If there's ever a contest for the world's biggest hypocrite, I'd like to nominate Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. Here's more from rt.com:

The CEO of ExxonMobil – the top producer of natural gas in the US – has joined a lawsuit that challenges the construction of a water tower connected to hydraulic fracturing operations near his Texas home, given that it may reduce the property value.

CEO Rex Tillerson and other plaintiffs claim the hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – project will cause unwanted noise and traffic associated with trucking water from the 160-foot tower to the drilling site, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The tower will provide water “to oil and gas explorers for fracing [sic] shale formations leading to traffic with heavy trucks on FM 407, creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” according to the lawsuit. The water tower is owned by Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation.

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Uncertainty is a bitch.

• “Do I stay or do I go?”
• “Should I do this or that?”
• “Will I regret this?”

When we don’t have control over an outcome, we get a serious case of brain-drain, spiraling thoughts, and nagging feelings.

Most of us handle uncertainty in one or more of the following ways:

1. We confuse ourselves even more. We have no idea what we want so we think more options will compensate for our lack of vision.
2. We honor our inner-critic instead of our inner-guide, twisting our stress into “proof” that we aren’t good enough, smart enough, or whatever script your inner-critic likes to follow.
3. We second guess, then triple guess our decisions. We seem to think that somewhere there is a perfect choice.
4. We jump to the worst-case scenario and feel like the walls are slowly caving in. From that space, we feel trapped and forced to take whatever comes our way.

News flash:

The perfect choice, circumstance, or situation doesn’t exist. There are positives and negatives to everything.  Life is about making choices and either making it work, changing our mind later, and/or learning from our mistakes.

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While eating a tree may not sound very appetizing, many types of tree bark are actually edible and quite nutritious. If you ever find yourself in a situation in which you’re lost in the woods or experiencing a major disaster without access to food, it could actually save your life.

Tree bark is considered safe as well as healthy as long as you’re using the right part of the bark, and from the right species. This layer of bark is referred to as the cambium layer, found right next to the wood. Many of our ancestors used this edible inner layer for food and medicine, and in many Native American cultures it was used as an important dietary staple.

Trees that have edible inner bark include:

• Most pines
• Slippery elm
• Black birch
• Yellow birch
• Red spruce
• Black spruce
• Balsam fir
• Tamarack

Pine is generally the best choice in the Northern Hemisphere; it was the type of bark used by most of our predecessors. Both the inner bark and nuts of the pine tree can be used as a food source, and its needles can be chopped and steeped in boiling water to make pine needle tea, which contains five times the daily requirement of vitamin C.

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http://www.thealternativedaily.com/tree-bark-keep-alive/