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The year 2012 began with the promise of prosperity and ended with a doomsday prophecy and the prospect of the nation tumbling off a fiscal cliff.
2012s top-viewed stories on postandcourier.com
Post and Courier readers have different approaches to stories when theyre viewing postandcourier.com. Here is a brief outline of the most-viewed items on the website in 2012.How readers view postandcourier.com on mobile devices:5. Motorola DroidX4. Motorola Droid RAZR3. Amazon Kindle Fire2. Apple iPhone1. Apple iPadWhat theyre viewing online:News5.Daniel Island resident Jason Schall tells incredible fish tale, and its true4.Video of Folly Beach arrest draws mixed reaction3.Infant boy killed when mauled by family dog in Ridgeville as father slept2.Folly Road crash ends dream1.Really Photogenic Guy in Cooper River Bridge Run goes viralSports5.USC football gets big site upgrade4.Pro wrestling blog3. South Carolina Stingrays blog2.Clemson Tigers blog1.USC Gamecocks blogPhoto galleries5.St. Patricks Day at Park Circle4.Ravenel Bridge standoff3.29th annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival2.Sullivans Polar Bear Plunge1.Lowcountry FloodingMost-viewed daily items5.AP News4.Letters to the Editor3.Local news index2.Weather1.ObituariesMost-viewed non-news items5. Automotive classifieds4. Real estate classifieds3. Events calendar pages2. Monster job search pages1. Obits
No, the past year didnt bring the robust economic recovery we all had hoped for. And the folks in Washington remain locked in a Festivus-worthy airing of grievances over competing plans to keep the country solvent.
But at least the campaign robocalls have stopped and the world didnt explode like a cheap piñata when the Mayan calendar finally ran out of pages.
The Chinese dubbed 2012 the Year of the Dragon, and it certainly had its moments of fire and bluster.
We re-elected the nations first black president after a contentious campaign, saw a superstorm hobble a metropolis and pinched pennies to keep our families afloat amid rising prices and stagnant salaries.
We watched athletes chase greatness at the Olympic games in London and saw just how low a human could sink in the massacre of innocent school children in Connecticut.
The year was no less memorable here in the Lowcountry and not just because of the Blake Lively-Ryan Reynolds wedding in Mount Pleasant. In fact, we couldnt even fit all the big stories in a standard Top 10 list this time around.
Our list largely is composed of local stories, but a few of them are so huge that they affect the entire state, including folks in the Charleston area.
So as we prepare to pop the bubbly Monday night and look to the promise of change around the corner, let us not forget these stories that moved and captivated us over the past dozen months.
Massively hacked
In perhaps the mother of all state government failures, some 3.8 million South Carolina taxpayers learned this fall that their tax and financial information had been compromised in a massive breach by an international computer hacker.
The hacker, whose identity remains a mystery, most likely infiltrated the state Department of Revenues computers through a malicious email, then harvested a bounty of highly sensitive information.
Gov. Nikki Haley initially insisted that no state employees were to blame and that nothing could have been done to prevent the hack. Cyber-security experts hired by the state, however, found that the attack was not that sophisticated, and probably could have been prevented with a $25,000 dual-password system.
In all, the breach resulted in the theft of records of 3.8 million individual taxpayers, 1.9 million dependents, 699,900 businesses, 3.3 million bank accounts and 5,000 now-expired credit card numbers. Those affected are now at risk for fraud and identity theft.
The Revenue Department this month got permission to take out a loan of more than $20 million to address the mess. About $12 million will cover the states contract with Experian for a year of taxpayer credit monitoring and other services.
I-526 gets the nod
After years of hand-wringing and heated debate, Charleston County Council voted this month to move forward with the long-stalled completion of Interstate 526, a project that has been on the books since the 1970s.
Council adopted a plan to finish 526 with a parkway that will cross James and Johns islands and offer a consistent speed limit of 45 mph. The price tag: $558 million.
The 5-4 vote came after decades of lobbying and wrangling. Project supporters argued that the road will improve traffic safety and congestion. Opponents said it will just promote sprawl and increased development, especially on Johns Island.
County Council had been reluctant to build the road, but it finally opted to do so after the city of Charleston made a failed bid to take over the project.
Still, it will be years before construction actually begins. The project faces a lengthy federal approval process and likely challenges to environmental permits.
Folly bans booze
Folly Beach, long a laid-back bastion of seaside chillitude, after a series of rowdy, alcohol-fueled dust-ups wore out the patience of many locals.
Folly had been the only local beach where drinking by the ocean was allowed, but some sloppy behavior turned the tide on that policy.
The proverbial straw arrived on July 4th, when an Independence Day gathering turned into a booze-fueled riot that resulted in a mess of garbage, some injured cops and a stack of arrest reports. After a trial dry-out, island leaders voted in September to permanently ban booze on the beach.
James Island becomes a town again
The fourth time proved to be the charm for the thrice-spurned town of James Island.
Three times since the 1990s, voters in the unincorporated part of James Island had formed a town, only to see Charleston challenge its legality and the S.C. Supreme Court dissolve it.
This time around, town supporters used the Supreme Court ruling as a road map for building a municipality that would survive another legal challenge. They shrunk the proposed boundaries and left out neighborhoods such as Riverland Terrace to ensure that the town would be geographically contiguous, as state law requires.
