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So I know I've got a ton of new followers thanks to various things. So I decided to jump on a little bandwagon called….
Ask me ANYthing! Hopefully this well help some of my new followers and even my OG followers learn a little bit more about me 🙂
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"Is this It?"
I've always kept this away
asleep before this one feeling
can fuck w/me alone (eyes on the ceiling)
I've kept it at bay
with whiskey, & the fantasy of Art
I've consistantly insisted on
not being too damn smart
Illusion and delusion and confusion
for a start
It's not all how you look at it
it's how you don't,
don't ask
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Much of the conversation in our monthly Network meetings and discussions within the City of Lowell's Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness – is the issue of discharge (or lack thereof) of homeless men and women from medical facilities. In most cases, homeless men and women are discharged "to the streets" from health care facilities (either dropped off in an ambulance or sent by cab) with a need for a greater level of care than the homeless shelter can provide.
AND..in most cases these very same medical discharges wind up back in the hospital a short time later (and again, and again and so on) without ever having addressed the original ailment to its fullest.
To the other extreme, there are homeless men and women who are kept inpatient for months at a time because there is no place to discharge them and brings with it a TREMENDOUS expense to the taxpayer.
SO, as I meandered around the internet today, I ran across this article from the LATimes
After the hospital, a haven for
homeless patients to recuperate
which of course brought to mind a recent discussion around homeless medical respite programs that are "local" (or not) to the Merrimack Valley. The closest facility of this nature is the Barbara McGinnis House, located in Boston and run by Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Boston Hospitals got together long ago to come up with an alternative to long term (expensive) inpatient care of homeless men and women. Why are we, in the Merrimack Valley region so far behind the curve ball on this element of care?
It is FAR LESS costly and HUMANE to provide this type of care, rather than discharging sick men and women (the hospitalization cycle – rinse, repeat + rinse, repeat = costly) or keeping patients for extended periods of time (= mega-costly).
It is to the benefit of our medical institutions across the Merrimack Valley to partner with providers in our communities to come up with the solutions that are beneficial to everyone's "Bottom Line".


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Wolfram Alpha, announced on morning TV today and on everyone's lips as the news got around. Earlier this week a tweet alerted me to this new kind of search engine and I watched a demonstration screencast about how it might work.
The statements about "killing" Google that are going around seem, to me, to be a bit silly. Wolfram Alpha is a different search engine to Google, and it does not aim to do exactly the same thing. Yes, in general terms both aim give information that will answer your query, but they have a different approach as to how you find the answers to your queries. As we all know, Google, and other such search engines, refers to links to other sites related to the keyword/s used to set up the search. It is as it states, a web search engine.
Wolfram Alpha is a knowledge based engine tries to compute answers for a different type of question. It returns is a summary of information that it has garnered from all over the net so it does not offer sites but displays the results to the question, very quickly. It does depend on the questioning technique and it will have to be able to understand the question, therefore the programming will have to take into account the idiosyncrasies of human language.
There are a few tips on how ask questions that will yeild the best results. I have played around with some questions that have been asked by students in the last fortnight. It did not do well on some but on others.
For instance "How is electricity measured?" did not come up with a result and I had to click on another link to work out the probable answer. "What is hydropower?" asked by the teacher did not yeild results but "What is hydroelectricity?" did give me a nice basic answer. A question about carbon nanotubes also came up without an answer as did "applications of nanotechnology" It did tell me how many eearthquakes there were in Asia in the last 2 months and the rate of inflation in China, both within seconds. Searching for the element carbon also brought up a lot of data. Searching the "black death" gave me a timeline and "Islamic renaissance" was interpreted as "Islamic golden age" and listed the timeline and the countries, and "William the Conqueror" was also found easily. I found information that was basic but would answer many of the questions set by teachers in assignments because they were simple questions. You can download the results as a PDF and you get information about the source of the resultant data. There is no indication about what information came from what source but you can follow you search further when the information is linked.
In a post, on PhoenixRealm (Phoenix SEO Blog), by Hannah called WolframAlpha: A Knowledge Engine there is a good summary of what WA can do.
The thing about WolframAlpha though is that since it is a computational knowledge engine it won't return the latest movie show times or restaurant addresses, which is good news to Google and the other search engines because they are still needed for those kind of searches. What WolframAlpha will return though are all the information that I needed way back in college to make my life easier. It will compute any mathematical formula and plot functions, compute relativistic momentum, give you the financial background of a company and extrapolate the data to predict future trend, allow comparison between performance of companies, give you information about any date, and so much more. In short it is what it claims to be a KNOWLEDGE ENGINE.
While this is not yet artificial intelligence, it is getting closer to it. It is taking the information available on the internet and trying to combine it into some form of logical context/content. There are also ramifications for education. Teachers will need to ask better questions and expect more than just a rewording of the information found. It really is not about whether students can find the information but what they actually do with it. The learning networks and now the other searching tools available are changing the knowledge world. How students understand the information they find, put it into new contexts, expand on it, etc. will/should be the learning that is assessed. The higher order thinking skills and the ability to judge/analyse the relevance/appropriateness/reliability of information found will be the important skills that must be the major part of learning world of the student. Teachers need to be creating environments that encourage students to become active learners in this world not passive receptacles of whatever bits of information they are given.
Below is a long video explaining Stephen Wolfram's ambitious project to create a comprehensive "computational knowledge engine." The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University hosted a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and a discussion of its underlying technology and implications. There is also a podcast of an interview between Stephen Wolfram, the brains behind Mathematica, and David Weinberger, where he explains how the Wolfram Alpha tool works, and what it might do to searching in the future
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The big news yesterday was that Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee Paralympic star known as the "Blade Runner", ran 45.07 to get under the IAAF 'A' qualifying mark for the World Championships as well as next year's Olympics, and is expected to be selected for the South African team.
