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Jesus Before Pilate
23 cThen the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man dmisleading our nation and eforbidding us to give tribute to fCaesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, ga king." 3 hAnd Pilate asked him, i"Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, j"You have said so." 4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, k"I find no guilt in this man." 5 But they were urgent, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, lfrom Galilee even to this place."
Jesus Before Herod
6 When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. 7 And when he learned that he belonged to mHerod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time. 8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, nfor he had long desired to see him, obecause he had heard about him, and he was hoping pto see some sign done by him. 9 So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer. 10 The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him. 11 And Herod with his soldiers qtreated him with contempt and rmocked him. Then, sarraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate. 12 And tHerod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
13 Pilate then called together the chief priests and uthe rulers and the people, 14 and said to them, "You brought me this man vas one who was misleading the people. And wafter examining him before you, behold, I xdid not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. 15 Neither did Herod, for yhe sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. 16 zI will therefore punish and release him."1
Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified
18 aBut they all cried out together, b"Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas"— 19 a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and cfor murder. 20 Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, 21 but they kept shouting, "Crucify, crucify him!" 22 A third time he said to them, "Why? dWhat evil has he done? eI have found in him no guilt deserving death. fI will therefore punish and release him." 23 But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. 24 So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. 25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison gfor insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, hbut he delivered Jesus over to their will.
The Crucifixion
26 iAnd as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were jmourning and lamenting for him. 28 But turning to them Jesus said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, kthe days are coming when they will say, l'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!' 30 mThen they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' 31 For nif they do these things when othe wood is green, what will happen owhen it is dry?"
32 pTwo others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. 33 qAnd when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, pone on his right and one on his left. 34 And Jesus said, "Father, rforgive them, sfor they know not what they do."2 And they cast lots tto divide his garments. 35 And uthe people stood by, watching, vbut wthe rulers xscoffed at him, saying, y"He saved others; zlet him save himself, aif he is bthe Christ of God, chis Chosen One!" 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and doffering him sour wine 37 and saying, e"If you are fthe King of the Jews, save yourself!" 38 gThere was also an inscription over him,3 "This is fthe King of the Jews."
39 hOne of the criminals who were hanged irailed at him,4 saying, "Are you not jthe Christ? Save yourself and us!" 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." 42 And he said, "Jesus, remember me kwhen you come into your kingdom." 43 And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in lparadise."
The Death of Jesus
44 mIt was now about the sixth hour,5 and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,6 45 while the sun's light failed. And nthe curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Then Jesus, ocalling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, pinto your hands I qcommit my spirit!" And having said this rhe breathed his last. 47 Now swhen the centurion saw what had taken place, the praised God, saying, "Certainly this man was innocent!" 48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home ubeating their breasts. 49 And all vhis acquaintances and wthe women who had followed him from Galilee xstood at a distance watching these things.
Jesus Is Buried
50 yNow there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, 51 who had not consented to their decision and action; and he zwas looking for the kingdom of God. 52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53 Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and alaid him in a tomb cut in stone, bwhere no one had ever yet been laid. 54 It was the day of cPreparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.7 55 dThe women ewho had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. 56 Then they returned and fprepared spices and ointments.
On the Sabbath they rested gaccording to the commandment.
The Resurrection
24 hBut on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, itaking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found jthe stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, ktwo lmen stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were mfrightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, nwhile he was still in Galilee, 7 nthat the Son of Man omust be delivered into the hands of sinful men and pbe crucified and on qthe third day rise." 8 And rthey remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they stold all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was tMary Magdalene and uJoanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, 11 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and vthey did not believe them. 12 But wPeter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw xthe linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.
On the Road to Emmaus
13 That very day ytwo of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles1 from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 16 zBut their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 17 And he said to them, "What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad. 18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" 19 And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was aa prophet bmighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 and chow our chief priests and drulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 21 But we had hoped that he was ethe one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now fthe third day since these things happened. 22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. gThey were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and hwhen they did not find his body, they came back saying that ithey had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 jSome of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see." 25 And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 kWas it not necessary that lthe Christ should suffer these things and enter into mhis glory?" 27 And nbeginning with oMoses and pall the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. qHe acted as if he were going farther, 29 but they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and rthe day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them. 30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and sblessed and broke it and gave it to them. 31 tAnd their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And uhe vanished from their sight. 32 They said to each other, v"Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he wopened to us the Scriptures?" 33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they xfound the eleven and ythose who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, "The Lord has risen indeed, and zhas appeared to Simon!" 35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and ahow he was known to them in bthe breaking of the bread.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
36 As they were talking about these things, cJesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace to you!" 37 But they were dstartled and efrightened and fthought they saw a spirit. 38 And he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. gTouch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." 40 And when he had said this, hhe showed them his hands and his feet. 41 And while they still disbelieved ifor joy and were marveling, jhe said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,2 43 and he took it and ate before them.
