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7 Tips for Disater Prep by Jodie Watson

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Now that summer is over and the kids are back at school, it’s possible that you have a little more time on your hands.  September is National Preparedness month and while we pray that we will never have to experience what it’s like to be in the middle of an emergency, it can happen – as we so often see on the news.  Don’t get caught unprepared by thinking it could never happen to you. 

Depending on where you live, you may be subject to hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or fires.  If an emergency situation occurred tomorrow, would you be ready? As a California resident, I live in earthquake territory and always have an emergency kit on hand and easily accessible, complete with items such as: a flashlight, first aid, food, water, and a radio – just in case.

Become aware of different kinds of disasters which may affect your area so that you will know how to prepare for such circumstances. A great place to start is to contact your local emergency management office (e.g. Red Cross) either by phone or do some research online. Here, you will learn all about which disasters could affect your area, where to go in case of an evacuation, and how to protect your home from both natural and made-made disasters.

Being prepared and making plans that the whole family are aware of will help you to know what to do, where to go and how to stay in touch during an emergency.  Keep emergency items at home, but also consider preparing other locations.  For instance, I keep a roadside emergency & first aid kit in my car; along with a spare tire, phone charger and extra gas in case of a break down. While traveling, I keep a list of any emergency contacts on me at all times and make sure that a family member or friend is aware of my travel itinerary including, hotel & flight information. All work places should have a plan in the event of an emergency. Make sure you are familiar with all of these safety precautions should something happen while you’re on the job. Stocking your desk with a few simple items such a first aid kit, a few bottles of water and a snack isn’t a bad idea either.

Always think ahead.  By taking a few simple steps, you can keep your family and yourself safe by preparing for the unexpected.

Here’s to a happy, healthy (disaster free!) Fall season.

PREPARING FOR AN EMERGENCY

Make arrangements and stockpile these items to be as prepared as you can be in the event of an emergency. 

1)     Create or purchase an emergency kit. Keep it fully stocked at all times and have enough supplies for at least 3 days, for everyone in your household. Your kit should include basics such items as: water, non- perishable food items, flashlights, manual can opener, disposable utensils/plates/bowls and a radio. Consider any specials needs your family may require including prescription medicines, diapers, and feminine hygiene products.  Be sure and keep at least $50-$100 in small bills and change in your emergency kit.

2)     Prepare a plan for your household. Make sure your family is aware of what to do in the event of an emergency and who to contact. Post emergency numbers on the fridge, or in any common areas. Children should carry a list of these numbers with them when they are away from home. Chose a meeting location other than your home. This is in case you are unable to regroup there due to road blockage, fires, etc. Practice your plan with your family every now and then to help everyone feel and confident in a crisis situation.

3)      Keep your inventory fresh. Items should be stocked in a dry, cool place, out of direct sunlight. Garages are not a recommended area for food and water storage due to varying changes in temperature. Water should be replaced every 3-6 months and smoke detectors should be tested on a monthly basis.

4)     Protect your valuables. Create a record (written & digital) of expensive household items such as televisions, kitchen appliances and jewelry. Take pictures as another form of proof. Make copies of this documentation and store it in a fireproof safe as well as another area outside of your house, like a family/friends home or better yet, the bank.

5)     Make copies of important papers. Items such as: driver’s licenses, social security cards, a deed to the house, marriage and birth certificates and wills need to be protected. Make a copy of each of these documents and keep them in separate places. Store a copy in your banks safe deposit box and a close families home in case something happens to your house.

6)     Make sure you are properly insured. There are many different kinds of insurance policies, be sure you are covered in the event of a natural disaster. Many insurance companies cover more than one kind of damage insurance depending on your area. Be safe, not sorry.

7)     Don’t forget about your pets! If you’re a pet owner, be sure to stock some emergency supplies to reflect the needs of your beloved pets. Keep crates on hand to easily move your animals around in a timely manner. Make note of where local animal shelters are located in case you need to keep your pets there at a later time.

Contact Jodie Watson:

If you have any questions, would like to schedule a free professional organizing telephone consultation, or would like Jodie Watson to speak at your next corporate function, group meeting, social event, or retreat, call at (818) 590-7800. You can also contact Jodie on Facebook and Twitter or visit her website at Supreme Organization.

