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W.Va. economic outlook better than many think
Our Economic Outlook 2014 special report last week brought home our long-held belief that the future of the state is brighter than many people think. The in-depth look at the present, and predictions for a future for southern West Virginia that is less-dependent on extractive industries, was revealing.
As U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall put it, energy fields such as coal and natural gas will continue to play a role in our economy. But tourism, timbering, agriculture, manufacturing, technology and health care will all play increasingly bigger roles in adding good jobs to the region.
Manufacturing has never been as big in West Virginia as in some other states. But the Bureau for Business and Economic Research at West Virginia University notes that there are pockets of prosperity across the state in this sector.
That's a good sign. And we think manufacturing will be a component in diversifying the state's economy, particularly in chemical processing of components found in natural gas extracted from the state's shale formations.
There are other possibilities as well. The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve pumped $170 million into the state's economy during the construction phase, and another $12 million was added to the local economy during the 2013 national Jamboree.
Tourism is becoming increasingly important to our economic well-being. Greenbrier County is building a tourism powerhouse, centered around the world-class The Greenbrier resort.
In Wyoming County, the Hatfield-McCoy Trail has possibilities that are still emerging, and when the Coalfields Expressway is completed, a vibrant new tourism industry is expected to flourish.
In Summers County, it is a wealth of water resources that have local leaders planning for a better future. The New, Greenbrier and Bluestone National Scenic Rivers, as well as Bluestone Lake, are correctly seen as underdeveloped treasures. Plans are under way to find ways to improve and market these natural assets.
Raleigh County is becoming an even bigger retail center for southern West Virginia, and its growing medical and hospital sector is attracting more interest and investment as Beckley becomes a crossroads for some of the best medical care in the region.
In Monroe County, long dependent on tourism and agriculture, leaders with vision are looking beyond the past to envision new manufacturing entities, like United Technologies Corp., which produces a broad range of high-tech products and services. Or M-Rock, an innovator in the stone manufacturing industry.
What we're seeing is a new reality, one that is based on a hard-headed, objective assessment of our assets, our needs, our limitations, and most importantly our potential in southern West Virginia. It's only when you start looking at things in new ways that you start to see all the possibilities.
— From the March 1 The Register-Herald in Beckley
Same old, same old on Tomblin's EPA rhetoric
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin recently met with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy. What do you think was on his mind?
According to a news release from the governor's office, the governor gave McCarthy an update on the state's remediation efforts at the Freedom Industries site and shared some platitudes about how grateful he is for help from the EPA.
So grateful, apparently, he then went on to reiterate the tired anti-regulatory rhetoric that West Virginians can recite by heart:
"We understand the importance of environmental stewardship and are committed to preserving our state's beauty for generations to enjoy," Gov. Tomblin said. "We also understand the importance of a hard day's work, but up to this point, I believe there has not been sufficient consideration of the real life adverse consequences of economically unfeasible greenhouse gas regulations on West Virginia and many other states. An unreasonable regulatory structure could destabilize our once reliable power grid, increase energy costs to vulnerable ratepayers, further burden industrial employers, and devastate coal mining families and communities."
An unreasonable regulatory structure?
Heaven forbid what Tomblin considers a reasonable regulatory structure. One that fails to safeguard the drinking water for 300,000 people? One that allows black coal slurry to spill into streams? One that allows miners to be crushed to death?
Tomblin's comments were part of an offer to help the EPA craft greenhouse gas emissions for existing power plants — rules that would be palatable to the coal industry. Tomblin's DEP Secretary Randy Huffman says the offer was an attempt to get away from the typical rhetoric from West Virginia officials, who like to deny that climate change is happening, that human activity is causing it and that emission reductions are needed.
If that's so, you really can't tell it from the governor's words.
West Virginians need their elected leaders, conducting the people's business in their name, to protect the air, water and land for future generations, so there will be an economy here now and long after the coal is played out.
Yet, Gov. Tomblin, following in the footsteps of former Gov. Joe Manchin, seems to embrace this false choice — that West Virginians can have jobs or clean air and water, but not both.
Tomblin, like many before him, seems to believe that environmental protection is OK, as long as it doesn't actually interfere with anyone's polluting convenience. So, what kind of greenhouse gas emission limits could the EPA expect him to support?
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Zipping the gym
There is something enticing, something totaly magnetic about screaming down a rope at blurring speed, its like being in a seen from a Holly Wood action movie. Part of it is the thrill of going fast and part of it is the "I did it" factor, never the less it is doing something out of the ordinary, something very exciting, something to tell others about.
While I will discribe in some detail how I set up and operated my version of a Zip Line, the details I provide are only a discription of what I did in relation to my background in technical rock climbing techniques and equipment, as well as a sound understanding of building construction. If you lack in any of these aria's of expertise seek the advice and assistance from someone who is a certified expert.
How to cover the length of a basket ball court and make a slam dunk in 2.5 seconds.
Entertaining 40 young adults ages 18-30 for an evening.
The take off platform.
- 7 - 2″ x 4″ x 4′ fir, 16 inches on center.
- 1 - 4′ x 4′ x 3/4″ plywood
- I assembled the platform by screwing it together with 3-1/2″ grabber screws, using six inch spacing, 16 inches on center, except on corners where I place two in each end of each 2″x4″.
- I glued the 2 x 4 ends and sheeting with construction adhesive.
- I attach platform to masonry wall with 4 - 1/2″ x 10″ steel bolts washers and nuts.
- I attach the front of the platform to the cealing using 1/2″ x 6″ eye bolts, nuts and washers and two lengths of 500 pound strength chain.
- Every application and installation is different and will require changes in mounting procedure. I built my platform to safely support the weight of the platform and two large adults (600-700 pounds).
- I used one thirty and one forty foot heavy duty extension ladder to rig my platform, and for my participants to climb up to the platform.
- You will need at least one eight foot step ladder for rigging and at the finish end of the zip line to unload participants.
- I used two ropes long enough to span the gym, with plenty of excess left over to rig the cinch system I used to create the proper tension on the rope, this also controls speed and where you stop. (I used two 200 foot, 11 millimeter static ropes, 6000 pound break strength each, there was plenty of excess rope left over)
- One rope was my primary rope on which my main pulley system traveled.
- The other rope was my redundant safety system, in case my primary rope failed, it was rigged independently of the primary rope system.
- I did not skimp on my ropes, I used top quality 11 millimeter certified mountaineering static ropes. ( Manufactured by the Blue Water Ropes Co.)
- Pulleys must be strong and dependable they must be designed for the kind of weight and dynamic stresses that will be placed on them in a zip line assembly. (I used a Petzl Tandem Speed P21 for the primary pulley and a Petzl Fixe P05 for the tension system.)
- I used one inch climb spec webbing, doubled or tripled to rig to fixed objects, carabiners and pulleys. I used approximately 60 feet in my rigging situation.
