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Great post. Really enjoyed that. So it looks like I may have to check out this new software - sounds great. Thanks for the tip. Keep up the good work.ReplyDelete
Thanks to the information you've shared, this morning I learned that the app can be downloaded to an iPod Touch - I just purchased one so will download the app immediately.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing Caroline! Great review.
very cool Caroline, I don't own a smartphone, but my husband does, won't he be impressed when I download this app to his phone.ReplyDelete
You go, girl! Thanks for the great post. I will have to give it a try!ReplyDelete
I love your writing style. And speaking of style... I must get myself a new Graving Outfit! :-)ReplyDelete
Well, CM, You made a convert --- well that is, when I get a smart phone. My phone is a dumb tracphone, but i am hoping the genea-santa will notice this little comment!! Might even get a graving outfit to match --- i do like to be color coordinated.ReplyDelete
Great article, Caroline. Glad you like it.ReplyDelete
Lucie, the app will not function properly on an iPod Touch or an iPad. Neither has true GPS functionality yet. As soon as they do, they'll be supported. We need to clear that up in the next description. Sorry about that.
Have you been messing around in my Pictures folder? Because i've got those pics from the Sharon cemetery that I took last spring, and from Rutland that I took the autumn before that...ReplyDelete
I am going back to Sharon next month and will be armed with the app AND wearing my graving getup. Thanks for highlighting this app.
I get such a kick out of your posts! They're always so much fun to read!ReplyDelete
This app sounds great! I'm on my way to their website right now. I've got a 'droid and I think I'm going to need this!
I also visit my cemetaries often. I'm with you. I need to keep track of all my ancestors on my watch too! :-)
Thanks for the great info and post!
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Thanks, y'all. I'm glad you enjoyed the post.ReplyDelete
Lynn~ I'm sure your husband will be very inpressed when he realizes you've downloaded this app on his smartphone. Maybe he'll go graving too. Or perhaps he'll buy you a smartphone. Either way, you win. ;)
Judy, Joan & Denise~ Graving outfits are all the rage. Perhaps I should make some Family Stories graving t-shirts for my Zazzle store. Hm...
Brett~ Thanks to you for providing the app. It's awesome.
Thanks to everyone for reading & leaving a comment. .I really appreciate it. =)
Wonderful post! Does this mean that I now need to upgrade to a smartphone.ReplyDelete
For a similar app try billiongraves.com.ReplyDelete
Oh I wish I would've known this BEFORE my vacation!! I visited a tiny cemetery in Pa that had no info online. I somehow managed to find it but it was in a grove of trees away from the road with weeds and shrubs and everything possible. I took pictures of everything there but that app would've helped sooo much. (Also my blog has posts about photography techniques to help remember where everything is located... http://persingandbiedafamily.blogspot.com/)ReplyDelete
I will definitely remember this for next time. Thanks for sharing!
Great article, I wonder if it works for UK graves too? Presumably they must first be input using a GPS worthy camera? Will definitely explore this further.ReplyDelete
According to their FAQs page their goal is to have every cemetery in the world recorded, and if you are from the UK, to contact them. Here's the link to their FAQ page:ReplyDelete
And thanks David for reading and commenting. I appreciate it!!
This is very interesting. Amazing the things you can do with a phone these days!ReplyDelete
Thanks for review, it was excellent and very informative.ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Handicapping the Horse Race
Mission accomplished. The general public now understands that one cannot believe a single thing that is said by any candidate ever, at any time. This has been accomplished not just by a series of broken political promises—that more or less goes with the territory. But the news media and journalistic establishment have connived in the reduction of politics to pure propaganda, calling some politicians liars for having said things that they never said (e.g. Al Gore inventing the Internet), and letting flagrant lies from other politicians pass without comment, save for the "others disagree" squib in the next to last paragraph of the article.
That leaves us with the idea that "character" and "image" are the only important factors to use in evaluating candidates. So let's have at it.
Huckabee is running as a fundamentalist preacher. That seems to be working. Giuliani is running as the biggest bastard on the block. That seems to sell pretty well also.
Romney is having trouble because he can't convince the Republican base that he's not a Mormon. That is the only thing that will work for him, BTW; convincing the base that the LDS aren't a satanic cult is simply impossible. Thompson has lost the "I play one on television" mojo, so now he's just an old guy with a hot wife, and Kucinich might win the Republican nomination (despite his being a Democrat and all) if that were the standard. It just depends on whether you like blonds or redheads, although Kucinich's wife is a Brit and her accent would make most Republicans think that she's too smart to be First Lady.
You'd think that having been tortured would give McCain a leg up, but only losers get tortured, so he's out. Ron Paul is genuine, if by "genuine" you mean "self taught wacko," (again, very appealing to certain elements).
Over on the Dem side, Kucinich has as much chance of winning as he does as a Republican. Biden has a lock on the "Hair Club for Men," vote, but the only way he could finish farther out of the money would be to die his hair plugs green. Richardson is running for Vice-President; everyone knows it and everyone thinks he's doing a great job at it.
Dodd seems to be trying for the Integrity, Courage, and Constitutional Values vote, which means that he won't carry a single state. And there's certainly no money in it.
Among the front runners, you have a black man who isn't considered black, a woman who's supposed to be a lesbian martian cyborg, and a rich white guy who is the champion of the poor. None of the three is crazy, which is a distinct plus. Also, all three benefit from the idea that you shouldn't believe what they say, since that would interfere with their being all things to all people.
It's not clear what will happen when the electorate realizes that Oprah isn't married to Obama, and that Hillary is, in fact, a woman. I'll just repeat my frequent warning: never rule out the middle-aged white guy.
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- TStockmann said...
While I don't believe people necessarily get policies they'd choose, they certainly get the media they're willing to accept out of ignorance, apathy, or vicious resentment. I think of it primarily as a crime against me.
- December 19, 2007 at 9:42 PM
- James Killus said...
I'm pretty sure that our current media situation is due to a contract made in Hell: If you allow us to consolidate and concentrate power in the news industry, we'll make Right Wing ideology our guiding philosophy. I'm only mildly surprised that it took so long to get everybody on board and that there are so few willing to abandon ship, even at this late date.
I tend more to think of the entire matter as a game too complicated for for the average citizen to follow. Even real wonks have trouble keeping score sometimes. In any case, I blame Ideology, and spend the odd moment abusing those who have fallen for the Party line. I have no idea if this has any effect, but it's amusing to me, and I'm sure that we all can agree that this is All About Us.
