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Open the Mac App Store to buy and download apps.
a wallpaper monitor, remind you of saving and classifying desktop pictures whenever you change or get a new wallpaper.
I love my desktop pictures, which is my motivation behind coding this app. I am very annoyed at the fact that some apps and online wallpaper services always try to download and save their wallpapers in some undocumented, HIDDEN or even system folder like: "/Users/your-name/Library/Application Support/the-app-name". Which really makes it tough for me to organize them.
Meanwhile, there's also another problem. Say you're surfing the web and come across a good picture, and you set it as your wallpaper with a simple right click of "Use Images as Desktop Picture". This is all good and well until you change your wallpaper again the other day. Now, where is the old one? Maybe you know they are all in a same name of "Safari Desktop Picture.jpg", you've lost the old one unless you dragged it from System Preferences to a folder manually.
wallpaperGUARD is here helping you. Just set a parent folder as your default desktop picture's folder, you may also add as many as classify sub folders like "arts", "beauty", "cars" deep in 4 levels. You're done! Now, any new image that becomes your wallpaper, whether it was set by another app, a web service, or yourself, will be checked by the wallpaperGUARD for its real location. If it is already in your default folder, so much the better. But, if it is not, wallpaperGUARD will pop out and offer to copy or move it to anywhere for you, it's that simple!
Especially consider this app if you have more than 50 desktop pictures or if you have no idea where more than half of your wallpapers are stored.
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- fully automatic respond whenever your desktop picture changed by you or other apps
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Though the heat lingers, we've begun the transition of season and say so long to many of our summer favorites, like the last of the Avocados and Peaches. Locally Yellow Squash, Zucchini and Okra fill the gap, along with Tennessee Tomatoes and Apples start rolling in from the mountains.
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The brilliance of Fall shows up in this Swiss Chard and other Beets, plus there's a cornucopia of Eggplant size, shape, and color—from Japanese Eggplant, to Mini's, to porcelain White Eggplant.
Many crops are coming out of South Florida now, but from our area we're enjoying the Grape harvest of Muscadines and Scuppernongs, along with Fresh Local Shrimp.
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The Grape Harvest is here! Florida's native grapes are known for sweetness, and local vineyards are heavy with Muscadines and Scuppernongs. These quarter-sized fruits are sweet and ready to eat.
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"Autumnal Equinox" – That's a mouthful and so is the harvest of fall crops available to our area, including Corn and Beans and Squash. It's that time of year when Gourds and Pumpkins start arriving, along with a greater variety of Apples.
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The Corn Maze opens Saturday, September 29th at the Sykes & Cooper Farms in Elkton. This popular family event features not only a nine acre maze as well as other children's activities, it's also a showcase of locally grown produce.
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The holidays will be here before you know it! Squash is plentiful now in many varieties—Spaghetti Squash, Acorn Squash, Yellow Squash, Zucchini—don't wait to get it! Always before Thanksgiving there's a rush on squash, and it can be hard to come by. Squash stores well—you can get it now, prepare it, freeze it, and then it's ready for your favorite holiday recipes.
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An ocean of local flavor is available Wednesdays at the St. Augustine Beach Pier. The mid-week market is open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Wednesday and showcases over 60 vendors, from farmers to artists. Right now we've had a lot of locals showing up, like Squash and Zucchini, Sweet Potatoes, Pole Beans, and Snap Beans.
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The Florida crops are starting to arrive, including Grapefruit and Oranges, Watermelon, Tomatoes, all kinds of Squash, and Eggplant.
Fall in love with local flavor!
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Kale is coming to town. This green winter vegetable fills the ABC's of vitamins—plus there's a lot you can do with Kale! From Kale Chips baked with a little oil and salt to Kale & White Bean Soup, try out this crop for value in flavor, nutrition and versatility. Listed below are links to a Kale-idoscope of recipes. Please feel free to share your own recipe as a comment here or on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/
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In iPod or iPad devices, when an application is running and the user presses the home button, the app goes into the background - but it still occupies some memory. What happens if a number of other apps take up more and more memory similarly? In my case, my app crashes with a memory warning - is there any solution or particular technique I should use?
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Fluid phrases from the beloved story Peter Pan bring back childhood memories full of magic. 'Believe,' 'Think Lovely Thoughts,' ' Straight On Till Morning' and 'The Power of Pretend' gracefully sweep over a solid ground, creating just one show stopping print in this collection full of images from the popular stage show, starring Cathy Rigby. Larger words are about 3 1/4", from the 'Off To Neverland' collection © & TM 2011 Cath Co Inc. for Quilting Treasures.


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Upward bound house is an organization of smoke and mirrors, nothing is what it seems. Clients are harassed intimidated, and forced into situations they dont want to be in. All the wonderful donations, most dont reach donors (especially if its too nice, it gets sold on E bay or another staffer takes it home.) The staff, with the exception of maybe two people are.vile human beings, talking about clients bad, yelling at clients, and in general, not helping peiple. Soms standouts are Paula Brooks, the so called Housing coordinator whi doesnt do anything gossips about clients, and regularly takes out personal vendettas on clients, even causing some to lose their housing. They smile in your faces donors, and if they feel like you have too much money or fame, clients have to close their doors when your around, so you cant see or talk to the people your helping. So please go to family place, ask the CLIENTS if they are happy, and how they are being treated. You will be suprised what you hear....
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The restaurant we drank wine and ate bread in is French, new, small, on Madison, and called Saint-Germain. Lots of French was being spoken, and lots of French hiphop was being played. One of the owners of the pleasant place declared that La Haine is the greatest French movie. But this is not leading to my final point. What I have in mind at the moment has to do with this morning when I woke up and reread for the third time this year the first chapter of the book I will never get enough of, Phenomenology of Spirit. The chapter is on the problems of sense-certainty, and near the end of the chapter is this, one of the greatest passages in all of philosophy:
"…[T]hey have still to learn the secret meaning of the eating of bread and the drinking of wine. For he who is initiated into these Mysteries not only comes to doubt the being of sensuous things, but to despair of it: in part he brings about the nothingness of such things himself in his dealings with them, and in part he sees them reduce themselves to nothingness."
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Four-year-old Michael Romos clapped her hands and smiled in glee as she got her first look at hundreds of free coats at the Eveline Rivers Christmas Workshop Coatroom.
By the end of the evening. Romos was so excited she buttoned up her new pink winter jacket, put on a blue knit winter hat and headed out the door - even though it was 73 degrees outside.
