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Newsbusters, unable to read, continues to quote an article that backs me up, not them
[My apologies to readers about the heavy denier traffic, but one of the most popular right-wing disinformation sites has trained its slime on me. The main reason I am responding is that this involves an important progressive talking point that conservatives are trying to shout down. I have been traveling this week, which hindered my response to the comments, but I will be more vigilant.]
I'm not certain it's worth a lot more time debating people who can't or won't read, like those at Newsbusters.
But let's do this one last time, since it involves an important talking point progressives should use comparing jobs in the wind industry with coal mining jobs, which is probably best stated:
Last year, windpower generated as many jobs in this country as coal mining.
A version of this was first popularized by business-friendly Fortune magazine in a post mistitled "Wind jobs outstrip coal industry," which called this "a talking point in the green jobs debate."
The Christian Science Monitor wrote a post (here) critical of Fortune. Since Newsbusters has written yet another post attacking me and the talking point (here) — and since they bizarrely insist that the CSM post supports their attack, when in fact the reverse is true — let's briefly look at what CSM actually wrote. CSM criticized Fortune for using the word "industry" in the headline and [once] in the story:
But it's a bogus comparison. According to the wind energy report, those 85,000 jobs in wind power are as "varied as turbine component manufacturing, construction and installation of wind turbines, wind turbine operations and maintenance, legal and marketing services, and more." The 81,000 coal jobs counted by the Department of Energy are only miners. Their figure excludes those who haul the coal around the country, as well as those who work in coal power plants.
To be fair, Woody's lede does say that "[t]he wind industry now employs more people than coal mining in the United States." But his story then immediately abandons this distinction, and then goes on to characterize those 81,000 jobs as comprising the total employment of the coal industry….
Update: It appears that the Green Wombat has corrected its story….
Now click on the Green Wombat (i.e. Fortune's blog) post to see what CSM considers a correction to the story [crossouts in original]:
Wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000 in 2008, a 70% increase from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday from the American Wind Energy Association. In contrast, the coal industry mining employs about 81,000 workers.
As anyone who can read can plainly see, Fortune changed "coal industry" to "coal mining" and that was what CSM considered correcting the story.
So, the talking point is, as I've said, both accurate and fair as long as you use "coal mining," which, of course, I did.
So I repeat to Newsbusters, "In your effort to refute me, you actually quoted from a source that backs me up! Doh!"
In fact, what is so hysterical laughable about Newsbusters is that after I explained this to Newsbusters in my last post, you would think they would at least read the CSM post and stop quoting it to defend their position.
One final point for progressives. The jobs figures for both coal mining and the wind are in flux, in part because of the severe economic downturn. For wind in particular, the sharp upward growth in wind, which provided "42% of the entire new power-producing capacity added nationally last year," temporarily slowed at the end of last year and first quarter of this year. So I think the best way to phrase the talking point is
Last year, windpower generated as many jobs in this country as coal mining.
Windpower generates as many jobs in this country as coal mining.
The main point of the talking point is that the two numbers are now roughly the same. Why is it a powerful talking point, one that the right wing hates? Coal mining is the iconic fossil fuel industry job. Many people have a mistaken notion that there are an enormous number of coal mining jobs that might be lost because of action on clean energy and climate. Many people also have a mistaken notion that renewables have too little market penetration to generate many jobs. The statement corrects both of those misimpressions in one fell swoop. Other reasons why the comparison are fair can be found here.
The above talking point should be good for this year, at least until new figures for wind come out. The severe downturn and credit crunch hit all capital-intensive energy investments hard, but the stimulus package has started to turn things around — see Stimulus and venture capital sow seeds for cleantech industry's "revival."
In fact, as E&E News PM (subs. req'd) put it Monday:
In a sign the federal stimulus might be reawakening the clean energy industry, General Electric's energy investment division announced two big capital injections today into wind project developers and manufacturers.
GE Energy Financial Services said it would pump $200 million into three wind farms being built by Noble Environmental Power in Clinton, Franklin and Wyoming counties. The project, backed by a consortium of 10 foreign and domestic financial firms, is expected to generate 330 megawatts — enough electricity to power 110,000 households….
Today's news comes after GE's announcement last week of expanded wind activity.
Last Thursday, project developer Invenergy Wind announced a deal in which GE Energy will supply 74 1.5-megawatt wind turbines to expand the Grand Ridge wind farm in LaSalle County, Ill. That development should generate 110 megawatts.
So we'll have to wait until next January or so to know if the talking point needs to be changed again. Within a year or two, wind industry jobs will again exceed coal mining jobs — eventually by a great deal — and likely stay that way for a long time.
One final small point — and I do hope it is a final point — about the Newsbusters smear-fest. In a post filled with misstatements and lies, Newsbusters' biggest and most telling whopper is in the first paragraph:
Joe Romm has set his sights on NewsBusters.
[Wait for laughter to die down.]
In yet another amazing demonstration of Newsbusters inability to read even its own posts, that same paragraph has two links. The first goes to an April 3 (!) disinformation-laden post smearing me. The second goes to an April 7 disinformation-laden post smearing me. As anyone who can read can plainly see, I didn't respond to these attacks until yesterday, April 8 — see Newbusters jumps the shark (if that's possible).
Newbusters hysterical attempt to play the victim here is, well, hysterical.
To end where I began, I don't think it's worth spending a lot more time debating people who can't or won't read, like those at Newsbusters. So I hope to ignore them as much as possible in the future.
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It's time to start considering site moderators.
There comes a point at which the 'main guy' is forced to spend too much time taking out the trash. Why not identify a few "trusted users" and let them whack the moles?
And, as to content, I'd like to see more on solutions and progress being made and a bit less on "spats".
[JR: And what percentage of posts are solutions and progress vs. "spats"? 20-to-1, maybe?]
Getting into fights with deniers usually turns out to be a waste of time. They don't play by the rules that govern scientific/logical behavior. They make up their rules as they go. Debating them only gives them more public exposure.
