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You Might Not be Interested in Tax, but Tax is Interested in you!
By Steven Toft 27th February 2020
Tax is not the most likely subject to be front of most HR professionals' minds but whilst you might not be interested in tax, tax is interested in you. With two budgets and a spending review scheduled for 2020, the coming year will see the whole of issue of tax rising to the top of the political, economic and business agenda. Tax increases are almost inevitable over the next decade. The looming fiscal crunch means that tax will become one of the main political battlegrounds over the next few years. Do you really think the inevitable reform of the UK's tax and benefits system is something you can afford to ignore? We beg to differ. We believe it is something all HR people need to start thinking about. And soon.
One reason you might not be interested in tax is that politicians have spent the last two decades avoiding an honest conversation with voters about the dilemma we face. At first sight, the UK tax system could be said to be working well. After missing its deficit targets for years, the government narrowed the gap between revenue and spending. The UK is a relatively low tax country by international standards and its tax system is far less complicated than it was in the 1970s and 80s. Taxes on earnings have fallen for all workers and especially for the low paid. Our tax and benefits system has redistributed income so that there has been little increase in inequality over the past thirty years. Our benefits system helps and encourages people to work and employment is at record levels. Do we really need to worry?
Unfortunately, we do. The social, environmental and economic headwinds of the 2020s are likely to act as a brake on economic growth while increasing the demands on public spending. The advanced economies are facing a triple whammy of slow economic growth, ageing populations and high government debt accumulated after the financial crisis. This will put pressure on public finances and make it extremely difficult to deliver the level of public services and welfare their populations have become used to without increasing either tax or government borrowing. Most of the advanced economies and many of the emerging ones will face similar challenges, leaving them with some tough choices to make about how to raise and spend tax.
According to projections by the Resolution Foundation, all other things being equal, public spending as a percentage of GDP is likely to return to its 1970s level early in the next decade and continue rising past its postwar peak by the 2040s. There are only three ways in which this scenario plays out – higher taxes, higher public debt or the withdrawal of government from some service provision. The most likely outcome is a combination of all three.
Governments, then, will be desperate to increase their revenues. They will be tempted to tax the things that are easy to get at and low risk politically. Publicly quoted companies and workers on PAYE are obvious targets. The systems are already set up, the taxpayers visible and their earnings reasonably transparent.
The trouble is, as Resolution Foundation chair Gavin Kelly pointed out in the FT, for many people, the tax and benefits system already works in such a way that a pay increase doesn't leave them much better off. What impact might further tax increases have?
Which brings us back to you, the HR and reward professionals. We believe this is something about which you should be aware and forewarned. That is why we have put together a panel of experts for the next PARC meeting on 18 March, to discuss the issues related to income tax, possible options going forward and how these might impact performance and reward strategies.
By the time we meet, the new chancellor will have delivered his budget. It may give some indication of the direction of travel but it is unlikely to address the underlying issues. Future budgets will need to square the circle between fiscal responsibility and populist profligacy. This constant tension in government spending plans will provide the economic backdrop for strategic planning within UK business for years to come.
The debate over tax and public spending will become increasingly urgent over the course of the next decade as it becomes ever clearer that existing tax rates and tax systems can't cover the increasing pressure on public spending. The longer we put off the debate about taxation, the more difficult it will be when we are eventually forced to discuss it.
CRF's sister business PARC (Performance and Reward Centre) is hosting an event: The UK Tax Regime – What Impact Does It Have On Investment, Performance and Productivity. If you're interested in attending and for further information, please contact Melissa Bates: melissa@crforum.co.uk
Steven Toft


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Q: Creating a named range based on EXACT string values in a cell I have the following code that goes through values that I have in column C. When it finds the word "Search", the code creates a named range called "Search" for columns D to F.
Dim featuresRng As Range
Dim rng As Range
Dim sht As Worksheet
Dim counter As Long
Dim cell As Range

Set sht = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Features")
Set featuresRng = sht.Range(sht.Range("C1"), sht.Range("C" & sht.Rows.Count).End(xlUp)) 'dynamically set the range of features
counter = 0 'this counter will help us avoid Union(Nothing, some range), which would give an error

For Each cell In featuresRng 'loop through the range of features
    If cell.Value = "Query Builder" Then
        counter = counter + 1
        If counter = 1 Then
            Set rng = sht.Range(cell.Offset(0, 1), cell.Offset(0, 3))
        Else
            Set rng = Union(rng, sht.Range(cell.Offset(0, 1), cell.Offset(0, 3))) 'build the range
        End If
    End If
Next cell
Debug.Print rng.Address
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add "QuBuild", rng

However, whilst it appears fine on the Name Manager, when I use VBA to transition the range into a table in word, it seems to paste ALL values where the word "Search" is in column C.
Note, in column C I have a variety of cell values such as "Reporting", "Search", "Search and Filter", "Search and Analyse" etc. So, the range that is pasted into word appears to include the rows from the "Search and.." cells too.
This is the code I am using to export to a bookmarked position in word...
  On Error Resume Next

      Set WordApp = GetObject(class:="Word.Application")

    'Clear the error between errors
      Err.Clear

      If WordApp Is Nothing Then Set WordApp = CreateObject(class:="Word.Application")

    'Handle if the Word Application is not found
      If Err.Number = 429 Then
        MsgBox "Microsoft Word could not be found, aborting."
        GoTo EndRoutine
      End If

  On Error GoTo 0

'Make MS Word Visible and Active
  WordApp.Visible = True
  WordApp.Activate

'Create a New Document
  Set myDoc = WordApp.Documents.Open("Doc1")

'Copy Excel Table Range

     'Copy and Paste Search into MS Word
        If DoesNameRangeExist("Search") = True Then
      Search.Copy
  myDoc.Bookmarks("Search").Range.PasteExcelTable _
    LinkedToExcel:=False, _
    WordFormatting:=False, _
    RTF:=False
End If

Any help is, as always, much much appreciated!

A: The issues observed in the code

*

*for opening New document in the word try something like `Set myDoc = Wordapp.Documents.Add'

*Don't know what is  DoesNameRangeExist, if is some sub routine the that is not produced in the code

*The name of the NamedRange in question is "QuBuild" but you have used Name "Search"

Try following modification to make it work (as tested by me to work).
Add reference to Microsoft Word XX Object Library
in declaration section
Dim Nm As Name
Dim Wordapp As Word.Application
Dim myDoc  As Word.Document

Finally in last section
Set myDoc = Wordapp.Documents.Add

    For Each Nm In ThisWorkbook.Names
        If Nm.Name = "QuBuild" Then
        Nm.RefersToRange.Copy
        Debug.Print Nm.RefersToRange.Address
        myDoc.Bookmarks.Add "Search", myDoc.Range
        myDoc.Range.PasteExcelTable False, False, False
        Exit For
        End If
    Next Nm

Edit: However on trial it was observed that PasteExcelTable method is copying all the adjacent rows in between union ranges non-adjacent rows. May refer to the SO Post however answer in the post does not solve the problem and finally resorted to lengthy way below for correct operation. Invite & eager to learn more Simple Solutions to directly copy paste Union range from excel into Word from experts.
Code:
Set myDoc = Wordapp.Documents.Add
    Dim RngtoCopy As Range
    Dim xArea As Range, Rw As Range, col As Long, Tbl As Table
    Dim TotalRow As Long

    'If both the section of code are in the same procedure
    'then it is not be necessary to use next loop to find NamedRange
    'And can be directly refer as Rng.Areas  instead of RngtoCopy.Areas
    For Each Nm In ThisWorkbook.Names
        If Nm.Name = "QuBuild" Then
        Set RngtoCopy = Nm.RefersToRange
        Exit For
        End If
    Next Nm