Carabiners and Quick Links .
- I used a variety of these items to complete my connections. I recommend screw lock, twist lock or try lock carabiners, real certified and rated quick links. The steel carabiners I used are much stronger than than aluminum, I checked the break strength rating on each peace of equipment I used to insure that there were no weak links in my system. (Omega Pacific Steel Mod D SG, Omega Pacific Tactical D SG, Omega Pacific Jake HMS TL, Fixe Maillon Screw Links 10 mm )
Each installation is different
- Each time I've constructed a Zip line the set up and installation have been different, I have to be flexible as to how I will set up each Zip Line, while still maintaining the highest degree of safety. I have encountered differences in existing walls, ceilings, rafters and connection points, as well as the necesity of working around existing back boards and other obstacles. Therefor you and only you can determine the realistic feasibility of constructing such an apparatus, and therefor you must assume sole liability for such.
Commercial Zip Lines
- There are a number of commercially manufactured Zip Lines that you can find by googling "zip line", most of them run on steel cables. However you are still responsible for proper installation and operation of them and you should get professional assistance for that.
Redundancy - You are solely responsible it insure that at least two independent systems, the primary system and the back up safety system are used.
Tested and certified equipment and materials - You are solely responsible for the acquisition of safety inspected, tested and certified equipment, bearing the certification stamps and strength ratings, on all ropes, rigging and connections,carabiners, helmets and harnesses.
Materials - You are solely responsible for the acquisition, use and maintenance of all materials. These including ladders, ropes, pulleys, carabiners, webbing, harnesses, gloves, helmets, lumber, bolts, etc.
Participant instruction and supervision - you are solely responsible to instruct all participants in the safe use of the equipment and to personally supervise their use.
Proper fitting - You are solely responsible for the fitting and adjustment of harnesses, helmets and gloves for all participants.
System Testing - You are solely responsible for testing and adjustment of your equipment before and during use.
Disclaimer - You understand that there are inherent risks in this activity and that possible permanent injury or death could result to those who participate.
Qualified instructors - You must provide qualified instructors to instruct and assist participants; and to opperate and maintain equipment.
Bomb proof - A term used to signify that you have reviewed all elements of your equipment, rigging and construction, and that partisipant are properly instructed and supervised; and that you are completely satisfied that there is no possibility for failure.
Doubt - If any doubt should arise over any aspect of your equipment or its safe use, operations should immediately be suspended until proper correction and repairs have been made.
Padding - all immovable objects such as the bottom of backboards etc. that may be impacted at high speed, are protected with a sufficient amount of padding to ensure the participants safety.
Loose clothing and long hair - Secure all loose clothing, long hair and anything else that might get caught in the pulley system while traveling at high speed.
Maintain a safe clear path of travel, to avoid high speed collisions with other persons or equipment.
You must be vigilant - You must double check and recheck all aspects of your design, installation, and operation of your Zip line.
Brakes - everyone who participates must were gloves and be instructed in how to use them to slow down and brake at the end.
Testing - you and only you must test out the Zip Line and be sure it functions properly.
Responsibility - You are solely responsible for the following,
- to administer this activity in a safe manner.
- to understand that the information provided in this article is not to be construed to be complete and total as to your specific circumstances and is only a representation of what the author did in his specific circumstances.
- for your personal training by qualified, certified instructors and the use of quality tested and certified materials and there proper maintenance.
- to obtain liability wavers from all participants. BLB 2009


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What will Elena be like as a vampire? How will her fangs affect her love life? The 'Vampire Diaries' cast answers all your burning questions!
The Mystic Falls crew assembled July 14 at San Diego Comic-Con, and while season four is still three-ish months away, The Vampire Diaries stars filled fans in on what's to come — including how Elena's (Nina Dobrev) new 'life' as a vampire will alter the never-ending love triangle between Salvatore brothers Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder). Let the angst, and spoilers, begin!
— Ian assured fans that, of course, Elena becoming a vampire will have a major effect on the show's love triangle: "It's going to add a really interesting dynamic between [Stefan, Damon and Elena]. … I think they'll learn a lot together in a really short amount of time."
— Nina also explained the differences between human Elena and vampire Elena: "It's going to be difficult. … Everything's going to be heightened and she's constantly going to be struggling with what she is."
— Apparently we will be seeing Katherine again — but not "until Klaus [Joseph Morgan] is no longer a threat," per executive producer Julie Plec. (Quick poll: Who would you rather have on the show, Klaus or Katherine? Drop a comment with your pick.)
— Despite Alaric (Matt Davis) biting the dust, Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) will stick around Mystic Falls.
— And speaking of the good doctor's boyfriend, Julie made it very clear that Matt Davis has an open invitation to return the show at any time.
— Damon will be pissed at Stefan for saving Matt (Zach Roerig) over Elena. Scenes shown to fans included Damon throwing Matt against a wall, and Damon sarcastically thanking his brother: "Now the world has one more quarterback."
— Fans will learn more about witches in season four, which quite a bit of focus on the 'origins' of that crazy mother Esther.
What are you most looking forward to in season four? Are you hoping Elena will stick with Stefan, go back to Damon, or choose to live as a single lady? And which character would you rather have in Mystic Falls, Katherine or Klaus? Drop me a comment with your thoughts and theories below!
— Andy Swift
More Vampire Diaries Season 4 Scoop:
- 'Vampire Diaries' Creator: Elena's Season 4 Journey 'Won't Be Easy'
- 'Vampire Diaries' Season 4: Steven R. McQueen Predicts Darker Jeremy
- 'Vampire Diaries' Season 4 Scoop: Candice Accola Is 'Sure' Joseph Morgan Will Return
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lil swagger
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Funny, prediction may be made but it seems that this particular seasonal has won the hearts of many as there are so many twist and turns that would normally turn out a mess but has turned out fantastic . Congratulations on your achievements. Thumbs up to your casting director, I must commend on the work done, your cast keep the fans wanting more. I have particularly taking a certain liking to the characters Demon, Elena, Klaus, Stephan, Caroline, Rebeca and most of all Alaric. To all the actors, a great job has been done but always remember your best is always required. I must confess that i haven't gag out of irritation but rather, am intrigued. well all hopes on the season 4. SUCCESS.
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Elena will remember how she met damon first and how damon told her he loved her because remember when you turn into a vampire whoever compelled you to forget you remember so her and damon might get together altough there is a new girl April coming into the show maybe she will go after damon ?
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I'm glad that Damon will give it to Stefan who deserves it right now. I wish that Elena would not be struggling with what she is, or whatever, always. Katherine could literally come back now since it "appears" that Klaus is no longer a threat right? I like her role. I hope that Joseph Morgan will return, certainly more than seeing more of his mother Esther. I don't her character very much. April being kept in the dark sounds like a replay of Jenna, and this new Connor guy, well who knows, I do think there need to be more human characters on the show and where is another living Salvatore relative, there has to be one right? Like Uncle Zack, he can't have been the last one. LOL
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I am sooo waiting for Elena to choose Damon!! The last three seasons have led to this and it would be a huge disappointment if they did not end up together in Season 4. I would hate to see Damon fall for someone else as his love for Elena is epic and you can only love like that once in your life!
