Why Appropriate Dallas Foundation Inspection is Essential for Homes

Foundations are highly critical towards the overall integrity of homes and buildings. Cracked foundation is definitely a signal of impending collapse, especially, in case of causing disrupts on grounds due to earthquake. Hence, appropriate Dallas Foundation Inspection after every few years is highly essential for homeowners. The reason for this is that re-leveled and repaired foundations before putting any property on market may result in causing significant increase in the overall value of properties. Home inspectors also work for assessment of properties before they go for some potential purchases.

However, home inspectors may also perform some routine inspections, on regular basis, so that they can ensure that your homes do not cause any major damages. Foundation is actually one of the critical components of our home. However, there are things, about which homeowners should have to look with respect to their foundations. These include cracks in slabs, cracks in foundation, damages in floors, bulging and potentiality towards water damage due to lack of water spouts, gutters and lawns.

After this, inspectors should also seek some missing elements, which may weaken structural integrity of any of the foundations. These incorporate missing piers and missing posts. In the next step, you should be well-aware of landscape, which surrounds your property or home. Here, you should have to go for finding out whether your property sits over the slope or not. Now, you should have to identity that is your home is located across any rocky area. Other than this, you should have to ensure that your property should never locate over or across any faulty line.

Lastly, you should have to ensure that your dream home never located near any river, which incorporates potential towards flood. After assessment of each of the risk factors associated with location of property, inspector has to determine about the type of foundation of homes. This implies that inspector has to determine that whether the foundation requires some repairing process or it is sound. Thus, in this way, Dallas foundation inspection can help homeowners in appropriate inspection of foundation in homes. For further details, you may refer several websites related with foundation inspection companies in Dallas.

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Jennifer Lawrence to announce Oscar nominations (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Jennifer Lawrence will help announce this year's Academy Awards nominees.

The 21-year-old actress will join Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak at the nominations announcement on Jan. 24.

Lawrence earned her first Oscar nomination last year for "Winter's Bone." She stars in the anticipated adaptation of "The Hunger Games," set for release in March.

Sherak and Lawrence will announce 10 of Oscar's 24 categories at the early-morning press conference.

The 84th annual Academy Awards will be presented on Feb. 26.

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M. Basketball. Clemson vs. Florida State Postgame Coaches' Quotes

Jan. 7, 2012

Recap?|? Box Score?|? Photo Gallery?

Clemson Head Coach Brad Brownell

Overall thoughts:
"It was a great win for our guys. I thought we were really ready to play. I was quietly optimistic. I thought we had a great week of practice. Our players were locked in and really focused, and we competed hard. I thought the second half of East Tennessee State put our guys in good spirits. We made a lot of tough plays today. We made 11 straight stops in the first half and we were able to score off of a bunch of those. Then we did a really good job of just keeping them at bay. It's really hard, when you have a lead like that, to keep it at a point where you can relax a little bit. Our guys did a good job of hanging in there, finishing plays, and making free throws. We got contributions from a lot of guys."

On how his team's early run affected the game:
"Games change, and games are different. Certainly, when we jumped out, it changed a little bit of the way Florida State had to play. They had to come out and try to get into us, and it opened the court for us to be able to drive the ball more. That's one of the reasons why we had so many free throws. We were in a situation where we could attack. I'm certainly unbelievably proud of how hard our guys competed and the way they defended at a very high level today. Florida State is the kind of team that crashes the board so much that you know if you can get a defensive rebound, you have a chance to go attack them. They are hard to keep off the glass. They got a bunch of offensive rebounds, but we also got a few layups."

On Andre Young's ability to get to the free throw line:
"Part of it is the way the game was played and the way they defended. It shows his improvement as a player, though, to be able to put the ball on the floor and create more. That's not something that he's done as much throughout his career. We worked really hard with him this spring, and he did a great job this spring and summer working on his skills. That has helped him attack the basket."

On the play of Catalin Baciu, particularly in the first half:
"He's a big kid. When he's comfortable and when he's locked in, he can be a problem for people, especially when we've got them spread out a little bit. I thought our guys did a phenomenal job of leading him to baskets. He's holding the guy off, but our guys are passing it to him where all he has to do is turn and hook it in quickly. We had a couple of guys make feeds to him where that was all he really had to do. I thought they did a good job of really finding him."

On how this team compares to last year's group:
"We're not where we were last year. We played a very good game today, but we're not where we were last year right now. We've got a lot more things that we have to do better. But I do think our team is improving. I thought Hawaii was good for us to get some freshmen some time to play. They didn't all play very well at times, and I reminded them that we didn't win very much in Hawaii. So they didn't play very much against East Tennessee. That was part of a teaching moment for me with those guys. But I also told them that we can't survive the ACC playing six guys, so they're going to have to play and earn their time in practice. This week, they practiced much better. We got their focus back, and they were much more competitive in practice. That's what they have to do. They have to help us. I've been talking all year about how we don't have a home run hitter. We don't have a guy that we can pencil in 18 points for. But we have a lot of guys that, if they play well, we can do good things. But we've had a hard time having multiple players play well, especially offensively, on a given night. Today, we did."

