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How Should You Enjoy Your Spooktacular Evening? Quiz
- posted 11.29.2015
- Courtney Lynch
- Home Life
Take the following quiz to find out how you should enjoy your Halloween:
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Today's Meditation
Read 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Be careful . . . that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
-1 Corinthians 8:9 (NIV)
As a result of eye surgery, I have a blind spot that affects the vision in my left eye. While this is not generally a problem, I need to be careful while driving and use particular caution when merging to the left into traffic.
Of course, I realize that other drivers are not aware of my impaired vision; they don't know that I can't see them as soon as other drivers might. Therefore, to expect them to give me more leeway than they do other drivers would be dangerous.
I see a spiritual parallel to my physical condition. We do not always know the spiritual limitations of others. A friend might suggest doing something that because of my spiritual weakness could harm me, though it would not be a problem for my friend. I have to exercise discernment and proceed with caution in areas where I know I am weak.
Similarly, I want to be sensitive to the "blind spots" of others. When a friend says no to something I suggest, I can accept that with understanding, not judging but rejoicing that my friend is responding to God's direction.
Lisa Stackpole
(Wisconsin, USA)
Prayer: Loving God, help us to encourage one another to follow your guidance so that we may grow spiritually stronger every day. Amen.
Thought for the Day: My way to follow God may be uniquely different from others' paths.
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Full Committee
LightSquared: The Impact to Small Business GPS Users
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:00 p.m, the House Committee on Small Business conducted a hearing titled LightSquared: The Impact to Small Business GPS Users. The hearing began at 1:00 P.M. on October 12, 2011, in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
The purpose of the hearing was to examine the impact on small businesses that may result from LightSquared's use of its spectrum to provide broadband service near the Global Positioning System (GPS). Small businesses, including farmers, construction contractors, surveyors, and the general aviation industry, rely on the accuracy of GPS. Potential interference with GPS raises significant concerns to these small businesses.
Opening Statement:Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO)
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I'm not sure what other residents of Butler County feel about the improvements that the Butler County commissioners are planning for Alameda Pool, but I consider them totally ridiculous.
Other small communities in the county have their own pools that they try to maintain, but the county fathers can't see outside Butler City and Butler Township.
Spending $1.3 million to make repairs and upgrade various things at Alameda is for the good of residents of the city and township, not the people living on the outskirts. I would like to know just how many people from outside those two areas use Alameda Pool.
The drawing in the Nov. 8 Butler Eagle made it look like a resort. It looks to me that there would be 13 umbrellas available, some with "café seating."
There also are two water slides proposed. And, as Commissioner Dale Pinkerton said, "The aesthetics would suffer by not replacing all the concrete."
So, we must replace concrete because it wouldn't "look nice."
Who cares!
Evans City has a community pool and park; it's called EDCO Park. We've struggled for years to keep up the necessary repairs, trying to get funding for the baby pool and make much-needed repairs to other areas.
Did the county commissioners care? There might have been a time or two that EDCO received a grant from Butler County, but it was far from being enough to do the whole pool over, or to even get the baby pool repaired.
I've read on several occasions that we are cutting funding for this and funding for that. Meanwhile, a lady from the district attorney's office was told to either quit or be fired because she supposedly didn't submit a $400,000 grant application by the deadline, although she reportedly has paperwork to show otherwise.
Shouldn't the DA be overseeing the things that go on in his office? Perhaps she's just the scapegoat.
I'll just bet that the Victim Outreach Intervention Center, county libraries, and some other nonprofit organizations would like to have just a small chunk of that $1.3 million that could be spent on a pool that's open three months (weather depending) out of the year.
These groups that I mentioned operate more than just three months out of the year; they serve more people in one year than Alameda Pool serves in many years.
My last thought:
The needed repairs didn't just happen this past year. Why all of a sudden does so much need done?
If residents of Butler County are just going to sit back and let the "Three Wise Men" spend our money like this, residents shouldn't act surprised and whine when our taxes go up because of such foolishness.


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So 150,000 times .07 equals 10,500 thousand dollars in interest alone per year. You are paying $10,500 a year alone in the first year(the next year will not be much less), but to actually put a dent in your loan you will have to double or triple the interest, so we will say about 25,000 a year to be safe! You will be paying 25,000 in net liquid cash to the banks who loaned you the money and are most likely laughing at your foolish decision!
Your numbers are not accurate. Also you are not taking in to account many law graduates will be in relationships or marriage by the time they graduate. Like most couples today both people work. So the numbers you portray are not accurate because lots of times you have two people working off one debt.
At the t14, a lot of students are delusional about what it's like to work at a big firm. Many have a hotshot attitude and think they'll make partner and will take on a lot of responsibility for big cases or deals very early on.


