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Making the Case for Plug-in Electric Vehicles: Breathing Easier
This is the second post in a three-part series that examines the reasons to consider purchasing a plug-in electric vehicle. Part 1 Part 3
Last week, I discussed why consuming oil is bad for U.S. national security. In this post, I'll look at another reason to consider a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) – helping the environment. I've previously explored the effect PEVs will have on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is clear that PEVs have the potential to reduce GHG emissions significantly so long as society also reduces the carbon intensity of the electrical grid. But the environmental benefits of PEVs are not limited to climate change.
Figure 2: It's hard to see through all the smog, but that's the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC in 1988. (Source)
PEVs also benefit local air quality, which might matter a lot if you live in a city with poor air quality. Despite enormous strides in the U.S. to reduce air pollution, the EPA estimated in February of this year that nearly 127 million Americans live in areas where air quality concentrations are above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to establish and periodically update and evaluate the NAAQS. While air quality has improved significantly since 1990, nearly half of Americans still face air quality-related health risks, including decreased lung function, aggravated asthma, and premature mortality.
Air pollution primarily comes from stationary fuel combustion, industrial processes, and vehicles. Transportation mainly contributes to two air pollution problems: ground-level ozone and particle pollution. Particle pollution or particulate matter (PM) consists of solid particles and liquid droplets in the air; coal fired power plants, as well as diesel vehicles including cars, trucks, and buses, are some of the sources of PM. Ground-level ozone, a serious air pollutant also known as smog, results when sunlight reacts with oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (which are components, for example, of vehicle exhaust).
The health effects of air pollution include decreased lung function, respiratory infection, and even increased risk of heart attacks and strokes under certain conditions. While the U.S. EPA and state governments are moving ahead with regulations that improve the air quality for Americans, most people (especially in urban areas) remain at risk of effects from excessive ozone and PM. The American Lung Association recommends the EPA reduce air pollution from vehicle tailpipes. One way consumers can help is by purchasing vehicles with lower tailpipe emissions such as PEVs.
The more miles Americans travel in passenger vehicles powered by electric motors, the more local air quality will improve according to a study completed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). It is difficult to quantify air quality benefits from using PEVs since air pollution can come from multiple sources, including vehicle tailpipes as well as power plants. All-electric vehicles in cities will almost certainly improve local air quality since a mile traveled that is powered by electricity does not produce any vehicle emissions and the power plants that produce the electricity are often located away from city centers. For plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, those improvements are tempered by the percentage of miles that rely on the gasoline or diesel-powered backup energy source rather than by the batteries. In fact, using PEVs can result in more local air pollution at the electricity generation source, especially if the source is a coal power plant. This potential problem underscores another reason (in addition to the goal of reducing GHG emissions) that we should work on reducing power plant pollution as we green the vehicle fleet.
PEVs will not end air pollution in the United States, but increasing the market penetration of these vehicles will help reduce air pollution in cities throughout the country. In the next post, I'll look into how the financial numbers might work out with a PEV for your next vehicle purchase.
Nick Nigro is a Solutions Fellow


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The Rollins Pond Campground is the quiet alternative to Fish Creek as well as serving as the overflow area for Fish Creek. Sites tend to be spaced out more providing for more privacy and less noise. There is also less traffic up in Rollins. Many campers accustomed to a more serene camping experience will appreciate Rollins over its more lively sister, Fish Creek.
Rollins features 284 campsites, 226 are directly on the water.
Rollins accommodating all equipment from tents to 40ft RV's although it is more suited to trailers 30ft and under. Some sites are situated on hills above the shoreline.
Rollins is accessed by driving half way through sister campground, Fish Creek Pond.
The campground is open from mid May through Labour Day.
Camping Fees
Nightly camping fee $20 (all sites)
Out of state patrons surcharge $5/night
Camping Season Dates
05/20/16 thru 09/04/16
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|Equipment Type: trailer preferred, max 20 foot
|Back-In / Pull-Through: back-in
|Electric: no
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|Closest Washroom: Site 101 (5 sites away)
|Closest Water tap: n/a
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|Camping Area: first bay
|Location: east shore
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Harvard University announces Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship
Nas' music has been educating listeners for nearly 20 years, and now Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and the Hip-Hop Archive are honoring his career with a new fellowship.
The Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship will give scholars and artists the opportunity to demonstrate that "education is real power." Fellows will be chosen by a committee of Harvard University faculty members. Once they've been awarded the fellowship, they can work on a number of projects, including performance pieces and album work.
In a statement, the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., calls Nas a "true visionary." He adds that Nas has continually shown that "boundaries can be pushed" to advance the cause of "education and knowledge."
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Vocal Imitation 1.0
The Vocal Imitation is a software module that allows the user to imitate vocal characters segments from one person into other person voice in such a way that a second person voice shall be heard speaking in the same voice as the first person.
WinXMedia AVI/WMV 3GP Converter 4.03j
WinXMedia AVI/WMV 3GP Converter is a powerful and easy-to-use 3GP/3G2 video converter. With it, you can convert AVI(DivX, XviD, MPEG-4, YUV...), MPEG1 MPEG2 WMV ASF video to 3GP/3G2 video files and play them in your 3GP/3GP mobile phone.
Organux VSTi 1.0
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OneManBand 8.0
Virtual arranger keyboard and style editor. Real time chord recognition. Converts any keyboard into an arranger keyboard. Easy to use sequencing and karaoke tools.
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Representative Payee/Misuse Restitution Control System (RP/MRCS), Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs, Associate Commissioner for Income Security Programs
Effective Date: March 15, 2005
System number: 60-0318
System name:
Representative Payee/Misuse Restitution Control System (RP/MRCS), Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs, Associate Commissioner for Income Security Programs.
Security classification:
System location:
Associate Commissioner for Income Security Programs
Social Security Administration
Categories of individuals covered by the system:
This system maintains information about representative payees that have misused benefits and beneficiaries/recipients whose benefits have been misused.
Categories of records in the system:
Data in this system consist of:
-names, mailing address, location address, phone number, employee identification number (EIN)/Social Security number (SSN), and identification number of representative payees;
-names, SSNs or other cross-referenced account numbers, the program in which the misuse occurred (Title II or Title XVI), current address, payment status, misuse amount, misuse determination date, misuse start date, misuse end date and SSA negligence code (Y or N) of beneficiaries/recipients; and
-the original amount refunded by payee, original amount restored by SSA, new amount refunded by payee, new amount restored by SSA, case outcome and completion date.
Authority for maintenance of the system: The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-203); Section 205(j)(5) of the Social Security Act; (42 U.S.C.
§ 405(j)(5)).
Information in this system will assist SSA in investigating certain representative payee misuse cases going back to January 1, 1995, to determine whether the beneficiary has been repaid by either SSA or the representative payee. The information in this system will also be used to control completion of cases and to provide details about how the case was resolved.
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories of users and the purpose of such uses:
Disclosure may be made for routine uses as indicated below. However, disclosure of any information defined as "return" or "return information" under 26 U.S.C. § 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be made unless authorized by a statute, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or IRS regulations.
1. To the Office of the President for the purpose of responding to an individual pursuant to an inquiry received from that individual or from a third party on his or her behalf.
