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When linebacker Jeff Luc was still in high school,
the parade of coaches that came to visit him in Port St. Lucie, Florida was a "Who's
Who" of head coaches and assistants from several of the top college programs in
the country.
"Pete Carroll and Ken Norton (USC)," recalled Luc. "Jimbo Fisher and James Coley (Florida State). Bobby Williams from Alabama. Lane Kiffin from Tennessee. Coaches from the University of Miami. My parents had to change our home phone number because schools used to call like crazy.
"I still have the mail in my old room. If I had to estimate, I would probably say well over 1,000 pieces of mail and that's no lie. I guess it will be something to show my kids someday. It was a lot of pressure, but there are pros and cons to everything. I enjoyed the experience and I think it was a blessing from God that I got to have that opportunity."
Luc, a First Team USA Today All-American who was rated as the top middle linebacker recruit in the country by Rivals, eventually signed with Florida State. But after battling injuries and seeing limited playing time in two years with the Seminoles, Luc decided to transfer.
"When I first got my release, I didn't really want to talk to any reporters because no matter what I said about the situation, somebody would have taken it the wrong way," Luc told me. "I guess I didn't fit their scheme or wasn't what they were looking for, but it wasn't anything personal. I can still call the coach and see how they're doing. I was a good kid and that's why they didn't take it personally. It was strictly business."
Fortunately for Cincinnati, another coach that had visited Jeff at Treasure Coast H.S. was John Jancek when he was the linebackers coach at Georgia. John is now the co-defensive coordinator under Butch Jones at UC, giving the Bearcats a foot in the door when Luc elected to transfer.
"Coach Jancek has been recruiting me since high school and he's a good guy," said Luc. "I'd love to play for him. That was a huge part of it."
The Jancek connection helped, and Luc says that the program's "family atmosphere" convinced him to make Cincinnati his new home.
"I saw what kind of guys Coach Jones and Coach Jancek were," said Luc. "When they were recruiting me, they talked about how it's a family - everybody talks about that but Cincinnati really showed it. It feels like home. Everybody has taken care of me and they're helping me out with everything that I need. Basically, they've welcomed me into the family."
"When he decided to transfer, the recruiting process started all over again and we were competing against high-profile institutions," said head coach Butch Jones. "At the end of the day, what it proves is that we're recruiting on a national stage and people want to come here. They want to be a part of our football family. They can feel the excitement, they can see the vision, and I really believe that we have a tremendous product to sell."
Luc is 6'1", 245 pounds and says he's been timed at 4.6 in the 40 yard dash. Jeff has already enrolled at Cincinnati and is taking part in summer workouts. He'll redshirt this season and then have two years of eligibility remaining.
"To tell you the truth, I wanted to redshirt," said Luc. "I think it's going to make me a lot better by helping me pick up the scheme. I think it's going to make me a better person as well by being patient and knowing that everything happens for a reason."
"He'll have a full year without any pressure to come in and play right away and that will allow him to fully develop," said Coach Jones. "We lose some linebackers after this year, so to have an individual who has experience, who has been in a big-time program, and who understands everything that goes into playing at a high-profile institution - I'm encouraged that we're going to have him the following year."
Luc will become one of the most highly-touted recruits to ever play for Cincinnati, but does he expect to be the starting middle linebacker in 2013?
"I'm not going to say that I see myself as the starting middle linebacker - that's really up to the coaches," said Luc. "I see myself as someone who is going to help this program and give them what they're looking for in me."
"We're really excited about this young man," said Coach Jones. "I think he has a hunger to prove himself and is very, very driven. Even though he can't play this year, he'll be on the scout teams and will work on his craft each and every day."
"I want to help motivate the team and be some type of leader," Luc told me. "I came out of high school with that 'big time' label, but I just want to win to tell you the truth. I want to help out as much as I can."
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I received my 23-in-1 Card Reader and it says it is supposed to have a drivers disk and users manual. Where are these items?
The manufacturer of the 23-in-1 Card Reader stopped making the users manual and drivers disk because they are no longer needed.
If your computer is running anything newer than windows 98SE, you do not need these items. Plug the card reader into a USB port on your computer and the drivers will be automatically installed.
After the drivers are installed, new disk drives will appear under "my computer". You can access the different memory cards by going to these new disks.
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Jamelle Elliott's only been in town since May, but it must seem like a lifetime for the new UC women's basketball coach. Did you catch the front sports page story in the Enquirer on her? Here's a link, in case you want to read it again: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091101/SPT0101/911020345/1064/+New+UC+women+s+coach+reaches+out
Since she came from Connecticut to take over the Bearcat basketball program, for Coach Elliott, life has been one big whirlwind. It comes with the territory, though, when you're rebuilding a program. The first phase of that process wrapped up Wednesday night, at the last of the 'house parties' that Coach Elliott and her staff have been visiting this fall.
The theory behind the get-togethers is a simple one--introduce Coach Elliott to the community. But it's a lot more than that. It's a way to show fans and alums that the University has a renewed commitment to women's basketball. And it's a way for her new home town to invest in the future of the program, and in the future of the players.
Because this is about much more than basketball, it's about supporting the student-athletes who work countless hours at their sport to represent UC. It's about showing young girls inspiring role models.
So far, hundreds have invested in the program. Season ticket sales have more than doubled from earlier years, courtside seats are sold out and Coach Elliott has purchased two dozen tickets for each game to donate to underprivileged children in the area.
The ball rolls out on the court for real on Sunday, November 15th. How Coach Elliott's team will do in her first year, no one can say for sure. But in the first six months, the program and the community have forged a tight bond that will do nothing but strengthen in years to come.


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Love these and figured some here would enjoy this article about the most badass truck ever produced:
T-Top Targa roof, in your face Malboro livery, and hunkered down stance? Check!
Sparcos? Check!
Turbo powered? Check!
Quote, originally posted by Hemmings » As performance emerged from its slumber in the late '80s and early '90s, it took on many forms. Cheap gas meant that the legendary V-8 was but one option of many. Technology developed in darker times meant that computer controls and turbocharging were out of their infancy and well into their adolescence. Front-wheel-drive performance was available, as was rear-wheel drive. Japan even offered turbocharged all-wheel-drive options a full 15 years before the Subaru WRX arrived on the scene, but performance all-wheel-drive didn't really impact the American scene at that time.
Or did it?
In the early 1990s, GMC teased horsepower-hungry consumers with a pair of turbocharged all-wheel-drive compact sport trucks dubbed the Syclone and the Typhoon. The Syclone pickup was a '91-'92 proposition only, while the Typhoon SUV was around from '92-'93. The ho-hum S-15 pickup and S-15 Jimmy sheetmetal had been around since the early '80s, but what was lurking under the skin of these super trucks was exciting.
A Mitsubishi turbocharger huffed 14.7 psi of boost through a Garret intercooler and into the throttle body of a fuel-injected 4.3-liter V-6, pumping up 280hp and 360-lbs.ft. of torque. To give the Syclone and Typhoon all-wheel drive, GMC used a 700R-4 (4L60) four-speed automatic transmission, coupled to a Borg-Warner transfer case. But like any good performance all-wheel-driver, the Typhoon and Syclone had a heavy rear-wheel bias with 35 percent of the power sent to the front wheels and 65 percent to the back.
Between the turbo's inherent tweakability and the insane number of parts available for the 4.3-liter V-6, the sky seemed the limit. (In fact, stock Syclones and Typhoons are said to have more guts than a lighter 300hp Corvette, but an unwritten GM mandate that Corvette would remain performance king was in place.) There are AWD Syclones running 9-second quarter-miles now and rear-drive Syclones (with their transmissions swapped and transfer cases removed) have been there for years.
