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The First Assistant Editor – Julian Smirke
Julian Smirke, First Assistant Editor on Star Trek Into Darkness was the guest at last night's Boston Creative Pro User Group. He talked about being a first assistant editor, the process of editing a movie, and how scenes are developed. He also showed example clips from the movie.
The following are my notes from the meeting:
Julian opens with "I'm a first assistant editor, most of you are probably wondering what that means." As an assistant editor, his task was primarily to assist one of the two film editors, Maryann Brandon. "It's a constant learning experience learning how to shape a performance, shape a story."
He shows a picture of his workspace at Bad Robot; he likes to work standing up at an elevated desk, though he also has a high chair to sit on for breaks.
They worked on Avid Media Composer - he said most large Hollywood movies edit on Avid. "There was a period of time five or six years ago when there was a push to Final Cut, and they both have pluses and minuses, but Avid is such an awesome system." With so many new features being added, he said "I'm still learning it." [Note: Avid was a sponsor of the event]
They were running 12 to 15 Avid systems at Bad Robot with 86 terabytes of storage. The movie was encoded in DNx 115 and the completed project was about 150+ GB. When they started, Media Composer was at version 5.5.3, but they upgraded to version 6 during the film. He noted that in the past editors have been reluctant to upgrade during a movie: "In the past you wouldn't usually do that on a big feature, you stuck with what you've got. As technologies have gotten better and better, we've gotten more confident."
The movie was shot it in several formats and he said that Avid handles that with no problem. Formats included: 35mm CinemaScope film, 65mm 15 perf (IMAX), 65mm 8 perf and VistaVision, that was used for an IMAX extraction. Also used was an ARRI Alexa and a lot of Red Camera footage was used mostly for video of people on screens. Some Sony F65 was used for some VFX plates. That said, most of the movie was shot on film, meaning that dailies were telecine'd and then sent over to the editors. He said that the processing house synced it as best they can, but they still need to make sure there's no problems with the sync. He says that he never trusts that the time code sync has worked because of the conversions that the footage has gone through, so he always uses the slate.
Within Aivd they kept the dailies separated by cameras (i.e. the formats), ultimately organizing the film into reels, which match the reels of the final film.
He showed some 65mm footage, which is almost close to 4by3 aspect ratio, and he explained how they have to make the decision on how this is going to be framed in CinemaScope and in some cases dynamically move the picture to fit the frame. You could see the footage move up and down in the frame as the framing was changed.
Julian then played back a sequence that was a mix of IMAX and Cinemascope footage. Some filled the entire screen, and some was letter-boxed. He said that if you had seen it in an IMAX theater you would have seen the same change in aspect ratios. "J.J. had the idea that all the outside stuff was IMAX and the inside was CinemaScope, and that's how it was projected in IMAX." He added that the best way to see an IMAX movie shot on IMAX is to see it in an IMAX theater projected on film.
There was some discussion of film vs digital and what digital resolution you need to match the resolution of film. Julian started work editing film, and still has a love for it. He didn't really get technical, or have a real answer what resolution of sensor was needed to match film, but he also pointed out that most movies are broadcast at 2K at the moment.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the discussion was when Julian showed how one scene evolved in the editing process – an attack on the Federation leadership meeting in a conference room. He explained that one task of the assistant editor is to put in the temp sounds and audio to make a temp mix "to help it play better." For the first time, they were able to do a 5.1 mix as they were working. This had the added benefit that the audio they produced carried through to the final mixes. Though a lot of it was ultimately replaced or enhanced by the sound editors, for the first time he said that part's he'd done did actually make it through to the final movie.
He showed the original edit of the scene, with temp audio, some previz, and extra beats, including Kirk helping a woman that was injured and seeing Pike killed. He talked about coming up with the sounds such as the jump ship hover sound using a variety of other sounds mixed together. He said he has a lot of old sound libraries; "none are that great, but when you put them together you can get some quite good stuff."
He showed a later edit and then said that when they showed it to J.J. he said he thought the sound was too muddy. "I had this idea that when Kirk runs to the side, the windows are intact, lets make everything subdued and muffled. Maybe there's a way we can play off that?" He then showed a later edit, where the editor decided to remove some of the extra parts in the scene, making it tighter and better.
They spent close to a year on post production on the film.
Questions from the audience:
What traits are needed to be an exceptional first assistant editor? "One thing that's really important is attitude; a friendly personality. An ability to adapt and change to whatever is thrown at you, especially on a big movie, because a lot of things can be thrown at you. You have to know enough technical stuff to be able to do the job."
What jobs helped me brake into the industry? "Nothing!" He PA'd in production first, and didn't like it, then he started as an editing PA. He never went to film school, he learned everything on the job. "Sitting in a class is just not me," he said, adding "and I know I'm talking to a lot of students here, so I'm sorry."
He added that he spent a lot of time unemployed, trying to get into feature films. He said he didn't want to work on TV
When the color grade comes back, do you import it back into Avid? Yes. One thing he said that he does is export a QuickTime of the original edit and then he plays that back at 50% over the movie after the corrected files come back, just to make sure nothings been messed up. Doing this he caught a one frame mistake in reel 6; a VFX shot was missing one frame in the middle of the shot.
Julian said he'd like to become an editor, but added "Being an assistant editor, i's a really exciting and challenging job and I couldn't love it more."
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Q: Insert max value in a column to same column FAILS I have a example table like http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/31e65
CREATE TABLE `t1`(
  `id` int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(40),
  `signal` int(4),
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `id` (`id`),
  KEY `signal` (`signal`)
)ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

INSERT INTO `t1`
(`name`, `signal`)
VALUES
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    ('b', 2),
    ('c', 3),
    ('d', 4);

I try to insert new record to table t1 with value in signal column is max value +1 in that column
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Lock tables t1 write;
INSERT INTO `t1`
(`name`, `signal`)
VALUES
(SELECT MAX(signal)+1 FROM t1, 'e');
unlock t1;

But that's fails. How to do that thanks

A: Try this
INSERT INTO `t1`
(`name`, `signal`)
SELECT
   'e', MAX(`signal`)+1 FROM t1

I think you had the order of the column reversed. I have changed it.

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Sibirah posed next to Rajdev as the camera captured the special moment. In Rajdev's hands were two plaques recognizing his talent in public speaking. Sibirah touched the side of the framed plaque. This was her firstborn son—her little boy who had been abandoned by his dad. This was her son who once had no hope for a future education because of their poverty. Now, there he stood, holding up his achievements.
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Alcoholic Dad Abandons Family
Rajdev's father, Jairus, left home before he even saw his newborn son's face. Alcohol appeared to be more important to him than his family. Jairus's addiction to the bottle left him hard and immovable, even after much pleading from his pregnant wife and his sister. Tensions eventually exploded in one final argument.
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But this was not the end for Rajdev.
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Joy replaced worry in Sibirah's heart as she watched her son blossom in the Bridge of Hope centre. A daily meal, school supplies and opportunities for her son to compete in statewide competitions were all part of her son's growth, as it was for his classmates and the more than 70,000 children who participate in Bridge of Hope across Asia.
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Most people are aware of the name John Eldredge. Oh yeah, that's the Wild at Heart guy, right? Who knows how many copies that specific book has sold. I'm sure it's in the millions. Interestingly enough, he's actually written quite a few other books. It's just that Wild at Heart made him known.
I've just recently finished reading Eldredge's book, The Way of the Wild Heart. It's actually my third time through the book. I first read it while on my honeymoon two and a half years ago (great book to pack for the honeymoon) and have since read through it two other times with two different groups of guys. It's been good to discuss the book with other guys.
I must admit that I do like John Eldredge's writings. Some might claim I am an Eldredge-addict. But I think he has some wise and insightful thoughts on our spiritual journey in Christ. The sad thing for me is that he has become somewhat of a Christian celebrity due to the success of Wild at Heart, though he has also had his fair share of critics. I remember back in the late 90's when his first book was released, The Sacred Romance, with co-author Brent Curtis who was, unfortunately, killed in a climbing accident not too long after the book's release. But, now, Eldredge is one of the most popular American Christian authors of today.
The reason I mention such adulation as a sad thing is that this seems to be the usual path of American Christianity. Build platforms, make celebrities, and add a little lights, cameras and action in there while you're at it. I'm not even saying Eldredge had that as his purpose in writing such books. He actually shares about his reluctancy in writing the very first book. But, whereas he was a more grass-roots, unknown author in the late 90's, he has now turned into one of the most well-known American Christian writers, popping out books, study guides for those books, and other little extras left and right. I sometimes wonder if he, too, has fallen into such a trap.
Still, I really do appreciate Eldredge's thoughts on the Christian life. He's no theologian by any means, but he has some very keen and brilliant insights into our life in Christ, and especially for the male journey. He has been greatly influenced by the writings of people like C.S. Lewis, George McDonald (who, himself, was a great influence on Lewis), and other classical spiritual writers. Eldredge has somewhat of a pastoral heart to see people released into the full joy and freedom that is ours in Christ.
Specifically, The Way of the Wild Heart is a follow-up to the best-seller, Wild at Heart. As all good American authors and screenwriters know, if the first does well, you have to put out a second. Thus, the release of The Way of the Wild Heart.
