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MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State University women's golf and cross country programs were honored Wednesday by the NCAA for earning exemplary marks in the latest multi-year NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR).
Both programs received Public Recognition Awards for their commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes. Ball State had two teams honored for the second straight year, while its cross country team was recognized for the third year in a row.
The awards are based on multi-year APR scores and go to teams whose scores rank in the top 10 percent within their respective sports. This year's scores are based on the APR from the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. The scores required to be in the top 10 percent ranged from 980 to a perfect 1,000, depending on the sport.
"Our student-athletes continue to perform at a high level academically, and I want to commend our women's golf and cross country programs on their sustained success in the classroom," Ball State director of intercollegiate athletics Bill Scholl said. "These awards recognize the best of the best within each sport and are earned only by maintaining the highest standards of excellence. It is a tribute to the student-athletes within these programs along with our coaches and support staff."
The Mid-American Conference had a total of 25 programs recognized Wednesday, but only four league schools had more than Ball State's two award winners. Seventeen women's teams from the MAC were honored with only one school having more recipients than the Cardinals.
The women's golf team was honored for the first time and became the eighth different Ball State team recognized in the 10-year history of the award program. The cross country team has earned the distinction four times, more than any team at Ball State.
Last year, the Ball State women's volleyball team joined the cross country team in being honored. The four awards in the past two years are the most for Ball State over a two-year period since the Cardinals compiled seven over the 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. It accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance. Multi-year APR scores for all Division I teams will be announced May 14.
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It's the first step toward a new downtown arena: The Sacramento City Council will vote next week on whether to write the city's first check -- for $6.5 million -- to go toward a sports and entertainment complex.
The issue will come down to a vote next Tuesday at Sacramento City Hall, according to the City Council's agenda.
The city cash would go toward development of the new arena.
Some of the money will hire consultants.
The entire project, which will take place at the site of the Downtown Plaza, is expected to cost about $447 million.
About $1.5 million of the $6.5 million would come from the city's parking fund.

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It seems they both walk the fine line of being useful, yet big brother-like
Privacy is a hot issue at present, whether it's regarding online privacy or physical privacy in your home or on the street.
Back in 2007, New York
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that would be placed throughout Lower Manhattan in order to monitor vehicles. Then, in 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union
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"It's the greatest technology to hit law enforcement in a long time," said Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway. "Within seconds, police officers get a BOLO, a bulletin on their computer saying stolen Toyota headed westbound on Veterans."
The cameras, which were paid for by grants, provide photographs of the back of the stolen vehicle, and the photo is sent to police computers within 20 seconds. In one particular case, two 16-year-old's and a 19-year-old were arrested at Armstrong International Airport after stealing a SUV from New Orleans six days earlier. Police were able to identify the vehicle through the license plate recognition technology.
But this technology didn't only benefit police as far as stolen vehicles go; it also aided police in murder cases, missing person cases and to track sex offenders.
"We've actually solved a recent murder, where all the witnesses saw was just a blue Toyota Camry leaving a neighborhood," said Caraway.
While this system seems to serve its purpose, I couldn't help but compare the technology to the red-light cameras being placed around the U.S. Many citizens are against such systems saying that they are invasive, and that they have the potential to be abused by law enforcement officers as a way of generating revenue. On the other hand, recent studies found that these red-light cameras
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The license plate recognition falls in the same general category of monitoring vehicles and alerting police when something illegal occurs, and it seems as if both systems are working to their full potential. But my question is, does the license plate recognition technology fall into the same realm of being potentially invasive and abused? It seems they both walk the fine line of being useful, yet big brother-like.
In my opinion, I think both are helpful tools in reducing crime and accidents. I don't condone car theft or the running of red lights, and if there is a way of reducing the number of occurrences, I'm all for it. But in the back of my mind, I have to wonder if police could scan a license plate and see who it is, then pull them over based on something illegitimate. Maybe they knew that person and weren't fond of them, so they pull them over. I'm not saying all police officers would do this, but it's a thought.
What's your stance? Are the two traffic-related technologies similar, and do their purposes outweigh the
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Politicians drive, and so do their families, and that would make one wonder why they would want to have red light cameras and license plate recognition around, since those technologies have the potential to document their and their family's foibles. Here's why they're unconcerned. An article ("Special License Plates Shield Officials from Traffic Tickets") said that in California there are nearly one million PRIVATE vehicles having 'confidential' license plate numbers that are protected from easy or efficient look up, thus are effectively invisible to agencies attempting to process parking, toll, and red light camera violations. (Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA.) That "protected" list includes politicians - even local ones - bureaucrats, retired cops, govt. employees, and their families - including adult children! Plus such oddities as veterinarians and museum guards. This scam is written into the law: Cal. Veh. Code 1808.4. Could it happen in your state? You should check.
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Endocannabinoids are a widely studied family of molecules that act as neurotransmitters and influence synaptic plasticity. Endocannabinoids have been extensively studied in the frog and lizard neuromuscular junction. However, this study assessed the effects of arachidonylcyclopropylamide (ACPA), an agonist to the CB1 cannabinoid receptor, in the crayfish neuromuscular juction. We found that the addition of ACPA decreased the excitatory post synaptic response. We cannot conclusively determine if an endocannabinoid analogue utilizes the CB1 receptor pathway in the crayfish neuromuscular junction.
Cannabinoids are a group of molecules that function as neurotransmitters and include ∆9-tetrahydro-cannabinol, or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. These molecules have motor as well as psychoactive effects that occur upon their interaction with receptors on nerve cell membranes. There are two subtypes of cannabinoid receptor, CB1 and CB2, and activation of either receptor leads to activation of a G-protein, then decreases in levels of protein phosphorylation and intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP). The endogenous cannabinoids, or endocannabinoids, which activate these receptors are the fatty acids 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG) and anandamide (Sánchez-Pastor et al. 2007).
At the frog neuromuscular junction, anandamide has been shown to activate CB1 receptors and block the enzyme adenylate cyclase, which converts ATP into cAMP (Van der Kloot 1994). Administration of cannabinoids at the frog neuromuscular junction also decreases MEPP frequency through the activation of presynaptic CB1 receptors. These receptors interact with Gi/o proteins and activation seems to lead to the blockage of N-type Ca2+ channels (Sánchez-Pastor et al 2007).
Also in the frog neuromuscular junction, two CB1 receptor agonists, WIN and ACEA, have opposite effects on quantal acetylcholine (ACh) release. Introduction of WIN and the CB1 antagonist AM 251 nullified WIN's depression of ACh release. Introduction of ACEA yielded an increase in ACh quantal release, and this increase was not negated when AM 251 was introduced. Silveira et al. (2010) discovered that ACEA targets the vanilloid receptor (TRPV2) and is blocked by capsazepine, the TRPV1 antagonist.
Cannabinoids have also been studied in the lizard neuromuscular junction. Newman et al. (2007) examined the presence and location of CB1receptors via fluorescence microscopy. They also questioned whether M3muscarinic ACh receptors inhibit neurotransmitter release via endocannabinoids. By utilizing multiple combinations of agonists and antagonists, the researchers also determined whether Ca2+ influx was actively being inhibited in the nitric oxide-dependent system. The researchers discovered that Anolis carolinensis do in fact have CB1receptors that are localized on the presynaptic nerve terminal. When muscarine and AM 281, a CB1 antagonist, were applied they determined that the depression of EPP was due to cannabinoid receptors. They also discovered that endocannabinoids cause a decrease in transient Ca2+that accounts the later depression of synaptic transmission. In conclusion, Newman et al. (2007) discovered that through the M3 muscarinic receptor mediated system, muscle cells synthesize endocannabinoids (2-AG) to bind to CB1 receptors on the nerve cell.
Our study hoped to fill the void bridging endocannabinoids in the crayfish NMJ, which have shown to play a part in synaptic plasticity. Ultimately we hope to draw comparisons with other previously studied model organisms. By drawing these comparisons, we can further test if the specific mechanisms published in the frog and lizard also are expressed in the crayfish. The goal(s) of this study are/were to test whether the crayfish NMJ is sensitive to activation of CB1 receptors, and to determine whether the response seen, due to cannabinoid addition, affects the CB1receptor pathway.
