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Aarav Photography4.8(91 reviews)KolkataRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsarpita nag13 October, 20185.0
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Thank you Arav for the covering my engagement event in such a beautiful way! The photography as well as the videography was done with sheer expertise. Arav and his team were very cheerful and covered the entire event with a big smile on their face. THANK YOU ARAV & TEAM..... You guys made my daydigvijay rathore10 October, 20185.0
It was a great experience. I always recommend it to everyone travelling to Kolkata. I must say the whole team with the experience of cinematography just makes the experience and end result look amazing.About
Aarav has been a professional photographer but to him, photography is just not his work but his love where he captures emotions and saves them for you to make you feel cherished even after years.
RRS Photography4.6(31 reviews)KolkataRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsmoumita talukdar26 November, 20175.0
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not yet received the pictures but so far the experience was good as he was comfortable with us and even made us comfortable the negatives were good he worked for 2 days and in those 2 days we didn't face any problems as he was that good in his work he charged us 11000 lets see how the photos come out but yes it was a good experience with him.anita tosniwal 4 November, 20174.0
I wanted to get my daughter's photoshoot done as a memory and i start searching some professional photographers . He charged me just 4000 and the way they clicked the pictures were just wonderful.2 professional photographer came and started clicking some candid picture of my daughter .All pictures were just amazing and the best part was that they even gave us one framed picture of her.She was looking really cute .Mexperience with her was super awesomeAbout
I am a passionate photographer who loves to capture portraits mainly child portraits. I would like to take some most memorable pictures.
Lensomnia Creative Work4.0(26 reviews)Patuli, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsmayurika chakraborty28 June, 20175.0
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Ajay is prolific photographer with a clear sense of style and beauty. What makes him class apart is his love and passion for photography and aesthetic touch that he imparts to all his pictures. Be it a natural scenery, common life photos or a portrait, Ajay always manages to mesmerize with his brilliance and poise. His angle of capturing an image and play of lights is pure bliss to watch. I wish him all the best as a photographer. May he flourish and keep up his good work and create one masterpiece after another.s banerjee28 June, 20175.0
A very good photographer who understands the customer's needs and works according to them. Very good value for money with absolutely no compromise on the quality of work delivered. Recommended highly.....About
We are a team of photographers and cinematographers travels and capture sweet moments, candid, portrait, rituals in the wedding ceremony. We believe in providing quality services at very reasonable prices to our clients. We capture not only the happiest moments of life but also capture the soul behind that moment.
VSR Photography4.0(24 reviews)Elgin, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsnandita bubna11 December, 20175.0
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Real fresh work, and alot of creativitynikunj9 December, 20175.0
A unique mind with a brilliant photography.About
A independent candid photographer, loves exploring creativity and quality for customer. When you looking for something new, creativity , and quality you can count on us. Because we promise to deliver the same with a little extra smile on your face
Biswajit Pandit Photography4.0(19 reviews)HowrahRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsmayank jain17 September, 20175.0
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One of my favourite photographer with amazing creativity. A reliable person with high end equipments and good team members.gaurav jain11 September, 20175.0
It takes courage to take up your passion as your career. This courage drives Biswajit to show excellency in his work which never disappoints. Keep it up.About
Biswajit is a very passionate and dedicated professional photographer. He has taken up shoots all over Kolkata and always delivered 100%. He understands the requirements of his clients and then works around that. He provides quality services at the best prices.
Muddyearth4.0(16 reviews)KolkataRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsanimesh mandol11 October, 20175.0
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The quality of videography & photography of Muddyearth is excellent. From their work I have seen that they have gathered a very vast knowledge in their work. I appreciate for their excellent working knowledge.bapi mandol25 July, 20174.0
They click amazing pictures! All yours moments are captured for you to cherish for a lifetime.. Thankyou so much for your amazing work!About
We are a 4 year old professional photography services company, specializing in Candid Wedding, Hindu Wedding, Indian Wedding, Couple Portraits, Pre-wedding Shoots, Engagement, Reception, North Indian Wedding, Bengali Wedding, Bridal Portraits, Wedding, Interiors & Architecture, Art & Culture, Industrial Shoot, Photojournalist, Product Shoot, Sports and Commercial photography. We offer products and services such as Calendar, Frames, Cinematography, Photobook, Coffee Mug, HD Videos, Coffee Table Book, Promo Videos, T-Shirt and CD / DVD. We accept customized photography requirements. We cover events in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Vihar, Delhi, All Over India. We are comfortable communicating in Bengali, English and Hindi.
Mriganka Dam4.8(16 reviews)KolkataRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewssofikul alam26 July, 20185.0
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it's a great experience with Mriganka on my wedding occasion. It's excellent photography. also, he is a very good guy and a very co-operative person. i am happy with him .subhra dubey29 January, 20185.0
Very nice photogarphy by Mriganka during my son annaprasana, we are happy, very nicely he captured the moments. Well done, nice job, will definitely recommend you for future assingments & events.About
Mriganka Dam is a creative professional photographer. Working as a photographer from 2013. He has a strong aesthetic sense for creative photography. I am very passionate about work. Very creatively showing is art in videography. Cinematography, as in both methods the intermittent mechanism became the same. Nowadays, any video work outside commercial motion picture production could be called videography.
SnapShot4.0(15 reviews)South Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsniharika mittal12 September, 20175.0
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Amazing work by team Snapshot. Young and passionate folks who made my wedding memorable. I have seen the wedding video innumerable times and still marvel at the attention to details in the video.. I would recommend them anyday..debjani chakraborty11 January, 20175.0
excellent photographer..works with passion and potentiality.About
Type of Photographer Freelancer SnapShot Album Cost INR 25,000 40 Pages Payment Terms 40% Advance
Pixdoor Entertainment4.8(14 reviews)Santoshpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsshubham sinha27 August, 20185.0
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Reached the venue on time and without being directed much, clicked some great photos. The album was made with great creativity too. They try their best to deliver what you want. Satisfied by their servicekhadija malik30 April, 20184.0
Pixdoor provides a very homely approach which is a good thing. Mr. Rahman is very approachable and humble, understands directions and blended well in the midst of the shoot. Apart from being a good listener, he will not burn a hole in your pocket and even though Calcutta as a city doesn't have much of a spending culture, his prices aren't only reasonable but also flexible. Keeping this in mind, the overall result and service was positive! Thank you pixdoor, all the best for the future and hoping to call you again!About
We are a professional photography and videography services company based in Kolkata . We have been running a professional photography and videography business for 6 years. In Pixdoor we have a vast range of pocket-friendly premade packages and definitely you can customize them according to your requirements to keep an eye to your budget.
ClickbySoumi5.0(14 reviews)New Town, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRecent UrbanClap Customer ReviewsSee all reviewsanjali agarwal21 September, 20185.0
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Extremely talented and patient photographer...awsome pictures clicked and timely delivery. A very good person tooliza mohanty26 July, 20175.0
Beautifully captured snaps for creating life time memories😀About
Soumi has great passion to create stories of love and life through her lens. She has an experience in baby photography for 5 years. She is a certified photographer from London School of Photography. She will frame your memories with utmost care and creativity so that it stays with you for a lifetime. You can check on my website. https://clickbysoumi.wixsite.com/clickbysoumi
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Sitting in custody in the Broward County Jail the night of March 11, 1986, 21-year-old Frank Zuccarello was scared. Although he'd been arrested before, he was now facing the most serious charge of his life -- accused of a home-invasion robbery in Fort Lauderdale. He also knew that charge was just the tip of the iceberg.
Zuccarello had anticipated that this moment would arrive. The Fort Lauderdale police detective who arrested him had collared Zuccarello's girlfriend for the same robbery. That arrest came two months after police received anonymous tips: A female had telephoned Hollywood police and said that Zuccarello was part of a gang that eight days before had committed a home-invasion robbery in North Dade. Then Cooper City Police got a letter informing them that three of Zuccarello's pals were involved in a robbery crime wave. (Zuccarello's girlfriend later admitted she was the tipster.)
