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After jostling with the State Department over his desire to work toward interfaith dialogue, prominent Catholic and conservative Douglas Kmiec resigned his post as U.S. Ambassador to Malta.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Kmiec rejected an internal State Department report that asserted his advocacy of interfaith understanding was outside his official ambassadorial mission.
In his letter of resignation, Kmiec wrote that State's inspector general had a "flawed and narrow vision of our diplomatic mission." As a result of the investigation, Kmiec said, "my voice has been prevented from speaking, my pen has been enjoined from writitng, and my actions have been confined to the ministerial."
We say: Charlottesville reveals the weeping wound of racism. What do we, the American Catholic faith community, do next? Read the editorial.
It's true that most ambassadors are administrators -- the job is rarely embued with the glamor visited upon it by spy thrillers and war movies. But Kmiec saw his role as singular: Obama was drawn to him because of Kmiec's dedication to understanding across the faiths in a time of religious extremism. He felt he was clearly given two equal jobs: ambassador to strategically important Malta, and ambassador for interfaith dialogue. The State Department apparently never liked the moonlighting.
If Kmiec stays gone from State, Obama needs to step in and find a new, high-profile role for a creative thinker whose support of the President has cost him points with right-wing traditionalists who once counted him in their camp. He really deserves no less.
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Solid Energy's Perfect Storm
"A Perfect Storm" is the catchphrase of the day as the Government is quizzed over Solid Energy.
There are also questions about Lesley Longstone's golden handshake.
Former Solid Energy CEO Don Elder unknowingly contradicts statements made by the energy company's current boss last week.
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Today my daughter is one month old, and I'm exhausted.
The other night, I had just drifted off to sleep when the baby woke up. Of course I'm used to this by now. She only sleeps for two-hour stretches, so she wakes up multiple times in the night.
Before she could get into full-force crying mode, I pulled her from her bedside bassinet and nursed her. Then I woke up my husband and sent him off to change her diaper while I used the bathroom, refilled my water glass, and changed out of my sweat-soaked pajamas. (Why, by the way, does no one tell you about post-partum night sweats? They're the worst!)
I re-swaddled the little bae and nursed her until she got sleepy. Then I rocked her in my arms until her limbs went slack and it appeared she had fallen asleep. I gently deposited her in her bassinet, tucked her blanket around her, and counted to fifty before oh-so-agonizingly-slowly slipping my hand away from her soft little head in hopes that she wouldn't realize she was no longer nestled safe in Mommy's arms. I rocked the bassinet for a few minutes for good measure, and it seemed like she was fast asleep.
Relieved, I flopped back into bed and pulled the covers up to my chin, excited to get another two hours of sleep. That's when I heard the baby grunt. I stayed put, hoping she was making noises in her sleep. But no, now she was starting to whine and thrash. I sat up in bed and grabbed the side of the bassinet, hoping I could just rock her back to sleep. But soon enough her little eyes popped open, and her face screwed with displeasure. I tried slipping a pacifier between her lips, but she wouldn't take it, and she let out a giant, heartbreaking wail.
"It's okay, little baby," I crooned while my husband moaned in his sleep. I picked her up and started to nurse her again. I went through the whole routine – nurse, rock, put in the bassinet, rock some more. But again, mere minutes after I lay her down, she started to cry.
On the third try, I held her in one arm, and with my free hand I checked my email on my phone. One of my emails turned out to be feedback from a beta reader who had just read the most recent draft of my novel. She had some good things to say about it, but she also pointed out many flaws and gave me suggestions for improvement. She had showed me some very real problems, and I was grateful for that, but the email also made me feel tired. I was going to have to start all over with the novel, giving it a total revision from head to toe.
As I rocked the baby in my arms, wondering if she was deep enough asleep to not notice a transfer into the bassinet, it occurred to me that getting a newborn back to sleep isn't so different from revising a novel. Just when you think you're done, you have to start all over again from the very beginning. It's time consuming, it's tiring… and yet, you love this baby of yours, whether it be a book baby or a human one, and somehow you find the patience not to throw it out the window.
Annoying as revisions may be, I'm looking forward to having the time and energy to revise this novel. I know it might take awhile, and I know I this might not be the last revision, but it's my baby.
Finally, the human baby was fast asleep in my arms. I gently placed her in the bassinet and had begun to move my hands away from her head a fraction of an inch at a time when a loud, wet, squelching sound came from her behind. And then another. A moment later, her eyes blinked open and she began to wail. I woke up my husband and sent him off to do yet another diaper change. It was two a.m., and I could tell we were in for a long night.


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Venetian Views: American Works on Paper
Venetian Views presents 28 works on paper by American artists who visited Venice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition surveys the American fascination with the visual riches of Venice and features selections from the museum's collection of etchings, drawings, and watercolors by expatriates John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler as well as Robert Frederick Blum and Frank Duveneck. Coinciding with the IMA's role as the commissioning institution of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, Venetian Views explores and celebrates a critical chapter of American artists' enduring engagement with Venice.


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Geoff McGhee, Bill Lane Center for the American West
For most of the last half-century, landowners in every state have been able to use conservation easements to protect their holdings from development in perpetuity. In keeping lands free of everything from homes to factories to airports, conservation easements help to preserve wildlife habitats and rural landscapes.
But the same easy conservation option is usually precluded when the subsurface mineral rights are owned by someone else. The legal term for this mixed ownership is "split estate;" it is a common occurrence in the mineral and energy-rich lands of the American West.
A new kind of easement might change the situation. A Stanford professor of Earth Sciences, Rob Jackson, teamed up with two law professors, James Salzman from the University of California, Los Angeles and Jessica Owley from the University of Buffalo, to propose conservation easements for subsurface areas.
In a new paper published in the Environmental Law Reporter this month, the three suggest that such "mineral easements" might provide a tool to block hydraulic fracking and the oil and gas wells that have been sources of fear and opposition from New York to California.
The well bores drilled outward from these wellheads can reach for miles underground; their discharge, made up of polluted water and chemicals, can pose a risk to aquifers. In the paper they write, "In a few short years, hydraulic fracturing has transformed the oil and natural gas industries and changed the landscape of energy policy, while generating major conflicts over local land use decisions…"
"We propose a novel tool, the Mineral Estate Conservation Easement, to provide landowners with the ability to restrict hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas subsurface activities in areas of particular social or ecological vulnerability."
The idea has some conservation experts intrigued, others excited, and others skeptical.
"Yes, I like the idea," said Rock RIngling, managing director of Montana Land Reliance, a conservancy group that controls more than 1 million acres of conservation easements. More than 50,000 of the easements include subsurface rights, he said, but he nonetheless was intrigued by a new tool to make subsurface conservation easier.
Philip Tabas, vice president and general counsel of The Nature Conservancy, perhaps the country's best-known nonprofit focused on conserving land, said the proposal "is creative and we need more creativity in conservation." But, he added, mineral rights are governed by a very particular body of law in most states, and he needs to find out how these laws intersect with the proposed easements.
In the continental lands west of the 100th meridian, there is a vast expanse of land beneath which mineral rights are claimed. But the vast majority of this ownership is in the federal government's hands; a smaller portion belongs to state governments. There are private holders of mineral rights, but the land that oil and gas companies might value is most often held by the federal or state government.
