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Wow, lots of big Hawaii news as of late. From the election results, to Bruno Mars getting busted for cocaine, to the premiere of Hawaii Five-0. Thought it might be time to dust off "News Day Tuesday" for all y'all to sound off on some of these topics. Holla!
* Election Results?
– Pretty much went how I thought it would.
* Bruno Mars?
– Pretty disappointing. I was interesting in trying to line him up for an interview, but not so much anymore…
* Hawaii Five-0?
– I unfortunately had plans last night and missed it, but hope it does well for the sake of the state. Will definitely try to catch the next one.
* Top Chef?
– I know, I know, it's not really Hawaii related and the season is already pau, but you guys always seem to wanna talk about it so hear ya go! LOL!
P.S. In case you missed it: Scenes from the Rice Fest! 😉
P.P.S. Here's Mars' latest single: Just the Way You Are. Good shtuff nonetheless. 😛
Bruno Mars – "Just the Way You Are"


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Lesbian Heather Mizeur Makes List of 'Catholic Women Making a Difference'
The National Catholic Reporter has profiled "12 Catholic women under 40 making a difference." Maryland State Delegate Heather Mizeur, an openly lesbian woman, has made the list. Here's what the article had to say about her:
"Even at a young age, Heather Mizeur knew that she wanted to serve others. She now serves as a delegate representing the 20th legislative district in the Maryland General Assembly, a position she's held since 2007.
"She has a passion for service, connected to her love for Christ and the social justice teachings of the church. As a teenager, she was respected by elders and given leadership roles as a eucharistic minister and lector, chair of the Altar and Rosary Society, and member of the parish council. She keeps a commitment to the Catholic beliefs of love, peace and social justice.
"As a delegate, she has helped extend health coverage to thousands of low-income women and children, amputees and young adults. She has been a leading proponent to repeal Maryland's death penalty and improve transitions for the incarcerated. Mizeur, herself a lesbian, was a leader in the debate over same-sex marriage in Maryland. In March, the bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed. For four years Mizeur was the domestic policy director for Sen. John Kerry, during which time she was the principal architect of his 2004 presidential campaign's health care reform agenda.
"Media such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Nation and NPR have profiled her work.
" 'Build a church with open doors, not folded arms,' she says. 'A church as enlightened as its Creator. A church whose greatest commandment is to love thy neighbor as thyself.' "
We at New Ways Ministry have enjoyed Heather's friendship for many years. When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States, she and her wife Deborah spoke at New Ways Ministry's press conference "If I Had Five Minutes with the Pope," at the National Press Club. She was also the keynote speaker at a conference day on marriage equality which New Ways Ministry sponsored when we released our book Marriage Equality: A Positive Catholic Approach.
Delegate Mizeur was featured on this blog back in February when she debated Maryland's marriage equality bill with another Catholic delegate. You can view the debate here.
Congratulations to Heather Mizeur! Her faith-filled advocacy on so many social justice issues is bettering our world. Her deep love of the faith and her willingness to speak so honestly about it is bettering our church.
–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry

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ASUS Zenbook UX21 Teardownby Anand Lal Shimpi on October 18, 2011 6:00 PM EST
Since it is a new product line for ASUS we were eager to get a look inside the 11-inch Zenbook as we progressed through our review process. Similar to taking apart a MacBook Air, there are 10 torx screws around the perimeter of the bottom panel of the Zenbook.
With the bottom panel off, the UX21 looks a lot like an 11-inch MacBook Air with some notable differences. The ultra slim cooling solution actually covers both the Intel Core i7-2677M and its accompanying QS67 chipset, whereas Apple only directly cools the CPU in the MBA. ASUS uses the same two-PCB approach that Apple does, using a slightly stiffer (and conveniently labeled) ribbon cable to connect the two boards.
ASUS uses a familiar stick form factor for its SSD. The 128GB UX21/31 models come with a SandForce SF-2281 based drive from ADATA while the 256GB models use a SanDisk U100 solution. The WiFi card in the UX21 is also a unique form factor:
Other interesting tidbits:
1) The ASUS power adapter is very MBA-inspired - I like it. Cable management is handled via a strip of velcro. ASUS also found a great place to put the Microsoft COA: on the power brick itself.
2) All Zenbooks ship with a USB Ethernet adapter, VGA adapter and two carrying sleeves: one for the adapters and one for the Zenbook itself.
