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Road tripping around Iceland: part III, the North

Travelling in Iceland is a life changing experience. I’ll never forget the fabulous landscapes that I saw during the 12 days I spent there in September 2018, the stunning beauty of the wild nature and the recurrent feeling of being in a different world. The best way to enjoy your visit in Iceland would be going on a road trip, especially in summer when the daylight is longer. This is the third of 4 articles describing you a 9-day itinerary around the country with some advice for cheap accommodation if you’re not willing to go camping.

This article will take you from the amazing geothermic areas of Lake Mývatn to Akureyri, the second most populated city of Iceland after Reykjavik and its suburbs. Get ready for a completely different landscape compared to what you’ve seen in the South and in the East! Well, apart maybe from the occasional waterfall, like everywhere else in the country. But they are always so beautiful…

📷 For more pictures have a look at my gallery about the North of Iceland.

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Have also a look at my other articles about this itinerary: Part I, the South Coast; Part II, the EastPart IV, the Snaefellsnes Peninsula and Reykjavik.

Warning: I did this road trip in September 2018 with mostly good weather, low wind and long daylight. Always check the weather forecast and the driving conditions before travelling in Iceland and adapt your itinerary if needed. Remember also that daylight is reduced to less than 5 hours in the middle of winter and that you won’t be able to do as much as in summer.

This article begins next to Lake Mývatn around which I suggest you spend an entire day before heading to Akureyri, as there’s so much to see in this area. You might as well want to take a detour to Húsavík further North, as this place is known to be the best whale watching spot of Iceland – but you probably should allow an entire extra day for that.

Day 6: hunting for geothermic activity (around Lake Mývatn)

The Lake Mývatn is one the biggest lakes of Iceland. If you come here for the first time, you might find it a very welcoming area, especially compared to the vast and empty plains of black ashes that you have been driving through since Egillstaðir: a beautiful blue lake, green grass on its banks, dozens of pretty hills all around… But if you look closer, you’re probably going to realise quickly that these hills have a weird conic shape, that in some places steam is coming out of the Earth, and you might even notice a not-so-pleasant smell of sulphur in the air

The geothermal area around Lake Mývatn is one of the most extraordinary places of Iceland. From volcanic craters to the dark mystery of Dimmuborgir, as well as mud pools, thermal baths and a cave that Game of Thrones aficionados will love to see, there are so many attractions here! It would take at least one day to hit all the most beautiful sites listed in this article, and maybe even two if you want to see everything that needs to be seen.

Coming from the East on Route 1, the first point of interest will be to your right, shortly before arriving to Lake Mývatn. This area is called Krafla, a vast caldera where nature looks more threatening than anywhere else. The road will first go through a huge power plant using the forces of nature to create electricity, then winds up until you reach a little car park at the foot of the so-called Víti crater. There’s a blue/turquoise lake in it that looks absolutely stunning and peaceful… but Víti in Icelandic means hell: this crater was actually formed after a 5-year long eruption that started in 1724! Not quite so peaceful anymore, isn’t it?

Viti Crater, lake, volcanoYou can walk around the crater which will also lead you to a geothermal area with stunning colours and a strong sulphur smell. Be very careful to stay on the track at all times though!

There’s another geothermal area close to Víti crater called Leirhnjúkur (to the left when you’re driving towards Víti crater). I haven’t been there myself but I heard that it features numerous mud pools and fumaroles with beautiful colours.

Instead of visiting Leirhnjúkur, I went to Hverir, a similar place easily accessible as it’s directly next to the road (to your left shortly after heading back to Route 1 coming from the Krafla caldera). Once again, it’s literally vital to stay on the designated tracks as the entire area is boiling and bubbling, with extremely hot water, mud pools, big fumaroles and characteristic yellow sulphur deposit. The hill just above is called Mount Námafjall. Take your time to walk around the area and feel as if you just landed on a different planet.

Even if you never travelled to Iceland before, you might have heard about the Blue Lagoon. This thermal bath is located close to Keflavik airport, not very far from Reykjavik. It’s a very popular attraction, sometimes considered as a tourist trap as it’s quite expensive and often very crowded. If you’re looking for something more intimate, you can try the Mývatn Nature Baths left of Route 1 shortly before entering the village of Reykjahlið (although the word “nature” isn’t really appropriate as it’s a man-made bath – but so is the Blue Lagoon).

If you’re a Game of Thrones addict like me, the next attraction in the Lake Mývatn area is a must-see… and even if you never watched a single episode of this TV show and have absolutely no idea what the word “khaleesi” means, this wonderful place is worth a detour. Just before Reykjahlið, turn left on road 860 in the direction of Grjótagjá, a gorgeous cave with incredibly blue water. In the show, this is the place where Jon Snow and Ygritte got to know each other a bit more intimately… It used to be a popular place to bath for locals thanks to its perfectly warm water, but after a period of volcanic eruptions in the 1970’s the temperature rose above 50°C, way too hot for a swim.

From Reykjahlið, Route 1 bypasses Lake Mývatn to the North and West, but most of the attractions are found on the East and South, so turn left on road 848 instead of following Route 1. After around 5 kms, you’ll reach Dimmuborgir, the most famous place of this part of Iceland.

This huge solidified black lava can be compared to the ruins of an ancient dark city, or to the walls of a malefic castle; actually, in Icelandic Dimmuborgir means “dark cities” or “dark fortress”. This place is also featured in Game of Thrones (it’s where the wildling set their campground in season 3) and is home to many traditional legends. It is said that trolls can be found in Dimmuborgir, especially a group called the Yule Lads: they are the 13 sons of Grýla and Leppalúði, 2 vicious trolls who lived nearby. The best moment of the year to see them is in December. Unfortunately my trip around Iceland was in September and the only living creatures I saw were sheep!

There are many different options to explore Dimmuborgir, from a short wheelchair accessible path to longer tracks leading you to the most interesting rock formations including the “church”. You can even hike up to the top of Hverfjall crater a bit further.

Compared to the darkness of Dimmuborgir, the panoramic views over Lake Mývatn from the Höfði Peninsula a bit further South are really heavenly. The water is so clear, the trees so green and the entire landscape seems so peaceful! There are multiple paths around the peninsula, one of them leading you to the lava pillars of Kálfastrandavogar, a group of beautiful basaltic rocks pointing up from the lake.

