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A deputy with the Onslow County Sheriff�s Office resigned Wednesday after a viral YouTube video showed his cruiser brake checking a motorist that caused a crash in South Carolina earlier in the week.
Updated at 5:21 p.m.
A deputy with the Onslow County Sheriff�s Office resigned Wednesday after a viral YouTube video showed his cruiser brake checking a motorist that caused a crash in South Carolina earlier in the week.
Craig Culpepper was in South Carolina for K-9 training at the time of the incident, Sheriff Ed Brown said Wednesday in a news release. He later added that Culpepper was paying for the training out of pocket and taking steps to improve the K-9 capabilities of the Sheriff�s Office.
Chad Walton, of Summerville, S.C., filmed the incident with his cellphone and posted the video to YouTube. He told local media outlets that Culpepper drove away without stopping so he called 911.
Walton made a similar but unfounded complaint about a North Charleston police officer last year, according to The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C.
The North Charleston Police Department responded to Walton�s call Monday. Culpepper was not ticketed, but he was listed as being at fault in the wreck. South Carolina doesn�t have specific laws against aggressive driving, according to the S.C. Office of Highway Safety.
A friend and former co-worker of Culpepper, Howell Oakley said the incident was out of character.
�(Culpepper) is a person of great character,� Oakley said. �It�s unfortunate this video was posted because I�m sure it doesn�t tell the whole story and doesn�t tell what kind of person Craig is really.�
Oakley said Culpepper was an Iraq War veteran who was spending his own money to be a better K-9 officer.
Messages for Culpepper were not returned by press time.
Culpepper was traveling on S.C. 526 in North Charleston at around 6:25 p.m. Monday. He was in the left-hand lane driving a couple miles per hour less than the 60 mph speed limit. Another vehicle was in the right lane going in the same direction at the same speed, according to the sheriff and the YouTube video.
Walton was traveling behind the two vehicles in his 1997 Ford pickup and wanted to pass. He flashed his headlights while behind Culpepper. The deputy didn�t speed up or slow down to move over to the right lane.
To get around the deputy, Walton told local media outlets that he moved in to the right lane before pulling back into the left lane.
Brown described Walton as an �irate motorist, desiring to travel faster� and said he �became upset� before pulling around the deputy and the other vehicle into an opened up far right lane.
�The audio recording, along with the video, was disgusting with obscene language by the irate motorist about the sheriff�s vehicle holding up traffic,� Brown said. �According to the irate motorist he could see Deputy Culpepper was getting upset. By video and audio, it appeared the motorist was recording this footage as a message for a future use.�
Brown said that after Walton passed the deputy and other vehicle, all three lanes were open to him, but Walton chose to pull in front of the deputy in the left lane.
The video shows Culpepper then passed Walton in the right lane and pulled in front of him in the left lane. The cruiser then slows suddenly.
�Deputy Culpepper, for no apparent reason, did what is called a brake check (immediately applied his brakes) thus the irate citizen struck Deputy Culpepper�s vehicle in the rear,� Brown said.
The cruiser had less than $100 in damage, according to the sheriff�s fleet manager.
An estimate of the damage to Walton�s truck was not available.
A public records request for Culpepper�s employment history made at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to Meghan Doyle, the human resources director for Onslow County, was not answered by press time.
Culpepper tendered his resignation immediately after Brown and his administrative staff addressed the matter with him, Brown said.
Brown said Culpepper had worked for him for about three years and was a good deputy.
�You can�t let other people trap you in their game,� Brown said of the incident.
Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8455 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.
Updated at 11:53 a.m.
An Onslow County deputy has resigned after brake checking a driver and causing a crash in South Carolina.
Onslow County Sheriff Deputy Craig Culpepper was in South Carolina for K-9 training, according to information from the Onslow County Sheriff's Office.
At approximately 6:25 p.m. Monday, Culpepper was in North Charleston, traveling on Highway 526 driving a marked Onslow County Sheriff�s Office K-9 vehicle. Highway 526, in the area where the incident began, has two lanes traveling in the same direction. In the left lane, Culpepper was traveling just a couple miles per hour under the speed limit. Beside Deputy Culpepper, in the right lane, was another motorist going in the same direction and traveling at the same speed, according to information from the OCSO.
All of a sudden a speeding motorist driving a pickup truck came up on the rear of Culpepper�s vehicle and began flashing his headlights and motioning for Culpepper to get out of the way. Deputy Culpepper continued traveling at the same speed just under the speed limit and the motorist in the right lane beside Deputy Culpepper continued to travel at the same speed.
"The irate motorist, desiring to travel faster, became upset," Sheriff Ed Brown said in a news release.
Video recording began at this point by the motorist who used his cell phone. The first picture captured by that motorist was the rear of the Onslow County Sheriff�s Office vehicle.
"The audio recording, along with the video, was disgusting with obscene language by the irate motorist about the Sheriff�s vehicle holding up traffic. According to the irate motorist he could see Deputy Culpepper was getting upset. By video and audio, it appeared the motorist was recording this footage as a message for a future use," Brown said.
This scene of the three vehicles traveling on Highway 526 continued in the same pattern for some distance until a third lane came onto Highway 526 on the right, according to the OCSO. As soon as the third lane was open the motorist recording the video took to the right into the third lane and proceeded to speed.
All three lanes ahead of the motorist were "open, clear of traffic, which would allow the irate motorist to speed on. However, the irate motorist chose to immediately cross to his left across the open lanes until he was in front of Deputy Culpepper," Brown said.
The motorist was directly ahead of Culpepper, then Culpepper sped up and turned into the right lane for a short distance until he could turn back into the left lane ahead of the irate motorist. Once Deputy Culpepper was in the left lane ahead of the irate motorist, the two vehicles traveled a short distance with the irate motorist on the rear of Deputy Culpepper�s vehicle.
"Deputy Culpepper, for no apparent reason, did what is called a brake check (immediately applied his brakes) thus the irate citizen struck Deputy Culpepper�s vehicle in the rear," Brown said.
The investigating officer did not give anyone a citation but listed Deputy Culpepper as the contributor of the accident.
According to the Onslow County Sheriff�s Office Fleet Manager, the Sheriff�s vehicle can be repaired for $100 or less.
Culpepper tendered his resignation immediately after the Administrative Staff of the Onslow County Sheriff�s Office and Brown addressed the matter with him, according to Brown.
A South Carolina man began rolling video Monday night right before he says an Onslow County deputy cut him off and caused a crash, according to media reports.
He later posted the video to YouTube.
Walton came up on the deputy going eastbound on I-526 in North Charleston, S.C. Walton says the deputy was holding up traffic by going 50 mph in the fast line, where the speed limit was 60, according to media. To get around the deputy, Walton said he moved in to the right lane before pulling back into the fast lane. The deputy passes on his right, then cuts back in front. The deputy then slams on his brakes, which caused Walton to rear-end the cruiser.
After the crash, Walton told media, the deputy, driving car No. 145 that was marked as a K-9 unit, did not pull over, so he called 911. Walton says North Charleston Police responded and cited the deputy for being at fault. The officer was not ticketed.
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Fans can catch up on season one before the second season premiere on Sunday, July 28
Ahead of the second season premiere of "Unforgettable," CBS is making all 22 episodes of season one available at CBS.com, via the CBS App for iPad and iPhone users, and via select CBS Audience Network partner sites.
"Unforgettable's" second season premieres Sunday, July 28 (9 p.m.) on CBS.
CBS is making the entire first season available via its digital platforms so fans have time to catch up on episodes they may have missed during the first season, as well as to introduce the drama to new viewers ahead of "Unforgettable's" season two premiere.
"Unforgettable," which originally premiered Sept. 20, 2011, stars Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, an NYPD detective with a rare, real-life ability that allows her to recall every day of her life in intricate detail, and Dylan Walsh as Al Burns, her partner and former boyfriend. The series, which was the No. 2 new drama for the 2011-12 season, averaged 12.18 million viewers and was a consistent time period winner in households, viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49.
"Unforgettable" also stars Jane Curtin, Dallas Roberts, James Hiroyuki Liao and Tawny Cypress.