Check out more in the gallery below and expect our review in the coming days!
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PeterAhlstrom - Monday, December 5, 2011 - linkThis is the only Zenbook teardown I could find online, and since it said a torx T2 was used, I spent all day Friday trying to get one locally. The smallest size Home Depot and other hardware stores had was T4. I finally found someone who had a T3 and borrowed it from him. The T3 was too small; it just spun around in the screwhead and did nothing.
His next size up in the kit was a T5 and it worked fine on the Zenbook's screws. Due to the small amount of play with the T5, I'm guessing a T6 will work fine (but I don't have one to test with). T6 is the same size Macbook Pros used to use.
I'm glad I didn't just order a T2 online and wait for it to arrive, because it wouldn't have worked at all.


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An imminent show at the Church of Sound in Clapton showcases British and French artists – the Greg Foat Band and the Neue Grafik Ensemble. Both play a contemporary take on '70s soul jazz as it moved on a mystically airy arc away from earthiness and into the more fantastical zones of funk and psychedelia: in Greg's case laced with tidal Radiophonic electronica via antique suitcase synth, and in NGE's case celestial Rhodes keying.
More from the Church:
"Greg Foat's latest album 'The Mage' threads lineage between the past and future of British jazz, enlisting the talents of jazz/library/soundtrack legends Duncan Lamont, Art Themen, Ray Russell and Clark Tracey to collaborate with their modern contemporaries, Greg Foat, Moses Boyd and Heliocentric's drummer Malcolm Catto. Something undeniably British but outward-looking and global has been created. Greg's compositions and arrangements showcase the old and new, downtempo folkscapes, free jazz with notes of hip-hop and soul from the young team flavouring the mix. The album is a testament to the versatility and pure musicality of all those involved and Greg Foat's ability to bring artists together to record beautiful, timeless music.
"Personnel on the night: Greg Foat (piano, EMS Synthi AKS), Clark Tracey (drums), Eric Young (congas), Phil Achille (bass), Trevor Walker (trumpet), Rob Mach (saxophones), Hugh Harris (guitar) with special guest Duncan Lamont (tenor saxophone).
"Parisian-born producer Fred "Neue Grafik" N'Thepe formed his Ensemble last year, consisting of trumpet player Emma-Jean Thackray, Vels Trio's drummer Dougal Taylor, bassist Matt Gedrych and of course Fred himself on keyboards. Grafik's sound is a hybrid of jazz, house and hip hop, all with his unique geographical tones of African ethnicity, Parisian roots and a love for London sounds (like broken beat and grime) thrown into the mix. For this session, they will be joined by rapper and poet Brother Portrait who is omnipresent on NGE's forthcoming EP."
Representing the Church of Sound DJ resources, half of the CoS diumvirate (and Total Refreshment Centre founder) Lex Blondin will be manning the decks, and there'll be an aftershow party over at Tottenham's Five Mile club.
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Further north-east, the Polish Jazz London Series is opening up in Waltham Forest. It's a handshake between a borough celebrating its current status as London Borough of Culture (and pushing hard not to be overshadowed by the existing momentum of Hackney and Tottenham), the Polish Cultural Institute, B Side Events and the Music Halls Project which is opening up church spaces in Walthamstow and Leytonstone as high-quality music performance venues.
Poland isn't the first place that springs to mind when jazz is mentioned. Cognoscenti, however, are aware of it as an incubator of high-end music with typical Polish determination. Five monthly concerts starting in the summer and leading into the autumn – each featuring some outstanding talent – demonstrate how productive this can be.
The first, on 4th July, features Warsaw avant-fusioneers Niechęć – saxophonist Maciej Zwierzchowski, drummer Michał Kaczorek, guitarist Rafal Błaszczak, keyboard player Michał Załęski and double bassist Maciej Szczepański stir ominous misty shifts of chord-tones and atmospherics into spinning jagged cyclones. Theirs is a frictional engagement with the air, although one which embraces a tight mothership of form rather than a straight free-jazz explosion.
