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Skip to comments.John Baird compares Russia's actions in Ukraine to Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
Posted on 03/04/2014 11:52:34 AM PST by Dave346
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Good point! Under Democrat leadership to open our borders, those jurisdictions may eventually themselves vote for succession and withdraw from the USA! Given that Democrats have disordered minds and cannot connect the dots, that is a likely outcome. Is this not happening already in Southern California?
As to the Ukraine, there seems to be no win-win solution. The EU is made up of mostly corrupt, socialist, and atheist countries. Who would want to join them? The Ukraine needs to settle its own internal affairs without any "outside" help.
You have to acknowledge that the Russians have a vested interest in the Crimean Peninsula port at Sevastopol. I know not the solution.
It so sad when a Foreign Affairs Minister ignores history. Send him back to school.
Worth more readings, thanks,
It's frustrating as h### that these "pundits" are so clueless, but, that's why one should not depend on them too much. I'm no expert, but when the protests started making the news, I got curious, partially because of an old Ukranian friend of our family, back in my teen years. (He was a rather memorable character!) Anyway, I started doing some research, trying to keep an unbiased mind, and it was so facinating that it drew me in, and I spent many evenings looking further.
I'd recommend to anyone interested enough to post a comment that they at least get the basic historical background, if they don't already know it. It takes a few hours to study, but it's well worth it. I'll collect a few links and post them here, shortly.
BTW, reviewing comments after I posted my original reply to you, I would add that even many FReepers are still dwelling on issues virtually irrelevant to what actually counts, now. Aaggghhh....
Below are a few links (all sources likely have biases and errors, but overall one can get a good sense of things).
Ukraine basic info. & history:
For a taste of Ukraine's politics:
This article is rather long. (Again, there may be some bias there - one can check the "talk" page regarding this, but the point is not whether or not Tymoshenko is a "hero" — she may well be corrupt [I suspect virtually all major Ukranian pols are, to some degree]. The point is to get an idea of the nature of Ukrainian politics, and more background.) Most interestingly, at least in the past, Putin has said he found Tymoshenko "comfortable" to work with (despite her generally pro-West inclinations?)
Ukraine in WW2 (truly horrific, but a must, to understand this country.)
Ukraine's nuclear disarmament & Security Assurances from the U.S., Russia, etc.:
None of the above actually addresses the issue of what happens if every country capable of joining the nuclear club discovers it is now on its own.
I can agree with that. I am focused more on the bigger picture, but it is true that the Ukraine has fantastic potential. Unfortunately, presently there are only tough solutions vs. the really bad alternatives. I think that perhaps the country has been so battered (just go to the link I posted above about the WW2 history, and then consider the history after that) that they cannot conjur up the sort of Reaganesque confidence needed to go their own way, even as an act of leadership.* The rampant corruption is another factor: They MUST defeat that.
*I was just watching a vid of Yulia Tymoshenko on CNN Online, and when she is asked about the Ukraine's mobilization, she says (among other things) "we cannot fight Russia on our own" (paraphrasal), and pressed on this at the end ("will you fight?") she has this resigned look & body language and says "our men will die."
Wrong message, girl! Putin doesn't care, too many of the Euro's are weenies (not all, though), and those men of yours need hope / leadership. Americans will support an underdog, but only IF they show some spunk. I know she's been in prison and possibly mistreated there, but as a leader she has to evercome that, at least on camera. (That's another thing that would rally American public support.)
As long as you're making suggestions on what to read it might be helpful to take a moment to read the official 1994 Budepest Memorandum in its entirety, the 2004 & 2010 Ukrainian Constitutions paying special attention to the clauses on elective process and impeachment, and then spend some time researching the status of forces agreement Russia has with Ukraine, and compare it to SOFAs the United States has entered into with many other countries around the world.
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Fort Smith Trolley Museum
1926 Birney streetcar 224 passing the
Fort Smith Museum of History
|100 South 4th Street,
Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S.
|Railroad, streetcar
|Fort Smith Streetcar Restoration Association, Inc.
The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a streetcar and railroad museum in Fort Smith, in the U.S. state of Arkansas, which includes an operating heritage streetcar line.[1] Four vehicles in its collection, a streetcar and three steam locomotives, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The approximately half-mile-long (0.8 km) streetcar line also passes four NRHP-listed sites, including the Fort Smith National Historic Site, the Fort Smith National Cemetery, the West Garrison Avenue Historic District and the 1907 Atkinson-Williams Warehouse Building, which now houses the Fort Smith Museum of History.
