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Diesels Versus Hybrids
Diesels versus Hybrids
Comparing the Environmental Costs
High fuel prices and concerns about climate change are boosting the popularity of gasoline/electric hybrid cars in the United States and abroad. However, environmentally minded motorists have another choice-diesels-which account for 45 percent of new passenger-car sales in European markets. Besides fuel economy concerns, the reasons include lower taxes on diesel fuel and greater tolerance of higher air emissions. Enthusiasm for diesels is relatively muted in the United States, with sales of approximately 30,000 diesels per year, mostly Volkswagens. Compare this to the sales of hybrid cars: more than 180,000 have been sold in the United States to date, 85,000 of them in the last year.
Americans generally think diesels are noisy, dirty, and underperforming. In a 2002 diesel vehicle survey by J.D. Power and Associates, 32 percent of Americans were concerned about engine noise, 27 percent about exhaust odor, and 31 percent about lower performance. However, these concerns are largely misplaced; most Americans remember the dirty diesels of decades past and are not aware of the advances incorporated into modern diesel vehicles. For example, in the last 15 years, diesel engines have reduced noise by 60 percent, emissions by 90 percent, and fuel consumption by 30 percent, while increasing torque by 100 percent. Modern diesels can be as desirable to consumers as gasoline automobiles, but how does their environmental performance measure up?
To answer this question, we must examine the entire life-cycle of the vehicle, including extracting raw materials, manufacturing and assembling automobile components, producing and combusting fuel, and maintaining and disposing of vehicles. Several differences between diesels and hybrids are undeniable: diesel engines are inherently more efficient than gasoline engines, diesel fuel contains approximately 10 percent more energy per volume than gasoline, and diesels produce significantly more air pollution. A closer look at the models offered today highlights these differences.
Three hybrid and three diesel passenger cars are currently offered in the United States (excluding the two-passenger Honda Insight and the luxury Mercedes-Benz E320 CDI). Table 1 provides basic size, weight, price, and performance data for these cars. The Honda Accord is the most expensive and the best performing; the other cars closely match each other in cost and performance. Overall, the diesel vehicles have a smaller cost differential than the hybrids.*
Materials Use and Waste Production
Nearly all vehicle energy consumption (more than 85 percent) and pollutant emissions occur during vehicle usage, which includes the vehicle emissions themselves as well as the impacts associated with the fuel cycle: the extraction, refining, transport, and use of diesel and gasoline. The large environmental impact during vehicle use means that materials use for manufacturing is not a primary concern, though it is worth some consideration. The vehicle lifecycle includes the production of about 6,700 kilograms (14,740 pounds) of hazardous waste per vehicle; half of that is produced during materials extraction and vehicle manufacture and half during fuel refining. Hybrid-car batteries are an additional source of hazardous waste, but the impacts are difficult to quantify. The potential longer lifetime of diesel vehicles also reduces materials use, though this may be offset by the extended usage of older vehicles with worse-than-average air emissions. Overall, there is no clear preference for either vehicle based on materials use.
Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases
The U.S. transportation sector produces 26 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and consumes 27 percent of the energy, making fuel economy particularly important in this analysis. Table 2 shows the fuel economy and full fuel cycle greenhouse gas emissions of each automobile; the Prius has the highest MPG (miles per gallon), followed by the Civic and manual Golf and Jetta. These data are estimates made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and many vehicle owners point out that the numbers overestimate the actual mileage. Nevertheless, the numbers are a good starting point for comparison, and it is clear that the gasoline hybrids have a significant advantage.
Air Pollutants
The U.S. transportation sector produces significant amounts of air pollution, including 40 percent of volatile organic compounds, 77 percent of carbon monoxide, and 49 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions. Vehicle use produces five key regulated air pollutants: nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and particulate matter (PM). NOx and hydrocarbons combine to form ground-level ozone, which damages the lungs and increases the vulnerability of plant life to disease. Carbon monoxide causes cardiovascular damage, and sulfur dioxide leads to acid rain. Particulate matter can contribute to lung cancer and respiratory problems at any ambient concentration; the World Health Organization estimates that it leads to 100,000 deaths per year in Europe. Approximately 10 percent by weight of the VOCs emitted are known or suspected to cause cancer; these include benzene, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde, and formaldehyde.
Table 3 summarizes the air pollution associated with vehicle use, including actual vehicle emissions and emissions from fuel production. The Accord produces twice the carbon monoxide and VOCs as the other cars, while the diesel automobiles have approximately six times more NOx and eight times more particulate matter than the Prius and Civic. Notably, the diesel vehicles do not currently meet some state air standards and cannot be sold in California or several northeastern states. The hybrids lead the diesel vehicles by far in terms of air emissions. One caveat, however: these data are from EPA tests and may not correspond exactly with real-world emissions, as driving conditions vary.
Advanced Fuels
Because the vehicle-use portion of the life-cycle has the biggest environmental impact, the choice of fuel is very important. Low-sulfur fuel, which is being phased in through 2006 in the United States, will enable significant reductions in air pollution from vehicles. Because sulfur damages emissions control equipment, the low-sulfur fuel will enable development of a variety of new emissions control technologies. These will allow diesel vehicles to meet EPA's new emissions standards. In 2009, the maximum vehicle emissions will be 0.02 grams per mile (g/mi) of particulate matter and 0.2 g/mi of NOx, about 30-45 percent of current Volkswagen diesel emission levels. However, even with stricter EPA standards, diesel engines will still exceed the air emissions of most gasoline engines.
Another fuel option is biodiesel, which can be produced from plant oils and used in diesel engines with no modifications. Most biodiesel in the United States is produced from soybeans; its life-cycle includes soybean production, transport, and crushing, conversion of soybean oil to biodiesel, distribution of biodiesel, and finally the use of the fuel. Biodiesel is the clear choice for climate protection; it uses 0.3 megajoules (MJ) of fossil energy for each MJ of fuel energy, while petroleum diesel requires 1.2 MJ of fossil energy for each MJ of fuel energy. Biodiesel produces only one-quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions of regular diesel. The most common blend, with 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent diesel, reduces particulate matter emissions by 10 percent, volatile organic compounds by 21 percent, and carbon monoxide by 11 percent. It also leads to a 2 percent increase in NOx emissions and a 1-2 percent decrease in fuel economy. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that biodiesel can fully replace fossil fuels. Converting all U.S. cropland to soybean production for biodiesel would meet only 62 percent of current U.S. on-road diesel fuel use, which tops 37 billion gallons per year. Cost may be an even more significant barrier, as pure biodiesel costs 20-30 cents more per gallon than diesel fuel.
In general, due to the higher air emissions and lower fuel economy of diesel cars, a hybrid is a more environmentally sound choice, given current options. A diesel purchase today could be justified if the vehicle were to be run on 50 percent or more biodiesel, as this would produces GHG emissions equivalent to a gasoline hybrid. However, when new air pollution rules come into effect in 2007, there is no clear winner on environmental merits; hybrids will maintain a lead in air pollution, but not enough to justify avoiding diesels running on high blends of climate-friendly biodiesel. It will come down to an individual decision on whether air pollution or climate impacts of vehicles are more important. However, the higher cost of biodiesel might tip the scale toward hybrids for those on a budget. Of course, within the next five years we could also see the introduction of hybrid diesel/electric vehicles, and when that happens the dominance of gasoline vehicles in the United States could be threatened.
Corinna Kester, a former Worldwatch intern, is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she currently serves as Sustainability Coordinator within the Department of Environmental Health and Safety.
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* Most data in this article are presented in their original English or avoirdupois form to avoid confusion and the introduction of conversion errors.


