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Judge weighs verdict for Salem official
Judge Michael Sullivan began weighing whether McDougall, 37, who also sits on the town's zoning board of adjustment, is guilty of obstructing government administration after his day-long trial in 10th Circuit Court in Salem.
McDougall is accused of preventing emergency medical technicians from transporting his wife to the hospital after she called 911 around midnight on June 25. Jane McDougall acknowledged during her testimony that she called 911 a second time requesting an ambulance after firefighters had arrived at her home because her husband kept arguing with them.
Patrick McDougall faces up to a year in jail if he is convicted. But it's only the first of two cases now pending against the elected town official.
McDougall faces charges of felony witness tampering, criminal threatening and disorderly conduct for another run-in with the town's fire chief and a separate incident with a police officer days later. He is awaiting possible indictment in superior court in that case.
Prosecutor Jason Grosky called on firefighters and police officers who responded to McDougall's home and cast the elected town official as hot-headed and flippant when first responders arrived at his doorstep.
Defense lawyer Neil Reardon suggested that his client was a "thorn in the side" of Salem's police and fire departments, and a well-known critic of their budgets. In recent months, McDougall has even expressed a desire to privatize the town's ambulance service, according to Reardon.
But the reputed town critic drew his own rebuke from Judge Sullivan at the beginning of Monday's trial when McDougall exclaimed "that's a lie" in open court while a firefighter testified.
Firefighter Bradley Palmer said during his testimony that McDougall at first claimed there was no medical emergency in his building before closing his apartment door on the two firefighters. McDougall allowed firefighters into the apartment a few moments later after acknowledging that his wife called 911, according to Palmer's testimony.
"He didn't yell at us, but you could tell by his demeanor he was getting angry," Palmer testified.
McDougall's wife, Jane, broke down on the witness stand while testifying that while she was in extreme pain that night, her husband was only trying to explain their financial situation. She stressed during her testimony that her husband ultimately agreed to drive her to the hospital himself.
"He was explaining to them we didn't have any insurance," she testified. "He was trying to explain we couldn't afford an ambulance bill."
Grosky argued that while McDougall might have complained about getting whacked with a bill he couldn't afford, he wasn't any stranger to avoiding those charges in the past.
Fire Chief Kevin Breen testified that he assisted McDougall with getting a waiver on at least one ambulance ride sometime around 2007. "I personally guided him through that process in the past," Breen testified.
Police Officer Matthew Norcross testified that in his 19-year career he never brought the charge lodged against McDougall, but felt that a crime had been committed on the night he responded to the apartment.
McDougall was charged after Norcross researched the state law, interviewed witnesses and consulted with the department's prosecutor and superiors before requesting an arrest warrant, according to his testimony.
Norcross also testified that police stood by during the early morning hours of June 26 to make sure the McDougalls actually drove off toward the hospital with his wife after spending close to an hour at the home.
"He flickered his fingers toward us and said you're dismissed now, you can all go," Norcross testified. "He was being degrading and insulting with his behavior."
McDougall decided against taking the stand on Monday after huddling with Reardon at the defense table. Sullivan said at the close of Monday's trial he will take the case under advisement.


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One thing it doesn't do is offer a revealing look at the mercurial entrepreneur. The movie that bears his name settles on a blandly superficial treatment of a deeply complex man.
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Ultimately, Jobs is a prosaic but not unaffecting tribute to the virtues of defiance, nonconformity, artistry, beauty, craftsmanship, imagination and innovation, qualities it only intermittently reflects as a piece of filmmaking.
The dialogue comes straight out of "The Benny Goodman Story." That look, someone says to a staring, pausing Kutcher, "tells me you're on to something big." Nobody talks in this movie; everyone speechifies or take turns sloganing one another to death.
The filmmakers do fall into the trap of overly sentimentalizing a widely beloved public figure who represents an enormous cultural significance. At the same time, however, they keep the movie frequently engaging.
It's a competently made, traditional biopic about a man who disdained those terms.
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Biopic is more about Apple than Jobs' life; some drug use.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Jobs is a biopic about late Apple founder/CEO Steve Jobs. As a young man, Jobs smokes marijuana and experiments with hallucinogens, and other characters drink and smoke. Two of Jobs' romances are depicted -- a one-night stand and his long-term college relationship. He's shown kissing in bed with each of them, but that's it; there's no nudity or graphic content. The language is fairly typical of a mature drama, with the occasional use of "s--t," "a--hole," and one "f--king." Expect countless references to Apple's early product innovations -- both the successes and the failures, from the original Apple computer to the iPod. Several car makes are also featured prominently -- Mercedes, Porsche, Corvette Stingray, Volvo, and more. Ultimately, this movie is likely to particularly appeal to families and teens interested in technology and Apple devices.
Messages: The message of Steve Jobs' life is that, to be innovative, you have to commit to a greater vision than just making money -- you have to set out to change the way people live and, in the case of technology, to merge it with design and beauty. But the message is also that a life that's only about work isn't completely fulfilled.
Role models: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are both brilliant and visionary, but Jobs is portrayed as having the ambition to lead a company, whereas Wozniak is painted as a more technical genius. Jobs' interest in making stuff that will change ordinary people's lives -- to pay attention to every tiny detail, to merge design with technology -- made him one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American history.
Violence: Steve is volatile and yells at people -- including his pregnant girlfriend. He also throws things a couple of times.
Sex: A couple of love scenes early on -- one between Jobs and a random woman at Reed College, and another trippy scene between Jobs and his college girlfriend. Kissing in bed is shown, but nothing more graphic.
Language: Occasional strong language includes two uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "a--hole," "bulls--t," "hell," "ass," "Jesus" (as an exclamation), and more.
Consumerism: Since the movie chronicles the history of Apple, it features detailed conversations about various Apple products, ads, town hall speeches, and more -- from the original Apple II to the Macintosh to the pivotal iPod reveal. Jobs' cars are also depicted: a Volvo wagon, a Porsche, a Stingray, a Mercedes. Apple's competitors IBM and Microsoft are mentioned, and the Apple CEO is lured from Pepsi. Rod drives a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and Steve once worked at Atari.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Steve and his friends do drugs (marijuana and LSD, which is portrayed as a mind-enhancing experience), particularly while at Reed College. But he stops as he gets older, and later he criticizes a friend for always smoking pot and not being focused on the business. Rod smokes cigarettes.
