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Under K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-262(a)(4), an administrative driver's license suspension pursuant to K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1014 does not constitute a suspension for a violation of K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567.
Appeal from Riley District Court; DAVID L. STUTZMAN, judge. Opinion filed July 14, 2000. Sentence vacated and remanded.
Ted E. Smith, of Huser & Smith, P.A., of Manhattan, for the appellant.
P. Bernard Irvine, assistant county attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, county attorney, for the appellee.
Before MARQUARDT P.J., PIERRON, J., and ROGG, S.J.
PIERRON, J.: After failing a blood-alcohol test on June 18, 1998, Jeffrey Gee was charged in municipal court with driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) pursuant to a city ordinance mirroring K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567. While the municipal charge was pending, the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDR) suspended Gee's driver's license for 1 year following an administrative hearing. The KDR suspended Gee's license because of the June 18 failure of the blood-alcohol test.
On January 21, 1999, while the municipal charge was still pending, Gee was arrested and charged in district court with DUI, driving while suspended (DWS), failure to maintain a single lane of traffic, and making an improper right turn.
Gee subsequently entered pleas of no contest in the district court to both DUI charges and the DWS charge. He was sentenced in both cases on June 21, 1999. On the DWS charge, Gee was sentenced to 90 days' imprisonment.
At sentencing, the parties argued whether K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-262(a)(4) required a mandatory 90-day imprisonment under the particular circumstances. After hearing argument on both sides and reviewing the statutory language, the district court determined that 8-262(a)(4) did mandate 90 days' imprisonment in the present case and so sentenced Gee.
The central issue of this appeal is whether an administrative driver's license suspension pursuant to K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1014 constitutes a suspension for a violation of 8-1567 for sentencing purposes under 8-262(a)(4.
This issue is one of statutory interpretation, a question of law, and appellate review is unlimited. State v. Lewis, 263 Kan. 843, 847, 953 P.2d 1016 (1998).
The starting point for analysis is with K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-262(a)(4):
"If a person (A) is convicted of a violation of this section, committed while the person's privilege to drive was suspended or revoked for a violation of K.S.A. 8-1567, and amendments thereto, or any ordinance of any city or a law of another state, which ordinance or law prohibits the acts prohibited by that statute, and (B) is or has been also convicted of a violation of K.S.A. 8-1567, and amendments thereto, or of a municipal ordinance or law of another state, which ordinance or law prohibits the acts prohibited by that statue, committed while the person's privilege to drive was so suspended or revoked, the person shall not be eligible for suspension of sentence, probation or parole until the person has served at least 90 days' imprisonment, and any fine imposed on such person shall be in addition to such a term of imprisonment."
We note that the DUIs occurred in June 1998, and January 1999, and 8-262 was amended in 1999, but the changes are not relevant to the issue here.
Where criminal statutes are concerned, the rule of strict construction applies, and any ambiguities must be resolved in favor of the accused. State v. Kelly, 14 Kan. App. 2d 182, 186, 786 P.2d 623 (1990). K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-262 is a criminal statute, and it must be strictly construed against the State. State v. Evans, 10 Kan. App. 2d 171, 173, 694 P.2d 912 (1985).
Breaking down the statute, the following elements are required to trigger the mandatory 90-day sentence: (1) a driver's license suspension resulting from a violation of 8-1567; (2) a conviction for driving while the driver's license is so suspended; (3) a conviction for violating 8-1567 (DUI) during the suspension period.
The State argues that an administrative suspension for failure of a blood alcohol test is a violation of 8-1567 for purposes of 8-262(a)(4). The State's argument is twofold. First, while Gee's license was administratively suspended pursuant to 8-1014 prior to his conviction for violating 8-1567, the State argues that the administrative suspension would not have taken place but for Gee's violation of 8-1567. Second, the State takes the position that 8-262(a)(4) does not require that a person first be convicted of the violation of 8-1567, for which the license was originally suspended, to trigger the 90-day mandatory sentence.
The first prong of the State's argument is that the administrative suspension is simply the mechanism by which a person's license is suspended for violating 8-1567. The second prong of the State's argument hinges on the use in 8-262(a)(4) of the word "violation" rather than "conviction" of 8-1567 in defining the elements triggering the 90-day mandatory sentence. As the State correctly points out, the statute does not say that the suspension must be due to a conviction of 8-1567, only a violation of the statute. It is the State's position that the term "violation" does not equate to conviction.
Gee, on the other hand, argues that his license was not suspended for a violation of 8-1567, but was suspended as a result of administrative proceedings for a breath test failure pursuant to K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1001 et seq. Gee argues that such administrative suspensions do not trigger the 90-day mandatory sentence of 8-262(a)(4). He contends that the statute clearly and unambiguously requires a suspension caused by a violation of 8-1567 and an administrative suspension for a breath test failure is not the same as a suspension for a violation of 8-1567. Gee correctly points out that there are considerable legal and procedural differences between a criminal prosecution under 8-1567 and an administrative suspension hearing. Significantly, he points out that an administrative hearing does not result in an acquittal or conviction.
K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-262(a)(4) specifically states that to trigger the 90-day mandatory sentence, the suspension must have been "for a violation of K.S.A. 8-1567, and amendments thereto, or any ordinance of any city or a law of another state, which ordinance or law prohibits the acts prohibited by that statute." It makes no reference to other statutory provisions or other types of license suspensions.
Under the K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567 provisions, it is unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of .08 or more grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath or per 100 milliliters of blood. The penalties for violating the statute are contained within it. Among these is subsection (l), which states:
"Upon conviction of a person of a violation of this section or a violation of a city ordinance or county resolution prohibiting the acts prohibited by this section, the division, upon receiving a report of conviction, shall suspend, restrict or suspend and restrict the person's driving privileges as provided by K.S.A. 8-1014 and amendments thereto." K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567(l).
K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567 does not provide for the suspension of driving privileges prior to conviction. There is no reference to administrative proceedings prior to conviction.
The starting point for examining the administrative proceedings is K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1001, the "Implied Consent" law. Under subsection (f) of this statute, if a person operating a motor vehicle submits to a breath test and "the test results show a blood or breath alcohol concentration of .08 or greater, the person's driving privileges shall be subject to suspension, or suspension and restriction, as provided in K.S.A. 8-1002 and 8-1014, and amendments thereto." K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1001(f).
The next step in the analysis is K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1002, which outlines the administrative procedure for a driver's license suspension following a BAC test refusal or failure. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1002(c) states that when a person has either refused or failed such a test, the administering officer "shall serve upon the person notice of suspension of driving privileges pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1014, and amendments thereto." K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1014 details the time period of a driver's license suspension depending on whether it results from a BAC test refusal, test failure, or conviction of an alcohol- or drug-related crime. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1014(e) states that if a person is subject to suspension for a test refusal, a test failure, or an alcohol- or drug-related conviction arising from the same arrest, the suspension period shall not exceed the longest applicable period authorized by subsection (a), (b), or (c).
Upon receiving notice of a suspension pursuant to 8-1002, a person has the option to challenge the suspension in an administrative hearing. While many of the issues are the same, the administrative hearing is significantly different from a criminal DUI prosecution. As the Kansas Supreme Court has noted, many of the formalities required in a criminal prosecution are not required in an administrative hearing, the burden of proof is different, and a judgment of acquittal or conviction is not entered in an administrative hearing. State v. Mertz, 258 Kan. 745, 750, 907 P.2d 847 (1995).
A logical, step-by-step analysis of this statutory framework reveals an initial flaw in the State's reasoning. The State argues that Gee's administrative suspension would not have occurred but for his violation of 8-1567. However, under the statutory scheme, it is not the violation of 8-1567 that gives rise to the administrative suspension, but rather it is a BAC test failure or refusal that gives rise to both an alleged 8-1567 violation and an administrative suspension. Podrebarac v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue, 15 Kan. App. 2d 383, 386, 807 P.2d 1327 (1991). The BAC test failure is the starting point for a parallel set of procedures, one criminal and one civil, that are independent of one another.