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IRVINE, Calif.--The UCSB women track and field team got off to a great start after day one of the Big West Conference Championship held at UC Irvine's Anteater Stadium. Several women claimed Big West Conference titles and knocked down personal as well as school records. The women currently have the lead with a total of 73 points after seven events and ahead of Long Beach State University who has 51 points.
Senior Barbara Nwaba had a standout performance today, winning two Big West awards and broke a school record. Earlier in the day Nwaba picked up a second place award in the javelin where she threw a lifetime best of 144-2. Nwaba was then honored for her Big West Conference title in the heptathlon last weekend where she score 5,709 points to beat the Multi-Event Conference record preivously held by Sharon Day in 2008. She wrapped up her first day of competition with a personal record in the 100m hurdles, running a lifetime best of 13.62 and beating her own school record by more than half a second.
The record continued to fall with Jenn Carey running a lifetime best of 12.18 in the 100m while Grace Esslinger finished close behind in 12.34. Esslinger would go on to pick up a third place conference title in the javelin with a toss of 131-7. Carey also competed in the 200m (24.97). Amanda Rodriguez qualified for the 400m hurdles with her time of 62.20.
Irene Kujore claimed second place in conference with her discus throw of 164-0 for a season best, Kathleen Guzman throwing 138-6.
Camille Petty qualified for the 400m finals with her time of 56.63 in the third heat. Justine Diaz finished first in the 800m trials, clocking in 2:09.75 and will move on to compete in the finals tomorrow.
Cassie Brooker had a great day, qualifying for the 1,500m finals after placing fourth (4:39.13). Megan Petkovic qualified for the finals as well with her time of 4:40.11. Dani Moreno placed fourth in conference after running the 10k finals in a time of 36:37.63. Christine Cooperstein finished fifth (36:44.10) and a new lifetime best and Ali Palmer running 37:10.67.
The finals of the women's 3k steeplechase was another spectacle that produced two Big West titles for the Gauchos. Andrea Jacobs had a strong hold of the lead for the majority of the race but Jessica Barnard of Long Beach State was able to pull ahead on the last lap. Jacobs finished second in the conference with her time of 10:30.73 and Cassie Brooker in third 10:38.26. Ari Selix crossed the line in 10:50.65 and Jessica Chadwick in 10:51.94.
Cassandra Centofranchi's highest clearance of the day in the pole vault was at 10-0.75. Tayler Williams lead the women's long jump (18-9) while Veronica Gines jumped (18-3).


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NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - A house built in the late 1800s burned to the ground Tuesday night in what fire investigators believe could have started with a gas leak.
The house, which had been divided into three apartments, had five occupants. Two were in the house at the time of the fire, but escaped safely. It is located on Hospital Street.
According to investigators, one of the residents had turned on an electric heater and then heard a "whoosh."
"I was in this apartment," Russ Havard, one of the home's occupants, said. "It made a little spark, and that's when I heard the noise behind the vent right there."
He opened the closet, saw a wall of fire, and got the other resident out safely.
"And the flames were probably already up in the ceiling about a quarter of the way."
Havard had seconds to call 911 and search for occupants. He found none. However, he didn't know that a hearing-impaired tenant was asleep in one of the units, totally unaware of the blaze. Fortunately, a neighbor reminded him of the possibility.
"And that was exactly what was going on, and he was kinda coming out coughing when they knocked the door in," Havard said.
Firefighters were called to the scene around 8 p.m.
Investigators believe there may have been a gas leak behind the walls. Once the heater came on, it sparked the fire.
"There was raw gas coming out of the main pipe in that room going straight into the attic space, and it spread pretty quick through the attic," Del Birdwell, a fire marshal with the Nacogdoches Fire Department, said.
The deaf man's hearing aids burned. The graduate art student lost her original works. An out-of-town tenant had to ask a friend to look for a cherished memory of her recently deceased dad. There were losses, but everyone is safe and grateful.
"The firefighters were great and the neighbors were just incredible, so that's the main thing I want to say."
Copyright 2012 KTRE. All rights reserved.


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Escaped emu attacked by dogs
A stray emu injured in an attack by dogs is getting a second chance.
Robert Christie noticed the bird in his northeast Hillsborough County backyard and immediately started looking for help.
"I can't see any animal suffering. That just goes against everybody's grain," Christie said. "Evidently it's like a pack mentality. When {dogs} corner something like that,they just want to tear something up."
Deputies with the Hillsborough Co. Sheriff's Office Agricultural Crimes Unit and a volunteer with the Audubon Society carefully surrounded the emu with a fence and led it into the back of a cattle trailer.
"We get a lot of calls for loose horses, loose cows, a lot of other types of livestock," said Sgt. Ed Rayburn. "But once every 3 or 4 years {we'll} get a bird like this, like an emu."
Deputies weren't sure where the bird came from.
"They're hard to keep so not a lot of people have them," Rayburn said. "Typically most animals we see get out is just an issue of a fence being improperly maintained in most cases."
Rescuers took the emu to Busch Gardens, where veterinarians started treatment immediately.
Its back was severely injured and Reinier Munguia, of the Audubon Society, suspected it could have internal bleeding.
"This is something that could happen anytime there's an attack from wildlife or any other animals," Munguia said.
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"The Vortex"
The Dead Writers Theatre Collective is a new company, but as the moniker implies, it comes with an established pedigree. Artistic director Jim Schneider, who has staged classics by Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde with graceful elan at Circle Theatre, brings a stated desire to produce works by and about great dead authors, with a "Masterpiece Theater"-style aesthetic.
Fair enough. Not everything benefits from, say, Sean Graney's deconstruction of canonical works for The Hypocrites. And though Coward remains popular on local stages, a sighting of his early 1924 work "The Vortex," with which Dead Writers makes its inaugural bow under Schneider's direction, has been rare since the author brought it here for a disastrous run in 1926.
But Coward's tale of a dilettantish and cocaine-snorting pianist, Nicky Lancaster, who returns from "a year's debauch" in Paris with his socialite fiancee, only to find his married mother, Florence, conducting a very public affair with a much younger man (who happens to be a former flame of Nicky's own beloved), just doesn't ignite here as effortlessly as past Schneider efforts.
Of course, what was once looked on as something shocking doesn't necessarily pack the same punch in our reality-TV era when, goodness knows, anything goes. But it's not the age of the subject matter that fails to fully engage. After all, the sexual improprieties of the 1920s British ruling class keep many"Downton Abbey"fans in thrall. It's the balance in the relationships that feels off-kilter in "The Vortex." Coward's tricky blend of Oedipal melodrama and brittle drawing-room banter doesn't gel seamlessly, and the connections between the three acts — each of which, taken individually, are well paced — feel slack when viewed in total.
At the end of the second act, Kaelan Strouse's Nicky realizes that Florence (Bonnie Hilton) has been making a fool of herself over the vapid and unfaithful Tom Veryan (Danny Pancratz). Tom and Nicky's own paramour, Bunty Mainwaring (Skye Shrum) have rekindled their previous affair, but the source of Nicky's emotional dissolution (abetted by generous helpings of nose candy) seems unclear — we certainly don't see great chemistry between Nicky and Bunty. Thus, his third-act denunciations of Florence in her boudoir seem out of frame — it's hard to believe that Nicky has only just figured out his mother's cougarlike tendencies and how they reflect his own toxic blend of self-loathing and narcissism.
But though "The Vortex" doesn't churn with the emotional heft intended, there are still points in its favor, including a well-appointed and flexible set by Edward Matthew Walter, and a particularly fine supporting turn from Teri Schnaubelt as Helen Saville, the voice of world-weary wisdom in this glittery-but-hollow world of human badinage.
Through Aug. 26 at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.; $30 at 773-404-7336 or deadwriters.net
"The Monument"
The perils of seeking retribution play out at a rather torpid pace in Colleen Wagner's morality tale, "The Monument," now in a close-up production with Idle Muse Theatre Company under Evan Jackson's direction.
It starts out promisingly, with Brian Bengtson's Stetko, an unrepentant soldier (in an unnamed but very Balkans-like scenario), facing execution by electric chair for raping and killing 23 women. He delivers a feverish and sometimes-sardonic monologue that matches the rantings of Little Alex from"A Clockwork Orange"in its hypnotic exploration of a debased and sadistic thrill killer. But when Stetko is released into the vague-but-vengeful custody of Mejra (the feverish-eyed Amy Harmon), he is forced to confront the consequences of his "just following orders" mindset.
Jackson and set designer Dennis Mae put us in the middle of this battle of wills in the tiny Side Studio space, and there are some early bruising physical encounters (choreographed by Greg Poljacik) that deliver visceral jolts. But Wagner's script, which runs nearly two hours without an intermission, hammers away at the same boldface talking points about the corrosive effects of revenge too often. Still, there are a few moments — such as Stetko's growing Lenny-like attachment to a rabbit, and the sorrowful excavation of the women he slaughtered — that send frissons of sympathy and horror down our spines.
Through Aug. 26 at Side Project Theater, 1439 W. Jarvis Ave.; $20 at 773-340-9438 or idlemuse.org


