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The Ten Biggest Lies In "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook"
by Shill Murray ⋅ 30 Comments
#10 – "There Was An Emergency Preparedness Drill/Exercise Nearby"
Mentioned at least three times in "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook", FEMA's "Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters" is alternately mischaracterized as a "drill" or an "exercise". In reality, "Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters" is a six hour independent study course, based on material taken from this document by Save The Children. While FEMA offers the course online, some state organizations also teach it in a classroom environment, which means that it ends up looking a bit more like this:
Than this:
If you've got a sharp eye, you may be able to spot a couple of differences!
The "disasters" covered by this course are almost entirely of the natural variety: hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. And while it does include some discussion of caring for children in war-torn areas, conspicuous in its absence is any mention of or information pertaining to school shootings. So while this course was in fact being held by Connecticut's Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection at a hospital roughly thirty-three minutes southeast of Newtown on the morning of December 14th, 2012, its continuous and intentional misrepresentation by folks like James Tracy is what earns it a spot on this list.
#9 – "The Triage Tarps Were Empty"
Most victims suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were obviously deceased, legally declared so by the EMS personnel who first made multiple attempts to revive them:
Cassavechia stated that four separate patient assessments were made to guarantee no one was resuscitatable.
– Matthew Cassavavechia, Director of Emergency Medical Services for Danbury Hospital
Source: Book 6, 00002113.pdf
Reed stated they then assessed the two adult victims in the hallway and utilized the cardiac machine. Reed stated that Cassavechia had spoken to the Emergency Medical Control Physician D. Pat Broderick and they decided that all the victims with obvious non-life sustainable head wounds would be checked with the cardiac machine. Reed stated they re-assessed the victims in the rooms utilizing the cardiac machine.
– John Reed, Paramedic Supervisor of Emergency Medical Services for Danbury Hospital
The deceased were then triaged inside of the school:
Cassavechia said that the victims were formally triaged using the SMART triage program.
Reed stated that all the victims were given a triage tag, except for the victims in the bathroom. Those tags were put on the thermostat outside the bathroom door. Reed stated they did not want to disturb the crime scene any more than they already had.
Three of the four surviving victims were rushed directly to nearby Danbury Hospital via ambulence. The sole remaining victim, substitute kindergarten teacher Deborah Pisani, was first treated at the secondary triage area (before also being taken to Danbury), located in the firehouse parking lot:
I exited the vehicle and proceeded to remove any medical equipment we might need into an area that would be called a triage station. EMS Captain Halsted Firefighter Berressi and myself were notified of a potential patient located at the comer of the parking lot furthest from the school. We found and rendered aid to the patient with a laceration to the foot. After wrapping the wound we transferred care to a female member of Newtown EMS. We then returned to the triage station area to continue preparing for the possibility of more patients.
– Ryan Clark, First Responder/Firefighter with the Sandy Hook Fire Company
Deborah Pisani (with her left leg wrapped and elevated) can be seen being treated at the secondary triage area in the Channel 12 helicopter footage:
As well as in this footage from the Wall Street Journal:
The Channel 12 helicopter footage seen above is referenced a number of times throughout "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook", which means that the authors saw the footage of Ms. Pisani being treated and chose to hide it from their readers.
#8 – "Adam Lanza Was Too Novice A Shooter"
Adam Lanza's admiration of and experience with firearms is very well-documented.
As Adam's parents Nancy and Peter were both avid, longtime shooters, they were happy to share their hobby with their two sons, and they shared it with them very early on. According to family friend Jordan LaFontaine, the younger Lanza "was four at the time he shot his first gun" (Source: "Newtown: An American Tragedy"). It was at the LaFontaine residence that Adam was taught how to fire a .22 as well as a "high powered air rifle" by his mother, Nancy, as well as Jordan's father, Marvin (Source: Book 7, 00196017.pdf).
Peter Lanza further elaborated on his son's relationship with guns during a police interview:
S/A Shibley asked Peter "if he transferred any firearms to Nanoy Lanza and documented the transfer in the Connecticut State firearm registry, to which Peter replied no. S/A Shibley asked Peter if he ever gave a firearm to Adam Lanza to which he replied no. S/A Shibley asked Peter if he was aware of Nancy Lanza purchasing and owning firearms to which he replied yes. S/A Shibley asked Peter if he was aware of Nancy Lanza purchasing firearms for Adam to which he replied no. Peter stated he assumed Adam had access to firearms purchased by Nancy because on one occasion he took Adam to Wooster Mountain Shooting Range and Adam possessed two long guns that he believed were purchased by Nancy. S/A Shibley asked Peter if he ever purchased ammunition for Adam to which he replied yes. Peter Lanza stated he would purchase a box of ammunition for Adam when they went to shooting ranges, but they would shoot all the ammunition at the range. I asked Peter if he was aware of how Adam obtained so much ammunition and Peter stated that he did not know.
Nancy and Adam can be placed in three area shooting ranges, including the aforementioned Wooster Mountain, which is where one witness – a former police officer – recalls giving Adam "pointers and tips" on how to shoot, at Nancy's request. The witness states:
[redacted] stated that he was at the Wooster Mountain Shooting Range in Ridgefield (Danbury) approximately 2 years ago. He stated that he saw Nancy and Adam there shooting the Bushmaster AR-15 as well as what he believed to be a Glock Model 19 .9mm handgun. [redacted] stated that Nancy asked him if he would be willing to give Adam some pointers and tips on how to shoot. [redacted] stated that he agreed and gave Adam a quick lesson in controlling his breathing and proper aiming techniques.
Christian Hansen, a certified NRA instructor who worked at Fairfield County Indoor Range/Arms And Munitions from 1986 through 2010, recalls not only instructing Adam in a basic NRA rifle safety course, but seeing him (along with his mother) return to the range "two or three times within a year of taking the class". From Mr. Hansen's statement:
When I saw the media picture of Adam Lanza, I recognized him. I believe it was about 4 years ago when he and his mother took a basic safety class from me. I remember the mother to be a nice person and Adam to be extremely quiet and polite. To the best of my recollection, the mother took the basic pistol certification class and Adam with his mother took the basic NRA rifle safety course. After they completed the safety course, they came back two or three times within a year of taking the class and rented rim fire pistols and rifles. Both the mother and son were actively shooting when they came to the range. I was working part-time at that time, they could have been there more times. There was a possibility that they brought their own ammunition.
– Christian Hansen, certified NRA instructor
The third area shooting range to host Adam Lanza was Shooters Indoor Pistol Range in New Milford. Investigators were able to locate a sign-in sheet from 2011 bearing the names as well as signatures of Nancy and her son:
Source: Book 7, 00222826.pdf.
#7 – "Websites Were Set Up And Tweets Went Out Before The Shooting"
The result of willful ignorance regarding all things technological, the claim is often made that tweets referencing the shooting went out hours in advance while donation websites were set up days ahead of time (based on the date they were reportedly cached by Google). Neither is true.
At least as of this writing, new Twitter accounts default to Pacific Time, no matter where the user is actually physically located. You can confirm this for yourself by creating a brand new Twitter account and then checking your settings. For example, despite being located in the Northeast United States, this is what mine looked like immediately after creating my account (with identifying information scrubbed out):
So if someone in charge of a newspaper's Twitter account didn't think to change this setting, all of their tweets would appear to be exactly three hours early. And wouldn't you know it, all of these seemingly prophetic tweets just so happen to be exactly three hours early, every single time:
And if you go back and look at the Hartford Courant's tweets from February 2nd, 2014, you'll see that they also seemingly predicted the winner (as well as final score) of Super Bowl XLVIII, a mere twenty minutes after kickoff:
For further confirmation that this is in fact what's happening, all you'll need to do is visit the Hartford Courant's Twitter page and find their most recent tweet (as long as you're in the Eastern time zone). Hover over the timestamp and compare that time to yours. The example below shows their most recent tweet is only twenty-one minutes old, which is accurate. But when I hover over that timestamp, it says that it's from 12:24PM, which – as you can see from the browser window displaying the time directly from NIST – is most certainly not twenty-one minutes ago. At least not on the East Coast. Do the math and you find that there's an exactly three hour difference:
As for websites such as the United Way, Google has inconsistent and occasionally inaccurate time stamping when dealing with active websites, as admitted by a Google engineer, Matt Cutts:
Replicating this issue is as easy as searching Google for information about a "sandy hook conspiracy theory" and limiting the results to anything from 2011. As you can see in the screenshot below, a number of conspiracy sites pop up (including links referencing James Tracy's firing from FAU, which didn't happen until January of 2016), all displaying dates from well before December 14th, 2012. Surely no one would believe these sites had foreknowledge of the shooting, would they?