This is seen in all stories, all movies, and even through the Scripture. It sure brings an American twist to the call and journey of a man, but, nonetheless, I think it is an overall good representation of the masculine life.
More than anything, his point is that God wants to come and father us through each of these stages. No doubt, some of these stages will overlap and, at times, you will be drawn to revisit a specific stage. But, in general, these are the six stages a man passes through in life. I will expound on each stage very briefly.
Beloved Son – When a boy is young, he longs to know he is the beloved son. Not because he has done something to earn such favour, but simply because he is loved and adored by his father. Mom's love is good and right. But, for the son, they need the father's love. Hence the devastation in a home with an absent father. Yet, this fathering role of the beloved son could be filled by another man – a spiritual father of sorts. Sometimes, young boys are asked to grow up too quick, as when the father leaves the home through divorce and states, 'Your the man of the house now.' This is too much for an eight-year old or even a fifteen year old. A boy needs time to be the beloved son.
Cowboy – This is the time of reaching adolescence and the stage will probably run through to one's late teens or early twenties. Such a stage calls for adventure and exploring, getting to know life and all of its ways. Again, it is paramount to have a father figure to help the adolescent grow up but, no doubt, the father's role will have changed slightly. This is a time to let the son out – let him hang out with his friends, go on trips with his friends, maybe do a little study overseas, etc. But this is a time for him to step out of the nest and grow up into greater things.
Warrior – Such a season consists of the young man learning how to battle. Not necessarily through real fights, but through battling for their own life in Christ and the life of others. They will learn strength and they will learn how to deal with failure. This is quite like the days of David on the run from Saul, or that window we get into Christ's life at His temptation by Satan. But, in all, they are being formed to be a faithful and courageous warrior.
Lover – A time will come when a woman has caught the eye of the man – her beauty, her character, her smile, her laugh, etc. God has created man to find that great mutual helper that will become his wife. Sometimes the boy becomes heartbroken at the loss of such a love, and healing will be needed. But God has such a gift for men. During this season, a man will learn how to be a great lover to his beloved in learning deep intimacy of the heart. And, even more, this is a time when we can be awakened to the Great Lover and His pursuit of us, which becomes the reality even for those of us unmarried.
King – Entering the later stages of life, one becomes a king over his 'kingdom'. It might be small, as in a very small business or small group, or it might be larger, as in leading a church of a few hundred or being the CEO of a major corporation. In all, we are called to rule and we are called to rule well. Yet, as with all stages, this one will present grave difficulties which we are called to rule over. But the Great King commissions us to rule and, thus, we can do so in His strength.
Sage – This is the last and final stage of one's life. This is the time that we step aside and allow other kings to take their place. Yet, Eldredge challenges us that, whereas many are looking to settle down and pick up golf in the latter years of one's life, this is a time to not go into vacation mode. Rather, we are to look to impart wisdom and life to other men, especially other kings. Sages are not only graced with great wisdom, but also with great compassion.
Thus, we have the six stages of life. Again, while these are general markers in a life of transitioning from one stage to the next, there will be overlap in the transition and there will be times we re-visit earlier stages. What king doesn't also need to know he is still the beloved son of the Father?
I know that Eldredge comes across as an outdoorsy type of guy. I would suspect such, for that is who he is. He lives in Colorado and he loves camping, backpacking, hiking, mountain climbing, white-water rafting, canoeing, etc. And while he does admit that one doesn't have to be a complete outdoors type of guy, he does believe there is something about men and the outdoors. This is all found in the reality that Adam was created outside the Garden (Genesis 2:7-8). To this, I would agree. But I would also guard a little more against making men feel less-than-manly if they are not that outdoorsy type. That can come across in both books.
Still, I would recommend that men, especially American Christian men, read this book (I have sometimes found it that non-American men do not really understand Eldredge's heart). I believe God has given John Eldredge great insight into the masculine journey and, therefore, I think we can benefit from his words in the first book, Wild at Heart, and in this second book, The Way of the Wild Heart. Thus ends my review of this book. If you want to read more about Eldredge, his ministry (Ransomed Heart) and his other books, visit his website – www.ransomedheart.com.
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Good book. I also recommend "Walking With God", his book about daily intimacy with God.
I also read Walking With God. It was like reading his own devotional thoughts and journal. I think I will always read Eldredge's books, but I wouldn't say the book was one of his better ones. Still, I think it is one that others should look into.
I don't know if you would be interested, but God has laid it on my heart to start an online network of guys who would want to bond together to sharpen each other in their faith. Would also be a very personal way to find other men to be accountable to. However I want to use Wild At Heart as sort of a curriculum, along with the field manual that goes with it. If you would be interested in something like that join the Facebook page I have created: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Taking-Back-the-Heart-of-a-Man/187652704579857. This is a brand new idea and has not taken off yet, as I am still looking for men who would like to commit to this after considerable prayer. Once you join the page, send me a message with your email address and some expectations you would have for the group.
Once I get a group of guys together I will start a private blog where we will weekly share with each other what God has laid on our hearts and discuss it. It will be set up as a private forum basically, accessible to members only.
Thanks for the comment. I actually think the best set up for this is people with in our own local churches and areas, people we can meet with on a flesh-and-blood basis. I believe that provides the best support. I love blogging and interacting. But for relational strength, I believe the best starts with those we can have actual, personal relationships with in our local church and surrounding community.
Thanks for the response! Believe it or not I understand exactly where you are coming from. I actually could not agree with you more, and here in Indianapolis I am trying to exactly what you described. The purpose of the "online outreach" is for those who maybe don't have the people they need in their lives to do a group study. Maybe there are guys out there who arent READY to face other men an open up in the way you know they will. They have to understand that the wound is there and be ready to fix it before they can face another man in person. Then I think about friends that I have who travel for work and cant commit to a weekly group meeting. This is perfect for them.
All that aside I 100% agree that a face-to-face men's group is what is best. Thank you for your input and thoughts!
Really John Eldredge gives out brilliant dedication. I don't read this type of books earlier. The way of the wild heart is the most excellent one. Thanks for sharing a bit of John Eldredge.
I am listening to this audiobook, and I'm really enjoying Eldredge's insights since I'm a wife and mom-of-a-boy. Would you mind sharing the prayers at the end of each stage? I would love to adapt those to pray them for my husband and son.


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Ovu vrstu povezivali su s vrstom G. elwesii, pa su je smatrali i za njezinu podvrstu G. e. subsp. minor. Danas dostupni taksonomski podaci jasno pokazuju da je G. gracilis je posebna vrsta. Od vrste G. elwesii razlikuje se položajem listova (vernacijom), koji su kod G. gracilis obično uži i općenito manjih dimenzija od G. elwesii.

U divljini cvjeta od veljače do svibnja, a kultivirana od siječnja do ožujka

G. gracilis je opisao 1891. češki botaničar Ladislav Josef Čelakovský i dao joj ime koje znači graciozna ili vitka.

Sinonimi
 Galanthus elwesii subsp. minor D.A.Webb
 Galanthus elwesii var. stenophyllus Kamari
 Galanthus nivalis subsp. reflexus (Lindl.) K.Richt.
 Galanthus reflexus Lindl.

Izvori

Visibaba
Flora Bugarske
Flora Rumunjske
Flora Turske
Flora Ukrajine

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What does it mean to "commit" to a sentence?
What does it mean to "distance" one self from commitment within a sentence?
What does it mean to "run away" from commitment?
A person commits to a topic, within a sentence, by the use of the pronoun "I" and the past tense verb. If someone said,
"I went to Macy's on Friday night, at 7PM", the structure of the sentence tells us that statistically, it is very likely to be true. If someone said,
"Went to Macy's on Friday night, at 7PM" the commitment is reduced. The subject has dropped the pronoun "I" which makes it "unreliable."
It does not mean it is not true, but it means that he has not committed to the assertion of the sentence.
If the subject did commit to it and did not go to Macy's, it is a fabrication of reality, a signal of a pathological liar, who will lie upon topics even unnecessary. This form of lying is rare, and is a signal of danger: this person will do anything it takes to protect himself, including harming others.
"I went to Macy's on Friday at 7PM.
i went to Starbucks to have coffee later on.
I got home at 1AM."
Here we have the 2nd sentence with the pronoun not capitalized. This could be simply a mistake, but in lengthy statement where this change is continual, the lower case should be considered a "downgrade" for good reason.
I recently analyzed a statement in which the subject wrong a number of sentences with the lower case "i" and each one proved to be false.
Parents of small children learn that guilty children hide behind the pronoun "we", as a crowd eases the personal spotlight of guilt, and teens often drop pronouns entirely.
Parent: "Where were you last night?"
Teen: "Last night? Uh, I went to the movies with friends."
a. Answering a question with a question.
b. Avoiding pronoun connection to "friends"; as they are not "my friends"making the identity of the friends 'sensitive' to the teen.
c. The odds are that he did go to the movies. He is committed to this.
d. "with" between people indicates distance. The distance could be anything from some liked the movie while others didn't, to something more nefarious.
Parent: "What friends?"
Teen: "Oh, you know, the usual."