    Set Tbl = myDoc.Tables.Add(myDoc.Range, 1, 3)
    TotalRow = 0
        For Each xArea In RngtoCopy.Areas
            For Each Rw In xArea.Rows
            TotalRow = TotalRow + 1
            If TotalRow > Tbl.Rows.Count Then Tbl.Rows.Add
            col = 0
                For Each cell In Rw.Columns
                col = col + 1
                Tbl.cell(TotalRow, col).Range.Text = cell.Value
                Next
            Next
        Next

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The North American Laurentian Great Lakes hold nearly 20 % of the earth's unfrozen fresh surface water and have a length of coastline, and a coastal population, comparable to frequently-studied marine coasts. The surface water elevations of the Great Lakes, in particular, are an ideal metric for understanding impacts of climate change on large hydrologic systems, and for assessing adaption measures for absorbing those impacts. In light of the importance of the Great Lakes to the North American and global economies, the Great Lakes and the surrounding region also serve as an important benchmark for hydroclimate research, and offer an example of successful adaptive management under changing climate conditions. Here, we communicate some of the important lessons to be learned from the Great Lakes by examining how the coastline, water level, and water budget dynamics of the Great Lakes relate to other large coastal systems, along with implications for water resource management strategies and climate scenario-derived projections of future conditions. This improved understanding fills a critical gap in freshwater and marine global coastal research.
This paper is GLERL contribution number 1635. The authors thank Erika Washburn and Bryan Comer, as well as two anonymous reviewers who, along with the handling editor, provided helpful comments which improved the clarity of the paper. Funding for this research was provided by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) and the International Upper Great Lakes Study (IUGLS). We also thank Cathy Darnell for providing graphics and editorial support.


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WEATHER IN LINCOLN COUNTY
Senators Wyden and Merkley swinging big bats to get more firefighting money
Sep 7, 2017 | Daily News
Current Wildfire season in Central and Eastern Oregon is historic
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Merkley, Wyden Announce Funding to Help Address Wildfire Crisis
Funding was included in disaster and government funding package that passed the Senate today; will ensure that federal agencies have full funding for fire suppression
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon's Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that they have successfully included funding to help cover the cost of fighting the devastating wildfires that are currently burning in Oregon in the disaster and government funding bill expected to pass Congress this week. The legislation passed the U.S. Senate today with overwhelming bipartisan support.
"Oregon is on fire. This is a frightening time for our communities, and they deserve to know that they will have the resources and support they need to fight these fires all the way through to the end of the season," said Merkley. "Passing this wildfire funding is a huge step forward, but there's more to do. We won't stop fighting until Oregon has all of the resources it needs to confront and recover from this ongoing disaster."
"When Oregon's skies are glowing orange at night from wildfires and families are forced to evacuate their homes, our state and the West need money to fight these fires now," said Wyden. "I am glad the Senate has heeded our call to provide some help for the short-term. I am also pulling out all the stops to fight for our bipartisan, long-term wildfire funding solution that tackles the skyrocketing cost of fighting fires and ends the backwards cycle that shortchanges wildfire prevention every year. These fires are getting hotter, bigger and tougher to fight. Congress needs to step up and treat these infernos like the natural disasters they are."
Eagle Creek Fire growing and sparks in the wind are setting fires around it.
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Since joining the Senate Appropriations Committee in 2015, Senator Merkley has aggressively pushed for increased funding for fighting wildfires, and worked with Senator Wyden to fix the way that fighting the biggest wildfires is funded. The agreement secured in today's funding bill will ensure that the Forest Service and other agencies will be able to retroactively cover the remaining costs of fighting fires for the 2017 fire season, which is on track to reach $300 million beyond the previously-set firefighting budget for 2017. Without the guarantee of this funding, agencies would soon have to switch over to "fire borrowing" – the practice of raiding other programs, including hazardous fuels reduction and fire prevention, to fund the cost of wildfire suppression.
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Chetco Fire east of Brookings.
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Senator Wyden and Senator Merkley have also joined with their western colleagues on both sides of the aisle to push for a long-term fix that would fund the cost of fighting the largest wildfires in the same way that the response to other natural disasters is funded. This would permanently end the practice of fire borrowing, and ensure that the biggest wildfires are appropriately treated similarly to other natural disasters.
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Turkey's Erdogan to travel to Russia for talks over Syria offensive
Putin moves quickly to entrench leadership role and fill void after Trump ordered pullout of American forces that had been protecting Kurdish-controlled areas
By AP	17 October 2019, 2:17 am 0 Edit
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, April 3, 2018. (ADEM ALTAN/AFP)
AKCAKALE, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office announced Wednesday that he will travel to Sochi, Russia for talks over Turkey's military offensive northeast Syria on October 22.
Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Erdogan to visit Russia to discuss Syria during a call between the two leaders on Tuesday, amid pressure on Turkey to halt its incursion.
Putin invited Erdogan "for a working visit in the coming days. The invitation was accepted," Putin's office had said in a statement late Tuesday.
Turkey's military push, now into its eighth day, aims to carve out a safe zone along its border with Syria that would be cleared of Syrian Kurdish fighters it regards as terrorists and a national security threat.
Confirmations of the meeting came ahead of a mission by US Vice President Mike Pence to press Turkey for a cease-fire in its attack on Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Turkish soldiers prepare to enter Syria aboard an armored personnel carrier at the border with Syria in Karkamis, Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey, October 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Erdogan has defied US economic sanctions, saying the only way its military offensive would end was if Syrian Kurdish fighters leave a designated border area.
Erdogan also threw into doubt a planned November 13 meeting with US President Donald Trump, citing anger over the sanctions that Washington imposed Monday on the NATO ally.
Russia has moved quickly to entrench its leadership role and fill the void after Trump ordered the pullout of American forces in northeastern Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that Moscow is committed to mediating between Syria and Turkey.
The American move effectively abandoned the Kurdish fighters allied with the US and cleared the way for Turkey's invasion aimed at crushing them. After heavy criticism at home, Trump sought new leverage with Turkey by imposing the sanctions.
America's abrupt withdrawal of its troops pushed the Kurds to strike a deal with the Russia-backed government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, allowing his forces to return to regions of northern Syria they abandoned at the height of the 8-year-old civil war. It has also allowed Moscow to take a more prominent role as an interlocutor among Assad, the former US-allied Kurds and Turkey.
AFP contributed to this report.
Syrian Kurds
Turkish offensive in Syria


Anthony Barnett (London, OK): One has to chuckle. The excellent ePolitix has just completed a survey of more than a thousand of its well-connected users and "only 15 per cent think the Conservative leader will make it to Number 10 - while 62 per cent think he never will". This judgement reinforces the current running poll of polls in UKPollingReport. There is many a slip, of course and Guido Fawks has placed £50 of his ill-gotten gains on Brown losing the next election citing the coming economic crash. It seems to me that this is a case of GF projecting his pyromania onto the voters. If the economic cycle nose-dives, most people will stick with Brown 'for fear of worse' - after all, even die-hard Tories may think twice about putting the country into the hands of an inexperienced Tory environmentalist if world capitalism is crashing around us. Cameron has positioned himself as a luxury item.
However, the reason I'm chuckling is that I recalled the lionisation of Frank Luntz, an American polling expert brought across by Newsnight to reveal the dark arts of Washington to a trembling and grateful subject nation. In 2005 he was credited with selecting David Cameron himself as the people's Tory. Last September I watched with disbelief his Newsnight focus group identify John Reid as the sure-fire voters favorite. I think he was even given a cover story in the Spectator. Perhaps it was Luntz who helped persuade Cameron that Brown was a grumpy figure of the past who was bound to be unpopular.