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A string of hackneyed titles crossed my mind before I chose this one…"In Christ Alone", "Nothing But the Blood", "I Surrender All". But recently I was faced with the truth that I am 99.9% reliant on anything BUT Jesus. The sad thing is there aren't many who would find fault in some of the things I've used to help manage stress, anger and disappointment.
For recurring sins in my life, I've found accountability partners to encourage me. That's biblical.
I've been working at a daycare for a year now, and I've found that in all honesty women in general are better equipped for this. Fourteen voices barely talking but shouting for attention, seven of them whining because of some made up offense or just because, repeating every direction in a soft voice while a kid who you could strangle with one hand shouts "NO!" and sends a snot shower into your face. I've daydreamed of killing about 80% of the kids I work with, and leaving the other 20% alone deep in the woods so nature can decide their fate. I've tried every approach from just repeating "WWJD", to counting to ten, to underhandedly insulting them. Then I found that playing drums releases the stress and anger, so now I play drums almost every day for half an hour or so. Respectable method right?
I've been married for a few months now, and of course there are all kinds of disputes and misunderstandings there. So I do what I read in all the marriage books: remind myself of why I love her, dwell on the positive things she has done for me, never ask her to change something if I'm not willing to change something myself, fake it till I make it (with affection, not love of course) , learn to compromise. We've done our best to talk through every problem and have only gone to bed upset once. Not bad right?
My dad once told me (brace yourselves) that "the size of a man is what it takes to make him angry". Instantly cured my road rage. Makes it easier to keep my cool when a kid stares me in the eye while he pours his milk on the floor. "I'm a bigger man than this, no toddler is gonna push me over the edge".
And we have probably all heard at some point that we can't judge someone based on the windows of interaction we have because we may not know what they are going through behind the scenes. I friend of mine who works in food service recently told me a story of a woman he nearly blew up on because she took way too long to decide what she wanted, even after waiting in line for five to ten minutes. He kept his cool, only to discover that she had, two minutes before walking into the restaurant, discovered that her husband was cheating on her. True story. With that and like stories in mind, as well as our own moments of weakness as reminders, it becomes much easier to cut someone else some slack.
Quite simply though, none of these things are Jesus. And everything else WILL fail. There are masterful methods of avoiding this fact. Delay tactics at best. And I fancy myself among modern legends of self-motivators and inspire-ers. But I can feel it all coming full circle…all the issues I put aside and drowned out, all the stresses and challenges I avoided for fear of failure, all the personal weaknesses I re-worded to be faults in others. It'll be kicking and screaming, but God will take me, I am eerily certain of that. And everything else will fade away.


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Salama Moussa (1887 – 1958)
Many err in their perception of Salama Moussa, the great Coptic writer from the twentieth century (1887 – 1958): they see him as the ultimate socialist, who showed no interest in Coptic affairs. Wrong! I have explained in a previous article, Salama Moussa on Coptic Exceptionalism, how Musa, though in the beginning of his writing career was a staunch Marxist, and like all Marxists showed no interest in the Copts, he later returned to his roots, and joined the Copts in thinking about their future and how to improve their situation and protect themselves.
Two books, written in Arabic, about Musa, one by a Copt, Ghali Shokri,[1] and the other by a Muslim, Mahmoud al-Shirqawi,[2] – both Socialists – are defective, and do not show the two phases of Musa as a thinker and activist. The best book to show that is not dedicated to him in particular but to Coptic political acts and reactions in the first half of the 20th century, The Copts in Egyptian Politics, 1918 – 1952, by the American social scientist, Barbara Lynn Carter, and which was first published in 1986.
Carter uses Moussa's career as a paradigm for the Coptic community. It could be said that he, with the Coptic community, experienced a change in views by the late 1938s and the 1940s, as their hopes, after the 1919 of a secular Egypt in which the Copts would live in peace and respect, were dashed by the rising tide of Political Islam since 1928.
Before his change, Moussa was considered to be the Father of Egyptian Socialism: he, like many Coptic politicians, showed no interest in the Coptic Church or Coptic communal affairs, but leant towards a wider national or even international perspective. He was a committed nationalist, secularist and a supporter of the Wafd Party.
But, by the mid-1940s, and instead of this, as Carter tells us, he retreated into communalism – and here he was reflecting what many other Copts did. What was the cause of that? How did the Copts who started off after WWI and around the 1919 Revolution as staunch Egyptian nationalists and secularists, full of hope of the possibility of a secular Egypt in which religion of the citizen was irrelevant, end up by withdrawing into their community, and solely seeking to defend it against attacks by Political Islam?
Carter tells us that the turning point for Moussa as it was for many Copts may have been the 1938 election, which was marred by the elevation of Islamic discourse and anti-Coptic propaganda. It was the election that resulted in the lowest Coptic representation in the parliament, down to 2.3% compared to 8.8% in 1936. "Like other Copts, Musa came to realise that the experiment had failed and that the Copts, as a community, required a special protection."[3] Mousa talked about a few remedies:
- The abolition of Islam as the religion of the state;
- Proportional representation in the parliament;
- Control of Muslim religious groups by the government, and prohibition of their political activities;
- Provision of Christian religion instruction in government schools;
- Air time for Christian religion broadcasts.
