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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Defense: Boy might have ingested too much tap water
			GOOSE CREEK â€" When 10-year-old Jon Jon Jackson died from drowning this summer more than an hour after he'd left a swimming pool, prosecutors charged an adult for being criminally responsible for his death, tying it to rough treatment in the water. His lawyer said Thursday another theory is worth exploring: The boy accidently might have ingested too much tap water.
Enjoy a every Sunday Only In The Post & Courier find locations		Vow takes boss to new heights Goose Creek â€" Rick Seidman is nothing if not a climber. He started working at Quoizel as a salesman some 20 years ago and rose from there. Now, he's the lighting company's boss, and he's still climbing â€" to the company's office rooftop. It's one of those things that sounded like a good idea at the time: Seidman promised his employees he'd spend a night on the roof if they could raise $26,000 for Berkeley County Habitat for Humanity. Plans for 3 hotly debated projects develop on an evolving Johns Island JOHNS ISLAND â€" Steve Olson, who lives just off Maybank Highway on Johns Island, says the traffic near his home is so bad at rush hour that he avoids leaving his neighborhood. He wants new roads built on the island to help with traffic now and to prepare for more development, which he thinks is inevitable. Board, musicians face difficult path to survival The fortunes of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and its patrons now rest on a grave ultimatum: Avert imminent disaster through creative cooperation or declare bankruptcy. Those are the options, and both mean a major reorganization and financial restructuring, according to symphony officials, who face perhaps the worst fiscal crisis in the organization's 72-year history. Nonprofit Elpis repays loan at 11th hour Just hours before a scheduled foreclosure sale Thursday, the Charleston nonprofit group Elpis paid off a loan to the city Housing Authority that had fallen into arrears, allowing the group to keep possession of its property at 23 Aiken St. The Housing Authority had loaned $45,000 to Elpis in 2005 so it could create affordable housing units at the site, and feared that it would instead end up owning the property and a dilapidated house there, which the city has declared a safety threat.
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			The College of Charleston and Charleston Southern pushed the ball up and down the floor Thursday night at the North Charleston Coliseum, even pausing occasionally to play defense. Charleston pushed it a little better, defended a little better, and the end result was a 93-83 victory for the Cougars in front of an announced crowd of 2,835.
		Goudelock paces fast-paced Cougars past crosstown rival Buccaneers The College of Charleston and Charleston Southern pushed the ball up and down the floor Thursday night at the North Charleston Coliseum, even pausing occasionally to play defense. Charleston pushed it a little better, defended a little better, and the end result was a 93-83 victory for the Cougars in front of an announced crowd of 2,835. Excuse me, I'm with the band In a student body that often considers itself too cool for school spirit, the College of Charleston Pep Band stands out as a notable exception. Thirty strong and always on hand when the Cougars play at home, these Cougars are a band of brethren who don't mind being part of the show. Hawkeyes pierce Bulldogs from long range Hawkeye Nation turned out in force at McAlister Field House Thursday night, and did not go away disappointed. Some 300 Iowa fans decked out in black and gold came out to see the Hawkeyes' basketball team, the first from the Big Ten to visit McAlister, pull away for a 70-48 victory over The Citadel before 2,024 spectators. Ex-Fort Dorchester stars Capers, Dunlap to meet in The Swamp The trash-talking has been held to a minimum this week. "He said he's approaching it just like another game," Citadel linebacker Mel Capers said of his high school teammate, Florida star Carlos Dunlap. "I told him, 'Well, I'm doing the same thing.' " But Saturday's mismatch at The Swamp between the underdog Bulldogs and third-ranked Florida will hold special meaning for Capers and Dunlap, who were teammates and buddies at Fort Dorchester High School.
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		A boost for jobless WASHINGTON â€" Jarred by new jobless alarms, the U.S. Senate raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. The Senate's vote followed Thursday's government report that laid-off workers' new claims for jobless aid had reached a 16-year high, and the number of Americans searching for work had surged past 10 million. Big day for I'On goes awry First, the groundbreaking ceremony had to be postponed. Then the I'On Group encountered a slightly bigger problem in the planned promotion of a new home at its North Charleston real estate development. Cottage Living, a national magazine that was planning to profile the environmentally friendly residence in an upcoming issue, is ceasing publication, its owner, Time Inc., announced this week. Jets for bigwigs seen as a necessity, not luxury Some in Congress pounced this week on what they view as the hypocrisy of auto executives flying on corporate jets to Washington to ask for public help. Corporations insist riding on private planes is not a lavish perk, but rather a necessary security requirement for top officials that also helps them be more efficient. Wall Street in fearsome freefall NEW YORK â€" Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday, falling to levels not seen in at least five years as financial and energy stocks tumbled while demand for the safety of government debt spiked. Stocks saw the most intense selling late in the session after hopes faded that lawmakers would quickly assemble an aid package for U.S. automakers and as the Standard & Poor's 500 index broke through lows established in 2002.
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1130p 11/20 Update: Water recycling glitch studied; EVA deemed successful despite tool shortage