- December 20, 2007 at 6:59 PM
I can either write three sentences on our current media or 3,000. I will just say that future historians will have a field day. Today's favorite (via Atrios): Someone decrying Romney's just eating the cheese off of and/or using a knife and fork to eat pizza. "You want, as a voter, to be able to say, "He looks like he knows his way around a pizza."
How did they know that was my deep and abiding concern.?
- December 21, 2007 at 4:55 PM
- TStockmann said...
My impression of my fellow citizens is not that they lack the organic ability to think critical but the sense of obligation to do so. Not sure that locating the failure in the moral arena makes me a meliorist or not.
- December 22, 2007 at 6:00 AM
- James Killus said...
I don't believe that my fellow citizens have a good idea as to what critical thinking is, or how to go about it. So, as a public service, I will clear up some of the confusion: critical thinking is what I do, so you go about it by first asking yourself, "How would James Killus analyze this situation?"
I understand that this is a very difficult question to answer, even for those who are gifted at thinking like me. However, the question itself should impart some humility, and humility is, after all, the first step toward enlightenment.
And jp, the first question to ask is in which hand did Romney hold the fork? You can't expect me to answer important questions about Presidential candidates without having all the relevant information.
- December 22, 2007 at 6:12 PM
- TStockmann said...
Tsk-tsk - anyone who seems to think that critical thinking is simply self-congratulation but that people/artists like Patti Smith and Magglethorpe are in some transcendent sense "magnificent" has clearly opted to check out intellectually for the duration of his middle-aged existence.
- December 25, 2007 at 1:39 AM
- James Killus said...
I understand that decoding irony, even the intentional sort, is often difficult, so I'll supply a decoder ring.
I do believe that there is more to "critical thinking" than mere self-congratulation. However, it is the burden of anyone making an appeal to critical thinking to explain themselves, especially with regard to how critical thinking departs from the aforementioned self-congratulation. You have yet to shoulder that burden, which tends to make me a little snarky.
Also, when you insult me, I'd appreciate it if you confined your insults to me personally, and not go off on any of the people that I might mention here. I've indicated my admiration for quite a few people here in the past months, and I'd rather not think that my evaluation can become merely an excuse at a cheap shot at their expense. It's a rather shabby way to argue, and I would hope that you can do better than that.
- December 25, 2007 at 3:14 PM
- TStockmann said...
Oh, come on - my wording on these comments tends to be be exact (as opposed to my typing), and you're not fanboy enough to take a refusal to sign off on the grade of "magnificent" for people neither of knows/knew personally as "an insult," expecially as the maint point was the objectivity of the judgment rather than the judgment itself.
Next, months ago I actually gave you a lengthy although not exhaustive definition of "critical thinking," heavy on technique and light on chest-beating. You didn't onject to any of the elements or suggest there was something important missing (although there could be), only stating that it wasn't practical as a curriculum element. What more do need?
And the answer about how James Killus would analyze a situation - I'd say he'd do a reasonable job if he disagreed with the stance he was critiquing, although with a huge dose of posturing and rhetoric, and a rotten job if he agreed with the conclusion. You're not one of the best who lack all conviction. Does this sound right? I mean, your mirror images pn the right think that the media is dominated by left-wing thinking. I'm supposed to take you more seriously than I take them?
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At first glance, Marion athletic director Grant Thierolf's choice for head volleyball coach may seem perplexing.
Brady Hudson has never coached volleyball before. His high school, MHS, doesn't offer boys' volleyball; his college didn't offer varsity sports at all. Yet Hudson was the one Thierolf tapped in May to take over the job.
Thierolf was thinking outside the box in looking for a candidate, just like Hudson had to think outside the box to gain his volleyball expertise.
Hudson didn't play volleyball growing up, but his two older sisters did. He frequented their practices, acquainting himself with the sport and growing his interest.
As a high school sophomore, he joined a club volleyball team forming in Wichita. He decided his senior year not to play basketball in favor of focusing on club. When he matriculated at Columbia College in Chicago, he found himself again attending a school that didn't offer volleyball. He and a fellow student formed a co-ed team, which he captained in his senior season.
He's been playing club and assisting with clinics in Chicago but decided to come home to Marion. It was a sacrifice of his career as a player to start his career as a coach.
It's been a good start, too, thanks to his team.
"I couldn't have asked for a better group of girls for my first season," he said. "They are spitfires — all of them."
He knows he's behind in the coaching process. Sandy Arnold, head coach at Hillsboro High School, has given him a lot of pointers since he came back to town. She also mentioned, however, that she's been preparing for the season since February.
He added that Thierolf and his wife, Deanna, have been helpful in getting him acclimated. Having not seen the team play last season, it's difficult for him to place expectations on his team.
"I know they had a winning season last year, and I want to have a winning season," he said. "But most of all I want to grow with the girls."
The team is led by seniors Sam Davies and Julia Hall. Hudson said junior Kirsten Hansen is a phenomenal talent, but her status is in jeopardy. She tore her ACL during basketball season in the spring and has a medical test one week before the opening game. Hudson is hoping she will pass and be allowed to play the season opener.
If her knee isn't healed, however, Hudson said her freshman sister Kourtney Hansen could fill in well.
Hudson commended the girls for their excitement for the sport, saying they haven't questioned any drill or instruction.
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Stems generally 1few per rosette
Leaves alternate; lower generally petioled; middle generally weakly clasping; uppermost generally bract-like
Inflorescence often ± flat-topped; heads radiate or discoid, 1many; involucre cylindric to hemispheric; main phyllaries in 1 equal series (often subtended by few, much-reduced outer phyllaries)
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Species in genus: ± 1500 species: worldwide; some cultivated, some of unusual form
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A Kansas State University professor is helping students improve their confidence and academic performance by creating a map of learning.
Candice Shoemaker, professor of horticulture, has spent more than four years looking at students and self-efficacy. Self-efficacy involves student confidence in understanding topics and is often linked with academic motivation, learning and achievement. Shoemaker's published research appeared in a recent issue of HortTechnology.
Shoemaker studied self-efficacy by creating a course map for students in the Principles of Horticultural Science course, the foundation course for students in Kansas State University's department of horticulture, forestry and recreation resources. Each semester, Shoemaker had between 80 and 100 students in the class.
Given the large number of students and the importance of topics covered, Shoemaker wanted to teach the course in a way that helped students retain understanding of course topics. She thought about what topics she wanted her students to remember in five years. She called these topics student learning outcomes, or SLOs, and they became the guidelines for the course.
"I decided that since this was a foundation course, it is a prerequisite for many of our classes and there was a stronger need for students to have skills they retain," Shoemaker said. "I wanted to help them understand the expectations for the class by giving them a map of learning."
