SIDEBAR #24- Arias/Alexander forum

[YESorNO]

Bernina- Stay safe, I hope that it does not get close to where you are.

YoN- Do you know what program you have on your PC for picture editing? (Not sure if I can give you directions without knowing what program).

Everyone else...Hello :seeya:

Where would I find "picture editing"?

 

[Nymeria]

Where would I find "picture editing"?

When you click on a picture to open it on your computer (if it is a file on your computer, like a jpeg) what program does it open up in?

For Example- Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Corel Paint Shop, etc.

 

[YESorNO]

When you click on a picture to open it on your computer (if it is a file on your computer, like a jpeg) what program does it open up in?

For Example- Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Corel Paint Shop, etc.

Windows Live Photo Gallery?

 

[Nymeria]

Windows Live Photo Gallery?

Ok YoN I truly know nothing about this program

I did google the tools for it though, and I see it has editing options.
If you open that and click the "edit" on your toolbar it should bring down the options that allow you to adjust. I see the "color" option in the attached screenshot, that is usually where they ability is to adjust contrast and brightness.

I did find this page with instructions, not sure if it is exactly what you have though- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/adjust-the-brightness-and-contrast-in-a-picture

Or- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/photo-gallery#photogallery=organizeedit

Not sure if you are running on Vista or 7.

Wish I could help more, but as I said I use the "old school" programs that I learned on. I guess I should stop that and learn the new stuff or I am going to go extinct with my abilities!
Just open up your program and play around with the options, that is the way I learned how to work with graphics and creating shopped pics (I used to make a lot of avatars way back in the early 2000's for a program I used....gawds that seems like decades ago :tantrum: ).

 

[YESorNO]

Thanks Nymeria for the info. I did find that edit page and will play around with it and thanks for the websites. :seeya:

 

[YESorNO]

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

 

[YESorNO]

I know I've said this before :violin:, but I'm really bustin to hear the new mitigating factors that missy's :jail: team has dreamed up. What could they be???

Her old ones:

And a good article on mitigating factors and life for missy :jail: after her sentence:

"Mitigation is not about guilt or innocence. It is about mercy. So the mitigation specialist is rarely, if ever, a lawyer. The person who fills this job is more likely to be a trained social worker or counselor. This person puts together an extensive report on the defendant's background and/or accomplishments.

Jodi Arias told Troy Hayden with bitter irony that her mother "didn't beat her hard enough" therefore she has no pathetic childhood stories with which to touch the jurors' heartstrings.

But Arias is missing the biggest point of the entire mitigation proceeding. The most effective thing a convict can do to mitigate their sentence is to show humility and remorse....

The shock of her conviction left one thing clear to Jodi. Having lived on the inside for 5 years, she must know from the stories of other inmates how different it is in state prison. With her tentacles to the outside world severely clipped as the last of 12 jurors firmly called out "yes" to affirm their vote, Jodi knew she had to reel Mama Arias back in as close as she could get her. The dip of the head, the falling sheet of hair, the "my mom is a saint" comment to Troy Hayden, seemed to me to be designed to that end..."

http://camillekimball.blogspot.com/2013/05/jodi-arias-and-mitigation.html

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I really think that Nurmi/Wilmott are going to have her family plead for her life- what else is there? I've been racking my brains, trying to think of something.
The only previous mitigator that was somewhat true was "no prior criminal history", but even that is false- she stole the gun from Grandpa. And, maybe, she could show a lot of remorse? Sorry for murdering Travis seems easy, IMO, to say, since no one, the jurors, believed it was self-defense.

Just thinking out loud....

 

[Kensie]

The only factors that I see on that crazy list are her age and no previous criminal history. The rest is total BS. A good friend that slaughtered her dream guy. Not my definition of a good friend.

 

[Bernina]

Woke up this morning to smoky haze descending half way down the mesas to the North and East. It's strange not seeing any of the mountains that are beyond the mesas. The winds died down last night so the smoke crept across the the range. Yep, I smell smoke again.
Fire spread to 4,800 acres by early this morning, no containment, no wind yet but that usually kicks in by 10:00 am. Rain has been forecasted for tomorrow and Saturday, but only 10% precipitation.
Will probably see the DC-10 making it's descents through here throughout the day if the wind allows. They shut the Flagstaff airport down due to visibility, so we'll probably see and hear more fire aircraft making their way to the Prescott Airport.

