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(10/25/07 4:00am)
Jimmy Eat World is one of those bands that seamlessly went from releasing indie favorites to NOW!-compilation-sized hits. After breaking into the mainstream in 2001 with "The Middle" from Bleed American, Jimmy has never looked back. 2004 brought Futures, a darker album than its predecessor, but one that scored just as well. Three years later, the band is back with Chase This Light, and they've delivered yet again.\nOn Chase, Jimmy has combined the fun, pop-stylized sounds of Bleed and the serious moods of Futures, and it works very well. The album opener and lead single "Big Casino" features huge hooks and a massive jolt of energy as frontman Jim Adkins sings "Get up, Get up / Turn on ignition / Get up, Get up / Fire up the system." It's a great choice for a lead single and should be another "The Middle," but other tracks seem even more primed for radio.\nWith "Let It Happen," the band returns to melodies heard on Futures, but once the chorus kicks in, it's like a digital sugar rush directly to your ears. The lyrics "Talk, talking a lot / But it's all talk / Say whatever you want / 'Cause I can laugh it off" aren't spellbinding, but they'll be in your head for days after hearing them.\nThe middle of the record shows Chase isn't all soaring melodies. "Carry You" finds Jimmy more subdued, much like on Futures, but no less effective. The acoustically powered track hits its stride with the bridge as Adkins' vocals build into his patented dual-vocals-with-himself move, where he croons, "Slap my face just to feel / Just to feel you there again."\nThe record's only misstep occurs with the wispy ballad "Gotta Be Somebody's Blues." The track includes brooding vocals that don't connect with the rest of the album, and it moves at a slow pace.\nJimmy delivers on every release, and whether or not you admit to liking pop music, it's impossible not to enjoy this band. Chase is an excellent addition to the Jimmy Eat World catalog and one of the most enjoyable releases of the year.
(10/25/07 4:00am)
Everything I know about soccer I've learned from playing "FIFA" video games. Which is a lot, considering exactly how much "FIFA" I've played. \nThat's why I looked forward to the release of "FIFA Soccer 08." Like many of you, I learned a majority of what I know from a pixelated screen. That's right, my soccer education came from a television screen, not time spent on a soccer pitch.\nThe new "Be A Pro" feature enables gamers to be single players on the field and take on the roles of those players' specific positions. For example, instead of being all 11 players on Chelsea, you can choose just to be Didier Drogba. While this game mode isn't action-packed, it's still a realistic soccer experience. \nThe other best new feature that has been added to "FIFA" is the refined dribbling controls that revolve around the gamer's dominance of the right thumbstick. Instead of the traditional "juke" button, "FIFA 08" enables you to dodge and dribble around defenders like an actual forward. \nBut it's tough to appreciate the moves you're breaking off without adjusting the camera angles. The standard game camera seems to be stationed 100 feet above the press box, and even the "dynamic" camera is still near the 23rd row of the balcony. \nThe graphics themselves are exceptional -- clear, crisp and detailed, but you can't appreciate them unless you're playing on a big screen. \nThe "Manager" mode still pales in comparison to other EA Sports titles. One thing EA Sports did incorporate into the "FIFA" line for the first time is the use of player icons. In "Be A Pro" mode, the player icons act as a compass--coach hybrid, telling you where to be and what to do. This comes in handy if you didn't grow up on a traveling soccer team or are not a direct descendent of Pele.\nBut despite its flaws, "FIFA" remains one of EA's strongest products. Bugs are as frequent as snowstorms in June, and the game play is more realistic than the run-and-dunk of "NBA Live" or the touchdown-happy "Madden." The focus "FIFA" puts on soccer's team aspect pushes it to the forefront of sports gaming.