That proved to be the magic bullet, and islanders celebrated when Charleston Mayor Joe Riley announced in June that he would not mount another legal challenge against the town, which has about 11,000 residents.
ReVille goes to prison
Prolific molester Louis Skip ReVille began a 50-year prison term in June after pleading guilty to sexually abusing 23 boys in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties.
His crimes dated to 2002, when he began preying upon boys at his alma mater, The Citadel, where he was a summer-camp counselor. Before he was caught, ReVille cycled through nearly a dozen coaching, teaching and church posts where he found new victims. In all, he admitted to molesting more than 40 boys between the ages of 10 and 17, authorities said.
One of the victims spoke at ReVilles sentencing, describing him as a disease to society.
Boeing rolls out first S.C.-made Dreamliner
Some folks snickered when Boeing announced that it would build a new production plant in South Carolina, a state that had never built an airplane.
But the Palmetto State had the last laugh in April when Boeing rolled out its first locally produced Dreamliner in a ceremony filled with pomp and pageantry.
The massive factory, which opened in summer 2011, delivered its first locally made plane in October and its second this month, both to Air India.
Boeing also has taken steps to potentially triple the size of its footprint in North Charleston, laying claim to more than 800 additional acres around its 787 plant.
DeMint resigns, Scott makes history
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint stunned supporters and critics alike this month when he abruptly announced plans to resign his seat to lead the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank.
The South Carolina Republican, a tea party favorite, was in the midst of his second six-year term and wasnt up for re-election until 2016.
From a fast-jockeying pack of contenders, Gov. Nikki Haley chose Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Scott to replace DeMint.
Scott, scheduled to be sworn in within days, becomes the first black senator from South Carolina, the first from the South since Reconstruction and only the seventh in the history of the U.S. Senate.
Adding to the buzz around DeMints move was an announcement by former Gov. Mark Sanford that he is mulling a run for Scotts seat, a post he held from 1995 to 2001. Sanford has largely stayed out of the limelight since leaving office in early 2011, his political career derailed by a 2009 affair with an Argentine woman, now his fiancée.
The dumping ground
The Francis Marion National Forest is a lush expanse that straddles two counties, offers abundant recreation and is home to deer, bear and wild boar.
This year, it became known for a more sinister purpose as well after a series of bodies turned up in its wooded crannies.
In February, 34-year-old David Hedrick shot his fiancée, Dara Watson, 30, in the head and buried her in a shallow grave in the forest. The Mount Pleasant man, head of a surety company, kept up a ruse for days to mask her disappearance before fatally shooting himself.
In late August, Dana Woods, an 18-year-old college student, and June Guerry, a 22-year-old mother and Walmart employee, turned up dead in the forest near Cordesville after heading out to run errands. Two 23-year-old cousins, Caleb Bradd Matlock of Summerville and Arthur Ray Chavis of Cordesville, were later charged with murder and robbery in their deaths.
Then, in September, Robert Moultrie, 31, of Conway, was found shot to death inside a vehicle abandoned 20 yards off Brick Church Road. Investigators later filed murder charges against Huger residents Patrick Dwayne Kinloch, 22, and Joshua Michael Pruitt, 18, citing robbery as the motive for the killing.
Crosstown gets a makeover
For decades, the Septima Clark Parkway (a.k.a. The Crosstown) has been a crucial artery for the city of Charleston, but one prone to serious flooding when the rains come and the tide is high.
Many a commuter has endured a white-knuckle ride on this urban ribbon of road, waves splashing over the hoods of their cars as they try to avoid stalling out in the salty soup.
This year the city completed a long-awaited first phase of a $154 million drainage-improvement project designed to take the sog out of your slog along the Crosstown.
But dont put away your hip-waders just yet. The project is still several years away from completion, with deep tunnels and pumping stations needed to help clear thousands of gallons of water that show up during torrential downpours.
Suspected arsonist nabbed
After years of detective work, an investigative task force in November made its first arrest in a string of arsons that terrorized peninsula residents for the past decade.
In all, more than 80 suspicious fires had broken out since the early 2000s in a tightly packed area bisected by the Crosstown. The city put an arson task force to work, hung out a $50,000 reward, slapped up surveillance cameras and beat the streets in search of clues.
A complex undercover operation led last month to the arrest of 55-year-old Kenneth Boone, a Charleston contractor who had done repair work on at least a couple of the homes that burned. Boone is charged in connection with three fires a 2010 blaze on Montagu Street and two more in rural Hollywood. It remains to be seen if he will be charged with setting more of the fires or if other suspects will emerge from the shadows.
S.C.s winning streak ends
South Carolinas streak of picking the GOP presidential nominee came to an end this year when its primary victor, Newt Gingrich, failed to go the distance.
In all five contested GOP presidential primaries since 1980, whoever won here had become the partys nominee. Palmetto State Republicans hoped to continue that streak in 2012 after solidly backing Gingrich in the January primary.
Gingrich, however, won only one other contest (in his native Georgia) before running out of steam and throwing in the towel in April.
Charleston named top tourism spot
Sure, we get our share of tourists here in the Holy City nearly 4.5 million a year, to be exact. But who knew we had better chops than Rome, London, Paris and all those other fancy destinations?
In October, Conde Nast Traveler named Charleston the top travel city on the planet. The renowned travel magazine also ranked the city as the nations No. 1 tourist destination for the second year in a row. Charleston had missed out on the top planetary spot the previous year, finishing third behind Sydney, Australia, and Florence, Italy.
