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Participant[quote=SK in CV]
I don’t think there is any evidence that it happened that way. Zimmerman didn’t simply get out of his car, he followed him. Who threw the first punch, nobody knows except Zimmerman and a dead kid. But Zimmerman never got a beat down, at least not the way his attorney would have you believe. Martin may have been on top, but Zimmerman’s head never got beat into the pavement. [/quote]Neighbor Good testimony
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O’Mara: Just to clarify what was actually talked about with Chris Serino, Investigator Serino, during this, we’re going to call it for the moment the Ground-and-Pound conversation. We have a rule called completeness, so what I want to do is put it in context for you, ask you if this is what you said to Chris Serino. OK?“Yeah I pretty much heard somebody yelling outside. I wasn’t sure if it was, you know, a fight or something going wrong. So I opened my blinds and I see kind of like a person out there. I didn’t know if it was a dog attack or something. So I open my door. It was a black man with a black hoodie on top of the other, either a white guy or now I found out I think it was a Hispanic guy with a red sweatshirt on the ground yelling out help! And I tried to tell them, get out of here, you know, stop or whatever, and then one guy on top in the black hoodie was pretty much just throwing down blows on the guy kind of MMA-style.”
Is that the context in which that happened?
Good: Yes.
O’Mara: And then Investigator Serino said, a word that I have, and the transcripts may differ, ground, couldn’t figure it, maybe he said Ground-and-Pound, and then you said:
“Yeah, like a Ground-and-Pound on the concrete at this point, so at this point I told him I’m calling 911.”
BDLR: Objection. Improper bolstering.
O’Mara: I’m at the end of it. Is that–
Judge: There’s an objection and the objection is . . .
BDLR: Hearsay and improper bolstering
O’Mara: I would suggest that rule 108, which is the rule of completeness, suggests that because they brought in part of it . . . and iI’m speaking, I apologize.
Judge: The objection as to hearsay is overruled. Bolstering is not the right objection either, so that’s OK.
BDLR: Beyond the scope of cross-examination to that point
Judge: I overrule on that objection, also, so go ahead.
O’Mara: That’s what you said.Good: The whole thing, yes[/quote]
The main issue isn’t how badly you’ve been injured. The real issue is how badly the next good solid punch could injure you when you’re on the ground on concrete.
ParticipantThis case is tragedy, the media coverage has been abysmal, biased and race baiting. The counters to that play right back with other racial stereotypes and hyperbole.
The disinformation from both sides is appalling and the talking heads are running rampant with opinions that aren’t even close the the facts presented in the case.
The reaction going on is what the media has been stoking for a year starting with NBC editing the 911 call tapes.
Take a look at Zimmerman’s 911 call
A 17 old kid is dead. Zimmerman realized he was a kid when Trayvon ran and Zimmerman then got out of the car. Zimmerman literally says he was a kid when Trayvon approached the vehicle Zimmerman was in. Zimmerman then said “Ok” when the 911 dispatcher told him he didn’t need to follow Trayvon. Zimmerman and the Dispatcher than proceeded to have a discussion where Zimmerman provided his name, location and phone and made a plan to meet the officersSome time after that the altercation happened. How? Only two people know. One is dead. But as the one witness neighbor reported, the one wearing the hoodie was on top of the other on the ground doing a ground and pound style fight.
The alternatives here aren’t good. There’s a bunch of things both of them shouldn’t have done. But expecting people to turn a blind eye to people walking around in the rain and dark in their neighborhood during a rash of burglaries is unrealistic.
It’s unrealistic to think they should be free shoot someone down too.
As it’s unrealistic to think getting out of your car to ask someone what they’re doing at night in your neighborhood is going to get you a ground and pound beat down.
So this is a sh*t ball they both made. Trayvon was a 17 year old kid, they don’t always have the best judgement. Zimmerman was a full adult. So unless it really went down the way Zimmerman says, IMHO, Zimmerman is ultimately responsible.
ParticipantPersonally, I prefer wildcat Greenland mining claims.
http://www.bmp.gl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81&Itemid=100034
ParticipantThat’s basically the same issue in the Hawthorne dog killing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0703-dog-killed-20130703,0,4135515.story
Participant[quote=CA renter]From what I’ve seen, kids absolutely love camping, especially when they’re younger (and don’t “need” blow dryers, bathrooms with hot water and electrical outlets, etc.). Take them camping. You’ll make awesome memories together, and it’s one of the cheapest vacations you can take as a family. Have fun! :)[/quote]
Yea, CAR is right. From 1 to 5 I have to imagine that they would absolutely love exploring the coast, redwoods and rainforest like coastal forests.
A portable DVD or backseat entertainment center is your bud, pop in a Pixar movie and you have 1.5 hour straight shot with no interruptions.
