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The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health has issued a boil water advisory that is effective until further notice.

"Due to the statewide power outages, any area that had low water pressure, no water service or cloudy water is being placed on a boil water advisory," DHHR Office of Environmental Health Services Director Barbara Taylor said in a news release.

The advisory will remain in effect until the water service issues a notice lifting the advisory.

"Any section of an affected service area will be on a precautionary Boil Water Advisory until the water provider issues a notice that the advisory is lifted," Taylor said in the news release.

While the advisory is in effect, consumers are advised to boil their drinking water to a full rolling boil for at least one minute prior to drinking, using for cooking, or hygienic purposes such as hand washing, bathing or teeth brushing.

More details about water safety is available atwww.wvdhhr.org/oehs.

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Sisters Keelin, Sarah and Brooke wash and dry their own clothes daily instead of using the dryer. Picture: Bianca De Marchi, Source: The Advertiser

HOUSEHOLDERS are switching power and gas providers at their highest rate in five years.

Figures provided by the state's energy regulator, the Essential Services Commission of South Australia, show at the current rate, almost one-in-five power and gas customers will change their retailer during the next year - the highest activity levels since October 2007.

Consumer advocate One Big Switch and The Advertiser have highlighted the dissatisfaction with the power companies by signing up about 92,000 Australians as part of its campaign for cheaper electricity before the carbon tax was introduced yesterday.

With average power bills rising 4.6 per cent because of the tax, and a total of 18 per cent because of power generation costs, welfare groups have heightened their concerns that cost of living pressures may be pushing the most vulnerable too far.

The majority of the 18 per cent hike in network prices is due to the increased payments made by ETSA for energy exported by rooftop generators, under the State Government's feed-in tariff scheme. It has led to a significant increase in the uptake of solar panels in SA and the cost of the scheme is effectively met by all electricity customers through higher network prices.

The scheme led to an increase in the average household energy bill of about $6 in 2011/12 compared to $110 in 2012/13.

Uniting Communities manager of advocacy Mark Henley said while the tax would add to cost burdens at least South Australians were receiving compensation for it. His main concern was the escalating hits to the hip pockets of low-income earners through other cost of living pressures.

Energy Ombudsman Sandy Canale said users should carefully check their accounts and if they have concerns contact their energy retailer for assistance.

Northgate mum-of-three Rachel Thamm said she had mixed feelings about the carbon tax. "It is concerning that prices are going up but we feel it is also important to be doing something to protect the environment for the future," she said.

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Raphael Talisman/ For The Gazette Parts the roof of the Park Tanglewood Apartments in Riverdale Park were blown away by the intense storm on Friday evening.

This story was updated at 1:50 p.m. July 1.

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Several thousand residents were still without power Sunday, as temperatures were forecast to reach close to 100 degrees, after a wide line of fast-moving, ferocious thunderstorms swept the region late Friday night.

The storms left one dead in Montgomery County, initially left more than a million without power and forced mandatory restrictions on water use.

However, water restrictions imposed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission after the storms knocked out power at two water treatment plants were lifted around noon on Sunday. The WSSC had issued a rare order that prohibited car washing, lawn watering and other non-essential uses.

Pepco reported about 92,000 customers without power in Prince Georges County and about 188,500 customers in Montgomery County without power at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday. A spokeswoman said it could take days for service to be restored and emergency crews cautioned people to stay away from downed lines.

On Sunday morning, Pepco reported having restored power to all high-voltage transmission lines, substations and water pumping plants.

BG&E listed more than 5,200 customers without power in Montgomery and more than 43,000 in Prince Georges as of 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Potomac Edisons website lists more than 5,700 Montgomery customers and more than 4,600 Frederick customers without power as of about 10 a.m. Sunday.

WMATA spokeswoman Cathy Asato said Metro rail and bus service is running, but will be slow due to routes being blocked by debris.

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Sisters Keelin, Sarah and Brooke wash and dry their own clothes daily instead of using the dryer. Picture: Bianca De Marchi, Source: The Advertiser

HOUSEHOLDERS are switching power and gas providers at their highest rate in five years.

Figures provided by the state's energy regulator, the Essential Services Commission of South Australia, show at the current rate, almost one-in-five power and gas customers will change their retailer during the next year - the highest activity levels since October 2007.

Consumer advocate One Big Switch and The Advertiser have highlighted the dissatisfaction with the power companies by signing up about 92,000 Australians as part of its campaign for cheaper electricity before the carbon tax was introduced yesterday.

With average power bills rising 4.6 per cent because of the tax, and a total of 18 per cent because of power generation costs, welfare groups have heightened their concerns that cost of living pressures may be pushing the most vulnerable too far.

