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No_Baseline wrote:I am sorry, what am I missing? I saw the two side-by-side photos, and they they look how a guy would look photographed Friday night with stubble and then again Monday with thicker stubble...I don't know about the orange jumpsuit, but the facial growth is how it should be after three or so days, shouldn't it? I'm not a guy,so unless the guy in question has hair to his knees after three days, I'm gonna question to the contrary, because I can't see the weirdness here?...Plus, if he really was spitting like witnesses said, maybe they called it a day until the orange jumpsuit absolutely had to be fitted for a photo?

I don't know, and I have a lot of questions, but the stubble shouldn't be one if possible...

It would appear to me that James Holmes’ mug shot was
taken on Monday morning right before he went into the
courtroom. That begs the question, why?

Accused movie shooter called a mediocre student intern

By Sam Quinones

July 22, 2012, 3:19 p.m.

During the summer of 2006, James Holmes, then 18 and just graduated from high school, was an intern at a prestigious computer laboratory at the Salk Institute at UC San Diego.

On paper, at least, the position seemed to indicate that Holmes possessed a keen and brilliant intellect. That's how some former acquaintances have described Holmes, whom authorities have arrested in the fatal shootings at a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

But a graduate student who worked with Holmes at the Salk Institute’s Computational Neurobiology Laboratory had a far different view, recalling him as a “mediocre” student who was enormously stubborn.

“I saw a shy, pretty socially inept person,” said John Jacobson, now a PhD candidate at UC San Diego in philosophy and cognitive sciences. “I didn’t see any behavior that would be indicative of violence then or in the future.”

But “he should not have gotten into the summer program,” Jacobson said. “His grades were mediocre. I’ve heard him described as brilliant. This is extremely inaccurate.”

Jacobson said Holmes was accepted as the Salk Institute’s summer intern because at the time the Institute was not marketing its program to the top math and physics high school students. Holmes was accepted because his resume indicated he had done some computer programming, Jacobson told the Los Angeles Times. But his high school transcripts showed Bs and B+s, and no Advanced Placement classes, Jacobson said.

Jacobson said after that summer, administrators changed recruiting policies and now get applications from very high-level math and physics students.

In a video of a summer-end presentation, Holmes names Jacobson as his “mentor.”

“That is not true. That’s almost slanderous,” Jacobson said. “I was never his mentor.”

Holmes worked briefly for him over eight weeks that Jacobson described as very frustrating, characterized by the young man’s unwillingness to follow Jacobson’s suggestions — contrary to the usually engaging experience Jacobson said he’s had working with high school students.

“My experience with him was quite bad,” Jacobson said.

He said he set Holmes to work writing computer code for an experiment Jacobson had done involving a game of rock-paper-scissors, in which the computer always beats the human, no matter who goes first.

The experiment was in Flash, which Jacobson said is best encoded using what’s called object-oriented programming. Holmes insisted on using what's known as procedural programming, much more time consuming and complicated, Jacobson said.

Holmes was, however, extremely receptive to compliments, which was “how I got him to do the little that he did,” Jacobson said.

For two weeks, Jacobson said, “he was absolutely stubborn. I was at a loss to how to get him to program in an object-oriented way. He just refused. Finally, I said, ‘Do it any way you can.’”

Jacobson said he had minimal contact with Holmes for the next six weeks, daily dropping by in the morning to see if the intern was at least at work, and then returning to his own research.

“I basically fired him,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson said the students the Institute recruits as interns now could finish such a project in less than a week. “He never completed the project. What he gave me was a complete mess,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson said he did try to bring Holmes out of his shell that summer. At one point, he said, he took Holmes to another floor where a high school girl was working.

“He just had no interest,” Jacobson said. “I’m trying to introduce him to the other high school students and he’s incredibly uncommunicative.

“I attributed all this to adolescent shyness, maybe feeling intimidated to people around him.”

No_Baseline wrote: I don't understand why the suspect's mother is not allowed to see him.

And I don't understand why the suspect had college roommates who probably were sharing an apartment and yet aren't mentioned.

And I don't understand about the Navy? Military Service body count.

But I am really grateful for a question and answer about facial hair, its the quickest response about this horrible event I have read yet, and I don't mean that at all in a facetious manner...pun intended, and thank you.....

jingofever wrote:In Colorado people get mugshots in prison. Or at least while wearing some jumpsuit.

It would appear to me that James Holmes’ mug shot was
taken on Monday morning right before he went into the
courtroom. That begs the question, why?