#6 – "There Are Different Cars In The Parking Lot"
The claim is that, depending on which photograph you're looking at, the cars in the school parking lot change. I have yet to see anyone present any evidence of this claim, likely because it is demonstrably false. As proof, let's look at the position of these nine cars, using four different pictures from four different sources (click any photo to enlarge in a new tab):
Source: Shannon Hicks' infamous evacuation photo from the Newtown Bee.
Source: Meehan's parking lot photos, page eight.
Source: Michael McAndrews of the Hartford Courant.
Source: Helicopter footage from YouTube.
The vehicles seen in the above photos are:
#1: Green Saturn Vue
#2: Silver Mazda 3
#3: Maroon Honda Pilot
#4: Blue Ford Edge
#5: Red Subaru Impreza
#6: Grey BMW X5
#7: Green Volvo S60 (?)
#8: White Chevy Traverse
Now here's another angle showing even more of the parking lot. Again, we'll look at four different photos from four different sources. This time we'll focus on four more cars, all of which remain in the same position throughout:
Source: Shannon Hicks of the Newtown Bee.
Source: Farr's nighttime exterior photos, page 160.
The vehicles seen in the photos above are:
#1: Green Ford Expedition
#2: Silver Lexus GX470
#3: Green/blue Chevy Malibu
#4: Black Subaru Impreza
#5 – "A Sign Declaring Everyone Must Check In Appeared Before The Shooting"
The very real, large electronic sign that appeared in front of the firehouse is often touted by deniers as some of their best evidence that what took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012 was not premeditated murder, but an "active shooter" exercise in which no one was killed. But such an argument could only be valid if the sign was in place prior to the alleged drill, which it most definitely was not. Once again, we can demonstrably prove that this is not the case and that the sign did not appear until sometime the next day, on December 15th (thus making it absolutely worthless for an alleged drill held a day earlier).
For starters, we need to establish the approximate location of the sign. In order to do that, we'll take a look at a composite image created by Mick West of Metabunk which overlays the photo of Gene Rosen used on the back cover of James Fetzer's book (taken from an interview with Megyn Kelly on December 18th, 2012) with a more recent street view of the firehouse:
The next step is to establish a timeline using photos and videos from a number of different sources. One of our earliest views of the firehouse comes from the Channel 12 helicopter footage, taken sometime around 10:45AM on the 14th. As you can see, there is no trace of the sign in that location:
There's also this photograph from Tim Clayton, likely taken at around the same time (if not shortly after) as the helicopter footage above. Again, no sign:
This alone should be enough to effectively silence any speculation surrounding the "check in" sign and, in turn, disprove the entire "it was just a drill" narrative in one fell swoop. But let's see if we can't narrow down this timeline any further.
This photo, taken by John Woike of the Hartford Courant, shows the intersection of Dickinson Drive and Riverside Road "as the sun sets" on Friday, December 14th. There is still no sign:
In an interview filmed very early on the morning of the 15th, Gene Rosen speaks with reporters from "CBS The Morning" while seated across the street from the firehouse. This interview provides with a nearly unobstructed view of where the sign would be… you know, if it had actually been there sometime before the 15th:
Taken shortly before 9AM on Saturday the 15th (according to the image's Exif data), this photo by Spencer Platt of Getty Images shows that the sign has still not arrived:
While some folks believe that the small dark area circled in the following photo shows the sign in place on the morning of the 15th, I'm not convinced that is the case. Even if the sign were off for some reason (and every other photo shows it on), there's no trace of the bright orange frame that supported it:
Here's a close-up of that area:
Another reason I don't believe that the above photo is the first sighting of the "check in" sign is because it's unarguably missing from the following photo, which appears to have been taken later that same day:
The first clear, undeniable photo of the sign on and in its proper location that I could find is the following, taken by Mario Tama sometime around dusk or so on the 15th:
#4 – "The Children Were Rearranged For The Evacuation Photos"
No, they're just different children.
This claim is based off of the idea that the same two children appear in both of Shannon Hicks' infamous evacuation photographs. Why re-use two of the children and swap the rest? Did they run out? Who knows? But this is what James Fetzer, "Vivian Lee", and a disheartening number of other conspiracy theorists actually believe.
Fetzer and Lee, in Chapter Five of "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook", make the absurd claim that these two children…
Are the same as these two:
Besides some superficial similarities in their clothing, it should be obvious that these are different students. Let's compare:
Set #1 – The children in the black shirts:
The boy on the left is wearing a long-sleeved black shirt or sweatshirt with a large design printed on the front. The design appears to be of some unknown character, posing with a red skateboard. There doesn't appear to be any writing. The other boy's shirt or sweatshirt has a school logo or something similar printed on it: you can see the word "South" at the beginning and it looks like "Fat" or "Fal" on the second line.
The boy on the left has bangs that sit evenly across his forehead. The boy on the right has his hair swept up in the front, off of his forehead.
The boy on the left is wearing light blue running shoes/sneakers with a sole that tapers off at the front, like a New Balance sneaker would. There's nothing in his right hand, and likely nothing in his left hand either. The boy on the right is wearing dark grey sneakers with a uniform sole and holding papers in his right hand. His jeans are also noticeably darker.
Set #2 – The children in the grey shirts:
Both boys are wearing long-sleeved grey shirts or sweatshirts. The boy on the right looks like he may have a collar.
The boy on the left has light brown hair. The other boy has much darker hair, though they are cut and styled in a similar fashion. Their facial features are drastically different.
The boy on the left is wearing black or very dark blue athletic pants with a bright blue stripe that goes at least halfway down the leg. His sneakers are light grey and the large, white sole is very noticeable against the asphalt. The other boy is wearing dark blue athletic pants with what looks like silver strips just below the knees, at least on his left leg. His sneakers are black with a very thin sole.
You'd have to be a lunatic to think that these are the same kids.
#3 – "There Was No 'Internet Activity ' From The School Between 2008-2013"
This outrageous claim entirely on a combination of outdated information and a total (and possibly intentional) misunderstanding of how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine functions.
But what is the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine ("The Wayback Machine")? From Wikipedia:
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization, based in San Francisco, California, United States. The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet. The service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a "three dimensional index."
Since 1996, they have been archiving cached pages of web sites onto their large cluster of Linux nodes. They revisit sites every few weeks or months and archive a new version if the content has changed. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who are offered a link to do so. The intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. Their grand vision is to archive the entire Internet.
Hopefully you caught that. The Wayback Machine revisits sites "every few weeks or months". The more popular a site, the more it's crawled (which would explain why even the elementary schools surrounding Wolfgang Halbig's home in Florida suffer from the same fate). This concept is reiterated later in the same article:
The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked web site updates are recorded. Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots.
These snapshots of websites, sporadically crawled by the Wayback Machine, are not at all synonymous with "Internet activity". This claim demonstrates a level of technological ignorance best described as "absolutely staggering". It certainly doesn't help matters much when your information hasn't been relevant in six years.
The web address James Fetzer and his co-authors used to reach this conclusion – http://newtown.k12.ct.us/~sh – has not been the home of Sandy Hook School's website since the summer of 2006, which is when the webmaster for the Newtown public school district changed the address of every school's site. And if you search The Wayback Machine for any of those old addresses, it returns very similar (if not more extreme) results:
The fact that Newtown changed the addresses for all of their school's websites is not particularly difficult information to dig up – as I'll show you in a moment – and it once again hammers home the now indisputable fact that this book's contributors are either totally incompetent researchers or being deliberately dishonest. Or maybe a little bit of both! Either way, it's abundantly clear that they cannot be trusted to report the truth to their readers.
The address for Newtown's public schools is http://www.newtown.k12.ct.us, and plugging it into the Wayback Machine returns the following results:
The first thing that likely jumps out at you is – with the exception of a single snapshot taken in January of 2010 – a gap that exists between November of 2007 and July of 2011. I'll explain the reason for this later, but for now, if you look at the very last snapshot before the break (taken on November 20th, 2007), you'll see that the link provided for Sandy Hook Elementary School is actually http://www.newtown.k12.ct.us/shs (they would go on to change their address once more, in 2011):
This address is corroborated by the earliest edition of "The Sandy Hook Connection" (Sandy Hook's official newsletter) that I was able to find, which is dated January 8th, 2009:
When you enter that address – the correct address – into the Wayback Machine, you got the following results:
This narrows the gap considerably, whittling it down to April of 2008 through October of 2010, or a full year and a half shy of the original claim of four full years. But even taking into consideration the inconsistent nature of the Wayback Machine, two and a half years still seems like kind of a long time between snapshots. So what gives? As is usually the case with these things, there's actually a very simple, technical explanation. From The Wayback Machine's FAQ:
How can I have my site's pages excluded from the Wayback Machine?