Rather than base the course on a textbook, Shoemaker created three to five learning outcomes for each unit of the course and then designed lectures, class activities, lab work and tests around these outcomes.
"I was constantly reinforcing these outcomes and what they meant," Shoemaker said. "When we started a new topic, I would tell the students what the outcomes were for that unit and what they should know by the end of the unit. At the end of the unit, I would give them sample test questions that they should be able to answer if the outcomes had been achieved."
Shoemaker also wanted a way to track student progress throughout the course, so she developed a pre- and post-semester assessment. It wasn't for a grade, but she used it as a way to measure and understand student confidence in their knowledge of certain topics before the semester began and at the end of the semester. The assessment asked students to rate their confidence in their ability to understand topics such as identifying the genus in a scientific name, distinguishing between transpiration and respiration and writing a scientific plant name.
"If I was successful in teaching the class, these were topics that the students should be able to do," Shoemaker said.
She had students rate their confidence in understanding topics on a scale of one to five: One being not confident at all and five being very confident. At the end of each semester, Shoemaker had the students take the test again to see how much they had learned and retained throughout the semester.
Through four years of the study, the students' average confidence rated at a two at the beginning of the semester. That improved to an average of four by the semester's end, meaning that students were more confident in their ability to understand a topic at the end of the course. Additionally, student confidence at the end of the semester correlated with academic performance in three of the four years that Shoemaker observed.
"I spent a lot of time thinking about the end of this class rather than just what the class was supposed to be," Shoemaker said. "I knew this topic was important and I wanted to take that extra time and see if this really does make a different in student learning. It did."
Shoemaker has used the same course design for a new upper level graduate course, Urban Agriculture, that she is co-teaching this fall.
Although her recent work branches into the realm of psychology, Shoemaker still sees the connection with her horticulture research and stresses the important link between teaching and research.
"It doesn't matter what our discipline is as far as teaching or research," Shoemaker said. "If we are teaching, then we must be scholars in our teaching. A lot of times you see this division between teaching and research, but I think there is scholarship in teaching and we need to see that."
Shoemaker also performs research exploring the connections between horticulture and human health. She has looked into the health benefits of gardening with youth and older adults.
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A source who spoke to Gen. Petraeus told CNN's Barbara Starr the former CIA Director wants to clear up some misconceptions. He wants to tell Congress that he knew almost immediately that Ansar al Sharia, the al Qaeda sympathizing group was responsible for the preplanned attack on the Consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans. The question of their motivation is where the confusion lies according to the this report. Initially, there were up to 20 intelligence reports that blamed the YouTube video as the motivation. Those reports were disproven in time, but supposedly not before Petraeus had testified before Congress on the 14th, three days after the attack.
He also reportedly had his own talking points separate from Susan Rice's talking points which came from someone else in the administration, an account that seems to be at odds with a CBS report, Thursday that revealed "CIA talking points" for Susan Rice that characterized the Benghazi attack as "spontaneously inspired" by protests. (Uh huh.)
John Nolte, at Breitbart:
There's no question that at first a "fog of war" excuse made perfect sense. But what's also not in question is that as the days and weeks passed, the White House moved further and further away from what the President said on "60 Minutes" — which means that as those 20 or so reports were being "disproved," the Administration was moving further and further away from the truth.
How did that happen?
The other issue, and this is something I've been pushing for weeks now, is that both White House spokesman Jay Carney and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice told the media repeatedly that there was absolutely no evidence that Libya was premeditated.
Now we know there was.
It's one thing to say you believe the attack was over a video, it's an entirely different tightrope to walk when you're saying in no uncertain terms that there's "no evidence" of a terror attack.
Rice repeatedly claimed that the attack was the result of a spontaneous YouTube protest that had gotten out of hand – not a real terrorist attack, which Petraeus understood "almost immediately."
Here it is once again, the Heritage Foundation's recap of the Regime's disinformation campaign:
Republicans are not backing down. In fact, Sen. John McCain launched a fierce counterattack on Obama after he called McCain's criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice "outrageous" and said critics of Rice should "go after me."
McCain then reminded Obama that although he is the president, he is not the king:
He really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. I'm a United States Senator. We have our responsibilities, we have our duties, and we are not picking on anyone here.
And McCain connected the dots by noting that whatever Rice said, her marching orders came from upstairs:
Those talking points did not come from the CIA, they came from the White House. Who at the White House gave her those talking points?
Obama might do well not to cross a man who's survived more serious issues than a verbal attack.
Folks, has Obama finally gone too far?
And this is ominous:
Hot Air: Video: CIA to investigate Petraeus as he testifies?
Should there be an investigation as to how Broadwell got access to classified material? Absolutely, although the FBI and DoJ seemed oddly reluctant to make that an issue until the story leaked. This leak looks more like a message rather than due diligence, though.
Via Hot Air:
Petraeus testified for 90 minutesto the House committee first (not the Senate as I wrote above), of which the panel spent "ten seconds" on his affair with Paula Broadwell, according to Rep. Peter King. However, King and Petraeus had a dispute about his initial briefing to Congress, which turned at least contentious:
King said that Petraeus maintained that he said early on that the ambush was a result of terrorism, but King added that he remembered Petraeus and the Obama administration downplaying the role of an al Qaeda affiliate in the attack in the days after Stevens was killed. The administration initially said the attack grew out of a spontaneous demonstration against a video that lampooned the Prophet Mohammed.
"That is not my recollection" of what Petraeus initially said, King said today.
The congressman suggested that pressing Petraeus was awkward at times.
"It's a lot easier when you dislike the guy," King said.
Petraeus moved from that hearing to the Senate Intelligence Committee for more testimony.
Ace of Spades HQ: Update: CIA Talking Points Included Strong References To Al Qaeda; The White House Stripped Them Out
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What's Been Happening, Part 1 (or: Fun with DNA)
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Dad's DNA testing (on Family Tree DNA) resulted in contact with 4 people, 3 of whom stay in touch - and I with them.ReplyDelete
That was 2 years ago that he was tested.
I think your method of contacting folks is a good one. One thing I saw with people who matched (on at least 12 markers) was that some folks want to be reassured that any information they provide about living people will not be shared publicly.
So I always make sure to say that up front.
Dee at Shakin' the Family TreeReplies
Good idea, Dee - I will include that in future correspondence. I also offer up a little bit of any new information that I have on a particular line - such as where DNA evidence is leading Brinlee researchers, or some old articles that I found on Chronicling America, etc.Delete
It's always great to hear from you Greta! We just received our DNA results from FtDNA and I'm still in a state of "duh, what to do now." You are correct in that sorting through and correlating all this info is a challenge. Now that I know we can put a pedigree on FtDNA, I'm going to try and figure out how. Pedigrees are much more helpful than a list of surnames.Delete
Now to figure out how to organize the rest...