As Carter says, "If the Copts could not be genuinely equal, then they would have to work toward a position that would grant them safety through separation."[4]
What does that teach us?
- The problems that the Copts face did not appear in the 1970s when Sadat allowed Islam to be reactivated in Egyptian political life – it predates the 1952; and started as early as the 1930s (ignoring the problems prior to the British occupation in 1882).
- The Copts lost faith in the possibility of a secular Egypt a long time ago as the Egyptian Muslims preferred Islam to secularism, equality and citizenship.
- That loss of faith was experienced by the profoundest Coptic thinkers, such as Salama Moussa.
- The falling back on communalism by the Copts was not a choice but a necessary defensive mechanism imposed by the Muslims' refusal to accept them on equal terms within a modern, secular Egypt.
What Salama Moussa, a great Copt, came to realise in the second phase of his active life is what Coptic nationalists hold: the Copts must seek to strengthen their community and defensive lines in order to fight the aggression that Political Islam poses on us. Neither Moussa, nor us, propose that we withdraw from national life – we must fight on a national level for a modern, secular Egypt; but, at the same time, we must strengthen our community – our nation. Let's not be fooled again.
[1] غالي شكري، سلامة موسى وأزمة الضمير العربي (دار الطليعة، بيروت، ١٩٦٢).
[2] محمود الشرقاوي، سلامة موسى المفكر والإنسان (دار العلم للملايين، بيروت، ١٩٦٥).
[3] B. L. Carter, The Copts in Egyptian Politics, 1918 – 1952 (The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 1988); p. 297.
[4] Ibid; p. 298.
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Department, yes.
Q. So it was actually audible on that equipment at the Boulder Police Department?
A. No, Mr. Hoffman, let me make sure I understand you. What are you -- what was audible?
Q. Burke's or the voice of someone who could have been Burke Ramsey talking in the background
at the very end of Patsy Ramsey's, you know, conversation with 911.
A. Well, you're cutting right to the punch line. There is a long story behind it but, yes, myself and
others listened to that tape and heard this third voice.
Q. So do you -- were you able to identify that third voice, you personally?
A. Well, I don't have any training in voice identification, but certainly it sounded to me to be a young
male voice.
MR. WOOD: Are you asking him, Darnay --
Q. (BY MR. HOFFMAN) Were you able to draw based on your own personal experience of
hearing this tape that there was a voice of somebody who sounded like a young boy?
A. Yes, that was my personal observation coming away from that.
Q. Do you have any reason to believe that that voice could have been the voice of Burke Ramsey?
A. That's what I believe.
Q. Is it based on ever having heard Burke Ramsey speak?
MR. WOOD: You're talking about just listening to the child speak, whether or not he has done a --
that's a sufficient voice exemplar for testing purposes?
MR. HOFFMAN: No, no. I just want to know in the same way that you can look at handwriting for,
you know, purposes of article 9 -- article 900 in the Rules of Evidence, that whether or not based on
own personal experience if he's ever heard Burke Ramsey and whether or not he thought that was
Burke Ramsey based on his own knowledge of what Burke Ramsey sounded like.
MR. WOOD: I understand. I'm not -- he can answer. But I'm certainly notacceding to your
interpretation of rule, whatever you're talking about, article 900.
MR. HOFFMAN: Okay. Well, I'm not asking you to accede. Actually, Lin, you don't really even
have to be involved in this, so quite frankly it's my question --
MR. WOOD: I will because I represent --
MR. HOFFMAN: And I don't know if it's appropriate for you to always to be trying to clarify it and
put your spin on it. I'm asking Mr. Thomas whether or not --
MR. WOOD: Why don't you ask him a question --
MR. HOFFMAN: -- he could identify the voice as being that --
MR. WOOD: -- that makes some sense and I might not have to try to clarify it.
MR. HOFFMAN: -- of Burke Ramsey.
MR. WOOD: Why don't you just ask him a straight-up question. I want to make sure and I have a
right to make sure that the record is understandable. You may not like that and I'm not trying to spin
it. I'm trying to make sure we understand because candidly and respectfully some of your questions
are difficult to follow which apparently --
MR. HOFFMAN: Okay. Well, you know, you have that problem yourself, Lin. So and I've --
MR. WOOD: I agree.
MR. HOFFMAN: -- heard Mr. Diamond have to go in and ask for clarification; lawyers sometimes
have that problem --
MR. WOOD: I agree.
MR. HOFFMAN: -- not personal to you or to me.
MR. WOOD: I don't disagree with you.
MR. HOFFMAN: The fact is --
THE REPORTER: One at a time, please.
MR. HOFFMAN: I would like to be able to ask Steve Thomas this question without your helping with
the clarification of it.
MR. WOOD: Well, just as long as the record -- go ahead and ask him the question. I just want to
make sure that I have the right to understand what you're asking, too. But go ahead and ask him and
let's get an answer.
Q. (BY MR. HOFFMAN) Okay. Do you have any reason to believe that the voice was Burke
Ramsey that you heard on the tape?
A. Yes, that's my belief and, absent there being other parties of whom or which I'm unaware in the
house that morning, this third party to me is believed to have been Burke Ramsey.
Q. What do you base that belief on --
MR. WOOD: I think your time is up, Darnay.
Q. (BY MR. HOFFMAN) -- that that voice is Burke Ramsey?
MR. WOOD: Darnay, I think your time is up. Is it up?
MR. RAWLS: Yes.
MR. WOOD: Go ahead and ask your last question. I didn't mean to cut you off.
MR. HOFFMAN: Given the fact, Lin, that you've interjected and eaten a little of my time up, I think
you should allow me that. Thank you.
