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Work the Shell - Of Movies, Trivia Games and Twitter
During the past few months, I have become an addict. In fact, I went from being a skeptic to being an evangelist, in a way that probably makes me a poster case for a 12-step program. What is this evil thing that's sucked up my brain and passion? It's not illegal; it's not something I have to hide from my children; but, yes, it's pretty geeky, and it's one of the fastest-growing services in the Web 2.0 universe: Twitter.
What I find most compelling about Twitter is that it's both popular and nascent, and as a result, you can see its best practices evolve before your eyes. Even in the few months I've been active with the service, it has gone from just personal updates (as in "Eating burger at McD's. Back to meetings in :30") to more business uses and news dissemination ("Flash: Redbox hacked by card sniffers. See...").
In a nutshell, Twitter lets you send very short messages to dozens, hundreds or even thousands of followers, and from a Linux/shell scripting perspective, it's very cool because the API lets you send messages easily with a single line of code. But, let's get there in a bit. First, we need something to transmit.
Because I can't seem to shake my enthusiasm for writing games as shell scripts (speaking of psychological curiosities, that's another one for you), I thought it would be interesting to write a movie trivia game for Twitter. So, that's what we'll do.
The challenge is to figure out where the data will come from. I mean, I built up a huge database of word history trivia for etymologic.com, and my buddy Kevin Savetz and I wrote more than 500 computer trivia questions for trivial.net, and it's a huge amount of effort. Since creating those sites, I've become too lazy to repeat the effort, so the question is to identify a spot where I can leverage or repurpose existing movie information that will lend itself to a trivia game.
For this effort, I'll use the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), which has an extraordinary amount of interesting movie trivia deep in its database. One place to start is its random movie quote feature, at www.imdb.com/Games/randomquote.html, but truth be told, that trivia is so darn obscure, I've never been able to identify any of the quotes, and I'm quite a movie fanatic.
Let's make this more complicated instead, and start with the IMDb top 250 movies list and isolate the quotes and trivia from those movies. That list is at www.imdb.com/chart/top, and if you crack it open, you'll see that each movie is referenced with a URL of this form http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/.
This means a simple grep can pull out the URL of each and every one of the top 250 movies. Utilizing curl, here's everything you need:
curl -s http://www.imdb.com/chart/top | \ sed 's/</\ /g' | grep '/title/tt' | more
The output isn't quite what we want, but it's getting pretty close to a usable database with just this simple command, not even enough to justify a shell script:
a href="/title/tt0068646/">The Godfather a href="/title/tt0111161/">The Shawshank Redemption a href="/title/tt0071562/">The Godfather: Part II a href="/title/tt0060196/">Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il a href="/title/tt0110912/">Pulp Fiction
To strip out only what we need, because we really just want to have a file of 250 URLs of the top 250 movies, we merely need a tiny addition:
curl -s http://www.imdb.com/chart/top | sed 's/</\ /g' | grep '/title/tt' | cut -d\" -f2
And, here's the result:
/title/tt0068646/ /title/tt0111161/ /title/tt0071562/ /title/tt0060196/ /title/tt0110912/ ...many, many lines skipped... /title/tt0325980/ /title/tt0061809/ /title/tt0113247/
It's easy to drop this all into a data file, fixing the URLs as we go along so that they are fully qualified, with a simple additional call to sed like this:
| sed 's/^/http:\/\/www.imdb.com/'
Now we have a data file full of URLs, like this:
Visit this URL, and you'll find that it's the #1 top movie on IMDd, the brilliant film The Godfather.
Okay, so we've figured out how to get a list of the top 250 movies according to IMDb voters, but the question is, "how can we get useful information at this point?" The answer is by going to each and every page and scraping the content thereon.
Look at the page for The Godfather, and immediately a simple trivia question game comes to mind: in what year was a particular popular movie released?
This can be done by simply grabbing the title of the page, which just so happens to be the film name and year of release:
curl -s http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/ | grep '<title>'
It's not quite what we want, but pretty darn close:
<title>The Godfather (1972)</title>
It's close enough that we now can write a short script that takes an IMDb movie title URL and outputs the movie name followed by a pipe symbol (a convenient field separator) and the year the film was released:
#!/bin/sh # given an IMDb film URL, output title & release year curl -s "$1" | \ grep '<title>' | cut -d\> -f2 | cut -d\< -f1 | \ sed 's/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])/| &/' | sed 's/(//;s/)//' exit 0
(The complicated sed regular expression is to ensure that we don't merely match the open parenthesis, just in case the movie title includes parentheses.)
With that written, now we simply can pour the list into the script and pull a quick list of the top ten films:
for name in $(cat top250.txt) do ./get-film-info.sh $name done | head -10
And, here's the output:
The Godfather | 1972 The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 The Godfather: Part II | 1974 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il | 1966 Pulp Fiction | 1994 Schindler's List | 1993 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 Casablanca | 1942 Shichinin no samurai | 1954
Cool. Now we're getting somewhere. Let's stop here, and next month, I'll look at pulling out a random entry from the 250 entries, then generate three random numbers numerically close to the correct year and present all four as possible answers to the question, "when was XX released?"
For now, I think I'll pop Casablanca in to my Blu-ray player and relax while the team at Linux Journal struggles with laying out the column. See ya later, shweetheart.
Dave Taylor is a 26-year veteran of UNIX, creator of The Elm Mail System, and most recently author of both the best-selling Wicked Cool Shell Scripts and Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours, among his 16 technical books. His main Web site is at www.intuitive.com, and he also offers up tech support at AskDaveTaylor.com. Follow him on Twitter if you'd like: twitter.com/DaveTaylor.
Dave Taylor has been hacking shell scripts for over thirty years. Really. He's the author of the popular "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts" and can be found on Twitter as @DaveTaylor and more generally at www.DaveTaylorOnline.com.
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I think one of the things I like about your writing, Dave, is that you don't give all the answers...it just wouldn't be fun to merely copy code, but to get the layering of thinking that goes into scripting.
