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San Francisco Needs a Free Market, Not Free Water

bloomberg.com

by Steven Greenhut

July 25, 2012

San Francisco officials routinely lecture the rest of the U.S. about public health and the environment as they enact laws that, for example, ban McDonald's (MCD) Happy Meals and require businesses to compost their trash.

But when it comes to doing something that would advance a noble public goal -- the conservation of California's most valuable natural resources -- these same moralizers can be shockingly conventional in their attitudes. Consider their response after a group called the Yosemite Restoration Campaign collected enough signatures to put a measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that asks San Franciscans to approve a study on the removal of one of the most controversial dams ever built, the O'Shaughnessy Dam in Yosemite National Park, and for the restoration of the Hetch Hetchy Valley. The initiative would force city officials to figure out a plan for replacing water supplies lost by eliminating one of nine dams controlled by the San Francisco public utility.

How Wire-Services use YOUR own money to destroy your business

bloomnation.com

June 25, 2012

Let's face it, almost every local florist has been part of a wire-service at some point in their floral life. It's the easiest way to start getting orders.

To the naked eye, it seems like a legitimate model: They have a website that gets lots of traffic, they route the orders right to you without needing to worry about marketing or having an online presence. But taking a deeper dive into the tactics of these service, you will quickly realize that you are ultimately fueling a fire that is burning down your own business. Sites like FTD and 1-800-flowers not only charge a commission or "split" of the order they send you (30%), they also charge a monthly fee to be part of their network, not to mention other random "junk fees". Its safe to say that you do your fair part in paying for their costs and executives salaries. Well, what you don't realize is that they are actually using your own money against you.

'Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness'

BMJ Publishing Group

by Jeanne Lenzer

July 16, 2011

Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April 2002 to conduct a "comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system."

The president's commission found that "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers of all ages," including preschool children. According to the commission, "Each year, young children are expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviours and emotional disorders." Schools, are in a "key position" to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at the schools.

Uncle Sam wants you – to pay him back

Boca Raton News (FL)

by Dale M. King

July 16, 2011

West Boca man convicted of bank fraud is under house arrest and must pay the government $3 million

Daniel and Peggy Lee Antolini are selling their $2 million estate on five acres of land in an equestrian community just west of the Boca city line. They have to do that - and liquidate other assets - to satisfy a federal court order.

Shoot a Mountain Lion, Lose Your Job?

boiseweekly.com

by Randy King

March 1, 2012

It's legal to hunt a lot of game in Idaho, so when people from out of state decide they want to come to Idaho and hunt.

People from around the world come to hunt elk, deer, moose, bear, wolf and mountain lions. However, it is not legal to hunt mountain lions in California. And that has gotten California Fish and Game director Dan Richards into a lot of hot water back home, where California Dems are calling for his resignation as wildlife chief of the Golden State.

Pet Foster Parents Say Proposed Regulations Go Too Far

boston.cbslocal.com

by Jim Armstrong

May 24, 2012

People who open their homes to foster dogs throughout the state are worried about newly proposed regulations that they fear would prevent many of them from ever being able to take in another dog.

Among the proposals are regulations that would forbid any potential foster home from having carpeting and another that would mandate a private bathing area for all foster dogs. All foster homes would essentially be forbidden from having porous surfaces in areas where the dogs spend time, and they would all be subject to unannounced inspections, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Harvard scientist linking pesticides to honeybee colony collapse disorder

bostonglobe.com

by Scott Helman

June 23, 2013

How a Harvard scientist, a sixth-generation bee whisperer, and a retired entrepreneur joined forces to rescue an embattled insect and save the American food supply.

Chensheng Lu hardly cuts the profile of a provocateur. He dresses business casual and wears silver-rimmed glasses. He lives in Wellesley. He gardens. He has two children, one in high school, another in college. He occupies a tidy office in the Landmark Center, as an associate professor in the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health. And yet the mention of Lu's name in certain quarters elicits palpable discomfort: Oh, him. Lu, who is 49 and goes by Alex, grew up a city kid in Taipei, the youngest of three siblings. He rode his bike to the baseball field, sometimes to the comic-book store. He knew little about agriculture, little about nature. Then he came to the United States for graduate school, first to Rutgers University and then to the University of Washington, where he got his PhD in environmental health. In the Pacific Northwest, Lu found his calling: tracking pesticide exposure in food, homes, and workplaces. The prevalence of these chemicals, he grew convinced, was a critical and understudied aspect of public health.

Health and Medical Prescription drugs kill one person every 19 minutes

brasschecktv.com

by Nancy Rosen-Cohen

February 26, 2012

The Quiet Epidemic: prescription drug abuse destroys millions of lives.

There isn't much attention paid to prescription drug abuse, except perhaps when a Hollywood star dies from an overdose. However, it is estimated that nearly one in five Americans has used prescription drugs for nonmedicinal reasons, and 15 percent may be abusing prescription drugs. This silent epidemic has become the leading cause of addiction.

Ebola Cure In Sight in Israeli Lab

breakingisraelnews.com

by Ahuva Balofsky

August 10, 2014

The recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa is making headlines around the world, and generating a fair bit of international concern.

The deadly virus has claimed over 800 lives since March in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria, and is fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. Israeli researcher Dr. Leslie Lobel, however, is not sitting idly by. He has been studying the disease for many years and believes he is close to developing a cure. Ebola was first identified in 1976 in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). It starts off looking like a bad flu, but quickly progresses to vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding, according to the World Health Organization.

Scientists Confirm World's Oldest Creature...But Kill it Determining Its Age

breitbart.com

by Jon David Kahn

November 14, 2013

In 2006, climate change experts from Bangor University in north Wales found a very special clam while dredging the seabeds of Iceland. At that time scientists counted the rings on the inside shell to determine that the clam was the ripe old age of 405.

Unfortunately, by opening the clam which scientists refer to as "Ming," they killed it instantly. Cut to 2013, researchers have determined that the original calculations of Ming's age were wrong, and that the now deceased clam was actually 102 years older than originally thought. Ming was 507 years old at the time of its demise.

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