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NewsBLOGSIndiaHail the hologram
Hail the hologram
May 11, 2014, 3:13 PM IST Dileep Padgaonkar in Talking Terms, India, TOI
Dileep Padgaonkar is consulting editor of The Times of India. He is a former editor of the paper.
Not even the most virulent critic of Narendra Modi can deny that his election campaign has been streets ahead of the competition. None has been able to match his drive and energy, oratorical skills and organizational prowess. In his latest blog he notes that he has traveled more than three lakh kilometres and addressed more than 440 public rallies. No leader has followed such a punishing schedule. It would have taken a toll on a person twenty years younger than him. But he has shown no trace of fatigue or lassitude.
No party has also rivaled the scale of his party's direct outreach to voters. Cadres of the BJP and the RSS fanned out by the thousands to homes in every nook and cranny of a constituency to ensure that citizens entitled to exercise their franchise figured on electoral rolls. And then there were Modi's superbly-orchestrated road-shows. On this count, however, Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi also put up an impressive performance in Varanasi.
Add to this the BJP's vigorous exploitation of the social media to get across Modi's message — especially to young voters — and to get even with his critics. In the latter instance, no venom was spared and no expletive avoided. The most malicious and obscene motives were attributed to those who raised questions about the BJP's prime ministerial candidate without a shard of evidence. They carried an ominous ring of the Nazi and Stalinist propaganda.
But the most striking, indeed seminal, innovation by far of the Modi campaign has been the intensive use of hologram technology. A report published in this newspaper provided succulent details of how he went about it. From a studio in his Gandhinagar residence he addressed, via satellite, audiences hundreds of miles away.
He appeared in their hamlets out of nowhere as some sort of a divine apparition, stood before a microphone whose stand displayed the BJP's lotus symbol and held forth with his oratorical brio. But this wasn't a one-way communication. On monitors placed in the studio he could see live pictures of the audience. That enabled him to engage with it as if he was there in person. And then the apparition dissolved into the night just as swiftly as it had emerged.
By the end of the campaign Modi had held more than 1300 such 3D rallies. The largest numbers were, without surprise, in UP, Gujarat, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh . These are the states which will determine his fate. Every evidence suggests that the hologram shows vowed the audiences — even more so than his televised 'Chai pe charcha' that covered 4000 locations across the country. His forays in the virtual world seemed to be in some ways more dramatic than his forays in the real one.
In his rallies in the real world, his party's camera crew focused tightly on him, often in close-up, so that other big-wigs on the dais looked like props in the background. We heard his audiences cheer him wildly, answer his rhetorical questions with glee and boo the targets of his attack with abandon. But we rarely saw them in flesh and blood. Their spirited reactions therefore sounded as if they were canned — like the canned laughter in TV comedies. Could hologram images of the crowd dampened that suspicion?
That technological feat could well tickle the fancy of Modi's techie and sci-fi enthusiasts. Following in the foot-steps of HG Wells and George Orwell they would be able to create hologram voters who troop to hologram polling booths to cast their hologram votes in favour of their revered hologram candidate. They could stretch their imagination further to project a hologram prime minister who would command a majority in a hologram Parliament. Indeed, since all 542 MPs would be hologram representatives of a hologram people, he would have a free hand to fulfill his mission. A hologram India would become a vibrant economic and militarily hologram power that commands respect of the hologram world.
All this is of course unalloyed fantasy. The next prime minister will have to deal with real people who have real problems. They will react to the words and deeds of a flesh-and-bones helmsman, not to a hologram apparition. Signs to this end will start blowing in the wind after May 16.
Blogs by Dileep Padgaonkar
Europe In Agony: Trump's triumph raises fears of the continent lurching rightward and swiftly falling apart
The Muslim question: Raucous debates in France about the compatibility of Islamic practices with republican values
Editor par excellence: How Ramananda Chatterjee's journal Modern Review influenced public opinion across undivided India


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Here's how much money each Denver school board candidate has raised
Three seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for grabs on Nov. 5. Ten candidates are running, though the field could grow.
Southeast Denver school board candidate favors class size caps, 'community schools'
Radhika Nath strongly aligns herself with a movement to "flip the board" in November.
Longtime parent volunteer is running for school board in northwest Denver
This is the second time Tony Curcio is running for the seat.
Democrats for Education Reform won't deploy money in the Denver school board race
The group is focusing on statewide issues instead, its director said.
Denver graduate who has spent career advocating for children is running for school board
Diana Romero Campbell is the head of Scholars Unlimited, a nonprofit organization that provides after-school and summer learning opportunities.
Denver mother and former nurse is running for southeast school board seat
Kristi Leech is a political newcomer who left her job to help provide more support in school for her oldest son.
One-time Denver school board president won't run again for an open seat
Three seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for grabs in November, including the at-large seat Nate Easley was considering
Denver school board member Lisa Flores says she will not run for re-election
"I don't find it possible to make a second four-year commitment at this time."
Campaigns and elections
Advocacy group poured nearly $100,000 into Newark school board race
Great Schools for All, an advocacy group with charter school connections, spent more than $97,000 supporting three candidates in Newark's school board race.
20-year-old Denver school board candidate motivated by civil rights is leading in fundraising
Tay Anderson raised $13,912 in the last six months, all from individual donors.
Part of this Denver teacher's platform for school board? A $5,000 raise for every teacher
Anna DeWitt teaches French at North High School. She is running for an at-large seat.
Charter schools-aligned group spends big in Newark school board race
A group called Great Schools for All, which has ties to charter schools, has spent heavily to help elect candidates to Newark's school board.
Denver father is the first contender for a wide-open school board seat
Scott Baldermann is the father of two students at Lincoln Elementary School in the Washington Park neighborhood.
In Newark school board race, independent candidates face off against team with political backing
One group of candidates has the backing of a powerful political coalition. An opposing group says it's "powered by the people."
november election
Former Denver school board president Nate Easley may run again for an open seat
If Easley got into the race, he would face Tay Anderson, a recent Denver Public Schools graduate who is firmly on the side of those who want to "flip the board."