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To start of the weekend gently and to let you get your bearings, we get on the red bus of the Citysightseeing by Open Tours. Hop-on, hop-off! We can get on and off whenever we want. Seeing as the weather is nice, we sit upstairs on the double-decker, with the roof off and set off on our way to the second route! We're off to the European quarter and Cinquantenaire park.
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On Place du Luxembourg, we pass in front of the European Parliament and we get off the bus. We can't come to the heart of Europe and not find out how the European Institutions work! We, therefore, decide to visit the Parlamentarium, it really is the ideal place to discover European politics in a fun and dynamic way and best of all, it's free!
After this interesting discovery, we buy things for a picnic and we set off through Brussels' European quarter to Cinquantenaire park. The sun, lunch on the grass and the view of the Arcades… What more could you want?
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Once again, we hop on an Open Tours bus, this time following route 1 which takes us to the Heysel Exhibition Park and its numerous tourist attractions. Here we find the famous Atomium, symbol of Brussels, originally built for the World Expo in 1958 but which was kept afterwards (in much the same way as for the Eiffel tower in Paris). We visit the permanent exhibition dedicated to Expo 58 and the rest of the 50s, and we try our hardest to take a photo of ourselves with this giant… There's one for the photo album!
Then we pop into Mini-Europe, it's right next door. We take our picture next to the Eiffel tower, then the leaning tower of Pisa and the Saint Mark's Cathedral in Zagreb, a brand new attraction in this magnificent panorama of the most iconic and beautiful monuments in Europe.
We make our way back into town for our first night in Brussels. We decide to take the number 6 metro, which brings us straight to Avenue Louise. We've booked a nice dinner for two at the Flâneries Gourmandes restaurant. The chef's delicious suggestions and the venue's intimate atmosphere are a delight. After a lovely evening, it's time to head back to the Husa President Park Hotel, for a well-earned rest.
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They changed some lineups, and now I think they have the right lineup more than anything, Martin said. They have not changed what they do. Their system and style is still the same, and their guys are playing with a level of confidence.
The overall point is accurate. But heres the thing about the idea Georgia has found the right lineup.
We changed our lineup the other day, Georgia head coach Mark Fox said Tuesday.
Thats true. Georgia went with a smaller lineup and won at South Carolina, in a continuing theme to its season -- trying to find the right four players to line up with star Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. And getting them to play well.
That has been the case the past five games, during which Georgia has won four, the exception being against Florida -- now the nations second-ranked team. Georgia (10-11 overall, 4-4 SEC) will enter Tennessee (11-9, 3-5) on a three-game win streak.
Weve played better basketball, Fox said. I still think theres a lot of room for this team to improve and grow, but I do think that theyve made progress throughout the year and found some recent success.
Caldwell-Pope was named the SEC player of the week Monday, after averaging 19.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in last weeks wins over Auburn and South Carolina. But without contributions from his supporting cast, the Bulldogs likely wouldnt have won either of those games.
In fact, Caldwell-Pope only had three points in the decisive second half on Saturday. But he was picked up by freshman Kenny Gaines (11 points in the half), while the team got well-timed 3-pointers from Sherrard Brantley, Vincent Williams and Gaines.
We just have guys that have been a little bit more consistent, Fox said. We have a lot of guys chipping in right now. I think in the last two or three games weve had a lot of guys make a play, or two plays, and so weve kind of had some production outside of Kentavious, by committee, and thats probably been the biggest reason weve been successful.
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The Volunteers are dealing with an off-court distractions. Senior forward Kenny Hall, who just played his best game of the season in a loss at Arkansas, was arrested Tuesday morning for driving under a suspended license. Halls status for Wednesdays game has not been addressed. ... Fox said there has been no change in the status of Marcus Thornton, who has been out since the non-conference part of the season. The junior forward is dealing with chronic knee problems, and if he doesnt return this season could pursue a medical redshirt.


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Sharing a table with several parents at a school event, conversation came around to my being a music teacher. In the course of the conversation comments came out of a type I have come to accept as inevitable when discussing my field with those outside it. If I had to categorize it I suppose it would be something like this "Talent: those who have it and those who don't." It tends to crop up in relation to some child or another, my having it as a professional in the field, or poignantly, the adult's perspective that they themselves do not possess this "talent" which is required to make music.
It boggles my mind how universal this perspective is. I have heard the same tone, the same assumptions from individuals for many years. As to the source of such perspectives I can only speculate although I have learned of an alarming number of instances where an educator has informed some child that they "cannot sing." It seems apparent to me that many individuals have years of practice envisioning themselves as "non-musicians."
As I think back to this particular evening it occurs to me that this issue around talent plays heavily into any teaching of adult music students who, even though they come to learn music skills and expression, often harbor deep reservations about their own ability. Over time I have developed some sequences of activities to address this issue which are introduced with dogged positivity. My position is that people need a "safe space" in which to create, they need to feel that it's okay to make their sounds, like singing in the shower. Here's a brief tale of one adult student who was able to make it.


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This column is the third in a series about how to manage your own services on your own server. In the first column, I discussed how to make sure your home network is ready to host your own services. In the second, I covered DNS, and in this column, I talk about one of the services people commonly put in the cloud but is simple to host yourself: a blog.
At first, I planned to focus this series strictly on how to set up your own Web server, but I realized that these days, most people don't simply set up Apache and upload some static HTML. Instead, most modern sites are built so that their content is generated dynamically, often with data stored on a database. Instead of just a basic static page, today if you want to set up your own Web server at home, you probably want to host a forum, post some information about yourself, share some pictures or, quite likely, manage your own blog.
Many different types of blogs exist—from sites that attempt to replicate the function of a physical magazine on the Web to sites that act as a person's public diary to sites that just link to other interesting content. And, just as many different types of blogging software are available under Linux. Each type of blogging software has its advantages and disadvantages, but for the purposes of this article, I had to pick one. I chose WordPress because it's relatively simple to set up and has a large user base, which means it should be easier for you to get support from the community.
