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No. 85,484
GABBY'S GOODIES and
Nonparty Lien Holder /Appellant.
1. By statute, the Crime Victims Compensation Board is subrogated to a claimant's rights to recover benefits from a collateral source to the extent of an award. See K.S.A. 74-7312.
2. Subrogation rights are defined by statute, and K.S.A. 74-7312 explicitly provides for allowance of attorney fees when the Crime Victims Compensation Board requests that the victim bring suit on behalf of the State. Consequently, the statute precludes shifting of attorney fees under other circumstances.
3. Although the equitable allowance of fees attributable to a subrogated interest may be appropriate where the facts justify it, the facts of this case do not justify equitable relief.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; MARK A. VINING, judge. Opinion filed May 4, 2001. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Hsingkan Chiang, assistant attorney general, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellant.
Gregory G. Lower and Kevin T. Stamper, of Cassell & Lower, L.L.C., of Wichita, for appellee.
Before GERNON, P.J., GREEN and BEIER, JJ.
GERNON, J.: The Crime Victims Compensation Board (Board) appeals a district court's determination that its subrogation lien should be reduced proportionally to adjust for attorney fees paid by the claimant in recovering damages from the offender.
Ronald S. Herron, a pedestrian, was injured when a vehicle driven by Lyle D. Frazee and owned by Gabby's Goodies struck him. Frazee was driving while intoxicated. Herron sued Frazee and Gabby's Goodies and applied to the Kansas Crime Victims Compensation Board for compensation. He was awarded $25,000.
Herron later settled his lawsuit for $178,925. After all expenses and attorney fees were paid, he had $36,390.30 remaining. The Board made demand, Herron requested a reduction of the lien, and the Board agreed to accept half of Herron's net recovery, or $18,195.15, which was a waiver, in its view, of any monies it received less than the $25,000 it had awarded.
Herron, not satisfied with the compromise, filed a motion for determination of the lien, arguing that the Board should shoulder some of the expense of recovering damages and that the district court had equitable powers to allocate attorney fees. The Board responded that the applicable statute, K.S.A. 74-7312, allowed attorney fees only when the claimant proceeds as trustee of the State at the Board's request. The district court, reading the statute to permit an allowance of attorney fees, ordered the lien reduced to 65 percent of the original $25,000, or $16,250, with the balance considered the Board's share of attorney fees. The Board appeals.
By statute, the Board is subrogated to a claimant's rights to recover benefits from a collateral source to the extent of an award. See K.S.A. 74-7312. The Board contends the district court erred in reducing its subrogation interest to allow for Herron's attorney fee expenses in recovering a judgment against the defendants. The Board argues that subrogation rights are defined by statute, and the statute explicitly provides for allowance of attorney fees when the Board requests that the victim bring suit on behalf of the State. Consequently, the Board argues the statute precludes shifting of attorney fees under other circumstances. The district court ruled that the Board's lien could be reduced by its share of attorney fees because the statute does not state that attorney fees are not allowable under other scenarios. We agree with the Board and reverse.
Interpretation of a statute is a question of law over which this court's review is unlimited. Walker v. State, 26 Kan. App. 2d 410, 411, 988 P.2d 283, rev. denied 268 Kan. 856 (1999). The intent of the legislature governs if that intent can be ascertained. When a statute is unambiguous, the court must give effect to the intention of the legislature as expressed rather than determine what the law ought to be. In re Marriage of Killman, 264 Kan. 33, 42-43, 955 P.2d 1228 (1998). K.S.A. 74-7312 provides:
"(b) As a prerequisite to bringing an action to recover damages related to criminally injurious conduct upon which compensation is claimed or awarded, the claimant must give the board prior written notice of the proposed action. After receiving the notice, the board shall promptly: (1) Join in the action as a party plaintiff to recover compensation awarded; (2) require the claimant to bring the action in the claimant's individual name, as a trustee in behalf of the state, to recover compensation awarded; or (3) reserve its rights and do neither in the proposed action. If, as requested by the board, the action is brought by the claimant as trustee and the claimant recovers compensation awarded by the board, the claimant may deduct from the compensation recovered in behalf of the state the reasonable expenses, including attorney fees, allocable by the court for that recovery." (Emphasis added).
The inclusion of one thing implies the exclusion of another, so we can presume that when the legislature expressly includes certain items, it intends to exclude any items not included. Killman, 264 Kan. at 42. Accordingly, we can presume that by expressly providing for the allowance of attorney fees under one circumstance, the legislature intended for the claimant to bear the litigation expenses under other circumstances. Thus, the district court erred in ruling that the statute permitted the allowance of attorney fees.
Herron cites Quesenbury v. Wichita Coca Cola Bottling Co., 229 Kan. 501, 504, 625 P.2d 1129 (1981), as authority for the proposition that he is entitled to an equitable allowance for attorney fees on the subrogated portion of the judgment in the absence of an express statutory prohibition. Quesenbury holds that an equitable allowance of fees attributable to a subrogated interest may be appropriate where the facts justify it. It also suggests that equitable apportionment is not appropriate on the facts of this case.
Although the Quesenbury court concluded that equity might permit such an allowance, it reversed the trial court's order requiring the insurance company to pay the attorney fees attributable to its subrogated interest. Consistent with the principles of equitable relief, the party seeking equity has the burden of establishing sufficient facts to justify the allowance. 229 Kan. at 504.
Here, the Board undisputedly did not participate in the action. K.S.A. 74-7312(b) requires the recipient of an award to give notice before filing suit. At that point, the Board can elect to join in the suit, require the claimant to bring the suit as trustee on behalf of the State, or reserve its rights and do nothing. K.S.A. 74-7312(b). Where the State has been given the option of joining and instead opts to allow the claimant's attorney to proceed on its behalf, the Board has effectively employed the claimant's attorney and allocation of fees makes sense.
Herron concedes that he did not comply with the statute by giving the Board notice before filing suit. He explains that he could not have done so because he filed suit before the Board took note of his claim. Herron attaches a copy of the application as an appendix to his brief. Documents included in an appendix will not substitute for the record on appeal. See Zeferjohn v. Shawnee County Sheriff's Dept., 26 Kan. App. 2d 379, 383, 988 P.2d 263 (1999).
Herron further notes that the Board had notice from the application that he was represented by counsel. Regardless of his having counsel, Herron's failure to give the Board notice before filing suit effectively prevented the Board from asking Herron to proceed as trustee of the State and hindered the Board's ability to protect its own interest early on. While the Board obviously became aware of the suit months before the settlement and might have been able to intervene, Herron is clearly not innocent of error or wrongdoing. He is in a weak position to seek equity when his omission has deprived the Board of the option to protect its own interest from the beginning.
