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Would you believe that most Jews, including Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews, don't fully observe the High Holy Days?
I don't mean the basic rituals, like going to synagogue, reciting the prayers, listening to the shofar and the rabbi's sermons, having the holiday meals and saying the blessings. Most Jews do all that.
And I also don't mean the spiritual element, like using this time of year to contemplate our mortality, reflect on the purpose of our lives, ask God for forgiveness and resolve to become better people and better Jews in the coming year.
No, what I mean is that most of us neglect what is arguably the most difficult and meaningful ritual at this time of year: Going to the people we've hurt, recognizing our hurtful actions and asking for their forgiveness.
This can be awkward and embarrassing, but our Jewish tradition has given us the perfect little window to help make this happen.
It's called the month of Elul, a time for self-examination and repentance that culminates during the High Holy Days. As the month of Elul comes to a close and we begin the daily selichot (prayers of forgiveness), the mood of repentance becomes more urgent.
This is the moment we are about to enter right now: The zero hour of repentance — the Days of Awe before the Day of Atonement when one of our key obligations is to muster our courage and humility, go to someone we have wronged and say "I'm sorry, I messed up, please forgive me."
The problem, of course, is that while we routinely do this with God, it's a lot less comfortable to do it with our fellow humans.
But the other, more acute, problem is that our Jewish faith has this little wrinkle: God cannot forgive us for the sins we've committed against another person until we have first obtained forgiveness from that person.
Theoretically, this means a rabbi can tell you that until you obtain the forgiveness of those you have wronged, it's useless to come to synagogue on Yom Kippur and ask God for His forgiveness — because He can't give it to you.
If a rabbi did that, who would show up to the big show?
Most rabbis challenge us at this time of year to engage in things like more mitzvahs, more tikkun olam, more tzedakah, more Jewish learning and more spiritual connection. But in truth, if they really wanted to challenge us and encourage personal transformation, they'd pick the one mitzvah that requires the biggest emotional sacrifice: Having to suck it up in front of someone you've hurt and ask for their forgiveness.
To his credit, the ultra-Orthodox writer Jonathan Rosenblum, in an article from a few years ago, took his own denomination to task on this subject:
"Too often we arrive at Rosh Hashanah feeling woefully unprepared and wondering what happened to Elul. As Kol Nidre approaches, we rush around to those nearest and dearest to us to seek their forgiveness. But our requests lack the specificity that would indicate that we have given any serious thought to how we have wronged the particular loved one whose forgiveness is sought. Nor are our ritual assurances that we forgive with a whole heart worth very much."
For too many of us, the modern-day excitement and pageantry of the High Holy Days — the marquee events, the glamorous sermons, the fancy clothes, the elaborate meals — have eclipsed the essential ritual, the one that deals with the pain we inflict on each other.
If I forget to pray one day, I've hurt no one except maybe for God, and I know He'll forgive me. But if I offend, deceive, mock or dishonor another person, I've introduced real human pain into this world. And by hurting one of His children, I've also hurt God— who must surely be spending the holidays waiting for us to forgive each other.
I count myself in the group that God has been waiting for. I've done the basic High Holy Day rituals and recited the prayers asking God for His forgiveness. But when it came time to recognize my mistakes and ask people for their forgiveness, I've chickened out and used the classic cop-out: "If I did anything to hurt you, please forgive me."
Like Rosenblum explains, "without a real chesbon hanefesh, some form of regular spiritual diary — of both the positive and negative — we are in no position to ask Hashem or our fellow man for forgiveness. Where there is no recognition of our failures, there can be no genuine regret, which is the starting point of teshuvah [repentance or return]."
On a more romantic level, Rabbi David Aaron of Jerusalem, in a recent article, reflected on the intimacy of forgiveness:
"The best time to remember your mistakes and wrongdoings and ask forgiveness of your beloved is in moments of love. The contrast between the bad times that were and the good time that is happening right now generates even greater feelings of love and appreciation."
Imagine, then, the love and appreciation that would filter through our community this year if the sound of the shofar at Rosh Hashanah became our clarion call to seek out those we have wronged — whether it be our spouse, sibling, mother, father, child, friend, neighbor, colleague, teacher, client, business partner, supplier or stranger — and, with love and courage, admit our mistakes and ask for their forgiveness.
By returning to each other and paying our spiritual dues, we would repair our souls, enter the Day of Atonement with cleaner hands, reduce the amount of pain in our little worlds and allow God the chance to forgive us.
Not a bad way to kick off a new year.
David Suissa, an advertising executive, is founder of OLAM magazine and Ads4Israel.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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My good friend, Julia O'Malley-Keyes, is a world-renowned and well-respected artist who has spent much of her time of late here in Panama studying and painting some of the most beautiful scenes one may ever see short of personally seeing these Pollera Dancers live and in all of their beautiful finery and intricate traditional gowns. These paintings and prints look life-like and are absolutely breath-taking in their attention to detail.
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during the raid at a pub in a central Rome square two weeks ago.
"I don't really want to talk about
it," he said, sitting in a wheelchair. "My leg is getting a lot
better now and that's the main thing."
Mills' femoral artery was gashed on his
right thigh, and Dr Piergiorgio Cao said that he risked losing his life had he
not been operated on immediately.
Mills was flying back to London later Monday
on a private medical flight provided by his insurance carrier.
Mills also suffered a cut to his scalp.
"It's not too bad," he said.
"Once my hair grows back it will be alright."
Dr Piergiorgio Cao said Mills suffered
"massive bleeding" from the thigh wound.
"It was a complete repair of the
artery without any prosthetic or artificial material, which is very important,
because these kind of stab wounds have a danger of infections," Cao said.
"So far he has no infection and the wound appears very clean, so I'm very
optimistic about a very quick, full recovery."
Mills said he will remain a travelling
football fan, and was hoping to return to Tottenham's White Hart Lane ground
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this state," Mills added. "But it shouldn't be too long hopefully and
I'll be back."
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Mercedes smile again as Rosberg completes 148 laps
Nico Rosberg completed a successful third day of pre-season testing for Mercedes AMG today in Jerez, Spain. Following a difficult start to the week with limited mileage, Nico was today able to complete a total of 655 km - over two race distances - to make good progress through the team's test items.
Nico Rosberg's work today focused on reliability running to put mileage on the car and aerodynamic evaluations. He ran the medium and hard compounds throughout the day, setting his fastest time on the medium tyres. He evaluated a new front wing design this morning and ran with the new parts throughout the afternoon.
His total number of laps exceeded the highest single-day total from last year's pre-season test in Jerez (132 laps for Michael Schumacher on 8 February 2012 in the 2011 car).
The day ended with some pit-stop practice during the final hour of the session. Lewis Hamilton will complete the fourth and final day of the test tomorrow.
Nico Rosberg:
"I'm very happy with today and I think it was probably a personal record for me to do almost 150 laps. I've never been so well prepared physically as I am this season; I feel on top form and it was no problem to complete the programme. To drive the distance from Silverstone to Spa in one day with no problems whatsoever is a fantastic achievement from the team. It really made up for the last two days and put a smile on everybody's face. In terms of driving the car, I have a good feeling, I can push it and feel comfortable - but obviously we still have plenty of work to do to continue improving."
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Jordan Zimmermann was humming along into the seventh inning today, having struck out six and retired 12 in a row and 13 of 14 from the first through the fifth. The hard-throwing right-hander had issued a leadoff single to Todd Helton to start what would be his final inning, but he got all-star shortstop Troy Tulotwitzki to popout and didn't appear to be tiring.
Manager Davey Johnson, though, wasn't about to take any chances, pulling Zimmermann after 88 pitches and with a one-run lead. Zimmermann had pitched too well on this hot afternoon to be saddled potentially with a loss, and Johnson figured the best chance to preserve a victory for him was to hand the ball to his reliable bullpen.