I not only had to choose what blogging software to cover, I also had to decide on a base distribution. When it comes to Apache and WordPress, although the software itself is basically the same across major Linux distributions, the organization of that software can be quite different. Because I'm aiming this column at someone who has never set up a Web server before, I'm going to use Ubuntu Server here (specifically 10.04 LTS), as I think the way it has organized Apache configuration and WordPress is the most friendly for the new system administrator.
The first step in the process is to install WordPress, Apache and all of the dependencies this software needs. On a modern Linux distribution, this is relatively simple. In the case of Ubuntu, simply type the following into a terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server wordpress
Those packages will pull down the Web server software, the MySQL server that WordPress will access on this same machine and WordPress itself, along with all of its dependencies. During the install, you will be prompted to choose a password for the MySQL root user. Although you optionally can leave this blank, I advise you to choose a password and document it somewhere. If you decide to leave it blank, you always can add a password to the root user later, but it's much simpler to set it here.
Apache2 under Ubuntu (and Debian-based distributions in general) has a somewhat unique way to organize Apache configuration. If you ever have managed multiple Web sites on a single Apache instance (often referred to as virtual hosts), you know how challenging it sometimes can be to organize each site's configuration along with all the modules you need Apache to load. Under Ubuntu, all of the currently available virtual hosts and modules store their files under /etc/apache2/sites-available and /etc/apache2/mods-available, respectively. Any virtual hosts or modules that are enabled are set up as symbolic links under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled and /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. Along with this new organization, the apache2 package includes a set of new tools to enable and disable sites and modules. For instance, if you added a new virtual host configuration at /etc/apache2/sites-available/foo and wanted to enable it, you would type:
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That command creates the necessary symlinks for you in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. Likewise, if you wanted to load a module named cgi that you see under /etc/apache2/mods-available, you would type:
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To undo the above two commands, you would type:
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Sep. 14th - Resident Evil: Retribution (Sci-Fi adventure with Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez)
Sep. 21st - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Drama with Emma Watson, Dylan McDermott and Paul Rudd)
Sep. 28th Looper (Sci-Fi action with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt)
Sep. 28th - Won't Back Down (Drama with Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Holly Hunter)
Oct. 5th - Pitch Perfect (Musical comedy with Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow)
Oct. 5th - Butter (Comedy with Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman and Alicia Silverstone)
Oct. 26th - Cloud Atlas (Sci-Fi mystery with Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry and Jim Sturgess)
Nov. 2nd - Flight (Drama with Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle and Melissa Leo)
Nov. 9th - Skyfall (Adventure with Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem)
Nov. 16th The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson)
Nov. 21st - Life of Pi (Adventure drama with Tobey Maguire and Gérard Depardieu)
Nov. 21st - Red Dawn (Action with Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
I have the director's cut of "Heaven's Gate" on two bulky VHS tapes. It's about 4 hr long.
I just finished watching Billy Elliot. Wonderful movie. I highly recommend it.
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Extended Les Mis trailer: Basically a behind the scenes look at the various actors singing live on set.
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Sep 21 End of Watch (Crime drama with Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick and America Ferrera)
Sep 21 About Cherry (Drama with James Franco, Heather Graham, Dev Patel and Lili Taylor)
Sep 21 Backwards (Romance with James Van Der Beek and Margaret Colin)
Sep 21 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (Documentary. From imdb.com: A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.)
Sep 21 The Other Son (French drama. From imdb.com: Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.)
Sep 21 Head Games (Sports documentary. From imdb.com: A documentary that follows football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to uncover the truth about the consequences of sports related head injuries.)
Sep 21 How to Survive a Plague (Documentary. From imdb.com: The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.)
Sep 21 Unconditional (Drama with Lynn Collins and Michael Ealy)
Sep 21 You May Not Kiss the Bride (Romantic comedy with Katharine McPhee, Dave Annable, Kathy Bates, Tia Carrere, Rob Schneider and Mena Suvari)
It's official. I am madly in love with Meryl Davis.
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It's definitely one of my favourite films of all time. The stage version, which I saw in London, was just a tad disappointing for me just because I expected more from the music, considering who wrote it. But it's still the same story, and there are some great moments and stage treatments. I don't think I'll bother seeing the touring version when it comes to Vancouver in a few months though, just because I know the accents will be bad, and that drives me nuts.
Meanwhile the Vancouver International Film Festival schedule is finally available. I was away during VIFF last year so am aiming to make up for it this year.
My holds at the library were close to maxing out, so I watched a bunch of movies over the last week or so...
10/10 The Hunger Games – Wow. I looooooved this movie!!! I liked it right from the opening scenes which seemed dark and still and chilling. Not at all the tone I expected from a movie based on a teen book series phenomenon. Everything about the movie was great, the script, the performances, the costumes and the cinematography. A real bonus for me was the underlying subversive storyline. The rich sitting back and watching youth go into battle where they fight for some "purpose" (on behalf of the rich) - with great odds of dying. Wow, I wasn't expecting such a fantastic political statement from a movie like this! Is part two out yet??
8/10 All About Steve (Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper) – So this one got smashed around as one of the worst movies of all time (seemingly), so of course my expectations were low. Not sure how much that worked in its' favour, but I quite liked this! Sandra had a few moments that made me laugh out loud, not to mention the other moments where she was at her charming best. Bradley Cooper looks aptly great and the ending was quite cool, unlike another movie I will mention in a bit.
7/10 We Bought A Zoo (Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson) – This one seemed to come and go as far as movie releases go. So I was thinking that it must not have been very good, but I found it to be quite enjoyable. The first half is better than the second half, however. The first half is more of a serious drama and is quite original. But the second half has too many clichés and becomes a bit too silly compared to the realistic beginning. Maggie Elizabeth Jones as Rosie is beyond adorable. And John Michael Higgins is great (hilarious) is his small role.
6/10 Haywire (Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender) – This kind of seemed like an arthouse version of the Bourne movies. Some action/escape sequences went without the overdone dramatic music…might have even been shown without any musical score at all. Overall, it had a somewhat relaxed pace compared to action movies which wind you up so tight. Not that the movie got boring, it just seemed a bit more realistic than how these types of movies can be so cartoon-y. Gina Carano is quite believable as an action hero. Her days as an American Gladiator and MMA fighter prepared her well.