Avoidance noted; the question is now 'sensitive' confirmed. He went to the movies, specifically, with someone his father had told him to avoid as a trouble maker
Parent: "Where did you go after the movies? You were home late."
Teen: "Just hung around."
No pronoun means no commitment: this subject does not want to tell his parent who he was with, and where they went afterwards, and likely, what they did. The word "just" is a comparative word: he is comparing "hanging around" with what they actually did, and it entered his language.
Teen: "Went to the bowling alley. Had some laughs, that's all, and then, after that, I came home."
a. "Went" is missing the pronoun "I" or "we": No commitment to the bowling alley so we cannot know if they went to the bowling alley but if they did, what took place there the subject wishes to distance himself from.
b. Temporal lacuane is a skipping or passage of time, doubled up (very sensitive) "and then, after that..." It means that the parent-investigator should focus the question in the missing time period.
c. "I came home" is reliable: commitment with "I" and past tense "came" = reliable. It is a strong commitment, just as "I went to the movies" is also a strong commitment.
Surprise, surprise: he went to the movies with a crowd he was to avoid, and after the movies, they went to the bowling alley where they met a 21 year old trouble maker who they paid to buy beer that they drank, under-aged, in a parking lot.
Commitment and Violence
A home entered by a stranger is upsetting but a home invasion in which violence is done is highly intrusive and the language must reflect this. If the language does not, you may be looking at deception.
When it comes to a highly personal attack, to refuse to use the pronoun "I" is seen in one of several ways:
1. It is missing.
This is a reduction of commitment to the event in the sentence.
When it comes to assault, including sexual assault, we look for strong commitment to match the strong emotion of intrusion:
"Went to the bar on Friday and this guy had his hands all over me, no body has a right to touch another person who does not want to be touched."
This subject does not even commit to being at the bar. She may have gone but if following the principle of letting the subject guide us, she did not say "I went to the bar..."
a. maybe she did not go
b. she went but psychologically is distancing herself from it
c. Why might she distance herself? Something there happened that she does not want to be associated with?
d. She distanced herself because she was not sexually assaulted.
An assault is very personal. In analyzing some of the alleged victims of Bill Cosby we noted that the subject made strong pronoun connection to the assault, just as we noted that the pronoun "we", something that indicates unity and cooperation, disappeared from the language as soon as the assault took place. With women who were abused in childhood, we have an entire section focused upon the uniqueness of their language; including those sexually assaulted during critical brain and speech development.
Pronouns, alone, lead to arrests. One study states that as much as 70% of cold case homicide files contain confession by pronoun. A police captain reported that in his semester of Statement Analysis at the FBI Academy, pronouns were given a full 8 hour course by themselves. They are 100% reliable in guiding us.
Recall Dennis Dechaine's testimony: "I was standing admiring the deciduous trees, and we were losing daylight..." when the prosecutor interrupted and said, "Mr. Dechaine, who is 'we'?"
His defense attorney stood and request recess as Dechaine did not know what to say since he had claimed to be alone in the woods, lost, and had "never" met his victim.
Overnight they came up with a strategy:
"By using the word "we", I was referring to everyone, you know, the entire community losing daylight,..."
The jury didn't buy it and he was convicted in the murder of the little girl, Sarah Cherry.
In false rape cases, confessions have been obtained by confronting the deceptive accuser with her pronouns. This is consistent in my work and in those who employ Statement Analysis in their investigations.
In a lengthy interview, the alleged victim had me close to tears. I was convinced, as were other professionals, that she had been assaulted.
"I was at the movie theater with him and that's where he did it. You know, I can't say it (crying,) it is too horrible."
"What happened next?
"After he did it to me I froze in fear and when the movie was over we drove home and I went to my room and told my friend what happened and I called police."
I heard "we" and my emotional path was disrupted. That was all I needed, though I continued the interview until she was brought to the point of having to give details of the assault, of which she then used passivity in language and lots of tears.
Not only was the life of an innocent 19 year old on the line, but there were other very alarming aspects to this case.
A medical doctor and a therapist's license were on the line. The only evidence I had that this did not happen was the pronoun "we" found after the assault. My immediate supervisor said, "Do you really want to hang this entire case on a single pronoun? Everything else fits."
I said that I did. The passivity could be explained away by a court appointed psychologist; I knew that.
This was about justice, but one professional reminded me: 'yeah, it may be about justice, but it is also your career on the line.'
There was a 19 year old kid about to have his life destroyed due to a liar.
I said that the alleged victim must be confronted in her therapist's office because she could have an unpredictable reaction.
She was confronted with this, "Research has shown that victims are so disgusted by the rapists that in her description, once the rape has taken place, victims will never use the word "we" to relate to herself and the rapist; the animosity is too strong and the victim is too disgusted. "
She confessed calmly and said that he had found another girlfriend. I did not see that coming. I thought the confession would be histrionic.
When asked what she thought about him being 19 and spending years in prison she said, "well, that's his problem."
Pronouns do not lie.
"He grabbed me and put his hands on my breasts and I told him to stop it but he wouldn't. He punched me in the face and told me to shut up, bitch. "
The rule of commitment: Strong pronoun usage and past tense verbs. This statement is very likely to be truthful. In this statement, not only do we have short sentences (best) but we have:
a. Pronoun commitment
b. Verb commitment
c. Communicative language that matches intensity with "told" instead of the softer, "said."
In crimes that are "up close and personal" the language will match it. When someone does not believe what he or she is asserting, the language reflects it.
In the "kidnapping" of her granddaughter, Phoebe DiPietro, mother of Justin DiPietro, tried to convince the media that she was, herself very afraid because of something terribly invasive:
A stranger had entered her home in Waterville, Maine, and had stolen her most prized possession: her granddaughter, Ayla Reynolds. She wanted media to believe the kidnapping, which had to be planned, but her words gave her away:
"When someone is casing your house and you are waiting for the sheriff to call you..."
She would not commit to kidnappers casing her own house, nor did she expect a phone call from the sheriff about the kidnappers. She knew what had happened to her granddaughter with the likely explanation from her son of an "accident" and panic cover up.
In the same interview, she also 'led' the media with her "yes or no" answers with the claim that there were no parties that night in her home, and she did not "hear" anything (i.e., the kidnapper). When the analysis showed "deception indicated", the next day she 'apologized' and admitted: she was even in the home the night that Baby Ayla met her fate; she had stayed elsewhere. She did not believe her own assertion, which we knew from her language.
People who are victims of home invasion also commit to this because it is so personal and not 'universal.' The often suffer PTSD like symptoms for years, with hyper vigilance and nightmares.
What might produce softer, 2nd person distance?
Dropped wallets, and lost cell phones where not only to we have a universal and common experience, but we have no personal invasion of space and no contact.
The more intense the event, the more intense the language.
This is where intuitive police often shine.
In trainings, I show a short video clip of a victim who alleges a horrific violent act and she cries real tears.
I then ask,
"What do you think?"
In the years of using this exercise, perhaps 1 of 10 believes it credible.
Most do not know why they do not believe her.
I then do this exercise:
I describe the assault in detail.
I ask them to write out a list of all the words they expect to hear.
I then play the entire interview, which is only 5 minutes long, asking them to jot down any word the victim uses that 'surprises' the investigators.
I then ask them to compare the two lists and they now understand why they felt 'uncomfortable' with her statement, although her body language has not red flags of deception commonly known to investigators. This is because she was genuinely upset, and cried real tears and had genuine fear due to what she was doing.
I then distribute a report submitted to the FBI on the case in which the pronouns show deception.
It is now an essential portion of training.
Question: What does it mean to "run away" from commitment?
Answer: It means that the assertion in the sentence is highly personal and intrusive, but the subject has not only refused to commit to his assertion with pronoun and past tense verb combination, but repeats this refusal. The more 'intrusive' the allegation, the more distance is seen in the refusal to commit.
There is a progression of intrusive nature in the murder of Amanda Blackburn, the 28 year old who was shot in the head during a home invasion robbery in which her pre born child also died, while her 1 year old was in the home. Each detail 'raises the level' of 'intrusiveness' in the crime:
a. Home invasion is intrusive and personal
b. Home invasion that includes wife, pre born child, and child increases level of intensity
c. Murder of home invasion that includes wife, pre born child and child further increases
d. Head shot murder, very close and personal, increases this level of intensity
e. Any possible struggle makes it even more so.
Therefore, the language of the victim's closest survivor is the husband. Husbands and wives often "enter into each other's language" in a way that, after years of closeness, literally begin to share the same personal, subjective internal dictionary. The closer they were and the more years spent together, the more this phenomena in language is evidenced. This is where people will say, "you two kinda look alike" as they not only share a dictionary, but will mimic each others' face expressions.
In the Blackburn murder, they were married a short time and the marriage was very negative according to both, yet points a through e still apply, as this was the husband's home, wife, child and pre born child. When he refused to use the pronoun "I" about:
1. his thoughts on who did this
2. his thoughts on why this happened
3. his emotions on what happened
he, literally, "from commitment.
As a narcissist, he used "we" which must then be understood in his own reference: Perhaps his ego is such that he always uses "we" in speech. This is answered in other videos where he uses the pronoun "I" normally, including his own negative emotion expressed in not having a large number of people attend his church. He used more negative words to describe his feeling over a failed number than he did over the murder of his wife and pre born child, his home invaded, and his 1 year old exposed to acute violence.