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IntelliPoint software enables you to customize the unique features of your Microsoft mouse to fit your needs. With IntelliPoint mouse software, you can reassign each mouse button—including the wheel button—to perform a command or keyboard shortcut, like Undo, Close, or an application-specific function. You can also modify mouse settings, such as pointer speed and updated horizontal scrolling.
IntelliPoint Features
- Users can define mouse buttons to run any executable program or file they desire (or a control key + letter combination), and can even define them for different functions in chosen programs.
- With IntelliPoint 4, users were able to specify mouse wheel behavior to scroll one screen at a time.
- With Intellipoint 7 you can get back the option to scroll a screen at a time by editing 2 registry entries. HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop - change WheelScrollLines to dec 99 HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Intellipoint/Scrolling - edit ScrollLines to 99
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Microsoft IntelliPoint is the Microsoft brand softwrae driver for Microsoft's IntelliMouse series of computer mice. Microsoft has released a lot of versions for Windows and Mac OS X.IntelliPoint supports all known Microsoft mice, including generic 3/5-button mice. However, advanced features might only be reachable on certain models (button options shown are specific to the selected model).


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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, March 23 (UPI) -- Nigeria's oil production is under threat because of escalating piracy off West Africa, a simmering insurgency in the Niger Delta, the theft of up to 150,000 barrels a day by militants and pirates and deadly Islamist terrorism linked to al-Qaida.
Onshore fields are mature and running down. Offshore, deep-water production in the Atlantic has been rising but is being hobbled by a lack of investment, even though high oil prices usually encourage such expensive ventures.
"Nigerian oil production from currently commercial projects will be steady until around 2015-2066, but then will drop off sharply unless investment increases," energy consultants Wood Mackenzie of Edinburgh warned recently.
Growing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, one of the hottest oil zones in the world, is becoming a serious problem for the oil industry, where offshore platforms and energy shipping are vulnerable.
In February alone, eight oil tankers were hijacked off West Africa along the coasts of Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon all the way south to Angola, on its way to becoming a major oil producer.
That was double the January tally. At least 13 attacks have been reported in the first two months of 2012, mostly off Nigeria. There were 64 reported hijackings in 2011, but the actual total is probably higher.
Tankers are generally held for two weeks or so while oil cargoes are unloaded and transferred to smaller vessels, then sold in Nigeria or nearby Benin. High oil prices spurs on the pirates.
In the Niger Delta, the main onshore producing zone dominated by Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron, an insurgency that erupted in 2005 seems to be reigniting as a 2009 government amnesty deal that halted attacks on the oil industry falls apart because of unfulfilled promises of stipends and jobs.
Official corruption is widely blamed, with money pledged to militants who handed in their weapons -- and several thousand did -- going to politicians' pockets instead.
Hopes had been high because the reformist president, Goodluck Jonathan, is a native of the delta's Bayelsa province. But his administration, like its predecessors, is riddled with corruption and political vendettas.
In recent weeks, groups of MEND militants have launched several attacks, including the abduction of the captain and engineer of the Dutch vessel Breeze Clipper off Port Harcourt, the southern oil capital, Feb. 28.
Another group killed several military men in a speedboat attack in the delta's labyrinth of creeks and swamps.
At the peak of the delta insurgency in 2009, Nigeria's oil production was slashed by up to 40 percent, to less than 1.7 million bpd. Although Nigeria has reserves of about 38 billion barrels, production has only recovered to the 2005 level of 2.5 million bpd.
That's well short of the 4 million bpd the government had sought to achieve by 2010.
Nigeria's continental rivals, most notably Angola, on the southern edge of the West African bulge, are pushing ahead with deep-water drilling while Nigeria, the traditional leader, slips behind because of political turmoil and uncertainty.
"It's not surprising that investors currently hold back while the host nation ponders potential changes to the risk-reward equation," Ian Craig, Shell's director of sub-Saharan operations in Africa, observed in February.
Government paralysis and mismanagement, particularly the repeated failure to produce a comprehensive Petroleum Industry Bill, is seen as a critical factor in the production decline and the lack of badly needed investment to energize the oil industry.
The bill, drafted in 2008, was intended to modernize Nigeria's dysfunctional and opaque energy industry, from which an estimated $300 billion has reportedly been stolen by corrupt officials over the last decade.
The bill would also strip the National Petroleum Corp. of its regulatory powers and transform it into a purely commercial operation, boost government royalties and tighten environmental laws.
It would also for the first share oil profits with the impoverished delta communities.
"Uncertainty about the Petroleum Industry Bill is the main thing holding us all back," said Imo Itsueli, chairman of Dubri Oil, Nigeria's oldest petroleum company.
Mounting violence in the north by the Islamist Boko Haram movement, in which thousands have been killed, has added to Nigeria's growing crisis.
Indirect talks to end the bloodshed collapsed this week. No new contacts have been scheduled.


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I received a Kindle for Christmas and can't figure out the best ways to select books other than through Amazon or perhaps borrowing from the public library. I love to read, so I am desperate for your suggestions.
- Rachel Reader
Dear Ms. Reader: As an avid reader myself, I can certainly empathize with your dilemma. I began my eReader experience with a Nook and graduated to an iPad and have, though trial and error and lots of friendly advice, come up with some ideas for you to try.
• Book sharing: EBook Fling brings Kindle and Nook owners together in a sharing pool.
You're allowed to share books you've purchased for up to 14 days. To participate, just list your available books and earn credits for each one you lend to someone else. You can also buy credits and use them to borrow books from other subscribers. Signing up is free, and the e-books can be read on a iPad, e-reader, Android, Blackberry and iPhone.
• E-bookstores: sources of free e-books include the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader and Kimbo devices and apps. If you're a Nook reader, you also can access free of charge any e-book up to an hour per day when in a Barnes and Noble store.
• Libraries: Nook and Sony and later this year the Kindle will allow you to borrow e-books from some local libraries after you download the free Adobe Digital Editions software to your computer.
An added benefit is you don't have to pay late charges as you do with "real" books; after the due date rolls around, the e-book simply becomes inactive. However, you can renew the loan if no one else has reserved that book.
• Rentals: (This is a real-time books tip.) Try a service such as BookSwim; it rents hardbacks and paperbacks and works much like Netflix DVD loans. Create a list you wish to read, and the first few come to you via mail. When you get through reading, just return the books in the prepaid mailer and BookSwim sends you the next bunch. Also check out www.booksfree.com for a similar service.
• Readers: If you know of other ways to obtain e-books, please email me so I can share your information in a future column.
(It's that time again -- Tax Tips for your 2012 returns. Hopefully, these will help you to save some money when communicating come April with Uncle Sam. Deduct more premiums for long-term care. Age 71 and older can now claim up to $4,370; seniors 61-70 up to $3,500, while folks 51-60 can deduct up to $1,310.)
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This is all about technique. If you remember making rows of cut out paper dolls and doilies, this is a related idea but constructed using cloth. With variations around the globe such as Hawaiian and Notan appliqué, it can be kept simple or become very sophisticated This workshop will be appropriate for all ability levels. Tuesday August 26 from 10.00 until 4.00 at The Minerva Arts Centre, High Street, Llanidloes, Powys, SY18 6BY
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Reducing Food Waste | Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Panel
Event Date:November 29, 2012 - 2:15pm
Location:Milan, Italy
On November 29, Nourishing the Planet Director Danielle Nierenberg will join a panel of experts at the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition's "Reducing Food Waste: An Opportunity to be Seized." Panelists will discuss the economic and social implications of food waste around the world. The panel will follow a speech by Jan Lundqvist, a senior scientific advisor to the Stockholm International Water Institute.