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March 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- Improvements in the field events highlighted UCSB's day at the USC Trojan Invitational at Loker Stadium/Cromwell Field on Saturday.
Tamara Thomas posted a significant performance in the triple jump, with her best jump measuring 39-1.25 (11.92m) to place second. Thomas' mark places her at third all-time on the UCSB triple jump list and easily meets the Big West standard of 11.35m.
Tayler Williams also performed well in the triple jump, as she took sixth place at 37-1.25 (11.31m). That mark ties for 10th all-time at UCSB.
Scott Finley cleared a new seasonal best in the pole vault, getting over 16-0.75 (4.90m) to take fifth. He had two good attempts at the regional-qualifying bar of 16-7 and will be looking to hit that mark in the upcoming weeks. Finley's clearance was good for eighth all-time at UCSB.
Hector Serrano had a consistent day in the shot put with several of his throws measuring around 53 feet. His best throw hit 53-0.25 (16.16m), which was good for third place.
Also in the throws, Michael Guerra had a good day in the javelin by throwing 191-9 (58.46m) to tie for fourth place.
Tess Balcomb and Jennifer Brown posted a pair of second-place finishes in the pole vault. Balcomb was second in section A with a clearance over 11-7.75 (3.55m). Brown cleared the same height in section B to also take second place.
The middle distances were highlighted by Scott Smith and Ryan Martin, who posted second-place finishes in their respective events.
Smith was second in the 1500m with a time of 3:48.28, his fastest of the season thus far. Smith led most of the race, which started out at a slow pace. He was out-kicked on the stretch by Irek Sekretarski of USC, who won by about a second.
Martin set a new personal best in the 800m, running 1:52.34 to take second place in heat two. Because he was in the slower heat, Martin needed to run aggressively and move to the front on his own. Also running well in the race was Rusty Parker, who finished at 1:56.90.
Other notable performances were Christina Nowak tying for second in the high jump (5-4.25, 1.63m), Nicholas Sheuerman taking third in section B of the discus with a personal best of 150-1 (45.75m), and June Farley running 10:12 in the first 3000m of her collegiate career.
The Gauchos will be back in Los Angeles next weekend for the Cal-Nevada Championships, hosted at UCLA's Drake Stadium on Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29.
In its on-going effort to draw awareness to breast cancer and to promote its research, the UCSB Athletics Department will sponsor "Pink Week" at three of its athletics events on Mar. 28, 2009.
Three UCSB intercollegiate events, scheduled for Saturday, Mar. 28, have been designated "Pink Week Games." The women's tennis match, slated for 11:00 a.m. on the Robertson Gymnasium Courts, a softball doubleheader scheduled to start at 12:00 p.m. on Campus Diamond, and a 12:00 p.m. women's water polo match at Campus Pool will all be part of the effort.
"Pink Week" is part of UCSB Athletics' BE Great initiative.
-- UCSBgauchos.com --


text: OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state House has passed a measure to make it easier for grandparents and others with a close relationship to a child to secure visitation rights. The bill passed Thursday applies to people having a substantial relationship with a child lasting at least two years or half the child's life. It does not apply to a person who knows a child only through paid or volunteer service, such as coaching or teaching. The main proponents of the bill are grandparents who have been cut off from their grandchildren. Opponents said the bill is overly broad and represents an attack on parental rights. The measure passed by a vote of 56-40, with two Republicans joining a unanimous Democratic caucus voting in favor. It heads next to the Senate.


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As the year draws to an end, mailboxes fill up with solicitations from charities, inspiring potential donors to investigate which organization is most worthy of their money. Charity Navigator, an online guide for such information-seekers, recently released their 2012 CEO Compensation Study, based on 2010 salaries at 3,786 mid- to large- sized U.S. charities that rely on public support.
Charity Navigator ranks the CEOs with the highest pay in each of nine categories, comparing median pay rates by region, highlighting other salaries of note over $100,000. Their list also runs down charities that have multiple highly-paid family members on their staffs.
It's important to note that the Navigators' list is not a judgment on the appropriateness of the salaries -- just that they are the highest paychecks in their respective categories. The report noted that six-figure-and-higher CEO compensation often shocks potential donors who might assume the CEOs work for free or for low pay. Charities are multi-million dollar organizations, and as such they require highly talented and experienced leaders. Salary is a part of attracting that talent, and a six-figure salary for a mid-to-large sized charity is the norm.
(Another list compiled by Charity Navigator takes a more critical look at charity CEO compensation: 10 Highly Paid CEOs at Low-Rated Charities.)
Each of the top salaries given in each charity category will be accompanied by the median pay for that category and the charity's total expenses. And now, a rundown of those top-paying charities.
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By Colleen Kane


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Live updates
Fatal accident on A396 near Bampton
The accident happened on the A396 just south of Cove near to Bickleigh Wood late this afternoon. One vehicle appears to have left the road and dropped approximately 40 feet down a steep bank into trees.
The male driver has been pronounced dead at the scene. Police are appealing for witnesses to contact them.