Furthermore, the argument may be made that the 35 percent contingency fee Herron's attorneys are claiming is disproportionate to the work required to recover a judgment for insurance policy limits, particularly where the tortfeasor's conduct was criminal and where Herron's economic losses alone far exceed the settlement.
The Board made an interest-free loan with no guarantee of repayment and seeks to recover the money in order to make it available to another crime victim in need. Instead of accepting a compromise from the Board which reduced the recovery the Board might be entitled to, Herron placed the compromise aside and decided to risk putting the Board in a position in which it was forced to argue that the statute is plain and should be strictly construed. The risk to Herron was that the Board would recover the entire amount of the award, $25,000. Since we agree with the Board's interpretation of the statute, the risk of appeal is going to fall harshly on Herron.
Reversed and remanded for determination of the amount of the Board's lien.

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Does your rich neighbor often play loud music till late night that really disturbs your sleep?
Does your boss is at unease if he has to share table with you during lunch?
We see examples such as above in our daily life where rich people behave extremely selfishly. And, we increase our hatred with them. There are times, when their behavior makes us feel so small.
In this post, I try to talk of why these people react the way they do. The answer lies in the human mind and the impulses it gets when one becomes rich. It is called the asshole effect. Coined by US psychologist Paul Piff, this effect tries to relate creation of wealth with selfishness and entitlement attitude. Through his numerous research, Paul Piff found that with growth in wealth of an individual, he/she starts believing and behaving in a more selfish way. He/She feels that he/she is entitled to the earthly bliss more than an average person. There is decrease in empathy and they start developing narcissism. They start treating people with lower wealth as inferior to them. They demand special treatment from the society, government and the nation.
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Personal Note: I played flute for six years in school and then stopped abruptly. I don't even remember the key positions anymore and it saddens me.
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Just in the last twenty-four hours agent Rachelle Gardner wrote a post about the practice of patience. Some parts of it lifted my spirits (Hey, everyone else's just like me, too!), and other made me feel as if eventual success is just another hopeless daydream.
This second part has much to do with the genre of book I write, paranormal YA. Yes, with series like the Twilight saga, those of Melissa Marr, Holly Black, and Libba Bray--all with supernatural themes--supernatural/paranormal YA is HOT, HOT, HOT right now. But the catch is the 'right now' bit. 'Right now' doesn't mean next year or the year after, and the book publishers and agents of today are looking for the reading trends of tomorrow because, guess what? Having a book accepted today doesn't mean it will show up on a shelf next week. I hear the average is closer to two years. So, theoretically, you've got to write two years in advance. What's going to be the 'in' thing for 2011?
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For the first, the answer is simple, and grueling. Work your tookus off until the manuscript shines even in the darkest times of its genre. For the second, the answer's the same, because let's face it, once everyone else knows what's going to sell they'll jump on the bandwagon, too.
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Sephiroth9611 wrote:How are you doing, Cloud? What's new in your life? Played any games lately? Read any good books? Seen any movies? What do you think of the #metoo campaign?
SOLDIERofficer81 wrote:We are most definitely not dead. We are patiently awaiting the NEWBIE TSUNAMI. Have faith.
Cloud Strife wrote:I'm doing okay I suppose. I quit my lifelong weed smoking routine back in July to work a better job and make more money. I been doing the weed smoking thing slightly before I joined here back in 1999 when it was still On inside the web as the forums and the site was still hosted on Geocities.
Cloud Strife wrote:Aside from that, live on my own. 33 years old, no children yet which is a choice my own. I rather have children with someone worth it and well based on my upbringing I don't want to lay down with a woman who will not want to have a two-parent upbringing for my children. From my experiences alone that shit ruins a child. I'm not really wanting to go into that here but I am not opposed to it in say serious discussion forums.
Cloud Strife wrote:As far as games go, of course, I have ps4. I have been playing the elder scrolls skyrim, the ff7 game of course. Naruto Ulitmate edition (all the games in HD upgrade), rock band 4 madden 17 and I like a variety of games. Even have shenmue 3 on preorder.
Cloud Strife wrote:Haven't read a good book in a long time despite me loving to read. I have been really wanting to read 13 reasons why after watching it on Netflix though.
Cloud Strife wrote:The last good movie I actually did see was the new bruce lee movie which was actually pretty fucking good and the last transformers movie. Before that of, course was fast 8 since I am a fan of the fast and furious series.
Cloud Strife wrote:I can't say I know what the metoo campaign is, what is it?
Cloud Strife wrote:SOLDIERofficer81 wrote:We are most definitely not dead. We are patiently awaiting the NEWBIE TSUNAMI. Have faith.
That is true. I do have faith. I just get extremely nostalgic and every time I come here it just brings back a flood of memories. And, ya know it just sucks that here I am. After all of these years and what I want most is one day from how it was back then with how I am now as a grown mature adult and wish things could be different. I don't know what I miss more because I can't decide about it. I plan to redeem myself here if possible and possibly earn myself back to my former position on staff and mention within the site history since I was a key part to its history despite the huge mistake I made being a childish teenager. Here's wishing.
Cloud Strife wrote:I guess I should say the questions you asked me, I would like you to answer in return.
Sephiroth9611 wrote:Let's do this old school!
Congratulations on quitting. Do you feel as though it was a hard habit to break or was it easy to quit? How do you think being off the weed has affected you? How has it helped you get a better job?
Haha, I am still on my PS2 and even that doesn't function very well. I do have Steam for Linux which I use to play Crusader Kings II. I have been thinking about tracking down an emulator so I can play FF7. Or maybe I'll just buy a PSX on Ebay.
Read more, Cloud. There is so much data out there showing how Google has fucked up our minds. Don't be one of the short-attention-span drones who can't take in info in large segments. The last book I read was Doctor Zhivago, a novel by an author who lived in Soviet Russia. It was pretty good. I've never heard of 13 Reasons. Tell me about its plot? I have been watching more Netflix shows lately. The Crown is awesome. It is a historical fiction series based on the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
I have never seen any of the movies in either series.
Are you aware of the Hollywood sexual harassment scandal that is ongoing? Women on Twitter across the country and around the world have used the #metoo hashtag to share that they have been sexually harassed as well.
All the threads I've started, I urge you to post a reply. Start new threads on interesting topics. Be an agent of change.
Not much new with me. I go to church, I go to language therapy. I try to learn more about my new operating system. Yes, I have made the transition from Windows to Linux and I am very happy. My distro is Linux Mint 18.1. Open source is very cool. I have actually made some things using GIMP, the open source equivalent of Photoshop.
