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The Duke Lacrosse Case and the Black Hole
By Fr. Robert J. Carr
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The indicted Duke University lacrosse players have a mighty battle ahead of them. However, it is important for them to understand now what their true enemy is during this time. First, if they are guilty, the worst thing that can happen to them is the not-guilty verdict. That is because, they would mostly likely reoffend and mostly likely in a more heinous way. If they are innocent, however, the worst that can happen is not that they be found guilty, but that they go into a deep emotional hole from which they do not escape.
The current accusations against them are a serious trauma to the psyche of any person. If they are not guilty, that trauma alone may still lead them down a dark hole to bitterness. They must do all they can to never go down that hole.
As a priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston during the abuse crisis, I worked with some victims and accused. I found that true victims have no desire to see the wrong man in court. I also found that those wrongly accused can be reduced to emotional rubble.
The most vibrant of men can become a slave to a telephone, holding it dearly everyday in one hand while chain smoking with the other. He will sit there in his own invisible prison, hoping the phone will bring the news that his trauma was nothing more than a nightmare and that it was over. That is the black hole and once there it is hard to get out of it.
People who go down this hole get so focused on exoneration on their terms, that if anyone shows them another way out of their predicament they refuse to listen. They become like someone in a three sided cage demanding that the door be open so they can walk out. They remain completely unaware that there is no back to their prison. All they need do is let go of the bars, turn around and walk away. They refuse. Such people become myopic to any other reality and essentially become so obsessed with their dilemma and their solution to it, they lose the ability to see their reality in any other way. They cannot move beyond the incident and they become crippled in their ability to do anything but lament and spiral deeper into depression and bitterness. This is the worst thing that can happen to anyone going through this process.
What is the way out? This is where faith is so important. First, they must understand what they have today. They must live forgetting tomorrow. The words of Saint James in his epistle can be life giving:
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." (Jas 1:2-4 NIV)
"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.' " (James 4:14-15 NIV)
Their situation will greatly overwhelm them several times during the day. The more they can discipline themselves to enjoy every little element of life that leads them away from thinking what may happen, the better off they will be. The reality is they have no idea what actually will happen, they can only work with what may happen, focusing on that unknown, however, is no way to live. The "what ifs" obsessive thought pattern in that focus can be as crippling as any disease. They need to avoid it as much as possible.
They need to learn to praise God for everything that happens in their lives. The more they see God as only present when things go right or pray that God will answer their prayers as they want them answered, the more they will go down the dark hole. They need to pray that God will work through this situation in a way that glorifies his name and brings them closer to him and, therefore, where they can experience true joy. They need to be people of prayer. Merlin Carothers� book, Prison to Praise may be the most important literary work they can read during this painful time.
They need to be repentant and to be honest about their own sins especially those which allegedly put them into a location of alcohol abuse and the presence of a stripper. Ray Bradbury in his book Something Wicked This Way Comes demonstrated well the false promises of evil and its destructive effects. Similarly, when you put yourself in the presence of evil, you risk the chance that it may hold you so tightly that only God himself can free you.
The accused can fight this battle on many levels, however, the most difficult part of this endeavor is the internal battle for self-control of their hearts and minds. Presently, their lives are in the hands of the prosecutor, their own defense attorneys and eventually the jury. This will be the most painful part of this process. Indeed, in my work with court involved young adults, I found that the worst part is not the prison time, but the court time beforehand. The court is impersonal, neither supportive nor rejecting, it is just a systemic operation that turns the human into a cog in a machine. Their lives, though not ruined, are on hold until the jury gives its verdict.
If they walk in faith, they will survive. If they walk on their own, they may end up in the dark hole of a three sided cage. Those three sides are far more imprisoning than four walls of concrete. Their supporters must not let them or anyone else enter that painful space, guilty or innocent.
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People like to think they have control over a situation or, at least if bad things happen, they happen for a reason. For the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, some new theories about why the ship sank are surfacing. In an article for the AP, Seth Borenstein has highlighted some of those theories. One has to do with abnormally cold sea air that causes light to bend downward. Another has to do with the alignment of the moon, sun, and Earth and the calving of icebergs off Greenland. In this particular alignment, the moon was closer to the Earth than it had been in 1,400 years. "Anything to avoid gazing critically into the mirror," he wrote.
Why does the story of the Titanic make me keep thinking about ICD-10, Meaningful Use, Value-based Purchasing, and other programs in which the US Government is trying to control [the sinking of] healthcare? Maybe it's because so many programs are happening at once (add medical home, ACO, & HIE to the previous list) that it's nearly impossible to keep track of all of the potential factors and influencers. Certainly the image of a ship (hospital) among icebergs in the currents of the icy North Atlantic (government cost control efforts) is not lost on anyone.
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Slow down. Listen to others. Take control now. Ask for help.
1. Borenstein, S. Titanic's sinking: Was it more than human folly. The Associated Press, April 2012. [accessible online: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfLq6ttrUu41VRX4K6MhLRc-1Rzg?docId=a1bc22be02af4971bc7cdd62c3c3e32a ]
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6 steps to get started with knowledge management
If people have the right knowledge at the right time then they can work more effectively and efficiently, make better decisions, and deliver higher quality services at lower costs. Many IT organizations that I have worked with don't have very effective knowledge management, so people make poor decisions, service quality is less than it should be, and there never seem to be enough people to do the work.
When I ask IT managers what they think is the best way for them to get knowledge they need from another person, the suggestions they come up with are often wide-ranging and imaginative. If I ask these same people what tools and techniques they use for knowledge management, the answers are frequently limited and unimaginative.
Knowledge is not contained in documents and databases; the only knowledge that is of any value is the knowledge in someone's head that helps them make decisions and deliver services. We can use documents to help transmit this knowledge from one person to another, but the purpose of knowledge management is not to manage the documents, but to ensure that each person has the knowledge they need, when and where it is needed.
