Authorities in Lexington are investigating a shooting that occurred early this morning
According to reports out of Lexington this morning the woman killed is 29 year old Amanda Ross. A source in Lexington told WCLU news police have not confirmed the identity, but the Lexington Herald Leader is reporting a neighbor confirmed Ross’s identity. Very few details have been released. Back in March of this year Ross sought a restraining order against her former fiancée, former State Representative Steve Nunn, ordering him to not have contact with her for a year. A police spokesman said they have no suspects in custody at this time
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Bills rookie CB Ellis Lankster met with the press after a solid preseason performance and let’s just say that he, um, like um, like um, like um, um, derailed a bit. Kind of hard to believe this isn’t an edit job.
Here’s Ellis Lankster, the 7th round pick in last April’s draft for the Bills, and other athletes wish they had the same command of the podium that he does. Just let the eloquence wash over you like a shower of broken glass. I counted 16 “Like, um” iterations, which should leave the stewards of the internet plenty of ammo for any upcoming remix. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Say goodbye to Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson cause Lorne Michaels kicked their asses off SNL to offset the overflow of estrogen after hiring some other women that may be funnier, Nasim Pedrad and Jenny Slate. For a full breakdown of the situation, check out ThismyshowV2’s exclusive report:
Nice work, dude. So, do you even remember these women? Will it be a big loss? For your reference, this is Michaela Watkins:
She played Hoda Kotb next to genuinely funny Kristen Wiig and was “shocked” by the firing. Yikes, blame the bad economy. The other young lady was Casey Wilson and we think we remember her from the cougar skits. And yeah she’s kinda cute, for a fat chick:
Right, so no big loss. Nasim Pedrad is an Iranian woman from the Uprights Citizen Brigade in LA and will likely be doing all kinds of terrorist jokes. Expect to see her in a burqa in her first episode:
"There's a lot of non-profits in the community that will benefit from us doing this. They come and they sell food and that goes back into the community. Since it's been a tradition here so long, we really didn't want to see it end," says Susan Patterson, Vice President of the Jackson's Mill Jubilee board.
Jesse Witten toiled in the tennis minors for five years, in out of the way locales like Brownsville, Tex., at tournaments that didn’t have ball boys, let alone fresh cans of balls, just to win $1,200 at most.
He tried qualifying for the United States Open, but was unsuccessful 10 out of 11 times. At the beginning of this year, when a software security company from his hometown of Naples dropped its sponsorship of him, Witten even considered quitting the sport.
But he is the archetypical journeyman at age 26, an 11-time All-American from Kentucky, and on Thursday, he looked up from his long, rugged path and realized he had arrived in the third round of the Open.
Witten defeated Maximo Gonzalez, ranked No. 79 in the world, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5, 6-2, on Court 11 Thursday. The victory assured him of at least a $48,000 paycheck just for winning two rounds.
“I think,” Witten said of his pricey digs at the Waldorf, “they’ll extend my reservation for another couple of days.”
Witten has already played five matches, including the three he won in the qualifying round last week, and the upset in the first round over No.30-ranked Igor Andreev. It was his first tour-level victory of his career.
“I’m trying to prove to some people I can play a little bit,” Witten said. “It’s been a long time and a lot of guys doubted me, so it’s nice.”
He does not remember all the small towns he saw, all the matches in front of few fans he played. “You just have to go out there and put the time in and get through it so you can get to here,” he said.
His mother, an optometrist, and his sister, a school teacher, flew to New York in time to see his victory on Thursday. They could watch Witten play Novak Djokovic, the No. 4 seed in the next round (Djokovic plays another qualifer Carsten Ball, of Australia Thursday night).
Legendary Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell has inoperable cancer and he and his wife have decided to let the cancer run its course. The Detroit Free Press broke this bummer of a story and writers all over the sports world are saying the same things: Ernie Harwell is an absolute gem on an individual and this is just plain sad.
I don’t have a lot to say about this really. I think most people have the same sorts of thoughts of Ernie..and, aside from Bo Schembechler, have you ever heard of anyone that didn’t love Ernie Harwell? There are very few people you can say that about, especially someone who has lived in the public eye.
Ernie Harwell was and always will be the voice of the Detroit Tigers. I don’t think you’ll find anyone who can deny that. He is one of those public figures that you feel like you know. I’ve never met Ernie, but I’m sure I’ve spent a few days of my life listening to him speak. This is tough.