(10/25/07 4:00am)
After the Bob Dylan concert Friday, Oct. 19, my ears weren't bleeding, as a number of my friends had told me they would be. As relieved as I was that this was not the case, when I left the concert, my mind was definitely reeling from what can only be described as a cultural experience.\nWalking into the concert, I felt that I had fairly realistic expectations. I had heard that the icon otherwise known as Elston Gunnn, Blind Boy Grunt, Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov and Jack Frost, among others, was washed up. His glory days, according to some, ended with the general apathy that ensued following the youth activism and the drug-fueled folk festivals of the 1960s. \nStill, after Friday night, it became clear to me that this man still is and will always be rock 'n' roll royalty. And obviously, he thinks so, too. Before Dylan emerged on stage, following a decent performance by Amos Lee and an amazing, crowd-pleasing set by the immensely talented Elvis Costello, the lights went down and the loudspeakers began playing fanfare music along the lines of "Hail to the Chief." Above the excessive, royalty-is-approaching tune, a deep voice announced the entrance of that night's main event, touting his credentials as music legend, substance abuser and born-again Christian/Jew. \nWithout even introducing himself, or at least half-heartedly wishing us good luck against the Nittany Lions the next day, he launched into what amounted to several hours of a performance that was simply and undeniably Dylan. \nAfter years of performing, this man is obviously aware that he is a legend and that nothing he does or doesn't do at his concerts will change that. He barely acknowledged the crowd, and he didn't introduce any of his songs. In fact, even though I'm pretty sure the man who performed was Dylan, I wouldn't bet my life on it. He and his band members, clad in suits and sporting wide-brimmed black hats, bore something of a resemblance to the Blues Brothers. In fact, the hats were so obstructive that I never saw any of their faces. From where I was sitting, when they moved around, I could have sworn I was looking at checkers pieces being scooted around a board. Still, the gravely voiced singer had a sound that was so distinctly Dylan that when he sang -- or in some cases, talked over the music -- I felt pretty secure that I was, in fact, at the right concert.\nSpeaking of, well, speaking, the most talking Dylan did all night, in sharp contrast to the playful anecdotes about Arnold Schwarzenegger that Costello spouted off, was when he introduced his band members. At least, when he supposedly introduced his band members. I'm not sure if it was the years of nonstop performing or the years of nonstop drugs that did it, but I had a lot of trouble understanding him at all. Between myself and the friend I came to the concert with, we can speak and understand a total of five languages. Honestly, though, I'm not sure exactly what language some of those songs were in. Sometimes it would take until the end of a song until we finally recognized which one it was. \nAnother thing that shocked me at first was just how few old favorites the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman played. But after mulling it over for a while, I realized it's been about 45 years since he released his first album cleverly titled Bob Dylan. \nThe poor man must be sick to death of singing his songs over and over again. The two signature pieces that he did perform, or at least the only two that I could really recognize, were skillfully reworked so that the melody was hidden in bridges and interludes, while Dylan himself spoke the words over the background riffs being played by his band. \nI did not come to the concert to look at Dylan, which turned out to be a good thing, considering that our balcony-level seats were not conducive to that. In fact, having heard what a disappointment the concert would be -- an assertion that turned out to be completely wrong -- I didn't even come to hear him. I simply came to be in the presence of a singer-songwriter who changed the world with his music. And to tell the truth, that's exactly what I got -- and as, I was pleasantly surprised to find, much, much more.
(10/25/07 4:00am)
Halloween\nKnown to witches as "Samhain," Halloween is the celebration of a new year for the Wiccan religion.\n"It's basically a time of self-reflection, thinking about your past, present and future, and remembering those who have passed," said sophomore Amy Payne. \nCommunication with the "other world or afterlife" is easiest on this day, Payne explained, because the veil that separates this world from the next is at its thinnest.\n"A lot of Halloween traditions celebrated in the U.S. are derived from Wiccan tradition," said sophomore Sarah Downs. "It's the cultural impact left over from old Pagan traditions."\nJack-o'-lanterns and dressing up for Halloween, for instance, first began as Wiccan traditions, she said.\nHalloween isn't the only holiday that corresponds to a Wiccan celebration. The day of Yule, Downs said, was originally celebrated Dec. 25, the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.\n"A lot of holidays we celebrate were converted into Christian rites," she said. "I guess it's easier to convert people when they get to keep their holidays."