He did not 'psychologically distance' himself: he ran away, psychologically, to the protective covering of a crowd. This is consistent with guilt rather than denial. This is something we see in the guilty, as well as in children who do not wish to be blamed. The only remaining question in this sphere is the cause of guilt.
As humans, we do not like having our space invaded, especially the place where we sleep. Sleep is a vital point in life so much so that without it, we will not survive. This is why we flag "location" of sleep, often as a refugee from something or someone. When someone invades our home, it is where we eat (to survive) and sleep (this is where we are very vulnerable, making it very sensitive to us).
Home invasions will trigger up close personal language due to the strong emotions that come from having our place of safety violated. It is only increased with each level of personal 'assault.' It is expected, therefore, in language.
Is it guilty knowledge in the death of Amanda Blackburn and his pre born child, or
Is it guilt from the feeling of being free from a very negative marriage, knowing that a divorce would mean the end of his career?
Formal training has an entire section dedicated to pronouns alone. They are instinctive, intuitive, and exempt from the principle of subjectivity in language. Used millions of times from our earliest days of speech, they are 100% effective in lie detection. Often those with intuitive skills benefit as they know how to use the tools, but learn what happens when a much sharpened and honed tool is placed in their hands.
Training: Hyatt Analysis Services
Seminars and in home training, with Continuing Educational Units from University of Maine.
Trainings for Law Enforcement, Hiring, and Social Services (child abuse, therapy, etc), as well as journalism, civil investigations, court preparation, and interviewing.
I'm assuming your analysis has been shared with IMPD?
Transcript of 11/19/2015 interview with DAvey from S. Carolina and FOX. I will also post in last thread.
8:25 AM this morning 11/19/2015 FOX Interview was 6 ½ min. long.
I: Joining us today is her husband, Davey Blackburn who is in Anderson, South Carolina. Pastor, thanks for joining us.
DB: Thank you very much, Steve..thank you for havin' me.
I: You bet. When we first initially ran this story about what happened ya know, we couldn't believe it. Uh, initially though, as is the case, they always look at the husband however, the police came out very quickly and said you have been cleared of all of that. But still in the very beginning, to have the suspicion hangin' over you, what was that like for a, a, man of God to worry about somethin' like that?
DB: (He's been slightly nodding with furrowed brow and his lips thinned out, pressed together)
DB: Yeah, I mean we, I certainly understand that's always the first place that they are goin' to ahm, investigate, and so I..I..guess that was to be, to be expected on some level. Um, ya know, but on another level, um, just going thru the ah, this, this trying time as a, as a, ya know with our family it, it, it, was, it was definitely difficult, um, to kinda even swallow that, um, and, and, so ya know for us, we're, we're, we don't have anything to hide and we trust the investigation that's goin' on and the, the, (Interviewer is nodding yes) the detectives have been extremely gracious thru this whole process to us…
I: Nodding yes, mmm, hmmm
DB: Um, they've been really great in how they've, um, kept us up to speed on things that are goin' on so , so we're really appreciative of that.
I: Well, ah somebody in the neighborhood spotted a gun that was on their lawn and took it into a fire department , and they're analyzing this , ah, Pastor tell us a little bit about how this could be linked to your wife's murder.
DB: (Chucks teeth) Well I, I'm, not , I'm not, su, sure about, ya know, the, the , ah, um, the viability of how it could be linked or how it couldn't , b..be linked, and so again, ya know the investigators are takin' a look at that, um, they've assured us that they have the full breadth of resources at their availability, um, they've assured me that they've never, um, this kind of a blank a, a, check that they've been given to be able ta, ta, further the investigation, and so, we're really confident and hopeful that very soon , um, some of these promising leads that they have will turn into , um, bein' able to find the person, or the people, who are responsible for this.
I: Yeah, and one of the other promising leads is there is some video that shows some kinda grainy, it can make out somebody walkin' , has that been helpful to the police, I, in this (video of perp) you can't really see any of the guys features , presumably a guys features, ah, has that been helpful to the police?
DB: Well, I, ya know, I'm sure its been helpful to them, um , they're, ya know, they're, they're the professionals , they do this, they're very good at what they do, and so um, it's not been helpful for us, we obviously don't recognize a, who that is, and you're right, it's very obscure, so we're not , we're not sure, but again, we're just, we're trustin' that they've got not just that but lots of different things to ah, to a, help in the process of, of findin' this perpetrator, yeah.
I: They're tryin to put all the puzzle pieces together to find out who murdered your wife
DB: Yeah
I: ..showin the pictures of you, you've gotta beautiful family, tell us about Amanda..
DB: Yeah, yeah, um, (laughs) Amanda was loved by everyone ah, wel..th..the most important thing about Amanda is that she was absolutely in love with Jesus Christ. Um, she loved Jesus (he starts gesticulating with his hands now like a preacher does, for emphasis on words) and because of that, because Jesus had changed her heart, and, and, Jesus was living inside of her , he was living thru her, she loved everybody around her, so she , she had this incredible way of seeing potential in people that, ah, most people didn't see in themselves, an, and, I feel like she did this in everything in her life, ya know, one a, one a, the things that she'd been doin' over the past 4 years was buildin' this business where she restored furniture. She would take what looked to be trash and turn it into somethin' that was, that was beautiful, that was treasure, I, I'd joke with her all the time, she'd have me pickin' up furniture off the side of the road, and I'm like, Babe, you can't do anything with this, and she's like, just trust me, gimme time, I'll, I'll make it into somethin' beautiful , and I think that's what's so, what's so, great about, um, ya know, e..even, in what Jesus has been showin' us in the process of all of this, is that we serve a God , Jesus Christ, who takes what the world says is a tragedy, what the world says is trash, and in time he makes it beautiful, and, and, I love the fact that now, she's in heaven, and with Jesus, and she sees that end result because she was always the one that could see the end result in the furniture and in people before anybody else could, and so, man, we're just, we'r, that's what, that's where we get hope in this whole situation. It's a hope that doesn't make sense , it's a peace that doesn't make sense, even to us, and I know ta the world , but we know that she loved Jesus, we love Jesus, and uh, we have that , that, perspective that has really helped us ta, ta, derive strength thru this whole thing.
I: Sure. Such lovely words about your wife. I've read that you had said that the hardest thing going forward is gonna be , ya know, just pickin' up the pieces with your CHILDREN , and try to live a life without her.
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DB: (Davey's been nodding his head up and down while Interviewer speak
DB: Yeah, yeah, absolutely , ya know, I mean, she, we were expecting, um, our second, um, we were gonna name ha..her..Evie Grace, um, and a, um, an, and we have little Weston, ah, h.he's 15 months old, and I think the, THE hardest thing, um, even just in the midst of dealing with loss, in the midst of dealing with um, losing the person that you feel like, ya know, completed you and we shared so many great memories and we shared everything that we did together and , and, there's not one aspect of my life that she wasn't a part of ..not one aspect of hers that I wasn't part of, and so I think thru all of that ..it's really difficult just to start, to try to figure out what's next, ya know, an, an, we're, we're hopeful in the fact that, that, re..really, throughout this tragedy, the best really is yet to come, that everything good in my life has been given to me by a gracious God, and so everything good moving forward , the Lord is going to provide , and so we're hopeful in that, but, but, we're tryin' to figure out what that it looks like. What is the new normal for us? How do I, how do I father Weston , um, and grow him up to be, to be a man of God as well, and that's exactly what she would've wanted in this process.
I: All right. Pastor we thank you very much for joining us today to talk about your wife and the investigation and we're gonna keep folks posted on developments out, ah, regarding..
DB: (Interrupts) Thank you Steve
I: her murder, the senseless murder of your beautiful wife. Alright, Davey Blackburn, thank you.
DB: Thank you very much.
What's with all the WE?
Who is the WE he keeps referring to?
For someone so used to public speaking he is all over the place coherent wise
DAvey had a chance, right at the beginning, to offer a reliable denial..he didn't take it.
When talking about jesus he is fine, hardly any stuttering or nonsense sounds, as soon as they conversation goes back to Amanda and th4e investigation he becomes almost incomprehensible.
He just just leaking.
He didn't need to take that chance; he was never accused!
As regards the latest interview, given that his statements are now so similar and repetitive, it is interesting to focus on what new words/phrases are emerging:
Interviewer: ...to have this suspicion hanging over you, what was it like for a man of God to have something like that to worry about something like that?
Davey: "Yeah, I mean we ce—I certainly understand that that's always the first place they are going to investigate—"
(note word choice: "Place" rather than "person")
"and so I guess that was to be expected on some level, you know, but on another level, just going through the—this trying time, as, as, you know with our family, it-it-it was definitely difficult to kinda even swallow that.
(Phrase choice: "difficult to kinda even swallow that.)
Davey: "the investigators are takin' a look at that, um, they've assured us that they have the full breadth of resources at their availability, um, they've assured me that they've never, um, this kind of a blank a, a, check that they've been given to be able ta, ta, further the investigation"
(Blank check imagery)
Interviewer: Has that [video of suspect] been helpful to the police?