The sticker for the Syclone was around $25,000, creeping up closer to $30,000 for a Typhoon. Twenty-five grand was pretty heady money in the early '90s, but access to Corvette-like performance for between $5,000 and $10,000 less than the all-American plastic fantastic sports car got GM performance fans thinking beyond passenger cars. (Syclone's silly spelling was courtesy of Mercury, which retained rights to the legendary Cyclone soundalike tag.) No faux hood scoops were added, and no payload capacity worth mentioning was available, but chunky ground effects, 16-inch alloy wheels and tires, and a color choice limited to black sent an ominous visual message to those in the know.
But not all Syclones were black. There were, in fact, a handful of red ones. And they didn't cost their owners a penny. This is the story of the Marlboro Syclones.
In 1991, Philip Morris gave away 10 Corvettes, with special wheels and Marlboro striping, as part of a promotional program. They liked that they got three million entries for that particular promotion, so they repeated it a year later. While Philip Morris had initially wanted to give away Dodge Viper sports cars, that vehicle's protracted development program ensured that none were available when the time came. Rather than do another variation of a Corvette, they chose a vehicle that got excellent word of mouth and instant cult status and street cred-the GMC Syclone pickup.
The legendary Larry Shinoda, he of Corvette Sting Ray and Boss Mustang fame, handled the design aspects of the project, as he did with the Corvette. American Sunroof Corporation contributed the most significant physical alteration: making the Syclone's cab a T-roof affair with a fully removable targa panel, which stows and locks into a specific frame that is itself bolted into the bed. Goodyear Eagle GS-C tires rolled on Boyd Coddington "Cobra" billet wheels with black centers, polished lips and a small red and white Marlboro Racing logo in each wheel center. PPG supplied the "Hot Licks" DBC Concept 2000 paint (a hue that looks suspiciously like Marlboro red) and Concept 2020 clear. The C.R. Laurence company provided the PowerLite retractable backlight, and Guidon provided the lockable hard tonneau cover, which replaced the standard Syclone's soft bed cover.
Graphik Concepts Inc. contributed the striking white strobe-stripe graphics and lettering. A stainless Borla exhaust, a BellTech 3-inch-drop kit, and a Prompaq Adaptive Technologies security and performance computer system (visible on the passenger's side kick panel) were the extent of the mechanical modifications. Inside, a Momo Evolution steering wheel, leather Recaro seats, five-point Simpson racing harnesses, and a Sony sound system installed by Pacific Audio and Alarm round out the mods to an otherwise stock Syclone.
Just 10 were built as a Marlboro giveaway for 1992; the trucks were technically part of the 2,998-unit run built in 1991, but the Marlboro contest was held in mid-1992, with winners informed in September of that year. Letters sent to the winners claimed that more than 85,000 entries were sent in-a far cry from the three million the year before. All 10 Syclones were claimed, and happily all 10 still survive today; probably thanks in part to a drop in entries, the promotion was not repeated.
Our photo beauty is the first of the 10 Marlboro Syclones built. As the first, the one that was used for marketing and promotional artwork, Philip Morris USA was technically the first owner; the other nine winning vehicles came straight from GMC. (Owner Lou Robert retains a binder full of documentation to this effect.) Lou has been told that this first model cost $120,000 to be built, though he can't get anyone at Philip Morris to confirm that. Additionally, Rick Mears drove it as the parade-lap pace vehicle at the Marlboro Challenge CART Indy Car race in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in October 1992-and was kind enough to autograph the dashboard afterward.
Lou knows the lure of the Syclone well: his black daily driver has a license plate that reads "0-60 IN 4.2," so it's not his first SyTy barbecue, by any means.
When this one came up for sale in an AutoWeek classified back in 1997, Lou just had to have it.
"The original owner was afraid to drive it," says Lou, laughing.
He bought it with 700 miles on the clock; it now has more than 7,000-good for about 1,000 miles a year since he took possession. In that seven years of use, things happened. He paid $370 to have the original, correct (aftermarket), long-discontinued Sony radio rebuilt, rather than get a cheaper, better-sounding modern system, since it wouldn't be original. There are, on close examination, signs of use: the odd stone chip, the occasional puddle splash on the quarters. All easily cleaned, fixed, or hidden. Also, the amber light bar that was used for pacing the Nazareth race was not included in the deal. Otherwise, only the battery, a later-model Delco, appears any different than it did at delivery.
With just 10 built, you're not likely to find a Marlboro Syclone at a SyTy-specific event, much less at a local car show, so it's not surprising that this is the first one of these we've seen-much less driven.
Though it looks low, you're still in a truck, and the leather Recaro is mounted higher up than you'd imagine-you slide in more than drop down. Still, there is less of an inclination to duck since the targa top is locked-down and stowed safely in the tonneau-lidded bed.
The Recaro seat installed here is not a tight, meant-for-racing-only hip-hugger, and is plenty comfortable for the straight-ahead, though the smooth leather seating surfaces and bolsters look ready, willing and able to let you slide in the turns. The five-point Simpson harnesses, in the same shade of red as the exterior, seem like overkill on first blush and are a bit of a pain for clunking around town-but they get the point across.
Shut the door and things get a touch clanky, and the door panel shudders visibly on impact. Hmmm. GM plastics have been hit or miss over the years; 1991 was one of their miss years, with brittle-feeling surfaces and style by Legoland. (Luckily nothing comes apart in bricks or is molded in primary colors-it's only gray inside.) Inside is surprisingly tight; pity the S-15 buyer who plumped for a bench seat hoping that he could fit three across. It's equally unlikely that your 6-foot 1-inch tester would fit inside the cabin without scrunching down, which makes it all the more refreshing to take the roof panel out for our drive.
Turn the key, and a mellow exhaust gurgle presents itself: sporty, not snotty. The idle bounces between 700 and 800 rpm, and the exhaust note gently rises and falls with it. The gauges draw your attention to the central speedo and the right-mounted tach/boost gauge combo. The multi-needle gauge pod on the left is distracting enough that you'll want to ignore it during anything but the most severe street or strip beatings. Press the brake, shift into D, and the idle dips down to 500 rpm, sending a tentative shudder through the cabin.
That said, even the mildest throttle application will give the Syclone get-up-and-go.
A 4.3-liter V-6 is three-quarters of a small-block Chevy, so there's some torque to be had off the line even before the Mitsubishi turbo spools up-but then boost arrives at an absurdly low 1,800 rpm. Move slowly onto the gas and yeeeeeeeeeGADS! There's almost too much acceleration from a given throttle input on the low end; *****foot it into traffic and you could end up yards ahead of where you were aiming. A little higher in the revs and things seem to even out, almost go in the other direction. Power-brake it to somewhere around 2,000 rpm, load the plenum with air and get the boost online, and you're simply gone. The performance numbers are equivalent to a contemporary V-8, but the feel is very different. It isn't the sudden violent throwback in the seat that the two extra cylinders provide-it's more a gentle build-up, a suggestion that you'd probably be more comfortable if you just sat back. By the time nearly 15 psi of boost rolls around at the top of the rev range, you're back as far in your chair as a V-8 would have put you, but without the undue jolt. The turbo itself, with its infamous "hair-dryer" whoosh, is plenty chatty and adds to the mechanical atmosphere.
You can feel the front-end pulling, even in part-throttle boost, a function of the 35/65 torque split. It's not distracting, and you get excellent communication through the chubby Momo wheel, though turn-in is a little on the heavy side. On the straight-ahead, the ride was plenty stiff-not quite aftermarket springs and shocks stiff, despite the two-inch drop, but certainly a couple of degrees harsher than most sporting vehicles provide these days, allowing our test vehicle opportunity to flex. On our test ride, the slide-down back window (which was up during our brief drive) proved extraordinarily creaky, a situation not helped by the missing roof panel. Doubtless the extra structure would have tightened things up considerably and quieted the mice that resided somewhere behind me in the cab.
