates, please?
rob replied on Permalink
"Simple" -- Yes, that pretty much sums it up.
"Compare the models that show what warming would be like WITHOUT human burning of fossil fuels with those that show what it is ACTUALLY DOING. Simple."
Well, that would be great, but unfortunately the Earth we inhabit isn't a model. So, coming right back to the point, you still have no proven the claim.
"And BTW, you still haven't answered my question: your full name & coordinates, please?"
Why are you stalking me? This is very weird and creepy behaviour. Just how many cats do you own?
Well, you claimed I was a
Well, you claimed I was a real estate agent in Idaho. I've been open about who I am. Am I not allowed to question your identity? Is there some reason you don't want anyone to know who you are?
rob replied on Permalink
Get Help Now, Fern Mackenzie
"Well, you claimed I was a real estate agent in Idaho. I've been open about who I am."
No you haven't:
Who knows why you keep lying about it? But that seems to be a symptom of your deranged state of mind.
"Is there some reason you don't want anyone to know who you are?"
Yes there is. To avoid becoming victimized by potentially dangerous mentally-ill people like you.
I think Rob should be
I think Rob should be banned.
rob replied on Permalink
Gee, VJ ...
… and here I thought you were going to enlighten us as to where we could find this part of the IPCC report which you claim says AGW has been conclusively proven?
Or maybe you can't find it, either?
Maybe you should stop
Maybe you should stop accusing people of being mentally ill or on drugs simply because they are smarter than you;.
rob replied on Permalink
So, VJ ...
Have you found that part you said was in the IPCC report which you claim provides conclusive proof of AGW?
We're all still waiting.
Dan replied on Permalink
finishing line
VJ, you know you have won the argument many times over when the opposition has to fall back on the lame argument that nothing is ever proven 100% conclusively.
rob replied on Permalink
And so
You admit that there is no conclusive proof of AGW, then?
Dan replied on Permalink
No, I don't agree with that.
Do you admit there is no conclusive proof that smoking affects health, or that supply and demand affect price?
rob replied on Permalink
Well, then ...
Please present us with this conclusive proof of AGW, since you believe such proof exists.
I hope you have better luck than VJ.
Env replied on Permalink
I'll jump in, if I may. The failure to see the point is making you look foolish, "Rob". Think it through. You are saying that 100% conclusive proof is needed for this one thing in science only, AGW. Think about it.
Carl Szczerski replied on Permalink
The problem is Rob doesn't
The problem is Rob doesn't understand the meaning of theory or proof in the scientific sense. I'd challenge him to "prove" the theory behind gravity, which is also quite impossible when one realizes what the scientific method actually does. Theory is the collective body of information and explanation that ties together observations, experimentation and conclusions based on a particular phenomena. Sure you can "prove" that if you drop a rock it will fall, you run 30 trials of dropping a rock and observe the results. You conclude the that a rock will fall if dropped. Excellent, you've just shown a rock will fall if dropped but not "proven" the theory of gravity. In essence all you have done is observed the phenomena of gravity but why it happens it something else entirely….
Climate theory is no different, you can easily run experiments and show within 95% confidence that
1) Greenhouse gas concentration has increased in the atmosphere,
2) that humans are largely to blame
3) The suns intensity has not changed significantly in the last 1000 years
4) CO2 is a greenhouse gas
5) The atmosphere and oceans are in general warming
These are all within observations of phenomena, go one step further and try to explain all these phenomena and you build a theory. Tests further phenomena to challenge said theory, and build a stronger theory of explanation. Rinse and repeat, building a stronger body of science. That's the problem Rob, you really don't get it and I have a feeling never will, or you are intentionally being slow about it for purposes of self amusement. Either way kinda sad really, because all you end up doing is looking quite clueless.
Thanks, Carl
That's the clearest explanation I have yet read re: scientific theory. Mind if I write that down?
rob replied on Permalink
Uh, lemme get this straight ... ?
"Climate theory is no different, you can easily run experiments and show within 95% confidence that
1) Greenhouse gas concentration has increased in the atmosphere,
2) that humans are largely to blame"
Okay, I'll bite.
What experiment can you "easily" run, which shows that human beings are "largely to blame" for Global Warming?
For bonus points, tell us what "easy" experiment tells you human beings can actually reverse it?
Enough already
You haven't bothered to check to see whether I might in fact be someone other than this real estate agent, even although I gave you the URL to my listing at the Library & Archives of Canada. You keep telling me that there might be another Rob (not you) running a blog in Bismarck ND who posted an identical comment at sayanythingblog & desmogblog as "Rob" on the same day, but you won't accept that there might be another Fern Mackenzie outside of Idaho. Enough time has been wasted on this as it is. You are a gadfly, Rob. Irritating, but ultimately pointless.
Rob, you're acting like a cornered rat.
It just occurred to me
you owe the lady at http://sothebyshomes.com/sunvalley/agents an apology. If you want to spit vitriol at someone, Rob, Know Your Enemy. Spit it at me. I for one apologize to this other Fern Mackenzie. You didn't ask to be dragged into this. I don't think it's fair for you, Rob, to go on characterizing this person as deranged. I don't care that you think that I am deranged. I've been called worse by better. But leave the poor lady in Idaho out of it.
rob replied on Permalink
FEMACK Fails To Resist Urge. Again.