MR. WOOD: As long as it doesn't cut into my time of what I know today to be 3 hours and 50
Q. (BY MR. HOFFMAN) Mr. Thomas, can you answer that?
MR. DIAMOND: It cuts into my time, Darnay.
MR. WOOD: I don't think you have time today.
MR. DIAMOND: I've got time to go home. Go ahead, ask your question.
Q. (BY MR. HOFFMAN) Yes. Mr. Thomas, is there any -- what is the basis for your concluding
that the voice that you heard on the 911 tape was the voice of Burke Ramsey?
A. The basis of that and very -- having to synopsize this for you, Mr. Hoffman --
Q. Um-hum.
A. -- was Detective Hickman's travel to the Aerospace Corp. in Southern California, their
enhancement of that garbled noise at the end of that 911 call, those engineers preparing a report and
making findings I think identical to the detective who was there with the tape, her returning to the
Boulder Police Department with this information and then each of the detectives listening on
lesser equipment inside the Boulder Police Department to these findings, I concurred with others that
there was a third voice on that tape that I believed to be Burke.
MR. HOFFMAN: Thank you very much, Mr. Thomas.
THE DEPONENT: Thank you, Mr. Hoffman.
MR. WOOD: If we can go for about five or a few minutes I want to just kind of touch on a few things
that you brought up, Darnay, and then we will break for lunch.Is that okay guys?
MR. DIAMOND: That's fine.
MR. HOFFMAN: Fine.
Q. The FBI analyzed the 911 tape and they did not find any such language, true?
A. I don't know what the FBI and Secret Service did because it was my understanding there may
have been equipment that was incompatible to conduct this testing or for whatever reason but bottom
line is the Secret Service and --
Q. The FBI?
A. Federal Bureau -- yeah, were unable to --
Q. They didn't hear the voice that Aerospace heard, right?
A. I don't know what they did or didn't hear or what they did or didn't test. I don't -- I think one of
those agencies didn't even have equipment to test the tape.
Q. So you think the FBI didn't reach a conclusion with respect to the 911 tape; is that your
A. I don't know what the FBI or Secret Service concluded, I know what Aerospace did.
Q. And you also know that the tape was taken to a fourth group and they came up with different
words from the tape than what Aerospace had come up with, true?
A. I know that Mr. Hofstrom took the tape to his brother-in-law for enhancement.
Q. Are you suggesting that his brother-in-law somehow falsified a report?
A. Did I say anything like that?
Q. No, sir, I'm just asking you're not suggesting that, are you?
A. No, you mentioned a fourth testing facility and I simply replied that Mr. Hofstrom took the tape to
his brother-in-law.
Q. So for whatever reason the FBI doesn't hear the third party, the Secret Service doesn't hear the
third party, Aerospace claims to hear it and then the fourth group hears something different; is that a
fair generalization of the 911 tape?
A. I'm not sure that the first two agencies ever heard anything because I'm not sure they ever
listened to the tape. I'm just --
Q. Did you not bother to ask the FBI, I mean, you -- please, Mr. Thomas?
MR. DIAMOND: Two questions.
Q. (BY MR. WOOD) Did you ever bother to call the FBI and say, gentlemen, what did you find
about the 911 tape?
A. I'm sure Detective Hickman, whose assignment this was, may have done that.
Q. Well, what, did you ask Hickman what did the FBI say? You know, we've spent a lot of time
with the FBI, Tom, what did they say? Did you ask him?
MR. DIAMOND: Did he ask him what?
Q. (BY MR. WOOD) What the FBI had to say about the 911 tape?
A. Again, as I've said it's my understanding, Mr. Wood, that I don't know whether or not the FBI or
Secret Service even tested the tape. The first testing that was done on it, to my knowledge, was
through the Aerospace Corporation.
Q. And did you -- have you ever tried at any time as you sit here today to make any efforts to find
out about whether the FBI or the Secret Service even tested the tape and if so, what their results
A. I don't know that.
Q. Have you made any efforts is my question?
A. No.
Q. As we sit here today, you've never made any effort to find that out --
A. No.
Q. -- right? Am I right? Sometimes the no comes out differently. The question is you've never
made any such efforts to find out about the FBI or the Secret Service testing of the tape?
A. I have not made calls or efforts trying to determine that to the FBI or SecretService.
Q. As we sit here today you have not done that?
A. That's right.
Q. (BY MR. WOOD) Mr. Thomas -- yeah, I've got it -- the 911 tape. Did you ever hear any
explanation as to why that tape was garbled in part?
A. At some point during the investigation I recall the tape coming to Detective Sergeant Wickman's
attention initially because the 911 operator who took that call thought there may have been
something at
the end of the conversation that was unintelligible.
Q. I appreciate that information. But I would like to get to my question because my time is limited
today at least and whether we finish or not is another issue. But my question is, did you ever, sir, hear
any explanation as to why a portion of the 911 tape was garbled?
A. I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking me why --
Q. Yeah, was anybody trying to figure out why -- the 911 tape is a tape in realtime, isn't it?
A. Yes.
Q. And one would think that you would hear in realtime voices that are on the tape. You say there is
something garbled. Was there ever any attempt to find out why this portion of the tape might be
garbled and not discernible to the human ear without some scientific analysis? That's my question.
A. I don't think that it was garbled in the sense that there was a defect in the tape or something,
that's certainly not my understanding. I think the description of garbled was meant to include the fact
that as this phone was apparently being attempted placed back into the cradle, there was some
conversation that was not as clear as Patsy Ramsey speaking directly into the phone, to the 911
Q. You knew the phone from your investigation was a wall phone, didn't you?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you hear any effort on the tape to try to hang the phone up, a banging or a tapping or
anything of that nature?