Cloud Strife wrote:Really? So you missed out on alot of good games I'd say. Ps4 is alot cheaper now. you should make the leap. Gonna have to eventually for the remake. However, you can also play with people online as well.
Cloud Strife wrote:I don't think google has fucked up anything any more than the internet may have. So I have to disagree there. It's not more of I don't read it is more of I am a picky reader, honestly.
Cloud Strife wrote:Teenager Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box lying on his porch. Inside, he discovers seven double-sided cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and unrequited love, who tragically committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah unfolds an emotional audio diary, detailing the thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Her instructions are clear: each person who receives the package is one of the reasons why she killed herself. And after each person has completed listening to the tapes, they must pass the package on to the next person. If anyone decides to break the chain, a separate set of tapes will be released to the public. Each tape is addressed to a select person in her school and details their involvement in her eventual suicide.
Cloud Strife wrote:How do you feel about going to church? I no offense think it's a crock of shit. And, I used gimp before but compared to photoshop it is pretty subpar. Language therapy? did something happen?
Honestly, I never was that much of a gamer. If I hadn't have seen the Final Fantasy VII commercial on TV, I probably wouldn't have ever gotten a PSX and eventually found this place. My interest in games these days is in games like Medieval: Total War and Crusader Kings, which I can play just fine on my PC.
Google is more a metaphor, though it plays a large part. Being able to search for anything certainly has an effect. As you say, it is the Web. People skimming, clicking links, etc. Check this out from The Atlantic: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Interesting premise. So he loved her and she didn't return his love?
Well, I go voluntarily, so i must be getting something out of it, right? I believe in a supreme being and that that being is represented exclusively through my particular Church. Do you believe belief in general is a crock or just organized religion?
Well, I've never used Photoshop, so don't know if GIMP is deficient, but it's certainly a lot better than MS Paint.
I've been deaf for a long time now. I go to therapy and learn sign language.
Cloud Strife wrote:You certainly could widen your interest. But, I understand.
Cloud Strife wrote:I believe organized religion is. I mainly think the church with the hell fire and brimstone of being a sinner is going quite to far. I feel like a hypocrite and couldn't be me so I just walked away. I also believe the church is just a way to grab money from people and usher in a form of control over it's people. But, again this is just my belief and feeling on it. To each their own.
Cloud Strife wrote:I've had no idea. Well, I know we as humans take things for granted. I will say I am sorry about it because in my growing up (with all the things I have said in the aftermath of my banning, which I can go into everything here if need be with those who would care, I will) I learned to become more compassionate as I grew into adulthood. I have lots of regret with how I have handled things over the years and I learned firsthand treat others how you wanna be treated. The end result will blow your mind. I been wanting to share it with people here.
Sephiroth9611 wrote:Heh. I could say the same about the kind of movies you are interested in.
Sephiroth9611 wrote:Of which denomination were you a part?
Sephiroth9611 wrote:So go ahead and share. No time like the present. Or do you want to wait another two weeks?
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Protests in Anaheim Escalate Over Police Shooting of Unarmed Man
Last night, Anaheim residents continued their protests over the the police shooting of two latino men, and seem poised to do so again tonight. Nearly 1,000 people took part in last night's demonstration, which began when 200 residents attended a city council meeting earlier that evening. A larger crower crowd was denied entrance, and some began throwing rocks and bottles at nearby police cars. The protest then spread through downtown Anaheim, where some demonstrators set fires and smashed windows, damaging City Hall, police headquarters and twenty businesses. 300 police officers in riot gear responded, using pepper balls, rubber pellets and batons to subdue the crowd. In total, 24 arrests were made, including one for assault with a deadly weapon.
The LA Times reports that two Orange County Register reporters were among those injured.
The protests are in response to the police's shooting of Manuel Diaz, 25, on Saturday afternoon. Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Bob Dunn reported the shooting occurred after Diaz ran from police, a charge Diaz's niece doesn't dispute, according to CBS Los Angeles.
His niece, 16-year-old Daisy Gonzalez, said her uncle likely ran away from officers when they approached him because of his past experience with law enforcement. "He (doesn't) like cops. He never liked them because all they do is harass and arrest anyone," Gonzalez said.
Witnesses say Diaz was shot twice, both times from behind.
Crystal Ventura, a 17-year-old who witnessed the shooting, told the Register the man had his back to the officer. She said the man was shot in the buttocks area. The man then went down on his knees, and she said he was struck by another bullet in the head. Another officer handcuffed the man who by then was on the ground and not moving, Ventura said.
"They searched his pockets, and there was a hole in his head, and I saw blood on his face," she said.
Another witness described a gruesome scene:
Theresa Smith, whose son was killed Dec. 11, 2009, by Anaheim officers at a Walmart store, said she went by the scene of Saturday's shooting and was astounded by what she saw.
"There were pieces of brain on the ... darn grass, in front of all these children, in front of all these people," Smith said. "This traumatizes people, and these people are angry."
On Sunday, a second man was shot dead by police, which lead to further demonstrations, during which, according to various reports, police lost control of their K-9 dog, which then attacked protesters. Here's video of the incident:
Tuesday afternoon, Diaz's mother, Genevieve Huizar, filed a $50 million wrongful death suit agains the city. After Tuesday's violence, she called for calmer demonstrations: "Let's be peaceful. Peaceful demonstrations for everyone."
Her lawyer, Dana Douglas, echoed Huizar's sentiment, but added: "The police are arresting people who threw rocks and bottles, but not the officers who killed Manuel Diaz. That's not justice."
According to the LA Times, the FBI is now investigating Diaz's shooting.
The police union defended the shootings, saying both men were gang members with criminal records.
The union also said that just before Diaz turned toward officers during Saturday's confrontation, he pulled an object from his waistband - a common place where gang members hide guns.
"I believe that the independent investigations by the Orange County district attorney's office into both incidents will show no wrongdoing by these officers," said Kerry Condon, the police association's president.
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Ilia Fishbein
- Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2005 – 2015)
- Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2015– present)
Vascular pathology, imaging, atherosclerosis, restenosis, gene therapy, adenovirus, adeno-associated virus, NO, NO synthase, ROS, nanotechnology
In general terms my main research interests are in the field of vascular gene therapy.
