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A former Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who engaged in a scheme to defraud the U.S. military and then dumped those ill-gotten gains in shell companies, real estate, cars, a boat and gold coins has pleaded guilty to two felony counts in a deal with prosecutors.
David Young, 50, of Hernando County, Fla., pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court for Utah to one count of violating a prohibition on disclosure of procurement information and one count of money laundering. He agreed to forfeit $1.6 million kept in eight different bank accounts; property in New Hampshire and 14 homes and a lot in Florida; a 2006 Hummer; a 2002 Sea Ray Mercruiser; a 1999 Jaguar; and 400 one-ounce gold coins worth about $520,000.
As part of the deal, prosecutors agreed to seek a prison term of between three years and four years when Young is sentence on March 25.
Christopher Harris, 49, a second defendant in the scheme, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to commit government procurement fraud and one count of money laundering. Harris, 49, also will be sentenced on March 25; prosecutors have agreed to seek a reduced sentence for Harris of about four years.
A third defendant Michael L. Taylor of Boston pleaded guilty in November to one count of violationg the federal Procurement Integrity Act and, in a related case, one count of wire fraud. No sentencing date has been set for Taylor, 52.
Young was once regarded as a political star who was elected at age 21 to the New Hampshire Legislature, played a key role in John McCain's presidential campaign in the state and was a guest at inaugurations for both Presidents George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr. and was known for hosting lavish political fundraisers, according to the Tampa Bay Times. But Young also ran into trouble as a lawyer and member of the military.
Young was disbarred in 2006 after being accused of misusing a client's money. In 2009, he was court-martialed and found guilty of taking a pair of Humvees without permission while serving in Afghanistan.
Utah prosecutors alleged the fraud scheme developed in 2007.
According to prosecutors, Young and Harris became acquainted while serving in the Special Forces in Iraq between November 2002 and June 2003. Taylor, also a former Green Beret, owns American International Security Corporation (AISC), which provides security services, and hired Harris as his in-country manager in Afghanistan.
Young was deployed in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army at the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force from March to June of 2007, where he directed the Afghan National Security Force Partnering. That group was tasked with transfering national security duties to the Afghans and sought bidders on a contract to provide logistics and weapons maintenance training to the country's commando units.
In his plea agreement, Young admitted that he shared confidential bid information with Taylor and Harris, including the government's price estimate for the work and information contained in a competitor's bid.
AISC subsequently submitted the winning bid for the contract, which was initially for about $900,000. Over the next two years, the contract was extended and expanded and the company took in about $54 million. While work was completed as requested, prosecutors alleged about half the sum was illicit.
In his plea deal, Harris said AISC paid him $17 million and that he and the company then paid Young more than $9.4 million, funds that were distributed to various individuals and entities as directed by Young.
Young acknowledged in his plea statement that the wire transfers included a single payment of $196,869 to one of his associates but intended for himself.
The Defense Criminal Investigative Service and Homeland Security Investigations began looking at Harris in early 2010 after being tipped off that he had made a series of withdrawals from two different accounts at banks in Southern Utah all in $9,000 increments, which Harris told a clerk was aimed at avoiding government scrutiny.
A federal grand jury in Utah charged the three men in a 72-count indictment issued in August 2012. Taylor later was indicted in a separate case on allegations he tried get a New York FBI agent to derail the investigation involving him and his company; the case against Robert G. Lustyik, the special agent, is still pending.
As part of his deal with prosecutors, Harris forfeited two homes in St. George; lots in St. George, and Peachland, British Columbia; and $30,300 in cash. In Taylor's case, prosecutors agreed to seek two sentences of up to 24 months, set to run concurrently and with credit for time served; Taylor was released Nov. 27 after spending about 14 months in the Davis County Jail. Taylor forfeited $3.2 million as part of that settlement.
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Barack Obama's latest act of surrender in the war against terrorism comes in Afghanistan. Administration sources are leaking that Obama is considering withdrawing all American troops before Dec. 31, 2013, one year early, without leaving even a small, residual force in the country.
Such a decision would simply accelerate an already badly misguided policy. Faster draw-downs in Afghanistan are bad enough but even worse is Obama's inability or unwillingness to see the inevitably broader adverse consequences.
The inclination toward speedier withdrawal is attributed to Obama's deteriorating relations with Afghan President Karzai, who is apparently livid about U.S. negotiations with Taliban terrorists. Obama hopes that appeasing the Taliban through negotiations can avoid pictures of helicopters plucking Americans and friendly Afghans from Kabul's rooftops, uncomfortably reminiscent of last-minute scenes from Vietnam.
Moreover, according to polls, Americans are weary of the Afghan conflict, so Obama sees another chance to declare the war on terror over and also to score domestic political points.
Americans are "war weary" about Afghanistan for specific reasons. As president, Obama has repeatedly insisted there was no rationale for a "war on terrorism" and that he will end the wars he inherited. However, like much of his national-security approach, Afghan policy has been erratic and poorly explained. He has never made a sustained defense for fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan, justifying his tactical decisions only in limited terms and ultimately with an eye on complete U.S. withdrawal, sooner rather than later.
Unfortunately, congressional Republicans and others have rarely launched a sustained critique of Obama's national-security failures or explained how the Afghan campaign fits into the larger global struggle against terrorism.
