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|NASA Connect - GS - Muscles
Second segment of Good Stress explains the types of muscles in the body, why astronauts muscles weaken in space and some ways of taking care of your muscles. The Muscles...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Good Stress; Muscles; Bones; Stress; RJ; Beth Shepard; Types of Muscles; Skeletal Muscle; Smooth Muscle; Cardiac Muscle; Voluntary Muscle; Involuntary Muscle; Leland Melvin;
Duration: 00:05:27
Popularity (downloads): 1079
|Understand Your Emotions
Biology teacher explains emotions, voluntary and involuntary behavior.
Genre: Ephemeral
Keywords: Social guidance;
Duration: 00:12:32
Popularity (downloads): 474
|NASA Connect - BHFSTE - Exercise In Space
NASA Connect Segment explaing how astronauts exercise in space and how they endure long-duration space flights. The video also explores ways of measuring levels of fitness.
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Microgravity; Space; Weight Training; Long-Duration Space Flight; Astronauts; Fitness; Muscle Atrophy; Bones; Muscles; Health Risk;
Duration: 00:06:32
Popularity (downloads): 1937
Strong-man Eugene (Eugen) Sandow poses in a long shot on a bare stage against a black background, wearing only tight trunks and laced sandals. He begins with his arms folded...
Genre: Historical
Keywords: Strong men--United States; Bodybuilding--United States; Bodybuilders--United States; Physical education and training--United States; Muscle tone; Silent films; Vaudeville; Shorts;
Duration: 00:00:24
Popularity (downloads): 1341
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The Yellowtail Power Plant provides the Missouri River Basin with electricity
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 00:04:07
Popularity (downloads): 380
|NASA Connect - Good Stress
NASA Connect video containing five segments as described in the following. First segment of Good Stress explains the three types of stress: physical, mental and emotional. The first segment next...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Good Stress; Muscles; Bones; Stress; Jennifer Pulley; Types of Stress; Data; Data Analysis; Graphs; Scatterplot; RJ; Beth Shepard; Types of Muscles; Skeletal Muscle; Smooth Muscle; Cardiac Muscle; Voluntary Muscle; Involuntary Muscle; Leland Melvin; Program Hands on Activity; Box and Whiskers Plot; Stem and Leaf Plot; Graphs; Plots; Program Review; Dr. Marguerite Sognier; Bone Structure; Healthy Bones; Bone Loss;
Duration: 00:29:36
Popularity (downloads): 1922
|NASA Connect - Better Health From Space To Earth
NASA Connect Video containing seven segments as described below. NASA Connect Video involving students in an activity that estimates average daily energy needs. The video also explains BMR and other...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Measurement; Estimation; Precision; Accuracy; Energy; Calories; Basal Metabolic Rate; Baseline Energy Need; Exercise; Student Activity; Dietary; Exercise Program; Web Activity; Heart Plot; Heart Rate; Graph; Data; Microgravity; Space; Weight Training; Long-Duration Space Flight; Astronauts; Fitness; Muscle Atrophy; Bones; Muscles; Health Risk; Bones; Nutrients; Calcium; Calories; Vitamins; Minerals; Vitamin D; Dairy; Osteoporosis; Serving Size; Food Labels;
Duration: 00:28:30
Popularity (downloads): 2042
|NASA Connect - Virtual Earth
NASA Connect Video containing six segments as described below. NASA Connect segment explaining Earth System Science. The video also explores how modern technology studies the many different areas of...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Connect; Earth System Science; Life Science; Technology; Planet Earth; Lithosphere; Atmosphere; Stratosphere; Hydroshpere; Biosphere; Cryosphere; Biomes; Systems; Mission Statement; Protect; Explore; Universe; Energy Forecasting; Agriculture Efficiency; Carbon Management; Aviation Safety; Homeland Security; Coastal Management; Water Management; Water Conservation; Community Growth Management; Public Health; Air Quality Management; Disaster Preparedness; Biological Invasive Species; FAA; USGS; NOAA; Department of Energy; USDA; Environmental Awareness; Representation; Mathematical Standard; Drawings; Charts; Graphs; Symbols; Objects; Relationships; Patterns; Subsystems; Earthquake; Water; Web Activity; Tectonic; Global Water Cycle; Standard System Symbols; Model;
Duration: 00:28:30
Popularity (downloads): 1890
|NASASciFiles - The Case of The Great Space Exploration
NASA Sci Files video containing four segments as described below. In the first segment of the Case of the Great Space Exploration the detectives learn about manned and unmanned missions...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: NASA Sci Files; The Great Space Exploration; Manned Missions; Unmanned Missions; Robotic Missions; Lander; Phoenix Lander; Spacecraft Material; Strange Matter; Robotics; Robots; Rovers; Diet; Exercise; Meals in Space; Nutrition; Calorie; BMR; Basal Metabolic Rate; Biology; Propulsion; Radiation; X-prize; Space Simulations; Mars Habitat;
Duration: 00:58:40
Popularity (downloads): 774
|NASASciFiles - The Case of the Biological Biosphere
NASA Sci Files video containing the following eleven segments. NASA Sci Files segment describing astronaut strength and conditioning programs to combat physiological losses in space. NASA Sci Files segment describing...
Genre: Educational
Keywords: Exercise; AFP; Extravehicular Activity; EVA; Microgravity Environment; Physiological Losses; Endorphins; Microbe; Variable; Colony; Colonies; Microscope; Coccus; Bacillus; Streptococcus; Toxin; Immune System; Dr. D; Vomit; Mucous; Enzymes; Saliva; Tears;
Duration: 00:58:41
Popularity (downloads): 1704


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Glam Rock
Glam rock (also known as glitter rock) is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter.
Glam rock visuals peaked during the mid 1970s with artists including T. Rex, David Bowie , Roxy Music and Gary Glitter in the UK and New York Dolls, Lou Reed and Jobriath in the US.
Although glam rock went into a steep decline in popularity in the second half of the 1970s it was a direct influence on acts that rose to prominence later, including Kiss and American glam metal acts like Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P., Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam_Rock
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Eligibility List for 03.23.2019 civil service exam
Minimum Qualifications for Firefighter
- Must be between 21-35 years of age at time of appointment as a Firefighter.
- Must be a United States Citizen.
- Must be a High School graduate or equivalent.
- Valid driver's license with acceptable driving record.
- Must meet all physical requirements.
- Must not have used illegal drugs within the past 3 years.
And one of the following:
- Must provide proof of certification as a basic Firefighter, as established by Texas Commission on Fire Protection, and must be fully certified with the Texas Department of State Health Services or National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians as an Emergency Medical Technician Basic;
- Must provide proof of certification as a Paramedic (must provide a Paramedic Certificate issued by the Texas Department of State Health Services or National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians) prior to entrance examination.
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A hiring eligibility list is prepared from candidates who meet the minimum qualifications, pass a written test and a physical ability test.
- The applicants must pass the written exam with a minimum score of 70 percent.
- The eligibility list shall be established and will remain in effect for one year or until such time the list has been exhausted.
- Candidates who pass the written exam will be subject to successful completion of the following:
- Driver analysis
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- Those applicants who pass the written exam will need to be prepared to take the physical agility test (PAT) immediately following the written examination.
- Individuals with disabilities who will need reasonable accommodation in order to complete a test must contact the Civil Service Director at 972.230.9639 prior to the scheduled test date. Documentation supporting the need for accommodation will be required.


