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Step-by-step procedures
-- Diagnosis
-- Engine removal and installation
-- Fully illustrated with over 300 photos
-- Parts interchange
-- Performance and economy modifications
-- Cylinder head servicing
-- Engine Identification
-- Tools and equipment
-- Machine shop repairs
-- Tips from the pros
With Haynes Online Manuals, you get all the trusted content of a Haynes printed manual but with added features to help you get the job done right. Haynes takes repair information into the digital age with Manuals Online and the new electronic format allows these benefits for you:
-- All-color photographs with approximately 750 in each book! There are so many photos that a user can carry out a large number of procedures by simply viewing the photos and reading the captions.
-- Ability to enlarge a photograph to see key details.
-- All-color wiring diagrams to more easily trace down problems!
-- Videos that give the highlights of common DIY jobs to show you the way.
-- Easy search functionality that features "instant display".
-- Dictionary of auto-specific terms so you will never be left in doubt.
-- Hyperlinks provide instant connection to additional information in other manual chapters.
-- "Quick Links" are provided to take the user to the most popular DIY procedures.
-- On common procedures, "Part needed" links are provided to allow a user to quickly find and purchase the part(s) needed to complete the job.
-- Detailed troubleshooting section that allows the user to click through from system to symptom to cause of a particular problem.
-- Conversion Calculator is a useful provided tool that will do your math conversions for you (e.g. Torque Pounds-force inches into Pounds-force feet)
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Tools and equipment
Chapter 3: Diagnosing engine problems
Chapter 4: Preparing for an overhaul
Chapter 5: Overhauling the cylinder heads
Chapter 6: Overhauling the engine block
Chapter 7: Reassembling and installing the engine
Chapter 8: Related repairs
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge who has presided over most of the litigation stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make aviation companies pay billions of dollars in damages.
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said he will announce his decision immediately after hearing several witnesses and listening to arguments in a nonjury trial starting Monday and expected to last three days.
The trial will decide whether World Trade Center Properties and its affiliates can receive more than the $4.9 billion in insurance proceeds they have already recovered since the Sept. 11 attacks by terrorists who hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the 110-story twin towers. The attacks led to the destruction of the towers as well as a third trade center building.
If the judge should decide that the World Trade Center owners were entitled to additional money, a liability trial might occur. The defendants include American Airlines Inc., AMR Corp., United Airlines Inc., US Airways Inc., Colgan Air Inc., Boeing Co. and the Massachusetts Port Authority, among others.
The airlines and other aviation-related companies were sued with the reasoning that they were negligent, allowing terrorists to board airplanes and overtake their crews before plunging the planes into the trade center complex, destroying three buildings.
Hellerstein has already said the maximum the trade center owners could recover from aviation defendants would be $3.5 billion. The trade center owners say it has cost more than $7 billion to replace the twin towers and more than $1 billion to replace the third trade center building that fell.
In court papers, both sides have accused the other of unfairly characterizing their claims, with the aviation defendants saying the trade center owners were being "absurd" and the complex's owners labeling some of the aviation defendants' arguments as "nonsense."
The aviation defendants say Hellerstein should conclude that the trade center owners are entitled to no award because they've already been reimbursed by insurance companies for the same damage they are trying to force aviation defendants to pay for as well. They also note that the replacement buildings are more modern and fancy than the original buildings.
Of the 7 World Trade Center building — the first to be rebuilt after the attacks — the lawyers wrote that the trade center owners "built a new, state of the art 'green' building that bears little resemblance to the office building that collapsed as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."
They said they plan to call only two witnesses: an expert on law and economics and an expert in the adjustment of insurance claims. Additional evidence they will introduce will include leases, insurance policies, proof of loss, communications between trade center leaseholders and their insurers, and financial statements.
In their court papers, the trade center's owners insist that recovering money from aviation defendants would not result in a "double recovery" because of the billions they've already received from insurers. And they note that their rebuilding costs "far exceed" what they've received from insurers.

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text: Hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic disorders in the U.S. It is a metabolic disorder that causes increased absorption of iron from the digestive tract. The iron is deposited in the body tissues and organs. Over time, the iron accumulates in the body where it may become toxic and cause damage. Excess iron in the heart, liver, pancreas, and pituitary causes the more severe complications of hereditary hemochromatosis. Other forms of hemochromatosis include: Juvenile hemochromatosis: affects adolescents and young adults ages 15 to 30. This form leads to a severe overload of iron, which can cause heart and liver disease. Neonatal hemochromatosis: iron builds up quickly in an infant's liver and can cause severe organ damage Transfusion related hemochromatosis: result of iron overload causes by many blood transfusions in patients with disorders that cause them to not make enough red blood cells What Causes Hemochromatosis? Hemochromatosis is a genetic disease, often most prevalent among people who are white. Genetic means that hemochromatosis is inherited. A person will be born with hemochromatosis if two hemochromatosis genes are inherited--one from the mother and one from the father. A person who has only one hemochromatosis gene is healthy and said to be a carrier of the gene. A carrier has an increased chance to have a child with hemochromatosis. This type of inheritance is called autosomal recessive. Autosomal means that the gene is on one of the first 22 pairs of chromosomes, and not on the X or Y chromosome. Therefore, males and females are equally affected by the disease. Recessive means that two copies of the gene, one inherited from each parent, are necessary to have the condition. Once parents have had a child with hemochromatosis, there is a one in four, or 25 percent, chance with each future pregnancy for another child to be born with hemochromatosis. This means that there is a three out of four, or 75 percent, chance for another child to not have hemochromatosis. First-degree relatives of people with known hemochromatosis should undergo screening for the disorder. According to the CDC, more than 1 million people in the U.S. have the gene mutation that can cause hemochromatosis. Although hemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive disorder (which usually means men and women are equally affected), iron overload from hereditary hemochromatosis is more common in men than women. The age of onset is also earlier in males than females. The reasons for these differences are thought to be because of the protective effect of iron loss through menses (menstruation) in females. In other words, females do not build up iron as quickly over time. What are the Symptoms of Hemochromatosis? The following are the most common symptoms of hemochromatosis. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include: lethargy and weakness irritability depression joint pain bronze or yellowish skin color loss of body hair impotence in men amenorrhea in women infection Untreated or severe hemochromatosis may lead to the following: liver function abnormalities and enlargement abnormal heart rhythm heart failure enlarged spleen diabetes They symptoms of hemochromatosis may resemble other medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis. How is Hemochromatosis Diagnosed? Hemochromatosis is usually discovered during a medical examination through a routine blood test. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for hemochromatosis may include the following: iron level: people with hemochomatosis have higher levels of iron in their blood Transferrin Saturation Test (TS): a rion study (blood test) that measures the percentage of transferrin and other mobile, iron-binding proteins saturated with iron ferritin levels: ferritin, a protein in the blood, increases when iron levels are also high liver biopsy: a procedure performed to remove tissue or cells from the liver for examination under a microscope and to weigh the iron in the liver genetic testing: a blood test that looks for the mutations that cause hereditary hemochromatosis Treatment for Hemochromatosis Specific treatment for hemochromatosis will be determined by your doctor based on: age, overall health, & medical history extent of the disease tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies Treatment may include: periodic phlebotomy: a procedure that involves removing blood from the body chelationtherapy: treatment with a drug that tightly binds and removes iron from the body avoiding iron and vitamin C supplements avoiding excessive alcohol intake If hereditary hemochromatosis is discovered and iron stores returned to normal before damage to organs occurs, patients with it will live a normal lifespan.


