What kind of small business do you want to start?
To help would-be entrepreneurs get started, USA TODAY has outlined some of the more popular types of businesses that people start, as well as their pros and cons.
• Direct sales
• Service companies
• Internet-based
• Existing businesses
• Retailing
• Products
http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/startup/pros-and-cons-of-small-businesses.htm?obref=obinsite

The USA moves one step closer to a nationwide highway tolling system next month when the Ohio Turnpike joins a network covering the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The move on Oct. 1 will enable drivers equipped with E-ZPass transponders to travel from Maine to southern Virginia and west beyond Chicago and pay tolls electronically without stopping at toll booths. It's another sign of the spread of electronic tolling as a convenience for drivers and an increasingly common way to finance roads.
Ohio's decision to join E-ZPass creates an uninterrupted 14-state toll system, the nation's largest. "We finally filled the hole in the donut," says George Distel, executive director of the Ohio Turnpike Commission. "You can travel from Chicago to the East Coast. … We will all be linked with the same technology." Ohio is late to the game because E-ZPass is more for customer convenience than congestion relief and because of the state's $50 million cost, Distel says. When E-ZPass becomes available on 241 miles of toll road across northern Ohio, the system will be used by 25 tolling agencies and 18.6 million vehicles, according to the E-ZPass Interagency Group.
More than 95% of the nation's tolling agencies are served by E-ZPass or TransCore, which supplies technology for electronic tolling systems in Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Washington, says TransCore spokeswoman Barbara Catlin. Technology exists to provide compatibility between TransCore systems such as TxTag in Texas and SunPass in Florida and E-ZPass, Catlin says. But the systems are unable to process each other's transactions because there are no agreements yet among tolling agencies. North Carolina, which broke ground last month on its first modern toll road—the 18.8-mile Triangle Expressway in the Raleigh-Durham area—hasn't decided whether to use E-ZPass, TransCore or something else, says Reid Simons, spokeswoman for the North Carolina Turnpike Authority. "We are kind of stuck in the middle," she says. The Ohio Turnpike, which carries about 150,000 vehicles daily, is adding an incentive to encourage drivers of passenger vehicles to use E-ZPass. Drivers won't see any rate hikes if they use E-ZPass, Distel says. But rates for drivers who pay cash will jump 40%. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-14-ezpass_N.htm

The recipients of the 2009 Lasker Awards, announced September 14, represent the dramatic advances achieved in biotechnology research that have led to a revolutionary cancer treatment and the tremendous promise of stem cell therapy for regenerative medicine. Such advances portend a potential $700 million global market for new therapies within less than five years, according to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN, www.genengnews.com).
The Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for 2009 recognizes discoveries in the process that instructs specialized adult cells to form stem cells, and will be presented to Sir John Gurdon, DPhil, DSc, FRS, Emeritus Professor and Group Leader, Gurdon Institute of Cancer & Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, and Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/mali-2la091409.php

In our garden we have two kousa dogwoods—one on the south side and one on the north. The fruit on the tree on the south is bigger than the north as you can imagine. See pictures here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kousa_Dogwood
The fruit is edible with an unusual appearance that puts people off. http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=133

Terms about books
even folio page numbers on the left-hand pages
galley proof of a book made before the pages are numbered
incunabulum, pl. incunabula a book from the "cradle" time of printing (before 1500)
verso the back of a leaf--contrast "recto," the front of the leaf

More terms at A Book Collector’s Glossary http://www.trussel.com/books/glossary.htm

Actor Danny Glover will star in a movie that could help revive a shuttered library in the impoverished Detroit enclave of Highland Park. The film project titled "Highland Park" was announced Monday at a news conference at the McGregor Library. The story line will mirror the ongoing struggle to reopen the library, which closed in March 2002 because the city could not afford to keep it open.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13332917?nclick_check=1

On September 17, 1787, the United States Constitution was adopted by the 39 delegates to the federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Learn more about the Constitution from the National Constitution Center.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/thisday/
On September 17, 1862 more Americans died in one day than in any other day in the nation's history, in the Battle of Antietam. The battle was near Sharpsburg, Maryland. General Lee was hoping to get supplies and men in Maryland, which was a slave state even though it had remained part of the Union and had many pro-Confederate sympathizers. It was this first of just two times that the Confederate Army fought a battle in Union Territory—the other, the Battle of Gettysburg, took place 10 months later.
The fighting began on a cornfield at the Miller Farm, outside Sharpsburg, Maryland, and lasted for 12 hours. The Confederate troops had a better position, but a Union scout discovered a copy of their opponents' battle plans. Both sides suffered huge death tolls—more than 12,000 Union soldiers and almost 11,000 Confederate soldiers died.
September 17 is the birthday of a doctor and poet who wrote, "It is difficult/ to get the news from poems,/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there." That's William Carlos Williams, (books by this author) born in Rutherford, New Jersey (1883). He worked in Rutherford as a doctor for his whole life, and he wrote poetry as well, up until his death at age 80. His books include Spring and All (1923), Imaginations (1970), and a five-volume epic poem called Paterson, the name of the city near Rutherford where he was head pediatrician of the hospital.
September 17 is the birthday of short-story writer Frank O'Connor, (books by this author) born Michael O'Donovan in Cork, Ireland (1903). He grew up in poverty and dropped out of school at age 14, both because the family needed money and because his teachers had decided that he was unteachable. He joined the Irish Republican Army for a few years, and then he became a librarian, the head of the Cork County Library. He wrote plays, poetry, novels, and biographies, but he's most famous for his short stories, published in his Collected Stories (1981). The Writer’s Almanac