Podcast appearances and mentions of brent davis

On todays episode I'm joined again by Brent Davis of IL. We have a great conversation on land management and what you can be doing in the upcoming months. I learned a ton from Brent in this one and I hope yall do to!!Here's what to expect from EP.120:- turkey talk and how it's been lately for us- native grasses and creating soft edge- tree planting strategies and habitat improvements- invasive species and how to control them- mentorship and learning new strategies- rapid fire questions 

We love “the new.” Especially when it comes to the restaurant scene, we get excited about the spot that just opened its doors or discovering a place the rest of the community hasn't caught on to yet.While the rookies get everyone worked up, it's the veterans who create the foundation of a city's food identity. And we've got two of them leading the lineup for this episode of the podcast.First up is Bacchus, the venerable Bartolotta-owned restaurant that announced a couple different developments around its 20th anniversary. For starters, executive chef Nick Wirth and chef de cuisine Brent Davis have come up with a new a la carte dinner menu, which will debut along with a new bar menu Feb. 20. Among the items you'll find are charred Spanish octopus, smoked wagyu pastrami, Seremoni black cod with burnt honey celeriac and couscous pilaf, and Wagyu skirt steak with miso-glazed ube and grilled kimchi bok choy.The restaurant will also take a night to properly celebrate the 20th anniversary as it hosts a champagne dinner March 6. The aforementioned chef duo have put together a five-course menu for the occasion, which will also include pairings of bubbly from the likes of Dom Pérignon and Laurent Perrier.Another longstanding Milwaukee eatery got the Ann Christenson treatment recently, as our favorite food writer took a peek inside Pizza Man's comeback. Once the king of our city's pie scene (arguably), Pizza Man experienced some slippage as it suffered through fire, a couple location changes and attempted expansion.It's now back at the Downer location and trying to recapture its former glory under new owners Thomas Schafer and Krys Zielinski. Ann stopped by a couple times to get a feel for how things are coming along and found mixed results, as well as steady improvement. As she put it in her Milwaukee Magazine story, “This reboot needs to succeed. Downer Avenue needs it to.”Here's what else found its way into this episode:A juicy piece about Prime Rib you'll only find in the pages of Milwaukee Magazine.A new concept called Outlaw Oyster that'll pop-up inside Crafty Cow's Wauwatosa location.A chat about What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, the first African-American cookbook from 1881.Finally, we have another in our series of interviews with some of Milwaukee's very best chefs — who just so happen to be whipping up an original dish you can try at Radio Milwaukee's SoundBites. Egg & Flour's Adam Pawlak gets the microphone on this episode and talks with Kenny Perez about the tostada he's working on for Feb. 27.Adam is one of 12 different chefs lending their considerable talents to SoundBites, a group that includes Dane Baldwin from The Diplomat, Kristen Schwab from The Wolf and Gregory León from Amilinda. To make your reservation at this very exclusive table, head over to the event page.

On the morning of her 18th birthday, Jennifer Catcheway called her parents to let them know she'd be home soon for the big celebration. Sixteen years later, she's still missing. If you have information regarding the whereabouts of Jennifer Catcheway, contact the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Portage la Prairie at 204-857-4445. You can also contact the Manitoba Crime Stoppers line at 1-800-222-8477, as well as Manitoba Search and Rescue at 204-777-0553. Thanks to Charlie at the Crimelines podcast for her research on Jennifer Catcheway's case. Additional research for today's episode was provided by Brent Davis. Donate to Season of Justice's Day of Giving: https://givebutter.com/sojdog24 Listen Ad Free And Get Access to Exclusive Journal Entries Episodes: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HEzJSwElA7MkbYYie9Jin Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themurderdiariespod Apple: Hit subscribe/ 1 week free trail available Sponsorship Links: Go to https://aquatruwater.com/ and enter code: DIARIES to get 20% off any AquaTru purifier. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period and take your retail business to the next level today! https://shopify.com/murderdiaries Resources: https://themurderdiariespodcast.com/episodes Music Used: Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Imagefilm 018 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/315-imagefilm-018 License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Glitter Blast by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4707-glitter-blast License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Tropical Vibe by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10446-tropical-vibe Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Our Links: Link Hub: https://msha.ke/themurderdiaries Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themurderdiariespod/ Edited by: https://www.landispodcastediting.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the program, we're proud to present the story behind the King of Western Swing, Bob Wills. One of the most influential and iconic bandleaders and musicians of the 1930's-1950's, Bob came from a humble life of a poor sharecropping family, and was deeply influenced by old time and breakdown fiddle through his Texas state champion family of fiddlers in his father and uncle. Bob also loved all the turn of the century and 1920's black music, and this confluence of cultures would help him create the craze that became Western swing, and the details of his journey to get there will surprise you.  Story by Brent Davis and Nicholas Edward Williams Support Educational Programming: Join the Patreon Community Send a one-time donation on Venmo or PayPal Follow American Songcatcher: Instagram | TikTok | Facebook Credits: Brent Davis - Research, Writing  Nicholas Edward Williams - Production, research, editing, recording and distribution Homecoming: Reflections on Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, 1915-1973, Charles R. Townsend. Country Music Hall of Fame Authentic Texas OW Mayo The Life and Times of Bob Wills Country Music, an Illustrated History, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Country Music, a PBS documentary by Florentine Films, Ken Burns, director; Dayton Duncan, writer. OK History Life and Times of Bob Wills (TNN) Texas Monthly Birthplace of Western Swing The Country Music Pop-Up Book, by the staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard, Marc Elliot. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/americansongcatcher/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/americansongcatcher/support

Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 17 – Spatial Reasoning Guest: Dr. Robyn Pinilla Mike Wallus: Spatial reasoning can be a nebulous concept, and it's often hard for many educators to define. In this episode, we're talking about spatial reasoning with Dr. Robyn Pinilla from the University of Texas, El Paso. We'll examine the connections between spatial reasoning and other mathematical concepts and explore different ways that educators can cultivate this type of reasoning with their students. Mike: Welcome to the podcast, Robyn. I'm really excited to be talking with you about spatial reasoning. Robyn Pinilla: And I am excited to be here. Mike: Well, let me start with a basic question. So, when we're talking about spatial reasoning, is that just another way of saying that we're going to be talking about ideas that are associated with geometry? Or are we talking about something bigger? Robyn: It's funny that you say it in that way, Mike, because geometry is definitely the closest mathematical content that we see in curricula, but it is something much bigger. So, I started with the misconception and then I used my own experiences to support that idea that this was just geometry because it was my favorite math course in high school because I could see the concepts modeled and I could make things more tangible. Drawing helped me to visualize some of those concepts that I was learning instead of just using a formula that I didn't necessarily understand. So, at that time, direct instruction really ruled, and I'm unsure what the conceptual understandings of my teachers even were because what I recall is doing numbers 3 through 47 odds in the back of the book and just plugging through these formulas. But spatial reasoning allows us to develop our concepts in a way that lead to deeper conceptual understanding. I liked geometry, and it gave me this vehicle for mathematizing the world. But geometry is really only one strand of spatial reasoning. Mike: So, you're already kind of poking around the question that I was going to ask next, which is the elevator description of, “What do we mean when we talk about spatial reasoning and why does it matter? Why is it a big deal for students?” Robyn: So, spatial reasoning is a notoriously hard to define construct that deals with how things move in space. It's individually how they move in space, in relation to one another. A lot of my ideas come from a network analysis that [Cathy] Bruce and colleagues did back in 2017 that looked at the historical framing of what spatial reasoning is and how we talk about it in different fields. Because psychologists look at spatial reasoning. Mathematics educators look at spatial reasoning. There [are] also connections into philosophy, the arts. But when we start moving toward mathematics more specifically, it does deal with how things move in space individually and in relation to one another. So, with geometry, whether the objects are sliding and transforming or we're composing and decomposing to create new shapes, those are the skills in two-dimensional geometry that we do often see in curricula. But the underlying skills are also critical to everyday life, and they can be taught as well. Robyn: And when we're thinking about the everyday constructs that are being built through our interactions with the world, I like to think about the GPS on our car. So, spatial reasoning has a lot of spatial temporal processes that are going on. It's not just thinking about the ways that things move in relation to one another or the connections to mathematics, but also the way that we move through this world, the way that we navigate through it. So, I'll give a little example. Spatial temporal processes have to do with us running errands, perhaps. How long does it take you to get from work to the store to home? And how many things can you purchase in the store knowing how full your fridge currently is? What pots and pans are you going to use to cook the food that you purchase, and what volume of that food are you and your family going to consume? So, all those daily tasks involve conceptions of how much space things take. And we could call it capacity, which situates nicely within the measurement domain of mathematics education. But it's also spatial reasoning, and it extends further than that. Mike: That is helpful. I think you opened up my understanding of what we're actually talking about, and I think the piece that was really interesting is how in that example of “I'm going to the grocery store, how long will it take? How full is my fridge? What are the different tools that I'll use to prepare? What capacity do they have?” I think that really helped me broaden out my own thinking about what spatial reasoning actually is. I wonder if we could shift a bit and you could help unpack for educators who are listening, a few examples of tasks that kids might encounter that could support the development of spatial reasoning. Robyn: Sure. My research and work [are] primarily focused on early childhood and elementary. So, I'm going to focus there but then kind of expand up. Number one, let's play. That's the first thing that I want to walk into a classroom and see: I want to see the kids engaging with blocks, LEGOS, DUPLOS, and building with and without specific intentions. Not everything has to have a preconceived lesson. So, one of the activities I've been doing actually with teachers and professional development sessions lately is a presentation called “Whosits and Whatsits.” I have the teachers create whatsits that do thatsits; meaning, they create something that does something. I don't give them a prompt of what problem they're going to be solving or anything specific for them to build, but rather say, “Here are materials.” We give them large DUPLO blocks, magnet tiles and Magformers, different types of wooden, cardboard and foam blocks, PVC pipes, which are really interesting in the ways that teachers use them. And have them start thinking as though they're the children in the class, and they're trying to build something that takes space and can be used in different ways. Robyn: So, the session we did a couple of weeks ago, some teachers came up with … first, there was a swing that they had put a little frog in that they controlled with magnets. So, they had used the PVC pipe at the top that part of the swing connected over, and then were using the magnets to guide it back and forth without ever having to touch the swing. And I just thought, that was the coolest way for them to be using these materials in really playful, creative ways that could also engender them taking those lessons back into their classroom. I have also recently been reminded of the importance of modeling with fractions. So, are you familiar with the “Which One Doesn't Belong?” tasks? Mike: Absolutely love them. Robyn: Yes. There's also a website for fraction talks that children can look at visual representations of fractions and determine which one doesn't belong for some reason. That helps us to see the ways that children are thinking about the fractional spaces and then justifying their reason around them. With that, we can talk about the spatial positioning of the fractional pieces that are colored in. Or the ways that they're separated if those colored pieces are in different places on the figure that's being shown. They open up some nice spaces for us to talk about different concepts and use that language of spatial reasoning that is critical for teachers to engage in to show the ways that students can think about those things. Mike: So, I want to go back to this notion of play, and what I'm curious about is, why is situating this in play going to help these ideas around spatial reasoning come out as opposed to say, situating it in a more controlled structure? Robyn: Well, I think by situating spatial reasoning within play, we do allow teachers to respond in the moment rather than having these lesson plans that they are required to plan out from the beginning. A lot of the ideas within spatial reasoning, because it's a nebulous construct and it's learned through our everyday experiences and interactions with the world, they are harder to plan. And so, when children are engaged in play in the classroom, teachers can respond very naturally so that they're incorporating the mathematizing of the world into what the students are already doing. So, if you take, for example, one of my old teachers used to do a treasure hunt—great way to incorporate spatial reasoning with early childhood elementary classrooms—where she would set up a mapping task, is really what it was. But it was introducing the children to the school itself and navigating that environment, which is critical for spatial reasoning skills. Robyn: And they would play this gingerbread man-type game of, she would read the book and then everybody would be involved with this treasure hunt where the kiddos would start out in the classroom, and they would get a clue to help them navigate toward the cafeteria. When they got to the cafeteria, the gingerbread man would already be gone. He would've already run off. So, they would get their next clue to help them navigate to the playground, so on and so forth. They would go to the nurse's office, the principal, the library, all of the critical places that they would be going through on a daily basis or when they needed to within the school. And it reminds me that there was also a teacher I once interviewed who used orienteering skills with her students. Have you ever heard of orienteering? Mike: The connection I'm making is to something like geocaching, but I think you should help me understand it. Robyn: Yeah, that's really similar. So, it's this idea that children would find their way places. Path finding and way finding are also spatial reasoning skills that are applied within our real world. And so, while it may not be as scientific or sophisticated as doing geocaching, it has children with the idea of navigating in our real world, helps them start to learn cardinality and the different ways of thinking about traversing to a different location, which … these are all things that might better relate to social studies or technology, other STEM domains specifically, but that are undergirded by the spatial reasoning, which does have those mathematics connections. Mike: I think the first thing that occurred is, all of the directional language that could emerge from something like trying to find the gingerbread boy. And then the other piece that you made me think about just now is this opportunity to quantify distance in different ways. And I'm sure there are other things that you could draw out, especially in a play setting where the structure is a little bit looser and it gives you a little bit more space, as you said, to respond to kids rather than feeling like you have to impose the structure. Robyn: Yeah, absolutely. There's an ability when teachers are engaging in authentic ways with the students, that they're able to support language development, support ideation and creation, without necessarily having kids sit down and fill out a worksheet that says, “Where is the ball? The ball is sitting on top of the shelf.” Instead, we can be on the floor working with students and providing those directions of, “Oh, hey, I need you to get me those materials from the shelf on the other side of the room,” but thinking about, “How can I say that in a way that better supports children understanding the spatial reasoning that's occurring in our room?” So maybe it's, “Find the pencil inside the blue cup on top of the shelf that's behind the pencil sharpener,” getting really specific in the ways that we talk about things so that we're ingraining those ideas in such a way that it becomes part of the way that the kids communicate as well. Mike: You have me thinking that there's an intentionality in language choice that can create that, but then I would imagine as a teacher I could also revoice what students are saying and perhaps introduce language in that way as well. Robyn: Yeah, and now you have me thinking about a really fun routine number talks, of course. And if we do the idea of a dot talk instead of a number talk, thinking about the spatial structuring of the dots that we're seeing and the different ways that you can see those arrangements and describe the quantification of the arrangement. It's a nice way to introduce educators to spatial reasoning because it might be something that they're already doing in the classroom while also providing an avenue for children to see spatial structuring in a way that they're already accustomed to as well, based on the routines that they're receiving from the teacher.  