I do like your approach of contacting the close matches and I like Dee's approach
Great to see you back, Greta! I recently tested with FTDNA, as well, and am floundering a bit trying to figure out what to do next! I've contacted, or been contacted by, several people, most of whom have responded, and NONE of whom I could identify a relationship with. I know it takes time, but I wish I knew what I was doing so I could be confident I was making the most of this new avenue of research!ReplyDelete


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BEAT MY GUEST (Adam Ant)
Recorded 1981: B-Side release of "Stand & Deliver"
Also found on the Adam Ant compilations
"B-Side Babies" & "Antics In The Forbidden Zone".
I simply used power chords when transcribing this, however,
I'm sure full chords will work just as well!
B------------------------- I've given 2
G-----9-------7-------2--- finger layouts
D-14--9---12--7---7---2--- for A -> E.
A-14--7---12--5---7---0--- They sound similar!
MUSIC: Split into 4 riffs.
A: Beats 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & Played on string 1,
Notes E E E E E E F# E frets 12 & 14.
B: Bars 1...2...3...4...
Chords E D A A A Let chords ring.
C: Bars 1.......2.......3.......4....... Right hand
Chords EEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA damping.
D: Bars 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...
Chords D E D A D E D A D E D A A A Let chords ring.
Order of riffs:
Intro: A*20
(On 13th bar of intro) B*2
Verse 1: C*2, B*2
Verse 2: C*2, B*2
Chorus: D, B*2
Verse 3: C*2, B*2
Chorus: D*2, B*2
Outro: A*23
(On 9th bar of outro) B*4
LYRICS: Start on bar 21.
Verse 1: (Riff C*2)
Bar 1 2 3 4
Well tie me up & hit me with a stick, Beat me, Beat me
Yeah,use a truncheon or a household brick, Beat me, Beat me
Ohohoh's: (Riff A*2)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
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There's so much happiness behind these tears, Beat me, Beat me
I pray you'll beat me for ten thousand years, Beat me, Beat me
Chorus: (Riff D)
Bar 1 2
I'm black & blue baby I love you
be your dog for just one flog
You don't hear me plead for you make me bleed
Beat me Beat me
Verse 3:
Well use a truncheon or a cricket bat, Beat me, Beat me
A good beatings really where it's at, Beat me, Beat me
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The bankers are endangering innocent people, their pals are roughing up the law, and the people who should be helping out are sitting on the sidelines doing nothing You can almost hear Tex Ritter singing "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin'," the theme song from High Noon.
You remember High Noon. That's the movie where Gary Cooper plays Will Kane, a retired gunslinger who can't find anybody to help him defend the town from a dangerous gang. In fact, the townspeople give him almost as much trouble as the gang does.
The financial system has its own sheriffs, and bankers behaved like an unruly mob with one of them this week. Meanwhile Democrats were characteristically diffident and Republicans formed a stone-throwing mob of their own.
Red Lights Everywhere
The lawmen – both women, in this case – were being baited, taunted, and thwarted at a time when the economy's dashboard is flashing red with warning signs. A lot of people think Wall Street banks are healthy again because it's making a lot of money. But they were making lots of money right before the last crash, too.
A new report from from Bloomberg Government confirms that the "too big to fail" banks at the heart of the last crisis and TARP bailout have become bigger since the crisis, not smaller. Bloomberg Government reports that "the number of 'too big to fail banks' will increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years," adding: "Today, the top 10 banks hold 77 percent of all U.S. bank assets, compared with 55 percent of the total assets in 2002."
Here's another flashing red light: The Federal Reserve's chief bank regulator said 30% of the banks in this country have "less than satisfactory" supervisory ratings. Banks are "stabilizing" overall, said Patrick Parkinson, but banks in this country are "still in the repair and recovery stage."
Meanwhile the FDIC reports that 884 banks, nearly 12% of the banks in the country, are in danger of failing. More than 150 banks failed last year, and the number of expected failures this year, while less, would have been considered catastrophic before the crisis. Profits are up but, as FDIC head Sheila Bair explained, that's not because banking is thriving. It's because banks won't be setting aside as much money to cover losses from bad loans this year.
Super-Over-Prostituting Politicians
If one-third of America's airliners had "less than satisfactory" ratings and one-twelfth of them were at risk of failure, they'd shut down every airport in the country. But politicians are all too eager to help banks keep flying the friendly skies, unsafe or not. They'll probably even serve "a complimentary beverage of your choice" if they're asked.
Take House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who addressed the American Bankers Association this week and told them "You are at the center of what allows our economy to grow!" (That would explain our current record levels of unemployment and under-employment — 25 million Americans at last count.)
Cantor added: "We are not overregulated, we are super-overregulated!" "Super-overregulated": It's like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," the made-up word from Mary Poppins that inspires Dick Van Dyke to burst into song — but without the intellectual heft.
Cantor and his fellow Republicans insist that "We don't need more regulation" even as too-big-to-fail banks get bigger and staggering numbers of banking institutions remain fragile, capable of collapsing at any serious external shock to the economic system. And they're backing up their words with a series of measures to repeal (rather than strengthen) the reforms put in place last year. The bills aren't likely to succeed as long as Democrats control the Senate, but the Senate could change hands next year, and it's part of the GOP's plan to argue that deregulation will lead to more jobs. (Because, you know, the deregulation-induced meltdown was so good for jobs last year … or something .)
Tea Party Bankers
After they drove their own banks into the ground, taking the economy with it, you might have expected bankers to lay low for a while. But they're acting as self-entitled and unruly as ever. As Dave Clarke at Reuters reported, "bankers guffawed and groaned" at Bair when she told them they should support financial reform at a meeting of the American Bankers Association.
Mob psychology was the rule of the day, replacing even enlightened self-interest with blind hostility. As Reuters reported, "Audience members who complained about Dodd-Frank did not provide specific examples of what troubled them."
"I can't believe this. I really can't believe this," said Bair. These unruly bankers were mostly from community banks, which could actually benefit from financial reform. But they appeared to have been duped by objections from the "too big to fail" mega-banks, whose interests aren't aligned with theirs at all. Like Tea Partiers, these bankers were actually acting against their own interests. Like Tea Party supporters, they seemed to be easily manipulated and … well,there's no nice way to say this … not particularly bright.
"I would just encourage you to think for yourselves," said Bair. Good luck with that.
