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Left with no choice, Rakosky decided to take it to the top and appeal the appeals court ruling to the Louisiana State Supreme Court. In announcing the decision, he said the actions of the appeals court would factor very heavily in the case they would make before the state's highest judicial body.
"We will be filing with the Supreme Court within the allotted time to reverse the Court of Appeals decision and reinstate the ruling of Judge Sassone," Rakosky announced. A week later, support came from an influential quarter. The Baton Rouge Chapter of the NAACP entered the fray, saying that Corey's civil rights were being violated by the appeals court's refusal to re-hear the case, and they sued the state of Louisiana on his behalf.
By this time, Corey announced that he was no longer using the name C-Murder. To soften his bad-boy image and influence future courts and juries, he said he would be using the name C-Miller. "People hear the name C-Murder and they don't realize that the name simply means that I have seen many murders in my native Calliope projects neighborhood," the rapper stated. "From the beginning, I have been a target because of who I am, my stage name and for my success as an entertainer and the success of my siblings," he said in prepared statement issued through the Koch record label.
Over the next several months Corey's attorneys prepared their appeal to the State Supreme Court, based in an imposing white marble building on Royal Street in New Orleans' historic French Quarter. However, on August 29, Hurricane Katrina hit the city with powerful winds and flooding from breached levee floodwalls. Even though the solid structure housing the Supreme Court was largely spared, as was most of the French Quarter, the judicial system of southern Louisiana came to a virtual standstill, along with nearly every other state agency and private business. Power remained out in the city for weeks. Along with approximately 1,100 other inmates in the Jefferson Parish jail, Corey was transferred to other state facilities farther inland that were not impacted by the storm.
Finally, on February 21, 2006, with service restored to most state and city agencies, Corey's lawyers filed their appeal with the State Supreme Court. Rakosky was now joined by noted criminal defense attorney, Robert Glass, who had a history of getting celebrity clients off the hook, including California feminist Ginny Foat on a murder charge in Jefferson Parish in 1983.
Corey was not present when Rakosky and Glass filed their brief during a hearing, but nearly a dozen relatives and supporters were there for him. Arguing a persuasive case, Glass told the state's high court justices that prosecutors had "no physical evidence, no conclusive evidence" that Corey shot Thomas. He called one of the prosecution witnesses "a through and through liar... and the jury didn't know that."
Glass also reiterated positions that had been brought up in earlier rulings; that prosecutors hadn't fully shared information about witnesses' criminal backgrounds with the defense. Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney Juliet Clark countered that her office had shared what it knew at the time with defense lawyers.


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"The racing went well and they rowed very strong races," said JU women's head coach Kris Muhl. "It was a great opportunity to learn and grow as they had boats on either side of them for a good deal of the racing and were in it for all the races. The competition was a great measure to show us where we still need to go as a program. However, this was a significant step for JU rowing, marking the first final the Varsity 8+ has earned a place in since JU started coming to the Murphy Cup. We still have more work to do and speed to find this year with a little over a month to go before our final races. The hard work that has been put in is paying off, that is clear. The ladies are proud of their accomplishments, as they should be, but they also understand it is early in the season. But a job well done this weekend, that is without question."
The Varsity 8 with coxswain Jamie Goldstein, Danielle Fournier, Emily Close, Whitney Mathews, Jill Carmody, Abby Sierigk, Allison Sobiech, Mary Mosier and Joanna Zachowski placed third in its initial heat with a time of 6:43.32 behind Navy (6:37.93) and George Mason (6:41.56) but ahead of Temple (6:45.88), Robert Morris (7:25.08) and Pittsburgh (7:32.17).
In the Petite Final, the squad placed third with a mark of 7:02.49 behind Colgate (6:58.11) and George Mason (6:58.34) but ahead of Delaware (7:05.87), Temple (7:07.25) and Marist (7:07.97).
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The Grey Cup visited campus early Sunday morning as part of the 100th anniversary tour across Canada. The university received two banners, one commemorating the three Grey Cups Queen's won from 1922-1924 and another recognizing Richardson Field as the site of the 1922 Grey Cup game. Accepting the banners for Queen's were (left to right) Matthew Scribner, President, Society of Graduate and Professional Students, Principal Daniel Woolf, Merv Daub, a professor emeritus in Queen's School of Business and author of Gael Force A Century of Football at Queen's, and current football players John Miniaci and Derek Morris. The 100th Grey Cup game will take place November 25 in Toronto.


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In the past few months, several international students have informed the ISSS of issues when presenting a valid foreign driver's license, rather than a New York State license for driving purposes. In fact, it is perfectly legal to drive in New York State using a valid foreign driver's license. However, not everyone is familiar with this policy. Even police officers have, on some occasions, ticketed an international student for "driving without a license" if the only license presented was from a foreign country. If your driver's license is written in a language other than English, police officers may have difficulty reading it. In that case, it is recommended that you have an International Driving Permit to present with your foreign driver's license.
The best information on this issue comes from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles website. We repeat the text from their web link, http://www.nysdmv.com/license.htm#driversfromothernations below:
A valid driver license from another country is also valid in NYS. You do not need to apply for a NYS driver license unless you become a resident of NYS .
According to NYS law, a resident of another country can get a NYS driver license. The DMV does not recommend this because:
• NYS recognizes your foreign driver license if you remain a resident of the nation that issued the license. You do not need to have a NYS driver license to drive in NYS unless you become a resident of NYS .
• If you have a driver license from any nation except Canada, you must pass a written test, complete a 5-hour pre-licensing course and pass a road test to qualify for a NYS driver license. See " New Drivers - How to Apply ".
• You must show a Social Security Card. If you are not eligible for a Social Security Card, you must provide a letter or form SSA-L676 from the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that states that you are not eligible. The SSA Letter or form must have been issued no more than 30 days before the date of your application. You must also show the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) documents that the SSA used to determine that you are not eligible for a Social Security Card. Read the specific requirements on the identification requirements page .
• When you receive your NYS driver license, you must surrender your foreign driver license to the DMV road test examiner. The local DMV office keeps your foreign driver license, and then destroys the license after 60 days. If you plan to return to your home country and use your foreign driver license, ask the road test examiner how to make sure that your foreign driver license is not destroyed. If you need to get your foreign driver license, go to the local DMV office where you applied for your NYS driver license.