My postdoctoral studies explored a strategy of local arterial wall delivery of adenoviral vectors immobilized on the stent surface. Using monomolecular layer of metal-coordinating polymer as a bridging moiety we were able to achieve covalent attachment of adenoviral affinity adapters (either anti-adenoviral antibody, or D1 domain of the native Cocxackie-Adenovirus Receptor; CAR) to metal surfaces. Subsequent reversible vector tethering allows for highly efficient spatially restricted gene transfer in vitro and has shown promising results in rat and pig angioplasty/stenting model, demonstrating significant reporter gene activity in all layers of stented arterial segment.
Lately we investigated an alternative strategy of direct covalent vector tethering to the metal surface via hydrolysable cross-linker, which might be advantageous since it seems to be more robust and versatile in terms of vector type. Presently we are conducting large animal study with therapeutic adenoviral vector (Ad-eNOS) to assess antirestenotic efficacy of gene delivery stents in the pig angioplasty/stenting model.
Additionally we have recently developed a novel strategy for localized delivery of viral and non-viral gene therapy vectors co-formulated with magnetic nanoparticles to stented arteries using uniform magnetic field-induced targeting. The latter approach allows as well a targeted delivery of cells transduced with the abovementioned vectors to stented arteries, facilitating the process of reendothelialization.
Gene delivery from biodegradable stents
Recent advent of drug-eluting metal stents has significantly improved short-term and intermediate outcomes in patients undergoing coronary stenting. However, animal and clinical data shows that long-term efficacy of this new treatment is questionable. Most experts in the field agree that a presence of a stent per se perpetuate chronic foreign body response leading to eventual revascularization failure. To this end, attempts have been made to formulate stent fabricated from biodegradable polymers. Polyesters (e.g. polylactic acid; PLA) possess mechanical properties comparable to metals and thus represent uppermost interest. Fabrication of PLA stents is compatible with either bulk immobilization, or surface tethering of adenoviral vectors via cleavable cross-linker developed in our lab. Therapeutic gene constructs delivered from degradable stent platform might address excessive smooth muscle proliferation, migration and synthetic activity or/and accelerate stent decomposition.
Vascular homing of genetically modified macrophages
Cells of monocyte/macrophage lineage play central role in the initiation of atherosclerotic lesions due to selective homing in the areas of dysfunctional endothelium and vascular inflammation. Likewise, macrophages accumulate in the injured/stented arteries and induce smooth muscle cell activation owing to the secretion of PDGF, bFGF and several other growth factors and cytokines. Strategies directed on temporary elimination or functional impairment of macrophages have been shown to reduce restenosis in animal models.
I would like to exploit intrinsic vasculature homing traits of monocytes to achieve selective cell/gene delivery to evolving atherosclerotic and restenotic lesions. The suggested approach is based on stable genetic modification of autologous monocytes ex vivo with subsequent systemic administration in hypercholesterolemic transgenic Apo E-deficient mice and in rats with injury-induced restenosis. A list of possible genetic modification of monocytes comprises the loss of function interventions inhibiting the synthesis/secretion of growth factors or downregulation of NFkB and TNFa to block inflammatory cascade, or the gain of function gene therapy emphasizing secreted antiproliferative gene products.
Surface modification of adenoviral vectors
Cell types constituting vasculature has relatively low susceptibility to adenoviral infection, primarily because of limited CAR expression. Moreover, duration of transgene expression in the arterial wall does not usually exceed several weeks due to marked immune response elicited by adenoviruses. To address these two problems I recently examined a strategy of adenoviral vector surface modification by polyallylamine-based polymer derivatized with photo-reactive (benzophenone) and thiol-reactive (pyridyl-dithio) groups. Upon 30 sec UV irradiation of the virus/polymer mixture activated benzophenone groups covalently tether polymer to the capsid proteins of virus vector. Thiol-reactive moieties of the virus-conjugated polymer were further derivatized with protein transduction domain peptides, TAT and Antp. The latter were shown to mediate facilitated cellular internalization of liposomes and viruses notwithstanding of specific receptor repertoire. Our first in vitro experiments with TAT/Antp-modified adenoviral vectors have shown more than 100-fold increase in reporter gene transduction in comparison with non-modified vector in the cell line of endothelial origin.
We also predict enhanced in vivo activity of modified vector since surface-bound polymer fibers should create protective layer hindering virus inactivation by neutralizing antibodies, as was previously shown for polyethylene glycol-modified adenovirus.
Lastly, the suggested strategy will allow us to co-modify vector surface with other relevant targeting ligands thus increasing tissue residence of the adenovector and its specificity for the activated endothelium and smooth muscle cells.
- PhD, Pharmaceutical Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Israel (2000)
- MD, University of Saratov; Saratov, Russia (1987)
- Fishbein Ilia, Forbes Scott P, Chorny Michael, Connolly Jeanne M, Adamo Richard F, Corrales Ricardo A, Alferiev Ivan S, Levy Robert J. Adenoviral vector tethering to metal surfaces via hydrolyzable cross-linkers for the modulation of vector release and transduction.. Biomaterials. Vol 34(28) . 2013 Sep:6938-48.
- Forbes, Scott P., Alferiev, Ivan S., Chorny, Michael, Adamo, Richard F., Levy, Robert J., Fishbein, Ilia. Modulation of NO and ROS production by AdiNOS transduced vascular cells through supplementation with L-Arg and BH4: Implications for gene therapy of restenosis. Atherosclerosis. Vol 230(1) . 2013 September:23-32.
- Chorny Michael, Fishbein Ilia, Tengood Jillian E, Adamo Richard F, Alferiev Ivan S, Levy Robert J. Site-specific gene delivery to stented arteries using magnetically guided zinc oleate-based nanoparticles loaded with adenoviral vectors.. FASEB journal. Vol 27(6) . 2013 Jun:2198-206.
- Ma Guilei, Wang Yong, Fishbein Ilia, Yu Mei, Zhang Linhua, Alferiev Ivan S, Yang Jing, Song Cunxian, Levy Robert J. Anchoring of self-assembled plasmid DNA/anti-DNA antibody/cationic lipid micelles on bisphosphonate-modified stent for cardiovascular gene delivery.. International J Nanomedicine. Vol 8. 2013 March:1029-35.
- Chorny Michael, Alferiev Ivan S, Fishbein Ilia, Tengood Jillian E, Folchman-Wagner Zoë, Forbes Scott P, Levy Robert J. Formulation and in vitro characterization of composite biodegradable magnetic nanoparticles for magnetically guided cell delivery.. Pharmaceutical research. Vol 29(5) . 2012 May:1232-41.