Despite its performance-oriented AWD leanings, corners are not the Syclone's strongest point. The deceptively tall seating is disarming, and though the equal-sized Eagle GS-Cs grip admirably, there is enough chassis flex and body shudder through the corner that it's not an exercise you'll want to repeat with any regularity. The tough suspension settings and solid rear axle only transmit additional harshness through the cabin. It's not a fear of bouncing clean off the pavement and into the bushes that prevents more aggressive cornering-the traction of all four wheels pulling you through won't allow that to happen, unless you're being completely careless-but feeling everything get all wiggly doesn't advance your confidence in its admittedly ample abilities.
In truth, how the Marlboro Syclone drives is almost beside the point. The fact that it exists at all, the fact that it is a living, breathing animal, one separated from an already rarified pack, is only the start of the story. But such a beast being driven everywhere, never trailered? Why, this is the best tale of all.


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We've already heard a lot about Office Web Apps, but this week Microsoft has finally rolled them out to the mass market...
In its latest attempt to stunt the growing popularity of Google Docs, Microsoft has made access to final versions of PowerPoint, Word and Excel Office Web Apps completely free to all users with a Live account and its SkyDrive online storage service.
"Over the last few months, we've gotten incredible feedback from the hundreds of thousands of users in our Office Web Apps Technical Preview," said SkyDrive lead programme manager Jason Moore. "We've been busy incorporating much of that feedback, and today, Office Web Apps are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. We'll have more to share next week when Office 2010 is released to consumers, including how Office 2010 + SkyDrive + Office Web Apps give you the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser."
We don't really need to wait. We already know Office Web Apps and Office 2010 can seamlessly shift documents between one another while the former also supports document transfers through drag and drop. Office Web Apps will also soon be integrated into Microsoft's much hyped Hotmail revamp, though we lack a precise date as to when
All in all this is an extremely welcome, but long overdue move. After all we first got wind of Office Web Apps back in 2008 and it has had online design tools via Office Live for over a year. Furthermore, coming as it does just one week before the full consumer launch of Office 2010 we can't but wonder if the majority of us really need to bother with the pricey boxed version anymore... especially with Docs.com
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At Port Authority, Christie Appointees Took Control
On the evening of September 14, the day after he ordered the re-opening of traffic lanes to the George Washington Bridge, the executive director of the Port Authority, Pat Foye, was in conversation with Governor Cuomo's top aides. "Anything else on Wildstein and Baroni,"? Foye urgently emailed his director of bridges and tunnels? "2nd floor request. Need to know ASAP."
"Second floor" is Albany-speak for the second floor of the state capitol, where Governor Cuomo and his top staff have their offices.
But Governor Cuomo had nothing public to say about the fracas for another three months, when he told Susan Arbetter of WCNY radio that he didn't know "anything more basically than what was in the newspapers" adding "basically this is a New Jersey issue. And if he or his staff ordered any action or inquiries, the documents are silent.
Meanwhile, Team Christie was emailing up a storm, making plans and exchanging messages behind Foye's back. "What a piece of excrement," Governor Christie's spokesman, Michael Drewniak, said of Foye after seeing his now famous email blowing the whistle on the bridge scheme. "A piece of crap," Wildstein agreed.
The different responses illustrate the power imbalance at the Port Authority between Governor Cuomo and Governor Chris Christie, one where Christie assumed unusual control of the political arm of the bi-state authority, sources say.
To be sure, the documents – more than 2000 pages of them – were given in response to a request for a specific, New Jersey-based scheme. But interviews with more than a half dozen current and former Port Authority and Cuomo appointees confirm that while Christie was staffing the Port Authority with his political aides and allies – and while those appointees were using the agency for what might be called "non-transportation" ends, Cuomo was ceding power.
Now, some history. The Port Authority is a bi-state agency. By tradition, the chair of the board is appointed by the New Jersey governor, the executive director, by New York's. Some years, ago, Governor George Pataki, a Republican, appointed George Marlin, the head of New York's conservative party, to be the executive director of the Port Authority. The blatantly political appointment did not sit well with Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey's Governor, also a Republican. She insisted on appointing a Deputy Director, who would report directly to the board. But even then, it was understood that operations would be run by New York.
In 2010, when Christie took office (a year before Cuomo), he rushed to staff up the agency. His top appointees were a former state senator, Bill Baroni and a political blogger, David Wildstein, who had once been Mayor of Livington. A former Democratic Passiac County sheriff, Jerry Speziale, was given a job at the PAPD – and the sheriff's seat went to a Republican.
As the Record reported in January 2012, some 50 jobs went to appointees whose transportation resumes were thin but who had strong ties to Christie. "They came in like cockroaches" was how one staffer described the new Christie appointees.
As for Cuomo, when he took office in 2011, a David Paterson appointee Chris Ward, was at the Port Authority helm. But Cuomo couldn't replace Ward while the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was pending. So he focused on other things – gay marriage, changing the pension system, passing an on-time budget, cutting taxes.
When Cuomo axed Ward and appointed Foye after almost a year in office, "the concrete was set" on the New Jersey side, source familiar with the Port Authority said. Cuomo didn't bother to staff up the Port Authority with a team of political loyalists.
So when the, ahem, excrement hit the fan, Foye was alone. His emails to professional staff were immediately forwarded, privately, to Christie appointees. Two of his press spokespeople hid inquiries from him. As soon as he learned that Foye had halted the closures, Bill Baroni, Christie's man, reached out to the chair of the Port Authority board, David Samson, a close Christie ally. "General, can I call you now?" Baroni wrote.
A few hours later, Wildstein emailed Bridget Ann Kelly, Christie's then deputy chief of staff. "We are appropriately going nuts. Sampson helping us to retaliate."
Four days later, Samson wrote to Scott Rechler, Cuomo's top man on the board. "I am told the ED leaked to the WSJ," Samson wrote after a story appeared in the Wall Street Journal. " Very unfortunate for NY/NJ relations." When Rechler pushed back, Samson wouldn't budge "he is playing in traffic, made a big mistake" he said of Foye.
In mid-December, the Wall Street Journal reported that the political loyalty went all the up to Christie. The New Jersey Governor, the paper said, had called Cuomo to complain that Foye was pressing the New Jersey team too hard.
At a press conference that very day announcing his second resignation, that of Bill Baroni, Christie "categorically" denied the report.
Cuomo didn't push back. "The issue of the traffic study was primarily a New Jersey incident so our basic operating agreement is when it has to do with New Jersey Governor Christie handles it when it has to do with New York, I handle. It if it's a management issue having to do with the port itself we handle it jointly. So I'm sure it is as Governor Christie says it is."
Publicly, Governor Cuomo has expressed little interest in having a dog in this fight.


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Do male seahorses give birth? Chloe, NT
Yes, while there are many marine species where the male cares for the young, the seahorse is the only male who can give birth.
Sophie showed Pete an example of a male potbelly seahorse. The male is not actually pregnant but he is puffing up his pouch to show the girls the number of eggs he is able to fit in his pouch. The bigger the males pouch, the more desirable he is to the females.
In the mating process, female seahorses have a very inventive device that allows them to put their eggs in the male seahorses pouch. Once the eggs are inside the pouch, the male will fertilise them and once fertilised, the eggs bond to the walls of the pouch which is very similar to a human womb. In the birth process, male seahorses experience violent contractions and can produce between 5 and 1200 babies.
Once the baby seahorses are born, they are completely on their own and the mother and father may never see them again.
There are about 32 different spices of seahorses. Sophie showed Pete examples of sea dragons where the male also gets pregnant but through a slightly different process. A female sea dragon will lay her eggs under the underside of the males tale. This is a very delicate dance by the female and requires great precision. The sea dragon also goes into contraction which involves the contraction of the tail from side to side to expel the young out of the eggs and into the water.


