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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Coalition parties have heads in the sand on Victorian climate and energy policy
The Victorian opposition released a statement on energy security on Tuesday. It was tweeted out by Shadow Minister for Innovation, Energy and Resources, and Renewables David Southwick MP.
The first thing to note is that it doesn't mention climate change, not even once. Even though climate change contributes to extreme heat events and severe storm events that imperils the safety of Victorians, with the threat increasing over time as temperatures rise.
The second thing to note is it doesn't include energy security in the context of an energy transition already taking place. Energy security, reliability and affordability are all important considerations, but need to be discussed in the context of broad energy transition to a zero carbon economy driven by the imperative of addressing climate change. The statement patently fails Victorians in this regard.
With the threat of protected industrial action against AGL Energy at Loy Yang A and Loy Yang B Power Stations and a counter threat by AGL Energy to lock out workers, the Victorian energy minister Lily D'Ambrosio made the right call with an application to the Fair Work Commission to seek a termination of the industrial action at AGL Loy Yang.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Reports Adani's Abbot Point coal terminal exceeded pollution limits 8 fold
Remember that story on Adani's Abbot Point export coal terminal contaminating the Caley Valley wetlands next door? And the ruckus of denial from Adani, Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce and Queensland Resources Council CEO Ian MacFarlane?
The latest update is a news report on the ABC that reveals that at one monitoring point the contaminated liquids and sediment from Abbot Point were at 8 times the legal limit.
Adani had applied and was issued an authority to release contaminated water, but with a limit of total suspended solids up to 100 milligrams per litre. The report provided by Adani Abbot Point Bulkcoal on the water release advised that the water discharged on 30 March from a licensed point on the northern side of the terminal contained 806mg/L of sediment.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Mark Butler endorses Westpac's policy assessment that excludes Adani Project while ALP policy remains mute on export coal
Shadow minister for Energy and Climate Mark Butler was on ABC Insiders program on Sunday and was critical of the Government criticising Westpac over a business policy decision, when the Government has refused to implement a Banking Royal Commission to look at financial practices that hurt lots of ordinary Australians and small businesses.
It was a very competent interview and attack on the Government, while adroitly not answering the question of opposing the mine if Adani does manage to get the financial investment required sorted. (19 international banks have now ruled out financing the mine)
All Butler's points were valid and important facts: that the demand for thermal coal imports from Australia is in decline, that the Adani project would hurt coal jobs in both Queensland and New South Wales, and that the economics of the mine simply don't stack up.
Then there is the climate risk which Butler did not emphasise but is at the heart of Westpac Bank's business climate policy and future investments in coal.
I don't fully agree with Westpac's policy, but it is a nuanced approach to supporting only new investment in metallurgical coal or high quality Newcastle benchmark thermal coal from existing basins. The Adani coal from the Carmichael mine fails the energy benchmark, and has a high ash content. It is a low to medium quality thermal coal.
I read the ALP's climate policy it took to the last election in 2016. It was a positive policy overall, but one of it's huge failings was the silence on coal and fossil fuel export, particularly the low grade Adani coal in the Galilee Basin, unconventional gas, and offshore oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight.
The ALP are happy to play both sides of the coal equation and leave the outcome as a commercial decision as they think this resolves them from responsibility of good policy.
It may be good politics, but it is bad policy when the science says we need to keep 95 percent of Australia's coal unexploited.
The fact is Westpac's climate business policy (PDF) on export coal is now more aligned to the Paris Agreement climate targets, and superior to both the Government and opposition parties policies on export coal.
That is a sad state of affairs. Here are the interview snippets from Insiders between Barry Cassidy and Mark Butler.
►@Mark_Butler_MP: the demand for thermal coal imports from Australia is actually in decline #Insiders #auspol pic.twitter.com/BKGwz6s4ax— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) April 29, 2017
►@Mark_Butler_MP: The economics of the Adani project don't stack up #Westpac #Insiders #auspol pic.twitter.com/25VEolokJn— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) April 29, 2017
►@Mark_Butler_MP: the assessment of Westpac I'll back any day over the assessment of Matt Canavan #Insiders #auspol pic.twitter.com/yHvr0WeWzh— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) April 29, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Resources minister Matt Canavan's Jobs, jobs, jobs Adani coal mantra is bullshit
Jobs, jobs, and more jobs, that's the mantra by both the Liberal National Coalition Federal Government and the Queensland State Labor Government, and bugger the reef and the rising temperatures of climate change.