44 Then he said to them, k"These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, lthat everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then mhe opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and said to them, "Thus nit is written, othat the Christ should suffer and on the third day prise from the dead, 47 and that qrepentance for3 the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed rin his name sto all nations, tbeginning from Jerusalem. 48 uYou are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I am sending vthe promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you ware clothed with xpower yfrom on high."
The Ascension
50 And zhe led them out as far as aBethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. 51 While he blessed them, bhe parted from them and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they cworshiped him and zreturned to Jerusalem dwith great joy, 53 and ewere continually in the temple fblessing God.
The Word Became Flesh
1 aIn the beginning was bthe Word, and cthe Word was with God, and dthe Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 eAll things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 fIn him was life,1 and gthe life was the light of men. 5 hThe light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man isent from God, whose name was jJohn. 7 He came as a kwitness, to bear witness about the light, lthat all might believe through him. 8 mHe was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 nThe true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet othe world did not know him. 11 He came to phis own,2 and qhis own people3 rdid not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, swho believed in his name, the gave the right uto become vchildren of God, 13 who wwere born, xnot of blood ynor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And zthe Word abecame flesh and bdwelt among us, cand we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son4 from the Father, full of dgrace and etruth. 15 (fJohn bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, g'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'") 16 For from hhis fullness we have all received, igrace upon grace.5 17 For jthe law was given through Moses; kgrace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 lNo one has ever seen God; mthe only God,6 who is at the Father's side,7 nhe has made him known.
The Testimony of John the Baptist
19 And this is the otestimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, p"Who are you?" 20 qHe confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ." 21 And they asked him, "What then? rAre you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you sthe Prophet?" And he answered, "No." 22 So they said to him, "Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 23 He said, "I am tthe voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight8 the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."
24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, u"Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" 26 John answered them, v"I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even whe who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." 28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Behold, the Lamb of God
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, xthe Lamb of God, who ytakes away the sin zof the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, a'After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.' 31 I myself did not know him, but bfor this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel." 32 And John cbore witness: d"I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and eit remained on him. 33 I myself did not know him, but fhe who sent me to baptize gwith water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, hthis is he who baptizes gwith the Holy Spirit.' 34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son9 of God."
Jesus Calls the First Disciples
35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, ithe Lamb of God!" 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, j"What are you seeking?" And they said to him, k"Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?" 39 He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.10 40 lOne of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus11 was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found mthe Messiah" (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon the son of nJohn. You shall be called oCephas" (which means pPeter12).
Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
43 qThe next day Jesus decided rto go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." 44 Now sPhilip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found tNathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom uMoses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus vof Nazareth, wthe son of Joseph." 46 Nathanael said to him, x"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, yan Israelite indeed, zin whom there is no deceit!" 48 Nathanael said to him, "How ado you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 49 Nathanael answered him, b"Rabbi, cyou are the Son of God! You are the dKing of Israel!" 50 Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." 51 And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you,13 you will see eheaven opened, and fthe angels of God ascending and descending on gthe Son of Man."
The Wedding at Cana
2 On hthe third day there was a wedding at iCana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with jhis disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." 4 And Jesus said to her, k"Woman, lwhat does this have to do with me? mMy hour has not yet come." 5 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6 Now there were six stone water jars there nfor the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty ogallons.1 7 Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast." So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted pthe water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now." 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested qhis glory. And rhis disciples believed in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and shis brothers2 and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
13 tThe Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus uwent up to Jerusalem. 14 vIn the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make wmy Father's house a house of trade." 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, x"Zeal for your house will consume me."
18 So the Jews said to him, y"What sign do you show us for doing these things?" 19 Jesus answered them, z"Destroy this temple, and in three days aI will raise it up." 20 The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,3 and will you raise it up in three days?" 21 But he was speaking about bthe temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, chis disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed dthe Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jesus Knows What Is in Man
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name ewhen they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus fon his part did not entrust himself to them, because ghe knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for ghe himself knew what was in man.
You Must Be Born Again
3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named hNicodemus, ia ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus1 jby night and said to him, k"Rabbi, lwe know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do munless God is with him." 3 Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is nborn oagain2 he cannot psee the kingdom of God." 4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born qof water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 rThat which is born of the flesh is sflesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.3 7 tDo not marvel that I said to you, 'You4 must be born uagain.' 8 vThe wind5 blows wwhere it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
9 Nicodemus said to him, x"How can these things be?" 10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel yand yet you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, zwe speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but zyou6 do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 aNo one has bascended into heaven except che who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.7 14 And das Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man ebe lifted up, 15 that whoever believes fin him gmay have eternal life.8
For God So Loved the World
16 "For hGod so loved ithe world,9 jthat he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not kperish but have eternal life. 17 For lGod did not send his Son into the world mto condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 nWhoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not obelieved in the name of the only Son of God. 19 pAnd this is the judgment: qthe light has come into the world, and rpeople loved the darkness rather than the light because stheir works were evil. 20 tFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ulest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever vdoes what is true wcomes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."