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Why insulate both suction and liquid lines
I have a 5 ton TRANE unit with two compressors. Why should insulate both high and low lines.
heat gain from the sun and air on both adds false loads.the condenser changes the compressed gas into a liquid 3-4 rows from the bottom of the condenser outside at a design range of temp/press.if the sun is hitting that pipe(hood of your car) that is extra heat added going into the air handler...coming out your freon has the house load in it and the sun hitting it on the way back out will add to that load.somebody might ace this,but sometimes contractors wire tie the suction and liquid together on the run then insulate it so you temper each with the other.black insulation is the only color with insulation...might want to cut open a lenght of roof drain pipe and pinch that around the insulated pipes ....:thumbup:white reflects.
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Flip-flop Flannery is a climate change opportunist
Flannery's ability to write engagingly about climate science has led some to believe he must have something sensible to say about the solutions to global warming. Not so, writes Clive Hamilton.
Feb 5, 2009
Flannery's ability to write engagingly about climate science has led some to believe he must have something sensible to say about the solutions to global warming. Not so, writes Clive Hamilton.
Malcolm Turnbull's new climate change plan is another in a long line of diversionary policies aimed at taking the heat off the coal industry.
His emphasis on biochar — turning agricultural waste into charcoal and spreading it onto paddocks — is reminiscent of attempts by the Bush Administration to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol by allowing fossil pollution to be 'offset' by changes in agricultural practices.
The move was rejected by the rest of the world in 2000 because it would have removed entirely any obligation on rich countries like the United States and Australia to cut their fossil emissions. No wonder the coal industry backed the US move enthusiastically.
The new Coalition focus on soil carbon has been supported by Turnbull's confidant and de facto greenhouse advisor Tim Flannery, for whom biochar is the latest fad.
One of the last prominent scientists in Australia to acknowledge global warming, Flannery has been flip-flopping on solutions to climate change since The Weather Makers appeared in December 2005.
He initially argued that we should forget about governments and rely on the good sense of individuals to cut Australia's emissions, urging others to follow his lead and install their own solar panels.
When he was criticised for shifting responsibility onto individuals and away from polluters and the Government Flannery changed tack, abandoning his "firm belief" that consumers should not wait for government to act, and advocating a carbon tax. He later changed his mind and endorsed emissions trading instead.
Flannery has moved seamlessly from one technological enthusiasm to the next. In 2006 he lent his support to the development of nuclear power in Australia. "Only nuclear power can save us", he declared, playing straight into the hands of Prime Minister Howard who was happy to quote Flannery in support of his nuclear push that formed part of his climate denial strategy.
But after criticism in 2007 Flannery changed his mind, giving a "resounding 'no'" to nuclear power in Australia. No explanation seems to have been offered for the reversal.
Flannery's next burst of enthusiasm was for geothermal energy which he spruiked heavily in 2007, arguing that hot rocks "potentially have enough embedded energy in them to run the Australian economy for the best part of a century". (He properly disclosed that he held shares in hot rock developer Geodynamics.)
He has had little to say about hot rocks since taking up the biochar idea in 2008. He now believes biochar "may represent the single most important initiative for humanity's environmental future". Turnbull referred to Flannery's endorsement when announcing his latest plan.
But it is the future of the coal industry that has been the platform for Flannery's most spectacular back-flips.
As a skilled media player, throughout 2006 and 2007 Flannery made headlines by calling for the closure of "filthy" coal-fired power plants. He argued for the withdrawal of the industry's "social licence to operate" and said the time has come to end coal exports. He likened coal to asbestos and attacked proposals for carbon capture and storage as "stupid".
Then last year he executed a complete about-face, accepting Australia's financial interest in burning and exporting coal and supporting "clean coal" technologies like carbon capture and storage.
The effect of Flannery's frequent contradictory public interventions on climate change has been to confuse those who look to him for guidance. Which of his expressed opinions should they believe? What is his solution to greenhouse pollution — solar energy, nuclear power, geothermal, "clean coal" or biochar?
The mish-mash of policy proposals also plays into the hands of the polluters because a Flannery statement can be found to support almost any position.
The same can be said for his direct political interventions.
As Australian of the Year Flannery expressed the view of many when he condemned a "decade of delay" in which Australia under the Howard Government had become "the worst of the worst in terms of addressing climate change".
Yet a week before the last federal election Flannery declared that if he were voting in Turnbull's Wentworth electorate he would vote Liberal, thereby helping to return John Howard as Prime Minister.
Flannery's ability to write engagingly about climate science has led some to believe he must have something sensible to say about the solutions to global warming, a misconception Flannery amplifies by venturing instant opinions on any topic.
But a talented science populariser can be a policy flake. When in May 2007 Tony Jones quizzed him on Lateline about emissions trading his answers became increasingly incoherent until he had to admit "I have no idea".
Despite his statements being available for checking, when challenged about his back-flips Flannery claims that he has been "misrepresented", even referring to a "conspiracy" of powerful people trying to tear him down.
There's no conspiracy, Tim, just a deep skepticism about opportunism when it comes to something as important as global warming.
Clive Hamilton is the author of Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change (Black Inc.)
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Tim Flannery 'professes' to know a lot about climate change.
To back up his theory that the world is warming, and the seas are rising, Flannery reminded viewers of Andrew Denton's Enough Rope series that thousands of years ago you could walk from Tasmania to Victoria.
Once upon a time, inland Australia was covered by sea. So, according to the straws of science grasped by the professor, this would prove the world is actually cooling!
It is disappointing that Crikey publishes articles that are climate and peak oil skeptical.
Some learning would be a good idea.
As to the specific question posed: there are no silver bullets. As usual the biggest part of the solution was not even proffered: use less. So nuclear, etc are all important, but using less is critical too.
Time Flannery seems like a really nice guy, bursting with ideas who naturally wants to share them with everyone. He was initially an English major who moved into science. However some of his closest biology colleagues and mentors refer to him privately as Flim Flannery. Apparently there is a bit of a lack of rigour in his scientific approach, a fair dash of opportunism, and a preference for the rhetorical flourish. He's worth listening to, but proceed with caution. He's a bit more interested in being agreeable, not really challenging the fundamental causes of the environment crisis.
Clive Hamilton espouses a consistent, compassionate and courageous vision for Australia based on sound universal principles of fairness and equity. He cops it from both sides sometimes (e.g. latest net censorship debate), and he rubs some people the wrong way (he was once a little rude to my wife), but his vision has much more substance because it doesn't avoid addressing the basic underlying economic and political causes of environmental degradation.
All Clive H ever does is sling s..t. A bit of scientific substance might persuade someone but it is never there in any of his writings
A little morale booster for Flim Flam – as a teenager I might have played for the VFL but contact lenses pursuaded me to get an education instead. Then as a science graduate I was a better lawyer. But as a lawyer I was a much better political activist.
Which is a long way of saying according to my judgement, Flim Flam got the freezer stare from Howard start of 2007, and refused to baulk. He went at it and made himself really very unpopular with that dinosaur regime. This was a great achievement Timbo, no risk. And that's despite my childhood buddy Ben McHenry later at South Australia museum being quite uncomplimentary.
Just as Peter Garrett for his many sins also surely helped thwart the Howard vision of a domestic nuclear … weapons capacity here either of our own or via a US military base.
It's a swings and roundabouts sort of reality methinks.
Flip-Flopping? Yeah, right. It's now become a derogatory adjective apparently. When it really indicates the ability to think flexibly, and admit you were wrong. Something many scientists seam reluctant to do, especially in this field.