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GPS puts driver on snowmobile trailBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
February 23. 2013 10:16PM
EPPING - GPS units can be a great thing - until they send you in the wrong direction and you need a little help from police and a tow truck.
That was the navigational nightmare for one motorist who became lost while trying to find a house in Epping last weekend, but instead found himself on a snowmobile trail that leads to the Lamprey River.
"He was pretty close to the river and it was pretty damp, so his passenger-side tire was taking on a little bit of water," said Officer Matthew Blonigen, who responded to the late-night call for help.
The sticky situation happened about 1 a.m. on Feb. 17 when the driver, from Massachusetts, was trying to find a place several streets away but followed the GPS into Camp Hedding, an old Methodist campground with seasonal and year-round homes tucked away in the woods under towering pine trees.
Blonigen said the GPS took the driver down a road that ends and becomes a snowmobile trail. The driver thought it most likely continued, so he drove on, passing a yellow pole indicating that it was a trail.
"He apparently didn't pay attention to that," Blonigen said, "and it definitely didn't look like a road people would drive on."
The driver had no idea that he was nearing the Lamprey River until the ground became wet - and his Audi got stuck.
"He wasn't in the river by any means, but he was close," Blonigen said.
Realizing he was in trouble, the driver decided it was time to call 911. It wasn't long before police arrived and located the vehicle about 100 yards past the snowmobile trail.
A tow truck was then called.
The driver wasn't shaken by his GPS goof up, but he wasn't very happy either.
"He was kind of upset that his car was stuck," Blonigen said.
On the bright side, this driver had better luck than a man in Alaska last year who followed his GPS after driving off a ferry and took a turn down a boat launch and landed in a harbor.
A similar incident happened to a woman in Washington state in 2011 when she mistook a boat ramp for a road while using a GPS in a rental car. She ended up in water, too.
This isn't Blonigen's first call for a motorist who was counting on his small navigational device operated by satellites.
He recalled a time in recent years when a driver had failed to update his GPS maps and didn't realize that a bridge was out on North River Road. The GPS still showed a bridge, and by the time the driver realized the bridge was gone, it was too late. Blonigen said the driver went off the road.
Incidents of drivers calling police after their GPS had led them astray are rare, but they have happened, local police said.
Hampstead police Lt. John Frazier said his department has had some motorists call to "get their bearing straight" after becoming lost or confused while following their GPS, but so far no one has ended up in water.
Frazier stressed the importance of having a "working sense of direction" when using a GPS.
"Some degree of common sense does exist, but people trying to get to the Seacoast from points south should know driving west won't get you there," he said.


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November 2005, Vol. XXII, Issue 13
Although memory and other cognitive impairments are considered the hallmark features of most dementias, neuropsychiatric abnormalities occur in the majority of such patients (Cohen et al., 1993). Neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with a rapid course of decline, elevated caregiver distress and overutilization of health care services (Chung and Cummings, 2000; Teri, 1997). Apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric symptom reported among individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD), affecting approximately 70% of patients in the mild-to-moderate stages (Landes et al., 2001) and increasing in severity as the illness progresses (Mega et al., 1996). Apathy is common in other dementing illnesses as well (e.g., Parkinson's disease [PD], vascular dementia) and may even occur in substantial numbers of patients with mild cognitive impairment (Ready et al., 2003). Apathy is associated with functional impairment and caregiver distress at all levels of disease severity (Boyle et al., 2003; Norton et al., 2001; Rymer et al., 2002).
Apathy is characterized by the loss of initiation and motivation to participate in activities, social withdrawal, and emotional indifference (Marin, 1991). Depression shares some overlapping features (e.g., decreased initiation, social withdrawal), but can be distinguished from apathy primarily on the basis of dysphoria (Marin et al., 1994). Symptoms of dysphoria typically are absent in the apathetic patient, who displays a lack of interest and motivation in the context of emotional indifference. Apathy therefore reflects a syndrome of primary motivational loss, whereas depression reflects a primary mood disturbance.
The Neurobiological Basis
Although the neurobiological basis of apathy remains to be fully elucidated, dysfunction in frontal systems is thought to be important. Three subsystems of the frontal lobes are thought to underlie three distinct neuropsychiatric syndromes: 1) The dorsolateral prefrontal circuit is associated with executive cognitive dysfunction; 2) The lateral orbital prefrontal circuit is associated with disinhibition; and 3) The medial (anterior cingulate) circuit is associated with disorders of motivation, including apathy (Cummings, 1993). In the extreme, large bilateral lesions in the anterior cingulate cortex produce akinetic mutism, a state of profound apathy and amotivational immobility. Neuropathological changes in dementia may result in apathy by affecting this medial frontal circuit, as well as parietotemporal brain regions that subserve motivation and emotion. Cummings and Back (1998) have also proposed that medial frontal and limbic cholinergic deficits may underlie apathy. Dopaminergic pathways that influence frontal-subcortical activation may also play a role in apathy.
