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Keandra Gray rushes out of the goalkeeper's box. At 5-foot-1, the Shoemaker junior is at a disadvantage against her opponent, but that doesn't slow her attack.
"She's probably one of the most feared goalkeepers because of the fact that if they're coming on a one-on-one, she's coming out at them with pretty much no hesitation," Shoemaker girls soccer coach Central Hicks said. "She's going straight to that ball and she doesn't care about their size or what have you; she's coming out hands first, straight to the ball and the contact is probably going to be there and she's going to move on with her life."
Gray keeps coming.
She'll likely never play soccer in college. She doesn't care.
"She's fearless. She's not scared of anything," Harker Heights coach Royce Mitchel said. "She's very confident in herself and because of that, it's very difficult for us to score on her," Mitchel added. "This last game that we played ... she made just great save after great save and just wore us down to the point where we just felt like we couldn't score."
This is the Keandra Gray — a formidable opponent and a fierce teammate — that came out of hiding in middle school. The other Keandra wore long-sleeve shirts to school everyday to hide her hands.
At birth, she was diagnosed with congenital syndactyly, the webbing or fusing of two or more fingers or toes. In Gray's case, the middle and ring fingers on both hands were bound together. The two outside toes on each foot were similarly fused.
It took numerous surgeries as an infant and child to separate the fingers. Around the two fingers that formed as one inside the womb, scars remain. Despite having surgery to straighten out three fingers on each hand, she's only able to completely extend the thumb and pointer finger on each hand.
"When I was in kindergarten and I got made fun of," Gray said. "It was a lot harder being little and people judging you. I didn't take it as serious because I was (young), but it did take a big toll on me because I felt like I had to hide from everybody.
"But, by the time I hit eighth and seventh grade, I didn't care anymore. If they were going to know, they were going to know."
Picking it up
The first couple of shots went through Gray's hands.
"I'm going to do this. I've already started, I'm not going to stop," she told herself.
She had no intentions of playing goalie when she tried out for the Lady Grey Wolves' soccer team as a freshman. But, here she was, on the team and in the goal after Hicks asker her to give it a shot.
"It was her tenacity," Hicks said. "I saw her on the field and I knew what kind of person she was, so when we said we were going to try her in the goal, it was almost like a no-brainer ... because the one thing I did know was she had heart and she was very intelligent."
Gray was moved up to varsity as a sophomore, but as a field player and the team's No. 2 goalie. She became the starter when the girl in front of her quit the team just days before Shoemaker's district opener in 2012.
"Varsity was a lot different," Gray said, "but I still liked playing goal keeper because I feel like I know what I'm doing in the goal more than I know what I'm doing on the field. ... When I was in the goal, I was like, 'This is where I should be at.'"
Gray quickly realized at 5-1 she wouldn't be able to stand in the net and protect the goal by jumping or laying out for a save. She also learned early that normal gloves were too flimsy and specialty goalie's gloves, with a more rigid structure, supported her hands better.
Her hands often hurt after matches, like the skin on the underside of her fingers is being stretched, but she takes the pain in stride.
"I really didn't think about how it would affect me playing in the goal," Gray said of the condition of her hands. "I realized the ball would hit me in the hands ... Sometimes, my hands hurt more than other goalkeepers' do, but it's not a big deal to the point where I have to stop playing."
Pushing back
Gray pushed her hands through her sleeves and stood up for herself.
She was in the fifth grade. Someone had just said something mean.
"I was like, I'm done. This is too much. I'm not going to sit here and let someone walk all over me and get away with it," Gray said. "I didn't understand why they had to pick on me. It was just that they didn't like me and this is ridiculous. Why are you picking on me because I haven't done anything to you? You're wasting your own time to go all the way to me to pick on me. I don't understand that."
"(It was) like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders because I felt like I didn't have to hide or have a secret from anyone anymore," she added.
When friends asked about her hands, she told them the story. And finally, in seventh grade, her hands were her own. Her hands, for as long as she can remember, have been scarred and have their own limits, but they do not limit what she can do with them.
"It's just the little things that got to me and I just brush them off now because I feel like it's pointless (to get discouraged)," Gray said.
Beneath Gray's goal keeper's glove are two excuses that could've kept her off the pitch. But, she puts the gloves on and the excuses go away. She no longer thinks about them. She just plays, waits for an opportunity to come out of the box and the opportunity to rise up to a challenge.
"It's worth trying to find something you're really good at, even if you have an obstacle to cross," Gray said. "I probably never would've came out for soccer and played goal keeper if I didn't come out of that shell in seventh grade."


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On this day in 1943, one of the greatest chess players in history was born.
Bobby Fischer's talent, known in the chess world for decades, would become evident world-wide when he defeated Russian Boris Spassky for the world title in 1972.
Later, Fischer's erratic personality and anti-Semitic rants would dominate his life. Click here for his confrontation with ABC's Jeremy Schaap. The chess champion passed away in 2008.
Here is a news report on Fischer's victory against Spassky.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.

