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PORTERVILLE , Calif. -- On a soccer field surrounded by miles of sprawling farm land in California 's Central Valley, I ask 9-year-old Fabian Mendoza where he wants to go to college. "New Jersey!" Fabian says before racing back to his playmate and a soccer ball.
Fabian has never been outside California, but sight unseen, he wants to be just like his big brother, Noel, who is a sophomore almost 3,000 miles away at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J.
The Sequoia Gateway is a non-profit scholastic-based soccer program designed to usher under-represented students into four-year universities. It gave Noel the opportunity to visit college campuses and apply to universities when he was in high school. It was through the guidance of the program's director, Marvin Lopez, that Noel and his parents came to consider his combination of soccer skills and good grades as a means above and beyond the education expectations long-ingrained in their agricultural community culture.
"In high school, I really didn't think I could go to college," Noel says by phone from St. Peter's College. "I applied to a few, but I didn't think I'd be accepted. Marvin was constantly checking up on my school work and my grades, so it wasn't that, but I just didn't think I'd get in. Now I'm here going to college and playing soccer. I love it."
As a high school senior, Noel accepted a soccer scholarship to St. Peter's -- a Division-1 program in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). With that, he became the first in his family to go to college.
At the soccer field in Porterville, Noel's mom says it was difficult to send him so far away from home.
"I miss him, but we are so proud," she tells Marvin's wife, Amalia Lopez, who conveys the words in English to me. "
And someday I will go visit!"
Maria's beaming smile needs no translation.
The whole family is riding Noel's achievement. His three younger brothers Diego, Jonathon and Fabian, now aspire to higher education. Their parents, Maria and Miguel Mendoza, serve as role models to other immigrant families in the community.
It seems that while so many families like the Mendozas are living in the United States because they believe it can give their children a better life, many are still unsure how to help their children in a world where so much is still so foreign.
What these families needed was someone to teach them about opportunities outside the farming communities -- someone to show them that sending their children to college is a real possibility and to help them devise a plan to do it.
What these families needed was someone like Marvin Lopez to develop a scholastic soccer program like the Sequoia Gateway.
Marvin Lopez was born in Guatemala in 1976 and moved to the United States with his family at age 14. Lopez acknowledges he never dreamed of going to college until soccer coaches began recruiting him in high school.
"I was just like these kids," Lopez says. "I had no clue."
Coaches aggressively courted Lopez's talents, but he didn't know the first thing about the overwhelming application process. That didn't matter, though. His abilities were the kind that college coaches are willing to walk by hand from living room to admissions office if it means a signature from a future star. And this is exactly how he ended up at Drew University, a small private school in Madison, N.J., with a top-notch soccer program and a coach willing to take a chance on a good kid.
"Coach Lenny Armuth came right to our house," Lopez recalls. "He sat down and explained everything to me and my parents. That meant so much to us. That's what got me there."
Lopez became the first person in his family to graduate from college and although he was scouted by professional soccer teams and offered opportunities to play abroad, he decided to put his education degree to work. He became an administrator in the school district -- a profession that presented him with the chance to work in areas like San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, but as fate would have it, he and his wife settled into the sticks of California 's Central Valley where they live and work today.
There are many privileged and prosperous cities in California, places like San Diego, Santa Monica, Sunnyvale and San Jose, where choice education yields a white-collar crust so thick, you forget that there are still towns in the Golden State where tractors outnumber Range Rovers.
There are still towns where work days begin in fields before sunrise because the American dream is still a work in progress. There are still regions like Tulare County, where it is estimated that almost 40 percent of the populace has no education beyond high school. There are still towns like Porterville, Terra Bella, Farmersville and Poplar-Cotton Center.
Head north on Interstate 5 through Los Angeles and you enter the stretch of highway known as The Grapevine -- a curvy freeway pass through the mountains. Merge off I-5 onto old Route 99 and head up past Bakersfield, then further off the beaten path to Tulare County -- home of the Sierra Nevadas and Sequoia National Park. In the valley of these majestic mountains lie fertile fields. Roughly the size of my home state of Connecticut, Tulare County contains the most intensive agricultural production in the United States.
Although farms in California 's Central Valley generate enormous wealth revenues for some, the majority of citizens bear the miserable distinction as the state's most impoverished. That is because the majority of those working in this labor-intensive industry are relegated to tending the fields.
"Pickers" are predominately Mexican immigrant workers who earn bleak wages for long tedious hours. The most recent Census asserts the median income for an entire family in Tulare County to be about $35,000 which explains why over one-fourth of the county's population lives below the poverty line.
It is here in Tulare County where Lopez once came home with an idea. A true educator, he was not satisfied with the negligible expectations that the underprivileged community held for its youth. He was disappointed with the struggling system and was eager to make a change.
Marvin's wife, Amalia, explains the situation as they saw it: "The demographic of this community is very clear. Walk around Porterville and it's mostly -- I mean, you rarely see anybody who is not Hispanic. Billboards are in Spanish here because just about everybody speaks Spanish here. It's an immigrant agricultural town where most people work in the fields. That's what parents expect their kids to do, and that's why most kids who grow up here assume that's all there is for them. They will go to high school and then they will work in the fields or maybe work construction. Nobody is saying, 'Wait a minute, you can do something different.' But that's all it takes. The idea. That's what we want to give these kids. We want to show them that there is more out there. Otherwise, they have no idea."