Last stop on the South edge of Lake Mývatn: the pseudo-craters of Skútustaðagígar. Pseudo-craters? What does that mean? The answer is given on the sign at the entrance of the site: “pseudo-craters form when molten lava flows over water or wetlands. Water becomes trapped under the lava field and starts boiling. The pressure causes explosions where the steam escapes to the surface. The repeated explosions rip apart the lava, which piles up around the steam vent, forming a pseudo-crater”. To be honest, unless if you’re an expert it’s probably impossible to distinguish pseudo-craters from “real” volcanic craters… but it doesn’t make them less beautiful.

Where to stay? One day might not be enough to visit all these beautiful attractions so you might want to stay close to Lake Mývatn for another night. If so, I already told you about the Hlíd Hostel in my previous article; it’s probably the cheapest but still really decent option in the area (prices from 4400 crowns/33€/38$ – you’ll need your own sleeping bag to stay in the dorms).

Day 7: the capital of the North (Lake Mývatn-Akureyri)

If you read my previous articles about road tripping in Iceland, you might have realised that there was almost no day without at least one waterfall on the schedule. The one for day 7 is called Goðafoss and was probably my favourite of the entire trip.

Goðafoss (“waterfall of the gods”) is located around 50kms West of Reykjahlið on Route 1. It’s a really stunning horseshoe-shaped waterfall with view points on both sides. A track connects them and crosses the wild river downstream on a little bridge. The best view is from the South, where you can see the waterfall from the river level or admire it from above.

If you have more time, you can also choose to leave Reykjahlið to the North on road 87 in the direction of Húsavík, a little harbour which is known to be one of the best spots of Iceland for whale watching. Click here to learn more about it, and expect to add an extra day to your itinerary if you want to go on such a cruise. You can then head towards Akureyri by following road 85, which leads you back to Route 1 close to Goðafoss.

Despite its limited size with a population of slightly less than 20,000, Akureyri is the second biggest city of Iceland after Reykjavik and its suburbs. Because of its location so far North (the Arctic Circle is less than 100 kms away), it is often considered as the “Capital of the North”. It’s a really nice town with lots of ancient and pretty houses. Here’s a suggestion of itinerary to explore most of Akureyri in about 2 hours.

Begin from Hafnarstræti, the main commercial street of Akureyri. There are a few really nice buildings on both sides, take time to admire them before buying souvenirs or grabbing a coffee to keep you warm from one of the many shops and cafés along the street.

At the intersection between Hafnarstræti and Kaupvangsstræti, turn right and climb the 112 steps leading to Akureyrarkirkja, the church of Akureyri. It was built in 1940 by Guðjón Samúelsson, the same architect who completed Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik (see my upcoming article). Its modern architecture might not be to everyone’s taste; what do you think?

Akureyri, Akureyrarkirkja, church

Follow the path left of the church to Eyrarlandsvegur and turn left. The houses on the right side of the street are really beautiful, and you’ll see another much more traditional church (KaÞólskakirkjan, “catholic church”) at the intersection with Hrafnagilsstræti.

Keep going straight on Eyrarlandsvegur until you reach the botanical garden of Akureyri. Its location is quite extraordinary as it’s one of the northernmost botanical gardens in the world! But that doesn’t seem to bother the 7000 species of plants and flowers growing there.

Exit the garden on Eyrarlandsvegur from the same gate you used to enter and turn right, then left on Spítalvegur. Take a path to your left going down the hill through the woods. At the bottom you’ll reach the old town of Akureyri. In the 19th century, when the village slowly started to grow, this is where the town center was. The streets of Hafnarstræti and Aðalstræti were actually the banks of the very first harbour. There are a few signs around the area providing more details about the early history of the city and pointing you to some historical buildings including the oldest house of Akureyri still up today (built in 1795).

Keep going South until the end of Aðalstræti to see more pretty and colourful houses then retrace your steps and take Hafnarstræti until you reach the intersection with Kaupvangsstræti where you climbed up to Akureyrarkirkja earlier. That’s it, you’ve seen the best of Akureyri!

At that point, there’s a little detail that you might have already noticed, but if you haven’t, pay attention to the traffic lights. Do you see anything special? In Akureyri, all the red lights are heart-shaped: a cute attention to the drivers.

Akureyri, red light, heart

Where to stay? There are a few different hostels in Akureyri. I stayed at the Akureyri Hostelling International Hostel, not the cosiest place I’ve stayed at in Iceland but a clean and pretty good hostel, and a good value for the price of the rooms (from 3300 crowns/24€/27$ for a dorm, 5600 crowns/41€/46$ for a private room).

From Akureyri you can either explore the North-West fjords (a part of Iceland that I unfortunately didn’t have time to visit), head back to Reykjavik on Route 1 or spend some time on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. If you want to know more about this gorgeous place, follow the link below!

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Recruitment of CD16+ monocytes to endothelial cells in response to LPS-treatment and concomitant TNF release is regulated by CX3CR1 and interfered by soluble fractalkine

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Fractalkine (FKN, CX3CL1) is a regulator of leukocyte recruitment and adhesion, and controls leukocyte migration on endothelial cells (ECs). We show that FKN triggers different effects in CD16+ and CD16− monocytes, the two major subsets of human monocytes. In the presence of ECs a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulus led to a significant increase in tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-secretion by CD16+ monocytes, which depends on the interaction of CX3CR1 expressed on CD16+ monocytes with endothelial FKN. Soluble FKN that was efficiently shed from the surface of LPS-activated ECs in response to binding of CD16+ monocytes to ECs, diminished monocyte adhesion in down-regulating CX3CR1 expression on the surface of CD16+ monocytes resulting in decreased TNF-secretion. In this process the TNF-converting enzyme (TACE) acts as a central player regulating FKN-shedding and TNFα-release through CD16+ monocytes interacting with ECs. Thus, the release and local accumulation of sFKN represents a mechanism that limits the inflammatory potential of CD16+ monocytes by impairing their interaction with ECs during the initial phase of an immune response to LPS. This regulatory process represents a potential target for therapeutic approaches to modulate the inflammatory response to bacterial components.

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Munc13 proteins are essential regulators of neurotransmitter release at nerve cell synapses. They mediate the priming step that renders synaptic vesicles fusion-competent, and their genetic elimination causes a complete block of synaptic transmission. Here we have described a patient displaying a disorder characterized by a dyskinetic movement disorder, developmental delay, and autism. Using whole-exome sequencing, we have shown that this condition is associated with a rare, de novo Pro814Leu variant in the major human Munc13 paralog UNC13A (also known as Munc13-1). Electrophysiological studies in murine neuronal cultures and functional analyses in Caenorhabditis elegans revealed that the UNC13A variant causes a distinct dominant gain of function that is characterized by increased fusion propensity of synaptic vesicles, which leads to increased initial synaptic vesicle release probability and abnormal short-term synaptic plasticity. Our study underscores the critical importance of fine-tuned presynaptic control in normal brain function. Further, it adds the neuronal Munc13 proteins and the synaptic vesicle priming process that they control to the known etiological mechanisms of psychiatric and neurological synaptopathies.

