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Where there's smoke

tsln.com

December 6, 2015

The story could be the plot for a western-style soap opera. The latest scene involved two ranchers being sentenced to five years in federal prison for inadvertently burning about 140 acres of Bureau of Land Management rangeland in two separate fires.

Dwight Hammond, 73 and son Steven Hamond, 46, admitted in a 2012 court case to lighting two different fires. Both fires started on Hammonds' private property. The Harney County ranchers are paying the BLM $400,000 for the costs of fighting fires the BLM claims they set. "The jury convicted both of the Hammonds of using fire to destroy federal property for a 2001 arson known as the Hardie-Hammond Fire, located in the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area," said a Department of Justice news release.

5 Reasons Young and Old Writers Need the SAS Writing Reviser Add-on for Google Docs

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by Scott McQuiggan

November 25, 2015

The FREE SAS Writing Reviser Add-on for Google Docs helps writers of all ages think like a professional writer. Improve your writing in Google Docs.

We all write-for school, for work, and for myriad other reasons. It's how we demonstrate comprehension, how we communicate knowledge, ideas, and experiences. It's how we connect with each other. But the revision process is complex. Revisers must be sensitive to your goals and reconsider the focus, meaning, and effectiveness from your perspective.

How to Make Money Online Doing Research

realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com

November 24, 2015

Many readers over the years have asked me about ways to make money online doing research.

There's no question that being good at online research is a profitable skill, so if you're someone who is a master of Google, or the person everyone else goes to when they are looking for specific info and they know you can find it faster than they can, then you'll want to read this post.

Why Do Rockefellers Aim At Destroying Farmers

thelibertybeacon.com

by F. William Engdahl

November 24, 2015

For the better part of the past century Western pop culture has systematically denigrated and devalued what should be the most honored profession of all.

Those who labor with the land, day-in and day-out, to deliver the food that we eat have assumed a social status too often similar to the dirt of the soil they till. No one stops to ask a simple question: What do we do when we have killed off all our farmers? Some of the more naïve city-dwellers would retort with little reflection, "But we have industrialized food production; we don't need manual farm labor today."

Delayed Kindergarten Enrollment Dramatically Reduces ADHD In Children, Study Shows

inquisitr.com

November 7, 2015

Delaying kindergarten enrollment for one year shows significant mental health benefits for children. Researchers found that a one-year delay in enrolling a child in kindergarten dramatically reduces inattention and hyperactivity at age seven.

Researchers found that children who were held back from kindergarten for as little as one year showed a 73 percent reduction in inattentiveness and hyperactivity compared to children sent the year earlier, according to this new study on kindergarten and mental health.

Michigan Creates 'Bogus Crimes' by Conflating Cannabis Extracts With Synthetic THC

reason.com

by Jacob Sullum

November 2, 2015

On a Wednesday evening in September 2014, Max Lorincz called 911 after his wife, Erica Chittenden, fell unconscious on the kitchen floor of their house in Crockery Township, Michigan, apparently after overdosing on prescription drugs.

Ottawa County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Gedeon, who responded along with an EMT from the Crockery Township Fire Department and an ambulance from North Ottawa Community Hospital, noticed a clear plastic container on the kitchen counter containing a tarry residue that looked like butane hash oil (BHO). Lorincz explained that he had a state-issued medical marijuana card and had obtained the BHO from a dispensary in Muskegon. Gedeon removed the plastic container from the house, setting in motion a series of events that ended with Lorincz facing a felony charge and the loss of his 6-year-old son. The puzzling case revealed a change in policy at the Michigan State Police (MSP) Forensic Science Division that Lorincz's lawyers say may have tainted hundreds of convictions by falsely identifying cannabis extracts as synthetic THC.

See How Your Senator Voted on the Budget Deal

dailysignal.com

by Melissa Quinn

October 30, 2015

Less than five days after it was introduced, the Senate passed the 144-page, two-year budget deal that suspends the debt limit until March 2017 and raises spending caps.

The Senate passed the budget deal, 64-35, just after 3 a.m. on Friday. Thirty-five Republican senators opposed the deal, though it was not enough to stop the bill from heading to President Obama's desk.

EU lawmakers throw out GMO compromise law

wort.lu

October 28, 2015

EU lawmakers on Wednesday rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU member states to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.

Parliament voted 557 to 75 against a law which took the European Commission years to negotiate amid deep suspicions about the possible health and safety implications of GMO products. The outcome, however, turned on a matter of principle -- allowing member states to ban GMO products would mean erecting barriers within the EU's most cherished achievement, its single market of more than 500 million people.

Blowing Smoke: Chemical Companies Say "Trust Us," But Environmental and Workplace Safety Violations Belie Their Rhetoric | Center for Effective Government

foreffectivegov.org

October 24, 2015

Large chemical companies and their major trade association and lobbying arm, the American Chemistry Council, say they can maintain high safety standards through self-regulation and voluntary actions. Our report finds this isn't the case.

Chemical manufacturing uses dangerous substances that can be hazardous to the health and well-being of chemical plant workers and to the residents who live nearby. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) and leaders in the chemical industry have fought stronger government oversight of chemical manufacturing for decades, arguing that the rules currently regulating toxic chemicals are adequate.

Free the Children

pathwaystofamilywellness.org

by Charles Eisenstein

October 20, 2015

I've been seeing a lot of news articles recently about parents being arrested and their children removed from their custody because they let them play unsupervised outdoors. The first thing I felt upon reading these stories was intense indignation.

Why is this happening? Why has there been this tremendous change from my own childhood, in which it was normal for us to wander far and wide, unsupervised, as young as 6 or 7? There are a few reasons. First, the decline of community. During my childhood, all the neighbors knew each other and would keep an eye on each other's kids. The boundary between home and not-home was more fluid, more gradual. The neighbor's yard or the cornfield at the end of the street was still home territory.

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