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No. 90,620
MARILYN NICHOLS, and
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT Once a county elects to conduct joint community planning according to K.S.A. 12-741 et seq., it must follow the procedures so mandated. Planning procedures may not be avoided by reference to a county's home rule power.
Appeal from Shawnee district court; NANCY E. PARRISH, judge. Opinion filed May 14, 2004. Reversed and remanded.
Sherri Price, assistant city attorney, argued the cause and was on the briefs for appellant City of Topeka.
Richard V. Eckert, county counselor, argued the cause, and Jonathan C. Brzon, assistant county counselor, was on the brief for appellees Shawnee County Board of Commissioners, and Shawnee County Register of Deeds, Marilyn Nichols.
Martha A. Peterson and Vernon L. Jarboe of Sloan, Listrom, Eisenbarth, Sloan & Glassman, L.L.C., of Topeka, were on the brief for appellee K.W. Simon & Associates, Inc.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ALLEGRUCCI, J.: The Shawnee County Board of Commissioners (County) enacted a charter resolution approving the subdivision plat for Hickory Creek Subdivision No. 2, which was tendered by K.W. Simon & Associates, Inc. (Simon), and directing Marilyn Nichols, the Shawnee County Register of Deeds, to record the plat. The City of Topeka (City) sued, challenging the County's authority to approve the plat. The City sought a declaratory judgment, a writ of mandamus, and injunctive relief. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court ruled in favor of defendants. The City appealed. This court transferred the case from the Court of Appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018(c).
The district court conducted a hearing on the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment and ruled from the bench. The City prepared the journal entry, and it was approved by the other parties before being signed by the district court. At the hearing, the district court made no findings of fact, and none were included in the journal entry. The entire substance of the journal entry granting summary judgment in favor of the County and Simon is contained in the following paragraphs:
"1. That K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. and K.S.A. 19-2956 et seq. were enacted after Moore v. City of Lawrence, 232 Kan. 353, 654 P.2d 445 (1982), was decided. The Court stated that it is not certain that it agrees with Moore, and that even if Moore is still good law, there have been developments and enactments since that time that clearly make K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. non-uniform.
"2. That Charter Resolution No. 2002-1 passed by the County was not preempted by nor in conflict with K.S.A. 12-741 et seq.
"3. That the charter ordinance was enacted in light of K.S.A. 12-715d and was authorized by K.S.A. 19-2633. The Court stated that it did not think it was clear that K.S.A. 19-2633 had been repealed at that point in time and that K.S.A. 19-2633 still remains in effect. The Court also found that K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. does not conflict with K.S.A. 19-2633.
"4. That, although the County may have previously waived its rights to approve plats or accept the dedication of public lands for subdivisions located in the three mile area outside the city limits of the City of Topeka, the passage of Charter Resolution No. 2002-1 by the County pursuant to the home rule powers of K.S.A. 19-101b(d) rescinded any such waiver."
On appeal, the City challenges the entry of summary judgment against it. The City argues that the district court erred in each of its conclusions stated above. We conclude the dispositive issue is whether the district court erroneously decided that Moore v. City of Lawrence, 232 Kan. 353, 64 P.2d 445 (1982), is no longer good law. Hence, our discussion centers on Moore and its effect on the facts of the present controversy.
The City and County have agreed to cooperate in planning and zoning in the Topeka-Shawnee County metropolitan area. In 1958, the City adopted subdivision regulations governing land within the city limits and within 3 miles outside the city limits. The City's subdivision regulations are codified at Topeka City Code, Sections 134-2 to 134-175 (1995). It is undisputed that the County's subdivision regulations fit with the City's in providing that they govern all subdivision of land in the unincorporated area of Shawnee County, with the exception of the 3-mile jurisdictional control area of any incorporated city. In 1960, the City and County established a joint planning commission, the Topeka-Shawnee County Regional Planning Commission. It was replaced in 1963 by another regional planning commission and in 1972 by the Topeka-Shawnee County Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC). Each was established by an agreement set forth in a joint resolution and ordinance. The ordinance that established the MPC gives full force and effect to present subdivision and zoning regulations until a comprehensive plan prepared by the MPC is adopted by the City and the County. See Topeka City Code, Sections 110-26 et seq. (1995). The MPC has prepared no joint planning legislation relating to the regulation of subdivisions. Nor have the City and County jointly enacted any subdivision regulations.
The general practice of the MPC where a proposed subdivision is located within the City or within the 3-mile zone is to evaluate the proposal using the City's subdivision regulations and then submit the subdivision plat and any public dedications included in the plat to the Topeka City Council. If the subdivision is located in Shawnee County and more than 3 miles beyond the city limits of the City, the MPC evaluates the subdivision using the County's subdivision regulations and then submits the subdivision plat and any public dedications to the Board of Shawnee County Commissioners.
In January 2001, a majority of the Topeka City Council disapproved a plat application filed by Simon for Hickory Creek Subdivision No. 2 located in Shawnee County, near the intersection of SW 46th Street and SW Auburn Road within 3 miles of the city limits of the City. Simon appealed the City's decision to the district court, which held in favor of the City. Simon appealed the district court's decision to the Court of Appeals, which affirmed in a 2-page unpublished opinion. K.W. Simon & Associates, Inc. v. City of Topeka, No. 89,123, filed May 2, 2003. The Court of Appeals stated: "Judge Franklin R. Theis wrote an exhaustive and excellent 67-page opinion explaining why he had ruled against Simon. We agree with that opinion and will not attempt to improve upon it."
In October 2002, the County enacted Charter Resolution No. 2002-1 that approved Simon's subdivision plat and directed the Shawnee County Register of Deeds to record it. The resolution states in part:
"1. The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Shawnee, Kansas hereby exempts itself from and makes inapplicable to it the provisions of the general planning and zoning law for the state of Kansas, K.S.A. 12-741 et seq.
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"5. Unless otherwise provided by act of the Board of County Commissioners, the general zoning and planning law, K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. shall continue to apply to all other land located in the unincorporated area of Shawnee County."
In November 2002, the City filed this action challenging the County's authority to approve the plat.
The district court treated the cross-motions for summary judgment as if there were no dispute as to the facts and no contention that the entry of summary judgment should have been precluded by a genuine issue of any material fact. Thus, this court's review of the district court's conclusions of law is de novo. See Crumbaker v. Hunt Midwest Mining, Inc., 275 Kan. 872, 877, 69 P.3d 601 (2003).