The museum was established by the Fort Smith Streetcar Restoration Association (FSSRA), formed in 1979 to preserve and display transit history relating to Fort Smith.[1] The first museum building was constructed in 1985, on former Missouri Pacific Railroad land, and purchases and donations of property in the 1990s allowed activities and storage to expand onto adjacent parcels.[2] That the organization uses Streetcar in its name but named its museum a Trolley museum is a reflection of the fact that, in American English, the terms streetcar and trolley are used interchangeably.[1] The Fort Smith Trolley Museum (FSTM) opened to the public in 1985, and trolley/streetcar operation began in 1991. FSSRA continues to be the museum's owner and operator.[3]
Streetcar line[edit]
Streetcar operation at the museum was inaugurated on May 19, 1991, using ex-Fort Smith Light and Traction Company car 224, a Birney-type streetcar built in 1926 by the American Car Company.[1] In the first seven months of operation, though the end of 1991 (in which five months had daily operation), more than 10,000 rides were given.[4] The initial line was about one-quarter mile long, using ex-Frisco freight tracks, along which FSSRA volunteers had installed trolley wire and support poles. It connected the carbarn, at 100 S. 4th Street, with the Fort Smith National Historic Site.[1]
The line has been extended several times since. The first extension was opened by the city's mayor on October 9, 1994, and took the line to the gates of the Fort Smith National Cemetery.[5][6] This extension, from the line's east end, more than doubled the length of operational track, making it about 2,300 ft (700 m).[5] The trolley line carried almost 12,000 passengers in 1994.[6]
At the line's west end, an extension of the track and wires to Garrison Avenue, the town's main street,[6] opened on August 29, 1996.[7] This short extension included a crossing of Rogers Avenue, and the city council funded the cost of the crossing installation, citing the line's value as a tourist attraction.[7] This section passes behind the Fort Smith Museum of History, located in the NRHP-listed Atkinson-Williams Warehouse building.[8] The first extension since 1996 was opened on November 24, 2002,[9] starting with a curve just before the previous terminus at Garrison between 3rd and 4th streets and running along the south side of Garrison Avenue, to 2nd Street.[10] This is within the West Garrison Avenue Historic District, which is also listed on the NRHP.[11]
At the other end of the line, a very short extension in May 2005 took the track across Wheeler Avenue to a new terminus at 7th Street, making the line about 3,000 feet (900 m) in length. A much longer extension from there is planned. It will take the line from current terminus by the National Cemetery and the Fort Smith Convention Center, north along 7th Street to Rogers Avenue, then east and through parking areas on the north side of Rogers to Garrison.[12]
Operation of the streetcar/trolley takes place year-round, running seven days a week from May 1 through October 31 and on weekends during all other months.[3][5] Hours of operation are 10:00–5:00 on Saturdays and (when operating) weekdays, and 1:00–5:00 on Sundays.[3] A wheelchair ramp was constructed at one stop in 1997.