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Florida State Head Coach Leonard Hamilton

Overall Thoughts:
"That was one of our worst games. It just wasn't a well-played game. I didn't see that coming because we had had a good week of practice. We played with an extreme amount of energy the other night against Auburn, and we didn't bring that type of energy tonight. We had about seven open looks that we only made one of. That was disappointing. They went on that run in the first half and we just couldn't dig ourselves out of that hole. This was uncharacteristic focus for our team. We're usually able to bounce back and go on a run and get back in it, but we just didn't give that kind energy tonight."

On scoreless drought in the first half:
"That's been the norm for this team. We've been on a lot of runs this year where we haven't been able to score, even though we've gotten good shots up. We evaluate all the film and the guys work hard in practice and are focused, but sometimes we can't translate that effort onto the court in a game. We need to fix that, fast."

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Community rallies to keep author at bay

A book signing scheduled for Monday at Leath Memorial Library in Rockingham, featuring a book of poetry written by author Joanna Catherine Scott, in collaboration with a convicted murderer, stirred up an emotional outcry from the community this week.

Her co-author had killed two Richmond County men 20 years ago.

Complaints from the community to the library, which had agreed to host Scott, letters to the editor of the Daily Journal and outraged reader comments on the newspaper?s website seemed to unite many in the county with the same thought ? Scott is not welcome to promote her book here.

In the end, the library postponed the author?s visit.

She was set to promote her new book ?An Innocent in the House of the Dead,? a collaboration with former death row inmate John Lee Conaway.

Conaway was charged with the 1991 offenses of murder in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree, robbery with a dangerous weapon and larceny.

In the case of the State of North Carolina v. John Lee Conaway, the jury returned verdicts finding Conaway guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of Paul DeWitt Callahan and Thomas Amos Weatherford, on the theory of premeditation and deliberation, according to court records.

?My son was just 21 years old, and left behind a baby when his life was taken,? said Gabriel Helms, Weatherford?s mother. ?All (Scott) is trying to do is sell a book, and she has no right to do that here.?

According to court records, on the evening of Aug. 22, 1991, Thomas Amos Weatherford and Paul DeWitt Callahan were in the Pantry store located on Highway 177 South in Hamlet, North Carolina. Weatherford was working as the night-shift clerk. Callahan, his roommate, had driven Weatherford to work at 11 p.m. and stayed at the store with him for several hours that night.

Records show that Conaway was in Richmond County in violation of his Maryland parole, and that he was in possession of a handgun stolen from his grandmother?s purse.

It was reported that sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 1:45 a.m. on Aug. 23, 1991, Conaway entered the Pantry, stole $78 from the cash register and kidnapped Weatherford and Callahan at gunpoint.

After Conaway passed the former Coca-Cola plant on Highway 74, east of Hamlet, he stopped the car on the side of the road in an isolated area and ordered the pair to get out of the car.

The state?s evidence tended to show that after getting out of the car, Conaway walked the victims 87 feet into the woods. He ordered the victims to get on their knees, and he shot each of them one time at point-blank range in the back of the head, records show.

When Conaway returned to the car, he told the other three passengers that he had made the two men get on their knees and shot them both in the back of the head. He also told the other men that after he shot the first man, the second victim begged for his life before he killed him, records show.

The three passengers, Kelly Harrington, Michael McKinnon and Kevin ?Keith? Scott, testified to those events during trial, according to court records.

?It was such a heartless thing, he could have just taken the car,? said Helms. ?He wasn?t satisfied with that, he had to kill them for just a few dollars.?

On Aug. 25, 1991, Conaway was arrested in Cambridge, Maryland, in possession of a .25 caliber handgun, which he later admitted was stolen from his grandmother.

Four days later, Army Sergeant Daniel Poe was flying his ultralight plane near Hamlet looking for his lost dog. He noticed something white on the ground, took a closer look and saw the victims? bodies. He landed the ultralight and called the police.

Conaway spent 16 years on death row, before a federal court granted him a writ of habeas corpus, and he is currently seeking a new lawyer who will help him ?prove his innocence,? according to Scott, who lives in Chapel Hill.

?John was granted a writ of habeas corpus by the federal court on grounds of jury bias ? the double first cousin of one of his accusers was on the jury ? and is waiting for the resolution of his case,? Scott states on her website.

Scott claims to have befriended, and legally adopted the inmate, after visiting him in prison. On her website, she states that ?(Conaway?s) story has opened my eyes to the plight of the poor black man entangled on our so-called justice system.?

In a previous interview with the Daily Journal, Scott described Conaway as ?lovely,? and stated that ?John was brought up as a sad, beaten and abandoned child.?

?I don?t care about (Conaway?s) life story,? said Helms. ?(Scott) can go to prison to visit him, but the closest I can get to my son is getting on my knees at the cemetery.?

Upon learning of the author?s intentions to promote her book in Rockingham, family, friends and community members joined together in an effort to halt the event.