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Synthetic 12-echo spoiled GRE (SGRE) datasets were generated with various R2* rates (0–2000 sec-1) at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 50, 20, 10, and 5. Phantoms of different MnCl2 concentrations (0–25 mM) were constructed and imaged using a 12-echo 3D SGRE sequence at 1.5T. Increasing levels of synthetic noise was added to the original data to simulate sequentially lower SNR conditions. Sixteen patients with suspected or known iron overload were imaged using 12-echo 3D SGRE at 1.5T. Various R2* quantification methods, based on Rician and non-Rician noise models, were compared in the simulation, phantom, and human datasets.

Non-Rician R2* estimates were variably inaccurate in the high R2* range (>500 sec-1), with SNR-dependent linear goodness-of-fit statistic (R2) of 0.373–0.999. Rician R2* estimates were accurate even in the high R2* range, with high R2 of 0.940–0.999 regardless of SNR. Non-Rician R2* estimates were variably nonlinear at high MnCl2 concentrations, with SNR-dependent R2 of 0.345–0.994. Rician R2* estimates were linear even at high MnCl2 concentrations, with high R2 of 0.923–0.994 regardless of SNR. Between-method agreement of the R2* estimates was excellent in patients with low ferritin but poor in patients with high ferritin. Rician R2* estimates had excellent correlation with ferritin (r = 0.966 P < 0.001).

Rician R2* estimates were most consistent in the high R2* conditions and under varying SNR, and may be more reliable when high iron load is suspected. J. MAGN. RESON. IMAGING 2015;42:1544–1559.

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Bochdalek hernias in adulthood are rare. Symptomatic Bochdalek hernias in adults are rarer, but may lead to fatal complications. Patients with acute gastric volvulus on diaphragmatic hernia are a diagnostic and therapeutic emergency.

Here, we report a case of a 56-year-old woman diagnosed with epigastric pain, cough, vomiting since 2 weeks and shortness of breath. Complicated Bochdalek hernia was an incidental finding, diagnosed by chest radiograph, computed tomography (CT), and barium swallow study. Stomach was within the thorax in the left side due to left diaphragmatic hernia of a nontraumatic cause.

The patient was prepared for the laparoscopic surgical repair, to close the defect. The patient recovered with accepted general condition and was discharged 9 days later.

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Between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2012, data on 64 patients with sacral neurogenic tumors treated with surgery were retrospectively analyzed. The mean age of the 64 cases (35 males and 29 females) was 37.2 years (range, 21–69 years); 38 had neurilemmomas and 26 neurofibromas. Thirty-four of the tumors involved S1 and S2, 11 S3 or lower, and 19 were single presacral soft tissue masses. Tumors were removed via anterior, posterior or combined anteroposterior approaches. Patients with unstable sacroiliac joints underwent iliolumbar fixation.

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Thoughts on Evidences for the Historical Authenticity of the Book of Mormon

By Dennis B. Horne

In a thoughtful and well-reasoned presentation engaging the question of the historicity of the Book of Mormon, Elder Dallin H. Oaks stated: “It is our position that secular evidence can neither prove nor disprove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.” (( While most Latter-day Saints would probably quickly agree with the idea that secular evidence cannot disprove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, they may be less eager to embrace the other side of the equation—that secular external evidence cannot prove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.

For some, such a recognition can be unsettling, but upon further inquiry and reflection, may indeed demonstrate itself to be a wise and meritorious approach. We might ask ourselves: does God really want us to believe the Book of Mormon because of secular evidence? I have long argued that if Joseph Smith had not returned the plates to Moroni, and instead made them available to any and all to be seen and hefted and studied since his day, instead of resolving the question it would have only become the source of endless disputes and arguments as to the origin of the plates and the translation of the engravings on them. The fact that the engraved gold metal plates existed would really not engender much genuine faith in anyone, nor convert them. Elder M. Russell Ballard shared his belief about this very truth (see his youtube video.) (( Joseph Smith himself indicated he was precluded from revealing more: “It was not intended to tell the world all the particulars of the coming forth of the book of Mormon.” ((

I believe the Book of Mormon text itself suggests that secular evidences might be difficult to find. For instance, Helaman 13:36 speaks of the land being cursed, and “all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them.” Likewise, Mormon 1:18 refers to people burying their treasures, which “became slippery, because the Lord had cursed the land, that they could not hold them, nor retain them again.” Toward the end of the destruction of the Nephite civilization, Moroni (1:2) wrote of the Lamanites, that “their wars are exceedingly fierce among themselves; and because of their hatred they put to death every Nephite that will not deny the Christ.” With the Lamanites destroying the Nephites and also seeking to destroy their sacred records, Mormon had to hide them to keep them safe (see Mormon 6:6). I do not place an authoritative interpretation on these passages, I only offer a possible explanation.

We can also find hints about how much knowledge of a certain kind the Lord wanted the Book of Mormon to contain for modern readers. Mormon was constrained from revealing the names of the three Nephites (see 3 Nephi 28:25). Further, he wrote: “Behold, I was about to write them, all which were engraven upon the plates of Nephi, but the Lord forbade it, saying: I will try the faith of my people” (3 Nephi 9:11). A similar theme is found in the book of Ether (4:1-15); knowledge is withheld because of unbelief. I think it can be safely concluded that the Lord wants his disciples to exercise faith to believe instead of being given a full knowledge of Nephite history. Over and over again, the message found in the Book of Mormon is that its truth and worth is to be learned by humble, faith-filled prayer, doubting nothing. This message culminates with Moroni’s famous promise near the conclusion of the book (Moroni 10:3-5). Develop a desire, ask in sincerity, with real intent, and faith, and God will reveal the truth of the book to you. External evidences are not mentioned.

Regarding the question of external evidences pertaining to the historical sciences, more can be learned, or at least considered thoughtfully. Elder Melvin J. Ballard (grandfather of Elder M. Russell Ballard) and Oscar W. McConkie (father of Elder Bruce R. McConkie) once had a very meaningful conversation. Sometime around 1937-39, Elder Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, had recently returned from a lengthy tour of ancient American ruins located in Mexico, South America, and Central America. ((This trip may have been Elder Ballard’s ten month mission to open South America for the preaching of the gospel, his last mission that ended before his death in 1939.)) He had come home very impressed and had naturally concluded that he had walked and stood among the ruins of ancient Book of Mormon civilizations.

