text:
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu...lection/po-arm), grab Harvey & Lee (on-line somewhere) and start reading.
Sorry, no link to Harvey & Lee, to be added if I can find it.
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu...lection/po-arm), grab Harvey & Lee (on-line somewhere) and start reading.
Sorry, no link to Harvey & Lee, to be added if I can find it.
Last edited by Milo Reech; 12-17-2018 at 07:02 PM. Reason: Clarification & link
part 1 (property map)
DPD evidenced about as much interest in the Denver Street observers as it devoted to the odd number 400 block E. 10th St. inhabitants, in short none whatsoever. The FBI was more diligent in this regard and actually pursued a lead furnished by an unknown snitch via a handwritten note postmarked from New Mexico.
Result was statements from William Arthur Smith (12/12/63), Jimmy Burt (12/15/63) & William Lawrence Smith (1/11/64). W. A. Smith also testified before the Warren Commission but neither of the others was called.
A fourth observer, Frank Wright, one of the Nashes' other witnesses (10/12/64), was overlooked by DPD, SS, FBI & WC.
First a look at the geography, using distances obtained from a DCAD (Dallas Central Appraisal District) property map (https://maps.dcad.org/prd/dpm/). The individual parcels have changed over the years but the block sizes remain the same. The 400 block is a square with sides of 400 feet. This makes it easy to determine distances as seen in the attachment. Note: the distance to the corners of the squares is not the same as the distance to the street corners. For example, the distance from point X to the SE corner of Patton & 10th requires an additional 14 feet, consistent with the DPD hand-drawn map that places Tippit 114' from the corner.
The distance from the location where Tippit was shot & fell to 500 E. 10th next block is 360 feet. Google gives the distance from 404 E. 10th to 500 E. 10th as 358 feet. W. A. Smith at 505 E. 10th was farther away, perhaps 400 feet, with Wright intermediate at 500 E. 10th.
Jimmy Burt's location has a question mark because he placed himself elsewhere, to be discussed in part 2.
part 2 (William Arthur Smith & Jimmy Burt)
In his FBI statement W. A. Smith claimed he was an eyewitness observer of the Tippit shooting, able to discern the shooter's height at a distance of 400 feet from 505 E. 10th, where he had been waiting for Jimmy Burt, but could not identify him. In an extraordinary development he actually identified another witness at the scene, Helen Markham, by name. This was a solo endeavor, as Jimmy Burt neither appeared at 505 E. 10th nor joined him on the way to Patton.
Smith's WC testimony still has him at 505 E. 10th but now Burt is also present, and he backs out of eyewitness status, only hearing the shots. He also blames Markham for bringing him to the attention of the authorities.
Mr. BALL. Did you give your name to the police?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Why?
Mr. SMITH. Because I was on probation. I thought it might hurt my probation record.
Mr. BALL. All right; you did tell someone you had seen it, didn't you?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Who?
Mr. SMITH. This boy I ran around with.
Mr. BALL. What's his name?
Mr. SMITH. James Markham.
Mr. BALL. Is he the son of Helen Markham?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you talk to her?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir; she talks to me.
Mr. BALL. Mrs. Markham talked to you?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. And did you tell Mrs. Markham?
Mr. SMITH. I told her what I saw and that is the reason I am here, I a----
Mr. BALL. Did the police come out and see you?
Mr. SMITH. The FBI.
Mr. BALL. The FBI did? Did you tell them the same story you told me?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
For her part Markham does not mention this encounter with Smith, and Ball did not want to hear about her, cutting off Smith in mid-sentence.
Burt's FBI statement is rich in details and differs significantly from Smith's, placing himself with Smith in his brother's house at 9th & Denver "when they heard two gunshots." He "drove his car to the next intersection which is Denver & 10th Streets" with Smith on board. After leaving his car parked facing car #10, "BURT said he ran to the intersection of 10th and Patton and when he was close enough to Patton Street to see to the south he saw the man running into an alley located between 10th and Jefferson Avenue on Patton Street. The man ran in the alley to the right and would be running west at this point.... He noticed only two other persons in the area when he first arrived on the scene. These were two women whom he saw going toward the officer who was lying on the street."
Who were these women? One might have been Holan, and Smith in his FBI statement said "he immediately went up to talk to Mrs. MARKHAM" after seeing the "white man" turn "left on Patton heading towards Jefferson," without indicating exactly where they met or if anyone else was present. Note that neither Smith nor Burt saw anyone cut across the Davis lawn and jump through the shrubbery, and both likewise failed to discern Benavides' lemon yellow Jimmy parked a few feet from the body. Either Benavides himself was still in crouch mode on the floorboards, or he had not yet arrived. Both also missed Cimino, and he them, separated by their respective isolation chambers. The FBI apparently made no effort to reconcile this, and DPD was not interested to begin with.
Burt also saw no one on Patton except the man he pursued, which begs several questions, among them where was Scoggins and what did Callaway actually see? When the WR scriptwriters went to work Burt was quickly axed from the cast of star witnesses, and Smith sealed up tight within his isolation chamber, eventually receiving a perfunctory WC interrogation.
Burt in later years changed his statements to conform more closely with the Smith version, but the revised account is unreliable.
part 3 (William Lawrence Smith)
W. L. Smith worked with a crew of brick layers at 500 E. 10th. His FBI statement has two noteworthy items:
1. While walking east toward lunch (604 E. 10th) he passed an Oswald lookalike walking west.
2. Another bricklayer (George Chapman) interrupted his lunch to tell him an officer had been shot.
No need to dwell on the significance of #1, in a single stroke undoing the lone nut thesis, but there's an interesting side issue worth looking at in conjunction with #2. The restaurant at 604 E. 10th was 500 feet or so from 500 E. 10th, at most a two minute walk at an easy pace barring heavy traffic on Marsalis Avenue. None of the bricklayers Smith left behind actually observed the shooting a block away, but after hearing shots and determining what had happened Chapman went to fetch Smith. They "returned immediately to 500 East 10th Street and arrived in time to see a police officer being put into an ambulance."
How much time elapsed between the shots and the arrival of the ambulance? Five minutes would be a minimum to allow for a bricklayers' confab following the shots, Chapman's decision to walk to the restaurant, his explanation to Smith at the restaurant of what had happened and the walk back together to Denver. But things seldom happen in such a brisk, orderly fashion, and more likely it was a few minutes longer.
This Smith was not called to testify to WC.
part 4 (Frank & Mary Wright)
Apart from the intense drama Frank Wright's rapid-fire narrative is remarkable for the failure to see any of the other well-known observers, not even W. A. Smith standing in the front yard next-door watching the same event. Well, Smith did not see Wright either. They would have been separated by a few feet if both had told the truth, but Wright outdid Smith in terms of isolation. He didn't even see Markham at the scene, or someone who might have been Markham, only a mysterious woman from the south side of 10th who could not have been Holan.
Wright also claimed he saw an old gray coupe parked behind car #10, entirely missing the two-tone Ford that Burt parked before his eyes in front of #10 if Burt had told the truth.
At this point there is no way to arbitrate among the three principals, and reconciliation is hopeless. Attempts to amalgamate their observations into a coherent scenario fail ignominiously, relying on piecemeal selection & unsupported modifications to make the statements mesh with each other.
But the Nashes also interviewed Mary Wright, who delivered a narrative describing her role in the same rapid-fire style as Frank's:
"I heard three shots. From my window, I got a clear view of a man lying there on the street. He was there in the next block. I could see there was a man lying in the street. I didn't wait a minute. I ran to the telephone. I didn't look in the book or anything. I ran to the telephone, picked it up and dialed 'O.' I said, 'Call the police, a man's been shot!' After that I went outside to join my husband. It wasn't but a minute till the ambulance got there."
Finally a break! Mary spoke one sentence too many. We know from William Lawrence Smith the ambulance did not arrive in one minute, or even two. Scripting a coherent scenario can get complicated, and someone committed an error in judgment by instructing Mary to over-compress the interval between call & arrival, casting severe doubt on everything the Wrights said. Their statements read like prepared lines because that's exactly what they are, with a single ill-prepared line giving the game away. Unfortunately, it does nothing to resolve the gross discrepancies between the Burt & Smith statements, and nothing they said sticks out in the same way as patently false.