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Michelle Williams. Elizabeth Olsen. Adepero Oduye?
Yep, the star of "Pariah," who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, has joined those big names as a nominee for best female lead actress at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. Oduye, whose biggest movie role to date has been the "Crack Smoker" in "Half Nelson," can't believe it.
"It hasn't really sunk in that I'm actually a nominee, as opposed to listening and watching for other people," says the New York-native. "I'm telling people I'm just taking it one hour at a time. I try not to get too far ahead of myself because then it's just like, 'What's happening?'"
Something many people can't believe is that in "Pariah," opening Jan. 6, the 33-year-old Oduye plays 17-year-old Alike, a lesbian who has come out to her friends but not to her parents (played by Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell). In mid-December at the Four Seasons Hotel, Oduye talked about the Sundance hit, saying "You don't have to be a young, black lesbian from New York City to get something from it."
She's right.
How do people react when they find out your age compared to Alike's age?
Either applause or people are people are like, "Whoa!" Some people think I'm just straight lying. People just think, "No, you can't be." And I tell them, "I'm pretty sure that's my age," and I take it as a big, huge compliment because it means people really believe [the film], and that's all I really wanted.
Have there been other times in your life when people comment that you look younger than you are?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I get that all the time. All the time. People are like, "How old are you? 23?" I'm like, "Oh, no." It's always like 23, 24, 25, and it's always flattering but I'm always just like, "No, no, no, nowhere near that age." [Laughs.] It's funny, at Sundance, people were like, "Oh, so are you still in school?" I can tell they're still thinking I'm maybe in college perhaps. And I'm like, "No, I'm done with school."
"What do you want to be when you grow up, little girl?"
[Laughs.] "So, do you think [you'll do this for a career]?" And I'm like, "Yeah, I've been doing this for some time."
"What do you think of the new Miley Cyrus album?"
[Laughs.] I'm like, "Who's that?" But it's flattering.
You had an assignment to go into a black and Latino lesbian club in character. What was going through your head during that experience?
It was interesting. I was in a club full of women but I felt like I was in the club with men and women. The women were either really butch or really femme. I had to keep telling myself, "I'm in a club full of women; there's no men here." But it's like people check the box. It was very clear, the gender roles were very, very clear, and very extreme. So the women that were femme were ultra-femme and the women that were butch were ultra-butch, and then there was a small group of women who were in the middle but they all hung out together. And for me I felt like I was on the outside looking in. Nobody was talking to me. Pernell Walker who plays [Alike's friend] Laura, she was dancing with women, getting numbers, 'cause she was in a very clear, she was clearly defined. I was in the middle and people were just circling around me and outside looking in. and I felt very awkward and uncomfortable. I didn't know how to stand, I didn't know how to dance, 'cause I'm dressed a certain way but my body wants to dance another way. It was overwhelming and I just had to stay frozen.
Do you think that's why they didn't come up to you?
Yeah, when you saw me, it was like this weird middle thing so people were just kinda like, "OK, I'm just going to ignore her." I felt truly invisible. That was the first time I got specifically into the world of Alike and what that was all about.
Did you and writer-director Dee Rees establish a limit to staying in character? Where would you have drawn the line?
[She was] there, kind of watching, making sure everything's OK, but they didn't interact with us at all. They just basically threw us in there and it was kinda like, "Whatever happens, happens. Whatever you're comfortable with happening, just go with it." I definitely felt super uncomfortable, and I think Parnell she tried to get me to stick a dollar, there was like a go-go dancer in the bar, like stick it in her g-string, and I was like, "No, no no!" I was like, "Ahh!" It was a lot.
Alike has an incident involving fake male genitalia that's white. How much will this movie increase the amount of time people spend thinking about the race of their sex toys?
[Laughs.] I don't know! That's a whole 'nother world I was just introduced to. I was like, "Wow, this is really interesting." The day that we shot that scene, I thought, "I should be more uncomfortable. I should feel more weird about this, but I don't." It was a nice time to be light on the set. I like brushed up against the DP with the dildo on and making people laugh and uncomfortable. Some of the guys would just look at me and look away and didn't want to look too hard. The interesting thing about Alike wearing the white dildo, usually you see stories like this from the perspective of white male sexuality. It's just interesting that the first time she tries to enter that foray, it's through white male …
Why did you feel like you should feel uncomfortable?
I don't know. I guess it's kind of weird. I was like, "I should feel weird. I've never seen a dildo before or held one before."
That's what they all say.
[Laughs.] It was more funny, more fascinating. Like, "Oh, wow, OK."
On homophobia in the African-American community: "To me, personally I think there's homophobia in every community. I don't think it's any more prevalent among African-Americans. I have friends who are gay, who are white, whose families have shunned them. I have friends who are black or Asian or Latino whose families have embraced them. It's been a cross-section all across the board. I think there's conservative people in all communities."
On the percentage of people that pronounced her name correctly at Sundance: [Laughs.] "Um, I'd probably say like 30 to 40 percent. They always have to ask. But I'm used to it. Once you see it on paper it's like, 'Oh, OK, I get it.' But there's always a little bit of a pause, like 'How do you say your name again?' … I hear all kinds of variations of my name. but I'm so used to it I never get offended."
What else she'd like to do: "I would love to do action. I really love action films. I would love to play Nina Simone in a biopic. That would be a dream, dream, dream role. And I would love to meet Oprah Winfrey. That's one that's top top top. Not play her, but she's working on this film called 'Ruin,' this adaptation of this play that won a Pulitzer Prize in New York, I think she's going to be in it. I'd love to be in that film too. That's a project I would love to be a part of."
What she wants to do in Chicago, which she last visited when her brother graduated law school from Northwestern 5-6 years ago: "Check out food. I love food. Any city I go to I try to eat something really cool from that city. Just eat eat eat … Usually what I do when I go to a city I Google 'Best restaurant' or 'Best brunch' or 'Best breakfast' and see where it is and find my way over there … What's Chicago known for? I had Giordano's, I had that yesterday. I hear Chicago has really good food. I love food! It's pretty bad."
On "Half Nelson" co-star Ryan Gosling: "He was just a really cool, down-to-earth guy. He was just doing all these heavy things, he was just really cool. I was only on set for one day. He was just a really nice guy. A really nice, generous guy."
Movies she's not ashamed to love: "The Notebook" and "Speed"
An album you still love after hearing it a long time ago: "Anything by Michael Jackson. So Michael Jackson 'Thriller.' I love love love it."
Something new on her ipod: "Frank Ocean. That's on repeat right now."
Watch Matt on "You & Me This Morning," Fridays at 7:30 a.m. on WCIU, the U
firstname.lastname@example.com. @mattpais


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Robert Krites, 80
Robert C. "Bob" Krites, 80, of Cridersville, died at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 at Auglaize Acres in Wapakoneta.
He was born July 29, 1932, in Logan Township, Auglaize County, to Cecelia (Taylor) and Virgil Talmadge Krites. Both parents are deceased. On March 11, 1951, he married Virginia Marie "Ginny" Stevenson, who died April 7, 2012.
Surviving are two sons, David (Connie) Krites, of Wapakoneta, and Dennis "Willie" Krites, of Cridersville; two daughters, Julia (Kurt) Zwiebel, of St. Marys, and Janelle Krites, of Buckland; eight grandchildren, Brad (Cheri) Krites, Scott Krites, Aubrea Krites, Angie (Rick) Gable, Lisa (Doug) Williams, Jesse Kohlrieser, Joshua (Jeni) Kohlrieser and Eric Augustus; 10 great-grandchildren, Evan Krites, Holly Krites, Kelly Krites, Malayna Krites, Graysen Krites, Isabella Krites, Kylie Williams, Brayden Kohlrieser, Bryce Kohlrieser and Brody Williams; a brother, Harold (Margaret) Krites, of Wapakoneta; a sister, Betty Fenneman, of Spencerville; and his four-legged friend, "Jake".
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Kenneth Krites and Glenn Krites; and a sister, Mary Howell.
Mr. Krites was a life-long farmer. He graduated from Buckland High School in 1950, was a salesman for Pioneer Seed Company, had been chairman of the Auglaize County ASCS and had worked for National Lime and Stone Company and Dingledine Construction Company. He was a Logan Township Trustee for 32 years.
Private family services will be held. Burial will be held at Fort Amanda Cemetery.
Arrangements are being handled by Bayliff & Son Funeral Home in Cridersville.
Contributions may be given to the Equestrian Therapy Program in Cridersville.
Condolences may be shared at bayliffandson.com.