International Driving Permit: An International Driving Permit is not a driver license . The permit only verifies that you hold a valid driver license in your home country. Your foreign driver license, not the International Driving Permit, allows you to drive in NYS. Contact the authorities in your home country to get an International Driving Permit. If you are not a resident of the US, you cannot apply for an International Driving Permit in the US.
You are not required to have an International Driving Permit to drive in NYS, but the permit has value. The permit verifies, in several languages, that you have a valid foreign driver license. A police officer who cannot read the language on your foreign driver license can read the permit.
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A Heartland couple says they are thankful things did end badly after someone tried to scam them.
Brenda Geyssens says she was trying to sell a leather jacket on Craigslist.
However, she wanted $200 for it and someone wrote her a check for $1,900.
Geyssens says it was too good to be true.
Geyssens says there were even more red flags than that.
She says the buyer didn't have a working phone number.
According to her, it was a real check that was stolen from another company.
Geyssens wants you to be aware of what happened to her so you can be prepared.
"My husband said, this is, this is a scam," said Brenda Geyssens. "And so we already thought that it was a scam because the guy had mentioned all the money that he was going to send. Why would someone want to send us extra money?"
Authorities tell us you always need to be aware and if something is too good to be true, like in this case it is.
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The Thunder dominated the first half with great team play, and beat back a few Portland comebacks with great individual play from Westbrook and Harden.
The Thunder were able to go on a crucial run late in the second quarter, continually exploit the Heat at their weakest points, and fight back any spark runs the Heat might be deciding to have....
So, after two long overtimes of action, the Thunder pulled out a solid win over the Timberwolves. But with any game that goes to 2OT, there's going to be a good amount of successes and failures.
Tons of excitement touched with just a tinge of malaise. The Thunder won the game, and they hit some amazing shots in order to do so. But there was absolutely no reason the Thunder should have gone...
Pure joy. After so many sloppy performances, the Thunder finally lit a fire under themselves and decided that they wouldn't waste any time in putting the Clippers away.
This was the worst game I've seen this season. We've played technically worse games before, like the debacle against the Wizards back in January. But tonight, the Thunder just ceased to try.
Man, what a game. Shots were falling like the rain in Spain's plains.
This recap assesses the different slumps we had tonight, including some questionable coaching decisions.
I don't know what Daequan Cook did early on to warrant his benching tonight, but I would have much rather had him in the game than Royal Ivey when the Thunder were getting trampled in the early 2nd.
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It's been 7 Halloweens since the last time we saw the Steelers put together such a solid performance against a Tom Brady-led team, and it was glorious. The Steelers put together what in my mind has been their best performance of this season, earning a satisfying victory over a team that has been a huge nemesis in the last few years. I'm sure there will be some amazing analysis about this game in the following days, so I won't get into that; instead, I'll just use this post to let out my feelings after this great game.
1.- We can do better
The final score doesn't tell the story, this was a blowout with a close score. The Steelers dominated every face of the game, except for Red Zone efficiency. The offensive gameplan was almost perfect, the Steelers moved the ball almost at will against the Pats defense, particularly the secondary. Ben managed the no huddle so masterfully, you'd think that was Jim Kelly playing. He spread the ball around for everyone (9 different receivers) and did a great job overall. BUT, too many times the Steelers settled for FGs, this game should have been over at the start of the 4th quarter. Poor red zone play caused this game to go from potentially 38-17 to 25-17, quite a difference. Good thing though, the Steelers get to make corrections with a W on the board.
2-. I'm officially sold on our secondary's improvement
You can't say enough about the D's performance. They got pressure on Brady, they covered everyone, they stopped the run and held the league's best offense to just 17 points, 213 total yards and only 170 passing. I think I speak for everyone when I say that we all had been calling for man-coverage against the Pats, they did that and the CB's responded, none of NE's receivers was a factor today, and even their TE's were kept in check. Impressive performance.
3.- Biggest game still coming up
With NE dominating the Steelers for so long, a victory like this is definitely huge. But let's not lose focus, my hope is that this win gives us confidence and momentum for the 2nd half of the schedule, but at this point it only gives us a tie-breaker over NE. The most important game is next week vs Baltimore. If we lose that game, the Ravens have a season sweep over us, which equals to a 2 game lead in the division. Expecting the Pats to win their division, our tie breaker would be useless. We absolutely MUST win this game to get in position for a division title. Woodley's injury makes me nervous, but like Tomlin says, The standard is the standard
4.- January 23rd 2005
If that date doesn't jump out to you, it might be because you've been trying to forget it ever since. That's the date of the 2004 AFC Championship game, when we watched the Patriots celebrate on Heinz Field after having dominated them on October 31st 2004. We must remember, there was no trophy presentation after today's game, there won't be one after next week's game either. If we happen to meet again in January, this game will not mean a thing (except maybe Homefield advantage). Let's not lose focus of the true magnitude of this game. It's only week 8.
I'm really not trying to be a downer, I'm as happy as everyone after this game, I just needed to get this out of my chest. GO STEELERS!!


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Publish Date November 27, 2009
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Category Arts & Photography
Tags coheed and cambria, new york, woodstock, kingston, music, underground, indie, punk, rock, scene, photo, melancholy, shabutie, divest, 3, fuse
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"So Much for Us" is a photo album chronicling the underground music scene of Woodstock and Kingston, New York during the late 90s and early 00s.
Bands include:
Melancholy, Knucklediver, Fistfight, Shabutie, Pitchfork Militia, Jerk Magnet, Mearth, Slipfist, Joey's Throwing Elbows, Slugworth, 3, Brain Fuck Daddy, Vein Feed, Teknodrome, Stripsearch, Faedra's Ex Boyfriends, Stealth, Fuse, The Phlegm Chuckers, Cirrhosis, Bluefoot Nation, Pleonasm, Bleed Theory, Anadivine, Coheed and Cambria, and Divest.
The book was designed and edited by Zac Shaw, founder of local scene zine Pull, on which most of the book is based
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Cold weather didn't stop hundreds from competing in a grueling marathon bike race.
Wausau's 24-hour bike race kicked of Saturday morning.
"It's tough, I think it's harder than some people think," said Paul Elertson, Saukville.
Paul Elertson is one of the many cyclists putting their skills to the test at Nine Mile Forest.
