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{"text": "selected publications\narticle\n- Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.. Nature. 2020\n- Comparisons of sampling methods for assessing intra- and inter-accession genetic diversity in three rice species using genotyping by sequencing. Scientific Reports. 10:13995. 2020\n- Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding. Nature. 588. 2020\n- Mapping of Genetic Loci Conferring Resistance to Leaf Rust From Three Globally Resistant Durum Wheat Sources.. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10:1247. 2019\n- Genetic analysis of resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum).. PLOS ONE. 13. 2018\n- Genomic selection for grain yield and quality traits in durum wheat. MOLECULAR BREEDING. 38:75. 2018\n- Characterization and mapping of leaf rust resistance in four durum wheat cultivars.. PLOS ONE. 13. 2018\n- Quantitative trait loci for resistance to stripe rust of wheat revealed using global field nurseries and opportunities for stacking resistance genes.. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 130:2617-2635. 2017\n- Effect of Co-segregating Markers on High-Density Genetic Maps and Prediction of Map Expansion Using Machine Learning Algorithms.. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8:1434-1434. 2017\n- A high‐density, SNP‐based consensus map of tetraploid wheat as a bridge to integrate durum and bread wheat genomics and breeding. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 13:648-663. 2015"}
{"text": "Archive for September 2015\nBARC India Appoints Nielsen to Conduct India’s Largest Universe Estimation Study\nMUMBAI /PRNewswire/ —\nThe Broadcast Audience Research Council of India (BARC India), the television rating company formed by broadcasters, advertising agencies and advertisers today appointed Nielsen as the agency to conduct India’s largest Universe Estimation study on television ownership and viewing habits.\n(Logo: ).\nMedia Contact\nSeema Singh\nseema.singh@barcindia.co.in\n+91-9702333354\nGfK’s Digital Ad Effectiveness Solutions to Include Mobile Capability\nNUREMBERG, Germany announce an innovative collaboration with Facebook to incorporate evaluation of Facebook ads into the holistic solutions now available to advertisers\n- GfK plans to launch capability in November 2015 in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and selected digital markets\nWith predictions of mobile ad spend reaching $100 billion in 2016 (51% of all digital expenditure) and doubling by 2019 to $196 billion (70% of all digital ad spend[1]),.”\n[1] Source: eMarketer – data accessed April 2, 2015\nFor more information on GfK’s digital capabilities, please contact Arno Hummerston on Arno.Hummerston@gfk.comor tel +44(0)20-7890-9404 or twitter @ArnoHum.\nIKEA Switzerland is the First Company Worldwide to Reach Highest Level of Gender Equality Certification From EDGE\nSPREITENBACH and GENEVA, Switzerland /PRNewswire/ —\nEDGE is the leading global standard for gender equality and has assessed IKEA Switzerland‘s policies, practices and numbers in five different areas: equal pay for equivalent work, recruitment and promotion, leadership development training and mentoring, flexible working and company culture. As a result, IKEA Switzerland is the first company worldwide to reach LEAD, the highest level of EDGE certification.\n(Photo: )\n(Photo: ) continues..\n– Cross reference: Picture is available at AP Images ( ) and –\nFor further Information please contact:\nIKEA Switzerland\nAlexander Gligorijevic, PR Manager, IKEA Switzerland\nTel. +41(0)58-853-36-55, alexander.gligorijevic@ikea.com\nor pr.ch@ikea.com\nEDGE Strategy\nJosephine Dunn\njosephine.dunn@edge-strategy.com\nIMD Business School Brings Orchestrating Winning Performance to Island Resort\nSINGAPORE /PRNewswire/ —\nFor the third consecutive year, IMD, a top-ranked business school and worldwide expert in executive education, plans to welcome more than 100 senior executives for its leadership program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) in Singapore.\nThe program will take place November 16 – 20 at Capella, a business hotel and resort located on Sentosa Island. Moving the program to Capella.”\nThe lessons given at OWP will be unique to business opportunities and challenges seen in Asia.\nKeynote presentations include: David Lim, Leader of the 1st Singapore Everest Expedition, on the challenges of change; Sunny George Verghese, CEO of the OLAM Group and Chairman of the Human Capital Leadership Institute, on growing a business responsibly; and Steven MacGregor, Founder of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona on improving physical and mental performance.\nDuring the week, Arturo Bris, Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center will also release the second annual World Talent Report, presenting a ranking of countries on their ability to develop, attract and retain talent.\nDesigned to develop leadership capabilities, OWP will explore a wide range of topics including branding, digital business, emerging markets, family business, finance, governance, and innovation.\n“Leadership is one of the most important and scarce resources that companies must wrestle with in the coming years,” said Margaret Cording, IMD’s Regional Director in Southeast Asia and Oceania. “OWP Singapore, as well as executive education programs hosted in our Southeast Asia Executive Learning Center, provide opportunities for executives to develop strategies for successful, long-term growth.”. ()\nMatthew Mortellaro\n+41-21-618-03-52\nMatthew.Mortellaro@imd.org\nHuawei, Vogue China and Fornasetti Collaborate on Special Edition Watch, Designed by Barnaba Fornasetti\nMILAN Mar ‘Design ‘designer: )\nVideo:\nOcclutech Obtains European CE Approval for Its Novel mVSD Device\nSCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland /PRNewswire/ — Occlutech, a leading innovator of implants to treat structural heart disease today announced that it has obtained European CE Mark approval for its dedicated muscular Ventricle Septal Defect Closure Device, (VSD). The device is a specifically designed implant indicated for the minimally invasive closure of muscular Ventricle Septal Defects, VSD.\nTor Peters, CEO of Occlutech Group, commented: “We are extremely pleased to be able to provide patients and cardiologists with this innovative product and expect our VSD occluder to significantly add and improve therapy options for this patient population.”\nOcclutech’s muscular VSD occluder consists of a flexible nitinol wire mesh with “shape-memory” properties.. VSD closure using implantable devices is an alternative to open heart surgery. over 80 countries around the world. Occlutech has several innovative products under development and operates facilities in Germany, Turkey and Sweden. For additional information please visit Occlutech´s website at.\nFor further information and queries please contact:\nTor Peters\ntor.peters@occlutech.com\nKatrin Biedermann\nkatrin.biedermann@occlutech.co\nAnnouncing The Park Bel Air, a Bespoke Residential Development by Domvs London and Junius Real Estate Partners\nLONDON /PRNewswire/ — Domvs London, a developer of ultra-prime residential property, has formed a joint venture with Junius Real Estate Partners, a real estate investment unit within J.P. Morgan Private Bank, to acquire a prime 11-acre site within lower Bel Air known as The Park Bel Air. The venture seeks to deliver the finest living experience in the world for a select few, through the creation of three grand estates. The estates, located at the heart of Los Angeles’ prestigious ‘Platinum Triangle’ (Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Holmby Hills), will accommodate personalized turnkey homes permitted for up to 61,000 ftsquared each, offering privacy, security, and Pacific Ocean, city and canyon views.\n(Photo: )\nKurt Rappaport, Co-founder and Owner, Westside Estate Agency, remarks, “Estates of this calibre in Los Angelesrarely come to market, let alone a collection of three in old Bel Air presented as thoughtfully as The Park Bel Air. Demand for properties at this end of the market, both domestic and off-shore, continues to outstrip supply. No one should be surprised to see the trend for prime property sales above $50 million in the Platinum Triangle continue.\n“The Park Bel Air is a landmark development on one of the most ultra-prime pieces of real estate in Los Angeles. We are thrilled to be working on such an exciting collection of properties that are like no other.”\nJon O’Brien, Founder and CEO, Domvs London, comments, “We’re providing ultra-high net worth buyers with a bespoke lifestyle choice in which every aspect of their estate can be thoughtfully curated.\n“When compared to other ultra prime property markets such as New York, London or Monaco, properties of this quality, specification and demonstrable value are surprisingly rare at the highest end of the Los Angeles residential market.”\nDomvs London’s development team, led by Founder and Creative Director Gavin Brodin, combines class leading architecture and design with a construction team poised to deliver, upon request, fully personalised turnkey homes on an expedited basis. Having secured final permits just prior to the adoption of new City of Los Angeles restrictions on large home developments, The Park Bel Air represents possibly one of the last remaining opportunities to develop homes of this quality and scale in Bel Air.\nPhoto:\nCersaie 2015 Gets Underway in Bologna, Italy\nBOLOGNA, Italy \nClimate Week NYC Ends With Leaders Confident of COP21 Deal as Coalition Representing 6 Million Companies Announce Support\nNEW YORK /PRNewswire/ — Business and subnational leaders set out programmes to cut emissions, call on negotiators to match them.\nKey figures who will shape the outcome of December’s UN climate conference in Paris came together yesterday inNew.”\nBeth Woodthorpe-Evans \| The Climate Group\n+44(0)207960 2970\nmedia@theclimategroup.org\nStrategic ISO Revisions Put the Customer First\nGENEVA /PRNewswire/ —\nThe world’s ten leading assurance services providers have unanimously approved of the International Standards Organisation’s (ISO) revision to the popular ISO 9001 management system.\n(Photo: )\nIn its most important revision for 15 years, the ISO business management tool has been significantly updated. The main changes include:\n- A more customer-centric approach\n- Greater focus on risk management\n- More emphasis on performance and achieving desired outcomes\nThe standard also includes a subtle shift away from its previous processes-driven approach and encompasses a notable reduction in the paperwork previously associated with the standard.\n“These revisions have not only modernised the standard by making it more relevant to today’s globalised, information-driven market place, but they have also turned ISO 9001 into a customer-focused business tool,” saidMarcus Long, the Chief Executive of the Independent International Organisation for Certification (IIOC).\nWith more than 1.1 million organisations currently certified globally, the revisions are expected to make the standard even more popular among supply firms and purchasing managers, where it serves as a cornerstone of quality management, in a world of increasingly complex global supply chains.\nMore information is available on\nNotes for Editors\nAbout AssuringSuccess.com\nAssuringSuccess.com is a campaign to raise awareness of the benefits that certification and assurance services can have for businesses. It is spearheaded by the world’s leading certification providers and the Independent International Organisation for Certification (IIOC). The ten leading certification providers, who collectively employ more than 322,000 people in over 170 countries, and produce a combined annual turnover of approximately$22billion USD[1], are listed below:\n————————————————–\n1. Rounded and based on exchange rates on 08/09/2015\nABS Quality Evaluations\nBritish Standards Institution (BSI)\nBureau Veritas Certification\nDEKRA Certification\nDNV GL Business Assurance\nIntertek\nLRQA\nSAI Global\nSGS\nTÜV SÜD\nAbout IIOC\nIIOC was set up in 1993 by a number of key international certification bodies, each delivering a range of management systems certification schemes and other assurance services. IIOC represents their views on management system certification issues and provides technical input to decision-making in this field.\nMore information is available in our press-pack, which is available on\nMedia Contact Information\nCampaign Website:"}
{"text": "Our kids love mail.\nSome suggestions for things to send along with your letter could be: stickers, books and arts and craft material. Our boys are big fans of soccer. They love football pictures, cards, magazines, and USB's with movies, songs and things they can enjoy.\nWe don't accept visitors to the farm so we do ask that you don’t mention that \"you would like to visit one day\". That is a lovely idea but the children will get their hopes up and wait for you to arrive.\nAlso please remember that if the parcel is too large to fit the PO Box Rafiki Mwema will get charged to collect the parcel. This can often cost far more than the item is worth. For this reason, we suggest a letter/parcel no larger than an A5 size envelope.\nHere's how to do it.\nCustoms\nPlease make sure the item is marked as having “no value” to ensure it makes it to Rafiki and puts a smile on the children's faces.\nPackaging\nPlease keep the package/letter small and use plain packaging; if the parcel looks exciting the likelihood is it won't get to its destination. This is the nature of the Kenyan postal system.\nAddress\nRafiki Mwema\nRafiki Girls/Rafiki Boys\nPO Box 4298\nNakuru,\nKenya East Africa\nThe staff at Rafiki Mwema will help the children read the letters and any stickers, craft items, etc will be shared around. While they speak the local language, Swahili, they are also learning English and your letter will be an educational tool.\nWho would have thought so much goodness could come from writing a letter!\n"}
{"text": "MALE, Yonkers, NY\nAbout Me: Rabid Yankee fan all of my life. Saw Maris and Mantle play at my first trip to the Stadium. Still see many game each year.\nYonkersman has not made any article comments yet. Check back for updates or leave Yonkersman a message.\n©2014 Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC\nSeparate multiple addresses with a comma\nRecently Commented Discussions"}
{"text": "Bringing Real World Experience to the Classroom The College of Contemporary Liberal Studies (CCLS) faculty members are experts in their fields, all with a minimum of a master’s degree and many with doctorate degrees. Our adult learners benefit through first-hand knowledge of current industry practices and trends as faculty bring real-world education to the classroom. Office Of The Dean Criminology Education Liberal Arts Master of Arts"}
{"text": "Net earnings came in at PLN 742.6m for 4Q12, down 7.0% q/q and 3.6% y/y, above both our expectation of PLN 720.3m and the consensus estimate of PLN 724.3m (range of PLN 660m – PLN 816m, according to PAP). This was driven mainly by better than expected costs containment, but also solid core revenues. Overall we expect positive market reaction supported by management recommendation for DPS of PLN 8.39 per share (5.2% dividend yield and 75% dividend pay-out). Net interest income came at PLN 1,221m (+1.2% q/q) slightly above expectations of PLN 1,200m. Net interest margin increased slightly (by 1bp q/q to 3.27% on average assets), driven by declining pressure on deposit spreads, despite growing deposit base by 1.1% q/q. At the same time there was a decline in asset margin (to 5.93% by 21bp over average interest earning assets). Net loan growth came in line with expectations this quarter (+0.7% q/q). Non - interest income came broadly in line with expectations despite weaker trading gains. Net fee income (+4.3% q/q) came above expectations. Net trading income (-42% q/q) came slightly below expectations, the result includes some PLN 44m income on investment. Operating costs came below expectations at PLN 878m (-3.3% q/q and - 4.6% y/y). This was driven by lower personnel expenses (-4.2% q/q) on natural attrition and presumably some releases of bonus accruals, while lower non-personnel expenses (-2.0% q/q) has been expected given less intense marketing expenses in the period. Net provisioning requirement (+4.1% q/q, 73bp over average gross loans) came in broadly in line with expectations. Asset quality has deteriorated further with the level of impaired loans increased to 7.3% from 7.1% in 3Q12, whilst coverage declined to 58.8% from 59.8% in 3Q12."}
{"text": "The ups and downs of life as a Bristol property developer\nWritten on 8th November 2016\n![ Big interview - Business feature on Jonathan Brecknell, founder, owner and director of Bristol-based developer Urban Creation\nDate: 11/01/2016\nPhotographer: Michael Lloyd/Freelance\nReporter: David Clensy\nEver wondered what it would be like to be a property developer? Interested in learning more about the man behind\nEver wondered what it would be like to be a property developer? Interested in learning more about the man behind."}
{"text": "MyClassifiedScript.com Review - Testimonials - Classifieds Software / Script 2013. - Write your MyClassifiedScript Review on Hotscripts.comVisit publisher site: MyClassifiedScript.com Review - Testimonials - Classifieds Software / Script 2013\nListing Details\n- Version:\n- 5.1\n- Filed in:\n- Scripts / PHP / Scripts & Programs / Classified Ads / General\n- Submitted on:\n-\n- Last Updated:\n- May 28, 2013\n- Publisher:\n- Thomas Korn Other listings by this publisher\nLicense & Pricing Information\n- License Type:\n- Other\n- Price:\n- $149.00 USD\n- Additional Info:\n- New Classifieds Script / Software - MyClassifiedScript.com - 2013\nUser ReviewsAdd/Edit Your Review\nDisplaying 1-4 out of 4 reviews\nThe beautiful script I got from these guys is wonderful. Their support is really 24/7 and they are friendly especially this lady called Ann. Even after four years from buying the script, they were less complicated in looking me up and even helping me troubleshoot a hack on my site. They offer to upgrade me to a new version for free and to even set me up with the mobile responsive script of my site. My name is Lawrence and I love you guys with all my heart. Ann I have never met you but I can say you are the most beautiful woman in the world.\nI really love this Classified Script. I searched a long time for a good looking Classified Software. I have been using it for 4 month now and everything works fine. CLscipt Team updated my Script 2 weeks ago. I have following Features now: - YouTuve Video option - Website Links option - Approval Classified Ad function - Text Editor Classified Description And its an 100%open source Script. It allows you to do modifications by yourself without license code. I can recommend the Script\nI love this software and the support team helped me very fast; they got the things I needed to be done very quickly! Product itself is very solid and has a lot of features. It leaves me feeling satisfied because I got more that what I expected. Thank you CLscript-Team\nBottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend\nThe script is clean, but obviously has several bugs regarding features and process. It looks like a school project, and is perfect for learning php, mysql and basics of database programming, installation etc. The code is nestled, where the UI language is not separated from code. You need to create and integrate location and map-handling for your self. The category management works, but is not connected to the UI, so you need to delete (not just deactivate) the category if you don't want it to display. If a category is free the new listings box will show the listing, but if the listing is not free the the new listings will not show in the new listings box. . . . The same applies for messaging, expiry, approvals, administration ... there are several things to improve. The problem comes as you change code (even translate), the script will not be upgradable. For basic learning it is great, but for a commercial site it requires a significant work effort which will not be reusable. I choose not to recommend the script for its purpose, as it lacks many basic classifieds elements. For learning and teaching it is better then buying a book, as you can point out several architectural mistakes and improvement needs.\nBottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend"}
{"text": "Alicia J. Schumacher\nAlicia Schumacher is an experienced litigation attorney who has successfully represented clients in a wide range of commercial, franchise, and employment disputes in both state and federal courts. Ms. Schumacher regularly counsels clients regarding employment situations and preventative employment measures and has successfully represented clients in claims before the United States Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Florida Commission on Human Relations. Ms. Schumacher also represents corporate and individual clients at the appellate level and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.\nMs. Schumacher has lectured on both franchise and employment law topics and is also a certified Florida Circuit Court and approved Middle District of Florida mediator.\nProfessional & Community Affiliations\nHillsborough Association of Women Lawyers, Mentor Attorney\nFlorida Association of Women Lawyers, Membership Committee\nHillsborough County Bar Association\n- Served as a guardian ad litem attorney\n- Provides pro bono services\nThe Florida Bar, Labor and Employment Law section\nAmerican Bar Association\nWomen’s Franchising Network of Tampa Bay\nThe Junior League of Tampa\nTampa Connection\nHillsborough County \"Just Friends\" Mentoring Program\nSouth Tampa Young Men's Service League, Parent and Founding Member\nHonors & Recognitions\nAV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated, by Martindale-Hubbell®\nMartindale Hubbel’s Bar Registry of Preeminent Women Lawyers\nPersonal\nMs. Schumacher was born in Limestone, Maine and was raised in Niceville, Florida.\nEducation\nFlorida State University, J.D.\n- Member/Officer Moot Court Team\nFlorida State University, B.A. in History, magna cum laude\nOmicron Delta Kappa, President and Outstanding Senior\nFlorida Sate University Outstanding Leadership Award\nPhi Beta Kappa\nBar and Court Admissions\nFlorida\nUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Florida\nUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit"}
{"text": "Blue Monday, Part 3A duo of poems, Border Control 1 & 2, completes this MAP selection from Blue Monday by Zara Joan Miller\nBlue Monday, Part 2The second group of 3 poems from Zara Joan Miller’s Blue Monday series\nBlue Monday, Part 1The first 3 in a suite of poems by Zara Joan Miller, published by MAP across 3 days. These form part of a larger collection by Miller, written over the past 3 years. The ‘Blue Monday’ phenomenon claims that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year\nAnd the tears cameAdjoa Armah reflects on her relationship to dreaming as a dreamer with aphantasia: a condition she experiences as having a blind mind’s eye and an inability to voluntarily recall basic sensorial information\n"}
{"text": "On July 8, 2019, the Lake Hopatcong Commission formulated a meeting to help educate the public and to answer all questions on the status of Lake Hopatcong and the Blue-Green Algae problem.\nThe meeting was attended by over 300 residents who had the ability to ask questions of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) who closed the lake, and Princeton Hydro who has been doing independent testing on the lake for the last eight years.\nThe Bottom Line:\nDuring the meeting, the public learned that while Lake Hopatcong continues to improve, test results still show levels higher than the New Jersey limits on cell counts for cyanobacteria. The NJDEP will continue to do weekly a fly-over and physically test the lake twice a week.\nAt this time there is no estimate of when Lake Hopatcong or portions of the lake will reopen to water contact such as swimming. As mentioned by the NJDEP and the residents, the closure does not include boating. The NJDEP members were boating on Lake Hopatcong today to observe the lake closely, and they encourage people to continue to enjoy boating on the lake.\nThe provided short video taken during the public Q&A swimming provides a good summary of the current status.\nResidents ask Tough Questions\nAfter a brief presentation from NJDEP and Princeton Hydro the Residents asked tough questions about how this happened, what can be done to prevent this from happening in the future, and when will the lake be reopened.\nMove Coverage Coming\nDue to the lateness of the hour, Hopatcong Lake Regional News will update this article on Tuesday with more information from the three-hour meeting.)"}
{"text": "You.\nFollow these instructions if you want your blind to hang inside the window recess:\n1. Measure the width of the recess from wall to wall in three places as shown below. Note down the shortest measurement - this is the one we'll use.\n2..\nFollow these instructions if you want your blind to hang outside the window recess:\n1. Measure the exact width of where you'd like your blind to be. Note down the measurement.\n2. Measure the exact drop from the top of where you want your blind to be, to the bottom. Note down the measurement.\nPlease note for the drop of a Vertical blind be sure to measure down to your window sill, we will deduct off the drop for both Exact and Recess measurements to ensure your louvres run smoothly along your sill..\nMeasuring Velux Window Blinds\nThere is no need for measuring; you only need to provide us with a reference number. To do this simply check your unique Velux data plate (see diagram below), for the reference number and match it up using the drop down menu that appears once you have picked your fabric. Please note the data plate is only visible when the window is open and can be found on the top sash of the window.\nType = the first 3 letters (For example GGL, GHL or GPL) Size = the following numbers (1-3 digits long which may include a letter for example S06, 606 or 4) illustrations to the right:)\nThere is no need to measure your window when replacing your louvres simply measure the length of one of your current vertical blind slats louvres (this is the drop including both pockets), this measurement will always need to be exact. You may find it easier to place one slat straight on the floor to measure it. The width of your louvres will be 89mm or 127mm width louvres. Our top hangers are the double hangers and are compatible with most vertical blind tracks on the market now. Always keep your old top hangers just in case ours are not compatible with your hooks/pegs. If you are unsure you can email us a picture and we will have a look. Then send us your hangers and we will gladly sew them in to the vertical blind slats for you.\nOur top hangers look like these:\nWhen measuring for pvc rigid blind slats you need to add 10mm on top for the difference between the top of the new slat to the bottom of the hole. A diagram can be emailed to you if required. We will always ask you if you have added on the extra 10mm.\nIf your slimline vertical blind track just needs a simple fix for e.g. re-cording here are some simple videos to show you how:\nSplit Draw\nOne Way Draw\nOne Way Draw To Opposite side Blinds are suitable, please contact us.\nHandy hints\nTake all your measurements in millimeters. Always look out for things like window handles, dado rails or tiles. You'll please feel free to contact us by phone or email.\nCleaning Your Blinds\nThere feather feather duster or a feather duster. If you can't machine wash your fabric, use a damp cloth with lukewarm water to wipe clean. For tougher stains use a mild detergent and spot clean. If your vertical blind track is in good working order and you just want to brighten your room up you can purchase Replacement Louvres from our shop..\nVerticals Venetians Rollers Velux Pleated Panel Wood BlindSpares\nReplacement Louvres Shutters and security grilles Luxaflex Facette"}
{"text": "Hi Renato, do we have an idea which was the latest commit that the buildbots (really) tested? - V. Kalintiris ________________________________________ From: cfe-dev [cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] on behalf of Renato Golin via cfe-dev [cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org] Sent: 05 September 2016 23:24 To: Krzysztof Parzyszek Cc: LLVM Dev; Clang Dev Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] Buildbot General Failure - Production Stop? On 5 September 2016 at 23:04, Krzysztof Parzyszek <kparzysz at codeaurora.org> wrote: > Let's first see how bad it is once bots are fixed to build the latest > revision. It's only been a few days and that includes a weekend. Of course. I'll wait until all our bots return from the first round to know the size of the damage. I just wanted to warn all other buildbot owners and general public that we do have a tough situation going, and if their patches are not essential, maybe voluntarily hold on for a while would be a good idea. (Though, now that I read my email, it does sound alarmist. I'm in panic mode right now, so I apologise :). But all other affected bots won't come back until Galina reverts and restart the master (or until their owners work around like I did). There's no way of knowing how bad it is if the bots continue chugging bogus green status to every commit... cheers, --renato _______________________________________________ cfe-dev mailing list cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org"}
{"text": "Recommended update for microcode_ctl\nKnowledgebase\n(Last modified: 06JUL2007)\nsolutions Recommended update for microcode_ctl SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (267c3f63a7183f88d2d640686ca60cd8)\nPackage: microcode_ctl\nProduct(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 for x86\nSUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T\nSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for x86\nSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T\nZypp-Patch-Number: 3833\nRelease: 20070706\nObsoletes: none\nEveryone using newer Intel CPUs should update.\nNone.\nUpdate microcode for Intel CPUs to version 1.17 to fix known problems with\nvery new Intel CPUs.\nPlease install the updates provided at the location noted below.\nThis update is provided as an RPM package that can easily be installed onto a running system by using this command:\nrpm -Fvh microcode_ctl."}
{"text": "Christian Bruchatz created this map of currently live Matrix instances at German-ish universities!\nThe map is growing... after being published, more and more universities signal they also use Matrix... within66: Key verification flow additions: m.key.verification.ready and m.key.verification.done (merge)\nNew MSCs:\n- There were no new MSCs this week.\nSpec Core Team\nAs announced last week, we're now using the Spec Core Team Backlog board to communicate progress. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet, and ask questions in #matrix-spec:matrix.org if you have any 🙂\nSynapse is a popular homeserver written in Python.\nIn addition to several talks specifically about Matrix, Synapse's own Brendan Abolivier will be speaking in the Community devroom on Mental health and free software: What I wish I’d been told before I got into free software, and more. Check it out!\nWe're also excited to announce Synapse 1.26.0's release! As mentioned last week, the two biggest new features are a faster algorithm for state resolution and initial support for enabling multiple OpenID Connect providers. Additionally, we've sped up redaction in large rooms and made it possible to run more APIs on workers. See the full changelog for details.\nWe expect to publish a release candidate for 1.27.0 early next week, but we're trying to be conservative about large changes ahead of FOSDEM, so knocking — which is coming! — will have to wait until 1.28.0... 🚪\nDendrite 0.3.8 was released this week! Simple changelog this time:\nA well-known lookup regression in version 0.3.7 has been fixed\nJust released the 1.26.0 version of the K8s-optimized image and chart.\n(Not sure how this message will do though, been down the last few days for a database upgrade)\nSuccess: the message did great!\nHey folks! It's been a while since we've had an update but things are always manic at bridge HQ. This release is a bit of a whopper containing quite a few bugfixes (including improvements to the experimental encrypted bridge support). We've also updated to Typescript 4.1 which is a bit stricter on those promise return types. Finally, you can now create intents on the bridge and use it's components without starting the HTTP listener which has been a longstanding issue for as long as I've been maintaining.\nSo go out there and test this release, all going well we should 🚢 early next week!\nIf only you knew what else this guy was working on. More to be shared soon-ish. I hope!\nFluffyChat is a cute cross-platform matrix client. It is available for Andorid, iOS, Web and Desktop.\nFluffyChat 0.26.1 has been released today with updated translations, support for Unified Push () and some bug fixes. The Linux Desktop version is fully functional again and the app is much more stable than ever now. We are working hard to bring FluffyChat to the official iOS AppStore next week! :-)\nI reinstalled Fluffychat this week as I attempted to support some less-technically-minded friends, and was VERY impressed. If you've tried FluffyChat in the past but missed recent versions I suggest you have another) said:\nOn Wednesday we released version 0.8.1 of Nheko! It's mostly a bugfix release of 0.8.0, but it does bring some new features here and there:\n[0.8.1] -- 2021-01-27\nFeatures\n/plainand\n/mdcommands to override the current markdown setting. (contributed by lorendb)\nAllow persistent hiding of rooms with a specific tag (or from a community) via a context menu.\nAllow open media messages in an external program immediately. (contributed by rnhmjoj)\nImprovements\nUse async dbus connection for notifications. (contributed by lorendb)\nUpdate Hungarian translations. (contributed by maxigaz)\nUpdate Finnish translations. (contributed by Priit)\nUpdate Malayalam translations. (contributed by vachan-maker)\nUpdate Dutch translations. (contributed by Glael)\nStore splitter size across restarts.\nAdd a border around the completer. (contributed by lorendb)\nRequest keys for messages with unknown message indices (once per restart, when they are shown).\nMove the database location to XDG_DATA_DIR. (contributed by rnhmjoj)\nReload the timeline after key backup import.\nAutoclose completer on\nspace, when there are no matches.\nMake completer only react, when the mouse cursor is moved.\nBugfixes\nFix unhandled exception, when a device has no keys.\nFix some cmake warnings regarding GNUInstallDirs.\nFix tags being broken. If you have no tags showing up, you may want to logout and login again.\nFix versionOk being called on the wrong thread. (contributed by Jedi18)\nFix font tags showing up in media message filenames.\nFix user profile in dark themes showing the wrong colors. (contributed by lorendb)\nFix emoji category switching on old Qt versions. (contributed by lorendb)\nFix old messages being replayed after a limited timeline.\nFix empty secrets being returned from the wallet breaking verification.\nMake matrix link chat invites create a direct chat.\nFix focus handling on room change or reply button clicks.\nFix username completion deleting the character before it.\nFlathub and other repo updates may take a bit, but in the mean time you can try building it yourself or one of our provided stable downloads. Thank you for all the feedback so far and I'm glad a lot of people seem to be enjoying it so far! All the feedback, bugfixes and issues you provided certainly will help improving Nheko for everyone!\nThen, later...\nApart from the current releases, we have a few things cooking right now:\nEdits\nYes, I have tried to avoid them for long, but I am finally working on it. It's a bit different to how Element and others do it, but it also generates a fallback to be compatible with the current MSCs where possible. I've grown a bit tired of having to explain myself everytime, why I did not want to support edits (yet), so I'm experimenting with a few solutions now. Expect a blog post summarizing those experiments in the future and maybe an MSC.\nPolish\nJedi18 and LorenDB are both busy polishing up the rough corners in Nheko, like finally being able to set your username and avatar in the UI as well as being able to copy text via right click, jdenticons and other fancy stuff. We also had a few contributions in the last release, which should improve the UX a lot.\nGSoC\nFurthermore we will be participating in GSoC (if matrix.org gets accepted) and will probably mentor a student, that implements a few of the smaller features, which users may be missing after using Element for long.\nI think that is all I wanted to share. I hope you enjoy the release and if you have any issues or feature requests, tell us in #nheko:nheko.im or open an issue on Github!\nSince the project is already fairly rich in features, I decided that it's timely (some would say - way overdue) to bump up the version a bit. In that light, the next Quaternion beta is numbered 0.0.95 beta 3 (no four-number version any more) and it's out now! Release notes list notable changes since (0.0.9.5) beta 2, with two most significant being ability to enter messages in Markdown and the overhauled timeline that allows you to easily discern between already read and yet unread messages and also quickly scroll to the read marker.\nNeil reported on behalf of the teams:\nDelight\nSocial Login\n- Final polishing and bug hunting across all platforms. We are targetting 5 options to begin with (Gitlab, Github, Facebook, Google and Apple) and will hopefully be ready to start setting these up on homeservers next week.\nSpaces\n- Lots of polishing on Element web, you can get all the latest in the matrix live demo session next week!\nVoIP\nAdded some debugging to web to help debug call connectivity failures\nFixed a compatibility regression in web with voip v0 clients (ie. element android / ios) - d’oh!\nAndroid: work on getting call audio routing correct on various different devices\nDesign coming up to speed to support on implementation and ongoing UI improvements\niOS on holiday\nWeb\nOff cycle 1.7.18 release for VoIP compat bug\nVarious tweaks to prepare for FOSDEM\nElement Web 1.7.19-rc.1 is now available at, including:\nAllowed guest users to see widgets\nStandardised security terminology to reduce confusion\nAdded ability to pin widgets for everyone in the room\niOS\nWe made several iterations since the last App Store release (1.1.3) but Element-iOS 1.1.6 is now in the store.\nWe made some improvements to use less RAM in the background sync module that manages push notifications.\nWe continued to improve performance in E2EE to speed up message sending using pre-sharing keys and re-sharing keys methods. Element-iOS now automatically rejects share requests from not verified devices. It does not send anymore such requests if it is not verified.\nAndroid\n- We are working on improving the initial /sync management. The first objective is to reduce RAM usage. Then, we will improve the time to display the room list.\nRuma is a set of Rust library crates around Matrix\nIn the last two weeks,\n@gnieto fixed a small issue in ruma-federation-api\n@tilosp added a convenience constructor for markdown formatted messages\n@NerdyPepper added a definition for the new default push rule .m.rule.reaction from MSC2677 and set up a default Content-Type for requests\nAlso, @jamtwister imported a bunch of endpoints from @florianjacob's synadminctl into synapse-admin-api.\nState Resolution\nIt's been a really long time since an update on ruma/state-res but work has continued!\n- Thanks to a push from @gnieto the state-res crate no longer has its own PDU type, we are now using a trait.\nConduit continues its use of state-res, which has helped workout the kinks and buggy bits.\nJust a small dev update on things that currently happen over at the Serverlist project \"Keymaker\" and its companion bot.\nFollow it in detail at #serverlist:nordgedanken.dev or\nThe registration bot finally is starting to get its admin backend -> The registration probably happens in a few weeks from now\nKeymaker has now a admin login page (using matrix as auth provider) to allow a web UI for admins to manage servers (WIP)\nThe bot successfully writes servers upon registration to the database. This is the main task of the bot besides the capability to administrate the page using the page\nThe bot now is able to be used by admins in an admin room which also gets notifications if a user registered a new server.\nBeeper has continued to make headlines, and is now being reported around the world:\nBeeper was mentioned in one of the two biggest argentinian newspapers! 😮🙌\nThere was a pause, as we wondered how the other biggest Argentinian newspaper would react, and it was worth the wait! Andy soon announced:\nAnd now the other biggest newspaper of Argentina wrote an article about Beeper (Matrix is mentioned about half-through the article)!\nAnything that goes in Argentina is sure to make waves in Poland, and so it was that Polish media picked up on the story.\nBeeper has made it to Polish media too, guys :P\nThe title: \"A new multi-messaging platform has arrived. It's creators will send you an old iPhone so you can even use iMessage\"\nDiscussing the sharing of code and ideas with Tobias from NeoChat, Nico (@deepbluev7:neko.dev) said:\nThere really is no stealing, it's more helping each other out and improving things for everyone, users and developers alike. We are not corporations competing, we are one free software community :3\nWhich I thought was very astute, and decided to include.\nIt's FOSDEM next weekend, and we are manically preparing for it. Should be a good one!\nSee you next week, and be sure to stop by #twim:matrix.org with your updates!"}