You can exclude your site from display in the Wayback Machine by placing a robots.txt file on your web server that is set to disallow User-Agent: ia_archiver. You can also send an email request for us to review to info@archive.org with the URL (web address) in the text of your message.
And what is a robots.txt file? From Wikipedia:
The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.
Sure enough, we can see that on June 4th, 2008, the webmaster for Newtown's public schools added the following to their robots.txt file:And what do those two lines do?
And what do those two lines do?
This "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.
Once those changes were made, the Wayback Machine – by design – stopped crawling and archiving the sites for every school in the Newtown public school district, not just Sandy Hook. This is not debatable, and anyone with a few minutes of free time can easily replicate the steps I took above and achieve the exact same results.
#2 – "The School Was Being Used As Storage And Staged To Look Like A Real School Shortly Before The Attack"
Here is how contributor "Dr. Eowyn" aka Maria Hsia Chang (who maintains on her own crank website where she frequently writes about Sandy Hook as well as the idea that Barack Obama is secretly gay) describes the state of the classrooms and hallways at Sandy Hook Elementary School on page 32 of "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook". I've highlighted the relevant bit and cropped out everything else. I've also added the location of the source photos (in Walkley's scene photos, available as part of the official report, included in the "22 Assorted Files" archive):
I want to start out by discussing the bottom photo first, which Chang (erroneously) claims is of a hallway being used as "storage". Firstly, it's important to note that Walkley's scene photos are presented in chronological order and there are 760 total pages which places this particular photo, found on page 759, very far along in the investigation process. An almost identical photo, taken of the same area at around the same time, can be seen on page 953 (of 970) of Tranquilo's back up scene photos #2 (also included in the "22 Assorted Files" archive). Just like Walkley's photos, Tranquilo's are also in chronological order.
Here is a much larger, far more readable version of the photo taken from Walkley's scene photos – the one that Chang presented entirely out of context – with some annotations provided by me to act as reference points. Again, this is page 759 of 760. As is the case with all of the photos here, you can click to enlarge in a new tab:
From this perspective, the odd numbered rooms are on the left and the even numbered rooms are on the right, with the numbers ascending as they get closer to the lobby. I've labeled the height markers that were posted on the lower half of the wall between rooms #3 and #5 as well as the "Warm up to a good story" display between rooms #10 and #12, for further reference.
A blue tarp has been hung between the lobby and hallway while red biohazard bags can be seen on the floor between rooms #10 and #12. Some of the other items here can also be seen in earlier photos: white and blue portable storage racks, like the one seen on the very right, can be seen in Walkley's scene photos, pages 161-162 (in room #10, which is Victoria Soto's 1st grade classroom). They can also be seen in Tranquilo's back up scene photos 1, on pages 167 and 200. Those same photos also show what are likely the same two desk chairs (as well as accompanying computer desk) seen on the left.
Here is the view seen above, represented on Sandy Hook's floor plan:
And here's what that hallway actually looked like on December 14th, 2012, not long after the shooting took place. This is page 88 of the Walkley scene photos, cropped slightly in order to make it look more like the photo on page 759. Walkley took that photo while standing between rooms #6 and #8 (or rooms #3 and #5), and this photo was taken a little further away from the lobby, between rooms #4 and #6 (or room #3 and the hallway). You can see the height markers between rooms #3 and #5. I've also circled one of Adam Lanza's clips on the floor and placed a yellow star right around where the photograph on page 759 would have been taken. Mary Sherlach's body can be seen in the distance:
Visible on the floor by room #5 is SWAT gear (including a helmet), a LifePak 15 defibrillator/monitor, an EMT's backpack, and a bag containing MCI (mass-casualty incident) equipment. Here's a closer look at it from page 70 of Tranquillo's back-up scene photos 1. Again, I've marked the height markers between rooms #3 and #5, circled the cartridge, and marked where Walkley would have been standing when taking the picture used by Chang:
It should be obvious at this point that the photo used by Chang was taken while these rooms were being emptied out, their contents temporarily stored in the hallway, so that investigators could continue their work inside of the rooms, unobstructed. An example of this can be seen in Walkley's scene photos, pages 563-574, as well as Tranquillo's back up scene photos 2, pages 151-152, which show a nearly empty room #8. This is corroborated by CFS 1200704597, 00118939.pdf:
And just in case the above was not enough, here's a photo from Sandy Hook's 2011-2012 scrapbook, which shows this exact hallway as it was on January 23rd, 2012. There are no boxes, chairs, or bags to be found:
With all of the above in mind, there can be no question that the hallways were not used for storage. Maria Chang and James Fetzer presented these photos out of order. With a reported nine researchers collaborating on this book (including five alleged PhDs), what's the more likely explanation: that this book was so poorly researched and edited that such an obvious error slipped right by every last one of them or that you're being lied to?
But what about the "jammed" classroom shown at the top of that same page? Not surprisingly, this one has a similar explanation: intentional deception on the part of Chang and ultimately Fetzer (as this is his book).
What the book doesn't mention is that this is a picture of room #6, which was the special education classroom. The picture is taken from Walkley's scene photos, page 249. Chang purposely chose a picture of the most cluttered area, located at the back of the room, by the teacher's desk. Other photos of the same room show that there was plenty of room to run a class. In fact, here's a composite that I created using those pictures, found on pages 249-251 from Walkley's scene photos. These are the three photos that come directly after the one Chang used, so they can't claim that they didn't see them:
Not really as described, is it? Unfortunately for Chang, the second composite that I created using four photos taken from the other side of the room, just inside the door (Walkley's scene photos, pages 244-247), make the room look even less cluttered:
You can see in both composites that there is absolutely no fire hazard here as Chang claims. There is a clear, unobstructed path to the door. Furthermore, personal affects, including jackets and water bottles, can be seen everywhere in both pictures. There even appears to be coffee brewing to the left of the previous composite photo as well as a December, 2012 calendar just right of center. Overall, there's plenty of evidence here that this was indeed an active classroom and school.
#1 – "We Have The FEMA Manual"
They certainly have something, but a legitimate FEMA manual – let alone "the" FEMA manual – it is most assuredly not.
Beyond its very, very questionable origins of the "manual", there are also a number of serious problems with the actual content. Most glaringly, it's nearly an exact copy of the following legitimate government document, taken from Massachusetts' state site:
http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/emergency-prep/dispensing-site-kit/drill-site-activation-call-down-exercise-plan.doc
It's abundantly clear that whoever is responsible for this forgery simply took that document, found and replaced all of the placeholders, and saved the finished product as a PDF, presumably so that it couldn't be modified any further… which is a real shame, because this thing is in some desperate need of a proofreader.
First and foremost, this document provides instructions for a "Site Activation Call-down Drill". In emergency preparation, a call-down drill is "a series of telephone calls from one person to the next used to relay specific information. An established and exercised call down protocol can be used during emergency situations, such as a flu pandemic, to deliver urgent information to and for communication among members and staff", and they bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to what took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Honestly, the fact that the clown who cobbled this thing together couldn't find a more relevant document to work off of is a feat in and of itself.
Secondly, and just as importantly, there is no "Emergency Response For Mass Casualties Involving Children" mass casualty drill listed anywhere on FEMA's website. The closest match is "Preparing for Mass Casualty Incidents: A Guide for Schools, Higher Education, and Houses of Worship", which is a short course that absolutely anyone can take entirely online. From the course description:
This course will help you understand the threats and challenges of mass casualty incidents, and present ways you can improve your level of preparedness should the unthinkable occur.
So we're not even off the first page and we're waist deep in bullshit.
Then on page five, under "Handling Instructions", the barely literate author of this farce entered the following information:
Agency POC:
Tom Romano
thomas.romano@ct.gove
Exercise Director:
And yes, that is exactly how they typed Tom Romano's e-mail address when they copied his information from this page: with an extra "e" at the end. They also never bothered to look up who he actually works for or what his title is, as Mr. Romano is a "Region 5 Training Coordinator" for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, and not employed by FEMA. They also don't have anyone listed as "Exercise Director", which presents a serious issue once you get to page fourteen and realize just how important one is to this (imaginary) drill:
Exercise Director/Controller/Evaluator. This position has the overall responsibility for planning, coordinating, and overseeing all exercise functions. He/she monitors the status of play and the achievement of the exercise design objectives.They declare when the drill starts and ends and manage the flow of the drill. This is the only participant who will provide information or direction to the players. However, because the drill focuses on the collection of time-based metrics, they should not intervene in timed activities while the drill is in progress.He/she is responsible for timing the overall drill, gathering individual call data collection sheets, computing metrics, and taking notes to identify areas for improvement.
