Did you miss out on love this past year? Did you meet someone for a fleeting moment only to have lasting happiness fall from your fingers?In fact, your "missed connection" was relatively normal, compared to some of the people who tried to find a lost love via the "Missed Connections" page on Craigslist. on a video dramatizing some of the strangest missed connections of 2014. They are all wacky, but few were as touching as this one.We made out in the second stall in the men's room outside Hall D. Same place same time next year. I'll be in a llama costume." Like Us On Facebook | Follow Us On Twitter | Ella Barnes-Williams is dealing with a lot right now. For starters, her government-subsidized house in Northeast Washington, D.C., leaks when it rains. She points at a big brown splotch on the ceiling. "It's like mold, mold, mold all over," she says. "I've got to clean that now 'cause that just came back." Barnes-Williams is 54 and lives with her 30-year-old daughter and three young grandchildren.

All three grandkids have severe asthma, which makes the mold a serious problem. And she and her daughter are diabetic. Shots - Health News A Sheriff And A Doctor Team Up To Map Childhood Trauma On top of the housing and health problems, Barnes-Williams hasn't had steady work for more than a decade. At the end of most months, the family runs out of food. As if all that weren't enough, their house was recently robbed — twice. "They, like, went shopping in my house," Barnes-Williams says. "They even stole the kids' school uniforms." But she isn't the type of person to give up. Though she dropped out of high school as a teenager, she went back to school and got her diploma at age 46. She now attends community college, attends career training workshops and volunteers on political campaigns. There's also a steady stream of visitors to her house because she's a notary public. She receives $2 per stamped document, which she says helps with small costs around the house. Poll Explores Our Perception Of How Factors Large And Small Shape People's Health

To Head Off Trauma's Legacy, Start Young But, despite being hardworking and well-connected in her community, Barnes-Williams didn't know about a wide range of social programs that are available to help her family — until she met a young man named Phung Tran. Tran grew up in Washington, D.C., and is a senior at the University of Maryland. Two days a week, he comes to a small office in the Children's National Medical Center to make phone calls through a program called Health Leads. "I connect low-income families at the hospital with different resources in the area," Tran says. He first started working with Barnes-Williams a few months ago. She had about 10 specific needs, he discovered — many related to food, clothing and housing. "It was kind of overwhelming at first," he says. So they made a list and started working through the items, one by one. Her top priority was food; Tran referred her to a local food pantry that now provides the family with free groceries once a month.

Next was furniture: Tran found an organization that gave Barnes-Williams a couch, shelves, lamps, a drawing board and puzzles for the grandkids. Now he's helping address the mold problem, by connecting Barnes-Williams with an organization called Breathe DC, which provides air purifiers, vacuum cleaners and specific advice on how to stop mold. Tran is also lining up summer activities for Barnes-Williams' grandkids, including a camp geared toward kids with asthma. nilfisk extreme x150 vacuum cleanerHealth Leads operates in seven cities across the U.S. and has more than a thousand volunteer advocates, the vast majority of whom are college students. vacuum cleaner man rwjIt was founded by Rebecca Onie. oreck ironman vacuum cleaner

Now the organization's CEO (and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2009) Onie came up with the idea as a college sophomore in the 1990s. While volunteering at a hospital in Boston, she often asked doctors this question: If you had unlimited resources, what's the one thing you would give your patients? 10 Questions Some Doctors Are Afraid To Ask People With Low Incomes Say They Pay A Price In Poor Health The answer that came back over and over again, she says, was food, transportation, or a better place to live, because those were the real problems — and the underlying cause of many patients' health problems. This led Onie to imagine an entirely different kind of health care system — "one in which a physician or nurse could prescribe basic resources that a patient needs to be healthy, like heat in the winter or access to healthy food," she says. And that's exactly what Health Leads does. It trains doctors to ask patients about their social needs and then connects patients with organizations that can meet those needs.