He spoke on his travels and observations in the Salt Lake Tabernacle; telling of what he had seen in some detail, reviewing the many remarkable ruins and artifacts that he had seen. In his remarks, he announced the conclusion that, “I said the evidences are already supporting it [the Book of Mormon] gloriously. They will continue to support it until there will not be a skeptic left. . . .” On reading his discourse given that day, it is obvious that Elder Ballard was filled with enthusiasm and passion for the Book of Mormon and its prophetic destiny. Oscar W. McConkie happened to be sitting in the congregation and heard Brother Ballard’s declaration. After the meeting, they briefly visited together. Oscar recorded their conversation:

When Bro. Ballard spoke he had just returned from a tour of South America. In his talk he said the time would come when there would be discovered so much about the Book of Mormon that people would be forced to accept it. As I talked with him after the meeting, I said nothing of the statement, but quoted Jacob 4:1-2, “and we know that the things which we write upon plates must remain; But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates must perish and vanish away.” He dropped his eyes in meditation and said: “You are right, Bro. McConkie, there never will be anything discovered that will prove the Book of Mormon. I had seen this passage in vision, in the daytime. I had been deeply moved with my studies of Father Landa and others of the Catholic Fathers who destroyed so much and so many parchments and engravings by bon-fires etc. I asked the Lord about it, and he showed me a vision of the thing, and the verse in question. ((Oscar W. McConkie, “A Running View of Life” in Memorabelia, unpublished memoir, 270.))

Such a revelatory interpretation is valuable and confirmatory of the previously cited scriptural passages, but perhaps not very popular in some circles. In his personal record of their conversation, Oscar McConkie did not insert a quotation mark after Elder Ballard’s statement to him regarding the interpretation of the verses in Jacob, so we do not know if Oscar meant that he had seen the vision containing the interpretation, or that Elder Ballard had. Both men were spiritual giants of great faith for whom such a vision would not have been unusual. And of course we must remember that a private individual’s recorded reminiscence is not an approved source for authoritative interpretation of scripture. However, it still provides great insight and is in harmony with Elder Oaks’ position. Taken at face value it explains much about the reasons why specific irrefutable external evidence of actual Book of Mormon civilizations has not been discovered.

The reference to Father Landa, or Diego de Landa Calderón (1524-1579), is interesting and requires brief comment. Landa was a Franciscan Catholic Bishop who presided over a brutal inquisition of the Mayan people in Yucatan. This is important because some LDS scholars believe it possible that the Nephites/Lamanites were once a subset of a larger Mayan civilization. The Wikepedia article on Landa states:

After hearing of Roman Catholic Maya who continued to practice idol worship, he ordered an Inquisition in Mani ending with a ceremony called auto de fe. During the ceremony on July 12, 1562, a disputed number of Maya codices or books; Landa admits to 27, other sources claim “99 times as many” and approximately 5,000 Maya cult images were burned. The actions of Landa passed into the Black Legend of the Spanish in the Americas.

Armed with nothing but the conviction to learn as much of native culture as he could, so that it would be easier for him to destroy it in the future, Landa formulated an intimate contact with natives. Natives placed him in such an esteemed position they were willing to show him some of their sacred writings that had been transcribed on deerskin books. To Landa and the other Franciscan friars, the very existence of these Mayan codices was proof of diabolical practices. In references to these books, Landa has said: “We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction” ((

To restate the possibility—if (a big if) after over a thousand years of complete apostasy (from the time of Mormon to that of Landa) had passed—if there was anything remaining in the Mayan codices that may have had anything at all to do with the Book of Mormon, it went up in smoke and ashes courtesy of Landa. And be it noted, Landa did not destroy all traces of the Mayan civilization; modern scientists have uncovered and studied much; the Landa story is but a part of a larger and complicated picture.

An immense body of literature has been produced by institutions, scholars, and others with interest in matters related to Mesoamerican archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and indigenous civilizations. BYU’s New World Archaeological Foundation has done much work for decades, as have other organizations. Many opinions and conclusions have been expressed over a wide range of findings. Some Latter-day Saints who examine the research find their testimonies of the Book of Mormon intellectually confirmed; others lose what weak testimonies they had, figuring that modern science has all the answers to the past. This later group forgets that what science said fifty or a hundred years ago has been revised, and that what science says today will be revised again as the decades pass. (I noticed that some of the Wikipedia entries on the subject of so-called Book of Mormon Archaeology were largely written and sourced by anti-Mormons, eager to decree the case closed against the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.) I have never been able to understand why someone with a testimony given them by the Spirit will let something that comes to them intellectually trump the witness of the Holy Ghost. They are thereby giving a current and changeable scientific hypothesis or conclusion greater validity and legitimacy than a revelation from God.

Elder Milton R. Hunter (1902-1975) had an experience that bears on these points. Elder Hunter, of the First Council of the Seventy, had earned a PhD and was an enthusiastic proponent of searching for possible external evidences of the Book of Mormon. He produced filmstrips and gave talks and wrote many articles and books on the subject. In the summer of 1961, while leading a tour for Latter-day Saints, he visited South America, specifically Jardim Botanico, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, he spoke in a local branch meeting. W. Grant Bangerter (later a General Authority) was the Mission President and interpreted for Elder Hunter. Elder Bangerter later described what happened while Elder Hunter spoke:

He undertook on that occasion to bear his testimony of the Book of Mormon, he being perhaps one of the most qualified men [in the Church] to do so in terms of demonstrating the external evidences of the Book of Mormon, to which he had devoted a great deal of study. But as he spoke of these evidences and then began to talk of the internal evidences and then of the great testimony that was available, I noticed in the midst of his speech (though I was unable to concentrate on it fully because of the pressure of translation) that we were witnessing an unusual experience. He was being especially inspired to give the spiritual side of his testimony. Following the talk Brother Hunter turned to me and said, “You know, I’m so weak I can hardly stand. While I was speaking I felt an experience that I have had only once before in my life. It seemed that I was being lifted out of my body almost, that I was standing almost off the floor. It was of such a nature that I was physically weak. But I knew that it was a manifestation of the Spirit of the Lord, that He approved of what I was saying.” And he continued, “I had a similar experience a number of years ago in New England, but I would advise you not to talk about it. Let’s just keep this to ourselves. It’s a sacred thing to me.” I think that since he has passed away it wouldn’t be out of order to make mention of this special manifestation. ((These Things I Know: The Autobiography of William Grant Bangerter, Comp. Cory Wm. Bangerter (Provo, Utah: BYU Print Services, 2013), 211-212.))