(10/25/07 2:17am)
INDIANAPOLIS – Another case of antibiotic-resistant staph infection has been diagnosed at an Indiana school, boosting the number of school-related cases statewide to at least 12, state health officials said Wednesday.\nA staff member at Northwest High School in Indianapolis was infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, said Indianapolis Public Schools spokeswoman Kim Hooper. Four other cases were reported at four other schools in the district, she said.\nLake Central High School in northern Indiana also reported a case, sending a note home with parents on Tuesday warning that a student had been diagnosed. The school planned disinfections as a precaution.\nTwo students in southern Indiana and two in the Fort Wayne area recently were diagnosed with the staph infections, which are resistant to front-line antibiotics. Two students in Richmond and one in Brown County are said to have been infected with the so-called “superbug.”\nA Marion County Jail inmate also reported having contracted it.\nMRSA does not respond to penicillin and related antibiotics but can be treated with other drugs. The infection can be spread by skin-to-skin contact or sharing an item used by an infected person.\nThe MRSA strain and other staph infections have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks, health and education officials have said.\nThe current rash of cases might be related to the fact that the infections have been in the news, experts said.\n“There’s really not much new,” said Dr. Christopher Belcher, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent in Indianapolis. “This has been a problem that’s been increasing in prevalence over the last seven to 10 years and really what’s new here is the public awareness of it.”
(10/24/07 3:27am)
LaPORTE, Ind. – A baby was abandoned twice in one night- first by her mother, who left the child with a man who gave her a ride, and then by the man and his wife, who left the baby at a hospital, police said.\nThe 5-month-old girl, who was dirty and hungry but otherwise in good heath, was placed in foster care after Sunday’s events, police said.\n“The main thing is the baby is safe,” said LaPorte Police Chief of Detectives Dennis Behenna.\nPolice said Michael Williams was driving home from work in LaPorte early Sunday when he was stopped by a woman he knows holding her baby. She asked the man to give her a ride to Gary, and when they arrived the woman exited the car and asked Williams to take her baby.\nWilliams told police he suspected the woman was on drugs and agreed to keep the child. After he arrived home, however, he and his wife wrapped the baby in a blanket, attached a note, drove to a Portage hospital and left the baby on an emergency room counter.\nA hospital worker found the baby and notified child welfare officials, who placed her in foster care, police said.\nThe child’s grandmother later reported her daughter and the child missing. The mother checked into a Gary hospital for treatment, police said, and later called police wanting her child back.
(10/23/07 1:27pm)
Brooke Gentile loads a van with the help of volunteers for Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, a Bloomington community food pantry, at the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Gentile is the executive director at MHC and works daily with local volunteers and some IU students.
(10/23/07 3:56am)
The Dalai Lama begins his six-day Bloomington visit today with an interfaith service held at 11 a.m. at St. Paul’s Catholic Center, located at 1413 E. 17th St.\nThe service is a private event and only invited guests will be allowed, due to security purposes. But those not in attendance can watch the service broadcast on WTIU, according to Inside Indiana’s Web site.\nAfter the morning service, the Dalai Lama will be present at a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating a new arch at the Tibetan Cultural Center, at 3655 S. Snoddy Road. \nThe Dalai Lama will hold a series of three classes later in the week. His teachings for the classes are from Atisha’s “The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment,” and will be held from Wednesday through Friday at the IU Auditorium.\nHis visit culminates with a public talk titled “Compassion: the Source of Peace,” held from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Assembly Hall. \nThe Dalai Lama is in town after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday. \nPresident Bush presented the award to the Dalai Lama at the Capitol building, being the first president in U.S. history to meet the Dalai Lama in public, according to the Web site for the U.S. Department of State.\n“Honoring His Holiness with the Congressional Gold Medal is a strong endorsement of His Holiness’ tireless commitment to enhancing the principles of non-violence, religious harmony tolerance and promoting a sense of universal responsibility,” Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama, said in a press release.\nTickets are still available for both the morning and afternoon sessions of Wednesday and Thursday’s classes and the morning class on Friday. To buy tickets, call the Auditorium at 855-1103 or visit the Web site at www.iuauditorium.com/0708/other_events.html.