As of the 2000 Census, Hispanics of any race made up 54.45 percent of Tulare County's population, and that number likely is higher, as the Central Valley has one of the highest numbers of migrant and undocumented farm workers in the state. Within this demographic lies a life cycle yielding generations of minimally educated farm workers who surrender to a system where few flourish and most submit to low-income subsistence.
It is a cycle that Sequoia Gateway coach Pedro Gonzalez and directors Marvin and Amalia Lopez and are eager to break.
Three years ago, the Lopezes took action trying to spread the idea of alternative opportunity, and while it might seem like they simply started a traveling soccer team, the couple actually founded an ambitious initiative designed to allocate educational opportunities to Hispanic farm kids.
Through soccer, the boys on the Sequoia Gateway roster can step outside the stagnant community confines, but the real secret to the revolution is the off-the-field support system.
"We do not travel to a tournament that isn't connected to a college campus visit," Marvin Lopez says. "We are not just a soccer team. If we are making the trip to San Diego for a tournament, then we are also going to look at San Diego State, and UCSD and USD. We go and take tours and the kids sit in seminars and listen to current students speak about the college experience. I can tell them what it was like for me to go to college, but until they are there walking around a campus and seeing regular kids just like them, they just have no idea what to imagine. They've never seen anything like that."
The Lopezes offer tutors and advisers who assess transcripts and tell them what courses to take. They invite the boys to their house to use their computer, fill out forms and write and re-write college essays. Marvin Lopez makes checklists detailing what to bring and what to wear -- and what not to wear -- on campus visits. Sometimes they teach the boys how to tie a tie, and at night coach Gonzalez rounds up room keys and cell phones so the boys are focused and well-rested.
This is what they do to send boys off to four-year universities.
"I was kind of nervous in the beginning," says Noel Mendoza. "I had never really been away from home for any stretch of time. I was only on the East Coast when a few of us from the program flew out with Marvin to visit schools. But once I got here and I got into soccer and school, I started to adapt. It's great to be here. And coach Pedro's son Robert is at school on Staten Island. When we have time, we meet up in the city. We love it out here."
In their first year of operating Sequoia Gateway, the Lopezes and Gonzalez sent six student-athletes to college. In the second year, five more. This year they have four seniors and next year they will have 12 aspiring to institutions. As the program gains momentum and credibility through success rates, they have higher hopes of ushering more boys each year onward and upward. Already, they have successfully developed the first generation of college students their community has seen, and they've even won their league (CYSA North District 7) two years in a row. But the championships are barely a side story. They're more eager to tell you about the team's GPA and the players' improving progress reports.
At practice, junior Romel Velarde's mother Vickie wipes tears from her cheeks as she talks of Romel's improvements in school since being accepted into the Sequoia Gateway program.
"His grades were low but he's so quiet he never really talked to me about anything. People at school would tell us he was unmotivated but I knew he loved playing on the school soccer team. Then he joined this program and now he has the best grades he's ever had," she says, trying to hold back tears. "It's because Marvin and Amalia work with the boys. They help them with their school and have them over to tell them what they need to do if they want to play soccer. They push these boys in ways they've never been pushed by teachers or coaches before."
Indeed, while so many students -- especially Hispanic boys -- are falling through the cracks, the Lopezes and Gonzalez offer these boys a life of something better.
"We want to teach them to be better people. We put them through the 'Character Counts' program. We teach them to be the bigger person on and off the field and walk away from conflict and violence. We have them involved in the community, giving clinics to kids. We give them responsibilities that they've never had before. We really test their leadership skills for the first time," Marvin Lopez says.
To make sure the team is receiving the same message that Marvin Lopez is aiming for, I ask the players after practice to tell me the lessons that their coaches stress most often. The boys say grades, respect, hard work, being on time, tucking in their shirts, working out, running, doing push-ups and doing sit-ups.
Marvin later tells me his secret to keeping them out of trouble.
"I brainwash them into any activity that might tire them out. Why do you think I tell them to do push-ups and sit-ups when they wake up in the morning and go for a good run whenever they have time at night? So they're exhausted! Hopefully they're too tired to go out at night and get into trouble!"
Gonzalez leaves for his job about 4 a.m. every day and volunteers to run practice two nights a week during season. On the weekends he drives kids to the tournaments. In the evenings on school nights and before road trips, he's learned how to tell if the boys are up late online or "MySpacing."
"If I see them online or on MySpace, I send them a message or I call them right up," he says. "What are you doing online?' I say, 'We have a game tomorrow, shut it off and go to bed.' 'Awww Co-oach' they say to me."
But it's the extra effort and care that make a difference. And Marvin Lopez doesn't know what he would do without Gonzalez.