FEMACK swore up and down on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 15:59 –
"I've been having my own little battle with Rob over the last few days, and I have come to the conclusion that he should be ignored wherever he pops up. Resist the urge, folks. Let him blether [sic] on. All that happens when we take the bait is that he gets air time.
Exactly as predicted. You couldn't even control yourself for 26 hours.
"Resist the urge, folks"!
Just ignore him.
He doesn't care one way or the other about climate change.
All he's interested in is antagonizing everybody.
Kind of a weird way of getting attention…even if it's negative in nature.
You can't win an argument with a drunk.
jon replied on Permalink
you are mistaking weather
you are mistaking weather for climate. Weather is a far far more granular subject than climate, while climate is an observation of long green weather trends. With a misaprensions as fundamental as this it is not surprising you jump to such inaccurate conclusions.
…explains it really well.
Skeptic Argument #34.
Spock replied on Permalink
do people even realize that
do people even realize that there is NO PROOF that humans are the cause of global warming? There is not scientific evidence to back this, and a recent paper by the International climate change group of the UN, only 5 scientists (none with very good credentials) backed the part of the paper that said humans were the main cause.
The reason the US isn't broadcasting it as much is nobody actually knows whats going on, and have no idea what will happen in 50 years except for a few speculations.
Learn the facts
What you have written is
What you have written is nonsense. Visit some of the links here and learn what the science really says.
…is really feeding you a line!
A statement like yours proves that you could not possibly done any reading of your own!
Carl Szczerski replied on Permalink
IPCC WG1 The Physical Basis
IPCC WG1 The Physical Basis For Understanding and Attributing Climate Change
Coordinating Lead Authors:
Gabriele C. Hegerl (USA, Germany), Francis W. Zwiers (Canada)
Lead Authors:
Pascale Braconnot (France), Nathan P. Gillett (UK), Yong Luo (China), Jose A. Marengo Orsini (Brazil, Peru), Neville Nicholls (Australia), Joyce E. Penner (USA), Peter A. Stott (UK)
Contributing Authors:
M. Allen (UK), C. Ammann (USA), N. Andronova (USA), R.A. Betts (UK), A. Clement (USA), W.D. Collins (USA), S. Crooks (UK), T.L. Delworth (USA), C. Forest (USA), P. Forster (UK), H. Goosse (Belgium), J.M. Gregory (UK), D. Harvey (Canada), G.S. Jones (UK), F. Joos (Switzerland), J. Kenyon (USA), J. Kettleborough (UK), V. Kharin (Canada), R. Knutti (Switzerland), F.H. Lambert (UK), M. Lavine (USA), T.C.K. Lee (Canada), D. Levinson (USA), V. Masson-Delmotte (France), T. Nozawa (Japan), B. Otto-Bliesner (USA), D. Pierce (USA), S. Power (Australia), D. Rind (USA), L. Rotstayn (Australia), B. D. Santer (USA), C. Senior (UK), D. Sexton (UK), S. Stark (UK), D.A. Stone (UK), S. Tett (UK), P. Thorne (UK), R. van Dorland (The Netherlands), M. Wang (USA), B. Wielicki (USA), T. Wong (USA), L. Xu (USA, China), X. Zhang (Canada), E. Zorita (Germany, Spain)
Review Editors: David J. Karoly (USA, Australia), Laban Ogallo (Kenya), Serge Planton (France)
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The widespread change detected in temperature observations
of the surface (Sections 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.3), free atmosphere (Section 9.4.4) and ocean (Section 9.5.1), together with consistent evidence of change in other parts of the climate system (Section 9.5), strengthens the conclusion that greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant cause of warming during the past several decades. This combined evidence, which is summarised
in Table 9.4, is substantially stronger than the evidence that is available from observed changes in global surface temperature alone (Figure 3.6).
The evidence from surface temperature observations is
strong: The observed warming is highly significant relative to estimates of internal climate variability which, while obtained from models, are consistent with estimates obtained from both instrumental data and palaeoclimate reconstructions. It is extremely unlikely (<5%) that recent global warming is due to internal variability alone
So, as per my own note, thats a serious lists of hacks, PR men, and shills on that list I just provided, no real researchers at all…..be real seriously
Dan replied on Permalink
Spook is right under some conditions… there is no proof… but only if we ignore physics, chemistry, atmospheric measurements, experiments, models (yes, including computer models, the kind the Friends of NRSP fear), and anything else that requires a bit of study. If we take the approach of examples like Ball, who claimed that CFC molecules are too heavy to move up into the atmosphere, then we wouldn't need proof. Working the crowd would be enough.
The Real Thing replied on Permalink
What wasn't said
I found some aspects of this article to be…disturbing - but even more disturbing was what you implied but didn't explicitly state.
I'm a big fan of Dr Suzuki, and I've been living a minimalist lifestyle for over 30 years. I'm a lifelong bicycle commuter who has never driven a gas-powered vehicle or purchased even a litre of gasoline. I have always believed that human-generated air pollution constitutes a serious threat to our global ecosystem.