Trying to stay unfazed, Zuccarello kept working at his trade. Monday, March 10, 1986, he helped his friend Anthony Caracciolo, disguised as a postman making a morning Express Mail delivery, burst into a Lighthouse Point home. Caracciolo took down the man of the house, rammed a .45 against his temple, and threatened to shoot unless he and his wife produced all their expensive jewelry.
Just hours before Fort Lauderdale police arrested Zuccarello March 11, they executed a search warrant on Caracciolo's Hallandale apartment.
Fort Lauderdale police were a bit surprised by Zuccarello's demeanor; he had a pleasant manner, unlike a typical thug. He was handsome, with carefully styled, jet black hair and a trimmed mustache, and he lived with his grandparents in Hollywood. But Hallandale police informed Fort Lauderdale detectives of their running feud with Zuccarello. They'd arrested him for carrying a concealed weapon, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery on a police officer.
Probably realizing that the rest of his friends would be arrested soon, Zuccarello knew that the first person to cooperate with police can usually make the best deal on pending charges. Wasting no time he began to talk that same evening he was detained. He admitted he was part of a gang that had committed dozens of violent home-invasion robberies in Broward and Dade, targeting drug dealers for drugs, cash, and cars. Zuccarello added, however, he personally had never used violence.
Quickly, robbery detectives from police departments all over Broward and Dade queued up to listen, hoping Zuccarello could close some unsolved cases. Joe Gross, a Metro-Dade police detective, took the lead. Zuccarello outlined for him 29 home-invasion robberies he said he and/or his friends had done -- as well as a few murders about which he had heard something.
Much of his robbery information turned into arrests and convictions. But Zuccarello made his name famous for what he initially said his friends merely had an obtuse connection to, something that had commanded local headlines in the four days before his arrest: The murder of builder-developer Stanley Cohen in his landmark Coconut Grove home. From the start Stanley's wife, Joyce Cohen, had been a prime suspect in the murder. But at her trial in 1989 the prosecution had gambled on Zuccarello as their star witness. He testified that she had hired three hit men to kill her husband and he'd been one of them. A jury convicted Joyce of conspiracy and murder, and a judge sentenced her to life in prison. She won't be eligible for parole until 2014, by which time she'll be 64 years old. Prosecutors took two years to negotiate second-degree murder pleas with the other two men, each of whom received a 40-year sentence.
The state eventually offered Zuccarello full immunity in the Cohen case and a sweet deal for the robberies he'd admitted to. With that guarantee he confessed his involvement in the slaying. By the time of Joyce Cohen's murder trial, he'd served two years in prison on the lesser charges and was already free.
Then in August 1993, a book about the case was published. Written by Miami attorney Carol Soret Cope, In the Fast Lane: A True Story of Murder in Miami disclosed information not previously reported -- namely, that Zuccarello had failed three police lie-detector tests. With that the case was in the news again.
Details from the book, as well as an appeal prepared by Joyce Cohen's trial attorney Alan Ross, laid the foundation for WPLG-TV (Channel 10) reporter Gail Bright's revisitation of the case in a high-profile series of reports that would air during the November ratings sweeps. Ross' appeal included newly sworn affidavits by Zuccarello's alleged accomplices: Guilty pleas notwithstanding, they had not killed Stanley Cohen. One of the convicted men, Anthony Caracciolo, had already told Bright on camera that he and his partner had entered guilty pleas rather than risk exposure to the death penalty.
In fact, Caracciolo told Bright, prosecutors had warned him and Tommy Joslin that if they didn't take the 40-year deal, the state would prosecute them under the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) for the home-invasion robberies in which Zuccarello had implicated them and to which they had already pleaded guilty. If that happened they would spend 60 years in prison even if they won acquittals on the murder charges. So the two men took the deal but never admitted to the state's version of the murder case and never testified about it in court. (When a judge asked Caracciolo if anyone had coerced him into entering the guilty plea, he replied, "Not exactly." The plea was in his best interest, he said, but "not what I want to do.")
Bright also interviewed Miami homicide detective Jon Spear, who led the Cohen investigation. When it was done, in a fenced area just outside Miami Police Department headquarters, and while cameraman Mario Hernandez was taking extra shots for editing, Bright casually asked Detective Spear if he thought the accused men were really Stanley Cohen's killers.
According to Bright, Spear looked at the video camera and asked, "Is that thing off?" Hernandez later recalled that Bright told him then: "Turn it off, turn it off." He stopped rolling tape. Once he did, Spear, who retired in 1995, stunned them with his answer.
"Well, it didn't happen that way," he reportedly told Bright.
"What didn't happen that way?" she asked.
"The reason you have all these questions is because we believed all along that Joyce killed her husband, but we didn't have the evidence to back it up."
"So you're telling me that Joyce shot her husband?"
"Well, are you telling me that those three guys were not there? Is that what you're telling me?"
"That's right, they weren't there. But if you ever tell anybody that, I'll deny it."
Bright recounted that she had asked how someone could testify to facts he couldn't have known. Spear's response, she said, was nonspecific and hypothetical. No name or case was mentioned. "It's simple," he allegedly explained. "You walk into a jail cell, you know, the file's on the table, you go to the bathroom for 30 minutes, they familiarize -- they know the routine, and you go from there."
Bright had a number of days to prepare the series, which would also feature a jailhouse interview with Joyce Cohen. In an effort to corroborate Spear's comments, she interviewed David Waksman, the original Dade assistant state attorney on the case. Was it at all possible, she later recalled asking him, that Joyce Cohen had been framed? He said it was; but later that day he called her and said, "Look, we've been friends a long time. Don't put that on the air." Reached by New Times, Waksman said he didn't believe Bright asked him whether Cohen could have been "framed." She might have asked if he thought Cohen wasn't involved in the murder. "I have a standard answer," he said. "I wasn't there, and anything's possible when you're dealing with humans."
Bright, who was 39 years old at the time, faced a dilemma. Should she air Spear's off-the-record statements? Were Joyce Cohen and two men behind bars because of what detectives knew was perjured testimony? It was a journalist's nightmare: What do you do when you feel ethically bound to disclose information after you've promised not to? In the end Bright edited and aired the story with no mention of her doubts. She also chose not to tell her boss, Channel 10 news director Tom Doerr.
Journalistic ethics dictate honoring off-the-record statements, according to Joan Deppa, an associate professor of journalism at Syracuse University. But there's "a higher, or at least conflicting, ethical standard -- that you should work for justice," she says. "If someone was innocent and stayed in prison because you honored a professional commitment to keep something off the record, then that's a problem."
"She has an obligation [to come forward] as just a plain old citizen," argues Lee Wilkins, a journalism professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. At least she should have told her boss, Wilkins says; the reporter could have passed along her information without revealing the source.
It took Bright five years to come forward. This past July she and Hernandez volunteered sworn statements to Cohen's attorney Alan Ross, and on September 28 he entered the statements as newly discovered evidence, part of another appellate motion to vacate his client's conviction.
Prosecutors responded November 30 by disputing Ross' contention that the statements would be admissible at a retrial. And they included a contradicting affidavit from Spear signed October 15, in which the former detective said he had "no reason to doubt Mr. Zuccarello's testimony" and that "I never suggested to Ms. Bright or to anyone else that Mr. Zuccarello's testimony was false."
Ross is preparing a counterresponse to the state. No hearing date has been set. Bright spoke to New Times but only on the condition that the conversation be off the record. She stands by everything in her sworn statement. Hernandez didn't return a message left by New Times. Spear has left word with prosecutors that he will not speak to the press.
But Bright isn't the only person who claims Spear has hinted at a different version of the slaying than was presented at the trial. In an interview with New Times on October 26, Steve Emerson -- a Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agent who interviewed Zuccarello soon after his arrest -- maintains that Spear told him, also sometime around 1993, that he no longer thought the accused men were involved in Stanley Cohen's murder.
Alan Ross has asked for the appointment of an independent special prosecutor to investigate whether obstruction of justice, suborning of perjury, and witness tampering have occurred. If so, Zuccarello could face perjury charges. And if Jon Spear manipulated the witness, says Ross, he deserves to be in jail.