Szczepański's fondness for arco bowing, Zwierzchowski's for caustic, cryptic Shorterish sax commentary and the band's readiness to pursue whistling psychedelic rockscapes close to that of 'Saucerful'-era Pink Floyd (as well as touching on the tweaked, ring-modulated open-ended fierceness of early electric Miles and the initially freeforming argumentation of Weather Report) pin them as spirit brothers to the permeable explorers of the '70s cusp. Translated from the Polish, their name means "dislike"; and sometimes their music's a growling frown, a diet of harsh and undying embers. Despite that, it's never withdrawn or surly, never dull – it constantly takes you along with its dark and challenging moods.
The August concert features a new trio led by pre-eminent young Polish polymath Marcin Masecki. Not new in that his keyboard playing is augmented by his regular project cohorts (Jerzy Rogiewicz on drums and Piotr Domagalski on double bass) but new in that he's apparently not looked into the possibilities of a classic trio since his schooldays. Since then, he's been busy mastering and promoting a dizzying variety of projects and musical applications (the program lists it all as "big bands, brass orchestras, classical symphony orchestras, choirs, alternative pop bands, electric quintets, acoustic duets, sextets and nonets, composing for film and theatre, giving masterclasses, classical chamber musicking, and a vast body of solo work").
It took an extended moment alone to trigger this new project – a jogging session during which Marcin became fascinated by both the bodily mechanics of respiration, extension, heart-rate (and so forth) and the mental changes and separation of mind which occur during the strictures of exercise. He opted to translate this across into music. In this clip, you can see how the post-bop pulse motors away while Marcin plays a succession of complex, diversifying ideas on top of it, maintaining both independence and integration while also sustaining perfect stability and authority.
The September gig features the bony, peppery rhythmic work of the Kuba Więcek Trio, whose paradoxical music (authoratively skittish; cerebrally frenzied; making overpowering gestures within a small and disciplined space) has been noted by uber-critic and fellow countryman Piotr Metz for combining the Polish post-bop of the late '50s and early '60s with knowingly neurotic Manhattanisms. More specifically, "the melody, which seems straight from Komeda songs, also has the noise of the New York traffic." Each member doubles, musically – bass player Michał Barański spits and mutters konnakol (Carnatic drum-talk vocals), drummer Łukasz Żyta rattles out additional melodies on glockenspiel, and Kuba himself swaps between saxophone and dropped-in synth or electronics.
Packed into the music are funk and marches, transposed tabla burrs, Birdland boptalk and strains of eastern European folk dance. The trio's also capable of periods of delicate sweetness, but always with a febrile watchfulness and staccato undercurrent; as if they're tiptoeing precisely over a tough streetscape of broken glass and stray syringes even as they chat or serenade.
The October gig features High Definition Quartet, who come with sky-high praise from Randy Brecker: but if, from that, you're expecting them to fit into his American fusion tradition, you'd be surprised. While this collectively-run quartet are second-to-no-one in hoarding and firing out classic chops, they're also continual polyreferential box-busters, moving through multiple styles . It's not just a case of tricksy polystylism, though: not something carried out as a joke. Instead, Piotr Orzechowski (who also rejoices in the nickname of "Pianohooligan") and his allies (double bassist Alan Wykpisz, saxophonist Mateusz Śliwa and drummer Grzegorz Pałka) come across more as people whose brains process at double-speed: simultaneously and voraciously riffing and developing from anything which flits across their attention or their synapses.
For their current project, Piotr and the quartet have created jazz rearrangements of 'Bukoliki', a set of short piano pieces (originally string duets) by Witold Lutosławski – which he, in turn, derived by old Polish folk songs from the distinct Kurpie forest culture of north-east Poland (whose music also inspired Górecki). A second-generation mutation, then; and one which the HDQ deliver with breathtaking speed, precision and invention, respecting the source material by stepping deeply into it and refusing to do anything less than give it and gift it every scrap of their own intuition.
The last show (as far as I know) is in November, in the grand Art Nouveau surroundings of Leyton's Great Hall, sponsored by LVE Foundation. Signing us out is Wrocław septet Electro-Acoustic Beat Sessions, or EABS – a Polish answer to the current club-culture reinvigorations of jazz forms as demonstrated by Shabaka Hutchings, Kamasi Washington and others. Via their technological wildcard Spisek Jednego, EABS merge sampling and looping into their instrumentation in a "reconstruction from deconstruction" approach. The rest of the band consists of Marek Pędziwiatr (on piano, synths and voice), guitarist Vojto Monteur, drummer Marcin Rak, bass player Paweł Stachowiak and a doubled brass line of Jakub Kurek (trumpet) and Olaf Węgier (tenor sax); merging a profoundly lyrical sensibility and a taste for European conceptual landscapery, while pulling in and transforming strong strands of hip hop, jungle, funk, gospel and electronic music.
