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A funny social anxiety shirt to make you feel a little bit better and make a joke about your self-deprecation and lack of self confidence. At least you've got a sense of humor about your insecurity. This awkward shirt is perfect as gift for introverts, or just to make yourself feel better about being a shy, awkward, introverted nerd.
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The Greatest Commandments and The Five Marks of Mission
What does it mean for Christians to love God and to love others?
What is the greatest commandment in the Law?
What does it mean to love God and to love others?
Christians believe that in order to love God and to love others a person must become more like Jesus. This is because Christians believe that Jesus is God in human form (the incarnation) and that one reason he came to earth was to show people how they should live. Many Christians believe that the way Jesus lived can be summed up in five statements – these are known as The Five Marks of Mission. In following these five marks Christians believe that they will be loving God and loving others – just as Jesus commanded them to do.
What are the Five Marks of Mission and what do they mean?
To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom
After Jesus was raised from the dead he appeared to his disciples. He told them to go into all the world and to preach the good news of the Kingdom. Christians believe that this is still something that they should do today, this is known as evangelism. The Bible teaches that the good news is that God created the world and that he loves it so much that he sent Jesus to show all people what that love is like. And what is more, one day through that love, all things will be made perfect once again, just as it was in the beginning when God first created the world. Watch a film here about what it means to be an evangelist.
To teach, baptise and encourage new believers
For Christians baptism is a sign of belonging to God's Kingdom. When a person is baptised they are saying sorry for everything they have done wrong and showing that they want to live a new life by following the example of Jesus. Part of being a Christian also includes helping and encouraging others in this new life. Click here to find out more about baptism.
To respond to the needs of people by loving service
Sadly there are a lot of people in need in the world. This might be because they do not have enough food, or money to live on. It might be because they are ill or they are lonely. There are many reasons why a person may be in need and it can happen to anyone. One of the main ways Christians believe they can show love is by helping others in need. The story of the Good Samaritan is often used as a good example of this.
To work against injustice in our society, to challenge violence of every kind and to work for peace and reconciliation
Everyday when you watch or hear the news there there are reports of trouble and war all around the world. Christians believe this is not what God wants and in fact Jesus taught, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And he goes on to say that we are to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. There are many Christians around the world who work directly to help end violence and injustice and help to bring peace and reconciliation. One such organisation is Tearfund.
To strive to look after all creation.
The Bible teaches that God created the world and everything in it. It also teaches that one job God gave to humans was to look after his creation. Many Christians believe that this is a really important job that we still need to do. By clicking here you can watch two films of Christians talking about why they think it is important to look after the world.

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A new, limited edition poster series celebrating the art
of famous guitars by graphic designer Troy Stephens.
Limited to an exclusive 100 print run, each poster is signed and numbered.
I love guitars. We all love guitars. They are the perfect example of form meets function.
Each has their own personality, feel and sound. My passion for their craftmanship
and the bands who make them live is the idea behind this poster series.
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It Makes Me Feel Good
I do not wear a lot of jewelry, normally only my wedding band and engagement ring. I don't even wear ear rings that often. But I do like to look stylish when I go out with my husband for dinner or we are meeting friends. I really like the look and feel of sterling silver jewelry. It is stylish and really makes me feel good about the way I look when I do dress up. I know my husband wants me to look good and our daughters will always comment on what I wear. As I mentioned, I don't often wear jewelry, but when I do I want it to accent the way I look.


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April 24 is Sudden Infant Death Awareness Day, and parents are reminded to know the facts when it comes to keeping babies safe.
Sudden infant death syndrome is the leading cause of baby deaths, claiming the lives of more than 2,000 in their sleep each year.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends parents and caregivers:
• Place infants on their backs to sleep.
• Do not place your infant to sleep in your bed. Instead, bring the crib into your room until your baby is at least 6 months old.
• Make sure the crib has a firm mattress and avoid soft surfaces that could suffocate a baby. Remove blankets, bumpers, toys or pillows.
• Clothe your infant to keep him warm, but avoid too many layers or warm room temperatures.
• Offer your infant a pacifier. Studies have shown a lower rate of SIDS among infants who use them.
• Breast-feed your infant whenever possible: It decreases the likelihood of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections known to contribute to SIDS risk.


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A N.S. Supreme Court negligence lawsuit found down at the Halifax Law Courts says a rather prominent Dal student activist is still suffering from significant injuries she suffered in a car accident back in 2014.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 16, 2012) - Symbility Solutions Inc.®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Automated Benefits Corp.® (TSX VENTURE:AUT), provider of accurate and easy-to-use claims processing and estimating software for the property and casualty insurance industry, today announced an extension of its strategic partnership with Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT).
"Wipro is a trusted business solution provider with global clients including 4 of the top 10 global insurers," states Symbility's President and COO, Richard Adair. "We are looking forward to leveraging Wipro's existing relationships and their strength in the Asian market as we continue our global expansion."
"Global insurers see an increasing need to expand in core and emerging markets, create innovative products and services for changing consumer demographics, optimize costs while meeting stringent regulatory norms. With our strategic partnership we will further leverage Symbility's product capabilities and continue to offer insurance carriers a dynamic and intuitive adjusting property claims solution," says Nagendra Bandaru, Global Insurance Head of Wipro Technologies. "With Symbility's leading intuitive claims processing, loss estimating solutions and process analytics technologies, we have a partner that can continue to enable us to focus on the ever-changing needs of our client base."
About Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT)
Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, IT enabled services, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro also has a strong presence in niche market segments of Infrastructure Engineering and Consumer Products & Lighting. For more information, please visit our websites at www.wipro.com.
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Automated Benefits Corp.® (TSX VENTURE:AUT) is a progressive software company dedicated to developing applications for the insurance industry in North America and Europe. The organization currently has two platforms: Symbility® and Adjudicare®.
Symbility Solutions provides powerful, accurate and easy-to-use claims processing, estimating software solutions and analytical services for Property & Casualty Insurers. Our collaborative workflow management, mobile estimating, claims triage solutions and analytical services allow insurers to reduce costs while delivering a market-leading claims experience.
Adjudicare is an advanced, practical software solution used by a network of Employee Benefits Brokers and Third Party Administrator partners across Canada in the adjudication of health and dental claims. Adjudicare's rules-based engine and leading-edge features ensure that claims are precisely adjudicated and paid in real-time, giving our partners' customers optimum flexibility, along with transparent disclosure on the benefit plan's financial performance.
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The Jane Austen ProjectBook - 2017
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Two near-future, time-traveling researchers are sent to 1815 to retrieve an unfinished Austen novel and determine the cause of her death. Unexpected romance and intrigue complicates their mission.
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The Austen fan genre is expanded by an original new novel set both in the past and the near future. Two employees of a time travel company are assigned to go back to Austen's day, ostensibly to retrieve the full copy of "The Watsons," lost for all time…until now. The blending of historical fictio... Read More »
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I enjoyed this time-travel Regency adventure. Jane Austen was charming and I enjoyed the modern day characters as well.
Interesting and fresh take on Jane Austen continuation novel. Kathleen Flynn does a great job of really immersing the reader into 1815 London. I enjoyed and related to the main character Rachel, however I felt that her fellow traveler Liam as well as most of the other characters were not fully developed. Overall a nice light read during the time of Jane Austen with a splash of time travel thrown in.
Wish this would have been written better. From the over convoluted sentences, to the characters who didn't really have much of a depth, plus the fact of that 'ending' yeah, I'm not impressed. I was excited to read it but unfortunately it ended up in the "meh" pile.
Thiught this book would be more literary than it was. Started not too bad but then turned into chick lit and eventually more sex than lit and went off the rails after that. Cannot recommend it.
Pretty awesome wish-fulfillment with bonus focus on social justice issues. The science and world-building doesn't entirely hold up at times, but I appreciate that there was some thought put into it, instead of just handwaving it as some time-traveling books do. I did enjoy how Rachel had to win over Jane Austen and they didn't just become immediate best friends forever. Minus points for there being jokes that a rude servant is possibly gay, and for a somewhat anticlimatic ending.
Time travel and Jane Austen...the perfect summer read. I thoroughly enjoyed this unique look at the life and times of Jane Austen as viewed from the perspective of two time travelers from a distant future. Mysteries regarding Jane's fatal illness and an unpublished novel add to the plot and heighten the suspense as the time travelers race against precious time to the closure of the portal they passed through to enter Regency England. Difficult choices about whether to change history or not must be made. This is an interesting and unusual sci-fi take on the Jane Austen story, and should please lovers of her work and times.