However…there are explicit and implicit concepts in your article, and the linked studies, that I can't accept and that I find more than a little disturbing.
Both you and Boykoff appear to be of the opinion that traditional journalistic norms and values of "balanced" reporting ought to be dispensed with when the news involves pronouncements by "the managerial scientific community". In fact, you both seem to be blaming adherence to standards of balanced reporting for the failure of the American government to take decisive action on global warming. Boykoff is quite explicit about this:
"In the end,adherence to the norm of balanced reporting leads to informationally biased coverage of global warming. This bias,hidden behind the veil of journalistic balance, creates both discursive and real political space for the US government to shirk responsibility and delay action regarding global warming".
This implies that journalists are to blame for global warming - which is witch-hunting behaviour and should not be acceptable to any Real Progressive.
It is furthermore implied that journalists are somehow interfering with a "discourse" between "the managerial scientific community" and the public, and that this interference itself is a threat to planetary wellbeing. You seem to be saying that journalists ought to just print/broadcast whatever these managerial scientists tell them to print or broadcast - in fact you imply this to be there social duty. Why bother having journalists at all, if that is the case? "Managerial scientists" could simply fax their pronouncements to media outlets and have them published verbatim without comment. Right?
Why not really cut to the chase and dispense with the "discourse with the public" altogether? It's hard to imagine a threat greater than ecological collapse and eventual extinction - this situation is so dire that even elected "decision-makers" shouldn't be allowed to slow down our response time by being a part of the process. We should just appoint the IPCC as a temporary world government and have them direct all public policy themselves. Right?
Wrong. Scientists are a critically important social asset, but specialists in any area are inherently tunnel-visioned by their speciality. Cancer researchers naturally see cancer prevention as society's most urgent priority, police officers naturally see law enforcement as society's most urgent priority, virologists naturally see communicable disease eradication as society's most urgent priority, and so on.
Balanced perspectives are essential to preventing fanaticism and social hysteria, and scientists working in any area of speciality may be too close to the subject matter to acheive that kind of objectivity. That's why journalistic norms and values should not be abandoned and elected decision-makers should not be replaced by councils of technocrats.
Strange statement...
…coming from an avowed fan of Dr Suzuki.
Dr Suzuki has many times openly declared that the debate is over, climate change is real, we are the cause of it, and it's time to solve the problem.
Journalists have been a part of the problem by trying present balanced reporting where there is no balance. Political correctness gone very wrong in my opinion. This "balanced reporting" has merely given the very small number of professional "deniers" the ability to sow doubt and confusion.
Journalists are no more to blame for global warming than you or I, but they are guilty of failing in their social duty to inform us of the dangers that will affect us, and our planet's well being. Mind you…not all of them are guilty of this "sin" and as Max Boykoff points out, things have improved.
They should print/broadcast releases from the scientists if they are correct and they should be in terms that the public can understand.
And yes…our elected "decision-makers" shouldn't be allowed to slow down our response time to climate change.
That's what journalists are best at…revealing the truth and if need be, embarass our leaders into positve action!
The IPCC was created, with the aid of world governments, to eliminate the tunnel-vision you seem so concerned about. All different fields of expertise are involved to present as broad a picture as possible of the rate and extent of climate change.
You're right…"journalistic norms and values should not be abandoned" and it's time they return, before the situation becomes so dire that our elected decision-makers, as inept as some of them are… have to be replaced by those councils of technocrats just to save our butts!
John Lefebvre replied on Permalink
It has not been conclusively
It has not been conclusively proven that some people will not be swayed by the facts. Neither has it been conclusively proven that statements which adopt the form of reason are therefor reasonable.
rob replied on Permalink
Woah, that's deep, dude!
"It has not been conclusively proven that some people will not be swayed by the facts."
So if the "facts" don't happen to fully support your claims, you blame the people who don't accept your argument. Nice.
Maybe you need some better facts?
Steve L replied on Permalink
"Facts?! Pfft. You can prove almost anything with facts that's even remotely true." – Homer Simpson.
Rob, why don't you do the reading regarding the philosophy of science that I've recommended to you so many times before? Just go to wikipedia or some source you think is credible. And to stop making false claims such as it being impossible to disprove something that was never proven in the first place, please do others the favour of consulting a dictionary (hint: look up "disprove").
TheGreenMiles replied on Permalink
Fascinating study
Thanks for pointing this out, Richard. I've noticed America's leading Sunday talk show host has a remarkable record of avoiding the topic of global warming … http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/11/125730/98
John replied on Permalink
A blind eye, for political reasons, all right
Funny, how none of the worshippers in the House of Global Warming ever acknowledge that solar activity has been quite excessive for some time. Well over a decade, in fact.
So, keep spreading the "humans did it!" lies of global warming. But the truth is, the SUN is mostly responsible for the state of the climate. Blame the SUV all you like - and I'm not defending them, mind you - but the fact is that even if every anti-capitalist item in the global socialist agenda were enacted tomorrow, it wouldn't change anything. Human activity simply isn't the true culprit here. It's like saying that a person on fire needs to be concerned about a sniffles. We could be cleaner and greener as a society and as a species, but that's not going to fix anything, because we aren't the ones "breaking" it.
