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Juvenile Delinquency
The juvenile delinquency court is for children who are alleged to have committed crimes prior to their eighteenth birthday. The goals of the juvenile delinquency system are rehabilitation of children and protection of the public. The majority of children who are charged with committing crimes and are not given a diversion program will have their cases heard in the juvenile delinquency court.
Typically, the child will be appointed a Public Defender at his/her first court appearance, where the attorney will provide the parent and child with the contact information for the office. Often the attorney will provide the child with an appointment date and time at their first court appearance. If this is not available for some reason, the parent or child must then call the Public Defender's Office to schedule an appointment with the child's attorney. In a juvenile delinquency action the attorney for the child is appointed to represent the child.
At the child's appointment, the attorney will first meet with the child alone confidentially. The attorney will ask the child to tell the attorney what occurred leading up to their citation (ticket) or arrest. It is important the child tell the attorney everything about his/her case. Their conversation with the attorney is completely confidential and will not be revealed to the prosecutor, the judge, or the parents without permission of the child. The reason that the attorney meets with the child in a confidential setting without the parents present is for the child's protection to ensure that the child's version of events remains completely confidential. In addition, it can be difficult for a child to provide a true and accurate recitation of what occurred if his/her parent(s) are present. The attorney will then meet with the child and the parent(s) to discuss the options available for the child.
If your child has been charged in Juvenile Court in Yolo County, his/her case will proceed in the following manner:
If a police officer has probable cause to believe that a juvenile has committed a crime he or she can arrest the juvenile and bring them before a probation officer. However, the police officer in many instances is not required to arrest the juvenile even when they have probable cause. In this case he or she may also give the juvenile a citation (ticket) to appear later in front of a probation officer.
Meeting with the Child, Parent, and Probation Officer
After being arrested or receiving a citation the child will then be brought before a probation officer. The probation officer will interview the child and his family about the circumstances of family, school, and social history. The probation officer will also interview the child about the circumstances surrounding his/her arrest. The child has the absolute right to not answer the questions regarding the events surrounding his or her arrest and request to speak with an attorney before doing so. This is advised!
If the child has been arrested the probation officer in many instances has the ability to release the juvenile on a contract with rules the juvenile will have to follow.
Detention Hearing
The child's first appearance in court is called the detention hearing. Parent and child will be advised of the charges and asked if the child has a private attorney, or will need the assistance of the Public Defender. If the child needs a Public Defender, he or she may request one from the court.
If the child is in custody the child's attorney may request that he/she be released from custody. The judge may release the child, release the child on a contract with certain rules that he or she must follow, or keep the child detained at the juvenile detention facility.
Typically the child must enter a plea at the detention hearing. A plea is when he or she enters a "Denial", "Nolo Contendere" (No Contest) or "Admission." The child's attorney can explain the differences to the parent and child. If the child enters a denial and he or she is in custody, the child has a right to a contested jurisdictional hearing (trial) in fifteen court days (not including weekends and holidays). If the child is not in custody, he or she has a right to a contested jurisdictional hearing (trial) within thirty calendar days.
If it is necessary to continue the child's case beyond that deadline in order to prepare his/her case, he/she may be asked to "waive time." Waiving time is common for those clients who are out of custody as it allows the child's attorney more time to be flexible with schedules in setting future court dates and appointments. If the child agrees to waive time, he/she is not giving up his/her right to have a contested juvenile hearing (trial) just the right to have one within the time period required.
Uncontested Jurisdictional Hearing
After the child has discussed his/her case with his/her attorney, the child's attorney will discuss the case with the District Attorney and the Court to see whether an agreeable resolution can be reached. The purpose of the uncontested jurisdictional hearing is simply to determine if a resolution can be reached short of proceeding to contested jurisdictional hearing.
Contested Jurisdictional Hearing
This is the trial. In California, with one limited exception, in juvenile court, juveniles do not have a right to a trial by jury. As such, the judge will decide whether or not the allegations have been sustained (proven). At the contested jurisdictional hearing, your child is presumed innocent and the charges cannot be sustained unless the District Attorney has proven each element of each offense by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. If the allegations are not sustained (not proven) your son or daughter's case ends. If some or all of the allegations have been sustained (proven) your son or daughter's case will proceed to disposition.
Disposition Hearing
This is the court proceeding where the judge will decide what consequence will be imposed as a result of the sustained allegations. The probation department will interview the parents and the juvenile prior to the disposition hearing. It will write a report and make a recommendation to the judge as to what the probation department believes appropriate consequence should be. Ultimately, the judge will decide what consequence will be imposed.
Questions or comments?
Email Public Defender's Office
Last Updated: 10/2014


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/ Sunday, December 4, 2011 / 6 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Raw Food
Pineapple Energy Balls
I have another fantastic energy food to share with you today, Pineapple Energy Balls. They are slightly sweeter than my other energy bar recipes. However, there's no added sugar because the dried pineapple itself had been sweetened with organic cane sugar. Tastes so good and my kids just love them, even took some to school to share with their friends!
Pineapple Energy Balls
6 Large (110 g) Medjool Dates, pitted and chopped
1 ½ Cups (240 g) Dried Pineapples, chopped
1 Cup (80 g) Unsweetened Shredded Coconuts
1 Cup (120 g) Raw Almonds (without skin)
1-Cup (140 g) Raw Cashew Nuts
A Pinch of Sea Salt
2 Tbsp Orange Juice
Combine chopped dates, pineapples, coconuts, cashews, almonds, and sea salt in a food processor. Pulse and process all the ingredients together until the texture is coarse. Then add the orange juice, a quick pulse, or until it reaches a dry but moist dough consistency. Scrape the dough mixture into a clean bowl, roll slightly heaped teaspoonfuls of mixture between your palms into compact little balls. Put them on the tray and into the fridge for an hour or so to firm up. Serve chilled or at room temperature.
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What an easy, tasty, and healthy mouthful! Love it that you left it to the natural sweetness of dates and pineapple to make this a sweet bit. A great substitute for all of the sugary cookies I shouldn't eat this time of year. :)ReplyDelete
I would like to try making this...I am sure it is energy packed :)ReplyDelete
ok, but just how many calories per ball?ReplyDelete
@yytap: Sorry, I don't use a calorie counter.ReplyDelete
This is a great recipe.ReplyDelete
Just found this by way of Foodgawker and have to say I'm thrilled to have done so! I'm on the hunt for gf healthy snacks that I can keep on hand - since being diagnosed with celiac I've figured out how to cook appropriately for my new food life for main meals, but am still rather at my wit's end when it comes to feeding myself during the day. On top of that, I'm slowly recovering from a long term illness that had me on bedrest for a good chunk of time, so I'm not really up yet to long cooking sessions. It's a bad loop I've been stuck in. To get the energy to cook more, I need to eat, but to eat, I need to cook more, which I don't have the energy for! Snacks like this are perfect, and I'm incredibly chuffed to find this one. Most of the others I've found have been mainly chocolate - which is great sometimes, but I've been hungry for FOOD, not simply another cookie! My husband is doing a grocery run tomorrow, and these are being made as soon as he gets home. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete


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Russian art project? Attempt to remove paint with real axes? I have no idea, but I agree with our tipster that it's surreal.
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This is a serious question. A young woman dies in a tragic motorcycle accident with one of your college football teammates. You somehow come into possession of her gas credit card. Can you imagine using it for six months, not paying the bills ($3,000), and thinking that you wouldn't be caught? That's allegedly what Jamar Hornsby did. He is — or was — a cornerback at the University of Florida.