Fun Austen read for the summer - time travel back to Jane world!
The fun thing about time travel books is that I think they do a much better job at conveying the total strangeness of the past than a lot of historical fiction does, because the setting is portrayed through the eyes of a person not of that era. This is clearly quite well-researched, with a lot of period detail that I really appreciated. Flynn also clearly knows her Austen, and it was interesting to see her take on her life. I thought the sci-fi elements of the time travel itself could have been more well-developed, and the romantic subplot could have felt less -- I dunno... obligatory? But I'd certainly recommend this to Jane Austen fans who haven't yet wearied of the 5,000 or so literary tributes to her. It's a fun read.
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Welcome to another Riley and Company challenge!
Frances has come up with the cutest challenge.
The subject is Buttons and Bows. Please join
us and post your idea at Splitcoast Stampers with
the keywords of Riley 1211. Or post a link
in the comments right here.
Buttons and bows makes me think girly frilly and
oh did I have the perfect stamp for that!
So here is my card! All frilly with buttons
and a bow!
The featured stamp is the adorable new
Carousel Riley from the Riley Goes to the Circus
collection. This new collection has been quite
a hit! See all the new stamps here.
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Diageo has embarked on a major overhaul of its Japanese distribution arrangements.
Diageo has embarked on a major overhaul of its Japanese distribution arrangements.
From Oct 1, its MHD joint venture with Moet Hennessy will focus principally on luxury malt and blended whisky brands, including Blue, Green and Gold Label versions of Johnnie Walker, plus Old Parr and Talisker.
MHD is also to get Japanese distribution rights for Zacapa rum and Bulleit Bourbon to beef up its luxury dark spirits portfolio.
At the same time, 13 brands will transfer to Kirin Brewery which already handles Diageo's Guinness, Kilkenny and Smirnoff Ice brands.
The new additions include Johnnie Walker Black and Red, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Baileys.
The move follows the formation of a Diageo Kirin, a joint venture to develop an overall business strategy for Diageo's premium brands in Japan.
Diageo said the reshuffle would "streamline distribution of its products while playing directly to the core strengths of both partners".


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Check out some of the KEXP DJ's favorite artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world on-the-go. KEXP's Music That Matters weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world's best independent artists.
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Music That Matters, Vol. 598 – Barton Fink Feeling
The Music that Matters podcast that defies description yet has that Barton Fink feeling with songs from great new artists (make sure to listen to HOLY!) and old favorites like Buffalo Tom, Elvis Perkins and Geowulf.
1. Elvis Perkins – There Go the Nightmericans
2. Jonathan Wilson – Over the Midnight
3. Hatchie – Sure
4. Geowulf – Hideaway
5. Milagres – Flame
6. TR/ST – Destroyer
7. HOLY – Heard Her
8. Amusement Parks On Fire – Our Goal To Realise
9. Buffalo Tom – All Be Gone
10. Mind Spiders – Outside
11. Unlikely Friends – King of the Last Calls
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princess sandwich
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come over and enjoy a chicken or beef doner kebab,it is so good,it will taste better than your first kiss.
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Hello friends. We would like to introduce to you our new "invention"- The Grilled Salmon Wrap. It's like you are eating sushi 🍣, but it's actually better. Try it yourself and let us know. We love 💘 it, and want to hear from you. 😀
NEW! Football and Basketball Pizzas!
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Football season just started and basketball is just around the corner, and we decided to add bigger size pizzas so you can enjoy the games better. Now you can order 30''x16''(football size) for only 26.95$ or 26''x14''(basketball size) for 21.95$ pizzas and save some dollars. And to make even better deal we added a coupon
(enough for 8-10 people)
Up to 3 Toppings
Half Tray of Greek Salad
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That is as low as 5.99 per person. ENJOY!
Now serving pizza!!! Deliciuos Thin Crust and Pan Pizzas!!!
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We are very happy to introduce new additions to our menu. Tasty World Restaurant is now offering tasty pizza. Our owner and staff ( with over 25 years of experience in the pizza making business combined) have been working hard to develop an outstanding recipes to make pizza that is different and better than the others. We know people like Gyros, Greek food and Pizza, so we decided to combine all in One 🙂 At Tasty World you can find the usual toppings and a little more....Enjoy 🙂
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Baby back ribs
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We don't usually cook baby back ribs, but when we do, we make the best Honey Garlic Ribs with potatoes sote 🙂


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June 28, 2011
Diamonds and Pearls
Outfit Details:
Lacey Lullaby lace jacket – c/o Ruche
crochet tank – thrifted
jeans – c/o J Brand (I'm pretty sure they're this style)
belt – thrifted
Sarka wedges – Aldo
Mikimoto Japan Relief pendant (100% of proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross)
glasses – Ray-Ban
Rebecca Minkoff Small Boy Toy Satchel – c/o Rebecca Minkoff
lipstick – MAC Russian Red
I just took Tessa and Ally to the airport and I'm pretty sad about that. However, my cousin and her husband are coming to visit, and they arrive tonight! I love Summer and all of the visitors it brings. It might take me awhile to get caught up on the blog with current photos, but I promise the time lapse will soon fade. I have lots of photos to share from my sister's visit.


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The villain this time terrorizing the quaint town of Shadowbrook was the Scarecrow. We were playing the BASIC version of the game so he only used the green power listed on his card. Unfortunately for us going in we didn't know how demoralizing this would be later on.
Basically the Scarecrow gains power and health as the game goes on. As the Darkness Track counts down he gets more and more powerful. Since we play the co-op version of the game he already has his hit points multiplied by however many heroes there are. In this case 2 so he started at 10 hp's.
As the game went on he managed to sway one town elder to his side and that buffed him even further. In the co-op game as the Darkness Track goes down he gets bonuses anyway and that coupled with his power had him at almost 20 hit points and 12 attack dice by the end of the game. Very very nasty.
The heroes we were playing were the Scarlet Shadow and Isabella Von Took. We used the wrong miniature for Isabella. One thing I hate is it is hard to tell what miniature is what unlike Wrath of Ashardalon which labels them on the bottom.
We used one board this time around, the base board that comes with the game. However we had mixed in Event, Town and Mystery cards from Something Wicked, both Hero Packs and some promo cards we got at Gen Con 2012.
The best part of this game is the randomness of the Town Elders. These are people that are well respected in the community of Shadowbrook but each has a hidden dark secret revealed as you play the game. These are random each time too. You spend investigation points to learn these secrets and you do so because at the end of the game, when you track the villain to his lair, you can bring two Town Elders to join you. Only problem is some of them may switch to the darkside and you need to know this before you select them because they may end up buffing the Villain.
During this game we found out the following:
Doctor Manning was a bumbling fool. Though wary of the Scarecrow terrorizing the town, he was not careful and was killed in a most "horrible way."
Lady Hanbrook was a Revolutionary War criminal but could be trusted to help us.
Magistrate Kroft was a peeping Tom pervert but he also could be trusted.
Sadly on turn one, Lord Hanbrook turned out to be working secretly with the Scarecrow and turned evil, running off to his secret lair and joining him in rampaging about the countryside murdering people.
Our problems just multiplied as the game went on. Due to some bad card draws the Darkness Track kept creeping down and down and down. This buffed the Scarecrow to near super villain status and we knew that we had to make our move QUICK and attack him before he was too strong. Several events like Harvest Wind and many many attacks by Crows had us reeling late into the game and before we knew it the track was one away from buffing the Scarecrow to +4 in both his stats (combat and wounds).
We got as strong as we could by visiting the Blacksmith and buying some weapons and armor, I then paid the investigation and low and behold we tracked the Scarecrow to the Fields. That seemed almost too fitting to be true.
Isabella joined me and we took our two Town Elders, one apiece, and charged into the Scarecrows lair.
We managed to put about 11 wounds on him until a Town Elder was killed during the final showdown. This caused the Darkness Track to flip to the next stage and further buffed the Scarecrow with 4 more combat dice. As we played our last bag of tricks as far as event cards and the like he slowly started to pummel us. At this point we sent Sophie the Town Elder back to town before she died and Isabella was knocked unconscious. The rule in co-op is that if BOTH heroes are ever in a KO'd state you lose immediately. I knew I had to escape the combat so I got out of the lair barely living.
Next turn the Scarecrow healed 5 wounds and we knew that he was out of reach of destroying. Although we killed his evil minion Lord Hanbrook we knew that there was no hope in defeating him. During the middle of the night we left Shadowbrook to its own demise. We felt like cowards sure but we knew we would be back to fight another day.