2. To a congressional office in response to an inquiry from that office made at the request of the subject of a record.
3. To the Department of Justice (DOJ), a court or other tribunal, or another party before such tribunal when:
a)SSA, or any component thereof; or
b) any SSA employee in his/her official capacity; or
c) any SSA employee in his/her individual capacity where DOJ (or SSA where it is authorized to do so) has agreed to represent the employee; or
d) the United States or any agency thereof where SSA determines that the litigation is likely to affect the operations of SSA or any of its components, is party to litigation or has an interest in such litigation, and SSA determines that the use of such records by DOJ, a court or other tribunal, or another party before such tribunal, is relevant and necessary to the litigation, provided, however, that in each case, SSA determines that such disclosure is compatible with the purpose for which the records were collected.
4. Disclosure may be made for routine uses as indicated below. However, disclosure of any information defined as "return" or "return information" under 26 U.S.C. § 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code will not be made unless authorized by a statute, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or IRS regulations.
5. To contractors and other Federal agencies, as necessary, for the purpose of assisting SSA in the efficient administration of its programs. We contemplate disclosing information under this routine use only in situations in which SSA may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an Agency function relating to this system of records.
6. To student volunteers, individuals working under a personal services contract, and other individuals performing functions for SSA, but technically not having the status of Agency employees if they need access to the records in order to perform their assigned Agency functions.
7. Non-tax return information which is not restricted from disclosure by Federal law may be disclosed to the General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under 44 U.S.C. § 2904 and § 2906, as amended by NARA Act of 1984, for the use of those Agencies in conducting records management studies.
8. To Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and private security contractors, as appropriate, information necessary:
To enable them to protect the safety of SSA employees and the public, the security of the SSA workplace, the operation of SSA facilities, or to assist investigations or prosecutions with respect to activities that affect such safety and security or activities that disrupt the operation of SSA facilities.
** We may disclose information to appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, entities, and persons when (1) we suspect or confirm that the security or confidentiality of information in this system of records has been compromised; (2) we determine that as a result of the suspected or confirmed compromise there is a risk of harm to economic or property interests, identity theft or fraud, or harm to the security or integrity of this system or other systems or programs of SSA that rely upon the compromised information; and (3) we determine that disclosing the information to such agencies, entities, and persons is necessary to assist in our efforts to respond to the suspected or confirmed compromise and prevent, minimize, or remedy such harm. SSA will use this routine use to respond only to those incidents involving an unintentional release of its records.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining and disposing of records in the system:
Records in this system are maintained electronically.
Records in this system will be retrieved by the name, SSN or EIN of the representative payee, or name or SSN of the beneficiary/recipient.
Security measures include the use of access codes to enter the computer system which will maintain the data and the storage of computerized records in secured areas which are accessible only to employees who require the information in performing their official duties. SSA employees who have access to the data will be informed of the criminal penalties of the Privacy Act for unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, information maintained in the system. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a(i)(1).
Contractor personnel having access to data in the system of records will be required to adhere to SSA rules concerning safeguards, access and use of the data.
Retention and disposal:
Misuse data and contact information about misusers (payees) will be populated into RP/MRCS via a flat file produced by the Office of Systems from the Representative Payee System (RPS) using the criteria specified by section 205(j) of the Social Security Act. This flat file will also contain current beneficiary contact data from the Master Beneficiary Record and/or the Supplemental Security Income Record.
Once the data is loaded into RP/MRCS, field offices will develop the status of repayment of each misuse event and post resolution information. Management information regarding cases pending and cleared will be collected and reported, as will information about case resolution.
Data collected during the course of an RP/MCRS action is stored in a database on the Dallas Regional Office's Windows servers. Only a limited number of new records (those that were not recorded on RPS) will be added to the database. RP/MRCS will cover only misuse events related to the closed period of January 1, 1995, through the initial population of the database from SSA's Representative Payee System in April 2004.
Records in the system will be retained for 12 months after the final data are posted and then they will be archived.
System manager(s):
Associate Commissioner for Income Security Programs
Social Security Administration
Notification procedure(s):
An individual can determine if this system contains a record about him/her by writing to the systems manager(s) at the above address and providing his/her name, SSN or other information that may be in the system of records that will identify him/her. An individual requesting notification of records in person should provide the same information, as well as provide an identity document, preferably with a photograph, such as a driver's license or some other means of identification. If an individual does not have any identification documents sufficient to establish his/her identity, the individual must certify in writing that he/she is the person claimed to be and that he/she understands that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another individual under false pretenses, is a criminal offense. (20 C.F.R. § 401.40).
If notification is requested by telephone, an individual must verify his/her identity by providing identifying information that parallels the record to which notification is being requested. If it is determined that the identifying information provided by telephone is insufficient, the individual will be required to submit a request in writing or in person. If an individual is requesting information by telephone on behalf of another individual, the subject individual must be connected with SSA and the requesting individual in the same phone call. SSA will establish the subject individual's identity (his/her name, SSN, address, date of birth, and place of birth, along with one other piece of information, such as mother's maiden name) and ask for his/her consent in providing information to the requesting individual. (20 C.F.R. § 401.45)
If a request for notification is submitted by mail, an individual must include a notarized statement to SSA to verify his/her identity or must certify in the request that he/she is the person claimed to be and that he/she understands that the knowing and willful request for, or acquisition of, a record pertaining to another individual under false pretenses, is a criminal offense. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.45).
Record access procedure(s):
Same as Notification procedures. Requesters also should reasonably specify the record contents they are seeking. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.40).
Contesting record procedure(s):
Same as Notification procedures. Requesters should also reasonably identify the record, specify the information they are contesting, and state the corrective action sought and the reasons for the correction with supporting justification showing how the record is untimely, incomplete, inaccurate, or irrelevant. These procedures are in accordance with SSA Regulations (20 C.F.R. § 401.65).
Record source categories:
Information in this system of records is obtained from existing systems of records such as the Claims Folder System, 60-0089, Master Beneficiary Record, 60-0090, Supplemental Security Income Record and Special Veterans Benefits, 60-0103 and the Master Representative Payee File, 60-0222.
Systems exempt from certain provisions of the Privacy Act:


text: Inside Jobs These designer doughnuts will make you forget all about the common cupcake Add to ... Katherine Scarrow The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jun. 12, 2012 6:53AM EDT Last updated Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 11:39AM EST Goodbye cupcakes; so long pies and macaroons. There's a new - but familiar - treat in town, and it's not as you may remember it. When sisters Rita and Rosanne Tripathy opened Jelly Modern Doughnuts in Calgary in April 2011, they wanted to reinvent the doughnut with sophisticated flavours and high quality, local ingredients. The impressive menu - designed by pastry chef Grayson Sherman and inspired by seasons, holidays and even suggestions from the company's active social media community - changes on a regular basis. Jelly Modern is also committed to the environment, using preservative free, local and organic ingredients as well as using recyclable packaging and eco-cutlery. Learn about why Rita and Rosanne decided to start their gourmet bake café, some of their challenges and how they plan to revolutionize one of Canada's favourite old treats Watch More Video: The one critical skill most startup founders don't have The Globe takes Small Business Summit to Calgary Board game inspires top real estate investor Is Canada's venture capital system beyond repair? Three things venture capitalists want in a startup Venture capital chief reveals secret to securing financing OMERS Ventures 'not interested in the exit' High-tech office keeps workers plugged in, happy Why more small businesses should consider the cloud Do women bring a distinct vantage point to business? Glow in the dark night at SPiN How has Canada's venture capital market changed? How Method holds onto the magic Method co-founder on his battle with dirty Kit lets you build your own skateboard The future of DJing, right here Video: San Fran or T. Dot? Techpreneur weighs in How to make a splash in the app sector In a sea of apps, will yours sink or swim? Young Hamilton photographer has the need for shutter speed Comments Share via email Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on LinkedIn Print More Related to this Story Photo gallery Behind the scenes at Jelly Modern Doughnuts Mark Evans Cookie maker spices up its offerings Small Business Foodies bring prized Canadian desserts to the U.S. Follow Katherine Scarrow on Twitter: @scarrowk


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What Norman Rockwell was to oil painting, Archie Andrews was to comic books.