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Does the King Use Its Power? Price Competition in U.S. Brewing
Pricing behavior of firms in differentiated product markets has been studied intensely in recent empirical work. Despite several accounts in various industries, price leadership has remained mostly unassessed. This study analyzes price competition in the U.S. brewing industry with a focus on price leadership by the largest U.S. beer producer Anheuser-Busch and its heavily marketed "King of Beers" brand Budweiser. This paper employs a unique nationwide data set on brand-level sales collected before and after a 100% increase in the federal excise tax on beer. Brand-level demand estimates are combined with several supply models, including several price leadership scenarios, to simulate prices that would have prevailed under each model after the tax increase. These "predicted" prices are then compared to "actual" prices after the tax increase to determine the fit of the different supply models. While Bertrand-Nash behavior appears to be a more suitable model of price competition, it tends to under-predict price increases of more price-elastic brands and to over-predict price increases of less price-elastic brands. In particular, the predicted price of Budweiser is much larger than its actual value. An interpretation of this result is that Anheuser-Busch could exert more market power through its flagship brand than it actually does. Overall, actual price movements as a result of the tax increase tend to be more similar across brands than predicted by any of the models considered. While this pattern is not inconsistent with leadership behavior, leadership models considered in this paper do not conform with this pattern.
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U.S. Patent System is Broken, Declares Judge in Android v. Apple Cases
Jason Mick
July 6, 2012 1:12 PM
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Veteran Judge Posner says "animals" like Apple are just exploiting the weapons an ineffectual gov't has created
"It's a constant struggle for survival. As in any jungle, the animals will use all the means at their disposal, all their teeth and claws that are permitted by the ecosystem," states
Judge Richard A. Posner
in a
recent interview
As a sitting judge on the
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
who occasionally moonlights as a judge in Chicago's
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
, Judge Posner has watched the devolution of America's intellectual property system over the past several decades.
I. Google v. Apple -- A Symptom of a Broken System
The most recent disheartening blow was the trial between Google Inc. (
) via its subsidiary Motorola Mobility and Apple, Inc. (
). Both companies clung to a handful of software and hardware patents, and neither agreed to cooperate or license. The "animals" were out for only one objective -- blood.
Apple has been particularly vicious in this ecosystem, suing every major Android manufacturer in dozens of courts worldwide. But as global intellectual property systems have come to mirror the patent system of the United States due to its role as a global economic leader, Apple's most pivotal battleground has been the U.S.
Judge Posner disappointed both Google and Apple when he
threw their respective lawsuits
out of court. He said that while both companies
had legitimate infringement claims
, that he would not tolerate their refusal to license or attempts to abuse the patent system as an anticompetitive tool.
The senior justice is no spring chicken. At 73, he is one of the older and more respected voices in intellectual property law. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 1981, he's kept very busy penning dozens of books on economics and intellectual property law.
Judge Posner called Google and Apple "animals" who are simply using the weapons given to them by a broken system to try to kill each other. [Image Source: Tambako]
And what all his experience has taught him is that there's little hope for software patents and other types of intellectual property to be used as anything but anticompetitive weapons.
He comments, "It's not clear that we really need patents in most industries. You just have this proliferation of patents. It's a problem."
The patent system has its advocates, but it's hard to argue that there isn't some truth in Judge Posner's observation. Smartphone makers today are compelled to patent every single feature, no matter how trivial, from animations to icons. Then they are compelled to
waste money and resources to sue each other
in a
never ending legal war
whose ultimate goal is arguably a quest for a state-enforced monopoly.
II. The Rises of the Trolls
In addition to the actually productive companies who abuse the system to try to gain an anticompetitive advantage, the broken system has spawned
the so-called "patent troll"
-- a company that produces nothing, and exists only to sue and extort money from others.
There's a great deal of
cross pollination
between the trolls and the legitimate firms. For example,
Chicago Public Media
Public Radio International
in the
This American Life
episode "
When Patents Attack
" note that one of the world's largest patent trolls,
Intellectual Ventures LLC
, is headed by the former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Corp. (
) Nathan Myrhvold.
Many "patent trolls" simply sue people, while producing nothing of worth.
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The favorite tactic of a patent troll is to file lawsuits in such a way that it's cheaper to settle than to fight the lawsuit in court. As a result, company are bled resources that could be directed towards legitimate develop that instead serve as a feast to the leeches.
Not all branches of the software industry follow this model. For example, the internet largely avoids patent litigation. And that is fortunate. If the internet followed the smartphone model, every website button, every font, every animation would be patented and few sites would exists, because only the large and powerful could maintain a sufficient arsenal to survive.
Instead, the internet opts for a democratic/collectivist solution where everyone works on common standards that are free for all. And despite claims from some industry figures that patents are "essential" to preserving "innovation", the internet has thrived and developed with remarkably few pesky patents.
III. A "Non-Biased" Observer
Despite handing Apple its biggest defeat on American soil, Judge Posner says he's a non-biased party. He even owns an iPhone, having upgraded from his trusty Research in Motion, Ltd. (
) BlackBerry. But he comments, "I'm not actually that interested in becoming part of the smartphone generation."
The Apple suit had actually been filed in Wisconsin Federal Court -- a court known to be relatively plaintiff friendly. However, Apple's "safe bet" became anything but when Judge Posner's friends in that court accepted his request to transfer the case to the Chicago court -- his local stomping ground.
Now the ball was in Judge Posner's court.
Judge Richard Posner says the U.S. patent system is broken.
[Image Source: Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune]
Following the dismissal, Judge Posner says he does not begrudge Apple despite his frustration and its lawyers. With
$110B+ USD in the bank
, Apple should be unharmed by the ruling, comments Judge Posner. He argues Apple doesn't
to sue people.
Apple seemingly agrees. CEO Timothy Cook recently commented, "[We have] more than we need to run the company."
IV. Cleaning Out the Junk
Not everyone agrees.
Judge Lucy Koh
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
(San Jose/San Francisco) has written opinions that Apple would be "irreparably harmed" if Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) is allowed to continue to sell products that infringe on Apple's patents, such as the claim to design ownership of a rectangular tablet.
She has subsequently banned sales of the Samsung
Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet
Galaxy Nexus smartphone
However, Judge Posner's voice is arguably among the most respect in American intellectual property law, and his endorsement of reassessing the validity of patents in certain sectors such as software is a pivotal one.
And there are signs that his counterparts overseas are moving in the same direction. In England, a UK court has
invalidated several key European Union patents
that Apple was using to sue Android smartphone makers. The court blasted Apple in its ruling, saying it re-patented already patented ideas and patented features already found in other products.
A perfect example is Apple's
patent on a "bounce animation"
, which was narrowed in the ruling. A bounce animation is essentially a transient response, one of the most obvious kinds of animations that one could devise.
Bounce animations on an HTC EVO running Android 2.3 "Gingerbread"
In nature things seldom just stop -- they have an elastic response, overshooting and then "bouncing" back into a resting position. Thus an animation -- like the one Apple patented -- of a scrolling or pinched object "overshooting" and then "bouncing" back into place is one of the most obvious and natural ideas ever, and has been done countless times in video games since the late 1980s/early 1990s.
The UK decision represents one possible conservative route to start implementing Judge Posner's suggested reforms -- scrap redundant and obvious software patents.
There are often literally
dozens of duplicate patents
on a specific technology. And there are literally tens of thousands (or more) patents that should not have been granted due to their obviousness. Thus, before any serious moving of the patent system occurs, it might be ideal to simply clean out the "junk in the attic" so-to-speak, as the UK court did.
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With the blazing success of "Fast & Furious 6" this weekend, many of you are writing in to ask about the plausibility of, well, anything that happens in that movie.
Is it physically possible for Vin Diesel and his wheels of justice to go up against tanks and airplanes -- and win?
I found out for you, with the help of an expert: Marty Gordon, a professor of mechanical engineering technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a board-certified forensic engineer specializing in accident reconstruction.
He and I went through the most memorable scenes in the movie. The result: this Q&A.
Can a car -- any car -- really drive through the nose of a plane?
Make that an engine of a cargo plane. And the answer is no.
"There is just too much metal for him to get through," Gordon tells me of the scene in which Diesel's car bursts through a hunk of flying machine. "If he did get through, he would have come through in chunks. That's like driving through a giant torch. The paint would have burned off. Another amazing thing: No glass was broken. And the headlights are still on, too!"
Could the windshield glass have been some sort of special glass?
"Was this a 'Star Trek' movie? No. So there was no force field."
At one point, Diesel jumps off a moving car, leaps through the air, catches Michelle Rodriguez from a moving tank, and then lands on another car to break his fall ...
"Let's say that Vin is moving at 70 miles an hour," Gordon notes. "He's still going to be going at 70 miles an hour when he lands. You can't just stop." In fact, it's pretty likely that Diesel would continue to slide until he, well, crashed into something else -- something a lot harder than Rodriguez.
In another scene, Paul Walker launches his car over a dusty hump and lands, nose down-ish and hard, on asphalt. Wouldn't the front of that car splinter into pieces instead of just bouncing a little bit and continuing on?
"With that positioning," Gordon tells me, "he would have probably damaged the front end, lost the steering, and crashed the car."
Can a tank really chase down a speeding car?
Well, here's a fact for you. The Guinness World Records once clocked "a production-standard S 2000 Scorpion Peacekeeper tank" moving just over 51 miles per hour. The Guinness people have crowned that tank as the fastest ever. I'm no Marty Gordon, but the tank in "Fast & Furious 6" is not moving at just over 51 miles per hour -- unless everyone else is moving at 10 miles per hour.
Maybe villain Luke Evans retrofitted the tank with balsa-wood sides and a rocket engine and forgot to tell us?
"That tank looked pretty light," Gordon acknowledges. "There are tanks out there retrofitted with turbo engines, but they don't provide the right thrust. In this case, there would be too much friction; if you got the tank to move that fast, you would just end up breaking something. The treads on the tank might fly off if you went too fast.
"I think this was a tank that they made up," Gordon says.
Can a plane take off, even for a short time, with the weight of a tank and a couple of cars hanging off it?
Well, technically, yeah.
"This was some sort of cargo plane," Gordon reminds me. And cargo planes are huge, built to carry things like -- yes -- tanks and Humvees. In fact, Gordon tells me, he doubts that a speeding car or two could do much to make such a powerful plane yaw and crash onto the tarmac like it does in "Fast & Furious 6."
"Best-case scenario, one of those cars can exert 4,000 or 5,000 pounds" of weight against the moving plane, Gordon says. "That's, like, 1 percent of the payload capacity of the plane. The thrust of those engines has to be 100,000 pounds each. So I don't think a car's going to do much."