Apathy Assessment
A number of instruments have been developed for assessing neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals with dementia (Table).
The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is the most widely used instrument for assessing neuropsychiatric functioning in patients with dementia (Cummings et al., 1994). It is a valid and reliable instrument involving a caregiver interview designed to assess the presence and severity of 10 symptoms: apathy, irritability/lability, dysphoria, delusions, hallucinations, anxiety, agitation/aggression, euphoria, disinhibition and aberrant motor activity. Tekin et al. (2001) reported significant correlations between NPI apathy subscale scores and frontal pathology at autopsy in patients with AD, suggesting that the NPI is useful for this purpose. Moreover, the NPI includes apathy and depression items, which can help clinicians distinguish apathy from depression.


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Final Phase Of Jodi Arias Trial To Decide Life In Prison Or Death Penalty
Jodi Arias is returning to the courtroom yet again for the final phase of her trial.
Now the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death.
On Wednesday the jurors took less than three hours to determine that Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous.
Arias, 32, acknowledged killing Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008, at his suburban Phoenix home after a day of sex. She initially denied any involvement then later blamed the attack on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she settled on self-defense.
On Thursday, the penalty phase of her trial begins during which prosecutors will call Alexander's family and other witnesses in an effort to convince the panel Arias should face the ultimate punishment. Arias' defense lawyers will have her family members testify, and likely others who have known her over the years, in an attempt to gain sympathy from jurors to save her life. It's not yet known if Arias will testify.
Arias showed no emotion Wednesday after the jury returned a decision that was widely expected given the violent nature of the killing. She slashed Alexander's throat, stabbed him in the heart and shot him in the forehead. The victim suffered a total of nearly 30 knife wounds in what prosecutors described as an attack fueled by jealous rage after Alexander wanted to end his affair with Arias and prepared to take a trip to Mexico with another woman.
The jury simply had to determine the killing was committed in an especially cruel and heinous manner to complete the "aggravation phase" of the trial and move on to the penalty portion.
Alexander's family members sobbed in the front row as prosecutor Juan Martinez took the jury through the killing one more time earlier in the day. He described how blood gushed from Alexander's chest, hands and neck as the 30-year-old motivational speaker and businessman stood at the sink in his master bathroom and looked into the mirror with Arias behind him, a knife in her hand.
"The last thing he saw before he lapsed into unconsciousness ... was that blade coming to his throat," Martinez said. "And the last thing he felt before he left this earth was pain."
Wednesday's proceedings played out quickly, with only one prosecution witness and none for the defense. The most dramatic moments occurred when Martinez displayed photos of Alexander's corpse and the bloody crime scene for the jury, then paused in silence for two minutes to describe how long he said it took for Alexander to die at Arias' hands.
Arias, wearing a silky, cream-colored blouse, appeared to fight back tears most of the morning, but didn't seem fazed by the verdict. Afterward she chatted with her attorneys. Arias spent the weekend on suicide watch before being transferred back to an all-female jail where she will remain until sentencing.
Arias' attorneys didn't put on much of a case during the aggravation phase, offering no witnesses and giving brief opening statements and closing arguments. They said Alexander would have had so much adrenaline rushing through his body that he might not have felt much pain.
The only witness was the medical examiner who performed the autopsy and explained to jurors how Alexander did not die calmly and fought for his life as evidenced by the numerous defensive wounds on his body.
Minutes after her first-degree murder conviction last Wednesday, Arias granted an interview to Fox affiliate KSAZ, only adding to the circus-like environment surrounding the trial that has become a cable TV sensation with its graphic tales of sex, lies and violence.
"Longevity runs in my family, and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place," a tearful Arias said. "I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I'd rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it."
However, Arias cannot choose the death penalty. It's up to the jury to recommend a sentence.
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Heineken USA today announced the launch of "Handlebar Moustache," the second film in its new Heineken Light campaign that celebrates consumers' "occasionally perfect" experiences. The spot is the next step in a holistic marketing effort under the "Be a Man of the World" platform.
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"Handlebar Moustache" officially premiers on the Heineken YouTube channel and Facebook page on July 14 and will begin appearing on national television the weekend of July 16th. The ad continues to reinforce the Heineken Brand's "Be a Man of the World" platform, following a unique, worldly character as he celebrates the occasion where his confidence and individuality shine through – the type of occasion that calls for a Heineken Light.
"Upscale, confident men know that not every product is right for every situation. Rather than trying to force our consumers to conform, we are reminding them that Heineken Light is perfect for those situations that are unique and special," says Lesya Lysyj, Chief Marketing Officer, Heineken USA. "We had a great time making this film and think its wit and unique message will really resonate with our target audience."
