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Legislative panel OKs state's first set of 'fracking' regulations
NASHVILLE - A legislative committee Wednesday approved Tennessee’s first regulations for the use of “fracking” to extract oil and natural gas from wells after hearing several environmentalist complain the rules don’t go far enough.
knoxnews.com (7 hours ago)
Cerritos house fire probed for drug use
CERRITOS - Sheriff's arson investigators Wednesday worked to determine if a noninjury house fire in Cerritos was caused by a resident using butane to extract concentrated oil from marijuana, authorities said.
presstelegram.com (20 hours ago)
Chinese Bear Bile Farming Draws Charges of Cruelty
An extract from the gallbladder of bears is believed to have medicinal benefits, but animal welfare advocates aim to convince Chinese consumers of the barbarity of bile farming.
nytimes.com (1 day ago)
Glamorgan make most of Leicestershire's poor fielding and bowling
The county of Glamorgan has already enjoyed considerable sporting success this year, and if the prospects of the cricket club adding to the laurels now adorning Swansea City and Cardiff City by winning promotion from Division Two are limited – they last won a trophy in 2004 – they are at least batting themselves in...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Charles Moore: Margaret Thatcher's First Visit to Washington of the Reagan Presidency
Extract from Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, By Charles Moore. Adapted for The Huffington Post _____________ The day after his inauguration, on 20 January 1981, President Reagan took a call from Mrs Thatcher. She told him that she was 'thrilled' by his inauguration speech, and by the release of the...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Stieg Larsson on the Trans-Siberian
Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a reporter before he was a writer of bestselling detective stories. In this extract from a new collection of his journalism, he reports on the latter part of a journey from Moscow to Beijing on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
telegraph.co.uk (1 day ago)
PSA: Your Skype Messages Aren't As Private as You Think They Are
Most people think of Skype as a secure means of communication, with messages kindly delivered using end-to-end encryption. But a new report by Ars Technica suggests that's far from the case-and Microsoft is often dipping into your communications. Having teamed up with security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars sent...
gizmodo.com (2 days ago)
Water at risk
With a proposed new set of rules, the federal Bureau of Land Management took a step toward better regulation of energy industries that use fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, to extract fossil fuels on public lands and Native American tribal lands. But the regulations are too lax to give much comfort to those who...
sltrib.com (2 days ago)
Apple Meets The "Fairness Doctrine", Is Set To Pay A Whole Lot More In Taxes
Last September, when we exposed the heretofore unknown entity actively managing Apple's $100 billion+ in offshore held cash (and thus untaxed in the US), we made the following "bold" prediction: "with the topic of finding effective tax loopholes which are perfectly legal, yet which apparently are unfair, serving as...
zerohedge.com (2 days ago)
The New York Public Library: The Big Story That Happened In His Backyard
Journalists Renowned for his Coverage of Fracking Discusses His Book, Which Is Nominated For Prestigious NYPL Award. By ANGELA MONTEFINISE When veteran news reporter Tom Wilber first started covering the development of hydraulic fracturing in upstate New York, he thought it was just an average story on his beat for...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Kava Plant Could Be Promising For Future Anxiety Treatments
By: Bahar Gholipour, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/20/2013 09:24 AM EDT on LiveScience An extract from the kava plant can treat people with chronic anxiety, an study from Australia finds. Patients with generalized anxiety disorder who took kava extract tablets for six weeks showed a significant reduction...
huffingtonpost.com (2 days ago)
Kava Plant May Treat Anxiety
An extract from the kava plant can treat people with chronic anxiety.
discovery.com (2 days ago)
FYI: Do Wind Farms Make It Less Windy?
Related: Do they change the surrounding temperature? Wind turbines extract kinetic energy from the air around them, and since less energy makes for weaker winds, turbines do indeed make it less windy. Technically speaking, the climate zone right behind a turbine (or behind all the turbines on a wind farm)...
popsci.com (2 days ago)
China suspects presumed guilty until proven innocent
It was a short drive that would cost them a decade. In May 2003, Zhang Gaoping and his nephew, Zhang Hui, picked up a hitchhiker en route to Shanghai and dropped her off in the coastal metropolis of Hangzhou. The following morning, the 17-year-old girl's naked corpse was pulled from a drainage ditch. The two were...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
That’s News to you answers - Sun, 19 May 2013 PST
1. C. The rules proposed last week by the Washington State Liquor Control Board say a store must be at least 1,000 feet from a school, playground, day care center and several other facilities, which complies with Initiative 502. The rules also say minors aren’t allowed in the store. 2. C. A construction company...
