Singer Faces 20 Years In Prison for YouTube Prank on Kids
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21-year-old Michigan resident Evan Emory currently faces 20 years in prison for "manufacturing child sexual abusive material". His crime: He posted a YouTube video that made it appear he was singing an explicit song to a classroom of elementary students.
Emory tricked administrators at Beechnau Elementary School into letting him perform a song for the kids on video, claiming he wanted to build his portfolio. He sung an innocent song in front of the kids, but when the room was empty recorded a sexually explicit song. ("I like the way you make your body move. C'mon, girl...See how long it takes to make your panties mine...I'll add some foreplay in just to make it fun. I want to stick my index finger in your anus.")
Through trick editing, Emory made it appear that he had been singing the song to the kids while they smiled and laughed along. He included a disclaimer—"No children were exposed to the 'graphic content' of this video"—and posted it on YouTube earlier this week.
On Wednesday, Emory was arrested on charges of manufacturing "child sexual abusive material". Said the county prosecutor:
"The bottom line in this case is that he walked into a classroom and took advantage and victimized every single child in that classroom," Tague said.
"This case is very disturbing to law enforcement officials. We have launched a full-fledged investigation with the sheriff."
At his arraignment, outraged parents of the kids in the video appeared at the courthouse to rally for jail time.
We can understand why the parents and school would be upset. But these are clearly laws designed to punish hardcore sex offenders—not some bro who came up with a misguided idea for a prank. In the end, the video appears to have been online for about a day or two and was probably seen by a few hundred people at most. This is a very broad definition of "victimization!" One law professor says the charges are likely unconstitutional.
As Radly Balko points out, the hysteria is fueled by the volatile combination of children + sex + The Internet. Add to that an overreaction by a humiliated school district. Here's hoping the judge realizes this, too.
Note: The embedded video is another one of Emory's pranks—not the video in question
February 19, 2011
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Through trick editing, Emory made it appear that he had been singing the song to the kids while they smiled and laughed along. He included a disclaimer—"No children were exposed to the 'graphic content' of this video"—and posted it on YouTube earlier this week.HTML5 Periodic Table
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Bidding Farewell to National Inventor's Month
September 2, 2010
Bidding Farewell to National Inventor’s Month
Thomas Edison's Light Bulb, 1880. Gift of the Department of Engineering, Princeton University, 1961. Photo courtesy of NMAH.
Sadly, summer is whizzing by. August has come and gone, and we have yet to acknowledge National Inventors Month! So happy belated! We bring you our the Around the Mall Blog team’s “Top Ten Inventions from the National Museum of American History’s Collections.” The museum, after all, is home to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, which celebrates National Inventors Month every year.
THE CLASSICS
1. Thomas Edison’s Incandescent Light Bulb
“The Wizard of Menlo Park” has many inventions to his credit—an electric vote recorder, the phonograph, a telephone transmitter—but his most famous was the light bulb. He scribbled more than 40,000 pages full of notes and tested more than 1,600 materials, everything from hairs from man’s beard to coconut fiber, in his attempts to find the perfect filament. In 1879, he finally landed on carbonized bamboo and created the first modern-looking light bulb—filament, glass bulb, screw base and all. The light bulb was manufactured by Corning, a leader in glass and ceramics for the last 159 years.
2. Alexander Graham Bell’s Large Box Telephone
In its collection, the NMAH has one of two telephones Alexander Graham Bell used to conduct a call from Boston to Salem on November 26, 1876. The system, which worked when sound waves induced a current in electromagnets that was conducted over wires to another telephone where the current produced audible air vibrations, was used commercially starting in 1877.
3. Abraham Lincoln’s Patent Model for a Device for Raising Boats off Sand Bars
As a 40-year-old lawyer in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln designed floats that could be employed alongside a river boat to help it avoid getting caught in shallow waters. He was granted a patent from the U.S. Patent Office on May 22, 1849. The product never came to fruition, but Lincoln remains the only U.S. president to hold a patent.
4. Sewing Machine Patent Model
Though not the first sewing machine, John Bachelder’s version, patented on May 8, 1849, was an improvement on the original. It was rigged with a leather conveyor belt that kept the fabric moving as it was being sewn. The patent was purchased by sewing machine giant I. M. Singer and became part of a pool of patents used to barter the Sewing Machine Combination, a team of three sewing machine manufacturers including the I. M. Singer Co. that propelled the industry forward.
5. Morse Daguerrotype Camera
Perhaps the first camera in the United States, this one made the trip from Paris with its owner Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Morse and French artist Louis Daguerre, who invented the daguerreotype process for photography, brainstormed invention ideas together.
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6. Magnavox Odyssey Video Game Unit
Months before Pong, the ping-pong game by Atari, overtook the video game scene in 1972, Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game system, was released. The system merged traditional board games with the new video game concept by incorporating things like dice, paper money and cards. (Watch inventors Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison play a video game here, at the Smithsonian Lemelson Center’s 2009 National Inventors Month celebration.) Success, however, wasn’t in the cards. Less than 200,000 units were sold, while Pong sales skyrocketed. Baer went on to invent Simon, the electronic memory game.
The National Museum of American History has, in its collection, an AbioCor Total Artificial Heart, the first-ever electro-hydraulic heart to be implanted in a human. Photo courtesy of NMAH.
7. The Rickenbacker Frying Pan, the First Electric Guitar
Musicians had been experimenting with using electricity to amplify the sound of string instruments for decades, but it was George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker who built the first commercial electric guitar around 1931. The electric guitar had its critics, who argued that it didn’t create an “authentic” musical sound, but it found its place with the rock and roll genre.
8. AbioCor Total Artificial Heart
Cardiac surgeons Laman Gray and Robert Dowling replaced patient Robert Tools diseased heart with an AbioCor Total Artificial Heart on July 2, 2001, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, making it the first electro-hydraulic heart implanted in a human. The battery-powered heart is capable of pumping more than 2.5 gallons of blood a minute to the lungs and the rest of the body. The invention was in clinical trials at the time of Tools’ surgery. He only lived for five months with the artificial heart, but even that, was well beyond the experimental goal of 60 days.
9. Krispy Automatic Ring-King Junior Doughnut Machine
Used by the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation in the 1950s and ’60s, the Ring-King Junior could spit out about 720 doughnuts an hour! The miraculous machine and other Krispy Kreme artifacts were donated to the museum in 1997 on the 60th anniversary of the doughnut maker.
10. And last but not least, The World’s First Frozen Margarita Machine
As we savor the last days of summer, this one had to make the list. In 2005, the museum acquired the first-ever frozen margarita machine, invented by Dallas restaurateur Mariano Martinez in 1971. Museum director Brent Glass called the invention a “classic example of the American entrepreneurial spirit.” With the advent of the machine, margaritas became as standard as chips and salsa at Tex-Mex restaurants. (Next time I have one, I shall toast Mariano!)
What’s your favorite invention represented in the museum’s collections?
Update: This post has been updated to clarify that this list reflects the editorial whims of the Around the Mall blog team and is not an official ranking created by the National Museum of American History.
Posted By: Megan Gambino — American History Museum