Implementing a comprehensive knowledge management process can involve a lot of work and cost, but it is possible to get quite a lot of value from some very simple steps. Here are some practical steps you can take to help you get started with knowledge management:
1. Start with a list of the roles in your organization
You must have a clear understanding of how your organization creates value for your customers. Make sure you can answer these questions:
This information is probably already available to you, as part of your organizational governance. If it isn't, then have a think about governance before you get started on knowledge management.
2. Identify activities that would benefit from improved knowledge
Start by prioritizing activities that:
You can expand the scope of knowledge management to take in other activities later, but it is best to start with these high priority activities.
Look in some detail at how these activities are performed. Talk to the people actually doing the work and making the decisions and identify how knowledge supports them:
This should result in a list of activities that could benefit from improved knowledge, and some idea of where that knowledge could be found.
3. Identify tools and techniques to help with knowledge transfer
There are many different tools and techniques that can be used to help get knowledge to the right place. Don't just think about creation, storage and management of documents, but identify all the different approaches you might use. Which of these is suitable will depend on your organization's culture and preferences, as well as on the type of knowledge you need to manage.
Here is an initial list of things that you might want to include – but don't let my list constrain your imagination:
When you have a comprehensive list of possible techniques you can consider which of them might be suitable for each of the activities and types of knowledge that you identified in the previous step.
4. Motivate people to share the knowledge that is needed
Most of the knowledge you need probably already exists within your organization, but you will need to motivate the people who have this knowledge to share with those who need to use it. How you do this will depend on the culture of your organization, and on the tools and techniques that you have selected.
You will probably want to identify a small number of knowledge management champions to model the behavior you want, and to encourage other people. It can also be very effective to publish the names of people who make useful knowledge contributions, and to use gamification to provide reward and encouragement for the desired behaviors.
5. Motivate people to use the knowledge that has been shared
Remember that knowledge can only create value when it is used by someone to make decisions or deliver services. You need to think about how to incorporate the knowledge that is being created into the activities that you identified earlier.
You can use gamification to help encourage the required behaviors for use of knowledge, and you can integrate this with gamification for knowledge creation. You can use these techniques to identify and acknowledge the authors of the most reused pieces of knowledge, and the people who make the most use of shared knowledge. When you know what knowledge is being reused you can also use this to justify further investment in knowledge management and to plan future improvements.
6. Manage your knowledge to ensure it remains relevant and helpful
Don't forget that knowledge management isn't a one-off project; it has to include a change in the culture of your organization. This means applying all the management of change techniques that you would use for any other organizational change.
You need to constantly review the sources of knowledge, to ensure that they remain relevant and helpful, and purge anything that is out of date. If you are using gamification to identify most-used knowledge artefacts, then the same data can be used to identify unused knowledge that may be suitable for improvement or archiving.
Although you could make very large investments in a major knowledge management programme, you could also start quite small and follow these six steps to get you started. You can then use continual improvement techniques to expand the scope and coverage of your knowledge management until it meets the needs of your organization.
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Thanks Stuart, these are great points. I'd offer the following to underscore a few of your points and steps:
- The Service Desk is a natural and obvious place to focus efforts, since it will nearly always meet the criteria outlined in step 2. It is also a good microcosm for development of best practices that can be extended in a phased approach across the larger organization.
- Executive spnsorship and active support by senior management is important, as with any improvement initiative
- The motivation in steps 4 and 5 should include rewarding workers for sharing and using the knowledge. This could include incentives, bonuses/awards, linkages to performance management etc. Rewards should be items valued by workers and visible to senior management.
- You'll want to develop some way to measure the success of your knowledge management efforts. This will enable a PDCA cycle approach by having the "check" step, and can sustain momentum for your ongoing programme. Individual worker or team level metrics can provide the basis for determining the rewards described above.
Thanks for the feedback.
I agree that the service desk is often a good place to start, because (as you say) it tends to meet all three of the criteria in my step 2. I also agree with your comment about executive sponsorship, I mentioned the need for proper management of change and high level sponsorship is certainly important here.
I probably should also have written about measuring success, this is an important part of any project.
Excellent article.
Gamification was a new expression for me, having looked it up I'd be interested in any gamification examples you may have in a knowledge management context.
Gamification of knowledge management would be based on allowing your users to score which knowledge they have reused and how useful it was. You can then get your knowledge contribitors to compete for the most useful articles, or for the largest number of useful articles. You can award titles like "Knowledge Expert" or "Knowledge Guru" for the people who exceed targets, and you could even make these domain specific so that one person is a Unix Knowledge Expert and someone else is a CRM Knowledge Guru.
The knowledge that you rate doesn't have to be documents, it could include webinars, podcasts or anything else that you can manage and share. The important thing is that you set up an environment where people will compete to be recognised by their peers for their contributions to knowledge sharing.
Hi Stuart,
Where you talk about starting small: I think this is key to approaching knowledge management (KM) from scratch. It's hard to prove ROI, but a term I heard at today's online community managers conference in Australia is, consider the COI—the Cost of Inaction. In IT terms, that cost is RISK.
By way of starting small, I would look at processes already taking place, where KM wouldn't involve too much extra overhead. Like, incident management with an already working service desk environment. Ensure resolutions are documented and not just closed with "done" etc.
Also, I expect most enterprise environments have Active Directory. It can aid expertise location by ensuring everyone fills out their AD profiles with their focus areas. Encourage people to make themselves available for a call or conversation with colleagues who have questions about those topics.
These small things won't cost any extra money, and won't require much extra time, but will set the foundations for better decision making, less repeated mistakes, and less solving the same problem over and over.
To Andrew's question about gamification: I don't have a specific, current, KM related gamification system, but one startup SaaS helpdesk & customer feedback solution did have a knowledge base leaderboard where the agents with the most, good quality, articles were listed leaderboard-style across the whole SaaS userbase. I'm not sure if they still offer that, though.
