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Tim BeckerUpdated: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 6:04 pmPublished: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 5:36 pm
LONGVIEW, Wash. (KOIN 6) The city manager of Longview admitted Wednesday that is was a mistake to hire a sewer contractor who was not in compliance with the city.
All Out Sewer & Drain Service and its owner, Ray Caldwell, were also indicted by a federal judge for violating the Clean Water Act.
Well, Ray recently was convicted of in federal court of charges that were related for his illegal dumping activities, said Jeff Wilson with PTI Septic Services about Caldwell, who is notorious in the area.
As a result of the federal indictment, Caldwell was fined $250,000 and sentenced to 27 months in prison. The city also recently fined the company $11,000.
I wish our employee had maybe used better judgment on that or maybe saw the bigger picture, said Longview City Manager Bob Gregory.
Gregory explained that an employee had a plugged sewer at a transit facility and wanted to get it back in service as quickly as possible when he chose to call Caldwells company.
Well again, this is one of our maintenance people who has responsibility for a small building maintenance thing and may not see the bigger picture about something like that there, said Gregory.
Gregory said he has since told his management team to not do business with All Out Sewer & Drain Service for now.
However, contractors, including Brian Fletcher whose sewer business is next to the city shop where work is done, still wonder.
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Lennon Parham, Jessica St. Clair
Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham are either very committed to their craft or they have impeccable timing.
In the summer of 2012, the duo started brainstorming ideas for a new TV show when St. Clair pitched a story about them raising a baby together. "She was like, 'This is insane, right?' And I was like, 'Actually, I kind of love it,'" Parham tells TVGuide.com. "That's definitely a dreamy idea that you'd get to raise a baby with your best friend."
Lo and behold, the two were shooting the pilot for Playing House eight months later and both pregnant with their first child. Parham was more than eight months along, while St. Clair was less than three. "I was throwing up in various lawns in Pasadena," St. Clair recalls, "but I couldn't tell anybody so I'd be like, 'Lennon, say that you need some water.'"
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Fast-forward a year, and the duo are now mothers, as well as the stars, creators, and executive producers of USA's new series Playing House. In the half-hour comedy, which premieres Tuesday at 10/9c, Parham plays a mom-to-be who leaves her cheating husband and calls upon her workaholic best friend (St. Clair) to move back to their childhood hometown to help her raise her baby. "It's like a romantic comedy but it stars two women and it's sort of their love story as a friendship," St. Clair says. "Basically, how if they hadn't come back together, they wouldn't go on this path where they're going to choose to live the life they were meant to lead."
That sense of destiny is one of the many things Parham and St. Clair have in common with their on-screen counterparts. After meeting more than a decade ago at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, the two became fast friends and writing partners. Influenced by classic TV shows centered on female friendship like The Golden Girls, Laverne and Shirley and Kate & Allie, they created the half-hour comedy Best Friends Forever, which premiered in April 2012 on NBC. The series got the axe a month later, but it gave St. Clair and Parham a small but fiercely loyal fan base and a valuable learning experience. "We put every piece of ourselves, like literally flesh, into the show," Parham says. Despite the show's cancellation, the two became even more determined to work on a show together. "We had the time of our lives on BFF and so that idea that we could have a job where we got to work together ... we were like, 'We have to do this again,'" St. Clair says. "It's now ruined us for everything."
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Although the two stars and most of the crew from BFF returned for Playing House, there was one change the two wanted to make. "We decided we really wanted to do something on cable because that would allow us to have lives, write fewer episodes, be able to write them and then go and shoot them," St. Clair says. Adds Parham: "And we thought maybe we'd have more control over the content and the voice of it." The two soon found a home at USA which was looking to break into half-hour comedies. "It felt like USA, because they had only done dramas, was maybe the place that would be home to something that wasn't just total comedy," St. Clair says. "A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it and it's a little too cool for school ... but what we really wanted to do was a show where you laugh and you also can cry."
Indeed, the show is a little less snarky and a lot more optimistic much like St. Clair and Parham themselves. "The other thing that BFF taught me is that we need to enjoy it while it's happening because literally, the process of shooting it, if we are joyful in that moment, that will read and we are and we have been," Parham says.
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By Nicole Weisensee Egan
04/30/2014 at 02:15 PM EDT
John Servati
Courtesy The University of Alabama
"John Servati died a hero," fellow swimmer Anna Rae Gwarjanski Tweeted Tuesday. "Held up a concrete wall long enough for his girlfriend to get out from under it before it collapsed again on him."
Officials would only say Servati, 21, of Tupelo, Miss., died after a retaining wall collapsed in his home in Tuscaloosa.
"I understand that he was in a house off-campus and was hit by a retaining wall," school spokesman Shane Dorrill told ESPN. "I don't know how it happened. I do know he was with his girlfriend and she is uninjured."
At least 35 people have died since tornadoes began sweeping through the Midwest and South Sunday.
Servati's coach Dennis Pursley released a statement through the university.
"John Servati was an extraordinary young man of great character and warmth who had a tremendously giving spirit," Pursley said. "He will forever be in our hearts and a part of the Crimson Tide legacy."
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Footage of the landslide on 26th Street. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun video)
A nearly 120-year-old retaining wall that has troubled Charles Village residents for decades collapsed Wednesday amid a month's worth of rain, dumping street lights, sidewalks and half a dozen cars onto the CSX rail tracks below.
No injuries were reported. City officials evacuated 19 adjacent homes along East 26th Street and urged residents to avoid the area in case of lingering instability.