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i think she will because remember in the last episode she was like if maybe i had met you first things would be different? well she did meet him before stefan he help her with some problems she had but than he compelled her to forget hes there. and remember when damon confessed to elena she will also remember that watch these two links on youtube this will make more sense. The first link is when he confessed his love and the second one is when he met elena first.
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I choose Damon and Elena. Why? Becuase when they first met she asked him what is it that she wanted and he said
"You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and romance and even a little bit of danger" a year later Elena confesses to Matt that Damon just consumes her. A lot of people think Stefan and Elena should be together becuase hes sweet and hot but thats not right at all. She needs someone that will make her heart beat faster just be bieng near her she needs excitment and to be happy. Just as Rose said "he may be the best thing for her or the worst"
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I vote for Elena and Damon together why? Becuase when they first met she asked him to tell her what she was wanted and he said "You want a love that consumes you you want passion and romance and even a little bit of danger" and a year later she confesses to Matt that he just consumes her and yes she is right love is something that makes you glad your living but thats not all what love has to offer. She fell for Stefan becuase she was depressed she fell for Damon becuase he makes her heart beat faster…
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North Hill Marble & Granite has been creating lasting memories for families since 1918. As the oldest and most trusted monument company in Summit County, we strive to make the selection of a memorial as easy as possible.
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KEF Reference 205/2 Floor-standing Speakers
- Written by Piero Gabucci
- Published on 03 April 2008
Bigger is still better, period - at least when it comes to two-channel systems. Believe me I've heard many fine sounding monitors (with and without a separate subwoofer) auditioned at shows and in my own listening room. Several reviewed I've purchased or wanted to badly, yet like the preverbal big fish I throw them back to wait for the one that's just too amazing to return. Read our review of the KEF 205/2 floor-standers. They would fit anyone's needs.
Paradigm Signature Multi-channel Speaker Ensemble
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Paradigm once again redefines state of the art with their new pint size Signature models. Can they maintain the performance their larger sibling are now world famous for? Our Brian Florian finds out.
Blaupunkt Velocity 2 Go Powered Speakers for Portable Players
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The Velocity 2 Go is an indoor stereo system designed for use with MP3 players, and it can also be used as a subwoofer that to be placed in a vehicle, and finally it's a portable battery-operated stereo system that provides musical ambiance for any outdoor get together, be it afternoon picnic, backyard party, or summertime barbeque.
Epik Conquest Subwoofer
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Epik's new Conquest subwoofer is the size of a small refridgerator and has an 18" driver with a 1000 watt power amplifier. Does size make a difference in performance? Read our review to find out.
Outlaw Audio BLS Bookshelf/Monitor Speakers and LFM Subwoofer
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Outlaw Audio, those "Internet only" rebels lead by head wrangler Peter Tribeman, have finally satisfied a large following by entering the speaker market.
Von Schweikert VisiUN Center Channel Speaker
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******** BENCH TEST RESULTS HAVE BEEN ADDED 3/17/08 ******** Von Schweikert's new VisiUN center channel speaker is nirvana, with its detailed, powerful sound that does not diminish for off-axis listeners. Expensive? Yes, and worth every penny. For those of you who want the ultra-cool, it's got the same paint finish as the USA Stealth Bomber. Read this exclusive review to find out why.
Atlantic Technology 8200e 5.1 Speaker System
- Written by Gabriel Lowe
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Having grown up a big fan of the Star Wars films, as many of us home theater enthusiasts did, the label THX has always had an air of gear-head royalty due to its origins. The Lucasfilm spin off has long represented a certain standard of excellence when it comes to home theater equipment . . .
SVSound MTS-01 Floor-standing Speakers
- Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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SVSound's new MTS-01 series of speakers includes these floor-standers that just blew us away in listening tests and bench measurements. For the price, they are very stiff competition.
Usher Be-718 Bookshelf Speakers with Beryllium Tweeters
- Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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Although Usher may not be a name that comes to USA consumers' minds when thinking of speakers, they have actually been making them for more than 30 years. Perhaps the lack of name recognition comes from the parent company being in Taiwan.
MartinLogan Purity Floor-standing Electrostatic Hybrid Speakers
- Written by John E. Johnson, Jr.
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MartinLogan electrostatic speakers are renown for their sound quality, and now, with the Purity, they are affordable for everyone. The built-in 200 watt power amplifier for both the ESL panel and the woofers makes them easy to drive, and the small footprint allows them to be used in any room
Final Sound 1000i ST Full-Range Electrostatic Speakers and S220 Subwoofer
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If you have followed some of my reviews over the years, you know I am a huge fan of planar (flat panel) speakers.
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Marlow Shami was born in New York City, New York, in 1953. She received her BFA in photography and video from the University of Hartford Art School in 1975 and her Masters in Science in Ecopsychology in 2001.
During the mid 1970's and early 80's Marlow worked as an independent videographer and still photographer producing educational videotapes in the greater Hartford, CT area. She and Donna Landerman co-produced the award-winning documentary "Coming Out of Violence" for the US Commission on Civil Rights. This program was distributed nationally to universities and aired on Public Television stations.
Marlow then embarked on a seven-year career as an editor, videographer and producer for TV news at a CBS affiliate. Here she and Gayle King were nominated for a New England Emmy for a news series they created together, and she worked with both labor and management to create a safer work environment.
Throughout these years Marlow continued to collect still images and video footage. Although not actively making art during these years, she felt compelled to continue collecting.
Fast forward 20 years, a period of time in which Shami worked a variety of jobs, completed a number of training programs --all the while pulling together the pieces she'd been collecting.
In 2001 she completed a Masters in Ecopsychology. The knowledge and experience of this field of study was the impetus for Marlow's deepening spiral back into art making.


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Roasted Cauliflower and Carrots in Mustard Sauce
Author Notes: This dish is an amazing combination of flavors and textures. It's sweet, savory and crunchy. It's versatile and goes well with chicken, pork, beef and vegetarian dishes. Both healthy and satisfying! - Susan E. Levy
Serves 4
Recipe Ingredients
- 1 small head cauliflower, trimmed into florets (about 2 cups)
- 4 large carrots (about 1 pound), diagonally cut into 1" slices
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoons pepper
For mustard sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons Dijon prepared mustard or a favorite mustard
- 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
- 1 teaspoon honey
- ¼ cups chopped fresh parsley
- Salt to taste, optional
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- In a bowl, toss cauliflower florets and carrots with 2 teaspoons olive oil and pepper. Cover and microwave 5 minutes.