John the Baptist Exalts Christ
22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and xwas baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized 24 (for yJohn had not yet been put in prison).
25 Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over zpurification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, a"Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, bto whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and call are going to him." 27 John answered, d"A person cannot receive even one thing eunless it is given him ffrom heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, g'I am not the Christ, but hI have been sent before him.' 29 iThe one who has the bride is the bridegroom. jThe friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, krejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 lHe must increase, but I must decrease."10
31 mHe who comes from above nis above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and ospeaks in an earthly way. pHe who comes from heaven nis above all. 32 qHe bears witness to what he has seen and heard, ryet no one receives his testimony. 33 Whoever receives his testimony ssets his seal to this, tthat God is true. 34 For he whom uGod has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit vwithout measure. 35 wThe Father loves the Son and xhas given all things into his hand. 36 yWhoever believes in the Son has eternal life; zwhoever does not obey the Son shall not asee life, but the wrath of God remains on him.


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. A year ago today, one of the country's most sensitive national security programs was dragged out of the shadows. U.S. government had managed to keep the massive phone surveillance program a secret for more than a decade after 9/11. And then former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began to share with reporters documents he had taken from the agency. Snowden went on the run, ending up in Russia where he's found temporary asylum. In a moment, the impact of his revelations on the tech industry. But first, NPR's Carrie Johnson reports on Snowden's legal plight.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Edward Snowden faces charges that threaten to send him to prison for decades. Prosecutors in Virginia accuse him of stealing government property and sharing defense and intelligence secrets with people unauthorized to see them. But one year after his leak shook the Obama administration, Snowden is nowhere near a courtroom. That annoys Secretary of State John Kerry, who spoke with CBS recently about the case.
SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY: You know, he should man up and come back to the United States if he has a complaint about what's the matter with American surveillance, come back here and stand in our system of justice and make his case.
JOHNSON: Earlier this week Admiral Michael Rogers, the new head of the national security agency, told an audience that Snowden was, quote, "probably not working with foreign powers, and he may have been acting on his beliefs." So the government's tone is all over the map. As for Snowden, his legal advisor, Ben Wizner, says he'd like to come home.
BEN WIZNER: He has never stopped believing that he is on the side of U.S. government, that he's not working against the U.S. interest. And he would like to come back and find a way to contribute to the historic reforms that his act of conscience inspired over the last year.
JOHNSON: Wizner says he won't share private conversations between Snowden's team and the government, but two sources tell NPR American officials are worried about any negotiations being monitored by authorities in Russia, where Snowden now lives. That's a familiar concern for Veteran Defense Lawyer Joshua Dratel, who's represented several fugitives.
JOSHUA DRATEL: The whole question of communication security is a significant one which obviously, ordinarily eliminates phone or e-mail contact. But even in the context of some place like Russia could even make a face-to-face communication even susceptible to monitoring.
JOHNSON: And if they can find a way to talk, the U.S. will want Snowden to reveal what he took. Dratel says negotiating path back to the United States in these kinds of cases is all about reverse engineering.
DRATEL: You start from the acceptable resolution for both sides, and then you work backward to achieve that. If you start from the ground up I don't think you'd get very far because there are too many issues that could present obstacles.
JOHNSON: Translation - figure out a punishment for someone like Snowden and then cherry pick any charges to which he'll plead guilty or get some deferred penalty. Snowden's legal advisor, Ben Wizner, likens him to Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker.
WIZNER: I'm quite confident that if not immediately, in time, history will view Edward Snowden as an even more important and more consequential whistleblower than Daniel Ellsberg. And, in my view, criminal punishment is not the response to someone who launches such a critical public debate.
JOHNSON: Wizner says it's all but certain Snowden can stay in Russia, even after his one-year grant of asylum expires this summer. There's a chasm between what the Snowden team wants, no prosecution - and what prosecutors may demand - a guilty plea. But Wizner says everyone involved in the negotiations hopes they can find common ground. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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If your tank hasn't been pumped in the last 5 years, you are seeing wet areas or standing water above your drainfield, your toilets are running slowly or there are odors in your AL home, you may need to have your septic system cleaned. Below are some things to think about that will influence the cost of your septic system cleaning.
