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PATIO WITH RETAINING WALL

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A sloping dirt wall towering over a portion of a Lowell retirement community has been deemed a public nuisance by a city code enforcement officer.

But months after the topic was first broached by town officials and years after the developer went out of business, questions still remain. How much will it cost to fix? And will the town foot the bill?

Magnolia Place on Owens Court in Lowell was built in 2001 by Evergreen Development Group of Lowell Inc. The first townhomes went up without a problem. But after a second phase began in 2010 the developer went out of business, according to town officials, and work stopped at the development.

This year, the N.C. Department of Revenue suspended the corporation.

Wall worries

The dirt wall has long has residents worried

Its nerve-wracking, said David Turner, whose home borders the wall. If we get a few more storms like we had the other night, then were really in danger.

Concerned residents approached Lowell officials early this year to see what could be done. Lowell City Manager Al Greene called the situation sticky, considering the problem was on private property.

City Council voted in July to change a rule to allow the city to step in and deem the wall a public nuisance. Since then, the city of Lowell has hired an engineer to assess the danger of the wall.

According to an engineer with Terracon Consultants, the wall could be considered dangerous to the residents closest to it, including Turner. The engineer recommended immediate repairs.

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Residents of a row of attached brick houses in Halifax known as the Twelve Apostles could be out of their homes for up to two weeks after engineers Monday deemed a razed building behind the houses a hazard.

Fire destroyed the commercial building at 5426 Portland Place on Sunday, leaving a blackened hulk between the Staples store on Gottingen Street and the row houses on Brunswick Street.

The engineer hired by the insurance company deemed the remaining wall to be a hazard so we had to evacuate the residents for their safety, said Lloyd Currie, divisional commander for the Halifax regional fire service.

This is the second time residents have been forced out of their homes due to the fire.

I woke up Sunday morning and all I heard was water on the roof, said Faron Felix, a student at NSCAD University.

At first I thought it was rain, but then I realized it was too heavy and then I felt the heat from the blaze behind us and saw the big wall of orange flames.

Felix and his roommate had been happy to get back into their building but were told late Monday to leave again.

Jill MacLellan has lived in one of the units for over three years. She stood talking with a few residents as firefighters, police officers and Red Cross workers gathered at the site. Her cat, Henry, sprawled in a carrier, unaffected by the goings on.

This is a beautiful old building; theyre really unique with lots of character, she said.

MacLellan would be staying at her brothers place in Fall River.

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Classic VHS tape logos inspire artists at 5BORO NYC to design skateboard decks worthy of our retro memories.

VHS tape logos make for great skate decks. 5BORO NYC

Long before DVDs, Blu-ray and digital downloads, we had to record and watch our favorite movies and TV programs on VHS tapes.

New York skate shop 5BORO NYC pays tribute to our media past with a series of skateboard decks inspired by VHS tape logos and box label designs from companies such as Sony, Memorex, TDK and Fujifilm.

This makes sense considering most of us first watched amateur and professionally made skateboard-trick videos starring famous skaters like the Z-Boys and a much younger Tony Hawk on old VHS tapes.

There are eight different designs in all from artists Willy Akers, Rafael Gomes, Joe Tookmanian, Jimmy McDonald, Guillaume Dulout, Danny Falla, Dan Pensyl and Akira Ishizawa. The decks range in price from $49 to $50 (plus shipping and handling).

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Opening a section of blackjack tables at one of Ohios four casinos is a long, labor-intensive process, as dealers spread out and carefully inspect all 312 cards in the six-deck stacks they often use.

It can take 30 minutes to get the first table going and up to 90 minutes to get all six tables going, said Tosha Tousant, Horseshoe Clevelands director of table games.

This will change this year, as the Ohio Casino Control Commission has approved the use of preshuffled stacks of multiple decks of cards at the states casinos for use at blackjack and mini baccarat tables.

Time is money at casinos, and saving minutes means more games played and more revenue for the casinos.

And also better customer service, said Himbert Sinopoli, vice president and general manager of Hollywood Casino Columbus.

Preshuffled cards are an industry standard, he said, adding Hollywood Casino uses about 20,000 decks a month for all its card games.

The total is 16,000 decks a month at Horseshoe Cleveland, Tousant said.

Despite their use worldwide, the executive director of the states casino commission was skeptical when the Ohio casino executives requested permission to use preshuffled decks of cards.

Then our staff made two inspection trips (to the United States Playing Card Co. in Erlanger, Ky.), said Matthew Schuler.

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