6/10 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner) – The first half was much better than the second half, which got bogged down in obvious plot points. Overall, it's a fairly standard romantic comedy, but the leads are great and there's some originality in the script (well, at least the first half!) But as the film came to a conclusion, I was thinking, "I wish Garner's character wouldn't just fall into McConaughey's arms at the end, but instead say, 'why don't we try being friends for a while and see what happens'." That's what I liked better about "All About Steve" in that Bullock's character was cordial to Cooper's character, but walked away and had little interest in the man who had not treated her very well. Much better message than in this movie.
5/10 Too Big To Fail (William Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Topher Grace, James Woods and Paul Giamatti) – I watched this pretty much because it's about the 2008 banking mess and I figured it would be good for me to have more info about this event. I found the beginning a bit dry and tough to get into, but it picked up steam for the second half. Worth seeing if you like financial crisis movies or all-star-casts movies.
1/10 God Bless America – I saw a trailer for this and thought it looked original. An interesting premise, albeit one with a rather slow start. I liked the movie okay while watching it, but in the days that followed, the more I thought about this movie the more I disliked it and the more I felt less of myself for enjoying it in any way.
0/10 Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy – I picked this up from the library because there were cute guys on the cover. I probably shouldn't have rated it or even mentioned it here because after twenty minutes I scanned the rest of the movie in triple time and it looked stupid so I didn't bother with it. Oh well.
It's official. I am madly in love with Meryl Davis.
just finished watching "A Separation"-watched it twice w/subtitles, then watched all the special features, and finally watched it with translated director's comments, which helped explain to me some of the cultural thingies. Anyway, it's a very fine film, and very deserving of its Oscar; I would have gone further and given it the Oscar for best original screenplay too.
It's not a "little" film, even tho that might think that at first. It's BIG--big issues are brought up, and out, and examined, or not. It's extremely thought-provoking-in a "wow this is so univerally applicable" kind of way. I highly recommend it.
I can only give a "only if you are like, soooooooooooooo bored" recommendation to the Twilight Saga series-the last film put me to sleep until I discovered the "Team Edward" button lol, and the 3rd film had the two best lines of ALL the movies (these are NOT films): "Doesn't he have a shirt?" and "Face it, I'm hotter than you.
Then I had a lil mini-Rob Pattinson film fest: "How To Be" (skip it-strike that, run away from it as fast as you can!!) and "The Bad Mother's Handbook" (which I had a lot of trouble 1)understanding, thank you subtitles!, and 2)with the plot memes, but 3)Rob was fine in it, such as his role was). I SWEAR I saw him and Colin Firth in a remake of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" just a minute ago, but I guess not? who DID I see then? haven't a clue............
Saw Dredd today and while it was light on plot and meaningful dialogue, it was a lot of fun. But if you do not like a lot of violence in moviies stay FAR away from this one. Liked it a lot however and wouldn't mind a part 2. Dredd got mostly positive reviews from rotten tomatoes.


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Diamond DeShields, a senior at Norcross and a 6-1 shooting guard, is the only returning player from the 2011-2012 team.
Committed to the University of North Carolina, DeShields was named to the 2011 ALL-USA second team as a junior. She led her team to a 26-6 record and a state semi-final finish with an average of 21.8 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game last year.
In August, DeShields was named the MVP of the USA Basketball Women's U17 World Championship in the tournament that led the team to win the gold.
The other 2012 Gwinnett player selected was Buford High's Kaela Davis, a 6-2 shooting guard dedicated to Georgia Tech. She averaged 18.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
The other eight players for the preseason's ALL-USA squad are from seven states: Oregon, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, California, Illinois and Kentucky.
According to a news release, USA Today High School Sports is celebrating 30 years of honoring achievements in girls basketball by the unveiling of the 2012 Preseason American Family Insurance ALL-USA Girls High School Basketball Team, spotlighting the most promising female players in the country for the upcoming season.
The ALL-USA Team and its year-end player and coach awards have been given out annually since 1982 and are considered the highest such honors in high school sports. The 10-player team was selected by USA Today Sports' Jim Halley with help from recruiting experts Mike Flynn and Chris Menning of Blue Star Basketball and Dan Olson of Collegiate Girls Basketball Report.
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KC RiverFest, the big family-style Independence Day celebration hosted by the City of Kansas City, Mo., blasts off at Richard L. Berkley Riverfront Park on Thursday, July 4, beginning at 4 p.m.
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My sister was thinking of doing exactly this last month. She wound up taking her '05 Forester in for a bunch of work.
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In my sister's case, her Subaru has ~130,000 miles and she didn't much trust it for the nine hour drive to Chattanooga for Christmas (especially after I kept harping on her overdue timing belt change).
I'll have to mention to her that part of the maintenance cost will be defrayed by the amount she saved not renting a car.
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Yeah, but unlike the road she can call friends for a lift around home if she breaks down, and knows what shops to avoid. That was her justification for not doing the timing belt.
The other thing I kept harping on was that a $1,000 repair bill was only three or four car payments. For months and months I was afraid she was going to just go buy a MINI (with no nearby dealer) and get back on car payments - or use the ruined engine as an excuse. She finally decided she wanted to put off that hit to her pension for a while longer, bless her. :shades:
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I think her rental car approach can actually work. It gives her a nicer ride for distance travel and helps her put off major car outlays. Meanwhile, sometimes you can rent for less than the 30 plus cents a mile car driving can cost. Depending on the deal, sometimes I rent for a trip rather than tacking on the mileage to my own vehicle. Gotta do the arithmetic. Of course, being a woman by herself and given all the nut jobs out there, a reliable vehicle can be a good safety insurance policy as well.
Good points. But she's a well traveled retired flight attendant and she'd probably flatten any joker that got in her face. Breaking down isn't much fun though, anywhere it happens.
