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Dan, I thank you for describing what happened to you. You posted at about 2:00 a.m., and I started responding at about 5:00 a.m. You wrote an extensive description, and divided your answers into approximately 7 mini-questions (thank you!) - and I had written about 8 concerns I had since we've been discussing this matter for a number of weeks, and have communicated at least 20 times. Much of what I wrote was related to prior things we had discussed.
Essentially, I asked if I could do some research, I reviewed many of our prior conversations, and then somehow I was cut off, and lost everything that was written. When I tried to answer again, another expert I believe logged on to your question, but them after seeing that it was addressed to me - logged back off.
But the botXXXXX XXXXXne - is that I lost about 20 minutes of writing to you - if was 5 a.m. when I started reading and writing - is it okay if I post this as a Q&A so that doesn't happen to me? I really want to see if I can retrieve what I had already written. Also - you wrote at 2 something this morning, and I responded at 5 something this morning. Can I take a few hours to research.
Much of it has to do with the actions that have already ocurred in this matter w/ the prior people who you have dealt with from WI and the various departments.
I am really hoping that everything I posted wasn't deleted when the other expert opened the question. However, is it okay if I respond in a couple of hours? It
It's 8:00 here . . . that means 7:00 for you I think . . .
I want to do a little research, but am hoping I didn't lose all of the discussion I previously posted. If I have to, I will, since it discusses pertinent matters that you asked in your very first question two weeks ago. So, is it okay if I take a few hours and do a little research?
As always,
I just changed to Q&A mode so I won't lose everything I had previously written. If you get another "please rate me" YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN MY ANSWER - THAT WAS WHAT I WROTE AFTER I LOST YOU AS WELL AS MY QUESTIONS. So- of course I hope you realize that the above WAS NOT AN ANSWER - but rather my normal request for a couple of hours. Okay with you? I have to post this, or the system will ask you to rate me right now, and tell you that our conversation has ended - when in reality it just started . . .
Talk to you soon,
That is fine, thank you! I have the same problem. I actually had to rewrite the question 3 times because JA timed out on me too. (I started putting them in word documents and then copying and pasting. It seems like if it's idle to long it won't take when I hit submit.)
Another thing occurred to me was that the claims specialist asked me for info from 2008 and 2009 while my injuries were in 2010. So to me they are looking to see if it happened some other way. (It didn't.) But again, that really has nothing to do with the hearing like the specialist says it did.
Thanks. And based on your answer (you have had the same problem - and while I said I just needed a couple of hours - I didn't get them because there MUST be server problems because I just spent the last two hours clearing up another issue. I will try to figure this problem out and report it to JA.
I want to ensure that I answer my customers as quickly and accurately as possible,
HOWEVER, with situations like yours, where we have had over 30 interactions, and at times we post answers in the middle of the night or the middle of the next day, and there have been multiple follow-ups, or we have discussed an issue over a number of days, our questions have been re-listed to other experts, who generally read what we've discussed and they don't opt in. Their intent is only to ensure you are being taken care of.
But now that I've spent two hours figuring out that other problem, can I still ask for a quick couple of hours. The response I posted had partial chat thoughts about every question you asked - and I lost it all.
I am thankful you request me, and am saddened that I lost my last post because it reiterated our interactions from the beginning - and since we were in chat, I made some comments that I wanted you to respond to. I want to have a little bit to re-create them, since they involve your issue from the beginning.
I'm leaving this as a Need Info - and given that we've been going back and forth since you started at 2:00 a.m. and it's 9:00 now - I am hoping that your request for me doesn't time out if I ask you for just a couple of hours.
I still look forward to your questions every day - and even when you are done with questions, you'd better let me know how this turns out - or I'll have to find a way to request to ask you a question . . .
I will certainly let you know how this turns out! I will be more than happy to. It's an uphill battle for me and I appreciate your support and knowledge.
It's very challenging playing the role of your own doctor (when they can't tell you what's wrong), Social Security advocate, CVC lawyer, and having less physical and mental resources to do it with. It's like burning a candle at both ends sometimes, but progress is always a relief. I will be more than happy to let you know. I've learned a lot about the law. Hopefully I don't ever need it again though!
Certainly, please take your time!
You asked me this in the middle of the night - when we were exchanging chats.
Our other question looks like it could time out - even though we've gone back and forth about 8 times.
I'm logging off of this one, even though it is the one that I an anxious to answer (above) - but I don't want our other conversation could time out because we've spoken once every day for six days due to our different time schedules.
Of course, your current follow-ups on that question is related to this very question - and I haven't answer a single question of yours without thinking about the prior questions you've asked regarding this situation.
So, if that were to time out - even though we spoke about that question daily due to our time differences, there would be no reason I couldn't finish that here - it is really related to the same question.
So - I'll grab your other question, and give the response to this one that was lost in the night. I was unable to retrieve what I wrote online.
And yes, you must tell me the results, no matter how I have to find you :)
As our promise is - I intend for all of my answers to be "professional, accurate, and compassionate."
After some time, while I've been informal with you in chat sessions, not only to keep you calm, but also because based on the number of conversations that we've had, I believe that sometime informal words used in responses are, indeed professional. Or, that perhaps our chats can include an informal note since you and I have BOTH been frutstrated by our attempts to figure this out when the research I've done contradicts what you've been told. Certainly an expert CAN become frustrated when they provide answers to a customer and the law contradicts what the brochures the customer is getting from WI, that the expert has read online (the actual brochures), and the research.
With that said, while I know your age, I can't reveal mine. But I have PLENTY of years left as an attorney.
However, with the delays and appeals you've gone through, this better get done before I TIME OUT!!!
Naw, I'll be here for the long run. I'll get back to you on this after I go back to your other question and ensure that doesn't time out.
Informal and formal is good with me. Light is good. Looking forward to hearing on this one. Thanks!
First, regarding the fact that the claims representative contacting you regarding this, and the fact that they are they are contacting you - when all disclosure and discovery was supposed to be requested or at least discussed at the pre-hearing is odd.
Remember back clearly that the Judge asked the AG repeatedly as if she were shocked that the only issue that remained was whether a crime occurred, and that the amount of benefits would be determined after the hearing if there was a determination that a crime occurred.
One might email victim services back, specifically advising them that at the pre-hearing that the amount of compensation would only be discussed after it was proven you were the victim of a crime. Indicate that damages aren't being discussed at the hearing, and ask politely, if they still require that evidence, and if so, for what purpose.
You might mention that given that the parties stipulated at the pre-hearing that compensation wouldn't be brought up during the hearing, that you can no now longer prepare for the hearing - since you were advised, and relied on the pre-hearing ruling that damages would not be discussed. Seek a continuance based on this. Remember, you must share your list of who you are calling as a witness with the other side.
One might ask for a second pre-hearing to clarify this, given that specifically you were told that information regarding damages is being requested, and this is contrary to what was discussed at the pre-hearing.
Be very, very polite, and ask for clarification from all parties regarding that agreement. Again, the rules indicate you are allowed speak to the hearing officer alone (so long as you discuss procedural matters and not the facts that are in issue), and the AG as well. Have you tried to settle this case?
So, I would email all parties requesting clarification, since the representatives of the AG are seeking information from you that is not at issue in the hearing.
Remember - be polite, and ask as if you wanted to ensure that Victim Services did not have a misunderstanding of what the rulings were at the pre-hearing.
Another option for you to consider, is that you will eventually have to cough up everything to prove damages, and if that's the case, if your medical records don't hurt your case, and actually help your case, there would be no reason not to just reveal them.
However, think of this - if they want to use these records to prove (or show lack of proof a crime was committed) that you never saw a doctor, never sought treatment, etc. - it would be admissible if you are now claiming that the injuries were so serious that you are disabled - yet never sought treatment of any sort. That could be what they are really looking for. You can't play games and hide treatment records given that if it is determined you are misleading them . . . think what that does to your claim.
It would be normal, if a person has debilitating injuries to see a doctor. If you didn't and all your records were released, they could indeed use that against you. The crime you are being compensated for is "battery" - and indeed medical records could reveal what injuries you suffered.
BUT - right now you might also think about the statute indicating that the parties could settle the matter. If you have good proof of injuries, this might be a good time to attempt to settle the issue. The rules say the parties can settle. It might be worth a try.
Finally, normally one would write a letter regarding this request. If they rely on emails to makes these requests, I don't believe that it is wrong for you to respond by email - and then there is a chain of emails discussing the topic, already in the order they took place. Normally one would draft a formal letter.
Since they contacted you that way - I believe email is fine.
It is an odd situation, as we have discussed, the AG - right on their web-page indicates that the AG is attempting to fulfill their moral obligation - not just their legal obligation to compensate victims of crime. If you lost that chat of ours in which we discussed this, I will find it for you.