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is a complex condition involving inflammation of one or more joints. Arthritis is derived from the Greek word "arthro", meaning "joint", and "itis", meaning inflammation. There are many causes of arthritis in pets. In most cases, the arthritis is a progressive degenerative disease that worsens with age.
What causes arthritis?
Arthritis can be classified as primary arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis or secondary arthritis which occurs as a result of joint instability.
Secondary arthritis is the most common form diagnosed in veterinary patients. The most common type of secondary arthritis is osteoarthritis (OA) which is also known as degenerative joint disease (DJD). Some common causes of secondary arthritis include obesity, hip dysplasia, cranial cruciate ligament rupture, and so forth. Other causes include joint infection, often as the result of bites (septic arthritis), or traumatic injury such as a car accident.
Infective or septic arthritis can be caused by a variety of microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi. Septic arthritis normally only affects a single joint and the condition results in swelling, fever, heat and pain in the joint. With septic arthritis, your pet is likely to stop eating and become depressed.
Rheumatoid arthritis
is an immune mediated, erosive, inflammatory condition. Cartilage and bone are eroded within affected joints and the condition can progress to complete joint fixation (ankylosis). It may affect single joints or multiple joints may be involved (polyarthritis). In certain dog breeds Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) factors can be detected with blood tests. Other types of immune mediated arthritis can be non-erosive, such as arthritis that is associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE). SLE is often accompanied by other clinical signs in addition to the arthritis.
How do we treat arthritis?
Treatment will depend on the cause of arthritis. Immune mediated and rheumatoid arthritis are usually treated with high doses of corticosteroids, often with dramatic improvement. The control of these conditions often involves the long-term use of corticosteroids and other drugs such as immunosuppressive or cytotoxic agents.
The treatment of septic arthritis involves determining the type of microorganism involved and its antibiotic sensitivity. Antibiotics are usually administered for a minimum of a month and analgesics (pain relief medications) are necessary to combat pain and inflammation.
Analgesics such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most common form of treatment for osteoarthritis. It is important to select these medications with care since some dogs are more sensitive than others to the potential side-effects of analgesics. The most common side-effects of analgesics include decreased appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. Pre-medication blood tests must be performed to make sure that the pet can safely metabolize and eliminate the medication and then periodic blood tests are necessary to ensure continued safe usage.
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements, DHA and EPA, have been proven in humans to help with the discomfort of osteoarthritis. Nutraceuticals such as glucosamine and/or chondroitin, are also helpful in many cases. Talk with your veterinarian about these safe and simple to administer nutritional supplements and whether your pet could benefit from their use. Combining omega-3 fatty acids with glucosamine-chondroitin sulfate and NSAID therapy will help the majority of patients suffering from OA.
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A woman who nearly fainted, briefly interrupting President Obama as he spoke at the White House on Monday, says she's "OK ... just a little lightheaded."
Karmel Allison, who is pregnant and reportedly has Type 1 diabetes, stood behind the president as he spoke about problems with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
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Time: here today, gone tomorrow. Trying to hold onto it is like trying to grasp sand in our fists, it creeps through our fingers leaving only traces of what was … once upon a time. But time creates memories allowing us to delve into moving emotions, sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet. While I cannot hold onto time, I can keep the cherished memories and thrive on the feelings time creates.
May has only just started and already it has brought along a few wonderful moments that will be a part of me and my thoughts for ever. And it promises to get even better … don't they say time flies when you are having fun?
Last weekend I spent in Berlin with Jeanne, a weekend we had planned back in November within 5 minutes of me sending her an email and we waited 6 months for it to come around. What seemed to take forever to arrive finally did and was over in a heartbeat. But the fun, the laughs, the talks, the experience we shared that weekend will be a part of us forever. Time cannot take it away.
I am packing my bags again, crossing the Channel to England tomorrow. Plate to Page Somerset kicks off this week. We've been working on this for months. Days of fretting, planning, registrations, cancellations, more fretting and anticipation but here it is and as always I am excited and slightly nervous. Excited to be seeing sisters, old school friends and to meet a group of new participants. Nervous, hoping that all will proceed smoothly. Presentations have been altered, programmes finalized and sponsors all ready and raring to go. We hope to be offering the "Best of Britain" this weekend to a group of participants arriving from all over Europe and once again I know we'll be creating awesome memories.
It has been a packed few weeks with many highlights dotted throughout. There have been a few new photo jobs that I am enjoying immensely and I feel like things are on a nice smooth roll.
