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Construction of Grand Coulee Dam began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. Grand Coulee Dam is the largest hydropower producer in the United States with a total generating capacity of 6,809 megawatts. It is also part of the Columbia Basin Project, irrigating more than 600,000 acres, and is the cornerstone for water control on the Columbia River in the United States. Video Transcript PDF 23 kb
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Grand Coulee Dam Seeks Power Manager The Bureau of Reclamation is hiring a Power Manager at Grand Coulee Dam, a world-class facility on the Columbia River that is the largest hydropower producer in the United States, generating more than 21 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. You will oversee 500 employees and work with multiple tribal, federal, and local entities while managing a facility in the throes of substantial upgrades and equipment overhaul. This complex, multipurpose project provides hydropower, flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife enhancement, and irrigation water to more than 600,000 acres in the Columbia Basin. Apply online: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/361112200
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Grand Coulee Dam was the key to the development of power on the Columbia River — the greatest potential source of hydroelectric energy among the rivers in America. Original plans considered ten dams on the Columbia River between the Canadian border and the mouth of the river. Grand Coulee Dam forms Lake Roosevelt, extending upstream 151 miles to the Canadian Border. It has a 600-mile shoreline and a surface area of 82,000 acres. In 1948 Congress designated Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, which is operated by the National Park Service. Grand Coulee Dam provides water to irrigate approximately 600,000 acres in the Columbia Basin Project. In addition to its irrigation and power functions, Grand Coulee Dam is a primary factor in controlling the floods on the Columbia River. John Keys III, Pump-Generating Plant Dedication Ceremony
Geology
In its generally southwesterly course from Canada to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River in central Washington forms a half loop known as the Big Bend, between the mouths of the Spokane and Snake Rivers. During one of the ice ages, a glacier extended across the present river channel, diverting the flow across the open eastern side of the Big Bend loop. By the time the ice age had passed, this diverted water had eroded what is now known as the Grand Coulee, so that when the river returned to its present channel the Coulee was left as a potential high-elevation irrigation storage reservoir, waiting only to be sealed at each end and filled with water. Grand Coulee Dam and powerplants are located in the present Columbia River Channel adjacent to the upper end of the Grand Coulee, about 90 miles northwest of Spokane, Washington.

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PAULA DEEN

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Paula Deen Might Be Comin' to Skymall, Y'all!

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After a huge cash infusion from an investor who has $75 million worth of faith that embattled chef Paula Deen's buttery best years are ahead of her, the comfort food maven is poised to make a big time comeback... in Skymall.

According to TMZ, Deen's latest benefactor is an investment company run by Jahn Najafi, a multi, multi millionaire who despite the fact that he can afford to live almost anywhere, has opted to live in Phoenix. This is relevant because I believe it speaks to his ability to judge worthy investments.

Anyway, in 2012, Najafi and his partners purchased SkyMall, the highlight of every trip I take on an airplane because it allows me to play a game I like to call What Item On This Page Is The Least Bad? with either my travel companion or whoever is unlucky enough to sit next to me. A customized marble dog carved with your family crest? Something called an NFL Forest Face for the trees that don't grow in the yard I don't have? A fake mounted squirrel head? An "Affirmation box" that will say things like "Lookin' Good, Erin!" when I open it? I pick squirrel.

Imagine Paula Deen branded products in Skymall. Imagine it. It's perfectly awful. Custom made racist lawn ornaments. A pan that only makes black & white cookies (Fine. "Separate But Equal" Cookies). Butter stuff. A miniature gingerbread plantation for Christmas, for the kids.

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How, exactly, Deen's brand will be utilized with this gigantic investment remains to be seen. But I'm crossing my fingers that it involves garish knickknacks that can be ordered at the touch of a button from 30,000 feet in the air. And that somehow, this means that Kristen Wiig can dust off her Deen impression for a Very Special SNL cameo.

Shares in Twitter plummet after its $645m loss for 2013

 Shares in microblogging site Twitter fell by 23% as it reported a net loss of $645m (£396m) for 2013, just three months after its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange. The loss was expected by analysts, who highlighted Twitter's revenues, which rose 110% last year to reach $665m. But slow growth in user numbers was a bigger concern for investors.