Both the criminal and statutory schemes define, independently, what constitutes a test failure. While both define a failure as a BAC of .08 or greater, one statutory scheme does not stem from the other. Moreover, there is a significant difference in how the criminal and civil actions are triggered. To be charged under 8-1567, the test failure must occur within 2 hours of operating or attempting to operate a vehicle. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567(a)(2). To trigger an administrative suspension under 8-1001 et seq., there is no 2-hour limit. The only limitation is that the officer administering the test must have "reasonable grounds to believe the person was operating or attempting to operate a vehicle while under the influence." K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1001(b).
In Podrebarac, the court recognized that "[t]he use of the term 'reasonable grounds' . . . indicates the legislature's intent to allow administrative suspensions for driving while intoxicated on less strict standards of proof than a criminal conviction." 15 Kan. App. 2d at 386. Thus, it is possible for a BAC test failure to trigger an administrative suspension but not trigger a charge of violating 8-1567 (e.g., if the test failure occurred 2 1/2 hours after the person operated a vehicle). Therefore, one cannot categorically say that administrative suspensions for a BAC test failure would not occur but for a violation of 8-1567.
It is also significant that K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1014(e) distinguishes among a test refusal, a test failure, and an alcohol- or drug-related conviction. It does not treat them interchangeably. One does not necessarily lead to another, and a person's driver's license can be suspended for any of the three.
Looking again at the language of K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-262(a)(4), it specifically states that for the 90-day mandatory sentence to be triggered, the original license suspension must have been for a violation of 8-1567. This raises two questions: (1) what constitutes a violation of 8-1567, and (2) how does a person's license get suspended for such a violation?
The answer to the first question really hinges on whether the term "violation" equates to conviction. The State contends that it does not. The State points to the fact that 8-262(a)(4) uses the phrase "convicted of a violation" in two places, but in the part referring to the initial suspension, it uses only the phrase "violation of K.S.A. 8-1567." The State contends that the legislature purposely used the word violation in order to include administrative suspensions. However, the language is simply not that clear. The legislature could have included language specifically referring to administrative suspensions, but did not. The language chosen by the legislature is ambiguous.
The answer to the second question may shed some light on the first question. When analyzing the statutory scheme, it is apparent that there is only one way for a driver's license to be suspended for a violation of K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 8-1567. That way is pursuant to 8-1567(l), which states that a person's driving privileges shall be suspended, restricted, or both as provided by 8-1014, upon conviction of a violation of 8-1567. Thus, "violation of K.S.A. 8-1567" as used in K.S.A. 8-262(a)(4), can only mean conviction because that is the only way a person's license can be suspended under 8-1567.
Gee's driver's license was suspended pursuant to the administrative scheme of 8-1001, 8-1002, and 8-1014, not pursuant to the criminal framework of 8-1567. Because he had not been convicted of violating 8-1567 at the time of his second DUI arrest, his license suspension at that time cannot be considered to have been "for a violation of K.S.A. 8-1567," triggering the 90-day mandatory sentence under 8-262(a)(4). The phrase "violation of K.S.A. 8-1567," as used in the statute, is not sufficiently clear and unambiguous to lead one to the conclusion that the legislature intended to include administrative suspensions. Reasonable minds can come to different conclusions, and because this is a criminal statute, it must be strictly construed against the State. Evans, 10 Kan. App. 2d at 173.
If the legislature wishes to extend this provision to administrative proceedings, it may do so, but it has not.
We therefore vacate the sentence for driving while suspended and remand for resentencing.
Vacated and remanded for resentencing.


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Betonsports Plc shared an address, a lawyer, and technical support with an online gambling firm with alleged Mafia links.
Betonsports rented office space in Costa Rica to Safe Deposit Sports (SDS), provided it with technical support and used the same British lawyer.
In May last year, US prosecutors accused 36 people connected to SDS of running an illegal gambling operation. The indictment said that Bonnano acting boss Anthony Urso, or Tony Green, received a monthly tribute from the firm. The Bonnanos are one of the five biggest New York Mafia families, according to US prosecutors.The indictment is available here.
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A spokeswoman for Betonsports told The Register: "Betonsports has about 1,000 square feet of office space in Costa Rica - some of which was sub-let to SDS. When management heard the allegations about SDS in May 2005 they were immediately asked to leave."
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Betonsports former CEO David Carruthers, recently arrested in the US while changing planes en route to Cosa Rica, is in court later today in St Louis trying to get released on bail. The firm has sacked him, on legal advice, but he is entitled to a year's salary and the company will claim his legal expenses from its insurers.
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Last year about this time, most fans of the San Jose Earthquakes were not asking themselves if the team would win the Supporters' Shield but when. The Quakes, parlaying an extraordinary number of late-game goals into points in the standings, were closing in on their best offensive season ever. And with Chris Wondolowski's MLS record 27th goal safely in the back of the net in their final game of the season, San Jose celebrated a club best 72 goals in 2012.
But scratch a little bit below the sheen on the Shield and you will find a telling statistic — along with those 72 goals scored, the Quakes allowed 43 goals. The 2012 Earthquakes were built to outscore their opponents, not necessarily outplay them.
The script was flipped in 2013, as San Jose opened the season playing the same loose style that gained it so much success the year before. The defense, stable but not spectacular, leaked in a commensurate number of goals, but the offense was not doing its part to reconstitute the recipe. And when the ghosts of last year's Goonies failed to appear, the Quakes slumped to a disappointing first half of the season.
In the first 20 regular season games, the Earthquakes allowed 32 goals while scoring only 20, and the team amassed a dismal 5-9-6 record — well short of the 12-4-4 record they earned during that span in 2013. The Quakes were giving up plenty of goals last season too, but their scoring prowess in 20 games was a stunning 41 goals total. While the defense had remained steady, the offense had taken a huge tumble.
Theories as to the decreased output on attack are numerous, but a fix seems out of reach for this year's edition. So what to do? When Mark Watson was named interim head coach in early June, he stated that he wanted to instill a defend-first mentality among his troops. If the Quakes weren't going to outscore opponents with crooked numbers on the scoreboard, then they had better shore up things defensively.
Enter U.S. national team defender Clarence Goodson and English veteran Jordan Stewart. Added to a mix that already included MLS Best XI center back Victor Bernardez and MLS All-Stars Justin Morrow and Steven Beitashour, as well as long-time MLS defenders Jason Hernandez and Dan Gargan, the two newcomers immediately gave San Jose the deepest defensive corps in the league. And in their last 9 games, the Quakes have allowed only 8 goals while posting 5 clean sheets — they had only 1 shutout in their 20 previous games.
"We have amazing depth on our back line," shared midfielder Shea Salinas after Tuesday's 3-0 CONCACAF Champions League victory — yet another clean sheet. "It showed tonight. Justin and Jason were awesome back there. We had a shutout on the weekend as well with Clarence and Victor. Such great depth on the back line."
Not at all smoke and mirrors, the renewed defensive effort has allowed the Quakes to double their season's win total to 10 games. That the offense has scored only 9 goals in that 9 game span — exactly matching their scoring rate from the first 20 games on the season — has mattered less in pushing San Jose's overall record to a respectable 10-11-8. Goodson and Stewart have certainly been catalysts, but a total of 7 players have suited up for the San Jose back four since the start of August. Their commitment to playing total team defense has kept the Earthquakes within shouting distance of the five Western Conference playoff positions.
On a roll and working well as a unit, a trip to the MLS postseason for San Jose is still mathematically possible, but with only 5 games remaining on the schedule it is not looking very hopeful that it will happen. Still, coach Watson has recognized what was going wrong with the team and has implemented a system that has turned results back in the club's favor.
"Last year we were really good at winning the ball in good spots so our attacks started much further up the field," revealed midfield Shea Salinas, who covers more distance on the field than anyone else on the team. "This year, our attacks have been starting from the back, and you are not going to score as many goals when you need to go further."
The adage "Defense wins championships" is more than a tired sports cliché: it is a blueprint for sustainable success. Grinding out 1-0 shutouts can be beautiful in its own way, and occasionally that defensive effort translates into blowout wins like the 3-0 CCL result against Montreal this week. Capturing lightning in a bottle again, as San Jose did on offense in 2012, is far from easy. But solid defensive efforts are something these Quakes can excel at.