As time rolls on I am headed towards a another milestone in my life soon - but that is in June! Let's enjoy May while it is here. It brings along fresh produce, delicate rhubarb and juicy strawberries, sweet, ripe and tangy. The market has filled up with colorful and irresistible produce, making me want to cook, bake and create new dishes with them all.
One of my favorite desserts has always been Tiramisu and while I love the classic version with the flavors of amaretto, espresso and chocolate best, the change of seasons bring on cravings of different flavor combinations. For this tiramisu I paired rhubarb, poaching them in a light syrup with fresh ripe strawberry slices and a coulis for an intensive fruity combination.
The results; a light and harmonious blend of luscious mascarpone cream layered with poached rhubarb, fresh strawberries and a velvety coulis.
Printable version of recipe here
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes + 4 hours in fridge
Serves: approx. 6
- 300g fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 18-20 Savoiardi biscuits
- 600g rhubarb, trimmed and cut into 3cm chunks
- 200 ml orange juice
- 75g sugar
- 200 ml strawberry coulis, see recipe below
- 250 ml heavy cream
- 250g mascarpone
- 4 egg yolks
- 50g sugar
- 50g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 500g fresh strawberries, hulled
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Make the coulis by pureeing the 500g strawberries in a food processor. Add sugar a little at a time, then stir in the lemon juice.
- Make the poached rhubarb. Put the orange juice and sugar in a wide, shallow pan. Simmer, stirring, for 10 minutes until syrupy. Add the rhubarb, then reduce the heat to low. Cover with a lid and poach for about 5 minutes until the rhubarb is tender. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.
- Dip the Savoiardi biscuits in the strawberry coulis and place evenly on the bottom of a form (or divide amongst 6 small individual dessert bowls).
- In a clean bowl, beat together sugar and egg yolks until thick, creamy and pale. Add the mascarpone and incorporate into the mixture.
- Whip cream to soft peaks, then gently fold into the mascarpone-egg mixture. Pour half of the cream over the biscuits in the form, then spoon the poached rhubarb over the cream and spread with strawberry slices. Finally spread the remaining cream over the fruit. Place in the refrigerator to set for 4 hours (or overnight).
- Serve the strawberry rhubarb tiramisu with a good sprinkling of chopped chocolate.
I do wish I could have my 72 hour day, I perpetually lament about as I would love to achieve more and get more done in a day. My little space here sometimes needs to sit on the backburner when time is tight. Good to know you are patient with me. So, I treat you with this sweet classic dessert while I leave you again for a few days. I will return with more stories, tales and good times.
The tiramisu is rather exceptional as it bursts with flavors of Spring. Tangy, sweet and velvety smooth, each spoonful is a delight. Hope you enjoy!
It took me sometime but I have finally joined up with Instagram and am now wondering what too me so long! I've always been a very visual person and often carry my camera with me during the week taking pictures of my world around me. However, it used to get tedious to have my DSLR packed in the bag all the time. With my new smartphone I am able to capture snapshots of things that move, stimulate, inspire and motivate me. Instagram allows me to share these images with friends and readers instantly. I love it!. My gallery can be viewed over at the Statigram portfolio and I share these images daily on my Facebook profile and fanpage and on Twitter.
I will leave you with a few snapshots I have taken over the past few weeks:
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It has not been a good couple weeks for Apple and Safari. First Opera knocked it from its position as sole 100 percent compatible Acid3 browser. Then it tried to force iTunes users to unintentionally download the browser as part of an iTunes update, which included a pre-checked install option for Safari. The move was met with broad criticism, including from Mozilla's CEO, who commented that Apple was bordering "on malware distribution practices." Finally, Safari users who updated to v3.1 reported many bugs and crashes.
Now the browser, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs once called the "most innovative browser in the world and the most powerful browser in the world", has had more bad news. At the CanSecWest Show, an annual security conference, it was found that the Safari browser was surprisingly insecure, allowing successful attacks on Mac computers.
CanSecWest sponsors an annual hacking contest, which seeks to recognize vulnerabilities and give a comparative analysis of OS security. A Mac, Vista machine, and Ubuntu box survived the first round, which only allowed pre-authentication attacks – a successful attack would have yielded a $20,000 prize. However, on the second day, the flood gates were opened and hackers were allowed to use default-installed client applications.
The Mac fell within minutes, hijacked by security researcher Charlie Miller. Miller compromised the computer through security flaws in the new Safari 3.1 browser, which he declined to make public. For his takeover via the new vulnerability, Miller netted a sweet prize of $10,000. Surprisingly, the hackers were unable to gain control of the Vista or Ubuntu machines that day.
On the third day, hackers were allowed to exploit popular third-party applications. Hackers found the Vista machine surprisingly hard to crack in what they thought would be an "easy pickings" day. The improved security is likely owing largely to SP1, perhaps because of NX support for heap memory. In the end it was taken down by a cross-platform Flash Player attack. The Ubuntu machine survived the day.
Some point that the Mac and others may be even more vulnerable than the show indicates as some have noted that a pre-authentication vulnerability might command a price of $50,000 or more elsewhere, making an exploit at the show unprofitable. According to eWeek's security analysts, "Safari is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability because it fails to adequately handle regular expressions with large, nested repetition counts. Inaccurate compilation lengths are calculated, and an overflow results."
Miller didn't even have to use new vulnerabilities also known for Safari. The first is a simple overflow attack using zip files. The second attack allows injection of content in a window belonging to a trusted site.
A recent independent analysis confirmed that Apple patches its vulnerabilities slower than Microsoft. The analysis followed a controversial Microsoft report by Jeff Jones, known for trashing Firefox for its bugs. The report indicated that 36 vulnerabilities in Vista were fixed over a total of nine patching events, and 30 unpatched vulnerabilities remained, while a total of 116 vulnerabilities were fixed in OS X over 17 patching events, with 41 unpatched vulnerabilities.
Apple's patches last year indicated Apple's slower than acceptable patching pace. It included patches for four vulnerabilities known since 2006 and two known since 2005. The oldest of these, a vulnerability in Apache, had a fix released by Apache in 2005.