Panelists include:
- Ellen Gustafson, co-founder, FEED Foundation; founder and Executive Director, 30 Project; member, Board of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Advisory
- Carolyn Steel, food urbanist; author, Hungry City
- Danielle Nierenberg, Nourishing the Planet project Director, Worldwatch Institute
- Selina Juul, founder, Stop Wasting Food
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Welcome to the Lip Flapper! Each week, we delve deep into the community and get a look into both individual members as well as group discussions on various issues that surround our hobby.
This Week in "The Lip Flapper"
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Interview Spotlight
Kisanzi is a long time member of the site since 2004, and who has just came back (with a bang!) into the editing scene after a short hiatus. His latest works from Project OrgEditor shows that his skills haven't aged a bit! HIs latest work is The Nightmagi Cometh, but is also known for fantastic hits such as ]Lovestruck Radience, Bladebeat Graffiti and Condemned Memoir.
Q: Thanks for joining me today. Let's start things off and have you introduce yourself to the audience. Let us know a little bit about yourself.
Hey all, I'm Matt aka Kisanzi. I'm from Colorado and I still reside there with Radical_Yue. I've been into editing for almost 8 years and into anime even longer.
Q: Thanks for joining me today Kisanzi. So what got you involved in editing AMVs?
Well, we're just diving right into this aren't we? So way back in 2003 I was into watching anime but was completely unaware of anything AMV related. A couple of my friends started showing me some videos off of the Org every now and then. We watched a few here and there and soon it became more of a regular thing. Almost weekly we'd get together to hang out and they would put on a couple of new videos that they had found and wanted to show me. Some of our early favorites to watch were Leaves of Happaness, Odorikuruu, and Bleed the Sky to name a few. After watching AMVs for a few months we ended up watching JCD's video, Overdrive. This was the video that tipped my passion for the AMV hobby from wanting to watch, to wanting to create. Overdrive is still my #1 on my profile and will forever be since it was the trigger that made me want to make my own videos. After this epiphany I had my friend Valion help me figure out Premiere Pro 1.5 and from there I began editing. Two months later I had finished my first video and uploaded it here. I was very proud of it and thoroughly exploited the opinion exchange forum where I met a lot of people who helped me out and some of them later became friends that I still have today.
From there, I just continued to make videos as the ideas would pop into my head. Soon I began sending them to conventions that I attended to see them on the big screen with an audience. (Fun story, the first convention that my video played at was Kunicon in Denver, which had had a total con attendance of 475. The room where the contest was showed literally sat like 25 people, and I was totally there in this closet of a room admiring every video in the contest along with like 10 other people. So try going from that to the next contest I submitted to and attended which was Anime Expo, which sat an audience of like 6000 people. I swear I almost wanted to cry when I saw how amazing the AMV hobby could be when watching videos on the big screen with thousands of AMV fans. It still makes me sentimental to this day when an audience shows love for the hobby whether it be cheering at AMV contests or packing a room to capacity for AMV related panels at a convention.)
Anywho, from there I submitted around some more and came to know more people on the Org through the opinion exchange and being just randomly approached on AIM by other editors. As I kept making videos, more groundbreaking visual effects videos came out that inspired me in the direction of making visually stylized FX AMVs. I kept striving to find out how each editor made the effects in their vids and through that I came up with my own ideas. And that's how I got to this point.
Q: So what's your editing process? How do you get started, edit and then finish up an AMV?
My editing process is probably very similar to many others. I either see a show or hear a song and immediately want to find something to work with it. Most of my ideas start with the song which then I try to fit to an anime. I really was on the lookout for stuff that would match the story and characters of the shows that I had seen and liked. After a while I began developing an uncanny sense of being able to make song/anime connections for shows that I had never even seen yet, I just merely knew the general synopsis of the anime and went with that. This was true for both my Bladebeat Graffiti and Condemned Memoir. It's not that I was picking anime at random, but I already knew about these shows and wanted to see them, so much so that I was already picturing ideas for them. I then would watch the entire anime and once I knew I liked it enough to want to make the video then it was time to get to work. Another thing that sometimes gets me into some ideas is hearing songs and thinking of ways to embody the sounds with FX styles. I've gotten many ideas this way as well where I can just picture what I would want a general FX layout to look like in a video and then try to find an anime to fit into the idea.
After the concept, then it's just months of work. None of my videos until my most recent, took me less than a month of so to make. (And this was one month of editing at least a few hours every 3-4 days out of the week. ) But that's what FX work will do to you. It's all worth it in the end, but it's such a time sink that it can kill you're entire drive to edit sometimes. After finishing a video I used to be like "It's done. Get it on the Org and out of my sight." since the projects would take so long to create. But my philosophy on this has changed in my recent return to AMVs. I find that it is a great idea to sit on a finished video for at least a couple days before returning to it and making some final touches. It helps get you out of the "tunnel-vision mode" you slip into while making the video. This gives you the ability to see things that needed fixing that you may had missed during the long editing sessions that it took to initially make the video.
Beta testing is also very important. Show your videos to some other people before uploading it because it is a great way to catch mistakes and get perspective on the video as a whole. Make sure to choose people that you will benefit from their advice. Friends are great, but sometimes it's a good idea to ask for help from other editors on the Org that may have an eye for what you are trying to portray in your video. I personally always listen to everything my testers have to say and make a giant list of things to fix. Some editors nowadays seem to believe that when they get negative beta feedback, or are asked to make changes, that the person watching isn't getting the idea of the video or just plain doesn't see your concept for the video. This is never the case with me, I will change a large majority of anything that someone brings up if I can relate with what they tell me, because again, after working on something for weeks you tend to tunnel-vision your work and see it as something unchangeable and great, when in reality you need to step back and make some changes to make it even better. I've never had someone's advice change the artistic vision of my video, every change I agreed with have all been vast improvements on my ideas in the end. Try to never get hardheaded about your video. Always be open to take advice, because essentially if one person sees something they don't like, then it's likely many more people will agree with them once the video is released. So why not fix it before you have to deal with more feedback about it post-release?
Q: Your last video was published in 2008 (nearly 4 years ago!), yet you seem to be making a comeback with "The Quickening" and "Project OrgEditor". What brought about your return? Do you plan to stay around?
Yes, I am trying to make a comeback. After my last video in 2008 I began getting soul crushed by my own ideas. Every AMV concept I'd think of required months of work and was never simple. So I'd spend days prepping all the footage, get into the project file, and nothing would happen. My idea wouldn't work, or I couldn't find the motivation to even start the project. These convoluted concepts were combined with the decline of anime I enjoyed and created a nasty case of editor's block for me. About 2 years ago I spent months preparing dozens of PS2 games to make my first GMV, (since anime wasn't really clicking with me), and that project dead-ended as well. Not due to motivation factors, but the footage was so ugly and the workload was so immense that I couldn't finish the project even though I really wanted to in my heart.
So years passed, I lost touch with the hobby and played a lot of video games. I still watched some AMVs and helped run AMV panels at conventions, but I no longer made anything. That was until this year when I was at my last attempt of re-igniting the editing spark. I decided to put myself in a position where I had to edit videos by joining the Quickening and Project Orgeditor. Fortunately this was a success. The first round of Orgeditor really cleared my editing block. Making fun little videos that didn't tax my mind with elaborate FX or concepts was a great remedy. I didn't make anything I'd really scream and shout about for the most part, (except for my Orgeditor Round 2 video ), but it helped me clear my head and just get back to basics and have fun. So I will officially endorse The Quickening & Project Orgeditor as great remedies for editor's block as living proof myself.
As for sticking around, I thoroughly plan to get back into the swing of things here. It's a bit tough now because I now know very few of the people who are active on the Org now and feel like an outsider who has to break back into the community. But all those I met so far seem pretty cool, so that anxiety is slowly fading away.
Q: Well, it's good to have you back. What do you plan to work on first?