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 45
Posted: 11:30 PM, 11/20/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-43 (11/20/08): Stefanyshyn-Piper reports modified SARJ cleaning technique works well
   SR-44 (11/20/08): Spacewalk ends
   SR-45 (11/20/08): Spacewalk successful; engineers run into glitch starting urine processor

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11:30 PM, 11/20/08, Update: Engineers run into glitch starting urine processor; spacewalk deemed successful despite tool shortage

Despite a tool shortage, a spacesuit carbon dioxide buildup late in the day and communications problems, spacewalkers Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough accomplished the primary goals of a six-hour 45-minute spacewalk, officials said today, moving two equipment carts, servicing the space station's robot arm and continuing work to clean and lubricate a jammed solar array rotary joint. Inside the lab complex, meanwhile, other astronauts ran into start-up glitches with the lab's new urine processor.

"These are the growing pains we expect to see," space station Flight Director Ginger Kerrick told reporters late today. "We have had similar experience when we first activated the oxygen generation system, it took us quite a while to work out the kinks. These are very complicated pieces of equipment with a very complicated software system to control them and this is the first time they are all being put together in space, so it takes a while to learn lessons from that.

"Does this set us back from what we hope to accomplish? Right now, we can incorporate about a 24-hour delay in the tasks we had planned in the timeline and still be able, assuming everything else goes nominally, to accomplish our sampling objectives ,... without requesting (an extra) day. We think this is just a small setback, we'll take some time and figure out what exactly caused the situation that we saw today and we have hopes that we can still accomplish everything."

A major goal of the current assembly mission is to install complex water recycling gear in the space station that can convert urine and condensate into pure water for drinking, meal preparation, personal hygiene and oxygen generation. Water recycling is required for NASA to expand station crew size from three to six next year.

Two water recovery system racks were installed in the Destiny lab module earlier this week and the astronauts spent much of the day today hooking the equipment up to begin initial shakedown runs. The goal is to produce samples of potable water from processed urine before Endeavour departs. Those samples will be returned to Earth for a detailed chemical analysis to confirm water quality and to help calibrate an on-board analyzer. The astronauts were beginning initial tests with stored urine as today's spacewalk was winding down.

Toward the end of the excursion, Kimbrough's spacesuit showed a buildup of carbon dioxide that exceeded NASA's safety limits. While he was in no immediate danger, flight controllers told him to terminate his portion of the spacewalk and return to the station's Quest airlock module as a precaution. The call came as he was winding up work anyway.

On the way back to the airlock, however, he ran into problems hearing his crewmates and flight controllers in Houston, apparently because his headset volume knob had been bumped and accidentally turned down earlier. At around the same time, an alarm sounded that got Stefanyshyn-Piper's attention.