Robert Jonas is a writer for CenterLineSoccer.com and SJEarthquakes.com. Send him feedback on Twitter: @RobertJonas


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2-A All-state
Connor McCafferty – Senior – Big Horn
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The Sheridan College Generals and Lady Generals basketball teams played on the road this weekend at separate tournaments in Idaho.
The Generals played at a tournament at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. According to Generals coach Steve Smiley. The Generals needed a few extra minutes Friday night to take care of the Treasure Valley Chukars, edging them out in overtime 88-86 and moving to 8-1 on the year. A Treasure Valley tip-in with 2 seconds left tied the game and a Preston Wells half-court shot went in-and-out sending the game into a 3rd period.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The regular season of basketball for the Broncs and Lady Broncs will be Friday, December 6th
Today we hear more from Broncs Head coach Gale Smith says they have three important areas of emphasis they are pushing as the prepare for the home opener.
The Broncs and Lady Broncs play Green River on December 6th at 5:45 and 7:30 both games will be broadcast live on KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Sheridan college basketball teams play on the road this weekend at separate tournaments in Idaho.
BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The first weekend of basketball games for the Broncs and Lady Broncs will be December 6th and 7th they host a double header with Green River.
Today we hear from Broncs Head coach Gale Smith, he says the Broncs are coming off a good off season and are looking forward to getting the season started in a couple of weeks.
They missed the state tournament in March and Smith says the team is using last year's shortfall as motivation coming into this season.
The Bronc and Lady Bronc basketball coaches are putting on a meet the players night.
On Monday Nov. 25th 6pm at SHS Gym join the Broncs and Lady Broncs for the Basketball Season kick-off event.
The night will include a slam dunk contest, a three point showdown, a children's free throw contest, and a showcase of all the boys and girls basketball teams. The evening will conclude with an epic event between the Mom's of the girls program taking on the Mom's of the guy's program. You won't want to miss this.
BRONC WRESTLING - The Sheridan Bronc wrestlers open the new season December 6th at a tournament in Powell yesterday was day two in the wrestling room for the Broncs.
Tyson Shatto enters his second season at the Bronc's Head coach and says the turn out this week has been good and he's pleased with the numbers in the wresting room.
They have a couple of weeks to prepare for their first competition, Shatto says they have a lot of tough work to get done before that tournament.
The Sheridan Swish basketball team took first place in the 4th grade division at the Power-to-Play tournament in Casper over the weekend.


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|2008-07-06, 18:35
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It's time for another photography tutorial.
Desaturating a photo
Desaturating a photo is not a big deal. Just click the correct option in the image manipulation software of choice. There are a few points to be remembered though.
Usually you can get rather good results just by desaturating the picture. Often you need to adjust levels afterwords though, since color contrast is lost, increasing the contrast in luminosity is usually a good idea. Otherwise the image may seem a bit bland.
Then there's an issue that's very often neglected much because it's not that relevant. Spectral sensitivity of human eye is not linear. It decreases towards both infrared and ultraviolet range, leaving the eye at its most sensitive to yellowish green light. Black and white films are mostly panchromatic so the luminosity reproduction is rather linear through the spectral range. In this it's very similar to what simply desaturating a color photo produces. Photographers used to use green filters with black and white films to compensate the spectral sensitivity of the human eye. As other than green colors were slightly filtered, the relative luminosity of the shades in the picture resembled more to what a human eye would see in color.
Don't run to your nearest camera store just yet, to buy filters. Digital age has made actually pretty much all filters useless. You can do the same in for example Photoshop. Here's slightly exaggerated example of what you can do if you want to make the grayscale conversion that emulates human eyes sensitivity. Generally this is not very important but can be useful if the desaturated image looks odd.
We'll start with a color photo. In this case the photo is quite saturated and has a high contrast already. So as seen in the plain desaturated picture the result is actually quite pleasing.
Here's what the picture looks like after color correction. As said, this is slightly exaggerated to illustrate the effect a bit better.
I made the color corrections using curves-tool. Green channel is unchanged but the maximum luminosity of both blue and red channels is reduced.
Now here are just plain desaturated and the color adjusted photo. Adjusted on the left. (or bottom if they don't fit your browser window side by side) Now when you adjust the levels, green parts of the picture will stand out more.
As said, this is very rarely needed. However if you have a part or a detail of some certain color in the picture that you want to bring forth you can do the same to the color in question. So you can use this method for much more than getting all anal about emulating the spectral sensitivity of the human eye.
Now lets get really really oldskool. This is just a trick which is somewhat related to my last tutorial. Old, I mean really old, films were practically only sensitive to blue light. These films are nowadays pretty much extinct as panchromatic films have been available since the 1930s. Still you may sometimes want to emulate the spectral qualities of these films. You can use the same method.
The color version again as a reminder.
Here's the color adjusted version in color.
Curves for the adjustment. You could actually remove red and green channels completely but it wouldn't be completely realistic since the old films were actually slightly sensitive to a wider spectral range. Luminosity curve wasn't linear either as seen in the blue channel's curve.
Here's the comparison again with the plain desaturated photo and the oldskool museum stuff. I made the appropriate level corrections to this one already to illustrate what the photo would actually somewhat look like taken with 1920s film.
A few words about filters
In digital photography colored filters are pretty much useless. Cons supersede the pros practically always, as the color adjustments can just as easily be made by software. UV-filters have indisputable benefits as they can increase the contrast of the picture. This is because digital sensors are slightly sensitive to ultraviolet light but can't process it correctly.
However, there's a pitfall of coating. Uncoated filters are extremely susceptible to flaring and reflections which on the other hand reduce the contrast of the photo. Single coated filters are a bit better but because of the physical properties of the coating, the coating is effective to a very limited wavelength range. Optical properties of triple coated filters are very good but they tend to be really pricey. Generally it's better not to use a filter than to use a bad one. I'd personally advice to stay away from all others than triple coated ones.
There's one very useful filter though, a polarizing filter. It's the kind of a case where pros supersede the cons despite of the coating. Polarizing filters are used to remove diffused light. In general they increase the contrast a bit. As a downside they do shade the lens about 1/3 stop. Removing diffused light becomes really handy when you're photographing for example through windows or taking pictures of water in strong lighting, as polarizing filter reduces and quite often completely removes reflections in these air to glass or water interfaces. But as using it affects the draw I'd recommend using it only when you really need it, just as any other filter.
There are also a bunch of special effect filters, like IR-filters, fishnets and cross screens. These are basically playthings but the same effects are quite difficult or even completely impossible to emulate in software so in special cases they might be useful.
Overall I'd avoid using filters, at least if you're not as rich as Croesus and you'd have to settle for single coated or uncoated ones. The ones to buy if you decide to get them are UV-filter and polarizing filter. Out of normal filters there's not much use for other ones.
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|2008-07-07, 13:51
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Btw what font are you using for your sig above? Or is that your actual handwriting?
|2008-07-07, 14:18
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I just wish my handwriting would be even remotely that good. It's a font called Bradley Hand ITC, no idea anymore where I got it. Sorry.
|2008-07-07, 15:24
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Busy busy busy
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Slovenia
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I just had 2 great idea for you! Why dont don't you try combining 2 seasons into one - a window on which are posted these postcards or photos from the summer time (maybe sa text, like photo album from the summer) and outside the window you could see the snow.
Or another idea, based on the sig above, why dont you 'put' the postcards on a table and in the behind you could see the sea, sunset etc. It would work out greatly with the perspective change tool.
Yes yes, just some crazy good ideas
|2008-07-07, 15:37
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The window might work... I'll look into it.
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|2008-07-09, 15:00
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Edit: Okay, here's the 4/3 version.
Added one pic. seemed a bit empty with just the originals...
And made this my final entry for current sotm.
Funny thing, it's in a way a crop sig.
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Good work on The Wall....Look Very Nice
|2008-07-09, 16:12
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Heck, I might just as well share these.
PSD-pack for the wallpaper
Edit: Updated the widescreen version of the wallie. Resized it as a bit of an afterthought and didn't like what it did to image quality. PSD-pack updated as well.