Court Media still has jury selection going on for Hulsey today. Sent tweets to WAT and TrailDiaries Jen for info on what news outlet will be handling the trial.

 

[G&AMom]

I know I've said this before :violin:, but I'm really bustin to hear the new mitigating factors that missy's :jail: team has dreamed up. What could they be???

-- respectfully snipped --

I really think that Nurmi/Wilmott are going to have her family plead for her life- what else is there? I've been racking my brains, trying to think of something.
The only previous mitigator that was somewhat true was "no prior criminal history", but even that is false- she stole the gun from Grandpa. And, maybe, she could show a lot of remorse? Sorry for murdering Travis seems easy, IMO, to say, since no one, the jurors, believed it was self-defense.

Just thinking out loud....

I've been thinking about Jodi a lot lately, and how this retrial might go. The thing that concerns me is that, although she's been found guilty of M1, her attorneys are going to retry the case all over again. Basically coming back with all their bull**** accusations against Travis as "mitigation." I really don't put anything past them and, like you say, they've got nothing else.

 

[YESorNO]

I've been thinking about Jodi a lot lately, and how this retrial might go. The thing that concerns me is that, although she's been found guilty of M1, her attorneys are going to retry the case all over again. Basically coming back with all their bull**** accusations against Travis as "mitigation." I really don't put anything past them and, like you say, they've got nothing else.

I'm thinking the same as you are about how Nurmi/Wilmott will have to slant the truth and use the theme of "poor widdle girl, who was used and abused by the bad man" with more force- not that the verdict will be changed at all, but just so some %$!&%, like the foreman, will believe the bull again. "Poor widdle thing- look at her and judge the bad man"- Pftttt.

And I'm thinking that maybe her family will lie and say they abused her (we all know how Cindy Anthony lied for that :devil: in Florida- without repercussions) and then the former %$!&% foreman will say "I knew it! Wasn't I right!" (I can't stand that man and he shouldn't have been, never mind the foreman, a juror in a DP case- especially since most of his thoughts were how this "poor widdle, abused child couldn't possible be all to blame"). But there are others just like him, IMO, who might possibly be on the jury.

 

[rose222]

The Defense will add ' Borderline Personality Disorder' to their new and improved list. JA thinks it's quite 'clever' to use the State's own diagnosis in a plea for life. As much as I liked Demarte she made JA sound like an immature, young teenager. I disagreed with her diagnosis although she is the 'expert'!

 

[LambChop]

The Defense will add ' Borderline Personality Disorder' to their new and improved list. JA thinks it's quite 'clever' to use the State's own diagnosis in a plea for life. As much as I liked Demarte she made JA sound like an immature, young teenager. I disagreed with her diagnosis although she is the 'expert'!

But she wasn't a teen. And what she did to Travis, how she planned it, was criminal and brutal. No amount of mitigation can make her someone she is not.

What really strikes me is how much damage she tried to do even though she knows she should be on her best behavior. Imagine what she'll try to get people to do if she is given the DP. jmo

 

[rose222]

But she wasn't a teen. And what she did to Travis, how she planned it, was criminal and brutal. No amount of mitigation can make her someone she is not.

What really strikes me is how much damage she tried to do even though she knows she should be on her best behavior. Imagine what she'll try to get people to do if she is given the DP. jmo

Yes, exactly. Demarte frequently used the word 'immature' to describe JA's behaviour. It didn't help the State at least not in the penalty phase.

 

[Spellbound]

http://dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=131922

From Sedona.......Fires are starting up right before the Memorial Day Weekend. I knew I smelled smoke this morning! Can see the smoke to the East, very bad place to have a fire. Very steep canyons, and lots of trees and foliage where it's burning. We have wind gusts upwards of 35 mph + and the morning isn't over yet!
Hopefully, rain Thursday and Friday, but that brings lightning strikes. :scared:

More: http://www.kpho.com/story/25570473/winds-fan-fears-arizonas-slide-fire-will-move-north

27 miles as the crow flies. Talked to my son this morning, and when they were driving back from town last night, they could see flames coming from red rocks of Sedona that we can see to the East.
It's now around 900 acres, and the smoke is stretching from Sedona to beyond Flagstaff, I can't even see the San Francisco peaks.
We're West of the canyons and the fire is headed North towards Flag, but the winds here change constantly. If you head North from Slide Rock, in Sedona, it's a straight shot up through the canyon on narrow switchbacks up to the edge of Flagstaff, and then there's nothing to really stop the flames. If it's not contained in the canyon, it's going to be bad.

http://www.kpho.com/story/25570473/shifting-winds-fan-slide-fire-to-1000-acres

Aurgh! Was hanging out at my son's, talking "shop" and watching the winds shift the smoke. It's almost like watching the smoke from the Yarnell fire last year, winds are crazy today!