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Seeing that the development of the ext3 file system successor has started, and that Andrew Morton has released mm patch containing ext4 file system, I decided to run some simple benchmarks, even in this early stage of development.
Because the mm patch also contains Hans Reiser's reiser4 file system, I decided to run benchmarks against it, too, for a good measure. Let me once again remind that both ext4 and reiser4 are still in development, while ext3 has been in production for many years, so take all the results below with a grain of salt.
All tests were run on a modern Intel E6600 based desktop equipped with an ATA disk. I made a small partition exclusively for this testing. File system under testing was recreated and freshly mounted for each and every test below, so that caching doesn't get in out way (I could've also used drop_caches kernel mechanism to get rid of caches, but this is safer). This also means that all tests were done in pristine environment, not accounting for fragmentation and other effects happening in real environments. ext4 was mounted with
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt -t ext4dev -o extents so that extents are enabled. The kernel used was 2.6.19-rc2-mm1. The I/O scheduler was the kernel default CFQ.
Sequential reading/writing
I used an aging bonnie application to make some quick measurements of file system performance when doing sequential I/O operation.
Not much surprises here. While there are some differences among the file systems, I don't think they're that much interesting. All file systems are able to read sequentially from big files with speeds close to the platter speed (57MB/s in this case).
Sequential writing, on the other hand, shows that there are some real improvements built into ext4. Probably extents together with delayed block allocation allow ext4 to come first in this benchmark, leaving the other two file systems good 20 percent behind.
Creating/deleting small files
The other typical operation file systems do in some workloads is managing many small files. To measure performance in such environment I decided to prepare a simple application (make-many-files) whose only task is to make many small files (405,000 in this case), but also distribute them in a tree like structure, so that we don't measure directory operations only (it's a known fact that the performance of file system drops rapidly when you go over some number of files in the same directory). You can find the source of the applicaton attached to this article, if you would like to run it yourself.
While it can be seen that ext4 shows a slight regression over ext3, the real winner here is reiser4. It seems that ext4 could use some improvements in this area (rapid file creation).
Deleting almost half a million files created in the previous step is a completely different picture. Here ext3/4 completely dominate reiser4. Once again ext4 is slightly slower, but not much.
I also need to mention that for the above two tests reiser4 took much more CPU cycles. I'm not putting the graph here because it would not be easy to interpret, but it seems that the other testers were on the right track saying that reiser4 is quite heavy on CPU under some loads.
For the final test, I decided to go with a macro benchmark. I ran postmark, a benchmark that's based around small file operations similar to those used on large mail servers and news servers. I used the following configuration for testing:
set read 4096
set write 4096
set transactions 10000
set size 500 500000
set number 5000
What we get out, after a few minutes of crunching with postmark, is the number of transactions per seconds. Where the bigger number indicates more performant file system. Ext4 has improved over ext3, but once again reiser4 is leading the bunch.
The ext4 file system promises improved data integrity and performance, together with less limitations, and is definitely the step in the right way. Even if there are some regressions in our measurements, when compared to ext3, they're quite small and no doubt will be fixed before the development is finished. On the other hand, under some workloads ext4 is already showing much better results.
Another surprise of this test is reiser4, which has the best performance in some tests.
It should be also noted that all the file systems were completely stable during these testing, no crashes, no unexpected behaviour. So feel free to do your own tests, but still be very careful before entrusting your important data to them (except ext3, of course).
Jade (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 14:19
Your sequential writing speeds (63 MB/s) is faster than your sequential reading (53 MB/s) speeds and faster than your platter speed (57 MB/s).
I think there are some errors in your tests/calculations.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 14:26
That's just how bonnie works, not fsync()ing before reporting final results. So, at the moment the application has finished throwing data to kernel and reports results, there are some dirty buffers in the memory not yet written to disk. That's why speed is slightly higher that the disk itself would allow.
Because all file systems were tested with the same setup, I think the results are credible.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 15:08
Sorry, but you clearly do not know how bonnie works (are you confusing it with bonnie++?).
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 15:35
Actually the reason for the higher write speed than platter speed is explained in the article "Probably extents together with delayed block allocation allow ext4 to come first in this benchmark". Therefore, ext4 reports the write finished BEFORE everything is actually written to disk, this gives the impression to the user the filesystem is faster since you get control of your system back sooner when doing writes and in the background ext4 finishes writing to disk.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 2006-10-23 08:08
Actually if two file systems are essentially the same speed but one (the 'faster') appears faster only because it returns earlier because of cached data waiting to be written, then in the event of power failure the same amount of data will still be lost, only you might think that the faster system had lost less...?
Leroy van Logchem (not verified)
Tue, 2006-10-24 22:59
Indeed. For example, the default dirty_ratio on most 2.6 kernels are way too large imo. If you are going to do sustained writes multiple times the size of the memory you have at least two problems. 1) The precious dentry and inodecache will be dropped leaving you with a *very* unresponsive system 2) The amount of dirty_pages which need to be flushed to disk is very large, if not taking all of the VM, and hogs the i/o channel. What we really need is a 'cfq' for all processes -especially misbehaving ones like dd if=/dev/zero of=/location/large bs=1M count=10000-. If you want to DoS any current 2.6 kernel just start a ever running dd write and you know what I mean. Huge latencies due the fact that all name_to_inode caches are lost and have to be fetched from disk again only to be quickly flushed again and again. I already explained this disaster scenario with Linus, Andrew and Jens; I'am hoping for a auto-tuning solution which takes diskspeed per partition into account. Anyway for now try to preserve the imported caches with sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 1 and for a safer, more in-sync server, vm.dirty_ratio = 2 combined with vm.dirty_background_ratio = 1. Some benchmarks may get worse but you have a more resiliant server.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 18:19
Umm... yeah... that's what he's been saying the whole time... Kernel caches and writes later, benchmark thinks it's done...
nigelbiggs (not verified)
Fri, 2010-10-29 08:37
That's just how bonnie works, not fsync()ing before reporting final results. So, at the moment the application has finished throwing data to kernel and reports results, there are some dirty buffers in the memory not yet written to disk. That's why speed is slightly higher that the disk itself would allow.
Because all file systems were tested with the same setup, I think the results are credible.
Nigel - UK
Fylde Computer Repairs
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 15:01
I'd be interested in large-file (over 4GB) random-read and random-write performance. That's closer to the sort of I/O performed by database systems.
Dan Wood (not verified)
Tue, 2007-01-23 09:50
I'm working on an SQL database which is inserting data with one index at over a million insert per second sustained for hours. I can get sufficient bandwidth with a large raid(550+ MB/second). My current problem is that I want to insert past the 2TB file size limit. Other problems is that the drop of a 2TB file on an ext2 filesystem takes a half hour. Ideally I'd like to pre-extend the file to maximize insert performance. While I've heard that Linux is depreciating raw devices is that my best bet(No fragmentation, size is limited to that of the device and not the fs type, no extending the file write penalty, etc.)?
Sun, 2006-10-22 18:13
It's nice to see the tests done on many small files like a mailserver would handle, but this article is obviously written for the common layman and his desktop machine, not for experienced system admins who might actually have a mailserver. How does ext4 perform on everyday files, such as a 100k .odf or .ods, a 5MB mp3 files, or even a 700MB movie? That's what would interest the people reading this.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 18:20
Don't know about you, but I have close to a million files on my desktop. And most of the time I'm waiting for disk is not when I'm copying one big file, but many small ones.
The bonnie results above should apply well to rather big files. As for 100k .odf, do you really think anybody cares how many milliseconds that takes? Unless you have thousands of those, of course, and then the results from the postmark test are suddenly usable. :)
sambeau (not verified)
Sun, 2006-10-22 23:46
Apologies in advance for my pedancy, but...
Could you use an origin of zero for all your graphs. Your first graph appears to be showing 200% & 400% differences at first glance when in fact its mearly showing 2% & 4 % differences.
Anonymous (not verified)
Wed, 2007-09-12 20:03
+1 again...
Émilien TLAPALE (not verified)
Tue, 2007-11-13 16:16
Anonymous (not verified)
Wed, 2009-06-24 04:38
The scale on your graphs is misleading. Ext4 is not all that after all is it? But gosh your charts sure make it look that way. That's just wrong.
Joe (not verified)
Thu, 2007-03-22 18:28
You figured it out obviously, so why bother? If you put it on a 0-start chart the lines will all look the same so why bother with charts in the first place?
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 2007-04-30 04:46
Why do you show charts?
To make differences and similarities of data sets visible.
When your chart shows 40% difference when there is only 4%, it is totally useless.
Of course the reader can study the details (the axis description) and get it, but then he might as well read the textual description of the data sets.
Charts should show the intended meaning at the first glance!
Thu, 2007-05-03 17:03
Ohh, you cannot imagine how much I agree with you!
Such badly scaled diagrams are everywhere, and they are useless and misleading.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sat, 2008-06-21 10:25
I totally, totally agree. When you have a badly scaled chart, it ends up misleading most of us who don't check very carefully.
Anonymous (not verified)
Fri, 2007-08-03 02:55
If, as you point out, people are able to "figure out" the true picture eventually, then just what does the exaggeration accomplish, except a few seconds of sensationalism before the reality sinks in?
The reality is that the results in most cases show the file systems to be very close in performance - and the charts should show this too.
Charts are meant to show the TRUE picture. If the results are more or less the same, then the charts should show that they are more or less the same. Anything else is inaccurate and is a deception.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 2006-10-23 01:23
If you used the stodgy ext3 default configuration, which is ridiculous as far as performance is concerned, the results don't really give a true picture of ext3's potential. Did you set dir_index and data=writeback for ext3 with tune2fs for these tests? This consistently and significantly improves ext3, and it surpasses reiser3 in most cases, and even the current reiser4 in some.
Jade (not verified)
Mon, 2006-10-23 03:28
If you are getting stupid results (a writing speed of 63 MB/s, which is faster than the reading speed of 52 MB/s (and also faster than the physical disk speeds)) apparently due to the lack of fsync()ing, then use Bonnie++.
Bonnie++ is just Bonnie with a few (very informative) extra features.
Anyway, what is important here, is that:
Bonnie++ has a -b option to cause a fsync() after every write (and a fsync() of the directory after file create or delete).
Thu, 2007-01-18 11:43
I made the several benchmarks one year ago to compare ext2/ext3/ext3+patches (= ext4)/reiserFS/XFS/JFS
You can see results at http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/
and especially:
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 2007-09-13 07:08
REISER4 - THE BEST FILESYSTEM EVER. Much better than ext4.
You can read more here:
Column one measures the time taken to complete the bonnie++ benchmarking test (run with the parameters bonnie++ -n128:128k:0). The top two results use Reiser4 with compression. Since bonnie++ writes test files which are almost all zeros, compression speeds things up dramatically. That this is not the case in real world examples can be seen below where compression does not speed things up. However, more importantly, it does not slow things down either.
Column two, Disk Usage: measures the amount of disk used to store 655MB of raw data (which was 3 different copies of the Linux kernel sources).
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 2008-05-06 20:33
Yeah, it's a KILLER filesystem!
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 2008-05-06 20:43
Pun intended? ;)
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 2008-12-23 18:23
That's hilarious.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sat, 2009-08-15 08:13
http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm can now be found at
The linuxhelp site seems to be censored every year or so.
It has been available at linux.coconia.net linuxhelp.150m.com m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/ linux.50webs.org and probably more places,... none of which are now available.
Typhoon (not verified)
Wed, 2009-04-22 03:25
I do not think performance is the only thing of a filesystem, what I am caring more the safety, who can tell me which one is the most stable and the least crashed filesystem?
ext3/ext4 alter... (not verified)
Tue, 2011-08-30 19:35
Ext3 and ext4 have modes for preserving user data, however the manner in which blocks are written to the disk can be cause for concern. In a transactional file system, user data belonging to the committed state is never overwritten.
Ext3 and ext4 require that a fixed amount of disk space be set aside for the journal itself—this is in addition to the standard file system metadata. The journal size must be large enough to contain the maximum number of events the system could ever need and the size is determined at format time.
Transactional file systems like Reliance Nitro by Datalight, have no such requirement, and in fact, the space needed to record the dual-state information is smaller than the overhead required by most FAT implementations.
Ext3 and ext4 users can specify whether they want to log all changes to both file data and metadata or whether they want to log only metadata changes. The file system options can be changed, but it should be noted that there is no application programming interface (API) to change the journal options.
With Datalight Reliance family of file systems, the application developer can set the default model to automatic or timed transactions, and then programmatically disable that mode, perform operations on a whole group of files, perform an explicit transaction point, and then re-enable the default transaction mode.
Its worth looking at.