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Tag: pipes
Shut Off That School Bus!
There are still a lot of states that don't have any restrictions on diesel idling. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service)
Diesel exhaust has been linked
to a lot of health problems –
asthma, heart disease, and cancer.
That's why so many states and cities
across the country have anti-idling
laws for diesels. Mark Brush reports
some bus companies are being caught
with their engines running:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/spot_brush_110209.mp3
In Connecticut and Rhode Island , the Environmental Protection Agency caught a bus company called First Student breaking anti-idling laws. In some cases, they found bus drivers idling their engines for up to two and a half hours.
The government just reached a settlement with First Student. Tim Conway is an enforcement lawyer for the EPA.
"First Student really stepped up to the plate once we'd identified the violations. And they helped us look for solutions that would protect children's health and protect the health of people around the diesel vehicle."
First Student is now retraining their drivers and cleaning up their emissions. The company operates buses in 40 states.
There are still a lot of states that don't have any restrictions on diesel idling. So, on any given school day, you can find long lines of buses polluting the air in front of schools, waiting for the kids to come out.
For The Environment Report, I'm Mark Brush.
Info from the EPA on idling
A related article from Scientific American
Author Mark BrushPosted on November 2, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags breath, breathe, breathing, buses, child, children, class, classes, driver, drivers, elementary, exhaust, grammar, health, high, idle, idling, junior, kids, lots, middle, park, parked, parking, pipe, pipes, school, schools, student, students, tail, tailpipe, teacher, teachers
Getting Water to the Dry, Dry West
Colorado Springs pumps water through the Rocky Mountains into town (Photo courtesy of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau)
Out West, a lot of cities figure many more people will be moving in over the next few decades. Water engineers wish those people would bring along all the water they'll need, but of course they won't. Shawn Allee reports these cities want to pipe more water from far away, and some people think that's a bad idea:
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Out West, a lot of cities figure many more people will be moving in over the next few
decades. Water engineers wish those people would bring along all the water they'll
need, but of course they won't. Shawn Allee reports these cities want to pipe more
water from far away, and some people think that's a bad idea:
The air in Colorado Springs is usually so dry it quickly chaps your lips.
What gives? Colorado Springs sounds wet enough.
"There're really no springs in Colorado Springs, so when you start talking
about water, it's a divergence between our name and reality. Sounds like we
had a lot, and in reality we didn't."
This is Matt Mayberry, Colorado Spring's historian.
I've heard about this massive water pipeline project the town's cooking up, and I was
curious just how long the city's worked to quench its thirst.
Mayberry's got an exhaustive book on that with an exhaustive title.
"Blah, blah, blah … the emergence and appropriation of rights in Colorado
Springs."
The crib notes version?
Early on, buffalo manure poisoned Colorado Spring's creek, so people dug wells.
Then, the wells got infested with grasshoppers.
And the town grew, and grew, and grew again.
"Very soon you had to bring water from further away, and ultimately to the
Western Slope which is a couple hours drive of here."
Today, Colorado Springs pipes water through the Rocky Mountain range.
Doing the extraordinary for water is kinda ordinary for Colorado Springs.
Its latest pipeline project is called the Southern Delivery System, and it'll pump nearly
80 million gallons into town each year – and it'll pump that water forty five miles –
completely uphill.
Impressive, but some people are asking tough questions about it.
"Our concern with this project is the greenhouse gas emissions that it would
contribute to."
Stacy Tellinghuisen is with Western Resource Advocates, a Colorado environmental
She says there's a connection between pumping water uphill and a large carbon
footprint.
"Water is heavy. Pumping it over a great distance takes a lot of energy, and
in the process it would require something along the lines of 60 MW of power,
which is about a tenth of a power plant."
And, for the most part, the utility burns natural gas and coal to generate power. Both
emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
Tellinghuisen says Western cities are considering at least five other water pipeline
projects, some with even larger carbon footprints.
She wants Colorado Springs to set an example by using dedicated low-carbon sources
like wind power for its water pumps.
I ask the Colorado Springs Utilities about that.
Keith Riley helped plan the Southern Delivery System.
"We think there are some ways we can minimize the carbon footprint by
looking at some new technologies."
Riley says there were lots of environmental regulations to wade through before the
Southern Delivery System got approved.
But a large carbon footprint doesn't disqualify utility projects.
Riley says, even if carbon were considered, the project might have gone forward
anyway because the city's expected to grow over the next few decades.
"Water is the essential element for all of us, so when it comes to that level of
sustaining our own lives, then you get to some trade-offs on what we're
willing to do to keep ourselves alive where we we live, where our cities are.
No matter what happens, we've got to move water to Colorado Springs, and
we're uphill from the river, so we've got to get the water uphill one way or
another."
Riley says Colorado Springs Utilities is considering low-carbon renewable power for its
new pipeline.
But it'll be expensive, and no one's stepped forward with all the money.
Other Western cities are engineering clever ways of moving loads of water around,
too. And it'll be a political and financial challenge for them to pay for the carbon
The Southern Delivery System
A report from Western Resource Advocates
A related story on water in the West
Author Shawn AlleePosted on June 8, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags colorado, drink, drinking, dryer, financial, live, living, money, move, moves, moving, people, pipe, pipeline, pipelines, pipes, political, politics, population, region, regions, ship, shipping, shortage, spring, springs, state, states, supplies, supply, transport, water, waters, west
That Big Dripping Sound
According to the EPA, US homes waste 1 trillion gallons each year from leaks (Photo courtesy of the EPA)
Today begins "Fix a Leak Week." It's probably not in your calendar. It's a new effort from the US EPA to encourage people to take a closer look at their plumbing. Tamara Keith reports:
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(sound of dripping)
It turns out that drip drip drip of a leaky faucet can really add up.
(sound of toilet running)
A running toilet can waste up to 200 gallons a day.
Michael Shapiro heads the water division at the EPA.
"A typical home will leak up to 11,000 gallons a year. About the amount of water that will fit into a home swimming pool, for example."
Most people can handle doing the repairs themselves. Jim Loviss is the plumbing manager at Strosneiders Hardware in Bethesda, Maryland.
"Sometimes it's a washer, sometimes it's a hose or a supply tube. Most times it's simple. It's being able to shut the water off and find out where the problem is and solve it."
But, he's not expecting a rush on washers and toilet flappers just because the EPA has declared it "Fix A Leak Week."
For The Environment Report, I'm Tamara Keith.
EPA's Fix A Leak Week page
Another story on leaks from The Environment Report
Author Tamara KeithPosted on March 16, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags dripping, fix, fixing, gallon, gallons, house, houses, leak, leaks, leaky, pipe, pipes, plumbing, run, running, sink, sinks, toilet, water, waters
Stimulus Money to Save Water?
Obama delivering the American Recovery and Reinvestment speech on Thursday, January 8, 2009 (Photo courtesy of the Obama Transition Team)
One group wants part of the economic stimulus package to plug up some leaks. It says old toilets and leaky water pipes below city streets are wasting water. Chuck Quirmbach reports:
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The group is called the Alliance for Water Efficiency. It's made up of plumbing manufacturers, contractors, city water systems, and enviromental groups.
They want about ten billion dollars of the economic stimulus package to go to shovel-ready projects that conserve water.
Alliance board member Susan Stratton says the work could include everything from century-old city water pipes to replacing many older, water-wasting toilets in private homes.
"This requires the skills of a plumber and it requires retailers and wholesalers to deliver products. These are things we know how to do. There are people in the work environment who have these skills and can ramp up pretty quickly."
Stratton says cutting water use would also save energy by reducing power use at water utilities.
For The Environment Report, I'm Chuck Quirmbach.
Alliance for Water Efficiency
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009
Author Chuck QuirmbachPosted on February 2, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags bailout, cities, city, government, money, pipes, plumbing, political, politics, president, repair, repairs, sewer, sewers, state, states, stimulus, taxes, water, waters
Straining Water Supplies in the Southwest
Nancy and Dave Tom bought this home near Apache Junction, Arizona. They have to haul all the water they use with their pickup truck, so they quickly learned how to conserve. (Photo by Mark Brush)
Dave Tom hauls water with this trailer. He makes around two trips a week to keep their storage tank full. (Photo by Mark Brush)
This system of aqueducts and pumps moves Colorado River water 336 miles across the state of Arizona. Over its entire course, the water is pumped close to 3,000 ft. vertically. The $4 billion system was built using federal grants and low-interest loans. (Photo by Mark Brush)
It's been estimated that the Phoenix metropolitan region gets 2,300 new residents each week. This new high-end development is near the Tonto National Forest. The homes will sell for more than $800,000. (Photo by Mark Brush)
These two lane roads will soon turn into four lane roads as housing developments continue to spread into the Sonoran desert. (Photo by Mark Brush)
Many areas in the Southwest are booming. With all this new
development, pressures on water supplies are growing. Mark Brush takes
a look at the lengths people go to, to get water in the desert:
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Nancy and Dave Tom used to get their water from a city water supply.
That was back when they owned a home in Tempe, Arizona. Like a lot of
people in the area, they had a pool, plants that needed water year
round, and a green lawn out back. Not exactly a desert scene. It took
a lot of water to support their lifestyle.
But life in Tempe was getting crowded. And when somebody rang their
doorbell and offered to buy their house for almost twice what they paid for
it, they jumped at the chance to move to a smaller town.
(Sound of birds)
They found a house for sale just outside of Apache Junction. It's a
small city in the desert about an hour's drive from Phoenix. The house
is at the foot of a dry mountain range and has spectacular views. But
the house didn't have city water service:
"When we saw this piece of property we pretty much fell in love with it
immediately. And it was stated in the multiple listings that you did
have to haul water. And that the water trailer conveyed with the
property (laughs)."
(Sound of hooking up the truck)
To get their water, Dave Tom hooks up a trailer with a big plastic
water tank. He tows the trailer about 4 miles into Apache Junction.
There's a water filling station here. He gets about 90 gallons of
water for each quarter dropped into the machine:
(Sound of truck parking)
"I've got my four quarters here – we're going to put it in the vending
machine and have at it."
(Sound of quarter and water rushing)
He makes about two trips a week, so he figures they're using about 600
gallons of water a week. That's quite a bit less than the 6000 gallons
they were using in Tempe.
Some of the things they did to cut back were obvious. Since they no
longer had a pool – and they didn't water a green lawn – that helped.
But in their new place, they also bought a high efficiency washer and
dishwasher. And, when they don't have guests around, they cut down on
the number of times they flush the toilet.
And they're not alone in trying to cut back on water use. Even their
neighbors who have a well are really careful with their water. Phil
Reinhart lives just up the road. He's rigged up a system of gutters
and pipes to catch rain water:
"You see it drains the front of my house and it comes down these
gutters into these storage barrels. And then I have a little pump that
I use and a little twelve volt battery that I use to pump my washing
machine full and then my washing machine then discharges into my citrus
trees – this is a lemon – here, take a lemon back with you."
Reinhart is careful with his water. And he's worried that the
population boom will put a strain on his well.
(Sound of water)
The tank on David Tom's trailer is full. He tries to shut the water
"Alright we'll push the shutoff button – and watch out, you're going to
get wet… no the shutoff isn't working. We're going to dump 25 to 30, maybe 40,
gallons of water, which to me it's a shame they need to come down and
fix this."
(Sound of water flowing)
A lot of this water spilling onto the ground has traveled a long way to
get here. The Central Arizona Project pumps water from the Colorado
River 230 miles away.
"Rather than a river than runs downhill by gravity, we're a river that
runs uphill by pumps. We're the largest electric consumer in the state
of Arizona."
Sid Wilson is the general manager of the Central Arizona Project. He
says most of the water pumped into this region is used for farming.
But with rapid development, that's expected to change. More water will
be used to service the new homes sprawling out into the desert.
"The CAP right now provides 40% of the water to this area, 40%, and that will increase
some over time."
Wilson says people are going to continue to move to the Southwest. So,
future water supplies will have to be developed.
Back at their home near Apache Junction, Dave Tom has finished filling
up their underground storage tank. It's taken him two trips with the
trailer.
(Sound of gurgling)
His wife Nancy says their new home has changed the way they think:
"Life out here in the desert has given me a greater appreciation for
water. There's a part of me that says this is how everybody should
live in the desert. That they should have that awareness of their
water usage and embrace the fact that you live in the desert rather
than trying to change it into a lush tropical paradise."
Info from the Central Arizona Project
More on water consumption from the Colorado River
Author Mark BrushPosted on March 26, 2007 Categories FeaturesTags arizona, barrels, cap, central arizona project, colorado river, dave, desert, development, drain, electric power, farming, gutters, house, nancy, pipes, plants, pool, pump, rain water, southwest, tom, trailer, washing machine
Ten Threats: Hidden Costs of Invasives
Foreign ships like this one from Cypress are known as "Salties" around the Great Lakes. These ships are responsible for bringing aquatic invasive species into the Lakes, and we're all paying a price. (Photo by Mark Brush)
In looking at these threats to the Great Lakes, almost everyone we surveyed agreed the worst threat was alien invasive species. Shipping goods in and out of the Great Lakes has helped build the major cities on the Lakes. But shipping from foreign ports has brought in unwanted pests. Zebra mussels are probably the most infamous, but there are more than 160 aquatic species that have invaded the Lakes and changed them, almost always for the worse. So why can't we keep them out?