Perhaps you should have "notes" which are very short statements of facts and not allow comments/discussion following those notes.
All this Newsbuster crap could be rebutted in a couple of sentences. State the facts and let people make their own judgments as to who is credible.
Your still using misleading information. Kinda like saying that the orange Juice Industry outnumbers Apple Growers.
On the other hand Bob Wallace, I have found quite a few absolutely fantastic links posted here by commenters as rebuttals to the deniers. Just in the last few days, I got links about global dimming masking even worse warming, which I had never heard of before, and videos of the ice sheets disintegrating, which were breathtaking.
[JR: And what percentage of posts are solutions and progress vs. "spats"? 20-to-1, maybe?]
Using rough definitions of solutions/spats I took a look at the most recent two pages. I found 8 entries involving Newsbusters, George Will, Mike M. type stuff, 9 entries about the extent of the climate problem and solutions, and a couple of "none of the above"s.
Your definitions may vary….
[JR: Your comment really, really annoys me. First, the Newsbusters stuff ain't anything like the George Will post. If you don't get that, then this is not the blog for you. Second, "the most recent two pages." Yeah. Then I'll judge you by your recent comments. Hmm. You never seem to post on the climate problem or solutions anymore. Seriously, dude!]
Gail – agree. But do we want these links at the potential cost of turning the site into a cesspool?
As it is I don't visit the comment sections of some very valuable science sites because they allow absolute crap to linger. I've seen some very good sites such as The Energy Blog go from a place where knowledgeable people posted to a worthless troll haven.
This is about the only site that I've found where one can engage in civil, fact-based give and take. I'd hate to lose this one as well.
Perhaps a moderation approach that struck down the really ridiculous and rephrased the denier points into legitimate questions that people could then answer with valuable information?
Really frustrate trolls. Turn their sow's ears into silk purses….
[JR: I was traveling this week. That is about 90% of the reason I couldn't moderate more. 'nuff said.]
Joe, shouldn't the proper comparison be jobs per megawatt anyway? This seems a silly comparison when you factor the relative size of the two industries.
[JR: I think the only interesting comparison, if it could be done, is jobs that might be lost by climate action vs. those that would certainly be gained. That's why I think the coal miners numbers is interesting. Many of the other jobs related to the coal industry are not nearly as greatly threatened.]
[JR: Your comment really, really annoys me. First, the Newsbusters stuff ain't anything like the George Will post. If you don't get that, then this is not the blog for you. Second, "the most recent two pages." Yeah. Then I'll judge you by your recent comments. Hmm. You never seem to post on the climate problem or solutions anymore. Seriously, dude!]
Joe – please don't let your anger over the people attacking you spread over to the people who are on your side.
You might want to seriously consider taking on some moderation help so that you don't have to deal with all the crazies single-handed.
A 1 GW coal plant employs about 1500 people for five years in order to build, and about 100 people permanantly to run it. The same amount of wind is estimated to provide the same amount of construction jobs, but about 400 permanant jobs. Similar numbers are quoted for solar as well. Nuclear provides even more construction jobs (over 2000) and around 400 permanent jobs as well.
When it comes to jobs, coal is dead last by a wide margin.
Chad – are you saying the payroll to produce 1GW of wind is 4 times more expensive than coal?


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|Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur
Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis
Keuskupan Agung Kuala Lumpur
St. John's Cathedral
|Ecclesiastical province
|Kuala Lumpur
|63,763 km2 (24,619 sq mi)
- Total
- Catholics
|(as of 2013)
185,617[1] (1.7%)
|35 [1]
|Roman Catholic
|Latin Rite
|25 February 1955
|St. John's Cathedral
|Current leadership
|Metropolitan Archbishop
|Julian Leow Beng Kim
|Vicar General
|Leonard Lexson
Mitchel Joseph
|Emeritus Bishops
|Murphy Pakiam Archbishop Emeritus (2003-2013)
Anthony Soter Fernandez Archbishop Emeritus (1983-2003)
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur (Latin: Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia. It was erected as the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur by Pope Pius XII on 25 February 1955, and was elevated to the rank of a Metropolitan Archdiocese on 18 December 1972, with the suffragan sees of Malacca-Johor and Penang. It also administers the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and the states of Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Terengganu. The archdiocese's Mother Church and thus, seat of its Archbishop, is St. John's Cathedral.
In 1786, the first church was established in Penang. This led to the formation of Vicariate of Siam and Kedah, which expanded towards the entire Malayan Peninsula and Singapore. The Vicariate of Malaya was formed in 1841. The Church of Visitation was founded in 1848 in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. This is the first known church to be erected in central Malaya. A historical moment was made in 1888, when the Diocese of Malacca was formed. The first church in Kuala Lumpur was dedicated to St John the evangelist in 1883, and would be later known as St. John's Cathedral, the Mother Church of Kuala Lumpur.[2]
In 1955, the Diocese of Malacca became a Metropolitan Archdiocese, with the newly formed Diocese of Penang and Diocese of Kuala Lumpur as its suffragan sees. Bishop Dominic Vendargon was appointed as the first Bishop of Kuala Lumpur, and was ordained in the same year. In 1972, the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur was elevated into an Archdiocese, with the suffragan dioceses of Penang and Malacca-Johor.
In 1983, Archbishop Dominic Vendargon retired. Bishop Anthony Soter Fernandez of Penang was appointed as the 2nd Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur. When he retired in 2003, he was succeeded by Archbishop Murphy Pakiam who was then the Auxiliary Bishop. On 3 July 2014, the Vatican appointed Most Rev Julian Leow as the 4th Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, after the resignation of Archbishop Emeritus Murphy Pakiam was accepted by Pope Francis in December 2013.[3][4]
List of Bishops and Archbishops of Kuala Lumpur[edit]
- Archbishop Dominic Vendargon (1955–1983)
- Archbishop Anthony Soter Fernandez (1983–2003)
- Archbishop Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam (2003–2013)
- Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim (2014-current)
List of parishes in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur[edit]
These are the list of parishes in the Archdiocese. Outstations are not listed.