(We actually saw the Air Tanker coming down through here on it's decent to the Prescott Airport, those planes are so awesome!)



(Sedona is in Yavapai County, the upper canyon and Flagstaff is in Coconino County)





Not concerned about where we are because it's still pretty much in the canyon, but if it leaps up over the west Rim..........if the wind turns West, we're talking a very fast moving range fire with Junipers popping, dry grasses and foliage heading this way.

:facepalm: and forest, State Land Trust,and BLM fencelines everywhere full of a year's worth of dry tumble weeds.

Last night, pic from KPHO.

It's so sad, that canyon is so beautiful and it will take decades, if not a century to recover, all the wildlife.....If it sustains a lot of rain during monsoon season, the town of Sedona will be hit with mud slides and major flooding.

Holy *#%$!!!!
Went out to feed the horses, came back, the fire is at 4,500 acres!!!
http://www.kpho.com/story/25570473/shifting-winds-fan-slide-fire-to-4500-acres

Bernina, thanks for all your updates on this fire. Please stay safe! It seems too close for comfort, friend. :scared:

 

[YESorNO]

The Defense will add ' Borderline Personality Disorder' to their new and improved list. JA thinks it's quite 'clever' to use the State's own diagnosis in a plea for life. As much as I liked Demarte she made JA sound like an immature, young teenager. I disagreed with her diagnosis although she is the 'expert'!

According to NIMH and the DSM, this is how BPD is diagnosed (and I think missy only has 2-possibly 3 - I *- of these symptoms- if any at all. Of course I am not an expert, but just giving an opinion from reading this- BPD is not a mental illness , but a personality disorder):

"Signs & Symptoms

According to the DSM, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a person must show an enduring pattern of behavior that includes at least five of the following symptoms:

*Extreme reactions—including panic, depression, rage, or frantic actions—to abandonment, whether real or perceived

*A pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, friends, and loved ones, often veering from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation)

Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, which can result in sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans and goals for the future (such as school or career choices)

Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating

*Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting

Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days

Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom

Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger

Having stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms, such as feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml
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Now another view of BPD here:

"Specific Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

A person with this disorder will also often exhibit impulsive behaviors and have a majority of the following symptoms:

*Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

*A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

Identity disturbance, such as a significant and persistent unstable self-image or sense of self

Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)

*Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

Emotional instability due to significant reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)

Chronic feelings of emptiness

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

Transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms

http://psychcentral.com/disorders/borderline-personality-disorder-symptoms/

An evaluation of BPD for missy"

"Does Jodi Arias Have Borderline Personality Disorder?

"So, according to the DSM IV criteria, Jodi Arias would come close to the borderline personality criterion IF we only consider her relationship with Alexander. But BPD is by definition a personality disorder. It generally starts in the teens and is seen over time with many people, in many situations and circumstances.

That is just not the case here "

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...di-arias-have-borderline-personality-disorder
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I looked at most of the "disorders" here:

http://psychcentral.com/disorders/

And have come to my amateur conclusion that missy may have "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" more than BPD:

"Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

In order for a person to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) they must meet five or more of the following symptoms:

*Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

*Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

*Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

Requires excessive admiration

*Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

*Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends

*Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others

Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

*Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes"

IMO, I think she shows 6 symtoms for NPD (those I have starred).

http://psychcentral.com/disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder-symptoms/

Another view of NPD:

..."amoral/conscienceless--narcissists can't be counted on not to do something just because it's wrong, illegal, or will hurt someone, as long as they think that they can get away with it or that you can't stop them or punish them (amorality- amor·al adjective \(&#716ā-ˈmȯr-əl, (&#716a-, -ˈmär-\
: having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong: (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amoral) See chart which shows "amorality"- missy had a very high score- over 80+.

http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/traits.html

She scored high on "ego inflation"- see chart below:
"coming across as overly self-important, an inflated sense of self..."

http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/january-february-2006-chinafornia/ego-inflation

Carl Jung on the Pitfall of Ego-Inflation:

