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Discussion in 'OT Driven' started by BradUF, Aug 23, 2005.
Which one is better?
Cobalt SS
Or Acura RSX Type S
hello acura.... no question
Why the acura?
ssm rsx=ugly.. pwp rsx ftw. But yes rsxwayyyyy > cobaltss .
its not an american peice of shit
too bad you can't drive a stick and the S only comes in 6 spd.
The acura dealership would not help me I walked around for 20 min looking at cars and went inside and shit and no one asked me if I wanted to take a test drive. I guess as a 20 year old student they assume I dont have the money for the car.
Acura for the dependability, and the Type S has a little bit more power...
However, the Cobalt SS is supercharged...
Tough decision.
according to road and track the cobalt SS wins. its faster, brakes better, handles better and is cheaper. however the RSX won almost all the comparrisons for fit and finish.
Cobalt SS also only comes in stick.
just wanted to let you know that a cobalt is this years cavalier
you're welcome
Acura RSX
RSX > Dog shit > Cobalt SS
kill yourself now before anyone else points out that you don't know shit.
The Cobalt got great reviews in Road& Track as well as Car&Driver.
R&T compared these 2 in their current issue.
Acura is way nicer car, but the Cobalt may be quicker? Dunno the numbers on it.
SS because it makes buzzy sounds.
See he knows where I am comming from. Also with GM discount a new cobalt is as much a used RSX Type S.
maybe you just went to a snobby dealership. i would have yelled "would anyone like to help me" really loud. and if they didn't think i had enough money to buy a fucking 23,000 dollar car i would tell them to DIAF.
according to Road & Track it is the chevy by a hair
I test drove the cobalt and it is no cavalier, it's not a bad car although the acura is more finess the cobalt has more grunt.
ya supercharged and still slow as crap. get an rsx and throw a 75 shot on it /thread
beat me to it.
Both are cars that'll hold up.. but I think I would go with the Acura on resale value alone. I tihnk the Cobalt SS will retain resale value, but not nearly as well as the Acura will. Also, which has a longer warranty? The Acura will not be cheap to get fixed out of pocket, and I'd be weary of repairs on a supercharged vehicle after it's warranty is up.
o dont like anything about honda/acura really but id still take it over the cava... .cobalt i mean
Yes its the only car by Chevy I like besides my current corvette. Its there two best cars.


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Conversion Therapy.
Reparative Therapy.
I'm sure lots of you have heard about the news story that ABC broke about this and what it has to do with the state of California.
Here's a tidbit from the story:
After months of intense lobbying, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill late Saturday that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from using so-called reparative or conversion therapies with clients under age 18.
Here's another one:
Brown called the therapies "quackery" that "have no basis in science or medicine."
As strongly as I feel about how damaging this type of 'therapy' is, and was to my marriage and father of my children, it never occurred to me to ban it. And for that I now feel like an idiot.
Bravo, California.
Here's a gem:
Mainstream associations representing psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers have dismissed reparative therapy in recent decades as being ineffective and potentially dangerous to the mental health of teenagers and young adults who are led to believe their interest in same-sex partners is wrong.
If you aren't aware of the suicides, attempted suicides, and contemplated suicides of these human beings, you have not been doing your Googling.
When Matt and I got engaged in October of 1996, he called each of his brothers and sisters and parents to give them the news. It's how his family does things, especially before emails became common.
When Matt decided in 2010 that he couldn't live the pretense any longer, and we began taking steps toward our divorce, in true Neves fashion, he called each immediate family member to inform them of the end of our marriage.
One of Matt's actively Mormon brothers didn't understand. He informed Matt that there is therapy for homosexual tendencies.
"Yes, I know. Been there, done that."
"Did you know they also have groups? You can try group therapy!"
"Brother, did that, too."
"You went to group therapy?!"
"Well, what happened?!"
I think this ban that Cali Gov Brown has passed is in itself an important step in educating others about~
1) the ineffectiveness of the therapy to rid people of homosexual tendencies and gender confusion, and
2) the effectiveness of the therapy's tendency to damage and further confuse individuals on a fatal level.
As Matt's wife, once upon a time, while he and I believed that this therapy would someday 'straighten him out', it had similar effects for me. I was in a state of limbo, or better yet, purgatory, while I waited for it to finally work. I waited 13 years.
I am amazed by the story of a friend of mine whose wife was a lesbian. During their marriage she tried some of this therapy with an LDS Family Services counselor. Both he and his wife were so shocked and disturbed with the session that he told her "do not go back." He would have rather seen her with other women, which is what happened, than subject her to this harmful therapy. He loved her, so he saw his wife's cheating with women, though hurtful to him, as healthier for her than attending these reparative therapy sessions.
Monday, October 1, 2012
God Bless California
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You mean I can't "pray the gay away"? Shit!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM
Bravo indeed.ReplyDelete
- MOR straight graduateOctober 2, 2012 at 12:23 AM
So so happy it paassed and was signed. I am another straight woman who was deeply wounded by this. Limbo, purgatory, misery, desert, unanswered prayer, soul destroying, useless, destructive. And I was 'just' the straight partner! It doesn't work. It never worked for anyone. Ever.ReplyDelete
Yes! All it can do is make a young person hate him/her self and think that there is something wrong with them. It is awful. Gay is OK!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Hi guys, my Peugeot 208 active has the default 7inch multi function touchscreen.
I notice that when I use it to stream music from my phone, I have a very boring lag of 4 sec. That's very annoying.
I was wondering whether a firmware upgrade would fix the issue and in case if you can point me to instructions on how to know my current firmware version and how to download and install an update to fix this issue
Thanks in advance!