As the Environmental Law Reporter paper explains, in most places, there are well-established laws favoring the exploitation of mineral rights. When there is a conflict, these laws supersede the laws governing surface land.
That is the bad news. The good news, the three authors write, is that most state laws governing conservation easements require that they protect nearby waters — and these proposed easements would, arguably, protect underground aquifers from potential contamination of fracking debris.
Creating conservation easements requires, under state and federal laws, selling the easement to a government entity or a recognized land trust. As of last October, over 22 million acres of land has been preserved in 130,758 easements, according to the National Conservation Easement Database.
Building on this kind of easement with the new mineral estate easements has potential to preserve more acres both above and below ground. Still, some specialists in easement expansion are not sure how well it could work, in part because of existing legal obstacles.
"If you purchase property in Montana (and many other areas in the Rocky Mountain West)," reads a pamphlet from the state's BLM office, "you may not be getting ownership of as much of the property as you think you are." In many western states, the "split estate" doctrine means that private landowners may not control the mineral rights underlying them — potentially leaving them powerless to stop mining and energy exploration in their backyard. The BLM estimates nearly 60 million acres of private land fall into this category, predominantly in the West.
Russ Shay, the director of public policy at the Land Trust Alliance, suggests a real potential barrier is the legal framework which, in many states, controls who can profit when valuable minerals are drawn from underground pools or veins. Often these pools underlie several different properties; the existing system requires that all owners be separately compensated based on their ownership share.
One party taking a conservation easement would not stop drilling, but would be cut out of the profits that are governing by "pooling" or "ponding" laws. As Mr. Shay said, "This is a conundrum. Everything around you is going to be dug up, are you committed to not getting any profit out of that? But for most landowners, the rancher or the farmer" unable to block the mining would be "better off taking the profit and moving to some place I can live in peace."
William T. Hutton, a lawyer with the San Francisco firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass who has worked for decades on land conservation issues, said, "In order to have the impact the proponents anticipate, you would have to get all of the owners aboard." That, he said, "could be a matter of some difficulty."
And Edward Thompson Jr., the California director of the American Farmland Trust , was concerned that with mineral easements, "it seems you're trying to pound a round peg into a square hole." Traditional easements, he said, "try to protect the natural features of the surface of the land."
"The article has a pretty good basic analysis," he said, agreeing that the authors' suggestion that changing state law could help the new easements. Still, he said, in states with extensive mineral ownership, legislatures would be disinclined to curb mining.
Rob Jackson, the lead author of the paper, said of the critiques: "I'm not surprised by the strong opinions about our proposal, both positive and negative, because of the legal issues to be resolved. I hope some test cases arise quickly."
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Conservation easements of various kinds cover more than 22 million acres of land in the United States, according to the National Conservation Easement Database, a public-private partnership. Take a look at our interactive map of nearly every conservation easement, with details on over 130,000 sites.
Western Articles and Media Elsewhere
Compiled by Natasha Mmonatau and Felicity Barringer
The Price of Being a Small Community or a Remote One in the West Is High. Either environmental utilities cost more, or are more flawed and potentially dangerous than those in urban areas. California communities where fewer than 1,000 people live pay more than double for their sewer service, and even in cities housing 10,000 and 50,000 people, the median rate is still twice that of the large urban areas. In New Mexico, small communities struggle to deliver clean water; in tiny Santa Cruz, the water from 180 feet down is laced with uranium. Circle of Blue Santa Fe New Mexican
As a New Coal Mine Permit Is Debated in Wyoming, a Podcast Lays out the Arguments. The idea is to focus on technology to turn coal into other products, not simply fuel for power plants. Landowners and environmental groups and even another coal company dig in to oppose it. Also, two international wind turbine makers fighting it out for dominance in a state ended with superb wind resources. (Segment starts at 1 min., 15 seconds from beginning.) Wyoming Public Radio
In Alaska, Some 56 Native Groups Are Crammed Into an Area the Size of Indiana. Some feel that their people will have more power and better lives if they unite. But not everyone agrees. They are debating a proposal to have a tribal government that eventually would be responsible for essential services like taxation, public safety, education, a court system, fish and game management, and alcohol control. Each tribe's top elected leader would join a 56-member legislative council. Alaska Dispatch News
In Larger and Larger Pockets of the West, Bison Are Back, and They Might Help Slow Climate Change. The near-destruction of the American bison by European settlers has long been a parable of environmental heedlessness, but bison are back. As climate change advances on the region, that may be a good thing. The need for a symbiotic relationship between bison ranchers and the environment means that the more bison, the higher the chance that the land they live on and the grasses they eat will be well-managed. This means more carbon is sequestered. As the new herds are encouraged to mimic the natural movements of their forebears, they may help restore over-grazed land to its natural state, sequestering even more carbon. Well-managed herds could slow climate change. Bloomberg
Water Hazards are Rare When Golf Is Played on the Navajo Reservation. But there are plenty of other hazards. Like putting. "Being from Albuquerque," said Eric Frazier. "I'm not used to putting in the dirt. It was really challenging but it was really fun. I would like to do it again."Navajo Times
Ever Since Wolves Returned around the West, Ranchers' Conviction they Are Destroying Livestock has helped them get compensation. Not all their claims are well documented, and special state set-asides are showing the strain of payments. One rancher said that last year wolves killed 41 calves and 11 cows in Baker County — where there are 3 resident wolves and no confirmed wolf kill of livestock since 2012. Earth Fix | Oregon Public Radio
Land Wars Are Nothing New Around the West, but an Ongoing One Near Rifle, Colorado Has a New Twist. To keep an Conoco Phillips subsidiary off 2,500 federal land where one ranching family has grazed cattle for decades, Susan Robinson, a widow who owns an adjacent 560 acres, has gone to court to prove that title is hers because her family's cattle occupied it uninterrupted for 18 years. The oil company, TOSCO, says it installed a pipe without Robinson's objection, which weakens her claim. But she traces the fights over this land back to Joseph Robinson, her late husband's grandfather. Denver Post
Until Western States' Electrical Grid Is Less Balkanized, Electricity Is Not Efficiently Used Our colleague Natasha Mmonatau's reporting is confirmed by a new analysis that explains that, thanks to a bumper harvest of sunshine this spring, California had to discard enough electrons to power 55,000 homes for six months, simply because the divided authority over the grid meant it couldn't get the power to places that needed it. A representative of the Natural Resources Defense Council is urging that these barriers fall. High Country News
Farmers Have Centuries of Knowledge Built into the Way They Deal with the Earth, but that Knowledge, Like their Soil, Is Being Reworked. In Moonpark, California, John and Molly Chester are using their organic farm as an experiment in building healthy soil through regenerative farming. The idea is to allow soil to replenish itself, making fertilizer increasingly unnecessary. Another effect is allowing the soil to store carbon, by not plowing up the soil. It's another ay to limit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. (Video) KCET
Showing When Water Conservation Is Good for Utilities and for Homeowners, a Chicago-based research group's new report on the Arizona towns of Tucson and Gilbert is a conservationist's dream. In the wake of sharp cuts in water use starting in the mid-1980's, Tucson's water rates are 11.7 percent lower; and conservation ensures that total water use remained the same over three decades, while the population grew by 240,000. Circle of Blue
The West's Fire Season Roars on, endangering electricity at Yosemite National Park; 4,000 residents of Mariposa County have been evacuated. Los Angeles Times