(10/23/07 2:33am)
INDIANAPOLIS – A tire blowout may have caused a van carrying passengers from an Amish community to flip over on a highway, killing three children and two adults, police said Monday. Eleven others were injured in the crash.\nPolice said no other vehicles were involved Sunday when the southbound van veered out of control on Interstate 69, entered a grassy median and overturned, coming to rest in the northbound lanes near Muncie. The roof of the vehicle was shorn away.\nWitnesses saw the rear left tire on the van blow out before the crash, and police said in a statement that a preliminary investigation of the tires confirmed those observations.\nIt was not clear at first how many people had been riding in the van, as survivors gave conflicting counts of 15, 16 or 17 passengers, Indiana State Police Sgt. Rod Russell said. Police and other rescuers searched for more injured people until it was clear all people in the van were accounted for at the crash site about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis.\n“It’s controlled chaos, is what it is, when you have a situation like this with ejections and multiple victims,” Russell said.\nThe victims were from Amish communities in Indiana, police said. Troopers believed that the van may have been taking people home after a church function.\nState police released the names of the five Rockville family members killed in the accident: father and driver Melvin Fisher, 39; mother Savilla Fisher, whose age was not known; son Ruben, 16; son Christian, 11; and one-year-old son Eli.\nThe accident injured 11 other van passengers, including four more children from the Fisher family.\nSteve Lengacher told WISH-TV in Indianapolis it was important to remember his family.\n“All we can believe is that the Lord had his hand on it and that his ways are not our ways,” he said. “I would not choose this way, but his ways are as far above ours as the heavens are from the earth.”\nSeven members of his family from New Haven were injured.\nTroopers believe the Lengacher family was returning the Fisher family across the state to western Indiana after a church function near Fort Wayne.\nAmish people generally shun modern conveniences and sometimes enlist non-Amish as drivers. But police say Melvin Fisher was driving the van.\nTraffic in both directions was stopped as authorities used the highway to land medical helicopters. All lanes opened hours later.\nSusie Ingras saw the crash and went to help the victims.\n“We got up there and we had three bodies that were just right by us,” she said. “It’s just heartbreaking, especially them being so young.”\nIn April, four Amish riding in a pickup were among eight people killed in a crash on the Indiana Toll Road.
(10/23/07 2:32am)
INDIANAPOLIS – A Marion County court has started a new get-tough policy that could lead to jail time for some people who skip jury duty.\nMarion Superior Court will begin sending a court hearing summons to people who don’t show up. At the hearing, the potential jurors will receive a new date for jury duty.\nIf they fail to show up for service a second time, judges will issue arrest warrants and could hold them in contempt of court. That might lead to either community service or even jail time.\n“We’ve reached the point where too many people are not showing up,” said Judge Mark Stoner, who oversees the jury pool.\nLast year, only 52 percent of prospective jurors showed up on assigned days.\n“We’ve always hoped that sounding the alarm would solve the problem,” Presiding Judge Gerald Zore said. “It’s a civic duty.”\nState law requires jurors to show up, but enforcement has been weak for years in Marion County, which has hundreds of trials each year. Court officials have had to call in double the number of jurors requested by courts and hope enough people show up.\nOn Friday, the jury pool met its quota of 70 potential jurors by calling in 160. They were screened for an Oct. 29 murder trial.\nE.A. Miller reported for duty Friday because he knows others hate to miss work.\n“If I’m on the jury, it gives someone who has a job a break,” said Miller, 52, who collects disability benefits for back injuries. “It just keeps me from going fishing.”\nThe General Assembly has removed a limit of three days in jail for people who skip jury duty. This allows judges to impose longer sentences, but Stoner said community service will be the more realistic punishment. Jail overcrowding makes time behind bars unlikely, he said.
(10/23/07 2:31am)
Authorities are still searching for the people suspected of shooting at the Van Buren Elementary School building last Thursday in Brazil, Ind. \nIndiana State Police detectives and Clay County Sheriff’s Office investigators have interviewed several witnesses who reported seeing a black van in the area at the time of the shooting, according to an Indiana State Police press release. Several vans matching the description have been investigated, but none have been linked to the crime, according to the press release. \nOn Thursday, gunmen fired three to five bullets at the school, with one bullet breaking through a glass door and going into the cafeteria. One male custodian sustained an eye injury, according to the press release, but no students were hurt in the attack. \nThe suspects are described as white males.