Indeed you are correct, based on the rules that we discussed long ago - my answer regarding this question is actually exactly what you mentioned in your question:
YOU SAID: It is the AG that should have been asking for records, providing discover, and resolving all issues that could be resoled during the pre-hearing.
That is the law, and we have discussed that. That issue as well could be discussed in a letter if indeed they are now changing their goal at the hearing and not only trying to prove that you weren't victim of a crime - but are now adding additional issues.
One might ask for a supplemental pre-conference to clarify these issues. Continuances are granted, and they are asking for information that the AG indicated was not at issue in the pre-hearing.
As we discussed earlier when I provided the statute, either party can contact the hearing officer in advance of the hearing in Order to request a continuance or discuss procedural matters anyway.
When is the hearing date set? No late requests should be made for a second pre-hearing to settle these issues, since the government has now asked for additional records that aren't relevant (of course by now you realize that the word "relevant" means that the records they want "don't matter" and aren't related to what the AG declared was the ONLY ISSUE that was not resolved.
Copy all parties.
Generally, hospital records and medical records of your injuries could be used to show that there was actually an assault that took place - and that you aren't making this out of the blue. However, given that they asked specifically when
I answered Question 4 in my answer to Question 3 - except for the following.
If they want to use the information to prove you weren't the victim of a crime (let's pretend that in your original application that you said you were viciously beaten over the head until blood was pouring all over (exacerbation to use as an example) - but you went to the doctor and the only thing that was treated was a sprained finger from when you fell.
In that case, the medical records are fair game.
Arguably, mental health records are fair game if you have a mental condition that relates to your ability to perceive, and recall events.
If you give you medical records, you can't pick and choose - it's all or nothing. If you have a second pre-hearing, and they indicate that they do want to litigate damages, you will have to turn them over. If you choose and hide records, it will destroy your case, and lessen your credibility, and even result in the hearing officer ruling against you based on your refusal to provide all the request records.
We've talked about that before, and the law is our first discussion.
You just answered the most important question yourself - if you tried to provide medical records when they were evaluating your claim, and they never asked for them, and an incredibly good argument about why this appeal must be granted, and indeed it is a manifest injustice.
Regarding your 4th question - that's why many attorneys would send a letter or email in such a case to ALL PARTIES, REMINDING THEM ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT WERE AGREED UPON DURING THE PRE-HEARING.
Regarding this, many would draft a letter and ensure that copies are sent to all parties, and ensure the original is sent to the Court. Since this involves a more serious issue, I would actually draft a formal letter regarding your concerns including the email record.
Remember, all these rules indicate that there should be open communication among all parties, but none of this was discussed during the pre-hearing. Ask the question regarding whether the AG is attempting to prove more than what she indicated the only issue was going to be at the pre-hearing.
One might, in writing, ask for a supplemental pre-hearing to address these issues.
But remember above all - you have to provide the other side with the evidence and witnesses you are going to use and call at the pre-hearing, so if you didn't do that, you must do that now.
Please reply w/ follow-up questions that I have created in this answer.
Hi, you mentioned some questions I outlined below and I clarified some things too:
Thank you for your patience. I hope I don't irritate you if I don't absorb something right away. I'd like to post some of these "branch-off" questions in the form of a new question requesting you specifically so you get credit for them. Is that ok with you? After all they are new questions (although related), and it's only fair that you are able to receive credit for them. I'm sure I'm going to have many more in the next couple months as well. right now I have a number of questions about evidence I'd like to ask.
Family first! I can wait til tonight. That is fine. Rest easy and take care of what you need to.
I hope all goes well for you.
You aren't irritating me in anyway. You asked a valid question, and because of what it was, it branched off into many different areas. Absolutely no reason to apologize. Also - I've brought up things I felt you should know, if you've asked a question and I think you need to know more - or didn't ask EVERYTHING you should know about your question.
We're in this together - it's not irritating - I can't give specific advice - but the number of discrepancies in what have happened to you throughout this, as well as with the law, the AAG, etc - I love answering your questions.
It's not just my job - but I still look forward to it - I'm enjoying our conversation almost to the point I wish I could be there and watch. Obviously . . .
The good thing is that at least even if justice is not done - YOU WILL BE PREPARED - and that's the only way to increase the likelihood that justice WILL BE DONE.
I'm with you for the long haul.
So - I typed and am pasting - so hopefully don't get cut off:
Okay - the rules are hearsay is allowable - and there is discussion about archaic common law we discussed. The real issue, is that when any law like exceptions to hearsay are created by Statute or Government, or even if the statute discusses "those in effect at the common law" - lawyers who don't like those rules or how that they are applied at their trials appeals after they lose.
Those appellate courts (about three steps above the power of hearing court you are going to be in) - render what are called decisions deciding whether the law or rule is, based on some reasons, unconstitutional based on a number of Amendments to the United States Constitution or your WI Constitution.
Just for example (I know - always I have examples) - the biggest hearsay objection that a good trail lawyer might use when a witness is going to use hearsay against them, (in a major case - and it's contentious - (would object not only to "hearsay" but also object and say "Confrontation Clause" - which is the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution. In other words, they are complaining not only that the state law if illegal, but that the federal law "to face your accusers" being violated - someone who is not in court is about to say something bad about you - and the theory is you get to face them in person. Of course as you said many times - there are exceptions, and I'm telling you much more than you really need - or that your hearing officer would allow you to argue.
So - the botXXXXX XXXXXne is that everything is probably going to be allowed and this is how a non-lawyer should object. (A lawyer in a homicide trial would make a long, lengthy objection - citing every single problem and reason that the statement can't come in - you don't, or won't get that chance.)
Forget the Rules - but you can think of this to apply the "common law" - either to try to get hearsay in, or keep it out. Overall, every objection relating to anything having to do with hearsay in your case will involve whether it is reliable - and in most cases the hearing officer in a case like this will often (to your benefit or detriment) avoid the issue and say something like "I'll allow it for what it's worth). - meaning - he heard it and he'll give it whatever weight he thinks it deserves.
I did not include everything in the world - just things you might think about or come across.
You already wrote you understood hearsay - but for what you might face: it's
a) a statement (or writing, document, or a number of other things - that shouldn't apply to you
b) made out of court (so you weren't there to hear it as well)
c ) that someone wants to use to prove a point (it's relevant - I've talked to you about that and expect you to publish a book with every answer. Just joking - I like this.)
Those things don't normally come it at a hearing. But you've got law that says rules of evidence don't apply - unless they involved the archaic common law - which really isn't going to apply to you - because of the reasons I said above.
So - if you do end up arguing - and there are objections - A NON-LAWYER GUIDE - with cut and paste of the final statement -
I'm taking out what is "non-hearsay" versus "exception to the hearsay rules" - based on the statutes you gave me.
Present Sense Impression
- this is supposed to be reliable since the person who said it was seeing it as it happened, so they didn't have time to make up a lie. You can use that to your advantage, or have it be used against you to your detriment. "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Excited Utterance - person saw something that was so exciting or shocking that again - they didn't have time to make it up. Again - "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Then Existing Mental, Emotional, or Physical Condition
- someone is extremely upset, sick in the hospital, emotionally upset to the point that what comes out of their mouth is probably true Again - "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Statements for Purposes of Medical Diagnosis or Treatment THIS COULD APPLY TO YOU - IF THERE ARE MEDICAL RECORDS - WE ASSUME IF SOMEONE IS GETTING HELP FROM A DOCTOR THAT THEY ARE TELLING THE DOCTOR THE TRUTH - BECAUSE THEY NEED THE HELP AND WOULDN'T LIE - Again - "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Recorded Recollection - Something someone heard in the past, but can no longer remember it - so they can have their memory "refreshed" by seeing what they previously wrote - which supposedly . . . (we've talked about this) would make it reliable. Again - "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Records of Regularly Conducted Activity - hearsay also includes writings - not just what comes from someone's mouth. If there is a log that is used to collect and record information - it is seen to be reliable. Again - "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Public Records and Reports
- supposed to be reliable . . . we can debate about that !!!!! "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
Records of Vital Statistics
- supposed to be reliable - "Your Honor this is reliable hearsay and admissible in the common law." (Or vice versa)
I just can't think of any other hearsay issues that you could face. The botXXXXX XXXXXne is this will be informal, and I expect everyone to use hearsay and for no one to object. If you get that nasty AAG you were talking about - you can remember these and use them - both for and against you.
I tried not to give you too much. Lawyers read 100s of cases and hundreds of pages of law about hearsay - and I just want to try to give you what you could need.
Again - this will be low key. Based on the odd contradictions you've faced from the beginning, and based on the fact that this is an administrative hearing, you are really facing the luck of the draw depending on who the judge is and who the AAG is.
I would again try to settle the matter . . . you have to reveal your info to the other side anyway . . .
And I forgot to say, (since this was a cut and paste - )
As always,
Sent this as an answer so you can ask follow-ups and not time out. Again - you know the rules. You don't need to rate me now, and we are not done. I expect a follow-up from you . . . and I'll be there with you.