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Did you know that you local bank also has a bank for some of its business needs? Banks use a regional Federal Reserve Bank for short-term loans and services such as check processing. There are 13 regional Federal Reserve Banks that serve different areas of the country. Regional Federal Reserve Banks also compile statistics on various aspects of the U.S. economy and provide them to the public free of charge. Click here to visit the regional Federal Reserve Bank that offers services to Kansas Banks
If your bank is a Savings Bank (the official name of Savings Banks typically has the letters "F.S.B." or the words "Savings" or "Savings Bank" in their name), it is likely regulated by one of the regional offices of the Office of Thrift Supervision. Click the following link to get the contact information for this regulator of Savings Banks in Kansas
If your bank is nationally chartered (the official name of nationally charted banks typically has the letters "N.A." or the words "National Association" in their name), it is regulated by the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, which also has regional offices. Click here to view the local offices of the Comptroller of the Currency - Regulator of nationally charted institutions
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What should you and your special someone do on Valentine's Day? Every year, it's the same question. It's time for some new, fun, different ideas.
If you want to celebrate your relationship in an unusual, memorable way, something she (or he) will really love and cherish for a long time, we've come up with a few suggestions for you.
Make Your Gifts Together
If you're looking for a fun, creative, indoor activity—it is winter after all—that you can do together, look no further than making or decorating pottery together. It's been such a trend over the last several years that most cities and towns have stores where you can buy premade pieces of pottery, paint them however you want, and then have them glazed and made ready to give to your Valentine.
It's a great way to be creative together and make something for each other that you'll get to enjoy much longer than that overpriced bouquet of roses. And if you're celebrating your kids on Valentine's Day, it's an activity the whole family can enjoy together. If you don't want to go out, consider family craft time together at home.
Learn to Cook Together
Making dinner together can be very romantic. What's even more fun, while still having that romance, is learning to cook together. In most places, you can find businesses that give cooking lessons. We can also just about guarantee that your city is full of caterers and chefs who, if asked, might accept payment for spending an hour or two teaching you and your special someone how to prepare a certain kind of dish. Then you're left alone with a delicious, professional meal to which you can add candlelight and a bottle of wine. This is far more memorable than fighting the Valentine's Day dinner crowd at Le Whatever's and spending way too much money on the world's smallest salad.
Helicopter Tour of the City
You may not be able to do this just anywhere, but most big cities have helicopters and pilots who can be hired to give you a flying tour of your city. It's loud, so don't expect to do a lot of talking, but it's a very memorable and romantic way to begin or end a special night out together. See the city lights. Find your house. Buzz the zoo and get the animals riled up.
If this is the night you're popping the question, a beautiful view of the city lights could be the perfect backdrop for you to shout how much you love her. Do a search online for service providers in your area, and then do a little checking into the company's history to make sure you've found someone safe and reputable. Then let the skyline do the work.
Maybe a helicopter tour is to tame for your sweetie. No problem. How about skydiving? Jumping out of a plane together is frightening and exhilarating all at the same time. Like love. There's a big buildup while you get trained, suit up and take to the skies. Then there's that moment when you're not sure you can go for it, so you look at each other to see if it's really going to happen. Then, because it's inevitable, you take the leap and realize it's that the free-fall is the most fun you'll ever have in five minutes.
Be aware that you won't be alone, though, on this Valentine's Day date. If it's your first time skydiving, you'll jump in tandem with a professional. You'll appreciate having a pro strapped to your back, but it might seem weird to have taken a couple of strangers on your special date with you. Again, make sure you find a safe and respected company and then have fun. If skydiving is too much for your date, look into a hot-air-balloon ride. You get all the beauty and romance of being in the air without the scary-jumping-from-a-perfectly-good-plane part.
Celebrity Date
Nothing makes a person feel more special than being treated like a celebrity for a night. You don't have to let your valentine order you around or throw a cell phone at you, but you can make her feel like Hollywood royalty for the evening. She'll love having an excuse to get dressed up even more than any regular date night.
Start by sending her out for a mani/pedi and facial before she gets dressed up. Make dinner reservations at the most ridiculously expensive restaurant in town and arrange to get the most special treatment you can get. This isn't your standard Valentine's dinner, so be creative and see if you can get the staff to go along with your celebrity treatment. Hire a limo to take you to dinner and then on a tour of the city, while you drink champagne and pretend to avoid paparazzi inside. Then, rent the best hotel suite in town, have flowers waiting when you arrive and open up at least one bottle of bubbly to drink with your hand-dipped strawberries. Spend the evening together enjoying each other's company, and then arrange for spa treatments or massages before you check out the next day. This will definitely be one for the books.


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The World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) recently featured Honolulu Hawaii's American Carpet One in the May/June edition of Premier Flooring Retailer magazine as the winner of the association's 2014 Gold Standard Award for Excellence in retailing. American Carpet One not only won this award because of their excellence as retailers, but also for their consistent commitment to community service.