His wish: to survive his first Wausau 24 bike race.
We caught up with him after his first lap.
"I'm pretty happy with my first time, I'm just happy I made it through without breaking my bike or myself," said Elertson.
He's not alone.
There are plenty of fellow cyclists, spectators and vendors at the course, for the race's 15th year.
Organizers said more than 600 cyclists are competing, some for as long as 24 hours.
"We've had a great turnout this year, we're up about a hundred riders," said Adam Schmidt, Race Director.
Although those numbers are up, the temperature is down.
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But, race coordinators said the cooler weather isn't a bad thing.
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Cyclists have the option of racing for 6, 12, or 24 hours.
Elertson is on a team riding for 24 hours.
He said staying mentally tough is key, whether it's 55 or 75.
"You can't tell yourself you're tired, you can't tell yourself you're almost there, unless you really are," said Elertson.
Elertson is on a team of four.
He said each member switches off after every loop, which is about 10 miles.
"In a couple of hours I bet I'll feel a little sore, and once I go out for that second and third loop, I'm sure I'll be tired," said Elertson.
But he said the pain is well worth the ride.
Organizers said the 24-hour race wraps up at 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:50 am
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It is wrong to blame all "whites" now, for what happened back then, for being slaveowners and sicking dogs on young children. It is wrong to blame "whites" now, whether it be something as trivial as cutting you off in line at Wal-Mart to something as atrocious as assuming you are ignorant becuase you are darker or from another country.
It is wrong to blame all "blacks" for what is going on, whether it be something as trivial as being homeless and begging for change on the sidewalk to something as brutal as jumping a little white kid at school.
But you never really know the whole side of any story, unless you stop being an uptight egotistic judgemental douchebag that thinks everyone is against you. It doesn't hurt to simply, ASK "why?" before making assumptions.
For example: that white kid could have done something to put himself in the situation to be jumped. He could have been teasing them. Kids are stupid, you know. Then again, there are some people that are stupid bullies.
People destroy one another, and themselves. It's a fact of life. Look at the news: Some white women have killed their children. Some white men have killed and raped little white girls. It would be wrong to say "crazy ol' white folk" because: Some black women have killed their children. Some black men have killed and raped black women and children.
It would be wrong to say "crazy ol' black folk."
So you see it isn't just one race geared against another.
Not every white man that walks around in a suit and tie is a tax collector or a governement official trying to keep you from getting your job. Not every asian man runs a nail shop on the corner. Not every pakistanian owns a liquor store. Not every black woman is a stripper. Not ever black man that has gold teeth is a drug dealer. Sometimes people have their hearts and minds confused between what they know they shouldn't be doing and what they are and have actually become.
The world is full of monsters. You might be one. Hell, I might even be one.
It's difficult to sit here and judge one race against another, when you know you may sign off of your computer and go do something extremely disgusting. Some of us can sit here and pretend to be righteous and then go out and do some vile things.
It is probably true that white people run America. It is probably true that America is a whore. It is also probably true that if you let yourself be oppressed, then you will be. If you believe that the government/white america has total control, chances are it is probably true that you will be controlled also. Truth and knowledge gives one freedom; not guns, violence, and hate. No one wants to listen to a whining black person ranting about who is controlling them, when in actuality, NOTHING is stopping you from getting what you want. You just think there is.
It is hard to tell who still thinks what about which race. But why should anyone [i]really[/i] care about who thinks what? There's a common saying that most people have made part of their lives: "To hell with what other people think." Personally, I don't care what a "white" person thinks of me, nor do I care what a "black" person thinks of me; niether to I care for what an orange, red or green person thinks of me. I'm going to do what I need to do to surivive America and the World just like everyone else. I think everyone has a hard enough time trying to be who they are here on this little blue marble that runs on green paper without trying to go insane or bankrupt or hungry.
I encourage people to try to see beyond the trivial conflicts between "blacks" and "whites", "jews" and "hitler", and whoever the hell else in other parts of the world that was oppressed/exploited/ensalved, and think about the BIGGER picture: that we all are in conflict with ourselves, whether you want to admit it or not. I'm sure, that at the end of the day, when you're tired, cold and hungry, that a dead white man or a dead black man or whoever died in a tsunami in a jungle somewhere is the least of your worries. And then you come on here, and it's heart wrenching yet again. But you forget about it the next morning or over the next couple of weeks.
The crazy thing about this is, is that everyone is looking for someone to blame. For example, someone may come on here and see these images and feel all riled up about it and go out and blame a "white" or a "black" to feel better about what happened, when really, it won't get you anywhere. What you have to do now, is just accept the fact that this happened and go on with your life. There's nothing you can do about having dark skin. There's nothing you can do about having light skin. There's nothing you can do about the dead in the pictures. There's nothing you can do to the smiling murderers in the pictures.
This is a hushed topic now. Nobody wants to hear about it. Try having a conversation on the train or on the bus with someone that isn't of your race. Ask them how they feel about what happened and see what their response is. Try to answer some of their questions about your race, and ask them questions about theirs, without being offensive of course, and you'll be surprised because oftentimes, there is a lot of confusion and ignorance that only knowledge can cure. It doesn't hurt to ask "why?"
These images are stirring. Yes. These people were sick. Yes. This is a part of history, though.
I'll bet if there were some pictures of Native Americans being killed and driven out of their homeland, or... pictures of Vietnamese getting their heads blown off by the Vietcong, it would be stirring too:
Or would anyone really care unless it was their own race that was being maimed? Oftentimes, people can be selfish. They can say "oh, well its not me, why should I care?"
That is pompous. And almost as equally retarded and ignorant. Wouldn't you want someone to come to your aid if you needed help? You would be feeling quite rotten if someone said, "Well, it's not ME, laying down in a pool of my own blood leaking from my brain, so why should I care?"
The lynchings and the beatings happened. It's history. It can be over and done with if you will ALLOW it to be and stop picking at the scabs that are racism and discrimination and hypocrisy.
An example of allowing this to continue consists of: calling someone a [racial epithet deleted] or a cracker, and hurting their feelings, racist jokes, slurs, etc.... which continues the cycle of dissonance and hate, like I've stated before. And then you wonder why people are still heated about something like this: because there's always going to be some ignorant cunt that won't lay it to rest.
The best cure: Ignore it.
