I usually put out the muse on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. If you receive three muses at a time, check the dates. Perhaps you are receiving three different issues rather than three copies of the same issue.

Report: Offshore Aquaculture Would Benefit U.S. Economy
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Aquaculture shows significant economic potential and good prospects for success in the United States, according to a new report commissioned by NOAA. The report by leading fisheries and resource economists and business experts, Offshore Aquaculture in the United States: Economic Considerations, Implications & Opportunities, examined a range of topics on the industry’s potential and found that a significant domestic offshore aquaculture industry could develop and be successful over the next 20 years with a clear regulatory framework.
A primary barrier to developing an offshore aquaculture industry is the lack of a clear regulatory or permitting process to allow seafood farming in federal waters, three to 200 miles offshore. To address that gap, President George W. Bush proposed legislation to give the Department of Commerce the authority to set regulations for this type of marine aquaculture. The legislation, which is currently pending before Congress, would provide a clear regulatory process for businesses and individuals to develop safe, sustainable aquaculture in U.S. federal waters.
Download in sections (PDFs) or as full report (PDF; 2.7 MB).

Employment Situation Summary: July 2008
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
The unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down in July (-51,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor has reported. Employment continued to fall in construction, manufacturing, and several service-providing industries, while health care and mining continued to add jobs. Average hourly earnings rose by 6 cents, or 0.3 percent, over the month.

Justice Department officials vetted potential DOJ employees using the awesome power of the Nexis news database. Here's the search string they used:
[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_07/014186.php

Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks, the British Columbia-based online marketplace that has over 110 million titles for sale through its bookseller network. The purchase, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, will strengthen Amazon's already dominate position in the used book field
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6583489.html?nid=2286&source=title&rid=1192404514

Ten top baby names for 2007 from Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

Square breathing technique from Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur http://www.gotomancamp.com/
breathe in for four, hold for four, out for four, hold for four

August 2 is the birthday of the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, (books by this author) born in Lima, Peru, in 1942. Her father was a diplomat to Peru, and his cousin was Salvador Allende, who later became the first elected socialist president of Chile. During those years of the socialist government, Isabel Allende was a popular TV host. Her two shows weren't directly political, but they were about feminism and about challenging the machismo of Chilean culture.
Then on September 11, 1973, a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew the government, and Salvador Allende was assassinated. Isabel Allende was put on a wanted list, and she received death threats, so she fled with all her family to Venezuela, where she assumed she could stay for a couple of months and then return. Instead, she remained in exile for 17 years.
While she was in exile in Venezuela, Isabel Allende found out that her beloved grandfather was dying in Chile, and she began to write him a letter. She says that she wrote the letter "to tell him that he could die in peace, because I had all his memories with me and I had not forgotten anything and I began telling him his own anecdotes. And then something happened. I started drifting away from the memory and the past and reality into something that was much richer and fun ... a year later I had a book." And that book was The House of the Spirits (1985). Like all her books, it's rooted in politics and history, but it also uses the techniques of magical realism. She is the author of 17 books.
August 3 is the birthday of the science fiction writer and journalist Clifford Donald Simak, (books by this author) born in 1904 in Millville, Wisconsin. He grew up in rural Wisconsin, and it became the setting for all his science fiction. Simak is called a "pastoral" science fiction writer because instead of alien worlds or epic clashes of technology, he writes about parallel worlds in time and about ordinary farmers and workers living in rural Wisconsin and drinking beer on the porch, who might or might not turn out to be aliens. His most famous work is a collection of short stories called City (1952), in which humans abandon cities for the countryside and eventually abandon Earth, which is left to robots and intelligent dogs.
On August 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain on his first voyage, the voyage that took him to the Americas. He set off with three ships (Santa María, Pinta, and Niña) and 90 men. In September, the crew restocked in the Canary Islands and on October 12th, they sighted land—an island in the Bahamas
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