Cries went out on the Daily Journal?s website and Facebook to unite, and stop the book signing. Some claimed to be seeking permits to demonstrate, while others made calls to the Daily Journal and Leath Memorial Library voicing their concerns.

The library issued a statement on Thursday that the book signing had been postponed because, ?While the author did disclose the topic of her poetry was a man on death row, the author did not say that the victims of the subject of her poetry were from Richmond County. We want to be respectful of the interest of all Richmond County citizens.?

?I appreciate our family?s friends and other people in the community going online and calling the library to get this thing called off,? said Robert Callahan, brother of Paul Callahan. ?That really means a lot that people cared so much.?

Lisa England, of Rockingham, was one such concerned community member.

?I stopped by the library to personally voice a complaint,? said England. ?I called the Daily Journal, I called Central Prison and I faxed a letter to Gov. Bev Perdue. I made copies of the articles and sent them to her office. What about the victims? Central Prison might be fine with all this going on with one of its inmates, but I am not OK with any of this.?

England said that as a community member, she felt terrible for the families of the victims dealing with the author?s potential visit, and the content of her work. She went on to say that, as a former correctional officer, she was outraged that Conaway was even allowed to participate in writing a book.

?I found out in the Daily Journal that the event has been postponed, and I?m so glad,? said England. ?I don?t know why she was even thinking of coming here.?

Scott could not be reached for immediate comment, but posted this statement on her website regarding the event, all in red capital letters:

?THIS READING WAS CANCELLED. RICHMOND COUNTY SHUT ME DOWN. THE LOCAL PAPER PRINTED HATE MAIL AND I GOT THE FIRST HATE MAIL I HAVE EVER HAD. THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS UPSET TO SAY THE LEAST. I?VE NEVER CAUSED A RIOT BEFORE, ESPECIALLY ABOUT POETRY. SO MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH IN DOWN HOME USA.?

? Staff Writer Kelli Easterling can be reached at 910-997-3111, ext. 18, or by email at keasterling@heartlandpublications.com.

Source: http://yourdailyjournal.com/bookmark/17014126

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First Sprint LTE Smartphone is Samsung Galaxy Nexus with 1.5-GHz, According to Leaked Ad

In addition to announcing its first five LTE markets and pegging new devices with the new 4G standard for arrival in the second half of the year, Sprint also made news with plans to release the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone with LTE as well.?

The details were revealed through an advertisement posted at Cnet.com yesterday, according to Engadget. The promo touted the Galaxy Nexus as ?the first 4G LTE phone for Sprint?. It also mentioned that the phone will have a 1.5-GHz processor. That?s a faster CPU than the version of the device currently sold exclusively by Verizon Wireless.

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US envoy visits China after Kim Jong Il's death (AP)

BEIJING ? China and the United States will maintain "very close contact" concerning developments in North Korea following the death of leader Kim Jong Il, a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.

Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is the highest level U.S. official to visit the region since Kim's death last month raised new concerns about poor, nuclear-equipped North Korea's stability and U.S.-North Korean talks that were disrupted just as they were making headway.

His comments followed four hours of talks with Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai and other senior Chinese officials and scholars on issues including a possible resumption of talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament and deliveries of U.S. food aid to the hunger-stricken nation.

"I think the United States and China share a strong determination to maintain peace and stability," Campbell told reporters at Beijing's airport ahead of a flight to South Korea.

"I think we both underscored how important it will be over the course of the coming months to maintain very close contact between Washington and Beijing, and I indicated that we would be closely monitoring the situation there and that we urged all parties to cautiously deal with the situation and to refrain from any provocations," he said.

China is North Korea's most important diplomatic ally and provides important economic assistance to the country. It has frequently been called on by the U.S. and others to use its influence to moderate North Korean behavior.

Following Kim's death, and with a leadership transition to his son Kim Jong Un under way, senior Chinese officials have urged Washington not to take any actions that might provoke or destabilize Pyongyang.

In the past two years, tensions spiraled in the region as North Korea conducted a nuclear test and shelled a South Korean island, among other provocations. With tensions easing slightly, Washington and Pyongyang have held quiet negotiations and were nearing an agreement to resume U.S. food aid when Kim died on Dec. 17.

That agreement was seen as a first step toward restarting the stalled six-nation disarmament talks, which also include China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. But Pyongyang has cast doubt over whether those negotiations will be quickly restored. Its powerful National Defense Commission released a hardline statement last week saying North Korea would never deal with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

Campbell, who said his visit to China had been planned before Kim's death, also discussed the Obama administration's warming relations with Myanmar, which has relied heavily on Chinese trade, investment and diplomatic support.

He said they also discussed Chinese allies Pakistan and Iran, as well as Taiwan's upcoming presidential election and a visit to the U.S. this year by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at a "time of mutual convenience."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120104/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us

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Video: GOP: Iowa & Gauging the Granite State

Chuck Todd, NBC News has the latest details on the Iowa shake-up of the GOP field, and discussing the differences between the candidates, with Jen Psaki, fmr. White House deputy comm. dir.; Phil Musser, fmr. Romney 2008 campaign advisor; and Sara Fagen...

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