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Toyota's $1.2 billion settlement may be model for U.S. probe into GM
Holder's warning to industry: Don't repeat 'Toyota's mistake'
UPDATED: 3/19/14 4:17 pm ET -- adds Rockefeller statement
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) -- Toyota Motor Corp. will pay a record $1.2 billion to resolve a criminal probe in to safety issues, in a deal that could serve as a template for how U.S. authorities approach a similar investigation into General Motors Co.
The settlement between the Justice Department and Toyota includes an admission by the auto manufacturer that it misled American consumers about two different problems that caused cars to accelerate even as drivers tried to slow them down.
The agreement comes as GM is also under investigation over its handling of an ignition switch failure linked to a dozen deaths. GM recalled more than 1.6 million vehicles more than a decade after first noticing the issue. Top officials said the Toyota settlement could serve as a template for similar cases.
"My hope and expectation is that this resolution will serve a model for how to approach future cases involving similarly situated companies," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference on Wednesday, though he declined to discuss GM specifically.
"Other car companies should not repeat Toyota's mistake," he said. "A recall may damage a company's reputation, but deceiving your customers makes that damage far more lasting."
The deal with Toyota was led by the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, the same prosecutors investigating GM's handling of its ignition-switch recall. GM also faces probes by Congress and safety regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as well as at least three proposed class-action lawsuits related to economic losses suffered by consumers.
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va, who chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said the settlement puts all automakers on notice.
"There is absolutely no excuse for misleading the public or concealing information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration," according to a statement from Rockefeller, who recruited the Toyota to build an engine plant in his district 20 years ago. "Lives are at risk when this happens. Safety must always be the first priority for manufacturers, regardless of how it affects profit margins."
GM CEO Mary Barra has been credited for apologizing quickly for the slow recall and promising to focus on consumer safety, something Toyota failed to do initially when its unintended acceleration issue first arose.
However, GM is still coming under fire for not addressing the defective switches when they were discovered.
The Toyota deal, which had been expected for more than a month, resolves issues that have dogged the company since at least 2007 and have been linked to at least 5 deaths. The automaker still faces hundreds of private lawsuits over the problems.
Prosecutors filed criminal charges against the company but agreed to defer and drop them if the company allows an independent monitor to review its safety practices and if it abides by the terms of the deal (see attached documents).
Toyota is "effectively on probation for three years," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office conducted the investigation, said at the news conference.
"It cared more about savings than safety and more about its own brand and bottom line than the truth," Bharara said.
Toyota said it would take a $1.2 billion after-tax charge for the settlement in the fiscal year ending March 31.
"Entering this agreement, while difficult, is a major step toward putting this unfortunate chapter behind us," Toyota's North American legal chief Christopher Reynolds said in a statement.
4-year investigation
The settlement resolves a four-year investigation by U.S. authorities, but the problems date back to at least 2007, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an inquiry into the Lexus ES350 model after reports of unintended acceleration by the vehicle, which is made by Toyota.
The problems gained public attention in 2009, when a highway patrolman and his family were killed in a Lexus ES350 in San Diego.
A 911 emergency call made from the car recounts the family's last minutes: "We're in a Lexus ... and we're going north on 125 and our accelerator is stuck ... there's no brakes ... hold on and pray ..." The call ends with the sound of it crashing, prosecutors said.
The problem prompted Toyota to recall millions of vehicles, beginning in 2009.
But Toyota's statements about the recall misled the public because it didn't recall all the cars susceptible to the problems, caused by faulty floor mats, prosecutors said.
'Someone will go to jail'
A Toyota engineer concluded that the top-selling Corolla was among the worst vehicles for potential floor-mat entrapment, but the model wasn't included in the recall.
The company also concealed from the public and regulators another type of unintended acceleration caused by pedals getting stuck, officials said.
The company had canceled a design change to address the issue in the wake of the San Diego accident, prosecutors said.
"Idiots! Someone will go to jail if lies are repeatedly told. I can't support this," one Toyota employee said after a meeting with regulators, according to a statement of facts filed with the settlement.
No individuals were charged as part of the settlement.
Last year, Toyota received approval on a settlement valued at $1.6 billion to resolve claims from Toyota owners that the value of their cars dropped after the problems came to light. It is also negotiating with hundreds of customers who say they have been injured.
Toyota agreed to pay the penalty by March 25 through a parallel civil action filed today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Company reputation
The recalls blemished Toyota's reputation for quality that spurred its rise to become the world's top-selling automaker, a title it relinquished for one year to GM.
Toyota recalled more than 10 million vehicles worldwide in 2009 and 2010 for unintended acceleration issues. The company made modifications to gas pedals and floor mats that were prone to shifting around and jamming the accelerator. Toyota also installed brake override software on recalled models and began making the systems standard on new vehicles.
Toyota has also paid more than $66 million in civil penalties to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for not recalling the affected vehicles in a timely manner.
Gabe Nelson, Philip Nussel and Bloomberg contributed to this report.
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Typical Packer fan...can't tell the difference between a first down and a touchdown.
I have never been a McNabb fan, but "Grossman knows the 2 minute offense better" is one of the weirdest decisions/excuses I've ever heard especially from a Super Bowl Champion coach.
At least the Vikings' season is supposed to be easier now.
Why on earth would the Patriots and Vikings both be in a hurry to get rid of him?
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SCANDALOSO: Justin Theroux & Jennifer Aniston Bring Their Hard Nipples To The Vatican
When you go to the Vatican, there's a sign that tells you to cover up your knees and shoulders or a gang of altar boys will drag you into a room where Mad Mel Gibson will scream at you to blow him for an hour. The walls of the Sistine Chapel don't want to be covered in sin from being exposed to your bare knees and bare shoulders, because:
Child rape: meh.