Romos was one of about 36 children from across Amarillo to get a free winter jacket, scarf and gloves thanks to the Eveline Rivers Christmas Project.
Her brother, Simon, 2, had his eye on a Spider-Man jacket. When the first didn't fit, he kept searching for another in his size until he struck gold.
Tuesday night's giveaway was light compared with some nights, but volunteers weren't dismayed. When the temperatures start to drop, Eveline Rivers said they sometimes serve up to 400 kids a night. Sometimes the line stretches blocks away to Third Avenue from the location on Jefferson Street.
"We work until we're tired (those nights)," she explained.
The students served by the project are mainly lower income and are nominated by their guidance counselor.
"We're here to be a helping hand for those that need us," she said.
Brand-new coats line racks in the Coatroom. Girls coats on top. Boys coats on the bottom. All are sorted according to size.
The students pick their favorites. For some, it's the first new item of clothing they've ever received, she said.
For Monica Rivera and her two children, the coats are welcome. The three just relocated from California, where their climate didn't call for winter clothing.
Her daughter, Muriah, 5, studied herself closely in the mirror to see how she looked in her new jacket before selecting a red one.
"They're kind of excited picking out all the new stuff," Monica Rivera said. "This is wonderful that they do this. We're starting to appreciate jackets here."
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Zach lives two periods. He earns $10,000 in the first period and nothing in the second period. The rate of return is 10 percent, and there is an income tax (applied to labor and interest earnings) of 50 percent. Zach decides to save half of his first period earnings, which he consumes (along with interest earned) in the second period.
a. What is Zach's income tax liability each period? What is the present value of his lifetime tax payments?
b. Suppose that a consumption tax of 50 percent replaces the income tax in the second period (after Zach has made his saving decision). How much does he pay in taxes the second period? What is the present value of his lifetime tax payments? Compare your answer to the present value of lifetime tax payments in part a, and explain the relevance of the comparison to transitional problems in moving to a consumption tax.


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Population Research and Policy Review
, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp 381-397
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Did Australia's Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births?
- Robert DragoAffiliated withInstitute for Women's Policy Research Email author
- , Katina SawyerAffiliated withPennsylvania State University
- , Karina M. ShrefflerAffiliated withOklahoma State University
- , Diana WarrenAffiliated withMelbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
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In May 2004, the Australian government announced a "Baby Bonus" policy, paying women an initial A$3,000 per new child. We use household panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (N = 14,932) and a simultaneous equations approach to analyze the effects of this bonus on fertility intentions and ultimately births. The results indicate that opportunity costs influence intentions and births in predictable ways. Fertility intentions rose after the announcement of the Baby Bonus, and the birth rate is estimated to have risen modestly as a result. The marginal cost to the government for an additional birth is estimated to be at least A$126,000.
KeywordsBaby Bonus Births Fertility HILDA Survey
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Population Research and Policy Review
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- Mark Wooden (4)
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, Volume 99, Issue 1, pp 25-34
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Pichia anomala: cell physiology and biotechnology relative to other yeasts
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Pichia anomala is a most interesting yeast species, from a number of environmental, industrial and medical aspects. This yeast has been isolated from very diverse natural habitats (e.g. in foods, insects, wastewaters etc.) and it also exhibits wide metabolic and physiological diversity. Some of the activities of P. anomala, particularly its antimicrobial action, make it a very attractive organism for biological control applications in the agri-food sectors of industry. Being a 'robust' organism, it additionally has potential to be exploited in bioremediation of environmental pollutants. This paper provides an overview of cell physiological characteristics (growth, metabolism, stress responses) and biotechnological potential (e.g. as a novel biocontrol agent) of P. anomala and compares such properties with other yeast species, notably Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which remains the most exploited industrial microorganism. We await further basic knowledge of P. anomala cell physiology and genetics prior to its fuller commercial exploitation, but the exciting biotechnological potential of this yeast is highlighted in this paper.
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Tough Love for Retirees
These advisers tell some older clients to keep a tighter lid on spending
One of the most common mistakes retirees make is underestimating their one-time expenses, says Kim Adams, chief financial officer at the financial-planning firm ProVise Management Group LLC in Clearwater, Fla.
Mixing It Up
- Advisers Preach Caution: Four financial advisers have stuck with their strategies, but tweaked some fund holdings.
- Making Room for Midcaps: Mark Cortazzo, founder of financial advisory firm Macro Consulting Group LLC, puts more dollars in midsize companies than in giant stocks.
- More Cash, Less Anxiety: Michael Leonetti and his investment team trimmed stock exposure earlier this year as prices fell.
- ETFs? Not Right Now. Adviser Donna Levy sees more potential in a variety of actively managed funds.
- How to Help Grandkids: Strategies can range from investing in popular 529 college-savings plans to setting up trusts, adviser Kathy Muldoon says
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It could be $10,000 that a retired couple wants to spend on a 25th wedding anniversary party, or $12,000 for a grandchild's college tuition. These so-called one-off expenses are not as uncommon as people think. They add up over time and "can really hurt in their retirement planning," says Ms. Adams.
To stay on track, she says, retirees may need to compensate by cutting back elsewhere.
There are several other large expenses that retirees should expect, such as major home repairs and replacing a car after 10 or 15 years. If not budgeted for, these expenses can create a hole in people's finances.
"The last thing you want to do is to take more [investment] risk to make up the shortfall," says Ray Ferrara, chief executive of ProVise. Similarly, Mr. Ferrara typically advises making large discretionary expenditures through gains from the investment portfolio.
In this column, we feature model portfolios from prominent financial advisers who invest in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
Mr. Ferrara founded ProVise in 1986. It currently manages $725 million in assets, primarily for individuals.
He says another big mistake some retirees make is taking on too much debt. Some are tempted to borrow to finance a new car or an expensive vacation while interest rates are super-low, he says. But eventually, the principal has to be paid back, which could hurt an ill-equipped retiree's portfolio.
"We really prefer to see those kinds of purchases made with cash," says Mr. Ferrara, who in addition to his role at ProVise serves on the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc., which awards CFP certification.
Here, the ProVise team shares a portfolio the firm uses as a model for clients who have a moderate risk appetite and are early retirees. The portfolio was up an average 4.8% a year for the three years ended Aug. 31, according to Ms. Adams. ProVise's money-management fee ranges from 1.25% to 0.4% of the assets under management.