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LA Times Photo Blog Gives Old Photos New Life With Photo Scanning

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

LA Times Photo Blog Gives Old Photos New Life With Photo Scanning

“Framework” Uses Photo Scanning To Celebrate Photojournalism

The Los Angeles Times has a must-see photography and video blog called “Framework,” which takes full advantage of the joys of photo scanning by featuring old Times photos from the paper’s enormous archive. The blog highlights the diverse and fascinating moments captured by Times photographers through the decades, and according to the Times, “celebrates the power and explores the craft of visual storytelling.” The Framework blog page also features more current photojournalism, and serves as a kind of online resource hub for photography enthusiasts who can discuss the tools and techniques used in the trade. 

The above photo, featured in a recent Framework article, was taken in 1962, and given new life via photo scanning in 2010. It depicts comedian Jackie Gleason with Los Angeles Times Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, during Gleason’s $80,000, 10-city train trip from Los Angeles to New York on “The Great Gleason Express.” A massive public relations stunt, the 4,337-mile rail excursion was an extravagant promotion for a new CBS show called “Jackie Gleason’s American Scene Magazine.” The show was a huge success, becoming simply “The Jackie Gleason Show” in 1966, and running until 1970.

When this photo was taken in 1962, Gleason was already making an unprecedented $100,000 a year from CBS, and his career was climbing steadily. His most popular character was the brash bus driver Ralph Kramden, who first appeared in a comedy sketch on “Cavalcade of Stars” on October 5, 1951. That sketch later became the hit series, “The Honeymooners,” which gained such popularity in syndicated reruns that even today, a life-size statue of Gleason (dressed in Kramden’s bus driver uniform) can be seen outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. In 1961, not long before the above photo was snapped, Gleason performed one of his most memorable film roles, portraying pool-shark Minnesota Fats in the critically acclaimed Paul Newman drama The Hustler.

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The Best Things About Our New Office

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

As announced last month, we’ve moved offices! There are many awesome perks about being in our new office. To make sure we cover everything, we’ve asked a handful of our employees “What’s the best thing about our new office?” We’ll let them tell you.

Again, we send a big thanks to all of our amazing customers, we couldn’t have done it without you. We’re so honored to have you a part of this fantastic journey into our bigger and newer office!

Here’s what some of our employees have to say:

“I Just LOVE the hardwood floors here, they make me feel so fancy! “ –Kelly, Customer Service Comedian

“I like that my commute to work is cut by 3 minutes.”–Aimi, Photo Gallery Guru

“It’s a tie between my sunny window and our girls-only bathroom!” -Pamela, Marketing Magician

 “I like how our office is ONE story now. No more carrying stuff up & down the stairs!” –David, Check-in Chief

“My favorite thing about this office is how organized and efficient things are.” Chris, Facility Rockstar

“It’s bright, spacious and makes me feel alive!” Megan, Quality Queen

“All the new employees we have here! And all the room for growth!” -Anderson, Boss Man

“I have a window!” Matt, Operations Extraordinaire

 “My favorite thing about the new office is the space we have to roll around on our chairs.” Koa, Billing Bigshot

As always, if you have any questions or just want to say hi- feel free to contact us by email at info@scandigital.com, on Twitter at @ScanDigital or personally at @PamelaSD. You’re also welcome to come play our photo games on Facebook! Hope to hear from you soon :)

Also, here’s our new address is: 240 Center Street, El Segundo CA 90245. We’re barely half a mile from our old place.

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Famed Civil Rights Photographer Exposed As F.B.I. Informant

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Famed Civil Rights Photographer Exposed As F.B.I. Informant

Ernest C. Withers Provided Information On Civil Rights Leaders

The history of the American civil rights movement was thrown a curve ball last week. Last Sunday, the Memphis Commercial Appeal published the results of a lengthy investigation proving that Ernest C. Withers, one of the most celebrated photographers of the civil rights era, also worked as a paid informant for the F.B.I., and used his position as a movement insider to provide detailed information about high-ranking civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr.