(10/22/07 2:54am)
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. – Statements to police made by a teenager accused of killing one man and wounding another in a series of highway sniper shootings cannot be admitted as evidence in the teen’s upcoming trial, a judge has ruled.\nJackson Circuit Court Judge William E. Vance ruled Thursday that Zachariah Blanton’s statements on July 25, 2006, are inadmissible because his grandfather, as his legal guardian, was in police custody when he gave officers permission to interview his grandson.\nBlanton, 18, is scheduled to go to trial Oct. 31 on charges of murder, attempted murder and criminal recklessness.\nThe Gaston teen is accused of firing his hunting rifle into Interstate 65 traffic from an overpass on a Jackson County road near Seymour about 60 miles south of Indianapolis on July 23, 2006.\nOne of those shots went through a pickup truck’s windshield and killed a passenger, Jerry L. Ross, 40, of New Albany. An Iowa man traveling in another pickup truck also was injured.\nBlanton, who was 17 at the time, was arrested at his home two days later.\nIn order to interview the teenager, Indiana State Police and Delaware County sheriff’s deputies had to first gain consent from Blanton’s grandfather, Charles Blanton, who was the teenager’s legal guardian.\nThe judge ruled, however, that Charles Blanton was unable to give “voluntary and/or independent” consent because the grandfather himself was in custody on suspicion of obstructing justice.\nCharles Blanton’s decision could have been the result of him looking out for his own best interest rather than his grandson’s, Vance wrote in his order.\n“Law enforcement placed him in a circumstance where, whether articulated or not, his future in the criminal justice system could have been affected by his cooperation or lack thereof with the very efforts and objectives the investigators were pursuing,” Vance wrote.\nDelaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney and Sheriff George Sheridan said Friday that the grandfather was never arrested nor was he in custody when he consented on the teen’s behalf.\nAccording to jail records, Charles Blanton was never booked into the Delaware County jail.\nBut in his order, Vance disputed that Charles Blanton was never arrested, writing “there is no doubt he was arrested.”\nAlso this week, Vance rejected a bid by defense attorneys to have the rifle seized from the Blanton home declared inadmissible at trial.\nThat weapon matched bullet fragments pulled from vehicles shot along I-65 and on Interstate 69 near Muncie a few hours later. No one was injured in the I-69 shootings.\nAfter the shootings, Zachariah Blanton’s grandmother, Patricia Ann Blanton, was jailed on a preliminary charge of obstructing justice for allegedly hiding her grandson’s rifle in the attic of the family’s home.\nA woman who answered the phone at Charles Blanton’s home Friday said the family would not be talking with the media until the case was settled, but told a reporter for The Star Press of Muncie that “you can go by what the judge said.”\nMcKinney told the newspaper he could not comment on whether the teenager’s inadmissible statements were confessions.\nAt some point, though, Blanton did confess to the shooting and provided police with details, according to statements made by Indiana State Police Sgt. John Kelly in a July probable cause hearing in Jackson Circuit Court.\nBlanton allegedly told police he fired the shots to relieve pressure after he argued with fellow participants in a southern Indiana hunting trip.
(10/22/07 2:51am)
GARY – Police will ask prosecutors to charge the driver of a car that crashed in September, killing two young men whose bodies were found hours later by the father of one of the victims.\nCmdr. Samuel Roberts said Friday that the Gary Police Department had a “duty to bring justice” and will urge Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter to charge 17-year-old Darius Moore in the Sept. 15 single-car crash that killed two of his friends.\nHe would not say what charges police will seek but said they will discuss options with Carter’s office.\nMoore’s mother, Carmelita Evans, said Friday she plans on fighting any charges.\n“I’m going to fight this with all my heart, with whatever means I have,” she said. “I’m not going to let this destroy him.”\nPolice have said Moore and another survivor of the crash, DeAndre Anderson, 17, had blood-alcohol concentrations of 0.05 and 0.09 percent, but have declined to say which level belonged to which teen.\nIn Indiana, drivers with concentrations of 0.08 or higher are legally intoxicated.\nThe department’s pursuit of charges contradicts Chief Thomas Houston’s initial reaction to the crash. In the days following the wreck, reports surfaced that Moore may have received a citation at the time of the accident.\nIn response, Houston said “I can guarantee you it won’t go to court.”\nRoberts said police will present the results of a third-party accident investigation conducted by Lake County Sheriff’s Department to Carter, which requested the review, within 10 days.\nSheriff Rogelio “Roy” Dominguez said he could not comment Friday on the review’s findings because it is part of an ongoing investigation.\nThe crash that killed Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, both 18, sparked outrage from victims’ families. The Gary teens’ relatives say officers didn’t search for the young men, who were ejected from the car as it smashed through a guard rail and plunged into a ravine.\nBrandon Smith’s father found his son and Green dead hours after the crash.\nGreen’s parents filed a lawsuit on Oct. 15 against Gary police, seeking $50 million. The suit, which names the city of Gary, Houston and an officer who was at the scene of the crash, contends that officers’ decision not to look for their son robbed him of a chance of surviving.