Davey: Well I'm sure it's been helpful to them, they're the professionals, they do this, they're very good at what they do, so, um it's not been helpful for US, we obviously don't recognize who that is...
(obviously!)
Wow wow wow, I just want to say thank you to Peter / this blog for introducing me to Statement Analysis! Such great work going on here....I am definitely going to look into some of the past cases on this blog.
If he has nothing to hide..why did he run to South Carolina?
This interview, he was so bright-eyed he didn't even attempt to "choke up" or display any sadness.
You're right Davey, Amanda DOES see the end result and come judgement day, you will NOT end up in the same place she is. God does not look kindly on false prophets.
A powerful article.
Thanks, Peter
I think there may be one aspect of his life that she wasn't a part of. Never heard of her going to the gym.
Is he in South Carolina because that is where family is? I think I remember reading early on that they moved from South Carolina to Indy.
Agreed Tania, he's fine talking about Jesus but practically incoherent when talking about Amanda and the investigation.
Because that's where his family and closest friends are.
"Christian chatter" as well? Not sure what that means but:
https://christianpundit.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/people-suspect-pastor-davey-blackburn-may-have-something-to-do-with-his-wifes-murder/
I hope the police are looking into his relationship with their friend/babysitter Megan Griffith. I see some red flags there.
I hope they are looking into all his relationships, friends, etc. and looking everywhere and at everyone EXCEPT those caught on video.That's what they are hired to do, isn't it?
Not one single tear for his wife and unborn child. Not yet. If you chalk it up to shock at first, well, it's time for real grieving. Still, no tears.
Excellent, this is something I would like to augment my Masters in counseling with.
The parent church to DB's generates this much money and NOONE has offered to add to the paltry $1000 reward. That is a DISGRACE.
The release of NewSpring's annual report in February generated a bit of discussion about how much of NewSpring's $34.3 million income goes to Perry Noble. NewSpring and Noble keep his actual salary under wraps, but we do know that he is extraordinarily well compensated.
http://www.pajamapages.com/in-which-i-argue-that-perry-noble-and-steven-furtick-are-not-overpaid/
Maybe the hiring of wailers would be in order, eh? Just like the good 'ole Biblical days.
Surely there are other members you could extort from and not the church as a unit.
Was it his normal routine to be at the gym every M-F from 5:30 until 8:30? That seems so self-indulgent and really uncaring towards his wife. If I were Amanda, busy parenting a toddler and working at building a small business to bring in extra income for the family, I think I would feel really abandoned and unloved. And to add insult to injury, he admits he feels so much temptation in that setting. Doesn't the bible say something about how wrong it is to lust in your heart?
Is there some reason he couldn't figure out a way to do his workouts at home? Maybe she was relieved to have him out of the house on a regular basis to give her a break from having to walk on egg shells around him. I know the church services were at a school but was he pretty much home during the week doing work out of a home office?
I don't know, it just seems like three hours of almost daily gym time for a father of a young child seems excessive so just trying to get a sense of whether that's what he actually did to understand how his normal routine fits with the timeline of Amanda's murder.
Weiner said...
Peter, am I to gather from some of your posts that you at least think it is possible that CD got "lucky" in the fact that someone murdered his wife, but that he actually had nothing to do with it?
He started to say we again and self corrected to I rift at the beginning. You're right about place vs person.bbut I'm also really concerned that immediately after that he says "you know, with OUR family"....again...who is our? His and Amanda's (i.e. Davey and son)? Because she's dead, so saying I would've been more appropriate yes? And he shouldn't be speaking for her side of the family. And he's never even mentioned his side specifically.
Yeah kind of. Not that he wanted her dead per se but he didn't want to be married so the fact that this happened is convenient at least.
DB says " I love the fact that now, she's in heaven,"
I just posted on the earlier thread that Davey is leading us by the hand to the conclusion that GOD killed Amanda (the actual killer was just doing God's work, and is already forgiven).
I'm awaiting the next (logical) revelation: that Davey believes he IS God. (Does anyone else think we may be watching a full psychotic break developing, live, on national TV?)
It's hard to look away.
If Davey had nothing to do with it...yes, he is NOT unhappy that his wife and unborn child were murdered. He sure is getting mileage out of his metaphor that people are like the trashy furniture she "restored" isn't he?
I got the feeling he was calling Amanda 'trash' that God restored, that or he can't keep his analogies straight....
That depends, CJ. what type of tracking device did you attach to his vehicle? Is he to be paranoid first, then blame the murder, then think God abandoned him, too? Bet you are watching the TV closely.
ranger said...
um...what???
XianJaneway said...
My blog post on why everyone should stay away from his church, even if he's 100% innocent: http://iprefercaptain.com/2015/11/why-davey-blackburns-church-culture-is-toxic/
(Potentially disturbing image in the post)
At this point I have watched all of the interviews with Davey, several of the church videos, and Amanda's live celebration.
I wish we had a transcription of the Celebration.
It was Perry Noble who introduced the concept of "crazy Davey." He noticed from day one that something wasn't right about Davey. He was talked into a second look at (interview with) him by other staff members. Before hiring Davey he asked to meet Amanda, knowing that they were engaged. Right then, Perry tells the audience why: you don't want to let crazy people into your organization, as they can do too much damage. It was only when he saw Davey in the room with Amanda by his side that he considered him finally "right."
Was Noble joking? Sure. (Because roasting the husband of a murder victim at his wife's funeral is such a cool, hip, godly thing to do).
I'm curious, what do you see when you watch Davey talking on TV?
The corollary to option "C:"
If what we are seeing is a good man, with normal marital stress, who loved his wife and is innocent of her death, then (IMO) he is in desperate need of intervention and support right now.
The reality of her death hasn't hit him yet, and God help him when it does.
I don't understand why his family, friends and mentors aren't actively trying to pull him back from the spotlight. (Maybe they are, and he just won't be deterred in his mission).
CJ - I've wondered that as well. Maybe he is in a state of shock/breakdown? How long could that last and I wonder what it culminates into?
I addressed this on the article thread upstream.
@CJ
I keep wonder that same thing.
Maybe that's why he's in SC- maybe his loved ones are hoping to better help (supervise) him?
KD, Never mind, lost my bearings there for a moment.
I have no idea where all this is leading to. Davey's behavior is so markedly different from what we would expect in this situation that EVERYONE sees it as remarkable. Just for different reasons ... his family, friends, and church are going on and on about how amazing his faith is.
Most of us here (including me) see something else.
he's not in shock. Watch everything, his videos and such. This is his NORMAL behavior. He only starts moving his hands around and "pounding or pointing" his finger when he is trying to emphasize Jesus, or what can be done with Jesus. He's regurgitating his normal stuff, adding some here, and taking away (after he has been reading online I'm sure) some other things. But he is who he is, he just can't help himself. Narcissism doesn't go away over night, if ever..he can't help himself. He worships the spotlight, money, attention, his sexual needs, etc. This guy is empty, VOID. I feel so sorry for his little boy. Hopefully, if he had something to do with this, Amanda's family will raise the little one. Even if he didn't have something to do with it, he should not be raising that boy.
I suppose I shouldn't be shocked by I am by the amount of money flowing into NewSpring. The fact that Perry's salary is secret, says alot. Guess they never heard, Matthew 19:24 "I'll say it again-it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!
Skeptical said...
I hope there is a thorough investigation of this murder. Murder within religious communities seems to be becoming more and more common. I enjoy watching Investigation Discovery ID. It is often noticeable that even years after persons have been found guilty of a crime, they still cannot offer a reliable denial. Some of the cases they have profiled are Couty Alexander who murdered his pregnant wife in Louisiana. Pastor Matt Baker in Waco who murdered his wife due to an affair. Joyce Meyer's bodyguard Chris Coleman murdered his wife and children. Rabbi Neulander had his wife murdered. Nick Hacheney, a minister in Washington, and Arthur Schirmer dubbed the "sinister minister" also murdered their wives.
Sandy in PA said...
At what point does an innocent person decide to lawyer up?
JenB said...
" think thru all of that ..it's really difficult just to start, to try to figure out what's next, ya know, an, an, we're, we're hopeful in the fact that, that, re..really, throughout this tragedy, the best really is yet to come, that everything good in my life has been given to me by a gracious God, and so everything good moving forward , the Lord is going to provide , and so we're hopeful in that, but, but, we're tryin' to figure out what that it looks like."
He started with "we, we, we," then switches to my/me, then back again. I think it's interesting that what got "me/my" was about God giving DAVEY good things. The switch was jarring to me. I think I'd be inclined to say, "that everything good in our lives has been given to us by a gracious God." That is a topic where I'd be likely to speak in general terms, so as not to claim God's blessing for ME, as though I am somehow worthy -- or more worthy than others.
Steve Jefferson @scoopjefferson Crime Beat Reporter with WTHR Television Indianapolis that sources say Amanda was raped. This wa posted 20 minutes ago.
https://twitter.com/scoopjefferson
http://www.wbrc.com/story/30560274/police-questioning-people-in-killing-of-amanda-blackburn
At least there appears to be progress.