Onie says the long-term goal is to show that providing patients with better food, housing, transportation and so on not only improves patients' health, but also reduces the cost of health care. She and her team are collecting data to try to make that case. "Then we can work closely with health care systems across the country," she says, "to really make [addressing social needs] an integral part of how they deliver care." Since Ella Barnes-Williams began working with Health Leads a few months ago, she has been making regular trips to Martha's Table, a food pantry in Washington, D.C. She had no idea how much help was out there, she says. She just needed someone to help her find it. This story is part of the NPR series, What Shapes Health? The series explores social and environmental factors that affect health throughout life. It is inspired, in part, by findings in a recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.The white supremacist attempting to turn a small North Dakotan town into a ‘white enclave’ has undergone a DNA test which proves he is of Sub-Saharan African heritage, MailOnline can reveal.

Craig Cobb, 62, submitted to the test as part of The Trisha Show’s ongoing Race in America series and was given the results of the DNA Diagnostics test by the host, Trisha Goddard, to the whoops of her studio audience.On hearing the results Cobb, who insists he is not a white supremacist but a Creator, a religion which favours ‘racial awareness’, immediately dismissed the news that genetically he is 14 per cent Sub Saharan African, 86 per cent European, as ‘statistical noise.’ White supremacist Craig Cobb tries to tune out the 'statistical noise' that reveals his genetic makeup is 86 per cent European and 14 per cent Sub-Saharan African Enemy within: Cobbs recoils from TV talk show host Trisha Goddard's attempted 'fist bump' on learning that he has Sub-Saharan African DNA 'You've got a little black in you bro': Trisha moves in for a fist bump undeterred by her guest's evident reluctant to meet her hand or eye If at first you don't succeed....Cobb will make sure you never do.

Trisha is left hanging by her guest's refusal to make contact He said: ‘I tell you. Oil and water don’t mix.’With a fixed grin Cobb, a man who relies on a dizzying array of statistics to underpin his own agenda of racial discrimination and sexual intolerance, shook his head and tried to wave these ones away.As the studio audience jeered and crowed in delight, Goddard insisted: ‘You have a little black in you.’When the 55-year-old British host tried to fist bump her guest, with the words, ‘So there you go bro,’ Cobb visibly recoiled and twice refused to meet her touch.Speaking to MailOnline Cobb said: 'I agreed to the test because I assumed it was science.' Instead, he said, it was a scientifically bankrupt procedure, the product of 'craven and debased executives,' whose 'goal is to shock.' He said: 'When I told Jeff Schoep [leader of the National Socialism Movement] he just laughed.'He described it as 'short science' used by a sensationalist television show to 'promote multiculturalism.'When pressed over how he would feel if a test he respected were to show the presence of such DNA he said: 'Well if I did have any n**** we don't want anymore of it.'He would

, he said, consider himself a 'border guard for the pure breds.'He explained: 'Keeping the peace if possible but if we have to fight, keeping the frontline in the war.' Condemned: A sign raised by Craig Cobb in the trees above his land in Leith, North Dakota. The words Credo 64 refer to the 'White Man's Bible,' the so-called holy book for Creators - of which he is one Followers of Cobb: Badge wearing member of the National Socialist Movement, Kynan Dutton, wife Deborah Dutton and their five children are the first family to move to Leith, N.D in an attempt to establish a white enclave A look down Main Street in Leith, N.D. Many of its 16 residents had never even heard of white supremacy until its proponents tried to take over their town War, or the threat of it, is what the residents of Leith fear, Cobb has brought to their doors.His plans for the tiny North Dakotan town of Leith came to light earlier this summer. Then, amid a fury of local and national reaction, it emerged that the wild-haired eccentric

who had been living in the town for more than a year, was a hate crimes fugitive who had quietly bought up lots of land with the intention of turning the community into a haven for white supremacists.But now, after an immediate flurry of rallies and town meetings, residents fear they are powerless to halt the man whose plans they regard as ‘pure evil,' and who has put up a sign condemning their town as  'The Village of the Damned.' Since his plans were exposed, they say, he has goaded and harassed them in an attempt to provoke them into violence and open the way for him to bring charges or a civil suit. Leith's only black resident, Bobby Harper, is a member of the current town council. He says he is 'better' than Cobb but believes the situation can only get worse Pushed to breaking point: Cobb has publicly blamed councilman Lee Cook, 49, for the murder of his own daughter - killed in 2000 by the then boyfriend of his ex-wife Mayor Ryan Schock, mayor and lifelong resident of Leith, N.D., is frustrated with the actions of white nationalist Craig Cobb who moved to town with the plan to establish a white enclave and admits they may be out of options