For our next game the expansion Something Wicked will be used and we will add another board. Rumor has it there is a Necromancer in town raising the dead and causing havoc. This must be investigated!


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Rotary International is a worldwide service association of local clubs that provide humanitarian service to the community at local, national and international level. With over 33,000 clubs in 200 countries and a membership in excess of 1,200,000, Rotary is a significant worldwide organisation, promoting goodwill, peace and cooperation between people of diverse ethnic and social backgrounds.
Service above self
From fundraising and events management to environmental and landscape improvements, social care and mentoring young people, Rotary offers a multitude of ways that active and enthusiastic people can work together in the service of others and have a great time doing so.
Rotary members and associates come from many walks of life and particularly from the world of business and the professions, which means that every active contribution is also an opportunity to socialise and learn from each other.
We meet most Monday evenings at 7:15 for 7:30pm at The Swan Hotel, West Street, Alresford. If you would like to visit, please call the Club Secretary Jon Pittam 01962 733903 before 10.00 am Monday so he can make catering arrangements. It is also a good idea to check with the calendar in case we are meeting elsewhere when you plan to visit.
Regular activities
In addition to a wide range of one-off community and charity projects, Alresford Rotary Club runs several regular and annual events, including:
- The Alresford 10k Run
- Bonfire Night firework celebrations
- Alresford Bike Quest
- Alresford Business Breakfast
- Christmas Tree Market
Find out more about all these events on the Activities page. You can also browse the many photographs taken by our members over the years on our Flickr page.
Youth competitions and awards
From the Young Citizen Awards and Youth Speaks to Young Chef and Young Musician, Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland (RIBI) organises a wide variety of competitions that celebrate the talents and achievements of young people.
Find out more on the RIBI Young Rotary webpage and visit our Activities page to find out which competitions you can enter via Alresford Rotary.
Youth Exchange and scholarships
Rotary Youth Exchange provides life-changing foreign exchange opportunities for 9,000 young people worldwide. Rotary also runs a range of scholarships for international camps and tours, aimed at encouraging personal development, while at the same time helping to further world understanding. For further information about this, or anything else about Alresford Rotary, contact any Rotary club member, or email us via the Contact page.
Rotary Wessex – District 1110
Rotary Clubs are organised into Districts. Ours is Rotary Wessex, or, more formally, District 1110. The District Website is here.


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This edition supersedes the previous edition (01.07.2010) and may be supplemented with new update sheets.
A new generic QUALANOD logo and logos for the four types of Anodizing are implemented to support the new specifications.
The contact and coordinating office is the Secretariat, managed by Josef Schoppig of AC Treuhand AG in Zurich.
You find here the contact details of the general licensees, licensed anodiser and testing institutes of several countries.
QUALANOD is a quality label organisation committed to maintaining and promoting the quality of anodised aluminium. To determine ...


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Game of Thrones interview confirms our worst fears for the series finale
We're going to say this once, nice and clear so there'll be no hate mmkay?
This post contains spoilers. Don't @ me.
Okay, phew. Now the formalities are done, let's get down to business shall we?
The annual INTV conference was held in Jerusalem yesterday and while we'd love to say the event was filled with canapés and unbridled gushing over our fav flicks...
We can't.
Something bad happened you guys...
Francsca Orsi, Senior Vice President of Drama at HBO, has strongly implied (like, almost fully said it) that every single character on Game of Thrones is going to bite the dust come curtain call.
In fact, her exact words were, "one by one".
Speaking about a table read for one of the last episodes, Francesca explained that the whole cast cried and clapped for 15 minutes they were so overwhelmed.
"It was a really powerful moment in our lives and our careers," she explained at the panel.
"None of the cast had received the scripts prior, and one by one they started falling down to their deaths."
'BUT WHYYYY?!??!?!' we hear you scream.
Well, because we're going to be gifted with not one, not two, but up to five spinoffs.
"It feels like corporate malfeasance to not continue it," she said of the spinoffs. "That's why it spawned three, four, five spinoffs."
Five kind of seems like a lot TBH but there's a more serious matter at hand:
Is everyone really going to die? And, for the sake of spinoffs or nah?
Image: Game of Thrones / HBO
Kate Ritchie gets fooled into thinking she's about to take on Fitzy & Wippa in rap battle:
What do you think of the new look?
Do you see anything wrong with it?
Merry bloody Christmas.


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Carol's healing ministry began in 1990 after a traumatic hiking accident. Immediately following, a metamorphosis occurred and she was guided by the Divine to begin her healing work and to accelerate her personal growth. It has become her passion and she has dedicated her life to assisting others on their path to health, enlightenment and wholeness.
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A man gets off an elevator in a Boston high-rise. His nose begins to bleed and within moments of stepping onto the floor, he passes out. A bike courier begins to give him CPR when suddenly his veins begin to bulge through his skin, followed by him spewing out blood.
Olivia and Peter have started the investigation when the rest of the team arrives. While Peter and Olivia are upstairs questioning witnesses, Walter and Broyles stand outside and happen to witness the bike courier dying in the front lobby. They soon realize that what caused this man to die is a deadly virus. It is contagious and looking for a host to live in.
They quarantine the building. The four city blocks surrounding it are shut down, and the CDC is brought in. Walter tries to solve the case from outside the building. However, Olivia and Peter are still inside and possibly infected. They try to keep the witnesses calm. As time goes by, the virus keeps contaminating people and causing them to react violently. The virus eventually kills its victims.
Walter and a team of CDC agents enter in hazmat suits in order to weed out the non-infected people. Once Olivia and Peter are cleared, they begin to exit the building. Suddenly, the CDC agents realize that Peter is infected. He is locked in the building with the other infected victims.
Knowing that the life of Peter and the other victims are at stake, Walter finally discovers the antidote to the virus that is made up of household items. They still need to figure out how to calm the already-infected. Walter figures out a solution to kill the virus, but they still need to get close to the infected people to cure them. In their sickness, the infected will kill anyone to protect the life of the virus. As a last resort, Olivia goes back in to the building to activate the ventilation system so that fentanyl gas can circulate and knock the victims unconscious. This helps them administer the antidote. The team succeeds and Peter's life is spared.


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This article originally appeared in the September 2008 issue of Architectural Digest.
"I love New York," asserts Michael Schaible, more than 2,000 miles away from the city he called home for several decades. "I'll always go back to visit. But this is what I call my F.R.P.—my final resting place."
Don't worry: He's perfectly healthy. The designer who rose to prominence as one half of Bray-Schaible, minimalism's dynamic duo, isn't ready to give up the ghost just yet. But after spending nearly 35 years at the cutting edge, he does find himself ready to give up his old life of constant racing. Bray-Schaible's interiors, even when they strayed from their trademark minimalism, always conveyed a quietude that belied the frantic energy required to produce such an effect. It's only fair that Schaible should get some of that peacefulness for himself.
Stylistically speaking, his choice for a final resting place may surprise: the Jaliscan town of Ajijic, on the banks of Lake Chapala, the largest freshwater lake in Mexico—land of brightly hued ceramic tiles, terra-cotta floors, ornate fountains and sprawling haciendas with painted stucco walls. It's not that Schaible has always seen the world in black and white. But how could he ever manage in a world of turquoise and coral?
"I came down here to visit friends four years ago," he says. "And within three days I knew I wanted to be here. I fell in love with the weather, the lake, the people. I had been looking for a place to retire, and I really hadn't been able to find one—other than New Zealand, which was too far away and where I didn't have any friends."
Those friends were the late John King, an architect, and his wife, Norma, an interior designer. After moving to Ajijic and rebuilding their own villa (see Architectural Digest, September 2005), the Kings became vocal boosters for the area, which has become a popular retirement and second-home destination for Americans and Canadians. Schaible ended up buying a piece of property from the Kings; on it he envisioned a house that would be, wholly and distinctly, his. After securing John King's architectonic blessing, Schaible designed the 10-room, 6,000-square-foot residence from the ground up, including interiors, furniture and plantings. "It was the first time I'd been able to do this without any input, or any requirements, from anybody else," he says. "It was all about me."
Anyone who is familiar with the Bray-Schaible style will have no trouble placing the house in this designer's continuum. "Basically, it's a white-and-black house," says Schaible. "It's very minimal in a sense—very industrial and modern." But, as is often true of his best work, there's much more to less-is-more than meets the eye. Schaible has never made a secret of his ecumenical array of inspirations, which include "Le Corbusier, Japanese architecture, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Mexican, even Shaker," he says. All of these influences are synthesized into the personal style that determines "how I live and how I've wanted to live."