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EQ385, New March 2002
Cattle manure can be handled as a solid, semisolid, slurry or dilute liquid. Freshly excreted manure from cattle in a feedlot is a semisolid, typically containing 85 to 88 percent moisture on a wet basis. Manure from cattle on succulent pasture may be a thin semisolid. Adding a significant amount of bedding (straw, corn stover, etc.) or draining off a portion of the liquid can convert the manure to a solid material that will stack. The manure can then be handled with conventional equipment (front-end loaders and beater-type spreaders).
Slurry manure contains the solid and liquid portions of cattle manure and has a fluid consistency. Slurry manure contains little or no bedding and is usually collected in manure tanks, either aboveground, or sometimes under slats. Pumps and tankwagons are required for the handling and spreading of slurry manure because of its fluid characteristics. Cattle manure collected and treated in a lagoon is highly fluid and is best handled with irrigation equipment.
Figure 1Picket dams provide storage for manure while allowing water to drain away.
Figure 2A concrete trough collects runoff that drains through this picket dam.
Semisolid cattle manure may contain small amounts of bedding or other material, such as waste hay or silage, and can usually be handled as a solid if no additional water is allowed to collect or mix with the manure. Picket-dam facilities have proven useful for storing semisolid manure (Figures 1 and 2). Their design allows excess water from rainfall or other sources to drain away so that the material can be handled with conventional equipment. Manure cannot be expected to "dry out" or de-water in a picket-dam facility. The picket dam is effective only in draining away free water, such as rainfall or runoff water from the manure. Adding about 1 pound of dry straw or corn stover per day per 1,000 pounds of cattle animal to the manure can lower the moisture content of as-excreted manure from 88 percent to about 86 percent moisture content, the "mid range" for semisolid cattle manure.
Several advantages have been noted in the use of picket-dam storage structures for cattle manure.
Certain management techniques are necessary to ensure best performance from a picket dam.
Figure 3A picket dam facility with a slight dip in the approach can intercept runoff water and direct it around the facility.
Figure 4Side view of a concrete entry ramp with 10:1 slope.
Figure 5Design for a six-foot free-standing concrete wall.
Several design considerations and requirements are necessary to optimize performance of the facility.
The concrete entry ramp into the storage should have a maximum 10:1 slope, as shown in Figure 4, and 15:1 is preferred for ease of entry and exit. Some producers prefer having the entry ramp wide enough (40 feet) to park a manure spreader on the ramp while it is being loaded. The entry ramp should be roughened to aid traction during unloading operations. Small channels (3/4-inch by 3/4-inch, 6-inch on-center) cut into the concrete before it sets up will improve traction and drain water toward the picket dam, if they are cut at an angle to slope downhill toward the picket dam. The entry ramp and concrete floor should be placed on a gravel base or compacted fill to prevent settling. The concrete should have at least 3,500 psi compressive strength, and be a minimum of 5 inches thick to support the full spreader and tractor loads which will be imposed. Consider using steel reinforcing to prevent separation due to cracking. Place number 4 (1/2-inch diameter) bars 18 inches on-center, both ways, supported so that they will be in the center of the poured slab (Figure 4). The floor of the structure should be flat, with very little or no slope toward the picket dam. Slope toward the picket dam may cause undesirable manure flow in that direction.
Concrete walls in a manure-storage facility must be designed with adequate strength and reinforcing to withstand loads due to saturated soil outside the wall, pressure of manure inside the wall and any mechanical forces, such as a front end loader pushing manure against the wall. Detailed wall design requires an analysis of the loads that will be present, and selection of adequate concrete and reinforcing to withstand the loads. All potential wall heights and loading conditions cannot be evaluated in this guide. However, Figure 5 shows a design for free-standing walls up to 6 feet in height (the top of the wall is not restrained or tied into another slab). If the top of the wall is tied into another slab, as might be the case on the side where manure is pushed over the wall into the facility, the wall design shown in Figure 6 is adequate.
Figure 6Design for a concrete wall tied into another slab.
Figure 7Typical construction details of a picket dam.
Figure 8Reinforcement for posts in a concrete floor.
The picket dam must be constructed to withstand the pressure of manure in the facility when it is full. Figure 7 shows typical construction details for a picket dam. The primary structural supports for the picket dam are treated wood posts set a minimum of 4 feet in the ground. Post size and spacing is adjusted according to wall height. Table 1 gives details on post selection and spacing for picket dams. Figure 8 shows a method of reinforcement for the posts in the concrete floor.
Table 1Post size and spacing for picket dams.
Table 2Spacing for horizontal stringers in picket dams.