So no wonder Americans are war weary. Being very practical, citizens know they have more pressing concerns than mastering arcane foreign-policy issues. Instead, they elect presidents they expect will defend the country, explaining and justifying sacrifices we are called upon to make, including foreign wars, to protect our interests and way of life. When a president is largely silent about foreign threats, voters logically assume (if incorrectly, in Obama's case) that the risks are minimal and need not concern them. And when the loyal opposition doesn't oppose, why shouldn't Americans conclude, for example, that war in Afghanistan is unnecessary and should be rapidly concluded?
Thus, the failure is not with the American people for not grasping the strategic significance of defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida in their bastions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border but the failure of elected officials in Washington. Fortunately, however, this failure can be corrected by finding leaders prepared to explain comprehensibly just what is at stake in this long conflict.
To begin, we are conducting "defense at a distance" in Afghanistan, fighting the terrorists there so they cannot reconstitute themselves and gravely threaten us at home, as on Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. and NATO withdrawal seems nearly certain to lead to Karzai's government falling, with the Taliban re-establishing control and inviting al-Qaida back to Afghanistan as partners. At that point, Afghanistan would again be a base for international terrorism, as we experienced on 9/11, precisely the reasons we overthrew the Taliban. And, tragically, we will have given up all we sacrificed to prevent just such a recurrence of the terrorist threat.
Second, we now recognize an added strategic threat if the Taliban retake control in Kabul, namely the increased likelihood that Pakistani Taliban and other radicals could seize control in that country. That would mean both another base for global terror attacks and also Pakistan's substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons falling into terrorist hands, including those in Iran. Terrorists would have access to nuclear weapons they could detonate in cities around the world, rendering decades of counterproliferation efforts meaningless.
These are the strategic interests in defeating the Taliban that justify our leaving forces in Afghanistan and continuing active military operations against them for as long as it takes. This is not the same as "nation building," which rarely works in practice and which is also truly unpopular with American voters, who see it as a gravy train for ungrateful foreigners. We are not in Afghanistan to benefit the Afghans, but to benefit ourselves.
Thus explained, Americans are far more likely to support the necessary war against terrorism in Afghanistan. Of course, if our political "leaders" fail to make this case, we will learn the lesson only when the terrorists attack us again, perhaps this time with nuclear weapons.
We can avoid this outcome but it requires leadership plainly missing from Barack Obama. The question is whether Republicans have the capacity and the will to fill in the void Obama has left.
John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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The weather here in CT has been pretty mild so far this season. Not many leaves left to fall and working outside has been enjoyable. I have a couple days worth of wood left to split, and I'll be all set for the winter. I was wondering if any of you stick to a schedule of chores to do outside your homes in anticipation of the weather changing? I know snow has already hit some of the states, all we got so far was a fast moving flurry.
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Yes, my wife and I have a regular schedule of things to do before winter sets in. We were extremely lucky this fall--until yesterday, we were running in the 50's and 60's in October and November. Yesterday the Twin Cities got hit with 10 inches of snow. We got about 2 inches. Fortune smiled on us and everything is done and put away. Even got the snowblower on the front of the Tractor!
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yes the seasons dictate my work most of the time,
but when it comes to wood cutting we normally cut the winter long, as the snow usually melts away here between most storms, and having it all cut before hand is not that big of a deal, and I usually keep some uncut stuff here for semi emergency, (I have cleaned up my own trees in the wind break for the most part, and now working on another farmstead cleaning up the dead in its wind break, I have enough cut for a few weeks currently,Push sticks/blocks Save Fingers
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At this point, I've mowed the leaves to powder, pulled the screens, and put the glass in the storm doors. Furnaces have been checked and filters changed. Heck, I even got my window scraper and snow brush back in the van.
Oh yeah, I just replaced all four tires, new rotors and pads too.
That's about it, now I think I'll just let winter sneek up on me.
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I just finished raking and mowing my lawn front and back, just in time for the sunset at 5 PM today. Not too many weekends left to perform such work in a short-sleeve shirt.
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Looking to make it easier to pay for local items using their mobile phone, Los Angeles-based PayDragon said today that it has launched its mobile purchasing app in Los Angeles. The startup--headed by Hamilton Chan, and the team behind Paperlinks--said that LA food trucks The Bun Truck, CambalaCHE's, Auntie's Fry Bread, Chunk n Chip, The Grill Sergeant, The Wien, and Rounds Premium Burgers, along with dessert and sweets chain Beard Papa, are now using the firm's app to allow users to pay for their purchases. The new service also revealed that it has scored backing from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Start Fund and Rustic Canyon Partners for its efforts. PayDragon said it is available for free on iPhone and Android. Paperlinks had previously been focused on QR-code enabling merchants.


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The Evening Standard became the first newspaper to see the peerless new views across London from the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower in the Olympic park yesterday. The completion of the 114.5m-high structure was then marked by a ceremony this morning attended by its creators, sculptor Anish Kapoor and designer and engineer Cecil Balmond, its main sponsor, steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, and London mayor Boris Johnson.
The vista from the exposed, mesh-clad gantry around the higher of the two enclosed viewing platforms is extraordinary. The Shard looks clean and beautiful beside a jumble of City skyscrapers. Directly below, the Olympic Stadium looks like a pair of cupped hands, the canal-crossed park calm and empty, waiting for the deluge of the crowds.