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The amount of flower photos I've posted begins to be borderline scary.
Anyway here's the flower photo batch from my Loppi-expedition.
Those are the decent ones out of about a hundred. Not a massive percentage.
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Location: Northeast USA
Age: 32
You have some pretty neat flowers there! I like them overall, but according to the image properties you were shooting at f1.8 for all of them? I'd say it created a nice effect for most of them, but for some I might have used a higher f-number. For the last three that you have it created a pretty nice effect with the flowers themselves, but the background 'bokeh' is too soft, for my taste. It's pleasing, but the 'bokeh' I've come to like best occurs when you see tens or hundreds of dots of light, and the blurred colors are a bit more distinct. In those shots the background all mixes together. It's a bit more ethereal than the 'bokeh' I try to get, and definitely not better or worse - it's all subjective. Just some notes from my end
Of course, I'm also envious that you can get down to f1.8. HR-4 is my absolute favorite, and in that shot the shallow depth of field really played out very nicely. Let's see if I can +rep you now that it's been a few days... (edit: nope, still no good )
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Amarillo, TX - Former President George W. Bush along with twenty wounded service men and women celebrated the meaning of the Warrior 100k bike ride in Palo Duro Canyon.
The former President spoke about the importance of showing support to our military once they come back home, especially since they have been hurt emotionally as well as physically.
Many of the military personnel we met this afternoon have severed limbs and some suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Everyone involved with the Warrior 100K say this experience is a testament to how they've all overcome traumatic instances.
The former President says there is a way our community can help.
"You know, just welcome them to the community. Also to encourage employers to go out of their way to hire somebody; I think it's the best gift somebody in Amarillo can give to a veteran. The skill set that these people have are unbelievable," says former President George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States.
The former President was very friendly and a perfect example of a true Texan.
We were able to have him sign a shirt for us that we will be donating to our local Make-A-Wish foundation.
We will be presenting them with the shirt within the next few days.


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Geneva, 23 November 2009. Today the LHC circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. With just one bunch of particles circulating in each direction, the beams can be made to cross in up to two places in the ring. From early in the afternoon, the beams were made to cross at points 1 and 5, home to the ATLAS and CMS detectors, both of which were on the look out for collisions. Later, beams crossed at points 2 and 8, ALICE and LHCb.
"It's a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time," said CERN1Director General Rolf Heuer. "But we need to keep a sense of perspective – there's still much to do before we can start the LHC physics programme."
Beams were first tuned to produce collisions in the ATLAS detector, which recorded its first candidate for collisions at 14:22 this afternoon. Later, the beams were optimised for CMS. In the evening, ALICE had the first optimization, followed by LHCb.
"This is great news, the start of a fantastic era of physics and hopefully discoveries after 20 years' work by the international community to build a machine and detectors of unprecedented complexity and performance," said ATLAS spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti.
"The events so far mark the start of the second half of this incredible voyage of discovery of the secrets of nature," said CMS spokesperson Tejinder Virdee.
"It was standing room only in the ALICE control room and cheers erupted with the first collisions" said ALICE spokesperson Jurgen Schukraft. "This is simply tremendous."
"The tracks we're seeing are beautiful," said LHCb spokesperson Andrei Golutvin, "we're all ready for serious data taking in a few days time."
These developments come just three days after the LHC restart, demonstrating the excellent performance of the beam control system. Since the start-up, the operators have been circulating beams around the ring alternately in one direction and then the other at the injection energy of 450 GeV. The beam lifetime has gradually been increased to 10 hours, and today beams have been circulating simultaneously in both directions, still at the injection energy.
Next on the schedule is an intense commissioning phase aimed at increasing the beam intensity and accelerating the beams. All being well, by Christmas, the LHC should reach 1.2 TeV per beam, and have provided good quantities of collision data for the experiments' calibrations.
1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.


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The league's very best collide on Sunday night when the 62nd annual NBA All-Star Game takes center stage from Houston's Toyota Center.
The yearly East vs. West clash this season will showcase many familiar faces. Eight of last year's starters were voted back in by the fans, led by Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant.
He was the leading vote-getter this year and it marked a record 15th consecutive year Bryant was tabbed by the fans. He's consistently brought the excellence to this event, winning four MVPs, including a shared one with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal.
One year ago, Bryant scored 27 in a winning effort for the West and passed Michael Jordan as the All-Star Game's all-time leading scorer.
Bryant will recognize the faces during the opening jump.
Chris Paul (fourth appearance) and Blake Griffin (third) of the Los Angeles Clippers and Kevin Durant (fourth) of the Oklahoma City Thunder, last year's MVP, each started for the West last season as well.
The fifth starter is center Dwight Howard, who started for the East last season before the offseason trade that sent him from the Orlando Magic to the Lakers. It has not been a banner season for the Lakers and the relationship between Bryant and Howard, who made his seventh All-Star team, has been frosty at best.
"What I told him (Howard) was whatever critics and pundits say, you can't adjust your game, you have to do what you do," Bryant said on Friday. "Everything else will fall into place."
They face an Eastern group loaded with talent, but headlined by the best player in the world, who is playing the best basketball of his career.
LeBron James was the highest vote-getter in the East and recently completed the first stretch in NBA history of six games with 30-plus points while shooting 60 percent or higher.
"My coaches put me in position, my teammates allow me to do what I do, and I just go out and play my game," said the nine-time All Star. "And I've been successful."
That's an understatement.
James, a two-time All-Star Game MVP, is well on his way to a fourth regular- season MVP award. His Heat have the best record in the Eastern Conference, making their head coach, Erik Spoelstra, the leader of the East team.
Spoelstra's first challenge as coach was to replace Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo in the starting lineup. After Rondo went down with a torn ACL, Spoelstra pegged his own guy, Chris Bosh, to start in the game in his eighth-straight appearance.
With Dwyane Wade (ninth) already in the first group, it marked the first time since the 1990 Los Angeles Lakers that three players from the same team were in the starting five.
"This is an honor, it's an honor for our organization," Spoelstra said. "We have three of our players. We get to share the experience with them as a coaching staff. It's a special time for our organization."
James, Wade and Bosh will team with the New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony (sixth appearance) and the Celtics' Kevin Garnett (15th).
Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs is the coach of the West and will see some of his own guys down the bench.
Tim Duncan and Tony Parker both made the team as reserves. Duncan has been hobbled by knee and ankle injuries, so it's doubtful he will see much action in this, his 14th All-Star appearance. Parker made his fifth team.
The rest of Pop's bench is a good mix of experienced veterans and only one first-timer. But that All-Star rookie is going to be a very popular one.
James Harden is the only representative from the hometown Rockets. After a trade just before the start of the season, Harden is third in the league in scoring behind Durant and Bryant and made his first All-Star team in his first year with the Rockets.
"I'm enjoying it and having fun with it," said Harden.
Russell Westbrook (third) of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Zach Randolph (second) of the Memphis Grizzlies, David Lee (second) of the Golden State Warriors and LaMarcus Aldridge (second straight) from the Portland Trail Blazers round out Popovich's reserve corps.
Spoelstra's second unit is very big-man-heavy and very new to the experience. The East bench has only two guards and six first-timers.
Brook Lopez of the Brooklyn Nets, Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jrue Holiday of the Philadelphia 76ers, Paul George of the Indiana Pacers, Joakim Noah from the Chicago Bulls and Tyson Chandler of the Knicks are all rookies.
Only the Bulls' Luol Deng has any All-Star experience on the East bench and this is his second straight trip.
The West won the last two All-Star Games. The game is generally a feel-good, fast breaking, defensive-optional affair. But don't confuse this contest as something the players aren't invested in, outcome-wise.
"The first half is the feel-out process," said James. "We try to get a feel on what we're going to see. The second half, everyone's competitive nature kicks in.
"At that time, both teams want to win."


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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Melodies Graphiques!
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Carol; what an absolutely PERFECTO post for the first day of school. On my walk this a.m. I saw lots of teary-eyed moms sending their little ones off, to begin the new year.ReplyDelete
Love all your papeterie items..They are like macarons to me:)ReplyDelete
The last photos is so cute too!