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According to reports, Vinod Khosla, the billionaire venture capital investor, is increasing his bet on clean technology.
Khosla Ventures, the venture capital company he formed in 2004, will steer as much as 65 per cent of its new $1.05 billion fund to support businesses developing renewable sources of power, energy-efficiency technology and LED lighting products, Khosla said.
In supporting early stage companies working on unproven technology, Khosla expects some to fail. Lawmakers in Washington have criticised a US Energy Department program that followed the same strategy by offering a loan guarantee to Solyndra LLC, a solar-module maker that filed for bankruptcy September 6.
"When you're trying new things, some things just don't work," Khosla said in a phone interview on Saturday. "Solyndra wasn't cost competitive with other companies in the Valley; there are other companies that are doing fine."
The company's Khosla Ventures IV fund, announced October 13, will also support Internet, mobile communication and information technology companies.
Khosla is seeking companies that are striving for scientific breakthroughs, such as Soraa Inc, which he has backed since 2007. Soraa has "fundamentally changed the materials on which LEDs are built," he said. That means there's "more science risk than just a little bit of engineering."
He's also interested in thermoelectric materials, which generate power from waste heat. "Thermoelectrics, if they have a large enough breakthrough, which we hope for, could revolutionise air conditioning, cooling and refrigeration," Khosla said. They may also revolutionise power generation to become "both a demand-side and a supply-side technology."
Khosla Ventures said its clean-technology portfolio has generated about $1 billion in profits. That includes gains from the initial public offerings of biofuels companies Amyris Inc, Gevo Inc, and Kior Inc. Khosla has also backed at least two companies that have been acquired by larger entities — solar energy developer Ausra Inc. was bought by Areva SA in 2010 and efficient motor maker Ramu Inc. by Regal Beloit Corp in April. Khosla Ventures, based in Menlo Park, California, in 2009 started a $300-million seed fund to back high-risk companies and its $1 billion Khosla Ventures III fund to make more traditional investments in early- and growth-stage companies.
"We do a lot of very high risk, early investments," he said. "We'll invest a million or two and we might fail at it, but if it works then we'll put 10, 20, 30 million in it."
There are ways an investor can limit risk, he said. "Our success rate is not lower than anybody else I know, even though it seems like we're taking larger risks," Khosla said.
"Instead of just investing, we're spending a fair amount of time helping these entrepreneurs in how to build their businesses," he said. "That takes a high-risk project and turns it into a lower-risk project."


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Be still our hearts! Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet posed together on the Oscars red carpet and subsequently sent social media in a tizzy.
It's almost as if the Titanic co-stars didn't miss a beat after nearly two decades.
ET caught up with Winslet on the red carpet, where she dished on posing with DiCaprio and shared a sweet anecdote: "I just asked him if he was OK and then I noticed that he had one little eyebrow so I just put it back into place for him."
RELATED: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Reunite at the Golden Globes
The pals are both up for Academy Awards on Sunday and Winslet, 40, recently told ET that she is rooting for DiCaprio as he seeks his first Oscar in six nominations for his harrowing performance in The Revenant.
"For me, it wouldn't be the year not to be as close to Leo in that moment, should it happen for him," she gushed. "Leo, I've got his back. He doesn't need me to tell him."
So much so that they're sharing adorable moments on the red carpet like these!
RELATED: Kate Winslet Hopes Leonardo DiCaprio Wins His First Oscar This Year
Fans on Twitter could barely contain themselves.
#LeonardoDiCaprio and #KateWinslet on the red carpet together is the cutest thing besides #JacobTremblay at the #Oscars #Oscars2016— primrosesandrues16 (@primrosesandrue) February 29, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio's friendship with Kate Winslet is really goals. #myheartcannotgoon— Victoria? (@VictoriaaXI) February 29, 2016
Together, yet again... #Oscars #KateWinslet #LeonardoDiCaprio #KateAndLeoForever #IllNeverLetGo pic.twitter.com/Pnk5obqzuY— Emma Devriendt (@EmmaDevriendt14) February 29, 2016
I'm just... 😍🙌 #KateWinslet #LeonardoDiCaprio #Oscars pic.twitter.com/pLpyGDfsXZ— CKS (@ChelzKaye) February 29, 2016
For DiCaprio and Winslet, it's been a whirlwind of an awards season and they've shared almost every pivotal moment together.
At the Golden Globes in January, DiCaprio revealed to ET that Winslet -- and her husband, to be fair -- was one of his dates for the evening. "She's actually hanging out with me tonight. We're gonna go to the after parties together. We're going to have a great time," the Revenant star said at the time.
RELATED: Leonardo DiCaprio Explains His Hilarious Reaction to Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes
Plus, he's itching to reunite with Winslet on the big screen for a third time, after the duo also starred in Revolutionary Road together. "I'd love to! She's my favorite actress in the industry," the 41-year-old actor said.
While DiCaprio and Winslet are stellar individually, let's be frank: They're absolutely unstoppable together!
Ultimate #FriendshipGoals!