No, the true culprit is that big hot yellow thing in the sky. But saying that serves nobody's political or socio-economic agenda, so instead we have to put up with all this "humans did it!" garbage.
To reapeat: the S.U.N. - not the S.U.V. - is the cause of the climate change. All the eco-wankers need to go do some unbiased research.


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By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
MESA, Ariz. -- Cubs pitcher Matt Garza, sidelined with a strained left lat, is making progress and even able to laugh about what happened, but only a little.
Garza ended a scheduled 40-pitch throwing session Sunday after 20 pitches because of discomfort in his left side. He is getting treatment and has yet to resume baseball activities.
"Right now, I just want to get ready to throw, get ready to start pitching for opening week, and that's where my timeline's at," said Garza, a candidate for Opening Day along with Jeff Samardzija and Edwin Jackson. "Spring starts -- of course, they matter -- but I'm more concerned about being ready by Opening Day."
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MAKE a shopping list and buy "funny fruit" to cut food waste and help the world "shape a sustainable future," two UN agencies have urged.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and partners on Tuesday unveiled a campaign dubbed Think-Eat-Save Reduce Your Foodprint to change global practices that result in the loss of 1.3 billion tonnes of food each year.
The program is aimed primarily at consumers, food retailers and the hotel and restaurant industry, and is based on three recommended actions: think, eat, and save.
"In a world of seven billion people, set to grow to nine billion by 2050, wasting food makes no sense - economically, environmentally and ethically," a statement quoted UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner as saying.
"We're doing something that is completely irrational," he lamented to reporters in Geneva, before adding that he hoped the campaign would "literally mobilise tens of millions of people to become part of the solution."
FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva pointed out that in industrialised nations, around 300 million tonnes of food are wasted each year, "because producers, retailers and consumers discard food that is still fit for consumption."
That is more food than is produced in sub-Saharan Africa, and is enough to feed the estimated 830 million people who now go hungry worldwide, he added.
The program estimates the overall cost of wasted food at about $US1.0 trillion ($A955.61 billion) per year, with most losses occurring in production stages - such as harvesting and distribution - and blamed on problems from storing food in difficult climatic conditions to unreliable harvests.
It is retailers and consumers, whoever, who are usually guilty of wasting food.
Consumers can participate in a global effort by respecting a few simple recommendations, the UN agencies said.
Planning meals, making shopping lists and avoiding impulse buying helps, as does staying alert "to marketing tricks that lead you to buy more food than you need."
Another good idea is to "buy funny fruit" or vegetables that would otherwise be thrown out because their size, shape or colour do not meet market standards.
Tristram Stuart of the Feeding the 5000 campaign told reporters in Geneva: "Wonky fruit and vegetables are very often left on farms across Europe and North America simply because they don't meet the cosmetic standards of retailers, and they are left on fields to rot."
People, he insisted, must "adopt the value that food is simply too good to waste."
Paying attention to expiry dates and "zeroing down your fridge" with recipes that use up food set to go bad helps, the UN agencies said, as does freezing food, asking restaurants for smaller portions, eating leftovers, composting food or donating it to food banks, soup kitchens and shelters.
Retailers can offer discounts for food that is nearing its sell-by date, standardise labels and donate more food.
Restaurants were urged to "limit menu choices and introduce flexible portioning," to audit how much food they waste, and to set up "staff engagement programs."
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Are Apple and the big trade publishers colluding to manipulate the market in electronic books?
The Justice Department seems to think so, and is said to be near near filing an antitrust lawsuit. Let's hope it doesn't: Putting an end to the deal Apple and the publishers have reached on selling e-books would be grim news for authors and readers alike.
The Justice Department has been investigating whether the publishers colluded in adopting, for the sale of e-books, the same "agency model" pioneered by Apple in selling iTunes. Under that setup, Apple acts as the publishers' sales agent, taking a cut (usually 30 percent) and leaving it to publishers to set the prices of the e-books they publish.
I have no way of knowing whether the publishers colluded. My friends in publishing insist that price was never part of the discussions, but the Justice Department prosecutors seem to think they have a compelling case. All I can say as an author — and as president of the Authors Guild, the nation's largest membership organization of professional book writers — is that if the government wants to intervene in the literary marketplace, I hope it will consider the complex ecology of bookselling in the United States.
Because if we reinstate the status quo before Apple's agency-model breakthrough, then bookstores and publishers are going to be the first casualties. Right behind them will be readers, who will see the diversity of titles and authors diminish while leading titles get more expensive.
Looming over this whole discussion is, of course, Amazon.com, which I consider the Darth Vader of the literary world. I admire its success in creating a new, wildly successful business model, but it has a deserved reputation as a frequently unscrupulous competitor. Last December, for example, Amazon infuriated retailers for products such as electronics and DVDs when it encouraged its customers to enter brick-and-mortar stores to gather pricing info on items that Amazon then promised to sell them at a discount.
When it comes to books, Amazon has often used its huge market power to further increase its influence. Some analysts project that Amazon will own more than half the U.S. book business across all formats by the end of this year. Not only does Amazon have 75 percent of the market in online sales, but it is spreading its tentacles to other areas. It now owns Audible.com, the largest seller of downloadable audio books, and BookSurge, an on-demand printer of self-published and other books offered only by publishers as individual copies. Last May, Amazon announced it was launching Amazon Publishing, headed by the redoubtable industry veteran Larry Kirshbaum, to compete hand-to-hand with the publishers.