We hypothesized that, similar to the lizard and frog NMJ, the crayfish would show analogous effects when the CB1 agonist, ACPA, was introduced – a decrease in excitatory post synaptic potential (EPSP). We also hypothesized that any effect seen due to the addition to endocannabinoids would be caused by augmentation of the CB1 receptor.
Experimental preparation and solutions
Crayfish were first immersed in crushed ice for approximately 10 min. Next, we removed the tail and isolated the tail extensor muscle. This muscle and the attached exoskeleton were pinned down in a Sylgard®-coated dish. We covered the preparation in approximately 40 ml of fresh physiological saline solution (5.4 mM KCl, 196 mM NaCl, 13.5 mM CaCl2•H2O, 2.6 mM MgCl2•H2O, 10 mM HEPES).
Arachidonylcyclopropylamide (ACPA) was obtained in Tocrisolve®, a soy oil and water emulsion. It was diluted in physiological saline before being added to the crayfish preparation at an approximate final concentration of 10 µM. ACPA was purchased from Tocris Cookson (Ellisville, MO, USA).
End-plate potentials were evoked by stimulating the motor nerve axon at 1-10 V for 5 ms, at 0.2 Hz. We used a glass micropipette filled with 3 M KCl and with resistance between 5 and 15 MΩ to measure EPPs and recorded data using a MacLab data acquisition system (AD Instruments, Colorado Springs, CO, USA).
For our first experiment, we recorded from a number of separate, randomly chosen muscle cells both before and after treatment with ACPA. The average EPP amplitudes in each condition were compared using a student's t-test (two-sample assuming equal variance).
For our second experiment, we recorded from several separate, randomly chosen muscle cells before the addition of ACPA. After drug treatment, EPPs were measured in one cell every 30 sec for 2 min and then every 1 min for 18 min. Mean EPP amplitudes before and after treatment were compared as above.
For our third experiment, we recorded from one muscle cell both before and after ACPA treatment. EPPs were averaged over 8 stimuli for recording. We recorded two averages before treatment, and several averages at a number of time intervals after treatment. In Figure 2, each bar after ACPA addition is the mean of four recordings. Mean values for consecutive pairs of averages were compared using a student's t-test (two-sample assuming equal variance).
In order to determine whether cannabinoids have an effect at the crayfish neuromuscular junction, we performed electrophysiology of the tail extensor muscle. We recorded EPSPs while stimulating the motor nerve at low frequency, both with and without the presence of the CB1 receptor agonist ACPA.
We first compared the average value of five EPSPs recorded from randomly selected muscle cells before and after ACPA treatment (Figure 1). This recording did not show a significant change in EPSPs due to the addition of ACPA.
Figure 1 (top panel). Mean EPSP amplitude. Each bar represents the mean of six EPSPs, and all data was recorded from one crayfish muscle preparation.
Second, we performed a time course experiment in which we recorded from one cell both before and after ACPA treatment (Figure 2). We found a significant difference between the mean EPSP before ACPA addition (35.60 mV) and the mean EPSP after addition (15.66 mV) (p = 0.024). ACPA decreased the EPSP.
Figure 2 (center panel). Time course of the effect of ACPA on the crayfish neuromuscular junction. ACPA was added at 1 min. Each point represents one recorded EPSP (n=1). After ACPA addition, EPSPs were recorded every 30 s for 2 min and then every 1 min for 18 min.
Third, we performed an experiment in which we recorded EPSPs averaged over eight nerve stimuli, also in one cell (Figure 3). We found a significant difference between the mean EPSPs recorded before treatment with ACPA and those recorded from 0 to 2.5 minutes, 3.5 to 6 minutes, and 7 to 10 minutes after treatment (p values = 0.002, 0.0003, and 2 × 10-5, respectively). In this experiment, as well, ACPA decreased the EPSP.
Figure 3 (bottom panel). Effect of ACPA on average EPSP amplitude (± SEM). Each bar after ACPA addition represents the mean of four average recordings, while the bar before ACPA represents the mean of two. * indicates p < 0.05 compared to EPSP before ACPA. (n=1)
Experiment 1 did not provide any statistically significant results (Figure 1). This lack of significance is primarily since there is a large variation in EPSP amplitude across different muscle cells. To counteract this difficulty, it might help to survey cells that were similar distances from the nerve that was being stimulated. We could have also used a larger sample size, which might have allowed us to find a statistically significant result. Additionally, we did not allow any time to pass for our first measurement after we added ACPA, which may have affected the results of our experiment. Due to these limitations, the results of this experiment neither validate nor disprove our hypothesis.
In the second trial, the addition of ACPA showed a statistically significant effect of decreasing the EPSP 43.9% (Figure 2). With the exception of a few points, the time course showed a consistent decrease as each successive measurement was taken. This was the first indication that the addition of a CB1 receptor agonist would decrease the EPSP in the crayfish NMJ. This result supports our hypothesis.
In our third experiment, we found a significant effect of ACPA (Figure 3). The agonist led to EPSP depression which increased over time. Although the methodology of this experiment was somewhat different from the previous one, they are similar enough that their results reinforce each other's validity. Therefore, this experiment supports the conclusions we drew from our second experiment. Overall, we find that the CB1 receptor agonist ACPA leads to EPSP depression which increases over time. We hypothesize that this consistent enhancement in EPSP depression may be caused by continuing activation of some receptor which responds to ACPA. This may be the CB1 receptor or an analogue of the CB1 receptor.
One of the major limitations in our study was that all three trials employed different methodologies. This inherent lack of continuity calls into question the replication and significance of our results. The opportunity to replicate each of our experiments would have greatly increased the confidence with which our results may be interpreted. However, because our second two experiments are methodologically similar, they can be viewed as confirming each other's results in the absence of exact replication.
Another major limitation is that we were not able to probe the question of whether an endocannabinoid analogue affects a CB1 receptor in the crayfish NMJ, utilizing both an agonist and an antagonist. If blocking any present CB1 receptors with an antagonist eliminated the EPSP depression in response to agonist treatment, we would be able to conclude that depression is due to a CB1 receptor. Although we confirmed our hypothesis that adding a CB1 agonist does depress EPSP amplitude, we cannot definitively determine whether the effect of endocannabinoids influences the CB1 receptor specifically in the crayfish NMJ.
Future studies teasing apart the relationships of endocannabinoids in the crayfish NMJ would help to extend the results of this study. Further replication of our experiments is needed to strengthen our conclusions. Moreover, it would be helpful to determine the involvement of the CB1receptor using an antagonist. Additionally, further studies could use fluorescence microscopy to spatially locate CB1 receptors on the synapse, for example using fluorescently tagged CB1 antibodies, or add various combinations of agonists and antagonists to the NMJ. In conclusion, we determined that addition of an endocannabinoid analogue, ACPA, decreased the EPSP at the crayfish NMJ.
We would like to thank Clark Lindgren, our professor, for his direction in the classroom, providing necessary background knowledge, and in the lab with troubleshooting our study. Without Professor Lindgren's assistance this experiment would not have been possible. Additionally, we would like to thank the Grinnell College Biology Department for funding our study and therefore giving us the opportunity to pursue neurobiological inquiry.
Newman, Zachary; Malik, Priya; Wu, Tse-Yu; Ochoa, Christopher; Watsa, Nayantara; Lindgren, Clark A. (2007). Endocannabinoids mediate muscarine-induced synaptic depression at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction. European Journal of Neuroscience 25:1619-1630.
Sanchez-Pastor, E.; Trujillo, X.; Huerta, M; Andrade, F. (2007). Effects of cannabinoids on synaptic transmission in the frog neuromuscular junction. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics321:439-445.
Silveira, P.E.; Silveira, N.A.; Morini, V.C.; Kushmerick, C.; Naves, L.A. (2010). Opposing effects of cannabinoids and vanilloids on evoked quantal release at the frog neuromuscular junction. Neuroscience letters473:97-101.
Van der Kloot, W. (1994) Anandamide, a naturally-occurring agonist of the cannabinoid receptor, block adenylate cyclase at the frog neuromuscular junction. Brain Research 649:181-184.