Anticipating an Energy Department Report Predicting an Oversupply of Green Energy that would overwhelm the nation's energy grid, Jacques Leslie issues a rebuttal based on the advances in battery and renewable technologies. Yale Environment 360
California Gov. Jerry Brown Has Declared the Drought Is Over, But Rural Residents of The Central Valley Will Be Grappling for Years with the long-term impact of the years-long thirst, as their wells have either been dried up by new and deeper shafts installed beside them, or are vulnerable to this. Water Deeply
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Wants to See More Fossil Fuel Extraction from Public Lands. But His Method May Not Work. As a Congressional Research Service report said, increasing opportunities for federal leases "may not translate into higher levels of production on federal lands, as industry seeks out the most promising prospects and higher returns which in recent years have come on more accessible nonfederal lands." E&E News
Oil Slicks, a Little Dab'll Do You. If You Are a Shorebird, That Is. Every feather gooked-up with oil means the bird has to work that much harder to fly. A new study shows that birds with just a light coating of oil covering less than 20 percent of their body surface had to expend approximately 20 percent more energy than birds flying oil-free. On Earth /NRDC
To Quote from the U.S. Water Alliance: "Native American Lands Have Some of the Poorest Water Infrastructure in the Country" "Thirteen percent of homes on reservations lack access to clean water or sanitation, a significant number compared to 0.6 percent for non-Native Americans." John Fleck takes a look at the striking issues of environmental justice from Indian Country to California's Central Valley Inkstain
As Summer Fires Spread Around The West, The Evacuations Begin. A small town in Montana; the area around a big ski resort in Colorado; a rural region in central British Columbia; workers at the Hanford nuclear site in southeast Washington are sent home, thousands of evacuations continue in and around Oroville in Butte County, California as the Wall Fire remains untamed; and dramatic video of fawns being rescued in Arizona. Montana Public Radio Colorado Public Radio AP Spokane Public Radio Sacramento Bee Washington Post
Wind and Solar Are Now 10 Percent of National Energy Generation Moving into double digits for the first time, wind farms, and solar panels generated more than 10 percent of the total monthly electricity in the U.S., the U.S. Department of Energy has reported. Texas generates the most wind energy; of the top 12 wind and solar states, only California and Arizona produced more solar than wind last year. Houston Chronicle
… And Solar Power Produces Jobs Where Oil and Gas Once Dominated, as more than 300 laid-off oil workers in Pecos County, Texas found jobs installing solar panels. When oil prices tanked two years ago, hundreds of Pecos County workers lost jobs working at oil and gas companies in the prolific Permian basin. Pecos now has five operational solar farms, large projects that meet the definition of utility-scale: having the capacity to generate at least one megawatt, enough to power about 200 houses on a sunny day. Houston Chronicle
How Does a State Government or Local Utility Ensure Clean Water at Affordable Rates? Water prices in San Francisco increased by double digits in six of the last seven years, the latest national assessment by Circle of Blue has found. In Fresno, the state's most destitute big city, water rates rose 15 percent in the last year. California lawmakers have slowly chipped away at the affordability problem. Now staff members at the California Water Resources Control Board are tackling the affordability component of the state's 2013 Human Right to Water legislation with a novel approach for the United States: a state-run financial aid program to offset rising household water bills. Circle of Blue
Wildfire Pollution is Worse Than We Knew, as burning trees and brush recently studied emit triple the amount of fine particles into the air, compared to the levels recorded in the Environmental Protection Agency's emission inventories. "Burning biomass produces lots of pollution. These are really bad aerosols to breathe from a health point of view," said researcher Greg Huey of the Georgia Institute of Technology, which led the study. The research also describes other chemicals in wildfire smoke, some never before measured, and it raises the estimated annual emission of particulate matter in the western United States significantly. Science Daily
Colorado's Mountains Are Part of Climate Change Measurements, so if one takes air samples for years atop a Rock Mountain ridge, one can watch the ratio of carbon inexorably climb above 400 parts per million. NPR/Colorado Public Radio
Mining with Dredges in Oregon's Rivers Has Imperiled Some Salmon, prompting the Oregon legislature to pass a measure protecting critical salmon habitat in much of the western part of the state. Gov. Kate Brown signed it last week. About five years ago, the number of dredge miners in southwestern Oregon reached 2,000. Oregonian
The Bureau of Reclamation Is Pitching Itself as a Partner to major financial and engineering firms, as it looks for financial support to keep 8,100 miles of canals, 76 hydropower plants, 492 pumping plants, 300 bridges, crossing dams and canals from falling apart. A Duke University scholar said after a recent meeting in Denver, "all the mainstream banks and engineering firms were present." Circle of Blue
A Colorado Scientist Goes Undercover as a Grizzly Bear to find out how musk oxen in northerly realms like Alaska and northern Canada will deal with the new worlds they inhabit as the climate changes. PRI via Mountain West News
Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese Citizens at the Manzanar Internment Camp aimed to show the resilience and optimism of the internees. Did he, a natural romantic, ignore the injustice of internment? An essay looks back at his book. BlogWest
Peer Mentors A Key to Addiction Fight for Montana's Native Americans The Tribal Epidemiology Centers, of the Indian Health Service, has data showing that dependence on methamphetamine and other psychostimulants tripled for tribal members in Montana and Wyoming from 2011 to 2015. The story of Aaniih Nakoda, a Native-American-led peer project in the Fort Belknap Indian Community. Montana Public Radio / Kaiser Health News
Environmental Justice Movement on the Rise in Sacramento Environmental justice, once viewed as a fringe movement, takes center stage as a trip by Governor Jerry Brown to a low-income area of Los Angeles highlights the perspective of low-income communities and people of color. Part of their concern is that they will not benefit from the $800 million in reparations Volkswagen will pay to the state for its emissions cheating. The influence of the environmental justice perspective on California policy and legislature is widening as questions are raised about whether the California Air Resources Board should consider controlling soot as well as greenhouse gases, and how the state's cap and trade program might be reshaped. Cal Matters
Drawing Meaning from Death, One Seabird at a Time Coastal beach patrols scour the beaches of the West for bird carcasses in an effort to assist with the documentation and research of bird die-offs. Oil spills, El Niño events and the collapse of food systems in the ocean all contribute to bird deaths, as do natural causes. The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST) comprises eight hundred citizen volunteers committed to this important task that helps researchers understand larger patterns of ecosystem and bird behavior. Hakai Magazine
The Next Scapegoat for Agriculture: The Bay Delta's Longfin Smelt Despite a recent spike in reproduction rates due to the rain this year, the declining population of longfin smelt fish of the San Francisco bay — 80,000 found 50 years ago, 7 this year — tells a story about an ecosystem imploding. Researchers hope to find a solution to the imminent extinctions of native fish; when the delta smelt dies out, attention will be on its cousin, the longfin smelt, whose population currently struggle with rising water temperatures and diminishing habitats. KCET
The Ways That Climate Change is Shrinking the West's Water Supply Three studies tackle the different ways the changing climate is reducing western water supplies from the traditional sources like snowpack and groundwater. They also look forward, anticipating a coming era in which water scarcity is likely. The article covers groundwater, the Colorado River, and snowpack across western peaks — the three lenses of the new studies. High Country News
Gross Domestic Product San Francisco-based artist Phillip Hua's artwork explores the relationship between humans and the environment, and the environment and economic success. With an introduction by the environmental writer Barry Lopez, the art work depicts the vulnerable place of birds, fish, trees and flowers in an age devoted to the bottom line. Orion Magazine