The change in emphasis with the power in his testimony is striking and meaningful. As interesting as whatever the external evidences might have been that Elder Hunter had studied about, they were not the portion of his testimony that was reinforced by the Holy Spirit. That convincing power and manifestation was reserved for his testimony of the internal evidences; his spiritual witness of the truth of the book.

I have often thought that President Gordon B. Hinckley used particularly careful but impressive language describing the weight that possible scientific or external evidences of the Book of Mormon should be given in comparison with spiritual evidence: “The evidence for its truth, for its validity in a world that is prone to demand evidence, lies not in archaeology or anthropology, though these may be helpful to some. It lies not in word research or historical analysis, though these may be confirmatory. The evidence for its truth and validity lies within the covers of the book itself. The test of its truth lies in reading it. It is a book of God. Reasonable people may sincerely question its origin; but those who have read it prayerfully have come to know by a power beyond their natural senses that it is true, that it contains the word of God. . . .” ((“Four Cornerstones of Faith,” Liahona, February 2004;

Notice that President Hinckley did not completely discount or dismiss science and scholarship. He generously allowed for such work and research, but he knew and relied on the true source of unshakable conviction and could therefore testify boldly and without apology. (( I think we can comfortably conclude that President Hinckley’s expressions represent the position of the Church.

I have an atheist friend who used to be a faithful member of the Church. I shared with him the above conversation between Oscar McConkie and Elder Ballard, noting the destruction of the Mayan texts by Landa as explained in Wikipedia. His swift response was so unexpected it was almost gratifying. He said: “I have been all over Mexico, Belize and Honduras and have seen what still exists of the culture that existed at the time of the Book of Mormon. There are thousands of writings, artifacts, temples, carvings, etc., etc. that describe their culture, who their people were, what their religion was like and how their society generally functioned. Go to the Museum of Mayan culture in Mexico City and you will see everything related to that time.” My friend knows all of these things were there; that they existed and could be seen and studied; but instead of considering the possibilities of intellectual corroboration of the Book of Mormon and his former faith, he naively accepted the opinions of the scientific “experts” that know nothing of the Book of Mormon. This backward approach created doubt in him, which grew, eventually leading him to conclude the book was false. How tragically shortsighted and spiritually lazy! But most importantly, he did not take into account the possibility that God has prepared things so that nothing will ever be found in the ground to explicitly prove His book, a book that can only be approached and unlocked to find its greatest treasures by faith and spiritual effort. My friend turns a deaf ear to me when I tell him that if he wants to know God, the only way to do so is to approach Him on His terms; if you do it any other way you will fail. As Elder Bruce R. McConkie often phrased it, “God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.” Likewise, perhaps proof of the truth of God’s book only comes under the same conditions.

We began by quoting Elder Oaks and will finish the same way:

Its authenticity depends, as it says, on a witness of the Holy Spirit. Our side will settle for a draw, but those who deny the historicity of the Book of Mormon cannot settle for a draw. They must try to disprove its historicity—or they seem to feel a necessity to do this—and in this they are unsuccessful because even the secular evidence, viewed in its entirety, is too complex for that. . . .

Scholarship and physical proofs are worldly values. I understand their value, and I have had some experience in using them. Such techniques speak to many after the manner of their understanding. But there are other methods and values too, and we must not be so committed to scholarship that we close our eyes and ears and hearts to what cannot be demonstrated by scholarship or defended according to physical proofs and intellectual reasoning. . . .

Human reasoning cannot place limits on God or dilute the force of divine commandments or revelations. Persons who allow this to happen identify themselves with the unbelieving Nephites who rejected the testimony of the prophet Samuel. The Book of Mormon says, “They began to reason and to contend among themselves, saying: That it is not reasonable that such a being as a Christ shall come” (Hel. 16:17–18). Persons who practice that kind of “reasoning” deny themselves the choice experience someone has described as our heart telling us things that our mind does not know. . . .

Sadly, some Latter-day Saints ridicule others for their reliance on revelation. Such ridicule tends to come from those whose scholarly credentials are high and whose spiritual credentials are low. ((

Regarding Elder Oaks’ reasoning from the scriptures, I say, Amen and well said. I need no gold plates or archaeological artifact on which to rest my testimony and I don’t expect to ever see such. I testify that the Book of Mormon is authentic, historical, and true. I have had the influence of the Holy Ghost come upon me in great power as I have read passages aloud from it. Those to whom I read hardened their hearts and would not believe, but I was so filled with the Spirit that my whole soul burned as with joyous fire, granting absolute assurance. I also knew that he who brought the book forth and translated it was a Prophet of God, foreordained to do that great work. Of these things I have no doubt.

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The U.S. Navy seeks a partner for licensing and collaboration on a miniature digital programmable system for use in performing functional tests on digital electronics such as memories, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and analog to digital converters while fitting into a standard 48 pin DIP package footprint.

The testing of digital components is currently performed with large, heavy machines that are not easily transported. Electronics that will be operated in harsh environments, such as radiation rich settings, need to be tested while exposed to real-life operating conditions. It is necessary to test the devices while exposed to these conditions, but it is also imperative that the testing equipment not be exposed which could lead to failure of the test system's components. The smaller the test system, the easier it is to shield and protect. Likewise, testers need to be portable so they can be shipped to environmental testing facilities.

NSWC Crane has developed and patented a compact electronics test system with a programmable interface and on-board functions available for different types of environments. The test system can perform functional tests on digital electronics with 48-pin DIP footprint. The design of the device is inexpensive compared to currently available test system. The small size allows for the device to be shielded from the effects of the environment it is testing as well as makes the device portable.
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Stria Announces its Summer Exploration Drilling Program and Further Development of its Proprietary Processing Technologies

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Stria_finalJune 26, 2014 (Source: Marketwired) — Stria Lithium Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SRA) (“Stria” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the commencement of its summer 2014 exploration drilling program at its Willcox brine lithium project in southeast Arizona.

Stria is the sole owner of the Willcox brine property and the Pontax spodumene lithium project located in the James Bay region of Northern Quebec. The Company is developing two distinct, environmentally sustainable processing technologies for both projects.

The purpose of the 2014 Willcox drilling program is to confirm historic exploration results and to test groundwater samples for use in Stria’s proprietary membrane processing technologies now under development. This technology will allow Stria to recover lithium from brine type deposits without the need of large scale evaporation ponds and their associated environmental impacts.

On May 20, 2014, the company announced the successful completion of its Phase 1 “proof of principle” development of a novel, hard rock ore-to-lithium metal process for application at its Pontax spodumene project in Quebec.