I actually just finished my first project back which was my Project Orgeditor Round 2 video, The Nightmagi Cometh. This vid was a fun way to return to the hobby. (Thanks again Code for coordinating Orgeditor otherwise that video never would have existed.) As for the future, I plan to shake this place back up. I want to see more Org originated FX videos that set the standard of the hobby like they did back in the day. We're about due for the next Euphoria, True Fiction, or Spoil that inspires editors to ramp up their tech game and initiates the next trend that everyone aspires to work up to. Not to say that I'm going to be the one to make that video, but I'm gonna try my hardest to either make videos that will help inspire whoever else to find the motivation and drive to make the next game-changing FX video. So I ask everyone on the Org, lets get back into the driver's seat and innovate this hobby into the future.
Q: You seem to do a lot of effects-heavy videos both in subtle and obvious ways. Is there a personal reason behind your preference for this style? At the same time, do you have any advice for those that might want to get into making effects videos? Maybe what the biggest "Dos" and "Do Nots" of this genre are?
I appreciate a wide variety of videos and styles, but my preference lies with stylized FX videos. Not just videos with a pile of FX on them, but ones that are creative, innovative, and give the footage their own special flare. There are so many videos from years ago that you could post one frame of and people could easily identify it from the stylization alone. Whereas now most videos are more raw footage and sync based, which isn't a bad thing, but the majority of them are so visually similar that its very easy to mistake that one video you may have liked for 3 completely different ones that used the same source. I pride myself on making videos that are distinguishable from the pack and I love to give the anime a spin of my very own, visually speaking. It doesn't always come out amazing, but it has my own personal touch to the footage that I can call my own.
As for advice; be tasteful, slick, and creative. Do what works with your idea, if that means only one or two things at a time, then so be it. Don't pile on FX until the footage is incomprehensible and be tasteful when selecting your FX palette for your specific theme/concept. Every transition doesn't have to be a blur zoom and every effect doesn't have to be in your face obvious. Invent your own styles, there are a heck of a lot more ways to transition and modify footage than what has been created so far. When making FX videos try to innovate on what's been done before. If you admire a video for the FX, then try to figure out a way to improve/personalize that style rather than flat out copying it.
Always get help from other FX editors, especially if it's something you're trying out for the first time. Other FX editors can give you great advice on how to make something look/work better without you hassling with it by yourself. An effect trend I'd like to stop seeing is to STOP USING PRESET/PREMADE FOOTAGE. There are a lot of great tutorials and templates out there that help you do many complicated FX, but they are merely tools to help you further your own ideas to create something unique to your personal creative needs. Don't just slap them on the video and begin taking credit for someone else's premade work.
P.S. Best simple advice I received from other FX editors:
"That 3D needs more depth."
"That custom background needs more texture."
"Those rotos need to be blended better."
Q: Sticking on the subject of effects, a lot of your videos (Bladebeat Graffiti comes to mind) seems to utilize really clean cut and well executed effects work. What software do you use, and where did you learn to accomplish all of that for those that might be interested in learning?
That specific video was made back in the day when I only used Premiere and Photoshop (No Riot Gear or AE on that one people). But nowadays it's all about After Effects for me and the many add-ons it has. After Effects can do pretty much everything outside of full on 3d CG animation. So if you want to stylize footage, AE is probably gonna be a good bet to do some of the really crazy stuff. After Effects also has unlimited amounts of plugins to use for more FX styles and such, my favorite being the Boris Continuum pack. But you can create almost any effect from scratch without the use of plug-ins so don't think that you can't do something just because you can get the software.
As for learning, back in the day I actually purchased and read a giant book on After Effects. It didn't teach me much, but it helped me streamline the process with handy tips and shortcuts. Otherwise there are great tutorials all over the internet to help someone accomplish a large array of FX. Again, tutorials are the instructions to create your own ideas, not the material to get slapped in the video itself please. Other than that, experimentation is key. Just trying out things will lead to discovery and sometimes yield results you never expected. I'd say that at least one effect in each of my videos came about because of a random setting tweak that I ended up keeping over what I was originally intending to do. Also, reach out to other editors. Ask what they used or tips, and some will even tell you exactly what to do. Regardless, you will get good instruction that will help you on your way.
Q: From what I hear from the Lip Flapper threads, Visualized Nightmare Studios and CDVV seem to be rivals. Care to elaborate a bit?
Well, years ago we had quite the rivalry which still runs lukewarm today. But I'm at a disadvantage since I'm pretty much the last active member of VNS who is still making videos. But yes, we have a friendly rivalry of seeing which studio could take over contests and produce better videos. We even had a studio vs. studio Iron Chef contest back in 2007 that ended in VNS victory. (Wooo!) But otherwise, both studios are composed of people who are omutual friends and a little friendly rivalry sometimes helps push people to go a little further with their ideas to get that last little bit of bragging rights. As for VNS though, I'm not going to give up on it. Some members may not return to the hobby but they'll always be a part of the studio, and they'll always be good friends. As for new people, I've been keeping that in mind since I came back to the Org. I may be doing some recruiting in the near future to return the studio to it's former glory....
Q: Radical_Yue mentioned in the main thread that you're a pretty good critic. Care to elaborate on your critiquing style and general advice you can offer to those that receive criticism?
Well, Radical_Yue and I are two pages from the same book as far as criticism is concerned. I always try to see a video's strong points and how it could be improved. No video is ever 100% perfect. I This outlook leads me to be a pretty brutal critic. I do like pointing out good points of a video to give credit where it is due, but at the same time, I will point out the aspects that didn't work as well down to the smallest details. Criticism is important for improvement. Not everyone is willing to go back and fix everything that might be wrong with their videos, but as long as they are aware of it for future projects then they can use that knowledge to improve. I myself love criticism that I can fix. (BTW, I hate the song/anime is NOT criticism.) But if someone says that an effect looks bad, a scene doesn't work, the concept is getting lost; then I will ask for an itemized list of things that I can do to help fix the video. Being open to criticism is a difficult quality to cope with, but you have to detach yourself enough from a project to see it as criticism and not as someone being mean or tearing apart your work. I'm telling people to keep their minds open to other people's perspectives and that just because criticism sounds bad, as long as the person is explaining their viewpoint, then roll just with the punches. Each of us might think so, but every video we each make isn't pure awesome to everyone else that may watch it.
Lastly on this subject is something I see happen more often these days; arguing with or retaliating against your beta tester's/viewer's opinions. Never retaliate against those who give you bad criticism or advise you on what may improve your video. My outlook is that they are taking the time to watch and leave feedback for you and they deserve your respect and appreciation, even if they don't like the video. If someone is telling you something in your video isn't good, then they are taking time out of their life to do so. Will you always agree with what someone doesn't like, NO. Just remember to be open minded to the fact that some people might not see the grand concept of your video that you see. With the millions of people out there watching AMVs everyday, there are a million different opinions of every video they watch. So be dignified and professional with your audience and their opinions of your work. If someone absolutely hates your video, thank them for watching and move on because that is just one person's opinion out of thousands that may see your video in the years to come.
Q: You've been a member of the community for a pretty long time. What are your personal feeling about the community today as opposed to when you first joined? Changes for the better/worse?
First off, I'm just thankful that we still have a community with all the situations over the years and other sites out there now. The people here still share a passion for the hobby and are willing to help others, which is great to see.
As for website differences, the Org seems a bit smaller and quieter than it used to be. This is evident in the forums, namely the AMV Announcements section. The fact that a lot of videos slide off the front page with only a couple responses and maybe 100-200 views is disheartening. Five years ago, almost any video got 100's of views in the first couple days and twice the responses than now. I'm also a bit sad that the opinion system seems to be almost catatonic. I used to always look forward to reading peoples in depth opinions of my and other's videos that I had interest in. But with the youtube trend, it seems that people have come to prefer the star rating and the quick comment system, which are nice but it I miss the opinion system and reading dozens of in depth reviews on my and other's videos from a variety of users. Gone are the days where videos get 100's of opinions and the top 10% was constantly a true race for AMV immortality.