On further reflection there is a way to arbitrate among the competing witnesses. It requires a closer look at W. A. Smith's WC testimony.
Mr. BALL. You live with whom? Whom do you live with?
Mr. SMITH. My mother.
Note Ball's canny use of anadiplosis to test the credibility of the witness, which Smith passed with aplomb. Continuing...
Mr. BALL. Where did you spend the day that day?
Mr. SMITH. 505 East 10th.
Mr. BALL. Why were you there?
Mr. SMITH. Visiting a friend.
Mr. BALL. What is his name?
Mr. SMITH. Jimmy Burt.
Mr. BALL. When did you go over there that day?
Mr. SMITH. In the morning. In the morning.
Based on the preceding Smith evidently discerned a need to specify the straightforward "in the morning" twice. Perhaps he wished to spare Ball the necessity of repeating the question. If a single iteration of "in the morning" may be fraught with ambiguity, two should settle the matter without further ado, but Ball was not about to be put off the scent by such a transparent subterfuge. Smith's evasive simplicity aroused him to probe with heightened intensity.
Mr. BALL. In the morning?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
Wraps up that thorny issue, or so it would seem, but Ball is on a roll.
Mr. BALL. What time did you leave there that day?
Mr. SMITH. In the evening.
Mr. BALL. So, you spent the whole day there?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
A mind like a circular steel trap! Ball clearly establishes that the whole day that day ran from morning to evening to the exclusion of all other whole days!
If he would pursue the opening soon provided by Smith relative to the Markhams (mother & son) with the same alacrity he might actually resolve some of the confusion as to the truth about what happened at 10th Street, but he nips that in the bud.
Mr. BALL. Mrs. Markham talked to you?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. And did you tell Mrs. Markham?
Mr. SMITH. I told her what I saw and that is the reason I am here, I a--
Mr. BALL. Did the police come out and see you?
Mr. SMITH. The FBI.
The blather ends, and Ball proceeds to the gist of the matter:
Mr. BALL. The FBI did? Did you tell them the same story you told me?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
A lie. In the FBI statement Smith said "he had arrived at JIMMY'S house prior to the time of JIMMY'S arrival." Compare WC:
Mr. BALL. Now, at the time the policeman was shot, where were you?
Mr. SMITH. In the front yard, at 505 East 10th.
Mr. BALL. Who was with you?
Mr. SMITH. Jimmy Burt.
It's all one to Ball, a trivial item, not worth pursuing further, unlike the extraordinary length of that day running from morning to evening.
Now we cut to the chase:
Mr. BALL. First time you ever saw this man [Tippit's killer] was after you heard these shots?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Is that right? You had never seen him walking?
Mr. SMITH. No.
Mr. BALL. You hadn't seen him walking in front of the house--
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Where you were standing?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Invitation to negation thrice tried, thrice denied, thrice belied -- one for his safety, one for his friend & one for the bricklayer who worked across the street.
But Smith wasn't done, holding in reserve a rhetorical device of his own.
Mr. BALL. Now, when the deposition is completed it will be written up and you will have a right to look it over and sign it, or if you want to you can waive your signature. They will accept your waiver and send it on to the Commission without it. Do you have any choice on that?
Mr. SMITH. I will sign it. It don't make any difference to me.
Mr. BALL. Would you just as leave waive your signature?
Mr. SMITH. Ever what that means.
Brilliant anastrophe -- the biter bit! -- but Ball was nothing if not obsessive about minutiae. Slow to get the drift he rattled on about the signature waiver before finally giving up.
As to Burt, his FBI statement was a forgery of sorts, sole purpose was to detach him from 505 E. 10th, where he saw Tippit's killer walking on the other side. Frank Wright's story was a fiction inculcated to ready a disinformation alternative in case one was needed. He may have been miffed when dropped from the active list, and spilled his guts out to the Nashes.
This is not the conclusion anticipated when the analysis commenced, but it follows from the premise that William Lawrence Smith told the truth.
Last edited by Milo Reech; 01-05-2019 at 02:28 PM.
Nicely done Milo....
Yes, while H was in the theater... H's impersonator was walking from Ruby's down 10th...
Do you think it a coincidence that Burt knows Tippit for years... and all this converges (Tippit, witnesses, Ozzie player) directly in front of his mistress' house?
Directly in front of the driveway leading to an alley leading to Patten, parallel to 8th, which can be taken all the way to the theater....
Another tidbit... or just coincidence?
Mr SPECTER. Where did Mr. Ruby live in the fall of 1963, say September of 1963, if you know?
Mr OLSEN. He lived on Ewing.
Mr SPECTER. Do you recall----
Mr OLSEN. Right at Stemmons Freeway.
Mr SPECTER. How far was that from Kay's house?
Mr OLSEN. Approximately 4 or 5 blocks.
Mr. SPECTER. Tell me as precisely as you can recollect what you did on Friday, November 22.
Mrs. OLSEN. Harry was guarding an estate on 8th Street just a ways from where I lived, and I fixed a lunch for him and stopped off at the 7-11 store to get him some milk, and that's when I heard that there had been some trouble downtown; a colored lady told me that.
Scoggins drops off a man at the same apartment where Kay (who works for Ruby) and Harry Olsen "visits" often...
Representative FORD. What does your record show about this last trip?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Well, I picked him up at Love Field and carried him to 321 North Ewing, as well as I can remember now, that was the address.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
1384 1:44 87 (Ptm. R.C. Nelson) 87. What was the last location anybody had on that suspect out here in Oak Cliff?
1385 1:44 Dispatcher Running north on Patton.
The line numbers are from your document (DPD.pdf p21). The exchange appears in both CE705 & CE1974. We know from Armstrong's recent research the transcriptions are fragmentary, but there is no reason to regard this content as inauthentic. So what's going on? I can find no reference to a source of this information anywhere. AFAICT no witness said a fugitive ran north on Patton.
Armstrong has the ways & means but there are two questionable items at http://harveyandlee.net/Tippit/Tippit.html. Scroll down about halfway (page could use internal section links):
1. Omission of Sergeant Barnes from "the list of police officers who were either dispatched or arrived at 10th & Patton."
2. Assignment of 510 E. Jefferson to L. J. Lewis.
The first is probably insignificant, doubtful Barnes was in uniform, the second inexplicable. Surely Lewis knew he worked at 500 E. Jefferson.
Last edited by Milo Reech; 01-09-2019 at 11:54 AM.
Secret Service SAs Warner & Moore made an early attempt (12/1/63) to sequence LHO's movements with timings based on witness accounts & radio tapes. Attached document is one of many included in sprawling file CO-2-34,030, barely legible, hoping to find a better copy. It contains this curious statement:
After crossing the front yard of E. 10th Street, Oswald was observed by witnesses running into an alley and continue west between Jefferson and 10th Streets. Oswald was subsequently traced to the Texas Theater where he was arrested.(p.3)
What makes it curious is not one of the "WITNESSES TO THE SHOOTING" listed immediately thereafter (Virginia Davis, Markham, Scoggins, Callaway, McWatters & Barbara Jeanette Davis) claimed to have seen a fugitive running in the alley. The inclusion of bus driver McWatters may be a mistake, not so the absence of Benavides, who was not there. His promotion from spear carrier to main supporting cast would come later.
The intelligence regarding the witnesses who observed the shoooter "running into an alley" was derived from the report filed by Poe & Jez (11/22/63):
There were approximately six to eight witnesses, all telling officers that the subject was running west in the alley between Tenth and Jefferson Streets.
The FBI supplied some names (Cimino & Burt) who might have been among them, but they represent the last vestige of truth as to what happened. Some LN scriptwriter woke up to the fact that two fugitives from the murder scene were one too many, consigned Cimino & Burt to oblivion, and the eastern front was shut down. Gone too was the pedestrian LHO seen by W. L. Smith, nothing left but the mendacity of W. A. Smith's WC testimony.