Anyway, great article with many salient points. Thanks.
Thank you for your feedback. I have a great deal of respect for your well earned reputation in the field of Knowledge Management and always enjoy reading what you have to say.
As a person who has enabled 3 new KM edforts to launch from scratch, i would like to add a very important point when starting off. Getting user inputs. At Inknowin Consulting we have face to face meetings with at least 2 employees for every position to f
ind out what pinches them and what is the knowledge they would typically 'Google' and situations where they feel frustrated at not having contextual information.
We find this creates affinity to the effort.
Re Gramification, ican share specific examples implemented with great success including titles like Knowledge Ambassadors etc at a more detailed level if you can connect me with the person intested.
Thank you for a thought provoking article!
I do agree with you about user input. This has to be part of the approach and will contribute to the management of change program.
I can't connect you with other people who have posted here, but I would love to hear more detail about your gamification examples. Please do post some more information.
Stuart –
Once again, you present a lot of food for though. When I think about knowledge management I can't help but think of the old quality joke that says that quality management is the executives' response to the concern that left unmanaged, quality might run rampant throughout the organization.
The point is that knowledge is only valuable when it is applied. Thus your mention of governance is particularly appropriate. As an example consider customer service or service/help desks. In these situations we can use knowledge systems to gather information about what are the most common issues our customers and clients have. This allows us to develop knowledge about the best responses to these issues. Governance becomes important here because many issues are not of the form "if this is the issue, then this is the response". That is, many issues require judgment to understand what the customer is asking for and then synthesize the knowledge into an appropriate response.
Since the application of knowledge may range from highly deterministic (if this, then that), to highly subjective (we've never done this before, but for this client in this situation it is the right thing to do), governance becomes especially important. In steps 3-5 of your article I believe it is important to clarify decision rights (who participates in the decision), responsibilities (who makes the decision), and accountabilities (how do we make sure decisions are made and improve over time). So if we are to apply knowledge in meaningful ways it seems important to know who is responsible for what decisions and how our escalation paths work. It also seems important to use past decisions to improve our knowledge and decision making over time.
I also appreciate April's comment about characterizing ROI and offer the following suggestion: Several years ago I was working with an insurance company that was having difficulty justifying its investment in updating the service desk (including training and a rudimentary KM process). Looking at transaction costs alone made for a difficult "sell" to the executive level. Then we did a simple calculation of the lifetime value of a customer. We simply looked at the average vale of the portfolio of insurance policies held by a customer multiplied by the average length of a customer relationship. Then we looked at retention relative to negative service desk interactions. Justifying the program became much easier.
Bottom line: I think that KM and governance are inextricably linked and are part of a bigger effort to clarify roles and improve organizational effectiveness. This becomes especially important as organizations (enterprises or companies) grow and vision and mission are no longer communicated by everyone sitting around the same table, but must travel and be translated through layers of management.
Thanks for your observations.
I absolutely agree that knowledge management is inextricably linked with governance, and if we are going to use knowledge to help us make decisions we had better know who participates in what decisions. This is why I said in step 1 that you may need to "... have a think about governance before you get started on knowledge management."
Hi Stuart,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
When we were implementing KM at a sales company in India, we realized early on that the culture of the organization was predominantly a Sales Culture. This has an upside and a downside. Upside- Salespeople love to share their stories. Downside- Salespeople hate to admit that they learnt from someone else, especially from another Region. But Sales People love to be recognized!.
So we gave titles to BOTH- those who shared and those who learned.
When a practice was downloaded we awarded points to the contributor. There was a merit list of Practices and the Top 25 were monetized (token amount) and given a certificate while the Top 3 were given trophies at the annual management summit and badges as Best Practice Leader.
The ones who downloaded the content had to submit evidence after 3 month and every quarter thereafter for 3 quarters showing the change in performance by implementing a practice. They were given a certificate and title of 'Keen Learner'
Thus both earned Bragging rights with the learners getting the added benefit of being perceived as future potential.
Trust this is helpful. Rudolf, InKnowin Consulting
PS: can I get an intimation when new comments are posted on this topic? (Ques not to be published)
Thank you for this example of how to use gamification with knowledge management. I am a strong believer in this kind of approach to encourage behaviour change.
If you look at the top of this page you will see a small drop down arrow next to the text "Article Options", this will allow you to subscribe to the article so that you see all responses. I have never tested this without being logged in to my HP Passport account so you may need to create an account before it will work for you.
Hi Stuart, Excellent blog! Especially item 2 is often the trigger point: creating business value. When working a the customer site as a KM consultant, I often suggest to turn it around: What are the major business PAINS - and how can KM help. This brings us also to the RISKS April has mentioned and can help to get sponsorhip.
However, we are all on the same page ;-)
BR, Birgit
If we all agree on what is needed, and on the enormous value that it can bring to IT organizations, how come we see so little effective knowledge management in use?
I hope that my blog might stimulate some people to start making small steps towards implementing basic knowledge management, but if you have any ideas on how we can help people to get started I would be very pleased to hear them.
Well, great article. Agree on this absolutely.
Two of my cents:
- would consider company culture factor - KM cannot work properly in companies where is strictly applied internal "competition". If people are under the threat of losing their jobs in favor of some new/younger/offshore colleagues, you simply need to fail at all.
- the role of incentives and awards is IMHO crucial here. One of the largest real life issues would be that people simply do what they must do and some KM activities are usually considered as proverbial "cherry on cake".
- proper funding and senior management support required. Nice example might be our initiative in HP SW Professional Services. We have defined REUSE initiative which is about defining knowledge briefs/knowledge articles, getting them approved by SME and managers and finally getting "internal hours" for time sheeting. So finally people not currently working on projects can focus on KM topics quite easily and by doing this they can significantly improve some of their personal objectives.