@scoopjefferson: IMPD to suspect: "You left behind evidence". (DNA) Sources confirm Amanda Blackburn's killer sexually assaulted her. https://t.co/C9QEbYe75P
Okay. This guy is claiming "sources" say Amanda was sexually assaulted.
https://twitter.com/scoopjefferson/status/667408871573557248
That breaks my heart, and I hope she was not conscious at that time.
Shouldn't this make the crime even more horrifying for Davey & Co.? Peter, you were talking about ways the crime could have been any more personal and violating -- I would say this is it. Even if he didn't love Amanda, he clearly regarded her as his belonging. Shouldn't he be outraged?
I already said this in another comment section, but since someone brought it up, I'll say it again. I know the identity of 'we'.
'We' is Legion (Mark 5) - and I hope the police are able to perform an exorcism soon.
you're wrong.
It is Mr. Lenoge.
I'll be a little more serious about it. Toward the end of his interview with Doocey it sounds like CD is preaching or teaching Doocey. CD says that Jesus is where we get our hope - listen to how he says it. He's including the interviewer in the word 'we'.
Peter - I had to look that up! yikes!
She was sexually assaulted and we're just hearing about this from LE now? And not even LE, from a "source". That's unbelievable! To me that changes the whole aspect of this crime, and if true, now would make sense why a burglar would enter an occupied home. I can't believe LE would tell the public it was a robbery gone wrong, when it was really a rape. That's unforgivable. They should have alerted the women in the area.
I'm truly confused, though, because in the other vid I watched, the journalist said they have DNA from items pulled from the home. Not once did he mention sexual assault.
Amanda Blackburn was sexually assaulted, four suspects being questioned
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/three-suspects-being-questioned-in-connection-to-death-of-amanda-blackburn
Did the suspects go to talk to police about their involvment with the burglary down the street or the rape and murder of Amanda? Have those crimes been 100% linked? Is the gun that was turned in related to the murder or the robber? Neither? One? Both?
If she was sexually assaulted, then that explains why LE cleared DB right away. I would agree with them. If that's the case, then I doubt he had anything to do with it. That doesn't change the fact that his behavior has been strange and that he's weird, but I don't think he's involved.
There was a good sized dog in the house (Boxer looking) that was unharmed. It greeted investigators at the door like nothing was wrong.
So a random man raped & murdered Amanda while the dog quietly sat by and was never harmed?
Rachel - I can't imagine a scenario where ANYONE would be cleared right away...at least as quickly as DB was.
Rachel- why does her being sexually assaulted clear DB right away?
@Skittles
Because then what seemed like an atypical robbery to me now fits a case of sexual assault/and if not planned then crime of opportunity: home occupied and she was shot in the head, which in my opinion fits with a rapist. DB had an airtight alibi and the police had footage of a stranger near her home. I think they probably have other evidence they haven't released to the public. But that's just my opinion. I'm going to wait to hear more info from LE before I make any further conclusions. But for me personally the sexual assault, if true, changes everything. Until I hear anything further, of course.
Rachel-
Thanks for clarifying your thoughts.
I don't share the same ones though. For me, if it's true she was sexually assaulted, I'm now MORE suspicious that DB was involved in some way. I actually have thought several times in the past week "If DB had anything to do with this, I'm surprised that she wasn't found sexually assaulted." He has historically (on video after video) been so caught up in sex. In discussing it, preaching about it, talking about his drive, talking about his need for web monitoring, talking about how he's been unsatisfied by Amanda, etc. etc. IMO, he's obsessed with it. Sexual assault is actually, very very sadly, something I naturally would have "expected" should he have had any involvement.
Latest IMPD are NOT able to confirm #AmandaBlackburn was sexually abused https://twitter.com/woundedchristn/status/667439702836908032
@ Skittles
I can definitely see where you're coming from, and what you say definitely makes sense.
And so now IMPD is saying they don't know if she was sexually assaulted! This to me is more believable than the earlier "source" because I find it so strange that a rapist murderer would be on the loose, and LE would fail to mention the rape to the community at large.
Here is their statement:
"At this point in the investigation, we cannot confirm, nor do we know that Amanda Blackburn was sexually abused.
That information may change as more evidence comes in, but at this time nothing in our investigation shows that."
Lt. Richard Riddle, IMPD Spokesperson
Melissa M. said...
What do Davey and Amanda's parents have to say about all this? DB seems to be "standing alone" (in the spotlight, his fave place) as far as interviews go. The lack of family around him seems strange. I'm also really curious why the reward is so low (last I heard it was still at $1,000), but "the neighbors" were trying to raise more money. Just the neighbors? What about DB, the family, the congregation?
When I read he was leaving town to grieve, my first thought was "oooooh, interesting." NOW he decides it's time to grieve? Someone finally got the message through (God? Jesus? An attorney we don't know about?) that "a few days" wasn't going to cut it. And/or the pressure of the investigation is started to weigh on him. He's bordering on sarcasm the way he keeps praising the cops, saying how much he "trusts them," and how "professional" they are.
Does anyone else notice that DB almost seems annoyed that interviewers keep asking about Amanda, as if she's the furthest thing from his mind? Like her murder ("oh that?") is getting in the way of the message he's trying to spread?
I think DB was hoping that this case was going to garner A LOT more national/world attention (e.g. Scott & Lacey Peterson) and thus bring in a lot more followers, but that pesky ISIS attack in Paris is foiling all his (God's) plans for publicity. I think he's bummed about that more than anything and one of many reasons he's skipping town for awhile.
"Alrighty "anonymous'; thank you, I will have a great night, hopefully. Sorry I misspelled your name. Oh, in case you didn't know, Tania and Shannon are two different people, not the same. BTW, I am not anon, I am ABB, which happens to be my real initials. I post it under anony because I have not registered my initials, see? YOU have a good night as well! ABB"
Peter- I wanted to email you about this and couldn't find an email address.
So you have this 'anonymous' abb person who can make vague threats to posters on this site, and has indicated that you are good with that? This is what 'ABB' has done.
::Alrighty Jillian; thank you, I will have a great night, hopefully. Sorry I misspelled your name. Oh, in case you didn't know, Tania and Shannon are two different people, not the same. BTW, I am not anon, I am ABB, which happens to be my real initials. I post it under anony because I have not registered my initials, see? YOU have a good night as well! ABB::
OK, the above is scary. And I deserve this because I posted here? With a slightly unpopular opinion?
Is there a moderator here?
Peter Hyatt is the principal and the main moderator here. It is his website. He knows that Tania, Shannon and I are not the same person.
Scary? Have you been drinking? Stop making false accusations and you might find that yours is not an unpopular opinion, or at least worthy of respect. Got it? ABB
Weighing in late here, but Peter is spot on with the language here. Several months ago, a landlord temporarily housed a tenant next to us. He seemed polite enough, but something seemed off (as in solicitously polite). Up late one night, I overheard their very loud, heated argument. Apparently said tenant and a buddy perpetrated a home invasion of their next-door-neighbor and his significant other was desperately trying to get him to confess (= lesser sentence). A neighbor, who was friends with the victim's next door neighbor told me the details of the home invasion a few days later (having no clue the perp was living next door now).
As his "new" next-door neighbor, I lost quite a bit of sleep that week. I had run an errand the day LE came calling, but my spouse and family were home. I promptly had a pointed discussion with that landlord about endangering my family, as well as my elderly neighbors. I was livid and my home wasn't even invaded...much less my pregnant wife murdered! Our security being seriously threatened, as well as that of our elderly neighbors, was enough to provoke me to anger. I think I was more angry about that than Davey has been about this.
This is so bizarre, Lt Riddle IMPD spokesperson denied that they have determined Amanda had been sexually assaulted as earlier reported by a high ranking source within IMPD. He goes on to say they do have DNA evidence in this case. He then does a very interesting thing and changes the term assault to the term abuse when he says they have not confirmed or been able to say that Amanda had been sexually abused. I believe this means they've found a whole different ball of wax and are having a hard time definitively tying it down to abuse or as related to the murder.
I would really like to hear if others are thinking this is as significant as I do.
I'm going to close with saying, I would have loved to have known Amanda. She has touched my heart with her pure loving spirit. I believe she was a very wise woman who was strong enough to do what I'm almost certain she had come to realize she had to do.
Blackburn's neighbors pleased at progress in case
http://news.georgiaworld.com/blackburns-neighbors-pleased-at-progress-in-case/
"Several of us in the neighborhood have said whatever it takes, however long it takes, we're on board to do this," he said.
McConnell said the investigation has consumed the lives of many people in this neighborhood, for better or worse. He said it just shows how passionate they are about bringing Blackburn's killer to justice."
To Anon at 12:59,
The shift in terminology is interesting. It is possible that LE would use the terms assault and abuse interchangeably, I don't know.
But in general I think the term "sexual abuse" implies that the attacker has a relationship with his/her victim, and is often an authority figure. A teacher, a priest, a counselor, a stepparent, mom's new boyfriend, an older sibling ... a husband.
I: But still in the very beginning, to have the suspicion hangin' over you, what was that like for a, a, man of God to worry about somethin' like that?
It looks like that question is causing him stress, because he 'tightens up'. Probably because he feels the need to put up a show to answer the question and talk 'around' a direct lie, which would be even more stressfull.