{"text": "As I sit down to write after a loooooonnnnngggg day, I’m realizing that a screen shot of my lap top would probably sum up a lot of whats been going on lately. We have a page up of flights, a map of mexico, a lesson plan, and Psalm 42.\nFlights and Mexico\nJohn and I were asked a few weeks ago by some friends of ours if we would consider traveling to Mexico with them early this spring. Of course we both LOVED the idea but the thought of leaving Afton was/ still is still one that introduces anxiety. However, after talking to my mom about the option of leaving Afton with them (she will be a year old) I have more peace about the idea than before. John will have been on a missions trip prior to our trip and when he comes home we will have a few days as a family, hopefully drop Afton off at my parents and head to Mexico. Love the idea, love the people we’d be going with…hate the thought of leaving my Affie. (Deep breath). BUT it’s a while away. A lot can change! Meanwhile, we are really committed to making this work 🙂 We didn’t quite make the baby moon but by george we might make up for it. And honestly, I’ll probably feel a lot better than I would have traveling while pregnant. (Pregnancy was not a fun ride for this mama. )\nJohn also just bought a plane ticket to Spokane to spend a week with Garrett over Thanksgiving so Afton and I will be heading to Black River Falls for T-day and Johnny will be enjoying the day with Garrett and Missy. I’m sad that Afton and I won’t be joining John on this trip but I know that they will have a lot of fun together and John is the only one who hasn’t had yet been able to visit Garrett. (John sent me to visit him two years ago in the fall and we rock climbed beautiful cliffs together!! One of the most wonderful memories I have! Click here for that story. ) I hope John’s trip is as wonderful a memory as mine!\nLesson Plan\nI may have mentioned that I’ve been substitute teaching at our church’s school (New Life Academy). There are a few things that make this a great idea (getting to ride to work with the hubster, have lunch with the hubster, ride home with the hubster and rub shoulders with some lovely teachers and aides to name a few) and a few things that make this a not-so-great idea (student 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 to name a few.) By golly, by 3 o’clock in Mrs. B’s Kindergarten class my voice was hoarse, my feet and head hurt and I missed my baby girl. Thankfully, being so busy kept me from noticing how much I missed her until I got in the car to go home. Then I missed her bad and may have shed a few tears on the 7 minute drive home in eagerness to see her. Man I love her. She’s the best. Rarely do I get the greeting that she saves for her daddy when he comes home. She usually is a bit owly by 3 or 4 as she anticipates John’s arrival but when he walks in the door that frown is quickly replaced by the widest grin and crinkled nose snorty giggle. If I were him that wold be the best part of my whole day. Today he was kind enough to let me walk through the door first and receive the greeting.\n(I’ll be honest though- she was way more excited to see John when he came through the door- or maybe she was just so excited that it was both of us that she was overflowing with joy at that point. Not sure. The later makes me feel better.)\nMy mom watched her today which was great. I would never have been able to spend my first day away from Afton with such peace had it not been for her presence. She made chicken wild rice soup for us and after we ate she shoed us out the door to go on a date. A coffee shop with our books and headphones sounded good to us- John is working through a master’s level course on discipleship training right now and had some homework and I wanted to work on a few things myself and unwind from a crazy day so we settled on sitting next to each other being uninterrupted by baby for the first part of our date. The next part involves talking through his pros and cons list about various locations for upcoming missions trips. We know communication is key. We just also both need quiet time and we can appreciate being in each others presence in silence. I love that about our relationship.\nSo there are my windows. One window you will not find open is Facebook. Last wednesday some of my 11th grade small group girls and I decided to take a break based on a conversation we’d had about eliminating distractions from our lives and anything that is hindering us from staying the course and keeping our eyes on the purpose of following Christ. It’s been a good break and peer pressure has definitely helped me stick to my goal. Honestly, it’s so refreshing to not know about everyone else’s business (only to pretend that you don’t so not to come off as a creeper) that I just may stay off for a while more. The downside was knowing my best friend went into labor with baby no. 2 at 2am and not to be able to check facebook for pictures. Thankfully she is the best and texted pictures to my phone- just like the good ol’ days. But it made me realize how disconnected I might be if I really decide to stay away. Why does social media have to be so addicting. Love it and hate it. I’ll probably just pick up another social media platform to air my musings and one liners that have been going through my head all week. What did I do without social media when I wanted to share my humorous thoughs/opinons and stories? My roommates I suppose were the brunt of a lot of those tales. I like to think they were blessed.\nPsalm 42\nOne of my mentors encouraged me lately to focus on mediating more at this season of my life than heavy reading. It was good advice since I have such a difficult time getting any serious reading done at this stage of life. Psalm 42 is currently my bread and butter. I could write TONS of what I’m unpacking through meditation and memorization but I’m not quite there yet. Lots of notes. Maybe more for another post.\nWell, on to the next portion of our date. Here are the latest of my little auburn haired girl."}
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{"text": "Divorcing Our Gun Rights, by Cheryl Todd Are we divorcing our gun rights away? A friend recently speculated to me that one of the surest ways to lose your guns rights, may be in the process of divorcing one’s spouse. This came up in the course of a conversation about how people may inadvertently be […]"}
{"text": ".\n“Making sure Arizona’s students stay mentally engaged and active over the summer months is essential to maintaining educational excellence year-round,” said Governor Ducey. “Research shows that early-childhood reading proficiency is one of the strongest indicators of a student’s likelihood of graduating from high.\nThe summer reading initiative aims to combat “summer slide” – the tendency for students to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year. Research shows that children who do not read during the summer months can lose up to three months of reading progress, resulting in a cumulative, long-term effect. Reading just six books during the summer may keep struggling readers from regressing. Studies prove that access to books is critical to addressing summer slide, and that children and teens tend to read more when adults in their lives encourage them to read.\n“Reading is a great way to spend quality time with your kids and support their academic growth,” said First Lady Angela Ducey. “Our libraries provide terrific resources and I encourage all parents to pick up a book and read with their children for at least 20 minutes a day.”"}
{"text": "Plea for Peace\n- Artist: Afro-Semitic Experience\n- Format: CD\n- Release Date: 3/14/2006\nThe Afro-Semitic Experience has already received universal critical praise for it's wide ranging explorations and interpretations of the diasporic music that comes out of the Jewish-American and African-American traditions. On this, their debut album, they perform a program of twelve pieces that encompass a wide range of sounds and styles--original compositions along with their distinctive arrangements of synagogue songs, gospel songs, hymns, West African, Cuban and Puerto Rican drum beats, jazz songs and cantorial music. This is a band that is proud of it's religious and political message. Plea for Peace is a politically charged and spiritually centered cry for peace, world wide spiritual unity and communication. The title track, Plea for Peace, was composed by band co-founder Warren Byrd and is an expression of his sincere desire for the world to find a way to work things out. In fact, the composition is more of a prayer than a plea. Other pieces on the album include an arrangement by Will Bartlett of Almighty God, a composition from Duke Ellington's Second Sacred Concert, and a group arrangement--Descarga Ocho Kandelikas, an Afro-Cuban jam on the classic Hannukah song. The group merges West African drumming and gospel on their interpretation of Dottie People's On Time God and they add just a touch of Puerto Rican Bomba to David Chevan's arrangement of A Song for When the Temple is Rebuiltâ€'an updated version of Yisroel Schorr's cantorial composition, Sheh Yiboneh Beis Hamikdash."}
{"text": "While you can buy pre-made bottled sangria, it just doesn’t compare to this spiced sangria recipe. Real apple cider, brandy, orange and lemon juices, and a spiced simple syrup impart fresh winter flavor without modern-day additions like high-fructose corn syrup and preservatives.\nTraditional sangria is a delicious blend of juices, brandy, spices and soda water, usually served over ice and laden with chopped fresh fruit. Enjoyed all over the world, its roots date back to 200 BC, when Romans brought grapes and the process of winemaking to Spain.\nALSO TRY: Caramel apple sparkling sangria\nSuch spiced wines were popular throughout Europe in ancient times. Everyone from the youngest children to the elderly drank alcoholic beverages then, because water was not sanitized, and the alcohol content killed the bacteria.\nTo create variety, people experimented with spices and flavors to add to their drinks, and the result was an extraordinary, fruity-tasting wine concoction known as sangria.\nALSO TRY: Cranberry Cava cocktail\nAlthough sangria had been popular in Spain for centuries, it didn’t arrive in the U.S. until the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. Visitors loved it, and the rest is history!\nTraditionally, sangria is made with a blend of cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and merlot, but you can get creative with your wine choices. While red wine is the traditional base, white wine sangria (sangria blanco) is another delicious version, while using a sparkling wine such as Cava is a tasty, bubbly alternative.\nALSO TRY: Spiced pomegranate-cranberry sangria for a crowd\nCitrus fruits are classic choices for your punch, but feel free to add your favorite fruits — peaches, strawberries and kiwi all are delectable additions.\nSpiced sangria\nCourses Beverages\nIngredients\nSpiced simple syrup\n- 2 cups water\n- 1 cup sugar\n- Black peppercorn\n- Cinnamon sticks\n- Star anise and clove (to preference)\n- 1/4 cup sliced ginger root\nCocktail\n- 1 bottle dry red wine (we used Spanish tempranillo)\n- 1 cup apple cider\n- 4 ounces (1/2 cup) brandy\n- 1/4 cup orange juice\n- 2 ounces lemon juice\n- 1/2 cup spiced simple syrup\nInstructions\n- To prepare spiced simple syrup, combine all syrup ingredients and stir until sugar is dissolved. (Store any extra in refrigerator.)\n- Combine all cocktail ingredients and mix well.\n- Chill for 2–4 hours.\n- Before serving, garnish with fruit (suggestions: oranges, apples, pears)\n- Store in refrigerator for up to 2 days.\n"}
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{"text": "Unemployed With Mortgage Trouble? Freddie, Fannie to Expand Help\n- Bloomberg News\nJob growth may be picking up, but the ranks of unemployed remain large, and plenty of Americans are trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage while they’re out of work.\nOffering those borrowers a break on their mortgages has long been idea considered by policy makers, but two of the industry’s biggest players — mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — have only offered limited relief.\nMonths after a similar move by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, unemployed homeowners with loans guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie could now be eligible for reduced or suspended mortgage payments for up to a year. The government-controlled mortgage finance companies emphasized that they were doing so at the direction of their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.\nStarting Feb. 1, Freddie Mac said it will allow companies that collect mortgage payments to give borrowers up to a 12-month break on their mortgages, up from a current level of six months. However, the break, known in the mortgage industry as forbearance, will only be temporary. Borrowers will still owe the payments they have missed.\n“These expanded forbearance periods will provide families facing prolonged periods of unemployment with a greater measure of security by giving them more time to find new employment and resolve their delinquencies,” said Tracy Mooney, a Freddie Mac senior vice president. “We believe this will put more families back on track to successful long-term home ownership.”\nFreddie Mac didn’t have an estimate available for how many borrowers would qualify.\nIn the past, mortgage companies could suspend borrowers’ payments for up to three months without Freddie Mac’s written approval, or for six months with prior approval. The company said it did grant longer forbearance terms, but only for events such as natural disasters.\nUnder the new policy, those mortgage companies will be able to automatically extend the borrower’s forbearance for six months and expand it to a year with Freddie Mac’s approval.\nA spokesman for Fannie Mae said the company has “received the same directive from FHFA as Freddie Mac and will be implementing similar changes to our unemployment forbearance guidelines.”"}
{"text": "I guess the pressure of Kim and Kanye stealing their throne as “World’s Most Annoying Couple” was starting to get to them, because Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin are separating, or, in their words, “uncoupling.”. I have to admit, I did NOT see this one coming. Is nothing sacred anymore?! (Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck had better keep their shit together.) Gwyneth announced the news yesterday on her lifestyle blog GOOP (yes, the one where she tells her readers to buy million dollar Hermes sweatpants, because she’s hopelessly out of touch with normal humans), and the site promptly crashed. Oh, well. What can you expect from a couple where the man is so irritating his own band once booted him from the recording studio even though he’s their lead singer, and the woman’s high horse is so high that she once said she would rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can? (I probably shouldn’t have written this Quickie. I sound really biased.)"}
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{"text": "Intelsat’s share price fell back 12.34 per cent on November 12th, badly hurt by a negative report from investment bank JPMorgan and amid concerns that there are now significant “complications” in how the proposed C-Band Alliance might fare in the long-awaited FCC decision on reassignment of key satellite frequencies.\nJPMorgan specifically downgraded Intelsat from ‘Overweight’ to ‘Neutral’ which in itself is not so serious, but the bank states that the prospects for a valuable C-Band spectrum auction is “looking more complicated than it seemed only weeks ago”.\nAnalyst Philip Cusick has trimmed his price target for Intelsat from $34 a share to $22. November 12th saw Intelsat’s share price close at $20.39, but after-hours took the shares to below $20.\nThe reduction takes Intelsat’s market capitalisation to below $3 billion.\nCusick says that the complications come from lawmakers on Capitol Hill pushing back on the proposals for a CBA-managed auction in favour of an FCC-organised auction.\nThe bank adds that the concept that could be a clean win for Intelsat and SES, and possibly Eutelsat, is “less likely” and that at best timing is likely to slow down and could delay the availability of the C-band spectrum coming to market.\nThere’s also the very real threat that should the FCC decide to administer the auction itself then legal actions mighty follow.\nAlso not helping matters are differences between the C-Band Alliance (comprising Intelsat, SES and Telesat) and Eutelsat, which withdrew from the Alliance and is now lobbying government on a separate series of proposals including a voluntary 50 per cent payment of ‘windfall’ revenues to the US Treasury."}
{"text": "Primary routes focus on the study of teaching in all Primary National Curriculum subjects, with emphasis on the core subjects: English, Mathematics and Science. Our Primary courses allow applicants the opportunity to study a range of ages, ranging from 3-7 (Early Years, Postgraduate) 3-11 (Undergraduate) or 5-11 (Postgraduate) and the distinctive pedagogies encountered in Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classrooms, as well as a KS3 experience. You will learn the principles of curriculum design and delivery and the theories of learning and teaching, alongside developing practical insights and skills in the effective teaching and assessment of young children through practical school-based experience.\nYou will be offered a series of learning experiences linking different perspectives of Primary teaching to aid the development of your professional skills in the classroom and lead you towards successfully achieving Qualified Teacher Status by meeting the required National Teachers’ Standards.\nWe offer a BA Hons Primary and Early Years with Qualified Teacher Status (School Based) 3 Year Undergraduate programme.\nWe offer full time and part time courses on our Postgraduate Primary Initial Teacher Training programme. (Full time Course Duration – 1 Year / Part time Course Duration – 2 Years). QTS Full time Course Duration – 1 Year/Part time 2 Years.\nAssessment Only – 3 months. For experienced unqualified teachers.\nOur programmes are catered specifically for hands-on learners, who wish to learn the theory of teaching to apply in the classroom from day one. If you would like to be a Primary teacher and are more of a practical learner, this is the route for you.\nUndergraduates – Students spend one and a half days learning the theory of teaching, with one and half days dedicated to studying and enrichment activities and the remaining two days spent in placement schools, observing experts in their fields before slowly taking on classroom responsibilities and putting their theoretical knowledge into practice. It is the perfect mix of practical and academic study resulting in highly-skilled teachers who are extremely employable.\nPostgraduates – All trainees are required to spend one day a week studying the theory of teaching. Full time trainees will then spend four days in their placement schools, observing experts in their fields before slowly taking on classroom responsibilities and putting their theoretical knowledge into practice. Part time trainees will spend two days a week in their placement school.\nPostgraduate Primary Programme\nUndergraduate BA Hons Primary and Early Years Programme\nUCAS codes of our Lead Schools\nSchool-centred training means that students and trainees will be placed in a school environment from the start of their training, learning from experienced teachers / mentors whilst using and applying their knowledge and understanding to classroom learning through teaching placements. They experience the entire school year instead of short block placements.\nYou will take part in a range of training which focuses on developing a reflective and critical evaluation of research, practice and policy to ensure that your pedagogical knowledge reflects current thinking.\nYou will be based in a different school each year to give you a wide experience of working in a variety of schools.\nHaybridge Alliance SCITT is able to offer a bespoke approach to our programmes and the achievement of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). We are currently the only training provider in the West Midlands to offer the school-based three year undergraduate course and we are also extremely experienced in supporting trainees to become outstanding teachers through our Postgraduate Initial Teacher Training route. We have many host schools across the West Midlands and this enables us to find the best schools to place and support each of our students and trainees.\nIn addition to resources from the Haybridge Alliance SCITT, you will be able to access resources from Birmingham City University.\nThe Haybridge Focus Areas and the Teachers’ Standards form the basis of assessment of student and trainee progress throughout the year. Each term our school-based trainers refer to our step-by-step framework for assessing student and trainee teachers, which explicitly states the competencies students and trainees are required to demonstrate, not just in their teaching, but overall in their professional capacity of a teacher. This summative document is informed by the formative assessment that takes place weekly through observations of your teaching practice.\nRegular observations of your teaching practice will lead to feedback on your interactions with the children, which focuses on the strength of your subject knowledge and the specifics of how your teaching promotes learning. When judgements are made on the quality of lessons, school-based trainers will refer to set criteria which have been developed by the Alliance, and which are based on the Ofsted Framework for School Inspections. This ensures consistency of judgement across the Alliance, as well as allowing trainees from the very beginning to understand how qualified teachers are judged in terms of their teaching.\nOur framework of both formative and summative assessment is used to identify where further training opportunities are needed. This framework is shared directly with students and trainees so that you are well-equipped to self-evaluate and prioritise targets for your continued development.\nAll students and trainees will also be assessed through a combination of evidence portfolios, written assignments, group presentations, case studies and a research project in the final year. The activities undertaken are dependent upon the programme you are on.\nFor trainees registered on a postgraduate initial teacher training programme that leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) alongside a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) it is important to note that the qualifications are coupled together. Should you fail to achieve an acceptable standard in your PGCE qualification, you are unable to be awarded QTS.\nFor students enrolled on our undergraduate programme with QTS, should you decide throughout your three year course that you no longer wish to become a teacher, exit awards are available where it is possible to continue your studies and achieve your degree without the QTS element.\nUndergraduate BA Hons Primary and Early Years Programme\nPostgraduate Primary Programme\nWe will conduct an interview, a health check and a criminal record (DBS) declaration.\nSecuring a place on a programme of teacher training with us is a very competitive process so, to give yourself every advantage, you need to ensure that your application stands up to scrutiny against those of other applicants.\nTo submit a strong application, please consider including information on the following attributes:\nIt is important that you utilise every word allowed in your total word count on your Personal Statement. We will be looking for applicants who demonstrate that they will thrive in their future role as teachers and that they have a creative and innovative approach, which will inspire both children and colleagues. We want to see that you will strive to provide the best opportunities that you can for the children in your care to learn and flourish, that you will have the highest expectations of yourself, and that you will be a credit to the teaching profession.\nYou will have to submit references for our consideration. If you are applying whilst still at school/college, your referee should be someone who knows you academically and can talk about your work ethic, interaction with other students and your suitability for higher education or a future career.\nWe recommend that you ask your tutor, teacher, principal or head teacher. If you are already employed within a school setting, your referee must be the Headteacher of the school in which you work. If you left education years ago, you can use an employer, volunteering supervisor or trainer, or preferably, if you have undertaken any work experience in a school, please use the Headteacher of that school as your referee. We highly recommend that you don’t ask family, friends, partners or ex-partners though – if you do your application may be cancelled.\nHaybridge Alliance SCITT is committed to equal opportunities and will not discriminate on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or marital status or on the grounds of disability. We encourage potential applicants with disabilities, or other special needs, to visit the Alliance and discuss any programme adjustments that might be deemed reasonable. All efforts will be made to support an individual’s needs, but applicants should be aware that unsuccessful management of a condition may result in termination\nWe offer full time and part time teacher training programmes in Primary Education starting each September.\nWe have a range of flexible routes into teaching to suit your needs:\nCampus Locations: Primary QTS and PGCE programmes are accredited by Birmingham City University and they award our PGCE (60 Master’s."}
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{"text": "Course One: LeaderShift: Assessing, Visioning, and Planning Schools for Modern Times\nThis course examines how to make the shift from being an educational manager to being an educational leader; and how to rethink traditional assumptions about leadership in support of teaching, learning, and assessment in the modern world. Participants will explore current leadership theories and practices for leading change in organizational systems, and how to address the resistance to change that occurs when launching innovative learning initiatives in today’s challenging educational environments. Learners will examine the driving forces behind the urgent need for school renewal, and the competencies necessary to lead strategic planning towards attainment of the community’s shared vision for modern teaching, learning, and assessment. At the conclusion of this foundational course, participants will have gained a deep understanding of the attributes and belief systems of exemplary modern learning organizations, specifically, those which:\n- are diagnostically and prescriptively strategic to their practices;\n- think differently, and are not limited by traditional, industrial-based mindsets;\n- promote innovative leadership and pedagogy across all layers and roles that comprise the organization and community;\n- are cognizant and understanding of schools/districts as systemic organizations that promote exemplary teaching, student learning, and achievement;\n- have respect for failure and do not react to this term with negative connotations, but rather with appreciation, curiosity, and desire to identify cause and prescription for improvement;\n- promote an empathetic, collegial and collaborative culture; and have student learning at the core of their mission.\nParticipants will be provided with access to an extensive digital library of resources and tools, specifically aligned to the LeaderShift: Assessing, Visioning, and Planning Schools for Modern Times curriculum.\n"}
{"text": "Hello lovely foodies! Today is a big day for me! We have reached 1k+ likes in our Facebook Fan Page yesterday! It’s really a great success for us and off course it not could be possible without you all! Thank you so much my friends for your supports and love! Stay with us always……….\nToday, I’m going to start the ‘Summer Food Festival’ with a pure Bengali recipe. Lau or Gourd is a common vegetable in summer. It is a staple food in this season in India; let’s go for a new type of delicacy today……..\nLau-Chingri (Gourd with Prawn)\nIngredients:\n- Prawn: -250gm.\n- Gourd (small size):-1 piece\n- Potato (medium size):-2 piece\n- Ginger paste: -1tablespoon\n- Tomato (slice in four pieces):-1 piece\n- Green chilies:-2 pieces\n- Red Chili Powder (if you want):-1/2teaspoon\n- Cumin Powder:-1/2teaspoon\n- Coriander Powder:-1teaspoon\n- Turmeric Powder:-1/2teaspoon\n- Bay leaves:-2 pieces\n- Cumin seeds:-½ teaspoon\n- Mustard / Refined Oil:-1Cup (150gm)\n- Sugar:-1teaspoon\n- Salt:-to test\nProcess:\n- Finely chopped the gourd, wash and take aside.\n- Cut the potatoes into small pieces.\n- Wash the prawns and marinate with salt and turmeric powder before cooking.\n- Full heat the oil in a pan & fry the prawns for 1min. and set aside.\n- In the same oil, add the bay leaves and cumin seeds, fry for 30-40 seconds.\n- Now, pour in the potato, salt, turmeric powder and fry for 3-4min till it should take up a bit of brownish.\n- Now, add the chopped Gourd and mix well.\n- Add ¼ cup water, ginger pest, tomatoes, all the powders of ingredients, and sugar in it & cook for 2-3 min.\n- Again add ¼ cup water and fried prawns and mix well.\n- Cover and let it cook for 10 minutes on low flame.\n- Take it off the flame when the potato will be well cooked.\n- Serve hot with Rice or plain Roti.\nToday’s Tips\n- Apply lemon juice with some cold milk to your face after returning from sun. Lemon is natural bleach and it removes tan very well, caused by sun.\n- Don’t wash immediately the milk-utensil after finishing the milk. Need the wheat-flour before making roti or phulke in it; it will be softer.\nvowwwwwww.... will surely try this ... my kids like chingri but don't want to eat lau...hope this recipie will giv me a success.... Thx dear,,,,,,\nveryyyy useful tips ...thnxxxxxx :)"}
{"text": "Report: Capital One\nCategory: Credit Services\nCapital One credit card account NOTICE UPDATED info .. NO! .. we are not affilated\n*Consumer Comment ..Is there a Customer Agreement?\nCapital One\nRichmond, Virginia, 23276-5617\nU.S.A.\nSubmitted: 11/29/2001 12:00:00 AMModified: 12/10/2002 1:20:32 AM\nDonOH\nInitial implication was a Gold Card with high limit. What came on the statement was a $200 limit. (?) On the statement was a 'membership fee' monthly for $6. (!) Not very noticeable in the original information. There was a welcome letter that initmated quarterly limit increases to the higher levels. I should returned the cut up card long ago.\nDue to business failure, I had to close other accounts and thought this to be able to build new account and good payment history once again. However, the payment never seems to arrive on time and there is usually a $25 charge for some reason. And soon enough there are two charges for both late and over limit. $56 dollars per month and no merchandise or service for that amount. Not much to show for good intentions or for good payment history.\nIn talking to others and now by seeing this reporting site, I realize it is a scam. I also realize that even when the account is paid in full and you request it be closed...they will not do that, keeping it open and reporting negatives to credit bureaus. I would imagine even non-negative reporting but the appearance of this firm's account on your record would prevent decent, non-scam creditors from giving you an account.\nWhen they did not record a payment in September even though it was sent seven days earlier than the due date...and they never cashed the check or showed it received, I could not contact them on the phone. I spent 3 hours on two days trying and never talked to a human. The mechanical voice was defective to the point that I hung up after spending time going through the maze.\nI cut up the card and sent a letter to Consumer Services. They never gave attention to the phone response. They did send a form about giving up legal recourse and accepting abatration. (?) And when no payment was received the following month..they called me. But the caller wanted a 'phone check' for the minimum and could not relay my inquiry to a superior 'at this time'.\nI never charge $200 of services or merchandise to this card. I was advised that my balance was over $450 in December. I wanted out but cannot pay, in good faith, that balance that is based on charges unfairly imposed. In finally getting through, with some 20 min. of 'hold', I got someone in Texas that offtered to 'waive' $100 if I made the minimum payment of $145 and kept the account under $200. I agreed just to be able get out of this account.\nUnderemployed as many are this month, I cannot write a check for the total or I would just to close the account. I worry that this monstrous affront to good people wanting a good credit history will further cause me distress. I worry that even when closed early next year, it will only be reported a zero balance and not be 'closed'. One of the persons relating their experience to me mentioned that after one month of a zero balance, the next month brought a statement with the 'membership fee' on it. She keeps worrying that another statement will show up again months after she requested the removal of the charge and final closing of that account.\nThis is a national disgrace. The premise is sleazy and unfair if not illegal. At least Sears and J.C. Penney, who often show late payment by mail, have working phones to their credit departments and if you pay at a counter at the local stores...that date is the payment date. With Capital One, who knows when they really received your payment? In talking today with some others, they noticed that often they get a late charge with a day difference in the payment received just past the due date and have to call or visit the bank. But they get the charge waived and use the ATM or night drop to make future payments. With Capital One, you had better use 'phone checks'.\nI think that my accountant was correct when he suspected that when you dial in the account number and want to talk to someone about a problem, they can make you wait long enough to hang up rather than wait longer. When you have not made payment on time or are over limit, they answer or put you in que. How businesslike....not!\nIs there someone who has successfully CLOSED their account with one move? Anyone for a class action suite?\nSearch for additional reportsIf you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here: Search Tips\nRepair Your Reputation\nWhat's This?\nUpdates & Rebuttals:\n- NOTICE: Does anyone Know... [11/29/2001 12:00:00 AM]\n- WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY OF THE OTHER COMPANIES LISTED. WE ARE ONLY CAPITAL ONE. THE OTHER COMPANIES ARE OF NO REALTION TO OURS. [1/19/2002 12:00:00 AM]\n- Dont Let Your Cap One Acct go to Collections Gilbert [11/29/2002 10:26:38 PM]\n- Capital One is up front with their terms and conditions Brenda [12/3/2002 4:46:34 AM]\n- Not true! April [12/4/2002 11:36:37 PM]\n- Is there a Customer Agreement? ed [12/9/2002 1:26:57 PM]\nNOTICE: Does anyone Know...\nDoes anyone know the connection (if any) with this company, Capital One and all the others like, Capital Choice Consumer Credit , E-Credit Solutions, Capital Credit Alliance, and First National Credit.\nWE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY OF THE OTHER COMPANIES LISTED. WE ARE ONLY CAPITAL ONE. THE OTHER COMPANIES ARE OF NO REALTION TO OURS.\nNOTE: The following information was verified by M. Steven Papi, Rip-off Report Consumer Advocate Volunteer\nThey filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:\nTheir email: weyahoo02@aol.com\nTheir name: Michele\nTheir relationship to the company: Supporter\nRebuttal:\nThe number you need to call is 800-955-6600. Let me address some of your concerns you have. First,. Also, the offer you would have gotten would say that the credit line was 'UP TO a certain amount'. We still have to pull a credit report. Also, we are a conservative company, meaning we do not give huge lines right away. We do increases, but you need to prove to us that you can take care of the account.\nAs far as closing the account, if you look on the back of the statement, that is explained. The account must have a ZERO balance for 30 days, and all pre authorized charges must be cancelled. Pre authorized means anyone that had your permission to bill you must be told to stop.\nThe problem with your payments could be a lot of different things. If it is not cashed, then that means we never got it. We do not 'hold' payments or leave the 'sitting on someone's desk'. Our payments are processed by machine. So if we get it, we process it.\nWe also have no department called Consumer Services. I don't know what company you sent your credit card to. And, as far as making the phone keep you on hold forever, that is completely false. You can't rig phones to do that. The calls are answered in the order they are received. Capital One is a large company, and we have many customers to deal with, so even though you need help, others do to.\nWE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY OF THE OTHER COMPANIES LISTED. WE ARE ONLY CAPITAL ONE. THE OTHER COMPANIES ARE OF NO REALTION TO OURS.\nDont Let Your Cap One Acct go to Collections\nI'm a third party collector for Capital One, The\nCompany does rip you off; If you were offered a\nsettlement on your acct and you pay that amount; you recieve that letter thinking that its ver; YOUR WRONG, Cap One is going to try to get the rest of the balance. Which by law is wrong.\nBecome a educated consumer, get copies of the Fair Counsumer Debt Practices Act. Read it, Learn it, Any collector's worse nightmare is a EDUCATED CONSUMER, know your rights. I get funny looks from Supervisors when I give a education to the consumer. The way I see it,I sleep better at night;because I helped someone see the light at the end of that dark tunnel...\nCapital One is up front with their terms and conditions\nAt one time I had excellent credit. I paid my bills on time and lived within my means. Until a sudden loss of income and pending divorce hit me at the same time. This forced me into bankruptcy.\nCapital One sent me an offer to rebuild my credit. They were straight forward with all terms and conditions. No annual fee, a $6.00 monthly fee, modest credit limit, and a reasonable APR. They listed all penalties and acceptions for defaulting on the account.\nI agreed to these terms simply because it was better than the other offers I'd received with a higher APR and exhorbitant annual fees. I knew what I was getting before I signed anything and\nI agreed to their terms and conditions.\nI have been with Capital One for a year now and I couldn't be happier. I did go over my limit one time due to my payment reaching them a day after I made a $200.00 purchase. That was my own fault. Had I called to verify the payment was posted before I made the purchase It wouldn't have happened.\nOther than that, I pay on time and receive prompt courteous service. I hope to have a small credit limit increase in the near future, but for now am quite happy with the limit I have. Thanks to Capital One, I am rebuilding my credit.\nNot true!\nSince the last updated rebuttal to Capital One affiliates, things must have changed. Capital One is in bed with Cross Country Bank. Their prectice has become just as unethical.\nMy husband recieved a Capital One card with a $1 opening balance. He never applied for any such card. He called Capital One, they told him that he was sent this card to pay off the amount owed to CCB. He did not owe any money to CCB, they made a mistake and sent a card in his name to some address we never lived at or knew anyone there. CCB keeps telling us they'll fix it, yeh right!?! Anyway, When Capital One was asked where they got such information, he was told they brought it from Equalfax, then CCB and Capital One set up an account in his name to pay a balance. He would have to give them his checking account number and they would deduct so much form the checking account a month. They admitted to being connected with CCB.\nBuying personal information, scamming consumers for money with a '$1' credit card, being connected with a card comapny that is known as the biggest credit card scam in history and sending a card without authorization is UNETHICAL no matter how you look at it. I can only imagine how many people they've scammed with CCB.\nIs there a Customer Agreement?\nMs. Pali wrote:\n'...'\nYes, but Capital One sends the full 'Customer Agreement,' if ever, only after the cardholder signs and returns the agreement to Cap One. Why not simply include the full Customer Agreement with the application?\nMs. Pali wrote:\nAlso, the offer you would have gotten would say that the credit line was 'UP TO a certain amount'. We still have to pull a credit report.'\nCap One claims in shareholder reports to use its Information-based strategy ('IBS')to specifically tailor an offer to a particular offeree. Are you saying that Cap One does not even include a credit report in its IBS? Are you saying that Cap One cannot know before sending a solicitation an estimate of the credit line? Looks more like good ol' bait and switch to me - particularly considering Cap One's self-aggrandized IBS.\nMs. Pali wrote:\n'As far as closing the account, if you look on the back of the statement, that is explained. The account must have a ZERO balance for 30 days, and all pre authorized charges must be cancelled.'\nYes, Ms. Pali, but the Cap One Customer Agreement says nothing about having a ZERO balance for 30 days. It says only that the cardholder must close the account in writing, and the account will be closed when the balance reaches zero. Is Cap One disregarding its own Customer Agreement? Also, the Important Disclosures mentions nothing about this requirement? So, the cardholder cannot learn all the terms from that - despite your statement to the contrary.\nRepair Your Reputation\nWhat's This?\nPLAY VIDEO\nPLAY VIDEO\nPLAY VIDEO\nLooking for premium tickets? Concert Tickets \| Sports Tickets \| Theatre Tickets just visit\nAdvertisers below have met our strict standards for business conduct."}