- Chorny Michael, Fishbein Ilia, Yellen Benjamin B, Alferiev Ivan S, Bakay Marina, Ganta Srinivas, Adamo Richard, Amiji Mansoor, Friedman Gary, Levy Robert J. Targeting stents with local delivery of paclitaxel-loaded magnetic nanoparticles using uniform fields.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol 107(18) . 2010 May:8346-51.


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RALEIGH � The heat has been turned up on North Carolina's health agency secretary by legislative leaders questioning whether her office can operate the department effectively and pull off Medicaid reform.
Legislators criticized Dr. Aldona Wos and the Department of Health and Human Services during Thursday's meeting of an oversight committee. They're unhappy with delays in getting information about Medicaid spending and unrealized savings in the program.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown of Jacksonville asked Wos why the legislature should have confidence in carrying out the Medicaid reform proposal unveiled last week.
Wos says the agency has made great strides in operating the department since she took over but that they've been waylaid by job vacancies and employee turnover.


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(They just need to be together!!)
The episode starts off and Matthew is back at Downton. He's being pretty mopey, which is understandable-he's just been told he can't walk and won't be able to have children. Mary is taking care of him and he encourages her to marry Sir Richard as he would wish no one would throw their life away on him.
Richard notices Mary as caregiver and suggests to Cora that Lavinia needs to be back in Matthew's life. He proposes that he and Mary visit a nearby house and look into purchasing it as their home once they are married. Richard also has plans to take Carson on to run their new home. Carson agrees to go with Mary which is a hard decision for him as he loves Downton. When Richard returns later with Lavinia, everyone is surprised to see her. Lavinia says she is determined to stay by Matthew's side and she won't give up on him and it was wrong of him to try and scare her away. Richard threatens Mary that she dare not break of her engagement to him and that he now has a way to ruin her if she tried.
Melanie: I was proud of Lavinia for coming back to Downton. She appears to be pretty sure of herself... This time.
Sarah: I was glad to see Lavinia come back and fight for her man. I think she's really sweet, but I really want Matthew and Mary together. Every seen with them is so heartbreaking and it's obvious how much they care for each other!!
Sarah: I am not a fan of Richard-he's mean, conniving, and manipulative. I hate that Mary had to have his help to keep Mrs. Bates from selling her story. Now he can ruin Mary if he wishes. He knows there's something between Matthew and Mary and I think his jealousy is going to end up being very dangerous.I don't trust him I think he's going to be very controlling of Mary and it's going to be a hard relationship to escape. I hope Carson keeps an eye out for Mary and can help her out of this situation!
Melanie: Even though I completely agree with your assessment of Richard, I can't blame him for being jealous. Mary is hovering over Matthew constantly, even telling Matthew that she doesn't have to marry Richard. If I were Richard, I'd be jealous too!
A stranger has arrived at Downton,claiming to have ties to the house. The soldier has the name of Gordon, but the family doesn't know of any relation. The soldier is badly burned and no one recognizes him. He tells Edith that he is indeed their cousin Patrick, who everyone had thought died in the Titanic. He claims he was rescued but suffering from amnesia and sent to Canada. He enlisted as a soldier and only recently recovered the memory of who he really is because of his accident. Edith believes him right away, as she was in love with Patrick years ago. The rest of the family is unsure about his claims, especially Mary, arguing that he could easily make up stories that sound real. Patrick had a friend that they suspect may have taken on Patrick's identity and the family is unsure of what to believe since if the story is true, it will uproot Matthew as heir.
Melanie: Talk about a shocker! What really got me was Edith's reaction. She so desperately wants it to be true. She must have really loved Patrick. When Mary automatically rejected the idea without even talking to the poor guy, I felt sorry for him, even though I ultimately didn't believe his story. After all, she was the one who was engaged to him.
Sarah: This was the part of the episode where my jaw dropped! I had guessed from the preview that the stranger would be some relative, but I never thought it would Patrick! I think I side with Mary on this one though. Poor Edith wants so badly to believe that her old love is back that she would see anything to make it real. I also felt he was fishing a bit for details by asking her the name of their old governess and he memories always seemed very vague. Couldn't he think of something that only the real Patrick would know instead of all the vague stories? And since he is so badly injured that no one can recognize him, it would be easy to pretend.
Mrs. Hughes has been helping Ethel, the former maid, and Carson finds out. He informs Cora and the two discuss a way to get Major Bryant back to Downton for a visit to try and confront him one last time about Ethel and her baby. They receive word that Major Bryant died in the war. Ethel does not take the news well. She was holding out hope that things would work out. She also thinks that it's not fair that Mrs. Hughes hired a new maid, Jane, who has a child and is a war widow, yet Ethel's situation has ruined her.
Melanie: I can understand Ethel's frustration, yet her entitlement attitude kind of ticks me off. I do hope she and the baby find a happy ending, though. She's so young.
Sarah: I hope she gets a good ending, but I think something bad is going to happen with Ethel. I think she's struggling to keep things together and the last scene we saw of her with her crying over her baby, I'm afraid she's going to do something to hurt herself. I'm also still curious about Jane. I don't know why, but I feel like she has some secrets.
Melanie: I don't like Jane, even though I've really been given no reason not to. She just seems a bit too perfect. And as we all know, no one at Downton is flawless.
Sarah: Exactly. I feel like I can't trust anyone and right now she seems too good. I really have nothing to go on either, but I just think there's something up with her.
One night, when the staff is having dinner, Lord Grantham suddenly rushes into the kitchen. Watching everyone jump up, trying to maintain decorum at his unexpected entrance was funny. He quickly apologizes for the interruption, than declares that the war is finally over. Celebrations ensue.
As the war is ended, Cora and Violet are looking forward to Downton going back to the way it was before the war. Isobel is unsure and wants to keep the house open to the soldiers. Violet decides that she will find a new cause for Isobel and talks to her about the war refugees who need her help. Isobel decides to leave Downton and take on a new cause, much to Cora and Violet's relief.
Melanie: The entire reason Isobel left in the first place is because Cora and she were fighting over who was in charge of Downton. When she mentions keeping the house open, she even says that she would take care of everything. I can't blame Cora for wanting to put a stop to that ASAP.
Sarah: The scene with the three of them where Isobel tells them of her new plan is hilarious! I love any scene with Violet, but this was Violet at the top of her game, knowing just how to get what she wants. I understand that they want to have their house back, but at the same time, I felt like Cora and Violet were being a bit selfish.
Melanie: Watching Violet work her magic was as epic as ever. I wonder what will happen to Edith when she can no longer spend her time taking care of the soldiers. Seems like she'll be displaced once again, poor girl.
Sarah: Agreed, poor Edith. That girl always seems so lost and she really found a place first helping out at the farm and then at Downton only to have both of those be taken away. I wonder what will happen to her now.
