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By Claire Walla
What's small, black, and has the potential to give you up to a dozen different diseases?
Chances are, if you live on the East End, you didn't even have to progress past the first four words of that sentence to come to the answer.
And according to numerous accounts, the presence of this poppy seed-size insect is more bountiful this year than last.
Though ticks are prevalent around the world, East Hampton Town Natural Resources Director Larry Penny said one of the reasons they flourish in this area has to do with geography.
"When you add up all the mammals and birds, there are an awful lot of animals out here per square foot," Penny explained.
Though it also has to do with nature.
"It's mainly a predator/prey cycle thing," Penny explained. "It has to do with the population of the mammals that [ticks] live on," he said. "The deer, vole and raccoon populations are really high this year."
Especially vole. Penny said the population for this small mouse-like rodent has "sky-rocketed" ever since the fox population began to decline on the East End.
"They're almost at a record high out here," he added.
Such news is certainly unpleasant to those who cringe at any noted upsurge in the bug population, but it's more universally unsettling when it comes to issues of public health.
There are three tick varieties known to live on the East End, and each can carry what's known as Lyme disease, an ailment that can affects the central nervous system and — if left untreated — can bring-on symptoms that are similar in characteristics to arthritis, multiple sclerosis and ALS.
Larry Penny is no stranger to Lyme.
"It starts with an achiness here or there, then your head gets foggy," explained Penny, who was stricken with the disease after being bitten by a tick while working in the field. "I had a strong central nervous system, but it affected my memory and my judgment."
By Penny's estimate, at least 50 percent of the population of the East End has been bitten by a tick — either a deer tick (the most prevalent), dog tick (the largest size-wise) or Lone Star tick. Penny added that about 40 percent of them are thought to carry the spirochete that causes Lyme disease.
If detected early enough, the disease can be combated with a dose of antibiotics.
But, Penny added that some people can contract a-symptomatic Lyme disease, in which the bacteria will lay dormant in the body until months, or even years down the road.
Penny told of a woman he knew who was bitten by a tick at age 14 and thought nothing of it until — 15 years later — she started to exhibit long-term symptoms of the disease. Only after a spinal tap did she discover she had Lyme, and by that point she needed intravenous treatments and antibiotics.
"Those are the worst," he said, "because you might not treat them until you're in bad shape."
Having originated in Texas, Penny said the Lone Star tick is the most recent to have been discovered in the area. Based on the results of a process called "flagging for ticks" — during which a piece of cloth is dragged through foliage, theoretically collecting ticks along the way — Penny said in 1993 this species was only found to exist in Montauk and on Gardiner's Island.
"But by 2000, they were pretty much all over East Hampton," he added.
"It's very fast in its movements compared to the deer tick," Penny continued, adding that the Lone Star is distinguished from deer and dog ticks by the white dot on its back. Whereas the deer tick is rarely found in foliage above the knee, the Lone Star Tick can climb four or five feet high, Penny added.
"It's a real scrambler," he said.
In addition to Lyme, ticks can spread other diseases like Babesiosis and West Nile Virus.
"It always amazes me that people are more worried about West Nile disease — which we have seen out here, but is very rare — as opposed to Lyme disease," Penny added.
Part of the problem with Lyme, said East Hampton resident and author Jay McInerney, is that the blood tests meant to detect the disease aren't always accurate.
"Both of my kids have been diagnosed with Lyme disease," McInerney said. "And unfortunately, they weren't diagnosed early enough."
McInerney said his son and daughter (twins) both got tick bites around age 14, and when they were tested for Lyme, the results came back negative. It wasn't until two years later, when symptoms began to crop up, that his children first began seeking medical attention.
He said his children have missed about a year of school in the process of getting the diagnosis. Having traveled throughout New York and New Jersey seeking medical help, he added that "Lyme-literate" doctors are hard to come by on the East End.
"The tests seem to be only semi-reliable," McInerney continued. "For anyone who goes through the standard protocol of two weeks of antibiotics and still has symptoms, you're operating in a mysterious area after that."
Stacey Sobel is the executive director of an organization called Turn the Corner, whose sole purpose is to educate people about the presence of ticks and the consequences of tick bites. The organization maintains a website where people can read about Lyme disease and solicit advice. A big part of Turn the Corner's mission is also to educate doctors around the world on how to detect early signs of Lyme, and other tick-born illnesses. So far, Sobel said about 100 doctors have been trained in the U.S.
"Ticks carry multiple bacteria," she explained. In addition to Lyme, there are at least 11 other diseases that can be contracted from the small black bugs.
For this reason, East End physician Dr. Joseph Burrascano calls ticks "nature's dirty needles."
Though he closed his practice about three years ago, Dr. Burrascano still educates doctors and communities about the potential harms and preventative measure associated with ticks.
"It's very controversial," Dr. Burrascano said of Lyme disease. "In the early state of Lyme's, it takes four or more weeks for the bacteria to show. And because the blood test currently looks for a person's reaction to the disease — rather than the actual Lyme bacteria itself — the results can be spotty.
"If you've never had Lyme before, the chance of a false positive is about five percent," he said. However, he added that one's blood work can still come out positive "sometimes for months, or sometimes for years," even if the bacteria is gone.
"The trick is to find it early and treat it," Dr. Burrascano said. "If you really think it's Lyme, take the antibiotic. Get some treatment going early. A doctor can give you a week's supply of medicine [while waiting for the results of blood work]," he continued.
As for Sobel, she added, "People need to be educated and aware. The longer it goes untreated, the sicker you can get."
The best method of prevention, as far as Sobel's concerned, is taking proactive measures to avoid tick bites in the first place. She and Penny both caution East End residents to wear long clothing when traveling though tall grasses, and try not to brush up against any kind of foliage. And most important: check yourself after being outside.
Since his children came down with the disease, McInerney said ticks have been high on his radar.
"It's not just my kids, I have a lot of friends who have been affected by ticks. It's tough if you're a pet lover. I actually know people who sold their houses and left this area [because of ticks]," McInerney noted.
But, he added, he has no plans to move anytime soon.
"I check myself really carefully, I don't really go in the woods this time of year, we treat our lawn (by keeping it really short) … and I try not to rub up against any brush," he explained. "For better or worse, I don't feel entirely disillusioned with my environment."
A screening of the award-winning documentary "Under Our Skin" will take place on Sunday, June 26 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Vared Gallery in East Hampton. A Q&A with Turn the Corner Executive Director Stacey Sobel and Dr. Leo Galland and Dr. Jeffrey Morrison (medical specialists on Lyme disease) will immediately follow.


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Welcome to Pittsburgh Association for the Arts in Education and Therapy (PAAET) where Art, Dance/Movement, Music, Drama, Play and Poetry therapies are highlighted. Our focus is on the emotional, social, physical and cognitive needs of our clients and the use of the arts as transformative experiences in SW Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh region.
We hope the resources and information offered here will be useful to professionals and the public alike. Our mission is to network, collaborate and educate.
Why Use the Creative Arts in Therapy?