The potential benefits of the technologies is that they require less controls; less chemistry via the recycling of chemicals; require less energy due to energy recycling; reduce capital costs from the construction of smaller, compact processing facilities, and; the combination of a simple process and compact design enable easy automation.

Stria President and Chief Operating Officer Julien Davy said the company’s ultimate goal is to produce high-purity (99.999%) lithium metal or other lithium compounds that meet the needs of battery manufacturers for an environmentally sustainable supply option that dramatically reduces costs. “Any lithium process that significantly reduces production costs will help changing the battery market,” said Mr. Davy.

“Completion of our Phase 1 spodumene process investigation was by far the most difficult part of development. Now all our efforts will be devoted to the testing stages,” said Mr. Davy.

“Unlike the Willcox brine process which builds upon existing and proven technologies, our proprietary, hard rock process is being developed in house and is unique to Stria Lithium,” Mr. Davy said.

He said Phase 2 development, now underway, is intended to optimize recoveries and reaction kinetics, and finalize the downstream process steps. “These metallurgical steps are known in the mining industry. Now with Phase 1 in hand, we can move towards the final steps in our process to recover a high-purity product in a sustainable way as we recycle as much as possible the process chemicals,” Mr. Davy said.

In the meantime, this step will generate data to be applied in the company’s next step, the construction of a bench scale pilot plant.

The Company’s intent is to position itself as a new, green technology source of technology lithium, an irreplaceable component for current and next-generation batteries.

Lithium metals today represent about 30% of global lithium consumption. By 2025, it is estimated that global consumption from the battery manufacturing sectors will account for some 65% of total global consumption.

About Stria Lithium Inc.

Stria Lithium (TSX VENTURE:SRA) owns the Pontax spodumene lithium property in Northern Quebec and the Willcox brine lithium property in southeastern Arizona. As announced in January 2014, Stria is developing proprietary, in-house processing technologies for both projects with the purpose of reducing costs on an environmentally sustainable basis.

Stria’s technologies, based on recovering lithium metal directly from ore and from brine liquids, will be more efficient, will require fewer controls, less chemistry and require less energy from compact facilities designed to enable easy automation.

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It's also far more Ninja Turtle-specific than "Ninja Rap," the magnum opus Vanilla Ice created for the 1991 TMNT movie Secret of the Ooze, so that's nice. But to be totally fair, it must be noted that "Shell-Shocked" features not a single instance of a white person screaming "Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP! GO GO GO GO!" in it, and that's definitely not something you can say about "Ninja Rap." Here, compare the two songs and see for yourself.

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The purpose of this Motivational Interviewing (MI) via Co-Active Life Coaching (CALC) research program in tobacco control was to assess the effectiveness of this individualized, interactive intervention. This was achieved through a critical appraisal and literature review of the individual dimensions of MI currently used in cognitive-behavioural smoking cessation interventions, as well as MI applied via CALC intervention studies at both the individual- and population-levels.

Article 1 provides the critically appraised and systematic review of literature exploring three dimensions of MI (social support, motivation, and tailored interventions) which were implemented independently in cognitive-behavioural cessation interventions. The effectiveness of these dimensions at promoting cessation was assessed and yielded mixed results. The purpose of Article 2 was to assess the impact of MI-via-CALC on selected cessation outcomes among young adults (19-25 years) and found the immediate intervention group, compared to the waitlist group, had a significant reduction in smoking behaviours (number of cigarettes smoked per day and cigarette dependency) and significant increases in personal competency (self-esteem and self-efficacy). Additionally, at 12-months post-intervention a cessation rate of 31.4% was reported and biochemically verified. Lastly, Article 3 assessed the impact of a full-day application-based MI-via-CALC training on the perceived competency of employees of a national smokers’ telephone hotline to facilitate behaviour change among callers. Post- training participants described skill development, increased competency at facilitating behaviour change, and desire for additional training.

This research program was comprised of three unique studies. This was the first critical appraisal and literature review to assess cognitive-behavioural cessation interventions through an MI lens. The core components of MI-via-CALC are similar to components already utilized individually in cessation interventions; however, unique to MI-via-CALC is the incorporation of these components into one intervention. Moreover, this was the largest individual MI-via-CALC intervention tobacco study to date and the only one with a control group. Furthermore, the cessation rates observed in this intervention study are beyond those currently observed in other cognitive-behavioural interventions as well as nicotine replacement therapy studies. Lastly, the MI-via-CALC training offered to employees of a national smoker’s hotline was also a first, as the hotline typically does not allow outside researchers within their organization. Overwhelmingly, the training was well received, and the impact was self-reported behaviour change resulting in ameliorated client interactions to promote cessation. Together, the important findings of these ground-breaking studies underscore the need for continued investigation of MI-via-CALC as an intervention for tobacco control.


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Although the importance of food as a social determinant of health has been elucidated, it remains underexplored in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where a significant population is faced with challenges of accessing food, largely from a combination many factors including low economic power, poor livelihoods, political instability and policy gaps. Despite tremendous improvement on food security in Ghana, the northern part of the country including the Upper West Region still experience disproportionally high levels of deprivation and food insecurity. Research has tends to explain the dynamics and complexities of food insecurity in the Region, yet variation of the incidence of food insecurity across different geo-political districts in the region and its association with human health is less examined. In response, this thesis examines the relationship between household food insecurity and health in the Upper West Region of Ghana.

Results from quantitative survey (n=1438) conducted in all the eleven districts of the Upper West Region from May to August, 2014 show that households that received remittance and located in both rural and urban areas as well as non-remittance receiving households in rural areas were more likely to report being severely food insecure compared to non-remittance receiving households in urban areas. Those who reported being food insecure were more likely to report poor mental health. Although migration and remittance have been used by households to address food insecurity, the findings here show that migration and remittance may not adequately impact on food insecurity in all contexts, giving prominence to the role of local context in influencing the persistent food insecurity situation in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The research demonstrates that use of Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFAIS) in most sever periods of food insecurity would produce much higher scores of food insecurity compared to scores produced from use of Food Consumption Scores (FCS). Also, the use of subjective health rating tool (the DUKE Health Profile) in this research indicates its wider applicability. The study makes suggestions for an integrated food security policy, decentralization of mental health care, and expansion of the economic potential of the Upper West Region. Future research directions are also discussed.


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Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame dies at age 97

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Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
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Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and one of the nation’s most influential figures in higher education, the Catholic Church and national and international affairs, died at 11:30 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 26) at Holy Cross House adjacent to the University. He was 97.