It is grassroots democracy at its best, Norman Rockwell–style.
Norman Mailer was trying to close down the club and haranguing Britton for drink after drink.
In 2001, when we were in Moscow together working on a book, my friend Norman Mailer and I often talked about dying.
He and Hillary had dinner with Norman and me in a Chinese restaurant and they invited us to one of his inaugurations.
In due time, Dr. May and Norman returned, looking the better for the journey.
"That's my business," said Norman, in a suddenly imperious manner.
After a few exclamations of utter surprise, it flashed on Norman.
Norman raised his head like a war-horse at the sound of a trumpet-call.
I wouldna give my bonny Scottish Rose, for all your western lilies, Norman.
c.1200, "one of the mixed Scandinavian-Frankish people who conquered England in 1066," from Old French Normanz, plural of Normand, Normant, literally "North man," from a Scandinavian word meaning "northman" (see Norse), in reference to the Scandinavian people who overran and occupied Normandy 10c. Later meaning "one of the Norman French who conquered England in 1066." As an adjective from 1580s. As a style of architecture, developed in Normandy and employed in England after the conquest, it is attested from 1797. Norseman (1817) is not historical and appears to be due to Scott.


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Relax. Play. Celebrate. At The Juniper Inn.
The Juniper Inn welcomes you to the beautiful Door County peninsula!
The Juniper Inn is located in the very heart of the Door County peninsula, between the distinctive villages of Fish Creek and Ephraim. Midwest Living magazine named these two villages as their #1 choice of "100 Top Towns to Visit," comparing them in beauty to New England. While The Juniper Inn puts you within minutes of the best Door County offers, its location on a high bluff just off the main highway down a quiet country road provides a natural, peaceful panorama and the opportunity to relax and decompress.
The Juniper Inn was honored to be named as one of two "favorite hotels" by Fodor's Travel 2013. The inn was designed with our guests' privacy and comfort in mind. Several large public spaces, exclusively for guest use, provide plenty of room to find a quiet corner all to yourselves. Sit in the bay window in the library and enjoy a selection from our extensive library. Cozy up next to the large wood-burning fireplace in the family room. Relax on the screened porch while listening to songbirds and watching the light change in the meadow below. Spread a board game out on a dining table and create your own memories.
Each of our four rooms is unique. The Evergreen and Sunflower rooms are suites with whirlpool tubs, gas fireplaces and private open-air decks. The Red Maple and Lilac rooms have private sitting areas where you can curl up and enjoy a minute all your own. All of our rooms have private bathrooms, queen-sized beds with luxury bedding and entertainment systems. Guests can access free, high-speed wireless Internet throughout the Inn.
Breakfast at The Juniper Inn begins at 8 a.m. each day and continues until 10 a.m. Fresh ground coffee is put out by 7:30 a.m. We serve a continental plus style breakfast that includes home-baked granola, other cereals, fresh homemade muffins, a sweet and cold Scandinavian fruit soup, fresh fruits and juice.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel named The Juniper Inn as one of the "10 Best Secluded B&Bs in the state" in a recent travel article. The Inn is consistently recognized as one of Door County's "Tried & True Lodging" picks in the guidebook 101 Things to do in Door County. The Juniper Inn is open mid-May through October. We would like to help you create a memorable visit to Door County that starts with a stay at The Juniper Inn!View rooms & rates »


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Urban preserve
By Steven Powell, email@example.com, 803-777-5400
Just two blocks off Devine Street, not far from Piggly Wiggly and Jiffy Lube, is one of the city of Columbia's diamonds in the rough -- the W. Gordon Belser Arboretum.
A lush, 10-acre respite from its urban surroundings, the Belser Arboretum contains 10 distinct biomes, or plant communities, that are representative of natural biomes from around the state.
The preserve serves as an essential teaching laboratory for USC students. Students from the university taking laboratory courses use the arboretum for field experiments.
The university's need for a nearby biological field laboratory helped spur the restoration that created today's Belser Arboretum. And it needed some work – yesterday's arboretum was a bit of a jungle.
"Before we started work here in 2006, you couldn't have made your way from one end of the arboretum to the other without a machete," said Patricia DeCoursey, a professor of biology and director of the arboretum.
The property was donated to USC in 1959 by W. Gordon Belser, a local attorney who lived in and helped develop the neighborhood now bordered by Devine Street, Rosewood Drive and Beltline Boulevard.
He saw that Columbia's urbanization would soon displace natural forests throughout the city, and he designated that his 10-acre donation be set aside as an arboretum.
"Belser recognized it as one of the most unique properties in Columbia, because a big river fed into the Atlantic Ocean there a long time ago," said DeCoursey. "You have sand dunes, a deep valley and deposition from the deep river – a rich black soil."
But the arboretum fell prey to neglect. Invasive non-native plants and choking vines spread throughout the area. Hurricane Hugo in 1989 brought down a number of the largest trees on the property.
By the mid-2000s, though, USC's need for a nearby field laboratory and DeCoursey's recognition of the potential within the dying woodlot came together.
"Believe it or not, I could see from the ecological patterning that we could create the 10 different sites on the 10 acres here," DeCoursey said. "And that's what we've done.
DeCoursey and a team of volunteers have toiled since 2006 to transform the arboretum into a beautiful yet functional center for education and outreach. Hundreds of USC students use the arboretum every year now, both for field experiments and service projects.
And with an open house once a month (see their events calendar here), community outreach is an important part of the mission as well. Have you visited the Belser Arboretum yet?
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Some of you may remember that I posted a couple of things about Martial Arts Festival UK a while ago.
The event was a great success and the organiser - Kwoklyn Wan - has now decided to run another event (in addition to the MAF-UK, which will run again next year).
The idea is to have a large weekend event at the start of September, which will feature the regular freestyle/semi-contact etc as well as eskrima, possibly wing chun chi sao and ,ideally, grappling.
The idea is to have speciallist people in charge of each of the particular events (I am doing the eskrima).
The deal is for a 1 day competition - gi or nogi - on the Saturday. There is probably room for 5 or 6 mats.
Kwoklyn is looking for someone who has experience of running a fair sized grappling event and would be interested in taking charge of the running of this aspect of the day.
If you are interested you can contact him on:


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By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
Q: You recently won an award from Everett's Schack Art Center for photography. How long have you been interested in photography?
A: Probably since my freshman year. I knew they were offering photography at the high school, so I decided I really wanted to do it. I have friends who are into photography.
Q: When did you take a class?
A: I got into it as a sophomore… a one-semester class, basic photography.
Q: What is there about photography that interests you?
A: How everything is composed, the significance it gives off when you look at it Whoa! You're amazed at what you see. And the content, what it's trying to tell the person, the story.
Q: Your black-and-white photograph, "Pollito," won first place for the grades 11/12 category. What was the story you were trying to tell?
A: We had recently in our class put thoughts in a day book. (The photographer) Paul Strand was one of them. I thought it was interesting. We were looking through his photos. He did photo shoots in Mexico in the state my family is from. That caught my eye. It's my culture. It was so cool I wanted to do something like that.