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What is your UNIT, Smeg or Smeg+ or Smeg+iv2 ?
not sure which one I have.. How can I check?
do you have any clue?
I was also reading this post: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Is there a way for which I can be sure on which firmware to install without risking to burn the system?
I bought my new Peugeot 208 Active in May 2017 it's the "new Peugeot 208" is that sufficient to know which SMEG should I have? Or should I check the serial in some way?
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if you have a 208 produced after february 2017, then you don't have a smeg etc.
NAC is the system in the newest 208, like the nwe 3008
ok, but if I press menu to show the system information, I get back
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Dated: 01-12-15
I'm sure that the car's model is the new one, the new 208. But maybe the production date is before february and I get the older firmware version?
What update can you suggest to do?
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Eastport and Canso superports — a skeptic responds
James and Deborah Fallows have been visiting remote corners of the US by small plane to tease out the secrets of successful local economies. In Eastport, Maine, they heard lots of talk about the potential of Eastport's deep, ice-free harbour, and relative proximity to Europe, to attract European trade. I noted that the same case has been made for Canso, where construction of the causeway to Cape Breton in 1955 inadvertently created a similarly deep, ice-free superport.
Inveterate boosterism deflator Tim Bousquet of The Coast, a Halifax newsweekly, isn't impressed:
I think boosters of both the Canso and the Eastport "superports"—and you and Fallows, too—are making the same mistake in logic. No shipper wants to use the North American port that is closest to Europe. That makes no sense at all.
Think about it. You are the manager of a German manufacturing firm, and you want to export to North America. You're not going to sell many widgets in Canso or in Eastport. Instead, your primary market is going to be places like New York City, or Chicago, where there are millions of people and lots of industry to buy your widgets.
So how do you get your widgets to Chicago? Expensive and light stuff, you can fly directly there. Everything else has two legs: one by sea, and one by land.
The sea part of the voyage is relatively inexpensive. You can stack a gazillion of your widgets in the new post-Panamax ships. A small, underpaid crew from the Philippines steering a ship flying the flag of a lightly regulated country like Liberia doesn't cost much.
The land part of the journey, however, is expensive. You've got to divide up your gigantic cargo and divvy it into a thousand trucks, each driven by a highly paid (relative to the shiphands) driver, using lots of fuel to get to Chicago. Or, if you're lucky, you can use rail, which, while cheaper than the trucks, is still much more expensive than the sea voyage, per unit transported per distance.
The guy sitting in Germany isn't looking for the North American port closest to Germany, but rather the North American port closest to Chicago, or wherever his widgets are going. If that means a longer sea journey, the cost is more than made up for with the huge savings of a shorter land journey. I'm not sure why megaport boosters get this so wrong.
Existing American megaports—New York, Hampton Roads, Charleston—are investing billions retrofitting their operations to handle the post-Panamax ships, and the rail lines are upgrading like crazy, refitting for double-stacked containers and such. There's no chance—none—that Canso or Eastport ports can match the investment, and CN will never be able to out compete Norfolk Southern or CSX for the American midwest market. Just ain't gonna happen.
I find this megaport boosterism in Canada a little sad, really, for how delusional it is.
To underscore Tim's point about the low cost of ocean shipping, John "Johnny Nova" Chisholm, former owner of the massive harbourside gravel quarry at Cape Porcupine on the Canso Strait, once told me he could ship gravel to Galveston, Texas, cheaper than he could truck it to Antigonish.
And ship it he did, in vast quantities.
Eastport Maine v. Cape Breton's serendipitous superport
[See correction and clarification at end.] Two months ago, Atlantic journalists James and Deborah Fallows began traveling around the United States in a small plane, visiting relatively obscure cities in a quest to find out what makes some thrive while others struggle.
They spent much of last week in Eastport, Maine, hard up against the New Brunswick border. Jim's initial blog posts bespeak a community well on the way to recovery, populated by leaders determined to go the distance. Since Eastport shares much in common with struggling Atlantic port communities, Maritimers might want to perk up their ears.
In a post last week, and again on the weekend, Jim focused on two factors residents believe will play a role in Eastport's potential for economic prosperity: the depth of its harbour, and its proximity to Europe.
As you'll hear, a group of ambitious people in the city are trying to use the port's unique capacity — and its proximity to Europe, and its potential proximity to Asia as northwest passages through a warming Canadian arctic become more frequent (they are already happening) — as one foundation of its hoped-for economic revival.
As mentioned yesterday — and as cited non-stop by local port authorities — Eastport has the deepest natural harbor in the continental United States, at 60+ feet. Its siting, "remote" from the rest of America's perspective, is also a potential strategic plus.
To buttress the point, he offered three maps, created by the nifty online Great Circle Mapper, showing how much closer to Europe Eastport is than Boston, New York, or Miami. And not just from Europe, but from the African ports of Casablanca and Dakar. Here's the London map:
Compared to Boston, Eastport has the potential to save vessels more than 500 miles* in a round trip to London; 900 miles when compared to New York. All that means time, fuel, and money saved. Similar maps made the same point with the two African ports.
All this rang a bell with David Ryan, a Long Island, filmmaker, boat builder, and yachtsman, who happens to be a mutual friend of Jim's and mine. In an email to both of us, he wrote:
I heard the same thing when we were in Port Hastings [on the Strait of Canso in Cape Breton Island], Nova Scotia, back around 2003. There was no reason a local should have been telling me in particular that they had 60 feet of water, were ice-free year round, and right on one of Canada's main train arteries, yet I was; so I take it this is something that all Post Hastings boosters tell anyone and everyone who visits.