Bare shoulders and bare knees: Blasphemoso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Note: Google Translation tells me "bestemmiare" is Italian for blasphemy, but that just doesn't have the dramatic effect I was looking for.)
But rules are rules and apparently, Jennifer Aniston only followed half of the rules when she and Justin continued their European photo-op tour by visiting Vatican City yesterday. When a tour guide took Jen and Justin to the Basilica, she covered her shoulders but kept her knees out. This led The Daily Mail to ask the extremely important question: "Did the Vatican bend the rules for Jennifer?" No, the Vatican didn't bend the rules for Jen's knees. Jen is just a badass motherfucking rebel now that she's with the baddest dude in Bel Air. They break rules, that's just what they do. But seriously…
I went to the Vatican at Christmas times and unfortunately I didn't see Lucifer show himself through exposed knee caps, but I did see some hotter shit. There were these two really trashy and really glamorous "in a Juicy Couture sweatsuits with heels kind of way" tourists shoving through the crowd in front of the giant nativity scene to get to the front. They shoved at me, I shoved at them and then one of them actually shouted, "Get the fuck out of the way, I want to see the Baby Jesus!" Baby Jesus has been gifted with gold, frankincense and myrrh, but the greatest gift he ever got was the gift of the fuck word from two pieces of trash.


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Loss of Consortium:
When Should You Bring the Claim?
Loss of consortium is a cause of action that is available to family members of a person injured or killed by the wrongful acts of another. Clearly, it should be claimed on behalf of all possible family members in a death case. In some jurisdictions it is available for a spouse, parent, or child in the situation of a family member's injury. This article will discuss the decision-making process of a plaintiff's attorney when faced with a potential claim on behalf of the spouse of an injured person. Often, the answer is not clear-cut. The hard question is when to bring a claim for the uninjured spouse to the jury.
History of the Cause of Action
The damage suffered by the loss of the services of one's spouse was first recognized under the English common law as a husband's claim. A wife, being simply chattel of the husband, had no cause of action for her own injury or for injury to her husband. In the United States, after the passage of the Married Women's Property Act by the various states starting around the 1850s, the courts began to recognize the fact that such a claim should be equally available to a wife. Justice did not move swiftly, however. The case that is generally regarded as the first to recognize a wife's right to bring a claim for loss of consortium of her negligently injured husband is Hitaffer v. Argonne Co., 183 F.2d 811 (D.C. Cir., 1950). Further recognition took decades to achieve across the country, state by state. In some jurisdictions it is a matter of the common law, and some states have enacted statutes, such as Maine's 14 M.R.S. § 302 (2009): "A married person may bring a civil action in that person's own name for loss of consortium of that person's spouse." Today, if state law recognizes an action for a husband for loss of consortium owing to the physical injury of his wife, it will also recognize such an action for a wife.
In all jurisdictions where it is recognized, lost consortium has remained a claim that can only be brought by a marriage partner. But this, too, might be evolving slowly. A number of courts have struggled with cases that have brought to issue the right of a person in a long-standing heterosexual relationship to claim lost consortium, as well as the right of a same-sex partner to do so. Elden v. Sheldon, 46 Cal. 3d 267 (1988) presents a good illustration of the debate. The California Supreme Court ruled that a claim for lost consortium is not available to a committed but unmarried partner, regardless of the level of that commitment. A scathing dissent highlights the level of contention brewing on this issue. Although a number of policy reasons are cited along the way to denying lost consortium claims to seriously committed but unmarried partners, it appears to me that the main concern is with opening the field of potential tort claimants to an undeterminable number. This debate will be a topic for many more commentators and courts for the foreseeable future.
Some jurisdictions break the claim into two components: the functional and the sentimental. Such distinction between the loss of services and the loss of affectionate or sexual relationship is rejected by other courts, which reason that the loss is truly to the marital unit itself and cannot be divided into components. It seems to me that, even in jurisdictions that designate the two components in jury instructions, as does Illinois, the best approach to presenting the loss is by explaining what the marital unit has suffered. Thoughtful testimony by the uninjured spouse that keeps this concept as the main theme will best convey to the jury the true loss that can result from a severe, permanent injury.
Evaluating a Case
A loss of consortium claim is certainly one that should be considered whenever a married client suffers a serious injury. It's good to explore the potential, along with all other elements of damage, at the first consultation with a new client. Every marriage is different, as is every claim for damages and every injury. The potential loss of consortium in a given situation may be nonexistent. In other circumstances, it may be nearly as devastating as the physical injury. Does the spouse even have an interest in being involved in the litigation, in making a claim? If the spouse is reluctant, the claim is not going to present well to a jury. You must find out the most private, intimate aspects of your clients' marriage, and make sure both spouses understand that others will be getting this information, too. They will be subjected to rigorous questioning in deposition and will need to testify to a jury of strangers about the intimate details of their marriage. If one of the spouses is unwilling to allow such an intrusion, then it's best simply to eliminate the idea from the beginning.
If the marriage had been shaky before the injury, that point needs to be discussed in detail. You will want to know about any prior legal or voluntary separations, any court filing for orders of protection, or any criminal charges of abuse. Find out if they have, either together or individually, consulted with a marriage counselor or sought marital help from another source, such as a religious advisor. Not only do you need to know all this in order to properly advise your client regarding bringing a loss of consortium claim, but posing these questions in the beginning will give the clients an idea of the questioning they can expect from the other side as the claim proceeds.
Including loss of consortium in any pre-suit settlement discussions is prudent in most cases of severe injury. However, if you are dealing with an auto case, keep in mind that most liability policies are written in such a way that loss of consortium claims are included within the "single injury" limits. Get a copy of the applicable policy to verify whether this is the case. If the physical injuries are severe, a loss of consortium claim is not likely to provide additional recovery beyond the policy limits. Yet, in a situation where the negotiable settlement amount for the physically injured spouse appears to be slightly under the policy limits, a loss of consortium claim may be just what is needed to reach the full limits. Also, if the injury is one that comes within a workers' compensation scheme, most jurisdictions hold that the spouse's loss of consortium claim is subsumed within the exclusive remedy provisions of the statute. However, if a negligence suit against a non-employer third party is being contemplated, some jurisdictions hold that a settlement in such a suit that apportions some amount to a loss of consortium claim for the non-employee spouse will thereby reduce the amount of workers' compensation benefits required to be reimbursed to the employer.