 Twitter averaged 241 million monthly users in the last quarter of the year, up just 3.8% on the previous quarter. That represents a slowdown compared with a growth rate of 10% seen at the beginning of 2013. Timeline views were down nearly 7%, suggesting users were refreshing their feeds less often.

 "What this report will do is it will question how mainstream is Twitter as a platform," said Arvind Bhatia, an analyst at Sterne, Agee & Leach. Shares fell as much as 12% in after-hours trading on Wednesday. Stuart Miles, CEO of founder of the technology website Pocket-lint.com said: "Apart from professionals like journalists, the typical user gets on to Twitter, messes around, doesn't quite get it, leaves it a while and then comes back a year or two later. But that translates into very slow growth.

Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote The classic example is Satya Nadella, the new head of Microsoft. He used Twitter in 2010, then gave up for four years, and now is using it because he thinks it's the way to communicate now he's the chief executive” "The classic example of this is Satya Nadella, the new head of Microsoft. He used Twitter in 2010, then gave up for four years, and now is using it because he thinks it's the way to communicate now he's the chief executive," he added. Nate Elliott, an analyst at research firm Forrester, told AFP: "If you don't have an engaged user base, you don't have a business. They have got to do better on users, that is the entire story."

 Advertising revenue growth Twitter's share price had more than doubled in value since the company was floated on the stock market in November, when it was valued at around $18bn. But opinion has been divided on whether the company can deliver returns to investors. For the last three months of 2013, Twitter said it made a net loss of $511m but on revenues that more than doubled to $243m. Twitter said it was improving its "overall user experience" by launching enhancements like custom timelines, and the ability to send and receive photos via direct message.

 Twitter says 75% of its advertising revenues comes via mobile platforms But it also pledged to continue to improve its services to advertisers in the hope of growing revenues further. Twitter brings in money largely by selling advertising space and data on tweeting habits. More than 90% of its revenues in the last quarter came from advertising, where advertisers pay to have their tweets promoted and appear in users' feeds. Three-quarters of advertising income comes from mobile platforms like smartphones, the company said.

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The Eagles Reopen The Forum in L.A. With a Nostalgic Night of Hits

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By Phil Gallo, Los Angeles | January 16, 2014 11:55 AM EST

Glenn Frey and Don Henley of The Eagles perform at the Forum on January 15, 2014 in Inglewood, CA

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28-song set arranged chronologically… Original guitarist Bernie Leadon plays entire first set… The legendary arena underwent a $100 million renovation and looks to compete with Staples Center and Nokia Theater

The Eagles reopened the refurbished Forum Wednesday night with a concert that emphasized the care and precision that went into their records in the 1970s, a perfect night of nostalgia for fans who care to remember the Forum when Jerry West was the Lakers star and "One of These Nights" was a hit on FM radio.

Arranging their set chronologically, as they have for the last year, Glenn Frey and Don Henley reinforced the story behind the documentary "History of the Eagles," their material beginning bare bones and folky and developing in complexity and sound. The emphasis, especially early on, was gently swaying country-rock made for clubs and backyard barbecues; on the other end, "Hotel California" provided a climactic finish not just in the scope of the song, but in its ability to engage the crowd of 13,700 and fill the arena with sound.

The approach, with original guitarist Bernie Leadon playing the entire first set, meant the Forum's acoustic improvements, part of a $100 million renovation, would be gradually tested and in ways the average 21st century show would not (clear harmonies, multiple acoustic guitars, no visual effects). Henley, sounding particularly strong, and Frey opened the show, dominated by mid-tempo numbers, as a duo and one member after another joins on ensuing songs. It sounded best when the band was working all of its signature elements -- four-voice harmonies, a gentle rhythm track with a smooth electric guitar solo -- and in need of sonic enhancement when the accompaniment was just two acoustic guitars.

Late in the second set, Frey gave a short speech encouraging people to return to the Forum to see other acts and to note that it is the only large venue unencumbered by the schedules and needs of the NBA or NHL. "It's going to become the premier large venue (in North America)," he predicted. "It's about the only facelift I care for in Hollywood."

Frey and his band mates had a slightly different view of the venue than the paying customers. The building has nine dressing rooms, seven of them built to headliner specifications; a lounge adjacent to the floor seats for friends and family; and a game room. The private Forum Club was buzzing with invited guests prior to the concert, most notably with ELO's Jeff Lynne, Edgar Winter and CAA's Rob Light.

