Navigating A Multi-Lane Roundabout
Roundabouts are becoming more common across the country every year. They are designed to maximize safety for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike, by slowing traffic and preventing high-risk crashes, and with less delay than typical traffic lights.
This video shows drivers how to navigate a multi-lane roundabout and what to do when large vehicles and emergency vehicles are traveling through the roundabout.
This video was developed by the Minnesota Local Road Research Board (LRRB). For more information about the LRRB, visit our website at
Recycled Road Signs = Public Street Art!
This is some crazy public art I drove by in Northwestern Pennsylvania. It's all made from recycled road signs.
Drive Test #1: Pre-test
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If you don't pass the pre-test, your driving test ends before you ever get out on the road. Don't let that happen to you. Watch this short video and you'll know exactly what's needed to pass the pre-test.
This video was produced by the Washington State Department of Licensing.
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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald Perry Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor after signing with the label in 1943. Mr. C., as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for RCA and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. Como was seen weekly on television from 1949 to 1963, then continued hosting the Kraft Music Hall variety program monthly until 1967. His television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world. Also a popular recording artist, Perry Como produced numerous hit records; his combined success on television and popular recordings was not matched by any other artist of the time. Como's appeal spanned generations and he was widely respected for both his professional standards and the conduct in his personal life. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: 50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all. Composer Ervin Drake said of him, ... [o]ccasionally someone like Perry comes along and won't 'go with the flow' and still prevails in spite of all the bankrupt others who surround him and importune him to yield to their values. Only occasionally.
One of the many factors in his success was Como's insistence on his principles of good taste; if he considered something to be in bad or poor taste, it was not in the show or broadcast. When a remark made by Julius La Rosa about television personality Arthur Godfrey on The Perry Como Show was misconstrued, Como offered an on-air apology at the beginning of his next show, against the advice of his staff. While his performance of Ave Maria was a tradition of his holiday television programs, Como refused to sing it at live performances, saying, It's not the time or place to do it, even though it was the number-one request of his audiences. Another was his naturalness; the man viewers saw on the screen was the same person who could be encountered behind a supermarket shopping cart, at a bowling alley, or in a kitchen making breakfast. From his first Chesterfield Supper Club television show, if scripts were written at all, they were based on the way Como would say something. Como was not devoid of a temper, and it could be seen at times as a result of the frustrations of daily life. His music director from 1948 to 1963, Mitchell Ayres, said, Perry has a temper like everyone else. And he loses his temper at the normal things everyone else does. When we're driving, for instance, and somebody cuts him off, he really lets the offender have it.
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Ida Tarbell | Wikipedia audio article
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Ida Tarbell
00:02:57 1 Early life and education
00:09:54 2 Early career
00:14:05 3 Paris in the 1890s
00:18:14 4 McClure's Magazine
00:20:17 4.1 Napoleon Bonaparte
00:22:33 4.2 Abraham Lincoln
00:25:59 4.3 McClure's Editor
00:28:03 5 Standard Oil
00:35:41 6 The American Magazine
00:38:59 7 Women's Suffrage
00:43:38 8 World War I
00:46:13 9 Later career
00:49:21 10 Death and legacy
00:50:29 11 Family
00:51:10 12 Writing style and methodology
00:53:52 13 Representation in other media
00:54:25 14 Published Works
00:54:35 14.1 Books
00:56:54 14.2 Selected Articles
00:59:54 15 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. Born in Pennsylvania at the onset of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904. This one masterpiece of investigative journalism would bring about the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly and lead to the Clayton Antitrust Act. Her book would also lead to the Hepburn Act in 1906 to oversee the railroads, the 1910 Mann-Elkins Act which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission power over oil rates, and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1914.Tarbell also wrote several biographies over the course of her career which spanned 64 years. She wrote biographies on Madame Roland and Napoleon Bonaparte. Tarbell believed that the Truth and motivations of powerful human beings could be discovered. That Truth, she became convinced, could be conveyed in such a way as to precipitate meaningful social change. She wrote numerous books and works on Abraham Lincoln including ones that focused on his early life and career. After her exposé on Standard Oil she wrote biographies on businessmen Elbert H. Gary, chairman of U. S. Steel, as well as Owen D. Young, president of General Electric.
A prolific writer and lecturer, Tarbell was known for taking complex subjects—the oil industry, tariffs, labor practices—and breaking them down into informative and easy to understand articles. Her articles drove circulation at McClure’s Magazine and The American Magazine and many of her books were popular with the general American public. After a successful career as both writer and editor for McClure’s Magazine, Tarbell left with several other editors to buy and publish The American Magazine. Tarbell also traveled to all then 48 states on the lecture circuit and spoke on subjects including the evils of war, world peace, American politics, trusts, tariffs, labor practices, and women’s issues.
Tarbell took part in professional organizations and served on two Presidential committees. Tarbell helped form the Authors’ League (now the Author’s Guild) and was President of the Pen and Brush Club for 30 years. During World War I, she served on the President Woodrow Wilson’s Women’s Committee on the Council of National Defense. After the war, she served on President Warren G. Harding’s 1921 Unemployment Conference.
Tarbell, who never married, is often considered a feminist by her actions but maintained views on women’s suffrage which were controversial and may have tarnished her overall legacy.