The district court examined K.S.A. 12-741 et seq., which is "enabling legislation for the enactment of planning and zoning laws and regulations by cities and counties for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare," and K.S.A. 19-2956 et seq. that authorizes planning and zoning in urban areas such as Johnson County, which is designated as an urban area by K.S.A. 19-2654. On the question whether K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. is non-uniform, the district court's journal entry states:
"K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. and K.S.A. 19-2956 et seq. were enacted after Moore v. City of Lawrence, 232 Kan. 353, 654 P.2d 445 (1982), was decided. The Court stated that it is not certain that it agrees with Moore, and that even if Moore is still good law, there have been developments and enactments since that time that clearly make K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. non-uniform."
The district court correctly concluded that K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. is not uniformly applicable to all counties. The procedures for adoption of subdivision regulations affecting property outside cities in K.S.A. 12-749(d) and K.S.A. 12-750 are quite different from those in K.S.A. 19-2961(b). In addition, the plat approval procedure set out in K.S.A. 12-752 differs significantly from the plat approval procedure for second- and third-class cities in K.S.A. 12-401.
The City's position is that the elective planning and zoning procedures of K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. bind municipalities that elect to follow the procedures therein. The County used the enabling legislation for local planning and zoning and, according to the City's argument, became bound by the enactment as a result. The City relies on Moore v. City of Lawrence, 232 Kan. 353, 356-57, 654 P.2d 445 (1982), and cases citing it, such as Bigs v. City of Wichita, 271 Kan. 455, 23 P.3d 855 (2001), and Crumbaker, 275 Kan. 872, Syl. ¶ 2. "In Moore, the court rejected the idea that an enactment's containing an election was evidence that the legislature did not intend for it to be uniformly applicable for home rule analysis." Bigs, 271 Kan. at 467. The Moore court held that an enactment with optional applicability is uniformly applicable to all cities that elect to follow the procedure set out in the enactment. 232 Kan. at 357. The district court expressed doubt that the Moore principle is still good law, but its application by this court in recent cases demonstrates that it remains vital.
In Moore, Bigs, and Crumbaker, this court rejected the argument that the optional applicability of an enactment made the enactment subject to home rule exemption. In Crumbaker, K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. was at issue. The City of DeSoto acted contrary to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-757, as adopted in its zoning regulations, to change land use in order to allow a quarrying operation via an annexation agreement. The court rejected the argument that because the statutory procedures were not mandatory they could be bypassed by DeSoto's exercise of home rule powers:
"The main problem with this argument is that the City's own regulations clearly provide that it shall regulate land use as provided by the zoning statutes, K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. Moreover, pursuant to this enabling legislation, the City has passed its own ordinances and adopted regulations which detail the procedures to be followed when regulating land use and which must be consistent with the provisions of the Act. See K.S.A. 12-741. [The quarry company] is therefore precluded from relying upon the home rule doctrine in the instant case." 275 Kan. at 885.
In light of Moore, Bigs, and Crumbaker, nonuniformity of the planning and zoning laws for cities and counties does not decide the issue. An enactment with optional applicability is deemed uniformly applicable to the governing bodies that elect to follow the procedure prescribed by the enactment. In this case, the County elected to follow the procedure prescribed by K.S.A. 12-741 et seq.
K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. was enacted after the 1972 agreement between the City and the County. See L. 1991, ch. 56. None of the parties, however, contends that the 1972 agreement was superseded by enactment of K.S.A. 12-741 et seq. or is inconsistent with it. The subdivision regulations promulgated by the City and the County pursuant to their agreements invest only the City with authority to approve the subdivision plat. The Moore rule binds the County to the procedure it has elected and agreed to follow.
The County, citing K.S.A. 19-101b(d), contends that its passage of the charter resolution approving the plat rescinded its prior agreements and resulting regulations. K.S.A. 19-101b(d) provides: "Each charter resolution passed shall control and prevail over any prior or subsequent act of the board and may be repealed or amended only by charter resolution or by an act of the legislature uniformly applicable to all counties." By the terms of its own charter resolution, however, the County's approval of the subdivision plat did not remove it from the operation of the legislation that enabled the City and County to enter into an agreement for unified metropolitan planning. The charter resolution at issue here was ineffective, by its own language and under Moore, to exempt the County from the procedure it elected and agreed to follow.
Simon would remove this case from the operation of the Moore principle by arguing that since Moore was decided, the court has held that uniformity (or deemed uniformity) without a clear statement of legislative intent to preempt the field does not preclude home rule. In State ex rel. Kline v. Board of Comm'rs of Unified Gov't of Wyandotte Co./KC, 277 Kan. 516, Syl. ¶ 4, 85 P.3d 1237 (2004), this court rejected a similar contention: "Since the adoption of the Home Rule Amendment, it is not the manifestation of the intent to apply a statute uniformly to all cities that controls but rather whether the constitutional requirement of uniformity is, in fact, met." That is true in county home rule cases where uniformity is required by statute rather than by the Kansas Constitution. Cf. K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 19-101a(1); Kan. Const. art. 12, § 5; see Board of Trego County Comm'rs v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue, 261 Kan. 927, 930-35, 933 P.2d 691 (1997).
Although the other issues raised by the City on appeal need not be resolved, some additional comments are called for with regard to those issues.
The County cited K.S.A. 12-715d as a source of its power to control regulation of land use within 3 miles of a city. The district court concluded that the charter ordinance was enacted in light of K.S.A. 12-715d and was authorized by K.S.A. 19-2633. K.S.A. 12-715d applies to zoning rather than subdivision regulations. The district court, in stating that the charter resolution was enacted "in light of" 12-715d, recognized that it was not applicable to subdivision regulations. Nor does K.S.A. 19-2633 authorize the County's action. In City of Salina v. Jaggers, 228 Kan. 155, Syl. ¶ 4, 612 P.2d 618 (1980), the court held that "K.S.A. 19-2633 was impliedly repealed with the passage of K.S.A. 19-2901 et seq., and in particular, K.S.A. 19-2905." K.S.A. 19-2905, along with all but one provision of K.S.A. 19-2901 et seq., was repealed in 1992. L. 1991, ch. 56, sec. 28. K.S.A. 19-2901 et seq. governed zoning within designated townships. That enactment and other land use statutes were replaced by K.S.A. 12-741 et seq., which governs planning, zoning, and subdivision regulations in cities and counties.
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named his transition team and met with outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday, a day after he won America's biggest city back for Democrats with a 49-point victory over his Republican rival.
Following a campaign in which he promised to address economic inequality and transform police practices, de Blasio promised to create a diverse administration to match New York's ethnic and gender demographics.
"Today is now the first day of an eight-week sprint to preparing our new administration," de Blasio told a news conference in Manhattan, following what he called a productive one-hour meeting with Bloomberg at City Hall.
He will take office January 1 after defeating Republican Joe Lhota by 73 percent to 24 percent. However, voter turnout was a record low 24 percent, and both de Blasio and political analysts acknowledged he faces substantial obstacles to enacting his sweeping policy objectives.
