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(05/06/11 6:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Fish swim in schools, and there's that whole big fish in a little pond,
little fish in a big pond too. Find yourself in these fish. To see a larger image of the image, click on the link to the attachment to the right.
(03/30/11 6:15pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>9/24/2008: It's been two years, six months and six days since she was diagnosed with cancer. Early in the morning Sept. 24, 2008, my mom, Chrissy, checked into Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne with stomach pain. My grandmother had been with her through the night. My dad came in early in the morning to relieve my grandmother from her post.So far, doctors had run tests, but hadn't said anything to my parents yet.My dad met my mom in the doctor's office and kissed her. Then the doctor came in. "Good morning," he said to my dad. "Your wife has cancer."
(02/09/11 6:26am)
Typically, black isn’t a primary color used in the health care industry for obvious reasons — the color black is closely associated to death. Indiana University Health system went against the grain, and featured black not only in its logo, but on its ambulances.
(01/26/11 5:55pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In four years, IU-Bloomington enrollment has increased by more than 4,000 students. The University has increased scholarship giving more than 60 percent to battle rising tuition. Despite a recession, the average professor salary has increased more than $15,000 to $153,000.Each year, University Institutional Research and Reporting produces the IU Fact Book, which contains data on scholarships, diversity, faculty and more. Here, I’ve visualized select portions of that data. I hope some of these statistics make you think, “Really?” or just make you think.
(06/10/10 3:12pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Aug. 30, 2009 — Your username. It’s your college calling card, your identity for four (or more) years, and the first thing you type when you sit down to a computer. When we enrolled, most of us were just looking for the purest form of a username: a first initial and last name. But with more than 100,000 students across nine campuses, we can’t all be pure.So, what happens when the letters in your name align perfectly to create a little username joke? We all know someone with an alpha-numeric combination that just didn’t come out quite right.When students enroll to create their first IU accounts, an algorithm calculates possible usernames based on a series of rules, said Julie Wernert, University Information Technology Services external communications manager. Because usernames are only used once, students choose from a list of options based on their first, middle and last names.While it’s fun to believe a bunch of UITS people sit around, eat popcorn, talk programming, and create ridiculous username choices anytime they get the chance, it’s actually a computer that doesn’t recognize dirty words, inside jokes, or ironic pop culture references. This means if you have a funny or unfortunate last name, there isn’t a person on the other end monitoring the choices.But even Martha Anne Showers, whose name doesn’t usually summon a giggle, wasn’t safe.When Showers, an IUPUI law student, signed up for her username, she was hoping to find mshowers, a username she had always used.“Apparently mshowers was already taken,” she says. “I had to choose from several computer-generated options. Most of the options were long and confusing.”She chose maanshow.“When I saw this username, I immediately realized it would be easy to remember. Moreover, it made me chuckle because I immediately thought of the former comedy ‘The Man Show’ with Jimmy Kimmel. I only saw a few episodes because I didn’t really care to watch females jumping on trampolines in bikinis.”Nevertheless, Showers said the username makes her laugh and that she will probably never forget it, even if some doubt the validity of her username.“The feedback I get from my peers is quite comical,” she says. “Most people don’t believe me at first. But, once they realize I’m telling the truth, they usually laugh or say something like, ‘How cool.’”Andrew Fish, who ended up with andfish, says his username experience has been generally positive. Catherine Dick, however, has not been so lucky.The IUPUI student said her University e-mail, dick@iupui.edu, has added obstacles to her Internet use.“There are several websites that I can’t sign up for or get a username to log in because it says my last name is profanity,” she says.If you do have an unfavorable username, you can have it changed. According to the IU Knowledge Base, you need a legitimate reason for the username change (legal name change, misspellings, harassment, marriage, etc.). Unfortunately for some, a computer-generated joke just isn’t enough of an identity crisis.