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@Paul: It's the Windows Phone MarketPlace
Paul chickened out. I would destroy him.
I don't think it did that kind of ads, you must the parental filter turned off Paul.
Don't listen to Laura's blasphemy. I could beat her left-handed.
We demand a game of scrabble in the next show
O.K. How does one obtain one of those little 9 guys? Many years ago I obtained a SQL Server Girl from attending several online events. Sadly I cannot find an image at the moment, but the design is simular to the 9 guy.
hotmail started in 95, who has the oldest hotmail address ? I still use mine and I made mine in 98, April.
Good question, Shahedk! I will look into this... but I had received a memo that had this line in it...
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The tools for WP7 are free for all anyway so they wouldn't be covered by the Dreamspark licence I'd have though.
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PASS is a great event. I will not be able to participate this year although i won a free ticket...
Paul - throw us a bone here, which session were you talking about?
Apple stole the name of your show. You should sue!
Ha! Channel 9 Ping beats Apple Ping any day in my book. And why do they have it built into the iTunes application instead of a browser? Most people I know love iPods but hate the iTunes app. Besides, Zune has had something like this for a few years. I guess Apple wants to try to control your social network too
And Max thought Ping was a stupid name! hrmph~
Hey, Laura! Did you hear about the new social network that Apple announced? Not a very original name, huh?
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NEW YORK � Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of �Treasure Island� and �Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,� some of the most thrilling stories in literary history. But in a newly discovered essay, he says he was often bored by the fiction of his day.
�In the trash that I have no doubt you generally read, a vast number of people will probably get shot and stabbed and drowned; and you have only a very slight excitement for your money,� Stevenson wrote.
�But if you want to know what a murder really is � to have a murder brought right home to you � you must read of one in the writings of a great writer. Read �Macbeth,� for example, or still better, get someone to read it aloud to you; and I think I can promise you what people call a �sensation.��
Stevenson�s criticisms appear in a brief, long-lost essay published Friday in The Strand Magazine, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich. that has published obscure texts by Mark Twain, Graham Greene and other famous authors.
Apparently part of a larger work, the piece is titled �Books and Reading. No 2. How books have to be written.� The Strand managing editor Andrew Gulli said that essay �No. 1� was auctioned off in 1914, 20 years after the author�s death, and never seen again. No. 2 turned up recently at a location very far from Stevenson�s native Scotland � the library at Syracuse University.
�There are several guesses as to who it was meant for and why it was not published,� Gulli said during a recent interview. �One guess is that it was sent to his stepson Sam or it could have been prepared for a young adult magazine called Young Folks but it was never published in that magazine.�
Stevenson devotes most of the essay to the art of capturing or even simulating reality on paper, a puzzle that Virginia Woolf and other 20th century modernists would attempt to solve. He notes that storytelling almost inevitably makes life seem more awful, more wonderful or more heroic. The writer leaves �all the dullness out.�
�Suppose you were to be asked to write a complete account of a day at school. You would probably begin by saying you rose at a certain hour, dressed and came down to morning school. You would not think of telling how many buttons you had to fasten, nor how long you took to make a parting, nor how many steps you descended,� Stevenson writes.
�The youngest boy would have too much of what we call �literary tact� to do that. Such a quantity of twaddling detail would simply bore the reader�s head off.�
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As a child growing up in Jacksonville, Fla., Mary
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He was a war hero, so the legend went. There's a
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His name was James A. Wicks,
and he was a member of the H.L. Hunley's final crew - the crew that sank the
Union sloop Housatonic on Feb. 17, 1864, then disappeared.
There may not be another family in the world that can
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the Hunley were too young to have children.
McMahon, of Atlanta, and a few of her relatives -
siblings Richard Barker Jr. and Sally McKeithen of Jacksonville; cousin Albert
Edward Barker II of Fayetteville, Ga.; and their children - may be the only
descendants of any member of the Hunley's final crew. Officials connected with
the project know of no other relatives.
Later this year, someone in McMahon's family will
give a DNA sample to scientists trying to put a face on the crew, found in the
submarine recovered last summer off Sullivan's Island. She hopes the tiny
genetic landscape unique to her family will help identify Wicks among the
remains found on the submarine.
"I'm really proud," McMahon says. "I'm
extra proud to know that he volunteered for this in light of the two previous
crews that died. He must have been very patriotic."
McMahon and her family know little about their
now-famous forebear. Hope Barker, Albert's wife, uncovered most of the clues
the family has. Genealogists working for Friends of the Hunley have supplied a
few more bits and pieces.
The information tells a story that is at once unique
and typical of a country - and a people - divided.
Wicks was born in either North Carolina or Virginia;
accounts differ. No one knows what year - but most likely in the 1830s.
In the 1850s, Wicks was a Navy man living in New York
City, stationed at the Brooklyn shipyards. It was probably while living there
that he met and married a young woman from England named Catherine Kelly.
In 1853, Catherine delivered the first of Wicks' four
daughters, Mary Eliza.
The Wicks family was living in North Carolina when
war broke out. Wicks was still in the U.S. Navy, but his sympathies lay
elsewhere. He was on board the USS Congress when it was attacked off Hampton
Roads and sunk by the CSS Virginia (the Confederates' new name for the
salvaged Merrimac). Wicks, the legend goes, swam to shore and joined the
Southern forces in Virginia.
By 1863, Wicks was serving in the Confederate navy at
the Charleston Station.
Later that year, Wicks was transferred to the Indian
Chief, a Confederate receiving ship stationed in Charleston Harbor. He might
have even been on board Oct. 15, 1863, when Horace Lawson Hunley, at the helm
of his own submarine, attempted to dive under the Indian Chief.
On that test run, the submarine sank to the bottom of
the harbor, killing everyone on board.
One thing is sure: Wicks was aboard the Indian Chief
the day in the late fall of 1863 when two young men named George Dixon and
William Alexander came looking for volunteers to man their "fish
boat." Out of dozens of volunteers, the two men from Mobile, Ala., chose
Wicks, who had an impressive resume.
History records that Wicks was on board the Hunley
when it disappeared after the attack on the Housatonic. He disappeared without
a trace, leaving a wife and four children, the youngest of whom was not yet 4.
The family was living at Fernadina Beach, Fla., between Jacksonville and the
Georgia state line.
The family believes that Catherine remarried a few
years after her husband disappeared. Their oldest daughter, Mary Eliza -
McMahon's namesake - married in the home of her mother and stepfather. She
would live in Florida the rest of her life.
In the early 20th century, Mary Eliza Barker
petitioned to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The application
approving her membership praised her father's actions in connection with the
sinking of the USS Housatonic aboard the "torpedo David," as the
Hunley was often mistakenly called.
"I can conceive of no more heroic action during
the history of the Confederate Navy than this one of Seaman Wicks and his
brave comrades," the UDC officer wrote on the petition. "I recommend
his daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Barker to every honor."
Eventually, Mary Eliza Barker would become the
Florida chapter president of the UDC. She died in 1934.
The story was almost too fantastic to believe. But
Mary Eliza's grandchildren had heard the stories many times, and passed them
down to their children.
It wasn't until the 1970s, however, that an offhand
remark to Hope Barker led the family to investigate Wicks' past. Albert and
Hope had stopped to visit their uncle - McMahon's father - in Jacksonville on
the way to a vacation in Charleston. When he heard where they were going,
McMahon's father told them about his ancestor's role in the war.
Hope Barker was amazed and began digging into the
family history.
"If he hadn't said anything to me, we might have
all forgotten," Barker says. "When I first started, no one else in
the family was really interested."
Perhaps, family members say, that's because the fate
of the Hunley was so murky until the submarine was discovered in 1995. Soon,
the story was everywhere - newspapers, magazines, even TV movies. It has made
history buffs out of at least one family.
Barker passed along all the family's information on
Wicks to the Hunley Commission and has been talking with a genealogist hired
by the Friends of the Hunley to try to trace the crew.
The family is excited by the chance to match their
DNA with Wicks, just to establish that blood link to the past. They are ready
to visit the grave of their ancestor, who will be buried alongside all the
other crewmen of the first attack submarine.