On Friday Westpac Bank released their climate change Position statement and 2020 action Plan. This effectively rules out any funding of Adani for the Carmichael coal project.
Matt Canavan, and Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce on Lateline, continue this mantra, to peddle the myth that 10,000 or more jobs will be generated, when in court Adani admitted only 1464 jobs would be created. In fact, Adani hope to fully automate much of the mining and transport, so jobs could be even less than stated in court.
If the Adani Carmichael coal mine proceeds, it is also likely to hurt existing coal jobs in Queensland and New South Wales.
Friday, April 28, 2017
New Westpac climate policy rules out financing Adani Carmichael coal mine
Westpac have released their climate change Position statement and 2020 action Plan. This effectively rules out any funding of Adani for the Carmichael coal project.
Westpac becomes the 4th and last of the big 4 Australian banks to rule out financing the Adani project, and makes it the 19th bank globally to have either ruled out funding Galilee Basin coal export projects directly, or through the introduction of a new policy.
Westpac came under intense pressure from community organisations to rule out funding for Adani, with numerous protests outside bank branches, questions at AGMs, and a campaign urging customers to divest. Without this community social pressure Westpac's climate change position may have been much less rigorous.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Stop Adani climate protest occupies Downer EDI office: Don't get into bed with Adani
About 20 Activists this morning occupied the Melbourne offices of Downer, an infrastructure company, to protest participation in developing the Adani Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Queensland, widely seen as a climate carbon bomb with no social license.
The Adani Carmichael coal mine is a climate carbon bomb that would push temperatures well past the 2 degrees C limit that countries set in Paris UN climate Conference in 2015 at COP21. Research shows that Australia needs to leave 95 percent of it's coal in the ground unexploited and unburnt to stand a reasonable chance of not exceeding the 2C target.
In January 2015 it was announced that Downer EDI had won a $2 billion contract for works at Adani's Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, according to Australian Mining.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
The Great White shark, climate change and ocean carbon cycles
The latest media 'hysteria' about shark attack arises from a tragic fatal bite incident when WA teenager Laeticia Brouwer was mauled by a shark at the popular surf break - Kelp Beds - near Esperance (south coast of Western Australia) just before 4pm on Easter Monday (2017).
The paramedic who was first on the scene said the teenager suffered tremendous blood loss and couldn't be saved despite quickly receiving first aid.
While sharks are relatively common in coastal waters, attacks are exceptional given the overwhelming presence and numbers of people in the surf zone. You are more likely to be killed in a road accident, riding a horse or a vending machine, than by a shark.
Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg says WA isn't doing enough to protect people from sharks urging shark culls and drum lines, according to the West Australian. "In light of the recent shark attack, the Commonwealth would welcome any proposal to protect human life first and foremost," he said. "This could include the newest drum-line technology, shark exclusion nets, culling or other measures which WA sees fit."
WA Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly has ruled out the idea of a shark cull in response, according to the ABC. "We're not going down the path of a cull because there's no evidence that it actually makes our beaches safer," he said, "...no evidence that that actually reduces the likelihood of future attacks," Kelly said.
Mindless culling of sharks will not actually reduce the risk of shark attack without doing great harm to the ocean ecosystem trophic structure. It is as apex ocean predators that sharks do us the greatest service in maintaining the ocean carbon cycle and help keep carbon sequestered in coastal sea areas (Blue Carbon) to help us mitigate climate change.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Adani's Abbot Point coal contamination of Caley Valley wetlands and marine environment
Article First published at nofibs.com.au
Adani's coal export terminal at Abbot Point was in the direct path of Category 4 Cyclone Debbie. There was reason to expect a large storm surge, but this did not occurr, but the destructive winds and torrential rain caused Adani to release a large amount of contaminated water into the adjacent wetlands and ocean.
On Sunday April 9 the Mackay Conservation Group published on their facebook page a before and after photo of the Abbot Point export coal terminal owned by Adani, and part of the Caley Valley wetlands adjacent to it.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Ambitious plan to bend global emissions curve by 2020, while Australia continues Adani coal push
At Google HQ in London an ambitious plan was launched by former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres to accelerate climate action and bend the global emissions curve down by 2020.
Figueres outlined six areas where action was needed to make 2020 a real turning point in the global emissions trend. For the last 3 years global emissions have been flat despite rising global GDP, a sign that economies are increasingly becoming disengaged from processes of carbon pollution.