One curious feature of the superport formed by the eastern half of the Strait of Canso is that it was accidental. Construction of the 4,544 ft, rock-filled causeway connecting Cape Breton Island to the mainland in 1955 had the unanticipated result of creating an ice-free, deepwater harbour. This image from Google Earth shows how the causeway traps the seasonal ice flowing down from the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway, keeping the deep waterway east of the causeway free from ice. Voilà! A superport.
For a time, the superport turned the nearby community of Port Hawkesbury into something of a boom town, albeit one that never quite lived up to its potential. An oil refinery, a gypsum plant, and a heavy water plant all eventually failed—
the heavy water plant spectacularly so**—but the paper mill still operates at reduced capacity, as does a tank farm, a bulk coal facility, and a massive rock quarry. Together they make Port Hawkesbury Canada's second largest port by tonnage, after Vancouver. A biomass electrical generating station officially opens in Port Hawkesbury this Wednesday, but hopes for a container terminal remain elusive (though not as elusive as Sydney's parallel pipe dream).
Thinking about all this history led me back to the Great Circle Mapper, where I reconstructed Jim's images of the Great Eastport Advantage — this time including Port Hawkesbury. As I expected, the Nova Scotia port has as much of an advantage over Eastport as Eastport has over Boston.
Here is the map showing distances to Casablanca:
And here is Dakar.
The Canso Superport wins all three.
Whether this makes it any more likely than Eastport to foster lasting economic growth, and what other factors might affect the two communities' prospects, is a much tougher question, and a topic for another day. We may get some hint, however, from an apocryphal Presbyterian prayer one hears quoted from time to time in Cape Breton:
And more especially do we thank Thee, O Lord, for the Gut of Canso, Thine own body of water, which separates us from the wickedness that lieth on the other side thereof.
* [Clarification] In response to a question from Robert G. McNeil, the units are nautical miles.
** [Correction] Thanks to Stanley Beaton for reminding me it wasn't the heavy water plant at Port Hawkesbury that proved a disaster. It was AECL's sister facility at Glace Bay.
Some perspective on the Asiana crash
Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot blog adds an astounding data point to the accident, which killed at least two people and injured many more, some very seriously.
[T]his was the first multiple-fatality crash involving a major airline in North America since November, 2001. The streak has ended, but it lasted nearly twelve years, with some 20,000 commercial jetliners taking off and landing safely in this country every single day — an astonishing run. Is it perverse to suggest that Saturday's accident, awful as it was, serves to underscore just how safe commercial flying has become? [Emphasis added]
20,000 x 365 days x 12 years = 87.6 million major airline flights, a jaw-dropping safety achievement.
Smith's blog and that of James Fallows offer fascinating analysis of the crash, pitched mainly to lay readers. Another takeaway: That initial media and "aviation expert" speculation about the causes of a crash almost always proves to be wide of the mark.
When one side flouts civil norms
Yesterday, White House press spokesman Jay Carney kiboshed the idea of minting a platinum trillion dollar coin to get around the Congressionally imposed debt ceiling that Republicans are using to ransom deep cuts in medicare and social security.
Some economists have urged President Barack Obama to exploit a legal loophole that would allow the government to print a single $1,000,000,000,000 coin, and deposit it with the Federal Reserve Bank, thereby enabling the US Government to pay bills Congress has already authorized.
MSNBC Host Chris Hays summed up the case for the coin this way:
If this seems surreal or ridiculous or magical to you, you are not wrong. It's totally bizarre and unprecedented. Even if it's legal, as many legal experts believe it to be, it seems to run against our expectations of how our government does and should behave. It's the kind of thing that just isn't done. But that, you see, is the entire point. Behaviour of individuals within institutions is constrained by the formal rules–explicit prohibitions–and norms–implicit prohibitions that aren't spelled out, but just aren't done.
And what the modern Republican party has excelled at, particularly in the era of Obama, is exploiting the gap between these two. They've made a habit of doing the thing that just isn't done. Requiring a 60-vote majority for nearly every simple procedural vote just wasn't done, and then the Republicans did it. Refusing to confirm any candidate for an open position because you object to the position's very existence just wasn't done, but Senate Republicans did precisely that with the newly created Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which they continue to boycott. And most clearly before the summer of June, 2011, opposition parties didn't use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip with which to extract ransom, and they certainly didn't threaten default as a means to gain political leverage.
The president has been extremely reticent to meet this extraordinary degradation of previous norms with innovations of his own. He is, at heart, an ardent institiuionalist. But there is no way to unilaterally maintain norms. Once they're gone, they're gone. And the only way to produce a new set of healthy norms is to do some innovating of your own.
And you can tell, I think, the trillion dollar coin idea spooks republicans precisely because it would be so out of character. It would so gleefully and flagrantly violate their own expectations about how democrats play the game.
I go back and forth on whether Obama is a leader of exceptional forbearance, or a patsy who can't play hardball. In this case, I'm dismayed that the President has once again abjured what may be his strongest weapon on the eve of negotiations that promise to be not just difficult but fraught with potential harm to the United States and the world.
Since Contrarian readers may not have followed this looming crisis all that closely, I will follow the advice of James Fallows and include these two sentences in this discussion:
- Raising the debt ceiling does not authorize one single penny in additional public spending.
- For Congress to "decide whether" to raise the debt ceiling, for programs and tax rates it has already voted into law, makes exactly as much sense as it would for a family to "decide whether" to pay a credit-card bill for goods it has already bought.
For those who prefer to ingest their economic news visually, here is Hayes's entire commentary on the Republican Debt ceiling fiasco (the coin discussion starts 25 seconds in):
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And here is the bipartisan panel discussion that followed.