I got copies of the previous cases with the DOJ that pertained to the one year application travesty of justice rule. There were only two. One went way back 10 years. The other was from a couple years ago by the same AAG. Both times the victim lost.
In the most recent case the judge ruled that "the department followed a clear written policy in considering the application. The Department has not abused its discretion and its decision should be affirmed". It also said, "The Dept. has developed a written policy setting forth circumstances under which it will waive the one-year filing requirement."
However, it was also taken into account that the victim was repeatedly advised to file a timely application even if they would not be eligible.
This is different from my case. No one told me to apply. However, the part about the clear written policy bothers me.
It says in the statutes that the division has the authority to administer the rules. "promulgated to 949.02". Then again, I thought that was what Chapter JUS 11 was all about. I'm afraid they have some policy within the department that does not show up in the statutes. I have no way of reading this policy. Or do I somehow? This will probably come up in my case.
Any thoughts on how I get this policy? (This is a government department I thought that's all public.) How much does precedent matter regarding this? Any thoughts on arguing against it? Any possible objections to it not being admitted into evidence?
I'm going to do some online research and see what I can find. I'm sending this as a need info so you aren't asked to rate me and aren't told we are done. Back in about an hour.
Any thoughts?
I see this is closed out somehow. Will you update me please?
Okay - I'm about to post - but am sending this an a NEED INFO to let me have the time to post to your last update - I'm hoping this will work. Also - I am sending another request for a follow-up - the soonest I can do that is schedule it for tomorrow - but like I said - either of these should keep us together on this question.
FYI - First I did a search (in my opinion the best legal search service available to attorneys) that would have provided me what are called "Published Opinions" regarding any state appellate courts or federal district courts (these are the lowest federal courts in your federal district), as well as any federal appellate court.)
With the exception of the federal district court, these are courts that handle appeals of lower court decisions, and create what is called "precedent" regarding the issues you are facing. In your situation, it is rare to get access to this type of court. However, these courts, when they render opinions about how a statute must be interpreted, IF THEY ARE PUBLISHED, trump rules in your court, if they define how the statutes must be interpreted or applied. You could file a pleading in advance using quotes from these cases, if indeed they helped you. Had I found any, they are binding law that would be applicable to your situation. I skimmed over 80 cases which would be specifically relevant to your situation.
Based on my research search ability, I also checked for what are "unpublished decisions" - and would not create "precedent" - but I could read how other courts decided issues relating to this statute. This would just give me a reading of the arguments made in other appellate courts, even though you could not use them to argue your case.
However, if I found "unpublished cases" that applied to your situations, many lawyers search and use "unpublished cases" just to see how prior judges have ruled, and the reasoning that they used. This just provides laywers, and could possibly provide you, with ideas regarding arguments to make.
The reasons I did these exact searches are very complex, and I'm not going to take the time right now to explain why I did them first, but will indeed explain later, just so you know why I am researching this like I am.
As you probably, know, I am pasting this just FYI - The official and current reading of 949.02.
You are correct, these statutes do send you in circles, just as we discussed when we spoke about the original pamphlet (Victim's Assistance) which was more complex and confusing than the actual copies of the exact statutes I sent you.
I will post again - I want to do a little more research. Just wanted to update you and make sure you knew that I didn't forget you.
I'm going offline while I do the research on this. Indeed, even though we have now probably had about 80 chats back and forth regarding three questions, you might be the first person to challenge this rule. My research ability should allow me to find almost anything, including the opinions you read.. I'm working on it. Sending as a "Need Info" so we don't get cut off.
W.S.A. 949.02949.02. AdministrationCurrentnessThe department shall administer this subchapter. The department shall appoint a program director to assist in administering this subchapter. The department shall promulgate rules for the implementation and operation of this subchapter. The rules shall include procedures to ensure that any limitation of an award is calculated in a fair and equitable manner.
<>W. S. A. 949.02, WI ST 949.02Current through 2011 Act 286, published April 26, 2012
I'm calling these mini-answers - since I am specifically cutting things you wrote to me, and pasting my answers or comments in the order you wrote. Your Reply included a couple of mini-questions, or comments, which made me want to make comments.
I got copies of the previous cases with the DOJ that pertained to the one year application travesty of justice rule. There were only two, but they were ten years old.
You should affirmatively raise this. Pursuant to the Statutes I have previously provided, and the pamphlet that you and I both have copies of at this point, think about the entire AAG Victim's Rights Manual - and it included not only the law, but the comments from WI's elected AG that his department believes that they have not only a "legal obligation" but a "MORAL OBLIGATION." Think of this comment below when you mention "a travesty of justice."
However, it was also taken into account that the victim was repeatedly advised to file a timely application even if they would not be eligible.
This is different from my case. No one told me to apply.
. You've done lots of research regarding this on your own - but now you are starting to also impress me with your reasoning abilities. After 80 exchanges, I am already impressed with your research. Indeed, you may come to this hearing with more recent knowledge about the law than the AAG or the Judge while in the hearing. I say that based only due to the fact that I really doubt that an AAG or Judge, in what they think is a "mere administrative hearing," have read the only two decisions that have been rendered with facts based on delay.
The most important argument regarding the delay, if those parties lost due to the delay, and if that's the only reason that those parties lost, your best remedy might be to actually alert the court and the AAG regarding these decisions - and rather than wait for them to tell you that you waited too long - to affirmatively show in prior cases why parties were denied benefits - and specifically why your situation is different.
This is a judgment call. Some might think that this is alerting the AAG and Judge to the delay issue. However, clearly (you asked me what to do in a closing argument), if these prior decisions were denied ONLY because the person was late - one might bring them to the attention of the Court in your closing argument, note that these two parties were denied relief ONLY BECAUSE THEY WERE LATE - and other than that we are facing the same issues. The reason you satisfy the "manifest injustice" prong is for the VERY REASON that is different from these cases. I'm going to ramble, and say this in a different way- rambling is not normally a proper and concise type of answer.
However, given the way you think about my answers, I want to just say this another way:
One might argue that since there was a lack of "manifest justice" in those cases, and that was the only reason they were denied, you might argue that in this case you have shown "manifest injustice, given you were never advised to apply. Given the victim's assistance pamphlet (which states the law and the duty of the "Victim's Assistance Department" - why weren't you advised, given your ongoing contact with police and the VAD originally?
That's what is a manifest injustice: and you have proven that it applies to you.
I have found over 30 definitions of "manifest injustice" in different areas of WI law (for example - I found the definition under the "Securities" Section of the law, or definitions under the "Family Law" statutes. They wouldn't apply to you - and am looking for a definition specifically pertaining to victims.
I found one published case which is entirely different than yours, although it led me to the WI Constitution and specifically to the rights of Crime Victims:
This state shall treat crime victims, as defined by law, with fairness, dignity and respect for their privacy. This state shall ensure that crime victims have all of the following privileges and protections as provided by law: timely disposition of the case; the opportunity to attend court proceedings unless the trial court finds sequestration is necessary to a fair trial for the defendant; reasonable protection from the accused throughout the criminal justice process; notification of court proceedings; the opportunity to confer with the prosecution; the opportunity to make a statement to the court at disposition; restitution; compensation; and information about the outcome of the case and the release of the accused. The legislature shall provide remedies for the violation of this section. Nothing in this section, or in any statute enacted pursuant to this section, shall limit any right of the accused which may be provided by law.
Others have filed appeals from rulings of the Crime Victims Board - when you were told that this was your last chance to appeal this action. I am not stating that this applies to you. The case I found this in is a murder case with facts entirely different than yours.
I am getting way off track your this question, but it involves something you mentioned in one of the previous times you requested me. You mentioned that the Clerk told you that this was your last chance to appeal this matter. How hard is it for you to go back to the Court and ask specifically where she got that information.
I have done endless research - and have found that victims have a right to appeal decisions of the Crime Victim's Board decisions - but there are appeals from administrative hearings that have different scenarios than yours. Specifically, one is an appeal from a murder trial - and the statute gave the WI Supreme Court specific authority to hear such an appeal. I have found nothing that grants you the right to pursue and appeal, after this appeal . . .
Are you able go back and ask the Clerk, or even better potentially a different Clerk that might give you information that helps you . . . specifically where she got that information?
You mentioned this three questions ago (I mean when you requested me in a different question - not in this question, which was about two weeks ago), but didn't ask the question. So I just want to provide my thoughts regarding that - even though we are in an entirely different question. I'm still with you:
Paul. -ask for follow-up if you need.
This said time-out. I have scheduled a follow-up, and hopefully you will be able to ask at least one more question after this if you need to.
You may always feel free to request me once more - the questions and answers we've gone through in the past three questions total well over 100 exchanges.