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Central Pacific Railroad
The dream of a Transcontinental Railroad led Theodore Judah and Doc Strong in the back of a drugstore to draw up the articles of incorporation in the fall of 1860 and thus the Central Pacific Railroad was born. Having searched far and wide, Judah knew that they had found the corridor route for the railroad through the Sierra Mountains
The problem at hand was to find key investors for such an enterprise. The solution presented its self in 1861, seven men came together to listen to Theodore Judah. Four of the men were to become known as The Big Four, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker they each purchased 15,000 dollars of stock in the newborn Central Pacific Railroad
The catalyst of the Transcontinental Railroad was the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862. It granted the needs of two railroads to be built starting at either end of the Transcontinental Railroad route and meeting somewhere in the middle
The Pacific Railroad Act gave the building rights of the railroad from the west coast starting point to the Central Pacific Railroad while the Union Pacific Railroad would build starting from Omaha, Nebraska and head west
In January of 1863, the Central Pacific Railroad broke ground in Sacramento, California and laid 20 miles of track before exhausting their funds
The greatest of all obstacles, money was needed and no stone was left unturned in finding it. The Central Pacific Railroad bought votes, had a wagon toll road and relocated a mountain range in order to obtain state and federal monies
The War between the states was taking its toll with prices greatly inflated
A ton of rails had jumped from $55 to $115 and a small locomotive if you could get one ran $14,000. Before the War between the states had started a much larger locomotive had only been 10,000. It became almost highway robbery to obtain the black powder necessary for blasting
Even worse the federal government paid in greenbacks which was not trusted in the west greenbacks when converted to gold were 57 cents on the dollar. Finally in 1864, Huntington became notably dishonest and went to Washington to buy votes. It worked and the passage of the 1864 Railroad Act made the Central Pacific Railroad a land holding company
To wax the fat off of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Big Four developed a construction firm entitled Contract and Finance Company. The Gilded Age was about to see a new form of embezzlement occur. Overall the Big Four through their scam construction company personally pocketed 63 million dollars plus held most of the Central Pacific Railroad stocks of 100 million dollars and had power over the nine million acres of land given by the federal government
Enlisting Harvey Strobridge, a slave driver, the Central Pacific Railroad pushed their men. Only 34 miles from Sacramento the crews started using blasting powder in order to maintain grade. In 1865, Charles Crocker, in charge of construction, finally found the solution to the work force problem with the introduction of Chinese labor amongst his Irishmen. At the height of construction the Central Pacific Railroad employed over 10,000 Chinese
Harvey Strobridge held a heavy hand over the social lives of his men not for reasons of morality or Christian ethics but solely for business. Harvey Strobridge had a railroad to build!
The winter of 1866 had 44 blizzards and the men were boring Summit Tunnel, the longest, highest and the last tunnel before starting down the Sierras with nine more tunnels before hitting the Nevada deserts
Working under the snow, isolated, surviving on emergency food rations took its toll on the men the avalanches proved the most devastating. The men working with incredible fortitude were only able to lay eight inches of rail a day due to the unforgiving mountain
It was not until the Central Pacific Railroad hired a chemist to manufacture nitroglycerin on the spot that progress moved on. In all the Central Pacific Railroad built 15 tunnels. In 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad laid 360 miles of track. The crew broke all records on April 28, 1869 setting ten miles of track in twelve hours
Finally on May 10, 1869 the Central Pacific Railroad met the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah. In the midst of splendid grandeur and celebration, Leland Stanford, president of Central Pacific Railroad and Durant from the Union Pacific Railroad both swung at the gold spike and missed to the enjoyment of the men
The Central Pacific Railroad 's Big Four were only beginning. In 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad had acquired the Southern Pacific Railroad but it was not until 1885 that the Central Pacific Railroad merged into the Southern Pacific Railroad which had built a transcontinental railroad to New Orleans in 1883 and dominated the railroad traffic in California
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Is Kevin Correia's performance just smoke and mirrors?
The Twins find themselves around the .500 mark and most fans would likely be happy if the club was able to keep up this pace for the remainder of the season. It might not be likely but stranger things have happened in the world of baseball.
One of the most intriguing players so far this year has been Kevin Correia. He has definitely surprised plenty of Twins fans with his performances on the mound. Out of the members in the Twins starting rotation, he has been the most consistent. He has thrown seven innings or more in each start by allowing three runs or less.
Correia became the first Twins pitcher to throw at-least seven innings in his first four starts of the year since Ramon Ortiz did it back in 2007. Oritz would compile a 4-4 record and a 5.14 ERA before the team dumped him on the Rockies in mid-August for Matt Macri. So it is important to take into account the wonders of small sample size at the beginning of the year.
When the Twins signed Correia this offseason, there were plenty of people in the industry that scoffed at the contract he was given. Minnesota is paying Correia $10 million over the next two years. That is a decent chunk of change for a man without that great of a track record. His career ERA of 4.54 and a WHIP of 1.41 seemed hardly worthy of $5 million a year but that's what Minnesota is paying him.
Correia's first impression with the Twins wasn't the greatest. He scuffled in spring training and posted some terrible numbers. His ERA was 5.40 and his 1.68 WHIP was tough to stomach. He gave up more than a hit an inning and he only struck out eight men over 25 innings. Twins Territory was left bracing for the worst.
This could have left Twins fans wondering why the team had offered a player like this a two-year deal. But lucky for Twins fans, spring training statistics usually don't matter. Correia has looked great so far but it's hard to know if he will be able to keep up this pace.
The lowest ERA he has posted in a season was 3.45 back in 2007 with the San Francisco Giants. He only made eight starts that season. Since becoming a full time starter, he only has one season with sub-4.00 ERA. He was a Padres pitcher that season and over half of his starts came at the pitcher-friendly Petco Park.
In recent years, the Twins witnessed the turn around of Carl Pavano, another veteran pitcher with a poor track record. Pavano's flaws had been mostly related to injuries so he was able to put up solid middle of the rotation numbers when he was healthy.
Correia's connection to Pavano isn't exactly perfect because Correia didn't fight a lot of injuries before joining the Twins. He has pitched at least 145 inning since 2009 and that includes a minimum of 26 starts in those seasons. Over that stretch, he averaged 167 innings per season and that would have ranked second on last year's Twins behind Scott Diamond.
If a person is taking bets on Correia, it might be time to sell your stock while it is still high. It doesn't seem like he has anywhere to go but down. His track record shows that he will most likely come back down to earth at some point this season. For now, fans can relish the solid performances he is putting forth on a team that continues to surprise.
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Portfolio administration services provider
The company provides portfolio management services to stockbrokers, financial planners, self-managed super funds and institutions and is aiming to lift its market share in Australia and become a large player in the United Kingdom.
Praemium provides technology for separately managed accounts (SMAs) in Australia, which enable investors to hold stocks in their own name rather than units in a pooled fund.
The concept has been slow to take off domestically due to the established infrastructure of wrap platforms, but Praemium is optimistic about the UK market, which lacks the incumbent platforms.
Chief executive Arthur Naoumidis notes that funds under administration rose 31 per cent to $36.7 billion over the year to September and expects SMA growth to accelerate.
The shares closed down 0.5¢ at $15¢.
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Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, I went through the public school system during the height of the Bilingualism and Biculturalism movement of the late 60's and 70's. I recall activity-filled French lessons in primary school -- painting! drama! -- and had several opportunities in my early teens to travel and live in Quebec. Then, thanks to a wonderful high school teacher, I found a summer "au pair" job with an amazing family who was restoring a 15th-century farmhouse, or mas, near Aix-en-Provence. That did it! I fell in love with France and the French people, culture and language and put aside my plans to study natural sciences in college. I earned a B.A. and M.A. in French from the University of Toronto and later a Ph.D. from Harvard. In between, I took a break and spent a couple of years teaching English in Toulouse. Never really planned on staying in the States, but I've been at OU since 1987...
I admit that I love grammar. Many people think it's dry, but the patterns and structure have always intrigued me -- especially French grammar with its dizzying combination of regimen and revolution, strict rules and outrageous exceptions. By the time students advance to FR 3110 and 3120, they are confident enough with the basics to appreciate some of the idiosyncrasies and that's where the fun starts! Literature courses, however, will probably always be my favorite. No matter the level, it's incredibly rewarding to see how 15 different minds can interpret the same text in 15 different -- and equally interesting -- ways. I don't think that literature can really be taught. So, I focus instead on the tools of literary interpretation, on teaching students to read critically and to test their ideas against the details of the text. Once a person has acquired the skill to read a text analytically, then s/he will never read in the same way again and every text will begin to make some sort of sense. I may not succeed in helping every student achieve this, but it remains my primary goal in literature classes. My personal favorites? First the novel, especially 19th-century realism and naturalism, with the post-Romantic poets a close second. If I could have a conversation with a dead author, I would choose Baudelaire.
My Ph.D. dissertation examined the representation of space in Julien Gracq's fiction. The subject continues to fascinate me and provide material for a book, which I work on during blocks of uninterrupted time, usually in the summer. More recently, I've developed an interest in the short stories of Barbey d'Aurevilly and have presented papers, published articles, and reviewed books on this late-19th-century author. In addition to literary research, I've also explored a number of pedagogical topics. These always stem from classroom experiments, such as integrating multimedia into conversation and composition courses, using popular fiction (I like detective novels!) to introduce techniques of literary analysis, and teaching contemporary Quebec culture. My current research project involves using technology to improve how I teach language and literature to information-age students -- in most cases, YOU! I'm not a techie by nature and I had to learn to think in different ways just to create online components for my courses, but I'm awestruck by the interactive possibilities of blogs, YouTube clips, instant messages, chat, wikis, and texting. These resources can enrich and complement what we do in the classroom and I'm getting new ideas for dovetailing electronic delivery with old-fashioned, in-person teaching. I'm also very excited to have created our Department's first online course, which was offered Spring semester 2014.
I live near Athens with my husband, David Sharpe, and our house rabbits, Duffle and Rousseau. At the end of the school year, we all migrate north to our summer cottage, a 60-year-old log cabin near Georgian Bay, Ontario. I love hiking, camping, canoeing, watching wildlife, and just being in, around, or on the water. A slower lifestyle from the hectic pace of OU! During the semester, I enjoy television, films, restaurants, and sometimes even cooking. I also volunteer my time with a nonprofit organization, the Buckeye House Rabbit Society. We take in domestic rabbits abandoned at animal shelters, socialize them, get them spayed/neutered, and then find permanent indoor homes for them, where they'll be an integral part of the family, like a dog or cat. Totally different from my real job, but just as rewarding in its own way!
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South Tucson Police have identified a man fatally shot in South Tucson last week as 32-year-old Clayton Eugene Francisco.
The shooting happened shortly after 11 p.m. Feb. 11 near South Sixth Avenue and East 40th Street, Lt. Jeff Inorio, a South Tucson Police Department spokesman said in a news release.
Officers responding to a report of gunshots found the man lying in the road with a gunshot wound to the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, the release said.
Witnesses said an altercation happened between two men before the shooting. The victim's name has not been released because his relatives have not been notified.
A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the shooter.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME (882-7463).