Today we begin an extensive series called "Ten Threats to the Great Lakes." The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham is our guide through this series:
Well, let's say I import widgets.
(Sound of widgets dropping into a cup)
I've been getting widgets from somewhere in Asia, but I found out I could get widgets from an eastern European company for a dollar-a-widget cheaper. The factory there can ship them directly to my warehouse in Great Lakes City, USA by ship across the Atlantic and into the Great Lakes.
Pretty good deal. I get good widgets, the shipping costs are cheaper, my profits go up, and it means cheaper widgets at the retail level. Everybody wins, right?
Well, the ship that brought the widgets also brought an alien invasive species that stowed away in the ship's ballast. A critter that's native to eastern European waters is now wreaking havoc on the Great Lakes ecosystem.
Aquatic alien invasive species that have invaded the Great Lakes now cost the economy an estimated five billion dollars a year. Five billion dollars of what's considered biological pollution.
So, who's paying the price?
Cameron Davis is with the environmental group Alliance for the Great Lakes.
"Unfortunately, in most instances, who pays for those hiddens costs are you and me. We pay for our water agencies to have to clean zebra mussels out of their pipes, we pay our agencies through taxes to have to keep Asian Carp out of the Chicago River, we pay through our taxes in any number of ways to try to fight these invaders."
So right now, taxpayers and utility ratepayers – even those who never bought a widget and never will – are paying the price. Davis says that's just not right.
"One of the things we need to do is make sure that those ships are paying full cost for everything that they bring, not just the widgets, but the stowaways like the zebra mussels, things like that that they have on board."
So, why target the ships?
Dennis Schornack chairs the U.S. Sector of the International Joint Commission. The IJC is a bi-national agency that monitors a water quality agreement between the U.S. and Canada. Schornack says that's the way it usually works: the polluters pay.
"The cost of the impact of these unwanted creatures is something that's not baked into the price charged for the widgets. So, somewhere that external cost needs to be captured back into the price. The ship owners themselves are the likely target to pay for this through a permitting fee which, of course, they will pass on to their customers, the people who made the widgets."
So all of us who buy widgets end up paying a little more, but paying permits and fees could cost shippers more than they can afford. George Kuper is with the Council of Great Lakes Industries. Kuper says he understands the first impulse is to make the shippers pay.
"The problem with that, of course, is the shippers were already close to non-economic as a method of transportation, which puts us right up against an environmental challenge because shipping is by far the most environmentally un-intrusive method of moving large amounts of materials."
Kuper says using other methods of transportation such as trains or trucks to move that cargo from East Coast ports might burn more fuel and cause more pollution.
But of all the shipping on the Great Lakes, only six percent of the tonnage is carried on ocean-going vessels. The rest is transported on Great Lakes carriers that never leave the lakes and don't bring in new invasives. So, the question is this: is that six percent of cargo worth the damage that aquatic invasive species cost each year.
Many experts say there is a fairly simple answer to all of this. Technology is available for cargo ships to eliminate invasives from their ballast tanks. Requiring those ships to use that technology would likely add some to the cost of every widget, but supporters of the idea say it would greatly reduce the environmental cost to the Lakes.
The Council of Great Lakes Industries
Northeast Midwest Institute on biological pollution
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Author Lester GrahamPosted on October 10, 2005 Categories Features, Invasive SpeciesTags alien, alliance for the great lakes, aquatic, asian carp, ballast, canada, chicago river, economy, great lakes, ijc, industry, international joint commission, invasive, pipes, polluter, pollution, profit, retail, ship, shipping, species, taxes, taxpayers, technology, trains, transportation, trucks, utility, warehouse, water, zebra mussels
New Drinking Water Rules Proposed
Federal plans to reduce exposure to lead and copper in drinking water could mean more monitoring of public water supplies. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Chuck Quirmbach reports:
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Federal plans to reduce exposure to lead and copper in drinking water could mean more
monitoring of water from public water supplies. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Chuck
Quirmbach reports:
The U.S. EPA says a lead contamination problem in the District of Columbia will prompt several
changes to federal rules on lead and copper in the nation's drinking water supply. David Denig-
Chakroff is on a committee of the American Water Works Association that looks at lead
contamination. He says one of the biggest changes might be more monitoring of water when
local suppliers change water sources or the treatment process.
"They really need to go back and make sure that's not changing the corrosivity of the water and
potentially increasing lead or copper corrosion."
More corrosion from the pipes can lead to more lead and copper coming out of the tap. Lead can
build up in the brain, kidneys and red blood cells. The greatest risk is to young children and
pregnant women. The EPA says its formal proposals for updating the lead and copper rule will
be ready next year.
For the GLRC, I'm Chuck Quirmbach.
EPA Fact Sheet about the proposed rules
More info about lead in drinking water
Author Chuck QuirmbachPosted on March 21, 2005 Categories News SpotsTags brain, children, contamination, copper, drinking, epa, federal rule, lead, monitoring, pipes, pregnant, source, tap, treatment, water, women
Outdoor Lab Forecasts Global Warming Effects
Mark Kubiske checks the valve that controls the flow of greenhouse gases to a stand of sugar maples, birch and aspen. (Photo by Jennifer Simonson)
One part of the greenhouse gas-making facility. (Photo by Jennifer Simonson)
A stand of trees is surrounded by pipes that release greenhouse gases. (Photo by Jennifer Simonson)
Scientists from around the world are studying how higher levels of carbon dioxide will affect forests 100 years from now. They're doing that by pumping higher levels of CO2 and ozone into stands of trees. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Mike Simonson visited the experimental forests and has this story:
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(sound of "quiet area")
The north woods of the Great Lakes states are stands of millions of acres of pine, maple, birch, and aspen forests. It's a perfect place to try to figure out how trees will react to the higher levels of ozone and carbon dioxide scientists expect in the future.
(sound of beeping fence gate)
The first thing you notice at Aspen Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Project – Aspen FACE for short – is two huge tanks inside the fenced in enclosure. Each one is bigger than an 18-wheel tanker truck. They're full of carbon dioxide… CO2. So much CO2 is used in this experiment, the tanks are filled twice a day.
(sound of filling tanks)
If you looked at the site from an airplane, you'd see 12 circular tree stands surrounded by 30 foot high pipes. Those pipes pour CO2 or ozone gases or both into the air surrounding birch, sugar maple, and aspen trees. The scientists know that greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere have been increasing. They believe two centuries of industrial pollution has contributed to the problem. And they expect the CO2 and ozone levels to double by the end of this century. They're raising the level of greenhouse gasses in different mixes to see what the predicted levels will do to forests.
This open air project is different than previous experiments. David Karnosky is with Michigan Tech. He's the Project Manager for Aspen FACE. He says before these kinds of projects, they just tested trees inside places like greenhouses.
"We needed to get out of those chambers. We needed to have a more realistic, real world sort of situation where we had multiple trees. We wanted real intact forest communities. We didn't want to have just a small number of trees inside of a chamber."
The United States Department of Energy launched this experiment in Wisconsin's northwoods seven years ago. Karnosky says they're learning how the trees react to the higher CO2 levels, and that could shape the future of the world's timber industry.
"Who will be the winners? Who will be the losers? Will aspen or birch or sugar maple? In northern Wisconsin here we've got probably 40 million acres of those species mixes. What's going to happen under elevated CO2 in the next 100 years? Will these forests remain as they are?"
(sound of driving on gravel)
Driving to one of the experimental circles, we pull up to a ring of trees. Mark Kubiske is one of the two full-time on-site researchers.
"Now this particular ring is an elevated CO2 plot. CO2 is delivered through this copper pipe. It runs to that fan, there's a large fan right on the end of that gray building."
The scientists have found that trees in the CO2 circles grow 30 percent faster than trees without the gas.
"The trees are larger in diameter, they're straight, they have lots of leaf area, they just look very healthy. That is just in tremendous contrast to the ozone ring. We'll go up around the corner and look at one."
Nearby another circle of trees is not doing nearly as well. The trees are skinny, twisted not as tall as the other sites. Higher ozone levels are hurting the trees.
At the sites where pipes emit both ozone and CO2, the tree growth seems normal – except for some stunted maple trees. The leaves of the aspen and birch take in much of the CO2, convert it to sugar which goes to its roots, eventually becoming a natural part of the soil. That suggests forests may help alleviate gases that cause global warming. The Project Director, David Karnosky says CO2 and ozone appear to cancel each other out. But he says it's too early to draw any firm conclusions. Ultimately, he says governments will be able to look at this glimpse into the future and try to come up with emissions policies that help.
"The whole issue of the Kyoto protocol, our government not signing off on that. There's been some relaxing of the feelings from what I've seen from the President's report now that they're beginning to realize that elevated CO2 is having an impact on global warming and could be impacting our plant communities."
Karnosky says it's possible that besides reducing emissions, governments might determine that planting more trees might be very helpful in reducing greenhouse gasses worldwide.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Mike Simonson.
Check out the Aspen FACE website
FAQ's about CO2 and its effects provided by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Increased CO2 may affect more than just trees
Author Mike SimonsonPosted on November 1, 2004 Categories FeaturesTags air, aspen, atmosphere, birch, carbon dioxide, chambers, co2, communities, department of energy, diameter, emissions, experiment, forest, gases, global warming, government, great lakes, greenhouse gases, greenhouses, growth, impact, increasing, industry, kyoto protocol, leaf, maple, michigan tech, north, northwoods, ozone, pine, pipes, plant, planting, predicted, president, researchers, scientists, soil, species, states, sugar maple, tanks, timber, trees, wisconsin, woods
Seeking Answers to Spring Sewage Dumpings
Sewers like these were leaking this spring in Milwaukee according to a task force employed by the mayor. He says fixing the problem may be expensive. (Photo by Bob Smith)
One of the biggest dumpers of raw sewage into the Great Lakes this year may be heading toward a solution that puts the cleanup burden on local citizens. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Chuck Quirmbach explains:
One of the biggest dumpers of raw sewage into the Great Lakes this year may be heading toward a solution that puts the clean-up burden on local citizens. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Chuck Quirmbach reports:
Several cities dumped sewage into the Great Lakes during heavy rains this spring and summer. Milwaukee's overflow total was about five billion gallons. A task force set up by Milwaukee's mayor concludes much of the problem came from rainwater leaking into the sewer system through illegal hookups and cracked pipes between homes and sewer mains. Mayor Tom Barrett says reducing the so-called infiltration and inflow, or, I and I, will be expensive.
"Well, we're obviously going to have to put more dollars into I and I in Milwaukee. The city has done that, we're doing more in this budget, we're going to continue to do more… I think each of the communities is going to have to face that issue."
The "communities" are the roughly 30 smaller cities that use the Milwaukee sewer system. Wisconsin's attorney general is trying to ge the city and suburbs to work together. Milwaukee and many other Great Lakes cities are also asking the U.S. government to spend more money on reducing sewer overflows.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Chuck Quirmbach.
Questions and answers regarding the spring sewage dumpings
An article on lawsuits against the sewage overflows
More on the costs of fixing the sewer system
Author Chuck QuirmbachPosted on October 11, 2004 Categories News SpotsTags attorney general, budget, cities, communities, dollars, dump, expensive, great lakes, homes, illegal, infiltration, leaking, milwaukee, overflow, pipes, rains, rainwater, reducing, sewage, sewer system, spring, suburbs, summer, wisconsin
Epa Calculates Illnesses Caused by Sewage Overflows
Sewage overflows during heavy rains have long been implicated in illnesses in people. For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency has come up with an estimate of just how many people are getting sick from swimming at contaminated beaches. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Tracy Samilton reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2004/09/samilton_092004.mp3
Sewage overflows during heavy rains have long been implicated in
illnesses in people. For the first time, the Environmental Protection
Agency has come up with an estimate of just how many people are getting
sick from swimming at contaminated beaches. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium's Tracy Samilton reports:
The EPA estimates that somewhere between 3,500 and 5,500 beachgoers get sick
every year when untreated sewage is flushed into rivers, streams and lakes
by heavy rains. The EPA's Ben Grumbles says the report is another reason
for cities to fix their aging sewage systems – despite the high cost.
"And it can literally add up to hundreds of millions, a couple of billion dollars, for
very large cities, to fix the problem for the long-term."
Grumbles says many communities can avoid that bigger expense by investing
in new technologies to better manage existing systems – and keeping pipes
well-maintained and free of debris.
Environmental groups say they hope legislators are listening. Congress just reduced
the fund from which communities can get loans for sewer projects by 500 million dollars.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Tracy Samilton.
EPA's report to Congress
Author Tracy SamiltonPosted on September 20, 2004 Categories News SpotsTags aging, beachgoers, cities, communities, congress, cost, debris, environmental, epa, estimates, expense, fix, flushed, free, fund, heavy, investing, lakes, legislators, listening, loans, maintained, manage, new, pipes, projects, rains, reduced, report, rivers, sewage, sick, streams, system, technologies, untreated