Best of luck to Ernie, his wife, and the rest of his family as they work through this difficult time. However, I can pretty much guarantee you won’t hear one sad word from this strong man as he fights this battle.
Rumors have been circulating for a minute about this former actress Maia Campbell posing nude,
Meet Joanna Garcia, New York Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher's girlfriend.
TV and film actress Joanna Garcia, 30, is best known for her role on The CW sitcom Reba. Joanna started her acting career when she was in high school, starring in Nickelodeon's Samantha on Are You Afraid of the Dark.
Most recently, she was featured on the CBS comedy Welcome to the Captain. Joanna will have a recurring role on CW drama Gossip Girl playing the role of Bree Buckley. She will appear in the first four episodes of the show's third season.
Tiffany Shepherd, 31 years old was a teacher at Port St. Lucie prior to pose which made her fired from her job. Tiffany Shepherd was forced to change her career, then she landed a and became porn star who is going with the name Leah Lust.
I am sure you know who DJ AM, he has a real name as Adam Goldstein, 36 years old was found dead in his apartment on Lafayette Street in Manhattan on Friday afternoon, according to his publicist Jenni Weinman.
Speculation is still hot on what causes DJ AM’s sudden passing. “He was found in his bedroom, in bed, face down,” says the police source, adding that the DJ was not wearing shirt but was wearing pants. No comment has been made just yet by AM’s family about the early findings.
Police have yet to comment on the tragedy, but according to several reports, his death seems to be a drug over dose.
I’ve never been to the Eiffel tower or to France for that matter. But when it comes to romantic places, then France is the ultimate love capital of the world and Eiffel tower would be the center of it. But to add to that, the Jules Verne Restaurant would be the center of that center!
Bringing your girlfriend or your wife here will definitely score you more points (lol). The downside is you would have to book a table up to three months in advance while average meal cost for each person is around $279!
So if you have all the time in the world and money is of no object, then book a flight to France, book a table for 2 at the Jules Verne Restaurant and celebrate your love with your loved one.
Beginning in January 2005, Dacascos has portrayed “the Chairman” on Food Network’s television series Iron Chef America. This role was previously played by Takeshi Kaga in the original Japanese Iron Chef, and Dacascos claims an in-character relationship to Kaga as his nephew.
It was announced on August 17, 2009 that he will compete in season 9 of Dancing with the Stars.
His father, Al Dacascos, is from Hawaii. He is a martial arts instructor of Filipino, Spanish, and Han Chinese ancestry. His mother, Moriko McVey is of Irish and Japanese ancestry. His stepmother is award winning martial artist Malia Bernal.
He is married to actress Julie Condra, who starred with him in Crying Freeman.
Career
Dacascos became an actor after being discovered walking down the street in San Francisco’s Chinatown by two men working for director Wayne Wang. Though Dacascos’ first scenes ended up on the cutting room floor, he has gone on to establish a film and television career mostly playing martial artists. He also performed in three video games: voice acting in Stranglehold, live acting in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom and digitally recreating The Chairman in the new Iron Chef video game for Wii. He was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for his role in Brotherhood of the Wolf, which was a box office success in the United States.
He has also appeared in the short-lived television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, which was a follow-up to the 1994 film The Crow.
He has been featured in many action films such as Crying Freeman and Cradle 2 the Grave.
Another week, another movie and another hot search in google to download the Kaminey Movie Torrent. People are searching google to download Kaminey movie and to Watch online Kaminey movie. Few website owners uploaded Kaminey movie on Rapidshare and zshare. So that they can provide Kaminey movie download links on their websites.
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Overall Kaminey is an average movie. Not so good.
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A huge wildfire near the town of Bonny Doon, in the Santa Cruz Mountains 70 miles south of San Francisco, threatened homes Wednesday night and into Thursday morning (August 13) as authorities struggled to bring the blaze under control.
Local media reported that over 250 homes had been evacuated as the fire spread. Along with reverse 911 calls, police were going house to house to make sure residents had left the area.
Over 300 firefighters were tackling the blaze, with more crews en route from Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterrey County and Santa Barbara. One report claimed that the flames from the blaze could be seen from mountains north of San Francisco
As of 12:30am Thursday, the fire was heading towards the coastal town of Davenport, and authorities were considering further evacuations.
Arizona’s latest lottery millionaires are Glendale residents Jess and Shirley Uselton, who played The Pick game and won $1.1 million.
The couple purchased a ticket, then headed out of town.
It wasn’t until a few days later that they checked their numbers online from out-of-state.
