U.S. International Reserve Position
March 26, 2008 U.S. International Reserve Position: "The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $75,146 million as of the end of that week, compared to $75,366 million as of the end of the prior week."

Morals to a Japanese tale where the stonecutter is granted all his wishes
The grass is not greener on the other side.
There are two sides to every story.
There’s no place like home.
Be careful what you wish for.
Can you think of others?

National Data Center Energy Efficiency Information Program
"The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have initiated a joint national data center energy efficiency information program. The program coordinates a wide variety of activities from the DOE Industrial Technologies Program Save Energy Now initiative, the DOE Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), and the EPA ENERGY STAR program. The following Fact Sheets summarize ongoing efforts at DOE and EPA to provide information, tools, and resources to owners and operators of data centers to assist in their efforts to reduce energy consumption in their buildings. They also provide links to a wide variety of organizations outside of the Federal government that can be of help in your efforts to improve energy efficiency."
Fact Sheet for the National Data Center Energy Efficiency Information Program (10 pages, PDF)
Short fact sheet (2 pages, PDF)

Editing rules
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.One-word sentences? Eliminate.If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.Who needs rhetorical questions?Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. (You will see examples of this in headlines and text of The Blade frequently.)
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Q. What do lamb, limb and jamb have in common?
A. The last letter in each word is silent.

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
http://www.irazoo.com/InterestingTopics/President's-Council-on-Physical-Fitness-and-Sports.aspx
Click on #4 to register for the President’s Challenge—registration is open through April 3.

History of the fitness program from 1956-2006
http://www.fitness.gov/50thanniversary/The%20First%20Fifty%20Years.pdf

Executive Orders about the President’s Council
CharterNotice of RenewalExecutive Order 13446 Executive Order 13385 Executive Order 13316 Executive Order 13265Executive Order 13225Executive Order 13138Executive Order 12694Executive Order 12539Executive Order 12399Executive Order 12345

Exercise to music as they did in 1961
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chicken+fat&search_type=

Federal Reserve Study Reveals Biggest Share of Checks Are Consumer to Business
News release: "The Federal Reserve’s 2007 study of the composition of the check market released today shows that nearly 50 percent of checks written are consumer-to-business checks. The Check Sample Study reports on the composition of the check market based on responses from nine large financial institutions that together account for about one quarter of total U.S. paid check volume. The study, which categorizes the use of checks by payer, payee, and purpose, is the third component of the 2007 Federal Reserve Payments Study. Results of the first two components of the study were released December 10, 2007."
 "The 2007 Federal Reserve Payments Study is part of an ongoing effort by the Federal Reserve System to measure and analyze trends in noncash payments in the United States. It consists of three individual studies: the Check Sample Study (2007 CS study), the Depository Institutions Payments Study

Saga continues
Yes, our house reconstruction is almost complete. A few setbacks: We forgot to remove a clock from a wall and it fell off and broke during hammering. We ordered a cabinet made to be 8 inches deep .It arrived 13 inches deep. The plastic tube to our ice maker broke and flooded the kitchen and basement. After repair, it broke again and we had a second flood. The ice maker is removed now, and I don’t intend to ever get another. Workers picked up the cabinet and brought a correctly-sized replacement. They said they had no idea why the first cabinet was the wrong size.

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