De Blasio appointed Jennifer Jones Austin and Carl Weisbrod, two long-time civil servants, to lead his transition team as he begins the process of selecting a new police commissioner and schools chancellor and an array of other appointments.
He faces the challenge of delivering on campaign promises such as providing universal pre-kindergarten education, revamping police "stop-and-frisk" tactics that a judge has ruled unconstitutional, and expanding low-income housing.
Criticized by conservatives as a tax-and-spend liberal who would be soft on crime, de Blasio said his most important task would be public safety while maintaining economic growth to fund his agenda.
"We have no illusions about the task that lies ahead," de Blasio said in his victory speech. "The challenges we face have been decades in the making, and the problems we set out to address will not be solved overnight."
Political analysts on Wednesday agreed voters would give de Blasio a grace period but will soon start asking if the city is more affordable and if a historic reduction in violent crime is threatened.
A Quinnipiac Poll released a week ago found just 42 percent of voters thought de Blasio would be able to keep his campaign promises, and 43 percent thought he would fail to.
"Income inequality? Jobs? It's a split between the doubters and the believers," said Quinnipiac director Maurice Carroll.
De Blasio campaigned on promises to address the "two New Yorks" - one for the rich and another for the poor - and proposed raising taxes on the city's highest earners to pay for the expansion pre-kindergarten education.
His obstacles are significant. Any tax increase would require the consent of state lawmakers, and 2014 is an election year. Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who has declined to say where he stands on the issue, is up for re-election in 2014.
"In re-election years, you don't raise taxes," said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist, adding that, taxes aside, the relationship between the New York City's mayor and the New York's governor has always been difficult.
Once taking office, de Blasio will have two months to prepare his first budget plan.
He also faces a demand for retroactive pay increases from public sector unions that the current administration estimates could cost the city $4 billion to $8 billion.
Then there is the issue of stop-and-frisk, a Bloomberg-era police tactic that de Blasio and fellow critics say had led to racial profiling of young black and Latino men.
The issue helped propel de Blasio to victory in the Democratic primary, though its defenders say the tactic is critical to the city's anti-crime efforts.
The mayor-elect has indicated he will abandon the city's appeal of a federal judge's ruling that the tactic is a form of "indirect racial profiling."
Legal experts have said they expect the new administration will seek to settle the class-action lawsuit by accepting broad reforms to the department's practices.
In the city's financial center of Wall Street on Wednesday morning, it was clear de Blasio still had to win over some New Yorkers.
"He's got a tough act to follow and I predict he'll have a rocky first year," said Matthew Kearney, 48, who heads an ad agency. "I like the fact that the previous mayor was independent and that he was a businessman. De Blasio is a politician."
Additional reporting by Curtis Skinner and Joseph Ax; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz

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MANCHESTER — Breathe deep, seek peace, Dinotopia fans, and don't miss Norman Rockwell Museum's traveling exhibition Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney exhibited by the New Hampshire Institute of Art. The exhibition will run from Wednesday, Feb. 20 through Wednesday, March 13.
Celebrate the opening of this exciting exhibit on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. followed by James Gurney's lecture: Worldbuilding: How to Develop a Fantasy Universe at 7 p.m. The opening is free and open to the public. Gurney's lecture is part of the Institute's Distinguished American Artists Discussing Art lecture series and the cost to attend is $20.
From the soothing, restorative environment of Waterfall City to the hidden wonders of Chandara, acclaimed author and illustrator James Gurney's magical Dinotopian world comes to life in this enchanting exhibition that features 22 original paintings from the best-selling illustrated books Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (1992), Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995), and Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara (2007), and presents fascinating examples of the illustrator's creative process, including reference materials, and a handmade scale-model.
Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, Gurney's Dinotopia, an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony, fuses fantasy with realism and scientific accuracy. "The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality," says Gurney. "It might be hard to believe that mermaids and dragons really existed, but we know that dinosaurs did―we can see their footprints and skeletons but we can't photograph them or see them, except in our imagination."
The Dinotopia storyline chronicles the adventures and remarkable experiences of Professor Arthur Denison and his son Will on Dinotopia, a mysterious "lost" island inhabited by dinosaurs and shipwrecked travelers. The faraway land of Dinotopia― wholly the product of Gurney's fertile imagination, scientific knowledge and meticulous artistic ability―is a civilization like no other. The society has its own language, alphabet (dinosaur footprints that correspond to each letter of the Roman alphabet), colorful festivals and parades. The lively cast of characters includes the inquisitive Professor Denison; Will and Sylvia, the adventurous young Skybax riders-in-training; the devious curmudgeon Lee Crabb; the beautiful musician Oriana Nascava; and a multilingual, diplomatic Protoceratops named Bix.
"We are honored to present this exciting collection of original works by James Gurney," said New Hampshire Institute of Art Illustration Chair Jim Burke. "This is t the first of what we hope will be many collaborations with the Norman Rockwell Museum."
James Gurney lives with his family in New York State's Hudson Valley. He was born on June 14, 1958, in Glendale, California. As a young boy, he found it difficult to find books on dinosaurs, a subject that always captivated him. A childhood museum visit provided his first encounter with the skeleton of a formidable Allosaurus, leading him to imagine the dinosaur skeletons "stepping off of their platforms and tiptoeing through the hallways at night," returning to their post by daybreak.
Gurney's youthful daydreams inspired an interest in archaeology and lost civilizations. The artist recalls many hours spent excavating his suburban backyard for arrowheads and "even a lost temple." During college he majored in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a B.A. in 1979 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. From there he went on to pursue his lifelong interest in art, studying illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he met his wife Jeanette, also an artist, who shared his love for sketching outdoors.
A cross-country trip with friend and fellow artist Thomas Kinkade resulted in The Artist's Guide to Sketching (1982). During his early career he painted jungle and volcano backdrops for animator Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice (1983) and became interested in the fantasy genre. His art soon appeared on the covers of science fiction and fantasy novels but his big break as an illustrator came from National Geographic magazine with a series of challenging assignments working with scientists and historians to recreate ancient worlds. Gurney's secret dream was to discover a lost city as significant as Troy or Machu Picchu and so, in his spare time, he envisioned and painted Waterfall City and Dinosaur Parade, which inspired the conceptual framework for Dinotopia.
His first Dinotopia book, The New York Times best-seller Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time, appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies. Gurney has written and illustrated three other volumes in the series, Dinotopia: The World Beneath, Dinotopia: First Flight, and Dinotopia: Journey To Chandara. In 2002, Hallmark Entertainment produced a lavish $86 million television miniseries for ABC-TV based on the Dinotopia books that received record-setting ratings and an Emmy award for best visual effects.