There may be some German and Dutch in there as well, if the front entrance is any indication. Walter Gropius and his fellow Bauhaus devotees would doubtless have loved the austerity of the street-side façade, a plane of International Style white broken up by explosions of royal blue and bright yellow that Piet Mondrian might have envied. The front door opens onto a courtyard—no grand Mexican house, even a starkly modern one, would be complete without a courtyard—where a Schaible-designed water feature, a bronze urn, satisfies the requirement for a fountain, which the great Mexican architect Luis Barragán believed brings any house "peace, joy and restful sensuality."
In the combined living/dining room, Schaible sheathed sofas and ottomans of his own design with simple white slipcovers. Between them is a Schaible-designed low table inspired by Japanese lacquered trays, near a pair of Noguchi floor lamps. The fireplace is an unornamented rectangle cut into an earthy green wall about two feet from the floor: an elegantly minimalist frame for works of Promethean art.
A round, glass-topped Bray-Schaible table in the dining area is lovely, but who wants to eat indoors when the weather is perfect—which, according to Schaible, is pretty much always? (Thanks to Ajijic's barometric and topographic good fortune, he says, "it's never humid here. Dry heat. I love that.") From the sextet of slipcovered lounge chairs on the loggia, he and his guests, of whom there are many, can peer out through the columns and see the azure ribbon pool, lush plantings, even the very tops of the nearby mountains.
Guests who end up staying a while enjoy their own private casita, decorated starkly but lovingly in the same black-and-white palette that Schaible uses in his own bedroom. "I love the cleanliness of minimalism, the simple lines," he says, confirming what the world already knows. "I've always felt so comfortable in minimal architecture. I love to bring in things—but I also love to take them away."
Friends and visitors who see the house often tell him that, aside from a few touches here and there, its style isn't identifiably Mexican. Schaible, who collects ideas from all over the world and from throughout history—then artfully strips them down until they conform to his own unique vision—likes it that way.
"A lot of people have said to me, It could be anywhere,' " he says. "And my answer is, well, most good architecture really could be anywhere."


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***Copied from The Phoenix New Times***
It was an arduous trail that led investigators in the Jeanne Tovrea murder case to accused killer James "Butch" Harrod. A commonsight en route was Edward "Hap" Tovrea Jr.
The Suspect's Sidekick
By Paul Rubin
March 6 - March 12, 1997
The lead news story in Arizona on April 1, 1988, was a grabber. "Socialite found slain," the headline in a Phoenix daily blared.
The crime could have been taken from a Columbo script--a millionaire heiress to a cattle fortune is executed as she sleeps in her home.
Phoenix police had responded about 1 a.m. to an alarm emanating from Lincoln Hills Estates, a gated, exclusive neighborhood near the Paradise Valley border.
Inside a home at the rear of the subdivision, they found the body of Jeanne Gunter Tovrea; she had been shot in the head five times from close range. The widow of famed Arizona cattle baron and war hero Edward Tovrea Sr. was 55.
Within minutes, a police helicopter hovered over the hills behind Jeanne's home. The moon was almost full, but the airborne cops saw nothing amiss.
The subdivision's security guards had nothing of substance to
Police dogs failed to pick up a scent along the suspected escape route--up a hill about 100 yards to a secluded cul-de-sac situated off North 36th Street.
Detectives say the best chance of breaking a case comes in the first few days after a crime. Jeanne Tovrea's murder didn't fit that category. But homicide detectives soon established two leads:
* Jeanne had been frightened of a man named Gordon Phillips, whom she'd met at least once and had spoken with by phone often in the months before she was killed.
* Jeanne and her late husband's three children--Edward Jr., Georgia and Priscilla (known as Hap, Cricket and Prissy, respectively)--didn't get along.
A detective examining Jeanne's relationship with her stepchildren interviewed attorney Ken Reeves a few days after the murder. Now a Maricopa County court commissioner, Reeves in 1988 was Jeanne's attorney. A police report summarized Reeves' comments: "The children of Mr. Ed Tovrea benefit by the death of Mrs. Tovrea simply because she is out of the picture. . . . Mr. Reeves termed the picture as being several million dollars."
Like much of what is being revealed in this three-part series, Phoenix investigators blacked that comment out from reports released to the media.
Detectives also suppressed that someone--surely the killer or an accomplice--had left a dozen fingerprints at the point of entry into Jeanne's home, a kitchen window. The same person had left prints on a kitchen sink and counter. Authorities kept secret that the kitchen window was the only one not hooked up to the home's alarm system.
The police did release snippets of information--that the killer had placed a pillow over Jeanne's head before shooting her, and that some of her credit cards and, possibly, jewelry were missing. (No one ever used the cards, which never were recovered. And the missing jewelry was later found at the home.)
The most intriguing quote published in the days after the murder came not from police but from a Tovrea family member.
"I think someone hired someone to do this thing," Phil Tovrea III--nephew of Ed Tovrea Sr.--told the Phoenix Gazette. "A burglar doesn't shoot somebody five times in the head."
On April 5, 1988, Phoenix detective Dave Lott interviewed Hap and Cricket Tovrea in San Diego. The pair had ironclad alibis--they'd both been in California on the night of the murder.
Lott asked Hap what he knew about Gordon Phillips, a purported writer who had haunted Jeanne during her final months. Hap said he didn't know anyone by that name.
He said his father had left him and his sisters $200,000 each in his will, doled out at $1,500 per month. (He and his sisters also collected $60,000 in life insurance benefits after his dad's death in 1983.)
Hap and Cricket said that whatever money they'd get from Jeanne's estate was of minor consequence. They stated they were financially set, thanks to trusts established by their grandfather, Philip Tovrea, and their father, Ed Sr.
Within months, however, the children would be joined by their sister Prissy in a series of bitter court battles over Jeanne's estate. Their aim--to get more money. (They would lose each of the four lawsuits they brought against the estate, its attorneys, trust companies and others.)
Most of the bickering stemmed from a provision in Ed Sr.'s will. It instructed Jeanne to put about half of his estate into an account that would be given to Hap and his sisters--but only after Jeanne died.
Hap and Cricket told the detective they had no idea and didn't care how much money was in the account--it turned out to be about $4 million.
They may not have known the exact amount. But testimony they gave in the subsequent court cases indicates they did know it would be substantial. And they also knew the will granted Jeanne the right to spend the interest generated by the account--about $400,000 a year.
"They were completely aware of the money, and what they thought they had coming to them," attorney Ken Reeves tells New Times. "Everybody thought the kids would sue her for something someday, and they did."
(None of Jeanne Tovrea's stepchildren responded to requests from New Times for comment; none has been charged with any crime. The most recent record of Hap Tovrea discussing the case was with Phoenix detectives during a September 1995 interview, during which he denied any wrongdoing.)
Detective Lott knew little of this when he first interviewed Hap and Cricket in San Diego. On April 6, 1988, the siblings voluntarily submitted to fingerprinting--"for elimination purposes" as suspects, the cops called it--at the San Diego Police Department. Their sister, Prissy, was fingerprinted in Colorado.
None of the stepchildren attended Jeanne's memorial service in
Jeanne Tovrea was buried in her native Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on April 8. Her will named her sister, Sandra Elder, and her biological daughter, Deborah Nolan-Luster, as her estate's co-executors.
Her taxable estate totaled about $8.8 million, including $2.7 million in life insurance. Jeanne had purchased the massive life insurance policy six months before she was murdered, in part because she feared the mysterious Gordon Phillips.
Jeanne named her daughter as the sole beneficiary of the insurance policy, but, ironically, Hap, Cricket and Prissy were forced to pay almost $1 million in taxes on Nolan-Luster's benefits.
After estate taxes, legal fees, bequests and other expenses, the $4 million trust generated about $600,000 for each of Ed Sr.'s three children.
Phoenix police assigned four homicide detectives to the murder case. Within weeks, the team had interviewed more than 100 people.
Tips came in by the dozen, as they often do in high-profile cases. The best, yet most frustrating lead was Gordon Phillips, the stranger who had intruded into Jeanne's life in 1987 and then retreated to the shadows.
Deborah Nolan-Luster rummaged through her late mother's belongings at the Lincoln Hills residence. It was April 18, 1988, less than three weeks after Jeanne Tovrea's murder.
Nolan-Luster flipped on her mother's phone-answering machine. Two of the messages on the tape startled her.