A photo, it's not exactly the same…was an inspiration — a Mexican boy standing against a stone wall. I decided I wanted to do something like that.
Q: So where was Strand's photograph taken?
A: Toluca, Mexico.
Q: You had family there?
A: Yes. My parents are from a little village in that area.
Q: Why did you choose black-and-white instead of color for your photograph?
A: I just feel like black-and-white is kind of an old-fashioned look, the first type of photos that came out. Color is cool with vivid colors. But to me, black-and-white gives more significance, more meaning to the photo than if it is was just in plain color.
Also, it was a black-and-white contest.
Q: How old is your brother?
A: Seven.
Q: What's his name?
A: Ulises.
Q: What kind of camera do you use?
A: A Canon Rebel t1i.
Q: Do you plan on doing something with photography as a career, or is it more of a hobby?
A: I think it will stay more of a hobby. There are jobs out there, but I think …I want to become a nurse.
Q: How did you get interested in nursing?
A: I have … some friends who are medical assistants and one person in the nursing program at Everett Community College. I know there's always going to be a necessity for nurses in the medical field.
Q: Are you taking a lot of science courses right now?
A: Not exactly. I kind of just decided this year. I'm taking AP chemistry and then will figure out the rest of it.
Q: You're a junior. Any plans for next year?
A: Possibly get a job.
Q: To save for college?
A: Yes, probably, and getting everything prepared for when I graduate so I know where I'm going and I can achieve my goal.
Q: Where you surprised to learn you had won the photography award?
A: It was crazy. I knew I had entered it and I wondered if it was good enough. Last year I turned in another photograph and won fourth place.
This year I know a little bit more… and know what looks good and what should look good.
When (my teacher) said first place and she said my name, that's when I was like, 'No way!' I honestly didn't think I would get first place. I was really happy. Pretty amazing.
Q: What other courses are you taking?
A: AP Calculus, AP U.S. history, photography and AP Chemistry.
Q: Who has been the biggest influence in your life?
A: Probably my parents, mostly my dad. He came from Mexico to start a better life. He met my mom…they got married here and had me. He's like, 'Do your best. Always strive for the best.' He said, 'Don't ever be rude to anybody.' I kind of grew up around that.
I appreciate my dad, everything he's done for me and my family.
My doing well in school is my way of saying thanks, for giving me the opportunity to do something with my life.
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Rock the vote!
For the first time in its Super Bowl history, Audi will let audiences select the spot they want to see run during the big game. Audi will post three versions of its Super Bowl spot, each with a different ending, to its YouTube page and allow viewers to choose how they want the spot to end. The final spot will debut on YouTube in advance of the game and on CBS during Super Bowl XLVII in the first break after kickoff. Voting on YouTube will be open for 24 hours, beginning at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, January 24 and closing at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 25.
In the spot, viewers will follow a nervous teenage boy as he embarks on one of the most pivotal moments of American adolescence: prom night. With no date and no confidence, the teen is discouraged until his father tosses him the keys to an all-new 2013 Audi S6. With the power of the Audi S6 at his fingertips, the teen is suddenly determined, inspired. When he enters the gymnasium, he heads directly towards the prom queen and kisses her. What happens next is up to the viewer to decide.
Audi has a long history of experimentation with social media, especially during Super Bowl season, said Loren Angelo, General Manager of Brand Marketing, Audi of America. This year, Audi which is Latin for listen is listening to our fans, allowing them to take part in the creative process and have a voice in how our spot should end.
Audis Super Bowl spot was created by San Francisco-based Venables Bell & Partners.
Every year, Audi challenges the status quo with a Super Bowl spot that celebrates emotion and individuality. This year, Audis ad salutes the unconventional bravery that propels people to take risks and pave their own paths. The spot will feature the 2013 Audi S6 performance sedan a vehicle that stands for power, confidence and pushing limits.
Proven on the track, Audis award-winning and progressive technologies such as TFSI engines and quattro® all-wheel drive inspire the new S6 and provide a driving experience that is engineered for the driver. The S6 is fitted with the 4.0T twin-turbo V8 delivering 420 horsepower and is fitted with a seven-speed double clutch S tronic® transmission and cylinder on demand technology. The S6 offers incredible interior design and craftsmanship such as Atlas carbon fiber inlays, diamond-stitched sport seats and the highest levels of technology through the Audi MMI Navigation plus system with Audi connect.
Last year, Audis entertaining spot Vampire Party showcased the power of progressive engineering with the brand's signature LED headlight technology. In 2011, Audis "Release the Hounds," featuring the Audi A8 and a cameo by Kenny G, redefined luxury and became the first Super Bowl spot in history to use a Twitter hashtag. In 2010, Audi's Super Bowl ad showcased a soundtrack created by rock legends Cheap Trick and featured the A3 TDI "Green Car of the Year" showing how easy being green can be. The brand's 2009 spot featured actor Jason Statham in a series of high-speed chase scenes involving luxury competitors, sending the message that luxury is evolving. In 2008, the brand's first Super Bowl spot delivered a parody of the movie "The Godfather," signaling that Audi was ready to take on the perceived luxury leaders.
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Enjoy the natural splendor and serene landscape of the Garden of the Gods Colorado Springs, Colorado. See this natural wonder as our ancestors did a 100 years ago-on horseback.
The whole family will enjoy Colorado horseback riding, guided by real cowboys who will point out the best red rock formations of the Garden of the Gods including; the Sleeping Giant, Snakehead Rock, Kissing Camels and Siamese Twins
Whether you are an experienced horse back rider or a beginner, Academy Riding Stables has a horse suited to your abilities with Colorado guided horse back riding in the Garden of the Gods Park.
1 & 2 hour horse back rides are available throughout the summer months and after Labor Day through Thursday before Memorial Weekend you can enjoy a perimeter ride (approx. 2.5 hrs.) around the outer edges of this beautiful 1400 acre park.


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Quiz: Rebecca Black or Rebekah Brooks?
Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor and a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said recently that the campaign to determine who will face Barack Obama in next year's election will come down to "two finalists," and that all of the candidates currently in the field are "serious contenders."
"Usually," Romney went on to say, "you have two people that end up battling it down the stretch. I don't know who they will be."
We don't, either. But we are heartened to hear that the whole marvelous bunch are going to be serious contenders, and have decided that — six months before the caucuses and primaries are set to begin — it is time to lay the odds on who those two finalists will be.
So here we've provided all the conceivable matchups, along with the likelihood that they will ever happen, as well as characterized what the issues and tenor of the campaigns might look like. We've included for your consideration all those who have announced their candidacies or are likely to do so, we've included a couple of complete wild cards (Jeb Bush, Rick Perry), and we've even allowed for a scenario in which the big guy from New Jersey is compelled to throw his substantial hat into the ring.
Okay, enough talk. Meet your next president, America!
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Odds of Romney winning the nomination: 5:2
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SILVER LAKE — A fire caused more than $50,000 in damage to a home Wednesday night.
No one was injured in the blaze. The man who lived in the house was displaced and planned to stay with friends.
Around 8:15 p.m. emergency dispatchers received multiple reports of a fire at house in the 2100 block of 105th Place SE.
Firefighters could see a large column of black smoke from several blocks away, said Leslie Hynes, spokeswoman for Snohomish County Fire District 1.
The back of the house was in flames when crews first arrived.