- Spray a baking sheet with cooking oil spray. Place vegetables in a single layer on the sheet. Roast 10 minutes, until vegetables are tender and cauliflower edges are browned.
- For the sauce: While the vegetables are roasting, combine olive oil, mustard, horseradish, and honey in a small bowl.
- Remove vegetables from oven, toss with the sauce and parsley.
- Per serving: 131 calories, 3 gm protein, 15 gm carbohydrate, 8 gm fat, 1 gm sat fat, 5 gm mono fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 5 gm fiber, 194 mg sodium


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Remembering Princess Diana
10 years later, her influence on her boys, her charities, and the world lives on. Here's why
By Sarah Lyall
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She appears only in short, tantalizing flashbacks that flicker across the screen and remind you all over again how young and luminous and full of promise she was. But even as a ghost, Diana manages to be more vividly alive than anyone in The Queen, last year's award-winning movie about the extraordinary outpouring of emotion that followed the Princess' death in 1997.
That was the way it always was with Diana, whose star blazed so brightly and whose life was extinguished so suddenly. August 31 will mark the tenth anniversary of that bewildering night when the black Mercedes in which she was traveling slammed into a pillar in the Pont de L'Alma tunnel in Paris, robbing the world of perhaps its most vibrant public personality. (Also killed, along with the Princess, were her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.) But Diana has not let go of her tight hold on the public imagination. In a world that worships celebrity, where movie stars, models, and "personalities" are the glue that binds us all together, no one has emerged to take Diana's place. Perhaps no one ever will.
"She had a vast love affair with the public, and the public responded in spades," says historian Amanda Foreman, best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, about an 18th-century Lady not unlike Diana. But Foreman is quick to note that being "photographed and ogled and written about is not enough to make you loved. It was the kind of personality that Diana had, a combination of charisma and extreme vulnerability and sex appeal." Adds the American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin: "There are plenty of beautiful women who do philanthropic things, whose marriages have ups and downs. With Diana, it was all these elements coming together her personality, her beauty, her royal title, and the nature of her death" that made her an icon.
Even now, it is as hard to pin down the phenomenon that was Diana as it is to describe air or to hold water in your hand. She was a mass of contradictions, a human Rorschach test, someone people saw through the prism of their own prejudices and obsessions. She was beautiful, untouchable, royal; she was flawed, troubled, all too mortal. She lived a rarefied life of wealth and glittering celebrity; she often seemed lonely. She was saintly and endlessly giving; she was needy and endlessly wanting. She was a master manipulator of her public persona, but was hounded, and ultimately killed, by the paparazzi whose attention she craved. She fed off the world's adoration but never seemed to find the love and security she so transparently needed.
"I think [at the end] she was still a very unhappy girl in many respects," says Richard Kay, who wrote about Diana for London's Daily Mail and became part of her trusted inner circle, speaking to her frequently through her final months. "She sort of despaired that she would ever find happiness. What she was looking for didn't really exist. She wanted too many paradoxes."
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Health care in India isn't accessible to everyone. This has given rise to alternatives -- nonprofits that seek to bring health to all. Read more
Health care in India isn't accessible to everyone. This has given rise to alternatives -- nonprofits that seek to bring health to all.
About this project
We did it!
Thanks to all of you, we've successfully reached our $2,000 goal. But we're not stopping there -- the more we raise, the more successful this film will be. Help us make it as great as possible!
- This will help us buy higher-quality sound equipment, as well as support some reserve funds for on-the-ground use and the overall distribution of the film.
Help us reach 500 likes!
Are you interested in the project? Please help us out by posting this on your Facebook page and getting others involved. Every like counts, just like every penny. Thanks so much, everyone!
WE STOOD outside a padlocked, whitewashed government hospital on the outskirts of Naigaon, a remote village in rural India.
The building, about the size of a three-car garage, was small and box-shaped with barred windows and, by all appearances, abandoned. In an area where these state-run hospitals are plenty in number, they offer little to the people who live there. The building was empty.
"They've never seen a doctor here," said Jayesh, one of the staff members at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a nongovernmental organization headquartered in nearby Jamkhed, where we were staying.
That was during a trip we made last year to work with the Comprehensive Rural Health Project in Jamkhed, India. Through the Periclean Scholars program at Elon University, we're attempting to create a feature-length movie that delves into the subject of health care in rural India. It's at once a piece about the country and its complexity, but it's also about health care troubles in the developing world. The deficiencies in government health services force organizations like CRHP to come in and teach villagers about sustainable health care.
The film looks into how the health care system in India has left people behind — and the alternatives that try to address this.
The goal is to make a 30- to 45-minute film that will follow three different organizations as they pursue this idea of health for all. One of the organizations is in rural Maharashtra, working with impoverished villagers; another is based in the slums of Bombay; and a third will be based in and around Delhi.
Health For All will encompass complicated issues like the rights of health care and role of nonprofits, while centering around one simple point: people in poverty don't have access to basic care.
It's worth noting here that we've done this before. Jack, our director, worked on a film called The Elephant in the Room, which can be seen here: www.vimeo.com/theelephantintheroom.
If you want to know more about the program we're working on this for, check out the video we made below:
The film will be shot between December 28 and January 28 -- these are the dates we'll be in the country. Postproduction will begin immediately and the project has a planned completion date of mid-April.
To understand the extent to which this is an issue in India; to track in-depth the alternatives that are offered, and understand the ways these models work; and finally to look at how these models could be implemented across an entire nation.
The importance of health for all. The struggle of NGOs to fill the shoes of a badly-executed government system. The cost of health care for villagers. The discrepancies of health care in India.
A domain name for the accompanying website. Transportation within India for 2 - 4 students, as we travel between Jamkhed, Bombay and Delhi. Memory cards, batteries, extra equipment. On the ground funds for various situations (chargers short out or something). Production of a photo book after the shooting. (To be produced with the Masterpiece Publishing Package on Lulu.com). A magazine-style tabloid with portraits and bios on characters from the movie. Production and distribution of the movie: a special edition DVD. Various posters, screenings, etc. Rights to music for the soundtrack.
These videos were shot during our first trip to CRHP as a class. The ten hours of footage was originally supposed to be used to create a documentary about CRHP itself -- but it's shaped into Health for All.
Our goal with funding this film through Kickstarter is not just to raise money -- we want to spread the word about what we're doing and engage others in the project. This is an issue we're passionate about understanding and informing people on, and helping us isn't just limited to pledging.
If you read through this page and find yourself taken by our project, we would really appreciate you passing the link on to as many people as you can -- the more people that know about this, the wider our reach can be.
That organization we mention above, the Periclean Scholars at Elon University, is funding some aspects of the film, and we already have all our plane tickets booked -- all those expenses were about half of our $10,000 overall budget.