A. The call obviously concludes with the line disconnecting but, no, not that I recall today without
listening to the tape of the phone banging.
Q. Do you know whether the 911 tapes that were being utilized at the time were recycled in the
sense that they might be taped over after a period of time?
A. I don't know.
Q. Was any effort made by the Boulder Police Department, to your knowledge, to try to ascertain
that information?
A. I would certainly think they did.
Q. But do you know the answer?
A. I don't have any knowledge of that.
Q. Secondhand or otherwise?
A. No.
Q. Take a look at your book, if you will, for me, page 15. Are you with me?
A. Yes.
Q. "In preliminary examinations, detectives thought they could hear some more words being spoken
between the time Patsy Ramsey said 'Hurry, hurry, hurry' and when the call was terminated." Have I
read that correctly?
A. Yes.
Q. Is that the truth, is that accurate?
A. Yes.
Q. "However, the FBI and the United States Secret Service could not lift anything from the
background noise on the tape." Have I read that correctly?
A. Yes.
Q. Is that the truth?
A. As we discussed earlier, yes.
Q. I thought you said you didn't know what efforts, if any, they had made earlier?
A. I said in one case at least I don't know that they had the proper or necessary compatible
equipment to try to enhance this tape, nor did I know of them ever submitting a report.
Q. All I would like to know is did the FBI to your knowledge or the Secret Service to your
knowledge ever send the tape back and say we don't have the proper equipment to see if we can lift
anything from the background noise on this tape?
A. Again, we have discussed that and that's my testimony, that not being my assignment, it was my
understanding that the tape came back from the FBI and the Secret Service without anything
but I recall there being an issue that somebody didn't have proper equipment to do the testing.
Q. Well, you don't say anything like that here. This is definitive. The FBI and the United States
Secret Service could not lift anything from the background noise on the tape. Is that a true statement
or not?
A. Whether, because they didn't have the correct machine or because they didn't lift anything if they
did do some testing, yes, that's a true statement.
Q. Why wouldn't you -- I mean with all due respect I don't think you were trying to do the Ramseys
any favors in this book. Why wouldn't you have said here that they couldn't lift anything from the
background noise on the tape but that may have been the result of inappropriate equipment. You
say that or discuss that in your book, did you?
A. If we're talking about the production of the book, it was certainly limited. I couldn't put
everything in this case into the content of the book.
Q. The bottom line is we're confident that someone in the Boulder Police Department can answer
the question about the findings by the United States Secret Service and the FBI about this 911 tape.
That's in the case file, isn't it?
A. Undoubtedly.
Q. Good. And I don't believe I asked you this; I wanted to. Are you aware of any attempts to take
a voice exemplar from Burke Ramsey and have it analyzed against the voice you think your human ear
tells you or because it's a third-party voice that it's Burke Ramsey, any efforts to do a scientific
by way of a voice exemplar between Burke Ramsey's voice and the voice you think might have been
his on the 911 tape?
A. I certainly never received an assignment like that, nor do I recall hearing or knowing of anyone
else who did.
Many pedophiles look for kiddie porn for excitement, easier to get porn than a living child. So police got a search warrant and looked for porn on the Ramsey computer. This is from Steve Thomas' deposition and supports what we now know - - there was no porn on any Ramsey computer.
VIDEO TECHNICIAN: The time is 6:23. We're going on the record.
Q. (BY MR. WOOD) Mr. Thomas, in terms of the search of the Ramseys' hard drive and their
computer, was anything found that was viewed as suspicious or incriminating in August?
A. There were, I think reams of documents that came off that recovered hard drive, but I think as
far as, I don't knowif the search included pornography, I think it did, nothing like that, but there was
other documents that were later used for Foster. But I --
Q. For handwriting analysis, I'm talking about beyond use for analysis of handwriting, anything --
A. You mean suspicious?
Q. Or incriminating?
A. I would have to flip back through it.
Q. Anything that jumps out at you as we sit here today?
A. No.
Q. And certainly there is never any finding despite a fairly extensive search that in any way linked
the Ramseys to any type of pornography; am I right about that?
A. Not that I'm aware of.
There was a time when a few brave BORG joined Webbsleuths and dared try (unsuccessfully) to make their case against the parents.
I came across an old post by BORG Jayelles and have to share it here. She had not like a post I made, said I read it wrong or interpreted it wrog - - then she wrote this interesting thought:
NOWHERE did I say that I doubted they could link DNA-x to the crime. I said it WOULD point to an intruder IF it was found at the crime scene AND matched the markers from the other DNA found in her underwear and under her fingernails. We don't know where it was found or whether it matched the other DNA, but it would be an indisputable fact pointing to an intruder if it did.
first a bit from Steve Thomas' deposition in the Wolf case:
Q. At page 232 of your book -- I apologize, I apparently have gotten the wrong cite in my record.
Oh, 236, I'm sorry, 236 where you say first paragraph under the line right here "With our Dream Team,
we tallied the points supporting probable cause and found more than 50 items."
A. Yes, I'm with you.
Q. When was that tally made? Date that for me.
A. Mr. Wood, I can't date it specifically but they assisted us in our preparation for the VIP
presentation and just a quick reading of this was maybe spring or late spring of '98. But no, it was
before that because later in the paragraph it talks about the Title-3, which was way back before
Christmas '97. So this was, I would guess, late '97, early to spring of '98.