Norman Rockwell Museum
Founded in 1969, Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to education and art appreciation inspired by the enduring legacy of one of America's greatest artists. The Museum houses the world's largest and most significant collection of original Rockwell art, and presents the works of contemporary and past masters of illustration. The Norman Rockwell Archive contains more than 200,000 photographs, letters, and other ephemera. In 2008, the Museum was awarded the National Humanities Medal, which honors individuals or institutions whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities.
The Museum is located in Stockbridge, MA, where Rockwell spent the last 25 years of his life. In 1993, the Museum moved from its original home at the Old Corner House on Stockbridge's Main Street to its present location, a 36-acre site overlooking the Housatonic River Valley. Architect Robert A.M. Stern designed the Museum gallery building.


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4. Are legally prescribed substances ever prohibited?
5. What should an athlete do if they need to use a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited Method for a legitimate medical reason?
5. Does IRONMAN need to know if I receive a TUE from my NADO?
Therapeutic Use Exemption: TUE
The Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) process, outlined below, is a means by which an athlete can request approval to use a prescribed prohibited substance or method for the treatment of a legitimate medical condition.
Athletes should advise all medical personnel of their obligation to abide by the anti-doping rules of their sport and that any medical treatment received must not violate these rules.
Athletes should also check the status of all medications and treatments by visiting WADA's website to review the Prohibited List - http://list.wada-ama.org/ or use the Global Drug Reference Online (Global DRO). It is important to check the status of all medications, supplements and treatments on an annual basis as the list is updated annually (effective January 1). Even if a particular substance or method isn't banned this year it does not necessarily mean that it won't become prohibited in a subsequent year.
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Seven Days at Lila B.
Sometimes I wonder, what did we do last week?
Here's a little photo journal entry about how we all at Lila B. spent just one week in July of 2012.
In the {parking} Lot Garden:
Grooming, watering, Slug patrol {eek, we do it by hand!}, and yes our favorite task: cutting flowers & greens and plucking Succulents too for this week's events.
Mimi helps select and cut for our wedding- and then fills our Honda Element with all sorts of fabulous stems!
In the Studio
With 2 sweet weddings on the books for the coming Saturday, we're busily creating bouquets, centerpieces, boutonnieres & more! All while neighbors swing by to purchase Succulent and Floral take homes – Baylor chats with a kind mother of a (former) bride who visits us at the 'Flower Bar' (our raised loading dock) to select some super hip Succulents for her, just around the corner, office at Mission Loc@le.
Planning & Proposals
We stay in and we step out of the studio to meet up with clients, brides, and event…


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I am looking for something simple, maybe the outline of a womans face with piercing eyes . Ladies in Hawaii have long hair, often wears a flower above right ear (single) or left ear (married). My company colors are teal and white, and I have a "Kauai Made" logo sticker that I add to packaging, you can view that at http://www.kauaimade.net its purple, green and white. So, bottom line, a "Salty Wahine" would be awesome. Sultry, inviting, eye catching, but not X rated. I've attached photos of my products and packaging and a sketch of a "salty wahine" that I like but is too detailed to put on a business card. Also, the female behind the table selling my salt is my daughter and the "face" of salty wahine on our local ads. So you can use her face as inspiration. I've attached a photo of her (Nikki)
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2014 Jaguar F-Type Preview
Christian Wardlaw | Sep 26, 2012
- 2-seat, rear-drive sports car
- Soft convertible roof folds in 12 seconds
- Three supercharged engine choices
- Standard 8-speed automatic transmission
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German business sentiment in April was worse than the most pessimistic of forecasts, falling for the second consecutive month as Europe's largest economy was undermined by both its euro zone and Chinese export markets.
Munich-based Ifo think tank said on Wednesday its business climate index, based on a survey of some 7,000 firms, fell to 104.4 in April from 106.7 in March.
It came a day after a preliminary purchasing managers' survey showed Germany's private sector contracted in April, bolstering the case for the European Central Bank to cut interest rates at its meeting next week.
The Ifo report pushed the euro down to its lowest in nearly three weeks against the dollar while Bunds edged up briefly.
"The sharp dip in Germany's Ifo index marks another nail in the coffin for stronger recovery this year," said David Brown at New View Economics. "Germany will be very lucky to avoid a near term recession in the recent two quarters."
The German economy long fought off the euro zone crisis that sent much of the rest of the bloc into recession but contracted in the final quarter of 2012. Data now point to it struggling to leave that gloom behind, especially because of weakness in the Chinese economy which had proved a strong alternative market.
The economy has not yet featured prominently in Germany's election campaign but if it worsens significantly it could become a headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she seeks a third term in office in September.
Momentum meanwhile is growing at the ECB for a cut. The bank's own lending data on Wednesday added to the pressure, showing demand for corporate and household loans in the euro zone plummeted in the first three months of the year.
Lower interest rates could help German exports and therefore the wider euro zone by weakening the euro, which has already fallen around 1.5 percent against the dollar since the start of the year.
Some other recent data have been more mixed. Industrial orders climbed in February while output ticked up and exports fell. Unemployment has edged up but remains close to a German post-reunification low and retail sales have risen.
Economists polled by Reuters expect Germany to stave off recession by growing 0.3 percent in the first quarter. Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe said Germany should grow more strongly in the second quarter of 2013 than in the first.
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The Ifo survey showed firms were more gloomy about their business outlook, with a sub-index falling to 101.6 from 103.6 in March. They were more pessimistic about current business, with a gauge of current conditions dropping to 107.2 from 109.9.
German engineering conglomerate Siemens (SIEGn.DE) said earlier this month that while Chinese industrial demand seemed to be stabilizing it did not expect a notable recovery in the next two quarters.
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"No wonder that companies have lost their hopes for a dynamic recovery," he added.
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The Ufer family established The Bob Ufer Donor Fund at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation in 2009 to continue the spirit of giving to the Ann Arbor community started by Bob during his life.
In addition to the Bob Ufer Memorial Scholarships awarded through the University of Michigan, the family wanted to provide an avenue for supporting other youth activities in the community.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tangent Medical (www.tangentmedical.com), an innovator in IV therapy products, today announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the NovaCath™ Secure IV Catheter System, a product designed to set new standards in peripheral IV catheter design, functionality and performance. The company will be demonstrating NovaCath this week at the 2012 Annual Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Conference (Booth #241) in San Diego.