The monoliths of Canary Wharf are authoritatively framed in a window, with the 02 and the pylons for the new Emirates Sky Line cable car to the left. Today, two huge, curved mirrors designed by Kapoor and reflecting London's gravitational shift eastwards, will be unveiled. During the Games, and afterwards, the Orbit will accommodate 5,000 visitors a day.
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Time was when the most involved emergency procedure a school district prepared for was the handful of fire drills required by law each year to allow school administrators a chance to test their buildings' fire alarms and give students a 10- to 15-minute breath of fresh air and a temporary reprieve from the daily routine of their classrooms.
That was before towns like Jonesboro, Ark., Pearl, Miss., and Littleton, Colo., began to appear like pushpins on a map of school districts across the country where student gunfire has shattered the collective illusion of disaster preparedness.
But if anything at all positive has emerged from these tragedies of the last two and half years, it has been a renewed and invigorated commitment to evaluating just how safe our public schools really are, and what we can do to make them even safer. For Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS) that effort is being led by the Safer Schools Committee, chaired by Meadow Hill School Principal Nick Carter.
"In the last two and a half years there's been a lot of reactive things to what's gone on in schools," says Carter. "What we're trying to do is move from the reactive stage to the proactive, to where we'd like to be in what we call a 'co-active' stage, where we use all the resources at our disposal in the community to make our schools safer."
One of the first steps implemented at the beginning of this year was the distribution of new emergency procedure manuals to all teachers and staff members in every school room in the county. These color-coded flip charts, which were two years in the making, read like a guide to the action-adventure films of Arnold Schwarzenegger, with such category headings as kidnappings, fires or explosions, hazardous material incidents, earthquakes, and bomb threats. Nevertheless, the emergency procedure manual provides teachers and staff with easy, step-by-step instructions for dealing with virtually any crisis that is likely (or unlikely) to occur.
"We're trying to make these things, as much as possible, as second nature as a fire drill, so kids and teachers are comfortable with them," says Carter, about the new level of training and preparedness now underway. "It's some heavy stuff. It brings with it a level of discomfort. It's not an easy feeling. People always envisioned that nothing would ever happen in a school except an accident out on the playground."
Certainly the parents and teachers at Thurston High School never envisioned anything worse than that. Until May 21, 1998, that is, when a 15-year-old student walked into their crowded school cafeteria in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his fellow students, killing two and injuring 22. It was from that incident that came the document upon which the MCPS emergency procedure manual is based, as well as 25 to 30 other emergency procedure manuals from across the country.
Carter likes to emphasize that the committee is named "Safer Schools," since by most standards Missoula's public schools are already very safe. Nevertheless, with the growing attention nationwide being given to various crime risks, peer mediation training, "bully-proofing" techniques, and so on, the bar has been raised considerably for how one defines a "safe" school.
As Carter points out, many policies and procedures can be easily implemented with only minimal expense or training, such as requiring all visitors to the schools to check in with the front office and obtain a visitors' pass, or limiting the number of unlocked doors in school buildings. Other safety precautions, such as staff training, installing phones and video monitors, and redesigning buildings, will be more costly and time-consuming.
But as for Missoula's level of preparedness, Carter says, "We're running neck-and-neck with anyone in the country. We're as far along as a lot of people, and maybe sometimes farther along."
For example, MCPS plans to send some of its staff to Washington, D.C., next month to go through crime prevention training that looks at the physical design of a school to evaluate and reduce its vulnerability to crime. In addition, representatives from the National Organization of Victims Assistance will be in Missoula sometime in January to train school crisis management teams in the "Good Grief" process, which helps students and staff deal with the grief of loss, such as the divorce of a parent or the death of a fellow student or teacher. And by the end of this year, Carter says they hope to have a draft of emergency management plan specific to every public school building, for comment and review by city and county emergency planners.
That said, however, Carter acknowledges that writing documents isn't the end of the process, but only the beginning. Although school districts in Montana are not mandated to have disaster management plans in place, they are required to conduct at least eight drills a year, at least two of which must be disaster drills.
"We've done a lot of things to set the wheels in motion," says Carter. "Once we can get the wheel, we have to make sure the wheel continues to fit our car."


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Texas prepares for first US execution since botched Oklahoma procedure; inmate appeals pending
There are 102 comments on the Brandon Sun story from May 13, 2014, titled Texas prepares for first US execution since botched Oklahoma procedure; inmate appeals pending. In it, Brandon Sun reports that:
Texas on Tuesday plans to execute a convicted murderer whose hopes are pinned to two appeals, including one that challenges the state's planned use of a secretly-made drug like those used in Oklahoma's botched execution two weeks ago.
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#1 May 13, 2014
The death penalty serves no good at all. It does not deter, it does not bring back the murder victim, it does not do anything other than exact revenge.
It does cost more money to go through the appeals process on death row than it does to house someone for life.
And then there are the mistakes. One mistaken execution is one too many.
Life without parole is sufficient to take the violent offender out of society.
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#2 May 13, 2014
just shoot the sob!
#3 May 13, 2014
i seriously doubt you'd feel that way if the victim was your daughter or mother!
#4 May 13, 2014
The purpose of law and a justice system is to be sure that people do not act on their own to exact their own kind of justice. Yes, if the victim were someone I cared deeply about, I would have urges to strangle the defendant with my bare hands. But just because that is what I want to do, does not mean that I should or wish for the state to do it for me.