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ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pulaski Financial Corp. (Nasdaq Global Select: PULB), parent company of Pulaski Bank, announced that its Board of Directors declared its regular quarterly cash dividend of 9.5 cents per share, which equals an annualized dividend rate of 38 cents per share. The quarterly dividend is payable April 15, 2013 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 8, 2013.
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NEWS: Jamie Lloyd's Production of Betrayal Extends Run
AuthorEmma ClarendonPosted on March 23, 2019 March 23, 2019 Categoriesdrama, TheatreTagsCharlie Cox, Harold Pinter, Harold Pinter Theatre, Jamie Lloyd, The Jamie Lloyd Company, Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton
Due to popular demand, the production is now booking at the Harold Pinter Theatre until the 8th June.
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The Jamie Lloyd Company have confirmed that the production starring Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox will now book at the Harold Pinter Theatre for an extra week, completing its run on the 8th June.
With poetic precision, rich humour and an extraordinary emotional force, Betrayal charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order. The complexi-ties of the human heart are explored in this, "the greatest, and the most moving, of all Pinter's plays" (The Daily Telegraph).
Tom Hiddleston is back on the London stage following his acclaimed Hamlet directed by Kenneth Branagh and his Evening Standard Award-winning performance in Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014. His theatre credits include: Hamlet, Coriolanus, Ivanov, Othello, Cymbeline, The Changeling. His film credits include Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, Kong: Skull Island, I Saw The Light, High-Rise, Crimson Peak, Thor: The Dark World, Exhibition, Only Lovers Left Alive, Avengers, War Horse, The Deep Blue Sea, Thor, Archipelago, Unrelated. His television credits include The Night Manager, The Hollow Crown (Henry IV Parts I & II, Henry V), Wallander, Miss Austen Regrets, The Gathering Storm.
Zawe Ashton is best known for her roles in television sitcom Fresh Meat, the comedy series Not Safe for Work, Wanderlust and Velvet Buzzsaw. Zawe starred in The Jamie Lloyd Company production of Jean Genet's The Maids at Trafalgar Studios and also played the title role in Lloyd's production of Salomé for Headlong.
Charlie Cox is known for his roles in Daredevil for Marvel, Tristan Thorn in Stardust, Jonathan Hellyer Jones in The Theory of Everything and Owen Sleater in HBO's Boardwalk Empire. On stage, he appeared in the 2008 production of The Lover & The Collection, directed by Jamie Lloyd at the Comedy (now Harold Pinter) Theatre, the title role in The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse and Nick Payne's Incognito in New York.
Betrayal is now booking at the Harold Pinter Theatre until the 8th June. To book tickets click here or visit: ATG Tickets, See Tickets, Encore Tickets, Last Minute.com, Theatre Tickets Direct.co.uk or From the Box Office.
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Christian radio host: 'The Illuminati sent the Texas and Florida hurricanes to punish Trump voters'
By Sky Palma
This is a first.
Christian "prophet" and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor has a unique take on recent natural disasters. Whereas some religious con artists say hurricanes are God's punishment for an increasingly gay-friendly world, Taylor says they have a different origin entirely, namely The Illuminati.
Appearing on Sheila Zilinsky's podcast, Taylor said that the Illuminati controlled the hurricanes that hit Florida and Texas as a way to punish Trump voters.
"These things did not come from God," Taylor said. "People want to know where is this coming from. Well, I have the answer for you, it's called the Illuminati, New World Order, Deep State, whatever you want to call it because they're all part of the same team."
How does Taylor know this? The Lord showed him in a vision.
"The Lord showed me—and I know this is going to be a conspiracy theory but it'll come out, the truth will come out one day to back this up—but the Lord showed me, Sheila, these two weather incidents with Harvey and Irma, they were manipulated and steered by man, literally."
"The Lord said, 'What two states did they hit? Florida and Texas. You think it's a coincidence that both of these states were the largest electoral votes for Trump?'" he continued. "So the Lord was giving me signs to prove that these were, in fact, manipulated and steered by man."
"This is the largest spiritual battle since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ," he added.
You can listen to the podcast's audio at Right Wing Watch.
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 Short Bio