"Pedro volunteered to help coach because his son Robert was on the team the first year," Marvin Lopez says. "He saw that I couldn't do everything and offered to help. I figured that he would leave us when Robert went on to college, I didn't think I'd have a program, but he came back. There are teams paying the coaches in our league thousands of dollars. We don't have the funds to pay Pedro a cent but he does it anyway. He puts in his time after a long day of work, he spends hours away from his family and contributes money out his own pocket into this program. I don't know what we would do without him. Of course we'd love to start a pipeline with a younger team, but we don't have another coach who is willing to do what Pedro does.
"All of our fundraising goes directly to our travel expenses and tournament registration fees and uniforms and meals. We don't see any of it, so we can't give Pedro anything -- unless you count rice and beans and some cold Coronas."
In the end, the responsibility for success rests with the boys. They must maintain academic achievement, they must have the strength of character to stand out and the motivation to excel. They must become more than talented California soccer players.
With the Sequoia Gateway program three years in the works, the Lopezes still are breaking down outdated ideals -- walls that have stood in the way of generations of progress.
"Unfortunately, here in Central Valley there is this image of Hispanics not moving on into higher education. That's just the culture of a place. They don't see the long term benefits of a college degree," Marvin Lopez says. "Parents value a quick paycheck even if it comes to their boys from the fields or maybe working construction. I have to sit them down and we do the math. So maybe their son will get this much for soccer, and this much financial aid, and maybe they'll need a loan for this much but that degree will have them making so much more and doing so much more than they ever could if they just stayed here like everybody else. That's something I have to prove to parents who are still very resistant about sending their boys to college."
Through their constant guidance and exposure, Sequoia Gateway is providing and entrance through college education to a life beyond rural immigrant agricultural living. In two years, Sequoia Gateway will graduate its first batch of students with college degrees.
Now a sophomore, Noel Mendoza is a walking example of true evolution.
"I didn't know anybody who had ever gone to college. None of my friends -- well except for Robert, but he was in the [Sequoia Gateway] program, too. When I go home to Porterville and I see kids from high school they ask me what I'm doing and I tell them I am going to college and I live in New Jersey and they are so surprised. Why? No one really goes away to college, especially out of state. That's just not what kids do in the valley. They can't believe it, but it feels good to tell them what I'm doing. I'm glad I didn't stay there."
Mary Buckheit is a Page 2 columnist. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Beagleboard - Arduino hybrid robot
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The two microcontrollers will be connected by USB, along with a USB webcam mounted on a servo pan/tilt mechanism, and a USB wifi dongle for internet connectivity. Basic tank treads will provide movement, possible being replaced by servo-based legs for a humanoid or dog form.
It's a work-in-progress at the moment. I've got the tracked base running with the Arduino using the Ardumoto controller, and I've got a webcam and USB wifi working with the Beagleboard. More details on my build log at: http://mechomaniac.com/robots
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I've now got the Beagleboard talking to the Arduino by serial, so that it can control the motors and servos. I've started to experiment with some computer vision, identifying and tracking a pink ball from an Aibo. See http://mechomaniac.com/node/72 for details.
There pictures form the webcam seem to be delayed by about 2 seconds which makes the tracking a bit odd, and only the pan servo is connected (I need to extend the cable for the tilt servo), but the Beagleboard does seem to have enough performance for image processing.
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Interesting - what benefits would using a beagleboard vs a mini/micro/pico/ atx ? I am not really familiar with ARM architecture, although I remember seeing it as one of the possible kernel builds when I recompile my kernel.
Initially I see $145 for the beagleboard vs $66 for a mini atx - Is the beagleboard mor catered to digitial & analog io? DSP Core? Digitial Signal Processing?
I found a link once where a group has optimized OpenCV to run 10 X faster on a playstation since it has hardware catered to graphics processing (Awesome!)
Very interested in seeing your progress.
I have been working on a java robot framework - with a JNA implementation (some very smart guy (Samuel Audet) wrote) to opencv. I found this just recently. Previously I was using JNI which has been a pain in the rear.
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
About the Author
Lois Lowry is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association s Children s Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com.


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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Could it be any better?
10/10 my friend,controls sucked dick real hard,but it was an awesome game,almost as good as that game where you run around dressed in black using a Machine gun,and please tell me the name of it because I forgot the name.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
The game is simply awesome.
Nothing bad to say about it.
I just wonder how you got the idea to put Winter war in there?:o
I hope there'll be loads of new ones
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
I've got two questions:
¿Why didn't you put the others misions in this one, or put a training stage? The game is pretty short.
¿Why I can't drop the katana?
Anyway, it's a good game.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Pretty well but 3 is still my fav because of these bugs
Stay watching the tutorial a white screen comes on end and there is a bug where you cant use the rocket launcher.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Awesome game and new guns but a level editor and creator would be nice and uploader
And i miss the endless war 1 2 and 3 misions :\ but i guess you didnt were able to make em via the icon thinghies but meh nice game


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Help, my site here: http://www.fromyourslovingly.com/bagsnmore
I want to resize the width such that my text & products will fill up the space from left margin up till my right sidebar.
Where should I edit it?