Many people on here say: "Other peoples in other countries are going through the same oppression and killing and mental bondage, so stop crying about it. Blacks aren't the only ones."
Is that easier for a white person to say?
It is impossible to identify with someone's pain unless you have experienced it. There's a saying that goes: "You can't heal it until you feel it."
But they are somewhat correct. Not to say that just because other people are going through it doesn't mean what happened here is any less significant.
Suffering and dying is a part of life. Some suffer more than others. Some die more brutally than others. Sometimes whole peoples suffer. Some people are dying of AIDS, American soldiers are dying, iraqis are dying, there are abortions, fat people in America are dying from McDonalds, fat people in India are probably dying from something else, President Bush is suffering from mild/contagious retardation, there are people suffering in hospitals all over the world, old people suffer with arthritis, crackheads suffer with stomach pain and itching, highschool kids suffer with depression, anxiety and middle aged men and women suffer with bills and middle-aged crisis, some teenage girls suffer with sexuality issues, gay men and women suffer with confusion, rape victims suffer with emotional pain, some people get shot in the head and live, some people get bitten by sharks and live, and the list of suffering goes on and on. I'm not suggesting that everyone turn their heads and pretend like something like this never happened, but there comes a time when you just have to leave things alone. The past will always remain unchanged, but one can always change his or her present attitudes in order to allow for growth and maturity. In this subject, growth and maturity would mean, realizing that not everyone is like you, will think like you, look like you, piss like you, breathe like you; that there will always be hate and greed in the world, whether it is a group of the same-skinned people doing it or just one person doing it; realizing that if YOU are doing what is right and just; promoting and establishing truth and order, not decieving others, lying, stealing, cheating, etc., you won't have to worry about what other people are doing, because the result of doing evil is death. Ultimately.
That is all, really.
If you have any comments or questions for me, post away. I'd be glad to read and respond, but don't respond with hate or ignorance, because I don't stand for that. Thanks.
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Two Asian teenagers boys found Grace's body around five am Monday morning. They had been fishing with their father near the makeshift pier down the hill from Golden Gate race track, when they noticed something tangled among the wooden posts that support the pier. One boy lowered himself into the water. He saw a body, submerged, unearthly white from the cold waters of the bay, blonde hair tendrilled with seaweed. They ran to tell their father. A white woman, they kept repeating.
That's how Joey told me the story, later, when I found the courage to ask. A confused babble of voices, excitement and horror intermixed. Hands gesticulating. They had reminded him of kids he had seen in Vietnam.
Time has altered the details. She would appear to me that way in dreams through the years that followed. Sometimes I would awake in terror, seeing her body floating among the pilings. Later memory softened the image. She would have been rocked to the shore by the waves, passed beyond the violence of her murder. I was trying so hard in those years to take something from her death, something I could live by.
That day, August 7, 1972, cast its shadow over the rest of my life. I was twenty-three and had begun working at the race track that summer. I met Grace working there. Life at the track was exciting to me then, with an edge of seediness which I mistook for glamour. Grace too, despite her beauty, had a raw edge about her. I was intrigued by her combination of toughness and vulnerability.
That particular Monday comes back to me as I write: the cordon of police cars at the bottom of the hill, the cops and plainclothes detectives running back and forth, shouting instructions to each other and herding away the groups of on-lookers that formed and reformed in clusters at the edge of their yellow marking tape. I felt an electrical tension in the air, a sense of fear masked by nervous chatter. I remember flashes of my emotions: a touch of nausea, a distracted sense that something awful was taking place, a grinding progression which I could not stop.
Police were everywhere: shouting out orders, talking on walkie talkies, pushing onlookers aside. They paid attention only to those of us who wore Golden Gates Fields uniforms, asking questions about what we might have seen or heard. A black security guard moved too close to the yellow tape and was shoved aside by a large white cop. The two began swearing at one another. Suddenly the black employee was handcuffed and pushed in the back of a police car. A light-skinned black cop ran over to the car. He was talking to the white cop through the window.
"Time to get outta here," a man next to me said. I realized it was Freddie Corster, a young, nervous guy who was a hot walker for the trainers. "Come on," he said, grabbing my arm. "The police are freaking out."
"Who was it?' I asked. I had gotten a glimpse of the body, a shape under a blanket closely guarded by the police. "Someone who works here?"
"They aren't saying," he answered. He kept hold of my forearm with his thin fingers and wrenched me away from the scene. "They keep asking about a tattoo on the left knee."
"Tattoo?" I repeated.
"Grace had a tattoo on her knee," Freddie muttered. "Let's get outta here."
I let him pull me up the hill toward the low-slung buildings of the race track. He was sweating and his fingers dug into my arm.
"How do you know that, Freddie?" I asked.
"Oh boy. Shit's gonna hit the fan."
"Did Grace have a tattoo on her knee?" I asked. My voice sounded high-pitched, almost hysterical.
"Stop asking me!" he shouted. "Jesus Christ. Whoever thought it would go this far?"
We had reached the clubhouse and Freddie ran off toward the office where we signed in for work. I could still feel the imprint of his thin fingers, biting into my arm like steel wires. I rubbed my wrist.
I had known Grace little over a month. She was six years older than I was—a woman of experience in my eyes.
This story covers that period in my life. It began a month before the murder and wound to an inadequate resolution fourteen months later.
Writing this story, twenty some years later, has forced me to relive a period I wanted to forget. Not all the discoveries I made that year were painful, although many were painful enough. But the memories of those blue-washed mornings, driving up a fog-strewn hill toward a view of a bay that stretched toward infinity, has stayed with me always.
I had known Grace Neville. She stood like a signpost in my life, a warning. She was the woman I wished to, then feared to become. Although this story tells more about me than I would like, the book is for her.
"Get up to the Turf Club and relieve Grace Neville," Beatrice Barlow, my supervisor, snapped. "She needs a break." Beatrice was a thin-lipped woman who seemed constantly on edge.
"I've never met Grace," I said. Beatrice looked at me like I was stupid.
George Mooney, her boss, interrupted from the back room, where he sat with a perpetual cigar. "Easy to spot Grace. Grace is a looker." George was a big, florid-faced Irishman. He rarely spoke except to mutter orders to Beatrice. None of us knew exactly what he did.
I took the elevator to the third floor of the clubhouse. The Turf Club occupied the whole top floor. As I stepped out of the elevator, a woman bounded up the staircase across from me. She reminded me of a lioness, energetic, graceful, full of energy and the joy of life, full-breasted, with the body of a dancer.
"I'm Grace," she said. Her voice was husky. Grace was a beauty. Her face was pale, with delicate, fine features, under a cap of blonde hair.
"Hi, I'm Leah. Beatrice sent me up to relieve you."
Thank God," she said. "I could use some relief."
"She wants you to work Mainline."
"The bitch. She knows I hate Mainline. Come on with me to the little girl's room."
I followed her to the ladies' room. Grace had a strong back and a neat indentation to her waist. Her round butt filled out her slacks. "This woman loves to use her body," I thought.
Behind us came sounds of laughter, glasses clinking. The loudspeaker announced four minutes left to post.
The women's bathroom was empty, clean, smelling of disinfectant. Grace sank into a chair in front of the large mirrors, examined her image in the mirror. Certainly she liked what she saw—the delicate jaw line, the long throat, the high cheekbones. Only her eyes conveyed a certain sadness, deep set, with slightly hooded lids. She pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Her hands shook slightly.
"I hate going to Mainline."
"Oh, I really like it," I said. Mainline was my favorite floor at the track, with its melting pot of African-Americans, Asians, Mexicans, and lower-class whites.
"I know some of the guys who hang around down there."
"Oh," I said.
"Know in the biblical way," she said. She laughed, a dry, barking sound. "You married?"
"No," I said.
"You've escaped then," she said. She took a long drag on her cigarette. "Although every now and then you do meet someone worth the trouble."
"Have you?"
"Not lately," she said. "Unlucky with men."
"That's hard to believe."
"My astrologer told me why. Too many planets in flux."
"You believe that stuff?" I asked.
"You gotta believe something," said Grace, thoughtfully. She inhaled. "Leo with my moon in Scorpio. But too many planets in flux. From the moment I was conceived," she said. "Which means forever, I guess."
She finished her cigarette, tossed it, and turned to the mirror as if to a lover. She pulled out a small cosmetic bag, full of brushes and vivid colors, and proceeded to outline her lips, filling them in a deep scarlet. She blotted her lips slowly. Grace Neville surveyed herself with obvious satisfaction.
"Think I can handle 'em now," she said. She lifted her head. "Come on," she said. "Let's get out of here and give 'em hell."
Grace Neville shone with a patina of glamour. She exuded a worldliness I felt I could never achieve. I could not imagine how a woman like Grace could have any trouble with men.
Grace and I were pari-mutuel clerks at the track. We stood behind the windows on Mainline and helped the patrons purchase their tickets, accepting their money and making change. After the race had started, we would total the number of tickets sold and cash received and forward this to our boss, Beatrice Barlow, for counting. When the race was declared official, those holding winning tickets could come see us and get cashed out.
My first two months at the track felt like a party held everyday. The clerks came onto the floor during their breaks, gossiping about each other's marriages and affairs in places like Walnut Creek or Vallejo. People of different races and nationalities flowed around me, intent on wins and losses. I quickly learned the various forms of bets—the quiniela, the perfecta, the trifecta, the superfecta. Sometimes a security guard or another mutuel clerk would give me tips on the horses, and sometimes they hinted at the darker stuff—drug use, race-fixing.
It was totally different from my life as a Cal student. My classmates at Berkeley could not understand my fascination with the race track. "Doesn't the noise drive you crazy?" "Don't you find it boring?"
I found it exciting. The track suited me. If I was a misfit, I was surrounded by other misfits. An obsession with gambling equalizes gamblers in the same way alcohol levels alcoholics. Surgeons, security guards, bankers, delivery truck drivers—all mingled in the rough camaraderie of the track. The tellers, the security guards, even the patrons reminded me of the people I had grown up with, working class people who had gone on to become TV repairmen or cops, like my cousin Joey.
My mother had died when I was ten. My father had remarried, started a new family. It had been a relief to leave upstate New York for the University of Michigan. After two years there, I took a Greyhound bus to Berkeley, California, drawn by all the myths and excitement coming out of the Bay Area. I found a room in a household of other students and worked the kinds of jobs available to young people with no specific skills, talents, or family connections. Nurse's aide in a psychiatric institution, assembly line worker in a candy factory, housecleaner, babysitter. For a while I trained as an emergency medical technician, or EMT. I was pleased when I was accepted into UC Berkeley as a California resident after a year. Tuition was low enough that I could support myself in school while working part-time.
My closest friend was a Japanese student, Yoshi Ito. He was studying political science at Cal with an emphasis on international relations. I had been his English tutor when I first arrived in Berkeley. Yoshi and I shared a communal house on Russell Street with Paul Cohen and Carol Sweet. On June 13, 1971, my twenty-second birthday, the New York Times had published the first installment of the Pentagon Papers. On June 17, 1972, a few days past my twenty-third birthday, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.
Since arriving in Berkeley I felt more connected to national events. Carol bought a black-and-white television set at a garage sale, and the four of us followed national events on the evening news during our communal dinners. We sat up late talking about the Pentagon Papers and about the Watergate break-in. Paul opined that Daniel Ellsberg's leak didn't tell us anything antiwar activists hadn't known for years, but he thought the Watergate break-in might have longer reaching implications. I was excited to be part of these political discussions, but I offered no opinions.
Besides my three roommates, I had few friends. I was ready for new, colorful people in my life, people like Grace, people who moved in the big universe outside the confines of my narrow little world.


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CRISP COUNTY, GA (WALB) -About 30 Crisp County homes south of Cordele are flooded Sunday as a result of heavy rainfall over the past two days. Crisp County Sheriff Donnie Haralson says the area has received near five inches of rain.
Some homes in the Hanna Road area and the Cedar Lake Subdivision had up to a foot of water in them. No one is reported injured in the flooding. Crisp County public works officials are working in the area to help relieve the flooding.
Reba Evans lives in Cedar Lakes which is another neighborhood that saw alot of flooding. Early Sunday morning, Evans said water form Cedar Creek in her back yard came up to her garage, nearly entering her garage.
"You can't imagine. My yard was under water. I was thinking it might get into my house any minute," Evans said.
Evans says this isn't the first time water has almost flooded her home, and she's ready for something to be done about the problem. WALB spoke to County Commissioner Wallace Mathis to get some answers.