Clive Hamilton has hit the nail on the head. As a biological scientist I have never been a fan of Flannery and his outpourings. Flannery is an 'ideas' person, rather than a deeply analytical scientist. His career success is based on the development of headline-catching, often controversial conjectures that capture the popular imagination. His writings scratch together evidence that supports his ideas, ignoring everything that doesn't. He seems to have little interest in testing his own hypotheses scientifically, leaving that to others. In the process misconceptions are propagated that become fixed as facts in popular culture. A good example can be found in the Journal Cunninghamia (Vol 5 No 4 1998) in which Benson and Redpath expose his breath-takingly superficial scientific approach in The Future Eaters. It is interesting that Flannery's response in that case was also to claim to have been misrepresented and misquoted. Flannery is full of helium. It's time his balloon was pricked.
(By the way, I was utterly appalled some years ago when words similar to 'Foreword by Tim Flannery' were placed on the cover of a book in larger type than that of the author!!!)
May I suggest Clive Hamilton should do his homework on the issue of Biosequestration. He is doing us no favour with such cheap attached, as I he had actually listened to the interviews provided via podcast by community groups such as beyondzeroemmissions.org he would know by now how urgent the combined action of various carbon negative initiatives combined with the at best carbon neural other renewable energies. Readers and Crikey could also assist by exploring the issues via websites like the very informative international website: http://biocharfarming.wordpress.com
Wasnt it Flannery who a half dozen years ago ripped a new one in Micheal Crichton when he came out and was sceptical of global warming?
I may be wrong but If memory serves me correctly wasnt Flannery's big claim that Chricton was only an MD and fictional authorTherefore he had no "expertise" or authority to talk on climate change.
Apparently anthropologists are allowed to write and speak adnauseum on the subject though.
Love your work Alen … Greer (related to Germaine?), another idealistic science tough guy.
Noting in http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/letters/index.php/theaustralian/comments/only_privatisation_can_solve_the_mess_in_our_water_system/
dated 27 January 2007,
"LONG-time environmental ambulance chaser and now Australian of the Year Tim Flannery may anticipate conflict with John Howard over federal Government action on climate change, but that will be of little concern to the Prime Minister, who has just seen the electoral light on climate change.
What Mr Howard needed and got from this choice in an election year was a celebrity environmentalist who advocates consideration at least of nuclear energy as a climate change solution.
Allen Greer
Mudgee, NSW
Ouch again.
Can see your point of view – I was alarmed listening to Flannery on radio about India going nuclear energy – what about a renewable industry? However, I'm willing to listen and process and think about what he is saying. He is like all of us, coming to terms with how best to save our souls and our planet. He's allowed to say I've been looking at it further and I've changed my mind. It's all part of the dialogue we have to have.
How about a response from Tim Flannery. Has he been contacted? It would be good to hear from him
Arn't there more worthy targets before we start turning on those who are genuinely working for action? Tim might have made some mistakes, but what is this strategy?
Clive Hamilton has expressed what I have long suspected – that Tim Flannery's views are popularist and lacking in substance. Tim has certainly increased the general level of interest in climate change issues and deserves credit for doing so, but there has been a fair amount of self promotion along the way.
"What is his solution to greenhouse pollution — solar energy, nuclear power, geothermal, "clean coal" or biochar?"
Simple answer: We'll need all of them, and then some. This isn't an either/or question.
The predicament natural scientists (climate scientists, ecologists, biologists, botanists, some Earth scientists, paleontologists) have found themselves, once they have identified the magnitude and pace of dangerous climate change, needs to be looked at in perspective.
Identifying the unthinkable, namely a return of the atmosphere and oceans to pre-ice age conditions, with implications for life and civilization which can hardly be contemplated, they arrived at a situation analogous to an astronomer detecting a comet speeding toward Earth, yet no one wants to believe!
Each of these scientists responds in a different way, including a myriad mistakes.
But compare their efforts with the silent majority of scientists who are familiar with the critical evidence, yet would not express it in public.
Or with the minority of well-publicized and mainstream media-supported people who exercise denial under the guise of "skepticism", argue with established facts, try to re-write the basic laws of nature and the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere, and use ad-hominem and conspiracy theories against climate scientists, indeed often opposed to the scientific method..
Or with the inaction of the democratically elected leaders whose first and foremost responsibility is to protect the people and the future generations.
Ouch. One could refer to glass houses I suppose and evidence that. But really it's just too hot and muggy in Sydney to argue.
There is no doubt both Hamilton and Flannery have alot of skills and talent to offer on this terrible challenge, and as political campaigners are both too easily exploited by both major parties.
True Flannery has always been indebted to industry since that grant money from big mining (?) to study the fauna and flora of PNG.
Hamilton on the other hand was a servant of the Hawke regime's qango the Resource Assessment Commission which did a very good job too.
My vote goes to Mickey Rouke in The Wrestler, all others please take a cold shower.


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|It could have been a better outcome. You are right, a few steps towards the handyman in a controlled heel and turn toward the house would have prevented the lunge. I just get distracted myself. Havs gets reactive because I lose focus.
|yeah , it's too bad this is how such a good day ended . Maybe if you had taken a few steps with the man in the same direction some of the pent up energy (stress) would have been discharged and then you take change direction to your house - no lunge , no correction , good boy, building confidence and control?
I agree. It's those small moments where I relax my control that he decides to take matters into his own paws and assert himself. As I said, he wasn't overly excited--not even pilo erected. He was easy to restrain. This kind of behavior --jumping/lunging--happens at the end of controlled encounters. It's as though I relax before he's ready to let things go.
I'm not entirely comfortable with the handyman. When I said that he wasn't terribly methy, I'm pretty sure that he does have some drug issues. I'm not personally threatened by him but he is off.
I had Havoc in a sit stay and when the handyman turned to his car I moved forward toward my house. Havoc lunged in the man's direction and was easily moved into a heel. I'm sure he picked up on my startle when the guy came out of my yard.
But this is not a behavior that I want. Havs needs to understand that when I relax, he needs to relax.
|but the guy had turned away when the dog lunged there was no threat at any point -- edgy dog -- be aware and make sure you have control .
Well, that was awkward.
I took Havoc out for a quick spin around the park this morning. I've been really working with him on his reactivity and obedience with distractions. We had a nice walk, did some obedience, some LAT and no corrections because there weren't any behaviors that warranted a correction.
We had such a nice time that when he wanted to keep going and walk the long way around our cul-de-sac, I indulged him. When we rounded the corner to my house our neighborhood handymen was leaving our yard. Havoc became suspicious. I greeted the guy and he walked toward me with his hand out. I had to tell him to keep his distance.
Havoc was alert and restless. I had him in a sit-stay by my side. The guy asked me, " Does he bite?" and I said "No, but he jumps and he doesn't like people approaching me." We discussed some work and the guy turned away and Havoc lunged. I had him on a short leash and he sat back down. He didn't seem scared, upset or aggressive and it wasn't much of a lunge--just kind of businesslike.
This handyman is a sketchy guy. He's not scary or terribly methy but he's not quite right. Havoc has been fine with both him and his grandson in the past. I think that the fact that this guy startled him by being in his yard and my surprise at his presence (He had rung our front bell about window washing.) made both Havs and I a little off balance. I'm glad that I told him not to approach but it's the first time that I've had to say "Don't touch!"
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I am 23 and had an upper blepharoplasty 2 years ago. I had fatty lids and was worried about always looking tired and aging before my time. Unfortunately, the doctor took too much out of the upper eyelid and it is now hollow in the inner corners. I look much older now because of it.