I think I'd rather be in Paris for La Rentree than here...ReplyDelete
And I'd rather be in NEW YORK for bagels!!ReplyDelete
French Girl
.. bonjour, lovely post ...ReplyDelete
The chocolate pencils are a great incentive to go back to work indeed :)ReplyDelete
I love this shop Les Mélodies Graphiques. Chas already answered your question , le taille-crayon for penci sharpener but me who's French, i always wondered how what do say for "la rentrée" in English ? Because in French, we could say "la rentrée littéraire" (the books which come out in september), "les films de la rentrée" and so on....Merci et oui vive la rentrée !ReplyDelete
Now, those are all going on my wish-list. I looooove stationery stores when they have beautiful things like this. Happy first day of school, Carol!ReplyDelete
I love back to school season. I always have. Even though I'm no longer a student, I still treat myself to school supplies when I'm out shopping. Just 'cuz.ReplyDelete
Chocolate pencils. They would give me just the buzz I need to kick-start my writing project at home...and help me meet the rigorous deadline I set for myself.
Merci MarieReplyDelete
PBers are soo smart!
Oh, I have that box but mine came with "antique" Paris postcards not pencils. Couldn't resist.ReplyDelete
I want to be READY for le rentree without acutally rentreeing... :-)ReplyDelete
Fun post for back to school. Chocolate pencils would be right up my ally. :)) YummmmReplyDelete
Castles in Spain:ReplyDelete
There is no comparable word in English that I know of for 'La Rentree'
Go figure :)
THat's what i thought !ReplyDelete
Merci Carole et bonne rentrée and thank you for your supremely delicious blog !! :-)
I adore your post, Carol. So cute last photo and I'm crazy about Patrick Roger. Saw his pencils yesterday with my daughter who was seriously thinking of buying them for her new form teacher. Possibly bit too sooky on first day, non? :-)ReplyDelete
These pics are amazing!! Great, great post!! xxReplyDelete


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"Want me to take him to the nursery so you can get some sleep?"
I glance from the postpartum nurse to the still-unreal bundle in my arms. Henry. My son. There's a nursery here? I'd chosen this hospital partly for its policy of having newborns "room in" with their mothers. Rooming-in was one of those items on the get-ready-for-baby checklists I'd lived by that sounded as critical as it was amorphous and alien. It had something to do with bonding.
Back when I was researching state-of-the-art birthing centers, though, I hadn't counted on spending 39 straight hours awake -- a day at work, an evening rabidly cleaning out the linen closet, then a long night and a morning in labor, followed by a packed day, counting amazing little fingers and toes, a lesson in getting a baby to latch on to a breast twice the circumference of his tiny head (mine, speaking of amazing), and making giddy phone calls. Adrenaline had powered me through that last part. Then it abruptly left the building an hour ago, along with my exhausted husband.
Take him to the nursery? Hey, you're the expert. All I know about babies is what I read in books.
"Sure," I say.
There is no painful, ripping Velcro sound as my baby separates from my arms. There is only quiet, and the relief of imminent sleep. I'm too tired to care that barely 12 hours into motherhood I've already veered perilously off course. I'd messed up my candidacy for Mother Supreme even before the umbilical cord quit pulsing.
For the record, that first night in the nursery, Henry didn't appear to miss me either. The nurses did not feed him a bottle of sugar-water, as the pro-rooming-in tracts had warned they might. At least, nobody told me he got sugar-water, and I do have fuzzy memories of being awakened to breastfeed once or twice. But the nurses could have fed him coconut milk for all I cared that night, so long as they did him no harm. Rooming-in was just another abandoned ideal that suddenly didn't seem important. I had sleep. The baby was still alive. So far, so good.
Once we are home, a precious pot of lanolin becomes my new best friend. I stock up on shirts with hidden openings and spend contented hours in my glider rocker, a water bottle at my side. I learn to nurse confidently in public -- in cars, on planes, on trains (and possibly while reciting Dr. Seuss aloud in the rain). I can even suckle while simultaneously typing and talking on the phone, a breastfeeding hold described in no guide I've devoured.
When Henry is 4 weeks old, he outgrows the heirloom cradle next to our bed and I relocate him to a crib in his own room, down the hall. A few weeks later he's sleeping through the night (or from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. or 5 a.m., which by this point is nirvana, not to mention a reasonable facsimile of "all night"). Then, at 3 1/2 months, my champion sleeper begins backsliding. My mom tells me to mix a little cereal with formula and feed it before bedtime. I ask my pediatrician what he thinks. My pediatrician tells me to mix a little cereal with formula and feed it before bedtime. He's been a pediatrician for as long as my mom has raised five kids. It works.
I also leave the occasional bottle of half-and-half (half-formula, half-me) or a can of ready-to-pour formula for his day-care "teachers." I try to express a few extra ounces for this before or after work, though only when I have both time and inclination. Fortunately, Henry is in a corporate child-care center near my office, so I can slip out at mealtimes to nurse him. If I had to pump several times a day (or more ambitiously, FedEx milk back home from business trips, as colleagues do), I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered pumping at all, no matter how clean and private the pumping room or how understanding my boss. Without snuggling in the equation, making milk hardly seems worth the bother. Yet despite my slightly erratic production schedule, my milk supply never shrivels to the point of sudden infant starvation.
Naturally, I consider myself a "breastfeeding mother." A successful one at that. I nurse Henry for six months, long past the national average.
Too bad that virtually every preceding sentence brands me a loser at the job, according to prevailing winds of advice and expectation that have whipped up the definition of breastfeeding mother to intimidating proportions. Sure, sure, "breast is best." But breastfeeding advocates have raised the bar so high on what counts as the right way to feed a baby, it's a wonder anybody dares to start.
Especially after she faces the much-hyped recommendation that breastfeeding ought to continue for a marathon 12 months. A full year of breastfeeding is a tall order when the typical maternity leave lasts six weeks. Emphasizing the endpoint ("You really ought to do this for 12 months") makes the whole prospect a lot less inviting than lowering the bar to "Give it a try because your breasts will fill with milk anyway, and it's really good for your baby, even if you do it for just a day or two." Anybody might be game to give it a day. Making a commitment for a full year when you can't even think straight is like sending yourself an invitation to feeling like Failure Mom should you slack off at any point along the way, for whatever reason.
What's more, there's little talk of combining breast and formula (or, heaven forbid, solid food) to keep it going. Today moms are routinely advised to lay off the baby food for six months and breastfeed exclusively -- formula may as well be devil juice.
Another apparent mistake I made: all those working lunches and dinners using my patented multi-tasking breastfeeding hold. The new thinking is to use feeding times as an opportunity to stimulate your baby's brain cells by making eye contact and chatting, not to preserve your own by getting caught up on the news. Your needs? Your sleep? How dare you be so selfish!
Woe, too, to the hapless new mom whose circle of peers includes someone a little too intoxicated with sharing news of the dangers of phthalates in plastic bottles or the politics of co-sleeping, after spending too many hours plugged into the more paranoid corners of the momosphere. Childbirth-class reunions that should be spent comparing stretch marks or developmental milestones -- or, better yet, exchanging tips on how to avoid getting sucked into work before your leave is up -- descend into harangues or debates. No, girlfriend, I don't want to donate leftovers to the local human milk bank.
Back when I became a nursing mother, "attachment parenting" was still just the name of a chapter in a book, not a lifestyle with rules (and busybodies) of its own. Nobody was organizing "lactivists" into suckle-ins every time an intimidated mother collided with an ill-informed shopkeeper over her right to feed her baby wherever she chose. I've fed my kids while wedged between two men on a United Airlines flight, in Sunday school and even during business meetings. I was discreet and nobody ever gaped, much less showed me to the door, though if they had I'd have rolled my eyes and said, "Grow up." Although a decade ago there were the occasional headline-making arrests over public nursing, the issue hadn't yet been trumped up into a civil-rights campaign.