As for the active users on the Org now, I know very few of them. (But that's to be expected since I've been out of the game so long, but there are still some familiar faces.) The community seems just as great and supportive as before, but it seems less approachable at the same time. I can't put my finger on it, but the forums and such seem a to have a more streamlined "check it and leave" vibe to it now as opposed to before. In the past when I first started, I had no intention of becoming wrapped up in the community, I just wanted a place to post videos and get advice. But soon enough I found myself drawn in by users dedicated to the hobby who invited me into the community as a whole, introduced me around, and then I was absorbed into the community. It was a great feeling being approached by editors I admired as the best on the Org, and having them pop up out of the blue offering their help with my AMVs and just chatting it up all night. Without even trying to, I found myself suddenly in contact with dozens of editors from all over the world on a regular basis and together we were constantly helping other new people get into the community as a whole. This soon became an enormous group of mutual friends that spanned multiple AMV studios, communities, and interests. Today, I see many great people online, but not many who are trying to reach out establish new connections or welcome new users, but this may be difficult with the smaller active community as it seems now. But this is just my opinion based off my personal experience from the past and present, and others situations probably greatly differ from my opinion.
Q: From what I've been told, you seem to have known/worked with a lot of fantastic early editors that first joined the site. Care to regale us with some interesting stories you might have about them or the community in general?
This would be far to long to answer for all the great stuff that I've experienced with other members in the community over the years and I don't know how many of these stories that the editors themselves want made public.
Q: Well thanks for joining me today Kisanzi, it's been a pleasure. Care to finish up the interview and have any general comments for editors in the world of AMV, or perhaps just words of wisdom for those in the hobby?
I'm instinctively competitive when it comes to any of my hobbies, so I'm gonna lay down a challenge to the AMV community.
Let's amp it up guys, let's bring the hobby even farther to new levels of awesomeness. I've seen some good stuff in my years away, but I'd like to see even more amazing stuff that ignites the fire of inspiration in the community. We need more videos that can grab the fanbase and blow their minds until they want to be AMV editors themselves. We needs more videos that other editors watch that make them want to push themselves to figure out new techniques and skills to ramp up their style. Let's see who can raise the bar for everyone else and innovate the hobby in new directions. I say this because speaking personally, nothing is more motivating and inspiring for me as an editor than to see an amazing video that captures my admiration and truly makes me appreciate the art of the hobby itself. These are all the same principals that made me want to start editing and push to improve as I got further into the hobby, so keep the trend alive. Gogogo!
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Earlier this week I wrote about Mitt Romney's charitable donations in 2010, as described on his tax return.
I noted that Romney gave away $3 million of the $22 million he made that year in the form of two donations:
- One to the Mormon church, for ~$1.5 million
- One to "The Tyler Foundation" for ~$1.5 million
This is correct.
But I then went on to describe The Tyler Foundation as a Boston-based charity that helps kids with epilepsy, an assumption I made after a Google search (en exact match in Boston? Of course it's the right "Tyler Foundation"!)
Well, a sharp-eyed reader did some digging on this and discovered that I was a bonehead. Specifically, the reader found that I had the wrong Tyler Foundation. The right Tyler Foundation, it appears, is a private legal entity controlled and funded by the Romneys that gives smaller gifts to other charities.
This was a stupid mistake on my part, and I apologize for it.
So, what is this "Tyler Foundation" that gets so much of Mitt Romney's money?
It's a private Boston-based legal entity that had more than $10 million in assets at the end of 2010.
Romney gave the foundation $1,458,807 million of stock distributed from one of his investment vehicles in 2010, and the foundation generated another $1.5 million that year from interest and asset sales.
The foundation also gave away a total of $647,500 of gifts in 2010.
By far the largest one was to the Mormon church -- $145,000.
Combined with the $1.5 million Romney gave the church in another direct cash gift, this means that Romney gave the Mormon church nearly $1.7 million in 2010--about 60% his charitable donations in 2010.
Who else did Romney give money to?
A motley assortment of organizations, including the George W. Bush Library, the U.S. Equestrian Team, Harvard Business School, Brigham Young, and several medical and children's foundations.
- The Belmont Hill School ($5,000)
- Best Friends Foundation ($15,000)
- Boys and Girls Club Of Boston ($10,000)
- Brigham Young University ($25,000)
- Center For Treatment of Pediatric MS ($75,000)
- City Year ($5,000)
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute ($10,000)
- Dana Farber Pan Mass Challenge ($20,000)
- Deseret International ($25,000)
- Friends Of The Belmont Council ($20,000)
- George W. Bush Library ($100,000)
- Harvard Business School ($10,000)
- Camp High Hopes ($5,000)
- Homes For Our Troops ($20,000)
- Inner-City Scholarship Fund ($10,000)
- Joey Fund For Cystic Fybrosis ($20,000)
- MMOFRA Trom Foundation ($30,000)
- MS Cure ($10,000)
- Operation Kids ($65,000)
- Right To Play ($10,000)
- US Equestrian Team Foundation ($10,000)
- Wright Museum ($25,000)
So, there you have it. Mitt Romney's charitable donations for 2010.
SEE ALSO: Mitt Romney Got A $1.6 Million Tax Refund Last Year


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II. Digital files of instructions & graphics to deliver twelve hands-on nano activities: Download a zip file of the first eight activities listed below. (Size: 103 MB)
- Exploring Measurement—Ruler
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- Exploring Forces—Gravity
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- Exploring Materials—Liquid Crystal
- Exploring Materials—Ferrofluid
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III. Digital files for the following products to engage the public in nano:
- Digital file for "Everything is Made of Atoms" poster
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- Digital files for "Zoom into a Human Hand" and "Zoom into a Nasturtium Leaf" interactive media piece
- DECIDE Nanotechnology Game
- Digital videos of two 10-minute plays about societal implications of nano: Let's Talk About It by Richard W. Rousseau and Same Sides by Stacey Parshall (High resolution versions of the videos are included in the downloadable zip files.)
- Information about how to order "I'm Made of Atoms" temporary tattoos
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- Digital instructions and graphics for nano activities and demonstrations: "Balloon Nanotubes", "DNA—Nanotechnology", "Exploring Measurement—Solutions", "Magic Sand", and "Sizing Things Down"
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I wanted to come on here today to just explain why I haven't been online or making/posting cards anymore, also wanted to apologize for not coming on here sooner to let you all know. Life got picked up, turned upside down and shaken hard..then put back down again for us to put together the pieces!
On August 14th, 2011 my husband and my 2 boys (9 year old and 7 year old) went for a bicycle ride up our road in the afternoon...while I stayed home with our 4 year old daughter and I was battling food poisoning that day too. About an hour and a half passed by, when I started to wonder where they got to..but knew that they probably found some berries or found something cool. The next thing I knew, my two boys came running home screaming at the top of their lungs...I thought my middle son had fallen and hurt himself. I soon found out that no it wasn't him, but that it was my husband...he had fallen off his bike (Still don't know what happened to this day), he wasn't breathing or moving but was bleeding from his head. I grabbed a beach towel that was by the front door, ran down our road (not even a minute out or driveway) and performed First Aide on Ben when I got to him...luckily my neighbor was home and was already with him keeping him still. My neighbors wife took my 3 kids into her house, while her hubby and I took care of Ben...it took over 60 minutes for the paramedics, police, fire trucks to arrive on the scene. My boys thought that daddy had died out on that road in front of them that day, I can't even imagine what they went through...so scary! I called my parents immediately, to come help me with the kids and I found out that they had JUST gotten home from their cottage 2 second before I called. Then I called his parents, told them what happened...told them to meet me at the hospital because Ben was already on route...and I still had to go get dressed etc. (was in my pj's still from being sick).
