“NATO leaders at the Wales Summit on Thursday (4 September
2014) pledged to provide strong support to help Ukraine improve its own
security at a meeting with Ukraine President Poroshenko. “Our support is
concrete and tangible,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. “We
highly value Ukraine’s contributions to our operations and the NATO Response
Force. Ukraine has stood by NATO. Now in these difficult times, NATO stands by
Ukraine.”
Friday, September 5, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Voting/ Sitting Too Much/ Early Voting/ Stop This Insanity /BP's Gulf Oil Spill
Missoulian: Election Day voter registration to be decided on Montana ballot
The following issues were referred to the voters by the 2013 Legislature and will appear on the November 4, 2014 general election ballot:
C-45 (HB 79) (Status current as of 9/4/2014)
Subject: Constitutional amendment to rename the State Auditor.
Type: Constitutional Amendment
Status: Legislature referred HB 79 to the 2014 General Election Ballot.
LR-126
(SB
405) (Status current as of 9/4/2014)
Subject: Referendum to revise close of late voter registration.
Type: Legislative Referendum
Status: Legislature referred SB 405 to the 2014 General Election Ballot.
The
following issue was referred to the voters by the 2013 Legislature, but the MT
Supreme Court has enjoined
the Secretary of State from placing it on the November 4, 2014 general election
ballot: Subject: Referendum to revise close of late voter registration.
Type: Legislative Referendum
Status: Legislature referred SB 405 to the 2014 General Election Ballot.
LR-127
(SB
408) (Status current as of 9/4/2014)
Subject: Referendum to provide top two primary in certain elections.
Type: Legislative Referendum
Status: Legislature referred SB 408 to the 2014 General Election Ballot; MT Supreme Court has enjoined the Secretary of State from placing it on the ballot.
Subject: Referendum to provide top two primary in certain elections.
Type: Legislative Referendum
Status: Legislature referred SB 408 to the 2014 General Election Ballot; MT Supreme Court has enjoined the Secretary of State from placing it on the ballot.
Missoulian: Scientist
urges people to get up, get moving
Obesity prevalence
in 2013 varies across states and regions
Reducing Occupational Sitting Time and Improving Worker Health: The Take-a-Stand Project, 2011
“Prolonged sitting time (as a specific instance of sedentary behavior), independent of physical activity, has emerged as a risk factor for various negative health outcomes. Study results have demonstrated associations of prolonged sitting time with premature mortality (1–3); chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer (4–7); metabolic syndrome (5,6); and obesity (5,7). In contrast, breaks in prolonged sitting time have been correlated with beneficial metabolic profiles among adults, suggesting that frequent breaks in sedentary activity may explain lower health risk related to waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), triglyceride levels, and 2-hour plasma glucose levels (8).”
Reducing Occupational Sitting Time and Improving Worker Health: The Take-a-Stand Project, 2011
“Prolonged sitting time (as a specific instance of sedentary behavior), independent of physical activity, has emerged as a risk factor for various negative health outcomes. Study results have demonstrated associations of prolonged sitting time with premature mortality (1–3); chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer (4–7); metabolic syndrome (5,6); and obesity (5,7). In contrast, breaks in prolonged sitting time have been correlated with beneficial metabolic profiles among adults, suggesting that frequent breaks in sedentary activity may explain lower health risk related to waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), triglyceride levels, and 2-hour plasma glucose levels (8).”
Missoulian: Judge
orders expanded Ohio early voting schedule
Attorney General Holder Announces Justice Department Filings in Voting Rights Cases in Wisconsin and Ohio
Attorney General Holder Announces Justice Department Filings in Voting Rights Cases in Wisconsin and Ohio
STOP THIS INSANITY INC
EMPLOYEE LEADERSHIP FUND, ET AL ., APPELLANTS v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, APPELLEE
“BROWN , Circuit Judge. The iconic musician Mick Jagger famously mused, “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find, you get what you need.” The Rolling Stones, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, on Let It Bleed (Decca Records 1969). Here, Stop This Insanity—a grassroots organization— wants to remove the congressionally-imposed binds on solicitation by separate segregated funds, a type of political action committee connected to a parent corporation. What it needs, however, it already has—an unrestrained vehicle, in the form of that parent corporation, which can engage in unlimited political spending. Because this less-obsolete and less-onerous alternative exists, we decline Stop This Insanity’s invitation for us to tinker with what ha s become a statutory artifact.”
“BROWN , Circuit Judge. The iconic musician Mick Jagger famously mused, “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find, you get what you need.” The Rolling Stones, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, on Let It Bleed (Decca Records 1969). Here, Stop This Insanity—a grassroots organization— wants to remove the congressionally-imposed binds on solicitation by separate segregated funds, a type of political action committee connected to a parent corporation. What it needs, however, it already has—an unrestrained vehicle, in the form of that parent corporation, which can engage in unlimited political spending. Because this less-obsolete and less-onerous alternative exists, we decline Stop This Insanity’s invitation for us to tinker with what ha s become a statutory artifact.”
Missoulian: Judge:
BP's reckless conduct caused Gulf oil spill
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
“On the evening of April 20, 2010, a blowout, explosions, and fire occurred aboard the MODU DEEPWATER HORIZON (sometimes referred to as the “HORIZON”) as it was in the process of temporarily abandoning a well , known as Macondo, it had drilled on the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Louisiana.”
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
“On the evening of April 20, 2010, a blowout, explosions, and fire occurred aboard the MODU DEEPWATER HORIZON (sometimes referred to as the “HORIZON”) as it was in the process of temporarily abandoning a well , known as Macondo, it had drilled on the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Louisiana.”
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Bull Trout Recovery Plan
Missoulian: Feds' new plan to
save bull trout drops number goals
Revised
Draft Recovery Plan
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced Sept. 4, 2014, the availability of a Revised Draft Recovery Plan for the Coterminous U.S. Population of Bull Trout. Bull trout is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 United States. It occurs in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Nevada.”
News release
Questions and answers
Revised Draft Recovery Plan (2014)
Recovery Unit Map
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced Sept. 4, 2014, the availability of a Revised Draft Recovery Plan for the Coterminous U.S. Population of Bull Trout. Bull trout is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 United States. It occurs in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Nevada.”
News release
Questions and answers
Revised Draft Recovery Plan (2014)
Recovery Unit Map
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