A male sex-offender living in a wooded area near Froggy Bottom a bar near Fort Bragg is able to pick up a 25 year old woman from the 261st Area Medical Support Company and take her to Froggy Bottom.
What did he do? Invite her to his homeless site in the woods? Drug her and convince her that there was a path with some nearby residential structure?
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
So many damned experts!
Casinos these days have so many experts.
Now along comes a firm that says "take a few key employees out for intense seminars in top notch customer service and let the new, higher standards migrate throughout the entire organization's workforce.
What utter crap!
Benny Binion knew what to do. Give the customer a good bet, a good meal and a good stiff drink. Things have not changed. Casinos want to have ignorant customers who are being lead into the shearing shed by courteous and ever-smiling customer-service specialists. Meanwhile the casinos offer inexperienced first line supervisors, unmotivated employees, games at house edges that are a disgrace, and point systems that are a mass of fine print that taketh away all that is bestowed with Madison Avenue hoopla.
Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) April 18, 2012
“Bare-bones state budgets, taxation, new casinos, social media and online gaming – these are all factors that will contribute to a challenging year for casinos,” Baird says. “Stellar guest service and a superior gaming experience are the only real competitive advantages casinos have. That is where they must focus their efforts to compete.”
The recession has depleted state coffers and states are on the prowl for ways to increase revenue for schools and social services without raising taxes, according to Baird. “That old standby – the sin tax – is a perfect solution,” Baird says. “Nobody cares if existing casinos are taxed to the max.
Now along comes a firm that says "take a few key employees out for intense seminars in top notch customer service and let the new, higher standards migrate throughout the entire organization's workforce.
What utter crap!
Benny Binion knew what to do. Give the customer a good bet, a good meal and a good stiff drink. Things have not changed. Casinos want to have ignorant customers who are being lead into the shearing shed by courteous and ever-smiling customer-service specialists. Meanwhile the casinos offer inexperienced first line supervisors, unmotivated employees, games at house edges that are a disgrace, and point systems that are a mass of fine print that taketh away all that is bestowed with Madison Avenue hoopla.
Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) April 18, 2012
“Bare-bones state budgets, taxation, new casinos, social media and online gaming – these are all factors that will contribute to a challenging year for casinos,” Baird says. “Stellar guest service and a superior gaming experience are the only real competitive advantages casinos have. That is where they must focus their efforts to compete.”
The recession has depleted state coffers and states are on the prowl for ways to increase revenue for schools and social services without raising taxes, according to Baird. “That old standby – the sin tax – is a perfect solution,” Baird says. “Nobody cares if existing casinos are taxed to the max.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Police fixation as outright frame-up. Trial at last!!
Since the trial is currently underway, I wanted to re-post this blog item that was originally posted in relation to an analysis of the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation.
Police fixation on initially adopted viewpoints.
A retired Detective Superintendent of the Fife Constabulary has been indicted for Perverting the Course of Justice, a rather serious charge in the UK, for actions that resulted in two defendants each spending ten years in prison.
Quite obviously a murder of an alcoholic in Scotland has no factual relationship to the Jonbenet Ramsey murder in Colorado, but I took particular note of it solely because the officers involved, although guilty of multiple wrongdoings, embarked on their course of illegal suppression of exculpatory evidence solely because it was contrary to the then-accepted theory of the case which had been prematurely adopted by the police.
This is yet another example of how people become fixated on an early interpretation of the evidence and will go to great lengths to make certain that all later developments are in accord with the prior view. It is quite obvious that the first few witnesses to give evidence that was contrary to the accepted viewpoint may have been given short shrift for a variety of reasons but once the number of contrary witnesses mushroomed the police clung to their prematurely adopted viewpoint despite the utter reliability of the contrary witnesses and the clearly verifiable circumstances of their observations. Police computer records were knowingly altered so that all statements indicating the contrary point of view were suppressed. Witnesses were apparently threatened by a police official who later was appointed to a position wherein he was inspecting other police forces.
This incident might be of some interest to those who feel that it is improper for innocent persons to promptly “lawyer-up” or that meeting with senior officials will clear up early misunderstandings created by initial investigators.