Apartment complex fire kills three
An explosion shattered a sunny May afternoon in Goose Creek when a fireball erupted from the top floor of a 16-unit apartment building in the Pine Harbour complex.
By the time the flames had been extinguished, the building was a wreck, 46 people were homeless and three were dead 19-year-old Morgan Abernathy, her 4-year-old cousin, Sammy Garbe, and 69-year-old military veteran Joseph Raeth.
Investigators found the remnants of a methamphetamine lab in the unit where Morgan and Sammy died.
Morgans father, Shonni Scooter Abernathy, 40, and Gerald McCabe, 33, were indicted on federal drug charges in July, and both face the possibility of life in prison.
Prosecutors have also won drug indictments against 35-year-old Alberta Pierson, who is Abernathys common-law wife, and Michael Still, 19, the boyfriend of Abernathys and Piersons dead daughter.
Mary Lee takes a shine to Charleston
The Lowcountry picked up a new mascot of sorts this year with the arrival of Mary Lee, a 16-foot-long, 3,456-pound great white shark. Mary Lee was tagged by OCEARCH, a shark research group, in New England in September. She made her first appearance in the Lowcountry in November, and seemed to take a liking to the place. After spending the better part of a month around Savannah, the shark apparently caught wind of Charlestons Conde Nast ranking and headed north to hang out off Kiawah Island.
Vicious dogs
The past year brought its share of vicious-dog stories, including a pair of maulings that killed young boys.
The first attack occurred in April, when an adopted Labrador retriever mix snatched 2-month-old Aiden McGrew from a bouncy swing and mauled him inside his familys Ridgeville home.
His father, Quintin McGrew, was home at the time, but sleeping when the attack occurred. He is now awaiting trial on a charge of unlawful conduct toward a child.
In May, another dog attack took the life of Mount Pleasant toddler JaMarr Tiller after the 2-year-old wandered out of his home. He was bitten repeatedly by dogs that a family member had been feeding. An autopsy revealed 193 puncture wounds on the boys 34-pound body.
After an August coroners inquest, a jury ruled the toddlers death an accident.
Meanwhile, sheriffs deputies and police spent weeks rounding up roaming feral dogs blamed for killing a half-dozen cats and scaring residents on James Island. By September, animal control officers had captured 13 of the wild canines.
The sheriff and the slap
Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon found himself in the middle of a federal civil rights investigation after he admitted to slapping a suspect after an intense, high-speed chase in January.
The episode began when Timothy McManus, a 31-year-old driver with a suspended license, nearly collided with Cannons cruiser in Mount Pleasant, deputies said. The encounter ignited a 25-mile chase through East Cooper that reached speeds of 120 mph and ended when Cannon and deputies shot out the tires of McManus pickup in the Francis Marion National Forest.
Cannon admitted to slapping McManus as he sat handcuffed in a sheriffs vehicle.
The sheriff, set to begin his seventh term on Monday, was eventually cleared of civil rights violations. But he did face a state charge of third-degree assault and battery, for which he enrolled in a pre-trial intervention program for first-time offenders.
North Charleston rail deal
A rancorous chapter in government relations came to a close this month when the city of North Charleston and the state reached a settlement that clears a path for a rail yard on the former Navy base.
The city fought the states plan for years, racking up about $750,000 in legal bills, because of fears that rail traffic would harm neighborhoods north of the base. The city was also miffed about the secretive manner in which the state went about acquiring the land.
The final deal lets the state proceed with a rail yard on the base with north and south rail access. In return, the city gets $8 million, more than 100 acres of the waterfront land at the north end of the former base around Riverfront Park, and an agreement that the state will undertake a major transportation study aimed at improving rail and truck traffic in the city.
The state also will pay off $6.6 million in debt associated with redevelopment work on the former base, which included creating the park.
Bridge stand-off
Commuters ran into a traffic jam of epic proportions one afternoon in February after an upset man blocked the Ravenel Bridge with the words Stay Away, Back Off and Game Over painted on the windows of his Lexus.
The move forced police to close the span, disrupting thousands of motorists during rush hour and causing gridlock on local roads for miles around.
The man behind the blockade, 38-year-old Phillip DeClemente of Mount Pleasant, held police at bay for more than two hours before surrendering. He then spent the next month in a psychiatric hospital.
DeClemente later told The Post and Courier that he wasnt suicidal, didnt have a bomb and had no plans to harm the bridge. He said he was trying to expose what he described as a smear campaign against him and ongoing harassment by police and private investigators.
Ethics and transparency
The importance of ethics became a central theme around the state capitol this year, resulting in some shake-ups in leadership and uncomfortable allegations for others.
Lt. Gov. Ken Ard resigned in March after being indicted for using his campaign account to buy personal items. That cost the Lowcountry some serious clout as veteran lawmaker Glenn McConnell resigned his powerful post as Senate president pro tem to take Ards old job.
Gov. Nikki Haley was the subject of a summer House Ethics Committee investigation into of allegations that she illegally lobbied and exploited her office while a House member from Lexington County. She was cleared of all charges, and in October created new study panel to look into ethic reform measures.
House Speaker Bobby Harrell, meanwhile, also faced tough questions after a Post and Courier report revealed that the Charleston lawmaker had reimbursed himself about $280,000 from his campaign account since summer 2008.