How did he get into college? Seriously. What could this guy's SAT scores have been?
Best line from the story comes from the Alachua County Sheriff's Office spokesman, Stephen Maynard: "I would love to hear the explanation for utilizing the card of a deceased person."
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I need some quick help with some code I am writing. I am send a packet string line from one computer to another as part of some course work. I need to use a Socket. I have used a DatagramSocket and it works fine but this does not.
I will display the code and my problem at the bottom.
package socketstream; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; /** * * @author */ public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { try { InetAddress DataIP = null; String temp = "188.8.131.52"; DataIP = InetAddress.getByName(temp); int DataPort = 4999; //Creates the Stream between server and client Socket mySkt = new Socket (DataIP,DataPort); //The stream to read data is created BufferedReader myBR = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(mySkt.getInputStream())); //The stream to send data is created PrintStream myPS= new PrintStream(mySkt.getOutputStream()); myPS.println("Get up"); temp = myBR.readLine(); System.out.println(temp); System.out.print("sorted!!!"); } catch (UnknownHostException ex) { } catch(IOException ie){} } }
/* * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package serverstreamtest; /** * * @author */ public class Main { public static void main(String[] args){ int i =1; int ii = 4999; createStreamSocket cA = new createStreamSocket(4999);//creating the small array of users (10) // cA = new createStreamSocket(ii); // System.out.print(cA); // ii = ii -10; // cA[i+1] = new createStreamSocket(ii); // System.out.print(cA[i+1]); // ii = ii -10; // cA[i+2] = new createStreamSocket(ii); // System.out.print(cA[i+2]); } } /* * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package serverstreamtest; /** * * @author */ import java.io.*; import java.net.*; class createStreamSocket implements java.io.Serializable { public int userPort; BufferedReader SS_BR; //This is the bufferreader that will read in all the data sent accross //the two communications. This has been made public so it is accessable all over the class PrintStream SS_PS; createStreamSocket(int userPort) throws InterruptedException { try { this.userPort = userPort; // The user port number is recognised to be recieved on ServerSocket mySS = new ServerSocket(userPort);// the communication channel is opened Socket SS_accept = mySS.accept(); //This new buffer reader will get the streams being input to it from the client. This effectivly sets up its stream //of constant communication // String Ipaddress = InputStreamReader(mySS.accept().getInetAddress().toString().substring(1)); SS_BR = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(SS_accept.getInputStream())); String temp = SS_BR.readLine(); System.out.print(temp); // try { // Thread.sleep(1000); // } catch (InterruptedException ex) { // // } //The stream to send data is created Thread.sleep(2111); SS_PS= new PrintStream(SS_accept.getOutputStream()); SS_PS.println("50"); clientPresent(); } catch (IOException ex) { System.out.print("Unable to setup ServerSocketStream on port "+ userPort);} } private void clientPresent() { } }
My problem is that the package is recieved and displayed by the server and the package "50" is sent back to the client (I think). However the client WILL NOT pick it up!! I do not have a clue why this is? Is it because I am using a real IP and sending between two actual computers?
The client Says build successful but wont display the System.out.print stuff!!
Also if I try to debug on the line System.out.print(temp); It just wont stop at that point the build ends!
Please help I need to do this project ASAP and this socket is the key to getting it done properly


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DocuChallenge: Phillips, William D
We were presented with an image from Fold3.com to do the following:
Let's answer these questions:
- What is this document?
- How would you describe the physical appearance of this document?
- What does this document say about Ol' Myrt's ancestor?
- What other people are mentioned in this document?
- What information items do you find most reliable in this document?
- What information items do you find less reliable in this document?
- What value is this document without a citation indicating provenance?
- Can you craft a citation for this document?
- What would you do with this digital document?
- What other record groups should Ol' Myrt consider after analyzing this document?
This is a Civil War Pension card. We are looking at a digital image of that card.
I transcribed it:
Name of Soldier: Phillips, William H
Service: Last Rank P, Co K, 19 Reg, Ind Inf
Term of Service: Enlisted [ no date ] Discharged [ no date ]
Date of Filing 1880 June 7
Class: Invalid, Application number 376,996, Certificate No 243,464
Date of Filing 1921 Mar 12
Widow 1,171,114, 8-1-20, 907389
Additional Service A 17 V.R.C.
Died Fed 21 1921, Knoxville, Iowa
"Civil War Pensions; Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900", digital image, The National Archives (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 31 October 2014); entry for William H Phillips (Co K, 19 Reg, Ind Inf); citing: Civil War Pensions, Pension applications for service in the US Army between 1861 and 1900, grouped according to the units in which the veterans served; NARA T289. no roll number cited.
The first thing I noticed was William H vs William D. Wonder if +DearMYRTLE gave that to us as a hint.
The Soldier, William H Phillips had died:
What this told me was the soldier's name was William H Phillips and that he was married and left a widow. He was a Private, in Company K, of the 19th Regiment, Indiana Infantry. He Died 1/21/1921 in Knoxville, Iowa, and his widow filed for the pension 3/12/1921.
So far, the information appears to be OK, but….
One thing that caught my eye was the Term of Service, there we no dates. So, I searched to see if there were any Civil War Service Records for William H Phillips that fit the information I had so far.
There was no indication in the Civil War Service Index – Union – Indiana for him, but there were 7 entries, none this William H. The question so far is, Did he serve and when did he serve? Not sure what the A 17 V.R.C. means, yet.
I have been looking at Civil War Records on Ancestry.com, and where I would normally go from what I have so far, would see IF I can find HER pension file. And I found her pension at: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 for William H Phillips. The numbers matched exactly, as I have seen before. It's a different card, but should have the same numbers and certificate number. It did. The widow's name is Louisa Phillips. She filed for the pension in Iowa, where he had died.
That A 17 V.R.C. is also on this pension record. Two documents with the same information.
My next stop was to see IF I could find any more information on the 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment, as I had a hint something was coming. So I went to Wikipedia.
Having been on a brief Civil War research trip with our spouses, I took this picture at Gettysburg in May.
The Iron Brigade. I knew there had to be a connection. BUT, I took my next step to see what else I could find out about the 19th.
Before I take my next step in research, I need to mention that the Iron Brigade was involved, in Gettysburg, on Culp's Hill on 3 July. I also had a Confederate soldier, Ridgely Howard, in that SAME battle and he was wounded in the thigh at Culps Hill. Not in the same part of the battle, DearMYRTLE's soldier was at the other end of that battle, as there are monuments placed where the units were fighting. Pieces of David Ridgely Howard's story is in a PBS film on Gettysburg.
This is the monument for the 1st Maryland.
Back to my research I found this website:
The kicker for this research, for this DocuChallenge is in the LAST Line on the 19th's service information:
"Weldon R. R. August 18-21"
In William Henry Phillips Find-A-Grave memorial, Find A Greave Memorial #58768920, DearMYRTLE published the details of his pension files, that he served through 1864. So, Was HE, William Henry Phillips, at Weldron R.R. in that battle?
MY Ridgely Howard was wounded for the 2nd time at THAT battle. This time, "wounded in action – upper portion of right thigh, amputated.
David Ridgely Howard lived until 23 December 1927 and is buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.


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MysticWicks endorsement: "In other words, Discordianism, like postmodernism, means never having to say your sorry."
