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Today, children are taught that carbon dioxide is a poison. No — it is odorless, colorless, and non-toxic. We drink it in fizzy drinks and lager, and it puts the rise in our daily bread. Most importantly, it is one of the most important components of all life — photosynthesis converts CO2 into oxygen and carbon, life’s main building blocks. As long as plants have sufficient water and nutrients, their growth is enhanced by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide. CO2 is the free airborne fertilizer of the world.
Many experiments prove this fact of a carbon-rich atmosphere, experiments corroborated by millions of farmers across the world who cash in on the use of enhanced carbon dioxide in their greenhouses. Many even burn fossil fuel to boost production. Carbon dioxide plays a vital part in providing the 18 billion daily meals that do their best to feed the growing number of people across the world. The once-starving people of parts of the Sahel and Sahara deserts have returned to farm their lands, thanks to the shade of trees that now grow on some 300,000 square kilometers of their tribal lands, thanks in great part to rising levels of carbon dioxide.
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Three of her four sons and her husband will soon deploy to war-torn Afghanistan while her fourth and oldest son recuperates at home from injuries he suffered during his last tour of duty.
"All I can do is stand back and be supportive and let them know that I'm there," Hoagland told ABCNews.com.
The South Carolina family has taken patriotism to a whole new level.National Guard Staff Sgt. Chris Hoagland, 44, is a 23-year-veteran. He is currently at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin with step-sons and fellow guardsmen Spc. Justin Moss, 23, and Spc. Bradley Moss, 22. The three are expected to deploy to Afghanistan around the first of the year.
They are expecting to be joined in Afghanistan by youngest brother Army Pvt. Clayton Moss, 20, by March. Chris Hoagland, Justin and Bradley will deploy together and work in engineering and patrols. Clayton, who returned home from Iraq about four weeks ago, will be on combat duty.
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Barnes and Noble Booksellers are partnering with the Friends of the Southeast Branch Library for a Bookfair with Special events in the store's St. Augustine location, 1930 U. S. 1 South during the weekend of December 11,12, and 13. Residents from the St. Augustine Shores community will volunteer their time and talents during the bookfair for shoppers' enjoyment.
On Saturday December 12:
9:30am - 10:00am - Storytime with Alyssa Gilbert, Youth Services Librarian, S.E. Branch Library
10:00am - 10:30am - Storytime with Jo Booth, Shores resident
2:00pm - 4:00pm - Background Music Time with Shores resident and former concert pianist, Marilyn Boren
Barnes and Noble will donate a percentage of all sales for the benefit of the Southeast Branch Library's programs and services.when patrons present the cashier with the special voucher upon purchase of any item anywhere in the store including the cafe. For those patrons who prefer to buy a book and donate it directly to the Southeast Branch Library's permanent collection, Barnes and Noble is providing a display table for this purpose with many of the library's wishlist books. Buyers may select any book from the display table and take it to the cashier. Upon payment, the buyer should tell the cashier that the book is a donation for the Southeast Branch Library. collection. The cashier will then place it in the box designated for this purpose and Barnes and Noble will arrange for the Southeast Branch Library to get it. Vouchers are attached and available at the library's circulation desk and in the FOLSE Book shop located in the library's lobby. For information please call (904) 827- 6900.
On Saturday December 12:
9:30am - 10:00am - Storytime with Alyssa Gilbert, Youth Services Librarian, S.E. Branch Library
10:00am - 10:30am - Storytime with Jo Booth, Shores resident
2:00pm - 4:00pm - Background Music Time with Shores resident and former concert pianist, Marilyn Boren
Barnes and Noble will donate a percentage of all sales for the benefit of the Southeast Branch Library's programs and services.when patrons present the cashier with the special voucher upon purchase of any item anywhere in the store including the cafe. For those patrons who prefer to buy a book and donate it directly to the Southeast Branch Library's permanent collection, Barnes and Noble is providing a display table for this purpose with many of the library's wishlist books. Buyers may select any book from the display table and take it to the cashier. Upon payment, the buyer should tell the cashier that the book is a donation for the Southeast Branch Library. collection. The cashier will then place it in the box designated for this purpose and Barnes and Noble will arrange for the Southeast Branch Library to get it. Vouchers are attached and available at the library's circulation desk and in the FOLSE Book shop located in the library's lobby. For information please call (904) 827- 6900.
The "Let's Say Thanks" website lets you send a free personalized postcard to deployed Servicemembers. What's more, the site has a variety of free cards to choose from. The Xerox Corp. will print the cards at no cost to the participant. The cards will then be sent to U.S. military personnel stationed overseas. To participate in this endeavor and thank our Soldiers, visit the Let's Say Thanks website.Find ways to support and honor U.S. military servicemembers and veterans who protect our security and freedom. Visit the Military.com Support our Troops webpage.
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For all the talk of Sarah Palin being a rube, just a backward waif from Wasilla, Alaska, few seem to appreciate that she, more than any other rumored 2012 Republican nominee, has mastered the cutting edge art of e-Campaigning simply by being herself and employing the very latest in e-Tech to great effect.
Granted, she currently has star power the others don't enjoy, but while Huckabee has a TV show, Romney and others stroll halfway down Olympus to write an oped for the Wall Street Journal once in a while, Palin is using a fan blog, Facebook and Twitter to feed and grow her significant influence across the Right on-line. And the fact is, she was doing it even before her best selling book and subsequent tour.
With little more than that, no hundred thousand dollar DC e-consultants in tow, Sarah Palin has made herself into Obama's chief antagonist from the Right. Talk about stripping away the media filter, or going over the media's heads? Every time Obama launches another new initiative, there is Sarah Palin on her Facebook page trying to knock it down.
Newt probably hasn't even gotten around to scheduling his latest Sunday news show appearance on some new Obama plan and Palin has already made her opposition known in straight-forward words almost before the New York Times can tell us how wonderful Obama's latest idea sure is.
But she's the alleged unqualified rube? I'm not so sure. I've observed Gingrich use Twitter to tweet what a grand time he's having over dinner with James Carville, much to the chagrin of the Republican base. Meanwhile, nearly every Palin tweet or Facebook post is targeted to speak to the very people reading there, giving them precisely what they want to read, or hear in promotional, or political terms.
The smartest people in the room tend to be early adapters. More than that, they tend to be those that master and successfully exploit the latest of the greatest, the newest of the new. Sarah Palin is the unchallenged, though not unopposed, champion in that regard on the Right for now.
It's going to take far more than the latest obsessed rant from Andrew Sullivan, or Keith Olbermann, to convince me Palin is someone who doesn't know what she's doing. And whatever it is she's doing, it seems to work and not cost her very much. Only a dumb, or out of step politician, or pundit would criticize that, let alone not acknowledge it as seems to be the case with the media and her opponents.
So, just who really are the rubes in all this? Given our New Media age, it certainly isn't looking like Sarah Palin is one.
Here’s a handy government web site where you can request copies of military veterans records: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/index.htmlI copied the below info from the web site:eVetRecs:
Request Copies of Military Personnel RecordsWelcome to our online military personnel records request system.
Use our system to create a customized order form to request information from your, or your relative's, military personnel records. You may use this system if you are:
- A military veteran, or
- Next of kin of a deceased, former member of the military
- The next of kin can be any of the following: surviving spouse that has not remarried, father, mother, son, daughter, sister, or brother.
If you are not the veteran or next of kin, you must complete the Standard Form 180 (SF 180). See Access to Military Records by the General Public for more details.
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