福岡市は2001年にごみ焼却施設を稼動させるにあたり、周辺住民の理解と余熱利用を図るため、タラソテラピー（海水中での身体活動によるリフレッシュ）を主眼とした施設の設置を立案した。当初は公設公営の予定であったが、1999年に民間資金等の活用による公共施設等の整備等の促進に関する法律（通称：PFI法）が施行されたことに伴い、PFI事業に方針を変更。2000年に事業者の公募をおこない、応募のあった2社からゼネコンの大木建設の案を採用した。2001年に大木建設が筆頭出資者となって事業運営会社「株式会社タラソ福岡」が設立され、福岡市と契約を締結した。2002年4月に開場したが、入場者数が当初の見込みを下回り、初年度決算で6千万円の損失を計上した。このため、2003年には施設のリニューアル（飲食店・売店の閉鎖とトレーニング機能の強化）および運営の外部委託を実施し、入場者には多少の効果があったものの収支の回復には至らず、翌年度も損失を計上して債務超過に陥る。2004年4月に大木建設は民事再生法の適用を申請して経営破綻し、同社からの支援継続が困難となったことから、2004年11月末をもって閉鎖された。その後、運営会社を福岡臨海PFI株式会社に変更して2005年4月に再開場したが、会員数が伸び悩んだことや施設の維持修繕費用の負担が原因で、当初の事業予定期間の期限となる2017年3月をもって再び閉鎖となった。福岡市では再度の事業者公募をおこない、2018年度に再開する意向を2017年3月に市議会で表明した。福岡市は新事業者に施設を10年間貸与する方針と報じられた。2017年11月、株式会社ダンロップスポーツウェルネスと福岡市が賃貸借契約を結び、2018年4月に「ダンロップスポーツクラブ 福岡箱崎店」として2018年4月にオープンすることが発表された。2018年4月13日にリニューアルオープン。
タラソ福岡（タラソふくおか）は、福岡県福岡市東区箱崎にあった健康増進施設である。ごみ焼却施設の余熱の活用を行うPFI事業（福岡市臨海工場余熱利用施設整備事業）として設置・運営された。2002年に開場後、事業者の交代による中断を経て、2017年3月に閉鎖された。2018年4月よりダンロップスポーツウェルネスによる「ダンロップスポーツクラブ 福岡箱崎」として営業が再開されている。
森 哲弥（もり てつや、1943年1月21日 - ）は、京都府京都市生まれの詩人。滋賀県湖南市在住。近江詩人会会員。滋賀文学会理事。1967年、立命館大学文学部哲学科心理学専攻卒業後、社会福祉法人「びわこ学園」に2003年まで勤務。その傍ら「初猟」、「仕事場」、「少年」、「少年玩弄品博物館」など多くの詩集を発表し続け、1977年には「重症心身障害児の教育における教材教具についての研究」で第1回ほほえみ賞を受賞した。また、2001年に発表した詩集「幻想思考理科室」で第51回H氏賞を受賞した。
Notable advocates of the view that Obama may not be eligible for the Presidency include Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania attorney and 9/11 conspiracy theorist; Berg describes himself as a "moderate to liberal" Democrat who backed Hillary Clinton for president. Another notable advocate is Alan Keyes, who was defeated by Obama in the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate election, served as a diplomat in the Reagan administration, and is currently a media personality and self described "conservative political activist." Orly Taitz, a California dentist and attorney who emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel, then to the United States, and holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship, has been called the "queen bee of the birthers", because she is often seen as the face of the movement. Other notable advocates include Andy Martin, a perennial candidate who was "widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign" that Obama is a secret Muslim, and Robert L. Schulz, a tax protester and activist who placed full-page advertisements in the Chicago Tribune in December 2008 arguing that Obama had been born in Kenya or had subsequently renounced U.S. citizenship. The Constitution Party, a dominionist third party, is also campaigning for release of Obama's original long-form certificate.The website AmericaMustKnow.com encouraged visitors to lobby members of the Electoral College to vote against Obama's confirmation as President and become faithless electors. Electors around the country received numerous letters and e-mails contending that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery and that he was born in Kenya, and requesting that Obama be denied the presidency. Some of the online campaigners coordinated their efforts with weekly conference calls, in which they discussed the latest news and how to advance the story.The campaign has also been supported by the WorldNetDaily (WND) website, which sponsored a letter-writing campaign to the Supreme Court. WND's publisher Joseph Farah has written a number of editorials arguing that Obama's eligibility needs to be confirmed. WND has mounted an advertising campaign, using electronic billboards to ask "Where's The Birth Certificate?".The talk radio hosts Michael Savage, G. Gordon Liddy, Brian Sussman, Lars Larson, Bob Grant, Jim Quinn, Rose Tennent, Barbara Simpson and Mark Davis have all promoted the ineligibility claims on their radio shows. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs have also broached the issue several times on their shows. Savage has asserted: "We're getting ready for the Communist takeover of America with a noncitizen at the helm."The anti-Obama campaigners have not, however, been unanimous in their approach. For example, WorldNetDaily has been critical of Philip Berg's forgery claims, saying that a "WND investigation into Obama's [short form] birth certificate utilizing forgery experts ... found the document to be authentic." At the same time, WND has been urging Obama to release his original long-form certificate, and WND contends that "Hawaii at the time of Obama's birth allowed births that took place in foreign countries to be registered in Hawaii," ignoring the fact that a birth certificate issued in such circumstances would list the actual place of birth, not a Hawaiian location such as Honolulu. A subsequent WND article seemed to backtrack on the earlier one, saying of the experts it had quoted earlier that "None of them could report conclusively that the electronic image was authentic or that it was a forgery." This apparent reversal prompted MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to declare WND's Joseph Farah to be his "Worst Person in the World" for January 5, 2009.According to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, "the birther movement has gained a large following on the radical right... it has been adopted by the most noxious elements out there." Some of those "noxious elements" include a number of avowed white-supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. James von Brunn, an avowed white supremacist charged as the gunman in the June 10, 2009, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting, had previously posted messages to the Internet accusing Obama and the media of hiding documents about his life. Ben Smith of The Politico commented: "The penetration of the birther mythology into the violent fringe has to be a worry for the Secret Service, because at its heart, it's about denying Obama's legitimacy to hold the office of president."