When Bright and Hernandez made their statements (from which quotations have been excerpted in this article), the reporter told Ross she first discussed her quandary in 1993 with her then-husband, prominent criminal defense attorney Mark Seiden. He encouraged her not to air the details because she'd "destroy" her career. (Seiden, however, tells New Times he had no such conversation with his former wife.) Not until last year, after she and news director Tom Doerr began dating, did she finally ask him what she should do. Doerr, who has since left Channel 10 and now works for a firm that consults with local TV news operations, said he couldn't advise her, according to her statement. She and Doerr are now married and live in Miami. Doerr did not return a message left by New Times at his business phone. Bright added that her husband wouldn't respond to the call, but reiterated that what she said about him in the sworn statement is accurate.
In early 1998 Bright told Miami Herald reporter Frances Robles what she knew. "Look, I can't get involved in this," she said to Robles, according to her statement. "I could be ruining my career. [Spear is] going to deny it, but maybe you can dig all of this out. It would be a great story for you, but just leave me out of it."
Robles has confirmed Bright's statement; however, she elected not to pursue the story. "I didn't see how it was something that could be confirmed," she said recently, adding that Bright suggested she call Spear "and tell him, 'Gail told me this -- what do you think?'" But Bright hadn't given her Spear's phone number, which was unlisted. "There were too many question marks. I thought it was a dead end."
But Bright just "kept getting these signs," and one, in particular, she couldn't shake. This past April she interviewed the author of a new true-crime book, Speed Kills, about the Miami murder of Cigarette boat builder-racer Don Aronow. She told Ross she couldn't remember the writer's name, but he'd told her a Broward prosecutor was planning to use the same three home-invaders as state witnesses in another pending homicide trial, and that the prosecutor believed they were not involved in the Cohen murder.
I was that writer whose name she couldn't remember. As we visited the Aronow crime scene, we chatted about other Miami murder mysteries. It was I who broached the Cohen case. The Broward prosecutor, Brian Cavanagh (about whom I'd written earlier), had suggested to the Broward Sheriff's Office in 1996 that I meet with Anthony Caracciolo and Tommy Joslin before they testified to a grand jury investigating the 1984 murder of a man named Charles Hodek. Cavanagh thought I'd be interested in writing about that case and how it intersected with Cohen's. I spent a couple hours over two days talking with them about the developer's murder. I told this to Bright, who nodded but said nothing.
About a month later, Joyce Cohen wrote to Bright from the Broward Correctional Institution, again denying she'd killed her husband, denying any connection with the alleged hit men, and pleading for help. They hadn't communicated since Bright's 1993 story. Bright didn't respond to the letter, but she did finally tell the station's vice president and general manager, John Garwood, about her lingering doubts. Garwood suggested she might face criminal prosecution for having withheld potential evidence. In fact, Bright told Ross, she felt Garwood was "advising [me] not to go forward with the information." Garwood, through his assistant, said he would not comment on the record about the story.
By late June, according to Bright's statement, she finally confessed her concerns to Dade Assistant State Attorney David Waksman, who suggested she write to Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. (In fact, Waksman tells New Times he told Bright to phone Rundle or he'd make the call himself. He called Rundle the following day to confirm Bright had done so.)
Bright then went to her current news director, Bill Pohovey, who agreed that she should come forward. The reporter called Rundle, and the two women met. Later that day, after Rundle consulted with the attorney assigned to previous Cohen case appeals, she told the reporter she should feel free to tell Alan Ross anything.
At 5:25 a.m. on March 7, 1986, Joyce Cohen dialed 911, sobbing hysterically that her husband had been shot. Police arrived minutes later at the Cohens' coral-rock mansion on South Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove. In the master bedroom, they found Stanley Cohen nude, facedown in the couple's four-poster brass bed, a sheet covering his lower body. A blood-soaked towel over the back of his head covered three bullet wounds; a fourth bullet had grazed his scalp. Joyce told the officers she'd been downstairs in the back of the house, had heard a noise, and had seen two shadowy figures leave through the front door.
Stanley was 52 years old, heavyset, nearly 17 years older than his pretty fourth wife of 11 years, who had been a secretary with his firm. He was a self-made man who had delivered newspapers and washed dishes as a teenager growing up in Miami. His company, SAC Construction, was responsible for building more than 20 Dade public schools, South Shore Hospital in Miami Beach, the Third District Court of Appeal building, and various strip malls.
In the '80s Stanley and Joyce Cohen had lived the high life, spent and consumed and entertained conspicuously, according to Carol Soret Cope's book, and partied with cocaine in the Grove and in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they owned a 600-acre ranch. A confidential informant told Miami police before Joyce's trial that Stanley had kept a large supply of cocaine in the cellar of his Coconut Grove home, implying that he was a drug dealer; that he had used cocaine three or four times per week until a heart attack forced him to stop; and that his wife used it constantly.
Cohen left assets totaling $13 million, but after debts and obligations, his net worth was probably less than $2 million. He had willed Joyce most of his fortune. But his two children from a previous marriage suspected she was involved in his death. Five days after the murder, Gerri Cohen Helfman, an anchor at WTVJ-TV (Channel 6), and Gary Cohen, a local tax attorney, successfully petitioned Dade County Circuit Court to freeze their father's estate.
Detectives had their suspicions, too. Joyce had appeared to be high the morning of the murder, according to officers who'd responded to her 911 call. Though she claimed she'd been awake all night -- folding clothes for a garage sale, she said -- she could account for only about half an hour. (Her psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Cohn, said at the trial that Joyce had once attempted suicide with an overdose of Halcion, a then commonly prescribed sleeping pill since shown to cause amnesia and paranoia, especially when mixed with alcohol or stimulants like cocaine. He added that Joyce told him she had continued taking Halcion for her sleep problems, even after the overdose, drank four or five drinks a day, and used cocaine.)
At Miami police headquarters, where she'd gone voluntarily the morning of Cohen's murder, Detective Spear asked Joyce when she'd last had sex with her husband (he considered sex a relationship's barometer), and Joyce exploded as she realized she was under suspicion. She refused to allow officers to search her house and left police headquarters to meet with attorney Ross, according to Cope's book. The detectives back on the scene had no recourse but to leave and prepare a search warrant for a judge to sign. A coroner had not yet arrived to examine the body, and the delay of some six hours made it difficult to determine the time of death. Later that day Joyce returned voluntarily to the station for questioning, and this time Ross was with her.
While officers waited outside the residence for the search warrant, however, they found a .38-caliber pistol in a fern on the ground below an upstairs bedroom window. The gun was clean of fingerprints; two bits of Kleenex stuck in the hammer suggested it had been wiped down. Lab tests later proved it was the murder weapon. And the gun belonged not to any alleged hit man, but to Stanley Cohen.
On April 4, when Zuccarello first outlined his home-invasion robberies to Metro-Dade police robbery-unit detective Joe Gross, he said he, Tommy Joslin, and Anthony Caracciolo had gone to Coconut Grove in January 1986 to meet a woman who was setting up a robbery in an expensive house near Coconut Grove. She had often called Caracciolo's apartment in Hallandale; Zuccarello had answered the phone on five separate occasions, and the woman identified herself as "Mrs. Cohen." Though he hadn't met her, he identified a photo of Joyce Cohen for Gross and said she was the same woman he'd seen conversing with Caracciolo in the Grove.
That the wife of a prominent developer was helping thugs stage robberies sounded peculiar. Gross' superior, Sgt. James Wander, later testified during a pretrial deposition that Gross told him that day: "You won't believe it. He says he knows something about the Cohen murder." Wander had replied, "Sure, what next?"
Zuccarello so far had only acknowledged that he knew about the Cohen murder. But he told Gross he had information about another victim who had been slain in a car in the parking lot of a club in the southern Broward city of Pembroke Park. Police matched that information to the murder of Charles Hodek. Zuccarello didn't know who pulled the trigger, he said, but ten days later he gave a recorded statement to the Broward Sheriff's Office naming Tommy Joslin's father, a reputed Mob figure, as the killer.