While in Australia the Liberal National Party Federal Government lead by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is keenly supporting the Adani Carmichael coal mine development, supported by the Queensland Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Greens dare criticize coal and climate policies during #CycloneDebbie
Original article published at nofibs.com.au
Those uppity Greens are daring to speak about climate change while severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie beat the shit out of the Whitsunday Islands (Read this report of Hamilton Island), Proserpine and Bowen, and now threatens extensive flooding from torrential rainfall for central and SE coastal Queensland.
The accusatory tone from Malcolm Turnbull and other Liberal government ministers is 'How dare you try to politicise an extreme weather event, when we should all be pulling together.', while they conveniently forget the South Australian storms in September 2016 which resulted in a system black which they conveniently and erroneously immediately blamed on the fault of the wind turbines in South Australia.
They have continued to prosecute an attack on wind energy and South Australia, despite a BOM report blaming the primary cause as the cyclonic storm with 260km per hour wind gusts. AEMO also put the primary cause as the destructive winds destroying transmission towers, but also identified in the final report that automatic wind generator protection settings (since updated) contributed to the System Black event.
No pulling together for South Australia, Queensland, or in fact all of Australia, in it's time of need to resolve the lack of coherence in energy and climate policies.
Is there the taint of hypocrisy here? You bet.


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When the Barnebei family is getting ready for Memorial Day, there is the usual traffic to and from each other's places, a deluge of cellphone calls and tons of food prep involved. After decades in the restaurant industry, Jim and Nancy Barnebei have the unique joy of seeing their three grown children thriving in the family business - three of them to be exact.
Nancy Barnebei still runs the Concord Cafe in Wildwood, just as she did when her children were young. But now Jamie, the eldest whose married name is DelMonte, has her own upscale Italian restaurant in Wildwood Crest, named for her grandmother, Marie Nicole. And a few years ago, the two sons, Jeff, 33, and Justin, 31, opened the North End American Grill in North Wildwood, a casual surfer bar with a menu that strives to be unlike any other on the island.
"It's definitely a casual California flair with an upscale bar menu," Justin Barnebei says. "You can still get wings, chicken fingers, burgers. But no chicken cheesesteak, no cheesesteaks like you can get anywhere else on the island. We have a fair amount of seafood, especially this year. For example, we have a soft-shell crab BLT, the lobster corn chowder, a great lobster roll…"
Justin Barnebei says he uses red onions in his mirotoix, a French aromatic trio of carrots, onions and celery used as a base for many dishes. He uses frozen Jersey corn in his chowder "because it's just better tasting" and the kernels stay intact longer when frozen, which helps to keep the base from looking like a puree.
Even though both men attended Saint Joseph's college, receiving non-restaurant related degrees, Justin Barnebei says he always knew he would make a career of cooking near the shore. Photos on the walls in his father's office at Concord Cafe show a young Jeff and Justin playing with the dough and generally taking an interest in their parents' restaurant from a young age. These days, when his North Wildwood restaurant closes in winter, Justin Barnebei heads south to do even more cooking by a surfing beach, in Jaco, Costa Rica.
At age 12, Justin was helping his brother handwash dishes while they watched their older cousins working in the kitchen with their friends. By the time Justin was in high school, working on the kitchen line was the cool summer job all his friends wanted, and he got his first taste of the old adage if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
"Working in an office was never going to happen for me. I always knew I would end up in the kitchen since I was like, 12," he says. "I was in the kitchen 14 years before I ever went to school. Then I chose French Culinary Institute because it was only a six-month program instead of two years. I needed to get back to work."
Despite all family members working in restaurants, Justin is the only one in the family who cooks for a living, often leaving their restaurant for Jeff to run while he helps out his mom or sister in their kitchens as needed.
Helping Jamie DelMonte take over an established restaurant, Jim Barnebei has dealt with his fair share of prima-donna chefs who think it's all about their cooking. But it's a combination of everyone's talents that keep the Barnebei family restaurants running smoothly, he says. So in a pinch, Justin was able to fill in and make the Italian recipes to specification.
"It's nice to have a family member take pride in the product and who is there to keep the quality consistent," Jim Barnebei said of his son. "Justin was happy to just humbly make the food right, and it's nice when you can't always be there, to have an on-site presence at the same time.
"Luckily, with the three restaurants now, we can spread out a bit so we're not always in each other's space."
Jim Barnebei says he never pressured his kids to work in the family business, but he always knew Justin was meant to be a chef.