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Lindsey Vonn still intends to be known as Lindsey Vonn even after her divorce from Thomas Vonn becomes official.
The question now is whether she will continue to ski like the same Lindsey Vonn who became the world's most successful active racer and the greatest U.S. skier in history during her four-year marriage.
That is an issue because the former Lindsey Kildow consistently gave her husband enormous credit for that success.
Vonn described Thomas in terms that made him a combination of coach, sports psychologist, logistics coordinator, advisor, booster and factotum. It undoubtedly will be a significant adjustment for her to deal with different people in those roles.
The couple confirmed Monday they have begun divorce proceedings. She said in a statement she now will use U.S. ski team coaches.
Tuesday, Vonn ripped through a downhill training run in Lake Louise, Canada, at a speed that made her fastest of 61 starters and suggested nothing had changed once she put on skis.
Since marrying Thomas Vonn Sept. 29, 2007, she won her two Olympic medals (gold and bronze), her two world titles, her three World Cup overall season titles, her four World Cup downhill season titles, her three World Cup super-G season titles and both her two World Cup combined season titles. She won her first two world championship medals just after they were engaged.
Over that time, she also has become the first U.S. skier to achieve major celebrity and name recognition (plus accompanying wealth) beyond her sport. Having done all that while being known as Lindsey Vonn, it makes perfect sense from a marketing standpoint for her not to change that brand.
Here is a sampling of the things Vonn has said about Thomas' contribution to her achievements:
"I'm so lucky. Thomas helps me in every way."
"I'm definitely more successful as Vonn. It is largely because of my husband that I won the overall last year. Together we make a great team."
"It's my secret weapon, having him help me mentally."
"I was so nervous before the race. I asked my husband to come with me to the start. I've never done that before. He knew what to say. He made me laugh and used words that motivated me."
"He's the reason why I'm so successful in the sport. I couldn't ask for anyone as great as him."
While those quotes come from 2008 and 2009, Vonn still was talking about the importance of her husband's role in early November, after she had opened the season with a giant slalom victory to become the second U.S.. skier with wins in all five Alpine disciplines. She told the Associated Press that Thomas was the one who said "no" to keep her from stretching herself too thin with commercial and public relations engagements.
"He knows me really well, knows when I've had enough," she said.
Through her publicist, who confirmed she will keep the married name, Vonn declined a request to talk about the impact the split could have on her skiing.
She likely will be asked about it while training this week and racing this weekend in World Cup Super-G and downhill races at Lake Louise, Canada, a place where she has had five wins and three seconds in 10 races during her marriage to Vonn, a former World Cup skier. (She also had three wins and two seconds in the last nine Lake Louise races before tying the knot.)
On her Facebook page Tuesday, Vonn wrote:
"I sincerely appreciate all of the kind words and support. I'm really happy to be skiing downhill this week in Lake Louise. I can't wait to go fast again!"
No one should jump to any conclusions should Vonn miss the podium this week, especially since she withdrew from Sunday's slalom in Aspen, Colo., citing a tender back.
But it would not be a surprise to see her keep skiing as brilliantly as she has the past four years.
She certainly did just that in Tuesday's downhill training run, ripping down the course a whopping 1.67 seconds faster -- that's a light year in skiing -- than anyone else. While results of training runs must be put in perspective, since skiers often are testing things rather than going all-out, there is no doubt Vonn made a statement with this one, hitting 78 miles per hour at the second speed check.
At 27, with a decade on the World Cup circuit, Vonn clearly has grown out of the confidence issues she frequently cited in the past, when her fierce competitiveness often gave way to emotional fragility, notwithstanding her fearless attitude when it came to risking life and limb. The years of race experience that have helped hone her talent to a gilt edge will still be with her.
Lindsey Vonn seemed on her way to an excellent ski career as Lindsey Kildow. She came of age as an extraordinary skier with Thomas Vonn at her side.


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Which Would You Rather Have: The Planet, Or A Patent?
from the decisions,-decisions deptOne of the more controversial approaches to the already controversial field of climate change is geoengineering, which Wikipedia defines as "deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry."
Some people are concerned that such large-scale interventions might produce large-scale disasters. That makes small-scale experiments exploring the underlying technologies an important first step before taking this route. Unfortunately, it seems that one geoengineering experiment has been called off because of patents:
A field trial for a novel UK geoengineering experiment has been cancelled amid questions about a pre-existing patent application for some of the technology involved.
As the article quoted above goes on to explain, the main issue here is a potential conflict of interests:
The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project is a collaboration among several UK universities and Cambridge-based Marshall Aerospace to investigate the possibility of spraying particles into the stratosphere to mitigate global warming. Such particles could mimic the cooling produced by large volcanic eruptions, by reflecting sunlight before it reaches Earth's surface.
a patent application that was submitted by Peter Davidson, who runs the UK consulting firm Davidson Technology on the Isle of Man and was an adviser at the workshop that gave rise to the SPICE project, and Hugh Hunt, an engineer at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is one of the SPICE project investigators. The patent is for an "apparatus for transporting and dispersing solid particles into the Earth's stratosphere" by "balloon, dirigible or airship" technology related to the SPICE field trial.
UK funding bodies require possible conflicts of interest to be declared when applying for grants, whereas here the patent application apparently only came to light a year into the experiment. Part of the project is continuing -- things like climate modelling and analysis -- but the most innovative element, the field trial, has been cancelled.
This episode shows one of the problems with trying to marry "pure" science with commerce, and the tensions that can arise between sharing knowledge freely and trying to make money by restricting access through licensing. It would be regrettable, to say the least, if the exploration of ideas that might play a role in addressing climate change were blocked because of patents.
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currently coveting : bridge & burn spring preview '15
we've had a beautiful winter here in the Pacific Northwest. uncharacteristically warm and sunny. these beautiful images from Bridge & Burn's latest Spring lookbook pretty much sum up the weather we've been having. boat lounging, sun-soaking weather. colors influenced by the blue of the Pacific, the yellows of summer's golden hour, and woodsy, natural greens. I just love that classic plaid skirt and those silk pants. the full collection will be available at the end of March but in the mean time, see more here.
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A little more than a year ago, Allison McGrath was already plenty busy with her graduate school commitments. In addition to pursuing a joint master's with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) and the Evans School of Public Affairs, she was working part-time as a student assistant for the Evans School Executive Education program. But then she stumbled across a volunteer project that paralleled her research interests in water management—and that offered a tremendous opportunity to apply her studies to direct practical use.
"It was kind of random, actually," says McGrath, who grew up in Ravenna and Kirkland. When her supervisor at the Evans Executive Education Program learned about McGrath's interest in renewable energy, she introduced her to Stefanie Young, the project manager for UW-Solar, a student-run solar project at the University of Washington. The group's mission, working with UW Housing and Food Services, is to develop solar installations on buildings throughout campus to promote clean and sustainable power production, improve the resilience of power systems, and reduce the overall carbon footprint of the university.
As it happened, the UW-Solar team was looking for help shoring up a feasibility study to install a new solar array on campus. McGrath had done some policy work involving biofuels, and she was drawn to renewable energy for the same reasons she loves studying water management. "It's really interesting to me," she says. "You have to take a systems approach to creating this resilient infrastructure."
She was sold on the project and joined the team in February 2013. At the time, UW-Solar was operating on a $5,000 grant from the Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) to complete the feasibility study, and the group was actively applying for grants and other support through several project partners, including CSF, UW Housing and Food Services, and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation.
McGrath plunged right into the mix, and though she had a little catching up to do with some of the science and technology of solar energy, she loved the challenge.
"It was a fun project to be involved in," she says. "The nice part is that I started out in the finance and policy side, but it was really interdisciplinary and everyone was invited to participate in every step of the process. Even when stuff went over my head, I was still able to be there and learn about it."
One of the most important steps was deciding where to build the solar array. As part of the initial feasibility study, UW-Solar had identified about a dozen suitable buildings around campus, including the possibility of retrofitting an older structure. Yet they ultimately selected one of the new Mercer Court dorms, which were built with the foresight to include infrastructure for solar panels—including electrical closets on the roof instead of in the basement—even though the cost of installing the panels had been prohibitive at the time.
After months of fundraising and outreach, UW-Solar cleared that cost hurdle in spectacular fashion, raising an incredible $174,900, which was more than enough to kick off a full-scale pilot project.
Even with the funds in hand, the stakes were still extremely high to prove the long-term viability of solar energy on campus. "We chose Mercer because we thought it was going to be the most successful," says McGrath. "Since it was a pilot project, there was a lot riding on it."
The project itself involved installing 178 solar panels on the roof of one dorm building. They are projected to provide a significant power boost—roughly between 30,000 to 40,000 kilowatt hours a day, or a quarter of the building's energy demands. It's a fixed array and is expected to last decades, and it should pay for itself—including the cost of construction—in energy savings in as little as eight years. Plus, though it might seem counterintuitive in Seattle, the rainy weather actually helps keep the panels clear of dust and operating efficiently. In other words, says McGrath, solar can definitely thrive in Seattle.
Construction began on March 10, and the solar panels are now fully installed and up and running. In fact, in early April solar power proponents Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Denis Hayes (President and CEO of Bullitt Foundation, as well as founder of Earth Day) attended an official dedication of the array.
The project, of course, is not over. The array includes a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, a type of industrial control system that will acquire energy and atmospheric data from sensors mounted on the solar panel array. A portion of the grant money is funding a new computer lab, which will provide ongoing research opportunities for computer scientists at UW interested in testing energy data system security. As part of the ongoing educational component, UW-Solar is publishing real-time and historical energy production and savings data online. They also created a time-lapse video of the whole installation process, and they're visiting classrooms to talk about the project and putting together curricula for other groups that want to take on similar projects.
As for McGrath, she's returned her full attention to her thesis, which involves assessing the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, originally passed in 1968, and its implementation. She's been looking at management plans and interviewing folks from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. "I'm deep in the thick of interviewing right now," she says, and her plan is to defend later this summer.
And when she does graduate, McGrath knows she'll leave with far more than just her degree. After all, she helped launch a major solar project—an inspiring testament to the will, creativity and leadership of students—that will have an impact on the University of Washington for years to come.
She hadn't expected such a powerful experience when she started graduate school, but then that's the nature of serendipity.
"Life is cool that way," she says.
Want to Get Involved?
McGrath says UW-Solar is always eager for new student volunteers to replace graduating members and help fuel the next big project. There are about 12 students currently involved with the group, and Professor Jan Wittington from the College of Built Environments is the faculty advisor. If you're interested, check out the group's Facebook page to hear about project updates and other cool solar-related news, and McGrath encourages you to contact Stefanie Young. "Stefanie is a great project manager," she says. "She really brings everyone together."
Photos: ©; panel installation © UW-Solar; Denis Hayes and Governor Jay Inslee © Anil Kapahi and UW-Solar; the UW-Solar team, McGrath at the far right (below) © Anil Kapahi and UW-Solar.


