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Quote for today… “’I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” – Thomas Jefferson

• Just confounding … they keep coming out on top! “BP profits hit $5.3 billion, year on from Gulf spill”
• It’s done … for now! Obama, Congress announce debt deal to avoid default. (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
• “What’s your community doing for National Night Out?” Nothing! Big doings in some York and Lancaster County communities, though.(York Daily Record/Sunday News)
• “Some might like it hot, but extreme heat can overpower the human body. An expert from the CDC explains how heat kills and why fans are worthless in the face of truly high temperatures,” is a sub-title from a Scientific American magazine article entitled, How does a heat wave affect the human body.” Columbia news, views & reviews contributing writer, Mary Ellen Graybill recommended it for publishing here. One of the article’s reader comments referenced the NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) report, “Working in hot environments,” as a valuable source of information.
• City pressures trashy landlord (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
• “The month-long observation of one of Islam’s oldest and most important rituals, Ramadan, begins today.” (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
• Columbian Ronald Waugh‘s LETTER TO THE EDITOR