Trust me, if I thought that the death penalty had any kind of deterring effect, I would be all for it. But it does not. I wish it did.
If I thought that innocent people had never been executed by mistake, I would be all for it, but unfortunately that has happened. At least a life sentence might give someone a chance to clear their name.
So instead of wasting so much time, money and resources on something that does little other than drag out a drama and rehash pain, why not lock them up and be done with it. There is no such thing as closure. The pain of losing a family member to murder never goes away no matter what.
#5 May 13, 2014
Why should the murderer go free? He didn't feel much remorse or pity for his victims did he? They had to die, why should he get spared? Letting him go would only mean he'd do it again. Keeping him in jail-means comforts. Doesn't deserve. People like you are telling them "ffel free to kill as many as you want, cause you won't pay for the crime".
#6 May 13, 2014
"Immanuel Kant said it best. He said a society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral. So the question really... when the system works and when you manage to identify somebody who has done such heinous evil, do we as a society have a right to take his life? I think the answer's plainly yes. And I would go with Kant and I would say it is immoral for us not to."
#7 May 13, 2014
Why not hang the day they are convicted?
#8 May 13, 2014
Do what you want with murderers in MA. and we'll keep killing them here in Texas. Massachusetts is about the last place I worry about what killers and rapists do. In fact if you volunteer to keep our killers in your state, we'll send you freaks a couple bus loads.
#9 May 13, 2014
Nobody thinks a murderer should go free! WTF! Obviously cannot read. Did not say anything about keeping anybody comfortable.
Tell you what, why don't you go live in prison for a while and get back to us on how comfortable and nice it is.
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#10 May 13, 2014
You grow more addlebrained with each post. Is it all that time in lockdown?
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#11 May 13, 2014
To whom are you responding? Your imaginary friend doesn't count.
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#12 May 13, 2014
I can't agree with Kant, or with you. A civilized society has no such right. Rational behavior is not immoral.
Having said that, I think there are many people, murderers and others, who make the world worse for their presence in it. By that standard, we should execute people by the truckload, starting with the heads of the world's dictatorships.
#13 May 13, 2014
The DEATH PENALTY deters the murderer to murder more people,
because he/she will no longer be among the living.
The DEATH PENALTY is the only solution.
In states without the DEATH PENALTY, the suspect(s) can kill as many people as they wish without fear of being put to death.
democRATS / liberals always tell you, that the victims cannot be returned to life.
The suspect always has redeeming social values.
10 - 25 years go by and the democRATS count on people to forget the horrendous murders for which the suspect(s) are responsible.
Countries such as China, Iran, Signapore, and Cuba should be admired for their disposition of criminals.
Is it not ironic, democRATS murder a live fetus before it draws its first breath,
yet they want to save worthless scum that go on jihad murder rampages, murdering dozens of Americans.
#14 May 13, 2014
No doubt, you are a hard core democRAT !!!
Your type has absolutely no feelings for any murder victim.
FYI ...... it cost us tax payers ONE MILLION DOLLARS per year to keep one person on DEATH ROW. The average stay on Death Row is 25 years.
That's 25 MILLION dollars per year wasted on one scum !
The Death Penalty deters the scum from repeating vicious murders,
because the scum will be dead!
Don't spittle your liberal garbage about the suspect being one in a million who is not guilty,
or, the victims cannot be brought back to life, or the scum has redeeming social values.
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#15 May 13, 2014
What botched execution? Where was there a botched execution? Did the condemned survive? If SO,THEN it was botched. Otherwise it was quite successful. The goal of Capital Punishment is the demise of the convicted,is it not?
Since: May 08
#16 May 13, 2014
I could support doing away with the death penalty if they brought back real hard time for murderers. That is No video games , not netflix no visit from Girlfriends/boyfriends etc. Just an 8X8 foot grey cell, with three meals a day and if you want to see sunshine be prepared to make big rocks into little rocks.
Since: May 08
#17 May 13, 2014
how many here have seen Richard Speck(Who killed 8 student Nurses) prison video?
#18 May 13, 2014
You must live under A ROCK. Don't know about tvs, special food an privledges allowed. Thats why so many killings, cause people like you feel sorry for them and they don't have to pay for their crimes.
#19 May 13, 2014
Now your talk'n, start with Obama.
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#20 May 13, 2014
Why don't they just late term abort him like little babies?
Suck his brains out with a vacuum cleaner.
There is something wrong with liberals.
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In Canada, mobile banking is growing up faster than Justin Bieber. So from March 21 to April 9, 2014, Forrester reviewed and scored the mobile banking offerings from the five largest retail banks in Canada across seven categories: Range of touchpoints; Enrollment and login; Account information; Transactional functionality; Service features; Cross-channel guidance; and marketing and sales. You can read the complete report here or by clicking on the link below:
Posted by Peter Wannemacher on the eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals Blog on February 3, 2012
Hotcakes, you've got some competition: the phrase "selling like tablets" might soon enter the global lexicon. And it's not all hype — though there is a fair bit of that as well. Tablet users in the US are estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 51% from 2010 to 2015. That's a fast-growing market for firms of all stripes.
As such, the tablet as a touchpoint is becoming a critical consideration for eBusiness & Channel strategists. This is especially true for executives at banks, as financial transactions benefit from the immediacy of the mobile channel, but users often struggle to make these transactions on smaller smartphone screens.