Mike: I think what's really exciting about this, Robyn, is the more that we talk, the more two things jump out. I think one is, my language choices allow me to introduce these ideas in a way that I don't know that I'd thought about as a practitioner. Part two is that we can't really necessarily draw a distinction between work we're doing around numbers and quantity and spatial reasoning; that there are opportunities within our work around number quantity and within math content to inject the language of spatial reasoning and have it become a part of the experience for students. Robyn: Yeah, and that's important that I have conveyed that without explicitly saying it because that's the very work that I'm doing with teachers in their classrooms at this time. One, as you're talking about language, and I hate to do this, but I'm going to take us a little bit off topic for a moment. I keep seeing this idea on Twitter or whatever we call it at this point, that some people actually don't hear music in their heads. This idea is wild to me because I have songs playing in my head all the time. But at the same time, what if we think about the idea that some people don't also visualize things, they don't imagine those movements continuously that I just see. And so, as teachers, we really need to focus on that same idea that children need opportunities to practice what we think they should be able to hear but also practice what we think they should be able to see.  Robyn: I'm not a cognitive scientist. I can't see inside someone's head. But I am a teacher by trade, so I want to emphasize that teachers can do what's within their locus of control so that children can have opportunities to talk about those tasks. One that I recently saw was a lesson on clocks. So, while I was sitting there watching her teach, she was using a Judy Clock. She was having fun games with the kids to do a little competition where they could read the clock and tell her what time it was. But I was just starting to think about all of the ways that we could talk about the shorter and longer hands, the minute and hour hands, the ways that we could talk about them rotating around that center point. What shape does the hand make as it goes around that center point and what happens if it doesn't rotate fully? Now I'm going back to those fractional ideas from earlier with the “Which One Doesn't Belong?” tasks of having full shapes versus half shapes, and how we see those shapes in our real lives that we can then relate with visualized shapes that some children may or may not be able to see. Mike: You have me thinking about something. First of all, I'm so glad that you mentioned the role of visualization.  Robyn: Yeah. Mike: You had me thinking about a conversation I was having with a colleague a while ago, and we had read a text that we were discussing, and the point of conversation came up. I read this and there's a certain image that popped into my head. Robyn: Uh-hm. Mike: And the joke we were making is, “I'm pretty certain that the image that I saw in my head having read this text is not the same as what you saw.” What you said that really struck home for me is, I might be making some real assumptions about the pictures that kids see in their head and helping build those internal images, those mental movies. That's a part of our work as well. Robyn: Absolutely. Because I'm thinking about the way that we have prototypical shapes. So, a few years ago I was working with some assessments, and the children were supposed to be able to recognize an equilateral triangle—whether it was gravity-based or facing another orientation—and there were some children who automatically could see that the triangle was a triangle no matter which direction it was “pointing.” Whereas others only recognize it if a triangle, if it were gravity-based. And so, we need to be teaching the properties of the shapes beyond just that image recognition that oftentimes our younger students come out with. I tend to think of visualization and language as supporting one another with the idea that when we are talking, we're also writing a descriptive essay. Our words are what create the intended picture—can't say that it's always the picture that comes out. But the intended picture for the audience. What we're hopeful for in classrooms is that because we're sharing physical spaces and tangible experiences, that the language used around those experiences could create shared meaning. That's one of the most difficult pieces in talking about spatial reason or quite frankly, anything else, is that oftentimes our words may have different meanings depending on who the speaker and who the listener are. And so, navigating what those differences are can be quite challenging, which is why spatial reasoning is still so hard to define. Mike: Absolutely. My other follow-up is, if you were to offer people a way to get started, particularly on visualization, is there a kind of task that you imagine might move them along that pathway? Robyn: I think the first thing to do is really grasp an approximation. I'm not going to say figure out what spatial reasoning is, but just an approximation or a couple of the skills therein that you feel comfortable with. So, spatial reasoning is really the set of skills that undergirds almost all of our daily actions, but it also can be inserted into the lessons that teachers are already teaching. I think that we do have to acknowledge that spatial reasoning is hard to define, but the good news is that we do reason spatially all day every day. If I am in a classroom, I want to look first at the teaching that's happening, the routines that are already there, and see where some spatial reasoning might actually fit in. With our young classes, I like to think about calendar math. Every single kindergarten, first-grade classroom that you walk into, they're going to have that calendar on the wall. So how can you work into the routines that are occurring, that spatial language to describe the different components of the routine? Robyn: So, as a kiddo is counting on that hundreds chart, talking about the ways in which they're moving the pointer along the numbers … when they're counting by 10s, talk about the ways that they're moving down. When they're finding the patterns that are on the calendar, because all of those little calendar numbers for the day, they wind up having a pattern within them in most of the curricular kits. So, thinking about just the ways that we can use language therein. Now with older students, I think that offering that variety of models or manipulatives for them to use and then encourage them to translate from having a concrete manipulative into those more representational ideas, is great regardless of age or grade. So, students benefit from the modeling when they do diagramming of their models; that is, translating the 3-D model to 2-D, which is another component of spatial reasoning. And that gets me to this sticky point of, I'm not arguing against automaticity or being able to solve equations without physical or visual models. But I'm just acknowledging this idea that offering alternative ways for students to engage with content is really critical because we're no longer at a phase that we need our children to become computers. We have programs for that. We need children who are able to think and solve problems in novel ways because that's the direction that we're moving in problem-solving. Mike: That's fantastic. My final question before we close things up. If you were to make a recommendation for someone who's listening and they're intrigued and they want to keep learning, are there any particular resources that you'd offer people that they might be able to go to? Robyn: Yeah, absolutely. So, the first one that I like is the Learning Trajectories website. It's, uh, learning trajectories.org. It's produced by Doug Clements and Julie Sarama. There are wonderful tasks that are associated with spatial reasoning skills from very young children in the infants and toddler stages all the way up until 7 or 8 years old. So, that's a great place to go that will allow you to see how children are performing in different areas of spatial reasoning. There is also a book called “Taking Shape” by Cathy Bruce and colleagues that I believe was produced in 2016. And the grade levels might be a little bit different because it is on the Canadian school system, but it's for K–2 students, and that offers both the tasks and the spatial reasoning skills that are associated with them. For more of the research side, there's a book by Brent Davis and the Spatial Reasoning Study Group called “Spatial Reasoning in the Early Years,” and that volume has been one of my go-tos in understanding both the history of spatial reasoning in our schools and also ways to start thinking about spatializing school mathematics. Mike: One of the things that I really appreciate about this conversation is you've helped me make a lot more sense of spatial reasoning. But the other thing that you've done for me, at least, is see that there are ways that I can make choices with my planning, with my language … that I could pick up and do tomorrow. There's not a discreet separate bit that is about spatial reasoning. It's really an integrated set of ideas and concepts and skills that I can start to build upon right away whatever curriculum I have. Robyn: And that's the point. Often in mathematics, we think more explicitly about algebraic or numeric reasoning, but less frequently in classrooms about spatial reasoning. But spatial reasoning supports not only mathematics development, but other stem domains as well, and even skills that crossover into social studies and language arts as we're talking about mapping, as we're talking about language. So, as students have these experiences, they, too, can start to mathematize the world, see spatial connections as they go out to recess, as they go home from school, as they're walking through their neighborhoods, or just around the house. And it's ingrained ideas of measurement that we are looking at on a daily basis, the ways that we plan out our days and plan out our movements, whether it's really a plan or just our reactions to the world that support building these skills over time. And so, there are those really practical applications. But it also comes down to supporting overall mathematics development and then later STEM career interests, which is why I get excited about the work and want to be able to share it with more and more people. Mike: I think that's a great place to stop. For listeners, we're going to link all of the content that Robyn shared to our show notes. And, Robyn, I'll just say again, thank you so much for joining us. It's really been a pleasure talking with you. Robyn: Yes, absolutely. Thanks so much. Mike: This podcast is brought to you by The Math Learning Center and the Maier Math Foundation, dedicated to inspiring and enabling all individuals to discover and develop their mathematical confidence and ability. © 2024 The Math Learning Center | www.mathlearningcenter.org