Considered one of the most important photojournalists of his era, Ernest C. Withers was a veteran of the black press, and photographed many key moments in the history of the American South. The above photo, which was scanned to digital for preservation by the Smithsonian, was taken by Withers as he, Ralph Abernathy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. rode on one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956. The photographer was even in Dr. King’s hotel room on the night King was assassinated. Withers, who died in 2007 at the age of 85, engendered a deep trust among civil rights leaders like Dr. King. They never knew that the man known as the “original civil rights photographer” was providing the F.B.I. with scheduling details, photographs, and biographical information of the civil rights movement’s key players.

While the details of Withers’s relationship with the F.B.I. remain unclear, it is certain that the photographer worked for at least two years (from 1968 to 1970) with Howell Lowe and William H. Lawrence, both F.B.I. agents from the bureau’s Memphis domestic surveillance program. Withers’s motives for becoming an informant are not known; Withers’s supporters have maintained that he would not have committed such a betrayal for financial reasons, but others have suggested that Withers needed extra money to support his eight children.

The F.B.I. keeps files on all informants, but has refused to release Withers’s file, which may contain information about his recruitment and his remuneration. However, some F.B.I. reports that link Withers to the bureau were obtained by the Memphis Commercial Appeal under the Freedom of Information Act, and scanned to digital for posting on the paper’s website.

To view those documents, click here.

To view a gallery of Withers’s photographs that have been scanned to digital, click here.

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New iPods And More!

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

New iPods And More!

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Unveils All New iPods

This week is all about Apple. Last Wednesday at the company’s annual music event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs introduced a completely new lineup of iPods (excepting the venerable iPod classic, which remains unchanged), a refreshed iTunes software with social networking features, and a revamped Apple TV console that boasts new features and a much lower price. We’ll do a full write-up on the Apple TV in a couple of days; for now, let’s concentrate on the new iPods, which should be available starting this week.

If you’ve even begun thinking about the potential hot gifts for this holiday season, you can stop wondering. It’s only September, and Apple already has this year’s gift-giving season in the proverbial bag. The infinitesimal iPod Shuffle has regained its buttons after a somewhat unpopular stint as a button-less player, but more newsworthy is the new iPod Nano, which has been radically redesigned and now sports a small touch screen with multi-touch capabilities.

The all-touch iPod Nano is only a fraction of an inch larger than the Shuffle, and has ditched the now classic touch-wheel controls for a tiny touch-screen, which covers nearly all of the Nano’s face. The new Nano is considerably smaller than its predecessors, measuring just 1.61 inches wide by 1.48 inches tall. Although the new form factor and touch-screen interface will certainly appeal to many (it is, after all, extremely cool-looking), there are already some mixed feelings about the new Nano from iPod enthusiasts. For example, the gym-going crowd (among whom the Nano has always been a popular choice) has offered speculation that the new Nano may be harder to operate while running or jogging because of its lack of physical buttons. There is also the truncated feature-set to consider; the 5th generation could playback digital video transfers of movies and TV shows purchased from the iTunes store. It also included a built-in video camera for capturing fun and special moments on the go. The new Nano is back-to-basics (music only), and this reduction of the player’s feature-set may not go over well with users who enjoyed the previous Nano’s video capabilities. That said, it never made much sense to include video on a player with a 2-inch screen, and video enthusiasts can now look to the refreshed iPod Touch for their video needs.

Just like the original iPod Touch promised users much of the iPhone experience without the high monthly fees (and spotty AT&T service), the newest Touch model is very nearly an iPhone 4 without the phone. It sports the glorious retina display, which features 4 times the resolution and 4 times the contrast of the previous generation’s display. This allows for smoother text and crisper, high-res photos and digital video transfers. There are also two cameras on the new iPod Touch. The front-facing camera is used for Apple’s “FaceTime” video calling application, which allows users to make free VoIP video calls over WiFi. The rear-facing camera captures video in 720p high definition.

Over all, Apple’s new lineup of iPods looks to be quite impressive, and you shouldn’t be surprised to see them popping up everywhere – including on holiday wish lists.

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Customer Testimonials: “Your customer service deserves recognition”

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

We love our customers. That’s why we follow up with everyone after their order is complete to assure we’re doing our job right. If there’s ever any issue, we address it immediately. Most of the time however, we receive rave reports. On behalf of the ScanDigital team, I’d like to say “Thank You” to our amazing customers. We’re truly flattered to know you are happy and honored to have been trusted with your family’s precious memories. Please find a sampling of the testimonials below that we’ve received recently.