(10/22/07 2:51am)
FORT WAYNE – An elementary school where students spend half the day speaking Spanish has been invited to join a unique program sponsored by Spain’s government.\nLindley Elementary School has been invited to join the International Spanish Academies Program, which partners schools with the Ministry of Education and Science in Spain.\nThe Spanish government sent a representative to tour the school and observe its efforts to help children become bilingual in English and Spanish, said Fort Wayne Community Schools officials.\n“We believe all children are capable of learning a second language, not just a select group,” said Principal Gerald Arthur.\nLindley students spend half their day speaking English in subjects like reading, writing and spelling. The Spanish half of the day includes Spanish language classes, math, science and social studies.\nThe immersion method can be intimidating for parents. Some say it’s strange to hear a child reading in Spanish before English. Helping with homework can be difficult when instructions are in Spanish.\nBut supporters say the payoffs outweigh the inconveniences.\nStudents are bilingual, perform well in English, become independent learners and have the advantage of a second language when they reach adulthood and look for jobs.\nLindley began its Spanish immersion program in 1992 with just 50 students in kindergarten and first grade. It now includes all 430 students at the K-5 school.\nOnly a few dozen schools, including a few others in Indiana, participate in the International Spanish Academies Program.\nThrough the program, the Spanish government will provide money for Lindley students to take part in teleconferences with other Spanish immersion schools so students can speak Spanish with their peers.\nStudents who complete six years of the program will receive a certificate from the Spanish government.\nThe school will officially become a certified International Spanish Academy during an annual seminar in November in Los Angeles.
(10/19/07 4:25am)
After four months of investigation, the Bloomington Police Department arrested five individuals early Thursday on drug charges and removed six children from the suspects’ residence.\nJoseph W. Williams, 26, Jonathan C. Williams, 24, Antonio A. Taylor, 20, and Richard A. Simmons Jr., 27, face preliminary charges of conspiracy to deal cocaine, dealing cocaine and criminal gang activity. Morningstar Brisbon, 26, faces preliminary charges of maintaining a common nuisance.\nAfter the Critical Incident Response Team served a search warrant on the suspects’ residence, located at 4790 E. State Road 45, they found six children, ranging in age from four months to seven years in the house, according to a Bloomington Police Department press release. Child Protection Services took custody of the children, who were all related to either the woman or one of the men. \nThe initial investigation began in 2007 where officers conducted 15 controlled buys from the suspects, according to the press release. Each of the males arrested were observed dealing drugs.\nAfter the Critical Incident Response Team gained entry to the house, they seized about one ounce of crack cocaine, a small quantity of marijuana and $1,500 in cash, according to the press release.\nAll of the suspects were arrested at the scene.\n“This investigation has revealed yet another group of individuals who have come from out of town for the sole purpose of dealing crack cocaine in our community,” said BPD Capt. Joe Qualters in the press release. “Hopefully, sometime soon the message will reach those other communities that Bloomington is not the place to go to deal drugs.”
(10/19/07 2:29am)
After four months of investigation, the Bloomington Police Department arrested five individuals early Thursday on drug charges and removed six children from the suspects’ residence.\nJoseph W. Williams, 26, Jonathan C. Williams, 24, Antonio A. Taylor, 20, and Richard A. Simmons Jr., 27, face preliminary charges of conspiracy to deal cocaine, dealing cocaine and criminal gang activity. Morningstar Brisbon, 26, faces preliminary charges of maintaining a common nuisance.\nAfter the Critical Incident Response Team served a search warrant on the suspects’ residence, located at 4790 E. State Road 45, they found six children, ranging in age from four months to seven years in the house, according to a Bloomington Police Department press release. Child Protection Services took custody of the children, who were all related to either the woman or one of the men. \nThe initial investigation began in 2007 where officers conducted 15 controlled buys from the suspects, according to the press release. Each of the males arrested were observed dealing drugs.\nAfter the Critical Incident Response Team gained entry to the house, they seized about one ounce of crack cocaine, a small quantity of marijuana and $1,500 in cash, according to the press release.\nAll of the suspects were arrested at the scene.\n“This investigation has revealed yet another group of individuals who have come from out of town for the sole purpose of dealing crack cocaine in our community,” said BPD Capt. Joe Qualters in the press release. “Hopefully, sometime soon the message will reach those other communities that Bloomington is not the place to go to deal drugs.”