Enter tablet banking.
Forrester has previously identified best practices for tablet apps in financial services, but only in the past year have leading banks rolled out robust tablet banking efforts. One of the strongest tablet offerings we've seen is from Citibank.
In my new report, I outline the process Citibank went through in building its own tablet banking strategy, developing an iPad app, rolling it out to customers, and continually improving the service. We outline how Citi:


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Mount Laurel Municipal Complex
100 Mount Laurel Road
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
(856) 234-0001
Community Information
Department of Public Works
Important Announcements
2017 Trash Collection Schedule Delays and important information
Road work/paving schedule Phase 1 (pdf)
ROAD CLOSURES: As part of the Burlington County Overlay Project (Phase 4) Hainesport Road will be closed (hard closure) from Academy Drive to Maple Avenue in Evesham Township, Monday June 12 to Thursday June 15 between the hours of 2000-0600. All traffic traveling on CR674 and CR616 westbound will be detoured onto Academy Drive.
*Spring Time Yard waste and brush clean up tends to generate a lot more volume of debris than the rest of the year. During this period there could be times when Public Works can run behind. If you have any questions about this matter you can always call Public Works at 856-234-0001 ext 1241
- Reporting Potholes
- Trash Collection
- Recycling information
- Snow Removal
- Mosquito Control
-Animal Control
Recognizing the impact that this winter has had with regard to the extensive volume of potholes throughout the township, Residents are encouraged to call in the locations of potholes they have encountered while traversing the township. This will assist us in collecting additional information necessary to expedite repairs in a more efficient and timely manner. However, not all roads in Mount Laurel are maintained by the Township. Some of the roads are maintained by the county. A list of those roads and information on reporting potholes to the county is provided below:
County Roads: You can contact the County Highway Department at 609-726-7300 or email@example.com
Ark Road (sections)
Centerton Road
Church Road
Church Street
Creek Road
Elbo Lane
Fellowship Road
Hainesport-Mt.Laurel Road
Hartford Road
Marne Highway
Masonville Road
Masonville-Fostertown Road
Mount Laurel Road
Westfield Road (near Centerton Road)
Springdale Road
Snow Removal Information (Click on Link)
Trash Collection
Trash Collection Schedule
Regular Trash Collection Schedule (PDF)
Regular Pickup Days – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
- Trash cans cannot weigh anymore than 50 lbs. and bags should not weigh anymore than 45 to 50 lbs.
- Trash should not be placed at the curb any earlier than 24 hours before scheduled pick-up. Trash cans are to be removed from the curb within 24 hours of pick-up.
- Trash Cans must be outside containers only, all other containers will be considered trash.
- Construction debris: Debris that is generated by a homeowner can and will be picked up with regular household trash. Nails must either be removed or hammered down so an injury does not occur. Wood must be cut in no larger than 4 foot sections. Outside contractors are required to remove any debris they generate.
- Furniture and bedding can be placed at the curb for your regular trash pick up.
CONCRETE, ASPHALT, BRICKS, STONE, and DIRT
Concrete, bricks, stone, dirt, sod, asphalt, etc. cannot be picked up by Gold Medal or Public Works. These items are the responsibility of the homeowner.
- Bagged grass and small garden debris should be placed with your regular trash
- Bagged leaves, and loose brush cannot go to the landfill. Please separate them from your regular trash and put it out on your trash day the second and fourth week of the month (except leaf season Oct-Jan) a schedule will be posted. You do not have to call to schedule a pick up.
Tire Pick-Up
Car and truck tires (excluding tractor trailer tires) must be removed from the rims. Tires are picked up on the third Friday of each month. Residents must call Public Works to schedule the pick-up. Burlington County residents can also take tires, on or off the rim, to the Burlington County Landfill.
Appliance Pick-up
Any appliance or air conditioner can be picked up Wednesdays. Residents must call Public Works to schedule the pick-up.
Televisions and Computers
After 12/31/10, TV's, & VCR's will no longer be permitted to be put into the landfill. These items will be picked up by Public Works on Wednesdays. Residents must either call for pickup or they can bring these items to the recycling area on Midlantic Drive. Any TV's, computers, monitors, etc. put out with trash will be left at the curb.
***Recycling will be picked up 2017-2018 Recycling Schedule
on every other Tuesday.*** Need to recycle holiday lights? Click here for more information.
What can I recycle at the curb?
Acceptable Items:
Newspaper, cardboard, magazines, paperback books, phone books, computer paper, office and school paper, gray color cardboard (cereal boxes).
Glass bottles, glass food containers, aluminum cans, steel cans, plastic bottles #1 or #2, 5. empty aerosol cans – All of these items should be rinsed clean and then placed in your recycling bucket. For Plastic milk, water & soda bottles, throw away lids & caps.
Items that are Not Acceptable:
Plastic Bags, Pizza boxes, hardback books, large amounts of shredded paper, soiled paper/cardboard, food contaminated cardboard/paper, foil or plastic coated paper/cardboard, clay or plastic flower pots, crystal, aluminum foil, plastic bags, plastic items that are not a bottle, plastic bottles #3, #4,#6, and #7, ceramic mugs or plates, drinking glasses, ovenware, light bulbs, mirrors, window glass, motor oil or pesticide containers.