Competitors fear that Amazon will use its very deep pockets to buy up the most profitable authors, whose success generally supports trade-book publishers' other titles. Amazon already offers Kindle Singles, shorter works by established authors available solely on Kindle, leading many to suspect that the day isn't far off when readers wanting, say, the latest by James Patterson will be able to buy it only from Amazon.
Even without Amazon, trade publishing would be a troubled business. The competition from free content on the Internet — and the growth of video games and cable TV — has caused a steady drop in sales since 2001, with reading as a pastime declining. While there has been some recovery since 2008, fueled by the growth of e-books and young adult titles, publishing remains an industry dominated by pessimism and uneven revenues.
Chief among the reasons is the death spiral of the traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore. The discounting of bestsellers by the large chains destroyed the financial underpinnings of independent stores, and the rise of online bookselling, led by Amazon, cut the legs off the chains, with Borders Group closing all of its doors last year and Barnes & Noble struggling to survive.
Amazon initially achieved e-book market dominance by doing two things: publishing new digital titles at the same time they were released in print, and selling them at a loss — at $9.99, they were often several dollars less than what publishers charged Amazon, which inhibited bookstores and other online retailers from selling e-books.
Without real competition, Amazon has historically made suppliers knuckle under. Last month, it pulled from its site all e-books offered by the Independent Publishers Group, a collection of small publishers, because IPG balked at Amazon's terms when its contract came up for renewal. In the print-on- demand market, where Amazon's platform has become the principal sales venue, Amazon has demanded that smaller publishers use BookSurge at higher prices than competitors charge, or else have their "buy" buttons disappear from Amazon.com.
Given all of this, publishers and authors saw a situation approaching where Amazon was the dominant publisher and seller of books, increasing profits by offering fewer titles at higher prices. Enter an unlikely white knight: Steve Jobs.
The iPad — unveiled in January 2010, shortly after Barnes & Noble's Nook became available — made Apple's proven iTunes- and-apps agency model for digital content relevant to book sales. Five of the largest publishers jumped on with Apple's model, even though those publishers knew they would make less money on every e-book they sold through Apple than what Amazon was paying them. (Which shows that the alleged price-fixing conspiracy is one of the oddest in history, since it was, by the government's logic, collusion to lose money.)
Amazon responded with a typical show of power. When John Sargent, the chief executive officer of Macmillan Publishing, went to Seattle in that month to tell Amazon executives about his company's adoption of the agency model, Amazon pulled the buy buttons for every Macmillan title on its site — not just e- books — for a week. Yet now, it seems, the government is taking Amazon's side.
As someone lucky enough to be a best-selling author, I have personally profited from many of the tactics I am decrying. The heavy discounting of best-sellers meant I sold more books and thus made more money because royalties on physical books are paid as a percentage of the cover price. Even Amazon's e-book pricing practices were better for me than the agency model.
But I am also a reader who believes that our literary culture and our democracy are at their best with the greatest diversity of voices. This comes from allowing the largest number of authors possible to maintain careers as professional writers.
Physical bookstores offer not simply an intoxicating experience for serious readers. They have an irreplaceable role in introducing new writers. Market research consistently shows that readers are far more adventurous in their choice of books when in a bookstore than when shopping online. In bookstores, readers are open to trying new genres and new authors: It's by far the best way for new works to be discovered.
Publishing shouldn't have to choose between bricks and clicks. A robust book marketplace demands both bookstore showrooms to properly display new titles and online distribution for the convenience of customers. (Apple thrives on this very model: a strong retail presence to display its high-touch products coupled with vigorous online distribution.)
It may seem strange to hear the president of the Authors Guild expressing sympathy for the plight of American publishers. We have been at each other's throats since the guild came into being a century ago, and we still have serious differences.
But publishers, big and small, have played a vital role in broadening American literary culture. They add value for authors with editing and marketing, and most importantly by advancing the money so that writers can write. If publishing ultimately goes under, to be replaced by a model in which authors sell their books directly to the reading public online, it will become a winner-take-all fiasco in which the best-known authors make enough to live between books and new authors have a far harder time breaking in. Not all writers are blessed at self- promotion; ironically, success in an introvert's calling would depend even more on extroverted behavior.
That is why the government's apparent decision to sue the publishers and Apple seems so shortsighted. Two years after the agency model came to book selling, Amazon is losing its chokehold on the e-book market: Its share has fallen from perhaps 90 percent to roughly 60 percent. It has real competitors in iPad's bookstore, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and the partnership between brick-and-mortar bookstores and Google's Google Books. Even direct-selling authors have benefited, as Amazon doubled its royalty rates rather than lose titles.
All of this looks like a more robust and competitive market, as opposed to the world we will be left with if the Justice Department paves the way for Amazon to return to its predatory practices.
Scott Turow, a lawyer and president of the Authors Guild, is the author, most recently, of the novel "Innocent."