In creating the Kickstarter page, we decided $2,000 was a good way to go because that was the amount that would ensure we make enough to actually create the film. But our hope is to make double that, if not more, so that we can have a safety net and expand our reach even more. You'll see us start to post information about what we need for different amounts.
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Access to project updates and a weekly email from the shooting in India, with links to articles being written on the subject of public health care in the developing world (articles written by our team on the ground). This would also include a digital copy of the film, an accompanying photobook and a thank you on the official film website.
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If you're sick of wearing the same old boring clothes, then you'll love making your own easy sewing crafts out of scrap fabric. Save your old jeans and create Upcycled Denim Flower Embellishments from Melony Bradley. Add them to shirts or create a pretty necklace.
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- I decided to cover an old pair with Jacquard's Neopaque and Lumiere paints, in random swatches.
- I painted one color in random places, letting that color dry before moving on to the next one.
- Once I had completely covered the jeans. I decided to cut them up and die cut them into layered flower shapes using my Sizzix BigShot Die cCutting Machine and a layered flower die. Oh, I also threw in a pair of old leather pants that I haven't worn in a decade or so...
- If you want to do this, alternate the leather pants (you could use an old purse or boots too) with the painted denim on the different shapes on the surface of the die.
- Use fabric glue, such as Aleene's Fabric Fusion to glue the pieces together. Free form cut a circle for the center and place a pretty jeweled brad in the center to hold all the pieces together.
- Boy! Does one pair of old jeans and leather pants make a ton of these flowers! Add to the whole effect by free form stitching around the edges of the flowers. You may need to trim the edges of the flanges of the brad so it does not hit your sewing needle if you get too close to the center.
- I'll bet you can think of all kinds of things to do with these flowers created from painted and sewn pants. The first thing that came to my mind was fashion.
- I sewed several to the neckline of a plain cotton top.
- I made some cuffs by lining up three or four flowers and sewing them together at the edges.
- I also created a statement necklace. Worn with the cotton top, its a look that is completely over the top.
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Stay connected with the Bar! Welcome to the South Carolina Bar's E-Blast! March 31, 2011 E-Blast highlights upcoming activities, legal information and links to the Bar's website at www.scbar.org. The South Carolina Bar is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law. Finalists named for USC School of Law dean Three candidates have been identified as finalists for dean of the University of South Carolina School of Law. They are: Stephen W. Mazza, Interim Dean and Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas; Susan M. Richey, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law, Concord, New Hampshire; and Robert M. Wilcox, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law. For more information, visit the USC School of Law's website. YLD wants you to paint and donate! On April 23, YLD needs volunteers to assist in painting hallways and rooms at the Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands located at 3700 Forest Dr., Ste. 350, in Columbia. If you can hold a paint brush, you are qualified to do the job! Paint supplies or monetary assistance are needed to complete this effort. If made directly to the agency, the donation is tax-deductible. To participate in this great opportunity to serve your local community, contact Diana Coada at (803) 354-2185. Volunteers needed to represent Medicaid recipients Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities (P&A), a statewide nonprofit, is seeking volunteer attorneys to represent children and adults with disabilities whose Medicaid benefits are being reduced or terminated. P&A attorneys are available to provide technical assistance. Attorneys representing indigent clients will be eligible for malpractice coverage through the Bar's Pro Bono Program. Please contact Kathy Martin at (803) 217-6726 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information. Advance Sheet update March 29, 2011 The S.C. Supreme Court held the Public Service Commission (PSC) retained its fundamental role as fact-finder. The Court reversed and remanded the case because it found the PSC's evaluation of Appellant's rate application was affected by three errors of law: the PSC was required to provide Appellant with a meaningful opportunity to supplement its application with the information the PSC requested; the PSC erred in failing to accord Appellant the presumption of reasonableness applicable to its expenses; and the PSC erred in denying the rate application as a whole where only some of Appellant's expenditures were brought into question. Utilities Services v. Regulatory Staff, No. 26952, is available online. The Court held that the grant of summary judgment to the negligent misrepresentation claim was inappropriate because there was evidence that met the scintilla of evidence standard. However, due to the clear and convincing evidence standard of review applied to fraud claims, the grant of summary judgment was appropriate. Turner v. Milliman, No. 26953, is available online. March 31, 2011 The S.C. Court of Appeals reversed the family court's imposition of post-judgment interest and remanded for continued supervision of the home sale. The court opined that the family court erred in clarifying the divorce decree under Rule 60(a) since the judge's ruling modified the substance of the judgment. However, the family court did not err in clarifying the divorce decree to require automatic reductions in the selling price of the marital home. The issue of jurisdiction was not preserved for review. The wife abandoned her remaining issues on appeal by failing to cite to relevant legal authority in her brief. Brown v. Brown, No. 4814, is available online. Firm announcements Anderson & Associates, PA announces that Marilyn E. Gartley has joined the firm located at 208-B Candi Lane, Columbia 29210. (803) 252-8600. The Rosen Law Firm, LLC announces that David A. Haselden has joined the firm located at 18 Broad St., Ste. 201, Charleston 29401. (843) 377-1700. Shunna T. Vance announces that she has become Chief Operations/Risk Management Officer for GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission, Inc. located at 237 N. Hospital St., Greenwood 29648. (864) 223-8434. Calendar April 1 Criminal Law Section Council Meeting, Conference Call Resolution of Fee Disputes Board Meeting, Bar Building April 5 YLD Committee Chairs Meeting, Bar Building April 8 Elder Law Committee Meeting, Conference Call Practice and Procedure Committee Meeting, Bar Building To be added or deleted from the E-Blast mailing list, please contact Latoya Jackson in Membership Services at email@example.com or (803) 799-6653, ext. 137. E-Blast Archives
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Brown, Ian J. and Elliott, Paul and Chan, Queenie and Daviglus, Martha L. and Dyer, Alan R. and Huang, Spencer and Rodriguez, Beatriz L. and Sakata, Kiyomi and Ueshima, Hirotsugu and Van Horn, Linda and Stamler, Jeremiah and Robertson, Claire E. (2007) Dietary carbohydrate intake of individuals (total, starch, total sugar) and their blood pressure: INTERMAP study. In: 47th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in association with the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, 28 Feb - 03 Mar 2007, Buena Vista Palace - Orlando, FL.
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She spoke as she prepared to travel from Washington to Florida for a rally on Sunday in West Palm Beach to press for her husband's release.
Cuba has said it proposed talks with the United States about resolving the Gross case but has received no answer. It has hinted that it was prepared to swap Gross for five Cuban government agents who received lengthy U.S. prison sentences in a 2001 trial in Miami.
Washington has insisted that such a deal is out of the question though U.S. officials said last year they had suggested a swap of Gross for one agent, Rene Gonzalez, who is out on parole in Florida.