Or page fifteen:
If a real emergency occurs that affects the entire exercise, the exercise may be suspended or terminated at the discretion of the Exercise Director/Controller… The exercise is scheduled to run until the Exercise Director/Controller determines that the exercise objectives have been met.
Since they removed the [Exercise Duration] from the original document, and since there's no Exercise Director, does that mean that this thing runs forever?
These are pretty substantial oversights/errors and go a long, long way towards discrediting the entire document within five pages. But wait, there's more!
On page ten, the author left "Mass Prophylaxis" from the original document as one of the Target Capabilities, but also added the following:
Mass Death of Children at a School by Firearms
Suicide or Apprehension of Unknown Shooter
Use of Media for Evaluation
Use of Media for Information Distribution
Jeez… a little on the nose, don't you think?
Ignoring how far-fetched it would be for a single mass casualty drill to cover both prophylaxis as well as a school shooting (both of which would require drastically different responses), none of the author's edits represent real Target Capabilities. Of course. Here is FEMA's actual Target Capabilities List as it would have appeared in 2012 (Source):
I've highlighted "Mass Prophylaxis" to demonstrate that the only legitimate Target Capability listed in this document is the one that they left in from the original. But notice that the additional four do not appear anywhere on this list. Because they're not real.
The author also left the following on page fifteen:
All communications (written, radio, telephone, etc.) made during the exercise will begin and end with the phrase, "This is a drill."
The importance of this phrase is emphasized on page sixteen:
All exercise communication will begin and end with the phrase "This is a drill." This is a precaution taken so anyone overhearing the conversation will not mistake the exercise play for a real-world emergency.
Of course this phrase is nowhere to be found in any of the written statements, 911 calls, or radio transmissions found in the final report. Not once. Pivoting off of this point, Sandy Hook Facts has an excellent write-up on the multitude of ways in which the Sandy Hook shooting deviated from actual "Active Shooter" drill protocols.
Page eighteen includes the following paragraph:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the RAND Corporation have developed a data collection spreadsheet and scoring metrics computation spreadsheet, for assessing site call-down capability.
Wait… the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? It's almost as if this was written for a Mass Prophylaxis exercise. Which it was.
Finally, as Kelbel over on the Metabunk message board pointed out:
I'm going to try and keep this as short as possible, because this document is so blatantly fake, it shouldn't even need to be explained this many times.
The exercises are planned and executed at the above mentioned levels (state, local, tribal, etc.) and NOT the Federal level. The fake document has FEMA and DHS as the Sponsoring Agency(ies). The fake also contains at least 4 different "Exercise Names", including "National Preparedness" and "National Incident Management System", which are NOT scenarios, they are actual THINGS.
While exercises are planned with the guidance from FEMA and DHS, those agencies are not those who carry them out:
The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) doctrine consists of fundamental principles that frame a common approach to exercises. Applying these principles to both the management of an exercise program and the execution of individual exercises is critical to the effective examination of capabilities.
Guided by elected and appointed officials
Capability-based, objective driven
Progressive planning approach
Whole community integration
Informed by risk
Common methodology
If you would like to see an example of what an actual "Active Shooter" exercise plan looks like, take a look at this one from Purdue University (from July of 2010). The differences between the two documents are numerous and pretty staggering.
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Jen on June 3, 2016 at 11:46 pm said:
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Shill Murray on June 4, 2016 at 2:38 am said:
Stephen on June 5, 2016 at 8:19 pm said:
I know some people say that by debunking these claims, you're just drawing undue attention to these people and what they're saying.
Unfortunately, just ignoring them won't make them go away. The way the world is now, through shear repitition, false claims have a way of becomming accepted as the truth, especially when Fox News is doing the repeating.
If you don't push back. lies have a way of becomming true, I guess.
I thought about that before I created the site, but I think that you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Personally, I love drawing attention to them. I want people to see them what they are: liars and scumbags. I don't think drawing attention to them really does them any favors.
I've already had a couple of people contact me and tell me that they "saw the light" after reading one of my entries. So for me, it's absolutely worth it.
Dan Chesler on July 10, 2016 at 5:12 pm said:
There is an ugly, cruel rumor circulating which suggest Avielle Richman is not dead, but rather she is alive and was never the daughter of Jeremy Richman & Jennifer Hensel. The rumor suggests Avielle Richman is a fabricated identity using the real life person Lenie Urbina of Sandy Hook, CT. James K. Appleton, a veteran 28-year expert witness and legal consultant, has verified that the photos of both girls suggest that they are in fact the same person. Please help debunk this rumor.
Shill Murray on July 11, 2016 at 12:00 am said:
You mean the same James K. Appleton that was duped by Wolfgang Halbig and then personally apologized to the Richmans for this hokum?
Appleton's a "slip and fall" guy who runs a video production company. I have no idea where Halbig found him, but there's no reason to believe he's qualified to do this kind of work (especially seeing as how his education is in economics and finance). In fact, I think he's proven himself to be absolutely terrible at it seeing as how it's obvious that Avielle Richman and Lenie Urbina are two different children… unless you believe there has only ever been one little girl with curly hair in Sandy Hook School. They have differently-shaped eyes, different chins… Lenie Urbina has a mole or a birthmark above her mouth while Avielle does not. Lenie has freckles and Avielle does not. They also have very different ears, which are nearly as unique as fingerprints. Compare their earlobes, for starters. Looking at the two, I honestly have no idea how Appleton reached such a ludicrous conclusion.
Furthermore, logically, it's a total mess. Lenie Urbina was in the fourth grade at the time, and Avielle Richman was six years-old, and in the first grade. So I suppose the theory is that they used old photos of an existing Sandy Hook fourth grader… and then sent her to sing at the Super Bowl a month later? Why didn't they just use a six year-old? Why use a child from the same school? What about the rest of the children? What about the picture of a six year-old Avielle in her class photo? Let me guess: it was "Photoshopped". The whole idea is just so, so stupid.
Shill Murray on July 11, 2016 at 1:05 am said:
I'd also recommend checking out his son's tweets (@barkingtunaweb) from December 23rd-24th. He claims that his father's work was "perverted" and that he was "taken advantage of" by a "dishonest" client (Halbig).
Layla on July 16, 2017 at 1:30 am said:
I'm sure part of the parents of these poor little angels would LOVE if their babies were still with us…It's heartless of these idiots to keep this shit up.
dan chesler on September 4, 2016 at 4:24 am said:
Shill thank you very much. Your analysis is sound in my opinion, especially with regard to the ages of the girls.
I think Appleton was probably qualified to do the work however (See: http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/cheryl-hall/20091205-Video-producer-sharpens-focus-on-bad-335.ece ). I was not aware he apologized to the Richmans, do you have any links to this.
Shill Murray on September 6, 2016 at 1:02 am said:
Thanks Dan, but I disagree. I don't believe that Appleton is at all qualified for this type of work, which is unrelated to and vastly different from audio and video production. First of all, I couldn't find anything on his resume or in his history that shows he has any education or experience in regards to facial comparison, age progression, etc. I actually reached out to both James as well as his son – who was very vocal in attempting to clear his father's name after the Halbig fiasco – in an attempt to clarify and maybe get their side of the story, but the elder Appleton never replied while his son immediately blocked me. I guess it's a sore subject these days.
Furthermore, I think that the results he's produced here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's totally and completely unqualified. He did a bad, bad, bad job.
The only reference I've seen to the apology was on Sandy Hook Facts. After they wrote about Appleton's embarrassing mistake, either he or his son reached out to the site, said that they had privately apologized to the Richmans, and asked to have the article removed. Sandy Hook Facts complied and I believe the apology has remained private.
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NotToday333 on June 26, 2017 at 10:14 pm said:
I noticed that the link you provided for the FEMA class shows that the course date is for December 9, 2015. I imagine you used it though because it shows details of that course (or maybe you posted it before the 2015 class?)
Anyways, here's the link for the course that was taking place that day. They use the words "class" and "course" throughout the whole page.
http://www.ct.gov/demhs/ical/eventDetail_page.asp?date_ID=CAC9C6C9CD83CDC9C7
It states that the course is at 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 9 am – 4pm.