Preparing a Case
If you have gone beyond negotiating a settlement with an adjuster and it's time to file suit, further discussion is warranted. At this point, the couple needs another consultation. Discuss again the intrusiveness that is bound to occur. Talk at length with the spouse bringing the consortium claim. You must satisfy yourself that the spouse will be able to discuss openly and freely the variety of problems that have been caused to the marital unit. And yet, there needs to be a certain amount of restraint. The spouse cannot whine or focus on him- or herself.
If, after this lengthy consultation, you decide that the suit will not include a loss of consortium claim, another consultation is required. Generally, a consortium claim must be brought at the same time as the physically injured spouse's claim. Certainly, it is best practice to do so. If you are unwilling to bring the consortium claim but your clients disagree, you must give them sufficient time to find another lawyer. If the clients are willing to take your advice and not bring a consortium claim, be sure to document that decision.
Prosecuting a Claim
Even after you have filed the claim, the decision should be revisited prior to trial. A loss of consortium claim can be both a hindrance and a blessing for an imaginative attorney representing the plaintiffs. It is challenging to sufficiently elicit testimony from a spouse that will really express the loss to a jury, particularly in the courtroom. Choosing the right client to tell this story is important; it will backfire if you don't handle it correctly. Keeping the testimony focused on the loss suffered by the family unit, rather than the spouse individually, will require work. But unless it can be presented to the jury in this way, you are in danger of causing the spouse to appear to the jury as a greedy whiner, simply looking to gain monetarily from his or her spouse's pain. At that point, you are handing a gift to your opponent and running the risk of juror backlash against your clients.
Strongly consider running a focus group on this issue. The concept of "for better or worse, in sickness and in health" resonates with most people. Would it be better to have a spouse who can testify well and at length about the damage that's been caused to every aspect of his or her partner's life? If the wife of an amputee testifies that she worries about her husband's safety all the time when he's away from home alone, is that more powerful than any testimony about the household chores she's been forced to take over for him? Focus the uninjured spouse's testimony on concerns over the injured spouse's well-being, concrete and descriptive examples of the injured spouse's pain and suffering observed on a daily basis, and the impact such suffering has had on the family. The marital love will shine through and give the jury the opportunity to imagine for themselves the unspoken scenarios much more easily. Besides, people often have an easier time talking about the damage done to the person they love the most in the world, rather than themselves.
Certainly, there are times when presenting a loss of consortium claim to a jury is advisable. If the spouse, owing to his or her own illness or injury, had been dependent on the now physically injured spouse, the loss is clear. If the physical injury has caused the inability to participate in intercourse, this is a claim worth talking about. It is my opinion, however, that such cases are the exception rather than the rule.
Patricia Zimmer is a partner at Ripplinger & Zimmer LLC in Belleville, Illinois. She may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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STOCKTON - There's a perception among some Stocktonians today that police aren't interested in hearing about a crime unless it involves a gun, a gangster or a northwest address. It's born out of the frustration many victims experience when they don't get the response they feel their incident deserves.
STOCKTON - There's a perception among some Stocktonians today that police aren't interested in hearing about a crime unless it involves a gun, a gangster or a northwest address. It's born out of the frustration many victims experience when they don't get the response they feel their incident deserves.
Often because of that perception, many crimes go unreported. But that actually hinders police, even in a broke city with a critically understaffed Police Department that admittedly can't respond to every call for service.
The department has conveyed that its top priority the past year has been focusing on the violence wreaked by guns and gangs. And statistics back that up.
Overall violent crime was down more than 14 percent in May compared with a year earlier. Most notably, homicides year to date dropped 58 percent - 10 from January through May compared with 24 during the same period in 2012, a record year in which Stockton police investigated 71 homicides.
Robberies, forcible rapes and aggravated assaults also have decreased significantly compared with 2012.
If anyone feels the public's frustration over police response in Stockton, it is Chief Eric Jones. He spends two to three evenings a week at community meetings and Neighborhood Watch events addressing issues and hearing firsthand from aggrieved citizens.
Recent news reports have highlighted the case of bicycle rider Aaron Vaughn, who was the victim of a hit-and-run driver and charged the Police Department with bungling the follow-up investigation. Several recent victims of pit bull attacks have been dissatisfied with the response of the department's understaffed Animal Services unit, in one case claiming that by not picking up the dogs they went on to attack two more people before being destroyed.
Carpenter Ardie Kendrick, 61, who on May 21 witnessed a thief leaving a Pacific Avenue S-Mart with stolen liquor and then became a victim when the suspect ran his getaway car into Kendrick's pickup, cutting his legs, became frustrated with police.
"They just ignored me. They wouldn't even take the report over the phone," Kendrick said.
After initially talking to officers at the scene, Kendrick was told on at least two occasions that detectives would soon follow up with him. That happened almost four weeks later, after police were informed of Kendrick's concerns by the media. He was able to provide critical information to help in the investigation.
Jones is aware of these situations and said he constantly emphasizes to his officers about being professional and providing "good customer service" in light of scarce resources.
"A year ago, we told the public that service delivery was going to be diminished. We're staying focused on our violence reduction initiative," Jones said recently, describing the period when Stockton became the largest city in the nation to file for bankruptcy protection.
About the same time, Jones rolled out the Community Response Team that has made serious inroads in reducing street violence by focusing on crime hot spots around the city. That successful effort has taken valuable police manpower and resources away from responding to other crimes.
"We're committed to the Operation Ceasefire model focusing on guns and gangs. We can't for a moment take our eye off the focus on violent crime. The moment you take your eye off the ball and start changing priorities, you start to lose your forward momentum," Jones said.