You are of course correct that organization culture is very significant and that people need appropriate metrics and rewards to encourage the behaviours that you want - but I often find that if you make space for people to share, and take away the dis-incentives, then they really enjoy sharing with their colleagues.
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Minnesota Timberwolves fans have been dying to know what they have to root for when it comes to the 14th pick in the 2013 NBA Draft.
Shabazz Muhammad has been an afterthought in Rick Adelman's rotation so far this season, seemingly because it's difficult to let a young guy learn how to play in the NBA through trial-and-error when your team is trying to make the playoffs. The Wolves' bench has been so bad and inconsistent this season that many fans and pundits have wondered why a first round pick who is supposed to be a scorer isn't getting a chance to help an anemic second unit.
I've contended throughout the first two months of this season that it's hard to play Muhammad with such a chaotic second unit because he doesn't know what he's doing out there yet. I'm careful to make sure I stress the word "yet" because I do believe he has a lot of good qualities that will benefit this team in the long run. However, as of right now he's simply too green to be able to trust on the floor in consistent minutes.
Tuesday he made his debut in the D-League with the Iowa Energy and had a dazzling first game. He scored 24 points on 9-of-13 shooting from the field in just 25 minutes. He was a whirlwind of activity at times and ran the floor beautifully during a couple of key stretches. We even saw him knock down a corner 3-pointer, showing he does in fact have some range.
Muhammad did exactly what he's supposed to do in this D-League stint: he got some run in actual game environments and showed both what he's good at and what he needs to improve. There was certainly a lot he showed he needed to improve upon, even with the gaudy scoring numbers.
His biggest problem in the game seemed to be an understanding of spacing, something that is key to getting the second unit of the Wolves to thrive. Muhammad is a magnet for the ball; he just seems to gravitate to wherever it goes. This is great for rebounding opportunities that turn into quick strikes but it's not ideal when you're making sure your teammates have enough spacing to make plays.
He tends to float on offense and inactivity breeds frustration in Adelman's system. When Muhammad is active, he's able to get himself in position to make plays that aren't even called for him, which is a great skill to have. However, the moments of inactivity bring about floating around the ball and that just leaves things too cluttered. There were two moments in the half court in which he cut into the lane from the opposite wing when a teammate drove.
This is simply a timing issue that probably happens because he's not all that used to playing at this level, for this team, or with these teammates. There's a level of continuity that he simply won't have in his D-League experience. On that play, he either needs to dart into the lane or wait a beat and come circling in as a trailer. Instead, you're just helping clog the lane. Luckily for the Energy, Othyus Jeffers hit the tough runner.
We saw the same thing on this play later in the game. You never want to be standing right next to your teammate who is driving the lane. This play didn't work out because Muhammad traveled after receiving a pass with awkward spacing. Make a decision and go with it; don't float around the lane to create spacing issues.
Muhammad got out to run the floor a lot in this game and most of it was really good. With a team like the Wolves that wants to push the tempo of the game, having a runner like Muhammad will create quick scoring opportunities. But once again, he has to make sure he's spacing the floor to make it harder on the defense.
He's running right next to his teammate in transition here, instead of flaring out to the perimeter for an open 3-point opportunity. You can't make it easier to guard the next pass in transition by being too close to the passer. At this level and especially the NBA level, the competition is almost always going to stop those plays because of poor spacing.
Defensively, you saw a few plays in which Muhammad just wasn't used to playing within a team construct on that end of the floor. A lot of that could be prior coaching or a lack of playing time in the NBA. Or perhaps he just needs more time with this D-League team before he has the understanding of where he and his teammates need to be. Regardless of the problem, we saw plays that are easily correctable.
On this play, Muhammad is getting screened on a pick-and-roll. He begins chasing the ball handler, instead of dropping down to cover the roll man when it's clear his teammate has the man with the ball. If the roll man catches this pass cleanly, it's probably an easy scoring opportunity. This could have been Muhammad's fault or it simply could have been a lack of communication. Hard to know without being out there to hear what they're saying on defense. But you have to commit defensively.
There were a couple of plays in which he was floating on defense, reminiscent of the problems Derrick Williams had on defense early in his Wolves career. Muhammad is not committed in this defensive help at all, giving up plenty of room to the shooter he's guarding while not stepping in to stop the man with the ball. Either double hard into the paint or be prepared to recover to the corner shooter.
This is another play in which Muhammad's floating on defense either hurt them or a lack of communication by a teammate on a switch caused the problem. Muhammad's man is coming across the lane, causing a switch in the defense. As you can see in the next frame, Muhammad leaves himself in a bad spot defensively and the big man inside is open for a bucket.
It's hard to know if this is just communication or poor defense by Muhammad, but we saw this type of mistake a couple of times. More experience and a little more dedication to the defensive end of the floor will clear that right up.
This is one more nitpick before we get to the good stuff with Muhammad. This rushed shot was an opportunity for the Wolves' rookie to show he can be ambidextrous out there. He caught the ball in a secondary transition opportunity and immediately went to a baseline hook shot with his left hand, instead of recognizing the spacing of the floor and going into the middle of the lane. It's not a huge deal but you'd like to see him develop that awareness a bit more. It likely will come with experience.
While there were times in which the spacing was poor for Muhammad, there were times in which he was a suffocating force against the defense. There is good floating and bad floating on offense. Good floating is circling under the hoop on plays when the ball is around or above the free throw line. This play in which he gets a dunk shows him using almost a Thaddeus Young approach to spacing under the hoop.
He had a transition opportunity when he had the ball in his hands showing he understood how to create good space for him and his teammates. He started dribbling into where his teammate was filling the lane, used two quick crossovers to give himself space to attack the middle of the paint, and drew the foul.
And as you can see from this highlight package of his top plays from the game, he has speed, aggressiveness, and athleticism in the way he attacks.