I have enjoyed answering your questions, but also impressed with your reasoning and the follow-up questions you have answered.
I take my opportunity w/ JA seriously. I attempt to answer every question to the best of my ability - as I have with you. However, based on all of the contradictions in WI law and the information you've received, I indeed have looked forward every day to seeing what you had thought of the night before or after I answered a previous question.
I know you will be fine. However, answering your questions almost came to the point where I was not only answering your questions, but based on your reasoning and comments, and when there were no legal answers I could provide but just give you examples of how others might respond and various ways you could choose to respond, given I will not be there and am not, nor will not get to be your "attorney," it has almost become as if we were working as a team.
My duty is to answer questions, but I just again wanted to say that I have greatly enjoyed our exchanges. The most important thing I try to do is provide the finest answers.
However, I enjoy answering questions at JA, hope I help others, and along the way, I happen to enjoy answering questions for JA.
But as far as enjoyment, I just have to say that after all we have discussed, I have to rate you an Excellent for the enjoyment you have provided me in the opportunity to answer your questions, as well as ponder the thoughts that you have shared with me, and vice versa, when really there I was unable to give you a "perfect answer" - but really just hunches on what some might choose to do in a particular situation.
I may not be your attorney, but I have greatly enjoyed being your Expert at JA.
I am setting a follow-up once more - hopefully so you can ask me anything further that my comments may bring to your mind..
Take care,
I asked for one follow-up, but can't access one now since this has timed out. So, I'm sending a "Need Info" - so hopefully this will allow you to keep this open. My memory is that I scheduled a follow-up in the past. If I did, answer that follow-up and see if we are re-connected. I'm here for you as long as you need.
(you wanted me to use a different name to protect your identity, and I've forgotten all the names we've used.
DO TRY to find a prior "follow-up" email that was sent to you through JA from me a few days ago - and try to get in touch with me that way, if you can't reach me this way. Also look for a "follow-up" if you received one recently on a different question we had. Just give it a shot, in case my "Need Info" didn't work.
Henry - I was reviewing this chat with the other chat we had re a different question.
But just in case you are working so hard on this - I want to make sure you don't miss deadlines.
As I read what you wrote some time ago -
Yes, my deadline for evidence and witnesses is 2 weeks before the hearing. Hearing is just after the middle of March (not using exact dates due to public forum).
I wasn't concerned about the dates, since there was plenty of time.
But as I was re-reading our conversation, as time has passed, I THOUGHT I SHOULD WARN YOU ABOU THE FACT THAT BASED ON WHAT YOUR WROTE, THAT YOUR DEADLINE TO DISCLOSE YOUR WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE DISCLOSURE WOULD BE NEAR THE END OF THIS MONTH - YOU ALSO NEED TO REMEMBER THIS IS A SHORT MONTH.
I was just afraid that you have been so intense on preparing for this, that you might actually miss the simple thing - that deadline. Make sure you calendar it and don't miss it.
Many times I see people who are pro se, or even the finest lawyers be so obsessed and focused on the complex things, that they forget the simple things - Like a deadline . . .
Just wanted to make sure you calendar that so you don't miss that deadline. If you don't disclose it on time it could be precluded, meaning you couldn't present it at the hearing.
So, be sure to take the date of your hearing, and go back a couple of days MORE than two weeks and make sure you don't miss that deadline! There is no reason for you not to provide that notice now if you have figured it out, and then you can't miss the deadline.
If you do this, you will be able to provide a list of additional witnesses or evidence up to two weeks before your hearing.
I read that and it jumped out at me, and even scared me for you - given that indeed, many pro pers and lawyers alike have done things just like that.
It would horrible if you did all this work and prep, and then couldn't present your witnesses and evidence. That would be the ultimate tragedy for someone who just wants a fair hearing.
Thank you. I actually forgot that this is for evidence too!
We stayed connected. Anything else you can think of?
Yes, where do I get a copy of these internal policies that they speak of in the prior case?
If I wait until evidence is exchanged I will have only 2 weeks to review it before the hearing. I'd like more than that without asking for a continuance.
I will try to get copies of these "Internal Policies" using my online research sources right now.
Also, WI also has a Freedom of Information Act - this is a law that, in quick summary, allows you to right to request information such as what you are looking for. You have the right to demand written paper copies of them, that would take time.
However, there is a WI web-page that indeed may provide this information - and I'm hitting that right now. The web-page for WI and the Freedom of Information Act page looks very good - but just like the original "Victim's Assistance" brochure we looked at before, it didn't actually reveal much. However, - I am going there first.
The web-page is www.wisfoic.org - and there is a specific section which allows one to research "Attorney General Opinions and Letters," as well as many other WI sources.
I'm looking there first right now - and will then go back online to my normal research sources and look for the "Internal Policies" you are looking for.
While I'm rushing since time is also close for us, I still DO have a follow-up scheduled for today, which should allow you to contact me if we time out and I can't post what I am able to find out right now. Further, I am now scheduling a follow-up for tomorrow which should also keep us from getting cut off.
However, - I did a quick search looking for these - and came up with hundreds of hits. If you can give me the names of the exact cases you have - which won't reveal your identity - it would speed me up.
I'm searching their web-page now, but will also try to find these "internal memos" using my other research options.
really help. Given the info I have from all of our chats, either hasn't given me enough info for me find them, or alternatively they aren't accesible
LaCombe was one case and another was Brenda Williams on behalf of Jennifer Lee.
Thanks. Still working. Names of the two cases you found helps me.
I am watching the time and will get back to you as soon as possible.
I can't find the specific "Internal Policies" no matter how hard I tried. You are dealing with a "Crime Victim's Specialist." Her duty is to protect you - and comply with the "Moral Duty" of the State of WI to provide compensation for victims.
I love your reasoning - and you often ask "how a lawyer" would do something. I love that type of question, even though lawyers do things different ways. I can give multiple examples to assist you in understanding.
So - here we go. The most complex set of rules, regulations and statutes in most every state in the nation often ARE NOT related to criminal law - but rather related to incredibly different and distinct areas.
For some reason, once you get out of "statutes" and "case law" and "WI Constitution," and you hit the topic of "REGULATIONS" - it seems that they are far more complex to find, as well as do research. Again - this is not advice - but you asked me what a lawyer would do many times. So, that is not an answer, but what I believe I've observed in the past 19 years.
Again - as an example, most statutes for murder are less complex that drunk driving statutes, and that's why I refer those questions to DUI experts.
I'm really going off and chatting at this point - but I'll put it this way. You are dealing with complex and convoluted statutes and regulations that we have at least discussed - well, I don't know - 20-30 different statutes and regulations in all of our chats combined. You have said that many times they have led you in circles - and after I read them, I see why they did that.
After all the search for these "Internal Policies" - this is what many lawyers would do rather than keep searching.
You have a "Crime Victim's Specialist."
At this point, she has a duty to help you, and frankly, after this much searching, many lawyers would just . . .
CALL HER ON THE PHONE, OR GO SEE HER, AND ASK. And in reality, as I look back, I should have advised you to start our search for these internal policies by doing just that from the very beginning.
I say, try it.
We still have follow-ups scheduled.
Thank you, I did. I e-mailed the department of Appeals where I got the other cases from. They sent it to the judge and the judge forwarded it to the Asst. Atty. General. She told her to contact me about informal discovery.


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NEW YORK--Greg Moore, managing editor of the Boston Globe, came to New York University to be humiliated and apologize for Mike Barnicle.
"We all would acknowledge that we did not handle the question of Barnicle very well," said Moore. "We were guilty of arrogance."
In a panel, "Ethics and Journalism," moderator Lamar Graham, associate professor of journalism, recalled how he exposed Barnicle 7 years ago. "I was not the first," said Graham.
The panel on 5 November 1998 was sponsored by the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the NYU Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The editor of Boston Magazine, where Graham was freelancing, called him about Barnicle's last column. Tommy Boyle and Rita Mae Jackson had gone off together to New Orleans many years ago, but Tommy left her, wrote Barnicle. In 1991, Rita called Tommy. She was dying of cancer. She wanted to see him again. Tommy got a ticket on a Greyhound bus and went to New Orleans. It was "pretty unbelievable," said Graham.
Boston Magazine offered Graham $800 to check out Barnicle's column. If he couldn't check it out, they would pay $2,000 to write a story about it.
"Not one thing in the story turned out to be true," said Graham. Tommy Boyle and Rita Mae Jackson couldn't be found. You can't buy a Greyhound ticket from Boston to New Orleans.
For a year, Graham wrote a column called "Barnicle Watch" for Boston Magazine. Howard Kurtz wrote about it for the Washington Post. Barnicle told Kurtz, "I feel responsible for the kid's employment." The Boston Globe's ombudsman brushed off all complaints--until last summer.
Why, asked Graham, did it take so long to expose Barnicle?