As with many jazz acts, EABS build into a developing future while looking deeply into a specific cultural past. Among their preoccupations are the ideas of "Slavic melancholy" and the culture's tendency to have favoured oral transmission over literacy: something reflected in the examination of Polish demonology and general Slavic mythology in their most recent recording, 'Slavic Spirits', drawing on accounts from "musicians, historians, journalists, writers and even psychotherapists."
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Church of Sound presents:
Greg Foat Group + Neue Grafik Ensemble + Church of Sound DJ set
St James the Great, 188 Lower Clapton Road, Clapton, London, E5 8EG, England
Friday 21st Jun 2019, 7.30pm – information here and here
Polish Jazz London Series:
- Niechęć – St Mary's Music Hall, 8 Church End, Walthamstow, London, E17 9RL, England – Thursday 4th July 2019, 6.30pm – information here and here
- Marcin Masecki's Jazz Trio – St John's Music Hall, High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 1HH, England – Friday 16th August 2019, 6.30pm – information here
- Kuba Więcek Trio – St Mary's Music Hall, 8 Church End, Walthamstow, London, E17 9RL, England – Thursday 19th September 2019, 6.30pm – information here and here
- High Definition Quartet – St John's Music Hall, High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 1HH, England – Friday 18th October 2018, 6.30pm – information here
- EABS – Leyton Great Hall, 1 Adelaide Road, Leyton, London, E10 5NN – Thursday 21st November 2019, 6.30pm – information here


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School holiday calendar, for the current quarter in United States of America (Tennessee)
- https://www.k12.com/
- Summer vacations in the United States last two or three months.
The date of this holiday depends on the location of the school districts.
Average class size: more than 26
In most northern states, summer holidays last from late June (early July) to early September (early September)
in most southern and western states from late May (early June) to mid-August (late August).
The number of study days in this country is about 180 days per year
Please note that there are some variations between the counties
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Production on a new season of The Big Bang Theory is being delayed due to a contract dispute with its top actors.
The Warner Brothers Television studio, which makes TV's most popular comedy for CBS, said that Wednesday's scheduled first day of work after the summer hiatus has been postponed.
The series is heading into its eighth season, and the studio is trying to hammer out new deals with actors Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar.
Contract disputes aren't unusual at popular, long-running TV series. It's unclear how long the impasse would have to take before it would cause a delay in episodes getting on the air.


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Each time an Irish government proposes to introduce new rights for gay citizens opponents call for the right of service providers to discriminate against those citizens. They call this a "conscience clause", which is surely a misnomer but sounds better than a "permissible discrimination" exemption.
Strangely, this is an argument which it appears must be had repeatedly. I wrote about it at the time of the Civil Partnership Bill and that post applies equally to the marriage referendum. In short: the Equal Status Act prohibits discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation. It was introduced fifteen years ago and it does not include a "conscience clause" (there is a limited "ethos" exemption for schools run by religious organisations). A "conscience clause" was not permitted in the Equal Status Act or the Civil Partnership Act. Why should marriage be any different?
The religious beliefs of citizens also benefit from protections and the State should not offend against those rights. But the State is entitled to insist that businesses providing services to the public respect its equality laws. The difficulty with providing an exemption from equality legislation on the basis of religious beliefs is that it would allow the law of the State, applicable to all, to be subverted by the private beliefs and opinions of self-defining groups. Indeed, if a "conscience clause" were introduced, there is no reason why it shouldn't protect political beliefs as well as religious beliefs.
Today William Binchy is concerned that gay couples might sue a church for refusing to perform a same sex religious marriage ceremony. This is a strange concern to have. I have yet to hear of divorced people suing churches for refusing to perform a marriage, for example, but the same principles apply. Even if Mr Binchy's fear was realised, it would mean that civil marriages would have to be registered separately from religious ceremonies. This would not require churches to perform same sex marriages.