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Improvements for fans included carpeted and improved concession stands in the corridors and, for the first time, on the floor level, new, heavily cushioned seats, and the absence of a scoreboard in the center of the arena.

The bare bones nature of the building remains intact. You can still walk from the floor to the last row and there is not a single advertisement in the room.

The unseen side of the improvements include steel reinforcement in the ceiling and roof that allow banks of PA speakers to hang from the rafters 72 feet above the floor. The Eagles six-night stand has behind-the-stage seats blocked; the venue can be scaled down to 9,000 seats with the upper sections curtained off via eight sheets on a mechanical operating system or expanded to a 17,000 capacity.

Madison Square Garden officials have told Billboard they see that flexibility as a key selling point in competing with the L.A. Live venues, Staples Center and Nokia Theater, and giving the venue a shot at replacing the razed Gibson Amphitheater that seated just over 6,000. In the coming year, they expect to present about 100 concerts.

Eagles Setlist

"Whatever Happened to Saturday Night"
"Train Leaves Here This Morning"
"Peaceful Easy Feeling"
"Witchy Woman"
"Doolin Dalton"
"Tequila Sunrise"
"Doolin Dalton"/"Desperado"
"Already Gone"
"Best of My Love"
"Lyin' Eyes"
"One of These Nights"
"Take It To Limit"

Intermission

"Pretty Maids All in a Row"
"I Can't Tell You Why"
"New Kid in Town"
"Love Will Keep Us Alive"
"Heartache Tonight"
"Victim of Love"
"In the City"
"Life's Been Good"
"The Long Run"
"Funk #49"
"Life in the Fast Lane"

Encores

"How Long"
"Hotel California"
"Take It Easy"
"Rocky Mountain Way"
"Desperado" (2)

Hetty (the Witch of Wall Street) Green

Hetty (the Witch of Wall Street) Green had upon her death in 1916, accumulated a net worth in excess of 100 million dollars. Adjusted for inflation this would be 200 Billion Dollars today. . .

There was an old woman often seen plodding up and down Wall Street at the turn of the 20th century. She walked alone. Her black, faded dress was dirty and ragged at the seams. She carried a case with her with a pitiful lunch tossed inside, usually graham crackers or dry oatmeal. She was such a familiar sight, with her grim face and strange dress, everyone called her “The Witch of Wall Street.”

She was Hetty Green, and she was worth $3.8 billion*.

BUILDING BILLIONS

Hetty was born into a wealthy whaling family in 1834. She was an only child, and her mother was too sickly and fragile to help raise her. Instead, her father and grandfather saw to her care. They trained her to handle money shrewdly from a young age, reading her stock market reports as other parents read bedtime stories.

Hetty was a financier. Her handwriting was sloppy and riddled with misspellings, but she surely knew her numbers. More importantly, she knew how to increase them. She oversaw tremendous real estate deals, bought and sold railroads, and made loans. She was particularly adept at prospering during the downfall of others; buying falling stocks, foreclosing properties, and even holding entire banks, entire cities, at her mercy through enormous loans. Depending who you asked, she was either a brilliant strategist or a ruthless loan shark. Collis P. Huntington, the man who built the Central Pacific Railroad and personal enemy of Hetty, called her “nothing more than a glorified pawnbroker."

Hetty’s audacity was apparent early on. When her aunt, Sylvia Howland, died in 1868 and left $2 million to charity, Hetty was incensed. She challenged the will in court, presenting what she claimed was a previously written will that left everything to Hetty, with a clause that specifically invalidated any subsequent versions of the will. The courts determined that clause and Sylvia’s signature were a complete forgery, and Hetty lost the case. It was one of very few losses that Hetty would allow in her lifetime.

TOUGH LOVE

Love was not something that could be tallied in an office, and Hetty struggled with it. She believed (rightly) that she was surrounded by gold diggers, and did not trust the men who showed interest in her. She was 33 before a man who possessed his own modest wealth wanted to marry her. This was Edward Henry Green, with whom she had two children, Ned and Sylvia. Unfortunately Edward wasn’t nearly as good with money as Hetty was. Even though she had made every effort to keep their finances separate, the pre-“women are humans” 19th century banks kept using her money as if it were his. Hetty put a stop to this, and Edward moved out of the family home. His finances rapidly declined. Hetty, however, refused to fit the mold of a complete villain, and nursed her husband during his dying months. She then wore widow’s reeds for years after his death, making her Wall Street appearance all the scarier.  

JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD

Their two children lived a poor existence with their mother. Sylvia was not a pretty girl; she wore cast off clothes and made few friends. She mostly silently shadowed her mother, sleeping next to her on a cot in whatever rented room they happened to be living in. Ned, some would say, suffered even more. When he was a teenager he was struck by a child driving an “express” dog cart, pulled by a St. Bernard. Ned’s leg was already lame for reasons lost to history, but the accident left it in serious need of medical attention. Hetty, ever the dutiful mother, took her son to a free clinic in the city. Unfortunately, Hetty was too recognizable, and the doctors demanded payment as they would from anyone they suspected of faking poverty. 

So Hetty decided the leg would likely knit itself if given time, especially with her helpful home treatment of “oil of squills” and “Carter’s Little Liver Pills.” Ned’s leg worsened, until, after suffering a fall down a flight of stairs while visiting his father, Edward realized the depth of the injury and called a doctor. The leg was amputated, with Ned’s father using his own dwindling money to pay for it, rather than haggle with Hetty.

“A BUNCH OF ROBBERS!”

In fairness, Hetty’s medical frugality applied to herself, too. After 20 years of suffering a hernia, she finally allowed Dr. Henry S Pascal to examine her in 1915. When she disrobed down to her “old and none too clean” underwear, Pascal saw that she did indeed have a severe, bulging hernia. Her solution had been to jam a stick against the swelling, held in place by her underwear and the pressure of her own leg. The doctor told her the extremely painful hernia need an immediate operation. When he told her the cost, $150, she scowled and picked her fallen stick off the floor, replacing it in her underwear.

“You’re all alike! A bunch of robbers!” she said, and left the doctor’s office.

Hetty’s peculiarities increased as she aged. She changed residence with a skulking frequency, moving from one small, unheated apartment to another. This was her attempt to hide from both the press and tax collectors. She believed that this, combined with taking confusing and varied routes to work (at an office provided free by her bank, of course) also kept kidnappers and robbers at bay. One source details her great discomfort when sleeping in a strange place. She wore safe deposit keys to various banks on a chain around her waist at all times, and slept with a revolver rigged to her hand with strings when staying in a strange motel. 

“I AM CALLED CLOSE AND MEAN AND STINGY.”

She also became fonder of public speaking as she entered old age. These interviews are the world’s only chance to hear the “Witch” defend herself, and to wonder if history has been too hard on the oddity of a powerful woman. “I am not a hard woman," she told one reporter. "But because I do not have a secretary to announce every kind act I perform I am called close and mean and stingy. I am a Quaker, and I am trying to live up to the tenets of that faith. That is why I dress plainly and live quietly. No other kind of life would please me.”

Hetty died at the age of 81, in 1916. Ned tried to make his mother look good. He spoke of her many charities, though not one was ever actually named and none came forward to identify themselves. He spoke of an old decrepit employee his mother had kept on out of compassion, but was quickly contradicted by other office employees who remembered the man in question and Hetty’s dismissal of him when he was no longer useful.

REBELLIOUS CHILDREN

Ned and Sylvia took different paths when they received their inheritances. Sylvia, who had married a man of reasonable means late in life, made few changes. But Ned craved adoration and high living. He married his first lover, a prostitute named Mabel whom his mother had hated. Together they sought popularity and acceptance, spending money in a grand fashion to accomplish it. They built mansions, bought a private island, and kept a passel of young ingénues referred to as Ned’s “wards.” Ned even constructed the largest and most awkward yacht then known to man, and then found himself too seasick to ever use it. He indulged in the new sciences of radio, broadcasting from his own radio station at his Round Hill estate, and allowing MIT access to his equipment for study. When Ned died in 1936, he had miraculously managed to maintain a decent fortune, and left the majority to his sister, Sylvia.

And what did Sylvia do, the quiet, unattractive girl who was now one of the richest people on earth? What did she do with the money of a woman who could not abide giving anything away? She performed an act of rebellion, perhaps her only one.

She left the fortune, around $443 million* at the time of her death in 1951, entirely to charity.

*In today’s dollars.

Sources: Charmers and Cranks by Ishbel Ross, and The Day They Shook the Plum Tree by Arthur H. Lewis.