(04/07/10 4:06am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Former President George W. Bush wanted to reform the health care system, but Republicans in Congress wouldn’t back him, a former Bush administration official told a group of students and professors in a lecture Tuesday at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.Allan Hubbard, a former economic policy assistant to President Bush and director of the National Economic Council, said Republicans should have handled health care when they had a Republican controlled Congress and Presidency from 2002 to 2006. Hubbard and Mike Leavitt, the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, tried to convince Republicans in Congress to support Bush in a health care reform initiative.“We had a huge opportunity to deal with this. We knew the American people wanted health care reform,” Hubbard said. “And we got nowhere.”Hubbard said Republicans in Congress told him and Leavitt that the American people saw them as the party of defense and taxes, not health care. Hubbard told Republicans that if they didn’t deal with it, the Democrats eventually would.“It happened to be one of the few things that I was right about,” Hubbard said. “It was a big mistake that they didn’t deal with it when they had the chance. They’re responsible for this bill.”Meng Yao, a junior health administration major, said he was also frustrated with Republicans.“All they do is complain,” Yao said. “At least Obama is trying to do something about it with this bill.”Hubbard praised the recently passed health care bill for covering 32 million uninsured people, expanding medicaid, penalizing employers who don’t provide health insurance and making insurance available to people with pre-existing conditions. He also railed against the bill for being too expensive.“It is not paid for,” he said. “And it doesn’t do anything to reduce the cost of health care.”Hubbard identified four major problems in the health care system: sky-rocketing costs, millions of uninsured, discrimination based on pre-existing conditions and job lock. He asked audience members to raise their hands if they had recently shopped for health care by actually calling doctors’ offices and asking for price quotes to find the best deal.One audience member raised his hand.“See, the rest of us don’t do it,” Hubbard said. “The system’s not set up to do it. No one ever does it. We never worry about the price.”He said this makes consumers “price insensitive” and used an analogy of buying “grocery insurance” instead of health care insurance where employers would pay for an employee’s grocery bill. Customers would simply use their “green cross, green shield cards” to pay for groceries, Hubbard said.“You don’t worry about what it costs. You don’t worry about over-consumption,” he said. “The supermarket owner would stop providing pricing. I’m a business guy, you know what I would do, I would sorta edge those prices up. It doesn’t cost you anything.”Dr. Rob Stone, director of Hoosiers for Commonsense Healthcare and a Bloomington ER doctor, took issue with the grocery store analogy.“All of us are going to use groceries today, most of us would rather not go to the doctor anymore than we have to,” Stone said. “When someone comes into my ER and gets off an ambulance, are they going to say to me, ‘Doc, you got any specials today?’”But Stone said he did agree with many of Hubbard’s points, even though they are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Yao also agreed with some of Hubbard’s points, despite his concerns with Republicans.“I think a little differently now,” Yao said. “I can see how this bill isn’t perfect.”
(02/24/10 4:31pm)
Bloomington Tweets
(11/30/09 2:57am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Grab your pals and some snacks, split the gas and get out of Bloomington.See a photo slideshow of a creepy local jointNashville, Ind.19 milesThis quaint town would be your mother’s favorite. It’s a sweet place for old-fashioned holiday presents like popcorn and crafts. Nashville is worth a visit just for the antiques stores and the stories behind each busted up piece of furniture.Popcorn, Ind.22 milesOur art director was excited to drive here. It was a letdown. Popcorn is not full of popcorn. In fact, it was just a small town with a cool name and an even cooler set of road names: Popcorn Church and Popcorn River roads.Story, Ind.26 milesBlink and you’ll miss this adorable Southern-Indiana town. Stay at Story Inn, which smirks with the slogan, “One inconvenient location since 1851.” Check in with your sweetheart to the Blue Lady room for $129 and turn on the blue light next to the bed. You may be visited by the inn’s friendly ghost. A cozy front porch features a checkerboard with beer cap pieces and the door to one of Indiana’s most delicious down-home restaurants. No more Cracker Barrel, this is true country comfort.Bakers JunctionBloomington3.8 milesJohnny Baker owns Bakers Junction, a railroad museum, haunted house, and his home. The horseshoe-shaped enclosure is formed by 40-ton cabooses. Old rusting farming equipment and railroad antiques bought at auctions are tacked to the sides of sheds Baker made himself, or sit on shelves and in cases inside his haunted house. There’s a greenhouse with multiple broken windows and stray gourds and melons.The place feels a bit like a historian’s utopia, a horror movie director’s dream, and a child’s ideal playground. If you’re looking for a short trip to one of Southern Indiana’s most surreal and unpolished jewels, don’t skip this one.
(08/30/09 11:30pm)
Your username. It’s your college calling card, your identity for four (or more) years, and the first thing you type when you sit down to a computer. When we enrolled, most of us were just looking for the purest form of a username: a first initial and last name.
(04/24/09 2:47pm)
Since the release of the movie 30 years ago, myths and misconceptions have come up about the fictional Cutters team, townies in the race and how true the story really is. Let’s try and clear some things up.
