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As a litigator, I go to trial once or twice a year, but the vast majority of civil cases are settled through mediation these days. In mediation, there is no judge or jury, just a mediator who makes no decisions. It is his or her job to steer both parties to a resolution that is acceptable to both, even if it isn’t precisely what either party wanted.

There's nothing like a couple of garden tours to remind you that all things are possible with a bit of imagination.

Tyson Rylan Jordanwas born to Brienne Michelle Ruscoe and Skyler Steven McQueen of Ben Lomond at 2:43 a.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. He weighed 7 pounds.

There has been a lot of attention recently about the amount of radiation to which patients are exposed by medical x-rays. As with most medical procedures, x-rays are safe when used with care — especially because, in most cases, as little radiation as possible is used to obtain the needed results.

When I was a teenager and knew everything, I reveled in the countless Hollywood movies that depicted teenagers saving the universe. We were always smarter and quicker than those slow-witted adults, whether they were parents or the authorities. Our decision-making prowess was nonpareil. It never occurred to me that those feeble parents were once super-smart, quick teenagers. How they went slow and dorky, I just don’t know.