Q. Can I -- I don't have the time today, at least, to ask you to go through and list those 50 items. But
can I be reasonably confident that if I set about myself in your book that I could find reference to those
50 items in this book, that you have included those somewhere in here?
A. No, I can't commit to that because of what was, I remember there was an easel that was used in
which everybody in the room put out evidence, information, that sort of thing that went on to this
50-plus point probable cause board.
Q. So it may have been all of your points, you may have --
A. It certainly wasn't.
Q. You may not agree with all of them?
A. Right.
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6. "RE: Thomas depo 22 - Spitz"
In response to message #5
page 254-255 pb JBITRMI
In a three-page report, forensics expert Dr. Werner Spitz furnished a logical sequence of events on the night JonBenet was killed.
*First, there had been a manual strangulation, by twisting the collar of the shirt, with the perpetrator's knuckles casuing the neck abrasion. That was consistent with rage-type attack. (My question: where is this twisted collared shirt??)
**Then came the devastating blow to the head, followed by the garrote strangulation. The detectives felt this could have been done either to ensure death or as part of a staging (note: the detectives felt, not Spitz). Another doctor said that the head was hit with great force and that the cracking skull would have made a tremendous noise. It was agreed that the cord around the throat was applied to a victim who offered little or no resistance, probably as she lay grievously wounded by the head injury. (again, I don't see these words absolutely attributed to Spitz. As for resistance, how much resistance could a little wee girl give?)
***By examining the condition of the pineapple in the stomach and the rate of digestion, Spitz put the time of death "about or before 1 A.M."
(first of all, the stomach was empty, so let's just assume another error on ST's part. The condition of the pineapple in the small intestine indicated by Meyer was that it was "fragments" of a fruit or vegetable material. Steve seems to be missing a condition required for Spitz to reach this 1 A.M. conclusion because Spitz does not know what time JB consumed the material/pineapple. Something's wrong/missing in this statement attributed to Spitz.)
Parents of slain girl not subpoenaed to testify
By Charlie Brennan
Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
BOULDER -- The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury will hear from new witnesses
when it returns to work Thursday, according to a source close to the case.
And they're not John and Patsy Ramsey.
The parents of 6-year-old JonBenet, considered suspects in their child's
Christmas night 1996 slaying, still have not been subpoenaed to testify
before the grand jury probing her murder, the source said.
The Ramseys, who now live in Atlanta with their
12-year-old son, Burke, have steadfastly
maintained their innocence.
The grand jury's 18-month term expires Oct. 20.
Exactly who will testify is unclear.
Burke Ramsey is the only family member known
to have testified before the eight-man,
four-woman panel. His testimony came just prior
to the grand jury's May 25 meeting, which was
followed by a layoff lasting all summer.
The list of those not yet called as witnesses
contains another surprise.
A former executive at Access Graphics, the $1
billion Boulder computer software firm where John
Ramsey worked as president and chief executive
in 1996, said no one from that company has
"I don't know anybody from Access who has been
called," said the executive who stays in touch with
past and present company officials.
A 21/2-page ransom note Patsy Ramsey said she
found in the house Dec. 26, 1996, when JonBenet
was discovered missing suggested a possible
business connection in the murder.
The note said the culprits represented "a small
foreign faction" who told John Ramsey "we respect
your business, but not the country that it serves."
Former FBI criminal profiler John Douglas, hired
by the Ramseys, also concluded the crime was
likely committed by someone outside the family,
and possibly by someone with a business-related
grudge against John Ramsey.
Scott Robinson, a Denver attorney who has
followed the case closely, said the fact that
apparently, few people -- if any -- from John
Ramsey's former business have testified, could be
"It means either the Boulder police have
exhausted, independently of the grand jury, every
slimly related lead, or the grand jury -- for
whatever reason -- has focused elsewhere in the
search for JonBenet's killer," said Robinson.
"The police, in general, have long had the
Ramseys as their principle and apparently sole
suspects. But even with that in mind, it would be
beneficial to any eventual prosecution to rule out
business jealousy or business-related anger as a
potential motivation for the murder of JonBenet."
Robinson said the fact that more witnesses are
scheduled to appear before the panel, which
resumes its meetings Thursday after a four-month
break, shoots down one popular theory.
"This suggests that the jury has not been spending
the last few weeks working out the bugs on a
report, in lieu of indictment -- which had been a
plausible explanation for the hiatus," said
Robinson, "and that they have not yet decided
what to do. They want to make sure that no voice
goes unheard before reaching a determination."
Those who have not yet appeared include former
Ramsey neighbor Melody Stanton. Stanton, who
has since moved out of Boulder, lived across the
street from the Ramseys and told police she heard
a child's scream not long after falling asleep
Christmas night.
Her comments to police about the scream have
been the subject of much analysis for what that
scream might say about the possible time of
death, and for what it might say about where, in
the Ramseys' expansive home, the killing might
have taken place.
Authorities have never specified a time of death in
the case. The Ramseys told police they put
JonBenet to bed shortly after arriving home from
a party shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Christmas
Among those witnesses who might still be
scheduled could be some of the same case
investigators who passed through the courtroom
in the grand jury's first days last fall.
Former prosecutor Dave Heckenbach, who ran
grand juries for the Denver district attorney's
office from 1986 to 1992, pointed out that as
recently as early summer, some of those
detectives were still actively interviewing
witnesses and seeking additional evidence.
"If they've done a lot of work, between the last
time they met and now, the grand jury would
have to meet a few times -- or have one
megasession, depending on how much work the
police have done in the interim."