ParticipantHow old is small?
ParticipantLooks like United Health is also bailing on the individual insurance market. Pretty amazing to think they only had 8000 individual plan members.
United Health to exit Individual California Insurance Market
Wow, quite a bit of real info in that article. Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Kaiser have 87% of the individual market in California. Aetna had 5% and United, had 2%.
[quote]Outside California, UnitedHealth said it expects to participate in about a dozen exchanges across the country for individuals or small-business customers.
“We continue to evaluate opportunities and make decisions regarding exchanges on a state-by-state basis,” said company spokeswoman Cheryl Randolph.
California has been more aggressive than other states in forcing insurers in the exchange to compete more directly on price by establishing uniform deductibles and benefits across four main product categories. In response, many insurers have squeezed hospitals and physician groups for better rates and formed smaller networks of medical providers to hold down premiums.[/quote]
So in a nutshell, they don’t want to play where people can compare apples to apples.
ParticipantWho installed your roof and how old is it? I’ve seen a lot of the long term roofing companies have standing agreements with the solar installers to handle the panel mounting portion of the work. Call them.
Maintenance is trivial, a once a year check of the system ($200), make sure the connections are all tight, check the ground circuit, interrupt circuit, inverter, etc. Plus a cleaning of the panels.
The only real drawback is breakeven is about ten years. Otherwise, IMHO, really a no brainer given our climate and sunny day level. I’m frankly amazed new home development plans don’t have to include them and orient the home lots to maximize the benefit before getting city/county approval.
July 1, 2013 at 8:26 PM in reply to: Calif. utility to retire troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant #763296Participant[quote=spdrun]I have cups that are easily 10-20 years old.
Face it — the sooner we euthanize the fossil fuel industry (coal, oil, natural gas) the better it will be for the country. However, I’m not discounting nuke power. In fact, I’d support the construction of 10 new nuke plants per annum, even if it’s directly in my back yard.[/quote]
LOL, yea, I break one or more a year I still have cups that are 10+ years old. I’ve just bought probably millennium of paper cups so far though.
Snark aside, the sooner we get real but the real “costs” of the alternatives, we can actually use the best solutions.
Right now, we seem to chronically lie about the ‘goodness’ of ‘green’ energy (there’s a reason most are getting built in China) and the ‘cheapness’ of fossil fuels.
July 1, 2013 at 3:22 PM in reply to: Calif. utility to retire troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant #763293Participant[quote=spdrun]ROI is also more than short-term monetary savings. Gaia’s health counts for something.[/quote]
You mean like total lifecycle costs that show a ceramic/stoneware coffee mug has a breakeven of ten years daily reuse to create less environmental impact than a paper disposable cup?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Spd, it’s not a company tracking employees. They are tracking customers and they could use that information for profit. [/quote]
People will eventually figure out all those little hook-up apps, deal apps, twitter, flitter, schmuckbook all have a really big privacy downside.
Now please report for your humancentipad fitting.
Participant[quote]
Among the Justice Department’s findings, according to the statement:• African Americans, and to a lesser extent Latinos, are more likely to be stopped and/or searched than whites, even when controlling for factors other than race, such as crime rates;
• The widespread use of unlawful backseat detentions violating the 4th Amendment and L.A. County Sheriff’s Department policy;
• A pattern of unreasonable force, including a pattern of the use of force against handcuffed individuals;
• A pattern of intimidation and harassment of African American housing choice voucher holders by sheriff’s deputies;
• Inadequate implementation of accountability measures to intervene on unconstitutional conduct has allowed these problems to occur.
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ParticipantCardiff sorry to hear it, I hope for you family she gets to enjoy graduation.
I think some of the bigger insurance groups, like Blue Shield will survive, they’ve got very good actuarial processes to estimate what they’re getting. Kaiser priced themselves out of playing, but that was intentional, whether it’s a cynical we don’t want the first year cost or a realistic knowledge of the capacity of their network or both is TBD.
Me personally, I think some of the smaller ones (and many winners of the covered plans are smaller), may find themselves swamped, they’re really looking at explosive growth. The big opportunity and big risk.
You’re in a tough spot, really needing stability and flexibility.
Unfortunately, starting this year, for those under 65, the medical deduction moves up to 10% of AGI.
ParticipantBG, once again, a wall of words.
Aetna in the private plan realm was a bit player they barely had 5% market share. In corporate plans, they’re huge. They’re still here in corporate plans.
I myself pay more to carry a PPO, because I want the choices too. What you’re seeing is just how expensive those choices are going to be. And keep just hoping your 1 in 3 number doesn’t come up.
Luckily, ACA will protect you from realizing what that really would have meant.
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