Harrell returned $23,000 to his campaign coffers after saying he lost receipts for those purchases in an office move. He maintains he is in compliance with all ethics laws and has also called for stronger ethics measures.
Changing of the guard
The past year also brought the resignations of two of the areas top cops and an interesting shuffle to replace them.
North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt announced in November that he would be stepping down at Januarys end to return to his native Kansas. His departure ends an 11-year run marked by falling crime numbers, as well as criticism over what some saw as heavy-handed tactics targeting minorities.
Mayor Keith Summey tapped Eddie Driggers, a chaplain and former lawman, to replace Zumalt.
That led Mount Pleasant Police Chief Harry Sewell to resign his post to take Driggers newly vacant spot as a crisis chaplain. Sewell said he is stepping down after five years as chief to serve my Lord, Jesus Christ. His last day as chief is Monday.
U.S. Rep. Tim Scott (left) spoke at the Statehouse after Gov. Nikki Haley announced he would fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat held by Jim DeMint.×
A sign leading on to Folly Beach reminds residents and visitors of a 60-day ban on alcohol on the beach, which is a hot topic this summer, brought to a head by problems during the Juy 4th holiday. At a city council meeting on Tuesday July 24, 2012, supporters of a binding referendum on permanently banning alcohol on the beachfront offered a petition with nearly 500 signatures of residents who want the idea put to a vote. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)×
Rhen Bennett, 12, a resident of John's Island, joins the Horres family in protesting the completion of Interstate 526 prior to a public hearing at the Lonnie Hillman, III Public Services Building in North Charleston Tuesday, December 4, 2012. "I don't want them destroying my marshlands," Bennett said. ¬ Steve Jahnke/Special to the Post and Courier×
metro- The proposed path of Mark Clark Expressway/526 . ( Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com/2/21/2012 )×
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, left, and State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel, center, talk about how a hacker gained access to find 3.6 million tax returns from the Department of Revenue, in Columbia, S.C. on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Authorities say an international hacker was able to get into the database months ago. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)×
South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond hand delivered to supporters of the Town of James Island the official Certificate of Incorporation. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 5/21/12×
Alcohol on Folly Beach is now illegal. File /Staff×
Thousands of employees and several hundred guests cheered at the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner assembled in South Carolina that was rolled out on April 27.×


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Dallas partygoers celebrate the one-night reopening of Kempi's nightclub, '80s style
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Danny Dash Andrews performs as Michael Jackson at the reopening of Kempi's nightclub '80s-themed party at the Hotel InterContinental in Addison on May 30, 2013.
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(Apologies for the lateness. I had the flu.)
Have you heard there's a big new movie coming out?
I won't go into it too much, because if you have children, or a television, or you're one of the millions who loves the series, or you possess any of the senses, you probably know that The Hunger Games is opening at the end of the week.
Although I had nice things to say about it over the holidays, I'll refrain from discussing it in this Media Monday, lest you suffer from Hunger pangs. Or loss of appetite. Or maybe you don't care either way. This post will remain a Hunger-free Zone.
Still, it's nice to see a book get so much attention. As Young Adult Books Editor at Amazon, Jessica Schein said the other day, "There are books we all love, and books we can't put down, and then there are books that morph into cultural events." Well put, Jessica.
The New York Times takes us to court in this Sunday's Book Review. A review of Dale Carpenter's Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas tells us that "Dale Carpenter's Flagrant Conduct is a stirring and richly detailed account of Lawrence v. Texas, the momentous 2003 decision that overturned Bowers." The reference is to "Bowers v. Hardwick," a 1986 Supreme Court decision that is largely seen as a key ruling against the privacy of homosexuals. Reviewer David Oshinsky writes that the book "tells the story through the eyes of the major players — the plaintiffs, arresting officers, attorneys, judges and prosecutors — most of whom were interviewed at length. The result is a book that turns conventional wisdom about Lawrence on its head. Indeed, the readers most likely to be surprised by Flagrant Conduct are those who think they already know the basic outlines of the case."
Kevin Boyle calls Raymond Bonner's Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong "mesmerizing," describing first the grizzly 1982 murder that sets up the case, then describing the man who was sentenced to death for the crime, eventually telling us that this capital case, like so many, "was shaped by the fearsome combination of race and class." For years, the case was in and out of court. "Then, in the summer of 1993, [the] file ended up in the hands of Diana Holt, a law student working as an intern for the South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center. And the case's trajectory suddenly changed." Boyle that we watch as Holt "peels back the prosecution's omissions, manipulations and deceits, and tries to uncover what really happened in Dorothy Edwards's home on that brutal weekend in 1982. It's a marvelous move: in Holt's relentless investigation, Bonner has found a way to turn this sad, sordid story into an utterly engrossing true-crime tale."
The Vanishers, our top pick for the March Best Books of the Month graces the Sunday Times this weekend (it seems like this book has been on Media Monday a lot lately, but then again it is one of the best books of the month). The Times says, "The darkly comic world of Heidi Julavits's latest novel contains warring psychics, missing people who've deliberately vanished themselves, twisted avant-garde filmmakers, absent mothers, striving academics, plastic surgery enthusiasts, Sylvia Plath obsessives — and the people who love to hate and pursue all of them. Beneath this hyperactivity, the novel deals, fundamentally, with the "economics of revenge" and a daughter's search for her mother. It is told in Julavits's signature style: sharp-eyed, sardonic, hilarious."