This conclusion was too hasty:
Result: a cursory unsigned statement replete with indirect quotations absent the critical intelligence relative to the man Burt "saw that shot OFFICER TIPPIT [who] was walking from Marsalis Avenue in a westerly direction on E. Tenth." The "rich details" referred to in an earlier post relate primarily to events that did not happen, specifically the FBI's nonsense about Burt driving to the scene from his brother's house at Denver & 9th and parking next to #10 with W. A. Smith on board.
If this had happened surely Smith would have recalled it but his FBI report says otherwise, and has the effect of eliminating Burt from the scene altogether. But the FBI can't have it both ways -- which to believe? Neither! The truth came out in the Chapman interview. The upshot is the FBI committed a major blunder by not conforming the Burt & Smith fabrications with each other, casting doubt on the validity of both.
This doubt rises to a certainty of invalidity given W. L. Smith's simultaneous observation on the opposite side of E. 10th of an Oswald lookalike walking west. The FBI addressed this problem by subbing in malleable probationary W. A. Smith (after squeezing the content of his statements into the shape required by the scriptwriters at that time) to preempt bricklayer W. L. Smith and deprive Burt of eyewitness status.
Excerpted from an INTERVIEW OF JIMMY BURT BY AL CHAPMAN ON FEBRUARY 7, 1968
AC Alright. What happened then?
JB Well, someone said that the policemen, I mean that the guy was down at the library which is on Jefferson and between Marsalis and Denver...
AC I see.
JB And, er, we talked -- they started running down there so we followed them and went inside and searched the place and we stood out on the lawn and they came back out and said no one was there so we came back down to the scene where OFFICER TIPPIT was killed and about just before we got there we could see the ambulance and by the time we got there, well they was pulling off.
AC The ambulance was carrying him off at that time.
JB Yes.
AC And what happened then?
JB Well, everyone stood around talking and still going on a lot of noise and...
AC Did you give your name to anybody or anything, tell them that you were a witness to the shooting?
JB Well, everything was starting to thin out after the ambulance left and, er, we got to where we could talk, you, know, and we talked to this plain clothesmen. I don't know if he was city or FBI. But we didn't tell him our names at all. We just told him where we lived. Over on Tenth Street.
AC And when did they come to see you?
JB The next day.
AC Which would have been on Saturday?
JB Right.
AC And how many were they?
JB Two.
AC Plainclothesmen?
JB Yes.
AC And did they identify themselves or do you remember or...
JB Yes, they identified themselves but I can't remember...
AC If it was FBI or City police, right. Alright, what did you tell them at that time?
JB Well just what I just told you.
AC What you told me, right. Did you tell them you had seen it happen, and, er, did they ask you anything about the direction the man was coming from or if you could identify him or what?
JB Yes. They asked me if I could identify him and I told them no.
AC Okay, on Saturday, they, er, had been captured, right?
JB Yes.
AC Alright. Had you heard that they had the man that was supposed to kill the policeman? Did you know this at the time that they came out to see you on Saturday?
JB That they had captured him?
AC Yeah.
JB Yes, I think so.
AC Had you seen a picture of the person that they had arrested?
JB No.
AC Had you seen it on TV or anything?
JB No.
AC And when is the first time you saw a picture of OSWALD?
JB At the time he was killed.
AC At the time he was killed, right. Alright, now then what did you tell these, er, two plainclothesmen that you were talking to on Saturday?
JB Same thing, just what I saw, you know, and that we had come down and all that.
AC Alright.
JB But they didn't talk too much. They didn't say anything. Just ask questions.
AC Did they take down anything at that time?
JB No. Just our name and address.
AC Alright. Then you say you were in the Army at the time, stationed at Ft. Polk, Louisiana?
JB Right.
AC Right, and what did they say about this?
JB They said they'd contact me later, and I said I'd be at Ft. Polk, I had to be back on Monday.
AC Monday, yes. And when did they come down to Ft. Polk and talk to you?
JB I think it was on a Tuesday or somewhere back in the middle of the week.
AC Alright. Then what happened then?
JB They asked me the same thing that they had asked me at home. You know what I saw...
AC Was it the same men?
JB No.
AC Do you know where they were from or did they identify themselves?
JB They was from Shreveport.
AC Shreveport, Louisiana?
JB Right.
AC Right. And what happened at this meeting, on Tuesday or Wednesday of the next week?
JB Well, they just talked to me for a few minutes, you know, and they didn't take down anything then, made memos or nothing, they just said we'll talk to you later, contact you later.
AC Alright. And when did they contact you later?
JB That weekend.
AC That weekend. And where did they contact you at?
JB At my mother's house in Bellemont, Louisiana.
AC And what happened then?
JB Well, they talked to me a while out in the car and they asked me when I had to be back and I told them I had to be back that night and they said, well, we'll just carry you back down there.
AC What day was that, do you remember?
JB It was on a Sunday.
AC On a Sunday, alright.
JB Yes.
AC So you rode back with the two plainclothesmen to the Ft. Polk?
JB Yes.
AC Then what happened?
JB We got down there and then they made me tell my story about four or five times.
AC And how long did they question you at this time?
JB Three or four hours.
AC Three or four hours.
JB Yes.
AC Did they make a tape recording or take notes or write it down or what?
JB They took notes.
AC Took notes.
JB But they didn't record anything.
AC Alright. Did you sign anything?
JB No.
AC Did you tell them at that time that you could not identify the person that you saw as being OSWALD?
JB Yes.
AC Did they ask you this?
JB Yes.
AC Did they say can you identify this man as OSWALD?
JB Yes. They did.
AC And you said what?
JB I said I couldn't.
AC You said you couldn't. Do you have any idea what your friend, BILLY SMITH, might have told them?
JB As far as I know, they never talked to him.
AC And where is BILLY SMITH at this time?
JB Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
AC Do you have an address for BILLY?
JB No, I don't.
AC Can you get me an address for him?
JB Yes, I could.
AC So, you talked with them three or four hours on a Sunday, then, practically a week later of the killing of OFFICER TIPPIT.
JB Right.
AC Right. And they talked with you three or four hours and what did they tell you after they got through with you?
JB Well, they told me they'd contact me later but they never did.
AC This was roughly about December 1, 1963, right?
JB Yes.
AC And you've never talked to anyone since?
JB No.
AC And you cannot identify OSWALD as being the man who shot OFFICER TIPPIT?
JB I cannot.
AC And the person that you saw that shot OFFICER TIPPIT was walking from Marsalis Avenue in a westerly direction on E. Tenth?
JB Right.
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu...o-arm/id/10981 pp.15-19
Last edited by Milo Reech; 02-03-2019 at 12:49 PM.
The subornation sequence comes into focus. Based on DPD affidavits two items required immediate establishment. First, that the weapon used was a .38 revolver. Second, that Tippit's gun left the scene via a vigilante mission. The Davis women & Benavides swore out affidavits relative to the former and Callaway did the same relative to the latter, all on day 1. Scoggins did not weigh in until day 2 (11/23) with a wishy washy affidavit more or less in harmony with Callaway's but does not identify him.
Meanwhile, the Secret Service attempts to lay out a sequence of events, endorsing the fugitive's flight path along the alley between Patton & Crawford, referencing the Poe/Jez report. The FBI follows with an investigation into other (non-deposed) witnesses, producing reports consisting of a mass of paraphrased statements.
Bowley's 12/2 affidavit completes the DPD effort and briefly it looks like a tight case with all bases covered. This comes to an abrupt halt when Bowley is disqualified because of heavy Ruby connections. DPD throws away Benavides' affidavit. Benavides, previously an insignificant presence (like Guinyard), gets thrust into the limelight by virtue of a promotion to full blown eyewitness, taking over radio duties, despite the absurdity of forcing him to arrive twice at the scene of the crime.
Somebody realizes a lone nut cannot operate in duplicate, and the FBI goes to work shutting down the eastern front, probably regretting ever having opened one. Cimino fades into limbo.
Burt receives short shrift from many. While it's easy to understand why the FBI would mutilate his statements into silliness, he deserves better from those who doubt the WR version of events.