"You couldn't ask for anything more after what he has went through the last year," Johnson said, referring to Zimmermann's recovery process from ligament replacement surgery nearly two years ago. "A pitcher who pitches this great, I'm not even giving him a chance to even come close to losing it. I've got a strong bullpen, and I've got all the confidence in the world in them."
The combination of Ryan Mattheus, all-star Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen made good on their manager's intentions and finished off Zimmermann's sixth win of the season. Zimmerman's record by all accounts could be much better than 6-7, with an ERA of 2.51 in five no-decisions, two of which he had been in line to win.
Entering today, Zimmerman's run support of 2.98 per game was the third lowest in the National League, and in five of his losses, the Nationals scored two runs or fewer. The most glaring recent example came against the Los Angeles Angels on June 29, when he went eight innings and allowed one run on four hits. Washington lost, 1-0.
Working with an innings limit this season because of Tommy John surgery, Zimmermann has 14 quality starts this season, and his club-record 11 consecutive quality starts matches Atlanta all-star Jair Jurrjens for the longest such streak in the major leagues.
"Obviously next year he's capable of throwing 120 pitches and 200 innings," Johnson said.
For now, Zimmermann is content to follow the club's mandate to restrict his innings to roughly 160. So far it's worked wonders, allowing Zimmermann to sport a 2.16 ERA since the beginning of May. That's the fourth-best mark in the NL and seventh in the majors. Entering yesterday, Zimmermann had allowed three homers and a .227 batting average with a 3.9 to 1 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 12 starts dating from May 1.
With the Nationals' plan for him falling into place, Zimmermann wasn't about to complain when asked about being removed from today's game.
"The situation was right to bring in Mattheus," Zimmermann said. "I understand every decision [Johnson] makes. He said, 'I think you've got a lot left in the tank, but we're going to go the bullpen here,' and I'm good with that, and it all worked out."


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Why parents become weekend warriors during the summer
While swimming and BBQing this past Sunday with friends, we had a conversation about the small handful of days left in the Maine summer. Before I knew it my last few precious weekends were filled up with logistics, long drives and family activities. I tend to be a curmudgeon when it comes to planning […]
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Unless you aren't paying attention you probably saw this little piece about the city taking complaints over Saturday Night's Rise Above Fest on the Bangor Waterfront. And unless you're deaf, you probably heard it. You probably felt the bass rattle your windows, the explosions scare your dogs and you were probably reluctant to sleep with your […]
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Though perhaps not the most enlightening or deep conversations I have all day, the talks I have with my son each morning are some of the most fun (and sometimes frustrating) ones I have all day. When waking up in the morning Me: Good morning Tristan. Did you have a good nights sleep. Tristan: No, No daddy. Want […]


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Now, that has made my morning!! It thrills me when anyone appreciates, my art; but even more so when that person is one I hold dear to my heart! There are two of these persons in Western Australia! Thanks for telling me this dear one!
Jill dear, one day I hope you will see our girl smiling at the sight of your orbs. It is a sight to behold! I am partial to your orbs too but she can outgrin me :-)
Happy I could play a part in making you smile, L! Your smiley faces seem to be progressive; in other words, one could add "etc" at the end. But of course! It was made by ETC, etc! Glad you enjoyed these dear one..... :-)))))))))))))))))))))
Wowzer.... Glow in the dark orbs.... Thank you, thank you.... You really know how to make an orb lover smile.... Sigh... You're the bestest, Good Buddy.... :) :)) :)) :)))) :))))) :))))))
You are very welcome, Jo. They do have a Spring feel to them!
Spring hasn't sprung yet, but, these beautiful pastel orbs gives off the feel that it's nearer!! Thanks Jill, for the preview!! :)


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Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC4266, a 4-port Power over Ethernet (PoE) controller for Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) required to provide IEEE 802.3at (25.5W) or proprietary higher power levels. Next-generation PoE applications call for more power to support demanding features, while increasing power efficiency in an effort to be more "green" and reduce costs. The LTC4266 provides up to 100W over 4-pair Ethernet cabling and is fully compliant with the new IEEE 802.3at PoE+ standard and backward compatible with the prior IEEE 802.3af PoE standard. To help conserve power, the LTC4266 delivers the lowest-in-industry heat dissipation by using low RDS(ON) MOSFETs and 0.25Ohm sense resistors, eliminating the need for expensive heat sinks and providing a more robust PSE solution.
The LTC4266 is suitable for a wide variety of PSE applications, including next-generation switches, routers, hubs and midspans. Users will appreciate the extremely low power dissipation which makes thermal design significantly easier than when designing with PSEs that integrate more fragile, normally higher RDS(ON), MOSFETs. Up to four independent PSE channels are available. IEEE 802.3at powered devices (PDs) can request up to 25.5W of power by responding to 2-event classification from the LTC4266, confirming that the PD is indeed a high power device. PD discovery is accomplished using a proprietary dual-mode, four point detection mechanism that ensures the best immunity from false PD detection. Advanced power management also includes prioritized fast shutdown, 14.5-bit per-port voltage and current readback, 8-bit programmable current limits and 7-bit programmable overload current limits. A 1MHz I2C interface allows a host controller to digitally configure the IC or query port readings.
The LTC4266 is offered in commercial and industrial temperature grades, and is available in RoHS-compliant 5mm x 7mm QFN-38 or SSOP-36 packages. The LTC4266 is priced starting at $6.95 each in 1,000 piece quantities and is available today in production quantities. The LTC4266 provides an upgrade path from Linear's existing PSE controllers, including the IEEE 802.3af pin-compatible LTC4258 or LTC4259A, and is supported with years of technical experience in PoE circuit design for a smooth transition to the new PoE+ standard.
Summary of Features: LTC4266
• Four Independent PSE Channels
• Compliant with IEEE 802.3at Type 1 and 2
• 130mW/port at 600mA
• Advanced Power Management
o 8-Bit Programmable Current Limit (ILIM)
o 7-Bit Programmable Overload Current Limit (ICUT)
o Fast Shutdown of Preselected Ports
o 14.5-Bit Port Current/Voltage Monitoring
o 2-Event Classification
• Very High Reliability 4 Point PD Detection:
o 2-Point Forced Voltage
o 2-Point Forced Current
• High Capacitance Legacy Device Detection
• LTC4259A-1 and LTC4258 Pin-Software-Compatible
• Supports 2-Pair & 4-Pair Output Power
• 1 MHz I-2C Compatible Serial Control Interface
• Midspan Backoff Timer
• Supports Proprietary Very High Power up to 100W
• Available in 38-Pin 5mm x 7mm QFN & 36-Pin SSOP Packages
About Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of high performance linear integrated circuits, was founded in 1981, became a public company in 1986 and joined the S&P 500 index of major public companies in 2000. Linear Technology products include high performance amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, DC-DC converters, battery chargers, data converters, communications interface circuits, RF signal conditioning circuits, uModule products, and many other analog functions. Applications for Linear Technology's high performance circuits include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products such as optical switches, notebook and desktop computers, computer peripherals, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, security monitoring devices, high-end consumer products such as digital cameras and MP3 players, complex medical devices, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems.
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Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), one of NSSGA's "Target 19," visited CalPortland's operation in Las Vegas at the invitation of Steve Regis, senior vice president, Corporate Services. (Titus is 2nd from left.)
Members of Congress will be home for two more weeks on their summer congressional recess. You still have time to take them on a tour of your facilities so you can drive home the message that they need to reach a consensus and pass a new highway bill in 2014.
Take this opportunity to meet with YOUR members of Congress! CalPortland, CEMEX, Granite Construction, Kolberg-Pioneer, Lehigh Hanson, Oldcastle, Rogers Group and Vulcan as well as the Illinois, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma state aggregates associations, in conjunction with coalitions of producers in their states, have either set/held meetings or are issuing invitations for facility tours.
"Driving It Home 2013" is a crucial component in the effort to apply pressure on Congress to pass a surface transportation reauthorization bill before the expiration of the current law on Sept. 30, 2014. Make a difference NOW by taking the time to further educate members of Congress on transportation and other aggregates-specific issues by holding meetings with and tours for them. Invite your elected officials and get a visit on their schedules!