If you’d like to hear more from our customers, you are welcome to visit our Testimonial page. As always, we’re always here on Twitter and Facebook, by email at info@scandigital.com or by phone at 888.333.2808 if you have any questions or just want to chat!

“I was very pleased and impressed with the service I received. I was very pleased with the services and would easily use them again. I would recommend you (and already have). I think you guys are fast, friendly and reliable. I sent several emails with questions to your business before actually using your services, and I was answered promptly by Koa. I was impressed and felt you guys really care about your customers. Very straightforward (I had a few scrapbook pages scanned) and easy to understand. Thanks again for the great service.” Amanda – Downey, CA

 “I loved working with you, and have already recommended your company to friends and family. The quality of the scans was great, a million times better than the ones my sister and sister in law had scanned at the local drug store or wherever. When I get back to NYC I plan on sending in all of my old photos to have them scanned.” Jennifer – New York, NY

“I have enjoyed the services provided by ScanDigital so far. In the near future I do plan to use those services again. Having tried both photos and videos (VHS to DVD), I can say that both services were splendid. I have given a copy of the DVD  I ordered to a family member as a gift and they loved it. Overall, I am very satisfied with your products and services, keep up the good work.” Amanda – Palo Alto, CA
“We had a family movie night and the kids loved finally being able to see themselves as young children, they are in their early 30’s now.  Thanks for the extras and the speed with which it was all done. It was a great experience and so glad we finally got them taken care of.” Grace – North Bonneville, WA

“I am very likely to use your service again to transfer 16mm. I would recommend your service to my friends because my original material was well handled and it was easy to order on your web site.” Karen – Washington, DC

“Your customer service representatives deserve recognition.  I called to inquire as to the status of the images as they were needed to finish a book for our parents’ 40th wedding anniversary in early August.  His name escapes me, but the person who answered my call looked into the issue for me, promised that the images would be finished immediately, and promised to have them delivered by week’s end at no extra charge for the shipping.  All of which he did. The images themselves are great and I am sure that the book will be a big hit.  Not to mention the fact that the images, some of which were more than 45 years old, will now be digitally available for the happy couple of 40 years in an entirely new medium that they are just now embracing. We will use your company again and would recommend you to others.” Stuart – New York, NY

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Customer Spotlight: Martin Petersen!

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

One of the best parts about following up with our customers after every completed order, is learning how people are actually using our service to reconnect with their memories. Afterall, it’s not about photo scanning or video transfers, it’s about preserving precious memories. To celebrate these stories, we’ll share a particular customer’s photo each month. Our Customer Spotlight this month, highlights one very special customer, drum roll please: Martin Petersen!

Martin lives in San Pedro, California with his partner of many years and two pups and works in IT for an aerospace company. He also has two older children that live close, so has the opportunity to see them often. Martin has an extensive list of hobbies, including visiting his secluded ranch, attending theater, exploring new music and enjoying unique meals. Topping his vast list, however, is photography, saying “I take photos all the time and share them far and wide. Photography is a way to take hold of all those surprising things in life that otherwise might flit away, and to enhance memory which tends to fade just like our old films!”

One of Martin’s favorite photos that we preserved for him is a shot of his mother pregnant with him, shown to the left. “My father took photos of my mother as she walked out of our house in Santa Monica on the way to the hospital. But this little walk of my mom, smiling and shaking her head as dad shot away, is none other than precious.”

Martin has been enjoying his old memories in many ways. He even plans to add audio narrative to his old videos. “The plan is to have my father who is 96 years old this year, recall people places and things on those films.”

Martin is not only ScanDigital customer, but has quickly become very close to our team. He warmly describes his experience working with our team by saying, “ScanDigital does not feel like a company to me – it feels like a family.  I’m lucky enough to be able to visit the shop personally for delivery and receipt of my materials.  There is always a friendly and busy group of people ready to help.  And just so it doesn’t go without saying, this organization is highly effective at what they do. The leadership at ScanDigital constantly looks forward into advanced technologies and ways to make ScanDigital an even better service than it is now.  This is a family that really knows its stuff!”