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Nope, just A Brom. :)
Posted by: Brom | Friday March 23, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Good point. Maybe the mountains are getting to me. Grisly. Is this THE Brom?
Posted by: Chris Schluep | Thursday March 22, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Sorry to nitpick, but unless the murder involved a great big bear, it wasn't "grizzly." What you meant was "grisly." They're both real words, so spell-checker wouldn't help you there.
Posted by: Brom | Thursday March 22, 2012 at 8:33 AM


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According to police, the wreck happened in the 8400 block of Phil Daugherty Drive.
Police said a car left the road, rollover and started a grass fire.
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Authorities said Moffitt left Baby's body, a bloody hatchet and her toys in a Dumpster at his Tualatin apartment complex. A maintenance worker found the dead dog March 14 and contacted police, court records say.
According to court records, police called Washington County Animal Control to the scene. Two deep wounds were visible on the dog's head, records say. Animal control found Baby was microchipped, court records say, and the chip identified Moffitt, 44, as the owner.
When police questioned the owner, Deputy District Attorney Jason Weiner told the court Tuesday, Moffitt said he'd thrown Baby away after having her put down by a veterinarian.
Weiner said Moffitt told officers Baby was getting old and couldn't walk. He "wanted to put her out of his and her misery," Moffitt reportedly said. Moffitt also told them he was moving in with his girlfriend and couldn't take Baby with him, Weiner said.
Moffitt had previously taken Baby to a vet, Weiner said, and he could have taken her there to be euthanized.
Moffitt, who was out of custody at the court hearing, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated first-degree animal abuse. In a plea deal, he agreed to serve 60 days in jail followed by three years of probation.
Presiding Judge Kirsten Thompson reviewed the plea agreement Tuesday, asking if Moffitt understood its conditions as she went.
He cannot own a domestic animal for the next 15 years, she said. Did he understand?
"I totally understand that, your honor," he said.
Asked if he'd like to make a statement, Moffitt said that having 30 more days before going to jail would be helpful for him in his job. He didn't mention Baby or his crime.
Thompson told him she would impose the plea deal Moffitt signed, and he would go to jail immediately.
"Dealing with an old animal in the way you did is, first of all, illegal," Thompson said. "Second, it's quite offensive."
His lack of emotion, too, she said, was puzzling.
"What you did does not make any sense to me," she said. "This is not the way that the average person deals with this."
Pets rely on people to care for them, she said. In return, they give their loyalty and trust.
"Baby deserved better than this," she said.
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We are doing a new prize structure for the December through January game. You can read about it here.
The current standings are close as shit:
The yearly leaders, which is a grand total of everything combined are close as well:
We also will be doing free games on Saturdays from now until December 10th. On December 10 we will be doing a $20 entry game.


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The Senate immigration reform bill, which passed by an impressive 68-32 margin last week, contains assurances of border security. But for any immigration legislation to get through the House, it most assuredly will have to be even stronger on that crucial concern.
Fourth District Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., re-confirmed that point on "Fox News Sunday." The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Immigration Subcommittee explained:
"I cannot sell in South Carolina a border security plan where the security comes after the legalization. I can't sell a border security plan where Janet Napolitano gets to tell us the border is secure. I can't sell a border security plan where the executive can turn on and off triggers for political expedient reasons. Nor would I try to sell any of those plans."
Rep. Gowdy's wary view is shared by many of his fellow House Republicans. And Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has repeatedly warned that he won't back any immigration bill that doesn't have the support of a majority of the House's GOP members.
The Congressional Budget Office did issue a report Wednesday strengthening the Senate bill's case. According to that analysis, the legislation's late "border surge" amendment from Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., would cut the rate of illegal immigration by up to 50 percent. That's a marked improvement over the 25 percent reduction the CBO projected for the original proposal by the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight," which includes South Carolina's Lindsey Graham.
Still, the Democratic-run Senate's bill clearly won't become law as written (see Debra Saunders' column on today's Commentary page).
That, however, doesn't mean the Republican-run House shouldn't pass an immigration bill of its own, then let a conference committee of members from both chambers of Congress sort out the differences.
It also doesn't mean Rep. Gowdy and other critics of the Senate bill, including S.C. Sen. Tim Scott, don't recognize the need for an overhaul of immigration policy.
As Rep. Gowdy put it Sunday: "I'll support immigration reform. I think the current system is broken."
He added: "The issue is not the broad principles of the immigration reform and humanity and respect for the rule of law. Virtually everyone agrees on the broad principles. Where we get ourselves into a little bit of a difference of opinion are the details."
Yet Rep. Gowdy also said, "I do agree that what we have now is de facto amnesty."
Without an immigration bill that President Barack Obama will sign, including a "pathway to citizenship," that status quo — that "de facto amnesty" — will remain in place.
So the sooner the House crafts — and passes — a reasonable version of immigration reform, the sooner the conference committee can get to work, and the sooner our long-broken immigration system can be fixed.
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Harry Potter's Owls: Make Them Disappear!
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If you think that animals who are used in movies are trained with a magic wand, consider the latest charges lodged against two British animal trainers who supplied a tawny owl named Cuddles for the production of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The RSPCA is taking the pair to court for alleged cruelty to animals.