Muhammad needs to iron out some of the floating that creates spacing issues and turn all of his activity into the right activity. The majority of what he showed us on offense yesterday was a good sense of how to create plays without necessarily having your number called. That's the kind of stuff that will get you playing time in the long run, but you have to learn the system and know where to be defensively.
The biggest thing to take away from Muhammad's first D-League experience is he definitely can play the game. With a little fine-tuning, he could give this Wolves team a nice spark off the bench either at the end of this season or going into next season.


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California prepares to expand 3 prisons
SACRAMENTO - SACRAMENTO (AP) - The head of California's prison system said Wednesday that he will soon ask state legislators to approve expanding three prisons to hold an additional 2,800 inmates, adding to what already is the nation's largest state prison system.
The construction projects would be the first to draw money from a nearly $8 billion bond measure approved by lawmakers two years ago. The money has been stalled ever since by drafting problems that were corrected in the budget legislation that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law in February.
Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said he plans to seek approval within weeks to build cellblocks for about 900 inmates each at high-security Kern Valley and medium-security North Kern state prisons, both near Delano.
He also wants to convert a juvenile lockup near Paso Robles into a prison for 1,000 older men.
Adding cells is part of the state's response to a federal court finding that it must reduce prison overcrowding.
The $810 million Cate will seek from legislative budget committees would pay for those three expansions, plus building a re-entry center in Stockton for 500 inmates who are nearing the end of their prison terms. It would be the first of several planned regional re-entry centers to help inmates adjust in the months before they are paroled.
Actual construction of the four facilities will still depend on when the bond markets thaw, Cate said, because bonds to pay for construction can't be sold until then. Building the facilities would take about two years, he said.
Legislators approved $7.8 billion in revenue bonds in April 2007 to build more state prisons and county jails.
Cate also plans to soon ask legislators to approve expanding medium-security Wasco State Prison, though details are still being worked out, he said in an interview after his confirmation hearing.
The Senate Rules Committee plans to vote April 22 on whether to let Cate keep the job he has held for nearly a year. He needs approval by the full Senate by mid-May to continue to hold the post.
The proposed construction comes as a special panel of three federal judges is preparing a final order that could force the state to free about a third of its nearly 170,000 inmates. About 153,000 are in the state's 33 adult prisons, with the remainder in conservation camps, community correctional centers and private prisons in other states.
The judges tentatively ruled in February that severe crowding is causing unconstitutional conditions for physically and mentally ill inmates.
To that end, Cate said he is working with J. Clark Kelso, the federal court-appointed receiver who controls prison medical care, to see if some of the new cells Cate plans to build could be used for sick inmates.
Cate also is considering if some of the cells could be used for mentally ill inmates as part of a treatment plan due to be filed with another federal judge within 60 days.
"Let's maybe kill two birds with one stone," Cate said. "There are a number of options we are exploring."
Schwarzenegger's administration has argued it can use the $7.8 billion approved by legislators two years ago instead of approving up to $8 billion in additional borrowing sought by Kelso to improve inmate care.
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Merry Christmas
I hope everyone is enjoying a happy holiday season. I've been out in the Boston area since the weekend, visiting my in-laws, and so have been a little quiet here.
In the last couple days, we've had a couple of stories related to Oregon football. On Monday, Bob Clark looked at the disparity in penalty numbers between Kansas State and Oregon, and what that might mean in the Fiesta Bowl.
And today, we had our annual list of the biggest sports stories of the year, topped by Oregon's win in the Rose Bowl.
Tomorrow we'll have a look back at Oregon's last game in University of Phoenix Stadium, for the BCS title two years ago, and later in the day the Ducks are scheduled to arrive in Phoenix. I'll get down there Thursday, the day they hold their first closed practice, and the first media availability with the team is Friday, with a brief open session of practice and some interviews.


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March 1, 2012
On Female Desire
There is a fantastic teaser video over at The Hairpin with this description:
Writers/producers Victoria Floethe and Kate Rose recently flipped the switch on the Desire Project, "a website about what women want and how they get it." The site (currently in beta) features dozens of videos of women talking about desire — sexy desire, unsexy desire, one desire, two desire, red desire, blue desire. It's hot and hypnotic (and goofy and honest), which you can get a taste of in the charming teaser above.
It's well worth the click through. I'd embed it here but (sigh) the video doesn't give me the permission.
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It also reminds me of my friend's friend who thought it was called "Downtown Arby's."
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Thank you, Andrew.
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March 1st, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Reminds me of one of Eddie Murphy's stand-up schticks from years ago. Do you want someone to say I'm going to make love to you? Or do you want someone to grab the back of your neck and say I'm going to fuck the shit out of you?
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[…] It's worth clicking through for the interview and video — fascinating stuff. Unfortunately, it seems only The Hairpin has the permission to embed the video. I'd love to see someone do the male equivalent with this. I think it would be fascinating to see the differences between all the different types of men out there. [via clusterflock] […]


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By: Kristina Valiani
Posted: May 31, 2013, from the June 2013 issue of GCI Magazine.
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Retinoids are an important topic to discuss when it comes to skin care. "Retinoid" is a general term referring to a vast range of ingredients derived from vitamin A (retinol is the technical name for vitamin A). Topically applied, retinoids are significant for skin because they can positively affect the way cells are formed deep in the dermis. Retinol is a cosmetic ingredient and, when it is absorbed into skin, it can become the more active form of all-trans retinol. All-trans retinols, in descending order of potency in cosmetics, are retinol, retinyaldehyde, retinyl palmitate, retinyl propionate and retinyl acetate.
A misconception about retinoids is that they are exfoliants, which these ingredients are not. Exfoliants, such as AHAs, primarily affect the top layer of skin, improving its appearance and cell production. Retinoids affect the lower layers of skin in the dermis, where new skin cells are produced and are considered to be cell communicators, sending messages to other cells to develop normally instead of as genetically malformed skin cells.