I mean, we can't take that "we must stick apart" command too literally, it'll hamstring genuine efforts at coordination.
for context, the discussion was originally about subversive uses of absurdity / nonsenseKerry Thornley's quote (in the OP) highlights some of the problems with naming yourself as a Movement. According to that manifesto, many of the people in his subculture thought it was over as soon as the magazines declared them the Hippie Movement.BUTsubverting the dominant paradigm generally only works as a group effort! One lone weirdo is too small scale to change big things. She cannot generate consensus on hre own. Unless she gets really lucky or has access to really great resources. So to be effectively subversive you do need to coordinate your efforts with others, dontcha think?I mean, we can't take that "we must stick apart" command too literally, it'll hamstring genuine efforts at coordination.
Breaching experiment: A method for revealing, or exposing, the common work that is performed by members of particular social groups in maintaining a clearly recognizable and shared social order. An extreme example: driving the wrong way down a busy one-way street can reveal myriads of useful insights into the patterned social practices, and moral order, of the community of automobile drivers ... and police. The point of such an exercise is to demonstrate that gaining insight into the work involved in maintaining any given social order can often, best be revealed by breaching that social order and observing the results of that breach - especially those activities related to the reassembly of that social order, and the normalization of that social setting
To me, the "humorous" part of nonsense is when it's surprising. (possible example) Your mind was going down a rational path, and then something unexpected happens, and that makes you laugh.
Great thought provoking thread.I don't have time to properly compose my reactions to it at the moment, but the gist of it is this:We all have an idea of when language is more nonsensical or making sense, but is this division anything more than reiteration of the BIP?In other words, isn't nonsense something you just don't understand (whether by unconsciously deflecting something or out of sheer ignorance), and sense is where it fits with your worldview?What specific social, psychological and biological criteria are primarily at play when things get classified as sense or nonsense?
If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other for what it is: absurdity.
That is to say, the use of nonsense as a signifier, a way to call attention to themselves as Outlandish and Interesting... A way of labelling themselves, an act no different than Boxxy's black nail polish.Because to use nonsense in such a casual and self-identifying way dilutes the power of nonsense. Rather than sticking in the brain like a piece of jagged glass, the nonsense becomes background noise.


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This Lichtenstein house in The High Museum of Art's front yard got me thinking about modern playhouses the other day:
Doesn't it look fantastic with the building's gridded white facade behind it? Depending on where you're standing, its lines and perspective change.
A lot of my all-time favorite playhouses have been posted over at the fabulous blog created by vintage mavens Alix and Dottie, Modern Kiddo. They brought back many of their readers' happy memories of The Nut Tree destination rest stop in Vacaville, California in this delightful post. Here's a peek at just two of the amazing, kid-friendly and colorful designs that were part of The Nut Tree back in the day (according to their post, it closed in 1996 and some of it was demolished, but re-opened in 2009). How awesome is the graphic design on this funhouse?
I love the modern spirit behind these three modern playhouses. All are made with certified sustainable wood and are pretty easy to assemble. This is the Circle House with Furniture Set from Modern Playhouse:
I love its simple lines and whimsical circle cut-outs. The house is made of plywood and was inspired by Scandinavian fishing shacks. It's the perfect spot for a tea party.
Next, we have the MD-20 from TrueModern:
This house was designed by Edgar Blazona, is made of eco-friendly sustainable birch plywood and coated in non-toxic finishes. It also has wall-mounted paper tablets that turn it into a little one's own private art studio.
Finally, we have the Puzzle Playhouse and Furniture Set from Modern Playhouse. It can be stored flat and easily assembled and disassembled on a daily basis, but honestly, it's so cute, you'll want to find a special spot to keep it on display all the time.
Do you have happy memories of your playhouse, or have you built one for your kiddos? Please tell us about it in the comments section!
- First image: Becky Harris
- Second and third images: via Modern Kiddo
- Fourth, fifth and sixth images: Design Public
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Xbox One Video: Go All-In One
You've seen the games in action, now see how the Xbox One's user interface has been refined and upgraded for the next generation.
Microsoft's Marc Whitten and Yusef Mehdi host this video, which showcases the Xbox One user experience. The first thing you'll notice is how quickly the Kinect notices a player in the room, and how the dashboard instantly transforms to that player's preferred layout once signed in. The Xbox One can detect multiple users, too, but like the Xbox 360, the dash conforms to the first person who logged on. Of course, if you want to swap, a simple voice command flips the dash over to the other player's version.
Whitten and Mehdi also walk you through some other features, such as instantly switching in and out from playing a game to using the internet to watching TV. For apps like Skype, the Kinect won't be locked in one position, and can actually track the user as they roam a given room, keeping them in camera the whole time. We also get a better look at Xbox One's Upload Studio, where you can edit you DVR'd game clips for posting online. Glimpses at other features like the Friend List activity feed and TV browsing are also show during the 12-minute video, but the Kinect functions are the real stars of the show.


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RITZVILLE, Wash. — Eastern Washington ranchers are working to protect their ability to address potential pollution issues.
The Washington Cattlemen's Association held a meeting for ranchers in response to letters sent to 32 landowners by the Washington Department of Ecology in late 2013 The livestock industry has criticized the letters for being too vague, indicating a water pollution problem was observed but not giving enough details about the problem.
The Livestock Water Quality Group put together a packet for ranchers who receive a letter, including a response letter asking Ecology to indicate specifically where pollution occurred.
"For an individual who's got multiple parcels, you don't even know which parcel of land they're talking about," said Connell, Wash., attorney Toni Meacham, executive director of the Washington Agriculture Legal Foundation. "It is absolutely imperative that when you get a letter from Ecology, you ask for the evidence. You have to find out why they're coming after you."
Meacham said Ecology is getting around state laws set up for the protection of ranchers. The department is required to mitigate if an action will take land out of agricultural production, but ecology sends threatening letters indicating ranchers need to work through their conservation district to make changes, she said.
"They say they don't have to do that because there's no order," she said.
State law also requires Ecology insure sufficient in-stream flows to water cattle. Ecology claims that doesn't mean ranchers have the right to allow cattle direct access to the water to drink, Meacham said.
"Anybody who just is looking at the rule would think, 'That means I can water my cattle out of this waterway,'" she said.
Meacham hopes to strengthen state laws or change them in order to offer ranchers more protection. That may mean a change in the language of the law or using science to show the benefits of agriculture.
"We have to do it in such a way that it works for everybody, not just agriculture - otherwise, it's not going to pass," she said.
One photo taken by Ecology to show pollution on a piece of property doesn't provide context or the history of the land, said Tip Hudson, regional rangeland and livestock specialist for Washington State University Extension, based in Ellensburg, Wash.
He recommends ranchers take pictures of their property at the same location over time to show how their management efforts have enhanced the land. Photos would help the farmer provide a record if Ecology points out a violation.
"If somebody has been improving a site for the last 10 years, but we don't quite like the way it looks yet, should we penalize that person for making improvements?" he asked.
Hudson also recommends working to protect or improve vegetation on land near water bodies.
When grazing is done well, it has the potential to improve the land even more than without the presence of cattle, he said.
"On the flip side, if we do grazing poorly, it's definitely worse than neutral," he said.
Jack Field, executive vice president of the Washington State Cattlemen's Association, hoped ranchers would take the opportunity to assess their own land for pollution risks. If they have questions, there's a network of support in the industry, he said.
"If you take actions before Ecology sends you the letter, you're the one writing the plan and driving the car," he said. "When it becomes Ecology in a regulatory action, they're dictating to the landowner and it becomes a more restrictive process. We want to make sure landowners have got all the tools available, all the flexibility."