(11/20/08 2:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A Bloomington man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening to “cut up” another man, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada reading from a police report.Dale Harry Jackson, 56, faces a preliminary charge of intimidation.At 5:45 a.m., police were called to Martha’s House, 919 S. Rogers St., a homeless shelter. When officer Blake Cunningham arrived, he found Jackson in the area of Martha’s House. Jackson told Cunningham he had no idea why the police were called, Canada said.Cunningham then talked to a witness who said Jackson asked him for money, Canada said. When the witness refused to give Jackson money, Jackson said he would “cut him up,” according to the report.The witness told police he knew Jackson carried a knife, so he took the threat seriously, Canada said.Jackson was transported to the Monroe County jail.
(11/13/08 4:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Delilah’s Pet Shop is open for business at a temporary location after a fire destroyed the building last week.The former College Avenue location was destroyed Nov. 3 after the Bloomington Fire Department worked for three hours to extinguish the fire. About 20 animals were killed in the fire. The business has set up shop in a commercial space under construction at 1040 W. 17th St., said pet shop owner Karene Kidwell. This location is only temporary. The new pet shop will be located at West 11th Street and College Avenue in a former walk-in health clinic.The temporary location was provided for free by Kelly Slinkard, Kidwell’s friend and customer for 20 years. Slinkard’s family owns the empty commercial space.“I don’t know how long she is going to stay – it doesn’t matter,” Slinkard said. “(They) need all the help and support they can get to get back on their feet.”Slinkard said Kidwell stands out because of how much she cares about the animals, not just the business aspect of Delilah’s Pet Shop.Kidwell said her top priority was getting nutritional supplements ordered so her customers would be taken care of. Kidwell also said she has food to sell at the 17th Street location, but there are no animals.Bloomington resident Julie Routon went into the temporary shop Wednesday to buy the food for her miniature schnauzer that has few teeth.“I had just gotten down to a little bit,” Routon said. “Them bringing the food back was perfect.”Routon has been a customer since 1999 and said it is the only place where she can find the right food for her dog.All of the animals rescued from the fire were taken to Arlington Heights Veterinary Hospital to be checked out and then were taken to the Howl ’N Dog Inn in Nashville, Ind.Karen Tice, owner of the Inn and a friend of Kidwell, offered to care for the animals so that Kidwell could get back on her feet.Of the animals that were rescued, only three remain. The rest were sold. Tice has 2 beagles, 1 black cat and 1 Pekingese.Kidwell said she wants to be moved into the new location within three weeks.“We’re doing a lot better since we’ve got something to do,” Kidwell said. “As long as we were busy, it keeps your mind off things. I think it’s very important in the healing process.”
(11/13/08 2:44am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A Bloomington teenager was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing two laptops, two iPods and a pillow case in late October, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.Craig Jackson Kelley, 18, faces preliminary charges of burglary, maintaining a common nuisance and reckless possession of paraphernalia. The arrest was related to an incident on Oct. 25.On that day, officer Jeff Rodgers responded to a call from residents in an apartment complex in the 2000 block of North Walnut Street.Residents told Rodgers the electronics and a tan pillow case were stolen from the apartment, according to the report. The residents also told Rodgers the person responsible might have been Kelley, who lived down the hall from them. Kelley had come to their apartment late at night before for no apparent reason, the residents told police.Rodgers went down the hall to check Kelley’s apartment, according to the report. When one of Kelley’s roommates opened the door, Rodgers saw a man run down a hallway. He also saw a tan pillow case next to the couch.Rodgers obtained a search warrant, entered the house and searched the apartment. In one of the bedrooms, he found Kelley’s wallet and social security card, but could not locate Kelly. He also found two laptops that matched the description of the stolen laptops and an iPod, according to the report.Rodgers also saw a pipe and a black digital scale, both with green, leafy residue. The pipe and the scale smelled of marijuana, according the report. Rodgers also found another digital scale and a grinder in the kitchen.At about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, BPD responded to an unrelated call about broken glass at the same apartment complex. When police arrived in response to the call, they found Kelley, Canada said.Kelley told police he had been set up, Canada said.He was arrested and transported to the Monroe County jail.