On today's Episode I'm joined by Brent Davis of Central IL. Brent is a science teacher that enjoys sharing the outdoors with his students. We dive into Brent's strategies from having several pieces of ground to hunt and how he likes to build a story with specific bucks.  How he took a few years off from hunting a while back and got back into it to share the love of the sport with his kids. Why it's important to have a variety of places to hunt if you're looking for bigger deer. There's a ton of great stories in this one I'm sure yall will enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/runandgunpodcast/support

Australian PGA Professional Scott McDermott joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as all abilities coaching, coaching models and adjusting them, high-performance coaching, coaching environments, problem-solving, inclusiveness as well as much more. Find Scott at the links below. Instagram Website

www.patreon.com/banjopodcast   In this special episode, Keith chats with Chris Warner AND Tom Adams: two banjo greats in their own right, but who also happen to both be veterans of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys band. They share their experiences in dealing with Jimmy from both a personal and professional standpoint, all from a banjo player's perspective!   Sponsored by Peghead Nation, Elderly Instruments, and Sullivan Banjos   NEW MERCH! www.banjopodcast.com/shop   Keith & Picky Fingers interviewed by Brent Davis and profiled in Bluegrass Standard Magazine  

Join us for a conversation about the much-needed, challenging world of disaster relief with Brent Davis, Director of Canadian Ministry Projects for Samaritan's Purse. Brent's mantra “anytime we're not responding, we're preparing” reinforces the commitment and readiness Samaritan's Purse brings to communities ravaged by wildfires and other disasters. We'll uncover the critical role of trust-building, the logistics of post-disaster deployment, and the swift establishment of Samaritan's Purse operations in affected communities.  Brent takes us behind the scenes of Samaritan's Purse's unique approach, showing us how they assess needs, manage debris, and assist in possession recovery after a disaster. At the same time, they build bridges between faith communities and local authorities, providing hope and love amid chaos.  We also explore the stark reality of recovery extending beyond the typical 12-month news cycle, shedding light on the often-overlooked needs arising 18 to 24 months post-disaster. In addition, Brent shares volunteers' pivotal roles and what community resilience looks like after traumatic events. Tune in now for this enlightening and thought-provoking episode. Bio:  Brent Davis is the Director of Canadian Ministry Projects for Samaritan's Purse Canada and currently chairs the Alberta NGO Council. The Council coordinates post-disaster support provided by 14 NGOs within the province of Alberta. Brent also serves as past chair of the Emergency Management NGO Consortium of Canada (EMNCC). Since 2007, Brent has led disaster response operations for Samaritan's Purse in over 25 Canadian municipalities and has coordinated Canadian resources in nine major international disasters. Brent resides in Southern Alberta with his wife and three children. Resources: Samaritan's Purse Canada Humanitarian Disaster Institute Previous episode—War Zones and Humanitarian Values: An Inside Look —------- This episode was produced by Wildfire Creative. Theme Song “Turning Over Tables” by The Brilliance Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | RSS Follow us on Twitter: @kentannan | @drjamieaten Follow on Instagram: @wildfirecreative (Note to the listener: In this podcast, sometimes we'll have evangelicals, and sometimes we won't. We believe learning how to “do good, better” involves listening to many perspectives with different insights and understanding. Sometimes it will make us uncomfortable; sometimes we'll agree, and sometimes we won't. We think that's good. We want to listen for correction. Especially in our blind spots.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hour 2 - John's guests include Michael Austin, Jim Howell, and Brent Davis

Ninety years ago, doctors had a lot more freedom to pursue the healing arts, guided by their own insights, real-life experience, conscience, the golden rule, and the once-respected Hippocratic principle, "Do No Harm." One medical doctor practicing at that time in England was Edward Bach, MD. Bach was also a practitioner of homeopathy, which is essentially a form of energy medicine. Instead of drugs, remedies in homeopathy are diluted to the point of having practically no physical ingredients remaining. Only the "energetic imprint" of the active ingredient remains, and becomes the medicine. But Dr. Bach went a step beyond the energetic medicine of homeopathy. He found that certain flowers possessed powerful healing properties, especially for healing of deep emotional issues that affect all aspects of physical health. He immersed the cut flowers in water, and then used that water to transmit the healing energy to his patients. He didn't know at that time that the healing powers of those flowers could be transmitted much more effectively if they were not cut in the process. Mid-Tennessee chiropractor Dr. Brent Davis (www.floralive.com), author of The Floral Hand of God: Secret Healing Codes of Flowers Revealed (www.thefloralhandofgod.com), has been locating the most powerful healing flowers from remote sites around the world and creating remedies from the uncut flowers for many years. This Sunday's show is your opportunity to hear what he has learned, and how his incredible flower essence remedies can change your life. Use code "LOSTARTS" on FlorAlive.com to obtain 20% off of three featured products mentioned on this broadcast. ReviveAll™, Healing Support™, and Blue Eyed Grass.

Associate Professor Dr. Sam Elliott joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as youth sport, coach education, parents and coaches, community sports clubs, coaching skills, women in sport, his podcast as well as much more. Find Sam at the links below. Podcast Podcast Twitter LinkedIn Twitter

Australian PGA Golf Professional and golf coach Ackzel Donaldson joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as junior golf coaching, games-based coaching and learning, building golf games, developing a transferable junior program as well as much more. Find Ackzel at the links below. Website Instagram Facebook TokTok

Australian PGA Golf Professional and golf coach Brandon Rave joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as tournament golf, expanding into China, social media content, coaching tour players as well as much more. Find Brandon at the links below. Website Instagram Metropolitan Golf Club

Australian PGA Golf Professional and golf coach Michael Cooney joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as indoor coaching, growing up with a PGA Coach as a father, the PGA Trainee Program, putting coaching as well as much more. Find Michael at the links below. Email Instagram Facebook

Australian PGA Golf Professional and golf coach Asha Hargreaves joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as golf in the Northern Territory, junior coaching, the PGA Trainee Program, presenting to PGA Members, further education as well as much more. Find Asha at the links below. Website Instagram  

Australian PGA Golf Professional and golf coach Chris Donovan joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as coaching overseas, coaching environments and technology, the PGA Trainee Program, coaching programs, juniors as well as much more. Find Chris at the links below. Instagram Website Twitter

Dan and Brian spoke with Kory Floyd, a scholar of the communication of affection, and Mary Francis O'Connor, an expert on bereavement, and the effects of loss on the body, during SXSW in 2022. The conversation engages three powerful stories about how music became intertwined with loss. Brent Davis, a hospice chaplain, tells of the death of an old navy veteran; Whitney Morgan shares a story of her father and dementia, and David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet, describes the loss of music after his son's death. These stories demonstrate how music build connections between people, and how it can help move a person through grief, if one can listen at all.

Bowl season is upon us, and Price Atkinson (@PriceAtkinson), Mike Loveall (@MikeL_LWOS) and Steve Carney (@stevecarney) are talking service academy football.6:20: The guys give their thoughts on Thursday's Armed Forces Bowl, taking place in Fort Worth between Air Force and Baylor. They explain why the Falcons need to take the Bears seriously, but also why they feel that Air Force's offense could overwhelm their Big XII opponent.19:15: Air Force offensive lineman Isaac Cochran (@isaacochran1999) joins the show to discuss being the first All-American selection for the academy in 30 years, the challenge of facing Baylor to earn a tenth win on the season, and the possibility of playing the game beyond his time at the academy.33:20: Price, Steve, and Mike get into the coaching changes at both Army and Navy, with Brad Newberry having the interim tag removed with the Midshipmen, while the Black Knights replaced offensive coordinator Brent Davis after nine years at West Point. They also give their thoughts on a bill that has been approved by Congress that would prevent players like Isaac Cochran or Army's Andre Carter II from being able to play in the NFL immediately after graduation from their respective service academy.1:06:30: Travis Manion Foundation Honor Roll1:10:30: The guys wrap up the show with some news and notes from around the academies, and wish all their listeners a happy holiday season.Thanks to our sponsors!BetUS - get a 125% signup bonus using the code Coast22 at BetUS.comTicketSmarter - Get $30 off orders of $250 or more using the code Bowl22 at TicketSmarter.com

All I've got to say is after talking with Brent, I'm very Jealous of what these guy's in the PNW have. Big northern strain, sick lakes, and year-round access to fish... living the life for sure.  Make sure if you guys are enjoying the show to give it a 5-star review on your listening platform, and share it with anyone who may enjoy it. Brent's socials: IG: @253caster YT: Brent Davis --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adrian-dean/support

Brent Davis, Vice President of Sales Talent Acquisition at Leavitt Group, joins host James Mackey to discuss how to hire and retain top sales talent, when to dig deeper during the interview process, onboarding, and a lot more!Episode Chapters00:23 Who is Brent Davis?02:19 Overview of Leavitt Group; insurance company with 2,600+ employees04:47 What makes a good sales professional?07:45 Hiring for experience vs aptitude11:54 Optimizing the interview process for sales hiring15:35 You have to dig deeper during the interview process and ask follow up questions17:30 Giving the book answer doesn't work well 21:15 The importance of a candidate asking intelligent questions24:43 What does onboarding look like28:15 Revenue vs activity metrics30:24 Challenges with hiring top sales talent in the current market34:04 Benefits of co-ownership35:15 Wrap up

Which Texas college coach is the best against the spread? & Gregory-Portland Head Coach Brent Davis

Australian PGA Golf Professional and golf coach Toby McGeachie joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as online coaching, coaching environments, the PGA Trainee Program, coaching programs, being a golf nerd as well as much more. Find Toby at the links below. Instagram Website

Touring Golf Professional and up and coming golf coach Brett Rumford joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as tour golf, the AIS Golf Program, the PGA bridging program, short game, coaching and presenting on short game as well as much more. Find Brett at the links below. Instagram Website

PGA Professional and golf coach Brie Webb joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as the trainee program and further education, Hills golf school, Golfer Girl, barriers for women in coaching and golf, social media, Holey Moley as well as much more. Find Brie at the links below. Instagram

PGA Professional and golf coach Will Flitcroft joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as the trainee program, college golf, TPI and further education, the business of coaching, coaching technology as well as much more. Find Will at the links below. Website Instagram Facebook TikTok

Dr. Nathan Pitchford joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as his background in exercise science and strength and conditioning, strength and conditioning in an AFL environment, the training loads of youth athletes, his sleep study, his continued research in sport science as well as much more. Find Nathan at the links below. University of Tasmania

PGA Professional and golf coach Andrew Losey joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as his early start to coaching, working with Michael Breed, high school and college golf, coaching Luke Poulter, writing a book on bunkers as well as much more. Find Andrew at the links below. Instagram Website Twitter The Bunker Bible

Brent Davis (arrowhead morristown) shares from James about the tongue, the control of it, and how while it may be difficult to master what you say, there is no part of our life that is excluded from God's influence for growth and change.Word of the Week is a series of short episodes to bring a brief pause to your week, interrupt your social media feed, and direct you back to God's Word, (prayerfully, right when you need it). As our modern world thirsts for truth only to find it in short supply, every verse of Scripture overflows with wisdom. From the first page to the very last word, the Bible is a unified story that leads us to Jesus. Each episode of Word of the Week is written and hosted by a leader from the Arrowhead Church family. If you'd like help reading your Bible, visit www.arrowhead.church/resources for tools to help you get started.

Brent Davis (arrowhead morristown) shares from James about the tongue, the control of it, and how while it may be difficult to master what you say, there is no part of our life that is excluded from God's influence for growth and change.Word of the Week is a series of short episodes to bring a brief pause to your week, interrupt your social media feed, and direct you back to God's Word, (prayerfully, right when you need it). As our modern world thirsts for truth only to find it in short supply, every verse of Scripture overflows with wisdom. From the first page to the very last word, the Bible is a unified story that leads us to Jesus. Each episode of Word of the Week is written and hosted by a leader from the Arrowhead Church family. If you'd like help reading your Bible, visit www.arrowhead.church/resources for tools to help you get started.

Brent Davis (arrowhead morristown) shares from James about the tongue, the control of it, and how while it may be difficult to master what you say, there is no part of our life that is excluded from God's influence for growth and change.Word of the Week is a series of short episodes to bring a brief pause to your week, interrupt your social media feed, and direct you back to God's Word, (prayerfully, right when you need it). As our modern world thirsts for truth only to find it in short supply, every verse of Scripture overflows with wisdom. From the first page to the very last word, the Bible is a unified story that leads us to Jesus. Each episode of Word of the Week is written and hosted by a leader from the Arrowhead Church family. If you'd like help reading your Bible, visit www.arrowhead.church/resources for tools to help you get started.