{"text": "June 8,2011\nHello.\nJust wanted to recap a litte about The Rubber Stamp and Paper Show I attended in Springfield Ma. I felt like I was in heaven, Papers, stamps, ink, copics,embossing tools, and more. While there I did 2 make and takes. I will share about them at another time. I saw alot of products I wanted to buy, but I chose only 1 color of each item I wanted. This way I can see if I like the product and if I should invest into buying more . I bought my first Copics and picked mostly skin-toned colores. To say the least I did enjoy going to the Show, But my Hubbie was so bored so I only went once around the booths.\nSo when I returned home from the two hour drive I was so tired. I just put all I bought in my craft place, knowing that the next day was play-time.\nSo todays projects involved using the Imagine. I bought t-shirt transfer film and picked a few images from the cartridge Best Friends and Nursery Tales. The t-shirt made with BF's came out really nice, the other image was too lightly colored. I tested the soft colors and bright color images and I definetly liked the bright darker colors. Now I will have to make a t-shirt for my grandson Jaysn since I made 2 for Dani. It was fun to do and I learned something new.\nAlso pictured is a Cutie Patutti image I found on some ones blog, please forgive me as I cannot remember where the image came from...\nbut I thought Dani (4) did a great job with it. Enjoy...\nTalk to you soon. Dawn"}
{"text": "The following procedure is how to make rich concentrated coconut milk perfect as a cow milk replacement for those that have lactose intolerance. This conc. coconut milk is also used for baking and preparing recipes where it is important that the coconut milk is thick. There's a huge difference between normal coconut milk and the very conc. homemade coconut milk.\nConc. Coconut Milk [Video]\nYou will need:\nIngredients for making Conc. Coconut Milk\n- 1 coconut\n- 225mls (1⅛ cup) warm water\nKitchen tools:\n- Hammer or any breaking tool\n- Blender/Grater\n- Knife\n- Sieve with a fine mesh\n- Plastic bowls\n- Chiffon cloth or cheese cloth\nMore info:\n- Any blender with at least 500W power can grind coconut meats: Buy it in USA \| in UK\n- For best results, use very mature coconuts. Very mature coconuts have brown skin, they are very sweet and the shell is brown and dry.\nProcedure\n- Break the coconut into pieces with a blunt object and pry out the meat from the shells.\n- Rinse the coconut meat and cut into tiny pieces.\n- Put the pieces in a blender, add just enough warm water to help the blades of the blender rotate freely. I used 225mls (1⅛ cup) warm water for 1 coconut. Use this as a guide because all blenders are not the same. If you can blend yours without adding any water, that's the best!\n- Blend till very smooth.\n- Sieve it and squeeze the chaff till dry.\n- Pour through a chiffon cloth (cloth for seiving akamu, cheese cloth) to remove the tiniest particles.\n- That's it!\nDrink conc. coconut milk because it is tasty and a healthy replacement for cow milk. Use this coconut milk for recipes that call for conc. coconut milk example Almond Coconut Moi Moi and Coconut Cake (recipe coming soon)"}
{"text": "Overwatch League trading cards have officially been released. This is the first esports league-licensed trading card product developed by Upper Deck. The trading card set can be purchased through the Upper Deck e-pack, a platform where fans can buy and open packs of trading cards anytime and anywhere in the world either through a PC or a mobile phone.\nThis new product celebrates the inaugural season of the Overwatch League with a 12-card base set. There are also multiple inserts that celebrate many of the season’s key team and player moments. These include the Team Leaders, League Leaders, and Season1 Highlights. There are even unique Holo F/X cards that feature Overwatch League All-Stars placed on a layered holographic background.\nOWL fans have the chance to obtain foil parallels of the base set as well as the Infra-Sight cards that have player images printed on clear acetate.\nFor fans who prefer items that are more exclusive, or even super rare cards, the e-Pack platform of Upper Deck comes with an extensive achievement program. Through the program, fans get the chance to obtain items like printing players and autographed player and team memorabilia. There are also the “1 of 1” Shadow Box Relic cards and the CPU chips that are enclosed in oversized trading cards.\nThose who can complete specific sets can earn autographed jerseys from players including the OWL inaugural season MVP Seong-Hyun “Jjonak” Bang of the New York Excelsior or the 2018 Grand Finals MVO Jun-Young “Profit” Park of the London Spitfire.\nIn addition, to celebrate the release of this new product Upper Deck is offering a special bonus. Those who register for an UpperDeckEpack.com account between June 19 and July 1 receive a free OWL digital 1-card pack every day until July 8 by simply logging on. Each pack contains one player from each of the 20 teams, giving collectors a better chance to complete the exclusive 20-card promotional set.\nIn a press statement, Upper Deck President Jason Masherah said the company is truly excited to partner with the Overwatch League for what is their first esports agreement to deliver a new and innovative product. He added that this is indeed an excellent way \"to celebrate Upper Deck’s 30th anniversary, and we look forward to working with the talented team at Activision Blizzard for many years to come.”\nMeanwhile, Blizzard Entertainment Head of esports Licensing Daniel Siegel said that the collaboration allows OWL to offer fans worldwide the chance to collect and trade exclusive cards and collectibles that feature their favorite team and players. He went on to say that this deal is a “milestone for our companies, and for esports as a whole.”"}
{"text": " does Firefox highlights section work with YouTube\nHi! Even if i'm an old user of Firefox, i'm new to this support/forum thing, so I apologise if i'm in the wrong place. Today, after watching some videos on a specific youtube channel, i noticed that the channel appeard on the \"highlights\" section in the home page of Firefox. Nothing strange in that, but i noticed that the thumbnail of the user of that youtube channel was in high definition in the \"highlights\", even if when I viewed the page information of YouTube, on the media tab, I wasn't able to find an image with such an hight resolution. I would be clear: I'm not talking about the YouTube red logo, but on the user's channel image (rounded, near the name). The \"moz-page-thumb://thumbnails/?url........\" have a resolution of 448px x 448px. The image on youtube have the maximum resolution of 176px x 176px. So... Where have Firefox finded that image?? Is there involved some kind of upscaling?? I really appreciate the hard work of Mozilla, and I hope that will go on on this way.\n所有回覆 (1)\nAnyone?"}
{"text": "Lenzing Group weathers the crisis year 2020 and remains strategically well on track\n- Successful implementation of measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the safety and health of employees, customers and partners and securing sustainable business development\n- Implementation of strategic investment projects progressing on schedule – financing contracts for the construction of the pulp plant in Brazil concluded according to plan\n- Lenzing expands its lead in sustainability and circular economy – first TENCEL™ branded carbon-zero fibers launched\n- Successful issuance of a EUR 500 mn hybrid bond further strengthens balance sheet structure\n- Lenzing expects recovery of the fiber market to continue in 2021 and an operating result on pre-crisis level\nLenzing – In 2020, the Lenzing Group successfully responded to the extremely difficult market environment due to the COVID-19 crisis by implementing a broad package of measures and remains fully on track in terms of its strategy. The measures focused on protecting Lenzing’s employees and partners and on safeguarding its operations. Lenzing flexibly adjusted production volumes and was able to offer its customers the usual delivery service at any time. In addition, Lenzing also intensified measures for structural earnings improvement to mitigate the effect of the pressure on fiber prices and demand for fibers, and reduced its operating costs.\nPlease read the attached document for more information.\nLenzing Group Covid-19\nLenzing Aktiengesellschaft"}
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{"text": "Infographic: 10 Myths About Graphic Design – You The Designer \| You The Designer\nInfographic: 10 Myths About Graphic Design – You The Designer \| You The Designer.\nInfographic: 10 Myths About Graphic Design\nArticles, Resources October 15, 2012 by Patrick Jude Ilagan\nThroughout our quest to demystify these myths we here at YTD inputs.**\nWhat do you guys think? Do you find this helpful? Drop a comment below and tell us your thoughts! Do check us out in Facebook, Twitter and Google+ also do not forget to subscribe to get first dibs in all things awesome. here.\nPosted on October 26, 2012, in graphics and tagged Arts, Business, design, Graphic Design, Graphic designer, Information graphics. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment."}
{"text": "College Priority Deadlines & Tuition Submission\nEach year ICAN puts together guide booklets for prospective college students, including a chart of Iowa Postsecondary Institutions. This chart lists, in alphabetical order, colleges and universities and a series of information including:\n- Institution Type\n- Phone Number\n- Website\n- Tuition & Fees\n- Room & Board\n- School Code\n- Financial Aid Priority Date\nPlease complete the form below to update your institution information. Thank you for helping us maintain accurate information as we meet and work with prospective college students across the state of Iowa.\nWith recent changes to the ACT test options, ICAN is gathering data for internal use on how Iowa colleges are looking at ACT subject test retakes and super scores. Please note the questions below will not be published in our student guides."}
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{"text": "Cognitec s face recognition software used at 17th CPC National Congress\nFaceVACS-Alert, a product designed to assist real-time face recognition video surveillance, was implemented to the customer s full satisfaction. Face recognition technology can be added to conventional video surveillance systems in order to identify persons in a watch list, by comparing faces in real-time video images against stored photographs. Cognitec s technology has proven to be one of the most reliable and best performing on the market.\nThis pivotal acknowledgement of the technical excellence of Cognitec s FaceVACS-Alert software by being used at such a prestigious National Security event speaks strongly for the robustness and the great performance rates that Cognitec s products offer. This is even more the case as the product was chosen after extensive tests, also using products of competing companies, under very stringent conditions.\n\"We are once again very pleased with the successful deployment of a video surveillance system that includes our face recognition technology,\" commented Alfredo Herrera, Cognitec s Managing Director. \"It is an honor for us to be selected by the Government of the People's Republic of China for such an important event.\"\nCognitec Systems GmbH\nHeadquartered in Dresden, Germany and offices in Herndon, VA; Miami, FL; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Hong Kong, China, Cognitec was founded in 2002, by a team of experts who recognized the growing need for software solutions in the field of biometrics. Cognitec's founders have been working on specific algorithms for the face recognition technology FaceVACS® since 1995. Commencing as early as 1996, government and industry customers began relying on the FaceVACS® technology for a wide range of applications. In various independent evaluation tests including the Face Recognition Vendor Tests in 2002 and 2006, FaceVACS® has proven to be the leading technology available on the market."}
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{"text": "NITI Aayog has put forth a plan to turn India’s economy to reach a size of $7.5 trillion, (though targeting $10 trillion) or more than three times of what it is today, at $2 trillion. Implementation of GST, tax reform and ease of doing business (read the Cover Story) are all parts of the building blocks of this plan. And, they all seem to be moving on course so far. India is on the throes of a massive change. The change is not only limited to economy and industry but is also being instituted in social behaviour, and most importantly, in changing mindsets. Just look at what all is happening: Swachh Bharat, Digital India, Smart Cities, AMRUT, Affordable Housing, E-governance, E-Procurement, Make in India, Direct Benefit Transfer, Demonetisation, black money campaign, renewable energy thrust, UDAN, etc, and other social campaigns such as the Ujwala Yojna, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and so on. This is a lot of work in so short a time and work is in progress.\nThe recently announced affordable housing scheme and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or PMAY have seen the launch of over 350 projects to build about 2 lakh houses with a private sector commitment of investing Rs 38,000 crore. The cost of constructing these units will be in the range of Rs 15 lakh to Rs 30 lakh with an average construction cost of Rs 18 lakh per house.\nUnder PMAY-U, central assistance is provided to each beneficiary in the range of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.35 lakh. Of the 2 lakh houses, over 1 lakh will be constructed in Maharashtra, followed by 41,921 houses in the NCR; 28,465 in Gujarat; 7,037 in Karnataka; and 6,055 in Uttar Pradesh; among others. Cement prices have already reached pre-demonetisation levels on the back of demand coming from infrastructure and will firm further due to these housing projects.\nGST is on track and is likely to cause another disruption for a quarter, but will soon bring great prosperity. Distressed assets of around $6.8 trillion sitting on books of the banks would also heave a sigh of relief as firms and funds like KKR, Lone Star, Kotak and Edelweiss are planning to mobilise their resurrection. It is estimated by experts that the capital required for the next four to five years to resolve distressed situations is about Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore, and it is already being provided for by NBFCs, PEs and international funds.\nThe PM completes three years on May 26 this month and a lot is on his plate. Fortunately, for us, his plans have accorded priority to infrastructure and while public spending is leading the way, the private sector is preparing to jump in the fray too. Recently, at a private charity function, I bumped into Sajjan Jindal, Chairman of JSW Group, and when I posed him a casual question on whether the private sector was ready to invest into the India story: “We are getting there,” he quipped."}
{"text": "As I'm sure we all know the pornography business has been at the forefront of the adoption of new technology for a long, long time. No, it's not just streaming of video in recent years that has really been driven by the smut industry, the demands for bandwidth before that were more about pictures of the two backed beast than they were anything else. Prior to that it was the porn industry that really launched the VCR revolution and I'm told that the first stag reels were recorded well before WWI.\nHuman beings tend to be interested in sex, a useful survival technique in a species that reproduces sexually, and any technology that enables said humans to be interested in sex tends to get used to allow them to be so. Which is what interested me in these figures from Pornohub about their traffic in this past year:\nFully 62% of their US traffic came from mobile devices.\nWhat's particularly interesting about this is that there are no end of reports out there insisting that US mobile broadband coverage is much worse than that in a number of other countries. That might even be true. But given that videos (of any kind, not just the porn kind) are the most data intensive uses of said bandwidth it does seem odd that we're getting a much greater mobile adoption where mobile is supposedly so much worse.\nOne other thing, I would expect the other countries to catch up over time so that chart is also a good indication in which territories other mobile video apps will catch on and how quickly."}
{"text": "Update: Nearly 200 families in Palatine are seeking assistance from All Saints Food Pantry in Palatine--an increase of 600% of its usual client list. In this time of economic hardship as a result of Covid-19, you can help by donating to GPAD's Food Drive on Thursday, April 30. We will pick up your donations starting at 8 a.m. Sign up here. We will drive your donations to the Food Pantry site, 1585 N. Rand Road, Palatine. More info here. Remember to sign up here.\nGPAD April 30 Food Drive for All Saints Food Pantry--Families in Need Has Increased 600%\nBe the first to comment"}
{"text": "Pakistan is bursting at the seams with intolerance polluting the very air we breathe. Gone are the days where such behavior was associated with the level of literacy. Extremism seems to have taken over in our daily lives while this is the very plague we are pressurizing the state to fight. What we fail to realize is that a suicide bomber is nothing but an extreme form of intolerance.\nExperts quote many reasons for one becoming a terrorist including extreme set of belief in the name of religion, poverty, lack of education, to name a few. Once a person is all set to be a terrorist due to any deep-rooted reason, it becomes more and more difficult with the passing of age to mold this mind and to turn it away from extreme aggression and violence. Such beliefs may only become strengthened with time and therefore, even more challenging to address before irreparable damage is done.\nWhile addressing such extremism may be an uphill task, it can be safely assumed that such a mindset is not formed overnight. According to Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D., the mature brain develops with a set of sufficient motor, sensory, emotional, cognitive and social experiences during infancy and childhood.\n“The most delicate and crucial period of life is the childhood. The foundation for the future personality of the individual is established at this time… This is the most impressionable and delicate period of the child’s life. During this apparently uncomplicated period the moral, cultural and religious instincts of the child take shape… There will hardly be any person who can recall events of the first years of his life. All the events of the time will be under a cloud of oblivion and forgetfulness. But, all the same, those forgotten memories would already have had tremendous effects on the nature and personality of the individual.” (Excerpt from ‘The Codes of Training’ by Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini, translated by Sayed Tahir Bilgrami).\nThe upbringing of a child is no less than nurturing a nation. The people in a family, a neighborhood, a community, cities, countries, the world and how day-to-day life is being conducted is nothing but manifestations of their childhood and exposure. Who is to say what was picked up when and how something which they may have been exposed to became a part of character?\nBushra Gohar (BG), a Pakistani Stateswoman, an intellectual and one of leading woman politician, Senior Vice President of Awami National Party, raised a very important question. “Wouldn’t you worry if your children are taught this?”\nAccording to BG, the above are images of a few pages of a book being taught to children in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A very disturbing exposure to children by any standard. In ‘The Codes of Training’, Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini says: “…the scenes and anecdotes that the child experiences and the sounds that he hears will have impact on its subconscious and have a bearing on his learning experience… The time for commencement of moral training is the moment of the birth of the person. This is the time when the training commences without any possibility of failure. If the training is commenced later on, there will be likelihood of confronting negative attitudes.”\nThe pages belong to a book put together by Iqra Publications and claims to be compliant with standards of Islam. This quote by Hazrat Ali (as) addressing Imam Hasan (as) may reflect on the Islamic thoughts on a child’s upbringing and how important it is to watch what children are exposed to:\n“The child’s mind is like the virgin land. Whatever is put into it, will be accepted. Therefore, before your heart turned hard and engrossed otherwise, I took steps to make you polite.” – Wassail as Shia, 197.\nIt is a moral obligation to restrict such exposure to our children. It is of utmost importance to raise our voices to reach the authorities for corrective measures. If not, a peaceful Pakistan may just be a dream, until no one is left to even dream such.\nAwful. Just awful, taking away babies’ innocence.\nChildren indoctrinated with instruments of death, destruction & violence.\nHorrific.\nVery well written. this needs attention for betterment of our country."}
{"text": "August 28, 2008\nLike many critics of Hillary Clinton’s performance during this Primary season, I was very skeptical about whether she would deliver a whole-hearted endorsement of Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. My reaction to her speech on Tuesday night was similar to what I heard from the voices in my TV. My first exclamation at the close of her speech, was: “Out of the park and 300 feet above Waveland Avenue, all the way across!” Keith Olbermann’s voice then came out of the TV, saying: “Grand Slam!” repeatedly. After a minute, David Gregory asked New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to critique the speech. Richardson described it as “a 500-foot home run”.\nAfter hearing her speech, I felt motivated to apologize for publicly doubting her loyalty to the Democratic Party. She really did “deliver the goods” by giving what was, perhaps, her best speech on the campaign stump. Although many of us were surprised by the substance of her speech, I was particularly impressed by her delivery. Hillary had always addressed her audiences with Lieberman-esque stiffness. Imagine someone saying “let us go forward” with a groaning, insincere tone for the 10,000th time. That was the way Hillary used to speak. In defeat, she really did find her voice. Although she claimed that happened after her “close call” in New Hampshire, I believe that deep in her heart, she must have known she would not really find her voice until she would be completely vanquished in this campaign. Once the weight of the world was (literally) lifted off her shoulders, she was able to freely and candidly express herself to the voters. She needs to review the videos of this speech to reinforce her better public speaking skills, as an example of “how it is done properly”. The look in Bill’s eyes told the story: Hillary had finally cultivated her public speaking skills to the level where they belong. Right on the heels of the Summer Olympics, where we saw so many American women win so many medals, we saw an American woman who ran for the Presidency, delivering a solid performance for Team U.S.A. I’m sure the audience saw it this way and it was reflected in the sports metaphors used by so many, expressing their reactions to this speech.\nI was glad to see the individuals mentioned in my “Women To Watch” article (June 19) behind the podium during the first two days of this Convention. At the Republican Convention, we will not see this many women speaking, unless they run some sort of “Abortion Confessional” feature. (John Waters would be the perfect director for such a piece.)\nBill Clinton’s only challenge at this Convention was to show that he still has “the old magic”. It was not unlike an extended, Keith Richards guitar solo at a Rolling Stones concert. All he had to do was go out and give the audience a little of the old … “little of the old”. It worked. Bill was back with his unique ability to enrapture a crowd. The audience responded warmly to him.\nBy this point in the Democratic Convention, no speaker had yet really slaughtered John McCain or the Republicans to the extent many Democrats had anticipated. Patrick Buchanan of MSNBC voiced his criticism that McCain had been “getting a free ride” at this Convention. His remark drew a round of applause from the largely-Democratic, outdoor crowd at Union Station in Denver.\nFinally, Joe Biden stepped up to serve the audience some petit filet mignon. Democrats aren’t big on red meat. They’re mostly a “fish” crowd, preferring high levels of mercury over the risk of colon cancer. The avoidance of “red meat” had been obvious all week. It was beginning to show. Had the arugula vegans taken over Obama’s campaign once and for all? Biden gave the Convention program just what it needed: some hardball pitches at McCain’s failed foreign policy positions, contrasted with Obama’s foreign policy ideas, some of which were ratified by the Bush Administration even after McCain had dissed them as nonsense.\nFor his part, Obama educated his Republican critics about the characterization of him as a “celebrity”. They just can’t get a handle on it. On Wednesday night, Obama made it clear that he is not just a celebrity … He’s an “M.C.” (This means “master of ceremonies” to all of us still using SPF 30 sunscreen in late August.) “M.C. Barack” had things under control by the end of Wednesday night. Let’s see how he does on Thursday."}
{"text": "Thin Lizzy: How the Laid-Back Californian met the Drunken Scot and the Heavy Black Irishman…\nChris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 18 December 1976\nIF LEW GRADE ever gets round to planning a rock 'n' roll soap opera he could fill the first fifty-two weeks (at least) with The Tempestuous Tragedies Of Thin Lizzy.\nTotal word count of piece: 1451"}
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{"text": "- You are in:\n- Social >\n- Digitaledge >\n- Phones\nWe compare mobile telephone charges for the leading providers\nWhile the best offers from mobile phone providers are undoubtedly available to monthly bill pay customers, things are starting to improve quite a bit for pay as you go customers these days. For years, anyone who opted for the pay as you go option was penalised when it came to rates and features available, but things have finally started to turn around of late which is great news for many of you out there.\nHowever choosing the correct pay as you go plan is not an easy task thanks to the increased competitiveness of the seven major mobile service providers in the United Kingdom, which is precisely why we've decided to compare mobile telephone charges for pay as you go customers.\nJust like with pay monthly customers, the kind of plan you need on your pay as you go phone will very much depend on the kind of phone you have and what you intend on using it for. If you have a swanky new smartphone, then a data plan is going to be very important, whereas those of you who simply want to use your phone for calls and texts will need to select the network with the best voice and text rates available.\nFor our money, the best plan available right now is the 3 All in One Add-On, which gives you 300 minutes of talk time, 3000 texts and as much data as you need for just £15 per month. The closest competitor to this deal is on offer with Vodafone's Simply package, which gives you 300 texts and 500MB of data for just £10 per month, with calls costing 21p per minute.\nThe cheapest outright charge for calls comes from Orange's Dolphin package, at just 20p per minute. For a £10 top up each month you'll also get 300 free texts and 100MB of internet into the bargain."}
{"text": "Little Mix certainly know how to make an entrance, as they arrived at the Brit Awards at London's O2 arena.\nThe girl band have been nominated for two gongs this evening - Best British Video and best British Single.\nThe foursome looked the ultimate girl squad wearing complementing outfits in shades of black, khaki and white, as they sashayed their way down the red carpet.\nThey also carried white roses in support of the anti-sexual harassment movement Time's Up.\nPerrie Edwards, 24, did almost risk a wardrobe malfunction in her plunging semi-sheer white dress, but kept her cool as she blew kisses at the cameras.\nLeigh-Anne Pinnock, 26, also wore white in a bathroom-robe like dress with oversized polka dots. Her footballer boyfriend Andre Gray joined her at the bash.\nJesy Nelson, 26, looked fierce in a khaki leather jumpsuit alongside beau Harry James and appeared to put the controversy about her dreadlocks behind her as she sported straightened sleek locks.\nJade Thirlwall, 25, kept things simple in a black strappy dress and red lipstick, as she cuddled up to her rocker boyfriend Jed Elliott of The Struts.\nThe band have been criticised for their risqué outfits in the past and Jade awkward knicker flash has gone down as one of the most memorable wardrobe malfunctions of the Brits, but they know to steal the limelight."}
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{"text": "Can You Tell Me How to Get More Innovation Revenue?\nWhy Diversity in The Workforce Fuels Growth\nAt a young age, we all embraced an unlikely iconic duo of a bird and a snuffleupagus without questioning their collaboration. Elmo’s age and species are up for debate, but his contribution to our emotional development as human beings would be hard to dispute. We idolized an entire street of monsters and grouches and adults and kids that lived in harmony, and maybe some of us begged our parents to move there.\nWhen you peek your head up from your cubicle/out your office door (now that we’ve all (allegedly) grown up)—what cast of characters do you see? Do you a heterogeneous mix of backgrounds, races, ages, and monsters? Or is everybody just like you?\nThe trend of hiring people who are a good “cultural fit” gave us a bunch of people who were exactly like us, who liked the same things, and knew the same things, and believed the same things. If we all agree, where is the room for growth in the organization?\nCompanies are 120% more likely to hit their revenue goals in an inclusive environment, which would be a lot of cookies for a certain blue monster. 83% of millennials feel more engaged in their work when their culture is inclusive, and there’s 2.3 times more cash-flow for all employees, not just that age group.\nWhy is that?\n- New Ideas. Diverse workforces foster a safe environment for a myriad of new perspectives. New perspectives spur new ideas, new ideas spur new revenue streams.\n- Inspired Employees. New ideas and creativity spur increased productivity. Not only are you making more, you’re getting more done, and the employees feel inspired, and even better, they feel a sense of ownership in their ideas.\n- Less fear in the workplace. If we are free to be you and me, then you’re going to get a lot of more confident employees who are ready to stick their neck out and say something, eradicating the culture of “this is how we’ve always done it”.\nCookie Monster was a monster with a passion for baked goods, Oscar was a monster focused on the logistics of trash, Elmo was as far as I can tell, a love monster, and a darn good one at that. Mr Hooper was a grown up running a small business and Big Bird was well, a very nervous bird. If they all can come together, why can’t we? Diversity and inclusion are where the air is sweet and it’s the answer to having a more innovated workforce.\nNexxt is a recruitment media company that uses today’s most effective marketing tactics to reach the full spectrum of talent – from active to passive, and everything in between. Learn more about hiring with Nexxt."}
{"text": "Resources\nAlthough the scheduled reopening of the Lake Blackshear Regional Library was Dec.15, some minor corrections still remain for the tornado-ravaged structure. To show the new renovation of the local library in its best form, Library Director, Anne M. Isabell and Mulkey McMichael, show organizer of former Americus High School students and now, successful artists, have planned shows for Jan. 12-26.\nFeatured in the show will be art successes, painter Jeff Williams, Atlanta architect Barry Mathis, portrait painter Elmer Kinder and photographer Michael Dalton. Others have been invited to show if possible.\nDalton’s, of Americus, education resume includes Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW), Kennesaw State University, College of the Desert and his latest bachelor of fine arts degree completion at GSW in 2006. Sharing his photography knowledge, Dalton has taught for the Crisp County Arts Alliance as digital photography and Photoshop instructor. There, he was responsible for teaching technical aspects of digital photography as well as photo editing techniques for beginning and advanced students. At his alma mater, GSW, Dalton has been assistant photography instructor, Kids College instructor, computer lab assistant and digital photography and Photoshop instructor. Currently, Dalton is art director for Old Biscayne Designs of Americus.\nThere, he is responsible for all product photography and creation of all print advertising production. Additionally, Dalton has managed many business commissions for local companies and individuals in both Florida and Georgia. Along with his creative image production, Dalton has also been responsible for web site designs for many of his business clients. Many couples have selected Dalton for capturing the special moments of their weddings.\nSelected by many wellknown artists , Dalton has been responsible for the best portrayal of their respective works from 2002 to the present. His work as been juried for presentation in Savannah, Virginia Highlands, Statesboro, Atlanta, Columbus, Cartersville and many sites in Americus. His photographs have appeared on the Georgia Public Broadcasting web-sites, Atlanta Life Magazine, the Atlanta Style and Design Magazine, the Albany Herald and the Americus Times-Recorder."}
{"text": "The Battle Begins is the plot episode for Mojo Hojo Rumble! the Series\nPlotEdit\nWhen Ishamie wakes up in the morning he realizes that he is late for work (which was a reference to other series of people being late for work [Ex: Ichigo Momomiya from Tokyo Mew Mew,Yui Hirasawa from K-ON!, and Usagi from Sailor Moon]) So he rushed to work and walked by his cousin Madoka Kaname and said \"hi\" to Madoka, so Ishamie got in time for work, but a explosion was heard in the street, So Ishamie looked at the Window and Giygas was attacking Washington D.C., so Ishamie transformed in his superhero form and invited his friends Rose Sheedy,Chie Satonaka,and Sayaka Miki (his love interest) and tried to defeat Giygas as hard as they could.\nCharacter Appearance'sEdit\nMainEdit\n- Ishamie Tarker\n- Rose Sheedy\n- Chie Satonaka\nCameosEdit\n- Madoka Kaname\n- Nostalgia Critic\n- King Harkinian\n- Kevin McCallister\n- Perona\n- Xiaoyu\nVillainsEdit\n- Giygas"}