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The Pink-Haired Puppet Master
I've had a lot of folks send me this music video. Love it or hate it, you'll probably find yourself oddly mesmerized by the dancing puppets and pink-haired teeny-bopper. Of course, my favorite bit is at 1:30 - check it out:
With a little movie magic, though, the end result is - of course - plastic.
It seems this video has quite the disturbing fan base. For example, Jon J. tells me the story behind this next cake is "rather embarrassing":
And given the inscription, and the fact that it was for someone's 18th birthday, I can only imagine. Or try not to - yikes. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.


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|Image courtesy of the Friends of the Sheridan Library
Sheridan is known as the "heart of the Ruby Valley". This peaceful valley is surrounded by seven majestic mountain ranges (Tobacco Root, Ruby, Highland, McCartney, Pioneer, Gravelly, and Snowcrest mountain ranges). James and Maria and their five children arrived by wagon from Salt Lake City in May 1865, and settled on a one hundred sixty acre ranch just west of town. Two months later on July 10, their daughter Virginia was born. She was said to be one of the first white babies born in the vicinity of Sheridan.(1)
Once Orlin Gammell had learned that his father was living in Sheridan, he made plans to join him there. James had not seen his firstborn son since the boy was four years old. Since the death of his mother, Harriet, Orlin had lived with his uncle, John Fitzgerald, in Spring Arbor, Michigan. At age nineteen, he was ready to strike out on his own. First he made his way to Omaha, where the Forbes and Brown freight company hired him to drive the grub wagon. The outfit of twenty-six wagons, each drawn by four yolk of oxen, started west on May 12, 1866. Three hundred miles east of Salt Lake City, Orlin fell ill with mountain fever. At that point he left the wagon train and made the rest of the journey to Salt Lake by stagecoach, and spent a few weeks in the army hospital at Camp Douglas. On October 8, he was well enough to join another freight outfit bound for Virginia City. When the wagon train reached its destination on November 11, Orlin walked the rest of the way to Sheridan.(2)
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Upon his arrival he started working with his father at the sawmill on Mill Creek, hauling logs and sawing them into lumber for the floors and interior finishes of the old Robber's Roost building, a roadhouse between Alder and Sheridan. That same winter (1866-67) James and Orlin built the family home with sawed square logs they had cut at the mill. The home stood for many years on the site of the present [1976] Sheridan Gun Club. In April, James and Maria's daughter Alice was born in the new log house, which was located in the northern part of Sheridan. The next year (1868) father and son sawed the lumber and built a barn not far from the log house. It was so large that it soon became recognized as the largest barn in Montana. When it was finished, James invited the residents of Sheridan, and all of Madison County, for that matter, to help celebrate its completion with a dance. People came from all over Montana to help christen the "Big Red Barn". They came from Yellowstone, Virginia City, Bannack, and other far distant points for what was considered the social event of Territorial days.(3)
Now, three years after their arrival, Maria and the children were beginning to feel comfortable in Sheridan, though, as her daughter Virginia recalled, Maria was still wary to speak about the Mormons:
Mother was reticent regarding her family possibly for the same reason in part that Uncle James [father] was. In those days everyone seemed very diffident about speaking of their relations to the Mormons or the church. Mother never talked of her home life much or little incidents of her trip across the plains. I don't even know just how old she was, but conclude she must have been well in her teens for she has spoken of a man to whom she was engaged to be married when she left the east [Iowa].(4)
Maria's children acknowledged that, in spite of her reticence to speak of her Mormon faith, "only a few days before her death, she expressed her belief in the tenets of that religion."(5)
At the same time that his family was adjusting well to new surroundings, James was growing restless. As he told his sister, Jane, "but times was dull here and I must have excitement." Maria and the children were not at all pleased with his plans to leave for Bear River. They told him he had no need to go. In spite of their objections, he left Sheridan in early December 1868, crossed the Continental Divide before the snow depth would close the pass for the winter, and made his way to Utah. For the next year he worked in the lumbering business for the railroad on the Bear River near the border of Utah and Idaho. He loved to be where the action was, and, as he had done so many times before, he chose the right location. The eyes of the whole nation were on this out-of-the- way spot in northern Utah.
|Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869
This iconic image captured by A.J. Russell is one
of the most famous photographs in American history.
from Deseret News archives
By spring the transcontinental railroad was completed with the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railways on May 10, 1869. Most likely James was present for the simple ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah, where dignitaries, railroad workers, and spectators celebrated this historic event. After prayers, speeches, and the placement of the last rails, dignitaries took turns tapping four gold and silver spikes into a pre-drilled laurel wood tie specially made for the ceremony. The crowd cheered as the news was flashed over the telegraph. Photographer A. J. Russell captured the iconic image that has become one of the most famous photographs in American history, and the Deseret News captured the story:
The last tie has been laid; the last rail is placed in position, and the last spike driven, which binds the Atlantic and Pacific ocean with an iron band. The electric flash has borne the tidings to the world and it now devolves upon us, the favored eye-witnesses of the momentous feat, to enter our record of the facts. Never before has this continent disclosed anything bearing comparison with it. The massive oaken-hued trains of the Central lies upon their iron path, confronted by the elegant coaches of the Union Pacific. A thousand throbbing hearts impulsively beat to the motion of the trains as the front locomotives of each Company led on majestically up to the very verge of the narrow break between the lines, where, in a few moments was to be consummated the nuptial rites uniting the gorgeous east and the imperial west of America, with the indissoluble seal of inter-oceanic commerce …The excitement of this moment of victory was intense, cheers were given for the officers of the Central, followed by cheers for the officers of the Union Pacific; cheers for the Star Spangled Banner, for the President of the United States, for the engineers and contractors and for the laborers that have done the work.(6)
|Drusilla Hendricks, her granddaughter
Elizabeth (Libby) Gammell, and Libby's
husband, Eli Harris.
c. 1868
During much of that year spent in Utah, James made his home in Richmond with his daughter Libby. He had seen her but a few times in the past eighteen years. Libby had no memory of her mother, Elizabeth Hendricks, who had died when Libby was just three months old. In her childhood she moved with her maternal grandparents to Richmond in Cache Valley, and at age sixteen she married Eli Harris. While lodging with his daughter and son-in-law, James especially enjoyed spending time with his first grandchild, Drusilla Elizabeth, who would be a year old in September.
James returned to Sheridan on December 31, 1869, with more than five thousand dollars to show for his labor. In addition to the cash, he had hopes for another venture which could yield a profit: "I think yet there is some bit [of] Luck for me in store for I found a big coal bank thirty miles from the rale rode…if good will be a big fortune. I will soon know."(7)________________________
- Obituary of Virginia Gemmell Garrity, The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana, 8 January 1942.
- Carey, Dorothy Ellinghouse, Pioneer Trails and Trials, p. 468, Madison County History Association, 1976.
- Carey, Dorothy Ellinghouse, Pioneer Trails and Trials, p. 468. "The Pioneers," Madison County History Association. Duncan, Elaine, "An Adventurous Pioneer", 1926. (The barn was demolished in 1913 by the new property owner E.D. Marsh.)
- Virginia Garrity's letter to R.V. Chamberlin, 1922.
- Obituary of Mrs. Susan M. Gemmell, The Madisonian, 8 February 1896. p. 8.
- Deseret News, May 19, 1869.
- Jim Gemmell , letter to his sister, Jane, January 1, 1870.


