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1. E85 Ethanol is corrosive
Yes ethanol is corrosive, but not very much. Gasoline is corrosive too. Ethanol is biodegradable in water, so it has a tendency to contain and attract water. It is not the corrosive properties of ethanol that can cause damage to your vehicle; it is the water which can rust a vehicle's fuel system from the inside out. Today's vehicles (since mid 1980s) have fuel systems which are made to withstand corrosive motor fuels and rust from water. Also today's distilling processes are superior to way back when. We now have better techniques for drying out ethanol or reducing the water content.
2. If I put E85 in my gas tank, it will eat it away.
If your car was built in the old days, it was had a lead coated, steel tank. The water in ethanol would cause the tank to rust from the inside out. The government mandated that all gas in the USA contain 10% ethanol to help reduce tail pipe emissions. In the 1980s, automakers made vehicles with fuel systems to be ethanol and rust tolerant. Gas tanks began to contain polymers and Teflon which are extremely durable.
3. If I put E85 ethanol in my non-Flex Fuel vehicle, it will ruin it.
If you fill E85 into non-converted car, it may cause misfiring and a rough ride. Your "check engine" light will come on. Drain the tank, put in regular gas and all will be well. If you use E85 without a conversion kit or non-Flex Fuel capable vehicle for an extended period, you can damage your engine.
4. Ethanol will burn up my engine.
Ethanol has a lower ignition point than gas. Ethanol has about 115 octane and E85 has 105 octane. It burns cooler and will extend engine life by preventing the burning of engine valves and prevent the build-up of olefins in fuel injectors, keeping the fuel system cleaner.
5. Ethanol will ruin gaskets, seals, rings and more.
The rubber neoprene used in the last 20 + years is resistant to the drying effect that ethanol may have.
Today's vehicles are built to withstand the corrosive effects of water in ethanol and gasoline. Any vehicle built since 1985 will have no ethanol related issues. Older vehicles that used more steel in the fuel systems or cork gaskets may have issues from long term exposure to water.
Vehicles in Brazil have been using ethanol for 30 years and they are completely free from using any foreign oil.
6. E85 will eat my rubber fuel lines.
This is another myth from the old days. Rubber technology has significantly advanced so the concerns of a 20 year old car or newer having issues like this are extremely rare. Plus the 15% gas will help keep lines lubricated.
7. E85 will destroy my fuel pump.
E85 won't destroy your fuel pump. If you convert a high mileage vehicle to E85, the E85 will cause the sediment in the gas tank to dissolve and then get sucked up by the fuel pump. It is believed that this sediment may shorten the life of the pump. It is recommended to change fuel filter in fuel tank (if your car have it) after you burn up 1 tank of E85 fuel.
8. It takes more than a gallon of energy to make a gallon of E85.
This was true at one point in time. Today's advanced technology and distilling processes actually create considerably more units of ethanol than units of energy used. The processes continue to advance and the ratio will continue to increase.
9. E85 Ethanol is worse for the environment than gas.
There have been some people who have published reports stating that E85 is worse than gas for the environment. They have yet to show any scientific proof or case studies that support their claims. Because E85 is cleaner than conventional gasoline, it emits less hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hydrogen. E85 reduces carbon monoxide emissions by as much as 70 percent — and less carbon monoxide helps reduce ozone formation and greenhouse gas levels. According to EPA, gasoline is the largest source of manmade carcinogens. Ethanol reduces overall toxic pollution by diluting harmful compounds found in gasoline such as benzene and other aromatics.
10. Using E85 ethanol will get less mileage per tank.
There are some stories floating around about 50% reduction in mileage or twice as much ethanol is needed. Some of the automakers who introduced Flex vehicles did a terrible job with the fuel management systems that mileage did decrease as much as 50%. After some trial and error, the automakers have significantly improved their fuel systems and mileage conservation is within reasonable losses such as 10-20%. Conversion Kits like bioadapter have been around for over 20 years and realistic losses range from 10-20% as well.