Imagining a World Without Warren
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers were just as thuggish to Elizabeth Warren as the bankers were to Sheila Bair. Joe Nocera documented the ugliness in the New York Times, in an excellent piece that should be read in its entirety. "The piñata sat alone at the witness table," begins Nocera, who noted that "the real purpose of the hearing" was "to allow the Republicans who now run the House to box Ms. Warren about the ears."
Nocera quotes Warren as saying "If there had been a cop on the beat to hold mortgage servicers accountable a half dozen years ago, the problems in mortgage servicing would have been found early and fixed while they were still small, long before they became a national scandal." That's undoubtedly true. But these Republicans don't want cops on the beat. They want cops who'll sit in the diner sipping coffee when they're told to, so the gang can run wild.
Warren more than held her own, which brought the motto of the Texas Rangers to mind: "One riot, one ranger." But she deserved a little backup from the White House, and it was nowhere to be found.
"Do not forsake me, oh my darling …."
The real story of High Noon wasn't the confrontation between the hero and the gang, but the one between Kane and the "good people" of Hadleyville who lacked the courage or conviction to act in a time of need.
The FDIC is suing senior executives at the failed WaMu bank for "recklessly disregarding" sound financial practices (along with their wives, who allegedly helped conceal their assets from creditors). It's astonishing that no executives had been held personally responsible for the destruction of the economy or a wave of illegal foreclosures, and the FDIC should be congratulated for this move. It should also be encouraged to move against executives of current banks, as well as ones that no longer exist.
But Sheila Bair must be feeling a little lonely. The Justice Department still hasn't brought any actions against executives from any of the big banks for their corporate crime wave. It needs to do so, and soon, if it doesn't want to look like those Western film sheriffs who are always saying things like, "Gee, Frank, if you want me to let the boys out of jail, just ask!"
Paul Krugman noted that "Warren has clearly faced a lot of hostility from within the administration …. " (Bob Swern has a good round-up of pieces about Administration resistance to Warren.)
On one hand, there are the Republicans, whose most eloquent spokesman is Rep. Spencer Bachus: "In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks." Then there's the Administration. Krugman points out that Warren "could serve (the White House) both as an able administrator and as a symbol of commitment to reform," while noting that "so far, the administration seems eager to avoid drawing any contrasts with the GOP, even when it has both justice and public opinion on its side."
This is the Administration's chance to stand with fighters like Elizabeth Warren, both in its words and in its deeds. Some well-targeted prosecutions, along with a strong defense of public champions like Bair and Warren, would be an enormous political boon. It would also be the right thing to do.
Elizabeth Warren stood alone on Capitol Hill. Sheila Bair's fighting the good fight. They're waiting for someone to step forward and help them. If it's any comfort to them, Will Kane knows exactly how they feel.
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Yaowa. A lot been going on these past three months. If you don't mind, I'd like to share it with you
Let's see. Summer of Oh Ten
Right before it kicked off I lost a really close friend
Last time we kicked it was at a show in Coney Island
f*cked with some b*tches, I swear I miss my homie whylin'
That was bad enough news, like I needed to hear more
Mr. Marshall Mathers is interested in us four
"Us four" being Crooked I, Joe Budden
Royce and myself, but I swear it's always somethin'
When talks got real, E-1 started frontin'
Tryna c*ck block, but we handled that, it's nothin.'
Listen close, hear it from the horse's mouth, It's crazy
The deal ain't finalized, but yeah, Slaughterhouse and Shady
Show's been getting better, Highline was retarded
When Fat Joe came out, New York City went bonkers
Styles P came out and held it down for all of Yonkers
Even Sean Paul ripped it after twistin up the ganja
Closed the show with Jim Jones,you know, Nissan, Honda
Chevy. Had the fans Andretti, that's a monster
Wish I coulda spit that on the stage at Summer Jam
Can't complain though, that verse helped me scoop a couple grand
Aside from the music, copped a new apartment
Two bedroom joint, nothing fancy, a little carpet
Marble in the kitchen, cool walk-in closet
A painting here and there, something simple for an artist
If you havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you, son
Well then feel sorry for me, cause I had more than one
Like E-1 and Slaughterhouse single, I lost the one
Before the us and Pharoahe Monch Canada tour was done
I argued with her like, "Being insecure is dumb
The only thing that I could get from all these whores is c*m."
We did the Skype thing in my bunk on late nights
Always started cool but ended in the same fight
Why I ain't picking up the phone once again
It only takes a second to reply to BBM
Baby, I don't know what to say
Maybe it was the 20 hour drive from Montreal to Thunder Bay
Maybe my phone died, maybe I'm sound checkin'
Maybe I'm on stage going in for the crowd, sweatin'
Either way it's over, you failed to understand
You were dealing with a star, not your average brother man
On another note, I got to kick it with my sons
Up in Dave and Buster's, winning tickets, it was fun
Hit Rockaway Beach, played some frisbee in the sun
At summer camp they had a Track and Field Olympics and they won
I took it down to Miami on the Fourth
Wobbled out a mansion, and did cameo of course
sh*t I brought to the telly looked like panties on a horse
Freak brain, this b*tch said "n*gga ram me 'til I cough."
(I gotta call that b*tch)
But yeah, Flex see that I'm focused
Droppin bombs like I did to get rid of the roaches
Feels good being Puerto Rican from the projects
Countries overseas having a ball like my cahones
This summer I did well setting up of Oh Eleven
Coming up on the year my granny said "Hello" to Heaven
My mom still goes through it, every now and then she cries
I'm trying to bring a different set of tears into her eyes
Free Agent is fire, the world's will sees it's tough
Gonna drop the Yaowa Mixtape with Green to heat it up
Shouts to ICU, the doc*mentary is nuts
Some people on there gone, a lot of memories, but yup
Gotta keep it pushing, though the ride gets bumpy
I'mma keep whipping it 'til I get money
Hate to be so blunt, but I came up extra poor
Borrowed from next door, couldn't get ketchup from the store
The butt of all the jokes, cause of the rejects that I wore
Matching perfectly with all the V-necks that I tore
But nope, not no more, my feet keep the sickest kicks
Still doing V-necks, but now my sh*t is crisp
I'm coming for the title boys, I hope you n*ggas rhyme
Treating this like high school, "A" game every time
Let you n*ggas party, go on Vacay, I'mma grind
'Til every verse I kick is like Pele in his prime
Y'all don't want a war, screaming "Mayday" with a nine
Your thought caliber is no match for this AK in my mind
Don't get clapped, like sex with a dirty sl*t
When I'm done with rap, they gon' hang ya boy jersey up
Cause I done been an all star on all bars
My dad left and the apple never falls far
So I'm gone like a sports car
Anyone who thinks they're better is just wild, draw four cards
I did this by myself, no help brother
No more sag, I'm coming for that belt f*ckers
Said my prayers and God called Joell's number
So stay tuned in the Fall
Farewell Summer


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Q. How are cancer cells similar to normal cells, and how are they different? I know that a similarity would be cells regenerate, and a difference would be cancer cells grow uncontrollably. Is there anything else?