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Sunday, 3 April 2011
Free Tools Challenge Number Three - Bitstrips
4 comments:
- Janet Bianchini said...
Hi Natasa
Absolutely fabulous work and fantastic, creative lesson ideas!!
Thanks for sharing. I'll link back to your post soon!!
I also like the winged characters a lot.
- 4 April 2011 at 08:29
- Natasa said...
Thanks Janet. I am glad you have found my activities useful. As for the winged characters, they are addictive. I have just created another one. I guess I am just procrastinating, but it is fun.
- 5 April 2011 at 02:53
- CoffeeAddict said...
I'm confused about the "free" bit. Last time I checked Bitstrips you had to pay?!? What am I missing?
- 11 May 2011 at 08:13
- Natasa said...
Karin, you are right - Bitstrips for School (http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/) are not free. Which is precisely why I decided to use ordinary Bitstrips instead. Because ordinary Bitstrips (http://www.bitstrips.com/) are still free. True, you are missing the 'classroom feeling' you have with Bitstrips for School, but you and your students can still find ways to share the comics you created.
I have used a lot of online tools and so far I haven't spent a penny on any of them. If something is not free, I ignore it:)
- 16 May 2011 at 02:26


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The day started like any other. Christina Romero's nephew, 20-year-old Robert Gonzales, was heading to West Mesa High School to say hi to his girlfriend. "I told him, 'OK. Be back pretty soon so we can go to the store,' " Romero says. "I never even got to do that."
Her memory of the events of Nov. 3, 2005, is detailed.
Christina's nephew is developmentally delayed. Tests conducted throughout his life put his IQ in the 50s or low 60s.
Though he had already graduated, that afternoon his caseworker from high school unexpectedly knocked on the door of their Westside home. The woman asked Christina to step into a private room. "She tells me, 'I need to talk to you.' I go, 'Why? What's the matter? Did Robert do something wrong at school?' "
Robert had been arrested, the caseworker said, but she couldn't reveal why. Christina was shocked.
"My brother calls me and tells me, 'Put the TV on,' " she remembers. "I put the TV on and see him walking down the stairs with that stupid white uniform they put on him at first, and I go, What the hell did he do so bad?"
Suddenly, white vehicles pulled up in front of the house. Investigators ordered the family to step outside then asked them to sit in the back of a police car. "I kept saying to myself, What could have happened? Why are they taking him in?" When they returned to their home hours later, they saw themselves in the car on the news, along with footage of Robert's arrest. "Oh my God, it wouldn't stop," she says. "They kept showing everything over and over on every channel."
Christina sits at her kitchen table and tells the story more than three years later. Her voice breaks and the tears come. Her nephew, Robert, sits quietly as his aunt recalls the day he was arrested and charged with the rape and murder of 11-year-old Victoria Sandoval, who died on Halloween night in 2005.
District Attorney Kari Brandenburg calls Robert Gonzales' confession "chilling," though she says she hasn't seen the entirety of the two interrogation videos that together last more than two-and-a-half hours.*
Detectives Brian Sanchez and Mike Marquez pal around with a small, meticulously dressed, vato-looking Gonzales throughout the videos. At about minute 24, Gonzales asks his interrogators, "Is it anything bad that I did?" They tell him they're investigating a child-abuse crime. At no point does Gonzales request a lawyer. He's eager to please them. Still, over the course of the hours, even as his mental state grows weary, he insists that he didn't know Sandoval, that he'd never been to the Westgate trailer park where she died. The detectives take a break and leave Gonzales in the room alone. "I'm fucked," he says to himself. "I've never been in that area."
They return and ask for details, pulling Gonzales step by step through the events of the attack. Detective Marquez tells Gonzales that something happened, something went wrong, that it wasn't the real Robert that committed the crime. "It's feeling to me like I wasn't there," Gonzales insists, his voice rising in volume and pitch.
After more than an hour, he says, "I wish I had my auntie here." Minutes tick by and the high-pressure techniques continue. The detectives say they sympathize with Gonzales, tell him they would be angry, too, if a girl had lied to them about her age. "We all have problems when angry," Sanchez says.
And it dawns on Gonzales, nearly two hours in. "Is she dead or what? Is she murdered or what?" he asks, panicking. By now, he's spent. His voice grows quiet and he begins to mumble some of his answers.
"You got pissed the fuck off. You put your hands on her," says Detective Sanchez. "Where did you put your hands on her?"
"On her neck," says Gonzales. The statement is unsure, almost a question.
The detectives ask Gonzales to demonstrate choking on a plastic water bottle, and it's this moment, including the way he arranges his hands on the bottle, that earns the confession the adjective "chilling" from Brandenburg. "He put his hands up, not the typical way you would choke someone or not how I would think you would choke someone, and arranges his thumbs in a certain way, and that's exactly where the bruises were on the body," she says.
After the detectives have their confession, Gonzales sits in the interrogation room with another officer. Though there's no way he could know his future, he says he will "end up doing three years in la pinta." And he will.
Before the video ends, Gonzales tells the detectives, "I want to make sure. Are you going to do fingerprints on me? That's what I want to know." He's convinced fingerprints will get him out if this mess. His instincts are right. He will never be convicted of the crime.
On Nov. 22, 2005, 19 days after Gonzales' arrest, DNA evidence was returned to the Albuquerque Police Department. That's according to a report by the state Public Defender's Office. With dozens of samples collected from the crime scene—swabs from Sandoval's body, items of clothing, her bedding—Gonzales was excluded as a donor. The evidence pointed repeatedly to a person who was not Gonzales. Court records show APD sent samples from other suspects to Identigen, the DNA testing company, that day.
A civil lawsuit was filed in District Court on Gonzales' behalf early this year. The suit names Detectives Marquez and Sanchez along with the City of Albuquerque, DA Kari Brandenburg, and Assistant DAs Bryan McKay and Lisa Trabaudo. Metropolitan Detention Center employees are also on the list of defendants. A trial date has not been set. Damages will be determined by the jury.
Christina Romero says she can't believe there was DNA evidence that, from the beginning, put someone else at the crime scene. Why was Gonzales picked up in 2005 in the first place? According to the transcript of the grand jury proceeding, an adolescent neighbor of Victoria Sandoval's told police her friend was hanging out with an older guy nicknamed "Old School." Police asked around West Mesa to find someone with that nickname, according to testimony, and school security gave them Gonzales' name. The neighbor picked Gonzales out of a photo array and identified him as "Old School," prompting his arrest.
Because of the pending civil case, APD declined to answer questions about whether detectives receive any training in interrogating developmentally disabled suspects or whether such considerations were put into place after the Gonzales interrogation yielded faulty results.
Ruben Leyva has worked with Youth Development, Inc. for 15 years as the program director at the Fourth Street Outreach Family Services Center. Gang intervention is one of the four programs he facilitates. Through his work with gang-involved, at-risk youth, he met Gonzales four or five years ago, he estimates. "Robert was one of those that was around quite a bit and knew all the staff and associated with all the staff," he says. He describes Gonzales as "extremely helpful" and "always wanting to give more than he took." To this day, he says, his former pupil calls and offers to do landscaping work at YDI.
Gonzales was not heavily involved with a gang, according to Leyva, but he participated extensively in YDI activities. In fact, Leyva saw Gonzales the day before Sandoval was murdered and the day after. "There was no change," he says. "No difference." The day after Halloween in 2005, YDI hosted the Urban Ballet Theater from New York as guest speakers. Gonzales showed off his beatboxing skills. Days later, when Leyva heard the news of the arrest, he was stunned. "To be very honest, I called a pastor friend of mine and bawled," he says. "We believed what our police department and our city leaders told us. Even as much as it hurts. We believed that."