Brent Davis (arrowhead morristown) shares from James about the tongue, the control of it, and how while it may be difficult to master what you say, there is no part of our life that is excluded from God's influence for growth and change.Word of the Week is a series of short episodes to bring a brief pause to your week, interrupt your social media feed, and direct you back to God's Word, (prayerfully, right when you need it). As our modern world thirsts for truth only to find it in short supply, every verse of Scripture overflows with wisdom. From the first page to the very last word, the Bible is a unified story that leads us to Jesus. Each episode of Word of the Week is written and hosted by a leader from the Arrowhead Church family. If you'd like help reading your Bible, visit www.arrowhead.church/resources for tools to help you get started.

Brent Davis (arrowhead morristown) shares from James about the tongue, the control of it, and how while it may be difficult to master what you say, there is no part of our life that is excluded from God's influence for growth and change. Word of the Week is a series of short episodes to bring a brief pause to your week, interrupt your social media feed, and direct you back to God's Word, (prayerfully, right when you need it). As our modern world thirsts for truth only to find it in short supply, every verse of Scripture overflows with wisdom. From the first page to the very last word, the Bible is a unified story that leads us to Jesus. Each episode of Word of the Week is written and hosted by a leader from the Arrowhead Church family. If you'd like help reading your Bible, visit www.arrowhead.church/resources for tools to help you get started.

Brent Davis (arrowhead morristown) shares from James about the tongue, the control of it, and how while it may be difficult to master what you say, there is no part of our life that is excluded from God's influence for growth and change. Word of the Week is a series of short episodes to bring a brief pause to your week, interrupt your social media feed, and direct you back to God's Word, (prayerfully, right when you need it). As our modern world thirsts for truth only to find it in short supply, every verse of Scripture overflows with wisdom. From the first page to the very last word, the Bible is a unified story that leads us to Jesus. Each episode of Word of the Week is written and hosted by a leader from the Arrowhead Church family. If you'd like help reading your Bible, visit www.arrowhead.church/resources for tools to help you get started.

Coach, Ph.D. candidate and co-founder of Women's Coaching Association Aish Ravi joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as getting more women into coaching, her experience as an athlete, Ph.D. study and research, the sporting club environment, barriers and stereotypes faced by women coaches as well as much more. Find Aish and the Women's Coaching Association at the links below. Twitter - Women's Coaching Association LinkedIn - Women's Coaching Association Instagram - Women's Coaching Association Facebook - Women's Coaching Association Website - Women's Coaching Association Twitter - Aish Ravi LinkedIn - Aish Ravi

Gavin Grenville-Wood, the Head of Junior Education at Golfzon Leadbetter joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as junior coaching, dealing with parents, the business of coaching, self discovery and the learning pit, his experience coaching junior camps and schools, learning from David Leadbetter as well as much more. Find Gavin at the links below. Instagram Twitter Website

This has been one of the most fun episodes. Leo visited Eureka Heights in Houston to interview Brent Davis, Sales Manager Extraordinaire. There was a lot of laughter and maybe even some gushiness. Topics included Big Bend, Arrested Development, Hot Ones Wing Challenge, Gary Vaynerchuk, and so much more! We learn the meaning of Buckle Bunny and which Eureka Heights beer is a staff favorite and has inspired many tattoos. We also get to hear about how Brent discovered craft beer and how he got into beer sales. Eureka Heights has a strong, positive team, and they have a special connection with their community. Their Patron Saint is Betty White, and every year they celebrate her birthday. This year, on January 14th, they will celebrate their Patron Saint with special IPAs, prizes, and games. Also happening next week, they will release Business Time, which will be on draft around town and in cans and on draft at the taproom. It was a pleasure having Brent on the show. Make sure you follow Eureka Heights on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to keep up with all the good times and great brews. Thank you for listening. Cheers! Follow Texas Beer Experience Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Texas Beer Collective Facebook Group Visit Our Website Leave Us A Message Music by Bad Child

Dr. Will Vickery joins host Brent Davis for this episode. Will has a Ph.D. and is a lecturer in sport coaching at Deakin University in Melbourne. He also has extensive experience as a cricket coach. The discussion covered topics such as coach education, community coaching, coaching strategies, coaching skill performance, practice design, coach influence as well as much more. Find Will at the links below. Twitter Email

Australian PGA Professional Jeremy Ward joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as using mentors, his experience as a club professional and coaching, his coaching ideas, social media, coaching overseas, being a caddy on tour as well as much more. Find Jeremy at the links below. Instagram YouTube

Australian PGA Professional Regan McGovern joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as his move to Melbourne, his experience in the PGA Trainee Program, online coaching, getting his coaching team together, coaching indoors, social media as well as much more. Find Regan at the links below. Instagram Facebook Website

Dr. Brent Davis is Professor of Mathematics Education at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. He also leads the research team at Math Minds, a "professional community dedicated to the effective teaching of K-12 mathematics". We use Dr. Davis' work on mathematics education, complexity and curriculum design to discuss the current reform efforts in the province of Alberta. In particular, we focus on the importance of ensuring that what current research tells us is reflected in the way we think about curriculum, teaching approaches and resources. Find out more about Math Minds at https://structuringinquiry.com

Performance Coach Jayne Storey joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as her years of study and research into performance, performance practice, quiet mind, her books (including a special offer for listeners), using meditation and martial arts techniques to improve performance as well as much more. Find Jayne at the links below. Website Twitter Facebook YouTube Special book offer Instagram

Australian PGA Professional Molly Lavercombe joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as her early days as a player, online coaching, being a woman in the golf industry, social media, coaching technology, coaching in Canada as well as much more. Find Molly at the links below. Website Instagram Online Coaching Facebook

Strength and conditioning coach Nick Randall joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as his start in golf-specific training, working with tour players and average golfers, his post-graduate studies, life on tour, working with golf coaches as well as much more. Find Nick at the links below. Website App on iTunes YouTube Instagram Facebook

Australian PGA Professional Brent Dale joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as his podcast, junior coaching, golfer development, games based coaching, coaching technology, online coaching as well as much more. Find Brent at the links below. Your Golf Performance Podcast Instagram Online Coaching Twitter Facebook

Australian PGA Professional Aiden Withers joins host Brent Davis for this episode. The discussion covered topics such as his soccer and cricket background, working in Tasmania, the PGA Trainee Program, club fitting, being the Tasmania coach of the year as well as much more. Find Aiden at the links below. Instagram Facebook

On this episode of the Meshpoint Podcast Tony Rodriguez and Matt McLeod collaborate with Brent Davis OC/OL at Army.   We discuss his background playing football, coaching at Georgia Southern, being an offensive coordinator as an OL coach, their CQC drill (Close Quarter Combat Blocking Circuit), mid-triple, and some drills you can use to help your flexbone offense.  You can follow Brent on twitter @coachbrentdavis.    You can follow Tony on twitter @3phasefootball or on his website www.3phasefootball.net.  You can also find Tony on Monday nights during the off-season as he hosts #meshpoint Monday, which is a twitter chat about all things option football.  You can follow Matt on twitter @runthetriple or @flexbonenation and you can also follow his website www.flexbonenation.com, where you can find resources on installing triple option concepts with an emphasis on flexbone formations. You can follow our podcast @themeshpoint on twitter for all latest guests and new episodes.