He said Stockton's police force is the "second-most understaffed in the nation," only behind Bakersfield, but that south Valley city doesn't have nearly the gang problem as Stockton.
"It's actually mind-boggling, for the resources we've got," Jones said.
Just like other police agencies around the nation, Stockton police rely more on Internet and phone reporting by victims and witnesses, Jones said. And he made repeated references to the department becoming more "data driven."
That data, he said, is generated primarily by reports from the public about crimes and suspicious activities occurring in their neighborhoods. But if people don't make reports, police are in the dark about what's happening. The department's 911 dispatchers typically field about 1,000 calls every 24 hours.
"You're not bothering us, even if it's a busy night," Jones said.
He pointed to progress curbing violence being made in neighborhoods such as Fremont Park and Knickerbocker/West Lane.
"What we saw as a very high comfort level among criminals carrying guns. But what we're seeing is less and less of that today, and that's indicative of us being on the right path. The statistics are what they are," Jones said.
On the other hand, taking a quality-of-life crime that doesn't make headlines such as burglary - there have been 1,901 reported this year through May, almost the same number as last year - "if we see a spike in a neighborhood, we will go in. We still send technicians to take fingerprints. We still investigate burglary, but to the level we would like to, no," the chief said.
Data is important here, Jones said, because while police may not respond to every call, they are alerted to a developing problem.
Typically, burglary is a crime of opportunity committed by drug addicts in search of quick cash or juveniles from the neighborhood. While a high-visibility police presence is the No. 1 deterrent, Stockton residents have a responsibility too, Jones said, to "harden your own target" by being aware of what's happening in your neighborhood, observing the license plate of a suspicious car, pruning shrubs around your house, essentially "take all the care you can to protect your home."
Whenever he gets the chance, Jones encourages the community to become involved in crime prevention and reduction, "not necessarily physically," he cautioned.
"I understand people's frustration. We need them to report it, because that way we know about it," Jones said.
Contact reporter Joe Goldeen at (209) 546-8278 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/goldeenblog.


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The Blackhawks goaltender uses his entire body as well as his stick and glove to block the 150 pucks flying at him in one hour of a recent practice. Few evade him, and those that do are usually fired by superstar Patrick Kane. Most pucks clink off the goal post, slap the glass or ricochet off his pads.
The 28-year-old Crawford skates over to the bench where players keep equipment during practice. He would later give a stick to a dad holding his young son.
A sign posted at Johnny's IceHouse on the West Side where the Hawks practice reads: "Success is a journey, not a destination."
The Hawks look to repeat their success—Sports Illustrated favors them to win it all—when they open the regular season Tuesday. As the team tries to avoid a Stanley Cup hangover, Crawford finds himself with a new goalie coach, shorter leg pads and a shallower net.
The pressure of being that last line of defense could crush some. Not Crawford.
"I don't look at it as pressure," said the Hawk known as "Crow" to his teammates. "For me, it's fun. To have that challenge, to go out there and have that challenge to stop every puck, I enjoy that."
Crawford's journey hasn't been easy. Even though he was drafted in 2003, he was not a fixture on the active roster until the 2010-11 season.
His persistence has paid off. This summer he got his name etched on the Cup and a six-year contract reportedly worth $36 million.
A Montreal native, the laid-back Crawford idolized legendary Canadiens goaltender Patrick Roy and switched to the position when he was 9. Like Roy, Crawford won the Jennings Trophy, an honor he shared in 2013 with teammate Ray Emery for allowing the fewest goals in a regular season.
Off the ice, Crawford seems as normal as anyone else. He chills out at home with his fiancée and two dogs watching "Breaking Bad" and "Dexter." He bowls with friends and teammate Bryan Bickell, who enlisted Crawford as a groomsman in his wedding. After games, he often rewards himself with a steak at Chicago Cut Steakhouse.
"He's got a really relaxed personality," Bickell said. But he is all business when it comes to hockey. "His focus level has changed through the years to where it is now. He's an elite goalie in the league for a reason."
Crawford has mastered the art of harnessing the good energy and blocking out the bad—just like in "Happy Gilmore," which he is known to quote.
"Getting frustrated or getting upset doesn't really help," he said. "In the past, I've gotten mad or frustrated and it's carried on for a couple days, a couple games.
"Now I found from experience that this is a really good league and things aren't going to go exactly how you want it all year. In tougher times, you have to be able to fight through it and get past it as quick as possible because there's going to be times when things are just … no matter how hard you're working or how hard you're trying, it's just not going to go your way."
Crawford is known to stay on the ice as long as players at practice want to shoot pucks at him, said Jake Dowell, who played minor-league hockey with Crawford in Rockford.
"He's not a crazy goalie you can't talk to and has all these superstitions, but he is quiet and he's focused," said Dowell. "Usually he doesn't show a ton of emotion. That's sometimes a great quality in a goalie, to have him stay even-keeled all the time."
People who know Crawford outside of hockey see a different side of him, too. When fan Matthew Yore met Crawford over the summer, he tried to play it cool and failed.
"He's exactly how I thought he'd be," said Yore, admittedly gushing at the time. The 32-year-old attends games wearing Crawford's jersey and a replica of his mask. "Reserved but still amicable, and he'll entertain an overzealous fan. He seems like he would be a good guy."
His teammates speak to that, too.
"There's always a smile on his face, so he'll be a good time," Hawks forward Andrew Shaw said. "He always looks out for everyone else before himself. All around, just a fun guy to be around."
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During an exam for nearsightedness, your doctor will ask questions about your health, lifestyle, medicines you are taking, and past eye problems. Answers to questions about your family members can help determine whether you may have inherited eye problems.
When a child is too young to be aware of blurred vision (younger than age 7 or 8), the doctor commonly asks the parents questions such as those listed below. The answers may help the doctor know whether the child is nearsighted.
- Is there a family history of nearsightedness? Are the child's parents or siblings nearsighted? (Most nearsightedness is inherited.)
- Was the child born prematurely? (Premature birth is a risk factor for nearsightedness.)