Tommy Joslin had fled the state and wasn't arrested until 1987. Once in custody, however, he told Broward Sheriff's Office Det. Tony Fantigrassi that someone else had shot Hodek and named the killer. When the detective returned to question Zuccarello, the latter admitted he had lied. Joslin's statement was correct, he now said.
Within two weeks of Zuccarello's about-face, Dade prosecutors summoned Fantigrassi to meet with them. Cohen co-prosecutor John Kastrenakes was there, Fantigrassi says. (Kastrenakes denies such a meeting occurred, but Fantigrassi has the prosecutor's business card stapled to his notes of the meeting.) The Dade officials suggested that Fantigrassi had misunderstood Zuccarello's statement, Fantigrassi recalls; in turn, he threatened to testify at Joyce Cohen's trial that Dade County's star witness had a credibility problem in Broward. But prosecutors never called Fantigrassi to the stand; nor did they mention to Joyce Cohen's attorney a word about Zuccarello's inconsistent statements. Only in 1996, after Broward prosecutors finally indicted the man Joslin had named in Hodek's murder, and the police reports became public record, did Alan Ross read them.
According to City of Miami police reports, Anthony Caracciolo was arrested in Hallandale on April 24, 1986, and eventually charged with four home-invasion robberies, based on information provided by Zuccarello. Caracciolo immediately admitted to the charges and within nine months pleaded guilty to them. During questioning, however, he denied he knew Joyce Cohen or had planned a home invasion with her or was involved in her husband's murder. Sergeant Wander, who conducted that interrogation, believed him. The following day Wander told prosecutor David Waksman that Zuccarello was "possibly embellishing" anything he might claim to know about Stanley Cohen's murder.
Until then Miami police officials had spent their time investigating Joyce Cohen's background and friends, in Miami and Colorado, trying to determine whether she had a motive for killing her husband. On May 6, Detective Spear met with Zuccarello in the Broward jail, where he was still being held. Zuccarello told Spear that the January Coconut Grove meeting had taken place outside a surf shop. The woman he'd seen there resembled Joyce Cohen, but he wasn't certain it was she. He still wasn't talking about the murder.
By that time Steve Emerson, the FDLE agent, had also interviewed Zuccarello. Emerson left unimpressed and told Miami detectives and prosecutors that Zuccarello seemed to know how to tell the police what they wanted to hear. But Spear and his boss, Sgt. Steve Vinson, and Waksman disagreed. Besides, Spear was talking to Zuccarello's attorney, Bruce Raticoff, who said that his client had "very good information" about the Cohen homicide.
So the state prepared to offer Zuccarello a deal: He would plead guilty to two Dade home invasions (including charges of armed robbery, kidnapping, conspiracy, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony). The state wouldn't prosecute the two other robbery cases he was involved in and would recommend a five- to ten-year sentence. Dade prosecutors would ask Broward prosecutors not to push for additional jail time on his robbery charges there, and they agreed not to charge him in the Cohen murder.
In return Zuccarello would testify truthfully about all his criminal activities, his "truthfulness" to be determined by polygraph. Zuccarello signed the deal on June 5, 1986, and later that day Spear escorted him to Miami police headquarters.
And there Zuccarello changed his story: The Coconut Grove meeting had taken place in February or March -- not in January as he'd originally claimed. His sudden, improved recollection was a boon for the prosecution. Joyce Cohen, it turned out, had spent all of January and most of February in Steamboat Springs. (Police files show that Spear learned about Joyce Cohen's Colorado trip after Zuccarello's first statement but before his June 5 "corrected" recollection. Alan Ross, Cohen's attorney, reviewed those files last year and now says, "I think Spear came back and confronted Zuccarello with that problem, and it was my impression Zuccarello accommodated him.")
Zuccarello next told Spear he was now certain it was Joyce Cohen he'd seen at the Grove meeting. And for the first time he talked about murder: Immediately after that meeting, Caracciolo had informed him that Joyce had changed the plan. She now wanted the man in the house killed. Detective Spear drove Zuccarello through Coconut Grove neighborhoods and wrote in his report that Zuccarello tentatively identified the Cohen house. Spear noted that he hadn't clued in Zuccarello about which house it might be, but by then the murder had received overwhelming media coverage, and newspapers had printed the address, at a corner of two prominent streets in the Grove.
Back at headquarters, Spear called Zuccarello's attorney and asked him to be present while his client made a full statement. When Bruce Raticoff arrived, he was informed of the inconsistencies Zuccarello had made over the previous two months, Spear wrote in his report. Would Raticoff talk to him? The lawyer agreed, and after talking to Zuccarello, he said his client wanted to tell everything he knew.
And the story changed again. This time Zuccarello told the detective the Coconut Grove meeting had occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 4, two and a half days before the murder, and that Joyce was going to compensate the three of them (Zuccarello, Caracciolo, and Joslin) with a total of $150,000 worth of cocaine to kill her husband. On March 6, Zuccarello said, Anthony Caracciolo called Joyce, who was waiting at a public phone, and confirmed that the murder would take place after midnight. Zuccarello drove Caracciolo and Joslin to the Cohen house in a Chevy El Camino, arriving at about 2 a.m. Joyce greeted them at the front door. Zuccarello waited outside while Joslin and Caracciolo went inside. Five to ten minutes later, he heard two shots. When the three men were back in the car, Caracciolo said he'd shot Stanley Cohen in the head with Cohen's own gun.
Miami police housed Zuccarello in the Dade County Jail for two nights, then brought him back to the police station on June 7 to take a polygraph. But first Zuccarello and Raticoff huddled alone for an hour. After that meeting Raticoff stunned the detectives: His client, he said, wasn't at the murder scene at all and had played no part in Cohen's murder. What he knew about the murder he'd learned from Caracciolo and Joslin. During a polygraph test that lasted ten hours, Zuccarello repeatedly denied his involvement. The examiner concluded that he was withholding information.
The deal might have looked dead, but the Miami detectives were now optimistic that, in light of the failed polygraph, Zuccarello would revert to his previous statement and admit his involvement. They shipped him back to the Broward jail. Eleven days later he returned to Miami.
Saturday, June 21, was a very long day of questioning. In another polygraph test, Zuccarello again maintained he'd played no part in the murder, and again the examiner concluded his answers were deceptive. Finally Zuccarello apologized and told Spear he had been present during the murder after all. He said he'd heard Caracciolo fire two or three shots. He also recalled a meeting between Caracciolo and Joyce that he now said took place at a 7-Eleven in North Miami Beach.
The polygrapher had Zuccarello write the new information as a statement, then tested him based on it. But again the test showed that his answers were deceptive. Zuccarello explained he had been upstairs where the shooting had occurred; he just hadn't wanted to admit it.
A third polygraph that day: Was he certain how many shots were fired? One shot? Two? Three? Four? Five? Six? Each time Zuccarello replied no. At last he showed no sign of deception: He didn't know how many times the gun had gone off.
Though it was 11 p.m., Spear and Waksman wanted a statement right then, and the formal interview began at 11:51 p.m. On the night of the murder, Zuccarello said, he, Caracciolo, and Joslin arrived at the Cohen house at 2:08 a.m. He remembered the digital readout on the El Camino's clock. They planned the murder to look like a burglary gone bad. Joyce was to give Anthony her husband's gun. She would make sure the burglar alarm was off, and she would keep the couple's Doberman pinscher locked away. Joslin was to show her how to make the house look burglarized. Zuccarello was to stay by the front door at all times. Wearing a nightgown, Joyce met them at the front door. "Let's get this over with as quick as possible," she'd said. After a few minutes outside, Zuccarello grew nervous, entered the house, climbed halfway up the stairs, and heard "two or more" shots. He ran up the stairs, into the bedroom, and saw Caracciolo standing over the bed.
The prosecutors needed to buttress their case with physical evidence or additional testimony. But Anthony Caracciolo still maintained his innocence, and Tommy Joslin was a fugitive. Prosecutor Waksman subpoenaed phone bills from both Joyce Cohen and Caracciolo, expecting a record of toll calls between Dade and Broward. There had been none. Waksman even went to public phones at two North Miami Beach 7-Elevens, copied all the phone numbers scrawled on the surfaces around the phone, and subpoenaed phone records. Still nothing.