- Kuala Lumpur Central District
- Cathedral of St John, Bukit Nanas
- Church of the Holy Rosary, Jalan Tun Sambanthan
- Church of St. Anthony, off Jalan Pudu
- Church of Our Lady of Fatima, Brickfields
- Kuala Lumpur North District
- Church of the Good Shepherd, Setapak
- Church of St. Joseph, Sentul
- Church of the Risen Christ, Jalan Ipoh
- Church of Jesus Caritas, Kepong
- Chapel of Kristus Aman, TTDI
- Chapel of Kristus Cahaya, Desa Jaya
- Chapel of Christ the King, Selayang, Batu Caves
- Kuala Lumpur South District
- Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jalan Peel
- Church of the Holy Family, Kajang
- Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Cheras
- Chapel of Our Lady of Good Health, Kampung Pandan
- Petaling District
- Church of the Assumption, Jalan Templer, Petaling Jaya
- Church of St. Francis Xavier, Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya
- Church of St. Ignatius, Taman Plaza, Petaling Jaya
- Church of St. Thomas More, Subang Jaya
- Church of the Divine Mercy, Shah Alam
- Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Puchong
- Klang District
- Church of the Holy Redeemer, Klang
- Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Klang
- Church of St. Anne, Port Klang
- Church of Sts Peter & Paul, Banting
- North West District
- Church of St. Jude, Rawang
- Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Kuala Kubu Bharu
- Church of St. Paul the Hermit, Bestari Jaya
- Negeri District
- Church of the Visitation, Seremban
- Church of St. Aloysius, Mantin
- Church of St. Theresa, Nilai
- Church of St. John Vianney, Tampin
- Church of the Immaculate Conception, Port Dickson
- Pahang/Terengganu District
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- ^ Diocese of Malacca "Original Catholic Encyclopedia:Diocese of Malacca" Check
|url=value (help). 21 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Pope Francis accepts resignation of Archbishop Murphy Pakiam of Kuala Lumpur". 21 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Pope appoints Chinese Malaysian priest as new Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur". 21 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
See also[edit]
- Roman Catholicism in Malaysia
- List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Malaysia
- List of Roman Catholic dioceses (structured_view)-Episcopal Conference of Malaysia
- www.ArchKL.org | Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur Official Website
- www.Catholic.org.my | Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur Catechesis Site
- www.catholic-hierarchy.org | Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur
- www.GCatholic.org | Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur
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- "The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press." "I won't say that I won't acquire another videogame licence in the future. But I'm not so eager to do it any more, to be honest. After Far Cry, maybe I'll go away from videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really happy about it." Probably remarkable for being the least brain-bending thing Boll has ever said, and the one we were most excited to hear at the time. "Uwe Boll bites back" -- Eurogamer, February 15th 2006
4. The Filmindustry
- "Now a few days before IN THE NAME OF THE KING gets out in USA I have to tell whats going on in the filmindustry," "If you dont get out with a MAJOR company the exhibitors and the tv and radio stations are not supporting you. This is the reason that independent movies are like self fullfilling prophecies and they almost bomb all." "Our competitor in USA FIRST SUNDAY with Ice Cube is a piece of [s***] and for NOBODY nearly so interesting as IN THE NAME OF THE KING. We have a better movie and a bigger movie with a better script, better cast and we proved in europe that our movie has the power to stay 3 weeks in the TOP TEN and that we can get at least 50% good reviews. FIRST SUNDAY is a direct to DVD title in europe but in USA Sony puts 40 mill. $ in advertising to win that weekend. And this is completly absurd. Sony will not even recoup the advertising costs with that movie." I can't understand a word of that, but considering that the guy can afford to make more movies than I've had hot meals he must know what he's talking about. "Why people should go see In The Name Of The King" -- bollbashers.com, Jan 10th 2008
3. You Dumb [F***]
- Wired's Chris Kohler didn't much like Postal, and the opinion earned one of the most awesome flames in history. Chris and Boll kissed and made nice afterward, but it's the initial salvo that we'll carry with us forever. "chris your review shows me only that you dont understand anything about movies and that you are a untalented wanna bee filmmaker with no balls and no understanding what POSTAL is. you dont see courage because you are nothing. and no go to your mum and [f***] her ...because she cooks for you now since 30 years ..so she deserves it ... people like you are the reason that independent movies have no chance anymore. uwe boll PS: POSTAL is R RATED . The MPAA understood the satire -- you not -- you dumb [f***]" "Uwe Boll Responds To Our Postal Review" -- Game|Life, April 10th 2007
2. I Love America
- "who is patriotic? Is Bush patriotic? If yes, then why the BIN LADEN family could leave the USA as the only airplane leaving America on September 11? If yes then why Bush is so friendly to Saudi Arab - even if everybody knows that the Saudis are the financers of AL KAEDA (and not the IRAKetc.)? What is patriotic? Believing the pr bullshit of a government hired by the weapon and oil industry to initial wars around the globe? I love America for the freedom of speech and the freedom of thinking and it was time with POSTAL to speak up and to break this self-censorship apart. Bush and a lot of mass media tried to brainwash the public and now all his politic goes downhill because it is not working. Instead of doing something against the global warming he has nothing else to do as to tank multibillions of $ in a senseless war. Would Bush fight in an Irak-War himself? No! So many young americans are dying in a stupid war for nothing - but Bush gets still considered as a patriot? Don't think I'm an enemy. POSTAL is a necessary wake up call and we make fun in that movie about everybody. We blame the stupid Islam Extremists as retards and I portrait myself as a Nazi - so there are no rules we are not breaking. Where are the times where a movie like LIFE OF BRIAN was made? It was time for POSTAL and you know it and I know it." "Postal Backlash: Boll Replies" -- bollbashers.com, April 10th 2007
1. Destroy Indiana Jones
- "On the Indiana Jones weekend -- May 23 -- we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up -- would Michael Moore say! Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the f*** the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as 'Nazi Theme Park Owner' outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler's List!" "Uwe Boll Sets 'Postal' to Release Against Indiana Jones" -- bloody-disgusting.com, March 3rd 2008


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The only difference between the Violets is a penned in skirt? Lame!