Just last year, another U.K. trainer who provided some of the owls for the popular movie series pleaded guilty to 17 cruelty-to-animals offenses after humane authorities found dozens of emaciated and dehydrated birds with severe injuries, overgrown beaks, and swollen and clubbed feet at the trainer's facility. The birds were confiscated.
Always speak up for animals who are used as acting props and remind companies that there is no reason to use wild animals in ads when animation, animatronics, computer-generated images, and other highly advanced technologies can produce realistic substitutes without supporting cruelty.
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The film industry doesn't care about your owl. It cares about money. The treatment by wranglers is the tip of the iceberg. Animals have no rights when it comes to image(s) on film. The Supreme Court ruled that sadistic killing of animals on film is free speech. I work in filmmaking. I once saw helicopter cause a massive stampede of wild deer and chase an eagle into the ground. Craft services will serve rattlesnake, if the big star asks for it. Worry about the movie industry's portrayal of violence and killing of human beings. We are breeding a generation of animal torturers, and you have to realize that we are animals!
it is a horrible fact that animals are continuously abused for the film industry inspite that today we have other possibilities to create them by technical special effects etc. but on the top of the shame-list are the asian kung fu movies: they are good fighters but utterly bad riders and horses are treated in a disgusting shameful way – the second is the movie 'baaria' by giuseppe tornatore where he kills a cow and a chicken in front of the camera in the most awful way! peta should stop this criminal guy – i think that the italian empa is just waiting for a sign by peta! i already wrote about this – but you didn't even put the text on here! so please act – peta! look this movie and let him get your message loud and clear! he did the same thing already in 'cinema paradiso' with a calf and he shall continue if nobody stops him! this is not a film director but a dangerous paranoid maniac! if you don't contact or even put charges against him please put this here on in order that other people can look the film and contact him or the production society 'medusa' owned by silvio berlusconi – the more than grizzly italian states m****boss!
these people should serve time for this mistreatment of the owls used in the harry potter films
Birds are very sensitive and loving and should be treated with the utmost respect !!!
i will never look at the HP movies the same way!
I never knew of this cruelty and I thought they'd be humane since lots of vegetarian, vegans, and non- vege heads read the books and watch the movies. this is appalling. i bet the actors, actresses, and J.K. Rowling are pissed off as well.


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Parsons (5-6) gave up leadoff singles in the first and third innings and faced just one batter over the minimum in his seven scoreless frames. He retired the last 14 batters he faced.
Charleston starter Cesar Vargas (4-5) allowed two runs in the fourth inning and three in the fifth before calling it a night. He gave up seven hits, five runs, and walked one without striking out a better in five innings.
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Education: Well last Christmas my cat did three kind of amazing stunts. Right when the christmas tree was put up (luckily no decorations were on the tree) he jumped onto one of the branches and continued to climb higher and higher until he reached the top. Before i knew it my little 6 month old baby was stuck at the top of my christmas tree. He became the center piece of the tree (the angel). Then once the tree was taken down there was a long string hanging from the wall that kept the tree up so he couldn't knock it down and one day he decided to venture up to that string. He jumped many many times until he finally achieved the height that he needed to reach the string. He dug his claws into the fabric then climbed higher until he reached the ceiling. When i walked into the room little Finn was dangling from the string and meowing his little head off. And i of course had to rescue him! Then there was this other time once i got my little kitty a large scratching post for him to climb up on. It had about 3 levels. So first he jumped straight from the first level all the way to the top, and then he made a leap of faith to touch the ceiling. Just as his little paws hit the roof his claws got stuck in the window screen since his scraching post was right beside a window. I came into the room once i heard his meowing and saw him stretched out like spider man (spider cat) with his 4 legs stretched as far out as they could. I had to rescue my little cutie again. Well as you can see my little Finn is just a little dare devil!
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Betty Jane Wilson, 93, passed away Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, with family by her side.
Betty Jane married her beloved husband, John E. Wilson, May 4, 1945. They had four children, Scott (Dianna) Wilson of Fostoria, James (Ellen) Wilson of San Diego, Calif., Jack (Catina) Wilson of Pensacola, Fla., and Brenda (David) Auble of Bloomville.
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April 2009: The 65th Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will convene in Bangkok, Thailand, from 23-29 April 2009. The meeting will include a report from the Committee on Disaster Reduction, the establishment of subregional offices, and a ministerial segment.
The special body on least developed and land locked developing countries will address the food-fuel-financial crisis and climate change, and associated threats to development. The ministerial session will convene under the theme "Towards sustainable agriculture and food security in the Asia-Pacific region." This segment will address the financial crisis and its convergence with other threats to development and the need to work towards a stable and supportive financial system for development. [Meeting agenda]


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Top PC Games of 2009
2009 was a pretty memorable year for many reasons. The pet pig craze made everyone want to go out and replace their pooch or pussy with a pig small enough to fit into a teacup. Undeniably adorable when babies, little did these new pig parents know that they would grow up to be pretty big and quite problematic house guests.
This is the year when Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Awards speech was rudely interrupted when Kanye West butted in to declare Beyoncé more deserving of the award. Unable to finish her speech, Swift got another opportunity later in the night when invited up on stage by Beyoncé.
Other memorable events includes the death of Michael Jackson only weeks before his big comeback at the O2 in London, and the break-up of Brit-Pop royalty Oasis.
Sexting also became kind of a big deal, with people finally able to succinctly describe the act of sending saucy text messages.