An example follows, excerpted from Gokay Hasan Yusuf's critique of With Malice at Kennedys and King, in which he goes overboard while straining to refute some argument put forth by Myers.
According to both WCE 705 and 1974, at approximately 1:32 pm, DPD Officer Jerry Pollard informs the dispatchers on channel one of the DPD radio that; "They [witnesses] say he [the killer] is running west in the alley between Jefferson and Tenth [Streets]". Myers explains that the two witnesses who gave this information to the DPD Officers were Jimmy Burt and William Arthur Smith (With Malice, chapter 5). In his endnotes, Myers sources this claim to Burt's interview with Al Chapman in 1968. According to Burt's interview with the FBI on December 16, 1963, Burt claimed that "...he ran to the intersection of 10th and Patton and when he [Burt] was close enough to Patton Street to see to the south he saw the man running into an alley located between 10th and Jefferson Avenue on Patton Street. The man ran in the alley to the right would be running west at this point." (WCD 194, page 29). However, Burt was most certainly lying, as no less than four witnesses; Warren Reynolds, B.M. "Pat" Patterson, L.J. Lewis, and Harold Russell, claimed they observed the gunman turn west from Patton Street onto Jefferson Blvd. (With Malice, Chapter 4). When Burt was interviewed by Al Chapman in 1968, he claimed that he and William Arthur Smith "...got to the alley [between Tenth and Jefferson] and we kind of come to a stop and looked down the alley and we saw this guy down there. He was down almost to the next street." (With Malice, Chapter 4). Myers then writes that Burt and Smith may have been the last two witnesses to see Tippit's killer fleeing west along the alley behind the Texaco Service station located on Jefferson Blvd. (ibid).
In his endnotes, Myers acknowledges the discrepancies between Burt's remarks to the FBI and his remarks to Al Chapman, but tries to explain the discrepancy by stating that because of his police record, his trouble with the U.S. Military, and his alleged desire to withhold his identity from the DPD, Burt possibly "altered" his 1963 interview with the FBI to avoid "deeper" involvement in the case. However, this appears to be nothing but a pathetic attempt at trying to conceal the fact that Burt lied during his interview with Al Chapman, and that the so-called radio transmission by Officer Pollard was probably added into the recordings/transcripts of the DPD radio transmissions to dismiss the possibility that Tippit's real killer was hiding inside the Abundant Life Temple, located on the corner of Tenth and Crawford Streets (this reviewer will elaborate on this in the upcoming essay on Gerald Hill). Now if Burt really was concerned about all of the above as Myers claims, then why the heck would he lie to the FBI when he surely would have realized that he would be getting himself into more trouble? Myers also acknowledges in his endnotes that William Arthur Smith informed both the FBI and the Warren Commission that he and Burt did not follow the gunman, and also acknowledges that when he (Myers) interviewed Smith in 1997, Smith was unable to recall if they had followed the killer or not. Given all of the above, and despite what Myers wants his readers to believe, Burt should not be considered a credible witness.
Since Pollard's radio transmission is consistent with the Poe/Jez report & the map drawn by Barnes at the scene of the crime there is very little basis for the claim that it was interpolated later. What the author fails to reckon with is the possibility that there were two fugitives, observed by two sets of witnesses.
The validity of Markham's 1:06 time (contained in her affidavit) allows sufficient leeway to accommodate both. Begin by backing out the rest of WR's temporal distortions.
BTW Burt may have had military discipline problems but I am unaware of a police record.


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Using the techniques I have seen so beautifully executed, some of the service encounters I've had were legendary. They were a real lesson for anybody interested in delivering that exceptional level of service we all hope to receive.
I will give you my top ten list, and then elaborate on some of the finer points of service quality. The list is in no particular order of importance, after all every service encounter is important, isn't it?
- Never look the customer in the eye
- Avoid customers who look like they may need help
- Make the customer thank you before ending the transaction
- Find more important things to do when the customer comes near
- Express exasperation at customers stupidity and ignorance
- Never tell the customer more than they need at that moment
- Avoid answering the phone so you can do more important things
- Never let a customer interaction interrupt your personal calls and texts
- Quote policy and stand your ground
- Make it clear the customer has no choice but to deal with you
However, all these examples have given me ample fodder for service training. While most service training tends to be positive, and rightly too, sometimes making an example of what is not acceptable is specific and more effective for some staff. At least they'll know its poor service. After all, how do we get youngsters interested in the dangers of drink driving? We show them a vehicle that was destroyed in an accident.
In some respects I'm glad summer is over now. I feel sure winter will yield a much warmer and caring service. Otherwise I'm thinking of never buying anything ever again, except the essentials.
It's really not that hard, for staff or most importantly for managers. We teach that customers only want to have their need met and to feel good about the transaction. That's it! Simple, stunningly simple.
So let's look in a little deeper as to what nuggets we can use to design better service experiences.
- Never look the customer in the eye.
Looking someone in the eye means you care, regardless of how simple or quick the interaction. It is best to look at customers' feet, bag, clothing or even their hair, but just avoid those eyes. Try to look like you are thinking great thoughts and really don't have time for the mundane needs of the customer before you. A particularly excellent example occurred in supermarket where, on checking out with over 100 items, the cashier was able to do the entire transaction, including running the debit card and saying 'thank you' without looking at me throughout. Amazing coordination and tenacity there, in fact I'm not sure that I could even do that. The prime rule – never engage in conversation otherwise the customer may enjoy it, come back and disturb you again.
- Avoid customers who look like they may need help.
You're at work so its right to look busy. If a customer is loitering or looking lost make sure you look very busy and make it quite clear that you are not to be interrupted. Under no circumstances ask if they need help because that just invites problems that may have to be solved. Move out of the way if you can, preferably to an area just out of sight and certainly out of earshot. Was that the customer who said something? No problem, you can never hear properly while you are walking away so you're covered. If the customer does find you and pester you, pretend you didn't hear the first time (you're working on something important right). After all, if the customer really wants help they'll ask again.
- Make the customer thank you before ending the transaction.
You know, all these customers have nothing better to do than walk around looking to buy something or to get something serviced, but you have given up your valuable time to go to work. Make sure the customer thanks you before you end a transaction in fair recognition of your sacrifice. Hold the receipt a little longer and wait, most especially if a tip is expected. If there is still no response from the customer, this might be a time to break rule 1 and look them sternly in the eye with an expectant glare so they quite firmly get the idea you're waiting on them for something.
- Find more important things to do when the customer comes near.
There is a queue for service and there are two people serving customers. The queue is taking about 5 minutes to get through. There is one other cash register not in use. A perfect time to straighten the boxes on the table behind, replace loose items back on the shelves or racks just in case other customers need them – after all these in the queue have already stopped shopping so let them wait.
In one marvellous case, a customer asked a bus driver if his was the number 81 bus. The driver said he didn't know and started plugging away at the controls on the bus. Two minutes later the electronic display on the bus beamed '81'. When asked why he could not have said it was going to be the 81, the driver simply said he didn't know back then. Of course, don't waste effort. Why answer the customers question when the bus makes it owns decisions on where it's going. Clearly this was totally out of his hands, wasn't it?
- Express exasperation at customers stupidity and ignorance.
Sometimes customers are just unbelievable. You gave them terms and conditions in 37 pages of small print and they didn't memorise them, or perhaps even read them? Also, the product or service you are giving is so simple even a child could work it out. Didn't they read the instructions and see the diagrams that required a contortionist to assemble the finished unit? Make sure you show the customer while clearly pointing out that you can't believe their level of stupidity and lack of coordination. If you can actually say 'it's so simple' or 'this is child's play' while helping them it adds to the effect. If the item now no longer works, make absolutely sure the customer knows it was their fault and in the slight chance that you'll be able to remedy the situation, they should be very grateful for the effort you will have to go through to help them out.
- Never tell the customer more than they need at that moment.
Many transactions are quite complicated and take several steps to complete, sometimes over several days. A bank transfer or an online order for example. These processes are far too complicated for mere customers to understand so rather than set a real expectation, tell them that it will take two days. Don't tell them it will take two days to process, three days to send, one day for delivery and the confirmation will come the following week. If they get worried, they will call a different customer service number anyway and you won't have to deal with it.