From Yoshida Metal (Oren)'s blog. The birthday cake was posted November 2nd, a day after his birthday. In the corner of the cake it says "To daddy". Isn't that adorable? It must be pretty rad to have a dad who's a Kamen Rider. Plus he's a huge dude in general.
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Just a few questions that I answered for someone's homework.
1. Has 'Kamen Rider' affected you in any way? If so, how?
Well, it has given me something to look forward to on a weekly basis for the last 10+years. I'm sure over the years, I've applied some moral conundrum from the show to my real life.
2. What made you decide to start doing subs for 'Kamen Rider'?
Well, before we started working on tokusatsu, the fansubbing scene was pretty much nonexistent for this genre. There were anime fansub groups and even Jdorama fansub groups, but tokusatsu was always overlooked. I guess most people thought it was for kids?
It just seemed like a shame, since I was a part of a small IRC chat community that enjoyed trading and watching the raw videos. It just seemed like a natural transition to go "If these things had translations on them, a lot more people would enjoy them."
3. Who is your favorite 'Kamen Rider' and why?
Probably Kamen Rider Blade. In general the story has a nice arc and I really enjoyed the complex relationships that existed between the different Riders. Plus the series went from being unpopular and impenetrable to being something people genuinely got into on a character and story level. After Faiz, a lot of people wanted more of the same style and coolness that Faiz had, but Blade didn't have that. Heck, most people hated the card theme and the designs of the suits at first.
As you get older, you notice that there's a strong timeliness component to how you enjoy things. For me, Blade was one of the first Rider series I translated to completion. I only worked on the last ten or so episodes for Faiz. So that was my first big step into the spotlight of Rider translation. The group was also relatively new and we were meeting new people. It was just a fun time in general.
4. What does 'Kamen Rider' mean to you beyond the show?
I think it's important to keep in touch with the kid inside of you. And something about Kamen Rider as a series is just appealing to both children and adult a like. I just like that. It's just a nice bridge between generations. The heroes are still heroes for the most part and they all shout Henshin. Things are always changing, so it's nice when there's something that stays the same.
5. Do you think there should be more adaptations of 'Kamen Rider' in America? Why or why not?
I don't think so. Most people in America will think it's just Power Rangers and assume it's for kids. I think the barrier is harder to get around in America. There's grown-up entertainment and there's kid's entertainment. With the exception of My Little Pony, I can't think of many communities that gather around a show directed mainly at kids like that.
Looks like the guest for this episode is Kitadai Takashi who's some Musical Prince of Tennis guy.
As hard as this may be to believe, this is probably the fan service episode.
And something for the ladies...
Speaking of Blu-rays, what've you got next for us, Toei?
So it looks like some guys in Texas are trying to put together a toku festival. If you're interested, check it out!
It looks like they also have a podcast:
Soon my precious...
Also sorry about being late last week. Guess we all got a little too comfortable during the week off.
A purple, gun slinging, dancing dragon Rider? Isn't it a bit early to be ripping off Den-O?


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Could live with 1st 4 picks, but Chancellor and Johnson are S-L-O-W! Ulbrich was probably faster in his last year than Johnson is now.
Upgrading team speed should be a requirement for any defensive draftee.
Also don't see much in Selvie.
I'd like to see the first 5 picks have starter ability, within 2-3 years.


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Electricity for those on the move
Plug-ins and electric cars are a core climate solution, since electric drives are more efficient, easily powered by carbon-free energy and indeed far cheaper to operate per mile than gasoline, even when running on renewable power. And they are the key alt-fuel strategy needed to deal with the energy/economic security threat of rising dependence on imported oil and the inevitably grim impacts of peak oil (see "Why electricity is the only alternative fuel that can lead to energy independence"). Since no one is going to build a serious hydrogen infrastructure in your lifetime, it's great to the growing efforts to build an EV charging infrastructure, as discussed in this CAP repost. The photo is of a group looking inside a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle's gas tank parked on display outside San Francisco's City Hall after a $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations that will dot the Bay area highways was announced on November 20, 2008.
Last year, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he wanted to see 1 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the United States by 2015. General Motors responded by unveiling the Chevrolet Volt last week, a plug-in electric/gas hybrid that's set to be available to the public in 2010. According to GM, the new Volt can achieve a city fuel economy of 230 miles per gallon based on unofficial development testing of "pre-production prototypes," and it can function solely on electric mode "without having to use any gas." Nissan also created a new prototype called the "Leaf." The company says the car is 100 percent electric and reaches the equivalent of 367 mpg.
The companies claim the cars' batteries can be recharged using electrical outlets at home, but if you're in the city and need to power up, you'll need to recharge somewhere. As a result, on-street recharging stations in cities are becoming more popular as electric car production takes off.
One clear example is the United Kingdom, which aims to meet Europe's standards on air quality by discouraging the use of diesel-engineered vehicles, minibuses, and coaches, while promoting the purchase of electric plug-in cars. There are currently six models of electric cars, four electric van models, and electric bikes and scooters for sale there.
Central London's City of Westminster became one of the first councils to promote the use of electric cars with financial incentives and the installation of two recycled aluminum-made, on-street recharging stations. By increasing electric vehicle use, the city hopes to reduce air pollution that causes cardiopulmonary diseases and minor health problems like headaches and sore throats.
