President Obama Missed The Bakken When He Visited Standing Rock; Maybe Trump Can Stop By Standing Rock On His Way To Bismarck --

Breien, ND, at the northernmost edge of Standing Rock Reservation is only 38 miles south of Bismarck. A "Trump helicopter" landing on the reservation and then another landing in Watford City would be some huge photo ops.

The oilpatchdispatch is reporting:

When Donald Trump visits North Dakota later this month, the leader of the state’s oil industry group hopes to hear something different than what has been said on the rugged campaign trail.

“I’m hoping now that he focuses now on more policy-driven issues rather than the combative nature of multiple candidates vying for the nomination,” said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.

Organizers announced Wednesday the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will be the keynote speaker at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference this month in Bismarck.

“Love him or hate him, he’s coming here, and it’s our opportunity to listen to him and try to get some North Dakota issues before him,” Ness said.

Actually, I hope Trump reminds voters that Hillary would like to see fracking banned.  And don't say she wouldn't do it. Her home state of New York bans fracking.

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WOW! I've Lost My Favorite Weather Site

From Weatherspark:

Years ago we made a terrible mistake: we developed the WeatherSpark Dashboard in Adobe Flash.

Years of effort went into the Dashboard. While a lot of people loved it, and hundreds of thousands of people used the Dashboard every month, the simple reality is that online ads continue to pay less and less, and very few people decided it was worth paying for it.

At the same time, Flash as a platform is dying. The WeatherSpark Dashboard is strongly integrated with the map component, and while there were multiple Flash maps available when the project started, there is today only one and that API has been deprecated with an unspecified sunset date - one day it’ll just get turned off.

The map provider has in the past graciously offered their map services for free, something we are extremely grateful for. Recently they have however insisted on charging for their services, which is very reasonable.

Unfortunately, we have been unable to come to an agreement with the map provider going forward, leaving us little choice but to remove the Dashboard it right away.

Switching the Dashboard to HTML5, which would offer more map options, would cost vastly more than any plausible return.

This sucks, and we are just as upset and disappointed by this as you are.

We really wish we had made a better decision when we started out, but the reality is that we didn’t, and now we will all have to suffer for it.

Effective immediately:

- The Dashboard is no longer available.

- Subscriptions are deprecated, which means that existing subscriptions will not be charged again, and that it will not be possible to sign up for new subscriptions.
Thank you for your support, and we are sorry we weren’t able to make things work out better.

(This only applies to the Dashboard, the website will otherwise continue to operate as before)

I don't know if folks remember this, but Steve Jobs made the right decision on Adobe Flash/HTML5 years ago. He had to go to court to win his case, and he did. Too bad others didn't listen. 

The good news: there are still other sites which provide the information I need: http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/grapevine-tx/76051/weather-radar/336107.