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Let's hope the Cubs have some fire left over from yesterday as they could use some of that on the field this weekend against the Pirates. The season is becoming historically bad, and facing another contender on the road is not going to make it any better. The Cubs come into this series losers of six straight with only two wins in their last ten games. Anthony Rizzo is one guy that has been earning his paycheck of late as he is hitting .423, with a double, three home runs and three RBI's in his last seven games. The pitching staff on the other hand should give their money back to the organization. The Cubs staff has a record of 0-6 with a 7.20 ERA, such is life in September with a bunch of guys basically trying out for next season. The Pirates have been mediocre as of late as they try to summon the energy for one final push for the postseason, they trail both Atlanta and St. Louis in the race for the Wild Card by 1.5 games.
Friday September 7, 2012
Cubs:Travis Wood (4-11, 4.64 ERA)
Pittsburgh: A.J. Burnett (15-5, 3.63 ERA)
Saturday September 8, 2012
Cubs: Jeff Samardzija (8-13, 3.91 ERA)
Pittsburgh: James McDonald (12-7, 3.90 ERA)
Sunday September 9, 2012
Cubs: Chris Rusin (0-2, 9.00 ERA)
Pittsburgh: Jeff Locke (0-1, 4.82 ERA)
Season Series: Pirates lead 6-3
Prediction: Cubs Win Series 2-1, how do you like those apples?
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As dealing with social customer service complaints becomes increasingly important, what processes should I put in place to mitigate risk and maximise efficiency in my organisation?
Social customer service can be seen as a hot potato, which can lead to an absence of internal ownership and blurred lines of responsibility. Take the initiative and bring together the heads of marketing, customer care, buying and in-store to agree on objectives and develop a unified tone of voice across customer service channels.
Too often customer service teams are the last to know about marketing initiatives and promotions that can generate significant volumes of queries. As well as circulating reports on past performance, share future marketing calendars with stakeholders so they are not constantly playing catch-up.
Effective measurement and benchmarking
Agree clear service level agreements for response times to online customer care queries and ensure these are understood across the organisation. Measure these religiously, so that inevitable and high-profile examples of poor online customer service can be quickly put into a proper context, before panic breaks out.
Benchmark your performance against competitors on an ongoing basis using third-party analytics tools such as Socialbakers, but also spend time immersed in their communities so you can share best practice. For an accurate picture, evaluate across your competitive set, not just against the one key competitor with which the organisation is obsessed. Capture the hard statistics, but also share the insights gleaned from individual customer comments.
Effective assessment of risk
The visibility and scrutiny given to social customer care can lead to undue fear and paralysis that can be a drain on your time. Instil confidence in customer service teams by helping them to categorise comments as fact-based queries, customer specific transactional queries, brand-level accusations etc.
Customer queries in higher-risk categories should have a pre-agreed response and escalation process. A crisis response team should be in place that brings together all social customer care stakeholders as well as representatives from legal, ethics, investor relations and external PR agencies. All colleagues should be aware that an escalation process is in place so a rogue tweet is not automatically forwarded for the CEO's immediate attention.
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MassMutual on Tuesday launched a tool for advisors working with small business owners to help show their clients the way tax changes that take effect this year will impact their retirement plans.
The program, Solutions for Taxing Times, includes a run-down of 2013 taxes and their effect on various income levels and suggested talking points to help simplify conversations with clients. A calculator is also available to estimate potential tax savings and account balance at retirement.
The program also helps advisors identify which of their small-business clients are most likely to need help.
"Tax-advantaged retirement plans can be structured to show small businesses how to contribute a larger percentage of eligible compensation, thus reducing their tax impact while helping them to save more for retirement," Thomas Foster, national retirement spokesperson for MassMutual's Retirement Services Division, said in a statement.
"Our driving principle is to allow Americans to retire on their own terms," Foster (right) told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday. "We approach that by engaging employers and educating employees."
Foster said MassMutual surveyed advisors across channels to find out what issues are affecting their ability to grow. The survey found taxes, health care and participants' retirement readiness are the major challenges advisors face.
Foster said advisors wanted guidance on tax planning issues in a "simplified, focused manner. We spend a lot of time on theory, but not a lot on practicality," he said.
To address advisors' concerns, Foster said, "we identified certain new taxes and isolated them by adjusted gross income."
MassMutual then created a "cumulative peak" to show how those taxes would affect various income levels.
Some of those taxes include a 2% increase on Social Security taxes; a 0.9% surtax on Medicare and earned income for people with an adjusted gross income higher than $200,000; changes to allowable personal exemptions and itemized deductions at the $250,000-$300,000 level; and higher capital gains rate for the $400,000-$450,000 level.
MassMutual's program includes graphs to show the increase, Foster said, then provides an example of how an individual would be affected in 2013 compared to what they paid in 2012.
"It gives them a way to engage with their CPA," Foster said.
In addition to the online tools, which can be accessed at MassMutual's website, other tools like postcards are also available. "We found one delivery system isn't a good way to reach people," Foster said. "Any tools we offer can be accessed multiple ways."


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The Power of Poison cheap tickets and show information. Get discount tickets, special offers on dinner and hotel packages with LondonNet's guide to theatre in London for The Power of Poison.
Once upon a time (or until germs were discovered), people couldn't tell if sickness was caused by disease, poison or even magic. Stories of dramatic poisonings intrigue because they are mysterious and frightening, and because many contain a kernel of truth. Find out the reality behind fascinating tales such as the Witches of Macbeth, Snow White, Mad Hatters and Greek Legends before taking a look at the interactive Poisons In Literature bookshelf.
Step inside the Victims and Villains Gallery and discover how, from Cleopatra to Napoleon, history is filled with famous poisonings, many of which remain unsolved. Explore how these figures may have died.
Understanding Poisons Live Presentation. Throughout most of history, people had little understanding of what was poisonous, and why. Until the mid-1800s, when scientists developed forensic tools to detect poisons in the human body, many deaths remained a mystery.
Get Interactive and solve case studies. Intentional poisonings are rare today, but accidental poisonings do happen. Using iPads visitors can investigate evidence, compare clues and weed out red herrings to figure out what poisoned a dog, an owl and Captain Cook.
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Regardless of any higher level of automation the human operator on the ground and in the air has to remain the important final decision maker in the air traffic system. To support controller and pilots and to relieve their workload the design of the Human-Machine-Interfaces has to take into account the limits and strengths of human cognition.
This area comprises expertise, methodologies and facilities about the integration of the human element in highly automated systems. Integration is performed with new technology and/or new procedures in order to enhance safety and capacity of air transportation. This includes aircraft operation, air traffic control and management, and aircraft maintenance.
Human Factors work seeks to improve the understanding of how highly skilled operators such as pilots and air traffic controllers cope with their task demands and how new technology may support them efficiently.
The design of the human-machine interface is of crucial importance in this regard. Design solutions are based on principles of human-centred automation and tested in simulations as well as in field trials to ensure that they exploit and support the cognitive performance of the operator, avoid excessive workload in order to ultimately support the maintenance of situation awareness particularly in critical off-routine situations.
The comprehensive and integrative implementation of design solutions has to go beyond individual human-machine cooperation and must aim at an improved cooperation between all operators. This requires human factors integration into the process of system development, covering the whole range from initial ideas to operational implementation.
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Ren Si Hong's artworks are a social commentary on the Cultural Revolution in China - a time period rife with political fervor, which had a widespread effect on artistic creation. 'Shadow of Emptiness' depicts Tiananmen Square shrouded in the silhouette of the great leader, showcasing the lingering effect of the Cultural Revolution on the history of China. The intense red of Tiananmen Square references the symbolism of the colour in Chinese society, yet can be seen as an allusion to the events at Tiananmen 1989 and their impacts. It questions the necessity of Mao's policies during the period and invites the viewer to confer their own interpretation and reflection on the spirit of the time.