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Nicki Minaj shocked the twitterverse Sunday (April 15) when the leader of the Barbz deactivated her Twitter account in a huff, prompting millions of her followers to demand her return.
"Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good f**king bye," was her last tweet before @NickiMinaj went dark.
The hashtag #NickiComeBack became a trending topic shortly after she deleted her account, as Barbz everywhere attampted to appeal to her in 140 characters or less.
"On 2nd thought I'll just follow a new set of barbz. The ones I follow r very mean and ratchet.*side eyes them*"
@NickiDaily was shut down since the kerfuffle and Nickidaily.com redirects to nicki-minaj.org.
The recent dustup happened less than a week since Nicki Minaj's sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, debuted at No. 1 with more than 25o,000 sold.
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BRYCEVILLE, Fla. - Two bridges and several roads are closed -- and will be for some time -- after becoming victims of rushing water from the 20+ inches of rain from Tropical Storm Debby.
County Road 218 about five miles west of Blanding Boulevard in Clay County was undermined in two places about one mile apart. Access to and from Middleburg was cut off, and residents who live between the two bridge faults could not get out of their homes, so officials were developing a plan to get them out.
"A lot of these people are very concerned," said Capt. Bernita Bush, of Clay County Emergency Management. "They have water in their homes or close to their homes and they definitely want to get out."
There are about 400 homes on the mile-long stretch in between the two road collapses on County Road 218.
"I live right on the other side of this, and you can't come from either way. It's washed out on both bridges," resident Charles Dlong said. "They wouldn't let me come home last night. I had to stay at (Middleburg High School) with Red Cross."
IMAGES: Bridges, roads washed away by Debby
Engineers are getting to work on repairs to hopefully have County Road 218 open again in two weeks.
"It's going to take a complete rebuild of this crossing," said Jeff Beck, director of engineering and public works in Clay County. "Right now we're soliciting contractors."
Nassau County bridge collapses
About 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, a resident reported that a bridge on U.S. Highway 301 just north of the Duval-Nassau county line looked like it was sinking.
Minutes later, deputies and transportation officials confirmed the bridge near Otis Road in Bryceville had collapsed and piece of it washed away.
The bridge, built in 1940, is over Brandy Branch Creek, a tributary to the St. Marys River, which reached a historic flood crest due to torrential rainfall from the slow-moving storm that passed off the coast overnight.
"We noticed these bridges were in getting bad shape that last time they paved this road," said resident Stephen Thomas. "You could feel it when you go across them."
Deputies from Jacksonville and Nassau County are directing traffic around the outage while transportation officials discuss their options to repair or replace the span.
It will be at least a week before a temporary bridge can be installed. As soon as Thursday, officials said they hope to have the temporary bridge's foundation put in.
The alternate route for U.S. 301 traffic is taking Otis Road to County Road 121 to U.S. 90 and back to 301.
"I sure hate it 'cause it's going to put so many people in a bad place there, and it costs more money for gasoline for people to go from here to there, and it really bothers me," one driver said.
Drivers said the detour will in some cases double their drive times and will likely have more traffic.
"It's going to turn 30 minutes into an hour. Yep, it's going to be bad," driver Danny Griffin said.
DOT is expanding that part of U.S. 301, so officials said they were planning to replace the old bridge eventually.
Baker County bridge out
A small bridge on County Road 127 just outside Sanderson collapsed overnight.
Residents who use the bridge every day walked to it Wednesday morning for a look or to take pictures. They said the creek under the span, one side of which dropped several feet, was rushing like a white-water river after Debby's heavy rain.
"I just buckled, kind of like caved in," said Danielle Sanders. "I was riding around all day on that bridge yesterday."
It was just one more problem for Baker County, which had several road inundated by the rising St. Marys River and ordered mandatory evacuations late Tuesday.
Deputies and rescue personnel had to remove several residents by boat who did not get out before the river road to near historic flood levels.
Smaller roads closed by erosion
Washouts also also took part of 118th Street near Firestone Road in Jacksonville, a highway in Hamilton County and some private roads around Black Creek in Clay County.
Pastor James Turner didn't know his church was flooded until he saw pictures on News4Jax.com and WJXT4 The Local Station's Facebook page.
Water from McGirts Creek on the Westside made its way inside.
"Right now it's really soggy," Turner said of the damage to his church. "The water was 8 inches up, past the baseboard and everything. Earl, our maintenance guy, put a lot of stuff up when it looked like it was going to flood. The dry wall was ruined."
Turner said he wouldn't have service Wednesday night and will have to see what the church can do about Sunday.
Right next to the church is a used car lot, where the owners received a call Tuesday night that their cars were in danger.
"The water come in very fast, and we were scared they would push them to the fence over there," owner Lilianna Barde said. "We pushed them outside."
The owners were checking out the cars that were covered with water, but they believe they were able to save most of them.
County and state emergency officials urge people to report damage as they are putting together requests for federal assistance.
"Damage assessments is the big issue right now we need to know about businesses that were flooded, homes that were flooded, any property damage that occurred," Jacksonville Fire-Rescue Chief Marty Senterfitt said Wednesday morning. "If people could call 904-630-CITY, that would be tremendously helpful."