At first blush, this is a discussion about the intricacies of US politics. But in Canada, over the last two years, the Harper Government has been flouting Parliamentary norms in a manner that is, so far as I know, unprecedented in scope. Harper has cobbled together massive omnibus bills that change dozens of important federal laws touching wide-ranging spheres of Canadian affairs–ranging from National Parks to native rights to protection of waterways. Harper has used his parliamentary majority to force these laws through with a minimum of debate.
Just as Republicans can say Democrats used the filibuster too, Harperites can say Liberals used Omnibus bills, too. Yes they did, and sometimes in regrettable ways, but never on this massive scale.
What we've seen from Harper in the last two years is a flouting of norms, and as Hayes says, once norms are gone, they're gone, and you can't get 'em back. Once Canada's dalliance with the radical right ends, as inevitably it one day will, the most important task facing a moderate or progressive alternative will be to repair the damage Harper has done to Canadian Parliamentary Democracy.
Culture gap
A Chinese engineer, on his first trip to the United States, a work assignment for his company, snapped this photo, reproduced today on James Fallows's blog. Fallows asks his readers:
- Why did he take the photo?
- What happened next?
For the answers, go here.
Sydney overkill and Beijing underkill
Earlier this week, various blogs and media outlets reported that Beijing was experiencing frightful levels of air pollution. To document the crisis, China hand James Fallows cited what he called "the indispensable (and highly controversial)" Twitter feed @Beijingair, which produces hourly readings of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Beijing. On Monday, @Beijingair showed readings in excess of 300 µg/m3, contributing to conditions the US EPA characterizes as "hazardous," and warranting "health warnings of emergency conditions."
What caught my attention was Fallows's assertion that the @BeijingAir feed is "the only known source of PM 2.5 readings in China." That is astounding: one PM2.5 meter for a nation of 1.3 billion people. By contrast, Sydney, Nova Scotia, population ~27,000,* has seven instruments that monitor PM2.5.
Bear with me for a brief technical digression. PM2.5 is a measure of the concentration of airborne particles smaller than 2.5 microns (millionths of a metre)—tiny particles that can find their way deep inside people's lungs. It's the air quality scientist's indicator of choice for air pollution most likely to damage health.
To confound matters further, Sydney's closely monitored air quality appears to be quite good. Here is the most recent publicly available data, from a 24-hour sample collected on October 12.
Each column represents a different monitoring station, each of which has two types of monitors. The highest reading among them was less than 1/1ooth of that registered this week in Beijing. These monitors run for 24 hours once every six days, a schedule that coincides with Canada's National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) network. A seventh Sydney-based unit operates continuously and contributes data used to calculate Environment Canada's Air Quality Health Index (AQHI), but the PM2.5 results are not reported separately.
This appears to be a clear case of underkill in Beijing, where much better data is warranted, and I would argue, overkill in Sydney, where air quality has been unremarkable by North American standards for the last two decades. Over-measurement in Sydney reflects the public panic over the Tar Ponds cleanup in the late '90s and early 'oughts. A few environmental activists persuaded residents that air-quality impacts from the Tar Ponds were putting their health at risk, a falsehood Environment Canada has been loathe to correct. Ironically, back before Sydney's coke ovens closed in 1988, the city's air likely did pose a health hazard, but went largely unmonitored.
The relative hazards of air quality in China vs. Nova Scotia show up clearly in this NASA map compiled from satellite readings of average PM2.5 levels around the world between 2001 and 2006:
I would ascribe both conditions — Sydney overkill and Beijing underkill — to the politicization of environmental monitoring. Back when Sydney's polluting steel mill and coke ovens were the largest employer in a region short of jobs, few people wanted to hear about associated environmental concerns, and government was content to turn a blind eye. Similarly, the Chinese government is reluctant to highlight the environmental costs of its spectacular economic growth (although, as Fallows often points out, its environmental record is not so indifferent as some in the west assume).
In subsequent posts on Beijing air monitoring, Fallows has subtly adjusted his claim about @Beijingair's putative uniqueness in China. He now describes it as "the only public readings of PM 2.5." The controversial feed is based on an air monitoring unit on the roof of the US Embassy in Beijing. Official chinese annoyance over it was the subject of a Wikileaks cable, and may have contributed to the Chinese government decision to block access to Twitter in 2009. There are welcome early signs, here and here, that China may soon begin more appropriate monitoring. I would be surprised if they are not secretly monitoring PM2.5.
My point here is that citizens should take care to view environmental hazards in context, and always remain mindful that any chemical hazard is proportional to dose.
*Sydney no longer exists as a municipal unit, having been amalgamated into the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in 1995. Wikipedia puts the "Sydney area" population in the 2006 census at 33,012, but this is suspiciously high. I was unable to ferret out local population numbers from StatsCan's online census information, but will be delighted if readers can steer me to them.
Hey! Look over here! – updated
Contrarian regulars know of my admiration for the eclectic James Fallows, who writes and blogs for The Atlantic. James is in China this winter, finishing up a book, and while he does that, rotating squads of unterbloggers are filling in for him. I'm in the rotation this week, and I've posted three items so far:
Meet Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
Alexander Graham Bell Defends His Butler.
My week of guest-blogging happens to fall amidst a crush of other work, so it's unlikely I'll get much posted here until things settle down. But I will alert you to posts at Jim's site.
Japan's found decade
Eamonn Fingleton, an ex-pat Irish financial journalist who lives in Tokyo, takes a decidedly contrarian view of the Japanese economy. Far from stagnating for 20 years, as received media wisdom would have it, Japan's economy has been ticking along just fine, he contends.