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Hyundai Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hello I will help you with your question,
This is the sensor at the snout of the crankshaft that you replaced?
Was the timing belt replaced as well?
Were all the stripped teeth removed from the crank area?
Was the wire for the sensor routed behind the power steering pump? Was the pump loosened to replace the sensor?
Was the shutter wheel replaced in the correct directionn of travel?
Usually it is one of these things that was done/not done that either breaks the new sensor, sends the wrong signal to the computer or cuts the sensor wire.
If you have a voltmeter make sure you have power and ground to the harness side of the connector with the key on and measure the other wire with a straight pin slid along the wire side of the connector so you can have it connected while you turn the crankshaft by hand, the voltage should toggle high to low as you turn the crank. If the voltage does not toggle then the problem is in the sensor or the wiring to the sensor from the connector.
Let me know what I can do to help you with this
Thank you
Good now I know what you are working with. Do you see cranking RPMs?
at the 3 connectors-i have a 12 volt signal,i have a 5 volt at the second-the other s/b interupt signal-still no pulse at injector or the pulsating ground-have a noid in harness connector to 1 injector-have power to 2 prong connector
The 5 volt signal should be the signal and it should toggle from 5 volts to ground when you turn the crank. If it does not was the shutter wheel reinstalled to the crank snout?
You should not be able to replace the sensor without removing the shutter wheel as it slides in the sensor gap a little and prevents you from removing/installing the sensor.
The signal wire color on the harness side is not given so the pair of connectors that are side by side are the ground connection and the signal connection (look for the 5 volts when you rotate the crank
Let me know if you see the toggle, all the rest is secondary until you get the crank signal to the computer.
believe i found problem-looks like i installed sensor backwards
Thats pretty tough to do but as long as you found the problem.
Is the sensor broken?
no its very easy if u not a hy mechanic-the orignal was broken-it was flat-i had the slot magnet facing outwards-totally missed shutter plate-no break or anything-reassemble now-will let u know
Ok let me know if there is anything I can do to help
One of the things I see with this engine is leaking valve covers so check the two plug wires and the two plug boots for oil contamination along with the spark plugs. This engine only likes NGK or Denso plugs.
The PCV hose that runs from the intake plenum to the valve cover in the center of the plenum/cover is known to go soft and leak.
I need as much description of the cutting out (Miss? electrical? fuel?) as possible so I can understand what is happening.
Glad to hear you got it sorted out and thanks for letting me know what happened.
I always change both belts as it is easy enough to do when you are in there, If the engine was sludged then that could be why the lifter failed but I don't see many of those.
Anyway thanks again,


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By Jennifer Close
Destination: Colorado
Books: I Can Go Hiking by Edana Eckart; Wild Tracks! by Jim Arnosky; and Birds of Colorado Field Guide by Stan Tekiela
With our move from the humidity of Florida to the cooler mountains of Colorado, we have a new-found love for hiking as a family. Unfortunately, we have also discovered that taking a few nature walks does not make a family of hikers. There are so many things to think about if you are going to hike with your family.
In the beginning, our kids were a little nervous. They wanted to know if we would see a bear or if we would get lost and not find our way home. At the same time, they were excited to get outside and start walking.
Our first family hike was about two and a half miles and had just enough rocky terrain to make it exciting for the kids. While we were hiking, we spotted a few tracks in the ground and birds in the sky. Both of my children wanted to know what the bird was and who made the tracks but I wasn't really much help. What is a parent to do? Head to the library, of course!
There are lots of books about hiking for children. We read I Can Go Hiking by Edana Eckart. Though the book was way below my son's grade level, he sat and listened as my six year old tried to read it herself. It was a fun way to introduce hiking but my children were ready to move on to the next book in our pile.
Wild Tracks! by Jim Arnosky has gotten some serious reading time in our house.
Wild Tracks! doesn't just share what the tracks look like, the drawings are life-size. It includes life-size tracks of deer and other hoofed animals like the American buffalo and the wild boar, and bear tracks. There are feline, canine, reptile and bird tracks.
Both of my children are pretty sure that we have seen bunny tracks in the snow in front of our house and they are excited to compare the tracks to the picture in the book next time it snows.
In addition to Wild Tracks, we also needed a birding book. We have spotted dozens of different birds and every time we do I feel like a failure of a mother when my children ask what its name is. Mommy has no idea, children. Birds of Colorado Field Guide was recommended to me by my friend, Barb Likos of Mom off Track, shortly after we moved here. If you don't live in Colorado, there is likely a field guide for your state.
Though Birds of Colorado Field Guide by Stan Tekiela is geared towards adults, even my six year old daughter flips through it regularly. Each bird is given a double page spread in this pocket-sized book. There is a large picture of the bird and facts like size, what the male, female and juvenile bird looks like, what the eggs look like, what they eat and some extra notes from the author. My favorite part of this book is the Compare section. If you aren't sure that the bird in the book is the one you are looking at, flip to the pages given in the compare section to see if it might be a different bird. We have used this feature several times when trying to decide what type of bird we were looking at.
A tracking book and a birding book are two books every hiking parent should have. Since reading these books together as a family, we have been much more observant on our hikes. Our children spot tiny tracks and take pictures of them so they can compare them to the book. The birds are not as easy for my 6 and 8 year old to catch on camera but they remember what they look like and flip through the book to find the birds' names. It has been a great family adventure so far and I look forward to many years of hiking with my children.


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Did you know there is something even more important than eyesight?
That's vision—the ability to see what is invisible to others and might not yet even exist.
KSWP General Manager, Al Ross, believes current circumstances do not have to limit a person's dreams becoming a reality.
You are only limited by your vision of what can be. A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
One person sees a rock pile another sees a great cathedral.
The difference is VISION!
What one person views as just another radio station, another person may view as a life-line to hope, joy, and Love.
During the upcoming months, I am going to lay out what the KAVX team believes God has laid out for the future vision of the ministry.
The goal helps paint a better vision for the future.
Please join us as we choose the brushes, paint colors and help each other paint the image God has showed us in our hearts.
It's a grand image of more lives touched by GOD'S gentle hand.


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A few tips for those suffering from lack of libido (or maybe it's your partner whose sex drive doesn't match yours). (You know that I was trained as a sex therapist in my graduate studies? Hope you don't mind if I mix in a little of that, along with nutrition ideas.)
1. Maca. Add it to a green smoothie. It's the "Peruvian ginseng," a root vegetable prized by the Incans for thousands of years for its ability to improve athletic endurance and sexual stamina.
2. Bee pollen. Look what it does for the queen bee! It's a powerful aphrodisiac. Try one grain to make sure you're not allergic, then two grains the next day. Take a teaspoon a day when you've ascertained you don't have a sensitivity to it. Eat a spoonful or put it in a smoothie. It also has a potentially helpful effect on seasonal allergies, and immune function!
3. Figure out what your time of day is, and take advantage of that. Some people are simply more interested in sex in the morning, rather than at night. It's a truism that many folks are either "night people" or "morning people." Nothing wrong with that–you might have to compromise if your partner is the opposite.
4. Women, get a full blood-panel workup at a specialized hormone clinic (generally these are run by nurse practitioners) to find out if progesterone or female testosterone is the root of the problem. More and more women are suffering from endocrine disruption and imbalance, probably partly because of things like soy in all our foods, hormones in our animal proteins, etc. A little yam-based progesterone or hormone cream may work wonders. (However, you want this only if it's warranted by your test results!) Testosterone cream is appropriate only if you are 40 or older. Other remedies your natural-care practitioner may recommend, like DHEA, or flax oil, could be easily located at a health-food store.
5. Realize that, according to research, even 10 lbs. of extra weight can dramatically affect your sex drive. Not only because you are less confident and feel less sexy–and libido has everything to do with self-confidence or self-esteem, too–but also because of the unbalancing effect on your hormones. Progressing with whole foods to your ideal weight, then, has even more upside potential.