When I got to the hospital, I found out that Ben had broken: his eyebrow bone, his cheek bone hairline fracture in his jaw, compression fracture in his spine (T7), multiple broken ribs and a moderate brain injury on top of that. We are still finding bones that are out of place in other spots on him...like his collar bone, his hands/arm...they were more worried about his brain/head than they were about the other things. So now almost 6 months have passed, fractures have healed up nicely but it is the moderate brain injury that we are left to deal with and figure out on our own! Ben is now different, what do I mean? He is moodier, more irritable, his personality is different, when he gets stressed out or overwhelmed he has no filter from brain to mouth (before the accident he wouldn't tell anyone off, now he would). Ben is not the same guy he was before the accident, and we are told that if he keeps working hard or if he doesn't follow the doctor's advice that this is the NEW him we will be left with...not something one wants to hear. When someone has a brain injury the first thing that gets broken is the part of the brain that tells your body that you are OK, and they seem to think everything is about them even if they have a family with kids. It has been a hard long road let me tell you, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy! We are taking it one day at a time, have had LARGE amounts of prayer surrounding us non stop and without that I think things would have been different...since the accident first happened and even now I feel at peace, I feel calm and not overwhelmed. This is the main reason why I haven't been on here making or posting cards...cuz' I am trying to hold and put our family back together again. That and we are still trying to figure out the ins and outs of who this NEW Ben is, something I think will be an ongoing process!
I have also been busy with my cause for getting children/teens/young adults with Special Needs/Ld's/Mental Illnesses more supports, services, resources in ALL schools across this Province I live in...but also within our communities too :). This cause is going well, and getting heard by important people...who are starting to ask questions, wanting meetings with me etc. :)! I am enjoying this alot, it is one of my passions that I have and it is something to help me get out of the house a little bit from all that is going on here in my home.
I have also decided to get more into photography, I LOVE it a lot and it is my new passion that has replaced my card making for now! I am learning everything I can about it, taking courses, just always having my camera with me wherever I go just in case a perfect picture will pop up...I would love to eventually make it into a home business. I love being able to be part of people's IMPORTANT days, to be able to capture those amazing moments and give them back to them to keep forever :)! I am not one to like posed pictures, although I will do some posed stuff...I am ALL about the candid stuff, because you can capture people and their personalities with them. You don't get forced smiles, or oh no not another picture looks...you get happy and natural pictures...you get to catch a glimpse into who these people really are.
Anyways, I just wanted to stop in and say that I have been thinking about you all...hope you haven't lost your card making creativity or passion like I seem to have done. *HUGS*
Friday, February 24, 2012
Sorry for my lacking posts and card making
I wanted to come on here today to just explain why I haven't been online or making/posting cards anymore, also wanted to apologize for not coming on here sooner to let you all know. Life got picked up, turned upside down and shaken hard..then put back down again for us to put together the pieces!
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BRIDGETON � Jasmine Yarbro knew she had to do something when a tornado devastated Moore, Okla., last week.
BRIDGETON � Jasmine Yarbro knew she had to do something when a tornado devastated Moore, Okla., last week.
�I went to my child�s daycare and there was a child in there screaming and then I heard about the school that was destroyed in Oklahoma,� Yarbro said. �I just lost it. I knew I needed to go.�
Yarbro of Beulaville, and her boyfriend, Gregory Knowles, started last Thursday organizing donations for victims of the tornado that practically leveled the town of Moore.
Offers of clothes, shoes, mattresses and some food items began pouring in. Yarbor had to go to eight counties in Eastern North Carolina to pick it all up.
Tuesday morning, Yarbro was in Bridgeton hauling armloads of boxes and clothes from the Outreach Ministry of Saint�s Delight Free Will Baptist Church along with church volunteers and loading them on a 16-foot Budget rental truck that she and Knowles will drive to Oklahoma.
On Thursday, Yarbro and Knowles plan to drive to Moore. She estimates it will take her 20 hours to drive the 1,300 miles one way. She hopes to be back by Sunday, she said.
This is not the first time Yarbro has responded after a natural disaster. In 2009, she took donated supplies to Kentucky and West Virginia after mudslides devastated miners.
But this trip will be more expensive. Yarbro estimates it will cost about $2,600 mostly for the rental truck and fuel. Besides the clothing and food items, Saint�s Delight also donated $100 for fuel.
�It has been a positive response from people,� Yarbro said. �But people don�t seem to realize every little bit helps. No matter how small a donation is, it adds up.�
Diana Peele, with the Ladies Outreach Ministry of Saint�s Delight Free Will Baptist Church, said she saw on the news what Yarbro was doing and called her.
The Outreach Ministry at Saint�s Delight was started with donations of food and clothes last June, Peele said.
�We started it just in case there was something in our area, like another hurricane or to help someone burned out of their home. It is a multi-purpose outreach ministry. �We do whatever we can to help and we saw how devastated everything was out there (in Moore). This is what it�s all about: reaching out helping each other.�
The outreach ministry was planning a large yard sale June 15 of the donated items, but after the tornado struck the town of Moore, those plans were put on hold, Peele said.
�When we saw what Jasmine (Yarbro) was doing, we were excited,� she said. �It might be in our own backyard next time.�
Yarbro, who works at Sandlins Oil Co. in Beulaville and as a pharmacy technician in Wallace, said people wishing to drop of donations of supplies may do so at Sandlins Oil Co. 1503 S. N.C. 41 and N.C. 111; or money donations can go to: Heavenly Handyman, Attn. Jasmine Yarbor, 312 S. Bickett St. Beulaville, NC 28878.
Yarbro said she is planning another trip to Moore in about a month to help the community rebuild.
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Contest seeks short films on crime prevention and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean by young people and professionals The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the SmartFilms® Film Festival today launched a new citizen-security contest category and is calling for submissions on the theme "I am not afraid to enjoy my city."
IDB launches US$2.1 billion 2.250% 10-year Fixed Rate Global
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 16:54
The Inter-American Development Bank ("IDB" or "IADB"), rated Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P),priced a new US$2.1 billion 10-year global bond. The transaction pays a semi-annual coupon of 2.250% and matures on 18 June 2029. Priced with a spread of 12.25 basis points over the UST 2.375% May-29, this represents a yield of 2.270%.


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Chuck's Week Off - Episode Guide
Season 1
Mexico City
Episode 8 - Season 1 - January 29, 2016
Mexico City is home to, well, almost everything! Chuck checks out Tacos al Pastor, delicious pork tacos, and meets Indio Reyes, a renowned tattoo artist, who is going to reveal his plan for Chuck's latest tat! He runs around one of the world's largest markets with some crazy vegetable suppliers before hooking up with a local chef to get a taste of what the restaurant business is all about in one of the world's biggest cities!
Episode 7 - Season 1 - January 28, 2016
In Puebla, Chuck Hughes hooks up with the owner of local juice stand who pulls out some ATV's and takes him off roading up the local volcano. There, they help a taco stand owner make Wild Mushroom Quesadillas. Later, Chuck meets a local chef who teaches him how to make Mole before he helps judge a Chili-En-Nogada cook off.
Episode 6 - Season 1 - January 27, 2016
Chuck Hughes tears into Oaxaca and heads straight for the city's most popular Tlyuda stand, where they serve up the Mexican equivalent of pizza well into the night. The next day he goes hunting for, and learns to make, Oaxaca's most popular snack, Fried Grasshoppers, before helping local cake makers work their magic at a 500 person wedding!