Guest-blogging for James Fallows at TheAtlantic.com website (where Contrarian will take a guest-blogging turn the week of March 14), Fingleton cites a couple of inconvenient facts in support of his analysis:
- Japan's current account surplus in 1990, regarded as the onset of its 20-year economic malaise, stood at $36 billion. By last year, it had risen to $194 billion.
- Over the same 20-year period, the yen rose 65 percent against the US dollar, the strongest performance of any major currency.
How can such facts be reconciled with the "two lost decades" story? I don't think they can. There is clearly a contradiction here, and after studying the facts on the ground in Tokyo for decades I find it hard to avoid the implausible-sounding conclusion that the story of Japan's stagnation is a media myth.
Certainly anyone who visits Japan these days is struck by the obvious affluence even among average citizens. The cars on the roads, for instance, are generally much larger and better equipped than in the 1980s (indeed state of the art navigation devices, for instance, are more or less standard on many models). Overseas vacation travel has more than doubled since the 1980s. The Japanese boast the world's most advanced cell phones, and the biggest and best high-definition television screens. Japan's already long life expectancy has increased by nearly two years. Its Internet connections are some of the world's fastest — something like ten times faster on average than American speeds.
The rest of Fingleton's argument is, to say the least, intriguing.
A climate change believer praises clean coal
China hand James Fallows expends a lot of time and words reassuring Americans that China is not the unstoppable, omnipotent superpower they fear it to be. Reality is more complicated, he argues, especially when viewed up close, from within China, where he has spent years.
However, a Fallows cover story in the current Atlantic warns of one technology in which China is leaving the west in its dust: the quest for ways to burn coal without emitting carbon. In exhorting the west to greater effort in pursuit of clean coal, Fallows takes aim at one of the environmental movement's most sacred bovines: the belief that clean coal is a PR fraud perpetrated by coal and coal-power interests bent on evading responsibility for the planet-destroying externalities of their industry.
This has brought a shower predictable wrath in comments sections, as well as some thoughtful rebuttal, including a post from David Roberts at Grist. Roberts disagrees with Fallows on the future of coal, but regards him as "one of the most reliably excellent journalists working today." He pays Fallows the further compliment of summarizing accurately the four broad points in the Atlantic piece:
- Coal does enormous damage to people and the environment.
- It will be impossible to meet future global energy demand without coal, which is cheap and plentiful. We can not eliminate it from the energy mix.
- We urgently need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a radical amount.
- Given 2 and 3, it follows that making coal cleaner must be a priority, alongside an "all-out effort on all other fronts, from conservation and efficiency to improved battery technology to wind- and solar-power systems to improved nuclear facilities"
Nevertheless, Roberts views the piece as a takedown of environmentalists (DFHs in his ironic coinage) to the benefit of the powers that be (PTBs), whose self-serving intransigence doesn't merit the encouragement:
If DFHs continue to believe coal can be eliminated, they will… release more reports and white papers to that effect. They'll lobby lawmakers (and a few of the ones from California might even listen). They'll protest outside coal plants. They'll organize Facebook petitions.
If the PTBs continue to believe that coal is a precious piece of American Heritage to be protected at all cost and that climate change is either alarmism or an outright hoax, they will continue to funnel subsidies to coal, block policies that subsidize clean energy, manipulate markets to protect coal from competition, and otherwise quash innovations that might threaten the interests of dirty energy incumbents. There will be no "all-out effort."
Which is worse? Sounds to me like the PTBs are in a position to do serious damage to America's energy future. The DFHs, not so much….
If you believe, as Fallows does, that climate change is an urgent, enormous challenge, then it's hard to see the value in worrying that some idealistic green somewhere thinks we can tackle it without coal. Being contrarian toward DFHs is a little … safe.
Fallows responds here. The whole exchange, and especially the Fallows piece, deserve close reading.
I claim some expertise with this topic because Cape Breton, where I live, is an island whose recent human history is defined by coal, from the first coal mine in North America at Port Morien, through a coal-fueled industrial boom in the first half of the 20th Century, doomed government efforts to keep mines and a steel mill alive on subsidies the last half, and finally to the mines' eventual closure, protracted fights over industrial cleanups, and an intractably depressed post-industrial economy. In a journalism career here, and subsequently as a communications director for a massive (and massively controversial) cleanup of coal-based industrial waste, I've lived with coal issues throughout my working life.
Coal is massively destructive – to the health and lives of miners who extract it from deep mines; to the landscape wherever it is extracted by strip mining and mountain top removal; to the health of those living downwind of coal-fired power plant and cement factories; and most urgently to the planetary ecosystem through climate altering emissions from those plants.
But… North Americans and Europeans use vastly more energy per capita than the Chinese or the Indians, and much of China's and India's coal consumption occurs in the service of exports to the West. This leaves us in no position to look down our long white noses and demand restraint from our third-world brothers and sisters, especially when we are doing so little to curb our own steadily rising consumption.
Since coal is far and away our most abundant fossil fuel, the only one in no imminent danger of running out any time soon, the unmistakable conclusion is that the world will continue to burn lots and lots of coal. Let's at least explore the technical and economic feasibility of doing so without unleashing carbon into the atmosphere.
For Roberts's ironic term DFHs, I would substitute <em>eco-narcissists</em>: those who demand a solution to environmental problems, but for whom no actual solution is ever pure enough. In their reasoning, climate change threatens the very existence of the planet, but heaven forfend we combat it with wind power (too many dead birds and too much disease-causing, low-frequency noise), nuclear (too dangerous, and too much long-lived radioactive waste), tidal (too much harm to fisheries and marine mammals), clean coal ("George Bush's favourite techno-fix," in the ad hominem phrase of Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May), etc., etc.