Security experts point out that despite Apple's poor security, its machines remain less attacked than Windows machines. Many believe this is simply a matter of market share. With Mac sales on the rise, there may soon be a large increase in Apple-targeted malware and takeovers with the Safari browsing taking the brunt of the attacks.


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Elvis Presley fan Jill Gibson lights candles outside Graceland, Presley's home, before the annual candlelight vigil on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. Presley fans from around the world made their annual pilgrimage to Graceland to pay their respects to the rock n' roll icon with a solemn candlelight vigil on the 36th anniversary of his death. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Nikki Boertman)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elvis Presley fans from around the world made their annual pilgrimage to Graceland on Thursday to pay their respects to the rock n' roll icon with a solemn candlelight vigil on the 36th anniversary of his death.
Thousands of Presley fans carried lit candles as they walked silently through the Mediation Garden at Graceland, Presley's longtime Memphis home. The garden is the location of Presley's grave and also is the spot where his mother, father and grandmother are buried.
Wreaths of flowers and pictures of Presley encircled the grave, while shadows cast by the glowing candles danced along the stone wall surrounding the garden. Soft music played in the mild night, as some in the procession bowed their heads or cried quietly.
Each year, fans of Presley's music and movies come to Memphis for Elvis Week, the weeklong celebration of his life and career. Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, of a heart attack after battling prescription drug abuse.
The vigil is the highlight of Elvis Week, which this year featured a listening party at Stax Records for the recent release of the three-CD box set "Elvis at Stax." Performances by Presley tribute artists and a screening of the "Aloha from Hawaii" television program from January 1973 are other featured events of the weeklong reunion, which wraps up Saturday.
Police estimated 35,000 people would attend the vigil. Last year, an estimated 75,000 people descended on Graceland for the event. Elvis' ex-wife Priscilla Presley and his daughter Lisa Marie Presley spoke at last year's event, the first time they appeared together at the vigil since it began.
Christine Jeffords made her fifth trip to Graceland with her husband Jon and three other members of a fan club called the Elvis Midwest Mafia, whose members are from Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. They wore red T-shirts with Presley's image emblazoned on a king of hearts playing card on the front.
The back of their shirts had a quote that gives one reason why fans have made repeated trips to Memphis for Elvis Week and the vigil: "If you have a friend who is an Elvis fan, you have a friend for life."
"Where else can you go where you meet people from year to year who have the same passion?" said Christine Jeffords, a pre-school teacher from Hartford, Wis.
Jeffords, 52, smiles when she talks about buying her first Presley 45, "Let Yourself Go," which she bought as a young teen with money she had saved from babysitting jobs. She said the vigil is a way to remember not only his career, but also his giving personality and ability to make people happy with his music.
"If you were sad or happy or whatever, he was such a big part of your life," Jeffords said. "I always felt in my heart that he was a good person, a beautiful person."
The vigil started as an informal gathering the year after his death. It has blossomed into a major tourist event. Fans begin lining up along the outer wall of Graceland about 12 hours before the vigil, and many will stay until the early morning hours of the next day.
The event also has become an international affair and a tribute to the Tupelo, Miss., native's worldwide popularity, hosting fans from Australia, Brazil, England and Japan and other foreign countries.
Miguel Salinas Caceres, 53, came with other members of a fan club whose members are from Chile. Making his first visit to Graceland, Salinas Caceres recalled making scrapbooks of newspaper article clippings about Presley when he was a teen.
The articles and scrapbooks were a way he and his family followed and learned about Presley because they could not afford a record player or even the records themselves. He said his family used to pay a neighbor who owned a television so that they could watch Presley movies and other TV programs at the neighbors' house.
"For a person who is an Elvis fan and has the chance to come to the place he lived, it's emotional for me," said Salinas Caceres, of Santiago, Chile. "It's hard to believe that I'm here on the street where he walked, the street corners where he stood, the restaurants where he ate."
His fellow fan club member Rodrigo Gandarillas, a native Chilean who now lives in Houston, is on his second visit to Graceland. An Elvis tribute artist himself, the 39-year-old Gandarillas said the vigil is a way to give thanks for the enjoyment Presley has given him.
"The thing that impacts me the most about the vigil is the large amount of people from different countries, different races and different languages who understand 'the King's' musical message," Gandarillas said.


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If you've ever been convinced by a salesperson that you truly wanted a product, done something too instinctively, or made choices that seemed entirely out of character, then you've had an idea planted in your mind. Here's how it's done.
Before we get started, it's worth noting that planting an idea in someone's mind without them knowing is a form of manipulation. We're not here to judge you, but this is the sort of thing most people consider evil, so you probably shouldn't actually do anything you read here. Instead, use this information to stay sharp.
If you've seen the film Inception, you might think that planting an idea in someone's mind is a difficult thing to do. It's not. It's ridiculously easy and it's tough to avoid. We're going to take a look at some of the ways it can work.
Reverse Psychology Actually Works
Reverse psychology has become an enormous cliché. I think this peaked in 1995 with the release of the film Jumanji. (If you've seen it and remember it, you know what I'm talking about.) The problem is that most people look at reverse psychology in a very simple way. For example, you'd say "I don't care if you want to go risk your life jumping out of a plane" to try and convince someone not to go skydiving. This isn't reverse psychology — it's passive-aggressive. So let's leave that all behind and start from scratch.
If you're going to use logic reversals in your favour, you need to be subtle. Let's say you want your roommate to do the dishes because it's his or her turn. There's always this approach:
"Hey, would you mind doing the dishes? It's your turn."
But in this example we're assuming your roommate is lazy and the nice approach isn't going to get the job done. So what do you do? Something like this:
"Hey, I've decided I don't want to do the dishes anymore and am just going to start buying disposable stuff. Is that cool with you? If you want to give me some money, I can pick up extras for you, too."
What this does is present the crappy alternative to not doing the dishes without placing any blame. Rather than being preoccupied with an accusation, your roommate is left to only consider the alternative. This is how reverse psychology can be effective, so long as you say it like you mean it.