Note: Although the significant point is the fixation on an early-adopted viewpoint, those who care to follow some of the underlying facts of the case should be aware of certain unique terminology. Bent is a term that is often used in the UK to refer to a homosexual but in relation to a police officer the term bent refers to one that is corrupt and the word then carries no connotation of sexual orientation. The word tip in the UK can indeed refer to information provided by a member of the public to the police in order to aid the solution of a crime but it can also refer to what in the United States would be called a garbage dump. The word grass refers to an act that in the United States would be perhaps termed snitching or informing. The term Procurator Fiscal in Scottish law is the rough equivalent to coroner in the United States, meaning an official who makes a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances of a death and who issues a formal report of allegations relating to deaths, violent crimes or police corruption.
Excerpted from the Daily Record:
Scots cop accused of corruption
Mar 24 2008 Exclusive by Mark Mcgivern.
A BENT detective who fled Britain when he was accused of corruption is facing a new police probe after being tracked to Devon. Police want to quiz former chief superintendent Richard Munro over claims he framed two innocent men for murder. Munro who served 26 years in Fife Constabulary, left the force in disgrace in 2004.
The corruption investigation was launched after the appeal judges branded Munro a liar and said he and his colleagues were guilty of grave misconduct. Munro quit Britain and lived in various countries in a camper van and finally slipped back into the UK to a bolthole in Devon. Before Munro left the force, he was on secondment to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary – which inspects police forces and advises ministers.
Police fixation on initially adopted viewpoints.
A retired Detective Superintendent of the Fife Constabulary has been indicted for Perverting the Course of Justice, a rather serious charge in the UK, for actions that resulted in two defendants each spending ten years in prison.
Quite obviously a murder of an alcoholic in Scotland has no factual relationship to the Jonbenet Ramsey murder in Colorado, but I took particular note of it solely because the officers involved, although guilty of multiple wrongdoings, embarked on their course of illegal suppression of exculpatory evidence solely because it was contrary to the then-accepted theory of the case which had been prematurely adopted by the police.
This is yet another example of how people become fixated on an early interpretation of the evidence and will go to great lengths to make certain that all later developments are in accord with the prior view. It is quite obvious that the first few witnesses to give evidence that was contrary to the accepted viewpoint may have been given short shrift for a variety of reasons but once the number of contrary witnesses mushroomed the police clung to their prematurely adopted viewpoint despite the utter reliability of the contrary witnesses and the clearly verifiable circumstances of their observations. Police computer records were knowingly altered so that all statements indicating the contrary point of view were suppressed. Witnesses were apparently threatened by a police official who later was appointed to a position wherein he was inspecting other police forces.
This incident might be of some interest to those who feel that it is improper for innocent persons to promptly “lawyer-up” or that meeting with senior officials will clear up early misunderstandings created by initial investigators.
Note: Although the significant point is the fixation on an early-adopted viewpoint, those who care to follow some of the underlying facts of the case should be aware of certain unique terminology. Bent is a term that is often used in the UK to refer to a homosexual but in relation to a police officer the term bent refers to one that is corrupt and the word then carries no connotation of sexual orientation. The word tip in the UK can indeed refer to information provided by a member of the public to the police in order to aid the solution of a crime but it can also refer to what in the United States would be called a garbage dump. The word grass refers to an act that in the United States would be perhaps termed snitching or informing. The term Procurator Fiscal in Scottish law is the rough equivalent to coroner in the United States, meaning an official who makes a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances of a death and who issues a formal report of allegations relating to deaths, violent crimes or police corruption.
Excerpted from the Daily Record:
Scots cop accused of corruption
Mar 24 2008 Exclusive by Mark Mcgivern.
A BENT detective who fled Britain when he was accused of corruption is facing a new police probe after being tracked to Devon. Police want to quiz former chief superintendent Richard Munro over claims he framed two innocent men for murder. Munro who served 26 years in Fife Constabulary, left the force in disgrace in 2004.
The corruption investigation was launched after the appeal judges branded Munro a liar and said he and his colleagues were guilty of grave misconduct. Munro quit Britain and lived in various countries in a camper van and finally slipped back into the UK to a bolthole in Devon. Before Munro left the force, he was on secondment to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary – which inspects police forces and advises ministers.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
School shooting
Shooting at Christian University in San Francisco?
Now to peer beneath the headlines:
Despite use of the term university the institution is largely a school for training licensed vocational nurses. It is perhaps officially open to anyone but is obviously a Korean owned school marketed to Korean speaking students.