"In its mild and most common form, ego-inflation shows up as holier-than-thou attitudes and the mentality that “My way is the only way.” Of course, this degree of ego-inflation is not usually madness, but simple ignorance and naïvete, but displayed as arrogance. By contrast, the severest form of ego-inflation is actual psychosis: a runaway messianic complex that convinces you that you are a “perfect” embodiment of something “special,” called upon to deliver a “unique” gift that was unavailable to humanity before your “miraculous” birth."

http://wayofwonder.blogspot.com/2011/12/carl-jung-on-pitfall-of-ego-inflation.html
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Or maybe she's just a Female Psychopath:

"A woman whose extreme fear of abandonment leads her to periodic outbursts of rage over real or imagined transgressions, flips between seeing her significant other as either completely perfect or totally evil, or who has to constantly be the center of attention certainly isn't who we think of when we think of the classic psychopath. But she may be just as incapable of true empathy, and just as manipulative and deceitful, as the callous, unemotional male...(Callous. Unemotional. Lacking empathy. Aggressive. Impulsive. Acting without any regard for the welfare of others.)."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-equation/201205/female-psychopaths

"Is Jodi Arias a Sociopath?

"Sociopath is the lay term for the psychiatric diagnosis called anti-social personality disorder. Below are the symptoms. With the understanding that I have not evaluated Jodi and that this is an opinion and not a diagnosis, let’s run through them and see if she qualifies:
• Failure to conform to societal norms:
• Pathological lying
• Manipulation, deception, and cunning
• Impulsiveness
• Irritability and aggressiveness
• Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
• Persistent irresponsibility:
• Lack of remorse or guilt:
• Before age 15 and continuing, a history of antisocial behavior
Jodi Arias, as you can see, fits the sociopath profile in many, many ways, except for the most important criteria. There is no past history. Based on this, unless there is much we do not know she does not technically meet the DSM IV criteria as a sociopath."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201303/is-jodi-arias-sociopath

IMO, there's no previous history because no one's talking (from her past) and there's "much we do not know" about her life before Travis.
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This is DeMarte's explanation
("DeMarte discusses Jodi's unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, identity disturbance, suicidal behavior and ideation, affective instability, feelings of emptiness, and probably most significant to the case, "inappropriate intense anger...DeMarte testified that she does believe Jodi had suicidal thoughts spanning from 1995 and had feelings of emptiness. On the other hand DeMarte is also testifying that she believes Jodi's memory fog after killing Travis is a lie.)":

Expert Witness Janeen DeMarte on Jodi Arias: Personality Disorder & "Inappropriate Intense Anger" - YouTube
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Most of the scores of missy's other psych evaluations weren't spoken about at the trial (look at the dots and where they fall):
Narcissium @ 60+, amorality @ over 80+, Ego inflation @ 70+, and imperturbability @ 60. (imperturbability [uncountable] A state of calm, unruffled self-assurance; aplomb, composure.)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperturbability].)

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I think JM will have to enforce the idea that missy was 27 at the time of the murder and she wasn't "young and immature" by any definition. I think he will find a way, IMO.

 

[G&AMom]

The Defense will add ' Borderline Personality Disorder' to their new and improved list. JA thinks it's quite 'clever' to use the State's own diagnosis in a plea for life. As much as I liked Demarte she made JA sound like an immature, young teenager. I disagreed with her diagnosis although she is the 'expert'!

Or worse, they'll come up with new "experts" to give a whole new diagnosis -- God knows what it will be. I can't imagine there are any reputable experts left in this country that would touch this case with a 10 foot pole, but I'm sure Nurmi & Wilmott will find somebody.

I would like to think that Juan would prevent them for doing any of this, but the judge has definitely given the DT a lot of leeway because of the death penalty issue. I'm not necessarily criticizing the judge, but it's painful to have to listen to all this dreck. Can't imagine how the Alexanders would feel.

 

[Kensie]

What would we do without Yes/No?? She keeps us informed and entertained.

 

[YESorNO]

"05/20/2014

Based on request by the State because he is unavailable this date,
IT IS ORDERED vacating Oral Argument set this date and resetting same on 5/29/14 at
1:15 p.m. in this division. "

http://www.courtminutes.maricopa.gov/docs/Criminal/052014/m6316375.pdf

 

[Spellbound]

What would we do without Yes/No?? She keeps us informed and entertained.

Can't say it any better than Kensie. Thanks for all your work here, Y/N ! It is much appreciated! :yesss: :loveyou: