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In the next few years, sixth-graders in School District 2 are likely to join middle school, leaving behind their elementary school counterparts, as trustees move forward with a plan to modernize the school district.
Trustees voted Monday night to take the next step toward reconfiguring the SD2 elementary schools as kindergarten through fifth grade.
The change is one option presented to trustees as part of the master facilities plan process the district has undertaken over the past six months.
With Monday night's vote in place, O2 Architects in Billings and national design firm DLR Group will create draft plans of what a K-5, 6-8, 9-12 school district would look like.
The board will have to approve those plans and then pass a multimillion-dollar bond with voters before grade configurations would actually change.
The entire process would take three years after a successful bond vote and involve the construction of new middle schools — and possibly new elementary schools — along with additions to existing schools.
The switch would mark a significant change for the district. For that reason, Trustee Pam Ellis wanted to make sure the public had time to digest the plan and comment on it.
She felt the vote Monday night was too soon and called it a "stealth decision" by the board as it didn't leave enough time for public comment.
Earlier in the evening, Superintendent Terry Bouck pointed out to the board that since September he had attended 25 meetings with community groups and sat down for a local radio show to discuss the district's planning process.
The district also has held a series of community meetings through the fall with O2 and DLR representatives to map out the master facilities plan.
There's been ample opportunity for public input and feedback, Trustee Greta Besch Moen said.
SD2 officials are hopeful that as the planning process gains momentum more community members will come to meetings and offer input.
The district has paid nearly $300,000 for the master facilities plan, which includes a complete demographic study of the school district.
Bouck called it "money well spent" and said moving forward with the planning process allows O2 and DLR to do what the district hired them to do.
"You need to support the professionals you've hired," he said.
The draft plan for the new K-5 grade configuration for SD2 will be presented at a February meeting for the community.
Monday night's meeting began on a somber note with trustees holding a moment of silence for the 20 first-graders and seven adults killed by a gunman on Friday in Newtown, Conn.

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Syrian authorities said the army had withdrawn from Hama this month after
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President Bashar al-Assad, who has sent the military to numerous towns and
cities across the country to crush the five-months of street protests.
"Several light tanks and tens of small and big buses parked at Al-Hadid
bridge at the eastern entrance of Hama. Hundreds of troops then went on
foot into al-Qusour and Hamdiya neighbourhoods. The sound of gunfire is
being heard," Abdelrahman, a local activist, told Reuters by phone.
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protests," he added.
Another resident said Toyota pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns and
buses full of troops also assembled overnight near al-Dahiriya district at
the northern entrance of Hama, 205 km (130 miles) north of the capital
Hama, on an ancient agricultural plain on the Orontes River, was scene of
a 1982 massacre by the military. The city saw some of the largest protests
in the current uprising.
Tanks and troops entered the city of 700,000 on the eve of the Muslim
fasting month of Ramadan on July 31 and according to an activist group
killed 130 civilians in the first day of the attack alone.
Troops withdrew after 10 days though and residents reported a resumption
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and targeting police and army camps and terrorising peaceful citizens in
the name of freedom and non-violence".
Foreign media were expelled from Syria after the uprising began in March,
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the town of Kfaruma where there has been increased army defections,
activists said.
Demonstrations broke out across the country on Tuesday after prayers to
mark the end of Ramadan, notably in Damascus suburbs, the city of Homs,
165 km (100 miles to the north) and the northwestern province of Idlib,
activists and residents said, adding that security forces shot dead four
demonstrators in the southern Deraa province, who included a 13-year-old
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Damascus suburb of Harasta, where activists said dozens of soldiers
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The Obama administration froze the U.S. assets of Foreign Minister Walid
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grassroots activists' group said Assad's forces killed 551 people during
the month of Ramadan. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Editing by Jon
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Prominent Tea Party Activist Realizes She is a Prop for Americans for Prosperity
A recent Washington Post article chronicles the AFP-funded journey of one prominent tea party activist to Cancun for the UN Climate Conference. Once there it didn't take long for her to realize that Tim Phillips and AFP were using her as a backdrop to give AFP the veneer of honest populist activism. The Post writes:
"She was hoping the summit would present a chance to immerse herself in the climate change debate. Her hosts, however, had other plans for her that involved standing where she was told and smiling for the cameras. Her presence lent Americans for Prosperity grass-roots credibility. For Bell, the experience was aggravating."
Gena Bell, the tea party activist, also rejected AFP's myopic message of wanton energy consumption. The Post writes:
"Bell's pique grew when Phillips shot another video belittling an exhibit that showed what an energy-efficient home might look like in the future: a small refrigerator, a low-flow shower heads and a clothes-washing basin that directed used water into a garden."
Phillips made fun of the model home's five-gallon water heater. "Good luck with that - I've got three teenagers!" he said to the camera.
"I'm not on board with this," Bell said. "Ed [Bell's husband] and I looked into that when we were looking at moving to Colorado."
It is no surprise that AFP, funded by oil billionaire David Koch, derides sustainable technologies that would cut energy consumption (and Koch Industries' profit). Whose interests does AFP speak for again? The average American or the oil profiteer who funds AFP in an attempt manipulate the political system?
Gena Bell now knows why she is important to the Kochs and AFP, and whose prosperity they really care about.
"She felt like a prop for Americans for Prosperity."
David Koch Booed at NY Christmas Ballet Performance
Crossposted from Greenpeace.
David Koch, one of the richest men in America and owner of the largest private energy company in the United States took to the stage over the Christmas holiday to receive praise for his $2.5 million sponsorship of the American Ballet Theatre's production of the Nutcracker... and a strange thing happened.
The oil tycoon was booed.
John Gapper on the Financial Times Business Blog has the story.
Gapper writes:
"... there were also boos from near where I sat in the balcony, followed by an angry debate in the row in front of me, with one of the booers declaring "he's an evil man" and a couple next to her telling her to "shut up" and to leave the theatre. Mr Koch was venturing into the lion's den in political terms, since Brooklyn is solidly liberal and Democrat, whereas he and his brother are right-wing libertarian and are alleged to have links to the Tea Party movement, which they deny."
"Once Mr Koch had left the stage, the booing stopped and the ballet started."
In our report last year, Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine [PDF], Greenpeace outlined the millions of dollars that the Koch brothers have funneled into ideological and free-market activist organizations that have been fighting for more than a decade to confuse the scientific realities of climate and stall State and federal legislation to curb climate pollution.
The boos are rightfully earned.
EPA Dramatically Inflates Economic Benefits of Recycling Coal Ash
According to a recent report [pdf], the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has overestimated the economic benefits of recycling coal ash by twenty (20) times. The EPA's estimate of $23 billion in annually economic benefit appears to have been based off of flawed methodology, contrasting with the federal government's own data suggesting an actual $1.15 billion annual total. The report was released by the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and the Stockholm Environment Institute at Tufts University.
As DeSmogBlog and PolluterWatch revealed in late October, lobbyists hired by coal companies and associations spent a full four months lobbying officials from the EPA and the White House Office of Management and Budget to prevent proper regulation of coal ash before the American public was given a formal chance to add its voice. These meetings, which were off-record, may actually have been illegal under the Administrative Procedure Act.
The lobbyists that attended these meetings include Bill Tyndall of Duke Energy, John Pemberton of Southern Company, Anthony Kavanagh of American Electric Power, and Patrick Quinn, who represents several coal clients through his firm, the Accord Group.
...perhaps they had something to do with EPA's drastic miscalculation?
Coal ash slurry, which is a combination of water and materials leftover from the coal combustion process, contains ingredients that can cause cancer and brain damage as well as radioactive elements. The toxic sludge is often stored in open impoundments (huge ponds) or injected into abandoned coal mines, causing major concern over drinking water contamination. Some of these storage ponds have actually broken through their earthen dams, most recently demonstrated by the disastrous 2008 spill at the Tenessee Valley Authority's Kingston facility, which sent over a billion gallons of coal slurry into the community and river system below.
Yet coal ash is still not formally considered "hazardous" by the EPA, and is therefore still less regulated than household garbage.
More can be found at the Charleston Gazette.
Background on the coal industry's lobbying to prevent regulation can be found in DeSmogBlog/PolluterWatch report, Coal-Fired Utilities to American Public: Kiss My Ash [pdf].
Bill Koch's anti-wind group hit with Greenpeace IRS complaint
The Boston Globe ran a story today on Greenpeace's complaint to the Internal Revenue Service and Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance calling for an investigation into tax status violations by the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. The Alliance has waged a dirty tricks war against Cape Wind, the nation's first offshore wind farm, since 2001. Today's story follows an article by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Michael Rezendes in the Globe on Tuesday questioning whether the Alliance had violated the law.
Greenpeace and its supporters have supported the Cape Wind project from the start with field campaigning on the Cape, protests, rallies and petition drives to the Department of Interior to approve the project.
The Alliance ran attack ads against Gov. Deval Patrick about his support for Cape Wind in the run-up to November's election -ads that were clearly over the line electioneering, in clear violation of their non-profit tax free status.
Electioneering, is working for the election or defeat of a candidate. Groups like the Alliance and other 501c3 groups are permitted to take positions on policies but not to back candidates. There are other tax status classes for election work, but the Alliance knows full well it doesn't qualify.
Letters were sent to the IRS, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office and the state Office of Campaign & Political Finance voicing our complaint.
Supporting evidence and references were attached to the letters:
Exhibit A - Common Cause Complaint
Exhibit B - The Alliance Campaign Finance Report
Exhibit C - Go Green For Less homepage
Exhibit D - Six Alliance Press Releases
Bill Koch, the other Koch brother, is a founder, Board member and one of the Alliance's principal donors. Koch has used all resources at his disposal to attempt to defeat the Cape Wind Project over the past decade. Oxbow owns coal mines, sells petroleum coke and other products. In addition to founding and funding the Alliance, Bill Koch deployed lobbyists from his company Oxbow Corporation, to lobby against Cape Wind in Washington DC.
From our IRS letter:
Lobbying reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate disclose $600,000 of expenditures made since 2006 by the Oxbow Corporation of which William Koch is the Founder, Owner and President... The lobbying reports reflect that these funds were expended to lobby on legislation relative to "issues surrounding wind energy project in Nantucket Sound" and other related matters. If the Cape Wind development project was not relevant to the business interests of Oxbow Corporation and Mr. Koch, the company would presumably not be expending funds in that area.
The Alliance clearly overstepped the limits of their non-profit tax status. Our letter to the IRS defines the rules:
....50l(c) (3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for elective public office. While Section 50l(c) (3) organizations are permitted to take positions generally on public policy issues "section 50l(c)(3) organizations must avoid any issue advocacy that functions as political campaign intervention. Even if a statement does not expressly tell an audience to vote for or against a specific candidate, an organization delivering the statement is at risk of violating the political campaign intervention prohibition if there is any message favoring or opposing a candidate.." IRS Revenue Ruling 2007-41. 2007-25 I.R.B. (June 18, 2007). As the IRS noted, key factors in determining whether the activity is unlawful political campaign intervention includes:
-whether the statement identifies one or more candidates for a given public office;
-whether the statement expresses approval or disapproval for one or more candidates' positions' or actions;
-whether the statement is delivered close in time to the election;
-whether the issue addressed in the communication has been raised as an issue distinguishing candidates for a given office.
Our complaint identifies a specific radio ad run by the Alliance:
The radio ad clearly identified a candidate for the office of Governor. The ad expressed strong disapproval for that candidate's position on the Cape Wind project. The ad was repeatedly aired within days of the statewide election. The Cape Wind project was the subject of much discussion throughout the gubernatorial campaign. In fact, the same gubernatorial candidate who would clearly benefit from the message of the Alliance radio ads consistently published campaign materials touting his opposition to the Cape Wind project, and the fact that his opponent, Governor Patrick, supported the project.
This radio ad cannot in any way be described as the type of nonpartisan activity which is permitted by the Internal Revenue Code and relevant legal authority. Rather, these ads are exactly the type of campaign activity expressly prohibited by the IRC, and relevant rulings. Not only did the Alliance make these expenditures, but it raised funds specifically earmarked for political electioneering activity. At least one of the individuals who funded these radio ads, who is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance, had a leadership role in the campaign of the gubernatorial candidate who would benefit from these expenditures, giving rise to a reasonable inference of coordination between the Alliance and the candidate's campaign.
And the complaint concludes:
We respectfully request that you undertake a comprehensive investigation of the Alliance's activities, contributions and expenditures. If it has engaged in activities in violation of the IRC, we urge that you consider all appropriate fines and penalties, as well as the revocation of the Alliance's tax-exempt status. Such revocation may be the only means to ensure that public tax dollars do not continue to be improperly used by the Alliance to subsidize its various activities and the interests of its donors.
Koch Brothers, Cuccinelli, Peabody and others Named "Climate Villains"
Similar to Rolling Stone's "The Climate Killers" article that was released at the beginning of the year, AlterNet has just profiled some of the most influential political, financial and popular enemies of the Earth's increasingly disrupted climate.
Snide comments aside, both reports nail some of the most influential staples: Koch Industries, an infamous engine of the climate denial machine; Warren Buffet, the filthy-rich investor who has placed his bets on coal; and Joe Barton, Big Fossil's purchased U.S. Representative (over 1.7 million dirty dollars over the last decade).
AlterNet's newer spotlight identifies Harold Lewis and Freeman Dyson, who are similar to the likes of S. Fred Singer and Patrick Michaels in their use of scientific credentials for corporate public relations rather than, say, active climate studies...or scientific study in general. Also like Singer and Michaels, they have ties to prominent denier think tanks such as Cato, the Heartland Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, all of which are currently or formerly funded by Koch Industries and ExxonMobil. Similarly, AlterNet mentions Anthony Watts, whose skeptic blog is the go-to hub for climate-solutions obstructionism, and whose credentials as a TV weatherman (not certified by the American Meteorological Society) fool people into thinking he's a climate expert. Like the other junk scientists mentioned in the article, Watts has ties to the Heartland Institute.
In a contrasting look at university integrity, AlterNet also profiles Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general who has used the "climategate" nonscandal as grounds to continue harassing Michael Mann, the influential University of Virginia climatologist whose university research was a primary target of the hacked East Anglia emails. While Mann was defended by his university and cleared of wrongdoing after investigations, the same can't be said for George Mason University's Edward Wegman. AlterNet points out that Wegman is currently under formal investigation his George Mason for pushing bogus climate material for none other than Texas Rep. Joe Barton.
It is worth noting that George Mason University (GMU) is a known breeding ground for climate deniers and heavily supported by the Koch brothers; both the Mercatus Center and the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) operate out of the University have received millions of dollars from the Kochs. There's also Koch Industries executive Richard Fink, who taught and filled various other positions at GMU, co-founded and directs GMU's Mercatus Center, directs the Institute for Humane Studies, is the president of two Koch family foundations that fund these groups, founded the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation (which became the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, of which Fink is a director)...Rich Fink pretty much lives up to his name.
Glenn Beck (who attended Charles Koch's secret election strategy meeting last June), Mitch McConnell, former BP CEO Tony Hayward, Peabody CEO Gregory Boyce, and others are also credited for their dirty work in the full article.
Check Greenpeace.org for more Koch Facts.
Duke Second-in-Command Resigns Amid Revolving Door Ethics Scandal
UPDATE 4/13/2012: The Indianapolis Star's John Russel has compiled a full timeline of this scandal: Prying Open the Duke Energy Scandal
Duke Energy is experiencing the departure of its second-top executive (after CEO Jim Rogers), utilities division president James Turner, making Turner the third Duke casualty in an ethics scandal that has already led to the firing of two other Duke officers and an Indiana state utility regulator.
Emails between Turner and David Lott Hardy, the recently-sacked chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), revealed that the two men had a particularly cordial relationship that extended itself into professional circumstances. As Duke negotiated positions for Michael Reed (coming from the state's Department of Transportation and with three years of experience in the IURC) and Scott Storms (an administrative law judge and general counsel for the IURC), Turner and Hardy frequently discussed the hiring process. The Indianapolis Star revealed that in one message to Turner, Hardy encouraged the executive to hire Reed, asking, "Is this decision yours and I don't need to sell Jim [Rogers, Duke CEO], or is his buy-in pivotal?"
In order to avoid honoring a customary yearlong pause before moving from the IURC to Duke, Storms was given an express pass through the IURC's ethics panel investigation with help from Reed and Hardy. Reed, concerned that Storms would not get the panel's go-ahead, urged Hardy to enlist the help of the IURC's ethics officer, Loraine Seyfried, who then wrote a memo to Storms denying any conflict of interest. The ethics panel mirrored Seyfried's conclusion and allowed Storms to move to Duke; Seyfried got his old job as administrative law judge. Reed and Storms were both fired in November, just before emails revealed the full extent of the scandal. While Seyfried was not fired along with Hardy, she was removed from cases involving Duke.
What made the Duke-IURC revolving door particularly improper was Scott Storms' role as a judge presiding over Duke cases while arranging to work for the utility giant. Chairman Hardy, Storms' boss, ignored the clear conflict of interest, which included Storms' approval of a utility ratepayer hike in order to cover massive cost overruns of Duke's new Edwardsport coal plant.
The new Edwardsport plant, which is intended to both replace an existing facility built in the 1940s and to demonstrate integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology, has swelled in costs originally estimated at $1.5 billion to just under $3 billion. The difference in costs will be reflected in the estimated 16% ratepayer increase that Storms approved before joining Duke. Indiana's Citizens Action Coalition, which has been a strong voice of opposition to the Edwardsport plant, warns that other hidden expenses will likely wind up in utility bills as well.
The debacle's most recently disgraced figure, James Turner, boasted Duke's second highest annual compensation--$4.3 million--after CEO Jim Rogers ($6.9 million). The Indianapolis Star insinuated that part of Turner's "incentive pay" (last year an almost $800,000 portion of his total compensation) could have been a result of the very revolving door relationships that forced him out of the company. While we can hope the lesson in this case is "don't cheat the system," industry sentiment is much more likely to be, "don't get caught like Duke did."
Important to consider is how similar scandals could be possible on the federal level. Duke has a total of five lobbyists with former experience in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including Bill Tyndall, who was announced as one of the individuals reporting directly to Jim Rogers following Turner's departure.
David Lott Hardy: "Don't tell the utilities I'm being accommodating -- bad for my reputation."
James Turner: "Don't worry. Your reputation in this regard is unalterable."
-Indianapolis Star
Don Blankenship Retires!!
The infamous Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Company, has announced he will retire at the end of December. Given the storms Blankenship had weathered in the past, it came as somewhat of a surprise that the climate change denying, union busting, federal judge bribing, safety law violating, mountain top destroyer is finally calling it quits.
His decision to leave was likely at the behest of the Massey board, which has announced its intention to sell the company. Blankenship had always been an obstacle to the sale, publicly decrying the idea by comparing Massey to a "broken down truck" in need of fixing before being put on the market.
As the face of Massey Energy, Blankenship also posed a serious public relations obstacle to any potential sale. Recently called the "Dark Lord of Coal Country" by the Rolling Stone Magazine, he was a ripe target for those wishing to draw attention to the death and destruction caused by an unapologetic coal industry.
The embattled CEO is also facing growing legal trouble of his own due to the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. A judge in West Virginia declined to throw out two separate lawsuits that hold Blankenship personally responsible for the disaster. Two women widowed by the UBB explosion filed the lawsuits, which Blankenship hoped would be dismissed. The judge's decision was announced shortly before Blankenship made public his departure, adding to speculation that he had become a public relations hindrance to Massey's sale.
Investors have agreed wholeheartedly with the change in leadership, sending Massey's stock soaring after news of Blankenship's retirement.
It is important to remember that as influential as Blankenship was, it is the Massey Energy Company that is ultimately responsible for it's multiple mining disasters. Blankenship has been an obvious figurehead for what is wrong with Massey and the coal industry culture at large, but his departure should not distract attention from the fact that coal companies want coal, and they do not care about the environmental and human costs endemic to its extraction.
Blankenship to Face Two Lawsuits from Upper Big Branch Widows
Massey CEO Don Blankenship, West Virginia's strip mining overlord, faces two lawsuits that hold him personally responsible for the Upper Big Branch coal mining disaster which killed 29 men. A Judge in west Virginia ruled that two separate lawsuits, brought by two women widowed by Massey's UBB mine, will not be dismissed as Blankenship had hoped.
Blankenship is accused of being "willfully negligent" in his direction of the company subsidiaries operating the mine, which violated a host of federal and state safety regulations prior to the explosion.
For more see the Bloomberg News article by Chris Stratton and Margaret Cronin Fisk.
Salt Lake City Treated to Second Chevron Oil Spill in Six Months
In a twisted case of actualized déjà vu, Chevron spilled 100 barrels of oil into the Red Butte Creek area of Salt Lake City, narrowly missing the waterways...
...waterways that were gifted about 800 barrels of spilled crude from the exact same pipeline last June. The community is still busy cleaning up the first mess, and Mayor Ralph Becker has expressed his own "outrage." While Mayor Becker has supposedly been a bit soft with Chevron even since June's spill, he has now explicitly stated what people around the world realize: "We cannot trust Chevron."
Chevron recently paid over $400,000 for the June spill--a negligable fee compared to their $13.7 billion profit since quarter three of 2010. The new spill took place a mere 100 yards from June's disaster, stopping just 50 feet short of Red Butte Creek.
For a barrage of ironic and contradictory statements from one of Chevron's representatives, check out the Salt Lake Tribune article covering the [new] spill.
(Photo courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune)
Exxon Fracking Fluid Spill In Pennsylvania Dumps Estimated 13,000 Gallons Into Nearby Waterways
Crossposted from DeSmogBlog.com, authored by Brendan DeMelle.
XTO Energy, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, is under investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) after a 13,000 gallon hydraulic fracturing fluid spill at XTO Energy's natural gas drilling site in Penn Township, Lycoming County, PA.
The spill was first discovered last week by a DEP inspector who found a valve had been left open on a 21,000-gallon fracking fluid tank, discharging fluid off the well pad into local waterways, threatening a nearby cattle herd that had to be fenced off from the contaminated pasture. Exxon/XTO has not provided an explanation on why the valve was left open.
"This spill was initially estimated at more than 13,000 gallons by the company and has polluted an unnamed tributary to Sugar Run and a spring," said DEP Northcentral Regional Director Nels Taber. "There are also two private drinking water wells in the vicinity that will be sampled for possible impacts."
DEP's sampling confirmed elevated levels of conductivity and salinity in the spring and unnamed tributary, clear indications that the fracking fluid was present in the waterways.
Exxon paid $30 billion in its June 2010 merger with Texas-based XTO Energy, making Exxon/XTO the largest natural gas producer in the United States, with extensive holdings of "unconventional resources" throughout the Marcellus Shale and elsewhere.
Concerns over natural gas fracking are widespread through the Marcellus Shale region and in several Western U.S. states where a boom in natural gas development is underway thanks to the controversial hydraulic fracturing technique. Residents living near fracking operations are on the front lines as their drinking water supplies and health are threatened by the fracking process, which involves injecting a mixture of sand, water and undisclosed toxic chemicals into the shale rock to free up the trapped gas.
Pennsylvania is no stranger to fracking disasters, notably the high-profile contamination in the town of Dimock, where resident Norma Fiorentino's water well famously blew up on New Year's Day 2009, and at least 15 families have had their drinking water ruined by fracking, leading to illness, livestock deaths and other maladies.
Last week, the Pittsburgh City Council banned natural gas fracking within city limits due to concerns over the threat of water contamination and public health risks.
But Pennsylvania is hardly alone in the fracking fight. Fracking operations have contaminated water supplies across America from New York, to Wyoming, to New Mexico, to Ohio, to Virginia, to Arkansas, to Colorado and beyond.
The Environmental Protection Agency currently has no power to regulate hydraulic fracturing thanks to the Halliburton Loophole inserted into the 2005 enegy bill at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney, the former head of Halliburton.
Mounting evidence of the fracking threat nationwide has yet to convince lawmakers to close the loophole and hold the natural gas industry accountable for its fracking messes. As the New York Times asked in a November 2009 editorial, "if hydraulic fracturing is as safe as the industry says it is, why should it fear regulation?"


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Really wasn't going to, but caved in and picked up one. Price considering and with X-Mas; I would've got 6 and some things kinda didn't work out for this. I guess I can always wait amongst others to get him on a discount or clearance sale next year... (Probably around the time of SDCC/August, like they did with Stay Puft and others) As for this one, I still got some bonuses on the way so it will cover this.
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The legal trio didn't have a choice, says Vicente; no one else was going to do it. "The three of us have been guiding people to act in a proper and legal manner," says Vicente. "Warren, Rob and myself attend a handful of conferences a year and learn how to effectively mold this industry. It's fleshing out the law in favor of patient providers."
The key for dispensaries and vendors, says Vicente, is to develop a web of patients and caregivers. When a new dispensary opens, for example, its owner or employees have to be designated caregivers for enough patients to legally warrant all the pot they have at the operation. These caregivers will have to take on more patients as business grows, and they need additional product. If the dispensary contracts with outside growers to provide them with marijuana, some of its customers will likely have to designate these growers as their caregivers so the crops abide by state law.
Since there are no rules about dispensaries, however — in Amendment 20 or anywhere else — many patients haven't limited themselves to shopping only at the dispensary associated with their designated caregiver. And many enterprises are operating under the premise that as soon as a patient walks in their door, that dispensary becomes his or her de facto primary caregiver for the duration of the visit. That means that any patient can buy marijuana there without changing his or her designated caregiver.
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Ted Tow, executive director for the Colorado District Attorneys' Council, agrees that dispensaries don't hold up to legal scrutiny. "Medical marijuana is legal, but nothing says by definition that dispensaries are," he says. "We didn't define them in the amendment. We define everything else in the constitution. If you pull out the blue-book description they put out about Amendment 20, it specifically said it will not legalize the distribution of marijuana. And that's what dispensaries do."
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Attorney General Suthers suggests that the state Board of Medical Examiners should look into parts of the medical marijuana industry; he adds that he may have his own office do so, too. "We knew we would have these dispensaries and have thousands more patients than medicine would dictate. You would have a lot of people claiming chronic pain without much specificity. And the roles of medical marijuana would be pretty large."
Dispensary owners and their legal advisors say they'd like to work with state officials to clear up vagaries in the law and develop reasonable regulations, but they say they don't have much confidence that state officials are willing to work with them.
"There is a history of the state engaging in underhanded tactics in an attempt to destroy and weaken the medical marijuana law," says Vicente. As an example, he points to the fact that the health department first instituted the five-patient rule at a closed meeting in 2004, a fact that led Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves to suspend that limit in 2007 because it lacked public input. Then, at the Board of Health hearing to consider re-instating that limit this past July, health officials said the average medical marijuana patient age had recently plummeted from 42 to 24, insinuating that patients were abusing the system. A week later, however, the health department noted there'd been a numerical error and the actual average patient age was 41.
Leigh at Boulder County Caregivers is playing it safe by requiring her customers to designate someone associated with the dispensary as their caregiver and refusing to host doctor referral services on site. While her business is still growing by leaps and bounds — she's planning to open two additional locations in the Boulder area — she doesn't like having to second-guess every business decision she makes.
"I would like to see some legislation that clarifies the law, but I don't see that happening," she says. "Now anything officials do to change it will end up in court. If law enforcement and district attorneys don't deal with it, we are going to stay in this gray area forever."
A day after I become a state-certified medical marijuana patient, I discover my perfect cure. It's dispensed by the Candy Girls.
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Why are so many biz owners in denial?
Liz WendlingI do not know about you but, when I was young, I do not recall hearing anyone say they wanted to be a salesperson when asked the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
I heard ballerina, fireman, baseball player, doctor and astronaut, but never salesperson. To this day I still talk to business owners who refuse to admit that they are in sales. But at the end of the day, we are all selling something. We are all in sales on some level.
It amazes me when business owners tell me they do not have to sell, do not like to sell or do not want to sell. Like the whole sales thing is completely beneath them. I guess they do not like going to the bank either.
Let's cut to the chase. You dedicated many years honing your technical skills to be a competent professional in your chosen field and now you need to be able to sell you, your services and capabilities as well. In today's marketplace, your selling capability is not a "nice-to-have," it is a "must have."
If you cannot admit and embrace the fact that you are in sales and selling something, how can you expect your customers to? It is not a secret that you charge a fee for what you do, and unless people are throwing money at you to get you to work with them, you must sell. You are not fooling anyone pretending you are "not" in sales. If you want customers to buy what you are selling you need to buy the fact that you are.
Sales are not as loathsome as you think. Having an aversion to selling is just an excuse for people who refuse to learn a new skill. Sales skills are critical to keeping a business alive. Sales are like exercise - many dislike it but if they want to stay healthy and alive they know they just have to do it. Sadly, negative and limiting beliefs about selling are a significant issue for many people, but they are issues that can be overcome with coaching, clarity and persistence.
Many people have a negative attitude toward selling, treating it like a bad word and covering their mouths when it slips out. They have created a mental picture of what they think selling is or what selling was.
If you set yourself up as a person who is against selling something, you will create a really difficult environment to succeed in. If you focus your attention on "not being a salesperson," your results will reflect that and you will become very ineffective at selling your product or service.
Stop fighting and choose to accept the fact that everything in life is sales. Take the time to learn how to sell, to learn how the psychology of sales works and to learn why people buy. Take proactive control over your destiny by getting out there and promoting your business and your capabilities so others will benefit. Even just knowing the basics of selling will give you an advantage. Without the basics you are using the "winging it" sales approach and that approach will never work in any economy.
Most business owners do not start a business so they can sell all day. They start a business because they have a great product or service, a talent, skill, passion or idea. Many of them would rather do anything else in their business than sell. But avoiding sales and sales-related activities will take you and your business down.
To be successful and have a thriving business you must sell but you also need to admit you sell. These day's companies can no longer rely on a few good salespeople to hunt, kill and keep an entire business fat and happy. Everyone involved in any business must become involved in growing that business.
Selling is not about convincing someone to buy something they do not need. It is about helping them find solutions to their needs when they realize they do not have the expertise to do it themselves. Remind yourself often that selling is not a necessary evil. It is a part of being a well-rounded and successful professional. Bottom line: If you can't sell, you can't grow your business.
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Twitter Q&A With Senator Mark Udall
ACORE hosted a Twitter Q&A with Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) on the topic of renewable energy. Senator Mark Udall is a champion of smart, business oriented renewable energy policies that create jobs and economic growth all over the country.
Ohio's Alternative Energy Standard Adds Jobs, Saves For Consumers
Ohio's alternative energy mandate has been placed back on the table for possible termination, while its defenders question how anyone could ignore the benefits this legislation has provided Ohio in job creation, energy security and cost savings.
RPS Attacks Go Against the March of History
Last week in Phoenix, I watched the very conservative governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, deliver a brief keynote speech to open the second day of the CleanTech Future conference put on by CleanTech Connections and the Arizona Commerce Authority. Nineteen floors above the impressive solar PV arrays at Arizona State University's downtown campus across the street, Brewer extolled the virtues of solar and other clean energy as a business boon for her state.
Three Predictions for Renewable Energy by 2030
The crux of renewable energy isn't in its retrospective, but rather in its future outlook. Sustainable practices have come a long, long way, but it's not even a fraction of the distance they're pegged to travel in order to really reinvent the worldwide energy supply chain. But hey – that's something to be excited about; the best is yet to come. And here's a little preview of what you can expect by 2030:
Repealing Renewable Portfolio Standards a Raw Deal for North Carolina
Repealing Renewable Portfolio Standards a Raw Deal for North Carolina
North Carolina has become the central front in a national offensive aimed at rolling back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), the state laws that require utilities to obtain a certain percentage of the electricity they distribute from technologies that use renewable fuel sources like our rivers, woods, and wind. While RPS adversaries argue that these standards hurt the economy by increasing consumer costs, they ignore the many jobs created by the renewable energy industry as well as the benefits conferred by energy diversification.
It's Time for Clean Energy Companies to Rewrite Their Narrative
It's Time for Clean Energy Companies to Rewrite Their Narrative via www.cleanedge.com
By Will Edwards
A few years ago, the clean energy industry sat at a unique pinnacle of public opinion. People liked its promise to address high energy prices. They liked it because it would help wean America off foreign oil. They liked it because it would respond to the threat of climate change. Democrat or Republican, West Coast Prius driver or Midwest farmer. Everyone liked what clean energy was offering.


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hello everyone! I just bought my first house and this is my first time on gardenweb :), also my first time renovating a kitchen so I would love some advice. My kitchen is posted below. It's 12x16. I plan to move the fridge over to the other side of the wall, bythe window so I can open up the wall to over look the dining room. There's already a window there but I dont' like it, I want it to be more open. In addition, I'm planning to add a center island for workspace and a bar above the sink. My budget is not big, in fact really low so I'm not getting new cabinets as of now, just appliances and paint. However, I'm so torn between an espresso kitchen and an antique white kitchen. There's lighting with the nice bay window so I'm not worried about the room being dark with espresso but I do love the thought off havign a bright antique white kitchen with dark gray/taupe walls. I love both but I'm having trouble picturing which one will look best in my kitchen, with the standard cabinets that I have. Below are a couple pictures of similar kitchen layouts. What are your thoughts, what should I do? Would it even look good with my standard short cabinets? I feel like if I go with white, my kitchen won't be as nice since I don't have custom cabinets. ugh, decisions, decisions! Thanks in advance!
Antique white/whtie
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We just remodeled our kitchen and we went with white cabinets, taupe walls and blue pearl granite countertop. I love the white. We redid the window above the sink going to a 5 foot wide, 4 foot high window, which gives lots of light. The dark is pretty, but I love my white. |
One of the posters here, Celticmoon, did an amazing job of staining her cabinets. I have included the link to a thread which details the process she used as well photos of the final result. That may help to give you a better feel of what can be achieved by a DIYer. She inspired many other posters to go the staining route with great success. You might find you prefer that finish to a painted one, if you choose to go dark - which I think would work well for your kitchen. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Staining thread
- Posted by MichaelMcC (My Page) on Wed, Jan 23, 13 at 10:10
Hello everyone. I'm remodeling my galley kitchen. It's a gut renovation. I'm planning on installing espresso cabinets and am having fevers about the counter tops and back splash. I am leaning toward contrasting white/light granite for the counter tops and white subway tile for the back splash. My contractor /designer is pushing New Venetian Gold granite. I'm simply not thrilled with NVG. Is it stupid of me to hang on to my desire for lighter granite? My concern is moving the colors from dark to light. I seem to be hung up on white back splash as it lightens my narrow space. The lighter granite seems to me to move in that direction. NVG granite seems to anchor the colors too much to the dark cabinets. |
Michael: You should probably start your own thread asking about this. See the "New to Kitchens" thread for some guidance. |
Here is a link that might be useful: New to Kitchens?
- Posted by BauformatUSA (My Page) on Thu, Mar 28, 13 at 17:01
We do kitchen design Free of charge: Modern and traditional style kitchens. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Bauformat modern kitchen cabinets Los Angeles
Check out AbouttogetDusty's kitchen... she had a soffit above the sink that was tied into the overall design by some very pretty custom molding. Wonder if that might be an option for you? Her kitchen is such an inspiration for me! http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg072200047176.html I LOVE a white kitchen! |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Thu, Mar 28, 13 at 21:51
Are you changing your countertops or backsplash? If you're just doing paint and appliances, you want something that will look good with your current countertops and floor. I have a similar kitchen scheme...medium wood tone cabinets, with off white counter tops. I'm concerned that if I paint the cabinets, they'll make the countertops look dirty. As for the window/opening over the sink...are you sure you want to move the fridge? Maybe just leave it 'as is' or take out the small upper on either side of the opening and widen it a bit? Do you have a floor plan for your room, to see how these changes will affect your overall layout? Do you need all new appliances? Would you be better served to keep a few and change the countertops instead? Just a few possibilities to consider... |
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Five Great Grill Gifts for Dad
June 13, 2011
I like to grill…a lot. So when it comes to birthdays and Father's Day, my kids know that the best gift they could possibly get me is a new outdoor toy. Fortunate enough for me, both special days fall within days of each other so I decided to provide a little grill gifting guidance!
Available in black or white, the iGrill (MSRP $99.95 with one probe) brings temperature control to life on any iOS device (iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone). Each device can accommodate dual temperature probes, allowing you to keep a close eye on internal grill and/or meat temperatures from up to 200 feet away. Simply download the iGrill app on your device and you're good to grill!
The super-fast Thermapen pocket thermometer (MSRP $89.00) is a favorite among professional and backyard chefs and is now available in a splash proof model. With readings available in under 3 seconds, you'll ensure proper temperatures every single time you grill.
Komodo Kamados are among the cream of the crop when it comes to ceramic grills. Imagine the look on dad's face when he walks in to the backyard and finds one in his favorite color combo just waiting to be fired up for the first time! My favorite color, by the way, is black.
No serious griller can ever have too many sauce and dry rub options. That's why I was pleased to stumble upon the various gift boxes available from the Kansas City BBQ Store. The Kansas City BBQ Restaurant Legends Gift Box (MSRP $24.95), for example, offers a true taste of KC icluding Cowtown Night of the Living Sauce, Arthur Bryant's Sauce, Gates BBQ Sauce, Hayward's Sauce and Jack Stack Rub.
It's hard to be a true grill master without your own custom grill grate. A few years ago I was the recipient of this awesome pro series grate that had been created by Huntingdon County Customs ($105.95 for the 22.5 inch version pictured above). What about a Grilling.com custom grate for the beautiful black Komodo Komado?
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For Sale: M72 LAW Rocket Tube
- Price:
- $ 300
- Seller:
- Private Party
- Account:
- Registered on 1/23/2012
- Listings by this user
- Listed On:
- Monday, January 23, 2012
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- Miscellaneous
- Location:
- Fort Myers, South West Florida, Florida - Map
The tube has the following markings: ""Rocket HE 66 mm Antitank M72A2 w/ Coupler", "Lot LS-215-22 -R 08-72", "Operating and Storage Temp. -40F to 140F", Limited Light Sight"
These are becoming very difficult to find and are becoming a highly sought after collectible. If you want more information or pictures, please inquire. For those that collect Vietnam era items, this is one you will treasure.
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September 20, 2012, 12:00 AM
By Tom Junod
His new movie, Trouble with the Curve, is not a Clint Movie in that he didn't direct it. It is a Clint Movie, though, in that it was made with Clint's crew and directed by Rob Lorenz, with whom he has worked for eighteen years. When Gran Torino came out in 2008, he intimated that his role as cantankerous martyr Walt Kowalski might be his last turn in front of the camera. But he knew Lorenz was desperate to direct, and he knew that Lorenz's best chance to fulfill his dream was with a movie starring Clint Eastwood. So he acts in Trouble with the Curve. And yet it's still a Clint Movie, because in a scene shot at a cemetery, he made his crew cry.
He was alone in the cemetery. He was playing an old man who keeps a vigil at his wife's tombstone because the mute stone marker has become the last thing on earth he can talk to. But in the scene, he doesn't just talk. He sings "You Are My Sunshine" like a broken, desperate prayer.
Early on in his career, he'd found a character to play, and he'd played it again and again, in movie after movie, and he'd pushed it he made Clint Movies as a way of pushing it. But in all the Clint Movies he's made, he didn't push it like this. He's played angry men and guilty men and vengeful men and heartbroken men, but he's never played a desperate one, and the crew was unprepared for the spectacle. They stood around the tombstone, and Deborah Hopper, a costume designer who has worked for Clint Eastwood for twenty-five years, remembers this: "It was a big day. It was heartfelt and really kind of sad. There were tears."
There were also two takes. "We needed more than one," Rob Lorenz says. "His process is a little bit different than mine. His process is to sort of let things unfold organically, and just let them be. And I was willing to work at that a little bit longer, to take the time to pull more out of it." The takes went on for a long time, "and we were all really moved watching him get through that."
How did Eastwood get through it? "You're just watching a guy alone with no other figures in the scene," Eastwood says. "He's thinking a thought about somebody, and if you just think that thought about the somebody, it works out. The only thing in your mind is Do I want to hide this within myself more or do I want to bring more of this out, because you have the freedom of being alone, and you don't have to suppress it. It's just basic acting. You can rehearse it a thousand times, or you can just do it. I'm probably one who is just going to do it.
"You can think of an imaginary figure who might be your wife, or your mother or your sister or your brother. You can think of a relationship along the way, the day when your dog got run over by a car when you were seven years old and how it affected you. For me, I think of an imaginary being I get a face in my mind, and I think of what our relationship might have been like. The script tells me what our relationship might have been like."
He is not the kind of man who talks about his regrets. The only regret he admits to is the regret that he didn't take the piano more seriously as a boy. But he talks about being a better father as an old man than he was as a young one, because "when you're reaching for the brass ring, all you're really thinking about is the brass ring." And he talks about his mother. He was extremely close to her, and "she made me make a tough decision for her. She lasted until she was ninety-seven. She had a major stroke, but they could have resuscitated her. And she was conscious enough where I could say, 'They can resuscitate. C'mon, three more years, and you hit the century mark.' But the look on her face. And I said, 'Okay.' "
Was he thinking of his mother when he sang in the cemetery? Was he thinking of his young wife? He will never say. He will preserve that kind of mystery until his own end because it leads to where all Clint Movies have been quietly and invisibly leading to all along, because without the mystery, there is no authority, and without the authority, we wouldn't be watching him sing to his wife in the cemetery, alone and on his knees.
He has controlled both his career and his image since he turned down a television offer in order to go to Italy and make a new kind of cowboy movie with Sergio Leone. He has invented a genre all its own, the Clint Movie, to protect his right of refusal. And so it's not surprising that when he talks about the commercial he made for Chrysler to show at halftime during last year's Super Bowl, he talks about what he refused to do.
Sure, he did it "They asked me to do it. I thought, It's a good message. The country needs the esprit de corps right now, and maybe if I can help out in a small way, I'd like that. I didn't mind doing it. And I didn't do it for nothing. I told them I wanted a certain amount for doing it, I'd be giving 100 percent to charity, and that'll be that.
"But I had input. I said, I don't want to come on and say, 'I'm Clint Eastwood' and do a pitch. Let's just do it, let it be there, let it hang there for a few seconds and leave. The ad agency wanted to go further and I said this is as far as I'm going and that was it."
So was "Halftime in America" a Clint Movie? It was, though he didn't direct or write it. It was, because the sound of his voice alone was enough to draw millions of Americans out of their kitchens and bathrooms and back in front of their television sets. And Mrs. Eastwood & Company? Is that a Clint Movie, too?
"I have nothing to do with that," he says. "My part of the deal is you do it if you want to do it, but you must leave me out of it. I'm not a reality-show guy and I don't want to be one. But it's fine by me I'm a very libertarian soul. Leave everybody be. That's the way I am about almost everything. Leave everybody alone."
You want him to say those words through his teeth, with a throttled vehemence. But he doesn't. He says them in his ragged whisper, the voice of an old man with an ambitious young wife and a couple daughters who will light a $100,000 handbag on fire for all of America to see. And then he tells a story in the same voice, his real voice, the voice of a father whose authority is incomplete, about taking his daughter to her driving test.
"We were sitting there waiting for the examiner, and I said, 'Do you know your hand signals?' She had no idea what I was talking about. She said, 'What are hand signals?' So we went through them. And the examiner comes over. He's an old guy, like me, and he's in a bad mood. He says, 'Show me your hand signals.' "
He'd been failing people all day with that question, before they even got started. But Clint Eastwood's daughter knew her hand signals, and the examiner came over to the passenger side to get in. The last American authority figure got out and watched his daughter drive away.
ON THE POLITICS BLOG: Clint Eastwood on Obama and More (with Video)
EARLIER: What I've Learned, with Clint Eastwood
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Systems Integration
The challenge to design, build, test, deliver and support ever increasing and ever challenging operational requirements may be more pronounced than ever before.
Here at Ultralife Communications Systems, we encourage our experts to think free, to reach beyond the constraints of the present in order to meet the needs of the future. As experts in communication, power distribution and related technologies, we have a long record of being a part of and partner in vehicle communications integration solutions.