Why do consumers get confused that retinoids are not exfoliants? Primarily, it's due to the fact that products containing many different percentages of retinoids can cause irritation and inflammation, resulting in flaky, dry skin. The flaking and dryness is not exfoliation, nor is it a desirable result. Retinoids can only be prescribed through a physician. Over-the-counter products use another form of vitamin A—retinol.
Peptides are relatively new up-and-coming ingredients for the skin care industry. The average consumer is consumed with a busy schedule and little time, and peptides are effective with few-to-no side effects compared to other beneficial anti-aging ingredients.
Peptides are short chains of amino acids, which are found in protein fragments, and are cell communicators that send signals to the dermal layers of the skin to perform specific functions. For example, the combination of palmitoyl oligopeptide and palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 is a popular peptide. It works to mimic the appearance of broken-down collagen, causing skin to react by producing more collagen, as well as elastin (responsible for the skin's elasticity) and hyaluronic acid (which plumps up the skin and gives it that healthy, full look).
Peptides also do more than build collagen in the skin—there are four different categories and all have functions to help reverse the signs of aging.
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- Signaling peptides help produce collagen.
- Neurotransmitter peptides help relax wrinkles.
- Enzyme-inhibitor peptides improve under-eye circles and hyperpigmentation.
The most important ingredient to prevent and reverse signs of aging is wearing a properly formulated SPF every day, rain or shine. A large percent of aging occurs from UVA and UVB rays produced from the largest free radical to the skin—the sun. Without protection from the sun's rays, just a few minutes of exposure each day over the years can cause noticeable changes to the skin. Freckles, age spots, spider veins, rough and leathery texture, fine wrinkles that disappear when stretched, loose skin, a blotchy complexion, actinic keratosis (thick wartlike, rough, reddish patches of skin) and skin cancer can all be traced back to sun exposure. With repeated exposure to the sun, the skin loses the ability to repair itself and the damage accumulates. Repeated UV exposure breaks down collagen and impairs the synthesis of new collagen. Sun-weakened skin also ceases to spring back the way skin protected from UV rays does. It becomes wrinkled and leathery much earlier, as well.
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I spent all day Thursday playing with my Sony Reader. And I do mean ALL DAY. If anyone else is thinking about buying one, here are some helpful hints:
- I have a ton of scholarly journal articles in PDF format that I wanted to read on the Sony Reader. It is possible to read them, but the font is a bit small. Sometimes the zoom function doesn't work well with PDFs since it basically reformats the flow of text, but you can also hold down the zoom button for 5 seconds, and it will change the orientation of the page to landscape, which makes the font slightly bigger (you will have to hold the Reader sideways, of course). I haven't had any problems reading my PDF files so far!
- I did have a problem with the metadata in PDFs though. When authors of PDFs save their files, sometimes they don't fill in the title and author fields in Properties. The Sony Reader uses this information to store the files (by title or by author). So if these fields are missing, or if these fields contain something else (the file's location, the file's actual name, etc.) it will majorly screw up the list of "books" on your Reader. And of course, unless you have the full version of Adobe, you cannot change this information. However, I found a program called BeCyPDFMetaEdit that does allow you to update the Metadata for PDF files. I have been able to change the titles and authors of all of my journal articles, except for two (because they were password-protected.)
- The actual Sony Reader format for books is LRF (also called BBeB book). You can use a program called Calibre to convert files to this format, but it didn't seem to work well for my PDF files, so I have just left them all as PDFs. Also, it will not convert image-based PDF files. Calibre is designed to be a "complete e-book library solution" so you may like it better than the eBook Library Software that comes with the Reader.
- If you want to make your own "books" for the Reader, it will also accept EPUB, TXT, RTF and unsecured DOC formats. The Word documents will be reformatted to RTF files for you during transfer, so you must have MS Word on your computer. Personally, I've just been using OpenOffice to create my own PDF files (with a font size of at least 24 so it can be easily read without having to zoom), but the text-based files obviously show up just as well.
- You can also play audio files with extensions of .mp3, .mp4, .m4a, .mov, and .qt (you must listen with headphones as there are no speakers). It is possible to read a book while listening to the mp3, so it may be useful for podcasts. You can also view pictures with extensions of .bmp, .gif, .jpg, or .png (in black & white, of course) and you have the option of turning on a slideshow.
- The internal memory is 210 MB, and you can also use PRODuo and SD memory cards if that's not enough space for you.
- There is no back light, so you must have another source of light (remember, it's just like a real book!)
- If you buy the Reader before March 31, you can download 100 free classics from the eBook Store for free. Granted, these books are all in the public domain and so they are free anyway (through Project Gutenberg), but they're already in the LRF format and specifically designed for the Sony Reader. There are 930 books to choose from, including a few political documents, such as the Constitution of the US and even the Patriot Act!
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While I do agree with you, you are wrong with that karate has been perfected under hundreds of years. With 5 years of training you should know that karate was founded about 1910 - 30 (I think it was 1932 or 1918). But while it was developed it borrowed a lot of martial arts techniques from already great arts of combat. Do your karate homework :D
its a sketch or how ever you write it. o(Ò-Ó)o
and when i say "do as you learnd" i don't mean fight combo 1,2,3... i mean the practiced theoretical. If sensei says that the punch starts with you, moving yourn belly, then he means it. Start with the belly, end with the punch. This will be more effective rather than you; in a full adrenalin charge, hurls your self with your entire right side + pluss your arm in hope of a power punch coused by your muscles.
yeah, its true... u guys dont know fart!
P.S. yeah, it was incredibly funny tho ^^
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Epiduo Review
Epiduo is a prescription acne treatment that comes in lotion or gel form. Epiduo states that acne is a medical condition that you need to treat with the aid of a doctor. If it were something like acne conglobata, we would be inclined to agree. But less than 1% of the population that suffers from acne suffers from severe acne. The large majority of the population suffers from acne vulgaris at one time or another in their lives. With acne-fighting treatments for acne vulgaris, you will find that many of the prescription ingredients are actually found in over-the-counter supplements as well. Does Epiduo have differentiating power to erase acne?