Never Talk About the Idea — Talk Around It
Getting someone to want to do something can be tough if you know they're not going to want to do it, so you need to make them believe it was their idea. This is a common instruction, especially for salespeople, but it's much easier said than done. You have to look at planting ideas in the same way you'd look at solving a mystery. Slowly but surely you offer the target a series of clues until the obvious conclusion is the one you want. The key is to be patient, because if you rush through your "clues" it will be obvious. If you take it slow, the idea will form naturally in their mind all by itself.
Let's say you're trying to get your friend to eat healthier food. This is a good aim, but you've got a tough enemy: they're addicted to the Colonel and need a bucket of fried chicken at least once a day. Out of concern you tell them to eat healthier. They either think that's a good idea and then never do anything or just tell you to stop nagging them. For them to realise what they're doing to their body, they need to have an epiphany and you can make that happen by talking around the issue.
To do this you need to be very clever and very subtle, otherwise it will be obvious. You can't just say "oh, I read today that fried chicken is killing 10 million children in Arkansas every year" because that's a load of crap and comes with an incredibly obvious motivation for saying it. If chicken is the target, you need to make chicken seem really unappealing.
Next time you sneeze, make a joke about coming down with the avian flu. When you're ordering at a restaurant together, verbally convey your decision to order something other than chicken because you just learned how most chicken is processed by restaurants. When you've done enough of these things — and, again, with enough space between them so that it doesn't seem like odd behaviour — you can start being a little more aggressive and stop going with your friend to get fried chicken. You can also take proactive steps to improve your own health and tell your friend 1) what you're doing, and 2) how well it's working for you. After a few weeks, if your friend hasn't decided to reconsider his or her position on frequent fried chicken, you can casually mention it and they should be much more open to having a real discussion.
Underselling is probably one of the easiest and most effective ways to plant an idea in someone's mind. This is another version of reverse psychology but at a less aggressive level. Let's say you're trying to sell someone a hard drive. They could buy a 250GB, 500GB or 1TB hard drive. You want to sell the largest hard drive possible because those cost more and mean more money for you. Your buyer is coming in with the idea that they want to spend the least money possible. You're not going to get very far by telling them they should spend more money when you know they don't want to. Instead, you need to cater to what they want: the cheap option. Here's a sample dialogue:
Buyer: Can you tell me about this 250GB hard drive? I want to make sure it will work for me.
You: What kind of computer do you have and what do you want to use it for?
Buyer: I have a two-year old Windows laptop and I need it to store my photos. I have about 30GB of photos.
You: 250GB is definitely more than enough for just storing your photos, so as long as you don't have many more files you might want to put onto the drive it should be just fine for your needs.
This last sentence instils doubt in the buyer. You could even add "you'd only need a larger drive if you wanted to be absolutely sure you'll have enough space in the future" but that might be pushing it a little bit. The point is, if you appear to have their best interests at heart it can be easy to make them think they want to buy more from you.
Again, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that planting ideas in the minds of others is not necessarily a nice thing to do. Use this information to detect when someone's doing it to you and not necessarily as a guide to do it to somebody else.


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Fire managers in Idaho say they may be turning the corner on a massive wildfire near the resort towns of Ketchum and Sun Valley. The Beaver Creek fire has caused more than 11-and-a-half million dollars and forced mandatory evacuations of more than 2,000 homes. Sadie Babits of Boise State Public Radio reports.
SADIE BABITS, BYLINE: Around 250 fire managers quietly gather outside in the heart of fire camp. The sun isn't up yet in this valley flanked by tree and sage brush-covered ridges.
JOHN MOUTAMAN: OK. Good morning. It's 6 o'clock. Good morning. My name is John Moutaman(ph), planning section chief trainee. This is the operational briefing for August 20th.
BABITS: This morning, operations managers use a 3-D Google Earth map projected up on a giant board to show where the Beaver Creek fire is.
MOUTAMAN: There's a lot of work being done up in Branch III to look at and going direct, and they have the contingency up along the highway.
BABITS: Crews are focusing efforts today north of Ketchum. They're trying to keep the fire from crossing the main highway. A few days ago, massive flames could be seen from right here in camp. The fire threatened homes all through this mountainous corridor forcing neighborhoods to evacuate.
SUSAN THOMSON: I'm a refugee from the East Fork.
BABITS: Susan Thomson had to evacuate last week. She lives not far from an area known as Greenhorn Gulch where the fire tore through, burning a home.
THOMSON: I didn't expect it was going to explode down Greenhorn. When it did, I then gathered personal things, and Friday morning, I was out.
BABITS: Thomson moved here to escape the wildfires in California. She's been through this evacuation drill before and was ready with what she calls her fire box full of her most important documents. She went to her friend Mary Kimball's house about 10 miles away. Kimball is a horse trainer with a ranch. She says she's taken in 10 horses and a pony. She says that's just what this community does.
MARY KIMBALL: My prayer is that I would always have enough to take care of my own needs, to pay my own bills and help others in need. So it's an opportunity to open the place.
BABITS: Kimball says her son, who's in the outfitting and guide business, lost a cabin not far from Greenhorn Gulch. She says riding lessons, horse trips all have been cancelled because of this fire.
KIMBALL: The fire has impacted a lot of small businesses like his. It's difficult to estimate now how much impact that's going to have. But generally, this is a busy time of year for him, and no one wants to go on a horseback ride in a burned area.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: How do you find out whether you do have power and gas?
BABITS: At a community meeting last night in Hailey, hundreds packed an auditorium. People asked when they could go home and how to find missing pets. Over the PA system, Larry Schoen, the chair of the Blaine County Commissioners, reassured residents that he understands this area is more than just a celebrity vacation spot.
LARRY SCHOEN: It just seems like the way the world relates to us is that's where Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have a home.
SCHOEN: And guess what? We're a real, live, working community.
BABITS: Incident Commander Beth Lund was at the meeting too. Her message to Hailey residents last night was one of cautious optimism.
BETH LUND: That this fire seems to be kind of, you know, under our control a little bit more than it has been, and we feel like we're going to continue to make progress on it.