American Carpet One opened its doors in 1972 as the Carpet Shoppe with just five employees. When the Carpe Shoppe joined Carpet One in 1988, the company changed its name to American Carpet One, and the rest is history!
"Since 1988, American Carpet One has been a shining example of excellence in floor covering retail" said Howard Brodsky, co-founder, chairman and co-chief executive officer of CCA Global Partners.
Scott Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer, World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) presenting David Arita, President American Carpet One with the 2014 Gold Standard Award trophy
41 years later American Carpet one continues to give back to their customers and the community. In November 2014, Hawaii Business magazine ranked them #61 within Hawaii's most charitable companies. The company has ongoing involvement with The Salvation Army, four local universities, several schools, Humane Society, the Aloha United Way, State of Hawaii Adopt-A-Highway program, Toys for Tots, and in 2014 they even hosted their first Adopt-A-Pet Day.
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Winning the Gold Standard Award not only bestows recognition and honor upon the winner, annual recipients are also awarded with a $5,000 check. Keeping in line with their history of giving back, American Carpet One will be sharing their cash award with charities and their employees!
Arita said of his generosity, 'This is very huge for all of us. The employees all deserve a pat on the back and an acknowledgement for winning this award. It will prove to them that our hard work and effort as a team has paid off. Each and every person is to be congratulated. Everyone in the company is important and plays a very important role to our success."
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Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz characterizes the Spanish bank bailout as "voodoo economics" that is certain "to fail." New York Times economic analyst Andrew Ross Sorkin agrees: "By now it should be apparent that the bailout has failed—or at least on its way to failing." And columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman bemoans that Europe (and the U.S.) "are repeating ancient mistakes" and asks, "why does no one learn from them?"
Indeed, at first glance, the European Union's response to the economic chaos gripping the continent does seem a combination of profound delusion, and what British a reporter called "sado-monetarism"—endless cutbacks, savage austerity, and widespread layoffs.
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But if you are Josef Ackermann heading up the Deutsche Bank, you earned an 8 million Euro bonus in 2012, because you successfully manipulated the past four years of economic meltdown to make the bank bigger and more powerful than it was before the 2008 crash. In 2009, when people were losing their jobs, their homes, and their pensions, Deutsche Bank's profits soared 67 per cent, eventually raking in almost 8 billion Euros for 2011. The bank took a hit in 2012, but the Spanish bailout will help recoup Deutsche Bank's losses from its gambling spree in Spanish real estate.
And, just in case you thought irony was dead, it was the Spanish housing bubble that tanked that country's economy—at the time Madrid's debt was among the lowest in the Euro Zone—and German banks (as well as Dutch, French, British and Austrian) financed that bubble. German Banks also financed the real estate bubble that crashed Ireland's economy. Some 60 per cent of Deutsche Bank's income is foreign based.
Consider this figure: in 1997 real estate loans in Ireland were 5 billion Euros. By 2007 they were 96.2 billion Euros, a jump of 1730 per cent. Real estate prices rose 500 per cent, the same amount that Spanish housing prices increased. The banks didn't know they were pumping up a bubble? Of course they knew, but they were making money hand over fist.
When the American financial industry self-destructed in 2008, the Irish and Spanish bubbles popped, and who got the bill? Irish taxpayers shelled out $30 billion to bail out the Anglo-Irish Bank—essentially the country's total tax revenues for 2009—and in return got a 15 per cent unemployment rate, huge cuts in the minimum wage, pension reductions, and social service cutbacks. Spain is headed in the same direction.
As Spanish economist and London School of Economics professor Luis Garicano told the New York Times, "Unfortunately, Spain did not manage to reach one of its main goals in the negotiations [over the bailout], which was to have Europe bear part of the risk of rescuing the financial sector, without letting it fall instead directly onto the shoulders of the Spanish taxpayers."
Garicano went on to complain, "Those who lent to our financial system were the banks and the insurance companies of Northern Europe, which should bear the consequences of these decisions."
But of course they will not. Instead, the banks got to go to the casino, gamble other people's money, and get repaid for their losses. That's sweet work if you can get it.
However, the "sado-monetarism" strategy is about more than just bailing out the banks at the expense of the vast majority of European taxpayers. It cloaks its long-term designs in coded language: "rigid labor market," "internal devaluation," "pension reform," "common budgetary process," "political union."
A quick translation.
"Rigid labor market" means getting rid of contracts that guarantee decent wages, working conditions and benefits, all won through a long process of negotiations and industrial action. As the New York Times put it, the current rightwing Spanish government is attempting to "loosen collective bargaining agreements."
The drive to scrap union contracts is coupled with "internal devaluation," which, as Krugman points out, "basically means cutting wages." If the working class can be forced to accept lower wages and slimmer benefits—and there is no better disciplinarian in these regards than a high unemployment rate—profits will go up. Sure, the vast majority will be poorer, but not the people who run Deutsche Bank.