To their pleasant surprise, their The Pick numbers, which they’d been playing for a number of years, were the matching numbers for the July 11 The Pick jackpot.
“We had a good feeling about this drawing, which is why we checked our numbers online while out of town,” shared Jess Uselton.
“We’ll probably take an Alaskan cruise with some of the money.”
GAMES WE PLAY:
The July 31 Mega Millions game has a $73 million jackpot.
The July 31 Euro Millions jackpot is 28 million euros, or about $34 million U.S. dollars.
The Aug. 1 Powerball jackpot is a hefty $120 million.
Good luck to all of us, around the world.
Chapter 3
“Look at this–someone’s been here on horseback,” I noticed about half way down the west side of Wolf Lake.
Carlson bent over and studied the ground. “Yeah, I’d say a single horse.” He stood up and called out, “Dawes, Mason, we might have something here.”
Carlson dropped the stakes he was holding on the ground and I laid the tape beside them. Smoke and Todd Mason took a break from their tasks and joined us. We all studied the hoof patterns.
“Looks like a guy was riding along and stopped here . . . the hoof prints follow down to the water. Probably letting the horse get a drink. On the other hand, could be to throw a leg in the lake,” Smoke added.
I had been thinking the same thing. Mason and Carlson both nodded.
“A lot of people ride the trails in the park, Smoke. I saw a couple unloading horses from their trailer when I drove through yesterday,” I said.
“It is a great place for riding,” Mason said.
“Ever take a cast of horse hoof impressions?” Smoke asked.
“Nope.” Carlson and Mason agreed, shaking their heads.
“It’ll be a new one for you, then.” Smoke got down on his hands and knees and perused the prints. “You’re the farm kid, Corky. These hoof prints tell you anything?”
“About the horse?” I studied for a moment. “Well, it was barefoot, meaning it didn’t have horseshoes on. These ridges are most likely ‘grass rings’ because they run all the way around the foot.” I waved my hand over the hoof pattern.
“What does that mean?” Smoke asked.
“That the horse is pastured and when there are changes in the weather conditions–you know, moisture followed by periods of dryness in the pasture–they develop. Temperature changes are another cause. They’re pretty common. Oh, and it also happens when there is exercise followed by little activity for a while.”
Smoke crawled backward a few steps, then jumped to his feet. “And what does that tell us?”
I shrugged. “The owner keeps his horse in a pasture in Minnesota where the weather fluctuates from hot to cold, wet to dry.”
“Like the rings on a tree? You can tell what the weather was like by how thick the ring is?” Mason asked.
“Not quite.”
“Back to our horse and rider,” Smoke directed.
“Maybe the guy has a busy schedule and rides the horse when he can,” I offered, shaking my head. “I’m not an expert on horse hooves. Oh, look, there’s a crack on the right front hoof.”
The three officers drew closer to me as I pointed out the flaw.
“What’s that from?” Carlson wondered.
“Maybe a harder ride some time–got a little injury. A farrier could fix it. I’m thinking the horse is most likely pastured and probably not ridden a lot.”
“So not a horse from one of the riding stables?” Smoke asked.
“No, they’d have shoes on their horses.”
“So why would a guy not shoe his horse?” Mason asked.
“It’s not the way nature intended, I guess. Shoes can cause lots of problems. Like, they restrict blood flow to the hooves and interfere with the natural expansion and contraction of the hoof when it’s weight-bearing. Plus, the nails driven into the hooves leave holes and weakened areas.”
The sheriff joined us. Engen still sat–more like slouched–in a lawn chair on her patio.
“What’d ya got going here?” Twardy asked.
As Smoke explained, I walked down the road about eight feet then headed back, examining the prints. I paused where the horse had stopped by the lake.
“Hmm. Okay, guys, this is interesting. C’mere.” I waved them to follow me.
“We have a rider going down the gravel road. Not much for impressions where the gravel is packed hard, but here, more on the shoulder, the impressions are deeper.”
The team stayed close. “Then we get to the spot . . . here . . . where the horse goes to the water’s edge, stands there for I don’t know how long, then backs up, turns around and . . .” I led the others as we followed the prints across the road and back south again for a few feet.
“Damn.” Smoke said.
“You got it. The horse was carrying a heavier load before it stopped then it was after it got going again.”
“So, that kinda backs up my gut feeling there is more of our victim in the lake than that one leg we got lying over there.” Smoke took in a big inhale and blew out the air slowly, one of the things he did when he was pondering something.