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Saunders likely to take few days off to rest groin
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
Saunders had sat out the previous six games with a strained right groin and understands now he wasn't quite ready to return after the leg reacted while he was chasing down a line drive down the right-field line by Torii Hunter.
"I honestly don't think there's any setbacks at all," Saunders said prior to Saturday's game. "I thought I was ready and maybe I wasn't quite. It's tough to simulate game situations until you finally get out there and are running down fly balls off the bat.
"I really had to push it there, I felt it and it grabbed me and let me know it wasn't quite ready to be out there every day yet."
Manager Eric Wedge said the team will be cautious with Saunders, not wanting to risk losing him for the rest of the season.
"I think we'll give him a couple days and see how he feels," Wedge said. "He feels all right this morning, it's about where he's been. I'll talk to [trainer Rick Griffin] after he gets checked out and does a little bit of work and go from there.
"As I said last night, sometimes you just don't know until you get out there and it's game speed. He thought he was good, Rick thought he was good, he looked good to me. But obviously, I think we made the right decision getting him out of there."
Capps gets results by mixing in more curves
SEATTLE -- Rookie reliever Carter Capps unveiled a lot more off-speed pitches in his two-inning stint in Friday's 9-1 loss, a needed development for a youngster who is learning his 100-mph offerings don't always overpower Major League hitters.
Capps threw only three breaking balls out of 39 pitches in his previous outing against the Twins and got rocked for four hits and three runs in the second frame of that two-inning appearance, admitting he got a little "fastball happy."
This time he threw 28 fastballs and 10 off-speed pitches, with better results. He got Albert Pujols to ground out on a curveball and struck out Bobby Wilson on a curve. And the heater was still there, as he whiffed Mike Trout on a 101-mph pitch for one of his four strikeouts.
"I was trying to work on it," the 22-year-old said of his curve. "It felt good. I was throwing it for strikes for the most part and getting it down in the zone, so I was happy with it. It makes your fastball faster, no matter how hard you throw. And if you mix the changeup in there, it just opens up a doorway to other things."
Manager Eric Wedge said it was a good learning experience, particularly after the Angels got to Capps for a quick run.
"They turned around a few fastballs and then he started throwing that breaking ball, and I think he saw that it was a pretty good breaking ball," Wedge said. "He saw the reaction of the hitters and then you see the counter-reaction when he starts throwing fastballs after throwing the breaking ball, and it's a little bit different ballgame then. I was really impressed. I think he learned something."
Capps has a 5.59 ERA in eight appearances but is on the fast track. He pitched just one game in Triple-A after dominating at Double-A Jackson.
"He's learning with each and every outing and he's learning a great deal," Wedge said. "He's doing a nice job."
Peguero, Ramirez added as rosters expand
SEATTLE -- Outfielder Carlos Peguero and right-handed pitcher Erasmo Ramirez were recalled by the Mariners on Saturday as the club took advantage of the ability to expand rosters beyond 25 for the final month of the season.
Peguero gives the team some added outfield depth with Michael Saunders battling a sore groin muscle. Casper Wells figures to be added as well, but he's not eligible to return until after Triple-A Tacoma's season ends on Monday because it hasn't been 10 days since he was sent down to make room for Franklin Gutierrez.
Peguero, 25, hit .285 with 21 home runs and 54 RBIs in 76 games with Tacoma. He also batted .146 in 41 at-bats in a brief stint with Seattle in July.
Ramirez, 22, was 6-3 with a 3.72 ERA in 15 starts with Tacoma. He posted an 0-2 record and 3.82 ERA in 11 games with the Mariners, including four starts before he went on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right elbow in early July.
Manager Eric Wedge said he wasn't sure yet whether Ramirez would be given any starts with the Mariners over the final month.
"We haven't had lengthy discussions about that yet," Wedge said prior to Saturday's game with the Angels. "He just started the other day. We'll use him today [out of the bullpen] if we have to. I'd like to stay away from him, but we felt like we needed to have another arm here, just in case."
The Mariners will bring more players up after Tacoma's season ends. Reliever Shawn Kelley and first baseman Mike Carp are two certain additions, but both have been dealing with injuries.
Kelley was hit in the elbow with a line drive in his last outing, so he was scheduled to throw an inning Saturday for Tacoma in order to make sure he's OK.
Carp is on a rehab assignment with the Rainiers as he recovers from a strained groin, but he had his best game Friday on a 3-for-6 night with a home run and double in a 19-3 win at Fresno.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Half of the extreme weather events analyzed by an international group of scientists revealed the fingerprints of global warming, a new report shows, although natural variability remains a significant factor in phenomena ranging from superstorms to heat waves.
Six of the 12 extreme events in 2012 that the scientists examined showed at least some contribution from warming caused by humanity's emission of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the report says. The scientists included 18 teams from around the world, with much of the work led by researchers from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"Understanding how natural and human-induced factors contribute to specific extreme weather and climate events is a complex scientific issue," Thomas R. Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, told reporters in a teleconference Thursday. "However, we are making great strides in our ability to understand these events."
Among the scientists' findings:
Superstorm Sandy, though largely due to storm surge at high tide, is a sample of what to expect more frequently in the future. Sea-level rise since 1950 has nearly doubled the yearly risk of Sandy-scale flooding.
