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Jurors found Smith guilty of the June 30, 2006, slayings of 10-year-old David Marcial, his 22-year-old uncle, Larry Marcial, and a 17-year-old neighbor, Luis Cervantes, along with the attempted murder of David Marcial’s 12- year-old brother, who survived the attack.
Smith also was convicted of a conspiracy charge involving the shooting, and a separate murder charge stemming from the March 31, 2006, shooting death of Bani Hinojosa in South Los Angeles.
Jurors found true the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and that the killings were carried out to further the activities of the criminal street gang, along with an allegation that he intentionally discharged an assault rifle in each of the shootings.
Prosecutors said the killings were in retaliation for the slayings of fellow gang members, but noted that the victims were not gang members or associates.
The panel deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting a second defendant, Ryan Moore, 36, of the June 2006 slayings. Moore was not charged in Hinojosa’s slaying.
Attorneys are due back in court on May 26 in Moore’s case, when the prosecution is expected to announce whether it wants to seek a third trial for him.
The first jury to hear the case against Moore and Smith deadlocked last December.
The .VIX and stocks rally together. does that signal a warning for the market? And is it too late to buy protection? With CNBC's Mandy Drury and the Options Action traders.
What is the smartest way to build an effective team? How can you ensure that dissenting opinions will be heard? How do you make teamwork exhilarating rather than exasperating?
Managing Teams for Innovation and Success combines a rigorous curriculum, team-based simulations, and design thinking principles to bring greater innovation and success to your teams and your organization.
Diversity provides tremendous informational and problem-solving advantages in teams, but only if the interactional dynamics of the team don't prevent that potential from being realized. This case discussion will identify the primary impediments to effective information sharing in diverse teams, and how to address those...
These sessions provide a provocative, experiential, and practical approach to leading innovation. The focus is on developing innovators (versus innovations), so your primary work will be to develop your team members’ capacity to innovate.
The first session exposes you to the principles of human-centered design and leads to a conversation about disrupting the managerial status quo, amplifying your organization’s strengths, and addressing some key weaknesses.
In the second session, you’ll use a design thinking framework to tackle a hands-on team innovation challenge from start to finish.
Take part in a live simulation that challenges your strategic abilities to leverage teamwork and information sharing to accomplish a stated goal. The team discussions will be captured on video, allowing groups to analyze their own performance during the debriefing session.
In this session, we will use the context of a group decision-making task to explore the ways in which team members can make their voices heard. In addition, we will identify strategies for structuring teams to improve members’ ability to hear and incorporate divergent and minority opinions.
In this session you will participate in an organizational simulation in which you will grapple with some of the central challenges of managing groups. Your behavior in the simulation will provide us with data from which derive lessons about the role of leadership and organizational structure in producing effective team...
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani's recent visit to China has been welcomed by analysts and businessmen from both sides.
"The visit to China by Emir Tamim opened a new era of cooperation between the two countries with impressive results," analyst Nabil al-Mrir told Xinhua.
"A number of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed during the visit including one on strategic dialogue between the governments of Qatar and China," al-Mrir added.
"The visit drew a roadmap to boost strategic partnership between the two countries in political, economic, investment, energy, technology and security cooperation domains," he said.
The analyst noted that Qatar is one of the biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers in the world, and China is one of the biggest importers of LNG.
"The expansion of cooperation in production and consumption of LNG between the two countries will be beneficial for both of them," he said.
Analyst Hassan al-Ali told Xinhua that the visit of the emir of Qatar to China is very important especially in the light of the ongoing blockade imposed on his country.
In early June in 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain imposed a blockade on Qatar and cut all the diplomatic ties and transport links with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorist groups.
Qatar vehemently denied the accusations.
"Doha needs to boost cooperation and trade exchange with various countries to change its economic development mode from reliance on oil and gas export to a diversified one," al-Ali said.
He pointed out that Qatar needs technologies and experience of China which has great potentials in management and production.
"The results of the visit will give a push to the economic development in Qatar quickly," the analyst added.
The 2019 Tesla Model X is no longer the only all-electric SUV you can buy this year. It’s swift, pleasant to travel in, and relatively practical, save for its somewhat silly doors. The 2019 Audi e-tron is the way for families to go fully electric in a familiar and very luxurious package.
Mr Makamba says that people need to be honest in their opinions especially when commenting on issues of national interests.
Dar es Salaam. Minister for State in the Vice President's Office (Union Affairs and Environment) January Makamba today, April 15, 2019, dismissed reports saying that the government’s decision to ban plastic bags use was spontaneous.
“There were various meetings with various stakeholders prior to the decision [to ban the use of plastic bags],” said Mr Makamba at the meeting, which aimed at discussing investment opportunities available in the production of the alternative bags.
Today’s meeting, which took place at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC), comes within a week after the government announced its intention to enforce a total ban on the manufacturing, use or selling the plastic bags in the Tanzania Mainland.