"Target 19" is a key part of Driving It Home 2013. There are 19 new members on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and there still are six for whom we do not have a meeting or tour scheduled (see list below). Our goal is to get each of them out to at least one aggregates industry facility by the end of the summer.
NSSGA is working with several member companies that have operations in these districts on plans for congressional visits this summer. Just because one company already has invited an elected official to their site does not mean that you can't too, or that you can't partner with your industry colleagues! Be sure to let NSSGA know once you have meetings scheduled. Afterwards, please send any photos and information you gather from your tours.
Visits to local operations allow lawmakers to meet large numbers of their constituents, something they always welcome and that builds legislative good will. Visits can help you develop relationships with your lawmakers and promote aggregates industry issues. Learn the "do's and don'ts" of hosting a successful tour here.
Help us educate Congress in general and the 19 new members of the T&I Committee in particular as we lay the foundation for the future!
Reach out to the following six yet to be scheduled.
- Calif.- 44 Reli. Janice Hahn (D)
- Ind.- 7 Reli. Andre Carson (D)
- Minn.- 8 Reli. Rick Nolan (D)
- Mont.- (at large) Reli. Steve Daines (R)
- N.C.- 11 Reli. Mark Meadows (R)
- N.Y.- 18 Reli. Sean Maloney (D)
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ELYRIA — In a barrage from outside the arc, Brunswick guard Farrah Benner set the school's single-season 3-point field goal record Wednesday night.
Benner, a sophomore, drilled seven of them — four in the first half — on her way to a game-high 29 points and her record 57th three for the season.
The Blue Devils (9-12, 5-5 NOC) hit three more 3-pointers in a 56-47 Northeast Ohio Conference win over Elyria on Senior Night. They were 10-of-17 from 3-point range, 58.8 percent accuracy.
"I practice my outside shooting every day in practice," Benner said. "When the weather is good, I also practice at home."
While Brunswick led by as many as 20 points in the third quarter, Elyria (7-14, 0-9) created the final 11-point margin with a 9-1 run to end the game. The Blue Devils made half of their 42 field-goal attempts. Foul shooting hurt the Pioneers: They missed 14 of 21.
"This is a great group of girls because they never quit," Brunswick coach Halle Lengel said. "I never know what the score is, because they're always fighting. It's good because we play a tough schedule — so does Elyria — and this is a young team (just two seniors and four juniors). They learn playing a difficult schedule and it helps them improve."
Brunswick roared to an 18-5 first-quarter lead, fueled by Benner's three 3-pointers and a layup off a steal. The Blue Devils increased the lead to 35-18 at the half, despite six points by the Pioneers' Sierra White. White and Sybil Roseboro each scored 11 points for Elyria, with Roseboro nailing two of the team's four 3-pointers.
Benner hit two more threes in the third quarter, and 10 of her 29 points in the fourth, including her final 3-point basket. Elyria, which was held to single-digit scoring in the first and third quarters, won the fourth 20-13, as Roseboro scored nine of her 11 points.
"Our goal was to not let (Benner) shoot threes and that didn't work out for us," said Pioneers coach Brian Arth. "But I give them credit. They got her open and they're very unselfish with the ball. We played hard, but we have problems scoring at times, so when we get down early, it's tough to get back in it.
"We kept hustling and getting turnovers, but we couldn't convert. We cut it to single digits a few times, but we just couldn't get over the hump. I'm still proud of them. They tend to get down on themselves when they're losing. That has to change, but I really like our team."
Elyria and Brunswick face sectional tournament openers on Saturday.
Contact Bob Daniels at 329-7135 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Brunswick 56, Elyria 47
BRUNSWICK (56): Sam Malleo 1-0-2, Melissa Movens 0-0-0, Olivia Andrew 2-0-6, Farrah Benner 10-2-29, Monica Wasson 3-1-7, Cassie Steets 0-0-0, Paige Sailisbury 3-0-7, Samantha Gut 1-1-3, Clare Albino 1-0-2. Totals 21-4-56.
ELYRIA (47): Sybil Roseboro 4-1-11, Mikayla Christian 2-0-4, Shayla Middlebrooks 2-0-4, CiCi McIntosh 1-1-4, Samantha Harjar 1-0-3, Sierra White 4-3-11, Dierra Hammons 0-0-0, Kelsey Brooks 2-1-5, Mariah Johnson 2-1-5. Totals 18-7-47.
Brunswick 18 17 8 13 — 56
Elyria 5 13 9 20 — 47
Three-point goals: Brunswick 10-17 (Benner 7, Andrew 2, Salisbury); Elyria 4-14 (Roseboro 2, McIntosh, Harjar). Field goals: Brunswick 21-42 (50 percent); Elyria 18-54 (33.3 percent). Free throws: Brunswick 4-7; Elyria 7-21. Rebounds: Brunswick 22; Elyria 31. Turnovers: Brunswick 16; Elyria 22.
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This is a great tea featuring complex, woodsy flavors with that muscatel taste common to all darjeelings. Given that I'm not a fan of black teas (too astringent for me) this Darjeeling was interesting to me since it is a first flush and an oolong. There's a mild astringency to this one, but it doesn't leave your mouth high and dry. As with most oolongs this is great for multiple steeps and you'll notice different flavors coming out of the tea with each steep.
Adagio recommends 212º for 5 minutes. This temperature brings out a lot of the muscatel notes as well as more astringency, so if you're looking for more nuanced flavors brew this for the same time around 195-200º.


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does anyone know where we could find a free teddy bear pattern. My stepmom, sisters and I do items for cancer, quilts, totes and now we want to do some stuffed bears. I have not been able to find a free pattern that is simple. Ideas?


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"He's not all that verbal on the field. But when we needed big plays down the stretch, he was there for us. You could see it in his eyes. He was going to make something happen. He's got this inner drive that makes him valuable."
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ARIZARD-L ArchivesArchiver > ARIZARD > 2003-01 > 1042665459
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Izard obituaries - Bernie & Peggy, note
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:17:39 EST
In a message dated 1/15/03 1:50:45 PM Central Standard Time,
> The obituary shows she was buried in the Staggs Cemetery on Jan 5, 2002.
> The cemetery book by Hayden shows only her birth date.
> I offered to scan and send copies but I forgot I'm not on my computer
> connected to my scanner. Hope to have things back togather in a day or so.
> Vera
> >In a message dated 1/15/03 11:27:03 AM Central Standard Time,
> > writes:
> >>Marie Pauline Mayfield Marchant
> >>b. May 28, 1918 Calico Rock
> >>d. Jann 3, 2003 Mt Home
> >>d/o James &Cynthia Foster
> >>m. Dec 7, 1933 Izard County
> >>Henry Carl Marchant
> >>survivors are listed
Hi Vera,
Will you please send me the above obituary so that I may put it in Marie's
NOTES? You can just paste it to an email to the list if that would be easier
for you.
I will change the date I have as her dod.
Jim S
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The Port of Vancouver USA announced discussions are underway with BHP Billiton, the world's largest diversified natural resources company, regarding the potential location of a potash export facility at the port's Terminal 5. The port and BHP Billiton have reached preliminary agreement to proceed and are working to finalize terms and a lease agreement. The project would include handling, storage, dock and rail facilities for potash export from BHP Billiton's first mine to be developed in Canada's Saskatchewan Basin. Potash is a natural mineral fertilizer that improves crop yields.
BHP Billiton has selected Terminal 5, together with rail proposals from Canadian Pacific Railway and BNSF Railway as the preferred option to export potash from its Jansen Project in Saskatchewan when that project goes into production.
"Designing and developing an efficient, world-class port and logistics system is an important part of achieving our goal of building a successful low-cost potash business," said Mark Young, BHP Billiton port and logistics manager. "The Port of Vancouver's Terminal 5 location is an attractive site, which would be capable of handling the anticipated production from the Jansen development."