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distinguish preferences from action, but whether we can identify those either before the fact or after the fact that had that inability to control their actions. >> yeah, but what we do know is that even like the one that kent presented, the pedestriano file out of virginia, that the vast majority of people who have a tumor like that who may have preferences and desires to act on sexual impulses don't. though we may not know in any particular case whether a person is an automoton, usually you can. the law has a bright line. it says if you engage in a wongful action, there is a defense called the insanity defense which never works as most of us know because we don't recognize it. should we recognize it, that's an interesting question. should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid
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of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. i think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will? well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. that to me says, yes, there is. now what do we want to do about it? now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal justice system? to date, we haven't. in the future, we may wish to. >> i agree with that. i think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the audience could control themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to earlier between how science deals with this question and how lawyers deal with this question is that you actually get a fundamental disconnect between the two systems.
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so you mentioned that lack of emotional control or lack of ability to control your preferences might lead to insanity, but, in fact, in most jurisdictions as you know, that's not true. after hanky was acquitted under the american law institute test because he could not control his behavior, congress in most state jurisdictions changed the law, got rid of the lack of emotional test, the a.l.i. test and now in most jurisdictions, the nontest requires that you demonstrate that you can't distinguish right from wrong. so now we have, and again, the law uses science for the law's own purposes, but what is problematic here is the disconnect. from the criminal side, if you lack emotional control, you go to prison because you can't win under the test because the test doesn't apply. when you walk out of prison and you lack emotional control, you get civilly committed. so what we have is a fundamental disconnect between
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how we view philosophy of free will and human control on the criminal side versus the civil side and not surprisingly on both sides "the state wins" because on the criminal side you go to prison and on the civil side, you get incarcerated civilly. >> i don't think that's much of a disconnect. i think -- so i agree with you the test has changed. that's not what i'm talking about. if you look at the kind of distribution of behavior, right, if we think the people at the high end of the distribution have perfect control of their impulses and perfect control over acting on their preferences. i like chocolate cake but it gives me migraines. i try not to have it because it tends to trigger if. maybe i end up on the normal distribution on the higher end. at this end we have people who have complete lack of control over their impulses. what the law currently does it draws a bright line. it says normatively, as a matter of who we think we should hold responsible, only people who are at this end of
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the line are going to be held to not be responsible agents, people who we will not held hold accountable for their actions. we deal with that with the insanity defense. do i think that's perfect? no. do we want to shift the line a little bit further over on the normal curve as we understand that a great degree more people have difficulty controlling their impulses or controlling their behavior or being able to act in a manner that is consistent with a higher level desire to act responsibly then maybe a lower level desire to act violently. maybe we want to shift the line. right now where society has chosen to draw the line is to be pretty harsh with respect to we will include as people who are agents of responsibility versus nonagents of responsibility. neuroscience could change that. once we understand and have a better understanding of human behavior and we recognize that there is a much finer graduation that we can draw than this bright line, perhaps it will shift the line or start
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over. it's not all that consistent, inconsistent with the way to do things. >> i think it is inconsistent, so if you want an open debate, we have to open the debate. >> i would like to jump in at some point. >> go ahead. >> we have the two distributions. we have one distribution based on "free will or volitional control" which applies on the civil side and used to apply under the a.l.i. test and now we have a new distribution of being able to distinguish right from wrong. so now we have two completely different distributions that we're drawing that bright line on. >> competent versus volitional. we can decide that cognitive isn't sufficient, but it is the basis where we draw the line. sorry. >> ok. so to get back to the science, do you see how the research that you're doing and this imaging and identification of areas in the brain that may be part of primarily psychopathy which we're talking about
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today, how would that be used in the courtroom? what is your opinion? >> classically individuals who have those trades, the lack of empathy, those traits predict future recidivism. if you're an offender and scored very high on those traits, you have a four to eight times increased risk of reoffending when released if you're an inmate. it is an construct on a future dangerness issue and used in risk assessment. the literature has done, it has helped us to understand that there are, that since the brains are very different, they're affectively challenged even, if you will, some attorneys have made the argument that psychopathy is an effective disturbance, mitigation in a death penalty sentencing. i have be asked to testify whether or not psycho paths have affective deficits. absolutely they do. there has been hundreds of years of psychiatric research
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shows that they do. you have this two prong thing. on the one hand more dangerous if you release them and don't treat them. on the other hand, they're affectively different. there was a very nice article in the "new york times" magazine on mother's day about children who have these emerging traits and how we would develop and understand and treat them. it's a small percentage. my goal is to develop better treatment so they can keep them off that trajectory towards life course persistent problems. >> are you saying that people that have the brain structure that you have identified will always be lacking in volitional control or impulse receive to the extent that they are criminals? do we have a subset of people that are criminals because of their brains? >> i should really differentiate psychopathy from criminality. there are a lot of reasons why individuals engage in different criminal activity. it's a very small percentage of prisoners that are just about
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15 to 20% depending on security level. those individuals are the ones that present the highest risk for reoffending. those are the ones that we say have the personality disorders, et cetera. actually, there is an amazingly good treatment programs that have been developed especially with youth that can show upwards of a 50% reduction in violent crime in kids with these traits if you put them in the right type of treatment. the state of wisconsin leads the way in this regard, by the way because they have invested heavily in these types of treatment programs. they have showed these dramatic effects. that gives me faiths that other states, california and hopefully others will adopt these very progressive and positive reinforcement model kind of treatment programs. and they have the power to reduce impulsivity and increase a little bit of empathy that allows that person when they're released to not act without thinking or to act less likely to act without thinking, and then to also potentially engage in better, general better
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societyal behaviors. >> you briefly mentioned mitigation and aggravation. professor, can you address the question of how you would use this information either as aggravation or mitigation in a death personality case? do you have any opinions about that? >> a couple observations. first it's worth noting that most jurisdictions, the rules of evidence, whether it's the kelly test in california or the due better rule in federal jurisdictions does not apply at capital sentencing. so many of the questions about how valid the research is and how robust it is doesn't necessarily come up because the standards are much lower in capital sentencing. it's a huge question. you could have exactly the same brain scan on the prosecution side as kent pointed out. these are dangerous people. many of them will say straight
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up, if you let me go, i'm going to do it again and i really can't control myself and that sounds aggravating. on the other side of it, we are to some extent the victims of our preferences or the inability to control our preferences. we are victims of our environments growing up. we are victims of our context that we live in and, therefore, we all, you know, are not "responsible for that behavior and therefore should be mitigating." when you look at the testimony that comes in, whether it's from a mother or from neighbors or from teachers that are talking about really mitigating circumstances, they are the rotten social background kind of arguments, the abuse and the suffering that that individual experienced and those things show up in the brain. the brain is also a sponge. the brain isn't simply created
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by genetics and it's very much shaped by environment. and so my mentor john monaghan likened the problem of predicting violent people to predicting violent storms. when you think of meteorology, you think of the difficulty of classifying a hurricane and tracking a hurricane, making judgments about such complex behavior that has sort of chaotic premises underlying it, you're going to make lots of mistakes. you're going to make lots of mistakes in both directions. sometimes you're going to make a mistake when you think the storm is going to hit and it doesn't and sometimes you're going to make mistakes where you think the storm is not going to hit and it does. and i think one of the great challenges, quite frankly, for the legal system, is understanding statistics well enough to make that judgment about where you draw that line that anita was referring to about where do you want to avoid the errors.