It is striking that calls for a "conscience clause" only seem to arise in the case of gay rights. One does not hear the Iona Institute and other groups opposing the marriage referendum advocating on behalf of bakers and stationers forced to provide services to single mothers, divorcees or atheists. If one were to introduce a "conscience clause" it would have to apply to all categories of persons who benefit from protection under the Equal Status Acts and would open the gates to a wide and unpredictable range of subjectively permissible discrimination that would entirely undermine the purpose of equality legislation. Any conscience clause limited to gay rights would, in itself, constitute discrimination.


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I'm no Tony Robbins, the famous motivational speaker and all round 'Can Do' guy, but I've learnt a few things about motivation, will power, tenacity and trying to change your life over the last month. Warning: This is a personal post!
On June 16th I finally decided to turn my life around – I was fed up of being overweight, unfit, tired all the time and generally feeling like crap. Although I was a skinny kid, due to a pretty traumatic home life (ultra violent alcoholic father & a bullying brother), I started over-eating, the classic comfort eating. By my mid twenties I was fat and have stayed fat ever since.
Following a book launch for Anna Stephen's HarperCollins debut – Godblind (I was the illustrator who created the map), where my appalling lack of fitness ended up with me being late for the event and turning up exhausted and in a sweaty mess – I vowed 'Never again!'.
The next day I made a very public pledge to myself and the world to change my life, no matter how hard or how long it took. It's true I'm an incredibly stubborn and tenacious person, but like so many of us when it came to my own personal goals, I always chickened out and gave up. NOT this time!
I called this life changing endeavour, The Chris Pratt Challenge. I chose Chris Pratt, not because I have a wee crush on the guy, it was actually more profound than that. He's a public figure but unlike most public figures who seem to have the luck and looks of a god or goddess, Chris Pratt has actually struggled with his weight like us mere mortals. He's been 21 stones (300lbs) in fact, and turned his life around losing 60lbs in 6 months to get the role of Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
So, the Chris Pratt Challenge was born – to set a date in 6 months time to lose 60lbs and get fitter.
In truth I need to lose more than 60lbs and I know this will take me longer than just 6 months, but any life change requires a large kick up the butt, so this is mine. If I can lose 60lbs or close to it by December 16th, it will kick start the rest of my long term health and life goals.
The first month of the challenge has now passed and it's been a huge success. Yay! 😀
Not only is there now a lovely support group on facebook, The Chris Pratt Challenge group, with 20+ members from around the world (and growing), but it's been the start of something really special. All of it's members are looking to either lose weight or get fitter/healthier or both, for hugely differing reasons too, but we've all been able to get together in this group and encourage and motivate each other. There are days when someone might slip with their diet, or hit a personal problem, and we are there for them every step of the way, giving them the support they need sometimes when no-one else is. It's been the best mutually beneficial thing I've ever been involved with and has almost taken on a life of itself! 😀
For me, and one other member, we also have very important personal life goals we want to achieve but need to lose weight and get fitter to reach them, so again the group has been AMAZING!
As far as actual results are concerned, it's been incredible.
I started this endeavour 6 weeks ago on the 16th June weighing a massive 17st 12lbs (240lbs). I am now 16st 11lbs (225lbs). I have now lost just over a stone (15lbs) in 6 weeks, achieving my first milestone of many hopefully. Although I can't say there's any massive noticeable change yet, though according to friends I do look slimmer, I've not only lost weight but I've also lost several inches from various body areas. Despite my CFS and Vesitibular Neuritis health probs, I have more energy than I've had for ages and I've also noticed that very slowly, bit by bit, my muscles which really haven't been awoken or used for twenty years, are slowly beginning to appear. Lol, I'm definitely NOT sporting a six pack but I have muscle aches after exercising where I didn't have muscles before! 😀
My first 6 week statistics:
- 15lbs lost + BMI: from 41.6 to 39.1
- 5inches off midriff
- 4 inches off waist
- 3 inches off hips
- 3 inches off thighs
- 2 inches off bust
- 2 inches off upper arms
So onwards and upwards from here, we'll see what the next 6 weeks brings. The truly astonishing thing about all this though, has been the positive side effects & knock on reactions it's created, like dropping a stone into water, the ripples just keep going! 😀
By setting myself these goals, I've also found myself setting other goals for the first time. Giving myself a deadline to complete a short story by, committing myself to write 10,000 words by the end of August on either my second and very long awaited sequel to White Mountain, 'Darkling Rise' (apologies to my Darkling Chronicle fans, I know I've been dreadfully slow with this second book but it is slowly getting there!) or on my other dark paranormal thriller, Ravenwing.