Although San Francisco is used for description purposes the school is actually located in Oakland which is an economically depressed area. There is no known conn
Its unknown at the present time if the disgruntled shooter received low grades but it is clear that its really a Korean shooter and Korean victims.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Amelia Earhart
What happens when you take "leading edge technology" into enemy territory unescorted?
It had nothing to do with fortifying the mandated islands, Japan was not fortifying them.
It had nothing to do with her husband being in Fleet Intelligence. ALL New-England Blue-Bloods applied for a Naval Reserve commission in Fleet Intelligence to avoid the one year extra duty they would otherwise have to serve if they sought a career path in the Navy.
The search the Japanese conducted was a joke. The major vessels that supposedly took part in the search all stayed in port, there was no such search taking place.
It had nothing to do with Fred Noonan being moody, depressed and drunk. The best navigator in the world at the time was Fred Noonan, sober. The second best navigator in the world at the time was Fred Noonan, drunk.
It all related to the advanced technology of the plane. Japan wanted it. Lockheed sure wasn't going to sell it to them.
It had nothing to do with fortifying the mandated islands, Japan was not fortifying them.
It had nothing to do with her husband being in Fleet Intelligence. ALL New-England Blue-Bloods applied for a Naval Reserve commission in Fleet Intelligence to avoid the one year extra duty they would otherwise have to serve if they sought a career path in the Navy.
The search the Japanese conducted was a joke. The major vessels that supposedly took part in the search all stayed in port, there was no such search taking place.
It had nothing to do with Fred Noonan being moody, depressed and drunk. The best navigator in the world at the time was Fred Noonan, sober. The second best navigator in the world at the time was Fred Noonan, drunk.
It all related to the advanced technology of the plane. Japan wanted it. Lockheed sure wasn't going to sell it to them.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Phone Hacking: continued ad nauseam.
Now it seems there are claims that unidentified editors have attempted suicide and that some managerial personnel at British news organizations have hired personal security guards.
Claims of everything such as "newspapers been doing this for hundreds of years" to cozy relations between press and London police was recent. A news editor being loaned a retired police horse is an incident providing some comic relief to how close the relationships are.
Big deal. It was hushed up as long as could be, now the cat is out of the bag so why is anyone resisting it at this point in time.
It was widespread. The press and the coppers knew it. Each made money from the relationship. Each found it convenient to overlook the extent of what was going on but neither side was ignorant enough to believe it was one rogue reporter and one rogue private investigator. Not even members of the public believed any such nonsense. So why now do we have the arrest of Rebekkah Brooks and her husband on some predawn raid? I guess its the old joke of why you should never trust a policeman: you never know when he will turn honest.
Claims of everything such as "newspapers been doing this for hundreds of years" to cozy relations between press and London police was recent. A news editor being loaned a retired police horse is an incident providing some comic relief to how close the relationships are.
Big deal. It was hushed up as long as could be, now the cat is out of the bag so why is anyone resisting it at this point in time.
It was widespread. The press and the coppers knew it. Each made money from the relationship. Each found it convenient to overlook the extent of what was going on but neither side was ignorant enough to believe it was one rogue reporter and one rogue private investigator. Not even members of the public believed any such nonsense. So why now do we have the arrest of Rebekkah Brooks and her husband on some predawn raid? I guess its the old joke of why you should never trust a policeman: you never know when he will turn honest.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Eyeglasses and radar displays
News that the Costa Concordia's Captain was without his eyeglasses and unable to properly see the radar display hardly alters the basic situation. He was standing into danger at high speed towards well known submerged rocks on a publicity lark and most of the crew and all of the passengers were unaware of the obvious peril he was recklessly placing them in.
Bump into rocks at slow speed and there is a need for a damage report. Bump into rocks at nearly full speed and the damage report is simple: Fatal. Sinking Fast. What did anyone think? That pumps could handle the amount of incoming water or that the incoming water would somehow not interfere with the operation of the engines that provide power to the pumps?
Way would come off really fast and the vessel could have turned towards the available port since the speed would decay so fast and rudder authority lost fairly promptly.
Bump into rocks at slow speed and there is a need for a damage report. Bump into rocks at nearly full speed and the damage report is simple: Fatal. Sinking Fast. What did anyone think? That pumps could handle the amount of incoming water or that the incoming water would somehow not interfere with the operation of the engines that provide power to the pumps?
Way would come off really fast and the vessel could have turned towards the available port since the speed would decay so fast and rudder authority lost fairly promptly.
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