Ingredients In Product
Epiduo ingredients include benzoyl peroxide and adapalene.
Is Epiduo Effective?
Epiduo has two major ingredients that have been used in past acne treatments. However, these two ingredients have never been combined previously for a reason. Most professionals would not recommend combining benzoyl peroxide and adapalene. These ingredients are potentially irritating on their own, let alone blending the two. This multiplies the potential for possible negative side effects. With Epiduo, you are receiving 2.5% of benzoyl peroxide. Most acne-fighting treatments or prescriptions have at least 5% or even 10% benzoyl peroxide for optimal results.
What Are The Risks With Product?
Epiduo side effects include dryness, feeling of warmth, itching, mild peeling, redness, swelling of the skin, rash, hives, dizziness, difficulty breathing, tightness in the chest, swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue, excessive burning, and tenderness of skin.
Final Deduction
Epiduo is a prescription acne-fighting treatment, so results are inarguable. Epiduo will help you eliminate acne, but there are all-natural acne-fighting alternatives that can provide comparable results without running the risk of adverse effects.


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Alex is an artist and media maker with a keen interest in social justice and social change based in Alice Springs.
She has worked with Big hART since 2004 including as Creative Producer of the award winning Ngapartji Ngapartji project 2005-2010.
Alex has been on the board of a range of media, arts and political organisations (Arid Lands Environment Centre, RedHOT Arts, Engage Media), worked as a community liaison adviser to Senator Bob Brown, Leader of the Australian Greens in Canberra, and was crowned Miss Camel Cup 2008.
In 2008 Alex won the Australia Council for the Arts Kirk Robson award, for leadership in community engagement and cultural development, and was a YouthActionNet (Washington, USA) fellow. In 2010 she undertook an Australia Council residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.
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The Sparkliest Wii Ever
December 4, 2007 3 Comments
There is nothing more beautiful than glorious sunlight reflecting off brilliantly cut crystals causing mesmerizing patterns of light to dance around the room. Oh how I love anything and everything bling. And yes, if bling were a person I would marry it. In a heartbeat.
You can imagine how my heart skipped a beat when I first saw this eye catching blinged Nintendo Wii. Even though I am not a humongous Zelda fan, this dazzling Wii that is covered in (what appear to be gold and black) Swarovski crystals definitely got my attention.
Hey blinged Zelda Wii, how you doing?
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A number of people have asked about the implications of using plastic bags on the personal carbon footprint as well as on the environment in general. There are some comparisons between paper bags and plastic bags available which clearly show that it all depends on how many times these plastic or paper bags are being used.
Littering is probably the severest problem related to plastic bags. Nevertheless let's now have a look at the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for the production and incineration of plastic bags.
The carbon footprint of plastic (LDPE or PET, poyethylene) is about 6 kg CO2 per kg of plastic. If you know the weight of your plastic bags, you can multiply it with the number of plastic bag you are using per year. Then you can easily calculate the carbon dioxide emitted by your own usage of plastic bags. See below for some background information.
Of course you'll find different figures on the Internet. The main factors are the weight of the plastic bag and whether the grey energy (energy used for production and disposal) is taken into account.
Some interesting facts around plastics:
Source: Pusch, Thema Umwelt, 1/2009, p. 3
How does this compare to HDPE, if at all?
It doesn't.
It is important to understand that the base for any calculation is verified. The risk is otherwise that final fugures will have a spread which is total unrealistic. In the production of typical plastic HDPE carrier bags you will get 100.000 bags from 1 MT of material, thus the weight is likely to be around 10 g/bag. Using your value of 6kg CO2/kg plastics 1 kg CO2 then will correspond to approx 16 carrier bags in HDPE. This is a very realistic figure. If you may recycle the bags and use that material at least in a 50/50 mix recycled material and virgin material the CO2 figure would of course be improved a lot as well. In Europe this is now getting more and more common in addition to that you have to pay a so called green fee for the bags in the shops. In Scandinavia and Finland this has been going on for a long time keeping the bag consumption on a very steady level. You could do the same in US providing that you organise your system for collection. Greetings from "The Nordic Light"
Wow. You guys have the same web content as this site.
It's sad when people steal content.
Ours is the original content. I have no problem if someone else is using our content, however a link back is considered as normal behaviour. Maybe they just forgot to do that without bad intention...
To steal ideas from one person is plagarism. To steal from many is research. And even this I copied from some wise man!
Apparently no longer..... Page not found. Although personally, think spreading the 'green' word should be rather considered a favour, not so much a crime.
Just a little note to let you know that you have been mentioned in this article on bottled water
Keep up the good work !!
Interesting to see a comparison of CO2 emissions between a plastic & paper bag production. My guess is that a paper bag production is far more carbon intensive - even using recycled paper.
Your statistics are very useful but where did you get this information from?
Please read the original article on the top of this page about plastic bags and CO2 emissions and you will find it
Isn't it more useful to estimate the life cycle as production to landfill of a plastic bag vs. production to incineration? Or maybe I'm the only American reading this. ;)
Just a reminder that plastic production comes from the feedstock of processing crude oil. Plastics come from the "waste" of producing gasoline. We need to use less gasoline to produce less plastic. For every bag that gets recycled, there are 5 brand new plastic bags being produced. REDUCE REDUCE REDUCE. Don't forget your reusable bag. :)
Very interesting, but what about the transportation of plastic bags from Malaysia and China.
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could someone please convert for me the estimated atmospheric carbon from 48 million plastic bottles? This is average for bottles thrown out every day in the US.
Laura in central US
So can I say that non-biodegradable plastics emit CO2 as well? Just clarifying.
Does this apply to PET empty plastic water bottles? And is the 6 kg of CO2 produced kg/cubic meters? Or kg/cubic feet?