Only if he changed jumpsuits.

Update on suspicious packages discovered at Anschutz Medical Campus
Package immediately investigated and turned over to authorities within hours of delivery.

7/25/2012

AURORA, Colo. (July 25, 2012) – Officials at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus can confirm that the suspicious package discovered at the Facilities Services building on Monday, July 23, 2012, was delivered to the campus by the United States Postal Service that same day, immediately investigated and turned over to authorities within hours of delivery. This package prompted the building’s evacuation at 12:26 p.m., and employees were allowed to return by 3:06 p.m.

The anonymous Fox News source that the package was received on July 12 and sat on a loading dock is inaccurate.

We remain unable to discuss anything further on this package in accordance with the order of Judge Sylvester on July 23, 2012.

http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom/ ... ampus.aspx

We remain unable to discuss anything further on this package in accordance with the order of Judge Sylvester on July 23, 2012.

Temporal Illusions: James Holmes’ “Mentor” Admits To Mind Manipulation
July 25, 2012

John Jacobson, the person James Holmes named as his “mentor” during his science camp presentation on “temporal illusions” and “subjective experience” [1], can be seen in a video discussing the manipulation of a subject’s order of time perception. [2]

At 1.58 in Jacobson says:

“… it’s possible… for us to manipulate temporal order, we have loads of power over temporal order, if events happen in the order A/B, a good psycho-physicist can have the subject experience it as B/A, this is routine…”

So the accused Batman shooter, who appeared drugged out of his mind during his first court appearance, and the District Attorney later said she had “no information” on whether Holmes was on medication in court [3], is closely associated to a boastful mind manipulator.

But this gets much more interesting…

John Jacobson now completely denies being James Holmes’ ”mentor”, in fact he outright attacks every aspect of James Holmes life [4], from Holmes’ ability to do Flash programming as an intern (who would even dream that Flash programming abilities would be grounds to condemn the academic career of an honors graduate and prestigious grant winner [5] ), to claiming Holmes’ didn’t seem to understand “any of the basic science” [6], to claiming Holmes “just had no interest” in a high school girl Jacobson introduced. [4]



........snip.



[2] 2010.4.10 How Can We Begin To Define Time?, John Jacobson, Chronicles 1 (Quote At 1.58) (youtube.com):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYca_2iOXd8

Peachtree Pam wrote:Here is a very interesting article detailing how the man Holmes described as his mentor viewed Holmes when he was 18.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nati ... 6583.story

Accused movie shooter called a mediocre student intern

By Sam Quinones

July 22, 2012, 3:19 p.m.

During the summer of 2006, James Holmes, then 18 and just graduated from high school, was an intern at a prestigious computer laboratory at the Salk Institute at UC San Diego.

On paper, at least, the position seemed to indicate that Holmes possessed a keen and brilliant intellect. That's how some former acquaintances have described Holmes, whom authorities have arrested in the fatal shootings at a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

But a graduate student who worked with Holmes at the Salk Institute’s Computational Neurobiology Laboratory had a far different view, recalling him as a “mediocre” student who was enormously stubborn.

“I saw a shy, pretty socially inept person,” said John Jacobson, now a PhD candidate at UC San Diego in philosophy and cognitive sciences. “I didn’t see any behavior that would be indicative of violence then or in the future.”

But “he should not have gotten into the summer program,” Jacobson said. “His grades were mediocre. I’ve heard him described as brilliant. This is extremely inaccurate.”

Jacobson said Holmes was accepted as the Salk Institute’s summer intern because at the time the Institute was not marketing its program to the top math and physics high school students. Holmes was accepted because his resume indicated he had done some computer programming, Jacobson told the Los Angeles Times. But his high school transcripts showed Bs and B+s, and no Advanced Placement classes, Jacobson said.

Jacobson said after that summer, administrators changed recruiting policies and now get applications from very high-level math and physics students.

In a video of a summer-end presentation, Holmes names Jacobson as his “mentor.”

“That is not true. That’s almost slanderous,” Jacobson said. “I was never his mentor.”

Holmes worked briefly for him over eight weeks that Jacobson described as very frustrating, characterized by the young man’s unwillingness to follow Jacobson’s suggestions — contrary to the usually engaging experience Jacobson said he’s had working with high school students.

“My experience with him was quite bad,” Jacobson said.

He said he set Holmes to work writing computer code for an experiment Jacobson had done involving a game of rock-paper-scissors, in which the computer always beats the human, no matter who goes first.