Recyclables should be out at the curb by 6 am!
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Hazardous Material
The Township holds a hazardous material drop-off on the first Saturday of every month (unless a holiday weekend). Drop-off is at the Recycling Center on Midlantic drive. Hours of operation for the drop-off are 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. Residents are required to show proof of residency at the drop-off. Allowable items: Paint(latex and oil based), solvents, driveway sealers, aerosols, antifreeze, oil, batteries, fluorescent tubes and ballasts, pesticides, pool chemicals and gasoline (which should be brought in a clearly marked container).
What can I recycle at the drop off center?
Acceptable Items:
Paper, cardboard, food and beverage cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, household and automotive batteries, uncontaminated used motor oil, computers, televisions, and other electronics. The recycling center is open 24 hours a day, every day. The center is monitored by surveillance camera.
Where is the Mount Laurel Recycling Drop-Off Center?
The Mount Laurel Recycling Drop-Off Center is located behind town hall and adjacent to the Public Works Building. To make room for the new meeting facility center, the recycling center has moved to the back of the property. The entrance is located on MIDLANTIC DRIVE.
Who can I contact if I have more questions about recycling?
If you have questions about curbside pickup contact the County Recycling Office at (609) 267-6889.
If you have questions about the recycling drop off center, recycling pick up, or obtaining a recycling bucket, please call (856) 234-0001 ext 1241.
Burlington County Recycling:
If you haven't heard Burlington County is now single stream recycling.
Burlington County Mosquito Control
Burlington County, as the largest county in New Jersey, has large areas that have potential to breed mosquitoes. These areas include, farm land, wetlands (fresh and salt water), home yards, stormwater facilities, and sewer plants. These areas need to be addressed as best as possible to control mosquitoes and the viruses they can spread. One of the best ways to control a pest over a large area is by approaching the area as an area-wide integrated pest management. Integrated Pest Management is an approach that focuses on multiple sources to control a pest; while area wide tries to group it all together and get everyone working at once.
Visit Their Page Below:
Complaint Form
or call: 609-265-5064
Animal Control
For any animal control issues please contact Willingboro Animal Control at 609-877-3000.


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Notable figures from U.S. arts, science, politics who died in 2015
By Laila Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the king of slasher films to a cerebral New York-based neurologist, the list of prominent Americans who died in 2015 returned to the spotlight a range of characters including Hollywood stars, celebrated athletes and a famous dog.
"You get one last chance in your death to remind people not only of who you were, but what you did and why it was important," said Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.
Among political figures was Mario Cuomo, a three-term governor of New York who turned down several invitations to see the Democratic presidential nomination. He died just as the year began, at the age of 82, on the day his son, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, delivered his second inaugural address.
Oliver Sacks, a British-born neurologist who spent his professional life in the United States studying the brain, died in New York of cancer at age 82. Sacks was known for writing bizarre case histories about his patients in his 1985 book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat."
David Carr, a longtime New York Times journalist, collapsed in the newspaper's newsroom and died from complications related to lung cancer at age 58. Carr, celebrated for his coverage of media and culture, had chronicled his struggle with cocaine addiction in his memoir.
Figures from the arts and entertainment world included Jackie Collins, best-selling author of dozens of steamy novels about Hollywood, who died in September of breast cancer at the age of 77.
Actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing Mr. Spock in the Star Trek television series and movies, died at age 83 after battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Sam Simon, a co-creator of the long-running animated series "The Simpsons" died in March of colon cancer at the age of 59, three years after his doctors had given him three to six months to live. He spent much of his final years supporting animal-related causes. Continued...


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Global Science Report is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new items in the scientific literature or the popular media. For broader and more technical perspectives, consult our monthly "Current Wisdom."
With its 2007 ruling in Massachusetts vs. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. But to meet the Supremes' criteria for regulation, EPA first had to find that the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were an "endangerment" to public health and welfare. While the sitting Bush administration was reluctant to do this, President Obama's EPA made the "preliminary" finding of endangerment a mere 94 days after his inauguration.
The "final" Endangerment Finding came on December 7, 2009, just in time to provide the United States credibility at the then-starting Copenhagen Conference, a United Nations affair at which a replacement to the failed Kyoto Protocol was to be enshrined. The meeting was the most disastrous yet for global warming hawks, but President Obama quickly declared victory and rushed off on Air Force-1, in order to beat what was to be the first of three bona fide blizzards in Washington that winter. He lost that race, too.
A torrent of regulations followed, "culminating" in EPA's recent proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing electric power plants. That controversial proposal, announced in early June, followed on the heels of EPA's January proposal of regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.
If adopted (and they will be), these proposed regulations will be the biggest diktats yet originating from Obama's Climate Action Plan. Administration officials are already celebrating the salvation of mankind, even before the regulations are finalized.
The administration is holding "hearings" around the country so it can take your input to improve these already near-perfect rules. To help guide us, the White House just released a new report describing how the costs of climate change will skyrocket the longer we delay taking action to stop it.
According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the collection of administration actions on climate change is "changing the tone" in talks with foreign nations. No doubt encouraged by this "changing tone," President Obama is scheduled to attend a UN climate "summit" in New York this September.
To what end? What benefit will "taking the lead" on climate change actually provide the United States?