No one was inside when the fire started, Hynes said. Firefighters had the blaze under control in about 20 minutes.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Snohomish County Fire Marshal's Office.
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text: NEW YORK ( LowCards.com) -- More consumers are turning to their phones to take care of their banking needs, according to data from the Federal Reserve. A late-November study, Consumers and Mobile Financial Services, showed that 28% of mobile-phone owners have used mobile banking in the past 12 months, an increase from the 21% found in a December 2011 study. Another 10% of the mobile owners who are not using mobile banking plan to do so in the next year. Smartphone owners are even more likely to use mobile banking: 48% of smartphone owners used mobile banking in the past year compared with 42% in 2011. A notable finding in the study was that 49% of underbanked consumers say they have used mobile banking in the past 12 months. Of the mobile banking users, 87% use their phones to check their balance or a recent transaction, while 53% report using it to transfer money between accounts. The use of mobile phones to depositing checks is increasing dramatically: 21% of mobile banking customers have used their device for this purpose, twice the number found in 2011. Security is a major hurdle for greater consumer acceptance of mobile banking. Of the consumers not using mobile banking, nearly half (49%) said it was because of security concerns. The No. 1 reason given was that their banking requirements were being met without seeing a need to bank by phone. Mobile payments are not nearly as widespread as mobile banking. Only 15% of all mobile phone owners have made a mobile payment in the past 12 months. This was only a slight increase from the 12% in the 2011 study. Security concerns were the primary reason cited by mobile phone owners for not using mobile payments.


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"Top 10 list rejects cloud for clinical data
By George Miller
The debate continues over whether cloud platforms can secure highly sensitive clinical trial data and health records. But eWeek makes no bones about its position in a top 10 list of why it's a bad idea to store such records up there.
The 11-slide presentation encapsulates both well-known and less-well-known arguments for data storage via local services rather than an Internet-based, on-demand system. Among them: the highly sensitive nature of the data makes it a hacker target from the get-go.
Trust is a factor that runs throughout the list: trust in the cloud service provider that it can and will restrict access to the barest minimum, that it truly de-personalizes data, and even that it will still be in existence tomorrow.
A disclosure statement concerning source material explains the anti-cloud bias. But the list remains a useful one.
– here's the slide show
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What happens during prenatal visits varies depending on how far along you are in your pregnancy.
Schedule your first prenatal visit as soon as you think you are pregnant, even if you have confirmed your pregnancy with a home pregnancy test. Early and regular prenatal visits help your health care provider monitor your health and the growth of the fetus.
Your first prenatal visit will probably be scheduled sometime after your eighth week of pregnancy. Most health care providers won't schedule a visit any earlier unless you have a medical condition, have had problems with a pregnancy in the past, or have symptoms such as spotting or bleeding, stomach pain, or severe nausea and vomiting.1
Because your first visit will be one of your longest, allow plenty of time.
During the visit, you can expect your health care provider to do the following:2
If your pregnancy is healthy, your health care provider will set up a regular schedule for visits that will probably look about like this:2
As your pregnancy progresses, your prenatal visits will vary greatly. During most visits, you can expect your health care provider to do the following:
Several of these visits will include special tests to check for gestational diabetes (between 24 and 28 weeks)4 and other conditions, depending on your age and family history.
In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics released new vaccine guidelines for 2013, including a recommendation for pregnant women to receive a booster of whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine. The guidelines recommend the shot be given between 27 and 36 weeks of pregnancy.5
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HILTON HEAD, S.C.- The Brevard College men's tennis team couldn't come up with the win in a 7-2 loss to Dalton State College on Sunday March 2nd at the Spring TennisFest.
Brevard was able to find success during the No.3 doubles set with Nathan Sabate and George Finch winning 8-5 over Dalton's Nikolay Nikiforov and Adam Hornby. The other two doubles sets were unable to gain a point for the team after Dalton defeated them 8-3 and 8-0.
Despite losing in doubles play, David Taggart was able to gain Brevard's second point while competing against David Draghiceanu in number one singles. Taggart didn't allow Draghiceanu to come close during play and took him in a 6-3, 6-2 win.
Brevard will compete on March 5th against Misericordia University in their second match of the Spring TennisFest at 4:00 p.m.


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It's great to have a forecasting model...and for my favorite break, swellinfo is always right on when calling for good surfing conditions. However, I live close enough to the beach (believe me, I know how fortunate I am in this) that I can go and check on waves when conditions are forecast to be mediocre, and oftentimes, I can find a really nice fun wave when the forecast is for ankle-high nothing.
So, my question...could you brilliant folks at swellinfo, give us a vehicle to "pin" days when certain tide, swell, wind conditions warrant recording. That way, we could have a log of days when conditions provided good days to surf...and we could better forecast for ourselves days that are likely to be good even when models say otherwise.
I tried doing this on an excel spreadsheet, but it's too cumbersome to record all the tide data with wind conditions and swell direction etc.
Just a thought to make the site even more useful.
BTW, the new way in which the swell data is presented, and then the tide below it...makes the best, most user-friendly forecasting site I have ever used, and I look at a bunch!
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CICERO, IL -- LBP Manufacturing reports that it has teamed up with Automatic Brewers & Coffee Devices (Conshohocken, PA), which will co-pack LBP UpShot single-cup capsules.
LBP launched its "eco-friendly" UpShot Solution last September. The filter, compatible with Keurig and other single-serve brewers, is made from 100% polypropylene and so can be recycled with No. 5 plastics. Its mesh filter allows customers to see and smell the coffee or tea when they open the outer packaging. The filters are paired with a flexible production model that allows roasters of all sizes to produce the single-serve capsules for office coffee and foodservice companies, retailers and brands.
ABCD, founded 65 years ago by industry pioneer K. Cyrus Melikian, has been producing biodegradable paper PodPerfect espresso and filter coffee pods for more than 30 years. Through its collaboration with LBP, the company has launched a "single cupper" co-packing process, which involves grinding whole coffee beans, packing the grinds in individual UpShot filters, and sealing the ensembles.
"ABCD has been providing the original single-serve format with its PodPerfect line, and has an extensive history and quality reputation in the coffee industry," said UpShot Solution sales vice-president Bill Rickert.
ABCD owner Bob Melikian added that LBP's Upshot Solution made it easy for his company to introduce a business model for smaller roasters with premium beans and blends.
"We focus not only on providing a final product to the customer's exact specifications," Melikian explained, "but also on the fact the UpShot filter brews a better cup of coffee and has a strong sustainable message, both things our customers desire and value."
ABCD reported that its UpShot co-packing process already has helped Saxbys Coffee Inc. (Broomall, PA), a gourmet coffee shop franchise, enter the single-serve market, and also is proving beneficial to several smaller boutique coffee roasters.


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In his first game since missing the previous five because of a concussion, Lakers forward Pau Gasol came off the bench as a way to ease back into his conditioning. Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni publicly envisioned Gasol quickly taking back his starting power forward spot.
Not any more.
D'Antoni remains uncertain whether he will start Gasol or Earl Clark at power forward when the Lakers (17-22) visit the Toronto Raptors (14-25) on Sunday at Air Canada Centre.
"He's probably not going to like it," D'Antoni said if Gasol comes off the bench. "That's just a wild guess."
Gasol started in all 345 regular-season games with the Lakers before coming off the bench in the team's loss Thursday to Miami. Gasol came off the bench in three other games during his rookie season with the Memphis Grizzlies (2001-02).