"To say we are pleased our port has been selected as the preferred option is an understatement," said Larry Paulson, Port of Vancouver executive director. "The opportunity to work with BHP Billiton, recognized around the world as a company that respects the environment and the communities in which they operate, on a project that will add significantly to the port's customer and revenue base is very exciting."
Strategic investments by the port in Terminal 5 will provide BHP Billiton with land for the company's storage and dock facilities, and the port's commitment to rail improvement demonstrated by its ongoing West Vancouver Freight Access project makes the site particularly appealing to this type of private sector investment.
Once a final agreement has been reached, approval is required from BHP Billiton and the port's board of commissioners.


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Last weekend, Ron Paul attended a small meet and great in East Grand Rapids hosted by the Kent County GOP.[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL26FD0D20072A098A&v=f50i4L0aDF0]
Ron Paul: Thank you. It is good to be here. Back at home in Texas, it would be a smaller backyard, and also we wouldn't be standing outside. Out there this time of the year it is probably around 97 degrees 97% humidity. Anyway, we made a choice […] to visit here, as a matter of fact we're in town today because we're having a family reunion. My brother lives here, there are five boys in my family. We rotate around and we go to one of the brothers' home and have a reunion each year. So Dave is standing back here, he raised his hand. He came here to retire as a minister in some church in Detroit, some place near Detroit, some place like that. He said to really enjoy life he had to get out of Detroit. So I went to Detroit, Carol and I lived in Detroit for two years. I was in the hospital for medical training, I wasn't very glad to leave because they drafted me, they hauled me off to the military. My wife, Carol is sitting over here. We're delighted to be here, and it's very nice to come and meet friends and supporters.
Some people think that Michigan has become so liberal and so big-government oriented, you can't possibly have any support in Michigan. For the Campaign for Liberty a lot of financial support has come from Michigan, so there are some true believers and it looks like we have a nice group of true believers here. It is a real pleasure to be here.
I have been asked over the years, "How do you balance between voting a certain way and sticking to principles, and trying to get reelected?" The members of Congress will say, "I sort of agree with you on that, I wish I could go that way, but I would have a heck of a time going back home and explaining those votes, and I wouldn't get elected. So even though you're right, I'm going to vote wrong because I want to get reelected."
And there are a lot explanations for that. But Carol had something to do with that because not too many years ago while I guess I was trying to get back into office in 1996, she came up with this idea about a family cookbook. And I said, "What in the world you want a family cookbook for?" And she said, "Oh well, we'll put the family recipes in there and pictures of the kids and that sort of thing," and I said, "Nobody cares about that stuff. They want to hear speeches about the Exchanges Stabilization Fund and the IMF and the World Bank." And guess what, that cookbook probably got more votes than my speeches.
So there's a lot of politics, I think it is working to rally politics, and that is for your financial support and your dedicated work. That's certainly what we had in the presidential campaign; a lot of dedicated people, enthusiastic financial support.
For the most part most of the people who do the voting never get involved. How many times have you met somebody about a day before the election, and you think they will know a little bit more about the candidates, and they will come and ask, "Hey, what do you think about this?" And they'll walk in the last minute to vote and say, "Oh, I'm a Democrat so I'll vote for a Democrat" and they don't think much about it. So I just work on the assumption that's the way it's going to be. But for the most part people are energized in conventional politics, by power politics; who controls the power, how do you raise the money, and how do you satisfy the people who support the candidate.
But mine is a little bit different, because I want to get people energized not because I can deliver them some stuff back, but because I want to deliver something like freedom back to the individual, which is quite a bit different. And this works quite well, even though there are a lot of skeptics in Washington who say, "That's not the way to do it, you can't do it. If you do this all the time you might have to vote against your party" and a couple of times I've had to do that.
But the whole thing is the moment your party is in power it is more difficult, because the litmus test there is party loyalty and I understand that, but I just happen to disagree that that's what we're supposed to do. We've taken an oath of office to obey the Constitution. If you have a moral and economic firm belief in something, and you tell the people this is what you believe in… if you believe in free markets and less taxes and hard money and all these things, then you go and you dedicate yourself to how you get along with the party leadership so you can get an appointment on this committee so you can get some more appropriations for your district that will make you more powerful and get you reelected easily.
And if I had to do it that way, believe me, I would have nothing to do with politics. And actually, I was pretty well convinced that there was no future at all for me in politics. The first time I decided to run, after I was drafted and went to Texas and I was there, I stayed in the military for a total – with reserve – for 5 years. I finally went back and got my OBGYN residency. It was 3 or 4 years into that when I told Carol I want to run for Congress, because it was about that time that we had major economic crisis in the 1970s.
The Bretton Woods system broke down, the gold standard was abandoned and I said, "This is going to unleash an unbelievable amount of spending and deficits and inflation" and all these things that have come about. And so my wife said, "What you want to do that for?" and I said, "I want to talk about economics." She said, "It's a dangerous thing to do, you could end up getting elected." And I told her back then she's absolutely wrong, she had no idea. But she said, "No, the people will listen to you because they know you're telling the truth and they will vote for you," and so it told me that maybe there are enough people out there that are going to listen and respond in this manner.
I think politicians, generally, look down on the constituency and the people that they have to pander and say things and if you're there to represent them and you have an understanding, in a republic we're supposed to study the issue and respond and give you the information and explanation, rather than saying, "Well, how would the majority interest respond? How does the money operate? How do I get the money back again?" But this, as far as I'm concerned, has worked for me because many times I don't have a Democratic opponent and it's a marginal district. I do get some challenges; we'll have a challenge this time from Republicans because they don't think I'm "Republican enough." It's worth the effort, so I think it should be encouraging.
The other thing that should encourage us is, you know… there's an awful lot of frustration. Already today people are saying, "How do you put up with that? How do you stand it? The system doesn't work, it's broken. What are they going to do? We don't have enough time. When are they going to do balance the budget, when are they going to do all these things?" And I said "Well, the system is still available to us," and a good example is what we've done. Probably every one of you… and that is dealing with calling the attention of the American people to the importance of the Federal Reserve System. Here we have HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve, for the first time
in the history of almost hundred years all of the Republicans have done it.
They have now joined us, I didn't have to join and do the wrong things, they have joined and are doing the right thing. We have nearly a hundred Democrats doing this. So we've changed the grassroots. I have not twisted one arm, I will ask a few people but I'm just not made up to go and do the routine lobbying. Because most of the lobbying for bills is, "If you vote for this and do this, and I'll do this." You know, it's a trade off. And so the grassroots really made all the difference.
So you can see that if the whole country would wake up on all the issues – and they sort of are. I think the people are waking up on Obama's medical care. And if we're successful there and tone that down a little bit. And the trade bill, Cap and Trade; that's been held up a little bit. These are monstrous pieces of legislation and it would precipitate a much worse recession if these things get passed. So I look at this not as a political problem. From the very beginning, first running, to talk about monetary issues, to me it's an educational issue. It's getting people to believe that limited government, free markets, property rights are the way you take care of people. And we as conservatives and libertarians and constitutionalists, I can't understand why we lose the moral argument.
But it happens. We are seen as people who don't care. "Oh yeah, you just voted against increasing food stamps from a hundred billion to two hundred billion. Oh, you don't care about the poor people." Well, it turns out that when you subsidize something, the more you get. So, if you subsidize people who aren't being taken care of either by themselves or their neighbors or their churches, you're going to get a lot more. And, of course, that's how welfare is prone to be out of control.
So, if we approach it more philosophically I think that is ultimately the answer. People have to understand that interventionism, Keynesian economic policies, doesn't help the people. It's not just a punishment of the rich, as they like to paint it, it's the punishment of the poor. Inflation wipes out the middle class and yet today we had one of the members of the Federal Reserve board talking about "consumer protection" and he said, "We need a new agency to protect the consumer against all these things." I went into this and said, "The best thing you can do is have sound money. If you have unsound money the first thing you do is lower interest rates to 1%."