Although restoration work is ongoing on other streetcars, car 224 is currently the only operational car.[9] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994,[1] as Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224.[11][13] Several Birney cars such as 224 were in regular service on the original Fort Smith streetcar system for its last several years, through to the abandonment of the system, on November 15, 1933.[14]
The museum collection several other streetcars, among them three more which, as with No. 224, operated in municipal service in Fort Smith:[1]
- Fort Smith Traction, Light and Power 10, built in 1902 (body only)
- Fort Smith Light and Traction 205, Birney car built in 1919 (body only)
- Fort Smith Light and Traction 221, Birney car built in 1926 (body only)
In addition, an open streetcar built by the J. G. Brill Company in 1907 was acquired from the Texas Transportation Museum (in San Antonio, Texas) in 1995. It is ex-Veracruz, Mexico, No. 6.[1][15] The Fort Smith and Veracruz cars are all single-truck cars, but in 1992 FSSRA acquired the body of a larger streetcar, a double-truck car which once operated in Hot Springs, Arkansas, as Hot Springs Street Railway Company car 50 (built in 1904 by the St. Louis Car Company).[4] The organization has subsequently acquired trucks and motors for this car, and is working towards a goal of restoring it to operating condition.[9] Another Birney car in the collection is ex-Kansas City 1545, built in 1919.[1]
Three additional streetcars were acquired in 2009: ex-Little Rock Birney cars 305 and 310, which FSSRA plans to combine into one operating car, and a second ex-Veracruz open car, No. 9. The latter is the same type as FSTM's car 6, a 1907 Brill car, which has yet to be restored to operating condition. The group now plans to restore car 9 to operating condition first, using some parts from car 6. Car 9 was acquired from the Lake Shore Electric museum group.[16]
Of four locomotives owned by the museum[17] and kept on public display, three are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP):
- Frisco 4003, a USRA Light Mikado steam locomotive built in 1919[18] – donated to FSTM in 1998 and listed on the NRHP in 2004.[19]
- Maumelle Ordnance Works Locomotive 1, a Vulcan gasoline-mechanical, 35-ton switcher built in 1942 – donated to FSTM in 1988[20] and listed on the NRHP in 2006.[19][21]
- United States Air Force Locomotive No. 1246, a General Electric diesel-electric, 44-ton switcher built in 1953,[22] which was listed on the NRHP on the same date as Locomotive No. 1 (shown above), September 20, 2006 (ref. no. 06000840).[19][21] It was acquired by FSTM in 1992.[22]
Also in the collection are three cabooses, a passenger car and various items of non-passenger railroad rolling stock.[17]
As of 1997, the museum owned three vintage motor buses: A 1939 ex-Little Rock Twin Coach R-23, a 1954 Fort Smith General Motors TGH-3102 bus, and a 1951 ex-Oklahoma City GM bus. The original Fort Smith bus, No. 285, was used in the 1988 movie Biloxi Blues.[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Young, Andrew D. (1997). Veteran & Vintage Transit. St. Louis, MO (US): Archway Publishing. pp. 12–13, 101. ISBN 0-9647279-2-7.
- ^ a b c "Fort Smith Trolley Museum". Fort Smith Streetcar Restoration Assn. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
- ^ a b Young, Andrew D. (Autumn 1993). "Past is Present". The New Electric Railway Journal. pp. 29–34. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Museum News". Light Rail and Modern Tramway, January 1995, p. 16. Ian Allan Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association (UK).
- ^ a b c Yarger, Bob (March–April 1996). "Preservation News". Locomotive & Railway Preservation magazine, pp. 60–61. Pentrex. ISSN 0891-7647.
- ^ a b "Museums" (regular news column). Light Rail and Modern Tramway, October 1996, p. 374. Ian Allan Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association (UK).
- ^ Cloud, Pam (May 3, 2012). "Fund Drive Will Give Face-Lift To Museum". Southwest Times Record. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Museums" (regular news column). Tramways & Urban Transit, February 2003, p. 69. Ian Allan Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association (UK).
- ^ "Museums". Tramways & Urban Transit, December 2002, p. 469.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places, Fort Smith listings". Fort Smith Historical Society. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places: Search results for Fort Smith, Sebastian County". Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (an agency of the state government's Department of Arkansas Heritage). 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
- ^ Winters, Charles E. (1979). The Streetcars of Fort Smith: Fort Smith Light & Traction Company. Fort Smith Historical Society.
- ^ "Museum News". Light Rail and Modern Tramway, March 1996, p. 109. Ian Allan Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association (UK).
- ^ a b "Roster of Equipment". Fort Smith Trolley Museum. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
- ^ "St. Louis – San Francisco Railway Steam Locomotive #4003, Fort Smith, Sebastian County". Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (an agency of the state government's Department of Arkansas Heritage). 2004. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
- ^ a b c "National Register of Historic Places: Search results for locomotives in Fort Smith, Sebastian County". Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (an agency of the state government's Department of Arkansas Heritage). 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
- ^ "Maumelle Ordnance Works Locomotive #1, Fort Smith, Sebastian County". Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (an agency of the state government's Department of Arkansas Heritage). 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
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Batteries can short circuit and catch fire if they are carried loose in your bag. Loose Batteries must be protected against contact with other metal items (e.g. by being in their orginal packaging or own protective case) and carried in your hand baggage.
Equipment containing correctly installed batteries can be packed in your checked baggage.
Note: Segway's are small two wheeled motorised vehicle used as a convenient mode of transport. There are many names and brand names associated with such vehicles - Segway's, Swagway's, Swegway's, Mini Swegway's 'Hoverboards' etc. All such vehicles are strictly prohibited (both as checked or cabin baggage) aboard Aer Lingus aircraft.