BABITS: But it could be before the end of September before this wildfire is contained, and firefighters are settling in for what could be a long road ahead. At this morning's briefing, a human resources officer read a passage by John F. Kennedy about courage in the face of major challenges. For NPR News, I'm Sadie Babits in Ketchum, Idaho. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and opened the way for the likes of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Oprah, has died. She was 94.
Phillips died Wednesday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, said Gene Willis, a publicist for the Universal Uclick syndicate.
Phillips' grandson, Dean Phillips, 43, of Minneapolis, said she died at her home in Minneapolis.
"She was really a mother to the entire country, and for years provided counsel and comfort to millions," he said. "I think her great legacy will be the causes she championed, well before most had the courage to do so. That includes include civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and mental health issues. She wrote about them in an era when people didn't talk about those things. We're thrilled that Aunt Jeanne continues that tradition as Dear Abby."
Private funeral services were held Thursday.
The long-running "Dear Abby" column first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1956. Mother and daughter started sharing the byline in 2000, and Jeanne Phillips took over in 2002, when the family announced Pauline Phillips had Alzheimer's disease.
Abby wrote her column from her St. Paul home from 1964 to 1974.
Pauline Phillips wrote under the name Abigail Van Buren. Her column competed for decades with the advice of Ann Landers, written by her twin sister, Esther Friedman Lederer, who died in 2002. Their relationship was stormy in their early adult years, but they later regained the closeness they had growing up in Sioux City, Iowa.
As juniors in high school, Abby and her sister went to a dance at the University of Minnesota and Abby met and later married Morton Phillips – heir to a considerable fortune. The liquor firm Ed. Phillips and Sons Co. was begun by Morton's father after Prohibition was repealed.
The two columns differed in style. Ann Landers responded to questioners with homey, detailed advice. Abby's replies were often flippant and occasionally risqu one-liners, like some of those collected for her 1981 book "The Best of Dear Abby."
Dear Abby: My boyfriend is going to be 20 years old next month. I'd like to give him something nice for his birthday. What do you think he'd like? — Carol
Dear Carol: Nevermind what he'd like, give him a tie.
Dear Abby: What inspires you most to write? — Ted
Dear Ted: The Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Dear Abby: I've been going with this girl for a year. How can I get her to say yes? — Don
Dear Don: What's the question?
Phillips admitted that her advice changed over the years. When she started writing the column, she was reluctant to advocate divorce:
"I always thought that marriage should be forever," she explained. "I found out through my readers that sometimes the best thing they can do is part. If a man or woman is a constant cheater, the situation can be intolerable. Especially if they have children. When kids see parents fighting, or even sniping at each other, I think it is terribly damaging."
She willingly expressed views that she realized would bring protests. In a 1998 interview she remarked: "Whenever I say a kind word about gays, I hear from people, and some of them are damn mad. People throw Leviticus, Deuteronomy and other parts of the Bible to me. It doesn't bother me. I've always been compassionate toward gay people."
If the letters sounded suicidal, she took a personal approach: "I'll call them. I say, `This is Abby. How are you feeling? You sounded awfully low.' And they say, `You're calling me?' After they start talking, you can suggest that they get professional help."
In a time before confessional talk shows and the nothing-is-too-private culture of the Internet, the sisters' columns offered a rare window into Americans' private lives and a forum for discussing marriage, sex and the swiftly changing mores of the 1950s, `60s and `70s.
Asked about Viagra, Phillips replied: "It's wonderful. Men who can't perform feel less than manly, and Viagra takes them right off the spot."
About working mothers: "I think it's good to have a woman work if she wants to and doesn't leave her children unattended — if she has a reliable person to care for them. Kids still need someone to watch them until they are mature enough to make responsible decisions."
One trend Phillips adamantly opposed: children having sex as early as 12 years old.
"Kids grow up awfully fast these days," she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do."
Pauline Esther Friedman, known as Popo, was born on Independence Day 1918 in Sioux City, Iowa, 17 minutes after her identical twin, Esther Pauline (Eppie). Their father was a well-off owner of a movie theater chain. Their mother took care of the home. Both were immigrants from Russia who had fled their native land in 1905 because of the persecution of Jews.
"My parents came with nothing. They all came with nothing," Phillips said in a 1986 Associated Press interview. She recalled that her parents always remembered seeing the Statue of Liberty: "It's amazing the impact the lady of the harbor had on them. They always held her dear, all their lives."
The twins spent their growing-up years together. They dressed alike, both played the violin and both wrote gossip columns for their high school and college newspapers. They attended Morningside College in Sioux City.
Two days before their 21st birthday, they had a double wedding. Pauline married Phillips, Esther married Jules Lederer, a business executive and later founder of Budget Rent-a-Car. The twins' lives diverged as they followed their husbands to different cities.
The Phillipses lived in Minneapolis, Eau Claire, Wis., and San Francisco, and had a son and daughter, Edward Jay and Jeanne. Esther lived in Chicago, had a daughter, Margo, and in 1955 got a job writing an advice column. She adopted its existing name, Ann Landers.
Pauline, who had been working for philanthropies and the Democratic Party, followed her sister's lead, though she insisted it wasn't the reason for her decision. She arranged for an interview with an editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and presented sample columns, arguing that the paper's lovelorn column was boring. The editors admired her breezy style, and she was hired.
Searching for a name for the column, Pauline chose Abigail from the Bible and Van Buren from the eighth American president. Within a year she signed a 10-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate, which spread her column across the country.
"I was cocky," she admitted in 1998. "My contemporaries would come to me for advice. I got that from my mother: the ability to listen and to help other people with their problems. I also got Daddy's sense of humor."
Pauline applied for the advice column without notifying her sister, and that reportedly resulted in bad feelings. For a long time they did not speak to each other, but their differences were eventually patched up. In 2001, the twins, then 83, attended the 90th birthday party in Omaha, Neb., of their sister Helen Brodkey.
The advice business extended to the second generation of the Friedmans. Not only did Jeanne Phillips take over "Dear Abby," but Esther Lederer's daughter, Margo Howard, wrote an advice column for the online magazine Slate.
Aside from the Dear Abby column, which appeared in 1,000 newspapers as far off as Brazil and Thailand, Phillips conducted a radio version of "Dear Abby" from 1963 to 1975 and wrote best-selling books about her life and advice.