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TSATSADOPOULO (PP016) was born in the Peloponese in 1877.
A Greek subject of the orthodox faith, married in 1900 with
one daughter, he spoke Greek and Turkish but did not pursue
any studies. He previously worked on the boat belonging to
the Zarifi family for twelve
years and on that of the Eugenides
family for seven years.
He entered Imperial Ottoman Bank in August 1914 as helmsman
of the Isonde. It was learned in February 1917 that he had
been arrested on 22 January of the same year accused of theft
in a barracks at Therapia. He was subsequently acquitted by
a court martial. In December 1922 he was asked to look after
the heating of the branch premises during the winter, receiving
an indemnity of TL15 per month in addition to his basic salary.
Suffering from severe rheumatism, he asked if he could be
employed on land. As the bank had no position to offer him,
he was made redundant in June 1923.
One month later, he was replaced by Emmanuel KELAIDITIS (PP056),
an Ottoman subject of the orthodox faith, born at Artaki (Erdek)
in 1892 and a bachelor. Between 1918 and 1922, he had been
employed as a sailor on the Augustine belonging to the British
military base at Constantinople. Speaking Greek and Turkish,
he studied at the local primary school of his native village.
In 1926, after one month's medical leave, he did not return
to the bank. After investigation, the personnel department
understood that he had left Turkey for Greece. His employment
was therefore revoked.
first mechanic of the Isonde, Todori DAKOGLOU (PP003),
replaced Fortunato Maresi deceased. Todori occupied this position
from March 1921. He was a Turkish citizen of orthodox faith
and had studied at the two Greek schools in Constantinople
at Buyukdere and Zographion, as well as at the French school
Saint-Pierre in Galata. Furthermore, he had obtained a second
grade mechanic's diploma from the Ministry of the Marine.
From 1910 to 1914, he was a mechanic at Chirket i-Hairié,
also known as Sirket i-Hayriye, the Istanbul shipping company.
He spoke French and Greek. In 1927, he was transferred to
the department responsible for heating the premises within
the supply services department. From 1932 onwards, he also
acted as plumber and locksmith in the bank.
In 1927, apart from Todori Dakoglou, the personnel of the
steamer Isonde included:
Mehmed CHEHABEDDINE, Captain
Ali bin HASSAN, Assistant Mechanic
Ahmed MEHMEDOGLOU, Helmsman
Osman MEHMED and Minas OHANESSIAN, sailors.
When the boat was laid up during the winter, its personnel
carried out other functions, generally "responsibility
for heating the head office" or as office messenger.
Thus, in the minutes No 122 of General Management dated 17
November 1923, it was decided "to lay up the steamer
and bring its crew to the head office where they will be used
for subordinate duties. One of the Turkish servants in the
head office will be sent to the steamer as caretaker. The
captain and mechanic will from time to time oversee maintenance
of the engines" (CV-PV031 p. 992).
captain of the steamer Isonde, Mehmed CHEHABEDDINE
(PP006) was a former pupil of the School of Merchant Shipping
at Scutari (Uskudar). He had long experience in shipping:
one year's apprenticeship as pupil captain on the steamer
Edirne plying between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara,
later Captain of the steamer belonging to the Dardanelles
Health and Quarantine Department (Karantina) captain of the
Steamer Halitch (Haliç) belonging to the Turkish National
Water Company Milli Turk Su Sirketi, captain on vessels belonging
to the British Naval Transport Division in the Bosphorus.
He spoke Turkish, Greek, English and a little French. He entered
the service of the bank in 1926 and remained until January
1949. During the last years of his service, between 1932 and
his departure, he acted as "head messenger" (odabasi),
first at the head office and then at the Stamboul (Yenicami)
branch. In 1936, he adopted the family name Nuyan.
in the region of Diyarbakir in 1883, Ali bin HASSAN
(PP181) studied for 11 years at the Arsenal School of Mechanics
(Carkci Ameliyat Mektebi). He served on board numerous war
ships during the First World War. In 1923, when he was recruited
by the bank as helmsman, he had the title of officer mechanic.
The following year, he was appointed second mechanic and caretaker
on the Isonde. Following the dry docking of the steamer and
its laying up in December 1932, Ali bin Hassan was made redundant.
MEHMEDOGLOU (PP192) was born in Of in 1908. A Muslim,
he had not been to school and only spoke Turkish. He was taken
on as helmsman of the Isonde in May 1925. Following the laying
up of the steamer in October of the same year he was made
redundant and re-engaged in March 1926 for the same functions
which he continued until May 1930.
OHANESSIAN (PP142) was engaged by Imperial Ottoman Bank
on 1 November 1894 as second mechanic of the Isonde. A Gregorian
Armenian, he was originally from Ada Pazar (Ada Pazari). He
spent all his childhood in the orphanage at Yedikule. He spoke
Armenian, Turkish, Greek and a little French. For four years
he was a mechanic in the Cavafian workshops. In June 1929,
he was made redundant for the first time and replaced by Ali
Osmanoglou. A year later, he was re-engaged temporarily as
assistant and for the winter only in the boiler room. In fact,
he stayed at the Imperial Ottoman Bank until he died in December
1946 after 52 years' service. Between time in 1936 he adopted
the family name Gumusgerdan. According to the season, he switched
his function between office messenger and the bank's heating.
son of a baker and illiterate, Osman bin MEHMED (PP050)
changed his name to Osman Hasa in 1936. He was born at Kandilli
in 1890 and worked as a boatman for four years before entering
the Imperial Ottoman Bank. Recruited initially as office messenger
for two years, 1924 to 1926, he then transferred as sailor
on the Isonde and alternated these two functions according
to the season until 1932. He was then employed as messenger
at the head office until he left in 1955.


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The ninth volume of this complete recording of Bach''s cantatas continues the series of cantatas from the first Leipzig cycle. Cantata 173a is the sole exception: a secular cantata composed by Bach at Coethen, it was reworked as a church cantata (BWV 173) for the first Leipzig cycle (included in Volume 7). With the cantatas he composed during his first year at Leipzig, Bach provided himself with an unprecedented wealth of musical forms free of any schematic approach. The orchestra is considerably bigger than at Weimar. More use is made of brass instruments, especially trumpet and horn. The instrumental writing is noticeably more virtuosic, while the melismatic quality of the word setting is further developed. Begun in 1994, this series was called "the recording project of the nineties" by THE GUARDIAN, and was awarded the 1997 DEUTSCHE SCHALLPLATTENPREIS "ECHO KLASSIK" in Germany. The series continues to feature the scholarly contributions of Professor Christoph Wolff, one of the world''s leading experts on the music of Bach.


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Keep this goal in mind as you read on: solid income and growth with minimal risk and no catastrophic losses. Just tuck it in the back of your head.
Subscriber Brian A. wrote sharing a common concern:
"I subscribe to your newsletter for the purpose of diversifying my portfolio as well as taking more responsibility for my investment future. … I look at the soaring S&P and Dow and wonder if both are appreciating from strong fundamentals, or from the Fed's easy money policy. … I listen to my broker who spouts out information of a resurgence of manufacturing coming back to US soil and (says) equities are the place to be for the near future. The other side spouts banks are insolvent, businesses are closing, (and) if it wasn't for the Fed propping things up we would be in a recession. Some say we are in a recession. I would like to see you devote an article on the subject of the 'don't worry be happy' crowd verses the 'doom and gloom' crowd."
Well, Brian, ask and ye shall receive. My recommendation, as always, is to look at the data, decide for yourself which camp you fall in—if either—and invest accordingly.
Folks who think things are turning around generally point to statistics published by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). These numbers—the unemployment and inflation rates and the Consumer Price Index in particular—are used by the Federal Reserve to make or change policy. Those decisions affect the economy and the stock market.
If you swallow these numbers, you can point to a trend line going up. You may not think "happy days are here again," but you could make a case that we are headed in the right direction.
In contrast, the "gloom and doom" crowd point to data from statisticians like John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics, who make a good case against the accuracy of official government data. Williams' alternatives to the CPI, official inflation rate, and unemployment rate paint a much different picture.
Unemployment offers an easy example. When a person stops looking for work, the CBO no longer considers him unemployed. I guess that means if everyone just stopped looking, the unemployment problem would be solved.
Many in the gloom-and-doom crowd distrust the government and believe its statistics are produced for the benefit of politicians.
The gap between these two camps is wide. We recently published a special report called Bond Basics, offering safe ways to find yield in the current economy. Shortly after releasing our report, I attended a workshop with one of the top bond experts at a major brokerage firm. As I listened to his excellent presentation, I realized we agreed on many points: interest rates seem to be going up, the value of laddering and diversification, etc. We also agreed that investors (not traders) should buy bonds for one purpose: safe retirement income.
This speaker, however, recommended that baby boomers and retirees buying individual bonds only buy investment-grade bonds and ladder them over an eight-year period. Each year some would mature, and retirees would then replace them with other eight-year bonds. In a rising-rate environment, retirees would eventually catch up he claimed. This expert mentioned inflation only once, remarking that it is "under control" and should remain low.
I went to the company's website and discovered that five-year AAA bonds were paying 1.92%, and ten-year bonds were paying 3.41%.
Then I went to Shadow Government Statistics. The official inflation rate as indicated by the CPI is hovering around 1.8%. However, using the same method used for calculating the CPI in 1990 (the government has changed the formula many times), the current rate comes to approximately 5.5%.
Now, it only makes sense to invest in long-term, high-quality bonds if you truly believe the government's CPI statistics. If, however, you that suspect inflation isn't quite so under control—even if you don't believe it's 5.5%—why would you invest in an eight-year bond that's virtually certain to lose to inflation?
The same logic applies to unemployment numbers. The official number is around 6.7% and coming down. Alternative calculations show a double-digit unemployment rate that is rising. Should you invest heavily in stocks now? It depends again on whom you believe.