Sybil is once again off talking to Branson. She asks him if he'll wait for a decision from her. He says he'll wait forever. She says she doesn't need quite that long.
Melanie: I can't wait for next week's episode! Looks like we'll once again be getting some movement in the Branson/Sybil storyline.
Sarah: I know! It's about time-I really want to see something happen with these two.
Matthew thinks he may have felt something in his legs, but only mentions something to Bates and even that he doesn't say much. He keeps it to himself, but there's hope in his face that things may be changing.
Sarah: I think this is a good sign and one of the big cliffhangers that the episode ends on-I can't wait for next week!
Melanie: I can't believe Matthew didn't tell Bates about the feeling in his legs, although I suppose I understand why. It would have sent the house into an uproar. I hope, hope, hope, he regains movement.
Bates receives word that the lawyer would not grant a divorce because Mrs. Bates told him that Bates had paid to end the marriage. He tries to go to London to reason with Mrs. Bates, only to return and tell Anna that the meeting was worse than he had imagined. Later, Bates receives a telegram that Vera has been found dead.
Melanie: My first reaction was that Bates was the killer, but I think that would be too easy of a solution. It's somebody else. It could be someone not even in the show; I'm sure Vera had many enemies.
Sarah: I think Vera Bates was murdered, but there are many suspects as to who. At first, I thought O'Brien, because she's been showing that she feels guilty for her actions lately and she did encourage Mrs. Bates to sell her story. Then I thought maybe it was Bates himself trying to do what he could to be with Anna. Then a co-workers suggested that maybe it was Richard-he did show up late to dinner and Vera could have been going back on her word not to sell the story and he wants to hold it over Mary's head to control her. Or was it Anna-so desperately wanting to be with Bates? So many possibilities-I want to know more!!! I also don't think this is going to make it easier for Anna and Bates, I think it's going to be even harder!
Melanie: I'm starting to doubt if Anna and Bates will ever be together. How long can Anna's patience last, after all. She still has unerring faith in him so far, though, so maybe there's hope.
Sarah: So many cliffhangers to keep us in suspense! What do you think will happen next? Are you as hooked as we are?


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Passive 3D technology may be easy to use when talking about 3D monitors or 3D HDTVs, however building a passive 3D projection system can be quite bothersome and problematic, but they also come with advantages like full resolution per eye. Unlike monitors and television sets that already have a passive polarization filter applied to the display and you only need to put on the 3D glasses with projectors is it much harder to prepare a passive 3D setup. What you will need are two projectors of the same model, two polarizing filters and a silver screen projection screen along with the 3D glasses of course. And then comes the harder part in setting up all of these components together to work properly, attaching the polarizing filters and aligning the two projectors and all this in order to get a system that will work with cheaper passive 3D glasses using circular polarization in order to be able to have multiple viewers without having to buy a lot of expensive active 3D glasses. That is the reason passive 3D projector setups are not as common as active 3D solutions, but that may change as projector manufacturers are thinking about finding solutions that can save time and trouble. One such affordable solution is the recently announced Epson PowerLite W16SK 3D 3LCD Dual Projection System that can save you a lot of time and trouble building and tweaking a passive 3D setup yourself by providing you with a well built and ready to use solution. Originally Epson PowerLite W16SK is targeted for educational use where you'd need 20-30 pairs of glasses for the students and going for an active 3D solution is not a cost effective option in this situation. You of course don't have to use it in a classroom, but also can built a small home cinema room or presentation room with stereo 3D capabilities for more than just a few persons.
Epson PowerLite W16SK 3D 3Dual Projection System Specifications:
– Native Resolution: 1280 x 800 (WXGA)
– Aspect Ratio: Native 16:10, Widescreen
– Pixel Number: 1,024,000 dots (1280 x 800) x 3
– Projection System: 3LCD, 3-chip technology
– Color Reproduction: Full color (16.77 million colors)
– Color Brightness (Color Light Output): 3000 lumens x 2 projectors, 2400 lumens in economy mode
– White Brightness (White Light Output): 3000 lumens x 2 projectors, 2400 lumens in economy mode
– Contrast Ratio: Up to 5000:1 (Stack 3D)
– Lamp Type: 200 W UHE (E-TORL)
– Lamp Life: Up to 5000 hours in ECO mode, Up to 4000 hours in Normal mode
– Throw Ratio Range: 1.42 – 1.56
– Size (projected distance) for stacked configuration: 80″ – 150″ (8.2′ – 15.4′) for White screen (2D mode), 80″ – 120″ (8.2′ – 12.5′) for Silver screen (for 3D mode)
– Passive 3D Stack Function: Yes
– 3D Format: Auto / Side-by-Side / Top & Bottom / 2D / Frame Packing
– Power Consumption: 237W in ECO mode, 289W in Normal mode
– Fan Noise: 32 dB in ECO mode, 39 dB in Normal mode
– Dual Stacked Dimensions: 14.6″x13.8″x8.8″ or 372x350x224mm (W x D x H)
– Dual Stacked Weight: 17.4 lb or 7.9 kg (includes mount and polarizing filters)
With passive 3D projection setups that use 2 projectors you don't actually need to use 3D-capable projectors, cheaper 2D models should do just fine, but Epson has decided to base their PowerLite W16SK 3D 3LCD Dual Projection System on an active 3D-capable projector, namely PowerLite W16 using RF 3D glasses. And if you are thinking about 120Hz support per eye in 3D mode you can forget about it the projectors being used here are relying on HDMI 1.4 interface for the stereoscopic 3D support and are not frame sequential capable, so you get no 120Hz support. On the other hand this makes it possible to easily have support for the stereoscopic 3D content as you can send either Side by Side, Over/Under or frame packaged format to the projector. The HDMI 1.4 stereo 3D support allows greater hardware compatibility even for gaming purposes should you consider playing games as well as watching 3D movies and other uses. The dual projector passive 3D setup uses single HDMI 1.4 output that needs to go to both projectors and they are connected with a USB cable that ensures proper synchronization for the left and right images. The two projectors are with native resolution of 1280×800 pixels, but according to Epson they can work with in 720p 3D mode or 1080p 3D mode where the input image would obviously be compressed to the lower resolution of the projector. What Epson has done with the their PowerLite W16SK 3D 3LCD Dual Projection System is to save you the trouble of figuring a good way to attach the projectors properly and fit the polarization filters , this comes factory preset done in a good way, so all you need is to insert the setup and do some image adjustments.