List of prohibited articles into the Security Restricted Area of an airport and on onboard aircraft
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(a) guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles-devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:
- firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
- toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons, component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights,
- compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns,
- signal flare pistols and starter pistols, - bows, cross bows and arrows,
- harpoon guns and spear guns,
- slingshots and catapults;
(b) stunning devices - devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, including:
- devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,
- animal stunners and animal killers,
- disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays;
(c) objects with a sharp point or sharp edge -objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:
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- ice axes and ice picks,
- razor blades,
- box cutters,
- knives with blades of more than 6 cm,
- scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum,
- martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge,
- swords and sabres;
(d) workmen's tools-tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:
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- tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels,
- saws, including cordless portable power saws,
- blowtorches,
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(e) blunt instruments-objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:
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(f) explosives and incendiary substances and devices-explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:
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- blasting caps,
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- mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
- fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
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- Lithium ion batteries (collapsible).
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- Mercury-filled items – barometers, thermometers, etc.
- Avalanche rescue backpack – must be packed with pressure relief valves and in a manner that it can't be accidentally activated.
- Solid carbon dioxide (dry ice).
- Heat-producing articles – underwater torches (diving lamps), soldering irons, etc.
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- Firearms and/or ammunition (cartridges for weapons), securely packaged.
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Man #1: Where are we? Everybody's dressed like a bunch of freaks!
Man #2: We're not in Kansas anymore!
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An interjection to a slip in catching on to a change or new stance, resulting in acting on according to the discontinued way.
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To connect with others dealing with mental illness, join the Lowcountry Mental Health Group on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/LowcountryMentalHealth
With a bright Highway to Hope logo splayed across its side, the RV carries two Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center staffers who open its doors to those in need.
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The mentally ill are under scrutiny and pressure like never before. Mental health budgets have been slashed. State inpatient beds are at historic lows. Emergency rooms, jails and prisons are the new front lines of care.
But there is promise for change. State funding increased this year. Research shows these illnesses are based in flawed physiology, not character flaws. And many who suffer are openly challenging stigmas. The Post and Courier has examined these issues all year. In this installment, we look at homelessness and the struggle to find a stable place to live while grappling with mental illness. Go to postandcourier.com/lost to read previous stories in the series.
A middle-age man steps shyly aboard to share a life's story of treating depression and anxiety with alcohol. He has five days worth of Paxil left and no job, no transportation, not even $4 to refill his medication.
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900 King St., Charleston
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109 Bee St., Charleston
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Salvation Army
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"My big fear is having nowhere to go, not knowing what I'm going to do," he says softly.
If you go
WHAT: The 14th annual Stand Down Against Homelessness offers free medical and dental screenings and assistance, clothing, food, haircuts and job and legal counseling to hundreds of homeless people. Coordinated by the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center and Goodwill Industries of Lower South Carolina.
WHEN: Thursday and Friday. Services offered from 8 a.m. to noon. Lunch served noon to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Armory Park, 5000 Lackawanna Blvd., North Charleston
COST: Free
MORE INFO: www.charleston.va.gov/Stand_Down_Against_Homelessness_2013.asp
For now, he stays in an old trailer without running water or electricity.
Others like him, fresh from short-term psychiatric hospital stays or jails and prisons, lack even that.
Gone are the days when thousands of the state's mentally ill lived in long-term hospitals. Where have they gone?
Local mental health experts say their clients increasingly live on the streets, crowd homeless shelters and wait for high-demand affordable-housing options.
"There are very limited places to go in this community if you don't have the resources," said Amy Zeigler, vice president for development at Crisis Ministries, the area's largest homeless shelter. "We're all coming from a place of frustration."
Discharged to streets
Eileen McLaughlin is a senior social worker at MUSC's Institute of Psychiatry, the region's largest psychiatric hospital that treats many of its lower-income residents.
She now plans for discharges as soon as patients arrive in the throes of psychotic or suicidal breakdowns.
Why? Roughly one in five adults discharged from the Institute of Psychiatry has no place to go — no family home, no shelter bed, no residential care center.
So they are discharged without a reliable place to live.
"We really have no choice," said Tom Robinson, development manager and a state board member of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Others in crisis, who often have been waiting for days in local emergency rooms, desperately need the hospital's beds. And the hospital cannot sustain itself caring for patients whose insurance has stopped paying for care.