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Activating logical volumes vgchange -- volume group "vg0" successfully activate
Mounting root filesystem VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev lvm(58,0). mount: error 22 mounting ext3 picotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Thank you very much for your reply! May I pick your brain just a little bit more? Because I can't boot I am currently accessing the LVM LV via the Fedora Core 1 Install 1 CD using the 'linux rescue' option. I tried running that command but it threw a lot of "file not found" errors so I syslinked the missing files into place and it seemed a lot better but I keep getting two more errors;
To show you what I mean here is the output:
-= First, 'df' before I begin...
sh-2.05b# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 6120 3564 2206 62% / /dev/root.old 6120 3564 2206 62% / /tmp/cdrom 644864 644864 0 100% /mnt/source /dev/vg0/root 17919448 1916960 16002488 11% /mnt/sysimage /dev/hda1 101086 6767 89100 8% /mnt/sysimage/boot /dev/hda3 76304192 32828 72395284 1% /mnt/sysimage/single
(Note that I have an IDE for '/boot' and swap)
-= Okay, my simlinks are in place. Now running 'lvmcreate_initrd'
sh-2.05b# lvmcreate_initrd
Logical Volume Manager 1.0.3 by Heinz Mauelshagen 02/19/2002
lvmcreate_initrd -- make LVM initial ram disk /boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.gz
lvmcreate_initrd -- finding required shared libraries lvmcreate_initrd -- stripping shared libraries lvmcreate_initrd -- calculating initrd filesystem parameters lvmcreate_initrd -- calculating loopback file size du: invalid option -- c BusyBox v0.60.5 (2003.01.24-22:44+000) multi-call binary
Usage: du [-lsxhmk] [FILE]...
lvmcreate_initrd -- making loopback file (541 kB) lvmcreate_initrd -- making ram disk filesystem 9238 inodes) lvmcreate_initrd -- mounting ramdisk filesystem lvmcreate_initrd -- creating new /etc/modules.conf lvmcreate_initrd -- creating new modules.dep depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/modules.dep for writing lvmcreate_initrd -- ERROR running depmod rmdir: unable to remove '/tmp/mnt.1185': Device or resource busy
-= It failed... Here is 'df' again, with the loopback still mounted
sh-2.05b# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 6120 3564 2206 62% / /dev/root.old 6120 3564 2206 62% / /tmp/cdrom 644864 644864 0 100% /mnt/source /dev/vg0/root 17919448 1916960 16002488 11% /mnt/sysimage /dev/hda1 101086 6767 89100 8% /mnt/sysimage/boot /dev/hda3 76304192 32828 72395284 1% /mnt/sysimage/single /dev/loop1 506 19 487 4% /tmp/mnt.1185
-= When I try to create a symlink to '/lib/modules' I am told:
sh-2.05b# cd /lib
sh-2.05b# ln -s /mnt/sysimage/lib/modules
ln: creating symbolic link './modules' to '/mnt/sysimage/lib/modules': Read-only file system
sh-2.05b# cd /
sh-2.05b# ls -lah | grep lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 19 12:05 lib -> /mnt/runtime/lib
sh-2.05b# cd /mnt/runtime/
sh-2.05b# ls -lah | grep lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6k Jan 1 1970 lib
So, have I done something stupidly wrong?? :)
Again, you help is -very- much appreciated!
Jord Tanner wrote:
You need to run "lvmcreate_initrd", which will create an lvm-initrd file in /boot. Then edit grub.conf to use the new initrd, and you are off to the races. This will make the lvm tools available at boot, then your VG will come online.
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 21:14, Madison Kelly wrote:
Hi all,
This is my first post to the list so forgive me please if I am making any mistakes of protocol! :)
I am relatively new to LVM but I have read most of the docs that I could find on the topic and I am pretty strong on RAID and general storage tech. With that said, here is my problem/scenario:
I have a small test server that I am trying to use to learn how to configure the '/' filesystem of a Fedora Core 1 install of linux to reside on a software RAID5 array with an LVM VG on top of it and the bulk of that partition on a single LV mounted as '/'. This so far is just fine. Oh, fwiw, the four drives are SCSI on an Adaptec 2940x PCI controller (three in use now, a forth to be used as a temp drive during FS convertion and later added to the array) with another IDE drive used for '/boot' and <swap>.
Now what I am trying to do immidiately is to convert the '/' filesystem from 'ext3' to 'resierfs'. ReiserFS is not an install-time option and the LVM FAQ says simple to boot from a rescue CD, back the '/' LV data up, re-format the LV with a ReiserFS and then restore the data. Sounds easy enough, eh? Anyway, I have been able to do all of this and I am even pretty sure that the data is intact because when I boot the Fedora Core 1 Disk 1 using 'linux rescue' it scans for the install and finds it on both '/dev/sdd1' (the drive I am using temporarily to backup the '/' LV data to) and on '/dev/vg0/root' (the LV that started life as an ext3 filesystem during the OS install).
The problem is that when I boot into the OS proper something somewhere is still telling something to do with LVM that the file system is still ext3 and thus it throws a kernel panic. I have edited '/etc/fstab', '/etc/mtab' and '/etc/blkid.tab' to read 'reiserfs' instead of the original 'ext3'. Am I missing a file somewhere? Is there a command I need to run to tell '/etc/lvmtab' or '/etc/lvmtab.d/root' that the filesystem has changed? Am I missing something all together different?
Anywho, as a little heads up and maybe a little request for comment; once I manage to get the '/' LV on ReiserFS the next thing I want to do is add a forth drive (the '/dev/sdd' drive) to the RAID5 array, extend it via 'raidreconf', add the new space to the PV, pass that space up to the VG and finally extend the 'root' LV and update the filesystem while online (hence the desire for ReiserFS). Am I on the right track? Does anyone who has done this before have any pointers?
Thanks all for listening to a n00by!!
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I have always been puzzled by the fact that Charles Taylor starts his book A Secular Age with a long quote from Bede Griffith in order to describe a religious type of experience. It is the description of a scene experienced by the author as a school-boy: trees are blossoming, birds are singing, the author has the sensation that angels are present and that God is looking down on him. My question is: Why this quote? Why choose an image and a language of sunset, trees and birds in order to describe something for which the different languages of theology have worked out precise and elaborate codifications? I understand, of course, that in the context of the introduction to A Secular Age, Taylor uses this quote in order to make a soft claim to the human openness to experiences of transcendental nature. He uses the rest of the eight-hundred pages of the book to explore why it has become increasingly rare and difficult in our secular age to live these kinds of experiences, let alone to look for them in the context of an organized religious tradition. Most of us, he says, live our lives in an "immanent frame" and religious belief "has become one option among many."
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An empirical perspective on religious and secular reasonsposted by John H. Evans
This "religion in the public sphere" thread has featured debates about whether citizens of liberal democratic societies can offer religious reasons for public laws that will be coercive on all citizens, or whether they must use, in John Rawls's terms, "public reason." . . . This normative debate is about what people should do in public debates, but knowing what people actually do would allow theorists to develop greater nuance in their analyses. When we see what people actually do, we can further inquire as to whether there are social structures that are pushing people toward good or bad behavior. For example, it is possible that the normative structure of the contemporary public sphere works so strongly against certain normative proposals that they should just be abandoned as utopian. Moreover, it is possible that we may gain normative wisdom from the collective practices of citizens. In any event, given the many hundreds of normative analyses, some empirical examinations may usefully agitate the debate.
Arguing with An-Na`imposted by Daniel Philpott
What is interesting about An-Na`im's arguments is that they ground the case for the secular state not in the Quran, not in claims about the presence of the imago Dei in the person or in some other source of the person's intrinsic dignity, not in natural law, some closely similar type of practical reason, or universal moral precepts, but rather in what might be called "second order" observations about the phenomenology of belief, the character of government, the lessons of history, and the like. To be sure, good reasons for the secular state lie therein. But are these arguments sufficient to ground an Islamic case for constitutionalism, human rights, and the secular state? I doubt it.