Ren Sihong (born in 1967) graduated from the Fine Art Department of Hebei Normal College in 1991. From 1991 to 1993, he studied in the Teaching Assistant Program for the Oil Painting Class in Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1993, his solo exhibition was held in the Central Academy's gallery. He now works as a professional painter. Ren's work can be classified as Political Pop, in which the great leader is presented in such a lighthearted and humorous way that the distance between the untouchable, glorified giant and our realistic experience vanishes. In the sculpture ensemble, Mao leads the children of the consumer society in carrying out the broadcast exercise. He turns the uniformity of the exercise movement into free and idle self-entertaining behavior which brings a post-ideological linguistic feature to politics and sports.
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Mao Fills the Hollow: Artistic Repetition and the Call of the Future
What could be more appealing than the playful cool of Ren Shihong's miniaturized figures of Mao? Seemingly cashing in on the POPular artistic appropriation of Mao by so many of his Chinese peers, Ren seduces his viewers with humorous clusters of knee-high figures of the cultural hero, gleaming brightly in a sheen of Chinese red. One set of smiling figures portrays Mao in various positions of aerobic exercise. His apparent ease with the difficult tasks of daily workouts suggests the pleasure and benefit derived from regular workouts and bodily control. Another set of figures presents a giggling Mao as the beneficent bearer of gifts to his viewers, this time dressed parodically as Santa Claus, that Western patron of childish pleasure.
Even in the sensations of cool and Pop cast by his acrylic red figures, Ren's prodigious production makes clear that there's a deeply serious side to his performative love of play, humor, and parody. This stems from his strategic capitalization in form and content on the rhetorical force of repetition. It could be said the excessive replication of Mao in the studio of this prolific artist encourages reflection on the declining aura of this singular historical figure. Consider the impact on viewers of the gleefully aerobic Mao when the multiple sets of this figure who assumes some twelve different postures are juxtaposed with the historical photograph from which the series derives. Ren drew his artistic inspiration not from the myriad statues of Mao that seem to appear in almost every venue of contemporary Chinese art. Instead he dialogues with a withered black and white photograph that displays a group of youths being led in required daily calisthenics during the Cultural Revolution. The repetition of exercise evokes not merely the intense pleasure of physical exertion, as evoked by his gleeful figures of Mao, but also the exhausting force of labor. The haunting presence of this photograph as an attestation of the historical real evokes thoughts not merely about the exciting rigor of exercise's repetition but also the numbing fatigue of indifferent participation, the distrustful craft of institutional discipline, and the potential boredom of communal conformity. Yet, even in the numerous sameness of his multiple editions, Ren sheds blandness for boldness. Ren's aesthetic reinvigorates discipline with the joy of participation, and repetition with an embrace of cultural difference. In transforming the bland colors of Mao's well-known jacket from military olive to cherry red, Ren insinuates his viewers in the joyful repetition of artistic difference itself.
Indeed, the vastness of Ren's artistic production works to insist bravely on the in-betweens of an aesthetics of difference. His viewers are solicited to remain attentive to the gaps and fissures that mark the passage of time, that denote the contrast of artistic mediums, and that highlight the disparities of wealth and opportunity made so evident by the explosive international popularity of contemporary Chinese art. When this visitor moved away from the seemingly predictable groupings of Mao at play in Ren's studio, he found the seductive tune of cool and Pop emitted by these glossy statues to give way to the enigma and pensiveness of a series of weighty, bronzed sculptures, ranging in height from two to six feet. Here the earlier allusion to history gives shape to literal embodiments of learning and erudition in the guise of thick books, monumental gates, and performative figures.
Among the sculptures that seem almost to litter Ren's cavernous studio, the full-bodied figure of Mao returns, but this time doubled on top of each end of a book or bronzed Gate of Heavenly Peace, with one leg pirouetting outward in opposite directions on either side of the monument to raise questions of equilibrium. In another sculptural series, Ren positions Mao back-to-back with himself, so that he bears the weight of the Other. While this gestures to the code of beneficence so celebrated by the Revolutionary tradition it also hints at the inequality of distribution. Some carry, while others are carried. Some like Ren himself have new means of capital to bear the burdens of the State, while others find something wanting, dependent, and burdensome.
And while Mao's doubled figure could emit the comforting promise of the stable balance of the State, it could just as easily evoke the opposing spectrum of meaning, which remains delicately poised in perilous tension. So it goes that Ren's figuration of Mao, which is so clearly parodic and beneficent in the red Santa Claus series, invokes something of value and depth when finished in polished bronze. The Mao-in-balance assumes a pensive quality as if foregrounding the perilousness of balance itself, as if there could be two versions of the same history with one potentially bearing more weight than the other.
Just as the massively strong statues of Mao dwarf playfully parodic miniatures in Ren's studio, the visitor is confronted by colossal sculptures of books, gates, and figures whose enormity begs for reflection. This is particularly true of Ren's large sculptures of thick books finished in bronze or polished steel, whether standing on end or sprawled across the floor with pages open. What's striking about these massive books, whose thickly gird magnifies the proportions of their height, is the irregularity of hallow cut-outs that leave their centers empty. These shapes seem almost anamorphically irregular in many pieces until, that is, they are seen from an angle that reveals the cut-out profile of Mao in some or of Tiananmen Square's Gate of Heavenly Peace in others. Evinced by these cutouts is the enigma of the cavity itself, as if the figure of Mao or Tiananmen empties out, hollows, or fills the space of bookish learning. Consistent throughout is the repetitious specter of this hollow itself. Whether in the apparatus of learning or the architectonics of governance, the void makes its presence known as if speaking from deep within the tombs of learning or the forbidden spaces of empire. Yet, the hollow functions here not as something empty or missing but as a shapely container of possibility and becoming, as the ample core of perspective, as the philosopher's stone of art and culture.
It is not surprising, then, that Ren understands his books to serve "education about the future." Indeed, he proudly reminds visitors to his studio that even the surface of the sculptures themselves will change over time, as the bronze patinas morph in color due to contact with their stroking admirers. Ren's works in bronze thus solicit and appeal to contact in future. Instead of signifying the melancholic passage of the historical past, they confidently perform the evolution of Maoist idealism in the becoming of the future. Perhaps this explains the seemingly random inscriptions chiseled onto the façade of Ren's colossal sculpture of a hallow book, roughly 8 feet by 12 feet. The bold assertion of the mottos of the past, "realism," "strength," "struggle," and "revolution," stand juxtaposed and/or get thrown into turmoil by loud slogans of the future: "freedom,' "direction," "seeking truth," not to mention the most prominent word at the top, "Democracy."