11. Vehicles need more E85 ethanol so there is less power.
It is true that a vehicle does require more E85 than regular gas since the amount of energy per unit of ethanol is less than that of gas. Ethanol has a lower ignition temperature so the engine overall will run cooler increasing power. So running E85 will give any engine more power over any pump gas. Also E85 is 105 octane, and this is much more than gasoline have. Higher octane of E85 will help to eliminate knocks and pings. All of these benefits will make an engine run smoother and quieter.
12. Won't E85 production deplete human and animal food supplies?
Ethanol, imported from Brazil, is made from sugarcane. Production of ethanol from corn uses only the starch of the corn kernel, all of the valuable protein, minerals and nutrients remain. One bushel of corn produces about 2.7 gallons of ethanol AND 11.4 pounds of gluten feed (20% protein) AND 3 pounds of gluten meal (60% protein) AND 1.6 pounds of corn oil.
13. Ethanol production wastes corn that could be used to feed a hungry world.
Corn used for ethanol production is field corn typically used to feed livestock. Wet mill ethanol production facilities, also known as corn refineries, also produce starch, corn sweeteners, and corn oil — all products that are used as food ingredients for human consumption. Ethanol production also results in the production of distiller's grains and gluten feed — both of which are fed to livestock, helping produce high-quality meat products for distribution domestically and abroad. There is no shortage of corn. In 2004, U.S. farmers produced a record 11.8 billion bushel corn harvest — and some 1.3 billion bushels (about 11 percent) were used in ethanol production. Additionally, the 2005 crop was among the largest on record. 2007 will yield the largest corn crop since the 1940s. In other words, there is still room to significantly grow the ethanol market without limiting the availability of corn. Steadily increasing corn yields and the improved ability of other nations to grow corn also make it clear that ethanol production can continue to grow without affecting the food supply.


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Tuesday 25 June 2013
Watch your 360 degree videos easily and for free thanks to Kolor Eyes Desktop!
Kolor Eyes Desktop is a free 360 degree video player for Windows, Mac and Linux.
It allows you to play and interact with your 360° videos on your computer. Turn at 360 degrees, zoom in and out, change the projection and apply visual effets. All for free!
The 4 available projections let you experience new ways to watch your videos. Play the video in Rectilinear mode to get an immersive view, or choose the Little Planet mode to simulate a planet and impress everyone. Kolor Eyes Desktop is just the easiest, most advanced way to display and play with your 360° videos on your computer, for free. It's also the perfect application to showcase your 360° videos to your clients or friends, without internet connection.
Discover just below the changelog of this version
Main changes
This changelog is the first introduction of Kolor Eyes Desktop, a free 360 degree video player for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Kolor Eyes is based on the most innovative technology to display and interact with immersive 360 degree videos. It offers different projection and effect modes to let you play and interact with the videos. It also take advantage of the touch technologies and the gyroscope (only for Windows version), enabling you to move your device and interact with the video for a complete immersion in it.
Let's go !
Drag and drop a video file to start the video.
Double click to enable/disable the fullscreen mode.
Move the camera by pointing&clicking.
Zoom in/out with the mouse wheel.
Simple click to show/hide the commands bar.
Try special video effects.
Change the video projection and move the camera.
Try Kolor Eyes with a touch screen.
Use the gyroscope functionnality to move automatically the camera (only for Windows version).
Known issues
Windows version uses DirectShow API to decode video. If the video does not start in Windows version, download and install AutopanoVideo demo to resolve the problem.
Roadmap to the release
We expect that you'll find bugs, for sure. And we already have some bugs opened in our database. Here's a short list of what is still under work here.