The MacBook Air laptop may be the most popular Apple computer among recent Mac buyers just four months after it was announced, according to analyst estimates. Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with Concord Securities, said that checks within Apple's supply chain indicate the Mac maker shipped a total of 1.1 million 11- and 13-i...
It's not clear how many of those Airs were actually sold since Apple does not break down its PC sales by specific products. Apple reported in January that it had sold 4.13 million Mac computers during the first quarter of 2011 (Apple's fiscal year begins in late September), and 2.9 million of those were laptops.
That means, in the last three months of 2010, the MacBook Air could have claimed as much as 26 percent of overall Mac sales and 38 percent of all MacBooks sold. In January, Apple said that 70 percent of all Mac sales come from laptops, up from 63 percent the year before.
But those numbers were just a drop in the bucket compared to worldwide PC shipments. About 93.5 million PCs shipped during the last three months of 2010, according to market research firm Gartner. PC shipments in the United States alone between October and December were 19.1 million.
MacBook Air shipments also pale in comparison to sales of Apple's new rising star, the iPad. Apple said in January it had sold 7.33 million iPads during the company's first financial quarter of 2011 (September 26-December 25, 2010).
Nevertheless, if the MacBook Air is truly the most popular Mac computer, you have to wonder how long it will be until more of Apple's Mac lineup mimics the Air's features such as an all-SSD hard drive, no optical drive, and fast start-up time.
The proposal comes from 13 US lawmakers, including Marco Rubio and Bernie Senders. Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment with a sham trial in 2014. Over a million Uyghurs are locked up in concentration camps to be "re-educated" from a political point of view.
Washington (AsiaNews) - Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, sentenced to life imprisonment by the Chinese government, was nominated as a candidate to receive the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. The proposal comes from a group of 13 US lawmakers, who want to push China to stop what many call the "genocide" of the Uyghurs in the Xinjia...
Tohti, 49, was a writer, economist, and professor at the Minzu University (of minorities) in Beijing. In 2014 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly supporting the separatist cause. In fact, Tohti has always tried to diffuse the tension between the Uyghur and Han population in Xinjiang, asking Beijing to r...
Some dissidents fear that Beijing wants him to die in prison, with the same fate as the writer Liu Xiaobo.
The group of statesmen who signed the appointment letter to the Oslo Committee include Republicans like Marco Rubio, the independent Bernie Sanders, the Democrat Richard Blumenthal.
The purpose is also to awaken public opinion on the situation of the Uyghurs. Testimonies from various sources say that over a million Uyghurs are locked up in concentration camps to be "re-educated" from a political point of view. Many testimonies speak of torture and extrajudicial killings.
The Chinese government has often justified itself by saying that the camps are "professional training centers". The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority of Turkmen origin. The persecution against them has intensified since April 2017. The Uyghurs are accused of having "strong religious opinions" and of being "politically inco...
How Old is Your Sports Bra?
This is not me. But it could be me if I didn't eat anything from now until July 1st.
How Old is Your Sports Bra? I got an email with this as the subject line recently. Granted it was from Fleet Feet, a running gear store, but still. A little invasive if you ask me. My initial reaction was to yell, “None of your damn business!” at my computer, but then, I opened the email because, well, I wanted to know...
“When regularly used, a sports bra should be replaced every 6 - 12 months,” is what they say over at Fleet Feet, you know, the place that sells running bras. I know this probably falls into the category of TMI, but my favorite running bra, a black Champion, has got to be coming up on five-years-old. Sure, I have newer ...
Are we all really so gullible, so easily convinced by the manufacturers of stuff that our stuff must be replaced so often? “Toothbrushes need to be replaced every six months,” say the toothbrush companies. This wasn’t the case when I was growing up. I think I had the same toothbrush for practically my entire childhood....
Sure I can buy into arguments about aging and elasticity, even when it comes to my clothes, but seriously? Every 6-12 months? For all this stuff? I’m sorry. I refuse. I will not buy new stuff when my old stuff appears to be fine, just because some company selling said stuff says I need to.
Maybe someday I’ll end up giving a resigned, and toothless, grin when the girls are hanging down to my knees, which happen to be ruined from wearing running shoes that are, gasp, eighteen-months-old, and realize all those companies were right. But I don't think so. However, it might not be a bad time to toss out that f...
I think I can say on behalf of the other 48% of the population "we don't really want to know," and also don't report how old is our jock strap. Of course, they might be sucked up into "6 months from now, do I buy the shoe endorsed by MJ or D-Rose?" Maybe by then my New Balance cross trainers won't hurt.
As part of the other 48 percent I do want to know, and I also have to ask: Do guys really own jock straps these days?
I feel an "athletic supporter" joke coming on. Someone stop me.
Yeah, I was going to make one, sort of like the Sox have fans and the Cubs have athletic supporters. But I won't.
Under Armour guy, Jimmy, or just don't work out?
*Which was not last year.
* Except for the out of shape ones.
** Except I have seen fewer of the former, although I recently saw one wearing a muscle shirt showing the sports bra band thru the arm holes, which raises even more issues.