That's No Way to Say Goodbye. Most kinds of salmon and trout that for centuries sustained Native tribes on the Sacramento and Klamath Rivers — the same fish that sustain local fishermen today — have little chance of long-term survival, a new report says. Thanks to climate change, in the summertime these and other waterways will become too warm or dry up. If that weren't enough, irrigating crops from wine grapes to marijuana are taking needed water from the fish. NPR
How to Get Energy From Its Source to Its Markets is the question that is bedeviling energy-rich states like Wyoming, and the grid that carries the electrons was built too long ago for too few sources of energy. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The Modern World is Burying America's Prairies and the tall grass ecosystem that thrives there under the plow and under frackers' drills. The prairie ecosystems are pitted against the idea of using— and abusing — that land to feed billions of people or develop tens of thousands of cubic meters of natural gas. The economic use of the land makes it harder to preserve. Undark
The Good News for Reducing Methane Emissions is that forest soils are methane sinks. The bad news: the trees growing from the soil emit methane through their trunks, meaning the net good of forests in curbing emissions is less than once thought. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Shaking Up Serenity in national parks, drones have become an obstacle to everything from human meditation to animal communication. The Guardian
Blackfeet Nation Approves Water Compact An historic agreement between members of the Blackfeet Nation, Montana and the U.S. government both ensures and quantifies water access for the tribe. The compact and Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act also provide for federal funding for water infrastructure. About 75 percent of the voters on the reservation approved the measure, which could ensure control of water supplies for coming generations. The newspaper piece describes the overall framework; the Blackfeet Nation story gets into the details of the agreement Flathead Beacon
What's Really Killing King Coal? While some argue that the main culprit is the rise in renewable energy usage, this piece makes a case for natural gas as the primary cause of coal's demise. Citing the agility and cheapness of natural gas and a change in cycles of energy use, the author describes the current need for flexible grids, showing how natural gas rose with some help from the federal government to meet the challenge of ensuring consistent energy output when the inputs are variable. High Country News
100 Million Dead Trees: A Danger That Persists Long After the Drought An explanation of the link between water scarcity and wildfire emerges in an illuminating conversation with Scott Stephens, a fire scientist at U.C. Berkeley. While the end of the California drought signals relief, if not celebration, for many water users, Stephens warns of the dangers of dead trees: forest corpses left behind as fodder for summer's inevitable wildfires.
Water Deeply
The Path of the Unseen Whale emerges in the form of traceable prints that linger for minutes upon the water surface. Historically, the "flukeprints" were used to identify the last place a whale emerged during a hunt, and they provide a map of underwater activity. This article uses a short and sweet animation to explain the science behind these indicators of whale activity. Hakai Magazine
California Submerging: Rising Seas Are Claiming its Famed Coast Faster than Imagined Based on the findings of a recent report commissioned by the state, this piece looks at the expected impact of rising sea level on California's coastal regions. It confronts the overwhelming projections with a view to how cities, towns, and neighborhoods along the coast will be affected. Cal Matters
California Isn't Accounting for this Major Emitter. Methane emissions from hydropower have evaded state emissions budgets for some time, despite the release of significant amounts of this potent greenhouse gas owing to plant decomposition in reservoirs and lakes. California's failure to account methane emissions from hydropower presents a blind spot in the state's fight against climate change. High Country News
NASA Is Digging in the Snow to Help the West Manage its Water. NASA's latest earth explorations include the SnowEx project, an effort to figure out how much water is stored in the planet's snow cover. Scientists measuring snowpack density in western Colorado hope to put together a remote modeling system devoted to taking continuous stock of earth's water resources, with potentially far-reaching economic implications for water management. Five Thirty Eight
Court Rules California Climate Payments Aren't Taxes. A recent court decision in California could help the state's cap-and-trade program, which requires industry polluters to account for their greenhouse gas emission outputs and pay for or mitigate any excess. Several comapnies wanted the court to declare the cut-and-trade program a disguised tax. But the legal opposition included multiple stakeholders including the California Air Resources Board united to disprove the tax theory for pollution payments. A boost to cap-and-trade may aid in moving California forward on its climate goals. Climate Central
Native Americans Caught Salmon Here for Millenia. Now the World Is Hooked. Small-scale fisheries owned by Native Americans in Washington serve as an exercise in community building, strengthening local ties and prompting rapidly increasing profits for catches. Using commercial standard fishing methods, the Yakama tribe is bringing Native catches to wider global markets. Grist
The (Poi) Power of Hawaiian Food Sovereignty. Hawaiian farmers developing innovative agricultural methods and practices may be leading the fight for nutritional self-sufficiency in Hawaii, an island that currently imports the majority of its food. Growing taro, the root used to make a Hawaiian dish called Poi, allows a return traditional food systems and a path toward greater independence in the future. Sierra Club
Western Articles and Media Elsewhere
Compiled by Alan Propp
A U.S. Appeals Court this week upheld an Indian tribe's right to the groundwater beneath its reservation. This decision, which has significant implications for the future of water management in the West and beyond, signals Native Americans' willingness to protect their water supplies using the courts. While the battle will likely continue in higher courts, the ruling remains a major victory. Circle of Blue
Ecologists are exploring radically new techniques to manage tree-covered land in the Sierras, as pressure on forest health increases from a number of directions. Researchers now endorse a "toolbox" approach incorporating resistance, resilience, and realignment to combat stressors from heat waves to insect plagues. This is proving to be a difficult change for forest managers using long-developed management schemes. Yale Environment 360
The Crescent Dunes solar thermal project is the largest energy station of its kind in the world. It delivers power to NVEnergy, which serves the majority of Nevada's population. Large-scale solar thermal plants, whose association with harm to wildlife has made them controversial, nonetheless represent a massive step forward in renewable energy's development in the west. Alec Ernest presents a documentary film showing the scale and challenges of Crescent Dunes. In related news, Nevada's 50-year-old Reid Gardner power plant officially stopped burning coal this week. KCET
Hear from western readers about some of their experiences in the American West. High Country News asked for uncomfortable truths, encounters, and revelations from readers in the West, and published a sampling of their responses. High Country News
While most people see California at the forefront of the fight against fossil fuel interests, "Big Oil" still holds a large sway in this state of progressive and environmental values. Both politically and economically, oil interests have a massive stake and wield a large influence in the California's decisions, which may test the state's role as a climate leader in the years to come. Reveal
Some energy billionaires are planning bold new clean energy initiatives in Western states. From California to Wyoming, the energy landscape is shifting, and Sammy Roth from the Desert Sun evaluates the costs and benefits of the coming changes. This podcast explores his story. Sea Change Radio
Rising temperatures in California could soon spur a shift in crops for Central Valley farmers. While rising winter temperatures could benefit some agricultural commodities, others (such as walnuts, cherries, and pistachios) will suffer. Within the next few years, farmers must either find technologies that allow these trees to flourish, or leave abandon them and turn to warmer-weather crops. Valley Public Radio via NPR
The energy mix in the West continues to shift towards sustainable sources – the opening of Tesla's battery farm in Southern California could be followed by the closing of the West's biggest coal plant in Arizona. The Aliso Canyon gas leak led Southern California Edison to search for more reliable energy sources, opening the door for lithium-ion battery storage provided by Tesla and others. Meanwhile, declining natural gas prices and rising costs for coal electricity production are making many coal plants — like the Navajo Generating Station — economically infeasible. The Guardian Grist Grand Canyon Trust