When announcing a delay of a flight, the gate staff said the inbound aircraft had landed and that the flight would depart in 25 minutes from now. Never mind the aircraft takes 10 minutes to come to the gate, 10 minutes to disembark passengers, 10 minutes to clean and 30 minutes to load the assembled throng around you. But the electronic board said 25 minutes so better not contradict that. Then, 25 minutes later, a further 25 minute delay was announced – who knew?
- Avoid answering the phone so you can do more important things.
How can customers have the nerve? They can't even be bothered to leave home and they're pestering you. If you answer the call, you may have to go and find something they want and that's the customers' job not yours. Oh, they're calling because your website doesn't list your opening hours - well the hours are about the same as other places so can't they just take a shot? If you had the time you'd notify the web team to fix that, but they sometimes act like customers too with difficult questions like "which web page?" Or is the information there on the page but just too small to see without an electron microscope? Better to leave it be and cause all that fuss. One way to show nearby customers you care is by letting them see you ignoring the phone so you can stay at your station in case someone comes with a question. However if they do come closer, quickly pick up the phone as it will probably take less overall effort in the end.
- Never let a customer interaction interrupt your personal calls and texts.
You have a life. Your friends and family have a life too. Now that you can communicate 24x7x365.25 you must have your devices set to see what's going on. See if you can keep reading and responding while helping the customer before you. Great, you've given them a form to fill out, perfect time to catch up on a Tweet or a text, rather than fill it out or to help them answer the questions. Hopefully they won't have any silly questions about the form. If it's close to closing time, remind the customer of that fact, twice, so you have time to text forty-eight of your closest friends and let them know you'll soon be out, especially as you leave at exactly the same time every single day.
- Quote policy and stand your ground.
So, the customer had 72 hours to return an item if it was defective and here they are in front of you. The serious problem is that its 72 hours and 5 minutes after purchase – you checked the microscopic date on the receipt to make sure of it. What to do? First call a supervisor who is somewhere hidden and ask. No luck, try a manager? Easy for them to say no when they're not facing the customer. So tell the customer that you are really sorry but the terms are 72 hours and they are clearly over the limit – almost 15 minutes over by now. What, there was traffic that delayed them coming in? Tell them they clearly should have allowed more time for the journey to make sure they met your terms. Whatever happens, quote the policy, stand your ground thus establishing that the customer is 100% responsible for the problem.
- Make it clear the customer has no choice but to deal with you.
This service aspect was hard to fathom at first, but I persevered and I finally got it. Of course the customer has to deal with you no matter how you treat them. They don't really have a choice do they? Of course they do you think, but who really puts something down and goes elsewhere to get the same item? The time, the hassle of parking or taking another bus, sifting through piles of merchandise seemingly placed to hide that one item you're really looking for. Who has the time for that? So the service provider really wins. Rarely will the customer actually go elsewhere. But rarely will they ever come back?


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How to Get More Traffic with Image Sitemaps
Since the birth of SEO, online marketers have stressed the importance of having text on your website. "The Googlebot can't read images," they warned. For the most part, the advice to have lots of text on your website still stands. In fact, in a recent video by Matt Cutts, Google's head of webspam, he explicitly says that Google still wants plain text. Although Google's technology is constantly improving, they're not going to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) any time soon to translate the text in the images on your website.
While having paragraph after paragraph of elegantly written prose might make your website appealing to Google, not everyone is a word nerd that gets all hot and heavy when they see giant blocks of text on a Web page. People—including your customers—love multimedia, and I'm sure I don't even need to look up a statistic to prove that to you.
Images, videos, graphs, charts, infographics, memes, etc.—do them well and people will lose their sh*t. Retweets, reblogs, +1s, co-citations, likes, shares: they'll all be yours. It's like wrapping filet mignon in bacon–you're only making a great thing greater.
When was the last time you heard of a plain text landing page going viral? Exactly.
Enter image sitemaps.
What Is an Image Sitemap?
If you want to get more of the images on your website found in Google's image search, you have two options. You can either add images to your existing XML sitemap (you do have an XML sitemap, don't you?), or you can create an entirely separate XML sitemap—one that contains only your site's image files.
According to the Google Webmaster Central Blog,
"To give Google information about images on your site, you'll need to add image-specific tags to a Sitemap. (You can also update an existing Sitemap.) You can create your Sitemap manually, or use one of a number of available third-party tools that can help you generate Sitemaps. You can use a separate Sitemap to list images, or you can add image information to an existing Sitemap. Use whichever method works for you."
The Benefits of Adding Images to Your Sitemap
Google receives hundreds of millions of image-related search queries every day. Now, if you own a plumbing company, this fact means very little to you. If, on the other hand, you own a remodeling business, we probably just piqued your interest. Remodeling companies are notorious for having websites that are especially image-rich. If you have an image-heavy website and the images on your website a) aren't optimized for organic search and/or b) aren't included in an XML image sitemap, you're probably missing out on search engine traffic that you deserve.
If images are an integral part of your Web page, Google recommends adding images to your sitemap with XML schema. With Google's image extensions for sitemaps, you'll be able to add information like,
- The type of image
- The subject matter
- A caption
- A title
- A geographic location
- Etc.
Of course, if marking up your sitemap with XML scheme by hand doesn't sound like your idea of a fun afternoon (although I will argue that anything is fun if you do it while drinking a margarita), you can always use an image sitemap generator. Even better, if you use WordPress as your CMS, you can add a plugin that will do this for you.
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In 1979 the NBA introduced the three-point line. Almost 40 years later, teams have finally realized it's a good thing. Modern teams are raining down threes, and the best offenses in the league are built around layups and threes (or as we affectionally call it "Moreyball"). And that can't help make you think of historical players (John Stockton anyone?) and teams.
In 2002-2003 the Mavericks had a 28-year-old Steve Nash and a 24-year-old Dirk Nowitzki on a team together. And this team went on to a 60 win record. They lead the league in Offensive Rating (how many points they scored per 100 possessions). And I think they vastly underperformed what they could have done. That season the Mavericks were second in the NBA in three-point attempts per game at 20.3. Dirk and Steve only combined for 8.2 of them. In the modern NBA, the lowest number of three-point attempts for an NBA team is the Knicks at 22.2. The second place team, the Brooklyn Nets, takes 34.2 three-pointers a game.
And you can't help but wonder if the Mavericks had embraced Moreyball in 2002-2003, what it would have looked like. Here's a rundown of the firepower the Mavericks had in 2003.
- Dirk Nowitzki – 4.9 3PA/G, 38.4% career three-point shooter.
- Mike Finley – 4.7 3PA/G, 37.5% career three-point shooter
- Nick Van Exel – 4.3 3PA/G, 35.7% career three-point shooter
- Steve Nash – 3.3 3PA/G, 42.8% career three-point shooter
- Walt Williams – 2.6 3PA/G, career 37.9% three-point shooter
As mentioned the Mavs finished the season tied for the best record. But due to the stupid playoff seeding rules, they nabbed the 3rd seed! As a result in the first round of the playoffs, they had to play the six-seeded Blazers, who were a 50 win team and took them to seven games. While they got home court, they had to face the 59 win Sacramento Kings in the second round, who also took them to seven games. It turns out home court didn't matter in their six-game loss to the Spurs. That said, you can't help what wonder what a more relaxed schedule in the playoffs and an offense based on three-point shooting would have done against the Spurs.
Notoriously, Mark Cuban relented why Steve Nash couldn't have played like an MVP in Dallas. Of course, we'd argue that he did, but regardless, the major change to Steve Nash was playing under D'Antoni. And one thing D'Antoni did was increase the number of threes the Suns took and then the number of threes that Steve Nash took. We often talk hypotheticals, and it's hard to know if a player on a different team (for instance, what if Shaq had stayed in Orlando. What if Denver had won the 2003 draft lottery?), but most have too many variables to know anything. But it just feels slightly more certain in the land of absurd speculations, that had D'Antoni taken over the 2003 Mavericks, they've have had a much better shot at a title.
p.s. Day three of daily posting Monday-Thursday continues! I'll try and do better at posting in the morning, but I'll still count today, even though it was "after business hours."