"Jeanne, this is Gordon Phillips. I'm sorry to get back with you so late. I had a little problem with Ed Jr. [Hap], which I had to go to L.A. to take care of, and I've already talked to a judge over there. Now, I'm back in Phoenix and I will try and call back this afternoon and I have the information for you."
A second message from Phillips promised another call.
Nolan-Luster instantly recognized the voice and name on the machine. Hearing it sent shivers through her. She notified police as soon as she could compose herself.
She and several of Jeanne's friends already had told detectives about Phillips and how he'd frightened Jeanne. But Nolan-Luster was the only person who could say she'd met the man.
That meeting had occurred in July 1987. Phillips had claimed to be a writer for Time Life publications, and told Jeanne he wanted to do a story about her late husband, World War II hero Ed Tovrea Sr.
After rebuffing Phillips for weeks, Jeanne finally had agreed to meet him in Newport Beach, California, during the July 4 holiday weekend.
Nolan-Luster and her future husband, Mike, were with her when Phillips had shown up. (Mike Luster later said he'd never ventured out to meet Phillips.)
Nolan-Luster and her mother thought it odd that Phillips had posed so few questions about Ed Sr.'s exploits. Instead, the middle-aged white man mostly had asked Jeanne about her life, and spoke of his own war experiences in Vietnam.
Subsequent sleuthing by Jeanne's friends revealed that no one named Gordon Phillips worked for Time Life. But Jeanne never followed her daughter's advice that she notify authorities or hire a bodyguard.
Based on other messages on her mother's answering machine, Nolan-Luster deduced that Phillips had left his cryptic messages around October 1987, three months after the Newport Beach meeting.
Detectives worked feverishly on the Gordon Phillips lead, but it quickly reached a dead end. It would take years for the phone message to have any impact on the murder investigation.
When it finally did, it would be profound.
Authorities allege that Gordon Phillips really was James "Butch" Harrod, the man now awaiting trial on charges of murdering Jeanne Tovrea. He says he's innocent, and that he wasn't Phillips.
Nolan-Luster identified Harrod as Gordon Phillips in a December 1996 lineup conducted at Madison Street Jail. At the time, she claimed never to have seen a photographic or videotaped image of Harrod after his arrest.
Unanswered even now, however, is why the Phillips character, whoever he was, had been so insistent on meeting Jeanne in Newport Beach. Had he planned to execute her there, only to be thwarted because her daughter and future son-in-law were present?
Police considered Deborah Nolan-Luster a suspect soon after the murder, if only because of the $2.7 million in life insurance proceeds she collected after her mother's death.
But their investigation revealed that mother and daughter had gotten along well. (The only naysayer had been Hap Tovrea, who told police Jeanne's knuckles would "turn white" whenever she mentioned her daughter.)
Detectives also had discounted as a suspect the man Jeanne was romancing at the time of her death. Jeanne's boyfriend, a former rodeo champion from Las Vegas named Eddie, had spent time with her in Phoenix and Las Vegas, with no apparent discord.
Eddie's wife of two decades perhaps was a better suspect than her wayward husband. She had a motive--jealousy--but no evidence against her turned up.
As Phoenix detectives learned more about the rancor between Jeanne and her stepchildren, they focused on Hap, who was living in La Jolla, California.
In July 1988, investigators obtained Hap's phone records. Most of Hap's high-frequency toll calls immediately before the murder were explicable. He had spoken often to his mother, to a girlfriend, to a lifelong pal, and to his sister Prissy in Colorado.
But detectives were curious about one spate of calls from Hap to a Tempe number in the days preceding Jeanne's murder. Hap had phoned someone named James Harrod 33 times in the 10 days before the murder.
The records showed Hap had phoned Harrod at 8:20 on the morning after the murder. That call was placed immediately after Hap's first long-distance call that day, which was made to a family friend. He told police that the friend had told him of Jeanne's death.
(Detectives wouldn't learn until years later that there also had been a flurry of calls from Harrod to Hap, including seven on the day before the murder.)
Detective Lott made a notation in a notebook on July 26, 1988, to contact Harrod. An interview was scheduled for August 8.
Remarkably, he and another detective, Richard Fuqua, have little recollection of their meeting with the man now accused of being Jeanne Tovrea's killer.
They certainly drew no connection at the time between Harrod's soft Southern twang and the voice in the messages left by Gordon Phillips.
Harrod says he recalls the interview vividly.
"It was one guy, Richard Fuqua," he tells New Times. "First thing, he shook my hand and said, 'You're not the guy.' 'What do you mean?' 'No offense, but whoever did this is a real athlete.' I said, 'In this case, no offense taken.'
"He told me unequivocally that I wasn't Gordon Phillips and, obviously, he'd heard that tape recording hundreds of times. I told him right out that I had talked to Jeanne once when I was looking for Hap. The thing was over quick."
The police didn't consider the short interview noteworthy, and didn't even document it in a report. Instead, one of the detectives scribbled notes in a spiral book:
"James C. Harrod. 1130. Known Hap for about one year--business associate. . . . See no problem with Hap. Last saw him last week. Trying to contact him. Now, Monday, 8-8-88, lives in San Diego. . . . Have no knowledge of [murder]. Had spoken to [victim] about Hap. She said he [Hap] is irresponsible."
Harrod's claim about "trying to contact" Hap was an
Phone records obtained by New Times indicate Harrod called Hap Tovrea 17 times in the 12 days between July 27--when police likely had contacted Harrod to set up the interview--and August 8, the date of the interview. (Hap called Harrod twice during that period.)
The pair spoke for 22 minutes on the night after the interview. Explains Harrod:
"Maybe this was around the time Ed Jr. [Hap] told me, 'I think someone might come after me,' talking about his stepmother's murder. I said, 'Anything you want to tell me?' and he said no. I said, 'Is there some reason I should not be working with Hap Tovrea? If there's a problem here, I don't want to be involved.' He told me I wasn't involved.
"I'm not claiming to be a genius, but if I was plotting with him, don't you think I could have found a phone booth?"
Butch Harrod says he and Hap Tovrea met through a mutual friend, probably in early 1987. Though the two came from disparate backgrounds--Harrod grew up in a middle-class household, while Hap was born into money--they had much in common.
Both were big talkers who eschewed the 9-to-5 life and had flitted from project to project without hitting the jackpot.
Harrod was married in September 1985 to Anne, a respected midlevel employee at a large Phoenix company. From the start, the couple relied on Anne's income to make ends meet.
Harrod fancied himself a "consultant," capable of arranging business deals. In reality, his skills rarely translated into dollars.
In 1989, for example, he listed $13,300 in gross receipts for his consulting efforts, all stemming from work he did for Hap Tovrea. And that was a good year.
Unlike Harrod, Hap in the late 1980s knew where his next dollar was coming from--the trust funds he'd inherited from his father and grandfather.
Never married, Hap played the field in his personal and business relationships. He adored in no particular order: the ocean, pretty women and a good joke.
This playboy image, however, contradicted another facet of Hap's personality: He seemed to want to prove that, like his father, he could be a business whiz.
He wasn't.
In 1988, Hap became the chief executive officer of a Chilean-based sulfur-mining firm, Minerals Exploration Corporation of the Americas.
Records show he poured $225,000 into MECA on April 11, 1988, 10 days after Jeanne's murder. But other records show Hap claimed only $22,529 in taxable business income for 1988. In 1990, he claimed just $6,084.
Harrod says he first approached Hap about expanding MECA's horizons to the People's Republic of China in late 1987.
Investigators betrayed their strong suspicions in interviews and police reports before and after Butch Harrod's arrest in September 1995: They suspect that the "China deal," as it came to be known, was a ruse devised to allow Hap to pay Harrod for murdering Jeanne Tovrea.
That may be true, though Harrod and Hap deny it. But there's evidence that the deal had threads of legitimacy.
Harrod first had been to China in early 1986, as a middleman in a deal orchestrated by Valley attorney Gilbert Montano.
A former prosecutor, Montano convinced two Denver men to invest $50,000 in a prospective shrimp-farming venture in China's Yantai Province.
Harrod says he met Montano in the early 1980s. Montano in turn introduced him to Ji Sheng "Jason" Hu, a Chinese immigrant now living in Scottsdale.
Hu had connections in China, a difficult country for foreigners to engage in commerce. Exactly what Harrod brought to the table is unclear. But records show Montano paid Harrod $4,000 a month in late 1985 and early 1986 to help with the shrimp deal.
Harrod's passport indicates he spent about three weeks in China and Hong Kong, during which he and Hu won a coveted "letter of intent" from the Chinese government to do business.