It's a shame, really. Instead of being a natural extension of pregnancy and childbirth, something you just do right away to pass on all those protective antibodies (and save a little cash at a time when it's flying out of your wallet as if it had been sprinkled with pixie dust back there in the delivery room), breastfeeding has been turned into a statement. A chore. Another series of tests on the way to "good" motherhood. I breastfed because I was convinced it was a smart start. I kept at it because it was much more pleasurable than I'd imagined (not that one can accurately imagine much about breastfeeding before actually doing it). I made it work for me. And then when my baby grew teeth and I grew tired of being tethered to the baby or the pump, I quit.
The message to mothers-to-be and new moms should be: Take breastfeeding one day at a time. Try it in the hospital -- you're just lying there anyway. And people there are glad to show you how. Then, if you and your baby are getting the hang of it, stick it out during maternity leave to pass all those health benefits to your baby, and to yourself. Plus, it's free, and it can be easier to stuff a ready nipple into a hungry mouth than to prep a bottle while suffering extreme sleep deprivation.
And then, see how it goes. Maybe it will be easier, and more enjoyable, than you thought, the way it was for me. Maybe you'll move on in a few weeks or months. Maybe you'll stick with it right through toddlerhood. Whatever follows, everybody will be okay.
That's the real definition of success: everybody coming out okay.
Henry is not a week old when I'm home explaining for the 20th time to my husband, George, that no, breastfeeding does not feel erotic. (Has he not noticed that I don't have to grit my teeth during foreplay?) The doorbell rings. Again. It's not that I don't appreciate the chance to show off our son. (Our son!) But I'm jangly from new-mom fatigue, insecurity and the soreness of 10,000 stitches somewhere I can't quite place on my lower body. Visits wear me out. Blessedly, most friends and neighbors coo at Henry, bestow a bib or even better, a ready-to-eat lasagna, and split.
Barbara brings beer.
"Here's a welcome-home present just for you." She sets down a wrapped six-pack of Michelob. "My pediatrician's wife brought me some after Anna was born. She said it's good for the let-down reflex."
My milk comes in -- and goes out -- just fine. But the rest of me could use a little unwinding. If a pediatrician's wife said so, it must be okay, right? I gladly down half a bottle. I do not "pump and dump the milk," as a government Web site admonishes. And I really do feel much more relaxed.
In fact, the boy grew nicely, with nary a food allergy or ounce of excess fat. He's on the honor roll and once won the Presidential Physical Fitness Award. He towers over me and looks his dad in the eye. He once made me a card: "To the best Mommy I ever had." We're bonded very nicely, thank you.
Same for his three younger sisters -- despite the fact that I stuck each of them in a room down the hall at night and weaned them to fake milk before they were five months old. I never even warmed up the bottles. Then again, I never preheated their baby food -- or their diaper wipes -- either.
I did, however, chill the Michelob. It was good.
Paula Spencer is the author of Momfidence: An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a longtime contributing editor to Babytalk. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.


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The fortunes of the United States (U.S.) are tied to the fortunes of the Hispanic family. Hispanics are the largest and still fastest-growing group in the U.S., representing 16 percent of the population, and expected to be nearly 20 percent by 2030 and 33 percent by 2050. While Hispanic communities possess many strengths, they are disproportionately under duress. More Hispanic children live in poverty than any other group in the country. Hispanics have the highest birth rate, but less than two thirds of Hispanic children live with two married biological or adoptive parents. Strengthening the Hispanic family can help reverse these trends. Luis Torres, assistant professor in the UH Graduate College of Social Work, is co-investigator in a national implementation evaluation of grantees in the federal Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative, focusing on issues of cultural resonance and cultural adaptations. His work is helping uncover how Hispanic marriages and families can be strengthened through effective, culturally appropriate marriage and relationship education programs. Reach him at 713-743-8512 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Lynn Mitchell is a professor of religious studies and the director of A.D. Bruce Religion Center at the University of Houston. He has taught an estimated 20,000 students in religious courses from an interfaith, non-sectarian perspective over a period of 35 years. Mitchell is a leading figure in religious studies and media sources on issues of religious pluralism and political ethics in America. Reach him at 713-743-3213 or email@example.com
Professor Raúl A. Ramos introduces a new model for the transnational history of the U.S. by placing Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story in his award-winning book, "Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861." He frequently speaks on expanding our views of Texas and Borderlands history. His current research spans the frontier from 19th-century Florida to early 20th-century Los Angeles, examining the ways communities reconstruct their past even while looking to the future. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com
Christina L. Sisk is an assistant professor of Latina/o cultural studies in the department of Hispanic studies. Her book, "Mexico, Nation in Transit: Contemporary Representation of Mexican Migration to the United States," explores how Mexican migration to the United States is represented within literature, film and music produced on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sisk can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
Professor Michael A. Olivas is among the country's leading authorities in the fields of immigration, higher education law and the regulation of higher education. He has written extensively in these areas, with books in each specialty, and is widely cited as an expert in the national education and immigration trade press. He litigates immigration and education cases, and his services as an expert witness are in widespread demand. He is the former General Counsel of the AAUP, and current president of the Association of American Law Schools. Reach him at email@example.com
Geoffrey Hoffman, director of the UH Immigration Clinic and clinical associate professor, UH Law Center, specializes in immigration-related federal court litigation and deportation defense before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, asylum cases, adjustments and appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals. He is available to discuss Obama's new immigration policy on removal proceedings relevant to the Hispanic community. Reach him at 713-743-2094 or email@example.com
Nicolás Kanellos, the Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies, is the founder and director of the nation's oldest and largest, nonprofit publisher of Hispanic literature in the United States, Arte Público Press. He is also the director of a national research program, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Heritage of the United States, which aims to identify, preserve, study and make accessible tens of thousands of Latino historical documents that were written from the colonial period to 1960 in the area that has become the United States. He is a cultural historian with numerous books and articles, including reference works on the full breadth of Hispanic contributions to the United States. He is available to comment on Hispanic culture in the U.S. Reach him at 713-743-3128 or firstname.lastname@example.com
"Spanish is used by Hispanics in the U.S. mainly in its oral variety," said Manuel Gutiérrez, professor of Spanish Linguistics in the department of Hispanic studies. "As a result of this situation, proficiency in Spanish has diminished in the new generations of the Hispanic community. The level of bilingualism by speakers of both Spanish and English is not balanced. Speakers who have been in contact with English for a shorter period of time are more proficient in Spanish than English, but those who were born in the United States or who arrived at an early age are more proficient in English than in Spanish." Gutiérrez conducts research on the processes of language change in Spanish spoken in the United States due to its contact with English. He has published articles about the subject, as well as the book, "Ser y estar en el habla de Michoacán, México." Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com
Hispanic and African-American children are at high risk for childhood obesity. Daniel P. O'Connor, associate professor of health and human performance at the Texas Obesity Research Center, is available to comment about the childhood obesity epidemic and ways to intervene through education and research. Reach him at 713-743-2377 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Marilinda Garcia: A great voice for the GOP
State Rep. Marilinda Garcia, R-Salem, smiles after announcing her candidacy for the 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday in Concord. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
In the GOP primary for Congress in the 2nd District, Republicans have a great candidate in state Rep. Marilinda Garcia of Salem. She would be both a superb challenger to Rep. Annie Kuster and an excellent representative in Congress.
Garcia has received a lot of national attention for being a Hispanic woman running in a Republican congressional primary. She provides just the sort of image Republicans need to present to voters, national pundits say.
Republicans in the 2nd District should go out and talk with Garcia. They would discover quickly that her real strength as a candidate has nothing to do with her surname or her appearance.
Garcia is the kind of candidate Republicans should be nominating because she is a sharp, thoughtful conservative who can articulate her positions with a depth of understanding and a breadth of appeal that few candidates possess.
In the House, she has already shown that she is willing to take principled stands on important issues (expanded gambling, education reform, state spending, to name a few) even if doing so might carry a political cost. Isn't that exactly the kind of leader people always say they want in Congress?
We have found Garcia to be a rare candidate who does not talk in soundbites, but rather prefers to explain her positions.
She has firm convictions, but does not belittle people who disagree with her. She would rather persuade and win than attack and lose.
Republicans in the 2nd District would do well to make her their nominee for Congress.


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Tyer signed with University on Wednesday.