U.S. STOCKS: The portfolio has 37% in U.S. stocks through funds and ETFs. "We have gradually migrated toward divided-paying equities as yields on bonds have come down," says Ms. Adams. Nine percent of the portfolio is in Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, VIG 0.41 % which invests in companies with a record of growing their dividends year over year.
Eight percent each is in Pioneer Cullen Value, which buys cheap or "value" stocks, and Fidelity Contrafund, which owns mainly fast-growing or "growth" stocks. Ms. Adams expects Fidelity Contrafund to outperform the market during good times and Pioneer Cullen to "do better during difficult times."
In 2008, for instance, Pioneer Cullen Value fell 32%, which was five percentage points less than the decline of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index (including dividends), according to Morningstar Inc. MORN 1.43 %
Earlier this year, the advisers cut back on their allocations to small and medium-sized companies because they had run up a lot, says Ms. Adams. The portfolio has 6% each in Perkins Mid Cap Value and Gabelli Small Cap Growth.
FOREIGN STOCKS: There's a 15% allocation to foreign stocks through three funds. Manning & Napier World Opportunities, which has around 60% of its portfolio in Europe, gets an 8% allocation. The fund has lost 18.5% so far this year through September, but Ms. Adams says she has no plans of cutting back despite the continuing concerns over Europe's economic health. "There are probably still some good companies performing well," she says, and she's relying on the fund's managers to find them.
Earlier this year, the advisers started allocating 4% to Matthews Asia Dividend, which invests in dividend-paying companies primarily in China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Australia. For broad emerging-markets exposure, the advisers put 3% in Oppenheimer Developing Markets.
BONDS AND CASH: The portfolio has a 26% allocation to bond mutual funds, plus 3% in cash-like investments.
Earlier this year, the advisers trimmed their investments in corporate and government bonds, which could be hurt as interest rates rise down the road. Currently, they invest 10% in Pimco Total Return, which buys high-quality corporate and mortgage-backed bonds of medium term, and 5% in Vanguard GNMA, which buys bonds backed by federal mortgage agency Ginnie Mae. The advisers expect the GNMA fund to deliver better yields than a fund that buys U.S. Treasurys.
The advisers also own two bond funds that pay higher yields than plain-vanilla bond funds but that also are more risky. Fidelity Capital & Income, at 3%, buys bonds of companies that have low credit ratings or have defaulted on their debt. Ms. Adams believes the fund's high income will "compensate for any defaults that we might have to endure." The fund yielded 6% in late September.
Another 3% is in Invesco Convertible Securities. Convertible bonds, which can be converted into stocks when certain conditions are met, do well when stocks gain.
Finally, 5% of the portfolio goes to Templeton Global Bond, which invests in bonds of foreign governments and government agencies. "It gives us an opportunity to benefit from interest rates in foreign countries," says Ms. Adams.
ALTERNATIVES: The advisers invest 19% of the portfolio in nontraditional funds to further diversify. "We want to have something in each portfolio that can perform well in inflationary times, deflationary times and if it's just a stagnant" environment, says Ms. Adams.
Three years ago, she started buying Absolute Strategies, managed by Absolute Investment Advisers LLC, which aims to provide "positive return regardless of the investment environment," says Ms. Adams. The fund fell 13.5% in 2008, but Ms. Adams notes this was much smaller than the broad market's decline. She invests 4% in the fund. The fund is generally closed to new investors but the advisers are able to purchase it for clients.
Five percent of the portfolio is in Cohen & Steers Realty Shares, which buys real-estate investment trusts, and 3% is in Van Eck Global Hard Assets, which invests in securities in areas including energy, precious metals, timber and agriculture.
Finally, there is a 7% investment in BlackRock Global Allocation, whose managers buy various investments, including stocks, bonds and even currency contracts, depending on their market view. Ms. Adams likes that a team of managers is making decisions about various asset classes. "We consider [it] a good core holding in the portfolio," says Ms. Adams.
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I got bitched at by some flaming queen two weeks ago at the Cuff when I made the same damn argument. I was called a facist for suggesting we can not simply stop all carbon emissions overnight. We have to phase it out while encouraging businesses to develope clean technology. This is not a new argument but the liberals have never articulated it very well.
But what the hell do I know, I only have a BA in Economics....
In other words, going cold turkey on emissions will in fact destroy our economy unless we figure out new ways of doing business.
which is why prop 1 was a good idea. 50 miles of light rail was a new way of doing business, and the opportunity cost was some money for roads, which were/are going to get build anyway.
The debate shouldnt be framed by caps, it should be framed by liberals coming in with a pro-business pitch, pushing for massive investments in the transition to green technologies, like rapid mass transit for one.
YES. This is my whole beef with erica types. they think everything has to be punative. that you have to punish people, tax then, inconvenience them, take things away, in order to make them change.
we live in a pragmatic country. people can't be forced into things. they have to be sold. give people better options--real mass transit, hybrids or biodiesel that are cheaper to operate, etc.--and you'll have not only more people jumping on board, but heaven forbid, it might help the economy, too.
when it comes down to it, environmentalists aren't going to save the planet. businessmen will. someone--probably a japanese automaker--will come up with the first mass-marketable non-internal combustion engine, and it will change the direction of economics in their favor for fifty years.
in the process, they'll do more to reduce green house gases than a thousand "turn off your lights for an hour" or a thousand cities placing twenty cent taxes on plastic grocery bags.
Make green technology a better option, and people will choose it. But only if it is a better option. That's the challenge. The challenge is to give people an option that is better than technology that has been around for 50-100 years.
This whole "Gee, the conservatives have a point, the liberals ought to get with it" theme of Josh's really got tired a long time ago.
The confluence of issues that is climate change+energy security+peak oil defies the usual liberal-vs.-conservative divide. Any real solutions will need to transcend that divide. Al Gore is right to say that our politics and perception haven't come close to catching up to the depth of the problem of climate change. Hey, even Al Gore himself, visionary though he is, hasn't caught up.
In terms of specific solutions, though, the following should be obvious:
Biofuels bad.
When are liberals actually going to get involved in the energy business? i think that might be another set of problems though; how do you encourage a kid in college to pursue a degree in engineering or business when the liberal path of least resistance is to get a degree in psych, or english, or some other field detached from the things they claim to care about.
Fail. You can spend as much as you want on technology but no one is going to deploy it ***in time*** without government mandates (via carbon taxes or cap and trade or whatever).