Our systems integration capabilities fall into the following categories, each of which has more detailed information on subsequent web pages:
- Vehicle and related mobile integration. From HMMWV to aerial and maritime platforms, our communications expertise has provided solutions via partnerships and direct support to the end users.
- Soldier solutions. Mobility combined with reliability drives our efforts to support the dismounted soldier with breakthrough Manportable communications packages, batteries that last longer and weigh less.
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Dr. Oz is as popular as he is informative, but is his information geared towards your actual health or maintaining his thriving popularity? With regard to your health, a lot of his offerings are based on real science. But the science he preaches is under tested and has people eating foods high in hormone content in order to burn fat safely. He preaches miracle cures for people too lazy to walk around the block, advising diets of 500 calories or less. The miracle is not in special foods or formulas. The miracle is under feeding your body and it going through its natural process of using fat stores. The foods that claim to burn awkward excess fat or to reduce hunger pangs are a farce. Your body goes through stages of energy consumption. It rotates between asking for food and burning fat and muscle to sustain itself. During a day, your body may use around 2500 calories just to sit in a chair. When you drop your caloric intake down to 500 or less, you burn nearly a pound of excess fat just staying alive. Also, when your body is being fed less, it gets hungry less. The only problem is that your body prefers food and as such will continually request it. If you can keep your binging at bay, you will be able to rapidly lose weight.
The entire Dr Oz scheme of eating African mango, raspberry ketone, and green coffee bean extract is a smoke and mirrors campaign designed to keep your mind off what is really working and convince you to go out and buy very specific, hard to find "superfruit." This is not to say that Dr. Oz is completely wrong, just that the consumption of those fruits and extracts is not the key to diet or weight-loss success. The key is a caloric deficit over a long period of time.
The healthiest way to lose weight is to eat less energy (food) than your body requires and let it fill in the gaps with stored fat. If you eat too little, your body burns muscle because it is more expendable than fat. Fat can be used to sustain your life over a long period of time, even if you are a muscleless blob. But you don't want to be a muscleless blob, you want thin, sexy, and toned. To get that, don't: drink sugary soda, eat mayonnaise, fill your coffee with cream and sugar, eat salad dressing, eat ketchup, or any kind of fast food. Walk twice around your block every night after dinner. Enjoy your life.


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How to build a high-traffic topic
A few months ago, we started to display how many views a topic had. At first this seemed to go unnoticed, but lately I've had a lot of questions about this. The most common is, "Why does this user's list have 10,000 views, while mine only has 250?"
The fact is, when you go to the trouble of creating a new topic, it's nice to see some discussion and activity on it. Stirring up some buzz and getting this to happen is actually pretty simple. To help dispel some of the confusion, I'll take a few moments to share some tips for creating popular topics.
Make 'em interesting
It goes without saying that some lists are just going to attract views for having an emotional connection, or better yet, being out of the ordinary. I'm not that interested in "best socks", but I'd find it hard to not read, "Most embarrassing date moments." (My guess is that others feel similarly.)
Get the ball rolling
A big part of getting traffic and activity on your topic involves being featured on the homepage. This immediately brings a lot of people to your topic from MakeFive, but also from our Twitter feed and associated re-tweets.
To get "featured", you need an interesting topic, but it also helps to fill it in a little. Add an enticing topic image that will present well if featured. Write a tempting description (good for SEO), and even add a few items to the list. No one wants to be the first to "dance", but once someone's on the floor, all kinds of people want to join-in.
Check back and comment
Discussion begets discussion, and as such, we've created tools to help you along with this. Be sure to "watch" (button in top-right sidebar of each topic) topics you've created, and those you are interested in. By doing so, the system will start to notify you of comments as they are added to these topics. Then get in and reply when you can. Nothing builds interest in your topic like added dialogue.
Spread the word
Of course, a lot of the traffic for topics comes from other sites and social media. The "Simpsons' quotes" topic that I started was recently Dugg. As a result it has 119,212 views, and counting. (To be honest, I was rather surprised by this amount of traffic.)
Getting this kind of attention for your topic isn't easy, but there are a few steps that can help. First of all, use the "Share" buttons at the bottom of the topic. Digg and StumbleUpon can really be huge! Plus, getting your friends to join-in (through Twitter and Facebook) can help you attract attention and subsequently result in a high-traffic topic.
The life of the party…
Most of us like being the one who starts an exciting conversation at a party. I think that many of us feel the same way about MakeFive. Creating a good topic is a lot of work–hopefully these tips help you reap the rewards of a great discussion!


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qwermy (12/30/2012) [-]
Not even true. In the USA, if you can't afford healthcare, you go to an ER (or,in many areas, a free clinic.) This is very analogous to the lawyers; if you can afford one, you don't take the state-appointed one. In Europe, everyone gets "free" healthcare, but pays insanely high taxes.
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mexicanfood (12/31/2012) [-] You are leaving out a billion other factors dumbass. The ER will not cure you of cancer or replace your knee. Their job is to STABILIZE YOU so you do not die in their clinic. Plus they actually do bill for it and if you dont pay it they just **** over paying patients by making the costs for other procedures higher.


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Success at Mido 2014 for Essilor Instrument Division
The "Organising Vision" stand and new developments captured the attention of a constant flow of high level eye care professionals
The 44th edition of Mido came to a successful close and Essilor was there with a stand entirely devoted to the latest sophisticated new developments from its Instruments Division.
"We left Mido 2014 with huge satisfaction and optimum forecasts" – commented Christophe Di Trapani, Instruments & EBusiness Manager Essilor Italia. "Visitors were considerably interested in all the new developments presented by the Essilor Instruments Division; without a doubt, the new Mr Blue 2.0 grinder with the exclusive M'eye Sign function that can micro-engrave lenses with a diamond point, was perceived by eye care professionals as a real opportunity for creating interest at local level and traffic in the outlet".
"There were numerous meetings and discussions with customers", Di Trapani continued, "a positive sign which demonstrates that the market reacts to and rewards those who can offer highly technological products, the result of a strong commitment to research and development."
For presenting its three business lines, the Essilor Instrument Division stand was conceived and designed to reproduce an outlet. The new technologies for taking measurements and animating the outlet, optometry and the laboratory are part of the Organising Vision concept.
Visitors were able to touch and try the Group's innovative instruments and take a closer look at the totally leading-edge technology that optimizes the flow of information and work in the store, with two ambitious aims: minimize the risk of errors and, primarily, create more time to devote to the most invaluable resource – the consumer.