Nothing special about religionposted by Mark S. Cladis
It is clear from the ongoing discussion about "Religion in the public sphere" that we live in an age when many inside and outside of the academy are thinking and talking about religion—specifically about religion in public and whether it ought to be there. Many are turning their attention to the relation among religion, law, and politics, now that the once-common theories about the inevitable march of (what is commonly understood as) secularization have been mostly discredited. Such theories were based on an erroneous interpretation of the Enlightenment as a monolithic force that discounted religion, and on the view that modernity would necessarily usher in secularism, that is, launch an age in which religion had no significant standing. Yet most have come to realize that religion as an intellectual, cultural, and political force is not, in fact, waning on the globe. To help us think about religion in the public and political landscape, I propose a model—what I call Public Landscape as Varied Topography—in which there is room for various socio-political stances, religious or otherwise. […]
An Islamic case for a secular stateposted by Charles Kurzman
If the state is going to enforce any principle from Islamic sources, according to Abdullahi An-Na'im, then it should implement the principle that the state should not enforce Islamic principles. This is the crux of An-Na'im's new book, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a. An-Na'im, a renowned Islamic scholar and human rights activist, is a leading member of the generation of Muslim intellectuals that came to prominence in the 1980s as critics of both Islamist revolutionaries and post-colonial dictators. According to An-Na'im, the secular state is not just a good thing on public-policy grounds; it is also justified on Islamic grounds. […]
Secularism and critiqueposted by Charles Taylor
What are we to think of the idea, entertained by Rawls for a time, that one can legitimately ask of a religiously and philosophically diverse democracy that everyone deliberate in a language of reason alone, leaving their religious views in the vestibule of the public sphere? The tyrannical nature of this demand was rapidly appreciated by Rawls, to his credit. But we ought to ask why the proposition arose in the first place.
Taking religion seriouslyposted by Simone Chambers
What distinguishes Habermas from Rawls on religion in the public sphere is not Habermas's slightly amended view of public reason, but his willingness to entertain the idea that religion has a positive and substantive role to play in public debate.
Inclusion and accountability in the public sphereposted by Cristina Lafont
In his essay "Religion in the Public Sphere," Habermas joins the debate between liberals and critics of liberalism on the proper role of religion in the public sphere. His proposal focuses on what each side of the debate gets right: the liberal emphasis on the obligation to provide nonreligious reasons in support of coercive policies with which all citizens must comply, on one side, and the critic's insistence on the right of religious citizens to adopt their religious stance in public deliberation about such policies, on the other. […]


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Eureka! A second Empanada Grill will open next week in the Berkeley 'hood
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Ramon Campos, who owns Empanada Express Grill in Golden, stands in front of a dwarfed storefront at 4301 West 44th Avenue, a former Mexican joint that will soon become Empanada Grill, Campos's second Venezuelan restaurant. "It's in really bad shape, but we're working very, very hard to get it ready," says Campos, peering through the windows and shaking his head. "We wanted to open on Friday, but there's no way that's going to happen, given what we still need to get done."
Instead, the space, which will seat thirty, maybe forty, will open sometime next week, promises Campos, who will also continue to hold down the fort at the Golden store, which opened last September, after Campos ditched his freestanding trailer to unmask a brick-and-mortar joint at 2600 East Street. "The Golden location is doing well, but it's a long way from downtown, and not everyone wants to drive to Golden," Campos admits. "I picked this location because of its proximity to downtown and the fact that this area has a lot of young people -- and young people like to try new things."
When Empanada Grill opens, it will hustle the same menu as the Golden location and keep the same hours: 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Campos is also working on securing a liquor license -- something the Golden joint doesn't have.
And once he gets the new space up and running, Campos will turn to pimping his terrific empanadas, arepas and cachapas from the pavement. "I'm looking for a truck, which I hope I'll have by next summer," he says.
The more trucks, the merrier.
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Description: This is the same product as the Power Cell - Lipo Charger/Booster. The difference is this version comes in fancy clamshell packaging meant for our distributors that need it. Regular customers are welcome to order, but we want to limit the amount of extra packaging finding its way into the trash heap.
The PowerCell board is a single cell LiPo boost converter (to 3.3V and 5V) and micro-USB charger in one. The board comes with a JST connector for a single cell LiPo battery, a micro-USB connector for the 5V charge input, and selectable 3.3V and 5V ouput pins (labeled 'out'). There are also two charge pins broken out (labeled 'charge'), so you can use another 5V power source to charge the batteries, if you don't have a micro-USB cable.
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The boost converter is based on the TPS61200 from TI and has solder jumper selectable 5V and 3.3V output, and an under voltage protection of 2.6V (which can be disabled via solder jumper on the back of the PCB).
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Sporting Kansas City midfielder Roger Espinoza's work permit application was accepted, which would clear him for a long-expected move to Wigan Athletic, the English Premier League club announced on its website on Monday.
Sporting declined to comment on the report, other than adding that Espinoza is still officially on the MLS club's roster. He was free to negotiate a future contract with other teams six months prior to to the expiration of his deal, but remains an SKC player until his deal officially expires.
"This has been a dream for me to play in England and I am so grateful for the club, who have worked so hard to make this happen," Espinoza told Wigan's official website. "I just can't wait now to join up with [Honduran international teammate and Wigan player Maynor Figueroa] and all the guys and get to work."
READ: Sporting KC to unveil new Designated Player on Tuesday
Espinoza, 26, rose to prominence as one of the best box-to-box midfielders in MLS after being drafted by Kansas City in 2008 and in November announced his intention to join Wigan when his deal with the US Open Cup winners expires at the end of 2012. He finishes his MLS career with two goals and 11 assists in 113 regular-season apperances.
The Honduran international caught the soccer world's eye with a breakout performance in the soccer tournament at the 2012 London Olympics, where he scored once in four games and put in a Man of the Match performance and scored a goal in Honduras' 3-2 quarterfinal loss to Brazil.
"He is a player we have been following closely since 16th of June 2010, when he made his debut in the World Cup vs. Chile," Wigan manager Roberto Martinez explained to the club website. "In that game, he showed tremendous potential and slowly, he has been developing into an exciting footballer over the last three seasons in the MLS and has enjoyed terrific experiences at international level, specifically his role with Honduras in the Olympic games."
Sporting KC traded for midfielder Benny Feilhaber last week, a sign they may be resigned to losing Espinoza this winter, and announced they will unveil a new Designated Player on Tuesday.
Club CEO and co-owner Robb Heineman also saluted Espinoza in a light-hearted tweet last week.
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Whip together butter and powdered sugar. Add egg yolks one at a time and beat. Moisten diced white bread with milk. Add diced bread and chocolate heated gently until liquid to butter mix. Whip egg whites and granulated sugar to an oily consistency, carefully fold the whisked egg whites into the mixture. Stir in flour, bread crumbs and grated hazelnuts.
Prepare 6 small pudding molds by buttering the insides and dusting them with bread crumbs. Pour mixture into the molds, place molds in water in a double boiler and finish puddings in a pre-heated 350 degree F oven for about 45 minutes.
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The UK's economy and consumer confidence has been reeling since its citizens voted to leave the European Union in June. Has this recent drama ruined the UK's viability as an expansion-worthy online market for companies based in the U.S., continental Europe and beyond?
Our analysis suggests no. For companies looking to expand their e-commerce offerings, we believe the UK remains one of the most attractive markets for cross-border expansion.
For starters, the UK's e-commerce market has historically been the strongest in Europe, and is the third-largest in the world. While it's unclear how the Brexit will impact e-commerce sales in the upcoming years, projections placed online sales to eclipse $132 billion—or nearly 20% of the global e-commerce share—by 2019.
One report predicts that UK consumers will buy 30% more goods and services from international e-retailers this year than in 2015. (Compare that to a 6% increase in revenue from domestic e-retailers during the same time period.) Internet penetration is over 90%; smartphone adoption will eclipse 80% next year.
We chatted with Eric Watson, a Global Online Strategist with our Global Growth team, about the topic.
"Don't let these immediate jitters from the Brexit fallout worry you," Eric advises. "The UK is still an attractive online market. British consumers have money to spend, and maintain their attraction to international brands."