The landslide halted CSX rail traffic through what is a main artery to the port of Baltimore. The track carries cargo containers handled by rail at the state's Seagirt Marine Terminal, a substantial economic engine for the region.
"My eyes were just riveted on the road and the railing just falling away," said Charles Village resident Dana Moore, who was driving north on Charles Street as the embankment collapsed. "It was there and then it wasn't."
The rain meanwhile flooded streams, closed roads and prompted rescues across the region.
Signs of trouble appeared on 26th Street early Wednesday afternoon as the rain fell.
Jeff Larry said he was picking up his daughter from school around 2:30 p.m. when he noticed that the street looked more unsettled than usual. When he got home a couple of blocks away, Larry said he called 311 and reported what he saw.
"You could just see that things were going bad it was a pretty significant shift in the ground," Larry said. "What I saw was actual cracks in the pavement, cracks where the pavement had dropped six inches and split open. A lot of the cars were on a much more significant lean than they usually were."
The 311 operator said she would let her supervisor know, Larry said.
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Deluge causes landslide in Charles Village, floods roadways across state
A mudslide in Yonkers Wednesday night caused a retaining wall to collapse near the Glenwood MetroNorth station, leading to rush hour delays Thursday morning.
Mud, soil, and bricks buried the northbound local track, the MTA said. Two tracks are out of service and a third one has a 30 mile per hour speed restriction. Up to 30 minute delays are expected in both directions on the Hudson Line. Northbound Hudson Line trains are not stopping at Riverdale, Ludlow, Glenwood, and Greystone, and a MTA bus is being provided.
A retaining wall at a nearby sloped parking lot on Warburton Avenue broke off, taking down several trees as it slid down a steep embankmentleading to debris to land on the tracks about a half-mile from the Glenwood station.
There was a also a mudslide Wednesday night in Port Washington, Long Island, which buried two cars on Harbor Park Driver near Industrial Park Drive. There were no injuries reported.
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Yonkers mudslide causes MetroNorth delays
Footage of the landslide on 26th Street. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun video)
A nearly 120-year-old retaining wall that has troubled residents of Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood for decades collapsed Wednesday amid a month's worth of rain, dumping street lights, sidewalks and half a dozen cars onto the CSX rail tracks below.
No injuries were reported. City officials evacuated 19 adjacent homes along East 26th Street and urged residents to avoid the area in case of lingering instability.
The landslide halted CSX rail traffic through what is a main artery to the port of Baltimore. The track carries cargo containers handled by rail at the state's Seagirt Marine Terminal, a substantial economic engine for the region.
"My eyes were just riveted on the road and the railing just falling away," said Charles Village resident Dana Moore, who was driving north on Charles Street as the embankment collapsed. "It was there and then it wasn't."
The rain meanwhile flooded streams, closed roads and prompted rescues across the region.
Signs of trouble appeared on 26th Street early Wednesday afternoon as the rain fell.
Jeff Larry said he was picking up his daughter from school around 2:30 p.m. when he noticed that the street looked more unsettled than usual. When he got home a couple of blocks away, Larry said he called 311 and reported what he saw.
"You could just see that things were going bad it was a pretty significant shift in the ground," Larry said. "What I saw was actual cracks in the pavement, cracks where the pavement had dropped six inches and split open. A lot of the cars were on a much more significant lean than they usually were."
The 311 operator said she would let her supervisor know, Larry said.
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Developer Soho Properties has acquired 560 Seventh Avenue in New York City. The property, which once housed Parsons The New School for Design, will be transformed into a new mixed-use building with a 20,000 square foot retail space and Hampshires third Dream Hotel in Manhattan.
New York-based SOMA will design the ground-up build, which is valued at more than $300 million and slated for late 2015 construction. Due to the buildings mixed-use program, SOMAs vision of structural cubes will divide the property into four segments.
The first volume will offer three floors and the retail space, while the second will host hotel suites with a metal screen facade that allows for visibility, but privacy. In addition to a sky lobby, restaurant, pool, and lounge, the hotel will boast a rooftop space and three additional terraces.
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SOMA Designs Manhattan's Third Dream Hotel
Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 01, 2014
Austin waste management company At Your Disposal (AYD) is currently assisting general contractor Zapalac/Reed Construction Co. on the construction of a new office building in the San Clemente office and retail park in West Austin. AYD is providing two 40-yard roll off dumpsters to collect construction debris and is servicing the dumpsters with weekly hauls.
The new five-story building will be 250,000 square feet and will join six existing buildings and retail properties in the park. Located on Westlake Drive on the west side of Capital of Texas Highway, construction is scheduled to be completed in May, and several tenants have already signed on to lease space. The building was designed by GSC Architects of Austin.
The project broke ground in late January of this year and construction has been on-going for several months. AYD will continue to provide hauling services until construction is complete.
New construction in Austin is required to recycle debris as part of an on-going initiative to reduce waste in the city, said Chuck Herb, owner of AYD Waste. As a LEED-certified waste management company, we are able to assist on all LEED-designated jobs and we provide recycling of all construction debris. These services are not limited only to LEED jobs and we offer recycling to all of our construction and demolition clients.
At Your Disposal Waste Services, Inc. (AYD) provides recycling and refuse hauling to the greater Austin, TX area. The company offers roll-off dumpster rental, waste disposal services, compactor rentals, construction debris removal, and hauling of recyclables, junk and more. AYD offers same-day service. Committed to protecting the environment, AYD is a LEED-certified waste collection company and participates in the Texas Environmental Quality Initiatives Program as well as local community beautification projects. To learn more about AYD and the services offered, please visit http://www.aydwaste.com.
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