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Great to be able to watch and interact with the 360 video at 30Kbps and in 4K

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"Hey hey, ho ho, child labor has got to go!" echoed through Times Square last Wednesday, as we rallied outside of the Hershey store. You MUST SEE it for yourself what an extraordinary sight it was, with 2-300 people, mostly K-12 students, standing up for the rights of youth on the other side of the globe. It was a profoundly embarrassing moment for Hershey, when hundreds of youth – the demographic that much of the company's products and merchandising caters to – came to Hershey's own front doorstep carrying signs, shouting chants, and calling Hershey out in public for using child labor in the cocoa fields. Check out the incredible youth energy on this 15-second video, + more at http://www.youtube.com/raisethebarhershey See photos, including kids' moving and powerful poster messages to Hershey: WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP TODAY MAKING THIS RALLY A SUCCESS!!! Will YOU take just 5 minutes to take a stand with these youth?? Only you can ensure that the message of these youth reaches out across the internet, educating millions of people and resulting in real change. Please help us reach our goal of getting thousands of views on our rally video.
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Ron Turenne/NBAE via Getty ImagesRaptors forward Rudy Gay lit up the Knicks for 17 points in the third quarter.
The Knicks dropped a 100-98 heartbreaker to the Toronto Raptors at the Air Canada Centre on Friday thanks to a disaster of a third quarter and big contributions from Raptors Rudy Gay and Kyle Lowry down the stretch. Losers of four straight, they are just one game up on the Brooklyn Nets for the top spot in the Atlantic Division.
Rudy Gay's big night: When the Knicks played the Raptors before the All-Star break, they held Gay to 11 points on 4-for-21 shooting. Acquired from the Memphis Grizzlies at the end of January, Toronto's go-to guy had scored 20-plus points in five of his six games with the team before that point. On Friday night, they didn't have the same success.
After a quiet first half, Gay exploded for a 17-point third quarter on 7-for-9 shooting. He added nine points in the game's final four minutes to seal the win for Toronto.
"He played fantastic," said New York forward Carmelo Anthony, who matched Gay's game-high 32 points. "He made shots. When it was time to make shots, he made them. They made plays as a team. Coming down the stretch they executed, and he played extremely well."
Lowry's floater: While Gay brought the Raptors back in the third, Lowry converted the game's biggest shot in the fourth. With Tyson Chandler draped all over him, he hit a floater with just less than 30 seconds left to break a 95-95 tie and give his team a lead it wouldn't relinquish.
"Tyson did a great job; Kyle just hit a tough shot," Knicks guard Raymond Felton said. "That was a tough shot. He shot a running floater over a 7-[foot]-1 guy. That's a tough shot. Hat goes off to Kyle for hitting a tough shot There's nothing you can really do about it. I don't think Tyson could have played that no better. I don't think we could have played that any better defensively as a team."
Chandler's foul trouble: Chandler picked up his fifth foul with 10:43 left in the game and the Knicks down by eight points. When he checked back in about seven minutes later, Gay was at the line, and New York was down by just one. Chandler enjoyed watching his teammates fight back.
"We're a team," Chandler said. "That's what a team is about -- it's not about any individuals. It's not about me or anybody else, that's the reason why we have as many bigs as we do. If I get in foul trouble, somebody comes in, s---, I hope when I go out that they play better."
Breaking the cycle: The Knicks will face the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday at Madison Square Garden and, again, are talking about turning it around.
"When you lose games like this, you have a little streak like this it's easy to start thinking too much, over-thinking about what you should do, what you shouldn't do rather than just going out there and playing basketball," said Anthony. "I think that's where we're at at this point, so it's just a matter of just getting that one game and start feeling good about ourselves, and we can start back on Sunday."
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The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial. Located in Saratoga National Historical Park, New York, it commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga in the Continental Army, but contrives not to name him.
The monument commemorates Arnold's contribution to the Continental Army's victory over the British in the Battle of Saratoga. Arnold was wounded in the foot during the Battle of Quebec, and suffered further injury in the Battle of Ridgefield when his horse was shot out from under him. His last battle injury was at Saratoga, and it occurred near where this monument is located at Tour Stop #7 - Breymann Redoubt. The leg wound effectively ended his career as a fighting soldier.
The memorial was donated by John Watts de Peyster, a former Major General for the New York State Militia during the American Civil War who wrote several military histories about the Battle of Saratoga.