(10/18/07 4:06am)
INDIANAPOLIS – The geographic limits Honda Motor Corp. placed on hiring for some 2,000 jobs at its new Greensburg, Ind., factory are facing criticism from state lawmakers who represent areas excluded from the applicant pool.\nFive Democratic legislators have sent a letter to the Indiana Economic Development Corp. saying they disapprove of using state incentives to attract a company that limits its hiring to only a portion of Indiana.\nHonda announced this summer it would look for workers who live within a 20-county area around the southeastern Indiana factory. That area ranges from Marion and Henry counties in central Indiana south to Switzerland and Jefferson counties near Cincinnati.\nThe hiring limits exclude Madison and Delaware counties, which include the cities of Anderson and Muncie – the site of many auto industry plant closings in recent years.\n“We’ve just got literally hundreds of good auto workers here that are out of work and would have been more than happy to at least put their application in over there,” said Rep. Dennis Tyler, a Muncie Democrat who was among those signing the letter.\nThe lawmakers requested a meeting with Indiana Economic Development Corp. CEO Nathan Feltman to discuss the practice of “granting state incentives to companies that selectively exclude certain Hoosiers from even applying for employment.”\nA spokesman for the corporation, Mitch Frazier, said it had received the letter and plans to respond to the legislators.
(10/18/07 4:05am)
SCHERERVILLE, Ind.– An online video of pet cockatoo dancing to a Backstreet Boys song has a northwestern Indiana couple dealing with some worldwide attention.\nIrena and Chuck Schulz have more than 30 birds in their home, but the cockatoo, Snowball, is the star.\nWhenever they play the 1997 song “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” the 11-year-old medium sulfur-crested Eleonora cockatoo lifts his legs, squawks and bobs his head, flashing his bright yellow crest to the beat.\nTelevision programs “Inside Edition” and “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet” have featured Snowball’s moves. The couple says people from around the world have contacted them after seeing the bird dancing on the video-sharing site YouTube or elsewhere.\nThe couple runs a rescue shelter for birds called Bird Lovers Only Rescue.\n“He makes a great spokesbird for the rescue,” Chuck \nSchulz said.\nSnowball joined the family a couple of months ago. The man who dropped him off brought a CD and said to watch \nSnowball’s reaction.\nIrena Schulz said she almost fainted at the sight of the bird dancing to the beat.\n“I’m thinking, ‘What on Earth is this? This is unreal,’” she said.\nIrene Schulz said most of their birds can be adopted to a good home, but not Snowball.\n“He’s my baby,” she said. “He will stay here and be loved.”\nSnowball’s video can be found at http://www.youtube.com.
(10/18/07 4:00am)
ver the years, Elvis Costello has recorded, by various turns, country, folk, blues, jazz, soul and Brill Building pop. And that's all well and good -- but what if you just want to hear him rock? Then you should get This Year's Model.\nReleased in 1978, This Year's Model is Costello's second album and the first with his former backing band The Attractions. And while the album art has Costello sporting his iconic suit, tie and clunky glasses, make no mistake: This is a stone-cold classic punk album. \nNow, we're not talking about the hardcore three-chord assault that descended from the Ramones and early The Clash. TYM is closer to early New York punk (Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, etc.) and post-Sex Pistols British punk (London Calling-era Clash, the Buzzcocks, Wire). That is to say, its pallet is broader, incorporating electric organ, funky bass, crooning and even a slow tune ("Little Triggers"). But it doesn't deviate far -- no song surpasses four minutes, the energy is furious and, more importantly, so is Costello. \nHis voice may be smooth, but his lyrics rage at those two great punk muses: bad sex and a bad society. Regarding the former, Costello seethes with frustration, alternately flinging withering barbs and threatening come-ons. In "Pump It Up," he sings: "She's been a bad girl / She's like a chemical / Though you try to stop it / She's like a narcotic / You wanna torture her / You wanna talk to her / All the things you bought for her / Putting up your temp'rature." As for the latter, Costello blasts the media in particular, decrying advertising in "This Year's Girl" and radio commercialization in the anthem "Radio, Radio." \nAnd, yet, you'll find yourself singing along with it in the shower. That's what makes for a rock masterpiece.
(10/18/07 4:00am)
"Blowin' In The Wind" from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)