The majority of the 18 per cent hike in network prices is due to the increased payments made by ETSA for energy exported by rooftop generators, under the State Government's feed-in tariff scheme. It has led to a significant increase in the uptake of solar panels in SA and the cost of the scheme is effectively met by all electricity customers through higher network prices.

The scheme led to an increase in the average household energy bill of about $6 in 2011/12 compared to $110 in 2012/13.

Uniting Communities manager of advocacy Mark Henley said while the tax would add to cost burdens at least South Australians were receiving compensation for it. His main concern was the escalating hits to the hip pockets of low-income earners through other cost of living pressures.

Energy Ombudsman Sandy Canale said users should carefully check their accounts and if they have concerns contact their energy retailer for assistance.

Northgate mum-of-three Rachel Thamm said she had mixed feelings about the carbon tax. "It is concerning that prices are going up but we feel it is also important to be doing something to protect the environment for the future," she said.

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6/28/2012 - West Side Leader

The professional power-washing company has been in business for 12 years, according to its president, Michael Palubiak.

We are the largest business in the state and country that caters to residential customers, Palubiak said. Were trained by the Power Washers of North America. All my guys have training on how to clean all these surfaces properly, safely and efficiently. We do thousands of homes a season as a professional outfit that is well-trained in a fraction of the time it would take for you to do it yourself and at a fraction of the cost.

The business offers several services, the most popular being pressure washing of houses.

We do a double application of biodegradable cleanser, Palubiak said. That cleanser not only lifts and removes dirt, [but] it kills any living organism that can be growing on the home. We do a soft brush scrub and double fresh water rinse to rinse everything. Also, our cleanser has an additive to help protect siding from contaminants.

Cleaning a homes exterior can help prolong the life of the siding, Palubiak said, as well as improve its appearance.

Perfect Power Wash also provides low-pressure roof cleaning. Palubiak said this process can help remove gloeocapsa magma, an algae that has become more common in the Northeast Ohio region in recent years.

Its attracted to the shingle roofing that construction people use because there is limestone in the shingles, he said. This algae actually feeds on the limestone. It makes premature wear and tear and looks very unsightly.

The companys crew very gently applies an algaecide to the shingles in two applications first to kill the algae and a second to make sure its 100 percent gone, Palubiak said.

Additionally, Perfect Power Wash provides gutter scrubbing to remove black streaks, concrete cleaning and sealing as well as cleaning of wood or composite deck surfaces.

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All reviews are by the Daily Herald and wire services; summaries of objectionable content are provided by the Motion Picture Association of America. Have any movie questions? Email theticket@heraldextra.com.

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TYLER PERRY'S MADEA'S WITNESS PROTECTION (1 hr., 45 min.; R for violence throughout and brief sexuality) Madea's wit-LESS protection is more like it, am I right? Anyone? Is this thing on? Eugene Levy is the latest untutored plebe to fall under the life-lesson-dispensing benefaction of filmmaker Tyler Perry's cross-dressing alter-ego. This film was not screened for critics.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (1 hr., 45 min.; R for violence throughout and brief sexuality) Fourscore and seven minutes of your time is at least fourscore and six minutes more than you ever need spend contemplating this dippy historical thriller. The special effects are decent and the acting is OK, but that's not nearly worth emancipating the cost of tickets-plus-popcorn from your bank account. [D]

BATTLESHIP (2 hrs., 11 min.; PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language) Weighed down by the general dumb-cluck-ery and stupidity of its plot and parameters, this board-game-inspired alien invasion story sinks like a stone. The special effects are decent and the acting are satisfactory, but there's just too much leaden ridiculousness. [D]

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6:12 p.m. EDT, June 27, 2012

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich

From the eye-catchingimage of President Gerald R. Ford on snow skis spray-painted off I-196, to the gang messages popping up on homes and businesses, neighbors in Grand Rapids are seeing more graffiti.

"I have seen an increase, even just driving around. No matter what it is, it is all considered vandalism," said Captain Daniel Savage with the Grand Rapids Police Department. Most of the tagging is popping up on business storefronts.

"It is very frustrating," explained Synia Jordan, owner of Samaria J's Salon located at 701 Grandville Ave SW. Her salon has been tagged twice this year. On Wednesday, young employees spent the afternoon power washing the siding where dark spray paint coated the white.

"We paint, they come back. It is not so much the cost, but the time spent cleaning. The West Grand Neighborhood Organization is one group trying to get the word out about cleaning up the vandalism.

"Something needs to be done, it is very frustrating.Businesseswant to be here because of all the graffiti," said Nola Stetekee, Director of TheWest Grand Neighborhood Organization, is backing a product made by Omega Environmental Services that specializes in graffiti removal with a spray product and deterrent.