But Montano had illegally pocketed much of the investors' $50,000, and the project evaporated before one shrimp ever saw the barbie. A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Montano in June 1986 on fraud and theft charges, and prosecutors recruited Butch Harrod as a potential witness.
(Montano plea-bargained, then fled before his scheduled sentencing in January 1987. He remains a fugitive.)
An investigator in the Montano case wrote in July 1986 that Harrod feared "his reputation and ability to deal with the Chinese government has been damaged severely . . ."
That didn't stop Harrod and Jason Hu from signing a 20-year contract with Hap Tovrea on March 15, 1989. That day, the trio flew to China, ostensibly to investigate prospects for sulfur mining.
The contract called for MECA to pay Harrod and Hu an unspecified amount for services and expenses. If the project took off, Harrod and Hu stood to collect a percentage of the royalties.
The trio spent about three weeks in China. Harrod says he and Hap shared a hotel room during their stay. His descriptions of Hap (whom he calls by his given name, Ed), the China deal and their relationship evolved over a yearlong series of interviews with New Times.
June 1996: "We weren't falling-down-getting-drunk buddies, but I got to know him living in the same room with him. He was not what you call a spending fanatic. Ed's kind of a Southern California, laid-back guy. There's not the greed that I've seen in some people. He's a nice guy. What went wrong with us over China was business, not personal."
August 1996: "He's fairly articulate. He's got this air of assurance--but more from the money he's had backing it up. He's pseudosophisticated or Phoenix-sophisticated--a standard level of arrogance for a trust-fund baby."
December 1996: "Ed thought big because his predecessors did big things, but there was a distinct difference between them: He talked big and they did big. Ed was pampered--you could tell he wanted to scratch the dirt, but that's hard when you get your nails manicured."
February 1997: "It could have been, should have been a deal worth multimillions of dollars. If someone comes back and says, 'Why were you upset with Ed?' Basically, I wasted a lot of time and effort. They're trying to make it look like we put this little package together real quick, so we'd have, quote, a cover for the big payoff on the murder. This was a real deal. Sometimes you get the ring, sometimes you don't."
The sulfur project died as abjectly as the shrimp-farming project had
If Harrod testifies at his trial, he'll surely be asked to explain what he did to merit payments from Hap and MECA for 15 months after he returned to the States in April 1989.
Records show MECA paid Harrod $13,300 throughout 1989 for "consulting" fees related to the China trip.
Jason Hu was paid $11,000 by MECA, with payments ceasing that July. That's when the payments to Hu--arguably more important to any deal that might be struck in China than Harrod--stopped.
In September 1989, MECA's board of directors met in a special session chaired by Hap Tovrea. The minutes of that meeting take note of the China deal:
"The chairman noted that the exploratory agreement with its agents in re the possible exploitation of sulfur deposits in the People's Republic of China have been placed on indefinite hold in light of the tumultuous political situation [the June 1989 student rebellion] there."
But Hap's records suggest he continued to pay Harrod for "consulting" work on the China project until July 1990. According to Hap's check stubs, MECA paid Harrod at least $21,000 more after the September 1989 board meeting. It isn't clear who those checks were made out to--only that they were deposited in unspecified accounts in San Diego-area banks.
Authorities suspect that the continued payments were for services rendered not in China, but at Lincoln Hills Estates in April 1988.
Harrod is adamant that $13,300 is all Hap Tovrea ever paid him; records examined by New Times don't show whether he actually collected the extra thousands put into the San Diego banks.
"I never got any $35,000 from Hap," Harrod says, "though I had it coming to me per the verbal part of our agreement. I'd like to see my signature on any of those checks. Sounds to me like he might have been funneling some money to himself and then putting my name on his register."
The investigation of Jeanne Tovrea's murder took several left
In the early 1990s, for example, authorities spent considerable time trying to sort out leads provided by Joe Calo, a hit man who has admitted to committing seven murders. Calo is serving 10 life sentences in Arizona.
Calo alleged that Jim Majors--a former associate now on death row in California for a triple murder--had killed Jeanne Tovrea for some Phoenix mobsters.
He claimed Jeanne had served as a courier of drugs and laundered money for the mob, mostly for thrills. Jeanne "knew too much" about the mobsters' operations, the killer said, and, therefore, had to die.
Calo crafted his tale from bits and pieces gleaned from media accounts and, possibly, his interrogators. County prosecutors eventually determined that Calo's story, while enticing, didn't pass muster.
Stymied Phoenix police contacted the television show Unsolved Mysteries. The episode on the Tovrea murder first aired April 15, 1992. It would lead to Butch Harrod's arrest three years later.
The broadcast let the public in on many previously undisclosed details: The killer had gotten into Jeanne Tovrea's home through a window, then had set off the alarm by exiting through a door.
Most important, the episode aired a portion of the Gordon Phillips phone message, deleting only his reference to Hap Tovrea--"I had a little problem with Ed Jr."
The Arizona Republic published an update on the fifth anniversary of Jeanne's murder, headlined: "Tovrea slaying still Valley mystery; Socialite's homicide lacking motive, suspect."
Everyone close to the case knew it lacked nothing of the sort. What police didn't have was a suspect in the shooting.
That would change in 1994.
In September 1992, Phoenix detective Ed Reynolds became the latest investigator to grapple with the Jeanne Tovrea murder case. The original detectives had retired, and the agency had shipped the files to its "cold case" squad, whose investigators try to solve old crimes.
Reynolds' acquaintances describe him as a bulldog, a requisite when you're working cold cases. The officer pored over the reams of material on the Tovrea murder.
In January 1994, he caught some huge breaks.
First, an anonymous caller told a police secretary that a James C. Harrod might have been involved in the Tovrea murder. The caller left Harrod's name, address and date of birth.
Soon after that, Reynolds himself spoke with another anonymous caller. This person said he'd seen a repeat of the Unsolved Mysteries episode, and recognized Gordon Phillips' voice as being "identical" to Harrod's.
The second caller said Harrod had told him he was an ex-bodyguard who "has bragged that he could have people taken care of." The man added that Harrod had told him he'd once worked for Hap Tovrea.
In April 1994, Reynolds pulled a box of miscellaneous evidence on the Tovrea case from the Phoenix police property room. A binder in the box contained Hap Tovrea's phone records from 1988.
Reynolds noted that Hap Tovrea had phoned a James C. Harrod 33 times in the 10 days preceding Jeanne's murder, after which his calls to Harrod had nearly stopped.
Reynolds also found the one-page, handwritten account of the short August 1988 police interview of Harrod.
In September 1994, according to police reports, Reynolds spoke with yet another caller who wanted to remain anonymous.
This caller said a man named "Butch" had been bragging about his role in the Tovrea slaying. Butch had told his ex-wife, Anne, about his involvement in the murder plot. Anne allegedly had seen a letter from Hap Tovrea to Butch that promised Butch $50,000 to kill Jeanne.
The caller had more: Butch had admitted--it's not clear to whom--that he'd posed as Gordon Phillips. Butch had been present at the murder, but wasn't the killer, the caller said, adding that an FBI agent knew all but apparently hadn't acted on it.
Reynolds went to the Maricopa County Clerk's Office, and found a copy of James and Anne Harrod's divorce decree. That led him to Anne's last known address, which in turn led him in early November 1994 to Anne's mother and brother.
The mother, Sue, also mentioned the FBI agent at the start of the interview with detectives. She said the agent was Jeff Fauver, a longtime family friend from Albuquerque, and that she had told Fauver everything she knew.
Around 1990, Sue said, her daughter Anne had told her that Harrod was sleeping with a loaded gun under his pillow. Anne also had told her that Hap Tovrea owed Butch $50,000, but Anne didn't know why.
One day, Sue continued, she saw a newspaper story about a land sale involving the Tovrea family trust. She'd mentioned it to Harrod, who'd remarked that the sale would mean he'd get the money owed him by Hap.
Anne's brother, Mark, mentioned the Unsolved Mysteries program, and how Gordon Phillips' voice had reminded them of Harrod's. Sue then offered a stunning piece of information.
From Ed Reynolds' police report:
"Anne had talked to [Sue] about Butch knowing about the Tovrea murder. Anne had said that Butch told her that the Tovrea murderers had actually been in their home. This scared Anne to know this. Butch told her that she was safe as long as she stayed married to him."
Sue promised detectives she'd urge her daughter to come forward, then added a final thought:
"She advised me that Anne previously came to her and said, 'Mom, do you know what I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life? That I knew something that could have prevented someone's death.'"