Art, dance/movement, drama, music, play, poetry and other forms of creative activity provide alternative outlets for self-expression. Through painting or drawing, improvising a drama, moving in dance, singing or playing an instrument, dynamic avenues for increasing self-awareness, gaining insight, fostering self-esteem, learning new emotional skills and integrating the physical, cognitive and psychological parts of ourselves are provided. Clinical and evidence-based interventions are utilized to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship as well as providing wellness programs outside of therapy settings.
Can other professionals use approaches from the creative arts therapies?
PAAET activities are open to anyone interested in learning more about creative arts approaches and their ethical use in therapeutic settings. Creative Arts Therapy is utilized by therapists who have completed approved programs and whose training allows for certification and/or licensure options. While advanced training is required, professionals such as Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors, Teachers and Special Educators, Recreational and Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists and Teaching Artists can all use some of the simpler creative approaches developed within the expressive therapies to enhance their work. Introductory training and awareness of the ethical considerations when using creative approaches are essential.


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Rockville, MD (PRWEB) June 05, 2012
In a rare interview in The ASHA Leader—the award-winning newsmagazine of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, speech-language pathologist Nancy Helm-Estabrooks discusses helping the former congresswoman Gabby Giffords regain her speech and urges greater access to speech-language treatment
According to Gabby Giffords' husband, Captain Mark Kelly, speech-language pathologists "have played a critical part in Gabby's recovery and helped her regain her ability to communicate."
In that regard, a central figure is speech-language pathologist Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, someone Kelly himself recruited to head his wife's speech-language care team. In an interview in The ASHA Leader—the award-winning newsmagazine of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Helm-Estabrooks gives a first-hand account of the major role speech-language pathology treatment has played in the former congresswoman's recovery from a gunshot wound to her head.
In the interview, available in June for Aphasia Awareness Month, Helm-Estabrooks salutes Giffords for her stamina in achieving communication triumphs big and small, from early incremental progress during long, intense days of speech-language treatment to ordering lunch independently in a restaurant. She also explains how integrating music into treatment helped Giffords' recovery, though she notes that "music alone isn't the thing that got her to where she is now.….A lot of very good language therapy has helped her [Giffords] achieve the very clearly articulated verbal expression she has today," Helm-Estabrooks tells The ASHA Leader.
Helm-Estabrooks knows something about the power of music in speech. Nearly 40 years ago, she co-developed Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT), a groundbreaking speech-language treatment that employs aspects of music such as using rhythm and melodically intoning phrases. She is professor emerita and former Brewer Smith Distinguished Professor at the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences College of Health and Human Sciences of Western Carolina University.
She calls for care like what Giffords has received to be more widely accessible to the public. "That Gabby is on such a good road to recovery is a testimony to our field, to occupational and physical therapies, rehab medicine, and what a lot of therapy can do. I'm hoping her case brings to public attention how little rehab people with strokes and aphasia are getting or are allowed."
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ASHA, http://www.asha.org, is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders


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Ebook pricing and the DOJ. What's it all mean?
October 8, 2012 | 11:03 pm
Nothing cast a pall over the publishing world like news of the Department of Justice's e-book price fixing case against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers. While Apple, Penguin and Macmillan aren't slated to go to court until 2013, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins have already settled, and the effects are already being felt.
What will this all mean? How and why did the case come about? And what can publishers do once the verdict is reached? At the Publishing Business Virtual Conference and Expo, a panel titled "Ebook Pricing and the DOJ: Does the Consumer Win or Lose?" addressed those very questions.
Attorney Molly Boast, a partner at WilmerHale who was part of the DOJ team that worked on the case, breaks down the government's case and explains the methods used to build it. Marcelino Elosua, founder and CEO of LID Publishing and an outspoken critic of the case, discusses some of the options for publishers moving forward, including ways niche publishers can avoid working with big e-tailers entirely.
These issues and more are discussed in "Ebook Pricing and the DOJ, a webinar that is available on-demand now. (Registration required.)
This article originally appeared on the Book Business website.
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Egads how I long for November 6th and the chance to toss out all the Molly Boasts and the others in or employed by the government at lucrative salaries who think they know better than anyone else what the books I've labored long to write or edit should cost.
What we've seen over the last four years is an attempt to Chicagofy the country. In Chicago, a business, even a small one-author publishing firm like my own, can't get anything done without lining the pockets of politicians and bureaucrats. We get poorer, so they can get richer.
Doubt me? Check out the Wikipedia entry for the highest income counties in the US
The top three are all suburbs of Washington, D.C, The federal government has been making out like bandits during the Great Recession telling us how to run our lives, how to price our books, as well what medical care we can or cannot get and so forth.
I don't want to live in a country where Molly Boasts dictate how and at what price I can sell my books or under what conditions (i.e. agency pricing or not). And I particularly resent the fact that I'm supposed to pay the taxes that pay the inflated salaries of such people.
I'd again emphasize those fat government and consultant-to-the government salaries (i.e. this Molly Brown). They're the ones who growing rich off us and not the often poorly paid people working for most publishers or bookstores.
Note too that 43 previous presidents, many serving two terms, gave us a national debt of $10 trillion dollars. Four years of Obama has grown that debt 60% more to $16 trillion. We shouldn't let ourselves get distracted. That's one heck of a lot more important than whether I pay $7.95 or $8.37 for an ebook.
When you write something like I canleirty sympathize but , it makes me wonder why you write for Teleread. If you're going to take a point of view, and you do quite regularly, it would be helpful to take a point of view that promoted the ease of access to digital content. But when the fights are tough, you become the realistic observer. That doesn't help.DRM is a business model. It frustrates demand, and it doesn't stop piracy. It is used to limit the utility of content. We know this. It's analogous (and in some cases tied to) the access that publishers deny to libraries. We claim that publishing serves a higher purpose and then we deny people cost-effective ways to gain from that purpose.David Rothman founded Teleread for a purpose. I know it is in corporate hands now, but you still have to stand for something. Just reprinting press releases and commenting abjectly is not enough.


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Impressed with the rate of development among start-up entrepreneurs, coupled with recent statistics on technology development in the country, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, has said start-up entrepreneurs are at the forefront of the country's economic growth.
The minister, who gave the information during his keynote address at the Angel Investors' Forum in Lagos recently, said: "The big businesses are still active in growing the nation's economy, but with the rate at which small technology companies that are evolving in software development, they are likely going to be the biggest drivers of the Nigerian economy going forward. Already, start-up entrepreneurs represent 50 per cent of Nigeria's Gross Domestic Products (GDP)."
According to him, "There are several pockets of small technology businesses that are doing very well in the country, and when these are aggregated, they represent 50 per cent of Nigeria's GDP."
Although he identified funding as a major drawback to start-up entrepreneurs, he explained that the Angel Investors' Forum, which is a group of core investors across West Africa, would create opportunity for start-ups to showcase their products before the investors, aimed at seeking reasonable funding and mentoring from the investors.
Over 70 investors were present at the forum, while over 20 small businesses that registered, were given the opportunity to make good sales pitch about their products and the usefulness to the society.
Chief Executive Officer, Lagos Angel Network of Investors, Mr. Tomi Davies explained that the essence of the event was to bring investors together to listen to start-up entrepreneurs and invest in their products that are of interest to the investors.
According to him, experience has shown that the banks only lend money to businessmen and businesswomen with heavy collateral, which the start-ups entrepreneurs do not have and as such, cannot get bank loan.
He explained that the forum would gave the entrepreneurs the opportunity to meet with core investors that could raise seed funding for them and at the same time nurture them and their products to maturity and to a level where they become commercially viable within and outside Nigeria.
He gave an example where he invested up to N2 million in the business of an entrepreneur some few years ago, and that just last year, the business generated N270 million profit. "Such is the beauty of investment," Davies said.
Explaining the reason for investors' interests in start-ups, Davies added that the investors had since realised that the Nigerian population comprises of more youths that are technology savvy and willing to develop solutions that will address the Nigerian and African challenges.
"If this set of youths are encouraged, they will in deed turn around the economy for the better in no distant time," he said.
Nigeria, he explained was gradually moving away from over-dependence on oil and gas, to software development, food processing, eCommerce among other businesses that are technologically driven.
Looking at the opportunity for Nigeria, Davies said the forum would give Nigeria the opportunity to showcase technology creativity that will attract global interests.
The Lagos Angel Network is an exclusive network of Angel Investors, providing early stage, seed funding and mentoring to start-up entrepreneurs, with a focus on growing the diversity of enterprises that make up Lagos. It is supported by African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA).


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PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I am interested to know how much wood, and what size pieces; what species of wood; you use to make a pizza?
Once you are up to pizza temperatures, your WFO should be good for a lot of other things.
How much wood does it take to heat up your oven to produce the first pizza?
Please give oven size and design so we can calculate pounds woods per first pizza or kilograms of wood per first pizza.
This is where you can pound your chest and show how efficient your build is.
I would like to know, because I have to put up some firewood for the coming season and need to know much more I need if I am going to use my WFO!
Also things that would be interesting to discuss is how you go about preparing your wood, how small you cut or split your wood and any machines you use to make processing wood into firewood!
I just spent Sunday cutting up old oak that was cut three years ago, the big log was elevated but about 1/3 of the wood was already punk from dryrot or whatever microorganisms do to fresh wood. My yield was not great, but I got a start on next years wood gathering program!
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I am glad that finding hardwood is not a problem where I live.
I try not to use large oak logs. I hate to split oak. I usually scrounge and find the larger limbs that most wood cutters leave behind. I may make a few cuts with my chain saw but, usually end up finishing with large pruning shears. The small limbs make great fire starter.
The last time several hardwood trees fell on my property (Katrina), I rented a gas powered woodsplitter to save all the wood. Prior to that, I used a splitting maul and wedge. Most all of the oak that I have ever split was for fire places, 18 to 20 in length. I think that 12 or maybe less would be suitable for the oven and a lot easier to split.
I haven't tried split wood in my oven, but so far, I have found 3" and less diameter limbs work great.
Re: PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
I use approximately 2 cuft of wood, call it 8-10 pieces, 18" long x 4-6" diameter.
Re: PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
I agree, splitting oak is a real chore. I cut yesterday to 350mm lengths. Even at that, I had one hell of a time hoisting one block (to be used as a splitting block) into my van. The rest were quartered. I am going to look for some wedges, now I have been using a "Japanese Fireman's Axe", it is real similar to a splitting maul. I try to choose limbless pieces for splitting and do the rest with the chainsaw. Last year, I cut up an entire tree including all the branches and twigs. The little stuff down to finger size got wrapped with "himo", that plastic wrapping twine that doesn't stretch. A lot of effort but great stuff for an early fire in the woodstove.
I've been told the best time to gather wood is winter months because the trees are dormant with less water in the wood. Below freezing temperatures makes splitting easier as well.
Re: PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
Tscarborou, that's a lot of wood... How long does your WFO stay hot after your pizza session is over?
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"Quartering"? Sounds like you did a bit of ripping with the chain saw :eek:. Glad to hear that you are OK :)
I did a quick search for the Japanese fireman's axe. The splitting maul when struck with a sledge hammer or the back of a single bladed axe can be used as a wedge also. Imo a splitting maul or single bladed axe will work best. Either tend to get stuck in hardwood. The blunt edge of a splitting maul or single bladed axe can be struck to help drive them on through.
I'm not sure about the seasons and the below freezing temps, but the lack of leaves and the cooler temps make gathering and splitting wood easier and more comfortable :D.
Re: PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
4-5 days to ambient, 3-4 usable for cooking.
Re: PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
I was interested in this question a couple of years ago and weighed the wood before and after. I started with 10 Kgs and finished with 6, so I had used 4 Kgs/ to get to 350 C and the whole dome was completely white. The wood used was Eucalypt (hardwood) and my oven is 21" in diam.
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I use what I need. ;)
Re: PPP or KPP How much wood to make a pizza?
The fireman's ax is just something my friend gave to me to use when I bought my land. He said that it has been handed around for years between friends and it was originally a fireman's--I guess an antique. But it has a heavy head and quite a taper...not as much as the mauls that are for sale. The import woodstove shop sells them--but a wild price tag! If a Japanese person has a wood stove--it is like a status symbol or decoration.. they have to have all the bells and whistles that go along with it---and always top quality! But they turn around and buy split wood delivered! Wow!
I burn wood to heat and save on fuel!
Yes! Splitting is a real challenge--you make a round-house full swing with all your power and the axe hits a knot and just bounces! Three or four times--same thing and pull out the chainsaw and cut slabs until you can split again--great fun! :)
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Johnson Makes Grant County Appearance On Charge Of Killing Cabbie
Timmy Johnson Junior has made his first court appearance in Grant County for the murder of a cab driver...
Johnson has been jailed in La Crosse since June, following a police chase and crash on Highway 35. He was in a Lancaster courtroom yesterday, on a charge of killing Merle Forbes and stealing his taxi. Forbes was found in the trunk of the car after Johnson crashed, and was pronounced dead shortly afterward. During his hearing on Thursday, Johnson was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating probation in previous cases. He's expected back in La Crosse County court today on charges resulting from the car theft and chase.


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|calendar>> January 17. 2014 Juche 103
Kim Jong Un's Loving Care Inspires Scientists, Technicians
|Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the DPRK, recently visited the State Academy of Sciences, greatly inspiring the scientists and technicians launching this year's general advance.
During his visit, the supreme leader promised to have a modern street for scientists built in the Unjong science area, where the State Academy of Sciences is situated, by the anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) this year. And he proposed naming the to-be-built street "Wisong (satellite) Scientists Street".
Right after his field guidance to the academy, he went to Lake Yonphung where a holiday home for scientists and technicians will be built.
Kim Jong Un has shown for the scientists and technicians the loving care as much as he could.
He saw to it that the Mirae (future) Shop was built for them with the Day of the Sun, the birthday of President Kim Il Sung, in Juche 101 (2012) as an occasion. In December that year he invited the scientists and technicians who contributed to the successful launch of the country's first application satellite to the WPK Central Committee building to have a photo session with them.
Last year he initiated the building of apartment houses for scientists and settled all problems arising in the construction from designing and building operation to supply of equipment and materials. And he frequented the construction sites, saying that there is nothing to spare for the scientists and technicians.
The construction of Unha Scientists Street and apartment houses for educators of Kim Il Sung University was successfully completed on a high level in September and October respectively.
In November he convened a national meeting of scientists and technicians and had a photo session with its participants.
Encouraged by his loving care, the scientists and technicians of the country are striving to solve scientific and technological matters conducive to building a thriving nation by giving fullest scope to their talents and enthusiasm and thus glorify this year with great scientific and technological achievements.
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CORALVILLE, Iowa - A 50-year-old Coralville woman convicted in a fatal fire that killed 14-year-old Raymone Bryant last year was sentenced Friday to up to 55 years in prison.
But Lillie Williams' sentence came with no minimum term, meaning she could be released on parol much sooner.
"We believe there is some measure of justice done," said Assistant County Attorney Anne Lahey, mentioning Williams' now 6-year-old grandson who would have testified had the case gone to trial.
"I have to mention the bravery of a 5-year-old boy in telling what happened," Lahey said.
Williams, originally charged with first-degree murder, pleaded guilty in October to three lesser charges – first-degree arson, first-degree burglary and involuntary manslaughter. Williams' daughter told The Gazette that she took that deal to protect her 6-year-old grandson – a key witness in the case – from having to testify at trial.
Likewise, prosecutors said, they were willing to work toward a deal to prevent the child from having to testify about what he saw Sept. 4, 2011, when investigators say Williams intentionally started the fire at 720 11th Ave. in Coralville that killed Bryant.
Williams didn't make a statement during her sentencing hearing Friday.
Lahey told the judge that Williams' deserved the maximum sentence for the charges because of the nature of the crime.
"The greatest loss here is the loss of Raymone, and the anguish that the parents had to endure at that scene," Lahey said. "The anguish of not being able to get to their child because of the inferno between them. The only sound piercing it was Raymone's cries for help."
Lahey said other, more minor things, were lost in that fire including property, a house and beloved pets, including the family dog that went back into the fire after hearing Bryant's screams.
Nekeya Bryant, a representative of the Bryant family, read a statement on behalf of Raymone Bryant's mother, Susie Bryant.
"On Sept. 4, my family was awoken to the tragic loss of Raymone – he was an extraordinary kid," Nekeya Bryant said. "He was a loving and driven kid. Our lives haven't been the same since the loss of him."
She also spoke on behalf of Williams, saying, "We also want to let Lillie know we love her, despite everything that happened, and we just pray that our family can move forward and be stronger than ever."
Mary Bryant, Susie Bryant's sister, spoke on behalf of Williams, saying that she is a "kind-hearted person."
"We are not taking anything from (Raymone's) death and know my sister lost her baby and it's going to be a while before she can heal," Mary Bryant said. "But Lillie has also suffered. She has been taken from her children and grandchildren."
Williams was scheduled to be tried Oct. 23 until the last-minute agreement in October – shortly after a judge ruled that her 6-year-old grandson was competent to testify at trial. In a previous hearing to determine the child's competency, the boy told a judge that he saw his grandmother light a pillow on fire and throw it into the garage where she knew Bryant was at the time.
Her defense team had submitted documents asking first to move the case to another county and then indicating they were planning to use her intoxication as a defense in the murder trial.
Before leaving the courtroom on Friday morning, Williams' family made small talk with her and promised to write and visit.
"We'll be coming to see you," one woman said.
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The Mississippi Bashers closed out Class A pool play of the United States Speciality Sports Association 11-Under State Tournament with a come-from-behind victory.
After taking a 9-2 lead with six runs in the second inning, the Bashers saw the Majors rally for nine runs in the third inning to gain a 11-9 advantage.
The Bashers, made up of players from the Eupora, Louisville and Ackerman areas, continued to generate offensive of their own and scored three times in the third inning to win a 12-11 decision.
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Music program hits high note with Boys & Girls Club members
Kids working on album in new recording studio
A music program at the Boys & Girls Club is hitting a high note with its kids.
The Armstrong Youth Center held a ribbon cutting ceremony in July for a new recording studio. Now the kids are off and running, recording original songs and mixes of popular songs.
The C.A.R.E program raised $4,600 from the Village Fest and used the money to donate to the Boys and Girls Club for all the equipment.
Activity leader and rap artist Nick Macumba has been working with kids beginning with the writing process.
"We write all the lyrics in the library and from the library they get to come in the studio. Once I see it sounds good enough to record, then we record," said Macumba.
This isn't just a chance for the kids to tap into their talents, but Macumba said it has given many of the members a new sense of confidence.
"I used to be shy about it but I just got over it," said member Justin Reed.
No matter what their skills are, Macumba said each kid gets to touch the mic at least once.
The kids have already completed 10 original songs they plan to put on a CD. The club plans to add more equipment and enhance the studio further over the next couple years with money raised from their album.


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Approaching "leg tingling" excess, Andrea Mitchell jumps to the aid of Caroline Kennedy. (Is there a sign-up sheet at MSNBC for reporters angling to be the chief defender of their favorite needy Democrat?)
Not everyone feels so warm and fuzzy toward Kennedy or so enamored of hereditary senate seats (h/t Hot Air). Kind of like Murray Rembrandt, says Rep. Gary Ackerman. Murray Rembrandt? (No one ever said New York politicians weren't funny.)
Kennedy is supposed to be an education maven? "The problem is, she hardly left a vapor trail. Kennedy, who sent her three children to one of Manhattan's most exclusive private schools, sat out the epic legal battle to secure billions in state funding for low-income students, and played an ambiguous role during her 22 months as the only city educational bureaucrat routinely harassed by the paparazzi." But she did work three hours a day for the city schools, which sounds about right for the Senate.
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The New York Times reports: "A growing number of employers, hoping to avoid or limit layoffs, are introducing four-day workweeks, unpaid vacations and voluntary or enforced furloughs, along with wage freezes, pension cuts and flexible work schedules." Someone should tell the the car companies and the UAW.
When Barney Frank is the realist in the Democratic party you know the landscape is changing: "I believe that he (Obama) overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences." Well if he can't get gays and Rick Warren on the same page I suppose that's right. Reality is such a drag.
Andy McCarthy socks it to the White House. I think it's just time for everyone to move on — like any bad relationship, the conservative-George W. Bush dynamic isn't helping either one at this point.
The New Republic asks "Is Biden's star fading?" What do you think was the first clue — when he insisted he was downsizing his own job or when he had no public appearances for three weeks?
Others have noticed that Biden has disappeared as well — beginning on Election Day. We can only hope, despite all the talk of how valued his counsel would be, that this is a sign of things to come: "Then again, it's also possible that Obama will just listen to Biden politely, nod his head and then do whatever he was planning to do all along. And the specific tasks Biden has been assigned don't really amount to much. As [George]Stephanopoulos noted, the middle class commission he'll be running won't have any formal powers, and his 'baseline' study essentially overlaps with the work of the National Security Advisor – who will be working in the West Wing and meeting with Obama daily. And, as we've seen these past six weeks, life in the Obama administration probably means that Biden's days of pontificating on Sunday morning shows will be sharply curtailed." You wonder whether the Obama team didn't realize Biden was an embarrassing gasbag when they selected him, or whether they did and took him anyway. In any event, they deserve credit for figuring it out soon enough.
Lots of reasons why 2010 might be a good year for Republicans, but "political malpractice" has been their defining characteristic lately so I wouldn't be counting victories quite yet.
Mayor Bloomberg tells Governor Paterson to get the lead out: "I think the governor should make a decision reasonably quickly because this is just getting out of control and everybody's focusing on the wrong things." What wrong things might those be — how unqualified Kennedy is? How dynasty politics has gotten out of hand? Seems like the right concerns are getting some ink.
Funny how Politico's "top ten media blunders" didn't include their own breathless misreporting of John Edwards's decision to drop out of the race because of the recurrence of his wife's cancer. But it did include ABC's tough moderating of the Democratic primary debate in Philadelphia — perhaps the only time then-candidate Barack Obama was questioned sharply in the campaign. "Blunder" must mean "mess up the reporter's chances of getting a spot in the Obama administration."


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Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
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Coordinates: 51°34′54″N 0°42′48″W / 51.581737°N 0.713382°W
Bourne End is a large residential village mostly in the parish of Wooburn and Bourne End, but also in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England. Many properties here face Berkshire on the opposite Thames bank, most are upstream of where the River Wye meets the river and it has its own station on a four-station branch line from Maidenhead railway station on the Great Western Main Line.[1]
Bourne End's original location is somewhat different from today's established village centre, a half a mile downstream on the River Thames. The name refers to the end of the river (bourne being an Old English term for 'river'), and it would be the mouth of the River Wye that this is derived from. The then hamlet appears on Morden's 1722 map of Buckinghamshire as "Born end".[2] It was noted in the nineteenth century however, that the name had been corrupted to "Bone End", apparently through local mispronunciation, and thence on official maps and documents; in 1858, the vicar of Wooburn successfully reversed this, and the corrected name remains in use today.[3]
The entire length of the River Wye was the provider of water power for many mills in the valley for hundreds of years, and Bourne End was no exception. There were four on the final stretch of the river; Princes Mill, Jacksons (or Gunpowder) Mill, Hedsor Mill and Lower Mill. These mills were historically the predominant employers of the area, along with the local farms and two wharfs on the Thames.
In the early nineteenth century, the settlement known as Bourne End was a hamlet of Wooburn parish, along with others such as Spring Gardens, Eghams Green, Cores End, Heavens Lea and Upper Bourne End. This changed with the emergence of the Wycombe Railway Company in 1846. By 1854, Isambard Kingdom Brunel had designed and constructed a railway linking Maidenhead to High Wycombe. The station was originally known as Marlow Road station, until 1874, a year after the branch line to Marlow was built, and from then on Bourne End station.[4] The railway created more travel opportunities for locals and greatly benefited the mills, and thus Bourne End expanded, on a greater scale than other similar settlements in the surrounding area. See Marlow Branch Line and Marlow Donkey for more information.
The hamlets soon merged into what is now known as Bourne End, as did Well End and Coldmoorholme in the neighbouring parish of Little Marlow. Both a church and school were built at the turn of the century for the residents' convenience. The Parade became established as the focal point of the village for shops and services.
In the 1920s Bourne End became home for two distinguished literary figures; Enid Blyton, a perennially popular children's writer, moved into Old Thatch on Coldmoorholm Lane, and Edgar Wallace, a prolific crime author and dramatist, bought Chalklands off Blind Lane. Another resident was Louis Blériot, the French aviator and aircraft builder, who lived at New York Lodge beside the Thames from 1916 to 1926, when it burnt down.[5]
The Royalty Cinema opened in The Parade in 1934. The late 1940s saw extensive development in Bourne End, of the Chalklands estate and the Council Estate north of The Parade. The 1960s saw the building of Community Centre and Library in Wakeman Road after some years of local campaigning.
The Beeching Axe hit the northward railway line in 1969 that announced the line between Bourne End and High Wycombe would be shut: the northern track bed was lifted soon after closure in 1970 to be later, in part, developed on as an office park yet most remains as a footpath between the village and Wooburn.
Bourne End conveniently lies between the M4 and M40 motorways, and retains its railway station on the Maidenhead to Marlow branch line. With rail and road accessibility to London, it has become a popular place for commuters to live, unlike neighbouring Flackwell Heath (a hilltop settlement 70-90 metres higher than the village) and outer parts of High Wycombe, having a station within 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of most homes. In the far south of Buckinghamshire, it runs alongside the River Thames, with some publicly accessible frontage and the public towpath on open land being opposite; the River Wye skirts across on the eastern side of the village, joining the Thames to the south. Immediately downstream of the village is Cliveden, a highly prestigious hotel and the area has rolling hills.
All of the mills along the Wye Valley have now been shut down and demolished, Jacksons Mill in Furlong Road being the last (in Bourne End) in the late 1980s. These have been replaced by houses, offices or industrial estates, which has led to the continuation of the village as an employment centre.
Bourne End remains a distinct settlement, although the continued house-building over the past century means it is threatened by the evident ribbon development, through to High Wycombe. In 1997, when the Local Plan was in preparation, the Residents Associations of Bourne End and Wooburn successfully lobbied to stop Slate Meadow (the field which separates the two settlements) being designated for housing for the time being. Other undeveloped land around the village looks likely to remain so, as it has been specified as Green Belt, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or a combination of the three. In parts, Bourne End is surrounded by farmland. Somewhat further away, Cliveden and Hedsor overlook the village from higher ground to the south east.
Bourne End sustains many businesses and services whilst still retaining a village-like atmosphere. There is a Community Centre in the centre of the village, with a large hall, function rooms and a bar, which is open for member's use. It is, for many, considered the focal point of village activity.
In the early 2000s, a Twinning Association was established, and subsequently Octeville-sur-Mer, a town on the north coast of France, was chosen to be its twin town. Frequent events are held by members of the association to foster and enhance the relationship between the two settlements.
Administration and services[edit]
The local government of the village is made up of three tiers. Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council (formerly Wooburn Parish Council, until 2005), based in Wooburn; Wycombe District Council, based in High Wycombe; and Buckinghamshire County Council, based in Aylesbury. The local police force is Thames Valley Police, who have an office in Boston Drive from which the local constables operate. Local healthcare services are commissioned by Buckinghamshire Primary Care Trust (PCT); GPs operate from The Hawthornden Surgery in Wharf Lane, and The Orchard Surgery in Station Road, and district nurses and health visitors are based at the Bourne End Clinic in Wakeman Road. There is also a dentist, the Bourne End Dental Practice, in Station Road, which offers private treatment for patients.
The village has two recreation grounds (Furlong Road and Blind Lane), riverside open space at the marina and Spade Oak Reach, a Junior Sports Club and fitness centre and the long-established Upper Thames Sailing Club. For many residents and visitors alike, the river is the central attraction of Bourne End, and many leisure pursuits involve or revolve around it. The Sailing Club traditionally host a week-long regatta every year in June, known as Bourne End Week.
Bourne End hosts a number of restaurants of varying cuisines. There are also a number of Public houses.
Near Bourne End, across the River Thames, is Cock Marsh, an area of common land and floodplain owned by the National Trust. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and has a prehistoric burial mound. Cock Marsh is accessible via the footbridge (attached to the railway bridge) over the river, and footpaths continue to Cookham, Cookham Dean and beyond.
The Thames Path National Trail follows the River Thames through Bourne End; upstream on the Buckinghamshire side, crossing the river at the footbridge, and downstream through Berkshire.
Bourne End has three schools:
- Westfield School, on Highfield Road, a special school which was the village first school until 1995.
- Claytons County Combined School, on Wendover Road, the village junior school which was formerly a middle school and was merged with Westfield.
- Bourne End Academy, on New Road, an upper school which has specialist Sports College status. Prior to amalgamation with Pembroke School, Flackwell Heath in 1985, this was known as Deyncourt School and then Wye Valley School.
There are also a number of pre-schools and nurseries across the village.
The village currently has three active churches. The Anglican parish church, in Station Road, is dedicated to St. Mark. The Roman Catholic church of St. Dunstan is in the centre of the village, off Cores End Road. The most well established is the United Reformed Church in Cores End, which was founded as a Congregational Chapel in 1773 (as a non-conformist alternative to St. Paul's in Wooburn).
Bourne End used to have a Methodist Church in Furlong Road, which closed down in 2002. Well End also once had a Congregational mission hall, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; this is now a residential house, named The Chapel.
There is also a branch of Ramakrishna Mission in the UK in Bourne End. It is called Vedanta Centre. This is the only centre in the UK which is affiliated to the Ramakrishna Mission. The centre aims to promote Vedanta in the UK.[6]
Bourne End continues to support a bustling array of shops, chiefly in The Parade, although it has struggled in recent times. Community events focused on the village centre, such as 'Fun Night' in December, have attempted to turn residents' attention to upholding local trade and businesses. There is a small parade of shops on Furlong Road, including the main Post Office.
- ^ "Wooburn and Bourne End parish fact file, December 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-27. Retrieved 2006-06-21.
- ^ "Buckinghamshire 1722, Robert Morden in Camden's Britannia". Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ^ Wheals, Brian Brenchley (1983). Theirs Were But Human Hearts. H. S. Publishing. ISBN 0-9509053-0-5.
- ^ "Maidenhead and Marlow Passengers Association". Retrieved 2005-02-03.
- ^ Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the Thames (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 112.
- ^ Vedanta Centre UK, Accessed 23 December 2012
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bourne End, Buckinghamshire.
|Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bourne End.
- Bourne End, Bucks — community website
- The Bourne End (Bucks) Twinning Association website
- The Octeville sur Mer Twinning Association website


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The Earth exploded into the nuclear age on 16 July 1945. On that day, the US tested a completely new type of weapon in the New Mexico desert. Crafted from a tennis-ball-sized plutonium sphere, the Trinity bomb produced an explosion equivalent to 20,000 tonnes of TNT.
Sixty years on, tens of thousands of tonnes of plutonium and enriched uranium have been produced. The global nuclear arsenal stands at about 27,000 bombs. Nine countries very probably possess nuclear weapons, while 40 others have access to the materials and technology to make them.
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Nuclear power has been championed as a source of cheap energy. But this was undermined at the end of the 20th century by high-profile reactor accidents, the problems of radioactive waste disposal, competition from more-efficient electricity sources and unavoidable links to nuclear weapons proliferation. Nonetheless, growing evidence for global warming had led some to argue that nuclear power is the only way to generate power without emitting greenhouse gases.
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The first steps towards unleashing the power within the atomic nucleus began in 1905 when Albert Einstein established that even tiny quantities of mass are equivalent to immense amounts of energy, through his equation E=mc2. In 1938, Germans Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman split inherently unstable uranium atoms by bombarding them with neutrons. The following year, Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch elucidated this process of nuclear fission, in which atomic nuclei are split to create nuclei of lighter elements, with neutrons and energy as by-products.
In 1941 the US embarked on the top secret Manhattan Project, which developed the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War Two. These are the only times nuclear weapons have been used in combat, though about 2000 have been tested. The Manhattan project cost $2 billion dollars and involved the work of 175,000 people, eight of whom were Nobel-prize winning physicists. The list includes Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr and Leo Szilard.
Uranium is the heaviest element found in nature in more than trace amounts, and natural ores contain two isotopes: U-238 and U-235. Only U-235, which makes up just 0.7% of ores, is fissile. So the uranium must be "enriched" to remove U-238 - highly enriched weapons-grade uranium can be up to 90% U-235.
When bombarded with neutrons, U-235 atoms absorb them and become unstable. They split to form two smaller nuclei of other elements and neutrons. Some of the mass is converted to energy in the form of gamma radiation and heat. Because only one neutron is needed to trigger fission and two or three are released, a chain reaction can result. This reaction is uncontrolled in an atomic bomb but tightly controlled in a nuclear reactor.
Dropping the bomb
The Hiroshima bomb was made of enriched uranium, compressed by detonating explosives to achieve a supercritical mass. The Nagasaki bomb was made of plutonium, which is also fissile. Plutonium is produced in the spent fuel of a nuclear reactor, via the irradiation of uranium 238. It can be extracted to create weapons.
Following 1945, the US developed massively destructive hydrogen bombs. Some are equivalent to many millions of tonnes of TNT, and yield vast amounts of energy through nuclear fusion. In nuclear fusion, atomic nuclei fuse to form heavier elements. Hydrogen bombs use small fission explosions to create the huge temperatures required for heavy isotopes of hydrogen to fuse.
Nuclear weapons technology has been adapted for many military uses, such as intercontinental missiles, huge fission weapons, bunker busters, mini-nukes, gamma ray weapons, nuclear landmines and nuclear defence missiles.
By bombing Japan, the US started a worldwide arms race, and the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Soviets developed and tested their own bomb in 1949. The United Kingdom achieved the feat in 1952, followed by France in 1960, China in 1964 and most recently India and Pakistan in 1998.
Israel is widely thought to possess nuclear weapons and North Korea declared in 2005 that it did too, though neither has conducted tests. Iraq and Libya have attempted to develop them in the past, and Iran has been accused of having a secret nuclear weapons programme.
Stemming proliferation
While up to nine nations have nuclear weapons, 187 others have pledged not to manufacture them. Twenty countries such as Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and South Africa once had programmes; but as signatories to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), subsequently abandoned them.
The NPT aimed to limit the spread of atomic weapons and bound the five original nuclear weapons states to sharing nuclear technology and materials for peaceful means - mainly through US and Russian disarmament, the treaty has achieved the decommisioning of 38,000 warheads since 1986.