"I don't guess we have any proof, but it's on
all the documents in all the stories from the family," Barker says.
"In our minds, we're convinced. But it would be nice to be sure."
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Over the last month, Ella has been finding her voice more each day. I always enjoy her babbling and her attempts to form words. Lately, her new sound (and way of saying "I'm uncomfortable") is grunting mixed with a little whining.
I am very patient when it comes to comforting Ella through a cold, an upset tummy or even just a cry for no good reason. But her newfound grunt/whine grates on my nerves in a matter of minutes, making my patience for it very short.
She also has impeccable timing for needing Mom and Dad just as we sit down to eat or when we are, say, with our Realtor discussing the purchase of a new home.
Add these together and this normally calm and collected mama was at her breaking point.
For the first time, I needed to walk away from Ella and I cannot begin to describe how terrible I felt.
I couldn't believe I was actually impatient with my baby girl, who is just communicating in the only way she knows how, which made me feel even worse.
Over the course of my short journey in motherhood, I have often thought there should be a mandatory class on the emotional rollercoaster that comes with this territory. I took the childbirth class and the breastfeeding class. I was prepared for the sleepless nights, the dirty diapers and the spit-up.
I was not prepared for:
- The overwhelming failure I felt when I made the decision to exclusively pump milk for my baby rather than nurse because it just wasn't working. Then again, at four months when I decided for my mental health, and ultimately for Ella's, I needed to stop nursing altogether.
- Constantly wondering if I should be engaging Ella every moment she is awake.
- Wondering if it's OK to lay her down on a blanket to play by herself while I go take a shower and make coffee just to feel normal for a bit.
- Disappointment in not knowing what her cries mean after three months of being around her 24/7.
- Second guessing my maternal instinct because, "This is what the book said."
- The sadness of leaving her at daycare and wondering, for the first time, if I should be a stay-at-home mom?
- How guilty I would feel for letting her cry it out sometimes.
- Losing my patience even though she is a baby.
As parents, moreso moms, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure our babies grow up to be healthy, smart, contributing members of society, knowing we did everything in our power to help get them there.
And when we feel like we've failed, we take it very much to heart and become our own worst critics.
It's about that time when you feel like you are on an island by yourself that you happen to look to BabyCenter with a question, finding that same question asked more than once with several more answers from moms just like you. You take comfort in the fact that, even though they are strangers, you share a common bond because you're not the only one who's felt this way.
That's why it's important to help each other through this emotional rollercoaster, and that is a large reason I am a part of Greeley Moms – to offer support and reassurance and to get some myself.
Of course, I have made it through these situations just fine and Ella is no worse for wear; she doesn't remember the time I left her in her swing while I went to take a shower, she adores her babysitter and all her friends at daycare, and even though she didn't nurse for very long, our mama-daughter bond is still unbreakable.
And she doesn't know I had to walk away from her because I was at the end of my rope.
All that matters to her is that I'm there at the end of the day to give her hugs and love…and read her a story.
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For the first time, I needed to walk away from Ella and I cannot begin to describe how terrible I felt.


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The top three winners in the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens 2013 Photography Contest captured images of egrets strutting their breeding plumage.
David Archer of Summerville took first place and a $275 prize with "Snowy Egret," Jim Miller of Mount Pleasant with "Radiant Beauty" took second place and a $225 prize, and third-place along with a $175 prize went to Leah Sparks of Charleston for "Show Off."
Nineteen contestants received 22 honorable mentions and $25 prizes. Three contestants each received two honorable mentions; Kenny McKeithan of Goose Creek, Margaret Proctor of Indian Trial, N.C., and Serena Gerfy of Ladson.
Magnolia and the Lowcountry Photographic Club organized the contest, which was launched two years ago. This year, 118 photographers entered the contest, Doug DeLong, the club's president, said.
The photographers who finished in the honorable mention category are:
• Christine Jones, Goose Creek, "Lighting the Past"
• Christopher Mathes, Ladson, "Through the Glass"
• Cynthia Laeder, Fort Gratiot, Mich., "Bridge of Tranquility"
• David Dodge, Hendersonville, N.C., "Morning Light"
• Harold Hamilton, Wadmalaw Island, "Watchful Eye"
• Jamie Trusty, Goose Creek, "Untitled"
• Jo Beth Paul, Hopkins, S.C., "In Living Color"
• Kathy Allen, Charleston, "Fishing"
• Kenneth Malcom, Summerville, "Footbridge in Black and White"
• Kenny McKeithan, Goose Creek, "Through the Oaks" and "Southern Morning"
• L. Michell Messing, Moncks Corner, "Shine"
• Margaret Proctor, Indian Trail, N.C., "Sitting Pretty"& "Snack Time in the Swamp"
• Mike Brint, Nazareth, Penn., "Fight in Flight"
• Paul Allen, Charleston, "Between Earth and Sky"
• Paul Wightman, Goose Creek, "Baby Alligator in Duckweed"
• Serena Gerfy, Ladson, "Peek-a-Boo" and "Afternoon Stroll"
• Theresa Saunders, Charleston, "So, What's for Dinner?"
• Thomas Moorer, Goose Creek, "Alligator Dreams"
• Tricia Booker, Paris, Va., "In Bloom"
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Lance Bass is quite sure that he's finally found The One.
"I've gone through some bombs for sure, but I know this is the one," Bass told PEOPLE of fiancé Michael Turchin at Wednesday night's Barefoot Wine Pride Kick Off Celebration in New York City. "I could not be happier."
Bass, 35, proposed to Turchin last summer, but the two aren't rushing their wedding planning.
"I literally called Michael last night and said, 'Babe, we have to plan something. I'm tired of telling everyone we haven't done anything yet!' " he said. "We know the flowers we like. We have the colors. We like royal colors, so we know it's going to have that kind of look. I always thought I was royalty in a past life, so I want to feel like a king for one night."
Another thing they know for sure? 'NSYNC will be in attendance. "Yes, there will be a reunion," Bass said. "But I doubt we'll be performing 'Bye Bye Bye.' I think it's a little cheesy if I sing at all at my wedding."
So what part of married life is the singer most looking forward to? "We've always dreamt about having kids," Bass said. "That's one reason I fell in love with Michael. One of the first conversations we had after we were together for a bit was the 'family conversation,' and we were so – I hate to use this word – in sync with each other. We do want to enjoy our first couple years of marriage first, but I definitely want kids before I'm 40."
In the meantime, Bass is keeping very busy. He's developed a new dating app, Sparxx, for the LGBT community, which is set to launch in early July.
"Our community is very stereotyped, and there's a lot of apps out there for the gay community that just feed right into that," he said. "People really want to find love. I can't wait for the first person to come up to me and they're like, 'I met my boyfriend because of you' or 'I got married because of your app.' That is going to make me feel real good."
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In the wake of her State of the State Address, Gov. Jennifer Granholm held a roundtable at TechTown near Wayne State University to discuss those tools available to help small and mid-size businesses grow.
TechTown (or Wayne State University Research and Technology Park) is a 12-block area that concentrates on non-automotive, non-manufacturing fields, such as life science, advanced engineering, alternate energy, information technology, and homeland security.
The governor was joined by representative of the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Centers MI-SBTDC) and the Michigan Credit Union, as well as small business owners who've used the FastTrac NewVenture program, which is designed to help entrepreneurs learn how to successfully launch and grow a new business.
Granholm said TechTown is the first place she came to after the State of the State Address because focus must be on creating jobs by creating employers, in addition to bringing employers to Michigan.
During the address, Granholm said we need to consider changing the culture in Michigan. She reiterated that point at the roundtable, saying families in Michigan have traditionally worked for someone else. She cited her husband's family working for Ford as an example.
"You always go work for someone else," she said. "Why not be that someone else? Why not have all these new college graduates come out and consider starting their own business?"
She also suggested that those workers who have taken buyouts use and multiply that money by starting their own businesses.
Granholm described TechTown as a prime example of how to spawn new industries. She also said the state is going to use the network of the Small Business Technology Development Centers and the FastTrac training programs to take this state-wide, with help from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
"We want to let people know that this training exists, and let them know the experience of those who have taken it," Granholm said, adding that this would remove some of the fear that might be there with regard to starting one's own business.