"I'm not surprised, you know how I knew?" Jim Barnebei asks. "When they were little - really young like 5, 6, 7 - they used to have these extra-curriculars the kids could do. Jamie was doing I don't remember what, Jeff was going on nature walks … and Justin chose Kids in the Kitchen. He was always making cookies, cupcakes, and the little kids would eat them walking home, whatever he made."
At North End American Grill, Jeff and Justin have more freedom to try specials that interest them, and give guests a different taste of vacation cuisine. For example, one of their mainstays is the aforementioned lobster corn chowder. At dinner, Justin can spread his wings and come up with entrees such as wasabi-crusted filet mignon with truffle mashed potatoes and asparagus, or whip up the fresh catch of the day.
And it wouldn't be a proper holiday meal without a red, white and blue cake decorated with the American flag. Justin Barnebei claims he's no baker, but his father remembers those cookies and cupcakes that were so popular with the kids. And so the North End American Grill is offering a marble cake with buttercream frosting, blueberry stars and strawberry stripes this Memorial Day, plus its summer lobster corn chowder.
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Phone: 609-435-5691
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Volume 10, No. 12, Week of November 12, 2001
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When will there ever be light?
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Wednesday, November 21, 2001
An All Day Writing Session
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but I will be adding to my own copy. jeanne Saturday, November 17, 2001.
The projects have moved to their own index and files.
Providing Academic Support Groups for Writing Practice
By Geraldine Ford, Mildred Coulter, Caroline Ibekwe, Ruby Montgomery, and Maria Martinez.
We are in the program for the ACJS Spring Presentations. Those of you who wish to participate (Wesley, this includes you! Michael, this includes you!) you must sign up for participation and go through our Moot Court training. I won't be on campus in the Spring, but I will be doing the training sessions. And I will be with you at the Conference. jeanne
American Sociological Association in Chciago next August.
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Self-Guelph in Turmoil
- alterity: self esteem and relational theory: Emotional Literacy: linking the hearts and minds of learners And a Happy Thanksgiving to you. Self esteem and our children. Great topic for this week-end! Extensive information, both practical and theoretical. Great site. Some of you may want to follow up on some of their teaching projects. jeanne. November 22, 2001.
- theory: why we need it: What Is Theory? Why Do We Need It? From Curran and Takata's Women's Difference; Women's Prize. See also Oppression and Revolution Curran and Takata.
- political vs. communicative action: Afghanistan and Oil US Energy Information Administration. Martha Gimenez posted this link on Thursday morning on PSN. No time just now for essay, but this relates to our discussions of public/private spheres because there is one level of analysis that pertains to world energy resources and another that pertains to dealing interpersonally with those affected by those resource battles. Note that this is a slightly different use of the public/private sphere concept, but is one of the causes for our communicating right past each other, depending on our focus. Another way of looking at the issue might be to consider the macro perspective (world energy) as separate from the micro perspective interdependent relational approaches (the people the macro actions affect). In both instances, these approaches involve ranges of focus, not dichotomies.
- the "Other" as bin Laden: So Much I Didn't Know jeanne's adventures in learning about the Middle East in record time, and how to go about that process.
- postmodernism and critical theory: Important Theeories for Research Topics Scroll down to a little more than an inch from the end of the file. Useful summary.
- Semiotics and the Deconstruction of Conceptual Learning By J. L. Lemke. Originally published in J. Soc. for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1994. The title may sound overwhelming, but the explanation of postmodernism, post structuralism, and deconstruction are clearly explained. jeanne. November 21, 2001.
- alterity: Respecting Self and Other This essay covers a psychoanalytic approach to therapy, extended to teaching. It asks intriguing questions about the relationships between self and other in both therapy and in teaching. Discussion topics included.
- Thinking About Relational Theories Journal entry by Kerry Partika. Good analysis of relational theory in the academy.
- institutional racism: Usefulness of SAT Test Is Debated in California By Jacques Steinberg. New York Times. November 17, 2001. backup. Teaching Essay will follow. Meanwhile, see Institutional Racism. See also Essay on Institutional Racism.
- religion: Divided We Fall: America's Two Civil Religions By Robert Wuthnow. Discussion Topics in all classes will be drawn from this article.
- metaphor: Added metaphors. Rigney's Eight Metaphors Drawn from Social Theory's attempt to understand society
- Nov. 18, 2001. Metaphor and social theory Review of Daniel Rigney's The Metaphorical Society. Metaphor is an important tool for analyzing social theory. References to John Godfrey Saxe's The Blind Men and the Elephant.