So what if you're on retirement, you have some CDs and the market says you should make 5%. But because of the government coming in and saying, "Oh no, the businessmen and the bankers need 1%." You're cheating. Who are you cheating? You're cheating the people who saved money. At the same time, who do you cheat when you lose the value of the currency? You cheat the average middle class.
Right now today there is a policy in Mexico because they've been through this so many times, if you don't want to get stung again with the peso going to zero, you can put your money in a silver account. And all we need to do here is not close the Fed down tomorrow, we just legalize freedom, legalize our option to deal in a competing currency and the computers can take care of all the calculations minute-to-minute. We trade currencies on the international markets all the time, and there's never a problem. But somebody tries it and they go to jail and they get their gold and silver confiscated. The monopoly is on the government. Eventually though what we have to do is convince people that Keynes was absolutely wrong, that the Austrian economists like Mises and Hayek and Rothbard are exactly right. And if you care about poor people and you care about the middle class, you have to and endorse this.
Right now we have the opportunity because I talk to them all the time and I say, "With all these housing programs and all this affirmative action, who is losing their houses? The poor people. They're the ones who are getting dumped out of their houses. And what about the mortgage companies and insurance companies and people like Goldman Sachs? Who's bailing them out? The people that survived and saved money. The car companies that ran their companies differently, they get taxed to take care of somebody else because of the process.
It's just a system that is doomed to fail, it is failing. Though instead of being despondent it's an opportunity to present our case; our case for the free market. Now why is this so strange? It's American, it's what used to happen in America. We had very limited federal government, we used to have gold as a currency, we used to not be the policeman of the world. I don't think we can address any of these things as long as we think we have to be the policeman of the world. And I think this is probably the biggest issue and the greatest challenge in the Republican Party.
The Republican Party not doing well, I don't know if you noticed. And it reminds me of the first year I ran. It was 1974, I wasn't elected then, but I remember that was Watergate year. And when I was elected a year later, there were still only a 185 Republicans in the Congress. And now, I don't know, I think Republicans could probably pick up a few seats. But psychologically we're not a whole not better off than it was in 1974.
But the question is, "Why aren't the Republicans doing a little bit better?" I meet a lot of people, I talk to a lot, and I see them coming to my office all the time. And guess which groups come the most. The college kids, the high school kids. 15 to 25 is where the greatest enthusiasm is, and they like what the Campaign for Liberty is doing, and they like what I've been saying. Again, it's not what the Republican Party has been saying.
Guess what is the place where the Republican Party right now hurts the most? It's between 15 and 25. The future generation of people moving into takeover, they are the most turned off with the Republican Party. Part of it is the fact that they lost credibility because we had our chance. We had a house and a senate and a presidency. We were supposed to cut back on the size of government, we were supposed to balance the budget. In the year 2000 we said Clinton was a warmonger, he was in Serbia and he was in Somalia, and we didn't need policing the world, we didn't need to be involved in all these internal affairs, and we did it even more.
And likewise when Obama comes along he takes the Republican speeches from the year 2000, he comes across as saying, "I'm going to have a more sensible foreign policy." He gets elected, now he's making the policies even more worse. And I don't think the American people want it, I don't think the Republican Party should support it. Besides, we can't afford it and it's all going to come to an end. All great nations have come to an end because of overextension oversees.
So, the argument should be easily made that we do need money. We do need money in this country. We can't get rid of all the programs we might consider unconstitutional, and I don't pretend to do that. As a matter of fact, I don't pretend to say that the right thing to do right now is to close down the Fed tomorrow, to kind of legalize the competition.
But we have a lot of people dependent on government programs, whether it's the poor getting some medical care, the elderly who have adapted to the government taking care of them. But we're still running out of money and Medicare is totally bankrupt. But we're still spending a trillion dollars a year oversees. And we're making our defenses even more diminished. We're under greater threat because of this.
Just think, why don't we cut some of that? I could easily find a hundred billion to cut. Cut a hundred billion, put 50 billion to the deficit, put 50 million dollars to take care of only the people that have really been victimized by this system. Take care of them. It would mean that we would not be badgering every country in the world what to do. You know, right now we are being told that we have to really, really get tough with the Iranians. You know, the Iranians can't even make gasoline for themselves, and they're trying to tell us they're about ready to invade us and send a nuclear weapon up here. They don't have it. Saddam Hussein didn't have it, and yet just think of all the killing and all the expenses going on and our troops are not going to leave Iraq. There are more being sent to Afghanistan, we're spreading the war into Pakistan. Now we want to take on Iran. When we get back to September, you wait and see there's going to be a resolution coming on really hard on the people, on the average citizen of Iran because we're going to cut off their gasoline supply. And the argument goes this way: if we get people so upset because they have no gasoline, they're all going to throw out the ayatollah.
It doesn't work that way. It unifies them against the enemy, just as we became rightfully unified on 9/11. We weren't Republicans or Democrats, we hated the attackers as though some foreigner came in and attacked. So that's the way they react. What we do then is we undermine the dissidence, the opposition. There's a strong opposition there. We don't need our fingerprint on it. And our CIA is involved in there. We spent about $400 million over there in the last several years trying to undermine their system of government. We're always involved in this election. Our founders didn't believe in it, a lot of Republicans didn't believe in it until a few years ago, Robert Taft didn't believe in it, the Old Right didn't believe in it. The Constitution doesn't authorize it. Its foolishness, we're bankrupt, and besides it offers us an opportunity to come around to a sensible approach and come back to taking care of some people and getting back on our feet.
In the meantime, if we cut enough spending then we can do those other things that will really stimulate the economy. That is like, getting rid of the IRS and the income tax. And that was one of my proposals when the economic crisis became apparent. I said, "Even if we don't get rid of it, let's just suspend the income tax." Just think that every individual in the country would have more money in their pocket. It probably would have cost less than these trillions of dollars. Not only did we appropriate the money, but trillions of dollars in Federal Reserve issued. That would have been a lot cheaper, but then you would have a chance to make up your own mind and, quite frankly, in Washington they don't think you're smart enough to know how to spend your money.
There was a bill on the floor which had to do with consumer protection. It was more intervention: "Make sure the consumer is protected from the big government". Not by honest money but by more regulations. And I asked him, "And why are we doing this? Why don't they let people make up their own minds about the regulations that work?" He said, "They're stupid. People are stupid." That thought is totally embedded in them. And that is why some of them really think that you don't have enough sense to know how to spend your money and need to be taken care of. They think that in social things too. That's why we have, you know, the cigarette police, and thought police, the political-correctness police. Everything on and on because you're going to do something wrong and make a wrong decision.
Freedom is the opposite thing. Freedom brings people together because it recognizes it's your personal life, personal lifestyle and your money is your own. And as long as you don't go around beating up on other people, stealing like the government does, then things would be much better. And that's why our freedom movement brings people together. And the Constitution is the basis of our freedom. The Constitution really brings us together.
That's why I'm so excited when I do see a hundred Democrats sign up on the bill. And in some of our campaign rallies, believe me, a lot of Democrats and a lot of independents show up. I think if the Republican Party wants to get some strength again they got to understand what the young people are thinking about and how they look at it economically and how we're dumping on them all the debt and all the regulations and all the wars that are going on. And they respond favorably, and I am so impressed when they come to my office and I always ask them, "What got you interested?". And they say, "The Constitution, you really believe in it, don't you? And you really vote that way, don't you?" and they just like the idea and they're very principled.
So from that group I get a lot of encouragement and I'm not a pessimist in what can happen. But to keep myself from getting pessimistic I have to come visit with you folks. Because if you're in Washington all the time and I listen to this: "All those stupid people out there, we got to take care of them, you know". But there is reason to stay in the fight and keep it going because if nothing else but our own self interests, our personal interests and our family interests are at stake. And you have believe in this and know how to explain that freedom does work. Freedom is very, very powerful and is the only humanitarian system ever adhered to by man. Because all the other systems are authoritarian. When I say we want to go back the days of the gold standard days, they say, "Oh, you want to go back. Yeah, Ron Paul should be a candidate of the 18th century or something because that's all old-fashioned."