"This is a very expensive homeless shelter," said Dr. Baron Short, psychiatrist and director of the institute's adult general psychiatry unit. "Sometimes we look at each other and say, 'We're not in psychiatric care anymore. We're in transitional housing care.' "
The hospital's average adult stay has dropped to seven days or less.
"They get them patched up, put some meds in them and send them out the door," said Joann Monnin-Debevec, past president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Charleston area. "You're out, whether you are ready or not."
When patients leave, they have a follow-up appointment with their local mental health center or a private therapist, Robinson said.
If they need medications, they either have a prescription to be filled or a supply. They receive a list of community resources and a directive to return to the ER if suicidal thoughts persist. (The hospital does not discharge children or senior citizens who lack housing.)
Short put it like this: Imagine someone took away your home, car, credit cards, savings and job — then sent you out the psychiatric hospital's front door downtown with $20. Then add in a mental illness.
"How are you going to live like that?" he said.
Out of the hospitals
The idea was to save money and improve the lives of thousands of South Carolinians once condemned to "asylums." Over recent decades, the state Department of Mental Health moved thousands of patients from its long-term facilities to their hometowns.
But then, several years ago, the economy tanked and lawmakers slashed the agency's budget.
And that meant cutting local services rather than growing them to serve those released from its hospitals. At the same time, private hospitals closed many of their psychiatric beds as well.
The result: The mentally ill have wound up increasingly revolving through prisons, jails, ERs and acute-care hospitals, officials agree.
At Charleston County's detention center, for instance, about one in four inmates is prescribed psychiatric medication, according to the Charleston Mental Health Center's forensics team records.
Ditto at the maximum-security Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville, where last month, 317 of its 1,415 inmates were classified as mentally ill. Nearly that many received psychotropic medications, according to the state Department of Corrections.
And where do those inmates — even the mentally ill ones — go after release? Often, to the hardships of homelessness.
Figuring the breadth of the problem is difficult. It is notoriously tough to count people who are homeless if they are not living in shelters.
However, in January 2013, the South Carolina Coalition for the Homeless conducted its fifth statewide "point in time" survey, in which it combs local communities to account for homeless residents.
Charleston was among counties with the largest increases in "unsheltered" homelessness, with 205 people found living in such conditions. Charleston also saw one of the state's largest increases in first-time homelessness.
In all, survey teams found 404 total homeless residents in that snapshot, including 121 living in shelters and 77 in transitional housing. Berkeley County had 25 total homeless and Dorchester 49.
Of those people tallied, 16 percent reported mental illness, up from 13 percent two years earlier. However, experts agree that those numbers underestimate the problem, because they rely on those surveyed to self-report mental illness, something that still carries stigma and shame.
Nationally, about 26 percent of homeless people reported mental illness.
It's a tough life. The average life expectancy for a chronically homeless person is 44 years compared to 78 years for the average American, according to a recent article in the journal Nursing.
"A sheltered environment is key, yet housing is the biggest problem people face," said David Geer, executive director of Family Services Inc., a local nonprofit that helps people with disabilities become self-sufficient.
Frontline shelter
Crisis Ministries, the largest local homeless shelter and state's largest homeless provider, has become the frontline for many facing mental illness.
Yet it shouldn't be, Zeigler noted.
For one, self-sufficiency is required of the 84 homeless men who live in one highly communal area.
"This is a very stressful environment for someone who is fragile. This should be a last resort," she said. "But we know that for some people, there is no other option."
Last year, 31 percent of people living at the Meeting Street shelter suffered mental health problems; 14 percent suffered serious ones.
Where do they come from? About 1 in 10 of its clients came directly from a jail or prison, hospital or substance-abuse treatment facility. Of those, 63 percent reported mental problems.
Because Crisis Ministries often is full, MUSC's McLaughlin will contact shelters in Columbia and Charlotte that occasionally have open beds. Then she must figure out how to get patients with no resources to a shelter that's hours away.
"There is virtually no affordable housing. And the only way to get it is through the shelter," McLaughlin said.
In Berkeley County, mental health staff do not have local emergency or transitional housing options for their clients. They, too, call places like Crisis Ministries in desperate search of beds.
"We scramble to help clients in difficult situations. Sometimes the outcome has been relocation to another part of the state," said Debbie Calcote, executive director of the Berkeley Community Mental Health Center.