The price of the Epson PowerLite W16SK passive 3D projection setup is $1899 USD and that only includes a single pair of passive 3D glasses, but more of these can be obtained at a very good price. What you need to consider is the fact that you will also need a silver screen to project on in order for the light to be reflected back to the viewer with the same polarization as the one it is being projected with. According to Epson their 3D setup is useable for projection on screens with a diagonal of up to 120 inches, so you should plan a silver screen with up to that size. Epson also recommends a silver screen with a gain of 2.3 – 2.7, so you will have to plan a few hundred extra bucks for the projection screen, but in the end the cost of such a setup will still be more affordable than going for an active 3D projector setup if you have to buy something like 10 or more pairs of glasses. So Epson's approach gives an interesting alternative and an option to easily build a passive 3 projection setup as opposed to an active 3D one and aside from the 3D support, their solution can also be used for combining the two projectors' brightness for increased total level of brightness when in 2D mode. And should you need to you can always detach the projectors and use them separately including in 3D mode, but with active 3D glasses instead of passive, so definitely a versatile and quite flexible solution. So if you are considering building a passive 3D projection setup you should have i mind this new offering from Epson as a good option, unlike of course you have some kind of extra needs not covered by this like for example support for native Full HD resolution, 120Hz refresh rate and so on.
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SOUTH FLORIDA - A swarm of Africanized bees went on the attack, killing two family pets while their pregnant owner stood by helplessly.
"The nest was like inside the fence on the other side," said Lauri Deane. "I let both of the dogs out back here."
Deane is traumatized by what happened next. In just moments, the bees attacked her dogs.
"Five minutes later, I heard both of them crying at the door," she said.
"I saw both dogs just covered in what looked like hundreds of bees, maybe thousands," she said.
Deane, who is seven months pregnant, wanted to save her pets, but it was too dangerous for her to go outside.
Her teacup Yorkie, Roxie, didn't make it.
"I took her right to the vet, but she was too little and she was stung too many times," she said.
DJ, her yellow Labrador was able to hang on a little longer. We met the lovable Lab on Tuesday.
"The vet said that our Lab probably got stung 300 to 400 times. He's in liver failure now and the doctor did say that he's in septic shock so, he's in pretty bad shape," Deane told Local 10 on Tuesday.
Sadly, DJ died just hours later.
"The exterminator just said that he's taken out many of these Africanized honey bees, many of the nests in this area," Deane said.
As sad as she is about losing her dogs, Deane and her neighbors all say it could have been much worse had the dogs attacked Deane and her unborn child.
They are now cautioning other residents in South Florida to aware of the danger these bees can pose.
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Voting is a good example of the kind of large-scale cooperation among non-relatives that makes our species so unusual a member of the animal kingdom. In their new book Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation, Lee Cronk and Beth Leech explain that cooperation is stymied by two things: coordination problems and collective action dilemmas. In their previous post on this blog, they explained how ballots solve a coordination problem by allowing people to cast their votes strategically, i.e., for candidates who may not be their first choices but who have some chance of attracting enough votes to win. In this post, they take a look at voting as a collective action dilemma: Why do we vote when our chance of having an individual impact is so small?
Why Bother to Vote?
Lee Cronk and Beth L. Leech
On Tuesday, well over 100 million Americans will go to the polls to vote (or will have voted already through early voting options). They will do so despite the fact that voting takes time, effort, and preparation. They will need to figure out where their polling place is. They will need to find time before or after work or while the kids are at school to travel to that place. They may have trouble finding parking. They may have to stand in line. And they may worry whether they know enough about issues and whether they are making the right choice.
Each voter goes to this effort despite the fact that the chance that his or her vote will affect the outcome of the presidential election is infinitesimally small. One scholarly estimate puts the chance that a given vote, even in a battleground state, will change the course of an election at 1 in 10 million. Why, then, does anyone actually bother to vote?
Collective action dilemmas arise whenever everyone in a group would like some public good to be produced while also preferring that others in the group do the work to produce it. The problem becomes worse whenever the group becomes large and whenever the impact of each individual contribution is low. Voting in a large, democratic society thus should pose a collective action dilemma in the extreme. The "paradox of voting," as described by political scientist Anthony Downs more than a half century ago, asks why voting does not pose more of a collective action problem than it does. Clearly the costs exceed the benefits for the individual voter, and clearly the individual has little impact on the election outcome. And yet, if no one voted, democracy would collapse.
Fortunately for democracy, many people tend to overestimate their own efficacy. One well-known study documenting this tendency comes from political scientist Terry Moe, who found that members of the economic organizations he surveyed tended to overestimate the extent to which their own dues and other contributions would help the organizations achieve their goals.
Why do people tend to overestimate their own efficacy? One possible evolutionary explanation of this finding begins with the simple observation that most people are not particularly good at understanding large numbers. Why would they be? Although the modern world may force us to deal with large numbers every day, for our ancestors, who lived in small groups and had no money, small numbers were the order of the day. Even today, many languages have counting systems that amount to nothing more than "one," "two," and "many." Thus, even something as commonplace and essential to today's society as voting may rely upon the difficulty we have with large numbers and our resulting tendency to overestimate the impact that our vote will have on an election's outcome.
Another possible reason why we tend to overestimate our individual efficacy arises from an evolutionary insight regarding the way we make mistakes. Ideally, natural selection would have designed our minds with the ability always to make the right decision, accurately weighing the costs and benefits of our different options. In reality, we make errors, and those errors come with costs. If the cost of making one kind of error is much larger than that of making another kind, selection pressure on how we make that kind of decision will be asymmetrical. A tendency to make more of one kind of relatively low-cost kind of error rather than more of a relatively high-cost kind may be a design feature, not a flaw, of the human mind. This is the idea behind error management theory, developed by evolutionary psychologist Martie Haselton and her colleagues. Another evolutionary psychologist, Randy Nesse, explains the idea with an analogy to smoke detectors. You might like to buy a smoke detector that only goes off when there is a true emergency and not simply when you are making toast, but in reality such a perfect smoke detector is impossible to design. Given a choice between a smoke detector that sometimes goes off when there is no real threat of a fire and one that sometimes fails to go off when there is a real threat of one, which would you choose?
Applying this idea to Moe's observation, it may be that the error of contributing to a public good and having that contribution not bear fruit is often a small price to pay compared to the error of failing to help create a public good from which one would have benefitted greatly. Given that our ancestors lived in small groups, this could easily have pushed our psychology in the direction of erring on the side of participation by overestimating the degree to which our contributions really matter to the success of the collective action. Thus, an additional reason why we vote may be that the cost of voting is so small that it is worth paying on the off chance that one's vote will actually make a difference. Something to keep in mind on November 6.