The expansion of predator populations is causing a kaleidoscope of reactions across various western states as locals struggle to balance conservation and ranching concerns. In Oregon and beyond, the recovery of wolves may mean that individuals (such as a high-profile wolf by the name of OR7) may lose their novelty, making them more expendable. Meanwhile, Colorado is cracking down on black bears and cougars in order to protect its thin mule deer population, an effort that has not been implemented without controversy. High Country News onEarth
California is increasingly turning to an unorthodox source for drinking water: recycled sewage water. Since 2014, the state has aggressively increased funding for wastewater treatment and recycling. Once produced largely for non-potable use – on landscaping, for instance – effluent is increasingly purified intensively and used for drinking water and aquifer replenishment. This technique is spreading despite the difficulty of the purification process. Undark
Biologists and fisheries managers in Oregon have begun using eDNA to find threatened species in river systems through water sampling. This novel technique uses highly sensitive water sampling techniques to find the DNA that endangered creatures shed from their skin, urine, and feces. With more refinement, the approach has the potential to revolutionize fisheries management, making it cheaper and easier to monitor species in waterways throughout the western United States. NPR
President Barack Obama is gone now, but what sort of mark did he leave on the West's climate, energy, and lands? In the "West Obsessed" podcast, High Country News covers the wide-ranging and (for the most part) positive impacts that happened on his watch, including the development of renewable energy, the first far-reaching actions to address including the development of renewable energy, the first far-reaching actions to address climate change, and the last-minute designation of large federally protected conservation areas. High Country News
In the vein of the last administration's conservation efforts, learn more about his recent expansion of Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. This stunningly beautiful protected region contains one of the most ecologically rich areas in North America, with species ranging from northern spotted owls to rare butterflies, and remains an important area for biodiversity research. While contested by some, Cascade-Siskiyou's expansion is hailed by many as a victory for the conservation of large, intact, and critical habitat areas in the United States. Undark
Stanford's new data visualization project, called "Follow the Money," allows users to track the destination counties for a variety of different environment-related funds. Find your county and see how much it has received through the years from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Forest Service Revenue, the Federal Mineral Leasing Act, and more. Or, choose a fund and track how its payments have changed through the years, such as the dramatic increase in mining and drilling funding for Utah and Colorado in the mi-90s. Stanford Spatial History Project | CESTA
The consequences of the Aliso Canyon gas leak in Southern California were far-reaching over the last two years. The leak emitted massive amounts of methane and toxic chemicals into the atmosphere for months before the SCGC was able to get it under control. This environmental and health disaster, essentially invisible to the naked eye, has united communities against the reopening of the facility and given a regional boost to a relatively new and under-tested form of energy technology: batteries. The New York Times
New collaborative research on the Yellowstone River reveals the complex consequences that human activities can have on the rivers in the region. The combined effects of these actions - which include diversion for irrigation, erosion control, and the placement of boulder breakwaters - weaken the river system and make it vulnerable to stressors like fish-killing parasites. Yale Environment 360
As California's extended drought continues, tensions remain high over water rights and who is entitled to the usage of various water sources. The state has imposed increasingly strict consumption quotas, and has begun to turn more attention to the largest water users in the state. This article explores the developing energy efficiency technology and research efforts in the region, with a specific focus on the state's economically critical and most extensive water consumption industry: agriculture. The Desert Sun


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If you've never been swinging 50-feet high in the treetops, Arbor Day 2013 is your chance to rectify that.
"You can get in a saddle . . . and they'll hoist you up in a tree and you'll get to climb around the top of the tree," said Matt Vinet, the Manitoba director of the International Society of Arboriculture.
A professional will be up there as well, Vinet assures, including tree-climbing champion Jesse Antonation.
Other thrills will include a bucket truck, which will hoist people up 70 feet, and a children's zip line.
The event, presented by Trees Winnipeg and billed as All Trees Tell a Story, is a chance to "learn about one of the greatest things about our city — the fantastic trees," Vinet said, and in that vein there will be professional arborists on hand to answer all questions tree-related.
"They're very knowledgeable people you'd normally have to pay money to get answers from," Vinet said.
Throughout the day there will be sessions on tree pruning and planting, woodturning demos, children's craft-making and story-telling, and guided riparian forest tours.
Events are centered at the Nature Playground located just west of the Assiniboine Park Pavilion and south of the Duck Pond.
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The American political strategist Hamilton Jordan, who has died of cancer at the age of 63, ruffled untold congressional feathers when he served as President Jimmy Carter's key White House adviser, and sometime chief of staff, between 1977 and 1981. The Washington establishment hated him. Tip O'Neill, the implacable speaker of the House of Representatives (ostensibly a fellow Democrat), constantly referred to him as Hannibal Jerkin and a contemporary magazine profile described him as "one of the last people you would put in charge of anything, much less a country".
Jordan's problem was that he consciously swam against the social tide of the period, and was a key figure in the Georgia "mafia" that arrived in Washington after Carter's victory in November 1976. Following Richard Nixon's enforced resignation in 1974, it was Jordan (pronounced Jer-dn) who devised the master plan that projected Carter, a previously unknown southern governor and peanut farmer, into the White House.
The essence of Jordan's strategy was that his man should run against Washington - and particularly against Gerald Ford, the handpicked, unelected nonentity who had been manipulated into the leadership of the nation by the Republican establishment in the wake of Nixon's disgrace.
The problem for the resident politicos on Capitol Hill was not only Jordan's southern good ol' boy manner, but that his manoeuvring was successful. His flouting of convention - turning up in jeans at formal gatherings, insulting diplomats, failing to return senators' telephone calls - was fodder for the gossip columns, but it masked the reality that he possessed a razor-sharp political intelligence and a deep understanding of the intricate byways of the American election process.
He had acquired this depth of knowledge through his membership of an obsessively political family. One of his grandfathers had been president of the Georgia state senate, his uncle had been its secretary and a cousin had been chief justice of the Georgia supreme court. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, where his father was stationed in the war, he grew up in Albany, Georgia, and campaigned for whatever school position was going. His mother once commented: "If he didn't run himself, he would run his cousin."
When he left school, he involved himself in a successful gubernatorial campaign and, when that was over, took a job in Washington working for Senator Richard Russell, then one of the deep south's most fervent opponents of racial integration. It was a view that Jordan also held until his father took him to see a protest march led by Martin Luther King in 1961. That was a Damascene moment for the 17-year-old. As he later wrote: "For the first time I felt real shame in my life, watching quietly while decent people and children were herded into an alley, just like animals."
Five years later, after studying political science at the University of Georgia, he was persuaded to attend a meeting addressed by Carter and was captivated by the speaker's intelligence and his concern to tackle race relations. He offered to work for the candidate in what was an unsuccessful campaign for the state governorship, but their relationship was cemented.