Judy Gross said there was no question that Havana wants the agents, known as the "Cuban Five," freed in exchange for her husband. Cuba maintains that they were unjustly convicted of espionage and has made their freedom a national cause.
"The fact is, what the Cubans are saying right now is that that's what they want," she said.
She added that she doubted Washington would ever agree to the prisoner exchange. But Obama's election to a new term opened the door to many possibilities.
Some analysts have suggested that a further easing by the president of some restrictive regulations on Cuba could help in Gross's release. But any major changes in the long-standing U.S. trade embargo against the island nation seem unlikely in the next Congress.
Cuban-born Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the powerful chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a fierce critic of Cuban President Raul Castro, handily won re-election in Florida on Nov. 6.
"The United States needs to sit down with Cuba, even if they're saying 'we only want the Cuban Five,'" Gross said.
"They can't leave him there. They have to keep trying, and we'll keep pushing them," she said.
Gross and her lawyer, Jared Genser, have been demanding that Cuba allow an independent medical expert to examine her husband. Cuban doctors have diagnosed the mass behind his right shoulder as a "hematoma" and told Gross in May that it would disappear in a few months, according to Genser.
"The proper kinds of tests were not taken, so there's no way for sure anybody knows what it is," said Judy Gross, who visited her husband just last month.
"This has been months and months now and it's quite frightening," she said. "We don't know why they haven't responded to our requests to have an independent doctor come in from an independent country. We're quite frustrated with that," she said.
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Rare condition indicated by the absence of a clear and comprehensive identity. In most cases two or more independent and distinct personality systems develop in the same individual. Each personality may alternately inhabit the person's conscious awareness to the exclusion of the others, but one is usually dominant. The various personalities typically differ from one another in outlook, temperament, and body language and might assume different first names. The condition is generally viewed as resulting from dissociative mental processes—that is, the splitting off from conscious awareness and control of thoughts, feelings, memories, and other mental components in response to situations that are painful, disturbing, or somehow unacceptable to the person experiencing them. Treatment is aimed at integrating the disparate personalities back into a single and unified personality.
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Twelve EBR public schools score above 'failing' status
POSTED: Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 5:45pm
UPDATED: Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 5:49pm
BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — The East Baton Rouge Public School System is celebrating after twelve of its schools came out of "failing" status.
The district has its lowest percentage of schools with "F" grades in at least five years. Only one traditional school, Claiborne Elementary, still got an "F" this year.
Superintendent Bernard Taylor praised the hard work of the principals at all the schools that improved.
"This should be a very happy and proud day for these individual schools and for the district, but it also has to be tempered with the recognition that we know we still have more work to do," said Taylor.
The state only released the scores for failing schools today so that parents in those neighborhoods have more time to choose where they want to send their child. The rest of the scores won't come out for another two months.


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DENVER - Denver police are searching for an arsonist Monday morning after nine separate fires overnight.
All the fires started at 1:30 a.m. on Dexter St., between E. 23rd Ave. and 28th Ave. The area is a few blocks northeast of Colorado Blvd. and E. Montview Blvd.
Fires damaged six cars, two garages, and some landscaping between two homes all within 45 minutes.
One fire in an alley in the 2300 block of Dexter started in a trash bin and spread to a garage. One car was set on fire inside a garage and the flames spread to that structure. Five cars parked on the street were also set on fire, along with some brush between two homes.
Firefighters also found several vandalized cars in the same area.
Denver firefighters are confident the fires are the work of an arsonist, crews told 7NEWS Reporter Eric Lupher.
Firefighters said one woman was detained for questioning, but they did not say whether she was a witness or a person of interest.
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AURORA, Colo. — "Batman" star Christian Bale visited survivors of the Colorado theater shooting Tuesday, and thanked medical staff and police officers who responded to the attack that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.
Bale visited with little advance warning and also stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims near the movie theater that was showing "The Dark Knight Rises" when the gunfire erupted.
Carey Rottman, one of those injured in Friday's shooting, posted two photos of himself with Bale on his Facebook page.
Janie Bowman-Hayes, assistant vice president of surgical services at sister hospital Swedish Medical Center, said she and co-workers were attending a luncheon at The Medical Center of Aurora to thank staff who tended to victims. "When we got there, then we found out he was there," she said.
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For anyone wanting to follow The Siege Project, I routinely post updates on twitter (MarcusTheBold). Feel free to follow.
I did some refactoring and clean up. I'll address the specifics in a moment. First, I'll list the files for download for anyone interested:
Siege.ServiceLocation library:
ASP.NET MVC Integration:
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A few people have asked me about contributing and extending the Siege.ServiceLocation library. My preference is to keep the Siege.ServiceLocation namespace itself as the main engine for enabling a wide variety of syntaxes and not grow the default syntax beyond what comes pre-packaged (the given-when-then syntax). However, I do want the project to grow and expand to meet the needs of anyone that uses it. Therefore, I've added a new project to the Siege.ServiceLocation umbrella: Siege.ServiceLocation.Extensions
Users can download this as an optional library that works in conjunction with Siege.ServiceLocation. Contributors can contribute to this library to create new syntax and new use cases to enable users to solve problems. The only restrictions I will put on this is that it should only reference Siege.ServiceLocation and not any particular IoC or external framework. If you want to integrate with a specific IoC, or another specific framework, I do encourage you to do so — only in a seperate project. I want to make sure that people consuming this framework don't have to add dependencies to frameworks and systems they do not intend to use.
As these particular cases come up we will address them as necessary.
So what changed?
Not a whole lot. There were some assumptions in the system around conditions and how they were evaluated that I changed to defer through an implementation via interface. What that means is that anyone extending the framework can now determine on their own how a conditions should be determined as valid for a particular use case rather than explicitly comparing against context. Additionally, I extended the framework to track the types it has been resolving. Finally, I simplified some interfaces, particularly around supporting new IoC containers. I expect that I will make a few more modifications before releasing a 1.0 version — the execution context is a primary candidate, as right now it is fairly immature in it's implementation. The other change I anticipate is to enable the IoC to work with other cross-cutting steps during resolution. Specifically, I've been working on incorporating AOP support into Siege.ServiceLocation and it's almost complete, but I'm still pondering how to incorporate it. It may require a slight refactory, it may not. We'll see.
Once I have made these two changes I expect I'll do a feature freeze for Siege.ServiceLocation and release it as a 1.0 version.
New Features in Siege.ServiceLocation.Extensions
Included already in this project are two new types of usages: Factory Methods and the ability to resolve dependencies based on the resolution hierarchy. That is to say, you can conditionally specify types to be used when the container has already decided to use other types. As always, you can additionally refer to the unit tests for detailed examples.
Factory Methods:
You can now specify a factory method to be used when constructing an object, both by default or when a condition is met. This works nearly identically to your standard Given-When-Then functionality, except instead of "Then" you use "ConstructWith", making it a Given-ConstructWith or Given-When-ConstructWith syntax.