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I guess I was thinking most people can't randomly call people and get rides. She's in a lucky position there :shades:
If she has no real reason to replace the old car, and isn't an enthusiast, maybe just talk her into using the cheap route - fix old car, and if she feels unsafe, still rent for long trips.
She really is lucky - most of her friends are retired too and her group is always swapping rides with each other. Lots of help with doctor visits too. She got a ride home this morning with an antiquing friend after dropping the car off.
I'll find out by Friday if she feels ripped off by the mechanic. Heaven forbid the Subie dies on the way home from the shop - she'll write me out of her will. :blush:
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stickguy Posts: 14,174after I point out to my wife how much stuff she has to leave behind thanks to having downsized from an Odyssey to an RDX, I may be out renting a minivan Christmas eve to take instead when we go family visiting for Christmas.
2013 Acura RDX (wife's), 2007 Volvo S40 (when daughter lets me see it), 2000 Acura TL (formerly son's, now mine again), and new Jetta SE (son's first new car on his own dime!)
We downsized from an Ody to a CRV after our kids finished college and were on their own. Figured, might as well save some gas. It's been a great vehicle really. But, we have rented vans and crossovers on multiple occasions because we needed more space. Will probably move back up to one of those next year after the CRV is paid for.
Got a 2013 Escape in Seattle today. It must have the 2.0 EcoBoost because it's much peppier than others I've had. It's got just over 13,000 miles on it and is also quieter than others I've had (no rattles, wind noise, etc.) It's a little too "cute" for me but I do like the way it drives.
I've been fortunate enough to avoid getting an Avenger. That and the Malibu are two I steer away from at all costs.
Heading back to NC today, picking up a rental there but the Charlotte location usually doesn't have the best selection, although sometimes they surprise me. However a couple of times I've shown up to find about 40 Impalas in the Emerald and Executive selection.
Overall I liked the Escape, however I have noticed fuel economy isn't anything to write home about. In a mix of city and highway driving I averaged just over 20.5. Decent I guess but I expected more with all the hoopla around Ecoboost.
Without fleets, the Impala wouldn't exist right now. I suppose finding a loaded car on the lot wouldn't be bad. The new one can't come soon enough. I mainly rent for personal use, and usually reserve a higher class to avoid such cars.
That Ecoboost must have to work hard at times.
seank2 Brunswick, GeorgiaPosts: 69After sideswiping a deer in my Mercedes R-Class a few weeks ago, the good people at State Farm sent me to Enterprise on their dime for 15 days. Being in a very rural, very small town, I was quite nervous as to what I was going to get. Lucky me, when the Enterprise clerk asked "what kind of car is in the shop?" and I told her, she took me out to the lot and showed me everything they had available. Selection was surprisingly decent: Black with tan top Chrysler 200 convertible; 2013 Buick Lacrosse; White over black Chrysler 300; Kia Sorento; and various Corollas, Chevy Cruzes and other typical Enterprise fare.
I opted for the 2013 Chrysler 300. 8 speed auto, Pentastar V6, Sirius, UConnect, all the goodies. I travel extensively for business, so I spent lots of time in the car. Chrysler's new emphasis on interiors is spectacular, and made me think this is an American car I might actually consider buying. This is my second 300 rental since the summer, and its a surprisingly decent car from a company that I left for dead in the last few years.
Agreed, if you get a loaded Impala it's not like being in a penalty box, it's just boring and lifeless, although the 2012 models do have the 3.6L that's fairly quick, but still.
The 1.6 Ecoboost really has to work hard, I didn't pop the hood on this one to check but I feel like it had to be the 2.0 as it was much smoother and seemed to handle the hills in Seattle a lot better than the 1.6 I had in Denver.


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He was able to come up with this frothy concoction because the idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. "To me, vampires are sex," he says. "I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed." On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, straight, between humans and supernatural beings, and supernatural being on supernatural being, whether he be werewolf, dog or an enormous Minotaur-looking being called a maenad. None of the sex is quite as good as vampire sex, though, which can happen at the astonishing rhythm of 120 bpm while simultaneously devouring one's neck and making your eyes roll back into your head. Says Moyer, "If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before. It's a de-virginization—breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that's pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive." He laughs a little. "Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?"
Peter Travers on the Best and Worst Vampires on Film and TV
Sex, in fact, is what makes True Blood, gives it cultural relevance. It's a fitting metaphor for the new sexual revolution: With AIDS no longer perceived by most young people as a threat, a hookup culture has taken hold in the country, both on- and offline, in a way that would have been unthinkable in the fearful days of the Eighties and Nineties. "I was in college at the beginning of AIDS, and I've spent my life being scared of blood because it's the carrier of HIV," says Denis O'Hare, who plays the vampire king of Mississippi on the show. "And now, suddenly, our culture seems to be bathing in blood." Vampires can kill you on True Blood, that's true, but their blood itself is a vehicle of transcendence, of ecstasy—on the show, it's sold on the street as the drug "V," and even enhances the act of intercourse when you drink it.
But sex isn't anything without violence in the world of True Blood, so there's lots of gore too. On a recent day on set, Eric Northman—played by Alexander Skarsgård—the 1,000-year-old vampire who hailed from the Nordic lands before he became a bar owner in Louisiana, is drenched in blood, along with his raspy-voiced lesbian sidekick, whom he turned into a vampire a century ago. Another vamp sits in a corner, tied up with silver chains, his face burned off. One more has been reduced to liquid and poured into a gigantic glass goblet, which rests on the bar. Even Paquin has a bit of blood on her wrist. "My God," drawls Ball, stomping around the set and looking at the carnage. "It's the battle of the incredibly hot vampires."
Today, the work goes by quickly, with various promises of vengeance and retribution. Paquin tells a few vampires to "go back in the hole you came from, you creepy cold freaks!" Fangs are taken out of small turquoise boxes and set into teeth. Vampires grunt as they nurse their wounds. And eventually, the actors start clowning around with each other during takes. "You know how on Glee they all have to do a nationwide tour?" says Paquin, turning to Moyer. "Imagine if we had to do that?"