The dedication on the back reads:
"Erected 1887 By
JOHN WATTS de PEYSTER
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In memory of
the "most brilliant soldier" of the
Continental Army
who was desperately wounded
on this spot the sally port of
7th October, 1777
winning for his countrymen
the decisive battle of the
American Revolution
and for himself the rank of
Major General."
Several years after Saratoga, as the Revolutionary War continued, Arnold suffered what he considered a series of slights and insults by the Continental Congress. He also opposed treaties that brought French military assistance to the Americans. The wounded Arnold began a series of negotiations with British agents that culminated in his changing sides in September 1780. As part of these negotiations, Arnold attempted unsuccessfully to hand over his American command, the key fortification of West Point, to the British. Although this attempt failed because of the capture of Major John André, Arnold escaped to the British lines, was given the rank of a British brigadier general, and the British exchequer paid him £6,000.
Though apocryphal, a story that has circulated in various versions states:
Benedict Arnold is not mentioned by name on the Boot Monument.
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March 28, 2005
Construction of public broadcasting company WGBH's new headquarters in Brighton, Mass. began in January with the groundbreaking ceremony for Polshek Partnership's scheme to expand and adapt an existing office building on the outskirts of Boston.
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All twenty-one chapters of this book support an evolving creation and oppose a young earth/recent creationist understanding of Genesis and origins. The first of three sections, "Providing a Context," furnishes the needed biblical, historical, and scientific context for what follows. The second section, "Scientific Evidence and Theory," puts forward the scientific evidence for this evolving creation, or theistic evolution. Then the third part, "Theological Implications and Insights," deals with the philosophical and theological issues usually associated with evolution. The book's stated objective is "to provide a wide-ranging and authoritative evaluation of evolutionary theory from those with an orthodox Christian perspective" (xi). "The need is for a Christian worldview which integrates, seriously, both scriptural revelation and the testimony of the created universe" (xii). So, to this end, contributors were drawn from a variety of disciplines, namely astronomy, geology, paleontology, anthropology, biochemistry, genetics, philosophy, theology, and the history of science.
The editor's preface advises that he, as geologist and paleoecologist, wishes to share the excitement and challenge of contemporary evolutionary research (xi). More than sharing the news of new discoveries, he wishes to advance the debate on creation and evolution in the evangelical Christian community beyond its "often fruitless and divisive nature" (xi). An admirable intention, to be sure, but one wonders if the debate can be advanced at all beyond the current stalemate. The reason is that with the Word of God as the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative revelation, any treatment overlooking sound exegesis and seeking an interpretive context to justify the view being proposed, is not tolerable. The elasticity and fluidity with which passages are subsequently handled so as to ensure that the biblical text and its facts conform with the current understanding of science is also quite troubling. It is easier, apparently, to relate the Bible to the fossil record if one considers that the Bible was written before the modern age, before the rise of modern science, and thus is not a science textbook. That the Bible is not a textbook of modern science is correct, but this does not imply that errors of fact and loss of objective accuracy occur in passages about natural phenomena and historical events.
"Evolution and Original Sin" is the title of a chapter which obviously attracts attention. The Historical/Ideal View is considered the best understanding of evolution and original sin. It might be "the best" from Miller's perspective, but its denial that Adam and Eve were ever actually in the Garden of Eden in a paradisal state is beyond most worrisome, to say the least. Further, the denial that the Fall deeply affected human nature is equally very troublesome, especially when the assertion is made that neither of these two topics is found in Scripture (472). The Garden is said to represent what an ideal relation with God would be, and Adam and Eve represent both "every person" as well as the first hominids with self-consciousness and a growing awareness of God—a clear awareness uncluttered by the spiritual darkness that clouded the minds of the human race when later it turned away from God. The Historical/Ideal View, is described as theistically guided evolution, which means that all on earth is the result of the evolutionary process with God in different places and times guiding or influencing this process. God works in and through the natural processes, e.g., reproduction, and so the offspring are both the product of the operation of the world and a creation of God (497).