She added that credit unions across Michigan, in partnership with the MI-SBTDC, will be able to create the opportunity to have $43 million worth of loans to small businesses.
According to Carol Lopucki, state director of the MI-SBTDC, the SBTDC has been working with TechTown and other partners, and rolled out FastTrac quietly over the last year.
"In 2009, we had 527 people go through the new venture, growth venture, tech venture," Lopucki said.
She added that this is the fastest rollout the MI-SBTDC has ever seen, and that within 90 days after the business owners finish the course, between 15 to 30 percent of companies start up and begin hiring.


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Glee Will 'Deal Directly' with Cory Monteith's Death
Monteith's character Finn Hudson will be written out of the show in the third episode which will "deal directly with the incidents involved in Cory's passing and the drug abuse in particular," Reilly said Thursday during a Television Critics Association panel in Los Angeles.
Reilly adds that producer Ryan Murphy will also shoot PSAs with cast members in character, "as friends of [Finn's]. They're going to speak directly to the audience and I think they're going to be very impactful."
Addressing Monteith's tragic death, Reilly said, "You see some people struggling with addiction and it's clear. Cory was a big, open, wonderful life force. He was not a problem. He didn't look like [a drug addict]. He looked straight as an arrow."
Continued Reilly: "He was very open about [drug addiction] in his past; not as open about it in the present ... Everybody was ultimately shocked because it was an accident that happened to somebody struggling with an addiction."
The proceeds from the episode's music sales will go towards a fund in Monteith's name, Reilly said.
Glee will resume production next week; the first episode will air Sept. 26.
Fans of Monteith may make donations in his name to three charities that were especially important to him: Project Limelight Society, which exposes youth living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to the arts; Virgin Unite, founded to support entrepreneurial efforts to better the world; and Chrysalis, which helps homeless and low-income individuals find employment.


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8 cups spinach leaves, packed
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Bring water to a boil. Add the spinach and hold under the water by pushing it down with a slotted spoon or oil skimmer. Cook 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Pour into a colander. Rinse under cold water to set the color. Sprinkle mirin over the spinach and toss to mix. It is now ready to use in making rice, noodle or vegetable sushi. With your hands, squeeze out excess water from the spinach before making the sushi.
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MIFFLINTOWN - It was 1861, the year that began one of the United States' greatest conflicts - the Civil War.
That same year a small group of Lutherans in the Licking Creek Valley of Juniata County decided to begin their own church.
Last Sunday, St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church members, some of whom directly descend from the congregation's founders, celebrated their 150th anniversary at the tree-lined brick church.
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Families attending the St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church 150th anniversary pose for a photo Oct. 16 in Licking Creek.
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Members of St. Stephen's participate in a special service to celebrate the church's 150th anniversary on Oct. 16. During the service, a time capsule was opened from 1986 and then a lunch was held at the Milford Grange Hall. Bishop Robert Driesen of the Upper Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America participated in the service.
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The Rev. Chris Mathiason, who has served the church since 2006, said their anniversary celebration culminated Sunday with a visit from their diocese bishop and a ceremony to open a time capsule from the 125th anniversary.
"History ... tells us who we are, tells our story," Mathiason said. "We connect with the people who came before us."
As the congregation looks back over its history, it is easy to think times were better "back then," Mathiason said.
But the church's ancestors had their challenges, too, he said.
The church was founded during a time of turmoil in the U.S. - the beginning of the Civil War, he said.
Looking back through history helps everyone understand that "faith can get us through the tough times," Mathiason said.
On Dec. 8, 1861, 54 members of the first church dedicated the original church building "to the services of the Triune God according to the forms of the Evangelical Lutheran Church," according to a history of the church.
Almost three decades later, the congregation erected its current building and gave it the name St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church.
In 1914, a storm blew the original steeple and bell tower off St. Stephen's. It was not until 1999 that the congregation replaced the steeple and rededicated the entire building.
As the church grew older and required more modern conveniences, the congregation added a Sunday school and social area, a parking lot and a basement. In the early 1990s, the church remodeled its office and added more Sunday school rooms.
In 2012, the congregation will embark on another large renovation project.
Mathiason said they plan to break ground next year for a new sanctuary, which will be larger than the current one and handicapped accessible.
"The biggest issue is accessibility," Mathiason said. "This church was built in the 1800s when they didn't worry about wheelchairs ..."
The old sanctuary will be converted into a fellowship hall, and new Sunday school rooms will be added, he said.
St. Stephen's held anniversary events throughout the summer, including visits from former pastors, a talent show and pig roast, a memory-sharing day with Don Whitesel, and a history of the Boy Scout troop that the church sponsors, the pastor said.
The church also is compiling a history book, and selling T-shirts and crocks for the celebration.


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CHARLESTON - Coy Flowers, of Lewisburg, used to have a policy of no parades and no marches when it came to his sexuality.
Flowers, who is gay, said he felt that advocacy "was not my thing" and "someone else would take care of it." He maintained that policy until 2008, when he and his partner adopted their son. It was then that he joined with seven other West Virginians to form the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender civil rights advocacy group Fairness WV.
"I never wanted to see a day where my child would look at his two dads and realize in the eyes of the law that we were less than 100 percent citizens," Flowers said.
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Among Fairness WV's top priorities is getting the legislature to pass the Employment and Housing Nondiscrimination Act. HB2856, which was introduced in the House of Delegates last week, would add sexual orientation to the state's Human Rights Act and its Fair Housing Act, making it illegal to base employment and housing based on a person's sexual orientation.
Flowers, president of the organization, said HB2856 is important to West Virginia because of the state's 57,000 adults who identify themselves as part of the LGBT community.
"(That) makes the LGBT community here in the state the second-largest minority," Flowers said.
Del. Stephen Skinner, D-Jefferson, spoke about issues those in the LGBT community face in regard to employment and housing discrimination.
"Most people don't know that it's legal to fire someone from their job just because they are gay," said Skinner, the lead sponsor of the bill. "It is legal to evict someone from their apartment just because they are gay."
While the bill does not apply to companies, associations and educational institutions that are exempt from the religious discrimination provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the bill reads, Skinner wrote in a legislative column for The Journal that there is support for the measure from many members of West Virginia's business community, including Frontier Communications.
The company issued a statement Wednesday that said it supports a discrimination-free work environment.
"Frontier is committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment and that provides equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of their sexual orientation or gender," according to the statement.
The bill, which has passed twice in the Senate, has never passed in the House, Flowers said. While it seems as if, behind the scenes, there is widespread support in the House for the measure, Flowers said it hasn't been easy to truly gauge that.
"It's been difficult because we haven't been able to have a vote on the bill to ascertain publicly exactly the level of support of the issue," Flowers said.
Skinner said the bill has bipartisan support, though it will be close if the bill comes up for a vote.
"Folks are timid and sometimes, in the rest of West Virginia, there's a lack of willingness to realize we've come a long way in the last 30 years, even in the last five years," Skinner said in regard to LGBT civil rights.
Flowers said he thinks it is difficult for lawmakers to pass civil rights legislation in general. Flowers said some delegates have expressed uncertainty in their constituents' opinions on EHNDA.
"As president, I fully understand that some lawmakers would have a hesitancy when voting for a social issues bill," Flowers said. "We hear some delegates say, 'I think that my constituents are just too conservative, that they wouldn't understand.'"
However, Fairness WV polls have shown a surprising amount of support for LGBT civil rights legislation.
"(We) found that in 2010, over 61 percent of West Virginians supported giving employment and housing nondiscrimination rights to the LGBT community in the state," Flowers said.
Skinner said this bill is about equality for all who live in and visit the state.
"What we're talking about here is basic fairness and human dignity," Skinner said. "This is not about special rights. It's about making sure that West Virginia treats everybody equally."
HB2856 is currently being review by the House Energy, Industry & Labor/ Economic Development & Small Business Committee and will be sent next to the House judiciary committee.
Calls to House minority leader Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha, and Del. Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, chairman of the House economic development and small business committee, were not returned to The Journal by time of press.