NoteDepth below maximum manure level (top of wall).Note: Lowest stringer should be within 10 inches of floor. Stringers can be fastened to posts with 1/2-inch galvanized bolts.
Horizontal 4- by 4-inch treated wood stringers are attached to the posts at appropriate spacings, according to the height of the picket dam. These supports are closer together near the bottom of the wall where fluid pressures are highest, and farther apart near the top. Table 2 gives proper spacings for horizontal supports, or stringers.
Vertical 2- by 6-inch treated wood pickets are attached to the horizontal treated wood stringers (Figure 9). Three-fourths-inch openings between the pickets allow water to drain through the dam. A 1-1/2-inch deep groove can be cast in the concrete floor as a receptacle for the bottom edge of the pickets, if desired. This will support the bottom edge of the pickets and minimize damage from accidental contact with the loader bucket.
Figure 9This picket dam drains through 3/4-inch openings between vertical 2-inch x 6-inch treated wood pickets.
Drainage from the picket dam must be contained or managed so that there is no pollution. The drainage is usually collected in a holding pond, or lagoon, or discharged onto a properly sized vegetated grass filter strip (Figure 10). Figure 11 shows how drainage from a picket dam may flow directly into a holding pond, or how a collection trough and pipe can be used to route the drainage to a pond located further away. If a pipe or sewer line is used to carry the drainage to a holding pond, it should have cleanouts installed every 50 feet to 100 feet to aid in solving plugging problems.
If the picket-dam storage is too low to allow gravity drainage to the holding pond, a collection sump and pump may be used. However, this situation should be avoided, if at all possible, because of the expense and maintenance necessary to install and operate a reliable pumping system.
Figure 10This picket dam drains directly into a holding pond below the storage structure.
Figure 11Drainage from a picket dam may flow directly into a holding pond (bottom view), or a collection trough and pipe (top view) may route drainage to a pond located farther away.
Picket-dam storages are usually loaded with manure daily as part of the regular cleanup chores. Manure containing a small amount of bedding works best in picket dams. Manure should be pushed into the storage at the point or side furthest from the picket dam. Care should be taken to minimize the amount of "free" water (usually from lot runoff in a beef operation) entering the storage.
Drainage from the picket-dam storage is highly polluted, and cannot be allowed to enter a stream or watercourse, or discharge from the property. Therefore, the drainage should be collected in a holding pond or lagoon, or applied to a suitable grass filter strip. A lagoon or holding pond used to collect lot runoff may also be used to receive drainage from the picket dam.
Manure removal from picket-dam storages is usually accomplished with conventional manure spreaders and front-end or skid-steer loaders. Some fine solids tend to accumulate immediately behind the pickets, and should be removed when the facility is cleaned. The gaps between the pickets tend to become plugged by manure pressure and cleaning operations. These vertical slots should be cleaned, if necessary, after the facility is emptied so that good drainage can occur.
Haul and land-apply manure to correspond with the growing season of the crop, when possible. Follow best management practices in matching manure nutrients to the fertilizer needs of the crop. Soil tests and manure nutrient analyses aid in determining proper manure application rates. Consider wind direction and location of neighbors when spreading manure but odor problems may occur if the manure is not incorporated as soon as possible. Try not to spread on humid, still days when manure odors can carry longer distances without being diluted.
Under the Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations, the desired outcome is for all concentrated animal feeding operations (AFOs) to develop and implement a comprehensive nutrient management plan (CNMP). CNMPs should address, as necessary, feed management, manure handling and storage, land application of manure, land management, record keeping, and other utilization options. In addition to nutrients, the plan should address other pollutants, such as pathogens, to minimize water quality and public health impacts from AFOs.
At a minimum, the nutrient management plan should prevent the application of nutrients at rates that exceed the capacity of the soil and planned crop needs and should also prevent pollution. Soils, crop removal and manure should be tested to determine nutrient needs and content. Manure application equipment should be calibrated to ensure that the quantity of material being applied is what is planned. Records of crops removed annually and the total amount of manure applied should be kept to maintain the desired nutrient balance.
The size of a picket-dam storage facility depends upon the size and number of animals served, the ration, the portion of total manure production scraped into the storage and the length of time or storage period between cleanouts. Minimum design storage period should range from 90 days in southern Missouri to 120 days in northern Missouri if the land application area is in a permanent cover crop, such as fescue or brome grass. However, if the land application area is in row crops, 365-day storage may be required for maximum utilization of the nutrients and for application to correspond with planting and harvesting schedules. Table 3 PDF lists the estimated daily manure production for various types of cattle and feeding regimes. Table 4 PDFgives the fraction of total manure production expected in the various parts of the facility. Add half for the volume of bedding added to the picket dam storage.