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you want to avoid the errors, a category five hurricane is going to hit miami but there is only a 40% likelihood that that hurricane is going to hit miami, do you evacuate the city? well, if you evacuate the city and it doesn't hit, you spent tons of money and possibly hurt lots of people in doing that. if you don't evacuate the city and the storm hits, then you have many deaths and much lost money. i think it's that statistical judgment that ultimately is the legal judgment that has to be made here and the best science will never get to that point where it will say we know with 100% certainty that this person is going to commit another offense or is not going to commit another offense. this is our confidence about that judgment and now you have to work with that in the best way you can. >> when i did the education outreach to federal judges, that's the biggest questions. generally they want to know can you help me do any better than my best clinical judgment?
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yeah, we can. we can design tests that can predict and they want to know how good can you get? risk assessments are getting better. they're getting a lot better. i look at risk assessments as i have identified the variables that promote risk so that i can develop treatment strategies to reduce those risks. so if you have somebody that scores very high in psychopathy and has all of the other risk factors that would suggest they're is an 80% chance of reoffending in four or five years, you can develop a tiered or strategic relief plan that would help mitigate those risk factors so that that person can be -- levels of risk can be brought down. that's how we think about risk management. i call it typically risk needs assessment, because once you understand the risks, then you can develop ways of mediating them and whether or not that's a brain difference or a picture of a scan or whatever it is, your brain changes as you age. i tried to show you that. and that change can be done through a lot of different ways, through education,
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through learning, through treatment, through talking to people or medicines all have big impacts on how the brain develops and changes over time. >> professor. my view is that this evidence has not been particularly useful either as aggravation or as mitigation. so i have been doing an empirical study over the past six years now to look at, introduction in criminal cases. it's equivocal at best. it sometimes ends up being aggravating, but so far it hasn't panned out. why hasn't it panned out? in part because science isn't quite there yet in that we're able to see some things at a group level, but being able to talk bay single individual to look at their brain and to understand the extent to which their brain differences contribute to their behavior is very challenging. there just isn't enough data for that yet. you can say things at a groupwide level, though. and so kent mentioned earlier
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the case out of florida in the sue presume court graham in which the court said the juvenile should be treated differently with respect to life without the possibility of parole. the same happened in simmons where the court has treated juveniles differently. it may be the case we can start to do that. we can start to categorize people. we categorized a group of individuals in virginia and said those people who have mental retardation have lesser couple ability for a whole host of reasons, they're more likely to follow people. they're more likely to be subject to peer pressure, less likely to have made premeditated decision-making. that's probably where this evidence is the most useful. we have a standard in criminal law called the reasonable person standard. this fictitious person that we measure everybody's conduct by. we say this is the person, the average person, the average juror, the average individual, the kind of conduct that we would expect an average member of society to live up to. well, as it turns out that none
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of us are quite average, right. and we might actually be much more like people who we share particular brain structures with or people who we share particular environmental and brain similarities to. so we might need to start thinking about more particularized notions of conduct based on what we would expect of a person who has that type of brain structure who had these types of environmental factors and then start to think about how we want to treat them. do we want to hold those people responsible for their actions or less responsible for their actions. are there certain people who would be better subject to medical treatment instead of incarceration. are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison? those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in the near term. in the long term, maybe we can get to the point where we make individualized decision-making, but so far it hasn't actually panned out. >> to all of you, do you think
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that it would be appropriate to keep this out of the courtroom, for instance, until there is a lot more certainty, or should we be using it now and run the risk that we're reaching potentially wrong conclusions? >> i'll jump in first on that and say it's already here. so the idea that we should wait for the science to get better, i think, is just, it's too late for that. so the cat is already out of the bag. the question is what do you do now that it's in the courtroom. well, we have dualing experts. we have judges sitting in a gate keeping role who have to decide whether or not the evidence should be admissible and whether it should be permitted in a case. my view is that the more evidence that we can provide to a scrr or to a judge -- jury or to a judge in their decision makings, some objective evidence, some evidence to bolster things like a diagnosis of schizophrenia or i.q., all the better. at the same time we need the critics in the courtroom explaining the shortcomings of
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the science so that we don't have false evidence that is introduced or undue reliance on science that isn't quite there yet. my preference is recognize it's already there, but make sure that we have robust discussions about the validity of the science before people buy into it too much. >> yeah, i would just add that i basically agree that it's already in the courtroom. however, i would caution that it's not in the courtroom for all uses. justice breyer in a case which was the third of the trilogy which is basically the supreme court weighing in on the admissibility of scientific evidence or expert evidence more generally, justice breyer referred to making sure that the science works for the task at hand. this notion of the task at hand i think ought not to be forgotten. the neuroscience might work for certain tasks very well and for other tasks not so well. so i think we have to evaluate it on a case-by-case basis.