“We mourn today a great man and faithful priest who transformed the University of Notre Dame and touched the lives of many,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president. “With his leadership, charisma and vision, he turned a relatively small Catholic college known for football into one of the nation’s great institutions for higher learning.

“In his historic service to the nation, the Church and the world, he was a steadfast champion for human rights, the cause of peace and care for the poor.

“Perhaps his greatest influence, though, was on the lives of generations of Notre Dame students, whom he taught, counseled and befriended.

“Although saddened by his loss, I cherish the memory of a mentor, friend and brother in Holy Cross and am consoled that he is now at peace with the God he served so well.”

In accord with Father Hesburgh’s wishes, a customary Holy Cross funeral Mass will be celebrated in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame in coming days for his family, Holy Cross religious, University Trustees, administrators and select advisory council members, faculty, staff and students. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., Fund for Excellence in Catholic Education at Notre Dame or to the Congregation of Holy Cross.

A University tribute to Father Hesburgh will take place in Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center at a time to be announced.

Information, updates and a retrospective on Father Hesburgh’s life and career are available on the University’s website, www.nd.edu. Information also is available at 574-631-5858.

Father Hesburgh was born May 25, 1917, in Syracuse, New York, the son of Anne Murphy Hesburgh and Theodore Bernard Hesburgh, an executive of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. A brother, James, was graduated from Notre Dame in 1955 and lives in South Bend, Indiana. Three sisters preceded him in death.

Father Hesburgh was educated at Notre Dame and the Gregorian University in Rome, from which he received a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1939. He was ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Sacred Heart Church (now Basilica) on the Notre Dame campus June 24, 1943, by Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Following his ordination, Father Hesburgh continued his study of sacred theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., receiving his doctorate (S.T.D.) in 1945. He joined the Notre Dame faculty the same year and served as chaplain to World War II veterans on campus in addition to his teaching duties in the Religion Department. He was appointed the head of that department in 1948, and the following year was appointed executive vice president in the administration of Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., the University’s president. At the age of 35 in June 1952, he was named the 15th president of Notre Dame.

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., with Pope Paul VI, 1960 Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., with Pope Paul VI, 1960

The accomplishments of the Hesburgh era at Notre Dame are reflected in statistics comparing the Notre Dame of 1952, when Father Hesburgh became president, with the University he left in 1987. The annual operating budget went from $9.7 million to $176.6 million, the endowment from $9 million to $350 million, and research funding from $735,000 to $15 million. Enrollment increased from 4,979 to 9,600, faculty from 389 to 950, and degrees awarded annually from 1,212 to 2,500. The two major changes during the Hesburgh era were the transference of governance in 1967 from the Congregation of Holy Cross to a two-tiered, mixed board of lay and religious trustees and fellows, and the admission of women to the undergraduate program in 1972.

Father Hesburgh played an active and influential role in national and international affairs during and after his presidency.

He held 16 presidential appointments over the years and they involved him in virtually all major social issues — civil rights, peaceful uses of atomic energy, campus unrest, treatment of Vietnam draft evaders, and Third World development and immigration reform, to name only a few.

Justice was the focus of many of his outside involvements. He was a charter member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, created in 1957, and he chaired the commission from 1969 to 1972, when President Richard Nixon replaced him as chairman because of his criticism of the administration’s civil rights record. Father Hesburgh was a member of President Gerald Ford’s Presidential Clemency Board, charged with deciding the fate of various groups of Vietnam offenders. His work on these commissions led to the creation at Notre Dame Law School of the Center for Civil and Human Rights.

In 1971 he joined the board of the Overseas Development Council, a private organization supporting interests of the underdeveloped world, and chaired it until 1982. During this time, he led fundraising efforts that averted mass starvation in Cambodia in 1979-80. Between 1979 and 1981 he also chaired the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, the recommendations of which became the basis of Congressional reform legislation five years later. He was involved during the 1980s in a private initiative that sought to unite internationally known scientists and world religious leaders in condemning nuclear weapons. He helped organize a 1982 meeting in Vatican City of 58 world-class scientists, from East as well as West, who called for the elimination of nuclear weapons and subsequently brought together in Vienna leaders of six faith traditions who endorsed the view of these scientists. His global perspective was the impetus for the establishment at Notre Dame of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Father Hesburgh also served four Popes, three as permanent Vatican City representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna from 1956 to 1970. At the request of Pope Paul VI, he built in 1972 the Ecumenical Institute at Tantur, Jerusalem, which Notre Dame continues to operate. Paul VI also appointed him head of the Vatican representatives attending the 20th anniversary of the United Nations’ human rights declaration in Teheran, Iran, in 1968, and six years later a member of the Holy See’s U.N. delegation. In 1983 Father Hesburgh was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Council for Culture, charged with finding ways in which the saving message of the Gospel could be preached effectively in the world’s variegated cultures.

On more than one occasion, Father Hesburgh found himself the first Catholic priest to serve in a given position. Such was the case during the years he was a director of the Chase Manhattan Bank and a trustee (later, chairman) of the Rockefeller Foundation. Also, his appointment as ambassador to the 1979 U.N. Conference on Science and Technology for Development was the first time a priest had served in a formal diplomatic role for the U.S. government.

Father Hesburgh also was a national leader in the field of education, serving on many commissions and study groups. Within the academy, he served as chairman of the International Federation of Catholic Universities from 1963 to 1970 and led a movement to redefine the nature and mission of the contemporary Catholic university, drawing heavily on the experience of Catholic institutions of higher learning in the United States. His stature as an elder statesman in American higher education is reflected in his 150 honorary degrees, which is believed to be the most ever awarded to one person. He was the first priest elected to the Board of Overseers at Harvard University and served two years (1994-95) as president of the board. Father Hesburgh also co-chaired from 1990 to 2003 the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, an influential advocate for reforms in college sports.

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., with Martin Luther King Jr., ca. 1964 Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., with Martin Luther King Jr., ca. 1964

In addition to the honorary degrees, Father Hesburgh also was recognized at the nation’s highest levels for his many contributions to society. In July 2000, his public service career was honored when he became the first person from higher education to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives gathered in the rotunda of the Capitol as President Bill Clinton presented the medal.

Father Hesburgh also received the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. He also received numerous awards from education groups, among them the prestigious Meiklejohn Award of the American Association of University Professors in 1970. This award, which honors those who uphold academic freedom, recognized Father Hesburgh’s crucial role in blunting the attempt of the Nixon administration in 1969 to use federal troops to quell campus disturbances.