Figures in Table 3 PDF and Table 4 PDF can be used to size a picket-dam storage as shown in the following example
Calculate the size picket-dam storage required to store manure produced in a 120-head beef feedlot for 120 days. The cattle will be fed a high-energy diet in a paved lot and rest in a manure pack bedded area. Only manure from the paved area of the feedlot will be scraped into the picket dam storage. Assume one pound of dry straw per day per 1,000-pound animal will be added to the scraped manure. Average feeder animal weight is 1,000 pounds.
Number of thousand weights = 120 head x 1,000 pounds per head = 120 thousand weights.
Required volume for manure = thousand weights x daily production x percentage on paved area x days storage = 120 x 0.82 cubic feet (from Table 3) x 0.70 (from Table 4) x 120 days = 8,266 cubic feet
Required volume for added straw (bedding) BV = FR x WB x AU x D/BUW,
Using the recommended volumetric void ratio of 0.5, the equation above becomes:
B= 0.5 x WB x AU x D/BUW= 0.5 x 1 pound per AU per day x 120 AU x 120 days storage/12 pounds per cubic feet= 600 cubic feet
Total storage required (cubic feet) = manure volume + bedding volume = 8,266 + 600 = 8,866 cubic feet
Dimensions for a picket-dam storage with the shape shown in Figure 12 can be obtained using the equation shown. Assume the storage will be 40 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, with a 10:1 slope on the entry ramp. From the equation shown, the bottom length is calculated as follows.
Bottom length = 8,866/(40 x 4) - (4 x 10)/2 = 35.4 feet (round to 36 feet)
Figure 12Dimension equation for a picket dam storage facility.
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Aurore Eaton's Looking Back: The Tale of Manchester's Mary Gale
October 01. 2013 12:20AM
On the east side of the Valley Cemetery in Manchester is the handsome Gale family mausoleum. It was designed to resemble a miniature Gothic church, complete with stylized buttresses. Interred in this tomb are Mary Green Ayer Gale, her husband Dr. Amos G. Gale and their daughter Susan R. Gale.
Mary Gale was the daughter of Richard Hazen Ayer, who was born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in 1778. He grew up in Concord and became a successful banker, politician and real estate speculator. He owned the clay banks in Hooksett and his prosperous brickyard there produced many of the bricks for Manchester's first mills and for the town's early commercial buildings. He also owned lumber yards that provided wood for Manchester's early construction projects. He built the Union Block at the southwest corner of Market and Elm streets, invested in other commercial real estate in the downtown, and was the first President of the Amoskeag Bank.
An article about Mr. Ayer written after his death summed up his personality, "Though in manner partaking somewhat of austerity and in business transaction rigid and severe, we have known many instances in which he displayed genuine kindness of heart and none in which he compromised his honor or integrity."
There is a story that survives about Mr. Ayer that is both humorous and telling. When he was on his deathbed suffering from heart disease in February 1853, he was visited by the Reverend Cyrus Wallace, the first minister of the Hanover Street Congregational Church (now the First Congregational Church). The Reverend asked Mr. Ayer if he had any regrets in life that he wanted to discuss. Mr. Ayer was silent for a moment and responded, "Yes. I wish I had purchased more gas company stock at $1.00 per share because it is now worth $3.00 a share."
Richard Ayer's wife Mary Green Ayer died some time between 1850 and 1860. The couple had two daughters, Mary Green Gale and Susan Rebecca Gale. Susan married Dr. Enoch Barnes of Concord in 1827. She died in 1852 at age 44 of consumption (tuberculosis). It appears that her husband had died before her, and we know that her son Richard H. A. Barnes passed away in 1859, also of consumption. Her younger sister Mary Green Gale was born in 1810. When she was 20 years old she married prominent physician Dr. Amos G. Gale, who was originally from Kingston, New Hampshire. The Gales had one daughter, Susan R., who was known as "an accomplished young woman." Susan contracted tuberculosis and died in 1855, when she was only 20.
When Richard H. Ayer died in 1853, he passed on the ownership of most of his lucrative real estate holdings to Dr. Gale. When Dr. Gale died in 1861 of typhoid fever, Mary Gale inherited the properties. This made her a very wealthy woman. Her financial status would bring her little happiness, however. It was written of her after her death in 1876, "Since her husband died, at times she felt as if she were left alone in the world, with no ties of blood to attract her to earth. No one but her intimate friends knew how poignant was her grief, nor how much she suffered."
Mary endured a chronic illness for many years. This was likely the tuberculosis that would eventually take her life. In 1868, she contracted pneumonia. The doctors prescribed morphine to ease her pain. She, like many other people at the time, became addicted to this highly potent opium derivative. In her desperation, Mary contacted the famous Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science faith. Mrs. Eddy was both a controversial and an influential figure. She traveled from her home in Amesbury, Massachusetts, to Manchester. With her encouragement, Mary Gale managed to wean herself off of the morphine, and she regained her strength. In the months that followed, the two Mary's wrote to each other faithfully, keeping up a friendly correspondence. After a falling out of some sort, however, Mary Gale felt the need to abandon the budding friendship. This loss of another close associate added to the heavy burden of loneliness that cast a dark shadow over Mary Gale's life.