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Hey guys here is a quick post, about some yummy healthy snacks I have been stocking up on lately. I know my blog is predominantly beauty and makeup related, but you gotta' put good things in to look good on the outside don't ya'? I enjoy reading other blogs that give healthy living tips, especially when it comes to food, because I am always trying to improve my diet and life style. I enjoy sharing with you guys snacks that I have switched to instead of the all important Doritos and Cream Soda, which i once had a love affair with.
If you guys enjoy these types of healthy, food related posts, then let me know and I will continue on posting them! Maybe even some of my workout routine regime I have recently got into, and have lost some poundage with!
#1) Plantain Chips, more importantly Garlic Flavored. I love potato chips, so anything that can tear me away form them for good is an angel sent from heaven in a brightly colored bag. Small miracles people. These things do not taste as you would expect them to for plantain chips. They have simple ingredients, are healthy or you, and taste way better than anything that contain practically 500 calories in 4 chips, like most Lays do.
#2) Dasani Flavored Water Drops. The one I picked up is the tropical flavored one, and it is incredible! I used to be one of those people who drank water every other week, when forced. I am like AINT NO BODY GOT TIME FO' DAT'! I want flavor baby! I have found it, although when you squirt it into a water bottle it literally looks like you are on Survivor and drinking your own urine to survive, but it tastes amazing, just like pina colata water! It is so good I will drink 5 water bottles a day now, and can tolerate the taste of plain water, just because I am so used to it now 🙂
#3) Special K Chocolate Cereal. Yup, chocolate. WOOP THERE IT IS! I am a chocolate fiend, and anything that curves my need for it, I am all for. This cereal tastes so good, and fills you up. It is a tasty thing to have before work or school in the morning, and let you enjoy a healthier breakfast cereal than pancakes or Captain Crunch.
#4) Bags of mixed Veggies. Veggies to me sounds a bit icky and too healthy, yes, yes. But, when you get these variety packs, which they have a bunch of different kinds, you get to choose which veggies you like add some Ranch and have at it! I love raw broccoli and cauliflower with a bit of light Ranch dressing, Delicioso Dora!
#5) Humus and Pretzel Thins. Again, salt and chip like things make me go wild so when I saw these cute little travel sized portions of humus and pretzel thins I needed to try them. I love when you can get your hands on healthy snacks that are easy to throw in your purse or backpack that make it easy to be diet friendly and on the run. Instead of having a low point in the day, when you go to Subway and get a CHicken Parmesan Sub..In footlong length, and then sit there afterwards and wonder WHY?!
Let me guys know if you enjoy reading these kinds of posts, I hope this one was helpful for you! Also, comment down below with what your favorite healthy snack is so I can add some to my snacking inventory!
Thank you guys for reading and love always Pearlsnheels ❤
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Winter Wonderings provides a variety of challenging, engaging Saturday courses designed specifically for gifted, talented, and high-ability 3rd & 4th, 5th & 6th, and 7th-10th graders. Program participants discover new and exciting areas of study in a fast-paced learning environment.
Courses meet six Saturdays (January 19, 26; February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2019) on the Oregon State University campus. Each course meets for 80 minutes each week for 6 weeks. Three time slots are scheduled each Saturday: 9:15-10:35 am, 10:40-12:00 noon, and 12:25-1:45 pm. Students may participate in one, two, or all three times. Precollege TAG Programs reserves the right to change instructors, if necessary.
A supervised lunchroom will be available noon -12:25 pm for students who enroll in a course at BOTH 10:40 am AND 12:25 pm. Students provide their own lunch and beverage.
Fees - Winter Wonderings is funded by student fees and tax-deductible donations. Tuition is $95 per course.
Some courses require additional supply fees to be paid by the participant. These fees will be indicated in the course descriptions.
Donations are sought to enable Winter Wonderings to provide financial assistance to students from families with low income. By including a donation with your child's tuition you will assist another child whose family's financial situation would not allow them to otherwise benefit from participation in a Winter Wonderings course. Please note donation amount on your check's memo line. Thank you for your tax-deductible donation!


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MADRID (MarketWatch) — The European Central Bank's plan to buy the shorter-term debt of struggling euro-zone countries has eased some pressure on Europe's stock markets, but few investors would agree that the financial crisis is over, over there.
Still, many opportunistic investors, along with money managers who include Europe in a diversified global portfolio, are being drawn to beaten-down European stocks. The more cautious among them seek a cushion against volatility, and they're finding it in shares of cheaply valued European companies that pay regular shareholder dividends. Read more: 6 ways to profit from a European bond bailout.
"This dividend-paying stock segment is the most stable in the market," said Weyman Gong, principal at Signature, a wealth management firm in Norfolk, Va.
To be sure, the real possibility that shaky European firms would cut or eliminate their dividend makes shares of stronger companies all the more attractive.
"European businesses are facing pretty big challenges," Gong said. "Clearly, most of the region is in recession or near recession, so those business can't continue to issue dividends."
For now, Gong is holding tight to existing positions, and for his Europe holdings that means companies with broad global business. U.S.-listed European-based stocks in the portfolio include: British American Tobacco PLC (BATS); Philip Morris International Inc. PM, -0.80% ; Nestle SA NSRGY, +1.52% (NESN) and Unilever PLC UL, +1.64% UN, +1.44% (ULVR) (UNA).
Risky rewards
"Dividends in Europe are more attractive than elsewhere, but should be given higher levels of risk and uncertainty going forward because markets are all driven by politicians and central bankers," said Julian Pendock, chief investment officer at London-based Senhouse Capital. "There are some excellent higher-yield companies around, but one has to be discerning about risk."
Back to 1987
for stocks?
Our Trading Deck has been home to a spirited debate over whether we're in for a crash.
• L.A. Little: Don't worry | Michael Gayed: Worry
• The warning signs of a 1987-style crash
• Hulbert: Stocks as overvalued as at 2007 high
In particular, he said, investors should be wary of dividend yields that look "unfeasibly high" in an environment where companies are paring earnings guidance.
Indeed, several well-known European companies have backed off dividend payouts lately. Telefonica SA TEF, -0.67% TEF, -0.67% this summer suspended its dividend and said the payout would restart next year, but at a lower rate. Storebrand of Norway ASA (STB), Fiat SpA (F) and Peugeot SA (UG) also omitted dividends this year. Read more: Telefonica's dividend warning bell.
Will James, a European-stock fund manager at Standard Life Investment based in Edinburgh, said a bleak outlook for Europe is overly pessimistic.
"It's not as bad as the headlines suggest," he said. "You have companies across Europe that have very strong balance sheets and don't have to go to the debt markets."
While the benchmark for his fund, the FTSE Europe ex-U.K. index, showed no dividend growth in aggregate over the past year, James pointed to companies in his portfolio that have posted meaningful dividend hikes. For example, Oesterreichische Post AG (Austrian Post) (POST), which essentially takes care of the mail in Austria, sports a dividend yield of 7% and James said he expects that payout to grow 5% annually.
Also, Italian oil major Eni SpA E, -0.67% (ENI) has a stated policy to boost its dividend in line with inflation, most recently a 3.5% increase, he said, with a dividend yield of around 6%. Meanwhile, France's Total SA TOT, +0.34% (FP) assuaged investor fears about its dividend, announcing a 4% increase in the second quarter, he noted.
It's worth looking at companies where the yield may be somewhat lower, James said, if the trade-off is a strong franchise, higher barriers to competition, pricing power, sustainability and reliable cash flow.
For instance, James singled out Novo Nordisk AS NVO, +3.01% (NOVOB), which, he said, has grown its dividend 40% in a year, and hiked its dividend each year since its initial public offering in 2001.
Said James: "If I can get a 4% dividend yield from that company and it will be here in four years' time, I'm going to get a fairly attractive total return."
Sector bets
Health-care stocks appeal to Andrea Williams, who manages the Royal London European Income Fund. Among her favorites: Roche Holding AG (ROG) RHHBY, +2.15% and Novartis AG NVS, +0.45% (NOVN). Those companies have dividend yields of around 4% to 4.5%, she said. Sanofi SA SNY, +1.61% (SAN) and Novo Nordisk are also stocks she holds.
Media is another sector that is offering up decent dividends, the London-based manager said. Examples include Reed Elsevier PLC (REL) (REN) RUK and Wolters Kluwer NV (WKL) WTKWY, +2.29%.
Industrial companies with a global reach are also on the radar. "We're concerned about Europe, but not that overly concerned about the rest of the world," Williams said. Siemens SA SI (SIE) and Schneider Electric SA (SU) are examples.
Williams has even tiptoed into the financial sector. She holds Zurich Insurance Group AG (ZURN) and Scandinavian banks including Swedbank AB (SWEDA), DNB ASA (DNB) DNBHF, -2.05% and Svenska Handelsbanken AB (SHBA), all with yields over 4% and growing dividends.
"A company yielding 8%-plus could be attractive, or alternatively it could be yielding so highly as the market fears that the dividend is about to be cut." Williams said. "It is critical to be sure that dividends are sustainable; that is why you must assess the cash flow, the debt profile and the cap-ex programs to ensure that you do not lose the dividend."