Roberts contends that even if Fallows and I are right, we're picking on a basically harmless, not to say easy, target. I think he underestimates the harm caused by environmentalist dogs in the manger.
Imagine if the driving forces of the civil rights movement in the 1960s had demanded an end to segregation, but opposed specific actions to desegregate buses, lunch counters, high schools, etc. In fact, conservative elements in the movement harboured grave misgivings about direct action. Had their views held sway, how much would that have slowed progress on the issue? How much does the dominant environmental movement position on coal — "The world is burning, but don't use fire extinguishers; they contain chemicals that might increase asthma rates" — slow progress on this issue? It's not obvious to me that the effect is trivial.
If you truly believe climate change threatens life on the planet, then surely we need to throw everything we have at this problem — conservation, wind, solar, tidal, ocean energy, geothermal, nuclear, clean coal — and no potential solution should be dismissed out of hand, especially for reasons that are more firmly rooted in culture and ideology than science.
An election in Maine
Political junkies in Nova Scotia tend to keep an eye on elections in adjacent provinces, but not so much in adjacent US states. The Atlantic's James Fallows points to an interesting race for governor of Maine, where independent candidate (and Fallows friend) Eliot Cutler seemed to be coming on strong last week, rising in the polls and winning an avalanche of major newspaper endorsements.
As Fallows points out, victory for an independent is not so far-fetched in the Pine Tree State, where two of the last five governors won election as independents. Viewed from a region devoid of political leadership, Cutler sounds appealing.
He is serious (but also funny), well experienced in politics and with a politician's natural affability, and extremely ambitious for his home state. Maine has all the natural endowments that tourists and residents of the rest of the country know about — but also some very deep problems with its school systems, its economic base, and the general preparedness of its year-round population for modern global competition. I heard Eliot Cutler talk about this a lot while we were in China [where Fallows and Culter both lived for several years]. Whatever new factory I'd visited or research project he'd learned about became the prelude for a discussion of what Maine would need to do to keep up. If you're not from Maine, a little of this can go a long way — but for people of the state it's a good kind of obsession for a public figure to have.
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XAutoplay: On | Off Consumer electronics giant Apple (AAPL) and home improvement retailer Home Depot (HD) received stock price-target increases on Wednesday, while entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney (DIS) and mobile payments firm Square (SQ) were hit with ratings downgrades.
Apple Looking Sweeter
BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Long reiterated his outperform rating on iPhone maker Apple and raised his price target to 170 from 160.
"The recent run in AAPL shares has closed some of the valuation gap with the market, but we believe there is a historical precedent for 10% of additional upside to the P/E (price-earnings ratio) multiple," he said in a report.
Long is bullish on prospects for the company's iPhone 8 smartphone, expected to be introduced in September.
Apple stock fell 3.4% to 150.25 on the stock market today. Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple hit an all-time high of 156.65, reached on Monday.
Home Depot Building Up
Telsey Advisory Group on Wednesday maintained its outperform rating on Home Depot, but upped its price target to 175 from 154.
On Tuesday, Home Depot reported first-quarter sales and earnings that topped Wall Street forecasts and raised its full-year profit outlook.
Atlanta-based Home Depot sank 1.4% to 156.09. The stock hit a record high of 160.86 on Tuesday.
Mouse House Downgraded
Investment bank Macquarie downgraded shares of Walt Disney to neutral from outperform with a price target of 105.
Burbank, Calif.-based Disney has been hampered by its declining ESPN sports broadcasting business.
Disney stock retreated 1.55% to 106., nearly hitting a 2017 low intraday.
Disney CEO Iger On ESPN: 'We're Not Sitting On Our Hands'
Square Rating Cut
BTIG Research downgraded Square to neutral.
Square tumbled 3.8% to 19.56.
San Francisco-based Square went public at 9 in November 2015. It hit a record high of 20.69 on Tuesday. The stock broke out of a flat base with a buy point of 18.27 on April 25.
Autodesk Gets Price-Target Hike
Computer-aided design software firm Autodesk (ADSK) received a price-target hike to 95 from 87 at RBC Capital Markets.
Autodesk fell 4.1% to 93.97. It hit a record high of 98.05 on Tuesday. It broke out of a flat base with a buy point of 89.28 on April 24.


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Afterthoughts – Juicy, Beefy Burgers at Beef & Liberty
Sometimes, nothing quite satisfies like a really good burger. There's just something magical about that perfect proportion between juicy beef, melty cheese and bread that gives burgers that ultimate indulgent factor. As a true North American girl, I like to finish a long day by kickin' back with a couple of cold ones and sinking my teeth into a meaty burger. I'm always on the quest for the perfect burger in Hong Kong, so, when I heard about the newly minted Beef & Liberty, I just had to give it a go.
Recently, we had a couple of friends visiting from New York, and so we thought "who better to wolf down burgers with than Americans?" These New Yorkers, spoiled by the likes of the legendary Shake Shack, were our ideal candidates for our burger test. Will Beef & Liberty make the grade?
We started our night with some cold brewskis (that's Canadian for beer). I particularly enjoyed the crisp, clean taste of Black Isle Organic Goldeneye Pale Ale (HK$65).
To start off, we basically ordered all their appetisers. The Crispy Chicken Wings (HK$62) dressed in Korean spicy sauce was a no-brainer crowd pleaser, although the wings lacked flavour if you happen to get a bite without the batter and sauce. They could have done with a better marinade.
The Sticky Rib Fingers ($68) smothered in honey BBQ marinate, was a hit with the Americans, although I found it a tad on the dry side. Living in Asia, we get spoiled with tender, fall-off-the-bone ribs, and these ribs just didn't meet the "succulence" grade for me, although the sauce was pretty finger lickin' good.