I don't know if you've ever seen the How I Met Your Mother episode where they all decide to join a gym, but I definitely fall into the "Robin Scherbotsky: I'm Just Here to Work Out/Skanky Old T-Shirt from the Shawon Dunston Era Camp." It's probably for the best that I now work out mostly at home.
Thanks for all the great comments! Who knew we all felt so strongly about what's under there.
A double-entendre? Unintended or not, it's funny.
C'mon, isn't anyone gonna say it?
Thank you, Armella! And I don't care how juvenile that was. I thoroughly amused myself.
Two of my friends regularly send me e-mail from a university across the country. Recently their messages have arrived showing times that are several hours different than they should be.
Two of my friends regularly send me e-mail from a university across the country. Recently their messages have arrived showing times that are several hours different than they should be. I use Outlook 98. How can I fix this problem?
This isn't an Outlook 98 problem. In most cases, problems with time stamps stem from the sender. If the sender's system time is set improperly, that person should reset the time using the appropriate utility (such as the Date/Time applet in Windows' Control Panel).
What you describe, however, sounds as if the mail server at your friends' university is set wrong, because both users' time stamps are incorrect. Have your friends ask whoever is in charge of the mail server to check its time and reset it if necessary.
As rehab work on the Tobin Bridge moves to a new phase, drivers in Boston will have to deal with the impact.
Lane closures start on Monday, and transportation officials are warning of significant back-ups.
The northbound lanes on the bridge will be the first to be affected. Only two lanes will be open during the day, and only one at night.
The project, which begins Monday, is the start of a two-year long process, and officials say travelers should expect delays.
“I’m going to put Waze on and listen and follow and try to change my work schedule to get out a little earlier,” said Doris McGoff of Winthrop.
In May, the lane restrictions will expand to the southbound lanes of the bridge and the Chelsea Curves which approach.
“I work on the other side but when I have to go to Boston. It’s such a mess already. It’s just going to create more chaos for all of us,” said Cleona Sylvain of Everett.
Transportation officials say the bridge is not unsafe, but it is considered structurally deficient.
There are three MBTA bus routes that use the bridge. Transportation officials are recomending that anyone who uses the bridge, whether it's by car or by bus, think about trying to shift over to the trains like the blue line or the commuter rail.
To learn more about alternate routes, visit the MBTA website at www.mbta.com.
(CNN) -- Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan unveiled the 2009-10 Commonwealth budget, the centerpiece of which invests $22 billion (US$16.8 billion) in national infrastructure, saying it was forged "in the worst of economic times."
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan unveiled the budget on Tuesday.
The government expects unemployment to peak at 8.5 percent in 2010-11 and does not foresee a surplus until 2015-16, according to details the federal government announced on its Web site.
The budget will invest $4.5 billion (US $3.4 billion) in a Clean Energy Initiative that eyes a low-pollution economy, thanks to reliance on solar energy, carbon capture, and the development and use of renewable technology.
Under the nation-building plan, the government will invest $8.5 billion (US$ 6.5 billion) in roads, metro rail and port infrastructure. Of that, more than half will be dedicated to the construction and planning of nine metro rail projects across the country.
In his budget speech on Tuesday, Swan said that without action, the GDP would contract four times as much. By contrast, the budget will boost up to 210,000 jobs.
The budget also will increase the small business tax break to 50 percent for eligible assets.
In what Swan calls the biggest downward revision in Australia's history, the government lost $210 billion (US $161 billion) in revenue, or the equivalent of the entire government spend on health and hospitals.
Swan said the government faced either a dramatic slash-and-burn of vital services and higher taxes or a program of "responsible borrowing," and the government adopted the latter course.
"Net debt is forecast to peak at 13.8 percent of GDP in 2013 14 before falling again," Swan said in a prepared statement.
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have expelled a prominent American researcher weeks after he published a report linking soldiers to the massacres of civilians, the government and the researcher’s organisation said on Saturday.
Jason Stearns, the director of the Congo Research Group at New York University, was expelled from the country, to which he makes regular research visits, for making false declarations to immigration services, government spokesman Lambert Mende said.
Immigration authorities “wanted to present him to a judge but finally they decided to expel him”, Mende said, adding that he did not have any details on the nature of those declarations.
The group said the reason given by authorities for Stearns’ expulsion on Thursday was his “undesirability”, and said the immigration irregularities were “minor procedural matters, which we are taking steps to address”.
Its statement said the authorities referred to Stearns’ report about the massacres, without giving further detail.
Last month’s report said that soldiers in Congo’s army had participated in massacres of civilians in the country’s northeast since 2014, although it said it was unclear to what extent the military hierarchy was involved.
Mende sharply criticised the report at a news conference in the days after it was released, accusing Stearns of “abusive generalisation”.
Rights groups say more than 500 people have died in a wave of machete attacks and other raids since October 2014. The government has blamed most of them on a Ugandan Islamist group that has operated in eastern Congo since the 1990s.
Political tensions are high in Congo, where President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, is required by the constitution to step down before the end of the year.

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