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Sept. 30, 2005
The Bisons and Mercer University met in the Atlantic Sun Conference opener for both teams Thursday night in Macon, Ga.
Mercer prevailed on its home field with a 3-1 victory. It was the fifth straight road game for the Bisons.
"We didn't play poorly," said Lipscomb Coach Charles Morrow. "Our defense didn't have a great game. We had a couple of letdowns in the back that led to goals."
Vicente Arze opened the scoring at 31:05 with the only goal of the first half.
"They had a couple of guys that were tough to hand," Morrow said. "When we made mistakes they made us pay."
Lipscomb's Ben Page tied the game at 48:45 of the second half at 1-1. Mercer regained control of the game with goals by Del Olaoye and Cliff Wilson.
"Ben is definitely a threat," Morrow said. "Their goalkeeper was playing 35-to-40 yards in front of the net. Ben got around him and made the shot."
The Bisons recorded two shots, one by Page and one by Jeff Boynton. Mercer was credited with 12 shots, seven in the second half.
"Mercer did a good job of getting numbers behind us," Morrow said. "That prevented us from getting good opportunities."
J.D. Murphy was in goal for the Bisons.
Mercer is 4-5, 1-0 in the A-sun. Lipscomb is 2-4-1, 0-1 in the conference. Mercer has won all five meetings with the Bisons in men's soccer.
The Bisons travel to Stetson in Deland, Fla., for a game Saturday.
"We'll train Friday and prepare for Stetson," said Morrow. "Our guys don't feel good about losing, but we can take some things away from this loss. We have to be more careful on defense. We have to work on making better defensive decisions."


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I don't know about you, but when *I* get an e-mail with "BREASTS OF FURY" in the subject line, I tend to read that one first.
Happily, this particular submission didn't disappoint:
They DO seem kinda angry...
Sadly Melanie T. didn't include an explanation for her cake, so we're left to devise our own theories - and in book title format, of course.
Here, I'll get us started:
1) When Fembots Attack
2) Put Out Your Heart Light, and Turn On Your Head Lights
3) Shelly the Turtle/Airplane Hybrid and the Exploding, Somewhat Leaky BAZOOMS OF DOOM!! (Now With Balloons!)
K, the floor is now open. YOUR TURN.
IMPORTANT 12/10 UPDATE: Melanie tells she went back to the same store this week and saw *another* cake, same drawing and everything, in the case. So she broke down and asked the baker what the heck it's supposed to be. You'll never guess. Are you ready? Like, really REALLY ready?
It's a walrus. Allegedly.
Please, scroll on up there and see if YOU can figure it out. 'Cuz I'm still stuck doing this:
Also, I need more Bill Murray gifs in my life - although he'll always be Peter Venkman to me. ;)


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Since a real estate agent, must sell, and/ or list houses, in order to generate commissions, and make a living, it might be a good idea, to review and examine, some sort of system, to potentially, get more and better listings. This article will, therefore, attempt to, briefly discuss, one approach or system, to achieve these objectives, successfully and consistently. I refer to this process as the RICH IDEAS 6 Steps to More, and Better Listings.
1. Get the appointment: What will you do, in order to assure, you are able, to get in the door, to, at least, present, why, a homeowner, considering selling their house, should choose you, as their agent and representative? How much time, effort and attention, will you focus and commit, in order, to gain additional personal exposure, demonstrate your unique assets/ approaches, and why you should be chosen? How will you get more appointments? Do you have a personal marketing and branding approach/ system, which will positively distinguish you, and attract others, to you? Will you perfect, the techniques, and methods, which properly prepare you, to convincingly, address and answer any and all concerns and objections?
2. Listen before you speak: One must be careful, to make the presentation about the needs, concerns, priorities and goals, of the homeowner, rather than the tendency, to make it, all about you! Will you ask the right questions, and consistently focus, on what, might, best impact, the homeowner? Never assume you know, or have, all the answers, but, rather, be willing to listen effectively and thoroughly, before you speak!
3. Relevant presentation: When you present your listing presentation, how will you know, you are articulating, a relevant, meaningful, effective message? Will you merely discuss features, etc, or will you effectively communicate and articulate, in a benefits – based manner?
4. Make your presentation about them, not you!: How will you know, if you are addressing, the issues and concerns, which are most important, to a specific homeowner? Will you listen far more than you speak? Do you understand, for most people, their favorite sound, is the sound, of their own voice? You have two ears, and only one mouth, for a reason, so take advantage of this, and listen, at least, twice as often, as you speak. Explain thoroughly, slowly and completely, until you are convinced, and they acknowledge, they understand and agree!
5. Answer their questions and concerns, but don't open up a Pandora's Box!: Never assume you know what might concern someone, and never answer an issue, you perceive, as a concern, until it is asked! When you presume a concern, which doesn't exist, you might create, problems which don't exist! Always answer every question/ concern, however, thoroughly, completely, and to their satisfaction!
6. Close, and get the listing: Never fear discussing the commission, you feel you deserve, but, rather, emphasize, why you are worth it, and how you will best, provide meaningful, relevant, meaningful service! Realize, if you want the listing, you must take the time, and close, the deal, effectively. Provide the quality of service, which makes you distinct, real, and better!
Become a more successful real estate agent, by using these 6 steps, to more and better listings. Never abandon your commitment to absolute integrity, and focus on how you will best serve your clients!


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If you've traveled around the circuit track of the Internet a couple of times, you've heard about trolls trolling. What does that mean? For the Internet unfamiliar, it's basically a bunch of not so lovely online folks who post stuff to get people angry. The latest video from PBS Off Book explains trolling, cyber bulling and how freedom of speech works on the Internet.
The internet is a powerful tool for communication, but it can sometimes be a double-edged sword. As most of us have seen or experienced, the internet can bring out the worst behavior in people, highlighting some of the cruelest and most hurtful aspects of humanity. Issues such as bullying online and trolling have garnered a lot of attention recently, prompting questions about who does, and should, regulate the internet, and what free speech means online.
Don't feed the trolls. [PBS Off Book via The Daily What]