 My name is James Moon and I'm a native Seattleite who currently resides in Newcastle. My parents immigrated from South Korea to the US around the mid 70's. I've carried a passion to build things and take joy in doing my own work. One day I'd like to build a car starting from the block working all the way to the outer shell. Being enrolled as a student in the Code 201 program offered at Code Fellows, I feel this is an opportunity to take that passion and try to build something with software. My goal is to develop a greater understanding of the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Jquery languages.

 Education

     High School Degree

 Newport High School  / 2005

     AA Degree

 Bellevue College  / 2009

 Work Experience

     Personal Banker

 Wells Fargo Bank  / 2012 - 2016

     Automotive Technician

 Lexus of Bellevue  / 2011

     Parts Specialist

 Lexus of Bellevue  / 2008 - 2011

 Top Ten Things to Know About James

 Love to snowboard

 Like working on my own car

 Played violin for 13 Years

 Big fan of Star Wars

 Gamer at heart

 Terrible golfer

 Never lived anywhere other than Seattle

 Waiting to visit Bora Bora

 Tropic Thunder may be a favorite movie

 Can eat Mexican food all day


A big Congrats to Sarah Brown, Lizzie Tosh and Steph Brown for achieving podiums and podium times. Also many people finishing in the top 10 in their age groups, first timers, old timers and new members to Tribal smashing up the course. A terrific effort by everyone that raced.
Each year we have an awesome crew racing the long course races – Shepparton is one of the best organised races going around. It is also one of the biggest long course races in Victoria. We would like to keep the tradition of great numbers participating and amazing performances from you. We hope that you guys that raced this year will continue next year and others will step up to the 70.3 Long Course racing.
There are rumours of moving the race to lake in the main street of Shepparton so look out clear water to swim in… Another rumour stay tuned for a 70.3 near Noosa? Keep a close eye out for 2013 Shepparton 70.3 entries – this will sell out in no time.
It was great to see Kiwi Terenzo Bozzone and Bec Keat winning. It was just as impressive seeing Shorto go round again storming home on the run. Mitch Kibby was lucky enough to spend time training with Torenzo in LA. Torenzo is welcome to training with rest of the Tribal Kiwi family.
Keep up the awesome training and racing performances.
This entry was posted in Races and Events on July 18, 2013 by admin.


