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ODD NEWS
Missing tire helps police catch a DWI
BETHANY, N.Y. — Authorities said a western New York man whose license expired 33 years ago has been charged with driving while intoxicated after police said he drove a van 11 miles without one of its tires. The Genesee County Sheriff's Office said another motorist reported seeing a tire falling off a van weaving on a road in Bethany late Monday night.
Deputies later arrested 61-year-old Duane Bush at his home in Bethany, 32 miles southwest of Rochester. Deputies said the van traveled 11 miles through the rural town without a rear right tire.
OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. Police said a homeless man lived unnoticed in the basement of a New Jersey library for nearly two weeks. Police said a custodian saw Charles Jones Jr. peeking out a basement window of the Ocean Township library in Monmouth County on Friday night.
Homeless man lived in library
Web manager helps create new publishing tool
Neptune police Detective Lt. Steven Peters said Jones told officers he had been living in the building. Police discovered several books in the basement.
TECHNOLOGY
BY CAROLINE BLEDOWSKI
cbledowski@kansan.com
Associated Press
Publishing a book used to be a cumbersome process and involved a publishing house and printing press. Anthologize, a new online tool for bloggers, turns everyone with Internet access into a publisher.
Anthologize is a plug-in for the blogging platform WordPress.org and can transform any blog into an e-book that can be printed out, published online or submitted to a publishing house.
"This really has a variety of applications for people who are active bloggers and blogging is part of their scholarly activity," said Scott Hanarth, web services manager at KU Libraries. "This provides them a way to repackage those things."
Hanarth was part of One Week One Tool, a project organized by the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Hanarth and the other 11 members, a group of digital librarians, English professors, graduate students and digital scholars, met from July 25 to 31 to create a new digital tool that could be used for research in the humanities.
After receiving information about the project in the first two days, they had the rest of the week to brainstorm ideas, select a project, develop and market it, Hanarth said.
The project was funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities and should include
benefits for scholars and research in the humanities. Yet Anthologize can be used by anyone with a blog at WordPress and a little technical knowledge, Hanarth said.
"We were really proud of what we could accomplish in one week," he said.
Deborah Ludwig, assistant dean for KU Libraries, said Hanarth is responsible for the website of KU Libraries. She also said he has been working on new ways for students and researchers to find digital' material at the University.
"He really has a good sense of how technology and users fit together, how to understand what needs users and how to translate that into technical tools." Luwig said.
When Hanarth heard about One Week One Tool, Ludwig encouraged him to apply because he has an undergraduate background in the humanities and strong skills in web development, she said.
Hanarth said the project was interesting, but also included long hours.
"It's not always that you get both of those, a very visionary person in terms of working with users, coupled with a highly technical mind," Ludwig said.
"I found it a really great process," he said. "It was a really good lesson about loose coordinating and time constraints, and focus on what you can really accomplish."
Dalton Gomez/KANSAN
— Edited by Clark Goble
Scott Hanarth, web services manager of KU libraries, is one of the developers of a new program named Anthologize which can be downloaded at www.antrologize.com. He spent one week with 11 other scholars and librarians developing the program in a program at George Mason University.
Here's a list of the features of and requirements to use Anthologize:
— it has to be downloaded as a plug-in into a blog at WordPress.org, version 3.0, which requires the user to create a server where the blog runs
- It can transform any blog created by WordPress.org into a pdf, ePUB or TEI file
- It can publish RSS feeds of other blogs
— It currently does not run on other blogging platforms
Download is free
Source: Anthologize.org
ODD NEWS
Shopper upset by use of express lane
SAUKVILLE, Wis. — A man who berated a woman who had more than 10 items in the express lane of a Saukville grocery store has been given a disorderly conduct citation. The Port Washington woman said she asked the express lane clerk if she could check out because there was no one in line. While she was checking out, a male customer approached and began harassing her, even calling her fat and ugly.
The woman said that's when she called 911. Officer Barry Effinger said the man was creating a disturbance so he gave him the $429 citation. Effinger said he has investigated similar conduct by the man in the past.
The woman told WISN-TV her harasser deserves the ticket.
Man in banana suit accused of crimes
accused of exposing himself and brandishing a shotgun while riding around with a bunch of friends in Washington state.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — A man in a banana costume is
The Clallam County sheriff's office says the 21-year-old was arrested Tuesday evening for investigation of indecent exposure and reckless endangerment.
The Peninsula Daily News reports police first received a report of the costumed man exposing himself at a restaurant.
Associated Press
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BUSINESS
Lawrence TV provider sold
BY A! .LYSON SHAW
ashaw@kansan.com
Sunflower Broadband began in the late 1960s and has been under original ownership ever since. Rod Kutemeier, general manager of Sunflower Broadband, said it's very rare to see a cable company that hasn't changed hands a few times.
The Lawrence-based phone, internet and cable provider Sunflower Broadband was sold on Aug. 4 to Knology of Kansas Inc., which is a newly formed part of Knology Inc., headquartered in Georgia. Sunflower Broadband, formerly owned by The World Company, provided cable to around 33,000 Lawrence residents, and Internet to around 28,000.
"We were all surprised to hear
the news, but in the business it's not that surprising." Kutemeier said. "The sale was the owner's prerogative."
Sunflower Broadband was sold for $165 million. Kutemeier said that in the next 12 months, at least, there is no plan to change
prices for services provided by the company. However, contracts with channels cause prices to rise yearly.
"If the kids on Jersey Shore want an extra $15,000 per
$15,000 per
expect there to be a price increase because of the sale."
Kutemeier said the sale could benefit customers because it could potentially provide more channels. He said that Sunflower Broadband is always looking to provide more channels and is close to closing a
ROD KUTEMEIER Sunflower general manager
"We were all surprised to hear the news, but in the business it's not that surprising."
episode, the money to pay them comes from the cable company, which comes from the customers," Kutemeier said. "But I don't
deal to get NFL Red Zone
Bridgette McGlynn, a freshman from Minnetonka, Minn., said she would continue to use Sunflower Broadband even if prices rose unexpectedly. "I don't care to go shopping around for another service
provider."
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Kutmeier said there will be no immediate job loss due to the sale. Customer service calls will continue to come to 12th and New Hampshire streets and Sunflower Broadband employees will continue to be a part of the operation.
"Knology is not here to fix us because we're not broken." Kutemeier said. "We will continue to operate as always."
Edited by Michael Bednar
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