When Father Hesburgh stepped down as Notre Dame’s leader June 1, 1987, it ended the longest tenure at that time among active presidents of American colleges and universities. After a yearlong sabbatical, he returned to a retirement office on the 13th floor of the newly named Hesburgh Library. One of his first projects was completion of an autobiography, “God, Country, Notre Dame,” which was published in November 1990 by Doubleday and became a national best-seller.

In addition to his biography, Father Hesburgh wrote three other books — “The Humane Imperative: A Challenge for the Year 2000,” published in 1974 by the Yale University Press; “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education,” published in 1979 by Andrews McMeel Inc.; and “Travels with Ted and Ned,” published in 1992 by Doubleday.

A consistent theme in these and other writings is a vision of the contemporary Catholic university as touching the moral as well as the intellectual dimensions of scholarly inquiry.

“The Catholic university should be a place,” he wrote, “where all the great questions are asked, where an exciting conversation is continually in progress, where the mind constantly grows as the values and powers of intelligence and wisdom are cherished and exercised in full freedom.”

That the Notre Dame of today, in reflection of that vision, stands as one of the world’s great universities is the lasting legacy of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.

Contact: Dennis K. Brown, University spokesman and assistant vice president for news and media relations, 574-631-8696

Originally published by Dennis Brown at news.nd.edu on February 27, 2015.


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How the Iron Eagle Books Are Written

One question that I get asked more than any other is, “What is your process when writing a novel?” My answer might surprise you.

One question that I get asked more than any other is, “What is your process when writing a novel?” My answer might surprise you.

~ IE ~

Every Iron Eagle novel is plotted out on a single return envelope. That’s right! The entire novel—the characters and the key story details—is written on a plain white envelope like you receive in the mail to pay a bill. I write linearly, which means I write all of my novels from start to finish, and in that exact order. When I start a new book, I have the subject matter that the Eagle and other characters are going to deal with, but I never know who the bad people are.

My desk as I write each novel and the envelopes

“How can you write a novel if you don’t know who the characters are?”

I write out a list of my main characters, like this:

  • John Swenson aka The Iron Eagle
  • Sara Swenson
  • Jim O’Brian
  • Barbara O’Brian, and so on.

I then work from the prologue from the previous novel to start to build the next book. In most cases, the bad guys (and girls) reveal themselves through the course of the writing process. I don’t know who they are, or, in many cases, just what they are doing when I start a novel. The characters reveal themselves and their motivations as I write. And in ALL cases I am just as surprised by the content and the bad people who enter a new novel as you are. My wife always says, “No surprise for the writer no surprise for the reader.” I can’t tell you how many times through the past several years a character revealed him- or herself as I was writing and blew me away.

My Desk as I write each novel

Why I Write Fact-based Fiction

While The Iron Eagle Series is fiction, it is reality-based fiction. I would be bored to tears if I were to try and be a true crime writer, having to stick to the facts of a case and the players and their roles. Every Iron Eagle novel is based in reality, and most of these crimes REALLY have happened. By fictionalizing my series, it allows me to weave fact with fiction, and it gives me creative license to write compelling prose. As I always state to readers, things that happen in the Iron Eagle Series can happen to any of us if we are in the wrong place at the wrong time (or have let our guard down).

Here are a few pictures of my desk during the writing process. The photo of the open black folder shows where I store each envelope after a novel has been completed. The envelopes you see on my desk are for books 18–20, and there is a stack of blank envelopes waiting for future books.

Iron Eagle Series File

~ IE ~

I hope this gives you a little insight into my writing process and answers some questions about how the Eagle and the novels come to life. I really enjoy sharing the behind-the-scenes look at how novels come to life, and I hope you enjoyed this little trip into my world as an author.

Until next time,

Roy A. Teel Jr., Author

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  1. Pull on the corner to remove the cover.
    • Pull on the corner to remove the cover.

  2. Remove the six screws.
    • Remove the six screws.

    • Remove the back of the device.

    • Remove the four screws from the mother board.

    • Remove the screen connector and the battery connector.

    • Remove the micro SD card.

    • Remove the motherboard from the chassis.

    • Remove the four screws from the screen frame.

    • Remove the screen

    • And we finally finished.

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Just a quick note, I noticed that the SD card in the teardown is a 4gb one. The Kobo Mini has only 2gb of storage. There's just under 2gb of unpartitioned space. You can use a partition manager to extend out the last partition to fill the card, and get close to 4gb of space.

There's a guide over on Mobile Read:

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Thanks for the teardown! See and for more disassembly advice and information about the components used.

I would be concerned about the reliability of the 4GB micro SD cards when extended to use the full unpartitioned space. While I could imagine a situation where 4GB cards were used due to unavailability of 2GB cards, there doesn’t seem to be a good reason to only format them to 2GB unless they were only guaranteed to reliably hold 2GB of data. In other words, I wonder if they were originally 4GB cards that failed some QA test and were only rated for use as 2GB capacity cards.

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Learning to love

Love was the one thing I was sure I did well but when God breathed truth into my life I saw that my standard of love fell so short of the perfection of Jesus. Being in the presence of flawless love instantly exposed all my unloving daily thoughts & actions. God’s explanation was so powerfully gentle; there was no anger, fear, guilt or punishment. I saw that my love only extended to the people I have in my life and occasionally to someone in need. His love is so perfect that I fail even to the people closest to me –

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

I have failed at EVERY SINGLE ONE! So what good is love if I don’t do it fully and fiercely? Why does the love that I choose to give have limits and conditions? Why is the amount of love I have for someone relative to how close they are to me or how good our relationship? Surely the love I have for the stranger in town should be just as powerful as the love for my own child.

“Love your neighbour as yourself”

I knew this verse and always felt, for me, it seemed impossible to obey; for example, I definitely did not love the man who raced me to the last seat on the tube when I was heavily pregnant. But I’d never read the verse before –

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30

And *that’s how we love to full capacity! He breaks the barriers we set, he enables us all to love boldly, powerfully & unconditionally. By first being secure in God’s love for me (despite my many many flaws!) and experiencing how precious we are to him, it becomes crystal clear how precious EVERY SINGLE PERSON on this earth is to him so who am I to put up barriers on his incredible gift of love! If we choose every day to keep our hearts fully open to Jesus allowing him to lead us then His awesome, thundering, mighty, boundless love blazes through.

Thank you cards

I love getting my children involved in saying thank you for their gifts. My four year old is doing well with writing her thank you cards and I thought this was a really lovely way for my 1 year old to say thank you. She really loved doing them and liked the texture of the sponge and paint. It was very sweet to see how impressed her sisters were with the results.