{"text": "With everything around us closed and our need for social distancing, you and your family may be looking for new forms of learning and entertainment. You can still use all the digital services the library has to offer - some that you may not even know about. There’s also a wealth of other online ways to help pass the time at home. We’ve put together this page to help direct you to library resources that you can use while you’re staying at home. Watch for updates as we acquire more.\nWhat library resources can we use from home?\nAsk a Question - We're here to help!\n- Ask a Librarian - Submit a question, request assistance using resources, or get help with your account. Our staff is monitoring and responding to questions. You can also call 360-906-5000 or 888-546-2707 (area code 509) between noon and 5 pm daily.\nLearn something new - Whether it’s a job skill, another language, or a new hobby, we’ve got your online learning options covered.\n- lynda.com - Instructional video courses on a wide variety of topics.\n- Mango Languages - Learn over 70 languages from wherever you are.\n- Creativebug - Thousands of arts and crafts video classes taught by experts.\n- Learning Express Library - Tutorials and exam prep for school, college, career, and citizenship preparation; and software and computer tutorials\n- Great Courses on Kanopy - Watch full courses in history, science, popular lifestyle topics, and more.\nWatch something great - Now with increased streaming limits, Kanopy and Hoopla are a great source of entertainment and education.\n- Kanopy - Stream indy films, classics, documentaries and kids programming with Common Sense Media Ratings.\n- Hoopla - Check out films, TV shows, albums and eComics for your device.\nRead something digital - When physical items aren’t available, digital is a great option for reading and listening for all ages.\n- OverDrive - eBooks and audiobooks without leaving the house.\n- Hoopla - eBooks and online book club.\n- Flipster - Read your favorite magazines on your computer or device.\n- New York Times Digital - Enjoy complimentary access to nytimes.com, and view articles from 1980 to today.\n- TumbleBooks - Animated, talking picture books, including some in other languages.\n- TeenBookCloud - Stream eBooks, graphic novels, and audiobooks for tweens and teens.\n- Gale eBooks - Reference and travel guides in digital form.\nListen to music - Stream or download music to help you get through these uncertain times.\n- Freegal - Streaming (now 24/7!) and downloadable music in all genres. Also includes music videos.\n- Hoopla - Stream songs or entire albums.\nWork on your family tree - There’s never been a better time to finally tackle your genealogy.\n- Ancestry - The library edition of Ancestry is now available from home.\n- Fold3 - Discover your family's military history.\n- ProQuest Newspapers - Full-text articles, including obituaries, from U.S. newspapers."}
{"text": "MATH\nMONDAY – Homelink 8.1\nTUESDAY – Homelink 8.2\nWEDNESDAY – Homelink 8.3\nTHURSDAY – 8.4\nFRIDAY – No Homework\nLITERACY\nTry to make acquisition in 10-15 minutes of interpretation each night.\nSPELLING\nUnit 4 – Review Week\nNo Spelling Words this week\nWednesday, April 6th\nEarly Release Day\nDismissal at Noon\nFriday, April 8th\nUNE’s Annual Brain, Body, and Wellness Fair\nThe Brain Fair:\nWe be in possession of lined up numerous exhibits and activities, lengthwise with special guests, to highlight to what extent amazing the human nervous system is, and for what cause it is so important to protect it. We have activities geared towards canaille of all ages from young children to older adults, including a globe class human brain exhibit, various sturdy activities including skating, team sports and powerlifting demonstrations, brain crafts, etc.\nOpioid Forum:\nThere decision be a diverse group of nation who have expertise in the areas of opioid pharmacology, unsalable article abuse prevention strategies, treatment of estate use disorders, law enforcement, school councilors and other community leaders. They will each provide updates in successi~ steps being taken to prevent and bring to poverty the impact of opioid abuse, addiction and diversion of prescription opioids/heroin/fentanyl. There desire be plenty of time for not high discussion with the audience participants. This tribunal is geared towards high school students, young adults, parents, and other concerned citizens.\nThe Neuroscience of Learning:\nWe are hosting a e~ guest who is a professor and scientist at the University of California and Stanford University. The flyer talks round her research and the implications because teaching and education. This talk by Q&A is geared towards teachers and other educators, together with parents interested in the topic.\nNEXT WEEK\nMonday, April 11th\nWear ORANGE instead of Autism Awareness\nFriday, April 15th\nNo School First light of ~ of Spring Break\nWell, Becky, you should not prattle like that,lunch is hear to grieve me , talking like that! You endure solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum and their agents through respect to any claim based relating to any post you may submit.\n"}
{"text": "Feb 28\nThe Glocalist Manifesto\nWe are glocalists:\n1. Because we know that technology, in changing our concept of time and space, has changed the world and made it one\n2. Because we know that in the world of knowledge, innovation is the moment in which knowledge and power come together to create custom, values and history\n3. Because we know that innovation means opportunity, yet can also constitute a threat\n4. Because we know that zero-time and zero-space mean the dominion of mobility over settlement\n5. Because we know that mobility means flows, networks and nodes of relationships independent of territory and its confines\n6. Because we know that relationships without boundaries change the meaning of place, bringing it closer to the meaning of node, opening up a new relationship between the global and the local, in which the global penetrates all loci through its networks, and each locus folds directly into the global\n7. Because we know that this new glocal world will be our world and our destiny\nBut we are also aware:\n8. That glocalism must not mean stateless conformity, macdonaldalization, imbalances or ecological disaster\n9. That to stem these threats new policies and institutions will increasingly be required\n10. That new policies and institutions mean new powers\n11. That recourse to legitimate force and territorial control will count less and less in a mobility-driven world\n12. That we do not need borders, citizenship, sovereignties or subordinate localisms to take advantage of the global while at the same time defending our local spaces\n13. That the end of nationalism does not have to mean the end of territorial ethnic cultural identities\n14. That in the global village the social movement will be protagonist\n15. That new political relationships must inform the management of mobility and territory\n16. That the enterprise constitutes the central form of mediation between coexistence and the economy\n17. That the enterprise is regulated by global markets\n18. That the populations of enterprises within these global markets operate on a global scale through logically interwoven networks of functions\n19. That these functions give rise to flows of goods, people and relationships that are relatively free of territorial considerations\n20. That traditional national and regional political institutions are increasingly hard pressed in influencing these relationships\n21. That only new glocal institutions, i.e. institutions capable of tying together global enterprises and local enterprise populations, are in a position to mediate between the global economy and local forms of coexistence\n22. That the crisis national states are currently undergoing in their capacity to regulate is in fact irreversible and that only profound institutional innovation can save us.\nWe therefore call for:\n23. A new form of statehood in which diverse individuals, ethnicities and nations can coexist on equal terms, where territorial communities and communities of practice can interweave their interests and functions\n24. Networks and territories that are organized without nationalist or localist influences\n25. A new form of citizenship based on multiple affiliation\n26. The consequent ability to feel that we are cosmopolitan, Italics, Europeans, Mediterraneans, Northern Italians, Milanese, Catholics, Moslems, liberals, socialists, technical, humanists, Boca fans, Inter fans, etc., without losing our sense of political identity\n27. The ability to cultivate these new affiliations as individuals and as a community\n28. A new form of spatial laicism that protects the new mobility, in the knowledge that a life lived fully among a wealth of affiliations in multiple loci is far more authentic and richer than any form of monochord sectarianism\n29. The ability to operate freely within the rich and dynamic structure of functional and territorial networks the glocal world is preparing to offer us\n30. A new form of cosmopolitan governance, indispensable for protecting the environment, peace, human rights and justice in a glocal world\nTo achieve this, we are prepared to put on the line:\n31. Our current identities and political subjectivisms, in order to attain new structures of representation and governability\n32. Our traditional relationship to territory, in order to prepare ourselves for the influx of migrants that mass mobility will bring\n33. Our current local and national structures, which we will transform and adapt in order to meet the challenges that the demise of the nation-state and the advent of a glocal world will inexorably pose\nTo work towards the advent:\n34. Of the new thinking, the new parties, the new institutions and political practices that will have to take on the role of leaders and actors in the new glocal history\n35. Of the new aggregations that this path will need to subjectify\n36. Of the new relationships between settlements and mobility of things, people, and ideas\n37. Of rules for coexistence that reconcile efficiency and democracy in the new communities of practice and function on a global and local scale\n38. Of the urban reorganization driven by the springing up of glocal cities wherever intersections of functional networks and existing civic aggregations come together in new ways\n39. Of the new sub-national political geography that regional aggregations are in the process of creating virtually everywhere\n40. Of the related institutions and their new powers\n41. Of the new levels of meta-national statehood that are emerging throughout the world, beginning with Europe\nWe are launching this appeal from Milan:\nBecause we are aware:\n42. That Europe is the continent that invented the City\n43. That European unity will not be reconstructed by arranging its regional and metropolitan realities in forms imposed by the advent of the nation-state\n44. That the integration and rebalancing of the stronger and weaker areas of Europe will no longer be solely entrusted to the unifying power of the national states, but rather to the building of new interregional functional networks between areas that are not necessarily contiguous\n45. That, where Italy is concerned, its various parts will move within Europe in varied, complex ways, and it will witness the North, Center, South and Islands connect in new ways with the corresponding continental and global realities\n46. That, in these conditions, the glocal city in which we live and call Milania, being none other than a piece of the vaster dimension of Northern Italy and the Po valley, cannot reject its responsibility to connect the entire country with the rest of Europe.\nThere is much work to be done\n47. In order to better understand, designate, organize, and institutionalize the great metropolitan area in which we live\n48. In order to mark out Milania’s new if still uncertain identity\n49. In order to link this identity with the rest of Italy and Europe in a new way\n50. In order to allow new potentially glocal institutions like chambers of commerce, bank foundations, provinces, regions, and agencies to strengthen their connections with those multinational companies, major banks and groups of SMEs already engaged in the glocalist challenge\n51. In order to enable the thousands of associations and service organizations animating Milania’s local dimensions to learn to interconnect with the progressively denser web of functional networks that cross them on a glocal scale\n52. In order to stimulate our centers of cultural life to become more aware of the high rate of innovation that glocalization involves\n53. In order to bring efficiency and order to the myriad networks coursing through the glocal city, as well as to the thousands of enterprises that energize it and the forms of mobility that infuse it with life\n54. This is work in which we invite all those who share our ideas and aims to participate\n55. Because we need a better understanding of the realities in which we operate\n56. We must mobilize entire generations to meet the new challenges we clearly envision\n57. We must oversee the birth of new subjective realities capable of bringing political life to a new glocal world\n58. The Milanese must awaken to the new challenges of the glocal city in which they live\n59. Italic peoples the world over must come together in the awareness of an affiliation that transcends yet does not deny affiliations between Italians, or natives of Canton Ticino, Monte Titano or Dalmatian regions; and which unites with that affiliation any persons be they Canadian, American, Latin American, Australian, or resident alien immigrants in Italy, etc. who see themselves as Italic for reasons of origin, interest, culture or values.\n60. Together we must begin to build the new institutions and new governance the glocal world needs\n61. In other words, we need a new glocalist policy\nAnd we hereby commit ourselves to work!\nPiero Bassetti, President of Globus et Locus\nMilan, 7 January 2008"}
{"text": "Sing along. “Chowder, clam chowder…” If you don’t know how the rest of that earworm goes, you haven’t spent enough time slurping soup on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.\nYou can remedy that Saturday, Feb. 22, when the boardwalk hosts its 33rd annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off and Festival.\nAt last count, 66 teams from as far away as Clovis and Sacramento had signed up to serve chowder. New England style is the most popular, but there’s a Manhattan competition too. In this contest, amateurs compete against other amateurs and restaurants/professionals against other pros. Cooks also vie for best-decorated booth honors.\nThe event is a fundraiser for the City of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Department. A $9 tasting kit will buy you five samples of clam chowder. Admission to the Boardwalk is, as always, free.\nThe public tasting begins at 1 p.m., but — because this event draws thousands of people — you will want to arrive much earlier to buy your tasting kits, stake out a spot in one of the lines and get some time in on the Giant Dipper and other rides. Details:."}
{"text": "Nora (looking at her watch). It is not so very late. Sit down here, Torvald. You and I have much to say about one another. (She sits down at one end of the table)\nHelmer. Nora-what is this? –This cold, set face?\nNora. Sit down. It will take some time; I have a lot to talk over with you.\n“A Doll’s House” Henrik Ibsen.\nFinally Nora summoned the spiritual and physical strength to confront her husband about their failed eight-years marriage and demand a way out. She complained that her father treated her as his doll-child and when she got married he just transferred the possession of his doll from his hands to her husband’s.\nOne of the commonest feminine complaints against men is that they view and treat women as mere objects to please their desires—sexual, gastronomic, etc. The litany of complaints expressed by women against the “significant other” in modern medical offices attests to their resilient emotional frustration.\nJessica Valenti, a US-based reporter for “The Guardian”, said in her memoir that women have to manage the socially ingrained expectation they exist first and foremost to satisfy the male desires in all their myriad forms. Only when those are fulfilled, they can expect to be considered as human beings.\nEven though she excelled at becoming “the best sex object ever”, she feels tired of the serial disappointments with men and the travails of beauty care. She denounces the futility of the popular feminism that uses humor to undo the grinding down of sexism in modern women’s lives. It seems that she has no hope to get her due respect from men.\nJennifer Weiner said that even though the social media has been pivotal to allow the multiple expressions of millions of women worldwide it has also had the collateral effect of pressuring them into “looking good” at all times.\nBeing out in public means “being looked at, and possibly photographed, in a way that men still are not, and maybe will never be.” She has no hope too…What’s a woman to do?\nI wonder…If modern women are so upset about the “objectification” of their images, why do they spend so much time and money in the beautification process? It beggars belief.\nIf you don’t have any patience left for the triad of feminine grooming (prune, polish and police) just roam around the house with a trendily defiant Chewbacca look. We’re so confident (wink-wink) that your “significant other” will back your rebellion all the way…\nWhat do you think? Please tell us.\nDon’t leave me alone.\n7 thoughts on “The sex object”\nThat’s the right question.\nIf modern women are so upset about the “objectification” of their images, why do they spend so much time and money in the beautification process?\nNo idea, you have to ask them. I don’t (much).\nBTW, I share your love for Ibsen (that was very clever what you did). I esp. like his lady from the sea.\nThanks for the compliment.\nI am sorry for the typos as I am writing this while riding in a trolley and we hit a bump. Please keep reading our blogs. A kiss. Au revoir!\nthe female as a “porcelain doll” is a boring and unsustainable way of being. Sure it’s nice to look great sometimes, but there’s more to life than the superficial. Fortunately not all men are like this, some actually value substance rather than just superficialities.\nGood afternoon and thank you for your great commentary, my dear “female”. Yes, mamy men prefer good substance over mere looks in a woman, including moi. Pleasjel\nkeep reading our blogs\nEl tema es multifactorial y tiene múltiples aspectos. Hay uno en particular que es el cultural. Ya en el antiguo Egipto la industria cosmética estaba sumamente desarrollada y desde allí a nuestros tiempos continuó. La “necesidad” de la mujer de ser y estar atractiva para el hombre, muchas veces esconde los múltiples atributos de su alma y esto a su vez la vuelve demandante. Los hombres tenemos una gran cuota de responsabilidad en ello ya que debemos mirar en sus almas a través de sus ojos y no quedarnos únicamente allí\nQuerido Carlitos: buenos dias y muchas gracias por tu siempre acertado y tan bien ponderado comentario. Es cierto que desde la Antiguedad se utilizo el fetiche de la ” belleza femenina” para anular socialmente y esclavizar intelectualmente a las mujeres. Si bien queremos que luzcan bonitas por supuesto, no podemos ( ellas y nosotros) dejarnos arrastrar por la oleada consumista de las marcas comerciales y los medios cipayos. Ellas tienennel derecho a decidir cuando embellecerse y cuando, digamos en forma diplomatica, estar un poco mas relajadas en su aspecto. Quectengan lactranquilidad que las vamos a seguir queriendo mucho aunque esten algun dia despeinadas y en chancletas! Te mando un gran abrazo y hasta la proxima."}
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{"text": "If you have a loved one with glaucoma, you may be all too aware of the necessity to administer eye drops as directed. Keeping eye pressure in a safe range is essential to preserving vision. This month is National Caregivers Month, and there is some recent technology that might make a caregiver’s job much easier when caring for a glaucoma patient. The September issue of the Journal of Glaucoma reported the results of a survey that gathered interest among glaucoma patients and their caregivers for an app on their smartphone or tablet called the Glaucoma App.\nThis free app was developed by Wills Eye Glaucoma Research Center and Drexel University. It has many helpful features such as:\n- Educational videos\n- Eye drop reminders\n- Appointment reminders\n- Medical and ocular data storage\n- Visual field tutorial\n- Intraocular pressure tracker\nThe Glaucoma App’s goal is to” increase patients’ knowledge about glaucoma and improve their compliance with respect to their eye drop regimen and follow-up appointments.” The survey found that glaucoma patients were more likely to download the app if it remains a free app, compared to a version that costs $3 (Source: Eye Doc News).\nTalk to your ophthalmologist about what apps and resources can help you remember your medication and help you learn more about glaucoma. There is always new research in the field of glaucoma, so stay up-to-date and informed. If you are looking for a qualified eye care professional in your area, please use our Physician Locator tool.\nRelated Articles:\nApps that Make Life Easier for Seniors\nCould an App Diagnose Glaucoma in Third World Countries?"}
{"text": "We have a total of 12 accommodation options which include six cottages on the ground and 6 tree houses. The treehouses have been made on Mahua trees and are at a height of 18 feet above the ground, literally giving you a feeling of being on top of the world. Enjoy the feeling of shaking your hands with a fully grown Mahua tree while you enjoy black coffee during the mornings.\nWe have a private sit-out deck from where you can enjoy your sunrise and sunset with a cup of coffee or wine in one hand while your other hand is occupied caressing the fingers of your better half. There will be wild boar, spotted deer, jackals and a large variety of colorful birds to keep you company while you ship that mojito down your throat. The treehouses have large Mahua trees as furniture! And do not worry we have kept all the modern amenities in the tree houses as well as the cottages on land so that you do not miss city life while still in the jungle.\nAt the Pench Tree Lodge, we have an in-house restaurant that provides you international cuisine. Your taste buds will thank you for bringing them here as our chefs are experts in preparing delectable local as well as international delicacies.\nAt the Pench tree lodge, we have a lot of activities to help you in gaining a new perspective on life and nature. We arrange for nature trails and cycling which will help you in spotting a wide variety of birds and animals. We have a private forest and a resident naturalist which will help you in enjoying nature to its fullest. Slow down and take a stroll in nature, experience chirping birds and colorful butterflies and no more thinking about office and work ah! You will experience the feeling people call bliss. We also arrange for Jeep Safaris which will take you into the depths of Pench National Park. Get up close with wildlife, click photographs of all the wild animals like wild boars, jackals, wolves, antelopes, deer and pythons and in case you are lucky, even the Royal Bengal tiger will pose for a photograph. The Jeep Safaris operate during the day as well as during the night.\nIn case you want more adventure then take up a torch and wander out into the jungle in curated night trail. Going on a night trail is a fantastic way of observing nocturnal animals like owls, civets and more. Venture out into the local villages and Bazaar with the help of our resident guides. Experience the local culture and click some photographs with the locals which will act as souvenirs for your journey back home.\nThe local Bazaar is filled with colorful handicrafts and the local people are friendly enough to let you take a peep into their lives. Enjoy your breakfast in the company of various animals and birds who come to quench their thirst at the dam. Breakfast by the dam is going to be an experience that you will remember for the rest of your life."}
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{"text": "U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom Speaks at Wichita Islamic Center\nWICHITA, KAN. – The Department of Justice is committed to keeping Muslim and Arab-Americans safe, U.S. Attorney told Wichita Muslims today during a speech to the Wichita Islamic Society.\n\"The Justice Department is actively working to protect American Muslims from threats and violence directed at them because of their religion or ethnicity, and to prevent acts of discrimination against them in the workplace, schools or other places,\" Grissom said.\nGrissom spoke during a day-long meeting at the Islamic Center of Wichita that was sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\nGrissom explained that U.S. Attorneys across the nation are reaching out to Muslims and Arab-Americans at a time when Justice Department officials have heard from some Muslim leaders that they are uneasy about their relationship with the government.\n\"First of all, I want to tell you that I have the highest respect for the contributions of Arab Americans and Muslims in helping to build and strength\nen this nation,\" Grissom said. \"They have served this nation as police officers, teachers, civic leaders and soldiers. They deserve the right to worship and to practice their faith in peace, free from intimidation, violence and suspicion.\"\nGrissom referred to recent undercover sting investigations across the nation that have resulted in terrorism charges, some of them involving Muslims or Arab-Americans. Such investigations are conducted under strict guidelines, he said, and at each step the investigation is reviewed to make sure there is no entrapment.\n\"As long as I am U.S. Attorney in the District of Kansas we will work to protect civil rights with the same vigor that we pursue national security,\" Grissom said. \"We will commit ourselves to impartial and aggressive enforcement of our nation's laws.\""}
{"text": "Our lay of Stephen Harmison as top series wicket taker at 6 is looking OK. He has 6 wickets with Freddie Flintoff ahead with 8 while Shabbir Ahmed and Danish Kaneria have five and Shoaib Akhtar 6 as well. I'd rather him have a couple fewer but he has plenty of competition and I expect Kaneria to bowl a lot in the next two matches. Also I suggested laying him for 2pts in each match so that bet came in nicely for us. Our sells of Ian Bell and Geraint Jones are mixed. Bell has 102 runs while Jones has 55 which has only slightly reduced his price."}
{"text": "NHL: St. Louis Blues at Chicago Blackhawks\nApr 4, 2013; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews (19) is congratulated by right wing Marian Hossa (81) for scoring a goal against the St. Louis Blues during the second period at the United Center. (Rob Grabowski-USA TODAY Sports)\nClick to view comments"}
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{"text": "Actually, the story is more complex than that and has further lessons about deliverance, about helping fellow travelers in mortality, and dealing with those who don't seem to recognize the problems they create for others. It's also about how a respected institution can lose the trust of its customers by not recognizing the problems they face, which is a lesson to all of us in any organization, the Church included, in listening and staying in touch with those we are responsible for.\nFirst, though, my apologies to Otis, a respected company that is working to make sure our little problem doesn't happen again. Mechanical problems can happen with any machine, and that's what an elevator is. Likewise, misunderstanding about customers and their experiences can happen in any organization. My little misadventure could have happened with any manufacturer. The inconvenience was minor, but I hope some of the lessons from it will be useful to others.\nThose stranded with me in a Shanghai elevator were mostly speakers at a United Nations-sponsored conference on intellectual property. They included the Consul General for Bulgaria, the European Union's IP Attaché serving in Beijing, a prominent European patent lawyer, and some Chinese business leaders and IP workers. This little adventure for 10 passengers was supposed to be a brief \"three-story cruise\" on our way from the lowest level to a five-star luncheon above, but shortly after our Otis elevator began its ascent, the elevator slipped downward a few inches, stopped, and then continued upward, only to slip again and then again. After the third slip, the elevator stopped completely just a few feet short of the second floor.\nBeing trapped in an elevator with cool people is actually not as fun as it looks.\nLots of joking, but I think we were all a bit nervous after the elevator\nslipped several times on the way up before getting stuck.\nWe were in one of Shanghai's premiere locations, the World Expo Center in Pudong, where one would expect the highest quality in construction and maintenance. We were in an Otis elevator, probably the world's most trusted and famous elevator brand. But we were also in China, a land of many surprises, and a land where tragic elevator accidents are not unknown. A place where maintenance is sometimes an issue, along with shortcuts in construction. I'm not saying any of that applies to this setting, but there have been problems in the past with proper maintenance of elevators in Shanghai and some tragedies as well. Elevator safety is an issue the government here takes very seriously these days, and with good reason.\nWe rang the alarm button and expected to receive assistance right away. There was no response. We rang it again a few minutes later and it looked like some staff members were observing us (we could look down through some glass to see some staff gathered on the floor below us), so we expected help soon. After a few more minutes, though, there was no sign of real help. We needed help, help from outside. I then noticed that there was a small speaker next to another button and suggested we push that to reach someone. We were able to speak with someone to explain our situation. They told us to wait and I think they said help was on the way.\nWe chatted and exchanged business cards, but it was getting quite unpleasant inside with no circulation and fairly warm air. I got out a magazine and fanned it over a woman in the back who was having some trouble, and we pressed the alarm again, which now had been disabled so we wouldn't alarm others, I guess. We called again to ask for help and were told to just wait. After a few more minutes we called again and no one was answering now. The alarm was off. The phone was off as far as we could tell. I think we had become too annoying.\nThen I noticed there were two phone numbers printed on the Otis nameplate. I called one and got a \"number not working\" notice. I called the other number and was able to reach the Otis company itself, I think in Beijing, and reported the problem. They told us help was on the way.\nOne of the last hotels I stayed at, a 2-star place near the Yangtze River in China, had a large helpful sign in its elevator. The sign gave directions on what to do if the elevator should slip and suddenly begin plummeting to earth--even though the place was only 4 stories tall. It said we should brace ourselves with our backs against a wall and bend our knees somewhat, apparently to reduce the risk of breaking legs on impact. I debated whether I should share this helpful information with my fellow sufferers, but in the interest of safety, with as much gentleness and optimism as I could muster, I casually mentioned having seen that sign and suggested we be ready, just in case. Then, suddenly, a cable snapped and we all screamed as we crashed toward the earth and--no, actually, nothing like that happened at all.\nA few minutes later came deliverance, but not exactly as expected. I thought we would be slowly lowered back down to safety. Instead, once the technician above had accessed the system to override or overcome whatever was halting out journey, the elevator began going slowly up, up, up to the third floor. Recognizing that something was wrong and that slippage was possible, the higher we went the more nervous I grew, knees slightly bent. But we made it. The door opened and we swiftly walked out.\nThere was an official Otis technician next to the elevator, with a panel open and some wires plugged into a box or something. We were relieved to be rescued. We were greeted by an apologetic hostess and escorted to the delicious lunch waiting us. But I wanted some information. I asked the Otis technician what had gone wrong. He said, \"Too many people.\"\n\"Really? Then why didn't an alarm go off as happens normally when the load is too high?\"\n\"You must have been near the limit but not quite over it. Not heavy enough to make the alarm ring.\" He thought that was a satisfactory explanation. I did not.\nOur hostess came to take me over to the speakers luncheon. I followed her and saw the great food and would have liked some, but felt that there was a safety issue still there that I couldn’t just ignore. I went to the host, the kind man who had invited me to speak and attend the luncheon, and excused myself. I needed to go back and follow up. This is one of those character traits I have that sometimes makes me genuinely annoying, in addition to hungry.\nI went back to the elevator to talk to the technician. Our hostess followed me. I asked what had been done to prevent this problem from happening again to another group of the same size. He gave me a puzzled look and kind of shrugged his shoulders. Our hostess got it and she very diplomatically rephrased my question to make it clear we weren't accusing him of any kind of shortcoming, but just wanted to make sure the problem was resolved for the welfare of others.\nBut it didn't appear that anything was being changed or repaired. I explained I felt a duty to report this to Otis, and could I please get his name and phone number so headquarters could communicate with him about our questions. The hostess gave this a nice diplomatic spin, and the man gave me that information. I called Otis, reported the problem in detail, and was told I would get a response soon. There was no time to eat now, but it was OK.\nOtis called that night while my wife and I were at delicious banquet for speakers and staff. An English speaker this time talked to me and asked what I wanted. I explained I wanted the problem fixed. I explained why it is a serious problem to be trapped in an elevator for 20 minutes or so. Her response really surprised me: \"Well, sir, we can fully understand how even a single minute in an elevator can seem like 20 minutes to a passenger.\" I was bothered by their apparent failure to understand just how long their elevator had trapped its passengers. Fortunately, another passenger was nearby. I asked him to explain how long we had been trapped. He was clear: 20 minutes, at least. Maybe Otis was only timing the response from the time I called them and the time the technician showed up, I don't know. Then the woman said that their contract requires them to respond in 30 minutes, which they had (congratulations!). I reminded her that we trapped passengers don't really care what your contract says. We don't want to be trapped. So what are you doing to fix the problem? I was assured that they would investigate and get back to me Monday.\nMonday I got a call from a fast-speaking Chinese technician. He was talking about technical details that I couldn't follow, so I had a friend chat and translate for me. The technician explained that the load cell had not been properly calibrated to detect an overload condition, but now it had been adjusted and all was well. Hurray, I've done my job.\nBut now that I look at the light-hearted photos I took in the elevator to commemorate the event, I can see the Otis panel indicates it is rated for 1000 kg and 13 persons. There were 10 or 11 of us (my best estimate) and I think I was the heaviest, well under 100 kg, so the total should have been well under 1000 kg. The problem was a mechanical failure, possibly from underrated equipment that couldn't handle maybe 900 kg when it should have been able to handle over 1000 kg. That's not a load cell calibration problem. The cheap fix, of course, is to adjust the load cell so the alarm will go off when there is a 900 kg load, but the elevator is rated for 1000 kg. Come on, guys, fix your elevator! I hope Otis understands that they have a problem. Organizations need to listen carefully to those whose lives they affect. I think the Church is striving to do this, but all of us at every level in the Church need to do this with those we affect and work with.\nSo tonight, with the help of a friend, I called Otis again and got into the technical details and insisted that they have a mechanical issue they need to address. Let's see where this goes. Deliverance, I hope, for some future group embarking on a three-story cruise. I hope they are listening.\nWhen people we can help or should help are trapped, may we respond quickly in delivering them, and may we take steps to make the way more safe for those who come after. That's what a lot of our work in the Church is all about, delivering others and making pathways better for those coming after us. First, though, we each need our own personal deliverance through the Atonement of Christ.\nIf you are facing some form of captivity, it is probably much more serious than my little misadventure, but the principles of turning to an outside source for help and deliverance still applies. One call, one prayer, may not be enough. Be persistent, hang in there, brace yourself, and keep your knees bent.. Huh? 17? We were around 10 by my count, maybe as many as 12, and looking at the photos, taken from near the right front of the elevator, I really don't see how 17 people could be there. There were a couple at the front and one or two at the side by me that don't show up in the photo, but it doesn't add up to 17 by my count. I asked where they got that number and suggested they go verify the video footage to see how many came in and out of the elevator. They are going to check and get back to me. As is so common in elevator entrapment stories, I remain in suspense.\nHmm, a report of 17--that sounds like the kind of data manipulation that happens occasionally to make inconvenient facts fit the desired narrative. If it can happen to temperatures and inflation data, it can happen to passenger counts, too. Seventeen passengers = load cell problem and easy fix. Ten passengers and elevator failure (in a unit rated for 13 people and 1000 kg) = something more troubling or at least more expensive.\nI told this to my wife, shook my head, and said that I must be so annoying. \"You enjoy this so much!\" was her response. Where do women get these ideas?\nUpdate, May 6, 2015: Got a very polite call from Shanghai's general manager of Otis as he was traveling in the U.S. He apologized for the trouble and explained interesting details. There were 12 people in the elevator, as I saw on the surveillance recording he sent me. Not 17. That was a mistake on their part. He also explained that the system was installed by a US team and does have the right motor, but the problem is that the torque delivered by the motor is based on the signal from the load cell, and that's what was wrong. Interesting. I suggested that once there is slippage because torque is too low, the system ought to automatically increase the torque. But what happened is that the system kept slipping and so, recognizing that something was wrong, it shut down completely. OK.\nThey are going to use this incident as a case study for ongoing training of their staff to help them understand how to respond better. There are many details that they can learn from, and he was very grateful for the documentation and customer feedback I provided. Looks like I'll even get an invitation to come visit their headquarters. Could be fun--but I wonder if it's on the ground floor.\n7 comments:\nSome people take on these kinds of problems, while most people just shrug. Nobody will reward you for caring; several people may be annoyed.\nAll too often we read about tragic accidents. We don't read about the accidents that don't happen. I'm sure that the reason some of them don't happen is that somebody pushed harder and hung onto something longer than most people would.\nI always take the stairs....unless it is more than five or six floors. I then will nervously take the elevator. If in a mall with escalators and elevators, I take the escalator.\nI have been trapped in elevators, been in elevators that slipped and fell, elevators that when the door opened, the floor I was to get out on was two to three feet above my head, or two to three feet below me. I avoid elevators at all costs.\nI'm probably just blind, but I can't see a way to contact you directly, so here goes:\nThere is a new game out with Mormanity in its name. Are you getting royalties?\nMark Steele\nJeff, you're what is called a \"compulsive helper.\"\nFaulty elevators are deadly, and China doesn't have anything near our OSHA, so I don't fault you for sticking you nose in, trying to fix a potentially deadly situation.\n(Maybe we should export OSHA and EPA to them, and that might even up the trade imbalance and economic disparity.)\nMany of your previous stories about helping (or getting totally suckered-in by) people who are, or appear to be, in dire straits also confirms your diagnosis of compulsive helper. You will have a large contingent of lost-cat/loser/mentally-ill/down-and-out souls singing your praises in heaven come judgement day.\nAnd they will far outnumber the ticked-off souls who will accuse you of being a meddlesome busybody.\nYou're a Boy Scout, a Dudley Do-right, a Peter Priesthood (and I mean that in a GOOD way!)\nBut be careful man. Be very very carefulwhen you go sticking your nose in places in foreign countries.\nThanks for the heads up. Guess it's time to file for the Mormanity trademark--in use since 2004. But not sure I really want to do that! Maybe I should just invest in the game if it's any good.\nAnon, I don't think I'm a compulsive helper at all. It's a choice, not a compulsion, and not all that frequent. The choice that day was lunch or get to the bottom of an elevator story. Learned a lot in the process and hopefully helped.\nI've missed way too many opportunities to do good and have done plenty of harm in zealous attempts to do good as well. Life is complicated.\nI also recognize the risks of interfering inappropriately in foreign countries. There are times I would have liked to have done something when I think it would been a problem as a foreigner, so I've just stepped back and let things go their course. Sometimes with regrets, other times not. It's challenging over here. But the elevator thing was easy. Wasn't challenging authorities, just helping a US company understand a potential problem.\nJeff, the association of the indie-gogo person to Sunstone and the lessthanvalient/progressive/leftwing lds blogs indicate that their use of the Mormanity mark will not be as church-positive as the Mormanity brand that you have created.\nIn fact, any web search of \"mormanity\" shows you at the top, so it would be unreasonable to think they were unaware of you and your use of the mark, even if you have not formally registered it.\nTherefore, their planned use of the mark likely indicates an intent on their part to dilute or disparage your \"brand\", and by extension your online efforts.\nYour reasoned, level-headed, faithful support and defense of the church has meant a lot to many readers, both silent and those who comment, who seek online answers to attacks on the church from both without and within church ranks.\nPlease do what you can to defend the \"Mormanity\" brand.\nAnd.... I would like to know your wife's opinion of how accurately the \"compulsive helper\" label describes you! Please ask her and post her response."}