Help, my site here: http://www.fromyourslovingly.com/bagsnmore
I want to resize the width such that my text & products will fill up the space from left margin up till my right sidebar.
Where should I edit it?
That's never going to happen 100% of the time. Your product blocks are 120px wide, so 4 of them will not fit across the 450px wide page area. Expanding the page content area will take a fairly major theme/CSS re-write.
Hi esmi,
thanks for the response.
but for normal text I can't seem to stretch it across too...i.e. this page: http://www.fromyourslovingly.com/about
im confused as to what you are trying to achieve... do you want all the main data in the middle column?
and you dont have a div for a left column, you have right and middle.... no left
There's no text on http://www.fromyourslovingly.com/about. It's all images.
ignore the background image. I want the main data to span from left to right (up till right sidebar) just like this:
thanks scoe :)
Esmi, this page is with text: http://www.fromyourslovingly.com/delivery-payment
it's odd that the text stops short of right margin :D
This is your CSS on style.css line 277:
.middle {
background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:0 solid #2B3E4D;
change the width to approx 660px:
looking again.. that will fix that page, however will screw up your home page.
You need to change the divs from the home page and your page, rename the .middle div then apply the width change.
you should be able to do this in the page.php file, unless you have changed all that already =]
omg, scoe!!! you saved my day!!! Love u big time!! :D :D it's all well now.
Thank you so very much.
oh yeah the homepage is screwed LOL
oh no it's not working...the homepage cant seem to get away from the other pages :(
did you try re-naming the div? you will need to take all the styles accross too, not the most elegant of fixes, but if it works....
hi scoe, I'm not sure how to rename the div...hmmm I'm pretty much an IT/CSS idiot :S
is there somewhere I can read up on modifying the div/ styles?
thank you so much.
to rename the div you just change its name. It will say
 or
 you just change the word in between the quotes.
That in turn references you stylesheet (css)
div id="something" will be #something in your css
div class="something" will be .something
so you change the name of the div to anything you want that is not already in your css, then in your css make a matching entry for the div you just named, then apply your css.
The easiest way would be to just copy that other entire block of css, paste it right under itself, change the name to whatever you renamed the div to, and adjust its width accordingly
I hope that makes sense, I'm very tired....
rvoodoo...thank you so very much!! really appreciate your help :) it's done now :-)
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The town is relatively small and survives mostly off of fishing and some local trading. There are enough foreigners that come by to get entry Visas that the locals do not stare (too much), but you will no doubt be watched with curious eyes.
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For about three years, the A.V. Club ran Sawbuck Gamer, a regular column reviewing the week's most notable free and cheap games across all platforms, from web games to handhelds to console downloadables. It's a treasure trove of content, especially since more literary sister site The Gameological Society took the helm, and it's publicized great desktop projects like the luscious platformer Frogatto (previously), feature-rich Super Mario Bros. X (previously), the evocative faux-web Digital: A Love Story (previously), interactive fiction gem Rover's Day Off, and the hyperkinetic RunMan: Race Around the World (previously). But if you're in the mood for something more immediate, why not start with a list of all the original column's free A-rated online titles? [more inside]
Flash Friday RPG
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That said, I'd like to ask you a question. I noticed that, even though the domains are perfectly mapped, the post URL still shows the page, instead of automatically redirecting me to the mapped domain. Is this normal behaviour, or did I find a bug?
By the way, I tried DMS on multisite environments and couldn't get it to work, the mapped domains always redirect me to the site signup page.


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Contest announcer
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Contest announcers are people who comment on the Pokémon Contests and Super Contests. They also announce the start of the Contests.
In the games
In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, they appear in the Contest Halls to announce the start of the rounds. They also announce the winner and present them with their Ribbon.
In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, the announcer is Dexter, who is also a judge.
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In Kanto
- Lilian is the Contest announcer in Kanto.
- Jessie was once the co-announcer alongside Lilian in the Kanto Grand Festival.
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In Sinnoh
- Marian is the announcer in Sinnoh.
- Jessie helped Marian during the Wallace Cup. She interviewed the losing Coordinators from the quarters up to the finals.
- In Japanese, the three anime announcers share アン an on their names. In English, they also share an in their names.
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Policy Signaling in the Open Economy: A Re-Examination
The standard model of signaling used in open economy macroeconomics concentrates on building a reputation when a policymaker's `type' is unknown. Observing tough policy leads market participants to raise the probability that a policymaker is tough, and therefore to expect tough policy in the future. This approach leaves unexplained a number of commonly observed occurrences, for example, toughness in defending an exchange rate leading to increased speculation against the currency. To explain many phenomena, this paper argues, more sophisticated signaling models are needed, models which include signaling of resources rather than preferences, policy affecting the environment in which signals are sent, and exogenous changes in the environment affecting the informativeness of signals. These models are explored and are shown to be able to explain a number of phenomena the standard reputational model cannot.
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- Obstfeld, Maurice, 1996. "Destabilizing Effects of Exchange-Rate Escape Clauses," Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt15n3p5dt, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
- Maurice Obstfeld, 1991. "Destabilizing Effects of Exchange-Rate Escape Clauses," NBER Working Papers 3603, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Maurice Obstfeld., 1996. "Destabilizing Effects of Exchange-Rate Escape Clauses," Center for International and Development Economics Research (CIDER) Working Papers C96-075, University of California at Berkeley.