Leyva says anyone would have known that Gonzales had a mental disability after speaking with him for a while. "He can carry on a conversation. He can talk. He can associate," he says. "But then you see it, like, just hit a point where, OK, he can't take this conversation any further."
Gonzales, he says, behaves differently now that he's left prison. "He's much more subdued. He doesn't look as much angry about it as he is hurt about it. I've never really seen him angry."
He won't talk about his confession. He won't comment on the fact that he spent terrible months in prison while evidence stacked up showing he wasn't the murderer. "I just hate talking about it," Gonzales says. "It just opens me up, and it hits me. It destroys my body. I never stayed the same ever since I got out. Ever since I got out, I never felt good. I never felt the way I'm supposed to feel."
According to jail records, Gonzales' experience in MDC was fraught with threats, violence and illness. From Nov. 11, 2005, days after he was locked up: "Security reports several verbal threats by other inmates directed at resident due to nature of charges. Resident agitated, tearful, talkative and engaged; says he wants cell by himself."
Gonzales complained of violent experiences with guards, according to jail records. He was put on suicide watch as Christmas neared in 2007. "When asked about legal situation, states, 'I've just put that out of my head for now,' " says a progress note from that time.
While he fought his battles behind bars, his family remained under siege by the media, his aunt recalls. And when he was finally released, Romero says, TV reporters haunted the jail parking lot and jumped all over the family car when they pulled away.
Gonzales won't reflect on some things, like the scholarship he won to a post-high school training program for the developmentally disabled. His time in prison disqualified him from accepting. He looks toward his living room and shakes his head while trying to explain why he can't talk about it. "He's locked it up," Romero says.
Though Gonzales was never convicted of killing Victoria Sandoval, and though DNA evidence couldn't place him at the scene of the crime, he spent 997 days in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. Brandenburg says he was in jail for so long because defense attorney Jeff Buckels raised the issue of Gonzales' competency. "Everything stops until the defendant is found to be competent," she says.
Though APD is shown to have had the DNA evidence six months prior, Assistant DA Trabaudo says the prosecution didn't receive word of it until the summer of 2006.
At the end of 2007, Gonzales' defense asked that he be released from jail, and the request was denied in March of 2008.
Israel Diaz, who lived in the same trailer park as Victoria Sandoval, was arrested for burglary in April and his DNA entered into the system. It was a match for the DNA found at the years-old crime scene where Sandoval's body was found. Still, it wasn't until Diaz confessed and said he acted alone that the District Attorney's Office dropped charges against Gonzales on June 27, 2008.
So does Brandenburg believe Gonzales' confession was false? "That would be very, very simplistic," she says. "You can't answer a question like that." She says DNA is available in maybe 20 percent of the cases her office prosecutes, and 80 percent of them are considered without it. "To assume we should have known immediately when the DNA was announced that he was innocent—no," she says. "That doesn't tell us anything." Instead, she adds, it means there was probably someone else involved. When Diaz' DNA was shown to match, Brandenburg says, prosecutors assumed he would implicate Gonzales. "When he didn't say that, we knew that we didn't have enough evidence," she says. "There are a lot of people still involved in the investigation that have questions."
Attorney Brad Hall will represent Gonzales in the pending civil suit. He says APD and the District Attorney's Office knew they had the wrong guy in jail from the time they received the DNA. "Robert did not know the victim, and they know that," he says. "There's not a shred of evidence corroborating what she [Brandenburg] calls a confession."
Hall also points out that detectives picked up Gonzales at a special ed facility at West Mesa where he had paused to visit with teachers. They should have known that he had a developmental disability, he says. "All you gotta do is ask a teacher." Hall adds that there's a mountain of records showing Gonzales has been evaluated by the state since he was a child. "They could just go get those things and look them over before they haul off and call a press conference," Hall says.
Brandenburg says in the last eight years, the District Attorney's Office has handled more than 240,000 cases. "If you put it in context of one in 240 [thousand], do you think that requires a total re-evaluation? I don't know." Still, she adds, one in 240,000 is one too many. "It behooves us all," Brandenburg finishes, "to try and look at things more cautiously and with a little bit of skepticism and make sure we have a lot of corroborating evidence."


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Processing and Quality Assurance
The agency must contact the Micrographics Lab to make arrangements for delivery of exposed microfilm and accompanying paperwork. Film may be delivered by courier, state mail, or U.S. mail. It is essential for the agency to:
- Deliver the film to the Archives with the camera and roll number on the outside of the film box.
- Make certain that each roll of film is accompanied by a completed Certificate of Camera Operator. The paper must not be put inside the box of film. The information on the certificate must include names, dates, and information from the work order that is vital for locating an individual roll of film. It will be used to create labels for the film.
Processing Microfilm
The Archives provides microfilm processing services to agencies and local governments free of charge. All processing will be done in accordance with AIIM and ANSI standards.
The first step in microfilm processing is the development of negatives. During processing, negative film is developed, fixed, washed, and dried. A processed negative must be of high enough quality so that good print copies can be made. Consistency is the key to high quality processing. The State Archives Micrographics Lab always keeps the following things the same:
- The developer and fixer strength
- The depth of the developer and fixer in their respective tanks
- The time taken to develop, fix, and wash film
- The temperature of the developer, fixer, and wash water, and
- The amount of agitation (the movement of the film and/or developer or fixer when the film is being developed/fixed.)
Negative Inspection
Negative inspection ensures that microforms have been filmed and processed correctly. Inspectors receive processed film from the lab and then evaluate it to determine its overall quality and ensure it is not missing items. When film is substandard or information that should have been filmed is missing, camera operators and lab personnel are informed so they can correct the mistakes. When the film meets the State's standards, duplicate copies are made as needed. The inspectors then send the film to storage and give any necessary feedback to the appropriate people.
If the film does not meet the specified standards, the inspectors request retakes of the substandard portions of the film. A Retake Order is filled out and sent to the camera operator. The operator is also contacted by telephone for any clarification of problems and instructions on how to correct them. Operators then make the retakes and have them processed. The inspectors evaluate the retakes for acceptable quality and splice the retake to the original. After this, the corrected film is sent to storage.
Completed Microforms
Once they pass inspection, labeled working copies of film delivered to the Preservation Section will be available for pick-up within 48 hours. The master copy of the microform will be labeled and sent to the Archives master vault or the Records Center for storage.
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Cal upends South Florida 82-78 in OT to advance to NCAA regional semifinals
LUBBOCK, Texas – Layshia Clarendon scored 27 points to help California beat South Florida 82-78 in overtime on Monday night in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Rashanda Gray added 14 points for the second-seeded Golden Bears (30-2), who advanced to the round of 16 for second time in program history and reached 30 victories for the first time.
The Bears were up 67-57 before the Bulls went on a 13-3 run culminating in a trio of free throws by Inga Orekhova with under a second remaining that tied it at 70.
California missed eight of 11 free throws down the stretch in regulation but went 8 for 10 at the line in overtime.
Andrea Smith scored 24 points and Orekhova added 22 to lead South Florida (22-11), which won its first ever NCAA tournament game Saturday.