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{"text": "By MUHC Public Affairs (Gilda Salomone)\nWorld AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year, reminding us that the fight against the AIDS pandemic is far from over. More than 36 million people have died since it emerged in the early 1980s. Today, 35.3 million people around the world are living with the virus, including 71,000 in Canada. Every day, 6,800 people are infected. Two researchers from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) tell us about significant progress made over the past 25 years and what remains to be done to stem the pandemic.\nThe theme for World AIDS Day 2014 is “Getting to Zero”: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero HIV-related deaths. Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, associate professor of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine at McGill and expert in HIV pathogenesis at the Royal Victoria Hospital of the MUHC, believes it’s an appropriate theme. “We have the tools to almost totally block infection because triple therapy, the combination of three antiretroviral drugs, is very effective. It’s administered in one pill each day, and has very few side effects. Even uninfected people can increase their protection by 50 per cent by taking a combination therapy 12 hours before sexual relations.”\nEffective treatments are available and the epidemic has stabilized in Canada, but Dr. Routy says there are still gaps in HIV care that facilitate transmission of the virus. “A quarter of those infected don’t know they are HIV positive, 10 per cent are followed but don’t receive treatment, or their treatment is suboptimal. That means 35 per cent of infected Canadians remain a source for transmitting the virus.”\nOver the past 30 years, researchers around the world have contributed in various ways to the development of a safe and effective preventive vaccine. Among them is Dr. Nicole Bernard, a researcher in infection and immunity at the RI-MUHC and associate professor of Medicine at McGill. Her work on cellular immunity has been an important step in the development of therapies or vaccines.\n“I’m interested in how people with two specific genes that influence the activity of natural killer cells, also known as NK cells, are protected against HIV infection,” she says. “These people appear to be able to destroy infected cells right after exposure to the virus. I want to determine the potential and limitations of this discovery for vaccines that protect against HIV infection.”\nIn a fight of this magnitude collaboration between scientific researchers and clinicians is essential. Dr. Bernard, for example, studies immune cells taken from the blood of HIV-positive patients being followed by Dr. Routy. The results of her research will then inform the hematologist’s work with his patients.\nAlso essential is the funding for research. In 2013, Dr. Routy was one of the nine co-leaders of the Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise (CanCURE), a research program awarded $ 8.7 million over five years by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to find new treatments for HIV/AIDS. “We are working on two strategies: a therapeutic vaccine and a vaccine combined with immunotherapy,” he says.\nIn addition to a vaccine and increasingly effective treatments, screening, prevention and the fight against stigma and discrimination continue to be essential weapons in eradicating HIV. “People should not feel shame or fear with regard to their families or employers,” says Dr. Routy. “If they are treated early, these people will not be sick. This will benefit all of society in the long term.”"}
{"text": "\"[R]easonable doubt went out the window when Cuadra opened his mouth\" sayeth another juror, and it's clear the other 11 pretty much agreed with her.\nYet even in \"hindsight\" Harlow's lawyers say in the book (quoting a post-conviction interview) they HAD to do, given the state of the trial up to that point.\nOne problem I've always had with this post-trial reasoning, however, is that it directly contradicts what Harlow lawyers said during the trial. Just prior to Harlow taking the stand it, was reported that Harlow was \"Going against his lawyer's advice not to testify,...\".\nThis makes me wonder. Were Harlow's lawyers really the driving force behind the decision, as they claimed after the trial? Or were Harlow's lawyers simply being kind to Harlow, by taking the blame for his terrible unilateral decision against their advice?\nOnly ONE of those lawyers statements can be true. Is it the during-trial statement, or the post-trial statement?\nMy personal belief is that Harlow's lawyers were telling the truth in the first instance; that Harlow overruled their advice, and ordered them to put him on the stand. I base this on a number of factors, including Harlow's Kocisphere-related behavior, and how easy it was for him to dupe a wide range of bloggers and supporters, from Elm to Jason Ridge, into believing whatever lies he served up at the time. There were his own blog posts, both pre- and post-arrest, written with such overweening arrogance. And there were his tape-recorded efforts at image maintenance, which shows that he thought himself some sort of Svengali-like master of manipulation.\nIn short, he successfully suckered so many people in the past, he thought it would be a piece of cake to sucker just 12 more.\nAnd it was that decision, according to the jurors, which sealed his doom.\nUpdate 38: The jury verdict rolls in. And here is to me one of the biggest surprise revelations in the book, that initially only 8 of 12 of the jury \"voted\" Harlow guilty initally.\nWhen I blogged about this issue back in 2009, I didn't get any impression there was a formal vote taken, just that 4 of the jurors rhetorically hemmed and hawed (and smoked) a bit before finally and formally voting guilty:\n1) Amazingly, four jurors actually held out for a bit on finding Harlow guilty in the guilt phase:\n“There were four jurors who thought it could have been Joe,” Scutt said. “You had no direct evidence, no DNA linking (Cuadra) to the murder. There was so much circumstantial evidence. There were several that couldn't put the knife in his hand.”\nA smoking break, of all things, quickly broke the logjam, however:\n“The jurors went out for a smoke, and when they returned, one of them told us she thought about the case when she was outside for a cigarette and came to agree (Cuadra) was guilty,” Stavitzski said. “The other jurors who had doubt then came around.”\nSmoking was definitely hazardous to Harlow's health in jury deliberations.\"Lets enter the realm of speculation for a bit. We already have a core of 2 jurors who voted to a acquit outright and two probably leaning that way such that they abstained. Lets say a few things went differently during the trial. Let's say Joe testified and fell on his sword in accordance with Plan C (or D or whatever). Lets say Harlow's image makeover and blog misinformation campaign succeeded, and the court room was filled with \"FREE HARLOW\" t-shirt wearing supporters every day. Lets say those 4 Harlow-leaning jurors became 6...or 7. THEN we are looking at at least a hung jury...and possibly a not guilty verdict.\nThe fact that 4 jurors felt strongly enough at the outset to decline to formally VOTE guilty, despite the mountain of evidence that was presented to them, tells me the case outcome was actually a lot closer than I thought in 2009.\nUpdate 37: Some final comments on Melnick's cross-examination. What the book tells me that I did not really know before is the occasional combativeness of Harlow on the stand with Melnick. This didn't come across to me strongly during the news accounts and court watcher reports back in 2009 (to my recollection, anyways). The only impression I remember back then was that Melnick was having a field day, ferreting out various major inconsistencies in Harlow's story, much to Harlow's embarrassment.\nI wonder if that combativeness was a wise strategy? If your whole defense is based on claiming to be a defenseless bully victim, is it a good idea to respond to bullying by the prosecutor by bullying him right back?\nMost interesting moment detailed in the book: Melnick bringing up the Here TV Roecker interview, and Harlow trying to explain it away by claiming Roecker taped him for the show without his knowledge (!!!). Considering that recording a phone call without permission is a crime in most states, this incident of selling an ally and supporter of his down the river astounds me today, just as much is it did in 2009.\nMost interesting moment NOT detailed in the book: This exchange -\n\"“Mr. Cuadra, let’s cut to the chase. Are you saying that Grant Roy and Sean Lockhart have anything to do with this murder?” Melnick asked.\n“No,” Cuadra responded.\"Which I think shows a big difference between the book, and the blogs as they existed back in 2009. This little Q and A was a huge deal in the Kocisphere back in 2009, as there were still bright embers of hope amongst the Brent-bashers that Harlow would at some point turn to the jury, and dramatically implicate Sean and Grant in the murders. That concise word \"no\" dashed all those pent up hopes. The Brent-bashers silence after this point was deafening; their disappointment was palpable. It was one of those major Kocisphere moments.\nThe book handled this whole matter (probably correctly, IMO) with a couple of paragraphs at the start of Chapter 6 (\"To be clear,...\"), and never returned to it. So, what was of thermonuclear importance in 2009 did not even make the cut in 2012.\nUpdate 36: Melnick begins cross-examining Harlow at the start of Chapter 12. This is generally remembered here to those following the trial live back then as a great slaughter (with Harlow being the slaughteree). Just go back to the thread in question here, and browse through the comments to get a picture of all this.\nMelnick begins the chapter by blowing up the whole dominating Joe theory with gusto, and the book gives a few examples of taped statements of Harlow, used by Melnick, to show that Harlow wasn't just this wus being pushed around all the time by \"Terror of the Tidewater\" Joe.\nIn fact, going back to that old thread, you can find some excerpts on that point I managed to find on my own back in 2009:\n\"Update 6: Per Sassy's advice in the comments here, I went combing through the CCTs and BBTs, to see what clues I could find as to who dominated who in the Harlow/Joe relationship. These were the most telling items I found:\n\"HARLOW CUADRA: I'll tell you what, when we're nude on that beach you can ask me whatever the hell you want.\nGRANT ROY: Okay.\nJOSEPH KEREKES: Really?\nHARLOW CUADRA: Yea.\"\nHere we have Harlow making a critical (ha ha, how's that for understatement!) decision in this saga, all on his own. Joe meekly aquieses, with the one-word question to Harlow: \"Really?\"\nAnd then right after that we have:\n\"GRANT ROY: So y'all going to Sea World tomorrow?\nJOSEPH KEREKES: Honestly Grant, if you can't give us a positive word tonight, we're gonna head back tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon.\nHARLOW CUADRA: Well we'll give you 'til tomorrow.\"\nNow, here's the exact opposite; Joe makes a decision, and then Harlow completely overrides it.\nI think we now know who was the \"controlling\" partner in this relationship.\"The thing is, I could have easily found more such examples combing through the BBTs back then. If you read through those transcripts in their entirety, it's very clear that Harlow is, at the very least, an equal co-partner in the relationship (indeed, an excellent argument can be made that Harlow was dominant over Joe via manipulation). In any case, as all of these statements reflecting the relationship between Harlow and Joe rolled in the Kocisphere as the case developed, Harlow never came across to us as a dominated wallflower.\nAnd you know, the best evidence of this isn't even these various tape snippets. It's one of the prime witnesses who testified in the case: Justin Hensley.\nHere's what Hensley had to say about the relationship (back in Chapter 4):\n\"Hensley rejects suggestions that Kerekes was dominating over Cuadra. Kerekes could be \"a loud mouth,\" Hensley said, and Cuadra \"just kind of put up with it.\" \"I grew to be, you know, a friend of (Harlow), because he took care of me and (Cuadra and Kerekes) had their disagreements about things, but I don't think Harlow would do anything for Joe,\" Hensley said.\"\nBoom. That's really game-set-match on this issue. Hensley actually LIVED with them, thus he was better positioned to judge this question than practically anyone else on this planet. He was testifying under oath on this matter, and he has absolutely NO conceivable reason to lie. So, it's easy to see how the whole dominated-Harlow theory got rejected by the jury.\nUpdate 35: Chapter 11, Harlow on his own behalf. Before we get into Harlow's story, we need to remind ourselves of the context in which it was told.\nThis court room story was Harlow's third major story. The first story, if you all recall, was that the real killer stole Harlow's well-circulated escort photo off the internet, and he had nothing to do with the murder at all. This story began to fall apart when the Vegas photo of he and Brent together was discovered, an impossible coincidence that made it clear he was lying.\nThe second story was that he had an innocent meeting with Kocis in PA, arrived at the house, peeked in, smelled smoke, and left. This was the story famously labelled Plan B in the intercepted three-way calls. Harlow and his supporters stuck to this story until Joe's plea deal, admitting he'd been a party to murder, made Plan B completely untenable as well.\nNotice that each change in story was never made voluntarily. It was always forced upon Harlow by the revelation of new facts pointing to his guilt, necessitating a new story be concocted that manages to explain away all the facts, both new and old. The jury knew of this history of tale-telling and story-shifting, as did the bloggers.\nThe jury and the bloggers also knew of his other attempts at deceit, such as his campaign to find fake alibi witnesses, the aforementioned three-way calls in which fake stories (which were even given \"Plan\" letters) were openly bandied about, and the creme-de-la-creme, happening JUST before Harlow took the stand: Joe walking into the court room saying that Harlow had asked him to lie and tell yet another story, but he decided against it at the last minute.\nAnd right at that moment, the poor, downtrodden, frightened and innocent Harlow mask drops, and a pair of ANGRY Harlow eyes shoots bullets at Joe. Joe leaves the court, the poor, downtrodden, frightened and innocent mask goes back up, but not before at least one juror witnesses the facial transformation.\nSo, that's the context.\nAnd with that in mind, here in a nutshell is Harlow's court room story:\nHarlow and Joe wanted to shoot porn with Brent Corrigan, but there were complications with this lawsuit Brent was in with a company called Cobra Video. Harlow had a very low opinion of Cobra Video, saying their marketing was unbelievably poor, and \"their edit work sucks.\"\nBrent settles his lawsuit, so yay, he can shoot porn with Harlow. But Harlow and Joe decide that it would help build Harlow's audience to shoot a video with Cobra beforehand. Because as we all know, nothing helps builds an audience like working for a company with terrible marketing and sucky editing.\nSo, Harlow arranges an interview with the owner of Cobra Video. But he does so using a fake name. Because as we all know, the best way to boost yourself name recognition in the industry is to work under a fake name no one will recognize.\nAnyways, the interview is going swimmingly until Harlow's boyfriend Joe starts pounding intensely at the front door. Now, several witnesses have testified already that Kocis NEVER answered unexpected knocks at the door. But those were just normal knocks! Obviously a menacing, rapid pounding with a heavy fist is a splendid occasion to throw caution to the wind, break tradition, and open that door. So, Kocis opens the door...\nAnd then Joe the jealous boyfriend bursts in and cuts Kocis' throat, while Kocis quite understandably complains about the fact that his throat is being cut. Harlow, naturally, is mortified at this turn of events.\nAnd that is pretty much Harlow's story. True, I left some details out, but like I said this is but a nutshell, and I think all the major points have been hit.\nI'm not going to waste a lot of time here telling you my opinion of all this...I save it for the comments. Perhaps the occasional faint whiff of sarcasm in my retelling of the story may have given me away already.\nBut I will make a note of a few minor additional points about Chapter 11:\n1) Harlow states that Joe controlled his finances so much that Harlow did not even own a wallet. Now, I have a question that I'm going to crowdsource out to you all: Is there a police record posted, on PC's blog perhaps, of the inventory of possessions taken off their person when Harlow and Joe were arrested? PC has a LOT of documents posted on his blogs, but I can't remember if an arrest inventory sheet is among them. And it's been so long I don't even know where to begin to look.\nI'd be VERY curious to know if a wallet was found on Harlow...\n2) Harlow states that Joe had a habit of bursting in jealously on his sessions with clients...similar to how he says he bursted in on Kocis. However, none of the Harlow clients called to testify (Nep, Hal(l)ford, etc..) testified to this. Why were none of the bursted-in clients called in to testify on this critical bit of alleged evidence?\nAlso...one would think a bursted-in client would be quite irate at Norfolk Male Escorts. So much so they would leave a bad escort review. However, looking at Harlow's old reviews (yes, they still exist, Harlow and Joe are listed as \"retired\", LOL) there is no review in existence mentioning any such bursting in by Joe.\nOne would almost believe, by the complete lack of easily obtainable supporting evidence, that Harlow is making this bursting in thing up.\n3) Harlow states that he sat in on three or so phone calls by Kocis, each about five minutes long. If true (and in this particular instance, I can think of no motive for Harlow to lie) this verifies my earlier theory about Harlow arriving BEFORE the Macias call, and sitting in on phone conversations between Kocis and Lee Bergeron and Macias.\nIMO this is probably the most interesting thing in Chapter 11.\n217 comments:1 – 200 of 217 Newer› Newest»\nJust a couple of quick questions for now about No. 3: Wasn't it Macias who was called to the stand to say, in essence, that he heard the exact moment Harlow arrived for his appointment? How does that jibe with your theory that Harlow arrived before that call? I don't quite understand that. And really, you think that's the MOST interesting thing in the whole chapter covering Harlow's direct testimony? I haven't read it in well over a year, but I think I remember this entire chapter being rather riveting, it being the first detailed account anywhere of what he said on the stand, with extensive quotes from the trial transcript.\nAh yes, that's tricky thing. IMO Kocis \"fibbed\" to Macias about a model just arriving.\nReason being is not hard to imagine. If his interview with Harlow was being continually interrupted with phone calls, he'd want to put a stop to them, as politely as he could.\nSo, at one point in his final phone conversation, he impatiently invents a little white lie to cut the conversation short. \"Hey a model just arrived, gotta go...\" even though said model had been sitting there in the room the whole time.\nAnd yeah, the testimony culled from the transcript was unique. But we had gotten the essence of it from news reports back in 2009 when we were all live blogging it.\nNow we see it all in greater detail, but it's pretty much what I expected, so no great surprise.\nYou can check out our thoughts as they existed back then, as it was unfolding. The comments are interesting:\nJim:\nOn the whole I agree with much of your analysis. However, you need not stress the killing look Harlow gave Joe as being revealing of Harlow's nature. If you had been promised by your supposed boyfriend that if worse came to worse he would tell the court about your innocence and then did what Joe did (which was worse than not appearing), you would be giving him killing looks BIG TIME. In fact, Harlow did as good a job of controlling himself and not yelling at Joe the way many of us would have in that situation. Of course, Harlow's mother did shout at Joe as he left.\nI will cover your three major points in separate posts.\nAnonymous One\nI do not know about the wallet, but we know that Joe carried around Harlow's credit cards. Again an interesting fact to find out, but if the credit cards were not in them, the wallet would be good only for carrying around condoms and some loose bills.\nAnonymous One\nPoint two:\nWe had comments by Renee about Joe checking out new clients. Joe was familiar with Nep, Mitch Halford and Joesph Ryan. Besides they were paying clients.\nI always thought that Joe's chief beef with Bryan was that he was getting \"FREE SEX\" with Harlow.\nAnonymous One\nPoint Three:\nI agree with you about the time of Harlow's arrival. He was probably early.\nThe real question is at what time did Joe go into the house?\nAnonymous One\nI always thought that Joe's chief beef with Bryan was that he was getting \"FREE SEX\" with Harlow.\nSo when Bryan opened the door, Joe should have said, \"Excuse me Mr. Kocis, I am Harlow's pimp. That'll be $300 please, cash or credit card.\" But instead, he decapitates him.\nJim made a very good point about the absurdity of Harlow saying Joe often burst in on his sessions with clients. Both the fact that no client was called to the stand to corroborate that, which MIGHT have even resulted in Harlow's acquittal, but also COME ON, if that had happened even once, word would have gotten around so quickly, through the grapevine or on one of those review sites, that Norfolk Companions would have been toast.\nMost of us only got to hear Quicky Start's summation of Harlow's testimony. PC had declined to attend the trial.\nI believed that Harlow was not properly prepared by D'Andrea and he said (mistakenly) whatever he thought the jury would be swayed by, regardless of the truth. His biggest mistake was Joe knocking on the door and then punching Bryan in the mouth before slicing his throat.\nDespite this, we have a scared individual (facing a potential death penalty) adrift in a courtroom without preparation by his attorneys who should have reviewed his testimony in advance. We have to remember that Harlow was a highly paid escort. Every day, he had to lie to clients about how great they were and how much he \"loved\" them. The clients probably appreciated the exaggerated stories he would amuse them with and over time, Harlow lost the ability to value the truth.\nThis is not uncommon when lawyers are called to testify. The better lawyers tend to be the worse witnesses, anticipating questions and fudging responses.\nIf Harlow was as dumb as a post, he probably would answered each question directly and truthfully, and his credibility accepted by the jury. But then we would have the pleasure of debating this event.\nAnonymous One\nIf Harlow was DUMB he would have answered directly and truthfully, and have been believed by the jury? Yes, it would have been quite dumb for him to admit the truth about him being a cold-blooded murderer, but I do agree the jury would have believed it.\nThere shouldn't have been any issue about \"preparing\" him to tell the truth. That actually requires no preparation, it's very easy.\n\"I believed that Harlow was not properly prepared by D'Andrea...\"\nI think that's true, and I think the reason he was relatively unprepared was because he was never supposed to testify at all.\nThe Story was supposed to be put in front of the jury by Joe. When Joe backed out, that left Harlow as the only way for the Story to be told, which was not the original game plan at all.\n\"...and he said (mistakenly) whatever he thought the jury would be swayed by, regardless of the truth.\"\nI can't argue with that.\nSpeaking of missing witnesses who could have bolstered Harlow's case...I know of another witness the defense could have easily called . A witness who could testify directly to the controlling nature of Joe Kerekes. A person who, if quizzed aggressively on the stand, could have convinced the jury that Joe Kerekes was the sole murderer.\nSo, who was this mystery witness who could have been a HUGE help to Harlow, if Harlow were truly innocent?\nHis name is Joe Kerekes.\nThink about it. At the moment Joe made his surprise announcement to the court, the defense STILL had him there via subpoena. There is no reason they could not have simply turned to the judge and said, \"Your honor, in light of the witnesses' just uttered declaration to the court, we would like to at this point treat Joe Kerekes as a hostile witness.\"\nI see no reason Harlow's lawyers could not have done that. UNLESS they were worried Joe would turn out to be a more believable witness than Harlow.\nJim:\ncalling Joe as an adverse witness also requires preparation. One has to think of which questions one has to ask and what order they should be.\nI doubt D'Andrea and company had a clue as to what to ask Joe. Harlow had probably told them what Joe had promised him, that Joe would take the stand and exonerate Harlow. D'Andrea and company said fine, no need to waste time running out to Joe's prison and find out what he is going to say.\nContradicting Joe might have been difficult, because, the defense team had not laid down the proper grounds to do so. As with the case of Renee, Judge Olszewksi would not have allowed the recalling of any witnesses who had already testified, even if they were in the courtroom. (Remember all witnesses were not allowed to hear prior testimony before they testified).\nThere was a third defense witness (old cellmate of Joe's) but who was never called to the stand. Not sure if he could contradict Joe, but without Joe's testimony, the third witnesses testimony would be hearsay and probably inadmissable. Wonder how much time D'Andrea spent with this witness.\nThis would leave Harlow to contradict Joe, the net effect would be for the jury to disregard both sets of testimony.\nAnonymous One\nI thought all last night about Harlow's statement that Cobra's Marketing was unbelievable poor. It occured me something that Dwayne had on his website about the marketing of porn and how it had changed. Dwayne noted that previously the marketing had been to sell DVDs in stores and then trend was towards direct streaming of videos over the internet (ala Sean Cody and others). Cobra made its big money selling DVDs though I believe they started video streaming at the end. Boy Batter on the other hand always sold their videos through direct streaming. So when Harlow was trying explain something which he only partially understood he managed to \"the incorrect or inappropriate use of a word.\" This is called malapropism after a Mrs. Malaprop a character in Sheridan's play \"The rivals\" who was constantly doing this.\nThe use of Stockholm Syndrome by Harlow was another example. I think Harlow suffers from a severe case of Malapropism and is one of the reasons why he is such a bad witness.\nThe knocking of Cobra's editing comes from someone who did the directing of Porn films himself. It is human nature for him to think he did a better job of editing than Bryan. Again another poor use of the word \"sucks\" when a better one would have been I thought I did a better job.\nThe Joe at the door comment may have come from a past incident in a different location with a different client. Harlow was under stress from three weeks of trial (including watching himself naked on Black Beach with his mother sitting behind him), recalling the horror of Bryan's near decapitation and mixing this up with another traumatic situation. One should remember that the actual trial took place in 2009 so there would have been time for Harlow to mixed these separate events together.\nI also realized that Nep Malachi, Mitch Halford and Joseph Ryan were probably never asked about Joe busting in on them. The prosecution would never gone into that territory, and the defense had not yet pivoted to the need to paint Joe this way. I still do not believe Ryan or Malachi would have been accosted this way. Halford is a different story. We know from his testimony that Harlow would stay with him at times when he needed a break from Joe. How would Joe react to his chief ASSet being unproductive? I think by chasing him down at Halford's place, and making loud threats to Harlow if he did not return immediately and resume working and making money for Joe. But that opportunity was lost when D'Andrea failed to inquire about that when Halford took the stand.\nAnonymous One\nThe defense took every opportunity to paint Joe as domineering, abusive and violent. You're honestly arguing that no testimony was given about him bursting in on Harlow's sessions because they hadn't \"pivoted\" there yet? That is just silly. The reason they didn't \"pivot\" into asking clients about it is because it never happened. It would have been a PIVOTAL piece of evidence showing Joe's pattern of behavior, and those corroborating witnesses would have been the centerpiece of Harlow's defense, if they existed.\n\"calling Joe as an adverse witness also requires preparation. One has to think of which questions one has to ask and what order they should be.\"\nCoulda asked for a recess. Even until the next day. Under the circumstances I can't imagine it would not have been granted.\nAnd yeah, to echo what Will said, to show Joe to have been a habitual burster-inner was SUPER important for Harlow's case. If there was evidence out there other than Harlow's say so, it should have been brought in regardless the cost.\nThe fact that it wasn't strongly suggests it was not true.\n\"The use of Stockholm Syndrome by Harlow was another example.\"\nYou know why Harlow mentioned Stockholm Syndrome? I'll tell you why, he read about it on these blogs.\nWe had been speculating for months about the trial, and the term frequently came up in the comment threads as regard to his possible defense.\nWe know Harlow was image obsessed and was being supplied with the Kocisphere postings on a regular basis. So, he knew what it was, and how it could have applied to him.\nProblem is, why he used it at trial in front of a jury, he sounded incredibly foolish, like he was pretending to have a PhD in Psychology.\nWhen I read about him using the term during his testimony I cringed. I could just image the judge, jury, clerks and lawyers all rolling their eyes when he said it. But the funny thing is, I knew where he got it from, and I had to chuckle.\nI wonder if Melnick objected (\"witness is not qualified as an expert in the field ...\")?\nThe fact that it wasn't strongly suggests it was not true.\nThat's putting it much too mildly. I'd say it's proof beyond all doubt that it's not true.\nJim:\nI strongly doubt that Judge Olszewksi would have granted a request for delay unless they were near the end of the court day. Besides being a former chief prosecutor and highly biases towards the prosecution, he would have expected the defense to be prepared for this situation, and he had a jury to consider. Last Joe would have been required to be housed overnight, possibly in the same location as Harlow (though obviously the county jails in the neighboring county could have been used).\nAnonymous One\nWill:\nThe way I remember, the defense did make out that Shunk and Hensley were kept on a short lease. I do not remember Quicky saying who (between Joe and Harlow) was keeping them so. Hensley did say that Harlow protected him but not whom from or from what (according to what Quicky reported). Hensley did report the bullet hole in the ceiling which made Jim comment that Harlow could go free.\nSo there was certainly some attempt by the defense to paint Joe as controlling before Harlow took the stand. However there could have been more emphasis and detail asked by them.\nHowever, I disagree with you about asking Nep,Ryan and Halford about contacts with Joe. They could have asked them whether or not they were familiar with Joe. I think Halford would have a lot to say about that, since he was letting Harlow stay at his place when Harlow was on the outs with Joe. Halford must have asked Harlow what was happening and why he needed to stay there.\nIt also would have help enormously, if this idea of controlling personality of Joe had been raised in the opening statement by the Defense rather than the blanket indictment of Grant, Sean and Robert Wagner as potential killers.\nAnonymous One\nHarlow was concerned about his image. Of that there is no doubt.\nBut rather than ridicule him for it, remember, that presenting the right image by the defendant is an important defense strategy. Even the adverse juror quoted in the previous section, noted that Harlow appeared to be this innocent youngster until he took the stage.\nAnonymous One\nMake that took the stand.\nAnonymous One\nJim, I was just looking for the passage in the chapter referenced in your No. 2 that we've been discussing, about how \"Joe had a habit of bursting in jealously on his sessions,\" and I can't find it. The closest I came is this:\nTo ensure his \"rules\" were followed, Cuadra said, Kerekes would insert himself into escort calls where the client had only requested Cuadra, not both men. \"It was very awkward,\" Cuadra said. \"He was forcing himself into the call, but then after that (the client) would never want to see me again with him. It was just very awkward.\"\nIs that what we're talking about? If it is, I think we're arguing about something Harlow never said. What he's describing isn't Joe \"bursting in,\" but him insisting on accompanying Harlow and observing him with clients, and I guess even participating in a two-for-one type deal, to make sure Harlow wasn't doing anything with these clients that Joe didn't approve of. That's a far cry from \"bursting in\" on a session.\nIf that is indeed the passage you're referring to, I think we're going to have to give Harlow a break here. This seems to be just more of the same kind of controlling behavior that had indeed been corroborated by other witnesses. It's not quite what we've been making it out to be.\nWill, you're right that bursting in isn't mentioned here, just \"forcing himself into.\"\nFor some reason \"bursting in\" was stuck in my mind, and after a careful review I discovered it's source: Two bursting in episode described in chapter 4, associated with footnote 109.\nFunny thing about footnote 109, it indicates an A.E.S. interview with Joe. So, none of this was in the trial (unless Harlow is in fact talking about the same thing).\nIf these two bursting in episodes alleged by Joe are accurate, it is astounding that Harlow did not elaborate on them more in trial.\nBy the way, in re-re-reading Ch 11 just now, I came across this interesting tidbit:\n\"...Cuadra began developing a regular set of clients. \"everybody that I met, it didn't matter if they worked at a burger joint [ie, Nep] or a senator, everybody that I met, they just called me again,\"...\"\nSo, this is Harlow confirming the existence of the senator, the third confirmed source for this overall (the first two being Joe and Hensley).\nAha, I knew it sounded familiar, that's why I was surprised I couldn't find it in the chapter. Now this presents a conundrum, because it's Joe providing the evidence of his pattern of behavior, replicating the night of the murder, that Harlow didn't even bother to mention to support his story! (Presuming that he didn't, that is, the book hardly gives a complete account of his testimony. But I would expect it would be included if he did.) As I said, the quoted passage about \"inserting\" himself into sessions isn't really all that relevant to the murder. IF Harlow's story was true, it would be a no-brainer for him to tell his lawyers and the jury about these earlier incidents, showing that this exact kind of thing had happened before, minus the decapitation. Is Joe fabricating it? I can't think of any reason why he would, it certainly doesn't make him look good.\nYes the mystery senator did make a cameo appearance at the trial after all. Harlow couldn't resist boasting to the world that he'd bagged a senator.\nClarifying what should be obvious, when I said \"because it's Joe providing the evidence of his pattern of behavior, replicating the night of the murder,\" I meant replicating Harlow's FICTIONAL account of what happened on the night of the murder.\nSince we've kind of let Harlow off the hook as far as the whole \"bursting in\" issue goes, I'd just like to point out one of the most egregious examples of him putting his foot in his mouth on the stand. Indeed, although I don't know if much was made of this on cross examination, I consider it to be close to a smoking gun in proving that his entire account of the murder is a big, fat lie. Page 240:\nThe tussle between Kocis and Kerekes, Cuadra testified, knocked over the coffee table in front of the couch and spilled the glasses of wine sitting there. (Photographs taken just after the fire was extinguished, however, showed the table in an upright position, and detectives said they found the wine glasses stowed in the kitchen sink.)