So for any of you reading this, wanting to lose weight or get fitter/healthier or just wanting to change your life – you CAN do it! Join a support group like ours, dig deep and you'll find resources you never thought were possible. Believe me, if someone like me who has a life long aversion to exercise and 'healthy foods' can start doing exercise and eating healthier foods – YOU CAN TOO! 😀
The best of luck to us all! 😀 ❤ xxxxx


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I don't know many kids who eat sushi, but I know some kids who LOVE this candy sushi! It's such a creative treat for kids, and super simple too!
Rice Krispy cereal
Fruit roll ups or Fruit by the Foot
Candy for inside (sour straws, gummy bears, etc)
Swedish fish
Sushi roll: Mix together some rice krispy treats (melted marshmallow's and rice krispy cereal). Before the rice krispy mix hardens, form it into a long flat rectangle with your hands. Lay the rectangle onto a rolled out fruit roll up. Put some candy in the middle, and roll into a long log. Cut into 1″ wide rounds.
Sashimi: Take rice krispy treat mix and form little flat rectangles (about the size of your thumb). Put a swedish fish on top and wrap with a strip of fruit roll up.
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New charges were filed today in connection with the murder of a man who died after he and a woman were found bound and gagged on a street in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley.
Prosecutors added a count of murder against an additional defendant this afternoon and counts of robbery and credit card fraud to the list of charges against five defendants allegedly connected to the death of Stephen Reid.
Reid, 26, was found tied up and injured in the middle of the 900 block of Brussels Street around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, along with an 18-year-old woman. The woman, whose injuries were initially considered life threatening, is expected to recover, but Reid, who suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, died at the hospital shortly after he was found.
Montrail Brackens, 22, Vincent Bell, 31, Heather Leach, 24 and Maryann Manalastas, 22, all pleaded not guilty today in San Francisco Superior Court to a murder charge in connection with Reid's death.
Manalastas, who also goes by the alias "Pocahontas," had initially been charged only with assault, conspiracy and being an accessory to the crime after the fact, but was charged with murder today as well.
Prosecutors also added counts of residential robbery against Brackens and Bell and credit card fraud against Brackens, Bell, Leach and Manalastas.
A fifth defendant, Tyler Miller, 19, was arraigned today on charges of conspiracy and being an accessory to the crime after the fact. Miller has posted bail, but Assistant District Attorney Harry Dorfman said he planned to seek an increase in her bail before her next court appearance.
A sixth person, Maelene Lintz, 32, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder but her case has been discharged pending further investigation, according to district attorney's office spokesman Alex Bastian.
According to a criminal complaint filed by police, Brackens and Bell entered a home at 3733 San Bruno Ave. and assaulted Reid and a woman in her late teens, then bound and gagged them–stuffing a sock in the woman's mouth–and put them in a GMC Yukon.
Leach, whose aliases include Krystal Gillespie and "Snow," was also allegedly in the Yukon. At some point, someone allegedly shot Reid in the neck, and then the victims were dumped on the roadway on Brussels Street, according to the complaint.
The suspects allegedly destroyed evidence in the Yukon the next day at a home on Pinnacle Court in Hercules by spraying cleaning fluid inside and removing blood-stained carpet and foam padding, the complaint alleges.
Bell, whose aliases include Jonathan Stewart and Vince Miller, was also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. He has convictions including one for second-degree robbery in Alameda County in 2001, the complaint said.
Judge Nancy Davis also issued a court order today requiring Bell to submit, in the presence of his attorney, to photographs of injuries on his body. Bell has refused to allow the photos, and Dorfman said if he continued to resist the photos he would attempt to argue at trial that his actions showed consciousness of guilt.
Bell protested loudly several times in court today, and was admonished by Davis to remain silent. His attorney, Deputy Public Defender Stephen Olmo, told Davis that police have caused injuries to Bell.
Olmo has previously said that Bell, who he describes as "a family man" with a wife and three children, adamantly denies the charges against him.
District Attorney George Gascon said earlier this week that the victims and suspects all knew each other, but prosecutors have not yet given a possible motive in the case.
Bell, Brackens and Leach remain in custody on $2 million bail, and Manalastas on $500,000 bail.
Sara Gaiser/Dan McMenamin, Bay City News
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