- Where does the child sit in classrooms or movies? (A nearsighted child may have difficulty seeing the board or screen from the back of the room and so may prefer to sit near the front.)
- How far from his or her face does the child hold books to read? [A child with severe nearsightedness will hold books less than 6 in. (15 cm) from the face.]
- Does the child enjoy sports and games? (Nearsightedness makes it harder to enjoy playing sports and games.)
- Does the child squint or frown frequently? (Squinting changes the way light enters the eye and improves vision.)
- How is the child's general health? (A number of diseases may be associated with nearsightedness.)
After about age 8, most children can usually describe the blurred vision caused by the start of nearsightedness, so these questions may not be needed as much.
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The doctor inspects the eyelids and other external parts of the eye for signs of disease. Nearsightedness rarely has external signs.
To look for problems with the muscles that control movement of the eyeball, the doctor will ask the person to look in different directions (such as up and down). In a child, severe nearsightedness in one eye can sometimes cause amblyopia (lazy eye).
Jerky movements of the eyes (nystagmus) may be seen in children who have poor vision.
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So, Soledad wants to make it sound like Allen West is another McCarthy, huh? Well, the big thing she's missing is that McCarthy had to go turning over rocks to find wormy Commies squiggling around underneath.
Since then, they've come out into the sunshine and renamed themselves every which way from Sunday to signal their battle cry and raise their sinister standard for their minions to gather under, yet avoid conflating their radical, leftist, communist positions with the dreaded (with good reason) label of Communist.
But, we know how to read their web site, folks. It's chock full of taqiyyan statements about how they're for "equality" and "civil rights", which we all know from over a century of history are just code words for redistributing everything via a dictatorial Central Committee.
They are now brazenly stating their statism right on their very own public caucus web site. We don't need Allen West to "name names", Soledad. We just need the American people to print this list and take it to the voting booth so they know who NOT to vote for in coming elections for House and Senate.
Oh, and for President. Even though he's not exactly named on the list, the shoe certainly fits!
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An Army sergeant originally from Raeford was found dead, along with his 2-year-old daughter, in a house fire early Monday morning.
Sgt. Corey Flowers, 24, and his daughter, Kourtney Flowers, 2, died in the fire at a subdivision at Fort Lee in Virginia, WWBT reported.
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Superstorm Sandy ran up a $42 billion bill on New York, higher than expected, and the state and New York City are making big requests for disaster aid from the federal government, the state's governor said Monday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the cost includes $32 billion for repairs and restoration but also includes an additional accounting of $9 billion for mitigation of damage and for preventive measures for the next disastrous storm.
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He met with the New York's congressional delegation Monday to discuss the new figures that he said is "less than a wish list." The delegation, Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will now draw up a request for federal disaster aid.
Bloomberg announced earlier Monday that Sandy caused $19 billion in losses in New York City, which is part of the $30 billion estimate Cuomo used.
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Monday's briefing comes at a difficult time for Washington because of the dwindling funds left in the account of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Compounding the problem is the congressional effort to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that requires significant spending cuts by the end of the year.
Hard times were already facing the state and city governments which were staring at deficits of more than $1 billion before Sandy hit at the end of October. State tax receipts have also missed projections, showing a continued slow recovery from recession that could hit taxpayers in the governments' next budgets.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Friday had caused more than $29 billion in damages in his state.
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Members of the Moberly City Council okayed a request from the Randolph County Health Department to hang a banner on the Rollins Street overpass Oct. 9 through Nov. 6 during the regular meeting Monday night in the City Council room at Moberly City Hall.
The council also approved proclamations for Fire Prevention Week and National Violence Domestic Month for Safe Passage.
Mayor Bob Riley called the meeting to order and the pledge of allegiance was recited before a public hearing and receipt of bids for mowers at Oakland Cemetery was received.
City Manager Andy Morris noted several upcoming events including the council touring city facilities on Oct. 18.
Also approved was an appropriation ordinance.
During the work session, the council heard a request from the North Park Baptist Church for their annual Eternity House program and to close a portion of Porter Street.
They also heard a request from Main Street Moberly to host their second annual Haunted History Your on Sunday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 10 p.m. and close the 100 block of Fourth Street. Both of these requests will be brought before the council at the regular Oct. 15 meeting.
Tabled for the next work session was the ordinance to execute a License Agreement with HomeCare of Mid-Missouri allowing the City of Moberly to place and maintain a mural encompassing a portion of the south exterior wall of a building owned by HomeCare of Mid-Missouri and located at 106 North Clark Street and a proposal from the Tourism Advisory Commission.
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The students voted in early March on increasing their student fees for up to $145 a semester for a $20 million upgrade of the university's East gym to create a new, state-of-the-art rec center. Currently, students pay $24 a semester for their fees, said Katie Ellis, director of communications.
The vote failed 55 percent to 45 percent with about 2,000 students voting out of the 11,000 student population.
"We're disappointed that the referendum did not pass," said Rodger Summers, vice president for student affairs. "I think it would have been a great opportunity for the university to enhance the recreational opportunities for the campus community. It's tough to watch other universities offer more progressive recreational programs for their students. Our next step will be to review the needs of the building and examine other options."
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January 31. 2013 8:32PM
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has dropped New Hampshire's ranking from one of the most friendly states for charter schools to one of the most hostile, citing a State Board of Education moratorium on the approval of any new state-authorized charters. In its 2013 assessment of state charter school laws, New Hampshire dropped from No. 11 in 2012 to No. 30.
"The state had been making incremental but positive gains," said the report authors. "In 2011, a change to state law made the State Board of Education a permanent charter school authorizer. Only a year later, however, the board denied all pending charter school applications, enacting a moratorium on new schools."
The state Legislature has been largely supportive of charter schools, and two bills have been submitted this session to end the moratorium.
HB 299 amends the statute governing tuition payments to chartered public schools, while HB 424 requires local school boards and the state board of education to "undertake all actions necessary to promote the establishment and operation of chartered public schools in this state." The Department of Education request in the most recent budget cycle allowed for enough money to fund the students enrolled or anticipated to enroll in the existing 17 charter schools in the state, but made no provision for growth. Four new schools were well along the application process and hoping for funding. Those schools are in Nashua, the Seacoast, the Concord area and the Rochester area.