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Apple Lifts Ban On Flash-Based iPhone/iPad Apps

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Apple Lifts Ban On Flash-Based iPhone/iPad Apps

Newly Relaxed Policy Opens Doors For Developers

Apple is back in the news this week, as the battle between Apple and Adobe takes an unexpected turn. As any iPhone user will tell you, you can’t run Adobe Flash apps on devices that operate on Apple’s “iOS” mobile operating system; the current lineup includes the ever-popular iPhone, the iPod touch, and most notably, the supposed computer substitute, the iPad. Back in April, Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained why his company would rather restrict its customer’s use of the web than embrace Flash – a popular but, according to Jobs, outdated tool used for web-design and web-based animation, digital video transfers, and interactive applications such as games. “We know from painful experience,” said Jobs, “that letting a third-party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in substandard apps, and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform.” Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler software was designed to allow app developers to use Flash tools to create applications that could then be converted into the iPhone format, but Apple’s ban on applications built on the Flash platform pulled the plug.

Of course, there was much speculation that Apple had more in mind than the quality of future iPhone apps when it banned the use of the Flash-to-iPhone Compiler. Jean-Louis Gassee, a former head of Macintosh development at Apple, said that Jobs “doesn’t want to be at the mercy of cross-platform tools that could erase Apple’s competitive advantage.” Whatever the reasoning behind it, Apple’s ban stayed firmly in place. Until September 9th, that is, when the company unexpectedly loosened its white-knuckled grip and announced that the restrictions put in place back in April would now be dropped. This news came as both a shock and a relief to the developers who have created over 250,000 applications based on interactivity, digital video transfer playback, and more.

 A statement from Apple reads, “We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.”

Adobe was also pleased to hear that its Flash platform could once again be used to build applications for Apple’s now iconic mobile devices. “We are encouraged to see Apple lifting its restrictions on its licensing terms,” said Adobe in a written statement. “(Lifting the ban) gives developers the freedom to choose what tools they use to develop applications for Apple devices.”

Apple’s relax in policy also affects Google, whose in-app advertising was also banned in April and then reinstated last week. The company chimed in via a blog post, saying, “This is great news for everyone in the mobile community, as we believe that a competitive environment is the best way to drive innovation and growth in mobile advertising.”

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Affiliate Spotlight: Rick Anderson!

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Our Affiliate Spotlight will not only introduce you to an affiliate that stood out over the last month, but will hopefully inspire you to implement the ways they are making the program successful for them. This month, we’d like to highlight one very special affiliate, drum roll please…Rick Anderson!!

Rick has a passion for photo preservation and runs LocalArchiver.com, a great resource for family photo organization, preservation and sharing. He’s also the author of “Family Photo Organization: A Guide to Organizing, Family Photos for Improved Preservation and Sharing” where ScanDigital even scored a mention! How cool is that?!

Rick first discovered ScanDigital through a simple search on the internet when he was looking for a scanning company to recommend on his photo organizing website, LocalArchiver.com. “I was immediately impressed with ScanDigital’s breadth of services and the user friendly website and order processing. “

He knows many families want their material preserved and therefore, recommends our service.“It simply makes good sense for these families to turn the job over to professionals in order to preserve these images well into the future.”

Rick was motivated to become an Affiliate because it’s a win-win. “Becoming an affiliate of ScanDigital is a way to guide my website visitors to a provider of a service they need at no additional expense to my readers.  At the same time, ScanDigital appreciates the additional business sufficiently to pay affiliate fees and I earn a bit to help support my website.”

In regard to his experience working with our company, he says “My experience has been very good.  I am not only an affiliate, I am a customer.”

Here is Rick’s complete interview:

-How did first get introduced to ScanDigital? And what were your initial thoughts?

I discovered ScanDigital during a web search in order to be able to recommend the best scanning resources at my family photo organizing website, LocalArchiver.com.  I was immediately impressed with ScanDigital’s breadth of services and the user friendly website and order processing.  Many families hope to ultimately self-scan their older photo prints and never seem to find the time.  It simply makes good sense for these families to turn the job over to professionals in order to preserve these images well into the future.  This also immediately expands the opportunities for families to share the images more broadly once in digital format. 