September 22, 1999
Boiler room theory arises in Ramsey killing
Theory supported, in part, by basement window facing street
By Charlie Brennan
Scripps Howard News Service
Melody Stanton
(738 Fifteenth Street)
(Boulder, Colorado)
On December26, 1996, between 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. she woke from sleep, heard a child's scream that lasted 3 to 5 seconds. Her bedroom was on second floor facing the Ramsey house. She said she woke her husband Luther, knew it was JonBenet but assumed her parents would take care of her. Melody went back to sleep immediately. Luther then heard the sound of metal hitting concrete.
Melody told this to her neighbor, Diane Brumfitt and Diane reported the incident to the police.
Information went quickly to the media and reporters started knocking on the Stanton door. Eventually the Stantons denied knowing anything - - they clearly did not want to be witnesses any longer. Melody suggested the scream may not have been an actual scream but "negative energy". Or maybe she heard it another night. But most believe her first report was the honest one.
In Schiller/Brennan book, page 610 paperback, this was investigated by Officer Barry Hartkopp on 01-03-1997
but her interview wasn't signed or given under oath.
"Thomas depo 41 - Stun Gun"
Q. 154, right here, second blocked out, second paragraph, "Experts engaged by the police concluded
there was no stun gun involved at all, but the DA's team never relinquished their claim that such
weapon an exotic weapon was used to subdue JonBenet." Have I read that correctly?
A. Yes.
Q. Who were the experts engaged by the police that you're referring; would you identify those for
A. I know at least one was Dr. Werner Spitz, and Detective Trujillo would be able to identify
Q. Did any of those -- any police department consultants discuss at either of the presentations in
terms of what they thought about stun guns whether there was consistency. For example, Dr.
A. I'm sorry, run it back by me, Mr. Wood.
Q. Was Dr. Deters -- the Larimer County coroner involved in the investigation by the Boulder Police
A. No, I'm not familiar with that name.
Q. How about Sue Kitchens of the CBI?
A. I am familiar with her name, but I do not know what extent she may have been involved in the
Q. How about Dr. Doberson?
A. I believe Trujillo and Wickman initially visited Dobersen on behalf of the police. But that was
later followed up by investigators Smit and Ainsworth.
Q. Dr. Doberson who I think you have a great deal of respect for?
A. I don't know Dr. Doberson.
Q. Do you recognize him, though, to be respected in the law enforcement community in Colorado?
A. I have no opinion. I don't know anything about Dr. Doberson.
Q. Do you know that he has stated within reasonable medical certainty that the marks on JonBenet's
face and back were caused by a stun gun. Are you aware of that?
A. Well, if you're telling me that's true --
Q. I'm just asking if you're aware of it. You said --
A. I saw that on --
Q. -- you watched some of the stuff. I'm just asking if that's what he said there?
A. Right.
Q. Did you watch the Tracy Mills documentary, two?
A. The second one, two?
Q. Yeah.
A. Two, as in the number two?
Q. Yeah, the second, there was one back a couple years ago, it's one that came out in the last
several months, haven't seen --
A. No, I haven't seen that.
Q. So you don't know what Dr. Doberson said in that, do you?
A. No.
Q. But he wasn't employed by the Boulder Police Department, among other things, to look at the
stun gun issue, true?
A. I don't know that he was employed but they went to him. Trujillo and Wickman I know did.
Q. What did the Boulder Police Department conclude caused these marks found on JonBenet
Ramsey's back?
MR. DIAMOND: Do you want to identify what you're putting in front of him just for --
MR. WOOD: I'm going to mark it and I'll do it by copy. I don't want to mark on this color copy but
this will be Defendants' 4.
MR. DIAMOND: Will you identify what it is for the record?
MR. WOOD: It's an autopsy photograph of JonBenet Ramsey.
MR. DIAMOND: Does it have a number on it or something?
MR. WOOD: I just put a number on it, a 4 just so I can copy it and mark it later. If you'll just hang on
to it. I don't want you to be flipping through there. There is one picture I am going to ask him about in a
MR. DIAMOND: Yeah.
(Exhibit-4 and Exhibit-5 marked.)
Q. (BY MR. WOOD) What did the Boulder Police Department determine caused those marks on
JonBenet Ramsey's back as shown on Defendants' Exhibit 4?
A. I don't know that the Boulder Police Department as an entity formed a consensus opinion, but
relying on the experts in this case, and Detective Trujillo specifically who was assigned to the stun gun
investigation told us and I remember seeing it that Werner Spitz concluded, I believe, what was believed
to be stun gun marks may have been a patterned object, if I recall correctly, or I think another
explanation was on her back lying on some sort of object.
Q. That was Dr. Spitz only?
A. Well, Dr. Spitz completed a report on that. I think Dr. Lee had some opinion on it. Certainly
Trujillo filed information about that.
Q. I'm going to show you defense Exhibit Number 5, which two photos, one is obviously Number 4
and then 5 is a picture of JonBenet's side of her face. There were two marks on her face. The marks
on her face and the marks on her back were the same distance apart, right?
A. I don't know that those were identical. I have heard --
Q. Do you deny that?
A. I have heard Mr. Smit say that they were identical. I have heard Trujillo say they're not.
Q. That the marks were not -- shouldn't one just measure this, sir?
A. Unfortunately you would have to, I think, triangulate it off of a photo because they weren't
measured, my understanding, at autopsy.
Q. Do you choose to believe Dr. -- Mr. Smit or Mr. Trujillo in terms of that issue or do you just not
have a position one way or the other in terms of the distance part of the two set matched pairs?