In other words
1) we have the technology we need to get started NOW
2) tech development is being used as a delaying tactic
3) the longer we delay the more expensive and drastic the necessary cuts, and the more folks can argue "maybe tomorrow we'll do something, when the technology comes"
Had to post this. Democrats HAVE been working on this issue. For a long time. Look no further than Rep. Inslee's Apollo Energy Independence Project. He's been pushing for this since at least 2003. And other Dems have gotten behind it, but it has been stymied by Republicans every time.
It' good to hear that maybe, just maybe, Republicans are catching up.
I don't get it. Are you saying someone's going to invent edible robot cows?
@4 - what are you talking about? The "liberal = humanities major" meme is tired and old; the scientific and engineering world has liberals aplenty, and grows increasingly liberal as the right wing becomes increasingly anti-science.
No, the market solution is to impose caps and then let industry come up with the technologies. When we said, "No more leaded gas," the industry came up with the catalytic converter. When we said, "No more CFCs," the industry came up with new propellants for aerosols. When we say, "No more carbon emissions," the industry will figure it out.
It's the economic punishing that gives them the motivation to figure out something new.
And again, the damage to the economy from the effects of global warming is plenty crippling, so take your pick: a recession followed by a thriving green economy, or losing downtown Seattle, half of Manhattan, most of Florida, entering into a depression the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Black Death, and then figuring out the green technologies, and spending a century trying to get somewhere near back to the economy we once had.
Also, what @5 said. Conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation comes less from any sober evaluation of economic costs than it does from protecting specific well-entrenched interests, as well as ordinary knee-jerk reactionaryism. They'll say "Let the market work it out" as they pursue policies which ensure that never happens.
"The debate shouldnt be framed by caps, it should be framed by liberals coming in with a pro-business pitch, pushing for massive investments in the transition to green technologies, like rapid mass transit for one."
Well, sorta. We will need both. Hard yet reasonable emissions caps to push the market toward a greener future, and gov't investment in new technologies to help it get there. But politically it makes sense to me to get the caps in place first - once we have a consensus that emissions reductions need to happen, it'll be a lot easier to budget money for green technology.
@2 some dude:"This is my whole beef with erica types. they think everything has to be punative. that you have to punish people, tax then, inconvenience them, take things away, in order to make them change."
I'm certainly not going to disagree that ECB's environmental commentary is as shrill as her grasp of economics is weak. But, large scale emissions reductions are simply not going to happen until consumers face some kind of penalty for contributing to carbon emissions. Calling it "punative" or "taking something away" misses the mark: emissions caps would simply internalize the very real cost of carbon emissions which we currently don't pay when we buy gas, heat, whatever.
@11 - i disagree. consumers will buy green if it is a better deal. For example, look at all of the hybrids right now. Many people are buying them, but how many more would buy them if the government gave a 10k tax bonus?
Instead of making people "pay" for something they're getting for free, say to people "hey this car will cut your monthly gas tab in half, and with this tax break, your monthly car payments will be the same as any other car".
Basically there are two ways you can approach it. You can try to bully big business by putting caps and regulations on them (which can and are effective, but not 100% effective), or you can go to the consumer and help to encourage them to demand the kinds of cars that are better for the environment.
Look at Ford. They're FUCKED because of their shortsighted over investment in SUVS. They're struggling to find a new market. The japanese automakers can see the future and are developing green technology. But the market isn't quite ready for it because it is too expensive.
But if you can help drive consumer demand, then sooner or later someone at Ford will realize that there is money to be made because the government has made favorable market conditions.
Incidentally, this is EXACTLY what the Japanese government did.
So let's skip the whole "people need to learn a lesson that there's no such thing as free lunch" bit and go straight to the "buy this because it's cheaper and better".
Without any GHG audit of prop. 1 and with most benefits of rail to the suburbs coming in the 2040s, 2050s and 2060s the prop. was environmentally suspect. GHG costs were front loaded -- during our crisis -- benefits came much later, perhaps too late to help.
The biofuels debalce teaches us to not assume a supposed "green" innovation is green....till we do the GHG math.
Re light rail and its GHG effects: got math?
There is no magic bullet, and there is no single "this" we should be doing. There are several prongs to the attack, and while research into new technologies is the most important one, simple conservation can make a big difference too.
Cressona's point about biofuels is a good one. Unfortunately, at this moment the ENTIRE THRUST of the "alternative fuels" movement has been captured by Big Corn, and they are still promoting their incredibly destructive ethanol and biodiesel stuff, and getting a great audience in Washington DC. This stuff is ten times worse than petroleum, and every responsible environmentalist should be working to STAMP OUT PLANT BIOFUELS (Algae may be a different matter).
Biofuels are a prime example of bad old magic bullet thinking -- "if we just do this, voila!"
I think Gitai is absolutely right: use caps to (a) squeeze out some of the flab in the system and (b) force the market to come up with a market solution.
Some of the things we could do to start are completely painless: use a little less energy to do common tasks. If the CAFE standards were remotely realistic, and applied to SUVs, we could give people incentives to buy an efficient car instead of an SUV -- that's millions of vehicles of savings right there, and would, within just a year or two make Saudi oil unnecessary. Enough? Of course not.
Cap and trade, it's the only thing that has ever worked in the long run.
it isn't a meme, it could be statistically proven that a. people with liberal political views are in greater numbers in humanities fields b.conservatives are in greater numbers in mathematical and scientific and economic fields. being a conservative doesnt mean you're a bible thumper.
@13 - Generally speaking the standard equation as it stands today in our area is limited to road based transportation--cars, bus, trucks, etc.
In order to truly move forward, a new element--mass transit--needs to be added.
I do not have any studies or statistics on hand, but generally speaking, the benefits of something like light rail are going to be long term and will only truly start to pay dividends after the system matures and dense development is able to catch up.
So I have no doubt that it wouldn't "pencil out" for a while.
But altering the course of something like our metropolitan area is like stopping a freight train. It takes a while to change course, but you have to invest in something and nurture it for the long term before you will see long-term benefits.
But if you have some short term drawbacks with longterm payouts, should that disqualify an option?
This is purely speculation on my part, but it seems that a primary source of GHG in light rail (after construction) would be from the locomotives, correct?
The powerplan in a locomotive can be replaced, so any calculation would need to be qualified that it is based upon assumptions about what GHG emissions would be as technology improves.
That aside, in the meantime a network of rails will be developed upon which cleaner trains could run.
The investment is in the infrastructure, which becomes more valuable as population density increases.