With no other evidence in sight, prosecutors reluctantly left Joyce alone. Zuccarello began his jail sentence on reduced charges. Waksman left the state attorney's office (though he returned eight months later); prosecutors John Kastrenakes and Kevin DiGregory relieved him. Then in May 1987, Connecticut police arrested Tommy Joslin. Spear flew to New Haven and offered him a deal to plead guilty, but like Caracciolo he insisted he knew nothing about Joyce Cohen or her husband's murder. Nonetheless five months later DiGregory and Kastrenakes decided to move ahead and indict Caracciolo; in May 1988 they indicted Joslin as well. Joyce Cohen remained free. Relying on her attorney's advice, she invoked her right to remain silent and refused police requests for interviews.
Both Joslin and Caracciolo offered to take police polygraphs to prove their innocence, but prosecutors DiGregory and Kastrenakes refused. Assistant State Attorney Abe Laeser, who supervised the Cohen prosecutors, has told New Times that the state's refusal was reasonable. "I basically don't believe in polygraphs," he said. "More people are skilled at beating these things than the general public realizes. I'm not going to rest a murder prosecution on one of these."
Not until October 23, 1988, did Miami police arrest Joyce Cohen and charge her with the murder of her husband. They flew to Chesapeake, Virginia, where she was living with her new boyfriend. Back in Miami, a judge separated her case from that of Joslin and Caracciolo and set it for trial first. The proceedings began a year later.
The prosecution kept its strategy close to the vest. Only in opening statements did Joyce's attorney Alan Ross learn the state's theory: Stanley Cohen's wife had hired three hit men to kill her husband. The case hung on scant hard evidence; the revolver, after all, was free of fingerprints, probably wiped clean with a Kleenex. A tissue similar to the remnants stuck in the hammer of the gun had been found in Joyce's bathroom wastebasket, with nasal mucus and gunshot residue on it -- "the single most damaging evidence in this case," Kastrenakes said in his opening argument. Detectives had swabbed Joyce's hands the morning of the murder; Metro-Dade Police Department criminalist Gopinath Rao testified that Joyce's hands held traces of "blowback" from a discharged gun. But that evidence was inconsistent with Joyce herself firing a weapon, he said. Rather, it was consistent with her standing near the gun when it was fired. Kastrenakes argued that the residue could have been transferred to her hands when she wiped down the gun.
Defense attorney Ross countered with another explanation, one that Rao admitted was also possible: Joyce Cohen had touched her husband's body when she found him mortally wounded in their bed. Ross argued that Joyce blew her nose into that Kleenex, transferring the gunshot residue from her hands.
Ross spent two days grilling star witness Frank Zuccarello and pointing out every inconsistency in his story. Was he certain he'd seen a 2:08 readout on the El Camino's digital clock? Ross introduced a photo of the car's dashboard: The clock was analog.
The time of death was another issue at trial. Joyce's refusal to allow a search of her house had prevented Dade Chief Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Wetli from having quick access to the body. He'd said at a pretrial deposition that Stanley Cohen had died between midnight and 6 a.m., but he couldn't be more specific. When paramedics arrived at 5:30 a.m., however, they'd tried to revive Stanley with electric shocks. Their efforts suggested he'd been shot a very short time before; three point-blank shots to the brain should have been almost instantly fatal. How then could the prosecution support Zuccarello's claim that the murder took place three hours earlier?
Moreover, a forensic expert hired by the defense testified that once the heart stops pumping, "lividity," or deep purple discoloration of the skin where the blood settles, begins within half an hour. After three hours lividity becomes permanent and obvious. But none of the detectives or rescue workers in the house at 5:30 a.m. reported any discoloration. Nor did a detective who examined the body at 6:53 a.m. Nor had Wetli reported lividity in his photos of the body.
Wetli took the stand to address the lividity issue after the defense expert testified. The medical examiner said he'd reviewed photos of the body subsequent to that defense testimony -- and now he could detect lividity. He revised his estimated time of death to be between 2 and 3 a.m., and Ross protested bitterly that he had changed his analysis to match Zuccarello's testimony.
Prosecutor Kastrenakes now downplays the testimony of the witnesses who said they hadn't seen lividity that early morning. "Don't rely on people who aren't trained" to look for signs of lividity, he told New Times. But Tony Fantigrassi of the Broward Sheriff's Office says, "I would like to think paramedics could recognize a body that was dead for half an hour as opposed to three hours."
In his closing argument, Kastrenakes said it mattered little who pulled the trigger. If Joyce Cohen wiped down the gun, she was guilty of murder, regardless. The jury deliberated eight hours before returning guilty verdicts against her on all counts: murder, conspiracy to murder, and display of a firearm in commission of a felony.
A week after Gail Bright gave her statement this past July, defense attorney Ross told New Times he called Spear. "Jon and I always got along," Ross said. "Spear answers and says, 'I already know why you're calling. I've already been down to speak to [Assistant State Attorney] Abe Laeser. I did tell [Bright] something along those lines, that those guys weren't involved. But that's my personal opinion.'"
"Jon, apparently you don't understand this," Ross said he replied. "As lead investigator it had better not be your opinion that the woman was convicted on perjured testimony."
When Ross prepared Cohen's first unsuccessful appeal in 1993, he sent a private investigator, Eric Zeid, to visit Zuccarello in Tampa, where he now lives. They talked, but Zuccarello confessed nothing. Following Bright's July statement, Ross figured he'd try again.
Zuccarello, who testified in 1996 before a grand jury in the murder of Charles Hodek, is currently a potential witness in the trial, which is scheduled to begin in March. Tony Fantigrassi, now a captain with the Broward Sheriff's Office, remains interested in his credibility. At an August 12 meeting, Ross says, Fantigrassi suggested that Zeid surreptitiously tape a new conversation with Zuccarello. State law requires the consent of all parties, but law-enforcement agencies are exempt. With authorization from the Broward Sheriff's Office, the coast was clear to proceed.
This time, Ross says, Zeid got very close. Ross recalls some of the conversation:
Zeid: "It's about karma, doing the right thing."
Zuccarello: "If I did the right thing, I'd piss off a lot of people down there."
"To me that's a confession," Ross argues. He also says that Zuccarello told Zeid the next day he'd spent an hour and ten minutes on the phone "with Washington." Ross infers this to mean that he spoke with co-prosecutor Kevin DiGregory, who followed Janet Reno to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Zuccarello added that he wanted to talk to his old girlfriend "before I do the right thing."
"I knew one day the veneer would crack," says Ross. "I thought it would happen when Zuccarello would get a little older, maybe have a life-threatening disease. He'd look in the mirror, then he'd call and say, 'I want to tell the truth.'"
Cohen co-prosecutor Kastrenakes now acknowledges that Zuccarello wasn't the star witness he was made out to be. But he stands firmly behind the convictions and maintains that Zuccarello testified truthfully. Since Bright's statement Zuccarello has sworn an affidavit to Dade prosecutors reaffirming his testimony: "I never said or even suggested to any person that my trial testimony was false."
Fantigrassi, on the other hand, always harbored doubts about Zuccarello. Today he says he'd like to see Joslin's and Caracciolo's convictions overturned. He believes Joyce Cohen killed her husband alone. The murder scene, he says, looked staged: the wiped revolver, a bedside lamp on the floor, the pistol found below the window. "You're hired to commit a murder," Fantigrassi muses. "Wouldn't you bring the weapon of your choice? The scene is indicative of a domestic-related homicide. They're not well thought out. I've seen it in the past. It's common."
Fantigrassi says he has lobbied for Joslin and Caracciolo, so far without success. They are guilty of home-invasion robberies, he admits, but everyone else in their gang, 12 years later, has been released. Some have even committed other crimes since their release and have already served time and gotten out for those.
