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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Residential Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Strapped homeowners come looking for help
			Kim Short has been dangling on the edge of financial disaster for months now. With eight people living in her Hanahan home and Short the only one left with a job, the 52-year-old insurance agent figures her monthly debts outpace her earnings by about $2,000.
Enjoy a every Sunday Only In The Post & Courier find locations		N.C. man charged with murder A dispute between families celebrating the birth of a new member apparently spiraled out of control Friday night and ended in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man in West Ashley as his twin brother looked on, the victim's relatives said. Michael German was shot in the head at 10:50 p.m. at the BP Kangaroo Express on Old Towne Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Charleston County Chief Deputy Coroner Judy Koelpin said. Thrill of lights, sirens feeds the twisted mind of the firebug They are usually young, white and under-parented. They fancy the attention, the flashing lights, the sirens, and they like to watch. Firebugs live in a flammable fantasy world where they are the main character, living out some twisted story line that puts them at the center of attention, despite their cowardly approach. Fair provides adoption options When we think of first steps, we think of children. But it was parent-hopefuls, like Curtis and Allison Bailey, who took their first steps toward adopting a child at the Families Forever adoption fair Saturday in North Charleston. When the Baileys, who are from Walterboro, got married in September, Allison already had three teen-aged children. She isn't able to have any more biologically, but the entire family wanted to bring another child into the mix. Community meets in honor of King A decade ago, Christine Jackson, former executive director of the YWCA of Greater Charleston and first cousin of Coretta Scott King, walked into Mayor Joe Riley's office unannounced. She was not happy. The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was being largely overlooked by most whites and many professionals, both black and white, in the Charleston area.
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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Residential Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Curry scores 32 points as Wildcats top Bulldogs
			They were lined up outside the ticket office at McAlister Field House an hour before tip-off, eventually stuffing the old gym with the 10th-largest crowd it has ever held for a basketball game. After the game, kids waited outside the Davidson locker room with pens and posters at the ready, shouting "I love you, Steff!" and "He looked at me!" as they hoped for autographs.
		Panthers need Tebow tune-up CHARLOTTE â€" Cardinal rule of the NFL playoffs: You cannot lose to the Cardinals. The heavily favored Carolina Panthers got walloped Saturday night, falling 33-13 at Bank of America Stadium to a franchise playing a second-round postseason game for the first time since 1947. Yeah, that's right. Pre-Elvis. Pre-Eisenhower administration. The year Jackie Robinson broke into baseball. Cougars back on track The College of Charleston was hitting on all cylinders Saturday, or at least all the ones that mattered. The Cougars put forth their most balanced and efficient scoring effort of the season and cruised past Georgia Southern, 100-87, in front of a crowd of 3,718 at Carolina First Arena. "Everybody was connecting," said Charleston guard Andrew Goudelock, who led the Cougars with 18 points. Comments sought on snapper-grouper regulations NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service is currently seeking public comment on Amendment 16 to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan for the South Atlantic. The deadline for comments is Feb. 23, 2009. Amendment 16 was approved by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council in September 2008 for submission to the Secretary of Commerce. Bulletin Board
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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Residential Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Jim Walter: A life’s work unfinished
			His Walter Industries came to own coal mines, oil and gas wells, marble, granite and limestone quarries, gypsum plants, jewelry and insurance businesses. In the Charleston area, it owned the J.W. Aluminum mill near Goose Creek, which is still a big employer in Berkeley County. But the era of Jim Walter Homes came to an end last week.
		Jim Walter: A life’s work unfinished His Walter Industries came to own coal mines, oil and gas wells, marble, granite and limestone quarries, gypsum plants, jewelry and insurance businesses. In the Charleston area, it owned the J.W. Aluminum mill near Goose Creek, which is still a big employer in Berkeley County. But the era of Jim Walter Homes came to an end last week. Lacking airlines, small cities' economies suffer Almost 100 communities in 25 states have lost commercial air service in the last two years for a variety of reasons, among them airline mergers, high fuel costs, the expense of serving smaller markets and a reduction in government aid to carriers that serve small cities. Citi, Morgan Stanley may merge wealth-management units Negotiations to merge Citi’s Smith Barney with Morgan Stanley’s comparable division come as investors digested news that Robert Rubin, a senior adviser to Citi who has drawn heavy criticism, would resign from the bank. Car shoppers’ online research offers clues to new, used vehicle purchases Car dealers, industry experts and customers themselves will tell you: shoppers more than ever bone up on the vehicles they want, and the Internet is a prime source of information. In other words, the most searched for cars and trucks on notable online sites, whether brand new models or pre-owned vehicles, can also be the autos that people eventually acquire.