The bookish specter of the hollow and its less than subtle allusion to the challenges posed by recent Chinese history is even depicted further by Ren's large scale paintings. While the hollowness of his sculpture gives way to the flatness of his painting, the viewer continues to be hailed by the enigma of Ren's repetitious imagery. In some paintings, the hollow seems to take on the guise of fantastical landscapes that envelope a joyous Mao who dances in sport and play, as if celebrating freedom's call of the future. In others, Mao walks amidst paths of an impressionist palette of magenta, orange, pink, blue, and green that surround the grey-jacketed Leader whose flush red face figures both the glorious past and its enigmatic relation to the future. Exertion or exhaustion? And in two massive paintings of Tiananmen, and my personal favorites, the specter of the public space is populated by an abundance of randomly placed figures that drip with red paint, abstracted human figures in one, anthropomorphic books in another. Here the display of knowledge, history, and human presence enlivens and emboldens the Square whose vastness is condensed by Ren's smaller sculptures into miniaturized totems of monumentality. Both in medium and scale, Ren Shihong's artistic craft spins two different tales of the same history. One monumental, another spectral. One solid, another empty. One expansive, another restrictive. One cast solidly for the future in bronze, the other dripping tenuously in the present with fresh appearing paint whose redness fills the Square of Tiananmen to suggest yet again a Tale of Two Cities, one from the past and another for the future. And while the scale of these monumental paintings harkens back to an age when art stood proud in the service of the people, the reddened abstraction of their figures now raise ontological questions about the people themselves. Who will be the Chinese to fill the Tiananmen Square of the future. Who will constitute the people, the patrons, and, yes, even the producers of art?
The urgency of this question takes on somewhat of a darker cast in another series of smaller scale bronzes. These pieces confront their viewers with the full frontal view of a nude female who lies on her back while thrusting out her pelvis with legs spread wide apart. Is this some bizarre homage to, say, Courbet's "The Origin of the World," whose starkly fetishistic presentation of female genitalia confronts the viewer with art's celebration of origins, of motherhood, of genius or of artistic aura itself? Or does it make a more perversely pornographic statement regarding the scopophiliac pleasure of the gaze and its disproportionately gendered force and violence? The key to this coda lies in the flesh itself, this time in the disproportionate volume of the woman's legs. The same pubic source is framed by exceptionally different extremities, one rather emaciated and fragile, the other loudly opulent and luxuriant. Once viewers get over the extreme pleasure, shock or anger received from such a fully frontal confrontation with Ren's artistic labia, they find themselves faced head on, once again, with two different appendages to the same tale. The frame of perspective her delivers only the prosthesis of uneven access to the future, to liberty, and even to art.
In Ren's most extravagant sculptural installation, now in progress, his visitors will find themselves engulfed within the very space of cultural representation that the smaller pieces ask them to contemplate from a distance, from afar, from without. Here Ren's visitors are dwarfed by a huge replica of the Gate of Heavenly Peace and by an exceptionally colossal statue of a buoyantly nude mother goddess whose bulbous flesh suggests either a voluptuousness without bounds or a cancerousness run amok. In another zone of the studio, the perilous balance between pleasure and pain seems to be safeguarded by an energetic dragon who disproportionate, multi-bodied headdress sports thirteen statues of Mao in various facial expressions. The Mao at the center holds the hydra's tentacles as if Santa Mao driving his reindeer. It is within this combined environment of classical Chinese tradition, Modern Maoism, and Postmodern Pop that Ren's the visitors are invited to lend their fate. Once again in the aesthetic repetition of Ren Shihong, it is Mao who fills the hallow. Only this time he's not predictably dressed in glossy red, but in an uneven bronze whose changing patina awaits its contact with the future.
Timothy Murray
Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Sihong, Ren: The Culture Characters of the "Cute Mao" and the Period of "Post-Mao"
Starting from 1990, China entered the "post-Mao" period. The use of Mao's portraits and images, and socialist cultural images in the Mao period has become mainstream in Chinese contemporary art. Sihong Ren's recent art works rely mainly on cultural resources from the Mao period. His main two series are "Broadcast Exercise" and "Great Olympic".
Mao emphasised continual campaigns and the Broadcast Exercise under Mao's regime takes on a new meaning in Sihong Ren's art works. "Broadcast Exercise" (2005) is a series sculpture, which represents a group of contemporary and fashionable people doing "Broadcast Exercise". "Great Olympic" is a painting series. It shows different kinds of cute Maos playing with swords, and engaging in football, basketball, Tai Chi, and piano practice.
In fact, "Great Olympic" was a great exploitation of Mao images in the 1990s. This series has two new meanings. One is to make Mao's images cute. Another one is the character, signifying the place between campaign and political culture. By the end of the 1990s, the way to represent Mao had already progressed from blind idol worship to sarcasm and a disassembling of godhood. The images of Mao gradually became neutral and more humanized. Mao's images now have a symbolic connection with Kwanyin Boddhisattva, family heroes, and contemporary officers who approve of capitalism and entertainment to a certain degree. The images of Mao in Sihong Ren's art work make a sharp break with Mao's historical image. The images of Mao have become humanized and cute. It seems that he has temporarily discarded the heavy burden of saving history and representing cruel reality, in order to enjoy a happy, carefree lifestyle.
Making Mao cute reveals that people have chosen a special self-survival mode, which is that people no longer revolt, instead searching for relief, in order to adapt to the new consumerist social system. This new consumer society has forced people to make this choice, a choice that has become the new generation's core character and concept of value. Wealth, health, exercise, esthetic sense and entertainment can all be found in Sihong Ren's art work. Meanwhile, Sihong Ren adopts exaggerated elements from Hong Kong movies.
Sport also played a very important role in the Mao period. It was an instrument and expression of the new political reality, as were broadcast exercises. Both were forceful, regulated, and full of group slogans. They trained the public to have discipline and obedience.
The title, "Great Olympic", also has special meanings. It emphasizes the special meanings of body and Olympic sport in Chinese politics after the 1990s, and the connection between the Mao period, post-Mao period and modern age. Moreover, this title has a strong connotation with the 2008 Olympic Games. Ren Si Hong regards Olympic sport in the 1990s as a kind of benign politics. Although Olympic sport was also an instrument of politics it was a healthy instrument because it brought Olympic related economic profit and improved China's international image.
Although Ren Si Hong has used many funny Mao images, he has two main aims. One is to make Mao's images cute. The other is to humanize them. This shows that there is still lots of room to use Mao's images and resources and China still hasn't entirely departed from the Mao period. Mao visual forms still have emblematic game space and Ren Si Hong's work increases the possibility of Mao's definitive image.
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Mystery permanently surrounded the heiress Huguette Clark, a reclusive woman whose $300 million estate is often referred to as the last collection of wealth from the American "Gilded Age."
Mystery permanently surrounded the heiress Huguette Clark, a reclusive woman whose $300 million estate is often referred to as the last collection of wealth from the American "Gilded Age."
Her father was a copper magnate and a senator from Montana. He is well known as the founder of the city of Las Vegas. Huguette inherited her father's fortune. However, she never sought business or public notoriety as her father had.
Instead, she was intimately private. In fact, she reportedly spent the last 20 years of her life inside a New York City hospital, although she was supposedly healthy enough to live on her own.
Huguette passed away in May of last year at age 104 in the hospital she established as home. As often happens in cases of great wealth, particularly when there is much mystery surrounding one's life, various fights ensued over control of the fortune.
A trial in the case is set to begin soon.
A Manhattan Surrogate Court accounting revealed that the estate is valued at more than $300 million when all of the real estate, cash, bonds, stocks and personal property are taken into account.
The largest piece of the estate is a home in California on 23.5 acres that is valued at nearly $85 million. In addition, Clark owned three New York City apartments collectively worth about $53 million. The estate may grow if the executor is successful in getting back more than $44 million in gifts that were allegedly given to Clark's nurses, doctors and the hospital where she lived in the final years of her life.
Huguette wrote two wills at age 98. The first left a few million dollars to her private nurse, with the remainder going to distant relatives from her father's first marriage.
Six weeks later, however, the second will was signed. This will left nothing to family. Instead, most of the inheritance was to be used for a museum or art foundation at her California estate. The second will also left funds to Huguette's attorney, nurse, doctor, accountant and others.