\nAnd A-1, PLEASE don't say that they could have tidied up before setting the house on fire!\nThere was no reason for Joe to enter the house until Bryan was permanently pacified nor is there any evidence that he did so. Harlow would have needed some help removing items of interest quickly. Tidying up would not have been a priority.\nWill:\nI have always had a problem with Harlow's testimony. The fact that bothers me the most is Harlow's claim of Joe knocking at the door followed by the punch in the mouth followed of course by Joe cutting Bryan's throat (twice).\nI wish we could get a complete copy of the transcript of his testimony before commenting, but making do with what PC, Quicky and the book put forth I would not defend the testimony.\nFirst had Joe come bursting through the door as described, I believe we would have Bryan being held for the death of Joe Kerekes since he would have had adequate time to reach for a gun, and based on what we know about Bryan no hestitancy in shooting an unwanted intruder.\nI do believe that Bryan was killed by someone sneaking behind him and cutting his throat by surprise. I still believe that would not be Harlow because Bryan would not have taken his eyes off of Harlow until they had sex.\nThat leaves only two other choices Joe and a third party we can call Marlow Cuadra. Since Marlow Cuadra is a fictional caracter (all apologies to Peter Everhard), this leaves Joe as the only potential person left.\nAlbert, Joe had every reason to go into Bryan's house since he planned from the very beginning of this exercise of Bryan's death. Also he would never trust an known klutz like Harlow to do the job, or even if Harlow was not a klutz, he still had to be the controlling individual in this affair.\nSomehow, Joe got into the house, whether Harlow let him or Joe found another way in is immaterial to fact that Joe got in.\nHarlow unprepared to testify, felt he had to explain how Joe got in, started by telling an untruth, and one lie led to another.\nThe result is obvious. The Jury did not believe him and they convicted him on all counts.\nWhere I start to defend him, is that despite his testimony, there are certain abnormalities that just can not be explained away. First is the absence of a motive for Harlow, second is his previous non-violent history and almost passive nature.(Attested to by his fellow \"escorts\" and clients). Then there is fact I just mentioned, how does Harlow sneak up on Bryan and cut this throat from the rear? Where does he hide a knife unless he uses the knife on the cheese platter (and would this be sharp enough to almost decapitate Bryan)? Would a Harlow Cuadra then waste time stabbing Bryan 28 times after Bryan was obviously dead? (would said cheese knife be suitable for stabbing?)\nThen when you have a manic-obsessive like Joe readily available who would do all these things, it is hard not have doubts about Harlow being the actual killer.\nAnd that is what I have are strong doubts.\nAnonymous One\nA-1, I know I sound like a broken record, but again your theory defies all logic. I'm not talking about the logistics of Joe getting in the house without Kocis noticing, which is also impossible, but your rationale for Harlow making up his story because what, he was embarrassed to admit he let Joe into the house? In your scenario, he's still a completely innocent bystander to murder, so why would he choose to tell a humdinger instead of the truth? Sorry, it just doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.\nYeah we've been over this ground before, the lack of defense wounds on the arms in the major bit of evidence here.\nThere are only two logical explanations for this:\n1) A sudden treacherous strike by someone Kocis has his guard down around. Could have been from the front, back, doesn't matter. But that person would have to be Harlow, as Kocis' guard would certainly be up if Joe entered the house.\n2) Kocis hands are pinned behind his back, allowing a second person to strike. It doesn't matter what role you assign Joe and Harlow, both would equally be murderers. So, take your pick on this one.\nWithout defense wounds, there is no scenario possible where Joe kills Kocis and Harlow is a shocked bystander.\nA few more comments:\n\"an known klutz like Harlow\": ???\n\"whether Harlow let him...\": Harlow = co-murderer in that case.\n\"First is the absence of a motive for Harlow...\": Again I disagree, we have ample evidence of Harlow's motive, from his attachment to his possessions to his admission on Black's Beach that he purged the demons of his childhood. PLENTY of motive.\n\"second is his previous non-violent history and almost passive nature.\": I believe Harlow took part in the earlier throat-slashing of Jon Ross, which opened the possibility to both Harlow and Joe that they could resort to violence to attain their means, and get away with it. This would explain much of their later reckless behavior.\nHoney badger says, \"I do believe that Bryan was killed by someone sneaking behind him and cutting his throat by surprise. I still believe that would not be Harlow because Bryan would not have taken his eyes off of Harlow until they had sex.\"\nI have described this before so please excuse me if I attempt it again from memory.\nBryan liked to have sex with his models, He got a 17 year old Sean Lockhart drunk so he could do just that and he did.\nHarlow just needed to stand up from the couch and without saying a word, start to unzip his pants. Not pull them off but just unzip the front. Walking behind the couch he could begin stroking Bryan's ears and neck. Working his way down to Bryan's shoulders and then his pecs. He might lean over and kiss Bryan. At the same time he could pull a nice sharp blade out of his pocket and gently insert it along Bryan's throat. Neat and clean.\nBryan's couch was separated from the wall you know.\nOh, by the way guys, I spent a lot of time with Sean over the last weekend. He was in Austin to update his photos for Fleshjack. Sean has added a lot of muscle. He also appeared at a night club a couple of nights and worked the Fleshjack booth at Austin Pride. I was with him the whole time.\nI also checked his hands and guess what, no blood.\nFirst, why do you always assume that Joe could not get into the house without Bryan's knowledge. I have already said that while Bryan was on the phone, Harlow could have walked by the front door and unlocked it. Joe could have also got in through a window, or despite all you have said about Bryan, he left a door unlocked.\nIf a locked door can be forced quitely if unbolted.\nSo please don't say that Joe getting in defys all logic.\nSecond, Bryan had to be attacked from behind. First because if he saw his attacker there would have been defensive wounds. Also a knife thrust from the front or side would take the form of a puncture, or maybe a slice. But to get a deep cut that almost decapitates requires the full force of person behind him pulling back with the sharp edge of knife.\nIf Joe got in quietly and sneaked up behind him, Bryan could have been surprised.\nLast how does Harlow get behind Bryan without Bryan's knowledge. While Bryan was on the telephone, this would have been possible, but all indications are that the murder took place a little while after the phone calls ended. {Harlow seems to have gotten some information that he shared on the Black Beach Tapes that would have come from a conversation between him and Bryan and that conversation could not take place until the phone calls ended} Once Bryan had finished with the phone calls his attention would have been fully riveted on Harlow so any attempt to pull a knife or get behind him would have caused a reaction. Such a reaction would have produced defensive wounds or prevented Harlow (if he had attempted to murder Bryan) from accomplishing the lethal blow.\nSo again it is not unreasonable that someone else besides Harlow did the slicing.\nKeep in mind that had Bryan been killed later after sex had occured, the opportunities for Harlow to murder Bryan would have been better.\nAnd nothing in this secario explains the TWENTY EIGHT SEPARATE PUNCTURES MADE POST MORTEM except by a crazy obsessive individual which is much more Joe than Harlow.\nAnonymous One\nI have used the term Klutz because this is how I think Joe viewed Harlow. Here are the instances:\n1) Joe's pet name for Harlow is BABY not even Babe.\n2) Harlow loses his return plane ticket from Las Vegas.\n3) Harlow wears inappropriate footwear to go down the path to Black Beach. (Joe apparently listened to Sean and Grant and wore the correct amount.\n4) Harlow knowing he was going on a public beach fails to check up at the bathroom before leaving the hotel. Needs to relieve himself shortly after arriving.\n5)The knife purchased at the Pawn Shop is found unopened in its wrappers after the Harlow and Joe's arrest in their vehicle. My guess is that they drove one of their vehicles to the rent a car place and then Harlow either deliberately or forgetfully leaves the knife in their own vehicle. (Joe could have done this, but he could have still blamed Harlow for this forgetfulness. Another knife is purchased at Walmart.\nHarlow of course was an E-5 in the Navy, drove race cars and automobiles without any accidents so we are talking about a matter of perception rather than reality. Still, It would be interesting to ask people who knew him intimately if Harlow was clumsy or always losing things.\nAnonymous One\nAlbert:\nWe know from the evidence that Bryan expected to have sex with Harlow, and that Harlow knew that Bryan expected sex from him.Taking your scenario, as Harlow is doing the kissings, petting and stroking, wouldn't he need to use both hands. Also what would Bryan be doing with his hands as this occured, most likely touching Harlow and probably loosening those unzipped pants. Then Harlow has to smoothly reach into his pocket and pull out a knife without looking since his head and mouth would be occupied. I know I would have trouble finding the knife in my pocket under those circumstances. Harlow would be hard presses to do so, open the knife and then position it next to Bryan's neck without Bryan noticing the awkwardness.\nIt still does not explain the 28 post mortem punctures. Clearly if Harlow was on drugs he would have had a hard time getting to the slicing let alone the dicing.\nAnonymous One\nJim:\nI thought that we all agreed that the previous knifing of Joe's old boss (or partner) probably took place prior to Harlow and Joe getting together. If we are talking about prior history this is an indictment of Joe and continuation of his modus operandi.\nThis is as bad as Harlow holding Bryan's Hands while Joe would be cutting his neck. Bryan would have been struggling against Harlow, and Joe would have more likely cut Harlow then Bryan.\nAnonymous One\nAlright A-1, Joe getting into the house without Bryan noticing doesn't defy logic, it defies common sense. As I recall, the front entry of his house looks directly onto the living room where his body was found. There is no way anyone could open that surreptitiously unlocked door and walk in without him noticing, I don't care how mesmerized he was by Harlow. That and any other mode of entry is so unlikely that yes, I would use the word impossible.\nYou didn't address my main point, which is that this alternate theory of yours is one where Harlow is completely innocent of murder, so why would he make up an outlandish story that contradicted the existing evidence and insulted the jury's intelligence, instead of telling the \"truth\"? (Of course that \"truth\" also contradicts the evidence.)\nWhy did Harlow lie on the stand? This is the question I can not answer with certainty especially without looking a complete transcript of his testimony. I think it comes from the nature of what Harlow had become.\nHarlow had become an A-List \"escort\". If he was a woman the proper term would be a courtesan. The people who wanted Harlow's compnay were lonely people who wanted in addition to sex to be entertained. You could take Harlow to a fine restaurant, a show, a play and not be embarrassed. You would be able to have sex with him and he was able to go in for role playing (One speciality was probably pretending to be a 19 year old virgin). You could have a conversation with him and he would tell you the most amusing stories all of which you know were completely untrue but coming from him were still funny and incredibily cute.\nNow put Harlow on the stand and he knows he has to convinced the jury to be \"on his side\". So he reverts to form and starts to tell stories that would amuse a client but not a jury or a court of law. Add being unprepared to testimony and a great deal of animousity towards Melnick and the process.\nThe testimony that he gave was a story accompanied with sound effects that Quicky related to us. To crucial facts:\"I went to Bryan's house to check him out, Joe got in, Joe cut Bryan's throat, Joe stabbed Bryan multiple times until I got him to stop, Joe then ordered me to go to the car where I waited, Joe later came out carrying the cameras and master tapes and we drove off\" were not contradcited, only the elaborations that Harlow made of those facts. Some of those elaborations were made out of movie scenes he had saw, or books he had read, or even Web Sites he had visited, and some were made up on the spur of the moment.\nWas there guilt about the crime\nor some of the criminal acts that he wanted to avoid divulging? Was there a third party who Harlow wanted to protect? There easily could have been.\nAnd to be honest, there is the possiblity that Harlow knew that Joe was going to kill Bryan or had talked about it. Harlow could have felt (in this instance) that while Joe was talking about this, that Joe would never actually commit these crimes. Therefore I have never said that Harlow was completely innocent and that you guys are wrong in your belief that he is guilty of murder, arson, abuse of corpse and theft. I have merely questioned the logic of how you have come to those conclusions rather than the conclusions.\nAnonymous One\nAnd to be honest, there is the possiblity that Harlow knew that Joe was going to kill Bryan or had talked about it.\nAnd to be honest, that would make him guilty of first-degree murder. ESPECIALLY if he helped Joe gain entry, or knew he was going to gain entry. But at least you've supplied a plausible motive for him lying on the stand.\n\"Was there a third party who Harlow wanted to protect?\"\nNope.\nHi PC!\nA-1, I'm sorry, I was distracted when I posted my last comment. Frankly, I was so surprised to see you acknowledge the \"possibility\" that Harlow knew Joe was going to commit murder that I glossed over the rest of the paragraph. But I have to say I'm equally surprised by you saying you've never said we were wrong to say Harlow's guilty of murder. Of course I don't have time to go over all of the threads, but I can pretty distinctly remember you saying that at most he was guilty of being an accessory after the fact. Perhaps our arguments have been so persuasive that we've convinced you to change your position? I'd like to think that's what's happened...\nI don't think the logic Jim and I have used to come to our conclusions is any different than the logic the jury used.\nWill:\nI said I had strong doubts about Harlow slicing Bryan's throat or even planning it. However, if we used some of the European systems where the defendant has to prove his/her innocence beyond a reasonable doubt, then I would have to find Harlow guilty.\nWhile the penalty for being an accessory before the fact to the crime of murder is close to that for being the actual killer, there is some distinction granted. For example in Pennsylvania the death penalty would not apply unless some other grevious factor applied. And then there is the possiblity of a pardon (if the governor felt the prisoner had reformed or no longer was a threat to society).\nI also think that Harlow believes that if he did not actually slice Bryan's throat then he was innocent of murder. (If that is the case, I would disagree with him.)\nBut these are some of the reasons why the distinction of who did the actually murder matters.\nOne thing the blog has not mentioned much is the potential for a felony murder conviction. If Harlow and Joe had plotted to threathen Bryan or burn down Bryan's house thus destroying records that Bryan would need in his suit against Sean & Grant, and then Joe went off the deep end by slicing, dicing and fricaseeing the late Mr. Kokis, then even though Harlow had not planned to murder Bryan, a charge of first degree murder would stand. It is this possiblity that most concerns me and would explain much of Harlow's testimony.\nAnonymous One\nPS. As your arguments changing my mind, sorry, but I felt this way, long before I joined this conversation. However, I do find your arguments interesting even when I disagree with them.\nFor example in Pennsylvania the death penalty would not apply unless some other grevious factor applied.\nThere always has to be an aggravating factor for the death penalty to be considered. I can't find the PA statute right now, but I do know that PA does not distinguish at all between being a conspirator in a murder and actually doing the killing when it comes to charging and sentencing.\nI'm not sure why a felony murder charge would concern you, if he had only conspired to commit one or both of those other two felonies. It's always been the case that one is guilty of felony murder if it occurs during the commission of another felony, regardless of what the original intent was.\nI'll amend that comment, I guess the Wikipedia entry does raise some issues that might be of concern to you about felony murder. They do not concern me. And of course this wasn't even an issue in this case, Harlow was charged and convicted of first-degree murder, which was entirely appropriate.\nJust one more thing about felony murder: If I understand correctly, you said you were concerned that if Harlow had told the \"truth\" instead of making up a whopper, he'd be confessing to felony murder, even though he didn't conspire with Joe to murder Kocis. Well, then all I have to say is he must be one of the stupidest murder defendants ever, with the stupidest legal counsel ever, because he could have gotten a lighter sentence for a felony murder rap, since that's second-degree murder. When someone so blatantly lies on the stand, the presumption will be that it's to cover up the crime they're charged with, not a lesser related crime they're unwilling to cop to. It was his choice to roll the dice and shoot for a complete acquittal. That's just too bad.\nWill:\nIn most states Felony Murder is first degree murder. So it is not a lesser crime but in fact the same crime.\nSecond, Joe plead guilty to second degree murder and got life without parole.\nNeed I remind you of the discussion on this blog at the time of trial, that Harlow might have preferred a death penalty to life behind bars for the rest of his natural life.\nAs far as his attorneys being stupid, lets be charitable and call them unprepared and under a lot of pressure (especially the ones earlier in the chain of defense attorneys).\nWhether or not he could have gotten a lesser sentence for cooperating was also a discussion. I stated I do not believe that the prosecution ever offer anything less than life without parole.\nNow as far what he said under oath, there was considerable room for improvement (if you think that he was guilty of the premeditated murder and was going to lie anyways). Jim has done a good job of pointing out some serious discrepancies like the table being overturned in the fight.\nIf I was in a position to counsel him to lie (and hopefully I would not have done do) I would have had him testify that he did not know how Joe got in, that he had his back to Bryan while undressing, and when he felt this spray of blood, he turned around and saw Bryan with his head almost off and Joe stabbing him in the stomach. There were gurgling noises coming from Bryan but they soon ceased.\nHe then went into a stage of shock and when Joe told his to go sit in the car he did so. I would also skipped the testimony about being abused by his step father (and saved that for extenuation and mitigation, if it came to that).\nIn some states, a defendant can give an unsworn statement to the jury, which prevents cross examination. I do not believe Pennsylvania was one of those states.\nAnonymous One\n\"And then there is the possiblity of a pardon (if the governor felt the prisoner had reformed or no longer was a threat to society).\"\nI think there's always this possibility, regardless of the charges. The pardon/clemency/commutation powers of governors are generally unfettered. Unless there is some wrinkle of PA law I am unfamiliar with?\nNo A-1, in Pennsylvania anyway, which is the law I was referring to, felony murder is second-degree murder.\nAs for Joe pleading guilty to second-degree murder and getting life w/o parole, of course that's true, but I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it, as it was part of a deal to avoid the death penalty. The standard sentence for second-degree murder in PA is life with a chance for parole.\nUpdate 36:\nNothing much to say yet, just demarcating the thread. But I will just mention that, as I recall, the testimony on whether Joe at least attempted to dominate and control Harlow was a bit more mixed than that one statement from Hensley would indicate. And saying Harlow wouldn't do anything for Joe doesn't necessarily contradict that dynamic in their relationship. That is not to say I believe Joe coerced Harlow into the murder plot, I don't.\nThe dynamic was interesting. The paras afterwards have Hensley describing the bullet-in-the-wall incident, which I think illustrate it nicely.\nHarlow is the only one able to go into the room and calm Joe down. A \"Joe whisperer\" in other words.\nJoe at times had a violent temper, had jealousy issues, etc. But Harlow had a way of getting those things under control.\nCalling it \"manipulation\" might sound a bit too sinister, but it would be essentially accurate IMO.\nI went over your blog from the trial. Noticed that Melnick contradicts himself when he says:\nOne thing I agree with Mr. Cuadra, that Joseph is Kerekes is a murderer,\nThen of course later he says that Cuadra murdered Kokis.\nBut if that was the case how did Kerekes become a murderer?\nRemember this is Prosecutor Michael Melnick speaking? Did he possibly believe Joe was in the house at the time of the murder?\nAnonymous One\nBecause you can have two murderers, of one victim, legally speaking.\nThe above coment is an example taking an isolated incident and applying to a whole string events as if each event was exactly the same and since the outcome in one event is known all other events in that string must be the same.\nHarlow and Joe are two human beings. Their relationship was not always 100% Joe controlling and 0% Harlow submissive. This is the same in almost every relationship. But I bet that in the arguments between Harlow and Joe, Joe won over 75% of them.\nAnd the two examples at the restaurant in San Diego are not very good ones. The first is Joe\ngiving an ultimatum, \"says give me an answer by tommorrow or we are leaving\". Harlow doesn't really contradict him. He says they will leave tommorrow but perhaps they can discuss this again the next day before leaving.\nThe second one is agreeing to tell all on the beach. Joe and Harlow may have plan that in advance. Keep in mind that when they are on the beach, Harlow really does not say much, only that then my guy came around and things went crazy.I believe this is also when they said that they destroyed the master tapes at a Barbecue on the Beach. Most of what he told them were things that he overheard Bryan saying on the phone.\nOf course we know that Harlow had left Joe on previous occaisions. This was Harlow's main way to win some argument from Joe by threathening to leave. Of course with Joe holding the credit cards, the ready cash, the businesses and by having all of the debt in Harlow's name, it did kind of weaken Harlow's bargaining position. This was the situation before the murder took place.\nThis brings up again the question of why Harlow did not leave Joe after the murder. I think because leaving Joe was not an option. Joe still had all of Harlow's credit cards and money. Joe may also made some threats to harm Harlow, Harlow's friends or Harlow's family if Harlow were to leave him now. Before the murder, Joe was just a gas bag making threats. After the murder, Joe was a credible threat (assuming Joe was the murderer). Physically Joe was only marginally stronger than Harlow. Joe with a knife or a gun was more than a match for an unarmed Harlow.\nAfter the arrest, or possibly before, Joe had also waived the carrot (I'll take the blame as a last resort, as long as you don't rat on me) along with the stick (I'll tell them you did it, and they will believe me, if you rat on me). Harlow believed Joe as to both the promise and the threat so he kept quiet about Joe until Joe broke his word and refused to testify at trial.\nAnonymous One\nJim:\nMelnick did not say Joe was an accomplice, he said he was a murderer. In plain english, that means he did the actual murder.\nAnonymous One\nOf course the interesting question is what if Harlow actually did the murder. WHY DID NOT JOE GET AWAY FROM HIM or turn Harlow in.?\nYet it was Joe who slept soundly and Harlow was the one could not sleep for months afterwards?\nPersonally, it is my belief that Harlow and Joe not be arrested for the crime that after time had passed and Harlow no longer brought in the big bucks (six or seven years later), Harlow would have been found with his throat slashed by the side of a road. Joe would have been desolate with only the huge life insurance policy on Harlow (with Joe as beneficiary) to console him.\nThis may surprise you but the arrest of Harlow in May 2007 may have extended Harlow's life by thirty or forty years.\nAnonymous One\nMelnick did not say Joe was an accomplice, he said he was a murderer. In plain english, that means he did the actual murder.\nA-1 what's happened to you? Do we really have to explain that Joe needn't have wielded the knife to be guilty of murder and thus be called a murderer? How else could he have been convicted while maintaining he stayed at the motel? I feel like you've had a momentary brain fart. That's OK, happens to all of us!\nOf course the interesting question is what if Harlow actually did the murder. WHY DID NOT JOE GET AWAY FROM HIM or turn Harlow in.\nAgain, this comment bewilders me. THEY CONSPIRED IN THE MURDER. That's why they stayed together. There has never been a theory advanced by anyone, until now, that Harlow did the murder all on his own without Joe's knowledge.\nHarlow NEVER provided a plausible explanation for why he stayed with Joe, who according to him was a lone homicidal maniac, despite your attempts to provide him with one. Joe had the credit cards, Joe made threats against him and his family, etc. etc. Too bad Harlow forgot those reasons on the stand. The closest he came to an explanation is that he \"shut down\" after the murder.?\nTurn that around, substitute Harlow for Joe and vice versa, and that is precisely why Harlow's staying with Joe makes no earthly sense in the context of his fictional account of the murder.\n\"Again, this comment bewilders me. THEY CONSPIRED IN THE MURDER.\"\nYeah, all these thorny questions of why who didn't leave who all get seamlessly answered if you make one basic assumption: That they both planned and conspired to kill Kocis together.\nYou see, in that scenario, no one has a pressing pre-arrest reason to leave the other.\nGuys:\nYou know Joe did not stay in the Motel. You both have said so in the past. You have previously said that he got in after the murder and set the arson. So is it such a stretch to say that he got in somehow prior to the murder.\nIt is bad enough having to deal with Harlow's contradictions.\nAlso when I talked about Melnick's comment I was only taking a page out of your analysis. Blowing up one sentence out of proportion. For the record, I believe that Melnick believes that Harlow was the actual person who sliced Bryan's throat. I don't.\nAnonymous One\nGetting back to your examples of Harlow taking charge. It has occured to me that each time, Harlow was acting as a peacemaker.\nTaking Justin Hensley testimony and the events at the San Diego Restaurant and we have a picture of someone who is trying to smooth the waters not rile them.\nAnonymous One\n... which is a kinder, gentler way of saying Harlow manipulated Joe.\nI was only reacting to your comment saying if Melnick called Joe a murderer, it meant Joe \"did the actual murder.\" We know Melnick didn't mean that, since he allowed Joe to maintain that he stayed at the motel during the actual murder. \"Murderer\" is the correct term for a conspirator who has been convicted of second-degree murder. Whether he actually stayed in the motel isn't the point. However, for the record, I tend to believe that he did. He was confessing to being a conspirator in the murder, so why would it be so important to him to lie about staying in the motel if it weren't true? (Of course you think he's lying about EVERYTHING, I don't.)\nIn other words, if, as Jim and most others think, he was on the scene but only helped with the theft and arson, then why wouldn't he admit that? I don't get why he'd want to cover that up while confessing to conspiring in a murder.\nWill:\nJoe never intended to testify for Harlow because it would mean that Harlow would get a lesser sentence than Joe.\nJoe also believes that despite his plea deal, he can get either a pardon or parole. Admitting anything hinders that chance.\n(Of course that chance is close to zero, but Joe qualifies when describing someone as delusional).\nAnonymous One\nOK. I don't think I addressed either of those points, but I don't necessarily disagree with them.\nOne thing about controlling someone as opposed to manipulating: While the term manipulating is perjorative, to say that Harlow occaisionally influenced Joe would not be incorrect. But could Harlow make Joe do something Joe did not want to do (Controlling), this I doubt very much unless the matter was extremely unimportant to Joe.\nOn the other hand I believe that Joe could control Harlow to a large degree but not completely. I would agree with both of you, that Joe forcing Harlow to go into Bryan's home alone and then to kill Bryan would be beyond Joe's capability to control. I also believe that if Harlow had tried to kill Bryan he would have been unsuccessful, and giving the proximity of guns in Bryan's home, Harlow would have likely been killed. Albert ideas to contrary, I do not see Harlow being able to surprise Bryan once the telephone calls were completed.\nAnonymous One\nGoing over some old comments. Jim at one point raised the possibility of Harlow killing Bryan because he identified Bryan with his step-father.\nFirst, I am not quite sure what the relationship between Harlow and his step-father was. His putting him as a beneficiary on a life insurance policy is puzzling. Most likely it was a love/hate relationship. Harlow liked the attention and Harlow liked the sex.\nI going to assume that you would agree with me that Harlow like having sex with other men as a general rule.\nOn the other hand sex with a putative parent is always icky and probably the major reason Harlow joined the navy.\nStill after the thousands (probably) clients that Harlow had, I do not think Harlow would suddenly want to kill the client because of a flashback to his step-father.\nYou are probably on safer ground imputing a monetary reason to Harlow. However it does not explain the 28 post mortem stab woulds to Bryan.\nThe only way that would occur if Bryan somehow was hurting Harlow. This would raise defenses that Harlow would have invoked but has not, and therefore I do not believe that this (hurting of Harlow) occured.\nAnonymous One\nOf course Joe stabbing Bryan 28 times post mortem is quite believable.\nWait, I do disagree with you that Joe thinks \"admitting anything hinders that chance\" of a pardon, if you're referring to the arson and theft. He's admitted to murder! Even he knows that arson and theft would have no impact on a hypothetical pardon when he's already admitted to the crime that sent him away for life.\nI also doubt that even Joe is delusional enough to dream of parole. He'd probably be the first person in history to be granted parole after getting a sentence with no possibility of parole. And on what possible basis would he think he'd be considered for a pardon? This is all rampant speculation, there's been no indication from him he's banking on either parole or a pardon, has there?\nActually there was from Renee of all people. She talked about him scheming on the way to death row to get out of it.\nI believe that there was discussion on this very blog about states moving away from sentences of life without parole.\nIn Joe's case, he may be scheming about a way to get his sentenced reduced. After all he has only admitted to conspiricacy to commit some violent crimes without admitting to having committing any. Technically this makes him a NON-VIOLENT CRIMINAL, the type that they are releasing from jail all the time. True the non-violent types mentioned are white collar crimes and possessions, but you can never determine what some crackpot panel may do in the future.\nFor the record, G-d forbid that they ever let Joe out, that would be a travesty of justice.\nAnonymous One\nNo, PA law classifies Joe as the most violent of criminals, regardless of who did the stabbing. I can't think of anything more delusional than him thinking he's ever going to be released because he was \"non-violent.\"\nUpdate 37:\nIt's interesting that that exchange about Sean and Grant you excerpted is not in the book, but this passage is:\nHe also alleged from the stand that Lockhart and Roy were lying and \"had joined in collusion to get their stories straight to be able to make you (Melnick) happy so they can go back to San Diego and carry on with their lives.\"\nDoing a quick skim of the chapter, that's the one and only reference I see to Sean and Grant that's included from the cross-examination. I would submit that it's more than a little misleading to include that, and not include the fact that Harlow completely exonerated them. In fact, I would say it leaves the opposite impression on the reader. Particularly as it's taken out of context, giving no indication of just what it was Harlow was insisting they were lying about. It's puzzling.\nAND when you consider that, and the fact that Joe is given free reign in his interview with Stoner to make up a story about how Harlow, Grant, and Sean started cooking up the murder plot at Le Cirque, where Joe was just an innocent bystander, and it only exacerbates the impression some have (hi Rob!) that PC has an anti-Sean & Grant bias. I've never bought into that myself, but this adds fuel to that fire.\n\"...giving no indication of just what it was Harlow was insisting they were lying about. It's puzzling.\"\nYeah now that you mention it, I wonder what this \"lie\" was now too.\n\"Of course Joe stabbing Bryan 28 times post mortem is quite believable.\"\nWhy? Joe had no need to be in the house until Bryan was dead. Harlow was infatuated with Sean. Joe was not. Harlow would be having sex with Sean in front of a camera, not Joe.\nIt takes some extraordinary concoction to get Joe into a locked house while Bryan was alive. Getting Harlow in the house is a given.\nAlso A-1, I don't understand your focus on 28 stab wounds. Stabbing a corpse would not require any special training.\nHarlow had both emotional and financial motivation to kill Bryan. He also had easy opportunity to do so. Joe had only financial motivation and no opportunity. Despite speculation that maybe Harlow let him in or Joe got in on his own, neither scenario could have been planned or anticipated by Harlow and Joe. The only sure thing is Harlow could get in the house and kill Bryan. Any other plan would have been too stupid even for these two meth heads.\nIn other news, I sent Fleshjack 70 photos from the Austin Pride weekend thinking they might use some. Surprised the hell out of me but they used all 70. Sean has packed on a lot of muscle since you last saw him. Still a gentleman and charm.\nYeah this 28 post mortum thingy has been a talking point from the beginning. I'm not impressed with it.\nIMO, ANYONE who kills someone with a knife to the throat, in a sudden strike, is going to have to so much pent up adrenaline in the seconds leading up to decision to act that 28 additional blows will come quite naturally.\nWhat makes using this in Harlow's defense extra weak is that he admitted on the BBTs to projecting his hated stepfather onto Kocis at the moment of attack. So, you have it straight from the horse's mouth. I just don't know what more you need on this.\nAlbert:\nThe 28 post mortem stab wounds is extremely important. Picture the amount of time it would take to do the stabbing, the blood and pieces of flesh scattering around. Think also of the amount of energy that needs to spent, and the anger needed to continue stabbing a person you know is already dead.\nThe person doing the stabbing is in an uncontrollable frenzy. It has to be a series of rapid thrusts otherwise the stabber would get tired and cease or the stabbing would last 15 or 20 minutes or so (at a rate of slightly more than 2 stabs a minute)\nWe know Joe is a manic obsessive and has anger management problems. Harlow is much more laid back and slower to act. If as imputed Harlow did this for financial gain then the death of Bryan would be sufficient for him to cease trying to kill him. On the other hand if Joe killed because he was in a jealous rage, or because he was upset that Bryan was getting FREE SEX with Harlow, the 28 stab wounds become more pausible.\nAnonymous One\nJim:\nAttorney D'Andrea would agree with the first part of your analysis. He commented to local paper that he thought Harlow had gotten too combative with Melnick in the cross examination.\nI would agree that after three weeks of trial, Harlow had become frustrated. Whether true or not, he had watched the prosecutor paint him as an uncaring individual who had brutally murdered St. Bryan of Luzerne, abused his corpse, robbed his house and then burnt it down. He watched as friends and clients testified against him, and then he had the ultimate betrayal when Joe took the stand and then refused to testify destroying his best hope of freedom. Up until this point he had remained in control. Then he gets on the stand, totally unprepared and he gets cross examined extremely embarrasingly effectively by Melnick. There is a breaking point in all of us, and by this time, Harlow could not fully contain his need to verbally get back at the Prosecutor.\nAnonymous One\nI have been reluctant to wade into the relationship of Sean and Grant to this murder.\nFirst, I would completely absolve Sean of any wish to have Bryan killed.\nMy best guess is that Bryan had continually told Sean that withouth his (Bryan's) aid, Sean would be nothing. His language probably included referring to him as a piece of feces.\nMore than anything Sean wanted to show Bryan that he could be a major player in Gay Porn. This required Bryan to be alive when Sean achieved this.\nGrant might not feel this way, but he was aware of how much out of control Joe was. Survival instincts would have prevented him from going along with any murder plot with Joe involved.\nYet, we have the odd saying by Sean to Jody Wheeler \"that Harlow blew it\". This implies that Sean,\n(not necessarily Grant) and Harlow had some kind of deal but Harlow went way beyond the agreement which had not intended that Bryan be killed or even injured.\nBut I am probably doing the same thing that I have been complaining that others have been doing, reading too much into a single sentence or action.\nAnonymous One\nNo Anon 1. This time you are reaching a lot. No offense. It's just that I was in the thick of it at the time and remain friends with both Sean and Grant to this day. This was a business deal which from Sean and Grant's perspective ended and expensive legal battle. Sean had no need or desire to prove anything to Bryan. Sean had made Bryan's money and he knew it.