"Pension reform" simply means impoverishing old people, who had nothing to do with the real estate bubbles that brought down Ireland and Spain. But again, someone has to sacrifice, and old people don't have all that much time left anyhow.
"Common budgetary process" and "political union" means giving up national sovereignty in the service of keeping the banks solvent—in essence, the end of democracy on the continent. People could then elect any one they pleased, but no national government would have any say over economic policy. Want to do a bit of pump priming to get the jobless rate down and tax revenues up? Nope. But feel free to paint park benches any color you like.
The 100 billion Euro ($125 billion) Spanish bailout will fail for the average Spaniard, as bailouts have already failed the Irish, Portuguese and Greeks, and it will lock Spain into generations of debt. Italy is next (not counting the small fry like Cyprus and several Eastern European countries that may fall before Rome is finally sacked). The Euro Zone's economies are predicted to contract 0.1 per cent for all of 2012, and the jobless rate for the 17-country bloc is 11 per cent, higher than at anytime since the Euro was established in 1999.
Spain's right-wing prime minister, Mariana Rajoy, has tried to argue that the bailout was not as onerous as those imposed on Ireland, Portugal and Greece, but the Germans soon set him straight: "There will be a troika [the European Union, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund] and it will make sure the program is being implemented," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaube told the Financial Times.
It is not unlikely that the Euro will fall sometime in the next year, but of course the debts will remain. The grasping hand of the past will lie on the brow of the living for a long, long time to come.
Financier George Soros puts much of the blame for the current crisis on Germany—indeed, he accuses Chancellor Andrea Merkel of trying to establish a "German Empire"—but that is simplistic. Germany has certainly led the "sado-monetarian" charge, but this strategy is not just about unleashing the austerity Panzers to establish a Fourth Reich. All over the world, capital is on the march, with the goal of rolling back the social programs of the post-World War II period and returning to the Gilded Age when the rich did pretty much as they pleased.
Weakening unions is central to this, as is privatizing everything capital can get its hands on, and the economic crisis is the perfect cover to try an accomplish this. For a fascinating analogy, pick up Indian journalist P. Sainath's brilliant "Everyone Loves A Good Drought" that exposed how wealthy landlords in India manipulated a natural crisis to increase their grip over agriculture.
Former Deutsche Bank head Ackermann recently prattled on about the "social time bomb" of economic inequality, but so far he has not offered to share his 8.8 million Euro bonus. In the meantime, according to the International Labor Organization, youth global unemployment will reach 12.7 per cent this year and stay there for at least four years, creating a "lost generation" of workers.
So, the answer to Krugman's question, "why are they repeating ancient mistakes?"
Because they are making out like bandits.
CONN HALLINAN can be read at dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com and middleempireseries.wordpress.com. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.


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This directory contains alignments of the following assemblies: - target/reference: Zebrafish (danRer4, Mar. 2006, Sanger Centre, Danio rerio Sequencing Project Zv6) - query: Human (hg18, Mar. 2006, NCBI Build 36.1) Files included in this directory: - md5sum.txt: md5sum checksums for the files in this directory - danRer4.hg18.all.chain.gz: chained blastz alignments. The chain format is described in http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/chain.html . - danRer4.hg18.net.gz: "net" file that describes rearrangements between the species and the best Human match to any part of the Zebrafish genome. The net format is described in http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/net.html . - axtNet/*.danRer4.hg18.net.axt.gz: chained and netted alignments, i.e. the best chains in the Zebrafish genome, with gaps in the best chains filled in by next-best chains where possible. The axt format is described in http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/axt.html . The danRer4 and hg18 assemblies were aligned by the blastz alignment program, which is available from Webb Miller's lab at Penn State University (http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/). Any danRer4 sequences larger than 50,010,000 bases were split into chunks of 50,010,000 bases overlapping by 10,000 bases for alignment. A similar process was followed for hg18, with chunks of 300,000,000 overlapping by 0. Following alignment, the coordinates of the chunk alignments were corrected by the blastz-normalizeLav script written by Scott Schwartz of Penn State. Transposons that have been inserted since the Human/Zebrafish split were removed from the assemblies before alignment using the fasta-subseq and strip_rpts programs from Penn State. The abbreviated genomes were aligned with blastz, and the transposons were then added back in (i.e. the alignment coordinates were adjusted) using the restore_rpts program from Penn State. There are no lineage-specific repeats defined for human and zebrafish so all repeats