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South Carolina politicians deliberate solutions to Confederate flag location
Coyotes spotted six miles from campus at Schenck Forest Campus police, Raleigh Police Department and Raleigh Animal Control Unit responded to an incident last week involving coyotes shadowing a man and his three dogs in Schenck Forest. When the man saw the coyotes, he reversed his course and began moving away. The coyotes followed and flanked him. He took shelter on an elevated manhole and called 911. Responders escorted the man and his dogs out while the coyotes continued to follow for about 300 yards. SOURCE: Raleigh Police Department
Investigators search Subway pitchman’s home, removed from his position
The FBI raided longtime Subway spokesman Jared Fogle’s Indiana home early Tuesday. Authorities confiscated computers and other electronics in an effort to find evidence that may link Fogle to an earlier arrest of someone who used to work for him. The first arrest was made two months ago on federal pornography charges. The raid began around 6 a.m. and lasted until late that afternoon. Subway has cut ties with Fogle, but no charges have been made against him. The FBI and state’s Attorney office have remained silent on details of the investigation. Fogle became famous in 2000 when Subway featured his weight loss story on their commercials. SOURCE: CNN
Face of Burt’s Bees dies at 80
Burt Shavitz, creator of the line of natural personal care products died Sunday from respiratory problems. He co-founded the company in 1984 and sold it to Clorox in 2007 for about $925 million. He remained a spokesman for the company but returned to his home in Maine with neither television nor running water. He moved his company to North Carolina in 1994 because of lower taxes and a larger labor force. A documentary was made in 2013 showcasing his life and business titled “Burt’s Buzz.” Shavitz is survived by his brother, Carl. SOURCE: NY Times
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IN BRIEF Debate continues over whether or not the Confederate flag should be removed from Capitol grounds. South Carolina House members discussed four amendments for about two hours, Wednesday, all of which were rejected. More than 25 amendments have been submitted in the House, but the Senate would reject any amendments made in the House. The flag debate will continue on to next week if the bill is sent to a conference committee. The Senate passed a bill that would move the Confederate flag from State House grounds to a museum and the House took it up Wednesday. The debate follows the Charleston shooting that took nine lives at Emmanuel AME Church June 17. SOURCE: The State
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Concert attendees wait in line for Rolling Stones merchandise before Wednesday’s concert at Carter-Finley Stadium. Among the standard shirts and posters were specially branded products with the Rolling Stones lips superimposed onto NC State’s Tuffy logo. This logo was also printed on posters throughout the venue and painted on the ground of walkways leading to entrances.
NC State to Stones: ‘Gimme Royalties’ for logo Rachel Smith Senior Staff Writer
During their visit to NC State’s Carter-Finley Stadium July 1, The Rolling Stones found themselves in a bit of a marketing mix-up after the band’s promoter allegedly forgot to ask permission to use a modified version of NC State’s logo on official merchandise. The unofficially NC State-branded merchandise, which included a “Go Stones” rally
towel, a football jersey and several shirts, featured the Tuffy mascot with its face replaced by the Stones’ iconic tongue-and-lip logo. “Even if the school doesn’t get a cut of the money, they are still a part of something awesome,” said Eric Lawson, Raleigh native and Stones fan. “Regardless, I can’t really see the band’s promoter doing something like this on purpose because this tour is nothing but a money generating machine. I think there is more than plenty of cash to go around.”
Researchers at NC State have developed a method for optimizing energy in electrical grids without using a control center, which captures renewable energy and cuts down utility prices. The technology is called Cooperative Distributed Energy Scheduling (CoDES) and will use energy gathered from roof top solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries. The devices will be able to capture the energy and release it when the demand or utility price is high. Traditionally, this process is done at the control center, but with CoDES, energy will be optimized without a control center, and the energy sources and device will be able to coordinate more efficiently. Electrical and computer engineering professor Mo-Yuen Chow and Ph.D. candidate Navid Rahbari Asr have been working on the project since 2008 and have run simulations to prove the effectiveness of the method and have created a working prototype in their lab. With control centers, consumers have to sacrifice their privacy, Asr said. The generation and consumption information has to be sent to the remote control center. “CoDES respects the privacy of the owners of these distributed units because nobody needs to reveal their generation or consumption information to other parties,” Chow said. Austin Tucker, a sophomore double majoring in electrical and computer engineering, is excited
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NCSU libraries digitize agriculture records Ian Grice Staff Writer
The NC State Libraries awarded a $98,997 grant in June to fund the “Better Living in North Carolina: Bringing Science and Technology to the People” project to document the history of the transformation of North Carolina’s agricultural economy during the 20th century. The project is designed to digitize a large selection of materials that NC State’s libraries has in its archives. The historical records are primarily from the Cooperative Extension Service, originally called the Agricultural Extension Service. Todd Kosmerick, university archivist, co-program and co-
primary investigator of the project, said he expects that NC State students in the history department and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will make the most use of the records in thier research for written assignments. Making the materials easily accessible can foster research, Kosmerick said.There have already been researchers from California and Virginia and graduate students from Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Greensboro coming to look at the materials. NCSU Libraries is working with North Carolina A&T State University’s F. D. Bluford Library on the project. Both land grant universities have offices where the extension started 101 years
ago. A&T also ran an AfricanAmerican only program when segregation legally existed in NC. The extension service began in 1914 when the federal government allocated funds to land grant colleges, though NC State had programs before the extension was created. Bluford Librar y is digitizing records of correspondence, pamphlets, scrapbooks and photographs between two AfricanAmerican extension agents. NCSU Libraries will be digitizing the annual reports from the first annual report in 1909 to 1983. The annual reports have a summary of what the extension service did that year from each county. There are certain large programs
run by the cooperative extension that have separate annual reports which are also being digitized. The programs include 4-H, a program that taught children how to manage a farm, a rural electrification program and several programs that focused on particular crops or animals including swine, dairy, plant pathology and animal husbandry. The extension service provided farmers training on better methods of growing crops, raising animals and handling business. It also provided information to women on the farms for growing and preserving garden vegetables and fruits, sewing, furniture repair projects and home management. The record shows that in the
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Feed the Pack starts new program to stock shelves Cody Drum Davidson Staff Writer
Feed the Pack Food Pantry kicked off its Sponsor a Shelf initiative last month which encourages organizations on campus to sign up to take part in gathering food items to help alleviate hunger within the NC State community. “It was only launched about a month ago, but has really taken off since then,” said Amanda Dango, executive director of the Feed the Pack advisory board. Once the traditional school year ends, many students leave campus to go elsewhere which means that the food drives end as well, forcing FTP to find another way to supplement its food supply.
“Summer is one of our leanest times by far, but based on the number of organizations that have signed up to donate thus far, [Sponsor a Shelf] is going to help tremendously with our stock,” said P. J. Adams, one of the chairs of the Feed the Pack advisory board. Sponsor a Shelf provides a more organized system that will ideally provide the necessary amount of food needed for the community. Organizations who sign up to stock a shelf are allowed to choose which food item that they would like to provide. Only one organization can sign up to donate a particular food or personal care item to ensure that the pantry does not have too much of any one type of item.
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Imani Everette, a senior studying communication, checks the expiration dates of cans in the Feed the Pack food pantry. The food pantry is located in the Carmichael Recreation Center and is supported by the Raleigh area. The pantry is available to members of the Wolfpack who are in need.