" We would love to get the pipes straightened out. This occurs with large amounts of rain. It's been a few years since we've had this much of a problem," Mathis said.
He says help from the county would be a necessity. If the county were to install pipes underneath the railroad tracks near Cedar Creek, Mathis says he also has to think of other places the water would go so it doesn't move from one area to flood another.
Other people forced from their homes due to the floods are staying with family or friends. No shelters are open. Authorities say U-S Highway 280 west of Cordele had water over the highway, but it has since receded. Emergency Management says several roads in Southern Crisp County have water across them. Pateville Road was covered with high water from the northern branch of Swift Creek overflowing its banks.
Crisp county officials say they've seen about five inches of rainfall overnight, and they're expecting more this week. The Crisp County Sheriff's Office says it will be working with The Georgia Emergency Management Agency to continue assessing any other affected areas.
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Oshkosh, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
football team fell 30-6 at ninth-ranked UW-Oshkosh Saturday afternoon at
J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium. The Eagles drop to 0-5 overall and
0-2 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) while
the Titans improve to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the conference. UW-Oshkosh
is ranked on this week's American Football Coaches Association (AFCA)
Top-25 Poll and on the D3football.com Top-25 Poll.
UW-L took the opening kickoff and drove 64 yards in 11 plays and 5:11 as Matt Van Druten connected on a 33-yard field goal attempt for a 3-0 lead. Andy Sires went three-of-four passing on the drive, including a 36-yard pass to Jeff Haffemann to the UW-Oshkosh 16-yard line.
The Titans took their opening drive and tied the game at 3-3 as Nate Ray hit a 22-yard field goal. UW-Oshkosh went 61 yards in 10 plays and 3:24.
After UW-L was forced to punt on its next possession, Ray connected on a 25-yard field goal wiht 1:34 left in the opening quarter to give UW-Oshkosh a 6-3 lead. The Titans went 56 yards in 12 plays and 3:18. The Eagles punted on their next drive and it took only one play for the Titans to take a 13-3 lead as Dylann Rauch threw a 54-yard touchdown pass to Cole Myhra on the final play of the first quarter.
The game remained 13-3 at halftime as Sires threw two interceptions in UW-Oshkosh territory in the second quarter. Van Druten also had two punts for the Eagles. The Titans were forced to punt three times in the second quarter.
UW-Oshkosh took the second half kickoff and drove 55 yards in four plays and 1:25 with Myhra scoring on a six-yard run to give the Titans a 20-3 advantage. After the teams traded punts, Van Druten cut the lead to 20-6 on a 43-yard field goal with 7:22 left in the third quarter. The drive was set-u after Gavn Marquart's 28-yard punt return to the UW-Oshkosh 34-yard line. UW-L went eight yards in six plays and 2:37 for the field goal.
The Titans extended their lead to 27-6 on the first drive of the fourth quarter with Nick Olla throwing a 28-yard touchdown pass to Zach Kasuboski with 12:24 remaining in the game. UW-Oshkosh went 62 yards on eight plays and 2:58.
Ray converted on his third field goal of the game with 7:13 left, this one from 42-yards. The drive went six yards on four plays in 1:26. The Titans took over at the Eagles' 31-yard line after Trent Cummings was intercepted by Branden Lloyd.
UW-L finished with 198 yards of offense, including 58 rushing and 140 passing. Jude Williams led the Eagles with 32 yards rushing on 10 carries while Ben Hertrampf had 29 yards on 15 attempts. Sires was eight-of-21 passing for 90 yards with two interceptions while Cummings finished five-of-10 for 50 yards with one interception. Haffemann had four catches for 70 yards.
The Eagles were three-of-15 on third-down.
UW-Oshkosh totaled 369 yards of offense, including 158 rushing and 211 passing. Myhra finished with 65 yards rushing and one touchdown on 13 attempts while Olla was 17-of-24 passing for 157 yards and one touchdown. Myhra also had five catches for 75 yards and one touchdown.
The Titans were two-of-14 on third-down and won the time of possession, 31:41 to 28:19.
Jay Wussow led UW-L with nine tackles while Andrew Walsh had eight tackles, including 2.0 quarterback sacks. Shane Rockweiler finished with six tackles. Lucas Schmitz also had 1.0 sack for the Eagles.
Ryan Stefaniak finished with 10 tackles for UW-Oshkosh, including nine unassisted. The Titans had six sacks, including 2.5 from Cody Huemmer and 2.0 from Dexter Charles.
UW-L returns to action Saturday, October 19 at UW-Stout at 1 p.m.
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Visualisation Insights: #4 Visual Thinker
This is the fourth article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together these interviews to create a greater understanding and appreciation of the challenges, approaches and solutions emerging from these people – the visualisation world's cast and crew.
Carlos Gamez Kindelan is a talented Visual Thinker based in Madrid. He is applying his skills as a highly experienced infographic and multimedia design artist across many different platforms, most notably through his work in the graphics department at lainformacion.com, an innovative online Spanish newspaper, and dMultimedia, his personal blog.
I approached Carlos to do an interview for this article for two main reasons. Firstly, I am fascinated by the challenges and pressures that come with producing graphics in the context of online journalism, especially for a newspaper that is entirely based on the web. My second reason was that I feel there is some superb visualisation design coming from Spain, typified by the portfolio of work Carlos has produced or been involved in.
Hi Carlos, can you start off by explaining what lainformacion.com is?
It is a new journalistic media that works exclusively in the digital environment. In addition, it is a hyperway and a semantic monitor of real time information produced by 'Factoria Diximedia Digital'.
Can you describe the graphics department at lainformacion – where you are based, how many people work in your team, what are the different job roles etc.?
Our team works in a transversal way, without walls that separate us. Any colleague can share or form a part of a project relying on the experience of the people in charge of every department. At our business are professionals from design: Antonio Pasagali; dedicated to video and multimedia: David Tesouro, Michael Fernández and Adriano Morán; graphics: Sarah Potts, Chiqui Esteban and me; and html and css programmers: Alejandro Navarro and Alberto Aranguren. In addition, we have a network of collaborators, MOJO (Mobile Journalist).
How long have you worked there?
I've been working at lainformacion.com from its 'Beta' phase, concretely for one and a half years.
Can you briefly describe your current role at lainformacion?