“What do you figure the horse weighs, any guesstimates?” The sheriff directed his question to me.
“That’s all it would be is a guesstimate.”
I paced off the distance from the front and hind legs when the horse was in a standing position. “I would say the horse is about . . . five feet . . . in length . . . fourteen to sixteen hands . . . around a thousand pounds. With a rider, maybe twelve-hundred. The impressions are fairly deep, but not excessively so.”
The sheriff had been part of the Winnebago County Mounted Patrol Unit and most likely knew more about horses than any of us, but he kept that to himself. Sheriff Twardy was a unique leader. He showed up at all the major crime scenes–he said it was too much in his blood not to be there–but he mainly observed and rarely gave any directions or orders. He trusted his officers to conduct the investigations and come to conclusions based on what they found.
“Yeah, I’d say a thousand, give or take, is about right,” Smoke agreed. “Sheriff?”
The sheriff considered and nodded.
Smoke rubbed his jaw. “What’d you suppose that leg weighs? What, fifteen, twenty pounds?”
I shrugged and said, “Maybe.” I discreetly lifted my right leg slightly and tried to guess its weight, something that had never occurred to me consider until that very minute.
No one else commented, but they appeared deep in thought.
“Twenty pounds wouldn’t add much weight, but, say one hundred-thirty, forty, fifty pounds would be enough to explain the deeper depressions.” Smoke squatted for another close check. “We’ll send the impressions to the BCA for their expert opinion, but that’d be mine, if I had to give it.”
He stood up and stuck his reading glasses in his pocket. “Mason, Carlson, finish marking off the scene and get it photographed. Aleckson, we’ll follow these hoof prints, see where they lead to.”
“You want underwater recovery started?” Mason asked.
“You’re part of that, right?” Smoke said.
“Yup. So’s Carlson.”
“You got your gear with?”
Mason nodded. “We threw it in the unit when we heard ‘lake.’”
“Good. Yeah, why don’t you give Warner a holler. Tell him to load up the boat and assemble the rest of his team. We should have this much processed before the whole place is crawling with deputies. Corky, let’s take that walk. Why don’t you grab your camera?”
Carlson picked up the crime scene tape and stakes and handed the tape to Mason. He helped Carlson finish the job I had started, continuing to the south side of the lake where the shoreline turned east and the road continued south. The sheriff moved to the outside of the marked area.
I found a camera in its case in my trunk, pulled the attached strap around my neck, and caught up with Smoke.
A newer gray Toyota made its way toward us at a fairly fast clip, then slowed when it got closer. The man in the vehicle raised and lowered his hand in a quick wave of acknowledgement and pulled into the Engen’s driveway. He got out of the car and Tara was in his arms a second later.
“Good.” Smoke gave me a relieved nod. “Let’s move.”
We walked south on Abbott Avenue to Eighty-fifth Street and started to turn left. I glanced back to see Mason taking pictures of the horse hoof prints and Carlson writing in a pocket notebook. The sheriff had his arms crossed on his chest, watching them work.
“Wait a minute.” Smoke stopped and pointed. “The prints are coming and going both directions. Let’s head west first.” We walked about one hundred yards to the edge of a small swamp where the horse and rider had been.
“I sure hope this doesn’t mean there’s another body part in this swamp,” I said.
“Doesn’t look good, does it? Better snap some photos of these, in case.”
“The prints look like they came from the direction of the park–rode to the swamp here–turned around and headed up Abbott to Wolf,” I narrated as I took the pictures.
“I guess we’ll find out if that means anything when underwater goes into Wolf. If we don’t find the rest of her in there, this is going to turn into an even bigger nightmare than it already is. We got about four hours of daylight left–a little less. Let’s head east.” Smoke pointed to where the road ended and the grassy area began. “Looks like he stayed on the road for a while, then headed into the park here.”
“Smoke, a horse could have traveled for miles,” I protested, snapping more shots.
“Yeah, I basically wanted to see if he came from the park. I’ll have boat and water load up the four-wheeler–”
I interrupted. “Maybe a mounted patrol would be better–could go where the other horse did. It’d be easier for the rider to see than from a four-wheeler.”
Smoke smiled and tapped me on the back. “Now you’re thinkin’. We’ll head back and I’ll call in the reinforcements.” He opened his phone and hit two digits on speed dial.