spokesman.com (4 days ago)
LA Doctor Gets 14 Years For This Horrible Promise
LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million by promising them that an herbal supplement she hawked could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases. U.S. District Judge Robert Timilin also ordered Dr. Christine Daniel to...
huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)
Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil
Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees, and the alleged interference of a president whose firm control of the sector worries transparency campaigners. Uganda, which has confirmed...
foxnews.com (4 days ago)
North Korea Launches Three Missiles Into Eastern Sea
Five days ago, when describing the launch of the joint-US, South Korean naval military exercise in the East Sea, we said that "for all his endless posturing, North Korea's Un has done absolutely nothing. And if his inability and unwillingness to translate threats into actions continue, that will pretty much be it...
zerohedge.com (4 days ago)
Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance Of Reality) - first look review
The extinct volcano of underground cinema has burst into life once again - with a bizarre, chaotic and startling film; there are some longueurs and gimmicks, but The Dance of Reality is an unexpectedly touching and personal work. At the age of 84, and over 30 years since his last movie, Alejandro Jodorowsky has...
guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)
How to cook with anise
Anise and almond Anise can do for almond what a half-decent heckle does for a tired comedy routine. They're found together in biscotti – those Italian biscuits that are somewhere between a sweet treat and hard labour. The following crumbly cookies, which wouldn't seem out of place in the bakeries of Sicily either,...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Pregnant, with cancer: exclusive extract from Matilda Tristram's cancer comic – interactive
How Matilda Tristram coped with a shocking diagnosis
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
Semolina nut cookies recipe | Dan Lepard
These cookies have a firm texture and keep very well. Though they're rolled in icing sugar, they don't have the sweetness of the dates, so a little extra sugar worked in helps the flavour. You could also flavour it with anise seeds, any sort of grated citrus zest, or almond or orange extract. Makes about 251...
guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)
U.S.: Disclose fracking chemicals on public land
New proposal would track chemicals used on public land to extract oil, gas.
usatoday.com (6 days ago)
Guest Post: The Trick To Suppressing Revolution: Keeping Debt/Tax Serfdom Bearable
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, The 30 million whose labor funds the parasitic status quo don't have to rebel; they simply have to stop going to work, stop starting enterprises, stop being productive. Parasites must balance their drive to maximize what they extract from their host with the risk...
zerohedge.com (6 days ago)
Road-builder: Landowner permitted Belize pyramid excavation
Archeologists have expressed outrage at the demolition of the Nohmul complex to extract crushed rock
cbsnews.com (6 days ago)
Road-Builder: Landowner Allowed Pyramid Excavation
The owner of a road-building company in Belize that has been blamed for the near destruction of one of the country's biggest Mayan pyramids says a landowner gave permission to extract the material.
nytimes.com (6 days ago)
Road-builder: landowner allowed pyramid excavation
The owner of a road-building company in Belize that has been blamed for the near destruction of one of the country's biggest Mayan pyramids says a landowner gave permission to extract the material. Businessman Denny Grijalva says the landowner has allowed excavations on his property for more than a decade....
foxnews.com (6 days ago)
Road-builder: landowner allowed pyramid excavation
BELIZE CITY (AP) - The owner of a road-building company in Belize that has been blamed for the near destruction of one of the country's biggest Mayan pyramids says a landowner gave permission to extract the material.
boston.com (6 days ago)
Road-builder: landowner allowed pyramid excavation
The owner of a road-building company in Belize that has been blamed for the near destruction of one of the country's biggest Mayan pyramids says a landowner gave permission to extract the material.
miamiherald.com (6 days ago)
Guest Post: The Empire's Next Effort To Extract Your Wealth
Authored by Addison Wiggin via Laissez Faire Club blog, Since before the tech bust, we’ve been suggesting that while Americans “think” they’re getting richer... they’re actually heading in the other direction. They’re getting poorer. This proposition has been easier for folks to entertain since housing busted and...
zerohedge.com (6 days ago)