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  "We saw Damien and Domini .... "              Those who depended on the “Paradise Lost” movies for information about the West Memphis 3 killers heard little about eyewitnesses who placed Damien Echols near the scene of the murders. The jury who heard testimony from Narlene Hollingsworth and her son, Anthony Hollingsworth, in the Echols/Baldwin trial labeled their  stories “honest” in jury notes.   Narlene called the police on May 9, 1993. According to a handwritten note,  she saw "Dominique" and "Damion" “walking from Blue Beacon toward Lakeshore Estates. They looked dirty. L. G. Hollingsworth (age 17) was at the laundromat at 9:30 p.m., it was noted.   “According to Mrs. Hollingsworth, her nephew L.G. made the statement on Thursday that he knew about what happened before anyone else. “L.G. has 666 on the side of his boots. “Damion is mean & evil, according to Mrs. Hollingsworth.” The next day at 4:05 p.m., Mike Allen took an anonymous tip from “an old white female who stated she had overheard that a Dominick + Damion killed the three little boys + that L.G. last name unknown took and laudered there clothing. Caller stated that Damion had body parts in a box from the children. The called ... didn't give her name + (stated) that she heard that L.G.'s mother was going to lie about L.G.'s where abouts.” At 4:20 p.m. that afternoon, Detective Charlie Dabbs and Lt. Diane Hester took a statement  from Narlene Virginia Hollingsworth, a 42-year-old Lakeshore resident.  Ricky Sr., 37, and Narlene had four children who figured also in the narrative: Anthony Hollingsworth, 21, Ricky Hollingsworth Jr., 14, Tabitha Hollingsworth, 16, and Mary Hollingsworth, 10. Narlene told police: “What happened was Dixie Hollingsworth had asked me to pick her up at where she works at a laundry mat, she said, will you pick me up, I get off at 10, I said yes I will ... OK, I got ready to go, and my husband went with me and my children were too. And, on our way, coming down like you're going to Love's, I saw Dominic and Damian coming down the street ... This was exactly 20 minutes till 10, exactly, cause we had our watches and we knew what time it was. OK they had dark clothing on and they were not cleaned.” Dabbs: “You said at one time that they were muddy all over.” Narlene: “They did have dirt on them, yes they did, now. ... They was coming back towards Lakeshore, this way .... They were, it was a yellow uh, sign thing up in, some stick standing up and then they were just before they got to there, where they was. ... OK, as we were driving by, she pointed the stick ... to us, and it's right there on the off ramp, where ... as you go east down the interstate … the off ramp to the South Service Road … is where the yellow stick or marker was.” She had turned her brights on “so that I could get a good look at them … to see who they were, yes I did. And I said, that's Dominic and Damien, no look like, it is and I got a good close look and said, it sure is. ... I really don't know Damien, cause I don't go around him from all the bad things I hear about him, but therefore, I don't let my children go around him and Dominic, I've known her all of her life. Cause I use to hold her on my hip when she was six months baby. ... “...  I was upset about it, for them being out that late and around that area, but you know I was wondering what they were doing out at that time of night. My husband told me to quit worrying about it, cause they are out all the time. He said that he sees them all the time. So, he told me to quit worrying about it. … “… I don't know what L.G. is capable of, and I am not saying that he would do it, and I am not saying that he wouldn't, but I know Damien. Everybody said that Damien, I know that he's suppose to have 666 on his shoes. …” Hester: “And your husband and your children saw him and Dominic both.” Narlene: “Yes, ain't no way they missed that.” She repeated the information on May 20: “... I left home about 9:30 I was going down the south service road and I looked to the right and I saw Daymeion Dominique walking they were dirty and muddy go to the laundrymat Dixie said LG just left and I said I just saw Daymeion and she asked was Dominique with him and I said yes.” Narlene testified in the Baldwin/Echols trial on March 3, 1994: “Well see, we spent most of our day together, Dixie and I did. And we had lunch together. And she asked me that day, would I come back and pick her ... Well, she got off at 10, but we got there a little early.” She said she left home at exactly 9:30 p.m. and had all her children, along with a young friend, packed into a red 1982 Ford Escort.  John Fogleman asked: “... As you were approaching Love's and Blue Beacon, uh - did you see anybody there on the service road?” Narlene: “Yes, we did. ... We saw Damien and Domini. ... Damien had on a pair of black pants and a dark shirt. Domini had on a pair of tight pants - you know, fit tight. And she had flowers, looked like white flowers to me on her pants. ... Which I know they were her clothes because 2 or 3 days before that, I saw her with those same clothes on.” Fogleman: “Alright. Uh -- in fact, Domini's tried to get you to say something different, hasn't she?” Val Price, Echols' attorney, interjected: “Judge, objection! Totally inappropriate, your Honor.” Narlene was willing to talk: “I'll answer.” Judge David Burnett said “Wait just a minute.” This was followed by laughter in the courtroom and a bench conference.  Price said the testimony would be a hearsay response. The Court agreed.  Fogleman said he might call Domini on the matter but “she might lie.” They moved on. Fogleman: “Narlene, when you saw these uh -- Damien and Domini on the service road, did you do anything with your lights? ...” Narlene: “... I put the bright lights on to be sure ... That it was them. ... Because I didn't realize there for a second how many I really had in the car with me and it was getting late and Domini was only 14. ... So I wanted to give them a ride back home. See, I knew I had a few minutes to get to the laundrymat. ... I looked back and my ex-husband said, ‘Where are you gonna put ‘em?' I said, ‘Well, I'd put Mary in Domini's lap.' And I looked over, he said, ‘Where you gonna put the other one, in Damien's lap?” and I looked at Damien and said, ‘No, I don't think so.'” Under questioning by Echols defense attorney Scott Davidson, she said, “ ... I wanted to stop and pick ‘em up ... Give ‘em a ride so - so Domini wouldn't be on the street. I'm a real funny person about that and I don't think young children ought to be on the street after dark.” She also wanted to stop because “I just started feeling like all of a sudden I wanted to throw up. ... I stopped for a second and then went on ‘cause they kept hollering -- the kids kept hollering ‘Let's go on, let's go, you can get sick when we get there.'”  Laughter broke out in the courtroom again.  Baldwin attorney Paul Ford correctly predicted that the prosecution ultimately would argue that she had mistaken  Baldwin for Domini that evening.  On May 25, 1993, Anthony Hollingsworth gave a handwritten statement to police: “Wensday night I was at my mom dads house when the phone rig at 9:15 pm and it was my grandmother she told us to come and get her from wroke. We walk out and get mom car Anthony Ricky Tabitha Matt Narlene Sombra Little Ricky and left to go pick up Dixie we get service road were going est just west of Seventh Street. We saw Damaion and Dominque and they were on south side of the south service road. They were wearing black clothes that were muddy It was about 9:30 pm We went to Flash Market and pick up Dixie and took her home and then we went back to our house and didn't see Damion and Domique on the road.” Anthony also testified on March 3, immediately preceding his mother.  He testified he, his brother, his two sisters, his mom and dad and his little brother's girlfriend Sombra had gone to pick up his grandmother at a laundromat near Southland Park dog track, next to a Flash Market. He recalled the time as 10:30 but wasn't sure -- “that was a year ago.”  He said they saw Damien and “Dominique, his girlfriend” by the side of the road wearing black, dirty clothes.  