The decision came down to just two colleges for Arendell Parrott Academy senior first baseman John Tyer.
Because St. Andrews University had all he needed � a great biology lab, an athletic scholarship and a rising baseball program, the choice was simple.
Tyer signed with St. Andrews Wednesday in the Parrott lobby to finalize his decision to attend the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Division-II Laurinburg-based college over Methodist University.
�I wanted to be a biology major and their biology lab is the size of a soccer field,� he said about SAU. �It was huge and � definitely where I want to be.�
Aside from that, Tyer will join the baseball team as an infielder. Naturally a first baseman, he was also recruited to play third.
His journey began merely two months ago after he made a connection with St. Andrews coachDrew Roberts through a mutual friend while also filing an online recruiting application. The staff saw a video on YouTube of Tyer playing, brought him up to campus and made him an offer about two weeks ago.
Tyer said he feels more comfortable at first, since that�s where he trained most of his three years playing on the Parrott varsity team. However, he�s willing to make any adjustments, as he�s already began summer training to prepare himself for the fall.
APA coaches have also played a hand in readying the senior.
�The coaches have really sent me to really good camps,� Tyer said. �They�ve also just � played me where I needed to be and told me what I needed to do at the next level.�
Though his first base play may have attracted recruiters, he also did well for Parrott at the plate this year. Tyer finished the season with a .396 batting average, 21 RBIs and a home run. He also will head to SAU with a .875 fielding percentage.
�I think John will do very well in college baseball,� APA coach Steve Bryant said. �He loves the game, is willing to work and if he goes down there and puts in the effort, I think he�ll be able to really help St. Andrews.�
The SAU Knights finished the season 27-23, while Tyer exits a Patriots team that ended their season with a 14-3 mark. St. Andrews is part of the NAIA�s Appalachian Athletic Conference.
Tyer said he�s amassed tons of Parrott memories both on and off the field. As the fifth Parrott senior who signed to play college sports this year, he is �honored� to be part of that group and have the chance to continue his athletic career.
�I know the baseball program, they�re on the rise. They�re getting new stuff, so I�m excited,� said Tyer, who�s played baseball since he was 4 years old. �I�ve just always played. My mom and dad always pushed me, and I just loved the sport.�
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Kara Willis enters her second season as a member of the UMass Boston softball coaching staff. Willis primarily works with the Beacons pitching staff, that ranked fourth in the Little East Conference in her first season with a 3.44 earned run average.
A former Beacon, Willis returns to her alma mater after graduating from the program in 2012. A four-year member of the program, Willis was one of the Beacons most consistent pitchers and helped the team to their first-ever back-to-back Little East Conference tournament appearances in 2011 and 2012. The program holder for most career appearances with 70, Willis also holds the record for most compete games pitched with 52 and most innings pitched in a season (163.0) and in a career (389.0).
While toeing the rubber for the Beacons, Willis tallied 223 strikeouts during her four seasons in Boston which stands as the all-time record. In her senior season, Willis posted a 7-11 overall record and started in 20 of the 21 games she played in. In 108 innings of work, Willis retired 48 batters and led the Beacons to key wins over the University of Southern Maine and MIT.
Willis graduated from UMB with her bachelor's in Criminal Justice and is ISSA CFT certified. She also works as an instructor at Extra Innings Watertown in Watertown, MA.


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LOCAL MUSIC MARATHON: April 26th, 12:00 p.m. - 11:59 p.m.By Angelo on Sun, 03/23/2014 - 7:36pm
Are you in a band? Are you from Long Island? Do you want to play on the radio? Now may be your chance!
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Hello everyone thanks for listening and supporting WUSB all year . We need an extra little bit of help right now , all the storms have caused some parts to fail at our tower site . This means we are operating at low power and may not come in in your neighborhood right now on the 90.1 fm station but you can hear everything here on our website until everything is fixed. Our great engineer Frank is working on getting us back up to full power as soon as all the parts arrive.
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"Keep Me In Your Heart: a Long Island musicians' tribute to Warren Zevon"By Angelo on Mon, 02/17/2014 - 10:07pm
"Keep Me In Your Heart: a Long Island
musicians' tribute to Warren Zevon"
Saturday, April 5th,
(a benefit for WUSB-FM at the University Cafe)
Lecture Series: BIG UPS with INCIRCLEBy Angelo on Wed, 01/15/2014 - 11:09pm
A brand new lecture series returns in the beginning of the spring semester. Big Ups and InCircle will be rocking the Rm 237 of the Stony Brook Union building on February, 11, 2014.
The "lecture" begins at 9:00 PM. If you can't make it live, the entire show will be broadcast LIVE!
Happy New Years!By Angelo on Tue, 12/31/2013 - 5:19pm
We want to wish you and your family a happy and healthy New Year! We hope you will stay with us into 2014 and beyond. Continue to expect new and innovative programming by Stony Brook students, alumni, faculty/staff and community members. It will be an exciting time for us!
SPECIAL: Local Music Marathon, Saturday November 23, 2013.By Angelo on Sat, 11/16/2013 - 9:20pm
It is our honor to share a plethora of all music genres during this year's local music marathon on Saturday, November 23, from 11:00 AM to 11:59 PM.
There will be recorded and live music from local Long Island musicians, interviews with promoters, organizers, musicians, etc.
12:00 --- Phantom and the Fox
5:30 --- Christine Sweeney
It's a Radiothon special, so PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT for great programming like this
WUSB BENEFIT CONCERT: Saturday, December 14By Angelo on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 10:33pm
Join us for this great WUSB benefit concert on Saturday, December 14.
There will be tons of great Long Island bands at 89 North, one of Long Island's hottest music venues.
See the image to the left for more details.
We hope to see all of our listeners there!
HIP HOP MARATHON: Thurs (11/14) 10:00 PM to Sunday (11/17) 9:00 AMBy Angelo on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 12:03am
Its time for HIP HOP MARATHON! 48+ Hours of Hip Hop of all Sorts and Kinds!
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STONY BROOKLYN: Pattern is Movement and Alexa DexaBy Angelo on Tue, 11/05/2013 - 11:50am
On Thursday, November 7, Pattern is Movement and Alexa Dexa will performing in the University Cafe'. Doors open at 8pm, 21+.
If you can't make the show, WUSB will be broadcasting both performances live. The live broadcast will begin around 9:00 PM.
Show your support for live music and make a pledge!
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Join Chris Phillips of Interzone Radio & Mr. Edison of No Apologies as they play seven hours of music of the legendary Lou Reed-another one of those guys who came along and changed everything.
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|2013-01-12, 22:15
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Guess what time it is?
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Age: 33
(╬ ಠ益ಠ) Squeeeealer...
Saki is showing signs of serious wear.
I'm not sure how to take the line in the preview where Maria says that she'd wanted Saki to come with them. Did she think Saki could help them survive? Or that Saki wouldn't be safe in the village? Or was she simply disappointed that Saki apparently chose Satoru over her, even if Saki was just worried about him? Because every one of those motivations have some potentially unsettling implications.
|2013-01-12, 22:35
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Location: Kobe, Japan
In a funny way this episode reminded me of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita – specifically of "The Faries' Earth". While the tonal approach was obviously very different, I don't think the implied symbolism necessarily was. In both instances we're talking about a post-industrial world where humanity has declined to a shadow of what it was, and another species of mysterious origin and nature has filled part of their old niche. And in both instances we're seeing that "other" progress through cultural evolution at blinding speed (not as blinding in SSY, of course, but with the added wrinkle of accelerated physiological evolution as well). There's the added wrinkle that in both instances, the young humans interacting with the other species are revered as Gods – but in a manner that isn't as straightforward as it might initially appear.
There's not much to feel good about in this world, but that's what makes the fact that the kids we know are such sympathetic and believable figures so painful. Satoru has proved himself a reliable, practically clever and kind boy, and Saki asked no part of the great weight that's been placed on her shoulders – yet this is the terrible world that they're forced to inhabit. And Maria and Mamoru are either trying to survive alone in the harsh wilds are have already become tools of the queerats, a harsh fate either way, and they have no option to return home even if that were a good thing. Poor Shun has already paid the ultimate price – yet as an audience we're forced to accept the possibility that what was done to him was the only possible course of action. Shin Sekai Yori is a harsh story both to its characters and to its audience – asking both to confront truths that it would be much less painful to ignore.
|2013-01-12, 22:42
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U mad?