Type Resolution based on parent types
I'm not really sure what to call this. The syntax is like this – Given<BaseType>.WhenInjectingInto<ParentType>.Then<ImplementingType>. Basically it works like this: if you have 'BaseType1′ which has a constructor dependency 'IDependency' and is implemented by 'TypeA' and 'TypeB', you can say "When you decide to resolve as 'TypeA', use the 'DependencyA' implementation of 'IDependency', otherwise use the default (if one is specified)."
By combining this with normal contextual resolution, you can set up rules for your types to be resolved based on arbitrary context and for their dependencies to be resolved either based on arbitrary context as well, or resolved based on which type is currently being resolved, or a combination thereof. It is important to note that when you specify multiple satisfiable criteria for resolution — for example arbitrary context that is satisfied AND resolution based on a type being resolved that is ALSO true, the system will choose the first applicable use case (the first one registered). Additionally, factory method support is compatible with the aforementioned case of resolving dependencies based on the parent's type. You can tell it to use a factory when the 'WhenInjectionInto<T>' scenario is satisfied.
In Closing
The goal with this system was to be able to quickly and easily extend it to support new syntaxes and usages. When I added these new syntaxes, each of them took me roughly 30 minutes from beginning to all tests passing at the end. While I am the author of this system, I expect that the barrier for other users would not be too much higher given a very basic understanding of the interfaces involved. For example, the amount of code to support Factory Methods was maybe all told about 100 lines of code between syntax and implementation while the amount of code to support dependency resolution based on the type its injected into was less than 150 lines.
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Among those who have asked the MBHA for help is 52-year-old Randall Neighbert. He is thin, wiry, and unafraid of a hard day's work. The hair on his head -- trim and graying -- is combed neatly back and he has the sort of neat mustache you would expect to see on a state trooper. In his burgundy penny loafers, white dress socks pulled way up high on his calves, white shorts, and mint-blue T-shirt, he looks more like a tourist caught in a too-fashion-savvy resort town than a homeless man. A few weekends ago, he was sharing a beer with his friend Peter Demos, age 41, who, like him, has no permanent address. The two sat at one of the sheltered wooden tables at South Pointe Park, the picnic area adjacent to the southernmost pier in South Beach.
A mechanical engineer by trade, Neighbert has spent the greater part of his life working in Panama. Since coming to Miami a year and a half ago, he has taken to sleeping behind a prominent South Beach hotel at night and searching for work during the day. "Who's gonna give you an engineering job when you're 50 years old?" he asks.
Several weeks ago Neighbert stopped at the MBHA offices hoping to find a place to rent. He had earned a little cash setting up outdoor carnivals and festivals in the Miami area, so he assumed the authority would help him. With an address he could upgrade to a better job. "There wasn't even an interview," he says. "They told me there wasn't anything for me.... If you're not crazy or an alcoholic or a drug addict, you're not going to get help." Indeed Neighbert was turned away because the authority had no room. There are already 1200 people on a closed waiting list who hope to get a Section 8 subsidy or the next available apartment.
The MBHA was born in the early 1950s to help provide low- and moderate-income people with affordable housing. According to 1990 census figures, the most recent available, there are 35,614 rental units in Miami Beach. Today the MBHA offers rent aid for 3097 apartments, about one out of every twelve. Most of these places, 2372, are owned by private landlords who accept payment in government certificates and vouchers for up to 70 percent of rental costs. The other 725 apartments either belong to the authority or, in a few cases, to landlords specially designated by the MBHA. All of the apartments are supposed to pass a safety inspection.
This year the federal government approved $15,873,120 for the agency, mostly in the form of the rent vouchers and certificates that are turned over to tenants. The MBHA has a salaried staff of 48 and a volunteer board of five. The mayor recommends board members for four-year terms; appointments must be approved by the city commission. The board is charged with setting policy, as well as hiring and firing the executive director.
Over the years the agency has been a key force in softening the effect of the Miami Beach development explosion on the poor, according to Matti Bower, who served three years on the MBHA board before being elected a city commissioner this past November. "There is a great need for the authority if we don't want to become increasingly gentrified," she says. "Old people, working single mothers, young folks ... and people of a lot of different nationalities have benefited."
Olga Golik, a program administrator for Catholic Charities, a countywide nonprofit that helps the poor find housing, training, and work, disagrees. Not only has the MBHA done a poor job of creating affordable housing opportunities, she says, but the city has been complicit. "Miami Beach has been anti-affordable housing for at least five or six years now," she asserts. "The city commission appointed [MBHA] board members because they are not in favor of affordable housing."
Burkett was a key organizer in a 1995 citizens' effort to return about three million dollars in HUD funds, money given to the city for the development of affordable housing, Golik contends. The move to give back the money failed, but it reflects the city's anti-affordable-housing sentiment. "As a result, the city did not spend a lot of money on housing for the homeless," Golik says. "There weren't any housing programs that received capital dollars."
Burkett, who was first appointed to the board by former Mayor Seymour Gelber in 1996 and reappointed by current Mayor Neisen Kasdin, dismisses the claims that he has failed to promote the MBHA's mission. He simply wanted to convert money budgeted for constructing facilities to cash for repairing old ones. "I have always been a supporter of affordable housing," he says. "Being a staunch preservationist, I wanted to see existing buildings renovated rather than new buildings constructed."
One reason Neighbert and those thousand-plus folks on the waiting list continue hoping for a place, is that the agency's bookkeeping isn't very good. According to a March 1999 report -- one of the several reviews spearheaded by McGuffin and carried out by hired consultants -- as a result of poor planning, the Section 8 program passed up four million dollars of HUD money that could have been used to lease 612 more apartments for the poor. "It is clear that the MBHA has perhaps permanently lost hundreds of Section 8 units," according to the report, which was drafted by Casterline Associates, a Pennsylvania accounting and consulting firm.


