Moving across country and changing your life entirely is something most people only see in movies. Packing up the car and traveling those long hours out to the West Coast is and idea but usually not a reality.

“It just felt like something I had to do or I would always wonder,” said Mike Carr, 22, former Bel Air, Maryland resident. “I always had a dream of going out to California and perusing my dream of being in the music business.”

Carr went from Bel Air, Maryland to Florida to attend Full Sail College, to major in Music Business and Recording Arts. Carr had always been an avid follower of music, with so many venues available in Maryland; he became a regular fixture on the concert scene.

“I always knew that I loved business and music, so why not combine the two and do what I really love,” Carr said.

Moving to Florida was a great start for his career, making lots of connections through the thriving music scene in Florida today.

“People don’t realize how much music is being made right in Florida,” Carr said. “I was lucky to be able to make friends with people at concerts and connections with people.”

The next step was logical, follow the heart beat of the music industry out to California. Carr had a few friends who had already taken that step out West, and once graduation hit, he knew he was going to follow.

“It was never an idea that I had second thoughts about, I knew it was the right decision and I’ve defiantly realized that this is where I need to be,” Carr explained.

Carr is currently exploring his connections out in San Diego and plans on moving up to Los Angles this summer to work for an Indie record label.

Slug:Wall

A one alarm fire on Monday, left a 10-month year old Baltimore baby uninjured after a walled collapsed onto him in the Southeast district, authorities said.

Arnetta Sands, 36, of 200 North Aisquith Street, at about 12:13 a.m., was spraying insecticide with an aerosol can when the lit stove ignited it causing an explosion. Andre Henderson was sleeping in his crib when the fire broke out in the apartment next door, causing the adjoining wall to collapse, investigators said.

Firefighters removed a portion of the wall from Henderson's crib and he was taken to Hopkins, where he was treated for possible smoke inhalation and released. Sands was taken to Church Home & Hospital and was treated for 1st degree buns of the back and arms and was released.

Officials say that there is only residual damage to the kitchen and furnishings in Sand's apartment.

Hold-Up

Three male suspects entered Provident Savings Bank Thursday afternoon and escaped with two pillowcases filled with money, according to Baltimore police.

The suspects entered the bank around noon, ordered everyone to lie down and ransacked several tellers cages. One suspect was armed and pointed the weapon at the male bank manager.

The suspects fled the bank going east along ally on the north side of the bank, where they disposed of the rifle. There have been no arrests and no suspects, authorities said.

Beyond the Field

Most college athletes don’t dream that their career will go beyond graduation, but there are a few that do go the distance.
“I knew I wasn’t done with softball after my undergrad was done,” said Keri Meyer, 25, Robert Morris softball graduate assistant. “I knew I couldn’t continue as a player because of all of my knee injuries but I wasn’t ready to give it up.”
Meyer finished her undergraduate degree at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she also played softball, and immediately pursued how to continue to be involved in the sport. Meyer decided to continue her education by getting her graduate degree, along with filling a graduate assistant position for her head coach.
“I have this passion for the sport and have really found that coaching is more for me then playing ever was,” Meyer said. “I plan on becoming a full time assistant coach this year after my graduation and throwing myself completely into this new side of the sport.”
Many college athletes believe that there is only a life on the field; few realize that there is a whole other opportunity off the field as well.

Facebook Owns Me?

Remember that picture you uploaded to your Facebook account? That picture, along with all of the information you upload onto your personal account now owned completely by the popular website.


The social networking website Facebook is under investigation by its users for their terms of service, which outlines their ownership of all contents published onto the site.


I have hope this creates an active suspicion of all of those terms of service boxes people agree to without even reading. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites which are a reason for the attention being brought, but what about all those others that people have agreed to?

Which sites have people essentially given up their personal information to without even realizing it? Many security problems are happening all over the Internet, yet people in our society still are publishing so much of their personal information on websites for the world to have access to.

Young college students are the main users of Facebook, and many are trying to make their accounts disappear when applying for jobs. With these new terms, Facebook will own that information and the ability to delete all of those pictures and comments will no longer exist.

Hopefully the publicity of this invasion of information will make people who use social networking sites less ignorant to what they are giving up when signing up.

Facebook Forever

Remember that picture you uploaded to your Facebook account? That picture, along with all of the information you upload onto your personal account now owned completely by the popular website.

The social networking website Facebook is under investigation by it's users for their terms of service, which outlines their ownership of all contents published onto the site.

Facebook this month has updated the terms by adding that even when a user deletes their account, all the information and contents of their account will still belong to Facebook and the account's contents can be used by the site.

Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, blogged that users can still use the site as they want, but declined to comment on the updated terms of service.

When news of the change got back to users, there were many "groups" formed in order to protest the new terms.

Facebook maintains that it is only holding each of it's users accountable, while others are interpreting the terms as an takeover of their own person.