When Jordan was medically rejected for military service, he opted to go with a voluntary organisation to Vietnam to help settle refugees, but he was invalided home after 10 months, suffering from blackwater fever. It started a long history of ill-health, which he attributed in part to his exposure to Agent Orange, the defoliant used by US forces in Vietnam.
In 1970, Carter finally won his bid to become governor of Georgia, but state law forbade him from running for a second term. After discussing his prospects, Jordan handed him an 80-page document he had secretly compiled in which he outlined a four-year, step-by-step plan to get into the White House in the 1976 election. Carter followed it meticulously and beat Ford by 297 to 240 electoral votes.
Initially, Jordan worked for the new administration behind the scenes. But though he did sterling work in pushing through the controversial Panama Canal treaties, which essentially passed control of the American-built canal to Panama in 1977, and took part in the negotiations that led to the 1978 Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt, his relations with Congress moved from bad to worse and the administration found much of its legislation stalled.
In the reshuffle following the oil shock of 1979, Carter made him his chief of staff. But Jordan's own situation was then bedevilled by accusations that he had been seen snorting cocaine in a New York nightclub. He was investigated for 10 months before a federal grand jury declined to indict him and the fuss died away.
In the midst of this personal upheaval, the Shah of Iran was overthrown and Jordan made arrangements for him to be given medical treatment in Panama, a move that led, in December 1979, to the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran and its staff being held hostage. Jordan made enormous efforts behind the scenes to resolve the crisis, but was frustrated by the Iranians' refusal to release their captives until the day Carter, defeated by Ronald Reagan, left the White House.
Jordan returned briefly to politics in 1986 in a failed attempt to get elected to the Senate, and in 1992 he served as campaign adviser to the maverick presidential candidate Ross Perot.
But his private life was increasingly marred by ill-health. Over a 20-year period he experienced six different forms of cancer. He and his wife (a former nurse) established a number of centres to treat children with cancer and he also wrote a book about his own battle with the disease. His wife survives him, as do three children.
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Industry sources said Elders had recently approached executives with strong operational experience to manage the network, which has more than 300 branches across regional Australia.
One industry insider said the struggling rural services group was looking to appoint a person as part of longer-term succession planning under way at Elders.
The successful candidate could replace Mr Jackman within a few years' time, one agribusiness source said.
Mr Jackman declined to comment about Elders' recruitment plans.
"I can't tell you anything about that," Mr Jackman said.
"It may be the case but you won't get this chief executive to either confirm or deny rumours like that. When I'm ready to say something I'm ready to say something."
Mr Jackman wants to remain at the helm of the company for a further three years as he tries to deliver an earnings turnaround for investors, which he initially believed he could deliver in 2010.
The new head of rural services network would work alongside the Elders trading general manager, Tony Dage.
Both roles previously reported to Mike Guerin, the company's former chief operating officer, who became a casualty of last year's shock profit downgrade.
The former head of Elders' network operations, John Molenaar, was also a victim of the management restructure that saw Mr Jackman take direct control of the rural services division as he looked to lift its performance and slash $45 million in costs.
Recruiting someone to manage its rural services network is expected to halve Mr Jackman's direct reports to about eight executives.
Mr Jackman has been attempting to claw back market share lost to rivals Landmark and Ruralco but at a time when he has been forced to cut costs to appease its banks.
Elders delivered investors another profit downgrade last week as its rural services network performed worse than expected in the fourth quarter. Elders will also make write-downs to its forestry operations, which were put up for sale.
Mr Jackman has been selling assets for the past three years as he does away with a former industrial conglomerate model and returns Elders to a rural services business.
However, he said, Elders would retain its Futuris Automotive business in the short term.
The division provides important cash flow to Elders, which almost collapsed under $1 billion in debt in 2008.
Mr Jackman said the business was not for sale "at this stage" and agreed that it was providing important cash flow.
"Unless we find somewhere that can give you better cash flow why would you exit the business?" he said.
But he rejected suggestions that its banks were insisting the division was retained in the short term.
"The banks are not driving the strategy of the company," Mr Jackman said.
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A second straight day of talks took place Saturday between the NHL and its players association, but just how close a new CBA might be from happening remains unclear.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Director Donald Fehr met privately in New York while representatives from the two sides met separately in the Big Apple. Fehr declided to offer specifics but said he and Bettman focused on bridging the gap that remains between the two sides so that the season might start on time Oct. 11:
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In group sessions, talks centered around hockey-related revenue and on what parts of the current CBA to carry forward.
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SCORES of Air Cadets marched through Selby yesterday to celebrate the anniversary of the formation of the group.
About 150 cadets aged between 13 and 20, from 4 Sector, gathered at Selby Abbey to mark 72 years of the Central and East Yorkshire wing of the service.
The cadets, from squadrons in York, Ripon, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Easingwold and RAF Church Fenton, attended a service in the Abbey after the parade, which was led by the band of 110 (City of York) Squadron from Scott Road through the town.
The salute was taken by the Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Air Commodore Bill Gambold, and the Mayor of Selby, Councillor George Carter.
Squadron Leader Brian Mennell, commander of 4 Sector, said: " It is really nice to celebrate our 72nd birthday in Selby and in its beautiful Abbey.
"Our nearest squadron is at RAF Church Fenton, but it is likely that not many people in Selby have seen much of us. This is our opportunity to put that right and let everyone see what a smart and well-disciplined set of young people we have in our local air cadet units."
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If a person carries a revolver, they should shoot beaucoup rounds down range until they are sufficiently accurate firing double action. With only five or six rounds on tap, the need for an incapacitating first hit is increased dramatically, and the time needed to cock the hammer for a single action shot will likely be unavailable.
Along with my Ruger MKII and Kimber Pro Carry, I took my S&W Model 649 to the range to work with. I shot at seven yards, squeezing off two shots, then three more shots. My targets are a vivid illustration of the skill needed to harness the snubbie's accuracy. The Model 649 target is on the left, the Kimber target is on the right.
The key to shooting a revolver accurately in double action is trigger control. Often the longer a shooter takes to pull the trigger back, the worse the targets become. Trying to "stage" the trigger, or trying to anticipate the hammer falling is a recipe for poor accuracy. If a shooter has the time to do that, then they should just cock the revolver. A relatively rapid, consistent pull to the rear at a steady rate is what works for me. Good quality revolvers, even snubbies, are usually very accurate guns. Blame for holes outside the black falls on the shooter's inability to keep the sights on target through a long trigger pull.
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What is the source of this article? I can only recall JKR saying that Harry stayed on "Christmas card terms" with Dudley, and that his family would visit Dudley's, not that she specifically mentioned him having children. They are not mentioned in the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, either. Oread 20:39, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
- Nevermind. I've found the interview and I'm altering the article to reflect its actual source. Oread 20:43, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
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How many children did Dudley have? ShirleyA(The Quibbler) 11:00, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- JKR stated that, as adults, Harry and Dudley visited mainly so that "their children could see their cousins." This indicates that Dudley had at least two children, but we don't know the exact number. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 14:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys, I just reread this article, and I believe there is an error. It list Harry as Dudley's children second cousin and that James II, Albus, and Lily II as Dudley's children first cousin once remove. The error is it's the other way around. Harry is Dudley's children's first cousin once remove. The term "remove" refer to the difference in one generation. Harry and Dudley are in the same generation because they have the same grandparent, Mr. and Mrs. Evans. But Dudley's children is one generation after, so they are Harry's first cousin once remove. They are James II, Albus, and Lily II second cousin because they are in the same generation and have the same great grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Does it makes sense? Seasrmar 14:52, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
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New Delhi: The cabinet reshuffle likely this Sunday will include a restructuring of the Congress party as well to prepare for upcoming crucial assembly elections, according to party leaders aware of the developments.