I define my role as a 'Visual Thinker': I study and analyze the information, for both short and long term, and decide which is the better narrative approach from a visual and journalistic point of view.
Before lainformacion, can you give me a brief outline of your training and career history leading up to your current role?
I began as an intern for DIARIO MARCA and DIARIO MÉDICO, Recoletos Group at the beginning of the 90′s. Later I was working as an infographic artist at DIARIO DE SEVILLA, Group Joly; as Graphics Editor at the Spanish headquarters of 5Wgraphics, and as Graphics Editor at EL PAIS, Prisa Group.
What would you describe as being the key milestones of your career to date? You must have been involved in many fascinating news projects?
- Work at the sports diary MARCA during the Olympics of Barcelona 1992.
- To form a part of a first level team in a regional diary and what this supposes in the learning of any professional.
- Work in a graphics agency for a lot of clients from different countries, with very varied styles and with a very high level of quality.
- My entry in the digital environment almost 6 years ago and how I have been overcoming the fears before a way almost not known for me.
What was your "aha!" or "eureka!" moment?
When I was a teenager, I was fascinated by the work of Jose Juan Gámez, the current Art Director at MARCA, and other many graphics professionals like Juan and Samuel Velasco, Fernando Rubio, John Grimwade, Jaime Serra, Rafael Estrada and some others. I was concentrating on what was being done at ELMUNDO, ELPAÍS, The New York Times, USA Today snapshots and its weather map, etc. I collected hundreds of graphics (that still I preserve today) which I studied carefully and I tried to reproduce on my first Mac, a black and white Apple Classic. This way, it is not that I was deciding to be a graphic artist but graphics had chosen me.
Which software applications do you use for creating your work?
Flash, Freehand, Adobe CS4, Cinema 4d, Poser, Bryce 3D, Final Cut and other audio and video applications, and some development applications from Adobe and Apple (SDK).
Comparing these modern tools with 15 years ago, when you first became an infographic artist, what tools did you use for designing then?
The change and the development of applications has been amazing, 15 or 20 years ago I only knew Aldus Freehand, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
How would you describe your design style?
I have been lucky to be able to learn off some of the biggest professionals of my country. My style is based on trying to purify the information in every way possible, to centre on the important aspects of news and to be clear, simple and direct. To facilitate to the reader the information they have in front of their eyes, trying to not frustrate with unnecessary useless devices or abstract visualizations. The journalistic information must be rigorous and clear.
Who would you say have been the most important authors and designers who have had most influence over your career?
Those which I have had the opportunity to work with: Jose Juan Gámez, Pablo Ramirez, Manuel Romero, Juan, Samuel, Pedro and Martin Velasco, Rafael Höhr and Mario Tascón.
Which books would you recommend as being the most important texts you have read about understanding the principles of communicating information through design?
Besides the classic ones like Tufte or Sullivan, I recommend also some in Spanish language such as Peltzer, Valero or De Pablos, as historical and introductory reference to the infographics. The three latest ones that have come to my hands are by William Cope ('Graphics Methods for Presenting Facts', from1919, and 'Graphic Presentation', from1939) and McCandless ('Information is Beautiful', 2009). Certainly, I recommend all the editions published of infographics and design international prizes both of the SND and of its Spanish chapter, Malofiej.
How has your design style changed over the years?
I think my incorporation to working on the Internet in 2005 and what comes with working for the screen and in a multimedia way. The design of online information, and for graphics especially, is less flexible, and remains limited in the majority of occasions for the screen and the structure of a site, the technology and the way of looking for the user. However, the Internet provides a deeper vision of the reality, problems of production do not exist in the use of the color and it combines elements such as video and audio, impossible to use in traditional media. All that pushes me towards a design of graphs where I use few colors but without fear, they help me to organize the information into a hierarchy and to present it in an attractive and clear way both for the information and for the final consumer, the user.
There are certainly strong visual themes that run through lainformacion's visual designs, how would you describe this style or design brand? Is this something you have developed/evolved together as a team or is it a deliberate brand identity you are required to use?
The design and style of lainformacion.com is a responsibility of its Art Director, Antonio Pasagali. As for the style of the graphics that you have selected below, it has been a personal visual way based on the confidence and the freedom that Diximedia Digital offers me and for what I am very grateful.
I asked Carlos to recommend a few examples of his design work with brief descriptions and comments relating to their background, purpose, design solutions etc. Several of these are interactive so the snapshot image does not do full justice to their function, click on the title links to see the native work.
1. "Music and Economy – Different economic indicators (eg. The Retail Price Index) can be translated into musical language"
- I believe in the use of audio content to enhance informative graphics. This case demonstrates my desire and curiosity for experimenting with the senses. The three graphics that I produced using this approach was born from an instinct about the pulses that exist within the data. I was studying it while I was doing it, and it gave to me the sensation that it was something that could open a new door for infographics.
- I wanted to communicate sensations, that the user should measure the pulse of the Spanish economy without need to open the eyes.
- The information is strictly official and public, from the databases of the Spanish Government.
- I defined it in three levels: one, linear and for a passive user; two, 100% interactive; and three, more playful almost as a 'gadget' offering a musical keyboard.
- I only had five days to learn something that I had never done. To paint the information was the simplest thing. The complexity came at the moment of selecting the instruments, the sounds and the rhythm bases in the shape of loops – the work of audio edition in general. I used a free software called Audacity, 'Garage Band' that is included in Apple's systems and to put the final scene together I used Adobe Flash.
- The principal problem was time. I finished the work in a few hours before it was published, so I had no time for the test phase. Anything that was not working right I had to solve it in four hours limit.
2. "How a Formula 1 engine sounds (Valencia street circuit GP)"
- This one was another case of my interest in experimenting with audio. It was not the first time that I was covering this topic in my work: I had solved it with the official information obtained about the drawing of the circuit and its analytics, a few times in the past I have using 3D programs, others vectorial and simple form. I thought that this occasion would be a wasted opportunity [to ignore potential of sound] so I centred on the sound of the engine of a F1 running on the circuit. Again, I chose three levels: linear, interactive and metainformative, with links and contents of interest like a 3D simulation video of the official circuit or a panoramic sight from Google Maps.