"I'm not saying we're angels or anything like that," remarks Anthony Caracciolo, now 37 years old, sitting at a table in the Everglades Correctional Institution, a state prison in West Dade. He talks at a high speed because the prison allows just one hour for press interviews. In 1995, he claims, FDLE agent Steve Emerson told him: "'You need to talk to Spear.' I talk to Spear, and he says, 'I got problems with things. Let me run things by Kastrenakes, and I can come see you.'
"He said we didn't do it, Joyce did it by herself. But Kastrenakes must have run him off." Caracciolo says Spear never did come to see him, and when Caracciolo sent his brother to ask Spear to talk, the detective refused to speak to him as well.
Tommy Joslin is now 39 years old. In a recent interview from central Florida's Avon Park Correctional Institution, another state prison, he explains that he accepted the plea bargain because "I was scared they were going to convict me. I'd be sitting right now on death row for something I didn't do."
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Something they didn't do? In a recent conversation with New Times, Laeser, the assistant state attorney who supervised the prosecutors, responded to a particular question: "Did [Joyce Cohen] do it all by herself? Obviously that is a conceivable possibility. But as I sit here, I don't know." Short of a truthful statement from Cohen, Laeser added, "I'm never going to know. My instincts say that's what happened."
Suppose a judge overturns Joyce Cohen's conviction because the prosecution based its case too heavily on Frank Zuccarello's false testimony. And suppose prosecutors still believe Joyce is guilty of murder. Wouldn't a new trial be an exercise in futility for her?
Just the reverse, asserts defense attorney Ross. His eyes brightening at the thought, he says he can prove Joyce not guilty using the state's own expert witnesses from the original trial. He'd recall criminalist Rao, who said Joyce probably didn't fire the gun. He'd also bring back Wetli, the medical examiner who revised his opinion about the time of death during the course of the trial.
"I should have won the first trial," Ross says. "I was shocked by the verdict. Absolutely shocked. So I'm going back to straighten it out. This is unfinished business.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Seven consecutive goals by the Gauchos lifted the No. 12 UC Santa Barbara water polo team over visiting Marist 7-5 on Friday afternoon in a non-conference match-up at Campus Pool. Senior Sarah Kovach and sophomore Gillian Morgan each scored a pair of goals leading Santa Barbara in the win.
With the victory, the UCSB record is lifted to 8-8 overall while the Red Foxes fall to 9-8 on the season.
Each team struggled in the opening minutes of the game until Marist found the back of the cage first with a goal from Maggie Hatcher with 4:08 on the clock. Fellow Red Foxes Kristen Barnett and Samantha Swartz followed suit as they each scored on power play possessions to gain a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.
UCSB fired back in the second as they notched three consecutive goals coming from Morgan, Christie Clark and Amanda Tipton to tie the score at 3-3 with a little over three minutes left in the half. Freshman Alisha Khan converted a five-meter penalty shot to grab the first Gaucho lead of the game. UCSB went into halftime with a narrow 4-3 advantage.
The Gaucho scoring rally continued in the third quarter when less than a minute into the period, Kovach fired in a shot out of center. Both teams seemed to cool for a bit before Morgan grabbed her second point of the game right in front of the cage to push the Gaucho lead to 6-3. Kovach rounded out the quarter with her second goal of the game with only 13 seconds on the clock.
Trailing 7-3, Marist was able to shut down the Gaucho offense once again in the fourth quarter and goals from Katelin McCahill and another from Barnett brought the Red Foxes within two, but the late surge was not enough as UCSB took the game at 7-5.
Starting goalkeepers Elizabeth Davis of Marist and Jenny Gonzales each recorded five saves while Rosey Redaelli tallied four in the latter half of the game.
The Gauchos will be in action again tomorrow at the UCSB Mini Tournament being hosted at Campus Pool. Santa Barbara will face Mountain Pacific Sports Federation foe No. 9 San Diego State in a conference match-up and round out the day with games against No. 17 UC San Diego and Claremont. Redlands will also be participating in the tourney.
UC Santa Barbara 7, Marist 5
1 2 3 4 Final Marist 3 0 0 2 5 UCSB 0 4 3 0 7
Marist Goals: Kristen Barnett 2, Maggie Hatcher, Katelin McCahill, Samantha Swartz.
UCSB Goals: Sarah Kovach 2, Gillian Morgan 2, Christie Clark, Amanda Tipton, Alisha Khan.
Marist Goalie Saves: Elizabeth Davis 5, Katy Zweifel 3.
UCSB Goalie Saves: Jenny Gonzales 5, Rosey Redaelli 4.


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conchifer (Schwein.)
Derivation of name: Poronidulus means ???;
conchifer means "shell bearing."
Synonymy: Polyporus conchifer Schw.: Fr.; Trametes
conchifer (Schwein.) Pilat
Common names: Little nest polypore.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; in groups on
decaying deciduous wood; June through December.
Dimensions: Cups 0.5-2 cm wide; caps 1-5 cm wide.
Upper surface: Cups concentrically zoned, white and brown;
caps zoned with bands of white and grayish-white and pale
brown; radially wrinkled.
Pore surface: White to yellowish; pores 2-4 per mm.
Edibility: Inedible.
Comments: The cups may be found by themselves. They are
sterile and may be mistaken for a cup fungus or a bird's nest
fungus. If just the shelves are present, this fungus is difficult to
identify. The combination is distinctive.
Figure 1. Trametes conchifer on wood. The cups are not
prominent in this photo. Note the yellowish pore surface of
the flipped-over specimen. Photo © Larry Grand.
Figure 2. Various combinations of cups and shelf-like caps are
visible in these specimens. Photo © Gary Emberger.
Figure 3. Sterile cups often form first and are typically
concentrically zoned. Photo © Tom Volk.
Figure 4. These cups are stalked. It's no wonder they are
mistaken for cup fungi. The cups function as splash cups
asexual propagules called oidia.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
5. This cap shows no evidence of a cup. Note the
faint zonation and radial wrinkles. Photo © Gary Emberger.
Figure 6.
The underside of the shelf-like cap reveals
pores of the fertile portion of the fungus. Photo © Gary
Figure 7. Just a little of the cup structure remains at the base
of the shelf. It's enough to identify the species with certainty.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
Figure 8. Shelves are beginning to develop from these cups.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
Figure 9.
can be seen on the underside of the cups of
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (October 20, 2011) – After three straight road matches, the ETSU volleyball returns home to face Mercer and Kennesaw State in two crucial A-Sun matchups this weekend inside Brooks Gym.
The Bucs open the weekend against Mercer on Friday at 7 p.m. before closing out the weekend on Saturday against Kennesaw State at 3 p.m. The Bucs will be looking to "Book the Bears" on Friday night – fans that donate a children's book will receive admission for just a Buc ($1). Saturday's contest will be the annual "Pink Zone" game for cancer awareness – fans that wear pink will get in for just a Buc ($1).
The Bucs head into the weekend with a 10-13 overall record and a 3-4 mark in Atlantic Sun play. With only six conference matches remaining in the regular season, ETSU will be looking to improve its position with a strong performance this weekend.
ETSU is coming off a tough five-set defeat at Presbyterian on Tuesday night. The Bucs had a two-set lead in the match before Presbyterian rallied back for the victory. Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) led the Bucs with 20 kills and 14 digs in the match for her ninth double-double of the year.
Devine continues to lead the Bucs in kills at 4.23 per set, which ranks her second in the Atlantic Sun. In addition, her 4.62 points per set also rank second in the league. Senior Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) remains the league leader in blocks at 1.13 per set. Stancliff needs just 38 more blocks to place 10th on the Atlantic Sun career blocks list. As a team, ETSU continues to lead the league in blocks at 2.16 per set.
ETSU owns a 5-4 record all-time against Mercer, despite falling at Mercer last season in four-sets. Meanwhile, the Bucs are just 5-3 all-time against Kennesaw State. ETSU was defeated by Kennesaw State during the regular season last year; however, the Bucs got revenge in the A-Sun Tournament by defeating the Owls 3-1 to advance to the final.