"Questions had been raised about Barnicle from day one," admitted Moore. The problem was that Barnicle was a "marquee columnist," he said. "You treat your stars differently."
Readers said they bought the Globe just to read Barnicle, said Moore. There was a fear that if they lost their star, they would lose circulation.
"It was Barnicle versus the rest of us," said Moore.
Barnicle "was untouchable," recounted Moore. "We had a no-smoking policy." Barnicle would smoke in his office. He would send Barnicle an e-mail saying, "I need to talk to you." Barnicle would never respond. They wrote ethical standards. Barnicle ignored them.
The firing of Patricia Smith, for fabricating quotes, pushed the double standard to a crisis, he said. People were saying, "If I did the same thing Barnicle did, would I get away with it?"
Barnicle was fired. The circulation hasn't gone down, said Moore. The Globe "didn't go dark."
"For me, ethics is not Barnicle" said Karen Rothmyer, managing editor of the Nation. "Ethics is what you cover."
For example, said Rothmyer, on 13 September AP reported that an internal memo from BAT Tobacco which revealed that they increased the concentration of nicotine in cigarettes, in contradiction to testimony of BAT executives under oath before Congress. The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times all ignored it, she said. They were "obsessed with Monicagate."
"That is the ethical question," said Rothmyer.
With the Monica Lewinsky scandal, "the Republicans and the press were outraged," said Eric Ephron, founder and editor of Brill's Content (and a last-minute substitute for Steven Brill). On TV, a panel of journalists was complaining that "the public wasn't outraged" about the Lewinsky scandal. "We were outraged," they said. "Why wasn't the public outraged?"
Journalists are losing touch with their audience, several panelists agreed. "We get 35 e-mails a week from people who feel that they have been mistreated by the press, said Ephron. "I like the press but there was an article about something that I know a lot about and they got it wrong."
Journalists are moving away from a feeling of responsibility for informing the public about important issues, in their quest for "eyeballs" or audience, said Bob Frye, former executive producer of ABC World News Tonight, and fellow at the Media Studies Center. Instead they're presenting drama. "What's the latest movie we should develop? Lewinsky?" The pressures of the 24-hour news cycle, and the Internet, have increased the competition and are making news more sensational, and given journalists less time for thoughtful decisions, he said. There is less of the feeling of responsibility to the public that broadcasting used to have in the golden age.
"Journalists in the 50s were really terrible," countered Rothmyer. "They reported everything that Joe McCarthy said," just like they report on Ken Starr today. "But they didn't report on racism and poverty."
"In the 60s, we had really good reporting," said Rothmyer. "Now it's back like the 50s when journalists were in their lousy period." She predicted another cycle of good journalism to come.
"The threat of the Internet to us is our advertising base," said Moore. "It's easier to buy houses, cars, find a job on the Internet." The strength that newspapers have is their "brand recognition, authority, credibility, and trust that Matt Drudge doesn't have."
"What should we do about it?" asked Rothmyer. "We all have to take responsibility. The best way is unions." She pointed to the teachers' unions, which will go on strike, not just for money, but for professional issues, like class size. Heywood Brown complained about his frustrations in organizing the Guild, she recalled. Brown said, "Journalists just bitch all the time, and they don't want to get together to do anything about it."
Graham was skeptical. "Do you think that somebody is going to get up and say, 'Enough of this. No more Lewinsky!'?"
In responding to the threat of the Internet, "Why don't newspapers do what they are traditionally good at?" said Rothmyer. They can do longer, more analytical stories.
Rothmyer also suggested that newspapers could be more independent of advertisers--even do without advertisers. In Savannah, GA, Albert Scardino was the editor and publisher of an alternative paper competing with a "truly wretched" local paper. He said that the biggest mistake he made was not charging people what the paper was worth, which they would have paid, but being dependent on advertisers, who would cancel their ads "every time they pissed off their advertisers, which they did with regularity." People might pay $3 a day for a newspaper if they felt it was worth it, she said.
"In Britain, there is a tax on radio and TV sets, and that money goes to pay for the BBC," said Rothmyer. "Public TV was born from that." There is now a proposal before Congress to have the TV broadcasters, in exchange for the extra spectrum, to have to provide services in the public interest, such as free air time for candidates. "They're fighting it tooth and nail," she said. "Clinton has been weaseling on this."
"McNeil-Lehrer could go to 2 hours," deadpanned Ephron.
"I don't think market forces are bad," said Ephron. "Part of the financial whip is creating something that people are going to want to watch. There is pressure on the Boston Globe to connect to its readers. That's dirty?"
"The Nation is not about money, and there's not that pressure," said Rothmyer. "That's why we're talking about poverty, while other people are talking about buying a condominium."
"I would love to work for a place that was owned by the working people," said Rothmyer. "I wish we could figure out some way" in which the goal "was not to make money but to do a good job."
The problems of corporate control of network news will probably be resolved, said Ephron, when corporations decide that investing money in news divisions isn't profitable. "Disney is going to be the end of ABC," he said. "For CNN, it makes sense" to invest in news. "So I think we're going to see networks give up on news," and leave it to cable. "There will be a good Drudge."
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42 weeks for DS1 with a spontaneous delivery
40+1 weeks for DD with a spontaneous delivery
41 weeks for DS2 with a spontaneous delivery
I assumed I would "go late" since I was born so very late (how many years have I had to hear about THAT?!?!) but nope. LOL.
DD2: 37w0d
Both picked their birthdays, in spite of my requests to cook longer.
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i am now 36w2d and i'm hoping not to make it to september.. but i'm sure that will be just my luck!
Melissa, wife to Brian, mommy to my home born, breastfeeding, sling-riding, sleep sharing, cloth diapered, intact kiddos Adam 11/09 and Leah 8/12.
I'm due September 3rd. It looks like I keep getting later. I don't mind so much as long as I don't go a full week over. I really don't want that.
Ds2, 38w2d
Both spontaneous
Marilyn, wife to DH 09/02 and mama to my boys, DS1 11/06 and DS2 02/09, and a new one on the way in 06/12!
39 0/7
36 0/7
35/07 (on a vent for 4 days, CPAP for 4, jaundiced, home by 2 weeks/ not fun)
36 3/7
All spontaneous.
I honestly expected her to go later.. closer to 42. I was surprised and slightly sad to be done with that stage. Everyone else was freaking out by 39.
DD2 - 39+3, spontaneous
My second daughter was born at 40 weeks + 5 days. I had allowed my midwife to sweep my membranes a couple days prior. I'm not sure if that played any part in my timing, though. In fact, I think it may have just been responsible for the miserable 24 hours of prodromal labor that I experienced before my super fast "real" labor kicked in. Thankfully, we were intervention free aside from my consent to the membrane sweeping (which was likely based in fear of having to transfer to a hospital for another real induction if my daughter didn't come out soon enough.) The end results were 100% different from my induced hospital birth.
Next time I'm going to ignore all suggestions about speeding things along. My body knows what it's doing, and apparently it just likes to cook babies to perfection.
I'm me. In love with this guy. We're bringing up two girls: Big A (8) and Little A (3)
#2 was 39w, 4d (after starting to dilate at 35-36 weeks, and walking around at 4cm for two weeks, lots of stop start labor)
Army wife - Mama to Liam (9/07), Laine (5/09), and Eliza (7/11)
41+1 spontaneous (does it count if I had acupuncture 3 days before and a membrane sweep 4 days before )
41+2 spontaneous
My family: me , dh , ds (11), dd1 (9), and dd2 (3).
Tout va s'arranger à la fin. Si elle ne fonctionne pas; ce n'est pas la fin.
42 w 2 days
42 w 2 days
Als spontaneous delveries.
39 + 5 induction by ROM
40 +6 spontaneous
This time the ultrasound reveals that I'm due on Christmas, so this should be interesting!
33w3d spontaneous
Bri helpmeet to Chaise mama to K(2/07) M(3/09) & A(2/11)
39+4 with my 3rd baby
My 2nd and 4th were scheduled c-sections, so no labor beforehand
Mother of two spectacular girls, born mid-2010 and late 2012
2 - 38+0 spontaneous - midwife said he looked full term, no vernix
3 - We'll see...
Expecting this one to go to 41 or more, too
Teeny-tiny - still cooking but we're at 41+4 and counting now.
DCP to 1 busy munchkin! and a CRST too!
40w she was on her due date
40w 6d had used epo and cohoshes for a few days
37w spontaneous labor, though mw and ped were convinced he was earlier and dates were off
35w 3d spontaneous labor, ped specialist at hospital after transfer was convinced he was earlier by looks but was stable.
?? due in October but both CNM and CPM and I are pretty sure she will be making her entrance in September sometime......hopefully after 35 weeks
laura, dh Brian, ds Rory 14, dd Ellie 13, ds Caelan 11, ds Seamus 9, ds Finn 7 and Penelope 2 !!!!