Other large cities in Europe are massively implementing electric vehicle, or EV, recharging points at public parking facilities. Madrid's City Hall this year approved the installation of 58 recharging points, available for free to EV car users, and signed an agreement with the Spanish Ministry of Industry to increase the use of electric cars. Other cities such as Seville, Barcelona, and Cuenca have followed Madrid's example. Additionally, the Portuguese government pledged to install nearly 1,300 recharging points in 21 urban and rural sites by the end of 2011. Selected sites in Portugal would also include shopping centers, airports, hotels, and parking bays, to name a few.
Stateside, San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose have taken the lead in encouraging the use of electric vehicles by installing three charging stations this year as a "testing ground." The new stations are part of a nine-step plan""enacted in December 2008″"by the aforementioned cities' mayors to turn the Bay Area "into the electric vehicle capital of the United States." The stations made by Coulomb Technologies have a cost of $1,000 to $2,000 for a business or municipality.
Like the City of Westminster, the Bay Area's blueprint establishes government programs to promote the purchase of electric cars, to secure safe, standard electric outlets for charging low-voltage cars, and to link programs to regional transit and air quality programs, among other points.
Wisconsin's Madison Gas and Electric, or MGE, has also purchased six on-street recharging units""called Chargepoints""for Madison, a university town, as part of a demonstration project this summer. The first Chargepoints unit, coupled with the six already available, will kick off by early 2010 and will have a subscription charging system. Other U.S cities that have mulled over the use of on-street recharging units include Hillsboro, OR; Chicago; and Tucson.
Advancing electric car use across our country and marrying it with on-street recharging stations will not only help ease our dependence on foreign oil""and thus bring relief to our wallets""but can also help reduce pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates, increase the number of clean-energy jobs, and diminish the use of diesel-engineered vehicles.
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My next car will be electric.
Commercial shipping begins in the Northeast Passage
This year's opening marks the fourth time in five years that the Northeast Passage has opened, and commercial shipping companies are taking note. Two German ships set off on August 21 on the first commercial voyage ever made through the Northeast Passage without the help of icebreakers. The Northeast Passage trims 4,500 miles off the 12,500 mile trip through the Suez Canal, yielding considerable savings in fuel. The voyage was not possible last year, because Russia had not yet worked out a permitting process. With Arctic sea ice expected to continue to decline in the coming decades, shipping traffic through the Northeast Passage will likely become commonplace most summers.
Nissan has said that once their 100 mile range LEAF is in full production there will be "lots" of charge stations installed.
They have entered into agreement with eTec to install 12,750 charging stations in five states and 400 are in place. They are talking less than 20 minutes for an 80% charge.
On board GPS will monitor battery charge and location of the nearest charge stations. The stations should be compatible with the needs of all EVs/PHEVs.
Ever since I saw "Who Killed the Electric Car?" I've been watching Detroit inch slowly in the direction of hybrids, PHEVs and EVs. Last December, I upgraded my 2008 Prius to be a plug-in, and I really love it! Even with the $10K cost of the battery pack, my plug-in hybrid Prius cost me less than what the Volt is expected to sell for, and I'm driving it NOW. I've been getting an average of 73 MPG since the upgrade (total miles divided by total gallons). If I could charge my car at work, I'd be getting more like 90 MPG. It's pretty frustrating to see the glacial pace of change in Detroit. Plug-ins are something we need to be producing in the millions, but it's just taking forever for the car companies to get their act together.
I'll buy the Volt if I can or convert an existing car from the information I derived from the late Bob Brant's book "Build Your Own Electric Vehicle" and the Michael Brown Shari Prange book "Convert It".
I find it very misleading to see you quote only the "low cost" for fueling an electric car, with no mention of the range problems for electric cars as well as the VERY high cost for the batteries. Talking about technology without addressing economics is not helpful. The cost of reducing CO2, in terms of $/ton is MUCH more expensive via electric cars when you consider total costs. Makes much more sense to shut down coal-fired power plants and continue to use gasoline and diesel for transportation. Do the math.
According to the Pres/CEO of Audi, EVs, at $40,000+ are for "intellectual idiots" He should know, since Audi is the world leader of diesel powered vehicles which are cleaner and more fuel efficient (energy consumed per mile actually driven) than are your stupid EVs!
Just a question: has anyone calculated the additional grid load required if 200,000,000 Americans come home in the evening and plug in their EVs to recharge them? I don't think the wind or sun is very active then! A typical 20 amp battery charger (240 watts output) requires upwards to 500 watts input (Yes, they are less than 50% efficient). 500 watts x 200,000,000 users??? I smell smoke!
#4 J.A. Turner: "If I could charge my car at work, I'd be getting more like 90 MPG."
Who is supposed to pay for that power you use from work? Or is it OK to steal it from your place of employment? Your solution also adds to the total grid burden and your 90mpg takes energy away from someone else!
Tom, the article is about where to plug and not about the cars themselves.
Batteries are expensive, but that is believed to be largely an issue of manufacturing volume. When the annual number of units gets much higher rather than at the "prototype" levels of today prices are expected to drastically drop.
And surprisingly, less CO2 per mile is pumped into the atmosphere by an EV running on 100% coal produced electricity than a similar size/weight ICE vehicle. That's because coal plants are somewhat efficient and electric cars are very efficient. ICE engines waste a lot of energy.
Then factor in the fact that we get less than 50% of our electricity from coal….
dd – Audi is releasing an electric soon. Audi's CEO doesn't seem to know what his company is doing. Probably been standing too close to the tailpipe.
As for charging, we've got lots of available power on the grid at night. Remember that the grid is sized for hot summer afternoons when people have their AC cranked way up high. Demand drops very significantly at night. Oak Ridge Labs did a study a few years back. And the wind does tend to blow harder at night.
Charge your car at work? Well the consumer could pay. Could be a profit center for the business. Or the business might offer charging as a perk. After all, we're talking about a buck's worth of power per day.