In her book "The Best of Abby," Phillips commented that her years writing the column "have been fulfilling, exciting and incredibly rewarding. ... My readers have told me that they've learned from me. But it's the other way around. I've learned from them. Has it been a lot of work? Not really. It's only work if you'd rather be doing something else."
Online: http://www.dearabby.com
Associated Press Writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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- Related Wreckage: Celebrating the "Yes" with a Bunch of "No"s
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
That's awesome - portraiture in icing. Nice.
Oh. my. goodness! A whole bunch of "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO's" is right! What in the world happened here?
Oh, my! Looks like one of the kids in my preschool class drew the happy couple and then someone recreated the drawing in icing, but WHY?????
My goodness, that really WAS scary!
Well obviously the wreckerator was asked to portray the bride and groom EXACTLY as they look in person, right?
My guess is too much collagen.
Its wedding zombies whos eyes suck out your very soul.
Fabulously funny!!!
Dear me! Look at the pink poo roses! Oh no, if it was my wedding, I think I would've cried!!
At first glance, I thought it was a cake of a flesh wound! Ick!
oh, oh, oh.. things that cannot be unseen...such as cakes featuring the wedding of the melting undead.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!". lol ur always so funny, Jen. How can they stand having that for a wedding cake? What were they looking at anyway?
is the bride sporting angel wings?!
those faces are hideous. hid-e-ous.
wreckiness at its finest today.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, what a lovely little rotten zombiecouple. They look so happy -I suppose- with their hollow dead eyes at these pink and green blurbs!!!
That's pretty flipping creepy.
Yowsa! It looks like that cake is having open heart surgery. Not appetizing.
Methinks a little cake decorator was jealous of the happy couple?
"Here is what you'll look like on your wedding day after eating my cake! ZOOOOMBIESSSSS!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!"
My husband is the best man in a wedding today -- I'm debating if I should show this to the bride before or after she sees her own cake....
Last night in Portland was awesome, Jen! Here's a link to my photos of the event!
Visiting "Portland"
The first shot reminded me of something out of the Alien movies! Then you zoomed in and it was even worse!! lol
You know what they look like? The evil "other" parents off Coraline. The one's with the buttons for eyes and no SOUL.
Errrrr. That's the only sound that can make it out of my mouth right now.
ZOOM OUT AND RUN, RUN, RUN! Oh this is so bad its hilarous!!!
Cool! A wedding cake for fans of the movie "They Live" http://movies.infinitecoolness.com/theylive/gallery/theylive60.jpg
Thanks for the laugh out loud moment this morning!
Used to be destination weddings, now zombie weddings are the next big thing! I wonder if a zombie Elvis can officiate?
well i hope the happy couple look nothing like their cake.
and i hope it didn't ruin the wedding and i hope the happy couple had a great sense of humor and i hope the bride didn't kill the cake decorator.
Must be a "Resident Evil" cake.
Noooooooooooooo! I was all set to head out the door for the 2 hour drive to Seattle and I got called into work! How can this be happening?! Who's going to eat this lovely cupcake?! (OK well that's an easy fix)
Have a great visit to the Pacific Northwest and on your next tour, PLEASE head up north of the 49th so i can at least sneak in a visit during an extra long lunch.
They look like a zombie couple about to dig into an arm!
Yikes. Wedding of the zombies, eh?
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Is it just me, or does the happy couple have a child together already, and this was meant to look like they're both beaming at the baby? Or maybe I am looking for sense where there is none.
I was stumped on what to be for Halloween, but now I'm considering the Angel of Death. Thanks to this blushing bride for inspiration.
Why does this remind me of Beetlejuice?!?!
I was going to say this reminded me of Beetlejuice, but then I noticed that's what the last comment said. :D
Was that cake for a wookie wedding?
Zombies! and Skidmarks!
WOW! That bride looks like an angel who still has her wings but may have, um, fallen from grace.
I want a Zombie Wedding Cake!
Alas, we went with lovely teal and lavender roses on white buttercream. But I've got two weeks... I can change it, right? No? Darn.
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Teboate had dun left teharbor before tebride realized what was on tecake.
So, my 3 year-old daughter just happened to be sitting next to me and upon seeing those two she said "Look, the zombie!"
I'm sorry, I can't make a comment today, the bride's eyes have sucked out my soul.
*staggers away*
Hey, zombies are HOT right now. It's trendy!
Reminds me of my grandmothers wedding photo from 1895.
I did a little research and it was "arranged."
They looked just like that cake.
We featured you at The Apron Goddesses today.
Love the faces on the bride and groom!
Wow, the detail on the faces is amazing! :)
Clearly this is a Zombie Wedding.
Although I didn't know zombie brides wore angel wings at wedding ceremonies.
Brains.... braiiiiins...
Your commentary on this one is the best! It's totally cracking me up!!:D
Oh my God! Her grossly swollen, discolored, and distended arm...I thought the groom was carrying a log or something.
Karen has it.
The bride's a wookie!
I'm on my way out the door to a wedding.
I needed this.
Hey the undead like wedding cakes too!
Great to meet you both in Portland last night, and I hope you did go to Voodoo Doughnuts after all those recommendations!
Also, good gravy, what is going on on that cake? o.0
OMG WHAT IS THAT?!?! The bride and groom are just halerious! She looks like Quasimodo's bride with that hunched back!!
I just want to know why the bride has wings?
Nothing like a demon bride and groom to get the party going.
Even zombies get married now and then, and what kind of freak doesn't like cake?
*carefully examines cake..*
"I vant to suck your icing!"
The decorator should totally have just given her fangs and admitted they had a grudge against the bride..
Oh, and is there a "married in brown, zombies frown?"
It took me forever to figure out that the wings on the bride were supposed to be the veil. At least, that's what I'm assuming.
Oh my! It could be the basis for a Twilight Zone or something. Think about it...You walk up behind the bride and groom, then they turn around and they have NO EYES - hollow sockets!! The special effects created by the pink claws surrounding them add to the horror. Scared the bejeebers out of me and I most certainly will have nightmares!