I'm not an engineer (just a liberal with an English degree).
Josh are you positioning yourself for a corporate social responsibility job after the Stranger? Or just working for a mainstream Democrat?
This either/ or divide is false here. The energy alternatives already exist. The challenge is to build economies of scale. Placing a cap creates an economic incentive to develop these economies of scale. A cap is not anti-market. That's just scare-mongering.
People told us decades ago that a gas tax for alt trans would kill the economy. But a war in Iraq has helped triple gas prices without killing the economy-- but the profits are going to big oil rather than developing socially responsible alternatives.
There is no difference between this and the question of roads/ alt transportation. The Stranger opposes increasing freeway capacity (a cap) to shift consumer demand toward alternatives that are not yet adequately funded (alt transportation) with the belief that growing demand (produced by gridlock) will help increase funds (via fares), alternatives (changed lifestyles), and political support for more socially responsible transportation options in the long term. Why not apply the same logic to this issue?
@2 I agree. It's pretty hard to get he vast majority of people to punish themselves in a democracy. One can talk all they want about road diets, carbon taxes, and the like, but unless people want them, they will not happen, and if by some magic they did, the next election would undo them. The solution is not to make driving and other environmentally negative options inconvenient and worse, but to make transit and being eco-friendly better and more convenient.
I think we should work with other developed countries to build pebble reactors (and other safe nuclear) in as many places as possible. Go to a country that is looking to use a lot of fossil fuels and tell them we will help them generate power more cleaner and will even foot part of the bill.
At the same time we invest in developing alternative fuels and technologies for transportation, and power generation. We could be the leader in this regard and like the Marshal Plan, grow our economy while helping the world.
@12 My question/concern with getting everyone to buy hybrids is what do we do with all the existing cars? They aren't going to vaporize overnight--they will be sold to others or kept as second cars and the net number of cars using gas (because yes, even the hybrids use gas) increases. Can we come up with a solution to get rid of the existing cars--besides crushing them because even a crushed car takes up space. (granted, it no longer uses gas but still...)
short term I don't know what to say, but if the technology can improve after however many more iterations, perhaps retrofitting old cars would be an option -- just take the old engine out and put in a new one. We're still a ways away from that, I'd imagine, but that would be a pretty big market.
My take is that there is going to be waste. But people buy new cars every 5 years as it is. And hybrids are actually worse for the landfill because of all their batteries. But it is a step in the right direction, right?
@11 - I think punishing the people is a shitty way of pushing something and will cause a cultural backlash. Right now, the ecological people are riding a wave of environmentalism brought on by strange weather and movies made by ex-Vice Presidents. Liberalism is riding a wave caused by an extended war time, unimployment, and high inflation. Environmentalists are going to ride this wave to its shrill end.
But, it won't last. Using tolls on workers trying to get across will just send them to pay more money to Big Oil by driving out of their way in traffic to get around a lake. Especially for those who work in areas which do not have bus stops within miles. For instance, the only bus stop around my work is 1 mile away, and only comes 2x a day: 10am and 4pm.
Punishing people into doing things will help things to a point, but also will drive people away from environmentalism. Lets tighten down the carbon emission caps on car companies and force them to create new technologies. Big Business should be tasked with creating new technologies for the same cost as other technologies. People will backlash against too much impugning on their freedoms.
What I think needs to happen isn't a waiting around for the corporations - that's a sissy cop-out - but they need to be pushed around. Unfortunately, for us, that's hard to do with lobbyists running the government as much as they do. After all, isn't lobbying just another way of greasing the wheels of justice?
This set of pro-business reasoning is so facile in so many ways. What about restraining emissions with a fundamentally different economic model? Lets start with the myth that growth is necessary across the board. What kind of growth are we talking about? Growth in non essential consumer products or growth in improving the the water supply in the global south?
Following this line of reasoning, caps would be bad for which parts of which economies? What does bad mean in this context; bad for whom, in what way, how much profit would not be made by whom? would jobs really be lost? if so whose?
Another point is that the liberals have been promoting cleaner technologies for I don't know how long, whereas the business types have been promoting more profitable (for them) technologies that are definitely not clean, such as reliance on the internal combustion engine for transportation.
Thus the destruction of the Los Angeles public transit system years ago by the auto industry.
It was carter who saw the energy crash coming and started
to address energy issues whereas it was Reagan who stopped Carters energy independence programs.
Oh and some dude, people are always being forced into things. When gas hits 6 to 10 dollars a gallon you can be sure that other choices will become very pragmatic, indeed. The question is: do you start preparing people for this now and have massive government investment in new tech or do you wait for the market to come up with a profitable(for them) tech solution?
What if the time it takes for the private sector to develop such technology is too long and too expensive (read not profitable) for the private sector to sustain? What if it takes a generation to grow, educate and employ enough college educated scientists to develop alternative energy/technology? Bellevue, you encourage such career development from elementary school by paying for magnet schools all the way up through post graduate education in the energy field.
Some projects you can't just throw money at to fix. some things take time.
Here is an example of a non-profit based economic model that alleviates emissions:
Most other countries realize that a rail infrastructure needs to be subsidized and that it pays dividends in many indirect ways (such as reduced dependence on cars and gas). But here in this country, we are stuck with expensive rail as a non-option to car and air travel.
Thus government can play a crucial role in developing energy technologies that may not be profitable by our current economic model but actually may be feasible and good for the economy, to say nothing about global warming.
This is not as Josh says a pro-business pitch.
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- To reach sustainable levels of GHG emissions requires not just new technologies but lifestyle changes. That's the bugaboo no one wants to talk about, conservatives, liberals, whatever. Everybody seems to think we can have it all at the same time - green jobs, green technologies, economic prosperity and envirionmental justice - and cut emissions at the same time. That's the theme of many of my favorite people. (Really - I do love them, but I think they are off base.) For example, Gregoire got hammered because she refused to embrace the science-based goal of reducing emissions by 80% by 2050. Well - do the arithmetic. Here in Washington, if we actually achieved that goal and didn't in the interim have a pandemic disease, our per capita emissions in 2050 would be just about that of today's Bangladeshis. Right. No matter how good the new technologies, there's no getting over physics or thermodynamics. Whatever transportation and energy systems we have will still require some fossil fuels (never mind the number of products we rely on that are made out of fossil fuels.)