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Annapolis is swimming in wine bars these days.
The choices include the deeply cool Red Red Wine on Main Street, Justin Moore's food-forward Vin 909 over in Eastport and the accessibly cozy Grapes Wine Bar on Forest Drive.
Crush Kitchen and Winehouse got there first, though, back in 2010, when it opened on West Street as Crush Winehouse.
Crush is a big, inviting space, loud and lively, with a smartly arranged layout of banquettes, four-tops and high tables. The walls are painted in the welcoming rusts and golds that we associate with Tuscan hospitality. Toward the back, near the bar, there's one of those self-serve wine dispensing stations where diners can help themselves to taste-size portions of wines they're curious about. The restaurant's most notable feature is at the entrance: a spiral staircase from the building's former days as a firehouse.
We were treated very well by the restaurant's staff and management. They greeted us with complimentary glasses of Spanish cava, a sparkling, palate-cleansing wine. This is the third group of operators at Crush, and they seem committed to hospitality.
We came to Crush on a Thursday night, to find it filled with people who had signed up for an Italian wine tasting. We were told we could essentially join their party and order the same group of wines for the same price, a thoughtful gesture.
Crush offers an interesting and affordable selection of wine flights, which is an effective way of breaking through diners' anxiety about ordering wine. (The flights would look nicer in smaller glasses, though.)
I liked Crush as a gathering spot but less so as a restaurant. There's a disconnect between the atmosphere, which is frolicsome and fizzy, and the food, which is unfocused and flat.
Crush is not the only restaurant to offer a caprese salad when tomatoes are out of season, but it's discouraging whenever it happens. Maryland's amazing crop of strawberries is just around the corner, so why show them off now, as part of a portobello napoleon appetizer and as garnish for a dessert assortment?
Our favorite appetizer was the pan-seared dates, stuffed with herbed goat cheese and wrapped in prosciutto. It's the kind of quick and crafty appetizer that works well in wine bars. But no other starter whetted our appetite. The portabello napoleon, balsamic-glazed puff pastry layered with strawberries, spinach and sherry cream, was prepared adequately. But it's too heavy, more appropriate for a country inn, not a wine bar.
Even a well-produced and tasty appetizer like tuna tartare with seaweed and sesame seeds feels like something we've seen a hundred times before. The serving of cured meats and cheese is pretty, but the cheese selections are workhorses like manchego, gouda and gorgonzola. Crush could be introducing diners to cheeses they haven't had before — especially some of the great products from Cherry Glen, Firefly Farms and other remarkable Maryland cheese makers.
Crush serves up almost all of its entrees with the same mixture of undercooked mixed vegetables and either mashed potatoes or rice, depending on whether it's a meat or seafood dish. Meats and seafood are underseasoned and overportioned.
The Hawaiian rib-eye had a tasty horseradish salsa, but the steak itself needed basic seasoning. A veal piccata was tender, but the presence of lemon and caper flavors was minimal. These entrees were simply bland, but a scallop casserole was both bland and odd — fat, unseasoned scallops topped with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese, and broiled in what tasted like unsalted butter.
Dessert was a choice of spongy tiramisu or an uninspired cheesecake. We did get try a new off-menu dessert, an apple-pecan cake. It was delicious, but it's still not right for a wine bar — too heavy and old-fashioned.
Not every restaurant has to keep up with contemporary attitudes about seasonal and local dining, but a wine bar with a sophisticated wrapping should. You want Crush to be as clever as it is nice.
Crush Kitchen and Winehouse
Rating: **
Where: 114 West St., Annapolis
Contact: 410-216-9444, crushwinehouse.com
Open: Open Tuesday through Friday for lunch and daily for dinner.
Prices: Appetizers $11-$16; entrees $24-$31
Food: Upscale pub fare like ahi tuna, Atlantic salmon and bruschetta.
Service: Informed, friendly and concerned.
Best dishes: Prosciutto-wrapped dates, sesame tuna, charcuterie and cheese plate.
Parking: Self and valet parking at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, paid parking on street and at the nearby Knighton Parking Garage on Colonial Avenue.
Children: Not much for them.
Noise level: Brassy and blaring.
Dress code: No dress code, but a dressy casual style pervades.
[Key: Superlative: *****; Excellent: ****; Very Good: ***; Good: **; Promising: *]


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Minnesota Orchestra Goes Public With Latest Offer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Orchestra is going public with latest offer to its locked-out musicians.
Reports say the proposal is essentially the same as one that musicians rejected in July.
Under the board's proposal, musicians would return at their former salaries on Sept. 30 and would "play and talk" for two months.
If no agreement were reached, a 24-month contract would go into effect that would pay the musicians an annual average salary of $102,200. That would represent a 24 percent cut from the average annual salary of $135,000 in the musicians' previous contract, which expired Sept. 30, 2012. But it represents a better deal than the 34 percent cut the board offered last September.
A musicians' spokesman says the proposal is "one we've already rejected."


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Dear Annie: What should I say to my sister when she makes outrageous claims? For example, she believes the government is spraying poison into the skies and dropping ticks to kill us. She has a huge supply of plastic coffins ready to put our corpses into. She thinks crackpots rapping on YouTube are reliable sources of information.
Dear Annie: A close friend of mine is a successful professional woman who went through a painful divorce several years ago when her husband was unfaithful. "Diane" swore off dating for a long time.
Dear Annie: My friend "Nina" just broke up with her boyfriend of five years. We are here for her, trying to help in any way we can, even though we think she is out of her mind for doing this.
Dear Annie: We are the future. It may sound cheesy, but that's the motto I live by, and it's one of the reasons I believe so strongly in the need to prevent and reduce tobacco use among teens and kids. My passion for tobacco-use prevention started when I saw the harm that tobacco use caused my older sister. She started smoking at age 13 and ended up with an addiction that spiraled out of control, in many ways taking her childhood with it.
Dear Annie: My sister, "Suzie," has always been a bit of a flower child, and my parents think it's funny.
Dear Annie: I am a 44-year-old guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. I met "Lisa" two years ago. I was fresh out of a divorce. Lisa was in terrible shape. Her mother had just died, and shortly after, she lost her fiance in a traffic accident. Then she moved back home to take care of her ailing father.
Dear Annie: I have been dating my boyfriend for four years. We both have children from our previous relationships and share custody with our exes. Until recently, we had our kids on the same weekends. Then my boyfriend's ex decided that her children cannot be here when my 11-year-old son is staying over.
Dear Annie: I am an elementary school teacher. This year I have two 7-year-old students with major behavior issues. Both of them have threatened to bring a gun to school and shoot me and their classmates. As shocking as it is to hear this from such young children, the response from the people in charge is worse.
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