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"The `New' EMS,"
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For the past two decades, Ohio has acted to streamline and toughen its online registry of all sex offenders living in our midst. Today, detailed information about 18,000 such offenders, including about 500 in the Mahoning Valley, are but a click away for millions of Ohioans from their nearest PC, laptop or smartphone.
In 1997, Gov. George Voinovich signed the Sexual Offender Registration Bill, which required sheriff's offices throughout the state to develop and implement a registration system for convicted sexual offenders. Over the years, through state initiative or federal fiat, that registry has been upgraded and made increasingly more user friendly.
The most recent upgrade to better serve Ohioans rightly concerned about convicted rapists, child molesters or other sexual deviants living in their neighborhoods debuted this month. At a press conference last week with representatives of the Buckeye State Sheriffs Association, Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that Ohioans now can use phone numbers, email addresses or screen names to learn whether they belong to registered sex offenders. The database's new reverse-lookup feature lets people input that data to determine whether a registered sex offender has contacted them.
"In this age of technology, knowing which sex offenders live in your neighborhood isn't always enough," DeWine said. "Digital communications allow people to break geographical boundaries, and sexual predators can use this to their advantage to pose as peers and develop cyber friendships with unsuspecting children."
The upgrade in the public website comes none too soon as the wide use of electronic technology in planning and perpetrating sexual crimes, particularly those against children, makes readily apparent. In 82 percent of online sex crimes against minors, the offender used the victim's social networking site to gain needed information, according to a study in The Journal of Adolescent Health. The FBI estimates that 50,000 child predators are online at any given time trolling for potential victims.
Despite the widening scope of the threats and despite the lifelong emotional and interpersonal scars that sexual abuse inflicts on victims, the American Civil Liberties Union and others demonize the online registries as patently unfair to offenders. Many liken the impact of the long-lasting listings on convicted offenders to the shameful Scarlet Letter "A" prominently worn by Hester Prynne in Nathanial Hawthorn's classic 1850 novel, branding her as an adulteress.
But arguments that sexual-offender registries unfairly stigmatize individuals who have paid their time for their committed crime pale in comparison to the benefits of such registries, which have been upheld by state and federal courts.
First, online registries provide a strong measure of accountability to the ex-cons. Because they are legally required to submit updated information of their whereabouts and forced to deal with their public record in other aspects of their lives, registries provide incentives for them not to reoffend. Second, registries provide a measure of comfort and security to residents, particularly parents, to know whether sex offenders live nearby. Furthermore, the former offenders are themselves protected by criminal penalties for those who would harass, assault or commit crimes against them.
On balance, the registry serves as one important tool to fight the scourge of sex abuse. But Ohioans must recognize it cannot be the only tool. Given that most sexual assaults are committed by family members or trusted friends and that many go unreported, such databases cannot replace close supervision by parents and proactive defensive behavior by everyone in all interactions — online and off.
The information provided by the ex-cons is only as good as their honesty. The registry is useless to prevent sex crimes. Arial Castro was not a sex offender but abducted three young girls. Of what value was the registry? The abductions could have been prevented by good parenting. C'mon, not to blame the victims but who lets a ten year old girl roam the streets alone? Sandusky was not on the registry yet parents actually dropped their kids on his doorstep. The registry is useless and a huge expense for taxpayers and makes the life of the registrant hell. It makes it so they can't find employment and they further become a burden to the taxpayer.
The registry is used to isolate a person from every aspect of the community. A person can be added to the list even decades after a conviction. The registry cannot be challenged on any forum and no person on the registry has any legal interest in his placement on the registry.
The registry has been PROVEN to make it more likely a person will commit criminal acts because it is well established that a person with no connections to the community and is alienated from it will give the community no value.
The reigstry is POLITICAL in nature whereby the freedom of individuals in the community are determined at the community's whim.
It is a legal RIGHT to flee the registry. Unitil there is some DUE PROCESS, the registry, as a matter of law, does not have to be followed.
I left the registry. All it did was harm to me and the community. I have no forum to bring my grienveances as an INVIDIVIDUAL BEFORE THE LAW.
You all don't care about processes and truely believe that you can vote on who in the community is an outcast. But your laws have been deemed illegal because of the lack of the ability to challenge conclusions. I laugh at your laws and ignore them with impunity.


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In order of wealth: Keenen Wayans (born Keenen Ivory Wayans on June 8, 1958 in New York City) has a net worth of about $60,000,000.
Damon Wayans (born Damon Kyle Wayans on September 4, 1960 in New York City) has a net worth of about $30,000,000, as does his brother Shawn (born Shawn M. Wayans on January 19, 1971 in New York City).
The Wayans brother with the lowest net worth still has a tidy sum, Marlon Wayans (born Marlon L. Wayans on July 23, 1972 in New York City) has an net worth of about $15,000,000.