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Rain in forecast for next 2-3 days
After an ideal July 4th weekend, who can complain about some showers and thunderstorms today?
Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain, the National Weather Service says. The high today will be near 76, and chance of precipitation is 80 percent. Rainfall will amount to between a quarter and half of an inch.
More showers and thunderstorms are likely tonight, mainly before 7 p.m. And the overnight low should be around 69, the weather service says, with the chance of precipitation at 60 percent.
More showers and thunderstorms are expected Tuesday morning, with some of the storms producing gusty winds and heavy rain. The high tomorrow will be near 79 and the chance of precipitation is 60 percent. Showers and thunderstorms also are forecast for Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.


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By Mason W. Canales
Killeen Daily Herald
HARKER HEIGHTS - The Fort Hood garrison commander briefed members of the Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce about troop levels on post for the next year and facility projects Thursday at a Governmental Affairs Committee luncheon.
Col. Mark Freitag said his visit with the Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce would be one of many to communities surrounding Fort Hood to help strengthen the relationships between them and the installation.
"I am on a traveling road show to tell the communities about what is going on at Fort Hood," Freitag said.
With more than 20 brigades stationed at Fort Hood and several deployed, the Army post currently has a population of about 89,000, with a little less than half of that being civilians, contractors and family members, Freitag said. There are roughly 48,000 soldiers on post.
The community, however, will experience many more brigades deploying during the next six to eight months, he said.
"The population at Fort Hood is going to go down for about a year," he said.
Estimates show about 25,000 soldiers remaining stationed here within a year, Freitag said.
Another factor contributing to the decline in soldiers will be the redeployment of the 4th Aviation Combat Brigade to Fort Bliss. It will, however, be replaced with a smaller division that will make the total soldier assignments at Fort Hood about 46,000 before the deployments.
Freitag also discussed numerous projects and programs occurring on post.
The All Army Combatives Tournament is scheduled to come to Fort Hood in May, he said. Also in May, a simulated plane crash, which will include emergency response teams from across Central Texas, will take place at the Robert Gray Army Airfield.
Freitag said other projects under way at Fort Hood include:
Construction on at least eight child-development centers and one youth center
Additions to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
Creation of two Marine Reserve Units stationed at Hood Army Airfield
Construction of the new Fort Hood Stadium, which may have a joint-use agreement with Killeen Independent School District
Creation of the North Fort Hood Mobilization Training Center
Building the Air Assault Training tower and the Confidence Training Course
"A lot the things going on at Fort Hood are trend-setting," Freitag said. "What happens in the Army starts at Fort Hood."
Contact Mason W. Canales at email@example.com or (254) 501-7554. Follow him on Twitter at KDHheights.


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I know not; the cistus is brown now, the rest all deep or brilliant green.
I know not; the cistus is brown now, the rest all deep and brilliant green.
Yet there seems little doubt the word was first applied to the gum of the cistus.
Her pride fell flat, as the cistus stamen at a touch droops away on the petal.
So we drove on among the cistus bushes and I asked him about the lottery.
The sun had set, the cistus flowers began to fall, and the rich blossoms of the night-loving Nilica diffused their rich odour.
The whole ground in front of her was a mass of shimmering gold, where the cistus flowers spread their yellow blossoms.
The original application of the name would appear to have been to the cistus.
Polyadelphia: stamens united into three or more bundles; as in hypericum and cistus.
The smell of cistus was intense, hot, full of spices as the narrow streets of an oriental town at night.