Episode 5 - Season 1 - January 26, 2016
Mexico is known the world over for its festivals, and in Huamantla thousands of people come into the town for just one night – to see the streets turned into a carpet of flowers that is almost 5 miles long! In the lead up to the big event, Chuck Hughes attempts to make his own ice cream, goes bull fighting at a nearby lamb festival to try and win over the locals and then works in the kitchen with a family who cooks Pollo Pipian and Tamales for the many incredible 'carpet' makers.
Episode 4 - Season 1 - January 25, 2016
In the Yucatan, Chuck Hughes makes his own bottle of insanely hot, hot sauce using freshly picked habaneros, gets a crash course in Mayan cuisine, faces his fear of heights at a giant sink hole and tries to keep up with Mexico's hardest-working man - a cab driving, Conchinita Pibil making, whirlwind known as Walter.
Episode 2 - Season 1 - January 22, 2016
Chuck Hughes makes the most of his time in one of Mexico's coolest cities. He sinks his teeth into the city's famous Torta Ahogadhas, pork sandwiches literally drowned in chili sauce. He tries to get the Chololo brothers to reveal their super secret recipe for Birria, and learns all about Pozole, a corn and pork soup, from a Mexican wrestling legend's mom before he has to get into the ring himself!
Episode 1 - Season 1 - January 21, 2016
Chuck Hughes arrives in Cabo San Lucas where he makes a mouth-watering lobster omelet and then heads for the ocean for some catch and release deep-sea fishing. Wanting to know how the local's like to cook their fish, he is invited to a barbeque in the middle of the desert, but first he has to get his hands on a disca – a traditional Baja cooking tool.
Episode 3 - Season 1 - January 20, 2016
In the town of Loreto, Chuck Hughes figures out what goes into El Rey Del Taco's famous Fish Tacos, learns to make Ranchero cheese and a kind of beef jerky with some Mexican cowboys before he dives for chocolate clams and takes part in a traditional Mexican clam bake.


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USU alumnus reacts to winning Nobel Prize in economics
Editor's note: Alum Dr. Lars Peter Hansen, '74, who studied mathematics, political science, and economics, at USU was named as this year's Nobel Laureate in Economics. Now a professor at the University of Chicago, Hansen shares the award with two other eminent economists, Eugene Fama, also of Chicago, and Robert Shiller, of Yale. This Herald Journal clip is just one of many stories that ran about Dr. Hansen online and in print publications across the country.
Herald Journal
By Kevin Opsahl
Lars Peter Hansen was just about to head out the door of his Chicago residence to exercise at 5:45 a.m. Monday, when he got a surprising phone call.
t was an official from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informing him that he had been one of three recipients to win the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics.
"It took a bit to sink in, but by the time they passed the phone on to somebody who was on the selection committee, then I became convinced it was the real thing," the Utah State University alumnus said in an interview from his University of Chicago office Thursday. "It was a very nice surprise."
Douglas Anderson, the dean of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, was a classmate of Hansen's.
"Lars was a year behind me, but miles ahead of me in terms of understanding economics," Anderson said.


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I first caught wind of the Pantene Colour Seal Concentrate product at this evening event, where the Dr Frauke Neuser showed us how by using this concentrate on the hair for just 2 minutes made it 'waterproof' so to speak by forming a protective seal over the hair.
Dyed hair sunk in water, hair treated with this stuff, did not.
FINALLY! The product has been launched:
They say:
The NEW Pantene Pro-V Colour Protect Colour Seal Concentrate. Like first aid for coloured hair, it uses a patented technology to create a thin, veil-like layer along the hair fibre, mimicking the hair's natural f-layer which is lost in the colouring process. As well as delivering great shine plus healthy looking and feeling hair, used weekly it locks in colour for up to 8 weeks and can help undo the signs of winter damage.
This is not a conditioner – this is a treatment you use after shampoo and conditioner. Apply for 2 minutes and rinse. It's a once a week treatment….
…which is a good job cos it doesn't feel like you get much. Then again I used a medium sized spodge thinking it wouldn't be enough for my frizz bomb of a mop and it was. This stuff just glides in…
This stuff smells like most Pantene shampoo products, quite clean and fresh.
Now my hair, since I've been colouring it over and over again tends to give up hair dye quite quickly, especially if I dye it a dark brown, and I get really frizzy, difficult to style hair. If I forget to put a product in it after washing (I tend to air dry my hair) then uh-huh – it is not a pretty sight.
This stuff from Pantene is – A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
Remember it's not a conditioner but I applied this after my conditioner (I won't say which but it didn't do a great job) – I applied the colour seal concentrate and I could finally run a comb through my hair. Rinsed out, it felt very very smooth, and now that it has hair dried my hair is 90% less frizzy, it feels very soft without begin weighed down and glossy.
It's here to seal in the colour primarily, not do the above but it does do all of it anyway.
I can really tell the difference on my frizz bomb of a hair – don't know how well it will fair on someone with already smooth hair. I don't think it's a product that will weigh hair down though.
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The National Self Build & Renovation Centre
The national Self Build and Renovation Centre created by BuildStore - opened its doors back in January 2007. Since then, more than 200,000 people have visited the Centre with many returning throughout their building programme.
Walk through two permanent houses, view cut-away foundations, floors, roofs, septic tanks and much, much, more. See the latest products to enhance your home or renovation project including lighting, sound systems, kitchens and flooring - there are 240+ suppliers in the Trade Village.
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5:30pm.
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Every Friday @ 14:00 – 'Renovation House Tour'
If you are contemplating buying a dilapidated property, then our renovation tour will provide you with all the considerations you must take on board. Our experts will take you through the key stages of a renovation project, taking you from dilapidation to completion.
Every Saturday @ 12:00 – 'Self Build Educational Tour'
Take part in our Self Build Educational Tour and see our six life-sized exhibits that cover all the major stages of a building project. Learn everything you need to know about building your own property including: Groundworks, Foundations & Floors, Walls & Structures, External Options, Roofing and much much more.
The only such facility in Europe
This one-off visitor centre is the only such facility in Europe, designed specifically to meet the needs of self builders, renovators and home improvers. Our aim is to inspire, educate, and provide impartial advice for our visitors, as well as offering services and products from a wide range of selected Partners to help you all the way through your property project.
At 67,000 sq. ft. the Centre houses one of the largest permanent exhibition areas where thousands of products and services, from hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers, are on display. You'll find everything from life-size exhibits in our Educational Zones that graphically demonstrate the myriad options available throughout the design and building phases of both a new build and a renovation project; to a range of products and services to help you find a plot, and finance and insure your project
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Ask An Architect
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These monthly events held in conjunction with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are offering you the chance of a free personal consultation with an architect to discuss ideas for designing and building your own home or renovating or reconfiguring your existing home. To find out more click here.
Self Build Courses
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The National Self Build & Renovation Centre are delighted to offer a series of 3-day courses in self build, aimed at those people contemplating undertaking a property-building project.
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Voices from Europe: Build a Living Economy
Event Date:June 19, 2012 - 7:30pm
Location:Rio, Brazil
The Worldwatch Institute is hosting a panel on "Build a Living Economy" at the Rio+ 20 conference in Brazil. The event aims to explore the road towards sustainable prosperity by various means, and will incorporate the perspectives on a green economy from leaders in business, NGOs, and the academic community.
Panelists include:
- Robert Engelman, Worldwatch Institute
- Bo Normander, Worldwatch Institute Europe
- Sascha Mueller-Kraenner, Nature Conservancy
More information to follow. Read more about the event here.


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Arts Council England will have its budgets for 2013 to 2015 cut by £11.6 million, following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
Last week, it was announced that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport would have its budget cut by 1% in 2013/14 and 2% in 2014/15. Today, the DCMS has revealed that those cuts will now be passed on directly to the arms-length bodies it funds, including the arts council. This will mean that ACE will receive a £3.9 million cut in 2013/14 and a £7.7 million cut in 2014/15.