text: Man indicted on homicide charge after DUI video confessionBy Marlei Martinez and David Simpson, CNNUpdated 11:41 AM ET, Mon September 9, 2013Just WatchedDrunk driving confession goes viralreplayMore Videos ...Drunk driving confession goes viral 02:52Story highlights An Ohio grand jury has indicted Matthew CordleIn an online video, he confessed that his drunken driving killed a man in JuneProsecutor: There will be no leniency based on the videoDefense: Cordle wanted to raise drunken driving awareness, give closure to victim's familyA driver who confessed in an online video that his drunken driving killed a man now faces a homicide charge.A grand jury in Franklin County, Ohio, indicted Matthew Cordle on Monday on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, more than two months after the deadly wrong-way collision.The 22-year-old's online admission that he was to blame has been watched more than a million times on YouTube.Now, Ohio's legal system must decide what punishment fits his crime. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of eight and a half years in prison, prosecutor Ron O'Brien said.Polarizing videoJust WatchedVictim's ex-wife: Confession genuinereplayMore Videos ...Victim's ex-wife: Confession genuine 03:03PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedDUI confession message: Don't be like mereplayMore Videos ...DUI confession message: Don't be like me 01:55PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedVideo confession in courtreplayMore Videos ...Video confession in court 03:01PLAY VIDEO"My name is Matthew Cordle, and on June 22nd, 2013, I hit and killed Vincent Canzani," he says in the video posted last week. In the video, he recounts how he was out with friends, drank heavily and lost control the night of June 22. Canzani, 61, died when a wrong-way driver hit his Jeep on Interstate 670 near Columbus, Ohio.The video was posted on a website called "because I said I would," which provides a forum for people to make promises to others. Some viewers were impressed by Cordle's apparent courage and his plea, "I'm begging you, please don't drink and drive." But some viewers thought the video was "a crock," in the words of one commenter on the video site, aimed at reducing Cordle's probable prison sentence.Remorse called genuineCanzani's ex-wife, Cheryl Oates, says she believes Cordle's remorse is genuine."He said I made a huge mistake, and I'm going to take what's coming to me," Oates said. "You've got to respect him for that."Oates said Cordle should spend time in prison. But as a mother of two sons, she also feels pain for Cordle when she watches the video."It's gut-wrenching coming from a mother looking at that young boy, and he just doesn't understand the damage that he did," she said.Lawyer: Leniency isn't goalCordle has pledged to plead guilty and said on his video, "I'm handing the prosecution everything they need to put me away for a very long time."O'Brien said the video has not influenced him to recommend a lighter sentence."We had a case against him based on the evidence as I know it before the video was filmed," he said.Cordle's lawyer, George S. Breitmayer III, said leniency was not the goal of Cordle's video."Despite any speculation of his intentions, the video was meant to raise awareness related to the serious issues surrounding drinking and driving," the defense lawyer said in a statement sent to CNN. "In addition, (Cordle) hopes his confession will offer the Canzanis some level of closure by avoiding any lengthy, drawn out legal proceedings."More from usU.S. diplomats have been attacked, killed in pastPolicing for profit: How Ferguson's fines violated rights of African-AmericansDean at Boston high school arrested, accused of shooting student in the headPowered by Livefyre


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Where do people get this crap? The article is spot on. I was growing up in Texas when all this was happening, and I remember it quite well. Do not gripe at me for telling you the truth as I lived it.
When I was a kid in Texas in the 1950s, "Republican" was a dirty word, as it was in all the South. Texas was as much a one-party state as it is now, except it belongs to the racist extreme right-wing Republicans. The same goes for the rest of the South.
Did you know that Republican Barry Goldwater filibustered the Civil Rights Act? Besides, what does it really matter now since both parties have changed so much since those days?
We all know where they both stand now, and that is what we have to deal with.


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The night I became an uncle I learned to ride a unicycle.
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Handouts as given in some form or another to over 47% of the population take the dignity of people and it enslaves them to the government. Thus, they literally give up their freedom for the sake of a free meal or a small handout. What was meant as a temporary safety net for people down on their luck, has become a way of life. This is what brought other countries down and we are now on the same path. And...when the bill comes due for all the trillions of dollars this government is borrowing to pay for the handouts and there is no money left from the "rich" people, the very people receiving the handouts will be rioting in the streets when they are taken away. All you have to do is look at Greece today where they are burning down buildings, rioting, looting all because they upped the full retirement age to 67. And there is so much more that is devastating to this country in terms of the freedom that is being taken from us day after day. What a tragic legacy we are giving to our children. They are the ones who will suffer when the trillions have to be repaid.
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Very sad to see so many blinded by the left - yikes does anyone here do the research into the candidates they vote for or do they just stick to the Party line and vilifiy anyone who dares disagree with them.
October 16, 2012 at 9:04 a.m. permalinksuggest removal
As a former Youngstown resident, I'm amazed at how the valley has continued to support the demwits who have done nothing for them. They are still listening and believing in the propaganda. I thought after all these years (decades) that some people would at least vote as an independent - translation: vote for the man, not the Party. Instead, they refuse to change and continue to make lame excuses as to why they continue to vote against their own best interests.
October 15, 2012 at 2:52 p.m. permalinksuggest removal
Some commentors here seem to forget the contributions the Cafaro family has made by creating jobs and donating money to the University and other community programs. I no longer live in Youngstown, but I'm pretty tired of reading these scathing comments about the Cafaros. Your hatred of the Cafaro's is astounding. You need to remember that the Cafaro family stuck with a shrinking Youngstown and the community - they didn't run out like many other businesses. For that they deserve some credit!
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When I was relatively new to scene of fiber optic (a.k.a..dual fiber) makeup brushes - my curiosity was piqued from watching countless YT makeup videos, but I didn't (and still don't) want to shell out the $42 for MAC's 187 brush. Thus, I went looking for economical alternatives (i.e. dupes) of the infamous 187 brush, so I purchased Essential Beauty Supplies (EBS) Fiber Optic (dual fiber) Blush Brush for $8. Upon using the EBS fiber optic (dual fiber) brush, I quickly discovered that all the hype around the dual fiber MU brushes was true for you really do get an flawless finish when applying MU. Unfortunately, the EBS fiber optic (dual fiber) blush brush isn't very dense, the bristles are quite long and floppy, and it continues to shed ever time I washed it. In short, the EBS fiber optic/dual fiber brush is an OK brush, but my curiosity still wasn't quenched so I purchased the Lumiere Duo Fiber Optic Brush which I absolutely adore (please see my review on this brush).
By the way, this is Fiber Optic Brush which is manufactured and also sold by Crown Brush (and if you have read my other review, then you know that I love Crown Brushes for I have over 12-15 Crown MU brushes), however this brush is just not up to par.


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Homecoming 2010
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Homecoming 2010 Alumni Association Award winners are shown with NMU President Les Wong (second from left). Shown in photo from left to right: Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Dr. Stephen DesJardins '83, Dr. Wong, Distinguished Alumni Award recipient James "Brig" Sorber '86, Alumni Achievement Award recipient Clifford Luft '61, '67. |
Diamond Allen, recipient of the Steelcase Inc. Urban Scholars Endowment, and Brian Cloyd, Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer, Steelcase, Inc. Mr. Cloyd was recently appointed chair of the NMU Board of Trustees, beginning in January 2011. | |
The NMU Alumni Association Board of Directors honored those members whose terms expired at Homecoming. Shown in the photo, left to right, NMU Alumni Association President Kris Day '94, three outgoing board members: Rich Dabney '87, Janet Nellis Mendler '68, David Wirth '72; and NMU Executive Director of Advancement Martha Haynes. Not shown in photo, outgoing board member Fred Stonehouse '70, '77. |
Friday night Homecoming receptions at the Landmark | |
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