Should've left the faces blank instead of trying too hard. It's an icing dispenser, not a pencil! :P
hahahaha..Wow...I'd hate my cake to look like that. No pictures, please!
My dear darling dead,
the intestines are in bloom.
Perfect time to wed!
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(Hmm. It's not so much fun when the word verification is a REAL word!)
That's a professional? Really? That's not professionally made. Is it? Because the strawberry icing (out of a can) isn't even smoothed down. That looks like the Duncan Hines cakes I bake and frost (sans zombies).
It was great seeing you at Powell's last night (sorry Mom & I had to duck out early.) My daughter loves the book - she is studying to be a NON-CakeWrecker-Decorator. (new word?)
I dunno, I get more of a vampire bride vibe from the cake ... the way she's clutching him, keeping him from running away.
WV: polymics: what every Cake Wrecks book signing should have - more than one mic (to avoid feedback.)
well I guess it's nice that leatherface found someone to marry...
Looks like a zombie is getting married to a hunchback.
Maybe that's exactly what they look like??? I'd hate to see their future children...
This might be a perfectly accurate depiction...if Shanda and Stephen's last name is Zombie.
o.O Why does the couple on this cake remind me of Adam and Barbara Maitland from Beetlejuice?
There's the ugly faces, the lumpy tux on the groom, and the muddy background.
But nobody, NOBODY, I tell you, has mentioned the flowers down in the lower left of the medallion thingy.
Hey, decorator -- flowers aren't supposed to look like little piles of pink poo. If you're going to cheat and not make roses, at least use a flower tip, so it doesn't look like pink poo.
WV: confund(n): this cake confunds me with its lack of anything resembling talent.
YIKES! Ugly poop-zombies!
Thanks for the hilarious blog!
Oh, NO ! Awful !
Zombie Bride and Groom want your BRAIIIINNNSSS X_X
Are the bride and groom laying in a grave?
ohhh noooo!
ohhhh nooo!
oooohhhh nooooooo!
What, was it a Goth or Emo wedding?
Now that reminds on the movie The exorcism of Emily Rose.
Arrrggh! My eyes, my eyes my beautiful eyes!!
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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep.
Martin Luther King was assassinated 44 years ago this week. When people in Miami held a rally to mark that anniversary, local activist Billy Hardemon brought up the killing of another Martin.
BILLY HARDEMON: Two Martins that died too young, Trayvon and Martin Luther King.
INSKEEP: The rally came amid growing pressure to charge a Florida man with the killing of Trayvon Martin. He's the teenager shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. The state attorney is expected soon to decide what to do.
MONTAGNE: A key factor in the case is Florida's Stand Your Ground Law. It allows people who are threatened with bodily harm to use deadly force in self-defense.
NPR's Greg Allen reports from Miami that momentum is growing in Florida to review the law.
GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: Even Florida's Governor, Republican Rick Scott, has said legislators may need to take a look at the Stand Your Ground Law. Scott says he plans to convene a task force to do so, but not until State Attorney Angela Corey completes her investigation.
State Senator Chris Smith says that may not be for a year or more, and waiting is a mistake.
STATE SENATOR CHRIS SMITH: We have a big problem in Florida today. And it's time for leaders to lead and it's time for action.
ALLEN: Smith is the incoming leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate and an African-American. He called unsuccessfully for Governor Scott to immediately convene his task force and order a special session of the legislature to address Stand Your Ground. With those requests going nowhere, Smith has now taken matters into his own hands.
Later today, he's convening his own task force, comprised of state attorneys, judges, public defenders and criminal defense lawyers who will evaluate the law.
SMITH: The Stand Your Ground Law was being used way before Trayvon Martin. And is being misused way after Trayvon Martin. This isn't just about the Martin case. We do not have to wait till a decision on the Martin case.
ALLEN: So now in Florida there could be two competing task forces looking at Stand Your Ground; one already convened by a Democratic senator and one expected to be formed by the Republican governor.
When asked about it, Governor Scott this week avoided commenting directly on Senator Smith's task force and his charges that the Governor has been dragging his feet.
GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT: What you want is, you don't ever want this to happen again. I mean nobody in this state would want it to happen in their family. And so I think everybody is going to look at our task force and it's going to be taken seriously. And you don't know what's going to come out of it. You know, I just don't want this to ever happen again.
ALLEN: The Stand Your Ground Law has been controversial in Florida since it was passed in 2005. At that time, Smith was one of a group of Democrats who tried to stop it in the House. Also working to stop it was the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association. They believed it would make it more difficult to prosecute assault, manslaughter and murder cases. And that's largely proved true.
Scott Sundby, a professor of law at the University of Miami and a member of Senator Smith's task force, says in cases where there's a claim of self-defense, Stand Your Ground placed a bubble of immunity around defendants. Before a jury trial even gets started, a judge must rule whether the defendant is immune from prosecution.
SCOTT SUNDBY: You are seeing prosecutors much more hesitant to bring cases that they would have brought before because of this notion of immunity. It also puts up this extra hurdle before you can get to trial, where trial judges make sort of a pre-trial determination with them as the fact-finder, rather than the jury.
ALLEN: These are all issues State Attorney Angela Corey is undoubtedly weighing as she investigates the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Senator Smith says there's another reason Florida officials should act sooner rather than later in evaluating Stand Your Ground: public perception. In Florida, where tourism is the state's number one industry, that's a dollars and cents proposition. Smith says he's heard from people who say the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's Stand Your Ground Law is making them think twice about visiting the state.
He recalls a similar crisis. In 1993, after the shooting death of a German tourist at a rest stop became international news, then-Governor Lawton Chiles took immediate action, ordering 24-hour protection of rest stops.
SMITH: My point is, we reacted then. We didn't wait for the investigation. We didn't wait for, you know, charges. We acted quickly because Florida brand was tarnished at that time. And Florida brand is tarnished right now.
ALLEN: Smith expects the task force will have recommendations for the governor and the legislature. Whether they'll be acted on is another question altogether.
Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.