Reynolds tracked down Jeff Fauver in Albuquerque. Actually, Fauver was an ex-FBI agent now working as an investigator for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Fauver told Reynolds he'd been the anonymous caller who had left Harrod's name with the police secretary in January 1994, and said he'd phoned again a few months later.
Why this law enforcement official called a police station anonymously is unknown. In any case, Fauver said he'd met Harrod years earlier through one of Anne's brothers--and was unimpressed. He'd considered Harrod a con man who blabbed about his alleged Vietnam War exploits (Harrod never had been in the military) and his claimed connections with rich people, contract killers and international tycoons.
Said Fauver in the tape-recorded interview: "The gist of all this bragging and all this stuff that Butch was talking about all leads back--Is the guy's name Ed? Yeah, Edward . . . Butch said he was [Ed's] right-hand man."
Fauver had attended the Harrods' wedding in 1985 as a gesture to Anne and her family. He had served as a sounding board to her family over the years, as they made no secret of their disdain for Harrod.
Antipathy toward an in-law isn't uncommon. But Anne's mother in early 1992 took a drastic step--hiring a private investigator to do background checks on Harrod and Hap Tovrea.
New Times obtained a copy of that investigator's notes from his assignment, dated January 27, 1992:
"Butch Harrod--claiming Vietnam. Phoenix area. Married Anne about six years ago. . . . Sleeps with loaded gun. Friend Hap Tovrea--now in California."
The investigator didn't uncover much of substance at the county courthouse, just a few lawsuits and routine property transactions.
Later in 1992, Fauver continued, Anne started to meet with him privately: "She had made some comments to me indicating [Harrod] was not home that night [of Jeanne's murder]. He had made some overtures about having some involvement with Hap Tovrea. . . . The impression I got from Anne [circa 1992] was that she herself didn't even know. That she didn't make that connection until a later date."
Anne separated from Butch in October 1993. It was after that--and apparently after another replay of the Unsolved Mysteries episode--that Anne really opened up to Fauver.
According to Fauver:
* Anne said Butch had claimed to be the middleman between Hap Tovrea and unnamed killers in the conspiracy to murder Jeanne Tovrea.
* Anne said Harrod had told her hours after the murder that the deed had been done.
* Butch had told her he had masqueraded as Gordon Phillips.
On November 28, 1994, Ed Reynolds finally sat down with Anne Harrod. Anne had hired prominent Phoenix attorney Jordan Green, who attended the interview at his law office.
Her account was staggering.
As the interview began, Detective Reynolds told Anne Harrod that she wouldn't be charged if she hadn't been involved in the actual Tovrea murder.
With that promise ringing in her ears, Anne talked and talked. Among the revelations in this and subsequent interviews with authorities:
* Butch had told her before the murder that Hap Tovrea's sisters "hated their stepmother so badly that they wanted her dead. They were concerned that she was spending all the interest on their inheritance which they could not touch until her death. . . . Hap said that they hated her with a vengeance, because she was spending too much of their money."
* Butch told Anne that he had agreed to be Hap Tovrea's "coordinator" for the murder, not the hit man. Hap--whom she said she'd never met--had promised to pay Butch $100,000 for his services, which included hiring the killers.
* Just before the murder, the number of phone calls from Hap to Butch had increased dramatically, then dropped off to almost none after April 1, 1988, the date of the murder.
* Butch had left their home about 9 p.m. the night of the murder, toting a large duffel bag. He was wearing a dark-hooded jacket, camouflage pants and hiking boots. After he left, Anne had checked where he kept his guns--they were missing. The next day, all the weapons were back in their usual location.
* About 2 a.m. on April 1, Butch had awakened her. "You did it?" she'd asked him. "Yes, it's over," he'd replied. Later, he told her he'd awaited the hit men--there were two, he said--on the hill behind Jeanne's home. The hit men murdered Jeanne, and had taken her jewelry and credit cards to make it look like a burglary. Butch had paid them that night, though he apparently didn't say how much.
Anne said Butch was irate that Hap Tovrea had paid him only about $40,000 of the $100,000 allegedly promised him. She also claimed Butch had told her he'd recorded many conversations with Hap to protect himself, and that she'd seen these tapes in his desk. (No such tape has turned up.)
Were these the bleatings of a vindictive ex-wife whose marriage had ended in emotional and fiscal disarray just months earlier, in February 1994?
An answer may lie in what Anne couldn't have known unless authorities had tipped her off.
One of those things came to light when Reynolds turned on the Unsolved Mysteries video toward the end of his first session with Anne. She said she'd seen the segment once before.
"I stopped the tape at the point where the narrator mentions the point of entry," his police report recalls. "Anne advised me, 'He knew the window was not on the security system. He talked about the kitchen window--was where to gain access . . .'"
Her declaration was crucial, because police had closely guarded that detail since 1988.
According to Reynolds' report, the videotape then reached the Gordon Phillips phone message.
"Anne began to scream loudly, 'Stop it, I can't take it anymore.' Anne then began to cry hysterically. I asked her, 'Was that Butch's voice on the tape?' Anne stated, 'Yes. He's a bad person, bad person."
In interviews with authorities after Butch Harrod's arrest in September 1995, Anne added details about the alleged murder plot:
She said the date of the murder, April 1, had been intentional--"[Butch] had told me prior to that day that they were going to set it up as an April Fools' joke."
Anne said she recalled that Hap Tovrea had phoned Butch the morning after the murder:
"He will talk to Hap that morning. The phone will ring, he answers the phone, he goes out on the patio. . . . And he comes back in and I say, 'Was that Hap?' And he says, 'Yes,' because Hap was supposed to call him in the morning after it had taken place." (Phone records show a 15-minute call from Hap Tovrea's business line to Butch Harrod's home at 10 a.m. on April 1, 1988.)
Finally, Anne described her mental state on the night of March 31, 1988, when she said she'd known her husband was leaving their home to participate in a murder:
"In my heart of hearts, as I'm standing there in the foyer, I am one step away from the phone, and I'm one step from him walking out that door, and I'm evaluating my family and my life and this woman's life . . ."
It remains to be seen how much Anne will be allowed to tell jurors. Butch Harrod allegedly said these things when he and Anne were marries: That means the "privilege"--akin to that between doctor and patient--may allow her to testify only about what she saw, not what her ex-husband may have told her.
For her own reasons, Anne had stayed silent for years. Now, she had opened the door to a prosecution.
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office in September 1995 took the next step. It gave Phoenix police the go-ahead to arrest Butch Harrod for murder.
Next week: The accused gunman sounds off.
Key Dates in the Tovrea Murder Case
Cattle mogul Edward A. Tovrea Sr. weds Jeanne Gunter, his third wife.
July 1983
Edward A. Tovrea Sr. dies. His widow, Jeanne, is named co-executor of his vast estate.
April 1985
All communication between Jeanne Tovrea and her three stepchildren--Hap, Cricket and Prissy--ends after a bizarre incident involving Ed Sr.'s ashes.
July 1987
Jeanne Tovrea and her daughter meet in Newport Beach, California, with a man who says he is a writer named Gordon Phillips.
November 1987
Jeanne Tovrea buys $2.7 million in additional life insurance, paying a premium of $500,000.
April 1988
Jeanne Tovrea is shot to death at her home.
September 1995
James "Butch" Harrod is arrested and charged with murdering Jeanne Tovrea.
December 1995
Authorities search Edward "Hap" Tovrea's California home and office.
Tovrea Homepage
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Zachary Quinto: Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie'
Zachary Quinto walks and talks with a female friend on Tuesday (October 23) in Hollywood.
The 35-year-old actor left the American Apparel store with a bag full of goodies.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Zachary Quinto
Zach will play Tom in an upcoming stage production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, according to Playbill.
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, based on the recollections of the narrator Tom's overbearing mother, Amanda, and his fragile sister, Laura. It will run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., from February 2 until March 17, 2013. Head over to AmericanRepertoryTheater.org to get your tickets now!
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Translating great works of literature to the screen is a daunting task; filmmakers open themselves up to comparison, and do not usually measure up to readers' standards. (Notable exceptions: The Remains of the Day, To Kill a Mockingbird, and a few others come to mind.) In the case of Disgrace, however, the elegant and chilling film opening this week is a testament to the care and respect paid to the novel by producer Julio DePietro, director Steve Jacobs, writer Anna Maria Monticelli, and stars John Malkovich and Jessica Haines.