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MIAMI (AP) — A man held at Guantanamo Bay who was previously deemed too dangerous to release has been re-evaluated by a U.S. government panel reviewing cases as part of an effort to close the prison, officials said Thursday.
The six-member board decided that Mahmud Mujahid, who has been held at Guantanamo since January 2002, no longer poses a "continuing significant threat" to the United States and is eligible for transfer out of the U.S. base in Cuba, the Pentagon said in a statement.
Mujahid, who was accused of being an al-Qaida fighter and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden although never charged with a crime, was one of dozens of men designated as too dangerous to release but could not be prosecuted for reasons such as a lack of evidence or jurisdiction. President Barack Obama directed authorities to review their cases as part of a renewed effort to close the prison, where the U.S. holds 155 men.
Mujahid, 33, was the first prisoner to go before the review board. He appeared with his lawyer and two personal representatives by video link from the base in Cuba with representatives of six government agencies in Washington.
His lawyer, David Remes, welcomed the news.
"It's been a long time coming," Remes said. "He never should have been held and now after 12 years he should be reunited with his family. There is no longer any excuse for keeping him at Guantanamo."
No decision has been made on when Mujahid would be released from Guantanamo, said Army Lt. Col Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman.
The U.S. previously banned any transfers of prisoners to Yemen because of instability in the Mideast country. Obama has since said future releases there would be made on a case-by-case basis.
Of nearly 80 prisoners at Guantanamo cleared for transfer or release, more than 50 are from Yemen.


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Blackhawks wake up from slumber to take Game 5
Whoever said the much-needed "wakey, wakey" that finally woke up the Chicago Blackhawks isn't of importance.
The key for the defending Stanley Cup champions is they appear to have finally awoken from their mid-second-round-series slumber, and thanks to Sunday's 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild.
They now need just one more victory to advance to the Western Conference final.
The Blackhawks lead the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal 3-2 and will try to close out the series Tuesday in Minnesota.
"The fact that we've put ourselves in this position, still looking for that next level, is a really good thing," Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "We're not satisfied. We're not happy with the way we played those two games on the road. Lot of room for improvement, but we're confident we'll find it."
According to the fairy tale, Rip Van Winkle's nap lasted 20 years. By comparison, the 140-minute siesta the Hawks took – two games in Minnesota and the first period of Sunday's affair – isn't nearly as long.
It only felt that way to them and their rabid faithful.
The trend looked to be getting even worse, too, when Wild rookie Erik Haula opened the scoring late in the opening frame with one of the best individual-effort goals on these playoffs and silenced the United Center sellout crowd of 22,016.
Haula, the speedy winger drafted in the seventh round in 2009, picked up the puck deep in his own zone, raced by both Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith, eluded Brent Seabrook after taking a shot that Corey Crawford stopped, and pounced on the rebound.
Whether it was that goal or finally coming to the realization how important this game was, something finally jolted a Blackhawks team that seemed to be hitting the snooze button time and time again.
"For whatever reason, we couldn't get right in the first," Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa said. "I think the second was better."
Make that much better.
The hosts, booed off the ice at the end of the opening period, came out of the blocks for the second period as if shot from a cannon, dominated the play.
Bryan Bickell's power-play goal, his fourth goal of the series and seven in ten clashes with the Wild counting last year's playoff series, solved Ilya Bryzgalov.
To nobody's surprise, Toews broke the deadlock early in the third period, his fourth game-winning goal of the spring.
"He's unbelievable. That's why he's a superstar," Hossa said. "He finds a way to score big goals."
Not only is it the first time this spring the Blackhawks have won when the opposition opened the scoring, it's also the first time any team surrendering the first goal has come out on top in the second round of the NHL playoffs, taking 20 games to do so.
"It sucks to lose a game like this, and obviously when you lose, you're frustrated. You're mad," Wild head coach Mike Yeo said. "But I think there's been enough in this series where we should feel confident still. That said, we also recognize that we'd better be ready."
Think this series is over yet? The home team has won all five games and the Wild have a perfect 5-0 record on home ice.
By comparison, the Blackhawks have just one victory in five road clashes in this year's playoffs.
Plus, we're talking about a Wild team that overcame the exact scenario in the opening round against the Colorado Avalanche, erasing a 3-2 deficit with a home-ice victory and then winning on the road in the seventh-and-deciding game.
Not that they enjoy the feeling of deja vu.
"It would have been a big win for us going back home but there's nothing we can do about it now," Wild forward Charlie Coyle said. "We've been in this position before and we've always played well when our backs are against the wall, so we'll just get ready for that next one now."
"We've got to win," added Wild winger Zach Parise. "We just need a better effort. Not that it was terrible. I mean, we had our chance to win at the end of the game and we did some things really well, but I think we can be better. We know we can be better."
No assist came on the scoresheet.
Peter Regin's payoff will be peace of mind.
The reward for the Chicago Blackhawks forward was a winning debut but there's no doubt he played a key part.
On a night the defending Stanley Cup champions were trying all kinds of things to find a spark, Regin – a healthy scratch in all the previous playoff games – got into the lineup and made his presence felt.
His biggest moment was drawing the penalty in the second period, a hooking infraction by simply driving to the net, which led to the game-tying power-play goal in his team's 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild.
"I'm just happy we won," said Regin, whose last NHL playoff action was with the Ottawa Senators four years ago. "Getting back in the lineup after a pretty long time in such an important game. I'm just happy we won, that's all that matters."
Regin's efforts weren't unnoticed. He saw nearly 12 minutes of ice time.
"I thought he came in and gave us a good presence, good speed there, Steeger (Kris Versteeg) too," head coach Joel Quenneville said. "That line was effective for us. We got a four-line rotation which was all right, as well.
"Good response in the first playoff game for him, and we liked what we saw."