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Submitted to: American Society of Agricultural Engineers Meetings Papers
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/8/2000
Publication Date: 7/10/2000
Citation: Smith, L.A., Mulrooney, J.E., Elmore, C.D. 2000. Experimental design and sampling techniques for effective evaluation of spray drift. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Meetings Papers. Paper No. 001029. Interpretive Summary: Spray drift can be defined as the movement of liquid spray droplets to areas outside the intended target zone. Such drift is influenced primarily by droplet size, wind speed, spray release height, relative humidity, and application rate. The study of drift management relative to specific treatments; which could include atomization technologies, equipment setup parameters or crop conditions; has proven to be difficult because of uncontrolled environmental factors that affect drift in addition to the treatments being studied. Environmental effects such as wind speed and direction are often inconsistent from the application of one treatment to another; therefore, variable environmental effects are superimposed upon the treatment effects. One approch for separating the environmental effects from the treatment effects is to apply a reference spray immediately following the treatment spray with different tracer materials added to the two sprays. The reference spray is applied in the same way each time; therefore, spray drift differences in the reference data reflect differences in environmental conditions. Treatment spray drift is affected by the treatment and the environment. The environmental effect can be adjusted out of the treatment data by using an analysis of covariance. The adjusted treatment means then reflect the treatment responses that would have occurred if the treatments had all been applied in the same environment. This allows statistical inferences to be made relative to the treatment effects, and this leads to a proper understanding of the relationships between the factors being studied and drift.
Technical Abstract: The evaluation of treatment effects on spray drift is difficult under field conditions. Factors that affect drift, such as wind speed and wind direction, cannot be controlled and are often inconsistent during drift studies. One approach for dealing with this problem is to apply a reference spray along with each treatment spray so that the reference experiences the same environmental effects as the treatment. The reference spray protocol is consistent throughout the experiment; therefore, relative differences in drift deposits from the reference spray are associated with changes in the environment. These data can be used in an analysis of covariance to adjust treatment means to compensate for differences in environmental conditions. The adjusted means reflect treatment responses that would have occurred if treatments had all been applied in the same environment. Sample collection and processing techniques are presented to enhance the quality and reduce handling. Details of the data analysis are illustrated that allow statistical inferences to be made relative to components of treatment structure.


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From the Guardian archive More to Yates's Wine Lodges than just champagne on draught - archive, 197713 June 1977: The impression may be that Yates's is just just a drop away from Skid Row or the drying-out clinic, yet the firm was founded on the principles of temperance
27 March 1958: Concerned by falling standards, the Tea Bureau is introducing school lessons in how to make the perfect brew
Fast-food chain is experimenting with staff bringing orders to customers at Mottram outlet in attempt to see off growing competition
Town's 19 pubs have been listed as assets of community value – giving protection at a time when 29 are closing each week across the country
Graeme Dutton, a methodist minister and a big real ale fan, is holding his Easter service in the Bradford Brewery - the start of a special mission to prove you can love beer and God
While Mancunian music lovers are mourning the loss of the legendary Roadhouse, the venue is to be turned into a new venture for Mary-Ellen McTague, whose much-loved Prestwich restaurant, Aumbry, closed last summer
Almost Famous in Leeds has come under fire for painting a list of women's insecurities in the ladies toilets, including "Why can't I be thinner?" and "Laxatives are definitely the answer"
All 19 pubs in and around the Yorkshire town of Otley have translated their names into French to welcome the Tour de France next month. But can you work out what La Toison or le Chevreuil are normally called?
MP made to eat his words as politicans rush to defend Henderson's Relish, the pride of Yorkshire.
Food blogger and professional greedy guts Fay Nyberg on the Northern hotspots where fabulous food comes with a side order of entertainment
Bamford in Derbyshire has an ambitious plan to buy the last remaining pub and turn it into a community hub – saving not only the pub, but also the local post office
Cheap supermarket beer, changing demographics and the smoking ban have all hit Holbeck WMC hard. But its supporters are determined to keep a Leeds institution alive
Food blogger Fay Nyberg unearths the secret and not-so-secret foodie meets happening under your nose in the north of England and tells how you can get involved
Five years on from his original 10, Tony Naylor; chooses a fresh batch of city-centre favourites, where you can chow down for under £10
The Sheffield Tap reopens the station's sumptuous Edwardian rooms - and teaches a lesson in economic revival. Daniel Dylan Wray sups some of its beers
Mathew Khan talks to Yorkshire entrepreneurs who are striving to increase self-sufficiency in a bleak national economy
The ambitious new restaurants opening soon in Manchester will put the city on the global gastronomic map, so why isn't native son Tony Naylor bursting with eager anticipation?
Doom-laden prospect of an Adlington win is averted by a local lad - furniture-maker Martin Clare who knows how to tip a pie down
The famous ring symbol has been recreated in pies, with an extra one to emphasise the importance of never skimping on this vital form of food
The first ever roadshow by the county's tourist board will be awash on an amber sea. Rebecca Smithers climbs aboard
First published in the Guardian on 30 October 1987: You work up a thirst clambering round the Peak District then hop across to the big city nearby for a good slake
When Simon Duffin first began repaying his partner's patience in accompanying him around the country to watch his beloved Hull City with trips to tearooms, little did he know where it would lead. Sarah Hartley talks to the tea and coffee shop explorer
Tyneside follows Liverpool's lead with a new twist on an old idea. It could help save a lot of money and a lot of grief
They're not quite the labours of Hercules, but council asks public to have say on a dozen key points, while traders complain of lack of real progress. John Baron reports on a famous source of food, flowers, clothes and anything else that money can buy
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These are great articles to bookmark and refer to whether you are learning or pushing the boundaries of CSS.
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08/19/05: State of GraceNeed a nice state machine? I've got a real beaut right under the fold. Barely used, gets great mileage. Here's what it can do for you:
- pull together all sorts of disparate business logicky transitions into one nice, encapsulated, formally complete model
- complain loudly when some application logic tries to make an illegal state transition
- output itself in DOT format, creating nifty automatic documentation
This doesn't quite implement the State Pattern which, like Strategy, uses polymorphism to let an object change its behavior based on state. Rather, it's a Finite State Machine, representing only the nodes and arcs (states and actions) that make up the legal lifecycle of whatever concept.
By extracting the transition logic into a separate object, we apply Separation of Concerns and let the owning object deal with the business of actually verifying whether a transition is desirable, whether other business rules are met, of spawning other processes or notifying listeners, or attaching Command objects to perform entry, exit or transition actions. Of course, any of these features (especially notifying listeners) can easily be added to the machine itself, but let's keep it simple for now.
It's straightforward enough to refactor to the full State pattern (also described by Metzger) if and when we want to.
Why would you want to use a state machine in the first place instead of, say, a bunch of booleans, or just smart methods? As Metzger says:
When you model an object whose state is important, you may find that you have a variable that tracks how the object should behave, depending on its state. This variable may appear in complex, cascading if statements that focus on how to react to the events that an object can experience. One problem with this approach to modeling state is that if statements can become complex. Another problem is that when you adjust how you model the state, you often have to adjust if statements in several methods. The STATE pattern offers a cleaner, simpler approach, using a distributed operation.
But the real reason to use a state machine is social: with a large project, involving many engineers, product managers, QA testers, etc., it's good to have a formal, well-described model for the lifecycles of your objects; using the code below follows the principle of Don't Repeat Yourself by allowing the model, and its representation in actual, executing code, to reign supreme.
Here's a sample state machine, for tracking the transition from daytime to nighttime and back again, plus an extra terminal node for when the world explodes. (As we all know, Armageddon can only happen at night.)
enum DayState { DAYTIME, NIGHT, NEVER, } enum DayAction { SUNSET, SUNRISE, ARMAGEDDON, } class DayMachine extends StateMachine<DayState, DayAction> { { addTransition(DayState.DAYTIME, DayAction.SUNSET, DayState.NIGHT); addTransition(DayState.NIGHT, DayAction.SUNRISE, DayState.DAYTIME); addTransition(DayState.NIGHT, DayAction.ARMAGEDDON, DayState.NEVER); } }That's all it takes to define a state machine. You can then use it from your domain object code:
class Day { private DayMachine dayMachine = new DayMachine(); private DayState state = DayState.DAYTIME; public void rotate() { if (state == DayState.DAYTIME) { doSunset(); } else if (state == DayState.NIGHT) { state = dayMachine.move(state, DayAction.SUNRISE, DayState.DAYTIME); } } public void doSunset() { state = dayMachine.move(state, DayAction.SUNSET, DayState.NIGHT); } }Note that if someone calls doSunset() when it's already night, the machine will throw an exception. Also note the switching conditional in rotate(); this is ripe for refactoring to State Pattern. In that case we'd end up with a different subclass for each possible state, something like:
class Night extends DayState { public DayState sunrise() { return new Daytime(); } public DayState sunset() { throw new InvalidStateTransition("performing sunset on night"); } }...but there are some tricky OO decisions involved in that process which I won't go into now; suffice it to say that using a state machine accomplishes 60-80% of the power of the State Pattern and is a lot easier to do in Java. (In Smalltalk, OTOH...)