"What it is is a combination of chemicals that are water-based and that react to heat and pressure to remove the product from the wall," said Timmy Sanders with Omega Environmental Services.

He says their product not only takes off the graffiti, but doesn't damage the brick or other surfaces by leaving behind marks.

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At least 15 people were killed in landslides in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar districts in southeastern Bangladesh amid heavy downpour yesterday.

Much of the port city, Chittagong, went under knee-deep to waist-deep water.

Eleven of the victims -- five of them children aged between two and 12 -- died in separate landslides in different parts of Chittagong.

In Cox's Bazar, four persons were killed as large chunks of earth fell on their hillside homes in different areas of Maheshkhali upazila, police said.

Several people in the port city were reported missing following a number of avalanches at Uttar Pahartali and Banshkhali areas.

All domestic and international flight operations to and from Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport were declared suspended at 4:30 p.m. as the runway was inundated.

Train services on the Dhaka-Chittagong route were cut off as a railway bridge at Bhatiari collapsed around 8:00 p.m., presumably due to the downpour.

As the monsoon torrent kept lakhs of people stranded at home throughout the day since early morning, business in the country's commercial capital came to a near halt.

With most of the areas of the city submerged, at least 11 areas experienced total power blackout for about 12 hours since 8:00 a.m. Power connection was restored in some of the areas after 8:30 p.m.

The Power Development Board snapped the connections fearing accidents resulting from short circuits, said Md Moniruzzaman, public relations officer of Chittagong PDB.

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Arvind Subramanian: Katherine Boo, India and China Boo's reportage on a Mumbai slum highlights the Indian state's inability to provide the basics Arvind Subramanian / Mar 28, 2012, 00:41 IST

The even-handedness that stems from Katherine Boos natural and abundant empathy is one of the many appeals of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, her gorgeous book on one of Mumbais slums, Annawadi. Thus, both cassandras-cum-state interventionists such as Amartya Sen and hope purveyors-cum-market enthusiasts such as the late management guru C K Prahalad can claim vindication in the book.

And yet, Indias generalised economic dynamism, which allows the books teenage protagonist, Abdul, to support a family of 11, leavens life with hope and entrepreneurial possibilities. Prahalads point was that the poor had exploitable purchasing power, and the explosive sales of cheap and small-sized sachets of washing powder, paan and other consumables over these last few decades seemed corroborative evidence. Boos book shows that the Prahalad strategy works in part because the poor can acquire purchasing power in unlikely ways.

First, by hustling in waste: one might say that for many Annawadi residents, life is all about crap and scrap. In a nice twist, globalisation plays a key positive role in this hustling. When global commodity prices boom, so does the value of commodity-related waste aluminium, plastic, copper, steel the scavenging for which provides sustenance for the slum dwellers. Similarly, when foreign tourist traffic slows down, the supply of waste declines, thus depressing slum incomes. Blinkered to the lives of the marginalised, we instinctively equate globalisation with the free flow of goods, forgetting that bads such as detritus which are not bad at all for the poor are globalised too.

Second, the poor acquire purchasing power by partaking of the venality and corruption of those in power. The book is a reminder that the perpetrators of corruption are not its exclusive beneficiaries. As Boo writes: For the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained.

The trickle-down of public funds looted is a source of income for some of the poor. Electoral politics compels venal politicians to share their loot even if, or especially because, it is ill-gotten. After all, Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi have spread TV ownership in Tamil Nadu despite their motives and means being thoroughly dubious. Trickle-down must also occur because of the pseudo-accountability required of poverty interventions. To allow donors to feel good about themselves, they must see first-hand the changing reality on the ground. Some collateral benefit, even if cosmetic, is unavoidable.

But the most important and depressing development insight that Behind the Beautiful Forevers offers is this: the related pathologies we variously call weak public institutions, ineffective governance, and corruption are especially costly, and most difficult to escape from, for the poorest.

Boo perceptively notes that succumbing to the narrative of jugaad the creative entrepreneurial spirit associated with circumventing regulation and corruption growth-addled India is in danger of overlooking the colossal costs for the poor of deteriorating Indian governance. And her explanation of these costs is novel. It is not just that navigating, say, the Indian judicial system can be time-consuming, financially draining, and livelihood-destroying. The Indian system severs the link between effort and result, engendering deep despair: We try so many things, as one Annawadi girl put it, but the world does not move in our favour.

Worse, since life at the bottom has a dog-eat-dog quality, a collective action trap condemns the poor to coping with, rather than having any chance of reforming, Indias institutions. Instead of uniting, poor people competed ferociously with one another for gains as slender as they were provisional, Boo writes. As a result, the gates of the rich, intermittently rattled, remained unbreached... The poor took down one another and the worlds great cities soldiered on in relative peace.

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