2009 was also a pretty good year for PC games, the best of which you'll see in the list below.
Warhammer 40:000: Dawn of War II
Simply put, Dawn of War II feels like the result of some mad scientist's experiment, the by product of the splicing of Dawn of War with Company of Heroes, Relic's other, more recent RTS.
Mirror's Edge Pure Time Trial Map Pack
If you found yourself putting a ridiculous amount of time into the time trial mode after finishing the campaign you'll almost definitely like what DICE has made here.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
With two great games, superb presentation and a sense that you're playing something different to the norm, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena comes highly recommended.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment
Entrenchment makes Sins of a Solar Empire more playable and accessible to 4X strategy and RTS gamers alike and builds on its predecessor's success to create a memorable experience.
Battlestations: Pacific
If you're prepared to push through its choppier moments, you'll find a rich and highly enjoyable game that should keep you occupied for months.
ArmA II
If you have the perseverance to stick with the game through thick and thin, to learn its ropes and to immerse yourself in all it has to offer, then ArmA II will last you for years.
Fallout 3: Point Lookout
The quality of the main quests is beyond dispute. If you're a Fallout fan with 800 points to spare, there's really no reason not to pick this up.
Trine's combination of tight controls, exiting action and physics-based puzzles makes it easy to recommend to platforming fans.
Overlord II
If you've always wanted to command a group of ugly creatures that can sing Ring a Ring o' Roses, Overlord II comes highly recommended.
Bionic Commando
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Professor Michael Towle's Guide to Watching Election Returns for 2012
- Michael Towle/Professor of Political Science
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With this high-profile election between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, no doubt many of us will be keeping a close eye on the results this year. I have put together this election results-guide to help you wade through much of the election chatter and make sense of it all.
News networks use a number of techniques when they determine the winner of an election in each state. They conduct exit polls, watch specific precincts for results and they compare their expected results to what actually happens when the returns are reported. Generally speaking, the networks do not make their predictions based on the outcome of the election in a state until all the polls have closed in that state.
For this reason, I include here a guide to the poll closing times, given in EASTERN STANDARD TIME, according to when the LAST polls close in each state:
7:00 p.m. – FL, GA, IN, KY, NH, SC, VT, VA
7:30 p.m. – NC, OH, WV
8:00 p.m. – AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, IL, ME, MD, MA, MS, MO, NH, NJ, OK, PA, RI, TN
8:30 p.m. – AR
9:00 p.m. – AZ, CO, KS, LA, MI, MN, NE, NM, NY, ND, RI, SD, TX, WI, WY
10:00 p.m. – IA, MT, NV, UT
11:00 p.m. – CA, HI, ID, OR, WA
1:00 a.m. – AK
Here is how I see the evening progressing in three scenarios:
You can probably go to bed and forget about it if any of these scenarios emerge before 11 p.m.:
· Obama wins two of the following three: North Carolina, Florida or Virginia (Obama likely winner)
· Romney wins Pennsylvania and Florida and Virginia (Romney likely winner)
· Obama wins Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa (Obama likely winner)
All eyes are on Ohio if:
· Romney wins NH, FL, and VA. In that case, the winner of Ohio is probably the winner of the election.
Splash some water on your face and do a few pushups to wake up if Obama wins Pennsylvania and Virginia, while Romney wins Ohio, Florida and New Hampshire! Several possible scenarios emerge:
· If Obama wins Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as expected, then the contest will come down to Colorado and Nevada. (Romney would likely then need both).
· If Obama loses Michigan, then Romney is the likely winner.
· If Obama wins Michigan and Minnesota, then he must win either Iowa OR Wisconsin plus both Colorado and Nevada.
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FLINT, MI -- The reasons for violence in schools are complex and always changing.
That was the message shared by area school leaders who joined State Rep. Woodrow Stanley for a town hall discussion on the topic of school violence on Monday.
Violence in schools has been a hot topic locally as well as across the nation.
After the deadly school shooting an elementary school in Connecticut in December, schools in Genesee County were put on edge by a series of hoaxes and empty threats. The week before winter break, rumors were circulating on social media that students were planning a violent "student revolt" in an unspecified area school. The revolt, according to the rumor, was being planned for Dec. 21, the last day of the ancient Mayan long calendar, which some thought predicted the end of the world.
That same week, police rushed to Grand Blanc High School and the building went into lockdown following a text message from a Grand Blanc student to his mother saying there were shots fired in the building. The student allegedly told police it was a joke. Area superintendents all decided to call off school for the two days before winter break.
The week students returned in January, police rushed to another local school. This time it was a 911 caller reporting a gunman at Flint Northern High School. Police found no threats and are investigating the call.
"All of us, I'm certain were shocked ... with the news of Connecticut and Sandy Hook Elementary School," Stanley said.
"All of us were just stunned with the senselessness of that incident," he added.
The panel included school board members from Flint and Westwood Heights, parents and school workers.
Speakers pointed out that often fights in school are the result of conflicts and problems outside of school walls.
"When we have job loss, when we have issues with drug use, when we have those kind of things happening outside of the school system, we're going to carry those things into the school system," said Flint School Board member Isaiah Oliver.
Flint interim Superintendent Larry Watkins, who previously had headed up the district's security operations, said many times fights in school happen on Monday, as the result of a conflict that came up over the weekend.
"There are a number of causes for the violence that's taking place in our school district," Watkins said. "We have a lot of angry young people that wake up in the morning angry and bring that to school with them."