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The Vikings secondary is getting more depleted by the week as injuries continue to take their toll on a pass defense that is already ranked 29th in the NFL.
Cedric Griffin entered the season as the biggest question mark in the secondary after having knee surgery each of the last two years to repair his two anterior cruciate ligaments. Now Griffin is more like the last man standing in a battle of attrition.
Antoine Winfield headed to injured reserve after suffering a fractured scapula in a Nov. 14 game against the Green Bay Packers, and Chris Cook still hasn't as much as practiced since being arrested for felony domestic assault on Oct. 22.
How bad has it gotten in the Vikings secondary? Asher Allen, who started the season with a toe injury and was expected to be the dime back, was viewed as the team's top cover cornerback for the last two weeks – and now he is back on the injury report.
"It was tough, really tough. Ash has really become a guy we were counting on a great deal to match up with other people's top receiver and then to lose him as early as we did, it really puts you in a little bit of a bind," said Vikings coach Leslie Frazier, who was a starting cornerback with the 1985 Bears team that won the Super Bowl.
Allen suffered a sprained AC joint in his shoulder in the first quarter of Sunday's loss to the Atlanta Falcons, which further exposed the team's woes in the defensive backfield. Benny Sapp, who was signed less than two weeks ago, moved from playing in the slot in the nickel defense to becoming essentially a starting cornerback, despite spending nine weeks out of the league after being released from the Miami Dolphins following their Week 1 loss.
Allen will be day-to-day, according to Frazier, but the injuries and frustration continue to mount in the secondary.
"A lot of that is what he can tolerate. We'll see how he does as the week goes on," Frazier said of Allen.
Allen's injury means that three of the Vikings' top four cornerbacks will likely be inactive against the Denver Broncos on Sunday, and the injury woes don't stop with the cornerbacks.
Safety Tyrell Johnson, who entered training camp with a chance to recapture his starting safety spot, was filling in for Husain Abdullah for the second straight game, but Johnson pulled up with a "significant" injury to his right hamstring early in the second quarter and might be lost for the rest of the season.
Frazier said Johnson's injury "is under evaluation that is probably going to require him being not able to perform for a while. We will know more as the week goes on."
Abdullah suffered his second concussion of the season against the Green Bay Packers on Nov. 14 and hasn't played the last two weeks.
"We're still evaluating Husain Abdullah with his concussion and we will know a little bit more in the days to come," Frazier said. "But we will have to make a decision regarding him as well."
If Allen and Abdullah aren't able to play Sunday, it would mean five of the Vikings' top seven defensive backs would be out with injury or legal issues. Griffin still doesn't seem to have the explosiveness he possessed prior to the two knee surgeries and another starter, starting safety Jamarca Sanford, missed one game with a concussion and has been on the injury report with a shoulder issue.
"It was a little scary in that game yesterday. You start going, 'This guy goes down, what's the next step?' But the guys who were out there playing – Marcus Sherels, Benny, Cedric – I thought they fought hard," Frazier said. "(Rookie safety Mistral Raymond), of course, got a ton of reps. And Jamarca was in there. It's a young group of safeties. And when you consider the amount of time Benny has played this year, but they battled, but they still had a chance in that fourth quarter. That's what you hope for every week you play."
Frazier said after Sunday's loss the defensive backs were effective "at times, but it's not the ideal situation."
In addition to the injuries in the defensive backfield, the Vikings lost long snapper Cullen Loeffler to a lower back injury and he is likely done for the season. Receiver Michael Jenkins suffered a knee injury, the severity of which isn't known, and running back Adrian Peterson will continue to have his high ankle sprain monitored throughout the week after missing Sunday's game.
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Whenever I see George in a nice pose and I point the camera at him, he starts walking toward me. I think he wants to eat the camera, even though I have told him many times it does not taste like tuna.
"You will obey me."
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous
I did not have to wait very long for George to show his displeasure. This afternoon I went out to the Jeep and 'someone' had barfed up what looked like cat food on the hood. I thought about posting a photo of it but decided that future retribution would be worse. And besides, a photo of cat barf is not generally considered fave-worthy!
I had a similar problem when we had dogs - Tobi (my dog) knew that if I had the camera out - there was something cool to look at - and she would start jumping and barking and running around looking for whatever I was shooting - which always ruined the cute shots of HER...
Personally - I think George is going to kick your butt - he looks PISSED!
Personally - I think George is going to kick your butt - he looks PISSED!
George is actually a very nice cat but yes, he does perpetually look pissed. He rules the property here through mind control. I don't know how he does it, but sometimes George looks me in the eye and all of a sudden I feel compelled to make tuna salad sandwiches. I always leave some of the water and a little bit of tuna in the can for George. I used to buy treats for George (he is the landlord's cat) but they stopped carrying them in the local stores and he only liked that one kind of cat treats. That was over a year ago but George still looks pissed at me when I come out my door and I don't have something for him. He also leaves dead rodents by the door and near my car for me to step on in the dark. Ewww! A cat lover told me that means he really likes me, but I think she secretly works a disinformation campaign for George. Excuse me, I suddenly feel the need for a tuna salad sandwich . . .
