To learn a little about the new exciting world of Microsoft Lync please take a few minutes to view this video. If you have been given access to Microsoft Office 365 (E3) than you have access to Lync. Take some time to work with it. Special training will be held in mid-May and a policy and procedure guide distributed as well.
You can learn a little about the history of Lync by clicking here.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Laura Bush Launches "Taking Care of Texas"
From all appearances, Mrs. Bush is Fired Up! and Ready to Take Care of our Texas Land! And not a moment too soon!!
Upon further inspection, we certainly don't see anything on the new "Taking Care of Texas" web site that speaks to taking care of shale gas drilling and fracking.
Maybe a nice tour of the old Barnett Shale will provide additional inspiration for Mrs. Bush as she prepares for her 2013 Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.
Taking Care of Texas will highlight exemplary conservation practices and projects at its2013 conference in Fort Worth, Texas.This will expand and build support and partnership for current efforts and catalyze new efforts that will take care of our state’s land, water, wildlife, and communities. Business leaders, land managers, conservation groups, educators, and other interested citizens will attend the conference. [emphasis added.]
Oh, "Taking Care of Texas" says they Can Do Conservation! Wow. Where have we heard that before? We here at the Westchester Gasette certainly know about Fort Worth Can Do ~ which stands for Fort Worth Citizens Against Neighborhood Drilling Ordinance.
We wish "All the Best" for Mrs. Bush's new project. We hope her project will take a real good look at "conserving" the Mountain Creek area of Southwest Dallas, too. We're concerned that someone she knows has his
Here's the kind of FRAC Job we can expect out in the Mountain Creek area on some of our beautiful Texas land:
And then there's this fracking disaster not far from Dallas:
Of course, now we know,"It Ain't Just Steam." in southeast Arlington, Texas.
Take care, y'all.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Mineral Deed
In recent years, DR Horton (America's Builder) has been holding on to the minerals and groundwater when they sell homes in their subdivisions.
DR Horton Development. Clark Road. Dallas/Duncanville, TX.
Texas Sharon writes a stunner today on BlueDaze:
So, now, in the beautiful Mountain Creek area of southwestern Dallas County, TX ~ a certain kind of property transaction occurred in mid-February 2012:
*Not to be confused with a Gas and/or Oil Lease
Scroll down to Exhibit A in the above mineral deed to see the general location of the property being deeded.
Kind of Important Question: So, why are George H.W. Bush's ancestors discussed in a DR Horton Mineral Deed??!!
Oh, they were thumpin' for shale gas just last year out that way...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Dateline: Fort Worth, TX **UPDATE: Shocking Development**
If it's not one BIG Monster earthquake waiting to happen, what is it?
God Help Fort Worth, TX. Please.
Apparently they're going to vote to "ban" disposal wells in Fort Worth City Limits forever during tonight's City Council Meeting.
Click here to read the story in yesterday's (April 9, 2012) Fort Worth Star Telegram.
Banning disposal wells means some other community or farmer or rancher will continue to receive Fort Worth's toxic waste. It's truly one big fracking mess.
Amen.
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**Update**
Holy Cow! So, the Fort Worth City Council votes Unanimously to BAN all "waste" water injection wells in the City Limits but then immediately holds a Public Hearing on fracking under the Martin Luther King Rec Community Center. It passed Unanimously, too.
So, they want MORE waste? More Toxic Waste to continue to contaminate North Texas communities via injection wells elsewhere?
This is very, very sad for all of us, Fort Worth. Thanks so much.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Does Oprah Know?
[Clint Eastwood] “I’ve been using it for almost 40 years now. I think that it’s a great tool for anyone to have.”
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Overcoming the Maharishi Development Fund
P.A. Watson Cemetery (also known as the West Fork Cemetery)
Dateline Arlington, TX: We have seen it many times before. A church or another business entity owns a fairly large piece of undeveloped land inside City Limits. A shale gas operator finds it, makes a deal and...before we know it, everything is ready to go through the approval stages. The City does a little tap dance and all vote in unison for approval. Cities all across the Barnett Shale revere their shale gas deals.
And as we so often find in shale gasland...there can be many unknown potholes on the road to that promised land.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The Colony -- An investment group established by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a meditation guru who once inspired the Beatles, is apparently hoping that a mixed-use development in The Colony will hasten its plan to establish "heaven on earth."[...]Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is credited with bringing transcendental meditation, or "TM," to the world in the 1960s. Transcendental meditation is a meditative technique in which a "mantra" is chanted that aims to nourish creativity and well-being. Today the yogi is said to have 4 million worldwide followers, a global network of meditation centers and universities, his own 24-hour TV channel in Holland and the Maharishi Global Development Fund, which is based in New York City. [emphasis added]
The clock is finally ticking for Hartford's 1960s-era Clarion Hotel, the 12-story eyesore in spooling white concrete worthy of an Eastern Bloc nation that sits in the way of hoped-for redevelopment of Constitution Plaza downtown.[...]Instead, exactly nothing happened for the past 15 years, resulting in the haggard, water-damaged wreck that today sits astride Kinsley Street on Columbus Boulevard. Hartford City Assessor Larry LaBarbera recently toured the inside of the building, with flashlights since there's no electricity, and describes it as "totally devastated."In 2003, the MGDF abandoned plans to build a mixed-use development on about 300 acres in The Colony, Texas, that would have included the world's tallest skyscraper, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road (keep going)
THE COLONY (CBSDFW.COM) - A theme park in The Colony? It could happen.The city council agenda for Tuesday night’s meeting lists a proposal for a “1.5 billion dollar” development for “a theme park, hotel, convention center, stores, concessions, restaurants and park facilities.”[...]Years ago, the Maharishi Global Development Fund wanted to build a 1,600 foot tower on the land.That skyscraper project never happened, and neither did a separate mixed-use development the group later proposed for the same location. The land is empty now.[emphasis added.]
The video starts after the ad ~ wait about 28 seconds:
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Budget Inn Suites in Grand Prairie, TX: Just a Few Feet from Proposed "Maharishi Pad Site"
Click Here to View the Arlington, TX City Council Agenda Details for the April 3, 2012 City Council Meeting (It's a very big file so be patient. Go to Pages 228 - 256 for the Marharishi Drill Site Agenda Details.) (New format created later for these files, apparently.)(Pages 229-230)On March 16, 2012, the Community Development and Planning Department received a letter opposing the zoning case. As the owner’s signature represents only 7.9 percent of the land area within 200 feet of the subject site, approval of this case will not require super majority vote of the City Council.REQUESTThe applicant requests approval of a Specific Use Permit (SUP) for gas drilling on a 5.035-acre tract of land zoned Entertainment District-Industrial Manufacturing (ED-IM). The property is addressed at 601 Avenue H East; generally located north of Avenue H East and east of State Highway 360.ANALYSISThe subject site is currently undeveloped with frontage on Avenue H East. The City of Grand Prairie borders the north of the subject site, while there is undeveloped land to the east, office and *cemetery uses to the south, and office and gasoline retail uses to the west. The operator plans to drill 14 to 37 wells on the site. However, due to the fluctuating demand of natural gas and market prices, the applicant does not have an estimated timeframe of when drilling activities will be complete.[...]
(Page 231)
Pipeline Route
The applicant has identified a proposed pipeline from DFW Midstream that will serve the site. The line is an eight-inch Maharishi lateral that will connect to the future Great Southwest Parkway 16-inch lateral.
Enough already. Maharishi Global Development Fund is a non-profit organization with assets of $122,580,646 at the end of 2010.
*Watson/West Fork Cemetery, Arlington, TX and Historical Landmark
Sunday, April 1, 2012
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