Drought in the central United States during 2012 showed little effect from human-driven climate change. Heat waves in spring and summer of that year also appeared to be mostly due to natural factors, although human-caused climate change exerted its influence. Such heat waves are now expected to occur four times more frequently, and an estimated 35 percent of extreme heat in the eastern United States, between March and May, can be attributed to humanity's influence on climate.
An extreme reduction in the extent of Arctic sea ice in summer 2012 was mainly the result of melting, driven by a warmer atmosphere and ocean. Summer Arctic sea ice is on track to largely vanish by the middle of the 21st century.
Extreme rainfall events around the world turned out to be a mixed bag. The scientists attributed unusually high summer rainfall in Great Britain in 2012 mostly to natural variability. But while La Niña conditions – a periodic cooling of waters of the eastern equatorial Pacific – explain most of the heavy rainfall over southeastern Australia from October 2011 to March 2012, the rainfall in March increased 5 to 15 percent because of human effects on climate, the scientists found.
Extreme rainfall events like the two-day downpour in Golden Bay, New Zealand, in December 2011 are more likely because of a 1 to 5 percent increase in atmospheric moisture, the result from higher levels of greenhouse gases.
And extreme rainfall in north China and southwestern Japan was attributed mainly to natural variability.
The peer-reviewed report, available online, was released Thursday by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
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Following a pessimistic report by CapStone Investments
analyst Carter Driscoll, in which he rated Tesla Motors Inc. as a
"sell", investors went on a mini-selling spurt, depressing the
electric vehicle maker's shares to around $25.20 -- a drop of 21 percent.
Mr. Driscoll comments, "Right now the risks outweigh
The big drop was followed by a slightly recovery, as shares today have
climbed to around $26.20. Concerns about the EV maker's fate are far from
over, though.
Tesla is racing to try to introduce its Model S mass-market electric vehicle, an
entry-level luxury vehicle that will be priced at approximately $57,000 USD
before any applicable tax credits. With tax credits, the vehicle's price
could dip to $50k or less.
The company is hoping to deliver the vehicle in just over a year --
with the first orders being delivered sometime in early 2012. The
vehicles, assembled at what used to be Toyota's NUMMI plant in California, will be
able to travel 300 miles on a charge. Tesla is
also targeting sportier performance than its established foes, which include General Motors, Ford, and Nissan.
The investment required to developed the advanced vehicle is immense
and has caused the company to once again become unprofitable, despite shipping modest numbers
of its current-generation Roadster EV. With
founder and CEO Elon Musk already cash-strapped from his investments in his
other company -- Space X -- it remains to be seen whether the
company has enough charge in its packs to reach its destination.
the share price still indicates cautious optimism, as the IPO price was $17, meaning that the current
share price is at a premium of approximately 55 percent. Monday's
drop-off was similar to that in recent months of networking giant Cisco, who
similarly suffered from unfavorable analyst reports.


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Skeptics may have scoffed in August when the California Department of Social Services announced a $375,000 grant to continue providing nutrition information to low-income individuals receiving food from Second Harvest Food Bank.
For those who might question whether the funds would be better used on something else, like purchasing more food, Second Harvest now has a survey showing its efforts in educating clients to eat healthier is working.
In June and July 2012, food samples, recipe cards and other short nutrition education efforts were provided to clients as they stood in line at six Second Harvest food distribution sites.
The model used was MyPlate, a tool developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
It includes recipe tip cards with information on what vitamins a particular food offers; serving ideas; storage information and a simple recipe. A taste sample of the recipe was also offered. The education sessions lasted just five to 10 minutes.
In August 2012, more than 250 clients who had received the education were surveyed to see if they found the information helpful or useful.
Their responses were compared with a similar number of people at six other food distribution sites where no nutritional education efforts were made during the same period of time.
The evaluation showed that 46 percent of the intervention group participants used the MyPlate information to prepare more vegetables, compared to 10 percent of the control group who reported they were now preparing more vegetables.
Some 25 percent of the intervention participants also reported using the information to prepare more fruits, compared to 3 percent of the control group.
Additionally, the intervention group was 2.3 times more likely to make sure their family eats the five food groups throughout the day and 1.6 times more likely to purchase broccoli when shopping on their own than the control group.
"The MyPlate-focused education that led to self-reported food changes in food choices and healthier eating was likely influenced by two important factors," said Daniel Perales, head of Perales & Associates Evaluation Services, which conducted the survey.
"First was the short, colorful and interactive nutrition education activity with food samples and easy recipes. Second was the availability of fresh produce that is distributed to clients monthly."
The survey was commissioned by the California Association of Food Banks and the California Department of Public Health's Network for a Healthy California to determine the effectiveness of the mini nutrition education lessons, developed by the CAFB and Second Harvest.
"Providing fresh fruits and vegetables is just one part of the equation. You also have to make sure people know why they should be eating it and different ways to prepare it," said Janet Leader, registered dietician and director of services at Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
The August grant will allow Second Harvest to reach another 26,100 low-income residents; in addition to the 25,704 it has provided nutrition education to since 2012.
Anyone in need of food can call the Second Harvest hotline at 800.984.3663 for help in locating food assistance programs near them.