(11/12/08 7:14pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Delilah’s pet shop is open for business after a fire burned down its building last week.The business has set up shop at 1040 W. 17th St, pet shop owner Karene Kidwell said. This location is only temporary as the new pet shop will be located at West 11th Street and College Avenue in a former walk-in clinic.Kidwell said her top priority was getting nutritional supplements ordered so her customers would be taken care of. Kidwell also said she has food to sell at the 17th Street location, but there are no animals.All of the animals rescued from the fire were taken to Arlington Veterinary Clinic to be checked out and then were taken to the Howl ‘N Dog Inn in Nashville, Ind.Karen Tice, owner of the Inn and a friend of Kidwell, offered to care for the animals so that Kidwell could get back on her feet.Of the animals that were rescued, only three remain. The rest were sold. Tice has 2 beagles, 1 black cat and 1 pekingese.Stay with IDSnews.com for more updates on this story.
(11/11/08 2:49am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Four Bloomington residents were arrested Saturday for cocaine-related incidents, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.Tony King, 40, and Nellie Burks, 27, both of Bloomington, were arrested by police on Saturday and both face preliminary charges of dealing cocaine.Vincent Bell, 42, and Marcus Bell, 33, both of Bloomington, were also arrested and face preliminary charges of possession of cocaine and dealing cocaine.Indiana State Police and the Bloomington Police Department learned the foursome was heading to Indianapolis to pick up more cocaine to bring back to Bloomington, Canada said.Police set up surveillance on State Road 37 as they knew the make and model of the car suspects were driving.Police stopped the car at about 11:20 p.m. and found cocaine in Marcus Bell’s sweatshirt and in Vincent Bell’s pocket, according to the report.They were both taken to the Morgan County Jail.
(11/04/08 5:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Karene Kidwell’s worst fear came true Monday.Kidwell, owner of Delilah’s Pet Shop, watched as the Bloomington Fire Department tried to extinguish a fire at the shop.The fire department was notified of the blaze at about 6:15 a.m. The fire took about three hours to extinguish.Bloomington Fire Department Chief Roger Kerr said the department is currently investigating the cause. Kerr said the building is a total loss.Twelve animals were rescued from the fire, but about 20 animals, including cats and dogs, were killed in the blaze. No one was at the pet shop when the fire broke out.Kidwell said the animals that were rescued were taken to the Arlington Heights Veterinary Hospital.Mike Livingston, manager at the veterinary hospital, said the 12 animals are a mixture of dogs and cats and are all doing well.“We’ve had a lot of calls from concerned people wanting to help,” Livingston said.Livingston also added that he’s not sure whether the animals will be placed in foster homes.But, Kidwell, 66, is worried about the future.Vanessa McClary, a friend of Kidwell’s, tried to look at the bright side.“Maybe this will be a blessing for her,” McClary said. “Maybe she’ll get a fresh start.”Lynn Southern, another close friend, praised Kidwell.“She has an incredible wealth of knowledge,” Southern said. “I bought my dogs from Karene. I bought my food from Karene. Karene helps with nutritional solutions to problems instead of chemicals and drugs. She’s the best.”Kidwell said she’ll miss treating and connecting with the animals the most.“The thing that I hate most about this is that I do a lot of work with dogs with allergies, and I won’t be able to help them now,” she said.The 22 year-old pet shop, originally called Custom Grooming, was named for Kidwell’s late St. Bernard, Delilah. Delilah died on July 2, and Kidwell said after this, she’s glad the dog died when she did.“She would have been a mess if she got out (of the fire),” Kidwell said. “When we moved stores, she couldn’t figure out what happened.”Many people have offered their support and kindness through the tough times, Kidwell said.“These little kindnesses,” she said, “are something that you can’t buy.”-Managing Editor Sara Amato contributed this report.
(11/03/08 2:07pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Bloomington Fire Department battled a fire Monday morning at Delilah’s Pet Shop, 1320 N. College Ave.The fire department was notified of the blaze early Monday morning and took about three hours to extinguish.Delilah’s owner Karene Kidwell told the Indiana Daily Student that there were about 25 animals in the pet shop. Kidwell said the animals that were rescued were taken to the Arlington Heights Veterinary Hospital. Mike Livingston, manager at the Arlington Heights Veterinary Hospital, said that the hospital has taken in 12 of the rescued animals. They are a mixture of dogs and cats, Livingston said.The cause of the fire is still unknown at this time, but Kidwell said she thinks the fire started in the back of building.“This is surely your worst fear,” she said.Bloomington Fire Department Chief Roger Kerr said the fire is out and the department is currently investigating the cause. Kerr said the building is a total loss.Many people have been offering their support and kindness though, Kidwell said.“These little kindnesses are something that you can’t buy,” she said.Kidwell said she is worried about the future, though.“The thing that I hate most about this is that I do a lot of work with dogs with allergies, and I won’t be able to help them now,” she said.Delilah’s Pet Shop is named for Kidwell’s late St. Bernard. Delilah died on July 2, and Kidwell said that after this, she’s glad.“She would have been a mess if she got out (of the fire),” Kidwell said. “When we moved, she couldn’t figure out what happened.”Kidwell is thankful, though, that no one was hurt.“The other stuff is just stuff,” she said.