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Helium Valve Diver
for the deep depths of oceanic atmospheres, the Tauchmeister Helium Valve Diver works well under pressure. Marine-grade stainless steel casing
and a durable polyurethane rubber strap keeps the elements at bay. This is a traditional watch for the SCUBA Diver in all of us. Like Frosty Hesson says, "We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea. Those of us who
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
I knew an older woman who was really going through a tough time in her life. She had nowhere to live, no money, no job, and 2 prior crime convictions. Hungry and desperate, she went into Wal-Mart and stole a Little Debbie cake. When she was caught and convicted of the crime she received a life sentence because it was her 3rd strike.
The Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013, House Bill 1695, in the House of Representatives has been introduced in the Senate by Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Pat Leahy (D-VT). The Valve Act will directly have a huge impact on the prison population. I ask that you write to your congressman and support this act. Let me give you some background on Mandatory minimum sentencing.
Mandatory minimum sentencing laws set minimum sentences for certain crimes that judges cannot lower, even for extenuating circumstances. The most common of these laws deal with drug offenses and set mandatory minimum sentences for possession of a drug over a certain amount.
How Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Generally Works
As a general rule, a sentencing judge decides your punishment shortly after you plead guilty or are found guilty at trial. Punishments are intended to be proportional to the crime, so state and federal sentencing guidelines suggest a range of sentences appropriate for various types of crimes. Judges need not adhere strictly to these guidelines, but can consider any mitigating or aggravating circumstances related to your specific crime, such as:
•Whether you were the principal offender or just an accessory
•Whether you hurt someone or actively tried to avoid hurting anyone
•Your mental state at the time of the crime
Your final sentence may be within the suggested range but could also be shorter or longer, at the judge's discretion.
How Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws Affect Your Sentence
When your crime is subject to a mandatory minimum sentencing law, the judge has much less discretion in setting your punishment. If you plead guilty or are found guilty at trial, you will get at least the minimum sentence set by law. The judge is not permitted to impose a shorter sentence. Even if there are facts that would normally provide a reason for leniency, the judge must ignore those factors. On the other hand, the judge may often consider aggravating factors and impose a harsher sentence than the minimum.
The most common examples of mandatory minimum sentencing are the federal drug laws for possession of certain amounts of illegal drugs. For example, getting caught with one gram of LSD or 100 grams of heroin means you will spend at least five years in prison.
Three-Strike Laws
Three-strike laws are another form of mandatory minimum sentencing. Under these laws, you will face a specific minimum sentence if you are convicted of a third felony. This could be life in prison without parole if your third felony, and at least one previous felony, were violent crimes. Many states have similar laws, although the penalties may differ.
There Must Be Change
Under pressure from sentencing reform advocates, as well as civil rights activists, Congress modified its strict mandatory minimum drug sentencing regime years ago to create a "safety valve" allowing some — but not all — drug offenders to avoid harsh mandatory minimum sentences. The 2013 Justice Safety Valve Act would expand the safety valve to apply to all federal crimes involving mandatory minimums.
These Laws have a racially discriminatory impact, studies conclude that they waste the taxpayer's money, and they often violate common sense. As a result, nonviolent offenders are sometimes given excessive sentences. The necessity to changing this is to treat drug misuse as a health issue and stop relying on the criminal justice system to deal with the problem.
The strategy, however, calls for the expansion of drug courts, which continue to treat drug users in the criminal justice system, where punishment is often the response to addiction-related behaviors such as positive urine screens or missed appointments.
It is time to stop arresting people for drug use; drug use is not being treated as a health issue. I know of no other health issue in which people are thrown in jail if they don't get better.
Advocates say simply expanding public health interventions is not enough given that this Administration's drug policies remain focused on punitive approaches – including arresting more than 750,000 Americans annually for low-level marijuana possession and refusing to recognize the medical value of marijuana.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medical use. Sixteen states have decriminalized marijuana, and voters in two states – Washington and Colorado – recently decided to regulate marijuana like alcohol.


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Three People Dead In St. Paul Shooting
July 18, 2010 6:18 AM
It's now a triple homicide in St. Paul. A third victim died Saturday from gunshot wounds at a home in the Highland Park neighborhood. 55 year old Patrick McHugh is being held by police. He lived with his mother at the residence where the shootings took place on the 18 hundred block of Munster Avenue. Neighbors say it could have been a dispute over the home of the suspect's mother. The 80 year old mother had fallen ill and there may have been talk about selling her home. McHugh may have become worried about where he was going to live. Two women were dead at the scene and a man died Saturday. Another woman remains hospitalized.


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YIELD: Serves 4
- 1 12-ounce package frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed, drained
- 3 tablespoons plus 1/4 cup sugar
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/3 cup milk (do not use low-fat or nonfat)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
- 1 3/4 cups whipping cream
- 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 2 tablespoons Frangelico (hazelnut liqueur; optional)
Place raspberries in small bowl. Crush lightly with back of spoon. Stir in 3 tablespoons sugar. Set sauce aside.
Spray four 3/4-cup custard cups with vegetable oil spray. Pour 1 tablespoon milk into small bowl. Sprinkle gelatin over and let stand until softened, about 10 minutes.
Combine cream, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/3 cup milk in heavy medium saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring often. Remove from heat. Add gelatin mixture and stir until melted. Strain mixture into large glass measuring cup. Stir in Frangelico, if desired. Chill until cold, about 2 hours. Pour into custard cups, cover and chill overnight.
Run small sharp knife around sides of cups to loosen custards. Invert custards onto plates. Serve with sauce.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories481
- Carbohydrates37 g (12%)
- Fat36 g (56%)
- Protein5 g (10%)
- Saturated Fat21 g (104%)
- Sodium48 mg (2%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber6 g (24%)
- Monounsaturated Fat12 g
- Cholesterol118 mg (39%)