The good news? Crisis Ministries is building a new, 30,000-square-foot men's shelter and soup kitchen to meet demand. It will add a net 26 more beds and should be completed around summer 2014.
Drop in group homes
Once upon a time, the Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center operated three group homes, called community residential care facilities.
The CRCFs, each staffed by the center and keen to the specific needs of the mentally ill, housed folks who couldn't live independently.
But all are closed now, casualties of state budget and Medicaid cuts, said Deborah Blalock, executive director of the mental health center, a local arm of the state Department of Mental Health.
Blalock called closing them one of the toughest decisions she has made.
"Our clients had really good care there, and they were staffed really well," Blalock said. "But they were expensive."
It cost $500,000 a year to serve 16 people, money that could serve more people in a time of grim budgets and growing demand.
Instead, today about 1,350 mental health clients statewide live in private CRCFs, often amid a population of frail elderly residents.
Yet even as private CRCFs face greater demand to house the mentally ill, fewer are doing so, due to increased regulations and red tape and other factors.
From 2005 to 2008, the state saw a net loss of 687 private CRCF beds available to folks who rely on government programs to pay for their housing, which many seriously mentally ill people do. From fall 2008 to fall 2009 alone, there was a net loss of 51 of these beds for mental health department clients, according to the agency's records.
The trend has continued since, said Mark Binkley, the agency's general counsel and deputy director.
Part of the problem is that when Medicaid was created, lawmakers exempted "institutions for mental disorders," defined as having more than 16 beds or more than 50 percent seriously mentally ill residents. If they do, CRCFs can no longer receive Medicaid, which most seriously mentally ill people rely on.
"Each year we badger them to see the idiocy of the IMD rule," said John H. Magill, director of the state Department of Mental Health.
So far, no luck.
Independent living
For those who can live independently, cost looms as the major barrier. Long waits for public housing is another problem. Criminal histories, bad credit and behaviors related to their mental illnesses pose other common hurdles to finding affordable places to rent.
Some people can access rent subsidies, such as those offered by the state Department of Mental Health.
And those with serious and persistent mental illnesses can apply for Social Security Disability income or Supplemental Security Income, the two main federal programs for the disabled.
However, it can take from months to years to learn if they qualify for benefits, said Jeff Yungman, an attorney at Crisis Ministries.
That is too long for a person facing imminent hospital discharge or release from jail.
Those who do qualify typically receive about $730 a month for rent, utilities, transportation and other expenses.
In lower-income areas, rent for a one-bedroom apartment runs about $500 to $600. Yet these less-expensive apartments tend to be in drug-riddled areas, a dicey issue for the majority of mentally ill people who also struggle with substance abuse.
"We have to be careful of where we're going to place that person," Blalock said.
Family Services offers a Representative Payee Program that handles finances for those incapable of doing so themselves. This keeps money going to pay critical bills like rent and not to drugs and alcohol — or to those who prey on the mentally ill.
"Drug dealers know when to show up," Geer said.
Back to the streets
Another middle-aged man climbs the stairs to the Highway to Hope. He cannot read or write and has multiple DUI convictions, thanks to medicating his schizophrenia with alcohol.
"All I want is to get an apartment and enjoy my life," he said.
Fresh from prison, he has no driver's license, no family, no job and no money. He stays at Crisis Ministries but struggles to sleep with 83 other homeless men in one room.
Yet Blalock sees hope for clients like him in the state legislature's back-to-back increases to mental health funding. If it continues, the local mental health centers could help more people avoid homelessness.
And a new statewide task force, comprising advocate groups and state agencies, has begun meeting to study the gaps in housing for South Carolina's mentally ill.
"We need more of all of it," Blalock said. "It's not a one size fits all."
Back at NAMI, Monnin-Debevec agreed.
"Lord knows, I ponder this all the time. There is no money for housing, no money for treatment. It is very frustrating. Where do they go?" she asked, rhetorically. Because she knew the answer.
Many go to the streets. And then to an ER, maybe jail, or back to the hospital again — only to be discharged without a place to go. Again.
Reach Jennifer Hawes at 937-5563, follow her on Twitter at @JenBerryHawes or subscribe to her at facebook.com/jennifer.b.hawes.