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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An intentional misspelling and mispronunciation that illustrates the hubris of ever claiming that nothing could possibly go wrong. From the episode of The Simpsons where Itchy and Scratchy Land is described as the place "...where nothing could possiblie go wrong. Oh. That's the first thing that's ever gone wrong." Itchy and Scratchy Land is a takeoff of Jurassic Park, which itself is hubris in theme-park form. Possiblie is used when it is obvious that something probably will go wrong.
I don't need to read the instructions. What could possiblie go wrong?
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Kylie Jenner is back to her bikini-baring ways.
The reality star shared her latest bathing suit snapshot Sunday on Instagram. She and sister Kendall recently debuted their latest collection for PacSun, so it's no surprise the California girl is ready for summer style.
In the photo, Jenner, 16, looks ready for the catwalk, posing in a high-waisted swimsuit as her short hair blows in the wind.
She faced off against big sis Kim Kardashian back in March, when the new Mrs. West posted her own mirror selfie wearing a teeny black bikini Jenner had rocked earlier in the day.
"Yep stole Kylie's bikini…she's not getting it back," Kardashian, 33, wrote on Instagram.
It's hard to blame her: Jenner has the beachy look down.
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A woman was shot by her husband Monday night inside their apartment, police said.
The woman, who is in her 20s, was shot in the arm and the side at the Lake Frederica Apartments, off South Semoran Boulevard near Curry Ford Road. She was awake and breathing when emergency crews took her to the hospital. Authorities did not know the extent of her injuries.
The man told officers the shooting was an accident. He was taken into custody. A medium-caliber semi-automatic handgun believed to have been used in the shooting was found at the apartment along with one shell casing, police said.
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Allen's Coffee Brandy has been called both "the champagne of Maine" and "an epidemic."
At last tally, the best-selling bottle of hard liquor in the state of Maine was the roughly half-gallon container of Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy. The No. 2 seller was . . . the liter-size bottle of Allen's Coffee Brandy.
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on November 30, 2012 - 5:24 PM
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Danielle N. Kellogg remains free on bail after a felony hearing was held late Friday afternoon in Brant Town Court, charging her with drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter when she caused a crash Tuesday morning on Southwestern Boulevard that claimed the life of 7-month-old Baylee Marie Dion.
Kellogg, 24, of Brant, kept a stony-faced expression when she appeared before Brant Justice Peter F. Gugino.
Kellogg, wearing blue jeans, a black jacket with a gray hooded sweatshirt, boots and wire-rimmed glasses, was represented by defense attorney Tom Casey. She declined to have the charges of vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated read in open court.
She was released on $20,000 bail she previously posted with a stern admonition from Gugino.
"No driving, no drinking," he said. "If you're found drinking or driving between now and the court date ... "
The justice's voice and apparent threat of consequences could only be heard by counsel at the bench.
Steve Boyd, who is representing Scott Dion and Denise Hine – Baylee's parents – in expected civil litigation against Kellogg, believes Gugino was "trying to send a message to [Kellogg]."
"He's going to throw her back in jail if she does it again," Boyd said.
Boyd said Baylee's parents met with a funeral director earlier Friday and they were "focused on remembering their daughter."
"This was hard," Boyd said of the day.
A private memorial service for Baylee is scheduled Wednesday in Hamburg Wesleyan Church, Boyd added.
During Friday's court proceeding, Kellogg used a hoodie to cover her head as she walked into and out of the courtroom. She and her friends did not pause to answer reporters' questions.
Her attorneys also declined to comment.
In the courtroom Friday, a small group of friends of the Dion and Hine families gathered. Some cried during the short proceeding.
Others hugged and wept quietly.
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Adjective: being comfortable cuddling with both men and women. This can be thought of in the sexual orientation continuum as the first nontrivial step away from being strictly heterosexual in terms of comfort with physical contact from men and women.
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An armed man sprints away from law enforcement and officers hurriedly make chase.
ACLU weighs in on police body-mounted cameras
For the American Civil Liberties Union, law enforcement's use of wearable cameras comes with inherent privacy concerns. If handled correctly, the organization determined, the added benefit of police accountability could outweigh the drawback.
Ideally, the ACLU said in a report that was released Oct. 9, police officers who are equipped with body cameras would run the devices continuously throughout their shifts. Freedom to turn the cameras on and off would greatly diminish the technology's ability to provide a check and balance against law enforcement, the organization reported.
To restrict potential invasions of privacy, the ACLU said, officers must take great care to inform citizens that they are being recorded, especially when entering someone's home. Recordings should be limited to uniformed officers and marked vehicles, with the exception of SWAT raids and planned uses of force, the ACLU determined.
The ACLU stated that it will continue to monitor the impact of body cameras. The organization will re-evaluate its stance on the technology if law enforcement agencies don't implement sound policies that justify the use of body cameras.
To read the ACLU's report in full, visit the organization's website, www.aclu.org.
Officers fire off several rounds, killing the man, and authorities are left poring over varying witness accounts and those of first responders as they piece together crucial details in an investigation.
Every law enforcement agency is faced with this scenario at some point.
In August, a Hanahan police officer fatally shot a 22-year-old man who ran from a traffic stop and fired a pistol at officers as he fled.
More recently, a 51-year-old man was killed in an encounter with Charleston County sheriff's deputies on Oct. 12.
Oftentimes, the only video of such incidents comes from cameras that are perched on the dashboards of cruisers at the scene. Even that is subject to scrutiny as much of the action moves in and out of the camera's view directly in front of the vehicle.
This, in part, is why many departments across the country are equipping their officers with cameras that can be clipped onto uniforms or even worn as eyeglasses to create a visual record of everything the officer sees.
Body cameras aren't common in the Lowcountry, but Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said he believes that will change in coming years.
"This is the future of policing. In 10 years, it'll be just like issuing a gun and a badge," Mullen said.
To Mullen, the primary benefit of body cameras is that they provide a clear, independent view of any situation.
"If I'm walking into a house, I have that video. I'm in a foot pursuit, I have that video. If all I have is the camera in my car, then all those things outside of a traffic stop are basically not covered," Mullen said.
Law enforcement agencies must weigh a bevy of policy concerns when using any piece of surveillance equipment, Mullen said. One large topic of discussion is the privacy of citizens.
"If I go into your house and I'm just there on a routine call, do you want me recording all the things that are in your house? If your house is a mess, do you want that to be recorded and stored somewhere for a period of time," Mullen questioned.
Charleston police engaged in talks with the city's residents and the American Civil Liberties Union before installing security cameras along the peninsula's streets. Mullen said the department would do the same thing before moving forward with any new surveillance technology.
"As important as the piece of equipment is, the policies are just as important in terms of how you're actually going to use this equipment," Mullen said.
Charleston police will begin to test the cameras as soon as next year. But Mullen said there isn't room in the budget right now to cover the hundreds of thousands of dollars that some agencies have spent to outfit their departments.
This past summer, the Greensboro Police Department in North Carolina spent $311,500 to purchase 295 Taser Axon Flex cameras.
Greensboro police Sgt. Chris Schultheis said $163,500 of that bill was paid through the efforts of the Greensboro Police Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization that helps raise funds for the department's needs beyond what is already covered by tax dollars. The rest was paid with a federal stimulus grant.
Schultheis said the department has used the cameras to document a number of manhunts that ended in the use of force, as well as an encounter with an emotionally disturbed juvenile who assaulted an officer with a knife.
None of those cases would have been captured by a stationary dash-cam. The footage provides "powerful evidence for prosecution of offenses" in such high liability cases, he said.
Schultheis said the cameras also have helped the department identify potential training needs for its officers, while eliminating frivolous complaints.
"They have helped de-escalate situations just by their presence," Schultheis said in an email. "We have seen subjects' behavior change once they realize they were being recorded."
When asked if there's enough of a local need to warrant investing in the cameras right away, Mullen responded that "it's very difficult to quantify prevention."
Mullen said ongoing maintenance and the cost of data storage would far exceed the one-time expense for the actual cameras.
"What I can say is video has the opportunity to reduce the number of false complaints, which saves a lot of time and energy. It does have the opportunity to assist in lawsuits because it can show that what people allege happened, didn't happen. ... And it does provide a benefit to the community. It gives the community a sense of trust and it helps to alleviate concerns that the police are acting inappropriately and unprofessionally," Mullen said.