from each species were used as lineage-specific. The blastz scoring matrix (Q parameter) used was: A C G T A 91 -90 -25 -100 C -90 100 -100 -25 G -25 -100 100 -90 T -100 -25 -90 91 with a gap open penalty of O=400 and a gap extension penalty of E=30. The minimum score for an alignment to be kept was K=2200 for the first pass and L=6000 for the second pass, which restricted the search space to the regions between two alignments found in the first pass. The minimum score for alignments to be interpolated between was H=2000. Other blastz parameters specifically set for this species pair: Y=3400 The .lav format blastz output was translated to the .psl format with lavToPsl, then chained by the axtChain program. Chain minimum score: 5000, and linearGap matrix of (loose): tablesize 11 smallSize 111 position 1 2 3 11 111 2111 12111 32111 72111 152111 252111 qGap 325 360 400 450 600 1100 3600 7600 15600 31600 56600 tGap 325 360 400 450 600 1100 3600 7600 15600 31600 56600 bothGap 625 660 700 750 900 1400 4000 8000 16000 32000 57000 Chained alignments were processed into nets by the chainNet, netSyntenic, and netClass programs. Best-chain alignments in axt format were extracted by the netToAxt program. All programs run after blastz were written by Jim Kent at UCSC. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If you plan to download a large file or multiple files from this directory, we recommend you use ftp rather than downloading the files via our website. To do so, ftp to hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu, then go to the directory goldenPath/danRer4/vsHg18/. To download multiple files, use the "mget" command: mget <filename1> <filename2> ... - or - mget -a (to download all files in the current directory) All files in this directory are freely available for public use. -------------------------------------------------------------------- References Chiaromonte, F., Yap, V.B., and Miller, W. Scoring pairwise genomic sequence alignments. Pac Symp Biocomput 2002, 115-26 (2002). Kent, W.J., Baertsch, R., Hinrichs, A., Miller, W., and Haussler, D. Evolution's cauldron: Duplication, deletion, and rearrangement in the mouse and human genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100(20), 11484-11489 (2003). Schwartz, S., Kent, W.J., Smit, A., Zhang, Z., Baertsch, R., Hardison, R., Haussler, D., and Miller, W. Human-mouse alignments with BLASTZ</A>. Genome Res. 13(1), 103-7 (2003).
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You rub and rub your eyes, but they won't stop itching. When you look in the mirror, they are red and puffy. What's going on? Do you have a strange sickness? No — you have a common problem called conjunctivitis. Most people call it pinkeye.
What Is Conjunctivitis?
Conjunctivitis (say: kon-junk-tih-VY-tis) is the most common eye problem kids can have. It can cause redness; itching; inflammation (say: in-fla-MAY-shun) or swelling; and a clear or white, yellow, or greenish gooey liquid to collect in the eyes.
It's called pinkeye because the white part of the eye and inside the eyelids become red or pink when you have it. Pinkeye may start in one eye, but many people get conjunctivitis in both eyes at the same time. Conjunctivitis usually doesn't hurt, but itching can be annoying. Sometimes it feels like you have an eyelash or a speck of sand in your eye and can't get it out.
Adults, especially parents and teachers who spend a lot of time with kids, can get conjunctivitis too. Conjunctivitis lasts a short time, usually about a week or less, and then goes away by itself or after treatment.
How Do I Get Conjunctivitis?
Kids get conjunctivitis for different reasons. Most kids get it from bacteria (say: bak-TEER-ee-uh) or viruses. This is called infectious (say: in-FEK-shus) conjunctivitis. Bacteria can be seen only with a powerful microscope, and viruses are even smaller than bacteria! Bacteria live on your skin or in your nose or mouth all the time and you never know it. Most don't ever bother you, but certain kinds of bacteria can cause infections like conjunctivitis.
Sometimes kids get ear infections when they have conjunctivitis because the same bacteria can cause both problems.
Viruses, like the kind that can give you a cold, can cause conjunctivitis, too. Conjunctivitis is easy to catch just through touching. You can get conjunctivitis by touching the hand of an infected friend who has touched his or her eyes. If you then touch your eyes, the infection can be spread to you. Washing your hands often with warm, soapy water is the best way to avoid being infected with conjunctivitis.
Kids also get conjunctivitis because of allergies or because they get something irritating in their eyes, but these kinds of conjunctivitis are not contagious.
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What Should I Do if I Think I Have It?
If your eyes are itchy, red, or more crusty than usual in the morning, you should tell a parent. Don't wait, because conjunctivitis spreads easily. Your mom or dad probably will call the doctor for an appointment. Wash your hands often, the infection can spread from one eye to other eye.
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No one knows exactly how many kids get conjunctivitis each year but your doctor treats many who have it and can spot it pretty quickly. The doctor also will ask you if your eyes have been red and itchy lately or if you have noticed any goopy stuff in your eyes. It's important to tell the doctor if you know anyone, like a brother or a friend, who has red and itchy eyes too.