Finally, the coup de grace: the machine can output itself in DOT format:
digraph day { daytime [label="daytime"]; nighttime [label="nighttime"]; never [label="never"]; daytime -> nighttime [label="sunset"]; nighttime -> daytime [label="sunrise"]; nighttime -> never [label="armageddon"]; }which produces this pretty diagram:
Without further ado, here's the code, using Java 1.5 generics, and including (naturally) a unit test:
public class StateMachine<STATE extends Enum, ACTION extends Enum> { static class Transition<STATE extends Enum, ACTION extends Enum> { STATE from; ACTION action; STATE to; public Transition(STATE from, ACTION action, STATE to) { this.from = from; this.action = action; this.to = to; } public STATE getFrom() { return from; } public STATE getTo() { return to; } public ACTION getAction() { return action; } } LinkedHashSet<STATE> states = new LinkedHashSet<STATE>(); List<Transition> transitions = new ArrayList<Transition>(); public void addTransition(STATE initialState, ACTION action, STATE targetState) { transitions.add(new Transition<STATE, ACTION>(initialState, action, targetState)); states.add(initialState); states.add(targetState); } public List<STATE> transitionsFrom(STATE initialState) { List<STATE> targetStates = new ArrayList<STATE>(); for (Transition<STATE, ACTION> transition : transitions) { if (transition.getFrom().equals(initialState)) { targetStates.add(transition.getTo()); } } return targetStates; } public STATE move(STATE initialState, ACTION action, STATE targetState) { for (Transition<STATE, ACTION> transition : transitions) { if (transition.getFrom().equals(initialState) && transition.getAction().equals(action)) { return transition.getTo(); } } throw new IllegalStateTransition(initialState, action, targetState); } public void writeDotFormat(Writer writer) { PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(writer); out.println("digraph state {"); for (STATE state : states) { out.println(state.name() + " [label=\"" + state.name() + "\"];"); } for (Transition transition : transitions) { out.print(transition.getFrom().name()); out.print(" -> "); out.print(transition.getTo().name()); out.print(" [label=\""); out.print(transition.getAction().toString().toLowerCase()); out.print("\"];"); out.println(); } out.println("}"); } } public class IllegalStateTransition extends RuntimeException { public IllegalStateTransition(Enum initialState, Enum action, Enum targetState) { super("Attempting to perform " + action + " to move from " + initialState + " to " + targetState); } } --- public class StateMachineTest extends TestCase { private DayMachine dayMachine; protected void setUp() throws Exception { super.setUp(); dayMachine = new DayMachine(); } public void testTerminalState() throws Exception { assertEmpty(dayMachine.transitionsFrom(DayState.NEVER)); } public void testMoveToValidState() throws Exception { assertEquals(DayState.NIGHT, dayMachine.move(DayState.DAYTIME, DayAction.SUNSET, DayState.NIGHT)); } public void testMoveToInvalidState() throws Exception { try { dayMachine.move(DayState.DAYTIME, DayAction.ARMAGEDDON, DayState.NEVER); fail("Should have failed"); } catch (IllegalStateTransition e) { assertEquals("Attempting to perform ARMAGEDDON to move from DAYTIME to NEVER", e.getMessage()); } } public void testDotFormat() throws Exception { StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); dayMachine.writeDotFormat(writer); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(writer.toString())); assertEquals("digraph state {", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("DAYTIME [label=\"DAYTIME\"];", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("NIGHT [label=\"NIGHT\"];", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("NEVER [label=\"NEVER\"];", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("DAYTIME -> NIGHT [label=\"sunset\"];", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("NIGHT -> DAYTIME [label=\"sunrise\"];", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("NIGHT -> NEVER [label=\"armageddon\"];", reader.readLine()); assertEquals("}", reader.readLine()); } private void assertEmpty(List<DayState> list) { assertEquals(0, list.size()); } }
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Tim Dierks wrote:
However, frequently I would expect that I'd want my code to take an action on a state, but not have a dependence on what the next state will be. Is there any reason not to add a method:
public STATE move(STATE initialState, ACTION action);
I'd also like the state machine to make sure that {initialState, action} tuples are unique, so as not to violate this constraint. You can do this by having a HashMap<Pair<STATE, ACTION>, STATE> and having addTransition throw if the transition already exists with a different destination state.


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FDA issued a Public Health Advisory on Feb. 1, 2008, to alert health care providers, patients, and caregivers to new safety warnings concerning Chantix (varenicline). Chantix is a prescription medication used to help people stop smoking.
Chantix was approved by FDA in May 2006. In November 2007, FDA issued an Early Communication to tell the public and health care providers that the agency was evaluating adverse event reports on Chantix related to changes in behavior, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts, and attempted and completed suicide.
As FDA continues its review of the adverse event reports, it appears increasingly likely that there may be an association between Chantix and serious mood and behavior symptoms.
FDA has requested that Pfizer, the manufacturer of Chantix, give the safety information a more prominent position on the drug's prescribing information, or labeling. In addition, FDA is working with Pfizer to finalize a Medication Guide for patients.
"Chantix has proven to be effective in smokers motivated to quit, but patients and health care professionals need the latest safety information to make an informed decision regarding whether or not to use this product," says Bob Rappaport, M.D., Director of FDA's Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Rheumatology Products. "Patients should talk with their doctors about this new information and whether Chantix is the right drug for them."
Tips for Consumers
- Tell your health care provider about any history of psychiatric illness before you start taking Chantix.
- Immediately tell a doctor if you or someone you care for has any changes in mood and behavior while being treated with Chantix. In most cases, mood and behavior changes developed during treatment, but some people developed symptoms after they stopped taking Chantix.
- Be aware that vivid, unusual, or strange dreams may occur while taking Chantix.
- Chantix may affect your ability to drive or operate machinery.
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Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell isn't letting her Senate election defeat get her down.
She is forming an issues-oriented political action committee, our Gannett colleague Nicole Gaudiano reports this morning.
It will be called Christine PAC, and O'Donnell said she will set it up so she can endorse candidates, pay for independent campaign ads in certain races, lobby on issues and do things "that other activist organizations have the handcuffs on because of the IRS."
O'Donnell was one of several "mama grizzlies" to be endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. The Delaware Republican shot to national prominence of sorts when she scored an upset victory over Rep. Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination.
Despite the Tea Party fervor, O'Donnell lost to Democrat Chris Coons by about 17 percentage points, and he's serving the rest of the term in the seat Joe Biden left to become vice president.
After Palin's failed vice presidential bid, she started Sarah PAC -- which has allowed her to raise money for candidates and do other political activities.
O'Donnell says her PAC will be different. "I want to take on projects to help raise awareness about these political issues" such as repealing the health care law and eliminating the so-called death tax.
Stay tuned. Nicole says O'Donnell had a lot to say to reporters last night after a Tea Party gathering in Virginia.
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When we make predictions, we form ideas about the future based on what we already know or believe. A predictable book is one that features patterns, sequences, and connections in the illustrations or words that enable children to guess "what comes next" in the story. Predictable books can be used to help 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds learn what to expect from spoken and written language. (See Illinois Early Learning and Development Benchmarks 1.B.ECb With teacher assistance, participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners (e.g., peers and adults in both small and large groups) about age-appropriate topics and texts., 2.A.ECa Engage in book-sharing experiences with purpose and understanding., 2.B.ECa With teacher assistance, ask and answer questions about books read aloud. View sample lesson plan, 2.C.ECa Interact with a variety of types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, rhymes, songs)., and 10.C.ECa Describe likelihood of events with appropriate vocabulary, such as "possible", "impossible", "always", and "never"..)
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President Obama continued his press for women voters on Friday, arguing that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and GOP lawmakers want to turn back the clock on key issues important to women.
"The contraception fight in particular was like being in a time machine," Obama told 600 supporters at a fundraiser in Washington. "Republicans in Congress were going so far as to say an employer should be able to have a say in the health care decisions of its female employees. You know, for a party that prides itself on being rabidly anti-regulations of almost any kind, for folks who claim to believe in freedom from government interference and meddling, it doesn't seem to bother them when it comes to a woman's health."
Winning women voters by a wide margin is key to the Obama campaign's reelection strategy.
While the president maintains a lead on Romney with women voters, he's seen some slippage since Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen criticized the presumptive GOP nominee's wife, Ann Romney, for being a stay-at-home mom. The president, first lady Michelle Obama and campaign officials quickly distanced themselves from Rosen's comments.
Obama's support among women has dropped five points since March, from 58% To 53%, according to Pew Research Center poll published earlier this month. Among married women, Romney leads Obama 49 to 42%., but among single women, Obama holds a 62%-32% advantage over Romney, according to a CBS/New York Times poll published last week.