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EBRD May Lend as Much as $12 Million to Romanian Water Utility
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering lending as much as 9.2 million euros ($12 million) to the Romanian utility Hidroprahova SA to fund part of the company's regional investment program.
The lender is considering providing the money as part of its 130 million-euro loan under the regional European Union Cohesion Fund water co-financing framework aiming to help fund projects to upgrade Romania's water and sewage networks, the London-based EBRD said today in a website statement.
The loan may help Hidroprahova extend the water and sewage infrastructure in eight towns in the southern county of Prahova including Breaza, Baicoi, Campina, Mizil, Plopeni, Sinaia, Urlati and Valenii de Munte, according to the statement.
The investments aim to reduce water losses and expand the water supply and wastewater collection and treatment services in the county to meet EU directives, it said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Irina Savu in Bucharest at email@example.com.
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DELAFIELD, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility.
>>5 Stocks Sell Before It's Too Late
Major moves in volume can signal unusual activity, such as insider buying or selling -- or buying or selling by "superinvestors."
Unusual volume can also be a major signal that hedge funds and momentum traders are piling into a stock ahead of a catalyst. These types of traders like to get in well before a large spike, so it's always a smart move to monitor unusual volume. That said, remember to combine trend and price action with unusual volume. Put them all together to help you decipher the next big trend for any stock.
>>5 Stocks Poised for Breakouts
With that in mind, let's take a look at several stocks rising on unusual volume recently.
Hub Group
Hub Group (HUBG), an asset-light freight transportation management company, provides intermodal, truck brokerage, and logistics services in North America. This stock closed up 2.1% at $41.15 in Friday's trading session.
Friday's Volume: 504,000
Three-Month Average Volume: 293,360
Volume % Change: 79%
From a technical perspective, HUBG bounced modestly higher here right above its 50-day moving average of $40.16 with above-average volume. This move is starting to push shares of HUBG within range of triggering a major breakout trade. That trade will hit if HUBG manages to take out some near-term overhead resistance levels at $41.81 to $42.50 and then once it takes out its 52-week high of $43.09 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in HUBG as long as it's trending above its 50-day at $40.16 or above its 200-day at $38.66 and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that's near or above 293,360 shares. If that breakout starts soon, then HUBG will set up to enter new 52-week-high territory, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that breakout are $48 to $50.


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Question: How do you determine which stories you'll explore with the artifacts, and are there any particular stories that you're saving for later or avoiding?
JACK KENNY: No. My theory is that, if it's a good idea, we do it as soon as possible. I don't save anything because you never know what's going to happen. You want to put everything out there, as quickly as you have a good idea. There are some ideas that might be over the top. We did do a Wizard of Oz piece. Last season, Steve (Aaron Ashmore) walked by the red ruby slippers in the dark vault. And being gay, I said to him, "Listen, there is not a gay man in the world who could walk by the ruby slippers and not notice them. It can't be done." We try to stay as accurate as possible to history, and I feel like it's a lot a fun. But, you should also get some course credit for watching it because you learn a whole boatload of stuff on our show, and you learn it through humor, action, excitement and fun. And I think that's a good plus side benefit of our show.
Source and more: Collider
Warehouse 13 - Season 4 - Executive Producer Jack Kenny Interview
Question: How do you determine which stories you'll explore with the artifacts, and are there any particular stories that you're saving for later or avoiding?
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Last year, I tried my first frozen hot chocolate. I know, it sounds a little strange, but it is so good! You can whip this treat up in a matter of minutes and it can feed a crowd. I made this for my little boy's friends and they thought I was the coolest Mom on the block. 🙂
Frozen Hot Chocolate Recipe:
(Makes 10 servings)
1 cup hot cocoa powder
3 Tablespoons sugar
3 cups milk
6 cups ice
Whipped topping
Chocolate syrup
Chocolate shavings
Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and top with whipped topping, a drizzle of chocolate syrup and chocolate shavings.
Here is the video
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Davis-Standard's Converting Systems group, Fulton, N.Y., will showcase a new series of Black Clawson underwater, water-ring, and air-ring pelletizers for micro-pellets, macro-pellets, and conventionally sized pellets. The pelletizers reportedly provide 5% to 25% higher productivity than previous models. At the same time, the die plates have been redesigned to last nearly twice as long. The redesign also enables greater flexibility to process a broad melt-viscosity range without a die change. This technology was developed to support new markets such as bioresins, as well as debottlenecking projects.
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'The Utah Bucket List,' a program highlighting the wonders of Utah, airs Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on KUED Channel 7.
Salt Lake Tribune outdoor writer Brett Prettyman hosted the program as part of a partnership with KUED.
In addition to the program, Prettyman produced a series of stories, photo galleries and teaser videos featuring16 different must-do Utah activities.
Prettyman and the KUED production team currently are working on a second "Utah Bucket List" program and series of stories.


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2000 GMC Yukon XL 2500 Problems
RepairPal has identified the most common problems with the 2000 GMC Yukon XL 2500 based on complaints from actual vehicle owners. We'll tell you what the problem is and what it'll take to fix it.
The 2000-2002 GMC Yukon XL 2500 has a known issue with the air pump check valve which causes illumination of the check engine light. There are no notable symptoms, but the vehicle will not pass state inspection or smog testing.
When the valve fails, it sticks closed, and the computer sets the code P1416. Replacement of the check valve is the only fix, as the valve is not serviceable.