For fans unable to attend the contests, live video will be available via ASun.TV. A free live stats feed will be accessible at ETSUBucs.com.
Scouting the Opponents
Mercer enters Friday's match with a 8-15 overall record on the season, including a 1-5 mark in A-Sun play. The Bears are coming off a mid-week victory against Chattanooga on Tuesday. Mercer has not played an A-Sun match since Oct. 8 - a 3-1 victory over Stetson. Mercer is led on the offensive end by Jennifer Katona and Amiee Frutchey with 2.40 kills per set and 2.22 kills per set, respectively. Charlotte Harris leads the Bears defensively with 4.30 digs per set. Mercer leads the league in opponent's hitting percentage at .181, while ranking second in the league in blocks (2.02 p/s) and digs (15.42 p/s).
Kennesaw State heads into the weekend with a 9-12 overall record on the season, including a 4-2 mark in A-Sun play. The Owls are riding a four-match winning streak after most recently defeating Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast in conference play. The Owls are led by Justine Young and Alyssa Lang. Young leads the squad with 3.70 kills per set, while Lang ranks second at 2.88 kill per set. Sara Metroka dishes out 10.05 assists per set from the setter position. Meanwhile, Camille Pedraza leads the team in digs at 3.31 per set. The Owls ranks third in the league in hitting percentage with a solid .206 percentage.
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WINDSOR, Colo., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- At least 84,000 gallons of water contaminated with hydraulic fracturing chemicals spilled from a broken well-head in northern Colorado, authorities say.
A mechanical failure sent fracking fluid and oil into the surrounding soil for more than 30 hours, state natural resources spokesman Todd Hartman told The Denver Post.
Firefighters were testing air every 30 minutes to ensure leaking natural gas was not about to explode while vacuum trucks were used to suck up the liquid, he said.
A Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission inspector and engineer were testing at the scene but have not yet determined whether the spill contaminated groundwater or streams, the Post reported.
Soil from the well pad and other areas will be tested for contamination, Hartman said, but he did not discuss whether enforcement action would be taken.
"We are still reviewing what happened," he said.


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Toxic Metal Cadmium Can Enter Great Lakes Food Chain Through Algae
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Some algae from the Great Lakes can use cadmium for nutritional requirements. A recent study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research reports that algae collected from lakes Erie and Ontario can use cadmium, a known toxic metal, as a nutrient replacement for zinc, an essential trace metal.
This observation makes pollution of our lakes even more of a concern since low levels of pollutants, such as cadmium, in vast offshore areas will be actively sought by microbes like algae and gain entry into the food chain where it can ultimately increase to toxic levels, states lead investigator Michael R. Twiss, a Clarkson University biology professor.
In this study, algae were collected from central regions of Lake Erie and in Lake Ontario from onboard both Canadian Coast Guard and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ships during summer. Once the algae were purified in the laboratory, experiments were conducted under stringent controls needed to assess responses to low levels of these potentially toxic metals.
By carefully removing zinc from the growth media of the algae researchers were able to starve algae of zinc and the growth of these microbes slowed. By then offering low amounts of cadmium, a metal with similar chemical properties to zinc, the algae were able to resume their growth. A similar observation was made by providing the zinc-starved algae with cobalt, another trace metal that is chemically closely related to zinc.
Results of this study, "Nutritive Substitution of Zinc by Cadmium and Cobalt in Phytoplankton Isolated from the Lower Great Lakes," are reported by Asha Intwala, Tara D. Patey, Damien M. Polet and Michael R. Twiss in the latest issue (Volume 34, No. 1, pp. 1-11) of the Journal of Great Lakes Research, published by the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR), 2008.
Since 1967, IAGLR (http://www.iaglr.org) has served as the focal point for compiling and disseminating multidisciplinary knowledge on North America's Laurentian Great Lakes and other large lakes of the world and their watersheds. In part, IAGLR communicates this knowledge through publication of the Journal of Great Lakes Research.


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Ben Wendel speaks jazz fluently. Even on a bassoon. Which is just a little weird.
Ben Wendel speaks jazz fluently. Even on a bassoon. Which is just a little weird.
"The connective thread is the specific language of jazz," said Wendel, a multi-instrumentalist, composer and budding impresario. "It's literally like a commonly learned language. You can go to Brazil. If they learned jazz, you can speak the same language."
Sometimes Wendel gives it a bassoon accent.
"It's an awesome instrument," said Wendel, a Brooklyn-based jazzman who performs tonight at Stockton's Take 5 Jazz at the Brew. "There probably are less than 10 jazz musicians in the world who play bassoon."
That's why he's been profiled on NPR: " 'Check this guy out,' they were saying. 'He plays jazz on bassoon.' It's very unusual."
Wendel, who has recorded solo and with a long list of musicians, has formed unique partnerships with Kneebody - a Grammy-nominated group - and New York-based pianist Ben Tepfer. They're releasing an inventive album ("Small Constructions") on March 12.
Tonight, they perform and do a little tutoring with members of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet.
Wendel, who mainly plays saxophone, considers jazz an open-ended, open-minded and improvisational style of communication.
"The general ethos of jazz is to create spontaneity and innovation," said Wendel, 37, who travels between 125,000 and 150,000 miles a year to accomplish that. "You play with new people, becoming inspired by learning their work. This is a generation of musicians who have all kinds of interactions.
"In ensembles with friends and other kinds of artists. There's just an integral part of this music that's kind of interactive."
Tepfer and Wendel exhibit that with their album's multiplicity of instruments and styles - from melody-based original tunes to interpretations of Thelonious Monk's music and compositions riffing on classical composers George Frideric Handel and Olivier Messiaen.
They recorded the album - by themselves with their own equipment - during a "few days" at a Yamaha "artist space" in Manhattan.
They had "some of our favorite toys close at hand," Tepfer, 30, wrote in the liner notes. "A beautiful piano, a Fender Rhodes, three kinds of saxes, a bassoon and a melodica. ... We didn't worry too much about how it would fit into a specific category or genre. The result ... expresses our mutual love of jazz, classical and pop."
Born in Vancouver, Wendel grew up in Santa Monica with two younger sisters in an entertainment-oriented family.
His mom, Dale Franzen, was an opera singer. His dad, Sam Wendel, teaches screen-writing at McGill University in Montreal. His step-dad, Don Franzen, is a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer.
Wendel became a bassoonist so he could accompany fellow Santa Monica High School musicians on a trip to Germany and Spain in 1992-93.
Wendel "wanted to get out of town" and attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.
"It was all intense training," he said. "Then, I'd do three or four gigs a week in little cafes and bars around Rochester."
After moving to New York, Wendel and Tepfer - who was born in Paris and graduated from Scotland's University of Edinburgh and Boston's New England Conservatory - met through a mom's-friends connection: "We had immediate rapport musically and kind of hit it off."
First, though, Wendel founded Kneebody in 2001. The group was nominated for a 2009 Grammy in the "classical-crossover" category for "Twelve Songs by Charles Ives," interpretations of music by the American composer (1874-1954).
The five-man group remains active and starts recording its ninth album later this year.
Wendel also is working with Daedalus (Alfred Darlington) - on a project funded by a Canadian government grant - and is helping develop The Edye, a new Los Angeles venue where he hopes to "expand jazz opportunities and access" through concerts by "high-level touring universal acts."
In Stockton, he and Tepfer hope to share some knowledge with the Brubeck Institute students - Paul Bloom, Adam Goldman, Thomas Kelley, Rane Roatta and Malachi Whitson.
"I've taught a lot and there's a certain energy you recognize in young kids who have a natural affinity for the art form," Wendel said. "They constantly want to work on it."
That's what Wendel and Tepfer do.
"Jazz is an odd combination," Wendel said. "It's very individual. At the same time, you're completely dependent on other people and the community for inspiration.
"What is jazz music? At this point, after 112 years, jazz is the music jazz musicians play while they're alive."
Even on bassoon.
Contact reporter Tony Sauro at (209) 546-8267 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Police warn about new scam
Police warn about new scam
OMAHA, Neb. —
Omaha police are warning people about a new scam.
