A man claiming to be an appliance repairman was taken into custody after scams going back as far as December 2013, according to an Upper Allen Township police news release.

Terry Lee Harner, of Mohnton, was arrested Friday after a sting operation drew Harner to an undisclosed location for an appliance repair, according to the news release Saturday.

He is charged with theft by deception, deceptive or fraudulent business practices, and theft by unlawful taking.

The department began investigating Harner for scams in August after someone reported he had taken cash for appliance parts without performing any repairs.

The 46-year-old Harner is charge with appliance repair scams in Cumberland, Dauphin and York counties, and several arrest warrants had been issued. He is being held in Cumberland County Prison. A preliminary hearing has yet to be scheduled.

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The commercial building on the corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets will be demolished for the new apartment tower which will stand alongside The Hyde, in Hyde Park's south-west precinct. Photo: domain.com.au

A $400 million residential tower has been announced for Sydney's Hyde Park dress circle.

The 38-storey building will fillthe corner site of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets opposite Mark Foys Emporium, now the Downing Centre. It will stand alongside The Hyde apartment building opposite Hyde Park.

Following a City of Sydney council competition, the design for the apartment tower was awarded to Bates Smart architects.

An artist's impression of the winning design by Bates Smart for 130 Elizabeth Street, opposite Hyde Park. Photo: domain.com.au

The project at 130 Elizabeth Street will replace a 14-storey office building.

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The new residential tower will house 148 apartments with views over Hyde Park. Apartments on its upper levelswill have 280-degree views of Sydney Harbour and the airport.

It is the latest residential offering in the prized Hyde Park precinct. A 25-year lull followed the construction of The Connaught, a 232-apartment building on Liverpool Street opposite Hyde Park.

The Residence on the eastern side of Hyde Park.

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Grading has begun for The Villas at Hickory Tree, a 56-unit affordable housing apartment complex on Hickory Tree Road just west of N.C. Highway 150.

There will soon be more affordable housing opportunities for senior citizens in Davidson County. Developers are building a $9.3 million affordable housing community for citizens over the age of 55 on Hickory Tree Road in Midway.

Halcon Development, LLC based out of Richmond, Va., and Bradley Housing Developers of Aynor, S.C., have begun construction on a 56-unit apartment building in northern Davidson County.

Pam Freeth, development consultant for Halcon, said the company chose the area because there are so many people who are in need of affordable housing.

"There is a huge waiting list at all the other affordable housing units in the area," Freeth said. "The economy is horrible, and there are many people who qualify where getting a discount on their rents can make a huge difference. We do studies to find the need and to look at what the market is saying. We don't want to go into areas where it isn't needed."

The property, which will consist of a single, two-story building, is already being graded, and workers are installing water and sewage lines. The apartment complex will have a laundry room, covered picnic area with a grill, raised bed garden plots, computer center with high-speed Internet access, TV room, library/craft room and community room with kitchen. The property will also have a gazebo and a covered drop-off elevator. Freeth said all the units will be equipped with two panic buttons, some of which are specially formatted for the visually and hearing impaired.

Halcon received $1.18 million low-income housing credits from the North Carolina Department of Revenue toward the project in 2013. The company had previously applied for a Community Development Block Grant under the North Carolina Catalyst Program to help fund infrastructure needs in November 2012. Davidson County Commissioners rejected the application, stating they had not secured appropriate financing.

The apartment complex has been a controversial subject with some residents on Hickory Tree Road. Commissioners approved the rezoning of the complex's proposed location in 2012, despite hearing from multiple residents about the traffic problems it would create. Freeth said her company has taken concerns about the impact to traffic seriously.

"The traffic study said the problem wasn't as bad as first thought," Freeth said. "We are not out to cause any problems. Usually only half of the senior residents have cars anyway, and if they do they don't drive in and out that often. The land was already zoned for a business, which would have been more traffic. We definitely took the traffic pattern into consideration."

Phillip Craver, assistant district engineer with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, said his crews have made adjustments to the road configuration to decrease the impact on traffic.

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The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Boise building owner and against the city of Boise in a legal battle surrounding the currently under-construction River Edge Apartment complex on West Royal Boulevard near Boise State University.