Indeed, the sky isn't falling in the UK, analysts are quick to say. It's clear that the world is still happy to conduct business with the UK, they say, and—unencumbered by EU policies—the UK can soon negotiate its own favorable trade agreements with emerging markets like China and India.
The UK's current economic slump "is unpleasant, but it is not a systemic financial crisis, and it is not global," wrote one analyst in The Telegraph. "The warnings of inter-galactic destruction already look like a (Remain) campaign hoax."
While UK-based businesses may gripe to pollsters about the impact of Brexit, "(w)hen it comes to doing business, their customers so far seem unaffected," added a recent op-ed in The Spectator. "People are shopping, hiring, borrowing and creating wealth just as they were before."
The Spectator op-ed continued: "Interest rates remain at the lowest level in 400 years, employment is at a historic high, inflation is benign and export markets are as every bit as open as they were at the beginning of June. As you'd expect: we won't leave the EU for at least two years, so why should trade suddenly contract now?"
Domestic consumer confidence has certainly withered, but note that the market's economic growth was slowing before the Brexit vote. (It dropped from around 3% in 2014 to about 2% before the referendum.) Keen to combat the market-wide slump, the Bank of England voted unanimously on Thursday to cut its benchmark interest rate to its lowest point ever.
Optimists believe the UK's head will remain above water. According to a post-referendum projection recently published by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the UK will "narrowly avoid" a recession in the upcoming years. Consumer spending will slow but not contract in 2017, and business and financial services sector growth will remain positive through 2017.
That's all fine and well for the market during the lead-up to the UK / EU divorce. But what happens after the split, which could come as early as 2018? Will UK consumers still be inclined to purchase goods from cross-border e-commerce sites?
"Don't let fears of a post-Brexit world scare you, either," Eric advises. "The UK is still the world's fifth-largest economy. It's a powerhouse in terms of Internet penetration and many other metrics that companies should consider when looking to expand. UK consumers will still enjoy international goods, and will still have the means to pay a higher premium for them, as may be the case in a post-Brexit world."
Social networks are thriving in the UK, representing the perfect, cost-effective gateway for brands to engage these consumers. Facebook has a penetration rate of over 80%; about a quarter of those users are between 25 and 34 years old. As in other developed markets, younger users skew toward networks such as Instagram. The UK is home to more than 14 million Instagram users; 40% are between 16 and 24 years old.
We recently examined our own social media-related metrics, gleaned from operating localized websites for the UK market. We selected one major website, a fashion retailer that has spent considerable time and resources to optimize its site for UK e-shoppers. We spotted an interesting trend.
Firstly, UK Twitter users represent a larger percentage of social traffic than other global markets for this e-retailer. While Twitter accounted for nearly 10% of social traffic for the UK site, the network contributed less than 2% for the retailer's German site, and less than 4% for its Australian site.
"Given the higher smartphone adoption rate in the UK, we found it reasonable to conclude that the amount of potential e-commerce customers using Twitter is higher here," Eric says.
But don't put all of your eggs in this basket. As we've observed in other global markets, Twitter's user base is contracting in the UK. The second half of 2015 saw Twitter referral traffic to our e-retailer's site shrink by a whopping 13%. This jibes with reports that Twitter's market share in the UK has slipped to just over 8% (down from 16% in mid-2014).
We expect dominant network Facebook to pick up the slack.
We also noted the kinds of devices that were used to access our e-retailer's UK website, and were surprised by the amount of sessions generated from tablets. While tablet traffic represented about 18% of all mobile traffic to the retailer's localized Australian and German websites, tablet traffic to its UK site was nearly 30%.
iOS devices represented the largest percentage of UK-based sessions and revenue, and provided high conversion rates, too. (The iOS conversion rate was 4.3%, much higher than the 3% rate for Android devices.) Interestingly, owners of Windows-branded mobile devices seemed to have the highest conversion rates of all mobile users, though they represented a mere 2% of all mobile traffic.
"Retailers in the UK must be extremely aware of the dynamics in the mobile sphere," Eric points out, "as this segment of shoppers in the UK is one of the fastest-growing and evolving in the world."
Indeed, UK shoppers spent nearly £14.95 billion through their mobile devices in 2015. That's up 78% from 2014. In contrast, PC spending grew by only 2%.
M-commerce sales now account for half of all UK e-commerce sales.
Talk Like a Local: For U.S. brands, localizing existing English-language online content for relevance in the UK remains a key first step to engaging these overseas consumers. While British English speakers probably won't completely misunderstand American English website copy, customers have shown a clear preference for sites that are localized to their "flavour" of English.
As the Nielsen Norman Group reported years ago, users pay attention to spelling and verbiage and will quickly abandon sites with such cues that make the site feel "foreign." Localizing words and phrases to resonate with British consumers makes a big difference.
Sell Like a Local: Resonantly engaging with UK consumers doesn't end with linguistic localizations, however. Companies must connect with local consumers in other ways. Marketing campaigns that leverage local seasonality and holidays can go a long way to maximize this.
"This doesn't mean that companies should focus exclusively on UK holidays," Eric explains. "There are plenty of opportunities to create campaigns that celebrate 'transnational' holidays that affect all markets."
Take holiday shopping events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We've seen evidence that these shopping holidays have been readily adopted by UK residents. And its popularity is growing: revenue generated by key UK MotionPoint e-commerce clients on Black Friday and Cyber Monday grew year-over-year in both 2015 and 2014. (Up 28% and 12%, respectively.)
In fact, according to a recent study, European awareness for Black Friday is highest in the UK, where over 80% of shoppers said they were aware of Black Friday. Shared linguistic and cultural traditions have empowered savvy U.S. companies (and international retailers in other English-speaking markets) to capitalize on these sales events in the UK.
Would you like learn how MotionPoint can help you enter the UK online market easily, quickly and affordably? Contact us for more information.
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I have 4 seed feeders plus a suet block hangin from the eves of my porch. The birds are all over them. With the snow and temps at below 32 F for the daily highs they are constantly fighting for a place at the feeders. The fighting is as much fun to watch as the other antics. Since the current cold snap is being reported as maybe lasting until the new year, snow included, I fully expect to have to buy another 40 lbs of bird feed for the critters.Just had a Flicker (aka wood pigeon, pigeon woodpecker) come in, chase most of the birds away and dine on a feeder until it tipped, it then moved to the suet block and made a pig of itself. It sure is interesting how may other types of birds you get to see the worse the weather gets so birds become more dependent on the feeders.
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The Office of Undergraduate Science Education encourages Harvard undergraduates to pursue research opportunities at laboratories that best suit their interests, regardless of location. Realizing that the cost of a T pass can quickly add up, we have created a fund to cover the cost of the T for students who are working in off-campus research laboratories that are not serviced by the M2 shuttle. Eligible laboratories include those located at Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, the Broad Institute, and the Arnold Arboretum.
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- If you are currently enrolled in a departmental research course (e.g. MCB 91r, SCRB 99, Neurobiology 98, etc) and your laboratory is located off campus and not at the HMS quad, you are automatically eligible.
- If you are not currently enrolled in a departmental research course and your laboratory is located off campus and not at the HMS quad, fill out the T Pass Eligibility Form, ask your P.I. to sign it, and turn it in to one of the life sciences education offices.
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Any student conducting science research at an off-campus, MBTA-accessible laboratory is eligible, regardless of year in school or concentration.
How do I obtain a pass or get reimbursed for my T pass?
You should determine how often you go to the lab.
- If you go four times or more per week, you should buy a monthly T pass at any T station for $84.50. Keep your receipt and bring it to Lisa Fountain (Sherman Fairchild Room 195) or James Poolner (BioLabs Room 1082C) for reimbursement.
- If you go less frequently, visit one of the life sciences education offices (see below) to pick up a prepaid Charlie Card, which will allow you to ride the T 30 times. When you have used up the Charlie Card, stop by the office to pick up a new one.
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