"I've been a star starter my entire career," Gasol said. "I want to continue to be a star starter."
That might not happen.
Gasol has averaged a career-low 12.2 points on 42 percent shooting and 8.2 rebounds in 33 minutes. During Gasol's absence, Earl Clark had a breakout week because of his versatility, 6-foot-10 frame, energy and floor spacing.
"It might be good if Pau comes off the bench and have Earl in the starting lineup or we can go back and have Pau in the lineup," Lakers center Dwight Howard said. "It doesn't matter who is on the floor. They have to realize that whatever they bring to the table will help our team. They have to do it wholeheartedly and just play."
Gasol filled that description in the Lakers' loss Thursday to Miami, posting 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting, four rebounds and four assists in 25 minutes. Even with a reduced role, Gasol and Howard played the entire fourth quarter together.
"Starting does not matter," D'Antoni said. "Last 10 minutes of a game, last eight minutes, that matters."
Gasol agreed with that point.
"The best players should finish off games," he said. "That's the way it has to be. When the game is on the line, you want to be on the floor."
Help wanted
After having the heavy task of guarding the opposing team's top backcourt player, Kobe Bryant hopes he can do less on offense. But that hinges on a key variable.
"I'm going to need my teammates' help to free up offensively," Bryant said. "That's going to be tough for me to guard the top guy and come down the other end and have to go one-on-one every play."
D'Antoni, Howard and Steve Nash suggested some scenarios to make that happen. Among them: feature Howard more inside, Nash should take more shots and they should react to double teams off pick-and-rolls faster.
How many more games will Bryant have to take such a heavy load?
"How many more games do we have? Forty-three," D'Antoni said, jokingly. "Unless he dies before like an old mule. If we have to shoot him, we'll have to do it."
He said what?
Howard talked with Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak at length after Friday's practice. Howard wouldn't divulge specifics, but made one thing clear.
Said Howard: "We wouldn't have a negative conversation in front of you guys."


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The automobile license plates on Bonaire read "A Diver's Paradise," and there's no disputing the accuracy of this slogan. The highly accessible reefs that surround Bonaire are renowned for world-class diving. The island is home to one of the world's top underwater environments for certified and new divers.
Diving 24 Hours a Day, 365 Days a Year
The automobile license plates on Bonaire read "A Diver's Paradise," and there's no disputing the accuracy of this slogan. The highly accessible reefs that surround Bonaire are renowned for world-class diving. The island is home to one of the world's top underwater environments for certified and new divers.
Diving 24 Hours a Day, 365 Days a Year
Created through volcanic eruptions, the island is an underwater mountain with fringe reefs awaiting right off the beach of every hotel or any part of the island. The average boat trip to dive sites is less than 15-20 minutes, with the farthest reachable within an hour. Bonaire is also known for some of the best short diving in the Caribbean; divers can pick up their tanks, pack up their gear and drive off in search of yellow painted stones positioned all over the island which indicate a shore dive site. With only 12 inches of annual rainfall, water visibility is typically 100 feet or more. And because the sites are close to shore and the water is so calm, visitors can dive anytime, day or night, 365 days a year.
Over 86 Varied Dive Sites
Shaped like a boomerang, Bonaire is only 24 miles long and from three to seven miles wide. Less than a mile off the south coast is the uninhabited Klein Bonaire (Little Bonaire), which acts like a barrier reef, creating calm, leeward waters. The island's north coast, in contrast, is battered by strong waves that pound against the rocky coast.
Amazing reefs are found within the protected leeward side of the island where the reefs have a narrow, sloping terrace extending seaward with a drop-off at 33 feet, followed by a slope varying from 30 feet to a vertical wall of 100 to 200 feet deep. Excellent walk-in dive sites are "Thousand Steps" and further north at "Nukove."
Accessible by boat is "Alice in Wonderland," a double reef complex, separated by a sand channel and extending from Pt. Vierkant south toward Salt Pier. There are a number of good dive sites within this reef system, all marked by dive buoys. "Angel City," one of the most popular, is home to the 1,000-ton freighter "Hilma Hooker," Bonaire's most notorious shipwreck. Twenty-four reef sites with depths of 20 - 130 feet surround Klein Bonaire and all are easily accessible from shore. "Forest" , "Sharon's Serenity", "Hands Off" and "Keep Sake" are to name a few.
Snorkeling for Non-Divers
All of the attributes that make Bonaire a haven for diving apply to snorkeling. Right from their hotels, snorkelers can wade from the shore to the reefs and view an array of coral, including Elkhorn Barrier, Fire and Leaf corals, and a range of colorful fish, such as Redlip Blennies, Jewelfish and Parrot Fish. The reefs just off Klein Bonaire and Washington-Slagbaai National Park are popular sites for snorkeling too. All island dive shops rent snorkeling equipment and can provide instruction.
History of Environmentally Friendly Policies
With a far-sighted dedication to protecting their assets both under and above the water, the government of Bonaire was environmentally aware long before it became fashionable and Bonaire continues to be recognized as a role model for its sustainable tourism. In 1979 Bonaire designated all surrounding waters as a Marine Park, including a ban on spear fishing and coral collecting within the park, and later instituted permanent moorings to minimize anchor damage. A reef preservation program offers visiting divers free advanced and photo buoyancy control workshops through all island dive shops. As a result of these efforts, Bonaire was designated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as having the healthiest reefs in the Caribbean (January 2008), and divers and snorkelers will find the reefs with lush coral growth and over 364 species of fish and abundant fish population.
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Six, long-time, KPL employees will be retiring over the summer; August 31 is the last day for most of them. This is more staff than typically retire in a year, in fact, it is about three year's worth rolled into one summer.
Prior to 1990, KPL was a school district public library governed by the KPS School Board. Our employees were in the public school employee retirement system. When we became an independent district library in 1990, those employees remained in that system, while new employees joined a different one.
The state is offering a combination of incentives to those in the public school employee retirement system to retire by August 31. We have 18 eligible employees; six accepted the offer to retire this summer.
KPL has been a much better place for the combined decades of service from these six staff members. They answered reference questions, checked out materials, conducted programs, oversaw our personnel activities, coordinated meeting room usage, represented KPL in the community, helped chart the direction of the library.
We will miss them all, as colleagues and work-place friends, but we know they will continue to offer input - now it will be from the perspective of library patron rather than library staff member!
My heartfelt thanks goes to each one for their dedication to KPL and our patrons. My best wishes as they move on to the next chapter in life, hopefully with more time to read all those books that have passed through their hands over the years.
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Jay Z collaborates with Hublot Watches
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Jay Z is teaming up with luxury watch maker Hublot for a line of limited edition timepieces.
The collection is part of his holiday collaboration with Barneys New York called "A New York Holiday," which launches November 20th.
According to Forbes.com, the "Shawn Carter By Hublot" Classic Fusion watches will be available in two styles, black ceramic and 18-karat yellow gold. Hublot is planning to limit the number of black ceramic pieces to 250, while the 18-karat gold watches will only number 100.
With such scarcity, comes a high price tag. Each black timepiece will run $17,900. On the other hand, the gold version will cost $33,900.
Meantime, Jay Z is hitting the road overseas in support of his latest album Magna Carta Holy Grail. The tour kicks off on Thursday in Manchester, England, before making stops in London, Paris and Antwerp. The North American leg of his world tour will begin on November 30th.
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"A lot of these guys are making thousands of dollars a day," Krebs said.