The cabinet reshuffle may see a group of young leaders entering government, two Congress leaders said, declining to be named.
External affairs minister S.M. Krishna stepped down from his post on Friday ahead of the reshuffle, indicating changes are likely in key departments. Information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni is likely to take up a role in the Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi's inner circle, one of the Congress leaders said.
Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, the party's general secretary, have been finalizing details of changes in the party organization, also meant to prepare the Congress for the 2014 general election. The party chief wants to reorganize the Punjab unit of the party, he added.
As part of efforts to improve the government's image after a series of corruption scandals, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to induct fresh faces and elevate some young members recommended by Rahul Gandhi into his council of ministers, party leaders said.
The government may have new representatives from West Bengal—where it recently snapped ties with the state's ruling Trinamool Congress, and Andhra Pradesh, where it is struggling to find a solution to the intensifying demand for a separate Telangana state.
Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy and Balram Naik from Andhra Pradesh, Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury from West Bengal and Pradip Majhi from Orrisa are likely to join the government.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari is also expected to be inducted, while ministers of state Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot may be promoted. Actor-turned-politician from Andhra Pradesh Chiranjeevi and former deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha Rehman Khan also are likely to join the government.
Law minister Salman Khurshid, urban development minister Kamal Nath and commerce minister Anand Sharma are being considered as replacements for Krishna in the foreign ministry, according to the Congress leaders.
Mint reported on 17 September that Krishna was likely to be dropped from the Cabinet. Petroleum minister S. Jaipal Reddy and tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahay may also leave the Cabinet.
Congress morale took a further beating when allegations of irregularities in land deals were made against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of the Congress chief, but the party received a mild boost last week after its pro-growth measures started showing "some results", said a Congress minister, who too did not want to be identified.
"The party leadership and the Prime Minister feel a little relieved sensing that we got some breathing space. Now they are confident that the party can improve its electoral prospects using the time period (till the next general election) effectively," the minister said.
The minister said the government is also preparing to introduce a series of welfare measures and after elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh may ease its recent limit on the supply of subsidized cooking gas cylinders to nine a year per household from the present cap of six.
"The Election Commission may oppose it if we announce the decision now," the minister said. Elections will be held in Himachal Pradesh on 4 November and in Gujarat on 13 and 17 December.


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Navigate to the purple sticky note, and add all your accounts to the shelves. Tap the "Edit", and you will see a new pending account, which you can add. Your accounts can be all your monetary accounts, such as banking accounts, cash, etc. When adding an account, you need to specify its name, icon, description and current balance, and tap "save".
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Go to the bottom part of the screen and navigate between sticky notes attached to the chalkboard. Blue note stands for recurring transactions; choose and fill it out. This way you will plan them.
Choose the green note now and add your one-time transactions. You can add your income, expenses and money transfers manually. Alternatively, you may import an OFX file by tapping the white sticky note. OFX is an international format for exchanging financial data, and the majority of banks support it. Please note that there are several types of OFX files, and the application supports only internationally recognized format. When your transaction is cleared, you need to approve it. Tap on the check mark to approve a transaction.
You can monitor your Balance change history. Tap any account on the shelf and you'll see a list of transactions. The column "Balance" will display your account balance changes after every entered transaction. Please note that if you need to correct the balance of one of your accounts manually, you will have a new transaction "balance adjustment". You also have a transaction "opening balance" in the very beginning. Those transactions help you to be aware of changes you have made to the application, and you cannot delete them.
Go to the yellow and red sticky notes, which stand for charts, to analyze your current situation after you have added and cleared your transactions. Use "Filter" button to build the charts for various data options.
Direct Connect
Checkbook HD can import transaction data from your financial institution via the Internet, which simplifies the financial management process immensely. For this purpose use the Direct Connect feature.
Before start, please, contact your financial institution support service. First of all, you need to find out whether they provide direct download method, which allows you to download your financial data directly to your Personal Financial Management (PFM) software. If such a service is supported in your institution, the next thing you should learn is if enrollment is required.
Some financial institutions require you to fill out a paper form and mail it in, then wait for a welcome packet to be mailed back to you. Others provide online enrollment, and some do not require enrollment at all. Some banks charge monthly fees for direct downloads, and some do not. Before you begin using this service, please, be sure you've learned all the details and are aware of all possible fees.
Once you're enrolled, your financial institution will provide you with a username and a password to connect to its download server. These parameters vary with different institutions. Often they will not match your general online banking account access login and password. Be sure to have the appropriate login details before beginning the set up process.
In order to set up Direct Connect, first go to the account list, tap "Edit", then tap the chosen Account and turn on the Direct Connect option (tick the field "Use Direct Connect"). Then select your bank from the list, enter the connection parameters (login/password combination) and select your bank account. After that tap the "Save" button. If you are unable to connect after repeated attempts, please contact our support service for assistance.
To download transactions directly to the app or update them tap the button with arrows in the left upper corner If you download the transactions from your bank for the first time, please, remember to assign categories to transactions manually. Next time Checkbook HD will guess the category itself. However, there might be such expenses that will be new or considerably different in amount from the previous time, and the app will not recognize them. Therefore don't forget to assign missing categories properly.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
#BPOP - Dr. Sharp Natural Oral Care Review and Giveaway - Ends 05-19-12
Do you use organic oral care products? Organic products are the only way to go! Dr. Sharp's Dentistry has some pretty awesome oral care products, that are all organic! One of the biggest advantages of Dr. Sharp's products is that, they are fluoride-free, SLS free, paraben-free, alcohol free, vegan and contains certified organic botanicals. That's a big plus in my books, no harmful chemicals in any of his products! For this review I received one tube of Fresh Mint Whitening Toothpaste, one tube of Green Tea Whitening Toothpaste, one tube of Strawberry Cream Kids Toothpaste and one bottle of the Fresh Mint Mouthwash. These products are fantastic, your mouth and teeth feel super clean! My favorite was the Fresh Mint Whitening Toothpaste! My husband liked the Green Tea Whitening Toothpaste and my grandkids loved the Strawberry Cream Kids Toothpaste. The Fresh Mint Mouthwash has just the right amount of mint flavor. I would highly recommend all of Dr. Sharp's Products for all of your oral hygiene needs!
Good dental hygiene is very important, for your overall health. The Mayo Clinic has an article on how important it is to have good dental hygiene, it's called, Oral health: A window to your overall health. So, in other words, good oral hygiene is more than just a clean mouth, gums and teeth. Taking care of your oral health is a great way to prevent other possible health problems.
Dr. Sharp Fluoride Free Toothpastes combine the latest dental science and technology with natural ingredients to produce a line of safe, fluoride free toothpastes, most effective in the care of teeth and gums.
About the Fresh Mint Whitening Toothpaste
The Fresh Mint Whitening Toothpaste tastes awesome! It has a minty flavor, but it's not over powering. Their Natural Fluoride-Free uses a fluoride and detergent-free formula that contains no synthetic colors, flavors, or alcohol.