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PowerG Wireless Two-way Touch-screen Keypad and Proximity KP-160 PG2
Featuring a stylish design, graphical touchscreen and proximity tags, KP-160 PG2 is designed to maximize user experience while keeping price at bay. The large, icon-based display is clear and appealing, and the keypad replaces the need for costly keyfobs.
The KP-160 PG2 is also suitable for use by children and elderly people. Using the decorative proximity tags, which easily fit on a keychain, any user - young or old - can easily arm/disarm the system, initiate fire and panic alarms and review the system status.
The intuitive touchscreen display dramatically reduces the learning curve for users. There are no complicated commands to remember or blinking lights to interpret. KP-160 PG2 virtually eliminates the need for long training sessions by the installer.
KP-160 PG2 is the ideal solution for controlling basic alarm functions from different locations in the home or small business premises and is compatible with the PowerMaster(R) family of intrusion alarm systems.
KP-160 PG2 Features and Benefits
- Large touchscreen with graphical Icons
- Easy and intuitive operation
- Suitable for use also in working environments for employees to use their standard RFID card with the keypad
- Sleek design
- Superb value for price
- Performs all common actions such as arming/disarming, initiating emergency, fire and panic alarms, controlling PGM outputs and reviewing system status
- Wall-mounted or desktop use
- Suitable for any home or small office
- Up to 32 keypads in one PowerMaster system (up to 8 for PowerMaster-10 and up to 32 for PowerMaster-30)
- Visonic's PowerG RF technology
- Extended range - Eliminates the need for repeaters
- Robust and highly suitable for harsh environments
- Provides user with feedback on commands
- Prolonged battery life
- Optional mains power allows always-on status display
- Audible exit/entry warning (even when running on batteries)
- Compatible with PowerMaster intrusion alarm systems
- Alarm system control panel can be installed in a hidden location hard to
find by intruders
Additional Info
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|(1) Visonic PowerMaster PowerG Wireless Touch Screen Arming Station w/ Proximity Reader - Silver
Write Your Own Review
|Communication protocol
|Frequency band (MHz)
Europe and rest of world: 433-434, 868-869
|Battery type
|Four 1.5V AA Alkaline batteries
|Battery life
|Up to 5 years (with typical use)
|Power source
|Operating temperatures
|0 ̊C to 55 ̊C (32 ̊F to 131 ̊F)
|150 x 100 x 20mm (5.87 x 3.87 x 0.8in)
(including battery and bracket)
|379g (13oz)
|Europe: EN301489, EN60950, EN50131-1, EN50131-3
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Soul singer Sam Moore records song to honor King
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Veteran singer Sam Moore of the soul duo Sam & Dave is releasing a song in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. to coincide with the anniversary of the civil rights leader's death.
Known as the "Legendary Soul Man," Moore teamed with producer Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell and studio musicians to record "They Killed a King" in Memphis in January. Mitchell is the son of the late Willie Mitchell, an influential producer who worked with soul artist Al Green and others at Hi Records in Memphis.
The song is being released Friday, the 46th anniversary of King's assassination. King was shot while standing on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
Moore and his Sam & Dave singing partner, the late Dave Prater Jr., recorded several soul and R&B hits such as "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'" at Stax Records. "They Killed a King" is reminiscent of those songs, with a prominent horn section and upbeat rhythm. Moore's voice stills sounds strong and soulful.
The song was written by Bobbejaan Schoepen, a Belgian, and musician Mel Turner in the aftermath of King's assassination. The song's chorus says of King: "You know he fought for love and freedom, he fought for all mankind."
Moore knew King and performed at many of his speeches and rallies. He said he wanted to record the song to remind people of King's message of peace, equality and respect.
"I'm just an old-fashioned gospel singer that honored him and respected him and his memory," Moore told The Associated Press on Monday.
Moore is scheduled to perform "They Killed a King" at Stax Academy in Memphis on April 26.
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Particulate matter, also known as PM, refers to microscopic particles in the atmosphere that can be hazardous to your health. PM is primarily a problem in the wintertime in the Bay Area, when seasonal wood-burning makes a substantial contribution.
Particulate matter, also called PM or soot, consists of microscopically small solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in the air. The smaller the particles, the deeper they can penetrate into the respiratory system and the more hazardous they are to breathe.
Recent studies indicate that PM can have the following effects on our bodies:
The smaller-sized particles - those 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter, called PM2.5 - are of greatest health concern because they can pass through the nose and throat and be absorbed deep inside the lungs. PM 2.5 are sometimes called "fine" particles, and they are about 1/28th the diameter of a human hair or smaller.
In the Bay Area, wood burning accounts for about one-third of the airborne PM in the winter months. PM in wood smoke from the estimated 1.4 million fireplaces and wood stoves in the Bay Area has been a health concern for many years.
Since the 1980s, many scientific studies have been published that correlate exposure to wood smoke and PM with serious public health effects, such as higher instances of asthma, decreased lung function in children, increased hospital admissions, and elevated mortality rates.
Particulate Matter
Wood Smoke


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What sort of programmer uses Perl? Do most Perl programmers use it as a primary language, or just write the occasional script? And are there really as few women as conventional wisdom says? Kirrily Robert wants to know, and wants anyone around the world who uses Perl to help by answering a simple five-minute survey at perlsurvey.org.
Kirrily's goal is to "take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands." As an active member of the Perl community, she's often asked questions about Perl's users and is only left to "hypothesise, generalise, and hand-wave." Further, software communities can often be an echo chamber where people only hear from like-minded people. The Perl Survey is an attempt to break out of that echo chamber and hear from all Perl users around the world, regardless of skill level, not just the core users most active in vocal communities.
An interesting part of the survey is asking the respondent's salary, if they choose to release it. "I hear a lot of talk about the going rate for Perl programmers," Kirrily says, "and whether organizations that claim they can't hire Perl programmers simply aren't paying enough." Correlating results with the other data points could shed light on the topic. The survey's reach could also help users around the world. "Salary information can be very hard to find out for anywhere other than the US," says Kirrily, an Australian.
The survey will be open until September 30, 2007. Then, in October, Kirrily will be announcing the results and releasing the raw data, minus email addresses, under a Creative Commons "CC-BY" license. Her hope is that other interested people will provide their own analyses of the results.
For further information, and to participate if you use Perl at all, visit perlsurvey.org.


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Hi I hope the post is not misplaced, but here it goes
I read all the articles on futhead and other sites but I still don't figure out how to sum correctly mainly because of players with only 2 links.
For istance, my squad (4-4-1-1 w/ klopp bundesliga all players loyal)
kimmich boateng sokratis schmelzer
robben james thiago reus
fullkrug IF 82
For example Reus is only linked to LB and CM, how do I make the sum as a /10 fraction?
For instance, KIMMICH would be 9 correct? Only BM players around him and robben not german, the coach is german so am I correct?
I really am only understanding details of the team chem so I need to calculate what's good or not, until this week I believed only team chemistry mattered, so all my squad is under review


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Press Release
January 2, 2013
Chesapeake Bay Health Improves
Report Shows Progress—But Much More Needs To Be Done
(ANNAPOLIS, MD)—The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) 2012 State of the Bay Report shows the health of the Bay improved one point over the last report in 2010, and is up four points since 2008, a 10 percent improvement in less than five years. Of the 13 indicators that make up the report, five improved, seven stayed the same, and only one declined.
"Continued progress shows what can be done when governments, businesses, and individuals work together to save local rivers, streams, and the Chesapeake Bay," CBF President William C. Baker said. "While the Bay is still dangerously out of balance, I am cautiously optimistic for the future. The federal/state Clean Water Blueprint for the Chesapeake Bay is in place and beginning to work."
The State of the Bay Report is a comprehensive measure of the Bay's health, evaluating the following indicators: oysters, shad, crabs, striped bass (rockfish), underwater grasses, wetlands, forested buffers, resource lands, toxics, water clarity, dissolved oxygen, and phosphorus and nitrogen pollution. CBF scientists compile and examine the best available historical and up-to-date information for each indicator and assign it an index score, between 1-100, and a letter grade. Taken together, these indicators offer an assessment of Bay health.
In 2012, levels of phosphorus pollution improved, as did levels of dissolved oxygen, resource lands, oysters, and crabs. Underwater grasses were the only indicator that declined, a result of higher water temperatures that caused eel grass die offs in the lower Bay and heavy rains that washed sediment and pollution into local waterways.
This year's score of 32 is still far short of goal of 70, which would represent a saved Bay. The unspoiled Bay ecosystem described by Captain John Smith in the 1600s, with its extensive forests and wetlands, clear water, abundant fish and oysters, and lush growths of submerged vegetation serves as the benchmark, and would rate a 100 on CBF's scale.
"We have made progress, but much of the Bay and many local waterways don't provide healthy habitat for fish, oysters, and other aquatic life," Baker said. "Pollution has cost thousands of jobs and continues to put human health at risk."
The Clean Water Blueprint requires all of us, in all the Bay states, to ratchet down pollution to local creeks, rivers, and the Bay. State and local governments will be held responsible for those reductions or potentially lose federal funding and be denied federal permits.
"We have never before had this level of accountability and transparency in Bay restoration efforts," Baker said. "This is indeed THE moment in time for the Bay. Our children and grandchildren can inherit a restored Chesapeake Bay, but only if we continue the hard work and investments that will lead to success."
CBF is working throughout the region to ensure the success of the Clean Water Blueprint.
In Pennsylvania, CBF's 2013 priorities include:
- Working with state policy makers to secure financial and programmatic support for communities as they plan and implement Blueprint strategies;
- Assisting local governments with technical and stormwater permitting issues to ensure that local governments achieve their clean water goals; and
- Continuing to assist farmers in efforts to reduce agricultural pollution through the implementation of on-farm best management practices.
"Pennsylvania has made progress toward meeting Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint goals, but we have a lot more to do. Nearly one quarter of our streams and rivers are impaired, and that is unacceptable," said LeeAnn Murray, CBF's Pennsylvania Acting Executive Director. "The State of the Bay Report is not only a reflection of the health of the Bay, but also of local rivers and streams. The Susquehanna River provides over half of the fresh water to the Bay, so what we do to the Susquehanna, we do to the Bay."
"Now is the time for Pennsylvania to ramp up efforts to reduce pollution and invest in communities and local water quality," Murray added. "Many are integrating water quality improvements with the economic, revitalization, and beautification efforts in their towns. These communities understand the value of clean water and we commend them for their work."
In Maryland, CBF's priorities for 2013 include:
- Ensuring that the Bay Trust Fund, which provides money and technical assistance to local jurisdictions is for the first time fully funded;
- Working with local jurisdictions to identify cost-effective strategies to achieve pollution reduction goals; and
- Defending gains made during last year's legislative session to reduce pollution from stormwater, septic systems, and sprawling development.
"Maryland has been a leader in charting a course toward Bay restoration," said CBF Maryland Executive Director Alison Prost. "We understand that there are concerns at the local level about how to implement the Clean Water Blueprint, primarily due to the uncertainty surrounding the cost. We share those concerns, but believe that solutions exist or are on the horizon. Innovative technologies, creative approaches to reducing pollution, and long-term financing will all be necessary to help local governments achieve their goals. Working together will finish the job and clean our local waters and the Bay. "
In Virginia, CBF's priorities for 2013 include:
- Ensuring the state legislature approves critical funding for upgrading municipal wastewater treatment plants, controlling stormwater runoff, and assisting farmers with soil and water conservation practices.
- Working with state and local officials to ensure Virginia meets its two-year Bay cleanup benchmarks.
- Ensuring Virginia implements the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's menhaden management plan protecting menhaden, the Bay ecosystem, and fisheries jobs.
"Virginia has made great progress reducing pollution from wastewater plants and farms, as well as conservatively managing blue crabs and oysters," said CBF Virginia Executive Director Ann Jennings. "Much work remains to be done, however, if Virginia is to stay on track to meet its Bay Clean Water Blueprint goals."
"It is critical that the 2013 General Assembly approve Gov. McDonnell's $217 million budget amendments for clean water obligations and that legislators approve a menhaden management plan consistent with the other Atlantic states," Jennings added. "Otherwise, clean water progress will stall in the Commonwealth, threatening the environment, public health, the economy, and our children's future."