The problem is that other unsettling statements are quickly noticeable as one reads through the book, such as a clear acceptance of (1) the reality of common descent, (2) hominids before Adam and Eve, with the fossil record suggesting continuity between pre-human and human physical forms (208-30), (3) dual revelation theory ( 15-16), (4) two separate and contradictory creation accounts in Genesis 1–2, which defy harmonization if they are taken as natural history (21), (5) two traditions—agricultural/urban and the pastoral/nomadic—in the vocabulary of Genesis 1 and 2, which allows for harmonization, which a literal historical hermeneutic could not accomplish (22-23), (6) the primeval darkness and sea and the formless earth as the forces of chaos to be overcome, but without considering that this need not depict chaos at all (26-27), (7) the Big Bang as the beginning point, but without commenting upon "the nothing" before that (104-7), (8) the seven-day week as having no chronological or historical significance—it just religiously affirms the totality of the universe having its origins in God (25-26), (9) a definition of original sin as covering the sinful choices all the way from hominids up to the current generation and the resulting bondage to sin and darkness inherited from ancestors (470-71), and (10) the early chapters of Genesis as a theological commentary and symbolic reconstruction of primal history, fitting in with the concepts and stories of that time—it is decidedly not historical narrative but cosmogonic narrative, and thus not to be taken literally (32-33).
One writer in closing his chapter, "Biochemistry and Evolution," acknowledges that the biblical account of the origin of man reveals a unique origin, both physically and spiritually, that puts it outside the evolutionary process. Yet, nothing in homo sapiens biology or biochemistry would suggest that his origin is not part of evolution. Eloquently, he opts for no conclusion by saying, "I am content to remain in a state of cognitive dissonance on this issue until further clarity comes my way" (287). Commendable stance? No! Why is it so difficult to accept the biblical account? Does man being made in the image of God have no significance here? Not a single chapter, it may be said, is entirely free of such troubling and disturbing conclusions, evaluations, and statements as those noted above.
Perhaps it would be too much to ask the contributors to read thoughtfully David Tsumura's "The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation," (JSOTSup 83, 1989) and Roberto Ouro's two-part article, "The Earth of Genesis 1:2, Abiotic or Chaotic?" (AUSS 35/2, 1998, and 37 /1, 1999), for conclusions that the darkness and the "without form and void" are not indicative of chaos but of a world which could not sustain life, i.e., abiotic. The Hebrew conception of the world rejects the mythological concoctions of the surrounding nations. Were not these stories of creation and origins from the other nations nothing but sin-distorted versions of what really took place, which finally Moses under inspiration put down in writing so that the Hebrews would not embrace falsehood with regard to the beginning of all things? One more question: Is it really possible to ignore the Flood when studying the fossil record?
The footnotes, however, are most informative and introduce the reader to a considerable body of literature treating the subject matters under discussion. The content of the chapters is no easy reading, requiring concentration. The absence of an index makes for thumbing through the pages of a chapter or two whose contents might cover the information being sought. This book has value in that it will provide the reader with an extensive look at the conclusions and thinking of theistic evolutionists and will reveal their interpretive approach to the biblical account of creation. It is an eye-opener!


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It isnt often that a start-up company hits it big with the rollout of its first big product. But thats what happened to Happy Pets Inc., a small manufacturer in rural Fountain City.
Happy Pets manufactures organic pet food, up until now produced in limited quantities and only found in area food co-ops and specialty stores. That was before they developed their Pet Population Intendance Line, or PPIL, a pet food with birth control incorporated into the product.
PPIL has taken the organic pet food market by storm, and threatens to invade more commercial lines, as well. The company is preparing to greatly expand its production facility, after having procured the county and township permits. In addition, investors are flocking to them. How did Happy Pets Inc. do it? Why wasnt it done long before this?
According to one of the founders of Happy Pets, Gial Loess, the discovery of the organic ingredient in PPIL was purely by accident. Also, says Gial, it took him years to recognize the best use for his discovery.