"Where are we this week?" responds Moyer, loving the joke. "The Arkansas Pavilion!"
"We'd have to do four weeks of rehearsals, and someone would do a tap dance with a silver choker," says Paquin. "We could put on some sort of freak show."
"No," says Moyer, grinning broadly. "I've got it: It would be a county-fair sex show. Live sex, two dollars!"
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True Blood uses a great joke to set up its drama: The Japanese have developed a synthetic drink called Tru Blood for vampires, so now they can live—well, maybe not live, but at least exist—without feeding on humans. Now that they don't have to hide who they are anymore, they can "come out of the coffin" to mix with humans. Ball lays on the persecution-of-gays metaphor really thick here, with talk of vampires fighting for equal rights, and religious fundamentalists trying to drive stakes into their hearts, but he says that's not what the show is really about. "I have a hard time seeing the vampires as a metaphor for gays and lesbians," he says, "just because the vampires on our show are, for the most part, vicious murderers and predators, and I'm gay myself, so I don't really want to say, 'Hey, gays and lesbians are basically viciously amoral murderers.'"
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Almost 20% of children 'living in poverty' in Mid Devon, shock report reveals (From This is The West Country)
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Almost 20% of children 'living in poverty' in Mid Devon, shock report reveals
1:11pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in Devon By Mid Devon Star Reporter
ALMOST 20% of children are growing up in poverty in some parts of the region, a shocking new report has revealed.
Figures published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty show 17% of youngsters in Low-man and 16% in Westexe are living in homes below the breadline.
Some 16% are said to be impoverished in Tiverton's Castle ward, closely followed by 13% in Cull-ompton North, while the figures for Wellington East and North are 19% and 14% respectively.
The charity, which based its research on the Government's official definition of poverty, acknowledges that the South-West is not among the UK's poorest regions but said councils should do more to address 'huge disparities' in the region.
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, said the Government was doing much to tackle the root causes of poverty, including removing barriers to jobs through investing in childcare, apprenticeships schemes and wide-ranging education reforms.
He said: "These figures reveal that poverty in rural areas does still exist, although often it does not get the same attention as those in urban areas.
"This Government is tackling poverty by targeting the root causes, rather than simply trying to push households above an arbitrary poverty line."
Devon County Council said it was helping 1,370 families as part of its Targeted Family Support Programme, which has been running in Tiverton since October last year. This includes working with parents to get them into continuous employment and add-ressing truancy among children.
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On Tuesday the organization Working in Neighborhoods will release the latest Hamilton County foreclosure data.
Home sales in Cincinnati ended last year at the highest level since 2007. The Area Board of Realtors says closings were up 12 percent from 2011. December home sales rose more than 5 percent compared to the same month a year ago.
Greater Cincinnati realtors are waiting to see what happens with the fiscal cliff. They don't want it to harm a recovering housing market.
For 17 months in a row Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky homes sales have increased. Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors President Tom Hasselbeck hopes the upward trend continues.
"It's all a combination of excellent interest rates, eager home buyers, the market is actually shrinking in terms of available homes."
Greater Cincinnati home sales are up for the fifteenth month in a row. In Cincinnati the gain was bigger at 11% when compared to the same month last year.
Northern Kentucky's sales increase was just 2%. In both places median prices are increasing and home inventories are declining, a sign realtors say indicates the buyer's advantage is starting to shrink.
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At the advice of their parking director, Lower Merion's Board of Commissioners decided Monday night not to pursue a program of year-round free Saturday parking in business districts.
Board members discussed other ways to aid shoppers and business owners, while others continued to advocate for a free parking program on a more limited scale.
Parking director Tom Pintande told the board his department performed an analysis of Commissioner Lew Gould's suggestion for free Saturday parking. It was determined that it would cost the township revenue—about $200,000—and make it easier for non-shoppers to take up spaces during busy shopping times.
Bryn Mawr Commissioner Scott Zelov said business owners in his ward opposed the idea: "Helping our business community is an important goal of this board, but this isn't the way to do it. If we have free parking on Saturdays, we're going to have students parking through the weekend at the meters. That's a bad idea."
Commissioner Dan Bernheim also said he would be "reluctant to move in this direction."
Zelov and Bala Cynwyd Commissioner George Manos were among several commissioners suggesting the township should make parking "smart cards" available at more places than just the township building, and Zelov called for signage at public parking lots to be made larger and clearer.
Others wondered whether a free-parking proposal would work better in some areas than others.
"I have no problem having this apply to Ardmore only," said Commissioner Cheryl Gelber, who represents that neighborhood.
Said Commissioner Brian Gordon, "Each town on the Main Line is unique. In Merion, we don't need this. We have a tiny shopping district and spaces are precious."
Christine Vilardo of the Ardmore Initiative said of the businesses she'd spoken to, "70-30 are in favor of more free parking. ... We've noticed that people spend more time in the stores when they're not worrying about rushing out to feed their meter. If there were a way to acknowledge that people have stayed overtime but not penalize them, I think that would be worth looking at."
Nancy Gold, former president of the Ardmore Business Association and owner of King's Collar, told the commissioners the idea of more free Saturday parking was "a welcome concept and deserves your serious consideration."
"If the addition of every Saturday is too much to consider, and I think it probably is, I hope you'll at least consider it on the first Saturday of every month," Gold said.
She also called for parking amnesty on all Saturdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. In recent years, the township has allowed free parking on a few December Saturdays.


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Derrick Davis
The Valdosta Daily Times
The Valdosta State football team has experienced a great deal of success on the college gridiron in recent years, but a few former Blazers also have a chance to make an impact on the professional level as well.
In the last two years, four former VSU football players have spent time on an NFL roster, and with the 2013 season quickly approaching, some of those players are pushing to make the final roster, or in some cases, earn serious play time.
Cornerback Matt Pierce, guard Edmund Kugbila, and tackle Ryan Schraeder are all rookies that made the expanded post-draft rosters.
Kugbila made Valdosta State history as the first Blazer to be taken in the NFL draft when the Carolina Panthers selected him in the fourth round.