\n\"Harlow blew it.\" is in reference to killing the business deal. Not to killing Bryan.\nBryan told Sean, Grant and the rest of the world a lot of crap. The only thing that might be trusted from him was a signed contract, maybe not even that.\nAlso, 28 stab wounds can be done in less than a minute, particularly in an adrenaline rush.\nAlbert:\nDon't you think that Sean would have loved to have shown Bryan how little Sean needed him? It would have been the icing on the cake.\nMind you not in person, but just knowing that Bryan was reading the same glowing reviews.\nand while 28 stab wounds can be done in a minute, what kind of person is having this adrenaline rush or as I would put it, manic frenzy. There would have to be a lot of hate or fear driving this rush.\nAnonymous One\nPS Thanks for the explanation of Harlow blowing it. That make sense.\nI just went back and read some of the chapter on the BBT's, prompted by Jim's comment about what Harlow said about his stepfather. The quote from him that really caught my eye this time is when he says of his stepfather's molestation that \"it's what kind of made the whole decision kind of easy, almost a little too easy.\" In context, there is absolutely no question that the \"decision\" he's referring to was the decision to murder Kocis.\nA-1, is there anything more that needs to be said to debunk all of your arguments trying to exonerate Harlow? I think not.\nAlso, earlier I made a comment about how Harlow had put his foot in his mouth on the stand when he said Joe and Bryan had knocked over the cocktail table and wine glasses during their struggle, when crime-scene photos contradict that. I THOUGHT I was making a joke when I said to A-1 \"DON'T say they could have tidied up before setting the house on fire.\" I had completely forgotten this passage in the current chapter:\n[Melnick] succeeded in having Cuadra admit that the cocktail table was not tipped over in some violent fight, as he had described earlier, but Cuadra had an explanation for that too: \"Please keep in mind that Joseph stayed in the house for fifteen, twenty minutes\" and could have righted the table and put the wine glasses back in the kitchen sink, he said.\nWill:\nThere are several problems with the Black Beach tapes when it comes to Harlow describing his relationship with his step-father.\nThe first and more important is whether this was the occaision when he describes how he was afraid that his step father would molest his siblings. He stated that (since he was gay or words to that effect) it was better than his stepfather molested solely him. So the decision he is referring to could be to continue having sex with his step-father.\nThe second problem is that the tapes have time gaps in them, when either nothing was said or portions were unrecordable. So what he was referring to may relate back to the previous sentence or idea rather than forward to the next block of discussion which was the murder itself.\n{Even there, he describes the situation as being sick. I always thought he meant that his mother had done something to his step father like throwing him out, and that Harlow was getting guilty pleasure from his stepfather being punished}\nLastly, Harlow talks almost in a stream of conciousness jumping from one subject to another without reference as whom or what he is talking about. This is what makes Harlow such a lousy witness.\nIt creates inconsistencies even before he takes that stand. Look at the Roeker tape of him, and you will find the same problems when he is telling his story there. No direct and clear answers to the questions put to him. The Roeker tapes were worse because the Roeker never asks the follow up questions that should have been asked.\nAnonymous One\nIn the words of Albert, you are reaching A-1. I will just quote a passage from the book that follows that quote:\nDid Cuadra substitute Kocis for the man who had allegedly molested hm as a boy? Only Cuadra knows that for certain, but the remarks that kept coming reveal that \"the whole decision\" to kill Kocis was apparently made easier by either perceived mistreatment by Kocis of Lockhart and other young men or by Cuadra's projection of an image of his own childhood molester upon Bryan Kocis.\nAgain, there is absolutely NO question what \"the whole decision\" is referring to. The authors had access to the entire transcript that the jury did, and if there was any ambiguity they would not have written that.\nWill:\nTo quote your qoute, \"only Harlow knows\". Hardley a definative statement to rely upon. The book is only guessing that the relationship between Harlow and his stepfather had anything to do with the Kocis Murder.\nIn my opinion, Harlow mentioned it primarily to get sympathy first from Sean and Grant (remember Sean's prior history before he even met Bryan) and then from the jury when he testified. I believe that D'Andrea made a big mistake in bringing that up when guilt was being determined by the jury. It should have been saved for extenuation and mitigation where it belonged.\nAgain, we don't really know what Harlow was referring to, and you guys would not believe anything he said unless it was incriminating. I tend to discount what Harlow says since much of it is an act trying to say what he thinks the listener wants to hear.\nAnonymous One\nSigh. Of course \"only Harlow knows\" what was going on in his head, but they are NOT \"guessing\" when it comes to what \"the whole decision\" means. His words \"REVEAL\" the meaning. One thing's for sure, he did not mean that the molestation \"made it easier\" for him to decide to continue being molested. I think even you can admit that argument is laughable.\nO.J. Simpson was found not guilty. The jury system is far from perfect. I think it is in England that have a system of 'professional' jurors. I wouldn't trust that with a stick.\nCritical thinking is not taught in public schools. To go from acquittal to guilty in a matter of hours after all evidence is presented is a clear indication those jurors were not voting on principle.\nWeak minds are easily swayed..\n\"I find it absolutely flabbergasting that they would even have to ask such a question.\"\nI think they were desperately looking for any excuse to vote not guilty.\nPossibly, but the fact that they thought being \"only\" an accomplice might be that excuse is apalling.\nBy the way I'm not sure if you're going to cover this, but those same four jurors did use that as an excuse not to give him the death penalty. Harlow should thank his lucky stars that those jurors apparently REMAINED confused about PA law, which as I've said many times treats being \"only\" a conspirator and being the one who carries out the crime exactly the same.\nBut he is so cute when he lies. Don't kill him.\nGuys:\nConspiracy to commit murder and murder are two separate crimes. In this case, the planning to kill Bryan and (this is most important) taking some step to accomplish that murder (but not necessarily resulting in the murder)would be sufficient to be found guilty of conspiracy. Murder requires that somebody actually gets murdered.\nIn Harlow's case after he was found quilty, the judge gave him two separate life without parole sentences, one for conspiracy and one for murder. I am not sure but I believe the sentences run consecutively and not concurrently.\nFrankly I thought this was overkill (pun intended, of course).\nAnonymous One\nJim is right, Harlow could have been found not quilty. What was required was the defense to show (by other than Harlow's testimony) that Joe was at the scene of the murder. If they could show him inside Bryan's house, and kept Harlow off the stand, I think enough doubt would have existed for some if not all of the charges against him to have failed.\nNaturally if Joe had testified in Harlow's favor saying that he had planned the murder and killed Bryan, and other exonerated Harlow from prior knowledge, we probably would not be discussing this case on this blog.\nAnonymous One\nYes A-1, I would agree that Harlow could have been found not guilty if the defense was able to place Joe inside the house during the murder. Unfortunately they weren't able to do that because he wasn't.\nEssentially what you're saying is if the trial had taken place in an alternate universe with a completely different set of facts, they could have gotten Harlow off.\nI think that if Joe had fallen on his sword as planned, and exonerated Harlow (ie, lied), and somehow Joe's story survived cross examination (iffy), combined with some outside pressure on the jury to make them think they were doing the right thing (court room filled with FREE HARLOW t-shirts as planned), then maybe a hung jury or acquittal was possible.\nAll of the above would have had to be present IMO.\nAnd I'm assuming in the above scenario Harlow could then opt not to take the stand at all (which as we know now in hindsight would have been hugely beneficial to him).\n\"Iffy\" is an understatement, considering Joe had already given a sworn statement contradicting that testimony. Not to mention the possible consequences that would follow for his plea deal, as we've already discussed, when I also described that whole episode as a \"charade.\"\nJoe \"falling on his sword\" for Harlow could only happen in that aforementioned alternate universe.\nFirst, filling the courtroom with Free Harlow T-Shirts would not have been allowed by the Judge, and even if it had, it would have little effect. Considering the conservative nature of Luzerne County, it probably would have had the opposite effect on the jurors.\nSo lets eliminate that from the calculus..\nKeep in mind that the plea statement by Joe was drawn up solely for the purposes of the plea deal. No one cared about its veracity as long it put Joe away for life. Since all other charges, including arson, theft, abuse of corpse were dropped as a result of the plea deal, containing information in that statement that made Joe appear guilty of those crimes might have been awkward to say the least. Relying on that plea bargain agreement is the same as relying on Joe telling the truth. This is after all \"Serial Killer Joseph Kerekes\" who last publicized statement says that Harlow is telling the truth and is not guilty.\nIn fact had the jury gotten to hear all the things that Joe has said over the years that we know about, starting with the kind words he said about Jim (in 2007) right up to the comments made by Joe to PC, that would have affected their opinion. Not to say that Harlow would be a free man today, but maybe facing a much reduced sentence.\nAnonymous One\nA-1, I said putting Joe in the house during the murder is \"alternate universe,\" not in the car. I have no idea what your reference is to DeWayne and Harlow \"holding Bryan's hand,\" but I'm not referencing anyone else's theories, only the facts as we know them. But as far as that goes, I highly doubt I'm the ONLY person who thinks Joe probably stayed in motel, since there's absolutely no evidence proving otherwise. However I feel pretty safe in saying your theory about Harlow letting Joe in without Bryan noticing only so he could steal Bryan's 2257's is unique to you.\nJoe's sworn statement would have been used to completely destroy his \"falling on the sword\" credibility, thus rendering it null and void. The main reason it may not have voided his plea agreement is that Luzerne County wouldn't have wanted to pay for a trial when he was already convicted.\nThis is after all \"Serial Killer Joseph Kerekes\" who last publicized statement says that Harlow is telling the truth and is not guilty.\nPlease enlighten me, I'm unfamiliar with this \"publicized statement.\"\n.\"\nHmm not sure where THAT comes from I will admit at one time being in the Evil Manipulative Joe/Harlow is a poor abused boy camp in blog speculations but there were several reasons for some of those musings.\nIf you look back far enough especially before the actual arrest I can tell you just about where the blogsphere was on the likely culpability of the then \"4\" suspects.\nIn order of who was most likely to be the most \"guilty\"\n1.Joe\n2.Grant\n3.Sean\n4,Harlow\nAnd you could switch Grant and Sean around depending on if you were in the Sean is a manipulative little bitch camp. (BB)\nYes pre arrest many were ready to blame the older Svengali BF's for setting up this conspiracy to murder Bryan in Vegas.\nWith poor little Sean and Harlow playing footsies and drunk not paying attention.\nMy views leading up to the arrest of Joe and Harlow I still carried over some of that bias against Joe and in favor of Harlow.\nPost arrest I got a bit of an off the record reality check about what the authorities real thinking was about the murder.\nTo say I was very crestfallen when I was reminded that Harlow was the likely killer would be an understatement.\nI do recall PC and I musing about Joe and was he in the motel or in the back of the suv out of sight when Harlow drove up.\nI was of the belief Joe was close by (again latent idea that Joe was the master manipulator here and had to be close)\nProblem as I recall PC pointing out if Joe was discovered hiding in the SUV (what if Bryan had walked out to meet Harlow and spotted Joe?) My other take was maybe Joe was let out around the block but this was the dead of January and a man like Joe walking around would have attracted attention.\nThe safest way for the plan to move forward getting Harlow into the house and more importantly making sure Bryan was relaxed meant Joe HAD TO BE as far away as possible.\nI admit in 2007 I did not want to BELIEVE that but by Harlows trial I was KNEW Harlow was the sole actor in the living room.\nHello Jim kudos to your dedication to keep this marathon session going ;-)\nSomething Will said earlier in update 38 I want to comment on..\"\nYES! Legally you are correct Will the instruction should have been MUST however our Judge was a former prosecutor and had some training in HOW you talk to a jury from a prosecutor's perspective.\nOnce empaneled most jurors KNOW they are supposed to follow the law.\nThey also know without maybe fully understanding the term jury nullification they cannot BE ORDERED by a judge to reach a particular verdict. As we have seen numerous times Jury's can and will stubbornly dig in heels.\nIf the word MUST had been used I have no doubt one of those two jurors would have dug in and shut it down.\nI witnessed just such a scenario on a Federal jury I was on, it resulted in us being deadlocked for two days before our foreman broke thru the obstinacyo one juror and declared this is NOT a Twelve Angry Men case.\nAfter the verdict was reached in the post trial lawyer discussion the female juror in my case admitted she thought the judge was a Son of a Bitch. and DIDNT like how Uppity and condescending he was.\nAnd he had used those exact word's\nYOU MUST find..\nJudge PPO was the BEST possible judge for this case can you imagine how this might have played out with say\nan arrogant self important dictatorial gasbag on the bench?\nA Mistrial for Harlow\nMy views developed much slower. I knew where Sean and Grant were at the time of the murder so they were never a question for me. Between Harlow and Joe, I soon discerned that Joe was the negotiator. He and Grant seemed to work out the generalities between each other.\nI had seen Harlow hold a man in the air against a shower wall while he pounded his ass. That took a lot of strength, with or without drugs. Joe did not talk about Bryan's death. Harlow had much to say. When Joe negotiated a plea deal, it cinched it for me. That Harlow would continue to a trial and even take the stand just proved to me he was not all there. The other arguments I have made here made it clear who cut Bryan's throat.\nAlso anon, I could open my boy scout knife with one hand when I was 15. Using one hand on ones on crotch is not unacceptable or unexpected while kissing another guy. I think I described how it happened quite plausibly. Of course I would.\n.\nIn general, two people charged with the same crime is a prosecutor's nightmare because they are likely to blame each other. The idiot discussion going on here simply highlights how impossible it was / is to know who actually killed Kocis.\n.\"\nAnon I stand by what I said..\nPPO was the Judge the ONLY Judge the broken scandal ridden Luzerne County courts could turn to to try this Capital Case.\nThey got the result they wanted Joe pled out, Harlow was convicted there was no mistrial.\nBest possible outcome.\nEven a crooked judge can be a good one\nI might add the cynic in me would add I am well aware the American Justice system only serves to present a facade of fairness.\nIn that regard the Harlow Cuadra trial accomplished just that.\nLuzerne County voters at the next election imposed their retribution based on PPO's mistakes off the bench not his judicial record.\nI dont see how you can think this case was a prosecutors nightmare.\nIt seems like a dream-case which Melnick seemed very hyped up about after the verdict.\nWho killed Bryan Kocis?\nDoesnt matter at all\nConspiracy to commit murder both were equally guilty and the punishment should be the same.\nHere in California men have been convicted for Murder who were not even physically in the state when the crime was committed.\nIndeed if Sean and Grant HAD been in a conspiracy to have Bryan killed they would have been just as guilty as Harlow and Joe.\nBoth morally and legally.\nThe idiot discussion going on here simply highlights how impossible it was / is to know who actually killed Kocis.\nSo good to have you back Mr. Everhard! And here I'd thought you'd retreated with your tail between your legs...\nAnd welcome back DeWayne! I guess your ears were burning when A-1 invoked your name (or close to it).\nHaven't really digested all the new reading material yet, be back later.\nHi Will yes I missed the Sept 6th update Albert texted me last night.\nThe discussion here may suit a very small audiance, it may seem silly and is often speculative but I wouldn't say 'idiot.' Anonymous has kept the discussion going for some time and I have found it enjoyable. It does not appear Anonymous actively followed the case at the time so some confusion is expected. DeWayne and I have stalked Sean since Brent Corrigan first appeared. I believe Will is also an original fan. Jim and PC came in much later but at a critical time for the subject of discussion. I hope we have been gentle but firm in correcting confusion. Anonymous has likewise presented his theories respectfully. Their is nothing idiotic about that. Odd perhaps.\nNot an \"original fan\" Albert, I've said before that I paid little to no attention to BC before this case. And I believe A-1 has followed it very closely, he certainly has a better memory for details than I do, though of course I think his conclusions are wrong.\nI am corrected.\nI dont see how you can think this case was a prosecutors nightmare.\nIt seems like a dream-case which Melnick seemed very hyped up about after the verdict. DeWayne\nIt was \"that other former DA David Lupas\" whose father the Feds are prosecuting for operating a Ponzi scheme.\nMelnick and Luzerne County are still trying to get a conviction against Selenski when Selenski was found with dead bodies buried in his front yard.\nOK, I'll post some thoughts on the new comments in the order they appear:\n1) Yes DeWayne, it seems that A-1 was dredging up some ancient theorizing of yours as evidence that he is not alone in thinking that not only was Joe inside the house but was the sole guilty party, which I described as the \"alternate universe\" version of events. I'll just say this is another example of his great memory for detail in following this case on the blogs. I don't think even you remember exactly what it is he's referring to. If this was indeed a musing of yours dating all the way back before the arrest, I think its relevance is dubious.\n2) Thank you for showing A-1 that I'm not the ONLY person who thinks Joe probably stayed in the motel! I've stated my reasons for thinking that already, but yours is also convincing -- those two were plenty dumb, but not dumb enough to risk Joe being sighted by Kocis sitting in his driveway. It would be even worse if he was caught trying to HIDE in the car.\n3) As for PPO instructing the jury that they \"could\" rather than \"must,\" I think I made too much of that. The book paraphrases the judge, we have no idea if that's what he actually said. I think it's likely that he did impress upon them in no uncertain terms that that they had to follow the law, and this is likely just imprecise wording on the authors' part. It's not a quote, and there's no footnote citation of their source for that passage.\nOf course it would be highly improper for the judge to try and influence the verdict, but his job was to make sure the jurors' understood the law and followed it. If he did say \"must\" there would be nothing improper about it, despite how your fellow juror felt.\n4) Mr. Everhard, despite your saying this \"idiot discussion\" demonstrates \"how impossible it was/is to know who actually killed Kocis,\" I deduce from your comment that you do at least think it was one of them. That's progress! I wasn't sure if you still thought they had been set up and railroaded by the two evil judges and everyone else in Luzerne County.\nOh one more thing: A-2 derisively said \"can't tell if you realize just how funny this statement is\" to DeWayne after he praised PPO. This derisive comment was based on two supposed \"facts,\" one being that his father was being prosecuted for a Ponzi scheme. Now how the activities of a judge's father are supposed to be relevant to his conduct on the bench is beyond me. But then A-2 RETRACTED that accusation, admitting it was some prosecutor, not PPO, with the Ponzi-scheme father.\nSo A-2's laughter about PPO being a good judge was mostly based on mistaken identity. Yet I don't see any apology to DeWayne, or PPO, in that retraction. The only other thing that made DeWayne's remarks so hilarious is that photo with a drug dealer, which also has no bearing on his ability to be a fair and competent judge.\nThey got the result they wanted Joe pled out, Harlow was convicted there was no mistrial. Best possible outcome. DeWayne\nClearly not.\nCuadra's Trial Judge was booted out of office. The DA during Cuadra's trial was booted out of office. Melnick probably still has a job because the new DA couldn't fire him.\nI never thought much of the photo. I take photos of public events. You can catch some weird stuff. Interesting pictures but meaningless.\nIn other news. About a week ago Sean hit his head hard in a fall. He says he has lost mobility in one leg and arm. He is saying it may be permanent. Time will tell.\nCuadra's Trial Judge was booted out of office. The DA during Cuadra's trial was booted out of office.\nNeither of which had ANYTHING to do with this case.\nAlbert, after reading your post, I went over and looked at Sean's Twitter entry. It's a Chappaquiddick story. You don't get that kind of injury by tripping and falling five feet seven inches. You might be injured that way way getting the dog fuck beat out of you with a ball bat or being thrown off a balcony. He also mentions matters coming to a head in his personal life, as if that never happened before. Try looking through SDPD police reports for the appropriate date; I'm not that curious.\nSean is a known partyboi and blacks out and has mystery falls.\nHe had a bad incident in Canada last year before some awards show in LA\nHe is lookin rough everyone sees him in town knows it.\nWill at 9-29-2013 at 10:53 PM:\nAs you recall from PC's blog, they had a letter from Joe which they extracted. The last line was that Harlow was telling the truth.\nI only point this out that Joe can not be believed, and relying on his sworn statement in the plea bargain is as futile as relying on any other his other statements.\nWhether or not his testimony would stand up under cross examination anymore than Harlow's did is a matter of conjecture. However, the jury would not have exposed to Joe as well as we who have been following this case for years. In fact Joe may be a much better liar on the stand and the jury would believe what he had to say.\nBut assume for the moment that Joe did take the stand, and gets pulverised by Melnick. In the course of the cross examination, Joe explodes. The defense could then use this to convince the jury that Joe was the person who sliced Bryan's throat rather than Harlow.\nAnonymous One\nSorry, had a life to lead, and was away for a few days. Its not like we personally are going to determine the fates of Harlow and Joe.\nAlbert at 7:15 September 30, 2013\nThank you. It is important to show respect for other people's ideas. It cuts down on eating crow when they are right.\nAnonymous One\nWill G , September 30 at 11:25 PM.\nas to your point two, do you remember when Rob posted those photos of the crime scene. There was a long driveway that went far back of the house. I got the impression that a car parked where Rob said it was parked, would be out of sight from the house. Second this was January when it gets dark really early. Last, since it snowed that night (remember the television crews with the light snow falling) I have assumed that it was overcast at the very least when Harlow arrived. Under those conditions unless there was a street light nearby, I do not believe Bryan would have been able to tell if anyone was in the car.\nOf course you could argue it was not what Bryan could have seen but what Joe thought that Bryan could have seen. Joe could have dropped Harlow off at the front door drove around the block and then parked the car shortly thereafter.\nLast, if you recall back in the days before Joe made his plea deal, there was a claim by him then that he stayed in the motel the entire time. The question arose on this blog \"was there any proof that he did?\". As you recall there were no witnesses that saw him in the room during the time that Harlow left and return. The correspondence he made during this time was by sending pleas for money to clients so Harlow could go to Photography Classes. That correspondence was sent by E-Mail.\nAlso there was a telephone call from the purchased cell phone to another cell phone owned by Harlow and Joe. It was made minutes before the firetrucks arrived. It was my impression that other cell phone also bounced off the same transponder as the purchased one did. {See my previous remarks how one of them was in the house and one of them was in the car at the time}\nThis question could be settled by tracing which transponders the computer and other cell phone bounce off of. As you recall, there was a transponder in Dallas Township that the purchased cell phone signal bounced off of. Most likely the Inn would have been near a closer transponder in Wilkes Barre. Regretably, we do not have access to that kind of electronic forensics.\nAnonymous One\nIn fact Joe may be a much better liar on the stand and the jury would believe what he had to say.\nOh so you admit that if Joe testified to exonerate Harlow, he'd be lying! Thank you!\nAs for the motel issue, you can be sure that all of that was investigated. If there was any transponder evidence that proved Joe was lying, they wouldn't have allowed him to lie about it in his statement.\nAs you recall from PC's blog, they had a letter from Joe which they extracted. The last line was that Harlow was telling the truth.\nThis? The last line is about the visitor's list.\nHe is lookin rough everyone sees him in town knows it.\nHis looks are well-documented in the copious close-up selfies he posts on Twitter. We can judge for ourselves if he's looking \"rough\" (he isn't).\nIs that you Grant??\nOK A-1, I found the letter you must be referring to. It's the first line on what is actually the last page of a letter, and it's impossible to really know what \"it was the truth\" means without the preceding sentences. What was the truth? \"It\" apparently refers to something he mentioned on the previous page that we have no way of knowing. The fact that he says Harlow feeling betrayed led him to \"blame the murder on me\" does not indicate to me that he's saying Harlow was being truthful.\nIn fact, I would bet that \"it was the truth\" is a reference to his own statement on the stand. \"This is the only reason\" pretty obviously refers to his decision not to testify.\nWill:\nNo the letter is quite clear. In it Joe says that Harlow is telling the truth meaning is that Joe did the deed to Bryan.\nOf course Joe has said other things in the past that would contradict same. Reluctantly, in this case, I have to discount what Joe is saying.\nAs to Joe having a better 'presentation' on the witness stand, that doesn't mean anything about whether Joe would be telling the truth or not. Again I believe the best thing for the defense is for Joe to \"lose it\" on cross examination. Then the defense could get the jury to believe that this was the more likely individual to have committed the murder.\nFinally, Will you have an innocent faith that the prosecutor will only allow the defendant in a plea bargain to tell the truth. The prosecutor wants a conviction and appropriate sentence. In this case we know that Joe purchased the lighter fluid to help set the fire in Bryan's home. Yet I bet that no mention of that was made in his statement, and the charge of conspiracy to commit arson was dropped against him. Hardly the whole truth put down in the statement.\nOf course, since Melnick {wisely} did not intend to put Joe on the stand, there was no need to have the statement free of contradictions with other evidence. Just enough to put Joe behind bars for life, and maybe enough to impeach him if he took the stand in Harlow's defense. Otherwise the prosecution had better things to do.\nAnonymous One\nThe letter is there for everyone to read. They can decide how \"clear\" it is.\nI did not say the prosecutor required Joe to tell the whole truth and confess to everything, including crimes that he was not pleading guilty to. Only that he not lie about the crimes he was.\nAnd if comes out that Joe was in the car, (but did nothing criminally more)what then? By your standards that would prosecutorial misconduct. Not sure it would help Harlow, but could Joe take advantage of it?\nKeep in mind that illogical things happen in the law. Fruits of illegal actions are barred from trial (even if they could have been obtained from other sources) under the theory that it is better to have 10 criminals go free rather than 1 innocent person be found guilty.\nJust musing over your position. I do not believe that the prosecutor did anything wrong though obviously A-2 might disagree with that.\nAnonymous One\nAnd if comes out that Joe was in the car, (but did nothing criminally more)what then? By your standards that would prosecutorial misconduct.\nSorry A-1, but I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Maybe I'm slow today.\nJoe was a proven conspirator, whether he stayed in the car or the motel. That's why he was convicted of murder. Where he was during the murder really doesn't matter, despite our endless debates over it.\nJust musing over your position. I do not believe that the prosecutor did anything wrong...\nI'm still scratching my head trying to understand this. When did I say the prosecutor did anything wrong?\nJoe could have Stayed in Virginia Beach and he would have been just as culpable since he was a co-instigator of the Conspiracy to murder Bryan. conspirators can be guilty even if they do not know the identity of the other members of the conspiracy......\nA conspiracy conviction requires proof that a) the conspirators did indeed conspire to commit the crime, and b) the crime was committed by an individual involved in the conspiracy. Proof of which individual it was is usually not necessary.\nso all this musing of where was Joe car,motel or walking around the block really doesn't matter in the least.\nYes DeWayne, and all of that is true of PA law as well.\nI said the prosecutor wouldn't have allowed Joe to maintain in his sworn statement that he stayed in the motel if there was proof, from cell-phone transponders or anything else, that he didn't. That does NOT mean his whereabouts during the murder matters as far as his legal culpability goes.\nWill:\nIt is very simple. Make a leap of faith (or unfaith in your case) and assume that Joe was in the car and Melnick had reason to believe that Joe was in the car but was not absolutely sure, THEN\nwould having Joe sign a statement where he said he was in the inn the entire time\nCONSTITUTE prosecutorial malfeasance.\nBy your standards everything in the plea bargaining statement has to be verified truthful in order to be included in that statement. I do not hold the prosecutor to that standard. As long as the material facts constituting the crime admitted to are included, the prosecution has done its duty. It is the DEFENSE COUNSEL (and JOE HAD THREE OF THEM WHEN HE SIGNED THE AGREEMENT) to insure that what their client signs does not come back to haunt the client.\nI raise this because in your previous arguments you rely on the statement in the plea bargaining as a verifiable truth with each statement truthful and nothing but the truth. (We can leave out the whole truth in this case).\nI then tried to be humerous and raise the potential of prosecutorial misconduct in a trial affecting the defendant in that trial. Since Joe's statement affects only Joe, prosecutorial misconduct in Joe's case would be grounds for Joe to have charges against him dismissed. {It is akin to a patricide claiming mercy because he was now an orphan}.\nBut since in my opinion Melnick did not (by virtue of this plea bargaining statement)commit prosecutorial misconduct, even if Joe lied in it.\nAs to rest of the arguments, Joe admitted to a conspiracy to commit premeditated murder. Whether he stayed in the inn or went in the car, of course it is same as far the conspiracy goes and that fact is immaterial to Joe's conviction.\nAnonymous One\nDeWayne:\nUsually conspiracy requires more than just discussing a crime with another person and that person then going ahead and committing that crime.\nFor example, two guys talk about going down to a drug store and how easy it would be to put a candy bar inside their pocket and walk out without paying. (Discussion of a criminal activity).\nFour years later the second guy walks into a drug store and puts the candy bar in his pocket and is caught by the Cashier.\nBy your definition the other guy would be guilty of conspiracy even though he moved to Cleveland three years previously and not spoken or writen to the candy stealer since moving.\nTo be guilty of conspiracy, there would have to be more of a connection between the discussion to enter to a crime and its commission.\nI would suggest some physical act like one guy distracting the cashier while other one shoplifted.\nObviously in the case of Bryan's murder, ASSUMING THAT HARLOW DID THE DEED (which I NOT admitting), Joe would have taken material acts to advance that crime, and would qualify as an accessory before the fact.\nAnonymous One\nBy your standards everything in the plea bargaining statement has to be verified truthful in order to be included in that statement.\nI said no such thing. I'm not sure how I can be any clearer, but to repeat: The prosecutor would not allow him to swear to a PROVEN LIE, if such proof existed. That's why we can assume there is no proof of Joe's whereabouts during the murder, as you speculated there might be (transponders). I did not say that there had to be proof of the truthfulness of everything in the statement for the prosecutor to accept it.\nI raise this because in your previous arguments you rely on the statement in the plea bargaining as a verifiable truth with each statement truthful and nothing but the truth.\nAs I hope is now clear, I did not do that.\nBut I am glad to see you agreeing that it makes no difference if he was in the motel or in the car, and perhaps we can finally put that issue to rest. (He was in the motel!)\nNot to speak for DeWayne, but yes everything you said about conspiracy is true. I think you also misinterpreted his comment. When he said \"a certain illegal act\" he didn't mean a hypothetical act that may or may not happen sometime in the future after a vague discussion, but the \"certain\" specific act, in this case the murder of Bryan Kocis, that the conspirators are being charged with.\nWill, we have been able to digest this stuff for years so our thoughts are fairly entrenched in our minds. I am going to disagree on a point neither of us can prove. I think Joe did assist in removing items from Bryan's house only because I feel Joe had the mental stability to know what what was important.\ni.e. The Kocis family has no proof of age of any of the models they are still profiting off.\nThe Kocis family has no proof of age of any of the models they are still profiting off.\nWhat Luzerne County alleges was taken from Kocis' house should be viewed in context with the fact that Kocis' business in PA was criminalized.\nIt's like filing a police report because someone broke into your house and stole your cocaine..\nIt all becomes just one big fucking joke, like this blog and the book Cobra Killer\nnot to continue beating a dead horse but, the \"proof of age\" information for Kocis' models is all \"contact information\" for each and every person that Kocis paid to perform sex acts.\nso, it is claimed that evidence supporting prostitution charges against kocis and cobra was stolen..)\nAlbert:\nI can picture Harlow taking the cameras (especially if he knew Bryan was not going to use them again). I am hoping that he did not, and that after the murder he went directly to the car and stayed there until Joe returned.\nBut the proof of ages documents, I always believed were destroyed in the fire. While of some value to Harlow and Joe if they were looking for new talent in their business, it would make more sense to let them burn in the house. Not that sense seem to play a role in this case. In fact I believe the documents were used as kindling along with the lighter fluid to start the fire. Keep in mind that the Virginia Beach police did not find the records when they raided the boydello. Forgotten, if they went up in flames with the master tapes at the subsequent barbeque described in the black beach tapes.\nI would question your description of Joe as being the stable one. This is the guy who called Grant three times in one minute to get an answer to when they were going to film together after returning from Las Vegas. He is also the guy most likely to have obtained the logo \"boys R us\" after the previous owner almost was sliced (but not killed). Renee also had some choice words to say about him.\nHarlow (if you eliminate the murder scene) never showed any unstable acts that anyone has mentioned.\nBut I do not think a stable mind was needed to destroy the proof of age documents along with Bryan's residence.\nAnonymous One\nAnonymous said...\n.\"\nwill g said...\n.)\"\nCorrect Will technically illegal and one thing we have all learned from this long drawn out Cobra saga there is a lot of porn produced in the other 48 states.\nIndeed to this day Richard Maturo's Ram Productions has continued to produce for over a decade in the state of Pennsylvania.\nThe Kocis family sold the Cobra Catalog after his death despite the loss of Federally Required 2257 records. The Attorney Generals office in Washington DC was dutifully informed by yours truly of the absence of those records.\nI was given a reply and thank you for the concern and bringing this to their attention. (something they were not legally required to do)\nIn 2013 Cobra Video is widely available world wide with 60 plus models for which to this day the legally required 2257 records are not available for inspection.\nBrent Corrigans underage video's are still available for sale in most western democracy's despite being contraband under all UN Treatys and International law. (Child pornography)\nVery obvious to me Law Enforcement has other priority's.\nInternational Terrorism perhaps?\nTo the best of my recollection, there has never been any confirmation that the 2257's were either stolen or destroyed in the fire. I think the story put out by the Kocis family is that they were kept at another location (a hair salon?) and that all of the proper documentation for the Cobra models still exists.