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2019 Falcon Track Team sends several to State Meet

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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Katie Stephens (center) takes the baton from Sydney Marlow for the anchor leg of the 4×100-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 51.07”.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Jax Lamm (left) takes the baton from Tanner Snodgrass for the anchor leg of the 4×100-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 44.22”.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kelyin Chng takes the baton from Riley Richards in 4×400-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 4:12.88.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Sydney Marlow takes the baton from Kelyin Chng in 4×400-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 4:12.88.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Olivia Baker (3rd from left) qualifies for State in the 100-meter hurdles Friday with a time of 16.28” at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Amelia Schwenker runs the first leg of the 4×200-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 1:45.92”.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Riley Richards runs the third leg of the 4×200-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 1:45.92”.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Sydney Marlow (left) runs the anchor leg of the 4×200-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 1:45.92”.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Jax Lamm (3rd from right) and Reese Richards (3rd from left) both qualify for State in the 100-meter dash with Lamm’s time of 11.18” and Richards time of 11.48” at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Katie Stephens (3rd from left) qualifies for State in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.90” at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Ethan Eilers throws the shot-put Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. Eilers discus throw of 145’-10” qualified for State.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kelyin Chng takes the baton from Riley Richards in 4×400-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 4:12.88.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Sydney Marlow runs the anchor leg of the 4×400-meter relay Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. WBND qualified for State with a time of 4:12.88.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Olivia Baker (3rd from left) qualifies for State in the 100-meter hurdles Friday with a time of 16.28” at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Olivia Baker (3rd from left) qualifies for State in the 100-meter hurdles Friday with a time of 16.28” at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Ethan Eilers throws the shot-put Friday at the State Qualifying Meet in Mt. Pleasant. Eilers discus throw of 145’-10” qualified for State.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Iliyah Moore competes in the discus throw at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Iliyah Moore competes in the discus throw at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Iliyah Moore competes in the discus throw at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Olivia Baker competes in the 4×100 shuttle hurdle relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Olivia Baker competes in the 4×100 shuttle hurdle relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Libby Logan competes in the 4×100 shuttle hurdle relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Cameron Mehaffy competes in the Distance Medley Relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kelli Orth takes the baton from Hunterre Rupp in the Distance Medley Relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kelli Orth takes the baton from Hunterre Rupp in the Distance Medley Relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kelli Orth takes the baton from Hunterre Rupp in the Distance Medley Relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Madalynn Markey competes in the Distance Medley Relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Morgan Flowers competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Austin Mixer competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Austin Mixer competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Austin Mixer competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Seth Estrada-Miller competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Seth Estrada-Miller competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Seth Estrada-Miller competes in the 400-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Nicholas Skerik competes in the 4×200-meter relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Nicholas Skerik competes in the 4×200-meter relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Tanner Snodgrass takes the baton from Brady Oleson in the 4×200-meter relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Jeron Conner competes in the 4×200-meter relay at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Natalie Vandenberg competes in the 100-meter hurdles at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Natalie Vandenberg competes in the 100-meter hurdles at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Noah Murphy (12) and Kyle Etka (16) compete in the 800-meter run at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Cameron Mehaffy competes in the 200-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Kerrigan Belger competes in the 200-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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    West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Reese Richard competes in the 200-meter dash at Mt. Pleasant Friday.
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15 Tips for Better Train and Railway Photos

Click here: For a small group of passionate photographers, the appeal of photographing railways is forever intoxicating. Locomotives, commuter trains, subways, and railway landscapes come together to create visual poetry that blends nature and man-made landscapes, as well as the human love for complex machinery.

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There are 17,617,000 government employees and they are paid better than private sector workers.

Click here: Government employees salaries are 14.2 percent higher than private-sector workers and 6.1 percent higher than the self-employed. Government workers have the highest median earnings at $53,435, higher than both private sector workers and the self-employed. Private sector worker median earnings were $46,797. Self-employed median earnings were $50,383. The median earnings of state and local government workers ($51,202) were higher than the median earnings in any of the four categories of private-industry and self-employed workers. But federal government workers had the highest median earnings of all ($66,028).

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If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?

Click here: Solar panels often contain lead, cadmium, and other toxic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. “Approximately 90% of most PV modules are made up of glass,” notes San Jose State environmental studies professor Dustin Mulvaney. “However, this glass often cannot be recycled as float glass due to impurities. Common problematic impurities in glass include plastics, lead, cadmium and antimony.”

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Gallup: Trump Approval Rating Ticks Up to New High. Tops Obama at same time in Presidency

Click here: A new Gallup poll shows Donald Trump’s presidential job-approval rating hitting a new high.

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Why God Is a He in the Bible

Is God a man, a woman, or a genderless force that cannot be identified by masculine or feminine traits? Society offers a range of ideas, but what do religious texts have to say about this immutable characteristic of God? Dennis Prager offers some insightful answers in this short 5-minute video.

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2019 Notre Dame – West Burlington Boys Golf

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From left: Matt Briggs, Zach Krantz, Alex Becker, Keegan Jones, Bryer Atwater, Tate Nelson. Not pictured: Rylie Koenig, Matt Johnson.
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2019 Notre Dame – West Burlington Girls Golf

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Twitter echo chamber? 10% of US users generate 80% of tweets

Click here: Twitter is often treated as a digital town square but how representative is it? Pew Research Center found that 10% of Twitter users account for a huge chunk (80%) of content, generating a median of 138 tweets per month. These top 10 % of active Twitter users have a distinctive profile: They are on average younger, more likely to be Democrats, more likely to be female, and more likely to tweet about political issues.

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Why the Electoral College is Essential

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