ARE the terms abuse and assault interchangeable?
I think assault is used as a one time event where as abuse can be, and often is,over extended periods. You often hear of victims suffering years of sexual abuse or was being sexually abused as in plural incidents of assault. You also never hear it said that a rape victim was sexually abused by an assailant. I can't see an LE "spokesman" using that word interchangeably especially when he is trying to clarify an earlier statement made by LE.
Why is it still being reported that Amanda had been sexually assaulted? Yesterday Lt Riddle IMPD spokesperson denied the previous report that they had determined she was sexually assaulted. He said they have DNA evidence in this case, and have not confirmed and are unable to say if she has been sexually ABUSED. The term being changed to sexual abuse says they are looking at a whole different scenario surrounding their physical findings. This is so key, why is it not being pointed out?


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Walsh Fourier Transform of the Möbius function
This question is related to this previous question where I asked about ordinary Fourier coefficients.
Special case: is Möbius nearly Orthogonal to Morse
Harold Calvin Marston Morse (24 March 1892 – 22 June 1977), August Ferdinand Möbius (November 17, 1790 – September 26, 1868)
Consider the sequence of values of the Möbius functions on nonnegative integers. (Starting with 0 for 0.)
0, 1, −1, −1, 0, −1, 1, −1, 0, 0, 1, −1, 0, −1, 1, 1, 0, −1, 0, −1, 0, 1, 1, −1, 0, 0, ...
And the Morse sequence
1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1, -1, -1, 1, 1, -1, -1, 1
Are these two sequences nearly orthogonal?
Remark: This case of the general problem follows from the solution of Mauduit and Rivat of a 1968 conjecture of Gelfond. They show that primes are equally likely to have odd or even digit sum in base 2. See Ben Green's remark below.)
Start with the Möbius function $\mu (m)$. (Thus $\mu(m)=0$ unless all prime factors of $m$ appear once and $\mu (m)=(-1)^r$ if $m$ has $r$ distinct prime factors.) Now, for a n-digit positive number $m$ regard the Mobius function as a Boolean function $\mu(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)$ where $x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n$ are the binary digits of $m$.
For example $\mu (0,1,0,1)=\mu(2+8)=\mu(10)=1$. We write $\Omega_n$ as the set of 0-1 vectors $x=(x_1,x_2,x_m)$ of length $n$. We also write $[n]=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, and $N=2^n$.
Next consider for some natural number $n$ the Walsh-Fourier transform
$$\hat \mu (S)= \frac{1}{2^n} \sum _{x\in \Omega_n} \mu(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)(-1)^{\sum\{x_i:i\in S\}}.$$
So $\sum_{S \subset [n]}|\hat \mu (S)|^2$ is roughly $6/\pi ^2$; and the Prime Number Theorem asserts that $\hat \mu(\emptyset)=o(1)$; In fact the known strong form of the Prime Number Theorem asserts that
$$|\hat \mu (\emptyset )| \lt n^{-A} =(\log N)^{-A},$$
for every $A>0$. (Note that $|\hat \mu (\emptyset)=\sum_{k=0}^{N-1}\mu(k)$.)
1) Is it true that the individual coefficients tend to 0? Is it known even that $|\hat \mu (S)| \le n^{-A}$ for every $A>0$.
Solved in the positive by Jean Bourgain (April 12, 2011): Moebius-Walsh correlation bounds and an estimate of Mauduit and Rivat; (Dec, 2011) For even stronger results see Bourgain's paper On the Fourier-Walsh Spectrum on the Moebius Function.
2) Is it the case that
$$(*) \sum \{ \hat \mu ^2(S)~:~|S|<(\log n)^A \} =o(1), $$ for every $A>0$.
(This does not seem to follow from bounds we can expect unconditionally on individual coefficients.) Solved in the positive by Ben Green (March 12, 2011): On (not) computing the Mobius function using bounded depth circuits. (See Green's answer below.)
3) The Riemann Hypothesis asserts that $$|\hat \mu (\emptyset )| < N^{-1/2+\epsilon}.$$
Does it follows from the GRH that for some $c>0$, $$| \hat \mu (S)| < N^{-c},$$ for every $S$?
An upper bound of $(\log N)^{-{\log \log N}^A}$ suffices to get the desired application.
The Motivation
The motivation for these questions from a certain computational complexity extension of the prime number theorem. It asserts that every function on the positive integers that can be represented by bounded depth Boolean circuit in terms of the binary expansion has diminishing correlation with the Mobius function. This conjecture that we can refer to as the $AC^0$- prime number conjecture is discussed here, on my blog and here, on Dick Lipton's blog. The conjecture follows from formula (***) by a result of Linial Mansour and Nisan on Walsh-Fourier coefficients of $AC^0$ functions.
Question 3 suggestes that perhaps we can deduce the $AC^0$ prime number conjecture from the GRH which would be of interest. Of course, it will be best to prove it unconditionally. (Ben Green proved it unconditionally).
For polynomial size formulas, namely for functions expressible by depth-2 polynomial size circuits we may need even less. A result of Mansour shows that the inequality $|\hat \mu (S)| \le n^{-(\log \log n)^A}$ for every $A>0$, would suffice! Moreover, a conjecture of Mansour (which also follows from a more general conjecture called the Influence/Entropy conjecture, see this blog post for a description of both conjectures) implies that it will be enough to prove that
$$|\hat \mu (S)| \le n^{-A}$$
for every $A>0$, to deduce the PNT for formulas.)
Some background
Let me mention that the question follows to a large extent a line of research associating $AC^0$ formulas with number theoretic questions. See the papers by Anna Bernasconi and Igor Shparlinski and the paper by Eric Allender Mike Saks Igor Shparlinski, and the paper COMPLEXITY OF SOME ARITHMETIC PROBLEMS FOR BINARY POLYNOMIALS by Eric Allender, Anna Bernasconi, Carsten Damm, Joachim von zur Gathen, Michael Saks, and Igor Shparlinski.
Related MO question: Odd-bit primes ratio
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Gil Kalai
$\begingroup$ Gil, fascinating question. If $|S|$ is very large (say $S = [n]$) then this is basically the work of Mauduit and Rivat, who show that primes are equally likely to have odd or even digit sum in base 2. On the other hand if $|S|$ is very small (e.g. $|S| = 1$) then you've got to sum $\mu$ over a set that looks like a GAP, $P$, of small dimension; this should be possible decomposing $1_P$ into exponentials. Question is what happens in the middle! I'll think about it... $\endgroup$ – Ben Green Mar 6 '11 at 17:42
$\begingroup$ P.S. could you edit your post a bit? I think there are some $n^A$s that should be $n^{-A}$, etc. $\endgroup$ – Ben Green Mar 6 '11 at 17:45
$\begingroup$ Thats very interesting Ben, for question (2) we need to worry only about S of size polylog (n) $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Mar 6 '11 at 20:05
$\begingroup$ Dear Ben, I do not see why the result of Mauduit and Rivat that you mentioned implies the statement about [n]. (The [n] case is a nice statement about Morse sequence being "orthogonal" to the Mobius function.) $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Mar 8 '11 at 22:57
An update to my earlier answer. I've written a proof of this "AC0 prime number conjecture" as a short paper, which can be found here.
I thought a bit about establishing a nontrivial bound on the Fourier-Walsh coefficients $\hat{\mu}(S)$ for all sets $S$. My paper does this when $|S| < cn^{1/2}/\log n$ (here $S \subseteq \{1,\dots,n\}$). On the GRH it works for $|S| = O(n/\log n)$. I remarked before that the extreme case $S = \{1,\dots,n\}$ follows from work of Mauduit and Rivat.
I still believe that there is hope of proving such a bound in general, but this does seem to be pretty tough. At the very least one has to combine the work of Mauduit and Rivat with the material in my note above, and neither of these (especially the former) is that easy.
$\begingroup$ Very nice! I said "(This does not seem to follow from bounds we can expect unconditionally on individual coefficients.)" But I was wrong, it does seem to follow if you extend the bound for the empty coefficients to all other small coefficients. (Also I am a bit confused: what is the best known bound for SUM_{k=1}^N \mu(k)?) $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Mar 10 '11 at 20:20
$\begingroup$ Gil, Well it's a bit more complicated than that. I'll try and write some proper notes on the whole thing. If it works out I'm not sure it's really publishable in the sense that it's the crudest possible joining of two things already in the literature. But then again, those are two quite different literatures, so perhaps the link should be properly noted. I think there are some more general observations I can extract from the Harman-Katai paper and I shall do so in due course. Best wishes Ben $\endgroup$ – Ben Green Mar 10 '11 at 20:24
$\begingroup$ Regarding proving it for all Fourier coefficients. It is sort of interesting on its own and it will imply Mobius randomness for functions of the binary digits that we understand their Walsh expansions. If you can prove (say under GRH) that the Fourier coefficients hat \mu(S) is below X^{-1/4 +epsilon} for every S, |S|<= n^{1/2+epsilon} then it will show that the "monotone PNT" namely that every function expressed by a monotone Boolean function (regardless of its computational complexity) of the binary digits is orthogonal to the Mobius function. $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Mar 10 '11 at 20:27
$\begingroup$ Dear Ben, also maybe the results in the paper in the "Some background" already contain part (or all, although I did not find it) of what is needed. $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Mar 10 '11 at 20:40
$\begingroup$ One obvious motivation for understanding the general case of Walsh functions is that we can believe that the AC^0 result extend to Boolean circuits which allow also addition mod 2 gates. This is the net step beyonf AC^o where still a lot in known and a PNT will be very welcome. If we can combine some facts from analytic number theory with the Rasborov-Smolensky methods for this type of functions this will be very nice. $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Mar 11 '11 at 13:39
Rather than updating the question, let me devote a separate answer to discuss the emerging knowledge. (Please corrent me if I make any mistake.) I will update this answer when necessary.