Anthony: “She had black pants on with sort of a black shirt -- the shirt was black but the pants had white flowers on ‘em.” With the May 25 statement as reference under questioning by John Fogleman, he agreed that he had given the time as 9:30 and had stated that the clothes were not merely dirty but muddy.  Other members of the Hollingsworth family did not testify in the trial but gave statements to police. Tabitha, 16, told Dabbs on May 20: “Well, first that night, we were going to get my aunt from work, and L.G. seen Damian nem walking, walking back from over there by that place where them kids got killed at. ... They were coming down by Love's, they right beside the place, cause they were walking back this way, walking back toward Love's. ... Well, Damien, had, uh, Dominic had black pants on with holes in the knees, and she had on a long black shirt and he was wearing all black, he had black boots on black shirt, black pants on, and they were muddy. ... No doubt n my mind, I seen them, they were all muddy.” She said they were going to pick up her grandmother at the laundromat at about 9 or 9:30, going down the south service road toward Ingram Boulevard to Flash Market.  She said she and Domini “use to hang around a lot when we were in school” and that she had been introduced to Damien at Domini's house (“he just live right around behind us”).  “I think he's a devil worshiper, I don't like him ... He makes signs on the street and all of that, and he go back under the bridge and makes of the devil.” She said Domini knew Echols was a devil worshipper. “She doesn't say nothing about, I guess she don't care.” She also knew Jason. “I don't know his last name, I know where he lives though ... Yep, very good friends, they walk around with each other all the time. ... They act strange all the time.” On Dec. 7, Ricky Sr. gave this statement: “On 5-5-93, I Rick Hollingsworth was in a 1982 Ford Escort Stationwagon with my ex-wife Narlene, Anthony, Tabita, Mary and Little Rick at between 9:00 and 10:00 PM. We were going to get Dixie from where she works on Ingram. We were on the South Service Road between Blue Beacon and Love's truck stop when Narlene saw two people that she said were Damien and Domini. I did see the two people but I didn't look close enough to say who they were but I did see that they had long hair. Narlene thought it was strange and asked if she ought to turn around to give them a ride. I told her no that I had seen them walking all over the place and that they are always walking.” On May 20, Dixie Hufford, 50, said Narlene and Ricky Hollingsworth had picked her up from work at a few minutes before 10 p.m. that night and taken her home.  As predicted, prosecutors did try to use the sighting to place Baldwin at the scene.  Fogleman worked it into his closing argument: “Let's talk about Damien Echols or an accomplice, Jason Baldwin or an accomplice, causing the deaths of these boys. As the court instructs you, some of this evidence is only as to one, some of it as to both. In this case, you've got evidence that at about nine thirty -- sometime between nine thirty and ten on May the fifth, this is the area of the crime scene, and somewhere in this area Damien Echols -- who by his own admission dresses very distinctively and stands out in a crowd -- he is seen by somebody who's seen him hundreds of time, Narlene and Anthony Hollingsworth. And he's seen with somebody they identify as Damien's girlfriend. They're muddy, dirty, and they're here about nine thirty or ten, which Damien denies. Now, all of y'all -- I don't think any one of you could forget Anthony and Narlene's testimony. I got to thinking about it later, and you know -- we laughed, we all laughed. You laughed, we laughed, the defense attorneys laughed, everybody laughed -- they were dead serious.  And, you don't pick your witnesses -- and because they're simple, and they're not highly educated, that should be no reason to discount anything they said. Think about what they said and really how they said it. I submit to you, you'll find that they were highly credible. And that they did see Damien Echols on this service road between nine thirty and 10 on May the fifth, 1993. Now, who he was with -- draw your own conclusions. Says his girlfriend and they describe her as having red hair and long. You got a picture of Jason Baldwin at the time of his arrest. Nothing wrong with having long hair and the picture in there is not shown to show that he's a bad person because he got long hair. But think about that. Think about who Damien was with on May the fifth.” Brent Davis didn't mention Baldwin in his portion of the closing statement, focusing instead on the credibility of the Hollingsworths' testimony: “And it's kindly funny, you know at one point they wanna believe Narlene but they don't wanna believe Narlene. … I don't think Narlene lied to you when she said she saw Damien out there. And once you accept that, and why in the world is Damien and the rest of his group lying to cover him -- where he was on the fifth. What difference does it make? Why don't he get up here and level with us? ‘Why, heck, I was going down to Love's truck stop on the fifth.' Put Domini up here, let her tell you what they were doing. But if Anthony and Narlene are telling you the truth, and you know -- you heard her say about getting them in the car but she wasn't gonna have them in the car, she wouldn't let her kids sit on his lap. She know who was out there, I mean --- Damien himself admits what a distinctive looking character he is, and you wouldn't drive by and miss with your bright lights on at night if you knew who he was. And she knew who was out there. And if he's out there then he's lying to you. And if he's lying to you --- his whole family is lying to you, and the question I got for you is, if they're lying to you about all that, why? Why? Do they got something to hide? I put to you, they do.”      It's unlikely that the Hollingsworths would be mistaken in identifying Echols, but how likely is it that they were mistaken about Domini?  Baldwin and Domini were close enough in size, hair color and dress to be mistaken for each other at a glance in poor lighting. But according to Dennis ‘Dink' Dent, Baldwin showed up at home around 9 or 9:30, which means he couldn't have been walking along the service road between 9:30 and 10.   Domini's alibi wasn't particularly strong because it was  not corroborated by anyone other than her mother. But the story from the Teers was consistent.  No one other than the Hollingsworths placed Domini anywhere but at home that evening, though Damien at one point claimed she had been over at his parents' trailer that evening.   The only evidence of Domini's possible involvement on any level is in the statements  from the Hollingsworths, who clearly bore her no ill will.  Narlene in particular seemed oblivious to possible implications of the sighting. Police also talked to Dixie Hufford, 50, on May 20, after a tipster called into the West Memphis Police Department. The note on the tip said: “-Boone- called stated the woman that works at the Laundromat on Ingram. Her name is Dixie, Dixie told someone? that 2 boys and a girl came into the laundromat about 10:00P.M.-10:30P.M. on Wednesday to clean up. They had mud and blood on their clothes. Dixie is supposed to be related to one of them, only name Boone new was Hollingsworth.” Ridge and Gitchell conducted the interview that evening at Hufford's apartment.  The official record gives no indication that the tip was discussed, though perhaps it was cleared up informally.  Hufford did have much to say about Domini and Damien: “Dixie stated that she feels that Damien does control Domini and that she is fearful for her. “Dixie stated that she believed Domini was at home sick that day and that Domini's mom was home. “Dixie stated that she does not like Damien ...  “Dixie knows Jason Baldwin and knows that Damien and Jason are very close friends. “Dixie feels that Domini's mom knows some things but won't tell because of her fear  for Domini. … “Damien controls Domini.” In a phone interview in March 2013, Narlene Hollingsworth revisited her story as told in 1993-1994, sticking adamantly to the fact that she had seen Domini walking with Damien.  New details or twists had not been added over time.  

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