Wow - respect from the landlord's cat - that's pretty cool! (We had a cat that did that - something WRONG about the squish-crunch of a rodent under a bare foot... and the tiny little laugh coming from the furry shadow in the corner... or maybe that was just my imagination...


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The East Fork White River overflowed its banks early Friday, triggered by snow melt and recent rainfall.
The river is expected to crest at 15.8 feet at about 7 a.m. Sunday, which is about a foot less than the National Weather Service had earlier predicted.
The river was rising from 12.81 feet at 7 a.m. Flood stage at Seymour is 12 feet.
Jackson County Sheriff's Department water is across county and state roads in the area, including:
8000 block East 700S.
State 258 between Seymour and Cortland.
100N between 600E and 700E.
50N between 950E and U.S. 31.
400W between U.S. 50 and Vallonia.
700S at 325E.
And State Road 235 at Medora.
Sheriff Michael Carothers warned motorists to not drive through flooded roads.
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19 reviews | 4.9 out of 5
Mandisa (of American Idol Fame) is phenomenal in her debut album True Beauty. Disa's range in styles gives something for everyone (although I'm positive everyone will like the entire album no matter what style you normally prefer). Her songs range from pop, (True Beauty, Only the World), to hip-hop (Love Somebody w/Tobymac), to gospel (Oh, My Lord), to breath-taking ballads (God Speaking, Voice of a Savior, He Will Come). I am repeatedly blown away by her amazing voice. I pre-ordered the CD so it was waiting in the mail for me last Tuesday (release day July 31) and have listened to it at least 10 times a day since then. I find myself singing along with a huge smile on my face. If you are an Idol fan, a Jesus fan, or just looking for something new, BUY THIS CD! I promise you will not be disappointed! True Beauty
Awesome CD. Mandisa is so great!!
On American Idol Season 5, she wowed all audiences with her powerhouse, belt-it-out style and amazing beauty. Now, she shows those same qualities in her debut album. The first track, Only the World, starts off this CD with a wonderful beat, and empowering lyrics, as does the next track, True Beauty. THen, slowing it down a bit are the (amzing) ballads God Speaking and Voice of a Savior. Then, my personal favorite song on the album, the up-beat Love Someody, featuring tobyMac, and Diverse City, which makes for a really great song. Then, another great ballad (Unrestrained), followed by a great rendtion of a song originally made popular by artist Mary, Mary, Shackles (Praise You) which instanly makes you want to get up and DANCE! THen, another great up-beat song, (Never Gonna) Steal my Joy, with some very empowering lyrics! Then, Oh, My Lord, featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers, another highlight of the album! Then, yet another great song, Only You, with its wonderful lyricas, and finally, a wonderful finish with He Will Come, with my personal favorite part being about 2 mins 50 seconds in, it's just great! Additionally, if you put your CD in your computer, and follow the simple onscreen instrucions, you can get a remix of Only the WOrld, a really nice bonus! YOu can also get an exclusive video of Mandisa visting her homwtown, and an excerpt form her amzing book entitled Idoleyes! It's and amazing buy!
Wow. I am just so overwhelmed with this CD. Mandisa has REALLY proved herself to the world. She has an amazing voice. All of the songs on this album are worth listening to. No joke. They are THAT good. now, onto rating the songs on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best) Only The World: 10! This song has an amazing message along with a great beat. it really shows mandisa vocals. True Beauty: 10! that's right, another 10. Another great message behind this song. True Beauty comes from within! not the outside appearance. Anyways, this song has another amazing beat to it. God Speaking: 9.5 This song is a very slow paced song. But its VERY good. it really shows Mandisa vocal range. Voice of a Savior: 9.5 Starts off slow but gets to a faster beat. Worht listening to. Love Somebody: 9 Toby Mac is featured in this song. Very great song. Unrestrained: 10! This song is AMAZING. simple as that. go LISTEN TO IT! Shackles: 8.5 Shackles. most of you know this song from when mandisa sang it on American Idol. it was great then, and its even better now. Steal my Joy: 8.5 Very nice beat. Great Lyrics. Oh My Lord: 9 i LOVE the chorus in this song. very classy song. worth listening to. Only You: 9 Another great song.
He Will Come: 9 another slow song. very good nonetheless. as you can see, nothing is rated below 8.5! this an OUTSTANDING album. be sure to pick up a copy. its very worth it! i promise, you WONT be disappointed with this album.
This is one of the best CDs I've heard all year. I couldn't stop listening to it! This CD has quite a few diffrent styles from pop to gospel and Mandisa sounds great on all of them! Some of the songs like, "Shackles" and "True Beauty" make you want to get up and dance! "Voice of a Savior" is my favorite. Its got an awesome message! I HIGHLY recommend this disk!
I received this for Christmas and Jan. was a very tough month for me. I started really listening to the words of her music, and it was such a blessing! "God speaking" is such an eye opener and really hit home. Her voice is incredible and I absolutely love this cd!!!!! My daughter is now doing her senior dance recital to Shackles. I'm excited!!!!!