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Miami 1-for-60 In Latest Restaurant Lists
Our one winning plate
Jacquelynn Powers
Andrew Knowlton, Restaurant Editor and BA Foodist for Bon Appétit, has released his annual compilation of The Ten Best New Restaurants in America, and...drumroll, please...no Miami dining establishment made the cut. The ones that did are: Laurelhurst Market, Portland, Oregon; Miller Union, Atlanta; Menton, Boston; Marea, New York; Anchovies & Olives (makes me thirsty just saying it), Seattle; Hatfield's, Los Angeles; Ellerbe Fine Foods, Fort Worth; Bar La Grassa, Minneapolis; Frances, San Francisco; The Purple Pig, Chicago.
Food Network Magazine also jumped into the act this week with its Top
Ten Best Eats in America -- and again no Miami. Nor are we in the Ten
Best Food/drink Destination category, or in Ten Best Regional Classics, but Kermit's Key West Lime Shoppe made it to the Ten Best Sweets, and the spaghetti at Scarpetta is deemed one of the Ten Best Comfort Foods.
So altogether that's one-for-sixty as far as Miami restaurants
are concerned; two-for-sixty if we widen the net to South Florida.
I haven't eaten in enough of these restaurants around America to know
if our best joints stack up or not. I'll be taking a short trip west
soon enough, and will hopefully get some idea of what's going on out
Meanwhile, let's just sulk.
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Stackoverflow is one of most widely used Q&A platform. It is the default choice of developers. It has over 100 million page views in a month and its Google page rank is 60. Check out its open source technology stack, the tools used to build such a popular website. Stackoverflow uses open source projects and also contributes to it.
Commercial software:
Programming Language: CSharp
Web Server: IIS
Database: Microsoft SQL Server
Open Source software:
ServiceStack.Text is a Web Services framework. It uses fastest JSON, JSV and CSV Text Serializers. https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Text
Elastic Search is a powerful search engine based on Lucene. It provides distributed RESTful search and analytics. http://www.elasticsearch.org/
Redis is a advanced key value store. It is used for caching. http://redis.io/
Booksleeve provides pipelined, asynchronous, multiplexed and thread-safe access to Redis via CSharp code. http://code.google.com/p/booksleeve/
Dapper is a simple object mapper (ORM) for .Net. It is used to access MSSQL Server. http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/
StackID is a OpenID provider implemented for the Stack Exchange network, built on top of dotNetOpenAuth. http://code.google.com/p/stackid/
MiniProfiler is a simple but effective mini-profiler for .NET. http://miniprofiler.com/
MarkdownSharp and PageDown:
Markdown is a markup language, which users type their text in a formatted way. MarkdownSharp is used in the server side to process the formatted text to HTML. PageDown is used to preview the content in the client side.
Protobuf-net is a fast, portable, binary serialization for .NET. protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google and this library is .NET implementation of protocol buffers. http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/
Bosun - Monitoring system written in Go. It is an time series alerting framework.
NetGain - A high performance websocket server library. It pushes real-time updates to users such as notifications in the top bar, vote counts, new nav counts, new answers and comments, and a few other bits.
Opserver - Stack Exchange's Monitoring System. It is a tool for monitoring servers, elastic search , database, load balancers etc.
Jil - Fast .NET JSON (De)Serializer
Most of the popular highly active social networking sites are developed either in Ruby, PHP, Scala or Java. If you want an example of popular site running in .NET, IIS and MSSQL server (Microsoft stack) then it would be Stackoverflow. There are lot of open source tools available in .NET. You could buy couple of Microsoft commercial software and use rest of open source software.
SourceForge.NET is most popular and widely used Forge. It helps to host software projects. It has integrated support for Wiki, Forum, Tracker and Full text search. The code base named allura, is completely built on open source stack. This article explains few important one used to build SourceForge.NET.
Email is the primary way of communication. Small organization which hosts their website / any other application from a third party hosting service providers may require this email stack.
Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything. Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 34 billion posts to date. Below is the list of open source used in Tumbler.
Zimbra is a Enterprise messaging and collaboration software. It is a good alternative to Microsoft Exchange server. Zimbra is a Email Server but they have not written anything related to SMTP server, rather they have integrated well know open source email server in to its package. Zimbra is a system of well connected / integrated multiple open source software which delivers enterprise quality to it. This article explains most important components which helps to build the enterprise product.
Twitter uses many open source products and also contributes most of the code to open source. Here is the list of open source products used by Twitter. This list does not include the projects sponsored by twitter.
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Lily currently offers an open source content repository. It is the first cloud-scalable repository for social content applications. It is built from ground up using Big Data and NOSQL technology. Its technology stack includes Hadoop, HBase and Solr.
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TOP STORY >> Parents prefer charter schools
Leader senior staff writer
Enthusiastic but very different community meetings were held Tuesday evening when residents and officials discussed changing Jacksonville Star Academy and Harris Elementary School into conversion charter schools.
The schools will still be part of the Pulaski County Special School District. But they will be eligible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in start-up money and also special waivers from the state Education Board.
Two parents, each with a child, attended the Star Academy meeting and other interested Jacksonville residents visited with district officials at the old Jacksonville Girls Middle School. But an hour later, about 45 people filled all the available seats in a Harris Elementary computer lab.
The Star Academy is a special credit-recovery, dropout-prevention program that helps students get back on track for timely graduation. This year 61 students from Jacksonville High School students are involved.
Classes are small and instruction concentrated. The students take all ninth-grade classes in the first semester, all 10th-grade classes in the second semester and return to high school for 11th grade, if successful. They also have to take a math class in the summer.
Deborah McAfee, the districts grants administrator, told the Star Academy group that district officials would like to expand the program to include students from other high schools and eventually to home-schooled students.
Cassandra Steed told McAfee that her daughter Kaiesha loves the Star Academy.
I had a sister who died last week and (Kaiesha) didnt want to go to the funeral didnt want to miss even a day of school, Steed said.
Im more focused than I was in regular school, Kaiesha Steed said.
Shes interested and thats the important part, her mother said. This is the most interest shes shown in the last five years.
Several administrators and board members Bill Vasquez and Danny Gilliland attended both meetings. Board member Gwen Williams attended the Harris meeting. Harris is in Williams zone.
This was not the first rodeo for most of the parents attending the Harris meeting. The school, where a large percentage of the students qualify for free and reduced lunches, is climbing out from academic distress and parental involvement has been good.
It already has a health and science focus. Some of the people at the meeting were on the steering committee that helped the school make that transition.
At least two people volunteered to help if the school and district redouble efforts at science-based elementary education.
NASA already partners with the school. Several community tutors were working in the multimedia center Tuesday.
McAfee said the district wants to get the money and leeway from the state to equip the rooms with microscopes, smart boards and more computers when needed.
The school can use the money $150,000 a year for three years to set up science labs for chemistry and biology.
There is a PE for Life program that teaches children about nutrition and exercise and taking care of themselves throughout their lives to help them stay healthy, McAfee said.
Principal Lou Jackson, formerly at Sylvan Hills, seemed very enthusiastic about the opportunity. She had already invited an University of Arkansas at Little Rock public school liaison who specializes in science to help implement the new program.
I started the science lab at Carver Elementary School, said Lola Perritt, the UALR director of the Central Education Renewal Zone. We equipped my science lab like a high school science lab, she said. I want to allay some of your fears. Kids absolutely love science. It looks great to me.
Perritt said she also helped write the state benchmarks for science.
Its a different strategy for engaging the child, McAfee said. Harris plans this, not Deborah McAfee, she said.
We hope the enrollment will increase and hope the teachers will stay, she said. The teachers will get professional development help geared toward the new programs.
She said she hopes the teachers will be excited and commit to stay for three years.
Whats going to change is the excitement about learning, McAfee said.


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"The Hunger Games" Stars Open Up to Total Film
We're under a month away from it's theatrical release, and the stars of "The Hunger Games" cover the April 2012 issue of Total Film
With a range of still images from the book-based movie included, the in-depth article features comments from Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson, Josh Hutcherson and Donald Sutherland.
A rundown of highlights from the "Hunger Games" cast's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to check out Total Film!
Jennifer Lawrence on being talked into taking the role by her mother:
"I always got asked why I did Indies, not studio films, and I said it was about the script, it's not about how big it is, and she was like, 'This is a script you love, a character you love, and you're about to turn it down because of the size of it? You're a hypocrite!'"
Elizabeth Banks on whether she was involved in designing Effie's costumes:
"Of course! Everything you see on Effie is purposeful, nothing is whimsical. As an ambassador for the Capitol I wanted to make it clear Effie is oppressed, so all her clothes are constricting, corseted, uncomfortable. And I wear crazy shoes that you would never be able to spend the 12 hour day in – I wanted her to be tortured by her clothes"
Donald Sutherland on how he first heard about the hunger games:
"I wasn't actually offered a role. The script was given to me, to see what I thought of it, and I wrote an extensive note to my representative, as I thought it was a beautiful script, and it had the possibility to be the most influential film made in this country for many years."
Lenny Kravitz on how he was pitched the role by Gary Ross:
"Well, he said he liked the sensitivity with which I played Nurse John, and that Cinna and Nurse John have similar characteristics of warmth and quietness and so he thought that I would bring out the character well. All I had to do was read it and, y'know, make the decision."
Woody Harrelson on what impressed him most about the shoot:
"Every aspect of the production: wardrobe, hair, makeup. When you see what form it takes, it's amazing, unique and totally original. Even a glass is not just a normal glass, they don't do anything normal. When you get to the Capitol, everything is different – even ice! It's pretty cool."


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As a school nutrition dietitian, I partner with charter schools and small school districts in North Carolina to create efficient Child Nutrition programs customized with systems and menus that meet the approval of both the students AND the USDA.
Evaluate products and recipes for meal pattern compliance
Develop cycle menus that
– are compliant with USDA guidelines
– help to make efficient use of inventory and space
– meet the expectation of school's population and parents
Interpret NSLP & NSBP meal patterns and the Certification process to develop a systematic plan of attack
Develop and maintain nutrition database of USDA-approved nutrient analysis software (proficient in NutriKids, MealsPlus and WebSmartt)
Complete biannual nutrient analysis promptly to meet October and March deadlines
Complete, review and submit Certification documents to DPI for approval
Develop North Carolina-approved production record templates based on certified cycle menu
Create standardized recipes to ensure menu compliance with each meal
Organize recipes and required documentation for DPI reviews
Provide staff trainings on Child Nutrition topics
– Meal Patterns
– Production Records
– Offer v. Serve
– Food Safety
My love of efficient kitchens extends beyond school cafeterias. Check out some of my favorite resources for organizing your kitchen and planning meals at home.
From early on in college, I've been drawn to the food service field of dietetics. While my peers longed for careers in a hospital setting, I had my eyes on the shiny stainless steel of industrial kitchen equipment. I didn't know it then, but for me, school nutrition would come to be the perfect mix of problem solving, data analysis, associate training, wellness promotion, and nutrition education.
Over the past decade, I've worked as the menu planning dietitian for programs as small as a single charter school to as large as more than 150 school site kitchens. Since the introduction of the new meal pattern, I've been involved in the process of menu certification of over a dozen programs here in North Carolina.
When I'm not helping schools make sense of the crazy world of Child Nutrition, you can find me around Apex with my boyfriend Jim and my basset hound Marshall Dillon.
Jill Hively, RD, LDN
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