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"The academic library has, by default, tied its destiny to a service with no realistic prospects of long-term survival. It has become a systems integrator that stitches together outsourced components into a digital recreation of a paper-based library. This horseless carriage provides the same commodity service to an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, a graduate student in economics, and a professor of literature. Because it overwhelms the library's budget, organizational structure, and decision-making processes, this expensive and inefficient service hampers innovation in areas that are the library's best hope for survival. A paper-based library gradually builds a collection of ever-increasing value, and its overhead builds permanent infrastructure. Its digital recreation never builds lasting value. It is a maintenance service, and its overhead is pure inefficiency. This overhead, duplicated at thousands of universities, starts with the costs of preparing for and conducting near-futile site-license negotiations. To shave off a point here and there, the library spends countless staff hours on usage surveys, faculty discussions, consortium meetings, and negotiations with publishers and their middlemen. But the game is rigged. If 15% of a campus wants Journal A, 15% competing Journal B, 10% wants both A and B, and the rest wants neither, the library is effectively forced to rent both A and B for 100% of the campus. This is why scholarly publishers were able to raise prices at super-inflationary rates during a time when all other publishers faced catastrophic disruption. After conducting expensive negotiations, after paying inflated prices, the library must still pay for, build, and maintain the platform that protects publishers' interests by keeping unwanted users out. Many academics and librarians hope that Open Access efforts will provide an exit from this unsustainable path. If successful, Green Open Access will lead to price reductions and journal cancellations. Gold Open Access seeks to replace site licenses with author page charges. Either strategy reduces the efficiency of library-mediated digital lending by spreading its fixed overhead costs over fewer and/or less expensive journals. New business models for journals, alternative metrics that give scholarly credibility to unbundled works, and any other innovation that competes with site licenses will reduce efficiency even further. All of these factors hasten the demise of an unsustainable service that is already collapsing under its own weight. Traditionally, a library adapts in response to changing user behavior, attitude, and opinion. However, the Wayne Gretzky quote became a cliché for a reason. When trends have become obvious and users have moved on, it is too late for strategic restructuring. At the other extreme, an angel investor bets on someone with a compelling idea, accepts the risk of failure, and is prepared to move on to the next player who knows where the puck will be. The library does not have that luxury. It is an institution, not a venture. The library must maintain sufficient institutional stability to ensure its archival mission. While Open Access is a given, the service portfolio of the future library is far from settled. We must create budgetary and organizational space for new services. We may not know where precisely the puck will be, but we can still move the team out of a field where there is no game to be played. When canceling site-licensed journals today, the only legally available alternatives are individual subscriptions, pay per view, and self-archived versions of individual papers. This stands in stark contrast with the digital-entertainment universe, where there is a competitive market for providers of personal digital libraries. Services like Apple ITunes, Google Play, Amazon Kindle and Prime, Netflix, Pandora, Spotify, etc. compete on the basis of price, content, usability, convenience, and features. There are many scholarly-communication organizations that could launch analogous services. Within months, Thomson Reuters, EBSCO, publisher alliances, scholarly societies, and even some research libraries could provide a wide selection of options. This will never happen without starving publishers of site-license revenue. Instead of subsidizing publishers, subsidize students and faculty. They are quite capable to choose for themselves what information services they need. After a messy, but short, transition, a competitive market will blossom. The only thing more terrifying than phasing out a core service is the prospect of outside forces triggering a sudden disruption. Libraries have the choice to disrupt or to be disrupted, to organize their own restructuring or to be restructured by a crisis manager. This is the perfect time to redirect resources away from digital-lending overhead and towards building a scalable, robust, and permanent infrastructure of open scholarly information (refereed papers, technical reports, lab reports, and supporting data). Björn Brembs wants to go even further; he wants libraries


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"The Partial Indulgence is granted to the faithful, wherever they are during the above-mentioned meeting, if, at least with a contrite spirit, they will raise their prayer to God the Holy Spirit, so that young people are drawn to charity and given the strength to proclaim the Gospel with their life.
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Now here's a truck we can really get behind. Not only does Tom Lawson's '01 Lightning look the part of a show truck, it's taken everything that was good about Ford's muscle truck one step further. Actually, it's more like several steps, but you get the idea. Using the Lightning as a stepping off point, Tom's creation offers little in the way of compromise when it comes to having fun on the track and enjoying the drive home. Check out how a quick factory truck wound up a daily driving track terror.
Lightnings are already lower than your average F-150, but Tom wanted even more handling performance, so he bolted on a Western Chassis 4/6 drop kit. The kit uses 2-inch dropped arms and springs in the front and hangers and shackles in the rear. Doetsch Tech Nitro Slammer shocks dial in the compression and rebound, while solid antisway bars, 31mm front and 23mm rear, eliminate body roll through the corners. Anticipating some real hard driving, brakes were a must-have upgrade as well, so Brembo rotors and Morse ceramic pads were installed at all four corners. The final aspect in handling was the wheel and tire combo. Maido MS5 wheels were selected for their uncluttered five-spoke design and were fitted with 285/35ZR22 BFGoodrich g-Force KDW tires for extreme grip on the track.
The interior of the Lightning was given both race-inspired upgrades and luxury comfort, beginning with converting the factory split bench seat into two buckets and installing an Expedition center console. An Auto Meter pillar pod was filled with Auto Meter Lunar series gauges to display boost, fuel pressure, and air/fuel ratio. You'll understand why that's all so important later. Billet interior accents can be found on the pedals, shift lever, window and lock switches and sill plates, and are just a hint of the polished billet found throughout the Ford. For entertainment on the drive to and from the racetrack, Tom installed an Alpine IVA-D900 7-inch DVD/MP3 head unit that's wired to an NVE-852A navigation system. The audio is sent through Polk Audio amps and a Crossfire equalizer before being routed to Polk DB 400 coaxials, MMC 4250 components, and 10-inch subwoofers behind the seats.
Opening the hood on Tom's Lightning reveals a plethora of billet from Chickenear's Custom & Performance and DM-racing. You'll spend so much time checking out the intricate details of polished aluminum and carbon fiber that you might miss the go-fast goodies that blend right in. Beginning with a .020-over 5.4L Lightning block, JDM Engineering added a forged steel crank, Manley H-beam rods, Manley forged pistons with file-fit rings, ARP main studs, and an SFI harmonic balancer to the short-block. On top of the engine sits a polished W140ax Whipple supercharger fed cool air through a Chickenear's cool-air intake that uses a massive 12-inch-long conical S&B filter. Dumping 21 pounds of boost into the engine through a Fluidyne charge cooler and CNC-ported Lightning heads, the supercharger keeps two Walbro 255 fuel pumps and eight 60-lb/hr injectors busy. Exhaust is handled front to rear by Bassani, beginning with stainless steel headers, moving through high-flow cats, and ending with a muffler and polished stainless tip. The power is channeled through a 4R100 transmission that was reinforced with Art Carr components to handle up to 1,000 hp. The cherry on top is a Nitrous Express 100hp shot, just in case Tom isn't planted into the seat from the excessive acceleration forces.
The engine note from the exhaust is enough to garner plenty of attention, but a truck with this much going on just can't wear factory paint. The answer was a set of ghost flames in House of Kolor Ice Blue Pearl and Ice White that stretch across the front of the truck and also cover the Innovations tonneau cover. Under the tonneau you'll find a full Bedrug kit and two Optima Yellow Top batteries, one for starting duties and one purely for the audio system. Other interior upgrades include Street Scene mirrors and stainless Speed Grille inserts, Razor's Edge billet fuel door, and a shaved tailgate.
Tom wanted to give thanks to the shops and companies that helped him out along the way, including: Polk Audio, Flynn's Automotive Detail Products, BFGoodrich, Marshin Signs and Graphics, American Audio, DM-Racing, Matworks, Chickenear's Custom & Performance.
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British actor Daniel Radcliffe has refuted rumors suggesting he missed out on the lead role in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie, insisting he never wanted a part in the saucy film.
The "Harry Potter" star was said to have been eager to play Christian Grey in the big screen adaptation of E.L. James' best-selling erotic novel, but lost out on the job to fellow Brit Charlie Hunnam.
However, Radcliffe insists the story is not true.
In an interview MTV News at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada, he says, "I literally had someone say to me for the first time today, 'The world's in uproar you're not playing Christian Grey.' And I'm like, 'If this is uproar, it's inaudible.' I think there was approximately no people wanting me to play Christian Grey, including myself.
"I have to say, no offense to anybody, I'm sure they're going to do a great job on the movie, but it's not something that I think would have been a good next step for me."