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"Up to 50% of all short-peripheral IV catheters develop complications that negatively impact catheter dwell times, clinical outcomes, patient safety and patient satisfaction," said Curtis Bloch, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Tangent Medical. "Our innovative, closed IV catheter design uniquely integrates advanced catheter stabilization, next generation tubing management, passive needle encapsulation and blood control on every short-peripheral IV start. Our research with clinicians has validated there is nothing like it in the market. FDA clearance will pave the way for us to advance the safety and efficacy of IV therapy."
The NovaCath™ Secure IV Catheter System integrates a series of next-generation technologies designed to address IV therapy challenges including catheter stabilization, healthcare worker safety, tubing management and patient comfort. NovaCath is the only peripheral IV catheter with advanced catheter stabilization designed to exceed the highest CDC, OSHA and INS standards for IV catheter stabilization. Its passive needle shielding technology and closed system design minimizes risk of needlestick injuries and occupational exposure to blood to the lowest feasible extent. Several novel design features uniquely position NovaCath to offer healthcare facilities uncompromising safety and satisfaction – both to the clinician and the patient.
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Come home to Vail's premier resort as the first owner in this south-facing corner residence. Perfect for pets, this is one of only two Four Seasons Private Residences with walk-out access and a private patio. With a complete custom renovation underway, the all-new modern design is slated for completion for the holidays. At Four Seasons, discover an effortless luxury lifestyle with award-winning amenities and services: private owners concierge, ski valet, full spa, kids club and so much more.
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Instead of worrying about the fiscal cliff, Republicans ought to worry about the conceptual cliff.
A quip from the late reporting genius Bob Novak is making the rounds these days: "God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function." Some people think this is true, or should be. But as Pat Buchanan has pointed out, the GOP's track record on taxes could be half-decently described as one major malfunction after the next. The arc of history has Pat all but throwing in the towel:
Republicans may talk of reducing the size of government, cutting taxes and balancing budgets. But the history of the last century suggests the party has been driven into what may be described as an inexorable long retreat.
When Coolidge left the White House to "Wonder Boy," as he called Hoover, federal spending was 3 percent of gross national product.
Today, it is around 23 percent. Add state, county and municipal government spending, and we are at 38 percent. Anyone think this figure is going down in our lifetimes?
Can anyone say the GOP, if it is the party of small government and low taxes, has over the past 80 years been a successful party? Or does the America of today look more like the country Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind in 1932?
Small wonder rising Republicans have worked so swiftly to "change the message," embracing the apparently-new but in fact age-old appeal to upward mobility and a "right to rise." Alas, this retreat to Whiggery won't do much to change the electoral equation. The issue is not why we are tinkering around the edges of our political economy (and under whatever banner, this is what today's GOP is dedicated to as a matter of policy), but that tinkering has become a bipartisan orthodoxy so well-established that team Republicans are forced to accept the basic principles that Democrats accept, despite pushing with all their might to maintain a few token departures on outcomes (more guns, lower taxes).
The situation in the GOP is historically bad and getting worse -- because identity crises are now plaguing multiple factions on the right. The radical reformers are torn between moral and market fundamentalism. The elites have lost their foreign policy edge and, with it, any idea of how to claim it back. The establishment can't figure out where the Chamber of Commerce ends and crony capitalism begins. Embarrassingly, what we have here is a political party that doesn't understand how to ground itself in actually political claims. Put it all together, and you get centrists and wingers unhappy with their Speaker; you get a star Senator slamming the party's elder statesman; you get the incredible disappearing Ryan.
It's indicative of a problem that goes back to the birth of the Republican Party, which united Whig economy with Abolitionist morality. Politics was just a means to those ends; it took the Civil War to supply the GOP with a properly political proposition -- Union, above all, always and forever. That was potent stuff in 1860, and for decades after as we conquered our own American interior. But today the legacy of Unionism is a curse: the GOP veers like a drunk from hypernationalism to knee-jerk sectionalism. Sometimes, like a particularly bad drunk, it tries to do both at once.
The challenge is simple enough. Even if the GOP let itself be politically bankrupt, it could get a lot of mileage out of its economic and cultural agenda... if a large enough percentage of voters backed it up at the ballot box. Unfortunately, traditional morality is mostly sliding away, and even though some typically Republican issues, like abortion, are defying gravity, they're not winning elections. Worse, there just isn't a constituency for sweeping spending cuts. When Dick Cheney said deficits don't matter, he wasn't playing Econ professor.
Ironically, Democrats are worse off because they still really think the losing game they're playing is a winner. Republicans are beginning to know better. But without an animating political claim -- not an economic or cultural one -- the GOP will sail off the conceptual cliff no matter how self-aware. When cultural and economic conditions conspire to reward a national political organization, as they did for Republicans for many decades, it's sometimes unnecessary to dredge up or call down a fundamental political foundation upon which to build a party platform. These days, the culture and the economy are extremely unfavorable to Republicans. Left to today's trajectory, the GOP will put itself out of its misery, even if whatever replaces it continues for some strange reason to keep the tarnished brand name.
The good news? There actually are cultural and economic conditions that would richly reward a right-tilted political party with a suitably re-authenticated grounding in political principle. I'll be starting 2013 off with a sustained look at what those conditions are, what that principle might be, and how that re-authentication might work.
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Supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual rights are wearing red shirts today to show their opposition to the Prime Minister's "gay red top" comment.
John Key has been criticised for using the word "gay" to describe a red top worn by The Farming Show presenter Jamie Mackay in an interview last Friday.
"You're munted mate. You're never going to make it. You've got that gay red top on," he told Mackay.
Key later said he meant "weird" when he used the word "gay" in the interview, and had picked up the term from his children and had no intention of sounding homophobic.
However the use of the word was widely criticised, with even Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellan wading into the debate.
"I'm currently touring secondary schools in UK, attacking homophobia in the playground and discouraging kids from the careless use of 'gay' which might make their gay friends (and teachers) feel less about themselves," he said on his blog.
"So even as he supports the proposal to introduce same-gender marriages in New Zealand, I do hope John Key listens to his critics and appreciates their concern. Careless talk damages lives."
On Twitter, supporters of LGBT rights are using the #GayRedShirtDay hash tag to share pictures of the red shirts they are wearing today.
Earlier this week, the Farming Show's Jamie Mackay came to the defence of the Prime Minister on his show.
"All the kerfuffle over the gay red top was just harmless banter and for those of you who are kicking up about it ... to put it into context, there had been a lot of banter before we got on air from all the golfers outside as we were having a bit of a lunch and one thing lead to another, because we were giving the Prime Minister a bit of stick about putting like Bronagh, so I thought he'd just get some of his own back.
"It's all been a storm in a tea cup."
- nzherald.co.nz


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Heat, Pacers stumble into matchup
Only now it's also a matchup of struggling teams.
Indiana has a three-game lead over the Heat, who suddenly have defensive problems. Then again, playing the Pacers might be just what they need to fix them.
Paul George's shot is off and Indiana's offense has stalled. The Pacers were held to a season-low 71 points by Memphis on Saturday, and their All-Star forward had games of 4 of 14, 4 of 17, 3 of 13 and 2 of 10 last week. Indiana had just two assists in the first half of a loss at New York on Wednesday.
"We've got to play for each other. We talk about it but we don't do it," center Roy Hibbert said. "Until we do that we're going to keep beating the bad teams and losing to good teams."
Miami is one of the good ones, but not nearly good enough on defense lately by its own standards. The Heat have allowed 100.1 points per game and 47.5 percent shooting from the field over their last 11 games, losing seven. They had limited opponents to 98.3 points on 45.5 percent shooting in their first 57 games, according to STATS.
"This is new territory for us. It doesn't make it right, wrong, good, bad," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "This is what we're dealing with and this is how you develop championship character, is you have to go through things sometimes and sometimes they come at unpredictable times."
Both teams are miles ahead of everyone else in the East, so maybe they are just losing concentration. But nobody wants extended lapses this late in the season.
"When you start losing games it's not necessarily a bad thing, because it can wake a group up and get a group refocused going into the playoffs," said Mike Brown, who coached a pair of 60-game winners during his first stint in Cleveland.
"But in the same breath, you don't want any doubt in your guys' heads going into the playoffs, so you hope that you don't play your worst basketball towards the end."
Here are five things to watch this week:
SIXERS STINK: This is not how former Spurs assistant Brett Brown envisioned his return to San Antonio. Philadelphia brings a 24-game losing streak into Monday's game and could break the NBA record of 26 straight losses by the end of the week.
SPURS SURGE: San Antonio has won 13 in a row, most recently while Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili rested Saturday at Golden State, and has the NBA's best record.
HOW'S HOWARD? Dwight Howard has missed three straight games with a sore left ankle but has returned to practice. Houston could use his defense on Monday against Al Jefferson when it visits Charlotte.
DOMINANT DAVIS: New Orleans All-Star Anthony Davis has scored at least 28 points and grabbed at least nine rebounds in eight straight games, the longest such streak since Shaquille O'Neal did it 12 games in a row with the Lakers in 2001.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS: With Duke and Kansas out of the NCAA tournament, NBA teams and fans await the plans of freshmen Jabari Parker and Andrew Wiggins, who would be two of the top picks if they leave school.
STAT LINE OF THE WEEK: Kevin Durant, Thunder: 51 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists on Friday in Toronto. Oh yeah, he also made the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1.7 seconds left in the second overtime of Oklahoma City's 119-118 victory.
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Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation awards grants to northwest corner nonprofits
Sheffield, Mass. >> Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation announced today that thanks to the generosity of several anonymous donors, it has awarded $132,500 in grants to over a dozen Northwest Corner nonprofit organizations this year. These grants bring the total amount that the Berkshire Taconic has already awarded to the area in 2012 to over $750,000. Since 1987, when the foundation was founded in Salisbury, it has facilitated more than $11 million in grants to improve the quality of life of residents in the Northwest Corner.
Berkshire Taconic works with many donors, some of whom wish to remain anonymous and draw on the Foundation staff's deep knowledge of the area. "Several years ago, these donors approached us because they wanted to support grassroots 'worthy causes' that made a difference in peoples' lives." said Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation President Jennifer Dowley. "Like other donors with whom we work, they look to us to assess the needs of the community and advise them on where their donations will do the most good. We do the research and connect them to worthwhile causes that reflect their personal values and philanthropic priorities that fulfill critical needs in our communities."
The Northwest Corner grantees include organizations that address education, healthcare, poverty, families, domestic violence and housing. Highlights include $25,000 for early childhood development in the Northwest Corner, $5,000 to the Visiting Nurses Association Northwest for their food voucher program and $2,500 for the Town of Cornwall Food and Fuel Fund.
"We have individuals and families who are really struggling to meet their basic living expenses...food, heating fuel, utilities and medical expenses. Many are disabled or elderly and cannot work, even if there were jobs available. Thank goodness, for our generous donors! This grant will go a long way toward relieving the stress of trying to make ends meet and worrying how they will manage to pay their bills. Honestly, it fills me with joy and gratitude when I know I have a resource that can really help make a difference in someone's life," said Jill Gibbons, Cornwall Social Service Agent.
The grants made possible by these anonymous donors include:
Northwest Corner Fund ($15,000)
Northwest Corner Fund was formed in 2000 to improve the quality of life of residents in the Northwest Corner. The Fund currently operates the Nonprofit Learning Program to build the capacity of nonprofits and the Nonprofit Leadership Program for nonprofit CEOs.
HousingUs ($10,000)
HousingUs is a tri-state collaborative effort of nonprofit organizations and community leaders to promote broad-based affordable housing options in towns throughout the northwest corner of Connecticut, northeast Dutchess and Columbia Counties in New York and southern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. This grant is for consultant services to continue to work with towns in the Northwest Corner and in Northeast Dutchess County to expand support for accessory apartments and individual towns' efforts to create more affordable housing options.
Neighbor to Neighbor Fund ($10,000)
This fund provides up to $500 and occasionally more in assistance to individuals/families in the Northwest Corner that are in crisis. Requests for funding are submitted by the town social workers, social service agencies and churches.
Housatonic Youth Services Bureau ($7,500)
Housatonic Youth Services Bureau serves the community through treatment and advocacy for the needs of youth and their families in the towns of Canaan, Cornwall, Kent, Salisbury and Sharon. This grant is for mental health services for Region One youth.
Chore Service ($5,000)
Chore Service provides affordable services at home to frail, elderly and handicapped people in the towns of Canaan, Cornwall, Falls Village, Kent, Norfolk, Salisbury, Sharon, and Warren who might otherwise have to go to a nursing home. This funding is for program services.
Housatonic Valley Regional High School Mahoney-Hewat Science & Technology Center ($5,000)
This high school initiative has created a new state of the art "green" Science and Technology Center in the old Agricultural building on the Falls Village campus. This grant is for equipment and supplies for the building.
Older Women's League of Northwest Connecticut ($5,000)
As part of a national program to support legislation and programs that help meet basic needs, the Older Women's League of Northwest Connecticut's major service project has been OWL's Kitchen, a food pantry located in Lakeville that provides free groceries and used clothing once a week and food on an emergency basis as needed throughout the week. The pantry's clients come from the Northwest Corner, Northeast Dutchess and Southern Berkshire counties. This grant is for program support.
Prime Time House ($5,000)
Located in Torrington, and serving Northwest Connecticut, this clubhouse serves over 300 people with serious long-term mental illnesses by providing a place in the community where individuals may participate in work services and social rehabilitation programs, transitional and permanent employment programs. This grant supports the Rural Mental Health Initiative in the Northwest Corner.
Susan B. Anthony Project ($5,000)
The Susan B. Anthony Project promotes the autonomy of women and the safety of all victims of domestic abuse/sexual assault in Northwest Connecticut as well as community action toward ending domestic violence and sexual abuse. This grant supports sexual assault services, shelter and transitional housing for domestic violence victims in the Northwest Corner.
Women's Support Services ($5,000)
Women's Support Services serves victims of domestic violence and abuse in the towns of Canaan, Cornwall, Kent, Salisbury and Sharon through counseling and support as they rebuild their lives. This grant is for program support.
Visiting Nurses Association Northwest ($5,000)
VNA Northwest provides a broad range of community-based preventive, health and hospice services in a professional, caring and compassionate manner to people throughout the Northwestern Connecticut region. This grant is for their food voucher program, previously called the Canaan Family Center program.
Canaan Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry ($2,500)
Canaan Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry is a weekly food pantry based at Pilgrim House of the Congregational Church in North Canaan that provides food for residents of North Canaan and the surrounding towns. This grant is for program support.
Cornwall Food & Fuel Fund ($2,500)
The Cornwall Food & Fuel Fund provides assistance to Cornwall residents in need with heating fuel, food, rent, utilities and medical expenses. The program is overseen by the Town's social service agent. This year to date, the fund has given over $14,000 in assistance. The grant is to support this program.
Salisbury Visiting Nurses Association ($5,000)
Salisbury Visiting Nurses Association provides public health nursing and other therapeutic health services to approximately 60 residents of Salisbury and surrounding towns in their homes on a part-time or intermittent basis, as well as provides daily health supervision at Salisbury Central School and promotes and conducts programs for the maintenance and improvement of the health of the townspeople. This grant is for program support.
Teddy Lee Drumm Scholarship Fund ($5,000)
The Teddy Lee Drumm Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support for Sharon youth in the pursuit of their post-secondary education. A committee of Sharon residents selects students who are highly motivated to succeed in college and for whom the award will have a significant impact both personally and financially. This grant is to continue to build the fund's endowment.
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation celebrates 25 years of building stronger communities and helping donors make a difference through charitable giving in northwest Litchfield County, CT; Berkshire County, MA; and Columbia County and northeast Dutchess County, NY. Each year, the foundation distributes over $7 million through grants and scholarships to nonprofits and individuals in the arts and education, health and human services and environmental protection. Berkshire Taconic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. You can make a difference. We can help.


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TBS Greenlights Two New Series: "Deon Cole's Black Box," Starring CONAN Writer/Performer Deon Cole, and "Who Gets the Last Laugh?" (w.t.), from Jason Goldberg and Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst
Both Shows Produced by Warner Horizon Television
TBS has given the greenlight to two new comedy series as the network undergoes an expansion of its original series lineup. TBS has ordered six episodes of Deon Cole's Black Box, starring CONAN writer and performer Deon Cole. The network has also ordered nine episodes of Who Gets the Last Laugh? (working title), a new series from Punk'd co-creators Jason Goldberg and Ashton Kutcher. Both shows, from Warner Horizon Television, are slated to premiere in 2013.
In Deon Cole's Black Box, the Emmy(R)-nominated writer/comedian will invade America's televisions each week to provide his take on some of the most outrageous video clips to pop up across the media landscape. Cole brings a truly unique point of view to his commentary as he uses clips to riff on racial and gender stereotypes, politics and more. Deon Cole's Black Boxcomes to TBS from Conaco LLC in association with Warner Horizon Television, and is executive-produced by Conaco's Conan O'Brien, Jeff Ross and David Kissinger, along with Cole and Doug Karo.
Who Gets the Last Laugh? (working title) puts a new twist on the comedy format by pitting two comedians against each other in the ultimate prank challenge. First, they must dream up the funniest and most outrageous pranks possible, then successfully unleash them on the public. A live audience then determines which comic really got the last laugh. Who Gets the Last Laugh? is produced by Katalyst in association with Warner Horizon Television, with Katalyst co-founder Goldberg serving as executive producer and showrunner, and Kutcher serving as executive producer.
"Deon Cole's Black Box and Who Gets the Last Laugh? come to us from some of today's brightest comedic voices, affirming the power of the TBS brand to comedy lovers," said Michael Wright, president, head of programming for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). "These shows are not only extremely funny but also irreverent, provocative and a little bit subversive, making them ideal for fans of TBS's CONAN, The Big Bang Theory and Family Guy."
Deon Cole's Black Box and Who Gets the Last Laugh? are the latest projects to join TBS's ever-growing slate of original series. The slate also includes the May 24 debut of the new buddy comedy series Men at Work, starring Danny Masterson, James Lesure, Michael Cassidy, Adam Busch and Meredith Hagner. In July, TBS will launch Sullivan & Son, a new sitcom starring comedian Steve Byrne, Dan Lauria, Jodi Long, Vivian Bang and Christine Ebersole and executive-produced by Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley and Rob Long. This year will also include the debut of Wedding Band, a new scripted comedy series starring Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau, Peter Cambor, Derek Miller, Melora Hardin, Jenny Wade and Kathryn Fiore. TBS just announced it has picked up Cougar Town for the series' fourth season. TBS will set out to crown the ultimate nerd in the reality-competition series King of the Nerds (working title), hosted by Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong.
About TBS
TBS is basic cable's #1 network among young adults in primetime. Available in 100 million households, TBS features the Emmy(R)-nominated late-night series CONAN, starring Conan O'Brien; and original primetime comedy series like Men at Work, Sullivan & Son, Cougar Town, Wedding Band, Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse, King of the Nerds (w.t.), Deon Cole's Black Box and Who Gets the Last Laugh? (w.t.). TBS also features an outstanding slate of contemporary comedies, such as The Big Bang Theory and Family Guy, as well as blockbuster movies and championship sports. In addition, TBS produces special live comedy events, like the star-studded comedy festival held each year in Chicago.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.


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Sony details Vita game transfer fees
Sony details Passport Program, offering discount digital download prices for those wanting to play games they already own on the new platform.
Sony details Passport Program, offering discount digital download prices for those wanting to play games they already own on the new platform.
Guy Cocker and Codemasters' senior game designer Paul Coleman show off the rallycross and gymkhana action in Dirt 3.
This week, we feature a demo for Red Faction:Armageddon, an explosive title by the name of Gatling Gears, and free identity protection from Sony.
This week, we feature Gatling Gears; editor's choice downloads, including Vanquish and Dirt 2; and a demo for Red Faction: Armageddon.
Microsoft's online platform gets Atari reboot game and Gatling Gears on Wednesday; Games on Demand welcomes new Operation Flashpoint, Dirt 2, Velvet Assassin, Vanquish.
Service to cost S$8 per month, free trial ongoing until end of April.
Off-road racing sequel hitting stores worldwide at the end of May.
Go back to school in style with the best picks for party, portable, and laptop computer games for those late-night dorm room sessions--along with selections of the best new games ...
Reliance Big Entertainment acquires half of Dirt publisher for undisclosed sum; racing, cricket franchises targeted.
GameSpot hardware editor Sarju Shah shows off the power of gaming on six monitors.
Tax breaks may come in two to three years if the current opposition wins upcoming election, despite pleas and dire warnings from industry heavyweights.
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New handheld's debut accompanied by first PSP Minis, debuts of PixelJunk Monsters, Thexder Neo, sales on Puzzle Quest, Prinny, and more; full list and price breakdown inside.
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Your family and friends will need a ticket to attend commencement.
As a graduate, you will be given up to four tickets, which you will receive when you pick up your regalia at Graduation Central or the Panther Shop. Requests for extra tickets will be honored as space is determined to be available.
We are able to offer graduates up to four additional tickets for admission to Blaisdell Hall's Bromeley Family Theater for a remote broadcast of Commencement on the big screen there. These tickets are good for admission to the theater only.
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SPRINGFIELD -- Today's signing of Illinois' historic civil unions legislation doesn't mean an end to work on the law. State and local officials will continue making preparations so the first civil unions can begin taking place June 1.
SPRINGFIELD -- Today's signing of Illinois' historic civil unions legislation doesn't mean an end to work on the law. State and local officials will continue making preparations so the first civil unions can begin taking place June 1.
Gov. Pat Quinn is scheduled to sign Senate Bill 1716 this afternoon at a ceremony before an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center. Quinn spokeswoman Brie Callahan said the office received hundreds of requests to attend the signing ceremony in just 12 hours.
"We're trying to make every accommodation," Callahan said. "We do have an overflow room. We're not discouraging people from coming down."
"Our biggest problem right now is public response of people who want to be there to witness the ceremony. They feel this is part of history," said Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, the bill's principal sponsor.
Harris, an openly gay member of the General Assembly, worked for years to get the civil unions bill passed. He finally succeeded by narrow margins in both the House and Senate during the fall veto session.
"This has been a battle long fought and hard won," said Bernard Cherkasov, executive director of Equality Illinois.
Not same as marriage
Although gay-rights activists in Illinois have hailed passage of the bill, the sense of success isn't shared by everyone. New Jersey has had a civil unions law since 2007 that's similar to what Illinois passed. But Garden State Equality says the bill is lacking.
"I'm very hesitant to rain on the parade of my brothers and sisters in Illinois who are marking a great milestone in the civil union law, but civil unions are not equality," said the organization's director, Steven Goldstein. "Our experience in New Jersey is it provides half the equality that marriage would."
Over the years, Goldstein said, there have still been problems with gays being allowed to make medical decisions for their partners and with companies providing equal health-care benefits to gay couples.
"Society does not recognize or even understand what civil unions are," Goldstein said. "No one should view enactment of a civil union law as a litmus test as to whether a public official supports equality for same-sex couples. Marriage provides equality."
Goldstein said Garden State Equality will soon launch a new effort to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey.
Cherkasov, though, is happy with what's been accomplished here.
"Our community hasn't had many victories. This is such a sweet day," he said. "Our lawmakers really thought hard about how to address a very urgent need. Lawmakers in Illinois really want to treat homosexuals the same way as heterosexuals."
Working out details
The bill-signing won't end the work on civil unions. The new law doesn't go into effect until June 1, and there is still work to be done before the first civil union will be recognized.
The state Department of Public Health is working on the paperwork that will be necessary for people interested in civil unions.
"We're looking at the application needed for a civil union," said Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold. "We are developing it. It's just like a marriage license obtained through a county clerk."
In 55 mostly larger Illinois counties, like Sangamon, the county clerk's offices determine the form an application and other documents will take. They need to ensure the forms contain certain information required by the state, such as the names of the couple, the date, the location where the license is issued and the officiant.
The other 47 counties, Arnold said, ask that the state supply the paperwork. Those counties handle about 7,000 marriage licenses a year, or about 10 percent of the total issued in the state.
"We don't know what the form will look like yet," Arnold said, adding that the state is considering requiring all counties to handle the process electronically, as the larger counties do.
Arnold said the cost of a civil union could vary by county. Marriage licenses cost at least $20, she said, but counties are allowed to charge more.
Sangamon County Clerk Joe Aiello said "at this point" he's looking at a fee of $35.
He said his office is reviewing the forms it uses for marriage licenses to alter them for use in civil unions.
"We're mocking up changes on the current forms, the application and the license itself that will be issued to the couple at the counter," Aiello said. "We're doing everything we can, but we're waiting on the state to give us final word on what they are looking for."
Not just for same sex
The law requires a couple seeking a civil union to both be at least 18 years old. The Illinois law will allow both heterosexual as well as homosexual couples to enter into civil unions. A civil union license is valid for 60 days, during which time a civil union ceremony must be held.
A judge, certain public officials or religious leaders may officiate at the ceremonies and attest that they have taken place.
How many couples will choose to enter into civil unions is anyone's guess. Charkas said that is particularly true in Illinois, since different-sex couples can also obtain civil unions here.
"I do expect at the outset there will be many, many, many couples who want to have their relationships recognized," he said. "They will rush and get that protection effectuated."
"I think we will probably get a lot at the beginning, and then it will taper off," Aiello said. "We've gotten a few calls. It hasn't been a mad rush."
By way of comparison, Sangamon County issued 1,250 marriage licenses in 2010.
Harris said he and others did their best to make sure the bill covers all contingencies, but some tweaking may be necessary.
"This is vastly new territory for state and family law and business and insurance," he said. "We want to make sure this functions as effectively as possible."
Doug Finke can be reached at (217) 788-1527.
Civil union vs. marriage
When politicians say they support civil unions but not marriage for people of the same sex, what do they mean?
There are three main differences between civil unions and marriage as it's traditionally viewed:
*The right to federal benefits. States that allow some type of same-sex union are able to grant only state rights. The federal Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996 prohibits same-sex couples from receiving federal marriage rights and benefits, such as the right to file joint tax returns.
* Portability. Because civil unions are not recognized by all states, such agreements are not always valid when couples cross state lines.
Terminology. "Marriage" is a term that conveys societal and cultural meaning, important to both gay-rights activists and those who don't believe gays should marry.
Source: www.factcheck.org