\nNo Will they were moved from the Hair Salon after an FBI visit (Robert mentioned this)\nThey were in Bryans home and assumed lost since nothing was recovered.\nWe know Joe and Harlow claimed to have taken the file cabinet and later destroyed records but I have believed that was doubtful hyperbole they probably used a fair number of those files as kindling.\nWhat I did put out there mainly an attempt to get some public acknowledgment is that Robert Wagner more than likely had a backup of the 2257 records (digital) in NYC.\nAny physical records at Bryans home were obviously destroyed. I doubt Joe and Harlow took them and even if they did no records were recovered.\nThe Hair Salon as a repository was pre 2007 they were in Bryans home when he was murdered.\nOh OK, I just have murky memories of all of this being discussed on PC's blog. I do seem to recall that the Kocis family, i.e. his sister, is adamant that all of the documentation still exists, either from backup digital files or copies held at another location.\nWill the law is also badly written which several Federal Judges have stated indeed for most of 2006 until just this past summer 2257 was basically suspended pending an appeals court decision.\nThen you have THIS HUGE contradiction.\nRecords of models are supposed to be maintained? Correct?\nYet only primary producers must have those records (the filming studios)\nThe secondary producer (who sells or provides content they have purchased) CLAIMS exemption from record keeping.\nStudmall claims just that on their 2257 statement.\nThe owners and operators of this Website are not the primary producer (as that term is defined in 18 USC section 2257) of any of the visual content contained in the Website.\nyou will note they don't even LIST Cobra in the 2257 statement despite being the exclusive USA distributor of Cobra Video.\nAs for Cobra Video who ever controls and pays the bills to maintain that website is still violating 2257 each and every day since January 24th 2007.\nSince the Compliance Video statement is obviously false.\nAgain no one cares\nAt any rate, getting back to Harlow and Joe, I agree that it's highly unlikely they stole or intentionally destroyed the 2257's. Sure they stole electronics that were out in the open, but they're going to take the time to locate and rifle through paperwork? That's partly why I think A-1's theory about Joe sneaking into the house to steal them is silly. Where is he going to look? So if they weren't found in the house after the fire, I think there does have to be at least a sliver of doubt that they were there in the first place.\nOh sorry, you did say they may have intentionally used them as kindling. I just still have a hard time believing that was so important to them that they would have taken the time to look for them, when they knew they had to flee as quickly as possible after the murder.\nDeWayne In San Diego .. the law is also badly written which several Federal Judges have stated indeed for most of 2006 until just this past summer 2257 was basically suspended pending an appeals court decision.\nWhile you bemoan the feds not taking Kocis / Cobra into federal court, we know that DUMB ASS BRYAN KOCIS PLACED HIMSELF IN FEDERAL COURT BEFORE A FEDERAL JUDGE.\nBryan kocis (child molester / gay pornographer) was stupid enough to place himself in federal court before a no doubt conservative federal judge?\nuh when? to what effect?\nWhat was the outcome?\nWas not Bryan Kocis a free man on January 24th 2007?\nan UNINDICTED Free Man?\nWith only one plea entered previously in a state court?\nWith his death that is the extent of Bryan Kocis criminal record.\nThe only Federal Judge Bryan Kocis appeared before was a Bankruptcy court. Civil not Criminal\nIs Mr. Everhard arguing with himself? Or did Anonymous Three just make his debut?\nLMAO I wonder Will I noticed that come up on my email feed. ;-0\nWas not Bryan Kocis a free man on January 24th 2007?\nhe was at least free of his head\nI guess I find it credible that Harlow and Joe took the records. First because they said they did. Not that reason can always be attributed to these two but why make up an irrelevant crime and admit to having committed it? Well, obviously they were trying to prove their loyalty to Sean and Grant but in so doing they reveal they knew how important those records were. Motive is revealed.\nSecond, if Robert had backup copies I believe he would have said so. We know his continued involvement was necessary for passwords etc. Recall, Cobra subsequently used the Police headquarters as the address of the proof of age documents. The police of course denied this was true. This claim may appear to have been someones since of humor but I think it more likely to have been an assumption by Cobra, Robert, et. al, as the police would have removed all pertinent evidence. In other words, if backup records existed, it would have made better business since to use the location of those backup documents rather than rely on the hope the police had them. But if hope is all you have, go with it.\nWill at 12:39 on October 6:\nIt was Albert's Theory that Joe snuck into the house to steal the 2257s, not mine.\nHis theory is not silly since one of the charges that Harlow and Joe were charged with was tampering evidence and for which Harlow was convicted. (The 2257s would be evidence in any prospective trial between Bryan and Sean(et al)..\nEven though I do not believe that theory to be correct (please do not tag me with it), it is on the other range of pausibility, and I would not call it silly.\nAnonymous One\nGuys:\nI have always found it uncredible that either Joe or Harlow would know where to look for smoke detectors, master tapes, 2257s in a house that neither had ever been to before.\nI would agree with Will that having time to find those 2257s does seem improbable. The cameras were easy to spot since presumeably Harlow was to have a screen shot as a result of the interview. The Master Tapes could have been on shelves in the living room or a study next door but I doubt that many were taken. If there was a study or office where the master tapes were stored, presumably a file cabinet would have there as well. (Would Bryan lock that filing cabinet, or would he do the same thing I did with mine and left the keys in the lock so they would not get lost).\nThe smoke detectors is something that none of you have picked up. As you recall the Fire Department said that they were unscrewed from the wall as part of the proof of arson. Yet the neighbors heard the smoke detectors go off because the batteries were still in them. I believe that this could be discribed as a red herring in a detective novel.\nLike Will's discription of the 2257s, how would either Joe or Harlow know how many detectors were in the building or where they were located. It is my belief that the smoke detectors were never tampered with because Bryan was unsure where he wanted to located them or converesely was unsure where to move them to. Unscrewing the smoke detectors rather than yanking them out or just removing the batteries is akin to putting the coffee table upright after Bryan and Joe had knocked it over (including replacing the wine glasses)prior to burning the house down.\nAnonymous One\nA-1, I'm not going to go searching for it but I distinctly recall it was you who speculated that Harlow could have unlocked or opened the door for Joe thinking that all he was going to do was look for and steal the 2257's. Not Albert. It was one of your \"Harlow is innocent\" theories, and Albert has never argued that Harlow is innocent.\nI never suggested Joe \"snuck\" in. Harlow would have let him in after Bryan was dead. No need to rush at that point. No need to dawdle either but they could quietly take anything they wanted before starting a fire..\nPlease explain how they planned to burn the house down without things getting \"out of hand\" and Bryan being killed? So he might have been burned alive instead of decapitated?\nOf course Albert, everyone including me thinks Harlow probably let Joe in after he killed Bryan, despite my arguing that Joe could have stayed in the motel. That's not what I was referring to, but perhaps A-1 misunderstood my comment.\n\"$5,000 and small claims\"\nimagine how much money DeTwitt could have made off the bryan kocis scandal if he had been smart enough to have had affiliate links from the beginning; lot more than $5,000 for show\nHuh?\nMust be referring to Peter's suit against Magnum but even at that, I agree Will. Huh?\nWill:\nYour right, I did argue that Joe had been let in by Harlow. However, I believe I said that Joe was searching for evidence that could be used again Bryan to pursuade (sic) him to either drop the law suit against Sean, Grant & Lee or to pressure Bryan to allow Sean to make a film with Harlow. Almost the same as looking for the 2257s but not quite the same.\nAs far as burning down the house with Bryan in it, it would have been another crackpot idea because it could also have killed Harlow if he was still sleeping with Bryan when it occured. Still even with the fire being started, (assuming that this was the plan), Bryan still had a better chance of surviving than when his neck was sliced.\nFrankly though, when I saw that Joe had purchased the lighter fluid, I concluded that Joe was planning Bryan's murder. {The purchase of the condoms at the same time still don't make sense. Perhaps they were on sale, and Joe could not pass up a good deal.}\nAnonymous One\nWill:\nGlad to see that you have joined the rest of us in concluding that Joe was in the Car and not in the Hotel when the murder took place.\nNext step is to downplay the plea bargaining statement that Joe made. You can not trust anything that he says as being true (unfortunately) without an unbiased third party backing him up.\nAnonymous One\nWill, or anybody that wants to handle that hypothesis, go for it. The state of public education has gone beyond my comprehension to correct without some small thermonuclear devices. I might ask Honey Badger II what chapter he is on but I think the conversation would be beyond my feeble abilities.\nFrankly though, when I saw that Joe had purchased the lighter fluid, I concluded that Joe was planning Bryan's murder.\nYour bias is showing:\nA) There is NO evidence that Joe purchased it alone. All we know is that Harlow's credit card was used. In all likelihood they purchased it together, as the prosecution argued.\nB) If Joe made the purchase alone, then you say it's evidence of premeditated murder. But when Harlow is tied to the purchase, you say it was to only to fill their lighter to smoke those mythical cigars!\nUpdate 39:\nThis makes me wonder. Were Harlow's lawyers really the driving force behind the decision, as they claimed after the trial?\nIf they were, they should be disbarred. There is just no way in Hell those lawyers didn't know Harlow was guilty. How is not malpractice to advise a guilty client to take the stand? Even lawyers who think their client is innocent don't advise it. Honestly if they did do that, as they claimed post-trial, Fannick just might have a case for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel. It was a huge mistake for them to claim responsibility in that interview.\n*How is it not malpractice...\nI concur Will I thought the same. Well my first thought at the time was I would wish these two sad sack excuses for lawyers on my worst enemy.\nOr you know who If we ever got him in courtroom LMAO!\nI wonder if the lawyers' interview might have been just a ploy to get Harlow a new trial? You can bet it will be brought up by Fannick at the PCRA hearing, even though I don't think he mentioned it in the petition. Their rationale -- that they thought Harlow had to explain why he was at the murder scene -- doesn't even make any sense. There WAS no hard evidence he was there, until he put himself there on the stand.\nSo now Fannick can claim Harlow didn't want to testify, but his lawyers convinced him he had to. The juror interviews saying it was his testimony that doomed him certainly give this issue more traction. I think the lawyers might have thought they were being very crafty by claiming responsibility.\nNot that I think such an argument will be successful. The petition will be denied. Ultimately Harlow would be arguing that his lawyers should have stopped him from lying on the stand. That's not going to fly.\nYeah that's possible.\nsuccessful appeals in murder cases are so rare as to be nearly akin to winning the Powerball.\nUsually to succeed the errors or \"legal malpractice\" must rise to an odious level, it helps if the defendant is perceived by the reviewing panel to have some doubt as to guilt.\nUnless Harlow can prove his lawyers were ASLEEP during his trial he might have a chance..\nexcept in Texas where the death penalty was upheld for a Black Convict despite his lawyer spending most of his time in Dreamland.\nReminds me I do wish Bryan Kocis had resided in Texas this blog would have a very different flavor and discussion.\nAnd more than likely Harlow would already be dead and buried in Huntsville..\nJoe of course having made his deal would not be facing death.\nAnd mulling on it a bit more...were not D'Andrea and Walker closely associated with Fannick? They may not have been part of the same firm, but it stands to reason they were probably good friends, and collaborated unofficially in some ways.\nWere D'Andrea and Walker personally recommended by Fannick, after his disqualification?\nThere were hints back then, if I recall correctly, that Fannick was still active with the defense in the background, with D'Andrea and Walker merely acting as fronts.\nIf this was the case, then yeah, Fannick could have ordered the attorneys to take the blame for Harlow's decision in a post trial interview, setting up a possible ground for appeal.\nYes Jim there were strong hints Fannick was involved behind the scenes.\nStill asking two lawyers to put their law license in jeopardy might not be received well unless they were truly idiots or Fannick had some leverage on them.\nIn Luzerne County that cannot be discounted.\nI remember telling Peter this I was shocked Luzerne County was able to handle this Capital case with the real turmoil going on around that courthouse.\nI know in San Diego County cases are regularly handed off to a State Prosecutor from the State Attorney General's office if there is even a wiff or impropriety among the actors.\nIncluding replacing lawyers!\nRight now the former Mayor Dirty Filner is being investigated by the State Attorney not the local DA since she was a mayoral opponent in the last election.\nWill at October 8, 6:02 AM.\nAs far as D'Andrea and company commiting Malpractice. It was more than just putting Harlow on the stand. I mentioned not knowing what Joe would or would not testifying to as a prime example.\nBut putting a client on the stand is not a function of \"KNOWING\" whether a client is guilty or not. The object of the defense counsel is protect the client, even to fight for his/her innocence when the attorney knows the client is guilty or not.\nYou can also ask whether or not the attorneys ever asked Harlow to tell them truthfully exactly what happened and to keep after him until they were satisfied they knew the truth. There are many defense attorneys who refuse to ask their clients because they do not want to be disabused.\nOf course it has mentioned on this very blog that these two were in it solely to collect Mitch Halford's money. The moment the trial was over, they were out of there. So when you talk about D'Andrea and company committing malpractice, I am not going to dispute that with you.\nWhat I would dispute is your categorization that since Joe purchased the lighter fluid, Harlow \"HAD TO KNOW\" that Joe was planning to burn down Bryan's home.\nSaying that it was Harlow's credit card being use is not very pursuasive when we know that Joe carried them all the time. Most likely Joe also signed for items on the card (since he set them up, he probably was an authorized signatory). We do not even know if Harlow was at the Walmart at the time. I believe that while Joe was shopping, Harlow could easily wandered off to either the automotive department or camping goods where Joe picked him up afterwards. Since even Harlow is presumed innocent of a fact until proven guilty, absence of proof that Harlow knew about the purchase of the lighter fluid or its intent should at least be tolerated if not presumed.\nAnonymous One\nIf you looked at the credentials of D'Andrea and his associate before Harlow's trial, you will note that they were former prosecutors. As Defense counsel they had represented each represented a single defendant in a capital case and each time they lost. Fannick on the other hand had a least one successful defense.\nFormer Prosecutors means that they had held \"political\" appointments and were probably let go when their sponsors were superceded or because they were lousy prosecutors.\nDewayne is right about the difficulty in winning a new trial based on lawyer incompetence. It will take fresh evidence, not raised at trial, and not from Harlow, to get the judge to even look at claims of judicial error or legal malpractice.\nAnonymous One\nWhat I would dispute is your categorization that since Joe purchased the lighter fluid, Harlow \"HAD TO KNOW\" that Joe was planning to burn down Bryan's home.\nThat's not what I said and you've totally missed my point. You said \"when I saw that Joe had purchased the lighter fluid,\" as if there's some evidence that links Joe, and Joe alone, to the purchase. For all we know it was Harlow alone who purchased it. Then when you've satisfied yourself that it was only Joe, suddenly it becomes in your mind this highly incriminating evidence of premeditated murder/arson, while previously you searched for an innocent explanation for the lighter fluid (cigars!) when we were assuming both of them made the purchase.\nAll of that shows an inherent bias IMO. You're allowed to be biased towards Harlow, I'm just pointing it out.\nBut putting a client on the stand is not a function of \"KNOWING\" whether a client is guilty or not.\nI said that no competent lawyer advises a client to take the stand, innocent or guilty. Yes it's the lawyer's job to protect the client, that's why they never do that. That's why I'm now calling BS on their claim that they told him it would be a good idea.\nActually, we are not saying the attorneys were guilty of malpractice. We are saying HARLOW is guilty of making the terrible decision to take the stand (for ego related reasons), as originally reported during the trial.\nAfter the trial, the attorneys then falsely accused themselves of making the bad decision, perhaps to create the illusion of grounds for appeal.\nConvoluted I'll admit. But no stranger than any of the many other oddities this case has seen.\nI was shocked Luzerne County was able to handle this Capital case with the real turmoil going on around that courthouse DeWhinny\nfunny how DeWhinny always ends up saying shit that is completely at odds with PC's pro Luzerne County delusions. didn't someone actually contact the US Attorney prior to Cuadra's trial about The Luzerne County DA's \"conflict\" in prosecuting people for the murder of the local pornographer who the DA Office enabled (by not prosecuting him for producing porn and for prostitution)?\nwhen a locality doesn't prosecute someone for producing porn when producing porn is illegal, it can be rightfully charged (by the feds or via private civil RICO) with being a party to that enterprise.\neye opening, i know\nOh yes, my eyes have been opened!\nSo let me get this straight: If Michael Lucas was murdered, the Manhattan District Attorney would be disqualified from prosecuting the case because he didn't prosecute Lucas for \"illegally\" producing porn in Manhattan. Got it.\nYeah, you still haven't answered yet why Michael Lucas hasn't been arrested yet for making porn in New York. I'm really interested in hearing the answer to that.\nwhen you assumptions don't reconcile, maybe it's time to reevaluation your assumptions\nOr better yet Pornographer Richard Maturo in Pennsylvania guess porn production in PA is not the legal equivalent of selling Cocaine out of your house afterall.\nUnless PA has declared a moratorium on drug dealers we are not aware of.\nsomething \"prompted\" miami to act against a gay dorm producer. there was also a high profile prosecution of a porn producer in PA actively going on at the time kocis was attracting a lot of attention to himself as I recall. again, someone adversely affected by Kocis / Cobra could have brought a civil rico.\nsuing someone in federal court gives that person the power to subpoena shit from you and to depose you. S & G could have ripped kocis a new asshole in federal court but, they didn't did they, which makes all this DeWhinning about the feds not acting so much bs\nI do not approve of Will's naming of anonymous nobody's. No big problem with it. It's his thing. He see's things I do not. This time I see a bit of Russian illiteracy. \"when you assumptions don't reconcile, maybe it's time to reevaluation your assumptions\" This grammar strikes me as a distinctive Russian slant on the English language.\nNo anon at 3:34, it does not. Failure to sue is proof of nothing. It may be an indication of limited funding or disinterest."}
{"text": "\nFinal preparations: Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp takes training on Friday morning\nIt is the team who have made the new Wembley their second home against the boss who can move in permanently next month. 'I never think about it,' chuckled Redknapp as the pre-match questions led him down Wembley Way.\n'Honestly, I swear, I never think\nabout anything other than Tottenham Hotspur. I'm just trying to finish\nthe season, get in that top four and get to the FA Cup final. There's\nnothing else really to occupy my mind at all.'\nChelsea's interim boss Roberto Di\nMatteo was somewhat happier to linger on the subject. Redknapp is a\ndirect rival on two fronts.\nIn good spirits: Kyle Walker (right) and Emmanuel Adebayor get to grips with each other\nIf the whole England thing is unsettling for Spurs - and it seems to be, given results since Fabio Capello quit in February - it can only help Di Matteo's cause as he attempts to secure his future at Stamford Bridge.\nChelsea's schedule is cluttered, with\na Champions League semi-final first leg against Barcelona on Wednesday\nfollowed by a lunchtime kick-off at Arsenal next Saturday, and any\npsychological magic the Italian can conjure will be handy.\n'He looks like he's going to be the\nnew England manager and fully deserves the chance,' said Di Matteo. 'The\ngeneral consensus is that players like him. A lot of them know him very\nwell.'\nVery much from the old school, with a West Ham upbringing, Redknapp adores Wembley and all it represents. He would swell with pride were he to walk past the statue of Bobby Moore, once his team-mate at Upton Park, as England manager.\n'It's always great to play at\nWembley, it's got that tradition,' said the Spurs boss. But it will\nnever be the same as it was when we grew up, seeing the man in the white\nsuit singing Abide With Me. Everyone used to sing in those days.\n'The whole country would come to a\nstandstill when I was a kid. That was our big day of the year and we'd\nall sit round and get a bit of extra food in. We had a nine-inch\nblack-and-white telly with a three-inch magnifying glass over it to make\nit 12 inches. That was it. That's why we're all wearing glasses now.'\nTomorrow, David Bentley, who has not\nplayed for Spurs since November 2010, is poised to return from the\nwilderness with a place on the bench as Redknapp tackles injury problems\nthat will likely result in a centre-half pairing with a combined age of\n68.\nRedknapp lifted the Cup with\nPortsmouth in 2008 but the last time he was at Wembley with Spurs, two\nyears ago, he endured an extra-time defeat in a semi-final against\nPompey, played before the surface was improved.\n'I had to have a couple of sleeping tablets,' said Redknapp. 'I was so low.'\nThere have been good times to savour,\ntoo. The 2008 FA Cup win broke the domination of the big clubs for\nRedknapp to become the first English boss to win it since Joe Royle with\nEverton in 1995.\nReady for action: Scott Parker in training\n..."}
{"text": "STX Cell 2 Lacrosse Gloves\nLGR Review\nSTX has done it again with the sequel to the extremely popular Cell gloves. The Cell 2’s boast unparalleled comfort and protection. The new isoBlox technology will defend your hands from the most intense checks.\nThe Cell 2’s combine unique textures and materials to give the glove a high performance look that all lacrosse players desire. Closed cell mesh on the palm provides maximum comfort and durability for even the most advanced players.\nProtection\nIsoBlox protection provides the best protection without sacrificing possibly the most important aspect of a lacrosse glove; flexibility. With the Cell 2’s innovative and advanced design, protection you will have protection where you truly need it, while also not having to sacrifice any coordination you have with your stick.\nThe Cell 2 glove was designed to be as compact as possible while still offering mobility. This enables it to provide the maximum amount of protection to keep your hands protected throughout the entire season. A healthy body is an extremely important part of being successful in sports. And with these gloves, your hands will be thanking you for choosing them.\nComfort\nThe comfort level of a lacrosse glove can be just as important as the protection. If you don’t like the feel of your gloves, it can hinder your ability to be successful on the field. The Cell 2 lacrosse gloves have a comfort level that cannot be matched.\nYour hands will feel incredibly snug inside of the super comfortable liner. Your game will never feel the same once you use these gloves. STX’s attention to detail has equipped you with the opportunity to wear a glove that makes you feel comfortable with your game.\nEveryone knows the longer you play the more you sweat. STX has put an end to the sweaty hands disadvantage on the field by creating a liner in the glove that wicks away the sweat as you play.\nFit\nThe STX Cell 2 gloves provide a snug fitting style of glove with a lot of room to tighten or loosen the fit of the glove to your need. There are tons of gloves that have a hard time trouble providing a good fit. Some can be too cramped on the inside, or others leave too much room. These gloves have a great sense of fit and comfort. Your hands will feel better than ever.\nGrip\nThe most recently innovated aspect of the Cell 2’s is the new reinforced mesh palm. This new palm design provides a closer grip point between your glove and the shaft. No other glove can compete with the tightly knit mesh palm that provides the close comfort almost as if you were playing in your bare hands.\nWear and Tear\nThe durability of the gloves is another aspect that has been meticulously innovated to improve the lifetime of the glove. This is extremely important to any player looking to play multiple seasons without any rips or tears.\nSummary\nThe STX Cell 2 lacrosse gloves are perfect for the advanced player looking to buy a glove that is going to be flexible and durable. The technology put into them has had an incredible impact on the glove market as a whole. As a leading innovator, STX has created one of the most popular gloves available. Your choice will not be wasted if you make the decision to purchase them.\nUser Reviews\nbest glvoes ever. STX rocks.Good:everything is awesome about these glovesBad:fixed cuff so you can't slide them on your shaft at the end of the game. But meh.Overall:Best. Gloves. Ever. Just go out and get them. The protection and how maneuverable they are makes them awesome. Worth the price and really good.\nI'm really happy with these glovesGood:snug, good movement, protection, lightweightBad:could be a tony bit bigger, even though they fit wellOverall:I bought these a few months ago and I'm really happy with them. They are so comfortable in the fingers and the palms. The did feel a bit tight, but you quickly get used to it. I put my old gloves on and they suck coz they're so loose. I find with the tight finger slots I get so much more control of my stick. The palms have great grip too. Hope this review helps.\nReally good glovesGood:Padding, look goodBad:they're a bit smaller than other large sizes.Overall:These are good gloves, they're just a bit small. Everything else is really good. They're really good value formoney, especially since the padding is so strong.\nPretty good gloves, even with a fixed cuffGood:flexibility and solid protection, look greatBad:the fixed cuffs suckOverall:These gloves are pretty good. They tick the main two boxes of protection and fleibility. They look pretty good and feel good on. I don't like how the cuff is fixed. I'm used to it being loose to hang them to dry, so now I have to peg them which works but it just irritates me.\nif you have bigger than average hands, look to get an xl, coz my larges are tight as."}
{"text": "Community Forums > General Chat\nSpace News\n(1/8) > >>\nThePerm:\nI hope to start a thread similar to the Paleontology discovery thread and the New Technology thread, this will however focus on Space Travel, and Space discoveries. I'm not an expert on space stuff in the way that Halbred is an expert on dinosaurs, but this stuff still interests me. This would fit into the tech thread, but I think Space news is a genre itself.\nSo, Europa has long been known to be possibly habitable for life, but its been only thought to have methane seas under its thick ice or something like that, but they might have found a water lake.\nNWR_insanolord:\nWe knew there was most likely liquid water beneath the icy surface of Europa, but the news here is that this is a lot closer to the surface than we'd thought.\nbroodwars:\nIt's an interesting story with intriguing implications for our understanding of the origin of life, but I don't see what practical use that information is unless we could figure out how to Terraform that moon (and Mars, too, for that matter). The article estimates the amount of water to be equivalent to that of the NA Great Lakes. Well, that's great if you're going to build a small space station or observation post there, but that's way too little water with no means of replenishing it to sustain a larger population as mankind...eventually...expands out into space.\nNWR_insanolord:\nThe whole possibility of life part that you glossed over is the reason this is exciting. It has no real practical benefit, as if we just wanted the water it wouldn't be terribly hard to melt the ice.\nEDIT: And with modern recycling techniques, you could maintain a small moon colony with the frozen water that's already there.\nbroodwars:\n--- Quote from: NWR_insanolord on November 16, 2011, 07:27:49 PM ---The whole possibility of life part that you glossed over is the reason this is exciting.\n--- End quote ---\nThe thing is, in regards to space we've spent so much time sending shuttles out for \"scientifically interesting\" missions in orbit rather than practical ones that advance the cause of space travel. As scientifically fascinating as such information can be, it's hard to muster up much interest after years without our own \"moon landing\" kind of advancement in space travel.\nThat is why I find stories like NASA working on developing a tractor beam for collecting small particles of energy much more immediately interesting.\nNavigation\n[0] Message Index\n[#] Next pageGo to full version"}
{"text": "Drawing down the goddess: the ancient {female} deities of modern paganism\nAlcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator\n- Johnson, Marguerite, Tarrant, Harold\nWitchcraft and belief in early modern Scotland (book review)\nIndigeneity and classical reception in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay\nEroticized environments: Ancient Greek natural philosophy and the roots of erotic ecocritical contemplation\n- Sharkie, Thomas, Johnson, Marguerite\nOff with the pixies: the fey folk of the long poems and Catullan disclosure\nCatullus, C. 37 and the theme of magna bella\nStorytelling and authority: critical poetics in Plato's Symposium\n- Johnson, Marguerite, Benitez, Rick\nMarked bodies: divine, human, and bestial\nGetting under the skin to read the signs: the call of classical myths and mysteries in Leigh Redhead's 'Peepshow'\n- Johnson, Marguerite, Rolls, Alistair\nSexuality in Greek and Roman society and literature: a sourcebook\n- Johnson, Marguerite, Ryan, Terry\nClassical reception studies: some pedagogical approaches\nA reading of Sappho poem 58, fragment 31 and Mimnermus\nCattullus 2B: the development of a relationship in the passer trilogy\nPan or the devil?: the polytheistic beliefs of Rosaleen Norton\n'An orchid in the land of technology': narrative and representation in Lars von Trier's 'Medea'\n- Joseph, Susan, Johnson, Marguerite\nAway from the light: dark aspects of the goddess\nThe witching hour: sex magic in the 1950s Australia\nAre you sure you would like to clear your session, including search history and login status?"}
{"text": "Hello future brides and wedding gown lovers!!!!! The fashion week of weddings also known as Bridal Week has come to a close today in New York. Designers presented their Spring/Summer 2014 collections for the world to see and they were beautiful! Etherial, romantic, sparkly, pretty, intricate and feminine are just a few words to describe to these dreamy dresses. I have been oooohing and aaaahing all weekend long and am excited to share some of the gorgeous gowns with you. Feast your eyes!!!!\nMarchesa\nVera Wang\nReem Acra\nMonique Lhuillier\nOscar De La Renta\nLazaro\nCarolina Herrera\nImages: Getty-Glamour Magazine-WWD-Associated Press\nWhat You’re Saying"}
{"text": "CLAIMS grain-fed beef is better than grass-fed beef have been slammed by a prominent Melbourne chef.\nA Texas study released last week claimed meat from grain-fed animals was \"more healthful\" than beef from grass-fed animals.\nTELL US WHAT YOU THINK\n- Does grain-fed beef taste better?\n- Have Your Say now in the form below\nBut chef Adrian Richardson is a champion of grass-fed beef simply because it tastes so much better.\nMr Richardson runs the La Luna restaurant in Carlton North and uses only grass-fed beef, as well as rare-breed pigs on his menu.\n\"Breeding animals is not like buying furniture at Ikea, it will not be the same every time,\" Mr Richardson said.\n\"The most important thing to me is that the beef is grass-fed - the texture and flavour are far, far superior.\"\nThe Texas A&M University study, funded by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, found that grass-fed beef contained more unhealthy saturated trans-fats than grain-fed beef.\n\"The longer cattle are fed a corn or grain-based diet, the healthier the product will be,\" T&M researcher Stephen Smith said.\nHowever, Mr Richardson dismissed the claim as \"just bulls**t\".\n\"If I am selling grain-fed beef (like most of the beef produced in the US) of course I will find a study like that to confirm what I want to hear,\" he said.\n\"The more we see supermarkets - and increasingly budget supermarkets (selling meat) - the more we will see lower quality, factory-produced meat.\"\nHe said he didn't want to see beef farmers go down the path of chicken producers who raise animals in \"factory-like\" conditions.\nUnlike many chefs who buy beef that has already been broken down, Mr Richardson sources the beef from Westside Meats, buying part of a carcass and breaking it down in his restaurant kitchen to suit his requirements."}
{"text": "The TruFam is more than just a group of colleagues, everyone who works with us has been carefully selected because of their awesomeness and the fact that they care as much as the rest of us.\nWe do truly run the company as a family working, living and partying together in our home island/city of Koh Phangan and London. We believe that if we really believe in what we are doing and have fun whilst we are doing it then it will mean that our groups will definitely have fun when travelling with us.\nBut it’s not just TruTravels Staff that we call members of the TruFam, it applies to our partners, suppliers, agents, and especially our TruTravellers who can all become part of it and indeed thousands of them have. We now have many agents partners and supppliers who are not just friends but extended family and I couldn’t even name all of the ex group members who are now fully fledged TruFam members and life long friends of ours. There are many benefits of being part of the TruFam as we will always look after each and every one of you whenever you are in one of our parts of the world. But it goes further than that, it is about creating a network of fun, like minded, people who have shared some of the best experiences together, every one of us now have loads of friends across the world who we can drop in on or meet up with when travelling or ask for advice or info if visiting the place where they live.\nTo all our Travellers, wherever you are…\nEveryone who has travelled with us automatically becomes an honorary member of the TruTravels Family. We see you all as brothers and sisters and hope you look at us in the same way. We like to keep you informed on the latest news from TruTravels and give you the opportunity to be the first to try out our new itineraries before anyone else. Your feedback is the most important and without it we could not fulfill our commitment to you by creating the most awesome network of tours around the world! We now have a Facebook Page for all our past travellers which now has over 3600 members which is awesome so you can keep up to date with any deals or tours etc. We also run a mahusive summer party every year where we all reunite and boogie the day/night away, so be sure to keep an eye out for that!\nFor those of you enjoyed your time with us and want to help us out, the best thing you can do for us is leave a review and help spread the word.\nReviews\nWe are so grateful for all your support so far. Thank you for all your genuine, heartfelt reviews posted to our Tour Radar page, Facebook and Google! We really appreciate everyone’s input and try to take constructive advice on-board.\nWelcome to the Family!\nAs a future traveller, your adventure is still to come and you are just about to join a family like no other. We hope you are looking forward to it!\nIf you have already booked your trip then you should have received a confirmation email and if your trip starts within 30 days you should have received a pre departure pack by email. If you have not yet got this or the link to download it then please contact us via live chat or on info@trutravels.com to do so. You will also hear from your group leader one week before your trip starts so be sure to keep an eye out for that!\nIf you are still undecided, then just take a look around our site and social media at all of the images and videos from our tours and have a read of the reviews from past travellers and this should help you decide.\nOnce you have booked you will be given access to our downloads page (for pre departure pack) and be invited to join a Facebook group a month before so you can get in touch with your future travel buddies before you arrive. We will send the link to these groups in the welcome email which is sent a month before the trip starts."}
{"text": "You can view more information on the Nissan Note 1.2 DiG-S Tekna 5dr Auto AUTO MPV by clicking on the tabs below.\nIf you'd like to arrange a test drive or contact one of our Nissan branches, you can do this by clicking the \"Send enquiry\" button.\nTelephone numbers, address details and directions to your nearest SG Petch Nissan branch are also available in the menu to the right of this text.\nVehicle images on this page are for illustration only.\nFolding rear tables\nFront cabin and boot lamps\nFront headrests\nFront seatback pocket\nFront/rear armrests\nIsofix child seat preparation\nLeather steering wheel\nPart leather seats\nPollen filter\nPremium cloth/leather upholstery\nRear headrests\nSliding rear seats\nTilt adjustable steering wheel Durham\nBroomside Park\nBelmont Industrial Estate\nDurham\nCounty Durham\nDH1 1HP\nTel: 0191 3861402\nGet directions"}

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