This page can provide more information about the air pump check valve.
Illumination of the Check Engine Light can be caused by a loose or worn gas cap.
The spark plugs should be replaced every 100,000 miles. Our technicians recommend replacing the spark plug wires also at this time.
Vehicles equipped whit a 4 speed automatic transmission may develop a harsh 1-2 shift and/or illumination of the Check Engine Light with code P1870 stored. This can be caused by wear of the bore for the TCC isolator and regulator valves in the valve body. This condition does not commonly occur until the transmission reaches normal operating temperature. If the valve body is worn, replacement will be necessary to correct this concern.
It is common for the fuel level sensor in the fuel tank read the fuel level incorrectly. The sensor must be replaced to correct the condition. Our technicians recommend having the complete fuel pump module replaced on high mileage vehicles.
A rattling noise may develop from the AC belt tensioner. This can be caused by an internal fault with the AC compressor, AC performance may also be diminished when this occurs. Our technicians tell us that replacing the ac compressor will commonly correct this concern.
A dirty throttle body may cause a lower than normal idle and possible stalling condition. Performing a throttle body service will commonly correct this concern.
The muffler heat shield may become loose on the muffler causing a rattle or popping noise. Our technicians tell us there is a kit available from GM to correct this problem.
The battery may leak acid at the battery cable connections. As a result corrosion may form on the battery cable ends. Leaking batteries should be replaced and the cables need to be thoroughly cleaned or replaced if necessary.
The anti-lock brake system (ABS) pump may stay running after the ignition is turned off causing the battery to go dead. Our technicians tell us that the ABS control module should be replaced to correct this fault.
One or both secondary air injection check valves may become restricted causing poor air flow resulting in illumination of the Check Engine Light. It is often recommend to replace both check valves even if a fault code is set for only one bank of cylinders. Replacing only one valve may result in a return trip to the repair shop.
The fuel pump may fail causing the engine to stall and not restart. Our technicians recommend replacing the fuel filter every 30,000 miles to help prevent undue strain on the fuel pump.
One or more heater & AC (HVAC) temperature and/or air delivery mode door actuator may fail, resulting in improper temperature or air delivery. If this occurs, fault code(s) should be stored in the HVAC control module which should assist in diagnoses.


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Canon rates the PIXMA MX715 at a healthy 12.5ppm for black print and 9.3ppm for colour. While we got somewhere close to this - 10.2ppm - when printing our longer, 20-page document, more normal five-page documents are likely to give between 8ppm and 9ppm. We measured little difference in speed between normal and speed priority print modes.
Printing our five-page black text and colour graphics test gave a speed much slower than the rated 9.3ppm, and we didn't see more than 3.3ppm. Printing duplex also slowed the machine radically, so that our 20-side document took 5:46, a speed of just 3.5 sides per minute.
Copies weren't particularly quick, either, with a single colour page from the flatbed taking 39s and a five-page black text copy from the ADF coming in at 1:02. Photo prints, however, were much faster. 15 x 10cm prints from a PC, an SD card or a PictBridge camera were all in the range of 32s to 35s while direct print from a Samsung Galaxy Mini Android smartphone took 40s.
Print quality of black text suffered from what appeared like a shadow to the characters, which meant they weren't as sharp as we usually see from Canon printers. This happened on several different printouts and wasn't always on the same side of the characters.
Colour graphics reproduced well, giving bright, eye-catching colours and the colour copy was close to indistinguishable from the plain paper original. Photos were as good as anything we've seen from a Canon, already pretty much the top of its class.
There's only one capacity of cartridge available for this machine and buying them from the least expensive source we could find gives an ISO cost per black page of 3.5p, with 9.9p for ISO colour. We've seen other machines in this class better both these page costs, though they still beat most figures for budget colour lasers.
The Canon PIXMA MX715 is a very good all-round all-in-one printer, which can turn its heads to both home office and photo prints. It's reasonably quick, has the added advantage of a duplex scanner, and can handle mobile prints from a number of sources. Plain paper print quality isn't quite as impressive as we've seen from other Canons, but this could have been a problem with our particular sample.
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"Settings in Word page setup override driver"
You don't qualify this further - but in general, it's normal for Word's Page settings to override print driver settings, as this adds more power to Word's Macro and Document Template features.
It also allows Word docs to print different pages of a document from different paper sources, on a suitably equipped printer, even when such a feature is absent from most printer drivers.
I read your article and went to the shop. I have a large number of drafts to print which have a large amount of colour. Can you tell me how to print drafts in black only to save colour ink? Can't find it in the manual.
how do you change the size of the print and how do I find the manual
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As the world is shocked and dismayed by events in Norway where a lone gunman went on a rampage and killed over 70 people, less notice is being focused on the United States House of Representatives which is now under siege by a band of pseudo-patriots who go by the name of the Tea Party. They demand a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution in order to approve any increase in the debt ceiling. Of course, they are supported by such leading economic theorists as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann who claim not paying our debts is really not much danger to our nation's image in the world.
Wall Street financier, Steve Rattner, compared their behavior in this manner: "It's like a form of economic terrorism. These Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour, and saying either you do it my way or we are going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country with us."
The real tragedy is that Americans voted for these nut cases who ran for election claiming the way to reduce unemployment was to fire hundreds of thousands of government employees!