That address is for a St. Vincent's Medical Center https://www.stvincents.org/locations-and-contacts
Clearly, not a drill.
Shill Murray on June 26, 2017 at 10:27 pm said:
I believe I went with that particular link – directly to FEMA's site – because when Googling the course name, that is the very first result. It also provides a link for taking the course online, which I thought was useful for anyone who wanted to see what the course actually covered (or more importantly didn't cover). It didn't have anything to do with the listed date. I did say that "while this course was in fact being held by Connecticut's Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection at a hospital roughly thirty-three minutes southeast of Newtown on the morning of December 14th, 2012…", but for whatever reason I did not like to the exact event page. I think it's a good addition, so I'll do that now. Thanks.
Jake on September 16, 2017 at 9:16 pm said:
This does a good job st debunking a few of the silly things like the sign but is mostly deflective. I.e the time stamps … the issue this deflectsaway from is that go fund me sights and donation pages were open and taking money and comments the very same day . Or a couple before. A deeper investigation into this proved that a page cannot be cached and given a previous date.
Another is the deflection away from the super bowl thing and ' the sandy hook surprise' on YouTube …. erm … at least 5 of those kids are DEFINITELY the same kids. There's no debunking that , no .
Adam Lanza was a 112 pound nut case apparently. He could not physically carry 30 pounds of kit for 5 minutes, shoot 185 (!) bullets, reload 5 times and only miss twice . That's super human in every way. Oh yes then he shot himself and placed the gun back in his car.
The photo of the ' evacuation ' Of 500 pupils and staff who just witnessed a slaying of 20 kids ( then the shooter suddenly kill himself for no reason) which was actually ten kids in a line looking totally normal whilst a few bystanders stand casually and take some photos . But then a near identical photo shows the kids in a different order but at the same location.
These aren't the smoking good no off course and there is massive amounts of research now for people to decide for themselves.this article is mainly deflective though in that it takes a story like the donation pages , makes it about time stamps, then makes that about twitter. Which was never the issue.
Shill Murray on November 22, 2017 at 4:13 am said:
This does a good job st debunking a few of the silly things like the sign but is mostly deflective.
I am addressing actual claims made by deniers. The ten you see here come directly from the book "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook", hence the title of this post. So if you believe that anything here is "silly", take it up with the people propagating this hokum as it originated from them.
the issue this deflectsaway from is that go fund me sights and donation pages were open and taking money and comments the very same day . Or a couple before.
Provide sources. Which sites (not to stoop to this level, but "sights" are things you see) were open and accepting donations before the shooting?
A deeper investigation into this proved that a page cannot be cached and given a previous date.
Again, show your work. Show me this "deeper investigation". Because I have not only provided assurance from an engineer at Google (kind of the authority on the matter here) that a "technical glitch" was responsible for the inaccurate cache date of the United Way website, but I have shown how you can replicate this issue and view the results for yourself. I'm not asking you to take my word for it.
Another is the deflection away from the super bowl thing and ' the sandy hook surprise' on YouTube
I've written multiple articles about this particular piece of nonsense. Try searching the site for "Super Bowl" and see for yourself. Then please explain to me how I have "deflected away" from the subject.
at least 5 of those kids are DEFINITELY the same kids
They're not, though. They're four years older, look nothing like the victims (beyond being white), and are different kids.
There's no debunking that , no .
Except I did. Here and here, for starters. Did you even bother to read the rest of the site before you decided what I have and have not covered?
Adam Lanza was a 112 pound nut case apparently. He could not physically carry 30 pounds of kit for 5 minutes
Except he did. Adam was known to play "Dance Dance Revolution" for hours; what proof do you have that he couldn't possibly carry thirty pounds – distributed evenly – on his person?
and only miss twice .
What is this based on?
then he shot himself and placed the gun back in his car.
What are you claiming here? Adam shot himself with the Glock, which was found by his body. The Saiga never left the car. This is well known. Get your facts straight.
The photo of the ' evacuation ' Of 500 pupils and staff who just witnessed a slaying of 20 kids
Shannon Hicks never claimed she took photos of 500 kids evacuating. It would be impossible anyway, as there weren't even 500 kids enrolled at Sandy Hook. And there is no evidence that any of those children witnessed the slaying. Where are you getting this stuff from?
ten kids in a line looking totally normal
Does the girl in blue look "totally normal" to you? Or does she actually look terrified?
whilst a few bystanders stand casually and take some photos
The only person taking photos was Shannon Hicks; a newspaper photographer. She was probably taking photos because that's her fucking job.
But then a near identical photo shows the kids in a different order but at the same location.
Hold up… you start off by saying that I only addressed a bunch of "silly things" (ignoring the fact that it was deniers who are responsible for them in the first place), but then you go on to make a claim that was debunked in the very entry you're commenting on! It's #4 on this list! Get it together!
Look, I know I occasionally get shit for being too "mean" to deniers, but I have no choice but to say that you're an idiot if you still believe this. That's really all there is to it. They're not the same children in a "different order"; they're different children. Scam artists like Wolfgang Halbig and James Fetzer intentionally use altered, low-quality photographs to bamboozle rubes like you. Ask yourself why you never see high quality photos from these clowns and take a look at the ones I've provided for #4 (highest quality available to the public): these are very clearly different children wearing different clothes.
this article is mainly deflective though in that it takes a story like the donation pages , makes it about time stamps, then makes that about twitter. Which was never the issue.
Again, I'm directly addressing claims made by people like Halbig and Fetzer. If Twitter "was never the issue", then why did "Dr. Vivian Lee" make it an issue on page sixty-seven of "Nobody Died At Sandy Hook?"
Ashley on September 23, 2017 at 5:11 am said:
why didn't Allison Wyatt's family notice Lily Gaubert wasn't there daughter? Why were the kids photos uploaded 6 mos prior to the event? …You explained twitter but not all the other predated donation sites and articles?
The media acts like the only people who question this are crazy. Everyone I've talked to about this believe it is faker than a politician's smile.
Shill Murray on December 22, 2017 at 7:02 pm said:
why didn't Allison Wyatt's family notice Lily Gaubert wasn't there daughter?
What are you talking about? What is this based on?
Why were the kids photos uploaded 6 mos prior to the event?
Again, what are you talking about? How about some context? This is so vague, I have absolutely no clue what you're suggesting here.
You explained twitter but not all the other predated donation sites and articles?
I absolutely did explain "predated" donation sites. Read #7 again. And then maybe again, if you're still missing it.
Everyone I've talked to about this believe it is faker than a politician's smile.
Get off the Internet.
Wolfgang is more convincing than you. Where's Rick Thorne?!?!
Wolfgang is more convincing than you.
The guy's an admitted liar and you'd have to be mentally ill to believe anything that dribbles out of his mouth.
Where's Rick Thorne?!?!
Probably at home… or work. Maybe he's grocery shopping. How should I know? What am I, his secretary?
Matt on June 23, 2018 at 9:43 am said:
You were presented with several good, well informed questions. You did answer a couple, but the others you respond to by using ad hominem attacks or telling the person asking that you wanna see proof/source. Like how did lanza shoot himself and put his gun in the car… mainstream media showed a cop pull an ar15 out of the trunk of a car.
If you're gonna put up a website to debunk, you need to be ready for all the tough questions, not just a few.
Shill Murray on June 23, 2018 at 4:23 pm said:
Which "good, well-informed" questions are you referring to? Questions like "why didn't Allison Wyatt's family notice Lily Gaubert wasn't there daughter?" or "Why were the kids photos uploaded 6 mos prior to the event?" – questions I absolutely could not answer because they were completely devoid of context – are neither good nor well-informed, by any stretch. If OP had provided an actual example of the latter for example, then I would have been more than happy to look into it. Without it, I have absolutely nothing to work with. Am I supposed to trawl the entirety of the Internet myself, look at every picture of the victims that has ever been uploaded, and then attempt to find the date they were uploaded? That's absurd. And I'm not even sure how the hell I'd go about looking into the former without any sort of proof that, at some point in time, the family of Allison Wyatt saw what I have to assume are photos of a child named Lily Gaubert and didn't recognize that it wasn't their daughter. Where do you even start with a claim like that? Be reasonable.