A few Charleston officers have already purchased their own cameras to wear in the field.
Some motorcycle officers in Summerville also use the cameras because they don't have the in-car option, police Capt. Jon Rogers said.
Charleston County sheriff's deputies have considered using the body cameras, but Maj. Jim Brady said cost is a factor in whether the department will move in that direction.
Dash-cam video captured by sheriff's deputies in the Oct. 12 shooting provided a limited account of the events that led to the death of 51-year-old Derryl Drayton. Drayton ran beyond one camera's frame as officers chased behind him. He appeared blurry and obscured by headlights in a separate video.
Deputies reported that they fired upon the man only after he wounded a deputy with a knife. Attempts to subdue him with Tasers were unsuccessful.
The Charleston branch of the NAACP has questioned deputies' accounts and whether the fatal shooting was justified after witnesses reported seeing the man's arms raised and his back turned shortly before he was fatally wounded.
Brady declined to comment on whether a body camera would have been beneficial in the case. He spoke in general terms when he said that authorities often review critical incidents to determine if there are existing technology or techniques that might benefit future events.
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It's well understood that Google is
the world's most popular search engine. The company runs over one million data
centers and servers around the world, and is well known by computer users of
all levels from beginners to professionals. But as of late, this success is
being viewed as internet dominance by both the Federal Trade Commission and the
Justice Department.
Google is
an American multinational public corporation that runs the world's most
successful search engine, and also owns the Android
operating system. The company is also involved in cloud computing and
advertising technologies. It was incorporated as a privately held company in
1998, with its initial public offering in 2004. The company has grown
tremendously over the years, and now processes over one billion search requests
per day.
Google is looking to expand its presence even more by purchasing ITA Software Inc.,
which is an airline ticketing software company. This transaction will cost
Google $700 million if it decides to go through with the purchase.
But this
purchase could cost Google more than just the $700 million. According to recent
reports, the FTC is looking to launch an antitrust investigation of
Google's internet dominance, but the investigation will be pursued only if the
Justice Department decides whether it will challenge the ITA Software
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and the Justice Department are not the only agencies looking into Google's web
dominance. Last November, the European Commission launched a
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to Bloomberg, the Justice Department
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quote: It sounds like you don't know what competition is. You say there will be competition when they stop being the best... do you have any idea the barrier to entry for the search market.
quote: The fact you don't understand how it's a market either is absurd, it's about ad revenue and leveraging the information that comes with serving the entire populations search requests. They're not giving it to you for free because they like you.
quote: When was the last time you tried any of the other search engines? Bing is much better than it used to be, I mainly use google but I will often search both if I'm trying to be thorough, I still find bing's image search to be better, and if I want to see satellite images I usually check both sites to see which is newer.
quote: Duh? Everything Google offers is free, or virtually, free to the consumer. That was my point. Nobody is being "hurt" if Google is the only show in town. Hello??
quote: and you know what, we don't WANT competition.
quote: This is just more anti-business bullyism by the government. Nothing more to see here.
quote: As long as they are delivering a better product that anyone else can even fathom (and they are), why do we need Government roadblocks? There is no "anti competitive" practice going on here, because there IS nobody who can compete and never has been.
quote: It's more about how Google is branching out into everything related to the Internet.
quote: Sounds a bit hypocritical to say you don't want competition in this industry and to then say the government is anti-business for starting to question Google's dominance over everything related to the Internet.
quote: So I obviously don't dislike some of the things they've done, but if they start buying all these companies and patents that pertain to the Internet, networking, and e-commerce, then how could anybody possibly come up with something else to compete with them?
quote: To summarize, Google so far has been a good company to deal with, but at what point does their reach into the realm of the Internet exceed what any single company should have?


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LISBON - In Columbiana County Municipal Court Friday Dipakkumar Patel, 46, U.S. Route 62, Salem, was fined $250 for selling alcohol at Barnett's Drive Through to a 19-year-old man.
A March 4 pretrial was set for Chadwick Mercer, 19, Winona Road, Salem, cited with underage consumption after he allegedly bought a six-pack of beer at Barnett's Drive Through on Dec. 27.
Stephen Lee Yeagley, 26, Glamorgan Street, Alliance, was fined $100 and required 20 hours community service for driving under suspension and failure to control.
Paul Faulkner, 18, Hoopes Road, Salem, was fined $100 and had his license suspended for 180 days for possession of marijuana.
A Jan. 15 pretrial was set for Kari Lynn Finch, 39, Oak Grove Road, Salineville, cited with a seat belt violation.
A Jan. 17 pretrial was set for Rebecca H. Stoffer, 36, last known address East Eighth Street, Salem, cited with misuse of credit cards.
A Feb. 11 pretrial was set for Sean M. Hicks, 18, state Route 558, Leetonia, cited with disorderly conduct.
A Feb. 25 pretrial was set for Stephen P. Flynn, 42, Bacon Avenue, East Palestine, charged with OVI first offense, OVI refusal with prior within 20 years and driving under OVI suspension.
A Feb. 28 pretrial was set for Matthew V. Tomsha, 61, Benton Road, Salem, cited with hit skip and failure to control.
March 4 pretrials were set for Susan C. Crean, 19, Benton Road, Salem, and Joshua R. Heacock, 20, Benton Road, Salem, cited with underage consumption after the two were found in a pickup parked in the area of Washington Street and Mound Avenue, Salem, at 4:58 a.m. celebrating her birthday with alcohol and other activity.
A March 11 pretrial was set for William H. Hutchins Jr., 23, Penn Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with OVI third offense, driving under suspension, furnishing false information and speeding.


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Rosie Chaney of Buffalo's Riverside neighborhood is a 34-year-old mother of five who, despite her own struggles as a single parent, occasionally takes on the burden of caring for other people's children.
Earlier this year, she took into her already-crowded home a trio of siblings whose own mother was no longer able to assume the responsibility.
"The kids were friends of my children [and] from the neighborhood," Chaney explained recently, while volunteering at the Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo facility at 54 Riverdale Ave. in Riverside.
"They started coming to my house, saying they were hungry. Their mother was on drugs really, really bad, and I was the caretaker for them like every time the mother would get … in trouble or go to jail," she added.
Chaney's own children – a 14-year-old son, Davontay, and four daughters, Malina, 12; Aliya, 10; Arianna, 7; and Alissa, 3 – are often a handful all on their own, she confessed. Chaney said she is greatly helped by the programs at the Boys & Girls Club, where she and her children can often be found after school lets out.
Still, it bothers her to confront the specter of other children in need of love and attention when nobody else is available to fill the void. Chaney was not a friend of the woman whose children – two boys, ages 14 and 10, and a 12-year-old girl – she took in last spring and nurtured throughout the summer.
"It was taking a toll on me," Chaney said of the abandoned children. "They were stealing, and they were showing my kids, you know, not so nice behaviors."
"I knew that they could do better. I knew that I could teach them," added Chaney, who said she was moved to take them in because "I wanted them to be together, [and] they were going to get split up."
Eventually, the children were placed with another relative. Chaney said still-fresh memories of her own hardscrabble upbringing in Riverside and Kenmore spur her feelings of responsibility toward children who are neglected.
"I have love, and a lot of these kids are looking for it. A lot of them could [not] care less about the material things, you know what I mean? Those kids that I had, they wanted nothing but hugs from me. They wanted nothing but time. They wanted nothing but clean clothes to wear," she said.
Estranged from her husband and unable to work because of a disability, Chaney struggles to provide materially for her own children, but she does what she can. Providing gifts for them at Christmas is a difficult proposition. They could all use new boots and winter clothing as the season sets in, she said.
"Every cent that I do get goes to my kids. I struggle to look for a T-shirt for myself," said Chaney.
"If I have a little bit of extra money, I try to buy something for myself, and I just can't, because Arianna needs this, Devontay needs this, Malina needs that, you know?" she added.
Even with limited resources, Chaney said, she relishes being a mother. "I don't think God put me on the Earth to be anything else. I think He put me on this Earth to be a mother, because that's what I'm good at," she said.