text: By 2050, antimicrobial resistant infections are projected to be one of the world's leading causes of death. The threat posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health equity challenge as well as a pressing public health concern for high-income countries such as the United States. The threat of AMR is commanding increasing attention amongst research academicians, but there are still significant knowledge gaps as to AMR's drivers and transmission dynamics. While suspected to be a significant factor, the impact of antibiotic use in livestock, aquaculture, and crops remains poorly characterized, as does the movement of antibiotic resistant bacteria through the environment.


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BICSI' President Brian Ensign will deliver the inaugural address and the convention would witness the presence of Paul Weintraub, BICSI's Director of Global Development & Support. The dedicated new product pavilion would showcase upcoming products and services and an opportunity to engage with industry stakeholders and professionals.
The 2016 BICSI Cabling Skills Challenge will also be held concurrently during the conference.
The annual conference will feature captivating discussions on; trends and developments in copper cabling & field testing, high density copper and fibre cabling solutions by enterprises, intelligent infrastructure solutions, high-speed data-transmission technologies and ICT standards updates.
Around 400 plus audience largely representing end-users, system integrators, installers, consultants, distributors and OEMs from the ICT community, members of BICSI and various other Indian IT and software industry bodies are expected to attend the conference.
"The technical conference would illuminate and debate the latest technology trends & standards, best practices in design & installation in ICT and enterprise infrastructure, potential of Internet of Things (IoT), information and telecommunication enabled buildings, apart from exchange of up-to-date information on the deployment and use of leading edge technologies and ICT standards," said Ketan Kothari, District Chair, BICSI India District.
With focused technical sessions and solutions showcase around next-gen technologies, BICSI annual conference will bring together industry leaders, forward thinkers and technology innovators through a series of engaging presentations.
BICSI provides information, education and knowledge assessment for individuals and companies in the ICT industry serving professionals, including designers, installers and technicians. Through courses, conferences, publications and professional registration programs, BICSI staff and volunteers assist ICT professionals in delivering critical products and services, and offer opportunities for continual improvement and enhanced professional stature.


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Considering taking medication for panic attacks/anxiety
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Considering taking medication for panic attacks/anxiety
I have had anxiety for my entire life and for the most part tried to deal with it without using medication. The last month it's taken a turn for the worse. I know I don't have what it takes to force myself to keep trying to function on my own anymore. I have decided to get some type of medication to help me.
I talked to a nurse at a mental hospital yesterday for an evaluation and told her what was going on in in my life in detail as well as my symptoms. She wants me to do something called partial hospitalization which lasts for three to five days from 9AM-2PM. A friend of mine told me that a mental hospital isn't necessary and any medical doctor can treat panic attacks.
Anyone have thoughts or input about what I should look into?
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Re: Considering taking medication for panic attacks/anxiety
Hi unfallen
There's several options to how you've described your current situation. Alas, there's no way of telling which will be best or most effective without trying them.
Essentially tho, therapies involve either/or medication and counselling.
The diff bewteen the two options of GP or partial hospitalisation is likely to be the balance between counselling and medication.
A GP is most likely to start out with medication alone (which will help reduce the physical experience of anxiety) but may also refer to counselling (to develop longer term self-control).
Hospitalisation is (meant to be) most effective in providing a 'safe haven' where you can unwind and de-stress whilst also having access to a range of therapists. I can't know what your own local is likely to offer as part of the hospitalisation programme but you will have better access to professional support and information by attending this option.
I wouldn't know which one would be best for you but it may be worth giving the partial hospitalisation a trial if you wanted to give yourself every chance to avoid medication.
Having said that - I've seen people who similarly looked to avoid using medication as much as possible - but when they did - found their life improved dramatically.
If you do choose the partial hospitalisation it would be interesting to read how you get on if were happy to report back!! But don't feel obliged to of course!
Hope this helps - feel free to ask more.
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American company Mercer has published annual quality of living ranking and Vienna is placed first for the 8th year in the row.When it comes to Croatian cities, Zagreb has found it's place on the 98th place on the list of 231 cities.
Vienna occupies first place for overall quality of living for the 8th year running, with the rest of the top-ten list mostly filled by European cities: Zurich is in second place, with Munich (4), Dusseldorf (6), Frankfurt (7), Geneva (8), Copenhagen (9), and Basel, a newcomer to the list, in 10th place. The only non-European cities in the top ten are Auckland (3) and Vancouver (5). The highest ranking cities in Asia and Latin America are Singapore (25) and Montevideo (79).
When it comes to our neighbours Ljubljana is placed 76th, Belgrade 138th and Sarajevo is 159th.
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At the suggestion of a friend, I pulled up a movie on Netflix this last week and, over a 3 day period, watched Shall We Dance? on my cell phone. While the title was in English, what she failed to mention was that the movie and dialogue were in Japanese. And so for those 2 hours, I both watched the action and read the translation that appeared at the bottom of that tiny screen that sat perched on the treadmill.
The movie itself was okay, but what was so humorous to me over and over again in what was considered to be a drama was the time it would take for a character to say something compared to the amount of words in the caption. He or she would rattle on and on in a language that was so foreign to me, often times said very seriously, and then only four or five words would appear on the screen. On a number of occasions, I thought to myself, "They left something out there. He said a lot more than that." In fact, I felt purely cheated.
The point of my watching that movie never surfaced as I was looking for a particular quote or conversation between two of the characters ... which I never saw (or read). But what I did discover, or maybe just realized again, is just how many empty words we use when, really, just a few will do. And no one is more guilty than I.
We do live in a wordy world. Words reeking with emptiness. In our conversations with each other. In our writings. (You are reading an example of that now.) And certainly in our relationship with God. But is there really such a thing as praying too much? I imagine that if we were to keep a record of the words we speak in prayer compared to the words we hear GOD speak, our side would be lengthier and ... well, wordier. But whose words are more important? His or ours? I think we all know the answer to that.
Having experienced the limited captions in the film, I have been challenged to speak less and listen more. Particularly in my prayer life. The appeal is to limit my prayers to 3 words per subject. Therefore, I attempt to listen and then choose them very carefully. With a particular person or situation in mind, I am learning to simply pray, "Send Your Spirit." Or maybe, "Heal her mind." "Open my eyes." "Take note, Lord." "Bring Your peace." "Lead him." "Have mercy." "Establish what You have wrought." Yes, I know that last one exceeds the limit. And so I remind myself this is not a legalistic exercise but a spiritual discipline of listening more and talking less.
But don't take my word for it. Listen to Jesus' example and instruction on effective praying:
"Thy kingdom come."
"Thy will be done."
"Give us this day."
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others.'
"Lead us not into temptation."
"Deliver us from the evil one."
Yes,short, power-packed words that penetrate the very heavens.
So, why do we talketh so much .... especially when we have so little to say? And He has so much?
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Chloe kneaded and rolled the Creative Paperclay® into a log to fit into our clay extruder. If you don't have an extruder, you can roll the material into a snake about 1/4" in diameter. We just like gidgets and gadgets, so we used the extruder :) We inverted a condiment cup to build the base of the beehive.
As I coiled the paperclay around the cup, Chloe painted the previous layer with water. This encourages the coils to bond to one another, and also smooths the material so no sanding is required. We used several coils, and joined the new coil to the previous one as we built the beehive.
When we reached the top of the condiment cup, we continued coiling, making the coils smaller as we neared the top. I left the condiment cup in place while the beehive dried overnight, and removed it the next morning for the remainder of the drying time.
When the beehive was dry, Chloe painted it with yellow ocher acrylic paint. When that was dry, we stippled the surface with a metallic gold acrylic paint. The bumblebee is attached with a pop dot.