“Robin? . . . Yes, it is a real leg . . . Young, twenties, thirties . . . Horrible is one word for it . . . Underwater’s already been called, you should hear them rolling any minute. What I need is one mounted. Who’s on call? . . . Called in sick? Okay, well who’s next on the list? . . . Good. Get him out here, a-sap.”
By the time Smoke clapped his phone shut, we were back on Abbott.
“What would possess someone to cut somebody up?” I asked, hypothetically.
I had some knowledge on the psychology of why.
“Very, very sick people are possessed in the most bizarre ways. Has to be the first dismemberment case in the county’s history–that I know of anyway. The sheriff said it’s the first in his thirty-one years.”
“Makes Alvie Eisner look a little less crazy,” I thought out loud.
“Yeah, right.” Sarcasm oozed through his words. “Don’t go down that road or you’ll drive yourself crazy trying to figure out the motivations of society’s sickos.
“‘Vice is a monster of frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.’”
I stopped to watch Smoke during his recitation. “Okay! Where did that come from?”
“‘An Essay on Man’ by Alexander Pope, English poet, late 1700s. We read him in a college English class I took about a hundred years ago. For some reason, those lines stuck with me.”
“Alexander Pope? The name is familiar, but–”
“You’ve heard him quoted a lot. He’s the guy who wrote ‘a little learning is a dangerous thing’, ‘to err is human, to forgive, divine’, ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’, ‘hope springs eternal.’”
I smiled and nodded. “Oh, he’s the guy? Well, thank you, Professor Dawes.”
Smoke bent over slightly in a mock bow. “Any time. Change of subject: since you brought up our least favorite inmate–let me reiterate–I do not want you seeing Eisner. Period. She had her chance to spill her guts. You are not at her beck and call, little lady.” Smoke hit the palm of his hand with the opposite fist. “My insides turn over every time I remember how you looked after your fight with that monster.”
“All right, detective. We both know we’re not going to settle this today. Let’s talk about it later.”
“Yeah.” Smoke studied the lake, obviously thinking about the secrets it may be holding. “What we got going here is priority one.”
On that we could wholeheartedly agree.
Christine Husom is the Second Wind Publishing author of Murder in Winnebago County and Buried in Wolf Lake
This morning I've been testing Google's new search sandbox, which I covered late last night after the furor over Facebook's FriendFeed purchase and new search service launch abated.
In that piece, I wondered whether Google opted to launch the sandbox, which you can access here, because of Facebook's moves.
Matt Cutts, one of the Google engineers behind the new search infrastructure, said this was not the case in a Q&A on his personal blog last night:
He said the new infrastructure has been in the works for months, adding: "I think the best way for Google to do well in search is to continue what we've done for the last decade or so: focus relentlessly on pushing our search quality forward."
I'm positive the search was in the news for months, but I also believe announcing this at 4:14 PDT on a Monday afternoon is not the way you announce a major rewrite of your bread-and-butter business -- unless you want to attract some of the attention rivals are getting over their search improvements.
I'm not going to let that ruin some potentially fun search testing, but I also took to heart Cutts' comment that there won't be user interface or design changes:
This update is primarily under the hood: we're rewriting the foundation of some of our infrastructure. But some of the search results do change, so we wanted to open up a preview so that power searchers and web developers could give us feedback.
So I didn't get my hopes up to see anything special. I first searched for Twitter. In the current search engine, I saw:
Here's what it looked like in the sandbox:
There practically no difference. Unlike the current search, there was no sponsored link from Microsoft's Bing search engine at the top of the results. I also couldn't comment or promote items in the sandbox. I could get used to the lack of advertising!
I then tried searching for Wikipedia. Here is where I saw some differences. First, the original search stuck a bit:
Then I searched Wikipedia in the sandbox. Not only was the retrieval time one second faster, but there was foreign language results! Fascinating (to me, anyway), though I'm no Webmaster or power searcher.
However, the foreign language results replaced the hot topics on Wikipedia, such as Michael Jackson.
Google Operating System noted the sandbox doesn't deal well with proxies and redirects, "so you'll see many weird results."
I could sit here for hours testing the nuances, but time doesn't permit. So, I'd like to open up the floor to crowdsource the Caffeine searches.
I encourage readers to test different searches in the sandbox and compare them to the same searches in the current version of Google search, then tell me what you think.
Also, feel free to provide Google feedback by clicking at the "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" link at the bottom of the page. Be sure to include "caffeine" in your reply to Google.
Finally, don't try this on mobile phones because it won't compute. Cutts said he has not hooked up a mobile version or an international version