After living much of his adult life in treatment centers, prisons and on the streets, David Rosier puts groceries away in his Hanahan apartment, an arrangement that is the result of changing the course he was on and getting help through a program called Lease on Life. Wade Spees/Staff Friday October 23, 2013×
A bit unsteady on his feet, David Rosier straightens out his grip on his groceries before climbing the stairs to his Hanahan apartment. Wade Spees/Staff Friday October 11, 2013×
A homeless man spends his time standing in Marion Square, then pacing among the trees, talking to himself as cars whizz by dangerously close to him. With local shelters increasingly full and hospitals under pressure to release patients sooner, the mentally ill often find it difficult to find safe and affordable places to live while grappling with their disorders.×
Mentally ill who have been discharged from hospitals, jail or rehab clinics may find shelter in a tent like this one lashed to trees and covered with a plastic tarp found at a homeless camp. Camps like this one have been seen throughout the years in the Charleston area.×
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The Cuisinart DGB-900BC Automatic Coffee Maker is a fully programmable coffeemaker with a burr grinder for superior coffee. The burr grinder on the Cuisinart DGB-900BC Automatic Coffee Maker grinds the coffee without influencing the integrity of the bean, so the true flavor is maintained. The sealable bean hopper holds up to a half-pound of beans, and the strength selector and the grind control functions fine-tune intensity and volume. It's never been easier to make a great pot of coffee with the Cuisinart DGB-900BC Automatic Coffee Maker!
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Texas Tech President David Schmidly said Monday that the university is a statewide flagship institution whose strategic plan will guide the vessel on a successful course.
"We really believe we've ascended to the status of a statewide flagship," Schmidly said.
The Texas Tech campus in Amarillo is part of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, a separate entity from Texas Tech University, so the strategic plan will have little effect here, said Michael Hooten, regional dean of the Texas Tech School of Allied Health.
"It's a separate chain of command and separate administration," Hooten said. "Our own administration will have its own strategic plan."
But faculty and staff in Amarillo will examine the plan for possible collaborations with the university, Hooten said.
A key element of the university plan is to build a $100 million scholarship endowment that would generate $4.5 million per year.
All academic and nonacademic departments have studied the strategic plan, which was unveiled Monday, for 14 months.
Schmidly gave an overview of the plan to The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, then held a town meeting for the community.
"I don't know any other way to build a powerful organization," Schmidly told The A-J. "Hopefully it's going to result in a better university over time."
Like the University of Texas and Texas A&M, Tech draws students from across Texas as well as the nation and the world.
But unlike those schools, which have established comprehensive campuses throughout the state, Tech has aligned itself with state community colleges, regional admissions centers and graduate education centers, Schmidly said.
While trying to expand its reach statewide, Tech wants to emphasize that it is the only institution of its size west of Interstate 35.
One facet of the strategic plan is to increase access to and diversity for the university. With university enrollment at about 24,000 students, Schmidly said one goal is to reach 30,000 students in the next five to seven years. In addition, a major goal is for Tech to be a Top 75 public research institution.
Schmidly said it is important for Tech to reflect the demographics of the state and have Texans gain more access to public education. Partnerships with community colleges is a way that Tech is trying to attract minority and first-generation students.
Tech allows about 500 South Plains College students to live at Tech and familiarize themselves with the university while attending SPC. Tech is exploring community college partners throughout Texas and into New Mexico.
"We want to be the institution that's the most community college friendly in Texas," Schmidly said.
Tech is also extending its reach into K-12 education. Having already collaborated with the Lubbock Independent School District on a teacher training academy, Tech and Estacado High School will begin the Pre-Engineering Academy this fall at Estacado.
Aspects of engineering such as math, English, legalities, drawing and planning will frame the four-year program. Tentative plans include students planning and constructing a playground area.
"We are putting students on a college track, which will allow them to feel comfortable and more at home when they leave the Lubbock ISD for Texas Tech University," said Fred Hardin, LISD assistant superintendent for secondary operations. "The benefits to Tech will include attracting additional students, particularly minority students, to their engineering program."
Schmidly said a goal is to create 100 more tenure-track faculty positions. Tech now has about 560 such positions. Tech will emphasize minority hiring and build upon the 18 minority faculty members hired this school year, he said.
Another goal is for an endowed scholarship fund of $100 million to provide $4.5 million in annual income. Of the $6.28 million in scholarship needs at the university for next school year, endowment funding can cover about $3 million while the rest must come from university funds, Schmidly said.
