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Susan Stuever shows off one pair of her Converse shoes with her dog Wednesday.

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Susan Stuever is a fan of Converse shoes, from solid colors to two-toned and leopard skin.

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Jim Wyngarden, a painter with Capitol Painting Co., Kansas City, Kan., creates a shadow effect on new lettering on the Poehler building at 619 E. Eighth St. The former Poehler Grocery Warehouse, a 1904 four-story brick building, once was the centerpiece of the east Lawrence industrial district and is now being converted to apartment units. The lettering is in the style of the original building lettering.

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Sunlight strikes a boulder, a marker for a grave site, in the green burial area at Oak Hill Cemetery. Only native plants, flowers and grasses are allowed as decorations and no cut, machined or polished markers are permitted, although “engraved natural, flat rocks, or boulders” are allowed.

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The Rev. John Schmeidler, of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, watches as St. John’s students participate Thursday in a ceremonial dig on a piece of property planned for a new middle school. The addition, pending approval, will be in the empty lot beside 1229 Vt., between the current school and the church.

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I photographed these vacationers snapping photographs of each other while touring the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. For my vacation, I traveled light with one camera body and two lenses but this vacationing couple was lighter still using just an iPhone to document their trip.

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Becky Arnold died of Ewing's sarcoma in 2008 at age 27.

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Free State thrower Brie Mingus, right, who will be competing in the shot put and discus at this weekend’s Class 6A state track meet, visits with teammate Courtney Huffman, who will be running the 4x400, before practice Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at FSHS.

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Pat Pisani, executive director of Hilltop Child Development Center at Kansas University, sits in with a group of 5-year-old students Wednesday at the center. Pisani, who is stepping down from her post, said overseeing the expansions of the center to provide more and better care was one of her proudest accomplishments as director.

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Shelle Arnold, left, and Barb Gorman, right, co-chairs of Relay For Life of Douglas County, visit before a Relay For Life team captain meeting at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Arnold became involved in Relay For Life after losing her daughter-in-law Becky Arnold to Ewing's sarcoma in 2008.

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Liberty Memorial Central Middle School students Eleanor Matheis, 13, foreground left, and Mary Reed Weston, 13, right, put on their helmets before bicycling home from school Tuesday, May 22 2012. Kansas has the 27th highest rate of injury-related deaths in the country, according to a new report. Kansas does not require children to wear helmets, but Lawrence has passed an ordinance requiring children, ages 16 and under, to wear a helmet, but doesn't enforce penalties. Traumatic brain injuries account for more than 50 percent of bicycle fatalities among people 20 and under.

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The Kansas Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers shake hands after the Tigers’ 6-3 win over KU on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Hoglund Ballpark. Saturday’s game was the last game in the Kansas and Missouri baseball series, as the Tigers are leaving the Big 12 after this year to join the Southeastern Conference.

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The Missouri Tigers celebrate a 6-3 win over the Jayhawks and say goodbye to the Big 12 on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Hoglund Ballpark.

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Kansas University senior baseball players and their parents are honored before the game against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Hoglund Ballpark.

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Kansas University center fielder Dakota Smith makes a leaping grab of a line drive during a 6-3 loss to the Missouri Tigers on Saturday, May 19, 2012. The game was the last in the Kansas and Missouri baseball series with the Tigers leaving the Big 12 after this year to join the SEC Conference.

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Kansas University catcher James Stanfield loses the ball as he turns to tag out a Missouri runner at home plate on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Hoglund Ballpark.

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Kansas University shortstop Kevin Kuntz makes a throw to first after picking up a ground ball in Saturday's 6-3 KU loss to Missouri at Hoglund Ballpark.

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KU players jump out of the dugout and run on to the field after the Jayhawks defeated Missouri 6-3 Friday, May 18, 2012, at Hoglund Ballpark. The win assured KU a spot in the Big 12 baseball tournament.

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Lawrence High discus thrower Matia Finley winds up for a throw in the 6A regional track meet Friday, May 18, 2012, at Free State High.

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Actors Todd Schwartz, left, and Dean Bevan perform the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting For Godot" Friday outside at Haskell Indian Nations University's powwow grounds on campus. Crowd members are encouraged to bring picnics for the play, which will have performances at 6 p.m. May 25 and 26.

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