-What motivated you to become an affiliate? 

Many families simply do not know where to begin in organizing a typical image collection including slides, transparencies, older prints, albums, and more recent digital images.  After culling and sorting older media, the next logical step is digitizing older format images via scanning.  Becoming an affiliate of ScanDigital is a way to guide my website visitors to a provider of a service they need at no additional expense to my readers.  At the same time, ScanDigital appreciates the additional business sufficiently to pay affiliate fees and I earn a bit to help support my website.  A win-win-win for the referral, ScanDigital, and LocalArchiver.com

-How has your experience as a ScanDigital Affiliate been? 

My experience has been very good.  I am not only an affiliate, I am a customer.   

-How have you made ScanDigital’s Affiliate program work for you? How do you encourage your customers/clients to place orders? 

 LocalArchiver.com includes a number of articles on family photo organization, preservation, and sharing.  One of these articles is on scanning techniques and alternatives.  ScanDigital is mentioned as a leading provider of scanning services, and an affiliate link is provided for site visitors to explore.

-What’s the best part of being an Affiliate? 

The win-win-win dimension of being an affiliate.  My first interest is to make sure that my affiliate program selections are indeed of benefit to my website visitors.  If they visit an affiliate link such as ScanDigital and see the value of the service and make a purchase, everyone wins.

 -Anything else you’d like to share? 

I recently consolidated articles at LocalArchiver.com into a book now available on Amazon.com.  The book is “Family Photo Organization A Guide to Organizing, Family Photos for Improved Preservation and Sharing.”  Scandigital is mentioned in the chapter titled “Scanning Family Prints and Slides”, and ScanDigital is listed in an appendix of additional resources.  LocalArchiver.com also has a facebook page with 250+ fans where folks interested in family photo organization, preservation, and sharing can create a dialog.

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Nissan Makes Waves With Electric Car

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Nissan Makes Waves With Electric Car

Nissan LEAF Coming To America This December

Nissan has been making waves with its new compact, 5-door hatchback, 100% electric car, the LEAF. The LEAF, or “Leading Environmentally-friendly Affordable Family car,” is slated to be the first practical, affordable, fully electric car marketed to the mainstream masses. Sales of the LEAF are scheduled to begin in December, but quantities will be limited at first, and only those who have placed online reservations to receive one will have a chance to be one of the first LEAF drivers. Spring 2011 will see a second burst of LEAFs onto our shores, and a full U.S. market rollout is planned for 2012. Even before it hits the streets, the LEAF is in high demand. The car has such a buzz about it that it even has its own Facebook page! (http://www.facebook.com/nissanleaf) So What’s all the fuss about?

Well, according to Nissan the LEAF can go an average of 100 miles between charges (though initial road tests by independent parties suggest that that number can vary by as much as 40% in either direction, depending on driving style and road conditions). Still for every-day city driving, LEAF drivers could plug their cars in at night, and never buy another drop of gas. And electricity from a plug is far cheaper, and far greener, than pumping gas into a regular car. The LEAF produces no local air pollution since it produces zero emissions, and it enhances energy security because it does not rely on imported oil. Also, the long-term cost of ownership is more stable and more predictable than gas-guzzlers, because the fluctuating cost of gasoline does not affect LEAF drivers at all. In the long run, gas will continue to become more expensive, while grid-based electricity will potentially become cheaper and greener as power companies embrace clean energy sources such as wind and solar, and continue to refine the uses of fossil-fuels such as natural gas and coal.

Nissan has been going to great lengths to advertise the LEAF, and a video transfer of the latest LEAF commercial has been creating buzz on the internet since it first aired during last Thursday’s season-opening NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings. The ad features a polar bear, sadly watching from a tiny iceberg as its habitat melts due to climate change. The bear then swims to land, and begins a long journey through wildernesses both natural and manmade, until it reaches the driveway of an environmentally-conscious LEAF-driver. The bear then embraces the man, and the two share a special moment. This little video transfer may make you cry, or it may just bring a smile to your face. Either way, the marketing team at Nissan sure knows how to tug at the heart strings.

For more information of the Nissan LEAF, including photos, video transfers, and more, visit http://www.nissanusa.com/future-and-concept-vehicles/.

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