ADi AV recently installed a beautiful multiscreen art work by Chinese artist, Yang Yongliang for a leading Finance Corporation.
Infinite Landscape is a four screen audio visual experience with delicately changing visuals and an intriguingly subtle soundtrack. For this piece we specified the latest generation of TV screen incorporating stunning clarity, in built media players and an aesthetically favourable ultra-slim bezel.


We advocate for strong national, regional, and international laws that protect privacy.
We conduct research to catalyse policy change and make sure that research reaches those who need to see it and learn from it.
We raise awareness about technologies and laws that place privacy at risk, to ensure that the public is informed and engaged.


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Variability in developmental milestones and developmental delay in children with Williams syndrome
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Variable Capital: Art and consumer Culture
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Variable temperature proton conductivity of mesoporous titanium oxides doped with naphthalene sulfonate formaldehyde resin
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Variations in drug users' accounts of the connection between drug misuse and crime
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Vehicle Data Forensics On Unsupported Systems
Davies, G., Mar 2019. 10 p.
Vehicle Watch and Car Theft: An Evaluation
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Vehicular Communications: Standardization and Open Issues
Rodriguez, J., Zhao, L., Li, X., Gu, B., Zhou, Z., Frascolla, V., Gancanin, H., Ashraf, M. & Mumtaz, S., 1 Dec 2018, In: IEEE Communication Standards Magazine. 2, 4, p. 74-80
Veiledning av Familieterpeuter Fogbokforlaget, Bergen
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Verbatim questions - when are they legitimate evidence?
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Vertical Force Production in soccer - mechanical aspects and applied training strategies
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Victims of Crime: A New Deal?
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Samsung A30 Price in Pakistan | Cheap Market Rates
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The Samsung Galaxy A30 Price in Pakistan is at Very Nominal Rates of PKR 37,999. The Samsung Galaxy A30 launched in February 2019 in Pakistan.
The Samsung Galaxy A30 comes in 6.4 inches screen display with edge to edge infinity U, super amoled capacitive touchscreen display which means pixels are quickly activated thus increasing speed which in turn enhances contrasts and lights of the smartphone. The smartphone comes in corning gorilla glass protection making it 80% prone to breakages.
Moving on the screen resolutions are 1080 x 2340 pixels with a pixel density of 403 ppi. The built of the phone is a smooth glossy finish with a 3D glass back. The weight of the handset is 165 grams and supports dual nano sim on dual standby. The thickness of the phone stands at 7.7 mm.
The Samsung Galaxy A30 runs on an Android 9.0 Pie system. The phone also has a 3D face unlock just for unlocking the phones, not for security for downloading applications. The phone also incorporates a fingerprint sensor.
Furthermore, the smartphone has the capacitive touchscreen technology with an internal memory of 64 GB ROM with 4 GB RAM processed with 1.6 GHz Kryo octa core processor while it has a memory card slot which can hold upto 512 GB memory. The smartphone is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 which is slightly curved at the edges protecting the phone from breakages.
The phone has a 10 point multi touch screen which means it has excellent and smooth touch while typing and scrolling through apps.
The Samsung Galaxy A30 has a dual 16 MP plus 5 MP main camera. The main camera of 16 MP and 5 MP incorporates features of LED flash along with geo tagging, touch focus, phase detection, panorama and HDR modes for taking photos and videos. It can make photos and videos which are ultra wide with bright and clear experience of picture taking. Videos are made in [email protected]
The camera has a whopping 19 modes for optimized photos which can be used depending on the type of photos you wish to capture. The camera also has features of flaw detection such as letting you know if someone blinked or moved. This way you can get perfect photos every time.
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The Samsung Galaxy A30 runs on 4g LTE connectivity which is a very fast system. Furthermore, it supports all bands within the region including 2g and 3g. You can also connect WiFi, 5.0 Bluetooth and listen to radio on the Samsung Galaxy A30.
The Samsung Galaxy A30 has a non removable battery of 4000 mAh which can be charged quickly using a 15W fast charger. Additionally, it comes with Type C, reversible converter, micro usb 2.0 cable and headphones. The smartphone comes in black, white, silver, blue and pink.
The Samsung Galaxy A30 price in Pakistan is just PKR 37,999. The smartphone comes with a 24 month warranty period.
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U.S. oil firm Continental Resources halts shale output, seeks to cancel sales
By Devika Krishna Kumar, Liz Hampton
(Reuters) - The largest oil producer in North Dakota has halted most of its production in the U.S. state and notified some customers it would not supply crude after prices dived into negative territory this week, people familiar with the matter said.
FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks stand on a Continental Resources oil production site near Williston, North Dakota January 23, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen/File Photo
Continental Resources Inc CLR.N, the company controlled by billionaire Harold Hamm, stopped all drilling and shut in most of its wells in the state's Bakken shale field, three people familiar with production in the state said on Thursday.
Global oil prices have plunged because of excess supplies and tumbling demand due to the coronavirus crisis.
U.S. crude prices plunged into negative territory this week - meaning suppliers had to pay people to take oil - due to lack of storage space, prompting moves by operators to halt output.
Shut-ins have been particularly swift in North Dakota, which produced more than 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in 2019, making it the second-largest U.S. producing state after Texas.
State officials say production has already dropped by about 300,000 bpd. This month, rival operator in North Dakota Whiting Petroleum WLL.N became the first major shale producer to file for bankruptcy.
Coming into this year, Continental produced nearly 150,000 bpd in the Bakken, according to company figures.
Hamm, an early supporter and informal adviser to President Donald Trump, has advocated heavy government intervention in the oil markets in response to Saudi Arabia's decision to flood markets with supply last month. He called for investigations into "illegal dumping of crude oil" by Saudi Arabia and Russia.
He has also said Texas energy regulators should consider mandating 25% production cuts to boost prices and called for probes into Monday's collapse in crude prices.
Continental had reduced its production through May by 30% before the latest price crash and suspended its dividend.
A rival who viewed Continental's notice of force majeure said that, without state regulators' requiring output cuts, a contract could not be cancelled just because sales were unprofitable for a period. This week, state regulators decided against demanding output cuts.
Continental is exposed to weak prices because it did not hedge future production, betting economic growth would lift prices. Many large shale producers use derivatives as a type of insurance policy to lock in a price for their future output.
Bakken crude this week was selling regionally at roughly $3 a barrel, far below the U.S. benchmark, said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council. The benchmark CLc1 settled at $16.50 on Thursday.
A spokeswoman for Continental did not reply to requests for comment.
Bloomberg had earlier reported the company declared force majeure on at least one contract to deliver oil because it could not have foreseen the price rout.
Continental shares on Thursday rose 6% to $13.23. They are down 61% in the year so far.
Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in New York, Liz Hampton in Denver; writing by Gary McWilliams; Editing by Leslie Adler and Edmund Blair


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Barrie Carriage Co. war ein kanadischer Hersteller von Automobilen.

Unternehmensgeschichte
Das Unternehmen wurde 1903 in Barrie zur Produktion von Kutschen gegründet. 1915 beschloss der Leiter Simon Dyment, Automobile herzustellen. Mit einer Lizenz von Bell Motor Car Company aus den USA begann 1916 die Produktion. Der Markenname lautete zunächst Bell, ab 1918 Barrie. 1920 endete die Produktion. Insgesamt entstanden zwischen 20 und 40 Fahrzeuge.

Fahrzeuge
Die Fahrzeuge entsprachen weitgehend den Bell-Modellen. Allerdings trieb ein Einbaumotor von Lycoming die Fahrzeuge an.

Literatur

 George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A–F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1, S. 133 und S. 143. (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ehemaliger Pkw-Hersteller (Kanada)
Unternehmen (Ontario)
Barrie (Ontario)
Gegründet 1903
Aufgelöst 1920

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