Next Week: A Valley Cemetery Story — Part 2 — Mary Gale's legacy..
Aurore Eaton is executive director of Manchester Historic Association; email her at email@example.com


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Gov. Sununu launches civil rights initiative in wake of racially charged attacksBy DAVE SOLOMON
State House Bureau
December 14. 2017 1:16PM
CONCORD — In the wake of racially charged incidents in Durham and Claremont, Gov. Chris Sununu has announced the formation of a new Civil Rights Unit in the Office of Attorney General and the creation of a Governor's Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion.
"Today is an incredibly important day for New Hampshire," said Sununu in a Thursday morning announcement at the State House. "If we really want to be the Live Free or Die State, we must ensure that New Hampshire is a place where every person, regardless of their background, has an equal and full opportunity to pursue their dreams and to make a better life for themselves and their families."
Sununu was accompanied by Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, New Hampshire NAACP State Coordinator Rogers Johnson and Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Lahey, who will lead the new Civil Rights Unit.
"The actions we are taking today will keep New Hampshire on the forefront of efforts to combat discrimination and promote diversity and inclusion," Sununu said.
The new advisory council will work with the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights and other state agencies to review state laws, regulations and policies and to recommend changes to combat discrimination and promote diversity and inclusion, according to the governor's executive order creating the commission and the civil rights unit.
"The course we are about to undertake is nothing short of historic, and I am humbled that I was asked to be a part of it," said Johnson, who has agreed to chair the council.
MacDonald said the Civil Rights Unit will investigate and prosecute violations of the state's anti-discrimination and harrassment statutes and provide training and resources to support state and local officials in their efforts, as well.
The creation of the new unit and council was not entirely triggered by the recent events in Durham and Claremont, Sununu said, although both were mentioned by officials at the press conference.
Durham has hosted community forums to support the family of an elementary school student who was the subject of racial discrimination and physical attacks on a school bus, while Claremont continues to grapple with what has been described as the attempted lynching of an 8-year-old biracial boy by white teenagers playing with a tire swing.
"There wasn't a single issue that spurred this along," Sununu said. "It was an accumulation of things I've heard travelling the state myself."
He also referred to the deportation threat facing 30 or so Indonesian immigrants in Dover and his recent visit to the Islamic Society of New Hampshire mosque in Manchester.
"We've had issues of race in a variety of different areas across the state," he said.


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I AM HONORED to be in New England this weekend to receive the "Profile in Courage" award from the John F. Kennedy Library, in Boston. I know so many people from all over New England, including New Hampshire, have been impacted by the violence at the Boston Marathon on Patriots Day and fear in the days after it. So many of you have shown such courage throughout this ordeal. And to the many wounded people, some still in hospitals, and many with long recoveries ahead, I say: Courage. You will be stronger, I promise you. I know this.
Over the last few months, I've thought a lot about political courage.
I saw some courage in Congress during the effort to pass a common sense expansion of background checks — but not enough. I was proud of senators like Susan Collins of Maine, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who know that gun rights and gun safety go hand in hand and voted to keep us all safer. I was proud of almost all your New England senators, who listened to their constituents, and put safety over the big money of the gun lobby. But like so many Granite Staters, 89 percent of whom support expanded background checks, I was disappointed with Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who did not listen to her constituents and who alone in New England voted in lockstep with the NRA.
But this fight isn't over. Keeping us safe from gun violence is a long, hard haul, just like my recovery. In the future — soon, I hope — Sen. Ayotte will have the opportunity to vote again on common sense solutions to reduce gun violence. I know this issue is important to her, and if the original version of the bill wasn't good enough for her, I have great optimism that she could work with her colleagues to craft an even better bill.
I served in elected office for a decade, in the Arizona state legislature and the U.S. Congress. When I voted for health care reform, which was not at all popular among my constituents, I got a lot of angry calls about my vote for health care. I listened. I felt it was our best option to reverse a years-in-the-making crisis of health care costs and affordability. The calls and letters helped me to understand how we could make the law better and where we needed to communicate better about the bill. But I knew that those calls weren't necessarily an accurate reflection of what all my constituents felt, any more than they accurately represented the policy itself. Often, those calls are a barometer of how angry or exuberant the most extreme voices on both sides are. That's not a measure of the true opinion of your constituency.
I voted against a popular program, Cash for Clunkers, because while I wanted to support the auto industry, I could not support the way our taxpayer dollars were spent. I agreed with the goal, but didn't think the policy would achieve the goal.