- So: reaching science based goals on a NATIONAL or GLOBAL level requires not only new technologies but also reduced consumption. You know the new TVs coming on the market? They consume two to three times as much energy as the old ones - and how many homes now have more than one TV? Cell phones, laptops, etc - all require electricity to recharge and there are more of them every day. How many people are truly forgoing flights home for holidays or drives to the mountains for a hike or wine from France, or toys from China (oops - maybe we're now doing that one at least) etc, etc. The point is that we can't maintain our level of consumption simply through new technologies.
- But what REALLY frosts me in all this debate and articles like the NYTimes' is the focus on "new technologies." Millions of tons of GHG emissions could be avoided and billions of dollars saved with existing, off the shelf, every day inexpensive technology - energy efficiency. US industries could cut their energy use by 20% with energy efficiency - investments that pay back within two years. (McKinsey and Lawrence Berkely National Lab studies.) If every home in the US were built to California standards, residential energy consumption would be cut be a third by 2020. And these levels of savings don't even include turning down the heat or hanging out the laundry - or scary thought - bathing every other day instead of every day.
This fixation on new technolgies is lunacy - and typical. Somehow, we'll just engineer our way out of this mess - we won't really have to change our ways. Even here in Washington, the story is the same. There are great tax incentives for solar power - great, as in BIG. And even with the tax incentives, residential solar projects may pay back their investments in 10? 15? years. But a tax incentive to encourage you or me or energy intensive hospitals or laboratories, etc to save money and energy by choosing a high efficiency appliance or furnace or other piece of euqipment? Nada.
Go figure. A big part of the solution is right here, right now and it's cheap. But apparently not good enough.
@24, but those "lifestyle changes" are just not going to happen. We can talk all we want about it, but when it comes right down to it, people will choose their own comfort over the lives of people in the third world. Most of the affects of global warming will not hit the US all that hard for many years.
We will keep on growing our economy and getting more and more stuff until we cannot. If technology cannot save us then we are pretty much fucked.
lifestyle changes can only happen when the incentive for the lifestyle change exists. I like taxes for these things.
Exactly. Getting all gas cars off the road? Not going to happen. 99% of the population is against it. Rail mass transit? Never in a million years going to reach more than a small fraction of the population; 10% would be a miracle. These "lifestyle changes" you're talking about are nonsensical. You have a better chance at getting everybody in the US to start wearing dreadlocks and face tattoos than making cars go away.
Discussions on the subject that don't proceed from reality are doomed.
This is total bull.
The cost to acheive the Kyoto Accords and a carbon-neutral lifestyle is estimated as at best 1.5 percent of total worldwide GDP.
In other words, less than we spend on sub-contractors for FEMA.
In fact, if you export green tech, you end up increasing the GDP, decreasing pollution, and creating American jobs.
The problem is you're listening to Republicans, who try to get a bigger share of the pie for them, when you should be MAKING MORE PIES.
oh, and @4, we're investing in it - I think I have around $140,000 in energy firms (if you include utilities with high wind energy investments) ...
Yeah, and elenchos has how much?
@28 mmmm, pie, I like pie. Please make more pie...
Seriously in regard to exporting green tech. this sort of goes back to what I was saying about buying new cars here. Though I could definitely be wrong about this, I'm assuming that a lot of used cars from the US end up as the clunker cars that folks in the third world are driving. And I would assume that them drving those cars effects the environment as well. So how exactly do we export green technology to poorer countries? Well, that last point is valid regardless of my random car point--how do we export green technology to the third world?
Wind Turbines (multiple companies in King County and adjacent counties), Plug-in Hybrid Conversions of existing cars/trucks (multiple firms in King County and adjacent counties), and other such things.
Look, green tech will happen whether we participate or not - they just held a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal in Santa Barbara CA and a lot of investors paid a lot of money to attend and figure out how they can get rich investing in it and creating new firms to do so.
Now take your greed for my slices of pie and get back to baking ...
Green Tech is certainly a part of the picture. The problem is currently preventing Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill, to say nothing of Exxon and Shell, from receiving the bulk of the government research dollars, because they are unlikely to spend them wisely.
I regard ethanol and biodiesel to be the world's biggest environmental threats right now, worse than Canadian shale oil, maybe worse than Chinese factories. Yet they are getting all the money. It's as if we were fighting terrorism by sending nuclear materials to Al Qaeda and telling them to "come up with something".
So Fnarf, when you say 99 percent of the cars off the road isn't going to happen, is there any leeway there? What if the price of gas goes up to 6 dollars? what if it goes up to 12 dollars? What if you just can't get the gas because its rationed and driving gas powered cars without proof of rationed gas becomes a crime? What I'm getting at is that it is not a matter of what if but when these things happen. I think we can safely say that the price of gas is not going down anytime soon, so its just a matter of when it reaches the point where most (maybe not 99%) people have to stop riding around for anything but essentials. Very expensive essentials.
Unless you have alternatives...
The problem with your description there, Rant, is that GAS IS CHEAP. $4 a gallon gas is cheap. When you look at the history of the price adjusted for inflation, it's barely at a peak, and most of that is the collapsing dollar. $6 a gallon is cheap, and it's not there. $12 a gallon? Nobody is saying that except loons.
Slightly more expensive gas is having a slight effect on driving habits now. But you're talking about removing cars completely. It's never going to happen. Something like 75% of the people in this country live in places where alternatives to cars are not possible, and if you take their cars from them, they're going to starve to death.
Any program for the future that is based on completely transforming the American economy is going to fail utterly before it even gets started. Incremental change is possible; total change is not. Unless you're an Evergreen hippie.
@33 - on this Fnarf and I agree, our current tax support of inefficient biofuels like ethanol from corn are nutso - although I could see algae or switchgrass supplies and cane sugar as well.
Look at last Friday's Wall Street Journal (front page for the reading impaired like Fnarf) and you'll see a story about how vehicle sales dropped - but when you look at the chart that is in the continuation of the article, you see that even though Toyota sales dropped - THEY DID NOT DROP BUT INCREASED for SMALL CARS and HYBRIDS and cross-overs (not quite sure exactly what those are so won't say much about them).
In other words, we have reached the pricing points where people ARE changing behaviour, the market IS switching to more fuel-efficient vehicles, and the invisible hand of liberal capitalism is doing it's job.
Get rid of the subsidies for ethanol and gas/oil in the US and this will ACCELERATE.
The market cares nothing for your politics - only results.
I like how people think technology is going to save them. Any day now, some miracle technology is going to allows us to live exactly as we live now painlessly into the future. How messianic and ahistorical. Are you pro-business people really that teleological and naive. When I read some of these posts, I actually welcome the ecological collapse.