An investigation was launched regarding the handling of Clark's affairs and potential elder abuse in 2010 over suspicions of illegal conduct by her advisers. No criminal charges were filed.
The key question is why a woman who valued privacy was not advised to use a trust, rather than a will, which would have kept her affairs private, avoided probate and minimized the chance of a court fight over $300 million dollars.
Bonnie Kraham is an attorney practicing elder law estate planning with Ettinger Law Firm, 75 Crystal Run Road, Town of Wallkill. She can be reached at 692-8700, ext. 119 or at email@example.com. This column is intended to provide general information, not legal advice.


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At Eli's, we love to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries.
This week marks the 4th Anniversary since I started to write the Eli's Blog. Since then, I have written over 400 entries about our people, our products, our big cakes and our activities in the community. I have also been joined by another Blog Writer at Eli's, Chef Sarah Zupancic, who shares her passion for great food and style at Eli's.
For me the Blog made its debut in the first weekend of June in 2004 and it was all about education. On Friday, June 11th, 2004, I had attended the commencement exercises at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences featuring Catherine Bertini as the Commencement Speaker. Ms. Bertini was the former head of the World Food Organization of the United Nations and was named
as the winner of the Word Food Prize. Serving at that time as Under Secretary of Management for the United Nations, Ms. Bertini is today a Senior Advisor to the Global Agricultural Development Program of the Gates Foundation.
Ms. Bertini's speech on Friday inspired me on Saturday, June 11th to deliver the commencement address at Kendall College in Evanston. This was the final Spring graduation for Kendall before it completed the move to the Riverworks Campus at Goose Island in Chicago. Kendall prospered with its move to Chicago and we congratulate its former President, Howard Tullman, for his
leadership in completing this transition and then his work in bringing Experiencia to Chicago and opening Flashpoint, Chicago's Digital Media Arts College,
My last Blog entry was one month ago right after I delivered the commencement address at Wright College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. Wright is our educational partner, our Famer's Market partner and our neighbor in the Wright Campus Business Park.
My next entry will be highlighting commencement at the Chicago HIgh School for Agricultural Sciences on Friday, June 6, 2008. Our speaker was Philip Nelson, the President of the Illinois Farm Bureau and the speech highlighted the important role that CHSAS students will play in formulating the strategies that will insure an adequate food supply for our future
So I am back writing for the Blog….just in time. We have a Father's Day Bike Ride this Sunday, the Taste of Chicago Press Party on Tuesday and the grand opening for our Eli's/Wright College Farmer's Market next week.
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Billed by a defense lawyer as the "world's leading sleep expert," a retired Stanford doctor tried Thursday to persuade a jury that a murder confession made by a 15-year-old boy was invalid because the young man was sleep-deprived.
Dr. William Dement, director emeritus of Stanford University's sleep studies center, testified on behalf of Jae Williams, who is accused of helping a friend stab to death fellow Santa Teresa High sophomore Michael Russell in 2009 for thrills.
Williams confessed — and told police the approximate area where he dumped two sweatshirts spattered with Russell's blood — after spending 12 hours at the police station in a small interview room where he slept intermittently for a disputed amount of time.
A detective who testified for the prosecution said Williams slept at least five hours after he was taken to the station, a day or so after Russell's mangled body was found by his uncle in his back yard. But Dement disagreed.
"He got very, very little sleep," Dement said, basing his conclusion on a videotape of Williams while the young man was in the small room, waiting to be interviewed the next morning.
Dement said Williams, now 20, also appeared to be impaired in the subsequent interview with detectives.
"Sleep deprivation impairs everybody," Dement said. "And 15-year-olds are probably more sleep-impaired than other adults. I thought his answers were also incomplete, or mindless, like, 'yeah, yeah.'"
But although Dement's credentials appeared to impress the jury — he pioneered the concept of Rapid Eye Movement or REM sleep among other achievements — the 85-year-old doctor faltered under cross-examination by prosecutor Valerie McGuire.
He was paid $3,000 to testify, according to the Independent Defense Council Office (IDO), which is overseeing the private attorney appointed by the court.
And he gave McGuire several long, rambling answers, including an amusing story about the Stanford band's ability to sleep on a concrete floor and wake up the next morning unimpaired. A musician as well as a doctor, Dement joked the band played as badly as ever, prompting many jurors to giggle.
But the testimony contradicted the notion that a young person might confess to a murder — and provide telling details of the crime — because he was tired.
Williams' lawyer, Lewis Romero, plans Friday to call an expert on false confessions to testify that Williams was trying to please police when he conceded he had participated in the killing.
A separate trial will be held for Williams' friend and accused accomplice, Randy Thompson, after the jury reaches a verdict.
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Positive D-backs not panicking over slow start
DENVER -- As the team bus rolled in from the airport to the hotel here Thursday night, several of the D-backs' players tried to put their 1-5 start, which included dropping three of four to the Giants this week, in perspective.
"They came to our place to start the year and we swept them, and we were up three games on them to start the year and they went on to win the World Series," D-backs reliever Brad Ziegler said, referring to the 2012 season. "So slow starts don't necessarily kill you. There's just got to be a turnaround point, and at the same time, we can't panic. We've just got to go out and stick with the plan. We know there's nothing wrong with the game plan. It's been an issue with execution, and that's a matter of minor adjustments."
The D-backs made a point this spring to focus on preparing themselves mentally for the inevitable slumps and rough patches that come up over the course of a long, grinding baseball season.
Little did they know that their resilience would be tested right out of the gate, but manager Kirk Gibson said he did not feel the need to have a meeting prior to Friday's series opener with the Rockies.
"We had normal meetings," Gibson said. "We could have easily won three out of four against the Giants. Some things didn't go right in situations. We just try and prepare to excel in those situations in this series. I think we've had good game plans. Execution wasn't there with a couple of things."
That's the D-backs' plan and they're sticking to it.
"I've said several times to just stay involved and focus on your approach and the process, and that's what you do unless you think that's wrong. Then you change it," Gibson said. "But I don't think that's been wrong."


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Wasn't it Kenny Rogers with the song "Know when to holdem?".................. I went all out yesterday after riding this roller coaster for 5 years, and even though I left several thousand in profit on the table based on today's price, I feel a tremendous weight off my shoulders. I'm not complaining nor am I looking back. Now, all I want is for some correctional dips in a few other quality stocks in my watch list so I can put my new dry powder back to work.
I thirst for the more stable but gradual growth in my portfolio now, rather than the daily pit in my gut as MMs seem to get their cookies off watching SIRI investors bitch, complain, and gripe about the instability and uncertainty in their baby.
I'm not leaving this neighborhood of friendly and like-minded individuals, so just because I'm rid of SIRI does not mean I plan to go away. Good luck to those of you who continue to ride this train, and those who have hitched on to some of those "green" stocks.


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While there are many plugins and services that take a website and transform it into a mobile app, the result is usually a glorified RSS reader or a simple Web app. In UppSite's case, the resulting app includes many features only found in a truly native application such as social sharing and customisable design.
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Gothenburg Climate & Weather
Gothenburg is located on the west coast of southern Sweden and has an oceanic climate, enjoying milder weather than one might expect due to the moderating influence of the warm Gulf Stream. In summer, between June and August, the city gets as much as 17 hours of daylight. But in the winter months, between December and February, Gothenburg only gets about seven hours of daylight.
Summers are warm with average high temperatures of 72°F (22°C) and lows of 55°F (13°C), but temperatures of up to 86°F (30°C) can occur. Winters are cold and windy with average temperatures around freezing, but seldom dropping below 14°F (-10°C).