Freedom is a new, modern new idea, something that is only a couple of hundred years old, and it has ushered in the industrial revolution. We're on the verge of throwing it away and I don't believe I need to tell anybody in Michigan you're on the verge of losing it. And it's not a failure of capitalism like they like tell you. It's a failure of big government and a failure to understand how the market works.
So, it's an intellectual fight. What you do is up to yourselves. You can do it politically, you can do it educationally, you can do it one-on-one, you can do it by joining groups and supporting candidates. People ask me, "What should I do?" You can do what you want, but just do it. And most importantly, study the issues and understand them and feel comfortable with them because there is always a job for you. And everybody will get a different job and that will make the difference.
But I am delighted to be here and enjoyed visiting with you and I'll be glad to take questions.


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I think I should find a large crochet project to do – something where I can just crochet back and forth and back and forth without thinking too much. That is so relaxing, especially right now when I have the end-of-month QR code deadline staring me down. I just want to make swatches.
Fortunately, I can call swatches "dishcloths" and "dustrags" and pretend I'm being useful. I have this lovely acrylic dustrag with which I'm practicing my bobbles:
Tuesday evening I began and finished a dishcloth out of some Sugar & Cream yarn I just love. It is just sc with an N hook (10mm), 19 sts by 21 rows, plus a row of sc with ch in between on top and bottom, a ch at each corner, and sc down each side.
The yarn ball was all floppy afterward, so I rewound it. That also relaxes me.
Of course, I prefer it when there is still enough yarn to get a nice smooth ball out of it. Center pull, of course.
On a related note, I've begun materials preparation for the embroidery class I'm still theoretically teaching this fall. Half a skein of embroidery floss per bobbin, so there will be a good selection of colors but people can still take their bobbin home to finish their project. It's slow, though, and the process of unwinding it and lining up the ends so as to cut it in half is kind of laborious. I should probably do a bunch of that at once and all the winding afterward.


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Campus history is Senior Academy legacy
September 10, 2013
Like all college campuses, IUPUI is rich with history. And like most campuses, that history lives on through the memories of the men and women who work there and the students who learn there.
But turning those memories into progress requires thoughtfulness, common sense and a spirit of collaboration. For IUPUI, those factors are the foundation of the Senior Academy, which will celebrate its 20th birthday this month. And in those 20 years, IUPUI has benefitted regularly from the expertise of the retired faculty and staff who comprise the Academy.
Launching the Senior Academy in 1993 was simple logic for administrators and faculty who either were retired or soon to leave the campus and who wanted to stay involved with campus life.
"We talked to a lot of people who were concerned with what would happen to our history if we didn't create something like the Senior Academy," said William M. Plater, then the executive vice chancellor of IUPUI and Dean of the Faculties. "These are people who know where IUPUI came from, and how much the campus contributed to our own history, and to the Indianapolis community we served -- and continue to serve!"
Plater and his colleague Carol Nathan, then the associate Dean of the Faculties, are convinced that creating the Senior Academy kept open vital lines of communication to people who "know how our campus works, and the key role that higher education plays in a community," Plater said.
Nathan said "we knew we wanted an official vehicle for the emeritus faculty to participate and contribute to university business and activities, and to benefit IUPUI with their collective and ongoing institutional knowledge and memory."
But the group charged with building the academy found that IUPUI was different from other campuses that had established similar emeritus faculty groups on other campuses. Academy founders "realized that IUPUI's early development had a component other campuses didn't use: collaboration between faculty and staff," Nathan said. "IUPUI was founded on a concept of inclusiveness, or it never would have developed as it has."
Plater noticed the same key point.
"A lot of universities stay in touch with their retired faculty, but we felt it was important to invite the participation of retired staff, too," Plater added. "They are people with unique insights and a lot of practical knowledge, who were a big part of IUPUI's growth through the years."
Perhaps just as importantly, the Senior Academy represented a tangible, ongoing connection with IUPUI, the academic and social core of their professional lives. "I think some of the faculty thought that retirement wasn't something they particularly wanted," Plater said. "They had so much knowledge and experience, and they wanted to stay connected."
One of the first goals established by Senior Academy members was to ensure that IUPUI maintained its close historical ties to its community, to Indianapolis. "That remains true today -- it is one of the things I believe the Academy does best," Plated noted. "They embrace the role of being IUPUI's historians, of being the conscience of our campus community. They understand how it shaped our campus, and why it remains important."
For Plater, three Senior Academy achievements stand out: launching the annual Last Lecture event; establishing an expanded commitment to mentoring (for both peers and students); and a robust scholarship program.
"The event is a wonderful opportunity to hear first-hand about the careers and achievements of remarkable people who are still a part of our campus," Plated said. "Other universities may have similar types of programs, but it was an important advance for us."
Senior Academy's mentoring efforts helped improve student success through the years and contributed to professional development programs for current faculty.
Plater also noted that administration projects, such as the Vision 2025 strategic planning initiative, often enlist the voices of experience offered by Senior Academy members.
"Senior Academy members have a lot of expertise, a lot of knowledge and a lot of institutional memory; they can play an important role in advancements such as Vision 2025 because they understand how such efforts affect other parts of academic life on a college campus," Plater said.
For Plater, the social aspects of being part of an organization like Senior Academy are often overlooked. "Gathering together for interesting field trips and social events is important," he said. "It keeps people who have spent their careers working together and sharing a vision with one another."
To the retired campus executive, that's one of the reasons the group has been able to work effectively -- because the ties that bind them are so strong, forged in decades of shared experiences."
Like a lot of administration leaders past and present, Plater has noticed that the intellectual skills that served Academy members well, in the classrooms as well as IUPUI offices, are as strong as ever.
"There is a reason that Academy members were so effective as teachers, administrators and in keeping IUPUI on track as a force in higher education," Plater said. "They do a lot to self-educate themselves when a new issue arises. They are by nature curious and inquisitive -- and that isn't likely ever to change. It's a big part of what makes them effective as facilitators to discussions about opportunities arise for IUPUI to get stronger, become more effective."


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Sex in the Future : Provocative and often shocking, Sex in the Future examines how advances in reproductive technology will change human behavior. In-vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood could mean the end not only of infertility but also of the need for men and women to form relationships or for women to interrupt careers for pregnancy. Sperm and egg storage mean people can literally shop for genes, while cloning, egg-egg fertilization, and other techniques will lead to fertility on demand in a Reproduction Restaurant. What will all our choices be, and how far down this road do we want to travel?
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Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that's as explosive as it is timely--not only in Malone's world, but in ours.
September 1861: "All is not as it seems. "With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever?
The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose nineteenth-century expedition across the desert met with a murderous end have been uncovered. In Washington, D.C., the official investigation of an international entrepreneur, an elder in the Mormon church, has sparked a political battle between the White House and a powerful United States senator. In Denmark, a Justice Department agent, missing in action, has fallen into the hands of a dangerous zealot--a man driven by divine visions to make a prophet's words reality. And in a matter of a few short hours, Cotton Malone has gone from quietly selling books at his shop in Denmark to dodging bullets in a high-speed boat chase.
All it takes is a phone call from his former boss in Washington, and suddenly the ex-agent is racing to rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence. It's just the kind of perilous business that Malone has been trying to leave behind, ever since he retired from the Justice Department. But once he draws enemy blood, Malone is plunged into a deadly conflict--a constitutional war secretly set in motion more than two hundred years ago by America's Founding Fathers.
From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah, the grim specter of the Civil War looms as a dangerous conspiracy gathers power. Malone risks life, liberty, and his greatest love in a race for the truth about Abraham Lincoln--while the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balance.