It was March 2012 when 917 Lusk LLC, which owns a building next to the proposed five-story apartment complex, argued that the city had improperly granted a conditional use permit to the apartment building's developers.

Lusk said the area had been zoned for residential/office developments but required a special permit for a building taller than 35 feet. Lusk owners also argued that the proposed apartment building would have an adverse impact on needed parking spaces.

Lusk took the city of Boise and Royal Boulevard Associatesthe developer of the apartment buildingto district court, which agreed with the City Council decision to give developers the conditional use permit.

But in a ruling handed down today, the Idaho Supreme court reversed the lower court's decision, thus upending the permit for the project. The high court ruled that the Boise City Council "erred by affirming the Planning and Zoning decision" and that the commission "abused its discretion."

"We conclude that there is sufficient evidence that Lusk is in jeopardy of economic hardship from the project," wrote the justices.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015, by Spencer Peterson

The Moinian Group's colossal rental tower at 605 West 42nd Street will likely never be considered an iconic building, but it can be considered historic; when it's completed later this year, it will hold 1,175 apartments, more units than any other building in New York City. It will eventually lose the title to TF Cornerstone's project to the north at 606 West 57th Street, but nevermind that. For now, the development team is savoring the superlative while they can, and they hired fashion photographer Scott Furkay to shoot a collection of construction photos "in the same vein of those taken during the making of other NYC landmarks." And it's safe to say that they accomplished their goal. Furkay's black and white photos are very reminiscent of Lewis Hine's iconic shots of the Empire State Buildingminus the danger.

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Presentacin Nueva Coleccin de Antonio Mancini en "Los Patios de la Marquesa"
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To avoid drowning in marital discord, Ben Kaplanseeks insight inthe most logical place he can think of the marriage of a marriagecounsellor

By Ben Kaplan

The couch beside the dining room table is plush and brown and holds an important place for the Nicolson household. They have a bedroom, of course, which is essential. And a room where their one- and three-year-old daughters sleep. But the couch is what keeps every door open, because when Ellis, 38, and his wife Tiffany, 34, experience the painful bits of their marriage though were screwed up by our parents, no one can hurt us quite like our spouse they retire to the couch, kick off their sneakers and take positions facing one another, touch bare feet, and talk it out. Sometimes they stay that way for hours.

I start to feel something physically, when Im starting to ramp up, I feel frustrated, and thats when I know weve got to go to the couch, says Ellis, who is boyish-looking, blond, and has a sensitive, relaxed disposition, as if hes never worn uncomfortable shoes. Even if resolution doesnt happen at that moment, the idea is to walk away knowing that were OK and can move on from here in a positive way.

Sometimes conflict cant be resolved because people dont feel safe enough to say whats really happening, and know that their partner wont leave

This summer, the couch played a pivotal role in the Nicolson marriage. With both of their children facing potentially serious health problems, Tiffany in chronic pain from an old neck injury, and both husband and wife sleep-deprived and on edge, Ellis had grown withdrawn and Tiffany was internalizing her negative emotions. It was Tiffany who suggested a session on the couch.

I dont want to be judged and I dont want to be seen as weak, but I had to tell him: Im really not doing well, says Tiffany, who is a veterinarian and a priests daughter, and makes charcoal portraits after her girls go to sleep. After our talk, nothing changed that much, but I felt better because I allowed myself to be vulnerable. Sometimes conflict cant be resolved because people dont feel safe enough to say whats really happening, and know that their partner wont leave.

The Nicolsons, who live in Mississauga, Ont., shop at Costco; they drink soda; they let their kids watch the same crap everyone else does on TV. Theyre normal, and like all normal married people, that means sometimes they go to bed angry. Sometimes Tiffany takes a whole day and stews. Ellis sometimes strikes blows with his silence. But what makes their marriage unique is Elliss profession: hes a marriage counsellor, and spends up to 12 hours a day hearing domestic dramas unfold. Raised by a single mother who had a strong connection to the church, Ellis was studying aviation when he realized two things: that people were coming to him for advice, and that the root of most everyones problems tended to stem from their family life. Kids get a sense of who they are from the nature of the relationship between their parents, he says. I wanted my life to be meaningful relationships were where I wanted to make my mark.