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Equipment for the Long Haul
He needs equipment that can handle the everyday abuse that comes along with working in a high-traffic scrap metal recycling facility. He expects longevity out of his machines, which is why he has shears that have continued to work up to 10 hours or more every day for the past 16 years.
�Basically, my responsibility is to make sure everything�s running � from the lights to the equipment to the balers, shears, and cranes. That�s the role I play,� Kolesar says.
Among the equipment that Kolesar�s responsible for maintaining is a pair of Bobcat� skid-steer loaders, which are mainly used with industrial grapple attachments to lift and haul scrap metal to the baler. And as the scrap metal industry continues to experience prosperity, he says the skid-steer loaders keep up with the pace.
�The past couple of years have been the best we�ve had in a long time,� Kolesar says. �Scrap prices have gone up and it�s been good for all the recycling yards.�
A History of Recycling
If any company knows the history of the scrap metal industry, it�s Great Western Recycling (GWR), which has spanned three generations � dating back to 1925 when the company sold scrap metal for pennies. Today, the company sits on 12 acres of land and has the equipment and the shearing and baling capabilities to ship enough material annually to fill a train of railroad cars 16.5 miles long.
GWR merchandises all metal commodities � from iron and steel scrap, aluminum, copper, and brass alloys to high-temp alloys. The products are processed and packaged to exact specifications to meet the requirements of its consumers and ensure the highest quality. Kolesar says the company�s objective is to enhance the value of its customers� scrap metals. Its clients include retail, demolition, and manufacturers.
Being environmentally conscious also has been a major initiative of the company. Over the years, GWR has developed recycling processes that encourage the growth while protecting the roots. Kolesar says company officials believe it is their job to listen to the communities� environmental concerns and give them careful consideration when developing new processes. To help them with this initiative, GWR has an environmental compliance manager who performs regular inspections and procedures to ensure compliance with all state and federal regulations. The company also installed containment pads and monitoring devices, including a radiation detector to protect the environment, employees, clients, and vendors.
And just like GWR knows scrap metal recycling, Kolesar knows equipment. For more than 30 years, Kolesar has been involved with managing or maintaining heavy equipment in one way or another. Prior to being hired by GWR in 2000, he worked as the service manager at two local heavy equipment dealerships. That experience has helped him evaluate and select the machines his operators need to do their jobs efficiently.
Loaders Play Key Role
Among the equipment at the recycling facility, Kolesar says they rely heavily on their pair of Bobcat skid-steer loaders.
�You need them for confined spaces when moving material,� he says. �We use the skid-steer loaders a lot in the aluminum can building where we have two balers. They�re used every day, nine hours a day.�
A year after Kolesar began at GWR, he was forced to purchase a new skid-steer loader. He opted to go with a Bobcat 873 skid-steer loader because of the service, parts availability, and reputation of the equipment�s dependability. �We were looking for something for the long haul, not short term,� he says. In 2004, the company bought a second Bobcat skid-steer loader, an S250.
The skid-steer loaders help with a critical part of the recycling process. When customers arrive at the facility�s main doors to deliver their scrap aluminum, forklifts transport the product to a scale for weighing. After a ticket is given to the customer showing the aluminum�s weight, the material is then transported and dumped in front of two balers. To feed the scrap metal into the balers, workers use industrial grapple attachments on the 873 and S250 skid-steer loaders, which both have solid tires to eliminate the possibility of flats. Because the industrial bucket grapple is composed of grapple tines and a bucket-shaped bottom, Kolesar says it�s ideal for lifting the scrap metal and placing it onto the baler�s steel conveyor belt.
�Feeding the balers is the skid-steer loaders� main function,� he says. �Without them, we�d have a heck of a time and we�d have to do a lot of the feeding by hand.�
Even though 2,000 pounds of scrap material cannot be set on the baler�s conveyor belt all at once, Kolesar says he still wanted skid-steer loaders that had enough lifting capacity to haul the scrap metal where it needed to go. The 873 has a 2,400-pound rated operating capacity (ROC) and the S250 has a 2,500-pound ROC. In addition to feeding balers, the skid-steer loaders also are used for moving the resulting bales after the aluminum is processed through the baler. Each bale can weigh anywhere from 1,200 to 2,500 pounds.
�We lift a lot of weight. So we�re always looking for more lifting capacity if we can get more of it,� Kolesar says.
Once the scrap metal has been processed, the bales are readied for shipment to mills across the world that reprocess the material into end products. While the skid-steer loaders typically work inside the facility, they must work outside to load the overseas shipping containers. Kolesar says the skid-steer loaders� maneuverability is key when they must enter the stainless-steel bin to haul and load the metal into a dump hopper. Operators then use forklifts to load the dump hoppers into the overseas trailers.
The maneuverability of the machines also comes in handy when performing cleanup and snow removal. Oftentimes, Kolesar says he will use the machines with their bucket attachments for cleaning up fallen scrap metal from around the facility�s drop-off doors. The buckets are also used for clearing snow during the wintertime. �It�s nice with the skid-steer loaders because they clean up around the doors and around the building easily,� he says. �You get the larger loaders in there and they don�t do such a good job.�
As operations superintendent, Kolesar believes it�s his job to ensure his operators stay efficient. �I think the more comfortable the operator is the more production you�re going to get out of them,� he says. That�s why the S250 skid-steer loader has an enclosed cab with heating and air conditioning. Because the facility gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter, he says operators use the heat and air conditioning year-round.
In addition to feeding the balers, cleanup, and snow removal, Kolesar uses the skid-steer loaders for maintaining the 9-foot fence that surrounds the scrap metal facility. Occasionally, operators will attach the auger and drill holes to place new fence posts.
At the end of the day, after the loaders have worked more than nine hours and hauled thousands of pounds of scrap metal, Kolesar says he needs machines that he can rely on to start and work just as hard the next day, the next week, and the next year. At a scrap metal facility like GWR, you don�t have time for machines that need breathers.
�Our loaders have held up well and they�re very reliable,� he says. �That�s all anybody can ask for.�


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American Exceptionalism
An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World
By Hilde Eliassen Restad
Routledge – 2014 – 270 pages
Routledge – 2014 – 270 pages
How does American exceptionalism shape American foreign policy? Conventional wisdom states that American exceptionalism comes in two variations – the exemplary version and the missionary version.
Being exceptional, experts in U.S. foreign policy argue, means that you either withdraw from the world like an isolated but inspiring "city upon a hill," or that you are called upon to actively lead the rest of the world to a better future. In her book, Hilde Eliassen Restad challenges this assumption, arguing that U.S. history has displayed a remarkably constant foreign policy tradition, which she labels unilateral internationalism. The United States, Restad argues, has not vacillated between an "exemplary" and a "missionary" identity. Instead, the United States developed an exceptionalist identity that, while idealizing the United States as an exemplary "city upon a hill," more often than not errs on the side of the missionary crusade in its foreign policy. Utilizing the latest historiography in the study of U.S. foreign relations, the book updates political science scholarship and sheds new light on the role American exceptionalism has played – and continues to play – in shaping America's role in the world.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of US foreign policy, security studies, and American politics.