The truth is that I've never shied away from any question, no matter how ridiculous it is or how many times I've already addressed it, as long as there is enough information provided for me to actually look into it. This isn't my full-time job. It's not even my part-time job. I don't get paid to talk about Sandy Hook like James Fetzer or Wolfgang Halbig do, so I don't have the time to go on these wild goose chases on someone else's behalf.
ad hominem attacks
No dreaded ad hominems here. When I told Ashley to "get off the Internet", that was honest advice.
telling the person asking that you wanna see proof/source.
Do you not understand the burden of proof? Of course I'm going to want to see a source. That's how this whole thing works. Otherwise it's just some stranger from the Internet making a claim based on absolutely nothing.
The problem is that it takes five seconds to make a claim, and it can take hours to debunk it. If the person making the claim can simply do their part and provide a source or an example or even just some context, it can drastically reduce the amount of time that it takes me to run around gathering the actual facts. Half of the time these claims are debunked by the source, which is another reason I insist on seeing them. And debunkers like me aren't the only people who make these kinds of obviously outrageous demands; hoaxers demand sources and proof all of the time. The big difference here is that people like me are happy to actually consider and accept those things and even make corrections when necessary.
Like how did lanza shoot himself and put his gun in the car… mainstream media showed a cop pull an ar15 out of the trunk of a car.
As it turns out, you yourself could not provide a better example of why I ask for sources.
Which "mainstream media" source showed cops pulling an AR-15 out of the trunk of the Civic? I ask because I know that if you were to share the clip that I believe you're referencing (and, without a source, I can only assume), you'll see that it is a Izhmash Saiga-12 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun, referenced a large number of times throughout the final report. Here's a still:
It's not the best quality, but look at the rectangular fore end or forestock versus the much rounder forestock seen on the AR-15 shown in crime scene photos.
And again, this is outlined a number of times in the final report. Here's one mention, from final report document 002633454 (otherwise known as the State Attorney's report):
The discovery of an Izhmash Saiga-12, 12 gauge shotgun and ammunition in the passenger compartment of the shooter's car. A police officer moved this shotgun and ammunition to the car's trunk for safety purposes
It's not the same gun.
Logan on June 27, 2018 at 4:38 pm said:
Hey Shill,
Absolutely love the work you do here. I hold the highest degree of contempt for Sandy Hook truthers, and the thoroughness and depth of your research into these claims is so commendable! So thanks!
I am wondering if you have seen this? Looks like that fat waste Halbig is back at it again. Another grainy video where he is making claims about food deliveries to Sandy Hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BfaUmDOt4
Shill Murray on January 7, 2019 at 4:24 pm said:
Just wrote about this twaddle here:
https://www.crisisactorsguild.com/2019/01/07/sandy-hook-students-were-not-moved-to-chalk-hill-prior-to-january-2013/
Chris calo on July 13, 2018 at 3:13 pm said:
What a joke you debunked nothing we no your agender GUN CONTROL nobody no kids no adults died at sandyhook ,the truth is comeing out now that Trump won people are waking up to how corrupt the meadia is that they were part of it,let me say one thing God noes what happend some day you will have to pay for the lies you all told
Shill Murray on August 15, 2018 at 5:22 pm said:
I have to imagine comments like this are the reason some dink accused me of writing them myself, in an attempt to make Sandy Hook deniers look bad (and trust me, they don't need my help). But no, this is a real guy, and he's exactly as stupid as you would imagine.
Matthew on December 6, 2018 at 5:45 pm said:
Thank you for creating this site. I found it after an article was published in our local paper about a lawsuit filed against James Fetzer. The comments section of the article has several posts claiming his book is factual, but of course no one has given any credible evidence to back up their claims. I then read Fetzer's book/.pdf and was shocked people believe what was written. It's very easy to prove Fetzer's claims have no merit, but that concept is lost on his followers unfortunately.
Shill Murray on December 8, 2018 at 12:20 pm said:
Thanks, Matthew. I wonder how many of those people have read the entire book, like I have. It often contradicts itself and contains so many obvious, embarrassing errors (even to those who haven't done even a fraction of the research I've done here) that I'm shocked anyone ever gave it a second thought. Yet here we are, even six years later. Hopefully Fetzer gets his ass handed to him in court.
Katherine Draper on May 3, 2021 at 3:35 am said:
Hey! Love your site. The people who think this is a hoax are delusional. I had a question. In the pic of the kids sitting in the hallway, is that first woman on the left who is smiling and looking down on them Ms. Soto? It looks like her to me. Probably a stupid question.
Shill Murray on May 3, 2021 at 10:56 am said:
Thank you. And it's not a stupid question. That is in fact Ms. Soto standing in the doorway of classroom 10. The photo is taken from the 2011-2012 scrapbook that was hosted on the school's website, which I discuss here.
Chris on May 4, 2021 at 10:55 am said:
Hi, you don't need to post this but I couldn't find anywhere else to put it–I can't get your 'donate now' feature to work.
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Open your image in Acorn, File ▸ Open. Duplicate the layer by going to Layer ▸ Duplicate Layer (⇧⌘D).
Click on the bottom layer in the layers list and use the selection tool to select the area you want in your photo. You can use either the rectangle or the oval selection tool. The rectangle with rounded corners was used in this example. Don't include most of the elephants head in the selection, since the goal is to have it sticking out the border of the photo in the final image. After you have your selection made, go to Select ▸ Inverse (⇧⌘I). This will select the area you don't want to keep. Hit the delete key.
Now, click on the top layer in the layers list to select it. Erase everything but the head. The easiest way is to select large areas with the selection tool. Then hit the delete key. See how the bottom layer shows through? Continue selecting and deleting the areas you want to take out. Be sure to deselect when you are done (⌘D).
When all the large parts have been removed, erase around the ears and head using the eraser tool from the tools palette. This is the tedious part. You will have to erase all around the part of the image you want to be on the outside boundary. It's easier to start with a larger sized eraser then work your way to smaller sizes. Zoom in to more easily see the edges when erasing. Alternatively, read the 'how to remove a background' tutorial for other techniques.


Does it really matter if BIM is used on your next project?
Great buildings were designed using pencil and paper long before BIM, so why use it? Most construction projects are built by referencing a paper set of construction documents. So why should you care if BIM (Building Information Modeling) is used on your project?
BIM is very effective in two key areas: coordination and error reduction. Coordination between the different design teams on a project is greatly increased, and therefore errors are reduced simultaneously. The ability to visualize design problems in the model and make corrections in the office instead of in the field allows for fewer changes on the job site.
Because the project is a building model instead of flat 2-dimensional line work, the architect can quickly visualize the placement of beams and columns by the structural engineer and make changes to their design as needed. Similarly, the mechanical engineers can see that a section of duct work is penetrating a beam or other structural element and re-route as necessary.
As the owner or a key stakeholder, you should take your design teams ability to utilize BIM into consideration for your next project.


Rubber Stamps are a way to print non-address information on a label for reference. They are commonly used to double check you're putting a label onto the right package.
In the Create a Single Label form, check the "Rubber Stamps" checkbox.
When uploading a spreadsheet to create a labels, you can map columns of your spreadsheet data to the three Rubber Stamp fields.
When Importing Orders from an Ecommerce Integration, you can go to Settings / Integrations / Edit your Integration / Edit Field Mapping to assign data from your ecommerce platform to Rubber Stamps.
Where are Rubber Stamps printed?
Rubber Stamps are printed in the bottom box of a label. You can have up to three Rubber Stamps, but they have strict character-length restrictions of 34 characters per line.
Rubber Stamps don't have much room!
If the data goes over 34 characters, instead of cutting it off Pirate Ship will force a line break onto the next Rubber Stamp line... but once all 3 lines are filled, then the rest of the data will be cut off. Because of this, if the data you're using is very long, it's recommend to ONLY assign it to Rubber Stamp 1, and leave the other 2 rubber stamps unused, so that it can flow into those lines.
Order Items, which works if your order item names are very short, and if you don't get orders with lots of different items.
Batch Name, which is a custom name you give a batch when you're creating it in Pirate Ship. This gives you the freedom to come up with unique ways to group & reference orders.
Note that Rubber Stamps cannot be applied to international labels.


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2022 review in trends: Applications (Part II)
The first part of this review covered solar-wind hybrid projects, offshore floating PV, and islandable microgrids. The second part covers trends in projects and applications.
Solar-water nexus
Microgrids not dissimilar from the one in Castañer, Puerto Rico, highlighted in the first part of this series, are also being used to run pumps in order to access groundwater. And this is just one example of how solar is helping in the battle against water scarcity in many parts of the world.
The solar-water nexus is a rapidly expanding network of applications and for many regions around the world solar's ability to work on small scale could reap big benefits.