(30 miles @ 0.25 kWh per mile = 7.5 kWh @ $0.10 kWh – $0.75)
Oh, and "real" battery chargers are 85%+ efficient. You're thinking about those things people buy at the auto parts store.
Oh, dd, here's something else to chew on.
ICE cars waste about 80% of the energy in their fuel producing heat. About 20% of the energy gets to the wheels.
Electric cars send about 90% of their energy to the wheels, wasting only 10% or so. Plus they use no energy when coasting or stopped. Well designed, they even recover energy when braking.
It really is an electric future….
The picture at the top of this article is exactly what is wrong with the whole approach the media and the electric car manufacturers themselve have taken so far: See the pretty blue daisy symbols painted on the side of the car?
Can we please lose the damn daisy symbols? And all the other hippy-trippy, eco-freak, greenpeace radical chic symbols and other crap? Make the cars look sexy and hot. Sell the sizzle first and then talk about the fuel savings and emissions reductions as gravy. This is what has sold cars in the past and it is what will sell cars in the future. Electric cars should be presented and marketed just like any other cars, but with extra bragging rights because of the green stuff. But first you make the consumers desperately want to buy the thing, even if they have to go into debt for 7 years to do it.
This is all elementary Marketing 101 and yet the media and the electric manufactures keep missing it.
Marketing approaches…
"Make the cars look sexy and hot."
Cars for guys with deep pockets and expanding bald spots.
(Tesla's got that covered.)
"hippy-trippy, eco-freak, greenpeace radical chic symbols"
Cars for happy eco-friendly folks. The people who will buy EVs first.
"just like any other cars"
Cars for grumpy Republicans who don't want their neighbors to know that they bought an electric.
And people wonder how GM ended up with so danged many brands….
Well if you want sexy look at Tesla Motors. Their (expensive) Roadster does not get any sexier. Their Model S sedan coming out is a much lower luxury car/SUV price and is totally electric.
Also, if all the cars in the world were running on electricity then we would have stopped using all the electricity used in searching for oil, drilling for oil, figting wars over oil, shipping oil (oil tankers use about 2000 gallons of fuel per hour or 84,000 KWH ). We could stop using MASSIVE amounts of electricity in refining oil (the electricity used to refine oil alone would power cars further than what's in the rest of the barrel). We could stop using that fuel to do the above listed and of course stop the transport of gasoline to filling stations, and pumping that fuel into cars. The amount of electricity used to create a gallon of gasoline can easily power any electric car to go much further and cleaner than any internal combustion engine that will ever be made.
I agree with the silly flower graphics and Joe is pretty savvy in marketing so I would wonder what he would say about the choice of little people when trying to "normalize" electric vehicles that are already seen as unusual.
To Bill and vfx,
Do you have your glasses on? The "pretty blue flowers" are supposed to indicate wind turbines……a future where you drive your plug-in car into your garage and power it overnight with electricity from wind turbines.
I like the image. It says a lot (but only to those who see it).
To All,
To think that an Electric vehicle has no impact is just marketing jargon that has no place in the discussion. We need to move away from the MPG rating system to something akin to the carbon impact per mile system being thrown about in Europe. This would need to be combined with a consumer cost mile rating which would then give a clearer picture as to the impact to both the environ. and the consumers wallet.
I actually just took some photos of the charging stations in London for my blog: http://www.plentyways.com/blog/2009/08/charge-your-electric-car-in-london/
As someone who gets to spend a lot of time in London I've seen the charging posts they have in Westminster and was really impressed. Mobile charging is going to be an extremely important part of the transition to EVs and so its great to see a gesture like this to put functional models on the street. Even if a lot of details need to be worked out, actions like these will make progress quicker and raise awareness, I believe.
Thanks – Excellent Blog.
Christian, I agree that the MPG rating does not work well for EVs and PHEVs. But it has a "hit you in the face with the energy savings" value. A 200, 300 MPG shouts at the less informed "This thing really is different!".
A window sticker could give MPG in great big eye-catching numbers and in smaller print a cost/carbon comparison for two or three different driver styles. Say a 'short commuter' who rarely drives more than 40 miles per day, a 'moderate city tripper' who drives more miles but few at consistant highway speeds, and a 'long hauler' who makes longer highway trips when they are out and about.
For the contemplating shopper there needs to be a convenient way to calculate their actual fuel/electrical costs per year. Because of different driving habits, one number will not fit all, especially with hybrids.
I can see a touch screen computer near by that let's one plug in their annual miles driven, percentage estimate of trips 40 miles, and estimate of percentage of city/highway mileage.
Then select the vehicles being considered and get an annual fueling cost and carbon output. And a spreadsheet that lets them look forward as to cost at different fuel prices.
For all you nay sayers/possible trolls (ddodd, i'm talkin to you) the most glorious beauty of electric vehicles is the ecological system they create with wind and solar power. Solar and wind are intermittent–although this is overstated by some, since solar is most available at peak (air conditioning/active) times and sun and wind are complementary in many places, with peaks at different times of day and year.
Even better, with EVs under solar-panel-roofed parking lots at work and shopping areas the sun powers the cars and the cars act as mobile storage batteries. It could be given as a work perk or shopping incentive, or as is likely in our hyper-commercial, corporate-ridden society, paid for. In many places wind is abundant in winter and at night, so home wind generators would complete the triangle. At times of abundance the car's excess energy could be used to power other activities. Imagine a drive-in movie powered by the cars driving in… free to anyone who provides 1 1/2 hours of juice.
Architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser said all the earth covered with buildings, roads, parking lots, etc. should be returned to natural function by covering the covering with soil supporting a locally appropriate set of flora and fauna. I think a reasonable alternative is to stack functions (a basic Permaculture principle) and make every lot, building and roadway perform at least 2 functions.
Almost as good as not driving the damn things in the first place and not needing most of the roads and parking.