"A child is a blessing to have," Chaney added.
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I agree with these two sentiments. The government is already dictating to business property owners what can or cannot be allowed within thier business establishments based on "opinion of what is proper", ie: smoking.Originally posted by Dave:
I gather that some on this board would like to restrict the rights of the property owners based on their own opinions of what is proper... There are far too many restrictions on property use now and we do not need any more.
I have no interest in protecting you from yourself but unrestricted sale/use of explosives to anyone plays right into the hands of terrorists. I am no friend of terrorists.I don't like all the fireworks either, but I see no problem with people being able to purchase and use them if that is what they want to do. Those who oppose the sale and/or use are just another group of those trying to protect us from ourselves and impose their will on everyone else.b
How do you know that some of them aren't neo-conservative fascists?I, for one, did not work all those years so that I could afford to buy this place and then have a bunch of liberals and socialists tell me how to live on it.
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4 'Victims' We Have to Stop Feeling Sorry For
#2. People Who Get Offended at Comedy Clubs
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Hey, you like rape jokes, don't you? Of course you might, which means of course you might not, too. It's a total crap shoot. That's what makes rape jokes so fun to tell! You just throw them up there and hope for the best. They're like the Hail Mary of comedy.
If you're the type who disagrees with the above sentiment, though, a rape joke at a comedy club can be a lot like a foul ball or a broken bat at a baseball game. If you choose to buy a ticket, you do so knowing full well one might come flying at your head.
That's what happened last summer at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles when, according to the version of events that work best for the premise of this article, Daniel Tosh popped in to do a surprise set. At some point, the talk on stage turned to what subjects can and cannot be considered funny.
That's where the details get hazy, but it's alleged that a woman in the audience yelled out "Actually, rape jokes are never funny!" or something to that effect, to which Tosh replied, "Wouldn't it be funny if that chick got raped by like five guys?".
Of course, they're both wrong, but we can't just collectively settle on that conclusion and power on as a team, so instead, the incident turned into a gigantic controversy that resulted in halfhearted apologies and everything.
Should it have, though? Surprise! I'm going to say no! For one thing, by all accounts, she spoke up first. Daniel Tosh didn't just out of the blue look at someone in the audience and make that joke. That would be fucking insane. No, she yelled something at him, a comic onstage at a comedy club. That makes her a heckler and, to put it in the most unfortunate way possible given the context of this discussion, that means she was kind of asking for it. You're allowed to be offended all you want at a comedy club, you just have to be quiet about it while you're at the club. Those are the rules and they've been in place for as long as we've been expecting people to not talk at porn theaters or jerk off at the library. That might be a hard pill to swallow, but the times when the crowd or ownership at a comedy club is going to side with the person shouting random stuff from their table are going to be rare.
That's especially true if they're mistaken about what they're shouting about. If you remember the Daniel Tosh rape joke controversy, you might remember that a few short days later, video of a bit by a comic named Ever Mainard started making the rounds at sites like Jezebel.com, which dubbed it "A rape joke that will actually make you laugh."
So apparently the Daniel Tosh rape joke wasn't racist enough? How rare is that? The point is, the woman at the center of the Tosh controversy was wrong about a lot of things, but the most important of those things was mistakenly believing she had the right to share her opinion in the middle of a comedy show.
And don't worry, if someone crosses a line with the audience in a really profound way, it's a problem that will work itself out when people stop asking that person to tell jokes at comedy clubs. If you don't believe that, find me some video of Michael Richards doing stand-up after 2006.
#1. People Who Get Too Close to Wild Animals
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It's time to start giving these animals a goddamn break, everybody. We already eat them, which isn't something we can really be faulted for, because they are delicious.
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Especially like this
On top of that, we go and make things worse by constantly infringing on their territory. If you live in even a moderately sized city or town, right now there's likely a structure of some sort being built in an area that used to just be a wide open space where the wild animals of the world could frolic in peace. Again, not our fault. Animals should learn to use guns if they don't want strip malls in their living room.
There are some places, though, where the animals are still in control. And you know what? They can have every one of those places. If mankind hasn't built a Starbucks there yet, we probably don't want it anyway.
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Unfortunately, that means if you choose to go to one of these places and the animals decide you have to stay (typically as a meal), the rest of us aren't required to fight them for you. Expecting that kind of support out of people only leads to disaster. That's the lesson we learned watching that Grizzly Man documentary, where a bear loving animal activist named Timothy Treadwell dragged his then girlfriend to Alaska so they could live with the bears for a while. Like, literally live with the bears.
Pictured: Fuck this.
She apparently wasn't too keen on the idea because, again, bears.
Sure enough, Treadwell overstayed his welcome and got attacked by a particularly unruly bear. Treadwell's girlfriend tried to intervene on his behalf but, sadly, both of them were killed.
Only one of them should have been, though, and that's the one who thought living with bears in the first place was a good idea. It's high time the rest of us start letting people do shit like this by themselves. For all of the same reasons mentioned in the "absurd adventures" entry and more, daredevils who tempt fate by buddying up with wild animals are just going to have to start figuring that shit our on their own when things inevitably go wrong.
That goes for people who choose to live in the wild and those who bring the wild to them alike. If you want to have a pet chimpanzee, you better learn how to fight a chimpanzee. The rest of us shouldn't have to learn just to accommodate your need to own wacky pets.
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But the day got away from me and there's just no time! sometimes to even write up a quick post anymore. I was emailing with another blogger about this and he said hey, at least you're not ignoring your kids to keep the blog!
(Good perspective! I will let that make me feel better about myself for a moment even though I am super frustrated that I never get to write anymore!)
But seriously, I've been putting this off for over 7 months (rebuilding my stroller) and within just about an hour I had it done. It felt so good.
I had to take off everything- fabric, screws, thingamajigs from the old frame and transfer them over to the new frame. And then re-attach the good wheels and the new wheel. All without ANY instructions. Just by using my own two eyes!
For those of you wondering, the stroller is a Phil & Ted's Vibe that I won from Mom Generations, Mod*Mom, and Tots On The Go last year. It also has a doubles kit so that you can easily attach or take off to use it as a single stroller or double. (The smaller child goes in back) and it is really super awesome. And here is the post where I killed it.
This is what remained of the old skeleton:
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A term coined by well known Australian social commentors Rampaging Roy Slaven and HG Nelson for the "glans penis".
Warney's skillful use of the bedflute has made him a legend in the horizontal folkdancing community.
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A wonderful colloquialism for the one and only male sexual organ: The peen.
Hey Ashleigh, how about you come over and play a little tune on the ole' bed flute?
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The Stetson women's tennis team will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C. to compete in the Wake Forest Invitational this weekend. The Hatters are one of 16 teams competing in the event.
Play is set to begin Friday morning at 9 a.m. with the first set of singles matches. There will be a total of seven singles draws and four doubles draws.
In the A Singles draw, Sara Lazarevic will take on Antonia Kolovou (ETSU) and Andrea Crespo will face Karolina Chernaya (Campbell). In the B singles draw, Diana Bukajeva will play against Lisa Grosselius (UNCC).
The D singles draw has Lindsey Cable facing Anna Abadias (Richmond) on Friday morning. Jen Miller will take on Noelle Kaufman (Navy) in the E singles draw.
The final two Hatters will be competing in the F singles draw, with MayaBlue Stauffer-MacDowell playing against Mackenzie Lasure (App. State) and Rachel Luke playing against Jamie Grinberg (UNCG).
In doubles, the Hatters have duos competing in the A, B, and C draws. In the A doubles draw, Diana Bukajeva and Andrea Crespo will play against Brites Moniz-Soares and Elaina Cummer (Davidson).
In the B doubles draw, Sara Lazarevic and Jen Miller will take on Nisha Crouser and Elise Held (Davidson). Lindsey Cable and MayaBlue Stauffer-MacDowell will take on Vivian Tsui and Irina Toidze (WVU) in the C Singles draw.


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The mass takeover of the world by porn, resulting in nobody leaving their computers or tvs due to being completely infatuated with porn.
I'm wacking off, my parents are in the other room masturbating, my grandparents are fapping in their tombs. We're experiencing global porning.
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