"The EVA trip back into the airlock was a little eventful," Kerrick said. "We had some comm issues, we also had a crew member who was having elevated CO2. But all those are under investigation and it was no problem getting the crew member back in the airlock and Shane if fine.

"While that was going on, on the inside, we had a caution alarm ring and the EVA crew heard that in their headsets. That caution was associated with some commanding that we were doing for the urine processor assembly. We have downlinked some date, we think we understand what the problem is and the teams will be off assessing that tonight to determine how much of the commanding that was planned for this evening can still be performed."

The alarm sounded as commands were being sent to the urine processor.

"We ran into a snag, I guess it was last night, with the amount of cooling we were providing to the WRS rack, the water recovery system, rack," Kerrick, said. "Folks met this morning and we got comfortable with that so we started on with our procedures. The point to where we got to tonight, we were getting ready to command the urine processor to actually process the urine. And one of the commands we sent annunciated the caution alarm.

"The standard response for that particular caution is to remove power to the unit and have the crew member take (a reading) looking for signs that there were combustion products. That's our typical response for an RPC trip. This particular time, we were suspicious of the response because we knew the commands we were sending at that time should not have initiated that response. When the crew members confirmed that they had no concerns, no smell of smoke or no odor, especially when they told us the combustion products were all reading zero, we began to think it was a false indication. That was indeed the case."

But the urine processor assembly was halted and engineers ordered a data downlink to find out exactly what happened.

"We think we have a handle on what caused the caution to annunciate, but we're going to have to think about it some more and talk with our engineering counterparts before we get comfortable sending any commands to the UPA again tonight," Kerrick said. "We are still going to continue with our water processing activities for this evening. Even if the UPA does not process the urine, there is a possibility to take condensate, run that through the water processor and still get a sampling out of the water processor assembly and later on, the potable water bus and the potable water dispenser."

Going into Endeavour's mission, managers were holding open the option of extended the docked portion of the flight by one day to give the astronauts extra time to install and test the potable water dispenser. The astronauts were running well ahead of schedule installing the water recycling gear and mission managers were optimistic the extra day would not be needed. Whether that will change if the current glitch cannot be quickly resolved remains to be seen.

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750p 11/20 Update: Spacewalk ends

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 44
Posted: 7:50 PM, 11/20/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-41 (11/20/08): Spacewalk begins
   SR-42 (11/20/08): Equipment carts relocated; SARJ cleaning resumes
   SR-43 (11/20/08): Stefanyshyn-Piper reports modified SARJ cleaning technique works well
   SR-44 (11/20/08): Spacewalk ends

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7:50 PM, 11/20/08, Update: Spacewalk ends

Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough wrapped up a six-hour 45-minute spacewalk today and began repressurizing the space station's Quest airlock module at 7:43 p.m. All major objectives of today's excursion were accomplished, including the relocation of two equipment carts on the station's solar array truss; lubrication of snares on the end of the lab's robot arm; and continued cleaning and lubrication of the station's right-side solar-array rotary joint.

"Shane and Heide, it was great working with you today," Endeavour pilot Eric Boe called from inside the shuttle-station complex. "Outstanding work getting the job done."

"Welcome back, outstanding job," commander Christopher Ferguson added a moment later.

This was the 116th space station spacewalk in the past 10 years, the 17th this year and the second of four planned by shuttle Endeavour's crew. Total spacewalk assembly time now stands at 732 hours and 25 minutes with Endeavour's total increasing to 13 hours and 37 minutes. Stefanyshyn-Piper, veteran of two previous spacewalks during a 2006 mission, now has 26 hours and 45 minutes of EVA time through four spacewalks.

Toward the end of today's spacewalk, Stefanyshyn-Piper, who lost a $100,000 tool kit during a spacewalk Tuesday, took extra care to make sure she had her tools and bags properly tethered before heading back to the airlock.

"Hopefully, I won't lose anything on the way," she quipped. "I think everything's tethered, so it's just a matter of what's going to stay in the bag."

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
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CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
GoogleSatTrack: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/

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