For the bumblebee, I cut the bottom layer out of yellow acetate. Black vinyl on top of the acetate outlined the bee. I used white vinyl for the face, and yellow vinyl for the two stripes. Here are links for SVG and PDF files for the bumblebee: SVG Bumblebee PDF Bumblebee
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We led a complete re-brand that positioned this civil engineering firm to hit municipalities right between the eyes. It was time to break free from the industry speak and start addressing the felt needs of its market in a way few others were doing.
name + logo + messaging + collateral + photography + web
A New Name
The client's original name was Baxter & Woodman Control Systems Integration, or BWCSI. Choosing the name Concentric Integration conveys the alignment of systems and technologies sought by public works.
Positioning Statement
We are a team of technologists that helps leaders of progressive governments and utilities implement a roadmap to efficiency.
Champion Statement
We stand for a smarter, more conscientious use of utility resources, and a collective pursuit of innovation that energizes and inspires its leaders.
Brand Narrative
The proverbial gears of public works are intended to turn — driving municipalities forward. And when those gears seize, an entire community is left behind with archaic systems, as the rest of the world adopts advancing technologies. It's time to move from hand-cranked to push button, from multiple systems to a single control panel, from hemorrhaging time and costs to seamless efficiency.
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A top seller here at Owls Hollow, this classic game has broad appeal.
A fun-filled strategy game for all ages! Race against your opponents to be the first to build your sequences.
How To Play:
Play a card from your hand, place a chip on a corresponding space on the board & when you have 5 in a row, it's a "sequence". Learn to block your opponents & remove their chips but watch out for the Jacks (they're wild!) With a little strategy & luck you can win the game!
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Dr. Wainger is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and has over 20 years of experience in integrating ecological and economic analysis tools to evaluate costs, benefits and risks of ecosystem restoration and protection. She is known for pioneering work to include aspects of land spatial configuration in economic valuation techniques and wetland mitigation accounting. She is also known for work developing economically-based non-monetary benefit indicators to improve the representation of tradeoffs in natural resource policy and decision-making.
Current research includes developing consistent and practical frameworks for ecosystem service measurement by federal agencies. As Past Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (EPA Chesapeake Bay Program) she collaborates with a wide network of scientists to provide scientific review and direct future research. She also serves on numerous advisory boards to federal and state government and non-governmental organizations.
Areas of Expertise
- Benefit and cost analysis of environmental restoration
- Ecosystem service valuation with monetary values and non-monetary benefit indicators
- Water quality and wetland credit trading, mitigation & offsets
- Invasive species risk assessment
- GIS and statistical modeling of spatial data
- Oyster fisheries and aquaculture
- Ph.D. (1997) University of Maryland, College Park - Environmental and Ecological Economics
- B.S. (1986) University of California, Santa Cruz - Earth Science (honors, Phi Beta Kappa)
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Babson Men Headed to 10th Straight USCSA Regional Championships, while Women Qualify for Third Straight Regional Appearance
ANDOVER, N.H.—The Babson College men's and women's alpine ski teams both finished second in the slalom in the final regular season race of the season on Sunday at Blackwater/Proctor Ski Area. By virtue of Saturday's results, both Beavers squads finished second in the MacConnell Division standings and qualified for next weekend's United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) Regional Championships.
The Green and White had two skiers record top-five finishes in the men's race as first-year Sean Robinson (Reno, Nev.) came in second with a two-run time of 1:29.72, while classmate MacIntyre Henderson (Park City, Utah) finished fifth overall just 0.93 seconds behind him. Junior T.J. Pope (Bountiful, Utah) recorded a 12th-place showing and first-year Jack Blanchard (Dover, Mass.) crossed the finish line in 17th position.
First-year Douglas DeLuca (Holderness, N.H.) and junior John Boland (Waitsfield, Vt.) came in 19th and 23rd, respectively.
On the women's side, the Beavers were led by junior Tatum Alkier (Collingwood, Ontario), who finished seventh overall with a time of 1:41.10. Sophomore Teagan Mosenthal (Campton, N.H.) finished 2.52 seconds behind her in ninth place, while sophomore Olivia Burwell (Manchester Center, Vt.) and senior Kristen Sweeney (Westport, Conn.) were separated by just 0.19 seconds in 13th and 14th place, respectively.
Junior Michelle Martin (Belmont, Mass.) placed 16th and senior Molly Danzig (Allendale, N.J.) finished 28th for Babson.
The Beavers will return to West Mountain in Queensbury, N.Y., for the USCSA Regional Championships where they will compete in the giant slalom on Saturday and the slalom on Sunday.


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HHS chief Tom Price mostly correct that ER use is up since Obamacare
One of the arguments Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price made about why substantial changes in federal health care law were needed was that the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare, had failed in one of its goals -- to cut down on emergency room use.
Because emergency rooms by law cannot turn patients away, they can become a health care provider of last resort, even for more minor conditions that could be handled just as well -- and more inexpensively -- in a doctor's office.
"One of the things that the previous administration said was that they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms," Price said at a White House briefing on March 7, 2017. "In fact, they did just the opposite."
Is Price correct that emergency room usage has gone up -- not down -- since passage of the law? Our research suggests that Price has a strong case.
Did Obama say the law would lower emergency room use?
He certainly expressed hope that it would. He mentioned it during an address on health care to a joint session of Congress, and during a nationally televised town hall on health care on June 24, 2009. During the town hall, Obama said this:
"One of the areas where we can potentially see some saving is -- a lot of those patients are being seen in the emergency room anyway, and if we are increasing prevention, if we are increasing wellness programs, we're reducing the amount of emergency room care, then that frees up doctors and resources to provide the kind of primary care that will keep people healthier, but also allow them to see more patients and hopefully give more time to patients, as well."
Has emergency room use gone up since the law has gone into effect?
Different pieces of data vary somewhat, but all in all, there's strong evidence that emergency room usage hasn't declined much, if at all, since the law largely took effect in 2013. There's also evidence that it has increased.
Here are some examples of studies that looked at this question.
• May 2015: A survey of more than 2,000 emergency-room physicians by the American College of Emergency Physicians asked whether the volume of patients in their emergency room had dropped or risen after the law took effect. The results: 28 percent said it had "increased greatly" and 47 percent said it had "increased slightly." Combined, that means three-quarters of emergency room doctors saw an increase.
• February 2016: A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at the change in emergency room use between 2013 (which was largely before the law) and 2014 (which was largely after the law took effect). "ER use overall has not changed significantly after the first full year of ACA implementation," the report concludes.
• August 2016: A study in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine looked at emergency room use in Illinois by adults between 2011 and 2015, separating out patterns of visits before and after the law took effect. The study found that emergency room visits in the state "increased after ACA health insurance expansion. ... A large post-ACA increase in Medicaid visits and a modest increase in privately insured visits outpaced a large reduction in (emergency room) visits by uninsured patients."
So the studies pointed toward a modest increase in ER use.
Two other recent studies looked at state-based scenarios that mirrored the types of expansions of coverage in Obama's law. Both of them -- a March 2014 study of Massachusetts and an October 2016 study of Illinois -- found increased emergency room use after coverage was expanded.
Why isn't emergency room use going down?
Experts cite a mix of reasons.
Medicaid reimbursement rates are lower than those for private insurance, so appointments at doctors' offices may be hard to obtain for those who received Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act. In addition, "two-thirds of emergency visits occur on weekends and when doctors' offices are closed," said Laura Gore, a spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Demographics may play a role, too. Senior citizens are growing as a percentage of the population, and older Americans are likelier to have chronic health problems that require an emergency room visit, Gore said.
In fact, the trend of growing emergency room use predates the enactment of the Affordable Care Act.
"Emergency department use has been rising since they were popularized after World War II," said Scott M. Dresden, a physician and assistant professor at Northwestern University who co-wrote the Illinois study. "Research on health services use since the 1970s has shown that providing patients with assistance for health care costs, such as insurance, leads to increased health services use. So it's not particularly surprising that providing patients with insurance didn't decrease emergency department use."
But the biggest factor may be force of habit.
"Old habits are hard to break," said Gail Wilensky, who headed Medicare and Medicaid under President George H.W. Bush. "People who were used to seeking care in ERs may continue to go there for a while. When Kaiser first started taking Medicaid patients, many continued their use of the ER for routine care like they had always done. It took a while to wean them away."
Katherine Baicker, a professor of health economics at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-author of the Oregon study, agreed.