After dropping out of college in the 1980s, Gial joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Suriname, in South America. While there, he became curious about the vast Amazonian jungle of Brazil, which abuts Suriname. When his tour was done, he vowed to return. A year later, Gial says he was lucky enough to receive correspondence from a contact in Suriname who invited him to be a part of an Amazonian humanitarian expedition.
On the trip, which Gial has written about in a small volume that is included in each bag on PPIL, the group discovered a small enclave of indigenous people who had what seemed to be a much more developed society than the expeditioners were expecting to find. The group has a well-developed religion, a strict moral code, a written language and semi-formal education system, organized agrarian ventures, and equal opportunity for men and women alike.
Gial was interested in why not all of the young women were either pregnant, or nursing babies, which was the situation in other similar communities. The people explained that the women could choose when to become pregnant by chewing the stems of a plant they found in the jungle.
When Gial shared this information with the other expeditioners, he was, to quote him, laughed out of the tent. There were other explanations for the infertility of the women, the others said, most likely diet and evidence found of parasitic invasion.
But Gial was assured by the native women that when they stopped chewing the stems, they could become pregnant, and proudly showed him their children.
When the expedition left Brazil, Gial took seeds home with him from the plant, which the women called the naogravido. By the time Gial was back in the U.S., however, the seeds were forgotten. He and his partner, Luz, had moved to the countryside outside Fountain City and were struggling to find a way to make a living off their land.
Luz and Gial began making organic pet food and selling it locally, and found some success.
Rodents were a perennial problem for the business, though, and one night when Gial heard a trap spring, he thought suddenly of the naogravido seeds from Brazil. He found them in his old expedition kit and that fall planted some in the couples small greenhouse. When they sproutedto his surprise, because the seeds were so oldhe picked some of the stems and mixed them with bait for the mice and rats.
The following year, Gial and Luz noticed that there were many fewer rodents in their production areas, and Gial decided to conduct an experiment. He bought male and female mice and kept them in cages. Half of the female mice were fed the stems with their food, and half not. Under controlled conditions, Gial attempted to breed the mice, and found that the female mice that ate naogravido did not become pregnant. When he changed their diet to not include naogravido, they were impregnated easily.
Luz admits that the next step Gial took was against her wishes, but when the barn cats had kittens, Gial sequestered the females, fed them naogravido stems and sure enough, they did not reproduce after mating with the male cats.
After several years of using the naogravido solely for birth control on the farm and experimenting with dosages, Gial decided to try adding it to their organic pet food and sharing it with friends and neighbors. Success was instant when suddenly people were able to control the fertility of their pets without surgery.
Seven years after finding the naogravido seeds in his old kit, Gial and Luz developed PPIL and began to market it locally. It proved to be foolproof for pet owners who fed it to their pets faithfully.
Gial and Luz have had an offer for the PPIL formula from a well-known international manufacturer of pet foods, but for now, they arent selling.
We have been making pet food for nearly our whole life together. We dont want to start over, said Gial.
Not even for the millions being offered? we asked.
Oh, said Luz, life isnt about the money. Its about doing something good for society. Were happy to be doing what we do, and if it turns out to be as successful as we hope, we are donating 50% of our profits to charity.
Which charity? we asked.
So far, said Gial, it looks like it will be a full-time job just to read all the letters asking for help. And we havent even sold the first bag!
How about naogravido for humans? we asked Gial. He said that, of course, it isnt approved by the FDA, and he would be reluctant to use it in humans. Pets usually have a much shorter life span than humans do, and indigenous people dont live as long as people in developed nations. There is no way to tell what the effect of naogravido would have on a human female who would eat the stems for, conceivably, twenty-five years or more. There is also no evidence to support the theory that there will be no effect on the offspring of the females fed naogravido.
We also asked Gial and Luz if a PPIL regimen wouldnt be rather expensive for pet owners.
Its no more expensive than our organic pet foods, said Luz.
And you have to feed them something! crowed Gial.
PPIL will be on shelves beginning tomorrow, April 1, April Fools Day!