I hope they deliver pot and pizza to your bunker, Jay. You're going to need them in a few days.
Will, a "crossover" is one of those small SUVs that are almost like cars (but classified as light trucks for the purpose of emissions and fuel-efficiency standards). Not very green -- but not appreciably worse than big cars. And almost any new vehicle that's not a jumbo SUV is a huge step forward in terms of emissions and fuel use. Remember that it saves far more gas to go from a 10 MPG vehicle to a 25 MPG vehicle than it does to go from, say, a 30 MPG vehicle to a 70 MPG vehicle, should such a thing exist.
It's the hogs that are doing the worst damage.
One fun fact is that an economic slowdown that hurts car sales can work AGAINST emissions and fuel efficiency, as it delays X number of upgrades to newer vehicles, most of which are more efficient and cleaner than older ones.
Yeah, I must be a lunatic to actually pay attention to foreign policy and know that one of the biggest emergent problems in the world is resource collapse. But of course when you're a can-do ideological liberal, you just assume the problem is going to get solved through good ol' fashioned know how, because hey, nothing too bad has happened yet. I don't think that ecological collapse is right around the corner, but thanks to douchebags like you, it probably will be in 50 years. Not your problem though, I guess. Because it's all a conspiracy by the man dood!
BTW: I love non-experts who confidently talk economics, ecology and technology like pros, or at least pseudo-pros. But hey it's just the Internets innit? I troll fart shit more accurate.
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hey all,
i was wondering if there was a PDA blogging client that works with WP.
I have an HP IPAQ Pocket PC.
Any suggestions?
hey all,
i was wondering if there was a PDA blogging client that works with WP.
I have an HP IPAQ Pocket PC.
Any suggestions?
I haven't heard of any PDA blogging clients, but if there is one, and it supports the meta weblog or the movable type api, it will work with wordpress.
Pocket SharpMT is an offline Moveable Type blogging tool. It sounds like it might work, but I haven't been able to check it out yet. I would love to hear if someone gets it to work.
Pocket SharpMT works great with WordPress! I just downloaded it and tried it a few minutes ago. Only one change was required. Since my wordpress blog is in a /wp folder off my website root folder, the CGI-BIN path it asks for should be /wp/xmlrpc.php.
You can see my first post from my PDA with this tool at:
Anyone know if there's a similar program available for Palm or for Java-powered cell phones?
Any good Palm OS clients?
I'll be honest - I haven't found a single blog client for my Palm Zire 72 or Ericsson T610 that works :( They either timeout or give errors, and I've tried 7 or 8 between the two.
For now, I can't write blog entries from my phone or PDA, I can just email moblog pics with captions from them.
Help! help!
My "xmlrpc.php" file is located in the "htdocs" folder. When I type this location into the CGI-BIN field of SharpMT I get an error message (Please verify that your CGI-BIN path is correct). I'm running WordPress v1.5 and SharpMT v 2.6.2 What am I doing wrong?
SharpMT use to work great with MT
My XMLRPC file is sitting at http://www.0gravity.co.uk/wordpress/xmlrpc.php (i.e in the server in public_html/wordpress/)
Your's should be under the directory where you installed WordPress - what's the URL of your site?
My URL is http://www.Dred242.com
Also, when I log-on to my server, I only see 2 folders. 1st. folders is named cgi-bin, and it's empty. The 2nd folder is called "htdocs", and it contains everything including the xmlrpc.php file.
Guess what? I was able to login to my "wp-login.php" page on the internet directly from my Pocket PC. I logged in, and created a post with out SharpMT.......Wow! WordPress ROCKS!!!!!
So I guess I'll just bookmark the wp-login.php page on my Pocket PC, and go with that.
I would still like to get the SharpMT app working!!!
The URL For the XMLRPC thingie is http://www.dred242.com/xmlrpc.php on your site - follow the link and you will get some text saying:
"XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only."
Which means it's up and running. What was the URL that you entered into SharpMT?
Yup, I can login to my page directly through the net connection on my phone by using the Palm's web browser - but with bandwidth being so expensive on cell phones, it would really be much, much better (and cheaper) to find a client that only connects long enough to upload a post or download one for editing.
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Issue: can't get first accordion item to collapse.
Background: previously, the only way I was able to get my accordions to collapse was by checking the 'Old Version' checkbox in WP UI Settings -> Advanced to implement the old UI API instead of the newer one. This worked okay, up until WordPress 3.5. Upon updating to 3.5, I had a jQuery conflict that was resolved only by unchecking the 'Old Version' box. jQuery fixed. Accordion no longer collapsible.
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Soybeans Gain as Dry Weather May Cut Argentina Crop; Corn Fell
Soybeans rallied to a six-week high on speculation that warm, dry weather will erode yields in Argentina, increasing demand for tightening U.S. supplies. Corn declined.
Most of Argentina was dry the past 24 hours, and the main growing region will be warm and dry for another 10 days, T-Storm Weather LLC in Chicago said in a report. Since Dec. 20, the nation has been drier than last year, when it had a drought. The country's oilseed production is seen as low as 47 million metric tons, 13 percent smaller than the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. said in a report.
"The markets are reacting to the potential for smaller crops in Argentina," David Smoldt, a vice president at INTL FCStone Inc. in West Des Moines, Iowa, said in a telephone interview.
Soybean futures for March delivery rose 0.4 percent to close at $14.7425 a bushel at 2 p.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, after touching $14.865, the highest since Dec. 18. Prices gained 2.3 percent this week, a fourth straight gain.
Argentina's output will trail a Jan. 11 forecast from the USDA, a unit of the agency said in a report posted on its website today.
Corn futures for March delivery declined 0.6 percent to $7.36 a bushel in Chicago, the biggest loss since Jan. 17.
Prices still rose 2.1 percent this week on speculation that China, the world's biggest grain consumer, will increase imports to curtail rising domestic prices, Smoldt said. Futures on the Dalian Commodity Exchange are trading at a price equal to about $10.08 a bushel, data compiled by Bloomberg shows.
"Importing products that China needs helps to stabilize domestic prices," Chen Xiwen, deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group under the State Council, said at a press conference today.
Corn is the biggest U.S. crop, valued at $76.5 billion in 2011, followed by soybeans at $35.8 billion, government figures show.