He emphasized a hope for more concentration on cash gifts for future fund raising.
"We need real money that can be converted right away into real scholarship opportunities for students," Schmidly said.
Schmidly said Tech was last in the Big 12 Conference in revenue received per student at $15,545. Missouri was tops with $30,447 per student.
He wants to develop an 80-to-20 percent ratio in undergraduate to graduate students; now there is an 85-to-15 percent ratio. He said he plans to create a position to oversee more research by undergraduate students.
The hiring of men's basketball coach Bob Knight generated much publicity for Tech. Schmidly said an integrated marketing committee will review the university's marketing efforts to see other aspects of the university highlighted.
"We need that kind of marketing throughout Texas Tech, and it needs to be consistent," Schmidly said.
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SEAGOVILLE - With the addition of 7-foot, 230-pound LaMarcus Aldridge, perhaps the state's best prep player, the Texas Longhorns' incoming recruiting class is drawing comparisons to Michigan's fabled Fab Five.
Aldridge committed to Texas months ago, but he was considering turning pro. He decided to go to college first and will make it official today, the first day of the spring signing period.
The Seagoville star will be the third prep All-American heading to Austin, joining fall signees guard Daniel Gibson of Houston Jones and power forward Mike Williams of Wilcox-Central in Camden, Ala. Clear Lake center Connor Atchley and Dion Dowell, a small forward from Texas City, round out the class.
"LaMarcus going makes it awesome," Mike Kunstadt, publisher of Texas Hoops Magazine, said of the UT recruiting class. "This could be the 2004 version of the Fab Five. With those five youngsters you have it all - inside, outside, wing men; just everything."
Future NBA standouts Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard plus Texans Jimmy King and Ray Jackson were the Michigan fivesome that signed in 1991 and led the Wolverines to the Final Four as freshmen and sophomores. They never won an NCAA title, yet their impact - and nickname - remain.
Comparing this Texas quintet to them sets a high standard. But the group does have solid credentials.
Web site TheInsidersHoops.com lists all five as top 100 recruits nationally. Aldridge leads the way at No. 6, followed by Gibson (15), Williams (18), Dowell (41) and Atchley (89).
Although Aldridge said he was going to Texas last fall, he considered trying to become a first-round draft pick.
He finally called Texas coach Rick Barnes to give him the news a couple weeks ago.
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September 10, 2008, 12:56 PM
I lost all pieces to my Pistol grip does anyone know if I can get the replacement parts at a hardware store and if so what the size specs are
Thanks for the help
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September 10, 2008, 01:04 PM
The screw is 1/4-28 x 1".
The selector detent is specially shaped (shouldered) and I doubt the size will be available anywhere but from an AR-15 parts source.
The selector detent spring may be available, it is slightly less than 3/32" in diameter, which is the hole size it enters.
September 10, 2008, 01:11 PM
Order replacements from del-ton.com. Great company.
September 10, 2008, 01:19 PM
I have a spare screw from a tango down kit. You need a long allen wrench to install it though. You might live close to me from your location. PM me and we can work something out.
September 10, 2008, 05:51 PM
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September 10, 2008, 05:58 PM
If you need an actual grip lemme know, I have a few extras. I wont charge ya nothin.
September 10, 2008, 06:08 PM
There must be a really good story attached to this little mishap.
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September 10, 2008, 09:49 PM
Alright heres how it happened ...
One on of the other forums I am on one of the other members offered free Duracoating so I decided to take him up on his offer and so I sent him my upper, Vertical Foregrip, Pistol Grip, and mags to be painted OD. Well I got my parts back today and when I started putting it back together I could not find the parts anywhere. I could the manufacter and they are sending me all the parts I need for free.
Thanks for all the offers and help
I will post some pictures as soon as I am able to put the pistol grip on
September 11, 2008, 01:17 AM
That's interesting, which manufacturer is your AR from? Sounds like I might need to add them to my "must check out" list.
September 11, 2008, 12:03 PM
It is not technically an AR it is the Robinson Arms XCR. The weapon system is great and the company has the best customer service of any company I have ever dealt with. I have fired ARs before but I would choose my XCR of an AR any day
Heres a picture of it before I had it Duracoated
If you have any questions about it let me know and I will try to answer them
September 17, 2008, 04:34 PM
Alright I posted the pictures heres a link
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