First, the Prime Number Theorem in its stronger known form asserts that
$$|\sum_{k=1}^X \mu(k)| \le e^{\sqrt \log X}. $$
And the RH asserts that $$|\sum_{k=1}^X \mu(k)| \le X^{1/2+\epsilon}.$$
Let $X=2^n$, the Prime number theorem deals with the Walsh coefficient $\hat \mu(\emptyset)$.
(Remark: I am still a little confused about the situation, since the upper bound for the ordinary discrete Fourier coefficients in this answer by Matt Young are not as strong as the statement for the 0th coefficient given by the PNT. This is now clarified by Ben's remark below.)
The second question and the $AC^0$-prime number conjecture (resolved by Ben Green, March 12).
Ben wrote a paper showing that $$\hat \mu (S) \le e^{\sqrt \log X}, $$ whenever $|S| \le n^{1/2-\epsilon}$ using the Herman Katai's method. This is more than enough to imply a positive answer to question 2.
Ben's positive answer to question 2 implies the $AC^0$- Prime Number Conjecture (a.k.a Sarnak-Kalai conjecture)! In my opinion, this is a very nice result.
Ben's number theoretic argument is rather delicate from it the implication is rather direct. Hastad Switching lemma implies that the total influence (a.k.a. average sensitivity) of an $AC^0$ Boolean function is polynomial in (log n) and this implies that most of the Fourier-Walsh coefficients are below the polylog level which together with an affarmative answer to question 2 gives the $AC^0$ PNC. The connection of $AC^0$ circuits and Walsh expansion was first explored by Linial, Mansour and Nisan and their full result (which was later improved a little by Hastad) asserts that the Fourier-Walsh coefficients decay exponentially above their expected value. The exponential decay does not play a role here, but it will imply stronger orthogonality consequence with better upper bounds on the Walsh coefficients of the Mobius functions.
The first question (Update April 12, resolved by Jean Bourgain)
The first question was if $\hat \mu(S)$ tends to zero uniformly with X and at what rate.
A special case of interest was the correlation between the Mobius function and the Morse function (which is \hat \mu ([n])$. Ben Green noted that the method by Mauduit and Rivat gives directly that
$$\hat \mu ([n]) \le X^{-c}, $$ for some positive constant $c$.
Also according to Ben the results and methods of Harman and Kátai will give that $\hat \mu (S)$ uniformly tends to zero whenever $|S| \le n^{1/2-\epsilon}$ (in fact they give a stronger result mentioned below).
According to Ben, the technique of Mauduit-Rivat are likely to work unless S∩[n/3] is very ``thin'', and with more effort combining Mauduit-Rivat and Herman-Katai.
Update (April 12): Jean Bourgain proved (private communication) that for every Walsh function $W_S$ we have
$\sum_{m=1}^{X}\mu(m) W_S(m) \le X \cdot e^{-(\log X)^{1/10}}.$
In other words, $\hat \mu(S) \le e^{-(\log X)^{1/10}}.$
Jean also showed that under GRH
$\sum_{m=1}^X\mu(m)W_S(m) \le X^{1-(c/(\log\log X)^2)}.$
In other words, $\hat \mu(S) \le X^{-(c/\log \log X)^2}.$
This result suffices to show under the GRH the "monotone prime number conjecture."
Update Sept 14: Bourgain's paper is now arxived.
The relation with known CS literature?
In the question there are links to several papers which deals with related question of the inability of $AC^0$ functions to compute certain number theoretic questions. These papers rely heavily on Fourier expansion of $AC^0$ circuits, Linial-Mansour-Nisan, Hastad etc.
It seems that the paper by Anna Bernasconi and Igor Shparlinski and some papers cited there are most relevant. It looks that there is a proof there that much weight of the Fourier coefficients of a function expressing square-freeness (which is close to Mobius but seems easier).
1) Give an affarmative answer to question (1)
2) Extend the PNT when you consider functions expressed ACC[p] circuits, namely by Boolean depth circuits with mod p gates. Note that question (1) is a very special case of ACC2, It would be nice to "merge" the Rasborov-Smolensky method to deal with ACC[p] functions with some ANT. Now that Ben settled the PNC for $AC^0$ functions this will be a natural next step. I will ellaborate on this question below.
3) Give an affermative answer to question 3. It will imply that under GRH the AC^0 PNT extends "almost" all the way to log-depth. (Update: The new result of Bourgain comes very close to that.)
Showing that $\hat \mu (S) \le X^{-1/3}$ will imply "The prime number conjecture for monotone Boolean functions" namely that the Mobius function is asymptotically orthogonal to every function described by a monotone Boolean function of the digits. (No complexity assumptions.) (Update: The new result of Bourgain appears to implies this under GRH.)
(This probably implies statement like: if you consider a randon sequance of integers $0=X_1,...,X_n$ so that $X_{i+1}$ is obtained from $X_i$ by switching a digit from 0 to 1 then the Mobius function will change sign many times on the sequence.)
4) It would be interesting to see if appropriate low level complexity classes (Also allowing random inputs to the circuits) account for other known results about "Mobius randomness". Interesting examples: Standard L functions, the Green-Tao bracketed polynomials; non deterministic sequences in the sense of Peter Sarnak,
5) There is no special reason to state the AC^0 Prime number theorem just based on the binary digit expressions. Can it be extended to expansions w.r.t. other p's?
Low degree polynomials over Z/2Z
The "Walsh-Fourier" functions considered in the question are high degree monomials over the real but they can be considered as linear functions over Z/2Z. For that, replace the values {-1,+1} by {0,1} both in the domain and range of our Boolean functions? What about low degree polynomials instead of linear polynomials?
If we can extend the results to polynomials over Z/2Z of degree at most polylog (n) this will imply by a result of Razborov Mobius randomness for AC02 circuits. (This is interesting also under GRH).
Update (12 April) While this question is still open. Jean Bourgain was able to prove Mobius randomness for AC0(2) circuits of certain sublinear size. Jean also noted that to show that the Mobius function itself is non-approximable by a AC0[2) circuit (namely you cannot reach correlation say of 0.99) can easily be derived from Razborov Smolensky theorem, since an easy computation shows that $\mu(3x)^2$ has correlation >0.8 with the 0(mod 3) function.
Moreover (As explained by Avi Wigderson), if we can show that certain functions have very low correlations with all low degree polynomials over Z/2Z this will already be ground breaking result in computational complexity. (Say, correlation which is smaller than 1/n.) This will be interesting even under GRH.
Let me just say what low degree polynomials are. You have a bunch of sets of variables; all the sets are small (smaller than $log n^t$), and your function is the parity of the number of sets for which all variables has value '1'. (If the sets are singletones we are back to the Walsh functions.)
More updates, more questions (December 2011)
Update: Jean Bourgain has now proved that every monotone Boolean function is asymptotically orthogonal to the Mobius function, unconditionally.
Questions: In addition to questions mentioned above it will be interesting
1) To relate these results with other recent results on Mobius randomness.
2) To see if the results about Mobius randomness translate to result about primes. Namely, are results of the form
(*) A $\pm$1 function f is asymptotically orthogonal to the Mobius function
can be "transformmed into a result of the form:
(**) There are infinitely many promes primes such that f(p)=1
Of course, we will probably need also to assume that the density of ${n:f(n)=1}$ is not too small. See also this MO question.
$\begingroup$ Gil, Regarding the "normal" Fourier coefficients of $\mu$. It basically has to do with the fact that the error term in the plain prime number theorem is $e^{-C\sqrt{\log X}}$. But in the prime number theorem in $a \mod{q}$, there is an additional term coming from a so-called ``Siegel zero''; a zero of a Dirichlet $L$-function $L(s,\chi)$ anomalously close to $1$. But these only exist for a very few values of $q$, and the observation that Harman-Katai make is that if $q$ ranges over powers of $2$ then you get to ignore them (to simplify rather dramatically). $\endgroup$ – Ben Green Mar 12 '11 at 22:17
$\begingroup$ Sorry, when I say "exist" I mean "not known not to exist". Of course GRH implies there are no such zeros. $\endgroup$ – Ben Green Mar 12 '11 at 22:18
$\begingroup$ @Gil 'promes'? Made me laugh. $\endgroup$ – David Roberts Dec 8 '11 at 22:43
$\begingroup$ More seriously, the link to Bourgain's September paper (pdf from arxiv.de) was broken, so I gave a link to the paper's abstract page on the home arXiv site. And I've added the link to the December paper. $\endgroup$ – David Roberts Dec 8 '11 at 22:53
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