On the island of Zanzibar, diesel generators are used to pump often quite brackish water through rundown pipes at a cost of over $200,000 a month. The Zanzibar Water Authority (ZAWA) wants to use off-grid solar systems to operate water pumps at its bore holes, treatment reservoirs and distribution network.
ZAWA Director General Salha Mohammed Kassim told pv magazine that only 36% of households are water connected on the island of 1.7 million people.
"We have a long way to go to get to 100%, but for this reason we are looking to off-grid solar," said Kassim.
Another application in the solar-water nexus is solar-powered desalination. This is a deployable off-grid solution in drought-ridden regions like Somalia, but it is also attractive at the larger scale to supply water for industry – notably green hydrogen.
McKinsey & Company says that companies with water-intensive operations can reduce their risk by switching to renewables. From analysis of 1,500 companies in the chemicals and food-and-beverage processing industries, it found that a considerable amount of the energy purchases came in countries with low renewables uptake and high levels of water stress, resulting in disproportionate impacts for water and emissions. The analysis showed that a 50% increase in renewables purchasing, would provide a 60% reduction in water consumption in both sectors.
One particularly promising trend is that of installing solar above canals, particularly in regions battling water scarcity. Canal-top solar was pioneered in India a decade ago when the first canal-top solar array was installed in Gujarat. But new findings from the University of California (UC) and Project Nexus are now highlighting the symbiotic nature of the solution, which helps to save water while generating energy and all without occupying arable land.
Project Nexus is scheduled for completion in late 2023.
Image: Solar AquaGrid
"Using canal infrastructure for solar development can make both systems more efficient. Shade from the solar panels can reduce evaporation of water from the canals, especially during hot Californian summers," said Brandi McKuin, a UC Merced environmental engineer and the study's lead author. "And because water heats up more slowly than land, the canal water flowing beneath the panels could cool them by a few degrees, boosting electricity production by 3%."
The study showed that if all 6,500 km of California's canals were covered with solar panels it would save almost 300 billion liters of water per year and generate 15 GW of renewable energy.
Building-integrated PV
Building-integrated PV (BIPV) has long held great promise, but large-scale applicability remains a challenge. In the last decade, BIPV's technological and aesthetic improvements have made it more feasible across a broader range of projects. One interesting use case for BIPV is in the renovation and emissions reduction of historical buildings.
"The fact that you can develop new products based on crystalline technology which hide the solar cells makes it easier to employ solar in renovation projects because the glass is going to look like any other material, such as ceramic tile or stone," said Teodosio del Caño, chief technical officer of Spain-based Onyx Solar.
Onyx Solar has already installed innovative BIPV solutions on historic buildings around the world, and del Caño says it is the technology's aesthetic improvements that have seen the niche grow in recent years. "In the last two years, facades have become our main product," said del Cańo. "It used to be skylights and canopies, but now façades are an excellent market. There are now no restrictions on using BIPV on the front of a building."
Sky-scraping solar
The technology improvements in BIPV facades are something the owners and operators of tall buildings are keeping an eye on, especially as avenues for emissions reductions for grid-reliant buildings are rather limited.
With the exploding populations of global cities, many of us live in work in places that have long been solar deserts. For most of history the rather small rooftop size compared to the structure's overall square footage made the generation profile of solar hardly worthwhile.
But as solar's cost has continued to fall and panel energy density increase, the often barren rooftops of cities' skyscrapers can now provide a respectable percentage of a building's electricity. Combine that change with the improvements in BIPV technology, particularly when it comes to facades, and suddenly skyscrapers have the potential to be solar powerhouses.
"With the advances in solar technology, energy-dense panels now available exceed 450 W per panel, enabling significant and meaningful renewable projects in [central business district] locations that couldn't otherwise be achieved on the constrained rooftop," said Venergy Australia CEO Matthew Wilkins.
Walker Corp.'s Collins Square Tower site in central Melbourne hosts 223kW of solar.
Image: Venergy
Venergy integrated the 223 kW solar system with the building's regenerative lifts and its trigeneration of 600 kW gas turbines across five commercial towers in downtown Melbourne's Collins Square, bringing the site's total generating capacity to 2 MW.
According to a study published in the journal Solar Energy, the buildings in Melbourne's downtown are capable of providing 74% of their own electricity needs of solar was fully integrated into roofs, walls and windows. Rooftop solar would constitute 88% of this supply, with wall-integrated and window-integrated solar delivering 8% and 4%, respectively.
Monash University Professor Jacek Jesieniak, an author of the study, said that the researchers' goal "was to showcase that actually there is huge potential (for urban PV, particularly rooftop), it's just enormous. But people don't think about it because people tend to think at the scale of a building rather than the scale of a city."
Jim Stewart, associate director at Fender Katsalidis – the Australian architectural firm behind the world's second-tallest building, Kuala Lumpur's 678.9-meter Merdeka 118 (p. 50), topped with a 140 kW solar array for its Park Hyatt Kuala Lumpur hotel – told pv magazine that clients are encouraged to consider PV solutions, as "most buildings over 180 meters tall are not demolished within 50 years. Rooftop solar arrays have become common place in skyscraper design and development."
Few remain unconvinced of solar's ability to provide reliable energy in remote off-grid locations or utilise previously barren or single-usage spaces. In 2022 we've seen the spectrum of places solar shines expand yet again, even to some of the world's most hazardous locations.
From offshore oil rigs to remote mine sites and the frontlines of conflict zones, solar power functions where others fail, and it does so without the need of refuelling or regular maintenance. Not only can remote sites use solar and save expensive fuel transportation and upkeep costs, but also reduces worker risk.
These savings have also been noticed by the US military. Brooklyn-based solar fabric and structure developer Pvilion has developed an easy to put up solar tent. Pvilion's Julia Fowler told pv magazine that the tents do a lot more than provide shelter in forward locations. They also "provide power, convenience, adaptability, heating and cooling, and protection from the elements … with the goal of maximizing mission-objective readiness."
Interestingly, the solution can also be considered part of the solar-water nexus. The US Army's Project Arcwater sees the solar tents' energy generation used to harvest water in agile combat deployment situations.
Senior Master Sgt. Brent Kenny of the 52nd Fighter Wing says a three-day 30-person mission that would normally cost $40,000 would, with the help of the solar tent power other tech such as the water harvester, cost under $600 while providing the same combat capability.
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In my last article, I let you into my mind during the opening round of my first Fantasy Baseball draft. In Part 2, I will bring you through Rounds 5 through 10.
At this point, I'm ecstatic about my team. Cano, Cargo, A-Rod, and McCutchen. Did I mention the Fantasy Baseball Express app yet?
Snake-style draft, so we're starting with Owner 7 (not his real name), picking right after my McCutchen pick, aka, back to sitting and waiting and watching guys I like getting picked off.
1: 2B Chase Utley – Yeah, none of us said anything, but I'm sure he'll regret this pick soon enough.
4: SP Justin Verlander – I NEVER get him in drafts! With his value, I seriously would've thought about taking him if he's fallen to me. Keeping in mind, I probably do need to address pitching a little earlier than in your average draft.
Since I'm interrupting anyway, I'm at the point where I have to think about my next pick. My top three are Dunn, Choo, and Ichiro...which sounds like the beginning of a joke to me...or a law firm...or both.
5: C Brian McCann -Good, my top three are available.
7: 1B Adam Dunn – That pick hurt. If I'd gotten him, I'd be ready to declare this draft a complete and utter success. I could draft a duck as my Shortstop and I'd still be happy. Alas, I missed out on this power hitter.
My pick wound up being RF Shin-Soo Choo. Another combo guy, similar to Cargo, but a few less homers and stolen bases projected. Not a guy I had very high on my list, but none of the next few guys are very high on my list. I actually like Jacoby Ellsbury, but Choo was a value here. Fifth round combo threat...can't pass that up. I know I have to grab power where I can get it, and Choo ain't a bad one. Maybe not the best one, but not a bad one.
9: SP Tommy Hanson – This is Adam drafting another guy I like, but taking him earlier than I would've, not that this is a bad place to take him.
9: 1B Justin Morneau – Another pick that makes me think that maybe Adam and I don't think alike after all.
After my last pick, I knew I should start looking at pitching. I had Chris Carpenter as my best available, followed by Hamels, Cain, Oswalt, and Gallardo. Knowing that there are still plenty of guys I like there, I opt to go for more offense. Any one of those guys in the 7th would be fine by me. Carpenter was the only guy I had listed as a "top-tier" for me, largely because of the value. I think he'll have another solid season, and I'd be happy to take him if he falls much further.