Both Pierce and Schraeder went unselected, but both were signed to deals as undrafted free agents following the draft, Pierce with the Tennessee Titans, Schrader with the Atlanta Falcons.
During the offseason, the NFL expands rosters to 90 players before having to eventually shrink down to 53 by Aug. 31.
Low round selections and UDFA face an uphill battle when competing for a roster spot and play time; even after players are signed to a roster, they are still fighting for a roster spot throughout the preseason.
When looking for how quickly an undrafted player has to make an impression on a team, take a look at Pierce's run with Tennessee.
Training camp opened for most teams in mid-July, after only a few practices, Pierce wasn't able to show enough in the first few days of the Titans training camp. Pierce was cut Aug. 8 by the Titans and has yet to sign on with another team.
While some UDFA fail to make an impact, Schrader has managed to impress in practices, earning praise for his work in practice.
The Falcons have Schraeder listed as the back-up left tackle behind Sam Baker on the team's official depth chart, but right tackle Mike Johnson suffered a broken fibula and a dislocated ankle that will keep him out for the season, opening the door for competition for the start at right tackle.
"I've been learning a lot every day, keeping me on my toes," Schraeder said. "I feel like I'm getting better every day. That's my mindset every day, just work on my weaknesses and do what I can do to help the team."
Atlanta selected Lamar Holmes from Southern Miss. in the third round of the 2012 draft to be a possible right tackle of the future, but a foot injury caused Holmes to miss almost all of his rookie season. Through three preseason games, Holmes has not impressed enough to win the job, in the last preseason game Schrader and Holmes both spent time at right tackle.
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution's D. Orlando Ledbetter says it is difficult for coaches to judge the competition with the new limits on contact during practice.
Schrader is not the only former Blazer that impressed in camp.
Kugbila was making a strong push to start the season as the starting right guard of the Carolina Panthers until he was placed on injured reserve on Tuesday. He will miss the rest of the season.
The Panthers selected Kugbila in the fourth round to battle incumbent starter Geoff Hangartner at right guard, but when Hangartner was cut, Kugbila had a chance to earn the starting gig over Garry Williams.
Kugbila dealt with injuries throughout most of training camp. He suffered an injury in the first week of camp before finally coming back, only to suffer hamstring issues that would keep him out for four weeks, ultimately the team placed Kugbila on IR.
The injury comes at the worst time for Kugbila; Williams struggled heavily during the preseason, and the job looked to be Kugbila's for the taking.
One could argue it was another former Blazer that made brought the spotlight to VSU's roster. VSU legend, Larry Dean, will be entering his third season in the NFL as a member of the Minnesota Vikings.
Dean, who is VSU's all-time leader in tackles, waited out the 2011 NFL lockout to be the only UDFA signed by the Vikings that year.
In his short NFL career, Dean has played well. Dean has played in all 32 games in his two seasons as a special teams ace. Dean was second on the team in special teams tackles in 2012.
Dean is listed as the back-up strongside linebacker for the Vikings this season, unfortunately for Dean, his play time may be limited due to back-up a player in Chad Greenway that was named a second team All-Pro in 2012 and has led the Vikings in tackles from 2008-2012.
With the buzz in camp around guys like Schraeder and Kugbila, along with Dean's solid career thus far, more NFL scouts have taken notice of what VSU's football program can offer teams in the NFL.
Two scouts from NFL teams attended Blazer training camps earlier this summer.
"The individuals you've seen from our football program that have gone on to make NFL rosters are, first of all, tremendously hard workers," VSU athletic director, Herb Reinhard said. "There might not be an athlete that worked as hard as Larry Dean to make himself a talented college player then just as hard to make the Viking's roster. Edmund and Ryan, both much the same way, both of them talented, but both of them hard workers."
Reinhard believes that by displaying the traits of a hard worker and a player that is willing to listen and learn, NFL scouts see someone that can be molded into a contributor at the next level.
"When you play at a non-Division I, big time school you have to have those traits to catch the eyes of scouts," Reinhard added.
Rosters must again be trimmed by Saturday at 6 p.m., from 75 to 53.
Saturday marks the final step in the former Blazers' road to the regular season roster.


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By Ronnie Ellis
CNHI News Service
The first full working week of the 2013 General Assembly was again full of apparent determination by all parties to change the working atmosphere.
But there are hints of disagreement beginning to show.
Gov. Steve Beshear called for tax reform during his annual State of the Commonwealth address, saying he was unwilling to take up pension reform without the security of new funding to adequately fund education after five years of budget cuts.
But the message was less than warmly received by Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, said he thinks pension reform must be done now and can be done "without exposing the taxpayer to more liability."
Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, said Beshear's talk of "investment" made him nervous that the governor might want to "grow government again." And House Minority Leader Jeff Hoover, R-Jamestown, said the speech was "as predictable as the sun coming up" and said Beshear offered no specific agenda or solutions.
But there was action by both chambers on priorities each had established.
On Thursday, the Senate passed a bill based on recommendations from the pension reform task force. There wasn't a whole lot of debate and it passed 33-5. But while the bill lays out changes for future hires in the type of system they'll pay into, it only states the legislature's "intent" to fully fund the system beginning next year — the key recommendation of the task force.
Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo pointed to the absence of an identified source for the $327 million or so it will take for that contribution and said without a dedicated source of revenue, the prospects of passage aren't terrific in the House.
That was also the reservation expressed by the five senators who opposed the bill and a concern expressed even by some who voted for it.
On Friday, the House passed House Bill 1, a bill to require special taxing districts to provide financial accountability, on a vote of 99-1. So far, there has appeared no real opposition to the measure in the Senate but there are at least a couple of senators who have expressed some reservation about the impact of the bill on some districts.
The House also passed a bill authorizing public universities to issue bonds for construction projects and pay off those bonds through revenues the universities generate. No direct tax dollars are involved. Six universities will construct 11 facilities — from academic buildings to residence dormitories to upgrades to the University of Kentucky football stadium — totaling $363 million.