These are in-settlement cuts and are on top of reductions to funding already announced at the comprehensive spending review in 2010. Meanwhile, it is feared that there could be further cuts when the next comprehensive spending review is undertaken – it is now planned for the first half of 2013.
ACE has not indicated how the £11.6 million of cuts will be passed on the arts organisations it funds, but has stressed that the cash will come from its grant in aid budgets for national portfolio organisations and museums. ACE chief executive Alan Davey warned that – combined with cuts to arts funding by many local councils – the in-settlement cuts would make the situation for the arts "very challenging".
He said: "The government's intention seems to have been that Whitehall departments absorb any cuts themselves from efficiencies but since the DCMS has already given itself a 50% administration cut – which was also applied to the arts council and other NDPBs – the department's latest cuts have been passed straight on to the bodies it funds.
"What is clear is that our grant in aid budgets for national portfolio organisations and museum activity will reduce by 1% and 2%. We must now look closely at the figures and decide how we will pass these cuts on.
"Some organisations are also having to deal with local authority cuts and so the situation is extremely challenging."
Meanwhile, culture secretary Maria Miller, writing in the DCMS blog [1] following the cuts announcement, said that while she acknowledged the cuts would be "painful", it had not been possible to protect the DCMS' sectors because "the taxpaying public simply wouldn't accept that doing so was appropriate".
She added: "We know these reductions will pose real challenges to our sectors and funded organisations. We've always known that cutting the deficit was bound to involve reducing public spending – how could it be otherwise? Yes, we acted in 2010 to increase the amount of Lottery money going into our sectors. And, yes, of course we know that Lottery money and grant-in-aid are not interchangeable, and that the additionality principle whereby Lottery money cannot be used as a substitute for public funding, must be protected. But for all that, our changes to the Lottery do mean that a great deal more money will go into the arts and heritage of this country from that source in the future.
"And finally, we hope that by passing these cuts on in as swift a fashion as possible, we are able to maximise the time our sectors have to prepare for the tough decisions they will face in making the savings."


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Exhibition Opening Events
"Making a Difference: Deaf Peace Corps Volunteers"
The Gallaudet University Museum presents: "Making a Difference: Deaf Peace Corps Volunteers" opening on October 25th, 2011. Please plan to attend this important event, which includes a panel discussion, exhibition opening, and living exhibit performance.
Panel Discussion with Deaf and Hearing Returned Peace Corps Volunteers: 12:30-1:30 p.m., JSAC G-Area. Moderated by international development student Austin Vigil and hosted by the Regional, National, and International Outreach Unit, this panel discussion will include deaf and hearing returned Peace Corps Volunteers, explore ways their experiences align or diverge, and examine best practices in international development work.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers serving on the panel:
- Lisette Belanger, '73 B.A., '83 M.A.--(Philippines 1978 - 81)
- Nancy Walla,'79--(Philippines, 1982-85)
- William Eiffler--(Ecuador 1983-85)
- Jerry Geist, '88--(Ecuador 1988 -1994)
- Sitara Sheikh--(Kenya 2000-03)
- Darcy White--(Kenya 2003-05)
- Caitlin Hudson, current Gallaudet student, international development--(Kenya 2006-09)
- Leah Maxson,'11--(Kenya 2005-07)
Gallaudet University Museum Exhibition Opening, "Making a Difference: Deaf Peace Corps Volunteers"
Reception: 2–4 p.m., JSAC, The Weyerhauser Family Gallery and Exhibition Hall
Remarks at 2:30 p.m. by:
- Gallaudet President T. Alan Hurwitz
- Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams
- Exhibition Senior Advisor Norma Morán
- National Peace Corps Association Director of Communications Erica Burman
- Gallaudet Museum Director Jane Norman
Living Exhibit Performance: 4:15–5:15 p.m., Eastman Studio (Black Box) Theater, Elstad Auditorium
Directed by Tabitha Jacques, six returned Peace Corps Volunteers will share stories of their personal Peace Corps journey in a theatrical setting.
Stories from:
- Francesca Rangel, '90--(Ecuador, 1990-92)
- Cookie (Brand) Roang, '02--(Kenya, 2001-03)
- Sarah Gordon--(Kenya, 2007-09)
- Guy Vollmar--(Philippines, 1975-77)
- Denise Brown, '87--(St. Lucia, 1989-91)
- Alyson Urdhal--(Ecuador, 1990-92)


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Darlington set April 30 deadline
Darlington's administrator Harvey Madden has told the Blue Square Bet Premier club it has until April 30 to raise £750,000 in order to exit administration.
The Quakers, who entered administration for the third time in nine years in January, intend to raise the majority of funds by a share issue after fans formed the company Darlington FC 1883 Ltd.
The club will sell the shares for £100 each, released in three blocks of 2500, with the first block protected so that buyers would be reimbursed if an initial £250,000 is not raised. Madden said: "It will basically be a small investment times a lot of members equals the funds needed to go forward for the football club."
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potassium bromide
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po·tas·si·um bro·mide
an obsolescent sedative and hypnotic.
a chemical element, atomic number 19, atomic weight 39.102, symbol K. See Table 6. In combination with other minerals, potassium forms alkaline salts that are important in body processes and play an essential role in maintenance of its acid-base and water balance. All body cells, especially muscle tissue, require a high content of potassium. A proper balance between sodium, calcium and potassium in the blood plasma is necessary for proper cardiac function. Alfalfa meal, molasses and soyabean meal are good sources for herbivores.
potassium acetate, bicarbonate, bitartrate, citrate, gluconate
electrolyte replenishers, weak diuretics and urinary alkalinizers. Some are also used as expectorants.
potassium arsenite
see fowler's solution.
potassium bromide
used in the treatment of seizures in humans and dogs.
potassium carbonate
used commercially as a fertilizer.
potassium channel
see channel.
potassium chloride
a compound used orally or intravenously as an electrolyte replenisher.
potassium cyanide
may be present in industrial effluents. A potent cause of cyanide poisoning.
potassium deficiency
nutritional deficiency of potassium is very rare. In calves can cause poor growth, anemia and diarrhea. Experimental deficiency in piglets causes also incoordination and cardiac insufficiency.
potassium exchange resins
an oral preparation administered to limit the amount of potassium available for absorption; used in the management of hyperkalemia. See also ion-exchange resin; sodium polystyrene sulfonate.
potassium guaiacolsulfonate
an expectorant.
potassium hydroxide (syn. potassium hydrate)
used commercially as a caustic. In veterinary medicine used mostly for clearing skin scrapings in the diagnosis of ectoparasite infestation.
potassium iodate
used as a constituent of salt blocks and mixes to supplement the diet with iodine. Overdosing will cause iodism.
potassium iodide
an expectorant and antithyroid agent.
potassium nitrate
used commercially as a fertilizer and a meat preservative. Can cause nitrate poisoning or nitrite poisoning in ruminants.
potassium nitrite
a compound sometimes used in place of potassium nitrate. Overdosing causes methemoglobin formation and severe, sometimes fatal hypoxia.
potassium nutritional deficiency
causes poor growth, anemia and diarrhea in pigs and calves. Electrocardiographic changes are also recorded. See also hypokalemia.
potassium oxalate
causes oxalate poisoning.
potassium permanganate
a topical anti-infective, oxidizing agent, and antidote for many poisons. See also permanganate.
potassium phosphate
a cathartic.
potassium pump
see sodium pump.
potassium sodium tartrate
a compound used as a saline cathartic and also in combination with sodium bicarbonate and tartaric acid (Seidlitz powders, a cathartic).