I heard Sen. Ayotte, at her town hall last week, tell the daughter of murdered Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung that she felt she could vote against the background checks bill because expanded background checks might not have prevented the Newtown shooting. But that's not the goal the policy was trying to solve.
We know we can't say it would have prevented Newtown, or Tucson for that matter. But expanding background checks will prevent criminals and mentally ill people from getting guns; and in those instances, it will save lives in the future. That's the goal. If Sen. Ayotte didn't know that, she didn't pay enough attention to the policy.
I don't believe that political courage means voting lockstep with public opinion. Sometimes, if the evidence isn't there, you take a tough vote that you have to help the public come to understand. But let's be very clear: Political courage also isn't defined by voting against public opinion for the wrong reasons.
President Kennedy wrote, in "Profiles in Courage,'' "the stories of past courage ... can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."
I can't tell you why Sen. Ayotte voted against this common sense measure. Sen. Ayotte is a former attorney general, so she must know that expanding background checks will keep guns out of the hands of many dangerous people and will prevent crimes. And she's a parent, so she must know how it feels to fear for your child's safety.
Granite Staters have reason to be angry with her. They see that the policy is there — the facts are not in dispute. And they know they and their neighbors all support the policy, overwhelmingly. So they're left to wonder: What guided Kelly Ayotte's decision if not facts and not popular support?
Ayotte can assuage their worst fears by looking into her own soul, as President Kennedy advised. She can draw on what she knows about public safety and preventing crime and what she feels as a parent. I feel confident she can find the courage there to vote for common sense solutions in the future. And if she does, I'll be so proud to stand with her.


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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - One of the first steps in finding out when it will be safe for people living near the massive sinkhole in southeast Louisiana to return home was taken Friday morning.
"These residents have been doing this for nine months. We're coming on nine months, and the big significant part is, with no particular end in sight, said Assumption Parish Police Jury president Marty Triche.
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Happy New Year! Plan now to experience the new things Virginia has to offer in 2013, as well as be a part of significant milestones for key events.
Salamander Resort & Spa makes its much-anticipated debut this summer. Set on 340 acres near Middleburg, the resort will boast 168 luxury rooms and suites, 23,000-square-foot spa, full-service equestrian center, fine dining and 12,000 square feet of conference and event facilities.
Michelangelo Sacred and Profane, the touring exhibit of drawings of the master artist and architect, makes its only American stop at The College of William and Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art from February 9th to April 13th, 2013. The exhibit includes 26 original drawings preserved in the family home in Italy, some of which have never before been seen in the U.S.
Center in the Square, the home for Mill Mountain Theater, the Science Museum of Western Virginia, the Harrison Museum of African American Culture and the History Museum & Historical Society of Western Virginia, will re-emerge after a $27 million do-over with refurbished exterior and redesigned interior, a 5,500-gallon living coral reef aquarium and a green rooftop facility.
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The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester will host an exhibit in 2013 honoring one of its favorite citizens, Patsy Cline. Becoming Patsy Cline will focus on the early years of the legendary country singer and first female member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and will run from August 2013 through February 2014. The plane crash that took her life occurred 50 years ago in March. She is buried in Winchester's Shenandoah Memorial Park and her home is now open as a museum.
80th Historic Garden Week in Virginia: "America's Largest Open House" celebrates 80 years in 2013 with tours of more than 250 of Virginia's finest historic homes and gardens.
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Virginia's Executive Mansion turns 200: Built during the War of 1812, Virginia's Executive Mansion has set the tone for the hospitality for which Virginia is famous. The Marquis de Lafayette, Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II have all been guests in America's oldest governor's residence still used for its original purpose. Special tours and events will mark the 200th birthday of this historic house which was also used as a film location for Steven Spielberg's movie LINCOLN.
The LINCOLN Movie Trail is based on Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie filmed entirely in the Richmond/Petersburg area. The Trail pinpoints film locations as well as sites favored and frequented by stars such as Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and the producer/director himself. The real Abraham Lincoln visited both Richmond and Petersburg in the closing days of the Civil War.
50th Season Trail of the Lonesome Pine: When the curtain first came up on what is now Virginia's official Outdoor Drama it is doubtful anyone imagined a run going on 50 years. The play shows no signs of slowing down as audiences continue to flock to the June Tolliver Amphitheater in downtown Big Stone Gap to experience a story of turn-of-the-century romance in the Appalachian Mountains.
Wine in Virginia continues to make headlines and win coveted national and world ribbons. New wineries such as The Winery at Bull Run join established vineyards totaling now more than 220 in all. Look for new experiences at Virginia wineries as well including oyster pairings, personal blendings, workshops, overnight stays, special events and festivals.