J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace caused quite a stir upon its publication in 1999. On the surface, the story is of a snobbish Cape Town literature professor who falls from grace after an affair with a student, visits his daughter on her farm in the country, and suffers as the victim of a horrible crime. Readers who dug a little deeper, however, found metaphors galore: regarding race relations—and the lack thereof, especially in rural areas—in post-Apartheid South Africa, power struggles between men and women, and the relationship between the wealthy and the poor not only in South Africa, but in once-colonized nations throughout the world. This slim novel was deceptively simple, and Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 for his impressive body of work.
When producer DePietro (who made his directorial debut at TFF 2009 with The Good Guy) got involved with the making of the film, he was adamant about remaining faithful to the novel's simple elegance. Tribeca sat down with DePietro to discuss the trickiness of novel-to-screen translations, the brilliance of Malkovich, and the power of the written word.
Tribeca Film: Coetzee's novel was difficult to read. It's a tough, serious story that packs a punch as a striking metaphor for post-Apartheid South Africa.
Julio DePietro: Yes, it's an amazing novel, powerful and intense, [and the resulting film] is definitely for adults. The story doesn't have a lot of easy answers.
Tribeca Film: What prompted you to turn this book into a movie?
JDP: It's one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I am a huge fan of Coetzee—I've read all of his 13 fiction works—and Disgrace is one of his masterpieces. A few years ago, I went after the rights myself. When I called his agent, I found out, unsurprisingly, [the husband and wife team of director Steve Jacobs and screenwriter Anna Maria Monticelli] already had the rights.
Tribeca Film: How did you get involved?
JDP: I called Anna Maria in Australia, and I learned their option was going to expire soon, but they still wanted to make the film. I could have waited them out, but she asked me to read her adaptation. Coetzee had retained line-by-line approval on the script in the option deal, which he had already given them. It would have been a very difficult hurdle to cross [if I had started from scratch].
I read Anna Maria's adaptation and realized she had written a faithful, intelligent adaptation of what is a very difficult book—intelligent in the sense that doesn't just translate the book into a screenplay. She made important decisions in the adaptation, keeping it faithful to the book, but making it more of a film. That's a very common pitfall in adapting great works of literature. We've all heard the complaint that movies are never as good as the book, and that's because they are fundamentally different mediums with fundamentally different structures. There have to be some things done in the translation to make things work as a film. Anna did a great job.
Tribeca Film: What was your role?
Once I had read the adaptation and spoken to Steve, I became convinced that they would handle this well, and since my goal was to get the film made and made well, I realized I didn't have to be the person to do it. They had Coetzee's approval and the story was in good hands, so I helped them get the first equity in the door, which helped get the film financed and ultimately made. Film Finance Corporation of Australia was a big help with the funding.
Tribeca Film: How did the casting of John Malkovich come about?
JDP: He's a fan of the book and Anna and Steve had approached him. As soon as I learned he was involved, he struck me as the perfect guy to play this role. David Lurie is a complex character—an intellectual who is deeply flawed. Another pitfall [of the book-to-film process] is that the inner thoughts of the characters are such a big part of a book: how do you translate that to the screen? An actor like John Malkovich can pull that off, where you understand what the character is thinking through the performance. I think his fans—and fans of acting in general—will be very impressed with his performance in the film.
Tribeca Film: He is perfect. Arrogant, ignorant, and kind of slippery. And he evolves.
JDP: I think it's one of his best roles. As one of the great actors of our age, he should have this type of important lead role. John hasn't done that many—many aren't worthy of his talent—and I think it's nice to see him take on a role this challenging and do it this well.
Tribeca Film: How was he to work with?
JDP: He's intense and passionate and professional, and all that comes into the performance. It was a very eye-opening experience for me as an aspiring director—a great opportunity for me to watch a great actor work.
Tribeca Film: There are some tough scenes to watch in the film. How did you decide on the appropriate level of delicacy vs. the impact you wanted to have?
JDP: Throughout the film, decisions were made not to sensationalize any of the violence. It's consistent with the writing style. Coetzee's writing is very terse and direct, and it doesn't necessarily comment on what's going on—instead, he just lays it out as it is. The film is in the same style—in movies, it's often more powerful when things are not shown. I credit the director with making smart decisions along that line.
Tribeca Film: The story makes an interesting distinction between admitting guilt and acknowledging wrong-doing. How do you think that is played out in today's global society?
JDP: One of the themes in the novel is that your past comes back to haunt you. Lurie is a white-collar professor who thinks of himself as more brilliant and more important than he is. The film is about the decreasing significance and increasing irrelevance he represents in society—this older man who thinks of himself as a womanizer, teaching poetry in post-Apartheid South Africa where people couldn't care less about old world sensibilities. In the course of the novel, he is forced to deal in the most brutal way with the world around him. He is no longer able to live in this idealized state (that only even really existed in his mind).
As he is forced to acknowledge the changing realities of the world around them, Lurie does attain a level of redemption and a level of grace that isn't necessarily what he would have hoped for in a neat and tidy resolution. But it feels very real and very honest, and it's kind of how he and a lot of people in the world today—whether it's the US and the economic crisis or other countries in political turmoil—are having to deal with previously unthinkable realities. They are made to live with things they could have never lived with in the past. It's part of the human experience.
Tribeca Film: The same can be said for the relationship between the haves and the have-nots in our world, and for the power imbalance between men and women in both sexual and societal realms. The story covers so much ground.
JDP: It really does. The story doesn't take sides. Instead, it uncompromisingly shows the realities and relationships between men and women and power and sex and gender in the modern world, dealing with it all in such a refreshingly honest way. The story is much bigger than a story of a South African professor who gets into a spot of trouble. I don't know of another film that handles these universal themes in such a way.
Tribeca Film: Coetzee emigrated to Australia after the publication of Disgrace, in part because of the controversy the book engendered in his native land. What is the relationship between Australia and South Africa, and how did it affect the making of the film?
JDP: Coetzee basically left South Africa in the 1980s—there's been a lot written about that. He was one of the most effective early criticizers of the regime in his literature, and he never moved back.
Though the film was financed in Australia [and the filmmakers are Australian], the film was shot on location almost entirely in South Africa. Most of the actors were South African—there were a number of opportunities to cast a more well-known Hollywood type as Lucy, but the filmmakers were adamant about having a South African woman pay the role. Jessica Haines is a relative unknown, and she did a fantastic job, holding her own with John Malkovich.
Tribeca Film: Was it rough to shoot in South Africa? Were people still bitter about the book?
JDP: Coetzee isn't as well read in South Africa as he is in other parts of the world, which was a surprise to me. It's not like he is a pariah either, or persona non grata. In terms of shooting there, the South African crew was very good and experienced. (John and I were the only Americans involved in any real way.)
Tribeca Film: Jacobs is quoted in the press notes as saying the film is "realist cinema." Is that the kind of film you prefer?
JDP: I enjoy a lot of different types of films, as most people do. But I think Steve set out and achieved a really powerful realist film here, and that was always his goal. He used the landscape very effectively to show how people have an attachment to their homes. Without giving too much away, one of the difficult things for people with the novel and the film is Lucy's decision to stay in her home. But you see examples of this all over the world, where people can't and don't leave their homes, because that's who and where they are. The cinematography highlights this, with the stark but stunningly beautiful landscape that Steve shot.
Tribeca Film: Your directorial debut The Good Guy [TFF 2009] is also based on a novel, though much more loosely so. Is literature to film something you are passionate about?
JDP: Yes, certain themes and the love triangle element are borrowed from The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford. As an avid reader I am definitely drawn to bringing great works of literature to the screen. But I also enjoy the writing process—the real challenge for me is the writing itself. So I much prefer to write original pieces than adaptations. I plan to be involved as a producer on adaptations and as a writer/director of original screenplays.
Tribeca Film: What's happening with The Good Guy now?
JDP: Right now, I am in Portugal with the film—it's the first place we've screened it since Tribeca. Portugal was the only country in Europe I hadn't visited, so it worked out well when they invited us.
But there will be a theatrical release of The Good Guy in March. We are excited about that.
Tribeca Film: So are we. Good luck!
Disgrace opens Friday, September 18, in New York at Lincoln Plaza Cinema, Quad Cinema, and Clearview 1st and 62nd.
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Donald Trump's Reaction to Obama's Terror Address: "Is That All There Is?"
Barack Obama delivered a 13 minute address on terrorism from the Oval Office Sunday night.
Then he went out to party for the night.
Here was Donald Trump's response to the address:
Is that all there is? We need a new President – FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
And Obama still can't define the enemy…
Well, Obama refused to say (he just can't say it), that we are at WAR with RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
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