The problems that he sees in his practice tend to deal with a low-humming dissatisfaction with life. His clients are generally in their thirties and forties and face not so much big single issues cheating, addiction, abuse but rather a mixed cocktail of grievances, often ignored to the breaking point. People in marriage or couples counselling (Ellis sees married and unmarried pairs) are grappling with the disconnect between their relationship ideals and the realities of their own partnerships. And Ellis is careful to be mindful of this in his own love life. A registered marriage and family therapist, he says he leaves work at work when hes home with his family, but both he and Tiffany say theyve benefited from his job. They dont see themselves as having the perfect marriage, they see themselves engaged in a realistic one. Wed for six years they met through a Christian website and dated for a year and a half Ellis and Tiffany dont expect bliss. Contentment is enough.

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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

by James Risen

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 285 pp., $28.00

In early 2003, James Risen, an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, prepared a story about a covert CIA effort to undermine Irans nuclear program. Before publishing it, he informed the CIA of his findings and asked for comment. On April 30, 2003, according to a subsequent Justice Department court filing, CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice met with Risen and Jill Abramson, then the Timess Washington bureau chief. Tenet and Rice urged the Times to hold Risens story because, they said, it would compromise national security and endanger the life of a particular CIA recruit. (The agent is referred to in the Justice filing as Human Asset No. 1.) Eventually, the Times informed the CIA that it would not publish Risens story.1 Abramson said recently that she regrets the decision.

The following year, Risen and a colleague, Eric Lichtblau, learned of a National Security Agency surveillance program that collected details of Americans telephone and e-mail communications without reference to a search warrant. Some of Risens sources inside the NSA thought that the program was unconstitutional, because it violated the Fourth Amendments prohibition of unlawful search. Risen felt that he had come across my biggest story of the post-9/11 age, as he puts it in Pay Any Price, his revealing, diverse collection of investigations of greed, incompetence, and mendacity in the American national security state.

In October 2004, Risen and Lichtblau drafted their NSA story. They again informed the Bush administration of what they had discovered. The White House launched an intense lobbying campaign to persuade senior Times editors that the story would severely damage national security, Risen recalls. The decision about whether to publish fell to Bill Keller, then the Timess executive editor. Risen, Lichtblau, and Rebecca Corbett, their editor, argued that the paper should go forward, but Keller ultimately decided against them. That left Risen, as he writes, frustrated and deeply concerned.

He then took a leave of absence from the newspaper to write a book. In the summer of 2005, he finished his manuscript. He included in it his reporting about the CIAs Iran operation and, with Lichtblaus consent, their discoveries about the NSAs warrantless surveillance program. Risen found a willing publisher at Free Press. When he informed his editors at the Times about his book-publishing plans, he recalls, They were furious.

Rather than be scooped by their reporter and Free Press, the Timess executives reconsidered their decision not to publish his story about the NSAs warrantless surveillance. According to Risen, the deliberations culminated in an Oval Office meeting between President Bush and Arthur Sulzberger Jr., then and now the Timess publisher. In December 2005 the Times printed Risen and Lichtblaus account. It caused an immediate sensation and later won a Pulitzer Prize. Yet the Times did not reverse its decision to withhold Risens reporting about the CIAs covert operation to undermine Irans nuclear program.

On January 5, 2006, Free Press brought out State of War, Risens first book, which contained, in Chapter Nine, a critical account of Operation Merlin. In this covert action of the Clinton administration, according to Risen, the CIA recruited a Russian scientist to provide flawed nuclear weapons designs to Iran, in hopes of delaying the countrys progress toward constructing a bomb. Instead, the scientist pointed out the design flaws to the Iranians, which may have helped them.

From this tangled history of investigative reporting and espionage has arisen one of the most consequential confrontations between the government and the press in a generation. The Obama administration inherited the case from the Bush administration. The Obama administration then pressured Risen aggressively to reveal the sources he relied upon in describing Operation Merlin. The result, as his book and other evidence make clear, was that the Justice Departments actions damaged the First Amendment and the rights of journalists.

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Kitchen Countertops: Things to Consider
Clients are often stuck with the dilemma of what countertops work best in their kitchen. Selecting countertops is one of the earlier steps in remodeling a kitchen. Since all kitchen remodels...

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