A. I don't believe necessarily either of them. But I have heard Mr. Smit and Mr. Trujillo had
conflicting measurements on that picture.
Q. But one thing for sure, you believe, I think you would say and have said before, that if a stun gun
was used on JonBenet that that is significant evidence that would point away from a family member or
parent, right?
A. I don't know where I have said that.
Q. You have never said that?
A. I don't know where I have said that, Mr. Wood.
Q. Do you deny that?
A. Refresh my memory. Where do you think I have said that?
Q. Do you deny that or is that accurate?
A. I think, and for the record let me just say, one other expert that I know the Boulder Police
Department consulted were I think stun gun reps, manufacturers or people in the stun gun industry.
Q. Do you know their names?
A. I don't. I think somebody from Air Tazer.
Q. Were there reports filed?
A. There certainly should be. As far as do I deny -- well, let me put my answer this way. I would
agree to an extent that it may be or would be less likely that a parent would be involved in the stun
gunning of a child. Maybe I'm naive in that thinking, as the FBI agents told us they have seen children
murdered in the most horrendous of ways, but I won't dispute you on that point today.


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though interesting this book has cut away from the original story line and totally away from the book jumping which for me made up the character of Thursday next. I had a feeling as I listened to it that the author just wanted to finish the series of books and bring it to end, which I guess has happened but not in the way I expected or really enjoyed.
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really did not enjoy it at all , did not get the humour, the characters did not grab me the story confusing, and did not like the the voice
Would you consider the audio edition of The Woman Who Died a lot to be better than the print version?
I have visual problems now, so Audible has given me the gift of books again. The narrator is good and a most enjoyable read.
What other book might you compare The Woman Who Died a lot to and why?
The Jasper Fforde books are 'one out of the box'! They have a great deal of literary knowledge in them, are a lot of fun with some wonderful plays on words.
What about Gabrielle Kruger's performance did you like?
Gabrielle Kruger has a great, laid back approach to reading Thursday Next that enhances the character and story.
Any additional comments?
A most enjoyable listen/read. Thank You!
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White Ribbon Day
November 25
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The White Ribbon Campaign aims to raise awareness among Australian men and boys about the roles they can play to prevent violence against women. The campaign calls for men across Australia to speak out and take an oath swearing
never to commit, excuse or remain silent about violence against women. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Two overly imaginative pranksters named George and Harold, hypnotize their principal into thinking he's a ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants.
Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids.
When he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests, a rising executive questions it when he's invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.
A romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another.
Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he's surprisingly invited to attend her wedding.
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.
The year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who used to be just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank. Now, in his RV, Phil searches the country for other survivors. He has traveled to every city, every town and every outpost in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and has found no one, which leads him to the painful realization that he is almost certainly the last living being on the face of the earth.
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their Great Uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
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Branson argues that the first two months since the President in office was a disaster, and estimated that it will take a maximum of one Trump mandate.
"On the other hand, Mr. Trump's temperament is irrational, aggressive and he lacks informed ideas on how to grow jobs in America," Branson wrote. "An entrepreneur president would put that at the heart of his plans and yet his fear-based campaign blames immigrants and open borders."
– It's a shame for the world to have an individual at the helm of America who does not speak the truth, instead of trying to open the border, makes it hard to live in America … And so on and on, the list is long – said Branson.
As he said, there are many other business leaders who would be able to serve as President of the United States, but believes that Trump is certainly not the right person to run a big country like America.
– His first days in office are so bad that I think it would be difficult to stay for another term.
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Jonah Force Hill is a fellow in New America's Cybersecurity Initiative. Hill is a policy specialist in the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA, where he works on a variety of global technology policy issues, including cross-border data flows, digital trade, cybersecurity policy, online privacy, and internet governance and technical standardization. He represents the United States at government-to-government engagements and in venues such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Within the Department of Commerce, he serves as the executive secretariat for the Department's "Internet Policy Task Force" and was the principal author of two of the Department's most important technology policy strategies, the "International Cybersecurity Engagement Priorities" report and "Enabling Growth and Innovation in the Digital Economy."
Prior to his government service, Hill worked as a management consultant in San Francisco, Calif., where he advised corporate and public sector clients on technology policy and strategic communications, and as a research assistant to former CIA Director Gen. David H. Petraeus at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research and writing has appeared in numerous academic journals and books, including the Harvard National Security Law Review and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, an MTS from the Harvard Divinity School, and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.


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US leads the way on house prices, sales
I mentioned yesterday Australia's housing affordability problem. News today says the UK also is either (i) better than the US, because its housing prices and sales are still expanding, or (ii) lagging the US, and we'll all get ours soon enough. I reckon it's the latter, sadly. Australians seem to agree – the consensus is that prices are rather high, and borrowing to meet those prices is rather worrying.
The strength of the UK housing market was underlined by the fact that prices in the past three months rose 2.2% compared with the previous three month period, up from May's comparable figure of 1.9%.
Although steadily increasing rates are slowing purchases and permits down. The results of rather a different survey were also released.
Steps must be taken to address a shortage of affordable homes in Wales, says the charity Shelter Cymru, who have released their report An Unnatural Disaster (actually there's very little unnatural about it).
A "rampant housing market" and a lack of affordable and suitable housing were key factors in homelessness, a report by the charity has found.
It wants the assembly government to build 3,500 affordable homes a year by 2011 to clear the "backlog of need".
New low-cost home ownership initiatives and funds to tackle homelessness prevention work were also urged in the inquiry, to be launched at Shelter Cymru's annual conference in Swansea on Thursday.