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Branding, Torturing, and Murdering Animals for Art Posted: 10 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST (source: xylonets) Whether you believe in animal welfare (i.e. using animals for human purposes such as eating, clothing, research, etc.) or are a strong proponent of animal rights (i.e. want to abolish the use of animals as property), one thing that both groups can agree on is that animals should be treated in a humane way and that we should try to minimize their suffering. While animal cruelty and torture is never okay, the latest fad of torturing animals for sake of art, is especially infuriating. Let’s take a brief look at this hopefully transient trend and think about what art really is. Is it culture, or is it barbarianism? Guillermo Vargas’ Starved Dog (via: elperritovive) Costa Rican Guillermo Vargas (a supposed artists) put up an installation at an exhibition a little over a year ago at a Nicaraguan art gallery featuring a starving dog. While it is difficult to find out the actual story of the dog, there are two versions that exist. According to the first version, the artist paid a few kids to capture an emaciated, stray dog, who was subsequently tied to the wall in the art gallery with food just out of its reach and after a few days was starved to death. The second version (the one being used by the gallery) says that the dog was present only for the 3-hour duration of the exhibit and was otherwise taken care of and fed. The artists justification for the capture and tethering of the dog in the gallery is that he wanted to illustrate a point - that ‘tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought.’ He certainly made a point, though not the one he was supposedly aiming for. There was massive uproar in response to the exhibition and an excess of 4 million people signed a petition against it, the use and abuse of animals as art, and to prevent the Vargas from participating in the 2008 Bienal Centroamericana in Honduras. Damien Hirst’s Lumps of Dead Animals (source: Wikipedia) Hirst has been called a mad man on more than one occasion, and perhaps rightfully so. One of his most famous pieces, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, consists of a shark in a vitrine, preserved in formaldehyde. Commissioned in 1991, the piece was sold in 2004 and made Hirst the second most expensive living artist. What’s worse, because the original piece wasn’t preserved properly and started to deteriorate, Hirst’s team captured another 25 year-old female shark, killed it, marinated it and injected the body with formaldehyde to replicate the original process. Among the artist’s other equally absurd pieces are, Away from the Flock, which consists of a dead sheep in a glass tank full of formaldehyde, and Mother and Child Divided, consisting of a mother cow and a calf sliced in half in a glass tank of formaldehyde. Hirst is often criticized for his art being composed mostly of ‘lumps of dead animals’ and destroying contemporary art by taking it from culture to barbarianism. San Fransisco Art Institute Slaughterhouse (source: waltermcbean) On March 19, 2008, Parisian artist Adel Abdessened opened an exhibit called “Don’t Trust Me”. Among other things, the show included something that can only be described as a snuff film using animals. The installation included six video screens showing a loop of various animals being bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer next to a brick wall. The animals included a pig, goat, horse, sheep, and ox. As voiced in concerns from animal welfare groups, the videos were degrading, cruel, didn’t make a point, and simply showed the murder of animals for the sake of art. The exhibition was removed a few weeks later after thousands of emails and protests in response. Wim Delvoye Tattooed and Tortured Pigs (via: lifeinthefastlane) Another self-proclaimed ‘artist’, Wim Delvoye shaves and tortures (tattoos) pigs in Beijing for a living. Among the brandings he has performed are Louis Vuitton logos, various words (including his own name in Walt Disney-style font), smiling faces, mythical creatures, and more. These pigs are sold for thousands of dollars and collectors either keep them as pets or purchase the tattood skins of dead pigs.

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