Ratcliffe drew Krebs aside and they exchanged a few words as he passed out.
Mr. Greenhalge, thinking over the suggestion, sent for Krebs.
I must have wished to see Krebs, to hear him speak; to observe, perhaps, the effect on the audience.
"We'll get that fellow Krebs yet," said Grierson, wrathfully.
Once before I had visited Krebs in that lodging-house in Cambridge long ago with something of the same feelings.
Krebs substituted for this fallacy what may be called the doctrine of potentiality.
The girl was stranded without any money at Galantza, and Krebs brought her on here.
The exclamation poignantly voiced the esteem in which Krebs was held.
And even if she had been something to me, she never could be anything to Krebs.
Krebs (krěbz, krěps), Sir Hans Adolf. 1900-1981.
German-born British biochemist who discovered (1936) the Krebs cycle. He shared a 1953 Nobel Prize for investigations into metabolic processes.


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Wood Sorrel
What other names is Wood Sorrel known by?Acederilla, Aleluya, Alléluia, Cuckoo Bread, Cuckowes Meat, Fairy Bells, Green Sauce, Hallelujah, Herbe aux Coucous, Mountain Sorrel, Oseille des Bois, Oxalide des Bois, Oxalide Petite Oseille, Oxalis, Oxalis acetosella, Oxalis des Bois, Oxalis montana, Oxalis Petite Oseille, Pain-de-Coucou, Petite Oseille, Shamrock, Sour Trefoil, Stickwort, Stubwort, Surelle, Three-Leaved Grass, White Sorrel, Wood Sour.
What is Wood Sorrel?Wood sorrel is a plant. The whole flowering plant is used to make medicine.
Despite safety concerns, people take wood sorrel for liver and digestive disorders, a condition caused by lack of vitamin C (scurvy), wounds, and swollen gums.
Don't confuse wood sorrel with sorrel.
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Two awarded Rotary scholarships
University of South Carolina student Marin Mueller of Plano, Texas, and alumna Karly Marie Miller of Cincinnati, have each been awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Academic Year Scholarship for 2010 – 11.
Mueller, who will graduate in 2012 from South Carolina Honors College, is pursuing a double major in marketing and economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. She will use her scholarship to study in South Africa.
A May 2009 graduate of South Carolina Honors College, Miller earned a bachelor's degree in marine science and is a research assistant for Dr. Kirstin Dow in Carolina's geography department. She will study in Peru.
Mueller and Miller were sponsored by Rotary clubs in Rotary District 7770. Their awards bring the university's total of Rotary scholars to 79 since the Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs was established in 1994.
Rotary is the world's largest privately funded international scholarship program whose scholars further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries and geographical areas by encouraging person-to-person diplomacy. Academic-year scholarships, valued at $25,000, provide nine months of study abroad for students studying disciplines that address humanitarian needs, including disease prevention and treatment, maternal and child health and economic and community development.
Mueller, the daughter of Roger and Phyllis Mueller, is a graduate of West Plano Senior High School.
She is a McNair scholar, a Lieber scholar and National Merit finalist. Vice president of the university's Honors Council, Mueller is the active district officer for Omega Phi Alpha service sorority, co-president of the Roosevelt Institute and a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law society. Mueller, sponsored by the Columbia Rotary Club, will use her Rotary scholarship between her junior and senior years to study at the University of KwaZulu-Natal - Howard College Campus in Durban, South Africa.
Miller, the daughter of Karen M. Whitney and Bill Miller, is a graduate of Turpin High School in Cincinnati. A National Geographic scuba instructor for Columbia Scuba, Miller is the coordinator for an afterschool program, Science Quest, and is a tutor, outdoor educator and substitute teacher at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School. A recipient of the prestigious McNair Scholarship, Miller also received the Ocean Pals Scholarship and the S.C. Garden Club Babs Bernette & Hessie T. Morrah scholarships.
As an undergraduate, she was involved with SEAS (Students Engaged in Aquatic Science) and SAGE (Students Allied for a Greener Earth). She also received the S.C. Wildlife Federation Conservation Education Award.
Mueller, who was sponsored by the Lexington Rotary Club, will study at the Universidad Pontificia Catolica del Peru in Lima.
Rotary candidates were supported by the university's Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs. To learn more about national fellowships and competitions and view a complete list of the university's Rotary scholars, visit www.sc.edu/ofsp.


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I'm in Canada right now and learning PHP. I'm at the point where I'm comfortable in writing it, but obviously still got a lot to learn. So my question is: Will it be hard to find a job hiring PHP developers or is it better to learn ASP.net, because the market seems to be a lot bigger (asp.net requirements appears more on job searches).
It depends where you want your career to lead you to. If you want to be a open source developer, PHP is the way to go... but if you're more worried about earning money and prefer corporate life, .NET should be your choice. They get paid more and these programmers are in major companies (big corporations tend to trust what they have to pay for ). A big company also means a lot of possibilities to grow and reach higher positions in the organization.
The number of PHP freelance developers is much higher and although being a freelance has its ups and downs they have more freedom to choose the type of project they want to work in (or not, if you're low of cash :D)
Just like to point out, being an Open Source Developer is language independent. Can have an open source project using ASP.NET just as you can with PHP. I recommend learning both. Learn as much as you can, do not stay with just one language, system, platform, etc. The more you know the more value you have for a potential employer.
You're quite right, Logic... but the big majority of open source developers use PHP and MySQL because they're free. It is more rare to find a .NET open source developer (of course, they do exist)
Thanks for responding guys,
I think it obviously won't hurt to learn more than one language. While I learned php in school and mostly self taught, is it possible to self learn asp.net, and which language should I learn? C#?
Of course you can self-teach yourself .NET and the platform. C# is a good enough language to start out with, it is very similar to PHP aside from key differences. C# is statically typed, meaning a variable can only hold data of one type. Variable defined as a "string" can only ever hold a "string" value. Both PHP and C# share the heritage with C/C++ so they share a common ground basic syntax wise.
Microsoft offers a huge list of freely available tools to develop .NET applications, just as free as PHP and MySQL. Do not fall into that misconception that you have to pay money for .NET. And no, you are not forced to use Windows. The Mono Project is making big strides in bringing the .NET platform to other systems.
Believe it or not, but C# is an open standard and if I remember correctly so is ASP.NET. I also remember ASP.NET MVC being open source. There is also a good sized open source .NET community, even though they are not represented well in the usual places (Github). CodePlex has a ton of great open source .NET projects and in my day to day work as a .NET developer I use open-source tools regularly.
.NET Developers do tend to get paid more, but again I would disagree that .NET is a "big company" choice. I've worked with many small clients who use .NET and even though a lot of people cite things like the added cost with Windows and Microsoft for any business the initial investment is peanuts.
For me, the reason .NET is taking off fast at the moment is because as a language and as a tool C# mops the floor with both Java and PHP.
Although I'd agree with you, I think the market mainly decides how many freelancers there are. Being a .NET developer I know plenty of ASP.NET freelancers, but I'd say that with growing languages like Python there are few jobs out there, but loads of freelancers who choose to use Python (and won't work full-time because the money is better). As most of the work out there is still PHP there will be a lot of jobs out there, as well as a lot of legacy work.
molona,is this answer also applicable in India. please help me friend by telling it.