The town’s only bi-racial couple Sherrill and Bobby Harper have come under particular pressure. Bobby is the only black man in town. A note pinned to the couple’s door recently read: ‘What are you doing “married” to a Negro?’ and demanded Sherill leave her husband and ‘join Mr Cobb’s movement.’ Two weeks ago Mr Cobb confronted the Harpers on The Trisha Show, demeaning their relationship with the words: ‘She has her pet you see.’Speaking to MailOnline Mr Harper was philosophical and dignified. He said he was 'better' than Cobb but expressed his belief that the situation was 'going to get worse.'In an interview with MailOnline Mr Cobb referred to African Americans as ‘jungle bunnies’ and ‘Orks’ and said that black people were: ‘Strolling biological early warning devices. They look bad, they sound bad and often times they smell bad.’ Sherill and Bobby Harper speaking from their home in Leith as the full extent of Cobb's plans became apparent.

Their lives have been disrupted but they are determined to stand their ground A grinning Craig Cobb walks near his home in Leith, ND, with a supporter and the flags that fly almost daily in the background. He wasn't smiling when he was told he was part Sub-Saharan African In what he referred to as a ‘better world where we are in charge,’ he said that all black immigrants to America would be instructed on arrival: ‘If you try to have sex with our white handmaidens we will hang you.’He used profoundly offensive racist and mysogynistic language saying he was 'very proud' to do so as he regarded the terms as 'holy words' enshrined in the 'White Man's Bible,' in which, as a Creator, he believes. In a recent town meeting Cobb singled out Leith town councilman Lee Cook, 49, the founder of the town’s Legal Defense Fund established to pay for their fight against Cobb. Leith, N.D. Sheriff Steve Bay, left, and deputy Darwin Roth talk near the entrance of the Leith townhall at a meeting last Sunday.

But the town may have run out of legal options to stop Cobb's march. One man's dream...a small town's nightmare: Flags of various organizations, some representing the National Socialist Movement, fly in front of the home of white nationalist Craig Cobb in Leith, N.D. Thirteen years ago Mr Cook’s 17 year old daughter, Crystal was murdered by the then boyfriend of his ex-wife. Now remarried and with three children by second wife Heather, his move to Leith was, in part, a bid to escape the painful associations of the Washington town in which the murder took place.Cobb suggested that Mr Cook was in some way responsible for his daughter’s death. According to Mr Cook: ‘He hoped to get me to beat him up so that he could sue me. He wants to look like the victim but this is all his doing.‘It was an evil attempt by a demented individual to aggravate me.’Today Mr Cook sleeps with a loaded by his side and has bought his wife a firearm.In a desperate bit to prevent Cobb from fulfilling his dream in Leith, the town council have voted through a string or ordinances putting a moratorium on building, instituting standards of potable water and sewerage and prohibiting anyone living in a trailer on Leith land for more than 10 days straight. 

But ultimately, Mayor Ryan Schock, 38, admitted: ‘We don’t know what comes next.’One family of White supremacists have already responded to Cobb’s call for followers and have moved into his ramshackle home on what passes for the town’s main street.Kynan and Deborah Dutton, both 28, moved to Leith from Oregon on 23 September. Their five children aged between 11 and four are home-schooled by former teacher, Deborah.Dutton, a Marine Corps veteran who served in the Iraq war in 2004 and 2005 is proud to call himself Cobb’s Sergeant in Arms. He puts flags, including that of the Third Reich, The National Socialist Movement, and one symbolising the right to bear arms, in front of Cobb’s home each day.He takes them in at night because, he said: ‘The native Americans are notorious for coming and stealing them.’With just 16 residents in the town Cobb is confident that his bid to outnumber the locals with his followers and take over the council will succeed.He claims another family is on their way and has threatened to bring member of the ‘hard core Aryan Nations’ group to the town and ex-convicts who have ‘been in Federal prison for 20 years.’He said: ‘We will become the majority there is no doubt.