Obama also took a shot at the Mitt Romney campaign for its hesitance to state whether it backs a gender equality law that the White House points to as one of its signature achievements. Asked during a conference call with reporters earlier this month whether the former Massachusetts governor supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Romney officials told reporters that, "We'll have to get back to you on that."
"As long as I'm President, we are going to keep moving forward," Obama said. "You can count on that. You don't have to take my word on it – you've got my signature on it. Because something like standing up for the principle of equal pay for equal work isn't something I'm going to have to "get back to you on" – it's the first law I signed."
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The rare colobus monkeys in Kenya's Diani Forest no longer have to worry about dodging traffic along the road that cuts through their habitat. Now they can take the high road, safely crossing on four arboreal rope bridges constructed by local conservationists.
In one two-month period, 17 of the 200 black and white colobus monkeys living in the region had been killed by motorists, according to a report in Swara magazine. The fatalities were seriously eroding the small Diani population of colubus monkeys (Colobus angolensis palliatus), a distinct subspecies of the Angolan colubus now found only in the coastal forests of East Africa.
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We present the graph below for comparison with other recently tested drives.
From our limited number of test samples, we can clearly see the OCZ RevoDrive X2 series SSD is very fast; in fact it's the fastest reading drive in this test by a long way.
ATTO disk benchmark
ATTO has become a standard tool for measuring the data throughput of SSD drives. It measures the performance of reading and writing, using different file sizes and block sizes.
The reading speed results on the OCZ RevoDrive X2 are extreme, topping out at over 823MB/s, writing speeds are extremely impressive topping out at 698MB/s. ATTO writes its test data in a format that can be compressed by DuraWrite, so you are seeing reading and writing in a best case scenario, but certainly shows what these four SandForce SSD controllers are capable of doing.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0
Crystal Disk Mark is quite a handy benchmarking application, as it focuses on the file sizes that can cause a problem on a system drive.
While ATTO shows the SandForce controller in its best light, Crystal Disk Mark uses test data that isn't so easily compressed by DuraWrite, therefore read and write speeds are not quite so high, but extremely impressive in any case.
AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD benchmark is a new benchmarking tool, specifically designed to test SSD drives. The application tests sequential reading and writing performance, 4K random reading and writing performance.
AS SSD benchmark also tests 4K threaded performance. This is very exciting, as this test is the first available test that I am aware of, that simulates how a PC operating system actually works. A modern PC and OS, such as Windows Vista does not just run a single thread at a time, it runs many threads. The AS SSD benchmark "4K 64Thrd" tests run 64 threads simultaneously throughout the test. If this result is good, then you can be pretty sure the drive will perform extremely well as a system drive.
After the tests complete, AS SSD benchmark derives a total score for the drive being tested. This is based on all aspects of the test results, and gives an indication of how the drive is performing overall.
Now let's look at the result from the OCZ RevoDrive X2 in the form of a screenshot. All our other comparison drives results are presented in the form of a graph.
Given that AS SSD benchmark writes a lot of compressed data in its tests, the OCZ RevoDrive X2 is still at the top of the tree by a long way. Threaded performance is particularly strong, which I'm finding is a key factor in real world performance.
The sequential reading speeds on the OCZ RevoDrive X2 series SSD are excellent and this is the fastest drive we have ever tested here at MyCE.com. Sequential writing speeds were also the highest we have ever encountered here at MyCE.com, and the same applies to the 4k random write.
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>Health and Nutrition>Plantar Warts . . . remove or not
Plantar warts are tough little buggers.
Plantar warts are tough little buggers.
I have had one right in the middle of the ball of my foot for about a year. I have tried just about every over the counter remedy (acid, freezing, duct tape) to no avail. Most recently using duct tape to keep it somewhat under control because it seems to have the same effect as salisylic acid (as explained by Trent), at a lot lower price point. I use pretty much the MattM method; I can get rid of all the skin I want but the wart sticks around like an unwanted houseguest. Never tried apple cider vinegar, that one seems popular as well (what do you know - vinegar is acidic!). So far only consulted Dr. Interwebz, I have heard too many reports about the official medical kind being a waste of time & money (see LedLincoln's comment).
Has not really interfered with running. Can be irritating or even slightly painful to walk around barefoot, but I don't feel it in running shoes. Unless I am applying a lot of pressure on it, like pressing down during a calf/achilles stretch. However that thing is just f---ing annoying, and I want it to go away. Which apparently it will someday, maybe before I die, or resort to the Slo_Hand home surgery method.
In conclusion: Ugh.
I had a bad one right on the ball of my foot for 2 years. Unlike yours, mine could be painful at times. More so if I ate sugar. This winter I got fed up with and really tried my best to get rid of it and was successful. I relied mostly on duct tape, epsom salt soaks, picking it out with tweezers and eventually salicylic acid pads which really helped (they did not help the first time i tried them). I made a blog about it with before and after pics and went into more detail about my endeavor. If you or anyone else is interested you can read it at http://stubbornwart.blogspot.com/
If you're not bothered by it I would consider that a blessing, but if I were you I might try to treat it anyway because it could get worse.


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I think it's fair to say that traditional TV advertising is not the marketing monolith that it once was. The way we watch and experience film and television on our DVRs and devices has meant that companies have had to adapt and think very differently about print ads and TV advertising. In a new era of social media prankertising and media-optimized ad campaigning, are the best advertisements traditional ad campaigns? And are they still relevant or effective?
Those questions remain to be answered but what we can see from looking at recent TV campaigns is the return of agencies making some of the best advertisements we've experienced for some years. This is surely a reaction to the choice and quality of content we are seeing on our TV's and devices and possibly a counterpoise to the cavalcade of web-focused, social media-motivated ads that have been so prevalent in 2013. As series such as The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, The Following, etc., elevate the expectations of the public, I think there is a certain expectation in TV ad quality also.
The following adverts from the last 5 months could be seen as evidence to support a general need for agencies to up their game when it comes to TV ad content. And although the past five months have seen a goldmine of TV sporting event opportunities for companies and agencies to wet their beaks (such as the Superbowl, Sochi, and the upcoming World Cup), there is a sophistication in the storytelling and the production of these commercials that seems very different from the ads we were seeing just a year ago. Viewers have been treated to some really funny, touching, and memorable ads that mirror the cinematic quality of today's TV shows.
Please view the following TV ads and decide for yourself:
Until now, I don't think the world of cable advertising has been particularly creative or engaging. All I can recall are those very graphical FIOS ads with swishy-swooshy graphics and the massively budgeted Time Warner ads with P-Diddy and a crowd of celebrities. Grey of New York, however, created a hilarious campaign for DirectTV that could last for years. The idea that your cable going out is of major consequence to your life is one that we can all relate to as TV junkies. They've turned this idea into an imaginative, funny, and brilliantly produced commercial.
Wieden + Kennedy in Portland created one of the most hilarious and bizarro adverts of 2014 for Old Spice. The ingenuity of the commercial from concept to production is quite something. It's a totally new take on advertising men's cologne: edgy, funny, surreal, and thoroughly original. Personally, I didn't think the previous "Smell Like a Man" guy on the horse adverts quite worked and had a lack of clear concept. The new "Smellcome to Manhood" ads are so much funnier and I imagine are strangely appealing to a younger male audience who are can easily relate.
The "mini documentary" represents a real trend in advertising at present and we have seen Apple, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, and many other big companies creating uplifting montages of people overcoming adversity. I think that this Powerade ad may be the best of them (or at least the one that is most likely to make you cry like a baby). It feels like the ad agency, Wieden + Kennedy, have created the perfect storm of music, story, and payoff in the young man's incredible abilities. Beautifully composed and produced, the story feels like you've experienced an entire documentary movie in less than a minute.
This is another offering from Wieden + Kennedy and further reason to regard them as the breakout agency in terms of quality TV commercials. This is the best of the pre-tournament World Cup ads and is a lesson to all other agencies in brilliant technical production. But behind the beautiful production and bravado is a fantastic idea that appeals to every boy who dreams of being a soccer star in this witty, wish-fulfillment commercial that creates massive excitement for the tournament and its biggest stars.
This globally-released commercial by BBH, London is another epic piece of storytelling. Big production values and cinematic quality tracks the failed relationship between two star-crossed lovers from the dawn of man in different incarnations that include cavemen, Roman citizens, and Titanic passengers. In the past we have seen some great and not-so-great Axe commercials with the concept that using Axe "will help you score." This is a better play on this concept and easily their best yet with an almost heart-warming story that is a much more tasteful, mature, and interesting look at the product as the key to your romantic destiny (Aaaaah!).
- For all your print advertising and promotional needs, go to NextDayFlyers.com and start your posters, flyers, and direct mail campaigns.