Aromatic mint oil, sage leaf extract, and carrageenan combine to help fight bacteria, protect sensitive teeth and gums, and maintain tooth enamel.
Non-abrasive natural whiteners bamboo powder, titanium, and calcium carbonate help to whiten teeth when brushing regularly.
About the Green Tea Whitening Toothpaste
Their Natural Fluoride-Free Green Tea Whitening Toothpaste uses a fluoride- and detergent-free formula that contains no synthetic colors, flavors, or alcohol. Natural tea tree extracts, echinacea, and myrrh contain soothing antioxidant properties to provide antiseptic, bactericidal, and fungicidal benefits.
Non-abrasive natural whiteners bamboo powder, titanium, and calcium carbonate help to whiten teeth when brushing regularly.
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According to the Fluoride Action Network, there are thousands of reports to Poison Control centers in America each year related to excessive ingestion of fluoride by children. Created especially for kids, their Natural Fluoride-Free Kids Toothpaste Strawberry Cream is a healthy and great-tasting alternative to fluoride-based toothpastes.
From the popularity of its flavor to its pleasing taste, this Natural Fluoride-Free Kids Toothpaste Strawberry Cream makes brushing safe and fun. They use a fluoride and detergent-free formula that contains no synthetic colors, flavors, or alcohol. Natural sage and bambusa stem extracts combine to make a natural strawberry flavor, while soothing carrageenan protects gums and maintains good oral health.
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Dr. Sharp's Natural Alcohol-Free Fresh Mint Mouthwash uses a fluoride and detergent-free formula that contains no synthetic colors, flavors, or alcohol.
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Their philosophy is simple - by caring deeply about our environment and its effect on your health, they have dedicated themselves to providing you with innovative and proven alternatives to fluoride-based products. That's why their toothpastes and mouthwash are made with natural ingredients and herbals that harness many of the restorative and nurturing qualities found in nature.
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i learned that ingestion of fluoride has little benefit, but many risks
- 11:31 AM, May 05, 2012
My kids would really love that natural strawberry toothpaste.
- 9:39 AM, May 06, 2012
- Pinching Abe said...
I learned that, "The vast majority of fluoride added to water supplies is wasted, since over 99% of tap water is not actually consumed by a human being. It is used instead to wash cars, water the lawn, wash dishes, flush toilets, etc."
That totally makes sense! I agree with the philosophy of having a choice. I never like it when authorities force things on me or my family. As a parent, I like to make the choices for my children that I feel will best benefit them.
- 2:56 PM, May 06, 2012
Learned that fluoride can potentially be poisonous
- 6:38 PM, May 06, 2012
Ingestion of fluoride has little benefit, but many risks, including risks to the brain and thyroid.
- 9:10 PM, May 06, 2012
- ChosenToBeFree said...
I learned they've been in a ton of magazines.
- 4:51 AM, May 07, 2012
- Lane Mahnke said...
I learned that their toothpastes have received the highest rating from the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology.
- 1:14 PM, May 08, 2012
- Gianna said...
Dr. Sharp's fluoride-free natural toothpastes and mouthwash offer a healthy alternative to fluoride products by combining natural and certified organic botanicals.
- 2:52 PM, May 08, 2012
- Lana Bradstream said...
I learned Dr. Sharp was born in Rio.
- 1:38 PM, May 11, 2012
- Melissa Shirley said...
This is a vegan product
- 6:31 AM, May 13, 2012
- Angela H said...
I learned Dr. Sharp is the 4th generation of dentists from the Sharp family.
- 10:43 AM, May 17, 2012
- missrantsypants said...
i learned that they are having a mothers day special
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- 5:03 PM, May 17, 2012
- KrysR said...
97% of Western Europe has chosen fluoride-free water.
- 5:10 PM, May 17, 2012
- STF said...
THEY use sustainable, vegan ingredients
- 10:19 PM, May 17, 2012
- amy16323 said...
Dr. Sharp was born in Rio.
- 10:38 AM, May 18, 2012
- Barb K. said...
I learned that fluoride may not be as good for you as once thought. Does not seem to help teeth all that much either.
- 10:59 AM, May 18, 2012
Taking in flouride is bad for your thyroid-not good.
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- 6:05 PM, May 18, 2012
I love how the children's paste is natural. Sometimes I think some of the kid's toothpaste on the shelves are just as bad as candy.
- 6:41 PM, May 18, 2012
- Erin Janus said...
Fluoride is a toxic bi-product of phosphate fertilizer industries, aluminum industries, nuclear industries, and more... it lowers IQ and NOBODY should be drinking it in their water OR brushing their teeth with it.
Dr. Sharp is awesome.
- 8:27 AM, October 07, 2012


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An Airbus A380 airliner that was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore on Thursday had suffered a "serious" fault at the rear of one of its jet engines, French crash investigators said.
France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said it would be involved in the probe into what went wrong on board the French-built plane, and that it appeared that a section of engine cover had dropped off.
Qantas flight QF32, which originated in London, was heading for Sydney from Singapore on Thursday, with 459 people on board, but turned back after one of its four engines suffered an explosive "shut down" over the Indonesian island of Batam, raining debris on the ground.
The explosion rained debris on a downtown area of Batam but no one on the plane or on the ground was injured.
"What we know for the moment is that the engine lost its rear housing. It's a fault on the rear part of the jet motor that led to a serious damage," said a BEA spokeswoman in Paris.
"It's a serious incident. It's obvious that normally the housing should not fall off mid-flight," said Jean-Paul Troadec, director of the BEA.
"It's very likely the pilot stopped the engine when he spotted an anomaly. But we must be cautious, we don't yet know the cause of the anomaly."
Troadec said that the loss of one engine on the four-engined jet should have been "manageable" under normal emergency procedures.
The BEA said Australian authorities would lead the investigation and that a two or three-strong French team of experts would join their colleagues to represent France as the plane's homeland.
Meanwhile, Air France joined Germany's Lufthansa and the United Arab Emirates' Emirates airline in saying it had no immediate plans to ground its own fleet of A380 jets following the incident.
The French carrier said its A380s were equipped with jet engines built by Engine Alliance, a consortium of Pratt and Wittney, General Electric and Safran, whereas Qantas was flying with Rolls Royce motors.
Qantas has already grounded all six of is Airbus superjumbos following the incident, but the other airlines that operate A380s - Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Air France and Lufthansa - say they will continue flying them at this stage.


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Transport and Infrastructure Foundations (ITLS5100)
This unit provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of transportation and infrastructure within the economy. The key concepts and theories needed for management of transport and infrastructure are introduced and each of the key transport and infrastructure industries are considered from a market intelligence perspective. In providing the foundational knowledge for students in transport and infrastructure, the unit also introduces students to the professional communication skills needed for success as a student and as a manager. Examples and case studies are drawn from all modes of transport and infrastructure.
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8 x 3.5 hr lectures, 5 x 3.5 hr tutorials, 1 x 3.5hr field study
individual annotated bibliograpahy (20%), individual report (35%), group presentations (15%), final exam (30%)
Annema JA and Banister D (2013) The Transport System and Transport Policy; Bliemer, MCJ & Mulley C and Moutou CJ (eds) (2016) Handbook on Transport and Urban Planning in the Developed World.
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This is the foundation unit for all transport and infrastructure management programs and should be completed in the first period of study.
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