The Sweet Corn Cobbler (HK$38) with jalapeño and crunchy dahl was a nice surprise. We loved the zingy pop of the jalapeño but couldn't really locate the crunchy dahl. In North America, cobblers are baked dishes comprising of some element of flour to bend the corn together, and the Beef & Liberty version was a complete departure from this. I really could not find the "cobbler" in this dish.
Now comes the main event – burgers! My heart skipped a beat when I read "bacon jam" on the menu under Bacon Cheese Burger (HK$108). The burger came stacked with a layer of scrumptious crispy piggy streaks, but I couldn't really locate the "jam" part of the equation. Nonetheless, this burger was definitely worth running for an hour at the gym the next day.
Beef & Liberty sources all their beef from Tasmania, from a certain breed called Hereford cattle. These happy cows are grass-fed in some of the most pristine pastures on earth (having recently visited Tassie, I can vouch that it's comparable to Canada – and that's saying a lot). As I've recently learned from a beef conference (yes, there is such a thing), grass-fed cattle have a more robust flavour, and heartier texture. I loved how the patty was juicy, and incredibly tender. I'm not a big fan of thick, hard-packed burger patties. Each patty is sandwiched between custom-made white sourdough. I liked the flavour of the bread but found that it easily fell apart during an intense burger fest.
Next up, we had the classic Cheese Burger (HK$92), garnished with butter lettuce, tomatoes and, of course, melty cheddar. This was one good lookin' burger, and I loved the use of butter lettuce instead of the usual iceberg. The glossy leaves just held a lot more crunch, and when paired with refreshing tomato, really balanced out the fattiness of the beef.
Can't end a meal without a little sweetener. The Warm Skillet Cookies & Cream (HK$48) was the perfect finish to an all American meal. The soft, crumbly giant cookie came to the table along with a little saucepan of ecstasy-inducing cream, and the server just pours all that over the cookie until you cry "mercy!" I still dream about this cookie, in fact, I'm drooling while writing this comment.
Verdict: Ok, so this isn't the best burger we've had (and our American friends agree) but this is a pretty good burger by Hong Kong standards. I loved how juicy and tender the burger patties are, and you really can't go wrong by adding cheese and bacon on top. The burger bun was a beauty with a glossy sheen, but fell apart too easily. Perhaps the softer bread is adapted more towards Asian tastes? The appetisers were "just ok" in our books, but we will definitely be back for more burgers and that warm, creamy cookie! A great, laid-back hangout for a casual night amongst friends. And don't forget to knock back a few brewskis!
Beef & Liberty
2/F, 23 Wing Fung Street (above Pizza Express)
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2811 3009


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Gyms and fitness clubs are on the rise. According to the IBISWorld market research firm, the $26 billion industry is projected to grow at at a rate of 2.9%, reaching nearly $30 billion by 2018. Between 2008 and 2013, gym memberships increased from 47.7 million to an estimated 52.6 million. As the United States faces an obesity epidemic that doesn't seem to be going away any time soon, meaning gyms and fitness clubs will continue to be an important part of that health crisis. For entrepreneurs, this is a huge opportunity to take advantage of a growing market, but there are some things to consider when starting your own fitness club:
1. Target Demographic
25% of health club members are over 55 years old, and according to American Sports Data, this age group is the fastest growing since 1998. Your gym doesn't have to cater to everyone like a 24 Hour Fitness, and you might be better off differentiating yourself into a niche. Bodybuilders who scoff at anything other than free weights gravitate to those Arnold-era Gold's Gyms or something similar and simple. Crossfit builds a social network within their gym and relies on olympic-style lifts and muscle confusion techniques, and guess what? Crossfit is thriving. It doesn't matter that they don't cater to the senior citizen demographic, that's not their brand.
2. Services
The size and location of your gym will determine how many different services you can offer. Square-footage determines how much equipment you can provide before the gym gets cluttered, and open spaces for aerobics classes will come at the expense of the gym's capacity.
3. Write it Down!
Starting your own gym can be hectic and overwhelming at times, but it doesn't have to be. The best way to resist getting lost in the day-to-day operation is to create a business plan that outlines your mission statement, finances, membership fees, marketing, short and long term goals, and everything else. This business plan will serve as a guide to help you stay on top of your business. If you don't know how to write a business plan, don't sweat it, there are plenty of great online resources to help you through the process, like this one by the Small Business Association.
4. Advertising
Gyms often acquire customers by offering discounted introductory memberships, then relying on word-of-mouth. Social Media sites like Yelp, Facebook, and Instagram make this process easy and cost effective.
It goes without saying that you NEED a website, and with simple, easy-to-use tools like Wix, anyone can make a great website without breaking the bank.
Make your gym visible on Google Maps so people can find you at a moments notice. Here's a guide to get you started with that.
First and foremost, a clever or creative business name speaks volumes. Here's some gym names we found:
Jungle Fitness
C3 Fitness
LA Fitness
Orangetheory Fitness
Turna Fitness
Fitness Essentials
Fit Body Boot Camp
Primal Fitness
Seafit Pilates
Real Fitness
Body Balance
Crossfit Insanity
Hybrid Fitness
Momentum Sports Therapy
Next Level Fitness
Thaddeus Driven Fitness
Fitness on Fire
The Fitness Connection
The Training Habit
Iron Bodies Gym
PowerLab Workouts
BodyTone Fitness
Living Fitness
Corenetic Gym
Infliction Fitness
Curl Fitness
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The truth is, naming a business can be frustrating and downright time consuming…
Your company name is important, there's no doubt about that, but it's really something you need to 'get out of the way' so you can focus on the nuts and bolts of the business. So the question is…
"How do these companies get such good names?"