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Flynn Motor Group are a Family Run Business since 1994. We are based in Calder Road, Sighthill, Edinburgh and we specialise in selling Used Cars anything from a BMW or Mercedes to a Fiesta or a Corsa we do the full range.
So why buy a car from Flynn Motor Company?
We try our best to provide you with the ultimate buying experience and piece of mind when purchasing your car. That is why everyone of our cars go through a thorough inspection with our fully trained technicians, a lot of whom have full main brand training. Also all our cars come with 1 Full Years MOT, 1 Full Service, 6 Months Road Tax & 3 Months Warranty. Not to forget a nice bunch of flowers or a bottle of wine.
We have a no surprise pricing policy = which means the price you see is the price you pay no hidden extra charges.
Our Finance Packages are also extremely flexible making our cars not only amazing value for money but extremely affordable.
We are building a business because our customers keep coming back and recommending us to there friends and family.
I would also like to Thank all our customers who have bought a car from us it is your contribution that has got us to where we are today and if you are on our web site today because someone has recommended you could you please let me know so I can thank them personally.
We hope you choose Flynn Motor Company to purchase your next car and we look forward to meeting you.
I have been dealing with Danny and Tom at Flynn for almost a month, having paid for a car, and never having received it. We called off the deal yesterday, after weeks of spiel and lies from both these sellers. Danny and Tom were: - evasive (telling us the car needed a 'wee valve' when in actual fact a full new engine was needed) - patronising (telling us that the reason they didn't tell us what was wrong was because we were 'not mechanically minded') - incapable of genuine human interaction (dismissing/ignoring our concerns and repeating their rehearsed made-up story about what was happening) Finally, after many calls and emails, we were able to prove that they'd been lying. Even in the face of this proof, they continued to deny any responsibility. All of the above made them extremely difficult to trust and to deal with. If you value honesty, integrity and respect, don't go to Flynn. (This is actually a zero-star review, but unfortunately the website doesn't allow users to highlight no stars.)
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Great wee place to buy a car, staff are friendly and honest, nothing was too much for them. Had the car a month now and all seems great. Also got free MOT & Servicing for life. Will be back for sure, Marc.
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After looking to part exchange my vehicle with no success in a few different dealerships, I came across Flynn Motor Group, I called for a rough valuation and they informed me that I would have to take my vehicle in for an accurate price, after explaining that it would be impossible to get there before 6pm, they offered to stay on a little later. Got a great deal on my car and I collected my new car from them 3 days later, so far so good as i haven't had any problems. Thought I would let people know what fantastic service I received.
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Great prices, great people.
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Thank you for all your help with choosing the right car and all the assistance to get me a good deal on finance, see you in 3 years to do it all again.
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Fantastic cars and fantastic people, I bought a car from Flynn Motor Group a few weeks ago after passing by chance, my car is great value for money and the staff were very friendly. I will be back in a few months once my daughter passes her test.
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All Rise...
Judge David Johnson is a real American hero. And you're a Communist if you think otherwise.
Editor's Note
Our reviews of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1 (published July 13th, 2009), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.3 (published February 15th, 2010), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 2.0 (published April 13th, 2010), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Series 2, Season 1 (published December 23rd, 2011), and G.I. Joe: Countdown For Zartan (published October 24th, 2010) are also available.
The Charge
Got to get tough! Go Joe!
Opening Statement
As Cobra Commander spreads his evil around the world, only the elite fighting force of G.I. Joe stands in the way of Cobra's complete global domination. Then again, Cobra's diabolical schemes are so inane, your local electricians' union can probably do just as good a job keeping these morons at bay.
Facts of the Case
General Hawk is back with a full complement of highly-skilled, poorly-nicknamed professional mercenaries, and he'll need to call upon all of their talents to defend democracy, capitalism, freedom, and hamburgers against Cobra Commander, who runs around in public in a blue hood and sounds like Willem Dafoe with post-nasal drip. He's not short on crackpot schemes, cannon fodder, or helicopters that fire lasers, so that means the Joes will have plenty to do this season.
The Evidence
Not the least of which…fight the War on Drugs.
As far as Very Special Episodes of cartoons go, the two-parter "The Greatest Evil" maybe the very special-est. With Nancy Reagan no doubt looking on with grand approval, this double-header actually does the unthinkable: teams G.I. Joe and Cobra to take on a ruthless drug lord who's hooked both Hawk's little brother and some random Cobra soldier's sister on a controlled substance. This urban scourge is enough to soften even the hardened heart of Cobra Commander, moving him to the point where he and Hawk hold a press conference to declare their truce in a joint operation against dope slingers.
Temporarily, of course. After the Joes and Cobra are done taking down The Headman and his narcotics empire, it's back to massive laser blast exchange, where (curiously enough) nothing ever ends up getting blasted by lasers. Either the engineers for both contingents are all besieged by genetic depth perception deficiencies, or the operators of said laser-beam artillery are total morons.
Or maybe these guys are just determined to engage in the most bloodless war ever waged? The G.I. Joe / Cobra saga is essentially one prolonged living room Nerf battle, just with a whole lot more incoherence and jittery animation. And G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Series 2, Season 2 has plenty of lunacy to offer. Beyond the epic anti-drug episode, you can look forward to the following daring Cobra plots:
"Chunnel"—In an effort to attack the Anglophiles at their most vulnerable point—in the Chunnel—Cobra snatches up the Queen of England and promptly get disarmed by her charm and manners.
"Long Live Rock N Roll (Parts 1 and 2)"—Cobra recruits a hair metal rocker to vaporize New York City with his shredding.
"Kindergarten Commandos"—Cobra Commander dabbles in the child soldier arena, looking to recruit kindergarteners into his terrorist organization. He ultimately gives up because he finds children tiring.
"Keyboard Warriors"—To kick-start a pilot-less drone initiative (no doubt prompted by his desire to rescue the costly parachute budget), Cobra Commander turns to—you guessed it—more kids.
"Basic Training"—Some rookie Joes get the full tour of the magical Joe facilities and meet the Eco-Warriors, a triumvirate of Earth-minded soldiers who fight for clean water, pure air, and ozone layer preservation…and look like out-of-work gigolos.
Shout! Factory's DVD set is more than a bare-bones release, which is appreciated: standard definition 1.33:1 full-frame, Dolby 2.0 Mono, and a nifty interview retrospective with some Hasbro toy creators.
Closing Statement
More Joe madness than you can shake a stick at. Buy it. Live it. Love it.
The Verdict
Not Guilty. Go Joe!
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