Your doctor will know if you have conjunctivitis by looking carefully at your eyes to see if they are red and if any liquid is coming from them. The doctor will want to know that you can see OK and that nothing has gotten into your eye. Finally, your doctor may examine your ears to see if you have an ear infection caused by the same bacteria that can cause conjunctivitis.
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If your eyes are bothering you, try using a cool or warm washcloth on your eyes. Sometimes, your mom or dad can make you feel better by gently cleaning your eyes with warm water and cotton balls to remove the gooey liquid or crusty stuff. They should be very careful to wash their hands and throw out the cotton balls they use. Washcloths and towels used to clean or dry your eyes should go right into the laundry so no one else gets infected.
Most schools in the United States require a note from a doctor for a kid with pinkeye to return to school. Kids can usually return to school after their first 24 hours of antibiotic eye drops.
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ¾ cup thinly sliced sweet onion
- 1 (16 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- Salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
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- ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley
- ¼ cup chopped fresh mint
- ¼ cup pitted, chopped dates
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People have been puzzled by sphinxes, at least since the time of the ancient Greeks. And now, we can count another riddle of the mythical Egyptian creature that is part-lion, part-human. The feet of a sphinx - with a telling hieroglyphic inscription - have turned up in a dig in northern Israel, near the ancient city of Hazor. The find suggests an Egyptian connection at a time, with a place, that was previously unknown.
Joining us from Jerusalem is archeologist Amnon Ben Tor of the Hebrew University. He's the lead archeologist at the Hazor excavation site. And, first, what does your find look like, and what does the inscription say?
AMNON BEN TOR: Well, it looks like the front part of a sphinx. It weighs some 40 kilos. It's quite heavy, and it bears an inscription which identifies the king to which the sphinx belonged and the place in which it was originally placed in Egypt itself.
SIEGEL: So how do you understand or how do you theorize how the sphinx made it from Egypt to the north of Israel?
TOR: That's a wonderful question for which I don't have an answer. All I can do is speculate. And there are only three options. The first one is that it arrived in the time of this particular king, the King Mycerinus, one of the builders of the Giza pyramid, who reigned in the middle of the third millennium B.C., sometime around 2500. This is one option, but it's very, very unlikely because in his time there were absolutely no relations between Egypt and southern Canaan.
We're left with two other options. One is sometime in the late 17th and early 16th century, lower Egypt was ruled by a Canaanite dynasty, and those Canaanites did all kinds of terrible things. They set fire to the temples. They robbed the tombs, and maybe this is how the sphinx arrived in our country.
SIEGEL: So that's theory number two.
TOR: That's theory number two. But theory number there, which to me seems more likely, is that it arrived some 200 years later, during the 15th, 14th and 13th century, when the Egyptians ruled this part of Canaan.
SIEGEL: Now, it's impossible that, say, much later on, some Greek or Roman brought a trophy up from Egypt and brought it to Hazor?
TOR: That's definitely, definitely, definitely impossible, and I tell you why. Hazor ceased to exist in the year 732 B.C.E...
SIEGEL: Uh-huh.
TOR: ...a long time before the Greeks or the Romans or anyone else of those regimes played any role in our part of the world.
SIEGEL: What do you think happened to the rest of the sphinx? Where's the upper part of him?
TOR: Well, we have some 15 fragments of Egyptian statues of various kinds, and we have a 200-acre site. Have patience.
SIEGEL: OK. By the way, judging from the size of the feet, the paws of the sphinx that you've found, how big would the entire sphinx be if it were intact?
TOR: Well, we can reconstruct on the basis of what we have. We have a piece of about 60 by 60 centimeters. The sphinx must have been anyway - anywhere between 1 1/2 to 1 meter 80 in length and about a little bit less than a meter, about 80 centimeters in height, which would make it something weighing about half a ton.
SIEGEL: So it would be about 6 feet long and about 2 feet high.
TOR: About, yes.
SIEGEL: Well, congratulations on the find and thank you for talking with us about it.
TOR: Thank you. Thank you very much. All the best.
SIEGEL: That's archaeologist Amnon Ben Tor, who's professor of archaeology at Hebrew University, talking about the part of the sphinx that was discovered at the excavation site in Israel at Hazor.
You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Biological applications of microscope profiler. Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology 67990L–67990L (International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2007).
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Many chiropractors recommend orthotics. There are two kinds of orthotics: the simple, commercially-made insoles that are available at outdoor sports or shoe stores, and custom orthotics. Custom orthotics are superior since they are tailored to your individual foot and are designed to correct for your particular imbalances. These are created by making an impression of each foot called a cast, and then correcting for specific misalignments. According to Achtermann, custom orthotics help to prevent dysfunction of the lower body and legs, and decrease spinal stress.