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Members of the Civil Promotion for Control Yuan Abolition Alliance staged a protest in front of the Control Yuan in Taipei yesterday, calling on Control Yuan President Wang Chien-shien to resign and become the alliance's convener.
Followng the Control Yuan's failure to impeach Keelung Mayor Chang Tong-rong (張通榮), who has been convicted of influence peddling and interfering with police matters when he demanded that a drunk driver be released without charge, Wang on Wednesday said the government watchdog would be better off being abolished if it could not mete out justice, adding that Control Yuan positions were often used as bargaining chips for political favors or rewards.
His remarks sparked a furor both inside and outside the government body.
After their request to meet with Wang was denied, members of the alliance read out four demands on the doorsteps of the Control Yuan.
The association expressed its wish that Wang become its convener, called for the Legislative Yuan to slash the Control Yuan's budget, demanded that President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) not nominate the next batch of Control Yuan members and asked for support from lawmakers across party lines to amend the Constitution to abolish the Control Yuan.
Separately yesterday, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) said his party supports an amendment to the Constitution to abolish the Control Yuan, adding that before such an amendment is made, the Control Yuan should be suspended and that its budget be frozen.
Lin said the party hopes Wang would exercise his influence to help abolish the government body.
Saying his party has been pushing for an amendment to the Constitution to allow the powers of the Control Yuan to be transferred to the legislature, Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) caucus whip Hsu Chung-hsin (許忠信) said his party also supports the suspension of the Control Yuan and the freezing of its budget.
Amid calls that he should step down, Wang yesterday insisted he has done nothing wrong.
"I have not even entertained the thought of stepping down," he said, adding: "If I was a Control Yuan member who had accepted Chang's offer to pay for dinner three times, then I should step down. We should be reasonable [in our demands]."
He was referring to media reports yesterday that quoted People First Party (PFP) Deputy Secretary-General Liu Wen-hsiung (劉文雄) as saying that Control Yuan members had visited Keelung three times and had been treated to dinners at the Evergreen Laurel Hotel Keelung by Chang.
Control Yuan member Huang Huang-hsiung (黃煌雄), one of the Control Yuan members who had visited Keelung, said yesterday that he had never accepted any of Chang's dinner invitations.
Huang added that if anyone named him specifically, then they could expect to be sued.
Control Yuan member Yu Teng-fang (余騰芳), who had also visited Keelung in the past year, said that of his three visits, aside from the first time where he formally visited Chang and sat in on a city governance briefing, the other times Chang had only dropped by to offer a greeting out of courtesy.
He had not met with Chang at any other time, Yu added.
Yu said that he followed protocol and dined with government officials over lunchboxes, adding that he and the city government shared the bill.
Chang, who is still abroad in China on business, spoke yesterday via Keelung City Government spokesman Lee Liang (李梁), and denied having treated Control Yuan members to dinners.


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PESHAWAR Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen fired on a Pakistan International Airlines plane as it was landing in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday night, killing a woman on board and injuring three crew members in the third incident at a Pakistani airport this month.
Flight PK 756 was carrying 178 passengers travelling from Saudi Arabia when it came under attack as it was preparing to land, policeman Asghar Khan said at the airport.
The plane was hit by six bullets, police said, killing the Pakistani woman and narrowly missing the captain. At least one bullet struck the plane's engine, police said.
The woman's daughter was sitting next to her when she was shot in the head, PIA official Mohammad Kifayatullah Khan said.
"When I went inside the plane, I saw the woman lying on the seat and her nine-year-old daughter was crying, 'My mother is dead, my mother is dead'," said Khan.
"All the passengers were panicked. Some of them wanted to get out as soon as possible because they were afraid of fire inside the plane.
"The captain of the plane had narrowly escaped," he said. "It would have been a disaster had he been hit."
The incident will raise further questions about whether the government is prepared for a Taliban backlash after officials announced a military operation to flush the militants from their mountain strongholds in North Waziristan on June 15.
Pakistani jets have pounded suspected militant hideouts and the Taliban have vowed counter attacks.
Islamabad has promised to tighten security at airports and other potential targets, but critics say decades of neglect of Pakistan's ragged police force has left citizens vulnerable.
On June 8, ten Taliban gunmen attacked the airport in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan's financial heart and home to 18 million people. Thirty-four people were killed in the five-hour gunbattle. The Taliban fired on an academy for the security forces at the airport two days later.
On Monday, the government was forced to divert a plane carrying prominent cleric Tahirul Qadri after violence broke out on the ground in Islamabad, with hundreds of supporters armed with sticks battling police, who fired teargas.
The authorities, fearing an escalation of unrest, diverted the plane to the eastern city of Lahore, where Qadri and his supporters refused to leave the plane for hours.
Peshawar's Bacha Khan International Airport has also been a target in the past - in 2012, a Taliban suicide squad staged a car bomb, rocket and gun attack on the airport and nine people, including the five attackers, were killed.
One policeman told Reuters police will not enter the neighbourhood that borders the airport at night for fear of attack by extremists.
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Most of the residents at La Grange's Anchor Avenue apartments like the cats that live around the buildings — but at least one person doesn't.
Six cats have died from what Oldham County Animal Control believes is antifreeze poisoning, and director Barbara Rosenman said she suspects there may be more casualties.
Two cats were found dead at the scene on Thursday, one died after capture, and three more were euthanized after showing signs of poisoning and suffering.
The apartment complex is home to a managed cat colony, Rosenman said, which maintains about a 20-cat population.
The colony is one of several in the county and is a way to reduce strain on the animal shelter without having to euthanize animals.
Through a trap, neuter and release program, more than 40 cats have been picked up from the complex, sterilized, vaccinated and returned to what is, in fact, their home — even if a human owner no longer lives there.
Cats often are left behind when apartment residents move, she said, and that is how the colonies form.
Through the TNR program, the cats help manage the rodent population often exacerbated by large apartment dumpsters.
"I'd rather have cats than rats," Rosenman said.
Cats released by the OCAC into the colony also have blunted ears so they can be identified in the future. All the poisoned cats had that marker, Rosenman said.
When OCAC was called to the scene last week, they found a "pan with tuna casserole" set out for the cats.
"It was shiny and shimmery with antifreeze," Rosenman said.
La Grange Police are assisting with the investigation, including sending off the remaining food for testing.
They are also working with state labs to process any potential fingerprints found on the pan, according to Chief Kevin Collett.
Two of the deceased cats have been sent for autopsy by a veterinarian to confirm cause of death, Rosenman said.
Collett said several officers are working on the case in conjunction with the OCAC, which remains the lead investigating agency.
Right now both agencies are waiting for test results, although Rosenman said it could take time since human cases take priority.
But, both Rosenman and Collett confirmed there are several people of interest, and officials are conducting interviews.
"We take it seriously and we will prosecute," Rosenman said. "It is against state and county law."
A $500 reward is being offered by the Humane Society of Oldham County for information leading to the conviction of the poisoner, according to Lisanne Mikan, HSOC vice president.
The poisoning "could've had far-reaching implications," Rosenman said, had if it lured over someone's pet.
Or, even worse: "What if a 6-year-old came over and ate it?" she asked.
Anyone with information is asked to call animal control at 222-7387.
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