Snow falls mainly between December and March, but it is not unusual in November and April, and can even fall in October and May. Gothenburg is a rainy city, with moderate rainfall possible at any time of year. Every month the city experiences between 10 and 18 rainy days.
The best time to visit Gothenburg is between May and September, with the peak tourist season being the short summer, between June and August. Even at this time, rain and cold weather is possible and travellers should pack layers to prepare for both sunny warm weather and cold wet weather.
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Teenagers pitched a dream to Glenfield Fast Foods, and they got it - deep-fried chocolate chip cookies.
"Younger people like to try different foods," said owner Lidong Xu. "Maybe weird foods."
Cookie Bear Chocolate Chippies are dipped in flour, coated with batter, and thrown in the deep fryer.
The results are sold for 50c each.
The deep-fried cookies' popularity was "so-so", Ms Xu said.
"It's half and half. The cookie is for younger people - under 20. They gave me the idea, and I just made something a bit different."
Curious customers tried it out from time to time, but it was yet to gain any mainstream appeal, she said.
The Huffington Post recently reported on deep-fried culinary wonders: "10 deep-fried things that should never be deep fried".
Even deep-fried butter - shaped almost like chicken nuggets - could not top the list.
The Scottish tradition of deep-fried pizza was labelled as possibly "the healthiest option on this page".
Deep-fried macaroni and cheese came in at number two, beaten only by deep-fried cupcakes.
New Zealand's deep-fried Mars Bars failed to win a place.
Meanwhile, deep-fried cola debuted at the Texas state fair.
Coca-Cola flavoured batter was fried, drizzled with cola fountain syrup, and topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry.
Health website WebMD said that, from a nutritional standpoint, it was possibly the world's scariest food.
You can almost taste the guilt
Last weekend I saw deep-fried cookies at the local takeaway, and tweeted a picture. A chum replied with my thoughts exactly: "Not sure if I want to say 'yum' or 'yuck'."
After gentle pressure, I bought two so I could share my fate with my wife, Vicky, a talented baker.
"Basically, they turn back into cookie dough," she said as she polished hers off.
The batter is light and crispy, the cookies are thick and chewy.
They're sugary, salty, and packed with guilt. Calories too, I imagine, but the guilt is easier to quantify.
The friendly face behind the counter at Glenfield Fast Food told me the artery-threatening treats were selling well. I'm told local revellers buy theirs in handfuls of five or six on boozy nights out.
I'm sober, and I think I want to say "yum" - but only just.
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Days 1-4 are sold out, and tickets for Day 5 will go on sale as soon as they are sure that a Day 5 will actually exist.Originally Posted by Voltman
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Days 1-4 are sold out, and tickets for Day 5 will go on sale as soon as they are sure that a Day 5 will actually exist.Originally Posted by Voltman
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I believe the term is "Ebay".
Should be interesting, if the series is dead by then, I wonder if they'll consider letting Vaughan get a game in.
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What? Why risk it?Originally Posted by Tomm NCCC
Sydney test will be won by australia but i reckon due to it being the "spinners wicket" Panesar and warne and macgill (if he plays) will dominate all the wickets, with hoggard doing a little bit for england (monty cant do it all himself....can he?) panesar to finish with match figures of 11/150 and warne to finsih with 10/140 magill if he plays will get 8/100 odd
I really hope the pitch for the test is something similar to the one served up for the NSW v QLD Ford Ranger game the other week where there was a lot of bounce for the paceman and good turn for the spinners. Hard for the batsmen to get in, but once they were in there were runs. Would make a good contest IMO.
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I doubt MacGill will play as australia has already won plus they can't drop Clark. Unless they go with 5 bowlers dropping Symonds.
True, could be the 1st SCG test that MacGill will miss in a long time. Could probably be the end of his excellent test career if we don't see him TBH..
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Tough call Jamee, dropping flintoff.
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Got a feeling it could be JL's final Test match.
If anyone's goig to be dropped for MacGill it has to be Lee. 8 wickets @ 50+ is just not good enough, no matter how good he looks or how much effort he puts in. The job of a bowler is to take wickets and Lee isn't doing that. But, MacGill isn't eactly saying to the selectors, "You must pick me!" with his performances of late.Originally Posted by aussie
I reckon if Symonds fails again in Melbourne with the bat, the selectors should think about Cameron White for the 5th test. He is in fine form with the bat and could bat at 6 or 7 and although he hasn't bowled that well this season he could be another spinning option. Because the selectors don't want to drop Brett Lee despite he's not taking wickets it could be an option.
However, the talk is that Symonds will get the last 2 tests.
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Over the course of a year, the Central Maryland Correctional Facility's laundry plant in Sykesville processes some 2.2 million pounds of laundry.
Typically, that load consists of towels, sheets and some everyday items usually gathered from nonprofits and Maryland agencies and institutions, including state hospitals such as the neighboring Springfield Hospital Center, off Route 32 in South Carroll.
Beginning late November and running through last week, however, the laundry was a little more colorful.
Bras — literally thousands of them, of every color and size — were washed, dried and folded by the 100 inmates who work in the facility.
Collected by the Frederick radio station, WFRE, the bras have been a successful fundraiser for the past four years. The radio station urges listeners to drop off bras, and local businesses donate a $1 for every bra collected to benefit breast cancer research.
Once the collection is through, the bras are then cleaned and donated to women's and homeless shelters. That chore was completed earlier last week, and on Tuesday, a spokesman said the bras were ready for shipping.
This year, 17,000 bras were collected — and about 13,000 of those made their way to Sykesville.
"Everything we do is sanitized," said Capt. Blake Haulsee, plant manager, as he nodded toward a washing machine that's longer than a bus and has 14 washing compartments.
Even though the majority of the plant's laundry is done in that mammoth machine, the bras were done in a washing machine that resembled a typical home washing machine — only many times bigger with a sound like a jet engine.
"We remodeled in 2008 and got all brand new equipment," Haulsee said. "What we teach (the inmates), they can go out and get jobs in the private community."
While there are inmates being treated for drug abuse, the majority of the 469 inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility work at the prison, whether at the laundry, a horse stable, on a road crew or handling daily chores, including cooking, cleaning and mowing the yard.
"Everyone has a detail," said Casey Campbell, facility administrator. "It is nice to be in a facility where the focus is preparing for release. These guys are getting out in two or three years."
Jerome Kellum, an inmate from Baltimore City, has been working with laundry since June. He's happy for the chance to learn a new skill.
Kellum said the laundry facility "prepares guys like me for the outside."
"It's easy to obtain the skills," he said. "It's a need. Everybody's clothes have to be washed."
It's a job that also tests the inmates in ways some didn't expect. The facility does not have air conditioning, and in the summer, the temperature inside can reach more than 100 degrees.
The extra duties needed to launder the bras bring are minimal, with the workers doing extra loads when time permits. All of the bras are dumped onto a large table when they come out of the drier to be sorted.
"The hooks get all hooked together and they come out as a blob," Haulsee said. He said the facility gets a few bras routinely, but "they're generic, nothing colorful like these. People donate some really neat stuff."
John Bradford, an inmate from Baltimore City, was happy to help with the bra program.
"It helps families … that don't have much," Bradford said. "I think it is a really good cause — support for breast cancer."
Inmate Alfonso Young was in his second year helping the bra fundraiser. His mother is a breast cancer survivor, and he said it was meaningful for him to do a small part to make the collection and distribution effort a success.
"It is a nasty disease," Young said of cancer. "Any organization that is funding (research), I am totally 100 percent behind it."