The House and Welfare Committee on Thursday approved a bill which in previous years would have been considered dead on arrival — a statewide smoking ban in all indoor workplaces and public accommodations.
Such statewide bans exist in 29 states, but tobacco was once the principal agricultural product for thousands of Kentucky farmers. The bill now must pass the House where Stumbo supports it. But even if it passes the lower chamber, it faces an uncertain fate in the more conservative Senate.
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent to the Senate floor a bill which would allow convicted felons to seek DNA testing of evidence to prove their innocence. Currently in Kentucky, only death row inmates are allowed to pursue such a remedy.
Sponsor Sen. John Schickel told the committee he was shocked to learn others couldn't try to prove their innocence through DNA testing and called the bill "a matter of justice."
But a substitute version of the bill, approved by the committee, would exclude those who accepted Alford Pleas (not an admission of guilt but rather concession the evidence is sufficient to convict the defendant) or those who pleaded guilty.
Some attorneys on the committee and a representative of the Innocence Project, a group which advocates for such tests, contended there are sometimes reasons an innocent person may plead guilty.
Lawmakers return Monday for the ninth day of the 30-day, nonbudget session which occurs in odd-numbered years. On tap Monday is an anticipated hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee about a bill to authorize industrial hemp.
Expected to appear in support of the bill are Republican Sen. Rand Paul, Republican U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie and Democratic U.S. Congressman John Yarmuth.
Ronnie Ellis writes for CNHI News Service and is based in Frankfort. Reach him at email@example.com. Follow CNHI News Service stories on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ cnhifrankfort.


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What many have predicted has happened: Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed a tax hike to balance the state's budget.
Oh, yeah, it will be "temporary" and "tied to long term spending reforms." Yeah, right. Temporary taxes are like unicorns, nice to think about for some folks, but fantasy nonetheless. Long term reforms???!!!! Arnie has tried that move over and over and been beaten down every time.
Meanwhile, as my colleague George points out, the common sense, everyday, "kitchen table economics" approaches to both new revenue for the state and reducing spending, keep getting ignored.


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Africa's largest and leading hotel group, which includes more than 120 hotels in eight African countries, has approximately 90 properties in South Africa ranging from mid-up market to the superior deluxe African Pride Hotels collection. Protea Hospitality Group CEO Arthur Gillis says the upgrade programme reflects not only the need to stay current in a competitive market, but also confidence in South Africa as regional travel hub.
"The modern traveller, be it for business or pleasure, rightly has exacting expectations and we are committed to ensuring that our GUESTS enjoy outstanding service and comfort in modern and fresh hotels. And while the industry as a whole has experienced difficult trading conditions due to the global recession, we are seeing positive signs of increased activity across our network, particularly in the corporate and conferencing market."
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Even with so many ways to communicate, it can still be tough to tell the public when there are possible dangers in their neighborhood. Monday's search for a shooting suspect in Butler and Cowley counties is a prime example.
We call 911 dispatch to report an emergency. It's not as easy or practical as you might think for them to call and alert us.
Lorion Wallace had two encounters with suspects Butler County authorities were searching for Monday in the shooting death of 25-year-old Trevor Wakefield. But Wallace lives near Wilmont in Cowley County.
Early Monday morning, Wallace says a woman, who turned out to be 29-year-old Mandy Crandall, came to his door looking for help. Even though Wallace knew nothing of the shooting in El Dorado, he called the sheriff's office and they picked up Crandall.
Another suspect in the shooting, Montee Iverson, was around and stole Wallace's pickup truck, which officers chased to a Cowley County field where he was finally caught.
"I mean, I called the law and got them down there," Wallace said. "I wished the hell they'd let me know there was somebody else there."
Winfield Police Chief Danny Parker says their dispatch has a reverse notification system, but in this case, they weren't notified quick enough to use it.
Sedgwick County authorities have investigated reverse notification systems, but some only work with landlines. Cell phone users would have to sign up. And we have to be there to get the message, which is the bottom line. Media, including KAKE, put the information out on the air, Facebook and Twitter.
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---- — A former first sergeant with the Logansport Police Department's drug task force has rejoined the department as a patrolman after working for a period for the U.S. Department of State.
Shawn Heishman first started at the LPD in 1997 and resigned in 2011 as a first sergeant in charge of the department's drug task force to take a position with the U.S. Department of State, where he spent time overseas working in anti-terrorism training.
The Logansport native enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating from high school.
"After that, this seemed like the next step, the next progression," he said of joining the LPD after leaving the military.
Heishman said returning to his roots and allowing his two teenagers to return to theirs motivated him to make the move back and rejoin the LPD.
"I enjoy the city," he said. "It's a great place to raise children. It was a no-brainer to come back."
Logansport Assistant Police Chief Mike Morphet said Heishman brings the department up to 39 patrolmen.
"Our patrol shifts will be filled out for the first time in at least a year," he said.
Morphet added the department also currently has a recruit undergoing training at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. He said the annexation of territories south of the city recently approved by city council could require the hiring of another patrolman.
The Logansport Board of Public Works and Safety approved Heishman's hiring as a probationary patrolman Wednesday morning.
In other news, the board also:
• Approved Public Works Superintendent Dan Williams' report, which stated work would begin on the railroad crossing on 18th Street north of Main Street at 9 a.m. Monday. Williams said it will take two to four days.
• Approved Logansport Building Commissioner Bill Drinkwine's report, which stated Virginia Cooke, owner of 210 S. Sixth St., will be appearing before the Logansport Board of Zoning Appeals this month to establish a plan on a shared wall on the property that will become an exterior wall after the building is demolished.
• Approved promotions of Scott Jones to captain and Bryon Nipple to assistant mechanic at the Logansport Fire Department.
• Ordered cleanups at the properties of 109 Ottawa St., 2208 E. Broadway, 2210 E. Broadway, 1020 N. Sixth St., 200 Tacoma St. and 1925 E. Market St.
• Cleared code violations at the properties of 204 Ottawa St., 420 Bartlett St., 2200 E. Broadway, 1205 North St. and 1216 Spear St.