"Expanding health insurance coverage leads to greater use of care across many settings, including the doctor's office, the pharmacy, the hospital, and the emergency room," she said. "This is what one might expect from the basic economics: Medicaid took health care that was expensive and made it free, so people used more of it."
Our ruling
Price said the Obama administration said "they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms. In fact, they did just the opposite."
While the data varies a bit from study to study, the findings generally fail to provide any evidence that emergency room use has decreased after the law took effect. Indeed, several studies found increases in emergency room use, though modestly. Price overstated the case slightly, but he's basically correct. We rate the statement Mostly True.


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In this blog, I review the all-time masterpieces of the genre of Science Fiction.There are around 200 works on the master list: I give each work's rank on this list that I have compiled (from many sources) next to the title of the work I am reviewing. Since these works are the best out there, don't expect many negative reviews. I point out interesting plot points in each work, highlight pros and cons and give my opinion: does this work deserve its distinction as a classic? Feel free to comment!


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Interview by Elizabeth Tan
Photographs courtesy of HOKO, Kitchen. Label, Holycrap.sg and The Letter J Supply
Besides commemorating the courage and creative journey of independent artists and authors, publishers, distributors and retailers, the Singapore Art Book Fair (SABF) is also a sweet blend of other offbeat art-related activities such as film screenings, workshops, and talks. Since its launch just last year, SABF has made its mark in Singapore, being a rallying point for all—whether you're an art book enthusiast, or a design aficionado looking for creative inspiration. Gathering 50 vendors, both local and international, SABF is a platform to showcase creatives in the Asian world to art book buyers.
From the poetic melodies of Kitchen. Label, to experimental art by the family collaboration of Holycrap.sg, these exhibitors allow us a glimpse into their world. We had the privilege to hear from four of these artists as they tell us more about their creative journeys and struggles, the highs and lows, and the ups and downs that have made them who they are today.
—The intuitive duo, Alvin Ho and Clara Koh shed light on how design is more pervasive in our life than we think.
Please share with us how HOKO started.
We met while studying at Temasek Polytechnic between 1999 and 2002. After collaborating on a project, we discovered that we worked really well together so HOKO (derived from Alvin HO and Clara KOh) was established right after graduation as a way to continue working on non-commercial and fun projects. It was also a way to delay reality and continue doing what we enjoyed in school.
What has HOKO Studio been busy with recently?
We were busy preparing for the exhibition The Fab Mind at 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, that is happening from 24th October to 1st February 2015. We are also working on a couple of publications and exhibitions under the series Science of the Secondary for 2015.
—Bubbling with passion, this family shows us that happiness follows when you follow your heart.
Please share with us, what have you guys been busy with recently?
CLAIRE + PANN: We've been crazy busy since June. Renn and Aira were very busy with their art exhibition for the Singapore Art Book Fair while juggling revisions for their exams. Pann's work at the office has also been at its busiest. So basically the whole family was going mad (in a great way) rushing out Rubbish Famzine Issue 3 for the book fair.
The idea of an entire family dabbling in art together is quite unusual and pleasantly refreshing in Singapore—how did you get this idea of involving your kids in creative endeavours?
C + P: As suddenly as it was decided! That's how Pann works. One night before hitting the sack, he suggested we start an art group with the kids. We decided to get the family together to pursue art and all things 'creative'. We wanted to do this with as much craziness as there is seriousness. Pann and I grew up loving many things like art, design, music, cooking and etc., and we believe there is no better way to teach Renn and Aira about life than through all these. Moreover, we get to spend time together creating even more memories.
Kitchen. Label
—Ricks Ang cooks up a storm in this kitchen as boundaries are pushed in the music scene.
Do tell us, what is Kitchen. Label busy with at the moment?
Hello there! This year has been pretty exciting and busy. I've been working on a piano ensemble album by Japanese composer Haruka Nakamura. This is a live recording in Tokyo and we have just finished mixing the album. I can't wait to finally release it this December! For SABF this year, we displayed our entire catalogue of records and art books, label merchandise and limited edition zines by related artists and collaborators. We have also specially brought in a compilation Mixtape for Dawn by our Korean collaborator, Your Mind.
So, what prompted you to create Kitchen. Label?
I am involved in a band called Aspidistrafly and in 2004 we self-released our album with our own design and album packaging. This led us to our first tour in Tokyo in 2007 where we met our current Japanese distributor and started promoting our music in Japan. Before I knew it, I started receiving demos from other artists and a greater demand for our releases. At this point I became aware that I was already running a serious record label. There is this unstoppable drive in me to see how far I can go with it. Besides, I really love the physical format and there's something quite magical about owning records you can touch and feel.
The Letter J Supply
—With a swift movement of the hand, Joanne Lim of The Letter J Supply paints the beauty of words and language.
Please share with us, what are you currently working on?
I'm currently working on products for Christmas and revamping my room so that I can use it to photograph my work.
How does one get started with calligraphy—clearly it is more than just 'writing' words?
Yes calligraphy is more like 'drawing' shapes. One can get started by taking a workshop. I also know many who learn from YouTube videos. Most of all it takes a passion to keep you going because it requires quite a bit of practice.
How then did you get into calligraphy and how did The Letter J Supply start?
Three years ago, a good friend gave me a gold-plated pen nib she bought from Japan to cheer me up. That was the first spark that got me really intrigued. I never knew anything about calligraphy before that. I tried playing with it but had no idea how to really write properly, until I was on holiday in New York last year and attended a calligraphy talk along with other calligraphy teachers and enthusiasts.
I met Eleanor Winters and took private classes with her, and that changed the course of my life. When I came back to Singapore, I felt like I didn't want to use the computer as much and just wanted to make things with my hands.
I believe that words are powerful and art can change the atmosphere of a place. The Letter J Supply started because I wanted to make art pieces with words that would go into different homes and spaces.
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Hi folks, sorry I haven't been posting lately. You know how it goes when you get back from (an awesome) vacation: the lack of willpower to work, plus leftover work, etc, etc.
Davao was awesome! (See above comment in parenthesis!) People were so nice, shopping was awesome, and they took us to Samal island. If haven't been there, try to book a flight now. It was paradise. We stepped onto a boat with a big buffet table in the middle, they were grilling fish, they had lechon, pancit, all that. And pomelo! I love pomelo. By the way I saw fruit boxes there and they spelled it: PUMMELO. I think that's a cuter way to spell it. Anyway, they took us to a couple of spots like the Coral Garden where we got to float around in the middle of the sea. Oh and there was a jet ski! I fell off of it hardcore because our friend Jason was crazy, making all these crazy turns. And I also had the longest jet ski ride of my life, in the middle of the ocean. Water was so clear, sand was white, the day was lovely. All around good vibes, basically.
I only have phone and lomo photos (but I haven't gone around to having those printed), so I'm borrowing some photos from Daily Grind. Pahiram ha. :)
Come to the next Excursion!
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Reel Reviews – Thank You For Smoking
Reel Reviews #61: "Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk." A great comedy that takes a hard look at political correctness with a good dose of social satire. Time to follow Nick Naylor, big tobacco's chief lobbyist. "We don't sell Tic Tacs, we sell cigarettes. And they're cool, available, and *addictive*. The job is almost done for us."
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What is it about having a whole lot of storage in your pocket that just makes a geek feel good? It's like our version of carrying a handgun: even if you don't ever plan on using it, it's nice knowing that you could. High up on this week's wish list is Corsair's Flash Voyager Mini, a USB 2.0 flash drive that now comes in a 32GB capacity. That's a lot of power, pilgrim.
This is a cap-less, retractable USB, which opens with the flick of a thumb. Sweet. It has a durable rubber casing, so you don't need to worry about it getting scuffed or damaged. Corsair's site currently lists only one seller: Amazon has the 32GB drive for $100.99 (with free shipping). That's a lot of power, but I bet you can handle it.


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These carry the energy of the different Lotus Healing energies. They were painted by Irsa Sauerbrey (www.irsa.hu). They bring these different qualities into the room or into the aura. They are available as postcards (14.8cm x 14.8cm).
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