Just want to add to the list of cities looking at publically accessable charging units – Houston. Yup, even the oil capitol of the US sees value in electric vehicles.


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This week, ESPN.com is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Cross-Sport Power Rankings. For you newbies out there, that's one full year of our expert panel ranking the best individual weekly performances in sports. They've been asked to decide whether a multi-touchdown game is more impressive than a 30-30 night in the NBA. They've had to choose between U.S. Open winners and RBI machines. And now, we're making them pick the Cross-Sport Athlete of the Year.
But not without running through the other year-in-review observations. On to the awards!
Most Top-10 Appearances
Kobe Bryant and LeBron James (tie, 13)
The debate continues. Kobe won his fifth ring in June. LeBron made his Decision that became the most talked-about spectacle in sports. Then they came into the 2010-11 NBA season with something to prove -- willing their respective teams to impressive records and wielding enough personal power to make this top-10 list 13 times apiece. Looks like this show is "To be continued "
Honorable mention: Rajon Rondo (9), Miguel Cabrera (9), Cam Newton (8), Josh Hamilton (8), Tom Brady (7), Ubaldo Jimenez (7), Kevin Durant (7), Kemba Walker (7), Derrick Rose (7), Blake Griffin (7)
Most No. 1 Rankings
Cam Newton, Michael Vick, Kemba Walker (tie, 3)
Before the start of the college football season, few people knew what Cam Newton was capable of. Now the former Auburn QB has more hardware than Home Depot and a shot at being the No. 1 overall NFL draft pick. Our panel selected Newton No. 1 three weeks in a row back in December, but he had to share the spotlight with another foot-savvy QB -- Michael Vick.
Vick was first voted No. 1 back in October when he fueled his against-all-odds comeback story with 291 passing yards and the confidence vote of Eagles head coach Andy Reid. From there he set an NFL record by scoring five TDs in the first half of a Monday night game against the Redskins and stunned the Giants with a three-touchdown fourth quarter to secure NFC East supremacy.
But if the fall and winter headlines belonged to Newton and Vick, the spring was all Kemba Walker. Walker burst onto the Cross-Sport scene with his simply ridiculous performance in the Big East tourney (see Most Impressive Week award below) and kept things going with an NCAA tourney run to remember.
Honorable mention: Aaron Rodgers, Ray Allen, LeBron James, Roy Halladay, Andy Dalton (2 each)
Biggest Snub
Perhaps the most frequent criticism of the Cross-Sport Power Rankings came from an international audience, claiming that soccer players deserved better placement. Fitting, then, that the athlete to be placed in the "last five out" most often was the best that soccer has to offer: Lionel Messi. Messi was one of these last five out six times in the last year.
Honorable mention: Robinson Cano, Ubaldo Jimenez, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James (4 each)
Most Impressive Week
Kemba Walker, Week 36
In that one week, Kemba carried UConn to five wins in five nights to take the Big East tournament title. He played 190 minutes of a possible 205 and scored 130 points. He hit a buzzer-beating, game-winning jumper one night and then had the game-winning assist past three defenders the next. He was, in short, unstoppable in the week that kicked off UConn's historic run to the championship.
Honorable mention: Michael Vick - Week 30 (413 total yards, 6 total TDs vs. Redskins), Roy Halladay - Week 6 or 25 (perfect game, playoff no-hitter), Kyle Busch - Week 18 (became first NASCAR driver to win Sprint Cup, Nationwide, Camping World Truck races in one weekend), Aaron Rodgers - Week 41 (304 yards, 3 TDs, MVP in Super Bowl)
Most Controversial No. 1 Ranking
Michael Dyer over Marshawn Lynch, Week 37
Power rankings always stir up debate among readers, but comparing athletes across multiple sports unleashed a bevy of comments during the past year. Perhaps the most controversial decision was placing BCS championship-winning RB Michael Dyer at No. 1 over Marshawn Lynch. As commenter ginyuwine put it, "A human being caused an earthquake. If that's not power, I don't know what is." Fair point.
Honorable mention: Ray Allen setting 3-point record over Wayne Rooney's bicycle kick; Kevin Durant lifting Team USA to gold medal over Rafael Nadal securing career Grand Slam.
Most Surprising No. 1 Ranking
Trevor Bayne, Week 43
Winning the Daytona 500 probably would have been enough for any driver to make No. 1 on this list. But for a rookie driver in just his second Sprint Cup start to win NASCAR's most prestigious race the day after his 20th birthday? Yeah, we didn't see that coming either.
Honorable mention: Charl Schwartzel, Edgar Renteria, Louis Oosthuizen, Dallas Braden
Cross-Sport Athlete of the Year
We love the Cross-Sport Power Rankings because they're imprecise and interpretive. And curse them for the exact same reason. It's with that caveat that the panel awards Lakers guard Kobe Bryant with Cross-Sport's highest honor.
Bryant's first and only No. 1 nod came in Week 9 after capturing his fifth title with the Lakers and second consecutive Finals MVP award. But he was a picture of Cross-Sport power consistency, making the list 13 times while surpassing NBA legends John Havlicek, Dominique Wilkins, Oscar Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Elvin Hayes and Moses Malone on the all-time scoring list.
Think the panel made a mistake? Did college standouts Newton and Walker have the better year? As always, we welcome your feedback in the comments section below.
Honorable mention: Cam Newton, Josh Hamilton, Kevin Durant, Kemba Walker


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I'm not too far south of you guys. I would love to find this little gem.
i'm good sunday morning or the following sunday if you guys want to meet up this weekend.... :thumb:
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Cuddling With 9, Smooching With 8, Winking At 7
British author and math enthusiast Alex Bellos tells me he's got more than 30,000 responses so far to his survey, What's Your Favorite Number and Why? As I said in a recent blog post, people are writing him from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia (Antarcticans, being mostly penguins, have shown little interest).