1 Introduction: How to be an American PART I: The Distinction: A Superior Nation is Born, 2. Challenging the conventional depiction of American identity, 3. Challenging the conventional depiction of U.S. foreign policy PART II The Mission: A Special Role Cast for the United States in the Play of World History, 4. The 'turn-around' theory and the many meanings of multilateral, 5. Early twentieth century internationalism: The triumph of Henry Cabot Lodge over Woodrow Wilson, 6. Turn-around? The triumph of hegemony over multilateralism PART III: The Resistance: American Exceptionalism and the Laws of History 7. From the post-Cold War order to the war on terror: American exceptionalism reaffirmed, 8. Conclusion: American exceptionalism today.
Hilde Eliassen Restad is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes College in Oslo, Norway. A Fulbright alumna, she has a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and is frequently used as a commentator on U.S. politics in Norway.
Name: American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World (Hardback) – Routledge
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United Methodists have been discussing issues affecting the Liberian society including domestic violence, corruption and malaria.
At a three-day seminar held over the weekend at the Thinker's Village, participants discussed the role of the Church and faith-based organizations in resolving most of the societal problems.
The seminar was organized by the Global Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church based in the United States in collaboration with the Human Rights Monitor of the Liberia Annual Conference (LAC).
Rev. Neal Christie told participants that it was important for the faith-based organizations to get involved with advocacy. He urged them to share the knowledge acquired from the seminar.
He said the Church should not be silent on violence and other various forms of evil in society.
Human Rights Monitor's Program Director Jefferson Knight who also served as facilitator said it was imperative that participants send anti-violence messages.
"Knowledge is power and once you have power, you can make a difference," Knight added.
Facilitators at the seminar include: Rev. Neal Christie, Assistant Secretary of the Global Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church; Rev. Clayton Childers, Imagine No Malaria (INM), GBCS; Rev. Amee Paparella, Director, Women's Advocacy, GBCS; and Michelle Whittaker, Communications Director, GBCS, among others.
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Okaloosa County reported fewer boating crashes in 2013 than in 2012, although the number of fatalities stayed the same, according to a report released Friday.
Three Niceville residents – Robert Williams, 47, Jamilia Beltz, 21, and 18-year-old Taylor Evanoff – were killed in a single accident in early December when their boat crashed into the Mid-Bay Bridge.
The other fatal accident happened Oct. 12, when a Louisiana man died after being thrown from a personal watercraft. Andrew Clayton slipped out of life jacket, a factor authorities contributed to his death.
The 2013 Boating Accident Statistical Report was compiled by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. To see the full report, click here.
Across the state, 62 died in boating accidents, with drowning being the principle cause of death, the report said.
"The big thing that jumps out at you in that report was that the majority of the people who died in boating accidents would probably not have died if they'd been wearing life jackets," said FWC spokesman Stan Kirkland. "It's like insurance on the water.
"By that I mean if you have an accident, you need it."
Although Okaloosa County still made the Top 10 list of counties as ranked by number of boating accidents, its 2013 ranking of eighth place was actually an improvement over the previous year, when it was ranked number five.
Okaloosa County had a total of 24 boating accidents in 2013, down from 31 in 2012.
Santa Rosa County had two reportable accidents, one of which was fatal.
On March 30, 61-year-old Gary Lowry was killed in a boat going around 85 mph in the Santa Rosa Sound near Gulf Breeze.
The boat hit a wake, went airborne and broke into three pieces upon impact. The other four people in the boat survived. None of them were wearing life jackets.
A photo from that accident was used as an illustration for the report.
Santa Rosa County was ranked 36th in the state, with two reportable accidents.
Walton County had just one reportable accident in 2013, the report said.
In addition to wearing life jackets, Kirkland noted that boaters can help protect themselves and others by not boating after using alcohol or drugs.
"The thing that we continue to emphasize is that the operator of any vessel, it doesn't matter what size it is, the operator cannot operate that vessel if they're under the influence," he said. "It's illegal and can be a deadly combination."


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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.1 square miles (31.3 km²), all of it land.
There were 3,644 households out of which 42.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.1% were married couples living together, 24.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.6% were non-families. 15.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.47 and the average family size was 3.85.
In the city the population was spread out with 33.5% under the age of 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $22,774, and the median income for a family was $25,576. Males had a median income of $23,151 versus $16,150 for females. The per capita income for the city was $8,736. About 30.0% of families and 32.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 43.0% of those under age 18 and 25.3% of those age 65 or over.


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I enjoy looking at your photos of Korea! I miss it there desperately...it takes too long for me to get to Seoul (15 hours by plane)
when you check out its original size you may find out the detail where is a peaceful and clean place to stay. thanks NHRH S2010 for share with us,hope you everything ok ktjun from beijing China
Immaculate Conception. Nice pic!
Oh my god... At that time this area looks like the day after atomic war...
Yup, they are A-10's! I asked them if they would do their Low Approach to the little runway, just so I could get a better look at 'em. =)
I think these are the single family homes in the private area off of Gnomes Knoll. The condos are on the other side.
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Thanks for the advice guys, i had budgeted on $3000 a year on R&M, after putting in $5000 it ends up negetive cashflow.
Im getting a building inspection done today, i'll see if i can use some faults or comments to negotiate the price down further.
Im still finding a bit of difficulty locating a positive cashflow property with yeilds of 9 - 10%, i have searched for home in and incomes and found some. but im only prepared to pay under 250k.
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WWE. Why is it called World Wrestling Entertainment?
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WWE. Why is it called World Wrestling Entertainment?
Why do they call it the world series
And how about the soap opera Another World. Heck, it's only another town. And the World Atlas. It's really a book about . . . oh . . . nevermind.
The part of the name WWE that drives me nuts is Wrestling. Folks who don't know any better get that silliness confused with the sport we know and love. Crazy as that sounds, I find myself explaining the difference to my friends who wonder why I'm a fan of and writing about something that involves being hit over the head with a folding chair. ;-(
I remember when Tom Brokaw was the chief anchorman at NBC Nightly News and had to report on the WWE performer who fell to his death in Kansas City, made a real point of pronouncing Vince McMahon's circus as being "rasslin'" -- a slight distinction, but one that I'm sure Brokaw intended to make.
As for the World part... in doing my amateur wrestling historical research, it's been funny to learn that some pre-WWE rasslers who played foeign bad guys were actually All-American guys. Prime example: Baron von Raschke was actually Jim Raschke, AA heavyweight for the University of Nebraska in the early 1960s... about as far from Germany as one can get.
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What do 9 to 16 year-olds think a theory is? And if they don't know, can they begin to understand science? These and other fundamental questions ore discussed in minutely researched detail by Rosalind Driver, John Leach, Robin Millar and Phil Scott in Young People's Images of Science (Open University Press, £12.99, ISBN 0 335 19381 1). It's an academic text, heavy with annotations; essential for curriculum planners. It seems we should be teaching concepts before cramming facts.
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