December 7, 2012

BY MARK MATTHEWS

CNBNEWS.NET

(December 8, 2012)BELLMAWR NJ-The Crescent Park section of Bellmawr, near Bellmawr Lake, is experiencing a power outage this morning. A pole at Farragut and Warren caught fire this morning, knocking out power for several blocks.

A neighbor says they\’ve been calling PSEG about the pole for months. \”I could see an electric arc on the top of the pole every time it rained. A few months ago even went to the pole and got the number off it and told them\”

PSEG was at the pole around 9am to inspect. Burnt debris was on the ground and the top of the pole was burnt off, and leaning on the wires. From my \”regular guy\” vantage point it looks like a new pole will be needed, and hopefully a temporary solution will be in place.

The truck left after about 30 mins… doing an initial triage, and should be back soon with more crews. They commented to the County Fire police that the workload seemed light today so they were going to try and \”drop a new pole today\”

Recent Sandy recovery efforts has probably impacted PSEG\’s efforts to proactively address an issue like this… but the resident indicated they were calling long before Sandy.

UPDATE: By 10:15 work crews were on the scene, and looks like they will be patching the pole with an extension.

(posted via my laptop connected to my iPhone for internet)

Update: By 10:15 repair efforts were in process. A long wooden post was at the scene so it appears they will be patching an extension in.

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 at The Pool After Dark at Harrah\’s Resort in Celebration of His Extended Residency at Atlantic City\’s Hottest Nightclub

PR Newswire Association LLC. December 4, 2012 4:59:00 PM EST

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrated as one of the hottest nightlife venues in the nation, Atlantic City\’s own Pool After Dark at Harrah\’s Resort, officially announced today, the extension of DJ Paul \”Pauly D\” DelVecchio as its resident DJ for 2013. After the incredible success of the inaugural music partnership with the reality TV star in 2012, Pauly will kick off this year\’s rotation behind the turntables at The Pool by properly closing out the year and launching party-goers into 2013 on New Year\’s Eve.

By Army 1st Lt. Avery P. Schneider
12th Public Affairs Detachment

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait, Dec. 5, 2012 – New York Army National Guardsman Spc. Erin Colburn has been selected for admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

Army Spc. Erin Colburn, an intelligence analyst with the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, receives a letter of conditional acceptance to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., from Lt. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commanding general of 3rd Army/Army Central. Colburn plans to study geospatial intelligence and she is slated to begin her career at West Point in July 2013. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alexander Neely (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.

Colburn, a member of the 27th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, is currently deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She began her military career in September 2009, when she was just 17 years old. Her parents, Bonnie and Darrell Colburn, signed a waiver for her to enlist in the National Guard.

\”We knew it was what she truly wanted to do, so we stood behind what she wanted. She’s always had a very mature attitude towards her decision-making,\” Colburn’s mother said.

Colburn said part of her decision to join the military came from a desire to help and serve others.

\”I needed to find a way to give back to my community after Girl Scouts,\” she said. \”I couldn’t be a Girl Scout forever, so I joined the Army.\”

Colburn had considered a career in journalism, but changed her focus towards the military because she wanted to experience what was going on first hand. As her father puts it, \”She didn’t want to report on it, but wanted to help do it.\”

Colburn chose to become an intelligence analyst, and completed training in January 2011, quickly followed by her first drill with the 27th BSTB in Buffalo, N.Y., in April 2011.

She was assigned to the intelligence section, where she began working under the battalion’s intelligence officer, Capt. Jessica Jurj.

CNSNews.com) – Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs created in the United States over the last five months are in government, according to official data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In June, a total of 142,415,000 people were employed in the U.S, according to the BLS, including 19,938,000 who were employed by federal, state and local governments.

By November, according to data BLS released today, the total number of people employed had climbed to 143,262,000, an overall increase of 847,000 in the six months since June.

In the same five-month period since June, the number of people employed by government increased by 621,000 to 20,559,000. These 621,000 new government jobs created in the last five months equal 73.3 percent of the 847,000 new jobs created overall.

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