- exclusion for local control: Alvin Gouldner's Study of The Gypsum Plant Copyright �1998-2000 Stephen P. Borgatti. Boston College. School of Management. Social Organization. From the 1954 book, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy. Good illustration of bureaucracy and of the extent to which bureaucracies can and do exclude newcomers to maintain local control.
- applied sociology Which "Applied Sociology?" By S. M. Miller, who wrote with Alvin Gouldner. A teaching essay by itself.
- hybridization: Homi K. Bhabha One of the central concepts Bhabha presents in which he denies the dichotomy of colonized and colonizer and recognizes that the reality of both is affected by the entire process.
- Theorists:
- Bhabha, Homi K.:
- Harvard's Prize Catch, a Delphic Postcolonialist By Emily Eakin, New York Times, p.A 21, Saturday, November 17, 2001. backup Excellent readable piece on a leading Postcolonialist.
- Homi K. Bhabha Teaching essay. Pay special attention to "hybridization."
- Foucault, Michel:
- An Overly Simplistic and Wildly Inaccurate Genealogy of the Work of Michel Foucault Teaching essay up soon.
- Goffman, Erving:
- Role Models And Role Distance: A Remembrance of Erving Goffman by Gary T. Marx. Here's a good example of the historical sense of sociology you should have by the time you graduate. Marx throws in names on the assumption that all sociologists will know and recognize those names. See how well you do. I'm putting up some Alvin Gouldner to help.
- Gouldner, Alvin:
- Alvin Gouldner's Study of The Gypsum Plant Copyright �1998-2000 Stephen P. Borgatti. Boston College. School of Management. Social Organization. From the 1954 book, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy. Good illustration of bureaucracy and of the extent to which bureaucracies can and do exclude newcomers to maintain local control.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich:
- Moral Discipline and the Dominant Discourse With material for discussion.
- Art and the Imaginary:
- And All That Jazz Jazz Paintings by Justin Bua. On Eve's Magazine Site.
- Art and Healing:
- The Children's Art Gallery on Eve's Magazine Site. In response to Kara's request for more children's art.
- Art You Should Know
- Islamic Art and Architecture The BBC Site. Informative and well done.
- Index for Sharing the Site What others are reading and their questions and comments on their reading. Needs updating. jeanne 10/20/01
Week 12: Week of November 12, 2001
Up soon.
THE NOVEMBER NOVEL and THE NOVEMBER WRITING PROJECTS
- The November Novel and The November Writing Projects have moved to their own indexes and files.
- Learning Is Messy
Conflicts Around the World:
- Present Danger
- Four Journalists Kidnapped and Shot, Witnesses Say By Tim Weiner. New York Times. November 19, 2001.
- Long-Term Effects
- The Journey of a 15-Year-Old From Mali Who Sold Himself Into Bondage By Michael Finkel. New York Times Magazine. With slide show. November 18, 2001. This story relates to the Ivory Coast and exploitation to force indigenous people to harvest cocoa beans for chocolate. Well done as a story. jeanne
- History
- Up soon.
Scholastic Resources:
- American Sociological Association in Chciago next August. Call for papers.
- Original Sources:
- Philosophy Resources Online Episteme Links. Online texts.
- Postmodernism and Conflict Theory
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought Excellent Site maintained by Martin Ryder. You'll find a link to Dear Habermasunder Resources. But we haven't really kept up with the main listing, which is far closer to advanced graduate work. We're still trying to create the same kind of material for those of us who don't have that heavy theoretical and formal background, but may wish to go on in that direction. I'm hoping that retirement will give me enough time to do with our site what Martin Ryder has done with his. jeanne, November 21, 2001.
- The Meaning Center Jay L. Lemke. City University of New York.
You Gotta Read This
- The Ordination of a Buddhist Monk Pictures and story. Link taken from the BBC link on Buddhism. I thought this would be a nice story for Thanksgiving. jeanne
Kids' Site
- Chapter 3: Pumsy Meets the Sandbox Boss on anger control for young children. With Leader's Guide excerpt to go with the anger control example. This is an excellent site for teachers.
- John Godfrey Saxe's The Blind Men and the Elephant A Hindu Fable.
What people are saying about Dear Habermas
- Up soon.
Who To Take
- Who To Take Site Look up professors that others have recommended. Make recommendations yourself.