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i very much agree with anita's point that a lot of the neuroscience right now works quite well at the group level and has not yet been shown to work particularly well at the individual level, but having said that, i think that there is, again, a legal necessity issue that is presented. if you go back to graham versus florida it is true that justice kennedy and the supreme court, the majority of the court said that you cannot impose life without parole for a non manslaughter offense for an add less is sent and therefore, he drew the line's did in roeper versus simmons at saying that at less sent are simply different. their brains are different than adults. they're less developmentally mature. what happened to terrence graham? he got sentenced. he didn't get sentenced to life without parole that was now unconstitutional. if you actually read what happened at the sentencing
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hearing for terrence graham, there was, again, dueling psychologists with a scrist and the state sigh kentucky scrist made the claim he was suffering from anti-personality disorder and in his view, no one recovers from anti-personality disorder and therefore he should be put away virtually for the rest of his life and the defense expert is said there has already been demonstration of his increased maturity and that i do think that he will mature out of it and the brain science supported the defense side of that. he got 25 years. that was the sentence. so even though i very much agree as a constitutional matter, we can draw those bright lines at the group level, in the end, just by necessity the law has to deal with individuals. >> would you agree that the judicial system is not really the best place for us to be determining whether or not the
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science behind neuroscience is reliable enough to make judgments? i mean, looking back at things like fingerprints and other tool marks and other sciences, for ensick sciences that came into court and now have been debunked, isn't there a risk, a huge risk? >> there is. i wish that more lawyers knew statistics and research methods. unfortunately, if you're really good in math, you don't necessarily go to law school. but if you're really good in political science or history, you might go to law school and you haven't taken math for a very long time. i think the reality is that the courts have to get up to speed. that was really the lessson of the daubert case and kelly frye as well, the lawyers, judges, the system more generally has to be able to evaluate the validity of proper expert testimony. we can't get around it. it's in the courtroom. the problem with latent
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fingerprints and firearms and handwriting and arson investigation and the list goes on and on as you know better than i, the problem is those were never actually evaluated. the court simply grandfathered it in or never even bothered to look at it. i can assure you that the forensic sciences, the nond.n.a. stuff is not brain science. it doesn't take a kent to look at the scientific methods underlying a lot of the forensic techniques and say that it's mostly junk. i do think your point is well taken that when you get to genetics and you get to neuroscience and get to some of the more complex science, i quite frankly think that law schools need to step up. lawyers and judges need to step up to do a better job of understanding it and that's one of the thing kent does. he goes around lecturing judges on the methodology underlying his neuroscience. >> just one note about -- a lot
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of the sciences that you mention are sciences that were developed not through order scientific method of driver, but -- discovery but were directed by the criminal justice system, the forensic sciences didn't happen from scientists following hypothesis-driven scientific methods and following the scientific methods. neuroscience and d.n.a. are different that way. interestingly, there is a lot of neuroscience collaborations that are happening with people outside of the neuroscientific field. it is still neuroscientists doing the decision-making. the quality of the science is different. >> definitely. >> as a result, the question of its appropriateness in the courtroom and whether or not we think that it's likely to follow the same fate and path that these so-called other sciences are, i think it's more likely to be like d.n.a. than it is to be like the forensic sciences which aren't really science to begin with. so i think we can take a little bit of comfort in having it in the courtroom, but also
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recognizing there is peer-reviewed literature that followed the scientific method. we can actually evaluate it in the courtroom. i agree with david, in order to do so, we need to increase the training of lawyers and judges and the general public in these fields so that people are critically able to evaluate the type of science that is introduced in the courtroom. >> just very quickly, i agree with everything anita said. the one area that you sort of have to keep your aye on is lie detection. two companies are now in the business of doing fmri lie detection. there the commerce is pushing the science a little bit faster than maybe it ought to. i agree. >> the science. >> the science, right, exactly. >> ok, we have some questions from the audience that i would like to ask. and i think most of these are probably for the doctor. first question, how does the brain research impact drug cases when the defendand is an
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addict? >> addiction does bad things to the brain. it dramatically changes the brain. in certain individuals, there is enormous vulnerabilities and risk factors from genetics and brain function that can precipitate or make it to be easier to get addicted to drugs. and there have been, i think, quite a bit of neuroscience focusing on trying to develop better treatments for individuals by understanding the mechanism of those changes. in the courtroom, i believe that to help judges, judges when we do the education, one of my collaborators who does this work teaches them how the brain changes with addiction, et cetera, et cetera. that may be helpful for judges sentencing to drug courts for addiction problem instead of prison for a long period of time. the primary problem is one of addiction and treatment of remediation of that and the
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subsequent behavioral problems and other things is probably far more cost-effective and good for that person than simply sentencing them to prison time. and so i think the neuroscience helps to educate and change our ways that we understand drugs and drug addiction. >> another question is have you ever been allowed to testify regarding i.q. in a hearing or a trial using your program? >> yes, i just did that this weekend. so i testified this morning. i do know that -- so the atkins case was actually argued by a professor at the university of new mexico and he is constantly barraged by what's the best way to assess i.q., especially when you have these different tests and different measures, et cetera. i.q. is one of the most well studied things in psychology. so taking a brain scan and fitting your brain along a dimension and getting a value is just a slightly different way of doing it than giving you the tests and stuff like that. so i have not obviously
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testified to anything like that. i just tried to give that as an example. there is an enormous literature out there that is already peer-reviewed and published on i.q. there are dozens of papers. the big question is how well can i take a single person's brain scan and with what confidence can i get a number associated with it that we would derive an i.q. those measures and ways that we do that get better every month, basically, every year we're getting more and more accurate at taking a single piece of information or complex piece of information and fitting it. to my knowledge, it hasn't been done. i am aware there are patents on estimating i.q. using brain imaging which is a measure of metabolites in the brain. i haven't actually -- i'm not aware of any cases in which it's been used. there is no reason why it couldn't be. >> the way it's been, nothing as you have described with the algorithms to map it has been
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used. brain imaging has been used to try to bolster a claim of lower i.q., not by an algorithm, but by showing brain abnormalities and other things that could be consistent with mental retardation and lower i.q.. >> i would add to that, this is an area that a partnership between the lawyers and the scientists could make a difference. i teach constitutional law. the question i ask is, why is low i.q. an excusing condition from the death penalty? if you go back to atkins and read the opinion, it's on the basis of an eighth amendment analysis of the twin pillars of the criminal law which are retribution and deterrence. the court makes the judgment that low i.q. means that you're less responsible and less likely able to be deterred. so the twin pillars of the criminal law don't really apply. but i'm not sure that the psychologists who do psychological testing and i.q. or the neuroscientists have
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really connected up the constitutional reasons why because it may be that they're substructures of i.q. that are more relevant to the eighth amendment question. it's not a general i.q. score that is ultimately relevant. in fact, the california supreme court has dealt with exactly that question of what subscales might be constitutional relevant rather than the global i.q. score. >> one question here which i think is very interesting. in my community, we strongly feel that diet plays a strong diagnosis of the violence we see, the intake of sugar which is heavily consumed is a factor. what is your take on that? >> diet certainly plays a role in controlling and behavior. you know, i'm not that familiar with all of the different science associated with different dietary restrictions and other types of things. you can certainly reduce the instance of aggression in animal models by putting them on dien
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