Watkins pointed out that the district is constantly reviewing and updating its school safety plan and safety procedures.
Panelists also pointed out that skills like conflict resolution need to be taught early.
"If kids can't interact socially, they don't know how to listen to a teacher and raise their hand in a classroom, then I can't teach them," said Vincent Price, assistant principal at Detroit West Preparatory Academy, a charter school.
Watkins said the community as a whole needs to work together to keep schools safe. And it's up to parents and the older generations to set the right example, he added.
"We've gotten away, as the elders of the community, of letting our children know what's right and what's wrong," said Watkins.
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The identity of the fifth playable character to be included in Ultra Street Fighter IV is still a mystery.
A rumor circulating some time ago stated that Retsu from the original Street Fighter was going to be the yet to be revealed character. Unfortunately the rumor ended up being false, as Capcom confirmed the new character will be a female character.
It looks like this new character is related to the Street Fighter comics, Siliconera revealed a few hours ago. Apparently the hint comes from a reliable source. Who could it be?
Ultra Street Fighter IV will include five new characters, new stages and some brand new game mechanics. Four of the five new characters have already appeared in Street Fighter X Tekken but they won't be ripped straight from the crossover game.
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New Mexico investigators say a 17-year-old pointed a rifle at deputies.Video Transcript
DETAILS ON A DEADLY SHOOTING INVOLVING SANDOVAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES. INVESTIGATORS NOW SAY, A 17-YEAR-OLD POINTED A RIFLE AT DEPUTIES... AND THAT'S WHY ONE OF THEM SHOT AND KILLED THE TEEN IN ALGODONES LAST WEEK. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MEGAN CRUZ IS HERE WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. SHELLY - NEW MEXICO STATE POLICE HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING THIS SHOOTING. THEY RELEASED NEW DETAILS THIS MORNING. THEY SAY NOT ONLY DID THE TEEN POINT HIS RIFLE AT DEPUTIES... HE ALSO POINTED IT AT SOME NEIGHBORS. that there were a lot of shell casings up and down the road and so that's why they wouldn't let us through. THAT'S ALL SANDOVAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES TOLD PEOPLE IN ALGODONES LAST THURSDAY NIGHT... WHEN THEY DROVE UP ONTO THIS CRIME SCENE ON 313 NEAR LOS COLONIAS ROAD. A WEEK LATER, OFFICIALS ARE FINALLY FILLING IN THE BLANKS. THEY SAY WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED IN ALGODONES, THEY CAME ACROSS A 17-YEAR-OLD WITH A HIGH-POWERED RIFLE. he's basically walking down the road away from deputies. they're giving him commands to stop and put the weapon down and he's not complying. INSTEAD, INVESTIGATORS SAY HE SAT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, THEN... at some point, he points the weapon at the deputies. THAT'S WHEN THEY SAY DEPUTY JACOB HOPKINS FIRED HIS GUN. BOTH HIS BULLETS HIT THE TEEN. INVESTIGATORS LATER FOUND OUT THE TEEN HAD ALSO POINTED HIS RIFLE AT TWO NEIGHBORS, BEFORE DEPUTIES SHOWED UP. THE 17-YEAR-OLD WAS TRANSPORTED TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THEY HAVE YET TO SAY WHO THIS TEEN IS. OFFICIALS COULDN'T TELL ME HIS EXACT BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL, BUT THEY DO SAY HE'D BEEN DRINKING EARLIER THAT DAY. i was told that even the paramedics could detect an overwhelming odor of alcohol. AFTERWARDS, INVESTIGATORS CHECKED THE TEEN'S GUN.. the rifle was loaded. STATE POLICE SAYS THE TEEN IS NOW IN STABLE CONDITION AT UNMH. IT'S NOT CLEAR YET IF HE'LL FACE ANY CHARGES. SHELLY, BACK TO YOU. WE'RE TOLD DEPUTY JACOB HOPKINS HAS BEEN WITH THE SANDOVAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR 2 YEARS. THIS IS HIS FIRST SHOOTING. HE'S STILL ON STANDARD PAID LEAVE TONIGHT. OFFICERS ARE NOW SEARCHING FOR A KILLER AFTER A BRUTAL BEATING. A WOMAN'S BODY
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We've seen the "bravely facing disability" actor's showpiece film before. And we've seen the character-driven, slice-of-life drama with a French vagabond who is a jerk but still sympathetic. But have we seen them together? No! And that's why 'Rust & Bone,' the latest from director Jacques Audiard ('Un Prophete,' 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped,') is bound to end up a word-of-mouth favorite.
It is, indeed, a juicy film but I think that if you scratch past the surface you'll find that, really, it's just pure soap opera that doesn't add up to that much.
Rust and Bone
Marion Cotillard Leads the 'Rust and Bone' TrailerDamon Houx September 3, 2012 @ 8:00 PM
Sometimes the math is simple. Put an award winning actress (here, Marion Cotilard, best known for her work in Christopher Nolan's 'Inception' and 'The Dark Knight Rises', and Oscar winner for 'La Vie En Rose') in a movie about triumph and love in the face of great physical and emotional hurdles, and it's very likely that you're looking at an awards contender. It's possible to watch the trailer for 'Rust and Bone' and see a serious, interesting movie. We see that, but we also see the frontrunner for best foreign film.