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Squealer is hinted to be the last boss, his units need major upgrades, wielding bamboo spears doesn't seem very frightening compared to Cantus.
The story feels very slow in the last few episodes.
I wonder if the novel is the same or A-1 is just bad at pacing.
|2013-01-13, 04:16
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How long is this anime anyway? 24 eps or 26? 26 would be enough, but 24 is iffy. :/
|2013-01-13, 04:55
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It's 24 episodes. Expect some things to get cut or shortened. Signs are good so far that they'll manage it well enough.
Also, in regards to what someone said about weapons versus Cantus. Two things:
1. Humans are one of the weakest animals on the planet, and yet they sit at the top of the animal kingdom. This is the true power of the human brain.
2. We're unrivaled because of this, and because we have no competition. There is nothing else like us in our world, but in SSY, there is.
Also keep in mind that in SSY, the most dangerous power on the planet (humans) is also chained to a huge weakness that is advantageous to that other power: killing humanoids results in backlash on the user. You think that Squealer didn't notice this? He absolutely did. He realized his gods were fallible, but useful toward his own end: power. He's the Starscream of SSY, a pathetic creature scheming for his own lust. So he'll use them, then turn on them, like he did before. And if he loses that bet, he'll try and use them again. First to save his own hide, and then to try and regain his power.
The rise of the Queerats is a greater danger to the remains of humanity than any cruel culling method it performs on itself. You have a species that breeds rapidly, learns quickly, and is very territorial, to the point of being warlike. Heaven forbid if they found human technology or information, or even persuaded a Cantus user to join them. Especially now that we know they can lobotomize. What if they found a human they could remove the feedback restriction from, and even brainwash? You'd be giving a nuclear weapon to a race too immature to use it responsibly.
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It looks very much as if the Queerats are going to get hold of a human with PK and use them as a weapon. It could be Maria or Mamoru, if they brainwashed them, but what if it wasn't?
What the higher ups in the village were worried about was that because a male-female couple had run away, they could potentially have children who would not have the death feedback restriction. If Maria or Mamoru have kids, and the Queerats get hold of those kids, they can raise them however they want to.
A patient Queerat with a tight hold over its colony could obtain a safe place for Mamoru and Maria to live, where Queerats loyal to humans couldn't find them. Then, all they need to do is wait for Maria to have some babies, and take those babies. They would have to stop Maria and Mamoru from taking revenge, either by killing them or messing with their minds either before or after Maria had the kids.
I'm hoping that the Queerat queen is not meant to be a parallel for Maria, but I really suspect she is, given what Saki said earlier in the series about how much untold damage could have been avoided if Maria had never been born.
This was such a good episode overall! One other thing I found interesting was Saki and Satoru's conversation, when Saki was thinking that she shouldn't put human values on the Queerats and Satoru by contrast was finding them very human. I was wondering when they were talking about the Queerat queen whether Saki had any idea of the parallels between her society and the Queerat one: the humans killing their own children and brainwashing everyone in order to stop the deadly peril from the PK and continue the species, and the Queerats doing horrible things to render the queens harmless because the strong queens were insane/killing them/subjugating them, while still needing the queens for the continuation of their species.
|2013-01-13, 06:27
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In any case, most of those ~400 pages is loads of dialogue which can be easily shortened, and narration that will be cut anyway... I just worry about the possibility of the cutting and shortening taking away the edge of some things, or that they'll end up rushing through some climatic events. (I expect that Satoru's monologue in the next episode about the origins/mechanics of their power will be probably cut which is a pity, but it can't be helped... but I hope they won't cut Saki's monologue in the boat, at least not entirely.)
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^ Yeah, I can't seem to remember someone as cunning a character as him. Then again Saki and Satoru aren't exactly in a position to do anything about it other than be manipulated.
Man, I really hope Maria doesn't end up like that Queen. I don't want another female character I like to go through shit T_T
|2013-01-13, 07:28
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there are 9 BD volumes, the first is just ep1, the others contain 3 episodes
|2013-01-13, 08:08
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Eaten by goats
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Assuming that Squealer really did find a false Minoshiro, then that means he's probably in a far more informed position than the vast majority of humans.
If Queerats were originally humans who were affected by PK, then that's also something he would probably have found out about. I'm really curious about whether they're former humans or former something elses. Because it looks as if Queerats aren't going to take being second class organisms for for much longer, it'll make a difference whether they're ex-humans or not, because if they are, then there could be more an element of "it's our right as humans" rather than "it's our right as intelligent creatures". Either way they might even decide that they're superior to the "god" humans. After all, the humans aren't without their problems - they're nearly all brainwashed sheep, like poor Ryou.
What the humans in Shin Sekai Yori seem to have done in a way is place all of their trust in the Queerats (and then the tainted cats, to an extent). It's so risky. The death feedback means that they can't fight back if another human goes berserk on them, which means that they have to rely on brainwashing nearly everyone and killing every possibly unstable person. And if they get it wrong and some people escape, the Queerats are their safety net, and they need to be able to trust that safety net because once a person or a few escape, it could be all over for the current humans. Though...I suppose they're thinking "We have PK and they don't, so there will never be a conflict - they'll always fear us and obey". The whole human society appears to be based around the fear of out of control PK, so that might take hold of their thinking.
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So it's 24 eps of story, huh? Do a good job, writers...
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second arc ep8-16 (BD3-6)
third arc ep17-25 (BD7-9)
if they counted ep 13,5 the last episode of the second arc would be together with the first 2 of the third (wich is not impossible, but improbable)
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Hm, I just found this on twitter:
ギギギ・・アニメ「新世界より」は、全25話2クールでズラ!( `・∀・´)ノヨロシク #新世界より
So apparently it is indeed officially 25 eps. And since the recap episode wasn't mentioned among the "officially" counted episodes... it's probably 25 eps of story. Nice, at least it's better than 24!
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(I meant the shape of his mouth and all that, but then, Squealer is able to speak normally with those huge teeth sticking out of his mouth, so I guess this is one of those "don't think too deeply about it" things, like the kitties in high heels.)
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Does Squealer know that Saki has a perfectly usable Cantus?
I don't remember any time when Squealer was around that Satoru wasn't the one using.
-The first incident they had with Squealer, it should have been painfully obvious that Saki's Cantus was simply not working.
-In the first part of this ep, Satoru was the one that made the mirror, not Saki.
-Satoru grabbed Saki to stop her from falling, she didn't do anything herself.
-Near the end, Saki just begged Satoru to stop. Couldn't she have tried to stop/slow what he was doing while telling him to stop?
Every single Cantus usage incident with Squealer, Satoru was the one using the Cantus. This probably suggests to Squealer that he is a lot more powerful than Saki.
Theory: Squealer's downfall will be due to the fact that he underestimates Saki, or overestimates Satoru.
Theory: Saki always makes sure to have Satoru use Cantus unless not possible intentionally to try and deceive Squealer. I might be overestimating Saki, but she has proven to be quite creative and resourceful time and time again.
|2013-01-13, 12:37
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 31
And I'm not sure why Saki and Satoru were so disgusted by the Queerats doing that to their Queen... she wasn't much more than a mindless, utterly crazy animal that indiscriminately killed anyone who tried speaking to her. Killing her in what basically amounts to self-defense doesn't seem too loathsome to me.
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NEWS: UK Tech-Fest confirms first acts for 2015, including Decapitated & The Contortionist!
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What kind of shaming campaign is this? Just because a guy dresses a little differently from the mainstream you put up his picture on a news website to shame him for all the world? Well…the shame is on you…
looks like it's not a shame for the guy to dress like this
I hate poor reporting, The woman cutting onions on the subway was part of a social experiment and she was recording peoples reactions to her behavior. its not "odd" behavior on the subway when your doing it intentionally.
So, you don't think people randomly doing social experiments on the subway is odd? What if the poor reporting is an experiment to see what people with nothing better to do comment on?
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