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"In Malone, Steve] Berry has created a classic, complex hero."--"USA Today"
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"Berry raises this genre's stakes."--"The New York Times"
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Bestseller Berry's 10th Cotton Malone thriller (after 2013's e-book novella The Tudor Plot) provides startling new perspectives on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Abraham Lincoln's decision to fight the Civil War. At play is a secret document passed from George Washington to each new president, until Lincoln used it to seal a bargain with Brigham Young in 1861. Now U.S. Sen. Thaddeus Rowan of Utah, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, and wealthy Spanish businessman Josepe Salazar, also a Mormon, have joined forces to recover that document, which they believe will provide a legal basis for states to secede from the union. Stephanie Nelle, Malone's old boss, enlists retired Justice Department agent Malone in the effort to thwart Rowan and Salazar's scheme. Cassiopeia Vitt, Malone's love interest, plays a surprising role. The action builds to an overly neat resolution in the wilds of Utah, but Berry's skillful blend of history and supposition will intrigue his many fans. Agent: Simon Lipskar, Writers House. (May)


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Study: Human Exposure to BPA 'Grossly Underestimated'
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Published: September 20, 2010
Americans are likely to be exposed at higher levels than previously thought to bisphenol A, a compound that mimics hormones important to human development and is found in more than 90 percent of people in the United States, according to new research.
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U.S. EPA says it is OK for humans to take in up to 50 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight each day. The new study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that we are exposed to at least eight times that amount every day.
"Our data raise grave concern that regulatory agencies have grossly underestimated current human exposure levels," states the study.
The study also gives the first experimental support that some BPA is likely cleared at similar rates in mice, monkeys and humans, making it possible to extrapolate health studies in mice to humans.
Despite decades of research, questions about BPA have lingered and recently become politicized. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) hopes to add an amendment to the "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act," currently under consideration in the Senate, banning the chemical from children's food and drink packaging. Republicans and industry representatives have been averse, saying that research has not shown conclusively that the chemical is harmful.
Hormones are essential during development and can determine, among other things, a child's gender. BPA, since it mimics estrogen, is an "endocrine disrupter," according to Thomas Zoeller, a biology professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. And amazingly, BPA has the ability to bind to not one, but three receptors -- the estrogen, the male hormone and the thyroid hormone receptors, Zoeller said.
Controversy over method
Some scientists question whether the ability of BPA to bind receptors translates to a health effect. Detractors say that most of the chemical does not circulate in blood long enough to have health effects. All scientists agree that BPA resembles estrogen, and indeed, it was first synthesized as a man-made estrogen substitute before being used widely in the linings of canned goods and polycarbonate plastics.
Within the scientific world, the controversy hinges on the seemingly obscure question: Does the liver detox the chemical completely enough to secrete most of it out in urine, or does BPA get into human blood where it can mimic important hormones?
Feeding human volunteers a fixed dose of BPA and sampling their blood to check for the chemical would answer some of these questions, according to Zoeller. But such an experiment throws up ethical issues. The only human study of this nature was conducted in 2002 by the German researcher Wolfgang Völkel at the University of Würzburg.
Völkel found the liver removes more than 99 percent of BPA from the blood, and humans excrete it within six hours. He did find some BPA in the blood of his volunteers but found this level to be insignificant.
It is at this point that science breaks down into controversy. Some researchers say the method Völkel used to measure BPA in the blood was not sensitive enough and that he likely overestimated the ability of the chemical to pass through without causing harm.
The new study, led by Julia Taylor, a biologist at the University of Missouri, uses a more sensitive test for measuring the compound. She fed mice and monkeys a fixed amount of BPA daily. She took blood samples and found that the animals had "biologically active" amounts of the estrogen-like chemical, according to the study.
The study suggests that BPA is not completely removed by the liver and does circulate in the blood and in amounts that are cause for concern, according to Taylor.
"For those of us who work with BPA, no one has actually directly compared mice and monkeys before, and monkeys and humans before," Taylor said. "For those of us who work with it in an academic sense at least, this is confirmation of what we believe."
This study suggests that all the possible ways in which humans are exposed to BPA are not yet known, Taylor said. It also makes it possible to compare studies of BPA in mice and extrapolate it to monkeys and humans since they all clear BPA at similar rates, she said.
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A Supreme Court ruling could change the way local law enforcement agencies conduct searches on prisoners… Even those being held on a minor offense.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 2010 ruling stating that officers do have the right to strip-search inmates to prevent illegal contraband and weapons from being smuggled into jail.
Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz said the practice of strip-searching has been controversial for quite some time.
The Sheriff told WHIZ News that current policies allow those held on minor offenses, like out-of-state traffic offenders, to be booked and released on their own recognizance– without strip-searching.
"Somebody like that, that's not going back into population, we don't strip search. We'll pat them down to make sure they have no weapons or any contraband that we can feel that a detriment to our people, they're booked in, we take their pictures and prints and then they're released O.R. (on recognizance). But anybody going back into population usually gets a more thorough search, so we'll continue to do that at this point," said Lutz.
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 to uphold the U.S. Court of Appeals Decision.
The Sheriff said regardless of anybody's personal feelings on the matter, safety has to remain the top priority for both prisoners and corrections officers.
"There's a couple of different opinions of this, Obviously law enforcement– we like those rights because we want to be safe, and we want to make sure that our people are safe and I think that if we walk somebody in and there's a good suspicion that they're hiding something or they're acting nervous, obviously they're going to be more apt to be searched than somebody that's not," added Lutz.
Lutz said it's unclear yet whether policies within the county will change based on the ruling.


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Daihatsu - Compact convertible car COPEN is now available for ¥1,798,200!
Daihatsu's new-style convertible kei-car (light automobile) - COPEN - went on sale today.
The model released today is called COPEN Robe and it's now available for JPY 1,798,200, which roughly equal to USD17,660. Daihatsu is scheduled to launch another new model called COPEN X (cross) in autumn this year. The COPEN X's exterior looks more sporty than COPEN Robe.
For the new COPEN series, a newly developed framework based on a frame and monocoque construction called D-Frame is used, where the car's external parts give it support and stability.
Also, it features detachable interior and exterior pieces in a concept called DRESS-FORMATION through which you can customize up to a maximum of 11 parts of the car including the front hood, luggage area, front/rear bumpers, front/rear fenders, locker, and fuel filler lid.
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Moreover, Daihatsu opened a new production factory just for the COPEN series - COPEN Factory. After 2014 summer, they will allow COPEN owners to take a tour of the factory.
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A man and woman who burst into a Rowlett home Sunday afternoon were shot by someone inside the house who then fled before officers arrived, police said.
The incident happened about 3 p.m. in the 9300-block of Shearer Street.
"I was seeing the flash of the muzzle, so it was a little unnerving," neighbor Vince Christianson said.
Christianson and his wife Joan said they first saw the man and woman using a heavy object to break down the front door. "And then I heard a bunch of cussing and, 'Just kill them all,'" Joan Christianson said.
Then, gunfire erupted.
Police said the man, later identified as 17-year-old Corey Manges, was shot several times in the stomach. He was rushed by helicopter to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. The woman, later identified as 18-year-old Abigail Davis, received a minor wound in the shoulder. She was treated and released at another hospital and then arrested for burglary of a habitation, a second degree felony. If convicted, Davis faces between two and 20 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Charges will be filed against Manges at a later date, police said Monday.
Police said there was first a disturbance at the rear of the home that later escalated when Manges kicked in the front door and entered the house with Davis. Police said an assault occurred inside the home, at which point a member of the household pulled out a gun and shot both Manges and Davis in the front yard.
A woman who lived in the house hid with three young children in a closet, police said. None of them were injured.
It was the mother's older son, believed to be in his 20's, or the son's acquaintance, who shot at the intruders, police said. But the son and the other man ran from the scene before police arrived, sparking a manhunt for them.
Officers found a sweater and a pistol a short distance away, police said.
It was not clear why they ran from the scene, leaving police unclear who were the victims and who were the suspects.
The woman who was shot spoke to arriving officers.
"She had made a comment that they were the victims of a robbery from the people in the house," said Rowlett police Sgt. Dean Poos. "But again, when John Q. Public is the victim of a crime, they usually call the police department and that's not what happened here. So that makes her story a little suspect as well."