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FRESNO, Calif. - Western Farm Press and Bayer CropScience are offering free continuing education credit on-line for all Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) licensees plus California Certified Crop Advisers (CCA).
The new course for one hour of continuing education in California pesticide laws and regulations is now available on Western Farm Press' Web site at www.westernfarmpress.com. Just click on the box at the far right to begin the course.
The course has been approved by DPR for licensed California Pest Control Advisers; Ground Applicators (QC); Aerial Applicators (AP/JP); Ground Applicators (QL); Private Applicators and CCAs.
The course covers California's new groundwater regulations.
"Western Farm Press is pleased to join with Bayer CropScience is providing this valuable service to key individuals vital to the continued success of California agriculture," said Western Farm Press publisher Greg Frey.
"This course is another of Bayer CropScience's commitment to support our PCA customers," said Don Dirksen, Bayer CropScience district manager for California and Arizona.
The course, said Dirksen, is another tool for PCAs to use in fulfilling their continuing education requirements while maximizing their time in the field.
"We encourage licensees to go to the Western Farm Press Web site and take a look at the course and use it," said Dirksen. "It is part of our commitment to provide added value to pest control advisers."
Growing trend
David Duncan, branch chief, of the DPR pest management and licensing branch said this new on-line continuing education course is part of a growing trend.
On-line courses represent only about 2 percent of the courses approved by DPR, but it is growing.
There are now seven on line course providers; however, the Western Farm Press/Bayer CropScience course is believed to be the only no-charge course. Most others charge for logging on and administering on-line courses.
"There are a lot of people interested in meeting their continuing education requirements on line and not having to travel to take courses in person," said Duncan. "And we all know that many people wait until the last minute to meet their continuing education requirements. On-line courses help those people fulfill the requirements to maintain their licenses."
"We like on-line courses because DPR gets to see the full detail of the course and not just a meeting program outline," said Duncan.
Pest control advisors are required to obtain 40 hours of continuing education credit every two years; four of those must be in laws and regulations.
Taking the Western Farm Press/Bayer CropScience course on-line will account for one of those hours.
Duncan said DPR is always concerned that PCAs and others are up to date on ever-changing state laws and regulations like the new groundwater management code.
"On-line courses on laws and regs are compatible with our goal of getting the word out from the department on these important issues," said Duncan.
Duncan said the department is continually looking for improved efficiencies and on-line courses are "great examples of that."
Simple to take
The course offered on the Western Farm Press Web site is simple to take. There text sections on the subject of protecting groundwater are followed by questions. Answer the questions correctly, and you can move to the next section. If you answer the question incorrectly, a pop-up appears directing you to the text area where correct answer can be found. You then go back to the course and select the correct answer and move to either the next question or the next text section.
There are 25 questions in the course. Answer them all correctly and a certificate will appear for the licensee to fill out and mail, fax or e-mail to Western Farm Press, which is administering the course.
Western Farm Press will mail a scantron to DPR or a notice of completion to CCA administrators ensuring that those who take the course receive the one hour of credit promptly.
DPR has granted Western Farm Press permission to submit scantrons without signatures. This course has an assigned number like all DPR-accredited courses.
"The Web is a great tool to provide far more information to our readers than we can in a limited number of printed pages each month," said Frey.
"This and other courses in the future will be very specific to California and Arizona pest control advisers to not only maintain their licenses, but to continually improve the important services they provide Western agriculture," said Frey.


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The article by Yinon et al1 featured in a recent EBN commentary, will be used to illustrate four simple steps involved in hypothesis testing.2 The authors of this paper explored the possible benefits of antenatal steroid administration in the context of late preterm birth (>34 weeks gestation). One of the key outcomes of interest included the incidence of babies being admitted to a special care unit …
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|2013 Ides of August
|Co-organizer Dan Rogers (who worked with Professors Peter Mikek and Colin McKinney to put together Friday's event) gets his photo taken with 'Captain' McKinney. McKinney is teaching a freshman tutorial this semester using the Star Trek series' as launching points for discussion and intellectual exploration. (To go where no class has gone before.)


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Creighton's Season Ends With Loss To UNC
Creighton's Season Ends With Loss To UNC
GREENSBORO, N Car. —
Creighton falls to North Carolina, losing the second round tournament game 87-73.
The loss ends Creighton's run in the NCAA tournament and a record-tying season with 29 wins.
Doug McDermott led the Blue Jays with 20 points and 8 rebounds. Gregory Echenique scored 12 points, and senior Antoine Young scored 10.
Creighton won its first game in the NCAA tournament, beating Alabama 58-57.
Creighton's 29-6 season ties the school record for wins.
North Carolina advances to the Sweet 16 to play either South Florida or Ohio.
Watch KETV Newswatch 7's Thor Tripp at 10, covering Creighton in Greensboro, North Carolina.


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Mole Mapping
Mole mapping is a painless, noninvasive tool to help detect melanoma, a dangerous skin cancer. It involves using digital photography to track changes in moles, which can be an early sign of melanoma.
Who Is at Risk?
Mole mapping may be recommended for people who have a higher risk of melanoma, including those with:
- A mole that is larger than a nickel
- An atypical mole called a dysplastic nevus, which may have an irregular shape or an uneven color
- More than 50 moles
- Fair skin and light-colored eyes
- A family or personal history of melanoma
- A history of severe sunburns
- New or changing moles
- A weakened immune system due to an organ transplant, cancer, chemotherapy or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
What to Expect
During the first session, a member of our skin care team will take up to 20 digital photos of your entire skin surface. Then the dermatologist will look for any suspicious moles that should be monitored more closely. A microscopic photograph is taken of these moles which are then "mapped" to the photos. All of the photographs are stored in a secure database so they can be reviewed for changes at your next visit--usually six to 12 months later. You will receive a copy of your photos on a CD to be used to monitor your skin between visits.
If the dermatologist discovers a change in a mole, it could be an early sign of melanoma. At the University of Chicago Medicine, our dermatologists are often able to perform a biopsy of a suspicious mole on the same day as mole mapping. Early detection is important because melanoma is very treatable in its early stages.