Police said they have received phone calls from people who said they received a phone call from a man claiming that their car hit his. Police said he tells the person the number he is calling was left on his car and that he could contact them regarding the damage.
The person requests insurance information and gets irate when those he is calling do not give him their information, police said. In one case, the caller swore at the victim and threaten to come hurt her if she didn't pay him.
Police warn you to never give out information unless you are absolutely sure you know there was such a collision.
If you are a victim of this scam, call the report unit at 402-444-5977.


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Manchester man charged in series of store robberiesBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 08. 2013 9:20PM
MANCHESTER — Police say a man who attempted to rob a local convenience store Sunday but was scared off after a clerk produced a weapon of her own — a wooden pole — has been charged in two prior robberies at the same store.
Manchester police were called to the Shop-N-Go convenience mart at 188 Massabesic Street around 8 a.m. Sunday to investigate a report of an attempted armed robbery.
Police said a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses entered the store and confronted a female clerk, reportedly telling the clerk that he had a weapon and demanding money, though police say a weapon was never shown.
"He had a hand in a pocket, and said he was armed," said Manchester police Sgt. Ryan Grant.
Police say the clerk hit the man with a wooden pole she had hidden near the checkout counter, and the man fled the store without taking anything.
The clerk told police she watched the man run across the street and into an apartment.
"She followed him out of the store, and was able to identify what apartment he went into," said Grant.
Manchester police arrested Russell Bivins, 27, of 137 Massabesic Street, on a charge of robbery.
On Sunday afternoon, detectives began looking into whether Bivins fit descriptions of a robber involved in two prior robberies at the same store, one at 11:22 a.m. this past Saturday and one on Thanksgiving. In both cases, the thief claimed to have a weapon, though none was shown, and left with an undisclosed amount of money. Police would not release the total dollar amount Bivins is alleged to have stolen.
Police charged Bivins late Sunday with two additional counts of robbery, in connection with the prior Shop-N-Go robberies. He is scheduled to be arraigned today at Manchester District Court.


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Welcome to the new rosacea.org! The National Rosacea Society (NRS) has updated both the design of our website and the technology powering it to be of greater service to you.
The Fall Rosacea Review is now online at rosacea.org. This issue announces five new research grant awards, part of the National Rosacea Society's ongoing commitment to supporting medical research and funded by donations from thousands of rosacea sufferers. The newsletter also recaps recent developments in the understanding and treatment of ocular rosacea.
According to a study funded by the National Rosacea Society, researchers have found a potential connection between the nervous system and the redness and stinging of subtype 1 (erythematotelangiectatic) rosacea.
Most rosacea patients feel the negative social impact of their condition regardless of which rosacea subtype they may have, according to the results of the latest National Rosacea Society (NRS) survey.
A new technique for improving the eye symptoms of ocular rosacea, a possible biochemical clue to its diagnosis and a potential link between Demodex mites and the development of corneal ulcers are among the advances from National Rosacea Society-funded researchers to appear in recent medical journals.
The National Rosacea Society marks its 20th anniversary in 2012, and is pleased to report on the vast ongoing progress that has been made toward fulfilling its mission of improving the lives of people with rosacea through awareness, education and support of medical research.
The Summer Rosacea Review is now online at rosacea.org. This issue celebrates the 20th anniversary of the National Rosacea Society and its ongoing commitment to improving the lives of people with rosacea through awareness, education and support of medical research. The newsletter also recaps a research analysis that attempts to answer a question that has long vexed the scientific community: Which comes first – rosacea or Demodex mites?
Your dermatologist can be your best defense in keeping your rosacea at bay. Make sure your dermatologist has the best information possible on your physical condition. Here are some tips to maximize your office visits...
While the conspicuous red face and blemishes of rosacea can be embarrassing enough, they tell only part of the story as a new survey conducted by the National Rosacea Society (NRS) shows that significant physical discomfort often accompanies the visible signs of this widespread disorder now estimated to affect more than 16 million Americans.
Demodex mites, the microscopic parasites that are normal inhabitants of facial skin, have long raised the question, "Which comes first, Demodex or rosacea?" as medical experts debate whether their increased numbers on rosacea patients are a cause or a result of the disorder, and now there may be some evidence that the "chicken" — Demodex mites — and not the "egg" comes first, according to a recent scientific report.
Although sun exposure may be the most common rosacea trigger, patients who take steps to protect their skin when outdoors have been successful in reducing rosacea outbreaks, according to a new National Rosacea Society patient survey. Virtually all of the 739 respondents said they make an effort to shield their skin from the sun, and 88 percent of those said their efforts had been successful or somewhat successful in reducing their rosacea flare-ups.
Sufferers of ocular rosacea, a subtype characterized by irritated eyes, may find their symptoms worsen during certain seasons of the year. Here are some tips to help ease your discomfort:
- Block the wind. Wear glasses or sunglasses when you have to go outdoors to protect your eyes from the wind. Shielding your face with a wide-brimmed hat or umbrella may also help.
The Spring Rosacea Review is now online at rosacea.org. This issue covers the efforts of the National Rosacea Society to raise awareness on the effects of rosacea beyond personal appearance, such as emotional stress and physical pain, and features treatment options for rosacea patients who suffer from rhinophyma (subtype 3 rosacea).
Rosacea and Seborrhea. Atopic dermatitis and seborrheic dermatitis may often occur at the same time as rosacea, said Dr. Guy Webster, clinical professor of dermatology at Jefferson Medical College, speaking on "What's new in rosacea?" during the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).
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It's not supposed to happen this way. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, the stress on America's military should be easing. But Pentagon statistics obtained by Robert Burns of the Associated Press on Friday show that there were 154 suicides in the first 155 days of 2012. The external enemy is not the primary reason for the body bags anymore; suicides are exceeding combat deaths in Afghanistan by 50 percent.
It isn't for lack of attention that the numbers come as such a shock. The most disturbing aspect of these disclosures is that they involved active-duty members. This means that they are wards of the Pentagon, in many respects. And while the Pentagon has made serious and sustained efforts to address suicide, the numbers suggest that the message isn't taking hold. These efforts still seem to be viewed as civilian answers to a military problem. Suicide prevention must become, in military speak, a core mission.
The rise in active-duty suicides does not even include veterans of the wars. Veterans may provide an easier explanation for why prevention isn't working: They scatter to different states, face unemployment, or carry the wounds of war silently to their destinations.
But active-duty suicides are under our watch. When suicide deaths exceeded combat deaths in 2008 and 2009, the Defense Department launched substantial efforts to assist its active-duty members. Mental health is taken much more seriously throughout the forces. Hotlines were established, programs were funded, mental health professionals were deployed, and stress management was prioritized. A new office for Suicide Prevention and Risk Reduction was even established.
This isn't a problem with no name.
That is why the government seemed so surprised by the rise in suicides now, an 18 percent increase over the same period last year. But the combination of explanations — long deployments, multiple deployments, the nature of the combat, and the stress of whatever is going on back home, including financial and familial needs — is simply not new.
The difficulty is that soldiers still appear, despite the Pentagon's emphasis to the contrary, to believe that acknowledging depression or suicidal tendencies is unmanly, or a sign of weakness, or might undermine their chances for promotion. The institution itself seems to view dealing with suicide and mental health issues as an "add on," one of those additional requirements that don't fit the core mission but must be addressed because the numbers can't be ignored.
Whatever the excuses, the military at all levels has to take command of the situation. The message is not getting to the field. Major General Dana Pittard, a commander at Fort Bliss, went to his blog and wrote last month, "I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult, and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us." Talk about being off message. The posting was retracted, but Pittard never did admit his error and still commands one of the Army's largest units. The damage is done. And Army suicides are the highest amongst all the branches.
We know these wars are horrible; we've known so for a long time. But it's too late to fix the problem of waging wars with erroneous expectations of how they will end. That can only guide our decisions about whether we start, and how we conduct, future wars. For now, suicide in the ranks is the military's problem and, given the numbers, must be its core mission.Juliette Kayyem can be reached at email@example.com and Twitter