As of about a week ago (when I last checked), seven is still the global favorite, dominating every class, nationality, gender, religion and age category. (Though this is all very preliminary. The real data mining doesn't begin till the fall.)
Seven isn't a shoe-in. It's being chased by a small pack of prime numbers, especially 11 and 13.
So that's the horserace. But the real fun is in the heart race; why do people choose the numbers they do? From whence comes the love?
Love, of course, can never explain itself, but in the heat of the moment a bunch of you shared your secrets with me, and agreed to let me publish them, so here, as the National Enquirer would say, is my HOT! EXCLUSIVE! SHOCKING! Numerical Love Confessions...straight from actual National Public Radio listener/readers who DARED TO TELL!
If you want to participate in the survey, here's how: favouritenumber.net or, if you prefer the American spelling: favoritenumber.net.
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A SUPER-numerary
Supernumeraries are the folk who serve as extras in operas. Usually it is a fun (but time consuming) thing to do, and a great way to get close to the action. I have to pass on this story about a super in the recent Pittsburgh Opera production of "Samson & Dalila."
Alan Cope was a super in the first Act, one of the Hebrew elders. Well, opening night I went to the Tallis Scholars concert at Calvary Episcopal while our Robert Croan reviewed "Samson" (I saw it Tuesday) and I was talking to Cope after the show. He is on the board of the Renaissance & Baroque Society, which presented the concert, and I wanted to hear what he thought of the choir (I thought it was fab). During the course of the conversation he told me he was in the opera. "At the opera?" I said, already puzzled since he had been at Calvary. "No, in it." To which I had a very confused look on my face.
Turns out Cope's role was only needed in the first Act (the opera started an hour earlier than the Tallis concert), and when that finished, he tossed his outfit to the rack, bolted out the stage door and flew up to Shadyside. He arrived just in time to hear a few pieces by Tallis in the first half and all of the second.
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City Sierra Club Challenges Roads/Transit Ballot Title
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The local chapter of the Sierra Club has filed a challenge to the language describing the roads/transit measure on the ballot in November. Basically, the Sierra Club is saying the language that will go on the ballot itself and the explanatory statement that will be included in voters' guides is written to unfairly prejudice voters in favor of the measure. Among other things, the club is alleging:
That the ballot language doesn't accurately describe how the roads and transit improvements would be funded, and for how long the taxes that pay for the package would last.
That the ballot language implies that voting "no" on the package would stop light rail that's already funded from moving forward. In fact, the package would fund 50 new miles of light rail.
That the language inaccurately describes the roads part of the package as "replacing vulnerable bridges, improving safety, and increasing capacity on state and local roads to link major education, employment, and retail centers." The Sierra Club says this is false because the package fully replaces only one bridge (the South Park bridge over the Duwamish River), only addresses safety in the context of increasing road capacity, and doesn't specifically link major centers.
That the explanatory statement does not explain what will be built, when it will be built, how much it will cost, and what taxes will pay for it. The Club wants the explanatory statement to include the total number of new road miles that would be built by the measure, and the total cost of the package, including operations and maintenance and inflation. Including everything the Sierra Club wants to include would increase the stated cost of the package from $17.8 billion to $47.7 billion.
That the entire ballot measure violates King County's single-subject rule, which limits all ordinances to a single subject.
The Sierra Club will also be back in court Friday on its earlier challenge to the makeup of the committee that will write the voters' guide statement against the package, which is made up entirely of anti-transit stalwarts, including Bellevue developer Kemper Freeman, Jr.


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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) slipped 0.4% to close the day at 15,618.76. The S&P 500 declined 0.5% to finish yesterday's trading session at 1,763.31. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.6% to end at 3,930.62. The fear-gauge CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) added 1.8% to settle at 13.65. Consolidated volumes on the New York Stock Exchange were 3.55 billion shares. Declining stocks outnumbered the advancers. For 68% shares that declined, only 29% advanced.
As expected, the Federal Reserve decided not to taper its $85 billion bond buying program due to a series of weak domestic reports in recent days. But what disappointed investors was its growth outlook for the economy. The central bank said even though it will continue with its stimulus program at its current pace, for the time being the growth outlook is not encouraging. Market experts said the Fed's statement this time were not as "dovish" as expected. The Federal Open Market Committee said: "Available data suggests that household spending and business fixed investment advanced, while the recovery in the housing sector slowed somewhat in recent months."
According to the US Department of Labour, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of September grew marginally, by 0.2%, in line with the consensus estimate. All the major energy component indexes rose during the month, leaving the food index unchanged. The all items index increased 1.2% over the year, the smallest 12 month increase since April. The index for all items less food and energy grew 1.7% while shelter and medical care indexes both increased 2.4%. The food index increased 1.4% whereas the energy index has dropped 3.1%.
Separately, the ADP employment report for October reported that the U.S. non farm private sector added 130,000 jobs. This was below the expected increase of 150,000. Small business added 37,000 jobs, 13,000 jobs were added in medium business and 81,000 additions were made in large business.
On the earnings side, General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) came out with better-than-expected third quarter results. Adjusted earnings of $1.6 billion or 96 cents per share in the third quarter outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 91 cents per share. However, on a reported basis, net income dropped 53% after including a net loss of $0.9 billion or 51 cents per share from special items in the reported quarter. Shares jumped more than 3% after the company announced its quarterly results.
Also, LinkedIn Corp.'s (NYSE:LNKD) third quarter earnings beat the Street's expectations. However, it reported a $3.4 million net loss in the quarter compared to net income of $2.3 million a year ago. Following the earnings release on Tuesday, shares of LinkedIn dropped over 9% yesterday.
The Consumer Staples sector was the biggest loser among the S&P 500 industry groups and the Consumer Staples SPDR (XLP) lost 0.9%. Stocks such as the Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO), Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) and CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS) declined 1.1%, 0.5%, 1.1%, 0.2%, 0.5%, respectively.
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