(10/30/08 3:55am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ricky L. Underhill, 35, of Bloomington, was arrested at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in connection with two recent Bloomington bank robberies, said Joe Qualters, Bloomington Police Department captain.Qualters said Underhill admitted to robbing the Chase Bank at 100 S. College Ave. on Monday and the Fifth Third Bank at 3200 E. Third St. on Oct. 21.He faces two preliminary charges of robbery.Qualters said police received a call from the owner of a coin laundromat at 411 S. Woodcrest Drive. saying that he had recovered about $120 in bills from a change machine. The bills were stained with red dye.While police waited for video surveillance footage from the laundromat, Detective Rick Crussen was driving in the area of Third Street and Smith Avenue when he saw a man who matched the bank robber’s description, Qualters said.Crussen stopped the man, told him he matched the description of the bank robber, and asked if he could search his backpack, Qualters said. The man allowed Crussen to look in the backpack. Crussen found red dye, Qualters said. The dye was part of a dye pack a teller at Chase gave to the man during the robbery Monday. The pack explodes and releases red ink.Crussen then identified the man as Underhill and brought him to the police station, Qualters said.Upon questioning, Underhill admitted to robbing both banks, Qualters said. Underhill told police he had financial trouble, was unemployed and sells plasma to get by.Underhill was taken to the Monroe County jail.Qualters also recognized Crussen for his “heads up” work.“This is another example of excellent police work on the part of Detective Rick Crussen,” Qualters said in an e-mail. “He was aware enough of the bank robbery suspect from the surveillance photos to recognize him even when he wasn’t wearing the same clothing from yesterday’s robbery. To have that presence of mind and make an arrest in such a short period of time is commendable.”
(10/29/08 6:32pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ricky L. Underhill, 35, of Bloomington, was arrested at 11:30 a.m. in connection with two recent Bloomington bank robberies, Bloomington Police Department Captain Joe Qualters said.Qualters said Underhill admitted to robbing the Chase Bank at 100 S. College Avenue on Monday and the Fifth Third Bank at 3200 East Third Street on Oct. 21.See Thursday’s IDS for more.
(10/28/08 1:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>INDIANAPOLIS – Secretary of State Todd Rokita says his office has found evidence of “multiple criminal violations, including possible state and federal racketeering laws” in connection with fraudulent voter registration applications filed in Lake County.Rokita wrote a letter to federal, state and local prosecutors last week asking them to open a criminal investigation into registration applications filed by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.Of the 1,438 voter registration applications Rokita’s office investigated, 61 percent had problems such as incomplete data or indications of fraud or forgery. Thirty percent of the applications included information that was obviously incorrect, incomplete or illegible, he said.The majority of the problem applications originated in and around the city of Gary in far northwestern Indiana, the letter said. Rokita said his office’s preliminary investigation found that ACORN’s northwest Indiana branch violated election laws.“This is a fraud perpetrated on all of the people of Indiana because fraudulent registrations are the first step in diluting the voice of honest voters and rendering an inaccurate tally on Election Day,” wrote Rokita, a Republican.The Associated Press could not leave a message for the ACORN office in Gary because a voice mail box was full, so the AP e-mailed the group seeking comment.Jess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, has said he believes his group is being targeted because some politicians don’t want that many low-income people having a voice.Gary, a Lake County city which overwhelmingly supported Sen. Barack Obama in the May primary, is 85 percent black. Obama needs a strong showing in Lake County if he is to win Indiana, which no Democratic presidential candidate has done since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.ACORN officials have also said the group identifies potentially problematic voter registration applications, but that state law requires the group to turn them in anyway.Rokita said that law exists “to prevent ‘lost’ applications of those thought to be supporters of an opposing party candidate, for example.”But he said the law does not protect ACORN from laws making it a felony to turn in false applications.“Simply put, complying with the law to submit legitimate applications does not allow ACORN officials to evade the law against knowingly submitting fraudulent applications,” Rokita wrote.Rokita has previously asked for a criminal investigation into the registration applications. A Deputy Indiana Attorney General rejected his previous request, but senior law enforcement officials have told the AP that the FBI was investigating ACORN.