This thread is valid for any country
You answered yourself, harry. It depends on the problem at hand as well as other variables, such as if the company favours a particular enviroment more than other, or the integration with other software. I don't have any preferences between PHP or .NET but if I'm dealing with a Microsoft enviroment where my little program needs to integrate with Microsoft Office or any Microsoft product, using .NET could make my life easier. Else, I tend to use PHP because I use it more often and I feel more comfortable with it.
This web can asnwer the question better than I can http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html
Learn both. I started in PHP as a hobby in high school, and then had various languages taught in college (Java, VB 6, VB.NET, C, C++). I then went on countless interviews and during the process of the interview (that would be my first job), it quickly hit me, they were a .NET shop and I thought all along they were a PHP shop (I screwed up, and confused two companies). Needless to say, it didn't matter in the end. I could think logically, I could solve problems, and I could answer their questions with the confidence they expected.
I was hired, and spent weeks learning C# (their own internal process required you to go through this training), and I successfully have been utilizing the .NET framework for the past 7 years. I still do PHP work on the side as well.
Needless to say, the question isn't which language is better, the question you should ask yourself, is am I competent at my job? Can I think logically, can I perform my duties, ask the right questions, etc. Language is purely syntax, it won't help you figure out how to solve a problem, it is just a mechanism you use to solve the problem.
Php is only used for website development whereas .net can be used for software development as well.
i want to be a programmer but i don't know want kind of language i'm going to study.. please give me some advice..
To be a programmer, you don't need to pick out a certain language. You need to learn to think logically and to do problem solving. That is a programmer. What language you use to solve a problem is just a tool in your tool belt that you can pick up along the way. I've picked up several languages through my time being a programmer.
I started in Turbo Pascal, then went to C++, then self taught myself PHP, then went to C, VB.NET, Java, and eventually C#.
Do I use all of these languages? No. Is it nice to have a background in all of them? Yes. Do the languages themselves help me do my job? Not really. As the first part of my job is to analyze the problem, design a solution, then implement said solution (in the language that I am either given; be it, the program I am fixing is already in a specific language, or the client requests a specific language).
Php Is Open source But, Asp.net Is Not a Open Source.
That is true, but doesn't paint an entire picture. .NET is under a shared source license, meaning you can use it for debugging purposes only. The take away, is you do have access to the source code.
On 3 October 2007, Microsoft announced that much of the source code for the .NET Framework Base Class Library (including ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Windows Presentation Foundation) was to have been made available with the final release of Visual Studio 2008 towards the end of 2007 under the shared source Microsoft Reference License.[1] The source code for other libraries including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Language Integrated Query (LINQ) were to be added in future releases. Being released under the non-open source Microsoft Reference License means this source code is made available for debugging purpose only, primarily to support integrated debugging of the BCL in Visual Studio.
And why does it matter if it is open source or not? Are you going to contribute back to the developers with new source code? Bug fixes? Or are you one of the many people that equate "open source" to the meaning of "free as in free beer"? If that is the case, then you completely miss the point of open source.
.NET/ASP.NET/Whatever.NET is just as free as in free beer as PHP. You don't have to pay a cent to Microsoft to use .NET. You don't even have to pay to use Visual Studio. Can use an alternate client or use the freely given Visual Studio Express. Don't have Windows? Then use Mono with a .NET for Linux/Unix.


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How can the Spouse help with Conception After Reversal
Is there anyway the Spouse can contribute when trying to have a Bub after Tubal Reversal?
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Thank you for your question. Many women go on to successfully conceive after a tubal reversal. However, it can take longer because of the tubal reversal.
Please can I ask how long you have been trying to conceive since the tubal reversal? Have your partner's fertility levels ever been checked?
A healthy diet is important for both men and women when you are trying to conceive. In particularly, food which is rich in folic acid improves the quality of a man's food. Folic acid is found naturally in: orange juice, cereals and leafy greens. It can also be taken in a supplement form. Eating enough foods containing Zinc (such as eggs, wholegrain cereals and meat) also helps with sperm quality. A man who is overweight is more likely to have poor quality sperm.
It is also best for your partner to avoid alcohol (or drink only a few units a week) and avoid smoking. Again, both of these can affect the quality of the sperm and a man's sperm count.
It is important for both you and your partner to eliminate as much stress as possible from your lives when trying for a baby. Stress can have an impact on a man's sperm.
You should try to have sex at least every other day when you are trying to conceive. The missionary position is good position to use when you are trying for a baby.
I am not aware of any additional changes your partner can make specifically related to trying to conceive after your tubal reversal.
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Hello ladies!
I have been on a vegetarian diet for the past 4 years, and I stopped the pill 11 months ago after using it for 8 years.
Right now my chin and neck are covered with acne (I never had issues with acne before), and my billings counselor told me that it could have something to do with a possible overproduction of testosterone.
Has anyone encountered this problem? Should I be taking any supplement or increase the consumption of certain food before pregnancy?
My biggest concern is to be as healthy as possible before I get pregnant, so my bub won't have any complications from my diet.
Thank you very much!
6th September 2014 12:43 AM #2
Hi alemora,
Thanks for your post.
You may find this previous thread about being a vegetarian when pregnant helpful. It is possible to eat a healthy vegetarian diet during pregnancy but you may find you need to plan your meals more carefully during this time. Please also have a read of this article on preconception care for ways that you can prepare your body before you conceive.
When did you start suffering with acne? Straight after coming off the pill or more recently? Have you spoken to your doctor about this?
With warm wishes,
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Hi LJ
Thank you for your reply. I'll make sure to read all the info!
I got off the pill on October 2013, and my acne started on February 2014 and it is getting worse everyday. My dermatologist was only interested in prescribing me antibiotics, she didn't care much about the cause
6th September 2014 02:46 AM #4
Typically women may experience acne/ an increase in acne for the first 3-4 months on coming off the pill. However, what you describe is much longer. As you say it is getting worse I would see your general doctor about this.
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On Saturday, March 5 riders unleashed their pipe and slopestyle skills in Mammoth's Unboud Terrain Park for the final Paul Mitchell Progression Session of the season. Many of snowboarding's "A" listers were in attendance to compete for their share of the $200,000 prize purse! US Olympic Team members Louie Vito, Greg Bretz, Kelly Clark and Gretchen Bleiler were among a few.
Local favorite Chaz Guldemond (Reno, NV) and Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) put together incredible slopestyle runs to win the Paul Mitchell Progression Session, while Matt Ladley (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Kelly Clark (Mt. Snow, VT) took home win's in pipe.
In the men's competition, Spencer Shaw (Stratton Mountain, VT) led until Chaz Guldemond (Reno, NV) swooped in for the win during the last run of the competition. Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) led the women's competition out of the gate, throwing a back 3 that set her apart from the group of women competitors. Her second run was a victory lap, putting together another backside 3 and some huge airs.
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Mammoth Mountain, CA – Mar. 5, 2011
1. Chaz Guldemond, Reno, NV, 28.00
2. Spencer Shaw, Stratton Mountain, VT, 26.10
3. Brett Esser, Silverthorne, CO, 24.40
4. Ryan Hryckiewicz, Morgan, VT, 23.50
5. Christopher Tierney, Bondville, VT, 22.10
6. Wylie Adams, Carbondale, CO, 21.00
7. Ryan Stassel, Anchorage, 24.40
8. Caden Michnal, Kalispell, MT, 19.70
9. Ian Hart, Lexington, MA, 19.50
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12. Seth Hill, Breckenridge, CO, 18.00
13. Jd Dennis, Bend, OR, 17.00
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6. Caty O'Connor, Auburn, CA, 12.40
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