- I tried to ensure that the sound and its graphical presentation were guiding the user like a 'safety car'
- I found a video of a real lap. I edited it, extracted the audio and then took the visual representation and I synchronized them. The natural analysis, number of laps, speeds, troubled points, etc, accompanies the story at all time. When one finishes, the user decides where to navigate in.
- I think that as a narrative structure it works well, similar to the previous graphics.
- I think that the principal challenge was basically the design. It is a working space in which I can only manipulate the height for technical questions, and this does not help when you have many informative elements to offer with an interactive navigation.
3. "Different visualizations can be help us attract new users and offer different and clear information – Facebook top ten games"
This work was so simple. I had the data from Facebook, and I was trying to offer a different visualization. This type of works had a very good reception from users who consumed the information in a fast way. Everything is done in Flash.
4. "Iberia´s merger with British Airways"
I am specially satisfied with this work because it shows once again the responsibility of a visual journalist to accompany latest news. Our web is characterized by the information always being alive, both in form and in the contents. One morning the front page changed its first item to the news of the merger of two of the most important airlines of the world. In less than two hours I located the information that was needed, the comparison of the numbers of the fleets of both companies by plane model. I rejected the total units because I thought that it was lacking informative value. It was not a case of comparing the different companies, but of seeing a merger, seeing the sum. The rest, the graphical part (Illustrator) and programming did not turn out to be especially complex. In less than three hours the link to this work was the hottest news on our home page for the rest of the day.
5. "Michael Jackson influences into Hip Hop music"
I love Michael Jackson's music. It was about two o'clock in the morning. I was at home snooping around the Internet. Suddenly I noticed that something was moving in Twitter. Within minutes, the suspicion of Michael Jackson's death turned into incredible news. TMZ, was confirming the death of the singer by Twitter. I had many doubts about the sources. I remember I was connected to Facebook and sent a very clear message: Vanessa, "Michael Jackson has died"; with a link to TMZ, which was showing different to the NYT one and to the LATimes.
On this night I discovered a blogger from New York, Ethan Heim. He was a music, technology and visualizations lover. I found something great for me, a very rough sketch with all the groups of hip-hop musicians and other modern styles influenced by Michael Jackson's songs. So I said to myself: "I have it". I sent an e-mail asking for permission to use his sketch and I went to bed. The following day, already we had published a chronology and a photogallery of Jackson's life. I knew that the topic was going to be on the front pages long enough so I was kept waiting for Heim's answer. The e-mail finally came and he said to me that he was delighted that I was interested in using it and there was no problems. I included it as an informative source. The design was based on a small drawing that I did in the margins of sheets of paper when I was a student and the class was boring. The only problem I had was technical. In these days our web was in 'beta' format and still we did not have possibility of embedding videos. But I thought that it was worth publishing it.
6. "Cronology of space shuttle missions"
For this graphic the difference rests on the visualization. The information were the same for any person who was approaching the NASA website. What I did was customize a simple evolution of information and used a simple programme. I knew that the information was rigorous and I was trying to show it in a simple way: the evolution of space flights in yellow, every mission in white, and the eventful missions in red (Illustrator and Flash).
7. "A simple and linear animation – How a Temporary Nuclear Waste Repository works"
There are certain kinds of information that have to be explained in a linear way. However, how do explain a process? This type of work needs exhaustive analysis and compression of the information, and an animated sequence always, always works.
8. "11-Centelles: visual hunter of the Spanish Civil War"
This graphic is based on the work of its author – Miguel Fernández – who works with us at the multimedia section. He traveled and worked over months to build this document. When he finished, he asked me to build him an interactive container for his piece. Time was very scarce. I tried to help him as much as possible, following his necessities and demands. I constructed a rather simple video player, making Miguel's work the center of attention.
For those unfamiliar with your dMultimedia site, can you describe what it is and what your overall aims are? What motivated you to start the site?
dMultimedia is a personal and deliberately anarchic blogsite where I share a lot of things, from philosophies from academics and professionals, trying to centre on topics of informational visualization, infographics, journalism, resources, trends and software. I began two years ago motivated by the curiosity and the need to share those questions that are strange or exceptional for me.
Recently I have been becoming increasingly aware of how much amazing design work is emerging from different parts of the world and Spain stands out as a real centre of excellence – just looking at the number of references to Spain at the Malofiej awards supports this view. Can you give any reasons as to why Spain would be so successful? Does it reflect a strong design culture or perhaps something unique about your education system?
I think that it is a cultural question that is being more valued by the academic institutions. I think that the success of Spain in these contests is for the need that we have to communicate visually and for the capacity of many professionals to adapt to the changes and to the new trends. And, certainly, to the confidence of some other editors and journalistic businessmen who endorse our work. We must not forget that we are in a business.
How would you assess the rest of the world in terms of visualisation/inforgraphics, do you see any regional differences in techniques or design approach?
There is a very positive increase in the use of infographics as a way of transmitting information around the world. Especially in the digital area and in the experimentation, as well as new formats. The differences that I see more notable are especially in the use of and access to information and data sources. Nowadays we have such an abundance of information and in so many different hands that it becomes very complex to separate the wheat from the chaff.
What are the things that excite you/make you positive about the way the visualisation is advancing? Are there any aspects that particularly frustrate or disappoint you?
I'm very motivated about technology, graphics can open doors that we would have never thought before. But I also see that we have a wolf at the door. I am sure that it's not positive to prefer the technology to the information. Infographics, and journalism must not be subordinated to the technology. The information always must be the first.
Finally, a chance for you to recommend or promote other designers. Apart from the obvious/popular visualisation and infographics sites, which other websites or designers would you like to recommend for readers to take a look at? Are there any designers, particularly around Spain, who you would identify as producing particularly innovative work right now?
Particularly, and for professionals of Spain, I recommend people follow the initiatives of 'Medialab Prado-Madrid' and the 'Camon Visualization Workshop' in Madrid. Places to continue the study and development of new trends and visualizations. Also I love the work of the German agency 'Golden Section Graphics', USA agency '5Wgraphics' and the Spanish agency 'Servicio Telegráfico'.
I'm really grateful to Carlos for the time and effort he has gone to in offering a wonderfully detailed and fascinating perspective on his life as a visual thinker and relentless producer of interactive graphics. I wish him all the very best in the future wherever his career takes him. As well as his dMultimedia website, you can follow Carlos's updates on Twitter @dMultimedia.


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