The cd is nice but, I was expecting so much more from her. I felt it was watered down sounding so mixed and not Gospel Soul like I was expecting. Over all it's nice but takes too long to grow on you. I think she should put more soul and not jump around so much with the track she choose. She has the goods and can SING with the BEST OF THEM.
I LOVE IT!! I bought this CD because I went to school with Mandisa at Fisk and wanted to support an alumnus. I was not sure what to expect, but I LOVE this CD! It's like just enough soul, rock, gospel, everything. I have been listening to it in my car, at work, at home - everywhere I can when I can!
Thanks Mandisa - Great JOB Girl!
My wife and I bought this cd in the store (Walmart). We both love the cd. It is probably one of the best cd's I have ever listened to. This cd would be enjoyed by christians and non-christians alike. Just a wonderful experience. It blew me away when I first heard it. Just one word describes this cd......WOW!!!
Mandisa is an absolutely amazing singer. Her CD is completely amazing. I was so excited to see an American Idol finalist like Mandisa go into the Christian market and sing music that is glorifying to God. I hope He blesses her for using her talent for Him. If you don't have the CD already, you have to buy it!
This is a very excellent CD i listen to it over and over again it is a good CD and if you've never heard one of mandisa's songs You need to If u like Kirk franklin
TobyMAC and MARY-MARY you will LOVE mandisa Great product but took me hours to find in walmart i suggest buy online
I loved Mandisa on American Idol and love her more now with the releases of her CDs. I just can't get enough!!! She is an amazing vocalist and I am so proud and happy for her on her accomplishments. A MUST HAVE IN YOUR CD COLLECTION!
"God's Speaking" was the first song I heard from her on an internet gospel station. I fell in love with it immediately. Once I'd purchased the CD, I was blessed even more. "True Beauty" is another good one. I am very proud of her.
I absolutely love this CD. Her talent is so much more than one song. I bought this CD for the songs I had heard on the radio, but ended up liking the "unknown" songs even better!!
this cd is soo amazing! it is inspiring! you heard her on american idol, and if you thought she was good then, she is great now! this cd is soo worth the money spent!
This is an awesome album! Ringing with truth, honesty, hope and a strong Christian faith!
True Beauty was an awesome Cd a true pleasure to listen too. Mandisa has a great voice.


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litigation, including trials, administrative proceedings, mediation,
and appeals. Ms. Pontikes concentrates her litigation practice on
discrimination, particularly gender and family responsibility
discrimination, violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act, public
accommodation, sexual harassment, non-competition agreements, and
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Plus drones, bacon, Billy Joel, and the Church of Scotland
From Syria to elections to Iran's nuclear program
The secretary of state prattles about imaginary treaties while the Arab world is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia civil war
Plus Steve Cohen, Al Jazeera, and Mila Kunis
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
How is Israel still responsible for regional peace?
With Syria on the brink, residents wonder what the future holds
Plus Joyce Brothers (1927-2013) and Israeli settlements for Palestinians
Top Israeli military and intelligence analysts are divided over which side to back in Syria's civil war
Why the U.S.-Israel alliance may be returning to its Cold War roots
The Lebanon-based militia also says Syria will give it "game-changing" weapons
Plus Benghazi hearings polarize and Syria's lost generation
Why the Israel Defense Forces hit Syria—and why they believe that Assad won't hit back
How Israel's annexation* of the contested border region continues to keep the peace
Plus Assad talks tough and a Jewish Holocaust avenger tells his story
What some of the smart folks are saying
Plus an update from Hungary, chips and dip, and an Orthodox surfer
Plus mortars rock the Damascus airport
Plus Houston bomb threats, Haim, and Marc Meron
Plus a New York socialite gets sentenced and John Malkovich arrives in Israel
Has the red line on direct American participation in Syria been crossed?
What seeming more and more like a normal day
Plus calls for greater involvement in Syria gather steam
Plus Bibi signs off on Sharansky's new plan for the Western Wall
The life and times of Isaac Shushan
Plus John Kerry throws a brushback pitch at North Korea
Plus diplomats say chemical weapons were used by Assad in Syria
How Bibi Netanyahu handed the American president a big trophy—and got what Israel wanted all along
Plus Barbara Walters is retiring
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Cally's debut novel, 'A Bird Without Wings, is the first book in the 'Faebles' trilogy for Young Adults. It was released by John Hunt Publishing on 13 December 2013.
Cally lives in Southport, in the North West of England with her husband, her elderly cat and her two crazy Labrador dogs. When she is not working at her 'day job', she is at home working on her latest creative project which in recent years has usually been writing. However she is equally enthusiastic about anything creative including arts and crafts.
Her interest in people and emotions, and her experience as a counsellor, combined with her creativity has resulted in a stream of ideas for book storylines from fantasy and 'coming of age' stories, family dramas, and a psychological thriller that she is currently working on.
Cally has been writing for a number of years, is a member of the local Writers Circle, and her debut novel, Bird Without Wings, is the first in the 'Faebles' trilogy for Young Adults.
Cally is currently working on the second book in the Faebles trilogy, and will be posting updates here regularly.