The experiment was in Flash, which Jacobson said is best encoded using what’s called object-oriented programming. Holmes insisted on using what's known as procedural programming, much more time consuming and complicated, Jacobson said.

Holmes was, however, extremely receptive to compliments, which was “how I got him to do the little that he did,” Jacobson said.

For two weeks, Jacobson said, “he was absolutely stubborn. I was at a loss to how to get him to program in an object-oriented way. He just refused. Finally, I said, ‘Do it any way you can.’”

Jacobson said he had minimal contact with Holmes for the next six weeks, daily dropping by in the morning to see if the intern was at least at work, and then returning to his own research.

“I basically fired him,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson said the students the Institute recruits as interns now could finish such a project in less than a week. “He never completed the project. What he gave me was a complete mess,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson said he did try to bring Holmes out of his shell that summer. At one point, he said, he took Holmes to another floor where a high school girl was working.

“He just had no interest,” Jacobson said. “I’m trying to introduce him to the other high school students and he’s incredibly uncommunicative.

“I attributed all this to adolescent shyness, maybe feeling intimidated to people around him.”

Neuroscientists debunk idea Colorado suspect was supersmart

....snip....His résumé after he graduated with honors in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside in 2010 cites experience in the lab dissecting birds, studying their musculature and analyzing data and graphs to measure molecules.

....snip...But neuroscientist David Eagleman says Holmes' credentials were no better than those of an average student. The mass killing suspect is no elite neuroscientist, says Eagleman, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

"He was just a second-year grad student," he says. "He didn't know anything."

...snip...Eagleman, a former researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., where Holmes attended the eight-week summer camp when he was 18, said the young man had a reputation as a "dolt."

Eagleman didn't know Holmes but says the teen parroted his advisers' words in his presentation on temporal illusions. A video of the speech was first reported by ABC News.

"He was just given the presentation to read," Eagleman says. "He wasn't any sort of superscientist when he was 18."

...snip...Holmes' résumé suggests he was trained in dissection of birds and mice, performing chemistry tests and attaching small gene tags to cells to target them for treatment.

"Recipe-book stuff, literally, that every biology student should learn," Eagleman says. As for the grant, Eagleman says, "Holmes is being depicted as some sort of brilliant researcher who won a rare grant, but there are thousands of research students in this country with such grants. Everyone has one. There is nothing elite about it."

(Clarification: In our story published online Wednesday, Eagleman says he did not intend to suggest that all graduate students win research grants.)

Holmes had difficulty with a June 7 preliminary exam, given orally by three university faculty members. It is designed to evaluate students' knowledge at the end of the first year. Three days later, Holmes dropped out.

Peachtree Pam wrote:Another debuking effort originally from USA Today concerning the intellectual abilities of Holmes. I've left out paragraphs referring to Jacobson's comments.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/usatoda ... 7CNews%7Cs

Neuroscientists debunk idea Colorado suspect was supersmart

....snip....His résumé after he graduated with honors in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside in 2010 cites experience in the lab dissecting birds, studying their musculature and analyzing data and graphs to measure molecules.

....snip...But neuroscientist David Eagleman says Holmes' credentials were no better than those of an average student. The mass killing suspect is no elite neuroscientist, says Eagleman, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

"He was just a second-year grad student," he says. "He didn't know anything."

...snip...Eagleman, a former researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., where Holmes attended the eight-week summer camp when he was 18, said the young man had a reputation as a "dolt."

Eagleman didn't know Holmes but says the teen parroted his advisers' words in his presentation on temporal illusions. A video of the speech was first reported by ABC News.

"He was just given the presentation to read," Eagleman says. "He wasn't any sort of superscientist when he was 18."

...snip...Holmes' résumé suggests he was trained in dissection of birds and mice, performing chemistry tests and attaching small gene tags to cells to target them for treatment.

"Recipe-book stuff, literally, that every biology student should learn," Eagleman says. As for the grant, Eagleman says, "Holmes is being depicted as some sort of brilliant researcher who won a rare grant, but there are thousands of research students in this country with such grants. Everyone has one. There is nothing elite about it."

(Clarification: In our story published online Wednesday, Eagleman says he did not intend to suggest that all graduate students win research grants.)

Holmes had difficulty with a June 7 preliminary exam, given orally by three university faculty members. It is designed to evaluate students' knowledge at the end of the first year. Three days later, Holmes dropped out.