Another neighbor, Erik Guzman, said he was watching television when he heard gunfire. "I thought it was fireworks at first," he said.
Guzman, 20, said he told his parents to lock their door. "It's crazy," he said. "This has never happened in this neighborhood. This is a good neighborhood."
Police continue to search for the two people who disappeared after the shooting. Their names have not been revealed.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Criminal Investigation Division of the Rowlett Police Department at 972-412-6220 or Lt. David Nabors at 972-412-6215.


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Former KPFA manager Andrew Phillips' reconstruction of Pacifica station WBAI in New York City is on its second month. All of the station's on-air paid talent were let go in month one. Now I'm noting quite a bit of west coast Pacifica content on the 'BAI Program Schedule, specifically from KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles.
Phillips sent out a memo last Thursday to all WBAI staff (hat tip to WBAI-nowthen), which announced that the station would start rebroadcasting Ian Masters of KPFK's Background Briefing at 10 AM starting Monday (today if you are reading this on 9/9/13). The show already streams at five AM Monday through Friday.
"I will be direct," the memo warned. "There is no guarantee that we are going to continue in our present form or even survive. I have never seen things this bad at WBAI. And now we face impending war in Syria with more U.S. involvement. At times like this, people tune into WBAI for an authentic alternative pov."
In addition to Background Briefing, the WBAI Program Schedule indicates that the station is now running KPFA's Project Censored Show with Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, Against the Grain with KPFA's Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong, and Guns and Butter with KPFA's Bonnie Faulkner
The memo told producers to be "on point" about Syria:
"It is likely we'll be beginning a new morning show – 6-8am very soon. We are in negotiations. It will be a very different sound programming designed to attract a mainstream audience to WBAI. If we do not build audience in drive time we are finished. This is sink or swim. WBAI has floundered for more than ten years and now has insufficient audience to support it. Development and advertising will not save us – that's a drop in the bucket. We must build new audience and attract old listeners back to their station."
Music programming will play a less prominent role for the moment, the memo suggests: "As you know, the media market has changed drastically since I was program director here 20 years ago. There are many opportunities for music lovers to find the music they love online. But not so for public affairs such as Pacifica presents."
Bottom line: "There is war in the Middle East and there is a war-like situation here at WBAI as we fight to survive. I mean it."
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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A Navy administrative message (NAVADMIN) released Nov. 30 announced the Navy will begin accepting applications for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Candidate class of 2013 at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The Navy NASA Astronaut Candidate selection board #295 is scheduled to convene May 1, 2012. Applications and endorsements are due to Navy Personnel Command no later than March 15, 2012.
"We're looking for people who can perform," said Navy Capt. Lee Morin, M.D., Ph.D., a naval astronaut and former flight surgeon in the Navy medical corps. "We need people who work well with others and represent the agency well, not only to the American people, but to the world. Most important is someone who is a good team player and who's not in it for themselves, or their ego."
Navy Capt. Barry Wilmore, naval astronaut and former Navy test pilot who has logged more than 259 hours in space, said NASA needs someone who has been working in the Navy's operational flow.
"In the role of an astronaut, we do a lot in the design phases of the various programs. But, ultimately, we are operators on the pointy end of the spear," Wilmore said. "And you can receive no better training, I believe, than through a career in the Navy."
The announcement of the astronaut class comes a few months after NASA's last Space Shuttle mission landed, marking the end of a 30-year era of U.S.-led Shuttle missions to the low-Earth orbit of space and the International Space Station (ISS).
The completion of the Shuttle program has opened the door for NASA to continue to send astronauts to conduct research aboard the ISS, and to focus on the next era of space discovery: deep space exploration.
NASA is developing the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, to serve as the exploration vehicle to carry a crew to deep space. For travel to low-Earth orbit, NASA has partnered with commercial partners who are creating contract-use vehicles for travel to low-Earth orbit and to the International Space Station (ISS).
"First and foremost, we still have a space program, and it's going strong," said retired Navy Capt. Christopher Ferguson, naval astronaut and commander of the final Shuttle mission STS-135 aboard Atlantis. "We've got four different companies and four different ideas for commercially-run projects. This will help NASA gain some of the efficiencies, cost savings and innovative ideas that come out of commercial ventures, for a better, cheaper, faster way to get Americans to low-Earth orbit from American soil."
Morin, who served aboard the Shuttle mission STS-110 in 2002 and has logged more than 259 hours in space, currently works in the exploration branch developing the cockpit of the Orion spacecraft. Morin said the Orion and the capabilities it will bring to human space exploration is the key to the future of NASA's space program.
"We can return to the moon, an asteroid, or even a moon of Mars. We've only been to deep space six times, in six moon trips, with the last one in 1973. If we're going to go out and maintain our presence in space, we need to go beyond low-Earth orbit, and the Orion will take us there," said Morin. "This is the next step to space-faring civilization and a sustained presence. Humanity is life's agent."
Current chief of NASA's Astronaut Corps Peggy Whitson, Ph.D., said, philosophically, deep space exploration is important and inherent to whom we are as human beings. From a technological perspective, she said, space exploration benefits us here on Earth, helping us maintain a "technological high."
Whitson also stressed the importance of keeping our current presence in space, specifically aboard the ISS.
"The space program is funded through 2020. We've had 11 years of consistent human presence in space, and that program is still underway," said Whitson, who spent more than a year in space, including a tour as commander of Expedition 16.
From the NASA's construction of the Orion MPCV to the upcoming astronaut class of 2013, it is apparent there is a solid need for not only astronauts, but naval astronauts.
"It's a very exciting time for new people to come to NASA right now because we are still exploring space and have people aboard the International Space Station every day," said Cmdr. Christopher Cassidy, Navy SEAL and naval astronaut. "And the Navy is a big part of that."
The Navy has a long and proud tradition at NASA, said Lt. Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, which sets the tone for strong naval applicants to the astronaut program.
"The first American in space: naval aviator; First man on the moon: naval aviator; Last man on the moon: naval aviator; First American to orbit Earth: Marine Corps aviator; First crew of the space shuttle: two naval aviators; The last crew of the space shuttle: naval and Marine Corps aviators; First commander of the ISS: Navy SEAL," said Wiseman, graduate of the astronaut class of 2009. "The Navy or Marine Corps is always poking its head out in the forefront of the space program."
NASA is accepting applications on-line through Jan. 27, 2012. The application can be found at http://astronauts.nasa.gov.
To view NAVADMIN 362/11, visit: http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/messages/Documents/NAVADMINS/NAV2011/NAV11362.txt


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Most people can relate to the challenges of being a teenager; what most of us cannot relate to is attempting to tackle these challenges while struggling with a psychological disorder. It is estimated that roughly 5% of the United State's population has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Many of those people are teenagers. Adolescent ADD can feel overwhelming at times, but it is important to help those afflicted understand that an acute knowledge of their disorder coupled with a treatment plan can often lead the sufferer on the path to normative behavior.
Adolescent ADD symptoms are seen in many behaviors which are classified as normal behaviors for young people; however, in the person with adolescent ADD these behaviors are excessive and can impede their success in school or make social interactions difficult. Some common behaviors of adolescent ADD include the inability to listen to a class lecture without constantly fidgeting in their chairs, forgetting important facts, an inability to wait their turn when in class, and difficulty completing a homework assignment without distraction.
These particular behaviors are in line with the three common characteristics displayed by those afflicted with the disorder. These features are hyperactivity (excessive physical unrest), impulse control problems (reacting in a manner which displays a lack of rationale), and an inability to focus on important tasks. The challenges these symptoms pose for those with adolescent ADD are significant, but these symptoms can be managed with a proper treatment plan.
The most common forms of treatment for adolescent ADD are medication and therapy. The main benefits of therapy are that it provides an emotional outlet and will teach the youth coping skills to manage their symptoms. However, the most effective countermeasure for adolescent ADD is proven to be a regiment of stimulant medication.