- Transforming Campus Discourse:The Importance of Sharing the Good Stuff


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'Hunger Games' Scenes We're Dying to See Pt. 2 (VIDEO)
Today we have part two of our interview with Emily Ansara Baines. She is the author of The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook which has over 150 recipes inspired from three books.
Get in on the conversation in the comments or on Twitter! How do you think food will play out on the big screen?
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Archive for Lars-Göran Nilsson
Asus Eee Note EA800 hands-on
Asus' Eee Note EA800 is an interesting proposition. Not quite a tablet (it's mono for starters) and more than an ebook reader, it fits into a category all of its own.Indeed, the sketch tablet, or note pad, may not be bought by those interested in the... >>
Multi-touch remote controls and keypads coming from Elan
Ever felt that the old fashioned remote control just doesn't cut it anymore? We've seen an interesting solution from a Taiwanese company, Elan, that is a multi-touch device which can be used as a remote control, a keyboard, and a gamepad. Multi-touch... >>
Display Taiwan goes bonkers over 3D TVs without the spex
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3M first with USB 3.0 monitor
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Acer Stream Android handset hands-on
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Acer LumiRead L-600 meets Amazon Kindle head-on - first look
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Acer beTouch E130 handset runs Android
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MSI GT660 laptop comes with passive 3D glasses
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Malata SMB-A1011 Android tablet steals the show at Computex
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Congressional frustration over the burgeoning scandal at the Internal Revenue Service bubbled over on one Sunday talk show.
Appearing on CNN's State of the Union program, hosted by Candy Crowley, California Representative Darrell Issa called White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a "paid liar" and alleged that Carney was "making up things about what happened." Issa said his comments pertained to Carney's attempt to shift blame for the scandal to the IRS's Cincinnati office, the Washington Post noted.
The IRS has come under heavy criticism since it emerged last month that the agency had deliberately targeted conservative and "Tea Party" groups for extra scrutiny. Since the scandal broke, IRS officials in Cincinnati and Washington D.C. have been tied to the targeting of conservatives.
The White House has been hit with a barrage of scandals in recent week's, including continuing fallout from the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and revelations that the Department of Justice obtained telephone records for journalists as part of a leak investigation.
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(July 24, 2013) On July 22, 2013, the European Union's 28 foreign ministers, at a meeting held in Brussels and chaired by Catherine Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, added the military wing of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations. (Foreign Affairs Council – July 2013, TV NEWSROOM (July 22, 2013).)
Ashton pointed out that the move does not prevent the EU from continuing its dialogue on peace and security in the region with all the political parties in Lebanon. The Council of Foreign Ministers agreed to continue the delivery of EU and individual Member State financial assistance to Lebanon. The EU position on Hezbollah will be reviewed again in six months. (Press Release, A 395/13, Remarks by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton Following the Foreign Affairs Council (July 22, 2013).)
The United Kingdom was instrumental in the designation of the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, following a bomb attack in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 2012 that UK authorities have attributed to the group. Hezbollah has denied its involvement in the incident. Information related to a 2012 thwarted terrorist attack in Cyprus, another EU Member State, also prompted the EU foreign ministers to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. In addition, Hezbollah's recent military support of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad contributed to the decision. (EU Adds Hezbollah's Military Wing to Its Terrorist List,EURACTIV (updated July 23, 2013).)


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While there was a touch of excitement during minicamp, when players saw Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Heath Miller running on his surgically repaired knee. Unfortunately, that in no way ensures that he will be ready to start camp, or even week one. In fact, he is likely to open the season on the PUP list.David Paulson. If Miller cannot go, the easy way to fill the void would be with David Johnson, who is one year removed from an ACL injury.
With a couple million dollars remaining under the salary cap, one has to wonder if another veteran tight end could be on the RADAR for the Steelers if Miller is unable to go early in the season.
At this point, the free agent pickings appear slim. However, there are a couple of veterans that may be worth rolling the dice on for a minimum salaried deal; Dallas Clark (Tampa Bay), Kevin Boss (Kansas City) and Chris Cooley (Washington). Yes, there are potential injury concerns for all three, and none are the players they were in their prime, but they could be an upgrade at the bottom of the roster.
When the Steelers broke minicamp, head coach Mike Tomlin did not rule out signing another veteran free agent, although he did not make it sound like that would be a priority moving forward. Of course, that alone could be a sign that Miller is ahead of schedule, or it could be a smoke screen.
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