Lee Cronk is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior. Beth L. Leech is associate professor of political science at Rutgers University. She is the coauthor of Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science (Princeton).


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NEW YORK (AP) -- George Goodman, a journalist, business author and award-winning television host who, under the pseudonym "Adam Smith," made economics accessible to millions of people, died Friday at age 83.
Goodman's son, Mark Goodman, said his father died at died at the University of Miami Hospital after a long battle with the bone marrow disorder myelofibrosis.
Starting in the 1950s, the elder Goodman had a long, diverse and accomplished career, whether as a founder of New York Magazine, as a best-selling business author or as the host of Adam Smith's Money World.
He prided himself on making arcane debates among economists and business leaders understandable, often using an anecdotal or irreverent approach to explain a complicated issue. He has been credited with coining the mocking catchphrase, "Assume a can opener," as a parody of academic jargon.
"I have always believed that if you dramatize a story, you can make it comprehensible while at the same time maintaining a relatively high level of sophistication," he once said.
Adam Smith's Money World was a multiple Emmy winner that aired on PBS stations from1984-1996. He was also an executive editor at Esquire, a member of The New York Times editorial board and a commentator for NBC television.
Before his success in the business world, Goodman had written novels and worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. He helped adapt his own book, The Wheeler Dealers, into a movie of the same name starring Lee Remick and James Garner.
Smith's first business book, The Money Game, was among the top sellers of 1968 and is still praised as an invaluable guide for investors. It was also his first work as "Adam Smith." Founding New York Magazine editor Clay Felker had persuaded him to name himself after the 18th century economist. His other books included Powers of Mind and Paper Money, published in 1981.
"Where some authors exploit the paranoia over paper money, warning of horrible crashes and galloping inflation to come, Adam Smith strives for sanity," Leonard Silk wrote of Paper Money in a review for The New York Times. "And where some writers urge people to look out for Number One and to be prepared to head for the hills with their gold coins, silver futures, cans of beans and weapons to keep out the neighbors, Adam Smith counsels the revival of a sense of community."
Goodman grew up outside St. Louis and graduated from Harvard University in 1952. He was later a Rhodes Scholar and a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, later known as the Green Berets.
He is survived by two children and three grandchildren. His wife, actress Sally Brophy, died in 2007.


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SNOW HILL – Summerfield developer Mark Odachowski's bid to begin building houses before bonding Snow Hill's new wastewater plant might be successful if the overwhelmingly positive reaction of speakers at a public hearing this week is any indication.
Odachowski asked the crowd at Snow Hill High School Tuesday night to support his request to modify the annexation agreement for the Summerfield land to allow him to begin building 300 houses and put off the sewer plant bond.
The Snow Hill Mayor and Council will consider the request at its Dec. 11 meeting, and could have another public hearing before then.
The developer does not have the capital to raise the bond money now with the housing market in a downswing. Odachowski attempted to downplay the financial dilemma, saying the economy is not the primary issue underlying his request, and that he is confident the housing market will return. He wants to build those houses, Odachowski said, because Snow Hill needs to grow and be revitalized.
Spray irrigation field testing will take some time, delaying the wastewater project a year or even two, he said.
"I'm looking for direction," Odachowski said. "One way or another Summerfield is happening."
Those 300 homes would need 300 units of wastewater. Under some calculations, the town's aged wastewater plant has those EDUs, which the developer would pay for.
The majority of the hearing's capacity crowd came out strongly in Odachowski's favor, citing his willingness to meet the town's requests, the Odachowski brothers' generosity to the town and the business they have already brought in by moving their Royal Plus Inc. headquarters to Snow Hill.
"We don't want piecemeal development," said Ann Coates, president of SHARP (Snow Hill Alliance for Responsible Progress). "I'd much rather put my eggs in the basket with him."
"We need to keep our tax rates down and continue to grow," said resident Randy Epp. "I'm behind it 100 percent."
Jane Moore, an employee of Royal Plus, urged Snow Hill's elected officials to agree to the change.
"Jobs can be created. Affordable housing can be available. I'm asking you to grant those EDUs," she said.
Resident Carl Milburn also supported it, saying, "We need to keep our money here. We need jobs. I want a job. I want to build my own house."
Family Service Center owner Mark Nixon said the growth associated with this project is critical.
"Bottom line is we need the growth. It's the only thing that's going to keep us going in town," said Nixon.
Gary Weber, a real estate agent, has doubts about the housing market. One development in Snow Hill, Morgan's Purchase, has been on the market but made little progress.
"They have had properties for sale for three years now and they've sold eight," Weber said.
Weber, who unsuccessfully ran for County Commissioner one year ago, challenged the town council to explore other avenues in tandem with Odachowski.
"Let's be a partner and let's not sit back and wait for a developer to come in and pay for our services," he said.
Charles Colburn questioned what has changed with this project.
"I voted that this man would have a bond before he started," he said. "Take this before a referendum to the people of Snow Hill and see if they really want to continue with the annexation as it really was or if they want to amend it."
County resident Jeff Bacon said Odachowski has not kept his promise.
"That was the promise he made to the citizens of Snow Hill, that he would build the plant before he built a single house," Bacon said. "If you give him a little bit of time, the time will come when he asks for a little bit more time and then he'll ask for more concessions."
The town turned down federal funds to upgrade the sewer plant, Bacon said, and if Odachowski is allowed to put off the new sewer plant, the state will force the town to do it.
"That's going to make every citizen in town pay that bill," said Bacon, who lives outside town limits.
Former County Commissioner candidate Dennis Klingenberg said Odachowski has not said when the wastewater plant would be back on his radar.
"How much longer are you going to continue to pollute the river with that old treatment plant?" asked Klingenberg, who also lives outside town limits. "Time is ticking on that current discharge permit. You're not going to get a free pass forever."
Harold Scrimgeour, another former candidate for commissioner, warned that it could take years for Odachowski to use up those 300 EDUs and that the town needed some way to assure the funds are there to build the new plant, such as increasing hook up fees.
Less than 10 new EDUs have hooked up in Snow Hill every year for the last several.
"At that rate, expect your new sewer plant in 30 years," said Melissa Bacon.
"Time is of the essence," said Kevin Douglas. "What we need here in Snow Hill is a wastewater treatment plant."
Douglas questioned some of Odachowski's assertions, but got no reply.
"What businesses are you building to provide jobs besides what we already have? What will be the cost of the [most] affordable house?" Douglas asked. "I think the best idea is to bring this to a referendum."


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