One option is hiring a 'boutique' branding agency to handle this critical step, and this does NOT come cheap. Some of these branding agencies charge as much as $100,000 for a brand that SELLS tons of product…
Does it work?
Of course it does, but for a small business with a careful eye on its cash flow, dumping tens of thousands of dollars for a swanky agency to sit back in their plush offices and promise you the next Google could spell disaster.
This is what they WANT you to think:
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Media Watch
Lampard: City struggle without Kompany
What the MEDIA says finished
There are far more pleasant tasks than wading through the reaction from yesterday's disastrous result at the Etihad.
But is has to be done.
As you can imagine, there's plenty of deserved praise for the visitors, while the media world were less than impressed with the hosts' showing to say the least. So, what's being said...?
Well, the match reports are pretty damning. Let's just breeze through those, shall we?
The Guardian's Paul Wilson reflected: "This game was supposed to be about Manchester City's wealth of attacking options, not the paucity of their defence.
"Liverpool were considered to be the side with the defensive worries, with many fans nervous about Dejan Lovren coming into the side for the injured Mamadou Sakho and facing the pace of Raheem Sterling and the power of Sergio Aguero, yet it was the home back line that struggled almost from the word go."
Simon Bajkowski of the Manchester Evening News wrote: "City paid the price for an abysmal first half that saw them gift goals to the visitors. Eliaquim Mangala and Martin Demichelis were particularly culpable for the goals but every Blue underwhelmed.
"Even when a bit of class from Sergio Aguero got City belatedly up and running, they did not create enough to threaten a comeback and a clinical Liverpool deserved their fourth."
Tim Rich declared in the Independent: "If the first goal should have acted as a wake-up call, the second ought to have been a bucket of iced water but still Manchester City continued to slumber, their shoddiness emphasised by a free-kick that saw Yaya Touré push a simple square pass to Fernando, who allowed the ball to run over his feet.
"Touré did not survive Manuel Pellegrini's half-time team talk and nor did Jesus Navas."
You get the idea... And (unfortunately) there's more because Frank Lampard has pinpointed the absence of skipper Vincent Kompany - and a dependence on other stars - as a major factor in the Blues' downfall.
Quoted in an article on Four Four Two's website this morning, the former City midfielder stated: "City were nowhere near their best, that was apparent from the first 10 minutes when they were off the pace slightly.
"They have got two centre-halves in there who are not used to playing together, they are missing their captain, and that became apparent very quickly.
"We have all had bad games and when those first couple of passes go astray and then they are running at defenders and they are all over the shop, it is very hard to get that back, particularly when Liverpool keep the pressure on.
"They have to wipe it from their memory, because there is nothing good about it. And the good fact is they are still in the title race, as you can see from the table.
"I do not think that it changes, though, a few fundamental problems they still have - when Vincent Kompany does not play, you can see that they struggle at the back.
"David Silva is not fit and he is massive for them, there is an over-reliance on Aguero - he is one of the best strikers in the world, but when he is not there, you do wonder where they will pick up the points.
"Yaya Toure is a massive player for the club, but when he is not at his best, I think it is a problem for them. Do you play him as a two, or more advanced?"
On a day which yielded few highlights, Aguero's superb solo effort was certainly one of them. As a result, there's a snippet of good news provided by Goal.com as Kun overtook compatriot Carlos Tevez to become the highest-scoring South American in Premier League history.
Stephen Darwin explains: "The Argentine forward, who returned to Manchester City's starting XI after missing four league games through injury, struck in the 44th minute at the Etihad Stadium, his 85th in England's top flight.
"That strike moves Aguero ahead of former City team-mate and fellow Argentine Tevez, who hit 84 goals in the Premier League during spells with West Ham, Manchester United and their cross-city rivals at the Etihad Stadium.
"Barcelona forward Luis Suarez (69), meanwhile, is third in the Premier League's all-time list of South American goalscorers, while another Uruguayan, former Chelsea midfielder Gustavo Poyet, is fourth with 54."
Finally, in other (bad) news, the Daily Mail report Samir Nasri could be out of action for another five months.
An article reads: "Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini fears Samir Nasri could miss most of the rest of the season, but hopes Vincent Kompany and David Silva are back in action within a week.
"French midfielder Nasri, who has missed City's last six games with a hamstring injury, this week revealed via Twitter that he could be out for another three months.
"Now Pellegrini has given more details about the 28-year-old's condition, revealing that he faces a tendon operation after suffering a setback on the training ground, and the lay-off could be longer than feared."
Pellegrini said: "We don't have Samir Nasri for four or five months. He has a tendon injury in his right leg so now he must have surgery because it's an important (serious) injury."


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Bangladesh State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku said that the government would welcome it if extremists decided to surrender voluntarily in consideration of peace and interest of the country.
The state minister urged the extremists to quickly give up their violent path and return to normal life and work with people.
He said the law enforcers have been asked to take stern action against the elements disrupting the law and order situation in Bangladesh.
Matiur Rahman Chowdhury has the details.


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Ryanair is to set up a new base in Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital, months after warning that it would "pivot" growth away from UK airports in light of the Brexit vote.
The budget airline said it will start operating flights from Frankfurt am Main, the city's main airport, flying four new routes to Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Palma.
The company added that the move represents "rapid growth in the German market" and means it the first low-fares airline to open a base at the airport, pitting it against Lufthansa.
In July, the carrier said the decision by Britain to quit the European Union was "a surprise and a disappointment", adding: "We will pivot our growth away from UK airports and focus more on growing at our EU airports over the next two years."
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