When in doubt, take offense, and that was my plan. My best available guy was C Victor Martinez. I was surprised to see him in Round 6, and again, I like Jacoby Ellsbury, and he would've been a nice selection here as my fourth OF, but I knew there were plenty of OFs that I'd like later on. I decided to stick with my list and address Catcher, although it's a little earlier than I might have liked.
Somewhere around this point, I was about to throw in the towel on Shortstops and try for Escobar later in the draft. I like taking chances (probably too much), but if Rollins were available, I'd probably snag him. Of course, the pitchers came into play as well. Carpenter, Hamels, and Cain were on the board, and any of them would be good picks.
Again, looking over my top available players, I figured Carpenter was my guy...if he were still there. Ellsbury went to owner 6 with the next pick, so I just missed out on him. Granderson went next, which left my top pitcher available for me. So with my 7th Round pick, I gladly welcomed Chris Carpenter.
I figured that my next pick would be my first closer. Get him, and I can wait a little longer on a second closer I thought. But unfortunately for me, I failed to remember who was drafting in the 9 spot. Adam, who is at times, my drafting doppelganger. He took my top overall closer Heath Bell. That had me a little frustrated, but luckily for me, I did have a backup player that jumped out at me before long. I took RF Jay Bruce with my 8th overall pick. Projected for 31 HRs by ESPN.com (yeah, I know, not the ideal source), he's a much lesser strikeout risk than Mike Stanton, whom I might have otherwise picked here.
This meant passing up Elvis Andrus, my last hope for a solid SS (in theory) and 3B Michael Young, who was slipping in our draft. I'll forgo the other draft results since, at this point, I was looking to fill holes more than I was looking to stick with a specific value chart (not that I was ignoring that chart, mind you).
Players that went before my next pick included Roy Oswalt, Andrus, Young, Nick Swisher, and Aubrey Huff. All guys I would have considered, but alas, didn't have a chance at. With picks 9 and 10, I figured I should look at pitching very hard. I had 7 offensive players I was pretty confident in, and the pitching I wanted was starting to dwindle, so I figured it was time to grab my guys. In Round 9, I took SP Francisco Liriano, and with my 10th pick, I chose CL Mariano Rivera. I liked Neftali Feliz, but not more than Rivera, and it was just as well since Feliz went during the short turn between my picks anyway.
Positives: I've got a great Outfield. Cargo, McCutchen, Choo, Bruce. That is not bad. Cano and A-Rod are covering two of the shallower positions in the draft, so I'm great there as well.
Negatives: I do not have a Shortstop. The top Shortstops available would have been reaches at this point as far as I'm concerned, so I'm not very upset about that either. I have no First Baseman, which is a bit problematic for me. I don't like the guys available very much (but if one drops far enough, I'll take my chances), and I may end up drafting a couple of young guys late in the draft and hoping one sticks.


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You can use the NLP (Natural Language Processing) Sample application to analyze text data from WhatsApp in real-time. WhatsApp is a popular application that is used for chatting, exchanging short messages, and image or video sharing. WhatsApp can be an important source of business intelligence, because this application is often used to express opinions and sentiments about various products and services.
In this tutorial, you create the Pega 7 Platform infrastructure that supports text analysis of WhatsApp content. You create a data class that contains the required rule instances. In that class, you create a stream data set whose exposed services are used to gather WhatsApp records in real-time. These records are transformed into clipboard pages by a data transform and are later processed by a text analyzer that is configured for sentiment, classification, and entity extraction analysis. You also design a processing pattern for your rules by using a data flow. Finally, you trigger the record extraction and analysis by starting a data flow run.
For information about tasks such as registering a WhatsApp user account or creating third-party connectors to relay messages between WhatsApp and the Pega 7 Platform, see the vendors' documentation.
Register a user account in the WhatsApp application that represents your company or your services. The text messages that are sent to this account are the source of content for the analysis.
Create a Java connector that extracts WhatsApp messages as soon as they are posted and forwards them to the stream data set. You can also use a third-party application, for example, SaySimple, to send or receive WhatsApp data.
You might need to purchase an additional license to operate third-party vendor applications for streaming records to Pega Platform, such as Say Simple. For more information, consult the vendor's documentation.
Create a WhatsApp subclass within the Data-Social parent class of your application. The subclass stores the clipboard properties of WhatsApp records. For detailed information about creating class and properties, see Class rules - Completing the Create, Save As, or Specialization form and Properties - Completing the Create, Save As, or Specialization form.
Under the Data-Social class, create a Data-Social-WhatsApp class.
Navigate to the Embed class of your application.
Under the Embed class, create an Embed-Social-WhatsApp class.
content– Page mode property. Its string type is Text. References the Embed-Social-WhatsApp class as its page definition.
Text– Single Value mode property. Its string type is Text.
In the Embed-Social-WhatsApp class, create a clipboard property called text (case-sensitive) whose mode is Single Value and the string type is Text.
"text": "Your phone support operators are just rude. No doubt about it!"
To analyze additional metadata of WhatsApp records, create the corresponding clipboard properties, for example, author, from, time, and so on.
Create a data set of type Stream in your application to analyze the WhatsApp messages as soon as they are posted.
In the Applications search field, enter Data-Social-WhatsApp.
Right-click Data-Social-WhatsApp, and click + Create > Data Model > Data Set.
Use the provided REST or WebSocket addresses as the destination in the Java or other third-party connector that relays messages from WhatsApp to the Pega 7 Platform.
Create a data transform to convert JSON fields of WhatsApp records into a clipboard page that contains the text property.
Right-click Data-Social-WhatsApp, and click + Create > Data Model > Data Transform.
In the Source column, enter primary.content.text.
In the Source column, enter "WhatsApp".
For more information, see Data Transforms.
Use Text Analyzer rules to process the WhatsApp text data that your application sources from the stream data set. You can use a variety of tools for analyzing and structuring the text data to obtain the business intelligence that is vital to accomplishing your business goals, such as identifying and responding to dissatisfied customers, discovering business trends, and so on.
In the Apply to field, press the Down Arrow key, and select Data-Social.
Configure classification analysis settings – Define the taxonomy (a collection of predefined categories that are associated with specific keywords) to use for detecting the categories that text data can be assigned to.
In the Applications search field, enter Data-Social-WhatsApp in the search box.
Right-click Data-Social-WhatsApp, and click + Create > Data Model > Data Flow.
From the Data set list, select a WhatsApp stream data set and click Submit.
Click the connector that radiates from the Source shape and select Data Transform.
In the Data Transform field, press the Down Arrow key and select the WhatsApp data transform.
On the Data Flows landing page, start a real-time data flow run that references the Data Flow rule that you created to process the WhatsApp data.
You can test your configuration by using third-party software (for example, Google Postman) or scripts to send sample JSON records that mimic WhatsApp messages. If the configuration is correct, the records appear as successfully processed on the Data Flow Run page.


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For a company that sparked claims of the apocalypse when its search engine had a rare outage, Google is primed to address concerns about cloud computing performance and latency.
Though it just went into general availability this week, Google Inc.'s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Google Compute Engine, had been making noise in the cloud market while still in beta by chopping prices, signing a cooperative agreement with the Defense Information Systems Agency to learn how to implement cloud security policies and building a Cloud Playground where developers can test code.
"Google [is] part of the conversation, though in reality, economically, they are a non-factor at this point," said Mark Eisenberg, vice president of strategy and technology at Incelligence, based in Boston.
BuildFax, a provider of property condition reports based in Asheville, N.C., is using Google Compute Engine in beta, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Joe Emison, BuildFax's co-founder and chief technology officer, looked into his response times to customer requests and believes Google's cloud service can outplay AWS in performance, particularly when looking at companies that use replication for disaster recovery in the cloud.
"My understanding is that Google has a private cybernetwork. That should make [performance] faster, and that's a nontrivial issue … if you're adopting these more modern, distributed database designs with latency problems in mind," Emison said. "A 100-millisecond latency can be the difference between 'I can replicate my data' or 'I cannot.'"
As the cloud market matures and major names fall down on performance testing, Google force its way to the front of the pack. Plus, Google will add live migration for virtual machines on its IaaS, changed from a two-week maintenance time, assisting with a pain point for IT departments.
Chicago-based Cloudbakers, a premier Google Apps reseller and managed partner, has just started offering Google App Engine, the company's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, and it is proving to be "very economical" for clients, said Mitch Greenwald, its founder.